Hi xda,
I just got myself a G2x (t-mobile) running stock rooted 2.3.3. I'm having one small issue, Storage. It seems that the phone detects the Internal storage(phone memory) as the primary SD card therefore limiting me to 5GB. And if it gets full it just warns me. It does not switch to the micro sd card.
What I want to know, is there a zip that I can flash to blank/disable the phone storage. I've tried about 6+ roms but the only one that seems to disable or have control over it is Cyanogenmoded roms or the ICS rom.
I would like to stay with the Stock rom that I have because of performance/bugs reasons. Also the camera works superb(smooth in low lighting) only on the Stock roms.
You might try Unmount in Settings, but it may go back when you reboot the phone.
GTWalling said:
You might try Unmount in Settings, but it may go back when you reboot the phone.
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Thanks, but it does not work. I decided to go with Eagles Blood ICS rom. Now my 16GB SD card is primary and the internal storage is disable. This rom is better than the other ISC rom I've tried.
I'm having similar problems with my phone. My SD card used to work, not it's unmountable. I'm not sure what happened, but it looks like it just died on me. I tried mounting it in Windows and through CWM.
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Hey guys my girlfriend has a captivated.....shes rooted but running both stock kernel and stock firmware, she never uses the external sd card except for when she had to get a new captivate a few weeks ago, they transfered her data and put it on the external.......today she recieved a notification in the notification bar saying that her external sd had been wiped.....she hasnt installed any apps today, didnt do anything with the sd, nothing............any thoughts???
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Hey guys my girlfriend has a captivated.....shes rooted but running both stock kernel and stock firmware, she never uses the external sd card except for when she had to get a new captivate a few weeks ago, they transfered her data and put it on the external.......today she recieved a notification in the notification bar saying that her external sd had been wiped.....she hasnt installed any apps today, didnt do anything with the sd, nothing............any thoughts???
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Happens to me constantly. I don't ever put anything on it anymore. For me it's the cognition roms. The first time it happened to me I ran a utility called "Photorec" to try and recover a lot my pictures and other filed. (It works for more than pictures) Was successful for me.
TestDisk/PhotoRec
Your external sd does not get wiped by any rom. Your internal sd won't even get wiped unless you master clear or hard reset your phone. Or you manually format obviously.
SD cards that lose data are usually faulty. As mentioned above, the OS does not wipe SD cards - internal or external.
Hi, I have been messing with rooting and installing custom roms on my Droid Charge. I'm totally new to it and have been getting the hang of it, lots of wipes, reinstallations, etc. Unfortunately, it looks like my 32gb microSD card has been a casualty of all this. Since I had managed to install a custom rom on my Charge, my card cannot be read by any device, I've tried it in two computers and two Android phones. All are unable to format the card either, showing it in RAW format.
I believe when I was looking at some threads here, there was an issue with some of the roms maybe damaging the sd card, maybe forcing it to read-only mode? Is there a way I can definitively find out if my card is toast or I can still save it?
Thanks!
I don't have a solution but a question. Was the last rom you flashed a GB rom?
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No, all my roms and kernels have been 2.2 Froyo based.
Flash the SD card fix, not sure how since the SD card isn't working but I would attempt to flash a stock ee4 through Odin & actually use the SD card fix this time....
Also, you might want to consider using Titanium Backup to get all your apps saved to your SD card so you don't lose them from the wipe.
blarrick said:
Flash the SD card fix, not sure how since the SD card isn't working but I would attempt to flash a stock ee4 through Odin & actually use the SD card fix this time....
Also, you might want to consider using Titanium Backup to get all your apps saved to your SD card so you don't lose them from the wipe.
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He said that he can't even format it in a separate reader, so changing out the software on his phone isn't going to fix anything.
To the OP: Honestly, it sounds like your card might be bad; it happens. I doubt that any software/ROM could have caused this since software can't physically damage hardware. One suggestion I can make is to try cleaning the contacts on the card; I recommend q-tips and isopropyl alcohol for that. If it still doesn't work and can't be formatted in your computers reader, you simply have a bad card. At that point, try calling VZW and hope they will replace it. They may insist on replacing your whole phone as well; I don't know. Or, you can use this as an excuse to get a faster (Class 4+) card.
Previously, i was on a 4.0 version of CWM, when i tried using that to use the CM7 ICS rom, it wouldn't consider the internal sd card as being able to be used as an external one as well.
Applications like the camera and beyondpod wouldn't work because it said it couldn't find the sd card. If i went over to the memory settings, or even in CWM, all my stuff was there on the internal sd card.
I really don't know what to do.
All the memory stuff would work fine before, i used Weapon G2x and on the new version of cwm, it doesn't think i have an sd card either.
Please be gentle and use newbie friendly terms, thank you very much.
I was going to post this in the AOKP rom page but i figured it'd get seen more here and maybe its not even a problem related to the rom. I recently installed the AOKP rom located here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1831858. everything was great the first day then i started getting random reboots and losing my data. So I flashed a back up and still got the same problems. I lost my data yesterday, fixed that by manually changing the APN settings and everything was fine other than still getting random reboots. today I went to take a picture and it says "no external storage". I opened root explorer and I can access my EXTERNAL SD card but not the INTERNAL. I tried to mount in via the setting, storage menu and it wont mount. Also tried mounting in CWM recovery, no dice.
Is this a hardware problem or something software related? Anyway to get my stuff back or is it gone? I thought about trying to format it through recovery but how can I do that if it wont mount? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I'm about to go through and install a "clean" copy of this ROM hopefully. Or I might try another ROM I know works like it should.
Installed a new Rom. Everything works perfect so far but still can't access my internal sd card. Any tricks how to get this back or do I need to just turn it in for warranty?
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Warranty may be your best solution, you'll have to revert to stock using kies/odin which may on it's own fix your issue.
Are you also receiving the "Blank USB storage or has unsupported file system" error?
I have been battling this issue for a friend of mine (I own only the I9300) and I believe I have somewhat of a fix. It will allow you to use an external SD card.
If you can use / access the external SD card on your phone then disregard this message.
If you can't access any of the storage, including the external SD card try following this short tutorial I made:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31464589&postcount=22
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Are you also receiving the "Blank USB storage or has unsupported file system" error?
I have been battling this issue for a friend of mine (I own only the I9300) and I believe I have somewhat of a fix. It will allow you to use an external SD card.
If you can use / access the external SD card on your phone then disregard this message.
If you can't access any of the storage, including the external SD card try following this short tutorial I made:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31464589&postcount=22
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Im still able to use my external sd card. I can read and write to it from both phone and pc.
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The internal SD card is essentially part of the motherboard. If it's corrupted, you have no choice but to warranty the phone out. Kishke's right in that restoring to stock might be your last, best chance.
I backed up my storage and formatted storage from CWM to clean things up. When I went to mount USB storage to transfer zips of the ROM I want to use my computer doesn't see it. I tried with the SD card formatted as vfat and exfat. I'm fully rooted and all that. All firmwares are the latest version.
Can I get the two easiest options for putting a ROM back on here so I can use my darn phone? I'm not comfortable with adb. Thanks!
you can use another phone to put the rom on thru the sd card. and then put the sd card back on your phone and re flash it
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you can use another phone to put the rom on thru the sd card. and then put the sd card back on your phone and re flash it
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Thanks for the reply. Not today I can't. I'm searching as I find time but it's a busy day today and going without my phone is like running going without pants.