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I screwed up my SD Card...

Okay so I've been running Cyanogen's Mod 4.0.4 and his 1.4 recovery image. I was running out of system memory and wanted to start using Apps2SD, I was reading some info on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4107149 and installed the "Apps2SD" app and made a partition. Rebooted and got a notification that the SD Card was blank or improperly formatted. I then proceded to attempt to follow the instructions for formatting with ADB, my system was having "error finding device" and after some troubleshooting I decided for forget about Apps2SD. Well now all my apps are removed from system memory and on my SD card that is messed up or something... all my icons are blank (except gmail, etc.).
Before messing around at all I did a Nandroid backup and backed up the entire contents of my SD card to my computer.
Well here I am, I grabbed another one of my MicroSD cards and loaded all the files on it (including the Nandroid backup) and when I try to "restore latest backup" I get this message:
D:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0)
(I/O error)
Can't mount sdcard, aborting.
I tried using the "mount sdcard" command in the console and I get a similar error.
Anyone have any tips? It's not really the end of the world, I could reinstall all my apps, but I don't like this error message, it has kind of got me worried. Thanks anyone!

YOU DONT NEEd APPS2SD ON A CYANOGEN ROM JUST AN EXT2/3. didnt you read his disclaimer?
your going to have to reformat your sd card and re partition it. dont run apps2sd cy's roms already do that

a way to see if you have partitions is to get to the parted stuff in console and type "print" it shows you all of the partitions on you sd card. ps i would follow this tutorial on how to partition you card
http://forums.t-mobile.com/tmbl/boa...roidDev&message.id=7674&query.id=114903#M7674
scroll down to the partition part

Thanks, the text commands in the console worked perfectly.

yeah no problem they were meant for the the console/adb. terminal...no lol.
so everythings working fine now? just checking up on you.

Yeah, last night for a while the phone wouldn't get past the G1 screen... then after a few hours I tried again and was able to get into a freshly flashed rom. I followed the console command instructions on my funktified SD card and it worked perfectly. I now have it partitioned and apps are on it. I don't know the difference between ex2 and ex3, or what I have now... should I care? Sorry, I'm partly a newb.

haha dude to be honest i dont know either i just follow tutorials hahaha.

Edit: duplicate post

Ext3 is superior to ext2... the main reason, from what I gathered, is that it supports wear-leveling.
If u followed the directions and ran the upgrade_fs script after partitioning, then u have ext3.

Wear leveling is built into the card, ext 3 has journeling which does not corrupt easily from a power loss( pulling battery)

gridlock32404 said:
Wear leveling is built into the card, ext 3 has journeling which does not corrupt easily from a power loss( pulling battery)
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Ah, I remember hearing about the journaling as well...
I was under the impression the partition needed to support wear-leveling as well...

dunno exactly how to help you, but i can share with you a similar experience and how i fixed it. and it might just be the answer.
I use a Mac. i used my 8gb class 6 card and formated it for mac. after i used it i reformated it back into fat32, but while partitioning, it screwed up my partitions, there was extra space tooken on the sd card. eventually my sd card was screwed, there was a point where it did not mount aswell.
how did i fix? i reformated and made sure to erase the Zero's, theres an option that says that. dunno what it means. and it erased all the backup info and everything on the card into fat32, and it was fine to mount and partition all over again.

I think wear leveling has to do with the card itself. The way I explain file systems like ext and fat is that the sdcard/hard drive is like a bookcase and the different filesystems are the way that the shelves are organize in the bookcase

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.

Trouble Flashing ROMs

I have had terrible luck flashing ROMs that are based on 2.x...I have only found 1 release that has worked, and that is the Intension branch. I have thought it was my SPL, but I have Haykuro's SPL on my phone...and I am using ramon's recovery image.
The errors I am having relate to Busybox closing (exit code 1)...this happens at the beginning of the boot process (before loading the frameworks), and shortly after 'attempting' to load up compache and ramzswap0....
Is this possibly related to an SD card issue? Right now I have a crappy 4GB Class 2 SDHC card. I have an 8GB Class 6 on its way (yay newegg.com), and I am wondering if the new SD card would possibly prevent these issues...even if it doesn't, the new SD card is going to work wonders.
But, if it is not the SD card, are there any other options I could be looking into to try to get things going?

ya i'd have to go with your current sd card causing the flashing problem.

Where would we get this ramon recovery :b?

JAguirre1231 said:
Where would we get this ramon recovery :b?
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Ack, lets try that again: amon_ra's recovery

[Q] ADATA Class 6 8GB SD giving me in/out errors

Hello.
I have a black G1 that has been rooted, danger spl, latest radio, i followed everything from this forum. I currently have Super D 1.11 running on the phone. I decided that i wanted to run apps2sd and a swap partition so i went to micro-center and purchased a class 6 sd card. When I go and try and partition the card in the amon recovery 1.7 i keep getting this error.
Error: Input/output error during write on /dev/block/mmcblk0
Retry/Ignore/Cancel?
First I thought that the card was bad so i went back to micro-center and exchanged it for another one.
Still the same problem.
This only happens with this card, the class 2 cards i have work fine no problems at all.. What is going on here? Did anyone else have this problem? What can I do to fix it?
Chubb
T-Mobile G2 - Stock
T-Mobile G1 - Super D 1.11

chubb16 said:
Hello.
I have a black G1 that has been rooted, danger spl, latest radio, i followed everything from this forum. I currently have Super D 1.11 running on the phone. I decided that i wanted to run apps2sd and a swap partition so i went to micro-center and purchased a class 6 sd card. When I go and try and partition the card in the amon recovery 1.7 i keep getting this error.
Error: Input/output error during write on /dev/block/mmcblk0
Retry/Ignore/Cancel?
First I thought that the card was bad so i went back to micro-center and exchanged it for another one.
Still the same problem.
This only happens with this card, the class 2 cards i have work fine no problems at all.. What is going on here? Did anyone else have this problem? What can I do to fix it?
Chubb
T-Mobile G2 - Stock
T-Mobile G1 - Super D 1.11
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when reading/writing files from your sd card while booted normally, does android give you errors? If not then I would assume its an issue with amon, try clockworkmod recovery and see if that works. If not then you can partition it with your computer, but you would need a linux live cd at the very least to format an ext partition.
Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide

Assert failed status 7 - No internal SD

Alright, I was struggling with a useless internal SD Card on my CDMA (sprint) Galaxy Tab, so I basically opened it up and popped the bugger off.
Installed stock rooted GB, it works fine, but I want my ICS.
My external SD Card has two partitions (big FAT32 one and a 2 gb EXT4 one).
While installing CM 9.1 stable, after selecting install zip from SD card the flashing begins but I get a Status 7 Assert Failed (run_program("tmp/updater.sh","cdma") == 0).
I assume its because the installer detects that I only have one SD card and thus thinks this isn't a standard CDMA Tab so I wont let me install.
I tried removing 4 assert lines from the update script, however the same assert fail keeps popping up.
Any ideas guys? I really want ICS or JB on this device (its a gift for my dad).

ChrisCTX said:
Alright, I was struggling with a useless internal SD Card on my CDMA (sprint) Galaxy Tab, so I basically opened it up and popped the bugger off.
Installed stock rooted GB, it works fine, but I want my ICS.
My external SD Card has two partitions (big FAT32 one and a 2 gb EXT4 one).
While installing CM 9.1 stable, after selecting install zip from SD card the flashing begins but I get a Status 7 Assert Failed (run_program("tmp/updater.sh","cdma") == 0).
I assume its because the installer detects that I only have one SD card and thus thinks this isn't a standard CDMA Tab so I wont let me install.
I tried removing 4 assert lines from the update script, however the same assert fail keeps popping up.
Any ideas guys? I really want ICS or JB on this device (its a gift for my dad).
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on this forum thread-
[ROM] [GSM] [4.1.1] CyanogenMod 10 ночных сборках
и Video instructions for moving applications to a memory card with the utility Link2SD) Video provided andrey3032 YouTube

Spammer aside, this has been solved.

ChrisCTX said:
Spammer aside, this has been solved.
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Err don't just say it's solved.. tell us how you did it or this thread was useless ;p

Useless thread