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Rooted g1 no longer recognizes sd card

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.

Help... SD won't detect

Okay, it's irritating. try googling but it is not even a search result or probably I'm a dumb.
I got pissed right now. After try an android on X1 and feel I like it, it's stucked at somewhat. So I soft reset it and now when log in to WinMo it asked me to format the SD Card, after i try it. the SD is till not detected.
Then plug USB Cable but still the computer just sound beep twice and show none in my Computer.
I try to remove the SD to my Aspen and Nokia 5800 but they also can't detect it. I have no micro SD reader or adapter so I can't try on PC.
Help me.

VSJ said:
Help me.
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"Please" would have been a nice addition here
Not sure what you might have messed up with Android, but to check the SD there's only two options:
get a new one and try again or
get yourself a µSD reader of any kind, shouldn't be too expensive
BTW: You say you installed Android and after soft reset you are in WinMo again? That doesn't sound like really having "installed" Android to me - might be an idea to post your question where you got whatever you installed on your phone to get the Android feeling.....

louis0815 said:
"Please" would have been a nice addition here
Not sure what you might have messed up with Android, but to check the SD there's only two options:
get a new one and try again or
get yourself a µSD reader of any kind, shouldn't be too expensive
BTW: You say you installed Android and after soft reset you are in WinMo again? That doesn't sound like really having "installed" Android to me - might be an idea to post your question where you got whatever you installed on your phone to get the Android feeling.....
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I'm sorry 'please' has several meaning in my culture. My culture prohibit a girl to ask 'please' to anonymous. If that word helpful, okay, please help me.
English isn't my language so you might interpret what I want to say wrongly.
Android is installed and I had run it for days. Once upon time, in the middle of proccessing something, it stuck so I did a soft reset. Then I boot into Windows Mobile (not Android) -DualBOOT- and Windows Mobile ask me to format microSD Card but after it is formatted, the card is invisible. update: I borrow my friend's an imported SD Card, microSD is detected but the computer ask to insert in it.

VSJ said:
My culture prohibit a girl to ask 'please' to anonymous.
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OK, couldn't see that (neither your gender nor your origin) - was not meant offensive though
English isn't my language so you might interpret what I want to say wrongly.
Android is installed and I had run it for days. Once upon time, in the middle of proccessing something, it stuck so I did a soft reset. Then I boot into Windows Mobile (not Android) -DualBOOT- and Windows Mobile ask me to format microSD Card but after it is formatted, the card is invisible. update: I borrow my friend's an imported SD Card, microSD is detected but the computer ask to insert in it.
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dualBoot was the missing detail for me.....
Purely guessing as I am not an Android expert:
Were you able to boot into WinMo before that "crash"?
Were you able to boot into Android after the crash?
Can Android handle FAT32 formatted cards?

louis0815 said:
OK, couldn't see that (neither your gender nor your origin) - was not meant offensive though
dualBoot was the missing detail for me.....
Purely guessing as I am not an Android expert:
Were you able to boot into WinMo before that "crash"?
Were you able to boot into Android after the crash?
Can Android handle FAT32 formatted cards?
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It's Okay,
Yes no problem before. I'm not sure how my card formatted but it's original coming from the package.

Try to format SD card in computer with FAT32.
For dual boot you have make partition formated with Ext2 right? What prograd did you use for partitioning of SD? Minitool partition? Try to delete partitions used for Android.

Hi VSJ,
are u using XDAAndroid from frayaab, (I see ur post there too). My SD is also fried out. You're not alone. at least, there're 2-3 people who have the same problem. Someone said that the SD is fried out.
louis0815 said:
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Were you able to boot into Android after the crash?
Can Android handle FAT32 formatted cards?
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RBRiddick said:
Try to format SD card in computer with FAT32.
For dual boot you have make partition formated with Ext2 right? What prograd did you use for partitioning of SD? Minitool partition? Try to delete partitions used for Android.
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You should know that in X1 port Android, There are two types of releases: ones with ext2 partition and ones without. And I think this girl have android without EXT2 partition. Anyway question if Android can detect is is pretty lame, no offense, I think if the Storage Card isn't working how can you run the Android...
Don't you read that the card isn't detected. It's pretty clear, our problem that the card isn't even detected from OS File Explorer. How can that ur suggested software can detect it?

Hi VSJ, I want to update you. I've asked my friend w/o lucky and bring the card to SESC, I can assure you that SE won't guaranty SD Card.

Thank you for trying to help me.
Since the problem is occurred to many people, I dunno think that the Android only killed mine. I'm giving up. I think it's over a hardware issue.
The developer of the android also has no idea why the problem can be occurred.

[Q] Galaxy Ace kills SD cards?

Hey Guys,
my sister has a galaxy ace, it runs Stock 2.3.6 and it has problems with micro sd cards. Two of them became write protected and i don´t know to get them back to life. Hope you could help me and may say somthing about same problems and how to solve them, cause i don´t know so much about this device.
Trissy

U tried formatting the SD card???

King ACE said:
U tried formatting the SD card???
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Write protected, not possible.

King ACE said:
U tried formatting the SD card???
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what he said.
btw i've never heard of sga making sdcard write protected. maybe its virus infecting the sdcard?
and yes, pc virus can infect phone sdcard.
my friend who own a neo v just busted his sdcard few days ago by a virus that infecting his sdcard and deleting all mp3's and pictures and replacing them with its copy.

I think u shud just ask the person u got it from..coz this doesnt seem to be the case with me or the other users...i can use SD cards all right..
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an0nym0us_ said:
what he said.
btw i've never heard of sga making sdcard write protected. maybe its virus infecting the sdcard?
and yes, pc virus can infect phone sdcard.
my friend who own a neo v just busted his sdcard few days ago by a virus that infecting his sdcard and deleting all mp3's and pictures and replacing them with its copy.
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+1 to that...i think this is the first time someone's got a problem with the SGA affecting SD cards..

After this problem appeard a second time i made a full wipe in recovery and installed a virusprotector since then there was nothing, but between the first and the second time there were two months.

Maybe its due to the apps u might have installed...Let the fone run and see if the virusprotector makes any difference..
Hit thanks if u got helped!

Now there is nothing it runs once a day may it really was a virus and i kille it by making the full wipe and reinstalling the firmware. But thanks for ure wasted time. May i could get the sd cars back and i hope the phone doesnt do this again in future.

TrissyGE said:
Now there is nothing it runs once a day may it really was a virus and i kille it by making the full wipe and reinstalling the firmware. But thanks for ure wasted time. May i could get the sd cars back and i hope the phone doesnt do this again in future.
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it might be pc virus, came from any of pc the phone once connected to.
i doest make any difference if today u clean the phone and th next day its infected again by virus from the pc
scan the pc too just to be sure.
if the phone have never ever connected to pc, just ignore my post

Ah no...i am lazing around xda neways
Yeah...just keep the virusprotector on the fone just in case...

what class of your sd card and brnd?
send from my haramjadah Ace using Xda premium.

If you are using SD Card Tweaks such as improving speed then what did you except?
If you are using stock rom without stock then your SD Card is really weird/bad model (or even producent is weak). I'm using for about 6 months 8GB Kingston 4 Class MicroSDHC with lifetime warranty and I don't have any troubles with it.

The SD Card might be defective. I wouldn't blame the phone though, unless you're messing with sdcard cache and such
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It's very unlikely that a phone can "lock" an SD card. Did you tried connecting it to the computer and setting write permissions. Even if it's lock, it's a software lock, so it should let you format it (as I said, sounds like the SD is as "read only")
I hope it helps

Did you partition/format/wipe it using CWM ?
It seems it cause some problem to some people (like missing apps on the partition or "not writable" mode).
You can format it with PC (be sure that MicroSD Adapter isnt lock too)!

When i turn on my phone then display me this http://dl.xda-developers.com/attach.../5130601b/1/7/7/0/3/6/1/SC20130301-083713.png i dont know what mean Error DF XX?
I have another question.
I format my sd card, then i put some data on it, but when i start the phone, and go to recovery mode, then i dont have any file on it.
I dont have mini sd adapter, can i solve problem without it?
When i make ext 4 in mini partition wizard, then when i restart my phone, dont have any data on it and phone tell me the sd card is damage.
I can't go to CMW beacuse everything is deleted when restart phone.
Any solution?

THERE IS A BUTTON ON THE SIDE OF YOUR SD CARD READER. IT SAYS 'LOCK'. FLIP IT.
Sorry for writing in capitals, just making sure people read this.
Sent from my pet - Megatron™

I think there is no button on the side of the phone or micro sd card

prlek86 said:
I think there is no button on the side of the phone or micro sd card
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I am talking about the sd card adapter which you insert in your computer
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Try a software called MINI TOOL PARTITION. It might help you.
And connect sd with adapter

Internal/external cards won't mount + No rom to boot

Hello, Finally made an account after lurking and flashing for a few months. This one is really stumping me...
SO.....
I was going to do a new install and wiped everything. I was trying to get the full size of my external 32gig card back after partitioning it for a app2sd setup and formatted it with disk utility(OSX). I ended up formatting the internal(I Know) by accident being a fast-click McGraw. I caught my mistake and formatted the external like originally planned. I think I formatted them to vfat.
After all this formatting, CWM and ADB won't mount my disks. CWM will not format them either because they won't mount. I have no rom loaded to boot into and I can't flash a new one because neither drive will mount.
I have been trying what seems like so many different things to include trying to make an EFI bootable Linux Live usb(didn't boot). This issue would probably be fixed by now if I wasn't using OSX but hey, it's what I have to work with. If anyone can help end my multi-day madness with a solution, great appreciation would be had.

sand_dog said:
Hello, Finally made an account after lurking and flashing for a few months. This one is really stumping me...
SO.....
I was going to do a new install and wiped everything. I was trying to get the full size of my external 32gig card back after partitioning it for a app2sd setup and formatted it with disk utility(OSX). I ended up formatting the internal(I Know) by accident being a fast-click McGraw. I caught my mistake and formatted the external like originally planned. I think I formatted them to vfat.
After all this formatting, CWM and ADB won't mount my disks. CWM will not format them either because they won't mount. I have no rom loaded to boot into and I can't flash a new one because neither drive will mount.
I have been trying what seems like so many different things to include trying to make an EFI bootable Linux Live usb(didn't boot). This issue would probably be fixed by now if I wasn't using OSX but hey, it's what I have to work with. If anyone can help end my multi-day madness with a solution, great appreciation would be had.
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Use Odin and flash back to stock Google xda wiki exhibit. You will have to be on windows so just install windows 8 trial on a virtual machine. You all ready tried all the other ideas i have for getting it to mount so...
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theAPANT said:
Use Odin and flash back to stock Google xda wiki exhibit. You will have to be on windows so just install windows 8 trial on a virtual machine. You all ready tried all the other ideas i have for getting it to mount so...
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Is there a linux or OSX solution? I have no problem running a Linux VM. I really don't want to have to sign up with M$ if I can avoid it.

sand_dog said:
Is there a linux or OSX solution? I have no problem running a Linux VM. I really don't want to have to sign up with M$ if I can avoid it.
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Yea i understand im not a big of ms. Running Linux isn't really beneficial since you can do everything in osx. You can even compile but getting some packages is a pain. Anyways can you not push anything to / or does that partition not even exist? You could try mounting USB storage from recovery but i doubt that would work. We don't have hiemdal for this phone or you could use linux. Windows might be your only option find an iso somewhere if you don't want to register or download enterprise 7 by providing whatever the info it asks for, make it up.
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theAPANT said:
Yea i understand im not a big of ms. Running Linux isn't really beneficial since you can do everything in osx. You can even compile but getting some packages is a pain. Anyways can you not push anything to / or does that partition not even exist? You could try mounting USB storage from recovery but i doubt that would work. We don't have hiemdal for this phone or you could use linux. Windows might be your only option find an iso somewhere if you don't want to register or download enterprise 7 by providing whatever the info it asks for, make it up.
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I can connect USB storage in CWM recovery and can shell into the system. What, where, and how would I to push to the device?

sand_dog said:
I can connect USB storage in CWM recovery and can shell into the system. What, where, and how would I to push to the device?
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Use this command or something similar.
./adb push /file path of ROM /
But if USB works then when its mounted just put a ROM on drag and drop and flash it.
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Got it fixed!
While my Exhibit was down, I started using this Blackberry Curve I have as a backup. Decided to put my microSD in it and formatted it. I saw that it put the card back to its original storage space and got rid of the non-accessible partition. Loaded my backup onto it, CWM finally mounted it, and I flashed it.
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regain flashdrive capacity...

I used diskimager to flash a 4gb img to a 16gb usb flashdrive to install cwm to my ovation... this was months ago, and I forgot about it... now I can't figure out how to get back my 16gb flashdrive... can't even seem to format it properly... not sure what I'm doing wrong... any help would be greatly appreciated!

blast0id said:
I used diskimager to flash a 4gb img to a 16gb usb flashdrive to install cwm to my ovation... this was months ago, and I forgot about it... now I can't figure out how to get back my 16gb flashdrive... can't even seem to format it properly... not sure what I'm doing wrong... any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Back up any data you need, then use SDFormatter: https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/
Under Options, turn on Format Size Adjustment.

blast0id said:
I used diskimager to flash a 4gb img to a 16gb usb flashdrive to install cwm to my ovation... this was months ago, and I forgot about it... now I can't figure out how to get back my 16gb flashdrive... can't even seem to format it properly... not sure what I'm doing wrong... any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Get SDFormatter free on the web. It will return it to full size.
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leapinlar said:
Get SDFormatter free on the web. It will return it to full size.
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thanks, I tried that, but it won't even recognize the drive... I've also tried the HP-USB-Formatter tool... with no luck... I dunno what's going on...

blast0id said:
thanks, I tried that, but it won't even recognize the drive... I've also tried the HP-USB-Formatter tool... with no luck... I dunno what's going on...
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What kind of card reader are you using? That could be the problem. Also try a partitioning software like Mini-Tool partition wizard.
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leapinlar said:
What kind of card reader are you using? That could be the problem. Also try a partitioning software like Mini-Tool partition wizard.
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It's an ADATA USB3.0 usb flash drive, not a card. I used a double female connector to connect it to the nook cord.
I've tried mini-tool parition also... lol... I think this drive must have been washed or something... diskpart can see it, I can create a primary partition, make it active...etc... but as for formatting nothing seems to work...

blast0id said:
It's an ADATA USB3.0 usb flash drive, not a card. I used a double female connector to connect it to the nook cord.
I've tried mini-tool parition also... lol... I think this drive must have been washed or something... diskpart can see it, I can create a primary partition, make it active...etc... but as for formatting nothing seems to work...
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I have never heard of someone using a flashdrive to boot a nook. I noticed you were calling it a flashdrive earlier, but thought you just had your terms mixed up. That is weird. And I have no idea how to fix it.
Edit: You actually got that flashdrive to boot in a Nook HD/HD+? With the USB cable?
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leapinlar said:
Edit: You actually got that flashdrive to boot in a Nook HD/HD+? With the USB cable?
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I honestly don't remember I just know I had burned a cwm image to it... for some reason, and that's the only reason I can think of doing it...
this is the image I had imaged the flashdrive with: NookHDplus-bootable-CWM-6028-for-stock-4GB-rev4-(05.15.13)