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Messed up SD card during downgrade portion of rooting.

I thought I had turned my sd card into a goldcard in my inspire but I must have done something wrong. during the downgrade part of rooting, bootloader was unable to find pd981im.zip ... now my sd card is jacked. rebooted the phone and now I am not able to connect the phone as a physical disk (option is not even there) and it says damaged sd card. Is there a way to bring the sd card back to life through the phone or do I have to buy a micro sd usb key or the likes to format it?
Let me know if I need to clarify more.
Thanks,
Dkay

onelesssblues said:
I thought I had turned my sd card into a goldcard in my inspire but I must have done something wrong. during the downgrade part of rooting, bootloader was unable to find pd981im.zip ... now my sd card is jacked. rebooted the phone and now I am not able to connect the phone as a physical disk (option is not even there) and it says damaged sd card. Is there a way to bring the sd card back to life through the phone or do I have to buy a micro sd usb key or the likes to format it?
Let me know if I need to clarify more.
Thanks,
Dkay
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Try going into settings>>SD & phone storage and unmount your SD card, then hit the "Format SD card". It's worth a shot, if not you could go buy a cheap 2 gig for the SD card adapter.
P.S. This section is for development, just a heads up.

You didnt make your gold card correctly some times it takes a few times to make it. As said before format and retry.
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If your ZIP file is named as posted -That is wrong
onelesssblues said:
........ pd981im.zip ...
Let me know if I need to clarify more.
Thanks,Dkay
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You may have just typed your ZIP file incorrectly in this post, if not the
correct name is PD98IMG., there is no
number "ONE" it is the letter " i ". - Glenn

[Q] ZIP's

I try to flash my phone with custom roms in CWM but zips not showing on sd card. Any idea why?

You need to walk us through the steps on how you put them on your SD card and where your looking in CWM. More info please.
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You need to check sd and internal sd card. Depends on where you put the zip

roughneckboren said:
You need to walk us through the steps on how you put them on your SD card and where your looking in CWM. More info please.
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Using PC drag and drop by USB cable . I drag them to SD card, not external sd card. When i check in PC i can see them but not in CWM when i try to flash.

That what i'm doing but i can't see them at all. I create folder custom_roms, but nothing there. Like i said they are in folder when i checking in windows but not in CWM .

norbarb try starting the my files app and go to /sdcard/external_sd and see if you can find the folder/zip file you stuck on the sd card. for what ever reason the emmc mounts to where the sdcard should so it's easy to mix the two up.

try not puting then in a folder just drag abd drop them to the drive. Then go in cwm if u see them youll know where to create the folder

lart2150 said:
norbarb try starting the my files app and go to /sdcard/external_sd and see if you can find the folder/zip file you stuck on the sd card. for what ever reason the emmc mounts to where the sdcard should so it's easy to mix the two up.
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Negative , zips are on internal sd card
silver03wrx said:
try not puting then in a folder just drag abd drop them to the drive. Then go in cwm if u see them youll know where to create the folder
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Yes this worked. When i put zips not in folder i see them in cmw. Thanks for both of your help.

device reboots after updating new firmware!

Hello all
i updated to the 3.24 firmware, and since then i only get untill the splash screen then it restarts again!
what can i do now? i can't restore the old firmware because each time i go to recovery it asks if i want to update firmware (because the new firmware file is still in sd card).
any ideas?
best regards!

Remove the firmware from your SD card and pull out the battery. When you delete the PG58IMG from you SD card, put in back in your phone and also your battery.
Then you turn on the phone into recovery mode and install the rom.

ilostchild said:
just open back take out sdcard, boot into recovery and put sdcard back in then mount usb from recovery and delete it then put new ARHD or Insertcoin and flash!
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^^This^^ or use adb tools and type 'adb reboot recovery', use your recovery to mount your sd card, and delete pg58img.zip file from your computer. Have to get the command in right when your computer detects your phone.

thanks for the quick reply
how can i access the sd card ? i cant turn on the device

wahooguy said:
thanks for the quick reply
how can i access the sd card ? i cant turn on the device
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Put the SD card into your PC ;-)

wahooguy said:
thanks for the quick reply
how can i access the sd card ? i cant turn on the device
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can you get into bootloader? if you can then go into recovery from bootloader

Or you could take out the sd card, boot up, and then put the card back in and then remove the file. I had to do that the first time I flashed because I didn't have a micro SD adapter with me

New SDCard transferring recovery

Am i right in thinking that the 4ext recovery is held on the memory card or is it on the phone?
I'm buying a new memory card tomorrow for my Sensation and want to know what I have to do to set it up to how my old one was.

4EXT is held in your phone, somewhere, i don't know where, but definitely not on the SD card

Arsenal23 said:
Am i right in thinking that the 4ext recovery is held on the memory card or is it on the phone?
I'm buying a new memory card tomorrow for my Sensation and want to know what I have to do to set it up to how my old one was.
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Hi,
Look on the root of your sd card.
You will see clockworkmod/backup
Your backups are in there.
Copy the whole of your sd card to a folder on your PC.
Then,you can put back what you need later(pix,music,backups)
Don't worry about the android files.
Android will put back what it needs.

malybru said:
Hi,
Look on the root of your sd card.
You will see clockworkmod/backup
Your backups are in there.
Copy the whole of your sd card to a folder on your PC.
Then,you can put back what you need later(pix,music,backups)
Don't worry about the android files.
Android will put back what it needs.
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i think he asked about the actual recovery, and not the backups...

[Q] Micro SD card problem

Hello all and everyone who may be able to help me out! I recently got a new phone (galaxy nexus) and decided to root and s-off my evo 3d. After another sad fail at s-off, my sd card was acting up. When its in a phone, it will say the card is blank or it is using an unsupported file system. Upon formatting option nothing happens. When i insert the sdcard into an adapter and put it into my computer, i can navigate to my computer and when i try to get into the drive, "my computer" crashes and i have to remove the card to get back to the start screen. I can use the drive for other things but it just wont read this card and makes the computer freeze. ive tried programs and whenever i try to select the drive, again the program im using crashes. Other cards work fine so it seems the card itself is the problem. worked fine before. Can anyone help me out here?

Had a similar problem a while back seems i had forgot to remove the password before plugging the card into my pc. Not sure how that will help you here tho.

replace the card and check if it is working than the card is defected

NomadSpin said:
Had a similar problem a while back seems i had forgot to remove the password before plugging the card into my pc. Not sure how that will help you here tho.
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I never had a password on it.
shashank281295 said:
replace the card and check if it is working than the card is defected
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I know the card works. I just can't do anything or my computer just stops.
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AGoogleUser said:
Hello all and everyone who may be able to help me out! I recently got a new phone (galaxy nexus) and decided to root and s-off my evo 3d. After another sad fail at s-off, my sd card was acting up. When its in a phone, it will say the card is blank or it is using an unsupported file system. Upon formatting option nothing happens. When i insert the sdcard into an adapter and put it into my computer, i can navigate to my computer and when i try to get into the drive, "my computer" crashes and i have to remove the card to get back to the start screen. I can use the drive for other things but it just wont read this card and makes the computer freeze. ive tried programs and whenever i try to select the drive, again the program im using crashes. Other cards work fine so it seems the card itself is the problem. worked fine before. Can anyone help me out here?
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Is your phone able to read/detect your card?
If yes then:
Go to Phone Settings> Storage Settings> Unmount SD card> Erase SD card.
Report if that works.

If it's dead, most reputable manufacturers offer a warranty on their cards. Go to their website & look up the procedure for getting an RMA. That's much cheaper than buying a new card.

rishabhgangwar said:
Is your phone able to read/detect your card?
If yes then:
Go to Phone Settings> Storage Settings> Unmount SD card> Erase SD card.
Report if that works.
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When the cards in my phone, it gives a notification saying that is an unsupported file system or that it is A blank SD card. When it is in the phone it will not let me erase. when I select Format, it's just kind of stops. and if I select it again, nothing. Can't use unmount or mount as they are greyed out. Wish I could format it.
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AGoogleUser said:
When the cards in my phone, it gives a notification saying that is an unsupported file system or that it is A blank SD card. When it is in the phone it will not let me erase. when I select Format, it's just kind of stops. and if I select it again, nothing. Can't use unmount or mount as they are greyed out. Wish I could format it.
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I had a similar problem figuring out that moving Apps to external sd and then removing this sdcard CAN DESTROY the sdcard controller - better unmount card then remove it or switch phone off and remove it !
Even more worst - it's still working sometimes on any PC with adapter - if you have warranty on that sdcard i would replace it in the store bought !

jha1 said:
I had a similar problem figuring out that moving Apps to external sd and then removing this sdcard CAN DESTROY the sdcard controller - better unmount card then remove it or switch phone off and remove it !
Even more worst - it's still working sometimes on any PC with adapter - if you have warranty on that sdcard i would replace it in the store bought !
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ive had SD cards fail a few times without rhyme or reason, but corrupted data by doing the above more than once.

Go to Phone Settings> Storage Settings> Unmount SD card> Erase SD card.

fixxxer0 said:
ive had SD cards fail a few times without rhyme or reason, but corrupted data by doing the above more than once.
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Maybe i had luck - but since the failure i have been very carefully !
Nowadays sdcards should beeing built that writing more than 100000 times should be possible - so such an error should also not occur
but what the sdcards are very sensitive is heat - temperatures above 55 ° C (131 F) is almost a no go! (or increasing failure rate drastically !)
bursa1616 said:
Go to Phone Settings> Storage Settings> Unmount SD card> Erase SD card.
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No when this failure appears - formatting is not possible anymore - the "controller" inside the sdcard is defect !

After searching a lot in XDA, I found a thread which can help you.
Take a look
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=367912&page=2
Hit thanks if I helped you.

bursa1616 said:
Go to Phone Settings> Storage Settings> Unmount SD card> Erase SD card.
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Already tried brotha.
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rishabhgangwar said:
After searching a lot in XDA, I found a thread which can help you.
Take a look
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=367912&page=2
Hit thanks if I helped you.
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Just by replying with some information your helping me out. I have tried many SD card repair tools but when the card is in my computer, and if I do anything related to the card, the program just crashes until I pull the card out. I will post a video later. I've never seen this before. If nothing works I'm just gonna get another.
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well, i stuck the sd card in my dads win 7 laptop and it formatted right away. Maybe win xp just couldnt handle it?

AGoogleUser said:
well, i stuck the sd card in my dads win 7 laptop and it formatted right away. Maybe win xp just couldnt handle it?
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Nice to read that you are out of trouble now.
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