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I just created a ext3 partition for my sd and it got screwed the phone couldnt recognise it said it has corrupted. ended up formatting it through phone now my firmwares screwed cant mount sd, keeps rebooting and not able to use the notification bar (TRIPMIUI mod by cf) now im reflashing my FW throuugh SEUS. Lost all my contacts and messages. Can somebody tell me where did i go wrong to cause this landslide of BULL?
- formatting sd should go first Fat32 then the remaining space go to ext2/ext3..
- both should be formatted in primary. The phone need to read the fat32, those ext2/ext3 are for the system link which only work after the phone boot up normally.
- Full backup is always a good way to prevent any unwanted landslide of fire...
I have the same issue. Partitioned my SD card and my phone could not find it after. I also tried to resize my fat32 partition with data on it along with a ext3 partition to see if it would find my sd card but had no luck making it work.
farsight73 said:
- formatting sd should go first Fat32 then the remaining space go to ext2/ext3..
- both should be formatted in primary. The phone need to read the fat32, those ext2/ext3 are for the system link which only work after the phone boot up normally.
- Full backup is always a good way to prevent any unwanted landslide of fire...
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If you want to start over, reformat your SD card with this:
http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/
For some reason, some of the custom roms do not recognize the SD card after you've created partitions. Reformat and try again.
Even when I reformat my sd card the phone does not detect it. I believe that its because of my ext3 partition. seems like the phone reads the 2nd partition (ext3) as the main partition of the sd card.
Where does the android system determine which partition is the main one?
There must be some type of script that tells the system what partition to look for. Am I right?
If there is then maybe we could mod the script so it, always reads from a certain position first.
Anybody know anything about something like this?
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If you want to start over, reformat your SD card with this:
http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/
For some reason, some of the custom roms do not recognize the SD card after you've created partitions. Reformat and try again.
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Follow this thread.... this works fine....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=SD_card_partitioning
Thanks, I will try that and see how it works out.
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since u seem to be using froyo rom u do not need additional partition of ext2/3 on sdcard... app2sd is already implemented in most 2.2 roms and work with fat32 partition of sdcard without any issues...
sd card not recognized after installing 2.2
please i need some help.. my phone wont recognize my sd card after i installed 2.2 froyo custo rom.. and one more thing, i used the backup/restore on xrecovery but it says mismatch
i have done the samething but... i choosed the ext2 instead of ext3 try that? maybe it will help and remember to set up both as "primary" goodluck.
microsd not recognized
follow the second post on the thread ------ >>>>> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=12183416#post12183416
hope it helps
cheers
i tried to reformat my sd card.. i used card reader to insert my sdcard
and used mini tool partition wizard but still no luck.. it jut says there that "bad disk"
please need some help..
thanks.. hope it will work..
shahkam said:
i have done the samething but... i choosed the ext2 instead of ext3 try that? maybe it will help and remember to set up both as "primary" goodluck.
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thanks bro.. so you mean to reformat my sd card? but how about the files and programs i have saved into that sd card? wud that be erased?
edit: already found a way
i used other sdcard then i reflash my phone back to 2.1 using update service.. and it works..
and yehey, it reads my old sdcard.. tnx to all
i used mini partition tool and created two partitions, both are primary and fat32.
But when i restart my phone the phone,
it is displaying "damaged sd card, you may need to reformat it"
plz any one reply fast!!
wrong section
and your gonna have to format sd card
ok sorry,but how to create two partitions and make the card acceptable by our device.
plz help.i'm a beginner
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i saw some other posts also,but they din't cover this prob and also i tried by creating one fat32 part. and one ext2 part.
mvmsk said:
ok sorry,but how to create two partitions and make the card acceptable by our device.
plz help.i'm a beginner
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i saw some other posts also,but they din't cover this prob and also i tried by creating one fat32 part. and one ext2 part.
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Best way to create two particions is the method with CWM
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Make 2 part. Both primary but 1 fat32 and other ext3
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well, it didn't workout with minitool so i created with cwm
Pretty sure you were using usb mode while partitioning it.. right?
redlag said:
Preety sure you were using usb cable to partition it.. right?
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lol
how did you know ? is that the problem with mini tool
mvmsk said:
lol
how did you know ? is that the problem with mini tool
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I use card reader for patition.
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mvmsk said:
lol
how did you know ? is that the problem with mini tool
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Nope. Usb mode doesn't allow for full unmounting. So formatting in usb mode will leave your memory card partially corrupted. Use card reader/cwm.
redlag said:
Nope. Usb mode doesn't allow for full unmounting. So formatting in usb mode will leave your memory card partially corrupted. Use card reader/cwm.
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yes dude...done it using cwm
By pure accident I formatted the internal sd card on my atrix to ntfs. The problem is I cant seem to mount it in order to format it back to fat32. Any ideas?
How do you 'accidently' format the internal SD to ntfs???
How did I 'accidentally' format the internal sd card. Had an external sd card in, which for some reason was named to mot as well. Wasn't paying to much attention and wanted to format the external one to ntfs but must have clicked on the internal one.
That sucks d00d. If it was the external card - you could use a card reader and your PC to reformat.... Idk what to tell ya about the internal.... Maybe someone who's done this and fixed it could chip in with some info here? I did a quick search on it, and didnt turn up with anything... Sorry I can't help ya man.
Connect your phone to your PC, and format the card to fat32 the same way you did it to NTFS.
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I tried to do that, but the problem is it wont mount. It says sd card damaged you may have to reformat it. But when I click that it says "sd card has been removed"
Try using CWM recovery to format the internal sd card.
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thanks. I tried this ealier and get this message
"formatting /sdcard...
Error mounting /sdcard!
Skipping format...
Done."
sebbo90 said:
thanks. I tried this ealier and get this message
"formatting /sdcard...
Error mounting /sdcard!
Skipping format...
Done."
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Try formatting sd-ext or internal storage rather than /sdcard. Don't format anything like /osh, /data, /system, /cache etc.
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Thanks, I tried what you suggested but with no luck
thanks to everyone who helped. I managed to fix it. So for anyone else who as this problem:
Fastboot erase sdcard
then boot into windows and it will tell you to format
format and happy days
Help with Fast Boot-SD
Hello sir,
i have quite a problem. I have read you had the same with formating internal SD card.
I missedclick on the wrong drive then i formated it to NTFS
Can you please help me with that and tell me how exactly i can undo this horrible mistake
I have instaled Fast boot for the first time. Never used it before. So can you tell me what i should do from now please
Thanks
fomat internal sd card to ntfs
hi,
I made the same mistake - fomat my internal sd card to ntfs.
I have cm-9-20120618-NIGHTLY-galaxys2.zip install on my galaxy s2.
I dont know if bootloader is install and how to boot device into bootloader.
can anyone please guide my how to "Fastboot erase sdcard "?
thanks
conect your phone via usb and try with gparted... or with "hp formattool"
Any other ideas????
thanks, but it tried that already and didn't work.
Any other ideas????
berry.zevel said:
hi,
I made the same mistake - fomat my internal sd card to ntfs.
I have cm-9-20120618-NIGHTLY-galaxys2.zip install on my galaxy s2.
I dont know if bootloader is install and how to boot device into bootloader.
can anyone please guide my how to "Fastboot erase sdcard "?
thanks
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Go to your device forum. People there are more likely to know and help you on how to solve your problem. The solution I will give is a Atrix only solution. I believe samsung has a software of the name "odin" but you have to check with the people in your phone forum.
berry.zevel said:
thanks, but it tried that already and didn't work.
Any other ideas????
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Maybe you can try flashing a SBF. Make sure you know what you are doing, and flash the full one, some SBF leaves your internal SD untouched.
Hello xda members. I have a problem with my sd card. Tried to repartition in cmw and something went wrong. Now I can only connect sd card to computer is to mount in recovery. Also it shows that sd capacity is 2.9gb instead of 4gb. I cant transfer any files to sd card because they didisappears. I have searched in forums, tried everything, nothing helps:crying:. Please help me
Format the sd card and start again. Don't mess with partitioning this time.
already formatted with fat32. Doesn't work
username_lt said:
Hello xda members. I have a problem with my sd card. Tried to repartition in cmw and something went wrong. Now I can only connect sd card to computer is to mount in recovery. Also it shows that sd capacity is 2.9gb instead of 4gb. I cant transfer any files to sd card because they didisappears. I have searched in forums, tried anything, nothing helps:crying:. Please help me
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As a rule of the thumb please don't use CWW for partitioning your sd card as it cause errors. Try a tool called minitool. Use it to repartition your sd card with your card reader and computer. Then format it to FAT 32 file system. Hope it works for you !
texasranger770 said:
As a rule of the thumb please don't use CWW for partitioning your sd card as it cause errors. Try a tool called minitool. Use it to repartition your sd card with your card reader and computer. Then format it to FAT 32 file system. Hope it works for you !
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tried mini tool partition wizard. I doesn't help:crying: it shows that I don't have any partitions except fat32 which is 2.9 gb size. And I can't apply changes. When i scan for errors it doesn't find any :crying:
Any other suggestions?
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Any other suggestions?
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The official organizaction that designates the SD card standards has a tool for formatting SD cards called SD Formatter which can be found here https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/. Make sure select the full format option.
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shimp208 said:
The official organizaction that designates the SD card standards has a tool for formatting SD cards called SD Formatter which can be found here https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/. Make sure select the full format option.
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SD card formatter also didn't help. It still shows 2.9gb available storage and I can't copy anything
Maybe there is hidden corrupted partition and some programs cannot see it. In recovery I can't mount sd ext. Maybe problems are with this partition?
username_lt said:
Maybe there is hidden corrupted partition and some programs cannot see it. In recovery I can't mount sd ext. Maybe problems are with this partition?
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Another suggestion would be to try using the gparted disk partitioning utility if you have linux you can download it from here gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php or use a live CD/USB version of it http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php.
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shimp208 said:
Another suggestion would be to try using the gparted disk partitioning utility if you have linux you can download it from here gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php or use a live CD/USB version of it http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php.
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How to use gparted? I am using windows7
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How to use gparted? I am using windows7
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I would recommend taking a look at these two tutorials on how to use gparted:
http://www.ehow.com/how_4442619_use-gparted-live-cd-partition.html
www.dedoimedo.com/computers/gparted.html#mozTocId661277
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shimp208 said:
I would recommend taking a look at these two tutorials on how to use gparted:
http://www.ehow.com/how_4442619_use-gparted-live-cd-partition.html
www.dedoimedo.com/computers/gparted.html#mozTocId661277
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Is there any possibility that it will harm my computer?
username_lt said:
Is there any possibility that it will harm my computer?
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As long as you just reformat the SD card and not any of your other hard drive partitions it will not harm your computer.
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I use EaseUs professional edition for my PC, but they have a freeware version you could try for your SD card: I can't post links yet, but if you search google for EaseUS Partition Master home edition, you should find the link to download it.
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I use EaseUs professional edition for my PC, but they have a freeware version you could try for your SD card: I can't post links yet, but if you search google for EaseUS Partition Master home edition, you should find the link to download it.
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Tried didn't help. Now I will try gparted
gparted doesn't boot from cd. What can I try now?
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gparted doesn't boot from cd. What can I try now?
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Make sure under the bios setup options you have CD as first boot device rather then the hard drive this should allow you to boot the gparted live CD.
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Any other suggestions?
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There is at least a loss of 800 MB. Using mini tool see if there are unused space. Try these steps:
1) First of all delete all the entire existing partitions .
2) Then create a single partition .
3) Perform a full low level format using FAT 32 file system.
4) See if this works otherwise your sd card has got bad sectors which might be unrecoverable even using scandisk
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There is at least a loss of 800 MB. Using mini tool see if there are unused space. Try these steps:
1) First of all delete all the entire existing partitions .
2) Then create a single partition .
3) Perform a full low level format using FAT 32 file system.
4) See if this works otherwise your sd card has got bad sectors which might be unrecoverable even using scandisk
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I think it is bad sectors because I already tried that
My Internal SD card has broken,and all swapping solutions are not work in android 4.4
obenzorro said:
My Internal SD card has broken,and all swapping solutions are not work in android 4.4
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Have you tried formatting it to restore it first? It will delete everything on there, but will keep you an SD card
wkenworthy10 said:
Have you tried formatting it to restore it first? It will delete everything on there, but will keep you an SD card
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I tried to formatting internal SD card in recovery mode,but it can't be mounted.
obenzorro said:
I tried to formatting internal SD card in recovery mode,but it can't be mounted.
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There is hope. I can link all the files to you later because I'm busy now, but I can tell you the way. I'm assuming you already have Odin and all the stock .pda and .tar files. So first flash the .pit and .tar and then flash the .pit and a file called dbdata which should be everywhere if you look for it. The dbdata file should mount your system and fix that problem. Also make sure you have re-format checked. If I remember right just playing around with those helped me with the same problem. I think the dbdata didn't work the first few tries then I tried something else and it worked
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Someone in another thread had close to the same problem, this method might wipe your sd, it might not I can't remember, but I don't think it should.
Here is where you can find all the stock files
Here is the dbdata file
EDIT: You should probably also know this will put you one pure-unrooted-straight from the factory-stock.
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wkenworthy10 said:
Someone in another thread had close to the same problem, this method might wipe your sd, it might not I can't remember, but I don't think it should.
Here is where you can find all the stock files
Here is the dbdata file
EDIT: You should probably also know this will put you one pure-unrooted-straight from the factory-stock.
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I tried to flash JFD & dbdata.rfs(use odin3) without external SD card,it doesn't work.When it restart ,there is a error: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
I think my Internal SD card has broken,so the only way is swapping external and internal SD card. Now the question is i don't konw how to swap them in Android 4.4,all the old ways have failed.
In android 2.3~4.2 ,I swap them by edit /system/etc/vold.fstab
In android 4.3,vold.fstab has gone,I swap them by edit /system/build.prop
But in android 4.4, it also doesn't work
obenzorro said:
In android 2.3~4.2 ,I swap them by edit /system/etc/vold.fstab
In android 4.3,vold.fstab has gone,I swap them by edit /system/build.prop
But in android 4.4, it also doesn't work
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can you point me to how you did the swap for 4.3. Thanks in advance!