I have SD card problems
I still have the 2.1 stock that came with my bell i9000m -- i rooted, RyanZa's lag fix and that's about it. No flashing. No keis firmware updates etc.
But a few times every day if I try to say attach a pic, or do something that requires the SD card, it says nothings there. I go into settings, and I see NOTHING in terms of SD card OR my external card (32gb)
Though after I reboot it's there.
But why does it keep disappearing ?
I have to reboot 4-5 times every day b/c these cards just randomly disappear.
How do I fix this ?
It may or may not be related. But after I installed JPC (after a bunch of other Firmwares) my bell i9000m ran as good as JPC runs on anyone elses phone.
Then I installed RyanZa's lagfix and instant Forcecloses, Reboot and eventually loss of both sd cards. I was able to recover and flash to a 2.1 rom but I did read (after I executed it) that the lagfix may not work well with JPC/2.2.
I am not saying anything bad about the ext3 lagfix but it I think it may have had a hand in corrupting/losing partitions on my i9000m along with other issues.
A lot of people with bell i9000m have had related SD problems though. And my girlfriends completely stock one is starting to have issue with freezes, fcs, and reboots.
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Hi, I bought a 16GB sd card for the phone today and when I got home I loaded some music etc. onto the card via my laptops sd card reader.
I think isntalled it into the phone and everything worked great.
The problem is when I try to access the card via the phone I only have read access.
This is driving me crazy and I don't wanna have to remove the card every time to add to it.
I'm running Modaco's 2.2 Froyo rom.
Any help would be great.
Thanks.
Unfortunately, this is a bug with JP3 firmware. It annoys me too but I don't think anyone has come up with a fix yet.. :S
You could just flash another firmware, but personally I'm going to wait for the next froyo release. JP3 is quite nice otherwise.
THanks for the quick responce. Its good to know that it isn't me phone that is causing the problem. Hope it gets fixed in the next Rom.
Thanks again.
I have found a partial work around to this, assuming it's the same issue on my Froyo flashed SGS;
If you install Android Manager WiFi on your SGS, and the matching app on your PC you can transfer files to the External SD card. The only problem I've encountered is that you can only shift individual files, or blocks of files, but not nested structures (ie, your music arranged by artists in folders).
http://global.mobileaction.com/tutorial/am/agent/
Hope that helps a little
Please hear me out, as I know that this is not a typical dev forum question: As far as I can tell, I have an issue that seems to be affecting a good number of users. I was hoping that this thread might help someone in the Dev community figure out the problem.
I have a Canadian I9000M running Darkys ROM with NO lagfix and all tweaks but misc enabled. It has been running for 2 weeks without issue. I have multiple CWM backups on the internal SD card.
OK, here is what happened. This morning my phone was off and unresponsive, after removing and replacing the battery, the phone would boot up but the internal SD card would not mount in Android, giving the message "internal SD card damaged".
Tried to flash a whole bunch of backups, ROMs, kernals, etc. incl various Eclair and Froyo. Nothing will successfully boot except for my backup of Darky`s Froyo, and of course the internal SD is not available - as well as all my apps and settings. I was only able to boot the phone again when I flashed the Super Optimized Kernal and used CWM to restore my last backup.
I can`t mount the SD in any way - from within Android or CWM.
Here is the interesting part. CWM can still see my backups and restore them! So the internal SD is still functional to some degree, right?
Question: Can I move the CWM backups off the internal SD from within recovery mode? I tried playing with adb but couldn`t figure it out. I would like to avoid trying to reformat the internal SD before I can do this.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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OK, so it looks like because the SD card was getting flaky, adb was not behaving consistently. I was able to connect to the phone in recovery mode and pull the entire contents of the internal SD using adb pull.
Now, anyone have any ideas to get my SD card back in Android??? Reflashing ROMs with PIT doesn't seem to do it. I will try again...
John
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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For the past few weeks, my phone has been randomly rebooting. I would say about 20 times a day. I cant nail down a pattern. Sometimes its while im using it, sometimes its while its idol. Here is what Ive tried so far:
Reinstalled Rom (different versions)
Reinstalled DT A2SD
Whiped Everything (dalvik, SD, and everything else).
Formatted SD card with Amon_RA's recovery.
New Battery
I've tried running a logcat, but this doesn't tell me anything. It just stops when it reboots.
The only thing I havent tried is purchasing a new SD card. I want to see if I have any other options before I do that. I feel like there is something i'm missing. Ive read something about formatting the SD card in windows, instead of in the phone. Are there any other things I can do to troubleshoot? Log's I can check?
Phone Details:
Nexus One
Amon_RA Recovery
CM7 Nightlies
16GB Class 10 SD
DT A2SD
EXT3 SD partition for apps & Dalvik
Thanks for any help that can be provided
It's a known hardware issue.
You have to send your device back to HTC for repair.
I've seen a few claims that similar problems are actually caused by a bad SIM. I've no idea how accurate this is, but it's easy enough to test...?
Have had NC rooted w CM7 since April w no problems.
As of month ago, SD card has not stayed in. Seems spring that locks card in is junk. Tried other cards and same thing so has to be hardware.
Because of this, can't download any files, update CM7, CWM, etc. Total bummer.
Can I flash CWM and CM7 directly to emmc or is that impossible w/o SD card?
Have searched multiple forums for resolutions to this issue but no one else seems to have this problem.
Would hate to lose this functionality and have a crippled NC.
Thanks in advance
I never done that but according to my read, you have 2 options
1. Flash CwMR (aka ROM Manager) into eMMC and using it.
2. If you can get ADB working, you can push stuff over.
I had exactly that problem and it happened right in the middle of an update and would not reboot at all. Here is what I did:
Fished out my original, bootable SD card with Nightly 86 and the apps pack, put it in the slot and held it all the way in. Booted up and reinstalled CM7 to the eMMC. (I did not wipe anything but Davlik so I still had all my apps and settings. Then, rebooted into CM7 while holding my regular SD card in place, opened ROM Manager and reinstalled Nightly 201. (I had to hold the SD card in throughout this process to complete which was very strenuous.) Now I am back to where I was, except the SD card slot is basically useless. I called in under warranty and a new Nook is on the way. When I get it I will go through this tiresome process one more time to revert the current Nook to stock before i return it.
If you were only running CM7 off the SD card and still have a functioning stock Nook, forget everything i just said and call them up to request a replacement under warranty. If your warranty is over, you are either stuck with stock or you will have to root the way I just mentioned above.