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[Resolved] ext3 partition on sd card problem

I tried to make an ext3 partition on my sd card for a2sd+ but here's what happened!
I firstly resized the wrong filesystem thingie, but that shouldn’t be any problem. Everything worked fine and I didn’t touch the sd card.
After that i found the sd card drive and ordered it to resize it with 512 mb. After that I said it to make it ext3 partition. Pressed apply but after a minute or so I got an error. It said to look at the detail screen but couldn’t find it.
Now is the problem, It doesn’t show up at all anymore in Gparted! The whole sd card dissappeared! I can find it in windows though and I can see (in disk manager) that it’s divided in 2 bits! But I can’t format the new bit to ext3 or do anything with it. Could also just be some fault.
I’m not sure about how or what but it’s killing me, i need this for a2sd+ and miui au, damnit. Please help!
I do have a HTC Desire
*EDIT*
Well, installed this program:
EASEUS Partition Master 6.5.2 Home Edition
Found the drive, made in an ext3 and primary, worked flawlessly! Problem solved =)

I have very similar issue, I have done EXT3 partition, first time visible for the phone and even for windows, then I unplugged SD card from phone and since then the card is invisible for either the phone and PC(win 7 64bit)
So, as the card cannot be seen I cannot reformat it back to FAT32 or anything else
here is what I did:
used MINITOOL PARTITION WIZARD
alocated SD card (Transcend 8gb class6) created 1gb EXT3 and 70mb Swap file(wanted 64 but it did 70instead, fair enough, should not cause the problem).
I did this in phone(HTC Desire), using mass storage connection, everything seemed fine, up until I took the card away from phone, then when I plugged it back in, phone could not see it any more. So I found my old reader, and tried it in there, same issue SD card just cannot be seen
Any ideas how to make it visible again?

Resolved, dont bother

[Q] leedroid please help!! problems with 3.0 gb

to lee droid hello.
i am a "silent admirer". i have a rooted desire and i use only leedroid roms for more then a year. as always i never had any problems with any of the roms and install them all without wipe at all.
about a month ago i installes v. 2.3.
today i saw the thread about the new version 3.0 gb and downloaded the following files: 1. 3.0 gb leedroid rom.
2. the new radio ...56....
3. the ext3 file.
after downloading i checked the md5 of the first two files and found it OK.
i backed up my 16 gb sd and tried to install the 3.0 tom via rom manager.
the thing is that i believe that the rom was install OK but the rom did not go up and my desire got stuck with the dumb green "htc".
thereafter i restored the system which went well and tried again - this time with file and cach wipe.
again - all seems to go well but did not load.
tried to install the ext3 file - went ok but did not load.
from that moment i got really worried but nothing i tried (deleating the sd card and copying from backup) or thought i know didnt work and now i am the proud owner of stupid green "htc" screen.
please help
erezinna
p.s. i couldt read all the 53 pages of your thread so if anybody already got an answer - please send me there.

I had this same issue.
It seems that although I originally partitioned my SD card as ext3 at some point without me knowing the partition got changed to ext4 I really can't explain how as I never messed with partitions after I initially set them up.
if the EXT3 fix is not working for you try booting into gparted and checking the partition there. as soon as I did that and realized it had been changed to ext4 I deleted the partition and made a new ext3 patition and it worked flawlessly after that.

"try booting into gparted and checking the partition there"
where? when? who?
can you you be more gentle? i booted milion times and never heard of "gpart" (it is a secret socaity)?

it's a live cd that you boot into on your PC to partition the SD card with a ext3 partition.
just google gparted live cd
You need to verify that the second partition on your sd card is in fact ext3 or leedriod will not load

i have to burn it or ghost-burn it or just download it and transfer to my desire?

like i said in my previous post you need to boot into on your PC.
I have to ask how did you originaly partition your SD card?

dear larkspeed:
i did all you have suggested but the gparted (or the regular win 7) was unable to recognize the sd card at all.
i did recognize all the other harddisks on my computer. it is probably because of the ext4 and now i cannot delete it. (also i hardly can operate the phone - only basic functions).
what sould i do now?

Windows will not see ext4 at all but it will see the partition itself so you can delete and remake it.
Gparted should have seen it just fine and let you reformat it to ext3
However if neither windows or gparted can see the partitions on the card then it's very possible the card itself has a fault.
Stupid question but when you loaded gparted you did use the drop down in the upper right corner of the window to actually select your sd card right?
if not then you were looking at primary hard drive only

yes i did several times. you have to move with "tab" and keboard because the mouse does not work there.
if the sd card have a fault, should i format it or erase it totally or something?

if you are totaly sure you have a ext partition on that card you will need to delete that partition either with windows **** manager or gparted
if you just format the card it will only format the partition it can see which will be the fat32 partition.
Now I assume you are putting the micro sd into some kind of adapter to plug it into the PC.
Now I have 2 options for this a USB stick that the micro sd plugs into or a micro sd to sd adapter plugged into an internal card reader which plugs into a USB header on my motherboard.
both of these systems work fine for me.
if gparted is not seeing the card at all then I would think whatever system you are using to plug the card into your PC is not supported.
I have to ask when you plug the card in when in windows what size does it say the "removable drive" is?

1. i gparted the sd card into main fat 32 partition about 12 gb and 1.6 gb ext3 partition
2. i cloesd the program after compleating that and the device informed me that the sd card is damaged and needs formating
3. i formated it and moved the leedroid 3.0.
4. it refused to go into recovery because lacking .update.zip file so i copied that too.
5. i installed the 3.0 but i won't go.
6. what to do? give it up?

all I can suggest is to try a different SD card and see if it works then.

[Q] need help, with app2sd and or partitioning etc

hi Hopefully i am in Right section - not sure what is meant by Not posting a Rom ??
I have a Garmin Nuviphone a50 with android 2.1 , have successfully rooted phone with z4root, I am pretty sure I have partitioned my SD card tried on a mac with EXT-fuse and tried on a windows using mini-partition (as instructions on this site about Partitioning) both ways seem to work -
However here's my problem when i start up Link2SD application it always says :-second Partition not found - /dev/block/mmcblk0p2: - make sure you have 2 partitions both primary .
I partitioned with Fat32 and Ext2 (also tried with Ext3, Ext4 and few others) but always says same with link2sd.
Does anyone know how I can get my apps to SD card or what my problem is or have any suggestions . As i get that message space full so need to move some to SD card (phone supposed to come with 4gb internal memory, i have 16gb SD card also) why is it still full

Need help with Link2sd/app2sd and or partitioning
hi Hopefully i am in Right section - not sure what is meant by Not posting a Rom ??
I have a Garmin Nuviphone a50 with android 2.1 , have successfully rooted phone with z4root, I am pretty sure I have partitioned my SD card tried on a mac with EXT-fuse and tried on a windows using mini-partition (as instructions on this site about Partitioning) both ways seem to work -
However here's my problem when i start up Link2SD application it always says :-second Partition not found - /dev/block/mmcblk0p2: - make sure you have 2 partitions both primary .
I partitioned with Fat32 and Ext2 (also tried with Ext3, Ext4 and few others) but always says same with link2sd.
Does anyone know how I can get my apps to SD card or what my problem is or have any suggestions . As i get that message space full so need to move some to SD card (phone supposed to come with 4gb internal memory, i have 16gb SD card also) why is it still full

Kingston SDC10/32GB

I recently bought Kingston SDC10/32GB memory card and it has some problems with my LG P500 (looks like sometimes phone is unable to write information to this memory card).
I had partition it with 1920 MB ext4 /sd-ext partition (rest was FAT32).
First ever problem was restoring /sd-ext backup using Amon Ra recovery (recovery-ra-thunderg-3.06-gnm) - after waiting about 3 hours I connected phone to PC and with ADB looked that unyaffs process is running, unyaffs was not killable (with kill and killall commands) nor reboot command worked, at last I pulled battery to stop it.
Another accident was moving /data/app and /data/Dalvik-cache to this memory card - after doing this I wiped Dalvik-cache and /cache (via recovery), then phone didn't boot. After about 10 minutes of watching CyanogenMod boot animation I connected phone to PC, tried to run adb shell and it couldn't connect to phone (I killed adb daemon before connecting).
When I connected this card to PC (using USB microSD adapter) and checked it with Check Flash it showed no problems.
The question - is anybody using Kingston SDC10/32GB in his LG P500?
I think either card that I bought is malfunctioning, either it is somehow incompatible with LG P500 (I don't know - may be it drains too much electricity)...
P.S. Kingston 32 GB class 4 microSD card works well in these conditions.

Mmm 2gb of a2sd no ... test with max 1gb maybe this is rhe problem
I ear thar more 1gb is instable
Sent from my LG-P500 using Tapatalk 2

stikmenow775 said:
Mmm 2gb of a2sd no ... test with max 1gb maybe this is rhe problem
I ear thar more 1gb is instable
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Thank you for your answer! Strange - this works well with my 32GB class 4 card. Also I have made sector by sector copy of my old card and after cleaning Dalvik cache on new card phone hung on CyanogenMod boot animation.
What do other people say about this 1 GB limitation?
Sent from my LG-P500 using Tapatalk 2

DavisNT said:
Thank you for your answer! Strange - this works well with my 32GB class 4 card. Also I have made sector by sector copy of my old card and after cleaning Dalvik cache on new card phone hung on CyanogenMod boot animation.
What do other people say about this 1 GB limitation?
Sent from my LG-P500 using Tapatalk 2
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There is some discussion about this over on Android Central that points to sd-ext filesystems 1GB and larger causing problems with link2sd. Sorry I don't have a link but it should be something you can find. I saw it in the Optimus V forums.

SD card problem
I had a similar problem with my P509 and a 32gb class4 card check the pins in the micro sd card slot, the center pin was not making good contact and the phone was giving me all kinds of problems.

fdaconta said:
I had a similar problem with my P509 and a 32gb class4 card check the pins in the micro sd card slot, the center pin was not making good contact and the phone was giving me all kinds of problems.
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I adjusted microSD slot pins and it didn't help. Looks like my card has some electrical interface problems (overcurrent?) - sometimes with SDC10/32GB inserted my phone is not recognized as valid USB device by computer (Windows tray notification about misbehaving USB device is shown).
So does anybody have a good working Kingston SDC10/32GB (32 GB Class 10 microSD card) in his LG P500?

DavisNT said:
I adjusted microSD slot pins and it didn't help. Looks like my card has some electrical interface problems (overcurrent?) - sometimes with SDC10/32GB inserted my phone is not recognized as valid USB device by computer (Windows tray notification about misbehaving USB device is shown).
So does anybody have a good working Kingston SDC10/32GB (32 GB Class 10 microSD card) in his LG P500?
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our phone was never meant to support up to 32gb.
Sent from my LG-P500 using xda premium

allenwalker1998 said:
our phone was never meant to support up to 32gb.
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Sorry - didn't get the idea, specs say that up to 32 GB microSD is supported:
http://www.lg.com/uk/mobile-phones/lg-P500-optimus-one
http://www.gsmarena.com/lg_optimus_one_p500-3516.php

DavisNT said:
Sorry - didn't get the idea, specs say that up to 32 GB microSD is supported:
http://www.lg.com/uk/mobile-phones/lg-P500-optimus-one
http://www.gsmarena.com/lg_optimus_one_p500-3516.php
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oh sry i meant using 32gb on our phone causes lots of troubles
Sent by a 14-year old kid learning kernel compiling

I'm try format flash: 2Gb/30Gb, 2Gb - FAT32, 30Gb - ext2fs. But smartfone mount only FAT partition and ignore ext2fs. Partition ext2fs need for files over 4Gb.
If set partiotions from recovery, then mounts work fine, but partition manager in recovery have limit for ext partiotion 4096 Mb.
Please, help.

[Q] SD card won't mount - Have I bricked it?

Hi guys.
Almost total noob here - not quite, but still.
I have a Pico/Explorer.
I rooted, flashed CWM 5.05, then a MIUI ROM.. all worked well. Then I wanted to try the new Triumph HD ROM. Initiall install was succesful.
I partitioned my SD card with 1024 ext3 and a swap of 128Mb
Wiped, installed ROM, no problems.
I didn't see that int2ext was supported (by command line, apparently) so I tried installing mount2sd from the play store.
After enabling everything in that app, I rebooted.
Phone became stuck on lock screen.. would not respond to any touches or buttons. But the UI updated when the battery got low, made a noise on low battery etc, and the time was updated.
I booted into recovery to test the buttons, all work fine. I checked my partition log and it said various errors like could not find this or that mount point.
I partitioned again, this time is was extremely slow. I put the SD card into my mac to add the images, but it wasn't found.
Now when I partition it does it really quick - on inspecting the log, it says "err: /dev/block/mmcblk0 does not exist!"
I can't mount the /sdcard or the /sd-ext in recovery.
Have I f!cked my SD card or my device?
Thanks for any help.

Connect your sd-card to pc using card reader if it shows sd-card then ok
If it not show ur sd-card then run minitool partition wizard
And find the sd-card there and format it and delete the sd-ext partition and re-create it using recovery
And never use two memory script at one time
Before using the another memory script remove the previous one
sent from
little pico

Thanks dude.
When I plug it in with a USB card reader, the SD card doesn't show - in minitool or anywhere else at all.
I think it's dead. Will have to buy a new one.
I will be careful with overclocking in future
Thanks again.

Put your card in the phone and boot into recovery.. Then mounts/storage and try to mount usb storage when connected to pc.. If the mem card shows up in your pc then try putting the card in a non android phone and delete the partitions.. Even my sd card didn't show up in a card reader.. But it showed up when I used a non android phone..
Sent from my HTC Explorer A310e using xda premium

make sure your sd card is usable - connect it to PC and check if it is being read. If yes, then continue. If no, then replace it.
Backup your entire SD card.
Delete all partitions and make one single partition using the Minitool Partition Wizard. Once done, try partitioning with the Recovery. this way you can ensure max compatibility.
And btw, only use swap if you are using Swapper, and only if your ROM supports it. Not all ROM support swapping. I recommend you to set swap to 0, our Pico is capable enough to run flawlessly without swap.
Once done, Factory Reset, Wipe Cache, flash your rom again and after one reboot flash mounts2sd or int2ext. Never use two scripts at a time.

same problem
It happened only with Triumph ROM for me no matter what i do the doesn't mount when i connect via usb tethering to my pc..I had to reboot into recovery for the memory card to show up in the pc..Can any one help me on this?
I never installed any secondary memory script..Just flashed the latest Triumph version after a superwipe....
The memory card never shows up on the pc but only in recovery..

format using minitool partion
format using minitool partion it'll fix sd card errors