OK the last two times I attempted to load one of the Froyo ROMs, it's been a no-go. Both times I completely scrubbed my SD card and repartitioned it and the flashing appeared to go OK, but when I rebooted the phone it seems to have gotten stuck on the boot ani. Maybe I just didn't wait long enough but 20 minutes seemed rather excessive. Perhaps I partitioned the SD card wrong. I had been told the Froyo ROMs require 1 massive FAT32 partition without an ext partition. Am I incorrect in assuming this? Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Your SD card needs to be unpartitioned for current Eris Froyo ROMs
You can verify this by turning off the phone, removing the SD card, and booting those Froyo ROMs (without the SD card inserted).
You can convert your microSD card to a single FAT32 partition by using the Amon_RA partitioning method and setting both swap and ext to 0 Mb. Obviously, you really ought to do a backup of your SD card before you do that. If you don't have a SD card reader, and don't want to restore a Nandroid backup to mount the SD card from the OS, just use the "USB-MS toggle" in Amon_RA to mount the SD card to the PC to perform both the backup and the (subsequent) restore after re-partitioning the SD card.
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help, I accidentally formatted my sd card. After rebooting, I always get the message that the sd card is blank or has an unsupported file system. I have tried different ways of formatting (ext4, ext3, fat32, fat32+ ext3) but no success so far.
Anyone has a solution? I am using modaco 2.8
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With Astro or similar first back up your applications,secondly go back to recovery and go to bottom to mount sd card so that you can copy backups folder to your pc.
Now reformatt and make partitions and remount sd card to copy modaco's rom and choose zip to update. I dont think there is easy way round.
So you are saying the only way to fix this is by reflashing?
BTW, if I have to flash anyways, do I need to setup a fat32 partition or can I format the entire card as ext4 (i don't use windows on my pc)
Without flash your applications may not work correctly but you can try.
I think just ext4 will not be enough because how are you going to transfer files and folder which needs fat32?
Your current ROM will have automatically put files in your sd card which got destroyed by accidental format.
howdy.
after installing GBv1.1 and v1.2
my SD card will no longer mount in the phone. i have two SDs and they both work fine in my nook color, and in recovery on my eris, but not when in the GB system.
anyone have any experience with this
jewnersey said:
howdy.
after installing GBv1.1 and v1.2
my SD card will no longer mount in the phone. i have two SDs and they both work fine in my nook color, and in recovery on my eris, but not when in the GB system.
anyone have any experience with this
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Did you have your SD card partitioned before you started using GB? Froyo (and I assume GingerBread, too) don't like the SD card being having multiple partitions and basically result in the symptom you're describing.
If so, you'd have to make a backup of everything on your SD card (to your computer), reformat the SD card (preferably from Amon RA recovery) with NO Ext2 or Swap partition, and using the full space available as a FAT32 partition, in order for Froyo or GB to recognize it.
I have used some custom ROMs (2.2, 2.3) on my X10, but none of them recognizes my SD card. The stock ROM (2.1) reads it properly, it is visible when I connect the phone to the computer via USB using the stock ROM.But when i use a custom one it says "Please mount SD card..." on Storage Settings and the computer recognizes it as removable disk, but it shows that the card is empty.I've tried cleaning all types of caches, full wipe, mounting/unmounting the SD card and formatting it with xRecovery and changing different basebands.
Is it a ROM bug, or I am doing something wrong?
Please check that your SD card is formatted to FAT 32. If not, the ROM won't recognised it.
Your SD card is probably partitioned.
Custom ROMs for X10 only recognise the second partition on an SD card,
meaning if you have one FAT32 and one ext2 (ext3, ext4, etc), it will mount the second and thus won't be able to read it, so you'll get an "SD card corrupted" message.
You need to wipe and erase the second partition with the same program you used to create it and it should work fine on any custom ROM.
I wiped the old partitions and then formatted the SD card to FAT32.Now it's recognized properly by the ROM.Thanks to both of you!!!
Recently (a few hours ago) I bought a new SD memory card to upgrade. Since I used Adfad's N2 Cyanogen mod, I partitioned my old SD card (2GB), and created 512MB ext3 partition to expand my phones storage. Also I use s2e for App2sd. I backed everything up in clockwork recovery (5.0.2.0), i turned the phone down, took out old card, and inserted a new one (8GB). Booted into recovery and partitioned SD card, but this time I created an 1GB ext3 partition. Turned the phone off, copied data from old card to new one, on laptop, via card reader. Returned it to phone, booted into recovery, restored backups, successfully, and booted the phone. Phone now recognizes new card, but can't mount sd-ext partition. I can't access to most of my apps, I presume that those are the ones which were on sd-ext partition, like market, superuser and many others. Installed the s2e, but it doesn't recognize sd-ext partition. Is there any way to fix this? I'm clueless . I tried the old card, everything works. Any type of help will be appreciated. Is there any way to transfer data from one card to another via PC? Including ext3 and linux-swap partitons?
Since there were no answer, I did a clean reinstall and backup with titanium. It looks like there is on easier way to switch SD cards.
Help!
I moved to GS2 and wanted to use my SD card I used on another phone; it had an ext4 partition and a FAT32 partition.
All went well.
Then I decided to remove the ext4 partition and have the SD fully formatted with FAT32. I tried both Primary and Logical, tried NTFS too and even recreated and ext partition with ClockwordMod, but I end up always the same way, that is if I put the card in the phone and then boot, it freezes, terminate processes and does not see ANY internal or external SD card!!
Please help! How can I get back to a working full FAT32/NTFS card?
Thank you!!!
Dude looks like you have really messed up not only your phone, but also the way you put your problem. How is it possible that you boot up your phone and still you cant see at least your internal SD... Anyhow my suggestions are:-
1. Remove SD card and boot normally without SD card. See if your internal shows up. If YES, format the SD card in PC and put back in cell.
2. If the phone still crashes, you need to clear all caches in Recovery. Do and see what happens. Also tell us if you are rooted? what ROM are you using..
3. Apart from the SD, does your phone work normal?
Bro, your query is kinda too complex and one of the noobiest one i have come upon in a long time.
Sorry for not having said before: without the SD the phone boots normally. AND however I format the SD card, is it always readable in Windows 7.
About your question "How is it possible that you boot up your phone and still you cant see at least your internal SD", it is what I'm wandering too... It looks like the "badly" formatted SD messes the partition logic in Android.
Now I'm trying this: deleted all partitions, created a new unformatted one trying to format within phone.
Thanks for help and patience!
Yes! It worked!! The phone saw the unformatted card and prompted for action; I made it format and now it's back