Hi Mates,
I have searched and just cant seem to find the answer to what seems like a fairly simple task. i want to change my 2GB card to a 16GB version. i have read the thread over at Revoked but it implies it is for a ext2/3 partioned SD Card and not a stock one. anyway I do not have the same options on my Recovery menu to follow it.
I have HTC Desire (WWE 2.29.405.5) with ROOT and I used Unrevoked 3.2.2 which gives me a recover screen of ClockWorkMod if i hold -VOL & POWER on the phone. I tried to formate the 16GB card in the phone but it is not recognised by either the Android system or ClockWorkMod formatting menu options.
Could someone please help me out with instructions to follow to acheive this? I have only just joined the Android gang and I'm a little lost.
Thanx for your assistance.
First format it in a pc in fat32. Then put in phone ,boot in recovery and partition. If does not recognizes it then you should change your recovery to amonra's one. I have heard that people have probs with cwm recovery.
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mariosraptor said:
First format it in a pc in fat32. Then put in phone ,boot in recovery and partition. If does not recognizes it then you should change your recovery to amonra's one. I have heard that people have probs with cwm recovery.
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If Windows doesnt allow you to format it as FAT32, you can alternatively use the following:
It involves running Gparted, a partition manager from a LiveCD, it's the best option, with a lot of easy customizations.
Just download the latest Gparted, burn it to CD/USB, then reboot.
Insert the Gparted CD, reboot with SDcard inserted.
Thanx I eventually got there. I first did android backup from the recovery menu, then formatted the 16 GB card on my pc (i used a puppy install on usb) to boot my PC into Lynix. Then copied all my old MC data to the new card. Finally I inserted new card and went to recovery then restore using CWR Which allowed all my SD card apps to still work. Phew.......and I missed out all the in-between bits that I had !
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I just copied the files from my existing SD card to the new one and changed cards. Worked just fine.
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Hi i have an HTC Desire running a custom rom. I had amon RA and yesterday i have flash Clockmod recovery through fastboot. After rebooting it keep up booting on the flash screen. I have formated my sd card and try to re-install a custom rom but i'm getting an error. E:can't mount/dev/block/mmcb1k0p1( No such file or directory.Error mounting SDCard! I am trying to mount the sdcard through clockmod but still the same error. i was thinking may be the card is not good. I bought another card but still the same. Pls can someone help me to sort that out.
My Desire is s-off with Hboot 0.93
Sounding like the SDcard is "deactivated". Maybe it's the usb-brick? Try a search for that. I think there was anything about reactivatIng SDcard...
Greetz sweet
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Same probem here
Hi.
I juste encountered today the exact same problem : After a Nand back-up using CWM, I discovered that nothing had been written on the SD-Card.
Whan I tried to reboot, I entered into a boot loop.
Back in recovery, I had no mean to mount /sdcard or /sd-ext : I always get an error message "Can't mount ..."
I am S-OFF, Hboot 0.93.
Any help ?
can't mount sdcard
hi today i have bought another sd card. Formated and partition it using gparted. put the card on my phone et voila the phone boot normally and enter the OS. But the card problem is still there and i can access all the apps on the phone. setting is no longer available on the phone. Any idea how can we sort that as i can see a lot of people is encountering this issue. there is no one who can address this issue?
i have got a link to that forum and have try to follow the instructions but stuck on the first step. It says you must root your phone as mine is already rooted but may be we have to re-root it. While connecting my phone i'm getting found new hardware: Qualcomm cdma. I have search the net and downloaded and install activesyn but can't found the phone. I am unable to root it. Any suggestion?
Same problem here although I have a htc explorer. I continuously have to keep reinstalling my Rom and formatting my sd card. Its probably because of software bugs
is your phone say "sd card removed. please insert a new one"?
if yes, try to backup your data and format the SD card with CWM Recovery.
mine was back to normal after partitioned by CWM
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hi today i have bought another sd card. Formated and partition it using gparted. put the card on my phone et voila the phone boot normally and enter the OS. But the card problem is still there and i can access all the apps on the phone. setting is no longer available on the phone. Any idea how can we sort that as i can see a lot of people is encountering this issue. there is no one who can address this issue?
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Don't waste your money on sd cards. You should get an sd card adapter/reader to format your card using your computer. Sometimes the format option on mobiles do not function properly.
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ri123 said:
Don't waste your money on sd cards. You should get an sd card adapter/reader to format your card using your computer. Sometimes the format option on mobiles do not function properly.
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As long as your sd is readable by your computer, you should be able to mount your sd card using cwm recovery
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Enable the SD Card functionality. Boot your phone in FASTBOOT mode (back + power), and enter this command: 'fastboot oem enableqxdm 0' . This will re-enable your SD card."
I have a CDMA Desire that would not read the sd card. I tried all the different tutorials I could find, but nothing worked. I finally ended up taking the phone apart, and there was a connection right beside the sd card slot that was partially disconnected. I reconnected that and everything works fine now.
Seems like connections disconnect fairly often with the desire (GPS, LED, SD card, etc..) so if nothing else works and you are comfortable taking your phone apart, you could try that.
Here is a video of how to disassemble the phone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXZqIjtFoAU&feature=g-hist
hi. i wanted to partition my sd card with ext 2 for 1024mb. i used rom manager but that only went to 512mb, which was not enough for rcmixs v2.0. so i tried using gparted live. i did not have a spare cd so i used vmware. everything went as the video, but gparted could not detect the sd card, even though vmware was showing that it was connected. was i doing something wrong? i was also searching around and i found a post where there was another method. i had to get unrovoked 3.14 and a custom recovery image and part it in boot. would that work?
appologies if a thread on this matter existed, and if it does please direct me to it. thanks.
when I put my card in card reader slot on laptop I could't format/partition it. I suggest to partition you card while it is in the phone using GParted or Paragon Partition Magic.
Also with unrevoked 3.14 you can flash custom image recovery like AmonRA or RMD, they can make partition to 4gb
Thanks for the quick reply. I did mount using my phone, but gparted did not pick it up. I will try the recovery method.
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instead of vmware you may want to try virtualbox. That's what I use and never had problems with it. Otherwise, if you don't have spare CDs but have a flash drive, you may use it as a bootable drive using YUMI: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
thanks. i did the recovery method and my card is now partitioned... so thanks for your help. now hopefully rcmix s v2 will work.
it works!!
Hello everybody,
I bought the above micro sd card but the problem is when installed it i realised that the phone dont seem to be able to able to mount it...
what should i do ?
Is it formatted to Fat32?
The more important question is what message it shows when tried mount it.
I have had the same isue, only way for me was to use a RUU file
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You can also try formatting it with Android.
it says something like unable to write ums lunfile
PoLiThS said:
it says something like unable to write ums lunfile
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I googled and found this on a other forum:
Code:
I get error mounting sdcard (no such file or directory) and unable to write to ums lunfile (no such file or directory)
Edit: I Solved the problem by rebooting into recovery using rom manager. Thanks.
It's interesting how can be people independent and resourceful if the really want to. Then why we have so many question threads are beyond my comprehension.
People should use Google more before posting....
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People should use Google more before posting....
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^This.^
10char
Of course i googled before asking this question..
The problem is... I boot into recovery but i cant mount my SD. I used other phones and the card is recognised normally
An alcatel one touch 908 and my previous HTC touch HD.
I'm running Leedroid 3.3.3 Data++ version which means i cant boot without an sd card becouse many things run from the sd-ext partition and of course since i cant mount the SD i cannot even flash again Leedroid or any other Rom.. so i cant simply reboot into recovery using Rom Manager.
But since u told me all this i'm going to simply install a clean CM7 nightly and try to reboot into recovery via rom manager..
USB brick. Search for solution.
My usb working flawlessly. Everything happening had to do only with this specific card
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As far as I know unable to mount sdcard is part of USB brick.
i can mount any other sd card but this specific one.... and i try to find what's wrong here..
Fire up Android and format SD card with it.
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USB brick. Search for solution.
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Where the hell did you get that information? The fact that an SD card cannot be mounted is not in the least related to a USB brick, they are two totally seperate issues. You may find that on restoring SD card functionality that you then have a USB brick but it's not necessarily so and it cannot be ascertained without first fixing the SD card issue (and by the symptoms as described I highly doubt he has a USB brick).
To the OP, I would suggest that you copy everything from the SD card to your PC via an SD card reader. You can then either format it via G-Parted (Linux bootable disk) or via MiniDisk Partition Wizard. Copy everything back plus the rom of your choice.
You'll then need to flash the rom (assuming that your phone now 'sees' the SD card). You're going to lose everything that you installed, there's no way around this. The copy back and forth is to restore your music / photos and if you're lucky one or two of your apps may find an existing file of history to restore.
Please also report any messages the phone gives regarding the SD card and also try another SD card (if you have one) before you go the above route.
wierd things happening....
When i boot into recovery with power+vol down i cant mount my sd but if i do it through rom manager it works flawlessly... anyway i kept it this way. I installed a clean CM7 build formated my card and then all the things i do i do them via Rom manager...
btw i see speed increase using a class 10 card compared to class 4
PoLiThS said:
wierd things happening....
When i boot into recovery with power+vol down i cant mount my sd but if i do it through rom manager it works flawlessly... anyway i kept it this way. I installed a clean CM7 build formated my card and then all the things i do i do them via Rom manager...
btw i see speed increase using a class 10 card compared to class 4
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what are the recoveries u talking about?
when u go in recovery with power+vol down u access the permanent recovery (what version?); while using rom manager u access another recovery version probably (as rom manager use fake flash, even if the latest version should use permanent flash)
sorry for being late answering..
both recoveries are 5.0.2.0
I got HTC Wildfire and i just installed RemPuzzle 2.83(which is great btw but that's not the point here)
and my CWM recovery is v2 or i don't remember.
i had v5 in my sd card.
i booted on my recovery(old version) and then i selected to install v5.
from v5 i selected to partition the sd card(options 4GB memory and swap 0) :silly:
it completed the task and after that the sd card is uselless.
the phone can't read the sd and my computer(windows) suggests to format the sd card but it cannot complete the task.
my question is
can i get the sd card working again or it's going to the trash can?
i don't care about the data inside,before anything was done i ha backup done to my pc.
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I got HTC Wildfire and i just installed RemPuzzle 2.83(which is great btw but that's not the point here)
and my CWM recovery is v2 or i don't remember.
i had v5 in my sd card.
i booted on my recovery(old version) and then i selected to install v5.
from v5 i selected to partition the sd card(options 4GB memory and swap 0) :silly:
it completed the task and after that the sd card is uselless.
the phone can't read the sd and my computer(windows) suggests to format the sd card but it cannot complete the task.
my question is
can i get the sd card working again or it's going to the trash can?
i don't care about the data inside,before anything was done i ha backup done to my pc.
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Use clockworkmod v 5 to format the SD card or just re-partition again with a swap size
my phone can't recognise the sd card.not even in recovery.when i selected wipe sd card it says "skipped sd card - complete"
as an effect i also can't partition again the sd card from my mobile.
Try to format your sd card via cmd (windows).
Just a thought.
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didn't work either..
cannot complete the task.
i'm gonna try with a partition manager and see if i have any luck..
geogs said:
didn't work either..
cannot complete the task.
i'm gonna try with a partition manager and see if i have any luck..
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Using an sdcard reader use the windows program called easeus partition master. If that doesn't work your only hope may be a Linux terminal. But make sure you use a different card reader as to rule out the phone as an issue.
Hiya mate, have a try with Heavy_Metal_Man suggestion with a partition manager, a good one I use is Mini Partition Manager, it has detected the 3 cards I have broke before :silly:
mount it to pc,
completely remove all partitions
and create 1 new partition across entire card,
reboot in to recovery when it tells you its created the partition.
and try it again
Hope this helps, if it did click " Thanks " on the posts you think helped!
ok guys.
thank you for your help.
i solved it...
i used MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition (with card reader) and saw the sd card and recreated all the needing staff so the sd card could be usable again.
what i did with CWM recovery is that i didn't replace totally the stock CWM,i just run the v5 something like virtually.and that created the problem.
thank you guys for your response!
cheers.
Hi,
Years ago I rooted my HTC Desire A8181 and flashed it with a custom LeeDrOiD V2.x ROM.
It worked flawlessly.
I stopped use that phone after I bought a Samsung.
Recently I found my old HTC Desire in a closet and wanted to see if it works.
I enabled the Desire and it shows white background with HTC word in the middle of the screen. Then it shows black background with ANDROID word in the middle of the screen and that screen stays forever. Right now there are no SIM and Memory cards in the phone.
I suppose, without memory card the phone will not boot, correct?
Please advice, what should I do to bring my HTC Desire back to life.
Thanks
Evgeny
LeeDroid 2.5 must have sd memory for sd-ext partition.
ze7zez said:
LeeDroid 2.5 must have sd memory for sd-ext partition.
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I see!
I have to find a new card to do that.
Please remind me
1. Can I format SD Card with FAT32 & an EXT3 partitions in the phone?
2. Do I need to copy a Zipped file (Recovery ZIP ?) to the card and where can I find it?
Is there a ROM for this old phone, which not requires an external SD memory card?
Thanks again.
Evgeny
evgenyg said:
I see!
I have to find a new card to do that.
Please remind me
1. Can I format SD Card with FAT32 & an EXT3 partitions in the phone?
2. Do I need to copy a Zipped file (Recovery ZIP ?) to the card and where can I find it?
Is there a ROM for this old phone, which not requires an external SD memory card?
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You can create partitions in SD using TWRP or CWM recovery.
You insert "ROM.ZIP" on FAT32 partition. In recovery you choose this place.
All firmware RUU do not include service sd-ext.
Thanks,
I got it!
Evgeny