I have been trying this for a day and nothing seem to work so far.
The SD card is working, it can be detected/read/write from phone/pc/mac ,
I can also use the sd card to flash rom onto my phone and all works perfectly,
with disk utility, it confirms the correct partition, 64mb for swap and 1024mb for apps,
(it can be detected but cannot be mounted on my mac so no verify/repair can be done on the partition, but the fat partition can still be verified)
now, when i tried to enable app2sd, my phone says extfs partition cannot be detected under spareParts/data option.
I have tried
repartition the sd card like 20 times
wipe/reflash rom,
wiple/reflash different rom
tried different sd card , the partition works so it's not my phone/partition method
verify/repair sd disk
are there anything else to do to repair? or is it a lost cause?
any help will be appreciated
thanks in advance!
do you have any linux handy? could you do an fdisk -l on the disk and print us the partition table?
perhaps you could also use some windows utility to have a look at the table, perhaps it complains about something, if there is an error.
it may be possible that the sd card has an error in the filesystem area. you could try to plug the sd card into the pc, format it with just one partition and uncheck the quick format option. this way it would check all sectors. you should use the console version of format, i think it should output if there is an error. alternativly i think chkdsk -f prints out the bad bytes and there is another option to make it check for them (but normally a non-quick-format does just that)
thanks for the quick response,
I format with PC and MAC then do the disk check and the first time I did it was with a mac it found 5 cluster file and repaired and have since been error free with only one partition present.
I am gonna try to do the check with terminal see what i can come up with.
fixed
knowing that it's not my phone and not my firmware, I decided to give up on the card even though it's "partly-working".
bought a new card and everything fine now.
However, extensive research showed a lot of people have similar problem and some of them have found the fix by
1. reflash
2. insert the card "correctly"
that's all.
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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 =)
Using Amon_Ra Recovery is not working now for some reason...been waiting over 30 minutes for it to finish partitioning...but it just keeps on going. (16GB card)
I tried using ROM Manager...it said that it worked...but didn't.
Now trying to find a way to partition the SD card...easy as possible.
ADB commands? is there a windows utility?
gparted
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Windows won't help you at all, since it's not able to recognize multiple partitions on SD card and/or EXT2/3/4 partitions.
I have the same problem....the Rom Manager dosen't get the job done.
Why can't recovery partition my card anymore? Weird! When I pull the battery after 2 hours and check the card....it has a partition (unusable) with just below the amount I set it for....
So, this time I figured that I needed to keep it in a bit longer so I left it there for 8 hours (while I was sleeping) and it was still going. So, another battery pull and format of the sd card...
Is my phone telling me that I don't need to have all the apps I want?
Jack_R1 said:
Windows won't help you at all, since it's not able to recognize multiple partitions on SD card and/or EXT2/3/4 partitions.
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Not at all true. I've partitioned mine and others many times on windows (tho of course not with built in software as windows has no native support to EXT 2/3/4 partitions), but if you use something such as gparted, acronis disk editor, partition magic, etc that WILL most definitely work.
That being said, you will not be able to do it via USB cable plugged into phone/pc.
OP, do you happen to have access to a card reader? That would be really the only way to format it from a computer.
i used paragon partition manager
worked fine
+1 for GParted
I lost my sd card data flashing a rom. Could not mount it even thru recovery. Got a card reader, but it won't format it.
Using Mini Partition Tool to troubleshoot. I am not at a point where it shows three partitions. The main 16gb unallocated, logical. The ext3 unformatted 500mb, primary (think I did that by mistake when trying to recover partition). And a 32mb unallocated, logical. All zero used memory.
I need to get back to one partition allocated, primary. Then I can get sd data back on it and reformat thru recovery.
Again using Mini Partition Wizard
Any help please!
OK,
I got it repartitioned as primary and formatted, bu sd card from pc now.
Hope phone recognizes it.
Will update, if I need further help.
Ken
If you want a good program to format your sd card, try SD Formatter.
Download and install that, plug in your sdcard into your sd card reader and format it.
Choose Full Erase On (if possible) and Resize On. It will format your sdcard to factory default and that means even the ext partition will be gone too.
Well, all transferred. Still won't mount. Says can't mount either of the dev/blocks mmcb1k0p1 and mmcb1k0.
Staus bar says sd card damaged.
?????
musashiken,
Thanks, typing while you posted. Based on my last post should I still do that?
Ken
Yeah I think you should try to reformat again with the program I suggested, as that will full format your sd card.
Once done, put your sd card back to the phone and create ext partition in recovery.
At work now but will be working on it.
Thanks
Ken
musashiken,
Thanks, appreciate all your help
That program worked, and I am back up and running
Ken
Glad it worked for you. My sd card kept giving me problems and I have to use this every few rom flashes.
I have a similar problem. I installed a new 32 gb SDHC card in a CDMA Hero running Cryogenmod. All was working well for about 10 days, then I got an error that no SD card was found. I had the original card and tried to get to the Clockwork recovery, no luck. Finally, through Rom manager, (flash alternate recovery to Ramon, then back to Clockwork, I was able to boot into recovery.
I still cannot format the new SDHC card, through Recovery, Windows 7, or the Panasonic program listed above. The Windows format option sees the card as a FAT 121mb card, so does the above program. Is this new card toast? It came with a lifetime warranty from Kingston, but I am mad that it did not make 2 weeks.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Craig
If sdformatter did not work it may be bad.
I always had good luck with it.
Did you have all options set per instructions?
hello every one,
today i had fased a strange prob. which i want to share with u all.
i am having google nexus 1 with cynogenmod 7 installed.
and having sandisk 8gb microsd card. and suddenly today morning it says that "SD card Blank or has unsupported filesystem." i took out my card and mount on my computer and take the entire backup of the data and format it. and incert it but still having the same prob. nothing happen, then i search on net i found on other threads that download the sd card formater and try it. i also tried the same but nothing happen, then on other thread it was mention that try to run chkdsk on computer, with /x comment.. i also done same but still prob. is same.
i am having 3 more micro sd cards of different brands and of different size i also tried them but giving same prob.
nothing happening.
i also open the terminal emulition in my phone and type the commmand mount -a but it says that /etc/fstab not exist.
tell me what i do ? even i am not able to do anything ...
Wow--that is tough to figure out and i am not good at this level of TS.
Sounds like you lost the mount point. It is in etc/fstab
Do you have a backup rom on pc that you can extract etc/fstab from or can you install that rom thru adb with no sd card--
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-install-a-rom-to-an-android-phone-device-without-sd-card/
Can you mount card thru adb--
adb shell
mount /sdcard
exit
Did you use full ersase on and size adj on when you formatted card.
Can you format and partition card outside of phone.
Also, when formatting and wiping for flashing new rom you may want to get Temasek's Format zips that include boot and system wipes.
http://www.mediafire.com/?bxfijcp6f6bf1me#1
Someone will have a better and more accurate answer soon--
Ken
Okay, so I inserted my SD card into my moto E5 and chose to format it as internal storage. I ignored the warning that told me once it was formatted to be used as internal it would no longer be able to be used in any other device. I of course ignored this thinking they only meant id have to reformat it and lose all my stuff on their when I did, but of course once formatted I could pop it in anything. Now I realize I can't reformat it, at least I don't know how. I have tried using the app a parted to delete and create partitions and volumes etc, I have tried to use disk part in windows to clean, modify read only attributes, convert gpt, delete repair etc. Nothing has worked. Is their a way to get rid of the gpt partition on my ONN micro SD card and then reformat it so I can use it either in a different phone or anything at all? Thanks in advance
micahlynn29 said:
Okay, so I inserted my SD card into my moto E5 and chose to format it as internal storage. I ignored the warning that told me once it was formatted to be used as internal it would no longer be able to be used in any other device. I of course ignored this thinking they only meant id have to reformat it and lose all my stuff on their when I did, but of course once formatted I could pop it in anything. Now I realize I can't reformat it, at least I don't know how. I have tried using the app a parted to delete and create partitions and volumes etc, I have tried to use disk part in windows to clean, modify read only attributes, convert gpt, delete repair etc. Nothing has worked. Is their a way to get rid of the gpt partition on my ONN micro SD card and then reformat it so I can use it either in a different phone or anything at all? Thanks in advance
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You should be able to go to
Settings/storage
Select adoptable storage
And format it as portable storage
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Already tried that. Doesn't let me. Gets to 20 percent real fast then i get an error. Its not showing as being read only. At first when I would try to format it or anything it would say write protected. I must have fixed that part cause it doesn't say that anymore. Every command I push to it in aparted and disk part says it completes successfully, clean, delete partition, delete volume, create partition, etc. When I insert it into the Motorola it tells me my transcend sd card do I want to format it as internal or portable. Both options now fail. When I use an adapter and add it to the computer I can only see it in disk management and the only option not greyed out is delete option. When I put it into a rooted s4 I can view it just fine, and says it's 74% full, shows all of my original folders I had on it but all those folders show as empty. It shows with a 16mb volume and a 15861mb partition and lists both as primary.
micahlynn29 said:
Already tried that. Doesn't let me. Gets to 20 percent real fast then i get an error. Its not showing as being read only. At first when I would try to format it or anything it would say write protected. I must have fixed that part cause it doesn't say that anymore. Every command I push to it in aparted and disk part says it completes successfully, clean, delete partition, delete volume, create partition, etc. When I insert it into the Motorola it tells me my transcend sd card do I want to format it as internal or portable. Both options now fail. When I use an adapter and add it to the computer I can only see it in disk management and the only option not greyed out is delete option. When I put it into a rooted s4 I can view it just fine, and says it's 74% full, shows all of my original folders I had on it but all those folders show as empty. It shows with a 16mb volume and a 15861mb partition and lists both as primary.
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Edit:
Nevermind
Sd card Motor e5
Locked SD card after formatting SD CARD without removing secured apps....
Now limited use of card.
Only reformatted in Windows.. Problem.
Wrong partitions info.
Trying to recover it in Linux testdisk
Steps to do ?
Working on it. If anyone can help to start me in the write ... Lol rewrite directions.. Thank you
Note in found the EFI partition. Doing a deep search.