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Rooting broke my SD card

I followed the idiot-proof root guide—guess it's not so idiot-proof.
I got up to the point where I was installing the stock rooted ROM (33b. After everything is wiped, navigate to "install zip from sdcard," then select "choose zip from sdcard."). However, when I chose to install the zip with the ROM in it, the screen just flashed a quick message and dumped me back to the main ClockworkMod screen. Puzzled, I hit "reboot" to see if it had actually done anything.
It booted back into full Android, but now it's not recognizing my SD card, saying it needs to be formatted. When I try and format it, it does nothing. Now, recovery is also saying "E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0) (Invalid argument)". My SD card reader won't recognize my card either to the point that I can't even format it using my Mac.
Help!

SD format tool can fix many sd card issues:
http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter/

Same thing happened to me.
You got two problems. One which the phone is messing up, and the other which more than likely you.
1) Mine wanted to format too. When I clicked it, nothing.
What I did: Restarted my phone and tried to format again and VIOLA! worked perfectly fine. Then I was able to use it again.
2) The problem you're doing wrong is: when you are renaming the file on your computer to "update.zip" you're literally making it "update.zip", so the phone will read it as if it's "update.zip.zip". Try renaming it to JUST "update" and try again. If not, then the other way around.
Hope that helps.

1 - I've tried that several times, here's to trying it once more... :/
2 - Recovery mode won't even recognize the SD card, so that's not an issue until I get my SD card working. But since I was able to boot into update.zip once, I doubt that's the issue.
EDIT: Nope, won't format from within Android.
arozer said:
Same thing happened to me.
You got two problems. One which the phone is messing up, and the other which more than likely you.
1) Mine wanted to format too. When I clicked it, nothing.
What I did: Restarted my phone and tried to format again and VIOLA! worked perfectly fine. Then I was able to use it again.
2) The problem you're doing wrong is: when you are renaming the file on your computer to "update.zip" you're literally making it "update.zip", so the phone will read it as if it's "update.zip.zip". Try renaming it to JUST "update" and try again. If not, then the other way around.
Hope that helps.
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Same thing happened to me. I just renamed the update.zip shut phone down took out battery and SD put SD and battery in and good to go! Hope it works for u.
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When you were in the initial recover screen did you hit update.zip. my first go I didn't you can't boot custom roms without the update.zip unless you used toast full root method. I know u probley
knew already but I'm a noon and took me a sec to figure it out.
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Trying a couple of other things that aren't working either:
Code:
mount -t fat32 /dev/block/mmcblk0 /sdcard
mount: No such device
I tried to force it:
Code:
echo /dev/block/mmcblk0 > /sys/devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun0/file
This made my computer recognize the SD card as an unformatted 32MB disk, which is obviously wrong.
So: should I get a new SD card or something?
Not going to help as the SD card isn't being recognized no matter what I do. Can't do anything with it.
xxxgeooegxxx said:
Same thing happened to me. I just renamed the update.zip shut phone down took out battery and SD put SD and battery in and good to go! Hope it works for u.
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Any other suggestions? I'm just about ready to go get a new microSD...

redct said:
Any other suggestions? I'm just about ready to go get a new microSD...
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try and get/install the OTA with the sd card fix. you don't need the card to do that, i don't think. then reboot. see if that fixes it.

redct said:
Any other suggestions? I'm just about ready to go get a new microSD...
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Go check out the EVO 4G Android Development forum. There's a thread in there from someone who broke the SD & USB and almost bricked their device. It contains a fix for SD card issues.

Nope. OTA doesn't show up.
timothydonohue said:
try and get/install the OTA with the sd card fix. you don't need the card to do that, i don't think. then reboot. see if that fixes it.
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Well, it seems to be the SD card. Bought a new one and it all works perfectly.

android broke my micro sd card too!!! I didn't update my rom or anything. It just hangs and i need to reset by pulling out the battery. And this is what happens!
Blackberry and windows mobile are more friendly to memory cards.

Error mounting SD Card

I've decided to try a new rom today, Iceandfire v1.6. I was previously using sense ginger and just thought I'd try something new since I was bored and curious. I downloaded the rom and gapps and booted into recovery. I wiped data/format and cache aswell as dalvik. I installed from SD card the iceandfire and gapps and reboot the phone. Upon the first boot I got an error saying "Damaged SD card" and suggested I format. So I clicked yes to format but that did nothing at all and just gave me another Damaged SD Card error.
So I said, "OK then, my phone doesn't get along with this ROM, I'll just go back to sense ginger." Rebooted into recovery, started a full wipe again, only this time it gave the error "unable to mount /sdcard/ .android_secure!" and said failed to wipe. So I thought "HMMM!!!" and reboot the phone back into iceandfire rom and wanted to try mounting my card to PC to try formatting that way. I clicked mount and it has been loading since I started writing this post up until about 5 seconds ago and just went back to the previous "Turn on USB storage" screen.
Now I'm out of ideas....If I can't format or mount the SD card, what can I do??
EDIT: As it turns out, the iceandfire rom I flashed turned out to be for the Milestone. I found it in the G2 forum and thought it was for the G2! I thought milestone was part of the ROM name...So I flashed a rom that wasn't made for my phone and now I can't mount SD card. Any solution?
EDIT 2: Was able to wipe the sd card completely, to be honest, I'm not entirely sure how. I put my SD card in another android phone, got the same damaged sd card error, put the card back into my phone, wiped data, successful wipe, went to flash a previous rom, said no files found. mounted the sd card to PC, NO files at all on sd card. Downloading new rom now and will try to flash. Perhaps this thread could help somebody else who might have similar problem. Will edit again once I've tried flashing.
EDIT 3: Unsuccessful. I downloaded MIUI and flashed. It happened to be the only file on SD card after transferring. When I installed it, it just instantly installed, so...it didn't install. So I reboot and now it's gone back to the previous rom, even after wiping data. So perhaps I'm missing some core files? I have NO idea. Should I only need a rom like MIUI for it to work? I honestly don't know. Now that I've rebooted into recovery, there are two new folders on the SD card, lost.dir and Android. I'm formatting again and going to try to flash MIUI again. - It gives the error "Can't open MIUI.zip (bad)". Trying to download "Stock Gingerbread" rom. Will update.
EDIT 4: Once again, unsuccessful. Perhaps I'm overlooking something? Tried two different roms, neither will flash. Atleast I'm able to access my SD card. Does the root apply to internal memory or SD card? I could put a specific rom on my brothers SD card and flash it through there? Perhaps that'll replace the necessary files I might be missing (if that's the case). Please somebody help me. I know this is a lengthy thread, it's just I've tried to provide the most details I could.

EDIT 5: All is well. I used sd card from another phone to install a new rom. Everything is working now.
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[Q] CyanogenMod 7 is ruining my SD cards

Now I'm not moaning about CyanogenMod here, I'm just trying to understand how I can fix the issue.
Basically, I had CyanogenMod 7 RC2 on my Desire Z. That was it.
Eventually I saw through ROM Manager that the full release of 7 was out so I downloaded, took a backup, wiped everything and did a fresh install of the new ROM.
It installed fine, but none of my apps that needed root access were getting it.
So I booted into recovery, restored my backup, root was back.
I then installed 7.0 over my RC2. That worked fine, but again root was gone.
At this point, my phone started damaging SD cards.
It suddenly started saying that my 8GB card that came with the phone was damaged. I tried to fix it on the phone, but it just said 'Checking card' and then giving up.
Putting it in an old MP3 player, it is not detected at all.
Putting it in a card reader, the card is unreadable and when I try to format it Windows says the card is 'read only' (this is not due to the reader).
I put a functional 2gb card I had lying around into my Desire Z and it broke it in the exact same way.
My question to you guys is - what could be causing this and how do I fix it because I have a 16gb card coming and I'm obviously cautious of putting it in the phone.
Also, how would I go about flashing the new Cyanogenmod 7.02 ROM if my phone keeps breaking SD cards I put into it?

This error can be because when ever you install a CyanogenMod ROM over another, It leaves files your new ROM think is useful such as data that the new ROM doesn't support. It is damaging your SD Card because it keeps attempting to fix the error but is making it worst by trying to remove system files. Your best bet is to try another ROM and see if it does the same thing and report it to CyanogenMod Developer Team if it only does this to CyanogenMod ROMs otherwise it would be just a virus on your SD Card feeding off of personal data. If it is only CyanogenMod ROMs, we will adress this issue ASAP. Hope I helped

Thank you VS4, you are indeed helpful
I've since heard some people have managed to fix their SD cards by formatting them in ClockworkMod but I can't even mount it first in order to do this! Is my card truly dead?
Also, do you think the reason that CM7.0 had no root (even when it was a clean install) was due to me not 'fixing permissions'?
Thanks

Just a note to say that I've managed to fix it!
Despite being unable to 'mount sdcard' in clockworkmod, I found I was able to activate USB Storage and through this I was able to format the card (Windows 7 was previously saying that the same card was 'read only' in a multitude of card readers).
I hope this helps any poor chap with the same problem.

I had this exact same problem, munched 2 of my 8GB cards, and had a 16 on the way. I somehow fixed it before the 16 came and I've never had the issue since, glad to see an explanation of it.

Thanks, nofixio!
I had the same problem on my Samsung Fascinate with CM7. It ate my 16GB SD card to the point where the phone wouldn't recognize it, CWM wouldn't mount it, and it wouldn't show up on my computer in multiple SD readers.
I wasn't quite clear what you were suggesting when you said you were able to "activate USB Storage." I thought maybe you meant within CWM. That didn't work for me, but I was able to boot the phone up with the problem SD card in it and turn on USB storage as normal. Suddenly my computer could not only see the SD card, it could see all the files that were on it before it died! I backed everything up, formatted the card in Windows, and everything's good now. Thanks for the tip!

rfschmid said:
Thanks, nofixio!
I had the same problem on my Samsung Fascinate with CM7. It ate my 16GB SD card to the point where the phone wouldn't recognize it, CWM wouldn't mount it, and it wouldn't show up on my computer in multiple SD readers.
I wasn't quite clear what you were suggesting when you said you were able to "activate USB Storage." I thought maybe you meant within CWM. That didn't work for me, but I was able to boot the phone up with the problem SD card in it and turn on USB storage as normal. Suddenly my computer could not only see the SD card, it could see all the files that were on it before it died! I backed everything up, formatted the card in Windows, and everything's good now. Thanks for the tip!
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how do i activate usb storage? i have several memory cards that stopped working out of no where and i have important files on them. PLEASE HELP!!!

hotboyray said:
how do i activate usb storage? i have several memory cards that stopped working out of no where and i have important files on them. PLEASE HELP!!!
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I'm not sure why you would ask this in such an old thread but... Try just plugging it in to your computer maybe? What ROM are you on?

noneabove said:
I'm not sure why you would ask this in such an old thread but... Try just plugging it in to your computer maybe? What ROM are you on?
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im running cm7 ... it wont read from computer. i tried several micro sd card readers. it just tells me it cant format. its just like what was mentioned before.

Weird, I've never had any problems with Cyanogen 7 roms. I've flashed one over another and had no issues at all, Mayb because I use SuperWipe before hand? Or maybe its a certain sd card issue???

Running Desire Z and Andromadus Beta 11 I had similar problem after I had applied remote wipe from Exchange (wanted to see if it works). Remote wipe worked: it destroyed contents of SD card and erased phone back to factory settings. After wipe mounting SD card failed and Andromadus seemed to be unable to format the card.
Solution: Booted phone to Clockwork recovery and applied advanced -> Partition SD Card.
Posted this on this thread since it came first when searching solution.

hotboyray said:
how do i activate usb storage? i have several memory cards that stopped working out of no where and i have important files on them. PLEASE HELP!!!
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Go into Recovery (Clockwork), go to mounts and storage, then scroll down and it should say mount USB storage.

[Q] WTH it doesnt see my SDcard

im a noob at flashing but i was doing pretty good when i i had my evo.... anyways i have the epic touch and im soo love this phone i rooted with no problem... i download a ROM placed it on my sdcard, im in the clockworkmod recovery mode and i select "install zip from sdcard" and then i select "zip from sdcard" i see clockworkmod folder and thats it..... no zip file can be found, and yes i failed in backing up because i knew it would work yes im stupid please help if you can.. thanks

chiefs72 said:
im a noob at flashing but i was doing pretty good when i i had my evo.... anyways i have the epic touch and im soo love this phone i rooted with no problem... i download a ROM placed it on my sdcard, im in the clockworkmod recovery mode and i select "install zip from sdcard" and then i select "zip from sdcard" i see clockworkmod folder and thats it..... no zip file can be found, and yes i failed in backing up because i knew it would work yes im stupid please help if you can.. thanks
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If its on the actual sdcard look for the external_sd folder
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thanks for responding but when i do that i get the clockworkmod folder i dont see any other folders...

Correct me if I'm wrong but the applications automatically save to the internal memory. I too have the same problem..

ok i found a fix phew!!! thanks to a someone on the IRC chat(sorry i totally forgot your name ) i went in to the usb mount option waited for my pc to recognize the drive and copied the rom into the internal memory card and flashed it and wooohoooo! Im good to go....

chiefs72 said:
ok i found a fix phew!!! thanks to a someone on the IRC chat(sorry i totally forgot your name ) i went in to the usb mount option waited for my pc to recognize the drive and copied the rom into the internal memory card and flashed it and wooohoooo! Im good to go....
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This happened to me last night, actually, except that the usb mode DIDN'T recognize my sd card (although, it did recognize it when i took it out of my phone and used a microsd adapter). The fix for me, in case you anyone else has this problem, too, was simply to reboot into recovery and choose flash from sd card, forcing your phone now to recognize the card. I'm not sure why this worked, but after it correctly brought up all my files on my sd card, I rebooted and all was peachy again.
Note that normal resets didn't work for me. It only began working after rebooting into recovery mode and accesssing the sd card from there. Also note that nothing was wrong with the card...I checked my other microsd card and it didn't recognize that one either.

Can't install apps after flashing of roms

After flashing different Android 4.2 roms on her DHD, my friend is seemingly unable to install most apps and seemingly have no access to the SD card. I told her to use the repartition of the SD card function in CWM after flashing the first rom she tried, since she was stuck in the HTC boot screen. After having flashed the boot.rom file so that the OS now actually boots, something still seems seriously wrong after that repartition.
I don't know if apps actually require an SD card to function, but whenever she tries to install for example Tango, it says that the app already is installed on her phone. The reason why i suspect the OS not having access to the SD card is because the ext folders or whatever that supposedly are supposed to appear on the SD card when you install a new rom never appeared. There's nothing on it except the zip containing the new OS.
I can't find any solutions to this for this specific phone, and the information about this that i found in other topics i don't really understand.
Can someone please help us figure out what's wrong with her phone? It worked fine before in Android 2.3.

Do you have access to another SD card?

bananagranola said:
Do you have access to another SD card?
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Hmm, no i don't think she has. But it worked before the CWM repartition, so something should make it work again.

Your first mistake was partitioning the sd card. Thats a waste of time and a headache waiting to happen. Remove sd and see if you can boot phone into recovery. If so format sd on computer do not partition then remount sd. You jave to also reflash rom.
Many people have been having issues with cmw. My suggestion is move on up to 4ext recovery. And stay away from rom manager its garbage.
Good luck
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Reinaldo33897 said:
Your first mistake was partitioning the sd card. Thats a waste of time and a headache waiting to happen. Remove sd and see if you can boot phone into recovery. If so format sd on computer do not partition then remount sd. You jave to also reflash rom.
Many people have been having issues with cmw. My suggestion is move on up to 4ext recovery. And stay away from rom manager its garbage.
Good luck
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Thanks, that did solve the problem with the SD card. The folders were properly created when she flashed the rom once more.
The problem however still presists with apps; the play store says that they're already installed.

Try clearing play store history in play store settings see if that resolves it.
Edit: Also in memu>app manager try clearing rhe playstore data. It will open as tgo it was never opened and ask to accept terms and agree.
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