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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.
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.
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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?
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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When i go to rom manager and press flash CWM recovery it does nothing, not even ask for SU. is anyone else having this issue?
Same issue here... I even tried a factory reset and it still won't flash CWM! Anyone out there have a good idea?
FWIW, on the Play Store reviews for CWM, it seems like we're not the only ones suddenly having issues flashing CWM recovery...
Just a simple question...I'm guessing it's a dumb question and all...but I have to ask...you are rooted right?
Second question...you aren't trying to install cwm touch right? you are choosing the very top option correct?
Yep, I'm rooted and I'm trying to select the top option.
I guess Koush's server is down or something.
possible...
Same problem here, sbfed 3 times and was panicking over this issue, thought it was the app's fault only just recently did I realize it might just be the servers and find this thread.
Add me to the list of ROM Manager not flashing.
Couldn't have happened at a worse possible time, now that CM9 daily is out!!
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They must've of fixed the issue! I was just able to flash the recovery and I'm installing CM9 now! Wooo!
I am having the issue where CWM cannot see my sdcard. I am seeing hints of this on this and other boards, but no clear solution.
I have formatted my card multiple times, either thru phone, in CWM (which seems to do nothing) or in windows.
This is some kinda sick joke... CM9 is out and I cannot flash it.
blaineball said:
I am having the issue where CWM cannot see my sdcard. I am seeing hints of this on this and other boards, but no clear solution.
I have formatted my card multiple times, either thru phone, in CWM (which seems to do nothing) or in windows.
This is some kinda sick joke... CM9 is out and I cannot flash it.
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when you choose install from zip, there are two options: "choose zip from SD card" and "choose zip from internal SD card"
Try both and see if you see your files.
Thanks for response!
Ok I do not see the "install from internal sd " option, am I missing something.
I have ROM Manager, CWM 5.8.2.0. In Rom manager I have install from SD Card, but when I use that I get "Sd Card Marker not found" error when it reboots into CWM.
In CWM it I choose "Install zip from SD Card", I pick "chosse zip from" and it immedicately says "no files found" doesnt even show directory structure.
Should I get paid version of Rom Manager... is that what I am missing?
blaineball said:
Thanks for response!
Ok I do not see the "install from internal sd " option, am I missing something.
I have ROM Manager, CWM 5.8.2.0. In Rom manager I have install from SD Card, but when I use that I get "Sd Card Marker not found" error when it reboots into CWM.
In CWM it I choose "Install zip from SD Card", I pick "chosse zip from" and it immedicately says "no files found" doesnt even show directory structure.
Should I get paid version of Rom Manager... is that what I am missing?
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Try formatting your SD card in your laptop with the adapter and do it as Fat 32. I think people have had similar issues.
I did get it working. I had a 16GB card in my HD2, I pulled that and it worked without a hitch.
I did do a full format with card reader on my old card. They are both 16GB Class 2 so I will probably keep this one.
Thanks for replies... and CM9 is pretty schweet! I havent hit any significant hiccups.
Glad you got up and running. Seems these stock Sd cards are flaky.
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If anyone else is having this problem, try using the official SD formatter tool here instead of Windows to format the card: https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/
I think there is some small quirk in the way the SD cards are originally formatted that is making them unreadable by the touch CWM. And using Windows to reformat them doesn't seem to fix it. This formatter tool has revived an SD card I messed up before that nothing else could fix, so if anything can fix the problem, this thing can. Worth a shot before switching the SD card out.
16GB card
Guys
very new to this, first rooting, I struggled with my 16GB SD card (SD card marker not found, file not found, etc). Then I tried with another 1GB SD card and it worked perfectly.
Just another idea.
Thanks for all good posts and ideas from this forum!
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.
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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.
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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