Root [FAQ-GUIDE] ClockWorkMod Optimus Elite

[Artine]

Sorry, I forgot to mention - I did try fixing permissions, to no avail.

I didn't know about /emmc being the internal sd. I selected restore from internal, and it comes back with "Couldn't open directory. No files found."

I double-checked in mounts and storage, and it says /emmc is mounted.

If it helps, I insterted the external sdcard we'd used on the phone before, and with the card in, it will mount /sdcard and I can even use the mount usb feature to see the external sd card from my pc.

Can I use that to somehow get windows to mount /emmc so I can get the pics?

The other clever thing I tried was to connect to the phone with qpst and run it's memory debugging app. That also made no difference.

Can I somehow use qpst to retrive the files?

And the other other question is, if I can get the phone to reflash sleipnir from the external sdcard (I have another phone I can use to load the file) will flashing the rom wipe out the pictures? Does the sleipnir installation wipe out /emmc?

Also, Artine you are my hero. Thank you so much for taking the time to help with this. My wife may send you cookies.

I don't believe you can use QPST to retrieve any user data, but you should be able to with ADB (Android Debug Bridge). It seems that phenomx4 is walking you through that process, so I won't interrupt him. As for the other question, Sleipnir's installer only wipes the dalvik-cache, /cache, and /system, and installs only to /system and /data. It won't touch your user data or the internal or external sd cards. So no, unless you yourself manually factory reset or wipe /data, re-flashing Sleipnir v2.4.0.2 should not cause you to lose any of your data, pictures included.

Also, since you're using Windows Vista, did you make sure that when you installed the drivers, that you right-clicked on them and clicked "Run as Administrator"? With Windows Vista, IIRC you have to or they won't function properly.

 

[hoosiercheetah]

Hmm, weird. Can you try reboot the PC as well and then retry "adb devices"?

Yep. "Hmm, weird." usually comes up when I talk to people about my technology. That's how my luck runs.

Rebooted, same result. Just for fun, I put the external sd card back in the phone, rebooted recovery again, reconnected, mounted usb storage, pc is now seeing the sd card, adb devices still returns nill.

 

[phenomx4]

Yep. "Hmm, weird." usually comes up when I talk to people about my technology. That's how my luck runs.

Rebooted, same result. Just for fun, I put the external sd card back in the phone, rebooted recovery again, reconnected, mounted usb storage, pc is now seeing the sd card, adb devices still returns nill.

Are you able to see the internal storage? it should be 2GB.

 

[hoosiercheetah]

Are you able to see the internal storage? it should be 2GB.

Kinda? Maybe? My Bozoputer here is seeing removable disc G:, which is the external sd card, 4gb give or take and there are some android files and stuff.

Then there's a mysterious removable disc H: which I'm positive isn't any other piece of gear, cause the known stuff is all named. Properties on H: says unknown file system, used and free space and capacity are all 0.

 

[phenomx4]

Kinda? Maybe? My Bozoputer here is seeing removable disc G:, which is the external sd card, 4gb give or take and there are some android files and stuff.

Then there's a mysterious removable disc H: which I'm positive isn't any other piece of gear, cause the known stuff is all named. Properties on H: says unknown file system, used and free space and capacity are all 0.

Sounds like it's corrupted.

 

[hoosiercheetah]

Sounds like it's corrupted.

Yup. That's what I was afraid of. I think something in this phone went very sideways.

I'd never say to her, but some people have to loose everything a few times before they start to back up files.

I think I'll try and do a reinstall. With any luck, perhaps the pics will come through the reflash process unmolested after all.

Thank you so much, phenomx, for all your help! PM me an addy and I'll mail you some cookies!

 

[hoosiercheetah]

As for the other question, Sleipnir's installer only wipes the dalvik-cache, /cache, and /system, and installs only to /system and /data. It won't touch your user data or the internal or external sd cards. So no, unless you yourself manually factory reset or wipe /data, re-flashing Sleipnir v2.4.0.2 should not cause you to lose any of your data, pictures included.

So ya, I tried to reflash from the internal sd, where I *know* I left the .zip from the original install, cause I'm habitual like that. Nothing there but Android/ Download/ and LOST.DIR/ . There should be all kinds of stuff, and if I remember rightly, CWM will display all the folders and a lot of the random files on your sd when you go to choose a zip to install.
So, it's looking to me that the /emmc already nuked itself somehow. Probably in the big catastrophic failure that lead to all this joy. So, I'll load the rom on the external and reflash it that way... after formatting everything in sight, twice. Overkill, perhaps, but after all this putzing around, I wannna sandblast the guts outta this phone. Probably not a bad idea to double check that I've got CWM updated, too. Okay, now I'm rambling. I've only got 19 min till I turn into a pumpkin, so I should go.

Artine, we love you. PM me an addy and I'll send you cookies. No kidding. I may be bollox with phones, but I can bake.

 

[Artine]

So ya, I tried to reflash from the internal sd, where I *know* I left the .zip from the original install, cause I'm habitual like that. Nothing there but Android/ Download/ and LOST.DIR/ . There should be all kinds of stuff, and if I remember rightly, CWM will display all the folders and a lot of the random files on your sd when you go to choose a zip to install.
So, it's looking to me that the /emmc already nuked itself somehow. Probably in the big catastrophic failure that lead to all this joy. So, I'll load the rom on the external and reflash it that way... after formatting everything in sight, twice. Overkill, perhaps, but after all this putzing around, I wannna sandblast the guts outta this phone. Probably not a bad idea to double check that I've got CWM updated, too. Okay, now I'm rambling. I've only got 19 min till I turn into a pumpkin, so I should go.

Artine, we love you. PM me an addy and I'll send you cookies. No kidding. I may be bollox with phones, but I can bake.

In this case, it sounds like you're going through something similar to what I had to just a couple of days ago. My /data partition nuked itself by my downloading of a game, over wifi, with JuiceDefender on, and having backed out of the Play Store (which doesn't stop the download), and playing a game while I waited for the other one to download. When I stopped playing and went back to the app drawer, it appeared that the game had finished downloading (but I think JD shut off wifi prematurely because I started playing a game instead, which was my own fault because I told JuiceDefender to do this, but had forgotten). I tapped on it to begin playing it, it loaded 10% of the way, then my phone threw itself into a reboot. It would finish booting, wait for the automatic scanning of sdcards, and then crash and reboot again. In the end, I had to completely factory reset (neither uninstalling the app nor re-flashing the ROM fixed it), which managed to repair the damage to /data. I wish you didn't have to go through all of this, though I would recommend using DropBox as a backup program, so that all of your pictures automatically sync with DropBox so you don't have to worry about losing them!

And thanks! I appreciate it.

 

[HaTrEd360]

Usually for the drivers to work properly you have to reboot the PC so as Phenom said give that a try.

 

[hoosiercheetah]

Usually for the drivers to work properly you have to reboot the PC so as Phenom said give that a try.

Ya, I did that. Unfortunately I have to consider this issue solved. I'm convinced that Windows is seeing /emmc, there just isn't anything there to see. I think the directories imploded, which would explain the initial failure.

This morning I'm going to format everything three times while burning some sage and doing an ancient Chippewa Cleansing Dance with my daughter's fairy princess playset magic wand. Then I'm going to reinstall Sleipnir, set her up with dropbox, fix her camera app issues and find the phones best stable overclock speed, and back up everything three times *before* I give it back to her.

So, seriously, no one wants cookies? I wasn't kidding about that!

 

[miediev]

I thought you had to be in download mode to use adb, not recovery. Either way, if you can't recover your files that way; once you get the phone up and running, go to the play store and download DiskDigger. It's a deleted image recovery tool, and it works pretty well. I can't say how much you can recover, but it's worth a shot.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.defianttech.diskdigger

DiskDigger for Android! | DiskDigger

 

[DaveM6]

I thought you had to be in download mode to use adb, not recovery. Either way, if you can't recover your files that way; once you get the phone up and running, go to the play store and download DiskDigger. It's a deleted image recovery tool, and it works pretty well. I can't say how much you can recover, but it's worth a shot.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.defianttech.diskdigger

DiskDigger for Android! | DiskDigger

What's a good app for writing over deleted stuff so it can't be recovered?

 

[miediev]

It depends on to what extent you want it wiped. Your best bet is to connect your phone to a computer and wipe it with a drive wipe program like Eraser | Free Security & Utilities software downloads at SourceForge.net

If you really want to be sure I've read that the best way to wipe data is to first encrypt it, delete it, then wipe the drive it's on. It is particularly important that the encryption key is properly sanitized in this case.

I could get into a big long thing about secure deletion vs. file recovery; but really it's nothing you couldn't figure out with a little reading. If you're just trying to hide your porn from your snooping wife/girlfriend/mom it's a lot easier than if you're trying to keep sensitive corporate/financial/criminal information from dedicated espionage/hackers/forensic scientists.

 

[DaveM6]

It depends on to what extent you want it wiped. Your best bet is to connect your phone to a computer and wipe it with a drive wipe program like Eraser | Free Security & Utilities software downloads at SourceForge.net

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Pm me if you could. Thx.

 

[MacFett]

Pm me if you could. Thx.

You can pm him too. Might be quicker that way too.

 

[HaTrEd360]

DaveM6 you're very very mysterious.

 

[DaveM6]

DaveM6 you're very very mysterious.

LOL! I'm actually a clandestine operative for the Chilean government. Very mysterious indeed

 

[HaTrEd360]

How do ppl get jobs like that. Like really xD

 

[DaveM6]

How do ppl get jobs like that. Like really xD

Ummmmm. Good question.

 

[jla80]

I am looking for some help....On cwm my emmc and sd card are reversed. I am not sure how to fix it or if I should worry about it or not. On root explorer it displays sd card correctly, but my laptop and cwm show it reversed. I have the internal storage box checked on cm9 and I tried to overwrite cwm. The phone still works fine with the two reserved. Thanks for any help you can give me about this.

 

[Artine]

I am looking for some help....On cwm my emmc and sd card are reversed. I am not sure how to fix it or if I should worry about it or not. On root explorer it displays sd card correctly, but my laptop and cwm show it reversed. I have the internal storage box checked on cm9 and I tried to overwrite cwm. The phone still works fine with the two reserved. Thanks for any help you can give me about this.

The two are reversed so you can store apps on the larger, external, SD card because the phone thinks that is the internal SD card, which is advantageous to everyone. Everything will still work correctly though, and this was a feature mentioned in CM9.

 

[HaTrEd360]

I think it would be cool if you could change the partition details and therefore they would be reversed but named the same. Everyone's always gonna think of /sdcard/ as the external SD and /emmc/ as the Internal or have no idea what it is haha.

 

[lphy]

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[jla80]

Thanks for the information Artine...I agree hatred I thought I messed up the phone ,because earlier versions of the alpha cm9 did not do that so it caught me offguard. I will read more about cm9 so I know about features that come with cm9. thanks again.

 

[1nweltownr]

Hi all..
Not sure if this is the correct thread, but it is related. I got root access and root check with giantpune's poot method. It worked flawlessly. Now I want to do the back up w/CWM so I can uninstall all the stock bloatware.

My questions are: Do I have to use an external device for the nandroid backup? I've read that I do, and in other places that I don't. I'm confused. If so, can I use an external sd card? I'd rather just do everything on/from the phone if I can, but I'll buy and external sd card if I have to.

My PC is a dinosaur and probably doesn't have the memory, and my other one is an old imac, on which android apps won't work with.

If this is the wrong thread for this question, I apologize. Thanks in advance! You guys are great!