I am trying to simply update the kernel, so after download to my SD I reboot to recovery but my card "restores" itself to before I rebooted. The files I deleted come back and my new downloads are no longer there. I have not changed any system settings to know if they reset as well, so for now I think it is only the sd card. Any suggestions?
Just seen it must only happen when the Sd is unmounted/remounted, if that info helps.
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I recently upgraded to the new MR2 radio and GingerBAMF 20-5. For some reason, I forgot to put pg05img.zip in a different folder after I installed it. It had been working fine for a few days, but when I tried to install a kernel through RomManager, it started to go downhill. This was my first time attempting to install a kernel. I had "Wipe Dalvik Cache" and "Backup Rom" selected. After installing the kernel, the phone started up with the HTC logo as usual, but it just went to a black screen afterwards. I've tried going into recovery, but it automatically asks me to update to the new radio. The only way I can access other features in recovery is to remove the SD card. Is there any way I can fix this?
1. Remove sd card from phone
2. Put sd card in computer sd card reader
3. Erase PG05IMG.zip from sd card
4. Put sd card back in phone
5. Turn on phone
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You could also put the sd card in a friends phone and then use a usb cable to access it like a flash drive and erase the file... That's happened to me on a few occasions now.
Thank you, I'll try those out.
Yup, it works. My tb works again. Thanks again.
I want to redo my phone like I just got it. I'm going re-flash everything with either the stock rom or a custom rom. What needs to be on the original card? Like starting from new without all the cluttered folders and random files.
I have updated ie. Hboot 1.5, radios, 2.17 and S-off still.
You should make a backup of your SD card "its always nice to have a backup"
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Also I suggest making a nandroid backup before backing up your SD card so you will have a copy of a recent nandroid in your SD backup incase you have to restore it one day.
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""Warning"" if you do this and still have applications on your phone/current Rom that have placed folders/that are linked to/on the SD card you could experience force closes,app freezes etc. To fix this uninstall and reinstall the application.
""End of Warning"'
This can be done via Windows 7,Vista,xp.
Format your SD VIA pc/laptop and restore it to the factory defaults. Then put it back into your phone. Then boot up. Once booted into your Rom hit menu then choose settings. Then scroll down to "SD & phone storage" and tap on it. Then unmount the SD card. Then format the SD card. Once its done formating it will automatically mount the SD card and place the correct folders on it. Reboot afterwards and you should be good to go. Hope this helps.
Also here's a link you might find helpful
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10878511&postcount=8311
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If you are going to do a factory reset or a rom flash, you should be ok wiping the card. If you were to try to wipe the card with the current rom you are on, you will run into problems as all your apps will freak out when they see their data missing.
And you don't need to have anything on the sd card from the start. Wipe the card, then flash your new rom and put the card in, android should format it properly the first time. It will just add the required folders/paths that it needs.
I was planning on flashing my phone to the Charmeleon rom. I had TWRP installed and was ready to go. I wiped the system (rom) and when I went to install the new one (which I had an external sd card, it's not showing up. My phone will not start because I wiped the stock rom. I have no idea why my the file is not being detected. The sd card is showing up as ext-sd but nothing is showing up in the folder, but when I put it in my computer it is. I did not save a backup. Someone please help me figuring this out.
Sorry guys, I feel stupid. I've been within TWRP for 2 hours trying to figure out what happened and of course as soon as I post this I finally stumble on the problem. I had to go into something and actually select to use the sd card. Thanks to everyone who was going to offer help.
You can try a factory reset. I don't think wiping the system partition affects the ability to restore the installed ROM but it's entirely possible I'm wrong. Worth a shot.
With the file not showing on your sd card in TWRP, is it a .zip file? I think recoveries can only see .zip files and I might have read that there's an issue if a file is named xxxxzip.zip. might try renaming it on your computer and copying it back to your sd card.
I was running Jasmine 5.0 with the 5.0.1 update, had no issues, was running perfectly with no FC's, no bugs, and I knew there was about to be a 5.0.2 update.. So I decided to prep for the update and create a backup in TWRP and have it saved to the ext-sd. My phone was connected to the computer, charging, and I rebooted into recovery, created a backup and when it was almost finished it went to backup the boot image, it said it failed. So I wiped caches, and rebooted just fine. I then downloaded the 5.0.2 update, and when I went to move it from the computer to the ext-sd card, I noticed that it didn't recognize my external sd card anymore. Both the computer and multiple file explorer apps on my phone can't read my ext-sd card anymore. But the weird thing is, when I am in recovery, TWRP recognizes my external sd card and even let me restore a backup perfectly.. (so it's not corrupt) So I then tried to factory reset, format data and restore a backup from my external sd card, which worked and rebooted just fine. But both my phone and computer still don't recognize my external sd card.. I have tried flashing the sd card fix permissions file and still no luck.. If anyone has any pointers or help, please let me know. I have a 64gb sd card that has all my important and needed ROOT information for the slight chance that I bootloop or softbrick my phone.. All information needed is on it!
Thanks for the help, if you took the time to read this I greatly appreciate it.
pahlerc1 said:
I was running Jasmine 5.0 with the 5.0.1 update, had no issues, was running perfectly with no FC's, no bugs, and I knew there was about to be a 5.0.2 update.. So I decided to prep for the update and create a backup in TWRP and have it saved to the ext-sd. My phone was connected to the computer, charging, and I rebooted into recovery, created a backup and when it was almost finished it went to backup the boot image, it said it failed. So I wiped caches, and rebooted just fine. I then downloaded the 5.0.2 update, and when I went to move it from the computer to the ext-sd card, I noticed that it didn't recognize my external sd card anymore. Both the computer and multiple file explorer apps on my phone can't read my ext-sd card anymore. But the weird thing is, when I am in recovery, TWRP recognizes my external sd card and even let me restore a backup perfectly.. (so it's not corrupt) So I then tried to factory reset, format data and restore a backup from my external sd card, which worked and rebooted just fine. But both my phone and computer still don't recognize my external sd card.. I have tried flashing the sd card fix permissions file and still no luck.. If anyone has any pointers or help, please let me know. I have a 64gb sd card that has all my important and needed ROOT information for the slight chance that I bootloop or softbrick my phone.. All information needed is on it!
Thanks for the help, if you took the time to read this I greatly appreciate it.
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As the title says implies, I am having trouble writing data to my external SD card - both through the phone and while connected to a PC.
Background: Got the S4 about a week ago. It was on NK1. I rooted, de-bloated, and made back-up in SafeStrap. Discovered I had to run the KK SD Card fix, but was able to write to the SD card afterwards. Yesterday, while trying to copy a file to the SD card while connected to a PC resulted in a failure (Device stopped responding or was disconnected error). After that, the whole phone went wonky - Titanium, Root Explorer, File Manager, etc... wouldn't open and/or run properly after wards. Several reboots and the problem persisted.
Figured I would just restore my back-up. Well I screwed something up and got stuck in a boot-loop - I odined back to NC5 (figured I didn't need to be on NK1), and re-rooted. Setting my phone back up I realize I can't write to the SD card again. I run the SD Fix but to no avail. Opened Root Explorer and looked at platform.xml, which has all the correct permissions (as in this post).
What's going on and how do I fix this? The SD card is a pretty important feature for me. I can write to and copy to the internal storage either through the phone and while connected to a PC, but not the SD card. FWIW, the SD card works flawlessly in my old phone, so I know it;s not the card.
Going nuts here.
Thanks,
Edit - So playing around with another (lower capacity) SD card I find that everything works perfectly. When I get time this weekend I will have to reformat and/or get a new card. Strangely, the problem card still works good in my old phone. Very weird.
Turns out the sd card was/is bad. Found a great deal on a 64gb card and it's working great.
So now for more noob questions: What is the correct procedure for restoring and or flashing roms with safestrap? On my other phones I'm used to entering recovery (TWRP) and wiping data/cache/dalvik, formatting, doing a factory reset, etc, then flashing and or restoring.
When I attempted to restore my backup on my S4 (as described above), I wiped data, dalvik, & cache. After that I either did a factory reset or format (can't remember which), the phone automatically rebooted, and that is when I got stuck in the bootloop and couldn't enter safestrap recovery. I am interested in flashing Eclipse but would like to know the exact procedures to avoid losing the ability to enter safestrap.
Thanks for the advice.