Is or has anyone thought of or tried this?
What I would like to do is use a terminal of sort to run an emulator on my phone to run grub4dos off my phones SD card.
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I'm confused on what you mean... our internal storage already mimics an SD card
So a home PC can run through "virtual memory" an environment where one can test USB Boot Devices. Qumeu is the program I am currently using to check my USB Flash drives with "ISO" files.
Essentially I run Qumeu and then I can see in a GUI my USB device and work with it.
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What i have going is as such:
2 partitions on my SD-Card. First partition is for my phones pictures, apps and roms ect... Second partition has my ComputerToolbox on it. Grub4DOS is the bootloader along with the ISO's i am currently using for troubleshooting a computer.
What I am currently doing is "removing my MicroSD Card" and then put it into a "Standard SD Card". I then place that Standerd sdcard into the computer which I would be fixing and run things as if I were using a USB for preboot repair/recovery.
What i find interesting is for Android Devices I have to remove the SD Card.
For my IPhone one can just plug the phone in through a USB and not have the issue of the computer "Read" the device as a usb device.
Any and all help is very welcome... Thankyou.
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Hey guys,
My HTC Desire is not rooted and when I mount the sd card using the usb cable and then I took out the cable. Some of the applications icons are mission, the icon is replaced by the default Android icon. And when I click on them, it says application not found.
How do I solve that problem?
By not putting them on the sd card
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That's not a very helpful response from you.
Anyone else?
Are you trying to install new apps pt placing the .apk files directly on the SD card?
If you want to install new apps from your computer use HTC sync to install the apps instead of mounting your SD card from your phone. HTC sync sends the apps to your system's app directory (can't remember the full path right now) where its installed properly.
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TheGhost1233 said:
By not putting them on the sd card
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He's right though.....
If you're connected to your PC in disk drive mode, then anything on your sd card is unavailable to the phone - including music and any apps you have installed or moved to the sd card. If there's apps you need to use whilst connected in disk drive mode then move them to your device storage - options to do that are in the Applications bit under the system icon.
As in, I mean when I mount the sd card to put in songs and files then after dismounting the sd card, which means I plug off the cable already and the applications do not open.
what, straight away or after a while?
sometimes it takes 30 seconds to a minute for the sd card to remount.
and if you have widgets on the sd card then quite often you need to restart to get them to display again.... widgets on the sd card are a big no-no because of this.
not that I used to worry too much, but I always now use 'safely remove hardware' in windows rather than just unplug - seems to resolve any problems with sd card corruption.
I am not sure the correct section to put this into, but here goes.
I have heard ways to install Windows from a USB stick. I was wondering since I do not have a USB stick big enough and also a blank DVD on hand if I could place the image onto my Android SD card and install/reformat my computer that way.
Thanks!
PS. Please move to correct section if need be.
I don't think you could because the computer hardware doesn't recognize the sd card as a mass storage device, the software does, if you get what I mean.
I don't think it's possible to write a Windows live disk to the SD card and use it to format the Windows installation.
This in theory could be done. The one issue you might have is your computer might not recognize the SD card as a bootable option. If you can boot to USB device it might work. Also it isn't as simple as copying a windows install disk to the USB there is work that needs to be done to get it to read correctly and install. If you google linux pen drive I think it has a option to copy the windows cd to the drive boot to linux and install windows.
Yes you can do it. Sd card readers are on a usb connection to the motherboard of a pc. You have to make the sd card a bootable disk though the same way you would for a flash drive.
Never done it with the epic but I used to run puppy linux off my winmo samsung blackjack 2 on a thin client wyse computer. It had a micro sd card in it too. You would need to use a linux distro to be able to properly create a windows installation on another form of media though. Good luck
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in settings/sd card&phone storage, i can see SD card
Total space
Unavailable
Available space
Unavailable
Mount SD card
Insert an SD card for mounting
Erase SD card
Erases all date on the phone's SD card, such as music and photos
The last two items (Mount SD card and Erase SD card) are grayed out.
Have formatted the card several times to fat32 through computer, where it works, using a memory card reader. But for example, the music widget doesnt say "please insert sd card", instead "no music found...." and when i go to the application then it says insert sd card, but not the widget. Also LeeDROID POST screen when vbooting states: "Detecting phone storage:microSD"
Has any1 had similar problem? Is there something i can try or is the card irreversably corrupted?
Try to use recovery from my signature, and repartition it. (using recovery)
can´t flash it. only oneclick method would be possible, but your intructions there are confusing start runme.cmd what does that mean?
It's in the .zip file, double click it...
when i click on the .img file, powerarchiver opens. and the recovery is still the same
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=661320&stc=1&d=1311252283
Download and extract on your pc to flash while your phone is fully booted (not in recovery).
usb debugging must be on (settings/applications/development)
unzip the file
If you are on Windows: start runme.cmd // Unixfreaks start runme.sh
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adb server is out of date, it says. then goes into a loop
seems like i downloaded something else earlier.
It doesnt find some data/local/tmp/flash_image etc files. Plus it always complaints that adb server is out of date
I'm out of ideas sorry.
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Make sure you installed android sdk correctly:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Howto:_Install_the_Android_SDK
Then turn off your phone and start it with pressed back button.
Open cmd and navigate to your android sdk folder.
Connect your phone to your computer.
In cmd enter:
Code:
fastboot devices
to make sort fastboot recognizes your phone.
If so, enter
Code:
fastboot oem enableqxdm 0
Now your sd card should be recognized again.
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Have tried it several times. fastboot devices shows my device, but the command afterwardsgives me an bootloader command error
Amphor, why did you start a new thread on this same issue? I've given you 3 fixes for your problem...
The problem turned out to be something different from why started the first thread? Didn't it?
Does your PC see your card??
How did you fix your 1st problem btw?
Because i see your still getting bootloader errors ... the same errors you were getting in your last thread!?
The errors are the same but the problem is slighlty more accurate, i feel.
Computer recognizes the card both through card reader and through recovery "Mount USB storage"
Something problem with Android, because i tried it into an old LG with LG's own operating system and there i could view the contents of the card, for example. I had nothing on the card at that time so i couldn't test music playing, for example
Formatted i n FAT32 and i believe it's the only option
Amphor said:
The errors are the same but the problem is slighlty more accurate, i feel.
Computer recognizes the card both through card reader and through recovery "Mount USB storage"
Something problem with Android, because i tried it into an old LG with LG's own operating system and there i could view the contents of the card, for example. I had nothing on the card at that time so i couldn't test music playing, for example
Formatted i n FAT32 and i believe it's the only option
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Is it fixed now?
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It's not, i was just saying that the card is formatted in FAT32 and said that it's the only file system possible, i think
gparted looks like this
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/810/sdcard.png
edit: formatted as i always did in FAT32 and the problem disappeared. I guess that's one of those problems that solves itself
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gparted looks like this
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/810/sdcard.png
edit: formatted as i always did in FAT32 and the problem disappeared. I guess that's one of those problems that solves itself
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I told you to do that in the last thread its always good to start fresh if you can when you have problems ... At least you learnt something .. so is everything fixed?
What SD Card are you using?
size? class?
I had the same problem once.
Hi,
I have a problem with my 32 gb micro SD card.
It always worked fine until one day I one day I removed it and used the plastic adapter to save some media straight from the computer.
Now my phone reads the card (I can see it in My Files and can play the music and the movies) but cannot re-write the data (I cannot take pictures with the camera and save it on the card or update apps - which is really annoying because the phone always restarts). When I run the Task manager / Storage, it shows 0.0b/0.0b as if there was no SD card.
I tried to mount/unmount, turn on and off.
Do you guys have any idea how to solve it? Getting pretty desperate...
Kate
The only thing I can think to do is to transfer all your SD card data to your PC (use your SD adapter and plug card directly into PC).
Then put the card back into your phone, and use your phone to format it. Then it *should* be "problem solved". The only thing is, i think you have to be rooted and have ClockworkMod installed to format your card (the option is under "mounts and storage"). I can't remember the option being there in "stock" OS (it's been a while..lol) But whatever you do, DON'T format your card with your PC....I'm fairly certain that this will cause more problems than it'll fix. To transfer the files back to your card, you should use the USB cable that came with your phone, and plug the phone (containing the SD card) into your pc and transfer the files that way.......
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I think you might have unplugged the SD card from your PC 'uncleanly', causing some errors. The Linux kernel of Android detected that, and refused to mount it RW.
In that case, formatting your SD card on the PC should be safe. But, instead of just formatting, I suggest you rebuild the card by deleting all partitions then recreating them. You can use the gratis MiniTool Home Edition to do that.
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Just wondering if anyone can confirm that I am not crazy. I just tried to copy some ROMS to my sd card and it locked up after just one transfer...not enough space. It seems the phone won't mount the sd card (the properties shows very little space when I know this to be not true).
Is there a way to mount the storage for easy file transfering, or do I have to do everything by adb push/pull?
If it helps...I am running Ubuntu.
Same issue. Windows 7.
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No issues here but I am on a Mac. dragged over 3 old roms totaling about 2.8 Gb without issues.
Just found this thanks to Flyhalf205 http://teamw.in/DataMedia.