I have been reading the forums and lurking for a while and have noticed a lot of devs stating that their roms may wipe the SD card. I have a million old SD cards laying around from previous devices and what-not. Is there any reason why I can't use an SD card for just Rom flashing, that way there is no other data to lose? Then when the Rom is loaded, put in my other SDcard...? It also eliminates the possibility of accidentally having a stray PH98 in the event you forgot to delete before going to bootloader...
That's what I do. I have a spare SanDisk 16 gig that I use solely for Rom flashing
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You could do that, but I believe the devs mean the internal sd. I've never had my external sd card wiped by flashing a rom.
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Bradh024 said:
You could do that, but I believe the devs mean the internal sd. I've never had my external sd card wiped by flashing a rom.
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I've never had my internal card wiped by flashing a rom!
tekhna said:
I've never had my internal card wiped by flashing a rom!
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Neither have I. Only when I went through unlocking it.
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I've never had anything wiped that I didn't tell it to while flashing either but I find it easier to keep all my roms on one card. And that I don't accidentally wipe all my files if I'm not paying attention.
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tekhna said:
I've never had my internal card wiped by flashing a rom!
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happened to me once before by flashing a rom.
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My entire SD card ? the reason I'm asking is as of late my SD card has been telling me that the sd card unexpectedly amounted especially when i flash a new Rom and yeah I do countless wipes and I don't mess with Rom manager no more , what should i do
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My entire SD card ? the reason I'm asking is as of late my SD card has been telling me that the sd card unexpectedly amounted especially when i flash a new Rom and yeah I do countless wipes and I don't mess with Rom manager no more , what should i do
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Back it up somehow, do a complete format of the card, then move your data back onto it. If it still has issues, format it and put no data on it until you've verified that the data is good. I've had issues both with the card being corrupted and data being corrupted that's led to unrecognized cards and random unmounting of the card.
Also, there's no point in wiping more than once. Anyone who tells you it does do something it lying to you.
Hey loon thanks for your words of wisdom seriously, I've done everything you mentioned,i may get a new SD card but I Will try your way though wish me luck homie
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I think I'm too inexperienced to be rom'ing on my everyday phone. I was running Team Objection lf5 and it was great except for google voice and MHL-out. So I decided to play with CM9. Now I cannot revert back to Objection? CWM recovery menu does not see ANYTHING on my external sd card. But when I pop the card into my laptop everything is still there, including all 3 of my CWM backup dates. What gives? I installed TWRP recovery to see if that was any different but it shows my backups as blank too. (Can TWRP even see/use CWM backup files anyways??).
So if the backups are there....how do you recommend I go about regaining access to them? Thank you in advance for saving my butt!
TWRP cannot use CWM backups and when u boot into CWM u should have an option to restore from internal memory or SD card, which is external. Try that
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nvmehaterz said:
TWRP cannot use CWM backups and when u boot into CWM u should have an option to restore from internal memory or SD card, which is external. Try that
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CWM gives me something like "directory not found" both when SD is mounted and unmounted.
Might be that CM9 is having terrible seeing the external. Put the backup on your internal.
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Might be that CM9 is having terrible seeing the external. Put the backup on your internal.
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This is true, it's only navigating the internal SD. BUT I can't mount the internal in CM9 to move the backups there. I'm stuck right?
No, flash a ROM, then move the backup on your phone, them restore the backup
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No, flash a ROM, then move the backup on your phone, them restore the backup
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Got it. I'm in CM9 right now. Got USB storage "working" in that it connects, but while copying my clockworkmod folder to the internal it will cause the phone to reboot each and every time. (4x so far). I'll keep trying but this was an absolute waste of a day.
External has been wonky on CM9, just flash another ROM, preferably tw based, so you can transfer the file, then restore your backup.
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Holy crap the whole problem was incompatibility between CWM and CWMtouch versions. Never would have guessed, but then again I know so little that I thought the backups they create would be compatible. Thanks everyone for your help.
CM7 was/is great on my Incredible, but it appears I am not ready for CM9 on the Note. (With the bugs in CM9 I cannot believe people are asking for CM10 already, yikes). Then again, the is on my everyday, daily driver including work phone so I need every little thing to work right.
Hey all!
I recently had downloaded the ROM GO Airborn, put it on my SD from my laptop, then flashed it through recovery. The problem I had was that it doesnt show any music/photos that are on the SD card. I thought that I had accidently wiped the SD card, but when I go into storage in settings and Astro form the market, it shows that the card is mounted and I can browse it.
I thought it would of been the ROM, so I flashed Eternity ROM after a clean wipe. I am having the same problem. Settings-->Storage says that I have 30GB total and 9GB remaining, and ASTRO can browse the SD card, its all still there. I just cant seem to access it. Any help?
Are you using superwipe before flashing the roms and are you using clockworkmod recovery to flash it?
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Are you using superwipe before flashing the roms and are you using clockworkmod recovery to flash it?
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superwipe no, clockwork yes.
That's what I thought. Go to the eternity forums and go to the FAQ and get super wipe from there. You should also download 4ext recovery because cwm is causing way to many issues here lately.
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Will that fix the SD card issue?
I also read recently that cwm has been placing a .no media folder on the SD card and by deleting it some issues may be solved. Worth a shot I guess. My only other suggestion would be to backup the contents and reformat the SD card.
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@disconnecktie I love you, man. Haha. The .nomedia issue is exactly what it was. I performed a ".nomedia" search and deleted all of those files. What recovery would you suggest flashing? TWRP is what I am going to flash right now. Anything better available? Thank you!!!
4ext for the win bro. Its the first app I paid for and worth every penny. It is free too but it is so good I had to buy it.
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hi all can somebody direct me to modding the sgs3 as i am doing it for a friend need some steps like do i have to unlock bootloader before i root and stuff i am using hox so new to sgs3
Galaxy S3 has an unlocked bootloader, use CF-root to root it. The GS3 also uses a flash counter, if you root or flash a custom rom it will trip the flash counter, and unless it's reset with triangle away even if you reflash stock you may not be able to claim warranty.
Check out the development section for some mods (there is also a sticky in the general with some mods, and roms.)
No, Sammy bootloaders aren't locked (except verizons b*stard child S3)
Flash cf-root 6.4 via odin and you are rooted and have recovery.
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soft brick please help with firmware i can flash through odin
Just go into recovery and wipe data/factory reset.
Get into recovery by holding vol up + home + power.
Try that first.
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tryed it need to put a rom onto the internal memory but it not letting me mount sd to comp
And how did you delete your system?
It should boot after doing a wipe, unless you formatted your system partition.
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think i formatted system via super wipe for arhd
Christ sake, another person f*cking themselves up because of that script.
Why didn't you follow the instructions properly? Especially the part where it says put the ROM you want to flash on the external SD?
You need to boot into download mode and flash a firmware via Odin.
Sammobile.com is where you need to go now.
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am going to try put arhd on a extern sd and try flash that way will that work n i didnt put it onto exsd because i have arhd on my hox so didnt think to do that as i said doing for a friend
Ya put it on the external SD and flash from there.
Superwipe wipes internal storage, which is retarded, but that's how that dev does it.
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How did that dev not see this coming with the useless super wipe. But yeah put a Rom on your ext sd send flash. Or flash a stock rom through Odin and start again.
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Thanks all I did do worked perfectly thought it was that never heard of a ROM that had to wipe SD card first that stupid what if you didn't have a SD card or y would you waist your time backing your hole SD card NP n sorry for the confusion all as I said am on HTC one x on ADHD and it don't wipe my sd
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Thanks all I did do worked perfectly thought it was that never heard of a ROM that had to wipe SD card first that stupid what if you didn't have a SD card or y would you waist your time backing your hole SD card NP n sorry for the confusion all as I said am on HTC one x on ADHD and it don't wipe my sd
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That's because hox has no external SD so wiping internal SD would cause this problem every time someone used that pointless script.
Its an absolute joke of a script, it shouldn't touch the internal storage.
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That's because hox has no external SD so wiping internal SD would cause this problem every time someone used that pointless script.
Its an absolute joke of a script, it shouldn't touch the internal storage.
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I agree am not a newbe but ait a pro either just trying to make my phone better never heard of it n I know about hoc not having extern
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I flashed Beans build 11 with pbj kernel. In that I picked the option to swap internal and external sd cards. Now I cant change wallpapers and some of my apps are telling me "sd card required for this application"
I would prefer to just fix this rather than re-flashing the rom again without the sd card swap.
I have been searching the forums for hours and can normally find a way to resolve any issue, but not this time.
Any help would be great.
Thanks
Just wipe caches and flash. Takes a couple minutes.
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Flash the rom again?
Any other solution?
pcandroid said:
Flash the rom again?
Any other solution?
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Yes flash the ROM with only wiping caches. You won't have to set everything up again and it should get rid of the swap
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:good:back to normal.
Is it possible to swap your sd without these kind of issues?
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:good:back to normal.
Is it possible to swap your sd without these kind of issues?
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I assume so because I've never seen them mentioned, but I don't use swap. Did you clean flash the ROM the first time?
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Yeah clean flash coming from beans 10.