OK, I read the don't panic guide and I'm still stuck. I was using stock w/goodies 2.15 then suddenly the phone rebooted by itself and would get to the starting Android screen and then reboot, over and over. I rebooted into TWRP, using 2.2.2.0 and wiped everything. I noticed that the internal SD was acting funny so I formatted, using Windows, it and repartitioned in TWRP. I then flashed the same ROM, stock w/goodies 2.15, from my external SD and it installed, although I think it flashed kind of quickly, took only like 20 seconds or less to write the whole ROM. So now I rebooted and I get stuck on the HTC splashscreen and just sits there. I have done this process a couple of times and I get the same result. I am traveling and cannot use my phone at all. I have hboot 1.12 and s-off through LazyPanda. One last detail, I noticed that the internal SD card has 9.93 GB free, could it be missing the EXT partition or something? Please help me, it's not phone when you're expecting important text messages and calls and your phone is dead! I do have access to a PC so I could go into fastboot and do any required fix via the Android SDK if needed. Again, help is MUCH appreciated!
Please say u have a nandroid? And y 2.15 when 2.16 has been out for awhile? Can u do that?
Get to a WiFi hotspot, re-download, full wipe (caches, factory reset), install...
U get into bootloader? Recovery?
Thanks for your reply. No nandroid, yes after this I will be keeping one . I have licensed Titanium Backup but I stored the backup in the internal SD so it's gone. Hard lessons learned from this incident...
Yes, I can get into recovery and bootloader fine. It's when I try to reboot into the OS when it gets stuck. I have downloaded 2.16 using WIFI, will try copying it to my external SD and flash then. But I don't understand, my copy of 2.15 was fine... Let me try and post my results.
It's working with 2.16. Looks like the internal SD card got corrupted, and my copy of 2.15 somehow also got bad in the external. Weird. Will move the Titanium to the external and do nandroid periodically to avoid this. Many thanks again!
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I unlocked my bootloader, rooted, installed amon ra recovery, have flashed a couple different roms. This morning i flashed scott's cleanrom 4.0 booted up everything seemed to be looking fine. However i went to look in my gallery for photos and it just pops up the screen sd card unmounted. So i went to setting storage and clicked mount sd card and it says preparing sd card, but doesnt do anything. So then i looked in the file system. under /sdcard it says sd card empty mounted or unpresent. sdcard2 isnt even a file system (not positive its supposed to be) so basically i only have access to the RAM i think? ive rebooted, factory reset, id try flashing a new rom, but i cant mount the darn cards on the computer to flash a new rom (maybe i could do this from cmd with fastboot or something?) ive thought about trying to format the sd cards but im not sure how to do this especially since the internal one is also having troubles.
I would really appreciate help on this as i cant hardly do anything on this besides texts and phone calls right now!
Thanks for any help
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I unlocked my bootloader, rooted, installed amon ra recovery, have flashed a couple different roms. This morning i flashed scott's cleanrom 4.0 booted up everything seemed to be looking fine. However i went to look in my gallery for photos and it just pops up the screen sd card unmounted. So i went to setting storage and clicked mount sd card and it says preparing sd card, but doesnt do anything. So then i looked in the file system. under /sdcard it says sd card empty mounted or unpresent. sdcard2 isnt even a file system (not positive its supposed to be) so basically i only have access to the RAM i think? ive rebooted, factory reset, id try flashing a new rom, but i cant mount the darn cards on the computer to flash a new rom (maybe i could do this from cmd with fastboot or something?) ive thought about trying to format the sd cards but im not sure how to do this especially since the internal one is also having troubles.
I would really appreciate help on this as i cant hardly do anything on this besides texts and phone calls right now!
Thanks for any help
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Well, when you say you flashed a couple of roms.. the only rom at the time that would work with the new base was the stock rom that came with the RUU. Scott , then had the first rom with the new base. Using the old roms on the new base caused SD card issues that your describing , but I figured flashing Scott's rom would have fixed it . Easiest fix is if you backed up the stock rom that came with the RUU, if not only thing I can think of is to RUU again and start over. I know Dres is looking into this issue for Amon Ra in case the dev blocks changed , but until he does I would think reflashing RUU is the easiest suggestion.
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Thanks so much! I flashed the latest (that I could find) RUU 3.11.605.1 i got the boot.img and the stock rom out of the RUU and flashed them using fastboot and Amon Ra respectively. When I booted back up the sd cards were properly mounted and everything seems fixed. Thanks again for the quick helpful response!
Now, I still don't exactly understand what I did wrong. So let me try to get some things strait. So the latest RUU is the latest version of the leaked ROM (from HTC?) in question, ICS in our case. So whenever a new RUU is leaked all the developers build new roms on this RUU? and if i say, had been flashing roms from an old RUU, and then flashed a rom from a new RUU (maybe i also forgot to wipe things?) caused problems?
I'd just like to get a better idea of what the problem actually was, and why what i did fixed it. Hopefully someday i won't be so dependent on the great minds here on xda.
Thanks again for everything!
I'm in a similar boat.
I'm in a similar boat. I went straight from stock rooted gingerbread to CleanRom ICS and now I can't get the sd card to mount. CleanROM just kept rebooting over and over. I'm going to try the suggestion by the OP. Hopefully that fixes the problem.
I guess the dev block changed from the old base to the new. Amon ra is already updated. So when you Ruu again and ran the new stock it matched so fixed it. Just don't rum old roms or backups.
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Go into my ICS thread or any of the ICS threads and download the patch to run the new build on the old firmware to fix the mounts
I have kind of similar issue. My phone storage and sdcard are swapped. I only rooter and installed AmonRa recovery. I put 9gb of music on my card, but in setting my card looks empty and my phone storage only has 80m left.
Any ideas?
Thanks
what firmware are u on... u probably need to flash the other amonr ra version if you are on 3.14 flash 3.15 or vice versa
hi all..just got my rezound last week updated from droid x..loving phone so far but have a few questions..im currently on the leak ics rooted amon ra rec.and running clean rom 4.3.. my questions are..
1..when i mount the sd cards i have the internal and external sd..is it normal to have the ext sd folder in the internal sd..i tried deleting folder and comes back..the reason for my question is i was deleting apps and deleted something i shouldnt have so i booted into recovery wiped cach,dalvik,and internal so i could reflash the rom but didnt wipe data cuz wanted to keep my files i had on there..good thing cuz i did that and then my ext sd was wiped..so got back in mounted sd put rom back and just flashed in recovery but is it normal..
2..next is being im on the leaked ics..if i flash the sysver fix that resets to1.00 whatever can i then safely flas a gb rom?i know i cant do a gb ruu because of updated firmware..and if i can flash a gb rom do i keep the kernel im on or is it ok to flash whatever kernel the rom dev recommends..
3..lastly on my old dx if i screwed something up bad enough and couldnt get back into os i could sbf which would bring me back to factory settings like flashing a ruu..can this be done on the rez from a pc if i screwed up and couldnt get into rom or if the ext sd got wiped like what happend before.
thanks and sorry for long post first htc device way different from the moto..i tried searching but couldnt really answer those if someone could answer or atleast point me in the right direction id appreciate it..
1. Yes
2. Supposedly
3. Yes if you have the RUU in .exe format(some of the older ones were .exe's)
MrSmith317 said:
1. Yes
2. Supposedly
3. Yes if you have the RUU in .exe format(some of the older ones were .exe's)
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ok thank you for the info...so then internal sd will only be formatted if manually told to do so in recovery..wiping system data and cache will not touch that then correct? how about when flashing ruu as i understand it wipes internal when doing so? would it have any effect on the ruu running or it keeps that?thanks again
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, this is quite a long story, so I apologise in advance.
I decided to update my Galaxy S2 today to a newer ROM (SuperNexus 2) with the latest version of Android. I was coming from a CM9 build. I went through the usual process of backing up data and performing a full NANDROID backup via CWM Recovery, booted the phone again and transferred the backups to my PC via USB. These files transferred fine.
I then downloaded the zip files for the new ROM and proceeded to copy them to the internal storage of my phone. The copy dialog in Windows said that it was "discovering items" and stayed like this until I turned off USB transfer mode on the phone and removed it (ie. the files failed to copy) This happened a number of times and I didn't get anywhere. I have plenty of space free on the SD card, but just to make sure I started the phone in CWM again and formatted the SD card, and since I was going to do it anyway, the data and cache partitions too. When I booted the phone again, the files still wouldn't copy. I managed to copy a text file to the phone which was about 32kb but anything larger just seemed to fail.
I then went back into CWM and decided to partition the SD card, as I thought that it may have been corrupted somehow and needed to rebuild the filesystem. This however, caused even more problems as trying to format the SD card (In CWM) now just reported "Error, can not mount E:/sdcard".
Feeling fairly frustrated, I decided to download the Stock ICS ROM for the Galaxy S2 and install it via Odin, thinking that the problem was probably with CWM. The install went fine, but upon reboot the phone just stayed on the boot animation, no matter how long I left it. To make sure the install went smoothly I decided to try and reinstall the Stock ROM via Odin again, but now Odin didnt seem to get past the "Initializing.." stage.
So all in all, I now have a phone which wont boot into Android, cant copy anything to internal storage, and Odin wont seem to connect to.
I am convinced this is a software issue and therefore fixable. But maybe the internal storage was not working correctly in the first place. I have installed many ROMs before and never had such issues.
Anyone know anything about this or how I could potentially fix it? Thanks so much in advance!
Benji1992 said:
Okay, this is quite a long story, so I apologise in advance.
I decided to update my Galaxy S2 today to a newer ROM (SuperNexus 2) with the latest version of Android. I was coming from a CM9 build. I went through the usual process of backing up data and performing a full NANDROID backup via CWM Recovery, booted the phone again and transferred the backups to my PC via USB. These files transferred fine.
I then downloaded the zip files for the new ROM and proceeded to copy them to the internal storage of my phone. The copy dialog in Windows said that it was "discovering items" and stayed like this until I turned off USB transfer mode on the phone and removed it (ie. the files failed to copy) This happened a number of times and I didn't get anywhere. I have plenty of space free on the SD card, but just to make sure I started the phone in CWM again and formatted the SD card, and since I was going to do it anyway, the data and cache partitions too. When I booted the phone again, the files still wouldn't copy. I managed to copy a text file to the phone which was about 32kb but anything larger just seemed to fail.
I then went back into CWM and decided to partition the SD card, as I thought that it may have been corrupted somehow and needed to rebuild the filesystem. This however, caused even more problems as trying to format the SD card (In CWM) now just reported "Error, can not mount E:/sdcard".
Feeling fairly frustrated, I decided to download the Stock ICS ROM for the Galaxy S2 and install it via Odin, thinking that the problem was probably with CWM. The install went fine, but upon reboot the phone just stayed on the boot animation, no matter how long I left it. To make sure the install went smoothly I decided to try and reinstall the Stock ROM via Odin again, but now Odin didnt seem to get past the "Initializing.." stage.
So all in all, I now have a phone which wont boot into Android, cant copy anything to internal storage, and Odin wont seem to connect to.
I am convinced this is a software issue and therefore fixable. But maybe the internal storage was not working correctly in the first place. I have installed many ROMs before and never had such issues.
Anyone know anything about this or how I could potentially fix it? Thanks so much in advance!
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I9100?
Can get to DL mode?
Can get to recovery?
Get an older Odin version and flash siyah just to see if it can be flashed again.
If you can get to recovery, Nuke Script is the way to go.
It sounds to me that maybe your memory is corrupt...
Not just yet, smells like soft brick.
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I am having an issue creating backups. Last time I had issues with what seemed like the sd card, I bought a new 64 gig card and replaced my old one.
The old one still works fine with an adapter into my pc, but I wrote it off and sucked it up.
I just tried again making a backup in TWRP with an error, "unable to create backup folder". So, I switched over to CWM and tried the backup. Same issue.
I just checked with my phone plugged into my pc and the file system is defined as "Generic Hierarchal" which I've never seen before. I am almost positive I formatted it initially as either fat or ex fat. With the phone on, I have no issues with the card. I have music and other data on it and it reads just fine.
Other possibly relevant history:
previous rom was Beans 21 and was unable to update to 22 (do not remember the error)
wiped and loaded Alliance's latest V8 with no issues. Been running Alliance for a few weeks now with zero issues. (other than backup)
Do I need to wipe my card and format it in the phone? I think previously I formatted it in my win 7 pc with an adapter.
TIA for any info
Formatting the card with TWRP is probably better
I had this issue with an S3 and nothing would work. I tried mounting/remounting, formatting, and even a new SD card. It finally worked with a new SD, which is really weird because it was an old SD card compared to one of the newer ones.
Thanks for the response. I have 2 cards. Just cleaned off one and formatted in the phone. Still fails trying to do a backup. I hate the thought of buying a third 64 gig card.
I think I'll try going back to stock and see what happens. It'll be a while before I can. Sucks I can't backup first.
Thanks again for the response
interesting update, for anyone that might be watching this post: I d'loaded skips updated toolkit from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2052788&page=10
and was able to make a backup.
just FYI
Bought a Sammy 64 and same issue. Unless anyone has any other suggestions, I'm going to Odin back to stock, I guess.
back to stock, unlock, root fixed it. just fyi.
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back to stock, unlock, root fixed it. just fyi.
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Not. Tried to load another rom and can't read from ad card. Damnit. Any help would be appreciated.
more drama...I re-loaded twrp, b/c I found an old post with roughly the same issue. It said to use cwm to fix permissions. Well, cwm doesn't offer that anymore, the comment is that it was placebo effect. twrp still does offer it. I ran it and then rebooted to android, then rebooted into twrp reco again and was able to load Alliance v8 again.
so, until 4.4 roms appear (which I will have to go back to cwm for, unless twrp gets updated) I guess I'm set.
I'd still LOVE to hear from someone who might know how this happened or what exactly happened, to know what to avoid.
Thanks again, to the one person that responded.
Back to square 1, cannot make nandroid backups.
In CWM v6.0.4.3 here's the errors:
trying to backup: Can't mount Backup Path
trying to mount external_sd: Error Mounting /external_sd
In TWRP v2.6.3.0 here's the errors:
trying to backup: backup folder: /external_sdcard/TWRP/Backups/
E:unable to create folder: /exterenal_sdcard/TWRP
E:Failed to make backup folder
Any thoughts? I know I've posted this multiple times, but not sure where to turn. I suspect if I go back to unrooted stock again and unlock / re-root, load twrp and fix permissions, it will work again for a while. But not permanently. I really want to fix this once and for all. But am not getting any clear direction to go. I have searched on and off XDA to no avail. hoping this time is the key. Thanks for reading and potentially helping.