[Q] is it possible to disable installing roms from your sd card - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey guys not sure what i did but i was curious, is it possible to disable installing roms from your sd card?
Is there something in recovery i could have changed to make it where roms wont load/install from my sd card?

no. what file system are you using?

You mean you don't wanna ROM to installed?
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fireproof1905 said:
Hey guys not sure what i did but i was curious, is it possible to disable installing roms from your sd card?
Is there something in recovery i could have changed to make it where roms wont load/install from my sd card?
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If its from CWM recovery then you may not be using install from external sd card .
Otherwise this post makes no sense .
jje

jjegan said:
if its from cwm recovery then you may not be using install from external sd card .
Otherwise this post makes no sense .
Jje
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i switched from cwm to twrp, when i try to install a rom from an ext sd card the rom just loads and loads but never does anything. It seems that i can only install roms from the internal storage....how would i change that option? do i need to go back to CWM and if so how would i change it back to where it would load roms from my ext sd card

fireproof1905 said:
i switched from cwm to twrp, when i try to install a rom from an ext sd card the rom just loads and loads but never does anything. It seems that i can only install roms from the internal storage....how would i change that option? do i need to go back to CWM and if so how would i change it back to where it would load roms from my ext sd card
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TWRP installs loads of roms from ext sd card for me .
Use the TRWP thread .
jje

JJEgan said:
TWRP installs loads of roms from ext sd card for me .
Use the TRWP thread .
jje
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I guess i'm not clear enough with my description, I can't load any roms from my sd card. When i try it just essentially freezes regardless of if im running either recovery. my question is what can be causing this and could it possibly have something to do with recovery....

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[Q] Flash a custom ROM without SD Card ?

Hi, I was wondering if I can flash a custom ROM into my Galaxy S2 but without SD card
it's already rooted but the problem is that in every tutorial I read here I find that I must copy the zip file of the custom ROM to the SD Card
So if there's anyway to flash this custom ROM without the SD card it would be great
Thanks.
Any tutorial you're following is probably using sdcard to mean internal storage. There's no requirement for a physical, external micro sd card.
So if I followed the tutorial and copied the zip file to the internal storage will it be okay or what ? (excuse me but I'm new to this and kinda lost)
You can link a tutorial to be sure, but unless you're formatting the internal storage (/sdcard), there's no reason it won't work. I've not seen a tutorial requiring the format of /sdcard.
yes, it will work fine.
read and reread the instructions until you are comfortable with them.
medorpg said:
Hi, I was wondering if I can flash a custom ROM into my Galaxy S2 but without SD card
it's already rooted but the problem is that in every tutorial I read here I find that I must copy the zip file of the custom ROM to the SD Card
So if there's anyway to flash this custom ROM without the SD card it would be great
Thanks.
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should not be a problem, just boot into standard recovery mode and flash the zip from your internal memory
As said CWM installs from SD card internal not external add on sd card .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1125282
jje
Okay, this tutorial requires a separate SD Card and said the internal memory will not work
http://androidflip.com/how-to-insta...-3-4-on-samsung-galaxy-s2-step-by-step-guide/
medorpg said:
Okay, this tutorial requires a separate SD Card and said the internal memory will not work
http://androidflip.com/how-to-insta...-3-4-on-samsung-galaxy-s2-step-by-step-guide/
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Author doesn't know what he's talking about. Use the MIUI site for support and installation instructions. Just because someone wrote instructions on a blog doesn't make them fact.
Thats MIUI and its BETA WARNING!!! USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK!
i would not know what instructions another forum uses .
Try XDA
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1130951&highlight=MIUI
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1238494
jje
Download your MIUI rom from the official english website
http://miuiandroid.com/
Connect your phone to PC and copy the zip file to your phone ( since you don't have an SD card you can't copy anywhere else anyway ).
Reboot to ClockworkMod Recovery and do a wipe data, wipe cache.
Go to advanced , wipe Dalvik cache , wipe battery stats.
Go back and choose install from zip from sd card , then choose "choose zip from sd card" , select your zip , confirm it once more and you're done. After its finished select reboot.
Okay thanks guys you're all awesome, I did it and its intalled just fine
I've took a backup using CWM, but now can I restore my contacts or apps ?
medorpg said:
Okay thanks guys you're all awesome, I did it and its intalled just fine
I've took a backup using CWM, but now can I restore my contacts or apps ?
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Apps you can only restore if you backed them up with titanium backup before flashing. Contacts, well... You should have those on your SIM card, or Google account if you used sync.

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.
Sent from my GT-I9100 using XDA App
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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.

Vibrant wont go pass the Splash

Hello guys I think my Vibrant just passed away.
After installing the new ROM 2.11 PA and few apps I had backed up with titanium my Vibrant lost its SD Card. It wont find it and it will stay looping at the CWM menu and nothing else. Os after few tries to recover I decided to Odin and start over but all I get is the splash menu and power off
Im not a median loader. I think I have plenty of experience as I have root phones about 200 times. Load ROMs about 500 times easy.
But this one is biting me. It just wont go to recovery or bootup..
All Im able to do is to ODIN de phone successfully and get it to Download mode and recovery mode. Other then that it just dont do anything else but showing me the splash and go black screen.
Any ideas?
SVLAN said:
It just wont go to recovery or bootup.
All Im able to do is to ODIN de phone successfully and get it to Download mode and recovery mode.
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So, are you saying it will or will not go into recovery? Or is it just going into stock recovery?
Toast6977 said:
So, are you saying it will or will not go into recovery? Or is it just going into stock recovery?
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It only goes to stock recovery and download mode after I odin and it pass!!
but the phone wont pass through the splash as it goes blank. Before had a problem with not detecting the SD Card as well
I have tried ODIN and Lidroid http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1058802
But none of them are able to get me back fully pass the splash.
If you are using eclair in the odin pda, you might search and download this pda, dont tick repartition...Eugene_2E_jk2_froyo.tar. Hard to say Im not familiar with the rom you flashed.
If you have download, you'll find an answer.
I had a very similar situation with my vibrant and treated it as the eu bug, get an external sd, partition it and install Rom from stock recovery, depending on the type of rom you are wanting to run, you will have to make a modification to the vold.fstab file. If you tell me the ostensibly you will be running I can further help you on the edits to be done to the file. (editing the vold.fstab file will allow the phone and apps to recognize your partitioned sd card in the same way it usually sees you internal sd.)
Sugartibbs said:
If you are using eclair in the odin pda, you might search and download this pda, dont tick repartition...Eugene_2E_jk2_froyo.tar. Hard to say Im not familiar with the rom you flashed.
If you have download, you'll find an answer.
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Brooooooooooooo you are a genius.
Thank you so much this and restore my phone normally
Hey guys everything seen to be perfect other then My phone is not detecting the SD Card
I was reading this thread but there are no files.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=846384
Any other method to fix this?
icoltsfan94 said:
I had a very similar situation with my vibrant and treated it as the eu bug, get an external sd, partition it and install Rom from stock recovery, depending on the type of rom you are wanting to run, you will have to make a modification to the vold.fstab file. If you tell me the ostensibly you will be running I can further help you on the edits to be done to the file. (editing the vold.fstab file will allow the phone and apps to recognize your partitioned sd card in the same way it usually sees you internal sd.)
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I will install Jb PA v2.11
Any help?
Ok guys the SD Card Storage is not detected.
I cant see the SD CARD with anything. I be able to see the internal memory with a file browser but the phone is not detecting neither the SD CARD or the External Micro SD.
is there a fix for this?
Without the SD CARD I cant root or load ROMS....
Any help I will appreciate
SVLAN said:
I will install Jb PA v2.11
Any help?
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Here is the vold.fstab file for jb roms, however if you aren't using the external sd install I mentioned you shouldn't need it, if so just paste this over the existing file in /system/etc.
Thanks mate but I cant install any roms because the phone cant read the SD Card :crying:
Hopefully this isn't your issue but if it is, here is a workaround for EU bug. It says captivate but its the same for vibe.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21439417
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icoltsfan94 said:
I had a very similar situation with my vibrant and treated it as the eu bug, get an external sd, partition it and install Rom from stock recovery, depending on the type of rom you are wanting to run, you will have to make a modification to the vold.fstab file. If you tell me the ostensibly you will be running I can further help you on the edits to be done to the file. (editing the vold.fstab file will allow the phone and apps to recognize your partitioned sd card in the same way it usually sees you internal sd.)
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Can I do with the frojo stock and then odin the stock frojo after editing?
samsgun357 said:
Hopefully this isn't your issue but if it is, here is a workaround for EU bug. It says captivate but its the same for vibe.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21439417
sent from the depths of helly bean
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I would use this method if I didnt had any problems at frojo stock. If the phone cant read the SD card then means I wont be able to root or do anything in the phone as it wont read the SD card. :crying:
What problems are you having with froyo?
When you Odin to stock 2.1 eclair, it passes but doesn't boot correct....?
When you flash eugenes froyo via Odin, have you tried mounting internal SD in recovery?
sent from the depths of helly bean
samsgun357 said:
What problems are you having with froyo?
When you Odin to stock 2.1 eclair, it passes but doesn't boot correct....?
When you flash eugenes froyo via Odin, have you tried mounting internal SD in recovery?
sent from the depths of helly bean
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Im on Eclair right now mate, I got it this far but It just wont read neither the SD Card or the EXT Card....
Any solutions for this?
Thanks mate
samsgun357 said:
What problems are you having with froyo?
When you Odin to stock 2.1 eclair, it passes but doesn't boot correct....?
When you flash eugenes froyo via Odin, have you tried mounting internal SD in recovery?
sent from the depths of helly bean
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Ok I put the Eugene Frojo again to try formatting the sd card and I got this when I attempted
Code:
Your Storage is not ready yet, please use UI menu for format and reboot actions.
Why are you trying to format the SD card? How are you trying it (in Rom Manager or on PC). Either way, STOP!!! That is part of what is messing things up. The ROM Manager format and partition options do not work correctly.
What is it that you are ultimately trying to do? Please don't say "seeing storage". That is a symptom of the problem. It seems that you are trying too many things at once. What is your goal here and once we know that, it will be better for us to diagnose your problem.
Woodrube said:
Why are you trying to format the SD card? How are you trying it (in Rom Manager or on PC). Either way, STOP!!! That is part of what is messing things up. The ROM Manager format and partition options do not work correctly.
What is it that you are ultimately trying to do? Please don't say "seeing storage". That is a symptom of the problem. It seems that you are trying too many things at once. What is your goal here and once we know that, it will be better for us to diagnose your problem.
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Hello mate, all Im trying to do is to access the SD Card so I can put the update file to root and the roms I want to flash. Another thing is I cant install anything because is not detecting the Internal SD card. I cant even take photos because the same reason. and due to this same reason is not detectting neither the external micro sd.

[Q] formatting SD card

hello, i have a question. what will happen if i format my SD card? will it disturb my android system? i have unlocked bootloader + root.
ahmadfauzan011 said:
hello, i have a question. what will happen if i format my SD card? will it disturb my android system? i have unlocked bootloader + root.
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No... It wouldn't affect the custom ROM and the system root(apart from the themes on MIUI)
but the apps saved on sd card won't open...
PREDATOR95 said:
Yup... It wouldn't affect the custom ROM and the system root(apart from the themes on MIUI)
but the apps saved on sd card won't open...
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what should i do? i need to format my sd card.
ahmadfauzan011 said:
what should i do? i need to format my sd card.
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backup the entire sd card on PC first. now format ur SD card. Restore android_secure and Android folder ( i think there are some necessary files inside this for the ROM even though im not so sure )
now try restarting. if the ROM isnt rebooting Restore all from backup in pc into the rom and then restart again.
I would advise u have a card reader before u try this method.
Cheers :highfive:
MoonBlade said:
backup the entire sd card on PC first. now format ur SD card. Restore android_secure and Android folder ( i think there are some necessary files inside this for the ROM even though im not so sure )
now try restarting. if the ROM isnt rebooting Restore all from backup in pc into the rom and then restart again.
I would advise u have a card reader before u try this method.
Cheers :highfive:
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thanks for the instructions. but, will it affect the Super User?
ahmadfauzan011 said:
thanks for the instructions. but, will it affect the Super User?
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na dont think so
MoonBlade said:
na dont think so
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okay, i'll try it. thanks 4 the info.
Or just move all apps to phone memory and format the sd card...
It will not affect SuperUser because SU is stored in system internal memory
PREDATOR95 said:
Or just move all apps to phone memory and format the sd card...
It will not affect SuperUser because SU is stored in system internal memory
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oh. New things ! haha. btw, thanks 4 the info. i'll try it tonight.
how about do a cwm back-up, then a titanium back-up, then copy the clockworkmod folder and the titaniumbackup folder to you computer, then format your SD card, then copy the clockworkmod and titaniumbackup folders from computer to the newly formatted SD card, then perform a restore on both cwm and titanium?
I havent tried this yet though...

[Q] zip custom rom not detected in cwm

hi ,
I have unloked boat loader in my phone p765 , then I want to install a custom room from cwm, I put the cusrom zip file in external sd card not in folder . but after being in the cwm menu I can not find the file
is there anything that can help me
have you selected the option to install zip from external sd ? as there are two options one is to install from sd and second is external sd.
varun.katoch said:
have you selected the option to install zip from external sd ? as there are two options one is to install from sd and second is external sd.
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yes , i choose install zip from external sd card, but I did not find the zip file that I put in there , when I tried to do a wipe data, I also did not find anything in there
Adunk Thok said:
yes , i choose install zip from external sd card, but I did not find the zip file that I put in there , when I tried to do a wipe data, I also did not find anything in there
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Are you using CWM touch?
Yes I am use cwm support touch ... How I can fix this problem
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Adunk Thok said:
Yes I am use cwm support touch ... How I can fix this problem
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I dont think you can, just use another recovery. I have the same problem with cwm touch it does not show any zip files in external or internal sd card.

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