[Q] Random reboots 3.70.651.1 - EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I'm having this issue with an EVO I rooted for someone, it randomly reboots. If I remove the SD card and boot up the phone it works perfectly, when the SD card is re-installed it will randomly start rebooting. Any fix to this issue or someone suffering from the same problems?
The phone has the stock rom de-odexed 3.70.651.1 rooted with unrevoked3.
Any advice?

freditoj said:
I'm having this issue with an EVO I rooted for someone, it randomly reboots. If I remove the SD card and boot up the phone it works perfectly, when the SD card is re-installed it will randomly start rebooting. Any fix to this issue or someone suffering from the same problems?
The phone has the stock rom de-odexed 3.70.651.1 rooted with unrevoked3.
Any advice?
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The first thing I would try is formatting the sd card. Perhaps there is a corrupt file on it or something. Back up the important stuff that is needed (pics, music, whatever) then format it. Either use a windows machine to format it FAT32, or use the phone to format it. I believe the setting is from Sd and storage, from the settings menu.

Anything else besides losing all of the data in the SD card?

freditoj said:
Anything else besides losing all of the data in the SD card?
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If you back it up first you won't lose anything.
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So backup SD card, format SD card then restore data to SD card again.
Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of the format?

freditoj said:
So backup SD card, format SD card then restore data to SD card again.
Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of the format?
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If you are getting random reboots and you narrowed it down to your SD card. You want to try saving what you need like pictures and etc. Format the SD card and transfer those files back over. As for your apps on your SD card, yeah those are going to be gone if you format. Something on your SD card isn't playing nice with the ROM.
If it still restarts after this, you will need to wipe data,cache,dalvik in recovery. This will reset everything and you will lose all apps and data.

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Leedroid 2.2d and corrupted sd card

Hey guys,
I was going through the process of installing the new leedroid rom by T-mod 2.2d.
I did a back up from nandroid and did a full wipe.
I went to install from zip and i couldnt find any of my ROMs i had copied onto my sd card? i am 100% confident i placed them in there.
Just today i partitioned my sd card properly with two primary partions of fat32 and ext3. Fat 32 has 29gb free and ext 3 has 512. Could there be a problem here? i just followed the instructions provided and everything looked sweet.
Before i had partitioned i copied all my files onto my HD then i proceeded using Gparted. Since everything was wiped off my SD card i just cut all the backup files from my HD back to the SD. It took up too much space on my pc!
All i have done is factory wiped and clear dalvik and then i rebooted (since none of the ROMs were listed in 'install zip from sd card'. It was then stuck on the leedroid startup page and goes on a loop.
I then performed a restore from nandroid. It now boots up fine, but now my SD card seems to be corrupted! all the files in there are shown with symbols etc. I can add new files into the sd card though and they dont appear to have weird symbols. I clicked on the disk and clicked on the diagnostic button which i also selected to fix automatically issues. Now my whole SD is wiped. and there are no files in there anymore... i put a few mp3s within and the music players dont detect any mp3 music.
Anyone have a take on what i can do? argh! i am still on 2.2b after the restore but my sd card has no files etc.
please someone help me, i will be very grateful!
Brendan_au said:
Hey guys,
I was going through the process of installing the new leedroid rom by T-mod 2.2d.
I did a back up from nandroid and did a full wipe.
I went to install from zip and i couldnt find any of my ROMs i had copied onto my sd card? i am 100% confident i placed them in there.
Just today i partitioned my sd card properly with two primary partions of fat32 and ext3. Fat 32 has 29gb free and ext 3 has 512. Could there be a problem here? i just followed the instructions provided and everything looked sweet.
Before i had partitioned i copied all my files onto my HD then i proceeded using Gparted. Since everything was wiped off my SD card i just cut all the backup files from my HD back to the SD. It took up too much space on my pc!
All i have done is factory wiped and clear dalvik and then i rebooted (since none of the ROMs were listed in 'install zip from sd card'. It was then stuck on the leedroid startup page and goes on a loop.
I then performed a restore from nandroid. It now boots up fine, but now my SD card seems to be corrupted! all the files in there are shown with symbols etc. I can add new files into the sd card though and they dont appear to have weird symbols. I clicked on the disk and clicked on the diagnostic button which i also selected to fix automatically issues. Now my whole SD is wiped. and there are no files in there anymore... i put a few mp3s within and the music players dont detect any mp3 music.
Anyone have a take on what i can do? argh! i am still on 2.2b after the restore but my sd card has no files etc.
please someone help me, i will be very grateful!
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it may just be a corrupt sd card, it happens sometimes you should return it and get it replaced
It was working 100% fine for a long time mate.
Should i go back into Gparted and delete my ext3 partition? I want to format my sd card, but im really confused atm.
My phone is working etc with all messages and phone history still here. It is running T-mod 2.2b. But all my apps which i had stored to my sd card are no longer functioning and i also wiped delvik from my phone.
Brendan_au said:
It was working 100% fine for a long time mate.
Should i go back into Gparted and delete my ext3 partition? I want to format my sd card, but im really confused atm.
My phone is working etc with all messages and phone history still here. It is running T-mod 2.2b. But all my apps which i had stored to my sd card are no longer functioning and i also wiped delvik from my phone.
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your best bet isnt to just format it, but use gparted to delete both partitions on your sd card, then re-partition and try again
I just deleted both partitions and just created 1 partition as fat 32 will full memory using Gparted. I unmounted my phone and took the sd card out and put it back in, rebooted.
Connected it to my pc - but there are no folders in the SD card?
The phone isnt installing any software on the sd card when i boot it up?
I put mp3 files into the sd card but the phone doesnt read any music. Is it because im using a rooted desire? with T-mod 2.2b.
Literally all my files on my SD card are gone, no idea how to proceed
anyone??
I can still move apps (not the dalvik) to the sd card.
But my SD card has no folders in it. My phone wont install any on the SD card.
It says i have full memory out of full memory available. I formatted the sd card just then, since all my files are not there anyways.. still nothing happening
Help! running T-mod leedroid 2.2b! all internal apps etc are working fine.
What if i perfom an nandroid backup, store it to the sd card.
Then put the 2.2d rom and radio rom on and flash the two?
Will all the folders etc be stored back to my sd card?
Update: performed nandroid backup. Put 2.2d rom and radio rom on the sd card and again it does not appear on the zip list in recovery.
What is going on!
Fixed pm me if you want solution
i have similar weird SD carfd problems too. Suddenly, my sd card goes missing in the software and i must reset. happened 3x since I installed LeeDroid on my new HTC Desire in the last 7 days.
Brendan_au said:
Fixed pm me if you want solution
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why not post here? if this turns out to be quite common you woudnt want to reply to xxx users would you ?
I have had the same issue twice now under LeeDroid 2.2a and 2.2b.
Right now I am using my Ubuntu laptop so I inserted the SD card into the laptop. It mounts the 7.5 gig Fat32 partition and lets me read what's on there, but it wont properly mount the ext3 partition. It shows as blank in the file browser (on the laptop) and wont let me copy to it or create any new files, so it seems corrupted in some way.
I knew I had a problem last night because my phone freezes on the white-background with green "HTC" lettering whilst booting. If I take the SD card out of the phone it boots ok, likewise if I replace the card with a different one, that's only formatted Fat32, that works ok.
I used the built in function of ROM manager to prepare the SD card, it created a 512mb ext3 partition at the end of the disk, not sure if that makes a difference. Has anyone had any success using proper apps like gparted to partition the card?
Really pi**ed off at this phone now. Dont want to wipe the card again just to have it work in my phone for another week.
[Solution]
I had a friend check out what was up with my SD card. Nandroids and zips were being stored onto the sd card but they weren't appearing on the fat32 side.
In fact, all the files were being stored to ext3! this was the root of the issue. I believe i partitioned incorrectly or what not by using Gparted. I have resulted in using Rom Manager (download off market) instead to set partition ~ much easier.
To fix the main issue with SD card: Go to phone settings -> SD & Phone Storage -> Unmount SD card --> Format SD Card.
Files should appear on your sd card again -> connect your phone to your USB and check that the files are back. That's your fix
Then just add your Roms, music, videos back onto your fat32 partition as before. Using Rom Manager, the Roms stored on SD appear again.
Edit: i have installed T-mod leedroid 2.2d and is working great.
To the previous post ~ i just did a full wipe because all my files on the SD card were corrupted anyways, could not even copy them. But i didn't think my SD card itself was corrupted.
Thanks,
Brendan
I did a little more investigating last night. On Ubuntu, if I insert the SD card, it mounts both partitions, but it can only read the fat32 one. I can see my images and stuff from there so I know its ok. But if I view the ext3 partition, it shows as empty, but if I right click on it, the properties show that there is 123mb in use of the 512mb partition. That seems about right because there should be some apps and stuff in there. I have made sure that the files arent hidden or anything, but still nothing.
If I try and copy anything to the partition, it wont let me and gives me a rather cryptic error: something along the lines that it cant access the card because it is not ready? I couldn't even unmount the disk because of the same error. I dont have my Ubuntu machine with me now so I cant check.
I can copy the stuff I want off my card and re-format/partition it but to be honest its more hassle than its worth.
I'd be more inclined to find out why this is happening. It only seems to go after the handset is rebooted (my battery went flat on Saturday) and since then, nothing.
I appreciate you posting your solution but I think we have slightly different problems..
Thanks

[Q] SD CARD!

im having problems with my sd it keeps having a mounting problem my question is if i format it will i lose the clockworks recovery?
Neutron619sd said:
im having problems with my sd it keeps having a mounting problem my question is if i format it will i lose the clockworks recovery?[/QUO
You won't lost clockwork but you will lost your backups. I don't suggest formating your memory card just yet I had the same problem this morning. My memory card wouldn't mount or unmount. If your running windows 7 and have a attachment that you can insert your memory card into then plug into your computer it will ask you to scan your memory card let it do so and it will try to recover any thing that's corrupted after that i just popped it back in my phone and I was good to go. Let me know if that worked out for ya.
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[Q 4.21.11] Blank SD Card

So it's possible I might just be dumb and screwed up, but I think I might have reformatted something that I didn't mean to reformat.
I wanted to wipe my SD card because I found that there were random pics appearing in my gallery of people I've never seen before in my life (got the phone second hand but popped the SD card in that I used with my old Fascinate). Opening up My Computer, there were two different removable discs that were the SD card inside my phone and what I now presume to be internal storage. I backed up everything I wanted and wiped both the SD card and the other storage device via my laptop.
Here is the problem. Whenever I boot the phone up, there is a notification that says my SD card is either blank or not in a compatible format... It asks if I want to format it, I click OK, and everything seems fine... Until I have to reboot the phone and it does the same thing all over again. This is getting to be an annoyance because I don't want to keep deleting everything on my SD card whenever I reboot my phone.
Can anybody help me fix this?
Okay I definitely did something to the internal storage. I tried taking my SD card out and rebooting it and I am still getting the blank SD card notification. It won't let me format it. What do I do?
Try connecting the sdcard to your computer through a usb adapter, or any alternative to using the phone's USB-mount. Format it with FAT32. Put it back in your phone and see if it works. If not, you might have a corrupt sdcard. Try a different one if available.
What directory were the pictures appearing in? It's possible they were cached from the browser or some social app.

Phone is not reading SD card?

While i was updating one of my apps my phone went to a black screen and restarted i think, i wasn't paying attention to it at the time. And when it came back on none of my apps on my sd card were available. Also im unable to mount or unmount my sd card. I also restarted and removed the battery and sd card, which did nothing.
I just tried a different sd card and it worked. Is it possible that my sd card just died?
Does any other device (Phone, PC card reader) reads your card?
Try re-format it (use 3rd party app).
If not working, then it's dead.
I have the same problem with my SD card.
A formatted and go from zero.
I've had something like this, my card seemed to format itself while in use.
I just reformated the lot and repartitioned using gparted and everything was fine,
think it was down to a dodgy app? on my phone because after i deleted a few apps it never happened again.
What would be an app that would reformat it? And i tired a diffrent sd card in my phone and it read that one so its just my sd card.
hairywombat1 said:
What would be an app that would reformat it? And i tired a diffrent sd card in my phone and it read that one so its just my sd card.
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Think it was a dodgy copy of swift key that caused it, left that off and its never happened again.
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[Q] Erase SD card

Hey I'm trying to erase my SD card data. but it just stuck at "Unmounting SD card..." forever. What's happening? My SD card is broken?
xtarsam said:
Hey I'm trying to erase my SD card data. but it just stuck at "Unmounting SD card..." forever. What's happening? My SD card is broken?
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maybe...... but you can fixed.... try reflash on stock, if still same problem you can try this :
1. Pull out the sdcard and erase the gold finger part with an eraser. Then put it back.
2. Boot into system and go to storage/mount sdcard, then format it.
I am not sure whether it will work for you or not. But it worked for me. And so far so good, my sdcard runs normally for half a month.
Besides, I do not have the battery issue that you mentioned.
i help by friend in this forum
xtarsam said:
Hey I'm trying to erase my SD card data. but it just stuck at "Unmounting SD card..." forever. What's happening? My SD card is broken?
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I had the same issue and I was not able to fix it actually, my Xperia Arc killed my microsd card so that it wasn't even detectable by CWM or my computer thrrough cardreaders. I would just suggest you to buy a new microsd card, they are quite cheap on sites like dx.com.

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