Have I bricked it? - Desire General

I rooted my stock HTC Desire with unrevoked3. The operation went smoothly but after the last restart, phone won't switch on. It gets stuck on the white HTC screen.
What can I do now?

You can boot into recovery. Turn phone off, hold vol down + power button. When it's finished checking, select recovery with vol keys and power button to select. From there you can mount USB and flash a new rom if you want.

Yes, I can do recovery, and I had my old nandroid image on the card which I restored, but it didn't change a thing.

Flash a rom real quick and see if that works. BTW, when you go to bootloader, what is your PVT? Just curious.

How can I flash it if I can't turn the phone on normally?
PVT 4 SHIP S-ON

Because you use your recovery to mount USB then you transfer a rom across. Then you flash that rom you transferred to your SD card.
I take it you have ClockworkMod 2.5.0.7 or something along those lines? If so, you kind of need Amon_RA recovery because of your PVT.

Meaple said:
Because you use your recovery to mount USB then you transfer a rom across. Then you flash that rom you transferred to your SD card.
I take it you have ClockworkMod 2.5.0.7 or something along those lines? If so, you kind of need Amon_RA recovery because of your PVT.
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Am using ClockworkMod 2.5.0.7 with PVT4 since had desire with no recovery problem's.

Meaple said:
Because you use your recovery to mount USB then you transfer a rom across.
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So in the recovery mode, the phone is seen as external USB drive? How do I enable it?

impactor said:
So in the recovery mode, the phone is seen as external USB drive? How do I enable it?
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Your better off turning phone off, take out your sd card and insert into pc. place your downloaded rom onto sd card and then boot back into recovery and try install from sd card. try that

shankly1985 said:
Your better off turning phone off, take out your sd card and insert into pc. place your downloaded rom onto sd card and then boot back into recovery and try install from sd card. try that
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Yeah, in the ideal world I would be able to find my microSD-SD converter.

Seriously now? It's in mounts and storage. In the real world, if it's in your phone, it stays in your phone. No one knows how to "do things themselves" these days.
And yes, some people do have problems with CWM with PVT4 and so Amon_RA is a lot better since it is more compatible with it.

Meaple said:
Seriously now? It's in mounts and storage. In the real world, if it's in your phone, it stays in your phone.
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I am not sure I know what you are talking about. How can micdoSD->SD converter card stay in my phone?

Seriously dude!! with the kind of lack of knowledge you are showing you were better off with an unrooted stock desire.

impactor said:
I am not sure I know what you are talking about. How can micdoSD->SD converter card stay in my phone?
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emmm.....do you know that there is thing called card reader for your PC or laptops? Take the microSD card out of your phone, stick it in the converter and put it in the card reader then connect the card reader to your computer...heeelllooooo
I wouldn't even have rooted my phone without knowing that.

aaa said:
emmm.....do you know that there is thing called card reader for your PC or laptops? Take the microSD card out of your phone, stick it in the converter and put it in the card reader then connect the card reader to your computer...heeelllooooo
I wouldn't even have rooted my phone without knowing that.
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Helloooo... I've already said I lost my converter. I think we experienced some serious brake down of communication but it is all sorted now.
I flashed newest CyanogenMod and it boots up but when I then go back into recovery and restore my nandroid backup from CyanogenMod beta, it freezes at the HTC screen again.
I had loads of important stuff in there and would really like to restore this backup?

Can't believe I am going to post this link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1016084
Read all of it before you come back and post here.
BTW, in recovery > mounts and storage > mount usb.... was that so hard?

Meaple said:
Can't believe I am going to post this link
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Have you even read my last post?
I flashed a custom room and the phone works, but freezes on HTC boot screen again if I restore my nandroid backup.
EDIT:
I got it to work, finally. I flashed new CyanogenMod 7, then restored nandroid backup from CM7 beta, then flashed CM7 full again and voila - it boots and everything seems to be there.
Thanks.

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[Q] HELP! Desire won't boot up, Clockwork mod recovery accessible

This is my first post on this forum (figures I'll jump head in when I have a serious issue,ha?)
Ok here goes:
My Issue: HTC Desire is stuck on boot-up screen with Green HTC logo forever.
How it happened: I tried flashing a script using ROM Manager that was supposed to correct some local language settings, over my current rom.
Phone state before action: Worked beautifully using Modaco R8 RC1 ROM. Phone is of course rooted.
Why I can't solve it myself: Well, this is my first serious issue (well, I hope it's not serious, actually!) with phone, which i've had for about a week , so I'm relatively a n00b.
-- I can access Clockworkmod recovery. However, under NANDROID RESTORE there are no files. I have no idea why, because I DID a full nandroid backup before that install. I have a copy of all the IMG files of the last working setup on my windows machine hard drive, and my assumption is that maybe I accidentally moved the files to the hard drive after i did that backup, instead of copying them.
Now -
1) Can I somehow restore the phone to a working state without the nandroid backup, using some other function of the CW Mod recovery?
2) Can I somehow connect the phone via USB to the computer and get it to read the Micro SD card so I could maybe move the IMG files I have back to SD Card (using a mounting option)?
3) Anything else I could try?
If nothing else, please just calm me down if you can and let me know the phone is fixable and not bricked because I can access recovery?! That would at least help me go through the night...
last note: Before I flashed the zip, ROM Manager said my CW Mod version is 2.0.5.7. Within the recovery itself, it says the version is only 2.0.5.1. Don't know why that is , and if it is important.
owolfson said:
2) Can I somehow connect the phone via USB to the computer and get it to read the Micro SD card so I could maybe move the IMG files I have back to SD Card (using a mounting option)?
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You could read the SD Card directly with your computer. If you don't already have a microSD/USB reader, they are very cheap and will prove very useful in situations exactly like this one.
cmstlist said:
You could read the SD Card directly with your computer. If you don't already have a microSD/USB reader, they are very cheap and will prove very useful in situations exactly like this one.
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You are right! Indeed they are very cheap, but, unfortunately it's going to be a game of patience for me, because it's late evening right now and the shops are closed.
That's why I Was wondering if there's an option to mount SD using HBOOT or Recovery so I could end this ordeal tonight...
Anyway, The fact I could get into CM Recovery means the phone was not permanently damaged, right?
Right, if you can boot into recovery it's a good sign.
I have an N1, not a Desire, but in my CM recovery menu under "partitions menu" there is a "mount USB storage" option. Try that?
Alternately if you own any other phone with a microSD slot that can mount it via USB, it could be your makeshift USB reader.
I have had a similar issue before! What I actually ended up doing was pushing the files using ADB. Its quite easy and I'm sure you can find lots of threads on how to use it. Once the files are pushed to your SD card you can then restore it
FIXED!
AdamLC said:
I have had a similar issue before! What I actually ended up doing was pushing the files using ADB. Its quite easy and I'm sure you can find lots of threads on how to use it. Once the files are pushed to your SD card you can then restore it
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Problem solved! And yeah, that's how I ended up doing it.. no micro SD card reader was needed..
I installed HTC Sync for the device drivers... then connected the Desire with the USB cable .. and worked out of the problem using ADB commands..
luckily, the guy whose update I installed that caused the problem has the same ROM as myself, so I installed his framework.jar file , and the machine is fine yet again!

[Q] format new microsd

I don't have a card reader and i just got a new 16gb micro sd. once im booted up into CM7 RC2 it says error and i need to format the card. so i click ok and it tells me it cant format it. What am I doing wrong?
nrap said:
I don't have a card reader and i just got a new 16gb micro sd. once im booted up into CM7 RC2 it says error and i need to format the card. so i click ok and it tells me it cant format it. What am I doing wrong?
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Hmmm....have you tried formatting your card from your computer...I always did it that way just to be safe
Sent from my nightly EVO
nrap said:
I don't have a card reader and i just got a new 16gb micro sd. once im booted up into CM7 RC2 it says error and i need to format the card. so i click ok and it tells me it cant format it. What am I doing wrong?
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There is nothing wrong with your card. The SD card error is a known bug with CM7. Deleting the LOST.DIR folder should eliminate the SD card error message. If you feel you want to format it anyway, go into recovery and select "wipe SD Card" if you're using amon RA as your recovery.
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How do i get to the .lostdir? when i plug the phone into the computer it wont mount the sdcard. is that because its not formated for the phone?
this is the first time i've put a brand new sdcard in.
im on clockwork. should i flash to amon_ra for this?
nrap said:
How do i get to the .lostdir? when i plug the phone into the computer it wont mount the sdcard. is that because its not formated for the phone?
this is the first time i've put a brand new sdcard in.
im on clockwork. should i flash to amon_ra for this?
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Did you have CM7 installed PRIOR TO installing the new SD card or was the new card inserted before CM7? If the latter, a LOST.DIR folder *should* be on the root of the card. If not, it's no biggie, just know that the SD card error is a known bug. If the new card was inserted after CM7, then it may indeed need to be formatted thus the reason your PC is not recognizing it. The cards I have, were already formatted and readable when I purchased them. You could use the EVO to format the card for you in the settings-SD card & Phone Storage menu or it's equivalent in CM7 or you can go into recovery and format it. Either way is sufficient and effective.
neither format method i tried works.
ive had CM7 RC2 already running on the phone for a while(since early march)
most things worked fine.
until
ordered the new card and got the card yesterday.
took the old one out
put in the new
and then i get the errors.
can i screw anything up in Clockwork if i try unmounting and mounting and such?
also what is "format sd-ext"? do i need to do that?
nrap said:
neither format method i tried works.
ive had CM7 RC2 already running on the phone for a while(since early march)
most things worked fine.
until
ordered the new card and got the card yesterday.
took the old one out
put in the new
and then i get the errors.
can i screw anything up in Clockwork if i try unmounting and mounting and such?
also what is "format sd-ext"? do i need to do that?
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Unmounting & mounting will not destroy anything in and of itself, however, the card must be mounted in order for you to format it. Format sd-ext means formatting that particular partition, but not the entire card. I recommend you switch to amon RA v2.3. The menus are, in my opinion, clearer and pretty self explanatory. You can format/wipe the entire SD card as well as partition it. You can download it from http://goo.gl/cgh5e
A detailed description of every menu can be downloaded from http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=516947&d=1297626700
To install it:
Place PC36IMG.zip on the root of your sd card.
Boot the phone into the bootloader by powering the phone down, then press the power and the volume down buttons at the same time.
Once the phone boots into the bootloader the phone will automatically recognize the zip file. It will ask if you would like to update, select yes and let it do it's thing and you will be good to go
thanks for the help!
nrap said:
thanks for the help!
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You're very welcome. Enjoy your weekend...
wow.
ok i put my old original card back in and flashed CM7 RC4
put the new "unworking" sdcard in
and boom
worked seemlessly. except when i plug into the computer there are only 3 folders. can i just make a music folder?
so i guess the issue was RC2?
i also updated cwm from 2.5 to 3.0something so i could flash amon from rom manager.
but never did anything with it
yeah man. Enjoy your weekend too!
spring is here
nrap said:
wow.
ok i put my old original card back in and flashed CM7 RC4
put the new "unworking" sdcard in
and boom
worked seemlessly
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Like I aforementioned, there's an SD card bug in CM7
except when i plug into the computer there are only 3 folders. can i just make a music folder?
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Yes, you can.
so i guess the issue was RC2?
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That does appear to be the case.
i also updated cwm from 2.5 to 3.0something so i could flash amon from rom manager.
but never did anything with it
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I do recommend amon RA v2.3. It is a very solid recovery. I also recommend that you do it manually. The installation takes less than 10 seconds. Furthermore, it's a good idea to familiarize yourself with wiping & flashing from within recovery. Anyway, I'm glad you got everything taken care of. Take care, my friend....
yeah man. Enjoy your weekend too!
spring is here[/QUOTE]

[Q] is it shot?

my friend was completly mindless. he used kernal manger to flash the cyanogenmod kernal to his phone. the phone is s-on and nothing works except the phone itself, it does not power properly it needs battery pull and plug ins to get it to start or it just vibrates 5x then freezes. it also does not recognize the sd OR pc, i cant get to it on the pc with correct drivers...its like its not there.
so i went to fix it for him and could not ruu due to the not seeing the device, and couldnt flash anything off the sd due to the sd being not recognized. he told me he had a failed unrevoked session and it put superuser on and cwm on. i CAN get to the hboot screen and when i go into recovery i get into cwm but nothing at all works...
i never saw a brick like this. i would like to call it a live brick dead lol
is it dead?
ty
chef2 said:
my friend was completly mindless. he used kernal manger to flash the cyanogenmod kernal to his phone. the phone is s-on and nothing works except the phone itself, it does not power properly it needs battery pull and plug ins to get it to start or it just vibrates 5x then freezes. it also does not recognize the sd OR pc, i cant get to it on the pc with correct drivers...its like its not there.
so i went to fix it for him and could not ruu due to the not seeing the device, and couldnt flash anything off the sd due to the sd being not recognized. he told me he had a failed unrevoked session and it put superuser on and cwm on. i CAN get to the hboot screen and when i go into recovery i get into cwm but nothing at all works...
i never saw a brick like this. i would like to call it a live brick dead lol
is it dead?
ty
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alright, i didnt read the whole thing. gonna go smoke and think. lol. happened too much today with devs leaving and $h!t
SD card not working? Do you have a card reader or another phone to put it in and format with? See if it is even recognized by anything else other than the phone.
I'm not sure but isn't an SD card necessary for CWM recovery to work?
TheWhiteBandito said:
SD card not working? Do you have a card reader or another phone to put it in and format with? See if it is even recognized by anything else other than the phone.
I'm not sure but isn't an SD card necessary for CWM recovery to work?
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if they want the phone to work, yeah.
sd works anywhere else. sd is not recognized by phone. nothing happens when its pushed in and using astro shows nothing there. cwm just opens but is completly non-functional
chef2 said:
sd works anywhere else. sd is not recognized by phone. nothing happens when its pushed in and using astro shows nothing there. cwm just opens but is completly non-functional
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insane, but try to root it if its stable? anyone else here? i cant really think of another way....
has to be the craziest thing i seen
Can you not use a card reader to put the RUU on and flash it in hboot? I guess not if its S-ON, what error is it giving in unrevoked? If it flashed an alternate recovery then it has to be rooted..
k_nivesout said:
Can you not use a card reader to put the RUU on and flash it in hboot? I guess not if its S-ON, what error is it giving in unrevoked? If it flashed an alternate recovery then it has to be rooted..
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Would running unrevoked again work?
Change roms like I change underwear.
I have the same problem.... HELP
santttoos said:
I have the same problem.... HELP
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Try some of the solutions above and let us know. Re-rooting or putting the RUU found here http://dougpiston.com/?page_id=108 on the SD card
My thoughts are the only fix i can see working would be to flash the RUU in hboot not cwm and then root it properly. That should work provided you can get it to read the sd card in hboot
SD card must be fat 32
the ruu you download must be named "PB31IMG.zip" the case is important it must be in all uppercase
and what you will do is put it on the sdcard using a card reader and your pc then put it in the phone then go into hboot it should read the card find the image and ask you if you wish to flash this. You should if it goes well have a stock phone... You can then run unrevoked again to root it this time...
can not access the sd card at all... sd card works fine in my computer... not mountable... can't figure it out...

[Q] Rooted htc Evo won't boot pass htc screen !!

Hey pls help me I'm rooted with revolutionary "rooting for dummies" .... Everything went well the phone was amazing ... I then installed miui rom and loved it also but then the phone stop reading the sd card it wont pick up on it at all I said forget I disnt need it but then it wouldn't connect to wifi I pulled the battery phone wouldn't boot pass htc Evo 4g screen I tried to boot in recovery no luck I rebooted And did a clear storage to forever for the phone to come on but it did the wifi worked still wouldn't read sd card but now It will no longer boot!!!!! Pls pls pls pls help me I'm freaking out!!
What recovery? You try to install a new recovery thru hboot?
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Lovekelly said:
Hey pls help me I'm rooted with revolutionary "rooting for dummies" .... Everything went well the phone was amazing ... I then installed miui rom and loved it also but then the phone stop reading the sd card it wont pick up on it at all I said forget I disnt need it but then it wouldn't connect to wifi I pulled the battery phone wouldn't boot pass htc Evo 4g screen I tried to boot in recovery no luck I rebooted And did a clear storage to forever for the phone to come on but it did the wifi worked still wouldn't read sd card but now It will no longer boot!!!!! Pls pls pls pls help me I'm freaking out!!
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So are you or are you not able to boot in to recovery? Kinda confused. You said that you tried but no luck but then you rebooted and did a clear storage. So were you able to boot in to recovery the second time? If you can, do a full wipe and try flashing a different rom. You can download one to your PC, boot in to recovery, enable the usb drive, push the file to your phone and flash.
Ummm sorry for the confusion .... I'm talking about I held the volume down and power button to get to the screen I believe it's "bootloader" and tried to select recovery so maybe I can do a backup to wen it previously worked but no luck cause the phone wasnt reading the sd card with the backup on it! So I went back to the "bootloader" and did a "clear storage" it worked but the phone took forever to come on.... I did that about 2 times when the phone wouldnt boot pass the htc screen but now it no lingers works doing that! And to answer you guys question no I'm not able to boot in recovery just to bootloader with the options
Fast boot
Recovery
Clear storage
Reboot
USB hboot
If you guys are still confused let me know I will explain further more the phone will not access recovery at All!
As asked... what recovery did you load? Amon_RA or CWM? Also, what HW version do you have?
O I'm very sorry.... CMW
Hw info:
Android version 2.3.4
Baseband version 2.15.00.0808
Kernel version: [email protected] #1 Sat apr 30 04:36:42 edt 2011
Build number: MIUIAndroid 7.29
And to answer your previous question I don't know how to install a new recovery thru hboot .... I hope this helps you
If you can get to your sd card via a card reader to load a new recovery, then follow the steps here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=705026. Otherwise, try this first to see if you can at least get sd access again: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695243
Ok will try how do I get a card reader?
If you are on a laptop, most recent ones will have a slot for it and may even have the dock/reader to place it in. You can also get an external one that connects via USB at Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Radio Shack. Basically anywhere that sells SD cards. Usually around the camera section. You can also check tigerdirect.com or newegg.com if you can wait to receive it via mail. They usually have bargains that you can take advantage of. If this is your primary phone, then go to a store to get one so you can get your phone working.
Or if you can't get your hands on a card reader, you could stick your card in a different phone (old phone, friends phone, neighbors phone, phone at sprint store, whatever). Then download amonRa recovery from xda (download the PC36IMG version of it). Move it to the root of SD card (i.e. NOT in any folder) using some sort of file explorer on the borrowed phone.
Then put card back into your Evo, boot into bootloader (using power and volume down method you used earlier).
Bootloader should scan your card, find the PC36IMG, and ask if you want to do the update.
Hope this helps.
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Ok thank you I'm going to do it in the morning will this still work for me even thou my phone won't read my sd card??
Your hboot/bootloader should still read your SD card fine. Unique problem, but should read fine. You remember which hboot version you have?
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No but I'll find out of you tell me how to
Well, not really necessary to know, unless you're trying to use some fastboot commands. But, you said you CAN still get into bootloader by holding volume and pressing power, right? Once in bootloader, it will say your hboot info in upper left corner.
In any case, follow the above info about getting recovery as a PC36IMG onto your SD somehow, and boot into bootloader. Good luck. Report back.
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ok doing it as i type on emore thing was is exactly the root of my sd card?
Lovekelly said:
ok doing it as i type on emore thing was is exactly the root of my sd card?
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not in any folders
ok thnx you
hey i put the files on the sd card and did the bootloader and it still didnt recognize the sd card at all i wont do anything..... am i doing something wrong or is there another option
Nvm........
Hun?? I'm confused you put nrvm

[Q] Sdcard damaged after flashing rom

Hi,
Upgrading my Froyo version to a Cyanogen mod and other similar roms creates a damaged sdcard that can be read just from the recovery mode.
I have never partitioned my sdcard. Is it so important?
It has been more than 2 days that I'm trying to upgrade my phone without results
Thank you for helping!
Hey !
did you use a goldcard for your upgrade ? this special card should not be used "as is" to store data after, I think you have to format it again
midy said:
Hi,
Upgrading my Froyo version to a Cyanogen mod and other similar roms creates a damaged sdcard that can be read just from the recovery mode.
I have never partitioned my sdcard. Is it so important?
It has been more than 2 days that I'm trying to upgrade my phone without results
Thank you for helping!
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Usually a reboot removes this error.
If not, Poweroff, take out the sd-card, boot, poweroff, put in the sd-card, boot, and it should be fine.
Enendil said:
Hey !
did you use a goldcard for your upgrade ? this special card should not be used "as is" to store data after, I think you have to format it again
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WTF are you talking about.
Did you use a goldcard for your upgrade ? this special card should not be used "as is" to store data after, I think you have to format it again.
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No. What's a goldcard? I have just one card... I cannot use it just to format.
midy said:
No. What's a goldcard? I have just one card... I cannot use it just to format.
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Don't worry about it, noob poster being stupid. You can read up on it later.
Did you try what I told you to do?
bortak said:
Don't worry about it, noob poster being stupid. You can read up on it later.
Did you try what I told you to do?
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Yes, boot with sdcard => power off => boot without sdcard => power off => boot with sdcard. Didn't work...
Sdcard Damaged :'(
midy said:
Yes, boot with sdcard => power off => boot without sdcard => power off => boot with sdcard. Didn't work...
Sdcard Damaged :'(
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It's not the end of the world.. Put the sd-card in an adapter and backup all of your contents, then put it back into the phone and format it. Put the backed up contents of the sd-card back onto the phone and you're done.
bortak said:
It's not the end of the world.. Put the sd-card in an adapter and backup all of your contents, then put it back into the phone and format it. Put the backed up contents of the sd-card back onto the phone and you're done.
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I tried this too...
Here's the problem:
When I flash the rom on my phone, the lonely way I can read my sd card is to enter to recovery mode and format and backup and every thing I want.
When I try to read it or format it with an adapter on my computer or with my phone in the sdcard preferences, it says that the card is damaged.
When I format with the recovery too and try to read with 'mont storage" it's good on my computer and the card is empty. But when I boot on my phone, I have the same message: sdcard damaged!
Other way to use my sdcard is to do a backup and return to my android Froyo and then every thing is all right but I'm not upgraded
I haven't found any way to upgrade my version without having this problem with my sdcard...
midy said:
I tried this too...
Here's the problem:
When I flash the rom on my phone, the lonely way I can read my sd card is to enter to recovery mode and format and backup and every thing I want.
When I try to read it or format it with an adapter on my computer or with my phone in the sdcard preferences, it says that the card is damaged.
When I format with the recovery too and try to read with 'mont storage" it's good on my computer and the card is empty. But when I boot on my phone, I have the same message: sdcard damaged!
Other way to use my sdcard is to do a backup and return to my android Froyo and then every thing is all right but I'm not upgraded
I haven't found any way to upgrade my version without having this problem with my sdcard...
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Well if your data is corrupt either way, just do a full format in Windows. Put it in the card reader, go to my computer, right click the sd-card, format. Then UNTICK "quick format". This will take a few minutes.
bortak said:
Well if your data is corrupt either way, just do a full format in Windows. Put it in the card reader, go to my computer, right click the sd-card, format. Then UNTICK "quick format". This will take a few minutes.
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Now I think I'm in a big mess!
I did what you told me but it didn't work and further more, the recovry don't want to read my sdcard anymore, so I can't restore my older version now...
I have now the first version I had the day I bought my phone...
midy said:
Now I think I'm in a big mess!
I did what you told me but it didn't work and further more, the recovry don't want to read my sdcard anymore, so I can't restore my older version now...
I have now the first version I had the day I bought my phone...
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Well this is strange, at least you're not in hot water with your phone not booting.
Lets try a more advanced partitioning wizard. Download gparted and burn it onto a cd or make a bootable USB. Then try re-formatting the sd-card in that. It could be a case that your sd-card died, they usually come with lifetime warranties so you should be able to get a new replacement for free.
bortak said:
Well this is strange, at least you're not in hot water with your phone not booting.
Lets try a more advanced partitioning wizard. Download gparted and burn it onto a cd or make a bootable USB. Then try re-formatting the sd-card in that. It could be a case that your sd-card died, they usually come with lifetime warranties so you should be able to get a new replacement for free.
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My Sd-card isn't dead, I can explore it from my computer, it's just my recovery that don't recongnize it.
I downloaded Gparted but I don't know how to use it. It's not executing with Windows??
I will try another sd-card on my phone where I will put my restore.
Thank you for helping
midy said:
My Sd-card isn't dead, I can explore it from my computer, it's just my recovery that don't recongnize it.
I downloaded Gparted but I don't know how to use it. It's not executing with Windows??
I will try another sd-card on my phone where I will put my restore.
Thank you for helping
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OH.. why didn't you just say that in the first place. There's a fix on my guide.
bortak said:
make a bootable USB.
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Bortak i think u just solved my problem lol il let u know
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SdCard Damaged
midy said:
Yes, boot with sdcard => power off => boot without sdcard => power off => boot with sdcard. Didn't work...
Sdcard Damaged :'(
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bortak said:
It's not the end of the world.. Put the sd-card in an adapter and backup all of your contents, then put it back into the phone and format it. Put the backed up contents of the SD-card back into the phone and you're done.
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I'm having the same issue after flashing a new ROM, my 64gig sdcard is saying SdCard Damaged. I can't view the contents on PC as it never mounts the sdcard. I can see the sdcard on my Mac but can't access the contents. I really don't want to format and lose all my photos from my last trip (I know I should have backed up this first, but have flashed so many other ROMs without an issue before).
The funny thing is I can boot into TWRP recovery and still access my ROMs, kernels and on programs from the sdcard. I had the same issue with my 500gig external USB hard drive and I just repaired it using my Mac file utilities, but will not let me repair the sdcard.
Any suggestions to recover my data? Just really want the pictures, everything else is backed up.

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