i tried to get away from ownheredesire so had to wipe my card totally. now i have a fat32 formatted sd card and no ext3 partition anymore. i thought i could just go into recovery and flash update etc to get into clockwork mod recovery but it's not working.
it fails reading the file so can't access the backups i copied back onto the sd card.
have i just mised something simple or what? what happens now is the thing tries to boot so i get the roms boot screen but since it was symlinked to the ext3 partition which isn't there anymore it wont ever load.
how can i get back to recovery?
edit
tried downloading the fake flash update off modaco and it's the same
errors like invalid argument, cant mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 for dev/block/mmcblk0
ok, figured something out. throw the same fake flash on an old sd and it boots. i think it's the way i partitioned the sd card. dont think android likes a primary partition.
nuts!
woooo hooooo!!! fixed it.
i fixed it, yes i did, i fixed it i did i did i did. did i fix it? why yes i did. it's bloody fixed!
thank you god, allah buddha flying spaghetti monster.
thank you
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Last night I was trying to partition my sd card and it went wrong. The sd stopped working and after turning off the phone every time I turn the phone on it goes to fastboot. It got the clockworkmod as recovery and if I try to format the sd I get the message: cant mount /dev/block/mmcblk0 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0p1) . Is there anything I can do? Ps sorry if this post is poor im sending this from my wifes phone as my home internet is down too!
If your on froyo your SD Card need an ext3 partition to boot the phone
Use clockwork recovery to re partition.
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use gparted to partition, just make sure that you have it in this order, fat32 then ext3 then swap(if you decide to use a swap)
I got a very similar problem and still can't solve it. I did partitioned the sd card with Rom manager and then went into recovery, tried to check if it was ex3 (because i read somewhere that rom manager partitions the sd card only with ex2), and then the **** was done. Every time I boot the device it goes into fastboot, so I can't even put some rom on the SD card and try to flash the mobile phone again :S
Any tips, help or whatever? Please.
Hi, I have problem guys.
After some problems reported under roms with A2sd+ when sdcard corrupted I decided to flash different rom. Before that I tried to format my sdcard so that ext3 partition would go away. But after that I couldn't boot.
Now I can get to recovery, but have no access to the card at all. Unfortunately I have no card reader at home either, so I cant reformat my card and try to flash another rom either.
Any suggestions what should I go next? Thank you so much!
Wont boot up without sdcard either... DAMN
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Hi, I have problem guys.
After some problems reported under roms with A2sd+ when sdcard corrupted I decided to flash different rom. Before that I tried to format my sdcard so that ext3 partition would go away. But after that I couldn't boot.
Now I can get to recovery, but have no access to the card at all. Unfortunately I have no card reader at home either, so I cant reformat my card and try to flash another rom either.
Any suggestions what should I go next? Thank you so much!
Wont boot up without sdcard either... DAMN
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If you can get into recovery you can "mount USB storage".. all depends wether you are running windows/linux/mac from there... try to scan and fix it
Before you wrote I tried to do RUU, will report how it goes...
Edit: oh man, RUU seemed to be working, I am now running stock 2.1 ROM... sdcard appears to work normally too.
Thanks for your interest anyway, I really appreciate it
Just buy a card reader, they're a couple bucks.
Then install your choice of free advanced drive manager software, delete all the partitions, create a new one, and format it FAT32 with 32k clusters.
Ok... Well, let's see if I can do my best to explain everything.
I've been using AdamG's "Official Froyo HTC Sense ROM" in my Desire since I got it (about 4 months ago). Recently, my crappy stock SD card corrupted itself and after backing it up, I reformatted it.
Apparently that did something really bad because now my phone wont turn on. It just sits at the "HTC" loading screen. I can get into recovery, but anything I try results in "ADB server out of date. Killing..." and then "Daemon still not running".
I'm at a loss here. I haven't bothered playing with root, or ROMs or anything since I first did it all 4 months ago (without a problem). So treat me like an utter noob.
Have you tried to take the SD card out and reboot?
Take out the SDcard and try booting into Recovery.
you should of done a nandroid, maybe you have formatted your ext partition, if you have you will need to re-flash
I've tried taking the SD card out and all the obvious stuff.
AndroHero said:
you should of done a nandroid, maybe you have formatted your ext partition, if you have you will need to re-flash
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That sounds plausible, that might have been what I did. What's involved in a re-flash? Start from square one? Re-root and all? How do I do all that from where I am now?
No a re-flash would mean flashing just your ROM.
Were you using A2SD?
joe_998 said:
No a re-flash would mean flashing just your ROM.
Were you using A2SD?
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Yes I was.
I managed to get into Recovery and wiped everything from there, the phone now boots to the stock ROM. (stock as in the one I had loaded, AdamG's one). I want to swap to a different ROM, how do I do so from this point?
Also, on another (maybe unrelated) note: When in recovery, it says:
"E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command"
Does that mean anything?
Pick the ROM you want and put it on the root of your SD card.
Download ROM manager and select Install ROM from SD Card, Look for the ROM you put on your SD Card and select it, Tick Backup Existing ROM and Wipe Data and Cache. Then let ROM manager do it's thing.
Sorry I don't know what "E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command" means, I'm a newbie too, I only replied because I formatted my SD card before and had the same problems you're having.
Thanks Joe... Unfortunately, I got a little further into the process and went to flash via the Recovery (rather than in the ROM Manager app)...
...I say "unfortunately" because now I have no system (as it formatted it as part of the process) but I keep getting:
E:Can't mount SDEXT:
E:Failure at line 11:
copy_dir PACKAGE:data SDEXT:
Installation aborted.
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Will the problems ever end?
Moved to Q&A as not development
how did you format your SD? I'm no expert but it looks like your SD EXT partition is still corrupted. I would format and repartition it using Gparted
Heres a guide for gparted http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7279872&postcount=3
Haha, I think I got it, it's finishing the flashing process now. I'll let you know if it boots up and runs ok as soon as it does.
I think the problem with "SDEXT" was the ROM itself, it must have been a bad download or something, cause I just tried another one and it seems to be working fine.
Thanks for the help guys, will update ASAP.
Glad you're getting somewhere mate
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Glad you're getting somewhere mate
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Sonofa--
I think I spoke too soon. I'm pretty sure the phone is now stuck in a bootloop.
I just keep getting the "HTC Quietly Brilliant" boot animation playing, sometimes it plays 5 seconds after another, then I leave it for like a minute before it plays it again. But it's stuck there.
...Unless ROMs have taken A VERY long time to start up since I last flashed. But I doubt it.
...My temper is slowly rising now.
Sent you a PM mate
Hello everyone,
I'm stuck again, need your help!
I was trying to repartion the EXT on the sd card, with Gparted. I thought everything went find, but afterwards when I tried to boot: I got stuck on alpharev bootscreen (why so serious).
I tried, clearing cash, dalvik, system/data etc...
And I also don't seem to be able to flash zip files! They won't be recognized be the recovery? I just get the message "no files found". I really don't understand, I copy the zip file (containing InsertCoin 1.0.8) to the root, but the phone doens't see it.
I have CM7 HBOOT and CWM-AplhaRev Recovery v2.5.1.8
Help please! What should I do.
Prob messed up your SD card maybe. Check to see if it works on your PC. If not, just partition it FAT32 then start again.
I tried to do the GParted thing again. It didnt work?
I made 2 partitions (1 FAT32 en 1 EXT4), would it make a difference if I only made 1 FAT32 like you suggested?
swimon said:
I tried to do the GParted thing again. It didnt work?
I made 2 partitions (1 FAT32 en 1 EXT4), would it make a difference if I only made 1 FAT32 like you suggested?
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That will solve the issue you posted, but you won't be able to use data2sd or similar ad these require the EXT partition
I'm a little confused, are you saying that the EXT partition is somehow causing these problems?
edit: maybe I should just flash another recovery? Amon RA 2.0.0 maybe?
no don t flash anything til you have a complete working phone ... fix the sd card issue before. make sure fat32 and ext4 are primary partition
in gparted fat32 should be labelled LBA.
try to mount your sd on recovery, if it s well done you should be able to do so.
I'm back up!!! Finally! Thanks to everyone helping me.
Seems like Clockworkmod 2.5.0.7 was causing the problem, it doenst support EXT4... I flashed Amon RA 2.0.0 and the zip files were recognized again.
@fragargon: didn't label partitions as LBA though, why is this needed?
Thanks!
Goodmorning Sirs,
I have a strange problem...
My desire is happily runnig InsertCoin 1.0.8 with CM7 boot since months..
I am running also CWM recovery 3.0.2.8...
I'm giving a step by step description, in order to get you aware of possible upsets.
This morning I decide to install S2Ext program and strangely i found that
EXT partition was not recognized.. I reboot and have the same problem in S2E but everything was running fine... I was fearing that something gonna happen so I decide to have a nandroid backup to get clear that if something goes wrong I can restore all it back.
I successfully did a nandroid backup..
but..
after reboot I'm stuck at splash screen....
worried I went to recovery and I could not mount the sd card..
so no nandroid restore and nothing no sd no boot (A2SD+)..
Either usb mount is not working..
I verified that FAT32 partiotion on sdcard could be read from my laptop..
WHAT CAN I DO?
It's a recovery problem?
Sounds like the ext partition has become corrupted, so nandroid/cwm won't be able to write to it properly.
Stick the card in a PC reader, then run gparted on it - recreate/format the ext partition at the end (without formatting the FAT), then stick it back in phone.
Nandroid should then be able to restore backed up .img to it.
See my reply here :- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1176663
Easily fixed.
KING,
what did happen to my BRAVO?
boscovich said:
KING,
what did happen to my BRAVO?
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