So I have been flashing custom rooms and kernels a lot over the past few weeks, with no issues. I have been running lordmod 4.5.2 kernel without issue. Today I flashed the -50 under volt script, taking a android backup beforehand.
So I go to boot it up after the flash, and it freezes up on me. I think no big deal, I will just do a nandroid restore. I boot into clockwork and attempt to do a restore - and it says no files found. I do a install from zip and it let's me browse the sd card. I attempt to flash a rom from there and it fails and says (bad).
I have pulled the battery and reseated the sd card multiple times. At this point I am trying to figure out why clockwork can read my sd card just fine, but not perform any actual functions like restore or flashing.
At this point my device is unusable, looking for help.
Thanks
Update: I was able to do a data wipe and reset from clockwork, and it booted up just fine. I have a titanium backup from last night so I will just restore it, and then try to figure out why clockwork coulnt read the sd card.
So looking at my sd card in a file browser on my phone, all my files andfolders are there, but they're all 0.00B. Wtf happened here? The only important thing on here was my titanium backups, which sucks that those are gone.
Is my card dead?
EvoXOhio said:
So looking at my sd card in a file browser on my phone, all my files andfolders are there, but they're all 0.00B. Wtf happened here? The only important thing on here was my titanium backups, which sucks that those are gone.
Is my card dead?
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I have read that before you unplug your phone from your computer you must use the OS to Eject the SD card. The result of not doing this is supposed to be a corrupt card. Any chance this is what you did?
Edit: This is from the notes on the Hack Kit thread: IMPORTANT: BEFORE SWITCHING FROM DISK DRIVE TO CHARGE ONLY MODE, ALWAYS EJECT THE GOLDCARD WITH PC SOFTWARE TO FLUSH WRITE BUFFERS AND AVOID CORRUPTING THE SDCARD.
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I have read that before you unplug your phone from your computer you must use the OS to Eject the SD card. The result of not doing this is supposed to be a corrupt card. Any chance this is what you did?
Edit: This is from the notes on the Hack Kit thread: IMPORTANT: BEFORE SWITCHING FROM DISK DRIVE TO CHARGE ONLY MODE, ALWAYS EJECT THE GOLDCARD WITH PC SOFTWARE TO FLUSH WRITE BUFFERS AND AVOID CORRUPTING THE SDCARD.
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My phone wasnt plugged into my computer when this happened, nor did i eject my sdcard from the phone.
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I tried to do a search on this but found nothing, and I'm also apologizing ahead of time if I'm posting in the wrong section.
I am trying to get my LG G2x to a stock ROM using this guide: (can't post link since it's my first post, but it's "how to unroot the tmobile g2x" at the unlocker.
I was able to follow the steps and installed clockworkmod on the phone (v4.0.1.5). I am however having problem on step 6. When I do the the backup on clockworkmod (CWM), it automatically is doing the backup on the phone's internal memory, and not the sd card.
I tried to mount the phone with the PC and cut and paste the folder to the SD card, thinking CWM would pick it up after a reboot of the phone. However, this is not the case. I tried to find the SD card by trying to do "install zip from SDcard" in CWM, but there is only a DCIM folder in the _ExternalSD folder, and nothing else. No matter what I do, the backup is always saving to the internal memory, and not the SD card. If I leave the backup on the phone's memory, it is showing up under recovery in CWM, but I'm guessing it's not possible to flash the phone while it's running from the internal memory.
I formatted the card at least 3 times, and even tried another card just to be sure, but no luck still.
Am I doing something wrong? Do I have to do something to mount the card or unmount the phone memory? If anyone could please help. I have to send in my phone for warranty in a few days, and I desperately need to get it back to stock. Thanks.
Nvflash latest recovery (5.0.2.7 i believe)
fcisco13 said:
Nvflash latest recovery (5.0.2.7 i believe)
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Worked like a charm. I guess I had flashed the internal and SD option for nvflash, and that's what was messing up. 5.0.2.7 allows you to save only to SD card, so it worked perfectly. Thank you so much!
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Worked like a charm. I guess I had flashed the internal and SD option for nvflash, and that's what was messing up. 5.0.2.7 allows you to save only to SD card, so it worked perfectly. Thank you so much!
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Latest also allows you to flash from internal/external.
Okay, So I normally never post in these forums. I am always reading and learning new ways to improve my Cell Phone.
Anyways, Today, I experienced a freaky Force Close. It was for my TWLauncher and no matter how many times I clicked FC, it still kept FCing not allowing me to enter into Debug mode to allow me to get to Recovery or even Odin.
Finally after clicking the Search button quick enough I was able to type in settings and then change to debug mode. I rebooted into Recovery mode and flashed to Default, no root, nothing. I then downloaded [ROM][ODIN] Stock DEODEXED KC1 [Root][Einherjar Dev Team][4.21.2011]-Whitehawkx booted that up and now Im trying to install CWM and {rom}Cwm-GB-2.3.5-Octane-V2.x.
Well first off I noticed something strange when I couldnt push from my adb so I manually went in and moved the file myself with a root file manager and placed the update.zip file and the zip file for the rom i wanted into my root.
I recovered mode, booted into CWM, and now when I try and Back up or update from zip file on sd card and I can't. Its telling me that...
"Unable to Mount Sd card"
or
E:/Can't Mount SD Card
I've tried formating SD Card from Phone and Computer. I've removed everything from SD Card, and still not working! Im soo confused. @[email protected]
I hope someone here can help me with this problem!
Thanks!
Josh
Could have something to do witb voodoo being ENABLED before flashing. Not sure though, never happened to me before.
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I have the same problem here!
Any suggestions? I even tried SD Formatter 3.1 to format my sd card but no luck...
TheKucho might be onto the issue. Did either of you have the sdcard formatted with the ext4 filesystem? If so, Windows won't be able to format it because it can't read ext4. I don't know about any of the apps in the market but I would think most of them are written for whatever filesystem is native to the platform (which ext4 is not, usually).
If you guys were on ext4, either mount the card via a Linux box & reformat it to FAT or you'll have to load a voodoo enabled kernel on your phone & reformat it that way.
Thanks for Reply Guys
The SD Card wasn't reformatted from the phone ever til last night.
I reformated to FAT32 on my laptop, readded my pictures to the sd card, and then moved it back to my phone...
I've tried multple sd cards, nothing seems to work. Almost as if the cell phone is finding the sd cards when in recovery mode or from the adb... I can take pictures and save them to sd, and I can mount sd to pc from usb coord, but thats it.
Yay
For anyone experiencing this problem, I have solved it thanks to the help of everyone here...
I followed the GB EXT4 Starter and installed octane 2.x-Updated
The steps worked completely, at one point it was bit fuzzy, right after finalizing EXT4 process, my phone began to boot up, load, auto reboot, but not completely, only went to splash screen, made noise, and then opned up again. OVER AND OVER.
I fixed this by battery drop, recovery mode, loading zip from sd, first the Octane, and then Busy Box.
I HAVE MY BABY BACK!
Hi All,
I am using ICS Asianic V2.0 by Darkmantra. And I was playing with my phone last night (Build prop to be specific). I set VM heap to 12 and rebooted and after that It would not boot up. It cannot go beyond HTC logo with white background.
I can boot to recovery, I'd tried a few things that i think made it worse. I re-installed build prop tweak from SD card but did not work. I did a factory reset and a few others which i can no longger recall.... So I decided to just go right ahead and re-flash the ROM from SD card but I was not able to. I was getting an error: "e:can't mount /sdcard"
Is there still hope for my phone? any help will be appreciated...
Thanks in advance.
bugzy0509 said:
Hi All,
I am using ICS Asianic V2.0 by Darkmantra. And I was playing with my phone last night (Build prop to be specific). I set VM heap to 12 and rebooted and after that It would not boot up. It cannot go beyond HTC logo with white background.
I can boot to recovery, I'd tried a few things that i think made it worse. I re-installed build prop tweak from SD card but did not work. I did a factory reset and a few others which i can no longger recall.... So I decided to just go right ahead and re-flash the ROM from SD card but I was not able to. I was getting an error: "e:can't mount /sdcard"
Is there still hope for my phone? any help will be appreciated...
Thanks in advance.
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Sometimes happens, try turning phone off, take out sd card, put back in and try again
The problem is that the phone thinks the SD Card is unmounted. (Sorry to restate the obvious)
Physically removing the card and putting it back in might work. But if you do it with the power off the phone might not realize anything is different.
If you have 4EXT Recovery, you can try to remount it from within the recovery. First try to mount it. Then unmount. Then mount it again. See if that works.
If neither of those work try to mount it with ADB.
And if all else fails, copy the files to your computer using a card reader, format the card, recopy everything back to the card, and start over. I had a situation like that once where this was what finally got the card to remount. Something got glitched on the card so it wasn't being recognized.
Skipjacks said:
The problem is that the phone thinks the SD Card is unmounted. (Sorry to restate the obvious)
Physically removing the card and putting it back in might work. But if you do it with the power off the phone might not realize anything is different.
If you have 4EXT Recovery, you can try to remount it from within the recovery. First try to mount it. Then unmount. Then mount it again. See if that works.
If neither of those work try to mount it with ADB.
And if all else fails, copy the files to your computer using a card reader, format the card, recopy everything back to the card, and start over. I had a situation like that once where this was what finally got the card to remount. Something got glitched on the card so it wasn't being recognized.
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Thanks Skipjacks!!
I do not know what solved it but here is what I did....
- formatted the SD card (have no important data in it anyway)
- copied ROM to SD card
- set phone to Recovery mode without SD card
- Hot plug SD card
- tried to update from SD card and it was able to recognize it...!
- i was able to install my ROM..
thank you! I appreciate the help!
I think this may be an issue with the most recent two Stock Rooted ROMs. Since installing GB08 (updated from FI27 by full wipe downgrade to EL29 and then using the Odin one touch to upgrade from there) my phone has been periodically throwing an "SD Card Damaged" error where it unmounts the SD card and claims its damaged. When I reboot the phone it all comes back. When I mount the SD card on my desktop windows machine, I can access all the files. I've tried copying everything off of it, formating it with full verify, and then putting all the data back on. I also updated to GB27 this weekend and it was good for an hour or so and then the error came back. Rebooting the phone restores all the data and it seems all apps and data I have on the external SD directory work fine but if I leave the phone on for a while it'll throw the error again and unmount the SD card. If I attempt to mount the card without rebooting, it says its empty. I'm going to downgrade back to FI27 and see if that fixes the problem. My question is, can I just download and do a NODATA rooted FI27 one touch or do I have to wipe and go back to EL29 again? Thanks!
So through trying to re-root my M8, I caused it to boot loop and decided to flash a new ROM. I have S-OFF and TWRP installed. Unfortunately, I tried installed it by naming the ROM 0P6IMG.zip and putting it on my sd card. That didn't work, but now I can't get into recovery because at the bootloader it instantly reads the zip and tries to install (and then makes me shut down). Is there a way to bypass the system trying to read/install 0P6IMG.zip so I can go into recovery and delete the file?
So far I've only found that holding power causes a shut down
wdickers said:
So through trying to re-root my M8, I caused it to boot loop and decided to flash a new ROM. I have S-OFF and TWRP installed. Unfortunately, I tried installed it by naming the ROM 0P6IMG.zip and putting it on my sd card. That didn't work, but now I can't get into recovery because at the bootloader it instantly reads the zip and tries to install (and then makes me shut down). Is there a way to bypass the system trying to read/install 0P6IMG.zip so I can go into recovery and delete the file?
So far I've only found that holding power causes a shut down
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Take the SD card out.
Use an SD card reader to rename it.
Or use another SD card until you have a ROM booted.
If you have a backup, you can restore that while SD card is out.
santod040 said:
Take the SD card out.
Use an SD card reader to rename it.
Or use another SD card until you have a ROM booted.
If you have a backup, you can restore that while SD card is out.
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I JUST remembered the external sd card can be removed. Woohoo!
Thank you, that worked