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all of a sudden I'm having SD problems. when I went to use root explorer it said my SD wasn't mounted. how could it have gotten unmounted? is there a way to remount on the phone itself?
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Settings->Sd card and phone storage(I think)->Mount SD card
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I'm a moron, thanks. I rebooted and it was fixed. ill use that option if it happens again.
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xzillerationer said:
Settings->Sd card and phone storage(I think)->Mount SD card
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jaker.the.skater said:
I'm a moron, thanks. I rebooted and it was fixed. ill use that option if it happens again.
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Others have had this issue in the past and last I checked that setting does not exist on the Nexus S. I assume it was programmed that way because they assumed you wouldn't need to unmount the SD card.
yeah I just checked, its not there. a reboot fixed it though. I'm not sure what happened
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I think a reboot is just the best answer, but you could probably remount it with the mount command via the terminal without a reboot.
I'd be concerned, as you are, about why it dismounted in the first place.
I just upgraded to GB 2.3.6 and then rooted by installing a new kernel via odin. I went in and tried to do a nandroid backup and it brings up an error that it can't mount the sdcard. Did i do something wrong or is my card going bad?
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darock159 said:
I just upgraded to GB 2.3.6 and then rooted by installing a new kernel via odin. I went in and tried to do a nandroid backup and it brings up an error that it can't mount the sdcard. Did i do something wrong or is my card going bad?
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Interesting. If you use the 'Files' application when the phone is running does it show you anything? It should display the files/folders on the sdcard.
Yes I can see all my files and such just not in recovery
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maybe do a fix permissions? I'm wondering if they somehow got hosed & prevent CWM from mounting.
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Nope fixing permissions did nothing for it. It still brings up can't mount sdcard error. i can't install any zip files too, same error
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What was the phone running before you upgraded? Did you have CWM, voodoo, etc?
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Try backing up your SD card and then reformat it to see if that fixes the error
agreed back up sd card, maybe try changing voodoo, then is that doesn't work reformat and good to go
Can't format the scard on the phone since it won't mount. any other ideas. i am not sure what i am doing with voodoo so didn't mess with that.
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darock159 said:
Can't format the scard on the phone since it won't mount. any other ideas. i am not sure what i am doing with voodoo so didn't mess with that.
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If your computer, Wii, or whatever can mount the sdcard you could format it that way.
Have you tried shutting the phone down, removing the SD card, and putting it back?
Do you have the Android SDK installed? If so, put the phone in USB debugging mode, crank up a shell (adb shell), and type:
mount
If the filesystem is actually able to mount the phone during normal operation you will see a line similar to this (note it's all actually 1 line):
/dev/block/vold/179:1 /mnt/sdcard vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,nodiratime,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0002,dm
ask=0002,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
If you see that, try these commands:
cd /
ls -l sdcard
That should show you the effective permissions on the sdcard, like this:
ls -l sdcard
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2011-11-20 10:16 sdcard -> /mnt/sdcard
The 'l' means it's a symbolic link (shortcut, in essence) to another place (/mnt/sdcard)
The rwxrwxrwx are the permissions (read, write, execute). You see it three times because permissions are listed for user (rwx) group (rwx) and global (rwx).
The 'root root' is the owner and group for that directory.
If you were able to execute the command, do your permissions & ownership look the same?
After updating I have 2 locations from my root directory for my internal sdcard.
/sdcard
/storage/sdcard0
Which are essentially the same locations and seem to be an alias of each other. They both point to /sdcard and show the exact same files and folders. :cyclops:
What this means is that some apps see and report 2 sets of data like kindle for example.
Can I remove one?
No one else getting 2 internal sdcards showing then?
That's the way its always been... its normal, don't worry about it.
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OK I Know swap i useless BUT i have my reasons so PLEASE DONT JUST ANSWER WITH "insert generic warning about swap being useless here". i have been trying for 3 days now to get swap to work but with no luck and in fact bricking my phone (i fixed it btw). I have used swapper 2 and have had no luck with that, either with a partition or with a file. i have tried a ton of bash commands in terminal, but with all just a fail notification. i have a swap partition on my sd card in the right setup of -fat32 13GB- -ext 2 256MB- -SWAP 1GB- all set to primary. im on CM7.2 stable and as far as i knew swap was enabled on the cm kernel. i could be wrong and that is why im here. any help would be awesome.
I don't know why swapper 2 wasn't working for you. I used to use it, more harm than good honestly, but SetCPU would show the changes and increased swap file size. I do recall I had trouble getting it started and used ESfile explorer to manually create a blank file with the name swapper2 used and than restarted swapper2 it went through successfully. Set it for set at boot and it was there every time.
Make sure you didn't accidentally deny it in your superuser logs.
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Where did you put that file? I know I need to direct it to /dev/block/mmcblk1p3 before it was pointed to the internal memory so that is why it bricked.
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Btw I have a 16 Gb class 10 card I got for $15 so I don't care if it dies fast. And it is a legit card, got it from staples.
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projectzro said:
Btw I have a 16 Gb class 10 card I got for $15 so I don't care if it dies fast. And it is a legit card, got it from staples.
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the file was on root of my microsd card.
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swap.swp is my extra swap file. it is in addition to the sysyems regular swap file. i think your trying to redo the entire swap file which caused crash imo. just do the expansion on ur microsd card.
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I was trying to avoid the file seeing as the partition works better anyway but I suppose it would save me some time
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well long story short it didnt work. tried the swap file thing and that didnt work. the partition didnt work with either cwr or gparted or mini tool. i just give up
I've had this issue before when I got into the whole thing for swap, what you might need to do is disable compcashe. It creates a swap file on its own and will over ride any other swaps in my experiences. By default it creates about 96mb in internal memory but if you can deal with that then I'd say stick with it cause its much faster than SD card. But try it see if it works. Then decide if you need more than 96mb.
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Currently on a TW rom, Jelly Beans 19. A couple months back I had flashed an aosp rom and of course got the "0" folder. After switching back to TW, the folder remained. I flashed the restore SD zip by itself, along with fresh rom install, and it didn't fix it. I also formatted internal storage as well as SD card. For a couple days it was fine and then behold, that stupid folder is there again. Only bad part is, anything I download I have to merge into that folder so recovery will recognize it. I've done the formatting/ wiping several times. Any thoughts?
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dhouston10 said:
Currently on a TW rom, Jelly Beans 19. A couple months back I had flashed an aosp rom and of course got the "0" folder. After switching back to TW, the folder remained. I flashed the restore SD zip by itself, along with fresh rom install, and it didn't fix it. I also formatted internal storage as well as SD card. For a couple days it was fine and then behold, that stupid folder is there again. Only bad part is, anything I download I have to merge into that folder so recovery will recognize it. I've done the formatting/ wiping several times. Any thoughts?
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Back up important stuff to external sd and or computer and format internal memory and say good bye aosp/ 0 folder structure
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Back up important stuff to external sd and or computer and format internal memory and say good bye aosp/ 0 folder structure
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Already did that several times, yet it creeps back in there somehow
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dhouston10 said:
Already did that several times, yet it creeps back in there somehow
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With a file manager go in to each folder of the zero move it out and when it says it's a duplicate there should be am option to merge the file storage and once you are done formatting again
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With a file manager go in to each folder of the zero move it out and when it says it's a duplicate there should be am option to merge the file storage and once you are done formatting again
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Will give that a shot
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Will give that a shot
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I personally did it this way on the advice of the developer of synergy and worked flawless
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the 0 folder is an emulated partition of the internal storage on your phone. i have one too. everyone does.
if you go into es file explorer, and go to the root of you phone, and then hit storage, you will see 3 options, "emulated", "sdcard1" and "0"
the "0" is a fake sd card. the internal storage is partitioned, in case something goes wrong you wont lose all your data.
i found this out the hard way lol forgot to back up and data wipe before flashing a rom once when i was half asleep, and you would think its all gone but no it was still all there. games, apps, contacts, the whole 9.
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