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So ive been at this for 2 days. I finally got the micro sd card with both files to install rom but in clockworkmod recovery i cant mount sd card nor format or anything. I can mount and unmount in the normal settings of the device and see it in root explorer but thats it. Its formatted to fat32. also on rom manager where it says to install from sdcard it only takes u to the internal sdcard which makes no sense because i was told u cant install a rom from the internal sdcard.
PS. This is my first Android Device!!!!
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I am in the exact same situation. I am rooted on 4.0.3 and I wanted to install 4.0.4 or one of the custom ROM's. This is not my first android device but I am at a loss. I can not enter fastboot, can't load anything from the SD card in CWM recovery (get the message E:Can't mount /sdcard/), can not connect via ADB on my PC.
I feel that I have enough skill to do all of this because I have done it in the past. My ADB works fine with my Galaxy Nexus (just updated that and installed new kernel) so I don't know what is causing the problem. I have tried different SD cards(3) as well and nothing.
The biggest problem is I can not get into fastboot and SBF if I wanted to. I have been having issues with drivers even though I have installed motohelper like 6 million times.
I have tried factory resets and wipes and everything. I tried to do the factory update that is being pushed to me and I get an error. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Sorry if this is stealing your thread but I think we are having the same problems.
check out my thread at xoomforums:
I PM'd it to u cus it dont let me put it here
Read all 3 pages. I think it will help u. posted same question there and a guy suggested to install the rogue cwm 1.5 recory via adb fastboot or whatever. he says that will read your sdcards. if i were u id try and fastboot on a different pc cus it looks like thats what we both have to do unfortunately. it looks like a pain!!! u have a xoom?
anyone figured out how to sort this?? really frustrating it just sayin E:can't mount sd card.. any help will be appreciated!!
platt said:
anyone figured out how to sort this?? really frustrating it just sayin E:can't mount sd card.. any help will be appreciated!!
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If you are using CWM recovery from Rom Manager (not recommended for Xoom) it does only read your internal flash memory (called sdcard) but not your external microsd card (called external1???). So you need to flash a different custom recovery using adb/fastboot to flash a recovery.image file or, if you can flash through cwm (from internal sdcard) a recovery.zip file (either EOS or Rogue, depending on the ROM you will flash afterwards), Actually, any custom recovery is supposed to work for any rom, but in reality Eos works best for Eos and Rogue works best for the CM9 Kang.
Please, just remember, never flash a .zip file through fastboot, only an .image file!
+1 i agree with the above, fixed this last night. I download a couple recovery images, which were blank for some reason, so i downloaded the zips and extracted the recovery image folder. Then opened the command window from the folder with the recovery image and flashed it with fastboot. Now it works perfect.
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Fastboot
I had to use fastboot to flash an entire stock config when I got stuck in this loop.
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I had to use fastboot to flash an entire stock config when I got stuck in this loop.
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Atleast you got it out, mines been acting up since i flashed cm9. I think i might have to do that
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okantomi said:
If you are using CWM recovery from Rom Manager (not recommended for Xoom) it does only read your internal flash memory (called sdcard) but not your external microsd card (called external1???). So you need to flash a different custom recovery using adb/fastboot to flash a recovery.image file or, if you can flash through cwm (from internal sdcard) a recovery.zip file (either EOS or Rogue, depending on the ROM you will flash afterwards), Actually, any custom recovery is supposed to work for any rom, but in reality Eos works best for Eos and Rogue works best for the CM9 Kang.
Please, just remember, never flash a .zip file through fastboot, only an .image file!
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Thanks for saving the last half of my hair which I hadn't pulled out yet.
Got the backup on SD ONLY after flashing the EOS recovery 1.5.0 (i tried the latest to begin with, did not work, made it worse flashing recovery from ROM Mgr)
http://www.xoomforums.com/forum/mot...ing-flashing-unrooting-under-one-roof-59.html has this particular recovery listed.
I still cannot boot in recovery using power+volUP...i have to get at least adb running. Any suggestion would be golden.
error mounting /internal_sdcard!
error mounting /internal_sdcard! pls help me it got stuck in boot loop tried to wipe cache and user data bt cwm says error mounting /internal_sdcard!
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Thanks for saving the last half of my hair which I hadn't pulled out yet.
Got the backup on SD ONLY after flashing the EOS recovery 1.5.0 (i tried the latest to begin with, did not work, made it worse flashing recovery from ROM Mgr)
http://www.xoomforums.com/forum/mot...ing-flashing-unrooting-under-one-roof-59.html has this particular recovery listed.
I still cannot boot in recovery using power+volUP...i have to get at least adb running. Any suggestion would be golden.
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Delete any zip files or IMG files from sdcard and reboot it this helped me ............ Hit thanks if helped
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This is my first attempt at unlocking and rooting. So far I did manage to get unlocked. Now I am stuck at: Can't mount/sdcard . . . . .
I have been following the thread: [HOW] Rookie Rooting, Flashing And UnRooting Under One Roof
It seems to be layed out quite well and well, I'd never have gotten this far if it weren't for following those directions. I'm not discouraged because I know this is just a stumbling block. I can't wait to kill the bloatware and see if I can O/C this beast just a little.
Good luck to the folks who posted above me. I will post my results here.
Mike P.
I think the solution is much more simple...
The recovery uses normally e: an external sd card , you just trying by d: internal sd card , so take another sd card and dun let it be internal sd card...
And the recovery back on working with you
I'm new to the SGS4G (been rooting for years since the early CM days on my G1), so please pardon my ignorance here. I'm unable to mount my SD Card with CWM. Yes, my card is formatted as FAT32 and is known-good in other devices.
If I boot into GB (VUVKJ6), then it has no problems accessing the SD Card locally or in Mass Storage mode via USB to my PC.
To get to the point where I'm at now, I followed this (to make sure I was fully stock KJ6) and then followed this beginning at step 6 (to get CWM on there so I can flash ROMs) but I get stuck at step 11 since I can't mount SD-Card.
I've tried at various stages with both red and blue CWM without luck. I've tried simply letting it mount it itself by trying to choose an update.zip from the SD Card and I've also gone into the Mounts menu to try and manually mount it.
Any thoughts?
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UPDATE: Solution was to format the SD Card within Android and on this specific device. I had cards formatted within Android on 3 different devices and they all had this same problem.
When you are in cwm and look under mounts what does it look like...ex, ummu?
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twisted03 said:
When you are in cwm and look under mounts what does it look like...ex, ummu?
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I just went to Red CWM (which I thought handled this but I've also tried manually adjusting it). By default (when I first boot into CWM), it displays:
- unmount /cache
- mount /data
- mount /sdcard
- unmount /system
It doesn't work this way. When I go to choose my update.zip to flash, it errors:
"E:Can't mount /sdcard"
I've tried to select "mount /sdcard" in the mounts menu and it errors:
"Error mounting /sdcard!"
Jaxidian said:
I just went to Red CWM (which I thought handled this but I've also tried manually adjusting it). By default (when I first boot into CWM), it displays:
- unmount /cache
- mount /data
- mount /sdcard
- unmount /system
It doesn't work this way. When I go to choose my update.zip to flash, it errors:
"E:Can't mount /sdcard"
I've tried to select "mount /sdcard" in the mounts menu and it errors:
"Error mounting /sdcard!"
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Not to sound rude or anything but ice never ran an update.zip...are you trying to flash something?
If so try just flashing it without messing with the update.zip...
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Where does it say mount sd card in the guide or anything about update.zip? Tell us what you are trying to accomplish.
twisted03 said:
Not to sound rude or anything but ice never ran an update.zip...are you trying to flash something?
If so try just flashing it without messing with the update.zip...
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Sorry, old terminology. "An update.zip" essentially means any zip flashable in CWM whether it's a ROM, gapps, a kernel, etc.
lumin30 said:
Where does it say mount sd card in the guide or anything about update.zip? Tell us what you are trying to accomplish.
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Step 11 of this guide says: "11) Flash the GB rom you put on your sd card". When I select "install zip from sdcard" -> "choose zip from sdcard", it tells me "E:Can't mount /sdcard". I don't even get a directory structure to go find a .zip file in.
My goal: I'm simply trying to flash a ROM + GApps at this point.
Oh ok... I'm sorry never had that problem before... Then only thing I can suggest is probably start from scratch again or get and us a different sd card
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Jaxidian said:
Step 11 of this guide says: "11) Flash the GB rom you put on your sd card". When I select "install zip from sdcard" -> "choose zip from sdcard", it tells me "E:Can't mount /sdcard". I don't even get a directory structure to go find a .zip file in.
My goal: I'm simply trying to flash a ROM + GApps at this point.
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That same thing happened to me. To fix it I had to run the gremlin remover.
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Jaxidian said:
Step 11 of this guide says: "11) Flash the GB rom you put on your sd card". When I select "install zip from sdcard" -> "choose zip from sdcard", it tells me "E:Can't mount /sdcard". I don't even get a directory structure to go find a .zip file in.
My goal: I'm simply trying to flash a ROM + GApps at this point.
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Weird. I wonder if it would help if you copy all of the files from the SD card to your computer, go into Settings, SD card and phone storage, Unmount SD card, and Format SD card, if it would then read it in CWM?
falcons2 said:
That same thing happened to me. To fix it I had to run the gremlin remover.
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This will probably work the best but isn't this done with odin... If I read correctly the Op used heimdall
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Apples to apples. You mention gapps. Are you trying to get CM7 flashed? Or a custom GB ROM flashed? Gremlin Remover is a one-click odin and will work with what steps you have mentioned you took thus far.
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This will probably work the best but isn't this done with odin... If I read correctly the Op used heimdall
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Yes but when you download the gremlin remover it comes with Odin all in one zip
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Yes but when you download the gremlin remover it comes with Odin all in one zip
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Ok, makes sense...i had to do the gremlin remover when cm7 gave me trouble and it worked perfect for me so i would say...nike...
For everybody mentioning gremlin, can you please hit me up with a link? I want to make sure I pull the most up-to-date one and I've not seen one recently but could have missed it.
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lumin30 said:
Apples to apples. You mention gapps. Are you trying to get CM7 flashed? Or a custom GB ROM flashed? Gremlin Remover is a one-click odin and will work with what steps you have mentioned you took thus far.
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At this point, I'm just trying to get CM7 + GApps. Doesn't matter what I'm trying to flash - Recovery can't mount the SD Card whether manually or automatically. That's the problem.
twisted03 said:
This will probably work the best but isn't this done with odin... If I read correctly the Op used heimdall
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I used Heimdall to get to stock and then was using Odin to get CWM + CM7 on there. I'm at the point where I have CWM but cannot get CM7 because of the SD Card issue.
twisted03 said:
Oh ok... I'm sorry never had that problem before... Then only thing I can suggest is probably start from scratch again or get and us a different sd card
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I have tried a few different SD Card. Same problem.
stephen_w said:
Weird. I wonder if it would help if you copy all of the files from the SD card to your computer, go into Settings, SD card and phone storage, Unmount SD card, and Format SD card, if it would then read it in CWM?
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Not tried this yet. Will try this now with a couple of the cards I've tried.
By the way, thanks everybody for trying to help me! I really do appreciate it!
stephen_w said:
Weird. I wonder if it would help if you copy all of the files from the SD card to your computer, go into Settings, SD card and phone storage, Unmount SD card, and Format SD card, if it would then read it in CWM?
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And what do you know? Of all things, this was the problem and I verified it with all 3 uSD cards I've tried! They've all been formatted via my old TBolt, a Fascinate, and Droid X and worked just fine in those devices.
Thanks for suggesting such an obvious and simple thing to try!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1500427&highlight=thomas+raines+gremlin+remover
here is a link fir the gremlin remover
Jaxidian said:
And what do you know? Of all things, this was the problem and I verified it with all 3 uSD cards I've tried! They've all been formatted via my old TBolt, a Fascinate, and Droid X and worked just fine in those devices.
Thanks for suggesting such an obvious and simple thing to try!
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No worries; glad it worked
Please help. Same problem here. Cant mount sd card it says. What can i do?
My ROM does not have a format button in the settings, is there another way to format the internal SD space within Android itself?
Jessical said:
My ROM does not have a format button in the settings, is there another way to format the internal SD space within Android itself?
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Quite possibly, kinda. Are you rooted? If so, what recovery are you using? Most recoveries allow you to do this.
Why do u need to format within android? Why not just format from your pc?
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Boot into recovery, select Mounts and storage then format sdcard/ or emmc whichever one you are wanting to format
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gs2usr said:
Boot into recovery, select Mounts and storage then format sdcard/ or emmc whichever one you are wanting to format
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this is correct, or as an alternative u could either a) hook it up to a computer, mount it and format, or b) use adb, but I recommend either a or the method gs2usr suggested
im gonna post in this thread instead of making a new one since im having a similar issue.
In CW recovery it'll tell me it cant mount my sd-ext and as well give me an error when trying to install a custom rom from my emmc, so do i need to do a format of both of those in order to get a custom rom to finally install again?
i've had this error ever since i switched back to rogers stock 4.0.4 to try it out
I'm getting errors in cwm too. How can I do it in ADB? Macs don't do fat32 correctly and I don't have a Windows machine.
confyzone said:
im gonna post in this thread instead of making a new one since im having a similar issue.
In CW recovery it'll tell me it cant mount my sd-ext and as well give me an error when trying to install a custom rom from my emmc, so do i need to do a format of both of those in order to get a custom rom to finally install again?
i've had this error ever since i switched back to rogers stock 4.0.4 to try it out
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Figured it out. Please try this and see if it fixes your internal aswell.
So go ahead if you don't have it, ADB install a copy of Root Explorer.
Go into the emmc folder and give it read and write permissions.
Now, in the settings, under storage, it should let you reformat the disk again and you should be okay.
I have no idea what's up with CWR, but we were told not to use it anymore on our Kindles due to it messing with partitions. But this is how I just fixed my Skyrocket, just in time for the fireworks tonight.
when in cwm, mount the emmc first
Jessical said:
Figured it out. Please try this and see if it fixes your internal aswell.
So go ahead if you don't have it, ADB install a copy of Root Explorer.
Go into the emmc folder and give it read and write permissions.
Now, in the settings, under storage, it should let you reformat the disk again and you should be okay.
I have no idea what's up with CWR, but we were told not to use it anymore on our Kindles due to it messing with partitions. But this is how I just fixed my Skyrocket, just in time for the fireworks tonight.
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Gonna give it a go I don't use root explorer but i use es file explorer which is the same pretty much
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I've already flashed a custom recovery image of ClockworkMod Recovery 5.8.3.1 and have rebooted into recovery, which works fine.
I have Downloaded the latest version of CyanogenMod and gapps-ics and placed on the root of the sd card in my xoom. I have also tried this by placing this in the root on the internal storage but I am having the same issue here.
I can wipe data/factory reset fine, as well as wipe cache no issues, but then when I go into install zip from SD card, then choose zip from sd card I get the line E:Can't mount /sd/card/ so can't install the zips cm-9.0.0-rc1-wingray or gapps-ics
Any thoughts on what might be the issue here, and why I cant get to the zips. As I said I have tried this both ways, having the zips on the internal storage and on the actual SD card.
HELP! So so fed up with v3.2 I need CM9 on this!
I don't know if the message is caused by the launcher. I would disable the signature check and try again.
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nliu0704 said:
I don't know if the message is caused by the launcher. I would disable the signature check and try again.
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I had the same problem, did a few google searches which indicated there was a problem with that version of ClockworkModRecovery, i ended up reflashing with ClockworkMod 3.2.0.0 (R4c) and all was fine after that.
Hope that helps,
K
Thanks will give that a go and post back later for if it helps others.
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Hello, i recently returned to stock. Afterwards I re-installed CM9, now my SD card won't mount in anything, when i try to mount it in CM9 it just immediatly says SD card safe to remove. any help/suggestions would be appreciated.
Also I have tried the method in this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630459 but it did not help.
Do u have cwm or twrp?
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I am currently running cwm
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I recently had a problem with the sdcard not being mountable too. Mine was corrupted so I had to reformat it.
In was using twrp recovery but it is probably the same with Cwm. Try to mount the sdcard from recovery with your pc. The pc might say it needs to be reformatted before use. If so, you just format it to fat32.
Hope it is this simple for you too.
No, the card will not mount in recovery.
Would returning my phone to stock help me in this matter at all?
Cwm can't mount sd card usr twrp
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I tried twrp and it still won't mount.
Did you look at this thread? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630459
It is a common problem.
OK i ran through the process in the post again, for some reason it seems to have worked ths time around. Thanks for the help!