Currently having an issue with my SGS2.
Have been installing the custom vanilla rootbox roms for a while and the most recent update process has been from 3.2 -> 3.3.1 -> 3.4.
What has happened seems to have happened on the last update is the internal (non removeable) mmc card doesn't seem to be mounting.
Going into CWM recovery and choosing the "install zip from sd card" to use as a pseudo file browser, i can view both /sdcard (removeable sd) and /emmc (internal sd) and see all the files, but when the phone boots up only the external card is visible.
Browsing the files system:
/extSdCard - has external card files
/sdcard - is empty
/storage/sdcard0 - is empty
/storage/sdcard1 - has external files
/emmc - does not exist
So for some reason /emmc is not mounting to /sdcard + /storage/sdcard0
Is there a way to fix this issue? Also does CWM have a file-backup facility that i can backup my hidden files to the other sd card, or is there another method i can do this?
Flash different kernel.
TheATHEiST said:
Flash different kernel.
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Doesn't seem to have fixed the issue.
(Flashed siyah).
Does anyone have any other suggestions that might help?
I had this issue...
I had this issue and managed to resolve it by using the following steps:
I backed up the phone using Titanium Backup to the external SD card (mmcblk1) and then shut the phone down and removed the SD card (to ensure it wasn't erased at any point).
I then booted into CWM recovery and re-partitioned and re-formatted the internal SD Card (mmcblk0p11). I then formatted /data, /cache and wiped the Dalvik cache to start afresh.
Once booted, I made sure that the internal SD card mounted correctly and was showing the correct amount of space (approx. 11.5GB).
On my computer I then copied the Titanium Backup files off the external SD card, repartitioned it as a single partition (MBR-style, not GUID/GPT!) and then then reformatted the partition as FAT.
I re-copied the TB backups back onto the external SD card and put it back into the phone. On reboot, the phone mounted both partitions as expected.
I then restored from the TB backups and I've not had any trouble since.
I'd been living with the issue for a while and it was driving me insane. The turning point came for me when I removed the external SD card once and it mounted the internal SD card correctly (which it hadn't done in a long time). It was then I realised that it was something about having the two together that wasn't working properly for some reason. This is why I repartitioned and reformatted them both as "stock" as I could to ensure that they worked in their "out of the box" state.
I'm not entirely sure why this happened as it did, but it seems to be working correctly now for me (and I'm very happy!).
I hope this works for you!!
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help, I accidentally formatted my sd card. After rebooting, I always get the message that the sd card is blank or has an unsupported file system. I have tried different ways of formatting (ext4, ext3, fat32, fat32+ ext3) but no success so far.
Anyone has a solution? I am using modaco 2.8
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With Astro or similar first back up your applications,secondly go back to recovery and go to bottom to mount sd card so that you can copy backups folder to your pc.
Now reformatt and make partitions and remount sd card to copy modaco's rom and choose zip to update. I dont think there is easy way round.
So you are saying the only way to fix this is by reflashing?
BTW, if I have to flash anyways, do I need to setup a fat32 partition or can I format the entire card as ext4 (i don't use windows on my pc)
Without flash your applications may not work correctly but you can try.
I think just ext4 will not be enough because how are you going to transfer files and folder which needs fat32?
Your current ROM will have automatically put files in your sd card which got destroyed by accidental format.
I have searched and can't seem to find anything similar to what I am experiencing.
I am running cm7 nightly #116 and siyah Kernel (latest version)
I booted into clockwork recovery to do a nandroid backup, and when I performed a reboot afterward my internal SD was no longer visible from within the OS. My external SD card is mounted as /sdcard and there is nothing in /emmc. I tried removing my microsd and when the phone boots it does not see itself as having any SD storage. (neither internal nor external)
When a run a df -k from the terminal I do not see my sd cards partition.
However if I boot into clockworkmod recovery I can still browse the contents of my internal sd partition with no issues. (via flash zip from internal sd card) Does anyone know what could cause this or what method I should use to try and fix it? I believe my backup should be ok.... but I have no method of getting the files out of my internal sd because when I "mount usb storage" it only mounts the external sd.
Fixed. Formatted system and did an advanced restore from an old nandroid backup. Reboot and voila.
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I just installed the a custom ROM (latest Resurrection Remix 3.1.2, based on AOKP/CM10, as well as its recommended patch fix) and can no longer see my external sd card anywhere.
/sdcard, /mnt/sdcard, and /storage/sdcard0 show the contents of the internal sd card (in file explorers like TotalCommander)
/extSdCard, /mnt/extSdCard, and /storage/sdcard1 are empty, though before installing the custom ROM it was showing the contents of the external sd card
I used ClockworkMod Recovery to successfully revert back to my nandroid backup, which was stored on that same external sd card, of the preinstalled ROM from Samsung (which was updated from 4.0 to 4.1 through OTA updates) that I had on my mobile but unfortunately in my notification area it says "Preparing SD card / Checking for errors" followed by "Damaged SD card / SD card is damaged. Try reformatting it."
But I doubt there's some hardware problem with the external sd card because it's brand new and still accessible/usable from ClockworkMod Recovery.
Good day,
I am using SGS2 i9100g.
I have flashed from CM10.0, JB4.1.2 to pacman 3.00, JB4.2.2
ISSUES:
1. error mounting emmc and cannot detect external sd card
2. When i want to use camera or gallery, there is an error saying "No external storage available"
Attempted solutions:
I have tried the following but it does not solve my problem
1. re-flash the custom rom and gapps. (full wipe with wipe cache and dalvik cache)
2. reformatted my sd card to fat32.
3. went to recovery to unmount and remount my external sd card
4. tried to mount emmc in recovery but returns an error "error mounting emmc"
5. off and on and also rebooted my smartphone
6. tried these codes shown at the bottom(to manual remount)
$ su <enter>
# mount -o remount rw /mnt/sdcard<enter>
Side notes:
- I am not sure whether is both related in terms of cannot mount emmc and not detecting my sd card.
- My sd card can be seen in storage with many free space(new sd card) can unmount and mount but the "Mount usb storage" is sealed, my internal storage also can be seen with a lot of free space.
- I am not sure about this but i have googled and saw that some people said that cyanogenMod has bugs regarding the folder of sd card and internal memory directory are swapped(or something like that)
- By using ES file explorer i can see mnt/extSdCard(which is my external sd card) with my files inside but in my mnt/sdcard(i am not sure if this is for internal memory) there is nothing but i cannot find emmc folder inside /mnt.
- I have a storage folder which has sdcard0 which contains nothing, sdcard1 which contains my file in my external sd card and a usbdisk0 contains nothing also.
- Now i am not sure which is the cause of the problem where i cannot use my camera phone and gallery
Please help and thanks in advance
Every help and suggestion is appreciated
SOLUTION!!!
SinsoljaX said:
Good day,
I am using SGS2 i9100g.
I have flashed from CM10.0, JB4.1.2 to pacman 3.00, JB4.2.2
ISSUES:
1. error mounting emmc and cannot detect external sd card
2. When i want to use camera or gallery, there is an error saying "No external storage available"
Attempted solutions:
I have tried the following but it does not solve my problem
1. re-flash the custom rom and gapps. (full wipe with wipe cache and dalvik cache)
2. reformatted my sd card to fat32.
3. went to recovery to unmount and remount my external sd card
4. tried to mount emmc in recovery but returns an error "error mounting emmc"
5. off and on and also rebooted my smartphone
6. tried these codes shown at the bottom(to manual remount)
$ su <enter>
# mount -o remount rw /mnt/sdcard<enter>
Side notes:
- I am not sure whether is both related in terms of cannot mount emmc and not detecting my sd card.
- My sd card can be seen in storage with many free space(new sd card) can unmount and mount but the "Mount usb storage" is sealed, my internal storage also can be seen with a lot of free space.
- I am not sure about this but i have googled and saw that some people said that cyanogenMod has bugs regarding the folder of sd card and internal memory directory are swapped(or something like that)
- By using ES file explorer i can see mnt/extSdCard(which is my external sd card) with my files inside but in my mnt/sdcard(i am not sure if this is for internal memory) there is nothing but i cannot find emmc folder inside /mnt.
- I have a storage folder which has sdcard0 which contains nothing, sdcard1 which contains my file in my external sd card and a usbdisk0 contains nothing also.
- Now i am not sure which is the cause of the problem where i cannot use my camera phone and gallery
Please help and thanks in advance
Every help and suggestion is appreciated
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I have found a solution. Just reflash back to stock and then flash to custom rom.(repartition with an uncompatible .pit file can cause a traumatic event to a person i.e me )
ATTENTION!!!
DO NOT MESS WITH .PIT FILE!!! I've did a mistake earlier and i've paid the price of bricking my phone. Plus when you meddle with the wrong .pit file, it will corrupt the internal memory and as far as i have searched through the xda forum, nothing works and re-flashing back to stock rom can also cause problems.
Hope this information will inform all of you so that you will not make the same mistake as i have done.
Peace
SinsoljaX said:
I have found a solution. Just reflash back to stock and then flash to custom rom.(repartition with an uncompatible .pit file can cause a traumatic event to a person i.e me )
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Do you think it would work if I just redo repartition with a known correct PIT file?
Or going back to Stock is a must?
Thanks!
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Hi,
Three weeks ago I had my SGSIII rooted and with a custom ROM and regular backup in the external SD card and everything was working OK.
I wanted to remove all the information form the internal memory and decided to format the internal memory, so using CWM (6.0.4.7) I made all the wipes and formatted:
/system
/cache
/preload
/data
I think that one of those formats was the source of the error, but I don't know which one!
Afterwards I tried to access the externalSD card from the restore menu to restore one of my NAND backups, but the extrenalSD card was not accessible (E: Can't mount /storage/sdcard1) neither from the install zip menu (same error). the SD card was OK because was workable in another phone. I tried to mount the external SD card from the mounts and storage menu but gave an error (Error mounting /storage/sdcard1!)
Since I could not restore my NAND backups, I restored the stock ROM (JB 4.3) using odin and afterwards I rooted the phone and install again CWM (6.0.4.7) but the problem persisted and now I am using the stock ROM and can access the external SD card from android normally.
I have looked about this error and all the cases I have found are using older versions of CWM and recommend to format the external SD card, so I did, but the problem persisted.
So my questions are:
- What have I done wrong?
- How can I fix it?
Afterwards I thought that I could copy the NAND backup from the external SD to the internal memory so I made NAND backup to see where it was stored, but using ultra explorer I cannot find the location (furthermore, according to the DiskUsage App the space is used but does not inform me where it is).
I have asked Google for the location of the backups in the internal memory (I can not recall such locations) but the folders did not exist or where empty. So:
- Is it possible to copy a backup from the external SD card into the internal memory?
- How can it be done?
Thanks in advance for your help and sorry for the lengthy post.