First off, I am very new to the world of ROMs/modding, so I apologize in advance if anything that follows misuses any terms or fails to provide proper information. Please let me know if you need me to clarify anything.
I have an Atrix 4G with AT&T running the stock 2.3.6 build 4.5.141. In light of Motorola's recent abandonment, I took it upon myself to load the stable version of CM7 onto my phone until enough of the bugs in CM10 had been worked out. I lurked XDA for a while until I got up the courage to root my phone and unlock my bootloader, at which I was successful (thanks, guys!), but I ran into a problem when I tried to use ClockworkMod Recovery to flash the ROM. After what seemed like a successful installation, I got caught in a boot loop, and had to boot to recovery mode.
Here's where I did the stupid thing: while in recovery mode, I tried several different options that I did not fully understand and somehow ended up getting it to boot back to the stock OS restored to what appear to be more or less factory settings. That's good, right? Well, now neither my phone's internal storage nor the external SD card will show up in my phone. I guess they aren't mounting? In Settings>Storage, the option to mount the SD card is grayed out and the internal storage listing is nowhere to be seen. Obviously this keeps me from accessing my recovery data, if it's even still there. My wifi also seems to not be working, displaying "error" whenever I try to turn it on in Settings.
The weird thing is that my phone's OS seems to be working fine otherwise. I can't access any file storage, but I can install apps to the app storage partition and use them just fine, as long as they don't require internal or SD storage. I am honestly confounded and I cannot find anything that resembles a solution to this problem. I am done messing with things I don't understand, so I am asking for help.
Help?
No idea what you did, but I'd say you somehow managed to bork both your storages. The easiest way to fix this is to go to CWM and format both internal and external storages. The downsize to this is obviously that you will definitely lose everything stored there. A more complicated approach would be to connect the phone to the computer and run some filesystem scanning/fixing/repairing tools and hope for the best. As for the external SD card, it would be even better if you could pull it out and put it into a card reader and connect it to the computer that way.
ravilov said:
No idea what you did, but I'd say you somehow managed to bork both your storages. The easiest way to fix this is to go to CWM and format both internal and external storages. The downsize to this is obviously that you will definitely lose everything stored there. A more complicated approach would be to connect the phone to the computer and run some filesystem scanning/fixing/repairing tools and hope for the best. As for the external SD card, it would be even better if you could pull it out and put it into a card reader and connect it to the computer that way.
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Thank you for your reply.
I followed your advice and attempted to format /sdcard and /emmc (I believe that's internal storage) in recovery mode. I got a mount error when I tried the /sdcard, but /emmc format appeared to be successful. I then rebooted the phone, but the conditions are still the same. No internal or external SD storage. I will try to get a card reader for the micro SD card to look at it on my computer, but I am alarmed that I can't get access to my internal storage even after formatting it.
What kind of filesystem tools would I need to use while plugged into a computer? What could I do if the storages aren't mounting? Am I completely screwed?
Not sure about your phone but on my galaxy s, emmc is the external storage and sdcard is the internal.
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NIMBAH said:
Not sure about your phone but on my galaxy s, emmc is the external storage and sdcard is the internal.
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Oh dear. That would mean that what I can't mount is actually the internal storage. Is there any way to remedy that?
Connect the phone to the computer (enable USB transfer mode on the phone if needed) and run some windows built-in tools like scandisk, chkdsk, format...
Just one caveat - if you decide to format, make sure you select FAT32, NOT exFAT, NTFS...
ravilov said:
Connect the phone to the computer (enable USB transfer mode on the phone if needed) and run some windows built-in tools like scandisk, chkdsk, format...
Just one caveat - if you decide to format, make sure you select FAT32, NOT exFAT, NTFS...
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Alright, I tried to connect like you said, making sure to enable USB mass storage mode. However, while the PC acknowledges that something is plugged in (installs drivers), neither storage is showing up as a drive when I try to access them with Windows Explorer. I can't do anything to them if they don't show up, or can I?
I did order a microSD card reader to try to connect the external drive to the computer that way. It should arrive sometime tomorrow. I'm thinking that if I can get the computer to read it that way that maybe I can format it so that the phone will finally be able to mount it again. Not sure what to do about the internal storage (or the broken wifi) after that, but I suspect that if I manage to flash a different ROM from external storage that I'll be able to recover that functionality? Or am I mistaken?
Hard to say. You sure have it tough there.
Try this - when the phone is connected and transfer mode selected, right click My Computer, select Manage, then go to Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management and see if anything appears there. If not... then I'm out of ideas I'm afraid.
ravilov said:
Hard to say. You sure have it tough there.
Try this - when the phone is connected and transfer mode selected, right click My Computer, select Manage, then go to Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management and see if anything appears there. If not... then I'm out of ideas I'm afraid.
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I did what you said, and this was the result:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
I'm not sure if that counts as nothing or not.
boohoo_sadface said:
I did what you said, and this was the result:
I'm not sure if that counts as nothing or not.
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could you do a chkdsk of the drives?
open start, type cmd, right click and open as admin,
then type chkdsk L: (I think, resolution of screenshot is not that good)
then chkdsk F:
see if any errors pop up
jorno88 said:
could you do a chkdsk of the drives?
open start, type cmd, right click and open as admin,
then type chkdsk L: (I think, resolution of screenshot is not that good)
then chkdsk F:
see if any errors pop up
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It's E, not L. Sorry about the resolution.
For both chkdsk commands, the message "Cannot open volume for direct access" was returned.
OK well, at least something. It's a little worrisome that it says "no media" even for internal storage.
Not sure if you had the external SD card inserted at that point, if you did, try the same thing but take the SD card out of the phone.
Also try right-clicking on one or the other, see what it offers - if you get something like "create volume" or similar, might try that.
Is it correct that one of the drives shown has about 1.46 GB (i assume your microsd) and the other has 14.37 GB?
that would seem strange to me because my internal accessible memory is only 10.71 GB, seems like system partition or something is considered with it. Maybe you have a problem with your partition table...
jorno88 said:
Is it correct that one of the drives shown has about 1.46 GB (i assume your microsd) and the other has 14.37 GB?
that would seem strange to me because my internal accessible memory is only 10.71 GB, seems like system partition or something is considered with it. Maybe you have a problem with your partition table...
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Those are actually partitions of the PC's hard disk (C).
My internal storage should be ~8GB and the external one is a 32GB microSD card. Those would be the E and F removable drives that show up as having no media attached.
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OK well, at least something. It's a little worrisome that it says "no media" even for internal storage.
Not sure if you had the external SD card inserted at that point, if you did, try the same thing but take the SD card out of the phone.
Also try right-clicking on one or the other, see what it offers - if you get something like "create volume" or similar, might try that.
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I tried again with microSD removed, and the results were exactly the same, even down to both E & F volumes both being displayed in Disk Management when the phone is connected. Chkdsk commands in the command prompt for both of these volumes also returned the exact same error message as before.
boohoo_sadface said:
I tried again with microSD removed, and the results were exactly the same, even down to both E & F volumes both being displayed in Disk Management when the phone is connected. Chkdsk commands in the command prompt for both of these volumes also returned the exact same error message as before.
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I see.
Any potentially useful options on right-click on either?
Also try booting into fastboot and do moto-fastboot erase emmc and see what happens. (Hope you have moto-fastboot installed and ready.)
the error message for chkdsk seems to be related to another program installed on your pc, check here if it is one of these programs. If all this doesn't work (or you're tired of fiddling and trying to get back your data) you can try formatting them through cmd (FORMAT E: /FS:FAT32 and FORMAT F: /FS:FAT32)
if it all works you can use a program called recuva to try get some data back afterwards.
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I see.
Any potentially useful options on right-click on either?
Also try booting into fastboot and do moto-fastboot erase emmc and see what happens. (Hope you have moto-fastboot installed and ready.)
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Here is the result:
jorno88 said:
the error message for chkdsk seems to be related to another program installed on your pc, check here if it is one of these programs. If all this doesn't work (or you're tired of fiddling and trying to get back your data) you can try formatting them through cmd (FORMAT E: /FS:FAT32 and FORMAT F: /FS:FAT32)
if it all works you can use a program called recuva to try get some data back afterwards.
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I tried the format command, and here was the result:
So same result as before, did you look in the list of those programs? Else you can try to go into safemode with your pc and do the chkdsk or/and format command from in there.
Might be easier than uninstalling programs
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So as many of you know, to root the Nook Color (NC) you need all of the following:
1) An external sdcard (micro sdcard to be exact--shorthand uSd)
2) An uSd reader/writer
Now many of you should have uSD's lying around like I do. And many of you should have Android phones also (I mean, you're in the xda forums...is that so hard to presume?). Now what a lot of you might lack (like me) is an uSD card reader. Being the cheap person you (and I) are, you decide to look for other ways to root the NC without having to buy an uSD reader.
My Solution: Use your android phone!
Android is based off of linux and if you paid attention, there are instructions on how to flash the Auto Nooter image with linux.
So how's it done you might ask? Heres the procedure (Make sure you thank johnnyb138, he knew all along how to do this, I'm just writting it up!)
Note: This method requires ADB to be set up and the phone to be rooted also.
1) Put in uSD into phone
2) Go to Setting->SD and Phone Storage->Unmount External SD
3) Format External SD (This will wipe everything in it)
4) Mount the External SD
5) Go to Settings->Applications->Development->USB debugging (make sure its checked)
6) Now open up your terminal/command prompt and type in "adb devices" to check if ADB recognizes your phone. If not please refer to a thread/website that will guide you in the right direction
7)Now is a good time to copy the rooting img of choice: type in the following to the terminal "adb push (Location of rooting img on computer) /sdcard/*name of rooting img*"
8)a)now type in the following: "adb shell" |Now unlock the phone and make sure the screen is on when you type in the next command|
8)b)Type in: "su" |Now look at the phone and click on allow|
*Tricky Part* Once again thank johnnyb138 for this
9) type in: cd /dev/block
10) type in: ls
This command is going to list everything that is connected to the motherboard on the phone, including the external sd card.
Now you have to find which of these blocks is the one that corresponds with the external sd card. it should start with mmcblk and then end with a # eg: mmcblk1
11) Now check which mmcblk is the external sd by typing "fdisk -l mmcblk#"Try each one out.
This command will tell you the size of the drive. So if you have an 8gb sd in the phone and mmcblk2 is is 8gb in size. Bingo you got it. Watch out though cause you might have a card that is the same size as the internal memory/internal sd card. In that case, post a pic of the command prompt/terminal and we will tell you which one is the correct one
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
*Tricky Part done*
12)now that you figured out the correct block the rest is easy: dd if= (Location of rooting img eg:/sdcard/auto-nooter-2.12.25.img) of=/dev/block/mmcblk# (you figured out in step 11 which was the right #)
13) Done! Just take out the sdcard. Make sure you don't mount it before you do take it out (ie: don't unplug the usb until you took out the card!)
Well i tried to keep this as simple as possible. It really is not hard to do, its just a little hard to comprehend if you never touched a terminal/command prompt or if you never used linux. If you have any suggestions as to make this more clearer please don't hesitate!
Credit List:
johnnyb138 <- Just give him a good pat on the back!
You may get better feedback in the nook dev forum than in general. But hopefully this can work!
Thank you! I will ask the mod to move this thread.
SprintFun said:
You may get better feedback in the nook dev forum than in general. But hopefully this can work!
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I actually did this to root my nook color. I did method two and it worked great.
I had originally tried to just do the dd command directly on my linux box with the sd card mounted but it would not work. The card would write and have all of the data on it, but the nook would not boot it. Only when I opened ADB on the linux machine and ran all of the commands directly on the android device was I able to get the nook to boot it and it worked flawlessly!
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I actually did this to root my nook color. I did method two and it worked great.
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That's awesome. At least we have a confirmation. Now can you tell me what img did you use? I tried auto nooter 12.15, 12.18 and 12.25 and my nook never took them. Im getting tired of trying to get it to take but I won't give up until it works
tytdfn said:
So as many of you know, to root the Nook Color (NC) you need all of the following:
1) An external sdcard (micro sdcard to be exact--shorthand uSd)
2) An uSd reader/writer
Now many of you should have uSD's lying around like I do. And many of you should have Android phones also (I mean, you're in the xda forums...is that so hard to presume?). Now what a lot of you might lack (like me) is an uSD card reader. Being the cheap person you (and I) are, you decide to look for other ways to root the NC without having to buy an uSD reader.
My Solution: Use your android phone!
Android is based off of linux and if you paid attention, there are instructions on how to flash the Auto Nooter image with linux.
So how's it done you might ask? Well here's the deal. See that [WIP] up there in the title of the thread? It stands for Work In Progress. I have succesfully (at least thats what i think) flashed the SD with multiple images but for some reason the nook won't take it. Hence it's a [WIP] because I cannot confirmed if it worked because of my lack of sd card reader.
So now I request some help. Please take the time to answer the following questions:
1) after the image is succesfully flashed, can you tell me what the contents are? and what amount of the sd is free and what amount is there in total
See picture in the bottom of what the result of my flash is.
Now for the procedure to flash the sd with the phone.
Pre Procedure:
1) Put in uSD into phone
2) Go to Setting->SD and Phone Storage->Unmount External SD
3) Format External SD (This will wipe everything in it)
4) Mount the External SD
Method 1: (Easiest) (Windows)
5) Now set the phone to act as USB storage when plugged into a computer (Varies with phone)
6) Now go to My Computer
7) You should see the card, Now just open up Win image or what ever you're using and flash the card
8) Eject the phone from the computer (Varies with phone)
9) Viola! A uSD ready to root your NC (hopefully)
Method 2: (Medium) (Windows/Linux) (ADB required to interact with phone)
5) Go to Settings->Applications->Development->USB debugging (make sure its checked)
6) Now open up your terminal/command prompt and type in "adb devices" to check if ADB recognizes your phone. If not please refer to a thread/website that will guide you in the right direction
7)Now is a good time to copy the rooting img of choice adb push (Location of rooting img) /sdcard/*name of rooting img*
8)now type in the following:
a) adb shell
b) mount
9) Here you will see all the mounted partitions. Find where your external sd card is mounted. it should start with /dev/block (for example[refer to the picture below]: mine is mounted at /dev/block/vold/179:9)
10) Now (on your phone) go to Settings->SD card and Phone Storage->Unmount External SD
11) dd if= /sdcard/*name of rooting img* of=(Mount Point) eg:/dev/block/vold/179:9
Method 3: Hardest (I don't know if root(on phone) is required for this will check tomorrow I'm very tired now (it's 1 AM here))
5) Go to the market and download the Terminal Emulator app.
6) Copy the rooting img to the sdcard of the phone
7) Open the Terminal Emulator and type in:
a) mount
8) Here you will see all the mounted partitions. Find where your external sd card is mounted. it should start with /dev/block (for example[refer to the picture below]: mine is mounted at /dev/block/vold/179:9)
9) Now (on your phone) go to Settings->SD card and Phone Storage->Unmount External SD
10) Open the Terminal Emulator and type in:
a) dd if= /sdcard/*name of rooting img* of=(Mount Point) eg:/dev/block/vold/179:9
Thats all i have to say about that....I will clean this up tomorro and hopefully shed some light on this subject. Maybe we can expand the number of rooted NC's by working together
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From your image it looks like you may be mounting the partition of the drive rather than the actual raw drive. In my scenario, the locations of the actual sd drive was /dev/block/mmcblk1 . In the attached image I ran the commands for the internal drive, which was located at /dev/block/mmcblk0 since my external was not around. I verified which was which orignally by running
Code:
fdisk -l /mmc/block/mmcblk0
to print out the partition data of the drive. Thankfully, my external drive and my internal drive were of different sizes so each one was easy to identify.
Once you know which drive you are writing to (be sure!!!) change this line to match correctly:
Code:
dd if= /sdcard/*name of rooting img* of=(Mount Point) eg:/dev/block/mmcblk1
Hope this helps.
tytdfn said:
That's awesome. At least we have a confirmation. Now can you tell me what img did you use? I tried auto nooter 12.15, 12.18 and 12.25 and my nook never took them. Im getting tired of trying to get it to take but I won't give up until it works
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I used 12.25 and it worked great, see my above post for a slight modification to what you did for method two that I picked up on.
Also, root is required on the phone to run both the fdisk command I listed and the dd command to write the image to the sdcard from the phone. So, it will be required for any of the above methods regardless.
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From your image it looks like you may be mounting the partition of the drive rather than the actual raw drive. In my scenario, the locations of the actual sd drive was /dev/block/mmcblk1 . In the attached image I ran the commands for the internal drive, which was located at /dev/block/mmcblk0 since my external was not around.
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Ahh i see now that would make more sense. I was wondering why it was mounted on /dev/vold but initially i brushed it off because in the Galaxy S lines there are a lot of leaked firmwares and thus lots of hacked ways to get around bugs, for example, sdcards not mounting.
And yes i realized this morning root was needed to dd. It's a habit to type in su as the first command right after i adb shell XD. Im trying it out now. The sd successfully flashed and im waiting for the NC. Will update in a bit.
UPDATE: Lol Omg shame!!!!! found the card at mmcblk1p1 flashed it and tried it again but alas that again was the partition...dd-ing again. The actual drive is at mmcblk1
So does method 1 not work and you have to use 2 or 3?
Bobb_o said:
So does method 1 not work and you have to use 2 or 3?
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Im gonna write up a new method right now.
tytdfn said:
Im gonna write up a new method right now.
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Just wanted to let you know I tried rooting with method one and it worked fine.
I have an Incredible (Rooted with custom ROM) and used Win32Image
Bobb_o said:
Just wanted to let you know I tried rooting with method one and it worked fine.
I have an Incredible (Rooted with custom ROM) and used Win32Image
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Ok so now i will put that method back into the first post. I thought it wouldn't work but i was wrong.
Sent from my LogicPD Zoom2 using XDA App
Help...I used a 16GB microSD card on this and after that now it's only read as 39MB...how can I revert that?
lazinase said:
Help...I used a 16GB microSD card on this and after that now it's only read as 39MB...how can I revert that?
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Format the SD card. I used my Incredible to do it.
I tried your method on using my Nexus one, unfortunately no luck.
I used windows mobile OS from my HD2 as a sdCard reader and rooted my nook color successfully. Just simply plug in and select USB Storage mode.
I wouldn't try it with HD2 running Android though...might not work.
christiankk said:
I tried your method on using my Nexus one, unfortunately no luck.
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Where was you external sdcard mounted?
tytdfn said:
Where was you external sdcard mounted?
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In the phone - /dev/block/mmcblk0 (free from memory)
I downloaded the image to /sdcard, extracted it on the phone and executed the 'dd' command.
Switched off the NC, plugged in the uSD card and plugged in the USB cable.
The color on the cable changes once, but the screen on the NC remains black.
Am I getting the wrong end of the stick here somehow?
PS: Thanks for your help and for posting this guide.
christiankk said:
In the phone - /dev/block/mmcblk0 (free from memory)
I downloaded the image to /sdcard, extracted it on the phone and executed the 'dd' command.
Switched off the NC, plugged in the uSD card and plugged in the USB cable.
The color on the cable changes once, but the screen on the NC remains black.
Am I getting the wrong end of the stick here somehow?
PS: Thanks for your help and for posting this guide.
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Ok sorry for replying so late but yeah you're doing it right. the screen should be black instead of the "touch the future of something blah blah". Just leave it there for like 5 min and come back. If it doesn't work take of the sdcard or else the NC will try to boot it again
So I rooted and flashed XtrSense, and thought it would be great if I had a large micro SD card. So I picked up a 32gb card off ebay. Now my first problem is I'm not sure if its a real 32gb or just a 8gb that someone hacked to make it show as 32gb, but thats beside the point for right now.
I've always had a problem when I plug my phone into my computer over usb, where if I move the cable just one bit, it disconnects then reconnects quickly then says that the device would preform faster in a USB 2 slot (all of mine are USB 2).
Unfortunately this happened when I was transferring music and when I unplugged from the computer it said my SD card had errors. I used the prompt to format it, and my card worked fine for a while.
Well that same scenario happened again last week and for some reason I decided to format it using Amon recovery. Now I'm afraid my SD card is corrupt because when I start my phone it says the card is blank or has an unrecognized filesystem. Whenever I try the format option the phone gives, it does nothing. Any ideas?
I can't help you with the formatting issue (try formatting FAT32 through windows?), but I have had the USB intermittent connection problem. Easily solved by using a standard usb cable or charger (not the modified one provided by HTC) and using a small stylus to bend the shorter of the two long sides of the plug slightly outward.
Thanks for the tip on the cord! I'll try that as soon as I find my cord.
And I can't format the card in windows because windows doesn't recognize that anything has been plugged in
And just for clarification you mean the bottom on this picture?
__________
\----------/
|_______|
^^^^^^^
Can you format it through a card reader? Also, can't you format it through the settings | storage settings menu?
Yes, the bottom where you have the carats. there's usually a seam right in the middle that is easily bent. don't bend too hard or far. just a fraction of a centimeter will tighten up the connection
__________
\----------/
|_______|
^^^^^^^
Going through settings and selecting format does nothing. I click the button and it still says its a blank or unsupported filesystem
jlab89 said:
Going through settings and selecting format does doing. I click the button and it still says its a blank or unsupported filesystem
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if the phone reformatted it then it should be blank.
now mount it to the computer and put what you want on it
You did it wrong in amon_ra. Reformat in amon but this time set first two settings to zero and the remainder fat32. Hope this helps.
DINC¦CM7¦SLAYHER27
So I followed your response and wiped EXT on sd then partitioned it with both settings=0 but I still get the same error message: "sd blank or unsupported filesystem"
EDIT: So I tried to do it in command prompt and it said unrecognized disk label. So i tried to change it but whatever I type it says invalid token
Edit 2: And by command prompt I mean IO installed android adb and foolowed a guide online to try and format my SD card that way
You may try this step by step guide that helped me before: recover data from corrupted SD card
hope this helps.
Every now and again when I reboot the phone, my Internal Storage seems to be formatted. It's really starting to become a nuisance. I am on rooted on U4_2.1.1 - anyone else experiencing this issue?
Self bump...I found that if I reboot the phone in adb (using the reboot command) it formats my internal storage almost every time. I'm trying to isolate other causes while I am at it...
Bump, I also have this issue and it is extremely frustrating!!!
This happened to me when I rooted mine yesterday too, and this is my first post yay.
Adam
Hi,
Do a full format in Windows. Connect the phone in use storage mode to a pc, right click on the drive and select format, default settings, turn off quick format.
This happens when running Gingerbreak to root your phone.
Cheers!
So I backed up everything and am now formatting it but did I do something wrong wail using gingerbreak because I saw no where this could happen, just want to know what I did wrong.
Adam
hi,
This is what I am guessing happens: In order to get root, Gingerbreak hacks into the volume daemon (the android bit that knows about inserting and removing sdcards). So you get root but it's like you pulled the plug on your computer while your hard drive was accessing data, you need to do a full format to avoid glitches. At boot android checks volumes to make sure they are not corrupt, that they are 'checked' that they are fully synced and closed out before the power was turned off. If there are any problems, either a repair is attempted or a format is done, depending on the phone/firmware. So, after using Gingerbreak to root, there are some issues with the format of the internal memory, once you start filling it up, you get errors when it runs across a bad patch of the format. So, even though it may look like the drive has been formatted and empty, you still need to do a full format from a pc to clean up the mess. I would recommend both the internal memory and any external sd-cards be formatted properly afterward.
You'd need to talk to the author(s) of Gingerbreak to get more of a breakdown on what happens.
Cheers!
Atrix internal storage format after boot
I've the same problem using Atrix when reboot...
The internal storage will format after every reboot...
And my Atrix is new phone, that not root before...
I've try to format storage within phone format tool.
It success to stop the format after reboot.
But, I when put the sdcard into the phone, the reboot will format the phone, again...
Anyone can help////
wow thanks for the break down man really appreciate it.
Adam
I have this problem, but cannot get the computer to see the phone as drives to format. Is there any other way of doing this?
persource said:
I have this problem, but cannot get the computer to see the phone as drives to format. Is there any other way of doing this?
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Do you have it set to Mass Storage under USB Settings when you have it connected?
Do you have the proper drivers installed?
I had this problem too. But even trying full format using pc, it still wouldn't help. I even did a full wipe on my whole phone.
Hi,
When the (HTC Desire) phone is powered up it is unable to mount the SD card, and I am unable to have it mounted from the "Settings > SD card & Storage" menu. Having said that, the micro SD card can be accessed from a computer (when plugged in directly to the computer, i.e. no issue with the card), and moreover, when I am in the recovery mode, I can have it mounted and browse it. By the way, the card could be accessed from the phone until I downgraded the O/S, and managed to have it rooted.
When the phone is running normally, and connected to the USB port of a laptop, the laptop does recognize a device connected (can even do ADB), but I believe because the SD card is not mounted, the phone does not offer the option to make the card appear as a disk drive for computer access.
I am running the original (RUU, Telstra) Android 2.2 (2.26.841.2) on a HTC desire, after I had it "S-OFF'ed". After reloading the original 2.2, I had it rooted.
The micro SD card is a 2GB one, with approx 1.5GB formatted as FAT16 (contains typical file and photos), and 0.5 GB as EXT3 (contains nothing at the moment).
HBoot: 6.93.1002
S-Off (thanks to Revolutionary)
Recovery mode: ClockworkMod v5.0.2.0 (I manually loaded it)
I have searched online for solutions, and have not been able to have it fixed. Others seem to have different issues to that of mine. Usually, they cannot mount the SD-card at all (not even from recovery), or their SD card just needed to be reformatted. I think I have indicated that these do not appear to be relevant to my issue at all. I have also tried "Fastboot oem enableqxdm 0", and it made no difference.
I look forward to your kind responses and feedback.
Thank you for your attention.
desiremhtc said:
Hi,
When the (HTC Desire) phone is powered up it is unable to mount the SD card, and I am unable to have it mounted from the "Settings > SD card & Storage" menu. Having said that, the micro SD card can be accessed from a computer (when plugged in directly to the computer, i.e. no issue with the card), and moreover, when I am in the recovery mode, I can have it mounted and browse it. By the way, the card could be accessed from the phone until I downgraded the O/S, and managed to have it rooted.
When the phone is running normally, and connected to the USB port of a laptop, the laptop does recognize a device connected (can even do ADB), but I believe because the SD card is not mounted, the phone does not offer the option to make the card appear as a disk drive for computer access.
I am running the original (RUU, Telstra) Android 2.2 (2.26.841.2) on a HTC desire, after I had it "S-OFF'ed". After reloading the original 2.2, I had it rooted.
The micro SD card is a 2GB one, with approx 1.5GB formatted as FAT16 (contains typical file and photos), and 0.5 GB as EXT3 (contains nothing at the moment).
HBoot: 6.93.1002
S-Off (thanks to Revolutionary)
Recovery mode: ClockworkMod v5.0.2.0 (I manually loaded it)
I have searched online for solutions, and have not been able to have it fixed. Others seem to have different issues to that of mine. Usually, they cannot mount the SD-card at all (not even from recovery), or their SD card just needed to be reformatted. I think I have indicated that these do not appear to be relevant to my issue at all. I have also tried "Fastboot oem enableqxdm 0", and it made no difference.
I look forward to your kind responses and feedback.
Thank you for your attention.
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Welcome to the forum.
I had the same problem once. The solution is very simple but annoying: Many Android phones are unable to mount SD cards formatted with tools like MiniTool Partition Wizard. Reformat the SD card using CWM (ClockWorkMod) recovery and everything will be fine.
Good luck.
It worked
nik10 said:
Welcome to the forum.
I had the same problem once. The solution is very simple but annoying: Many Android phones are unable to mount SD cards formatted with tools like MiniTool Partition Wizard. Reformat the SD card using CWM (ClockWorkMod) recovery and everything will be fine.
Good luck.
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Dear friend,
Thank you so much for your simple tip. It worked! I felt so dumb for not trying it out myself. I guess I was tired of trying things without considering moving my data back and forth. Once more thank you.
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desiremhtc said:
Dear friend,
Thank you so much for your simple tip. It worked! I felt so dumb for not trying it out myself. I guess I was tired of trying things without considering moving my data back and forth. Once more thank you.
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Well, this IS annoying. I had the same problems and copied my data three times (~ 12 GB). So I can understand that.
Good evening,
I have also the same prroblem.
Is there any manual - instructions that I could follow in order to solve the issue with the CWM?
Thanks in advance.
Hello,
When I updated my S3 to 4.3 from 4.1.2, it was terrible. It was very laggy, my screen didn't show when pressing the Power Button or the Home Button, and I thought that resetting to factory might fix it. Well, I was so desperate to make my phone work better that I didn't realize that all my files were on the internal storage, I don't have an SD Card. So, I've lost everything.
Now, I'm trying to recover some photos, but I can't connect my phone as USB mass storage to use a recovery soft on Windows 8. I rooted my phone, installed USB Mass Storage Enabler app, but it shows two drives (H: and I, but I can't access those. It gives me "Please insert a disk into Removable Drive (LETTER"
Please help, I did everything I found on forums, but still nothing. Those files might be lost, but now I have another battle.. Making my phone available in Mass Storage.
And by the way, it still works terrible with 4.3. Hate it so much!
Have you installed USB drivers ???
Have you read the stickied storage/ recovery thread ??
bughy said:
Hello,
When I updated my S3 to 4.3 from 4.1.2, it was terrible. It was very laggy, my screen didn't show when pressing the Power Button or the Home Button, and I thought that resetting to factory might fix it. Well, I was so desperate to make my phone work better that I didn't realize that all my files were on the internal storage, I don't have an SD Card. So, I've lost everything.
Now, I'm trying to recover some photos, but I can't connect my phone as USB mass storage to use a recovery soft on Windows 8. I rooted my phone, installed USB Mass Storage Enabler app, but it shows two drives (H: and I, but I can't access those. It gives me "Please insert a disk into Removable Drive (LETTER"
Please help, I did everything I found on forums, but still nothing. Those files might be lost, but now I have another battle.. Making my phone available in Mass Storage.
And by the way, it still works terrible with 4.3. Hate it so much!
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Unfortunately I think USB Mass Storage in the way it is implemented in 4.x for the moment can only share the external SD, the internal one is never visible.
IMHO the only approach to recover "something" is to get an external microSD larger than the internal partition and create a block copy (with dd under adb in CWM/Philz recovery for instance) of the entire "internal SD" partition - that one will be an EXT4 (Linux) partition) and there is a very, very small chance that you might recover some stuff from it (I doubt but who knows).
Yes, i have the Samsung USB Driver for mobile phone (1.5.29.0)
No, didn't read the storage/recovery thread.
Oh well...
Such error happens if transfer breaks unexpectedly. Think what file did you send lastly and delete it, it should fix your issue.
If you can't remember or it did not, formatting your external sd card will fix it for sure.
JustArchi said:
If you can't remember or it did not, formatting your external sd card will fix it for sure.
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I don't have a sd card.
bughy said:
I don't have a sd card.
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Ah, you're talking about internal one.
Well, then your magic program doesn't work properly. Perhaps you could try boeffla kernel and it's UMS.