SD card issue, thought phone was poked.. - Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini

So I was copying some files to my SD card in Ubuntu (over USB) and then I unmounted the phone storage in Ubuntu and pulled the cable out of the phone. but it kept saying usb was still connected.. no matter how many times I selected disconnect USB, I couldn't access the SD card on the phone, and the computer wouldn't recognise the phone anymore either (then I tried Root Explorer) and the screen went off and the phone seemed to be off.. every time I pressed a button the phone would just give a short vibrate but nothing else.. then eventually nothing.. zip.. no button responce (tried holding down power button for ages, different key combinations.. safe mode etc).... no screen.. nada.. I thought I would have to re-flash the phone again.. but when I went to try and connect the phone in Flash mode to reflash firmware.. nothing happened.. like the phone was a brick (I was pretty upset by this point.. don't want to buy a new phone..)
then I pulled the sd card out.. and hey presto! instantly the phone was back.. it was still running everything was normal.. then I stuck the SD card back in.. it found it and now everything is honky dory..
anyway.. I just thought I would share.. in case this happens to anyone else..
I was like.. and then.. and.. then.. then after I pulled the SD card out now still a little

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Pls Help, phone wont start :(

Basically it get to the windows logo screen and stays. i dunno what to do
i tried to turn it off and on so many times and its not working.
my contacts are backed up but i dont want to install everything again. is there a way to fix it ??
i removed the sim and the sd card and for some reason its working. i put the sim card back without sd and the phone doesnt start up. iam clocking the phone at 998hz all the time using leocpuspeed
thanks
Try holding both volume buttons when turning the phone on and following the instructions to do a hard reset, only thing I can think of, if you've got your contacts backed up through MyPhone or on your pc can easily be replaced back onto the phone
thx i did that . i really appreciate the fact u bothered to reply unlike the rest
I believe holding the volume down just after the power on will put you in the tri-color bootloader screen. From there you could task29 start fresh and flash a new rom.

Boot loop + Radio on root = brick?

Hi,
So I really did it this time. I forgot to delete the radio I flashed yesterday from the phone's root folder and upon restoring to what appears to be a non-working version of DASBAMF I'm stuck with:
BAMF that loads but only to my background image. The touch screen doesn't respond, the soft keys don't do anything. Volume buttons wake the screen and so does the power button. But, when I hold the power button down, the reboot options don't come up. The status bar updates, I can see emails coming in. When I plug in the device to USB it goes into charge only mode.
OR
Hboot that finds the radio immediately. Flash or don't flash the radio and all I can do is reboot.
I'm on Windows 7 64bit and I've tried to install and setup ADB per these directions: http://www.thunderboltforums.com/forum/htc-thunderbolt-development/315-android-sdk-adb-driver.html
as well as the HTC sync software. I can't get ADB to recognize the device nor HTC sync.
Does anyone have any idea what I can do to either remove the radio or somehow get into recovery?
Turn off the phone, remove the micro sd card, put it in your pc card and remove the radio. When you put the micro sd card back in the phone hboot will look for the file and not find it, you can then choose recovery.
Sent from my ADR6400L using Tapatalk
If your PC has a multimedia card reader, you should get a SDcard adapter, and insert the micro SDcard from your Thunderbolt into it. Then you can delete the PG051.img via Windows Explorer.
After a few such experiences, I wouldn't root my phone unless I had a PC with a mmc reader and an adapter. It's a lifesaver.
Same thing happened to me a while back, except I didn't have a PC available, but luckily was able to put the card in my gf's phone and delete it that way
Thanks for the help guy. I didn't realize the radio was on the SD card (duh) and I could just take the card out, boot into hboot -> recovery, and then factory wipe.
If the ROM was truly in a bootloop, I would have had to use a PC to remove the p05img.zip. Thanks for the help.

[Q] **help with "waiting for SD card to mount" loop!!

I have been trying to put CyanogenMod 7 on my Verizon Fascinate.
It was fresh out of the box, unrooted, no fancy widgets or programs installed,
when it suddenly decided to erase my Contacts.
No matter how much I backup through Verizon, the contacts will erase,
NOT backup with Verizon, and even better, not save any contacts.
I had it factory reset couple of times, but the problem kept coming up.
(Maybe there's something wrong with the SD Card??)
Well, so I decided to install CyanogenMod 7.
I first installed SuperOneClick, and rooted my phone that way.
I also installed ROM Manager.
I was in the ClockworkMod Recovery
when I went into "install from SD Card" trying to install CM7.zip,
my phone starts going on a "waiting for SD card to mount" loop.
It will keep going forever and ever,
phone will not turn off unless I take the battery out,
no matter which way I try to turn it back on,
it starts giving me that loop again.
One of my family members have a Verizon fascinate as well,
but without CyanogenMod (is rooted though).
I put the same two files (CM7.zip and gapps.zip) at the root folder,
plug it into my SD Card slot, with no luck..
same "waiting for.." loop.
As I have been searching on this forum for two hours,
everyone seemed to suggest that the SD card was the problem.
But I'm kind of ignorant on this type of subject,
1. I have searched that a smaller GB SD Card is better? True or False..?
1a. Let's say I bought a 2 GB SD Card. What do I do with it?
Put the two files into the SD card and plug it in?
1b. Will I be able to use a bigger sized SD Card later on
after the installation is finished?
2. Is the SD Card the problem or is there a way I can work it out?
P.S. By the way, I followed the steps from the Wiki,
and had a hard time at "Boot into the ClockworkMod Recovery" step.
I didn't know how to boot into it all, and I searched that
pressing the volume down button and the power button does the trick.
My phone didn't.
So I ended up going to ROM Manager
and pressing the "reboot into ClockworkMod Recovery" button.
Pressing that button froze up the phone.
I had to reboot the phone several times because
the phone will freeze every time I pressed that button.
And then on a random reboot,
the phone decided to boot into ClockworkMod Recovery mode.
So if I had to do that again, I have no idea how to do it.
Was there a bug in the program or am I doing it wrong?
saeromida said:
I have been trying to put CyanogenMod 7 on my Verizon Fascinate.
It was fresh out of the box, unrooted, no fancy widgets or programs installed,
when it suddenly decided to erase my Contacts.
No matter how much I backup through Verizon, the contacts will erase,
NOT backup with Verizon, and even better, not save any contacts.
I had it factory reset couple of times, but the problem kept coming up.
(Maybe there's something wrong with the SD Card??)
Well, so I decided to install CyanogenMod 7.
I first installed SuperOneClick, and rooted my phone that way.
I also installed ROM Manager.
I was in the ClockworkMod Recovery
when I went into "install from SD Card" trying to install CM7.zip,
my phone starts going on a "waiting for SD card to mount" loop.
It will keep going forever and ever,
phone will not turn off unless I take the battery out,
no matter which way I try to turn it back on,
it starts giving me that loop again.
One of my family members have a Verizon fascinate as well,
but without CyanogenMod (is rooted though).
I put the same two files (CM7.zip and gapps.zip) at the root folder,
plug it into my SD Card slot, with no luck..
same "waiting for.." loop.
As I have been searching on this forum for two hours,
everyone seemed to suggest that the SD card was the problem.
But I'm kind of ignorant on this type of subject,
1. I have searched that a smaller GB SD Card is better? True or False..?
1a. Let's say I bought a 2 GB SD Card. What do I do with it?
Put the two files into the SD card and plug it in?
1b. Will I be able to use a bigger sized SD Card later on
after the installation is finished?
2. Is the SD Card the problem or is there a way I can work it out?
P.S. By the way, I followed the steps from the Wiki,
and had a hard time at "Boot into the ClockworkMod Recovery" step.
I didn't know how to boot into it all, and I searched that
pressing the volume down button and the power button does the trick.
My phone didn't.
So I ended up going to ROM Manager
and pressing the "reboot into ClockworkMod Recovery" button.
Pressing that button froze up the phone.
I had to reboot the phone several times because
the phone will freeze every time I pressed that button.
And then on a random reboot,
the phone decided to boot into ClockworkMod Recovery mode.
So if I had to do that again, I have no idea how to do it.
Was there a bug in the program or am I doing it wrong?
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Ok first, 99% of your custom roms will already be pre-rooted. 2nd, to boot into recovery, you have to hold volume up,down and power button (also known as 3 button recovery) 3rd, I've never had a problem getting into CM7 HOWEVER, you do need to Odin a special recovery to install it. I'm on the xda app and can't post links but I do know towards the bottom of the cm7 post it does say you need to have the new recovery installed
Sent from my SCH-I500
thanks
After hours and hours of frustration,
I decided to call it a day and start fresh the next morning..
and I saw your reply-
Volume Up + Volume Down + Power Button did the trick.
It sent me straight to the recovery mode..
I took another SD card with the two files I want to install at the root folder.
Plugged it in, and it worked!!
So it's safe to assume that the problem was in the SD card,
and not the hardware, or the software, or any mistaken procedures.
Thank you! Saved my day!
No problem, glad I could help man.
Sent from my SCH-I500
if you need all the files and a straight forward tutorial...check my guide out! I think some of the other guides can be confusing...refer to section 3 when you find it! good luck!!

[Q] Nook Tablet Won't Turn On or Boot from SD

So I attempted to root my NT using Ray Waldo's Jelly Bean & Root for Nook Tablet 1.4.3
(here's the link so you know what the process was: http://raywaldo.com/2012/09/root-for-nook-tablet-1-4-3/ )
and I got as far as booting the NT from the SD card that contained CWM recovery on it, and it began the process. It then decided to just shut completely off after it seemed to be either almost finished or finished with the boot process. Either way, the problem now is I cannot turn it on. I have used every button press combo, as well as several attempts to boot off of recovery SD cards. I have tried connecting the NT to the computer via usb while holding down the power and home buttons, and all that jazz. No matter what I do, my NT will NOT turn on for ANYTHING. Although the battery seems to be fine, since after plugging in the power cord (after attempting to press buttons or whatever else) it turns orange for a few seconds to a few minutes (depending on how much I mess with it) and turns green. I am starting to think that any method that uses the SD card to boot into recovery or flash to stock or anything is simply not going to work, as my most recent attempt was to boot it into Ubuntu Recovery using Adam Outler's [UnBrick]TOTAL WIPE and reflash back to 1.4.0 via Ubuntu Recovery --Now Easier!!!! (here's the link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1470910 )
and after following the instructions for both Ubuntu AND windows, the card will not make the NT boot into recovery. Considering Adam Outler's method is supposed to completely set everything to 0, I am pretty sure that anything regarding booting from an SD card is NOT going to work.
Is there any way that I could connect the NT to the computer and fix it through that? If anyone has any MEANINGFUL and USEFUL tips regarding this dilemma, PLEASE help me out. I am aware of the possibility that my NT could be fried beyond repair, but at the same time I can't help but think that there's GOT to be a way I can fix it. I don't care about saving anything on there, or what ROM I flash it to, or anything like that. I just don't want to be a paperweight anymore. I would like to at least figure out why it won't turn on, if nothing else.
Like I said, I have already tried several methods regarding booting to recovery through the SD card, and none have worked. Again, NOTHING is making it turn on at all. Please help me!
I would try the repart.imgdecribed here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1663836 before attempting anything else. I think your trouble stems from TWRP, but either way, try the repart.img before you start messing with anything else.
I know you say it's impossible to boot from sd card, but I still think it's worth a try. Insert the card. then insert powered charging cable. If it still seems dead, hold power button for 10 seconds. Remove and reinsert powered cable.
The fact that the charging cable is green does not automatically means it's charged. It just means it's not taking any power, and that could be because of whatever makes it not turn on. I think it may not actually have been dead when you thought it was at first, and then it could have drained completely. It needs to get some juice, so try keeping the chargging cable inserted when experimenting with buttons.

[Q] XPLORE ATHEROS XP7400 dead??

So i bought phone yersterday, and today i connected phone via usb to pc and i.. formated something, some pop-ups with formating g: i formated it accidently, but i was fast enought to see that i formatted something that was only 20Kb.. and when i did it.. i cant turn the phone. nothing working, tryed remove battery, holding power on button without battery. No sign of life, screen black... it just dont work , just like it were without battery. But when i connect usb my pc shows Udentified device and tryes download drivers for it and then fails.. Charging not work too. Cant enter Cwm too. Phone even don't vibrate when holding power button..
Maybe someone knows what the heck just happened??
please...

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