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it says my sd card is blank and it doesnt seem like its mounting.... i took it out and formatted it to fat32 and its still saying blank sd card i did this a bunch of times..
If you formatted it, it is blank. What's the problem?
What does it say in settings/SD & phone storage? Have you tried formatting it there?
tried both put it in comp formatted it put it in phone formatted in there too says mount sd card like its not reading it
and it also said the blank thing when i had stuff on my sd card
so i guess im effed cuase i cant put anything on my sd card phone wont read it so i cant get back to stock...
Try formatting it on your computer or phone, put it back into your comp and put some files on it
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i did and i even tried a diff sd card wont read that either
I'm new to this so someone please correct me if I'm wrong but you can download the stock Rom from your phone and use Rom manager to go to stock,there is 2.5g of space on phone
my problem and worry is i wanna get unrooted so i can call and this will prob be covered under warranty and i wont have to pay the rediculous deductable on insurance if i have to go another root...
and also you cant use rom manager unless sd card is mounted i tried and mine doesnt mount
So you have tried multiple SD cards in your phone and none of them work?
yes i have tried a couple and the thing pops up in notification bar blank sd card and in sd and phone storage it says mount it but doesnt work
Well if you have tried more than one, formatted and all, and it still doesn't work I would say that your card slot has obviously stopped working. There is no way to unroot without access to the SD card AFAIK.
well that just sucks guess im gonna have to break this thing to make an insurance claim there goes 90 bucks downt he effn drain
Before you take your phone back to Verizon, try connecting to the phone with adb. If you can cd to the sd card and ls the contents, you can push the RUU to the card and return to stock. I am currently trying to resolve the same problem where the SD card fails to mount on PC and suspect it might be related to root. I might end up returning it to stock to test my hypothesis if I can't find a solution in a few minutes; I'll post back with my results.
Okay, this may or may not be relevant to the original poster, but after more investigation, it appears that this issue might be related to some corruption of system files related to handshaking with Windows in Drive mode that occurred since rooting the device. Restoring the rooted system image resolved the problem. The issue was unrelated to kernels, though, since flashing the default kernel did not improve anything.
If you can access the SD card with ADB, your best bet is to restore your rooted stock backup or re-flash the stock image to see if that corrects your issues prior to returning your phone.
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Before you take your phone back to Verizon, try connecting to the phone with adb. If you can cd to the sd card and ls the contents, you can push the RUU to the card and return to stock. I am currently trying to resolve the same problem where the SD card fails to mount on PC and suspect it might be related to root. I might end up returning it to stock to test my hypothesis if I can't find a solution in a few minutes; I'll post back with my results.
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If the phone can't read the SD card it doesn't matter what he can get on it, the phone has to be able to read the sd card to flash anything.
If you have the proper images, they can be flashed using fastboot, which doesn't require an SD card.
There's a patch to allow people who've run the ICS leaks to see their SD cards after returning to GB. Why is this necessary, and what does the patch do?
I ask because since S-off I've completely reverted to GB, and I'm still having problems seeing my SD, perhaps because it either had its format changed due to ICS, or because I previously applied the patch to the ROM I'm currently running.
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There's a patch to allow people who've run the ICS leaks to see their SD cards after returning to GB. Why is this necessary, and what does the patch do?
I ask because since S-off I've completely reverted to GB, and I'm still having problems seeing my SD, perhaps because it either had its format changed due to ICS, or because I previously applied the patch to the ROM I'm currently running.
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It's probably more due to the s off process I've seen a lot of users with this issue who weren't on gingerbread also.
Take the data from your SD card and copy it to a folder on your computer. Wipe the card completely and format it in windows. Then put it in the phone and format it in Settings/Storage. then once you've done that put some stuff on it and see if it's being recognized. Finally you can copy all of your data over to the sd card again from the backup you made at the first step.
Yeah, I've got s-off, and I've reverted to GB OTA. But I've restored the ROM I was running on top of the ICS firmware, which must have the SD patch on it. So I'm trying to understand what's changed in order to navigate out of it.
In fact, I am already copying the files off so I can format the SD on another device. Something about great minds, I suppose...
Just wondering what's causing it, because I really don't know if the format's gonna help. Right now the phone doesn't even recognize the card from the ROM. Sees it fine in recovery though.
The mount points changed, if you had installed the patch to allow you to run a GB rom on the ICS firmware your mount points would be broken now. You should be able to flash the patch to allow you to run ICS on the old firmware and you should be good.
The patch just updates /system/etc/vold.fstab
So it looks like a device number associated with a drive is incremented. Apparently the ICS firmware reports this device at a higher number than the GB firmware, and so the GB won't see it unless fstab points to the correct index.
Since I'm on GB firmware now (thanks, s-off!) I can set the number back to the value in the GB RUU.
Having done that, my phone still does not recognize the card -- except in Amon Ra. Furthermore, the card was not recognized in an unmodified Droid X belonging to a co-worker. So something's wrong with the card, but it's not a clear failure.
I'm now running a FAT32 format from Windows, through Amon Ra, and I'm doing the full format rather than the quick version. Taking forever. We'll see. If this doesn't work, maybe I need to look for a card reader to format it.
Why might Amon Ra recognize the card, but not Android?
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So it looks like a device number associated with a drive is incremented. Apparently the ICS firmware reports this device at a higher number than the GB firmware, and so the GB won't see it unless fstab points to the correct index.
Since I'm on GB firmware now (thanks, s-off!) I can set the number back to the value in the GB RUU.
Having done that, my phone still does not recognize the card -- except in Amon Ra. Furthermore, the card was not recognized in an unmodified Droid X belonging to a co-worker. So something's wrong with the card, but it's not a clear failure.
I'm now running a FAT32 format from Windows, through Amon Ra, and I'm doing the full format rather than the quick version. Taking forever. We'll see. If this doesn't work, maybe I need to look for a card reader to format it.
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HBOOT 2.21 simply mounts the "/sdcard" partition to a different EMMC block than previous 2.10/2.11 HBOOTs did. That is it. Its that simple. WHY did they make the change? I have no idea.
So, if you're on GB and you can't access your internal storage (/sdcard), all you need to do is simply flash an earlier HBOOT (2.10, or the 2.11 ENG HBOOT from the dev section) and make sure you're also using the corresponding GB radios. Then you have no more issues.
I have the 2.11 HBOOT and GB radios.
The problem is the External SD. I can share it between Amon Ra and Windows, but I can't mount it from Android. Android shows it unavailable. When I go to mount it, it briefly says, "Preparing SD Card," followed by a message telling me I can remove the SD card. The same thing is seen on multiple phones.
I did a long format, Fat32, from Windows 7 while the card was mounted in Amon Ra. I put a zip on the card and Amon Ra seems willing to flash it. I can definitely read and write it via recovery. But Android doesn't see it, and I think it's the card rather than my phone. Ideas? Anything I can do with partitions? Maybe there's something that can be "reset."
Each time I explore the card I find "lost.dir". I don't recall seeing that before.
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Each time I explore the card I find "lost.dir". I don't recall seeing that before.
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Yup. Leave it alone. Been there all along, and not anything new. I've seen that directory going back to my Incredible two years ago, and I'm sure it goes back before that.
Try flashing the patch for gb firmware
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I have the 2.11 HBOOT and GB radios.
The problem is the External SD. I can share it between Amon Ra and Windows, but I can't mount it from Android. Android shows it unavailable. When I go to mount it, it briefly says, "Preparing SD Card," followed by a message telling me I can remove the SD card. The same thing is seen on multiple phones.
I did a long format, Fat32, from Windows 7 while the card was mounted in Amon Ra. I put a zip on the card and Amon Ra seems willing to flash it. I can definitely read and write it via recovery. But Android doesn't see it, and I think it's the card rather than my phone. Ideas? Anything I can do with partitions? Maybe there's something that can be "reset."
Each time I explore the card I find "lost.dir". I don't recall seeing that before.
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It was probably the formatting that did it. I would take it out, remove all partitions on it, and let the phone reformat it on its own.
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So it looks like a device number associated with a drive is incremented. Apparently the ICS firmware reports this device at a higher number than the GB firmware, and so the GB won't see it unless fstab points to the correct index.
Since I'm on GB firmware now (thanks, s-off!) I can set the number back to the value in the GB RUU.
Having done that, my phone still does not recognize the card -- except in Amon Ra. Furthermore, the card was not recognized in an unmodified Droid X belonging to a co-worker. So something's wrong with the card, but it's not a clear failure.
I'm now running a FAT32 format from Windows, through Amon Ra, and I'm doing the full format rather than the quick version. Taking forever. We'll see. If this doesn't work, maybe I need to look for a card reader to format it.
Why might Amon Ra recognize the card, but not Android?
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I will tell you I tried hand editing mine and it would not take the changes no matter how many times I rebooted it. Flashed one of the patches and it worked like a charm. Don't ask me why, that was just my experience.
Seams to have started just after I S-Off'd my rezound. Took me forever to initially get it working and get cleanrom back onto it, where it immediatly started to reboot randomly after a minute or two, usually under quick/hard loads, it does it every time consistently when I try to Dial or Text someone. I also tried to upgrade to the leaked RUU and rom to fix this, nothing. The stock rom I could dial, but it did reboot once on lock screen. Custom roms reboot consistently. Help?
Did you flash the leak twice?
No, I followed instructions off of theandroidsoul,com rezound ics upgrade page to the 'T' since they supplied download links.
I'd post the page directly but I haven't reached my required post count.
It's a kernel upgrade via hboot, and a shell/rom flash via recovery, so I'm not sure if your expecting a different upgrade meathod.
Which am I expected to flash twice? And what is expected to change?
Check android community site with march 16 story to download rooted version for the leak. It should just be a ph98img.zip. before you do though, have you tried wiping everything in recovery, possibly 2 or 3 consecutive wipes, and then a completely clean install of Scott's stuff again? Also, are you on amon ra?
Edit- it would be the kernel to do twice. When it prompts at bootloader to update, you pick yes and if it doesn't hit all the entries, you have to run it again.b
I flashed the rom and the kernel twice earlier, stock seams to run flawlessly, I can dial, and the phone doesn't reboot Speed Ex 3D like it did earlier, though it plays double screened, weird. Anyway, I'll try flashing some various roms to see what happens.
Good to hear.
Ran into an issue, Stock ICS isn't mounting my SD card, simply says unavailable under storage. HBoot still finds the kernel upgrade, rather annoying when I'm trying to remove it to access recovery.
The format check earlier said Ext4, I assume RUU should be able to handle that. Would be unthinkable that I'd have to flash the GB fix.
have you checked under settings--about phone--software and made sure that it says android 4.0.3? I ran into a similar (maybe same) problem when I first tried flashing the leak firmware. It didn't fully flash correctly, so the first time it said I was still on GB and it could not mount my SD, the second time I flashed the ph98img.zip it said I was on 4.0.3 but still would not mount my SD. So I flashed it once more and everything was fine after that.
What the hell... I just noticed by radio is 1.22, I flashed the leaked radio awhile after the S-Off. Kinda screwy. I removed the external SD card, got into recovery, but when I mount the internal sd to the computer, I can't edit anything. Says full up to 1200kb if i read that right.
Btw, says 4.0.3 under software
SD Card reads normally under CleanRom DE, but still crashes
BAMF Senseless v2 crashes when I try to dial too.
Wait, is it the same sd you had in it when you did the S-off procedure? If so, have you reformatted it? If this is the problem, see sindroidx's how-to in the rezound general forum. If not, it still sounds like your sd card has either been corrupted/misformatted somehow. That's for external. If it is internal SD, see graymonkey44's "S-off is Official!!!" thread. It contains the fix for both, by the way.
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Wait, is it the same sd you had in it when you did the S-off procedure? If so, have you reformatted it? If this is the problem, see sindroidx's how-to in the rezound general forum. If not, it still sounds like your sd card has either been corrupted/misformatted somehow. That's for external. If it is internal SD, see graymonkey44's "S-off is Official!!!" thread. It contains the fix for both, by the way.
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Definately, sounds like your SD card needs to be reformatted. Numerous posts on it , but some have had success just formatting in Windows ( might have to do it more than once to finally get it to show your full capacity) . I used Gparted Live CD to repartition and reformat to fat 32 and it worked great. Whatever your comfortable doing will work, but needs to be reformatted regardless. Also sounds like you should just RUU from scratch after your SD card is fixed , then start over once you know the phone is operating properly.
I RUU'd back to the OTA 2.011 and it fixed some odd issues I was having , now running the Sense 4 roms using the old firmware patch and everything is fine.
I formatted through recovery and RUU after I used a spare SD to install/update. Well this is what I don't get, under other Roms, my SD card mounts fine, but not under Leaked RUU, how ever if I'm on, say cleanrom and mount it to to the computer, windows acts like the external SD needs to be scanned/fixed, how ever I can still open and explore it just fine.
Ig I'll try reformatting my SD once more, then flash some GB kernels/fix
Will it matter if I'm on the GB or ICS bootloader?
sounds like the symptoms of not having the firmware patched.
What patch are you referring to?
In the meantime I'm going to try this kernel and run the GB > ICS fix
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1467793
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Wait, is it the same sd you had in it when you did the S-off procedure? If so, have you reformatted it? If this is the problem, see sindroidx's how-to in the rezound general forum. If not, it still sounds like your sd card has either been corrupted/misformatted somehow. That's for external. If it is internal SD, see graymonkey44's "S-off is Official!!!" thread. It contains the fix for both, by the way.
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As I stated, Leaked RUU wont recognize either SD, CleanRom and others recognize both but reboot alot. I tried the internal fix by flashing the ICS Hboot for S-Off last night which changed nothing. I just now flashed a GB Kernel and ran the SD card fix to test with CleanRom and it still freezes/reboots.
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Just checked, and it still says 4.0.3 under software. This is such a pain...
Also I can't access the internal SD card from the computer when I USB mount in recovery. It simply opens up blank.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1560363 Sounds just like my problem.
The first guide I followed to upgrade was trash,
this guide has fixed everything:
http://www.teambamf.net/topic/3528-guide-to-install-ics-ruu-and-firmware-windows/
Okay so I have this htc rezound, it was running ICS when I got it but the guy formatted it so it was stuck in the bootmanager or whatever you call it. I flashed recovery and then flashed a file that was on the sd card already. It says im running android 2.3.4 now. It wont read my sd card or take pictures at the moment, says theres an error when I go into gallery and the sd card won't mount. I can't see it on my computer either. i want to put on scotts clean rom because the guy i bought it from said that it fixed his sd card problems. I'm not really sure what to do because I can't get any files onto the sd card if it won't mount. Any suggestions? And if he was already runnig scotts cleanrom do I need to update to ICS firmware or whatever or should I install it like I was updating from gingerbread?
EDIT: I also forgot to add that when i try it mount it just says "preparing sd card" then it says "sd card safe to remove" and i have tried two different cards.
Can you boot into HBOOT (power off the phone, pull the battery, replace it, and then hold down the Power+Volume down buttons) and let us know the information on that screen? that will tell you what HBOOT the phone is running as well as radios to see what RUU you can run to return the phone to stock.
Edit: A card reader or spare phone would be great to mount the Sdcard and place the needed files on it btw
Did you try doing the SD card fix? It will format your SD card unfortunately.
Yeah im in hboot now. it says ***tampered*** and ***unlocked*** at the top ad it says the hboot is 2.21.0000 and the radio is 1.22.10.0310r/1.22.10.0308r
and yeah i heard theres a way i can get files onto the sd card through fastboot or something? I don't have an external sd card thing for my computer but i may be able to use my brothers droid x to put files on it.
If you can get to your recovery you can mount your USB through it.
If you're having trouble because you have a PH98IMG on your zip preventing you from getting past the bootloader...you can pull your MicroSD halfway out and angle your battery in such a manner that the bottom contacts are touching but not fully in the phone.
You get past the PH98IMG check and then slide the SD card all the way in and then push the battery in. Voila.
i dont know if im doing it wrong or i just don't know how but i can't get it to mount in recovery either!
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i dont know if im doing it wrong or i just don't know how but i can't get it to mount in recovery either!
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Do you have another SD card to check? It could be that your SD card needs to go through the SD card fix:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1615418
yeah the second sd card wouldn't work either. and i have s-on so idk if that tut will work for me. i appreciate the help though!
EDIT: yeah I can't get busybox to install because it says my sd card is mounted or there isn't enough free space but it's empty and not showing up. so freakin confused haha
Are you still on GB or ICS firmware?
Did you try running a stock RUU and see if it fixes everything? Get the RUU.exe file and put your phone in Fastboot mode and run it. Yes this will basically wipe everything and restore you to stock. You have to have your bootloader re-locked too.
im not sure which firmware im on. I assume ICS because that's what the guy flashed it too before i got it but when i got it it was just in the hboot and it wouldn't boot up so he didn't have a rom on there. i haven't tried the ruu but i guess i could give it a go
What hboot version are you on?
I actually got it figured out but now my camera still won't work. It's giving me an error when I try to take pics that says its unable to save to sd card due to insufficient file permissions. Removing the sd card won't fix it and neither will reformatting the card
Hey guys, I am hoping i can get some assistance on bringing my sd card back to life after failing to s-off my phone yesterday. After multiple fails on the wire-trick yesterday i called it quits and just flashed nils biz rom but i am now unable to format and mount the external sd card. I went through the steps outlined in this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1615418.html and i will get prompted in notifications that my SD card is damaged and needs to be fixed. I click ok and it wipes the card, then i get another notification and it will state that the file system is unsupported and i should reformat the card, which i do, and yet it still will not show up and work correctly.
Does anyone have any other thoughts or advice? Im running hboot 2.21.000 on GB FW, and running nils 4.6 with TWRP recovery.
I have heard that if you put it in a computer and format, it should work.
I have tried that and it did not work.
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Hey guys, I am hoping i can get some assistance on bringing my sd card back to life after failing to s-off my phone yesterday. After multiple fails on the wire-trick yesterday i called it quits and just flashed nils biz rom but i am now unable to format and mount the external sd card. I went through the steps outlined in this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1615418.html and i will get prompted in notifications that my SD card is damaged and needs to be fixed. I click ok and it wipes the card, then i get another notification and it will state that the file system is unsupported and i should reformat the card, which i do, and yet it still will not show up and work correctly.
Does anyone have any other thoughts or advice? Im running hboot 2.21.000 on GB FW, and running nils 4.6 with TWRP recovery.
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Are you on GB firmware and flash the patch?
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Are you on GB firmware and flash the patch?
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Yes, when i ran the aroma installer i selected all 3 choices which included the GB patch.