Hi guys,
My SD card got corrupted before flashing a rom, so I'm a bit stuck (I can access the CWM menu, the kernel is fine).
So I formatted the card to FAT32 (tried other formats) but when I try and flash an update.zip from it I get
E:Can't mount /sdcard/
So I'm thinking, are there some files missing from the SD card that CWM/android need to interact with it? I can imagine these files were wiped when I did a format. Like superuser files or something? You know also, those hidden files beginning with '.'
I've tried all the usual methods like formatting using SDFormatter and stuff - still, CWM can't see it (my computer can if USB is mounted). Am I right in thinking I need some kind of system files on the SD card?
Any help?
Thanks in advance
the best would be paid copy a rom sd card and flash, or flash a rom stock also either ics or gb and see if there cel recognize SD can not think of anything else. :highfive:
Ok, I guess I'll try that if there's nothing else. If I flash an official .ftf with Flashtool will I need to do anything to my bootloader (currently unlocked)?
Edit: I've been reading around and it seems almost certain that my sd card just needs some vital files on it for CWM and android...
Try by simply reflashing any kernel with cwm if your sd card is readable from pc it is not corrupted, it's more likely somethign wrong with cwm, you should be able to fix reflashing kernel which shouldn't be much of a prob since you have unlocked bl
Rudjgaard said:
Try by simply reflashing any kernel with cwm if your sd card is readable from pc it is not corrupted, it's more likely somethign wrong with cwm, you should be able to fix reflashing kernel which shouldn't be much of a prob since you have unlocked bl
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Hey nice idea, but I tried that earlier and multiple kernels give the same error - it can't be CWM, it must be the SD card (or what's not on the SD card).
Edit: I've tried chkdsk and formatting to a variety of systems using a variety of partition managers, nothings works, my phone just can't mount the SD.
notoxa said:
Hi guys,
My SD card got corrupted before flashing a rom, so I'm a bit stuck (I can access the CWM menu, the kernel is fine).
So I formatted the card to FAT32 (tried other formats) but when I try and flash an update.zip from it I get
E:Can't mount /sdcard/
So I'm thinking, are there some files missing from the SD card that CWM/android need to interact with it? I can imagine these files were wiped when I did a format. Like superuser files or something? You know also, those hidden files beginning with '.'
I've tried all the usual methods like formatting using SDFormatter and stuff - still, CWM can't see it (my computer can if USB is mounted). Am I right in thinking I need some kind of system files on the SD card?
Any help?
Thanks in advance
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First backup your nandroid backup (if you have one) in a secure place (not the sdcard)
Put your sd card on some other android phone with cwm and format it from the cwm mount/storage option.
if you don't have a nandroid backup skip the next two steps.
mount the sdcard in your computer and create two folders in the sdcard (a folder inside a folder) name the parent folder as "clockworkmod" and child as "backup" .
Put your nandroid backup in /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/
Now put the Rom zip file you want to flash in the root of the sd card
Power down your phone.
Put the memory card in your phone
Boot into cwm and try to flash the rom.
If the second step fails with "error mounting sd card" try with another memory card or with another phone.
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I wiped everything, re-partioned sd-card and tried to install a new ROM..
But something have happend..
After i re-patrioned / wiped... and flash the rom (have tried a lot of ROM's now) i get errors..
Install from sdcard
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
E:Can't open /sdcard/Cronos-2-0J_.zip
(bad)
Installation aborted.
Happends now on every rom i install, have already tried again to re-partion.
What is the most basic way to re-partion ? settings i mean?
Anyone know what could be the problem..
The zip files cant be corrupt either.
* I also noticed that if i upload a ROM-file, then re-partion and wipe everything..
The rom is still on the sd-card..
I then deleted the rom from sdcard and re-partion again, and still..even duo i already deleted the file.. its there?
Maybe it is because of the SD Card.. So if you have another one try it
I had this same problem i had to do a full format of the SD card then all worked fine never had the problem again strange
If you ecejt the SD card before its done (or eject it wrong) you may and up with a bad file.
What you could do is:
Format your SD card.
Then put a rom on it.
Then go to my pc, and find ur card, then right click and select eject
Yea something strange with your sdcard.
Try as they stated above. Remove the sdcard from your phone. Insert it back in.
Try to reformat it with a different sdcard setup like: no swap, no ext only fat32.
Then check if the card is still behaving the same if not good. If so maybe the sdcard is just defect?
Good Luck.
Arranmc182 said:
I had this same problem i had to do a full format of the SD card then all worked fine never had the problem again strange
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same issue here, solved this way.
Did you flash an exotic recovery image by any chance?
You can always reflash 1 back by pushing it to /cache/ and flashing from there.
A radical way to overcome this would be to delete the partition table on your SDcard and let your current rom reformat it.
Im bumping my own thread.. Last time i bought a new sdcard..
Now this **** have happend again.. I get the same error as before!
How should i do this? Is there any other way then whats posted now?
Happens on all Roms
This is quite obvious but you make no mention of what recovery image is on you sd card?
I assume you saved the old image you were using and put it back on your sd card
Yes,maybe you recovery image is damaged.
Try to install again!
It sounds like your sd card is not actually partitioning since the rom is still on the sd card. To partition the sd manually try this:
I'm going to assume the following:
You are using Amon Ra recovery
You have not downloaded Clock Work recovery
You can still get into recovery using Amon Ra
You have SDK and JDK installed
You're using windows
Plug your phone into the computer. Open a command prompt (hit start and type cmd and press enter). Direct it to read from the tools directory of sdk " cd C:\android-sdk-windows\tools" for most people. Now follow the directions from this how-to http://androidandme.com/2009/08/news/how-to-manually-partition-your-sd-card-for-android-apps2sd/. Stop after step 4 and type "quit" unless you plan on repartioning your sd card (in which case, choose which partitions you wish to make). Move the new rom you want to boot to the sd card and try again.
I am having problems with the recovery on my phone, it is currently Amon 1.6.2.
In recovery I cannot create nand backups or flash new roms. When trying to create a backup I get this error:
Error: run ‘nandroid-mobile.sh’ via adb!
When trying to flash new roms from SD card i get this:
E: Can’t mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0)
Invalid argument
E: Can’t mount SDCARD:
Any help would be extremely appreciated.
thanks very much.
Make sure your battery is charged past 25% I believe. Its a saftey feature so you won't brick your phone...
battery is fully charged.
first thing i'd try is backing up all data on SDCard... then, boot into whatever ROM you are currently using. go to Menu > Settings > SD Card & Phone Storage.
Unmount SDCard and then format card. then copy a rom.zip to your SD and boot into recovery and try again. if that doesn't work, try formatting the card in recovery, then see if it will mount as USB, copy rom.zip again and try again.
you weren't by any chance trying to resize the partitions on your phone, were you?
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first thing i'd try is backing up all data on SDCard... then, boot into whatever ROM you are currently using. go to Menu > Settings > SD Card & Phone Storage.
Unmount SDCard and then format card. then copy a rom.zip to your SD and boot into recovery and try again. if that doesn't work, try formatting the card in recovery, then see if it will mount as USB, copy rom.zip again and try again.
you weren't by any chance trying to resize the partitions on your phone, were you?
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i was not trying to resize the partitions, thanks for help i will try this. 1 question though is that i have a lot of apps on my sd card, how do i back those up before reformatting.
Put the card in your computer and drag and drop
Sent from my Motorola Droid 2 with Fission 2.2.2
carbon111 said:
i was not trying to resize the partitions, thanks for help i will try this. 1 question though is that i have a lot of apps on my sd card, how do i back those up before reformatting.
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Titanium Backup, My Backup Pro or Sprite Backup (pay, on market).
Or search for QtADB here on XDA (not Eris specific) for telling it to backup apps and/or app settings from a Windows GUI, and it's free. Good luck.
I was trying to restore a backup rom from Clockwork recovery, but I keep getting the message 'Error Formatting /system'.
Problem is I removed the PG05 file from the phone to get into clockwork with the sdcard, in a failed attempt to use a backup I made. Is there anyway to get it back on to the phone from hboot?
I still have the Auto-root program, is there any way to use it for restoring the PG05 file?
Any help is highly appreciated.
Edit: What if I bought a SDHC card reader then replaced the PG05 file? I don't think my computer supports SDHC, but could I access the card if I had a reader?
Your question doesn't really make sense, so a word of warning:
The PG05IMG file is a radio file and it will cause your phone to automatically try and update the radio when you boot into the bootloader. If your current rom isn't working at all (so you can't mount your SD card to your computer to remove or rename the file), this will cause you to not be able to get into recovery. That is the scenario where an external card reader would come in handy. It is actually a good thing you do not have the PG05IMG file saved on your SD card.
RHMullen said:
I was trying to restore a backup rom from Clockwork recovery, but I keep getting the message 'Error Formatting /system'.
Problem is I removed the PG05 file from the phone to get into clockwork with the sdcard, in a failed attempt to use a backup I made. Is there anyway to get it back on to the phone from hboot?
I still have the Auto-root program, is there any way to use it for restoring the PG05 file?
Any help is highly appreciated.
Edit: What if I bought a SDHC card reader then replaced the PG05 file? I don't think my computer supports SDHC, but could I access the card if I had a reader?
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I remember there was a problem like this with mounting a while back. I can't really remember the exact cause but updating CWR fixed it for that user. Although one would think that just mounting/unmounting system or sdcard would perhaps fix it.
You didn't say whether you were bootlooping or not so if you aren't and can access RM then flash the newest stable CWR again.
If you're bootlooping, use a card reader/adapter or another phone to place the bootloader flashable CWR zip on your sdcard. Boot to hboot, let it flash, pull batt, remove card, remove zip file, replace card, boot to recovery, then wipe or flash a rom or restore your backup.
CWR zip mentioned: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179386
Note: I've never had first hand experience w/ this problem. I'm just throwing out reasonable suggestions.
Tried to replace one custom rom with another using CWM. But instead of formatting sd-ext (after formatting all else too obv), I formatted sd card. Now when I turn phone on I get "android" in the middle of the screen and nothing else happens obviously :S.
How should I proceed?
edit: figured out how to enter CWM again to flash a rom, but how do I put rom onto SD card as my computer doesnt recognise phone
edit2: figured it out! had to choose mount storage in CWM!
wohoo!!
Or you can just use a card reader
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Hi,
Thanks for your kind help.
I was flashing my wife phone (a Samsung S3 i9300) with slim bean 4.3, i installed CWM, root it, do a titatium backup, everything great, i install from the sd card Slim Bean, everything just great, until i see that the android was not mounting the sd card, i went back to cwm and i can see the sd card with all it content when i choose install zip from sd card, but i can't mounting in android.
So using the adb througt linux, i could upload the cyanogem mod last rom and the gapps file i went back, i install it throught cwm and everything just great but i still can't see the sd card in android, i'm not sure if i do something wrong in cwm when i was trying to mount the sd card to upload the flash files from the computer to the phone.
I never see an error like it.
BTW my wife gonna kill me please help
I just put show log and i have the follow errors:
Can't Partition non-vfat: datamedia
Can't Partition non vfat: ext4
Can't format unknown volume: /emmc
manrique_e said:
Hi,
Thanks for your kind help.
I was flashing my wife phone (a Samsung S3 i9300) with slim bean 4.3, i installed CWM, root it, do a titatium backup, everything great, i install from the sd card Slim Bean, everything just great, until i see that the android was not mounting the sd card, i went back to cwm and i can see the sd card with all it content when i choose install zip from sd card, but i can't mounting in android.
So using the adb througt linux, i could upload the cyanogem mod last rom and the gapps file i went back, i install it throught cwm and everything just great but i still can't see the sd card in android, i'm not sure if i do something wrong in cwm when i was trying to mount the sd card to upload the flash files from the computer to the phone.
I never see an error like it.
BTW my wife gonna kill me please help
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I know whats happening, i don't know why the sdcard move to /sdcard/0 so all my files and folders was on /sdcard/, of course i cannot see my files, and i thoungt the sd card was no mounting my fault.
manrique_e said:
I just put show log and i have the follow errors:
Can't Partition non-vfat: datamedia
Can't Partition non vfat: ext4
Can't format unknown volume: /emmc
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