Like most of the users here, my phone has been buttery smooth and fast for awhile thanks to our amazing devs. Today, something unexpected happened. I was attempting to get a screenshot of the lockscreen. I think I was successful, but when I checked the gallery, everything had corrupted icons on them. Ok, I will just reboot. Reboot, and I hear Linda speaking to me. I didn't catch it, but I know it had something to do with the SD card. 5 minutes later, my phone boots up and my card is nowhere to be found. I figure the whole card somehow got corrupted.
Now I originally started typing this because it looked like my phone wasn't going to boot past the galaxy S 4g logo, but after about 5 minutes it did. Now with the phone booted, my phone can't see the card at all. The only thing that comes up is the option to mount, but that doesn't work at all anymore. The previous time I restarted it before it hung at the boot logo, it showed up in my computer and opened to nothing and ended up freezing the computer for a second until I shut it down.
I need to format this card obviously, but can't see how I am going to do that if it isn't recognized. On top of that, I might as well use this as an excuse to reflash a new rom, but I have even more problems. None of my button combos work to get into recovery or download at all. I then figured I would use terminal emulator to get into it, as that has worked before, but the app won't install due to an "invalid package file" or something like that. I appear to be stuck in a very weird soft brick, and need some help.
Might have made some progress. I removed the sd card and installed terminal emulator on the phone. Hopefully it is going to reboot into recovery, but it is stuck at the boot screen again. Ill see in a few minutes if it makes it there. From there I can start trying to restore/wipe/format/etc...
Was able to get into recovery. Did a factory reset and wiped everything. Looks like it is still going to take more than 5 minutes to get past that boot screen though. Has anyone ever had this problem? Could my card be done for good? Unless I can find a way for my computer to recognize it, I don't know how I will format it.
I have seen them do this and in the end the card needed to be replaced. I haven't been able to figure out if it was the phone or the card but the ones I have seen like this I ended up flashing the software again from the factory flashing tool and the new card worked normally. If you need the factory flashing tool I can upload it but not til Tuesday when I go back to work. Let me know.
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yentlequible said:
Was able to get into recovery. Did a factory reset and wiped everything. Looks like it is still going to take more than 5 minutes to get past that boot screen though. Has anyone ever had this problem? Could my card be done for good? Unless I can find a way for my computer to recognize it, I don't know how I will format it.
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If you have a card reader for your PC, download one of the Live distributions (Fedora, SuSE, Ubuntu, etc.) and, if you card is viable, you should be able to read the ext4 filesystem on it, get the files off, then format it to vfat.
Dboy352 said:
I have seen them do this and in the end the card needed to be replaced. I haven't been able to figure out if it was the phone or the card but the ones I have seen like this I ended up flashing the software again from the factory flashing tool and the new card worked normally. If you need the factory flashing tool I can upload it but not til Tuesday when I go back to work. Let me know.
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I can still get the card to show up in my computer, but it will crash when I try and open it up. Ill see what formatting does in this state, but it guess I will just have to get a new card if I can't get this one working again.
stephen_w said:
If you have a card reader for your PC, download one of the Live distributions (Fedora, SuSE, Ubuntu, etc.) and, if you card is viable, you should be able to read the ext4 filesystem on it, get the files off, then format it to vfat.
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I already lost the files, but I didn't have too much on there anyway. BUT, I did format it from My Computer, and it appears to be working fine now, luckily. I can see my few Android folders on there at least. Ill see how it works now.
yentlequible said:
I already lost the files, but I didn't have too much on there anyway. BUT, I did format it from My Computer, and it appears to be working fine now, luckily. I can see my few Android folders on there at least. Ill see how it works now.
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Bummer you lost the files but glad you got it working. Best of luck.
Yeah man. I have seen this a few times. I try to backup my memory card at least once a week just incase. Sorry to hear about this bro.
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Thanks for the replies guys. Luckily, I didn't have anything that important on my card other than a few pictures, so it didn't turn out too bad. Ill be upgrading to the galaxy note in a few weeks anyway, so I don't really mind.
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I have been following similar threads, but there seems to be just enough that is different with my Gtab I thought I would try a new one in my last ditch effort.
I have most been runnung Tnt lite and everything worked fine. Then curisoity got to me and I installed the Cyrogen 7. I was having issues with gapps and followed instructions until it wouldn't boot past the BitTrix presents....
I was able to get into CM but after all the formarts and such from the intructions on gapps I no longer had any backs or recovery files.
Then I tried the NVflash. First problem is that I could never confirm I was in APX mode. My Linux CentOS machine could see the gtab but the NVFlash would not run. So a pal of mine who is really good with Linux grabbed tnt lite and was able to directly transfer it to the SD card.
Everything looked hopefull until just before the home screen should appear it powers down. then I when into CM and re-installed tnt. Same problem so I go back to CM and try to mount data. I get an error that it doesn't exisit. then it powers down in CM. Each time I go into CM it shuts down sooner and sooner.
I opend the device up and completed a manual reset to no sucess. I hear people say its really heard to brick these things. PLEASE someone help show me that I am not that talented!
no help?
17 views and no replies? Someone has to have something for me right?
Hi
OK, i am no expert here but have you tried just putting a new ROM zip file onto your SD card and rebooting into recovery mode Power & Volume + and choosing the zip file you just copied over?
Works for me everytime but then mine has never died.
Ian
Ianmrr said:
Hi
OK, i am no expert here but have you tried just putting a new ROM zip file onto your SD card and rebooting into recovery mode Power & Volume + and choosing the zip file you just copied over?
Works for me everytime but then mine has never died.
Ian
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My main issue now is that the power wont even stay on long enough to get to that point.
Instructions if you have a brick.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11230514&postcount=1
mkuzminov said:
Instructions if you have a brick.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11230514&postcount=1
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These are the instructions I followed when I opened it up. This did not work for me. You can see I posted in that thread as well.
Through all the message boards I read, not one single person including myself thought of the most basic answer.......The battery was dead
I work on computers for a living and this is yet just another example of starting with the basics, no matter what you think your skill level is.
Once charged, I was able to read the zip off of the card. Flashed and everything was great. Until I dropped it, literally minutes afte I got it working.
I am starting to think I wasn't meant to use this tablet.
I guess we all ASSUMED that you had charged it, or at least were trying w the adaper plugged in... I know that was what I assumed ...
Jim
Hi,
I was a keen follower of the Cyanogen Nightlys. But after build 38 when my phone was idle for more the 10-20 mins, my phone display went blank and none of the buttons worked. So the only way to fix this was to reset the device by taking out the battery.
So I went back to build build 38 and restored my device with Titanium BackUp. Same thing happened (blank screen, buttons didn't work) after awhile. Then I just put build 38 with no backup, worked for awhile but after I installed an application (Whatsapp) and restored my contacts from Google, after 15 mins the screen went blank again.
So i ended up getting frustrated and decided to wipe everything (including the sd card) and put cyanogen fresh. So I plugged in my Nexus S to the computer and did a normal (FAT 32, default allocation) format. Windows then said sd card was empty but once I unplugged and checked the sd card, everything was still there. Plugged it back to the pc and and everything was still there.
Then I tried using the format storage option in settings--> storage itself, same thing happened, it said it was formatted but nothing changed on the sd card. Even tried formatting using clockwork recovery, same thing.
What makes things worse is that now every time i place something on the sd card, windows says its there, but it disappears once i unplug it. So it seems that the storage doesn't want to change anything on itself. So since the last ROM i put before the format was a fresh update of cyanogen build 38, every time i reboot my phone it runs setup wizard (asks for my google access details). And freezes every so often.
Please help, i have no idea what else to try. I was gonna used odin, but I need to buy/make the cable. So is it really necessary?
EDIT: Every time i install a new rom eg. MIUI, it says it has been installed in recovery, but cyanogen loads when i reset the phone
EDIT: I tried ODIN, it didnt worked, now it just gets stuck on the google screen. I can still enter recovery and the bootloader. But the sd card seems to be corrupt.
legojj said:
I was gonna used odin, but I need to buy/make the cable. So is it really necessary?
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What cable? Admittedly, I've not used Odin on the Nexus S, however i've used it plenty on the Galaxy S i had previously, all i ever used was the standard USB cable that came with the phone.
I thought u needed a special cable? I really dont want to use odin cause i hear people bricked there phones using it. I hae the i9020
I don't know that I would have use windows to format the card. I would have done the oem lock and oem unlock to clear the sdcard storage. Doing the oem unlock again totally clears the phone and then you should be starting all over from scratch like day one when you purchased the phone.
jerrycycle said:
I don't know that I would have use windows to format the card. I would have done the oem lock and oem unlock to clear the sdcard storage. Doing the oem unlock again totally clears the phone and then you should be starting all over from scratch like day one when you purchased the phone.
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I tried " fastboot oem lock" and fastboot oem unlock" but everything stayed the same. And yes i agree, using windows was stupid, I really wasn't thinking properly.
Ok so does the option, setting*storage*erase sd card work?
jerrycycle said:
Ok so does the option, setting*storage*erase sd card work?
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No it didn't, it says its formatted. But when i check back on the file explorer, everything is there...
Could the problem be that i choose FAT32 as the file system when formatting using windows?
Welp, tried to root the Nexus S 4g.
On rebooting, it gets stuck at the Nexus S bootscreen, pauses, keeps going, etc.
Got CWM 3.0.0.5, and can fastboot, get into CWMRecovery.
From there, I'm at a loss. Tried to restore Nandroid backup, but it says a whole bunch of stuff, basically saying E: failed to find "cache" partition, Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log, etc.
Tried to apply zip from CWM backup, it says "No files found."
Tried going into mounts/storage to mount USB storage, but nothing appears on desktop of either Mac or PC, so I can't get move files onto the SD card.
Now, when I just power up, it just says "Google," and there's a unlock icon at the bottom. Nothing else.
Anyone have any solutions?
Yeah stop using that old version. Of ClockworkMod recovery
Seriously use 3.0.2.4. Its in the clockwork thread in the dev section.
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Would if I could, but I can't get anything on the SD card!
Trying to mount USB storage from CWM-- no drive shows up on Mac or PC for me to move stuff onto it.
Boot into fastboot by turning off phone, turn back on while holding volume rocker up. Leave it at the screen where you could select reboot, recovery etc. Download the above mentioned clockwork recovery image from the thread to your computer. Flash using fastboot command. No need to copy anything to SD card.
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Having the exact same issue. Nothing appears in the nandroid folder now either after replacing the recovery image with 3.0.2.4 and I can't mount the USB storage or get anything onto the SD card. Phone won't boot. Unsure of the folder structure on this phone to try pushing a file with adb or fastboot.
Same issues here. I was able to flash CWM recovery 3.0.2.4, but when I go to "mounts and storage" and "mount USB storage", I the drive does not appear on both Mac and PC. I'd like to transfer the stock NS4G image onto the phone so I can install the zip from the sdcard...
When I try to use the command, "adb push", it can't find the SD card.
Same problem
I flashed it , and since then i cannot mount the device , i have a good image to push but the device is not opening up the storage for me to push the image.
I had the same problem. Got it all fixed up.
peabody42 said:
Welp, tried to root the Nexus S 4g.
On rebooting, it gets stuck at the Nexus S bootscreen, pauses, keeps going, etc.
Got CWM 3.0.0.5, and can fastboot, get into CWMRecovery.
From there, I'm at a loss. Tried to restore Nandroid backup, but it says a whole bunch of stuff, basically saying E: failed to find "cache" partition, Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log, etc.
Tried to apply zip from CWM backup, it says "No files found."
Tried going into mounts/storage to mount USB storage, but nothing appears on desktop of either Mac or PC, so I can't get move files onto the SD card.
Now, when I just power up, it just says "Google," and there's a unlock icon at the bottom. Nothing else.
Anyone have any solutions?
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I had the same problem this morning:
I posted a workaround that worked well for me in Post #35
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1072698&page=4
If it works for you click 'Thanks'
Figured it out
Alright , this is what i did to fix the problem, i booted up the system with the bad image i had, connected to wifi and downloaded the Nexus S 4G deoxed image that is out there directly from the internet to the phone. Then i moved it from the download folder to the root using file manager.
I rebooted into recovery and was able to wipe and then flash the recovery image and reboot. Once i rebooted i regained control over the usb and memory card. hope it helps you guys.
How Do I Fix "REALLY" Bricked and DEAD Nexus S4g?
All posts on this thread presuppose a working Nexus S 4g. When I use the term bricked, I mean dead. About a month ago I followed directions on one of these threads on how to easily and with one click route my jellybean running phone. For some reason the process never completed, and all I was able to accomplish was unlocking the phone. When I ran the check to see if it was truly rooted, the response showed the phone was still unrooted. About 30 days later it was deader than a brick. Somewhere I read that Jellybean on Sprint might be the culprit. Anyway, I have a dead phone. Sprint wouldn't even check it because the screen was cracked. Fortunately, I bought a new one, new to me anyway, on eBay for $37. It is still running android 2.3.7(Gingerbread), and the phone is attempting to push the Ice Cream Sandwich update. I am fighting the update until I figure out what killed my phone.
Just wondering whether there is anything I can do with my old phone, even if I only use it like an old iTouch for music and surfing via Wi-Fi. Anyone?
I attempted the one click method described here, but my desktop cannot find any devices. So it truly is dead. Comments appreciated. I have used several different cables, unsuccessfully.
sexynexy said:
All posts on this thread presuppose a working Nexus S 4g. When I use the term bricked, I mean dead. About a month ago I followed directions on one of these threads on how to easily and with one click route my jellybean running phone. For some reason the process never completed, and all I was able to accomplish was unlocking the phone. When I ran the check to see if it was truly rooted, the response showed the phone was still unrooted. About 30 days later it was deader than a brick. Somewhere I read that Jellybean on Sprint might be the culprit. Anyway, I have a dead phone. Sprint wouldn't even check it because the screen was cracked. Fortunately, I bought a new one, new to me anyway, on eBay for $37. It is still running android 2.3.7(Gingerbread), and the phone is attempting to push the Ice Cream Sandwich update. I am fighting the update until I figure out what killed my phone.
Just wondering whether there is anything I can do with my old phone, even if I only use it like an old iTouch for music and surfing via Wi-Fi. Anyone?
I attempted the one click method described here, but my desktop cannot find any devices. So it truly is dead. Comments appreciated. I have used several different cables, unsuccessfully.
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Hi,
What method did u use to root? What thread? Cuz it may need to newest version of the recovery.
anyways...
Try charging up a battery on newer phone and put in dead phone... but instead if turning on normally, boot into recovery.
If it worked then use a back up to flash it back to stock. Assuming u were able to back it up b4 root.
If not plug into computer. See if it turns on or can go into either recovery or boat loader mode and if so perhaps computer will recognize it.
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My cousin gave me his phone to try and fix. He says someone had previously worked on it, he said it has been unlocked. He could not know what was done to it. So here is what we got
BT Will not turn on
Wifi Will not turn on
SD Card Will not mount in Android, will not see any SD cards.
Volume down does not work
I tried going into recovery using ADB REBOOT RECOVERY and it goes into DOWNLOAD MODE with an X
I can get into bootloader through ADB, volume down still does not work.
Phone will randomly say there is no sim card, and prompts you to do 2 things, RESTART or SHUT DOWN.
Any suggestions?
Thinking of loading it back to stock. Going to look for the OTA
UPDATE, I tried installing RUU through Windows,
I used
RUU_Ace_Gingerbread_S_Cingular_US_2.47.502.7_Radio_12.56.60.25_26.10.04.03_M_release_200368_signed
It installed successfully but no wifi or bt. I know that is normally associated with wrong kernel but if I installed stock RUU should of that been fixed?
F9zSlavik said:
My cousin gave me his phone to try and fix. He says someone had previously worked on it, he said it has been unlocked. He could not know what was done to it. So here is what we got
---- I'm assuming s-off.
BT Will not turn on
Wifi Will not turn on
SD Card Will not mount in Android, will not see any SD cards.
Volume down does not work
---- Check the battery cover to see if it is properly seated.
Not sure where the bluetooth is located.
No sd cards what-so-ever? Hmmm.
I tried going into recovery using ADB REBOOT RECOVERY and it goes into DOWNLOAD MODE with an X
I can get into bootloader through ADB, volume down still does not work.
---- some people have managed to get the volume working using a pin or something in the lines of that. Be careful with that.
Phone will randomly say there is no sim card, and prompts you to do 2 things, RESTART or SHUT DOWN.
Any suggestions?
Thinking of loading it back to stock. Going to look for the OTA
UPDATE, I tried installing RUU through Windows,
I used
RUU_Ace_Gingerbread_S_Cingular_US_2.47.502.7_Radio_12.56.60.25_26.10.04.03_M_release_200368_signed
It installed successfully but no wifi or bt. I know that is normally associated with wrong kernel but if I installed stock RUU should of that been fixed?
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---- It should have.
It may be a long shot but check to see if the phone is clean / free of dust, etc.
My best guess with all those issues is that it is a hardware problem. I would say try cleaning (do a search to see how others have cleaned), reflash the RUU and cross your fingers or wait till someone more knowledgable comes along.
Check the part that was quoted, I inserted a few comments in there.
Sent from a dream.
What was the phone doing before he had someone previously work on it? And what exactly did that person do? I ask because taking apart this device without knowing how can break the volume ribbon and may cause other issues as well. Has it ever been dropped really hard or experienced water damage as well?
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Hey all. I had recently rooted my galaxy tab a sm-t550. I deleted one too many stock apps. Afterwards i tried flashing the stock rom with odin. It crashed. So then i used Keis to update and it installed the same version of android on there. Now, its very glitchy. It runs considerably slower and the home key hardly works. I have to hit home key like 3 times and often it delays and goes to a black screen before finally going to home screen. I really want to restore my device to the way it was when new. I hear android marshmellow is coming out soon for my tablet. Hopefully with an upgrade from with keis at that point, it will run alot better with marshmellow. Any advise on what i can do to restore my tablets performance?
After you flashed stock, did you boot to stock recovery to clear cache partition and factory reset then reboot?
Droidriven said:
After you flashed stock, did you boot to stock recovery to clear cache partition and factory reset then reboot?
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i think so. maybe, maybe not. I just downloaded the stock rom with from the Internet and used Odin to flash it. Afterwards, it wouldnt start up. So then i plugged it into Keis and clicked update. It installed Android 5.0, the same as the original, buts its really glitchy and slow. I wanna be able to do like a computer, delete the harddrive and reinstall everything new; reformat or whatever. Cant sand the glitchy, slow device
falcorr said:
i think so. maybe, maybe not. I just downloaded the stock rom with from the Internet and used Odin to flash it. Afterwards, it wouldnt start up. So then i plugged it into Keis and clicked update. It installed Android 5.0, the same as the original, buts its really glitchy and slow. I wanna be able to do like a computer, delete the harddrive and reinstall everything new; reformat or whatever. Cant sand the glitchy, slow device
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How about doing it just to be sure instead of giving me a "I think so".
Boot to recovery and factory reset then wipe cache.
Then flash stock via Odin again, it formats the partitions it writes to as it flashes.
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Droidriven said:
How about doing it just to be sure instead of giving me a "I think so".
Boot to recovery and factory reset then wipe cache.
Then flash stock via Odin again, it formats the partitions it writes to as it flashes.
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OK, i reset factory, wiped cache., did that twice, flashed firmware with odin and i still get the same stuff. In fact, its worse. Now on top of the super slow, unresponsive, glitchy device, the home launcher eventually crashes and goes to a black screen. words can only describe so much so i made a video to show what its doing.
http://s32.postimg.org/aehki7z45/20160519_204205.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofzb1JmnjF0
falcorr said:
OK, i reset factory, wiped cache., did that twice, flashed firmware with odin and i still get the same stuff. In fact, its worse. Now on top of the super slow, unresponsive, glitchy device, the home launcher eventually crashes and goes to a black screen. words can only describe so much so i made a video to show what its doing.
http://s32.postimg.org/aehki7z45/20160519_204205.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofzb1JmnjF0
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This may seem a bit aggravating and repetitive but did you also factory reset and clear cache after restoring stock this time?
The purpose of doing that before flashing was to clear any junk that may have caused an issue with Odin, then after flashing stock it is sometimes necessary to again factory reset and wipe cache after restoring, try the reset in recovery and wipe cache again.
Then if that doesn't get you fixed we can start troubleshooting from a clean starting point.
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yeap. Just wiped cache and reset factory again and still acting the same.. One more shot with Keis i guess. Kinda loosing hope thou. Any idea why its acting this way?
Droidriven said:
This may seem a bit aggravating and repetitive but did you also factory reset and clear cache after restoring stock this time?
The purpose of doing that before flashing was to clear any junk that may have caused an issue with Odin, then after flashing stock it is sometimes necessary to again factory reset and wipe cache after restoring, try the reset in recovery and wipe cache again.
Then if that doesn't get you fixed we can start troubleshooting from a clean starting point.
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Dude whoah, check this out. So i reformatted with keis, same problem blah blah blah. I decided to try and put the firmware on the SD card and install thru ADB sd card thing in recovery. Well, cant seem to read the SD card. Thought it was software issues. So i put the SD card in my phone to load software via phone to SD card and then my computer quits reading my phone. Phone says "reading SD Card. checking for errors". I then realize that my tablet isnt glitching anymore. Put SD card back in tablet and tablet starts glitching again. Somehow this corrupt SD card is causing all the glitching. Cant read the card and IDK whats going on. Tossed it. Can anyone explain this? Possibly a virus?
falcorr said:
Dude whoah, check this out. So i reformatted with keis, same problem blah blah blah. I decided to try and put the firmware on the SD card and install thru ADB sd card thing in recovery. Well, cant seem to read the SD card. Thought it was software issues. So i put the SD card in my phone to load software via phone to SD card and then my computer quits reading my phone. Phone says "reading SD Card. checking for errors". I then realize that my tablet isnt glitching anymore. Put SD card back in tablet and tablet starts glitching again. Somehow this corrupt SD card is causing all the glitching. Cant read the card and IDK whats going on. Tossed it. Can anyone explain this? Possibly a virus?
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I don't know what to say about the SD card. At least you found the issue.
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Droidriven said:
I don't know what to say about the SD card. At least you found the issue.
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yes, Thank you soo much.. and Android marshmellow came out for my device a couple days ago, so im rocking it all upgraded. Super happy :victory: