Got a free G2 from a friend and when i plug it into the computer it doesn't give you the option on the phone to connect to computer it does display USB debugging. My computer doesn't recognize there being any kind of storage drive there but does see the phone under devices. The internal storage displays 1.16GB available. Not sure where to go with this and any help would be great.
Internal storage is preferring to the system partition which is not mountable on a computer, well not on windows anyway.
if you have debugging turned on and the computer recognizes that its a good sign.
is there an SD card in it? You should be able to mount an sdcard no problem (formatted to fat32)
Maybe I'm not sure your question but everything sounds normal
Also you may need to install the proper drivers
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I know the drivers are good because i have a htc amaze also and they are the same. If i put a sd card in it i can see that on the computer but i cannot mount just the phone on the computer it doesnt even show up in my folders under my computer. I dont even get a notification on the phone that its connected to the usb only the debugging icon
I've never been able to mount my g2s internal partition on my computer, windows doesn't read/write ext partitions anyway. Haven't used my Linux box in a while but I don't remember being able to mount it, at least not as a storage device.
Only SD card mount (fat32 partition) fastboot and adb mounting for me
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OK if you go into your Storage settings this is what is list: SD Card- Total space: unavailable, Available: Unavailable
INTERNAL Storage-Available space: 1.21GB
That just doesnt seem normal no ext sd in the slot just the phone itself cannot be mounted on the computer i have a HTC amaze and a Samsung Vibrant they can be seen without a sd card in them
P.S. Sorry just trying to understand this phone lol and get it working
Either SD card is bad or SD slot is bad, you can try reformating card or performing a factory reset and see if that helps. Try other SD cards, if all else fails than you probably need a new sd tray, about 15$ on eBay and takes 15 min to install
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Hi All,
I have a problem which might have been solved. I have installed opendesire on my HTC Desire with an ext4 partition on my SD Card. I have installed many apps on the sd card and they go to the ext4 partition.
Now, when I connect my phone to the PC and enable USB Mass storage from my phone, I see my FAT32 partition on the PC. But the apps that are installed on my phone on the ext4 partition disappear and ONLY appear after I have disconnected my phone from my PC. Is there a solution here?
Thanks
Any help/suggestion is appreciated.
I believe its because when its mounted to the computer only 1 thing will read it so since your connected to your computer your phone won't read the SD card or the apps on the ext partition
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When you set your SD card to mass storage you are allowing your pc to connect/write/delete info on it and therefore your phone will not be able to access it at the same time. Hence apps on the SD will not be accessible. Also apps with data on the SD will not work correctly either. However, if you set the connection type to charge only then it should be fine. (you just won't be able to access the SD card from your pc!)
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ansiacer said:
When you set your SD card to mass storage you are allowing your pc to connect/write/delete info on it and therefore your phone will not be able to access it at the same time. Hence apps on the SD will not be accessible. Also apps with data on the SD will not work correctly either. However, if you set the connection type to charge only then it should be fine. (you just won't be able to access the SD card from your pc!)
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Its like this. My SD Card has a FAT32 partition and an ext4 file system partition. When connected to a PC only the FAT32 partition is available as mass storage and not the ext4 system. My apps are on the ext4 partition.
It's working as designed. If you put your phone into drive mode the phone can no longer see the sd card. Windows doesn't know what an Ext4 partition is so only shows the fat32 partition.
That's just the way it is.
I agree with all the above when connected in disk drive mode the phone will not see the phone sd card regardless of the partitions etc set on it. There is an app that allows dual access but I forget the name and tbh its kind of useless when you understand why its the case.
I have installed the LeeDrOiD ROM with A2SD+ and all my apps are installed to the ext3 partition on my sdcard. But I'm still able to use these apps when connected in "disk drive" mode (those apps using the fat32 partition for storing data do have problems but the others are working normally)
I apologize if this has been covered but I tried a couple of searches of the forums and google and didn't get a definitive answer.
I was researching rooting, updating the ratio and installing froyo on my Incredible and started to gather up the files and test my setup. I ran into a problem before anything really got off the ground. In order to complete the above process correctly the SD card should be formatted in FAT32 so I hooked my incredible up to my mac and formated using disk utility. Once I format the sd card with my mac the incredible lists the sd card as unavailable under >settings>sd card and storage. I have also tried the newfs_msdos utility from the terminal and again no luck. I am hoping that someone with a deeper understanding can point me in a direction other than find a pc.
Thanks
KCRoach
kcroach said:
I apologize if this has been covered but I tried a couple of searches of the forums and google and didn't get a definitive answer.
I was researching rooting, updating the ratio and installing froyo on my Incredible and started to gather up the files and test my setup. I ran into a problem before anything really got off the ground. In order to complete the above process correctly the SD card should be formatted in FAT32 so I hooked my incredible up to my mac and formated using disk utility. Once I format the sd card with my mac the incredible lists the sd card as unavailable under >settings>sd card and storage. I have also tried the newfs_msdos utility from the terminal and again no luck. I am hoping that someone with a deeper understanding can point me in a direction other than find a pc.
Thanks
KCRoach
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When you selected format did you choose FAT32? MAC use a Unix (journal file System) format by default.
It is much better to power down the phone pull the SDCard and place it in the the computer for formatting, the Incredible has 2 memory locations 1 8GB internal (non-removable) and the SDCard that you an remove, when you connect to a MAC both memory locations will be displayed.
You very lucky you did not format the the internal location.
Hope this helps
Try formatting it via the phone. Settings - phone storage - format SD card. You can do that in every Rom but cyanogen.
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couple weeks ago i played around with disk utility on my mac too and my card stopped being recognized, it finally took me turning the phone off, popping the card out, and pushing it back in and it came right up. might give it a try.
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Try formatting it via the phone. Settings - phone storage - format SD card. You can do that in every Rom but cyanogen.
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Yes. This. I have a mac and I formatted my sdcard using disk utility to FAT32 and I have had no problems, but just format from the phone.
Are getting a 200mb partition and that's it or is it completely unrecognizable. Formatting it through the phone is the only way I've found to get rid of to clear that partition.
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When you selected format did you choose FAT32? MAC use a Unix (journal file System) format by default.
It is much better to power down the phone pull the SDCard and place it in the the computer for formatting, the Incredible has 2 memory locations 1 8GB internal (non-removable) and the SDCard that you an remove, when you connect to a MAC both memory locations will be displayed.
You very lucky you did not format the the internal location.
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I formated to the "MS-DOS" option using both utilities. The disk utility defaults to FAT32 and the other utility was specified as FAT32. The result is that after formatting the disk utility says that the device format is mac OS extended (journaled) and the volume is MS-Dos FAT32. I have tried both utilities while the sd card in the phone and the phone is connected and while the sd card is directly in a reader. I believe that while the sd card was in the reader, I may not have gotten the mac os extended formatting in the device but it still wasn't recognized by the phone.
I have formatted the card several times with the phone, to make it readable again after formatting with my mac. Unfortunately, I still have the stock 2.1 that the phone was shipped with and that formats the sd card to FAT16 not FAT32. I assume that if I buy are larger sd card the phone may bump it up to FAT32 but am just puzzled by the inability of phone to read the mac formatting of FAT32.
I have also tried turning the phone off and on after reinserting the sd card.
So, I guess, is there a way to force the phone to format into FAT32 rather than FAT16 from the settings.
Thanks
KCRoach
Download a utility called hirens boot cd. Burn the image and boot from it on a cd rom.this should give you a windows xp environment to properly format with among many other useful tools. I'm sure there is an easier way but I'm not that familiar with mac.
Hope this helps
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i formated my sdcard on G2(not on PC), after that says empty sdcard, unsupportalbe, cant mount cant read, even connect USB, i cant access usb storage device,
did i just wipe the fat+ext+linux partition? and anything i can do for recovery?
Maybe try to take the sd card out and put it into any adapter you have and try to reformat it that way?
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For some reason my memory card wont read through my phone, I can read it fine in my computer through an adapter though. Also have tried using another memory card but no cigar.
I figured out the problem.
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i just recently used mini tool partition wizard to wipe all the partitions off my SD card and now that i did that my sd card isnt recognized on my computer. it shows up on partition wizard and ive tried about everything i can think of but it wont show up. and i even switched SD cards and it still wont, and ive tried different usb ports and different usb cords. so im not sure if i did something wrong in partition wizard or what, all i did was wipe partitions and delete partitions on my sd card. it mounts on my phone and it says "blank SD card" and when i click the notification it pops up and says format SD card and i go ahead and format it. im getting pretty irritated to be honest and i feel like ive went through every option i can think of ive restarted the laptop ive rebooted my phone i even flashed a old backup of my old SD card ive factory reset and all so im completely lost, so if anyone can offer any advice its greatly appreciated.
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are u saying u changed the sd card on ur phone and the new one didn't show up either when u enabled mass storage..??
did u try using a card reader..??
are you used card reader for partitoning?
Put the card in a card reader.
Then open minitool.
Right click on the top slab where your memory card is shown and select delete partition.
Apply.
Now you will have unallocated space.
Create new partition, fat32 and primary.
Apply. I guess that would solve it.
Well I figured it out. I had to go to disk manager on my laptop and change the removable disk name and the file it shows up under. Thank you guys though, and no I wasn't using a card reader. I was just trying to wipe my partitions then create a bigger one so I can have more internal storage if that makes sense.
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I've been having problems with the external sd card, when i restart it shows 'sd card inserted' in the notification panel but under storage the only options are mount sd and erase sd. Its a generic 128gb sd which i formatted on the computer and the phone, when i hit mount sd it just shows the 'sd card inserted' again but doesn't actually mount. It only works if i format it in the phone and only until a restart. The card works perfectly on my computer. Anyone else having this issue or have a solution, there has to be something quicker than copy, re format and copy back the files
what type of computer did you format it on? in the past I had issues with formatting my SD cards on windows. I either had to format with the phone, a mac, or a linux pc.
I have not had the issue you are describing, but my card does unmount sometimes and then remounts immediately after.
Windows pc, but i reformatted it on the after it didn't mount, could it be the sd card? It was 14$ on ebay but the sellers feedback was 100% for the cards.
I'm wondering if it might be a problem with the reader or the firmware since it reads on the pc just fine.
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I actually had a 64GB SanDisk MicroSD card unmount while in use on my G3 then I could never use it again. I'd try to format it and it'd act like it did but the same files/folders were there. I could no longer write to it. I need to still contact SanDisk about it to see if I can get a replacement.
You need to reformat it into NTFS format.
Then try to mount it. This is the case for anything 64g or higher.
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I had this problem with my LGG3 not mounting the SD card, I found that taking putting the SD card into your pc/laptlaptop, copy over pictures and music you wish to keep and format it as a FAT32 this worked for me however the Android files on the card had to be deleted I think on of them was corrupting the SD card as it would show randomly on my phone.
Hope this helps