followed the guide to install GB, and when it gets to the point of ut rom on sdcard, flash rom in clockwork: clockwork now says there is no sd, or that it count mount it. the phone can read my sd, inside the os once booted, as can my computer and anything else i plug it into, even my head unit in my car. any ideas?
Format the card on the phone. Then create the partition on the phone in cwm. Shut down completely. Take out the sd card and transfer the files from the computer using a reader. Then try again.
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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
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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
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Hi,
Just installed MIUI on my captivate. Now after mounting storage and i try to copy some file to my sd card, it just unmounts itself suddenly during copying. I tried formatting the sd card, rebooting the phone, wiping data/caches, rebooting pc but nothing seems to work. I just cant copy large files to my sdcard. Small files less than 1 mb copy fine. Any idea on how to correct this??? Is this a rom problem??
Most likely a cable problem. I had the same problem whenever I use the stock cable. I switched and I didn't have 1 problem again.
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What OS is your PC running? Have you made any modifications to the ROM (Modems, etc)?
Hi All I am a total newb and have totally messed up my Desire. I rooted it a few months ago and all went fine, however i tried to install a new rom yesterday and everything has gone wrong. The phone switches on but it is just a black screen that has the word android flashing intermittently. I can still access hboot but when I try to install zip file the sd card appears totally blank. As it stands it is totally useless. Any help greatly appreciated
where have you put that zip file in sdcard?
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The zip file was in the sd card but is no longer there, the sd card appears empty.
When I connect phone to pc it doesn't recognise the device so cant access card at all.
if you are using clockworkmod recovery, connect phone to pc with cable, than go to recovery and from mount and storage option select mount usb, you can access your sd card from pc now, copy another rom and try to flash it
I accessed the sdcard and flashed a different ROM which loaded fine, however it still wont boot. The Rom is the only file on the the sdcard I need all the HTC drivers and set up etc
USB Storage and USB Debugging will not mount to Windows 7 PC or Mac
*I'm posting this thread because I have exhausted every option discussed on the internet*
One day I decided to wipe more than usual using TWRP. I wiped Internal Storage and Android Secure. Ever since then, I have not been able to mount USB to my PC. No PC computer on planet earth will recognize my skyrocket. "Unkown Device" is all I get. Every USB cable, every USB port, every PC, every Mac I have tried. I've tried every driver set, I've tried formatting my PC and reinstalling fresh samsung drivers, I've tried Kies, I've tried formatting my SD storage, I've fixed permissions and wiped everything known to Android. Odin will not detect the phone without working windows drivers and neither will SuperOneClick. I'm out of cards. Game over. Every other function of the device works just fine, and I've gotten by using my 64GB external SD card as a means to transfer files between PC and phone. Come to think, this all started when I put that 64gb SD card in my phone and tried to format it and everything else in TWRP. External SD card works, but nothing will mount.
Before I explore the final possibility that the USB plug on my phone is physically damaged, I'd like to know if anyone out there has had any problems with USB mounting as a result of TWRP wiping and/or External SD Card installation/formatting causing things to go awry.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I will donate to anyone helps me solve the issue, as I need to be able to sell this phone with a clear conscience.
Thanks!
What version of twrp are you using. I saw another post where it wouldn't mount internal with 2.4.0.0. Seems it might be an issue with that version.
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It was using 2.2.3 at the time. I feel strongly that this is an issue with formatting the internal SD card via twrp while adding an external SD card to the phone. I believe the system partition responsible for mounting the phone is corrupted. Maybe a re-partition is the solution? If I could somehow restore the system partition files. I am an avid flasher but partitioning is beyond my scope. Maybe someone can point me to a guide about partitioning.
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It was using 2.2.3 at the time. I feel strongly that this is an issue with formatting the internal SD card via twrp while adding an external SD card to the phone. I believe the system partition responsible for mounting the phone is corrupted. Maybe a re-partition is the solution? If I could somehow restore the system partition files. I am an avid flasher but partitioning is beyond my scope. Maybe someone can point me to a guide about partitioning.
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Hey man did you ever resolve this issue? I just erased a bunch of folders on my internal SD and it won't mount anymore. I'm using a Droid4 and, of course, the problem is consistent on both ROM and stock.
I guess for now I'll have to download from my dropbox account.
Cheers
I'm on the Note 2 (N7100) and have the same issue. I formatted internal storage in TWRP. Now USB is not detected on any pc. Any updates?
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I'm on the Note 2 (N7100) and have the same issue. I formatted internal storage in TWRP. Now USB is not detected on any pc. Any updates?
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Nvm
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I didn't know where to post this since it's not device specific.
The other day my GS3 displayed a message saying i can remove my SD card. I went to my file explorer app and I couldn't access my SD card. I took it out of my phone and put it in my pc, my computer made the noise to let you know you know it discovered a new device but then it notifies me that it failed to install drivers or software. I also tried it in my old GS Epic 4G running CM 10 and it gave me the same notification saying i can remove my SD card. So now I have an unmountable micro SD card and i would really like to recover the information off of it. I have run across a couple places that have said to format it then use recovery software but I don't know how to format a sd card that windows doesn't recognize.
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Your card probably died, so unless you have specialized recovery or forensic software that can image the card, you're SOL. You could also try taking to a data recovery shop and see if they can do anything for you.
You may be able to recover your data with a freeware/shareware program but they're usually limited to recovering only certain filetypes.
If you've given up already and just need to format the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool should be able to reformat the drive even if it doesn't appear in explorer.
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You may be able to recover your data with a freeware/shareware program but they're usually limited to recovering only certain filetypes.
If you've given up already and just need to format the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool should be able to reformat the drive even if it doesn't appear in explorer.
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Alright I'll try that
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