[Q] EVO Will Not Mount - EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

My EVO randomly stopped mounting to computers yesterday. I say randomly because I did not install or flash anything. It just worked one day and then stopped the next. It charges fine but when I plug it into a computer it only charges. I do not get the notification in the bar saying charge only or even the choice to pick if I would like to mount. It acts as if I have just plugged it into a wall charger.
I am currently running:
Myn's Warm 2.2 rls 5
2.6.32.27-netarchy-toastmod-4.3.4-cfs-havs-less-nosbc
Any Ideas?

You basically have 2 choices: Mount the card via recovery (plug the EVO to your computer via USB and then select MS-USB from within recovery.) or reflash the rom. Yes, there are other methods, but I'm mentioning to 2 common method.
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Doh! Forgot to post what I've tried. I did try mounting from recovery (amon-ra) and I get no response from the computer. I then tried a complete wipe. Booted up with the same issue. I checked the memory card with a card reader for errors in windows and got nothing. I tried another memory card in EVO with no difference.
Would it be worth flashing a different rom even though Myn worked with no problems for the past 4 months?

unremarkableguy said:
Doh! Forgot to post what I've tried. I did try mounting from recovery (amon-ra) and I get no response from the computer. I then tried a complete wipe. Booted up with the same issue. I checked the memory card with a card reader for errors in windows and got nothing. I tried another memory card in EVO with no difference.
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After you did a complete wipe, did you restore Myn's from a backup or did you reflash? If you reflashed the rom, the card should have been mountable. You can insert the card into your card reader and copy its contents onto your computer and then re-partition and re-format the card. Copy the contents back onto the card afterwards. After that, reinsert the card back into your EVO and see if it'll mount for you.
Would it be worth flashing a different rom even though Myn worked with no problems for the past 4 months?
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Yes, it is worth a try, but I would try re-partitioning and re-formatting the card first to see if that will help.
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I had this problem with a non-rooted Evo. I could not get it to even give the option, then randomly it would work once out of every 20 tries.
After rooting my phone and flashing CM6, it worked.
It could also be your computer or your usb cable. If you haven't, try rebooting your computer.
Repartitioning your card is probably a good idea. I recently repartitioned mine through Amon Ra . Now whenever I connect to my computer it wants to scan & fix it, but I just skip it. Just letting you know in case you run into the same thing.
(from... Evo/MIUI/Tapatalk)

I had a somewhat similar issue recently. In my case, rebooting the phone fixed things. Also it can't hurt to try a different USB port on your computer. If you have any other android devices that you connect to your pc (like a tablet or another phone) it can cause this too. rebooting the pc may be worth a try as well.

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[Q] USB won't mount sd

I know there are a few threads similar to this one, but i've read them and attempted to do the fixes they list, like calkulins here but it didn't work for me.
enough excuses, here is my problem: for some reason my phone won't mount anymore. It shows up as adb when i turn debugging on, the sd card is viewable on the phone, but i never get the prompt of just charge/disk drive/htc sync/etc when i plug it in now. I've tried a couple different cables on a couple different computers (mac and pc) and i've narrowed it down to be a problem with the phone. Again, i did the mtd-eng.img and flash_image fix from Calkulin's thread. any other ideas? I just did a titanium backup and i'm about to reset the phone, but i'd like to know if there is another fix by chance?
i'm running the rooted stock 2.2 if it makes a difference.
thanks in advance guys!
maybe this is the wrong section to put this question in, feel free to move it to Q&A
When I had issues with the sd card not mounting, I backed up my sdcard on my computer and reformatted my sdcard through windows and then again on the phone. That seemed to fix the issue. Hope that helps.
thanks for the tip. i tried it, but still nothing...
I just went ahead and did a titanium backup, then booted into recovery and wiped. it seems to have worked, and titanium did a pretty good job of restoring all of my system data too, better than i remembered with my g1 anyway...
hopefully it doesn't happen again. i would like to know what caused it though

[Q] SD card not being read

SD card won't be read when phone is on. When device is in recovery, I can USB toggle and see everything on my SD card. It's only when I try connecting through USB when on (CM6.1 or Myn TwoPointTwo) is when nothing happens (Myn) or the phone freezes and reboots (CM6.1).
I had my phone plugged in through USB while on CM6.1 RC2 and dropping in the new CM6.1 file into my phone when I forgot to eject and went straight into recovery. Now I can't install anything or mount my SD card. I can use ASTRO or a file manager app to view everything though.
As for nandroid, I deleted all my pre-USB **** up backups and only have the USB **** up RC2 backup. So that won't help. I'm guessing the device is still thinking it's plugged in because of my mistake. Any way to fix this?
I have noticed this as well lately under both Sense and AOSP roms. I can't mount my SDCARD from USB while the rom is running - only in recovery.
Odd. Wonder what is causing this?
I was talking to Shift and we came to the conclusion that my SD card is probably corrupt after shutting down while still mounted to my computer. I just extracted the folders that are important to me (pictures, Titanium Backup, etc) and will transfer them over to a new SD card once I buy one.
If anyone knows any way this might be fixed, I would appreciate it
Did you already try reformatting the card?
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i had the same issue with my 16gb card.
I couldnt get it to read in the computer either unless I put it in the full sized SD adapter and put the "lock" switch on.
Needless to say, i couldnt do anything with it and ended up sending it back for a replacement.
jeriel05 said:
Did you already try reformatting the card?
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I was hoping to exhaust all options before coming across this, but as I have nothing else to try I'm going to just format it. Hopefully I can format through recovery or something because it doesn't even let me unmount my SD card from Settings options.
dadoc04 said:
i had the same issue with my 16gb card.
I couldnt get it to read in the computer either unless I put it in the full sized SD adapter and put the "lock" switch on.
Needless to say, i couldnt do anything with it and ended up sending it back for a replacement.
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Yeah, I figure I'll try my last option of formatting and see if it works. Here's to hoping! Lol.
FIXED
Issue has been corrected by formatting SD card. Thanks for the replies :]

[Q] Finally reached a problem I cannot fix on my own, please help

So my phone and computer will not detect my sd card after I dropped my phone.
Here is everything I have tried:
hard reset
sdhc micro adapter for my computer
pulling out sd card and reinserting
pulling battery and letting sit for awhile and plugging battery back in
I followed the sd card and usb fix issue found in the forums, but everytime I install the jdk the sdk installer says it is not found.
I know if I am able to format the card somehow it will fix it i think. but I cannot get anything to recognize it, or if I can figure out what single driver is missing on my phone I can figure the rest out from there.
The sdhc adapter works with the new micro it came with but not mine.
I am still able to use my phone but I obviously cant do **** without the sd card.
I have a recent backup of my sd card on my computer I just need a way to get it to my sd card and I am stumped.
Thanks for your help guys
Is there a way to force my comp to read the sd card?
Update
One thing I was just able to do was to take the micro sd that came with my adapter and my phone reads it just fine. However it is only a 2 gb. Like I said, I have a back up on my computer of everything that was on my sd card at one point. Being that my phone can read sd cards, does this help at all with somehow fixing my factory one?
Since I am now able to get into rom manager and my phone recognizes some sort of sd card. Would flashing some sort of sense ROM allow me to put my original sd card in and format it?
If all you want to do is repartition and/or reformat it, boot into recovery and do it there. While in recovery, especially is your recovery is amonRA v2.3, select the "MS-USB" option and serif your computer detects it while you're connected via USB.
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dougjamal said:
If all you want to do is repartition and/or reformat it, boot into recovery and do it there. While in recovery, especially is your recovery is amonRA v2.3, select the "MS-USB" option and serif your computer detects it while you're connected via USB.
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I am currently using clockwork. I tried the mount unmount options in recovery mode. I have never really tried amon-ra for anything but now might be the time to give it shot.

[Q] How do I fix the SD card so that it can be read by Windows again?

Hey gang,
In messing with my mother-in-law's new Sprint HTC EVO 4G, I think I screwed up the SD card; when I try to wipe the Davlik cache, it errors that there is no sd-ext mounted, and windows (several machines) will not read the contents of the sd card. One laptop will bring it up as a removable drive, but when clicked it says "insert media" - on the file browser on the phone I can see all the contents just fine, but now can't copy anything to the card via the USB cable.... when i plug it in, the phone asks if i want to use the SD card or charge, I choose charge, it goes back to home screen and at the bottom you can see it "preparing SD card" again.
What did I do, and how do I fix?! Please and thank you!
Midnight1970 said:
Hey gang,
In messing with my mother-in-law's new Sprint HTC EVO 4G, I think I screwed up the SD card; when I try to wipe the Davlik cache, it errors that there is no sd-ext mounted, and windows (several machines) will not read the contents of the sd card. One laptop will bring it up as a removable drive, but when clicked it says "insert media" - on the file browser on the phone I can see all the contents just fine, but now can't copy anything to the card via the USB cable.... when i plug it in, the phone asks if i want to use the SD card or charge, I choose charge, it goes back to home screen and at the bottom you can see it "preparing SD card" again.
What did I do, and how do I fix?! Please and thank you!
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Are you using the same cable every time you've tried it? Perhaps the cable is bad? So you're able to access the contents of the card fine from using a file browser on the phone? If that's the case, most likely your card is fine, and the problem lies within the USB cable. I would try another USB cord if you have access to one. (the evo's stock USB cable sucks, and are known to fail from time to time)
Do you have a card reader? If so, does the computer read the card fine when it's inserted directly into the card reader?
Midnight1970 said:
Hey gang,
In messing with my mother-in-law's new Sprint HTC EVO 4G, I think I screwed up the SD card; when I try to wipe the Davlik cache, it errors that there is no sd-ext mounted, and windows (several machines) will not read the contents of the sd card. One laptop will bring it up as a removable drive, but when clicked it says "insert media" - on the file browser on the phone I can see all the contents just fine, but now can't copy anything to the card via the USB cable.... when i plug it in, the phone asks if i want to use the SD card or charge, I choose charge, it goes back to home screen and at the bottom you can see it "preparing SD card" again.
What did I do, and how do I fix?! Please and thank you!
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1. The Sd-EXT message is fine; it skips that partition because you don't have it set up, so no harm done there.
2. If you have a card reader, I'd mount it to the pc, copy the contents to the pc, format the sd card [make sure its fat 32], then copy the contents back.
I'll try another cable, however, I should say that I was able to use the same cable and my HTC Inspire to read just fine; having said that, there is a crack at the base of the cable that plugs in to the phone, so I'll certainly be willing to try another cable; I even unmounted the card in both devices, took the card out of her EVO and put it in my Inspire, and it was read just fine..... that further complicated my dilemma.
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I'll try another cable, however, I should say that I was able to use the same cable and my HTC Inspire to read just fine; having said that, there is a crack at the base of the cable that plugs in to the phone, so I'll certainly be willing to try another cable; I even unmounted the card in both devices, took the card out of her EVO and put it in my Inspire, and it was read just fine..... that further complicated my dilemma.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695243
You can always try that route.
You'll never believe this...........
I still had the .zip for mywarn's ROM that I tried first (that was draining the battery like CRAZY), it's booted up and windows sees it fine now..... ??!?!??! - I had the Kings Alliance ROM installed while it failed. Working now though - I tried replacing the kernel as suggested in another thread (that's currently on page 2 but only for a few Im sure lol) and the drain still seemed significant. Losing roughly one percent a minute.... thanks for the replies guys, I'll keep ya posted... think I'm gonna try gingerbread-evo-deck 1.2 now.... we'll see what happens.
If you have that bad of battery drain, you can try downgrading to PRI 1.77. The latest PRI has also been very good to me.
I just installed gingerbread-evo-deck 1.2 and it has no market! How do I obtain a market icon if it's not in the ROM?
Midnight1970 said:
I just installed gingerbread-evo-deck 1.2 and it has no market! How do I obtain a market icon if it's not in the ROM?
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You need to flash the Google apps (gapps) it's linked on decks OP. The 5/21 gapps work good.
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I went with MikFroYo v4.62 ... using netarchy-toastmod-4.3.4-cfs-havs-more-sbc kernel. Seems like its still draining pretty fast... ugggggggh.
teh roxxorz said:
If you have that bad of battery drain, you can try downgrading to PRI 1.77. The latest PRI has also been very good to me.
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You know, I never believed in this, but last night I did flash back to 1.77 and my phone's only been off the charger now for 30 minutes, but for the first time since I started using Mik's GB/Sense ROM and can't use SBC, I'm still sitting at 100% instead of the typical 5% drop right off the charger.

[Q] Noob mistake....computer wont detect phone

I accidentally reformatted my droid incredible 2 /system while in clockwork recovery now no computer will detect the phone
tried restoring from backups, but still same problem
Did you wipe before restoring backups? Did you reflash the ROM? The /system folder is replaced every time you put a new ROM on.
yes ive rewiped every single time, and ive installed 3 different roms, cyanogenmod nightly 56 , rmk 2.3.3 and virtuous unity 2.37.0, all with same results, phone charges but i can not mount the sd.
ive even restored from back ups and nothing
ive tried connecting with windows 7, and while its trying to read the hardware
"android driver 1.0" fails (if that helps)
Does your phone recognize the sd card?
have you tried formatting the sd card itself? If not try that, format as fat32. I've had this issue before and it turned out my sdcard was corrupted. Did you try another card?
Yes, my phone does recognize my SD card, I've tried a different card and same result, I tried to format the second card to test out, and nothing. I then, for the hell of it, installed another ROM (incredible sensation) but this time through ROM manager, and I updated my recovery to 5.0.2.0. and now it works again, so thanks guys, maybe it was a combination of all these tips.
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Yes, my phone does recognize my SD card, I've tried a different card and same result, I tried to format the second card to test out, and nothing. I then, for the hell of it, installed another ROM (incredible sensation) but this time through ROM manager, and I updated my recovery to 5.0.2.0. and now it works again, so thanks guys, maybe it was a combination of all these tips.
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Is debugging checked? Are you selecting charge mode or disk drive mode?

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