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[SOLVED] Apps2SD problem with sd

I had apps2sd by lucidrem running on my phone and it was fine. I was out today and my sd card was 'removed' although I didn't touch it. This ended up bricking my phone, because the sd is removed and there is no data or delvik etc. Is there a method to use apps2sd without it being permanently affected when an sd is removed?
A reinstall of rom has fixed it however I have lost everything off the phone now
Thanks
Tucka

LucidRem's Apps2SD uses symlinks which I believe is now preferred over the one used by MarcusMaximus (forgot what its called ) only way to remove a sdcard safely without screwing up your phone is if the phone is turned off. No idea how the sdcard was 'removed' if you didn't touch it. Happened sometimes to me, but never found out what caused it. Hope this helps.

Best to apply Apps2SD again really or use a ROM that automatically enables it by default if a partition exists (Cyanogen/Dude).
Also a small sidenote... The term "brick" means your device would no longer be functional at all, I.E Unable to turn it on using any method. A more suitable term would probably be "crashed" instead.
I only mention this because the term bricked is being used far too loosely to describe the wrong symptoms.

Sorry for loosing brick loosly, just presumed that was what it was when the phone won't get past the G1 splash. So, say I want to watch a movie or something on a different memory card (won't be able to fit all my stuff on one) all I have to do is switch phone off, remove memory card, insert different one (preferably also with a2sd configured for meridian video?) and that will work?
I think the problem is with movement and sudden knocks that the card comes out. I was running through a storm when it said memory card was removed.
Thanks

No worries about the terms as there are an awful lot of them in the world of technology! Long as we're all learning then we can't argue ^_^
To be honest, hot swapping SD cards is a bit long winded... Its best to save up and invest in a larger memory card if possible (Class 6). Not sure what size your SD card is, but if it can't hold a movie then it could be time to buy a new one.
Also if you use the older Apps2SD program (1.1 I believe) it uses Symlinks as alritewhadeva mentioned and it shouldn't cause your phone to crash totally if the SD card is removed.
Best solution though is to buy a new SD card, you should be able to find one on the cheap on the net.

its an 8gb C4, however I am travelling and will be on a 10 hour flight later this month, and was wanting lots of films and tv shows etc. May just compress and squeeze them onto my 8GB.
Thanks a lot
Tucka

using a2sd and 2 memory cards doesnt work. All your app data and cache is on your sd card and the phone wont be able to boot without the right sd card in the phone (trust me i have tried). I suggest buying a new card maybe 16 gb.

Hope they have a charging point on your flight! It would kill your battery watching a movie for that long haha. Better off with an iPod/MP3 player I reckon.
But yeah, you can either add more compression or reduce the resolution/framerate to fit more on your SD card. Quality will drop but at least it will keep you entertained.

2 batteries plus a portable battery charger ftw

Haha, that should be sufficient then! Very well prepared ^_^ I was thinking about getting one of those wind up backup chargers for emergancy use once... No idea if its any good.
If everything is sorted tuka, could you please edit the title to add "[SOLVED]" so people know? Thanks!

No Idea Why Nexus One SD Card Damages

This is like the fourth time the stock SD card gets damaged. Does any one know how I can avoid this. I keep losing everything every time... this really sucks. The phone is not even mounting to my pc...

I've fried a few, best bet is to backup every time you plug into your computer.

MoogooGai said:
This is like the fourth time the stock SD card gets damaged. Does any one know how I can avoid this. I keep losing everything every time... this really sucks. The phone is not even mounting to my pc...
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It might be time to spend the 10 bucks to get a real SD card.

custom374 said:
It might be time to spend the 10 bucks to get a real SD card.
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I agree, I had the same problem a few times and after inserting a new reformatted 8gb class 4 I've had now SD problems for 5 months.

MoogooGai said:
This is like the fourth time the stock SD card gets damaged. Does any one know how I can avoid this. I keep losing everything every time... this really sucks. The phone is not even mounting to my pc...
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Have you tried rebooting the phone? When I first got my N1 and was hosing with it, one boot the SD card didn't mount.. I poked around in the settings for a few minutes, and finally just rebooted it. Been fine since.
However, the suggestions to upgrade the MicroSD are valid, the standard one is a Class 2 IIRC, I'd suggest at least Class 6.

Flash custom rom?

I think I posted this in the wrong forum earlier. I currently have a Galaxy S4 and looked at the nexus 6 if I have to buy a sealed phone vs the new galaxy. Since everything is internal when making a nandroid do I need to transfer the nandroid to a computer then wipe? If I wipe the phone then how do I flash a new ROM if the internal is wiped ? Nandroid... Ok..... Then transfer is my guess to computer..... Then wipe then flash.... Except the internal is wiped.
Everything you flash a new ROM do you have to back up and transfer everything to the computer?
With the galaxy s4 I would just wipe the phone then load off the SD card slot.

Depending on what you wipe, and how you wipe, the data on your sdcard can be saved on the Nexus. For example, in a custom recovery, TWRP in the N6's case by default a factory reset doesn't wipe the sdcard.

^^ exactly.
TWRP knows what it should and shouldn't wipe. Unless you do it manually you won't lose the nandroid.
Plus, I've had a lot of issues transferring nandroid to a PC or SD card prior to the Nexus and have them work after the transfer.

cupfulloflol said:
Depending on what you wipe, and how you wipe, the data on your sdcard can be saved on the Nexus. For example, in a custom recovery, TWRP in the N6's case by default a factory reset doesn't wipe the sdcard.
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I saw there is a Nexus Root tool kit by wug. Do you use this to back up your phone or do you still do it in TWRP ? When you back up a nandroid, are you completely backing up everything (photos, music, etc), then it is kept in a side partition "sdcard" that you were describing and the rest of the phone is wiped ? Prior with the Galaxy S4, the custom recovery (I used CWM) would wipe the entire internal phone and anything not on the MicroSD card was wiped.
Right now my MicroSD card is 32GB and is nearly half full.

You CAN use Wugs (and since you have 16+GB of stuff, I would) - otherwise a single nandroid would pretty much fill your phone.
Or... Dont keep as much stuff on your phone if you're planning on using testing out roms.

iRub1Out said:
You CAN use Wugs (and since you have 16+GB of stuff, I would) - otherwise a single nandroid would pretty much fill your phone.
Or... Dont keep as much stuff on your phone if you're planning on using testing out roms.
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How do you usually manage your nandroid back ups and content like photos/music/etc ? Cloud or transfer to PC ? Does Wugs make nandroids directly to the PC so it's not eating up internal space ?

Typically when I nandroid I transfer it to my pc as it takes up way to much space on a 32gig phone.
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I transfer pics/videos from my phone to my PC or private cloud on a regular basis - every other day or so. That way, should I take a video thats, lets say, 5-8 minutes long or longer, that is a lot of space, so I upload it when I get the chance and then remove it from my phone.
I dont include pics/videos/music in the nandroid as I can always put back what I want upon restoring it. No need for a senselessly large nandroid.
Same for anything else. I have 64 Gig because sometimes I go on vacations that are 2-4 weeks - and I take a s*** load of pics/video in that time. I would EASILY fill my phone in a week, that's why I never keep all of my s*** in ONE place, especially on my phone - which can quite easily be destroyed - and no possible method of getting that back. So I just dont chance it. I learned that on a cruize in the southern Caribbean - had a S4 at the time, with a 64GB card and maybe 40GB of video and pics of the first week all saved up, one night we were playing putt-putt on the deck - some drunk prick stumbled into me as I was taking a pic of my wife - over the glass wall it went. Into the ocean. Gone like a snowball in hell.
So... no, I dont keep much of anything on it without having it somewhere else also.

iRub1Out said:
I transfer pics/videos from my phone to my PC or private cloud on a regular basis - every other day or so. That way, should I take a video thats, lets say, 5-8 minutes long or longer, that is a lot of space, so I upload it when I get the chance and then remove it from my phone.
I dont include pics/videos/music in the nandroid as I can always put back what I want upon restoring it. No need for a senselessly large nandroid.
Same for anything else. I have 64 Gig because sometimes I go on vacations that are 2-4 weeks - and I take a s*** load of pics/video in that time. I would EASILY fill my phone in a week, that's why I never keep all of my s*** in ONE place, especially on my phone - which can quite easily be destroyed - and no possible method of getting that back. So I just dont chance it. I learned that on a cruize in the southern Caribbean - had a S4 at the time, with a 64GB card and maybe 40GB of video and pics of the first week all saved up, one night we were playing putt-putt on the deck - some drunk prick stumbled into me as I was taking a pic of my wife - over the glass wall it went. Into the ocean. Gone like a snowball in hell.
So... no, I dont keep much of anything on it without having it somewhere else also.
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The current one Sprint holds is only 32GB although I may see what the new release is. I reviewed the unlocking of the bootloader and installing custom recovery. It is much easier than having to do it via ODIN for the S4. I am assuming that default the nandroid backs up everything by default unless you uncheck it otherwise ? I'm using google+ right now. What cloud servers do you use as an alternative ?

DroidFire said:
Typically when I nandroid I transfer it to my pc as it takes up way to much space on a 32gig phone.
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Manual internal phone transfer to PC with the USB cable ? Or do you use the Nexus Tool Kit to do it ?

Broke all my rules with the Nexus 6: will i regret it?

Currently "rocking" a Samsung T989 (currently got a new lease on life running JellyBeast). The phone is still gine (albeit a bit slow) and checked all my requirements at the time:
Removable sd card
Removable back
User replaceable battery
The Nexus 6 has none of those features! I was considering the Huawei Ascend Mate 2, which checks most of the boxes save the battery. But in the end given the Amazon BF special, I could get the Nexus 6 with near flagship performance levels for the same 200$. Could not pass that up.
My questions:
I really enjoyed the security of an external SD card when I was flashing the T989. Felt confident wiping knowing my backup and files were secure on the external SD card. It was alaso nice to be able to back up on a secure location at any time. Is there a way to setup a safe virtual SD card partition on the Nexus 6 to store Nandroid backups while experimenting with ROMs? I know I can backup to a computer or OTG drive, but I liked the convenience of having everything on the phone, with stock Rom being a flash away if anything does not quite work on the new ROM.
Is it recommended to get a new back cover once you need to remove it (battery change)? Not a fan of the adhesive method, and would not want a flapping cover after pulling it off once. Maybe I'll need a new cover to get all my letters back by that time anyway
Thanks!

You can always use MultiRom and keep the stock ROM as one of your options

Well I had to Google that...
MultiRom looks pretty sweet, for easy ROM switching. As long as there is an option to boot default ROM so you don't have to mess with the menu for the 99% of the time.
Looks like saving Nandroid backups to a USB drive via OTG adapter will be my safe approach. How easy is it to do nandroid backup to external USB/OTG with TWRP/Nandroid Manager?

MapTap said:
Well I had to Google that...
MultiRom looks pretty sweet, for easy ROM switching. As long as there is an option to boot default ROM so you don't have to mess with the menu for the 99% of the time.
Looks like saving Nandroid backups to a USB drive via OTG adapter will be my safe approach. How easy is it to do nandroid backup to external USB/OTG with TWRP/Nandroid Manager?
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its no different that backing it up to the phone itself, you just specify the location you want to save it to..

MapTap said:
Currently "rocking" a Samsung T989 (currently got a new lease on life running JellyBeast). The phone is still gine (albeit a bit slow) and checked all my requirements at the time:
Removable sd card
Removable back
User replaceable battery
The Nexus 6 has none of those features! I was considering the Huawei Ascend Mate 2, which checks most of the boxes save the battery. But in the end given the Amazon BF special, I could get the Nexus 6 with near flagship performance levels for the same 200$. Could not pass that up.
My questions:
I really enjoyed the security of an external SD card when I was flashing the T989. Felt confident wiping knowing my backup and files were secure on the external SD card. It was alaso nice to be able to back up on a secure location at any time. Is there a way to setup a safe virtual SD card partition on the Nexus 6 to store Nandroid backups while experimenting with ROMs? I know I can backup to a computer or OTG drive, but I liked the convenience of having everything on the phone, with stock Rom being a flash away if anything does not quite work on the new ROM.
Is it recommended to get a new back cover once you need to remove it (battery change)? Not a fan of the adhesive method, and would not want a flapping cover after pulling it off once. Maybe I'll need a new cover to get all my letters back by that time anyway
Thanks!
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There are a few things that I wouldn't like about the Nexus 6, and mainly the size, but if you're one of those lucky ones who were able to score one for $199 on Amazon BF sale, I can't see how you will/can regret or concern. For all I care, you can't even by decent 4g tablet for that price.
Unfortunately for me, I wasn't one of those lucky ones. I totally missed the sale
** LMAO... but then if you still think you're going to regret it, just don't open box and I will buy it from you for that price.

MapTap said:
Felt confident wiping knowing my backup and files were secure on the external SD card.
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Just don't wipe internal storage when wiping before a flash, and your backup and files will be there and secure.

SD Card formatted as internal storage randomly unusable on cm13

I love marshmallow's adoptable storage feature, allowing me to install more apps. This feature worked beautifully for about a month and a half. However, I shut down the device, plugged it in to charge, went to sleep, and the next morning, the apps that were moved to the sd card were not available anymore. They were all greyed out on my launcher(Nova). I moved about 4 gigs worth of mostly games. Fortunately, most of them had cloud storage, but some favorite games didnt. This isn't that big of a problem, but I'd like to try to fix it. So, I went here for help.
At first, I thought the class 10 SanDisk 16gb sd had just gotten bumped out of the slot where the connections happen, so I opened the back cover and removed and inserted the sd card. The notification that prompted me to put the sd back in went away for a few seconds, but then came back. I repeated the process of removing and inserting the sd a few times, but still no moved apps were available. I put the sd into an adapter, then into my laptop, and it showed on file explorer. So the sd card could still be recognized, but maybe unusable.
I dont know what happened, one day it was working, the next day it wasn't. I know i formatted it as internal and portable storage a few times, so maybe that wore it out. I'm running cm13

Hello,
On my phone I used the micro SD card normally as external storage. On day I plugged in my headphones and there was no music. I though that the micro SD card must have come out. However, reinserted it it didn't work. I wouldn't open on computer either. While I don't have a solution, I am pretty sure I also had the same problem.

Once I was taking pictures with my phone when it crashed and rebooted. Some hours before the crash I uninstalled some apps and installed some others (but never rebooted the phone). After the phone started again after the crash, all the pictures and files were gone, the uninstalled apps were there as if I've never uninstalled them and the new installed ones dissapeared.

TheSaffronArmy said:
Hello,
On my phone I used the micro SD card normally as external storage. On day I plugged in my headphones and there was no music. I though that the micro SD card must have come out. However, reinserted it it didn't work. I wouldn't open on computer either. While I don't have a solution, I am pretty sure I also had the same problem.
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how long have you used your sd card? i'm sure that the more you use a micro sd card, the more it will wear out and become unuseable/corrupted. That has happened to me before, where the sd card just stopped working.

KyleSaki714 said:
how long have you used your sd card? i'm sure that the more you use a micro sd card, the more it will wear out and become unuseable/corrupted. That has happened to me before, where the sd card just stopped working.
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I have used it for about 1 year. So it may be that but, it has never occurred before.

Same problem here, you can read it here. While I am writing hopefully my files from Titanium Backup are transfered to my laptop. It got worse and worse, in my opinion the sd-card has reached it's end of life because of it's heavy usage. Error occured the first time after the phone got really hot recording gpx tracks. Bye bye sd-card
Another opinion is that warranty is over after two years, so the phone can quit it's duty now - obsolescense plans

Androphilius said:
Same problem here, you can read it here. While I am writing hopefully my files from Titanium Backup are transfered to my laptop. It got worse and worse, in my opinion the sd-card has reached it's end of life because of it's heavy usage. Error occured the first time after the phone got really hot recording gpx tracks. Bye bye sd-card
Another opinion is that warranty is over after two years, so the phone can quit it's duty now - obsolescense plans
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yeah, i'm starting to think my micro sd just bailed from wear like that too, but i got to use mine for just over 3 months. i ejected the sd and put it into my computer, and interestingly enough, on my computer it reads 16 megabytes. i was like WAAT that cant be, i formatted it, put it back in my phone as portable, and it read as the normal 14gb. i'm starting to think my sd as internal is the cause of my random reboots. im even running the lastest cm13 update too...
i guess ill try and use my sd as just portable storage from now on, and see if i get any random reboots..

I switched to TurboROM which is using the sd-card as a portable media device, so no more encryption, heavy usage and complete data loss if you do not get your encryption key with root permission.
System space left after complete recovery of my apps with TB is quite nice - but you do not have the possibility to use App2SD (correct me if I am wrong).
So the only way to save internal system space is to move pictures, movies and heavy openstreetmap cards to external.