Running DamageControl 3.2.2. Used quixk boot to boot into recovery and did a nand backup. Upon rebooting the "preparing sd card" message won't go away. Been there for 30 min. Any idea? Is this normal?
Update. When in recovery it sees the zip files on my card...do obviously not a corrupt card. I'll sleep on it an see if its still there in the morning. Sent bug report to damageless.
doesnt sound normal, you try rebooting yet?
Yup. And unseating/reseating the card too.
you try it in another card reader? or another card in the phone? sorry for the basic support route, but youre not giving me much to go on here, did you get the first OTA update? it addressed issues with the sd card
Did the first ota update. Laying in bed so haven't tried card reader. It's not the card because recovery sees the .zip files on the card.
OK...on my pc now..card reader reads contents fine.
OK...so apparently it was something with the nandroid folder. I couldnt delete it from my SD card with my card reader. I also couldnt move it. I reformatted my card, to kill the folder, and dropped everything else back on to the card, and rebooted. It was up for about 10 seconds, then went away. Its odd, but Ive never had nandroid do that to me before.
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I just fully rooted my phone to the OTA 1.32.651.6 last night and everything was working fine. I completed a nandroid backup, updated the radio, and followed everything to a T. I haven't had any issues with my sd card until a few minutes ago when I shut my phone off and turned it back on. Now I am getting a blank SD card error and it is telling me I have to format the card. I don't understand why it was working after I rooted and now all of a sudden it is not. I even did another nandroid backup earlier today. Any help on fixing this would be appreicated.
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I just got home and tried another 8gb sd card and my phone reads it just fine, so it's not the phone. Looks like somehow my SD card got corrupted during the restart. I tried putting my original card in a reader on my computer but in both mac os and windows, it is telling me I need to format the card in order to read it. Is there any other ways you can think of to get my data off of it? Also, since I am in root, is there any files you think I should put back on my memory card if my original one can't be saved?
Can anybody help?
Mine is doing the same thing. A few days after putting the latest Fresh on my phone it suddenly told me that my sd card dismounted and now needs to be formated. Trouble is the phone won't format it and it won't let me do it from my computer. I'm trying to find out what's going on but I don't know that there's anyway to salvage the data. My phone did this once before and I couldn't save anything which sucked, but it still formated the sd card. I'll report back if I find anything.
Okay so i just did pojomans fix to get the .6 2.2 for my evo and i went ahead and formatted my 8 gb sd card for good measure i figured id start with a fresh start.
At first i could not even put a new folder into my sd card i kept getting this error i cant recall but i rebooted my computer and thats working fine now.
But whenever i try to copy back any files from my sd card backup or any file in general i get a data error cyclic redudency check and i cant seem to fix this issue eve with another sd card format
bmtdan said:
Okay so i just did pojomans fix to get the .6 2.2 for my evo and i went ahead and formatted my 8 gb sd card for good measure i figured id start with a fresh start.
At first i could not even put a new folder into my sd card i kept getting this error i cant recall but i rebooted my computer and thats working fine now.
But whenever i try to copy back any files from my sd card backup or any file in general i get a data error cyclic redudency check and i cant seem to fix this issue eve with another sd card format
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I'm inclined to say you may have a bad sector on your computer's harddisk - but this doesn't really explain not being able to create a folder. Were you creating a new folder, or moving (or copying) a folder from your computer?
First, I'd run a disk check on your computer. If that comes up clean, I'd take it to Sprint and ask them to replace your sd card.
This is my first post, and I'm usually pretty careful about following instructions. I'm currently running Skyraider's 3.0 RC2, but to my dismay, I am finding that my phone still refuses to recognize my SD Card. Under settings it says it is unavailable, and when connected to PC, it gives an option to mount to disk but doesn't mount upon selecting this.
My phone is rooted with S-Off and 2.15 radio...Did a full wipe of everything before I flashed 3.0 RC2. Shows that my kernel is now King #2, but I have had this issue with many other roms and kernel combinations. I have been unsuccessful in finding a solution when searching the forums, and the only way to regain functionality is to restore a previous backup without any roms installed.
Any help is much appreciate. Thanks!!!
P.S. I've also tried mounting the card in clockworkmod's advanced recovery settings, but this does not change a thing. Internal storage is also currently unavailable. Mount through usb in recovery does work, but this doesn't help when I cannot access my sd card after boot.
I had a similar issue a couple days ago after upgrading from stock 2.1 to SkyRaider 2.5.2.
When I'd go to set my ringtones, the option for the SD card wasn't there. As if it wasn't reading it was in the phone at all. I opened up Astro file manager to see if it could read it and it in fact did. I could see that all the ringtones were still on the card right where they should be and they would play from Astro when I clicked on them. But, the option to actually set them still wasn't there.
I'm not exactly sure what 'fixed' it, but I went in to set my notification tone and suddenly the option to select from the SD card was there. Then, I could then access the card to set ringers as well. I'm sorry I don't have anything more specific. The card just seemed to suddenly decide to let the OS know it was there. I also rebooted the phone a couple times as well as removing the card while the phone was in use and reinserting it. Not sure if any of that helped the situation or not.
I had asked about this in two separate threads and not one person responded, so I'm guessing the issue is rare.
If you don't get anywhere with it, maybe try a different SD card just to see if it shows up.
Good luck.
I've had the same issue but was able to resolve it. Mount the sd card from a laptop or PC. If you can read the card copy the contents onto the PC (I placed mine in a separate folder). Then go into tools and do an error checking. After replacing the SD card back in the phone see if everything is ok. this fixed my SD card. However, I've had the SD card lose its primary disk notation so I had to reformat and then transfer the previous save files on the SD card from my backup an that solved my other issue. Also, some times the SD card speed can cause this issue and it is perfered that you a class 4 or better. I hope this helps.
Well, I took your advice and pulled the sd card only to mount it separately and scan it for errors. None were found. I've also reformatted and restored all the files that were on it. Phone still does not recognize card or internal storage. My phone did, however, recognize another card I had on hand and I believe it may be a compatibility issue between my 8 Gb A-Data brand Micro SD card and 2.2 roms. FYI...It's a class 6, and the one I tried that was recognized was a 6gb sandisk (class 4). I'll look into getting a 16 or 32 gig sandisk in the near future and keep you posted. Thank you guys for your insight.
always 'safely remove hardware' (stop the device, etc.) from your windows machine before unplugging your incredible
if you don't, you end up not being able to see the SD card until you restart your phone
Just reformatted my SD card, checked for errors after unmounting etc... and now it seems to work ok, although one of the music players I normally use doesn't seem to recognise it!!
Has anyone experienced this - and even better have a solution?
running stock 2.29.405.2 for a few weeks now, but all of a sudden apps have dissapeared that are installed on the SD card.
also i cant move any apps (i know not all apps allow) to the SD card as a 'failed to move application' notice appears.
any ideas peeps?
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I would do this.
1)Check your SD card. Can you access your sd card? Could be a corrupted card.
2)Take out your sd card and put it back in.
3)Power off phone and restart. Wait for a while, see if your apps come back.
Isn't 2.29.405.5 out now from OTA?
also I agree - make sure you can access the SD and reboot
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I would do this.
1)Check your SD card. Can you access your sd card? Could be a corrupted card.
2)Take out your sd card and put it back in.
3)Power off phone and restart. Wait for a while, see if your apps come back.
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Tried all of these - With a different SD card i can move the apps. Does that sound like a corrupt card, and if so is there anything i can do?
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Isn't 2.29.405.5 out now from OTA?
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It seems to have been pulled (I waited until I had my goldcard available) and is not available now. Is there a link to do it manually?
I am going through the same thing. I determined I had a corrupt card. I will be getting a new card today and reinstalling all of my apps that were installed on the corrupt card.
Had the same issue. Noticed that the .android-secure folder on SD is read only. Changed to read/write in root explorer, rebooted and apps are back.
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no joy with that, but thanks anyway.
i might look at deleting that folder and starting again - it will give me an excuse to get rid of all the crap i have anyway.
But first i might try recovery - i know that you cannot see the content of the .android_secure for security reasons
I just recovered from the same problem (tried the tips here, but they didn't work in my case.) I thought I'd add the solution that eventually worked for me, just in case it's of any help to anyone else.
Remove SD card from phone and insert in a Windows PC
Run CHKDSK /F from the command prompt, just in case there are any file errors (there were none in my case.)
Rename the .android-secure folder to something else (it really doesn't matter what you call it.)
Eject the card and put it back in the phone, allow the phone to start up and initialise the SD card. It will create a new .android-secure folder. (I tried creating the folder on the PC, but that didn't work. The phone needs to create it for itself.)
Card back in the PC, and cut and paste the files from the folder that you previously renamed into the new .android-secure folder.
Card back in the phone, and if your problem was the same as mine, your apps are back.
You might also be able to do this with the card in situ via the USB cable. I haven't tried it.
Out of interest, this happened to me after nothing more serious than a dead battery. The phone was at 90%+ charge when I went to bed last night, but dead this morning. I can only assume that I left a power hungry app running by accident.
Thanks for the info. i had already resolved mine by renaming the folder to delete it. luckily i had most apps backed up so it didnt take long to go back in.
I have been trying to think what caused it, and you reminded me that my battery dies a couple of days ago, so was probably this that caused it also.
hey,
i hope this is a good place for this. let me know. I posted in Viper thread and TWRP. I'm desperately seeking answers because I'm stuck now with low functionality and trouble restoring system image... Read on...
i have Viper10 4.4.0, and i have a 128gb MicroSD card as internal storage. Well this card just bit the dust, i lost everything on it. That's ok cus it was backed up, but I am still having problems, so i am guessing the Viper ROM / system doesnt like that the card is gone. it's corrupted i suppose.*
Before i bought a replacement card, i tried using my camera. "please insert an SD card" - so it couldnt adapt to the card being gone? there were other similar things but thats a good example. So i bought another card, class 3, so its fast. i formatted it as internal storage, and still got the same message in the camera!
Another example is I cannot download anything in Chrome - whether I have no card, new card as internal storage, or new card as removable storage - none of those will work.
So i thought it must be time to restore TWRP that system image i made while back. i pasted my backup onto the SD card, went to TWRP to restore, and TWRP didn't even see any files on the card. So, i reformatted to removable storage, pasted, went to TWRP. did restore > my system backup. It said "select partition" but it didnt allow me to select anything, nor did it initially show anything selected. so the backup initiates but stops and complains "no partition selected."
can you advise me at all? is the system image restore what i need to do, and if so, what do i do about the partition selection?
Any other ways I can get back to stock?
thanks!
ben
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