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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] slickdaddy96:
I believe there is something in coding on the S3 that might be causing this. I have seen a lot of reports of bad microSD cards and people blaming it on the S3. What irks me is if it just corrupts a filesystem, then it should be fixed easily by formatting it, but if it continues to do this then obviously it is a bad card, but what caused the bad card? The SanDisk UHS-1 32gb microSDHC was less than a year old. I don't think that is supposed to happen. I can understand if it was a no-name brand, but a SanDisk? I had a 16gb class 10 A-Data card that went bad in my wife's S3. I mean when I say it is bad, I can't even see it on my computer when putting it in the adapter. At least with this SanDisk one, I can see it on my computer it just tells me it has errors.

I own several class 6 8GB cards and a couple of 16GB Class 10 cards, and the one 32GB UHS-1 card. I have never had any of those fails till I put them in the S3. Now I have had two go bad. Coincidence is quite unlikely. Maybe it isn't TWRP but I think the phone or coding is causing this. Good thing the ones I buy come with a lifetime warranty usually.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] flastnoles11:
Sandisk is the problem http://www.phonearena.com/news/SanDisk-says-it-produced-some-bad-32GB-and-64GB-microSD-cards_id40986
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] PeakyBoo:
Someone told me when I was looking for answers, that I should use Class4. I had (all SanDisk All bought at Radio Shack.) a 16g Class2 and 2 32g Class 2 cards go bad. Then got a 32g Class4 and haven't had a problem since. Maybe I should have said that before. Hahaha

Not sure if that had anything to do with it though.

Peakyz ° S lll °
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] slickdaddy96:
Well there we go then. Explains it all. Thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hkhan1:
Very simple man. Under wipe select advance option, there you will find option to clear devil cash, cash, system. If you click on wipe and swipe the bar that will reset your phone to factory wipe.:rolleyes:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] PeakyBoo:
Cool. Doesn't say anything about the 16g Class2 that went bad. Just the 32 and 64. Hmmmm. Guess they missed that one.lol

Tnx for the info.

Peakyz ° S lll °
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] shehroze3:
Alright so I've had this problem since I got this device when it first came out. Whenever I try to restore any ROM backup from my external SD card, twrp gives me an error. Its usually that the md5 won't verify. I have never successfully restored a backup from my ext sd card. Anyone else ever have this problem???
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] shehroze3:
Bump
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Buddlespit:
I've made a bunch of nandroid backups, but I haven't had to revert back to one. Let me test it out and I'll get back to you shortly...

edit: OK, MD5 creation and verification are both on in "Settings". I created a nand for today, restored a nand created on 2.3.1.0 recovery and then restored the nand I created today (2.5.0.0 recovery). I didn't get any MD5 verification errors.

What happens if you turn off MD5 verification?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] cbrox:
I've restored several nands of several roms

(Wicked,MOAR,TPR,MCG,Fre3,CleanBean,The Goodness, and BlackHole SuperNova to name a few; guess you could say i've been doing a little flashing lately:D)

with the latest rev of TWRP recovery 2.5 from my external microSD card and never had that error.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] cron0s879D:
Hi!

Thank you for your job.

I would like install TWRP 2.5.0.0 in my new Lenovo A820 (based in MTK6589).

Anyone can say me how to install it?

I don't found any tutorial for install TWRP for my phone.

Thank you!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] DurhamHusker:
The change logs say exFAT was added to TWRP a few revisions ago, but at the time there appeared to still be some scattered reports of folks having issues at times with various versions of this recovery.

I haven't seen anyone belly aching about exFAT formatted sdcards lately, though.

Any comments on if exFAT is safe to use with the latest version of TWRP?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Smac7:
Here is my problem. All my restores fail on data restore. I have found that by flashing a stock rom in ODIN i can temporarily fix this issue. It will allow me to do a nandroid restore back to my old rom and then it stops working again. I tried using 2.4.4.0 too.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] cron0s879D:
I have the same problem using 2.4.4.0 in lenovo A820. I wait the next relase for my phone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] cbond007:
I cant download the recovery. Every try, it gets to 99% then stops. Does someone have another link to the lates .tar ?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CyberGmonster:
This latest version has been FLAWLESS!! thank you Dev for making the best recovery hands down!!

Sent from my CM eating low calorie Nano lunch!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] DurhamHusker:
The easiest thing to do is install Goomanager from the market, run the app, and then hit MENU -> Install OpenRecoveryScript.

Have you tried that?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dvtmg704:
If u get goomanager app from market u can download and install from it
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] JollyGrnReefer:
Need help please, how do you mount usb in recovery on TWRP 2.5.0.0???
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] killhr:
In recovery I'm not seeing all my dl on phone ext sd yes, but when I boot back on they're there any help
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bog3nator:
Are the downloads on the phones sd or on your ext sd card? In recovery you can switch back and forth. I do it all the time. Just use the internal file manager like es file explorer is used

stock with goodies. anthraxed!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] killhr:
They're on the phone's.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bog3nator:
Just use the built in file manager when you are trying to install something and navigate to the folder it's in. It may be defaulting to the ext sd.

stock with goodies. anthraxed!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Phr3d13:
I'm having an issue with my app data being restored to the wrong location. Most things get restored inside a folder "0". The "obb" folder gets restored to the root of the internal sd. It is a big backup, so data was a split backup. The change logs say this issue was fixed. Has it been broken again?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Phr3d13:
Bump?

Beamed from my Galaxy S3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] timezone12:
you installed a 4.22 rom which has multi user setup like in windows 0 is the first user not a recovery thing its a rom thing
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Phr3d13:
It's doing it for stock rom too

Beamed from my Galaxy S3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] timezone12:
before you install a new stock rom backup all your data from the "0" folder (just in case) then delete the folder in recovery install stock all done back to normal after your done move data from backed up 0 folder pictures and such all done
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Phr3d13:
OK, on stock now, everything works fine. Make a backup in twrp, flash to rootbox, play around a little, reboot back to recovery, make backup for rootbox, restore backup of stock, data messed up.

I'm able to figure out where everything goes, just a pain to have to do it.

Beamed from my Galaxy S3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Dees_Troy:
[RECOVERY] TWRP 2.6.0.0 touch recovery [2013-07-08]
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bso44:
Not available in Goo yet?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
Sweet. Change log looks very interesting too :thumbup:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] flastnoles11:
You can get it on their website though :thumbup::thumbup:

Edit-it's on goo now, get it while it's hot!

“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."” ― David Brin
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] shekinahsmoke:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=38689126&postcount=657

ADDENDUM: if you are looking for .xxxx folders such as .youversion or .zdworks you can find them in the data/media folder in your system root. WHEN YOU DO YOUR INTERNAL SD CARD BACK UP IT IS CRITICAL THAT YOU BACKUP THIS INFO OR IT WILL BE GONE
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] shekinahsmoke:
i was told YES :good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bog3nator:
Has anyone tested 2.6 yet? How does it work..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GatoL0c0:
It was great until I wanted to update my PRL. Did a full wipe, installed a TW Rom, updated PRL and Profile. When I booted back to recovery to do another full wipe, I got:

E:/error opening /data/lost+found

Had to use ODIN to go back to 2.5 to format DATA and was fine after that. :eek:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] flastnoles11:
I've done 2 full backup and restores and not a problem yet

“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."” ― David Brin
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Swamphound:
Your 2.5 wasn't themed was it?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GatoL0c0:
Nope. Never have themed it. I've never run into this before so I'm not sure why it occurred. I hope that it doesn't happen again if I plan on updating my PRL in the future.

I was on 2.6 when I got the error. Since I could not format my phone correctly, I had to back track to 2.5 via Odin. From there I formatted my data, restored from my backup and then finally re-updated back to 2.6 in Goo Manager.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Swamphound:
Did you install 2.6.0.0 thru Odin? If you did try flashing the zip and see. I've had no problems after flashing from 2.5.0.0 and I update prl & profile almost daily as I'm in a poor svc area. Have you tried ##scrtn#?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GatoL0c0:
Wow crazy. No I originally updated via Goo Manager like I always do. I don't mean data as in not able to receive any data to my phone. I mean the data partition on my phone would not format correctly after I did a full wipe coming back from the TW ROM. Without the data partition, I was unable to install CyanogenMod or restore from backup. It must have been a fluke because I did a full wipe beforehand to temporarily install TW coming from CyanogenMod. All is good for now but I'll be hesitant to update my PRL from now on. :o

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Swamphound:
More experienced devs would have to confirm this but I understand that the recovery is totally separate from the ROM or the phones functions. It does to your device exactly what you tell it to do. If you wipe internal card or ext. sd card its not good. I see your running a nightly. That's a possible reason why you had a one-time only issue.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GatoL0c0:
Ok, I think I'm beating a dead horse here. Lol. It's not the ROM (CM 10) that gave me problems. I couldn't even install TW because something went wrong during the formatting process. The error occurred only when I came back from TW. There is a thread I found where other users experienced the same issue on previous versions. I gave one of their recommendations a shot (install an older version and perform full wipe).

Sorry but what exactly do you mean by "If you wipe internal card or ext. sd card its not good"?

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Swamphound:
What I mean is not to wipe internal storage, or your external card if you have stuff you want to keep when flashing another ROM.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GatoL0c0:
Oh I see but I don't worry about that. I have backups to cloud services. So I'm good. :beer:

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jjbehren:
Sorry if this was answered elsewhere. I searched, but didn't have any luck.

My S3 is running MOAR 4.01 and has been acting very strange the last few days (won't update PRL or profile, downloads/updates from the Play Store fail all the time) so I decided I'd wipe and reflash the ROM. While running, I connected the phone to my computer to see if I could access the SD card (phone's been telling me it's bad, but I wanted to be sure). Then I went through the process of rebooting the phone into recovery. Now it's stuck/hangs on the Teamwin screen. I pulled the battery to reset it and it still hangs at the same screen each time I attempt to restart the phone. One time, after sitting on the Teamwin curtain screen for a while (maybe 7 minutes) it rebooted normally. Now I'm back at the Teamwin screen.

I have a suspicion that the bad SD card might be the problem. Also, and don't flame me for this, but I can't find what version of TWRP I'm running.

Any ideas?

Thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Phr3d13:
I would try using Odin to flash back to stock, then go from there. Or try searching for a twrp Odin flashable package.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jjbehren:
Thanks. I've got a new microSD card too that I can put in. Time for some house cleaning, I guess. Off to find the "back to stock" thread.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] swiggs98:
Help???

I purchased a new S3 the other day to replace my previous one that bit the dust (water damage). I was surprised to see that TWRP nor CWM can mount any of the partitions. TWRP thinks the device is encrypted for some reason. I ODIN'ed back to an older stock build and had the same experience. Is Sprint/Samsung doing something new? This seems to be independent of the ROM as it is still the same MD4 build released in ~April. At least two other users are who recently purchased S3s are reporting the same issue. Any insight would be much appreciated. See attached images. TAI
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] cbarth3:
I am seeing the same thing with a new S3 that came today for my wife. it has 4.1.2 installed by default. Used the Toolkit to root and everything rooted fine but seeing this same issue where it asks for a password when first going into TWRP recovery. It also does not allow access to either the internal or external card
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Notorious:
Im starting to notice that everyone that has the mounting issue used the toolkit.....
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] flastnoles11:
Nope, I know of 2 that didn't initially use the toolkit and had the mounting issues, but subsequently used the toolkit to see if that would work but had same issues
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] deutscher3891:
I have the same issue and didn't use the toolkit. I used "[Beginners Guide] Rooting the Sprint GalaxyS3 the Easy Way" to do it.

I also ODIN flashed a stock rom with root already installed.

Plus, I followed the method of "dd" the recovery to the partition.

All of these methods leave me with a recovery that is not able to mount partitions.

FYI ... Received my S3 just this week.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Slimegod:
Where did you find a ROM with root already installed?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] deutscher3891:
http://www.sxtpdevelopers.com/showthread.php?t=207

Thanks to [MENTION=4342879]flastnoles11[/MENTION] for posting it in another thread.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Slimegod:
Thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
This is extremely strange...it seems like people with the newest S3's (received within the last month ir so) are all experiencing these issues

Sent from my buttered S3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] swiggs98:
My solution after banging my head against the wall for several days... take it as an omen that I should have bought the S4 anyway. I returned my new S3 in exchange for an S4 while it was still within the 14 day exchange period. I would have preferred to save the money, but a week from now, I won't look back.

Best of luck to you all. I know this is a less than desirable surprise for a device that is generally speaking very mod'er friendly. I hope a resolution pops up for you soonest.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] imaconeheadXD:
To those with new devices seeing issues, are you able to load CWM? If you can load CWM and have it working, then you could flash TWRP and then see if it works
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ragnar:
They all have loaded both recoveries from odin and from goo manager or rom Manager as well. They can root and they can install recovery. What happens is that no matter which recovery they use or how they install it when in recovery it doesn't mount storage, neither internal or external. This keeps them from being able to flash anything via recovery. They are locked into flashing via ODIN only.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] imaconeheadXD:
Ah ok just because I only saw this mentioned here in the TWRP thread so I didn't know if that was the case with CWM as well
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] primo523:
Just got my son an s3. He's now rooted with cwm. Now what? How do we flash a rom with the above issues?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ascertion:
Installed the goo manager app from the PlayStore, give it root permission, hit menu inside the app, and select "Install Open Recovery Script."

Once you do that, it should download and install TWRP recovery. Once you're done with that, you can power off the device, hold Power + Volume Up and it'll boot into recovery. From there, you can do whatever. I'd strongly recommend you backup your current ROM before tampering with anything else!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
What is this with the danged new S3's? :confused:

Makes no sense

EDIT: I PMed Dees_troy. Those having mounting troubles, be ready to provide detailed logs/info/etc to help diagnose the issue.

Sent from my buttered S3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] primo523:
Having problems. Installed cwm to flash root from revovery and cwm wont recognize sd card. I have goo but no twrp only cwm with no root. Help please. New s3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] internetpilot:
Purchased two new S3's directly from Sprint for my two sons four days ago and have the exact same problem -- no matter what recovery (or version of respective recovery) I try, nothing can be mounted, so I cannot flash anything from recovery, cannot backup anything, can't wipe anything, etc. On some versions of TWRP it will prompt for a password when first booted into recovery. When attempting to restore it back to stock recovery, I actually encountered the same thing with nothing being mounted, but then found that the stock recovery that's included with the Toolkit does work.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] primo523:
Yep. I even tried going back to mc3. I got it rooted but won't recognize anything I want to flash in recovery. I hope the developers can help.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bog3nator:
Do you think sprint started encrypting the recovery partitions?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] flastnoles11:
Seems that way.......
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] sonnysonnyb:
well i might as well throw my 2 cents in here..purchased a new s3 from sprint last week..recovery will not mount storage.internal or external..i have a rooted phone without ability to flash or do a backup..i hope someone can figure this out soon..i think most attention has shifted over to the s4
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
I PMed Dees_troy. Let's hope he can come and fix this up soon

Sent from my buttered S3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Naddict:
Perhaps, (key word here is PERHAPS ;) )

This might work as a temp workaround? http://bit.ly/Xa9XXN
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] primo523:
Wait. . you want us to freeze or phones. Lol. Pass. Btw thanks for looking into.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] orlzzt:
Has anyone gotten a log of what is actually happening? Need to get one and have it looked at by one of the Jedi Masters... -->

[MENTION=824976]k0nane[/MENTION]
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
Those of you having issues, run the following commands for me and then post the results

While booted up:

cat /proc/partitions > /sdcard/mounts.txt
mount >> /sdcard/mounts.txt

Then while in recovery (using adb)

$ adb shell
# cat /etc/fstab > /sdcard/recov.txt

To grab those files, run

adb pull /sdcard/mounts.txt

And

adb pull /sdcard/recov.txt

respectively.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ragnar:
[MENTION=4645794]CNexus[/MENTION] you might want to post that request in a couple of different threads.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] primo523:
How do we get a log?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ragnar:
Just read 2 posts above yours... They just gave you instructions.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] primo523:
Not sure in understand what to do "while booting up" you mean plug it in to the pc? I need a step by step if you can please
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
No, as in while your phone is booted up into the OS
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] internetpilot:
Neither of my two S3's are rooted so I can't get to a terminal or can I? After recovery failed to mount anything, I stopped trying to root and just focused on getting a working stock recovery again.

Is there an ODIN only method of getting root to the stock ROM without deleting data (or screwing up wifi)? Remember, if I screw up wifi it's not an easy process to just flash a different kernel since no custom recoveries are working.

Man, this is a pain in the posterior! :(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] flastnoles11:
You don't need root... Just download android terminal and run the commands... There is a stock rooted that keeps data that I posted a few days back.. Found here http://www.sxtpdevelopers.com/showthread.php?t=207