So i have just rooted and unlocked the phone. I am trying to put recovery on it, i put the update zip file on the root of the sd card manually by putting the sd card in my pc and transferring then tried installing it via the sammy recovery but it says no file found. When i connect via usb and select mass storage it shows the drive but when i click it, please insert removable disk.
Its a 4gb micro sd, i tried a 2gb as well
Don't confuse the SD card with the external SD card. What the file system shows as SD card is actually internal memory partitioned as a 16 gb "card" for our use. The file system shows the actual SD card that can be removed as "external_SD".
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You need to start over on installing your drivers. Uninstall them from control panel, then go intoprogram files, find the folder labeled "Samsung"and delete it. Restart your computer. Now, reinstall your drivers. Make sure your USB cable is plugged into the back of your computer, not th he front. Let it go through the process of identifying your phone and installing the drivers.
i removed all the drivers but when i try to reinstall the sgh i897 drivers i get this error
samsung android usb modem driver was not installed successfully 16
Download kies, the full version not mini. After you install it, look under tools. There's an option to install drivers. Do that.
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Well, after getting a blue screen on my PC I then tried what most suggested: DELETE/UNINSTALL any LG driver and re-plug phone to install drivers again.
I went to uninstall programs and got rid of the LG driver there, then plugged my phone up and apparently installed two out of three files successfully. I rebooted my pc and now I plug my phone to it and two things:
1. My computer does not see the sdcard
2. My phone does not see my sd card
When I try to go with phone file manager to SD card it says.... SD card not mounted.
What to do now?
Is it mounted in the Settings > Sd card & Storage menu?
Nope...
I'm running cm7 and in the storage menu there are 3 breaks:
the first one for the SD card, second one for internal and third one to show you how much space is left in the SD card...
Well, in the 1st slot there is not card mounted but in the last one it does show how much space is left/used.... very weird if you ask me!
I will check if the sdcard is not bricked now with a sdcard reader...
well, I think the SDcard is bricked.... I put in the SD reader and connected to my pc and it is not being recognized!
UPDATE: Bought a new sdcard and I still can't mount my card to the pc? WTF!!
wIIse said:
UPDATE: Bought a new sdcard and I still can't mount my card to the pc? WTF!!
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Have you reinstalled the LG drivers? Your PC cannot access even the SD card without those drivers.
This is why, once I upgraded past G1, I decided to not root anymore. 2.2 with a strong phone works great. I focus on being a "power user" and not a modder because, quite frankly, it takes way too much effort and the risk of messing up my phone is too great. I just don't understanding stepping out on that ice all the time, when the phone works so well without modding it beyond the user experience.
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Hi,
Have you tried downloading and installing the latest drivers from LG website?
I couldn't connect to SD at first until I used the downloaded drivers.
No problems anymore here.
grtz,
Pfeffa-rah
UPDATE: I have went back to eagleblood's rom and now I am able to mount my internal and external sdcards to my pc *HAPPY*
I plan on going back to CM7 and hopefully I am able to mount the cards again without the BSOD!
UPDATE: as stated earlier... I went back to CM7 and now all my f'ng drivers are messed up again...not able to mount/unmount SDcard!!
CM7 should look into this.
Hi,
I just bought the Desire S and it comes with an 8GB SD card. When I plug my phone into the computer to browse the SD card, the SD card doesn't show up in My Computer. I've tried USB storage ON and OFF, debugging Mode and nothing works.
When I go to Computer Management -> Disk Management, the SD card shows up as "Unallocated". I cannot assign a drive letter to it as well.
I took the SD card out of the phone and plugged it into the computer using a card reader and it showed up in My Computer and was working fine. I put it back into the phone and plugged the phone to the computer and selected SD card storage option on the phone and I can't browse the SD card any more.
I've already formatted the card as FAT32 using Windows 7 before putting it into the phone.
I can browse the SD card just fine using a file explorer on the phone.
What could be the problem? why isn't the SD card showing up when I plug the phone into the computer?
I'm running MIUI 1.9.30 ROM, but the problem was also present with the original HTC ROM as well.
maybe you should try to format it through phone's settings, even better if you try to use a sense rom
Do you have htc usb drivers on your pc? Not sure if this they are required to browse the sdcard whilst in the phone, but they maybe?
The best you can do, you must format your SD card (all partitions) with your recovery (Ext3 or Ext4).
If you have used 4EXTRecovery or CWM, it's easier. (I prefer 4EXTRecovery )
At the end I think it will be ok
chris5s said:
Do you have htc usb drivers on your pc? Not sure if this they are required to browse the sdcard whilst in the phone, but they maybe?
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I downloaded the "HTC Sync" tool and installed it but it doesn't recognize the phone probably because MIUI is installed on the phone.
Does anyone else have MIUI installed and managed to get it to work? Or is there some USB drivers I need to install?
philos64 said:
The best you can do, you must format your SD card (all partitions) with your recovery (Ext3 or Ext4).
If you have used 4EXTRecovery or CWM, it's easier. (I prefer 4EXTRecovery )
At the end I think it will be ok
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But Windows doesn't recognize Ext3 or Ext4, so I still won't be able to browse my SD card on the computer.
456456 said:
But Windows doesn't recognize Ext3 or Ext4, so I still won't be able to browse my SD card on the computer.
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Indeed, except if you use Droid Explorer on your PC (you can read all partitions from your phone with).
Except your SD partition who's must be in Fat32, all the parttions must be in Ext3 or Ext4.
That's why I'm write that's you can format your Sd card with your recovery.
For exemple, mine is:
System => ext4 => capacity :549 MB => free: 101MB
data => ext4 => capacity :1156 MB => free: 427MB
cache => ext4 => capacity :142 MB => free: 138MB
sd ext => ext4 => capacity :0 MB MB => free: 0 MB
sdcard => fat32 => capacity :29543 MB => free: 15369MB
In my pc, the only partition that I can read is sdcard
I tried Droid Explorer but it is buggy, incomplete, very slow, and overall crap.
I tried RCMix3D 1.5 ROM with Sense 3.5 and Android 2.3.5, and still the SD card doesn't show up on the computer. I have HTC Sync installed, but it crashes when I plug the phone in.
The SD card is formatted as FAT32.
Is there anything else I can do to browse the SD card on my PC? What did you guys do to get your SD card to show up on the PC for the first time?
Thanks for your help.
456456 said:
I tried Droid Explorer but it is buggy, incomplete, very slow, and overall crap.
I tried RCMix3D 1.5 ROM with Sense 3.5 and Android 2.3.5, and still the SD card doesn't show up on the computer. I have HTC Sync installed, but it crashes when I plug the phone in.
The SD card is formatted as FAT32.
Is there anything else I can do to browse the SD card on my PC? What did you guys do to get your SD card to show up on the PC for the first time?
Thanks for your help.
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Some daft questions:
Did the SD function fine ever, eg with stock ROM when you first got the phone?
Have you tried an alternate SD card in the same phone?
Have you tried a different USB lead?
Have you tried on a different PC?
Have you tried another USB cabel?
Swyped from my Desire S
[Solved]
I found out what the problem was. After having a look at My computer -> Properties -> Device Manager, I found that two of the USB Controllers were not working properly and the SD card was detected as an "Unknown Device".
I uninstalled HTC Sync, fast boot drivers, and anything related to Android or HTC from my computer.
I then uninstalled the USB controller drivers by right-clicking on each and selecting Uninstall, and the same for the "Unknown Device". After a restart Windows started scanning for drivers for these devices and they started working perfectly again.
The SD card now shows up in My Computer when I plug the phone in, without the help of any HTC drivers.
I hope that helps others who come across this problem. Thanks to everyone who tried to help me with this problem. I appreciate your help guys.
i had that too.... i formatted it wiht my desire hd and it worked
Great to hear that this is resolved.
Best to edit your opening post #1 (using Advanced edit) and prefix the title of the post with [SOLVED] so as to note it's resolved.
first my rom and android version are not important coz i had usb connection working before with same build.here is the thing,one day i removed my external sd card from my phone and put it in my brothers k850i to listen some music on se speakers.when i finished i just removed it coz that phone doesn't have safe remove like ours does.when i placed sd card back in my phone i got error msg that i need to reformat my sd card,but i couldn't lose all my data since i was going on trip tomorrow.so i restarted the phone with sd card inside and it worked(everything no error msg).i went to trip and when i came bace i noticed the problem when i connected the phone to my pc(tryed both win 7 and win xp,i have 2 pc's) to copy some photos.i got 'USB device not recognized' error i tried doing recovery in cwm reinstalling drivers even removing sd card didn't help.sd card is working just fine in my phone and also when i place it in bro's phone and connect to pc i can copy files with no prob(tho when i reinstert it while phone is turned on i do get error for re format).only thing that is going on my mind that cable might be broken,but no1 used it while i was on trip so i dont think so.help needed urgent.
it happened with me also. Its all because of ****ing kies installatio. I dont know why it happens but it sometimes happens.
Do like this
1. uninstall kies & everything related to phone from computer.
2. backup ur external sd card data on pc with some card reader. Then format it properly. Then insert in phone. Again format from phone.
3. Restart computer. Install kies properly.
4. Connect phone in kies mode. Let computer install drivers properly.
4. If everything goes well then with card reader again fill up data in sd card. Then insert sd card in phone. Then try in mass storage mode.
vishal24387 said:
it happened with me also. Its all because of ****ing kies installatio. I dont know why it happens but it sometimes happens.
Do like this
1. uninstall kies & everything related to phone from computer.
2. backup ur external sd card data on pc with some card reader. Then format it properly. Then insert in phone. Again format from phone.
3. Restart computer. Install kies properly.
4. Connect phone in kies mode. Let computer install drivers properly.
4. If everything goes well then with card reader again fill up data in sd card. Then insert sd card in phone. Then try in mass storage mode.
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okey thnc i dont have card reader but i will do it with my bro's phone will try it tommorow.
I have a faves pad 10.1 model yx10a03, and i'm having trouble with storage.
When I go to settings and storage it says I have total space 0.00, even with an 8gb msd card installed. so I'm thinking the tab has lost all its mount points.
I have tried 6 different micro sd cards as well and none of them seem to be recognized, I get a message " preparing sd card then nothing registers.
What do I do? I can get apps to install , but anything that needs more space like google earth etc fails during install.
Some one help...I can't find a firmware update or a custom rom from anywhere.
Iv'e tried factory data reset, no joy. I need a total system reset but not sure how.
Scott
When you connect to your computer or using something like Astro can you see or navigate to the "external" memory card drive?
If I connect it without a Micro sd card inserted I get nothing.
But if I connect the pad to my P.C via usb cable with a Micro sd card in it, it registers as external 8gb drive which I can send files to etc.
If I use astro, it sees that the sd card as a mount but nothing inside. Also doesn't show any size or storage available.
I could do with rooting method and put a custom rom on it but can't find anything about it.
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If I connect it without a Micro sd card inserted I get nothing.
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Phone/Tablet inits the device but it's OS (drivers?) can't read the format.
But if I connect the pad to my P.C via usb cable with a Micro sd card in it, it registers as external 8gb drive which I can send files to etc.
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PC recognized the mounted initialized device and can R/W to the (fat32?) format.
If I use astro, it sees that the sd card as a mount but nothing inside. Also doesn't show any size or storage available.
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Astro (AFAIK) ques the device's I/O system for file spec and info. It (again AFAIK) just sends commands through the Tablet's OS. Kinda like running LS might in IRIX or some other unix.
I could do with rooting method and put a custom rom on it but can't find anything about it.
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I have no idea and I'm a total n00b but... I wonder if the Tablet uses a proprietary/virtual FS on the SD card instead of the direct embedded card driver?
Is there anything in the instructions about formatting the card? Did you try to format the card in the tablet yet?
So this would be like when I format an SD card on my Mac... It can no longer be read by any other device until it's re-formatted by a non-mac device... But if mounted by said external device acting as a "card-reader" then the connected Mac can perform I/O normally. Only in this case your tablet is like the mac in that situation. Errr, if that made any sense.
Anyway, try to format the card on your tablet and see if that works.
Hi,
I am planning to flash custom rom on my anroid. I have rooted my htc one x and s-off is also done. Most of the topics I am reading for flashing says to copy ROM zip file on SD card. How can I copy files to SD card when there is no slot for SD card?
Regards,
Vijay
When people refer to the sd card on this device they're talking about the virtual sd card (internal storage). You can connect it to the PC in a couple of ways:
-Connect via a usb cable while booted into Android, if you're on a Jellybean Sense ROM it should show up as a removable drive in Windows automatically. If you're on an ICS Sense ROM you'll need to select disc drive from the notification menu that pops up when you connect. If you're on an aosp ROM you'll need to select the same thing from the notification menu.
-The other way is to boot into TWRP recovery, connect via usb cable, select Mount from the TWRP home screen, then select Mount USB Storage. Now it should show up as a removable drive in Windows.
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Got it. Thanks for the info.