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I just Bricked my phone!! and really bad!!

Okay, so here was I trying to do the app to sd and I was doing it using Terminal because my laptop does not give me permision to partition..I was at the last step which was basically to do the partition...I got some sort of mistake and the notification bar asked to format the sd, which I was forced to.....then I started getting a message that my sd card is damaged...so I took my sd card out turned off my phone and now my phone does not leave the g1 screen I tried taking out the battery and nothing...I have the latest radio and I did the Nandroid back up but that is pretty much all to waste since I formatted my sd
Help!!

DSBP1 said:
Okay, so here was I trying to do the app to sd and I was doing it using Terminal because my laptop does not give me permision to partition..I was at the last step which was basically to do the partition...I got some sort of mistake and the notification bar asked to format the sd, which I was forced to.....then I started getting a message that my sd card is damaged...so I took my sd card out turned off my phone and now my phone does not leave the g1 screen I tried taking out the battery and nothing...I have the latest radio and I did the Nandroid back up but that is pretty much all to waste since I formatted my sd
Help!!
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You can boot the G1 while holding the camera button and press back to go into fastboot mode and restore your data or you can hold home+power and do a wipe... and properly format your sd and try again.

the problem is that when I do fastboot there is nothing in the sd because I originally formatt it...my sdcard is blank and I cannot mount it because I cannot get into the g1..
I think my only solution is by a push through adb..

Can you hold home while powering on to get into the bootloader?
If you can, go into the console (or use adb shell). From there, you should be able to delete the symlinks that point to the SD.
I assume it's not booting because you symlinked parts of the internal flash to SD card, but sd card doesn't exist.... but I've never actually tried apps on SD, so I have no idea .

wow..it is getting really strange...I just took off the battery and the G1 screen stayed on....aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh....this is weird..*

DSBP1 said:
wow..it is getting really strange...I just took off the battery and the G1 screen stayed on....aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh....this is weird..*
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The screen holds colors after it's powered off, it's normal. It fades away slowly.

DSBP1 said:
wow..it is getting really strange...I just took off the battery and the G1 screen stayed on....aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh....this is weird..*
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lol did you unplug the A/C if not then thats why. If you have a card reader just move the update.zip and if you don't boot into recovery and do a wipe without the SD plugged in. Then put it back or format the sdcard and next time save the backup to your pc before.

how can I push an update.zip through adb shell?? thats my only hope...or how can I restore through spl?? I am able to get through fastboot...and I did a wipe and that did not help...since I can't do no update.zip..or anything..

samysam05 said:
lol did you unplug the A/C if not then thats why. If you have a card reader just move the update.zip and if you don't boot into recovery and do a wipe without the SD plugged in. Then put it back or format the sdcard and next time save the backup to your pc before.
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I have a back up on my pc...
I just cannot put anything into my sd.....and I don't have a card reader..

DSBP1 said:
the problem is that when I do fastboot there is nothing in the sd because I originally formatt it...my sdcard is blank and I cannot mount it because I cannot get into the g1..
I think my only solution is by a push through adb..
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Fastboot does not require a sdcard. Just flash a working boot.img, system.img, and userdata.img thats stored on your computer.

if u go into the recovery menu (home+power)
and do a wipe (alt+w)
it will erase the symlinks and restore you to the original rom without the symlinks to ur sd card but to the internal flash...

^^^what do I do after that....I need to use ADB to push it?? and if I do a fastboot how do I push the system file??? by adb??

Can you explain why you can't fastboot the backup to your phone?

okay, when I go to fastboot...I press back to fastboot and then the action button...and then what??

Minker17 said:
Can you explain why you can't fastboot the backup to your phone?
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Apparently its cuz he never read the instructions.... people please help yourselves before you beg for help from others

^^NO!!
and nevermind..I solved the problem...I was having a major problem with my usb reading my phone and my micro card...I had to install the files for Microsd...which was a hassle to find it...so that I was finally able to flash the update.zip...Fastboot was not working....I kept on getting an error message..but thank God I finally got my phone to work...

This only took about 3-4 hours to figure..word to the wise..don't mess with your sd card unless you are sure you know what you are doing...

DSBP1 said:
This only took about 3-4 hours to figure..word to the wise..don't mess with your sd card unless you are sure you know what you are doing...
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I think that applies to everything...
driving a car
playing with fire
flying a plane
...

Yeah im pretty sure thats a condensed version of the disclaimer in the rooting thread... ive spent MUCH more than 4 hrs fixing stuff ive messed up on this thing... not to mention the other g1 i rooted/modded for the girlfriend, roommate, friends...

^^^I know :-(
But it sucks...I was suppose to be in bed 5 hours ago...now I have to be up in 3 hours to be ready to go to school..:-(
and tomorrow...I'ma try to partition my card again..
thanks for the help guys...nite!

I could really use a hand with this pickle

okay, so i've found myself in a bit of a pickle. Recently I've been running the CM7 nightly's, but today I tried out the RoyalGinger rom and I believe it either corrupted my SD card or it's blocking my SD card from being used/read.
Tried several times to reformat it but each time it said 'checking SD card', but the weird thing is I have an active wireless connection, but I'm not getting texts. I can download from market, get on Facebook, etc, but my texts won't come in until I reboot the phone. A few times I booted it up and it wouldn't allow me to even see my homescreen because it'd pop up with EVERY app force closing (including google services, framework, etc), I was able to get back to my homescreen by clearing by Dalvik Cache luckily, however I'm still unable to do most anything. I went in to wipe/restore but it says cannot find SD card, directory invalid, cannot mount, etc.
Is there a way to reformat my SD card through terminal? If so could I get the code procedure for it? or anyone have any ideas other than picking up a new micro (which isn't a big deal but I'm strapped on money til Friday) but i'd still prefer to know that it's JUST my SD card and not my phone memory. Anyone? Anyone? Beuler? Beuler? Thanks in advance. I'm really sorry if I posted this in the wrong section, but c'mon, everyone gets one.

Ok so do u have a stock backup rom? Ide say go to rom manager and go to recovery and whipe etc.. Then install that stock back on it.....And can ur sd card even read at all? Just get any.file manager and check your sd.
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I think I have a backup rom of CM6, but not an actual android stock rom. It won't allow me because it says 'must have an SD card inserted' then it says must have clockwork mod recovery installed, which I do, the current version. Now that it says that I'm afraid to boot my phone into recovery, and I can't really tell if my SD card will read. I was able to use my file manager and the entire SD folder is blank.

ten minutes later: still boots into recovery, none of my backups are available on it. I was thinking about downloading a rom from the phone and trying that way, but I don't know if it'd save to the (apparently unreadable) SD card.

Ok try this...... Find out what recovery you use 3.0.0.5 or the normal 2.5.1.4 for froyo then download a rom thats the same recovery as the one u have on it right now...... If its the same as your cyanogenmod 6 then install that from the recovery manually!!!
if its not then download a rom that is and make sure you use a file manager to see if the download sticks in your sdcard. And if it doesnt stick then......your problem sir might be a corrupted sdcard, or a phone that cant read your sd.
Hope its not either or, so give it a shot.....
And ur supposed to have a stock backup as soon as you root and switch roms man Lol makes life easier
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The_F_Word said:
And ur supposed to have a stock backup as soon as you root and switch roms man Lol makes life easier
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Lol agreed that's saved me a couple times now
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It sounds like he doesn't have access to his sdcard. It doesn't matter how many backups you make if that's the case...
If you happen to have a sdcard reader or a microsd usb adapter you could format it in windows, copy the files you need, and start again. Also did you try connecting to your pc and seeing if it's readable that way? You can format the card if your pc recognizes it. If you have adb set up you can push the recovery image to the phone without a sdcard. But once again without a working sdcard you won't be able to flash a new rom.

Hey guys I'm pretty sure it's just my SD card. I tried saving an image, just to test it and it says 'an SD card is required to download images.bin', so I'm HOPING it's just my SD Card, however my notifications are working properly so I can at least deal with it til friday, if it IS my SD card reader in the phone, well... I have a plan for that, however due to already technically breaking that I shouldn't go into it. Thanks to you guys for taking the time to post and if you know anything else that might help me I'd gladly accept it.

darinmc said:
It sounds like he doesn't have access to his sdcard. It doesn't matter how many backups you make if that's the case...
If you happen to have a sdcard reader or a microsd usb adapter you could format it in windows, copy the files you need, and start again. Also did you try connecting to your pc and seeing if it's readable that way? You can format the card if your pc recognizes it. If you have adb set up you can push the recovery image to the phone without a sdcard. But once again without a working sdcard you won't be able to flash a new rom.
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Hi, I have a reader on my laptop but not the adapter, so I can't tell and yes, you were right, I can't see any of my backups (which I have my stock, then cm6 and cm7) so I either need to find an adapter or get a new SD card. luckily I pulled all of my camera images off my phone last night when I put the new rom .zip on the phone sd, so I'm not really worried about 'losing' anything as long as I get my phone working back in proper condition.

Well that happened to me before as well.. All i did was replace sd cards lets the phone do its thing flash a different rom like CM6 or CM7 and then once replaced i got the adapter for my old sd card reformatted through windows and put it right back in and it worked.. So try that?

Ill have to. Thanks a lot guys I do appreciate any comments and suggestions and ill be picking up a new sd later thia week to fix it but can amyone recommend a good brand sd to pick up? the apparently failed one was a samsung 8gb
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Hp is very good, u probably can find one with 8 gb. At best buy.. But if u want a 32 gb then thats online all day
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I usually use sandisk so yeah try that?

Something similar happened to me. Your SD card likely has a bad or corrupted file. I used Win7 to copy over what I could to a folder in my PC. The Win7 automatically refused to copy over the corrupted files while carrying over everything else. In XP, your file transfer stops and you have to try again to ensure you have everything that's not corrupted transferred over.
After copying, I just went ahead and formatted the SD to FAT32, transferred everything back, installed on my phone, and voila.

Go into recovery and partition the card. You'll lose everything on it but it should be useable after that
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[Q] 32gb SD card wont format HELP!

Hey i started up Modern Combat 3 on my phone and i was playing for about 30 seconds when i got a error and the game closed i tried to open it but i wouldn't open at that point i figured there must be a problem with the sd card so i went in to settings and clicked on "SD & phone storage" the phone said my sd card Info was unavailable i so i tried to format it but i just would give a error I then booted into recovery and tried to format from there but when i do it, its says formatting... and it stays that way for 15 minutes never telling me that the format was successfully any ideas? this sd card is only just over a month old.
Also when the phone is on i can't go into disk mode it doesn't give me the option but when i do so from recovery my entire sd card loads and shows up on windows even showing all of my files, i can copy some files off the card others give me a error also instead of saying "removable disk" the drive now says "SDdata" when attached to my pc anyone experienced this I've also tried formatting from windows it just gives a error? I've been trying all night and can get it to work...Sucks and i can't return it because it crapped out like 2 weeks after the return policy
sorry about my grammar if its bad Im a little excited

Umm Anyone?

Try getting a card reader, connecting it directly to your computer and format it.

I recommend to use Gparted. Download iso image and burn it to cd, then boot from cd and do format. It is the best tool to manage filesystems, far better than windows.

CuttyCZ said:
Try getting a card reader, connecting it directly to your computer and format it.
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Do you think a card reader would really make a difference?

libertasanti said:
I recommend to use Gparted. Download iso image and burn it to cd, then boot from cd and do format. It is the best tool to manage filesystems, far better than windows.
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Thanks ill try it out

Lostmymind904 said:
Do you think a card reader would really make a difference?
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Yes it should i had it happen to my wifes phone. The card look wipe nothing on it threw the phone. Took at out and put in card reader and there it all was so i copyed it to the pc and then formatted it. Put the pics save s and such back on and was good to go. So o would try it. They are pretty cheep if you dont have one.
Good luck
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Format ur as card by pc. Then after format with phone will work.
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jasminthoria said:
Format ur as card by pc. Then after format with phone will work.
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I've tried formatting by pc like15btimes windows give an error Nd the phone won't format either

lucky 69 said:
Yes it should i had it happen to my wifes phone. The card look wipe nothing on it threw the phone. Took at out and put in card reader and there it all was so i copyed it to the pc and then formatted it. Put the pics save s and such back on and was good to go. So o would try it. They are pretty cheep if you dont have one.
Good luck
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Thanks ill give it a try

Lostmymind904 said:
I've tried formatting by pc like15btimes windows give an error Nd the phone won't format either
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That's not good. As said above, try GPartEd. It's available as a stand alone image, but it's probably easiest to get by downloading Ubuntu and using a program such as InfraRecorder (Burn Image command, not just copying the ISO) to burn that to a CD. Set your BIOS to boot from CD, and start up Ubuntu. Once you're on the desktop, click the Ubuntu logo in the top left hand corner, it'll open something called the Unity Dashboard, which has a search box on it. Type "gksudo gparted" and hit enter. From there, find your card in the list and right click it's analysis, click Delete Partition. Then Right click it again and hit New Partition, select FAT32 and close the dialogue box. Then Apply in the left corner. It'll say that any changes are irreversible and can damage the device. Just agree and hope it'll fix it.
However, after writing all that and thinking it over, it sounds a lot like hardware failure. Good luck.

lucky 69 said:
Yes it should i had it happen to my wifes phone. The card look wipe nothing on it threw the phone. Took at out and put in card reader and there it all was so i copyed it to the pc and then formatted it. Put the pics save s and such back on and was good to go. So o would try it. They are pretty cheep if you dont have one.
Good luck
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Are you sure? It seems like you have alot of trouble typing. Are you eating cheetos right now?

ph totally wiped, wiped system data cache, no nandroid backup, cant go download mode

Hi All -
Not a good day for me at all I installed one of the latest Stock Odexed ROM. Then for some reason I wanted to reinstall it so went to Touch v6.0.1.5 recovery and wiped everything without taking nandroid back up as I was 100% sure that I have all my different ROMs in my external card. Then after wiping the device when I went to my external card to install the ROM I found nothing in there !!! Total phone wiped out !!! Now cant even go to Download Mode to install a ROM using odin. Tried adb reboot download but still No luck. Cant go to download mode. May be my USB cable or PC has issues, wont detect my phone right now every time I want to go to download mode it goes to recovery mode. Hence cant install any ROM. Please help !!!
I also installed the Samsung USB driver but still my PC wont detect my phone.
My device is Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket.
You help is highly appreciated.
Thanks.

If you can still access recovery just DL another ROM and flash it. I must be missing something here. Is the phone usable?

Most likely it's the OP that's missing something, being in panic.
OP, get an SD card, load any ROM on it, insert it into your phone, boot to recovery, install ROM, profit.

Jack_R1 said:
Most likely it's the OP that's missing something, being in panic.
OP, get an SD card, load any ROM on it, insert it into your phone, boot to recovery, install ROM, profit.
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Smart idea !!! I am so dumb, this idea didnt come to my head But currently cant do it because there is no way I can access (read/ write) the Micro SD card so that I can trasfer a ROM there and install it by going to the recovery. Any idea? I dont have the card reader.

Does the phone still boot to OS?

hechoen said:
Does the phone still boot to OS?
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Thanks buddy but the problem is I cant access my Micro USB Card. The phone doesnt boot and gets stuck at the SAMSUNG logo.

In both TWRP and CWM recoveries you have "Mount USB storage" option.
Connect your phone to PC with USB cable, use that option, and copy the ROM right on your USB storage.
Or grab a card reader for $1 from eBay To have one just in case. Or use any other phone (family/friends) for copying the ROM on the SD card. So many options...

Jack_R1 said:
In both TWRP and CWM recoveries you have "Mount USB storage" option.
Connect your phone to PC with USB cable, use that option, and copy the ROM right on your USB storage.
Or grab a card reader for $1 from eBay To have one just in case. Or use any other phone (family/friends) for copying the ROM on the SD card. So many options...
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Thats the only option I see Jack_R1, either buy a card reader or use friends one. I tried Mount USB Storage before but nothing happened. And other issue I have been having for last few weeks is - my PC wont detect my phone, it says unrecognized device or something. So I have been using FTP for transferring ROM and other files to my phone.
But I will try with a card either for now. Hope that helps otherwise will need guidance from expert ppl like you all.
Thanks again. Appreciate for your quick responses.

You said in the OP that you tried adb reboot download. So do you have adb installed? If so have you installed the google drivers?? Here's the link:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html
If you don't have them installed do so. Then type:
Code:
adb devices
You might need to exit SDK manager and reboot your comp before it shows. Also there is a program called usbdeview you can DL to remove any drivers you have installed that might coflict.

Never heard of having recovery but not download.... Sure you don't have a usb cable/connection problem?
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naiveuser said:
Thats the only option I see Jack_R1, either buy a card reader or use friends one. I tried Mount USB Storage before but nothing happened. And other issue I have been having for last few weeks is - my PC wont detect my phone, it says unrecognized device or something. So I have been using FTP for transferring ROM and other files to my phone.
But I will try with a card either for now. Hope that helps otherwise will need guidance from expert ppl like you all.
Thanks again. Appreciate for your quick responses.
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just bought a micro usb card reader/ writer and was able to transfer ROMs to my external USB card. Now installing the ROM. Thanks so much again!

hechoen said:
You said in the OP that you tried adb reboot download. So do you have adb installed? If so have you installed the google drivers?? Here's the link:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html
If you don't have them installed do so. Then type:
Code:
adb devices
You might need to exit SDK manager and reboot your comp before it shows. Also there is a program called usbdeview you can DL to remove any drivers you have installed that might coflict.
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Thanks so much hechoen! Learnt few new things from you!

naiveuser said:
Thanks so much hechoen! Learnt few new things from you!
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Learned....learnt is not a word.
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xcrazydx said:
Learned....learnt is not a word.
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If you're gonna be a grammer nazi at least get it right. LOL
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/learnt

hechoen said:
If you're gonna be a grammer nazi at least get it right. LOL
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/learnt
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Haha :banghead:
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stoopendis said:
Never heard of having recovery but not download.... Sure you don't have a usb cable/connection problem?
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He most probably has a problem with USB port - requiring some cleaning (and hopefully nothing more). Likely one of the data (D+/D-) pins isn't connecting.

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He most probably has a problem with USB port - requiring some cleaning (and hopefully nothing more). Likely one of the data (D+/D-) pins isn't connecting.
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As you guys suggested - I am cleaning the USB Drivers. usbdview looks a pretty handy tool didnt know about this one. Download ADT and Google USB driver. Will try it out soon.
But now my phone is back to its' life Thanks so much to all of you !!! I dont know how it formatted both the sdcard and external storage !!!Any idea? Can a ROM do this? (well fortunately I backed up all my files from the Micro SD last night)
Best Regards folks. You guys Rock !!!

Jack_R1 said:
He most probably has a problem with USB port - requiring some cleaning (and hopefully nothing more). Likely one of the data (D+/D-) pins isn't connecting.
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Jack_R1 - what is the best way to clean the USB port? I will keep you posted if driver clean up and re-installation helps to detect the phone or not.

Toothpick and gently going over all contacts inside the socket.

Prying up on the prong ever so gently(it really don't take much) with a toothpick worked for me. Although now that I think about it, the toothpick may have just helped clean it ^^^
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[Q] help i think ive well and truly ****ed it

hiya i wonder if any1 can help!
basically my phone was telling me my sd card had been removed (no big deal i thought, this seems to happen to my phone from time to time since running this ROM (bruce2728's cm10)).
i can usually either remove the sd card and put back in, or the same with the battery to get it working again. but no matter how many times i try it wont work. also when using this ROM (and before this problem) every time that i try to enter storage from the settings menu, settings force closes.
so completely out of ideas i tried doing a wipe and trying again. now u see im fairly new to all this and that seems to get touted as a way to fix some things, so i thought id give it a go.
but now my phone wont get past the white with green HTC logo, its been sat like that for about an hour! and in recovery it just says that it cannot mount sd card!!
i feel im firmly up **** creek. is there any way to fix this? perhaps a way to flash a ROM without using sd card to a phone that wont boot up?
i feel i might need to flash a new bootanimation.img as i changed this from the default in the ROM, could i also do this without an sd card or a phone that wont get past HTC logo?
i hope there is someone out there that can help!
thank you in advance,
Max

I would install ARHD from Mike1986 it seems to help resettle the device running a sense ROM. Make sure you follow his instructions using ext4 and super wipe
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if you are S-ON enable smartflash first from 4ext and then flash the rom

rzr86 said:
if you are S-ON enable smartflash first from 4ext and then flash the rom
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yeah thats what i always do but because i cant access my sd card i cant flash the ROM which is saved on it. it just keeps saying cant mount /sdcard

Max792 said:
yeah thats what i always do but because i cant access my sd card i cant flash the ROM which is saved on it. it just keeps saying cant mount /sdcard
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The recovery won't pick up the SD card? That is very odd. Do you have any others around to test with?
tapped out from my sexy sensation XE

heavy_metal_man said:
The recovery won't pick up the SD card? That is very odd. Do you have any others around to test with?
tapped out from my sexy sensation XE
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I'm assuming you've tried pulling the battery, unseating the sd card, reseating it, putting battery back, and going to recovery right?
If that doesn't work I'd suggest trying to read the sd in card in a PC... is it readable there?
All in all you can get to recovery so you arent that bad off, just need to figure out what's up with the SD.

Yes I can view my SD card on both my PC and my tablet :/ but when I boot into 4ext it says problem mounting SD card, may take longer without. Then when 4ext loads I can't manually mount SD or browse for zip file. You think this is more likely a hardware issue with my sensation?
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Max792 said:
Yes I can view my SD card on both my PC and my tablet :/ but when I boot into 4ext it says problem mounting SD card, may take longer without. Then when 4ext loads I can't manually mount SD or browse for zip file. You think this is more likely a hardware issue with my sensation?
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On your PC, copy all your files off your SD card, format your SD card (makes sure the filesystem is set to fat32), and then just put 1 file on it, a ROM, and see if the recovery detects it. If that doesn't work then you can always try using a different SD card.

android1234567 said:
On your PC, copy all your files off your SD card, format your SD card (makes sure the filesystem is set to fat32), and then just put 1 file on it, a ROM, and see if the recovery detects it. If that doesn't work then you can always try using a different SD card.
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Okay thanks I will try this, but I think its the SD card tray that has gone because I just squeezed it and it was able to mount, however only for a second then 4ext rebooted
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Max792 said:
i can usually either remove the sd card and put back in, or the same with the battery to get it working again. but no matter how many times i try it wont work. also when using this ROM (and before this problem) every time that i try to enter storage from the settings menu, settings force closes.
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This isn't part of your SD card problem. This was a ROM bug that was fixed in the Jan 9th update. Any use of the storage menu from the settings on the late December to Jan 6th builds caused a FC.
So if you are using one of those builds, don't factor in th esettings FC in your diagnosis of the problem.
SD card ejections were also an issue on the Dec 21 - Jan 3rd builds if I recall correctly. I had one day where the SD card would just unmount and refused to remount. It was a problem experienced by only a handful of people and seemed to be very limited. Though if you can't mount in recovery than that's probably not the issue.
Also, you said you could press the SD card into the slot and it mounted for a second...
2 things on that note.
First, your SD card might be the problem. Maybe the contacts are worn out. Take a lcose look at it and make sure it looks okay. No corrosion, etc...
Second, the metal housing around the SD card...that can be mashed in slightly to put more pressure on the card. Take the card out and press the middle of that housing in. It could create enough force to hold the card in more securely. Be VERY careful with this option though.
Also, did you make sure another SD card got the same problem? If another card works, then your card is just f'ed.

Skipjacks said:
This isn't part of your SD card problem. This was a ROM bug that was fixed in the Jan 9th update. Any use of the storage menu from the settings on the late December to Jan 6th builds caused a FC.
So if you are using one of those builds, don't factor in th esettings FC in your diagnosis of the problem.
SD card ejections were also an issue on the Dec 21 - Jan 3rd builds if I recall correctly. I had one day where the SD card would just unmount and refused to remount. It was a problem experienced by only a handful of people and seemed to be very limited. Though if you can't mount in recovery than that's probably not the issue.
Also, you said you could press the SD card into the slot and it mounted for a second...
2 things on that note.
First, your SD card might be the problem. Maybe the contacts are worn out. Take a lcose look at it and make sure it looks okay. No corrosion, etc...
Second, the metal housing around the SD card...that can be mashed in slightly to put more pressure on the card. Take the card out and press the middle of that housing in. It could create enough force to hold the card in more securely. Be VERY careful with this option though.
Also, did you make sure another SD card got the same problem? If another card works, then your card is just f'ed.
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cheers mate helped a lot. i did actually see that kind of talk in the thread but kind of passed over it because it hadnt affected me... yet!
if it was a ROM bug i feel im totally f'ed as i cant flash a new version due to the inaccessible sd card.
yeah ive been doing this exact mashing you speak of lol, hopefully it will work or i am completely out of ideas :\
cheers everybody for your help tho guys really appreciate it

Max792 said:
cheers mate helped a lot. i did actually see that kind of talk in the thread but kind of passed over it because it hadnt affected me... yet!
if it was a ROM bug i feel im totally f'ed as i cant flash a new version due to the inaccessible sd card.
yeah ive been doing this exact mashing you speak of lol, hopefully it will work or i am completely out of ideas :\
cheers everybody for your help tho guys really appreciate it
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Find the exact rom you were on and take the boot IMG out of it. Wipe your data and cache and then boot to fastboot. With the boot.IMG
In your adb folder do fastboot boot boot.IMG and see if it boots into the rom.
Tapped out from my sexy nexus 7