Md5sum fail - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Every time I try to update su or backup by nandroid, they all say Md5sum fail
Idk what's wrong
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Either your memory card or device is damaged (i.e. has bad blocks), or your recovery has a bug. I would ask in the thread/forum for your specific device, to see if anyone else using the same version/type of recovery also has the problem.
if you are an advanced user, I could suggest a zero-fill on the NAND using dd. E.g:
Code:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 bs=16 count=1 conv=fsync
...make sure you use the correct blockname for your device/partition though otherwise you could brick. And I don't know what buffersize the device can handle, halve it to 8 if it crashes out. Still, don't know if it's a problem with internal NAND or microSD. Or if your device even uses microSD. Again, best posting in your device forum.

Yes I got a new microsdcard 16 gb SanDisk today from best buy, could this be it?
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ArcticFish said:
Yes I got a new microsdcard 16 gb SanDisk today from best buy, could this be it?
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It could be, do you have an older or different microSD just to test on? Maybe you just need to format the SD. But trying a different one will help to single-out the problem. Sometimes microSD cards get errors and you can't avoid it, especially if you pull the battery out while using the phone or the phone crashes/reboots.

Well I have my old one I used, 256 mb SanDisk microsdcard, but it never had enough memory to back up completly
Could it be maybe some necessary memory was in it? Also I never formated the new microsdcard so ill do that
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ArcticFish said:
Well I have my old one I used, 256 mb SanDisk microsdcard, but it never had enough memory to back up completly
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Fair enough. Does your recovery have an "advanced backup" option? That way you could just chose to backup "cache" which should fit, then try restoring it.
ArcticFish said:
Could it be maybe some necessary memory was in it? Also I never formated the new microsdcard so ill do that
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It shouldn't, no. Usually the included memory card just has some included photo's and maybe some maps, nothing important.
Make sure you format it as FAT32, it should be the default. If you are formatting in the computer anyway.

What if I format my new sd card in Cwm how do I do that?
Also if I wanted to do the advanced back up for my old sd card, I just restore the cache or back up and then restore
Srry I'm a noob at this but in trying to learn all this
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I was thinking about just factory reseting phone to get the ics update and then rerooting, would this fix it
I'm also gonna backup the apps and the data using titanium backup
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ArcticFish said:
I was thinking about just factory reseting phone to get the ics update and then rerooting, would this fix it
I'm also gonna backup the apps and the data using titanium backup
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Maybe just try re-rooting. You are getting this error in Recovery, yes? It might be a bug with recovery, or a damaged sdCard I really don't know.

Ok ill try that, thx for ur help
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[Q] Completely Clean Flash?

I'm wondering if anyone can walk me through completely cleaning out my phone before re-flashing Crazy 8. I read somewhere that you can format your internal and external sd cards to really clean things up. I've been having major slow downs and fc's and I want to try this to see if it helps. MY question is, do you format these cards and then go back to stock with ODIN or the other way around? Any tips would be most appreciated.
move critical stuff to pc
format internal/external
power down
odin to jfd
use the update.zip in my noob guide that lets you boot straight to cwr
flash rom
move any critical items back (ie titanium backup folder if you want your apps)
s15274n said:
move critical stuff to pc
format internal/external
power down
odin to jfd
use the update.zip in my noob guide that lets you boot straight to cwr
flash rom
move any critical items back (ie titanium backup folder if you want your apps)
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You format each drive through your pc or directly through the phone?
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Awesome s15! Thanks so much. I will try this when I get home later. My internet has been down all day at work or I would've thanked you sooner!
Matty: I think you unmount the cards and then format them through the phone but I'll find out more later when I try it out.
You can format your internal/external SD card using either your phone or the computer. However, I think you should better use your phone to avoid any incompatibility issue.
coolairG1 said:
You can format your internal/external SD card using either your phone or the computer. However, I think you should better use your phone to avoid any incompatibility issue.
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Thank you both. I wasn't sure how to go about it.
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Just boot into recovery, select mounts and storage. There is a format SD and format extSD choice. Always make sure you've removed anything critical to your PC first.
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YAY! Formatting both SD Cards worked a charm. My phone is very speedy now and not having all the weird random re-boots and FC's! I can't buy anything from the market though, again, this is such a weird problem and I seem to be the only one having it.
^ how is your account set to make app purchases?
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[Q] sd card has been corrupted everytime

My memory card becomes corrupted from time to time and I have no idea what the reason for that! everytime it's happen, i need to format the sd card and than it's getting better but after few days later, besides the fact that all my things are deleted, it becomes corrupted again! is it make any sense at all???
Liorgex said:
My memory card becomes corrupted from time to time and I have no idea what the reason for that! everytime it's happen, i need to format the sd card and than it's getting better but after few days later, besides the fact that all my things are deleted, it becomes corrupted again! is it make any sense at all???
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what rom are you running?
cm7 the stable one
Liorgex said:
cm7 the stable one
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Mtd roms sometimes don't get along with some SD cards. You can try formatting in cwm. If you have a spare card try formatting and using that one.
Always use proper mounting, un mounting methods.
PWGB,TKSGB10-14, adren shot xix, honeycomb2.03, ec09 radio.
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cm7 the stable one
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Mine is doing the same thing.
ok so in simple words i should...?
when you're formatting are you doing a full erase or a quick format?
you might try a full erase, check for bad sectors and what not, use easeus partiton manager, or gparted, of the sd card formatter.
Miui ate my samsung card about a month ago and it was unrecoverable.
What brand of sd card are you having problems with? stock samsung, sandisk , or kingston?
The samsung cards are known to be shotty to begin with.
ibsk8 said:
when you're formatting are you doing a full erase or a quick format?
you might try a full erase, check for bad sectors and what not, use easeus partiton manager, or gparted, of the sd card formatter.
Miui ate my samsung card about a month ago and it was unrecoverable.
What brand of sd card are you having problems with? stock samsung, sandisk , or kingston?
The samsung cards are known to be shotty to begin with.
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my fascinate came with a san disk?
I have a 32gb San disk speed 4 that gets corrupted by the end of the day (works fine on touch wiz base roms). My Samsung 16gb micro sd seems to be the running fine on MIUI and CM7, never had a problem with it so I doubt its the brand
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Got a question, is it the kernel that's causing this? Been using jt's kernel cause its the most stable, can anyone verify that's using any other kernels.
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sol_671 said:
Got a question, is it the kernel that's causing this? Been using jt's kernel cause its the most stable, can anyone verify that's using any other kernels.
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I'm running glitch...didn't run jt's kernal long enough to really say if that's the issue or not tho.
ibsk8 said:
when you're formatting are you doing a full erase or a quick format?
you might try a full erase, check for bad sectors and what not, use easeus partiton manager, or gparted, of the sd card formatter.
Miui ate my samsung card about a month ago and it was unrecoverable.
What brand of sd card are you having problems with? stock samsung, sandisk , or kingston?
The samsung cards are known to be shotty to begin with.
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i doing the format by tapping on it in the pop-up at the status bar which i get when i restart my phone (after the reboot i get the pop-up that said my sd card is corrupted n i need to format it so i can use it again...). should i do it differently? and i have a sandisk sd card but it worked actually really fine when i bought it, so i dunno what happened...
so i need to do an hard format?
I had the same problem when I updated to Miui i can't remember the exact build i think week 90? Stock Samsung 16 gb... I was running stock kernel which I believe to be Jt's no? now I'm reduced to a 2bg until I get money to buy yet another card -.-
What kind of error notifications did you guys get?
If you got one saying something like bad sd card
All you need to do is unmount it, and remove it off the phone
Then reboot, and pop it back in
jk0l said:
What kind of error notifications did you guys get?
If you got one saying something like bad sd card
All you need to do is unmount it, and remove it off the phone
Then reboot, and pop it back in
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Damaged SD card, may need to reformat...btw you cant unmount if it says damaged... and remove/reboot/reinstall was the first thing i tried. had to reformat it 4-5 times now, but today has been working all day with no problems...wierd stuff.
droidstyle said:
Damaged SD card, may need to reformat...btw you cant unmount if it says damaged... and remove/reboot/reinstall was the first thing i tried. had to reformat it 4-5 times now, but today has been working all day with no problems...wierd stuff.
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How did you format yours? Through the phone or using the computer? Damn formatting through the computer takes 30 min for me. I have not tried formatting through the phone yet cause I heard its one of the guarantees of frying the sd cards on EC09 days, not sure if this roms frying abilities is the same.
Btw it seem to only damage my 32GB San disk, my stock Samsung sd card is surviving MTD roms
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sol_671 said:
How did you format yours? Through the phone or using the computer? Damn formatting through the computer takes 30 min for me. I have not tried formatting through the phone yet cause I heard its one of the guarantees of frying the sd cards on EC09 days, not sure if this roms frying abilities is the same.
Btw it seem to only damage my 32GB San disk, my stock Samsung sd card is surviving MTD roms
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thru the phone

edit solved (Entropy Came Through Again!) $30 bounty for a fix for my issue!!

I am shocked that i cant seem to find any solution to this, even more so i am shocked that i haven't come across users that are even looking for a solution to this isssue. Anyways here is goes..
Our phones have an internal and external sd card. That great! actually it blows in my mind. I wish we didnt have internal sd because it just screws everything up when you are trying to do what i want to do. I have a 32gb external sd that i want to use as the main storage for nandroids, downloads, ti backups, and all or atleast most application external data. I have to keep deleting backups one after another because i my internal sd card is always full, and when it comes to my nandroids its a pain to have to move them from internal to external sd and then back when i want to restore (which it also causes issues for me and i get a md5 mismatch in cwm). There has got to be a way to use your exteral sd card as the main storage, CM7 has a solutions to this but it only works at boot so it doesnt mount the external as internal within recovery, which i can live with because cwmr 5.0.2.7 allows you to backup and restore to either the internal or external. The issue with this is no other rom does this so if i am on another rom besides cm7 then and i want to restore a backup that i did on my external sd with 5.0.2.7, i have to move the nandroid from external to internal to do so, and when you are moving it from one to the other on your phone it takes forever because it is usually 700+mb.
This whole internal sd and external sd is really pissing me off. This phone (which i truly love and is by far the best phone on my market) and my other phone, droid bionic are the only two phones that i have every owned that have had this issue. All other phones of mine (HTC) have never had an internal sd card.
If someone can come up with a fix or point me to a fix that will accomplish what i am looking for I would quickly pay (or donate) $30.00. Its not a lot of money but its enough to buy some accessories and for me, paying $30 is worth it. Again i need a fix that will work in recovery(cmr 5.0.2.7 does this) and at boot.
Edit. Nevermind, it seems the only way to fix this issue the way i need it is if we get the new cwm 5.0.2.7 recovery. Just waiting on entropy to try and get this in his kernal. Once he does that i will be donating again to him instead
Pretty simple, in recovery.fstab swap what internal and external point to, compile, flash, FIXED.
can you provide some instructions? What does this do exactly.
Thanks
Google "fstab" and "linux mounts" and you'll find an answer... but be careful because as there might be unexpected consequences...
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I'm not an expert, but when I first ran CWM the entire phone storage was unmounted and just internal storage. I had to mount it SD. Couldn't you just go to cwm and reverse that?
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Shammyh said:
Google "fstab" and "linux mounts" and you'll find an answer... but be careful because as there might be unexpected consequences...
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Well I dont know nearly as much as you, so googling those terms does not help. I appreciate the gesture but i am going to need some more help than that unfortunately.
Does anyone know the block id for sd-external?
did you take a look into fstab? it should be pretty apparent from there. if not, then just issue mount command from console - it prints out all currently mounted devices, including sdcard.
don't forget to send DG $30 for the hint
vladm7 said:
did you take a look into fstab? it should be pretty apparent from there. if not, then just issue mount command from console - it prints out all currently mounted devices, including sdcard.
don't forget to send DG $30 for the hint
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recovery.fstab? correct not vold.fstab, right? And what is the external sd mount id?
I just want to be clear that i want it to mount the external sd as internatal in recovery not just at boot so vold.fstab will not do that
Entropy just included a fix for this in his new kernel 111311. Just flash it and voila.
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Romee74 said:
Entropy just included a fix for this in his new kernel 111311. Just flash it and voila.
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Yes i know but thanks.

Photos deleted after flashing stock ROM via Odin

Hi,
I'm new and though I've watched the noob video I hope I'm in the right place, if not please dont get angry ><.
2 days ago I've flashed into stock rom for my SG3 (GT-i9300) back from my RGUI v5 Build number: MIUI-2.8.3 IMM76D / Kernal version: 3.0.38-Siyah-s3-v1.3.9c
Ask me why? because I've had some issues trying to install official MIUI v4 from the international website and always I get error: "Status 7" with a dead android inside. (Again, Why ? because I as hoping it would make my SG3 even smoother... more responsive)
So I though perhaps flashing it from a stock rom might work, so I used Odin and everything went fine, again ofcourse I got the error and went back to CWM to restore the backup i've made before flashing anything, I dont really mind about the error right now, I've seen similar posts about it and I shall continue investigating it, What's more important is on the next phrase.
Today I found out that all my photos were deleted, after restoring my RGUI v5 rom 2 days ago ofcourse....
I'm not sure how could the situation get any better though I remember previously flashing rom's that the SD card never being touched and I guess I was wrong.
What I wanted to ask is, I just got more CWM backup files on my external SD, does anyone knows if CWM backup restores user data aswell or should I just give up ?
Helpfull tips of how to restore it could be usefull (Oh lord, please spare me I beg you, I'll pray more).
Thanks in advance.
I've flashed hundreds of times on S1, S2 and now S3 and never lost any data or photos that are on either the internal or external sd cards.
Not sure but could it be that you somehow hit format sd card in cwm by accident?
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Have you searched your internal and external storage? Maybe they were only stored on a different location so that the stock Gallery cannot find them?
Storages are either completely wiped or not wiped - but you don't only loose one particular folder
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sxi200 said:
I've flashed hundreds of times on S1, S2 and now S3 and never lost any data or photos that are on either the internal or external sd cards.
Not sure but could it be that you somehow hit format sd card in cwm by accident?
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Yeah, me too up untill now, i even verified via usb cable if I can browser into DCIM folder to see perhaps if its there but it not.
The General storage says 10 out of 11 free space...
d4fseeker said:
Have you searched your internal and external storage? Maybe they were only stored on a different location so that the stock Gallery cannot find them?
Storages are either completely wiped or not wiped - but you don't only loose one particular folder
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I tried to install 3rd party Gallery program which scans my SD's for photos and it could nothing.... Its probably not there.
I think all is lost unless one of my backups contains them.
anbushinobi said:
I tried to install 3rd party Gallery program which scans my SD's for photos and it could nothing.... Its probably not there.
I think all is lost unless one of my backups contains them.
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Unfortunately cwm backups do not backup stuff on the sd card like photos. Looks like you've lost them man.
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sxi200 said:
Unfortunately cwm backups do not backup stuff on the sd card like photos. Looks like you've lost them man.
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In a more optimistic view there are worse things, and although its quite hard to swollow all I've got left to do is say thanks to every one for trying...
Thanks.
Sorry, but this is a "Well Duh..." moment.... Flashing any stock rom through ODIN will always wipe the data partition on the internal sd card. You need to backup the internal stuff onto your PC. Only a stock firmware that has been modded will allow a non-wipe flash and you usually need to be rooted as it is no longer a stock rom.
You should be able to restore a nandroid backup of a stock rom too without wiping the internal sd card as this is only putting the system data back onto your phone...
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Sorry, but this is a "Well Duh..." moment.... Flashing any stock rom through ODIN will always wipe the data partition on the internal sd card. You need to backup the internal stuff onto your PC. Only a stock firmware that has been modded will allow a non-wipe flash and you usually need to be rooted as it is no longer a stock rom.
You should be able to restore a nandroid backup of a stock rom too without wiping the internal sd card as this is only putting the system data back onto your phone...
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What is that nandroid backup your talkibg about? I'm not familiar with it, though i understand that there's still no way out.
anbushinobi said:
What is that nandroid backup your talkibg about? I'm not familiar with it, though i understand that there's still no way out.
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Backup made with CWM recovery = Nandroid .
jje
Try this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fahrbot.apps.undelete
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Daelyn said:
Try this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fahrbot.apps.undelete
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It almost looked like a life saver case but it seems to target the external SD card only.
I can't seem to find a setting to switch into internal SD...

[Q] Clockwork Recovery only see's my internal storage.

For some reason unknown to me, CWM only see's my internal storage. Also, when I try to Wipe Dalvik Cache, it gives an error:
E: unknown volume for path [/sd-ext].
I am wondering if maybe this is maybe causing some sort of issue even though I wipe everything three times...
Yarbo said:
For some reason unknown to me, CWM only see's my internal storage. Also, when I try to Wipe Dalvik Cache, it gives an error:
E: unknown volume for path [/sd-ext].
I am wondering if maybe this is maybe causing some sort of issue even though I wipe everything three times...
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ive had this same "issue" with it only seeing internal storage not sure what caused this all of a sudden, if anyone can clarify it would be much appreciated from the both of us.
Projectdwnshft said:
ive had this same "issue" with it only seeing internal storage not sure what caused this all of a sudden, if anyone can clarify it would be much appreciated from the both of us.
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I am starting to think this causes some serious issues with roms that I install - cause I am betting that it is not properly wiping the internal storage....
Yarbo said:
I am starting to think this causes some serious issues with roms that I install - cause I am betting that it is not properly wiping the internal storage....
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I wouldn't sweat it. I've had this issue as long as I can remember flashing on my note (a whole two months) and it hasn't caused any issues that I've noticed. If it's a good release, mine works the same as everyone's. Same with a buggy release, same bugs as everyone else. The sd-ext issue when formatting dalvik cache hasn't caused any (extra) bugs for me.
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I would use TWRP instead of CWM.
Did you try to fix permissions though in CWM?
I did try to fix permissions, and it said it succeeded, but still hasn't resolved the problem.
I'm not sure if it's an issue per se, based on one of the above posters. But it is annoying none-the-less, so if someone knows a way to fix this I'd be much obliged.
Also, what is TWRP?
Yarbo said:
I did try to fix permissions, and it said it succeeded, but still hasn't resolved the problem.
I'm not sure if it's an issue per se, based on one of the above posters. But it is annoying none-the-less, so if someone knows a way to fix this I'd be much obliged.
Also, what is TWRP?
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The best way I can think of twrp is its cwm except for a lot more functionality with a more friendly user interface. You can flash it via goo manager app in play store which will overwrite your cwm as your active recovery.
As far as the card is concerned, I would start by...
Backing up w/e before starting
Plug into PC via in phone or memory card reader. All that is important is that your PC can see it.
Use the windows built in diskpart utility to clean it partition it and format it.
Let me know if you need the diskpart syntax, its from command line.
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lmike6453 said:
The best way I can think of twrp is its cwm except for a lot more functionality with a more friendly user interface. You can flash it via goo manager app in play store which will overwrite your cwm as your active recovery.
As far as the card is concerned, I would start by...
Backing up w/e before starting
Plug into PC via in phone or memory card reader. All that is important is that your PC can see it.
Use the windows built in diskpart utility to clean it partition it and format it.
Let me know if you need the diskpart syntax, its from command line.
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I can't just select the internal storage from Windows explorer, right click on it and select "Format"?
Yarbo said:
I can't just select the internal storage from Windows explorer, right click on it and select "Format"?
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You can try, that might do the trick but if not try diskpart.
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lmike6453 said:
You can try, that might do the trick but if not try diskpart.
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I assume that doing this will leave CWM so that I can re-install CM10?
Is CWM stored on some other storage then internal storage? Some other memory chip or something?
I'm having this issue with CWM too, it's kind of driving me nuts cause it used to see both cards just fine before, and I don't like filling up my internal card with all my roms & radios. I'm kind of scared to use TWRP again though after what happened with my GSII. In short- I have reason to believe TWRP bricked my phone. I had just gotten my Note & was getting my GSII ready to sell(clearing data, formatting storage, etc). I booted into TWRP(which I'd been using for months, so it wasn't user error) & did a factory reset there too just to be safe. It seemed to work fine & gave me the "rebooting" message, and then.... nothing. Black screen. No boot, no recovery, no download mode, no signs of life whatsoever. I had to send it to Samsung to be fixed.
Now, it could have just been coincidental timing, but I'm now understandably hesitant to use TWRP again. Has this happened to anyone else? Sorry to hijack the thread.
In CWM, have you guys tried to mount sd card.
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There's an issue with the External SD listing coming up under the root emmc folder, rather than under Internal. Have y'all checked there for your External SD? This applies to CWM and TWRP.
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I was about to post this issue, and I'm glad you beat me to it.
Was getting ready to Nandroid and flash a new ROM, but now got a new issue to deal with.
There's an issue with the External SD listing coming up under the root emmc folder, rather than under Internal. Have y'all checked there for your External SD? This applies to CWM and TWRP.
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Nope, it comes up under "Internal".

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