Read only problem with 6GB 128GB Variant

[Timmons]

Hello,

Am running into a read only bug with my phone. It seems fine with standard MIUI as operating system without any modifications. Once I put on TWRP as recovery and root the filesystem becomes unreadable. The SD card itself was still working though on miui only. Upon using Havok or crDroid as rom the filesystem & sdcard are not readable. I've tried flashing without the SD card in the device and same thing. Just now I tried to format the SD card within crDroid and it made the card unreadable with 0 space.. even worse. Now I have to reformat it on a windows pc. So far.. this phone is a almost complete wash with this bug occurring.. i'm seeing only way to use it is through MIUI with card. Custom roms are just a complete no go with this happening. Can someone PLEASE help?

 

[Timmons]

nevermind.. i figured it out by formatting the internal data within twrp. Everything is great now.. just need to get a camera app or port of the xiaomi camera.

 

[HidekiRyuga]

nevermind.. i figured it out by formatting the internal data within twrp. Everything is great now.. just need to get a camera app or port of the xiaomi camera.

My man, you solve your own problem, how about that, next time take time to read carefully the flashing details.

 

[Sanarise]

My man, you solve your own problem, how about that, next time take time to read carefully the flashing details.

You don't need to be rude about it.
Neither of the twrp ports or the general flashing guide for the RN7P mention formatting the internal storage in their instructions.
Only wiping the cache, data, and sometimes system, which doesn't fix the problem at all.

I ran into this exact same problem and was stumped for 2 days because there was no information on this read only error in these forums, and I had some bad luck googling for help.
In fact, the only way I solved the issue is when Timmons saw my post in the crDroid thread and told me his solution.
Not everyone already has a deep understanding of twrp and flashing roms, and you can't expect people to know everything when stuff like this isn't mentioned at all.