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[Q] HTC Desire not recognizing any SD card, neither recognizing any connected cable

Just ran into the weirdest of problems. I had a rooted desire with Latest Clockworkmod Recovery and Villainrom. I saw some roms that required i had AmonRa so i flashed that using unrevoked. I did'nt like amonra's recovery so i used rom manager to flash clockworkmod back. It wouldn't stick permenantly, i.e. on a hard boot it'd revert back to amon ra.
Today i did the same, then asked rom manager to backup the current rom. It rebooted, amonra applied the clockwordmod update... then clockworkmod recovery started.. then started backing up the rom, upon completion it just rebooted without asking and kept on rebooting on the HTC logo, did'nt go ahead from that. I took the battery out and then re inserted it.
What happened next is weird. I user wiped the phone (using amonra) it gave me an error
Formattting SDCARD:.android_secure...
E:Cant mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0)
(no such file or directory)
Error mounting /sdcard/.android_secure!
Skipping format...
Formatting CACHE:...
Skipping format of sd-ext
After this when the rom booted, the phone refused to recognise the sd card, and the charging light wouldn't turn on when i connected a usb cable OR the charger. I tried replacing another sd card that was working on my htc hero and it wasn't recognized either. I tried my orignal HTC Desire SD card (16 gb) in the hero and it showed a 14 gb unformatted partition on linux. when i tried mounting it , it mounted correctly. I immediately copied my data off the sdcard.
Please note that i had a 512 + 32 mb ext4/swap partition besides the rest of the fat32 partition which wasn't recognized in linux. After repartitioning the sd card i tried the sd card in the desire again but it's not working. Right now i can't mount or access any sd card in the desire, nor can i use adb to connect to the desire. I tried unrevoked to patch the clockworkmod recovery again but it doesn't recognise the phone at all. I'm thinking the rom is screwed up and i'm trying to patch another rom again on the phone but i can't since i can't access the sd card.
I'd also like to mention that using the amonra i tried repartitioning the sd card after this whole mess and it did'nt give me any error, so i'm thinking it did get to access the sd card.
Please any help would be appreaciated.

ok i just figured out that it's s-on on my phone now. So now i have a htc desire with amonRA recovery and S-on with Villainrom 1.0 installed on it. It's not showing usb debugging mode when i connect the data cable, nor is it accepting any sd card.
If possible can anyone tell me how i can :
1. Turn S-on without using usb debugging etc ?
2. Use unrevoked some other way
3. Unroot the phone to root it totally over again.

i had this problem the other day.
Check out this thread. worked for me. Read it through first so you know what your going to be doing.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7616115#post7616115

THANKS ! I've finally got the sd card to be read but i'm wondering that post is for the legend, will that work on my desire ? i mean those image files etc ?

Thanks for the tip man, i googled the words (which i couldn't find to express my problem) i.e. bricked usb and found my solution for the desire here http://android.modaco.com/content/h...com/309939/usb-brick-rickrolled-b0rked-fixed/

[SOLVED] Recovery Wont Read SD card

EDIT2: I already solved my problem, but i'll leave all the writing incase anyone goes through the same problems and knows what to do.
So i restarted my phone into recovery mode, wiped data, wiped cache partition, and went to install .zip so when i go to choose .zip from sdcard, it wont mount! i turned off the phone, took off the sdcard to put into a usb card reader and it seems to work just fine. So ive tried to mount and unmount my sdcard in the recovery but it wont read still. So now im stuck and cant flash the rom.
Im using clockworkmod recovery 3.0.2.4
and i was on insertcoin rom v1.3
is there a way i can flash a rom via adb, fastboot, or anything? and please if you guys have an answer please help walkthrough the steps. thank you.
EDIT1: Well apparently my phone can start back up into the same rom (sorry used to g1), which will let me read my sdcard and mount, but in recovery it wont read the sdcard. I even took out my sdcard formated it on my mac to fat32, reinsterted with 1.4 rom on it and still no read from recovery.
EDIT2: SOLVED, I remember previously that i formated my sdcard for booting up someones computer USB style. I just forgot to repartition my phone android style. So i used the clockworkmod to partition it. Even though it does use recovery mode to do it, for some reason it failed to connect at first but still did the job on the follow up.

[Q] Help required... possibly bricked Desire

Hi all, this is my first post, so please be gentle with me.
I'm new to all this rooting and installing a custom ROM, but I've followed the RCMix S V2.0 tutorial (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1074700) and has this great ROM running on my Desire for a week.
Earlier today, I turned off my phone and now when it reboots it's stuck on the Alpharev splash screen. If I go into recovery to try and re-install the ROM, it says it cannot mount the SD card. I've tried re-partioning the SD card using GParted, but still no luck.
Please tell me it's not completely broken! Any help gratefully received.
Thanks in advance.

Have you tried a different SD card, if you are using a2sd that can be pretty hard on substandard SD cards.
It does sound like the SD card has gone pop try erasing to default.....
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Just tried a different SD card, but still have the same problem :-(
On my screen, I have the following:
CWM-AlphaRev Recovert v2.5.1.8
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0)
(No such file or directory)
E:Can't mount /sdcard
I've had the same error with two different SD cards.
Also, I forgot to mention on my first post, I cannot talk to the phone through ADB because I can't get USB debugging enabled on the phone because it won't boot up properly.
I'm fearing the worst here, is there any hope?

I've managed to get my Desire up and running again. I got USB access back by following a guide elsewhere on here and that, in turn, allowed me to access the SD card, so I'm back up and running RCMix 2.3.3 Gingersense.
Luckily, I had everything backed up so only a couple of texts from today have been lost.
Phew!!!!

the question is r u still have ur stock rom backup on pc?

[Q] CWM not mounting SDcard (any SDcard)

OK. So I need some serious help.
I have thrashed the web and found similar issues but the fixes there do not work for me.
Today I followed the instructions on the t-mod site (t-mod.org) to install T-Mod LeeDrOiD HD V3.3.3 Port R5 A2SD (Australian version of Leedroid). I had to apply the Telstra froyo RUU first to update my Hboot. The root process and s-off seemed to go fine. I installed the radio Radio_32.56.00.32U_5.17.05.08 and then T-mod.
On the first boot it went past the s-off ‘Why so serious’ screen and I thought I had it made but then the keep looping through the same boot animation screen. The last line reads “Detecting phone storage…”
I went back to recovery and found the CWM could not mount my sdcard.
CWM-AlphaRev Recovery v2.5.1.8
E:Can’t mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0)
(no such file or directory)
Error mounting SDCARD:!
Since then I have tried a number of things.
- Tried to format card from CWM. Failed
- Tried to format card in Windows 7, which worked. But did not help.
- Tried a different sdcard. No difference.
- Tried to reapply the Telstra RUU. Successfully detected the device but would not complete.
- Hit the panic button.
Other people have reported similar issues with CWM not mounting the sdcard but this is generally fixed by either formatting the card or using a different card. The card in the phone was a brand new Lexar 16GB class 6 and then I tried the original 2GB Sandisk.
Please help.

See my replies here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1176663

Wow. I look at that but not well enough. I thought it was for only when your pc would not detect your phone but it is so much more. thanks

It really is much easier than it looks. Just get Android Flasher from the link I provided in the other thread and run that command and that should re-enable your SD card on your phone.

This happened to my Desire once and I was stuck for hours, in the end found this to fix it, just plug your phone up via Fastboot and give this a go:
fastboot oem enableqxdm 0

Same thing happened to me just now. Fastboot says OKAY but still sd cant be mounted. Is there any other way? I used ADB, I'll also try Android Flasher.
EDIT : I formatted SD via CWM now it works
EDIT2 :Formerly I formatted with gparted in Linux, still wondering why it went wrong

please delete me

Hey Guys, i have the same problem. But i dont know what i should do with the Android Flasher ... Just go to /data an execute the files?? I have the Galaxy S2!
When i click on external_sd/ it says No files found. And how can you re flash the ROM, without having the sd card working. (because all the people say after re flashing it worked again:/)

Cant open /cache /recovery /command

I rooted my DHD, using the ace hack kit. but my CWM wont let me install aything and has the cant find cache recovery command error at the bottom. Ive searched the forum but everywhere it says i need to do S-OFF then re install CWM. i was going to try this visionary tool but it says it cant be used with devices shipped with gingerbread?

Try formatting the sdcard. If the cwm file was corrupted it wouldnt have flashed...anyway, you can try flashing 4ext recovery to see if that
Works...
Sent from my Inspire 4G using XDA

Ok, i bought a new card today. did a FAT32 format then reinstalled CWM. still the same problem. Any other ideas?
UPDATE: Started the whole process again fromt he beginning with the new card and everything worked fine. Thanks for your help.