On an S2 i9100, CWM recovery suddenly does not offer a choice of the SD card to flash a zip file from. All it does offer braised sideloading is:
sdcard/0 and
sdcard/opp
neither of which are anywhere on the sd card or internal memory.
Any helpful suggestions will be appreciated.
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Hi all, I have a wierd issue with CWM. When I tries to apply an update by choosing the zip file in CWM recovery mode, it can't access the external SD card (external_sd) directory. It kept saying no files found. But the SD card can be accessed fine while in android, just not in recovery mode. Any idea what could be causing the issue? I'm on the latest cognition rom.
You should put the update on your phone internal Sd storage. Thats how CWM always works with my devices.
Yea.. thats what I had to do. But I would still want to fix the issue. It was working before and I've always flashed the zip from external SD card.
Again i have never seen CWM recovery with external drive as an option not ever since SGS1 .
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hello.
i don't have sd card in my SGS I9100G, but I'd like to root the phone soon.
I read few threads in here, they required me to install the .zip files in sd card.
Is it possible for me to install the .zip in internal memory instead in sd card?
hello.
i don't have sd card in my SGS I9100G, but I'd like to root the phone soon.
I read few threads in here, they required me to install the .zip files in sd card.
Is it possible for me to install the .zip in internal memory instead in sd card?
Yes, a lot of the time sdcard refers to internal memory. An external SD card is never required.
For flashing with a zip file (over cwm), the zip file have to reside on internal usb storage !!
For restore and backup purposes it is better you have no sd-card, because the actual cwm have problems with sd cards.
cwm V 4.* ==> no problems
cwm V 5.* ==> problems (kitchen doesnt work 100%, backup/restore problems)
If you are using a sd-card, you will get problems with cwm 5.*
thanks guys,
i thought the one they referring the sd card is for ext sd card.
thanks again guys for quick response
Hi
Trying to install custom Rom from CWM recovery but there isn't any zip file there?
see the photos...
format sd card both in NTFS & FAT32 but no result, the sd card is detected and work but doesn't appear in CWM...!!!
any help?
It's not under /legacy? If not, then either try a different recovery or put the rom zip on the internal storage vs external if you have both.
So i have this little question. If i install my sd card as internal storage can i then still flash custom roms? I was thinking maybe the sd card will think my phone is a different one if i install a custom rom?
Thanks
Good question.
I'm currently using my SD card as adopted storage in CM13 and TWRP is able to see files on the SD card just fine.
However, after flashing the ROM, I'm not sure if Android will pick up that the card is adopted storage and just pull in the apps, or if it will make you format the SD card. I would think that the latter would only apply after a wipe of /data, but hopefully someone can chime in with actual experience on the matter.