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So I rooted my brothers g1 a few months ago and everything was great except that it could not connect to pc via usb. I told him not to worry about it but then he wanted to put music on his phone. He was messing around with the phone and he says he formatted something and now he has lost the ability to access the market as well as other apps he downloaded. For the life of him he cannot tell me what he did. So I check the sd card via card reader and I see that signed cyanogen mod (4.2.2.etc) is still there as well as other files. So I have no clue what he did and now the phone won't recognize the sd card even though its loaded and I can't flash him another rom so he can get the market back. Does anyone have a clue on what I should do???? Please help!!!!!!!
also tried other sd cards formatted to fat32 and fat with no luck.
i guess you gotta try a sd adapter, and put the files on there, as for the market app, looks like he needs to reflash the 1.6 firmware, and then reflash cyanogen if its the market apps, and google apps you are referring to.
This is a prime example of why you should never root someone else's phone if they don't know how to do it themselves. With great power comes great idiocy.
nexus2 said:
So I rooted my brothers g1 a few months ago and everything was great except that it could not connect to pc via usb. I told him not to worry about it but then he wanted to put music on his phone. He was messing around with the phone and he says he formatted something and now he has lost the ability to access the market as well as other apps he downloaded. For the life of him he cannot tell me what he did. So I check the sd card via card reader and I see that signed cyanogen mod (4.2.2.etc) is still there as well as other files. So I have no clue what he did and now the phone won't recognize the sd card even though its loaded and I can't flash him another rom so he can get the market back. Does anyone have a clue on what I should do???? Please help!!!!!!!
also tried other sd cards formatted to fat32 and fat with no luck.
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He probably formatted the ext partition. You may want to re-partition the card and reboot and see if it will pick everything back up. You may also need to start over.
When done, make a bart backup and tell him never format anything.
Thanks fort the advice guys. I'm gonna try to re partition the card. If I have to start over can I wipe to factory settings and will it return to the original firmware? if so I may do just that. In any case thanks for the input guys , love this forum.
Ok so I wiped the phone and got the market back. All the apps that he downloaded are in the downloaded section so no worries there.
I checked to see if the sd card still had multiple partitions, using a sd reader and paragon partition manager, and it does. The first being FAT32 and the second being linux. I still do not know why the phone won't recognize the sd card or any other for that matter. Any help would be soooooooooo appreciated!
Please help guys so I can get my lil bro off my back! ;P
Oh yeah I tried to re-partition the card with the paragon manager and its not going through. Any other type of manager I can use. I'm on windows7 64bit. This is really frustrating and I wanna get this fixed. Also when I plug the usb cable will recognize the external drive but when I click on it it says please insert drive.
The AMOLED screen on my Nexus One broke, so, I sent it for repair to a dealer cause there is no official HTC support for Nexus One in India. Before I sent the phone I took a backup of my SD card and also removed it from the phone.
After I got the phone back with the new screen installed, I put in my SD card and it says Blank SD card or unsupported file system. So, I tried different SD card and the same thing popped up with every card I put in. It would ask me to format the card and even if I formatted, it would not mount the SD card. The SD cards work in all other phones and SD card readers.
So, I sent the phone back to the repair guy and he said that its most probably a software bug because if it was a hardware bug then the error message would not pop up at all. He said that it would be best to reflash the ROM but then he tried and the ROM could not be reflashed.
Now the Phone is with me and everything works except for the SD card. Plugging the phone in the computer also doesn't help as the card is not being mounted by the phone at all.
The phone I am using is a Nexus One with stock ROM Android 2.3.4 (never rooted or hacked).
Please help me find a solution to this. I'm even ready to install a custom ROM but can't do so without an SD card.
Please help!!!
Ok well android can't find the SD card but lets see if your bootloader can if not then send it in for repairs again because it's not software. Check my sig there is a link that says passimg try those instructions and tell me what you get.
Hey,
Thank you for the response but most of the instructions require the SD Card. However, in my case as you know the SD Card itself is not functioning. So even if I download the Passimg file, I can't place it on the SD card.
Is there a way to use ADB to wipe the phone completely and then reinstall the original factory stock ROMS?
I did go back to the vendor and asked him to repair the device but after a heated argument he just said that the device's SD card is working but it is not recognizing the cards in it which he said is because of a software bug and for that you need to re-flash the device completely but he didn't have the means to do it, so now I'm left with an unusable phone.
So, in shot can I do the whole reflash thing without the SD card working?
Thank you for responding, you're the only one so far whose come to the rescue. Waiting to hear from you.
Thanks
Hey,
So I just understood the full extent of your recommendation. You wanted me to check if the bootloader detects the Passimg file or not given that booting into Android is not doing that.
As per the instructions on the passimg page I need to download the FRG83 ROM and apply the update. But I'm just wondering if I do this and if the bootloader actually detects the update on the SD card, won't I also need to downgrade the HBOOT version or is it jut safe to apply the downgraded FRG83 over the GRJ22 build that I currently have on the phone?
The details of my phone are as follows:
Nexusone pvt Ship S-ON
HBOOT-0.35.0017
MICROP-0b15
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0103
RADIO-5.08.00.04
Oct 12 2010, 14:33:16
Please guide as per your convenience,
Thank you.
I'm not 100% sure but I'd assume that if you do as what you're planning to do.. the HBOOT should also be flashed automatically with the rom. double check incase!
Hi Again,
So, I took the risk and downloaded the FRG83 ROm loaded it into my SD card using a different phone and then put that card into the SD card slot of the Nexus One.
I went into the boot loaded and it automatically detected the PASSIMG.zip file and asked me whether I want to install the Update - I chose YES.
The update installed successfully and I booted into Android. After finishing the Wizard, I checked the Android Version and it says FRG83 but when I look at the notification bar it still shows me the same error "Blank SD card or has Unsupported File System".
So, we can conclude that the SD card and the SD slot work fine.. Any thoughts on what could be done next?
Well that's weird ok well lets see what the computer says. Put the card back in that other phone and connect it to the computer then on the computer go to computer then right click the card (probably E: maybe F: ) then go to properties and check file system make sure it's FAT32.
Not sure if it's wort posting on this thread still, but lots of people come searching for a solution to this problem so I figured I'd post at least another thing to try.
I've had this happen several time on various Android phones. I've been able to bring the card back every time. I throw the card into my micro usb reader, pop it in my computer, and run disk utility (I don't know what equivalent would be for Windows). You should see your SD card come up and see your main data partition there below it. Click on the partition and click repair in the bottom right.
It will run through some stuff and you'll be able to see if it's found anything in need of repair and if it repaired it.
The few times this has happened to me Disk Utility said it was an empty block at beginning of some data or something...
YMMV
Not sure if it's worth posting on this thread still, but lots of people come searching for a solution to this problem so I figured I'd post at least another thing to try.
I've had this happen several time on various Android phones. I've been able to bring the card back every time. I throw the card into my micro usb reader, pop it in my computer, and run disk utility (I don't know what equivalent would be for Windows). You should see your SD card come up and see your main data partition there below it. Click on the partition and click repair in the bottom right.
It will run through some stuff and you'll be able to see if it's found anything in need of repair and if it repaired it.
The few times this has happened to me Disk Utility said it was an empty block at beginning of some data or something...
YMMV
When I had this exact problem, I had to replace the SIM/Micro SD flex board to fix it. They were $15 shipped on eBay at the time.
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.
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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.
Hi all
My Xperia Z goes into bootloop NOT after I have partitioned the sd card, BUT when I use link2sd to make SCRIPT? My sd card is sandisk 64GB, i have tried with a 2GB sd card but it worked?
yeah, I have the same problem. Luckily, without the sd card at boot the Xperia Z boots up just fine and once it's booted I can also put back in the micro sd and access all the contents. I "only" need to know how I can fix the boot with the micro sd inserted. Do I need to edit, delete or rename some file or script?
I have a "install-recovery.sh" (382 bytes and includes text with the information "added by link2sd") and a smaller "install-recovery.sh.ori" (38 bytes) file. The latter one I assume is the original one before link2sd created its script and wrote it into the "install-recovery.sh"?! I have no idea. But I guess since it is smaller and the file ending "ori" could indicate "original". Could I just delete the "install-recovery.sh" and rename the other one back to "install-recovery.sh"
Both of these files are under "system/etc". I don't have a "init.d" folder or at least I can't find it. I read somewhere that I need this for Link2SD to run properly. However, I don't want it to run, I just want it to remove completly.
The reason I'm into this trouble is, that my Xperia Z has only 3GB internal memory left and I have a 64GB microsd card which I assumed had still a second partition on it from a previous handset. So I downloaded Link2SD, started it and let it create a mounting script, after boot the bootloop occured. Now I know that there is no second partition and I wanna get rid of the script and loop. A simple deinstall of Link2SD was not enough.
I also have the CWM recovery for locked bootloaders installed, if that matters (this recovery works fine).
I've attached the two files. Maybe someone can look into them and tell me what's wrong and what I need to change in order for my phone to boot up with inserted microsd card.
Can someone share their original "install-recovery.sh"?
I would edit or delete the "install-recovery.sh" myself, but I'm really afraid to make things even worse than they are now, for instance no boot at all, deleted apps and data.
Can anyone please help me?
Edit: I found the solution!! After hours of searching I found this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40471594&highlight=remove+link2sd#post40471594 with "lousou76s" posting.
I was quite scared to break even more, but then was brave enough to try it out.
I followed his steps exactly (although I did not have an "init.d" folder and therefore not the file in step one. But it didn't matter, I did what he wrote, inserted my microSD card again and it booted flawlessly! So glad I got this figured out. Stupid Link2SD.
Now I only have to find a way to cope with the limited internal space on my XZ and the fact that I have plenty of space on my microSD but can't use it for apps.
Same problem
After install link2sd and create the 2nd partition, I had the same problem. Reboot loop until take of the SD Card. Anyone managed to get Link2sd working?
Find a solution?
.LEONARDO. said:
After install link2sd and create the 2nd partition, I had the same problem. Reboot loop until take of the SD Card. Anyone managed to get Link2sd working?
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Ever find a solution?
Link2sd Xperia Z partition bootloop
Hello all,
I've encountered the same issue on my brand new Xperia Z. This is my 4th Android device, and I've never experienced any problems with Link2sd, until the Xperia Z. No matter what file allocation table I use to format the 2nd MicroSD partition, it just keeps getting stuck in the boot loop. Initially it gave me an unsupported file format (and invalid argument) error. Now (after I reflashed the newest unbranded ROM), there are no more error codes, but after Link2sd prompts to select ext2, ext3, ext4, fat32, etc, regardless of which one I choose, it just keeps booting and getting stuck on the flashing Sony screen (and the only temporary workaround is to eject the SD card).
As mentioned above, I've tried various formats and file allocation tables, but to no avail. I also tried different micro SD cards (PNY, Lexar, Toshiba) in various capacities (from 8 to 64 Gigs), and still no go.
Apparently there are hundreds of reports online about this incompatibility with Xperia Z and Link2sd (specifically pertaining to the partition boot loop).
Could someone please point us in the right direction (so we can try and resolve this, once and for all)?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your time, guys!
Simple Fix that worked for me.
boychik said:
Hello all,
I've encountered the same issue on my brand new Xperia Z. This is my 4th Android device, and I've never experienced any problems with Link2sd, until the Xperia Z. No matter what file allocation table I use to format the 2nd MicroSD partition, it just keeps getting stuck in the boot loop. Initially it gave me an unsupported file format (and invalid argument) error. Now (after I reflashed the newest unbranded ROM), there are no more error codes, but after Link2sd prompts to select ext2, ext3, ext4, fat32, etc, regardless of which one I choose, it just keeps booting and getting stuck on the flashing Sony screen (and the only temporary workaround is to eject the SD card).
As mentioned above, I've tried various formats and file allocation tables, but to no avail. I also tried different micro SD cards (PNY, Lexar, Toshiba) in various capacities (from 8 to 64 Gigs), and still no go.
Apparently there are hundreds of reports online about this incompatibility with Xperia Z and Link2sd (specifically pertaining to the partition boot loop).
Could someone please point us in the right direction (so we can try and resolve this, once and for all)?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your time, guys!
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This may not work for your situation, but it worked for me. After I rebooted device I got stuck in a bootloop at the MetroPCS screen of my SGH-T599N I rebooted into restore mode and used Wipe Cache Partition option (not sure if this was relevant to the fix or not) then rebooted the phone. I waited for maybe 5 minutes this time, and after a minute a screeen popped up with a % bar and for the life of me I cannot remember it was Android something. After this screen finished phone rebooted like normal and all was well. I even rebooted once more to check, no problems at all. Hope this helps.
Someone solved this???
HI,
same problem for me with my Xperia sp, sd card partitioned, as soon as i launch link2sd it asks to reboot the phone in order to apply the changes and the phone stucks on rebooting loop.
Anyone found a solution??
Donot let link2sd make a script partition...as i was on 4.4.4 i was able to mount my ext2 partition manually and move apps easily...i did not try on Lollipop yet
Hello.
This is my first post.
I have seen the noob video, I know I am not special. And still:
I have searched the forums, but my problem is different. Most of the posters don't know what caused this error. I know what caused mine. I have actually unexpectedly removed the SD Card. Kind of. Funny story: transferring data (green bar on windows not loaded at all, window stuck on calculating time/finding files etc -technically no data has been transferred), windows explorer decides to go all "Not responding" on me (thank you microsoft). The genius in me tells me to unplug the phone, so I do. Yay! explorer.exe is ok now. Too bad my SD card isn't.
There are some files on it... but none of the folders that I created, so I lost everything except photos and stuff. I have backed them up on my PC. When I connect my phone (which I have to do manually by going into USB settings so that my PC recognizes anything -auto play doesn't appear anymore-), instead of showing up as my phone, it shows up as a media device with stuff on it (folders like Android, DCIM, but none of my manually created folders containing music etc.).
I repeat, I have actually unexpectedly removed my SD card.
I right clicked on the drive in the PC and clicked Format. It warned me. I didn't care, I was desperate. In just one second, it said formatting complete. No files missing, however (still those Android, DCIM etc. folders).
I have a Samsung Galaxy S Advance GT-I9070 (this forum section, I think). I have flashed the I9070XXLQ4 (android 4.1.2) from Russia on it (a few weeks ago). Not root, or any custom ROM's.
Recap. I have unexpectedly removed my SD card. I want my games back. Or at least formatting it, making it usable.
Formatting the SD card from the phone settings has done it. I am a noob.
try formatting the sdcard on your phone thru the settings>storage..
re-download all your games or transfer them on the sdcard after the format.. if you have back up on your pc or other storage..
as for your pc.. try a reboot.. to correct the drivers of your phone as storage device..
jaycm1130 said:
try formatting the sdcard on your phone thru the settings>storage..
re-download all your games or transfer them on the sdcard after the format.. if you have back up on your pc or other storage..
as for your pc.. try a reboot.. to correct the drivers of your phone as storage device..
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Thanks, I've managed to do that before you posted (but I'm a noob and I can't edit posts so quickly). It did it. Although I was hoping not to lose everything.
vici30 said:
Thanks, I've managed to do that before you posted (but I'm a noob and I can't edit posts so quickly). It did it. Although I was hoping not to lose everything.
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is your sdcard a genuine one?.. no offense.. but there are a lot of fake sdcards in the market today..
actually i have a fake one.. its 8gb.. now, half of it is corrupted already.. my tablet hung due to it..
Hi guys.
I hope it's not the wrong thing to revive this old thread.
I was recently installing an RUU onto my phone. After the install completed, the phone restarted and it began checking the SD card again for an RUU - and it found one, as I had not by then removed/renamed it. So, after waiting for it to verify the RUU, selecting "no" to installing it, it restarted again and again it started looking for an RUU. By this time, I was getting impatient, so I tried to remove the SD card quickly before any actual data access happened.
WRONG
My SD card became RAW, inaccessible to Android or Windows. Testdisk and various free versions of paid-for undelete tools (like EaseUS) found only files from waaaaay back, before I had ever used the card in Android. As a precaution, I took two RAW copies of the full card onto two harddisks and compared the MD5 of each (match).
A little wary of the risk of using various features of testdisk, I thought the best thing to do next was a format (not quick format) to exFAT in windows and run all the undelete tools again. No results. Then I found this thread and, as suggested, tried formatting using Android. All software returned no results again.
What else can I do? The contents of the card should still be as they were (unless the formatting twice effected that). Am I correct to assume that the card (128gb) would have been formatted exFAT by Android 5/6?
In testdisk, are "superblock" or "boot" forms of recovery any relevance to me?
Thank you!
(PS: Android is working fine, I'm only having problems with the SD card contents)