Hello, all. I tried flashing Sun's new ROM, which wouldn't work while I was on TWRP Recovery. So I thought "Let's flash Amon Ra;" well, that's what I did. I use Hansoon's kit to flash Amon Ra and when I tried flashing on Amon RA it wouldn't work. So I ended up making a PH98IMG of TWRP and putting it on my SD card so I could get back TWRP since all of my backups are under TWRP. Well, now I cannot boot into recovery because of the PH98IMG on my SD card. I can't reboot my phone because I wiped system, date, etc. There's no ROM on my phone. Any ideas how I can delete that PH98IMG.zip off my phone? This is horrible.
Take out the sd card and use a card reader to delete the file via your computer.
darkghost568 said:
Take out the sd card and use a card reader to delete the file via your computer.
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Where do I obtain a card reader?
Or you can pull your SD card part of the way out, then boot into recovery via power + vol down (you will be able to get into Recovery since it won't see the SD card). Once in recovery, carefully pull the battery out just far enough to get your finger under it, making sure that the battery contacts maintain firm contact, and push in the SD card. You may have to mount / remount the card in TWRP, but it should then see all your backups. If the battery loses contact, you can just start over (partly pull out SD, boot into TWRP, push in SD) - there is no risk of bricking or anything from pulling the battery while in recovery.
Or you can go into any electronics store - Best Buy, Radioshack, Staples, etc. (whatever you have in your area), or even Wal-Mart, and get an SD card reader.
Kelton Rivas said:
Where do I obtain a card reader?
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Wal-Mart,Target,Best Buy, and store that sell electronics pretty much will work
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I went to Walmart and got one for $4, so I'm rather ecstatic. The XDA community is very helpful. *nods*
Do I get a thanks? ^_^
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Do I get a thanks? ^_^
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Happy? Lol
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darkghost568 said:
Do I get a thanks? ^_^
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No.
What Max725 said, works like a charm, no card reader needed.
Not that it hurts to have one handy, just something to do when you're in a jam and don't have one.
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I installed CM7 recently and flashed CM7 OTB newest test 2.6.35.13 kernel. it's been great until a reboot I did just now...it says damaged sd card, reformat blah.
is there a way to revert it? I can't format my sd since I have important documents inside...
I had this problem too. I just pulled the sd card out and put it back in a few times and it started working again
Try it, can't hurt. Maybe I was just lucky though.
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Oddly enough I have the same problem. No matter what my sd looks jacked. I mounted and saved to a pc but no matter what it won't save anymore and won't format.... Odd.
I'm terrified...I can't get into recovery and even if I do I have no access to files. Can someone tell me how to fix my sd card?...I need to recover my files inside.
Use a card reader and save your **** on a pc. If you can at this point.
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chopper the dog said:
Use a card reader and save your **** on a pc. If you can at this point.
good day. using xda premium.
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I don't have a reader but I will buy one. I already tried repartitioning and went to ed01 but same error persists; can't get sd card working, and can't get into recovery even after odin cwm3 flash
I can not load into hboot, when I do, it reads the sd card and then asks me if I want to update. ph98img is on my sd card and if I am not mistaking that is whats causing the update? What do I do to be able to boot into hboot? Can I just change the name of that file, or do I even need that file? I am not running ics, have cwm recovery, and ziggys kernel running at 1.86.
Any info is greatly appreciated (I am not tech savvy at all)
Thanks
remmy5r said:
I can not load into hboot, when I do, it reads the sd card and then asks me if I want to update. ph98img is on my sd card and if I am not mistaking that is whats causing the update? What do I do to be able to boot into hboot? Can I just change the name of that file, or do I even need that file? I am not running ics, have cwm recovery, and ziggys kernel running at 1.86.
Any info is greatly appreciated (I am not tech savvy at all)
Thanks
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I ran into this as well a week or so ago. I pulled my sd card out and put it into my Incredible and deleted the ph98img file. I then put the sd back into my Rezound and then you can once again boot into hboot.
trickster2369 said:
I ran into this as well a week or so ago. I pulled my sd card out and put it into my Incredible and deleted the ph98img file. I then put the sd back into my Rezound and then you can once again boot into hboot.
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This.
Also, if you don't have another device to put the device in, you can just take the sdcard, put what you were gonna flash on internal storage, then flash that way. Once your phone is functional you can then put the sdcard in and delete the file.
Or... You could just "adb reboot recovery" and turn on mount SD Card.
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Thanks for the answers. I just deleted it off my sd card, will it change how things are running or hurt something, I saved it to my desktop in case I fouled something up. It will now let me into hboot though.
remmy5r said:
Thanks for the answers. I just deleted it off my sd card, will it change how things are running or hurt something, I saved it to my desktop in case I fouled something up. It will now let me into hboot though.
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You don't need it on the sdcard at all after it updates. It's fine to keep it off. It won't mess anything up.
EDIT: Make sure you hit the thanks button on the posts above you for helping!! I don't need the thanks for this little post, but it's good to show those guys that you appreciate the help!
I skimmed through the general thread and FAQ and couldn't find anything on this, so I figured I'd post this!
I didn't have a smaller SD card and figured nothing bad could happen, so just used my 32GB SD card and it boinked out. Thought it was done for...until today! Here's how I got it to work.
1. Make sure you have your SD card in your phone.
2. Boot into your recovery (I used TWRP and haven't tested this on Amon Ra.)
3. Mount your USB storage and go to "My Computer" to view your storage drives.
4. Your SD card should pop up as a Removable Disk that has no info. Simply format the drive, reboot into your ROM, and bam! Fully working SD card
If anyone can test this in Amon Ra and let me know if it worked, be much appreciated, thanks!
easiest way is this:
do your s-off. boot into amon ra. goto the options and format the SD card right then and there.
you're supposed to always format the card right after S-oFF, or else the slot tends to not work right or something. this is pretty much why they said to try to use an extra backup card instead of using your own personal one, so ya don't have to lose everythin
Whoops, just realized I posted this to development lol. Sorry to any mod, if you could please move it.
jayochs said:
easiest way is this:
do your s-off. boot into amon ra. goto the options and format the SD card right then and there.
you're supposed to always format the card right after S-oFF, or else the slot tends to not work right or something. this is pretty much why they said to try to use an extra backup card instead of using your own personal one, so ya don't have to lose everythin
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I couldn't even get S-Off to work, lol. I tried for about 30 minutes and ended up with a "dead" SD card. My recovery didn't even see my SD card, I just mounted my USB storage for S&Gs to see what would happen.
Something I find that really helps as well is to make sure you don't flash the Gingerbread hboot when using the S-OFF program. I didn't think it would, but it did manage to give me SD card issues until I flashed a proper ICS hboot.
I'm only mentioning this because after I S-OFFed and got the SD card issues, formatting it did nothing at all to fix the problem. Only after I got the right hboot did everything finally start working again.
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Something I find that really helps as well is to make sure you don't flash the Gingerbread hboot when using the S-OFF program. I didn't think it would, but it did manage to give me SD card issues until I flashed a proper ICS hboot.
I'm only mentioning this because after I S-OFFed and got the SD card issues, formatting it did nothing at all to fix the problem. Only after I got the right hboot did everything finally start working again.
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I didn't even get that far lol. S-Off didn't work and my SD card was a dud afterwards. my computer would see the drive, but wouldn't do anything with it. My phone just said "blank SD card" and couldn't format.
Chyrux said:
I didn't even get that far lol. S-Off didn't work and my SD card was a dud afterwards. my computer would see the drive, but wouldn't do anything with it. My phone just said "blank SD card" and couldn't format.
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Same here.
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Same here.
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It was strange. I just figured that it would have erased the contents of my card and that was it. thought I had lost it entirely lol. Glad I didn't just throw it away.
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It was strange. I just figured that it would have erased the contents of my card and that was it. thought I had lost it entirely lol. Glad I didn't just throw it away.
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What did u do to fix it?
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Doddzilla said:
What did u do to fix it?
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The method I posted. Just went into recovery, mounted USB storage and formatted my card from Windows. The only downside is that formatting can ruin an SD card...but it's not much to worry about if the card isn't working, anyway =p
Chyrux said:
The method I posted. Just went into recovery, mounted USB storage and formatted my card from Windows. The only downside is that formatting can ruin an SD card...but it's not much to worry about if the card isn't working, anyway =p
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formatting can ruin an SD Card? please elaborate. i format SD cards all the time.
I've had a few where the format went "bad" due to some reason and rendered the SD card completely useless. Same has happened to a few people I know and have read of the issue before. I didn't mean that to say "Formatting your SD card enough will ruin it" lol.
*EDIT* I wish I knew about that insurance you talk about in your sig when I bought my phone
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Same here.
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same here.....
I just unmounted mine in Android and formatted it with Windoze. Then I formatted it again in Android. I've corrupted SD Cards all kinds of ways. It's real easy to do if you get stupid with the overclocking/undervolting. I've formatted the 32 gig I first got for my BlackBerry 9630 a few dozen times. It's still as reliable as any other SD Card I have. Better than some, in fact. The only real good way to format a solid state memory device is to write zeros to it. If not, NAND (which your SD Card is) device write cycles can take twice as long.
guys i tried all the format methods listed above still no luck, windows states its a raw format with 0 mb available
madjokeer said:
guys i tried all the format methods listed above still no luck, windows states its a raw format with 0 mb available
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I had to download a program that was made just for formatting SD cards. Once I used that it formatted the card fine but windows and my phone would not.
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Thanks Chyrux. Your method worked for me . was about to throw away the card but you saved it.
Thanks 1m+ times
Well How many times should I thank you
Thanks Thanks this was the only working method thx very much
Ok so I followed the instructions on Dirty Racun's tutorial to S-OFF my HBOOT 1.15 4gLTE, and it worked just about perfectly.. The only issue I had was something about a QHSUSB_DLOAD or something like that, but on the IRC chat the person helping me said that didn't matter, and as long as my bootloader said "*DIRTY RACUN* S-OFF HBOOT 1.15" that I was fine.. Well I had to fastboot TWRP because it wouldn't flash as a PJ75IMG.zip through bootloader, and since than I've tried a few other PJ75IMG.zip's and none of them are recognized in Bootloader either.. I asked for help in Dirty Racun's forum but I was told that they only assist us up until S-OFF and that anything after that was not in their venue.. I was thinking maybe this was a bad S-OFF, but not sure if I can redownload my S-OFF tools and try again, or what...!?
- yes the files syntax is correct
- yes I've placed them on /root of phone
- yes I've tried redownloading the zip's and flashing again
and no, none of that has worked...
Thanks in advance..
make sure its named properly
It does not go on root of phone but needs to go on root of external sd card
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Do you have a SD card in your phone? I couldn't flash any PJ75IMG.zips on my phone until I threw one in. Now they flash with no problems.
Looks like thicklizard beat me too it
flex360 said:
make sure its named properly
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That would be the cyntax that I've checked.. Thanks though..
thicklizard said:
It does not go on root of phone but needs to go on root of external sd card
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Bada bing..! This worked..!! In my external_sd folder there was only one folder called "Android" so I didn't think it went in there since there was only that one folder, but that sure did the trick..!! Thank you..!!
crown drinker said:
Do you have a SD card in your phone? I couldn't flash any PJ75IMG.zips on my phone until I threw one in. Now they flash with no problems.
Looks like thicklizard beat me too it
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^^ =)
I am having the same problem, I had a good S-Off flash 100% no errors and am now stuck with the inability to flash PJ75.IMG.zip when trying to update my radios ect. I have tried everything cyntax, root of SD card, redownload zip file. But nothing works. One thing I found funny was that the external SD card folder in the TWRP recovery mounts is different than that of the external SD card when viewing it from the phone on diskdrive and mediashare. WTF I have tried all the roots of the external SD card in both of these programs and have reformatted my card to FAT32 still nothing will recognize in bootloader. PLEASE HELP ME
HBOOT 1.19.2222
vdubing said:
I am having the same problem, I had a good S-Off flash 100% no errors and am now stuck which the inability to flash PJ75.IMG when trying to update my radios ect. I have tried everything cyntax, root of SD card, redownload zip file. But nothing works. One thing I found funny was that the external SD card folder in the TWRP recovery mounts is different than that of the external SD card when viewing it from the phone on diskdrive and mediashare. WTF I have tried all the roots of the external SD card in both of these programs and have reformatted my card to FAT32 still nothing will recognize in bootloader. PLEASE HELP ME
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If that's the name of the file you have you named it wrong it's not PJ75.IMG its PJ75IMG.zip
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thicklizard said:
If that's the name of the file you have you named it wrong it's not PJ75.IMG its PJ75IMG.zip
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Yes it is the .zip file..... still doesnt work. Maybe I am putting it in the wrong on my external SD card or something. I am using medishare and putting the PJ75IMG.zip file into the "card" no the "phone" file. Is this correct Then when I view the ext_SD from TEWRP recovery it is not there so I reboot the phone and look back in the "card" file and it is there I feel like I tried every folder possible
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Yes it is the .zip file..... still doesnt work. Maybe I am putting it in the wrong on my external SD card or something. I am using medishare and putting the PJ75IMG.zip file into the "card" no the "phone" file. Is this correct Then when I view the ext_SD from TEWRP recovery it is not there so I reboot the phone and look back in the "card" file and it is there I feel like I tried every folder possible
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It should go on your removeable SD card. It's not included when you buy the phone. So you will need to purchase or already have a micro sd card It's located under the back cover at the top. Instead of media share try disk drive
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thicklizard said:
It should go on your removeable SD card. It's not included when you buy the phone. So you will need to purchase or already have a micro sd card It's located under the back cover at the top. Instead of media share try disk drive
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Yes is has an 8gb SD card in in from my old phone and I reformatted it to FAT32.
vdubing said:
Yes is has an 8gb SD card in in from my old phone and I reformatted it to FAT32.
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Mount the phone to computer as disk drive use file explorer and copy your file to x:\ where x is whatever drive letter the computer assigned to your external card. It can't be in a folder or the phone won't see it.
MeanROM 4G LTE
Sometimes the seperate sd card is labeled 'ext_sd'...
Sometimes the seperate sd card is labeled 'sdcard2'...
You have to be careful which identifier is used when trying to access the seperate sd card.
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I'm stuck in a bootloop. I was flashing a ROM that needed the old TP so I have the image zip on my sd card. When I flashed the ROM it won't work so I had to reboot. Now I can't get back into recovery since booting to bootloader just keeps wanting to reinstall the TP zip then reboot. I can see my sd card on my pc to remove the image zip either. Can anyone please help with this?
Dude just take out your SD card and boot into recovery.
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chriswbush said:
Dude just take out your SD card and boot into recovery.
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^ This
BWAWHAHAHAHAA!!!!!! Duh.....Ima dumbass
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BWAWHAHAHAHAA!!!!!! Duh.....Ima dumbass
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No, we've all done it. Or, something on the same level. At least it's an easy fix!
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No, we've all done it. Or, something on the same level. At least it's an easy fix!
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Now it makes sense why everything I've ever read says to put the img file on the "external" sd card.
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Now it makes sense why everything I've ever read says to put the img file on the "external" sd card.
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haha and then DELETE it after flashing
I just ran into this same problem. Thank you Google and thanks for the obvious tip to pull the SD card.