Ubports Recovery unintended system.img flashing
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Hello everyone,
I have a serious problem since I unintendedly made a mistake in the "upborts recovery" mode:
On my Fairphone 2 I wanted to update the android system due to the fact that a new Fairphone OS provided a patch on an error which resulted in random reboots while using mobile data. So in the "ubports recovery" menu I switched to "Ubuntu actions" -> "Replace ubuntu android system"Here, instead of switching to the root directory I unintendedly clicked on "system.img". Since that action my phone does not boot to UT, it stucks in the splash screen after starting the phone.
Can anybody help me? Did I flashed my phone and lost all my data???
Thank you very much!!
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@karstong I suggest you to go to UB Welcome & Install group in Telegram (https://t.me/WelcomePlus) to get help.
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Unfortunately, I do not have a telegram account and now my phone does not work anymore. So, one needs a phone number to register in telegram even for the webapp.
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@karstong ok, I'll comment your problem to the helpdesk people and see if anyone is able to help you.
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@advocatux Thank you very much.
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@karstong can you access adb in your phone? If the answer is yes, copy the data you want to save, and try to install UBports again.
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@advocatux Yes, I see them in adb. Do you know if I only need to copy the "data" folder in order to save all data such as sms, dekko2 settings, signal data, photos...
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@karstong I prefer to save the whole /home because is easier to cherry-pick whatever I need later to reinstall it.
You should save at least
.local/share/evolution/and the content in the main folders (Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, and Videos) but, again, is better to save /home than need something later that is already lost.Edit to add
.local/share/history-service/history.sqliteto save the sms -
@advocatux There actually is no home directory. What I see is the following:
~ # ls
cache init.rc
charger init.wcnss.wifi.sh
data init_bt.sh
default.prop mnt
dev proc
etc res
file_contexts root
fstab.qcom sbin
init sdcard
init.class_main.sh sideload
init.mdm.sh storage
init.qcom.class_core.sh sys
init.qcom.early_boot.sh system
init.qcom.factory.sh tmp
init.qcom.modem_links.sh twrp.fstab
init.qcom.ssr.sh ueventd.qcom.rc
init.qcom.syspart_fixup.sh ueventd.rc
init.qcom.usb.shThe documents, downloads etc. is in data/user-data/phablet...
I do not find: .local/share/evolution
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@karstong When I try to copy a folder an error occurs "skipping special file 'SingletonSocket' and it dos not continue or do something else...
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@karstong the /home for "your" user is
/home/phablet/To list the hidden files (those starting with a dot) too you need the command
ls -laor if you're using the filemanager, unlock it, and click "show hidden files". -
@karstong you can delete that file (SingletonSocket) and try again.
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@advocatux I don't find this file. Maybe it is hidden. Obviously I can copy any file but not directories. Do you have an idea?
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@karstong do you have UTmedia installed? then is probably in
.local/share/utmedia.nfsprodriver/UTmedia/SingletonSocket -
@advocatux ./local/share does not exist
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@karstong how are you trying to find it?
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@advocatux With "ls -la" I get the following screen print:
~ # ls -la
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 0 Jan 1 00:56 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 0 Jan 1 00:56 ..
drwxrwx--- 4 system cache 4096 Jan 12 1970 cache
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jan 1 00:00 charger -> /sbin/healthd
drwxrwx--x 36 system system 4096 Jan 2 1970 data
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5822 Jan 1 00:00 default.prop
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 15480 Jan 1 00:56 dev
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Jan 1 00:56 etc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10882 Jan 1 00:00 file_contexts
-rw-r----- 1 root root 1204 Jan 1 00:00 fstab.qcom
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 422804 Jan 1 00:00 init
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 2696 Jan 1 00:00 init.class_main.sh
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 1702 Jan 1 00:00 init.mdm.sh
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 7064 Jan 1 00:00 init.qcom.class_core.sh
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 6734 Jan 1 00:00 init.qcom.early_boot.sh
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 11380 Jan 1 00:00 init.qcom.factory.sh
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 4022 Jan 1 00:00 init.qcom.modem_links.sh
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 4561 Jan 1 00:00 init.qcom.ssr.sh
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 2962 Jan 1 00:00 init.qcom.syspart_fixup.sh
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 7718 Jan 1 00:00 init.qcom.usb.sh
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 4199 Jan 1 00:00 init.rc
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 218 Jan 1 00:00 init.wcnss.wifi.sh
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 1611 Jan 1 00:00 init_bt.sh
drwxrwxr-x 5 root system 0 Jan 1 00:56 mnt
dr-xr-xr-x 169 root root 0 Jan 1 00:00 proc
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Jan 1 00:00 res
drwx------ 2 root root 0 Dec 20 2017 root
drwxr-x--- 2 root root 0 Jan 1 00:00 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 1 00:56 sdcard
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 1 00:56 sideload
d---r-x--- 2 root sdcard_r 40 Jan 1 00:56 storage
dr-xr-xr-x 12 root root 0 Jan 1 00:56 sys
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Jan 1 00:00 system
drwxrwxr-x 2 root shell 80 Jan 1 00:56 tmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 840 Jan 1 00:00 twrp.fstab
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9098 Jan 1 00:00 ueventd.qcom.rc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7515 Jan 1 00:00 ueventd.rc
~ #In this list there is no ".local". The content of "data/local" is the following:
/data/local # ls -la
drwxr-x--x 3 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 .
drwxrwx--x 36 system system 4096 Jan 2 1970 ..
drwxrwx--x 2 shell shell 4096 Jan 1 1970 tmp
/data/local # cd local
/sbin/sh: cd: can't cd to local
/data/local # ls -la
drwxr-x--x 3 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 .
drwxrwx--x 36 system system 4096 Jan 2 1970 ..
drwxrwx--x 2 shell shell 4096 Jan 1 1970 tmp
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@karstong it seems you're running the commands as root (I don't know why).
To list the content of "your" user's home the command is
ls -la /home/phablet/ -
@advocatux This command brings:
~ # ls -la /home/phablet/
ls: /home/phablet/: No such file or directory
~ # -
@karstong where are you running that command?
