After I flashed 2.3.4, I decided to root the phone. I put the new cwm recovery on, and tried to flash the root zip. I noticed I couldn't flash a zip from the internal memory like you could with the old cwm recovery. So I put my sd card in and it will not read it or recognize it. I used the SD card since I bought the phone in February, so I know the Atrix knows the SD card and can read it, but 2.3.4 can't read SD cards?
EDIT: *sigh* I hate this phone sometimes. Then again I love it all over again the rest of the time.. it took about 5 minutes, but it finally said preparing and now works. sorry
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Hi guys,
Since I'm going on vacation tomorrow I bought a new memory card because my old one had too less memory. It's the same brand, Sandisk, but now 8 GB instead of 2. Problem is that if I put in my new SD card it doesn't get further than a black screen after the bootscreen. Of course I rooted my phone, so the only possible problem I could figure was that my I used my old SD card doing that.
Has that anything to do with each other or does it just take a veeeeeery long time to boot after I put a new card in my phone?
Thanks!
Try booting it up with no memory card in, then insert once fully booted up.
Any luck?
Tried that, doesn't work. It doesn't get further than the bootscreen. However it does work when I boot up with my old SD card and then put it in. I don't have all the time to figure this out anymore so I guess it's just going to have to be going on vacation with 2 SD cards then xd.
the phone will not boot if you apps are on your sd card using apps-to-sd, you need to make a ext partition on the new sd, and copy the contents from the ext from the old one to the new one using linux
I have been trying to flash CWM so I can install CM7. I rooted this month ago and just wanted to try something different, but that doesn't seem to be the problem. I can't flash the SD cards.
I downloaded the zip from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1798439. That seemed straight forward. I first tried imaging a 16gb SD card because I had it sitting around. The image worked, but the card was now 69 MB. Yes, MB.
The booting worked and got me to the CWM menu, but I can't copy the CM7 file onto an SD card that is only 69MB, so it's useless.
I went to Best Buy and figured that since the instructions called for an 8GB SD card, I would try that instead of the 16. I also used a different computer. It did the exact same thing. The card is pretty dead... reformatting lets me reformat a 69MB card.
So as you can see, I'm not really even to the problem of CM7, I just can't use that program to get CWM going on the SD card.
-Windows XP
-Dynex Reader
-SanDisk cards (a 16 and 8gb)
-That Win32DiskImager
Any suggestions? I'm going to buy yet another card, but I really can't afford to keep tossing away these SD cards. Should I do it through the nook? Do I need Windows 7? Is that Win32diskimager junk?
Thanks for your help.
Haha my goodness man, stop buying SD cards! They aren't 69MB forever. The image you wrote to the card creates a 69MB partition. The rest of the space is still on the card. To get the space back, you'll need to download MiniTool Partition Wizard on your PC and do some repartitioning. Don't worry, it's really easy, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
If I read correctly, your real issue is that you cannot fit the CM7 ROM onto your SD card after it becomes 69MB. There's an easy fix. Just copy the ROM onto the internal storage partition (/mnt/media) of your actual NT. Then when you boot into CWM, choose the option to install zip from internal SD.
Awesome! Thank you, good sir. I now have CM7... so I guess I'll go see how that works.
You can reformat the sdcard(s) now either on windows or on the tablet itself (go to storage, select unmount, then reformat).
You'll get back all your space. I'd suggest flashing clockwordmod recovery to internal after doing so.
ZemTyrion said:
Awesome! Thank you, good sir. I now have CM7... so I guess I'll go see how that works.
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No problem. Glad to hear you got everything sorted out now. Let us know if you need help with your microSD cards.
I downloaded and used Gparted to delete both partitions from the SD card, took me less than 5 minutes after I got the .iso burnt to CD.
It has been reported that off brand, class10 cards are troublesome. There has been many good reports for : Sandisk, class 4.
Hi Guys,
my problem is as follows:
My Galaxy S2 is unable to mount the external SD card. if I force it by clicking the button in the settings menu, it says preparing to mount SD card for a split second and then nothing happens....
First of all, I searched this forum for other posts. I found a few which seem to have kind of the same issue, but none of them helped me.
If there is a post with exactly the same issue, please point me to it!
I updated from CM9 to CM10 2 days ago, since exactly that moment my phone isn't able to mount the SD card anymore.
I tried to reflash CM10. I did do a full wipe, also a dalvik and a cache wipe. I tried another kernel (sihya).
The SD card as itself still works, if my S2 is attached to my PC, I'm able to read and write to the SD card.
I flashed CM10 and the Kernel from the external SD card. I tried to format the SD card (fat32), still nothing.
I think my last chance is to try out another SD card.
apprechiate any help!
Umek85 said:
Hi Guys,
my problem is as follows:
My Galaxy S2 is unable to mount the external SD card. if I force it by clicking the button in the settings menu, it says preparing to mount SD card for a split second and then nothing happens....
First of all, I searched this forum for other posts. I found a few which seem to have kind of the same issue, but none of them helped me.
If there is a post with exactly the same issue, please point me to it!
I updated from CM9 to CM10 2 days ago, since exactly that moment my phone isn't able to mount the SD card anymore.
I tried to reflash CM10. I did do a full wipe, also a dalvik and a cache wipe. I tried another kernel (sihya).
The SD card as itself still works, if my S2 is attached to my PC, I'm able to read and write to the SD card.
I flashed CM10 and the Kernel from the external SD card. I tried to format the SD card (fat32), still nothing.
I think my last chance is to try out another SD card.
apprechiate any help!
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try to back up your current rom to a different sd card and then flash back to the old rom to see if the old sd card works....the rom may have a bug with mounting a sd card...if all else fails just flash back to old rom and wait till its fixed...i had that issue with a rom for the inspire
Hi,
I two days ago rooted my phone (Samsung Galaxy S2). Before i rooted i transferred some files to my computer and i did same with my 4GB sandisk external SD Card, just incase.
So i took my SD card out and mounted it on my computer and then mounted it back to my phone and started to root.
After all was done i notice that all the apps that i had moved to External SD were gone (they were there but only as an android with the name "loading")
Now i can't even move new apps and games to SD card and i can't move them back since they "Aren't installed anymore"
What would cause this to happen, was it the rooting or the fact that i had unmounted the SD card before?
Also, now that i want to backup my stock ROM i can't do it on the SD since CWM doesn't recognize it. I can however backup to Internal, but i am planning to make a factory reset of my phone, so i can "start again" and it would be a great shame to loose my backup files.
Thank you for the time.
1st try your sd card in another phone to see if the problem is with the card or the phone.
If the problem with card replace it.
If it is with the phone, try rerooting your phone.
was doing the installation of a when i got to flash the 4.2 rom from sd it did something really fast then rebooted, so i went to install 4.2 rom from sd again and it says cant mount sd card, its a pretty old card and im getting a new one tomorrow. my question is how can i format the new card for the phone or does it matter? like can i just put my 4.2 rom and gapps on the new card and the phone will read it?