I'm rooted and use cwm. Why when I try to back -up my phone to my external SD card it says can't mount external. It only lets me back -up to my internal . I didn't know if there was something I'm missing or what. Thanks
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If your external is not formatted to fat 32 then thats the problem.
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Im on cm7 and i just reformatted my sd card by going to settings/storage/erase sd card. It formatted but now every time I click mount it says blank sd card and doesnt mount. Also it wont recognize when I plug it into my computer with the data cable. Thanks.
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try to reformat on pc or in clockwork
how do i format in clockwork
Mount and format menu, format /sdcard make sure you backup first.
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If I format my sd card from my computer what should i format it in (ntfs , fat 32)?
Fat 32 is what u want
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Why does my 16gb sd card only show to be 6or so gb? I know its partitioned but where is all of the other space?
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Just a question. Are you looking at the sdcard OR sdcard_external sdcard in your file explorer???
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sd card. in linda file manager
Reformat it. Either it is messed up and there is unused space not accounted for, or it is a bogus card and not really 16gb (many China cards are fakes).
What you are seeing is the internal SD card that came with the phone, it's non removable and show up as SD. The 16gb card you put in is listed as external like mhsamma said.
I made a nandroid backup and tried to restore it but it says it failed..and can't mount system or anything then phone won't boot up..help?
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What recovery version are you using?
Cwm 5.0.2.7 i think. 4 won't even mount my sd card
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dblkspecial said:
Cwm 5.0.2.7 i think. 4 won't even mount my sd card
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That's odd. I found that the Orange 4.0.1.4, as I recall, was very reliable and worked very well with backups and restores. I would suggest copying the contents of the SD card to your computer. Then I suggest running a chkdsk on your SD card. You would type the following into the command prompt (run as aministrator).
chkdsk F: /f /r /v /x
After it is done I would format the SD card as FAT32 with 32K sector size.
Then I would copy the contents that you copied off earlier back to your SD card.
I know this might not seem relevant, but at least it would take SD card corruption out of the equation. It doesn't take too long and its pretty easy to do this, you just need an SD card reader if you can't boot into your phone to mount the SD card.
If you still have the same trouble, I'm not really sure what do tell you. It seems that there is a problem with the SD card or reading the SD card. You could try to copy the contents of your SD card to another, different SD card and give it a go.
dblkspecial said:
Cwm 5.0.2.7 i think. 4 won't even mount my sd card
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There's also a little blurb in the OP for CWM recovery that tells you a possible way around the sdcard mounting issues.
Okay, so I am just tired of the confusion in my head here.
I'm not a noob with rooting or anything of the sort, but I am not used to a phone with an internal SD card and an external SD card.
I am downloading a ROM to flash to my Galaxy S3 and it saves to the SD card... does that mean that it is saving to the phones memory and not the actual SD card I put into it?
There is an SD Card and an external SD card.
Which one is which? Haha.
And if I am right, like I think I am... the external SD card is the actual SD card I put into it and the SD Card is the phones internal memory.
How can I download from the internet and have it save onto the external SD?
AND...
When backing up a ROM before flashing a new one, do you recommend that I back up to SD card or external SD card?
And do you recommend I flash a ROM from the SD card or from the external SD card?
It seems that IF my external SD card somehow decided to corrupt while I was running off of a ROM that was installed via external SD card, that it wouldn't be able to boot after it corrupted.
Am I correct on all of this?
Sorry. Your answers are more than appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
I have mine setup to download the roms, pictures, media or backups to the external sd card. In cwm I save a backup to both internal and external for the extra security. I just use external for everything because I have a 32gb sd card that has everything. The internal memory is just used for system stuff.
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bbqsfire said:
I have mine setup to download the roms, pictures, media or backups to the external sd card. In cwm I save a backup to both internal and external for the extra security. I just use external for everything because I have a 32gb sd card that has everything. The internal memory is just used for system stuff.
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Perfect. That's absolutely everything I needed to know. I guess no matter what you download from the browser, it will download to the internal memory... but you can manually move it to the external SD with Root Browser.
Thank you man.
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RBarnett09 said:
Perfect. That's absolutely everything I needed to know. I guess no matter what you download from the browser, it will download to the internal memory... but you can manually move it to the external SD with Root Browser.
Thank you man.
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Go into the advanced settings option on your Browser and it gives you the option to have things downloaded to memory card or internal. Just change that to memory card and it will do it for you.
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Hello,
is possible on ICS to change mount order so no SD card is mounted until Internal Storage is ? Or that applications are not loaded until Internal Storage is mounted ?
It can done with cwm…
Just unmount the sd card…
And again when you like to use it… mount it…
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abhi7395 said:
It can done with cwm…
Just unmount the sd card…
And again when you like to use it… mount it…
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well..the thing is that i have device with internal memory, internal storage and also SD card. Problem is that the SD card is mount before internal storage and all apps ive installed before restart do disappear and there are just icons on which when i click nothing happens. Thats the reason i would like to change the order but no idea where..