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How to get the mount points of an Android phone

How to get the mount points of an Android phone

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08-01-2016, 09:52 PM
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When porting a custom recovery,  it's important you specify the correct mount points in recovery.fstab to avoid problems. You might also need the mount points to dump a partition via adb dd method

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Steps to get a Mediatek, Spreadtrum, Qualcomm etc Android phone's mount points


Follow the steps below to get an Android phone's mount points

See the video tutorial below or @ https://youtu.be/yvpus846WZU

  1. Install a root browser (e.g ROM Toolbox lite) and navigate to the dev/block/platform folder
  2. Open each folder in the platform folder till you find a folder named "by-name"
  3. Take note of the name folder in which the "by-name" folder is found (for this tutorial, lets call it parentfolder)
  4. Alternatively, you can use the cd command in command prompt to run this search
  5. Launch ADB and type the code below. Press Enter after each line

    Code:

    adb devices adb shell su ls -al /dev/block/platform/parentfolder/by-name


    [Image: how-to-get-mount-points-of-an-android-phone.jpg]

  6. You should get an output like in the image below

    [Image: how-to-get-the-mount-points-of-an-mtk-or...-phone.jpg]
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09-01-2016, 05:54 AM
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Boss don't really understand the used and the important of this tutorial..(mount point )
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09-01-2016, 07:03 PM
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(09-01-2016, 05:54 AM)Drockstar Boss don't really understand the used and the important of this tutorial..(mount point )

when porting images (boot or recovery) you're going to need to know the mount points of that particular device you wish to port the image to

* thats what this tutorial is for
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31-12-2016, 03:13 AM
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Thanks alot for this!
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26-02-2017, 11:15 AM
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SD card show 0mb help me here is screenshot link [Image: 11b044a503d0645918a28b387c0703fd.jpg]

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26-02-2017, 12:26 PM
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(26-02-2017, 11:15 AM)Omnitrix SD card show 0mb help me here is screenshot link [Image: 11b044a503d0645918a28b387c0703fd.jpg]

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Here is mount points[Image: b9095dcec8912fe7b64388d4a88720d2.jpg]

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21-12-2017, 02:54 PM
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HI ,

I am trying to create a flashable zip as mentioned here - https://www.hovatek.com/forum/thread-20497.html
Mount failed while flashing system image.

as per the instruction I have chosen
WHAT YOUR OPTION [DEFAULT=FROM_KERNEL 1=FROM_DEVICE 2=MANUALLY 0=CANCEL]:2

My system is found here - /dev/block/platform/soc.0/7824900.sdhci/by-name

So my question is what do I write in WRITE THE PATH HERE:

Any help will be appreciated

Thanks
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21-12-2017, 03:05 PM
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(21-12-2017, 02:54 PM)suhi02 HI ,

I am trying to create a flashable zip as mentioned here - https://www.hovatek.com/forum/thread-20497.html
Mount failed while flashing system image.

as per the instruction I have chosen
WHAT YOUR OPTION [DEFAULT=FROM_KERNEL 1=FROM_DEVICE 2=MANUALLY 0=CANCEL]:2

My system is found here - /dev/block/platform/soc.0/7824900.sdhci/by-name

So my question is what do I write in WRITE THE PATH HERE:

Any help will be appreciated

Thanks

Hi following are my mount points

lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1970-06-06 11:56 syscfg -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p35
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1970-06-06 11:56 system -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p24
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              1970-06-06 11:56 tz -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p8



Please tell me what should i put in Write the path here while creating zip file?
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21-12-2017, 03:51 PM
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(21-12-2017, 02:54 PM)suhi02 HI ,

I am trying to create a flashable zip as mentioned here - https://www.hovatek.com/forum/thread-20497.html
Mount failed while flashing system image.

as per the instruction I have chosen
WHAT YOUR OPTION [DEFAULT=FROM_KERNEL 1=FROM_DEVICE 2=MANUALLY 0=CANCEL]:2

My system is found here - /dev/block/platform/soc.0/7824900.sdhci/by-name

So my question is what do I write in WRITE THE PATH HERE:

Any help will be appreciated

Thanks

Please, create a new thread, so we can focus on it.
See https://www.hovatek.com/forum/thread-514.html for how to create a thread.
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21-12-2017, 03:59 PM
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(21-12-2017, 02:54 PM)suhi02 ...

Any help will be appreciated

Thanks

from the selection you made, "2". 2 is for manual input
type in the mount point of /system partition on your device.
Code:

e.g /dev/block/platform/soc.0/7824900.sdhci/by-name

if you still have more queries based on this, then create a new thread so we'll focus on this
see https://www.hovatek.com/forum/thread-514.html for how to create a thread
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