Hi,
I'm trying to hack my G1
The problem is that the SD card is not recognized, I tryed to farmatting it with GParted ext2 with a card reader. Plugged into the phone: NOTHING
Then I plugged in the phone and connected with the usb cable trying to mounting it. Win XP recognize it, but it's impossible to read it. Then I tryed to format in FAT32 and copy the downgrade files.
After restarting G1 in bootloader with the files in the SD nothing happens, no image file found. What's the problem??
Any suggestion??!?
you have to format your sdcard to fat32 not ext2 for your device to recognize it in the bootloader after you formart your card to fat32 place your DREAIMG.nbh on it to downgrade
I did it,
but I get that message: "NO image found"
and then the bootloader screen.....why??
Not 100% of the time but...
Mine also had that issue, i had to reformat my sdcard but with NO partition, in other words your not creating a partition your formatting the whole card.
try that and put the files back on it once you have it formatted and proceed.
I tryed with only one partition FAT32 and the image file, with no luck
Tryed also with 3 differets sd card!! I'm really in pain guys!
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I have looked everywhere and cant get a straight answer ....I have upgraded my G1 through a manual zipfile on my SD Card for cupcake 1.5. Now Im trying to mod/root my g1 and started downgrading to RC29 but when I try to reformat my SD card I get an error "There is no disk in drive F:. Insert a disk and try again".
Any ideas why the G1 is unmounting me not allowing me to format?
Use win XP! Vista has this problem.
I faced the same problem.
Was unable to get the phone's sdcard formatted over usb using Vista. I would click mount the phone, so that the files on the card would be visible on the PC. But the moment I right clicked to format, the card would get unmounted and Vista would say 'no drive'. Without formatting as fat32, the phone's bootloader would say no image found. Even the phone's internal formatter (in Android 1.6 onwards) would only format the sdcard as fat not fat32 (right click and check properties in vista).
Finally did exactly the same procedure on windows xp sp2 and it formatted without unmounting!
Moral of the story - use windows xp sp2 to format phone's sdcard over usb cable.
Also, some people seem to suggest that the image file should be named in all caps : DREAIMG.NBH, however, my phone got downgraded with the downloaded DREAIMG.nbh .
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I have looked everywhere and cant get a straight answer ....I have upgraded my G1 through a manual zipfile on my SD Card for cupcake 1.5. Now Im trying to mod/root my g1 and started downgrading to RC29 but when I try to reformat my SD card I get an error "There is no disk in drive F:. Insert a disk and try again".
Any ideas why the G1 is unmounting me not allowing me to format?
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If your trying to root this guide is very good (and easy/simple):
http://theunlockr.com/2010/04/26/how-to-load-a-custom-rom-on-the-htc-g1-dream/
Very good step by step. Get ROMS here too, xda and AndroidSpin also.
By flashing a newer ROM you should be able to partition your SD card with the phone. You don't need a computer for partitioning. Read info in the link.
easiest way is to use Amon Ra's recovery. It will format/partition your sd for you.
I formated my SD card on my mac as fat32 and now something strange has occured. It seemed to format fine, and I can add things to the card in both OS X and Windows, and Android, however now I cannot format the drive on the windows PC no matter what I try. The disk mounts in windows fine but when I right click and go to format, the SD card umounts and I get the pop-up message:
There is no disk in drive E:
Insert a disk, and then try again.
I think something weird happend when it was formated on the Mac.
My goal was to gain root access, which I've done in the past, but however the Mac disk utility formated the SD card, I cannot get the phone to recognize the DREAIMG.nbh file upon restarting the phone using the rooting method outlined in these forums.
I tryed a few different methods to format the card in windows, including diskpart, and through managment tools. The same thing happens with all methods.
edit: I also tryed formating using the format utility in in Android. It formats fine, but something is still wrong, it will not format in windows.
Any help would be much appreciated.
are you sure its a mac to pc issue? can you add files to the root of the sdcard and such on a mac
Yes, I can add files to the root of the card on the mac.
Whatever the mac's disk utility did during the format, the PC does not like.
Dude same thing happened to me
I found a work-around that. use a an sdcard reader (Usb or the one that comes with the sdcard) I formatted mine that way so I could use it.
Thank you! This worked.
no problem =)
Just flashed to JM2 today (had issues with JP2), I have the mimocan fix applied using ext4 at about 1 gig, the rest of the 8gb micro sd is fat 32, when the card is in the phone, all the data on the card shows up no problem but when I connect the phone to my PC via usb and mount to tranfer files the external sd doesn't show up. The internal does but not external, tried clicking the actual removable disk on my computer and it says to insert a card, any help is appreciated with this, cheers lads.
Edit: Solved, paragon wasn't formatting fat32 partition properly, formatted using windows and all is well.
yeah I have same problem since jp2 and not fixed in jp3, some have it working but its 50/50, tried all the normal ways but it says write protection/no permission, no fix for it that I hear of so have to wait on jp4 I guess.
I've had this problem with prev updates and I find that if you reformat the TF card inside SD settings (on phone) it works again. Don't forget to unmount the card first
But yes, I think its a problem with Paragon
Hi guys,
I tried partitioning my external sd card to linux swap, and something must have gone wrong. Now,a notification on my Galaxy S reads "Damaged SD card - SD card damaged. You may have to reformat it." This was the first thing I tried, but the Internal SD is formatted instead when I try. (Rom bug?). When i mount my phone via USB, only the formatted (damnit) internal SD is found.
I'm currently on TiramiSlim (best rom!!) with Devil 0.94. If you have any help it would be appreciated, any further questions don't hesitate!
yahoo907
In first i think that partition ext sd card is useless but it's my opinion.
In fact if you want to recover your ext sd i advise you to reformat your sd card with the windows disk utility: you select all volumes, delete them and recreate a new one with ntfs format (android will do his work when you'll insert your sd in the device).
If it doesn't work try to make the same but with a Linux system (Linux is powerful ^^).
Please reply me your results.
Have you tried to format the SD card with an SD Adapter & then make sure that USB debug is enabled on the device.
I had this issue.
Sometimes it shows that the card is damaged & then it reads it later on!
I plugged the Card into my Digi-Cam Formatted it.
Changed the Rom.
Now it works.
Anyways safely remove the drive when plugged into a computer!
i don't have an sd-card adapter unfortunately, the only way i can plug it in is via my phone. I cannot seem to find a disk utility on windows that will read the external sd, i can only find the internal from my computer.
i will try and get hold of an sd-adapter and let you know if it works
fixed the problem!
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fixed the problem!
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how did you fix the problem?
My phone recognizes the internal storage but i keep getting "sd card is damaged, try reformatting it" in the notification bar.
when I click on format, it says "unmounting sd card" but nothing happens.
Thanks,
Luke
*edit.. nvm.
I put my SD card in my old x10 and in settings/storage I erased my SD card.
Works fine now
I think It all started when I using linux to access the sdcard of my p970 2 days ago. I tried to rejected it safely but the computer said some error so I just unplug it anyway.
After that there are some unusual thing such as missing app.
Just then I found that the phone said "The sdcard is either empty or android cannot read this type of sdcard format..."
I used a card reader to check my sdcard but it is broken, so I do a quick format to it.
After that I want to do a clockworkmod recovery backup but it failed with a message
Waiting for SD card to mount (20s)
Waiting for SD card to mount (19s)
Waiting for SD card to mount (18s)
...
Waiting for SD card to mount (1s)
Cannot found SD card marker....
then it failed.
What should I do? I want to make a clean reinstallation.
try accessing to it by an usb adapter. copy datas if possible, then format. if you can't access to it at all, it means it's dead. if memory sectors become unreadable, it's dead.
I've borrowed my brother's sdcard...it works just fine.
So I guess the sd card is broken
In addition, when I checked it on the PC, I can do quick format successfully but the full format failed every time
be sure filesystem is fat32 and well partitionned (unique partition) . quick formating is enough.
if windows is dalaying the access to the card, it probably means the card is corrupted or dying