It was clearer in earlier edits of your post, I think …
So, your device is star2lte - Samsung Galaxy S9+, not a Fairphone 3 with which this topic started out.
Since the mkdir -p /mnt/userdata command doesn’t complain, /mnt/userdata should exist (which your later edits confirm). This would mean /dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/userdata doesn’t exist. The structure may be different on an S9+.
It says in https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/backlog/-/issues/6769 … “We now have a recovery plan for that situation. Do not hesitate to reach out to us in case you face this problem again.”
So perhaps you could reach out by contacting helpdesk@e.email.
(They didn’t say whether the recovery plan was specific to the Fairphone 3 or more universal.)
Very good question - I checked: It was on 1.18-s-20231207. So yes, old version. I just forgot to update. I think there was no notification or I have overlooked it.
C:\Users\MyPC>adb shell
star2lte:/ # mkdir -p /mnt/userdata
star2lte:/ # mount /dev/block/platform/11120000.ufs/by-name/USERDATA /mnt/userdata
mount: /dev/block/platform/11120000.ufs/by-name/USERDATA: need -t
star2lte:/ # cd /mnt/userdata
star2lte:/mnt/userdata # find . -type f -size +1000M
./media/0/dXeIYgz80K9pJbDqVaIesA/Rp1fV0fLqzJQiU2VOz67iD/C3nsy+5NB+Y7PsWvYiC,SnJvJiwiBfQa/an++wV4WMjF16Q2wcwxkDA/n1ujkOfAwWR0qRzq44dxMC/fcOMPYP5JZ+0RYlQasOn59iK5fF/,3FOrQhA6ICX6WYcrA,Vkcn1vhzCo6HZR+BzID
./media/0/9wSFcb6gJ,yo0v6s,t1UiB/DYMdR2+rRVsFm6LmZnTNVB/cqjrDikmram6X0zCA2c1R2scSPxGtaaa
./media/0/Wx7kT7cn49901wIC,LZ,hC/yY+kYlx0mvVsevtvOgB1jC/_w5wLb2l1nPgtg4UHFhJKrtf5uBpjKk37
star2lte:/mnt/userdata #
star2lte:/mnt/userdata # rm ./media/0/9wSFcb6gJ,yo0v6s,t1UiB/DYMdR2+rRVsFm6LmZnTNVB/cqjrDikmram6X0zCA2c1R2scSPxGtaaa
star2lte:/mnt/userdata # [quote=“nilsl, post:16, topic:48762”]
star2lte:/mnt/userdata # cd /
star2lte:/ # cd /
star2lte:/ # umount /mnt/userdata
star2lte:/ # exit
I have delete one of this file. Restarted and…
NOW EVERYTHING start very good and work as before!
Thank u very much Elk! And Tcecyk too. Thank you.
I lost a lot of time for to find and solve this issue, but it was very good experience.
Thank u again for your time, attention and help!
You can backup contacts, SMS and call logs via specialised Apps on the phone or via phone syncing tools like MyPhoneExplorer (this one’s Windows only, though).
You can copy “Internal Storage” via USB or possibly via phone syncing tools.
So far, so easy.
“Internal Storage” (the one made visible via USB) is only a part of the data partition holding user data.
So, what’s left out so far is the rest of the data partition, which has the user-installed Apps and their data as well as user settings. By default the user has no access here and is limited to whatever backup or export function all the user-installed Apps provide one by one.
And you can take notes of your settings.
And you can backup APK files of the installed Apps (for reinstalling the Apps more quickly than via a store) with tools like SAI (it’s important that the tools support so-called “split APKs”).
However, /e/OS allows you to enable “Rooted debugging” in the Developer options (once you made them available), and with this you can use adb root to give root to ADB. This gives you access to the rest of the data partition via ADB, so you could try to copy those parts from the phone via ADB, or there are also tools which can use this, example … Android Backup and Restore Tools (ABRT).
Thanks for the clarification. I think it would be convenient to have a single backup system rather than several disparate programs.
Does this mean that e.OS can be rooted without having to install Magisk?
Now I use magisk for it.
Download last Magisk version, than rename magiskXX.apk into magiskXX.zip (whithout a real zipping procedure) and sideload it via adb ignoring fault message.
Than reinstall as an usual app.
I need to change icon link inside an old radio app but I don’t know how to change it inside.
What kind of developpers windows program can I best to use for to change it (update).
The latest version of the radio app works fine, but they removed the recording feature. So I would like to use the old version. It works fine, but the links in it are old and I can’t see the radio station icons.
My idea is to open both apps and make changes to the old version just in the link to icons part.
So I need to unzip the apk file of the new version of the application and feed the link from it into the old one and then repackage it into the apk file.
Could you help me with advice on how to do this?
I had the same issue and followed @mossroy’s advice, and that solved it for me! Thanks a lot for figuring this one out!
Just to summarize it here again:
on the recovery mode screen, use the top left arrow to go back and into advanced mode
enable adb debugging and use adb to get a shell into the system
mount /userdata which will be encrypted
look for the biggest file. I used find . -size +1G and it found four files with 1.1G each, so I deleted the two oldest ones. Looking them up later unencrypted they were exactly my signal backups.
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