I'm trying to make a goldcard so I can root my phone. But I always get an error that supposedly has to do with the goldcard I attempted to make from a 8gb Sandisk class 4 microsd that AT&T gave with my phone.
You're picking the wrong device when you create the gold card.
Try picking the logical partition and not the physical device.
Have you tried the one click gold card maker in the developer section, with the the phone on disk drive while putting the goldcard img on it?
edit: it also depends on which method you use, for some reason the hack kit wouldn't let me make my scan disk into a gold card but it let me make my Kingston into one. I finally got my scan disk working using a one click to place the image on the SD card.
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I have been trying to make my golden card for my 32A 1.76xxxx SAPP10000.
after few hours trying, I got the following tips that might help on making it:
1. remember to backup your SD card
2. format it with a card reader connecting to your pc, and with FAT32 format.
3. after formatting, put your SD card back into your phone and get the CID from it.
I was stucked and got customer ID error. then I found out that the problem is due to I forgot to put my SD card back in.....
wish you all won't as dumb as me haha
About to get the Inspire and get right on with rooting, although I've been reading and not understanding how this goldcard works completely. I guess my concern is the errors some users are getting? Where they need to use another HTC device to get the right cid code or something? I dont have another HTC device, can I actually lock my device out? Please advise as I'll risk rooting only so far. Thanks, maybe I'm just blowing this out of proportion.
if you follow the instructions in the hack kit, you shouldn't have any issues. this was my first experience with creating a gold card and it went smoothly. just be patient and persistent.
I am also about to buy the Inspire. So can we use the bundled SD card for the gold card? or do we have to have a spare card for emergency restore and stuff?
You can use the card it comes with.
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Good question as I was going to use a spare one. I might as well use the one it came with. I'm about to begin. whats the worst that can happen?
gunnyman said:
You can use the card it comes with.
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I will probably keep a spare one around. Would you recommend that?
Thans
metaldood said:
I will probably keep a spare one around. Would you recommend that?
Thans
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use whatever works. just keep in mind you can't use the goldcard.img file you get from the email on any card other than the one you got the serial number from. I bought a 16 GB card to use with my phone anyway, so I used the 8 GB it came with and put it in a drawer in case I ever need it again.
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use whatever works. just keep in mind you can't use the goldcard.img file you get from the email on any card other than the one you got the serial number from. I bought a 16 GB card to use with my phone anyway, so I used the 8 GB it came with and put it in a drawer in case I ever need it again.
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Oh okay. I have 1 8GB with me right now and I will get the one with Inspire. So is 8GB enough for the gold card so that I will keep it for .img file?
I will keep the spare in my phone.
Sorry I am a total noob in this. I come from iPod family
It will work with a 2 GB card minimum from what I read.
what does that mean? i have a 8 gig myself so just process for a goldcard.img? then save then use if needed?
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use whatever works. just keep in mind you can't use the goldcard.img file you get from the email on any card other than the one you got the serial number from. I bought a 16 GB card to use with my phone anyway, so I used the 8 GB it came with and put it in a drawer in case I ever need it again.
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Sorry to Bump this up,.
but i got a HTC Desire,.since 2010,
made a goldcard back then (4g microsdhc )
rooted ,.used several diffrent roms,. but im getting Low on space issues,..
so i bought this 16gb micro SDHC ,Backed up my rom., and now i want to put my backed up rom on this new 16GB card,.and use that for permanent,.
do i need to make a goldcard from this 16gb as well ? and if yes ,.how >? i cant boot with it because my rom is not on there,.i tried partitioning it in CWM recovery. and mounted the SD card put my clockworkmod on the SD card with the Backup,...
Restored,..but it stops and says cant mount sd ext.,...
then i tried mounting the SD card and start the Goldcard tool and tried making a Goldcard of it,.and tried the Restore again,...didnt work as well,..
now my problem got bigger,..as the 16gb card cant be mounted anymore,.or used in any other device ,like my wifes Tablet,..
any one can help me out on this ,
thanks in advance ,.
Mike130784 said:
Sorry to Bump this up,.
but i got a HTC Desire,.since 2010,
made a goldcard back then (4g microsdhc )
rooted ,.used several diffrent roms,. but im getting Low on space issues,..
so i bought this 16gb micro SDHC ,Backed up my rom., and now i want to put my backed up rom on this new 16GB card,.and use that for permanent,.
do i need to make a goldcard from this 16gb as well ? and if yes ,.how >? i cant boot with it because my rom is not on there,.i tried partitioning it in CWM recovery. and mounted the SD card put my clockworkmod on the SD card with the Backup,...
Restored,..but it stops and says cant mount sd ext.,...
then i tried mounting the SD card and start the Goldcard tool and tried making a Goldcard of it,.and tried the Restore again,...didnt work as well,..
now my problem got bigger,..as the 16gb card cant be mounted anymore,.or used in any other device ,like my wifes Tablet,..
any one can help me out on this ,
thanks in advance ,.
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The goldcard was only necessary to get past the very first stage of rooting. A goldcard is used to force the device into accepting a ROM that was not designed for the particular device (in the case of Inspire, you must install a DesireHD ROM to be able to continue with the rooting process).
Once you're rooted, the rooting process sets SuperCID in hardware so a gold card is no longer needed, even if you want to install a ROM not designated for your device.
In short, use your 16GB card just as you normally would (maybe save the 4G in case you ever need to root a different device).
Thank you for your fast reply.,
i understand the idea behind the goldcard beter now,.
so i was trying to root my phone and the image didnt copy over n now its at the little recovery image thing witht the triangle and exclamation point
EDIT: So im back to normal and i see damaged SD Card is that possibley what went wrong?
I think a little more info is needed. Did you make a proper gold card? What process did you used and so on.
Ok, so i used the auto gold card maker up until patching it, then i used the HXD thing and copied and pasted the gold card to 000 to 170 and saved but everytime i put in the card it keeps saying damaged SD card but i safely removed it from windows idk what im doing wrong
the hex editor only works with only certain sd cards. Give me a sec and I will link you to the one I used to patch the gold card img to my Scan disc.
Edit: here it is, all you need to do is patch the gold card.img on to the sd card with it.http://android.modaco.com/content/software/308798/pc-application-goldcardtool/
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the hex editor only works with only certain sd cards. Give me a sec and I will link you to the one I used to patch the gold card img to my Scan disc.
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does it matter that its an sdhc?
You should be able to patch the image with the gold card maker I posted above.
Edit: to test it, all you do is use it as a removable drive if you can access it then it worked. If it asks you to format it then it didn't work, and you need to do it again.
mudknot2005 said:
You should be able to patch the image with the gold card maker I posted above.
Edit: to test it, all you do is use it as a removable drive if you can access it then it worked. If it asks you to format it then it didn't work, and you need to do it again.
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no luck gives me an error message and a Different CID
Then your going to have to try a different Micro SD some honestly just don't work. I went through three two scan disks and a patriot. If your able to get a kingston or pny class four 2gb those are confirmed to work.
Edit: Make sure you have the right mmc (2) and that it has been reversed, then remake the gold card image and try again.
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If your able to get a kingston or pny class four 2gb those are confirmed to work.
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That upsets me because i lost one of those and was going to use it earlier but couldnt find it
I don't know if all the stock sd cards are the same, but I was able to use the 8gb sd card that came with my phone to make my gold card.
It took me about 10 tries to make it with the stock 8gb.
I ended up trying a Lexar 8gb class 6 and it worked on the first try no problem. This was after the stock Samsung SD card that came with my inspire gave me hell.
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so after trying for the past day i figured out what was wrong, when i used the hex editor i would click on the GOLDCARD instead of the Removable disk, got it to work rooting as i type
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.
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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.
My god I've been at this for hours and decided to finally give in and ask what's wrong here. I've followed the instructions perfectly but I always get stuck at the part that says "SD card is either not mounted or doesn't work." Now I've done just about everything you can do with Android on my captivate so I'm not new to this but on my captivate the SD card in most guides is usually the internal one. So my question: To use Ace Hack Kit do you need an EXTERNAL SD card? If so won't removing it make the phone not work?
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My god I've been at this for hours and decided to finally give in and ask what's wrong here. I've followed the instructions perfectly but I always get stuck at the part that says "SD card is either not mounted or doesn't work." Now I've done just about everything you can do with Android on my captivate so I'm not new to this but on my captivate the SD card in most guides is usually the internal one. So my question: To use Ace Hack Kit do you need an EXTERNAL SD card? If so won't removing it make the phone not work?
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You need an SD card. There is no internal card on these phones. Just the emmc chip which houses your partitions. It needs the card for the root process. Also its good to just have one for storage. They are real cheap at best buy for the class 10. The phone will work without one, but for rooting its required. Also for installing custom roms you will need one.
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