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Problem with rooting/downgrade - SD not recognized

Hi,
I'm trying to hack my G1
The problem is that the SD card is not recognized, I tryed to farmatting it with GParted ext2 with a card reader. Plugged into the phone: NOTHING
Then I plugged in the phone and connected with the usb cable trying to mounting it. Win XP recognize it, but it's impossible to read it. Then I tryed to format in FAT32 and copy the downgrade files.
After restarting G1 in bootloader with the files in the SD nothing happens, no image file found. What's the problem??
Any suggestion??!?

you have to format your sdcard to fat32 not ext2 for your device to recognize it in the bootloader after you formart your card to fat32 place your DREAIMG.nbh on it to downgrade

I did it,
but I get that message: "NO image found"
and then the bootloader screen.....why??

Not 100% of the time but...
Mine also had that issue, i had to reformat my sdcard but with NO partition, in other words your not creating a partition your formatting the whole card.
try that and put the files back on it once you have it formatted and proceed.

I tryed with only one partition FAT32 and the image file, with no luck
Tryed also with 3 differets sd card!! I'm really in pain guys!

sd card problems

long story short
i formatted 4gb card using recovery all fine
i updated ext2 to ext3 and the battery fell out
sd card not working
i can only format the card via recovery mount usb and disk management
it says unallocated so i format simple partiton select fat32 it formats fine
i can access it and add a file to it
then...
i reboot phone and sd card needs formatting again even booting back to recovery go to disk management it says unallocated again
i've used many tools sd formatters 'DISKPART' 'testdisk-6.11.3.win'
PTEDIT32
i have an image of what the sd card says
any ideas

Have you tried partitioning directly from recovery via parted?
Code:
parted /dev/block/mmcblk0

yes ive tried that and i get bad superblocks

sitimber said:
long story short
i formatted 4gb card using recovery all fine
i updated ext2 to ext3 and the battery fell out
sd card not working
i can only format the card via recovery mount usb and disk management
it says unallocated so i format simple partiton select fat32 it formats fine
i can access it and add a file to it
then...
i reboot phone and sd card needs formatting again even booting back to recovery go to disk management it says unallocated again
i've used many tools sd formatters 'DISKPART' 'testdisk-6.11.3.win'
PTEDIT32
i have an image of what the sd card says
any ideas
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how did you format the card in recovery?

usb mount then windows management console it says unallocated raw
right clicked then selected simple volume then fat32 all works fine but reboot phone or take card out of phone put it back to phone(get unalocated raw) or reader(get nothing)
damn thing

Can't format SD card after S-OFF

I'm having issues getting my SD card to work now after S-OFF. When I boot my phone up, I get a notification saying "Blank SD card, SD card is blank or has unsupported file system" When I touch the notification, it says
"Format SD card
Are you sure you want to format the SD card? All data on your card will be lost"
When I select format, it just closes. What do I do? I have tried rebooting but that didn't help.

tanner4137 said:
I'm having issues getting my SD card to work now after S-OFF. When I boot my phone up, I get a notification saying "Blank SD card, SD card is blank or has unsupported file system" When I touch the notification, it says
"Format SD card
Are you sure you want to format the SD card? All data on your card will be lost"
When I select format, it just closes. What do I do? I have tried rebooting but that didn't help.
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Just do the format on your computer instead.

[Q] Damaged SD card

Hi guys,
I tried partitioning my external sd card to linux swap, and something must have gone wrong. Now,a notification on my Galaxy S reads "Damaged SD card - SD card damaged. You may have to reformat it." This was the first thing I tried, but the Internal SD is formatted instead when I try. (Rom bug?). When i mount my phone via USB, only the formatted (damnit) internal SD is found.
I'm currently on TiramiSlim (best rom!!) with Devil 0.94. If you have any help it would be appreciated, any further questions don't hesitate!
yahoo907

In first i think that partition ext sd card is useless but it's my opinion.
In fact if you want to recover your ext sd i advise you to reformat your sd card with the windows disk utility: you select all volumes, delete them and recreate a new one with ntfs format (android will do his work when you'll insert your sd in the device).
If it doesn't work try to make the same but with a Linux system (Linux is powerful ^^).
Please reply me your results.

Have you tried to format the SD card with an SD Adapter & then make sure that USB debug is enabled on the device.
I had this issue.
Sometimes it shows that the card is damaged & then it reads it later on!
I plugged the Card into my Digi-Cam Formatted it.
Changed the Rom.
Now it works.
Anyways safely remove the drive when plugged into a computer!

i don't have an sd-card adapter unfortunately, the only way i can plug it in is via my phone. I cannot seem to find a disk utility on windows that will read the external sd, i can only find the internal from my computer.
i will try and get hold of an sd-adapter and let you know if it works

fixed the problem!

yahoo907 said:
fixed the problem!
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how did you fix the problem?
My phone recognizes the internal storage but i keep getting "sd card is damaged, try reformatting it" in the notification bar.
when I click on format, it says "unmounting sd card" but nothing happens.
Thanks,
Luke
*edit.. nvm.
I put my SD card in my old x10 and in settings/storage I erased my SD card.
Works fine now

[Q] Ext SD card issue

After copying a recovery from card to pc the phone says the card is blank. What the hell happened and can I get it to read again?