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Can't mount sd card

Hi there I have a problem
My problem is that i've just root'ed my HTC Desire (I think?)
But my Desire won't boot right.. It only boots to recovery mode...
If i try to install an update.zip with clockwork it says can't read sd card
Pretty much anything i do on clockwork it says "E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0) (No such file or directory) E: Can't mount SDCARD:"
I have also tried adb but it says device not found
My computer registres my Desire when i plug it in but it doesn't recognize it..
What shall i do next?
Ps. I am running windows 7 x64
Sorry for any spelling errors i hope you understand and are able to help me

I had a similar problem. Try booting into clockworkmod recovery, connect your phone to your PC and select mount USB (or something like that) from the partitions menu. This should give you access to your SD card on your PC. Next, backup the contents of your SD card and then delete all partitions. I used gParted but i guess you can use disk manager in windows. One deleted, don't format the card or anything, just reboot the phone and hopefully you should boot up OK. Now you can format the SD card from within Android. Before you do all this is might be worth removing your SD card and seeing if you can boot up OK without it.

Thanks for reply
When I choose to "mount usb storage" nothing really happens it is not getting recoqnized
The phone won't boot without sd-card
Do you or anyone else know if you can sync your desire from recovery mode?

One step further
Okay i now got one step furter
My phone can now start up, but it still can't registre sd card
It just says sd-card removed
Any ideas

have you tried the "mount usb" option again? Although nothing appears to happen on the phone, you should be able to access the card from your PC. it worked for me in both Win7 and Ubuntu. Other than that I can't think of anything else apart from trying a different SD card.

I can't choose mount usb storage any more.. I can't get into clockwork
Now, when i press recovery I get into a black screen with at red triangle and i can choose from 3 or 4 things, inluding wipe and apply udate
I've allready tried a diffrent sdcard

Similar problem but extra issues
Searched for hours and been in a live chat a number of times and posted on another forum but can not find specific solution.
I wanted to install this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=789830 HD rom so I partitioned my sdcard (successfully, to ext3 1.5gb, 33mb linux swap, rest fat32) and started wiping via ClockworkMod recovery.
That is when I ran into problems.
Now I can not mount my sdcard - "E:Can't mount /dev/blocl/mmcblk0 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0p1) (invalid argument) Error mounting SDCARD:!"
When I reboot, it just loops.
WinXP will detect my device via adb (when in recovery) but can't see the sdcard.
I had never used fastboot, so I am not sure if I am typing commands correctly.
Htc Desire 2.2 GSM * Uk 3 network * 8gb class2 sdcard * Bravo pvt1 ship S-off Alpharev * Clockwork 2.5.0.7 * HBOOT 0.93.0001 *
Was on Teppic's rom with init.d support http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=773997
Any help would be very much appriciated.
I hope I haven't missed an obvious or relavent thread.
EDIT
Tried sdcard from Nokia6500 but Desire won't mount that either.
When I go into fastboot and plug in my usb, I do get "FASTBOOT USB" come up, so why would cmd "fastboot devices" not detect my phone? In recovery, cmd "adb devices" it does detect it.

I don't mean to be a pest but i doubt any of us can live without our desire's
BUMP

I have the same problem when i make ext etc. for me helps putting card into another phone with android and format it
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

I have no other android device but...
I have managed to get fastboot cmd's to recognise my device.
Just need to figure how to flash my phone but I dont really want to take any backwards steps in terms of flashing a recovery.
Would like to flash my last set-up if it is possible.
Wish me luck lol
EDIT
Sorted....ish
Long short cut short is:
sdcard reader, reformatted to all fat32 with Paragon hard disc manager 8.
copied rom zip to sd.
full wipe with clockwork recovery.
Then inserted sd and installed zip from sdcard.
booted.
smiled again, even though its a practically stock rom.

ok i just waited and it finally booted up normally and went under sdcard and erased all that data this removes the partitions

Possibly bricked.. Can I access SD via Fastboot?

So I've managed to basically brick my HTC Desire whilst attempting to install the Cyanogen ROM via ROM Manager (forgot to wipe my device so it ended up looping at the Cyanogen welcome screen). I then tried to restore my device to the backup ZIP file that I made with ClockworkMod but it didn't work - said file wasn't found when I tried to select it.
From there I tried to factory reset the device from the ClockworkMod Recovery screen, but when I try to boot the device it now get's stuck looping at the white HTC 'Quietly Brilliant' screen.
I've installed the SDK on my Mac and have fastboot recognising my device. Is there a way I can access my SD card using fastboot so I can put a ROM on it and attempt to install it? I don't have a card reader and I'm miles from a store that sells them.
Sorry if my terminology is off - I'm new to this
Your help is VERY appreciated!
Marty

Actually the phone isn't even making it to the white HTC 'Quietly Brilliant' screen now, it's stuck at the O2 Welcome screen.
After reading countless forum posts I think I need to 'flash' the Desire with another ROM that includes A2SD - I just need to get the ROM onto my SD card via Fastboot (since I don't have a card reader).
Does that sound about right?

I have the same problem with my tattoo!
Whats really annoying is that before uppgarding to recovery 3.0.0.6 with RomManager this was not an issue 'cause the previous recovery I was using(green) had the option to connect and access the SD card with PC USBcable.
I tried in 3.0.0.6:
Mounts and storage menu:
mount sdcard
mount USB storage
Still ain't seeing my SD card on my laptop.
Being on a remote island right now I hope I can find someone here with a microSD card phone with USB cable that I can borrow to load a working ROM on my fuc***** SD card .

no zip files found in recovery

Hi, currently trying to boot cyanogen mod 9 onto my HTC One X (There is no forum on here for this phone, but I believe it may be called the HTC Evo 4g in the US). I am having trouble installing the ROM. I'll take you through the steps I have done:
1. I have unlocked the bootloader
2. I have flashed Clockwork Recovery in fastboot
3. I have flashed CM9 in fastboot
When I reboot the phone, it get's stuck at the boot screen, which I have seen described as a boot loop. So I have booted into clockwork recovery and searched for the CM9 zip file and there are no files found. I have then tried to mount the usb to flash directly from there, but to my understanding you cannot mount in clockwork recovery.
what can I do here?

Try copying the zip rom to your sd card via Card reader
else try copying the zip rom to sdcard using adb push method (for that you need sdk installed in your pc)
and try again.
Wat was exactly your mobile Evo 4G or One X?
Did the installation succesfull?
Did u installed correct ROM?

satiz said:
Try copying the zip rom to your sd card via Card reader
else try copying the zip rom to sdcard using adb push method (for that you need sdk installed in your pc)
and try again.
Wat was exactly your mobile Evo 4G or One X?
Did the installation succesfull?
Did u installed correct ROM?
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I have the HTC One X and as far as I am aware I am using the correct ROM. I Have tried a few different download sources.
when doing fastboot flash boot boot.img in fastboot it says successful. so when I reboot the phone it get's stuck at the HTC One X screen. the rom zip file is not found when using recovery. this leads me to think that fastbooting the rom is not pushing the rom zip file onto the internal SD card.
Back to your proposals -
1. The phone does not have an sd card slot, so I can't use a card reader.
2. What is adb? I have the SDK installed, with the adb.exe file as well. Is adb just an alternative to fastboot? what would be the command line syntax to get adb to push the rom zip file onto the internal sd card so that I can find it within recovery?
interestingly, if i factory reset and wipe all cache then the phone aoutomatically boots into bootloader upon turning the phone on. but after flashing the rom file using fastboot, the phone will boot into the normal start up process and get stuck. so it would appear that fastboot is pushing the rom onto my phone. very strange!

brucezepplin said:
I have the HTC One X and as far as I am aware I am using the correct ROM. I Have tried a few different download sources.
when doing fastboot flash boot boot.img in fastboot it says successful. so when I reboot the phone it get's stuck at the HTC One X screen. the rom zip file is not found when using recovery. this leads me to think that fastbooting the rom is not pushing the rom zip file onto the internal SD card.
Back to your proposals -
1. The phone does not have an sd card slot, so I can't use a card reader.
2. What is adb? I have the SDK installed, with the adb.exe file as well. Is adb just an alternative to fastboot? what would be the command line syntax to get adb to push the rom zip file onto the internal sd card so that I can find it within recovery?
interestingly, if i factory reset and wipe all cache then the phone aoutomatically boots into bootloader upon turning the phone on. but after flashing the rom file using fastboot, the phone will boot into the normal start up process and get stuck. so it would appear that fastboot is pushing the rom onto my phone. very strange!
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Try Clearing cache and data before you install the rom
Follow the procedure in this link
theandroidsoul.com/cyanogenmod-9-cm9-for-htc-one-x-is-here/
ADB push - Refer this link(step 17)
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1692681
Problem already discussed here
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1799146
Everything HTC one X
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1603905

Whoa whoa whoa!! STOP. There is a forum for the HTC One X. DO NOT FLASH A ROM FOR THE EVO 4G! The evo 4g is a CDMA phone. Doing this has the possibility of bricking your device.

HTC ONE X forum is here
HTC EVO 4G forum is here
Both easily found in the Find Your Device search engine at the top right of the page.

I can't see files in TRWP recovry after installing MaximusHD

Hello
I got my HTC One S s4 a couple of days ago. It was unlocked. With the guides here I managed to root it and S-off and ass I was feeling confident, I installed Maximus HD 10 rom (I think I had android 4.0.1). I followed the instructions and I even got the error described in there.
My problem starts here:
Code:
Make sure that installation was successful and press enter to reboot device.
Device will boot in system, wait till you can see device on PC and copy ROM on internal SD card once again.
Repeat ROM installation with Aroma installer, do wipe during install.
Congratulations, you have device with fully working Android 4.2.2 and Sense 5.0
The device did boot in system and everything seems to be fine, new android and sense version, ect. I pluged it to PC, copied again the firmware.zip, went to TWRP recovery but the file isn't there. I even placed it inside a folder from root but still the file doesn't apper and that's why I can't continue witht he flashing process even though it seems that there is nothing more to do.
I could leave it like that but what if I want to try another rom some day?
In thephone I see 16 gb of storage, in windows explorer 10 gb more or less. If I mount the folders TWRP lets me, I get a device showing in windows explorer that needs to be formated and it's only 48 mb
What can I do?
thanks a lot!

Hello mate.
I second this.
I am currently having the exact same issue as described here.
I have rooted my phone, superCID, S-OFF, installed MaximusHD, flashed new firmware for MaximusHD and this is where I hit a roadblock.
It began like this:
I went to TWRP, plugged in phone, mounted it (I chose to mount Data in TWRP not SD card, as SD card could not be selected) - system was asking to format the device - I chose no, and moved over the MaximusHD rom (let's call it ROM.zip) using
Code:
adb push ROM.zip /sdcard/ROM.zip
The operation was succesful, TWRP showed the file ROM.zip in /sdcard, however, when I tried flashing it, I couldn't -> the access to SD card was blocked. I followed all the instructions in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630459
After this, I went back to TWRP, mounted SD card (this time it was selectable) and pushed ROM.zip onto /sdcard
The operation was succesful, and yet TWRP did not show the file in /sdcard.
Note: System does not ask to format the device anymore, but it shows only 50mb of storage. TWRP also confirms 50mb (47mb, to be exact)
I repeated the process, same result.
I tried to boot into system using TWRP -> reboot -> system, the phone restarts and hangs on HTC One screen.
To try something else, I went into bootloader and locked it using
Code:
fastboot oem lock
The device restarted into system, once again went into HTC One screen but this time, after a couple of seconds began optimizing apps.
A system launched. Weird, considering firmware update supposedly wiped everything off the phone, not even mentioning all the resets and wipes I did by following the thread I posted earlier. I went through first launch steps and was now in a fully functioning MaximusHD system, the one I installed the first time.
The device connected to PC easily and now it showed full storage size, with all the folders and structures inside.
Inside I found two icons which surprised me. They looked like two 0 bytes empty partitions that could not be double clicked or deleted (upon deletion system throws an error that device might have been disconnected). I tried to move ROM.zip onto there, after it finished, instead of ROM.zip now there were three 0 bytes empty partitions. This is when it struck me - my 2 previous attempts to bring ROM.zip onto /sdcard with adb push are those two partitions that were already there. I unplugged and plugged my device back on, the partitions disappeared and ROM.zip showed up.
I went back into recovery and it still showed 50mb storage size and nothing inside SD card (nothing other than two folders, TWRP and .android_secure).
I rebooted the device into system and it hung up on the HTC One screen. I unlocked my bootloader and locked it again using
Code:
fastboot oem lock
and was able to return to system. Somehow, locking my bootloader lets my device get past the HTC One screen. However, the system started fresh again so I lost all the apps that were meanwhile installed (a file manager) and all settings. I went through the process and was back into working system. This is the moment where I am now, confused as to what to do next.
I went into my file manager which I got from Play Store again, which showed the entire folder structure. When I pressed back to go into the root, I was surprised to see that I actually wasn't in /sdcard.
Right now, the exact same folder structure seems to be located in four places on my phone:
/storage/emulated/legacy
/storage/emulated/0
one of these two were on default in the File Manager,
also found one here:
/storage/sdcard0
and also in:
/sdcard
My theory is that the file system in /sdcard gets wiped every time the phone is restarted and somehow brought back fresh onto /sdcard, but it doesn't make much sense and doesn't explain why TWRP shows completely different paths.
I also flashed TWRP to the newest version, to no result.
I fixed my own issue 5 minutes after posting this response...
I skipped the point where you have to install TWRP that is given in the Install Package in RUU mode. This was the root of all problems.
Reflash your firmware, following the instructions here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45621060 (post 68).
What a way to waste 5 hours just because i thought I don't need TWRP because I already had it installed.
Good luck on your issue.

[Q] Can't flash from SD Card

Good evening, XDA :cyclops:
I am having issues flashing from recovery!
Some device info: Motorola Xoom WiFi, fully stock and fully updated, unrooted, bootloader unlocked today, device wiped multiple times. This is my first day trying anything custom on this device.
I decided today that i wanted to go custom on my Xoom today and update it to KitKat via this method.
I have downloaded all the required files per the mentioned guide. While in recovery i go to apply update from USB drive, but it is not finding any of the downloaded files from the guide.
What I see is
Code:
Android system recovery <3e>
Choose a package to install:
/sdcard
../
The ../ is my only option to click and it obviously returns me to the main recovery menu.
All the zip files are on the root of the SD card, not in sub folders. I have confirmed via PC and another phone that the files are indeed there. I tried with a different, fresh, formatted (fat32) SD card, but I'm getting the same results.
The Xoom is indeed reading the SD card, confirmed via settings>storage.
I've tried using adb, but it's telling me the image isn't correct, but it's certainly possible I'm missing a step with adb.
Code:
C:\Xoom bootloader unlocker2>adb reboot bootloader
C:\Xoom bootloader unlocker2>fastboot flash R.A.H._TWRPv2.6.3_BigPart_selinux.zip
unknown partition 'R.A.H._TWRPv2.6.3_BigPart_selinux.zip'
error: cannot determine image filename for 'R.A.H._TWRPv2.6.3_BigPart_selinux.zip'
Yes, the zip is in that folder. I thought maybe I'd root first, so I tried that method with the root zip, but I'm getting the same error.
Is there something I can do to repartition this device and get it rommed, or am I doomed to use it stock?
Thank you for your time!

I found some information stating that I need to enable the SD card, but since I'm running up to date SW, and I can see the SD card from settings, I'm assuming that this isn't the case, correct?

I'm still stuck. Anyone around who could give me some advice?

scubab said:
I'm still stuck. Anyone around who could give me some advice?
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It appears the XOOM does not like SD Cards that were formatted using Windows
(or perhaps Quick Formatted using Windows).
Using a 4GB FlashDrive formatted as Fat32 using Linux (i.e. Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon 64 bit boot CD)
resolved the issue.