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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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g2x, all of a sudden can't mount sdcard

Please help! Can't use phone.
I did nothing except backed up my apps to sdcard and dropbox using titanium backup, restarted the phone and it gets stuck on lg logo. I went into recovery and deleted cache and dalvik cache. Same deal.
Errors:
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
I can't mount (and therefore format) sdcard!
Now every time I start the phone normally it just goes straight to recovery.
Please help.
g2x cm7 #69 with undervolted faux kernel 0.3.3, latest cwm

Try opening the back battery door, eject and reinsert the SD card, then start the phone again.

Kidshyy said:
Try opening the back battery door, eject and reinsert the SD card, then start the phone again.
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Tried it, the card can't even be opened on the pc, it crashes explorer.exe and the sd activity light on the pc is constantly blinking as if it was trying to open a corrupted disk.
Any help? I googled it and the only solution I've found was to re-format either with windows sd formatter from panasonic. Neither can be done because I can't open the card.

personally , i'd try a recovery program like get data back to get my stuff off that card. you can even format it if windows will let you, and still use gdb to recover your files. but try without formatting first .. i've used gdb many times to recover stuff from deleted partitions,sdcards etc. but the fat32 version is 70 bucks. you could also try the card in a pc with a fresh copy of windows. but it looks like the card is corrupted. thats why i always have a spare card, and a backup of my main sdcard saved to pc. always expect the unexpected.

have you tried the card in a different reader, or phone?

crazythunder said:
have you tried the card in a different reader, or phone?
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Tried it on my phone and sd reader built into laptop. Don't have access to more readers but will try at work.

crazythunder said:
personally , i'd try a recovery program like get data back to get my stuff off that card. you can even format it if windows will let you, and still use gdb to recover your files. but try without formatting first .. i've used gdb many times to recover stuff from deleted partitions,sdcards etc. but the fat32 version is 70 bucks. you could also try the card in a pc with a fresh copy of windows. but it looks like the card is corrupted. thats why i always have a spoare card, and a backup of my main sdcard saved to pc. always expect the unexpected.
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Have you tried Testdisk? Its free and open source.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

phburks said:
Have you tried Testdisk? Its free and open source.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
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thanks for that. i've been using gdb for years. i'll try that out. one time i deleted 32 gigs of data/music. gdb recovered it all. i'll try out this open source app for sure though.

Thanks for suggestions guys but how am I suppose to use those programs if when I plug-in the card it takes about 5 minutes for windows to list it in my computer and if I try to open it or right-click explorer.exe crashes.
I don't care about recovering anything, I just want to format and it doesn't seem I can...

crazythunder said:
thanks for that. i've been using gdb for years. i'll try that out. one time i deleted 32 gigs of data/music. gdb recovered it all. i'll try out this open source app for sure though.
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I used it a few years ago to recover dozens and dozens of photos and documents relating to my (now-deceased) father. It was stuff I'd scanned from my mom's albums and collections once when I was visiting home. Took me countless hours to scan and edit that stuff and I couldn't imagine having to do it again lol. My hard drive crashed and I didn't have them backed up anywhere else. Learned my lesson there as far as backups.
I haven't needed to use it for a long time now but yea its a very good tool. If I remember correctly they even have a Live CD you can burn that will boot your computer and allow you to repair/recover your main disk drive if ever needed.

Thanks for hijacking

PainfulLover said:
Thanks for suggestions guys but how am I suppose to use those programs if when I plug-in the card it takes about 5 minutes for windows to list it in my computer and if I try to open it or right-click explorer.exe crashes.
I don't care about recovering anything, I just want to format and it doesn't seem I can...
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looks like you're going to need something like hirens boot cd or something that can do low level formats from within a dos/ramdisc environment.

PainfulLover said:
Thanks for hijacking
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who? .......

http://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/

PainfulLover said:
Thanks for hijacking
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Not sure why you think I'm hijacking. I'm offering you advice on tools to use for disk management and recovery.
What version of Windows are you using?

Have you tried the Disk Management tool included in Windows? It should be able to see your card and format it for you.
If not, then you can try the bootable disk that crazythunder linked to. It contains gparted to format and partition the drive (and testdisk if you want to recover anything). There are also other bootable disks with gparted on them. Its a great tool. And its free.

phburks said:
Not sure why you think I'm hijacking. I'm offering you advice on tools to use for disk management and recovery.
What version of Windows are you using?
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i learned most everything i know by reading in forums,and my own experimenting. the op could have simply read your post and said to himself,"hey self,you learned something today". or he could have looked at it in a negative manner. unfortunate for him.

crazythunder said:
i learned most everything i know by reading in forums,and my own experimenting. the op could have simply read your post and said to himself,"hey self,you learned something today". or he could have looked at it in a negative manner. unfortunate for him.
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Si señor. Granted I went on a little tangent about recovering documents about my father, but even that point wasn't totally moot because I was simply sharing a real life example of how testdisk had saved my butt.
Oh well, hope OP figures out the issue with his card. Any disk partitioning tool should take care of it if its just a formatting/partitioning issue.

Seriously?
Buy a new card.

...as the previous poster said, "buy a new card"
I had a 16GB Class 6 card die on me with similar symptoms. I bought a 32GB Class 10 card from Fry's and it has been working fine since.
Suggestion: I learned my lesson with my 16GB card and I backup the contents of my 32GB card to my computer every couple of weeks. This way when my SD card crashes again, I will have a "recent" backup to restore from ;-)

[Q] Micro SD Card question

so my phone deleted everything off of my sdcard and you know how your pics and everything is litterly like your world or life. how can i restore all my files? or am i totally f'ed?
i was also wondering is there something for your phone like how your computer can be restored to a date before. is there a way or program to do this to your phone and micro SD memory card??
please help me i really dont wanna have to redo everything on my sdcard again):

If the card was wiped its gone and I don't think the phone makes restore points like a computer does. Best you can do is back up your rom periodically but that wont bring back the SD card data.
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NicksDevouredByTheSkyline said:
so my phone deleted everything off of my sdcard and you know how your pics and everything is litterly like your world or life. how can i restore all my files? or am i totally f'ed?
i was also wondering is there something for your phone like how your computer can be restored to a date before. is there a way or program to do this to your phone and micro SD memory card??
please help me i really dont wanna have to redo everything on my sdcard again):
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I'm not sure how your phone would've done that; that usually requires a deliberate action. Unless you somehow converted the filesystem on the sdcard, it should be a VFAT filesystem. Basically the filesystem from Windows 95, 98, ME, etc. I can't think of an easy way to recover that. There might be a tool out there to do it.
Hopefully someone else has a better answer.

Exodian said:
If the card was wiped its gone and I don't think the phone makes restore points like a computer does. Best you can do is back up your rom periodically but that wont bring back the SD card data.
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My phone did it when i was in recovery it did the partition SD card

NicksDevouredByTheSkyline said:
My phone did it when i was in recovery it did the partition SD card
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Ouch. I'm afraid the data's probably lost, man. If it partitioned the card it probably wrote a new partition table. There might be some file recovery utilities you can run from Windows to try and recover the files but I don't know how successful they would be.

I thought I read somewhere there was an app to retrieve old deleted data from a sd card somewhere in these sgs4g forums. a guy did almost the same thing and said he got most of it back, try searching some key words
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goddi2010 said:
I thought I read somewhere there was an app to retrieve old deleted data from a sd card somewhere in these sgs4g forums. a guy did almost the same thing and said he got most of it back, try searching some key words
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Given that it got re-partitioned, though....

Unless you do a Full Format, or fill the card with new files, most of the time when stuff deletes, the index information is removed or something like that, and it's just invisible, until it's overwritten. So if you can find a recovery program it should be able to find the data. Last time I looked there weren't many free ones, but it's worth a google search.

I agree with goddi2010. I also remember reading that one of our members had a similar problem and was able to recover lost data. He even mentions what he did/used to recover the data.
Somewhere in our forum the help you need is there. Good luck searching and when you find the info please let us know how it worked out for you...
Sorry I can't be more specific.

I just used the program Recuva ( it's free ). Install it on your computer and plug your phone in or put the card in a reader then run Recuva and select the quick scan and it will bring up everything that has been deleted and it will tell you if it can recover it or not. It has work for me multiple times.
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SD randomly wiped

wtf. My girl has a rooted thunderbolt running shiftsense rom. Out of nowhere a symbol pops up and says blank SD card or unsupported file format. I tried putting it in mine and similiar issue. Any way to save this thing? Any idea how it happened? She didn't do anything and was sitting in a meeting. She lost data and phone connection and when she found me, this symbol was up also.
I tried remounting SD card with no luck. Please help! Ton of pictures and other important documents on there.
Almost seems like a remote wipe.
Please feel free to pm me here also it email directly at [email protected]

Sounds like the file system on the sdcard became corrupt. I've had this happen to me twice now on different roms. Try putting the card in a computer and see if it can read anything and format it afterwards.
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bpyazel said:
Sounds like the file system on the sdcard became corrupt. I've had this happen to me twice now on different roms. Try putting the card in a computer and see if it can read anything and format it afterwards.
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Yeah windows can scan the drive and try and repair corruptions. Worth a try.
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Sd card issue

So out of the blue a notification pops up about the sd card being blank????? This is a fairly new card only used it a hand full of times..... Windows does not recognize it said insert card..... Only time i have seen that was with protected cards like Wp7...... Good thing i can still recover the data..... Wonder if it could have been electromagnetic waves from the solar flair..... Is this related to the sd card issue in other threads.....
Edit : Well I got it fixed had to do a low level format, reset write protect, full format with windows, then format on atrix 2 followed by transferring my backup .img..... Good thing i backup every few days..... If anyone needs the tools i used just let me know.....

What are you using to backup?
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KEB64 said:
What are you using to backup?
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I use Roadkil's DiskImage v1.6 to backup my sd card..... Pop my sd card out when I do any changes I do not want to lose pick store image about 5 min later i am fully backed..... As for my android system I have yet to install cwm link for it is down.....

I have an 8gb card that seems to be dead. My phone don't recognize it, windows doesn't recognize it, all signs say it's toast. I'm interested in any tools you have so that I can check one more time before I just toss it. I'm sure it's done for, but sure it can't hurt to double check.

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I have an 8gb card that seems to be dead. My phone don't recognize it, windows doesn't recognize it, all signs say it's toast. I'm interested in any tools you have so that I can check one more time before I just toss it. I'm sure it's done for, but sure it can't hurt to double check.
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My card was like that @ first but this worked ..... First try this out http://hddguru.com/software/HDD-LLF-Low-Level-Format-Tool/ it should detect the sd card..... run the low level format it will return a bunch of errors that's ok just let it finsh ..... next you can try to format with windows if that does not work try this https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/eula_windows/ should get you back going.....

Nope, none of those recognized the card. I swapped some know good ones to be certain, and they showed, but not the 8gb. It was a cheapo that I don't even remember where I got it, so F-it/ lol
Thanks for the reply and the tools though, I appreciate it nonetheless.