I'm the 4 genie and I'm extremely frustrated with my evo. While fixing separate issues, I tried flashing something and now it's got an error that E: sdcard (the evo's internal memory) won't mount. It's corrupted i think
It just sticks on the splash screen when I boot up, but the bootloader's and recovery are still here
So far, I've tried formatting it with several programs on both a mac and pc. I tried moving and copying files from the sd card to the internal "sdcards."
I am so sick of this phone, it's caused nothing but problems (first one i got had signal issues, this one ran slow and got even worse signals when i upgraded to JB).
I'm on TWRP 2.5.5. S-ON, HBoot 1.19
Please help me resolve this problem.
I am having the exact same problem. From what I've found on the rest of the internets it seems like we need to reformat (preferably with windows). But I only have a mac so I havent tried that yet.
You guys can try something like this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1917106
If you don't like the phone, then just trade it in or buy another. Coming on and saying how much you hate the phone isn't going to do anything.
That being g said, you probably had a bad flash and it corrupted the internal ( like you said). Most of us have done it at least once. Format the drive, and there you go. That's what fixed it for me, and usually what works. It won't fix your distaste for the phone, though, or your signal issues.
Sense ROMs tend to have better signal than others with my phone. The Sense 5 port is pretty nice, but there are plenty of others that work well. If you've tried the sense ROMs already, then go with AOSP. Some people have better luck with those.
If you still don't like it, then get a phone you do like... Hell, I'd be happy to send you $50 for the phone if you don't want it, I could use another to play with...
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How do we format the drive if nothing can SEE the drive? The same thing happened to me. I can't get to the internal sd card.
Every time I had the memory corrupt it was from a viper dirty flash. All I ever did was wipe both caches a factory reset wipe security them mount internal to my PC and format. If this is still at no avail then I would wipe internal storage and let TWRP format the drive for me. I have never had both methods fail. The corruption of the internal storage is why every dev insists a full wipe and factory reset after flashing a new Rom
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nolageek said:
How do we format the drive if nothing can SEE the drive? The same thing happened to me. I can't get to the internal sd card.
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TWRP will see the drive.
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ugh, gotta get this working so i can get a trade in credit toward my iphone 5s
Interesting issue. I've fixed the issue on other EVO LTE's simply by mounting internal storage while connected to a PC, then formatting it. I can't think of a reason this wouldn't work for you:what:
ok, i've mounted it to the computer as mass storage several times on 4 different computers and formatted it, but to no avail
at the top, it will only mount the sd ext card..... maybe i've mounted it wrong? where do i mount it?
also, the micro sd card is the only thing it wants to read... is there a way to install the ruu (just a stock rom) and boot it from the sd card?
thanks again for the help!
Sorry for the necro, however I had this issue recently and finding very few fixes so thought I'd put something out there.
Now my fix was very simple, so I don't know if this will work for everyone. That being said, the ROM has been buggy now.
Phone: Samsung Galaxy S3 - i9300 (international version)
ROM: Pac-Rom 4.3
Recovery: TWRP
Issue:
when starting phone, it is stuck on the "Samsung Galaxy S III" logo screen.
Troubleshooting:
I was relieved to find that I could boot into recovery (TWRP).
From there my first instinct was to wipe my phone and re-flash the ROM... BUT when I tried wiping, I got an error. The log said something alogn the lines of "cannot mount internal storage" or "internal SD". I can't remember.
So I freaked out thinking my internal flash storage was fried, BUT why is TWRP working then?
I connected a USB cable to my computer to see what happens. Windows 8 picked up the external SD card, but not the internal phone storage.
Fix:
I would usually NEVER flash a ROM without wiping first, but thought I didn't have much else to lose. I tried flashing PAC-ROM 4.3 without the wipe and it said "successful". WTF? I didn't expect that.
I rebooted and everything worked fine. The ROM wasn't stock either, it had all my settings and icons on my home screen in tact.
Since then, the ROM has been buggy. Youtube app disappeared and wouldn't search properly in play store and the apps drawer had all these com. files f or the google apps (this was still there when I re-flashed GApps).
So I was able to save my phone, but had a bunch of issues. I have since flashed to PAC-ROM 4.4 (Kit Kat). I very much miss the PIE controls and Halo, but it is extremely stable.
Here's what I did when I had the same issue. Take out the ext SD card. Then, plug your phone into your PC. Format your phone with windows, it should appear as a flash drive or something like that. After that, I replaced the ext SD, mounted that with TWRP, and formatted that, too.
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This is not an invitation to flaming, as I am under the impression that several people have tha same problem, so I will try to gather solution/suggestions here. I have the problem when trying out the new 4.0.4. ROMs, every single one of them are missing the capability to access the external SD card - rather unfortunate since I use it to store music, to back up with Titanium Backup and back up SMS, among other things. And yes, I have wiped, I have run the kernel cleaning script and wiped again, both a system wipe and cleaned the dalvik cache. Still no luck. Now I am aware that there are tools to mount the SD card, but after trying Multi Mount SD-Card Lite, Mount /system (rw / ro) and Drive Mount from Play Store, I still come up empty, literally. I have had 5 Android phones and all have been equipped with various ROMs, so I usually know what I am doing. I even pulled out tha SD card and wiped it on the computer and then formatted it/partitioned it IN the phone. It is a big shame, since ROMs like AdyScorpius, Omega's v3 and especially DraginICS and the F1 ROM are tempting and stunning looking. Any help? Please??
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This is not an invitation to flaming, as I am under the impression that several people have tha same problem, so I will try to gather solution/suggestions here. I have the problem when trying out the new 4.0.4. ROMs, every single one of them are missing the capability to access the external SD card - rather unfortunate since I use it to store music, to back up with Titanium Backup and back up SMS, among other things. And yes, I have wiped, I have run the kernel cleaning script and wiped again, both a system wipe and cleaned the dalvik cache. Still no luck. Now I am aware that there are tools to mount the SD card, but after trying Multi Mount SD-Card Lite, Mount /system (rw / ro) and Drive Mount from Play Store, I still come up empty, literally. I have had 5 Android phones and all have been equipped with various ROMs, so I usually know what I am doing. I even pulled out tha SD card and wiped it on the computer and then formatted it/partitioned it IN the phone. It is a big shame, since ROMs like AdyScorpius, Omega's v3 and especially DraginICS and the F1 ROM are tempting and stunning looking. Any help? Please??
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Firstly this is in the wrong thread.
Secondly, have you tried going up to the root directory, and making sure it's not under \emmc
I have, and it sometimes is, but isn't this an issue? I mean, as a frequent flasher I am used to ROMs where everything works, so I would say that is in the making of the ROM, which I doubt since the source is a Google project. But even with Directory Bind, I can't link it. It is over my head, I don.t understand why some people have the problem, and most not. And sorry for posting in the wrong forum, can somone move this or close it?
Benny, Denmark
I think most people are used to the SD card being in a different directory now so they don't mention it. For some roms, there is a flashable zip which mounts it back as sdcard/external_sd (or whatever it was called)
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I'm having the same issue. When I restore back to Sense 3.6, my SD is back. Not sure of the issue.
Will not mount. I've went to recovery/Mounts/ and mounted there to no avail.
Also popped out the SD and put it back in, no avail.
When I check my 'Music' it says your content is unavailable because your phone is being used as USB storage. Disconnect USB. -- it's not connected to any USB, oddly.
EDIT: my issue was GB-ICS related and flashed this - http://www.htctweaker.com/RezROM/RezROM_oldfirm_patch.zip for ICS and it fixed my mounting issues.
My tablet has 8GB of onboard storage and is partitioned. 1GB as "tablet memory" and the other 6GB (approx) as an "internal SD" with the remaining for the ROM. Just recently I noticed that the 6GB partition went missing. It is no longer available to me. However, the tablet restarts and loads the ROM just fine. It also loads my external sdcard just fine too. I'm guessing something is wrong with the partition table? Or is the hardware toast?
I figure since the 1GB is still showing up that it isn't a hardware failure, but I'm not sure. I tried reinstalling my ROM, factory resetting, mounting the internal sd and nothing works. What can I do? The tablet is an Ainol Aurora 8GB model running Essential Clean Rom 1.1a. I tried just to forget it and make due with using just the 1GB and my external SD card but when I try to download apps from the Amazon Market it says that there is no SD card (internal) and that I need it. I didn't try Google Play yet...
Update: when i go wipe the system in CWM it says no apps2sd partition found and something about /sdcard .android secure. Does that have anything to do with it?
Try another ROM basically one stock ROM and after try a custom ROM.When you flash the stock ROM use repartition.IMO that's all.I hope this solution work for you.
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Thanks for that. I'll see if restoring the stock rom helps. I doubt it though. I've tried 2 different ones (not stock) and it didn't do anything at all...
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Thanks for that. I'll see if restoring the stock rom helps. I doubt it though. I've tried 2 different ones (not stock) and it didn't do anything at all...
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Hi Andie00, did you ever come to solution to your problem, as I'm experiencing something very similar with CM 10.2 my internal storage just disappear and I can't see it. Otherwise ROM works very well and fast, don't wish to switch to CM 11 which is more buggy in other ways.
Problem gone when I make factory reset/data wipe it worked until next reboot of device.
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UPDATE: I find something interesting, if I remove my external SD card physically from device and than reboot phone, Internal Storage return to where it should be, and if I insert external SD after this, it become available as well and phone see 2 internal storages and external SD card.
If reboot device, in Settings > Storage I see first Internal storage normally, second is blank and external SD is visible.
Any idea why it happens and how it can be fixed?
Problem seems to be solved
answering my own yesterday's question
posting this for anyone who facing similar problem, maybe my experience would be helpful for someone.
I've tried to insert different SD card and reboot with it, and after this my internal storage remained visible. so I plugged my sd card to PC, examined it and moved from it to safe place all files which shouldn't belong there. for example I find out external SD contain .android_secure folder with 1.6gb of remains of old programs, though I never installed them to external SD, also I removed folder Android which contain just empty folders without files.
After this boot with that flash was successful and I can see both internal storages and external SD, and now I can use CM 10.2 on my Samsung gt-i8160 which works blazing fast comparing to stock firmware, phone never was so responsive no matter what I did before!
Hope it can help someone.
I posted this in regards to an old Ainol tablet I had. My "solution" was to put back the stock rom.
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I posted this in regards to an old Ainol tablet I had. My "solution" was to put back the stock rom.
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Thanks for response, Andie00! Glad I don't have to use your solution, so far my phone working better than new on CM10.2
Not sure what kind of disaster I got my self into, but I mistakenly formated the EmmC. (****...) There goes 900+ photos, all my music, and other downloads.
But I can't install a new ROM, because it will no longer mount USB storage. Did I fry something here?
The error
"E:Unable to open ums lunfile (No such fi..."
(It goes beyond my screen and doesn't wrap so I cannot read the rest.)
What? What gives? I need to get the new rom file on their so I can start over like I was originally trying to.
I'm sorry if this is some "super" simple error I am missing. I did google some, but people said just flash a new recovery. Well...I tried ODIN with a another kernel, the first one I ever used. To no avail. I know how to flash with adb on HTC phones, but I can't figure it out with the Galaxy.
[Update] I figure out I can use an external SD card to move a rom over...but the EmmC is still unreadable. Did I blow it up? :/
[Update 2] I was able to recover, MOST, of my photos. It seems my phone decided to just start storing them all on the external card. Woot.
[Bad Update]
Can no longer mount the external SD to attempt to try another rom/kernel. Dammit
[Good update]
Was able to get the emmc to mount again! Yay! I am worried though...is there any chance of damage?
Formatting your internal storage is fine it does nothing at all to the system. Unless you're wiping with stock ics kernel installed. Which everyone who reads and searches before they flash knows not to do. So you should be good to go.
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Good advice given to ya here bud. Glad you got things figured out (at least for the most part!)
Clay
Team Pirate
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Need help/advice. I updated my phone with the newest Fresh Evo LTE 5.3.1 and the radio firmware. And after rebooting...noticed the Damaged Phone Storage notification. At first I thought it was no big deal cause it was the micro sd card. But then I found out it is the data/second partition on the internal phone storage. I tried to erase the phone storage...but that does not work. I am thinking of trying to restore back to stock and hoping the stock image restores the second partition.
Do you know what might of happened? And any options on trying to fix this problem?
You most likely need to reformat it. Best method so far seems to be booting into twrp and mounting the internal sd to PC and formatting it. Unless there's another cause, I don't know of any issues so it would help to wait for someone who has has to deal with anything similar before taking my advice
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You most likely need to reformat it. Best method so far seems to be booting into twrp and mounting the internal sd to PC and formatting it. Unless there's another cause, I don't know of any issues so it would help to wait for someone who has has to deal with anything similar before taking my advice
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Thanks that worked...mounting to my PC in TWRP and formatting. Lost all my pictures and videos...will teach me for not syncing to one of those cloud storage services
Just make it a habit to back up your cards. Its always a good habit to back everything up
this just happened to me after a hard reset...can you show the exact steps i cant seem to figure out how to mount this?
Reboot to TWRP and look for mount, make sure it's set to internal and mount storage, in Windows a dialog should pop up saying that the card needs to be formatted
my phone is samsung a9 . ihave found that my phone storage is reduced from 127 gb to 7.95 gb and my sd card got damaged what can i do for this
hello everyone! first time posting on xda. i've researched everywhere, and yall are my last resort. here it goes........
sprint 4g lte, rooted, s-off, cm10.
somewhere in the processes of rooting and turning s-off, i lost my internal sdcard. can't mount it or reformat it.
my first indicatation something was messed up was when i tried to download a new rom, the phone gave me a message saying "cannot download without a valid sdcard." but i had a 32gb sdcard in it... also when the phone booted up it said something like "process.android.phone has failed." and when i tried to connect my phone as mass storage on my win7 32 bit pc, it wouldn't ever see the sdcard. not even the 32gb external.
i figured it was the jelly bean (or something like that) rom i tried first after rooting. maybe the zip was corrupted or something. i took out my 32gb sd, hooked it up to my computer, downloaded cm10 and gapps, then put it back into my phone, wiped everything and flashed.
that's when i discovered all the errors listed above.
so i figured i would try to do a factory reset. when i try to wipe data/factory rest through cwm recovery, this is what it says... E:format_volume: make_extf4fs failed on /dev/block/mmcblk1p2
i've read about people getting twrp, booting into it, mouting the internal to the pc and reformatting that way. but how can i do that without the internal sd? the same way i got cm10 and gapps?
so all in all i'm pretty lost and pissed off. i'm somewhat droid savvy after having an evo 4g. but this a new beast..... please help!!!
let me know if yall need any more info. thanks in advance!
EDIT: FIXED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i was finally about to flash twrp recovery and dumlock through twrp. i then mounted my internal storage via "mount usb storage." my computer recognized the drive and formatted it! mounted and working great!!
I had this happen too when I was trying to go back to MeanROM from cm10. The problem is that I can't remember what I did to stop it. I was kinda panicking because I thought my phone was toast. I believe I just ran the zip for MeanROM in TWRP, and it came back after it updated to the new ROM.
Have you checked this out? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31091791
Sorry that I couldn't be more help.
Sent from my EVO LTE using xda app
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I had this happen too when I was trying to go back to MeanROM from cm10. The problem is that I can't remember what I did to stop it. I was kinda panicking because I thought my phone was toast. I believe I just ran the zip for MeanROM in TWRP, and it came back after it updated to the new ROM.
Have you checked this out? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31091791
Sorry that I couldn't be more help.
Sent from my EVO LTE using xda app
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i did run across that thread. the first description is a bit too confusing for me. i've tried getting twrp already through the market but it didn't work. usb mass storage won't work for me right now either.
the htc dumlock stuff it a bit over my head. i'm worried as hell right now!
Tried getting TWRP from the market?
You try to fastboot flash TWRP? I would suggest PG75IMG, but you say you don't have any storage. Try to fastboot flash TWRP, then see if you can format internal storage.
(Where is om4,?)
hurled from my AOKP'd Evo LTE. Enjoy.
scottspa74 said:
(Where is om4,?)
hurled from my AOKP'd Evo LTE. Enjoy.
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Where is wileout? DUN DUN DUNNNN....
tacoXRunner said:
hello everyone! first time posting on xda. i've researched everywhere, and yall are my last resort. here it goes........
sprint 4g lte, rooted, s-off, cm10.
somewhere in the processes of rooting and turning s-off, i lost my internal sdcard. can't mount it or reformat it.
my first indicatation something was messed up was when i tried to download a new rom, the phone gave me a message saying "cannot download without a valid sdcard." but i had a 32gb sdcard in it... also when the phone booted up it said something like "process.android.phone has failed." and when i tried to connect my phone as mass storage on my win7 32 bit pc, it wouldn't ever see the sdcard. not even the 32gb external.
i figured it was the jelly bean (or something like that) rom i tried first after rooting. maybe the zip was corrupted or something. i took out my 32gb sd, hooked it up to my computer, downloaded cm10 and gapps, then put it back into my phone, wiped everything and flashed.
that's when i discovered all the errors listed above.
so i figured i would try to do a factory reset. when i try to wipe data/factory rest through cwm recovery, this is what it says... E:format_volume: make_extf4fs failed on /dev/block/mmcblk1p2
i've read about people getting twrp, booting into it, mouting the internal to the pc and reformatting that way. but how can i do that without the internal sd? the same way i got cm10 and gapps?
so all in all i'm pretty lost and pissed off. i'm somewhat droid savvy after having an evo 4g. but this a new beast..... please help!!!
let me know if yall need any more info. thanks in advance!
EDIT: FIXED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i was finally about to flash twrp recovery and dumlock through twrp. i then mounted my internal storage via "mount usb storage." my computer recognized the drive and formatted it! mounted and working great!!
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Same exact thing just happened to me...nada internal storage i can't download a thing. Did you find a fix in the last 4 months??