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Rooting broke my SD card

I followed the idiot-proof root guide—guess it's not so idiot-proof.
I got up to the point where I was installing the stock rooted ROM (33b. After everything is wiped, navigate to "install zip from sdcard," then select "choose zip from sdcard."). However, when I chose to install the zip with the ROM in it, the screen just flashed a quick message and dumped me back to the main ClockworkMod screen. Puzzled, I hit "reboot" to see if it had actually done anything.
It booted back into full Android, but now it's not recognizing my SD card, saying it needs to be formatted. When I try and format it, it does nothing. Now, recovery is also saying "E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0) (Invalid argument)". My SD card reader won't recognize my card either to the point that I can't even format it using my Mac.
Help!

SD format tool can fix many sd card issues:
http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter/

Same thing happened to me.
You got two problems. One which the phone is messing up, and the other which more than likely you.
1) Mine wanted to format too. When I clicked it, nothing.
What I did: Restarted my phone and tried to format again and VIOLA! worked perfectly fine. Then I was able to use it again.
2) The problem you're doing wrong is: when you are renaming the file on your computer to "update.zip" you're literally making it "update.zip", so the phone will read it as if it's "update.zip.zip". Try renaming it to JUST "update" and try again. If not, then the other way around.
Hope that helps.

1 - I've tried that several times, here's to trying it once more... :/
2 - Recovery mode won't even recognize the SD card, so that's not an issue until I get my SD card working. But since I was able to boot into update.zip once, I doubt that's the issue.
EDIT: Nope, won't format from within Android.
arozer said:
Same thing happened to me.
You got two problems. One which the phone is messing up, and the other which more than likely you.
1) Mine wanted to format too. When I clicked it, nothing.
What I did: Restarted my phone and tried to format again and VIOLA! worked perfectly fine. Then I was able to use it again.
2) The problem you're doing wrong is: when you are renaming the file on your computer to "update.zip" you're literally making it "update.zip", so the phone will read it as if it's "update.zip.zip". Try renaming it to JUST "update" and try again. If not, then the other way around.
Hope that helps.
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Same thing happened to me. I just renamed the update.zip shut phone down took out battery and SD put SD and battery in and good to go! Hope it works for u.
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When you were in the initial recover screen did you hit update.zip. my first go I didn't you can't boot custom roms without the update.zip unless you used toast full root method. I know u probley
knew already but I'm a noon and took me a sec to figure it out.
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Trying a couple of other things that aren't working either:
Code:
mount -t fat32 /dev/block/mmcblk0 /sdcard
mount: No such device
I tried to force it:
Code:
echo /dev/block/mmcblk0 > /sys/devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun0/file
This made my computer recognize the SD card as an unformatted 32MB disk, which is obviously wrong.
So: should I get a new SD card or something?
Not going to help as the SD card isn't being recognized no matter what I do. Can't do anything with it.
xxxgeooegxxx said:
Same thing happened to me. I just renamed the update.zip shut phone down took out battery and SD put SD and battery in and good to go! Hope it works for u.
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Any other suggestions? I'm just about ready to go get a new microSD...

redct said:
Any other suggestions? I'm just about ready to go get a new microSD...
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try and get/install the OTA with the sd card fix. you don't need the card to do that, i don't think. then reboot. see if that fixes it.

redct said:
Any other suggestions? I'm just about ready to go get a new microSD...
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Go check out the EVO 4G Android Development forum. There's a thread in there from someone who broke the SD & USB and almost bricked their device. It contains a fix for SD card issues.

Nope. OTA doesn't show up.
timothydonohue said:
try and get/install the OTA with the sd card fix. you don't need the card to do that, i don't think. then reboot. see if that fixes it.
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Well, it seems to be the SD card. Bought a new one and it all works perfectly.

android broke my micro sd card too!!! I didn't update my rom or anything. It just hangs and i need to reset by pulling out the battery. And this is what happens!
Blackberry and windows mobile are more friendly to memory cards.

[Q] SD card not recognized/unsupported filesystem

Ok guys, I've tried to figure this out using other threads on the forum, but I've still come up with nothing!
I'm running cyanogen mod with clockwork recovery AFAIK. Bought the G2 on eBay already rooted, and everything has been working great until yesterday. All of a sudden the phone gives me the infamous "SD card blank or has unsupported filesystem." Argh! I've tried reformatting the card through the OS, and then it tells me to insert a new SD card. Ok, I reboot... annnnnd the same thing again. Next I tried mounting it through the OS. After it's done it tells me the card can't be mounted because it's probably corrupted. Let me just say I don't think that's the case because I was using it RIGHT before this started happening. When I try to connect through Windows and format it doesn't recognize any storage in the device.
So now I'm here. What the heck do I do, xda?! Is there something in the recovery menu I should use? Any suggestion is greatly appreciated, and if you need any more info please ask!

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I have had the same stuff happen to me many times. Download SD formatter on your pc it finds the sdcard and formats it. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=sdformatter

Alright, now it's getting really bad. I attempted to format that card in the computer, but it actually did seem to be ****ed up, in that the computer saw the card once and then it was invisible. Ok, so I order a new 8GB microSD card, arrived today. I format the card using the above program, succesfully, throw it in the phone, and bam, SAME ****ING PROBLEM. What the ****? This is ****ing BULL****.
Now I'm considering re-flashing the phone, but that's a last resort option. Is there something that needs to be on the SD card for cyanogen/CWR for it to even work? I didn't think this was the case, but if it is, WHAT do I need to put on it?
Again, this is quite infuriating, so any help or direction is greatly appreciated.

samuraifez said:
Alright, now it's getting really bad. I attempted to format that card in the computer, but it actually did seem to be ****ed up, in that the computer saw the card once and then it was invisible. Ok, so I order a new 8GB microSD card, arrived today. I format the card using the above program, succesfully, throw it in the phone, and bam, SAME ****ING PROBLEM. What the ****? This is ****ing BULL****.
Now I'm considering re-flashing the phone, but that's a last resort option. Is there something that needs to be on the SD card for cyanogen/CWR for it to even work? I didn't think this was the case, but if it is, WHAT do I need to put on it?
Again, this is quite infuriating, so any help or direction is greatly appreciated.
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This is what I would do. I would format the card on the computer to fat32 format. On the phone I would boot into recovery and select wipe data/factory reset, then still in recovery I would go to advanced and wipe dalvik cache, and then still in recovery I would go to mounts and storage and format system and format boot. Back on the computer I would re-download the ROM (what you have now may be corrupt) and place the zip on the newly formatted card. Then I would put the sd card in the phone and flash the ROM.

[Q] htc evo unrevoked 3 root issues please help

last night i tried rooting to unrevoked 3, i went through the process and it ended up saying succesfull on the app on the pc. Phone acted really laggy for about a minute . a few seconds later the screen turned off vibrated 5 times. I have not been able to boot up the phone ever since.My PC has says something about the missing qualcomm drivers, I can only go into hboot screen or recovery mode. Also now it says s-on. I can't usb debug now due to the fact that I cant get my phone to boot up to home screen. I have all drivers installed, my hboot screen says
hboot-2.10.0001
microp-041f
touch panel-atmelc03_16ac
radio-2.15.00.11.19
I have a blank sd card i can use if need be. I also took out my sd card out of the phone and placed it into a digital camera to view what was on it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Do you have an adapter for your sd, anyway you could download a rom and push it to sd card. go into recovery and flash that.
ps i have no idea if that would work or not

do you suggest any specific rom? and when you say push do you mean using the commands? because i was reading about trying that i just have no idea how to do it

He means using adb. Just download the sdk folder to the desktop, then run a command prompt to that folder, then
adb remount
adb push name of file.zip /sdcard
adb reboot
Also I reccomend CM7.
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everytime i try to install zip from sd card through clockwork recovery, it keeps telling me this error message
E:can't mount /dev/block/mmcblkop1
cant mount installation aborted

and if you have an adapter of some sort, or mini sd card reader you could make it a lot easier.
and myns warm twopointtwo of course
because what could have happened (im not positive but that sounds alot like a problem i ran into once) is during rooting, the stock rom got screwed up. so basically your phone has no operating system which can just be fixed by flashing a new rom.
If all else fails, call sprint and do the old "my phone wont turn on, and i have no idea why not. It just turned off one day" sprint treats their smarthphone users well

atomlin06 said:
everytime i try to install zip from sd card through clockwork recovery, it keeps telling me this error message
E:can't mount /dev/block/mmcblkop1
cant mount installation aborted
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=512825 i havent read the whole thread, but this person is having the same problem as you

I had a simalar problem, I rooted my phone for the first time two weeks ago, and couldn't back it up due to a problem with an image file. I thought I bricked it, but I googled PC36IMG 3.70, let that load up, and it got me back to stock. I then rooted my phone again, but now I'm able to back it up this time.

nilesskate2 said:
and if you have an adapter of some sort, or mini sd card reader you could make it a lot easier.
and myns warm twopointtwo of course
because what could have happened (im not positive but that sounds alot like a problem i ran into once) is during rooting, the stock rom got screwed up. so basically your phone has no operating system which can just be fixed by flashing a new rom.
If all else fails, call sprint and do the old "my phone wont turn on, and i have no idea why not. It just turned off one day" sprint treats their smarthphone users well
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yeah im pretty sure the phone just simply has no rom to run off of. you recommend i download myns warm twopointwo?

Indeed
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i still can not get anything to work, i've tried all the commands for adp, tried new roms, tried using an sd card adapter and still no luck at all, I think i'm just going to get it replaced with insurance saying i lost it or it was stolen

You are still able to get into recovery, right?

not anymore, I got to frustrated and put my sd card into an old phone and formatted it to erase everything, so now when I try to get into revoery it does the 5 vibrates and turns off. I now have a mini sd adapter and I'm going to go home and redownload a pc36img.zip. Put it on my sd card being the only item on the sd card and put the sd card into my evo and see if that helps

When you boot into Hboot, it should recognize it. Make sure that you don't have a corrupted version of the PC36IMG.zip.

sandisk adapter will not read my sdhc micro card. is it because my micro is an sdhc and my adapter possibly is not?

i got the pc36img.zip onto the sd card. when i put the card into my evo the evo tries to load a pc36diag.zip? it doesnt find it then it finds the pc36img.zip then a blue status bar loads on screen for a minute or two and then it says checking pc36img.zip then goes back to hboot screen. this hasnt happened before. do i need to download whatever this ps36diag.zip? also as long as my phone is plugged up to my comp i can get into recovery mode, but i still get errors saying cant mount sd card

atomlin06 said:
i got the pc36img.zip onto the sd card. when i put the card into my evo the evo tries to load a pc36diag.zip? it doesnt find it then it finds the pc36img.zip then a blue status bar loads on screen for a minute or two and then it says checking pc36img.zip then goes back to hboot screen. this hasnt happened before. do i need to download whatever this ps36diag.zip? also as long as my phone is plugged up to my comp i can get into recovery mode, but i still get errors saying cant mount sd card
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When the status bar loads it should ask you to update, then you should be able to reboot. Did that not happen?

no it never asked me to update thats why i am stuck, after it loads the blue bar it goes straight to looking like this in green letters
no its not name pc36img.zip.zip alsoi just in case this makes a difference here is what my hboot screen looks like
supersonic evt2-3 ship s-on
hboot-2.10.0001
microp-041f
touch panel-atmelc03_16ac
radio-2.15.00.11.19
oct 15 2010, 12:07:00
does this all look correct?

[Q] is it shot?

my friend was completly mindless. he used kernal manger to flash the cyanogenmod kernal to his phone. the phone is s-on and nothing works except the phone itself, it does not power properly it needs battery pull and plug ins to get it to start or it just vibrates 5x then freezes. it also does not recognize the sd OR pc, i cant get to it on the pc with correct drivers...its like its not there.
so i went to fix it for him and could not ruu due to the not seeing the device, and couldnt flash anything off the sd due to the sd being not recognized. he told me he had a failed unrevoked session and it put superuser on and cwm on. i CAN get to the hboot screen and when i go into recovery i get into cwm but nothing at all works...
i never saw a brick like this. i would like to call it a live brick dead lol
is it dead?
ty

chef2 said:
my friend was completly mindless. he used kernal manger to flash the cyanogenmod kernal to his phone. the phone is s-on and nothing works except the phone itself, it does not power properly it needs battery pull and plug ins to get it to start or it just vibrates 5x then freezes. it also does not recognize the sd OR pc, i cant get to it on the pc with correct drivers...its like its not there.
so i went to fix it for him and could not ruu due to the not seeing the device, and couldnt flash anything off the sd due to the sd being not recognized. he told me he had a failed unrevoked session and it put superuser on and cwm on. i CAN get to the hboot screen and when i go into recovery i get into cwm but nothing at all works...
i never saw a brick like this. i would like to call it a live brick dead lol
is it dead?
ty
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alright, i didnt read the whole thing. gonna go smoke and think. lol. happened too much today with devs leaving and $h!t

SD card not working? Do you have a card reader or another phone to put it in and format with? See if it is even recognized by anything else other than the phone.
I'm not sure but isn't an SD card necessary for CWM recovery to work?

TheWhiteBandito said:
SD card not working? Do you have a card reader or another phone to put it in and format with? See if it is even recognized by anything else other than the phone.
I'm not sure but isn't an SD card necessary for CWM recovery to work?
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if they want the phone to work, yeah.

sd works anywhere else. sd is not recognized by phone. nothing happens when its pushed in and using astro shows nothing there. cwm just opens but is completly non-functional

chef2 said:
sd works anywhere else. sd is not recognized by phone. nothing happens when its pushed in and using astro shows nothing there. cwm just opens but is completly non-functional
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insane, but try to root it if its stable? anyone else here? i cant really think of another way....

has to be the craziest thing i seen

Can you not use a card reader to put the RUU on and flash it in hboot? I guess not if its S-ON, what error is it giving in unrevoked? If it flashed an alternate recovery then it has to be rooted..

k_nivesout said:
Can you not use a card reader to put the RUU on and flash it in hboot? I guess not if its S-ON, what error is it giving in unrevoked? If it flashed an alternate recovery then it has to be rooted..
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Would running unrevoked again work?
Change roms like I change underwear.

I have the same problem.... HELP

santttoos said:
I have the same problem.... HELP
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Try some of the solutions above and let us know. Re-rooting or putting the RUU found here http://dougpiston.com/?page_id=108 on the SD card

My thoughts are the only fix i can see working would be to flash the RUU in hboot not cwm and then root it properly. That should work provided you can get it to read the sd card in hboot
SD card must be fat 32
the ruu you download must be named "PB31IMG.zip" the case is important it must be in all uppercase
and what you will do is put it on the sdcard using a card reader and your pc then put it in the phone then go into hboot it should read the card find the image and ask you if you wish to flash this. You should if it goes well have a stock phone... You can then run unrevoked again to root it this time...

can not access the sd card at all... sd card works fine in my computer... not mountable... can't figure it out...

[Q] Rooted htc Evo won't boot pass htc screen !!

Hey pls help me I'm rooted with revolutionary "rooting for dummies" .... Everything went well the phone was amazing ... I then installed miui rom and loved it also but then the phone stop reading the sd card it wont pick up on it at all I said forget I disnt need it but then it wouldn't connect to wifi I pulled the battery phone wouldn't boot pass htc Evo 4g screen I tried to boot in recovery no luck I rebooted And did a clear storage to forever for the phone to come on but it did the wifi worked still wouldn't read sd card but now It will no longer boot!!!!! Pls pls pls pls help me I'm freaking out!!

What recovery? You try to install a new recovery thru hboot?
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Lovekelly said:
Hey pls help me I'm rooted with revolutionary "rooting for dummies" .... Everything went well the phone was amazing ... I then installed miui rom and loved it also but then the phone stop reading the sd card it wont pick up on it at all I said forget I disnt need it but then it wouldn't connect to wifi I pulled the battery phone wouldn't boot pass htc Evo 4g screen I tried to boot in recovery no luck I rebooted And did a clear storage to forever for the phone to come on but it did the wifi worked still wouldn't read sd card but now It will no longer boot!!!!! Pls pls pls pls help me I'm freaking out!!
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So are you or are you not able to boot in to recovery? Kinda confused. You said that you tried but no luck but then you rebooted and did a clear storage. So were you able to boot in to recovery the second time? If you can, do a full wipe and try flashing a different rom. You can download one to your PC, boot in to recovery, enable the usb drive, push the file to your phone and flash.

Ummm sorry for the confusion .... I'm talking about I held the volume down and power button to get to the screen I believe it's "bootloader" and tried to select recovery so maybe I can do a backup to wen it previously worked but no luck cause the phone wasnt reading the sd card with the backup on it! So I went back to the "bootloader" and did a "clear storage" it worked but the phone took forever to come on.... I did that about 2 times when the phone wouldnt boot pass the htc screen but now it no lingers works doing that! And to answer you guys question no I'm not able to boot in recovery just to bootloader with the options
Fast boot
Recovery
Clear storage
Reboot
USB hboot
If you guys are still confused let me know I will explain further more the phone will not access recovery at All!

As asked... what recovery did you load? Amon_RA or CWM? Also, what HW version do you have?

O I'm very sorry.... CMW
Hw info:
Android version 2.3.4
Baseband version 2.15.00.0808
Kernel version: [email protected] #1 Sat apr 30 04:36:42 edt 2011
Build number: MIUIAndroid 7.29
And to answer your previous question I don't know how to install a new recovery thru hboot .... I hope this helps you

If you can get to your sd card via a card reader to load a new recovery, then follow the steps here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=705026. Otherwise, try this first to see if you can at least get sd access again: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695243

Ok will try how do I get a card reader?

If you are on a laptop, most recent ones will have a slot for it and may even have the dock/reader to place it in. You can also get an external one that connects via USB at Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Radio Shack. Basically anywhere that sells SD cards. Usually around the camera section. You can also check tigerdirect.com or newegg.com if you can wait to receive it via mail. They usually have bargains that you can take advantage of. If this is your primary phone, then go to a store to get one so you can get your phone working.

Or if you can't get your hands on a card reader, you could stick your card in a different phone (old phone, friends phone, neighbors phone, phone at sprint store, whatever). Then download amonRa recovery from xda (download the PC36IMG version of it). Move it to the root of SD card (i.e. NOT in any folder) using some sort of file explorer on the borrowed phone.
Then put card back into your Evo, boot into bootloader (using power and volume down method you used earlier).
Bootloader should scan your card, find the PC36IMG, and ask if you want to do the update.
Hope this helps.
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Ok thank you I'm going to do it in the morning will this still work for me even thou my phone won't read my sd card??

Your hboot/bootloader should still read your SD card fine. Unique problem, but should read fine. You remember which hboot version you have?
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No but I'll find out of you tell me how to

Well, not really necessary to know, unless you're trying to use some fastboot commands. But, you said you CAN still get into bootloader by holding volume and pressing power, right? Once in bootloader, it will say your hboot info in upper left corner.
In any case, follow the above info about getting recovery as a PC36IMG onto your SD somehow, and boot into bootloader. Good luck. Report back.
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ok doing it as i type on emore thing was is exactly the root of my sd card?

Lovekelly said:
ok doing it as i type on emore thing was is exactly the root of my sd card?
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not in any folders

ok thnx you

hey i put the files on the sd card and did the bootloader and it still didnt recognize the sd card at all i wont do anything..... am i doing something wrong or is there another option

Nvm........

Hun?? I'm confused you put nrvm