Related
After an ODIN to KC1 stock, the phone no longer recognizes the external SD card and says it is not mounted -- but when it gets to the home screen, I can see progress messages saying that the phone is actually reading the external SD card.
Also, the USB port doesn't work right. When I turn on USB debugging, messages alternatively flash in the top status bar that USB is connected and USB debugging is connected, even when the USB cable is not plugged in. When I plug the USB cable in, I do not get any dialog in notifications allowing me to turn the USB on. If I turn USB debugging off, I can see an external drive in Windows explorer but cannot access it.
Now, when I try to turn on USB debugging, the phone tells me to disconnect the USB cable -- but it's not connected.
The phone, if turned off, does not want to boot unless I plug the USB cable in. It is very difficult to get a connection to the phone so that ODIN will run. Sometimes I can get it into download mode but ODIN won't recognize the phone. Sometimes I can ODIN when the phone displays the cell + comp error message.
ODINing KD1 stock gives the same results. The phone was not like this when I first got it.
Where should I go from here?
wow. thats a lot of problems that i havent seen yet. i would say start back fresh. remove the sd card and format it with your computer. then put the update.zip from krylons cwm, ext4 converter, and icbinb (or w/e rom you are flashing) on it and leave it. odin to kc1 from raver. let the phone sit for 10 min or so and then push the recovery file from krylons final cwm to the right place. once you do that, shut the phone down completely. put the sd card back in. it should only have those 2 or 3 files on it. reboot recovery, wipe everything, check your mounts, flash the ext4 converter and then the rom. let the rom sit for 15 min after that initial google boot sequence. once that is done, reboot reboot recovery and fix permissions. and see if those problems persist.
Do I need a driver for Windows XP to be able to write to the sdcard once it is converted to ext4?
The sd card isn't bring converted to ext4. Format it with it's default settings. You can always create an ext4 partition, but right now we are doing something else
Sent from my SGH-T959V using XDA Premium App
do I odin KC1 with the sd card in the phone or should it not be on the phone? I had it in the phone when I odined KC1.
since you had it in before, try removing the sd card and the sim card and odin. i never had a problem with them in, but some people have experienced problems.
got CWM installed after reformatting sdcard from phone using settings.
After reformatting the 16 gig sd card, the phone would still not mount it. I thought there might be something wrong with the card, so I found an old 4 gig sd card from another phone and formatted that and the phone was able to mount that card. For some unknown reason, the card is named “Blackberry” even though I never had such a phone. I could not install CWM, so I reflashed KC1 with odin, this time with no sim card or sd card in the phone. The phone still would not connect to the USB ports on my laptop, but on my desktop at work, it will connect.
The phone recognizes the SD card and I was able to move recovery to system/bin, but when I try to install packages, I get the following error message:
E:Can’t mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
(no such file or directory)
E:Can’t mount SDCARD:update.zip
Installation aborted
I checked /dev/block and sure enough, there is no mmcblk0p1 file.
Looking up that error, I have found threads and fixes for other phones, and one suggestion to format the sd card from the phone. I did that under settings after copying the undotted files and directories to the computer, and copied those files and directories back to the sd card.
I then did a recovery reboot and reinstalled packages. Finally, CWM installs.
thats pretty random, but im glad its working! let me know how the rom flashing goes!
So then I installed ext4 and the icbinb rom via CWM, but the phone just hung at the bootscreen until I went back to CWM and installed the Bali 3.3 kernel, which I had stuck on the sdcard just in case. The phone then booted up and the usb port now seems to be working properly, at least when connected to the computer at work. The root problem was the sdcard, which needed to be formatted from the phone and not from the computer. I'll have to see if I can get the other sd card to work. I still can only see the external sd card from windows, but maybe that is just the way this phone works. This is a big relief. Thank you very much for your help.
Now, all I have to do is get my Vibrant working. I took it apart to replace a broken screen and there have been all kinds of problems since. But that's another project.
you will only see the external memory on the sgs4g. you will not see the internal memory, as it is reserved for the system rom and ram
Does the 4G not have an internal SD card like the Vibrant?
The phone still has a few problems. The biggest one is that it will not start unless it is plugged in to a charger or usb cable, even if the battery is fully charged. I think for some reason it is not reading the battery and doing what a phone with a discharged battery would do. I forgot to take a charger or usb cable with me today and I got no phone. I haven't tried recalibrating the battery yet, maybe that would fix the problem. But at least the phone is running like an xda-developers special with all the bells and whistles now. Thanks.
No, the vibrant has 16gb on board, the sgs4g doesn't. you can only access the sdcard from the computer.
If battery calibration doesn't fix that startup problem, it may be a hardware problem
Sent from my SGH-T959V using XDA Premium App
::::::::ROBLEM::::::::::::
ok, just posting this in case anyone has a similar problem and does a search so that this will come up for them.
My phone died in the middle of booting up while it was doing a media scan.
Upon plugging the phone in and letting it charge for a while, I turned it on and the sd card wasn't recognized. I rebooted to recovery and it would also not mount there.
I tried formatting from recovery with extreme FAILURE LOL.
SD card reads fine from PC through a usb adapter.
Formatted SD card from pc and tried it in the phone again and still would not recognize it through several different recoveries or in android.
FIX::::::::::
So what I ended up having to do was connect the phone to the computer through the supplied USB cable.
Odin the charge.pit file make sure repartition is checked
Odin a full rom combo of any type, I used ep1q bloated.
Then booted into recovery and everything was successful in mounting the microsd card. Installed the rom of my choosing and it recognized it fine in android again as well.
Just figured some other person may have this problem again. I figured my microSD went tits up, but it was fine when used in the PC. Thanks for listening.
What my solution to this was
Shortly after putting my 16gb micro SD card from my Evo3d to EvoLTE, it wouldnt mount. stick it in, "mounting SD" and immediately "Removing SD" etc. Same thing with another android phone while their SD mounted fine.
Plug into windows and there is no SD to mount so i tried a microSD to SD converter card in windows and after very long delays i would see my file structure but nothing copied over.
Heirens Boot CD (i had 15.1) booted into the linux recovery/backup mode and was able to copy from SD to the HDD. Not sure if i'll try to wipe and re-use or just replace the 16GB card nor if it will mount at that point. Its still copying various folders but i got all my DCIM (4gb worth) back so i'm a happy camper either way.
Just thought i'd share how i got my data back at least
I've done a very silly thing and fear I may have bricked my phone
A little while ago my phone's USB connection kicked the bucket and in a rather foolish attempt to get rid of everything I re-formatted the lot and now have a completely non-functioning phone
I have a Samsung Galaxy S (GT-I9000) and had "ClockworkMod Revovery v2.5.1.3" installed with a "Voodoo Lagfix" when things started to go a little funky. Wanting to remove any trace of hackery before sending the phone back for warranty I booted into recovery mode and reformatted every partition I could, one after the other, only to discover that not only did this not remove the hacked boot-loader but it completely rendered my phone unusable! Now, without any image installed and not having a functioning USB connection I've been unable to flash a working ROM back again.
I do, however, still have a working ClockworkMod Recovery and have noted there is an option to "mount /sd-ext" and I am hoping there may be a way to sneak an image on to the phone through the external SD then use "choose zip from sdcard" to re image the phone. Anyone know if this is possible, and if so, would someone care to guide me through the process??
I came across this thread: Can I flash roms from external SD
Where the response was: "Yes, you can, just mount it from the CWM Recovery and you're set." which gives me hope but I'm not able to get there alone.
I have tried mounting the external SD card but get the message:
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p2
(File exists)
Error mounting SDEXT:!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
You can copy rom on sd card, and flash in recovery mod
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
thanhhai8888 said:
You can copy rom on sd card, and flash in recovery mod
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for that, I'm just not quite sure how to do it.
As I said I'm not able to mount the external SD card at the moment and even then I'm not quite sure what to do. If I do manage to mount it will it then be possible to navigate to the extranal SD with the "install zip from sdcard"?
In the mean time I have come across this nice looking tutorial for flashing to ICS but it says "Copy the downloaded ROM to your phone’s internal SD card (not microSD card)" which for me, sadly, is not an option :,-(
By the way, I'm not particularly fussed wich version of Android I managed to flash, I just want to be able to use my phone again.
Hmmm,
After more digging I've come to understand more about what I have done...
It would appear that what I did was foolishly reformat my system partition with out having another ROM to replace it - but it seems I may well have narrowly avoided formatting the boot partition.
Since doing this I have come across this extremely good advice:
Take extreme care with this option as formatting any of these partitions will result in losing all data on them, especially the boot and system partitions. Formatting the system partition will remove your ROM and leave your phone without an operating system while wiping the boot partition may brick your phone unless you restore or flash another one before rebooting your device.If only I'd read that before
I've also come to realize the "sd-ext" is not the external SD card at all and is in fact a kind of "extra" partition used especially for flashing ROMs.
So my problem gets deeper...
Is there any possible way to flash a ROM onto a phone with a formatted system partition and no working USB connection?
If there is, I'd dearly like to know how.
You can buy a micro usb card reader to transfer the ROM from your PC to your sd card then flashing it using CWM.
Kerumen said:
You can buy a micro usb card reader to transfer the ROM from your PC to your sd card then flashing it using CWM.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sorry to be so darft but I can't work out how to flash from the external SD.
- By external I mean the removable micro SD card which is actually inside the phone.
I have another phone with which I can put the image on to the micro SD card, I'm just not sure what to do with it once I have it there.
I must be missing something pretty obvious because several people have said "just use CWM to flash from the SD card" but to be honest I just can't work out how to do it :s
I can get the image onto the micro SD card fine, the problem is that once I have the micro SD card with the new image on it in my 'bricked' phone I can't find how to get access to it with CWM?
if you can enter on cwm (home+vol up) you can flash all by your sd card, download a rom for your galaxy s, prefer for the official ones, put the zip on your sdcard, put your phone on cwm and select "install zip from external sd". i hope this help.
Idk if galaxy s have usb otg, but if have you can mount external usb in cwm.
and if you stay without understanding how to do it with cwm, go to galaxy s xda area:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=656
i hope you will find a good tutorial in there.
good luck
Hmm, just read a comment some where randomly on the internet:
"Depend on your CWM version, v5 install from external SD card by default. But you can select install from internal SD card too."
Perhaps "install from external SD card" is not supported in my version of CWM (v2.5.1.3 on a Samsung Galaxy S).
Maybe I should go ask about it in the SGS specific section.
dreanmer said:
and if you stay without understanding how to do it with cwm, go to galaxy s xda area:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=656
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hehe, took the works right out of my mouth.
Thanks.
You essentially NEED adb access to push a rom to internal, as your phone's CWM version doesn't support external-sd card. Can you get ahold of another working cable? This would be the best route.
Thing O Doom said:
You essentially NEED adb access to push a rom to internal, as your phone's CWM version doesn't support external-sd card. Can you get ahold of another working cable? This would be the best route.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks, I'm pretty certain it's the phones USB socket that is the problem though. It stopped responding to USB after a camping trip I went on and since then, even when it had a working ROM, I was unable to mount it as external storage. I have tried several cables and a couple of different computers and while it charges fine I was unable to get it to 'connect' as such. I have also checked the main cable I've been using with a different device and the cable worked as expected. When I started to get desperate I scrubbed it with a tooth brush and I even took the phone completely apart to sprayed the port with electrical contact cleaner but alas, it was to no avail.
I'm affraid i'm going to have to resolve this one sans USB
Why don't you buy a new cable ? An USB cable is always useful for daily use..
Kerumen said:
Why don't you buy a new cable ? An USB cable is always useful for daily use..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Edit: Oops just realised I'd made the same post twice
I'm cretin the cable is fine.
Flashing the newest leak failed, and bricked my phone....after doing several different things, I have the phone functioning again, the internal SD card is giving a "Blank USB storage or has unsupported file system" error and I cannot mount it or access it. I have reformatted it from both the OS and from recovery. Cleared caches, all of that, and no joy.
I've been searching for the last day, and haven't found anything useful. And advice on what I can try would be appreciated, or, at the very least, someone that knows what they're talking about just letting me know that it's pretty well screwed.
Thanks
dan828 said:
Flashing the newest leak failed, and bricked my phone....after doing several different things, I have the phone functioning again, the internal SD card is giving a "Blank USB storage or has unsupported file system" error and I cannot mount it or access it. I have reformatted it from both the OS and from recovery. Cleared caches, all of that, and no joy.
I've been searching for the last day, and haven't found anything useful. And advice on what I can try would be appreciated, or, at the very least, someone that knows what they're talking about just letting me know that it's pretty well screwed.
Thanks
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Are you referring to the "USB Storage" or "external_sd" folder in your internal?
The "external_sd" folder is just that...your external sd card.
The "USB Storage" folder is a feature of the skyrocket that allows you to connect a thumb drive to your phone with a micro USB to USB adapter.
If you do not have a thumb drive attached to the phone this folder will be blank by default.
Is that what you are talking about?
Nantai said:
Are you referring to the "USB Storage" or "external_sd" folder in your internal?
The "external_sd" folder is just that...your external sd card.
The "USB Storage" folder is a feature of the skyrocket that allows you to connect a thumb drive to your phone with a micro USB to USB adapter.
If you do not have a thumb drive attached to the phone this folder will be blank by default.
Is that what you are talking about?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That is the error that it gives-- basically, the internal SD card doesn't show up and won't mount. Formatting it, it acts like it does it, does the scan afterwards, and has the same issue. Go to a file browser and it says "no sd card inserted." Go to storage in settings, and it shows device memory (total space 1.97GB), USB Storage is blank, SD Card has "mount SD card" when if touched tries to mount and then apparently fails and goes back to the "mount SD card" text.
If an external SD card is inserted, the only thing that changes is that a "SD card safe to remove" notification comes up.
From recovery, if I try to mount /emmc it says "Error mounting /emmc!" attempting to format /emmc gives the same error.
Have you tried to start from scratch from download mode using odin file?
I'm not at home right now but when I get home I can link you the instructions
EDIT:
Can you get into download mode??
-plug usb into computer(not phone yet)
-Turn off phone
-hold both volume up and down and plug usb into phone, continue holding until you see download mode
-should prompt you to hit the up volume button
-you should now be in download mode
-download this: "Odin one click 4.0.4 from kennethpenn" - http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1652679
-make sure Odin sees your phone in one of the COM ports. Start Flash
-if everything works fine you should be on 4.0.4 ICS and you are free to do as you wish
Hope this helps. Kinda used as a last resort. Assuming you want ICS...
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using xda premium
put it in a computer and check. File system should be fat32. not fat16, fat, or ntfs. I dont believe the phone does an actual format of the sd. I know thats what it says, but I think it means just erase. A real, true format is done after the empty space is partitioned and properly allocated. Ive never seen an unpartitioned sd card sooooo.
Ends said:
put it in a computer and check. File system should be fat32. not fat16, fat, or ntfs. I dont believe the phone does an actual format of the sd. I know thats what it says, but I think it means just erase. A real, true format is done after the empty space is partitioned and properly allocated. Ive never seen an unpartitioned sd card sooooo.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It's the internal SD card that's partition that appears hosed-- the built in one that can't be removed. I Downloaded an App that shows the partition table, and all that is listing is:
/mnt/sdcard
(mmcblk0p1) 0.0/0.0MB
/sd-ext
(mmcblk0p2) 0.0/0.2MB
I'm having the same problem. Re-flashing UCLF5 didn't help. I'm about to flash UCLE2, but have no real reason to think it'll work.
Ideas, anyone? The "usb storage" is the internal sd card and can't be removed and stuck in a computer.
groovy9 said:
I'm having the same problem. Re-flashing UCLF5 didn't help. I'm about to flash UCLE2, but have no real reason to think it'll work.
Ideas, anyone? The "usb storage" is the internal sd card and can't be removed and stuck in a computer.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You can save your time....I've already flashed to UCLE2, and even back to the original stock, and it doesn't help. Now I'm back to UCLF5.
If I can get it rooted, I may try to edit vold.fstab and mount my 32GB on /mnt/sdcard. I don't even care about the internal space, really, but it'd be nice to have a more elegant fix.
---------- Post added at 05:13 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:24 PM ----------
fstab edit seems to have worked, at least at a glance. But it'd still be nice to actually fix the internal storage.
Have I tried hooking to a PC? It can tell you allot about the drive after its mounted
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using xda premium
Ends said:
Have I tried hooking to a PC? It can tell you allot about the drive after its mounted
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Been trying that-- with debugging on, it appears to be trying to mount but doesn't
groovy9 said:
If I can get it rooted, I may try to edit vold.fstab and mount my 32GB on /mnt/sdcard. I don't even care about the internal space, really, but it'd be nice to have a more elegant fix.
---------- Post added at 05:13 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:24 PM ----------
fstab edit seems to have worked, at least at a glance. But it'd still be nice to actually fix the internal storage.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Could you give me a quick rundown on what you had to do? How you get it to root and the process involved with the fstab edit? I'd appreciate it.
dan828 said:
Could you give me a quick rundown on what you had to do? How you get it to root and the process involved with the fstab edit? I'd appreciate it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I can't post links yet, but if you google 'how root uclf5', the top hit is the guide I used. BTW, I had to apply the icsSuperuser zip from the SD card something like 10 times before it finally took.
Then installed a root browser with built-in text editor (root explorer) and used it to edit /etc/vold.fstab. Make the top of it look like this:
Code:
# internal sdcard
{
storage_struct = cover, "/mnt/sdcard/external_sd","/mnt/sdcard/usbStorage"
ums_sys_path = /sys/class/android_usb/f_mass_storage/lun/file
#discard = enable
#secure_format = enable
android_secure_containers = enable
}
dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard auto /devices/platform/msm_sdcc.3/mmc_host/mmc2/mmc2
# external sdcard
{
ums_sys_path = /sys/class/android_usb/f_mass_storage/lun_ex/file
android_secure_containers = enable
}
#dev_mount sdcard1 /mnt/sdcard/external_sd auto /devices/platform/msm_sdcc.3/mmc_host/mmc2/mmc2
I'm having this exact same issue. No fixes? I'm going nuts here.
USB Folder has never populated
Nantai said:
The "USB Storage" folder is a feature of the skyrocket that allows you to connect a thumb drive to your phone with a micro USB to USB adapter.
If you do not have a thumb drive attached to the phone this folder will be blank by default.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This is what I always assumed as well. However, I have never been able to make this work. I also don't know enough to see how it could? (Insert flamage here) To me it would have to link to a dynamic disk that doesn't exist yet and the devices ability to power whatever you plugged in to it.
That said, I still tried it. "....to connect a thumb drive to your phone with a micro USB to USB adapter." ...on many rom/kernal/etc combos as well as trying to mount it in recovery (turns out that "usb drive" in recovery, doesn't mean that folder). So, at least on my phone, the USB Folder has never populated. (Additional flamage here)
I have done my DD on this and am really curious....hmmm
Anyone...?
wantowan2 said:
This is what I always assumed as well. However, I have never been able to make this work. I also don't know enough to see how it could? (Insert flamage here) To me it would have to link to a dynamic disk that doesn't exist yet and the devices ability to power whatever you plugged in to it.
That said, I still tried it. "....to connect a thumb drive to your phone with a micro USB to USB adapter." ...on many rom/kernal/etc combos as well as trying to mount it in recovery (turns out that "usb drive" in recovery, doesn't mean that folder). So, at least on my phone, the USB Folder has never populated. (Additional flamage here)
I have done my DD on this and am really curious....hmmm
Anyone...?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I don't believe that is what was meant. They mean using your phone as a usb thumb drive so that you don't need to carry around a usb thumb drive. Simply connect your phone to your computer via the usb cable and mount the drive.
I'm having a similar issue but I'm unable to connect my phone to my computer, it's complaining about "security policy restricts use of external sd card". I'll keep searching or maybe create a new thread if I can't find an answer.
BUMP
Nantai View Post said:
The "USB Storage" folder is a feature of the skyrocket that allows you to connect a thumb drive to your phone with a micro USB to USB adapter.
If you do not have a thumb drive attached to the phone this folder will be blank by default.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
wantowan2 said:
This is what I always assumed as well. However, I have never been able to make this work. I also don't know enough to see how it could? (Insert flamage here) To me it would have to link to a dynamic disk that doesn't exist yet and the devices ability to power whatever you plugged in to it.
That said, I still tried it. "....to connect a thumb drive to your phone with a micro USB to USB adapter." ...on many rom/kernal/etc combos as well as trying to mount it in recovery (turns out that "usb drive" in recovery, doesn't mean that folder). So, at least on my phone, the USB Folder has never populated. (Additional flamage here)
I have done my DD on this and am really curious....hmmm
Anyone...?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
BUMP:fingers-crossed:
if u can, get back to stock, then c if int sdcard is accesible, if not then it looks like a hardware failure of int sdcard, time for a warranty exchange,
vincom said:
if u can, get back to stock, then c if int sdcard is accesible, if not then it looks like a hardware failure of int sdcard, time for a warranty exchange,
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hey, thanks for the reply. But who are you replying to?
I have no prob. trying stock if that's the way.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using xda app-developers app
wantowan2 said:
Hey, thanks for the reply. But who are you replying to?
I have no prob. trying stock if that's the way.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
to op
Hey my screen broke completely and I don't know if I'll be able to afford to replace it so I'm trying to mount my internal storage to copy files to my computer. I used Odin to go back to clockworkmod from twrp so I can use volume and power keys to mount storage. Now I need screen shots of clockwork mod going from the main screen to mounting USB mass storage so I know how many times to click. Thanks in advance.
masterofthedamned said:
Hey my screen broke completely and I don't know if I'll be able to afford to replace it so I'm trying to mount my internal storage to copy files to my computer. I used Odin to go back to clockworkmod from twrp so I can use volume and power keys to mount storage. Now I need screen shots of clockwork mod going from the main screen to mounting USB mass storage so I know how many times to click. Thanks in advance.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I wasn't aware you could mount and access internal storage from CWM. You can mount and access external sd cards though - which is almost pointless as all you really need to do is take out the sd card and put it in a card reader. I'm pretty sure you can copy all internal storage to your computer using adb while in recovery. I'm not 100% sure on how. A quick google consult may need to be in order.
If you don't have a card reader-
To mount external storage (your micro sd card) you go two clicks up, one click power (gets to mounts and storage). Then another two clicks up and one click power (mount USB storage). That gets you your micro sd card.:victory:
Well, thanks for the bad news. Is there any way to do it through adb perhaps?