I created a gold card a few days ago to root my MyTouch and all went well. Phone got rooted, had Hero rom installed.. but now I cannot read any other SD card in the system aside from the Goldcard. Any device I plug in that is considered "Drive 1" is unreadable.
Is it now fubar or is there a way to un-do this crap?
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I created a gold card a few days ago to root my MyTouch and all went well. Phone got rooted, had Hero rom installed.. but now I cannot read any other SD card in the system aside from the Goldcard. Any device I plug in that is considered "Drive 1" is unreadable.
Is it now fubar or is there a way to un-do this crap?
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could you elaborate more? is this a built in memory card reader? USB Reader? phone plugged in over usb?
have you try to reformat your card ?
I created the gold card with an external USB card reader.
XP cannot read the drive anymore, let alone format it. I have tried with multiple cards, card readers, etc.
I plug in my new Hero via USB and I get the "Please insert a disk" popup.
If I load up the HeX editor used in the gold card creation, it shows the Hero phone as Disk 1, which was the disk I did the Hex editing to.
As stated though, if I plug in any USB card reader and place the gold card inside, it reads that SD card just fine. Any other card says please insert disk. I have tried with 5 different SD cards.
it sounds to me like you need to uninstall drivers and reinstall. are you using windows xp or vista or what?
XP, but it looks like it's any device that ends up becoming "Drive 1" I have tried uninstalling drivers.
What does the HeX program actually do when you paste the goldcard.img values in?
Try booting your machine up with an Ubuntu livecd to see if it can read it
I had a similar issue to this and i solved it by inserting the card you want to format in the Mytouch, Mount the SD card through USB mode on the phone, and if it mounts as a drive through the phone, go ahead and format it there from windows.
Did that fix your other issues? I did the goldcard through an external flash reader, not through the MyTouch.. and as it would be, I do not have the MyTouch anymore, I have a Hero.
If I try and format the card on the hero it says please insert a disk.
The reason this is an issue is I cannot use HTC Sync nor the CoPilot Central software because it cant mount the phones SD card.
i created the goldcard through a reader and not the mytouch. once i realized that it stopped reading my micro sd cards, it tried to get it mounted on the mytouch running a hero rom which it was able to and i formatted it on windows while it was mounted. I think the issue now is that your micro sd adapter might be corrupted from the goldcard creation. do you have a spare micro sd adapter and reader available? try and see if you can see the card from there.
I should be able to mount the SD card from my Hero in windows correct? If so, this is a brand new device, brand new USB cable, brand new SD card plugged into a totally different USB port. Still doesn't work.
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Hello there..
Previously i already rooted my phone HTC Desire. But after i change a few ROM's, have some error on progress. but i'm not sure what the actual problems. After that my phone can use BUT i cannot access my SD Card,i cannot use my camera/video,Bluetooth even when i plug my USB Cable,it NOT show DISK DRIVE for me to select. My question is, without access to SD Card and USB Cable, how to change my existing ROM's to another?..
*Hopefully the expert person can help me.
Please be advise.
Regards & Thank you Guys...
-faizal from Malaysia-
The simplest suggestion would be to remove the SD card from the phone and use a card reader to place a new ROM on it.
If this doesn't work for some reason, you can connect to your computer via Wifi and use ADB to push a new ROM onto the SD card. However, if your phone won't mount the SD card when you plug in the USB cable there is probably something wrong with the way it is communicating with the SD card.
An external card reader is your best bet.
Just to double check - can you access your SD card when you boot the phone in recovery mode?
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The simplest suggestion would be to remove the SD card from the phone and use a card reader to place a new ROM on it.
If this doesn't work for some reason, you can connect to your computer via Wifi and use ADB to push a new ROM onto the SD card. However, if your phone won't mount the SD card when you plug in the USB cable there is probably something wrong with the way it is communicating with the SD card.
An external card reader is your best bet.
Just to double check - can you access your SD card when you boot the phone in recovery mode?
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The problem is, i can't access my SD card from my phone and recovery mode. and also when i plug in USB cable to PC,it just show can charge only. As i know, we ONLY can flash new ROM just from SD Card. is that have another way to do it?
Well, I tried formatting my 8gb micro sd card that came with my Mytouch4g and now Windows 7 doesn't recognize it. When I insert it into my Mytouch it just says a "blank card" was inserted. I can SEE the size of it when using things like EASEUS or going into disk management but I can't format or anything. I've tried changing the Drive letter and that doesn't work.
Does anyone know what I should do?
Did you just use Windows to format, and did you do a quick format or a full format? Also, what file system did you use?
Sorry about the super late reply. But yes, I used Windows to format, and now im stuck with the problem stated above. I think it was FAT.
Try a different program or os like linux to read/reformat the card.
But its possible that it is defective.
Happened to me that way once.
The card was showing bad performance i thought i could fix it by reformating it, after that i couldn't get it to work again.
If you have installed rom manager, try and format the Sd card from that.
Big problem. I have a Lexar 32gb sd card and today it seems to have went corrupt.
I noticed it when my ring tone change from a song to default. if i put the sd card in my PC and try to read from it it says card needs to be formated. Please tell me there is a way to recover the info on the card??? when i put the sd in the phone it says preparing then says safe to remove sd card.
TIA
JC
Hopefully just a format is all you need. I lost a 32g USB drive recently, and fortunately Corsair has great warranty service.
Sent from my Bricked Energy Sensation.
My wife's sensation did the same thing, I had to take out the SD and put it into my SD card reader on my laptop, format it and then put it back in the phone. The phone then wanted to format it again which it did and now it seems fine.
By the way, the data was intact when I put it in my SDcard reader. I was able to back up the data before I formatted it.
He said he wanted to recover the files on the SD card, not how to get the **** thing working.
You might want to check if all of the connections are clean. If they're not, a format the ****-error is likely to happen. Pure alcohol might do the trick.
If it doesn't, you could search Google or the forums for terms like 'recover corrupted micro SD'.
Good luck!
Edit: Maybe this guide does the trick?
I've an other question. I made the mistake to format my SD card with CWM and now it's only a 4 GB card (it should be 8 GB). Does someone know how I can force format it to 8 GB (with Windows or Mac OS disk utility, I can't expand the size anymore, just reformat it) ?
you can use sdformatter, a great and simple tool for those types of things, or you can download easus partition manager, its free and pretty good software for drive management.
If you want to make a linux disc, such as Ubuntu, gparted is one of the best tools available for examining, repartitioning, flagging, and fixing disks. I believe you can just download gparted and boot it from a CD or flashdrive, but I think just downloading a linux distribution is easier.
I got a new sd card a samunsg 32 gb class 10 i was tranferring my old card files to my new one including android data and stuff with a sd card adapter and when i pluged it in my phone it said corrupted so I formatted the card and mounted it to my phone work great the I decided to transfer the files trough a usb to my phone and it unmounted then it dosent recognizes my sd not even my pc any suggestion please help its new and it cant die on me on the first day
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I got a new sd card a samunsg 32 gb class 10 i was tranferring my old card files to my new one including android data and stuff with a sd card adapter and when i pluged it in my phone it said corrupted so I formatted the card and mounted it to my phone work great the I decided to transfer the files trough a usb to my phone and it unmounted then it dosent recognizes my sd not even my pc any suggestion please help its new and it cant die on me on the first day
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It is not likely, but Flash memory does has a chance of failing even if its new, I have had a couple die on me with fairly little use... I would possibly try to contact the place you bought it (or if it came with device the manufacturer) to look into possible replacements.
Tried other computers? other card readers? If you ever get it back up for mat it and select "default allocation size" in the format dialouge. should help with future use.
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Tried other computers? other card readers? If you ever get it back up for mat it and select "default allocation size" in the format dialouge. should help with future use.
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tried a sony vaio light came solid for 5 sec then turned off it recognizes other micro sd but not the "dead" one
I have tried booting with kill disk with a flash drive with no success using disk management and easus dosent work either
I have a faves pad 10.1 model yx10a03, and i'm having trouble with storage.
When I go to settings and storage it says I have total space 0.00, even with an 8gb msd card installed. so I'm thinking the tab has lost all its mount points.
I have tried 6 different micro sd cards as well and none of them seem to be recognized, I get a message " preparing sd card then nothing registers.
What do I do? I can get apps to install , but anything that needs more space like google earth etc fails during install.
Some one help...I can't find a firmware update or a custom rom from anywhere.
Iv'e tried factory data reset, no joy. I need a total system reset but not sure how.
Scott
When you connect to your computer or using something like Astro can you see or navigate to the "external" memory card drive?
If I connect it without a Micro sd card inserted I get nothing.
But if I connect the pad to my P.C via usb cable with a Micro sd card in it, it registers as external 8gb drive which I can send files to etc.
If I use astro, it sees that the sd card as a mount but nothing inside. Also doesn't show any size or storage available.
I could do with rooting method and put a custom rom on it but can't find anything about it.
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If I connect it without a Micro sd card inserted I get nothing.
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Phone/Tablet inits the device but it's OS (drivers?) can't read the format.
But if I connect the pad to my P.C via usb cable with a Micro sd card in it, it registers as external 8gb drive which I can send files to etc.
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PC recognized the mounted initialized device and can R/W to the (fat32?) format.
If I use astro, it sees that the sd card as a mount but nothing inside. Also doesn't show any size or storage available.
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Astro (AFAIK) ques the device's I/O system for file spec and info. It (again AFAIK) just sends commands through the Tablet's OS. Kinda like running LS might in IRIX or some other unix.
I could do with rooting method and put a custom rom on it but can't find anything about it.
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I have no idea and I'm a total n00b but... I wonder if the Tablet uses a proprietary/virtual FS on the SD card instead of the direct embedded card driver?
Is there anything in the instructions about formatting the card? Did you try to format the card in the tablet yet?
So this would be like when I format an SD card on my Mac... It can no longer be read by any other device until it's re-formatted by a non-mac device... But if mounted by said external device acting as a "card-reader" then the connected Mac can perform I/O normally. Only in this case your tablet is like the mac in that situation. Errr, if that made any sense.
Anyway, try to format the card on your tablet and see if that works.