Hi there,
Anyone know a way to remount the sd card after it has been unmounted. I find the sd card becomes unmounted sometimes and other times I accidentally unmound the sd card in the settings. However I can't find anyway to remount the sd card other than resetting the phone. I was thinking that perhaps theres a command I can use in the terminal, perhaps someone more knowledgeable of linux could help me with this one. Cheers.
Alan
the command
mount sdcard
lets you access the sdcard through adb and Terminal if thats what you're after? From there you can just cd sdcard and do what you want.
using this still shows your sdcard as unavailable in settings though, and you still can't listen to music/view pictures.
edit: after using this on my phone i needed to actually turn the phone off and back on again to get the sdcard working. maybe not the best thing to use. ><
no its not terminal access of the sd car i was looking for. Occasionally I open an application on the phone and find the sd card is inaccessible because its been unmounted. I wasnted to find a quick way of remounting it so the phone sees it as available, without restarting the phone.
make sure your cover is all the way closed. That solved my unmounting problem.
Remounting SD Card
If you have it connected to your computer via USB, just drop down the system status bar at the top of the page and select the USB item. This will pop a message that gives you the option to "Mount" or "Don't Mount" your SD card.
hurricaneflossie said:
if you have it connected to your computer via usb, just drop down the system status bar at the top of the page and select the usb item. This will pop a message that gives you the option to "mount" or "don't mount" your sd card.
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omg look at the date?
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Hi all.
Is it possible to unmount and remove an SD card when using CM v4.0.2 with a partitioned SD card, and CM v4.0.2 is running A2SD, while the phone is on? I just can't seem to figure it out. The unmount button is "greyed out".
If so, please let me know how.
Thank you.
i have the exact same problem....my pc wont even recognize the phone anymore....i'm trying to get the usb pop up on the phones notifications n nuttin happens
As I am tinkering, I think it has to do with the A2SD that the rom supports.
Obviously we cant be removing a card that the system is using.
I can still mount when I plug into my PC, but most/if not all(haven't tested all) the apps wont run, I get a "Please Check Your SD card" message.
I would just like to hear from someone more experienced than me(newb) to back up what I am thinking to be true.
Thanks
It's kinda weird, you can't unmount the card because you'll have issues, but on linux it mounts ext too, so you can modify the contents while the phone is running. Although whenever I've tried it's caused loops ><
@Teflon - Try using usb mode in recovery: go to the console and type to mount "ums_enable" and "ums_disable" to unmount.
Hi!
I would like to be able to remove the SD card from my phone.
I can't do it right now b/c I have Apps on SD configuration.
Is it possible to kill all running applications and to unmount the SD card?
I don't see any reason why not, but has anyone tried it already?
Thanks
The safest method imho would be to 'power off' the phone, remove card, boot phone. Cumbersome - maybe - but it's a trade-off with the excellent App2Sd.
I believe it is swap that is not allowing you to unmount/ mount to the computer, try disabling swapper and then try or download and burn an ubuntu live cd and use that to acess it, I can make changes to my ext3 partion while it is mounted in ubuntu. But I never had a problem mounting untill I started using swap which I would have to turn off to mount
Born, must of us have our dalvik-cache running off our ext partion so even if you killed all apps you could still corrupt your card
I'm using multiple partitions and Apps2SD. First I can't unmount my SD card to eject it because that option in "settings" is grayed.
Plus when I "Mount" the card via USB through the phone, the connection lasts < 1 minute before the phone does something (glitch?) and the computer reports that the "USB device was disconnected" or something and the phone remounts it for itself.
I'm using an ext2 and fat partitions. At first I thought that the swap partition was what kept me from ejecting so I reformatted for just the two partitions. If I go back to the 3 partition scheme, will I be able to unmount and eject the card, or mount via USB?
as for getting the computer to see the card.
Plug your phone in, don't mount sd.
Stop the device by right clicking the icon by the clock.
Unplug the phone.
Plug the phone back in and mount the sd.
should be ok.
not sure about unmounting it from the phone, I use swap, always have so I have no idea.
So there is no way to unmount the SD card?
for the first problem it sounds like when you reformatted your phone, you did it from your computer rather than the phone. (i did this once and that same problem happened). to fix you must reformat the card properly.
and the 2nd problem, it sounds like your using older an usb port. u need usb2.0 to hook the G1 into
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for the first problem it sounds like when you reformatted your phone, you did it from your computer rather than the phone. (i did this once and that same problem happened). to fix you must reformat the card properly.
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No. I used sdparted to perform my partitioning.
Here's a weird one. I am not trying anything complicated. I just want to copy some music to my new 32GB external SD card that arrived in the post today. I put it into a microSD to SD adaptor, and slide it into my laptops SD slot. It shows up as fat32 and I drag 30 gigs of music on to it. After a long time it completes, and I check in with XP to make sure its all good. Yep fine.
However, the moment I insert it back into my I9000 things get weird. The status bar pops up the usual "Initialising SD card" message, then the media scanner comes up and completes in like a second. Then when I try to browse it from within the phone, the entire music directory has disappeared, and the OS is reporting that there is 28gb of 32gb free on the external sd. So I unmount the SD, slot it back into my pc, and find to my dismay the music directory has indeed been erased.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.. I need my tunes!!
Cheers,
C
Samsung Galaxy S I9000, running Firmware 2.2, Baseband: I9000XXJPH, Kernel version 2.6.32.9 root(at)SEI-28 1
My 1st guess is fake/faulty card.
Copy files onto card with a reader.
Eject.
Insert again into reader.
Try to copy from card. (If it fails -> card is faulty or is FAKE)
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The status bar pops up the usual "Initialising SD card" message, then the media scanner comes up and completes in like a second.
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If I were to guess, when the phone says it's "Initializing SD card" it's likely formatting the card and erasing whatever data you had on it...
When you install the card in your PC, do you format it again and then copy the files? If so, try not to format it on the PC and let the phone do the formatting.
I fully agree. Let the phone format the card and then use MOUNT mode to copy the music over. It seems Fat32 (formated on PC) won't work well for our phones prob due to a flag setting or something the like too big cluster settings. Let the phone sort it out.
Thanks for the help peeps. Here's what I've tried:
Xan: I tried copying files to and from the device using my PC's card reader, and found no problems with it. It is a Kingston MicroSD SDC4/32GB bought from a reseller on Amazon. Are there any tools for around for the pc to run diagnostic tests on SD cards? Maybe I should give that a go? But from the looks of it I think the error lies in the phone somewhere...
An Droid: I am inclined to agree with you. In my original post I stated that it said "Inititialising SD Card", this was a mistake, as it actually says "Preparing SD Card". I have tried formatting it from both the PC and the Phone and still get the same problem.
Icky Boo: I tried this method last night. Used the USB Debugging mode to Mount the phone's card's onto my PC. My Computer displays the two cards as two seperate Drives. I then tried copying all my music onto it. When the copy completed, I pressed "Turn of USB Storage Mode" on the I9000, which immediately prompted the status bar to again show "Preparing SD Card". Then when I used a file explorer to look at the card, it only had about a gig of music copied onto it. It is quite clear now that in "Preparing SD Card" it is doing something strange. Is there anyway to disable this?
Also there is a directory on the SD called Lost.DIR which seems to increase in size every time this happens. Could be a clue?
Finally, just to confirm my phone is mounting it correctly, to browse the SD card from within the phone the path is /sdcard/external_sd/ right? (I understand this is the new path for Froyo 2.2?)
Thanks for the help, sorry for the essay!
C
UPDATE: Ok, Xan, you were right all along. Finally got a new SD card (sandisk this time, not Kingston) and it works just as it should. Thanks for the help and to everyone else too
hello every one,
today i had fased a strange prob. which i want to share with u all.
i am having google nexus 1 with cynogenmod 7 installed.
and having sandisk 8gb microsd card. and suddenly today morning it says that "SD card Blank or has unsupported filesystem." i took out my card and mount on my computer and take the entire backup of the data and format it. and incert it but still having the same prob. nothing happen, then i search on net i found on other threads that download the sd card formater and try it. i also tried the same but nothing happen, then on other thread it was mention that try to run chkdsk on computer, with /x comment.. i also done same but still prob. is same.
i am having 3 more micro sd cards of different brands and of different size i also tried them but giving same prob.
nothing happening.
i also open the terminal emulition in my phone and type the commmand mount -a but it says that /etc/fstab not exist.
tell me what i do ? even i am not able to do anything ...
Wow--that is tough to figure out and i am not good at this level of TS.
Sounds like you lost the mount point. It is in etc/fstab
Do you have a backup rom on pc that you can extract etc/fstab from or can you install that rom thru adb with no sd card--
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-install-a-rom-to-an-android-phone-device-without-sd-card/
Can you mount card thru adb--
adb shell
mount /sdcard
exit
Did you use full ersase on and size adj on when you formatted card.
Can you format and partition card outside of phone.
Also, when formatting and wiping for flashing new rom you may want to get Temasek's Format zips that include boot and system wipes.
http://www.mediafire.com/?bxfijcp6f6bf1me#1
Someone will have a better and more accurate answer soon--
Ken
This is my first phone without an SD card. I am use to plugging in my phone, selecting mount SD as drive and it shows up on my desktop. Now with the ONE, I want to put music on it and there is nothing showing to mount.
What am I missing?
HuDuVuDu said:
This is my first phone without an SD card. I am use to plugging in my phone, selecting mount SD as drive and it shows up on my desktop. Now with the ONE, I want to put music on it and there is nothing showing to mount.
What am I missing?
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Android File Transfer: http://support.google.com/android/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1120329