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[Q] tablet erases any new file on reboot??

Hey everyone,
So I got my tablet today and have been working on it for the past 8 hours!! I finally got CWmod on it and running. Had a nightmare of a time getting it to work correctly and after using NVFLASH to nuke the whole tablet and install the stock ROM, then updating i was able to get CWmod to run. Now I'm having a really odd issue.
I can boot into CWmod. I repartitioned the SD card, mounted it. I can see the device in windows but when I add ANYTHING to the internal SD card it is completely gone once I reboot the device. I'm trying to get a ROM on it but it's like the drive is locked or something really weird. It copys onto the tablet just fine. the second I reboot everything is deleted.
I feel like I'm missing something here. I had that issue with it when I ran the stock ROM. I could change something and it would not stick after a reboot. For example registering my device on kindle and then downloading books. as soon as I reboot the machine it's as if i never registered it. I'm really at a loss as to what to do with this. I can't seem to get it to save anything on the internal storage.

Well after fiddling with it for a while longer I'm about to give up. I used NVFLASH to get it to the stock ROM again. updated to 3588 and yet again, I can't get any changes to stick. I can change anything and everything on it while it's powered on. The second I power it off and reboot it nukes everything I did (and takes close to 5-6 minutes to boot). I even mounted it and deleted every single file on the internal storage. They all came back upon reboot. I reformatted the entire SDCARD, I reformatted all the user data, did a cache wipe.. nothing works. I'm wondering if my unit is defective? at this point I would love to just have a tablet that I can actually use. I can't understand how it's even possible to not be able to make any changes on the device unless it's reinstalling the ROM everytime I reboot?

What version of CWM are you using and how did you install it?

I was running CWM 8. I couldn't install it via the internal storage. It would boot into recovery mode and "install" but once the machine rebooted it would not boot into CWM. I tried it several times same deal. I could install it but once it rebooted, nothing :/..
So I had to use the micro SD card to install it. I edited the recovery command file and pointed it to the SDCARD2. It installed finally, and stuck!
I tried using the microSD card to install the other ROMs. But unfortunately it will not mount in CWM.
I'm trying to get CWM back on it after doing yet another wipe with NVFLASH. We'll see if I can get it to work..
So i'm basically sitting here with a brick.. unless I never power it off lol!

Ok well another odd thing is going on with this. I'm up and running with CWM 08 again. I can turn on USB mass storage mount. The tablet shows up in windows and on my linux box. I can make whatever changes I want, adding files, deleting everything on it. Nothing matters cause once I unmount and remount the device it's all back to normal. It seems like nothing is allowed to write to the internal storage even though it thinks it does write to it??

Inspire locks up on boot up, can't do anything in clockwork - help

So I have been flashing custom rooms and kernels a lot over the past few weeks, with no issues. I have been running lordmod 4.5.2 kernel without issue. Today I flashed the -50 under volt script, taking a android backup beforehand.
So I go to boot it up after the flash, and it freezes up on me. I think no big deal, I will just do a nandroid restore. I boot into clockwork and attempt to do a restore - and it says no files found. I do a install from zip and it let's me browse the sd card. I attempt to flash a rom from there and it fails and says (bad).
I have pulled the battery and reseated the sd card multiple times. At this point I am trying to figure out why clockwork can read my sd card just fine, but not perform any actual functions like restore or flashing.
At this point my device is unusable, looking for help.
Thanks

Update: I was able to do a data wipe and reset from clockwork, and it booted up just fine. I have a titanium backup from last night so I will just restore it, and then try to figure out why clockwork coulnt read the sd card.

So looking at my sd card in a file browser on my phone, all my files andfolders are there, but they're all 0.00B. Wtf happened here? The only important thing on here was my titanium backups, which sucks that those are gone.
Is my card dead?

EvoXOhio said:
So looking at my sd card in a file browser on my phone, all my files andfolders are there, but they're all 0.00B. Wtf happened here? The only important thing on here was my titanium backups, which sucks that those are gone.
Is my card dead?
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I have read that before you unplug your phone from your computer you must use the OS to Eject the SD card. The result of not doing this is supposed to be a corrupt card. Any chance this is what you did?
Edit: This is from the notes on the Hack Kit thread: IMPORTANT: BEFORE SWITCHING FROM DISK DRIVE TO CHARGE ONLY MODE, ALWAYS EJECT THE GOLDCARD WITH PC SOFTWARE TO FLUSH WRITE BUFFERS AND AVOID CORRUPTING THE SDCARD.

chrisjaffe said:
I have read that before you unplug your phone from your computer you must use the OS to Eject the SD card. The result of not doing this is supposed to be a corrupt card. Any chance this is what you did?
Edit: This is from the notes on the Hack Kit thread: IMPORTANT: BEFORE SWITCHING FROM DISK DRIVE TO CHARGE ONLY MODE, ALWAYS EJECT THE GOLDCARD WITH PC SOFTWARE TO FLUSH WRITE BUFFERS AND AVOID CORRUPTING THE SDCARD.
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My phone wasnt plugged into my computer when this happened, nor did i eject my sdcard from the phone.

[Q] No folders in Open Recovery

I have Open Recovery and was getting ready to flash Kahl's Galaxy and when I went into my nandroid, my back ups were there and the Galaxy folder, however there were no options to "tick" (system, data, cache,...). It was all empty. I can see the nandroids on my PC when I plug it in but can't flash them. Says something like, "Nothing to Restore".
Tried reformatting SD card
Re-installing Open Recovery.
SBF back to stock
32gb card (fat, then 1g ext3, then 125swap- and all are ordered correctly)
Any ideas?

Make sure the folder structure on the sdcard is ...
Code:
/sdcard/nandroid/GalaxyXTV4/ (boot.img, boot.md5, system.img, system.md5)
not
/sdcard/nandroid/GalaxyXTV4/GalaxyXTV4/ (boot.img, boot.md5, system.img, system.md5)
HTH

They are set up the correct way. Even my old bakc ups aren't showing correctly either.
Another clue to the puzzle:
When I go into my Gallery, I get a triangle at the top that says "failed to read/write sdcard. Gallery may not work as expected"
Maybe a mounting issue. Everything was working 2 days ago.

usually the problem is like 3rdstring just said.
but i got also those problem like yours when my sdcard corrupted and can't be mount on phone, try reformating your mem card.

At first I thought it was the card (and still kind of do now) but it seems that Root Explorer, even though you toggle it to r/w, sometimes it kicks back to r/o and that is what is screwing everything up. When reflashed my 2.1 sbf and started from scratch, re-installing Open Recovery, the sdcard was ticked at r/o, so Open Recovery, as hard as it tried, couldn't read the files.
This also created the problem with the media gallery b/c when I tried to save an MMS to the sd card, it would show up as a broken link/pix. This is actually what led me to the r/o vs r/w Root Explorer problem. Ticked it back to r/w and tried to re-save the MMS pix to my sdcard and viola, it worked. Open Recovery shows all my Nadroid back ups and the sub-folders within.
Now if there was some way to figure out how to make Root Explorer r/w all the time and avoid the constant fear that after I reboot sometime, it hasn't gone back to r/o and messes with my head.
I'll tell you that this phone, as frustrating as it may be, is always a learning experience.

1. the software that running on your phone now is came from a "fresh" file master(from market or computer) or from the backup from your sdcard after it crash?
2. is the fat partition set as active?
3. when reformating the card you use card reader or your phone(use phone as card reader) ?
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my problem at that time is quite the same as yours.
and it all happpened bcause i ran the software from the backup file( not a fresh one), i format the card using card reader(maybe my card reader is not run well, so the formating process not run perfectly) and i forget to set partition as active lol
when i tried to use a fresh file master, format through my phone(use phone as card reader) all the problem is gone
just from my experience
*bad english, i hope you understand what i said

same Problem
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I've the same problem in the gallery. (failed to read/write sd card)
I can shot some pictures an then the cam freezes. After that the whole xt720 freezes.
@Woodrube:
have you try it with the phone USB mode to format the sd card twice?
I tryed 3 different sd cards - all the same problem.
- the orginal class 2 card
- a 32GB class4 card
- a 16 GB class10 card
I tryed also differt roms:
- orginal
- dexters
- and this one http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1002993
but ever the same problems...
Is it possible that the SD Card reader inside of the phone is damged?!
I need help. i'm going crazy...

USB reader in phone works fine for me. It isn't the card per se, but rather something messing with it to make it glitchy. I have a 32gb class 10 card that is A-OK but I also tested a 16gb class 6 card I had too and it did the exact same thing on me.
I have narrowed it down to the Camera function. For some reason when I take pix it won't write to the card. Was just on a short vacation with my wife and kids and took a picture of my boys sitting on a canon and lo and behold, it didn't write to the card. I think what I did was take the card out, reboot w/o it in and then once phone was fully powered up, inserted my card and remounted it. Picture wasn't there but could open my media gallery with no issues.
To tell you the truth, I have tried so many ways to figure this out, that they are all jumbled now. Once it happens again, I will pay more attention to how I fix it and post it. Really, I think it all comes down to an issue with the camera and the ROM not mingling together.
Running Steelblue ROM, but had same issues with Personared too.

Woodrube said:
I have Open Recovery and was getting ready to flash Kahl's Galaxy and when I went into my nandroid, my back ups were there and the Galaxy folder, however there were no options to "tick" (system, data, cache,...). It was all empty. I can see the nandroids on my PC when I plug it in but can't flash them. Says something like, "Nothing to Restore".
Tried reformatting SD card
Re-installing Open Recovery.
SBF back to stock
32gb card (fat, then 1g ext3, then 125swap- and all are ordered correctly)
Any ideas?
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I'm sure you've done this, but for completeness, some other things to check are to make sure all partitions are primary and that the fat partition is marked "active" (or "boot" depending on which partitioner you're using)

Been awhile since this was an active thread but I did say I would post a solution when I found one. Seems that something is corrupting the sdcard when you take a picture. Not sure what is causing it but here is the fix.
You will lose that picture, but go into your media gallery and once it all populates in, a triangle will scroll in your notification bar that says sdcard failed to read/write. This seems to screw with all kinds of things.
Solution: delete the picture that doesn't have a thumbnail, pull down notification bar and hit the error message. Unmount sdcard and force stop your media gallery. Remount the sdcard and close out your settings. Reopen your media gallery and you should be good to good. Simple as that. No reboot, battery pull or reformatting needed.
Seems that camera corrupts something during during read/write and it trickles through all SD files, including OR folders.

[Q] Stuck at booting with HTC white background

Hi All,
I am using ICS Asianic V2.0 by Darkmantra. And I was playing with my phone last night (Build prop to be specific). I set VM heap to 12 and rebooted and after that It would not boot up. It cannot go beyond HTC logo with white background.
I can boot to recovery, I'd tried a few things that i think made it worse. I re-installed build prop tweak from SD card but did not work. I did a factory reset and a few others which i can no longger recall.... So I decided to just go right ahead and re-flash the ROM from SD card but I was not able to. I was getting an error: "e:can't mount /sdcard"
Is there still hope for my phone? any help will be appreciated...
Thanks in advance.

bugzy0509 said:
Hi All,
I am using ICS Asianic V2.0 by Darkmantra. And I was playing with my phone last night (Build prop to be specific). I set VM heap to 12 and rebooted and after that It would not boot up. It cannot go beyond HTC logo with white background.
I can boot to recovery, I'd tried a few things that i think made it worse. I re-installed build prop tweak from SD card but did not work. I did a factory reset and a few others which i can no longger recall.... So I decided to just go right ahead and re-flash the ROM from SD card but I was not able to. I was getting an error: "e:can't mount /sdcard"
Is there still hope for my phone? any help will be appreciated...
Thanks in advance.
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Sometimes happens, try turning phone off, take out sd card, put back in and try again

The problem is that the phone thinks the SD Card is unmounted. (Sorry to restate the obvious)
Physically removing the card and putting it back in might work. But if you do it with the power off the phone might not realize anything is different.
If you have 4EXT Recovery, you can try to remount it from within the recovery. First try to mount it. Then unmount. Then mount it again. See if that works.
If neither of those work try to mount it with ADB.
And if all else fails, copy the files to your computer using a card reader, format the card, recopy everything back to the card, and start over. I had a situation like that once where this was what finally got the card to remount. Something got glitched on the card so it wasn't being recognized.

Skipjacks said:
The problem is that the phone thinks the SD Card is unmounted. (Sorry to restate the obvious)
Physically removing the card and putting it back in might work. But if you do it with the power off the phone might not realize anything is different.
If you have 4EXT Recovery, you can try to remount it from within the recovery. First try to mount it. Then unmount. Then mount it again. See if that works.
If neither of those work try to mount it with ADB.
And if all else fails, copy the files to your computer using a card reader, format the card, recopy everything back to the card, and start over. I had a situation like that once where this was what finally got the card to remount. Something got glitched on the card so it wasn't being recognized.
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Thanks Skipjacks!!
I do not know what solved it but here is what I did....
- formatted the SD card (have no important data in it anyway)
- copied ROM to SD card
- set phone to Recovery mode without SD card
- Hot plug SD card
- tried to update from SD card and it was able to recognize it...!
- i was able to install my ROM..
thank you! I appreciate the help!

CyanogenMod Woes

Hey all,
I stumbled into an issue a few days ago and I'm trying to figure out how to get it resolved with minimum headache.
I downloaded the latest CyanogenMod download from h8rift's get.cm website, but unfortunately I didn't notice that it was CM9 rather than CM10 until I had flashed it and the boot animation popped up.
I didn't have a CM10 zip saved to my SD card partition, and TWRP, for some reason, would not mount to USB on either my Mac or my PC. The phone wouldn't boot into CM9, so I couldn't download the zip from there either.
So, I hit 'factory reset'.. twice, both from the bootloader, and from TWRP. Well, no luck. Now the file browser in TWRP doesn't even show my SD card's contents, just the TWRP folder. Every time I see a command line in TWRP, it tells me the SD card couldn't be mounted.
So, crap. Are all my files gone? I didn't realize factory resetting wipes the phone. I have all my photos on the SD card partition as well as a somewhat recent Titanium backup, so I'd really, really, really not like to lose those.
I understand that running a RUU will probably fix my issue, but the thing is, on the off chance that my SD card contents are still around, I'd like to be able to keep them. Will running a RUU wipe the SD card, if it still is in there somewhere? Are there any other suggestions re: getting the phone to boot, or be recognized as a USB disk? Also, if I do end up RUUing, I assume I have to unlock the bootloader again. Sigh, that was a hassle the first time.
tl;dr I'm complaining about a lot of stuff that I'll probably have to do anyways because I did something stupid and wasn't smart enough to keep backups, but if anyone wants to give pointers that'll make this process easier I will kiss your shoes and worship you forever.
Thanks.

If you end up needing to wipe your SDCard, here are some helpful tips
[Q] E:Can't mount/SD card http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1751803
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denversc said:
If you end up needing to wipe your SDCard, here are some helpful tips
[Q] E:Can't mount/SD card http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1751803
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Oops, here is the full url:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1751803

So I just managed to boot into CyanogenMod 9, without actually doing anything.
So it boots but can't mount the SD card. I have no idea either. Any way to mount the SD card without relocking bootloader?

Have you tried to access your sd card with a file manager app like solid explorer to see if anything is still on the card?
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Factory reset from the bootloader appears to wipe the sdcard and leave it in an unformatted state. I did this yesterday and fixed it by letting the phone boot back into the sense rom I was running.
Not quite sure what you can do in CM9. Have you tried connecting to your computer and seeing if windows detects a valid drive? If it doesn't maybe let windows format it, yeah I don't like this idea either, so you can at last get some files on it.

I had a similar problem after flashing a nocturnal update...
Here's what I did to resolve:
Wipe all - SD card, factory reset (all can be done inside TWRP)...then plug your phone into your computer via usb and on your phone in TWRP main screen, navigate to Mount and select USB storage. It WILL show up on your computer as unformatted - just reformat (which will wipe it again) and then let you copy files in. Just download the latest CM10 (which is working great) and flash away...
I am using a Mac computer running win xp via parallels and it worked great - I don't remember what file structure to format the SD card as, but it was the default when it brought up the format dialogue...
Hope that helps!
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