I recently made the change from an unknown class 2gb sdcard to a class 6 4gb sdcard and now things are going crazy. Hero has become unbelievably unstable and cyanogenmod boot loops.
any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance.
My guess is you failed to transfer over the apps that were on that old sd card (in the ext 2/3 partition) and now the phone can't find them. Either copy over all the data (search the forums to find out how) or do a wipe to make your phone forget about all tthose apps.
Gilliland12 said:
My guess is you failed to transfer over the apps that were on that old sd card (in the ext 2/3 partition) and now the phone can't find them. Either copy over all the data (search the forums to find out how) or do a wipe to make your phone forget about all tthose apps.
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i've done several wipes, several reformats of the ext3 and the entire card, i've tried to do nandroid backup restores, nothing is working. :\
Done a full wipe and still issues? Huh. Try removing the card completely and doing a wipe. You shouldnt get any errors not having an SD card. If you do get errors then this might take a while. If you get no errors then your card is somehow screwing things up.
mistaken post. ignore this
so turns out there is something wrong with my sdcard. tried flashing xROM 1.4 at least three times and got boot loops every time, then booted up without the card in and booted up fine.
it also works when i use the switchrom script to restore.
is there anything i can do to make this card usable?
Don't take my word for it, but maybe a format and partition of the card again would probably work.
Anartic said:
Don't take my word for it, but maybe a format and partition of the card again would probably work.
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tried it several times. thanks, though
if anybody has any help, i'd love it :\ just like to know if this card is useless to me or not. thanks
if you have vista plug it in and it should say something about fixing errors when my sdcard was f***ing up i thought i might as well try it and it worked, hope this helps
edit: which method are you using to partition your card?
JJbdoggg said:
if you have vista plug it in and it should say something about fixing errors when my sdcard was f***ing up i thought i might as well try it and it worked, hope this helps
edit: which method are you using to partition your card?
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i have xp :\
i've been using parted.
grandomegabosses said:
i have xp :\
i've been using parted.
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if i were you i would send it back as faulty cos if it is giving you this many problems so early on that is not a good sign
btw you could try completely unformatting the card then re partitioning the empty space
JJbdoggg said:
if i were you i would send it back as faulty cos if it is giving you this many problems so early on that is not a good sign
btw you could try completely unformatting the card then re partitioning the empty space
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the thing is, it's not new. i've had it for about 6 months and been using it in my mp3 player. i'm assuming that might be why it's not working. i've unformatted and reformatted the entire card a couple times.
i'm planning on getting an 8gb class 6 card soon, so as of now, i'm using my old 2gb card. but thanks for the help
grandomegabosses said:
the thing is, it's not new. i've had it for about 6 months and been using it in my mp3 player. i'm assuming that might be why it's not working. i've unformatted and reformatted the entire card a couple times.
i'm planning on getting an 8gb class 6 card soon, so as of now, i'm using my old 2gb card. but thanks for the help
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no probs sorry i couldnt help
JJbdoggg said:
no probs sorry i couldnt help
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no worries, man!
so i think i solved it. Ubuntu solves everything. haha repartitioned in ubuntu and it's working fine now. thanks guys
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using parted, copied commands from one of the hero threads, but my old partitions wont go away, has anyone seen that? does it mean the card is fried? i can do rm 1, rm 2, etc but when i type print, it shows the same exact partitions from before, as if they wont delete, running out of ideas, i even tried with a gparted boot cd.
Did you try formating the entire card to fat32 from the phone and then deleting the fat32 partition so you have a blank card?
due to apps2sd, cant even do it from phone since its all whacked out, wont format.
mdanerd said:
due to apps2sd, cant even do it from phone since its all whacked out, wont format.
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can you format it in windows as a removable disk?
oddly just tried to format it in windows, didnt show this before, but says read only, tried a different reader, same thing, trying paragon now, but i have a feeling nothing will change.
mdanerd said:
oddly just tried to format it in windows, didnt show this before, but says read only, tried a different reader, same thing, trying paragon now, but i have a feeling nothing will change.
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Might as well try it If that doesn't work try flashing a JF ROM and formatting sdcard from there. (within phone)
I think I have same problem.
I tried these ways.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-291261.html
and
http://www.compuapps.com/download/Swissknife/swissknife.htm
and of cource this too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=534714
But I couldn't solve the issue.
The MicroSD is SanDisk 8GB 6 class.
aoi0123 said:
I think I have same problem.
I tried these ways.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-291261.html
and
http://www.compuapps.com/download/Swissknife/swissknife.htm
and of cource this too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=534714
But I couldn't solve the issue.
The MicroSD is SanDisk 8GB 6 class.
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you can't remove the partitions on your sdcard? Have you tried formatting within the phone? That *usually* helps.
aoi0123 said:
I think I have same problem.
I tried these ways.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-291261.html
and
http://www.compuapps.com/download/Swissknife/swissknife.htm
and of cource this too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=534714
But I couldn't solve the issue.
The MicroSD is SanDisk 8GB 6 class.
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Have you tried ubuntu. Look in my sig for tut.
read only on your SD card / reader, means that the side of it, the lock is on. look for the little button and make sure its not locked, that would make it read only, and sound like the issue here
alritewhadeva said:
you can't remove the partitions on your sdcard? Have you tried formatting within the phone? That *usually* helps.
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Like he said, re-formatting from the phone will remove all partitions and automatically format everything back to a single fat32 partition. Of course if all else fails...g-parted ftw!
alritewhadeva said:
you can't remove the partitions on your sdcard? Have you tried formatting within the phone? That *usually* helps.
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Yes. I can't remove the partition on it.
Sure, I had tried to format with the phone million times.
supremeteam256 said:
Have you tried ubuntu. Look in my sig for tut.
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Oh. It's nice info. will try later. I wish it would work. Thank you.
fleebailey33 said:
read only on your SD card / reader, means that the side of it, the lock is on. look for the little button and make sure its not locked, that would make it read only, and sound like the issue here
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I used some of the readers and phones. And there is no lock staff on the microSD. I can read/write other microSD with the readers and phones. And I could read/write the microSD with them, before this happen.
h.nocturna said:
Like he said, re-formatting from the phone will remove all partitions and automatically format everything back to a single fat32 partition. Of course if all else fails...g-parted ftw!
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I just had a single fat32 partition on it. I didn't do anything like converting to ext2,3,whatever...
Firstly, I could use the microSD, and I could format it. But it suddenly comes like that. Around that time, I was just trying many apps from Market. I didn't do any special staff on the phone...
finally got around to replying to this, yeah i tried via g-parted, and that failed too, i think the card is hosed, no big deal.
hey everyone, im not usually quick to ask for help but i am absolutely frustrated and stuck.
trust me ive searched and read everything i need to and its just not working for me
i have a 8gb micro sd class 6 card.... everything was fine and working perfect until i did a nandroid backup
then my card started having errors when repairing ext filesystems
so i put the card in my computer and formatted it.
then i deleted and repartitioned the card
then i did the command in the recovery console to fix the filesystem error
reflashed the radio image
none of that is working for me
i have another 4gb class 4 card and its working perfect for me
but ever since my 8gb did a nandroid backup, the roms wont load at all and i get stuck in a boot loop with the second htc splash screen
PLEASE HELP THIS IS DRIVING ME MAD!!!! thanks a bunch in advance!!
im using jacxhero v2.1
and i use cyan 1.4 recovery img
After you partition in Recovery, you don't need to fix filesystems... just exit Parted and type upgrade_fs in recovery console to upgrade to ext3.
deanna619 said:
hey everyone, im not usually quick to ask for help but i am absolutely frustrated and stuck.
trust me ive searched and read everything i need to and its just not working for me
i have a 8gb micro sd class 6 card.... everything was fine and working perfect until i did a nandroid backup
then my card started having errors when repairing ext filesystems
so i put the card in my computer and formatted it.
then i deleted and repartitioned the card
then i did the command in the recovery console to fix the filesystem error
reflashed the radio image
none of that is working for me
i have another 4gb class 4 card and its working perfect for me
but ever since my 8gb did a nandroid backup, the roms wont load at all and i get stuck in a boot loop with the second htc splash screen
PLEASE HELP THIS IS DRIVING ME MAD!!!! thanks a bunch in advance!!
im using jacxhero v2.1
and i use cyan 1.4 recovery img
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this is a fault with the rom, the nandroid backup shouldnt cause a bootloop.
did you make sure the partitions are in this order?: FAT32, ext, linux swap?
can you see the card on your pc?
yes i did those 3 in order, ive done it several different times
i make sure that i do the upgrade_fs to convert to ext3
everything goes well when i partition and i can see the sd card in my computer. but for some reason i cant get past the splash screen with this memory card... my other one is working perfect, and so was this one until i did the backup thing
when i flash, it finishes and i reboot and get stuck after the HERO splash screen, the first time it shows the little android guy and then the screen goes black and i see the same spash screen again but with no android
what happens if i repair filesystems after i repartitioned??
deanna619 said:
yes i did those 3 in order, ive done it several different times
when i flash, it finishes and i reboot and get stuck after the HERO splash screen, the first time it shows the little android guy and then the screen goes black and i see the same spash screen again but with no android
what happens if i repair filesystems after i repartitioned??
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it wont hurt to repair it, but it seems that the problem is more likely the hero rom. something is causing the rom to bootloop. did you wipe before you flashed? try that if you havent.
also, set up adb using the stickys in this thread, then use
Code:
adb logcat
when it starts to boot. that way i can see whats happening thats causing it to bootloop
yes i definately wipe before flashing. i still think its the sd card since my other sd card works with the same rom
ill try out the abd thing... ive seen posts about it but never really read into it.
thanks for the advice! ill be right back with the results
right now that i tried again, i cant get passed the tmobile g1 screen... seems to be stuck =[
the card was formatted and partitioned and then i booted (the rom is already flashed on here, i just took out my 4gb card and switched it out for this one so i shouldnt need to reflash should i?
now i deleted all partitions in recovery mode and rebooted....
i got both splash screens hero with android and then the htc splash... now it went to a black screen and has been like this for about 5 or 6 minutes
with my 4gb card it shows the two splash screens and then the black screen comes on for no more than 30 seconds and then the phone loads
deanna619 said:
yes i definately wipe before flashing. i still think its the sd card since my other sd card works with the same rom
ill try out the abd thing... ive seen posts about it but never really read into it.
thanks for the advice! ill be right back with the results
right now that i tried again, i cant get passed the tmobile g1 screen... seems to be stuck =[
the card was formatted and partitioned and then i booted (the rom is already flashed on here, i just took out my 4gb card and switched it out for this one so i shouldnt need to reflash should i?
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well the hero builds put some apps and configuration files on the ext partition. if your 4gb card has those on it, then you probably wont have to.
Can you see the partitions on your computer?
no i dont know how to see partitions on my computer
deanna619 said:
no i dont know how to see partitions on my computer
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if your using windows, format the whole card to FAT32 and put it in your card reader to see if it shows up as a removable drive.
what are you using to partition the card? Try flashing another rom that doesnt need extra partitions (such as cyanogen) and see if that rom can see your card as well.
if it doesnt detect it, then your card may have gone bad
=[ looks like i got a bad card....
i appreciate you two helping me out! wish it could have worked... i guess im just gonna pick up a new card
this rom wont even load when i dont have an SD card in it... and when the phone is loaded with my 4gb card, if i take it out, the phone freezes
weird....
deanna619 said:
this rom wont even load when i dont have an SD card in it... and when the phone is loaded with my 4gb card, if i take it out, the phone freezes
weird....
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like i said, important system files are on the sd card. you cant remove the sd card without crashing it. if you want a rom that you can use without an sd card, use JF or Cyanogen's rom. The hero roms have too much stuff to fit it all in the internal memory of the phone
what are those important files on the sd card?
are you talking about the partitions or something else?
if its something else like hidden files or something, then maybe thats what i need to fix my 8gb
deanna619 said:
what are those important files on the sd card?
are you talking about the partitions or something else?
if its something else like hidden files or something, then maybe thats what i need to fix my 8gb
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they arent hidden, but thats what i was trying to say. after youve formatted your card, wipe and reflash the update. it will put those files on your card automatically.
they are located on your ext partition.
if you use adb, you can see them in
/system/sd/app_s
to get it to work, put the freshly partitioned sdcard into the phone.
press home+power to get to recovery. wipe the phone. flash the update (jachero2.1)
when it installs, it will find the ext partition and do it manually
I used to have a 4GB class 6 Micro SD Card. One day my phone crashed and I had to remove the battery in order to reboot. When I reboot, the SD Card is damaged and I had SD-Ext with alot of apps on.
I then got a 2GB class 6 Micro SD Card. Today the same thing happened.
I'm using FroyoByLaszlo 5.2 and I want to know if there's a solution to this problem (as in, stopping the phone from breaking my SD Cards - they must be reformatted before they will work now).
i am not sure if thats a genuine warning.i get it all the time every time i reboot,i just think thats cos i dont have an ext4 partition.all i do is remount the card
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I have Ext4 partition though. And if I attempt to launch an app (they usually have the default app green logo) it says 'Could not launch the requested activity'...
same problem here, with froyobylaszlo, did you find a solution? thanks
Reformat/partition your SD Card.
BeenAndroidized said:
Reformat/partition your SD Card.
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did that already, and then after a while the error comes back
it's the rom... you need to reflash it.. i had an issue like that.. dropped my phone and sd card fell out so no matter what i did it wouldn't fix, had to reflash rom..
ldrifta said:
it's the rom... you need to reflash it..
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yep! That is what needs to be done after that.
ok... thank you very much for your help.
I was wondering if the reflashing worked for more people? I reflashed like 3 times now and it still pops up.
Before when I switched my apps to the SD card, they died there and didn't work anymore. Otherwise it was fine (except with that annoying notification that would never leave).
Now I have formatted everything like 4 times and still no luck. This all happened after I got froyo by laszlo.
GeneralG2 said:
I was wondering if the reflashing worked for more people? I reflashed like 3 times now and it still pops up.
Before when I switched my apps to the SD card, they died there and didn't work anymore. Otherwise it was fine (except with that annoying notification that would never leave).
Now I have formatted everything like 4 times and still no luck. This all happened after I got froyo by laszlo.
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did you un partition it?
you need to un partition via recovery (set swap and ext values to: 0mb)
then remove from device, insert to pc and re format to FAT32
now do wipe of everything(flash superwipe) re partition your sd card than re flash rom.
Lately my phones been a real *****. Hboot wont recognize HERCIMG.zip's at all. It scans for them and comes up blank. Showing script that says something about 'no HERCIMG or wrong .img'
I got it to work a few weeks ago but I had to ruu and I guess it screwed things up. I have no idea what could be bringing this on.
I've downloaded several HERCIMG.zips with recovery.img's in them and placed them on the root of the sd card and no luck.
Sent from my HERO200 using XDA Premium App
I had this problem about month or so back trying to ruu and get the newest pri. I was s-off and had tried everything to get my phone to recognize the HERCIMG.zip with no luck. Just like you it would go through its checks and say no image found.
What finally worked for me was reformatting my sd card. I never had any problems with it. I was flashing and saving with it and never partitioned it so I did not think anything was wrong and no reason to reformat it. But I found one other person with the problem on some random forum and they said a reformat worked. So I backed up my whole card on my pc and formatted. Put everything back on it afterwards booted to hboot and the phone recognized it right away.
Not sure if this will help but could be worth a try I was ready to give up but this saved me from going crazy trying to figure it out.
I was pulling my hair out trying to get a hercimg to work. I kept pushing it via adb and it wouldn't work, finally I mounted the sd card deleted the old hercimg and added the new one and voila.
That's kinda similar to the previous post's issue but not quite.
what format do I re-format it to? I re-formatted it today and still no luck :[
alexdemonumber3 said:
what format do I re-format it to? I re-formatted it today and still no luck :[
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Im having the same problem. I tried to format my sdcard but no luck. My data connection wont work and its driving me crazy Ive tried every rom even sense roms but they still wont work
alexdemonumber3 said:
what format do I re-format it to? I re-formatted it today and still no luck :[
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I used amon ra to reformat it. I had to set a value for the swap but I don't remember the exact value and I set the partition or ext2 to 0 thus eliminating any partition.
And like you ehusidic I have no usb data connection so I had to find a way to get the HERCIMG.zip to work from just my phone. Sorry this didn't seem to work for you guys. It was the saving grace for me.
rb3 said:
I used amon ra to reformat it. I had to set a value for the swap but I don't remember the exact value and I set the partition or ext2 to 0 thus eliminating any partition.
And like you ehusidic I have no usb data connection so I had to find a way to get the HERCIMG.zip to work from just my phone. Sorry this didn't seem to work for you guys. It was the saving grace for me.
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well, I swapped out the 2gb sandisk for my 8gb PNY and boom, like that it recognizes the HERCIMG.zip
**** it, I'll just leave it alone for now lol
alexdemonumber3 said:
well, I swapped out the 2gb sandisk for my 8gb PNY and boom, like that it recognizes the HERCIMG.zip
**** it, I'll just leave it alone for now lol
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Good to hear but that probably does mean something is borked on your 2gb card. But at least you figured it out I know how frustrating it can get.
yeah man I was about ready to chunk this phone though a wall.! lol and it didn't even end up being the phone's fault! hah! appreciate the help y'all anyways
Hey guys, I'm having a bit of a problem with CWMR.
I was on Asylum ICS 14 when I bought a new Transcend 32gb class 4 microsd card.
It worked fine for half a day and when I tried using MX video player later that night, the phone had stopped reading the microsd card.No amount of re-inserting the card would help.The card didn't work with my laptop (running Windows 7) and PC (running Linux) either.So I tried wiping data via CWMR but it shows the error--
Wiping data
Wiping cache
Error mounting /sdcard/.android_secure!
Skipping format
Format complete
I checked and the data gets wiped i.e. all the use apps and settings are cleared.
But the error repeats no matter how many times I've tried to wipe.
I tried flashing a stock GB firmware(KL3 to be exact)and I still get the same error.There is no real problem with the wipe,it works just fine.
Thanks guys
And yes, I've changed the microsd card-it's now a Strontium 32 gb class 10 card.
Not my fault really, my dad just went out and bought the Transcend one
Hmm...sorry about that...I didn't think me rating on my own thread would count !
This is common on pretty much every device out there, it's nothing to worry about.
mbh87 said:
This is common on pretty much every device out there, it's nothing to worry about.
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Really? No disrespect, but there would be at least one thread about it if it was a common problem ?
Anyways, thanks !
warfareonly said:
Really? No disrespect, but there would be at least one thread about it if it was a common problem ?
Anyways, thanks !
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It might be a problem with an update, because I'm suddenly having the same error. I'm about to backup my recovery.tar and try to install an older version. Xperia Play 4g with stock 2.3.3, rooted. I've made backups before, and can't find any info as to what a solution is.
The .android_secure folder is a super hidden folder that contains all data from when you move an app to your sd card.
What might be your problem is that you have two of them. One in internal storage and one on an external sd card. Try taking the external one out and backing your phone up to the internal one.
warfareonly said:
And yes, I've changed the microsd card-it's now a Strontium 32 gb class 10 card.
Not my fault really, my dad just went out and bought the Transcend one
Hmm...sorry about that...I didn't think me rating on my own thread would count !
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It happened to me also, try this take out your microsd, do factory reset (only on save kernels), format your microsd
Insert it, boot up your phone.
If I'm not wrong, there was a faulty cwmr , which cause this.
Update your kernel
Maybe your card is faulty.
I recently bought sandisk 32 gb card and put up in my galaxy note. It kept saying no card inserted. Same error on windows 7. And after that i come to know that its a factory fault. Got it replaced from the service center.
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Fixed.
Flashed abyss kernel 4.2 and did a fullwipe.
Then went back to ParanoidAndroid.
Dunno what caused it, but I no longer care as its fixed
Sorry wrong thread.
Any fix? I need that android secure folder