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Can't access SD card, halp!

Hi everyone, looking for a little guidance.
Phone: Android G1 (Rogers Canada Dream) running Cyanogen 4.2.15.1, been running fine since 4.2.6.1
Removed SD card while it was on and it rebooted... when it restarted it showed no applications and said the SD card was inaccessible and required a format. After rebooting a few times with no success I bit the bullet and formatted it... all apps are gone except for the ones that are on that image for Cyanogen. I have no market app to download new apps and when I plug it into my PC and mount it I don't see it show up as a drive like it did so I have no way to get the apps back on.
Has anyone had this happen before? Phone still works but I need to get it back to a state where I can get access to the SD and install the market... Any suggestions appreciated!!

There is a thread on the HERO section of Modaco site called "no adb, no sd". I think the 1st post on the last page MIGHT help. There are adb commands you can run to see if the phone has randomly stopped accessing the SD. Worth a shot.
PM me if you have trouble finding the thread n I'll have a look when I'm at my laptop.
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I misunderstood I think.
So it is now showing an sd present? Have you tried formatting in a pc?
Tried reboot without the sd in, then insert once fully booted again?
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I remove the SD Card, formatted it in my PC put it back in the phone and I can store pics and vids on it and access them but cant see or access it from the PC when in the phone. I also have no file browser so I cant install any apps or even access the market icon is gone).

D RoiD said:
Hi there! I had posted on the forum with the G1 issue where my SD card seemed to have died.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=738105
I have since removed the SD card and reformatted it, I can store pics and vids and replay them so the card is fine. I tried letting it boot up then adding the SD card when booted, that caused it to reboot, same issue...
Not having access to the card, I cant install any apps or browse the SD to install from there... really sucks
I'd be willing to blow it away and restart too and install CyanogenMod-5.0.8 but I need some guidance.
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I got your message pal....
Ok,.... So pictures and videos taken with your phone camera DO save to your SD?.... and you CAN access them on your phone OR if you put your SD into your PC/Lappy?... But not when trying to "mount SD"?
Or have I got that completely wrong?.... Did you put pics&vids onto it through your PC, and thats the only access you get to it?

ddotpatel said:
I got your message pal....
Ok,.... So pictures and videos taken with your phone camera DO save to your SD?.... and you CAN access them on your phone OR if you put your SD into your PC/Lappy?... But not when trying to "mount SD"?
Or have I got that completely wrong?.... Did you put pics&vids onto it through your PC, and thats the only access you get to it?
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Pics taken DO save to me SD. I Can access them from a PC is I remove the SD and put it in the PC. Not when I plug the phone in via USB then tell it to mount.
I just did a low level format, same issue.
UPDATE: Just tried the Android System Recovery and Toggle USB-MS and it shows on my laptop now! Going to try the recovery backup now.

aha,... so its just a mounting issue, not that the hardware has turned itself off.
Once when using an older ROM (maybe Villain 10?) we had this same issue, not able to mount SD,... going into Settings --> Connect to PC --> and turning off Notify/ask me solved the problem.

I just partitionned it using:
parted /dev/block/mmcblk0
print (to verfiy we know what size card we are dealing with, the details should be straight forward)
rm 1
rm 2
mkpartfs primary fat32 0 7500
mkpartfs primary ext2 7500 7948
quit
upgrade_fs
reboot recovery
Then put CyanogenMod-5 For Dream/Magic on the SD and renamed it update.zip
I'm in Android System recovery now and just did a nandroid backup.
I should be able to WIPE then FLASH UPDATE IMAGE right?

D RoiD said:
I just partitionned it using:
parted /dev/block/mmcblk0
print (to verfiy we know what size card we are dealing with, the details should be straight forward)
rm 1
rm 2
mkpartfs primary fat32 0 7500
mkpartfs primary ext2 7500 7948
quit
upgrade_fs
reboot recovery
Then put CyanogenMod-5 For Dream/Magic on the SD and renamed it update.zip
I'm in Android System recovery now and just did a nandroid backup.
I should be able to WIPE then FLASH UPDATE IMAGE right?
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Yes, if you have the ROM image on the SD Card (FAT32 partition), you can go flash the image.

akapoor said:
Yes, if you have the ROM image on the SD Card (FAT32 partition), you can go flash the image.
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Stupid question but when I wipe will it delete my contacts as well?
I assume yes but...

D RoiD said:
Stupid question but when I wipe will it delete my contacts as well?
I assume yes but...
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If your contacts are saved in the phone's memory, then yes. Any settings, apps, configurations that are stored on the phone will all be gone.
A wipe pretty much gives you the factory settings. (As if you just bought the phone) So you'll have to re-signin into your Google Account and let the Contacts Sync, etc..
EDIT: Depending on what you are flashing (flashing and wiping are two different things), you may not even need to wipe.

Hmmm I tried flash update image and got:
E: Cant open /sdcard/update.zip (No such file or directory)
When I mount it in system recovery I see the LOST.DIR and update.zip

D RoiD said:
Hmmm I tried flash update image and got:
E: Cant open /sdcard/update.zip (No such file or directory)
When I mount it in system recovery I see the LOST.DIR and update.zip
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Try this:
-Confirm the Image-
1) Make sure you have the full image you are going to flash. (Compare MD5 Hashes and/or just redownload the image)
2) Make sure the image you are flashing is the in the ROOT directory of your SDCard. In other words, it shouldn't be in any folder.
-Flash the Image-
1) When in Recovery, choose to flash an image.
2) Depending on what recovery you have, you may have to select/find the Image you want to flash.
3) Flash the image
-Wipe (Depends)-
1) If you are coming from a different ROM base (ie anything -> cyan), you'll want to wipe.
2) After the phone successfully flashes the image, wipe the phone.
Reboot.
Let me know how it goes.

I pulled the new image from: Latest version: 5.0.8-DS - 06/19/2010
Download: http://cyanogen-upda...8-DS-signed.zip
but it says no such file or DIR... weird...
The only partition I can see on my PC to put it on is the main partition...
I just downloaded the file and renamed it update.zip

D RoiD said:
I pulled the new image from: Latest version: 5.0.8-DS - 06/19/2010
Download: http://cyanogen-upda...8-DS-signed.zip
but it says no such file or DIR... weird...
The only partition I can see on my PC to put it on is the main partition...
I just downloaded the file and renamed it update.zip
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I just realized the main reason that you posted this topic. From what I am assuming, either:
a) Your SD Card reader is dead
b) The software isn't recognizing the SD Card reader.
Best bet at this point is to setup ADB (ADB For Dummies) and flash the image from your computer. It can get a slight bit complicated, but just slowly go through each step for installing ADB.
Once ADB is set up, you can flash the image from the computer.

akapoor said:
I just realized the main reason that you posted this topic. From what I am assuming, either:
a) Your SD Card reader is dead
b) The software isn't recognizing the SD Card reader.
Best bet at this point is to setup ADB (ADB For Dummies) and flash the image from your computer. It can get a slight bit complicated, but just slowly go through each step for installing ADB.
Once ADB is set up, you can flash the image from the computer.
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The SD card reader in my phone? It has to work if I can read an write to it ( tested photos and videos) and in recovery I was able to make a backup.
If its the software I need to flash it then right? ADB does make me nervous as I only used it once... I just tried using the terminal emulator on the phone to flash a recovery image I had made while back:
cd /sdcard
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-backup.img
and got the message "error writing recovery: Permission denied"

D RoiD said:
If its the software I need to flash it then right? ADB does make me nervous as I only used it once... I just tried using the terminal emulator on the phone to flash a recovery image I had made while back:
cd /sdcard
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-backup.img
and got the message "error writing recovery: Permission denied"
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If you can view the pictures that you saved on the SD card from the phone, then both the software and hardware are functioning correctly.
Regarding the permission denied:
1) What happens if you "su - " in terminal?
2) First try one(1) ^ and then try to reinstate the permissions. (In recovery, go to console and type : fix_permissions)
Not sure otherwise.

akapoor said:
If you can view the pictures that you saved on the SD card from the phone, then both the software and hardware are functioning correctly.
Regarding the permission denied:
1) What happens if you "su - " in terminal?
2) First try one(1) ^ and then try to reinstate the permissions. (In recovery, go to console and type : fix_permissions)
Not sure otherwise.
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Ok I did a wipe and now I see the SD when mounted on the PC with the phone on.
I have my market icon back so I can reinstall my crap.
I'll leave it as is for a bit but appreciate everyones input!!!

[GUIDE] How to run SD version of CM7.1 on HTC Desire S (fried emmc chips too).

I designed this version of the system for my broken phone with fried emmc chip. This disk can be used in the working devices as "Recovery Disk"/"Emergency Disk" for testing purposes or other google's account))
1. Get “adb” and “fastboot” from Android SDK tool.
2. Prepare a blank memory card (Micro SD 4GB and more) for recording an image of the system.
3. Download the system image to a memory card sdcard_4g.rar.
4. Decompress/unrar archive, and u get the image of the SD card sdcard_4g.img.
5. Write image to your sdcard with:
Linux:
Code:
dd if=/path_to/sdcard_4g.img of=/dev/sdX
”, where X your device.​Windows:
Write image with Image writer for Windows to Micro SD card​Experts can make own sized partitions with this structure:
Code:
sdb1 – fat32 (rest size) the external storage
sdb2 – extendet partition
sdb5 – ext2 – 4MB
sdb6 – ext2 – 4MB
sdb7 – ext4 – 585MB /system
sdb8 – ext4 – 315MB /cache
sdb9 – ext4 – 28MB /devlog
sdb10 – ext4 – about 1-1.2GB /userdata
then decompress and copy system.7z:
Code:
dd if=/path_to/system.img of=/dev/scX7
, where X your device.​6. Dowload bootloader's image “bootsd.img”.
7. Boot your phone to “BOOTLOADER” (VolDown+Pwr → Pwr).
8. Connect device to computer via USB cable.
9. Boot your device:
Command line
Code:
fastboot boot /path_to/bootsd.img
Wait 3-5 minutes (The 1st boot can take some time, depend on speed of memory card).​
If all goes well, you get the device working without using the phone's internal memory!!!
Good Luck!!!
PS: Be careful the image of the memory card will erase all existing information on it! Select the correct device before recording an image on the memory card. The author assumes no responsibility for the integrity of your data and equipment damage!
If you think the author's helpful, buy him a beer!
Booting from "Recovery":
To launch an android from the "Recovery", copy the "update.zip" to your memory card at root directory of the fat32 partition. In the "RECOVERY" select "apply update from sd card" and confirm "install" by selecting "Yes - Install ...". Installing update.zip only starts the Android system from the SD card. Now you can run the system without a PC.
This method is suitable to run in an emergency, if discharged or the phone needs a restart. He uses the chroot method and kernel in your RecoveryMod, so there may be some limitations of the functional (ex. WiFi module bcm4329.ko - wifi dont work after boot from Recovery).

Downloading and testing...
Will give you feed back as soon as i boot

Now I'm working on others ROMs based on CM7.2 and ICS... Waiting for your replay
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It works!
Everything is working ok! How about a mini-guide on how to build customized sd-images?

Mini howto)
U can modify the contents of the memory card directly through the card reader. U need a PC with Linux only, because Android - a Linux + virtual machine Dalvik. Now you do not need "RECOVERY" to clear/wipe the cache or user data. Simply delete unnecessary or format /cache or /date partitions, without fear of damaging the data on your phone, you can always restore from an image memory card, or take another card.
Change "/system" partition to add/remove programs, sounds, pictures and more right on the disk.
PS: Howto about progamming, compiling kernel or android... It's not a trivial task, it can be described in several books. And the principles have been repeatedly described in the Internet. I may write later. Still a lot of things I can do.

the mposelys
Hah if only HTC could come up with a solution such as this! +1 :angel:

Mostly Devices can boot by this way, if they have MicroSD or USB port. This is "Linux way".
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Awesome! it is working! I almost got my phone boot after 10 months. THANK YOU SO MUCH!. Is it possible to directly boot into SDcard after rebooting?

Im working on boot from the Recovery. U need SD Card Class 10 or 6 to quick booting phone.
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you can upload an image flash drive with the original firmware 4.0

Great !!
for me it works !! i got my phone back after 3 months of death
but there is small problem ! when i switched it off then turned it on it gets stuck on HTC logo
and i have to do the last few steps again and again to turn the HTC on.
"7. Boot your phone to “BOOTLOADER” (VolDown+Pwr → Pwr).
8. Connect device to computer via USB cable.
9. Boot your device"
is there any way to avoid this ??
Many thanks for you man

AWESOME!!!
Unfortunately,mine Volume down key doesn't work well...ANYWAY,THANKS!

Added loader from the "RECOVERY" menu...
Added loader from the "RecoveryMod" by install update.zip .

kibril said:
Added loader from the "RecoveryMod" by install update.zip .
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how can i do this ??
i copied it the SD card and tried to install it from recovery mode but nothing happened
and another thing ,, is there any way to enlarge the free space of my SD card
its 16 Giga and after writing the system image on it it turned to 1.79 G only.
Thanks

Not running
Hey
When I try to run this on my branded desire S I get stuck at the carrier screen, if I try to boot via recovery method I get an sd card mount error, I have tried writing this to my sd card in both linux and windows.
Thanks

U have problem in sdcard slot. I have same problem after service. Place correctly MicroSD in the slot.
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tetotarek said:
how can i do this ??
i copied it the SD card and tried to install it from recovery mode but nothing happened
and another thing ,, is there any way to enlarge the free space of my SD card
its 16 Giga and after writing the system image on it it turned to 1.79 G only.
Thanks
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Try boot from fastboot 1st time. About 16G make own sized partitions or u can resize partitions in Gparted/parted under Linux.
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kibril said:
U have problem in sdcard slot. I have same problem after service. Place correctly MicroSD in the slot.
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I can run this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1575272 just fine though so I don't think it's and issue this my SD card,
thanks for the reply though

kibril said:
Try boot from fastboot 1st time. About 16G make own sized partitions or u can resize partitions in Gparted/parted under Linux.
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Now I can restart / shutdown my phone perfectly by your suburb solve ( update.zip )
also i partitioned my SD card so now the external memory is about 12 Giga
Many thanks man you rooked my life

Important thing
Now, and after couple of days using my desire s, i can say that everything works great and perfectly except two important things
1- it can't read any of Pic's files that i copied it on my SD card from PC - when i open the gallery it says - there is no items - despite when i capture photo from the camera he can read it and i can find it in the gallery !!
2- it can't read any of music files that i copied on my SD card also
i tried everything but it seems it is something unsolvable.
Any ideas ??

[Q] Nexus S can't see sdcard

Hi All,
I've just updated my Nexus S i9023 to the latest stable Cyanogen Mod (10.1.3) and am now having problems seeing the internal sdcard. I've tried flashing 10.2 RC1 as well as mounting it via recovery mode but everything I do fails to get it to mount.
Would any body have suggestions on how to troubleshoot this (best place to look for logs to find errors) or have come across this before and know how to resolve it?

sdfw said:
Hi All,
I've just updated my Nexus S i9023 to the latest stable Cyanogen Mod (10.1.3) and am now having problems seeing the internal sdcard. I've tried flashing 10.2 RC1 as well as mounting it via recovery mode but everything I do fails to get it to mount.
Would any body have suggestions on how to troubleshoot this (best place to look for logs to find errors) or have come across this before and know how to resolve it?
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when you turn off your nexus,then turn on holding volume up and power,can you enter into mode where you can access your sd card?
Can you see your files from sd then?

mirkozg15 said:
when you turn off your nexus,then turn on holding volume up and power,can you enter into mode where you can access your sd card?
Can you see your files from sd then?
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No, It doesn't see it in recovery either. If I go to Mounts and Storage section and do a "Mount /sdcard" it just give a "Error mounting /sdcard!" warning
Same if I try to format /sdcard. I just get
Code:
Formatting /sdcard....
Error mounting /sdcard!
Skipping format...
Done

A couple of other pieces of the puzzle
The phone was encrypted before upgrade (and since reencrypted)
When I go to settings -> storage, I see what looks like the contents of the storage flashing up before disappearing

HI there.
I used to have same problem all day and I found a solution which works for me.
Under flashboot I put older version of recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-crespo. Only with this one it allows me to see actually usb mount storage.
I still can't mount the storage card for flash, but I can see it in my laptop. So I do full format in fat32. (It takes about an hour).
After that everything was fine.
Hope this works for you too.

Mitax said:
Hope this works for you too.
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Thanks for suggestion. I try but still not seeing the sdcard storage and mount / format from recovery give same error as above

Where are CWM Backups?

Hello,
I just unlocked, installed CWM and rootet my Nexus 5. Then I made a CWM backup and wanted to transfer it to my PC. But in the storage mounted on my PC I see only the CWM folder but not backups inside. When I boot into CWM and want to delete backups I see all backups I made. I tried also to mount SDcard via CWM, but that doesn't work, nothing happens after hitting mount sd card.
Where can I find those backups? MaybeI have a problem to understand the device storage w/o a sd card :/ it's my first phone w/o SDcard
TIA

dbsoundz said:
Hello,
I just unlocked, installed CWM and rootet my Nexus 5. Then I made a CWM backup and wanted to transfer it to my PC. But in the storage mounted on my PC I see only the CWM folder but not backups inside. When I boot into CWM and want to delete backups I see all backups I made. I tried also to mount SDcard via CWM, but that doesn't work, nothing happens after hitting mount sd card.
Where can I find those backups? MaybeI have a problem to understand the device storage w/o a sd card :/ it's my first phone w/o SDcard
TIA
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Use a file explorer, preferably ES File Manager. Then, press the globe on the upper left hand corner and swipe down to activate the root capabilities. Then, go to the root of your phone and it should be in this folder
/mnt/shell/emulated/clockworkmod/backup

They're in /data/media instead of /data/media/0 (which is what /sdcard points to) because CWM didn't change teh mount point when android did in android 4.2

absoluterebirth said:
Use a file explorer, preferably ES File Manager. Then, press the globe on the upper left hand corner and swipe down to activate the root capabilities. Then, go to the root of your phone and it should be in this folder
/mnt/shell/emulated/clockworkmod/backup
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thanks for your help.. Yes, but in the folder clockworkmod I see only one (config)file...
however, i just wiped the phone nd wnated to try it again. No I can't boot it anymore ahhh It sticks at "google logo" and an unlocked lock... I think I wiped too much?! I think I formated too much?! Mount usb storage still doesn't work in CWM... damn

How to fix /mnt/local shows empty?

Hello, i have a problem with the internal storage of my android tablet, basically i installed a custom rom a while back but the wifi didn't work on it so i decided to go back in CWM and wipe data, cache + dalvik cache and /system, after that i restored my backup and everything went good (app installs fine from playstore and they work) but i can't see my internal storage on the integrated file manager or even from my pc, it just shows my sd card, the folder where the internal storage was is /mnt/local and now when i go there even with adb it shows empy, so with adb i went to /data/media and i tried this command i found on the internet :
mount -o bind /mnt/local /data/media
but it didn't work i still don't see anything in my /mnt/local dir
(and now after using that i don't see anything in my /data/media either)
my device is running Android 4.0.3 ICS and it is rooted, i also tried to restoring my backup again but i still have the same issue :/, before installing the rom i also created an image zip from the recovery just for safety but now im stuck as the only thing i found on the internet was one video of one person that just factory reset his phone and it worked again for him but for me it didn't, here is the video i saw, which has the same problem as me:
Thanks for the help.

Ok i fixed my /data/media directory by using umount /mnt/local, now if i do ls in /data/media via ADB all files show again but still no internal memory on file manager.

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hello? can anyone help me please?

jonnyprogamer said:
hello? can anyone help me please?
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hey again!did you try a different file manager?

notnoelchannel said:
hey again!did you try a different file manager?
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yes i did, i tried zarchiver but it shows empty, and when i connect the tablet to pc it only shows one drive named "Sd Card" when before it showed "Sd Card" and "Internal Storage" folder, i think that by restoring the stock rom the mnt/local got unmounted