"E:can't open /cache/recovery/command", means??? - G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I'm enjoying the new roms that are coming out, each one is better than the last, and I've tried just about every one of them. That being said I am still having a few problems with the g1. When I boot using (home+power) I see this at the top of the screen "E:can't open /cache/recovery/command" I've tried updating to cyanogens newest recovery console and it didn't change anything that I could tell, I can't even alt+X to get a prompt, this text at the top could be the reason why. I'm sure I have messed something up but honestly after 2 days of searching I am still no better off than I was before. Also, I cannot get my sd card to work properly. I've tried every way on earth to format the sd card to attempt to get 3 partitions. When I do this, I either cannot install update.zip to the fat32 part, due to the recovery screen not seeing anything on the card ("update.zip not found") or I end up boot-looping after the HERO screen. I'd like someone to help me start this over again. I've used all the different roms out there, I just want to get my SD card properly formatted so my HERO rom will use the swapfile and ext2/3 the right way. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, I've followed the "step by step" guides in this forum and to my knowledge I've done everything right a few times over. I used paragon to attempt to set up the sd card, and I was using the correct radio/spl for each rom I attempted to use. It also might help if I mentioned after re-installing the Cyanogen's recovery img, I saw no change in the (home+power) screen. If you need more details from me PLEASE don't hesitate to ask me, I just want to get my phone set up the right way so I can install all my apps and not have to stay in the habit of flashing my phone 5+/- times per day which is cool but getting old fast! So please help >.<

You need to reformat your SD card. That message means nothing. I had that before.

I have reformat the card over ten times now. I've tried using the paragon method, did it exactly as the guide said, I got boot loop and had to reformat the card back to fat 32 so i could even boot to hero. I still cannot use alt+x to access anything from the recovery screen either.

Do you still have root?

do you have access to ADB?

Yes I still have root, and I am currently running Soulife Roger's 2.8 if that makes a difference. I'm not sure what ADB means is that something I run in terminal?

check your private email

Recovery Trouble
darkphoenix2012 said:
I have reformat the card over ten times now. I've tried using the paragon method, did it exactly as the guide said, I got boot loop and had to reformat the card back to fat 32 so i could even boot to hero. I still cannot use alt+x to access anything from the recovery screen either.
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try these steps from my root walkthrough:
3. Download the recover_testkeys.img
http://files.lucidrem.us/_fd.php?file=jf/ROOT/recovery_testkeys.img
4. Copy recovery_testkeys.img to SD FAT32
14. Type cat /sdcard/recovery_testkeys.img > /data/local/recovery.img[enter]
15. Type cat /sdcard/recovery_testkeys.img > /system/recovery.img[enter]
16. Type flash_image recovery /system/recovery.img[enter]
once you do this .. try to reboot .. let me know if you're good to go

LucidREM said:
try these steps from my root walkthrough:
3. Download the recover_testkeys.img
http://files.lucidrem.us/_fd.php?file=jf/ROOT/recovery_testkeys.img
4. Copy recovery_testkeys.img to SD FAT32
14. Type cat /sdcard/recovery_testkeys.img > /data/local/recovery.img[enter]
15. Type cat /sdcard/recovery_testkeys.img > /system/recovery.img[enter]
16. Type flash_image recovery /system/recovery.img[enter]
once you do this .. try to reboot .. let me know if you're good to go
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I tried the "cat /sdcard/recovery_testkeys.img > /system/recovery.img" and I got this message " cannot create /system/recovery.img : read only file system "

You must type "mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system" no quotes. Before the cat commands.

Tried using that command first and using those 3 commands again. Nothing happened other than when I load into recovery menu, I see Android recovery menu, test keys, then I get the same E:can't open /cache/recovery/command error as I was before. I'm still having SD card issues too. I can't seem to get this to work right, no matter how many times i read a "how to do xxxx"

darkphoenix2012 said:
I'm enjoying the new roms that are coming out, each one is better than the last, and I've tried just about every one of them. That being said I am still having a few problems with the g1. When I boot using (home+power) I see this at the top of the screen "E:can't open /cache/recovery/command" I've tried updating to cyanogens newest recovery console and it didn't change anything that I could tell, I can't even alt+X to get a prompt, this text at the top could be the reason why. I'm sure I have messed something up but honestly after 2 days of searching I am still no better off than I was before. Also, I cannot get my sd card to work properly. I've tried every way on earth to format the sd card to attempt to get 3 partitions. When I do this, I either cannot install update.zip to the fat32 part, due to the recovery screen not seeing anything on the card ("update.zip not found") or I end up boot-looping after the HERO screen. I'd like someone to help me start this over again. I've used all the different roms out there, I just want to get my SD card properly formatted so my HERO rom will use the swapfile and ext2/3 the right way. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, I've followed the "step by step" guides in this forum and to my knowledge I've done everything right a few times over. I used paragon to attempt to set up the sd card, and I was using the correct radio/spl for each rom I attempted to use. It also might help if I mentioned after re-installing the Cyanogen's recovery img, I saw no change in the (home+power) screen. If you need more details from me PLEASE don't hesitate to ask me, I just want to get my phone set up the right way so I can install all my apps and not have to stay in the habit of flashing my phone 5+/- times per day which is cool but getting old fast! So please help >.<
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The "E:can't open..." is referring to the Nandroid backup- I had the same problem too and everyone thought I was crazy. This may be preventing you from updating to the cyanogen recovery.
When I rooted my phone I went directly to JF1.5 which does not have nandroid in it. To solve it, I flashed the previous JF (1.43?) and that went away.
Give that a try and then flash the cyanogen recovery. Good luck.

I had the the same problem mate! here is what I did to fix it....
1....format card to fat 32 (make sure you dont have any other partitions on your card!)
2....go here and download the "update.zip" version http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=523558
3....rename and flash the file in the normal way!
4....enjoy!
p.s. make sure you sdcard is freshly formatted and as only a single fat32 partition.

attempted that last suggestion twice before I posted here that it unfortunately didn't solve the issue I still get the same E:can't open /cache/recovery/command error i've been getting and cannot install cyanogen's recovery image. Is there anything else I could try? Surely there is a reason for all this trouble I've been having with the SD card partitioning working with the ROM, and being unable to use cyanogen's recov.

darkphoenix2012 said:
Tried using that command first and using those 3 commands again. Nothing happened other than when I load into recovery menu, I see Android recovery menu, test keys, then I get the same E:can't open /cache/recovery/command error as I was before. I'm still having SD card issues too. I can't seem to get this to work right, no matter how many times i read a "how to do xxxx"
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What happens when you type this?
alritewhadeva said:
You must type "mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system" no quotes. Before the cat commands.
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Does it go back to the command prompt or error?

I'm pretty sure that the error message I've been getting is the only reason I'm having these issues. IF I could use cyanogen's recovery, I could follow the exact guidelines here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=533731
Since I cannot do the " How to install custom ROM (With full wipe)" part of the guide, I think that is where my issues with SD partitions working properly within the ROM.
Again thank you for the help, I don't have much black hair left, the gray is running wild

temporizer said:
What happens when you type this?
Does it go back to the command prompt or error?
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^ It went back to the command prompt without an error, and this time after typing all three lines of code, and rebooting the phone to check the recovery menu, the error was still there as if I had done nothing.

how were you able to update to cyanogen's recovery if you can't get into recovery in the first place? or did i read that wrong?

When I flash the Cyanogen's recovery, its as if it did nothing, I'm assuming from what I read it would add more functions to the screen or it would be obvious that it did something. I thought that if that had flashed correctly I would be able to use alt+X to open a prompt. I could be completely misunderstanding what it is supposed to do, but I don't know I thought I was more sure of what I read
I thought my error message at the top of the screen (after home+power) was what was preventing me from installing the recovery.

Ok I tried flashing an older version of the JF1.42 and my recovery error has been solved. Thank you for all your help!! Would I need to flash to something else If I wanted to run the latest and greatest hero rom? Either way what would you suggest I do next?

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HELP SD card not recognized

Ok this is extremely annoying. I got the g1 and rooted with 1 click rooting cyanogen 4.0.4 rom. It was so simple and worked BTW. Later I used the hardspl so that I could do apps to sd. I have had the phone for 7 months and have used custom roms since I’ve gotten it.
Following this tutorial http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=535232 I tried to partition my 8g sandisk micro sd card. Now I probably destroyed my sd card (Nothing to big). And I am stuck at the g1 screen (pretty big). When ever I try to flash a different rom with a different or even the same rom I get an error acout the sd card “E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0) (No such file or directory) E: Can't mount SDCARD:"
With around 8 hours of digging around on forums I have decided that I might have to get a replacement unless someone could help me revert with access that I have to the recovery to allow my sd cards to be recognized.
Note: I didn’t install the Cyanogen ROM - Download v4.0.2 or Cyanogen Recovery 1.4 - Download as I had a better one. Hince my problem, and did use the apps2sd.apk. Things didn’t go wrong until I typed in “upgrade_fs” . After doing so my phone would not boot up after I restarted it.
Something tells me that I changed something in the phone to allow apps to sd partition 2 and I need to be changed back to the default, as I can’t even flash another rom to fix this problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated .
willl your phone boot when you remove the sdcard
My phone will not boot after removing the sd card.
One thing that I forgot to mention above is. While using the phone after my uncessful attemp to partition my sdcard, the top notification bar was displaying "The SD card is blank or using an unsupported file system." After messing with it a bit i decided to reboot but it froze. Being impatient I pulled the battery from the back of the phone.
Looks as if files are missing from the Cyanogen 4.0.4 rom. As when I type “mount sdcard” is displays “mount: mouting /dev/block/mmcblkop1 on /sdcard failed: No such file or directory” Sounds like I am missing mmcblkop1 from my phone now? Apps2sd.apk doesn’t change this file does it? I'm also wondering if you change a file to look somewhere else for the partition part of the sd card? And if so how would you tell it to look for the default?
Tried this "flash_image recovery /sdcard/update-cm-4.0.4-signed.zip" and it displayed this "usage: flash_image [-d] partition file.img" does this delete the partition of the sd card or what is this referring to?
I think you 'bricked' your sd card.
Try format it with SD Formatter.
Worked for me.
Because you did use App2SD, you have erased app data, so setting up your G1 from scratch is your best option.
Ok first of all using that guide to install apps2sd on cyanogen's rom is what messed up your phone. Cyanogen has clear warnings about this in his thread. Now that the damage is done lets fix it. Can you boot into recovery by holding home and pressing power? Is there an option to flash any zip file?
After rereading your post i see that you don't have recovery 1.4.
You need to do step 4 HERE when you're done do step 5 to install cm-recovery-1.4
After trying different things with the console as I posted above the phone allowed me to install the Cyanogen 4.0.4 from the 2gb sd card. For some reason the phone would not allow me to do this before. As it wouldn't recognize the sd card, or that it had 1 for that matter. What would cause this problem? Maybe a faulty sd card? But I swapped to the 2 gb sd card that came with the phone and tried this numerous times before. Glitch? Why work now? I'm so lost.
I'm so glad that this worked this time though..... another save for this g1. Its taken a licking and it keeps ticking. I have dropped it 14 feet from the top of a railcar. I have crippled it 3 times now as it wouldn't allow me to get past the g1 screen. A simple flash from the sd card allowed me fix that problem. I have also dropped it in water. It was submerged for around 6 seconds in a leather carrying case that clips on your belt. Fast thinking allowed me to remove it from the water, pull the back off, and pull out the battery. I allowed it to dry in the car for around 4 hours and then put it in a bag full of those "do not eat" packets that come in most shoes for 24 hrs. Thanks to Walmart for the donation. Probably the best phone that I have ever gotten.
Well looking over the history of the phone I understand now why it may have done this to me. However it shows that by being persistent you can figure out most things. I appreciate all who have made these guides that make my g1 ownership so much fun.
Now go to get that apps2sd working. Another method probably.
I did have recovery 1.4 installed at the time the g1 quit working. I never downgraded and was able to access the recovery the entire time. But I kept getting the error “E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0) (No such file or directory) E: Can't mount SDCARD:"
I did change the sd card at this point but had the same results.
As you may have noticed i didn't read Cyanogen thread discussing this.
I found the guide for apps 2 sd here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=535232 and read through it. Sounded easy enough and well tried. With failure of course.
I was under the inpression that apps2sd already is included in cyanogen 4.0.4 all i needed is to partition my sd card.
Jnewell05 said:
I did have recovery 1.4 installed at the time the g1 quit working. I never downgraded and was able to access the recovery the entire time. But I kept getting the error “E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0) (No such file or directory) E: Can't mount SDCARD:"
I did change the sd card at this point but had the same results.
As you may have noticed i didn't read Cyanogen thread discussing this.
I found the guide for apps 2 sd here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=535232 and read through it. Sounded easy enough and well tried. With failure of course.
I was under the inpression that apps2sd already is included in cyanogen 4.0.4 all i needed is to partition my sd card.
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Unfortunately that guide is still a sticky and someone uses it at least once a week and we end up with your problem every week. ivanmmj added a warning to the guide a few mins ago. I'm glad you are working now. You are correct about apps2sd being included in cyanogen roms. In post 3 HERE I've made a script that will partition your sdcard for you.

I need help, bad...

Well, have the new Amon Ra's Custom Recovery v1.2.2 and i wanted to load up the new MLIGN 2.5.5 rom and i screwed up, big time. i copied it to my sd, went into recovery mode. and wiped data. then accidentally wiped sd ext partition thinking i had to to load the new rom, very noobish of me.
So now that partitioned it again (fat32+ext2+swap) and converted ext2 to ext3, i re-copied it to my sd, i go to the "apply sdcard:choose zip" in the recovery mode and it wont show anything, just a blank spot. i even tried renaming it as update and applying via the "apply sdcard:update.zip" and it says "E: can't open /sdcard/update.zip (no such file or directory) installation aborted".
Any idea on what i can do? i would greatly appreciate it.
go into console
type: ums_enable to mount sd to your computer
load rom onto main folder of sd
type: ums_disable to unmount card
type: reboot, yes you have to use reboot, typing recovery does not work in amon's recovery
hold down home+power
flash rom
it is also possible after re reading your post that maybe your g1 is not recongizing your fat32, you may need to repartition it again
Wow Grid helped someone. Whats goin on.
gridlock32404 said:
go into console
type: ums_enable to mount sd to your computer
load rom onto main folder of sd
type: ums_disable to unmount card
type: reboot, yes you have to use reboot, typing recovery does not work in amon's recovery
hold down home+power
flash rom
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thanks so much man, it worked. i thought it wouldn't work because in the recovery mode theres a thing i can click on to turn on usb mass storage but i guess that didn't work.
no problem
and preme shut the eff up, you and codani went cold fish and left me alone on here by myself, i had to do something
wtf grid helping people is int ur nature. preme is that the logo in your sig!!!????
pistol, i don't wanna hear any **** from you
maybe i am trying to get donations to fund my road trip in 2 weeks
maybe i was just that bored, damn rainy weather
haha man i wa just joshn'. **** i didnt kno the trip was in two weeks. we shoul just steal a cop car and go. u know cops get free gas
nov 4th so a little over 2 weeks away
hmmm, let's do it, free gas, that knocks a least $200 off the trip

CM 4.2.4 upgrade issue

Hi team,
Having some trouble rooting my g1 and upgrading to CM 4.2.4
I have been following a tutorial from here: http://androidandme.com/2009/08/news/how-to-root-a-t-mobile-g1-and-mytouch-3g-android-phone/
... to achieve my goal. Followed all of the steps fine and to a tee. Installed all of the suggested files from the suggested places.
Succesfully upgraded the radio image, then moved onto upgrading the SPL. Ran through and rebooted phone, until the never ending "Formatting Cache" notice came up on the automatic boot into the Recovery Mode.
(FYI: radio and SPL images were from http://code.google.com/p/sapphire-port-dream/)
Moved on to installing CM 4.2.4 after realising that the format was complete... Alt-W then Install from zip. Installed CM. Waited for prompt for completion... pressed reboot... then the boot hangs on the G1 startup screen.
Only way I could get out was to remove the battery. Went through the process again (Alt-W, SPL install, reboot, Alt-W, CM install, reboot, hang) numerous times, all with the same outcome.
Only thing that I can think of that I am doing wrong is pulled straight from CyanogenMod Wiki explanation: "I've noticed on some devices that when you fresh install the first time and you update with the rooted adp package from htc, reboot and then update to latest CM, some people get stuck at the tmobile logo. What I did was install the rooted adp package from htc, reboot and sign in all the way to home screen, then rebooted and installed the latest CM. That should get you past the first screen freeze if it happens to you."
As I am a noob, I have been unable to try this for the following reasons: 1. Where can I find the HTC rooted adp? and 2. How do I get this image onto the SD card when I can't boot in? I have tried without booting and my computer won't let me access via USB...
I was going through the process from factory settings. Is this my problem... Very confusing.
Realise that there are currently two active threads running in this section that are similar... but these guys seem to have done the wrong thing and are trying to right the ship... I can't seem to figure where I've gone wrong.
Thank you in advance for your assistance.
As well: could booting with camera + power get me into the Dreaming.nbh OS to get HTC root OS onto the SD card?
http://developer.htc.com/adp.html
Download the 1.6 recovery image. It is actually the 1.6 Android Dev Phone ROM, flash that via recovery console... then flash the cm update. Make sure you wipe before you start flashing.
As well, do you have your SD card partitioned? It would be a good idea to do that as well. Two ways to do it, manually, or download and update to RA's recovery image 1.2.3:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=566669
I would update to that recovery first, use the option to part my SD card, upgrade to ext3, wipe, flash 1.6 recovery, flash cm update, good to go!
Thanks for the quick reply! Very handy info... How do I get the images onto my SD card without being able to boot though?
Do you have another device like a camera, or mp3 player that can take a microsd? If so just hook it up and transfer.. otherwise you may need some additional devices.. I bought an adapter so my sd can plug directly into a usb.. other than those couple options, I haven't any more suggestions to offer ya. If you cant get past the boot screen to mount, I don't see how you can do it through your G1.. there might be some terminal commands you can try to mount to a computer.. but that's beyond me.
Nathanial said:
Thanks for the quick reply! Very handy info... How do I get the images onto my SD card without being able to boot though?
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You take it out of the phone, while the battery is pulled, put it in an micro SD card reader, plug that into your computer, tada! If you computer doesn't have a slot for the standard SD card adapter, you can get microSD to USB adaptors most everywhere that sells electronics.
Or if you have cyan's recovery installed... you can hold Home+power
go to console, press enter and type
ums_enable
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and it will mount the sd on your pc.....
put ums_disable to unmount
Sorry to be a noob, but what benefit does partitioning do?
If you have an EXT3 partition, you will have app2sd. If you also have a linux-swap partition, you will be able to have a swap file (in simple terms its like adding more ram)
The ext partition is for apps2sd, and the Linux-swap partition is to give a little extra memory for the ROM.
Thanks for all of your help lads! Up and running. Muchly appreciated!

Blank SD card/ Unsupported Filesystem

Using Cyan's tutorials on his wiki, I rooted successfully and am now running Cyan's latest, with his 1.4 recovery.
I finished running the apps2SD tutorial and now the print command reads 2 partitions
Number Start End Size File system Name flags
1 17.4kb 7587MB 7587MB fat32 msftres
2 7587MB 8099MB 512MB ext4
But I'm getting a notification as soon as it boots into android that says.
Blank SD card
SD card blank or has unsupported filesystem
All the amounts under SD card & phone storage settings menu reads: Unavailable. And my internal phone storage reads 46.82MB
Download the recovery image in my sig and use that parition manager.
Thanks alot evilkorn. Worked perfectly.
Cyan should implement something like that into his recovery
CaliLove310 said:
Thanks alot evilkorn. Worked perfectly.
Cyan should implement something like that into his recovery
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Well its based of 1.4 and cyan said hes spending more time on his roms because Amon_RA made such a good recovery lol
CaliLove310 said:
Thanks alot evilkorn. Worked perfectly.
Cyan should implement something like that into his recovery
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I think I spoke to soon though. Everything works on the phone, but it wont mount on WinXP.
It mounts on my mac, but when i try to transfer anything to it it gives me an erorr.
The Finder can’t complete the operation because some data in “data” can’t be read or written.
(Error code -36)
"data" (in parantheses) Is the name of the folder im trying to copy to the SD
Mount the file system as -rw, you should be able to find the commands on here some place. I use root explorer so I don't need to remember it =p.
Is it easier with root explorer? Mind telling me how to use root explorer to mount it as -rw like you said
It says remount as R/W.
to mount as r/w in terminal or adb shell:
Code:
mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
to mount as r/o in terminal or adb shell:
Code:
mount -o ro,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
CaliLove310 said:
Is it easier with root explorer? Mind telling me how to use root explorer to mount it as -rw like you said
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You can do this in ES FileExplorer too and its free.
having same issue
I didn't do anything fancy really.
I'm running a moto droid with the 2.01 update that I received over the air.
Today I launched twidroid and it completely ftoze the whole phone, non responsive even on the hardware buttons. I did a battery pull and upon restart the notification window says sd car blank or file system unsupported.
Tried browsing sd card with astro and it shows blank.
Any suggestions? I have a ton of photos and application settings I don't want to lose.
Thanks in advanced!
itsluy said:
I didn't do anything fancy really.
I'm running a moto droid with the 2.01 update that I received over the air.
Today I launched twidroid and it completely ftoze the whole phone, non responsive even on the hardware buttons. I did a battery pull and upon restart the notification window says sd car blank or file system unsupported.
Tried browsing sd card with astro and it shows blank.
Any suggestions? I have a ton of photos and application settings I don't want to lose.
Thanks in advanced!
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I fail to properly understand the relevance with the Dream/G1 here..Your asking for help on a Droid in a Dream forum?..Maybe one of the other brotherns can fill in de blanks for me.. Thats like going into art class trying to get help for your driving test or putting cofee in ice cream ..Anywho try reformatting the sd something seems to be corrupted
having same issue
Except I didn't do anything fancy. My phone froze while using twidroid and upon reboot my sd card is blank or unsupported filesystem. How can I get my data back?
itsluy said:
Except I didn't do anything fancy. My phone froze while using twidroid and upon reboot my sd card is blank or unsupported filesystem. How can I get my data back?
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I had this happen to me when using snes/twindroid/barcode/couple more and the weather widget to...Just format the sd in recovery and check for errors with your pc using a sd card reader.
this is the only
Ace42 said:
I fail to properly understand the relevance with the Dream/G1 here..Your asking for help on a Droid in a Dream forum?..Maybe one of the other brotherns can fill in de blanks for me.. Thats like going into art class trying to get help for your driving test or putting cofee in ice cream ..Anywho try reformatting the sd something seems to be corrupted
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This thread came up on a google search for my issue. Although its a different phone the issue is the same so I figured it was worth a shot. I could start a new thread I guess but didn't want to overpost.
this is the only
Ace42 said:
I fail to properly understand the relevance with the Dream/G1 here..Your asking for help on a Droid in a Dream forum?..Maybe one of the other brotherns can fill in de blanks for me.. Thats like going into art class trying to get help for your driving test or putting cofee in ice cream ..Anywho try reformatting the sd something seems to be corrupted
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This thread came up on a google search for my issue. Although its a different phone the issue is the same so I figured it was worth a shot. I could start a new thread I guess but didn't want to overpost.
Reformatting will pretty much guarantee that I lose my data. Any other suggestions?
this happened on my g1
I know the poster was getting flack for having 2.01 on his droid but I have cyanogen 4.9...... whatever he's at as of 12/25/2009.
This happened to me I was sending an sms it froze I popped the batt like I've had to do in the past except this time I'm getting a blank sd card error on boot. B4 I repartition and format is there a recovery option? Preferably something I can do from console since I'm in transit from the holiday?
I imagine since we used similar procedures to fix our "smart" phones maybe our recover procedures will be similar.
evilkorn said:
Download the recovery image in my sig and use that parition manager.
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Please can you tell me where can I get Download the recovery image app ?
I am new just came from iPhone recently got HTC EVO and I am facing this Issue "SD Card blank or has unsupported file system" I tried everything please help.
thanks
Faisal
I have the same message on my G1
My phone is not rooted, and i don't know what to do!
I tried to format my sd card, i have tried with another card, and nothing; the same message!
I don't know what to do in this case....maybe if you have any solution to my problem.
Here is some info about my phone :
Model number : T-mobile G1
Firmware version: 1.6
Baseband version : 62.50s.17U_2.22.19.26I
Kernel version : 2.6.29-00479-g3c7df37 [email protected]#19
Build no : DRC92
anyone ? !!!!!!!!
i really need some help!!!!!
any solution to root without sd card ?

[Q]Supersu issue, re-rooting and other questions

Hey, I got a Virgin Mobile HTC Desire 510. Y'know, the blue one....
I fudged up severely the other evening and installed another rom which bricked my phone. I did manage however restore a stock back-up I managed to find online, however the phone was still rooted, tampered and TWMP(did I get the abbreviation correct?) is still on it. So I go and install Supersu and Busybox in an attempt to go back to where I left off as I've been attempting to get the phone to do the internal to SD card bit but no success thus far, especially not right now. In anycase, after reinstalling Supersu, I load it up and get the message of "There is no SU binary installed and SuperSU cannot install it. This is a problem! If you just upraded to Android 4.3, you need to manually re-root. consult the relevant forums for your device.". I attempted to reinstall threw recovery and it seems to be working till I get the actual phone's Google ROM running and click on the SuperSU program only to get that message.
Any suggestions or advice on how to do this and get SuperSU back up? How do I exactly re-root or can I somehow install the binary via PC or flash?
Can the HTC Desire 510(Virgin Mobile version) even have the the script/rom/trick setting to have the SD Card used as Internal memory or is this quest just wasted time?
Thanks
EDIT- Device version is 0PCV1
Okkvltist said:
Hey, I got a Virgin Mobile HTC Desire 510. Y'know, the blue one....
I fudged up severely the other evening and installed another rom which bricked my phone. I did manage however restore a stock back-up I managed to find online, however the phone was still rooted, tampered and TWMP(did I get the abbreviation correct?) is still on it. So I go and install Supersu and Busybox in an attempt to go back to where I left off as I've been attempting to get the phone to do the internal to SD card bit but no success thus far, especially not right now. In anycase, after reinstalling Supersu, I load it up and get the message of "There is no SU binary installed and SuperSU cannot install it. This is a problem! If you just upraded to Android 4.3, you need to manually re-root. consult the relevant forums for your device.". I attempted to reinstall threw recovery and it seems to be working till I get the actual phone's Google ROM running and click on the SuperSU program only to get that message.
Any suggestions or advice on how to do this and get SuperSU back up? How do I exactly re-root or can I somehow install the binary via PC or flash?
Can the HTC Desire 510(Virgin Mobile version) even have the the script/rom/trick setting to have the SD Card used as Internal memory or is this quest just wasted time?
Thanks
EDIT- Device version is 0PCV1
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Hello and welcome to xda,
Where exactly did you get the back-up from that you used to restore?
You were close it is TWRP or Team Win Recovery Project.
I believe the reason you can't install SuperSU is because you don't have a write protect removed kernel installed. You can find one here. Check out their related forums and see which one you like best. They are pretty much all great. Some aren't being supported anymore as a heads up. To flash a kernel, in case you didn't know how:
Go into Settings-About-Software information-More-Kernel version and write down the name of the Kernel
1. Power the phone down
2. Hold "Down" button then hold "Power" key while still holding "Down" button, until you get into the bootloader
3. Release "Down" and "Power" button
4. Tap "Power" key once and it will change from "HBOOT" in white letters with blue background to "FASTBOOT" in white letters with red background on your phone
5. Connect your USB cable and it will say "FASTBOOT USB" on your phone
6. Navigate to the folder you have your fastboot.exe from Android Studio or wherever you obtained it from (Mine is in C:\Users\myusername\Android\sdk\platform-tools)
7. Hold the "Shift" key then right click in any empty space in that folder
8. Select "Open command window here"
9. Type
Code:
fastboot devices
in the command window, then press Enter just to make sure it is picking up your phone
10. You should see something like:
Code:
HT42PXU89475 fastboot
if you don't make sure your USB cable is inserted all the way and you are in "FASTBOOT USB"
11. Make sure your recovery.img or whatever the name of the recovery is, is in the folder you are currently in
11. Type
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
in the command window
You should see something like:
Code:
C:\Users\yourusername\Android\sdk\platform-tools>fastboot flash boot boot.img
sending 'boot' (12932 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.350s]
writing 'boot'...
OKAY [ 1.030s]
finished. total time: 2.385s
Your phone will still be in FASTBOOT USB mode
To test it out to see it was correctly flashed, reboot the phone
Go into Settings-About-Software information-More-Kernel version and see that the version changed
You can follow my little guide to use SD as Internal memory. Let me know if you need any help.
I won't be able to get to this til tomorrow but another issue is I can't d/l apps off Google play. It comes up with some server issue and some weird code that starts with an R. Sorry I can't give full details as I'm at work :/.
Okkvltist said:
I won't be able to get to this til tomorrow but another issue is I can't d/l apps off Google play. It comes up with some server issue and some weird code that starts with an R. Sorry I can't give full details as I'm at work :/.
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Is your phone completely stock or do you have any custom ROMs? I have seen errors like that.
blaqueknight said:
Is your phone completely stock or do you have any custom ROMs? I have seen errors like that.
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I'm fairly certain I reinstalled Busybox when I was installing(or trying to) Supersu. I'm giving the kernel bit a shot.
Oh the stock back-up is this(No, I didn't back up my phone since I didn't see a reason, I had everything I needed on the computer/sd) file:
http//qc-.androidfilehost-com/dl/PObYV5uN55P2PGDNrX1pLQ/1430391523/95832962473396445/2014-12-02--16-24-34+KOT49H+Stock.not.rooted.rar
(can't post links since i'm a newb)
Had to make a backup of my empty phone and put the files into the empty back up to restore it.
UPDATE- Flashed over Modded Kernel V2.6.1 since that looked like a safe bet. Installed correctly. Tried to reinstall Supersu. Got "Android is upgrading". Supersu Installed. Next is the SD Card bit.
Okkvltist said:
I'm fairly certain I reinstalled Busybox when I was installing(or trying to) Supersu. I'm giving the kernel bit a shot.
Oh the stock back-up is this(No, I didn't back up my phone since I didn't see a reason, I had everything I needed on the computer/sd) file:
http//qc-.androidfilehost-com/dl/PObYV5uN55P2PGDNrX1pLQ/1430391523/95832962473396445/2014-12-02--16-24-34+KOT49H+Stock.not.rooted.rar
(can't post links since i'm a newb)
Had to make a backup of my empty phone and put the files into the empty back up to restore it.
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I'm sorry, please disregard that last comment. I was posting like your only problem was the Play Store. lol Sorry. But yea, check out those things I mentioned to you and you should be able to get SuperSU back up, if not I'll help you with anything else.
Okkvltist said:
I'm fairly certain I reinstalled Busybox when I was installing(or trying to) Supersu. I'm giving the kernel bit a shot.
Oh the stock back-up is this(No, I didn't back up my phone since I didn't see a reason, I had everything I needed on the computer/sd) file:
http//qc-.androidfilehost-com/dl/PObYV5uN55P2PGDNrX1pLQ/1430391523/95832962473396445/2014-12-02--16-24-34+KOT49H+Stock.not.rooted.rar
(can't post links since i'm a newb)
Had to make a backup of my empty phone and put the files into the empty back up to restore it.
UPDATE- Flashed over Modded Kernel V2.6.1 since that looked like a safe bet. Installed correctly. Tried to reinstall Supersu. Got "Android is upgrading". Supersu Installed. Next is the SD Card bit.
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UPDATE 2- When partioning the sd card, it continues to come up as ext2. When I go into Link2SD and I go to select I get the message on whatever I select- "Mount script cannot be created. mount: invalid argument"
Okkvltist said:
UPDATE 2- When partioning the sd card, it continues to come up as ext2. When I go into Link2SD and I go to select I get the message on whatever I select- "Mount script cannot be created. mount: invalid argument"
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Are you using Aparted? What was the method you used to partition? You should partition as ext4.
Yeah, I downloaded Aparted, went in to partition the SD card("8" gigs) and selected ext4 but it comes out ext2. Do I need S-OFF and/or 4EXT Recovery?
Okkvltist said:
Yeah, I downloaded Aparted, went in to partition the SD card("8" gigs) and selected ext4 but it comes out ext2. Do I need S-OFF and/or 4EXT Recovery?
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Did you select Create then Format? If it still comes out ext2 after that, I don't know what the problem is. Format will take a while because it is creating journals.
blaqueknight said:
Did you select Create then Format? If it still comes out ext2 after that, I don't know what the problem is. Format will take a while because it is creating journals.
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It's saying the partition doesn't exist when I go to format after creating the partition. Even when creating the proper ext from the create screen, it still doesn't come up as ext4.
other info
device- /dev/block/mmcblk1.
when I opened up link2sd its asking me for mmcblk1p2 but there is no mmcblk1p2
Okkvltist said:
It's saying the partition doesn't exist when I go to format after creating the partition. Even when creating the proper ext from the create screen, it still doesn't come up as ext4.
other info
device- /dev/block/mmcblk1.
when I opened up link2sd its asking me for mmcblk1p2 but there is no mmcblk1p2
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Are you trying to partition the whole SDcard as ext4? To properly partition the card to be used with Link2SD you have to:
1. Delete the sdcard
2. Create a FAT32 partition of any size of your choosing
3. Format the FAT32 partition
4. Create an ext4 partition of any size of your choosing
5. Format the ext4 partition (this will take a long time, as it will create journals that are used to recover from an error such as removing the device while files are being copied)
After following those steps, Link2SD should properly create the script/mount and you should be able to link to your sdcard
If you are doing those steps perfectly and you still have an error, we have to find out another solution
Ok, I still can't get it to make Ext4......
However, weirdness- I made a Fat32 Partition and went into Link2SD. Link2SD was able to use/read the Fat32 partition. Tried to create/change the Fat32 and it didn't work. Tried to make a third partition under ext4 and it comes up ext2. Openned Link2SD and it doesn't read/use the ext2. Uses the additional Fat32 no sweat. I don't know how much of it is working(tried downloading Brave Frontier and had to delete loads of stuff in general) usual memory bull**** ensures and I see theres a lock for the full copy of Link2SD....
another thing; I can't get into/mount the open part of my SD card. Should I go back to square one or should I blow the meager 3 bucks for the full copy and see if I can do it from there?
PS- Does the class of the sd decide on if I can partition an ext3-4? Cause if so, mine is only a class 4 SD card.
Okkvltist said:
Ok, I still can't get it to make Ext4......
However, weirdness- I made a Fat32 Partition and went into Link2SD. Link2SD was able to use/read the Fat32 partition. Tried to create/change the Fat32 and it didn't work. Tried to make a third partition under ext4 and it comes up ext2. Openned Link2SD and it doesn't read/use the ext2. Uses the additional Fat32 no sweat. I don't know how much of it is working(tried downloading Brave Frontier and had to delete loads of stuff in general) usual memory bull**** ensures and I see theres a lock for the full copy of Link2SD....
another thing; I can't get into/mount the open part of my SD card. Should I go back to square one or should I blow the meager 3 bucks for the full copy and see if I can do it from there?
PS- Does the class of the sd decide on if I can partition an ext3-4? Cause if so, mine is only a class 4 SD card.
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I just made a couple of very simple tutorials to use Aparted and Link2SD and they are both working for me. Check them out: Aparted tutorial, Link2SD tutorial. I believe the ext2 that you are talking about is around the 10 second mark in the Link2SD video. Do you mean the /data/sdext2? That is just the name of the second sdcard partition.
If you can, you should buy the full copy of Link2SD to link external data and whatever other options become available.
The class of sdcard shouldn't have anything to do with the partition. That's just a classification of the speed of the card.
If needed, I'll make more videos to show exactly how everything is done. I think sometimes it is better to show than simply explain how something is done.
Hope this helps.
Wow.......I mean seriously, holy zen, it worked.
I had to start over from scratch since my f'ling screwed so much crap up but after everything was reinstalled and flashed and what not, It made the ext4. I don't know why the programming is so touchy you have to create it threw such weird steps but I believe it worked. Upgraded the link2sd. Next question and I'm pretty sure on the answer- Are you able to remove the SD card or is it perma-bound to the phone(IE- if I change SD cards around, will everything crash?)? Thank you so much
Okkvltist said:
Wow.......I mean seriously, holy zen, it worked.
I had to start over from scratch since my f'ling screwed so much crap up but after everything was reinstalled and flashed and what not, It made the ext4. I don't know why the programming is so touchy you have to create it threw such weird steps but I believe it worked. Upgraded the link2sd. Next question and I'm pretty sure on the answer- Are you able to remove the SD card or is it perma-bound to the phone(IE- if I change SD cards around, will everything crash?)? Thank you so much
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I'm happy it worked out good for you.
Yes, you are able to remove your sdcard. Be aware that your apps are on your sdcard so if you remove it, you remove them. They are placed on your sdcard and symlinked so Android thinks they are still on your phone in the place they would normally be. Nothing should crash, they just shouldn't show up. There is some great info about Link2SD here.
@blaqueknight..
nice videos man.

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