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I just got a 32GB Micro SD Card for my evo and I am trying to replace my current 8gb card. I was previously running MIUI 11.26 and using clockworkmod recovery. I followed these steps because I couldn't find anything Evo specific:
http://theunlockr.com/2009/10/15/ho...-android-when-using-swap-hero-and-or-apps2sd/
when trying to format and reapply the rom i was using i received this error msg:
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0) (No such file or directory)
Now I don't know where to go from there. I previously had a 16GB card fry because apparently i didn't take the correct steps to get it working properly, i do not want that to happen again. Can ANYONE give me specific instructions for swapping my SD Card for my Evo?? If so I would GREATLY appreciate it!!!
And yes...this is probably rather "noob-ish" and I DID already search the forums for any help and couldn't find what i was looking for. Again any help is appreciated
Thanks!!
just copy all files from your 8g card to the 32g card pop it in the evn and you are good to go, nothing special required. Unless you are using apps to sd, then the easiest way s to put all apps back on the phone, then after switching to the new sd put them all back on the sd.
ifly4vamerica said:
just copy all files from your 8g card to the 32g card pop it in the evn and you are good to go, nothing special required. Unless you are using apps to sd, then the easiest way s to put all apps back on the phone, then after switching to the new sd put them all back on the sd.
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Yea I tried that and kept getting an error msg. I think there are specific steps for partitioning etc I just don't know them.
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sorry if i'm misinformed but the evo has 2.2/apps2sd built in and 2.2 partitions the sd card on reboot. The article u linked i believe is for devices with 2.1 or ealier and a modded apps2sd . I have swapped many different cards and have not had to do anything that special.
Here are my steps:
1. go into settings manage applications and pull all apps back to phone.
2. copy all files/pics/vids/whatever u want to keep to computer.
3. power off, swap out sd cards, power back on.
4. phone should boot and partition sd or whatever.
5. use astro file manager and if it shows directory for sd, asec, secure then everything is good and u can move apps back to sd.
6. hook phone to sd and move all your kept files from old sd to new sd
I have seen your problem happen with a bad sd card, where did you get the 32g card. You may want to test it and see if it is actually a 32g.
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flight01 said:
sorry if i'm misinformed but the evo has 2.2/apps2sd built in and 2.2 partitions the sd card on reboot. The article u linked i believe is for devices with 2.1 or ealier and a modded apps2sd . I have swapped many different cards and have not had to do anything that special.
Here are my steps:
1. go into settings manage applications and pull all apps back to phone.
2. copy all files/pics/vids/whatever u want to keep to computer.
3. power off, swap out sd cards, power back on.
4. phone should boot and partition sd or whatever.
5. use astro file manager and if it shows directory for sd, asec, secure then everything is good and u can move apps back to sd.
6. hook phone to sd and move all your kept files from old sd to new sd
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Thanks for the response...just a question before i go forward with it, when i replace the card and reboot the phone, is it automatically going to boot up w/ the rom i was using before replacing the card?
Edit: Tried these steps and got stuck in bootloop for MIUI (rom i had flashed previously). Even tried to put the initial PC36IMG file on the sd card and flash it through recovery, nothing! It searched for it then says it directory cannot be found. I've put the 32gb card in my card reader on my computer and it comes up just fine, I can add files to it, format it etc and everything works, any other suggestions...this is becoming highly frustrating! Again any help is definitely welcomed!
So i still cannot seem to get this working, and I've tried doing a lot of different things and nothing is working for me, I have tried to install some sort of file manager program (astro) but it doesn't recognize my sd card, yet my phone shows it as mounted and with plenty of space available. I do not know what else to do...can ANYONE help me?
i had a similiar problem recently. For christmas I received a new sd card. At fist it didn't recognize my card. I tried to format it using my PC but I then went to my recovery (Amon RA) and clicked on the Partition SD card option.
After I partitioned, I turned on USB-MS toggle and put all my files back into the phone (including my rom zip).
I disabled USB-MS toggle, and then wiped data/factory reset, cache, dalvik-cache
Flashed zip from sdcard and violoa. It works!
try that one out.
kakashi_s1 said:
i had a similiar problem recently. For christmas I received a new sd card. At fist it didn't recognize my card. I tried to format it using my PC but I then went to my recovery (Amon RA) and clicked on the Partition SD card option.
After I partitioned, I turned on USB-MS toggle and put all my files back into the phone (including my rom zip).
I disabled USB-MS toggle, and then wiped data/factory reset, cache, dalvik-cache
Flashed zip from sdcard and violoa. It works!
try that one out.
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I'm going to try that and see if it works, i just went back to Amon Ra today from clockwork. Thanks!
kakashi_s1 said:
i had a similiar problem recently. For christmas I received a new sd card. At fist it didn't recognize my card. I tried to format it using my PC but I then went to my recovery (Amon RA) and clicked on the Partition SD card option.
After I partitioned, I turned on USB-MS toggle and put all my files back into the phone (including my rom zip).
I disabled USB-MS toggle, and then wiped data/factory reset, cache, dalvik-cache
Flashed zip from sdcard and violoa. It works!
try that one out.
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how would i partition a 8 GB micro sd card with AmonRA?
i recently partitoned my htc evo 4g,but i have no idea how to undo it.Ive heard you can just use normal hardrive management software,but when i plug my fone in and open it in my computer,it says under it FAT32 and a little dialog box popsup saying "acess denied".I was hoping there would be someway to recover all my stuff on the sd card,or is it all gone,because all of a sudden i have like 6.89gb left on my sd ,and before this accident i only had like 191mb.
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i recently partitoned my htc evo 4g,but i have no idea how to undo it.
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The only way to undo ir is ro repartition it. Im not aware of anything like Partition Magic for smartphones or SD cards.
Ive heard you can just use normal hardrive management software,but when i plug my fone in and open it in my computer,it says under it FAT32 and a little dialog box popsup saying "acess denied".
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Does your computer have a card reader or do you have access to a card reader to see if it can be done?
I was hoping there would be someway to recover all my stuff on the sd card,or is it all gone,because all of a sudden i have like 6.89gb left on my sd ,and before this accident i only had like 191mb.
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That is where I'm confused. Normally, when you partition a card, all of its contents are erased. My question to you is this: after you partitioned your card, were you able to access its contents? If so and if you have amon RA as your recovery, go into recovery, plug your EVO to your computer and then select the "MS-USB" option from within recovery. Your card should mount and be seen by your computer. You should be able to copy the contents of your card to your computer of all is well. If not, consider the contents erased and simply re-partition the card from within recovery or go to the wipe menu of the recovery and select "wipe SD card"
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On my mac, when my phone is plugged in, it will recognize both partitions and format the whole card.
Also, you can go into recovery and partition the card again, but choose 0 for heap and 0 for partition. It will reformat with not partition.
You can repartition either using recovery and selecting 0 for the ext partition size, or use windows diskpart utility to delete/repartition. Under windows, you will need a third party utility to format the space as fat32 however.
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 really really need your help guys I think I bricked my friend's fone -- seeing how epic this ICS Pureness rom is I tried installing it onto his fone -- everything went well -- but the rom won't detect his sd card -- I can use it via cwm -- I did all the flashing through it but still it won't work.
I tried mounting it through the rom -- settings > storage -- there the mount sd card button has no effect and says insert memory card -- then i went into cwm and did unmount /sdcard -- then mount /sdcard -- still it wouldn't show up..
I then tried to format it using windows it formatted alright but still it wont detect !!
then I did this -- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1949372 -- still won't work
please help me out!!
randolf1956 said:
I really really need your help guys I think I bricked my friend's fone -- seeing how epic this ICS Pureness rom is I tried installing it onto his fone -- everything went well -- but the rom won't detect his sd card -- I can use it via cwm -- I did all the flashing through it but still it won't work.
I tried mounting it through the rom -- settings > storage -- there the mount sd card button has no effect and says insert memory card -- then i went into cwm and did unmount /sdcard -- then mount /sdcard -- still it wouldn't show up..
I then tried to format it using windows it formatted alright but still it wont detect !!
then I did this -- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1949372 -- still won't work
please help me out!!
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Did you try to format sd on cwm? I tell you beacouse i 've gote same issue few days ago, trying roms and sd2ext, and trying diferents ways to format it and finally it work, dont worry.
i was doing the exact same thing -- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1310309 -- was trying this out
so I had the fone on -- and created a ext3 parition of 2 gb using mini partition tool -- this was all when the fone was working and the fone was connect as mass storage --
then i installed the rom - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1788701 -- and when it booted up -- i couldn't see the sdcard -- and the mount option was greyed out
I did try the fomart /sdcard option from cwm it did not have any effect --
randolf1956 said:
i was doing the exact same thing -- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1310309 -- was trying this out
so I had the fone on -- and created a ext3 parition of 2 gb using mini partition tool -- this was all when the fone was working and the fone was connect as mass storage --
then i installed the rom - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1788701 -- and when it booted up -- i couldn't see the sdcard -- and the mount option was greyed out
I did try the fomart /sdcard option from cwm it did not have any effect --
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I think minitool partiton format it's guilty, when i was trying i've got same problems as you try to conect phone to pc, not the sd card to reader, and format sd card whit windows disk administrator.
jcgechevarria said:
I think minitool partiton format it's guilty, when i was trying i've got same problems as you try to conect phone to pc, not the sd card to reader, and format sd card whit windows disk administrator.
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well how did you fix it ?
When creating a partition use CWM or put the card in a reader, trying while the card is in the Phone and connected to the PC will give issues.
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XperienceD said:
When creating a partition use CWM or put the card in a reader, trying while the card is in the Phone and connected to the PC will give issues.
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I tried reformatting it using card reader-- and cwm (after I messed up )-- now it doesn't respond to anything ?
randolf1956 said:
I tried reformatting it using card reader-- and cwm (after I messed up )-- now it doesn't respond to anything ?
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Use the Phones option instead, I think that's what I did, but if the Phone isn't reading it then not too sure what to do next.
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XperienceD said:
Use the Phones option instead, I think that's what I did, but if the Phone isn't reading it then not too sure what to do next. Sent from Myushi
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I tried using the mount and storage > format /sdcard option from CWM as well -- it completed successfully -- but did not work
the sdcard is detected by CWM as I installed the rom and mods through that -- only that once the rom and everything is installed and when I boot into it -- I don't see the sdcard -- says Mount SDcard under -- settings > storage -- and the button is greyed out !!
will deleting all partitions and creating new ones have any effect on it using disk manager in windows ?
ohh and another thing -- when the SDcard is replaced with another one it works on the fone !!
Deleting the partitions is worth a try, I resolved my issue before without a card reader but can't recall exactly what I did, and I got the issue by trying to create one with the Phone connected so just keep trying.
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Deleting the partitions is worth a try, I resolved my issue before without a card reader but can't recall exactly what I did, and I got the issue by trying to create one with the Phone connected so just keep trying.
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sure -- I always have the option of giving my friend a new memory card -- but wanna try all possible options before -- shelling out money
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well how did you fix it ?
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Sorry i was out of office driving, well, only thing i can tell you it's that partitioning sd card for android seems to be a sh..t, now i don't remember what i did, but i tryed: putting sd card into a card reader, conecting the phone to pc, and formating with cwm, but sorry i don't remember wath worked finally.
Edit: Did you format sd on fat32 file system?
Did you test another sd card?
jcgechevarria said:
Sorry i was out of office driving, well, only thing i can tell you it's that partitioning sd card for android seems to be a sh..t, now i don't remember what i did, but i tryed: putting sd card into a card reader, conecting the phone to pc, and formating with cwm, but sorry i don't remember wath worked finally.
Did you test another sd card?
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yes I did try another sd card -- it worked -- haven't tried deleting the partitions and starting fresh -- that will be the first thing I try tomorrow!
will do it via windows disk management -- using a card reader.
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yes I did try another sd card -- it worked -- haven't tried deleting the partitions and starting fresh -- that will be the first thing I try tomorrow!
will do it via windows disk management -- using a card reader.
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You are right, windows disk manager it's the best way for me. Good luck!
Great news guys !! -- got the SD card working -- as told by you guys it was indeed the partiitions that were the problem
so here's what i did -- put the card into card reader
ran it thru mini partition tool
deleted all the partitions on the sd card
created new partitions -- fat32 and ext4 (for apps2sd)
and installed rom again !!
you guys are awesome -- I <3 XDA
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Set you SD card partition as Active!
Hi everyone,
I have a 64gb sandisk microsd external card, in a att galaxy s3 and it appears to be acting very strange.
i can't add or delete anything from it, i put it in my brothers galaxy s2 to format it (my s3 not having the option(which is strange)) and it let me format it, but when it remounts its at the exact same place, with 42.2gb free storage space, which is what it was at before i formatted it, i did it a few times same thing.
if i manually try to delete things from the card through my phone or computer they either hang or they do delete then upon reboot all the files are back. I hope its not corrupted but it sounds like it is. i've used a few apps like sd tools which runs speed tests, and i get about 130mb write speed a second and 5000mb read speed a second which sounds like it should be able to read and write things but unfortunately it just won't
any help would be greatly appreciated.
zerogood said:
Hi everyone,
I have a 64gb sandisk microsd external card, in a att galaxy s3 and it appears to be acting very strange.
i can't add or delete anything from it, i put it in my brothers galaxy s2 to format it (my s3 not having the option(which is strange)) and it let me format it, but when it remounts its at the exact same place, with 42.2gb free storage space, which is what it was at before i formatted it, i did it a few times same thing.
if i manually try to delete things from the card through my phone or computer they either hang or they do delete then upon reboot all the files are back. I hope its not corrupted but it sounds like it is. i've used a few apps like sd tools which runs speed tests, and i get about 130mb write speed a second and 5000mb read speed a second which sounds like it should be able to read and write things but unfortunately it just won't
any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Take the SD card and use a custom recovery to wipe it clean. That might help
xXshur1kenXx said:
Take the SD card and use a custom recovery to wipe it clean. That might help
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Okay, i used twrp, i'm updated to latest version, i went to wipe advanced, then microsd card says succesfull but its very short. when i reboot the storage is still the same. can't add or remove files still.
zerogood said:
Okay, i used twrp, i'm updated to latest version, i went to wipe advanced, then microsd card says succesfull but its very short. when i reboot the storage is still the same. can't add or remove files still.
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Hmm. You might have to try a double format in TWRP, then when you load up the System use the system's format tool. (i.e. Storage --> Wipe SD Card). If that doesn't work, you might need to find someone with a microsd to USB jig or something of the sort and use a computer to format it.
xXshur1kenXx said:
Hmm. You might have to try a double format in TWRP, then when you load up the System use the system's format tool. (i.e. Storage --> Wipe SD Card). If that doesn't work, you might need to find someone with a microsd to USB jig or something of the sort and use a computer to format it.
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yeah thanks for the support, tried a number of things in twrp but to no avail. i went out and bought another 64gb microsd card and put it in my phone, works perfectly. but still i'm trying to get the other card working. the new card came with an adapter so i've been trying to format it in my computer. i've used windows format, i do the long one, it gets all the way to the end looks like its complete then says unable to format. and all teh data is still there, i've also tried guiformat by ridgecrop, says success but still all the information is still there.
i don't know if this means the card is corrupt i'd always assumed i'd get corruption error messages.
is there a program i can use to scan the card for errors or corruption?
thanks again dude for the responses any additional help will be very much appreciated still.
again thanks.
solution sorta found
Okay, finally ran out of options and things to search for so broke down and called sandisk techncial suport (didn't think they could help but my mistake)
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