format sd card? - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III

i posted this question in one of the links, but it probably should have been here. amyways, after doing some searches, i have not been able to find an answer as to whether or not i should format my sd card before i root the s3. i just got my s3 yesterday and i am coming from the tbolt.
can someone please answer?
tia

cmegalodon said:
i posted this question in one of the links, but it probably should have been here. amyways, after doing some searches, i have not been able to find an answer as to whether or not i should format my sd card before i root the s3. i just got my s3 yesterday and i am coming from the tbolt.
can someone please answer?
tia
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This should be in Q&A, but there's no real reason you should have to format before root. Maybe if you are flashing a rom and want to get rid of old data...But I didn't wipe mine to root.

I had come from a Tbolt and used the 32gb card in the S3. just so i didn't have to deal with any problems between the two different phones leaving files specific to each phone and interfering with each other, i pulled a clean slate and formatted the card. no issues, it's just like when you first got your Tbolt and it came with a wiped clean card or even straight from the package.
would it hurt to have those original files on there? maybe and maybe not but why risk going through the process to find out.
good luck!!

thanks

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[Q] Noob Question. How easy is it to brick the sensation.

Hi, I've searched the threads for this question but didn't really find a clear answer. I'm sorry if this is a noob question because i just sold my Mytouch 4g and looking to buy this phone. I'm just wondering how easy is it to brick this phone because I've read on forums of people bricking their sensation by formatting their SD card, installing an aosp roms, etc. I really want this phone and i NEED ROOT. Any suggestions?
You'll be fine. You've already done some research and found a nasty way of bricking it. Beyond that, it should (hopefully) be just the standards: trashing radio or bootloader
Thanks for the reply. Ok so basically just don't format the sd card on an aosp rom and i'll be fine?
Bug may have been addressed in some newer (read: very new) implementations, judging by a post I came across a few hours ago. Don't have it on hand anymore.
But, might as well format via pc or recovery to play it safe.
Check hash of radio/bootloader if possible and be very careful to not cut the usb / crash if flashing externally.
Alright thanks for your help.

Flashing ROM question

Getting ready to flash a new rom and was wondering if flashing will wipe the "built in" sd card?
Ive flashed many roms on many phones but all had removable sd's, just need to know if I should back up everything, thanks!
As you know, you should back up the sdcard before flashing anyway. This question was answered somewhere in sub-forum but forget where and the answer. I would not think it would wipe the 10gb section of the card. Just the OS section and maybe the 2.5gb app section, that you would restore with TB. Not 100% sure though. I haven't flashed a rom yet, just rooted and flashed custom recovery. Waiting for a very stable .78 rom, or whatever US number is, for US TMobile or the OTA. Phone runs so well, not in a hurry--
it wont wipe the sd card. its on a seperate partition and wont be touched.
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Appreciate confirmation. I will have to look into repartitioning the card after a format, when needed. And, exactly what the partitions are on the card. Easy on the N1, haven't researched it yet on One S.
ok great thanks to both for the replies

[Q] My Samsung galaxy Exhibit will not allow me to go back to Stock Rom

Is not recognizing my external Sd. I am running CM9. Everything was working fine for a week. All of suddenly no SD card recognition .
Is there a step or steps for me to correct this problems. I want to go back to the Stock Exhibit rom, but has been unable to do so. I am at a lost, I have no idea what to do. In other word my phone and I am screwed. There a bevy of problems I have created and do not know how to correct them. Any help and advice would be appreciated.
Thank You in advance.
This is part of the risk you assume when you play around with roms. If you are not willing to assume that risk, then don't play around with things.
If your card is not being detected, make a backup of your card to your computer and format the sd card. Then copy the contents back once the card is recognised. If that is not working, then buy a new sd card and try with that one. It's quite unlikely that you phone has a broken sd card reader.
Not Recognizing my Sd Card
I assumed the risk, and I am not blaming anyone. I appreciate your help. Thanks.
forceps42 said:
This is part of the risk you assume when you play around with roms. If you are not willing to assume that risk, then don't play around with things.
If your card is not being detected, make a backup of your card to your computer and format the sd card. Then copy the contents back once the card is recognised. If that is not working, then buy a new sd card and try with that one. It's quite unlikely that you phone has a broken sd card reader.
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I asked for advice about why my phone was not recognizing my SD card. I appreciate your suggestion. I accept all responsibility for what happened to my phone as I was playing around with things. It is not the end of the world, if I cannot get it back to recognizing the SD card or when it is connected to the USB. I will and can continue to use it as it is running CM9. Just wanted to return it to stock; so that I could play around with it again and flash a new custom rom to it. I am not deterred because of this one hiccup.
I thank you for that I have formatted the SD, tried another one and still no regonition. It can be the worst case scenario my sd card reader could be shot but I did learned how to flash and root, install a custom rom...no regrets there. Thak You for your help.
Hopefully you had made a nandroid backup of the stock rom after you had (again hopefully) installed recovery.
If that is the case then you can boot into recovery and restore the stock rom nandroid backup. If you do not have that, then things will get more complicated. You'll have to find a stock nandroid backup for that specific phone+carrier from somewhere and load it back while in recovery. If you don't have recovery, you'll have to push that on first while your phone is connected to the computer via usb.
I got it back by flashing stock via ODIN
I am back with the stock rom. Much thanks to all the people at XDA for posting questions and answers for the same problems I was having. I just kept reading question and answers forum pertaining to the Exhibit and I finally found the answers; of course nothing was easy after the ODIN download, the phone was in a rebooting loop. Someone had the same problem and I found the answer. I tried the solution and the phone booted up perfectly. I will give myself a week and then I will root it again and install one of the custom roms for The Exhibit 2. But now I am too tired and so glad to have my phone back as it was when I got it via Tmobile.
Thank you and everyone for your help and explaining it in terms whereas a person like myself came solve his/her problems.
You can use oldin and download stock rom from Samsung and flast it via oldin
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thanhhai8888 said:
You can use oldin and download stock rom from Samsung and flast it via oldin
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
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Thank you, that is exactly what I did. Have a good day!

[Q] Lost microSim, need to sell phone-help

I recently found my old OpV from when I was on virgin. The phone is still in good condition, turns on, I even have an extended battery for it. I want to sell it cuz I could use the extra money right now.
Thing is..
It's running a version of IHO that I flashed back a while ago.
I don't know what happened to the micro sd card I had in it.
I need to know how, if possible, to get the phone running the stock software again, using an sd card other than the one I had in there when I flashed the rom.
I currently have an htc sensation, so I can back up the files off it's card, erase the card and use it to work on the OpV.
Thing is i'm pretty rusty when it comes to this so if someone could link me, or tell me the steps to getting this thing stock again I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks.
TeddyTits said:
I recently found my old OpV from when I was on virgin. The phone is still in good condition, turns on, I even have an extended battery for it. I want to sell it cuz I could use the extra money right now.
Thing is..
It's running a version of IHO that I flashed back a while ago.
I don't know what happened to the micro sd card I had in it.
I need to know how, if possible, to get the phone running the stock software again, using an sd card other than the one I had in there when I flashed the rom.
I currently have an htc sensation, so I can back up the files off it's card, erase the card and use it to work on the OpV.
Thing is i'm pretty rusty when it comes to this so if someone could link me, or tell me the steps to getting this thing stock again I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks.
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Dang! You ARE rusty! So much so that you forgot to SEARCH in the Optimus V Android Development section! You would have found this in the first post of the first sticky thread!
Contains link to stock ROM and recovery along with instructions to flash them near the end of the post.

[Completed] [Q] unfixable bootloop vzw (original) droid incredible

I already tried a stock PB31IMG.zip file to the SD's root directory, I get a no Image found. the sd is brand new, FAT32 .
Once, the phone actually started up but then went back into the boot loop, so it may be fried?
I want to try one last time to get this phone back to stock, or rooted, or whatever.
I do NOT need any info on the phone.
I want to completely reset it to zero.
I am trying to figure out how to RUU it?
Any advice or threads would be gratefully appreciated!!!
Hi, thank you for using XDA Assist. First, make sure the sdcard is working properly. Even though it's new there are a lot of bad cards out there. The best is to use an external card reader. There is a forum for your device here, http://forum.xda-developers.com/droid-incredible-2. They are the experts on your device. Specifically, see if this helps, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1466295

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