I lost my internal storage - LG Optimus 2x

Hi all,
I was on my O2X installing Nova HD 1.0.3 ROM for the third time, to test some different configuration, and I set the swap memory to 256 MB, when I finished flashing the ROM my internal memory had disappeared, it shows mnt\emmc as empty and with 0 Bytes, in CMW when I try to mount \emmc it gives an error "can't mount \emmc. Then I tried reinstall the ROM without swap memory, no success, tried restore backup, again no success, still without internal storage, as a last hope I tried to connect the phone to PC and format internal memory with Partition Wizard, but it don't recognizes de internal memory. Windows recognizes it, but with no information, and when I try to access or format, it gives an error saying to inser a disk at that unit.
I would be very thankful if anyone could help me.
Sorry by bad English.
EDIT: Sorry, but I found the solution right after start this thread. After has tried all the above I tried the simple: I just went to phone settings and selected the option Erase SD Card, just after erased, the memory reappeared.

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Faulty Internal Storage

After trying many things to correct it I have concluded that:
1. My internal storage is corrupting every thing on it.
2. I can no longer install anything from the internal storage
3. I cant flash from the internal storage.
I have tried hard reset with clearing the internal nand, formatting the internal storage in windows, reflashing to 6 different roms including HTC original.
Any help anyone? getting desparate now.
35mmslr said:
After trying many things to correct it I have concluded that:
1. My internal storage is corrupting every thing on it.
2. I can no longer install anything from the internal storage
3. I cant flash from the internal storage.
I have tried hard reset with clearing the internal nand, formatting the internal storage in windows, reflashing to 6 different roms including HTC original.
Any help anyone? getting desparate now.
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I had the same problem until I formated it Fat32 in Windows.
I suppose you tried it already.
Regards
Yep, tried formatting to fat32, just tried mtty and task 29 and that did not work. now gonna try task 29, flash an old 1.9x rom, hard reset nand and then reflash to see if that works

SD card problem? cannot read properly

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.

Changing partition table ?

Hello Guys !
The internal SD card partition is ****ed up and it shows as "unmounted".
I tried a lot of things, including connecting the phone to computer and formating the damn internal storage, but when i plug the USB cable, the phone says that don't have SD card and don't allow full access or Mass Storage.
I tried some programs and file explorers who claimed that can format partitions. No one of them did works.
I tried from the settings of the device to format the internal storage, but i can't change or touch anything, because it shows the internal storage as "unmounted".
I flash it to the stock rom but in the process of flashing, it don't even touch anything in the partition table and after the flashing, the internal SD card is still "unmounted".
Is there any program, tool, way to repartition the partition table on the device ?
I have searched for that in google and i didn't find anything of that sort for Xperia X8.
My other phone, LG Optimus 2X for example, it have AIO toolkit and from there i can change his partition table as i want.
I doubt in that i can't do the same on Xperia X8.
What can i do in this case ?
By "Internal SD card partition" do you mean the Data partition?
Yes.
Are you sure? Does your phone boot? Are you able to install apps?
I mean... that partition where the other data like music, videos, files for apps are stored in there or the partition that file managers sees.
And now this partition is broken and unmounted. The phone show stupid errors everywhere, of the type of "Put your SD card to make photos" or "No SD card" in every app that store data...Now i can't do nothing, i can't even transfer one song and set it as default rington.
But the phone starts up successfully and i have no problem with installing apps from the old "Android Market".
Then that would be your Externel MicroSD Card. If you take the back cover off your phone it should be in the top right corner.
Try taking it out and using an MicroSD card adapter to connect it to your pc and format it.
Or use an app called "AParted" from the Play Store to format your MicroSD Card(Root access required).
No. The phone don't have inserted SD card. I am talking about the "internal SD card". As far as i know, the partition that the file managers sees is the partition left for free data storage, and that is not the whole memory, there is another partition that is hidden and is for the system files for android.
So, the phone boots up and "works" but i need to make repartitioning, but i don't know how to do it on this phone and what is the procedure if there is a way.
AtanasP said:
No. The phone don't have inserted SD card. I am talking about the "internal SD card". As far as i know, the partition that the file managers sees is the partition left for free data storage, and that is not the whole memory, there is another partition that is hidden and is for the system files for android.
So, the phone boots up and "works" but i need to make repartitioning, but i don't know how to do it on this phone and what is the procedure if there is a way.
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The phone has 2 main partitions one is System(For OS related files and folders) and the other one is Data(For Apps and App Data), No File Manager can see whats in them(Unless you have Root Access). The only thing that would be visible to your File Manager would be whats in your MicroSD Card. If you don't have a MicroSD Card you will not be able to save any pictures or videos or any thing like that(Just like any other Android Phone with a MicroSD Card Slot)
So, this phone uses the whole internal memory for the system ? And its required to put a microSD card to be able to use the phone ?
All my android phones has a partition for free storage and i am suprised of that i can't storage anything without SD card.
This Phone only has 250MB of Internal Storage and it uses about 128MB for System. That leaves you with around 122MB to install Apps. The Phone is 100% Usable without a MicroSD Card, the only thing you will not be able to do is Save any type of External File(Video. Audio, ect.)

[Q] Cannot find internal sdcard. :/

-SOLVED BY USING ODIN, AND FLASHING A STOCK ROM-
Samsung GT-S5830
So i installed some custom GB rom a long time ago on my friends phone.
Now he gave it back to me because nothing was working anymore.
The problem is when i try to open the file manager in the phone it says there is no internal sdcard, furthermore in the settings at partition settings it shows me:
/system 183mb/ 206mb
/data 65mb/178 mb
/cache 4mb/ 25mb
/sdcard (FAT) 0.00B / 0.00B
/ext-sdcard (EXT) unavailable (not 1 in the phone)
As you can see, the phone acts like it has no internal storage at all wich make it impossible to put anything on the phone.
I have tried using ODIN to flash a factory default rom, but my computer does not recoqnize the device when i put it in download mode. so that does not work.
I however installed the lastest TWRP, to try making my own partitions in there but that also did not work.
after that i downloaded cm11, put it on a external sd card and flashed the rom.
this all worked fine, but still NO INTERNAL SDCARD.
I am guessing that my friend has been screwing with some files or whatever.
Anyone got any tips?
shatred said:
Samsung GT-S5830
So i installed some custom GB rom a long time ago on my friends phone.
Now he gave it back to me because nothing was working anymore.
The problem is when i try to open the file manager in the phone it says there is no internal sdcard, furthermore in the settings at partition settings it shows me:
/system 183mb/ 206mb
/data 65mb/178 mb
/cache 4mb/ 25mb
/sdcard (FAT) 0.00B / 0.00B
/ext-sdcard (EXT) unavailable (not 1 in the phone)
As you can see, the phone acts like it has no internal storage at all wich make it impossible to put anything on the phone.
I have tried using ODIN to flash a factory default rom, but my computer does not recoqnize the device when i put it in download mode. so that does not work.
I however installed the lastest TWRP, to try making my own partitions in there but that also did not work.
after that i downloaded cm11, put it on a external sd card and flashed the rom.
this all worked fine, but still NO INTERNAL SDCARD.
I am guessing that my friend has been screwing with some files or whatever.
Anyone got any tips?
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Why your sdcard have FAT format instead of FAT32?
Try to backup it using a PC and then format it in FAT32, but forget ext partitions for the moment
Viper The Ripper said:
Why your sdcard have FAT format instead of FAT32?
Try to backup it using a PC and then format it in FAT32, but forget ext partitions for the moment
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Sir, it is impossible to format an INTERNAL sd card just simply by connecting it to a pc. You are talking about external sd cards here. (that's just part of the memory the phone internal has, there is no physical sd card here).
Anyway, i fixed the problem by flashing stock rom in odin wich has reformarted, and partitioned, it correctly.
shatred said:
Sir, it is impossible to format an INTERNAL sd card just simply by connecting it to a pc. You are talking about external sd cards here. (that's just part of the memory the phone internal has, there is no physical sd card here).
Anyway, i fixed the problem by flashing stock rom in odin wich has reformarted, and partitioned, it correctly.
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Mmm... ok, well I'm glad you've solved your problem

After the stock rom (Marshmallow to Lollipop) affected my SD card formating!

Hello, so the thing about my sdcard before I do the download only option with my phone Lenovo A7000, after I did the whole process everything is done, but I have noticed that the system probably affected to the sdcard slot on the phone, why? Because it says 16GB on the card, I put it on my phone and tells me that the card is corrupted and I formated it right, and what happened? It shows me on the phone 16MB max, and I did everything on it. I downloaded the EaseUS Partition Master tool, I deleted the partition, created a new one and it did nothing, still asks for the format because is corrupted and I have the 16MB again, tried to format it to a different type known as NTFS instead of FAT12, still gets the problem no matter what I do, if you know the solution, please reply,comment whatever. Asnwer whenever you have time. Thank you!
the problem you are facing usually happens with lenovo a7000 on marshmallow after an unsuccessful formating the partition become 16mb of size to fix this directly insert your sd card in your computer go to disk management and there you will see a partition of 16mb size and an unallocated space of whatever is left delete your partition make a new one and format it with ntfs , i hope this helps
Firstly, do not use NTFS, you're better off with FAT32. Also, in Easeus partition manager, did you apply the changes?

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