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The fix is in the video. That is why I didn't start over when I screwed up and did it wrong. I wanted to show the fix. You have to clear data then grant storage permission BEFORE you go back and open the app and try again.

I also forgot to mention that cm13 doesn't come with busybox which is required for the app to work. Not sure what kind of crack is being smoked by Cyanogen Inc.

Boot into recovery and flash busybox then the BrokenSwitcher app will work.
You can get twrp flashable busybox from: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1929852

Get the one shown in this screenshot.
Edit: for some reason the screenshot didn't upload...you want to get the busybox 1.24 stericson zip which is the second download link.
 
Masterchief87 said:
The fix is in the video. That is why I didn't start over when I screwed up and did it wrong. I wanted to show the fix. You have to clear data then grant storage permission BEFORE you go back and open the app and try again.

I also forgot to mention that cm13 doesn't come with busybox which is required for the app to work. Not sure what kind of crack is being smoked by Cyanogen Inc.

Boot into recovery and flash busybox then the BrokenSwitcher app will work.
You can get twrp flashable busybox from: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1929852

Get the one shown in this screenshot.
Edit: for some reason the screenshot didn't upload...you want to get the busybox 1.24 stericson zip which is the second download link.
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this fixed everything. big thanks to you and dfused. :)
 
Hello I'm using the grand max+ with pre rooted lolipop rom.
I tried the switcher app it went to twrp. I went into file manager and deleted the folder,then I went to apps,clicked on broken switcher to delete the data but there wasn't any data. The count was 0 with no option to delete. There was stuff in the cache though so I deleted that but I got the same results. I tried it three times no luck.
 
Greysworld007 said:
Hello I'm using the grand max+ with pre rooted lolipop rom.
I tried the switcher app it went to twrp. I went into file manager and deleted the folder,then I went to apps,clicked on broken switcher to delete the data but there wasn't any data. The count was 0 with no option to delete. There was stuff in the cache though so I deleted that but I got the same results. I tried it three times no luck.
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You have to have busybox installed and you can't already be switched when you pull the images or the app will do everything the opposite of how it is supposed to. The app pulls raw images of your boot and recovery partitions and the boot partition image gets named boot.img and the recovery partition image gets named recovery.img. If you have those two partitions switched out already when you pull the images then the file names will be wrong and the switch button will restore and the restore button switch.
 
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Masterchief87 said:
You have to have busybox installed and you can't already be switched when you pull the images or the app will do everything the opposite of how it is supposed to. The app pulls raw images of your boot and recovery partitions and the boot partition image gets named boot.img and the recovery partition image gets named recovery.img. If you have those two partitions switched out already when you pull the images then the file names will be wrong and the switch button will restore and the restore button switch.
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yes I have busy box installed. I used root checker pro to verify that busybox and super su was installed correctly. I never used the switcher zips. I'm in read only mode.
 
Greysworld007 said:
yes I have busy box installed. I used root checker pro to verify that busybox and super su was installed correctly. I never used the switcher zips. I'm in read only mode.
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Also can you get me an adb logcat ? That is the only way I can't truly tell what is going on.
 
Because I want to play God!

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buenas amigo tengo mi cel me quedo en ladrillo me dice enable to mount /system tiene arreglo o ya no? o cres que con algun backup se puede recuperar ayuda ...
 
udiel said:
buenas amigo tengo mi cel me quedo en ladrillo me dice enable to mount /system tiene arreglo o ya no? o cres que con algun backup se puede recuperar ayuda ...
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Is your phone a zmax z970? Please be more specific did you mess with any files, maybe bad root...you need to tell us what you did to begin with, anyways please post in the correct thread
 
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Can someone translate this please?
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sure...I`m portuguese so I understand spanish, he said his phone is bricked and it says unable to mount system, and he asks if it can be fixed or not...but he needs to be more specific and describe the problem with some more details so we can help.
 
GoonDoc said:
sure...I`m portuguese so I understand spanish, he said his phone is bricked and it says unable to mount system, and he asks if it can be fixed or not...but he needs to be more specific and describe the problem with some more details so we can help.
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Idk what phone he has ,but if it isn't the zmax I can't help him
 
GoonDoc said:
sure...I`m portuguese so I understand spanish, he said his phone is bricked and it says unable to mount system, and he asks if it can be fixed or not...but he needs to be more specific and describe the problem with some more details so we can help.
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Did he use my app? If so tell him to try hitting the restore button
 
udiel said:
buenas amigo tengo mi cel me quedo en ladrillo me dice enable to mount /system tiene arreglo o ya no? o cres que con algun backup se puede recuperar ayuda ...
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Puedes decirnos qué modelo de teléfono tienes (ZMAX Z970 ?) Y también lo que estabas haciendo cuando comenzó el problema. Si estabas utilizando el "Broken Switcher " se debe utilizar el botón de "Restore" para poner las particiones de nuevo a Stock

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Can you tell us which phone model you have (Zmax Z970 ? ) And what were you doing when the problem started? If you were using the "Broken Switcher " then you must try the "Restore " button to set the partitions back to the correct locations
 
GoonDoc said:
sure...I`m portuguese so I understand spanish, he said his phone is bricked and it says unable to mount system, and he asks if it can be fixed or not...but he needs to be more specific and describe the problem with some more details so we can help.
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If his phone says unable to mount system then my best guess is that when he tries to reboot system the phone is booting into twrp, which it is supposed to do when you are switched and "reboot system". When you boot into twrp while the phone is still switched, it will say "unable to mount system" because it is trying to mount /system as r/w which it can only do when it is not switched.

When switched, twrp will also give a false warning that "no os is installed" for the same reason because it can't mount /system which might make some people think the phone is bricked if they are unable to read the info in my switcher thread or understand what I'm saying in my how-to video.

I strongly believe that his phone is perfectly fine and that he just does not understand that his phone will "boot backwards" while switched. If he wants to boot into twrp from a powered off state(while switched) all he has to do is hold the power button until the phone vibrates and the screen turns on. If he wants to boot into android from a powered off state(while switched) he needs to hold power and volume up until the phone vibrates and then let go of the power button and keep holding the volume up button for another 10 seconds.

The same concept applies when rebooting the phone while switched. If you do a "normal reboot" it will boot you into twrp instead of android and if you "reboot recovery" it will boot you into android instead of twrp.

If someone who is fluent in both Spanish and English can explain this that would be great.

Lastly, If his phone is still in twrp and "unable to mount system" tell him to select the "reboot" option in the bottom right corner of the screen then choose "recovery" on the next screen and ignore the warning about no os being installed and swipe to reboot anyway. Chances are his phone will boot right back into android if he does this.

Sorry for the extremely looooong post I just wanted to make sure that everything gets explained in detail and maybe someone can use this information to help him understand what is going on.
 
Claro lo siento, Y Si utilice el archivo pac_rom_switcher y tambien utilice el pac_rom_restore y nada cuando lo trato de ensender no me pasa de twrp
 
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