[TOOL/UTILITY][TWRP][3.0][RECOVERY] TWRP 3.0.2-0 TeamWin Recovery Project 4/5

burrito0621

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I am new to all of this but I installed TWRP from goomanager tonight and tried to backup to my sd card, but it will not mount. The readout says E: Unable to mount '/external_sdcard'

This is probably wrong but i noticed when I'm using a file manager my sd card had the path /storage/extSdCard, could that be a source of the problem? Any help here would be much appreciated; thanks.

I have v2.3.1.2
 

bigbiff

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I am new to all of this but I installed TWRP from goomanager tonight and tried to backup to my sd card, but it will not mount. The readout says E: Unable to mount '/external_sdcard'

This is probably wrong but i noticed when I'm using a file manager my sd card had the path /storage/extSdCard, could that be a source of the problem? Any help here would be much appreciated; thanks.

I have v2.3.1.2
Everyone is getting shiny new exfat cards. We are looking into supporting EXFAT.
 

burrito0621

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Thanks for the quick reply! Will definitely donate when exfat is supported; keep up the good work.
I really don't want to format to fat32 since I like having the option to have HD movies >4GB without splitting files.
 
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bwells88

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Hey guys... great recovery! I've been using it now for sometime... 8)

I have a quick question... in the back-up section there's an option for efs?... it's 4mb and I was wondering what that was...

Cheers and thanks for your time!
 

glitchsys

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Interesting

Highly intriguing, I have a 1 month old tester unit that AT&T sent us, a pre-release version to test our software on. And now that the production version is released, I wanted to get this one onto the same page. I tried installing TWRP but it's failing. I was able to install CWM via Odin just fine. I then tried to install TWRP via Odin but when it goes back into recovery, it's CWM. I then tried the DD method, but when going into recovery, still CWM. I then tried using the GooManager method to install the recovery script, same thing, still CWM. Lastly I tried to flash the TWRP zip file using CWM and I get an "Installation aborted" message when it tries.

So I tried installing TWRP 4 different ways on this tester unit and all 4 failed. But CWM installs without issue. I wonder what hardware changes AT&T made within 30 days before this test unit and the final release that's messing up TWRP. Strange.
 

bigbiff

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Only thing I can think of is maybe they changed the partitions. Can you execute the following commands and paste the results:

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ls -la /dev/block/platform/dw_mmc/by-name
cat /proc/partitions
Highly intriguing, I have a 1 month old tester unit that AT&T sent us, a pre-release version to test our software on. And now that the production version is released, I wanted to get this one onto the same page. I tried installing TWRP but it's failing. I was able to install CWM via Odin just fine. I then tried to install TWRP via Odin but when it goes back into recovery, it's CWM. I then tried the DD method, but when going into recovery, still CWM. I then tried using the GooManager method to install the recovery script, same thing, still CWM. Lastly I tried to flash the TWRP zip file using CWM and I get an "Installation aborted" message when it tries.

So I tried installing TWRP 4 different ways on this tester unit and all 4 failed. But CWM installs without issue. I wonder what hardware changes AT&T made within 30 days before this test unit and the final release that's messing up TWRP. Strange.
 

esincho

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Highly intriguing, I have a 1 month old tester unit that AT&T sent us, a pre-release version to test our software on. And now that the production version is released, I wanted to get this one onto the same page. I tried installing TWRP but it's failing. I was able to install CWM via Odin just fine. I then tried to install TWRP via Odin but when it goes back into recovery, it's CWM. I then tried the DD method, but when going into recovery, still CWM. I then tried using the GooManager method to install the recovery script, same thing, still CWM. Lastly I tried to flash the TWRP zip file using CWM and I get an "Installation aborted" message when it tries.

So I tried installing TWRP 4 different ways on this tester unit and all 4 failed. But CWM installs without issue. I wonder what hardware changes AT&T made within 30 days before this test unit and the final release that's messing up TWRP. Strange.
I didn't say anything cause I thought it was just me, this my exactly problem too
 

glitchsys

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Ok

Only thing I can think of is maybe they changed the partitions. Can you execute the following commands and paste the results:

Code:
ls -la /dev/block/platform/dw_mmc/by-name
cat /proc/partitions
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[email protected]:/ $ ls -la /dev/block/platform/dw_mmc/by-name
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-11-13 15:52 BOOT -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p8
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-11-13 15:52 BOTA0 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-11-13 15:52 BOTA1 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-11-13 15:52 CACHE -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p12
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-11-13 15:52 EFS -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p3
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-11-13 15:52 HIDDEN -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p14
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-11-13 15:52 OTA -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p15
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-11-13 15:52 PARAM -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p7
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-11-13 15:52 RADIO -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p10
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-11-13 15:52 RECOVERY -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p9
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-11-13 15:52 SYSTEM -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p13
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-11-13 15:52 TOMBSTONES -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p11
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-11-13 15:52 USERDATA -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p16
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-11-13 15:52 m9kefs1 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p4
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-11-13 15:52 m9kefs2 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p5
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-11-13 15:52 m9kefs3 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p6

[email protected]:/ $ cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name
179        0   15388672 mmcblk0
179        1       4096 mmcblk0p1
179        2       4096 mmcblk0p2
179        3      20480 mmcblk0p3
179        4       4096 mmcblk0p4
179        5       4096 mmcblk0p5
179        6       4096 mmcblk0p6
179        7       8192 mmcblk0p7
179        8       8192 mmcblk0p8
179        9       8192 mmcblk0p9
179       10      90112 mmcblk0p10
179       11     262144 mmcblk0p11
179       12    1310720 mmcblk0p12
179       13    1835008 mmcblk0p13
179       14      20480 mmcblk0p14
179       15       8192 mmcblk0p15
259        0   11788288 mmcblk0p16
 

bigbiff

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Looks good. What steps did you use to flash TWRP?

Code:
[email protected]:/ $ ls -la /dev/block/platform/dw_mmc/by-name
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-11-13 15:52 BOOT -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p8
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-11-13 15:52 BOTA0 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-11-13 15:52 BOTA1 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-11-13 15:52 CACHE -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p12
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-11-13 15:52 EFS -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p3
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-11-13 15:52 HIDDEN -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p14
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-11-13 15:52 OTA -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p15
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-11-13 15:52 PARAM -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p7
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-11-13 15:52 RADIO -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p10
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-11-13 15:52 RECOVERY -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p9
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-11-13 15:52 SYSTEM -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p13
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-11-13 15:52 TOMBSTONES -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p11
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-11-13 15:52 USERDATA -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p16
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-11-13 15:52 m9kefs1 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p4
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-11-13 15:52 m9kefs2 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p5
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-11-13 15:52 m9kefs3 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p6

[email protected]:/ $ cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name
179        0   15388672 mmcblk0
179        1       4096 mmcblk0p1
179        2       4096 mmcblk0p2
179        3      20480 mmcblk0p3
179        4       4096 mmcblk0p4
179        5       4096 mmcblk0p5
179        6       4096 mmcblk0p6
179        7       8192 mmcblk0p7
179        8       8192 mmcblk0p8
179        9       8192 mmcblk0p9
179       10      90112 mmcblk0p10
179       11     262144 mmcblk0p11
179       12    1310720 mmcblk0p12
179       13    1835008 mmcblk0p13
179       14      20480 mmcblk0p14
179       15       8192 mmcblk0p15
259        0   11788288 mmcblk0p16