Hey all,
Recently I tried to format my sd card from my phone to create extra space, as it was getting clogged up. I pressed unmount, expecting to mount it again as the format option was greyed out. However, I was unable to get it mounted again (ie my phone no longer recognises a sd card is inserted).
I tried to perform a factory rest to get my phone back to the settings it should have once had. However it didn't manage to do this properly and now its stuck at the htc logo screen. Formating or partitioning the sd card didnt do a thing.
I can get into the bootloader, and it was rooted beforehand. I was running the official Miui ROM. Now I am unable to start my phone normally, nor get into access my sd card.
Unfortunetly, I have had my phone for quiet a long time now so I doubt the warranty is still valid. I need help urgently.
Thanks in advance.
Try clearing cache and data and then install a new rom for example Jellytime r26.2.
if it dont work the first time try one more time. I had the same issue ones and had to install the rom twice before it worked.
lachy92 said:
Hey all,
Recently I tried to format my sd card from my phone to create extra space, as it was getting clogged up. I pressed unmount, expecting to mount it again as the format option was greyed out. However, I was unable to get it mounted again (ie my phone no longer recognises a sd card is inserted).
I tried to perform a factory rest to get my phone back to the settings it should have once had. However it didn't manage to do this properly and now its stuck at the htc logo screen. Formating or partitioning the sd card didnt do a thing.
I can get into the bootloader, and it was rooted beforehand. I was running the official Miui ROM. Now I am unable to start my phone normally, nor get into access my sd card.
Unfortunetly, I have had my phone for quiet a long time now so I doubt the warranty is still valid. I need help urgently.
Thanks in advance.
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Are you S-OFF? Can you get into recovery? through the bootloader? If so, just flash a new ROM through recovery.
How did you try to do a factory reset? If you can get into the bootloader, go to recovery if you have it. Then see if the sdcard is being recognized or not. If it is getting recognized, put the zip of any ROM on it and flash it after wiping like the guy above me said.
Post what your bootloader screen says here. Your phone is far from being bricked as far as I know.
RESOLVED
I've managed to resolve this issue. For the benefit of others I will explain what I did.
1)I went into fastboot mode and connected my phone to my pc (running windows 7). Using cmd I reflashed the recovery image.
2)Went into recovery and installed a custom ROM.
I hope this helps you as it really saved my life.
P.S Cheers for all the help guys, you've been amazing!
lachy92 said:
I've managed to resolve this issue. For the benefit of others I will explain what I did.
1)I went into fastboot mode and connected my phone to my pc (running windows 7). Using cmd I reflashed the recovery image.
2)Went into recovery and installed a custom ROM.
I hope this helps you as it really saved my life.
P.S Cheers for all the help guys, you've been amazing!
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I formated and wiped all the data i could from the phone itself and the from recovery. Lucky you were right about me being far away from bricking it completely.
Since I firstly unmounted my sd card from my phone settings, it didnt get recognised at all. I couldnt mount it again. So i formatted it with windows, then in recovery made a backup image despite the phone being stuck in bootloop. That allowed me to finally access my sd card for some reason.
Then as you all suggested, i just needed to reflash everything, including recovery using fastboot.
Bit of a strange scenario really
Lesson learned ? :
1.) If youre going to start from scratch then start in Recovery;
2.) wipe all partitions (twice)
3.) enable USB drive and transfer new ROM to SD Root
4.) flash new ROM
lachy92 said:
I formated and wiped all the data i could from the phone itself and the from recovery. Lucky you were right about me being far away from bricking it completely.
Since I firstly unmounted my sd card from my phone settings, it didnt get recognised at all. I couldnt mount it again. So i formatted it with windows, then in recovery made a backup image despite the phone being stuck in bootloop. That allowed me to finally access my sd card for some reason.
Then as you all suggested, i just needed to reflash everything, including recovery using fastboot.
Bit of a strange scenario really
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hi lachy92, by formatted all the data, you mean wipe data/factory reset in the recovery? coz i have same problem with you, i tried to install new rom from the recovery, but the recovery always shows cant open sd card, installation aborted, can you help me pliz
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Hey, well I made a mistake (supprise). I was following a guide on here and mixing it up with cyanogen's own guide for flashing their rom and well basically I whipped my phone without having the rom on my ssd, i took the ssd out and put it into another phone to put the rom on and now when i put the ssd back in i'm getting:
E:can't mount /sdcard
when I try and install the rom from it.
Suggestions? Please tell me i've not bricked my phone. I only just realised I should have done a rom backup but it wasn't said it the guides I was following and i was so fixated on doing it word for word It only just poped into my head.
Cheers. Fast replies would be nice, I don't like sitting here with my phone in clockwork without anything on it.
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I have another ssd card current set up as a gold card. Could I use that? Both are htc supplied ssd cards.
Ok so i just pluged my gold card in and it could open it. Should I just use that or reformat my other ssd and use that instead?
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in the process of backing up my ssd and formating it, going to see if that fixes my problem. Figure I should probably start a new rom on a fresh ssd anyway.
Be nice to know for future if wiping everything is actually needed for roms
You said your goldcard was recognized correctly by the phone? Did you use another card before?
Where does the error occur, when downgrading or did you already downgrade and are already rooted and want to flash the rom already?
unhallowedone said:
You said your goldcard was recognized correctly by the phone? Did you use another card before?
Where does the error occur, when downgrading or did you already downgrade and are already rooted and want to flash the rom already?
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I've done everything but the flash so far. I was on the final bit and I had "full wipe" zip on my ssd and it opened fine and then i reset to factory settings and cleared cache and then my ssd couldn't be read any more so I couldn't flash with my rom.
However my other ssd which I had to previously format to turn into a gold card can have the zip's read on it. So I figure if I reformat the ssd I wish to use (not gold card) and put the rom back on it will be fine.
Also can you charge the battery while in recovery? I think my battery must be getting quite low now as it's been stuck in it a long time and was only about 40% when I started. I presumed 40% was enough to install a rom, didn't expect this delay of a few hours.
I'm also presuming I can't boot into anything any more as I think i've wiped the previous rom no?
Ok now after formating it and putting the rom on it says "no files found" :/. Does it even matter if I use a differnt ssd to flash as to the one I wish to use long term? i was under the assumption it would install other things to the SSD but now I realise thats probably totaly wrong.
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Put the rom on my other ssd and now also says no files found. it appears the rom is causing the problems?
Put the rom on my goldcard ssd and now also says no files found. it appears the rom is causing the problems? It could read the zips on that ssd 10min ago
If you did a full wipe you have to get it going again by flashing a new one ^^ So yes, go ahead with flashing. The Goldcard was especially necessary for the DHD to load the downgrade-zip, because when I did that originally it gave me an error (had wrong goldcard). Of course, I now have a working one, still using it.
You could try twice, like 1. reformat the sd you wish to use and put the ROM onto it or 2. use the other one to load the rom. Think about it, worst would be "yo man, wrong card"
Edit: this is confusing, indeed. So you actually did a new format of the SD and tried to open it in CWM and it says NO FILES FOUND?
Just to confirm a few things.
DHD rooted, S-OFF , etc....
Full wipe
Removed SD
SD No longer recognised
Rock > YOU < Hard Place
My suggestion, would be to format the first SDcard in your pc, copy ROM to it, place in the phone, reboot recovery.
unhallowedone said:
If you did a full wipe you have to get it going again by flashing a new one ^^ So yes, go ahead with flashing. The Goldcard was especially necessary for the DHD to load the downgrade-zip, because when I did that originally it gave me an error (had wrong goldcard). Of course, I now have a working one, still using it.
You could try twice, like 1. reformat the sd you wish to use and put the ROM onto it or 2. use the other one to load the rom. Think about it, worst would be "yo man, wrong card"
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Well aparently neither of my SSD's work. Is it possible to boot into clockwork without going into the software? Ie can i get into clockwork straight from boot? Because I might need to restart clockwork to get this to work now.
andyharney said:
Just to confirm a few things.
DHD rooted, S-OFF , etc....
Full wipe
Removed SD
SD No longer recognised
Rock > YOU < Hard Place
My suggestion, would be to format the first SDcard in your pc, copy ROM to it, place in the phone, reboot recovery.
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Exactly, but tryed and the moment I put this rom on it apperas it cant read the ssd.
Its cyanogen 7.02 and google addon.
Ok then, my formated ssd (which is apparently empty according to clockwork) formatted and was empty on windows, put the roms on it. When i plug it back in to windows it has all my old **** back on which was several gig so there is no way I accidently copyed that over with the roms and didn't notice.
You can boot directly to the bootloader by holding volume down then pressing power.
Did you download the ROM from ROM Manager or direct from here/cyanogen
EDIT: What version of clockwork you using?
8igdave said:
Well aparently neither of my SSD's work. Is it possible to boot into clockwork without going into the software? Ie can i get into clockwork straight from boot? Because I might need to restart clockwork to get this to work now.
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Sure, Power off the DHD then hold Volume DOWN and press POWER. It then boots into Recovery.
I dont think you will have bricked it. As far as I know you cant brick a phone by flashing a rom. Bricking is as a result of radio installation gone wrong. If your SD card is being recognised, just wipe it and put in in empty. Then install the desired rom using ADB shell on your PC. About charging in recovery I think it will work. If not just turn the phone off and plug it into USB.
EDIT. This is sounding above my level of understanding now. Ignore my advice. I was assuming clockwork is behaving itself
Downloaded from CM7 them selves, ah ok I will reboot. Yup now neither of my ssd's have data on them apparently.
Rebooted recovery and now not working. I click to use an option and it just goes straight back to the top of the list, even reboot option.
edcoppen said:
Ok first I dont think you will have bricked it. As far as I know you cant brick a phone by flashing a rom. Bricking is as a result of radio installation gone wrong.
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Or by using CWM 3.0.2.5 to format the SD as I did 6 days ago - have a new DHD now
edcoppen said:
About charging in recovery I think it will work. If not just turn the phone off and plug it into USB.
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I would suggest power charge instead of USB, because the real charger loads your phone faster due to lower power values over USB. Afaik.
OK, worst case scenario here is having to flash a 1.32 RUU and rooting, ENG S-OFF-ing again. I don't think your at that stage yet. Did you Radio S-OFF before this?
edcoppen said:
Ok first I dont think you will have bricked it. As far as I know you cant brick a phone by flashing a rom. Bricking is as a result of radio installation gone wrong.
If your SD card is being recognised, just wipe it and put in in empty. Then install the desired rom using ADB shell on your PC.
About charging in recovery I think it will work. If not just turn the phone off and plug it into USB.
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The light on the dhd only comes on when the phone is turned off and charging for me atm.
Ok then how do I use ADB, i was getting real confused by that earlyer today.
OMGGGG I just restarted recovery for the 5th time and it's reading my ssd card!
YES!
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nvm got the right rom.
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.
Well, last night, after doing a complete wipe, INCLUDING the /system partition, my sd card would not eject properly. (Using Lion OSX 10.7.1)
So, I manually ejected it; when I tried to reboot the phone, it wouldn't boot.
To make a long story short, basically, in CWM, when I tried to flash anything, or recover my backup, I keep getting the "E": SD Card not recognized, won't mount" error, no matter what I do.
I tried to format my card, I tried a different card, but no matter what, my phone won't recognize my sd card. Also, it used to give me the option of flashing from my "internal" sd card, but that option does NOT show up in the CWM menu anymore, Probably because I formatted my system partition..
I had formatted the system partition a few times before, when I had fc's after trying a different theme or rom, but, I was always able to get back into recovery, and flash something that fixed it.
Is there anything else I can do at this point? My phone isn't "seen" by my computer anymore, so I can't get anything on to it directly, and it won't recognize my sd card, no matter what I do..
Thanks for any help or ideas you can offer
use odin to flash back to stockhttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1282420
thanks for the suggestion, but I'm on mac OSX Lion; Odin won't work on it
Try this on your Mac http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1277000
sk63 said:
Try this on your Mac http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1277000
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Thanks, but all that does is root the phone and install a rooted kernel..not a rom which is what is needed to boot the phone, and its already rooted
looks like its time to get a PC..
I just had the same SD error in CWM, ODIN'd a fresh CWM 5023 and back to working again! I was worried it was going to be a serious issue (had similar problems with a Vibrant that rubbed me the wrong way) But it was an easy fix
fortunately, the good folks at Best Buy had no problem swapping my phone for me..
Thanks for your suggestions, and be careful when you wipe your /system partition!
wase4711 said:
Thanks, but all that does is root the phone and install a rooted kernel..not a rom which is what is needed to boot the phone, and its already rooted
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Not true. Heimdall does the samething as odin does. I use heimdall instead of odin most of he time. Its better.
Sent From My Evo Killer!!!
Interesting; do you need the GUI front end, or do you do everything through command line?
Fortunately, I got a new phone from Best buy today, so my immediate issue is fixed; I was just wondering about using it sort of like ADB to push stuff through via a mac..
Hi,
I've successfully rooted my HTC one x, and installed TripNRaVeRs CM9 ROM.
I then decided it Erased the SD card to make it clean and free up space, Setting > storage > Erase SD card.
This has not effected the ROM but it is no longer possible to enter ClockWorkMod through recover and I want to go back to my standard ROM.
Is this because I have deleted something important off the SD card?
When I first enter the bootloader mode the HBOOT now reads;
SD Checking...
failed to open usb master mode
failed to open usb master mode
loading HTCUpdateZipName image...
failed to open usb master more
Please plug off USB
if I 'fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.3.1-endeavoru.img'
it says OKAY and Finished, but when I go into the bootloader and select recovery it just restarts the phone into android.
Have you tried to boot into recovery after the reboot from trying to enter recovery? As far as I know there is nothing important that can be erased by formatting sd card. You should flash the latest cwm recovery, 5.4.0. It's in the development section, sorry can't find it quickly from my phone now. That will allow you to put rom on sd card.
Another method is if you can boot into rom, just use adb to enter recovery.
'adb reboot recovery'.
Edit: Here is the link for the latest recovery: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1594819&highlight=recovery
Oh and that Hboot message is quite normal. I also get it and am sure everyone else gets it as well. It is just looking to see if there isn't a update file(That's for different images, which we'll probably use when we have s-off).
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium
Hero derp, 1 bazillionth time
Fastboot erase cache
Then you can get into recovery
Sent from my HTC One X using XDA
yea that did it.
cheers,
Did I loose anything by wiping the SD card?
Whenever I reboot, my phone now says 'Preparing SD card' in the status bar, which it never used to.
boyceuk said:
Did I loose anything by wiping the SD card?
Whenever I reboot, my phone now says 'Preparing SD card' in the status bar, which it never used to.
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obviously you have lost the contents of your SDcard and probably any CWM backups you have made.
will likely have lost any big game data like ShadowGun etc, anything that requires you to download additional game data
and FYI the "preparing SD card" popup on reboot is normal, maybe you have not noticed it before but it is normal
Thanks.
yea, I wanted to clean it from all the '3 mobile' crap that comes installed (including some bad music), I had already saved my CWM recovery to my PC so have a copy of that.
Just wanted to make sure I hadn't lost any important drivers or boot files. But now thats its booting fine into CMW Im happy.
This is my first attempt at rooting so have not seen the preparing SD card on sense.
should be ok, nothing boot related runs from the SD so happy modding
and the prepping SD should be on stock aswell as custom, maybe im mistaken
4.2.2 on a rooted, unlocked One X
I was using Minitools Partition, with the device mounted to PC, in CWM, I followed some fairly simple instructions, which called for me to delete the original partition (25GB) which I did, I then set 3GB Ex2 (for apps to sd card) and the rest 22GB FAT32. THat all seemed to work fine.
BUT now I am now being asked to "type encryption password" every time I boot the phone, what format should the SD card be? Have I got the partitions wrong? SD card will no longer mount in recovery, plus I cant get pass this screen (password request) when turned on. The ROM is loading, to request this password, its happening after the X, perhaps my instructions where wrong from the beginning?
These are the ones I used,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/SD_card_partitioning
Things I have tried,
1 changing the format and partitions of sd card, to everything you can think of (eg 2GB FAT, 1GB Ex2, 21GB FAT32)
2 Wipe data/ factory reset, in recovery
3 Flashed boot.img to device, in bootloader.
4 fastboot format userdata, in bootloader (something i read in a thread)
3 Factory reset, in bootloader.
Nothing, the ROM still loads, up until this screen with an option for emergency calls, dialer does appear so ROM is fine? CWM works fine, however as you might expect I cant mount SD card in recovery and needless to say I just cant get passed this password request screen.. I feel like if I try and wipe system and flash the ROM again, ill just come up against the same problem, or worse just brick my device, as I cant load any Zip files.... which has only just dawned on me, any ideas people?
many thanks
Tim.
I have the same issue on my HTC ONE XL ATT ... but my phone randomly rebooted and when it turned on it got to DECRYPT STORAGE, i didnt even do anything... and i really dont feel like re-installing my rom ... idk what to do exactly now. i can boot up into recovery and access all my files but i dont know what happened...
same issue here with galaxy nexus after installing 4.2.2, ive tried odin, fastboot, everything but after the phone reboots loads the same os and it reboots a few seconds later.