Situation Normal All F Up...
So it seems my A101 16 - froyo will read just about any SD card in the "removable" slot, but only one card per boot.
Any other card, it doesn't register anything.
I know I swapped out sd's on eclair, but don't recall if I had this problem always with froyo or not.
mounting them through reader works until someone (son) pulls out the reader unceremoniously, then I have to reboot for it to work again.
It seems like it is reading a serial number or something off the sdcard and only acknowledging that one. I also noticed on a couple of boots that it did a quick check of the file system.
Are there unix commands we should be able to use through terminal emulator to manually mount a new sdcard?
It's a bug. Hopefully it will be fixed in the update when it comes out.
Sorry but I don't know of any commands to use with terminal emulator to make something mount.
You can manually mount the external sdcard from terminal emulator:
Code:
su
ls /dev/block/vold (this will list the block devices your tablet is seeing, one of which is your internal sdcard which should already be mounted)
mount /dev/block/vold/179:18 /mnt/storage/sdcard (179:18 was my external sdcard; YMMV)
That will mount it with the default mount options, which apparently the automounter does not use. You could specify all the options on the command line though.
If you cat /proc/partitions after inserting your sdcard, it should show the major:minor numbers for the device and any partitions on it.
I've just tried this one on A70.
I have no-name microSDHC 8GB Class2 (that writes ~6MB/s ) and I've tried to switch to old 2GB microSD Class2 Verbatim.
Second card was not recognized and got stuck in slot when I tried to remove it
Finger nail push later and it was flying across the room
I have no problems with my 8GB card, slides easy in, doesn't fly out of the slot when removing... And they look identical to me ....
. 71 seems to have fixed this. It took me two tries on the first switch, but it does work. Now I just need to put nomedia files on my sdcards.
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This has come up in other threads, but no answer that I can see...
ROM: either "stock JK6" or Obsidian V5beta (JK2) behave the same way. Kernel is 2.6.32.9
I applied Sombionix's mount fix (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=846384) - this fixed the problem where my int/ext sdcards wouldn't mount properly. Now I can read/write to either card from my computer when USB mounted. Yay.
Less yay, now my 8Gb external sdcard will only accept <2.19Gb, when writing to it from the computer as a USB mount. I can write >2.2Gb to it, whether from an adb shell, or if I yank it and put it in an sdcard slot in my laptop. If you try to write > 2.2Gb from the phone USB mount, you get "parameter error". It shows up in my PC device list as "removable disk, 7.41 Gb total size". This activity used to work fine - not sure when it broke but let's say I like burning roms.
"mount", run from an adb shell, shows the int and ext sdcards identically, except for vold/179:1 for the former and vold/179:9 for the latter. The only oddity (to me) is that /mnt/secure/asec is also mounted on the external_sd; if you move an app to the sdcard, the OS writes the asec app code on the external sd, even though you can't see it in adb (in /sdcard/external_sd/.android_secure) but you can if the card is in the PC.
Any ideas out there?
Same issue here!!
So I recently Romed my Viewsonic G Tablet.
I followed this guide.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865245
Everything is fine..except when I put a SD card into the SD slot the Tablet doesn't recognize it. It just tells the the internal Space not the SD card space.
I used ZPad Clean v3.0 for the ROM and I used cwmod_internal.zip instead of cwmod_microsd.zip
I then used my friend's G Tablet and put the SD card in it..It read it just fine.
So I wanted to test it out while it was rooted. (to double check)
I then Rooted my friends GTablet also. I rooted it the same way but the only change I did was have a SD card in the tablet the whole time. Still the same problem.
Is there any way to fix it? DO i need to use cwmod_microsd.zip....instead of cwmod_internal.zip??
I'm really confused if someone can help me that would be amazing!
Is there an APP that tells you the storage of your installed SD Cards?
Thank you
You mean flashed the rom when you say romed. Have you checked to make sure the sdcard is getting mounted? If there is no data on it you might try reformatting it in either of the g tabs. If you can get to a shell you might reboot, and look at the last 20 lines or so of dmesg. Insert the card and take another look at dmesg and see if the kernel is picking up the insert at all. If so it is likely just a mounting issue.
muqali said:
You mean flashed the rom when you say romed. Have you checked to make sure the sdcard is getting mounted? If there is no data on it you might try reformatting it in either of the g tabs. If you can get to a shell you might reboot, and look at the last 20 lines or so of dmesg. Insert the card and take another look at dmesg and see if the kernel is picking up the insert at all. If so it is likely just a mounting issue.
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Well I reformatted it and I mounted it. Still nothing..How can I check if the kernel is picking up the SD card at all?
Would changing Kernel's fix the problem? I'm just using the Stock Kernel that the ROM came with.
Thanks
You were able to reformat and mount it via the g tablet with the zpad software on it? And even having done that it doesn't list it as having any free space?
muqali said:
You were able to reformat and mount it via the g tablet with the zpad software on it? And even having done that it doesn't list it as having any free space?
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Not yet. So should I go to Storage and devices and unmount and format the SD card via the tab?
Try it on the tablet.
If I reformat the SD card wouldn't I loose the root? or no right because I did external
My understanding of root is that it modifies files on your tab/phone, not an external sd card. Worst case you lose root and reroot the device.
muqali said:
Try it on the tablet.
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steveojp said:
Not yet. So should I go to Storage and devices and unmount and format the SD card via the tab?
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When I tap click mount it says 11.3 gigs available.
when i unmount it says unavailable.
The card is only 8GB.
It should be internal storage 16GB.
SD card like 8gb.
Not sure what's going on.
If I format I think I'll wipe it all.
Ok, there is an internal 16GB, yes. Of which you have 11GB free. The SD card you're having the issue with is a separate uSD 8GB, right?
I'm meaning for you to try to mount/unmount or possibly format the 8GB SD card. If it isn't showing at all then the issue is something beyond it simply not being mounted.
muqali said:
Ok, there is an internal 16GB, yes. Of which you have 11GB free. The SD card you're having the issue with is a separate uSD 8GB, right?
I'm meaning for you to try to mount/unmount or possibly format the 8GB SD card. If it isn't showing at all then the issue is something beyond it simply not being mounted.
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Yeah. It's a separate card that I plugged into it.
Was there ever a fix/resolution for this? I am having the same issue.
Everyone,
I've written this a bunch of times -- but here's one more:
/sdcard -- internal memory of the tablet
/sdcard2 -- miniSD card in the external slot
/usbdisk -- USB key slot
Put your recovery folder and update.zip on /sdcard, turn off the tablet, the press power
and volume + to initiate standard recovery.
Second, put your recovery folder and update.zip on a miniSD card. Edit the command file
in the recovery folder with Notepad to change the location from /sdcard to /sdcard2 and
save it with the name "command" (NO .txt or other file extension). Then boot
recovery with power/volume + and the OS will use the sdcard (assuming you don't
have a live recovery/update.zip file in /sdcard).
Third, if you can boot recovery to CWM but can get your ROM to work, go in recovery to
the mount menu and go down to the mount USB memory option and choose it.
Then plug your connector cable from the miniSB port to your PC. When you plug into
your PC an Explorer window should open and you should have a drive letter representing
the G-Tablet (it's G: on mine) on you menu. You now can select that
letter and you have access to your tablet memory (/sdcard). I've even had a time or two
when not a single file showed!!! I added update.zip and recovery and loaded
a ROM!
The tablet boot process apparently checks /SDCARD. If it doesn't find a recovery files there
it does the same check if you have a miniSD external card installed. The large USB slot is not
useable for booting or recovery so far as I have determined or read.
I hope this helps you.
Rev
I own a visio tablet which I rooted with vegan and clockwork. I have a 32GB SD card but when I check the storage is says 12GB on SD and 2GB on internal. The tablet should have 16GB + my 32GB. Anyone have an idea why it wont come up?
Is the fix above the best way to take care of this issue?
Can anyone kindly help? I've read through a lot of the links and can't find anything. I have rooted my device with clockworm v8, Vegan, got the market place to work and now I just need to figure out what is going on with my 32GB SD card. Should I format it with FAT32? How can I get it to be recognized?
Thanks in advance!
Formatting to Fat32 would be a good start ;-)
SD Card Dilemma
I have the VEGAn-TAB-v1.0.0B5.1 installed in my G-Tab and, with the exception of the SD card issue, things are just peachy! I've read the entire thread but, even with butchconners description, I seem to still be missing something. Let me try to structure this a bit differently...
1. The sdcard2 DOES show up in ifilemanager (with only one file, LOST.DIR) but NOT in SETTINGS. Since it does not appear in SETTINGS, there is no way to mount or dismount it (although if it shows up in the file manager and I can see the file on it, one might infer that it is already mounted.)
2. Even though I can see it in ifilemanager, I'm not so sure how I can actually USE it. It seems to me that the system would need to know (via SETTINGS) that it is there and I would have to tell the system where to put my files (i.e., sdcard or sdcard2).
3. When I connect my G-Tab to my Win7 PC, I only have access to sdcard AND NOT sdcard2. This seems a bit unusual since I have always had access to the removable sd card AND NOT the system memory on all my other devices (EVO, Blackberry, etc.)
My goal is to be able to set applications (some or all) to use the sdcard2 (at least for data) and be able to access it via the usb connection to my PC. Does anyone know how to accomplish this?...Has a solution for this already been posted somewhere?
Many thanks.
I am not an expert but the pc sees(?) only sdcard(internal) but no sdcard2(microsd).
Right, Guys?
I am now able to see both sdcard1 and sdcard2 using pershoots latest oc kernal released 4/25 when hooking up gtab via usb to computer. I am using Vegan tab gingeredition.
where does one find that kernel and how do i install it? Im running vegan ginger right nowand have the same sd card issue.
thanks!
Since day 1 of owning the Atrix, it bothered me that that there were two mount points:
/mnt/sdcard (16GB internal memory)
/mnt/sdcard-ext (32GB micro SD card that I shoved in there)
Why it bothers me:
1) It is the year 2011 -- technology's progressed too far to be doing stupid s$&# like this
2) Most devs have no idea that /mnt/sdcard-ext even exists.
3) When I plug my phone in to my BMW w/ iDrive the internal memory gets presented to the iDrive system, NOT the SD card. Problem is that all of my music is on the SD card, NOT the internal memory.
4) Why can't I have 48GB of contiguous space instead of two separate 16GB and 32GB mount points??!?!
...so, I got fed up and edited /etc/vold.fstab, commented out /mnt/sdcard and renamed /mnt/sdcard-ext to /mnt/sdcard. Oh, and rebooted...
All is fine and dandy now, there's one 32GB /mnt/sdcard and NO 16GB /mnt/anything. The device is still there, just not mounted. So that means that I lost 16GB of usable space. Yes, but that leads me to my work-in-progress project. Somehow I need to port mdadm to the Atrix and setup a RAID-0 with the following devices:
The internal eMMC:
/devices/platform/tegra-sdhci.3/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0:0001/block/mmcblk0/mmcblk0p18
The SD card:
/devices/platform/tegra-sdhci.2/mmc_host/mmc2 /devices/platform/tegra-sdhci.2/mmc_host/mmc1
Once the Software RAID-0 is established, it should be as simple as mounting it back to /mnt/sdcard. It's not rocket science, just Linux .
So my question: In the interest of time, has anyone even attempted to do that yet? By the way, Rule #1 if it works: DON'T REMOVE THE SD CARD!
I never thought of that being an issue there but yeah i see your point now. Some car stereo systems do see the external sdcard though; my el-cheapo generic joint from best buy could even use usb hubs, thereby letting me plug in my treo and my usb stick. It would index music from both.
RAID on Android might not be a good thing here though; what happens when the internal sd card and the external card can't be read or written to at the same speed?
Or if somehow the sd card inadvertently comes loose inside the phone? (This happens to me from time to time on my current phone)
Then again, I'm only familiar with the PC / Data center implementation of RAID
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Does changing default storage in the settings have any effect? I'd laugh if it did
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starrwulfe,
yeah, I guess a firmware update to the iDrive *could* in theory fix that issue but I guess they're expecting people to plug in a single USB flash drive to it. Good thing the el-cheapo one is smarter than that
as far as the RAID-0 being different speeds, it shouldn't matter because it's a RAID--0 (spanning). So you might get different speeds depending on which memory device it's being read from/written to but it shouldn't cause any problems. As far as it coming loose inside the phone, what are you doing with your phone that makes that happen? lol Mine's never come out
ChongoDroid,
that would be TOO easy lol...but naw, that's just for windows media sync so you have a choice of which storage location is presented to windows media player..
varandian said:
Since day 1 of owning the Atrix, it bothered me that that there were two mount points:
/mnt/sdcard (16GB internal memory)
/mnt/sdcard-ext (32GB micro SD card that I shoved in there)
Why it bothers me:
1) It is the year 2011 -- technology's progressed too far to be doing stupid s$&# like this
2) Most devs have no idea that /mnt/sdcard-ext even exists.
3) When I plug my phone in to my BMW w/ iDrive the internal memory gets presented to the iDrive system, NOT the SD card. Problem is that all of my music is on the SD card, NOT the internal memory.
4) Why can't I have 48GB of contiguous space instead of two separate 16GB and 32GB mount points??!?!
...so, I got fed up and edited /etc/vold.fstab, commented out /mnt/sdcard and renamed /mnt/sdcard-ext to /mnt/sdcard. Oh, and rebooted...
All is fine and dandy now, there's one 32GB /mnt/sdcard and NO 16GB /mnt/anything. The device is still there, just not mounted. So that means that I lost 16GB of usable space. Yes, but that leads me to my work-in-progress project. Somehow I need to port mdadm to the Atrix and setup a RAID-0 with the following devices:
The internal eMMC:
/devices/platform/tegra-sdhci.3/mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0:0001/block/mmcblk0/mmcblk0p18
The SD card:
/devices/platform/tegra-sdhci.2/mmc_host/mmc2 /devices/platform/tegra-sdhci.2/mmc_host/mmc1
Once the Software RAID-0 is established, it should be as simple as mounting it back to /mnt/sdcard. It's not rocket science, just Linux .
So my question: In the interest of time, has anyone even attempted to do that yet? By the way, Rule #1 if it works: DON'T REMOVE THE SD CARD!
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Give me the exact year and model of your Bimmer as well as the exact issue (I assume it's that the i-Drive won't see the external SD in your Atrix), and I will look into it at work. I assume you are connecting it through the USB Aux input. It may be a software issue or it may just be that the i-Drive doesn't do it. I will see if I can find out for sure.
I have the exact same setup on my Atrix (all music on external SD) so I can play with it at work.
I'm not back to work until Friday, but i'll see what I can dig up then.
GibMcFragger,
2008 535i w/ the navigation option. Thanks for offering to look into it but I don't want both of them to show up in the iDrive, I want to have one device show up as 48GB instead of one as 16GB and the other as 32GB.
varandian said:
GibMcFragger,
2008 535i w/ the navigation option. Thanks for offering to look into it but I don't want both of them to show up in the iDrive, I want to have one device show up as 48GB instead of one as 16GB and the other as 32GB.
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Oh. Do they both show up at the moment in the i-Drive as separate drives, or the external doesn't shop up at all? If they both show up, but as separate drives.........that is normal I think because of the way the phone mounts them as you said earlier.
So basically:
External drive doesn't show AT ALL in the i-Drive = Possible issue
External drive shows but as separate drive than internal in i-Drive = Normal
As for changing them to show as one in RAID, I would think that would cause more issues that it's worth as both the internal and external drives have to be the same speed of card (highly unlikely as we don't know what flash memory Moto used in the phone), as well as the fact that SD cards tend to corrupt data easily.
3) When I plug my phone in to my BMW w/ iDrive the internal memory gets presented to the iDrive system, NOT the SD card. Problem is that all of my music is on the SD card, NOT the internal memory.
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Not sure what the goal is here, but you could just put a mount of the external sdcard in the internal memory folder, say ln -s /mnt/sdcard-ext /sdcard/Music. Or you could edit vold.conf maybe to change /mnt/sdcard-ext to /mnt/sdcard/Music.
Cheers!
Saw this thread while waiting for the vet and forgot about it. Just came to say, what you're trying to achieve isn't RAID 0, or even RAID at all. It's a spanned volume, which is variously referred to as JBOD or SPAN.
The real question is, does Android support such a thing. Without checking, no way to know. My gut says no, though.
GibMcFragger said:
As for changing them to show as one in RAID, I would think that would cause more issues that it's worth as both the internal and external drives have to be the same speed of card (highly unlikely as we don't know what flash memory Moto used in the phone), as well as the fact that SD cards tend to corrupt data easily.
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As was stated previously, the speed of the cards doesn't matter. However, it does mean that the phone now requires that specific (external) SD card be inserted at all times, or the filesystem will be considered corrupt, and data will be lost.
To the OP: the issue with the external SD card not being available in the BMW is a problem with how the BMW handles multi-LUN USB storage devices: multiple storage devices available via one single USB connection. GibMcFragger's suggestion is spot on, with checking for available firmware updates.
Though I don't think it's a good idea, you could always look at a UnionFS mount of the external SD card on top of the internal SD card. This allows for the SD card to be backed up and replaced without any trickery.
NFHimself said:
Not sure what the goal is here, but you could just put a mount of the external sdcard in the internal memory folder, say ln -s /mnt/sdcard-ext /sdcard/Music.
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I tried doing an ln -s /mnt/sdcard-ext /mnt/sdcard/ExternalSD and got the error:
Code:
link failed Operation not permitted
Then I did su (yes, I'm rooted), and then the same command and got the same error. I then tried doing the ln command without the -s (both as su and regular) and got this error:
Code:
link failed Cross-device link
Any ideas?
Also, editing /system/etc/vold.fstab so that internal sd card mounts first and then mount external sdcard on /mnt/sdcard/ExternalSD doesn't work. Loads internal sd just fine though....
quordandis said:
I tried doing an ln -s /mnt/sdcard-ext /mnt/sdcard/ExternalSD and got the error:
Code:
link failed Operation not permitted
Then I did su (yes, I'm rooted), and then the same command and got the same error. I then tried doing the ln command without the -s (both as su and regular) and got this error:
Code:
link failed Cross-device link
Any ideas?
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ln does a hardlink which is just two metadata references to the same data blocks. It will look like two different files, but the data is stored in just one place on disk. If you delete one, the data stays (for the other ref) and no space is freed. This is not supported across filesystems, only within a single filesystem.
ln -s creates a symbolic link where the link is just a special file that references the real file, not just the data blocks of that file. This works across filesystems, but is filesystem dependent. I'm pretty sure the vfat filesystem that is doubtlessly on your sdcard doesn't support this.
messing with RAID is risky. A previous poster mentioned something like unionFS, but unfortunately what we're talking about here is individual partition exporting via USB, and so filesystem trickery won't cut it. What you probably want to do is just prevent the internal sdcard from being exported and limit that to only the external sdcard. I believe this can be accomplished from within the android GUI, no?
Hello
I own a Samsung I8262 (Galaxy Core) and an 8GB microsd card. The card was previously formatted for usage with Link2SD for my old device. I now want to just format it and make it one fat32 8GB partition, but I am facing problems. In short: the HP USB Disk formatting tool says the device is write protected, even though it is not, Partition Magic's Mini Tool says the whole card is "bad", giving no options for actions, Windows' disk tool claims it is constantly busy, gParted gets stuck before even managing to detect any disks, and OpenSUSE's standard disk tool gives a ridiculous sounding error about wrong block size. As a last resort, I decided to try Aparted on Android with the card in the phone. It keeps claiming the card is still mounted even after I have unmounted it from "Settings". After closer examination in Terminal Emulator, I noticed mount says that some block device (/dev/block/vold/179:33) is still mounted in the folder for the external sd card. So, I am trying to unmount it from the terminal, but even with proper syntax, and superuser permissions, I get "failed: Invalid parameter". I am ready to write this card off as a goner, but since it is less then a year old, I was hoping someone might present another solution.
Thanks in advance for any input.
I'm running low on internal storage, and also want to enable full-device encryption. The obvious solution is to format the SD Card as "Internal Storage" which in theory lets you move some apps and their data to a partition on the SD Card, while also allowing that partition to be encrypted.
That all sounds great, so I read a half-dozen blogs on how to do this. They all start with "insert the SD Card and choose Set Up." But even if I reformat the card or wipe the partition table completely, the only option I get is "format as portable storage" and never see any set up screen or option to pick internal storage. Am I missing something? Do I need to format the sd card on my desktop as a specific partition type? Do I need to run some adb incantation to enable the option? Is it just not an option in OOS 3.1.4 and I need to install a different ROM?
Eventually answered my own question. Basically, OnePlus disabled the feature, probably because the system is extremely fragile and confusing to users. However, it is possible to enable the feature via adb, using
Code:
adb shell sm set-force-adoptable true
Even then, while the option appeared, phone phone itself had all sorts of problems trying to format the SD Card:
- I could wipe the SD Card, insert it into the phone, format it (as external storage), and then be unable to format it a second time. Buh? Apparently android's external sdcard formatter is capable of screwing up the GPT/MBR distinction in such a way that it can't cope with formatting a card that it formatted itself?
- If I wiped the SD Card, inserted it into the phone and selected to format it as internal storage, it would format to 20%, stop, wait 180 seconds, and then time out, leaving me with a corrupted SD Card that required re-wiping. This is probably related to the first problem - the timeout is because the 'format internal' happens in a second thread, which ran into a similar error about GPT/MBR problems and then the parent thread didn't capture the error or do anything useful with it.
Finally, I tried doing the whole thing in adb, following instructions here: http://blog.sam.liddicott.com/2016/02/android-6-semi-adopted-storage.html
But even then, I ran into the timeout problem when trying to format mixed (50%), until I popped the card out, nuked all existing partitions, inserted the card and immediately started the adb process. Basically, if android's formatted ever touches the SD Card, it is screwed up until it is wiped again.
In the end, this process worked:
- Pop the card out of the phone, put it into a card reader, use MiniTool Partition Wizard Free to delete all partitions, wipe the partition table and set the card to GPT. Don't convert from MBR to GPT, wipe it until you get an option to put a completely fresh GPT table on.
- Pop the card into the phone. Do not touch any of the phone's menus - they are there to temp you into screwing the card up again.
- Connect the phone to computer via usb.
- Run:
Code:
adb shell sm list-disks adoptable
to get the sd card name. It'll be something like disk:179:128 but it will change every time you wipe it.
- Once you have the disk name, run
Code:
adb shell sm partition $DISKNAME mixed 50
but substitute your own disk name and what percentage of the sd card you want to use for external. If you don't want to use any, I think you do something like
Code:
adb shell sm partition $DISKNAME private
but I'm not sure.
So yeah, this is a complete mess and I understand why OnePlus didn't want to subject their users to it.
I recommend don't use adoptable storage, it's not worthed. Better use foldermount apps to move apps data from internal to ext. storage.
I want to do full-device encryption, including (most) of the apps data. Is there a better way to accomplish this without accepting the 16GB internal storage limit?
I wouldn't recommend ever using adoptable storage on the OPX. OnePlus used an incredibly slow microSD reader and it shows.