hey guys!
I upgraded my version to DEFY 2.3.4rc1v2 and after that the PC does not identify the SD card more.
Nor am I able to put songs as MP3 ringtones.
Anyone have any tips?
thanks
Did u try a different card ?
Also if that doesn't work try to flash nightly's builds,they get regularly updated and i myself find them more stable then RC1...
There is no need to flash a nightly, stay away from them if you do not know what you're doing.
You should check if you chose filetransfer mode on your phone, otherwise you won't see the sd when connected to your computer. If you still can't see the sdcard, try fysically unplugging it from your phone and put it directly in your computer. Then check the disk for errors using gparted.
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Hi everyone, looking for a little guidance.
Phone: Android G1 (Rogers Canada Dream) running Cyanogen 4.2.15.1, been running fine since 4.2.6.1
Removed SD card while it was on and it rebooted... when it restarted it showed no applications and said the SD card was inaccessible and required a format. After rebooting a few times with no success I bit the bullet and formatted it... all apps are gone except for the ones that are on that image for Cyanogen. I have no market app to download new apps and when I plug it into my PC and mount it I don't see it show up as a drive like it did so I have no way to get the apps back on.
Has anyone had this happen before? Phone still works but I need to get it back to a state where I can get access to the SD and install the market... Any suggestions appreciated!!
Might have corrupted the SD card. If u did then u will have to get a new one and start all over. Do u have a file manager that can show what's on your SD?
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Might have corrupted the SD card. If u did then u will have to get a new one and start all over. Do u have a file manager that can show what's on your SD?
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Thats the problem, I have no file manager on the phone now, I see the SD card is fine, I can take pics and videos and store them on it and view then now... I assume when I removed the SD card because it was mounted might have corrupted it. So now I cant put anything on it, access it or even go to the market to get a file manager...
U can't even save what's on your SD to your computer either I assume. You might be stuck with getting a new one and see what happens. Would be a good time to make the jump to 5.0.8 or even froyo. (Only good way to look at it). hope u get it fixed.
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Hi guys
I have Htc Desire Z was running on Cyanogen 6.1.1, I just got into Rom Manager download a another Cyanogen 6.1.1 and flash on top of it.
Now my phone doesn't read or mount ay sd card( I have try 2 different one).
Go to setting- application the sd card unavailable
Connect to pc just USB debugging only nothing else.
I have try format and partitioning the sd card.
So now I am stuck with that I can't flash another rom and run any app that acquire sd card.
Any one help pls.
That sucks. Maybe a bad flash right off top. Possibly try and reflash if all else fails. Goodluck, I've been using my Droid x lately which is a whole different animal as u know. On my incredible the only time it wouldn't read SD was with a bad flash. Post up if u get it fixed I would be interested to hear how this one turns out. Goodluck
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try formatting on the PC and see if it works
I remember when using Windows Mobile, it was always recommended to remove the SD Card and SIM before flashing a new ROM. Not sure why and I haven't read anything along those lines for Android, but just an FYI. I would try re-flashing and go from there.
I couldn't flash or do anything without sd card.
It is totally suck man.
Can anyone know how to flash a rom with adb?
Like the title says, I suddenly found out after I couldn't see any songs or albums in Winamp. Then I tried the stock player, same thing.
They're still there, I can see them with ASTRO and when I connect it to my PC.
I can play the songs through ASTRO, but when the player starts up there's no info on the song at all.
I tried PowerAmp (which does a search on the SD card for mp3s) and that works with most of the albums, some are missing cover artwork.
Also my alarm clock can't detect mp3s, same as my running app cardiotrainer. It's the same when I try to put an mp3 as a ringtone.
Firstly the standard HTC Desire ringtones could not be read either, but I got them to show up again, during my attempt to fix this, which I will go through below.
When I try to open up the mp3s through a program (custom ringtone or stock mp3 player) it says "No musicfiles or SD card is available" (translated from my Danish Desire OS).
I can't see my pictures or videos through my camera or gallery apps, but when I take a new picture it shows up as the only one I got.
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What I've tried:
Rebooting lots of times, of course.
Changing the name of my mp3 folder.
Searching for a ".nomedia" file, or similar "." but finding nothing.
Using the app "SDrescan".
I connected the phone to my PC, right click and select properties. Then tools - error checking. Run with automatically fix file system errors checked.
It ran the error check and said there were some errors and it has been fixed. When I run it again it says no errors were detected.
Did a nandroid restore.
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Possible causes:
I am rooted, running the newest Leedroid.
Yesterday I did a complete nandroid backup and titanium backup, and copied the whole SD to my computer drive. I also wiped my battery stats.
That's all I did.
Do you tried to put some new songs to see if they appear on the music player? Maybe it is just a corrupted database for the older entries.
Maybe the stock android media scanner is broken.. Try a nandroid and a full wipe with a fresh install of your ROM, if it does not fix the problem, restore the nandroid backup..
How much % is free. This can be a problem if it's to little.
R
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I tried to put a brand new mp3 on there, but it can't see that one either. On the other hand, when I take a new picture with the camera, that single new picture is visible.
On the SD card 3,44 GB are free. Internal free is about 71 MB, but I've done the A2SD+.
I've tried to do a nandroid restore, with the nandroid backup I made Tuesday, when it was still working.
I guess there's nothing else to try than to do a complete wipe and install a fresh ROM.
I can't really figure out why it would do this all of a sudden.
If you have a mac use disk utility to repair your card - if not format you card - move all data back on after your done - see if that works
How do I format the card?
Is it the thing where I go into ROM Manager and under utillities, select Patition SD card?
I tried to format the SD card, through menu->settings->sd card->format
After it was formatted I put all the SD stuff back from my backup on my PC, and the mp3 could still not be seen at all.
Something strange with the pictures though. In my gallery app I could see all my picture folders except for the main one where new pictures are saved to.
So I try to connect it to my PC again, and switch one of the pictures from the main folder over to one of my self-made folders to see if it would show up there.
I disconnect from the PC and let the SD card mount again, and now it's back to where I can see no pictures at all. I try to put the picture back again, but still; no pictures at all.
Don't format through phone. .. plug it in ur PC and use gparted for example..
Btw u did backup ur SD and move everything back on yea?
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Don't format through phone. .. plug it in ur PC and use gparted for example..
Btw u did backup ur SD and move everything back on yea?
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I have a backup of my SD and moved it all back, no problems.
The only other way of formatting I know (besides doing it through the phone) is using this guide:
1. Go into the ROM Manager app.
2. Under utillities, select Patition SD card.
3. Select 512MB for both cache and EXT3
4. This will re-format your SD card.
Is that the same (as good as) using gparted as you suggested? I don't know about gparted.
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I have a backup of my SD and moved it all back, no problems.
The only other way of formatting I know (besides doing it through the phone) is using this guide:
1. Go into the ROM Manager app.
2. Under utillities, select Patition SD card.
3. Select 512MB for both cache and EXT3
4. This will re-format your SD card.
Is that the same (as good as) using gparted as you suggested? I don't know about gparted.
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I just think that using a PC / Mac gives you more control over the format etc... linux swap etc... No doubt rom mamanger should suffice but if you do have a corrupted SD card often PC's can handle it better
Tbh if you have repaired your card that usually fixes these sorts of problems for me ... have you got another SD card to try!?
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I just think that using a PC / Mac gives you more control over the format etc... linux swap etc... No doubt rom mamanger should suffice but if you do have a corrupted SD card often PC's can handle it better
Tbh if you have repaired your card that usually fixes these sorts of problems for me ... have you got another SD card to try!?
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Why didn't I think to try this myself?!
I do have another SD card, and just tried it... and it works! I even tried putting in a new mp3 and it can see it.
Do you think I should just do a rom manager format, or should I jump into the PC way of a format?
I am a big noob btw, so if you think the PC way of formatting my SD card is better, could I ask you to write down a noob-friendly guide maybe?
I've just done the rom manager partition format, and tried to put an mp3 and a few pictures on my SD card, and it works!
Now I'm in the process of putting my SD backup back on my SD card, and I'll write back later if it all works after that.
If not ur card is screwed lol.. I'd be surprised if that didn't work!! Formatting usually cures SD card probs ... if u ever get read only error just repair ur card no need for format for that... just for future reference ... I'm a bit nooby too tbh, lots to learn lol
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I just finished copying all of the backup onto my SD card and... now it doesn't work again!!! Same problem!
Why don't you buy a new card? I got a class 6 16 Gb for £20 ... so there cheap enough for all the hassle?
Try formatting on a Mac or PC.. I use gparted from CD I burnt but there are plenty of others around. If not tbh I'm not sure where you go from there.. if you have a backup everything should be fine lol
Edit - so can I clarify do either of your cards work properly?
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Oh my god... I just found a ".nomedia" file in the root of my SD card... if that's it I will feel very stupid.
I have formatted 3 times now, transferring the stuff back again now.
Yup, that was the problem
I feel so stupid, but thanks for all your help.
LOL .... well at least you learnt something
Ok, so I have the stock SD card and lately it's been acting up. I went from Vaelpak to CM7RC2 and it took me a while to get the phone to actually recognize the card... Anytime I use a Sense ROM I never have problems with the card being read/recognized by the phone or my PC
So I'm back on RC2 and the phone reads the card just fine but the computer doesnt recognize it "kinda"..
When I plug the phone in via USB to the PC it usually pops up with a window with several options on how to view the contents of the SD card... No such window pops up and the SD card doesnt register in the Drive slot.. it just doesnt show up at all, like there's nothing in that Drive...
But, I can pull up Windows Media Player and look at some of the files on the SD card... So I'm confused, the computer can see some of the information but I can't read the whole thing...
I've tried USB debuggin on/off, mounting as disk drive and not, mounting/unmounting SD card, etc...
Any ideas? -- should I just get a new card or is there something else I can try?
You can copy the contents to the pc, then reformat it, then copy back...
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Ok, so I have the stock SD card and lately it's been acting up. I went from Vaelpak to CM7RC2 and it took me a while to get the phone to actually recognize the card... Anytime I use a Sense ROM I never have problems with the card being read/recognized by the phone or my PC
So I'm back on RC2 and the phone reads the card just fine but the computer doesnt recognize it "kinda"..
When I plug the phone in via USB to the PC it usually pops up with a window with several options on how to view the contents of the SD card... No such window pops up and the SD card doesnt register in the Drive slot.. it just doesnt show up at all, like there's nothing in that Drive...
But, I can pull up Windows Media Player and look at some of the files on the SD card... So I'm confused, the computer can see some of the information but I can't read the whole thing...
I've tried USB debuggin on/off, mounting as disk drive and not, mounting/unmounting SD card, etc...
Any ideas? -- should I just get a new card or is there something else I can try?
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Deleting the LOST_DIR folder has been known to solve the problem with CM7 and SD cards. Having said that, you need to be aware of the recent growing numbers of people boinking their EVOs. All of them were using CM7 and everything had been working as it should. All of a sudden, their device rebooted and have not been able to get into theory homescreen or into recovery. Read the posts the last few days and you will find many instances. I'm just alerting you to what has been happening. That's all so be careful.
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You can copy the contents to the pc, then reformat it, then copy back...
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I dont guess I explained myself very good... I can't copy anything to the PC if the PC wont recognize that there's a card there.. The PC just sits there and I've looked all over the place but the PC doesnt think there's anything put into the drive
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Deleting the LOST_DIR folder has been known to solve the problem with CM7 and SD cards. Having said that, you need to be aware of the recent growing numbers of people boinking their EVOs. All of them were using CM7 and everything had been working as it should. All of a sudden, their device rebooted and have not been able to get into theory homescreen or into recovery. Read the posts the last few days and you will find many instances. I'm just alerting you to what has been happening. That's all so be careful.
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I hadn't seen anything about the "boinking"... can you direct me to a thread? The CM7 RC2 thread or what?.. Not even knowing about those instances I was already thinkin about abandoning CM for now.. I've tried CM6 and several versions of CM7 but there's always something that just doesnt work right.. GPS, the SD card, facebook syncing, etc.. Looking at your Sig I'm thinkin I might try Warm again, it's been a while but I liked it alot... Thanks for the heads up
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I hadn't seen anything about the "boinking"... can you direct me to a thread? The CM7 RC2 thread or what?.. Not even knowing about those instances I was already thinkin about abandoning CM for now.. I've tried CM6 and several versions of CM7 but there's always something that just doesnt work right.. GPS, the SD card, facebook syncing, etc.. Looking at your Sig I'm thinkin I might try Warm again, it's been a while but I liked it alot... Thanks for the heads up
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1009672
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Here's more:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1007375
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Here's more:
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Yeah, that sucks... I was already about to give up on CM7 for now and that's just enough to push me back to Sense.. thanks
WOW! I'm glad I went back to Sense when I did.
Bricking my phone would end me!
My Sd card is working fine.. but some times i cant access it using programs like media players or file explorers cuz they keep crashing ....
the only way i've found to solve this is taking out the card , restarting the phone , clearing data in media storage (system app) or even disabling it , then putting the card and resatart
Its not a permanent solution and i tried everything like formating and the card works perfectly on my pc
PS: this problem occurs in every rom and kernel even stock and am using cm 10 lupus kernel right now
: I cant keep the media storage app disabled cuz without it i cant set ringtones and my phone wont ring ..
in cwm i can access the card without problems
Plz i need help ! or atleast the cause of this problem thanks
Maybe some bad sectors in sd card. Try to reformat it, with the phone or cwm
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Maybe some bad sectors in sd card. Try to reformat it, with the phone or cwm
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i tried all the simple solutions... looks like it has something to do with the android.process.media or a damaged file i need a permanent solution but thanks for ur help
the first and fastest check I would do is to put another SD. if the apps are still crashing, the problem comes from there. if not, the problem is on SD. in some cases, at some point the SD will start having problems... no matter what you do. so it is possible that your card just reached its EOL (end of life)
Change the way the sd card connects to PC to mass storage mode. Then hold shift and right clic in first folder that opens when you click on icon for removable device for sd card. Click on open command prompt windows here. type in chkdsk /f and then type in Y if it succedes and asks for permission. Hit enter and watch reports. If this doesnt work try other sd card, but probabbly problem is in device and not sd card. If you have any problems pm me...