microSD will not mount on anything after rom install! - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

So yesterday i rooted my s3, and installed the supernexus rom
But today went to upload some music onto my microsd card, and it wouldnt mount
So tried it on my mac, windows and old phones, and wont mount on anything!
and i have no idea how to fix if it wont mount
Anyone had the same problem and have a fix? Really want a fix as its a 32gb card :/
Cheers guys,
cam

Is it formatted to exFAT ? If so then it needs formatting to FAT32

Ahh not sure, would have been the stock format when I brought it, but that's the thing if it won't mount how can I format it?
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CamMcArtney said:
Ahh not sure, would have been the stock format when I brought it, but that's the thing if it won't mount how can I format it?
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Well assuming that is the problem then either format it on your pc with a card reader, or flash back to stock, then it should be recognized, format it, then back to cm, .......don't forget to back the card up!

Might give that a try and see what happens, cheers
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before i flash back to stock, do you know why my computer wont mount the card either?

Hmmmm, something not right there, sounds like it's corrupted?

slaphead20 said:
Hmmmm, something not right there, sounds like it's corrupted?
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yeah thought it was weird, not even CWM can mount it :/
Like its not even there

I'm sure I've seen similar issue recently, try Google it and see what you find

slaphead20 said:
I'm sure I've seen similar issue recently, try Google it and see what you find
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yeah ive had a look but got a feeling its fried, just don't understand when and how haha, ahh well ebay here i come

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[help] sd card damaged!

Hey guys I was messing around with kaosgingerbread earlier and I made a nandroid backup of KGB but after rebooting, my phone reported that my sd card was damaged and I need to reformat to fix it. I can't mount it or access it. I tried restoring an earlier nandroid and it restored perfectly fine but still reported the card as damaged. I sadly have not been backing up my files like I should've so I have some important files that I don't want to lose but I cant mount it to my pc.
I was wondering if there was any way I could save those files. Is it possible to pull the files to my pc with adb? Should I get a mini sd to sd adapter and plug it in directly to my pc? Or am I pretty much screwed and should just cut my losses at this point?
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if i were you id use the sd adapter and see if itll mount to pc that way and if it wont mount you might just have to start fresh by reformatting on your phone thru setting\sd storage....hope that helps
frosteddroid said:
if i were you id use the sd adapter and see if itll mount to pc that way and if it wont mount you might just have to start fresh by reformatting on your phone thru setting\sd storage....hope that helps
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Yeah I managed to pick one up from amazon for $1 lol hopefully my cards fine
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Kagedin said:
Yeah I managed to pick one up from amazon for $1 lol hopefully my cards fine
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Have you tried to boot in recovery and use usb toggle to access your sd card?
Busphan said:
Have you tried to boot in recovery and use usb toggle to access your sd card?
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No I have not ill try that now see how it works, thanks!
Edit: just tried it out no luck says I have to reformat it to access the files, if that's the case, will it be pointless to try the sd adapter? Is reformatting my only option at this point?
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Well decided to bite the bullet and reformat had some issues doing it from the phone so I had to boot into recovery and use usb ms toggle and reformat from windows but it fixed the issue.
Now my question is does anyone know what caused the issue to begin with?
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external sd card not recognized

Hi guys,
i have flashed a few miui v4 roms and i think they have messed up my external sd card settings or something along the line.
now i'm back on a gb rom, i see the sd card when the phone is up and running but if i try to flash from cwm 4.0.1.5 it doesn't see mmy external card ?
do you guys have any idea how to sort this out ? i want to say that this sd card has always worked fine on this device, it's just now that cwm doesn't see it.
thanks
Format the card & see if the phone recognises it. If not, faulty card given you're running stock & the card should be visible to the phone/working fine if the card is good/not faulty.
wwwpuntoit said:
Hi guys,
i have flashed a few miui v4 roms and i think they have messed up my external sd card settings or something along the line.
now i'm back on a gb rom, i see the sd card when the phone is up and running but if i try to flash from cwm 4.0.1.5 it doesn't see mmy external card ?
do you guys have any idea how to sort this out ? i want to say that this sd card has always worked fine on this device, it's just now that cwm doesn't see it.
thanks
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the phone does recognise the card but if i reboot into cwm then it disappears.
at the moment i'm not running stock but battista foxhound 3.0 rom.
i tried to format but no joy...this card has always been seen in cwm but now not anymore. ????????????
wwwpuntoit said:
the phone does recognise the card but if i reboot into cwm then it disappears.
at the moment i'm not running stock but battista foxhound 3.0 rom.
i tried to format but no joy...this card has always been seen in cwm but now not anymore. ????????????
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Have you tried mounting it in CWM?
yes, but it doesn't even give me the option to choose zip file from eternal sd card only from internal sd card
wwwpuntoit said:
yes, but it doesn't even give me the option to choose zip file from eternal sd card only from internal sd card
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What version CWM recovery are you on?
I meant, if you go to the Mounts and Storage menu, does it have an option for mounting or unmounting /sdcard? If so, does it say mount, or unmount? If it says mount, then you have to mount it in order to use it.
4.0.1.5 and yes there is mount, i mount it, go back to choose zip from sd card.....and there's no internal card detected....if i boot in the system i can see it with file explorer or the likes...it's just cwm not seeing it
wwwpuntoit said:
4.0.1.5 and yes there is mount, i mount it, go back to choose zip from sd card.....and there's no internal card detected....if i boot in the system i can see it with file explorer or the likes...it's just cwm not seeing it
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Hmm. I've not used 4.x.x.x in quite some time.
I'm using 5.0.2.7. For me, anything that refers to "sdcard" is the external card. "internal sdcard" is the built in flash memory. And as it turns out, I didn't even have to mount /sdcard to use either.
Sorry man...
How did you get 4.0.1.5 installed? Maybe it's time to upgrade.
yes probably, how do you actually upgrade this ??
wwwpuntoit said:
yes probably, how do you actually upgrade this ??
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Flash the newer version????
You do know how, you have already done it with your current version
Don't restore nandroid's from different versions
wwwpuntoit said:
yes probably, how do you actually upgrade this ??
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Easiest way is to flash a kernel that comes with it. I'm using Siyah. Just search for it.
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ctomgee said:
Easiest way is to flash a kernel that comes with it. I'm using Siyah. Just search for it.
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thanks mate, just done so it worked like a charm
own you
wwwpuntoit said:
thanks mate, just done so it worked like a charm
own you
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you own me? LOL
ctomgee said:
you own me? LOL
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of course not, the opposite i more correct
wwwpuntoit said:
of course not, the opposite i more correct
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arrrgh that's where i got it wrong...... i meant i owe you.....not own..that's something different...sorry mate
wwwpuntoit said:
arrrgh that's where i got it wrong...... i meant i owe you.....not own..that's something different...sorry mate
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I know what you meant. Just thought it was funny.

Reformatted internal storage, now sdcard not detected

Hey guys, so my galaxy s2 has been running on RR 3.0.5 with the latest siyah kernel. A problem I've been having is frequent media corruptions, and to solve that, I thought reformatting the internal storage would help. After doing so with cwm touch 6, it doesn't recognize my sdcard when i use my phone. What can I do to fix this?
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richcity64 said:
Hey guys, so my galaxy s2 has been running on RR 3.0.5 with the latest siyah kernel. A problem I've been having is frequent media corruptions, and to solve that, I thought reformatting the internal storage would help. After doing so with cwm touch 6, it doesn't recognize my sdcard when i use my phone. What can I do to fix this?
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may be u need to mount it from cwm
Try to flash stock firmware and/or use hard reset service code.
i9.0.1.3k galaxy imperator
richcity64 said:
Hey guys, so my galaxy s2 has been running on RR 3.0.5 with the latest siyah kernel. A problem I've been having is frequent media corruptions, and to solve that, I thought reformatting the internal storage would help. After doing so with cwm touch 6, it doesn't recognize my sdcard when i use my phone. What can I do to fix this?
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do factory reset with internal SD wipe in the phone and not in CWM, and you should be fine.
Swyped from my Samsung Galaxy SII
Jokesy said:
do factory reset with internal SD wipe in the phone and not in CWM, and you should be fine.
Swyped from my Samsung Galaxy SII
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Just did that, and sadly, it didn't help. The phone still doesn't recognize my external sd card.
bluepratham said:
may be u need to mount it from cwm
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Strangely, mounting anything from cwm never seems to work for my phone.
richcity64 said:
Strangely, mounting anything from cwm never seems to work for my phone.
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Could be that the SD card is faulty. Have you tried the SD card with another phone? Does your PC detect it?
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bluepratham said:
may be u need to mount it from cwm
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Spiralzz said:
Could be that the SD card is faulty. Have you tried the SD card with another phone? Does your PC detect it?
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So I tried swapping my SD card for another 32 gb one. However, it isn't the SD card's problem. It's that my phone simply doesn't detect that there IS a SD card mounted in it.
richcity64 said:
So I tried swapping my SD card for another 32 gb one. However, it isn't the SD card's problem. It's that my phone simply doesn't detect that there IS a SD card mounted in it.
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I remember there was this setting to mount the external SD card from settings > storage, but don't remember which ROM had that.
If that doesnt work/if that option isnt there, your last option is to check with stock ROM as suggested earlier. Maybe it is a hardware fault.
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Spiralzz said:
I remember there was this setting to mount the external SD card from settings > storage, but don't remember which ROM had that.
If that doesnt work/if that option isnt there, your last option is to check with stock ROM as suggested earlier. Maybe it is a hardware fault.
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In RR there's no option for mounting external SD, only "unmount shared storage". Will try going back to stock 4.0.3 as my last option.
EDIT: Went back to stock 4.0.3, reformatted usb storage and sd card and flashed back RR 3.0.5. So far so good, no problems

[Q] Small Problem Concerning Corrpted Internal Storage.

Hello everyone,
I had previously rooted my original evo a while back and recently got the new evo lte, and thought "Oh I can root this all by myself." Big mistake
Okay, so, I made sure to unlock it using the HTC dev. Then downloaded Rom Manager and tried to put the new cm10 rom but for some reason it was coming up with sd errors. So, I looked up what could possibly be the cause behind that, which I thought was the previous Rom Manager data from the old evo. So I deleted it and well had the same problem. I also made sure to do the Hboot fastboot thing too.
Then I download the TWRP recovery and things took a turn for the worst. Now my external/internal storage is unreadable to twrp, ironically so, I can still use the USB for the sd.
I tried other roms, but it won't load them
Now, my os is gone and I just don't know what to do. At very least I can still use fastboot, but I really just unsure how I can well make it work.
so stat wise it says
tampered/unlocked
S-ON RL
Hboot 1.15
Radio 1.05.11.0606
OpenDSP-v25. 1.032.0405
I am also running a mac.
So, if anyone can set me in the right direction, that would be super.
For one reason or another some users have problems flashing cmx and corrupting internal. Boot to twrp and mount as USB then format it in OSX.
om4 said:
For one reason or another some users have problems flashing cmx and corrupting internal. Boot to twrp and mount as USB then format it in OSX.
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Thank you for replying. So I want to mount the internal storage and format it in Fat32?
Also, when I go to the mounting menu, it will not let me press "Mount Internal".
However, I can mount internal storage using USB storage method, I don't get it...
Selecting mount as usb storage is all you need to do, at the very least you should be able to do that, then format, fat 32 is the default so there is no need to specify fat 32
Format the top one, correct?
Sorry for the late reply, that should be it
No, Thank you.
So, I did reformat. It still cannot find the internal storage/SD storage.
So, can I push RUU through fastboot to return it to a functional state. All this for Jellybean, haha
I had almost the same thing happen to me over the weekend for the first time. I was about to reformat it in twrp and that worked great for me. So give that a try before you run a ruu
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ewalk4866 said:
I had almost the same thing happen to me over the weekend for the first time. I was about to reformat it in twrp and that worked great for me. So give that a try before you run a ruu
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I already reformat the internal and it made no different. I also cannot reformat within twrp, it just says cannot find and fails.
I think I've misunderstood, if you reformatted and can not access memory from aosp Rom try flashing the sd rewrite fix
swap internal/external links
om4 said:
I think I've misunderstood, if you reformatted and can not access memory from aosp Rom try flashing the sd rewrite fix
swap internal/external links
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No no, I apologize. This is all terribly confusing.
So I will just fastboot it through terminal
/fastboot-mac flash zip blablah.zip
right?
No this is flashed through recovery
arts aaverse
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No this is flashed through recovery
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I don't know exactly know how I am going to do that, since the recovery does not recognized the internal/external storage. When I mounted via USB and put the zip on there, I cannot find it within the recovery.
Odd, after reformatting you should be able to use the internal again
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Odd, after reformatting you should be able to use the internal again
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Yes. Sadly I don't think reformatting did anything. At this point, I am unsure what to do. Can I even still flash a RUU?
rentiyl said:
Yes. Sadly I don't think reformatting did anything. At this point, I am unsure what to do. Can I even still flash a RUU?
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I'm coming into this late but I recently experienced corrupted internal storage while running cmx as well. While I could not choose to mount the external storage, I somehow was able to select that bubble when in the restore menu. I restored an old meanrom and it rebuilt the internal storage despite losing the data. Not sure if this info will help you at all, but figured I would share. Good luck.
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gmugrad04 said:
I'm coming into this late but I recently experienced corrupted internal storage while running cmx as well. While I could not choose to mount the external storage, I somehow was able to select that bubble when in the restore menu. I restored an old meanrom and it rebuilt the internal storage despite losing the data. Not sure if this info will help you at all, but figured I would share. Good luck.
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No, thank you for input. Sadly, since this a very new phone, I have nothing to restore it to. As, I was unable to make a back up for this all happened. But I am sure if I did have one it would get me out of this rut.
rentiyl said:
No, thank you for input. Sadly, since this a very new phone, I have nothing to restore it to. As, I was unable to make a back up for this all happened. But I am sure if I did have one it would get me out of this rut.
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So when you flash a new rom from twrp, what happens? Are you flashing the kernel beforehand too since you are s-on?
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gmugrad04 said:
So when you flash a new rom from twrp, what happens? Are you flashing the kernel beforehand too since you are s-on?
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When I was able to flash a new rom [as I am now unable to really access my sd card] it would install it, however, it would boot past the the splash screen and would go black. I didn't think I had to flash the kernel before hand, perhaps that was my problem.

[Q] No service and Wifi Error

I have a T-mobile HTC Amaze running Android Revolution with 4ext recovery. Recently my phone lost cell signal and would not pick it up again. I tried wiping data/cache/dalvik and reinstalling the Android Revolution ROM but the problem is still there. After reinstalling the ROM twice the wifi won't turn on and just says ERROR. I tried going back into 4ext and now it started to give me an error "can't mount /internal_sdcard" when trying to choose zip from sdcard.
Anyone has any idea what's going on?
Thanks
AwayFromReality said:
I have a T-mobile HTC Amaze running Android Revolution with 4ext recovery. Recently my phone lost cell signal and would not pick it up again. I tried wiping data/cache/dalvik and reinstalling the Android Revolution ROM but the problem is still there. After reinstalling the ROM twice the wifi won't turn on and just says ERROR. I tried going back into 4ext and now it started to give me an error "can't mount /internal_sdcard" when trying to choose zip from sdcard.
Anyone has any idea what's going on?
Thanks
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Ok dude I think I know what's going on, then outlook doesn't look too bright either. It looks like your internal sd became corrupted and now it can't mount. So back up your internal sd, reformat, and put your stuff back in and see if it helps.
If that doesn't help I guess you just had a bad luck Brian moment. This internal sd problem happened to me twice already.
For the wifi error, that's probably because you dirty flashed ARHD over a perfectly fond ARHD. You should have just airplane mod'd it for a while or rebooted. When you wipe the cache don't dirty flash the entire rom for one simple problem. When you reboot after you wipe the cache, it just takes a minute to rebuild the 'blocks. '
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SuperAfnan said:
Ok dude I think I know what's going on, then outlook doesn't look too bright either. It looks like your internal sd became corrupted and now it can't mount. So back up your internal sd, reformat, and put your stuff back in and see if it helps.
If that doesn't help I guess you just had a bad luck Brian moment. This internal sd problem happened to me twice already.
For the wifi error, that's probably because you dirty flashed ARHD over a perfectly fond ARHD. You should have just airplane mod'd it for a while or rebooted. When you wipe the cache don't dirty flash the entire rom for one simple problem. When you reboot after you wipe the cache, it just takes a minute to rebuild the 'blocks. '
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Well when I connect the phone via usb, it shows up on my computer but none of the files I had show up in the drive, including the zip for the ROM. I most likely lost all my stuff but that's okay. How do I reformat my internal sd at this point?
I tried to do a clean install of ARHD by doing a complete format inside 4ext, maybe something went wrong along the way. So If I can get my internal sd to work, can I format data/cache/dalvik and reinstall the rom? will that fix the problem?
Thanks for your help
AwayFromReality said:
Well when I connect the phone via usb, it shows up on my computer but none of the files I had show up in the drive, including the zip for the ROM. I most likely lost all my stuff but that's okay. How do I reformat my internal sd at this point?
I tried to do a clean install of ARHD by doing a complete format inside 4ext, maybe something went wrong along the way. So If I can get my internal sd to work, can I format data/cache/dalvik and reinstall the rom? will that fix the problem?
Thanks for your help
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Ok the way to format the internal sd is in 4ext. I remember it being somewhere in the wipe section. Choose format sd then internal sd.
Here's a tip when flashing, use format all partitions except sd. This is better than wiping cache then dalvik then data. This method clears of everything but it doesn't touch your sd. This is how to comoletely clean install roms without errors in flashing.
And if after you flash it and see no bars, T-mobile is probably having a bad connection or doing renovations to their towers or something.
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SuperAfnan said:
Ok the way to format the internal sd is in 4ext. I remember it being somewhere in the wipe section. Choose format sd then internal sd.
Here's a tip when flashing, use format all partitions except sd. This is better than wiping cache then dalvik then data. This method clears of everything but it doesn't touch your sd. This is how to comoletely clean install roms without errors in flashing.
And if after you flash it and see no bars, T-mobile is probably having a bad connection or doing renovations to their towers or something.
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Thanks a lot for your help man. Formatting the internal sd worked. Installed ARHD and everything works perfectly. I'll remember to format all partitions except sd from now on.
AwayFromReality said:
Thanks a lot for your help man. Formatting the internal sd worked. Installed ARHD and everything works perfectly. I'll remember to format all partitions except sd from now on.
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I'm glad I could help! And I appreciate you pressing thanks, :thumbup: more people need to stop being arrogant and actually use it, because many people WILL get annoyed and not help people in the future since they gain nothing from it.
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It will come back, one day. I have a same problem, too
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I'm glad I could help! And I appreciate you pressing thanks, :thumbup: more people need to stop being arrogant and actually use it, because many people WILL get annoyed and not help people in the future since they gain nothing from it.
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Since you're giving out free advice, pressing thanks is the least I could do.
eadrang said:
It will come back, one day. I have a same problem, too
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Do you mean the internal_sd problem will come back? If so what do you think is the root cause?
AwayFromReality said:
Since you're giving out free advice, pressing thanks is the least I could do.
Do you mean the internal_sd problem will come back? If so what do you think is the root cause?
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No, i don't. I think the cause is the quality of internal not good, and during use that fone, i format it so much.
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eadrang said:
No, i don't. I think the cause is the quality of internal not good, and during use that fone, i format it so much.
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The amaze has a wacky internal sd I think, in general. Mine got corrupted twice in its life in my ownership. Who knows what journeys my Amaze had been through with the previous owner(s).
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