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Internal Storage 4gb WONT Work After CLEAR STORAGE AND FORMAT INTERNAL STORAGE!! HELP

I just got my phone and i put some files on it, i wanted to get rid of them but since it was a lot of them i figured i go to Settings>System tab>Clear Sorage> and selected Clear storage and format internal storage. from the drop down window and went ahead and pressed yes. The phone restarted and i had to do all the settings over again(which i was expecting), To see if i succeeded i went back to Settings> System tab>Memory>Storage Card tab, and there i seen the following Total storage card memory: Not installed. I tried soft resetting the phone and that did not work, i tried to do the hard reset but the hard reset does not work, all my phone does is it restarts(and i followed the instructions : hold down vol. down and enter key, than tap reset button under battery cover) and i tried this countless times. So that did not work either. If anyone have any idea, on what i can do? The phone is from sprint and i cant access the rom update from the htc website. I'll take any suggestions at this point. Thanks

When you do the Volume Down, Center button, Reset you can also choose to erase your NAND as well (I think Volume Down instead of Up).
If this does not help - try installing another ROM and do the same again.
If that doesn't help, I'm out of ideas. Sorry, I'm no expert. :-(

i had the same iusse awhile back. heres a quick soultion taken from http://http://forums.intomobile.com/htc/49834-htc-touch-diamond-internal-memory-problem.html
1.connect your phone to the pc and choose the disk drive option instead of active sync.Open the computer folder and u should see only one option as as external drive or something like it.
2.right click on the folder and see its properties.U should be able to see that it istill has its 3.7g memory showing.If not u will see it on the next topic.
4.Right click on the storage folder and choose the option FORMAT.
5.U will do the full format of that storage not the quick one.On this level u should see on the format window that the 3.7 g is there right?
6.If not disconnect the phone and connect to the pc again till u see it.
Is just unbeliavable that we as costumers have to come up with the solutions for these stupids issues.SHAME on u SPRINT and HTC.
7.Once u start formating it will take about 10 to 15 min to finish.Dont touch your phone till it ends,just leave it connected to the pc.
8.Once is done u go to check where u usually saw the NOT INSTALLED stupid message and find out that the 4g is back.It should be ,if not soft reset your phone.Or start over.
9.Its not over yet.It will show internal memory 2 now and on the device information on your phone it still not reconize the 4g on the internal storage list on HARDWARE.its ok for now.
10.Now u will perform the HARD RESET on your phone using the clear storage option on settings.Pick the Clear storage and format internal storage option before typing 1234.Ok now once u started the hard reset it shows a quick error message as unable to locate storage or something like it.Dont worry about it.
Once the phone start up again go to the device information and see it is back to normal and there is not internal storage2 anymore ,only internal storage.
Now u are back in business again.I hope this information helped u and i thank the guys who discovered it.Not the HTC or SPRINT who didnt know how to fix this.BIG SHAME and please come up with the new ROM already so u dont get people wasting their time with stupid issues.
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[Q] Help! Corrupted internal SD Card and can't find a way to wipe

First, some background:
I've had the S for 2 months now and about a month ago I applied JG5/Modaco r2 and Mimocam lag fix. All was well, 1800+ benchmark figures and no lag at all. That was until a few days ago....
As I was reading on the device, a number of errors started to pop up, force closes, etc. It stopped responding completely so I took the battery out and rebooted. Straight away I was hit with multiple force close and 'process stopped unexpectedly' messages. Basically, it was an unusable brick.
When I took the SD card out the errors were different so, figuring it was related to the Mimocam fix, I decided to undo it. I removed the symlink to the sd card and copied everything to the local data directory.
That didn't work, so I did a hard reset. Which also didn't work. Worse than that, I now can't get the phone to connect in any way to the PC so can't reflash and I can't access any settings on the phone because the error messages keep appearing and obscuring the screen.
Last thing I tried was repartitioning the SD card to see if the ext3 partition was corrupt and that hasn't helped either.
Which is where I am now. What I really want to do is wipe the internal SD and effect a total factory reset but I can't think of any way to do it. I can't access the phone through adb (device not found), Kies (keeps trying to connect but never does) and I can't do it through the phone. I also can't send it back because it has 'flashed rom' written all over it, especially when a root request pops up in the background.
I'm all out of ideas, short of trying to degauss it somehow.
Help! Please!

You cant get it into download mode ?

Kilack said:
You cant get it into download mode ?
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Or recovery mode: format sd card, clear cache etc ?

Turn the phone off, hold Home + Vol -, then press Power.
I don't see how you can get error messages there...

Doesn't work, I can't get it in to recovery mode. Neither vol up or down work using the 3 button hold. I've tried repeatedly and it just boots as normal, although the animation doesn't display while it boots but it does play the audio.

So I take it I'm f***ed then?

bumping this up and subscribing. I hope you find a solution soon, man.

if you know what your firmware was, get it from samsung-firmwares, get odin, and flash your phone. maybe that will solve your problem.
Keep in mind that I wont be responsible if your phone gets bricked if you mess up the procedure (however the chances of it being bricked is very less if you follow the instructions properly).
search the forum for flashing via odin.

emclondon said:
if you know what your firmware was, get it from samsung-firmwares, get odin, and flash your phone. maybe that will solve your problem.
Keep in mind that I wont be responsible if your phone gets bricked if you mess up the procedure (however the chances of it being bricked is very less if you follow the instructions properly).
search the forum for flashing via odin.
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He said he cant get it into download mode so would be quite hard to flash with odin then...

No, I've tried over and over and d/l mode doesn't work. The phone just reboots.

LeeJS said:
No, I've tried over and over and d/l mode doesn't work. The phone just reboots.
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Try the Vol + Recovery mode. The timing is a bit tricky.
On my phone, if I keep Vol+, Home and Power button held down, the phone goes into a reboot loop (it keeps showing the logo, blank, logo, blank). After the logo appears the 2nd time, wait 1 second then release the Power button. Then it goes into the Recovery mode.
If you can't get it to work, try it without the USB/power plugged in as well.

Tried settings/sd card and phone storage/unmount internal sd/format? Or u could do settings/security/factory reset
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I can't really try that because, as I said, I can't get past any of the error messages that pop up on the phone.
Have had to bite the bullet and take it in to T-mo for a repair and hope they don't notice
Will find out in 28 days.

I had a similar problem with JPC. After a while both the internal and external sd cards crapped out. After pulling the external sd and many tries I was able to boot into recovery mode where it says something like E: cant mount etc.
After pulling the ext sd card I was able to get into download mode and downgrade to JM7 with odin. After formatting with odin. It took two tries.
I still don't have access or storage on both the int and ext sd. I have roughly 2gb storage on the internal non-sd memory of the phone (i am not sure what it is but its enough to run android and I can make calls).
I can't install apps use the camera or anything that uses either of the sd cards for storage.
I did try a new sd card that was installed on the phone when it was stock FW but it doesnt work either.
I have a thread posted about it.

LeeJS said:
First, some background:
I've had the S for 2 months now and about a month ago I applied JG5/Modaco r2 and Mimocam lag fix. All was well, 1800+ benchmark figures and no lag at all. That was until a few days ago....
As I was reading on the device, a number of errors started to pop up, force closes, etc. It stopped responding completely so I took the battery out and rebooted. Straight away I was hit with multiple force close and 'process stopped unexpectedly' messages. Basically, it was an unusable brick.
When I took the SD card out the errors were different so, figuring it was related to the Mimocam fix, I decided to undo it. I removed the symlink to the sd card and copied everything to the local data directory.
That didn't work, so I did a hard reset. Which also didn't work. Worse than that, I now can't get the phone to connect in any way to the PC so can't reflash and I can't access any settings on the phone because the error messages keep appearing and obscuring the screen.
Last thing I tried was repartitioning the SD card to see if the ext3 partition was corrupt and that hasn't helped either.
Which is where I am now. What I really want to do is wipe the internal SD and effect a total factory reset but I can't think of any way to do it. I can't access the phone through adb (device not found), Kies (keeps trying to connect but never does) and I can't do it through the phone. I also can't send it back because it has 'flashed rom' written all over it, especially when a root request pops up in the background.
I'm all out of ideas, short of trying to degauss it somehow.
Help! Please!
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am wondering, did your phone ever work with the three button mode to enter download/recovery ? or did you always flash using "adb reboot recovery" ?

solipsism said:
I had a similar problem with JPC. After a while both the internal and external sd cards crapped out. After pulling the external sd and many tries I was able to boot into recovery mode where it says something like E: cant mount etc.
After pulling the ext sd card I was able to get into download mode and downgrade to JM7 with odin. After formatting with odin. It took two tries.
I still don't have access or storage on both the int and ext sd. I have roughly 2gb storage on the internal non-sd memory of the phone (i am not sure what it is but its enough to run android and I can make calls).
I can't install apps use the camera or anything that uses either of the sd cards for storage.
I did try a new sd card that was installed on the phone when it was stock FW but it doesnt work either.
I have a thread posted about it.
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Did you ever find a solution to this problem?

mkurzum said:
Did you ever find a solution to this problem?
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It is posted in several threads in all of the 19000 forums that there is no fix for this. Your only option is to send it in for repair.

mkurzum said:
Did you ever find a solution to this problem?
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it would be nice if there was a way.
I agree with Electroz.
there is a new software out by Samsung
new PC Studio, it comes with a feature to "Emergency Restore"
you can try that, and see if that does anything to the internal SD
links are on the SGS wiki, click my link

AllGamer said:
it would be nice if there was a way.
I agree with Electroz.
there is a new software out by Samsung
new PC Studio, it comes with a feature to "Emergency Restore"
you can try that, and see if that does anything to the internal SD
links are on the SGS wiki, click my link
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I'll give it a shot, downloading now.
I'm not sure where to send my phone in, I called samsung, they sent me to bell, but I bought my phone from best buy and I'm with fido...

It sees both drives, but that's about it, when I try to click on them it just says "insert the disk into drive ..."
There has to be a way to format the internal card with a third party application. I'm gonna keep looking.

[Q] Help please - Windows detects galaxy internal sd card as an empty/unusable drive

Hi all
I rooted my phone today. I then installed clockworkmod and saved a stock backup. Following that, I successfully enabled 3 button recovery.
My problem appeared either after rooting or after clockworkmod. The problem was there prior to enabling 3 button recovery. I suspect it was clockworkmod that caused the problem.
Anyway, when I connect the phone to the computer the 16gb internal sd card & 2gb phone storage appear as removable drives in 'my computer'. However, double clicking on the drives gives the message 'no disk in the drive, please insert one'. Windows can't read the usable file space, browse or even format the drives.
However, I can browse the internal sd card fine using any android file manager.
Also, I can use adb to push/pull files.
What is going on?
I need to know quite quickly what to do. I initiated a phone repair with my carrier due to the mtp crash bug, so they are expecting it to be returned pronto. If the phone is stuffed, I'll send it back. If this can be fixed, I'll keep it since I managed to get the three button recovery working.
Also, I think there's a boot rom or something to do with clockworkmod still installed? How do I get rid of that if I'm sending the phone back. I know how to unroot.
Edit: I just found an external sd card to test. I formatted it in windows by using a sd card reader, then when I plugged it into the phone and tried it as a mass storage device windows didnt like it. Putting it back into the card reader one last time and windows recognised it. Makes no sense....
Edit2: In kies mode, kies can access it. And also it adds a 'galaxy s' to my computer where the internal sd card actually works... now I'm even more confused!

Have you tryed formatting your internal Sd or useing recovery 2e and factory resetting your phone?

I've tried formatting it and reset via settings->privacy->factory reset data.
Is 3 button recovery any different to the above type of reset? What will it roll the system back to?
(The recovery image I made in rom manager will have the same problem. I dont currently have an update.zip on my sd card due to formatting it, but I can get one on there using adb if I need to.)

quitestuck said:
I've tried formatting it and reset via settings->privacy->factory reset data.
Is 3 button recovery any different to the above type of reset? What will it roll the system back to?
(The recovery image I made in rom manager will have the same problem. I dont currently have an update.zip on my sd card due to formatting it, but I can get one on there using adb if I need to.)
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Is your usb debugging on by chance? If so, turn it off ans reconnect the phone to the pc.
Mine does this when usb debugging is on and im on a stock eclair rom... Hope it helps...
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That thought occurred to me too. Definately off. Ive checked it many many times now
When I first used adb, I simply pulled the plug out. I couldn't see any 'quit debug' command. There are start/kill server commands, they dont seem appropriate. Doesnt look like I should have had to do anything other than just pull the cable out.

Update:
I think that the update.zip's applied to my phone have changed some software to an earlier version that what my unit was shipped with.
When I first got the phone, I just plugged it into the pc and selected 'mass storage' on the phone. The drives then appeared (and worked) in windows.
Now, I have to click mass storage. That on its own isnt enough. But if I pull-down the tray menu at the top of the screen, there is another option to click (something along the lines of 'select this to transfer files between your phone and pc'). If I click that, it works.
There are some slight differences still:
1) I could swear that my phone originally allowed access to the 2gb phone internal memory (I never tried reading/writing to it, but I'm convinced windows displayed a 2gb drive).
2) I used to get the "xx/13.4gb free" under the drive letter in 'my computer', which I now only get in the status bar at the bottom of windows file explorer.
QUESTION
Does everybody else have to click "mass storage mode" AND pull down the task bar and click "transfer files" to get the internal sd to work as mass storage in windows?
Or do they just have to click "mass storage mode" and that's all?
Thanks

I always had to pull down the menu and manually mount the sd card when using mass storage.
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Definately wasnt the case on my phone (bought mid october, so its quite new) because I got my music on there via mass storage twice before 'hacking' it. I couldn't have done that without knowing about the extra buttons to press. It's good to know that it's just a side effect of the update.zips I've applied, and that I get to keep the phone
Cheers

[Q] After formatting internal SD with NTFS it can't mount nor format even with CWM

It happened after formatting it with NTFS (it was a temporary thing so I can use it with one of Microsoft services), and my device is working and rebooting properly without any error messages..So what can I do now to make my SD working again?
(I don't really need the data that was on it, I just need the card to work)
Thanks..

ramy670 said:
It happened after formatting it with "Windows7-USB-DVD-Download-Tool" (I was trying to use it as USB flash memory in order to install windows), and my device is working and rebooting properly without any error messages..So what can I do now to make my SD working again?
(I don't really need the data that was on it, I just need the card to work)
Thanks..
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try formatting the card from within CWM, i presume if you boot up the phone you can't mount/unmount it and subsequently format it from within Android.
but i would try fromating it as FAT32 from within Windows 7 first, NTFS is not supported by Android to the best of my Knowladge...

Thanks, yes I can't format it in Android since i can't mount it, I've already tried formatting it from CWM with no luck, it showed this:
Formatting /sdcard...
Error mounting /sdcard!
Skipping format...
Done.
And windows doesn't see the card at all when I connect phone to PC, so I can't use windows to format it too.

ramy670 said:
so I can't use windows to format it too.
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Try a formatting tool or recovery tool in My Android Collections

olaf2k4
Turned out you're right, the problem is android not being able to handle NTFS properly, I tried to format external SD card with NTFS to see what will happen, and I had the EXACT same symptoms, but of course I removed from phone and had it formatted using card reader and it's working properly now with my phone..
xsenman
The problem now is that windows can't see internal card at all, I've tried one of format tools form the link you put, but it didn't help since phone "doesn't allow" windows to detect the memory, any other way to do it? right now I'm trying this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1724078

It seems like it isn't easy to install NTFS support from the link above (since you need fuse.ko file that should be compiled for both your device and ROM), is there any kernal that support NTFS or any other easy way to do it?

If you are talking about your external sd just format at fat32. This is standard for sdcards and your phone wil reconize your card..

Unfortunately it is the internal one..

ramy670 said:
Unfortunately it is the internal one..
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ny solutions?? :crying:
me facing same problems... phone doesn't detects internal sd, neither it connects to pc via mass storage... :crying:
I don't care about the data in it even if its gone, I jus want my internal sd back...

Anyone?..

Swaps100050 said:
ny solutions?? :crying:
me facing same problems... phone doesn't detects internal sd, neither it connects to pc via mass storage... :crying:
I don't care about the data in it even if its gone, I jus want my internal sd back...
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Finally, I found a solution, just do the following (I tried it and it worked):
1. First install the drivers ONLY if you haven`t already installed them, also if you have Kies installed there is no need to install these drivers, but you are better off installing these anyway : http://dev-host.org/ZRA
2. Download this package (it includes i9000 stock rom+kernel+odin) : http://dev-host.org/RAE, if you have a Captivate or a Vibrant just download a stock rom for your phone model and find a kernel which has root and cwm in it.
NOTE : The next step will require using the 3 key combo for accessing the clockworkmod recovery and also the download mode.The 3 key combo used below is for the Samsung Galaxy S GT-i9000. If you own a Captivate or a Vibrant please click this link and choose your phone model to see what 3 key combo must be used, as it differs from one phone model to another : http://tinyurl.com/6q6ajpx
3. After you have extracted all the contents you downloaded and installed drivers, put your phone into download mode using the 3 key combo : volume DOWN + home button+power button, keep those pressed until it goes into download mode.
4. Connect phone to PC via USB Cable and open Odin (windows should detect the phone and install some drivers, after it`s finished you should see the message "Added!" in Odin which means Odin succesfully detected your phone so now you are ready to flash)>check Re-Partition Option>press PIT button and browse for the s1_odin_20100512.pit file, press BOOTLOADER button and browse for the APBOOT… file, press PDA button and browse for the CODE….file, press PHONE button and browse for the MODEM….file, press CSC button and browse for the GT-I9000-CSC….file. PRESS START button and wait for the green pass notification in Odin.
• When the phone reboots into the rom, wait for the setup wizard to appear and then just use the 3 key combo into the download mode again.
Close Odin and open it again> press PDA button and browse for CF-Root…file> Press START button and wait for the green pass notification in Odin.
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ramy670 said:
Finally, I found a solution, just do the following (I tried it and it worked):
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No need to do all this.
Just:
- remove external sd card (if you have one inserted)
- reboot into CWM-based recovery
- mounts and storage
- mount USB storage
You will be able to see and format, FAT32, the disk using windows

N3tMast3r said:
No need to do all this.
Just:
- remove external sd card (if you have one inserted)
- reboot into CWM-based recovery
- mounts and storage
- mount USB storage
You will be able to see and format, FAT32, the disk using windows
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hello, i also did this stupid mistake on my part. Formatted the Internal memory of my Pantech Burst to NTFS. Now its unformattable, unmountable etc. I tried ur way, but it throws up an error
"Unable to write to ums lunfile (no such file or directory)"
wat to do ?

Swaps100050 said:
ny solutions?? :crying:
me facing same problems... phone doesn't detects internal sd, neither it connects to pc via mass storage... :crying:
I don't care about the data in it even if its gone, I jus want my internal sd back...
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what i did was to go in recovery mode...mount usb ...conect to pc and reformat to fat 32..

harryneopotter said:
hello, i also did this stupid mistake on my part. Formatted the Internal memory of my Pantech Burst to NTFS. Now its unformattable, unmountable etc. I tried ur way, but it throws up an error
"Unable to write to ums lunfile (no such file or directory)"
wat to do ?
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Are u able to wipe data/factory reset? If u are able to do so do it and then follow my procedure... if u are not able, try to follow my procedure more carefully. It is the only thing I can suggest, sorry

N3tMast3r said:
Are u able to wipe data/factory reset? If u are able to do so do it and then follow my procedure... if u are not able, try to follow my procedure more carefully. It is the only thing I can suggest, sorry
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I tried your method, but selecting "Mount USB" was throwing the error i mentioned in my last post. Though i solved it eventually. Somehow i ended up in the phone's own recovery/bootloader menu, had an option of "Low level format" there. Took around an hour or so .. but it worked :good:

Problem w/ SDCARD, Unmounted , Checking for errors

Hello everybody
i tried to connect it to another computer and could not so i switched to MSC mode to see if it reconogizes it, after that i think my cable failed because the LED went orange twice, then i realized it wont accept my SD CARD anymore, also i try to open dev mode and it crashed, i try to get in USB settings and it crashes too now on this computer it shows internal memory only
i did factory reset and the problem is still there, my phone is C5302 android 4.3 and stock firmware
EDIT: i tried with another sd card and nothing happens, when i go to storage it says mount so i go for it and a notification pops up saying checking for troubles with the sd card icon, it just hangs there nothing happens

Im_Pablito said:
Hello everybody
i tried to connect it to another computer and could not so i switched to MSC mode to see if it reconogizes it, after that i think my cable failed because the LED went orange twice, then i realized it wont accept my SD CARD anymore, also i try to open dev mode and it crashed, i try to get in USB settings and it crashes too now on this computer it shows internal memory only
i did factory reset and the problem is still there, my phone is C5302 android 4.3 and stock firmware
EDIT: i tried with another sd card and nothing happens, when i go to storage it says mount so i go for it and a notification pops up saying checking for troubles with the sd card icon, it just hangs there nothing happens
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You can try the following
1) Factory Reset the Device, of course back up your data first.
2) Flash a clean stock firmware, again make a backup of important data
3) Try using a different cable and make sure the drivers for your device are updated on the computer
Good luck

Revontheus said:
You can try the following
1) Factory Reset the Device, of course back up your data first.
2) Flash a clean stock firmware, again make a backup of important data
3) Try using a different cable and make sure the drivers for your device are updated on the computer
Good luck
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I did a factory reset and switch SIM cards, dont ask me why but it just read my sd card again!

I'm glad it worked enjoy!