How to format SD card? - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have rooted my phone. Installed a custom ROM. Now my sd card is loaded with unwanted things. Wat shoud I do? Copy/paste the openrecovery folder to a comp. Format SD card and then copy that folder back to sd? Or update.zip again?

Anybody?
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Just format it normally and paste back.
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Thx !
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Thanks, had a similar problem and wanted to know this as well.

Remember to move all apps to phone memory before format.
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What about update.zip? It is needed anymore on root of the sd card?
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You can simply delete the update.zip file without any problems.

htc wildfire shows my sd card unavailable
i have formatted my 4gd sd card in pc and used as usb boot for my pc and now i want to use on my htc wildfire but it shows unavailable,but when i remove it it says "removed sd card" but i am not able to use it, and it works fine when using with pc please help me .... thanks in advance.

Thank you!
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You need to keep update.zip on root of sdcard. It doesnt enter recovery mode if you not copy it back.
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For such stuff, using the Droid Tool is the best way:
https://market.android.com/search?q=droid+tool+client&so=1&c=apps

indivarmalla said:
i have formatted my 4gd sd card in pc and used as usb boot for my pc and now i want to use on my htc wildfire but it shows unavailable,but when i remove it it says "removed sd card" but i am not able to use it, and it works fine when using with pc please help me .... thanks in advance.
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Format it with your android phone, or in recovery, not with your PC.

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(Q) SD Card issues

I keep getting a there is a problem with your SD Card error. Where my phone will not recognize my sd card. Does anyone know what may have caused this. I am running The Perfect Storm v1. 0 rom. I've been running it since it was released. This problem just started yesterday. Please help
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this belongs in general...
What have you tried to remedy this problem already? Does it work in your PC?
It works in my pc. I've reflashed the rom. When the error pops up I click on it then it will remount the sd card. But every time I try to use the sd card on my phone is get the error.
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derek910 said:
It works in my pc. I've reflashed the rom. When the error pops up I click on it then it will remount the sd card. But every time I try to use the sd card on my phone is get the error.
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Backup the contents of your SD to the PC, format SD, and you should be good to go.
^^ What he said ^^ Too slow

[Q] some problems after flashing Turl CM9

after i was flashing turl cm9. it was fine but there were some problems that it can't recognize my atrix's internal storage and every-time after reboot the phone,it tells me that the SD is blank and required to format the SD card. hope someone can help me...many many thanks
You must flash sdcard-swicth.zip to solve this problem.
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the external sd is fine now but internal storage still can't use it
anyway many thanks
angelsoft said:
You must flash sdcard-swicth.zip to solve this problem.
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Switcher just switches emmc and sdcard around.
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So how can I use the internal storage? I'm so stupid that I had forgot to backup the internal storage before I flashed the ROM...

Can't find root of sd card in cwm

I flashed cwm in Odin and rooted with team epic root tool but when I try to flash a Rom in cwm my sd card doesn't show up when I enter choose zip from sd card. My internal phone does. Help!
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there should be two options
Internal memory and sdcard
Also try remobting the SD card through cwm
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Sd card isn't showing up to mount.
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Same here
tomcanfield said:
Sd card isn't showing up to mount.
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yea, niether is mine, I was wondering if it had anything to do with the size, its a 32g? I had been planing on posting a question here soon to ask about it? I always have to use my phone as the only choice when looking in CWM?
I am having the same problem. My ext sd is not showing in cwm. My version is 5.5.0.4. The same thing when doing backups. Only internal.
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Same thing here. Ext sd was working then I flashed the newest version through rom manager and now my external doesn't show up. The card it fine and worked prior. It also works in android
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Seems like its the version of cwm
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I saw this too. I had an external in and had to place it in both DCIM folders and it appeared in one or the other
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I flashed 5.8.4.5 via ROM manager and everything is right as rain. Both internal and external show up now.

application not installed plz help

I had a boot loop so I transferred my SD card to a friends put a zip and flashed it through my phone. anyway my friends app don't work, the apps look gray and says SD something, and when I load the app it says application not installed. plz help
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anyone?
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FuN2OwN said:
I had a boot loop so I transferred my SD card to a friends put a zip and flashed it through my phone. anyway my friends app don't work, the apps look gray and says SD something, and when I load the app it says application not installed. plz help
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Hello,
If you like someone to help you, you must provide clear description of your problem - just precisely describe step by step what you did using understandable English.
For example what does it mean?:
"transferred my sd card" - what card (internal, external) what transfered? All data? or maybe you took out your external card and put to friends phone???
"put a zip" - what zip? containing what?
"my friends app don't work" - what app? etc etc
I think, noone yet answered you because the others are cofused as much as I am. So decribe it better + provide information on what rom/kernal you are, then we will see how to help.
Regards
I had a boot loop problem, cause I changed the boot logo. so I used my friends ext SD card to flash the stock boot logo. my friend had apps on the ext SD card and when he put his card back in his phone some apps mostly games were there but its icon was replaced with a gray icon that said 'SD' and when I launch it it says application not installed. wierd because when I go to manage applications it appears. and thx for the reply
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I'm using ressurection remix 3.1.1 with siyah kernel
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FuN2OwN said:
I had a boot loop problem, cause I changed the boot logo. so I used my friends ext SD card to flash the stock boot logo. my friend had apps on the ext SD card and when he put his card back in his phone some apps mostly games were there but its icon was replaced with a gray icon that said 'SD' and when I launch it it says application not installed. wierd because when I go to manage applications it appears. and thx for the reply
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Unfortunately I think that it concerns apps which were installed (moved) to external SD card and after removing SD card from the phone, data on the card could have been broken/corrupted, so that after putting the card back to the phone apps can't be recognized.
I'm not big optimist but you can try:
- move apps back from external sd to internal one (probably not possible)
- Back up the apps - if they are visible by eg. TitaniumBackup
- Unmount, mount again external sd card and reboot the phone
Regards
tried and didn't work. thx anyways m8
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It's true, the files have become corrupt. All you can do is uninstall them, and re install.
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My problem with most of the ROMs, empty "ext_sd" folder.

Hi,
I'm still trying to find a ROM that I can use for my daily usage. My main problem is that almost all the ROMs that I flash fail to detect my ext_sd folder, a.k.a. my external SD card.
When I flash an ICS ROM and go to the file explorer to install titanium backup and restore my apps, it says that this folder is empty.
Sometimes when I restart several times, it finds my SD card, sometimes I have to flash other ROMs to have it but it's OK in some ROMs like CM10 but eventually it losts this folder as well.
Since I'm S-ON, I can't get back to GB ROMs.
SD card may be problamatic but it's OK when I mount it via attaching cable to phone or attaching it directly to my PC with a SD card cartridge.
What could be the problem? How I can check that SD card is OK?
Thanks.
Let me add this that if I open back of my phone and remove and re insert the SD card, it gets detected but it's cumbersome.
Use a root explorer to go up to root and instead of ext sd go into sd card 2 folder. Should be there
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Hassaan.W said:
Use a root explorer to go up to root and instead of ext sd go into sd card 2 folder. Should be there
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Thanks for the reply but I don't have such folder.
test84 said:
Thanks for the reply but I don't have such folder.
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Do you have "storage" folder?
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