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[Q] 2.3.5 RUU update - SD Card Problems

Okay, I updated to 2.3.5 europe just last week using the RUU extracted installer. All was well and lovely until two days ago.
My SD card has gone crazy. As soon as I unmount and remount the SD card, the phone reads the SD card in a really weird way. The app drawer shows only a few apps that are installed. Majority of apps that I had on the SD card have now vanished - but are still installed because my internal memory is the same - and they still appear in applications list. It says it doesn't exist?
I've rebooted my phone, hard reset, factory reset, format SD card.. everything you can name, I've TRIED IT. Every time I reboot the phone it happens. apps disappear into a black hole. Also, I've reinstalled all apps thrice and cba to do it again! It says "failed to move application" for most apps at first when I try to move them with the App2SD app.
Has anyone else experienced this problem?
Should I revert back to my old ROM?
Is there a way to fix this? My phone is S-ON, no root.
EDIT: Now I cannot even unmount the SD card...

I had a MAJOR problem where the phone stopped recognizing the SD card. It would literally say unavailable and wouldn't recognize ANY cards at all.

*se-nsei. said:
Okay, I updated to 2.3.5 europe just last week using the RUU extracted installer. All was well and lovely until two days ago.
My SD card has gone crazy. As soon as I unmount and remount the SD card, the phone reads the SD card in a really weird way. The app drawer shows only a few apps that are installed. Majority of apps that I had on the SD card have now vanished - but are still installed because my internal memory is the same - and they still appear in applications list. It says it doesn't exist?
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Is there a way to fix this? My phone is S-ON, no root.
EDIT: Now I cannot even unmount the SD card...
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Have you taken out the SD-card and put it back again? Sometimes the phone gets bad connection to the card and "exercising" it may help.

lljungberg said:
Have you taken out the SD-card and put it back again? Sometimes the phone gets bad connection to the card and "exercising" it may help.
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I've tried everything, even changed back from Sandisk to my samsung SD card. Same problem, it keeps rebooting at times and eventually stops and works perfectly.
Really REALLY annoying. It must be the ROM.

Just use Jik's salsa ROM, it runs really smoothly, frees up memory via link2sd and has new lock screen.
Then install the v6 supercharger and battery calibrator for a really great experience with this phone.
Get an XTC Clip and become S-Off, it's great.
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Aef 101 said:
Just use Jik's salsa ROM, it runs really smoothly, frees up memory via link2sd and has new lock screen.
Then install the v6 supercharger and battery calibrator for a really great experience with this phone.
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I would if I had S-OFF..

Yeah sorry about that
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SD card not recognized by ROMs?

Strange problem with this desire, I can access the SD card from recovery with stuff like USB-MS and flashing from SD but with stock it says the SD card isn't recognized (the options in Settings are all grayed out). With a rom that has Apps2SD like InsertCoin where some of the main apps are installed to the card it just leaves me with a blank screen on boot with the background/top bar still there.
Pretty strange desire really, when I first looked at it the problem I mentioned above was happening (it was originally on InsertCoin, worked for around 4 months before this started) so I reflashed it to stock and then had it returned to me with the owner saying that their SD was broken.
If anyone knows how to fix this it would be much appreciated as I'm as stuck as a brick wall right now :/

Explain your problem in no more than 2 sentences that actually make sense and I may be able to help you out.
Add on information such as
ROM you are/were using
Can you boot
Does PC recognise phone
Hboot (S-ON/ S-OFF)

Have you tried with another SD ? Maybe it is the SD thats broken ?

bortak said:
Explain your problem in no more than 2 sentences that actually make sense and I may be able to help you out.
Add on information such as
ROM you are/were using
Can you boot
Does PC recognise phone
Hboot (S-ON/ S-OFF)
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Sorry, let me dumb it down a bit:
In Amon Ra recovery it sees the SD card fine and lets me use it over USB fine too but when I boot up into a ROM it doesn't seem to find it.
Using InsertCoin/stock ROM and neither recognize it, it boots up fine and the PC can see the phone too, but since it can't mount the SD card I can't use disk drive mode :/ It's using S-OFF hboot too.
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Have you tried with another SD ? Maybe it is the SD thats broken ?
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The SD is fine, it works in recovery and in my own desire but I've tried another SD card to be sure and still nothing

hmm ok try to reformat the SD card using recovery and tell me if it works

I've had/got a similar problem. I believe it's a problem with the contacts between the sd card and the 'holder' for the sd card.
Try removing the back of your phone, removing the sd card, pushing down on the metal 'holder', replacing the sd card, and rebooting.
This works for me for anything between 1 minute and a couple of days before the problem starts again.
I have no idea why the card is still accessible in recovery. If the above had no effect then please ignore!
The only solution, and it's really not useful, is to remove the sd card. I've returned my phone for repair and nothing got replaced (my guess is because the sd card is still accessible on recovery)
EDIT: No longer convinced it's the contacts as whenever my phone 'freezes' if I reboot into recovery the sd card is always accessible.
Now think it's to do with the file system/structure on the sd card becoming corrupt.
If I format the sd card as one single fat32 and keep ALL apps on the phone then I have no problems.

[Q] SD card unexpectedly removed / Damaged SD card

Hello, I am on an HTC One V running PACman ROM 15.3, with the kernel JmzPrimoC+.
I started having this problem a couple weeks ago. It would randomly unmount my SD card saying 'SD card unexpectedly removed'.
This started to happen more and more often until it would say that as soon as I put the SD card in.
I did a factory reset, which helped for about 5 minutes before it started happening again. Now, more recently, it started saying 'Damaged SD card. SD card is damaged. Try reformatting it.'
I put it in my computer (which doesn't show anything wrong with it), and did a full format. It didn't help at all.
This problem is happening with both my regularly used SD card (SanDisk Ultra® microSDHC™ UHS-I 32 GB (the red and grey one)), and my ordinary SD card (8 GB class 4 Kingston).
I don't think this can be a hardware problem because when I boot to recovery, TWRP recognizes it perfectly.
But I don't either see how its a software problem, because a factory reset should have helped...
Please help me, any help will be greatly appreciated.

Maybe its a bug in the rom?
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Hhmmm...
Good idea. What other ROMs work with JmzPrimoC+ kernel? AOKP?
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OK, update, now TWRP won't read the card! Either card!
Now I'm getting really nervous...
Does this mean it must be hardware?
Is there ANYTHING I can do now?
Please help!

Wow, I screwed up really bad.
I was gonna use TWRP to flash a new rom, so I did a factory reset, and then started flashing the rom.
But in middle of flashing the rom it was interrupted. So I rebooted, rereset, and then I realized... it's not reading my card.
I can boot to bootloader and recovery, but that's it. No OS. I'm screwed.
Is there ANYTHING I can do?
Is it possible to flash a rom over USB? Or SOMEHOW get my card working again?

Just enter recovery and use adb sideload to flash a ROM.
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FangorX said:
Just enter recovery and use adb sideload to flash a ROM.
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How do I do that?

FangorX said:
Just enter recovery and use adb sideload to flash a ROM.
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But I need an SD card in order to use ADB sideload!
It fails every time because
Code:
E:Unable to mount /sdcard
Is there ANY way to do this without an SD card?

OK, I was able to do it following this guide.
I flashed the latest version of PACman. Still rejecting my SD card though.
I guess it's a hardware issue. Too bad my warranty is void from bootloader unlock :\

Try to partition SD Card in recovery
I am facing same issue and I came across this thread while looking for solution. Here is what I tried. That resolved issue for five minutes and then damn! same issue again but someone can find possible fix using the info here.
HTC One V rooted, currently running MIUI 3.1.2 with JB 4.1.2
Sandisk 8 GB SD Card.
Firmware CWM Recovery
I was facing same issue even before I rooted my phone while Original HTC ICS 4.0 Firmware was installed. MY observation is the problem starts few months after you start using SD Card. (Insert a new SD card in your phone, it will work fine for days / months and then will start giving same error.
While I tried thousand time to remove SD card, clean slot, clean card and reinsert, it did not work. May be worked just once for few seconds. When I tried to connect phone to PC and browse SD card contents, the card was not detected.
Booted to recovery, tried to format card, not detected. Tried to mount SD card, not detected. Then tried to partition SD card in Advanced options in recovery. The available options are 128MB, 256MB, 512MB, 1024MB, 2048MB and 4096MB. Since my SD card is 8 GB, chose the largest option. Now got an option to choose SWAP partition size. Chose 256 MB. Next chose option fix permissions, you have to wait until you see message permissions fixed message on screen.
Now rebooted phone, and voila! It worked!! SD card with 3.94GB memory is detected. But what happened to my rest of 4 GB?
Tried many apps to manage SD card from Play store. Using an app called APart, was able to delete partitions on SD card and create new ones. It worked for few minutes and then again I got SD card unexpectedly removed message.
Does this info makes any sense? I am not a developer and do not know much into phones but someone who know might be able to help. Buying a new SD card is not an option here because its going to work temporarily.

Have you tried formatting the SD card with your computer?

mrcorey said:
Have you tried formatting the SD card with your computer?
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Yes, tried formatting SD Card using computer. Works fine when connected using adapter. Not detected when phone is connected to computer.

Big problems after removing sd card

Hey guys,
I removed my old 16gb micro sd card to make a copy for a new 128gb card on my pc. Once I put the same card back in, I started getting massive errors like the camera won't function, my wallpaper and nova launcher settings reverted to something kinda stock, but my icons were still in the same place. I can't get into my android settings "unfortunately the process com.android.settings has stopped" to attempt clear any caches. I did end up clearing my app caches using apps2sd but I'm stuck on what to do. I had xposed and g4 tweaksbox but disabled everything.
Edit: I just reset my phone using the power button options but I still can't get into settings, now I can't even re-enable developer options. Same problems as before.
I remember my sd card had some silly name of whatever_5888 but now it's not labeled at all, would that have something to do with it?
I'm running an LG G4 H812 rooted on Lollipop 5.1.1 no custom recovery. Damn Canadian version of this phone..
Thanks!

before you removed the micro sd, you did go into settings - storage - sd -card - unmount sd card ?
Did you unmount it or did you just power off and pull it is what i'm asking.

I didn't unmount, i turned off and removed the card.
It's alright though, I factory reset the phone using the power button trick while booting, but after I still couldn't get into the settings and the issues still were happening. So I reflashed back to stock and flashed the rooted system image. Man things were much simpler with the Nexus 5, I wouldn't have this Canadian variant which has a locked bootloader, so no custom recovery here..
It's all good! luckily I have root and titanium so all back to normal. I'll know next time to properly unmount, it just never happened to me before that's all.
Thanks mate
One Twelve said:
before you removed the micro sd, you did go into settings - storage - sd -card - unmount sd card ?
Did you unmount it or did you just power off and pull it is what i'm asking.
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kyleruggles said:
I didn't unmount, i turned off and removed the card. I'll know next time to properly unmount, it just never happened to me before that's all.
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Exactly, as you've learned the hard way that not unmounting causes trouble. Was the micros adoptable storage or portable storage ?
Default wont allow adoptable but there are ways around that.
I factory reset the phone using the power button trick while booting, but after I still couldn't get into the settings and the issues still were happening. So I reflashed back to stock and flashed the rooted system image. Man things were much simpler with the Nexus 5, I wouldn't have this Canadian variant which has a locked bootloader, so no custom recovery here..
It's all good! luckily I have root and titanium so all back to normal.
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This is the part that amazes me, you had to reflash back to stock then the rooted image to fix what ? a removed microsd that the OS remembered was there but isn't any more and is unhappy.
My first thought would be to do operations on the card, not the phone. Since i learnt this lesson some time ago on JB i don't know if the following would work now or not.
- switch off the phone. remove the battery for a few seconds. re-insert sd card. Ensure its properly inserted. Then reseat battery. power up. If that does not work try the next.
- try to delete any items in the lost.dir folder on the sd card from another device.
- still not working, try to see if its viewable on a pc, copy everything possible, then format the card in an adroid device. Copy everything back to the card.
On JB you would get a micro SD card is damaged notification when reinserting a microsd that was removed without unmounting. If you had anything on the card, it showed up as empty but nothing was deleted, just the system forgot where everything was.

Urgent help required ! SIM cards keep deactivating and activating every few seconds

Hi all,
Something strange happened yesterday. Everything was working perfect when both the SIM cards started to deactivate and reactivate on my phone. I was on official LOS 15 and everything was so perfect.
These are the things i have tried so far -
- As its obvious i thought its a ROM issue so reflashed stock S251 from TWRP, but hard luck, the SIMS kept deactivating and reactivating here as well.
- I used fastboot adb method to reflash stock MM on my phone. Successfully flashed, network seemed OK for a while. But then it started the same thing again.
- I used fastboot adb method to reflash official S244, same thing ...
- I have tried to use 1 SIM at a time, swapped SIM slots.. same thing..
- Both SIMS have proper IMEI, Both SIMS can be used to make a call, Everything is good except that SIMS keeps activating and deactivating every 5 to 10 seconds.
If anyone has a suggestion in this regards, help would be highly appreciated.

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I just reflashed MM stock using fastboot adb commands, Followed by installation of all updates via OTA till i was on S251.
Still the same issue remains. Both the SIM cards get deactivated for just a fraction of a second and then reactivate. This thing goes in loop and taking its toll on battery and my cellular connectivity.
Any suggestions or help guys ?

Ok.. Never mind people. I managed to fix it. All good now.

anilyarki said:
Ok.. Never mind people. I managed to fix it. All good now.
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Instead of letting people know you managed to fix it you should rather explain how you managed to fix it. That would be more helpful to the community and anyone who faces this particular problem in the future.

avnish singh said:
Instead of letting people know you managed to fix it you should rather explain how you managed to fix it. That would be more helpful to the community and anyone who faces this particular problem in the future.
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Yeah was hoping he would tells us how he managed to fix the sd card issue. I myself today updated my Lenovo p2 to build s251 and now im getting a sd card notification when i turn on my phone or when i open from sleep . I have a constant icon up in the left hand corner . I have had to eject it for it to disappear . Does any one have a fix for this issue as ive been reading its a known issue on the samsung s7 edge and mybe a software bug.

anilyarki said:
Ok.. Never mind people. I managed to fix it. All good now.
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Please tell how you managed to fix the issue my both sim cards are not working please help bro.

ukpaul1 said:
Yeah was hoping he would tells us how he managed to fix the sd card issue. I myself today updated my Lenovo p2 to build s251 and now im getting a sd card notification when i turn on my phone or when i open from sleep . I have a constant icon up in the left hand corner . I have had to eject it for it to disappear . Does any one have a fix for this issue as ive been reading its a known issue on the samsung s7 edge and mybe a software bug.
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First backup your data on the pc
Then maybe you should try formatting your SD card
I once had a persistent icon for SD card and did the same

avnish singh said:
First backup your data on the pc
Then maybe you should try formatting your SD card
I once had a persistent icon for SD card and did the same
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Thank you Avnish for your reply.
I have formatted my sd card afew times in the phone it self and also on pc . the phone i still get the sd card icon at the left hand side and notifications just when i open from sleep phone or restart.
i can format the sc card to internal storage and then it goes away but when i take pictures etc or apps it all gets saved to my internal storage on the Phone not the sd card. Also ive been into Camera settings to save on sd card and it is not there sd card if i format to internal storage. But if i format it on phone to portable storage the phone see's it as a external storage and i can save pics and apps etc to sd card but i get the icon and notifications. I wonder if this is a bug on the firmware. Paul

ukpaul1 said:
Thank you Avnish for your reply.
I have formatted my sd card afew times in the phone it self and also on pc . the phone i still get the sd card icon at the left hand side and notifications just when i open from sleep phone or restart.
i can format the sc card to internal storage and then it goes away but when i take pictures etc or apps it all gets saved to my internal storage on the Phone not the sd card. Also ive been into Camera settings to save on sd card and it is not there sd card if i format to internal storage. But if i format it on phone to portable storage the phone see's it as a external storage and i can save pics and apps etc to sd card but i get the icon and notifications. I wonder if this is a bug on the firmware. Paul
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If it's a software bug then it sure is a strange one. Have you tried a different sd card in the phone? And using this SD card in a different phone? Do you get the same results in both the cases?

avnish singh said:
If it's a software bug then it sure is a strange one. Have you tried a different sd card in the phone? And using this SD card in a different phone? Do you get the same results in both the cases?
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Will do .

ukpaul1 said:
Will do .
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update i have now sorted my sd card icon and notifications. What my problem was i had to format my sd card as internal storage and not portable storage i can now save and move apps and media to sd card .