To make a long story short, I've restored WebOS, did a full wipe (via WebOS) of the SD Card and data and now when trying to go through the process of installing CM on the Touchpad again Windows wants to format the SD Card every time I plug it into the computer.
Is this normal behavior? When I allowed Windows to previously format the card (Fat32), all sorts of problems (booting issues) ensued. I am afraid to do it again.
Thank you.
I found out the hard way that a restore of webOS does NOT restore the SD card to its original state if you had previously installed CM. You have to run ACMEUninstaller prior to re-installing CM.
Doing as you've instructed: running the ACMEUninstaller in the "Pow+Home" mode (novacom boot mem:// < ACMEUninstaller) following a webOS factory reset resulted in the TP booting into wiped WebOS and prompting me to select language.
However, the Windows machine still is unable to read/write to the SD card and hence I am unable to proceed with the process of putting the necessary packages onto the card (CWM, moboot, cm7-alpha3.5).
I'm beginning to think this is an OS problem rather than the TP (this time attempting this process on my work machine running WinXP x86).
Any further advice appreciated
PS. Thinking of attempting to fire up a Linux image in a VM to see if I can mount the SD there...
pbourdyk said:
Doing as you've instructed: running the ACMEUninstaller in the "Pow+Home" mode (novacom boot mem:// < ACMEUninstaller) following a webOS factory reset resulted in the TP booting into wiped WebOS and prompting me to select language.
However, the Windows machine still is unable to read/write to the SD card and hence I am unable to proceed with the process of putting the necessary packages onto the card (CWM, moboot, cm7-alpha3.5).
I'm beginning to think this is an OS problem rather than the TP (this time attempting this process on my work machine running WinXP x86).
Any further advice appreciated
PS. Thinking of attempting to fire up a Linux image in a VM to see if I can mount the SD there...
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This happened to me.. I just downloaded webos update, fixed the issue. But if you're already on 3.0.5 not sure of the solution though. If u have home network, u can pull files through es file explorer LAN option
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I managed to sort everything out.
After successful ACMEUninstall, I reconfigured the factory reset WebOS and tethered my phone for WiFi (corporate wifi around here, so no certificate). After logging in to WebOS, the PC was able to mount the drive and I went through ACMEInstall process with moboot, cwm and cm7-a3.5, everything is working. Thanks.
Now if I could only get this TP on the corporate wifi now, I'd be set (802.1x PEAP MSCHAP-v2 stage2 auth, can only seem to export the required certificate in CER of P7B formats, which android doesn't seem to want to import nicely... -- sorry to go off topic, I'll post a new thread if I don't succeed in this...) Thanks again.
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I need to repartition my SD card for changing ROM on my HTC Desire. I planned on using GParted for the task, but so far I have failed to get the SD card to show up in GParted. What I have tried so far:
1. Plugging in my phone to my MacBook I can see my device and in Disk Utility both partitions show up (although obviously the ext4 won't mount).
2. Booted GParted in Parallels but the device won't show up
3. ...so I tried booting my mac with it, but still, the device won't show up.
4. Tried booting a PC off GParted. Still no device!
5. Plugging the SD card into a Samsung Galaxy S and tried the above again, still without success.
So problem persists, I cannot get the SD card to show up in GParted! Do you have any idea how to make it work?
Try to use card reader. I'm sure it can detect when you use it. I'm a fans of gparted.
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Alright, then I need to rest my restless mind and wait for the holidays to pass so I can get hold of one! Thanks.
Hi all.
Here's the situation:
I have a 32 gb Sandisk (unsure of the class) sd card I've used with 2 different phones for at least over a year now. I took the card out of my phone to connect it through my laptops built in card reader for the purpose of transferring large files (card reader speeds are much faster than usb mounting through the phone for me). When I put it in the computer Windows wouldn't recognize it. Now it won't mount in my phone at all, and it won't work correctly on my PC. When I connect it to my computer it says the card needs to be formatted before use, but then when I go to format it, it shows up on the Windows formatting screen as only having a 30.6 mb capacity and I get the message "Windows was unable to complete the format" whenever I try to format it, no matter the settings.
So my question is, how do I get the darn thing to work again? I think something must have happened between shutting my phone down to remove it and putting it in my computer. I just don't know what. Anyone else ever experience this? (I've already given up on recovering all of my files, but if it's possible to save them that would be amazing )
Things I've tried:
formatting via Windows
formatting via android
formatting /external_sd via Clockworkmod recovery
a couple different data recovery/partitioning programs (Partition Wizard and PhotoRec/TestDisk
also using "chkdsk" in windows command prompt returns saying that the disk is in the "RAW" format.
Additional info:
Phone: Motorola Droid RAZR HD (XT926) (Verizon)
ROM: XenonHD 11.01 (Android version 4.2.2, AOSP based)
Sorry if this is more lengthy than necessary, just trying to be thorough and cover all the bases!
Thanks in advance for your help!
I've had this problem for a while (not being able to connect my NT to my computer) and can't seem to resolve it. I happened to have to upgrade my hard drive and hoped the clean install of XP would fix it but it didn't!
When I connect my NT to the computer via USB (running Paranoid Android 3.01 off 32GB class 4 Sandisk SD card, and yes, I have USB Debugging enabled) I get the following:
The NT is recognized as the following devices, in this order:
MTP
Composite USB
Nook Tablet
The hardware installer opens after each "device" is recognized. Finally I get to Nook Tablet after cancelling the two previous hardware install requests but a third pops up and then I get a message that there was a problem with the installation!
I had been able to fix this problem previously by running usbdview and uninstalling each device, then deleting the device drive letter assignment, and finally running my Norton 360 Registry Cleanup Utility. But, now, that just isn't working!
I surmised that I was having a problem with the drivers. So, I surfed the web and found the USB Driver Zip file from Indirect's OP on rooting and installed them on my computer again. No luck.
I managed to get into a log file (don't ask me what it was called, I forgot) that was in the WINDOWS/DRIVERS/i386 folder. It mentioned a paging error occurred during the process of attempting to connect the NT to the computer. Does this mean my SD card is bad? I have had no problems using it to run the PA ROM on my NT, at all. From what I read however, that I could try to understand, a paging error has something to do with a problem with the SD card? Certainly I can just reinstall the ROM, in another card if necessary, or load a new one. However, I'd like to be able to get my content off the card without having to drop box all the files to myself (a decent but slow workaround).
I know I could try to use ADB over my wireless connection somehow to achieve this as well, but that is over my head right now.
Any suggestions regarding what is going on here would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
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It's not clear from your post if you're merely try to connect the NT to your PC via USB for media content transfer, or for ADB access.
If the latter, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=35971559&postcount=13 might be of help.
Oops, sorry. Just for content access/transfer.
Actually tonight my device seemed to reboot while I was in the middle of composing a document (data viz word). It's never done THAT before. Interestingly, it seemed to skip cyanoboot and go right to the SD ROM. The WiFi needed to be manually connected thereafter (usually auto connects). The reason I think it rebooted and it wasn't the screen flaking out as a problem is it went black and then right to the first animation for PA 3.01. But this seems to make no sense!
Maybe the SD card IS failing?
Yes, I am trying to avoid having to learn ADB access. Too tired (you know why Digi.) If I must, I will shell out for a new card and maybe try one of your newer ROMS......it's probably time for that anyway. But the card is only 6 months old
I will test out trying to access the NT on the computer via USB without the SD card mounted. Maybe that will shed some light.
Thanks as always.
Snooch
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I have an HP mini 110 that I am installing the latest x86 on. I chose install and am not running the live CD. I have formatted the drive and set the flag to bootable. I can get through the install and first boot, along with running Android and installing apps. But if I shut down or reboot I get the "bootmgr is missing" error. I have booted to gparted and made sure the HDD I am installing to is clean. I've tried fat32 and ntsf, and it seems it only wants to format the HDD in ntsf. Not sure what to do. I have tried selecting "install GRUB" but that doesn't do anything.
Like I said I can get first boot right after install, but any power loss results in bootmgr missing. Its like its running a live CD even though I told it to install to the HDD. Thoughts?
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I have an HP mini 110 that I am installing the latest x86 on. I chose install and am not running the live CD. I have formatted the drive and set the flag to bootable. I can get through the install and first boot, along with running Android and installing apps. But if I shut down or reboot I get the "bootmgr is missing" error. I have booted to gparted and made sure the HDD I am installing to is clean. I've tried fat32 and ntsf, and it seems it only wants to format the HDD in ntsf. Not sure what to do. I have tried selecting "install GRUB" but that doesn't do anything.
Like I said I can get first boot right after install, but any power loss results in bootmgr missing. Its like its running a live CD even though I told it to install to the HDD. Thoughts?
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With Gparted, format your HDD with ext3, after, you go in Android's installation, you select your hard drive and you install everything without formatting !
Hey! I installed the Remix OS beta when it came out at the beginning of this month, and everything worked well. I initially installed it onto an SD as a test, then moved to a USB as I found it to be quite useful, using Resident mode the whole time in order to save files.
I decided to switch USBs I was using, so made a fresh install onto a Integral 32GB USB3 stick. I also installed Phoenix OS onto the same SD I had previously used as a test. I decided to run Phoenix OS first to test it out (it boots fine), then I tired to boot up the new Remix install on the USB. Here's where the problems begin.... Guest mode works 100% (even using a DPI flag at boot), but Resident just hangs. I've tried multiple fresh installs on different USBs and even booting on different PCs. I feel like I'm losing my mind! Any ideas?
Ok, so I'm back to (sort of) answer my own question, just in case anyone else runs into the same problem when attempting to run Resident mode from a USB.
After looking at the boot options I realised that Resident mode was looking to format partition 1 on the USB at boot, this is where the boot was hanging without any confirmation of a successful format. This combined with the fact that Guest mode worked without a hitch made me realised that the partitions on the USB were messed up. I couldn't figure out how to successfully remove all the partitions using windows partition manager, so a quick format using "SD Formatter" (don't stop here as it won't work yet) to remove the partitions and restore the USB to its original size, then a long format using "USB Disk Storage Format Tool" did the trick. It takes about 30mins to format a 32GB USB using these tools, but it's the only method I've found to restore the USB to it's original state.
For future reference, to fix up the disk using built in Windows tools you can just run Diskpart from the command line, then use the following commands:
Code:
list disk
select disk x (whichever the number is for the USB stick)
clean
create partition primary
format fs=ntfs quick
exit
Takes around 1 minute.