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hello fellow hackers. Today i hacked my HD2 to install Android using a goldcard. Everything went well. No i have the problem that neither my Milstone, nor my HD2 or legend recognize the card. I have formated it a couple of times but no chance. I can use it on windows, and read and write but the cell phones doesnt recognize it. Is my SD card now corrupt? How can i remove the changes that were made?
obaidr said:
hello fellow hackers. Today i hacked my HD2 to install Android using a goldcard. Everything went well. No i have the problem that neither my Milstone, nor my HD2 or legend recognize the card. I have formated it a couple of times but no chance. I can use it on windows, and read and write but the cell phones doesnt recognize it. Is my SD card now corrupt? How can i remove the changes that were made?
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Dude, why do you want to format it?
If I were you, I would rather buy a new one and keep the old one as an emergency kit
Still, you can try format it using a Partition Tools software.
Good luck
you shouldnt have needed to format it. it should work as a normal sd card when its gold, no problem. how else do you think you managed to copy the leoimg.nbh file onto it?
A card should work as a FAT disk, and still remain gold, until it is formatted (or you accidentally allow that annoying windows 'your disk may have errors' or whatever the hell it says popup to 'fix' it.)
Since you have gone past that stage by now, id say fix the mbr, fresh partition. Give some partitioning software a try, or you can use THIS (post 3) method to clean the mbr, see if it helps.
silverwind said:
Dude, why do you want to format it?
If I were you, I would rather buy a new one and keep the old one as an emergency kit
Still, you can try format it using a Partition Tools software.
Good luck
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making the card took me maybe ten minutes. i can recreate it. anyways i was able to delete all the partitions with gparted and reformat the sd card with the phone it self. Thanks for the replies anyways.
Hi XDA Members and staff!
Today i have bought a brand new Samsung 32GB Class 10 + High speed MicroSD Card. I just placed a new rom on the SD CARD and flashed it on to my HTC HD2 as i got to the Home screen i didn't see the Preparing SD card notification so i connected my phone to my computer and guess what it didn't show up... Then i took my old LG phone and it worked. I went to format it and then again guess what; it was 31.6MB Free of 31.6MB! Where did my memory go? OK i right clicked F: selected "format" tried making it FAT32 but is not there... So i done it on FAT; still no luck... I then tried SDFormatter no luck; it wasn't even capable of Fully erasing it because it wasn't compatible with the LG phone.... OMFN! I am so unlucky! God hates me!
Can Somebody help me out?
God does not hate you that's impossible. God loves you. What kind of SD is this ??? Also try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10878511&postcount=8311
If it doesn't work send Me a pm and after I get home from church I'll check to see if your issue still remains. God Bless
#Root-Hack_Mod*Always\
My suggestion is that you try to erase all data from the SD card, even partition data. I don't use Windows a lot these days, so I can't point you to a useful utility, but it's very simple in Linux-based systems if you use GParted. If you don't have GParted or even Linux then download GParted Live from gparted.sourceforge.net , it's a bootable cd/usb-image you can run without installing anything on your computer.
Then in GParted, remove all partitions, create a new FAT32 partition and format it.
I've fixed some corrupt SD-cards this way myself. I've also seen some wierdly factory formatted SD-cards during the years.
Just thought I would throw my fix out there since I had trouble trying to run the instructions from the S-off thread using busybox.
I just used the Gparted live cd . It showed my card up as the correct size, just didn't have a partition any longer. So I just made a new partition then formatted it to Fat 32 with the full size of my card.
Now, my SD card is back to working condition.
Probably , alot of common sense just wasn't sure how many people thought of using Gparted. Windows wasn't properly reformatting it since the partition was gone.
Thanks for posting this. I figured this would fix it and I am glad to here there is a confirmation. That process really does a number on the SD card.
Not meaning to thread jack
I'm having trouble with the external storage fix
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Not meaning to thread jack
I'm having trouble with the external storage fix
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What type of trouble ? I did as well that's why I used Gparted. Gparted is easy to use and free download.
So I should use a throwaway SD card for this obviously and then put in my original after?
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So I should use a throwaway SD card for this obviously and then put in my original after?
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definately !
Wish I had used my old 8gb card. I jumped the gun and now my 32gb is screwed. Don't have a cd drive on my ultraportable pc or a flash drive even. So I'm out of luck for the time being. Won't have access to my main pc until Tuesday. This is the messiest s-off I've ever dealt with! Ah well..
How I fixed mine was after I got s-off I reformatted the card. Would not work at all until I got s-off working.
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i had the same issue, it was showing up as 108kb, put it in your comupter if your running windows, it will say it needs to format it, let it format even tho it only shows 108kb, take it out when its done, put it back in and repeat the format, when you insert it the 3rd time 14.4 gb, worked for me, i had to do that process 4 times before i got s-off, cheers
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i feel kinda dumb for asking this but i cant for the life to me get to the internal storage from the PC. i think files are being saved to the internal storage instead of my SD card. i can mount the usb fine and access stuff from my sd card but dont see any option for internal storage
From my knowledge, when hooking the phone to an external source, the only contents displayed will be for the SD card.
You can access internal systems and folders via apps like ES File Explorer/Astro but I believe you can only move/change files in internal memory with root access.
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From my knowledge, when hooking the phone to an external source, the only contents displayed will be for the SD card.
You can access internal systems and folders via apps like ES File Explorer/Astro but I believe you can only move/change files in internal memory with root access.
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Not true.
i see the files using a file manager app but thats not the point, i want to view the files on my pc
in the window that pops up (the one with Charge Only, Storage, etc.) select "Media Sync", and it should appear on My Computer (if using Windows) or Android File Transfer (an app on Mac)
Is anyone else unable to see the entire 16GB? In Internal Space I have 2.09 GB of total space and Phone Storage I have 9.93 GB of total space. Somewhere I am missing ~4GB of storage.
Is this right, is the phone hiding the OS partition or is there an issue with my phone?
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Is anyone else unable to see the entire 16GB? In Internal Space I have 2.09 GB of total space and Phone Storage I have 9.93 GB of total space. Somewhere I am missing ~4GB of storage.
Is this right, is the phone hiding the OS partition or is there an issue with my phone?
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I believe the 4GB are reserved for sense or something with the operating system.
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i feel kinda dumb for asking this but i cant for the life to me get to the internal storage from the PC. i think files are being saved to the internal storage instead of my SD card. i can mount the usb fine and access stuff from my sd card but dont see any option for internal storage
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Yeah just use media sync when you connect the phone to your computer. Then you can access the 16 gb via MTP.
You guys are doing better than me. I'm about to totally lose it! I can't , no matter what, get my PC to recognize my Evo as removable storage.
I've tried everything I can think of. Over the last 3 days. Tried various drivers . Tried the 32 bit HTC driver from the root thread (zedomax). Tried uninstalling HTC sync.
My old Evo still mounts as a removable drive no problem.
If anyone has any ideas or suggestions, please, please, for the love if all that is good and fair, please share.
Thank you.
(Windows xp sp3 32 bit)
Unrelated, maybe :
Adb recognizes my phone when I type adb devices. And I can adb reboot bootloader. But when Evo is in fastboot USB, if i try a fastboot command from CMD box, it just says waiting for device. :banghead:
I NEVER had this much trouble with OG Evo. This is kicking my arse.
Please and thank you.
sent from my Evo LTE, usually.
scottspa74 said:
You guys are doing better than me. I'm about to totally lose it! I can't , no matter what, get my PC to recognize my Evo as removable storage.
I've tried everything I can think of. Over the last 3 days. Tried various drivers . Tried the 32 bit HTC driver from the root thread (zedomax). Tried uninstalling HTC sync.
My old Evo still mounts as a removable drive no problem.
If anyone has any ideas or suggestions, please, please, for the love if all that is good and fair, please share.
Thank you.
(Windows xp sp3 32 bit)
Unrelated, maybe :
Adb recognizes my phone when I type adb devices. And I can adb reboot bootloader. But when Evo is in fastboot USB, if i try a fastboot command from CMD box, it just says waiting for device. :banghead:
I NEVER had this much trouble with OG Evo. This is kicking my arse.
Please and thank you.
sent from my Evo LTE, usually.
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removable storage is only if you put in a SD card, sounds like you dont have a SD card in your phone.
i installed htc sync but still cant access the internal storage...
nope. At work on a win 7 PC I plugged in and it picked up my internal storage right away. (I don't have an SD yet, dont wanna steal the one out of my og Evo).
The problem seems to be specific to dealing with XP. I just can't figure out what it is that I need. And why my fastboot commands hang at 'waiting for device'.
I appreciate the response, but internal storage mounts just fine for me on win7, which I dont have.
Edit: sorry, let me clarify. At work on win7 it didn't show as a removable drive, you are correct. But below the listed drives, it showed up as Evo and i was able yo access internal storage. I'm just so confused what the hell to do.
sent from my Evo LTE, usually.
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nope. At work on a win 7 PC I plugged in and it picked up my internal storage right away. (I don't have an SD yet, dont wanna steal the one out of my og Evo).
The problem seems to be specific to dealing with XP. I just can't figure out what it is that I need. And why my fastboot commands hang at 'waiting for device'.
I appreciate the response, but internal storage mounts just fine for me on win7, which I dont have.
Edit: sorry, let me clarify. At work on win7 it didn't show as a removable drive, you are correct. But below the listed drives, it showed up as Evo and i was able yo access internal storage. I'm just so confused what the hell to do.
sent from my Evo LTE, usually.
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Hmm I only have Win7 at home and I can get to both my internal storage and sd card just fine. We are still on XP at work so in the morning I can plug it in and see if I can help you out if you haven't figured it out by then.
Here is what I found with phones that have an internal "SD card" built in.
If you move a lot of apps to the SD card, eventually there will be an app that wont quit when you plug in the USB and tell the phone to mount the drive.
Unfortunately, I only stumbled upon this recently with my old Motorola Photon therefore I havent researched the issue enough to know what the problem apps are. I had a hunch that installing apps to the SD card had something to do with the problem and used Titanium Backup to move all the apps back to phone memory. Magically... the storage would mount.
YMMV but this is something I would try. Ironically I have the same problem again on the Evo after setting up my phone. It worked great till I restored all my apps (some of which to the internal SD card). If I get some time in the next week or two to research I will update my post with some problem apps.
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Hmm I only have Win7 at home and I can get to both my internal storage and sd card just fine. We are still on XP at work so in the morning I can plug it in and see if I can help you out if you haven't figured it out by then.
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That is awesome, man. Thank you. I'm going nuts over this. I'm not android illiterate, but I am pretty much a noob when it comes to PCs/desktops. Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you.
sent from 2yr old Evo on ICS
scottspa74 said:
That is awesome, man. Thank you. I'm going nuts over this. I'm not android illiterate, but I am pretty much a noob when it comes to PCs/desktops. Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you.
sent from 2yr old Evo on ICS
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Update windows media player to the latest version, use Media Sync option and it should work.
im on windows 7 at home and at work and it still wont recognize my internal storage. i installed htc sync and it says no device connected.
unknown1205 said:
im on windows 7 at home and at work and it still wont recognize my internal storage. i installed htc sync and it says no device connected.
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Use media sync.
unknown1205 said:
im on windows 7 at home and at work and it still wont recognize my internal storage. i installed htc sync and it says no device connected.
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nevermind i got it. i was clicking on HTC Sync Manager instead of media Sync. worked like a charm.
What's the point of accessing this memory if it's read only
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What's the point of accessing this memory if it's read only
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its not read only, its internal memory. sort of like a non removable sd card
Imho they shoulda just made the whole internal storage include that 16gb "sd card' memory allocation and then say if you need extra space add a micro SD card and have that be the true external memory...
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Ok, without getting into the cascading series of screwiness along the way, I think I've managed to effectively brick my phone. I'm posting in hopes that the part of my brain screaming "No, you're missing something" is right.
e970, already rooted, running CyanogenMod 10.1 and TWRP 2.6.3.0. In pursuit of a "clean slate" to deal with remnants of sloppy uninstallations, I thought I'd clear everything with TWRP and just put CM back. So, I pulled out my SD card with my saved data, and had TWRP wipe everything, including the CM zip on the root of the built-in storage. I copied the newer CM and GAPPS to a spare SD card, plugged it in...
and I found the external SD card wasn't recognized by TWRP. There's only 1 storage location listed, which is the built-in area I just wiped.
I can't get the phone to be recognized by a desktop running Windows 8.1. I have freshly installed the drivers, downloaded the SDK, rebooted, etc. from that side. The phone is never recognized by either Windows or ADB. So, I dug out the laptop I originally installed CM from some time back (last year?). Same story - no Windows or ADB recognition.
Ok, fine - maybe the USB port is dying on me. I'll try formatting the SD card and see if that's the issue. FAT32, copy the files back, still no luck. Great. Maybe it's the card, so I copy my data and put the zips on the original card I had in the phone. Still no dice.
So, here I am. No OS installed, no image on the internal drive to recover from, TWRP won't recognize my external card(s), and I can't get anything to acknowledge the phone via USB to do a sideload.
Am I missing something, or did I completely hose myself?
I forgot to mention: I did try different cables and ports on both computers before arriving at the idea the e970 USB port may have having issues.
Have you tried a different SD card?
SD card have a finite lifespan, and I've seen them fail n the middle of normal use. The first thing I'd try would be a different SD.
If that doesn't work, you may have to just LGPNST back to bone stock.
(You may want to play with the "Partition SD Card" option under "Advanced" in TWRP. It'll wipe any data on the card so back up to your computer first, but this may kick the SD card into being recognized by the phone [though I dont know how windows would react to it])
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Have you tried a different SD card?
SD card have a finite lifespan, and I've seen them fail n the middle of normal use. The first thing I'd try would be a different SD.
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I did, in fact. I tried it on a spare first, so I didn't have to worry about erasing the data on the SD card I pulled out of the phone. When that failed, I tried copying the zips onto my original card, which was also not picked up. I've found other posts on here that suggest this particular version of TWRP had issues reading external cards, but I don't see any way to get a different one on the phone at this point.
OMGMatrix said:
(You may want to play with the "Partition SD Card" option under "Advanced" in TWRP. It'll wipe any data on the card so back up to your computer first, but this may kick the SD card into being recognized by the phone [though I dont know how windows would react to it])
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I might be missing the mark here, but wouldn't this format the already-empty internal storage (since it's the one selected) rather than the external card?
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I did, in fact. I tried it on a spare first, so I didn't have to worry about erasing the data on the SD card I pulled out of the phone. When that failed, I tried copying the zips onto my original card, which was also not picked up. I've found other posts on here that suggest this particular version of TWRP had issues reading external cards, but I don't see any way to get a different one on the phone at this point.
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If you can boot the phone into fastboot (should be VOL UP + Power), you should be able to flash the recover that way with:
fastboot flash recovery <name of recovery>.img
You'll need to get the .img instead of a flashable zip obviously, but that can be done even by grabbing the "recovery.img" file from a flashable recovery zip.
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I might be missing the mark here, but wouldn't this format the already-empty internal storage (since it's the one selected) rather than the external card?
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I've honestly not messed with this option; I just know I've solved similar problems with flash drives in the past by formatting in different ways.
OMGMatrix said:
If you can boot the phone into fastboot (should be VOL UP + Power), you should be able to flash the recover that way with:
fastboot flash recovery <name of recovery>.img
You'll need to get the .img instead of a flashable zip obviously, but that can be done even by grabbing the "recovery.img" file from a flashable recovery zip.
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How is he going to do that? He can't get a PC to recognize the phone.
Maybe try a Linux box? You could make an Ubuntu live USB stick with some extra storage space on it, and try running adb from there.
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dandrumheller said:
How is he going to do that? He can't get a PC to recognize the phone.
Maybe try a Linux box? You could make an Ubuntu live USB stick with some extra storage space on it, and try running adb from there.
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There's a thought... I think I have a Knoppix disk around here that I could boot from. I don't have high hopes, since it's not being recognized by the laptop I did this on originally, but I'll give anything a shot at this point. I'll let you know how it goes.
No dice. ADB gives me the same response whether the phone is at the fastboot screen or the sideload inside TWRP.
[email protected]:~/Documents/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools$ ./adb start-server
[email protected]:~/Documents/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools$ ./adb devices
List of devices attached
[email protected]:~/Documents/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools$
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OMGMatrix said:
(You may want to play with the "Partition SD Card" option under "Advanced" in TWRP. It'll wipe any data on the card so back up to your computer first, but this may kick the SD card into being recognized by the phone [though I dont know how windows would react to it])
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I tried this but didn't have any luck. It looks like it is trying to hit the external card, but still isn't recognizing it.
E: Unknown File System: 'datamedia'
Updatition partition details...
Partitioning SD Card...
E: Unable to locate device to partition.
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Check ALL your cords
Another update. After presuming me e970 dead, going to Best Buy to shop for an AT&T Next upgrade, running the HTC One m8 for a couple days, I get a wild hair to try the HTC cord on the old phone. Oddly enough, it works and the phone was picked up immediately. I've already pushed CM over via adb, and and working on gapps now.
Apparently both of the cords I tried previously weren't up to spec for smartphone use. I'm going to have to come up with a labelling system on what's good for trickle charges and what's good for data.
I'm not sure what a return will do to my upgrade status, but I'd rather wait on a new phone. It even looks like I know what I'll get. Thanks for the ideas along the way.
Nice, glad you found a solution. Unless things have changed with the new plans, you should be OK to return the phone within 14 days and keep your upgrade.
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