[Q] Xperia Z does not read internal sotrage! - Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi. i have a xperia z from tmobile which i rooted and installed the dual boot recoverys!
I usually use the twrp recovery since the cwm doesnt work for me , i dont know why but thats not the problem.
It's a locked bootloader.
well i was flashing a zip file using the twrp and everytime i flash something i always wipe cache/dalvik since ive always had many rooted devices.
But when i did so on my xperia z, it was showing the loading bar like is was wipin, it took awhile then the lights of the display dimmed and turned off.
I thought it wouldnt turn on and i was puzzled...but i booted it up and it turned on fine.
however after that i tried to download a file off the broswer and it said "no sd card" and im like? ok?
i thought it was the actual sd card at first, ejected it put it back and it shows that it reads it..
then thats when i noticed it was talking about my sd card, but my internal storage.
it shoes the amount of storage im using but not how much i have in total which is strange..
it wont let me use certain apps saying its not reading it...
i tried using fixed permission but it does nothing to help and trying to re-wipe cache says error and doesnt read..
hope someone can help me, sorry for the long paragraph! lol
EDIT: BTW when i connect it to the pc it shows my both storage devices, internal and sd card but on the internal it says "0 bytes" and shows nothing. but on sd card is shows the gb amount correctly!

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My phone says sd card removed

It happened yesterday when I upgraded to xrom. I have formatted and repartitioned my sd card. Nothing is working. When I connect my sd card to my computer I noticed a lot of weird files were being stored on it. They reappear every time I delete them.
My phone is creating files like this "qxdm_20090910_184004_3.dm" (32 megs!)
hmm....very interesting... reboot into recovery and repair the ext files? it might work. most likely not, but its worth a shot.
I though about trying that but I don't have cyanogens recovery .
Mine just did the "sd card has been removed" thing half an hour ago.
I just copied a new theme .zip to my sdcard and then rebooted into recovery.
I could not apply the update since it could not mount the mmcblk0p1 partition. When boot all the way up to android i get the icon saying that the sdcard has been removed.
i just did an adb push of a file to my /sdcard from the recovery console and it returned no errors...but i cannot see any files on the card.
wtf.
Any ideas?
Yeah my problems still not fixed. I have searched the XDA, forums, Google, none have offered any solution. I have found a lot of people with this same problem.
are you using swapper? if you dont turn it off, this could happen.
i would recommend getting cyans recovery image, it has a lot of tools to debug.
get a live cd of linux/gparted and see if you can see all your partitions. if not, your sd card is most likely dead. try reformatting. if that doesnt help, you may need to get a new card.
if it does show up on your pc, but doesnt work on your phone, then post here again
Have the same problem. Got it right after updating cyanogenmod 4.1.2 I've also been looking for answers and I think I'm just gonna get a new one
I have never used swap. I tried installing cyans recovery image through terminal but it can't find my sd card. I can still update my rom through jfs utility. My sd card works perfectly fine on my computer.
Something like this happened to me a while ago. It first said Sdcard was damaged and i couldnt access it via any file manager. I rebooted and turned out all my apps went up in the air and dissapeared and my fat32 partition was gone to. i reccomend backing up your sdcard and reformatting your card then go froom there
I have already tried all that. Nothing so far has worked :-(. Man this is horrible. I can't even take pictures!

Wierd Problems

Ok so I rooted my phone as well as partinoned my SD card (I have an 8 GB now) a while back and now I am having problems with my SD card. The other day my phone gave me a message saying that my Sd card was not supported and that I needed to format it. Stupid me I did that on my computer and wiped everything of of it. My friend who also has a rooted G1 got my phone to restore the CM but now everything is saving to my phone again. I tried to part it again and it says that nothing is found. Any ideas on what I did and what I can do to get everything back to the way it was when it was working correctly?
Also my phone started doing this other weird thing where I'm viewing anything and im scrolling through whatever the screen timesout eventhough I'm touching it. Anything to help with this aswell?
Thank you guys so much for the help!
I lost ya when you said you tried to part it again but nothing is found. Did you partition the card and no apps are found or you couldn't partition the card.
I tried to partition the card again but there was no data found and I couldn't partition it.
If you can't even partition it then you have a bad card brother. The strange behavior could be a symptom of the ext partition failing. I'm assuming you have a swap partition but don't actually use it with a user.conf file otherwise a failing card would cause your phone to completely freeze.

[Q] Phone won't recognize internal SD card.

Hello. This is my first post, but I have been a reader for a while. I recently bought Samsung Galaxy Note. Rooted it using the ZergRush exploit and installed CriskeloROM v0.6.
It worked perfect for a week, but then something wierd happened.
On my way to work I got out of the door and opened spotify as usual, but the screen just blinked and the app didn't start. When I looked into this it seems as if the phone won't recognize the SD card.
Saying that the phone won't recognize the SD card isn't entirely true. The phone know the card is there, but it appears as full.
USB storage: Total space 11.08GB - Available space - 0.00B, not even a single byte.
When I hook the phone to a pc, I can see that I in fact have about 8GB of free space. I can also without problem browse all the files as if nothing was wrong.
The things I know I have done that might interfere with it is that the other day I was going to copy some wallpapers into my phone. To do this I was required to encrypt the disk station using BitLocker. I have also by accident disconnected my phone without dismounting.
I have done alot of searches in google and on this site, but I have yet to find someone with the exact same problem as me.
I have tried to take out the battery and leaving it out for 15 minutes.
I excuse the wall of text and my poor english.
Thank you
Dagnit said:
Hello. This is my first post, but I have been a reader for a while. I recently bought Samsung Galaxy Note. Rooted it using the ZergRush exploit and installed CriskeloROM v0.6.
It worked perfect for a week, but then something wierd happened.
On my way to work I got out of the door and opened spotify as usual, but the screen just blinked and the app didn't start. When I looked into this it seems as if the phone won't recognize the SD card.
Saying that the phone won't recognize the SD card isn't entirely true. The phone know the card is there, but it appears as full.
USB storage: Total space 11.08GB - Available space - 0.00B, not even a single byte.
When I hook the phone to a pc, I can see that I in fact have about 8GB of free space. I can also without problem browse all the files as if nothing was wrong.
The things I know I have done that might interfere with it is that the other day I was going to copy some wallpapers into my phone. To do this I was required to encrypt the disk station using BitLocker. I have also by accident disconnected my phone without dismounting.
I have done alot of searches in google and on this site, but I have yet to find someone with the exact same problem as me.
I have tried to take out the battery and leaving it out for 15 minutes.
I excuse the wall of text and my poor english.
Thank you
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When you boot into recovery and mount internal SD is the info correct there?
Thanks for the answer!
When I boot into recovery, witch I thought was CWM but witch turns out to be HyperDroid RedPill Recovery, probably changed when I installed the ROM (?), I can choose
- Mount internal SD
Witch leads me away from the menu and into a new little menu.
"USB Mass Storage device. Leaving this menu unmount your SD card from you PC.
-Unmount
-+++++Go Back+++++
And that's it.
However when I try to actually do a recovery (the recovery file is in the internal SD) I get the message:
"HyperDroid RedPill Recovery
E: Unable to write to usm lunfile (No such file or directory)Error mounting /sdcard!
E:Can't mount /sdcard"
do you have an external sd card in the phone? some kernels seem to swap the internal and external about
No I do not. Thanks for the answers guys!

[Q] Internal storage and ext sd wont read.

Ok first off I have read through a lot of different forums from here and different websites. Could not find a solution.
MY cappy was rooted and I was running cm9 on it for a while working great.. decided to give cm 10.1 a try. Well it worked for about 2 1/2 months. doing the updates that came out every day. Then the other I was playing a game on it. I stoped the game unplugged the phone from the wall charger went outside to smoke and went to check the phone. It was a black screen where it was semi light up though.
I of course tried hitting the power about 15 times no response. So I took out the battery and put it back in. It rebooted into recovery. So I hit reboot phone. Went back into recovery. Went in cleared cache and dalvik cache rebooted. Went back into recovery, so from there I went to install zip from sd card. there was nothing on sd card.
I then put it into download mode and using odin I brought it back to stock 2.3.4 after odin had suceeded it installed everything on phone. But it came with error no internal storage found. It booted fully. So then I tried heimdall one click it then did the same thing I cleared cache and did a factory reset. IT rebooted fully.
It only works when I have my ext. SD card in the phone though. If i pull my ext sd card out it will go into a boot loop. IF i put my ext sd card into another phone and back to my cappy Itll stay in boot loop. I have formatted sd card put it back into the phone and rebooted. and same thing. bootloop. So I then have to go through the process again to get it semi running. It wont read ext or internal sd card when phone is fully on.
So is there any way to get it to read internal storage again? Or even ext. I dont understand why it will run with the ext.
Any help will be appreciated Thank you.
No one has any answers to this?
bubba1993 said:
No one has any answers to this?
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Your issue is kinda odd, the only thing I can think of is the EU bug but that's on ICS and you said you were on JB. Either way, could be worth looking into, there's a thread for it in here.
BWolf56 said:
Your issue is kinda odd, the only thing I can think of is the EU bug but that's on ICS and you said you were on JB. Either way, could be worth looking into, there's a thread for it in here.
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Well I was on cm 9 then went to cm 10.1 4.2 I have no clue I looked into the EU bug tried to fix it no luck. I can put the sd card on it and flash the stock rom and kernel and it will run just without it reading internal or external sd card
the external sd card has probably got your .androidsecure hidden folder on it, possibly more. if your phone had the eu bug, then CM10 recognizes that and switches the mounts.
if you boot the phone, go into terminal emulator, type su, then type mount, and post the output, it would probably give us a clue.
laughingT said:
the external sd card has probably got your .androidsecure hidden folder on it, possibly more. if your phone had the eu bug, then CM10 recognizes that and switches the mounts.
if you boot the phone, go into terminal emulator, type su, then type mount, and post the output, it would probably give us a clue.
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No the android secure was on the phone, The external sd card was never in my phone but I was trying different things and if i format my sd card put it in the cappy then do the flash. It will work but as soon as I turn the phone off and put the sd card in another phone, It has no files. but when I put it in my laptop it says there is only 5 gb on it but it is an 8gb memory card. Then I have to format twice to get my full memory from it on another phone.

SD Card Will Not Mount

I have tried flashing several ROMs over the past few days. However, for some reason the SD card is no longer recognised. When i go to Settings/Storage "SD Card" is just greyed out and clicking "Mount SD Card" doesn't do anything... it can see the SD Card has 7.56GB of total space, but it doesn't appear to be usable.
As a result of the system not recognising the SD card, i cannot use the Camera or apps like Evernote, which insist on having an SD card present to launch.
I have tried:
- Flashing and reflashing different ROMs (SuperNexus, Slimbean, etc)
- Changing SD Card
- wiping cache, data, system, and reflashing
- Downloading mount apps from the Play store
Nothing works...
Would really appreciate help in fixing this.
Many thanks!
salmon said:
I have tried flashing several ROMs over the past few days. However, for some reason the SD card is no longer recognised. When i go to Settings/Storage "SD Card" is just greyed out and clicking "Mount SD Card" doesn't do anything... it can see the SD Card has 7.56GB of total space, but it doesn't appear to be usable.
As a result of the system not recognising the SD card, i cannot use the Camera or apps like Evernote, which insist on having an SD card present to launch.
I have tried:
- Flashing and reflashing different ROMs (SuperNexus, Slimbean, etc)
- Changing SD Card
- wiping cache, data, system, and reflashing
- Downloading mount apps from the Play store
Nothing works...
Would really appreciate help in fixing this.
Many thanks!
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emmc brick i believe. this happened to me as well. the only fix is to have it serviced by samsung. try to see if you can download and run the emmc brick bug from the playstore.
Try to install a stock Rom (GB or JB, doesn't matter) with PC Odin.
This will give you a clearly defined state.
If you get error messages when installing PC Odin please post them here - then we can analyze it (and get hints if there's a chance you bricked your device).
If the installation is completed without problems and rebooting into the OS check your sd card again.
i think hes not talking about the internal storage.. infact the ext SD.. first flash a stock rom... then mount the SD card.. check if all works fine. if yes then move to CM rom.. this usually fixes the problem
i think u need to get another sdcard n check it out !
don't use the same brand...
alvinhaw said:
i think u need to get another sdcard n check it out !
don't use the same brand...
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Thanks all for your feedback (man i love this forum!)
I ran the eMMC Brickbug Check and everything came back fine
I'm going to install a stock ROM using PC Odin and see where that takes me...
Will report back soon.
salmon said:
Thanks all for your feedback (man i love this forum!)
I ran the eMMC Brickbug Check and everything came back fine
I'm going to install a stock ROM using PC Odin and see where that takes me...
Will report back soon.
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Quick update:
I installed a stock ROM using PC Odin, as suggested, and happily my SD card and internal memory showed up just fine. I then reflashed CWM and installed Supernexus 2.0 and everything has worked fine ever since. Thanks again for all your help!!!
Glad to hear it.
I have a similar issue.
Ever since this one morning when I turned my phone on (it was shut down) it won't read the internal sd card on my phone. I have tried restarting but it still doesn't work. When I open music it says 'SD card not mounted' and when I open photos it says 'Storage Space Full' and it closes the app. However, my storage is nowhere near full and this has never happened up until now. PLEASE HELP

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