SD Card - EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Please don't hurt the noob.
I am new to all this and I need a little direction.
Instructions for flashing all include unpacking to the SD Card. I don't know which directory when I have the device mounted as HD is the SD Card.

SabaBoBaba said:
Please don't hurt the noob.
I am new to all this and I need a little direction.
Instructions for flashing all include unpacking to the SD Card. I don't know which directory when I have the device mounted as HD is the SD Card.
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Are you asking for help in learning how to flash a .zip flie? I am not sure what you were asking for I am willing to help but I need something better to go off of. Thanks.

SabaBoBaba said:
Please don't hurt the noob.
I am new to all this and I need a little direction.
Instructions for flashing all include unpacking to the SD Card. I don't know which directory when I have the device mounted as HD is the SD Card.
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Download the rom that you would like to run,don't unpack it,leave it zipped up,then mount your sd card to your computer,drag and drop the zipped rom to the root(the very first folder opened) of your sd card,unmount your sd card,now go to your recovery and scroll to the wipe directory and wipe everything,but your sd card,again don't wipe your sd card,if you wipe your sd card you'll have to start all over again with rooting.After you wipe,then go to flash zip menu,then choose zip from sd card,then scroll to the zipped rom you just dropped on your sd card and choose it,then it will ask if your sure,choose confirm,then your off,it will install and take a few more minutes to load,because you wipped all th data.After set-up it is in your best interest to go back to recovery and do a nandroid backup.I hope this helped you.

Thank you both for the help. I'm a first time android owner and very new to rooting. The instructions on how to flash were very helpful.
Thanks buttoned both of you.

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[Q] Need help loading new splash screen.

Hey guys and gals,
I need some help, I have s-off/root using unrevoked forever ... droid incredible 2.2 ... I have tried to load several different splash screens and when I go into HBOOT, it never gives me the option ... I have named the files PB31IMG.zip (have tried the one they offer with unrevoked and numerous others) and placed them in the root of my SD card ... by all accounts this should do the trick, but when I go into HBOOT it never says anything about loading a new splash ... nor does it ask me any questions, it scans for several files and always says "Image not found" and goes back to the main HBOOT menu .... any ideas?
Thanks in advance for the help!
Is your SD Card formatted in Fat32? you might want to move everything off your SD card to your PC then format the card thru the PC in Fat32 then move everything back to the card.
fader01 said:
Is your SD Card formatted in Fat32? you might want to move everything off your SD card to your PC then format the card thru the PC in Fat32 then move everything back to the card.
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Thanks for your response
How would I know file system it's formatted to? It is the same card I used to do the unrevoked forever, would that require the FAT32 file system? How can I format the SDcard after clearing everything off of it?
Make sure it is .zip and not .zip.zip
Go to properties and check the details on the PB31IMG file, usually if there is no .zip, its already there. Adding the .zip just makes it doubled.
Stoney 666 said:
Make sure it is .zip and not .zip.zip
Go to properties and check the details on the PB31IMG file, usually if there is no .zip, its already there. Adding the .zip just makes it doubled.
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Thank you for that suggestion ... I tried it a few times before changing the name myself, it should have been in correct name off of the Unrevoked website .... upon checking I HAD INDEED changed it to .zip.zip .... changed it back and formatting SD card to FAT32 now ... will let you guys know if this fixes problems ...
Thanks again
Killerarl said:
Thank you for that suggestion ... I tried it a few times before changing the name myself, it should have been in correct name off of the Unrevoked website .... upon checking I HAD INDEED changed it to .zip.zip .... changed it back and formatting SD card to FAT32 now ... will let you guys know if this fixes problems ...
Thanks again
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You should be good to go after the format.
fader01 said:
Is your SD Card formatted in Fat32? you might want to move everything off your SD card to your PC then format the card thru the PC in Fat32 then move everything back to the card.
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This was my problem ... thanks again ... got it working with your help!

PLEASE HELP...Can't get SD Card Swapped!!

I just got a 32GB Micro SD Card for my evo and I am trying to replace my current 8gb card. I was previously running MIUI 11.26 and using clockworkmod recovery. I followed these steps because I couldn't find anything Evo specific:
http://theunlockr.com/2009/10/15/ho...-android-when-using-swap-hero-and-or-apps2sd/
when trying to format and reapply the rom i was using i received this error msg:
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0) (No such file or directory)
Now I don't know where to go from there. I previously had a 16GB card fry because apparently i didn't take the correct steps to get it working properly, i do not want that to happen again. Can ANYONE give me specific instructions for swapping my SD Card for my Evo?? If so I would GREATLY appreciate it!!!
And yes...this is probably rather "noob-ish" and I DID already search the forums for any help and couldn't find what i was looking for. Again any help is appreciated
Thanks!!
just copy all files from your 8g card to the 32g card pop it in the evn and you are good to go, nothing special required. Unless you are using apps to sd, then the easiest way s to put all apps back on the phone, then after switching to the new sd put them all back on the sd.
ifly4vamerica said:
just copy all files from your 8g card to the 32g card pop it in the evn and you are good to go, nothing special required. Unless you are using apps to sd, then the easiest way s to put all apps back on the phone, then after switching to the new sd put them all back on the sd.
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Yea I tried that and kept getting an error msg. I think there are specific steps for partitioning etc I just don't know them.
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sorry if i'm misinformed but the evo has 2.2/apps2sd built in and 2.2 partitions the sd card on reboot. The article u linked i believe is for devices with 2.1 or ealier and a modded apps2sd . I have swapped many different cards and have not had to do anything that special.
Here are my steps:
1. go into settings manage applications and pull all apps back to phone.
2. copy all files/pics/vids/whatever u want to keep to computer.
3. power off, swap out sd cards, power back on.
4. phone should boot and partition sd or whatever.
5. use astro file manager and if it shows directory for sd, asec, secure then everything is good and u can move apps back to sd.
6. hook phone to sd and move all your kept files from old sd to new sd
I have seen your problem happen with a bad sd card, where did you get the 32g card. You may want to test it and see if it is actually a 32g.
Supersonic Sent
flight01 said:
sorry if i'm misinformed but the evo has 2.2/apps2sd built in and 2.2 partitions the sd card on reboot. The article u linked i believe is for devices with 2.1 or ealier and a modded apps2sd . I have swapped many different cards and have not had to do anything that special.
Here are my steps:
1. go into settings manage applications and pull all apps back to phone.
2. copy all files/pics/vids/whatever u want to keep to computer.
3. power off, swap out sd cards, power back on.
4. phone should boot and partition sd or whatever.
5. use astro file manager and if it shows directory for sd, asec, secure then everything is good and u can move apps back to sd.
6. hook phone to sd and move all your kept files from old sd to new sd
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Thanks for the response...just a question before i go forward with it, when i replace the card and reboot the phone, is it automatically going to boot up w/ the rom i was using before replacing the card?
Edit: Tried these steps and got stuck in bootloop for MIUI (rom i had flashed previously). Even tried to put the initial PC36IMG file on the sd card and flash it through recovery, nothing! It searched for it then says it directory cannot be found. I've put the 32gb card in my card reader on my computer and it comes up just fine, I can add files to it, format it etc and everything works, any other suggestions...this is becoming highly frustrating! Again any help is definitely welcomed!
So i still cannot seem to get this working, and I've tried doing a lot of different things and nothing is working for me, I have tried to install some sort of file manager program (astro) but it doesn't recognize my sd card, yet my phone shows it as mounted and with plenty of space available. I do not know what else to do...can ANYONE help me?
i had a similiar problem recently. For christmas I received a new sd card. At fist it didn't recognize my card. I tried to format it using my PC but I then went to my recovery (Amon RA) and clicked on the Partition SD card option.
After I partitioned, I turned on USB-MS toggle and put all my files back into the phone (including my rom zip).
I disabled USB-MS toggle, and then wiped data/factory reset, cache, dalvik-cache
Flashed zip from sdcard and violoa. It works!
try that one out.
kakashi_s1 said:
i had a similiar problem recently. For christmas I received a new sd card. At fist it didn't recognize my card. I tried to format it using my PC but I then went to my recovery (Amon RA) and clicked on the Partition SD card option.
After I partitioned, I turned on USB-MS toggle and put all my files back into the phone (including my rom zip).
I disabled USB-MS toggle, and then wiped data/factory reset, cache, dalvik-cache
Flashed zip from sdcard and violoa. It works!
try that one out.
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I'm going to try that and see if it works, i just went back to Amon Ra today from clockwork. Thanks!
kakashi_s1 said:
i had a similiar problem recently. For christmas I received a new sd card. At fist it didn't recognize my card. I tried to format it using my PC but I then went to my recovery (Amon RA) and clicked on the Partition SD card option.
After I partitioned, I turned on USB-MS toggle and put all my files back into the phone (including my rom zip).
I disabled USB-MS toggle, and then wiped data/factory reset, cache, dalvik-cache
Flashed zip from sdcard and violoa. It works!
try that one out.
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how would i partition a 8 GB micro sd card with AmonRA?

Safe SD format/Clockwork Update/reflash procedure?

I'm currently on CM7 which I flashed over Nightly #38. I'm liking it, but I get some reboots and stuff, so I want to do a fresh flash after wipe.
However, I'd also really like to format my SD card to clear any bad sections on it and hopefully prevent it from getting corrupt (just as a housecleaning item). I figure I also might as well update to the latest clockwork recovery at the same time.
Could someone put down some instructions on how to do these things safely, or post a link? I'm not sure if formatting the SD card will screw with Clockwork recovery, or what order I should do things in, how to do them, etc. REALLY don't want to brick my phone in trying to do the right things!
mobilemedic20 said:
I'm currently on CM7 which I flashed over Nightly #38. I'm liking it, but I get some reboots and stuff, so I want to do a fresh flash after wipe.
However, I'd also really like to format my SD card to clear any bad sections on it and hopefully prevent it from getting corrupt (just as a housecleaning item). I figure I also might as well update to the latest clockwork recovery at the same time.
Could someone put down some instructions on how to do these things safely, or post a link? I'm not sure if formatting the SD card will screw with Clockwork recovery, or what order I should do things in, how to do them, etc. REALLY don't want to brick my phone in trying to do the right things!
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1 - Download ROM to SD Card.
2 - Copy the contents of your SD card to your computer, so you have a backup!! Very important!!
3 - Update to the latest CWM recovery.
4 - You can have your phone format your SD card, or if your computer has a SD card reader you can format it from your computer. I've done both, with no ill effects.
5 - After the format, boot up the phone and copy the SD card backup that you copied to your computer back to your SD card. Reboot into recovery, and flash the ROM you want to install.
Good luck!
EDIT: The one issue I did run into was when I formatted my new SD card with my computer. I copied my files over from my computer to my SD card, put the SD card into the phone, then booted it. The phone deleted (maybe reformatted...?) the contents of the SD card, and that is why making a back up is so important! I was able to just copy the files back over, and that issue was a one-and-done issue.
Thank you, but I should have been a little clearer in my OP...
I'd really like to just start from scratch with my SD card, i.e. clean it off and start from new. I will be sure to back up the current files that are on there, but there's a lot of crap I don't need and rather than sort through it all, I figure I'll just format and then add stuff back on that I find I need. How do I do that safely? Are things that MUST be present at all times for Clockwork to function, or whatever?
Also, why would I add the ROM on before formatting - won't the formatting just erase the file?
I probably was confusing here: I thought adding the ROM to the SD before formatting, you could then copy everything over off the SD card. You can certainly just d/l the ROM to your computer and copy it over that way too.
CWM needs the clockworkmod folder, which is where things live including any ROM backups you may have.
Depending on the apps you have installed, they may have created a folder. If you don't have those apps but have those folders, you can delete them if they don't contain anything you need. There are folders there that Android will create upon first boot with a freshly formatted SD card.
EDIT: I adjusted my prior post with *hopefully* steps that aren't confusing.

Team Dirt

So i flashed the parnoid rom yesterday and worked really well other than the fact it wouldnt show if the phone was charging. decided to download another rom from them and and tried to the salad bar one. i do the the aroma ra recovery and i did follow all the steps but it was not able to open the zip. so i tried downloading the rom again but all the downloads for team dirt roms are not working. So i kept messing with and everytime i partion the sd card and go back to install zip from sd card my rom gets deleted. (the one that it said was bad).
hoping i get a reply soon dont want to be without a phone tommorrow
Wow i make no sense in the above post
Main thing: does anyone have mirror download link for one of the ics from team dirt?
Try downloading again. The links should be fixed.
Feel the soapy goodness!!
Partitioning your SD erases everything, OP's say that
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BigSmoke53 said:
Partitioning your SD erases everything...
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This. Here's one way to do it... After you partition your sd card, hook up with usb, go into recovery, select the USB toggle option, copy the rom over to sd card, then flash... at least that's how I do it.
kabuki! said:
This. Here's one way to do it... After you partition your sd card, hook up with usb, go into recovery, select the USB toggle option, copy the rom over to sd card, then flash... at least that's how I do it.
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The correct way to do it would be to: copy contents to pc / external drive / wherever > partition [format] > copy back files.
Did you back everything up before you partitioned the SD?
MEZOCLONE

Error while restoring system .. HELP PLEASE

Hi,
I was using CWM to install CM9 and the next thing I know nothing showed on SD card. I tried to restore and I am getting the above. I did a bacup prior yet it is doing nothing...
Have I bricked my phone or ????
NEED HELP cannot get it out of CWM mod mode....
lmarranzino said:
Hi,
I was using CWM to install CM9 and the next thing I know nothing showed on SD card. I tried to restore and I am getting the above. I did a bacup prior yet it is doing nothing...
Have I bricked my phone or ????
NEED HELP cannot get it out of CWM mod mode....
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If you are using the SD card that came with your phone, you probably need to reformat it properly. See if your computer can read the SD card. If so, copy everything off of it and onto your computer hard drive in a safe place. Then install and run this application: https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/ and use it to format the SD card. (Do not use Windows's built-in stuff to format the card, it won't fix it.)
After the format is done, copy everything back to the card, and then back into the phone and try it again.
drumist said:
If you are using the SD card that came with your phone, you probably need to reformat it properly. See if your computer can read the SD card. If so, copy everything off of it and onto your computer hard drive in a safe place. Then install and run this application: https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/ and use it to format the SD card. (Do not use Windows's built-in stuff to format the card, it won't fix it.)
After the format is done, copy everything back to the card, and then back into the phone and try it again.
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Well the card has NOTHING on it.... I have no clue and CWM states no files either.
I have this gut feeling I just bricked my phone as even I cannot get it into download mode CMW just keeps coming up nice and BLUE ...
UPDATE : I am able to use CWM it seems I tried adding a ROM to the SD card and reinserting yet Nothing... I have the feeling the system is wiped also... IS there a zip file I can use to restore that anyone knows about... I was searching for the Orginal firmware and can't find anything.
Thanks
Larry

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