i bought a phone, had a stock rom with rom manager installed and no sd card. i flashed the stock rom and it works fine but a little slow, i noticed that when i plug into my computer and select disk drive, it only brings up the sd card and shows the phone but will not allow me to access it. also when i go to settings and then sd & phone storage under internal phone storage the total space and available space says "unavailable" . and under phone storage the total space is around 80MB and the availabe space is like 140MB wich is far lower than my other incredible. so i figured i would use the "format phone storage" and on this phone it is not highlighted so it is not even an option. i bought this to upgrade my girlfriends phone and she is using it but i just want to fix this problem. thanks in advance for any help.
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Firstly Happy New Year to all on the forum, my phone has just had a disaster can anyone help please.
My AT&T Glide crashed today in town, and on reboot I couldnt see the MMC 32gb card, which I thought had been corrupted. Well it was, when I put in another 16gb card the phone wont mount it, then I noticed that the internal usb disk isnt mounted either or even recognised ??
Hows this happened and can it be restored simply do I have to download a new dev rom and re flash from the 1.18gb I have left shown on phone as I cant put it to MMC card.
My phone has custom firmware Osimood.0122.RUXKJ5 which has been great up until this MMC sd card crash.
Any help gratefully received as its my work phone and I need it up and running asap.
Many thanks
Paul
Can you boot into cwm? I assume you have it installed. See if you can access the internal sd card from there. If yes then most probably a simple flash will fix everything, or even a nandroid backup assuming you have that as well. If no its not seen in CWM, then I do not know someone else will have to chime in, seems like something is very wrong for it to suddenly lose its memory. Could be some type of controller our buffer that went.
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Thank you for your reply, I went in to CWM and can see an update file on a the sd card so technically if I get the Osimood zip file I could reinstall the system but I am unsure which disk it is seeing this file from I dont think its the external MMC or internal USB so how to I get the file on a storage area that the phone can see.
On the phones settings, under storage pane, USB now has the option to Format USB storage, this has appeared since mounting the system files etc within CWM as most were set to unmounted, but it would not let me mount the sd card as far as I could tell from CWM, when I go to update system menu the option to install update.zip but which disk is this as I could not mount any disk from CWM to view mounted files such as directories etc.
I am in the process of recovering the MMC card that the phone crashed so not all is lost, but I am pretty sure there were files in the Glides USB storage that I would like to save if possible, if I format this storage I am unlikely to recover whats on it, but would a straight reinstall of Osimood format this disk anyway ?
One last question does anyone know what the option "download" is on the power off menu on Osimood it is along side recovery, reboot and power off etc.
ATB
Sorry one last thing I have noticed, when in storage settings SD card has the option to mount when selected it says preparing sd card but nothing actually happens the notice just goes and I'm back to square one, USB has no option in the menu to mount just to format.
I hope that the above is significant in what has happened here.
Thanks
Boot into CWM, enable "mount USB storage", then use a PC to check the internal storage for filesystem problems.
If that doesn't fix it, next step is to factory reset I'm afraid.
Hi everyone, thank you so much for all the assistance I have been at work and therefore forced to format the internal disk which once down the ext sd card became visible again ??? once reinstalling the apps again all is well again, my biggest issue is that all the sd card app back ups failed me as it wiped the ext sd card the internal was wiped on reformat so had to start again.
Note to self back up apks to computer is much safer the ext sd card.
Just hope it doesnt happen again the apk shopper was the culprit that crashed it all.
Many thanks brilliant forum.
ATB
I've been exploiting my mobile at it max since I got the Marshmallow update. Adopted a UHS-1 Samsung EVO 32GB card and used it to its limits.
It has been working fine until today, I woke up to a app screen where all my SD card apps were disconnected and said "App not installed", immediately I went to Storage settings and there I saw that around 100mb was left in my SD card and the bar was red. When I opened it, all the subheading, that is, music, images, videos, all of them show 0.00bytes whereas downloads folder could be accessed.
Tried deleting some files from SD card, managed to get some space from that downloads folder but it didnt work, now the strangest thing started to happen. I tried uninstalling the apps that were on SD card which showed "app not found" and I managed to uninstall them and this also freed up space on my card. Restarted my phone, still no luck.
Next up, I tried migrating data onto my ORIGINAL internal storage (8gb), and it did transfer some data, after maxing out, it said "data left at original location".
All in all, my problem is, that I'm not able to properly mount my SD card, the data is there, but no app is able to access any of it except the internal functions of HTC, like 'migrate' and all.
Need help, please let me know what should I do.
Another question is, if I root my mobile without the SD card and then re-insert the 'adopted sd card' after the root, will it read it? If that would be the case, I'd root my mobile any second. Thank you, eagerly waiting for your replies.
Ok, need some help here, and trying to google this is driving me nuts.
Have a Kindle Fire HD 8 5th gen (SG98EG) that we got for my wife with internal memory low alerts popping up all the time. It is the 8 gb model that of course reads as 5.6 after format and OS chunk. We bought a 32 gb SD card to handle the lower memory on the device.
What seems to be the issue is that it says it has installed data to the SD card for apps, but instead uses internal memory. For example, just did factory reset and it shows ~4.8 GB free, then downloaded summoners war (the game my kid wants to play and it keeps getting taken off by her mom because of the memory.)
Looking at the data screen for the app, it says overall app size is 1.74GB. It says 22mb of app is on the device, and 1.7GB is on SD. But if I look at the storage screen, it now shows that internal storage is at 2.78 out of 5.6GB and SD has 28.74 out of 28.78GB used. Tested the card with pictures and downloaded files, they go onto the card fine, it is just apps that go wierd. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated, have used devices with lower memory for years and never run across a system that says it installed to SD and then put it in internal.
Greetings, i am very new to "phone modding" and i came here because my samsung had so little Internal storage i couldnt do anything. So read the forum instructions ( https://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...2#post73774652 ) on how to install adaptable storage to my phone and all went smoothly i suppose. That was about a month ago. Yesterday i wanted to download a big game (pubg mobile) which is about 1.1 gb and had some problems with my storage so i tried the option "Migrate data" that said it would free some gb off my phone into the card. Little to say that the migration failed and my storage was now full 8gb / 8gb. So i restarted but had some problems again. Now when i try to download an app it fails in the installation. Right now i have 2 small apps on my phone and some photos and music. My internal storage is 6.93 gb / 8gb and my card is 4.31 gb / 14.70 gb. What can i do to get it to the original state with adaptable storage. I am afraid that if i format the card and the phone the card will not work . The real problem is that when i try to download an app an error pops up that the installation failed, what can i do to solve it?
(Phone : Samsung Galaxy J5 8GB SM-J500F/DS Android 6.0.1)
*Edit when i remove my sd i can install apps and put back the sd and transfer them back to the sd but i think its bugged cause it says that the installation failed when the app is installed and working perfectly
Should i "format as portable storage" my sd , will it start working normally again and be able to install apps without removing it everytime ?
hi folks,
So i chose the wrong SD card handling (the merged kind?) a while ago and after ejecting the card to set up a bigger one, I realise I now can't access the internal storage on the phone.
installed apps work fine
I can remove apps fine (but not reinstall!)
i can sideload apps fine (oddy!)
I cannot access e.g. photos with gallery apps
file browser apps cant access the internal space at all.
I cannot install anything from the play store, it just shows insuffucient space
apps like twitter crash.
whatsapp works (calls and text), but cant download photos sent, or attach photos.
There is loads of space free (14.65gb used of 32gb internal).
I also have an SD card with loads of space now set as portable storage.
I have the original SD card that was in before, but not in phone (still shows in storage manager).
Any ideas please?! Before i reset the phone and start again!
I have rooted it, but not sure what to fiddle with (the problem started before rooting).
nope? ok i guess i'll be wiping and hoping that fixes it!
moving to another phone for a while...
just to be clear, doing a full reset on the phone while rooted with magisk is ok? (unlocked bl). don't want to brick. android 10 up to date.
thanks, if anyone out there?
alright for the record and anyone else suffering this, i figured it out, and is slightly embarrassingly stupid.
if you set up the sd as combined storage, and still have the sd, put it back in and use the migrate data back to internal option which is hidden in the storage dot top right menu. voila.
then you can eject card, and still access the internal storage.
what you do if you've already wiped the old sd, i've no idea! you're maybe stuffed? hopefully wiping phone would fix it??
don't ever set your sd card as merged, use portable (i knew this, was a mistake).
so anyway, phone working again yay!