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[HELP] Uninstalled LG drivers now SD card is not recognized

Well, after getting a blue screen on my PC I then tried what most suggested: DELETE/UNINSTALL any LG driver and re-plug phone to install drivers again.
I went to uninstall programs and got rid of the LG driver there, then plugged my phone up and apparently installed two out of three files successfully. I rebooted my pc and now I plug my phone to it and two things:
1. My computer does not see the sdcard
2. My phone does not see my sd card
When I try to go with phone file manager to SD card it says.... SD card not mounted.
What to do now?

Is it mounted in the Settings > Sd card & Storage menu?

Nope...
I'm running cm7 and in the storage menu there are 3 breaks:
the first one for the SD card, second one for internal and third one to show you how much space is left in the SD card...
Well, in the 1st slot there is not card mounted but in the last one it does show how much space is left/used.... very weird if you ask me!
I will check if the sdcard is not bricked now with a sdcard reader...

well, I think the SDcard is bricked.... I put in the SD reader and connected to my pc and it is not being recognized!

UPDATE: Bought a new sdcard and I still can't mount my card to the pc? WTF!!

wIIse said:
UPDATE: Bought a new sdcard and I still can't mount my card to the pc? WTF!!
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Have you reinstalled the LG drivers? Your PC cannot access even the SD card without those drivers.

This is why, once I upgraded past G1, I decided to not root anymore. 2.2 with a strong phone works great. I focus on being a "power user" and not a modder because, quite frankly, it takes way too much effort and the risk of messing up my phone is too great. I just don't understanding stepping out on that ice all the time, when the phone works so well without modding it beyond the user experience.

download from LG site
Hi,
Have you tried downloading and installing the latest drivers from LG website?
I couldn't connect to SD at first until I used the downloaded drivers.
No problems anymore here.
grtz,
Pfeffa-rah

UPDATE: I have went back to eagleblood's rom and now I am able to mount my internal and external sdcards to my pc *HAPPY*
I plan on going back to CM7 and hopefully I am able to mount the cards again without the BSOD!

UPDATE: as stated earlier... I went back to CM7 and now all my f'ng drivers are messed up again...not able to mount/unmount SDcard!!
CM7 should look into this.

MicroSD card not working, need help!

I have a T-Mobile G2 with stock 8GB microsd card. I was recording a video about 45 secs into it and all of a sudden the phone froze, I am not sure if it got full caz just before taking the video I checked and there was ~1.8GB free space. After a while an message came up saying "Please insert a SD card" (something along those line), so I figured my card must be full.
So I decided to go try and delete some file on it, only to find out all my apps installed on SD card was now unavailable, this is when I started to worry. I rebooted the phone, no luck. I shut it down and removed and replaced the SD card, no luck.
Plugged it into a Windows PC (Win XP 32 bit), it would see it in My Computers for few seconds and would disappear, even if I try to access it, it was just disappear.
I have some pictures and videos that I had taken on vacation which I really need, any ideas?
Currently as a temp solution I have a 4GB Microsd card in it and everything is fine (obviously, apps still not available), but I need the data from my original 8GB as this is my main concern, please help.
Btw, I have tried using recovery software such as Recuva and testdisk but since windows won't even see the drive I cannot use such software.
Thanks a ton.

if the sd not detected in phone or pc, maybe the sd card already dead.

anyone please?
Thanks

Im not sure what else can be said. If you computer and phone cant see the card, then it's probably dead. All you can at this point is attempt to do a quick format of the card and try to use the recovery software on it to see if you can restore the file structure
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mputtr said:
Im not sure what else can be said. If you computer and phone cant see the card, then it's probably dead. All you can at this point is attempt to do a quick format of the card and try to use the recovery software on it to see if you can restore the file structure
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Yeh that is my last resort, but the problem is I cannot do anything as the drive disappears 2-3 seconds after windows detects it and when I try to do anything to that drive it just freezes for a while and closes itself.
any ideas??

if you have a digital camera insert the micro-sd via adapter make sure though to unmount the micro-sd via CWM for example, you should now be able to format the micro-sd card over the menu of your camera. if this doesn't work there's still hope you can try to format it on a linux based system but for now try to format it on your cam

Regular recovery methods won't work too good on an sd card, they were meant for spinning drives. Flash memory either works or it doesn't usually. Try cleaning the contacts and using different card reader/adapter combos. Try a linux live cd etc. If it's dead or corrupted, your kinda stuck. Even a format worked I wouldn't trust it again.

[Q] After Odin to KC1 stock, sd card and usb port problems

After an ODIN to KC1 stock, the phone no longer recognizes the external SD card and says it is not mounted -- but when it gets to the home screen, I can see progress messages saying that the phone is actually reading the external SD card.
Also, the USB port doesn't work right. When I turn on USB debugging, messages alternatively flash in the top status bar that USB is connected and USB debugging is connected, even when the USB cable is not plugged in. When I plug the USB cable in, I do not get any dialog in notifications allowing me to turn the USB on. If I turn USB debugging off, I can see an external drive in Windows explorer but cannot access it.
Now, when I try to turn on USB debugging, the phone tells me to disconnect the USB cable -- but it's not connected.
The phone, if turned off, does not want to boot unless I plug the USB cable in. It is very difficult to get a connection to the phone so that ODIN will run. Sometimes I can get it into download mode but ODIN won't recognize the phone. Sometimes I can ODIN when the phone displays the cell + comp error message.
ODINing KD1 stock gives the same results. The phone was not like this when I first got it.
Where should I go from here?

wow. thats a lot of problems that i havent seen yet. i would say start back fresh. remove the sd card and format it with your computer. then put the update.zip from krylons cwm, ext4 converter, and icbinb (or w/e rom you are flashing) on it and leave it. odin to kc1 from raver. let the phone sit for 10 min or so and then push the recovery file from krylons final cwm to the right place. once you do that, shut the phone down completely. put the sd card back in. it should only have those 2 or 3 files on it. reboot recovery, wipe everything, check your mounts, flash the ext4 converter and then the rom. let the rom sit for 15 min after that initial google boot sequence. once that is done, reboot reboot recovery and fix permissions. and see if those problems persist.

Do I need a driver for Windows XP to be able to write to the sdcard once it is converted to ext4?

The sd card isn't bring converted to ext4. Format it with it's default settings. You can always create an ext4 partition, but right now we are doing something else
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do I odin KC1 with the sd card in the phone or should it not be on the phone? I had it in the phone when I odined KC1.

since you had it in before, try removing the sd card and the sim card and odin. i never had a problem with them in, but some people have experienced problems.

got CWM installed after reformatting sdcard from phone using settings.
After reformatting the 16 gig sd card, the phone would still not mount it. I thought there might be something wrong with the card, so I found an old 4 gig sd card from another phone and formatted that and the phone was able to mount that card. For some unknown reason, the card is named “Blackberry” even though I never had such a phone. I could not install CWM, so I reflashed KC1 with odin, this time with no sim card or sd card in the phone. The phone still would not connect to the USB ports on my laptop, but on my desktop at work, it will connect.
The phone recognizes the SD card and I was able to move recovery to system/bin, but when I try to install packages, I get the following error message:
E:Can’t mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
(no such file or directory)
E:Can’t mount SDCARD:update.zip
Installation aborted
I checked /dev/block and sure enough, there is no mmcblk0p1 file.
Looking up that error, I have found threads and fixes for other phones, and one suggestion to format the sd card from the phone. I did that under settings after copying the undotted files and directories to the computer, and copied those files and directories back to the sd card.
I then did a recovery reboot and reinstalled packages. Finally, CWM installs.

thats pretty random, but im glad its working! let me know how the rom flashing goes!

So then I installed ext4 and the icbinb rom via CWM, but the phone just hung at the bootscreen until I went back to CWM and installed the Bali 3.3 kernel, which I had stuck on the sdcard just in case. The phone then booted up and the usb port now seems to be working properly, at least when connected to the computer at work. The root problem was the sdcard, which needed to be formatted from the phone and not from the computer. I'll have to see if I can get the other sd card to work. I still can only see the external sd card from windows, but maybe that is just the way this phone works. This is a big relief. Thank you very much for your help.
Now, all I have to do is get my Vibrant working. I took it apart to replace a broken screen and there have been all kinds of problems since. But that's another project.

you will only see the external memory on the sgs4g. you will not see the internal memory, as it is reserved for the system rom and ram

Does the 4G not have an internal SD card like the Vibrant?
The phone still has a few problems. The biggest one is that it will not start unless it is plugged in to a charger or usb cable, even if the battery is fully charged. I think for some reason it is not reading the battery and doing what a phone with a discharged battery would do. I forgot to take a charger or usb cable with me today and I got no phone. I haven't tried recalibrating the battery yet, maybe that would fix the problem. But at least the phone is running like an xda-developers special with all the bells and whistles now. Thanks.

No, the vibrant has 16gb on board, the sgs4g doesn't. you can only access the sdcard from the computer.
If battery calibration doesn't fix that startup problem, it may be a hardware problem
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USB connection problem.

first my rom and android version are not important coz i had usb connection working before with same build.here is the thing,one day i removed my external sd card from my phone and put it in my brothers k850i to listen some music on se speakers.when i finished i just removed it coz that phone doesn't have safe remove like ours does.when i placed sd card back in my phone i got error msg that i need to reformat my sd card,but i couldn't lose all my data since i was going on trip tomorrow.so i restarted the phone with sd card inside and it worked(everything no error msg).i went to trip and when i came bace i noticed the problem when i connected the phone to my pc(tryed both win 7 and win xp,i have 2 pc's) to copy some photos.i got 'USB device not recognized' error i tried doing recovery in cwm reinstalling drivers even removing sd card didn't help.sd card is working just fine in my phone and also when i place it in bro's phone and connect to pc i can copy files with no prob(tho when i reinstert it while phone is turned on i do get error for re format).only thing that is going on my mind that cable might be broken,but no1 used it while i was on trip so i dont think so.help needed urgent.

it happened with me also. Its all because of ****ing kies installatio. I dont know why it happens but it sometimes happens.
Do like this
1. uninstall kies & everything related to phone from computer.
2. backup ur external sd card data on pc with some card reader. Then format it properly. Then insert in phone. Again format from phone.
3. Restart computer. Install kies properly.
4. Connect phone in kies mode. Let computer install drivers properly.
4. If everything goes well then with card reader again fill up data in sd card. Then insert sd card in phone. Then try in mass storage mode.

vishal24387 said:
it happened with me also. Its all because of ****ing kies installatio. I dont know why it happens but it sometimes happens.
Do like this
1. uninstall kies & everything related to phone from computer.
2. backup ur external sd card data on pc with some card reader. Then format it properly. Then insert in phone. Again format from phone.
3. Restart computer. Install kies properly.
4. Connect phone in kies mode. Let computer install drivers properly.
4. If everything goes well then with card reader again fill up data in sd card. Then insert sd card in phone. Then try in mass storage mode.
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okey thnc i dont have card reader but i will do it with my bro's phone will try it tommorow.

[Q] Mount SD card

If I have my phone plugged into my computer and then unplug it, I'm not able to access my SD card from the phone without rebooting it first. So, for example, Titanium Backup only shows the Overview page.
Is there something I can do so that it automatically reconnects? If not, is there any way that I can manually reconnect the SD card to my phone without rebooting it?
BTW, this happens even when the phone is connected as "Charge Only" or if I "eject" my phone from my computer and wait till it says safe to remove.

Did you try it using another card? By the way, since the days of win xp there is no need really anymore to eject your device since windows uses write cache to copy the data.
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Unfortunately, I only have the one card. Needing to reboot each time to have access the SD card again isn't working as designed is it?