X10 [/data/media] / [/sdcard] wiped & not available?! - XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Alright, starting here in this thread you can see what I've tried to fix this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43218631#post43218631
My internal sdcard has been wiped and is no longer available in CWM or the OS. Have tried multiple ftf flashes from stock 2.1, 2.3 and CM10 but no luck. If I have an external sdcard in the phone while flashing it uses that as the internal space, but it's not seeing the flash memory that should be available in the actual device.
Everything works 'fine' without that space available, just that file explorers can't see it, camera can't take pictures, about what you may expect.
Anybody experience anything similar?
Been around Android a long time now and quite familiar with the ins-and-outs but this has me stumped.
Thanks!

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Try Another Rom My Friend

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Ronald G V A said:
Try Another Rom My Friend
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It's definitely not just a ROM install issue as I've tried 3 or 4 different ones now and they don't fix the underlying issue.
Need to properly repartition my internal sdcard so it's visible to recovery/Android.

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seanpr123 said:
It's definitely not just a ROM install issue as I've tried 3 or 4 different ones now and they don't fix the underlying issue.
Need to properly repartition my internal sdcard so it's visible to recovery/Android.
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jaja ok Senior Member All as you said (Y)

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I tried another ROM and kernel, no luck.
Anybody else have any thoughts/suggestions?
Please please

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Please, anybody else have any input?
Stuck in the mud here... :-\

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Hi there, if been wondering the same things and i almost sure how it works and that particular service is set from the services in one of the .rc files but we doesnt seem to have it.
Its about a binary and needs to be set from the kernels ramdisk.
This is what i found so far on info about it.
the /system/bin/sdcard binary, which mounts the /data/media folder at /mnt/sdcard and does some magic with the user/group ids. from one of the
/init.????.rc files.
This i saw in another devices .rc file.
# create virtual SD card at /mnt/sdcard, based on the /data/media directory
# deamon will drop to user/group system/media_rw after initializing
# underlying files in /data/media wil be created with user and group media_rw (1023)
service sdcard /system/bin/sdcard /data/media 1023 1023
class late_start
If i have some time i will try to set that services in x10i ramdisk with kernel to see if that will work.
Sent from my x10i

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Danny23 said:
Hi there, if been wondering the same things and i almost sure how it works and that particular service is set from the services in one of the .rc files but we doesnt seem to have it.
Its about a binary and needs to be set from the kernels ramdisk.
If i have some time i will try to set that services in x10i ramdisk with kernel to see if that will work.
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Not really following that, what are you suggesting I try?
Simply a new kernel or something else?

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QUOTE=seanpr123;43754685]Not really following that, what are you suggesting I try?
Simply a new kernel or something else?[/QUOTE]
I am sorry it still not 100% clear to me.
But you need a new ramdisk inside the kernel.
And the framework-res.apk storage-list.xml needs also to be edited and recovery.fstab and vold.fstab.
And a file which we dont have some devices have it and i got it from Google search.
Its a file named "vold.conf".
I did these mods and cwm recovery is acting weird crying about log but some new options apeared and roms stil boots.
Here are few pictures of it with my gtn-n7000.
Sent from my x10i