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[Q] SGS sd card problem on custom roms (darky and Doc's rom mods)

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I bought a phone which was on orange-UK, the shopkeeper when gave it to me he used some code which i wrote down on first startup which unlcoked it.
I rooted it > success (with one click root)
ryanZ one click lag fix > did not work, phone stopped booting > went into 2e recovery and factory reset resolved the problem and i didnt tried to lag fix again...
yesterday found Darky's rom and docrom mod
doc's rom mods: http://forum. xda- developers.com/showthread.php?t=807848&highlight=doc
darky : http://forum. xda - developers .com/showthread.php?t=814091
and downloaded both....
copied everything needed, installed darky, my both internal and external sd cards didnt work....
flashed with odin on original factory stock eclair rom .... did again .... nothing....
flashed again with odin (coulnt access internal card, obviously) ... stock rom worked fine, both cards mounted....
then didnt do the darky one, did the other doc's .... same problem...
thought there may be some files remaining form the un succesful lag fix of ryanz ...
flashed again with odin, formatted everyhing all memory cards.... did doc's rom, now with sd card sitting on my table rather than in the phone ... internal sd card detected...
inserted external sd , didnt mount... did a couple of times more , no success...
Now I am using doc's rom and I cant use my external SD card... its a 4gig kingston one....
BTW when sd card is not accessible in the O, if you reboot into clockworkmod, it accesses it... so its something else...
I did the following post on darky's thread on page 53 i think... and the issue i thought was this:
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Hi its me again, i found out where the problem is.... after the rom installs (not just darky, the other doc rom on which its based too) if there is no external memory card installed internal memory card appears fine...
(BTW i used odin to flash the factory eclair, repartition and format everything) after that did that 3 times with ur rom and doc mod one released on the 14th of the month if i remember correctly....
On each boot if there is no external memory card in the slot the internal sd card is usable, if at boot it is installed both are not mounted and are un useable.
Both these roms with the vodoo creates two folder "sd" and "external_sd" on the "/mnt/sdcard" address... and normally on the stock rom this sd folder is where the SGS mounts the external sd as a folder.... so i think vodoo does its magic and so SD cards (external) are unuseable with these roms or this version...
Couldnt quite understand....
Please check this on 3.0 version that if there is an external sd card inserted on the first boot and the subsequent boot as well , is that use able or does it render both the memory cards un mounted and you cant mount them either...
IS IT JUST ME OR SHOULD I POST THIS THREAD AS A SEPERATE ISSUE WITH DARKY / DOC ROMS (i have not tried the slim kalpik+doc version yet, got exhausted after flashing to stock for three times in one day and then reverting back here only to find out that "dont bloody put ur SD in... and use the internal memory only"
plzzzzzzzz help....
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edit: turns out there is one guy who replied that he is able to access both memory cards on darky.....
Please anybody... Mr. kalpik, Mr. Tayutama, Mr. Docrombone .... (plz dont mind the spell)
Could anybody help.... What is it I am missing.....

Bit strange, first time i see this error.
You have the standard I9000?
What was the stock rom that the phone was shipped with?
Product code on your phone now?

If you are using my files, when it opens it shows /sdcard on top. Scroll down to sd. Thats your external card. Hope this helps.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App

@ DocRambone
Yes this is standard I9000
i was originally on BVGJ4 i think (something like that ) (the eclair for Orange UK)... i cant quite remember this.....sorry
but then i flashed with odin with the stock rom that i got from the forums.... here
http://forum. xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=816890&highlight=uploading+stock&page=2
then i went into 2e recovery then into clockworkmod and flashed the one i provided link above....
now the product code is I9000HKDXEE in nv_data.bin (used SGS tollbox to see that, its the same as backed up one)
other info currently is:
PDA: I9000XWJP6
PHONE: I9000XXJPM
CSC: I9000XEEJP4
But these things are i presume, due to the firmware currently installed... (i am a newbie, so... dont know abt product code stuff)
Cant we just flash some rom with odin which makes this phone a WWE >>> ?
@ragin
I used the stocck rom from the link provided above....

ragin said:
If you are using my files, when it opens it shows /sdcard on top. Scroll down to sd. Thats your external card. Hope this helps.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App
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I used the one link i provided in the post above.... the thing is that if the sd card is in the phone and then u turn the phone on, no card is detected... neither internal nor external,
if not then, if u power it on if the external sd card is out then it shows the internal but when u insert the sd card, nothing happpens...
The rom i installed has already created a folder named "sd" and a second folder "external_sd" on the root of the external sd ..... so external sd is not mounted there...
if you go into recovery and then into clockworkmod recovery and u go into sd cards and mounts and then try to mount the sd it gives an error
/dev/block/mmcblk0 (cant remember exact file name) already exists cant mount sd....
SO thats why i was thinking that maybe voodoo has created some file or this file is causing the problem.
should i try to find where this file is and try to delete from a root file manager...????
I M BLOODY STUCK...
CANT THERE BE A WAY TO FLASH A ROM WHICH RENDERS THE PHONE INTO A FACTORY NEW PHONE STATE AND I COULD PLAY LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE IS???

what are the compatible file systems of the external sd cards for froyo roms??
fat16 / 32 / ext2 / ext 4 ????

@urhhoney
i had the same problem after apllying the darky steel rom on the tayutama rom (i disabled the lag fix first), i flashed the stock WJM9 then the CF root and recovery kernel then darky steel again but the external sd card didnot work but i noticed some errors in recovery mode about mounting the cach folder so i flashed WJM5 then WJM9 and CF kernel then applied darky steel rom and the sd card worked fine this time.

[Q] Please help :(

I updated my LG optimus 2x with CyanogenMod (2.3.5)
but after installing it , when i try to start my canera its shown error (Insert SD card)
also when i tried to download any file Same error shown , please help me .
if possible anybody please tell me how to get Android 2.2 OS, i was happy with that.

mayur_32 said:
I updated my LG optimus 2x with CyanogenMod (2.3.5)
but after installing it , when i try to start my canera its shown error (Insert SD card)
also when i tried to download any file Same error shown , please help me .
if possible anybody please tell me how to get Android 2.2 OS, i was happy with that.
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Got almost the same problem earlier today (not with CM though).
A restart solved that problem (for now). Have you tried that?

Got almost the same problem earlier today (not with CM though).
A restart solved that problem (for now). Have you tried that?
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i tried it (restart) but its not working
Same error (Please Insert SD Card before using the camera.)
please help me friends .

Has there been any kind of notification telling you that your SD is corrupt?
Can you see your SD card in a file manager?

Do you even have an SD card? CM does the internal storage differently.

Do you even have an SD card? CM does the internal storage differently.
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i dont have external memory card.
phone have 8Gb intenal memory..

Then to get CM7 to work with it you'll have to **** around with the mount points.

Then to get CM7 to work with it you'll have to **** around with the mount points.
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what is the Procedure. please help me

mayur_32 said:
what is the Procedure. please help me
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You should try this, i think in this thread you find the answer.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1086307

mayur_32 said:
what is the Procedure. please help me
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I'm surprised that Cyanogenmod install can be done without a physical external SD card.
It's mandatory to have an external SDcard to use Cynogenmod, even if your internal SDcard is empty.
There are complicated things to do as mentionned above to switch internal and external mounting points for Cyanogen but I can guess this can be tricky for someone not used to those things....
So:
- buy a sdcard, even a small one, internal sdcard still can be used for multimedia files and so on, and is mounted as /mnt/emmc (grab Astro File manager for exemple to see it) and is concerned by media scanning.
- flash back stock firmware (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1127849) if you didn't made a Nandroid backup before flashing CMod.
- flash another optimized Froyo rom (see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1127849 there are some)
- Didn't try Paul Modaco's Gr2, based on official Lg leak 2.3.4, perhaps its mouting points are more conventionnal; but Gr1 pre-baked didn't went good for me as there were no SIM card detection (probably missing some APN related files or so...) so I jumped to CyanogenMod Nightly.

I just bought an O2x with CM7 RC1 already installed.The camera doesn't work (Please insert an SD card before using the camera) and my computer doesn't find the phone when i connect the USB cable(it says it's charging but nothing happens on the phone or the PC). I tried installing LG Pc Suite and the official software on the LG site(mobile updater) and the USB driver seems to be installed but nothing happens when i connect the phone.
What should i do? Should i flash a newer CM7 nightly or a stock firmware? (i have literally no idea how to do that, i'm going to have to read some tutorials).Can i do that if i can't connect the phone via the USB cable? Is there another way?

Yeah flash a newer version, RC1 is quite dated. In the new nightlies you can make internal storage replace the SD card.
You can update the drivers with the LG Mobile Support Tool, PC Suite isn't compatible with CM7.

I installed LG Mobile Support Tool, still nothing. The battery is "Charging" but nothing else happens on the phone/pc. Can i flash a newer version if i can't use the usb to connect to the phone?
Edit: The phone has ROM Manager 4.3.2.3 installed and when i start it: "The SD Card needs to be mounted to use ROM Manager."

I suspect you don't have an SD card, only internal storage. You can't use ROM Manager with that on RC1.
Try the drivers here: http://android.modaco.com/topic/335...elease-103521-20110725/page__view__getnewpost

No, i don't have external SD card. The phone already had CM7 when i bought it. So i just have to download those 3 files and follow the tutorial?
I also found this tutorial and it has that AP BIN thing in plus. Which one to follow? I would be happy to install stock froyo if everything works on it.

Which one to follow depends on what you want for your phone. Personally I'd use CM7.

Ok , i'm gonna go with CM7. If i follow that tutorial(the one you posted) what exactly i'm gonna have on my phone? What does it do? Don't i have to install a newer CM7 nightly build?
This tutorial doesn't say what to put in the AP Bin box, i just leave it blank?

If you go with CM7 then you have to install via recovery, not Smartflash, completely different process.
Download the newest version from here: http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?device=p990
Save to your phones internal SD card
Update recovery (unless already on 4.0.0.9 or higher)
Reboot to recovery (can use ROM Manager for that)
Install zip from SD card
Choose zip
Select the CM zip and pick yes
Reboot
In the CyanognenMod settings, in the top option (i foget what it is now) tick 'use internal storage'
Reboot again and you're away

"Save to your phones internal SD card" How am i gonna do that? I can't use usb to connect the phone.

Oh, have you not sorted that yet? Bugger.
Try running mount -t auto /dev/block/mmcblk0p9 /sdcard from the terminal, with any luck this will make your internal SD /sdcard and you should be able to download CM via the phone. You can also use ROM Manager to install it then as well.

[Q] Sd card appears damaged and reboots phone

Recently i bought an 8gB class 10 sdhc card. Put it in my phone it was working fine. I copied all the files from my old card exacty as they were mounted the card again and the phone says the card is damaged and reboots all the time.
I put it in a friends samsung galaxy3. The card worked fine and all files were there. So obviously it has to do with my phone.
I'm using gingerdx the latest version with stock kernel.
I'd appreciate all the help you could give me guys. Thanks in advance.

try to format your sdcard (backup fist)
don't perform quick format..
still can't try format using phone..
then make a partition..
on developer forum we have a [guide] how to partitionning sd card

Nothing. I tried what you said I even reflashed my rom and worked it with no extra apps but phone still restarts when i try to move an app to the card.
I don't know if it's significant but i noticed that: I went in cwm and tried to mount sd-ext and I always got an error. Tried to format it again error.

sonik_5 said:
Nothing. I tried what you said I even reflashed my rom and worked it with no extra apps but phone still restarts when i try to move an app to the card.
I don't know if it's significant but i noticed that: I went in cwm and tried to mount sd-ext and I always got an error. Tried to format it again error.
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do not perform any activity in cwm regarding sdcard it is not compatible,even format sd ext it will give you a result of damage sdcard for some rom or your current,resulting to reformat your sdcard,now backup all your files to pc,reformat your sdcard through your phone,unmount sdcard t then erased sdcard,then back your files...Hope it help...

Go to advanced in cwm and go to fix permissions. See what that does for you.
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Guys thanks for all the replies. Nothing seems to be working though, phone keeps rebooting. Might just be a faulty sd card, but that would be the second in the row.

[Q] Random phone locks with no coverage and no sd card when wifi is on.

Hi, I'm new here and this website has been very useful.
But I have and issue with my Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5830
About phone:
Android version: 2.3.5
Kernel Version 2.6.35.7
Build number: Gingerbread
Fully Rooted.
Clockwork Mod
I recently installed a stock and did all of the following things included using this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2609021
After that I did a sd partition using this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1476121
But instead of using a card reader, I did the sd partition using CWM.
Everything worked fine, and I managed to free a great deal of internal storage by linking most of my apps to the sd card.
But recently whenever I use wifi, my phone randomly freezes and goes to the lock screen, where I don't have coverage and no sd card. I have to wait 30 seconds or so to get the coverage back and for the sd card to be scanned.
This problem only occurs when I have my wifi on.
I have no idea why this problem occurs or what could be the cause of it. Could somebody help me find a solution or just explain what could be the cause of this problem.
Thank you in advance.

Litch112 said:
Hi, I'm new here and this website has been very useful.
But I have and issue with my Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5830
About phone:
Android version: 2.3.5
Kernel Version 2.6.35.7
Build number: Gingerbread
Fully Rooted.
Clockwork Mod
I recently installed a stock and did all of the following things included using this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2609021
After that I did a sd partition using this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1476121
But instead of using a card reader, I did the sd partition using CWM.
Everything worked fine, and I managed to free a great deal of internal storage by linking most of my apps to the sd card.
But recently whenever I use wifi, my phone randomly freezes and goes to the lock screen, where I don't have coverage and no sd card. I have to wait 30 seconds or so to get the coverage back and for the sd card to be scanned.
This problem only occurs when I have my wifi on.
I have no idea why this problem occurs or what could be the cause of it. Could somebody help me find a solution or just explain what could be the cause of this problem.
Thank you in advance.
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Hi There,
well these types of problems occur only when there is any kind of Virus or Bug in our device. This may help YOU:
*Remove Unwanted/Untrusted/Unknown apps
*Scan your device for Viruses by antivirus i recommend AVAST or AVG.
If the problems still persists:
*Full Factory Reset.

Unable to download save files from internet and other apps whatsapp,camera, gallery

I had problems with my mobile storage. am unable to download files to my lenovo a7000. I am getting the same problem with my stock rom backup & cm 13 & AICP rom. And now I am using vibe ui lite rom. I am unable to download , save files from internet and apps like whatsapp. Also I am unable to use camera , galary & screenshot feature. Play store is working fine. I am using sandisk 16 GB class 10 sd card. I had tried to insert as internal and as portable. This SD card is working fine on desktop or other mobile phones. I had done USB or wireless file transfer from pc and mobile successfully. Also other sd card is working fine with my phone. Please guide. I have pics / screenshot of the same for your reference. But I don't know how to share with you.

thatte.kailas said:
I had problems with my mobile storage. am unable to download files to my lenovo a7000. I am getting the same problem with my stock rom backup & cm 13 & AICP rom. And now I am using vibe ui lite rom. I am unable to download , save files from internet and apps like whatsapp. Also I am unable to use camera , galary & screenshot feature. Play store is working fine. I am using sandisk 16 GB class 10 sd card. I had tried to insert as internal and as portable. This SD card is working fine on desktop or other mobile phones. I had done USB or wireless file transfer from pc and mobile successfully. Also other sd card is working fine with my phone. Please guide. I have pics / screenshot of the same for your reference. But I don't know how to share with you.
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Try doing a clean format with pc.this may happen once you formated it as internal and changed the rom.

aswinp222 said:
Try doing a clean format with pc.this may happen once you formated it as internal and changed the rom.
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Thanks it works

aswinp222 said:
Try doing a clean format with pc.this may happen once you formated it as internal and changed the rom.
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I have same problem, but it doesn't work for me.
Any sugest another solution ?
Thanks

echa_spdp said:
I have same problem, but it doesn't work for me.
Any sugest another solution ?
Thanks
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What?you still cant write to the SD card even after formatting it with pc?then possibly the card will be damaged or write protected