Hey so I just decided to flash JI6 on my Captivate, and I noticed that my device wasn't showing any items on my SD Card. It sees my sd card, but doesn't see all the stuff thats on it. I've tried to unmount, reinstalling it, and restarting the device, but nothing seems to work. Can anyone help me? This is really annoying. I did make sure all my stuff was still on it by plugging it into my computer. I did a search for this before posting, and couldn't find anything about this happening. Thanks for any help.
I'm not an expert at flashing. But I seems to recall that you have to remove your SD card and SIM card before flashing ROM. Hopefully you removed the SD card before flashing...
Do you see both internal and external sd card? If you installed one of the i9000 based ROMs that have no SD card, you may only be seing your internal storage and not the external SD card at all.
2.2 changes the path to where the external SD card is stored. It is not the same as 2.1. I don't remember exactly, but 2.2 puts it under the /mnt directory and i don't think External is under internal anymore.
2.1 is /sdcard/sd for external
2.2 is /mnt/internal_sd (i think)
GAMacky said:
I'm not an expert at flashing. But I seems to recall that you have to remove your SD card and SIM card before flashing ROM. Hopefully you removed the SD card before flashing...
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I think it should be ok. I have flashed ROMs like more than like 30 times so far, and I always had my external SD card sitting in there.
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Do you see both internal and external sd card? If you installed one of the i9000 based ROMs that have no SD card, you may only be seing your internal storage and not the external SD card at all.
2.2 changes the path to where the external SD card is stored. It is not the same as 2.1. I don't remember exactly, but 2.2 puts it under the /mnt directory and i don't think External is under internal anymore.
2.1 is /sdcard/sd for external
2.2 is /mnt/internal_sd (i think)
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2.2 --> /sdcard/external_sd
2.2.1 --> /sdcard/external_sd
Some 9000 based ROMs have trouble with external sd. There are SD card fixes posted in those ROM threads itself. Apply them through CWM recovery console and you should be good.
I have attached one such sd card fix for 2.2.1 from "Doc's ROM JPY V6.1.3 CE" thread. If u r using a 2.2.1 based ROM, this could work for you.
GAMacky said:
I'm not an expert at flashing. But I seems to recall that you have to remove your SD card and SIM card before flashing ROM. Hopefully you removed the SD card before flashing...
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Yes I did make sure to remove the SD Card before Flashing.
alphadog00 said:
Do you see both internal and external sd card? If you installed one of the i9000 based ROMs that have no SD card, you may only be seing your internal storage and not the external SD card at all.
2.2 changes the path to where the external SD card is stored. It is not the same as 2.1. I don't remember exactly, but 2.2 puts it under the /mnt directory and i don't think External is under internal anymore.
2.1 is /sdcard/sd for external
2.2 is /mnt/internal_sd (i think)
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Thank you very much. That fixed it. Thanks so much.
i'm having the same problem with my sd mass storage.
did i miss something? what worked? could you direct me to instructions or a resource for step by step fix? thank you very much in advance
one other thing too; what's a ROM i keep hearing so many times
p.s. using stock unrooted captivate from rogers with 2.2 kernel 2.6.32.9 build froyo.uxjl1
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So im considering upgrading my SD card and going to a 16gig one from an 8gig one. I have Move2SD Enabler and most of my downloaded apps over on the SD card. What would happen if i copied everything from my current SD card and just dropped it onto a brand new 16gig one and inserted that into my phone? Would i not notice anything or would it break all those apps?
any help? Im sure there is a quick answer to this.
Helgaiden said:
So im considering upgrading my SD card and going to a 16gig one from an 8gig one. I have Move2SD Enabler and most of my downloaded apps over on the SD card. What would happen if i copied everything from my current SD card and just dropped it onto a brand new 16gig one and inserted that into my phone? Would i not notice anything or would it break all those apps?
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Hi,
I have upgraded my SD card by these steps:
- Make the titanium back up and copy all contents of your SDcard to the pc.
- Then change the SDcard for the new one & format it in your phone.
- After formatting, copy the saved contents from the pc back to your new SDcard.
okay but what happend with the ext3 partition ?
fourire said:
okay but what happend with the ext3 partition ?
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ext2/3 Partition u can access by a linux live-cd like knoppix.
or try totalcommander with the ext2 extension from a win-box.
I'm running MiniCM6 1.0.0 on my Xperia X8 with Apps2SD working. I have moved many apps from the phone to the SD card. The problem is that the card's size is too small for me. I need a 4GB one. I've seen many threads that some guys had problems when changing SD cards.
If I copy all the files in my current SD card and transfer them to the new one, will I have any problems? My apps will still be there, right?
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I'm running MiniCM6 1.0.0 on my Xperia X8 with Apps2SD working. I have moved many apps from the phone to the SD card. The problem is that the card's size is too small for me. I need a 4GB one. I've seen many threads that some guys had problems when changing SD cards.
If I copy all the files in my current SD card and transfer them to the new one, will I have any problems? My apps will still be there, right?
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You don't say whether the apps on the SD card are in the FAT32 partition or in the SD-EXT partition.
The FAT32 area can be read and copied using a PC.
Should be able to backup the NAND and EXT in recovery. (My phone is a G1 but I've used CM roms for most of the past year. The backups created in recovery are available on the FAT32.)
Always make a good backup in recovery. When you try the transfer to the larger card, you can always go back if something didn't work quite right..
Sorry but I'm not familiar with these concepts, I'm still a noob
Can't I just copy the files of my old SD card to my PC and then transfer them to the new SD card?
How did the change of SD Card go?
Im about to do the same thing and was wondering i its possible to copy all contet from current SD Card to my PC and then copy it to the new SD Card.
Hello all,
i just got myself a G2x .. rooted it installed CWM and flashed Eaglesblood 2.3.4 on it ... the problem i am having is that even though the phone shows 5.xx GB of memory on the phone when i launch an application like the Camera or anything else that puts anything on SD card it does not find the memory and refuses to work. any ideas?
-Bilal
While i havent tried EB 2.3.4, it is based on CM7 so I'm assuming it handles the internal/external sdcards the same way as CM7. The internal sdcard is mounted at /mnt/emmc and the external sdcard is mounted at /sdcard. There is a way to switch them around by switching the mount points. Search around and you should find it. I'm at work right now and the search feature on this mobile app sucks so I can't look it up.
The other/easier solution is to buy an external memory card.
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While i havent tried EB 2.3.4, it is based on CM7 so I'm assuming it handles the internal/external sdcards the same way as CM7. The internal sdcard is mounted at /mnt/emmc and the external sdcard is mounted at /sdcard. There is a way to switch them around by switching the mount points. Search around and you should find it. I'm at work right now and the search feature on this mobile app sucks so I can't look it up.
The other/easier solution is to buy an external memory card.
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or might he be confusing Internal Storage/Internal memory with an external SD card?
When looking at the numbers, you see x amount of phone memory available and 5.x amount of internal SD storage available...coming to around 8g. I bet he's confusing this for an external SD card.
i dont have a SD card inserted right now ... this is my internal memory ... i understand that
does that change anything ?
bilalrashid said:
i dont have a SD card inserted right now ... this is my internal memory ... i understand that
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The way I understand it is that the G2X comes with 8GB of internal memory, divided into 2 partitions, and an empty slot for an external sdcard. There is a 1.xxGB partition for system use, and a 5.xxGB partition for user files (music, photos, videos, etc). The stock ROM considers this 5GB partition as the /sdcard, and if you insert an actual external card it is mounted within the sdcard directory as ./_ExternalSD.
CM7 (and I'm guessing EB 2.3.4 does as well since its based on CM7) mounts that 5GB partition as /mnt/emmc and the actual external memory card gets mounted to /sdcard. So if you dont have an actual sdcard inserted into the phone then your then your apps that rely on an sdcard won't have one to use.
The 2 solutions are to: 1) change the mount points of the external sdcard and the 5GB partition, or 2) insert an external memory card.
or i came up with option no 3... revert back to stock froyo 2.2.2 and this problem goes away .. will stay on this till i have my SD Card
bilalrashid said:
or i came up with option no 3... revert back to stock froyo 2.2.2 and this problem goes away .. will stay on this till i have my SD Card
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Lol yea or that. If you want a good rom that utilizes the memory the same way as stock, try Ultimate G2X 1.0. Its rock solid and fast and has a great theme.
will check it out .. thanks a lot bro ... you are awesome
I flashed my friends G2x Gingerbread with Clockworkmod via NVFlash. After that, I rooted the phone with jboxer's zip. I was going to install EaglesBlood rom but when I booted into recovery and tried making a backup, it said "Can't mount SD Card" and it didn't create the backup.
I had to go into ROM Manager and create the back up and install the rom through there.
Now that the ROM is flashed, I can't use the camera because it says "Please insert an SD card before using the camera."
Also, in the notification bar there is an SD card symbol with a "!" on it and it says "SD card removed. Insert a new one"
What made the phone ask for the SD Card? Was it CWM?
Joseg1320 said:
I flashed my friends G2x Gingerbread with Clockworkmod via NVFlash. After that, I rooted the phone with jboxer's zip. I was going to install EaglesBlood rom but when I booted into recovery and tried making a backup, it said "Can't mount SD Card" and it didn't create the backup.
I had to go into ROM Manager and create the back up and install the rom through there.
Now that the ROM is flashed, I can't use the camera because it says "Please insert an SD card before using the camera."
Also, in the notification bar there is an SD card symbol with a "!" on it and it says "SD card removed. Insert a new one"
What made the phone ask for the SD Card? Was it CWM?
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Maybe the card is fried
omarsalmin said:
Maybe the card is fried
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Which card? The internal one that comes with the phone? Because I have an SD card and I put it into my friends G2x and then I was able to use the camera and everything.
The problem is that it's asking for the SD card and without it, the camera doesn't work.
Is an SD card needed to create a backup and flash a new rom? Is there anyway to use the External SD that's in the phone?
Joseg1320 said:
Which card? The internal one that comes with the phone? Because I have an SD card and I put it into my friends G2x and then I was able to use the camera and everything.
The problem is that it's asking for the SD card and without it, the camera doesn't work.
Is an SD card needed to create a backup and flash a new rom? Is there anyway to use the External SD that's in the phone?
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The memory in the phone is the internal "sdcard" not the external one. Making backups requires a physical sd card. What good would be making backups to your phone memory and then your phone gets hosed and you cannot access that memeory anymore and poof, backups are gone. Without an sd card the camera should be able to use the internal memory. Check the settings in the camera and make sure it is set to use internal memory. Also, some roms switch the internal "sdcard" and physical sd card around, which can get real confusing. But in recovery the physical sd card is always where the backups go (at least as far as I understand it).
Yeah I got it now. Cm7 does switch the internal SD with the microsd that's why the camera wasn't working, but there's an option to switch them around
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Joseg1320 said:
Yeah I got it now. Cm7 does switch the internal SD with the microsd that's why the camera wasn't working, but there's an option to switch them around
Sent from my LG-P999 using XDA App
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CM7 assumes you have a physical sd card and that you want it to be the main memory the phone uses for "sdcard". I personally prefer to leave it as is to avoid confusion. It is just that if you use internal memory and your phone gets borked, you lose everything in the internal memory (a common problem with Galaxy S devices).
Is there an option for this in the Miui (latest) rom? I am having the same problem.
My G2X no longer mounts internal sd card, not the micro sd card...
I am not sure what happened but i've been updating my bb, going through different roms, batch cleanup and nullified quite too often...
is there is any solution to get my sd card available for use..
your help is greatly appreciated thanks!!
Ok for now, i have emmc
i was in such a chaos when I've batch cleaned up my phone and emmc were corrupt with sd card not available... now i got my emmc formatted correctly am installing one of the roms and see if i still don't have sd card