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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] singhpratik87:
correct me if i am wrong but to flash via odin i need to download the img.tar file right? and extract the zip and i will end up with a recovery file which i should be able to navigate via pda button on odin?

Edit: Shouldn't it be a .tar file after extraction to be able to flash via odin?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Just flash the img.tar file in PDA. Don't extract the recovery.img from the tar.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] timmyhawk1983:
so i bricked my phone .......... any development on getting your phone back through ODIN yet that someone can correctly guide me to a certain page ?? or do i have to wait for the original files to be put out by sammy and ATT ?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] esincho:
I doubt it's bricked. But anyway u can't get into recovery?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
You mean any of those buttons will reload TWRP to the main page?

You installed the wrong version, you should use the canada version for the i317m.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
We can't help you without the following:

1. What steps did you do to arrive in your current state.

2. What are your perceived problems.

Bricking states that the phone cannot turn on, simply anything else should be fixable if you perform the correct steps.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] timmyhawk1983:
it was a soft brick ... but i didnt see the process to bring u back for that thru ODIN .. until i seeen it discussed in the thread i helped develope "stock rom" thread .. but sorry guys was at work ....the steps i did was ... i seen on this site (that i check every 5 hours lol) there was an update on twrp to .3 ... so i went to update it thru goo-manager and when it put me into bootloader mode .. once teamwin went thru it showed the twrp 2.3.1.3 .. i clicked on install .. it soft rebooted back to teamwin ... brought up the page again .. i clicked on wipe cache worked fine .. clicked on factory reset .. worked fine .. fixed permissions .. worked fine ... went to install .. REBOOT-ed AGAIN .. so this time i went into TWRP and clicked on RESTORE thinking i could just restore factory settings .. no ... it locked up ...when i put the battery in it goes to samsung boot screen .. then to the TWRP load screen .. then reboots .. repeating over and over ......... what i had installed was the CF-root ... RC_2 with the multi-win ... and twrp 2.3.1.2 .. and yes before install or flash over somethin i always factory 3x and wipe cache 3x ... i did a backup and all that once i found out things aint been goin the same like the first galaxy note i once had ... but yeah ... this is where im at ... i booted into downloader mode ... used ODIN to restore my phone with everything stock using the "att-stock_rom.rar" found in the stock rom thread .. everything worked ... but once again .. soon as i redownloaded twrp 2.3.1.3 ... wont go thru with those 3 buttons .. INSTALL BACKUP and RESTORE .. it just freezes then reboots ... wat im basically tryin to do is install suarom's new rom ... but it looks like my next task is to install twrp 2.3.1.1 or 2.3.1.2 becuz .3 just isnt workin for me

and also ... im on ATT ... not canadian ... so im downloading the right things TWRP just isnt workin on my phone correctly

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no ... and ive also noticed .. ever since i got the phone ...... i havent been able to soft reset .. the volume up/reset/home button hasnt ever worked for me straight from the box ... id have to hold the reset button .. click on reset or turn off phone to get into bootloader or reset my phone ... and yes its still that way even after re-installing stock everything
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
I would advise trying a manual install of twrp.

dd if=/sdcard/name-of-img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p9

In terminal or adb shell.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] timmyhawk1983:
thanks .. but for the moment i will be using CWM ... ill keep this in mind ... thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] TEKHD:
TWRP does not backup modem right?

TWRP does not backup modem right? If not... then How can I backup my modem? thanks in advance!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] :
okay so we can't install the zip through the stock recovery even when there's an ADB push and apply updates from ADB options when you boot into the stock recovery? Is the only way we can get TWRP is from Goo manager since it seems like we can't even do the TAR since ODIN doesn't like the file that much.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
I think I finally fixed the Odin tars. Can you try again and let me know?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Hmm, I could add it to device configs. Not a bad idea I think.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] sonny21:
I think it would be great idea. That way there's nand backup (which also allows you the choice between system/data/boot), I believe efs option as well right? So if you have easy option for modem as well, that would be neat.

I am a noob myself, the kernal is backed up if you select system/data/boot for nand backup correct?

Thanks.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Kernel is part of /boot. /boot is a combination of a concatenated boot.im and ramdisk.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] sonny21:
Oh ok, yeah modem backup would be great as twrp could truly be your one app backup restore (system wise).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] theraker007:
If I want to completely wipe my phone and start fresh. What's the appropriate procedure? I assume twrp won't be touched and I should put the Rom I'm going to flash on the sd card?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Just go to Wipe->Factory Reset.

This will erase cache and everything on the /data partition except /data/media, which is your internal sdcard.

You can then install the ROM and boot into it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] theraker007:
well i want to wipe all app data because when i format i want to reinstall everything on the sd card with the external sd swap. I have a lot of app garbage taking up space even if i factory reset.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] esincho:
Then u wanna wipe internal card
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Swap means an area on disk in which the system can use as virtual memory. It is slower to access than RAM.

I think you mean you want to wipe your internal sdcard? You would wipe internal under the wipe menu. This will format the entire /data partition which includes /data/media or the fuse fs contents of your internal sdcard.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] dafoxs:
Not sure if its just me, the new version will not doba back up. I've tried to install twrp 3 different ways. It doesn't say failed. It says it took 0 seconds. Is there something new we are suppose to do to get this working?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] DerTeufel1980:
Thank you for building a compatible recovery :)

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] redrider54:
no luck trying that.. here my recovery log. https://www.dropbox.com/s/3xkq5b59dbe3fc3/recovery.log
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
I think it may be an issue with contexts. I will put up an updated build tonight for you to try with f2fs. For now can you use adb shell and execute: toolbox setenforce permissive. Then try the restore again.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] redrider54:
i got stuck in a soft brick, had to oden back to stock then restore everything thing again.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] rhaneyjr:
Not able to restore back ups from external sd card anymore. Any ideas?

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] redrider54:
post up a recovery log that will give biggiff an idea..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] rhaneyjr:
I've found that if I back up directly from twrp instead of ROM manager. It created the file that is visible in trwp restore. So I just moved backups to that file once rebooted. All is well again

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] jayjay1234:
Hi BigBiff,

Any chance we'll get f2fs support here too?

Thanks for the great recovery!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
I will try to do it tomorrow. Can you test? I am at work all day today so I can't do any builds today. Also planning on twrp 2.7 this weekend for all my maintained devices. (Note 1 - 3 and various Note tablets)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] jayjay1234:
Sure I'll give it a run and report back.

Thanks for the quick response.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] jayjay1234:
I finally got to try out 2.7.

I installed over devil recovery with my f2fs setup. After install and reboot to recovery. I tried to do a fresh rom install but couldn't wipe data. TWRP said it couldn't mount e:

Sorry didn't get a log before changing back to.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] nate_benji:
I've had one issue with 2.7.0.0 on the t0ltecan version, my i317m seems to lock up when doing a backup or wiping. Any ideas?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
I would be grateful if you could pull /tmp/recovery.log.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] nate_benji:
Are the logs wiped when a battery pull is performed? I can see if i can find one. I've already installed another recovery to test the same thing happens with it. So far i'm 90% through my backup.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
The log lives in ramdisk so after rebooting or power off the log will be gone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] jayjay1234:
Unable to mount

HI bigbiff,

Here you go: http://tinyw.in/Ilrj

I don't know if I need to reformat my internal again.

- If so will TWRP have an option for f2fs?

- If not will it keep my f2fs in tack?

Thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] rob_z11:
I tried to flash new 2.7 for att/lte note2 on top of devil's recovery. It won't flash either from devil's recovery or older twrp recovery.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
I need to add f2fs to t0lteatt. I can do that tonight and can you test?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Can you link the file you flashed? What do you see when it flashes? Can you use adb to pull /tmp/recovery.log?

I need more information.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] 2545:
I couldn't flash through the previous version of twrp. I ended up using rom installer from play store. Worked great.

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] jayjay1234:
Just so everyone knows. The zip provided on the TWRP2 website can not be flashed. It's missing the updater script. Best way to update is through Goo Manager or Odin.

I can test f2fs when implemented. Thanks for the support bigbiff!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
I will rebuild the zip tonight when I do f2fs. I had an error in my build script.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] 2545:
Goo manager didn't work for me as it would not show the latest version available to be flashed. I resorted to using rom manager which worked flawlessly.

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Goo manager has not been updated to twrp 2.7 yet.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] rob_z11:
i would just wait until tomorrow to try.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Haven't had the chance to do f2fs yet. I am waiting for some verification from t0ltevzw that it's working on twrp2.7.

I have however uploaded a fixed zip image.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] rob_z11:
Do you know where is this updates image? Last night I downloaded again, and it won't flash using devil's recovery.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Please see my previous post.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] 2545:
Dude, try using this to install latest twrp... spoon fed:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jrummy.apps.rom.installer

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Did it work?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] rob_z11:
Thanks. I think i had copy from previous evening. IT worked this morning when I downloaded again.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] 2545:
Yes sir. No problems at all. Previous twrp recovery nor Goo manager would work for me.

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] phoneturf:
Ever since I got a 64gb card, which I formatted to fat32, I have not been able to use TWRP since it errors out on the backup, even when I remove all spaces from the backup name. Is there something special I need to do to make it work? TIA!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Can you post recovery.log?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Ship It City:
Help please !! So I have had twrp for a while now , have had absolutely no problems. That is until now. For some reason TWRP does not see any zip files that I put on my internal storage card. And when I move them to the external it fails to install the. zip. I know the files are there on the I terra card when I move them there I can clearly see them in my file Explorer program but twrp doesn't see them when I recovery. Just asking if anyone can point me in the right direction and many thanks in advance

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Have you tried changing your storage selection by pressing the button?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Ship It City:
Yes I've changed the storage selection to reflect where I put my zip file. It sees it when it is in the external card but always fails. When I move it to internal twrp doesn't see it at all no matter what folder I have it in
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Can you post /tmp/recovery.log for me?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Ship It City:
i know its a pain in the ass but i cant seem to pull a log, my temp folder is empty, for some reason i just noticed my sd card is named sdcard/0 ive never noticed that when flashing a rom actually worked for me, could that be something to do with it ?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] shaggyskunk:
It's not in a temp file - it's on your SD card and it's shown as recovery.log

Unless bigbiff is asking for something else?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
You wouldn't happen to have moved from and older rom to a newer rom in which they moved everything from /data/media to /data/media/0? Check to see if the file is under /data/media and it might need to be moved to /data/media/0. I need you to pull /tmp/recovery.log using adb when in TWRP.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Ship It City:
im thinking i have a bigger issue with my storages, if i put em in sdcard0 i cant get to em but if i put them into sdcard0 into the folder 0 i can see em but still cant flash to twrp 2.7 keeps failing. anyone know how to clean up this mess it looks like the folder sdcard0/0 is a duplicate files of sdcard0 ugh what a mess !!!

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i have no idea what i have done !! But yeah it sounds exactly like what i may have done !!! Im trying to find where the logs are i ran adb and pulled logs but i cant find them in es file explorer to upload them
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Bajanman:
[Q] did you previously come from a CM or asop Rom. And then flashed a TW Rom? Because your mentioning of the Sdcard0 folder.

You might just have to flash the downgrade zip in this thread at the bottom of the OP page...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=36873319

Hopefully that helps your issue, cause I'm not experiencing any issues with the latest update atm.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Ship It City:
Its been so long since i flashed a rom i couldnt tell you what i did in the past !! Last time I flashed was when this last Jedi rom came out now i wanted to try something different and just tried to update TWRP to start that and really cant do much. Im thinking ill probably have to factory reset this thing. there isnt much that i need to keep in the way of files on my phone all my photos are backed up on dropbox so ill be good there

just FYI flashed and that didnt work out. Thanks for your help though I do appreciate it !!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Bajanman:
Yeah no problem. Just trying to help you resolve your problem. Like you said best bet is to start fresh with a clean install...

Hopefully that fixes your issues.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] sky007:
I have a I317M Canadian version with rooted stock 4.3 ROM. Installed TWRP by Goomanager.

Here is my questions:

First: The TWRP version is 2.6.3.0, it is not 2.7.0.0.

Second: Use TWRP made a backup, then I wiped all and factory reset in TWRP, restore from backup. But the phone can't boot anymore, it stuck at glowing "Samsung" screen. I have to pull the battery and boot into TWRP, wipe caches, still cannot boot. Final, I flash stock ROM by odin to get the phone back to live. Is it the bug for TWRP?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
If you still have the backup, can you post recovery.log from within the backup?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] sky007:
Sorry, do not have recovery.log anymore after odin.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] jayjay1234:
f2fs Progress

How's the f2fs progress going?

Thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Still on the todo list.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] frewys:
Agni made one a couple of days ago.

However. I get the FC on this one.

Read someone else having the same issue with a 64GB SD card formatted to FAT32.

But even trying to store locally kills it.

Here is the link to his thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2316648
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
I will get to it soon hopefully.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] frewys:
The temp solution that worked for me was online nandroid manager.

It took 40 min to do so be patient. (the phone was left alone in airplane mode doing its thing)

I have yet try to restore from it so I do not know how well it will work, but I do not expect any issues.

Good luck to you.

Also, he has made easy flashable script to format all the partitions to f2fs.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Can you try http://techerrata.com/bigbiff/openrecovery-twrp-2.7.0.1-t0lteatt.img.tar
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] jayjay1234:
I just tried it but still not mounting data.

Here's a log

http://tinyw.in/gSMC

Thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
OK, I will recompile a kernel tonight and try again.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Would you mind testing http://techerrata.com/bigbiff/openrecovery-twrp-2.7.0.1-t0lteatt.img.tar for f2fs?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] jayjay1234:
Still a no go on mounting internal f2fs.

Here's a log

http://tinyw.in/F4IW

Thanks for your efforts!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Can you grab the output of dmesg > /sdcard/dmesg.txt
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] jayjay1234:
Here you go.

http://tinyw.in/zp7W
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Is this from the TWRP session?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] jayjay1234:
Sorry but I've never tried it in TWRP.

Which folder do you start in when it asks?

When I type in su it can't find su.

If I can't mount system am I able to still get a dmesg.txt?

Thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Are you doing this in twrp terminal? If so you are root by default. You can do this from any folder, then upload it from android.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] jayjay1234:
I manage to get one on my external sdcard because the internal wasn't mounting.

Here you go. The was in TWRP session.

http://tinyw.in/ZDxh
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
How did you format the filesystems to f2fs?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] jayjay1234:
I done it previously in devil recovery.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
In TWRP terminal, can you do cat /proc/filesystems /external_sd/filesystems.txt and post the results.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] jayjay1234:
TWRP says file not found.

I got this of android. don't know if this helps
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Can you verify you typed the right command? It should be there. I want to make sure the TWRP kernel is showing f2fs.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] jayjay1234:
Ok I just like to double check. Here's what I typed to try to get the file

1. cat /proc/filesystems /external_sd/filesystems.txt

2. cat /proc/filesystems /external_sdcard/filesystems.txt

3. cat/proc/filesystems/external_sd/filesystems.txt

4. cat/proc/filesystems/external_sdcard/filesystems.txt

So I basically removed the space after cat and filesystems or tried to change sd to sdcard.

I can give the first command a try again if it correct?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
You need the > to redirect output:

cat /proc/filesystems > /external_sd/filesystems.txt
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] jayjay1234:
Got it
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
OK, I will compile the kernel from scratch tonight. Thanks for your help.

EDIT:

Please try http://techerrata.com/bigbiff/openrecovery-twrp-2.7.0.1-t0lteatt.img.tar
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] fatjoejr2001:
Zip or is 2.7.0.1 not ready just yet?

Tap, tap says the wicked N²☆
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
This is for testing f2fs.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] jayjay1234:
Sorry haven't got to test over the weekend. Just tried this morning but still not mounting. Here's the logs and info.

Recovery: http://tinyw.in/tifU

dmesg: http://tinyw.in/PEyA
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
Alright, underped: http://techerrata.com/bigbiff/openrecovery-twrp-2.7.0.2-t0lteatt.img.tar
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] jayjay1234:
WoW Great work! TWRP is mounting internal partition now. I made a backup with success but haven't tried to restore yet.

I couldn't paste recover log on https://paste.tinyw.in/ for some reason. I kept on saying "The Main Paste field must have a value. "
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
I will release it tonight. Thanks for testing.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Bajanman:
Thanx for testing

buddy, I tried his previous F2FS test release but was getting a few problems mounting. So went back to ext4...

But I didn't drop him the log files to see why...

Thanks to you for taking care of that!!

[MENTION=2638973]bigbiff[/MENTION]

Thanks for adding this to your recovery. Cuz I luv it[emoji106][emoji106].

I'll try out the new release once you're done with it...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] gregsarg:
I'm back on 2.6.3.1

I had trouble getting a backup done...after flashing 2.7xxx

But I'm excited to try again once testing is complete...

I don't say it enough in here...but THANK YOU !!!

For keeping the Note 2 at peak performance..

I honesty don't see any reason to move on...

Great work Biff....g
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] bigbiff:
What problem did you have?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] gregsarg:
Backup attempt would not progress...and after about 30 seconds the process would kick me back to the main screen...

I've decided it may have been a mount issue on external sd...

I'm still running 2.6.3.1

But I'm gonna try 2.7.0.1 and I'll report back while checking the mount status...g
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] nickfar2000:
Any news on the new twrp performance in the past couple days?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] gregsarg:
Yes...

For me at least. ..

2.7.0.1 won't see my SD card...

Doesn't mount to create a backup. ..

But oddly. ..it restores a nandroid just fine. ..

Next step is to get another SD and test it. ..

The problem is isolated to me. ..so it's likely not the recovery. ..g
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Bajanman:
Well I'm on 2.7.0.0 and not having any issues with my sd card. Hopefully it's just a sd card change that'll get your recovery working correct again...

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] mindmajick:
No issues at all with 2.7.0.1

-》Sent from my mind to your screen.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Bajanman:
[MENTION=3927388]gregsarg[/MENTION]

I just installed the latest version 2.7.0.1 recovery. And what do I get it won't mount my sd card similar to someone else I know lol...

So I just re flashed my old version 2.7.0.0 and it's back working again. I was just saying I hope I'm able to use my previous backups. But after downgrading recovery everything is back to normal... yay

[MENTION=2638973]bigbiff[/MENTION]

Yeah Greg isn't the only one that's having that issue with the sd card not mounting!

But here's the log from the recovery hopefully it'll help you find out what's the problem. With some sd cards not mounting??

Log file here»»» https://copy.com/QStGzgVMs489vNd

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