I keep trying to format my sd card through the g1 but everytime i click format the phone eject itself of the comp and then i remount it but keeps doing the same thing over and over tryed different sd cards nothing work??? Any Help?
mayhem1983 said:
I keep trying to format my sd card through the g1 but everytime i click format the phone eject itself of the comp and then i remount it but keeps doing the same thing over and over tryed different sd cards nothing work??? Any Help?
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I don't think you want to format your card through the computer (ie windows xp). I would install the Amon RA recovery and then you can format your card just using the phone. Or do a search on UBUNTU for dummy's.
Are you formatting from windows, linux, osx, or the phone? You say "through the g1" but add "eject itself of the comp and then i remount it"
Does the G1 say damageded sd, or does it just not format leaving all your old files?
Is your phone rooted? If so, install RA-recovery-1.2.3 and try that. It has all the format options included. If not try a linux live cd such as ubuntu which includes gparted. Alright well qwerty3656 already suggested that. Guess I should have finished this post before going to fix some coffee
Ubuntu for dummies? lol. You must have a disability if you cant use Ubuntu. Run GParted if thats the way you want to go, but doing it that way is over the top harder than it needs to be. I also would recommend you download and install the Amon RA Recovery Image.
In Terminal run:
Code:
su (Hit Enter and allow SU permission if you haven't already)
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-dream-v1.2.3.img (Hit Enter)
reboot recovery (Hit Enter)
Then from the recovery menu choose repartition SD with just a Fat32 or repartition with a Fat32, Ext2, and Swap. You can then reboot
Much agreed. I use RA's recovery image over cm1.4 for the quick (very quick) format options. I've used gparted with GNOME based Linux distros and it can be a headache, especially when it fails to format properly several times in a row
PuppyLinux Live
Puppy Linux Live is another great distro for doing these sort of things. Once you have it on cd it takes about 2 minutes to go through the boot process and no need to install to hdd(great if using someone elses pc). Use the partition manager, just remember to hit apply after EACH change to the sd partitions. Delete a partition(Hit apply) delete another partition(hit apply), create.....apply apply apply. I've had almost no problems using this method, hitting apply just speeds things up.
And yes I have Ubuntu as well, but for some reason i have issues from time to time with gParted as well. Puppy's also great as you can boot right from a jump drive, or usb-sd adapter(as long as your hardware supports it).
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Hello. I've had my g1 for a while now and have learned almost everything there is to update, edit, and mess with the g1.
Problem is I never had a good memory card so I never learned anything related to Apps 2 SD. Now I have one lol.
So I got my 8gb class 6 card today and was really excited to update to the newest JACHero rom, which I had been running previously. Problem is, I can't seem to create the EXT3 partition correctly.
I've searched over XDA for guides and have used two, which haven't helped me.
I use Paragon, format the card and try to add a 600 mb ext3 partition. When everything is formatting, adding, etc, I eventually get a message telling me to restart my computer (the guide told me this would happen). So I keep going and restart the computer, but on boot, when its supposed to finish the thing, it seems like it finished, saying some error.
Now I got back to my desktop and see that in Paragon, I have the two partitions. I'm sure the fat32 is working fine, but it also shows the ext3 partition, so I thought it was ok. When I update my phone though, I end up in a boot loop, so I'm pretty sure the problem is with the SD card being incorrectly formatted.
Sorry for making a stupid post like this, but I'm getting kinda tired and annoyed lol. Thanks for any help you can offer!
The only thing I can think is downloading Cyan's 1.3.1 recovery and run the "fix etx3 file extensions" command. If that fails run it twice. After fixing the ext3 extensions re-flash and see if that helps.
what i suggest doing is using sdsplit (can be found with a small search) to ext2 then going into console in recovery and typing upgrade_fs to upgrade the ext2 to ext3 . Myself i dont like paragon or any windows partition program becuase i always have problems with them lol.
Or use Ubuntu.
Or use cyanogen's recovery image lol.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=534714
a2sd
I used a thread in the development area, was able to do ir in terminal emulator. It was easy, then like other said I used CM 1.3.1 Recovey to make it EXT3. It was really simple. The thread had three parts to it so read carefully. I believe it is on the first or second page.
If you try to format in Paragon, it will ask you to reboot your computer to finish.
I've never had luck with that.
So try this:
Put your sdcard in your computer.
Using Paragon, delete all the partitions (make sure you apply the changes).
Then, one by one, create & format your partitions...
1. Create a Fat32 partition (7gb, or whatever size you want)
2. Apply that setting.
3. Create a Ext3 partition (use all the remaining space EXCEPT 24 or 32mb for the swap)
4. Apply that setting
5. Create a Linux Swap (NOT Linux Swap 2) with whatever is left.
6. Apply that setting.
7. Safely eject the card from your computer.
If you do it that way, you won't have to reboot.
I also am almost willing to bet that you are using an x64 version of Windows, right? Doesn't really matter though, this works for 32 or 64 bit.
Sorry if this has been adressed before, but i did use the search and i cannot quite figure out what to do next. I might have dropped my phone the other day, and since then none of my apps run from the SD becase it thinks that it was ejected. So, i wiped and installed a clean JackXrom again, and it was fine for about 20 min, then phone locked up, and when i restarted, i get the same problem. Should i format the partitions on the card perhaps? I was trying to avoid that, so any work around would be helpfull.
Latest radio, spl. Class 6 8 gig SD card.
Thanks.
te5ter said:
Sorry if this has been adressed before, but i did use the search and i cannot quite figure out what to do next. I might have dropped my phone the other day, and since then none of my apps run from the SD becase it thinks that it was ejected. So, i wiped and installed a clean JackXrom again, and it was fine for about 20 min, then phone locked up, and when i restarted, i get the same problem. Should i format the partitions on the card perhaps? I was trying to avoid that, so any work around would be helpfull.
Latest radio, spl. Class 6 8 gig SD card.
Thanks.
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sounds like a corrupted partition try repair ext file systems if that dosent work youve got to format partition and reinstall all apps.
btw does youre fat32 partition work?
te5ter said:
Sorry if this has been adressed before, but i did use the search and i cannot quite figure out what to do next. I might have dropped my phone the other day, and since then none of my apps run from the SD becase it thinks that it was ejected. So, i wiped and installed a clean JackXrom again, and it was fine for about 20 min, then phone locked up, and when i restarted, i get the same problem. Should i format the partitions on the card perhaps? I was trying to avoid that, so any work around would be helpfull.
Latest radio, spl. Class 6 8 gig SD card.
Thanks.
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If it only happened once it shouldn't be an issue, but if it does it wouldn't hurt to format your ext.
In recovery
mount -o rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /system/sd
rm -r /system/sd/*
I tried repairing my ext, no luck.
Whenever i try to mount in recovery console i get error : No such file or directory
te5ter said:
I tried repairing my ext, no luck.
Whenever i try to mount in recovery console i get error : No such file or directory
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Sounds like you need to delete the partition and make a new one, as it can't be read. If you're going to use parted from you're phone then you'll probably have to start over and recreate fat (and linux-swap if you had one) too. If you're using paragon or Gparted you should be able to recreate just your ext.
I cant recall which tutorial i fallowed, but it was all done through the terminal or recovery. Could you possibly point me to the right thread?
AdrianK said:
Sounds like you need to delete the partition and make a new one, as it can't be read. If you're going to use parted from you're phone then you'll probably have to start over and recreate fat (and linux-swap if you had one) too. If you're using paragon or Gparted you should be able to recreate just your ext.
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if you can remember the start and end of youre ext partition i think you can do this in parted by typing print then note down the start and end then type mkpartfs primary ext2 start - end
te5ter said:
I cant recall which tutorial i fallowed, but it was all done through the terminal or recovery. Could you possibly point me to the right thread?
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Here you go, follow the second section.
http://android-simplicity.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-to-6-how-to-partition-your-sdcard.html
Everytime i try to mount in recovery i get "mount: mounting /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 on /sdcard failed: device or resource busy"
I'm lost.
pull your battery our for 30 seconds or so. remove your sd card then reinsert it and then try again. if that doesnt work then do what the others guys have said and try to reformat your sd card and start from scratch.
AdrianK said:
Sounds like you need to delete the partition and make a new one, as it can't be read. If you're going to use parted from you're phone then you'll probably have to start over and recreate fat (and linux-swap if you had one) too. If you're using paragon or Gparted you should be able to recreate just your ext.
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Actually, with Parted you can just rm and mkpartfs any partition you want without affecting the other partitions.
I bit the bullet and just formated all the partitions.
Thanks anyways guys.
My advice for next time or any body else reading would be to download a live CD for ubuntu or fedora or similar and boot your PC off that - it's graphical and v. easy.
Or just dump windows altogether and go for linux ;-)
Smiffy.
Lordsmiff said:
My advice for next time or any body else reading would be to download a live CD for ubuntu or fedora or similar and boot your PC off that - it's graphical and v. easy.
Or just dump windows altogether and go for linux ;-)
Smiffy.
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Yeah Gparted is amazing problem is then you have to walk the person through downloading, burning the image...which can be painful.
This is still happening, fresh format on sd card partitios and a wipe and clean install of Jacxrom.
Bad sd card? Or the phone?
JACxROM [v1.3]
I am attempting to flash to this ROM. Everything seems to go as describen in other posts, but when I power up the phone, I never make it past the splash screen. Any thoughts??
sorry
Sorry I posted this in the wrong place, I will move it.
rberger13 said:
I am attempting to flash to this ROM. Everything seems to go as describen in other posts, but when I power up the phone, I never make it past the splash screen. Any thoughts??
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Bump, dead SD card?
partition corrupted anyway to recover?
I need help please!
I was running cyanogen 4.0.3.1 just installed today morning then changed theme to enoch 1.12 the newest one that worked fine. Updated the browser to loccys Then installed the HTC music and when finally rebooted the phone it was working fine until I noticed I had none of my apps on the sdcard.
All I have is syste/app folder which runs internally I think everything else does not work. It's like my sdcard is not in.
I shutdown rebooted and waited. Then removed sdcard rebooted and inserted the card one fully powered on and it is saying it wants to format it.
I get home turn my ubuntu system on and it detects it as a ext3 partition yet nothing inside. and now no fat32 partition or linux-swap.
anyways to recover or am I SOL?
ok i bought my sandisk 8gb class 6 card a few weeks ago and its been working until the last ROM i flashed, and everything has been force closing. so i took it out and tried to reformat it and it wont format in windows vista, xp, parted (from the G1), my friends htc touch pro, or a blackberry.
parted shows the 2 partions on there currently (fat32 and ext3) but wont let me remove them. wtf!
im at work so i cant try to format it in linux or Gparted, i can try that when i get home.
any ideas?
I had the same problem, and finally just gave up. Some additional things I tried:
SDFormatter - http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter/eula/
Formatting from the command prompt - C:\format <drive letter>
gparted in Linux - I know you said you were going to try this, but I did, and had no luck.
I hate to say it, but that might be the end of your sd card.
i tried in Puppy linux in Gparted and it shows the fat32 and ext3 partitions, but they have locks next to both of them and i cant delete or edit them.
i then booted to a Gparted cd and it shows the same things as in Puppy Linux, but they arent locked. i delete them, hit apply, it acts like it deletes them, but then they're still there.
try flashing amon_ra's newest recovery image. you can partition with one click in the recovery console directly on your g1
jndd333 said:
try flashing amon_ra's newest recovery image. you can partition with one click in the recovery console directly on your g1
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here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=566669
its the same as CM 1.4 but with added features?
ok i flashed that recovery. im gonna try and format the 8gb card from there.
no go.
it says it completed, but the partitions are still there. they wont remove from the console when i do Rm 1 to remove partition 1... says it does but its still there.. WTF!!!! lol
I install a lot of application so I constantly run out of space on NAND. So I tried to install Myn's Warm Donut using the following method so the system stuffs will be on NAND and the data will be on the sdcard. It is slower but I can install lots of applications now.
Requirement:
-You have to have Myn's Warm Donut or other android rom installed already on NAND. This means that both the system and the data is on NAND.
-A USB reader for your micro sdcard
Overview:
The main steps are 1) install adb 2) partition your sdcard into three partitions 3) reinstall the rom.
Steps:
1- Install the Android SDK here http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html. This will give you the adb tool which is a remote terminal program. You will have to locate the adb binary to run it.
2a- Connect you vogue to the desktop. Make sure that USB debug is enable on the vogue. It should be by default.
2b- Run the adb:
Code:
adb shell
2c- Repartition the sdcard using parted. You need some experience with parted which is very popular in linux. Remember, this step will destroy the data on the sdcard.
Code:
parted /dev/block/mmcblk0
print
At this point you should see the list of all partitions on the sdcard. For most of you, there will be one partition. Remove all the partition using the rm command with the partition number.
Code:
rm 1
Now your print should return empty. So create three partitions using the following commands. Basically, you want three partitions. The first one is your sdcard folder which you always had. The third one is for your data. The second one is just filler because the current installer only install to the third partition.
Code:
mkpartfs primary fat32 0 6500
mkpartfs primary linux-swap 6500 6756
mkpartfs primary ext2 6756 8168
set 1 lba
Note that the size is depended on you. I want around 6.5GB on my 8GB card to be the sdcard partition for musics and videos. So what's left is around 1.5GB for the data partition. I just give the filler 256MB so maybe I can do something with it later. The partition number might be different with other rom. You have to play with it.
After this step you should see something like this when you do print:
Code:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 32.3kB 6500MB 6500MB primary fat32 lba
2 6500MB 6756MB 256MB primary linux-swap(v1)
3 6756MB 8168MB 1412MB primary ext2
Now you can quit parted and exit the console by:
Code:
quit
exit
3a-Turn off your phone and put the sdcard into a USB reader so you can copy the andboot installation files over.
3b-Put the card back, run the installer and choose the data on sdcard option. You should be good to go.
As you usual, you are solely responsible for your phone and your data.
Hope this helps.
I have another solution in the works that will solve the out-of-space on data very easily on ANY build and also have some other nice advantages: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=750768
So you put the apps on to ext2 partion and the data stay in NAND? In that case it would be better. The problem for the vogue is that the installer on the Myn's rom only put everything on the data partition on to an ext2 partition. On the vogue other rom is slow IMO. Maybe someone can separate the data and apps in the next build?
Anyway, do you know how can I extend the system partition so it can span to 256MB? Right now it is only 128MB because the data presumably should extend the other 128MB.
kallt_kaffe said:
I have another solution in the works that will solve the out-of-space on data very easily on ANY build and also have some other nice advantages: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=750768
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Hi csbert,
I am new to ADB. When I typed adb shell, I got device not found. Maybe I need a driver or something? thanks
update: I think I found the instruction on how to obtain the usb driver, going to try now
When you connect to vogue to your computer, it has to say "USB debugging connect". If it doesn't, maybe you need to enable USB debugging in Settings -> Application Settings -> Development.
Cookiekaikai said:
Hi csbert,
I am new to ADB. When I typed adb shell, I got device not found. Maybe I need a driver or something? thanks
update: I think I found the instruction on how to obtain the usb driver, going to try now
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partition program
i am looking for a good free partition program for windows xp that can partition my sd card from a card reader
i have used paragon partition but it always ask to restart the pc and then partitions the sd from there
i have had it causes my laptop to crash twice now and both time had to have a friend repair my laptop
i am looking for a program that can partition the sd with out restating the computer if that is possible
thank you
nate
Hi,
I don't think you can partition the sdcard for the phone using an xp computer. That's why I wrote this instruction. The partition android uses is from linux. You can try a linux machine but i heard that doesn't work. You can still connect to the phone using adb and format the sdcard as I explained.
Cheers
evilclosetmonkeynate said:
i am looking for a good free partition program for windows xp that can partition my sd card from a card reader
i have used paragon partition but it always ask to restart the pc and then partitions the sd from there
i have had it causes my laptop to crash twice now and both time had to have a friend repair my laptop
i am looking for a program that can partition the sd with out restating the computer if that is possible
thank you
nate
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evilclosetmonkeynate said:
i am looking for a good free partition program for windows xp that can partition my sd card from a card reader
i have used paragon partition but it always ask to restart the pc and then partitions the sd from there
i have had it causes my laptop to crash twice now and both time had to have a friend repair my laptop
i am looking for a program that can partition the sd with out restating the computer if that is possible
thank you
nate
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You could boot from a Live CD of any Linux distro. Or download and burn Gparted Live CD, all free
Ok, so I got an 8g sd card for my nook. It was blank so I didn't do anything to back it up. After writing the nooter image to it, it shows up as a 39m disk, and the windows disk utilities won't reformat it to 8g. How are other people doing it?
I used the following software: partition-tool.com/personal.htm
It is free for home use.
I used a partition software like JoshMiers did, but somewhere on here under the android development section other people were just using the NC itself. Remove the SD card, boot up the NC, put back in the SD card, then unmount and format the SD card.
OK got this solved. Here's what I did:
- Put the sd card into the nook & go to an adb shell
- `mount` to get the device file for the sd card. Mine was at /dev/block//vold/179:17
- unmount /sdcard
- `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block//vold/179:17 bs=1024 count=2` to wipe the header
- Insert into a windows machine and format
It's all good after that.
edembowski said:
OK got this solved. Here's what I did:
- Put the sd card into the nook & go to an adb shell
- `mount` to get the device file for the sd card. Mine was at /dev/block//vold/179:17
- unmount /sdcard
- `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block//vold/179:17 bs=1024 count=2` to wipe the header
- Insert into a windows machine and format
It's all good after that.
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or just put it into the nook and go to settings>device info>sd card> unmount, then format from the same screen
You can also use diskpart in windows to fix the sd card.
If your running windows 7 you should have it.
califrag said:
or just put it into the nook and go to settings>device info>sd card> unmount, then format from the same screen
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This is what I did.
jameswei said:
You can also use diskpart in windows to fix the sd card.
If your running windows 7 you should have it.
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Yeah I was kinda irked at this as well. Diskpart fixed it up right quick and in a hurry. Amusingly enough I bought this thing specifically to read the Windows 7 Admin guide and happened to come across the info about diskpart for USB installs of Win 7, helped out quite nicely.
OK... Since nobody else has posted this, I will...
The reason that your SD shows up as 40M (no matter what its physical size) after going through the nooter rooting process is:
The .img file that you dd to your SD card writes not only the data on the SD card but also the partition table. The partition in the nooter .img file is ~40M in size. The Nook Color doesn't look at the physical device but rather the partitions on the device. Since the partition is ~40M, that's what shows up.
/me is praying for the day that people RUN SCREAMING away from Microsoft operating systems.
Just FYI... Android == Linux. Embrace your inner n3rd.
johnopsec said:
/me is praying for the day that people RUN SCREAMING away from Microsoft operating systems.
Just FYI... Android == Linux. Embrace your inner n3rd.
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I'd rather use both. Anything Linux based I can load up in VMware and use. Of course I have a vested business interest in MS, they help pay the bills at the very least.
I used WinImage to copy the image file, can you use that to remove the partition as well? Windows 7's option to delete the partition is grayed out for me.
Okay in the disk management MMC snap in check the volume number of your SD card. It'll say something like Disk 1 or something similar. Make sure you get the right one cause this is pretty much a low level format that you'll do.
Open up a command prompt in Win7
Type diskpart into your command prompt
once you see the diskpart prompt type - select disk - n being the volume number 0,1,2,3 etc. and hit enter
once you've selected it just type format and hit enter
it'll take it a few minutes to go through, once done just type exit and you're done.
Now you'll be able to re-create a partition in your disk management MMC.
You can do all that stuff in diskpart as well, just type a ? and it'll give you a list of things you can do with it.