Hey guys, I am rooted/unlocked running Jelly'Beans' Build 11 (going to build 12 tonight) and for some reason I can access my SD card while the phone is running normally, but when I boot to recovery it says I cannot mount the external SD to flash a file.
I get around this by just using the internal storage, but this is not ideal. Can anyone give me an explanation of why this might be happening, or maybe tell me how to fix it? Thanks!
either a bad sd card or you need to format the card to fat32.
droidstyle said:
either a bad sd card or you need to format the card to fat32.
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If it were bad or formatted improperly, would I still be able to access and use it under normal phone conditions? I use it to save my pictures to, and I can access it from the phones file browser as well as when it is plugged into a pc.
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What size card is it and how is it formated
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Mindstar1 said:
If it were bad or formatted improperly, would I still be able to access and use it under normal phone conditions? I use it to save my pictures to, and I can access it from the phones file browser as well as when it is plugged into a pc.
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cwm recovery does not recognize exfat. you will have move your files to a pc then format the card to fat32 if you want cwm to recognize it.
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cwm recovery does not recognize exfat. you will have move your files to a pc then format the card to fat32 if you want cwm to recognize it.
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Or switch to TWRP
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Or switch to TWRP
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this! i would of suggested that but i was not sure if the latest twrp did support exfat. thx for the suggestion kintwofan!!
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Or switch to TWRP
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I tried switching to TWRP, but under the supported devices in CWM it only lists the Note 2 HSPA. and I am obviously on VZW. Is this ok?
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I tried switching to TWRP, but under the supported devices in CWM it only lists the Note 2 HSPA. and I am obviously on VZW. Is this ok?
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Just download goo manager. Open the app, hit the menu key and select install recovery. It will download the right one
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Worked for me
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Just download goo manager. Open the app, hit the menu key and select install recovery. It will download the right one
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This method worked for me. I am on a Galaxy S4 SGH m919. I stumbled upon this posting by doing a search. I was having a problem where my SD card is working but it wouldn't mount in recovery, so I couldn't restore back ups, of flash anything. I only had this problem after I had flashed Google Edition 4.3. I still don't know exactly what caused it, but this recovery TWRP did the trick. Thank you so much for helping me out!!
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I think I'm too inexperienced to be rom'ing on my everyday phone. I was running Team Objection lf5 and it was great except for google voice and MHL-out. So I decided to play with CM9. Now I cannot revert back to Objection? CWM recovery menu does not see ANYTHING on my external sd card. But when I pop the card into my laptop everything is still there, including all 3 of my CWM backup dates. What gives? I installed TWRP recovery to see if that was any different but it shows my backups as blank too. (Can TWRP even see/use CWM backup files anyways??).
So if the backups are there....how do you recommend I go about regaining access to them? Thank you in advance for saving my butt!
TWRP cannot use CWM backups and when u boot into CWM u should have an option to restore from internal memory or SD card, which is external. Try that
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nvmehaterz said:
TWRP cannot use CWM backups and when u boot into CWM u should have an option to restore from internal memory or SD card, which is external. Try that
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CWM gives me something like "directory not found" both when SD is mounted and unmounted.
Might be that CM9 is having terrible seeing the external. Put the backup on your internal.
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Might be that CM9 is having terrible seeing the external. Put the backup on your internal.
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This is true, it's only navigating the internal SD. BUT I can't mount the internal in CM9 to move the backups there. I'm stuck right?
No, flash a ROM, then move the backup on your phone, them restore the backup
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No, flash a ROM, then move the backup on your phone, them restore the backup
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Got it. I'm in CM9 right now. Got USB storage "working" in that it connects, but while copying my clockworkmod folder to the internal it will cause the phone to reboot each and every time. (4x so far). I'll keep trying but this was an absolute waste of a day.
External has been wonky on CM9, just flash another ROM, preferably tw based, so you can transfer the file, then restore your backup.
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Holy crap the whole problem was incompatibility between CWM and CWMtouch versions. Never would have guessed, but then again I know so little that I thought the backups they create would be compatible. Thanks everyone for your help.
CM7 was/is great on my Incredible, but it appears I am not ready for CM9 on the Note. (With the bugs in CM9 I cannot believe people are asking for CM10 already, yikes). Then again, the is on my everyday, daily driver including work phone so I need every little thing to work right.
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I recently had downloaded the ROM GO Airborn, put it on my SD from my laptop, then flashed it through recovery. The problem I had was that it doesnt show any music/photos that are on the SD card. I thought that I had accidently wiped the SD card, but when I go into storage in settings and Astro form the market, it shows that the card is mounted and I can browse it.
I thought it would of been the ROM, so I flashed Eternity ROM after a clean wipe. I am having the same problem. Settings-->Storage says that I have 30GB total and 9GB remaining, and ASTRO can browse the SD card, its all still there. I just cant seem to access it. Any help?
Are you using superwipe before flashing the roms and are you using clockworkmod recovery to flash it?
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disconnecktie said:
Are you using superwipe before flashing the roms and are you using clockworkmod recovery to flash it?
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superwipe no, clockwork yes.
That's what I thought. Go to the eternity forums and go to the FAQ and get super wipe from there. You should also download 4ext recovery because cwm is causing way to many issues here lately.
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Will that fix the SD card issue?
I also read recently that cwm has been placing a .no media folder on the SD card and by deleting it some issues may be solved. Worth a shot I guess. My only other suggestion would be to backup the contents and reformat the SD card.
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@disconnecktie I love you, man. Haha. The .nomedia issue is exactly what it was. I performed a ".nomedia" search and deleted all of those files. What recovery would you suggest flashing? TWRP is what I am going to flash right now. Anything better available? Thank you!!!
4ext for the win bro. Its the first app I paid for and worth every penny. It is free too but it is so good I had to buy it.
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Hey guys, so my galaxy s2 has been running on RR 3.0.5 with the latest siyah kernel. A problem I've been having is frequent media corruptions, and to solve that, I thought reformatting the internal storage would help. After doing so with cwm touch 6, it doesn't recognize my sdcard when i use my phone. What can I do to fix this?
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richcity64 said:
Hey guys, so my galaxy s2 has been running on RR 3.0.5 with the latest siyah kernel. A problem I've been having is frequent media corruptions, and to solve that, I thought reformatting the internal storage would help. After doing so with cwm touch 6, it doesn't recognize my sdcard when i use my phone. What can I do to fix this?
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may be u need to mount it from cwm
Try to flash stock firmware and/or use hard reset service code.
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richcity64 said:
Hey guys, so my galaxy s2 has been running on RR 3.0.5 with the latest siyah kernel. A problem I've been having is frequent media corruptions, and to solve that, I thought reformatting the internal storage would help. After doing so with cwm touch 6, it doesn't recognize my sdcard when i use my phone. What can I do to fix this?
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do factory reset with internal SD wipe in the phone and not in CWM, and you should be fine.
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Jokesy said:
do factory reset with internal SD wipe in the phone and not in CWM, and you should be fine.
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Just did that, and sadly, it didn't help. The phone still doesn't recognize my external sd card.
bluepratham said:
may be u need to mount it from cwm
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Strangely, mounting anything from cwm never seems to work for my phone.
richcity64 said:
Strangely, mounting anything from cwm never seems to work for my phone.
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Could be that the SD card is faulty. Have you tried the SD card with another phone? Does your PC detect it?
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bluepratham said:
may be u need to mount it from cwm
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Spiralzz said:
Could be that the SD card is faulty. Have you tried the SD card with another phone? Does your PC detect it?
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So I tried swapping my SD card for another 32 gb one. However, it isn't the SD card's problem. It's that my phone simply doesn't detect that there IS a SD card mounted in it.
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So I tried swapping my SD card for another 32 gb one. However, it isn't the SD card's problem. It's that my phone simply doesn't detect that there IS a SD card mounted in it.
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I remember there was this setting to mount the external SD card from settings > storage, but don't remember which ROM had that.
If that doesnt work/if that option isnt there, your last option is to check with stock ROM as suggested earlier. Maybe it is a hardware fault.
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Spiralzz said:
I remember there was this setting to mount the external SD card from settings > storage, but don't remember which ROM had that.
If that doesnt work/if that option isnt there, your last option is to check with stock ROM as suggested earlier. Maybe it is a hardware fault.
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In RR there's no option for mounting external SD, only "unmount shared storage". Will try going back to stock 4.0.3 as my last option.
EDIT: Went back to stock 4.0.3, reformatted usb storage and sd card and flashed back RR 3.0.5. So far so good, no problems
hello I'm new need help installing a rom based on CyanogenMod 10.1 android 4.2.2 I can not charge the microsd from pc I need to create an access from the phone's memory card to external card as I can do? sorry for my English my language is Spanish
mvp001 said:
hello I'm new need help installing a rom based on CyanogenMod 10.1 android 4.2.2 I can not charge the microsd from pc I need to create an access from the phone's memory card to external card as I can do? sorry for my English my language is Spanish
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Use your recovery if your using 4ext recovery there's a option called toggle usb or something like that, you can mount your internal sd n micro sd in pc with that
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ravike14 said:
Use your recovery if your using 4ext recovery there's a option called toggle usb or something like that, you can mount your internal sd n micro sd in pc with that
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+1!!!
If you can't toggle usb storage on 4ext then you gave a problem with your internal or external sd, or with the cord.
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I have the TWRP RECOVERY if install the 4EXT recovery remove my previous recovery ?? I have this doubt before proceeding
mvp001 said:
I have the TWRP RECOVERY if install the 4EXT recovery remove my previous recovery ?? I have this doubt before proceeding
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Yes. You should replace twrp with 4ext. 4ext is much better. You can flash it with hasoon's toolkit.
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Yes. You should replace twrp with 4ext. 4ext is much better. You can flash it with hasoon's toolkit.
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ok I will do what it says:good:
So I wiped everything and realized I didn't have a ROM downloaded onto my internal storage...for some reason USB storage mounting doesnt work and doesn't show up on my computer..how can I get a ROM on my phone??
I know there is like adb sideload but I don't know how to use it and it wont even start up in TWRP....Looks like im screwed...
Currently waiting for factory image to download...following this guide...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2301259
CC268 said:
So I wiped everything and realized I didn't have a ROM downloaded onto my internal storage...for some reason USB storage mounting doesnt work and doesn't show up on my computer..how can I get a ROM on my phone??
I know there is like adb sideload but I don't know how to use it and it wont even start up in TWRP....Looks like im screwed...
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Do you have a working sd card. TWRP will see external as well as internal storage. Place sd card into computer , download rom onto card, place back into your galaxy then boot back into recovery and flash from sd card.
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Obsidian_soul said:
Do you have a working sd card. TWRP will see external as well as internal storage. Place sd card into computer , download rom onto card, place back into your galaxy then boot back into recovery and flash from sd card.
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Nope I wish i did...I will just have to go back to stock
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Nope I wish i did...I will just have to go back to stock
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If you have a rom in your computer you can adb sideload from recovery and will flash.
Probably too late tho since you replied 4 hours ago lol
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Yea I got it all figured out just odined back to stock and rerooted... Adb sideload wasn't working on twrp for me
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Well, good thing it's pretty easy to recover this phone.
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