Okay, so I'm currently on the SnowJB ROM and that ROM can access my SD card. But I want to go back to the Nocturnal ROM(I'm kind of torn between the two ROMS). Only problem is Nocturnal cannot mount the SD card. I tried both version 1.5 and 1.3 and neither of them work. I went into the settings and clicked "Mount SD card" but I get a notification telling me that it's safe to remove my SD care(Unmounted)
And I also tried to install the Slick ROM and that couldn't read the SD card either. So I restored my SnowJB ROM and it can read it. So I'm totally clueless on this. SnowJB is the only ROM that can mount the SD card... Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? Any help at all would be much appreciated.
How is it formatted? Did you format it in the snowjb ROM?
gunnyman said:
How is it formatted? Did you format it in the snowjb ROM?
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I don't remember doing anything to it while I was on SnowJB. It just... Worked. It was formatted in the FAT32 format. Now formatting it using exFAT. Doubt it'll work, but it's worth the shot. Just got done trying the Stock AT&T rom(with root) and that wouldn't recognize the SD card either.
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Fixed it... It was a pain though. Had to use the LGNPST thing to return my phone to factory settings(no root/locked bootloader) then had to re-root.
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problem is my tbolt won't mount a sd card in bootloader, recovery or the rom. I've tried multiple sd cards, even one that's working fine in my evo 4g. i would like to return the phone to stock if this is a hardware issue so i can take advantage of warranty but as far as i know i have to have an sd card for that. is there a way to return to stock or flash everything with adb while avoiding the sd card?
Is your SD card formatted fat32?
cam30era said:
Is your SD card formatted fat32?
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yes all sd cards i've tried (4 total) are formatted fat32 and all are recognized by my evo 4g and my cdma hero. when any of them are put into the tbolt android recognizes their presence but deems them as blank or not using the correct file system. within cwm none of the cards can be mounted. I've also tried placing a PG05IMG.zip containing stock everything on the sdcard to try to flash via the bootloader but it seems like it looks for the zip and doesn't recognize it. is there anything else i should try or is this a lost cause? thanks for the reply btw.
Try a factory reset?
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Try a factory reset?
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not yet but only because it's not my phone and the owner needs it for work. there's currently no guaranty i can get a rom back on there once i've wiped/factory reset.
Hey,
I'm unable to access the SD card via any form once im booted into the ROM.
I can view the SD card in CMW and read from it.
The SD card is accessible via a USB cable when unmounted.
I have flashed the phone with several different ROMs.
I have formatted the SD card
I have tried different SD card
All have the same result, unable access when in the ROM.
Has this happened to anyone else?
Any idea on how to troubleshoot further or ideally, anyone know a fix?
Hope you can help!
Cheers,
Will
Speedy_Will said:
Hey,
I'm unable to access the SD card via any form once im booted into the ROM.
I can view the SD card in CMW and read from it.
The SD card is accessible via a USB cable when unmounted.
I have flashed the phone with several different ROMs.
I have formatted the SD card
I have tried different SD card
All have the same result, unable access when in the ROM.
Has this happened to anyone else?
Any idea on how to troubleshoot further or ideally, anyone know a fix?
Hope you can help!
Cheers,
Will
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Internal or external? What ROMs?
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Are you looking in local/mnt/sd-ext???
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Internal or external? What ROMs?
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I'm referring to external as in the SD card
rusreid said:
Are you looking in local/mnt/sd-ext???
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looking in mnt/sdcard
sd-ext does not even appear?
I think it would be smart to tell us what rom your on
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Javi97100 said:
I think it would be smart to tell us what rom your on
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Apologies, Currently I'm using CM7, however i have attempted to use Aura and Gingerblur with the same result.
i too am having the same issue. i am on whatever teh official .91 is. phone is unlocked/rooted. no special rom here yet. about to flash ninja .04.....
just curious if there is any fix out there that tells the phone to use it....
no one else experiencing this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated..
some more info, if I attempt to mount SD card in CM recovery I get the following error:
E: Unable to write to ums Iunfile (No such file or directory)
The external SD card in CM7 is at mnt/emmc not mnt/sd-ext.
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.
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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.
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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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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
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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
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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.....
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
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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
I am running Nils P 5.6 Business ICS ROM with the GB fw (old fw) patch. I S-OFF'd earlier today and flashed the jb_hboot when it asked me if I wanted to flash it during the process. Now my SD card is completely absent from inside the ROM. I was reading in another thread that I need to do the SD card fix, but that is only if S-OFF wipes my SD CARD. However, if I boot into recovery, I can mount my SDcard to windows just fine. I can even flash something else from the sd card if i want to. I tried wiping my the ROM and reflashing it to start fresh to see if my SD card would show up and it's still missing. Any ideas?
Edit: to be clear when I S-OFF'd (not sure if this matters) I used the 3.14.605.5 JuoponutBear's tool running Nils 4.3 Business ICS Sense which had the 3.14.605.5 base and it only took my one try. I know the instructions said to be on a stock ROM...
Did you try to mount your SD card while in the ROM.
Yeah, it only mounts the internal storage.
Format it in the rom
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Format it in the rom
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How? When I go to Settings -> Storage under 'SD card' it says Total Space "Unavailable" and then directly under that it says 'Available' "Unavailable" and then the next 4 options are greyed out.
Put it in an adapter and see what your computer does with it. If you can format it there do so...then if you're phone doesn't recognize it you can rule out the physical sd card from possible issues.
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Put it in an adapter and see what your computer does with it. If you can format it there do so...then if you're phone doesn't recognize it you can rule out the physical sd card from possible issues.
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I have and I've done that. I have a little microSD USB adapter and when I stick my SDcard in that it mounts to windows perfectly. To be clear, I had my spare SDcard in my phone when I ran the S-OFF tool but my normal SDcard was working in the ROM before I attempted S-OFF.
Edit: My spare SD did get picked up in my ROM as "Damaged" after S-OFF. I tried to format it inside the ROM and it said "Erasing SDCARD" but it didn't actually do anything. I couldn't mount it with my microSD usb adapter either. I booted into recovery and partitioned it inside Amon Ra and then was able to mount it using my microSD USB adapter but it doesn't show up in my ROM either.
Which hboot did you install
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Yeah i fixed it, i had the wrong hboot.
Ok, I have tried the CM10 rom and the Paranoid Android rom. Here is my question, I formatted my SD card with my phone while using Beans V2 rom (assuming exfat?) and the first time I flashed CM10 it said my SD card was damaged and I had to reformat. I just flashed PA and I took my SD card out until I was running PA and then when I put the card in it said damaged. I restored to Beans V2 and it still says my card is damaged. What are CM based roms doing to my card? What is the solution to this? Formatting on a CM based rom? Thanks
Ok, I can't format the card on the CM based rom. So is the solution to format on my computer first? Fat32?
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I am having the same problem as you with, coming from Beans to Phandroid. Now, I cannot seem to mount the Internal or External SD, either using MTP, Mass Storage or Clockwork, What did I do wrong!?
I don't know exactly what is wrong with you're card because I would assume that it would be fine once you went back to beans but I can at least confirm that fat32 on my 64g is working fine with paranoid android.
must be formatted to fat32...read section 3 of my guide!
Yup. Figured it out. Thanks guys. I'm still not sure why CM based ROMs would corrupt the card but I guess that's for another day.
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i'm glad it's fixed.