Hey guys.
My month old One just formatted its sdcard (internal storage partition) itself last night.
This morning I woke up, got ready to leave my home. I plugged my headphones on the way and hit play button. I got "this file could not be played" error on every file so so restarted my phone. It had nothing in the sdcard after the restart.
Yesterday night I connected it to my computer which I plugged some virus-wise suspicious usb-drives earlier (i know the viruses don't work in android but they may have erased the data (or hide it) in my phone while it's connected to the pc)
My battery was depleted once yesterday, some people are saying this formatted their sdcard on their One and some other devices.
Also I left it on the charger yesterday night, a voltage fluctuation might have done it.
What might be happened? I appreciate any help. If you think the data can be restored, please tell me how. Thanks.
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I leave my phone on the charger overnight almost every night and this never happens to me, and when I have a depleted battery it doesn't happen either. The only time my sdcard partition got formatted was when I flashed some firmware. I don't think that it is possible to recover deleted files on Android unless it is a removable SD Card, however I could be wrong. Hope you find out what went wrong!
I just got home and tried to copy some music to the phone and I get an error saying I can't copy the files, no information is given at all. It could be faulty sdcard or this could be caused by software problems. I'll try to restore factory settings first then flash another RUU (I haven't flashed anything at all since now) then I'll contact with the service.
Insanity133 said:
I leave my phone on the charger overnight almost every night and this never happens to me, and when I have a depleted battery it doesn't happen either. The only time my sdcard partition got formatted was when I flashed some firmware. I don't think that it is possible to recover deleted files on Android unless it is a removable SD Card, however I could be wrong. Hope you find out what went wrong!
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Thanks for your answer. I haven't flashed anything like you so that's not relevant to this case I guess. I even thought of dismantling the phone and replacing the sd card (maybe I'll do it in the future)
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I just wanted to get root access and Auto-Nooter 2.12.25 for v1.0.1 seemed to be the way to go, right? Well, after I purchased the last Nook Color from Best Buy yesterday and brought it home, I charged it to 100%, played with it loaded up and ran Auto-Nooter from a Sandisk mSD card. When I plugged in the cable to boot, it came up with the battery low-wait 15min screen. (Battery was at 100%) Tried again, same thing. Re-wrote Auto-Nooter to mSD card and tried again, black screen. Nothing. Bricked. What I do get is a black screen with a flash of backlight every 40 seconds or so. I re-created the boot SD Auto-Nooter (using Win32DiskImager) and boot, nothing.
Today same story, just wasted 5 hours trying: Auto-Nooter, Clockwork Recovery image (2gb & 1gb versions on different cards) with complete restore-1.0.1 and repartition-boot-with-stock.zip, Nookie-Froyo.......nothing brings up any life in the NC.
I did follow RileyGrant's "Dummies Guide to Fixing 'My Nook Won't Boot'" http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699 to no avail. I do not believe it is a partition issue. If it were, the mSD would at least try to boot to some screen and perhaps hang then. But CWR is not providing a spark at all.
I do believe it is in a boot loop of some sort, trying to boot, screen flashes, turns off, repeat continuously if plugged in. (It does stop the cycle after a while when not plugged in.)
Is that enough information? Ideas??
When you insert the Clockworkmod Recovery sdcard and turn the nook on, Does it boot into CWR?
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When you insert the Clockworkmod Recovery sdcard and turn the nook on, Does it boot into CWR?
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No. It boots to nothing. Plug in, wait 10 seconds, a white screen flash (less than a second) then black. Repeats in about 40 seconds. I can tell that the backlight is on for about 30 seconds, back lighting a black screen, then it turns off. A few seconds later the screen flashes white and it is what seems to be a boot loop of not booting.
Create this Sdcard with the files here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922870
When you are done, connect your Nook with the SD card inside and make sure you press the power button until you hear it disconnect even tho its still plugged in. (This means its turned off) Then power it up. You should be in recovery. Make a full wipe and see if it turns back on. If it doesn't send me message. I'll be glad to help. Your Nook is fine.
Here are better instructions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
Fixter said:
Create this Sdcard with the files here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922870
When you are done, connect your Nook with the SD card inside and make sure you press the power button until you hear it disconnect even tho its still plugged in. (This means its turned off) Then power it up. You should be in recovery. Make a full wipe and see if it turns back on. If it doesn't send me message. I'll be glad to help. Your Nook is fine.
Here are better instructions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
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Have done all this. Will not go into recovery. Ideas? (PM sent)
Sounds to me like your battery is dead (it would NOT go from 100% to 15% like you say), or you're not burning the cards right.
khaytsus said:
Sounds to me like your battery is dead (it would NOT go from 100% to 15% like you say), or you're not burning the cards right.
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I followed the Auto Nooter instructions to the letter. I would agree with both except:
1) After the first time I tried Auto Nooter, and it said 15% battery, I took the card out and it booted normal. I checked the battery and it was at 99%. Repeated the process and the same result. (Batt at 15% when trying to root, 99% when not.) I re-built the card and then nook bricked.
2) I have used 2 different cards on 2 computers with 2 different softwares for burning the image. Perhaps the second burn on the uSD card fried something? Perhaps, but the card still was readable by Windoz 7 on either computer. One bad apple can spoil the bunch.......
Heading back to BestBuy is sounding better all the time even though it is 40 min away. That said, I have still not lost faith in XDA and the great help. Anyone with a new suggestion?
IMO you just have a dead battery, plug into the wall and leave overnight. The Nooks ability to boot into sdcard first is built into the hardware, nothing you did could of messed this ability up. If you truly can't boot into clockwork from sdcard it can only really be a hardware failure.
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I followed the Auto Nooter instructions to the letter. I would agree with both except:
1) After the first time I tried Auto Nooter, and it said 15% battery, I took the card out and it booted normal. I checked the battery and it was at 99%. Repeated the process and the same result. (Batt at 15% when trying to root, 99% when not.) I re-built the card and then nook bricked.
2) I have used 2 different cards on 2 computers with 2 different softwares for burning the image. Perhaps the second burn on the uSD card fried something? Perhaps, but the card still was readable by Windoz 7 on either computer. One bad apple can spoil the bunch.......
Heading back to BestBuy is sounding better all the time even though it is 40 min away. That said, I have still not lost faith in XDA and the great help. Anyone with a new suggestion?
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make sure as well you are creating the SD correctly. WinImage can be a pain at times at times. If the bootable SD isnt created just right it wont boot. Im putting up a post in a few minutes to an IMG you might like to try to recover your NC.
Try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11321261#post11321261
Its how I have been rooting my devices, as well, I will be adding the prerooted 1.1 to my IMG soon to simplify things for everyone.
forsakenexile, I appreciate this and am downloading the file now overnight. Perhaps this will solve problems of my NC not booting up ANY rom/recovery solutions from SD, despite all the documented methods known to the community so far.
One thing I noticed under Win7 was to get an image to work properly I had to run winimage as administrator. Not sure if this is just an oddity with my computer or common knowledge I had to discover for myself.
I threw in the rowel
I charged the nook over night with the genuine nook charger and genuine nook cable and no difference this morning. I took it back to BestBuy and waked out with a new one. I charged it, powered up, logged in, powered down, inserted a monster root pack 7 uSD and booted no problem!
Thanks to all for the help in troubleshooting.
Note to self: Nook can be a brick!
I was able to browse my internal SD card until this morning. It may have been mounted at some point and the usb cable disconnected yesterday.
I have rebooted my phone several times. Rebooted my pc too. I tried switching the different usb connections methods.
I can see the external card and the motorola partition with the motohelper software from my computer.
From the phone itself I can see files on both sd cards, so it looks like my pc is not recognizing it anymore?
Maybe you put it in charge only mode and have to change it back to pc mode.
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Having the same issue. Used to work, now zilch. Tried switching between charge only/mounting, restarting phone, checking device manager for an error, updating moto drivers.
It used to be that USB Debugging mode being on prevented the internal storage from mounting, but I have since turned it on/off and no luck still.
I can put it in PC mode, Windows Media Sync, or USB Mass Storage. From my computer I can see the external card and the motorola partition on the internal card containing the motohelper software.
I cannot see the internal phone storage where all the apps and pictures are stored.
i to have been having some isues with the sd and other things as well. not sure if its a rooted thing or just a bionic thing. i will try some different things in the morning. i would really like an sd flip flop .zip. it fixed alot of thing on the driod x2 .
For some reason my phone locked up on me today. It just shutdown and I was not able to restart it. It had a full charge. That's the first time for this phone. I reset the battery and it booted back up. When I got home I plugged it into my computer and I was able to see all partitions now.
I had previously shutdown the phone numerous times, but did not remove the battery until this afternoon.
travis23832 said:
I can put it in PC mode, Windows Media Sync, or USB Mass Storage. From my computer I can see the external card and the motorola partition on the internal card containing the motohelper software.
I cannot see the internal phone storage where all the apps and pictures are stored.
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Same here, any solutions to fix this? When I first got the Bionic I could see the internal storage also.
Try resetting the battery. I've done that a couple times since I got the phone.
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Try resetting the battery. I've done that a couple times since I got the phone.
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That worked. Weird. Wonder if not doing a disconnect on the pc would cause this, usually I just unplug the phone.
I can see both just fine. One is called 'M' and the other is 'L'. USB Mass storage and they pop up. Windows 7.
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What do you mean by resetting the battery? Just a pull, or wipe the stats?
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That worked. Weird. Wonder if not doing a disconnect on the pc would cause this, usually I just unplug the phone.
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It doesn't happen very often. I try to make sure that my usb connection is set to charge before I disconnect the phone from my computer.
AdamIsYou said:
What do you mean by resetting the battery? Just a pull, or wipe the stats?
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I did a battery pull.
Sir_Eagle said:
I did a battery pull.
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This unfortunately didn't work for me. I've tried everything except for FXZing back to stock. It stopped working for me even before root/rom/etc...
I never just yanked it out, or improperly ejected it either. I'm really stumped and I'd like it back
Do you have CWM recovery and if so can you use the mounting options in there? I'm pretty sure there's a "mount USB storage" somewhere in the advanced menu or partitions or something.
I have the same issue with my bionic as well, i usually just pull the battery,restart the phone and switch it to USB Mass Storage click on "My Computer" icon and the internal and external show up (Windows 7), will this issue be addressed in the next update ? or is this a hardware issue ?
update : i connected my phone to my pc to check my internal storage, it wasn't there so i pulled the battery and restarted the phone, it worked fine, but then to check it again i switched to charge mode then back to usb mass and the internal wasn't there, looks like its only good for one try and then you have to pull the battery, sucks.
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Dead phone, not charging (via multiple chargers and usb), no battery symbol. Not detected via compute, currently charging battery via external charger and still no luck.
Hello, so here is what happened.
Running PA 1.6a (the most recent CM9-based release), stock kernel.
Tried setting up multiple programs to make a swap partition work.
Had class10 microsd and wanted to try a swap disc (stupid idea I know)
Used swapper 2 and formatted mmcblk03/ according to instructions elsewhere
Found out that error message "this feature is not implemented" meant that the stock kernel didn't support swap.
mmcblk03 was formatted a few times since the "format each time" feature was enabled.
A swap file was created/removed a few times.
So I proceeded to un-install swapper 2.
Then held power button, clicked "turn off", then "boot into recovery". Battery was at 9% according to display.
Phone did not turn back on.
Stupidest portion right here- phone was at 15% battery, drained to 9 during process- I knew better and deserve the brick if it happened.
Now phone is not booting (great).
If it matters, I had some apps which bind SD card directories running, mainly to remount the sd card under sdcard/external_sd so play music would recognize my music.
But now the note isn't booting, or charging, no detection via comp. Tried multiple adapters, tried charging via computer.I have not yet tried adb, Currently charging up the battery via external charger, but have had the battery in there for about an hour so far and still no luck (hoping it will give the battery enough 'juice' to charge via another charger.
I was using an anker battery, and I have had a somewhat similar situation before- battery drains 100% and then phone will not charge, need to use external charger.
Really upset right now, especially since I ordered a 150 dollar display to attempt to fix a crack in the screen a week ago. Any advice? I know JTAG is possible but I wonder if this is a true hard brick or something else (since the CM9 kernel supposedly does not suffer from the emmc_cap_erase bug). I know for sure I selected ext3 for formatting and created that partition using CWM recovery when I formatted the SD card (for clarity this was previously, when I first got the card).
Do you guys think this may be a physical issue with the power button or something else? The phone was working quite well before that for the entire day. Thoughts?
Bump- charged battery via external charger. still no response. a bit upset about all of this...
A few months ago was trying to flash a new ROM onto my NC when the battery died..yea stupid me forgot to charge it.
Now, whenever I plug it in, I get the charging screen but it doesn't go any farther usually...sometimes it'll go into recovery after charging for a little, but thats where my second issue comes in
My NC won't recognize any memory card I put in it. I put them in my computer with an adapter and its fine, I put it in another phne and its fine...I put it in my NC and get "can't mount /sdcard/"
Its done it with many sdcards, not just one specific one
Lint6 said:
A few months ago was trying to flash a new ROM onto my NC when the battery died..yea stupid me forgot to charge it.
Now, whenever I plug it in, I get the charging screen but it doesn't go any farther usually...sometimes it'll go into recovery after charging for a little, but thats where my second issue comes in
My NC won't recognize any memory card I put in it. I put them in my computer with an adapter and its fine, I put it in another phne and its fine...I put it in my NC and get "can't mount /sdcard/"
Its done it with many sdcards, not just one specific one
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Try making a new bootable CWM SD per item A10 in my NC tips thread linked in my signature. See if that boots. If it does, go to my NC emmc partition repair thread and run the partition repair zips.
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Hi all,
After years of reliable service, I decided to root my Xperia Z1 to be able to drop apps onto the SD card to create some more space.
This was working fine for a week, but yesterday I was in the forest using a GPS app called My Tracks which I'd moved to the SD card. My phone turned off once, Then a second time and wouldn't reboot until I plugged it into the charger, which I might be wrong, but I think the phone wasn't happy using the app from the sd card.
The battery was still at 83%. It charged back up to 100%. It turned off again and would only turn on again once plugged into the charger.
Phone was okay on the charger, then someone rang me so I unplugged it and it died instantly.
After that it's been dead with the red light flashing on the charger and the usb cable.
None of the recovery options work, and I even have the back removed now with endless failed attempts at disconnecting battery and using the testpoint and paperclip to try and get various computer software to see it. It's unresponsive.
Ideally I wanted to get some notes off it which are saved in the simple Notes app on the phone. Everything else was saved to the sd card. If anyone knows how to recover those from a dead phone it'd be great, but I don't think it's possible.
So my main question is. If I buy a cheap donor Z1 off ebay which is fine except a smashed digitising screen etc... Can I basically do a straight swap with the motherboard and/or battery (being a bit hopeful it's only the battery) and my phone will work again? Albeit with whatever is on the new mother board?
I've never replaced internal hardware on phones so I don't know if I need to do anything extra.