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Okay. Got a new phone and the sd card won't recognize now. Worked once til a reboot then it doesn't show up. Can't mount or unmount. Is there anyway aside from factory rest to get it working?
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Before resetting the phone try and see if your computer recognizes the card, and if it does reformat the SD card. If not, return it, you probably got a dud.
It worked before on the old SGSII. But not on the new one. Odd. Bit I s'pose it is possible
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It seems like andoid plays best with cards that are in fat32 format with 32bit sectors.
I may be wrong on the sector size. Please correct me if I am. Can't find where I read that.
If you can get the card setup that way and the phone still has issues reading it, it may be the new phone.
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I can't get the card to recognize on the computer, I don't have a micro SD adapter though, this was in the phone. But I know it isn't the phones SD slot, as I tried the card outta my photon, worked fine. And tried the bad card in my Photon, and nothing.
So I suspect the card is bad, just not sure how it got messed up. Still strikes me as odd. But stranger things have happened.
Sd cards do have a way of acting up in weird ways.
I would hang onto the card until you get a chance to plug it straight into a pc. Linux is best for being able to read/fix messed up partitions.
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I'm gonna buy a micro sd reader and play with it. Thanks for the ideas.
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Ok so I just upgraded yesterday from the HTC inspire and I must say I'm liking the S3. Except for one thing, no usb mass storage mode? Duuuwwwhhhaaaatttt??? This is awful...just awful.. I work night shifts and play minecraft a lot at work
D) and alwayed used my inspire for transfering the save data on my work computer to my personal desktop at home... I NEED this FIXED.!! I have the 16GB sd card I pulled out of my inspire shoved in the S3's ext-sd slot and would love to know how to use it as a usb mass storage like I did on my inspire.. I have tried the easy ums app and it doesn't work :/ so here I am, humbly asking for help from you geniuses...
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Not sure if this is what you're asking but here goes...
I just started using the S3 as well, upgraded from an S2 T989 (T-mobile)
On the S2, when I connect to the USB port, I can "turn on" usb mass storage mode to connect to the PC and I'm not seeing that option here on the S3.
However, when I connect the phone to my PC, I get the following options:
- Media device (MTP): automatically checked
- Camera (PTP)
And when I check on "camera (PTP)", my PC would recognize the phone as SGH-T999. And when I click on it, I would have two options:
- Card (External SD)
- Phone (Internal SD)
From here, I can just copy and paste whatever from PC to SD card and vice versa.
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Not sure if this is what you're asking but here goes...
I just started using the S3 as well, upgraded from an S2 T989 (T-mobile)
On the S2, when I connect to the USB port, I can "turn on" usb mass storage mode to connect to the PC and I'm not seeing that option here on the S3.
However, when I connect the phone to my PC, I get the following options:
- Media device (MTP): automatically checked
- Camera (PTP)
And when I check on "camera (PTP)", my PC would recognize the phone as SGH-T999. And when I click on it, I would have two options:
- Card (External SD)
- Phone (Internal SD)
From here, I can just copy and paste whatever from PC to SD card and vice versa.
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Well let me start with this then..on my inspire, I could plug it up to any computer and it would show up as a disk drive and I could transfer baby file back and forth at my will.
Now that I have my S3, I've realised that they've done any with usb mass storage and adopted mtp. Which doesn't work for me. I get a message 'cannot copy "file name" the device has either stopped responding or has been disconnected.'
I can also connect through ptp and it will transfer most files, but not all. It will get to a certain point it gives me the good ole 'cannot copy "file name" the device has either stopped responding or has been disconnected.' message.
So overall, my question is simply this, is there a way to enable usb mass storage for the external sd card on my sgs3? Either by fixing easy ums to work for a 1747 or by installing another app that I don't know about.
Btw, my s3 is rooted, running stock Rom and stock kernel, stock everything. I've installed busybox as well.
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I also need to get this working. I am always on the road and want to listen to music through my radio, and be able to transfer files from my various computers which have all types of Operating Systems running on them. Any fix? I am Also stock everything with root and busybox
did you guys see this?
http://www.xda-developers.com/andro...and-media-transfer-protocol-xda-developer-tv/
I'm hoping someone can get this ported over for the US version. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1711009
What operating system are you running? I never have any issues using MTP on Windows 7.
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did you guys see this?
http://www.xda-developers.com/andro...and-media-transfer-protocol-xda-developer-tv/
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Yes I've seen this but it only for the international version...
And I'm running win 7 and I also have a win xp that use as well...
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Well add me to the list of: MTP sucks! This is pretty awful, I mean if there is a work-around fine, but we shouldn't HAVE TO work around just to get Mass Storage support.
As of now we are stuck with MPT.
Works ok though I guess, I can move files back and forth. You can also try using a wifi explorer if your on the same network.
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Well add me to the list of: MTP sucks! This is pretty awful, I mean if there is a work-around fine, but we shouldn't HAVE TO work around just to get Mass Storage support.
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No flippin joke... I seriously hope somebody figures out something soon... this almost makes me hate my new phone.. :'( that shouldn't be how you feel about a phone you've had for less than a week... fml
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family682guy said:
No flippin joke... I seriously hope somebody figures out something soon... this almost makes me hate my new phone.. :'( that shouldn't be how you feel about a phone you've had for less than a week... fml
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Dont stress out too much, I see that your new here, stick around for a while and see what the devs here can do with these phone. Its amazing the stuff the create for us... 99% of the time for FREE! Its really a great place, its just not very newb friendly. Ive been here this long and Im still a newb (compared to other forums I belong to...).
But yea, stay for a while and watch the magic happen (Geez, that should be our tag line... )
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Dont stress out too much, I see that your new here, stick around for a while and see what the devs here can do with these phone. Its amazing the stuff the create for us... 99% of the time for FREE! Its really a great place, its just not very newb friendly. Ive been here this long and Im still a newb (compared to other forums I belong to...).
But yea, stay for a while and watch the magic happen (Geez, that should be our tag line... )
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Haha that is a pretty good tagline lol I guess I'll just have to follow your advice and stay patient for a little while... I just hope there is someone actually working on this fix for the 1747.. if I knew of them, I would be more than willing to donate for the cause.
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Alrighty!! I've done some snooping around and found this!!!:
Here's a thread for the AT&T S3 on Mass Storage, requires some tinkering though.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1768752&highlight=mass+storage
So basically if you follow all the instructions, your 1747 will be able to mount its external sd card as a usb mass storage. Tried it myself!!! Amazing!!! Haha!!! Life is good once again...
In addition to the above steps, I also had to do something else. I'm running windows 7, but I don't see why it would be any different for any other windows, and after I installed gscript I had to go to device manager in windows, find your phone (should be under portable devices) and then right clicked and updated driver software. After that finished, the pc had to reboot. After reboot, I ran the scripts in gscript... Aaannnndddd... BAM.! MAGIC.!
I hope this helps those who are frustrated with their 1747 as well... this is a temp fix until a better one comes out... buuuuttt... cheers
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also, remember to unmount your phone from windows before running the mtp script. I'm not sure what will happen if you don't, but let's not try to find out, right?
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I'm not using the I747 (I take it thats the T Mobile branded version), Im in fact using the SCH-I535, Verizon version. Due note that the phone does contain GSM radios so I am able to use it on T for voice (perfect!) and edge data (expected but better then nothing)...
I'm assuming SMS & MMS work as well, albeit untested.
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I'm not using the I747 (I take it thats the T Mobile branded version), Im in fact using the SCH-I535, Verizon version. Due note that the phone does contain GSM radios so I am able to use it on T for voice (perfect!) and edge data (expected but better then nothing)...
I'm assuming SMS & MMS work as well, albeit untested.
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Sgh-1747 is AT&T. T-mobile S3 is sgh-t999 I believe.. and the Verizon version has gsm radios as well as cdma.? That's badapple lol I wonder if that is the same for the 1747 but vice versa?
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family682guy said:
Alrighty!! I've done some snooping around and found this!!!:
Here's a thread for the AT&T S3 on Mass Storage, requires some tinkering though.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1768752&highlight=mass+storage
For future reference, here are the AT&T (And other non-international S3) Dev forums.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1667
So basically if you follow all the instructions, your 1747 will be able to mount its external sd card as a usb mass storage. Tried it myself!!! Amazing!!! Haha!!! Life is good once again...
In addition to the above steps, I also had to do something else. I'm running windows 7, but I don't see why it would be any different for any other windows, and after I installed gscript I had to go to device manager in windows, find your phone (should be under portable devices) and then right clicked and updated driver software. After that finished, the pc had to reboot. After reboot, I ran the scripts in gscript... Aaannnndddd... BAM.! MAGIC.!
I hope this helps those who are frustrated with their 1747 as well... this is a temp fix until a better one comes out... buuuuttt... cheers
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Also, i just ran into this problem... the fix i mentioned above worked on my work computer but now that im home and i tried it..it didnt work.. :/
BUT!! i figured out the problem. The difference between my work and home computer? Kies... idk if it was that progam itself or just the drivers that came along with it but regardless i uninstalled kies and all the drivers associated with it. After that i plugged in my phone, ran the "mount" script and voila. MAGIC ONCE AGAIN!
Just thought i would inform the masses on what ive done so far to fix this problem
There is another option....
Get yourself a little adapter:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0027YYMU6/
Then you can plug any USB drive directly into that.. then the adapter into the phone.
Your phone will see it as a normal USB Drive... you can then use any filemanager to transfer files from the phones SD to that USB drive... Unplug the USB, pop it into a computer and you're all set.
I'll admit it's a bit kludgy, but until storage mode becomes available, you can use this on OS's that won't work properly with the existing MTP.
NOTE: Might want to buy a FEW adapters... i bought 1, worked great.. friend bought 2 more.. neither worked.. same brand etc... I have 2 more on the way just in case..but for .79 plus free shipping no reason not to buy half a dozen hehe
DroidGnome said:
There is another option....
Get yourself a little adapter:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0027YYMU6/
Then you can plug any USB drive directly into that.. then the adapter into the phone.
Your phone will see it as a normal USB Drive... you can then use any filemanager to transfer files from the phones SD to that USB drive... Unplug the USB, pop it into a computer and you're all set.
I'll admit it's a bit kludgy, but until storage mode becomes available, you can use this on OS's that won't work properly with the existing MTP.
NOTE: Might want to buy a FEW adapters... i bought 1, worked great.. friend bought 2 more.. neither worked.. same brand etc... I have 2 more on the way just in case..but for .79 plus free shipping no reason not to buy half a dozen hehe
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Yea, that would work... but im more on the side of "my phone should do this" lol dont know why they completely removed usb mass storage... they shouldve at least made it optional in the settings or something, ya know? those little adapters would work but idk how id feel about having to carry around an adapter just so i can transfer files..
Heres a scenerio:
Say my friend calls me up and wants a file that i have on my computer, so i use that adapter and transfer it to my phone, go to his house only to realize i accidentally left the adapter stuck in my computer at home :/ thats a pain in the you know what lol
Just a thought haha
family682guy said:
....dont know why they completely removed usb mass storage... they shouldve at least made it optional in the settings or something, ya know?
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The WHY actually is documented around here somewhere... the short version is, with the way the OS is written, mounting the card as USB storage makes it unavailable to the system. Since most of the newer Androids OS use the SD card more heavily (such as A2SD type stuff) it would render applications 'broken' whenever the USB was plugged in.
That's the official story.. I'm not sure I buy it myself as I've seen apps that let you use the SD card on my original EVO AND have USB mode enabled just fine.. granted transfer rates sucked, and occassionally a file would get corrupted, but it worked 99% of the time. I don't know what 'tricks' those apps used to get it to work, but I don't see why Google couldn't use those same tricks directly in the OS.
Another option btw.. is Wifi Explorer Pro. If you're PC is on the same WiFi network, you can run the app then go to a webpage on your PC to upload/download files as needed. It's not as fast as a cable.. but it does work pretty well and is simple to use.
is there another way to transfer pics, roms and etc to the internal sd card and the external sd card other then using this horrible MTP junk? its taken me 10 mins to transfer 3 pictures to my external sd card using the MTP crap. this is driving me nuts. i am starting to hate this phone because its so complicated to transfer anything to the damn sd cards on this phone. i want mass storage back. so much quicker
so nobody has this issue like i do? i cant seem to transfer nothing to my internal or external sd card. even if i get lucky and it does start to transfer, im gonna be waiting at least 15 to 20 mins just to transfer some pictures
How are you doing the transfer? When I plug in my phone, it shows up in "My Computer" just like a disk. I double click my way to the right location and just drag and drop. simple. I was worried because of all the fuss over not supporting UMS, but I think this works as well or better.
One issue I did have was the usb cable I was using. The only one that works for me is the charging cable that came with the phone. If you're usng anything else, try using that cable.
Yes MTP is total crap compared to mass storage, but it's all we really got so...
i plug my phone into my windows 7 pc. it shows my phone, then i click on it and it shows me my internal sd card and external sd card. then i click on my external sd card and drag my photos from the pc to the external sd card and it shows its transferring then it just gets stuck at one point. nothing i can do about it. here is some pics to show u. the one wallpaper i tried to transfer from the pc to my sd card was only 1.43mb and it wont transfer over. when i try to transfer a rom over. forget about it. nothing happens
Edit: the only way i can get my stuff transferred over is to put my external sd card in my gfs sensation 4g and transfer all my files from my pc to her phone. then when i am done i take my sd card out of her phone and put it back in mine. thats the only way i can do it so far. i was hoping there was an easier way but i guess not. this is bs if u ask me. i hate samsung for making this so complicated
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Yes MTP is total crap compared to mass storage, but it's all we really got so...
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yeah it is bs. i was hoping someone would figure out a way to enable mass storage like they do for the international version.
s10shane said:
i plug my phone into my windows 7 pc. it shows my phone, then i click on it and it shows me my internal sd card and external sd card. then i click on my external sd card and drag my photos from the pc to the external sd card and it shows its transferring then it just gets stuck at one point. nothing i can do about it. here is some pics to show u. the one wallpaper i tried to transfer from the pc to my sd card was only 1.43mb and it wont transfer over. when i try to transfer a rom over. forget about it. nothing happens
Edit: the only way i can get my stuff transferred over is to put my external sd card in my gfs sensation 4g and transfer all my files from my pc to her phone. then when i am done i take my sd card out of her phone and put it back in mine. thats the only way i can do it so far. i was hoping there was an easier way but i guess not. this is bs if u ask me. i hate samsung for making this so complicated
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That's what I do. I'm still on XP. Windows 7 is supposed to be better for this. Try the original cable.
thats all i have is the original cable. still no go. idk what up with it.
I had the same issue and turned out to be the two back usb ports I was using. The sgs3 didn't like them and would transfer extremely slow. Weird because I had no issues with my sgs2. I suggest trying different USB ports on your pc.
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blue265 said:
I had the same issue and turned out to be the two back usb ports I was using. The sgs3 didn't like them and would transfer extremely slow. Weird because I had no issues with my sgs2. I suggest trying different USB ports on your pc.
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yep that did it for me.. that is soo odd lol. i used a different usb port in the front since i have 4 of them. now everything transfers pretty quick. thanks for that tip. i still think that is so odd though. :good:
Edit: i hit the thanks button for everyone that tried to help me out.
I'm glad that worked for you. Its very odd indeed but makes me feel better that I'm not the only one or that its not just my pc. Maybe we were using lower speed ports. In any case you should be good to go now and will just have to use those ports like me.
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Guys I don't know what to do.. My phone is telling me my sd card is damaged and it would like to reformat it but I have allot of stuff on it
its a 64gb micro sdxc sandisc
even my computer is saying the card has an I/O error I'm really hoping there's a way to fix this as I haven't backed up the card.
don't know if this helps either but I dropped my phone last night..worked fine after..then this morning without rebooting it claimed sd card error?
tyvm
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You're probably screwed but...
turn off phone, pull battery, pull SD card and reinsert it. Turn on phone and see what it tells you about the card. If it's still wonky you have to resort to trying to save it on a PC. Good luck but that's why back-up is so important. The card is probably OK but the data might be hosed. Sorry.
Yeah I think I'm screwed there was so much music..like 3 years worth lmao all transferred from my old ass windows 2003 xp
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ugh.....very sorry....
PC backups of that much material are soooo helpful...g
Actually saw this. Worth a try. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1355528
There was a freeware tool I was thinking of, but cannot think of the name. It would fall under data recovery, there are some great software's out there.
I had the same issue once or twice, what I did was boot into my linux box and try to see if it would mount, so I could get the data off. Then format it to ext4. Next I booted into Win7 and formatted it to ntfs. Popped it into my device and it said it had to format the sd for android, lol, and it worked.
First off, this happened when I got the phone when it was fully stock.
Now it's rooted, unlocked bootloader, s-off running carbon aosp.
Randomly my phone will shut down/off and will NOT power back on until I plug it into a charger (house charger, car charger sometimes works).
I;ve tried getting into recovery when it does this and it does nothing at all.
It's a PITA like today I was riding my mountain bike on trails miles away from my car and I was supposed to give my buddy a ride to work and my chain decided to snap (and of course I forgot my multi tool in my garage) so I had to walk back and had no way to call him and let him know.
I've read it's happened to other people and they had their phones replaced and it still happened, is this that common? what can it be
There is some instability with the new 3.4 kernel on certain AOSP ROM's from what I've read (not sure if Carbon is one of them). First thing I would do would be to flash a stable Sense ROM and see if the problem persists. If so, you may have a hardware issue. At that point you can take it in to Sprint and let them look at it. If you're concerned about the phone being rooted & S-off you can run Viperboy's RUU tool, which will restore your phone to totally stock condition.
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FinZ28 said:
There is some instability with the new 3.4 kernel on certain AOSP ROM's from what I've read (not sure if Carbon is one of them). First thing I would do would be to flash a stable Sense ROM and see if the problem persists. If so, you may have a hardware issue. At that point you can take it in to Sprint and let them look at it. If you're concerned about the phone being rooted & S-off you can run Viperboy's RUU tool, which will restore your phone to totally stock condition.
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Do you think it could be a SD card issue? My card is a few years old. I took my catf out and put it in I guess only half way and the phone shut off and did the same thing. I put it back in and un mounted it and so far its fine. I formatted it before switching from my epic 4g touch.
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Do you think it could be a SD card issue? My card is a few years old. I took my catf out and put it in I guess only half way and the phone shut off and did the same thing. I put it back in and un mounted it and so far its fine. I formatted it before switching from my epic 4g touch.
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It's possible I suppose. I've seen people post before about issues with their cards. Try a different one and see.
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Haven't had a chance to buy a new SD card, but I removed mine and have not had a reboot since.
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Haven't had a chance to buy a new SD card, but I removed mine and have not had a reboot since.
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i have seen cards cause issues like this. your best bet dont format it form pc. back it up to pc. flash a sense rom.formatt card from phone then transfer things back over. try that.
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i have seen cards cause issues like this. your best bet dont format it form pc. back it up to pc. flash a sense rom.formatt card from phone then transfer things back over. try that.
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the card is oldddd. i formatted it twice via my pc.
I'm backing it up to my pc and then buying a new card, 16gb's are $15-20 nowadays lol this one is like a class 2 or some low one, it's back when they were $30-35 a card. Thinking of a Sony or PNY class 10 at Fry's it's like $15-20 the sony is supposed to be up to 40mb/s
r916 said:
the card is oldddd. i formatted it twice via my pc.
I'm backing it up to my pc and then buying a new card, 16gb's are $15-20 nowadays lol this one is like a class 2 or some low one, it's back when they were $30-35 a card. Thinking of a Sony or PNY class 10 at Fry's it's like $15-20 the sony is supposed to be up to 40mb/s
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formatting in pc is the problem. but hey you eanna buy a new card go for it lol
Similar problem with random reboots
I was on vacation and in the middle of the trip my phone just started going insane by rebooting on its own. Most of the time it would only get half way though the boot screen then shut off again. It varied how far through the bootscreen it would last then shut off. Occasionally the phone actually made it through the entire boot process, once i was at my home screen it would pop up the power menu and ask if i wanted to power off, reboot, or airplane mode. Then the three hard buttons at the bottom of the phone would flash and then it would shut off. This happened all through vacation. Also, the phone did not always recognize a charge, however, sometimes it did. Once I got home the problem stopped and the phone is not having the random reboots. I went to Gulf Shores, Alabama if your curious..
However now my sd card will not mount to internal storage and I cannot take pictures, use spotify, watch videos i have saved, etc. When I try to pull up these apps, the phone says no external storage available. The thing is, if I go to file manager, I can see the sd card and all of the files, its just when i try to open them from file manager, it loads the gallery app and then it tells me no external storage.
When I go to setting>storage, the option to mount sd card in the sd card spot works. But when I try to mount sd to the internal storage, it does not work. Im seriously confused as I did not download any new apps, or download anything at least within a week prior to going on vacation.
Im running..
CM10
S-On
Hboot 1.15.000
OpenDSP-v25.1.0.32.0405
eMMC-boot
If Im in the fastboot menu, and I click bootloader, it says
SD checking..
Loading [PJ75DIAG.zip]
No Image!
I have done a factory reset and the problem still persists.
Any help would be great.
anyone have recommendations?
Lukapalooza said:
anyone have recommendations?
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If you can, backup your sd internal and external, boot into recovery and mount as usb, then format both...
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jocarog said:
If you can, backup your sd internal and external, boot into recovery and mount as usb, then format both...
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thanks for response, sorry for being late to the party.
I cannot mount as usb. the loading circle just spins. when i try to do it in TWRP, it wont let me either.
also when i go to wipe cache or whatever else, it said failed to mount sd card in the console log and it wont let me wipe anything.
when i go to storage in settings, the problem seems like it is with internal storage. under internal storage, it says "mount sd card", when i do this, i get a notification saying preparing sd card but then it goes away after about 2 seconds. then the internal storage area says "mount sd card" again.
I am willing to wipe everything because I got all my photos off the sd card so im okay with wiping it all and starting over. i already did a factory reset but it didnt help. unfortunately i cant wipe cache and other things so i dont know what to do. thanks for your help!
Luke