So..Everything was running smoothly on my phone, but I purchased a new SD card (class 6, my current is a class 2) and I was going through the motions of backing up my current sd's contents. I have the files I need backed up, I don't care about the applications I can re-install those just fine.
However. My laptop (along with it's SD reader..) are in the shop for repair and I have no ETA on how long it will take, so I was going to do this the super annoying way: backup the things I need, create nandroid backup just in case, partition the new SD card, and flash appropriate rom. I ran into a pretty annoying bump that I don't think I can even fix now (unless I want to wait the few weeks it might take to get my laptop repaired..or fork out money for an sd reader which I don't have money for) So I threw JF 1.51ADP on my phone (wiping first of course) and..Annoying bump:
My phone decides that now when I mount my sd to my pc, it likes to unmount itself immediately after. So I wiped again, loaded the JF rom again, and still does it. So I went to restore my nandroid backup, and accidently hit "perform backup" instead...leaving me with this crap as my backup. So I wipe again, throw CM 3.9.10 on there agian like I was using, and still does this. I have wiped over a dozen times and reflashed both roms, and still does this annoying bit. I have no way to access the SD to even remove the latest backup so I can get back to my good one. I can't do ADB on this pc as it is not mine, I can't get my other rom builds onto the phone either. It was working well enough when I put jf's build onto the sd card..but now it just won't. Rebooting PC does nothing either.
NOVEL done with..sorry guys! But wtf do I do? Deal with a phone that I can't do anything with for weeks? Or is there something I can do... :/ Very limited to what I can do on this PC..and again it will be weeks before I see my laptop again..or any money to get a reader (yes, they are cheap, but I am flat broke, vet bills, rent, what have you) I did search on this, and found nothing on here to help.
*********...it just fixed itself...somehow..after hours of not working, it is staying mounted..but..I didn't do anything.. >> Anyway, sorry for taking up the space. (of course right after I post this..)
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I'm getting a SD card damaged error after going from 4.0.2 to 4.0.3.1. The laptop reads the card fine so I know the card is ok. What's going on here?
Nandroiding back to 4.0.2 makes the problem go away.
Thanks for the info I had the same exact thing happen to me.
Did not think it was the rom but I knew there was no way all my microsd cards where messed up.
Weird thing the first one got somehow wiped to ext3 without me requesting it.
Going back to 3.8.1 let u know if got mine fixed or not.
Still tough might switch to jf again or other roms from haykuro.
Be right back as soon as I get home in 3hrs
I was getting this on one of Cyans roms before especially when unplugged from PC then restart and it would be fine. Haven't had any problems since so I'm sorry to say I don't know what it is, but at least it's not permanent haha.
Just tried 4.04 and same thing happens.
Changing the SD card seems to work but why is just THAT card affected? I'm going to back up the data on the card and try a few things. I'll let you know what happens.
sucks I had to start from scratch had to use a regenerator to fix the sdcard.
Basically phone nor pc would pick up past partitions. Used a corporate software from Paragon and Norton to undelete or try to recover deleted partitions. And now I was able to recover some of the files there are some that have a I/O read error so no luck with those kinda like a data redundency check failure.
Then used a regenerator to wipe the whole drive and recreate it. Wierd thing is that the droid did not read it until I reverted back to old cyanogen 3.8.1
now I'm back debating if to update to the newest 4.0.4 but scared now.
well I already lost most of the data what else can I lose right? lol
Im telling you it is a great investment to have Paragon Hard Disk Manager for business. At least that is what saved me this time.
Well for me. the ext3 partition works fine. All my app2sd works good. But my fat32 parition doesn't work (but works on other builds)
Well, it works now.
See whenever I mounted the SD card to Windows Vista, it said there was problems with the SD card and Windows wanted to scan it and fix errors. Well knowing the card worked fine, I always said no to the scan.
Well since I was having problems with 4.0.3.1 and 4.0.4 I decided to let Window scan and fix it, and it seemed to actually fix it. So there.
yeah i had the same issue also i thought it was cause i was trying to add an old theme to 4.03.1 but it wasnt...i did a wipe repaired the extfiles then added 4.02 again went straight to 4.03.1 through cm updater and it was fine..so if anyone has the same issues try to wipe first and see if that helps
Wipe did not fix problem.
I have the same problem. I tried a wipe through the recovery and with the
Code:
mount -o rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /system/sd
cd /system/sd
rm -r *
command. It still says the SD card is damaged. Restore with Nandroid, and everything is fine. I think I will try a fresh partition (I currently only have two partitions). I will try to get back after I reformat to get the three partitions.
Hello out there!
I sure hope someone can help me with this! I have rendered my phone completely useless. I have been working on this thing for the past 7 straight hours.
I upgraded to the 5.08 radio and then the MIUI_Au_1.1.28_R4_N1_EN-signed.zip
Everything was working beautifully until I decided to do a Nandroid restore. I guess I did not truly understand the function of this. After a reboot, I was back at square one.
I rebooted again into the recovery mode and then wiped and reinstalled the new rom. Now the new rom is giving me an error. I cannot get any network connectivity from it. I wipe and reinstall several more times and get the same effect.
This is when I get the idea to format and partition the SDcard from within the recovery menu. This was clearly not the best choice.
I cannot get the phone to restore back to factory anymore. The SDcard is empty. I have even taken it out. When it boots up it still boots into some non-working version of the new MIUI rom. No network connectivity. Where is it storing this? I have wiped everything possible. Played with partitions. I have tried hard resetting in the limited interface and in the Recovery console.
At this point, I cannot work on this any longer. My next idea is to put the micro SD card in another device and put original stock image on it. Is it possible that the new rom installed a kernel and that is what I am seeing? I figure if I can install a different rom from the SD card I might just be ok.
Any input into this mess would be greatly appreciated. Because I still have access to the Recovery console I know this is not the end for my phone.
Someone please tell me they know what is going on!
I would be happy to elaborate any more points regarding this issue.
It seems to me that I am not able to delete something because the new rom keeps coming up. Where is it booting from if I wiped everything?
I am at my witts end!
Thank you so much for your thoughtful responses!
glizitch
If you can enter the recovery mode, you just have to enable the SDCard to browse it from your computer. From there you can push in the sdcard whatever zip you wish. Remember to wipe cache and data.
If you can't enter the recovery mode, go in fastboot and flash it again.
And of course, the ROM is booting from /system partition on internal Flash memory in the device, which you can't wipe without knowing fastboot/adb commands - which obviously isn't the case. Wiping SD card won't do anything, and wiping user data isn't going to help you either.
As already mentioned above, since your recovery is working - get into it, mount the USB-MS, connect to PC, copy a ROM of your choice to the SD card, unmount, flash it, enjoy. I suggest RTFM before doing things.
Gratitude!
Thank you for your replies!
I have been putting off doing this upgrade for some time and have been living with limited functionality on the phone due to the amount of time and research I would have to put in to make sure I cross all my t's and dot all my i's.
I was never able to get the MS-USB toggle to work. Windows XP would not show I had put a new drive in when I used it.
I remedied the situation by getting a microSD to SD adapter so that I could put the new rom on the SD card. I used the original microSD card at first and installed the MIUI again. This caused me the same results of rebooting a few times before it went into the rom. When it got in I had no network connectivity.
I decided I would try this brand new microSD card and put the EvIL rom 1.26 on it instead.
I wiped and installed the Evil rom on the new card and Walla!
I have Evil rom now working with network functionality. There must have been some kind of hidden garbage on the old microSD that was keeping me down.
8 hours into the project, I AM SO HAPPY TO HAVE MY PHONE UP AND RUNNING!!!!
I hope others may find this post useful!
Many Blessings & Thanks!
glizitch
Hey guys, I need some advice please. Have had a number of odd happenings with my i9000 in the last 24hrs and not sure if some of them are the fault of the phone, or my fault! Apologies up front too for the long post – didn’t know how to put it all more succinctly!
First things first – it’s a Galaxy i9000M Bell vibrant. Came as Éclair 2.1, upgraded recently via Kies to Froyo 2.2, Build UGKC1. Then rooted with SuperOneClick, successfully without drama. Can get into recovery and download modes no problem via 3-button method.
Bit of background info – int SD 16GB, inserted 16GB ext SD. Before any upgrade to the phone had some issues where some photos taken with camera on the phone would show up in gallery as a corrupted/damaged icon. Pretty sure this occurred on default int SD so changed save location to ext SD but same deal now and then. Formatted ext SD – still happened from time to time. Actually replaced ext SD (exchanged at shop with brand new one), but same thing happened again. Figured I’d learn to live with it as only happened now and then.
So, phone rooted last week. Had been doing reading on ROMs/kernels before trying to flash anything. Only root-type things I’d done were to get TiB (and do full backup), Root Explorer, Terminal Emulator and Wireless Tether. Y’day I noticed after taking a few pics that one of the ‘corrupt’ icons that had previously been in place of an older photo, was now in the spot of one of the pics I had just taken (and strangely, the older, apparently corrupted photo was now fine).
I tried to delete a few of the photos but the phone just got stuck trying to delete. Had to force close it with task manager. Same deal if I tried 1 or many photos. Did this a number of times but no joy. Eventually just took ext SD out, put it into PC and deleted them that way, then put back into phone. Now it took AGES to complete the media scan on ext SD – like 5-10 mins! This happened a couple of times if I tried to do anything with the SD eg. save a file to it. So reformatted the SD card (on PC) but same prob when put back in phone.
Figured it might finally be time to try a new kernel in hope it may fix this bug. Had speedmod all ready to go (but hadn't been brave enough yet to try my first flash) so flashed K13E-500Hz via Odin. It worked fine, but “media scanning” problem was still there. Figured I might as well go the whole hog so factory reset the phone via recovery 3e. Did this ok, and “media scanning” was no longer a prob when I put the ext SD card in, just took a couple of seconds – hooray!
Restored apps + system using TiB which also appeared at first to work fine. Put a few pics and ringtones on the ext SD and all seemed fine. Then some app icons disappeared from the Applications pages. They appeared ‘crossed out’ in TiB and when I went to restore them again the phone spazzed out saying (sorry can’t recall exact wording) there was not enough memory and to delete some things to try to fix this. A red SD-like icon appeared in the top bar. I tried rebooting the phone via recovery 3e and it went into a cycle of vibrating, flashing up the turn-on screen/display then shutting off, but vibrating occasionally and lighting the soft touch keys but nothing else. This did this for about 5 mins and in order to try to save battery/stop the whole process I ended up factory resetting yet again via recovery.
Today it works 'ok'. Have not braved putting an ext SD in yet! Got Tib off the market but have also not dared to try to restore any thing yet. Oddly, in TiB it shows “System ROM” as almost fully taken up ie. Full green bar (289MB, only 6.06MB free) – this can’t be right can it?
Internal, DB data and SD card all show as ~99% free.
Deleted Dalvik cache in case that was the RAM problem but it didn’t do anything much (freed up about 6MB only).
So, my questions!
1. is this all because of the ‘corrupt/damaged’ issues before I’d done anything to my phone?
1b) How do I find out what RAM is available and what is using it all up? RAM manager is showing 197MB/339MB used but is this what the 'memory' problem would be? Clearing memory doesn't seem to do anything.
2. I never installed any kind of lagfix (knowingly anyway) – could this be a reason - have seen lots of threads/posts about disabling lagfix before flashing roms or kernels
3. I thought factory reset would wipe everything – but it obviously kept the int SD info ok (I’d copied Tib backup to ext SD and also to dropbox just in case) –should I maybe reformat the int SD and factory reset again?
4. If the issue is the phone itself (with prior corrupt file problem) – would it be worth flashing back to stock kernel and unrooting phone to try to bring back and get fixed/replaced under warranty?
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer!!!!!!
Read your hole post its really long. Can't answer to all questions. But did you try to put your phone as massage storage to your pc and mark everything thats on int sd and just erease it. When turn your phone off, put it in download mode and flash a stock rom (with 3 files) from samfirmware.com with repartition enabled? Maybe that works. Good luck! Before i forgot ext 4 is the better filesystem. Rfs getting laggy after a while cause its not the correct filesystem for sgs. Thats why ext4 is the main format on sgs2.
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hey thanks for the reply.
i know it was a super-long post, apologies again.
didn't try deleting the ext SD whilst connected via usb. got fed up with the phone not being able to delete & freezing when i tried that way so just took SD out and deleted them with card plugged directly into laptop.
as it happens, since 2nd factory reset, i've been cautious about what i do. no ext SD yet (though might try that tomorrow). didn't do full restore of missing apps and system files as i did the first time. so far have only restored about 6apps via TiB and wifi locations. Phone working ok...for now.
next steps:
1. try taking loads of photos to see if 'corrupt'-style icons occur again with int SD only;
2. maybe try an ext SD again after reformatting it and see how the media scanning goes and how it goes having music/vid/pic files on it etc;
3. gonna look more into the speedmod kernel ie. the tweaks which i think i need to access via recovery mode.
not quite ready to try and flash a custom rom with that little scare!
...but would like to try a custom rom at some point when i feel more educated about all this
Just look at the search function on xda or google. There enough guides about flashing. Know how you feel. The first time i flashing it was very scary for me. Got a heartbeat like a technosong. If you want i can write you a guide for every step. Trust me it is easier as it sounds. Just pm me and i will help you out.
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So I installed CM9 on my TouchPad, Alpha 0.6. It's been running fine for close to two weeks. I went to turn it on after it had been sitting and charging (it was at no lower than 60% when I hooked it up), and it wouldn't turn on. I tried all combinations of holding down the various buttons nothing worked. Then, out of the blue, while trying to figure out that problem, it held down power and it turned on.
So it started booting into ICS, but instead of the home screen, it said that the encryption failed or something, and that I had to do a factory reset. I booted into CWM, and tried everything, including re-installing from zip, installing Alpha 2 from the zip, wiping the SD card, doing a factory reset...everything. Every time, I go back into the SD card and all the folders are still there. That's making me think that the SD card was locked by ICS somehow, and now isn't letting go, and as such, nothing can wipe the system.
Any ideas for a fix to this? I love CM9 on the TouchPad, but...this sucks.
Wow, nothing, eh? I've tried everything I can think of; the tablet is getting stuck at 12% when I try to run WebOS Doctor (and yes, I've tried every "stuck at 12%" trick I could find), and in general, it appears that writing to any part of the device is locked. I guess I'm going to warranty return it back to HP, unless anyone can think of something brilliant.
Can you boot to webos, maybe if you take the sd card out? If you can, do a full secure factory reset. Also try formatting the sd card (backup your files to your PC). You should try with another sd card also . If these don't work I guess HP warranty is the way to go. Take the sd card out before you send it back. Good luck.
Thanks for replying.
Yeah, I can boot into WebOS, but any changes I make there don't keep (i.e. if I install an app and reboot, it's gone when I get back). There isn't actually an SD card in the TouchPad, the internal memory just gets partitioned and made into an "SD Card", so that's out.
Probably just going to have to send it back...
Duhh! I knew about the sd card and the TP, I was thinking about my cell phone.
Try calling HP's butler service. I've been lucky, the guy I talked to was knowledgeable, but I've read that you can get someone who's useless.
Hello. I am new on this forum and I am looking for help. I am by no means any type of programmer, so please be kind, and if you can help me great. Right now I can use some help.
I have owned a Droid 3 since July 2011. I have never done any type of stuff correlated to the operating system on the phone. The phone has worked great, up until this past Saturday (09/28/2013). In the afternoon, the phone literally went from working fine, to only being on the "Motorola Dual Core Technology" Screen, and nothing else.
I have searched across a number of forums and ran across others who have experienced this issue as well. I have talked to Verizon idiots in the store as well as their tech support with no success.
I have read about starting the phone up with the X key and the Power Button, to get the Android Logo on screen and then to the Android Recovery where you can Reboot the phone, Clear the Cache Partition, etc. I have done all of these Multiple times... I have not done a factory reset as of yet.
At this point, I am eligible for an upgrade from Verizon anyway... BUT- I still have a ton of photos and videos that are on the internal memory of the phone. The few pictures that I had on my SD card, I have since moved those over to my computer. The SD card is currently empty.
Is there anyway that I can get a copy of the Operating System to load up onto the SD card, and choose the Reboot from SD card on the Android Screen to get my phone to start up so that I can get my pictures and videos off of it? Before Saturday I was able to plug my phone into the computer and the phone was recognized as a device...now the driver is not even recognized by the computer.
In my own opinion, it sounds like something in the Operating System of the phone got corrupted. As I mentioned, I am far from being a computer programmer, so any type of "Deep" computer language; it is over my head... this is why I am asking if there is a copy of the Operating System or Kernel,etc. that I can load onto the SD card, and then put the SD Card into the phone and go the Android Menu to Boot from the SD card, to see if I can get the phone to actually start up....
My apologies if I have not used any correct terminology but hopefully someone here can help me. At this point, I don't even want to use this phone anymore and I am ready to move onto another Droid devce. I just want to know if there is someway that I can get my pictures and videos off of the phone before doing the dreaded last resort of a factory reset. I have 2 years of my life in pictures on that phone... some of which may or may not be backed up on Verizon's servers....
Any help would kindly and greatly be appreciated.
Look, if you do a factory reset or "wipe data" from the recovery you'll lose just the apps, the settings and everything "OS related". Personal data will be untouched at 99%, i can affirm this because i wiped about a million times and always with personal data stored into the internal storage... if you're not fine with this you could try an SBF (a reinstallation of the stock OS, to be short) without wiping (i don't even know if it's possible or SAFE, but in theory you can try) and maybe it could fix the os problem you have... and if it doesn't go well, you could still wipe it!
I'll search the method to reflash the 5.6.890 update, and i'll post the link!
EDIT: Here's the link, be careful! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1686911