Hmmm, okay....so i am trying to Mod my phone, and have read all the ways to do so. I appear to be stuck at the first step though. Formating the SD card.
I connect the phone to the computer and go to the removable disk and try to format, and i always get the error...."Please Insert Disk" and then it automatically disconnects the phone!
Is there something i am doing wrong?
My phone has been updating to crc1 or whatever, no rc29.
Any help?
READ THIS THREAD!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=535232
not the first few pages but the entire thing.
in it you will see all the available ways of doing so. theres a bunch.
anyways. its covered. just get started.
your gonna wanna start with "downgrading" to RC-29 by putting dream.nch (or something similar, check the link)on your sd card. renamimng it update.zip and the rooting. it goes on from there.
ENJOY!!
Basically your computer hates your phone. I have had many problems with mounting the sdcard, which is why i got a card reader. Make sure you don't move the usb cable once it is plugged up to the phone, if it still doesn't work, do you have another device with a sdcard spot thet you can connect it to the computer with. Also its DREAIMG.nbh exactly that. If your card absolutely will not connect to your computer then follow the guide in my sig and download on your phone then move it to the root of your sdcard with astro or something.
david1171 said:
Basically your computer hates your phone. I have had many problems with mounting the sdcard, which is why i got a card reader. Make sure you don't move the usb cable once it is plugged up to the phone, if it still doesn't work, do you have another device with a sdcard spot thet you can connect it to the computer with. Also its DREAIMG.nbh exactly that. If your card absolutely will not connect to your computer then follow the guide in my sig and download on your phone then move it to the root of your sdcard with astro or something.
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Oh...meet one of the masters. He has a point. I'm the proud owner of 3 properly formatted sd cards. . Then I broke down and bought a card reader.
Trust me.....its better to slow down and read then ask a few questions and tate success. The enrire platform is exploding and the things our devs can do is wonderful, understanding the basics will prove to be greatly beneficial soon!!!
Wait till you see the theme threads!!!
TainT said:
Oh...meet one of the masters.
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what is that suppose to mean lol.
reading and asking questions is for losers lol, not really though it is best to read through the process a few times and make sure you have all the files downloaded before you start, also if you have a cheap little phone you can pop your sim card into in case something takes longer than you plan is a good option thats a plus.
don't do like i did where i had no clue what i was doing and spent like 2 and a half hours trying to root my phone.
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yes ive searched. yes ive tried alot of things. now that thats out the way id be grateful for any help on the topic. i dowloaded a few dreaimg files from xda as wll as androidandme.com rooting guide. none work. i tried to format my card again to load the image back on the sd card and try again and no luck my comp wont even read my sd card now. i have an 8gb and i hope its not fully fried but i can get another card if needed. my main thing is i was going from rc-33 back to 29 in order to root the phone and i get the dreaimg.nbh fail. i havent had a phone for about 3 days. if there is anyone out there to help ill take it. thanks in advanced.
what steps are you doing? explain step by step what you are doing....
Format your card to be Fat32 and make sure that you do not use a card reader. Works like a charm. The main thing is that your card needs to be Fat32.
I tried using a card reader but would not read then I formatted thru the phone and worked and flashed
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what steps are you doing? explain step by step what you are doing....
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step by step
i formatted the card while it was in my phone to FAT32.
i downloaded the image to get my phone back down to rc29 in order to root.
directly from my phones browser i downloaded http://www.androidactivity.com/root/root.apk over wifi
installed the root.apk file
powered off my phone then turned it back on by holding cam button and power.
ressed power to run image then got FAIL.
i followed the instructions from here:
http://www.androidandme.com/2009/05...r-rooting-your-android-g1-to-install-cupcake/
after it failed there was no way for me to mount my phone so i got a sd card reader, plugged that in and then went to apply the file manually. i deleted the old file then put the new one on and it still didnt work so i decided to format the card to fat32 again and then try to put the fileback on. now the card cannot be read.
thank you for the quick responses i appreciate it.
i didn't use thaqt app- i just did it the old fashioned way in the sticky thread on this forum.
i read in the middle of that page you linked to that "Update: Some users have reported the DREAIMG.nbh file gets corrupted when downloading over 3G/Edge. To avoid this just download the file to your PC and then copy it to the SD card." -
is this what you did? i see you downloaded it from your phone- maybe its the phone that corrupts it- DL it from your PC and transfer apk over from there.
looks like a nice app though.....
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i didn't use thaqt app- i just did it the old fashioned way in the sticky thread on this forum.
i read in the middle of that page you linked to that "Update: Some users have reported the DREAIMG.nbh file gets corrupted when downloading over 3G/Edge. To avoid this just download the file to your PC and then copy it to the SD card." -
is this what you did? i see you downloaded it from your phone- maybe its the phone that corrupts it- DL it from your PC and transfer apk over from there.
looks like a nice app though.....
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going to another g1 now so i guess i will give it another try and see wat happens. i am also going to get another 8gb card so if there is a better instructions please post em
if you don't know what you are doing, i would stick with that app- just use your pc to DL the files-
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442480
Okay well this is my first time on this forum better yet my second day having the G1 and I've already seemed to get in trouble with this phone. Okay well I was attempting to jailbreak a G1 with no data plan. After I had put the Dreaimg file in my F drive I had to go to that rainbow screen and all. After that the phone was locked again so I activated my phone VIA WIFI using Jesus Freaks thread. Then after I got back in the phone I continued to attempt to jailbreak/root my phone so I tried to put the recovery.img and upload zip file in my F drive but it said something about an I/O error. I kept messing with it trying to think of solutions now when I try to click the F drive it says, "The disk in drive F is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?" when I press yes and check "Quick Format" it crashes my computer. I am on an XP computer. PLEASE HELP! ):
Well your first problem is that you are using windows.
Just playing, you could always try a card reader. Your card needs to be fat32. If your phone still reads the card, try going into sd in settings and format it through your phone, then retry it on your computer
Its in FAT32 thus I was trying to jailbreak it. Although my phone can't read it, as it seems. When I go to SD in settings all I see is "Total Space", "Available Space", "Unmount/eject SD card". And they are all dark so that I can not press it. And I'm sure I have an SD card in there.
Ok your card is possibely corrupted, since you do not have a recovery image we can't go that way to reformat, hmmmm, card reader, I know reboot your phone, it will pull up a notice that your card is not formatted and it will ask you to format it now right there on the phone
I just rebooted it nothing happened. Also another piece of info, the problem was happening yesterday as I woke up today my phone popped up a message saying Upload now? or something like that and I pressed yes and it fixed but I did the same thing, and tried to jailbreak it, and now I'm back to the same problem. ): Got AIM to help me faster?
Don't got aim. So nothing popped up, you updated by what the ota update if so you are back to your previous build, if you are having serious problems with formating, my best suggestion is a card reader, you can get one for like $15 at walmart. Or try a different sdcard
If you are feeling froggy and are broke, you can try downloading a linux distro and burn a live cd or use unetbootin to make it on a thumb drive. Ubuntu linux has a partion editor that would be able to read it no problem and format it and even partion it for you since you will prob want apps2sd and a linux swap
Ugh I'm a big noob at G1's as I've only had it for one day now. Do you have MSN? Yahoo? something please. I need live help I don't want to brick my phone.
I don't use any of the messaginers, sorry, but the only way you can really brick you phone is to mess up installing the danger spl, anything else you can come back from, the most I can offer is my # and walk you through that way but your easiest option would be the card reader
Eh, can you message me your number?
I'll pm it to you in a sec
So I rooted my brothers g1 a few months ago and everything was great except that it could not connect to pc via usb. I told him not to worry about it but then he wanted to put music on his phone. He was messing around with the phone and he says he formatted something and now he has lost the ability to access the market as well as other apps he downloaded. For the life of him he cannot tell me what he did. So I check the sd card via card reader and I see that signed cyanogen mod (4.2.2.etc) is still there as well as other files. So I have no clue what he did and now the phone won't recognize the sd card even though its loaded and I can't flash him another rom so he can get the market back. Does anyone have a clue on what I should do???? Please help!!!!!!!
also tried other sd cards formatted to fat32 and fat with no luck.
i guess you gotta try a sd adapter, and put the files on there, as for the market app, looks like he needs to reflash the 1.6 firmware, and then reflash cyanogen if its the market apps, and google apps you are referring to.
This is a prime example of why you should never root someone else's phone if they don't know how to do it themselves. With great power comes great idiocy.
nexus2 said:
So I rooted my brothers g1 a few months ago and everything was great except that it could not connect to pc via usb. I told him not to worry about it but then he wanted to put music on his phone. He was messing around with the phone and he says he formatted something and now he has lost the ability to access the market as well as other apps he downloaded. For the life of him he cannot tell me what he did. So I check the sd card via card reader and I see that signed cyanogen mod (4.2.2.etc) is still there as well as other files. So I have no clue what he did and now the phone won't recognize the sd card even though its loaded and I can't flash him another rom so he can get the market back. Does anyone have a clue on what I should do???? Please help!!!!!!!
also tried other sd cards formatted to fat32 and fat with no luck.
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He probably formatted the ext partition. You may want to re-partition the card and reboot and see if it will pick everything back up. You may also need to start over.
When done, make a bart backup and tell him never format anything.
Thanks fort the advice guys. I'm gonna try to re partition the card. If I have to start over can I wipe to factory settings and will it return to the original firmware? if so I may do just that. In any case thanks for the input guys , love this forum.
Ok so I wiped the phone and got the market back. All the apps that he downloaded are in the downloaded section so no worries there.
I checked to see if the sd card still had multiple partitions, using a sd reader and paragon partition manager, and it does. The first being FAT32 and the second being linux. I still do not know why the phone won't recognize the sd card or any other for that matter. Any help would be soooooooooo appreciated!
Please help guys so I can get my lil bro off my back! ;P
Oh yeah I tried to re-partition the card with the paragon manager and its not going through. Any other type of manager I can use. I'm on windows7 64bit. This is really frustrating and I wanna get this fixed. Also when I plug the usb cable will recognize the external drive but when I click on it it says please insert drive.
Hi,Dear friends, I looked at my sd card today and found that there are around 400mb random-number-named files in this folder. I want to know if I can just delete them?
And I searched the forum and found someone saying it's because the sd card not being properly unmounted from PC. (Or silimar actions) Please see here
I want to know, if it's true, then what is the proper procedure to unmount the card? Usually after I connect it to the pc, I either use the command in the drop down menu or the Mount-USB app on phone's desktop. when I finished with the file copying, then I click mount usb icon again, the word "usb card unmounted" appears (but can't remember exact word) and on the top notification area, it will say preparing sd card. I think that should be ok, right? Then I click safely remove the usb device in the pc then disconnect.
Did I do anything wrong?
What you did wrong? You didn't unmount it!!!!
That means that the filesystem was left in an unsynchronized state, which means DAMAGED.
You need to UNMOUNT the filesystem before you can remount it on the phone.
lbcoder said:
What you did wrong? You didn't unmount it!!!!
That means that the filesystem was left in an unsynchronized state, which means DAMAGED.
You need to UNMOUNT the filesystem before you can remount it on the phone.
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Oh, Really?
"when I finished with the file copying, then I click mount usb icon again, the word "usb card unmounted" appears (but can't remember exact word) and on the top notification area, it will say preparing sd card. I think that should be ok, right? Then I click safely remove the usb device in the pc then disconnect. "
This operation is not UNMOUNT? then what is your routine after copying files via the phone usb connection?
zhourj said:
Oh, Really?
"when I finished with the file copying, then I click mount usb icon again, the word "usb card unmounted" appears (but can't remember exact word) and on the top notification area, it will say preparing sd card. I think that should be ok, right? Then I click safely remove the usb device in the pc then disconnect. "
This operation is not UNMOUNT? then what is your routine after copying files via the phone usb connection?
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.... so you violently ripped the thing out of the host's kernel, breaking the filesystem, and then afterward, when the device is no longer accessible to the host's kernel, you decide to unmount it? How is your windoze box going to synchronize a filesystem that it NO LONGER HAS ACCESS TO?
Sure... that makes A LOT of sense!!!
(not...)
As I said, you need to UNMOUNT THE THING before remounting it somewhere else!!!!
The gentler way of saying that ^ is you need to unmount from windows first. then from the phone click the usb icon and unmount.
ezzy pzzy.
@lbcoder
At first I thought you were just a ****, but know I actually like your post. They make sense and make me laugh. Cheers.
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@lbcoder
At first I thought you were just a ****, but know I actually like your post. They make sense and make me laugh. Cheers.
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I know, I take some getting used to
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I know, I take some getting used to
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Oh, Ok, I see.
But the thing is, (maybe because of the rom i used), when I remove the drive in windows first, there are several occasions that the phone unmount the card automatically and there are also notifications that the card is being prepared, then looks normal. And after that when I access the media on the sd card from the phone, the phone will not recognize the card. In Gallery all the thumbnails are lost and pictures can't be viewed. And from settings the card will not show up, no size information. It looks like it's mounted to the usb connection, but actually it's unmounted. because now if I click the mount usb, it will be mounted again and can be seen from windows.
I didn't use any android before nor did I familiar with linux. If it's a thumbdrive I'll just remove it from windows and it's fine. Here it's like two computer systems and I really don't know which action should take place at the first place. Also I never saw a post related with this problem.
At first I thought I should do the way as you said but strange thing always happen. So later I just did like I discribed before.
Maybe I should flash another rom? what do you think?
zhourj said:
Oh, Ok, I see.
But the thing is, (maybe because of the rom i used), when I remove the drive in windows first, there are several occasions that the phone unmount the card automatically and there are also notifications that the card is being prepared, then looks normal. And after that when I access the media on the sd card from the phone, the phone will not recognize the card. In Gallery all the thumbnails are lost and pictures can't be viewed.
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When you correctly unmount the filesystem, the phone will properly detect that the filesystem has been changed, and therefore will be SMART ENOUGH to regenerate your MEDIA DATABASE.
You need to GIVE IT TIME TO FINISH!!!
This is the CORRECT BEHAVIOR!
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I know, I take some getting used to
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I agree with this...
I aslo don't get this thread. I thought what he does is what you're supposed to do? I honestly just usually pull the USB cord out and go on about my business - isn't THAT what you're not supposed to do? Is this even what this thread is talking about? I'm seriously wtfing right now.
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.... so you violently ripped the thing out of the host's kernel, breaking the filesystem, and then afterward, when the device is no longer accessible to the host's kernel, you decide to unmount it? How is your windoze box going to synchronize a filesystem that it NO LONGER HAS ACCESS TO?
Sure... that makes A LOT of sense!!!
(not...)
As I said, you need to UNMOUNT THE THING before remounting it somewhere else!!!!
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I lol'd at the "Violently ripped out..." part.
An image of the angry german kid, and a G1...
Personally I don't remove my SD card unless my phone is off (generally the only time I tinker with it is if I forget something while using recovery)
But think of it this way. If you yank out a flash drive in use from a computer there is risk of data loss, and the flash drive itself failing. I'd say it's a universal piece of knowledge that applies to all flash devices.
*points at you* Only YOU, can prevent data loss!
SpartusTana said:
I lol'd at the "Violently ripped out..." part.
An image of the angry german kid, and a G1...
Personally I don't remove my SD card unless my phone is off (generally the only time I tinker with it is if I forget something while using recovery)
But think of it this way. If you yank out a flash drive in use from a computer there is risk of data loss, and the flash drive itself failing. I'd say it's a universal piece of knowledge that applies to all flash devices.
*points at you* Only YOU, can prevent data loss!
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OHHH! Taking out sdcards... I only pull my out when it's off and don't have access to a computer that will mount my phone (which is one in a million times). Then again, I don't use ext partition. Still probably bad if I pulled out when it was on, but no where near as bad.
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I lol'd at the "Violently ripped out..." part.
An image of the angry german kid, and a G1...
Personally I don't remove my SD card unless my phone is off (generally the only time I tinker with it is if I forget something while using recovery)
But think of it this way. If you yank out a flash drive in use from a computer there is risk of data loss, and the flash drive itself failing. I'd say it's a universal piece of knowledge that applies to all flash devices.
*points at you* Only YOU, can prevent data loss!
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As you said, I also never yank out any flash drive or card reader without "safely remove the usb device". However, when I just connect phone to the PC using USB cord to read the data on the sd card, it makes it a little bit complicated, because what I saw on the phone. I'm not sure here. so I want to ask.
Basically I had been running phiremod v2, used the bootable CWM found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=959240 to format the SD card I had in the machine, removed it, and on reboot - nothing. No power, no screen, no nothing. Not even a bootable SD will run.
In each of the other threads I've seen with similar symptoms, the result is almost always that someone gets an SD card to boot - I can't seem to do that.
Am I just missing a painfully obvious solution, or should I get this puppy returned (brand new)?
I've basically given up for the night, but I'm bummed that two days in and I've got nothing.
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Basically I had been running phiremod v2, used the bootable CWM found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=959240 to format the SD card I had in the machine, removed it, and on reboot - nothing. No power, no screen, no nothing. Not even a bootable SD will run.
In each of the other threads I've seen with similar symptoms, the result is almost always that someone gets an SD card to boot - I can't seem to do that.
Am I just missing a painfully obvious solution, or should I get this puppy returned (brand new)?
I've basically given up for the night, but I'm bummed that two days in and I've got nothing.
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Have you reburned your SD card? maybe its corrupted.
Also try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
*** O yeah and please use the Newest CWR 3.0.1.0 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=971197
You did not brick it.
The Nook is 99.99% non-brickable because it is set to boot from the SD card over the internal memory. I know I did this sunday night. What you have to do is get gb_clockwork-0.1-ext4.tar and Winimage and make a bootable sc card and this will alway you to get into clockworkmod and then you can flash a new rom. Just do a search for gb_clockwork-0.1-ext4.tar and there are sites that will give you step by step direct on how to do this. Good luck.
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Have you reburned your SD card? maybe its corrupted.
Also try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
*** O yeah and please use the Newest CWR 3.0.1.0 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=971197
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Thanks duder - just saw the other three or so threads that popped with this and realized instantly how often everyone here must deal with the question.
I'm sure it's irritating, but thanks just the same. Going to give it a shot tomorrow, right now the only SD card I have isn't recognized by either my computer (Mac) or my Nook (tried the long hold N+power force boot).
Hopefully I can make it work then.
arrjaytea said:
Thanks duder - just saw the other three or so threads that popped with this and realized instantly how often everyone here must deal with the question.
I'm sure it's irritating, but thanks just the same. Going to give it a shot tomorrow, right now the only SD card I have isn't recognized by either my computer (Mac) or my Nook (tried the long hold N+power force boot).
Hopefully I can make it work then.
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Wow your SD card isn't seen by your Mac.... That is one screwed up SD card, You might try to Reboot the Computer to see if maybe it will see it on a fresh start.
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Wow your SD card isn't seen by your Mac.... That is one screwed up SD card, You might try to Reboot the Computer to see if maybe it will see it on a fresh start.
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Yeah - it's not seen by anything. Well, looks like there goes an 8gb SD card, down the drain.