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SD Card Corruption = Dead Gphone ?

Hi,
So i have APPS2SD and the cache is also moved to SD , and its been for a long time. I have been running JF ADP1.5 with no problems. About a week ago, my SDCARD somehow got corrupted, but from what i realised it was only the windows partition which i could access and copy apps/music etc to. The ext partition used by android was fine. Untill I removed the card from the phone today while the phone was still on, and obviously the phone completely froze, but thats normal a restart will solve this (as long as I put the sdcard back in) BUT this time. It wouldnt go past the boot screen "T-Mobile G1"
Any ideas ? Do i have to flash the phone and start from the beggining ?? if yes how ?

Weees said:
Hi,
So i have APPS2SD and the cache is also moved to SD , and its been for a long time. I have been running JF ADP1.5 with no problems. About a week ago, my SDCARD somehow got corrupted, but from what i realised it was only the windows partition which i could access and copy apps/music etc to. The ext partition used by android was fine. Untill I removed the card from the phone today while the phone was still on, and obviously the phone completely froze, but thats normal a restart will solve this (as long as I put the sdcard back in) BUT this time. It wouldnt go past the boot screen "T-Mobile G1"
Any ideas ? Do i have to flash the phone and start from the beggining ?? if yes how ?
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If I were you I would just reformat the card and throw an update.zip on there and start again. You don't have to start from the beggining you still have root.

Well, I wanted to do that actually , but windows doesnt seem to be able to recognise my card anymore (after the corruption) It just doesnt showup anywhere NOT even in Data management.......:S
Any ideas how to format the card ?

Are you trying to read it thru the phone or a card reader?

Its ok, I sorted it out......I formated the card using my nokia phone (Wierd ? its the only thing that managed to format the damn thing).
and I did a full wipe Now my phone is back like new.........gotta install everything again.
Thanks anyway guys for the help.

Good deal.

I dump my problems unto you!

ugh, here we go:
I am running cyanogenmod 4.04 with the latest recovery. I have the hard spl. I am not themed. I am using auto apps2sd with partions.
Soooo, this was working well until I had to take out my sd card for something. As soon as I did, the whole phone froze up, so I restarted. The first 'alert noise' that usually occurs after startup happpened at the end of the android screen. After this I was bombarded by a HELLUVA lotta force closes. I mean, all over the place. In these was included advanced launcher which I had my home set as as default. They would all loop, and I couldn't do anything. Oddly enough, the notification bar was still working, and I was able to view and answer an email!
My question is as follows:
1: what did I do wrong
2: what can I do to fix it.
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For several reasons, I would really like to avoid wiping at the moment, so if there are any alternatives, I'd appreciate it.

1) took out sd card
2) fix_permissions in recovery

evilkorn said:
1) took out sd card
2) fix_permissions in recovery
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Then I can put it back in and reboot?
EDIT: I did the above and nothing interesting happened.
It might be worth noting, however, that I rebooted without the sd card, installed ahome lite, and then didn't set a default home. I was able to use 'home' with the sd card in, and that works fine, as well as the apks packaged in cm (dialer, gmail, alarm clock ect.)

So basically it's like this with Apps2SD... say you are running Windows on your desktop, but you have all your programs installed to an external hard drive, you have a whole lot of programs up and running (not to mention you have your pagefile split across your drives - dalvik-cache), and you rip that external hard drive off. What do you expect to happen? Major system failure.
When you are running Apps2SD, the only time it is safe to remove your SD card is when the phone is NOT booted or booting. Meaning, it has to be off or in either the bootloader or recovery modes.
You may have to format the EXT partition of your SD card, wipe, and reflash your ROM.

daveid said:
So basically it's like this with Apps2SD... say you are running Windows on your desktop, but you have all your programs installed to an external hard drive, you have a whole lot of programs up and running (not to mention you have your pagefile split across your drives - dalvik-cache), and you rip that external hard drive off. What do you expect to happen? Major system failure.
When you are running Apps2SD, the only time it is safe to remove your SD card is when the phone is NOT booted or booting. Meaning, it has to be off or in either the bootloader or recovery modes.
You may have to format the EXT partition of your SD card, wipe, and reflash your ROM.
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****.....let me see if I an access my sd card with this adapter, hold on.

ugh, put the card in and reboot into recovery and go to the console and type 'fix_permissions', you have to have cyan recovery or use the one with more options like the RA, link in sig, i think there is even an option for it and you don't have to type it in console.

Issue with apps all of a sudden

I not sure if this is the right area, if not, i apologize, feel free to move and/or flame. lol
Anyway, I'm running fr008 liberated froyo and all of a sudden my apps stopped showing up in the app drawer. the ones i had an icon for on the home screen would show up, but be the default little gear icon thing, on click, nothing would happen (market also because that icon and wouldnt work). I tried wiping dalvik cache, cache, and finally ended up just trying to restore nandroid. Wellll.... Now the market is gone totally, but the strange thing, is that the apps show up under settings->applications, but not in the drawer at all.
I searched on this site, but honestly...I'm not even sure what words to use, everytnhing just wasnt relevant to my search. I'll be happy to continue searching (and i'm still browsing through pages), but maybe someone has had this issue and can either help me out, or point me in the right direction. Thanks.

Try a different home app. LauncherPro is the best so far in my opinion.

Well, Ideally I would like to keep sense. that's why i had chosen the rom that i did instead of CM. I just don't understand why they were there working just fine, then all of a sudden they werent. Worse comes to worse I just flash cm7 and start over, i'm just giving it a couple days before i do that.
Astro also didn't show up, and i tried doing the .zip update method through clockwork, but i move the files over, then reset the phone, and they don't show up on the sdcard...So i reboot and check for the gapp.zip on the sdcard, and its no longer there. Wtf is going on?
**edit: for some reason the phone reset and the market showed up again. Obviously my apps are in my market account, but they still show up under settings->application. I still don't know *WHY* this happened, and i dont want to reload everything on it and lose the info i had, especially if its going to be a recurring thing.

Psionfenix said:
Well, Ideally I would like to keep sense. that's why i had chosen the rom that i did instead of CM. I just don't understand why they were there working just fine, then all of a sudden they werent. Worse comes to worse I just flash cm7 and start over, i'm just giving it a couple days before i do that.
Astro also didn't show up, and i tried doing the .zip update method through clockwork, but i move the files over, then reset the phone, and they don't show up on the sdcard...So i reboot and check for the gapp.zip on the sdcard, and its no longer there. Wtf is going on?
**edit: for some reason the phone reset and the market showed up again. Obviously my apps are in my market account, but they still show up under settings->application. I still don't know *WHY* this happened, and i dont want to reload everything on it and lose the info i had, especially if its going to be a recurring thing.
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This is a total WTF! Since you are running FR008, are you using DT A2Sd to store your apps on the SD card? If not, you may want to look at this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=790786
Once you enable A2SD by creating a EXT partition on your SD card, you can use A2SD to check the apps that are installed.

Yeah, my sd card has the ext partition from when i had the stock rom (trying to use dt's a2sd with that, got fed up and flashed fr008, haha).
But I only had a couple apps on the SD card, and strangely enough, those were the only ones showing in my app drawer. (now they aren't...)
But I'll check that link and see whats going on with it, i'm just lost. haha.

Psionfenix said:
Yeah, my sd card has the ext partition from when i had the stock rom (trying to use dt's a2sd with that, got fed up and flashed fr008, haha).
But I only had a couple apps on the SD card, and strangely enough, those were the only ones showing in my app drawer. (now they aren't...)
But I'll check that link and see whats going on with it, i'm just lost. haha.
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If you had an EXT partition on the SD card when you flashed FR008 (which has DT A2SD built-in) will use it. Sounds like you may want to run the "a2sd check" command in the terminal emulator to see what's going on?

Hmm. I ran a2sd check:
it says "ext partition found, but not mounted, your rom may not be steup to run apps2sd. xxxxx
your partition may be ext4 but rom may not support ext4"
also, my apps are no longer showing up in market...i'm cursed. lol

a little update.
It seems my sd card was screwy. I swapped it for another one temporarily (copy/pasted the contents though, that didnt work, so i formatted it). The phone seems to work fine, but for some reason, my apps still show up in settings > applications. But no where else. I can't use astro to back them up, and I'm not sure what else i can possibly try (aside from wiping everything and installing a new rom, any suggestions on what rom, i'm thinking cm7, but i want sense ui still).
I'm just worried that its something *I* did and i dont want to do it again.

I had a similar issue before...and what I would do is:
1. Factory Wipe, Wipe Caches and Format both system and SDCard with an ext partition
2. Flash the ROM of your choice, then GAPPS
3. Start the process of setting everything up again.
It's the nature of the beast when using DT A2SD...when the card goes, so does everything on it, including your apps. It would be a great idea to back up everything on your phone (nandroid) then copy the nandroid backup (in the Clockworks folder on your SDCard) to a safe place (not on the SDCard) so that when this happens again you have a backup of your phone that doesn't die with the card. Don't worry this doesn't happen often, but a you see, it can happen.

Yeah, i sort of guessed it had to do with the sd card (had a small glitch about 3 days prior to this, with a program that was on the sd card). I just don't know why the apps that werent on the sd card went with the sd card, but showed up in settings -> applications still (though i could do nothing with them, and if i tried to "clear data" on them, it would fail). I flashed CM7 last night and started setting everything up again. I'm going to do the whole nandroid backup, and manual backup where i can pull the apks out of the backup, so i can have a script to reinstall everything quickly when I inevitably change roms again. lol (as you can see, i've been a member for some years now, started back with the titan/ppc6800)
anyway, if you didnt read all that above, i'll summarize:
THANKS.

i had the a similar problem my apps werent showing in my drawer and my widgets on my home screens kept saying problem loading widget so i wiped everything reinstalled my rom switched to adw ex and everything has been fine since

What should I do, My SDCARD is not recognized on my pc and phone

I dont know what to do! I have been reading treads all day and I felt you might be the one
to point me to the right direction.
First of all, I'm a total novice to android. Just purchased a Dapeng A9230+ ics 4.0.4
and I've had a lot of headache trying to flash and get the scatter file for this device so
I gave up on flashing and custom rom changes and etc
I have a problem thats making me go nuts right now. I have a 16gb sdcard Kingston.
I have partitioned it for link2sd and swap (swap not functional yet as kernel does not support it)
I was in a hurry to check what was wrong with my phone cos at a time it refused to charge unknown
to me that the problem is from my usb cord that needed replacement. In the process of trying to know what was
wrong i put off the phone and on again. My phone will usually give a vibration to indicate the phone is off.
But I think there was a time i put off the phone, phone was off actually but didnt wait for vibration but just pulled out the
battery to check if something was wrong with the battery. I used another battery phone came on but my sdcard would not
load up as usual. Tried it on my pc. nothing happens
though, it would slow my pc a bit trying to load the card but at the end, no details will come up. I tried to format through
a card reader but it would tell me to insert disk that there is no disk in the drive.
What do I do now pleaseeeeeee??????

idk but...
sirgee1 said:
I dont know what to do! I have been reading treads all day and I felt you might be the one
to point me to the right direction.
First of all, I'm a total novice to android. Just purchased a Dapeng A9230+ ics 4.0.4
and I've had a lot of headache trying to flash and get the scatter file for this device so
I gave up on flashing and custom rom changes and etc
I have a problem thats making me go nuts right now. I have a 16gb sdcard Kingston.
I have partitioned it for link2sd and swap (swap not functional yet as kernel does not support it)
I was in a hurry to check what was wrong with my phone cos at a time it refused to charge unknown
to me that the problem is from my usb cord that needed replacement. In the process of trying to know what was
wrong i put off the phone and on again. My phone will usually give a vibration to indicate the phone is off.
But I think there was a time i put off the phone, phone was off actually but didnt wait for vibration but just pulled out the
battery to check if something was wrong with the battery. I used another battery phone came on but my sdcard would not
load up as usual. Tried it on my pc. nothing happens
though, it would slow my pc a bit trying to load the card but at the end, no details will come up. I tried to format through
a card reader but it would tell me to insert disk that there is no disk in the drive.
What do I do now pleaseeeeeee??????
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Look in cmd and type "diskpart" and then "list disk" and if u see ur sd just formated there if not idk hope ull see it
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Just type
diskpart then
list disk
After that is done, you select your sd. Type in: "select disk 1" where 1 is the number of ur sd it can be 0 or 4 just look in the list and after type
clean then
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format fs=ntfs
assign
exit
hit enter after each comand
good luck

sirgee1 said:
I dont know what to do! I have been reading treads all day and I felt you might be the one
to point me to the right direction.
First of all, I'm a total novice to android. Just purchased a Dapeng A9230+ ics 4.0.4
and I've had a lot of headache trying to flash and get the scatter file for this device so
I gave up on flashing and custom rom changes and etc
I have a problem thats making me go nuts right now. I have a 16gb sdcard Kingston.
I have partitioned it for link2sd and swap (swap not functional yet as kernel does not support it)
I was in a hurry to check what was wrong with my phone cos at a time it refused to charge unknown
to me that the problem is from my usb cord that needed replacement. In the process of trying to know what was
wrong i put off the phone and on again. My phone will usually give a vibration to indicate the phone is off.
But I think there was a time i put off the phone, phone was off actually but didnt wait for vibration but just pulled out the
battery to check if something was wrong with the battery. I used another battery phone came on but my sdcard would not
load up as usual. Tried it on my pc. nothing happens
though, it would slow my pc a bit trying to load the card but at the end, no details will come up. I tried to format through
a card reader but it would tell me to insert disk that there is no disk in the drive.
What do I do now pleaseeeeeee??????
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Dude,, usually without powering off the SD module in the phone if u plug out the battery, this issue likely to be expected. its all abt memory closure etc...
But i dont think ur SD card is repairable now. SD cards are completly solid state memories and hence non-serviceable

I dont know what cause it, and how to fixed it..
Last month ago I have the same issue for my 16gb kingstone usb flashdrive..
It happen so suddenly while I watch movie from it..(yes I use it for usb on the go).. I searching on web and had many solution n tried all of them (most of them try to format it) but it didnt even fix it.. Even when u want to format it, it still not detected, so what u want to be formatted..
Its very sadden me..cause I lost many important data on it..
Since it have life time guarante, I brought it on the store where I buy it.. N they still tried to fix it.. (they think like an expert LoL) n still no works.. Until they give up and give another brand new FD..
When I search on internet I have a conclusion that something ruin my Fd (Maybe) is some about linux kernel.. And can be fix by linux to, since im not linux xpert so I just give it up..
"It suck to have generated 10 post just to tell how happy n thankfull iam for using a rom they make."
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G4 Plus w/ LineageOS stuck at booting screen

So I installed LineageOS about 4 months ago or so and out of nowhere the phone just turned itself off and wouldn't boot, it goes past the motorola screen into the LineageOS booting screen, and it just keeps loading and loading, I can access TWRP, and I tried installing an older version of LineageOS and wiping the cache and dalvik, that seemed to have worked but the home button wouldn't work and some core system thing kept crashing and warning me on the screen and I decided to reboot, and now I'm stuck at the booting screen loading forever again, basically I'm trying to NOT wipe the phone data UNLESS I'm able to backup my apps with titanium backup or something like that; so since I managed to make it boot once maybe it ain't as bad as I see it, so yeah here hoping to get some options to fix it.

dante0397 said:
So I installed LineageOS about 4 months ago or so and out of nowhere the phone just turned itself off and wouldn't boot, it goes past the motorola screen into the LineageOS booting screen, and it just keeps loading and loading, I can access TWRP, and I tried installing an older version of LineageOS and wiping the cache and dalvik, that seemed to have worked but the home button wouldn't work and some core system thing kept crashing and warning me on the screen and I decided to reboot, and now I'm stuck at the booting screen loading forever again, basically I'm trying to NOT wipe the phone data UNLESS I'm able to backup my apps with titanium backup or something like that; so since I managed to make it boot once maybe it ain't as bad as I see it, so yeah here hoping to get some options to fix it.
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With titanium backup its possible to restore data from a nandroid backup.
Did you installed exactly the same rom over the actual one again? Did you tried wipe cache and art?
Make a backup of system, data, boot and save it to your computer just in case.

strongst said:
With titanium backup its possible to restore data from a nandroid backup.
Did you installed exactly the same rom over the actual one again? Did you tried wipe cache and art?
Make a backup of system, data, boot and save it to your computer just in case.
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When the phone got stuck at the loading screen I tried installing an old LineageOS rom, that initiated with the errors I mentioned, and when I did that I wiped the cache and dalvik/art cache as well, and now I've tried deleting them again many times and it doesn't seem to work, and quick question, the nandroid backup is basically doing a backup of what you told me, system, data and boot, right? Would that save all apps and their data, let's say, a progress in a game, or all settings exactly like I left them on an app.
Also I don't know if it's me, but I keep deleting some data from my SD card and it just keeps reappears again, even tho I'm seeing them getting deleted, same with pasting new stuff on my SD card, I'm doing all this thro my PC with ADB, tho pasting and deleting stuff on the internal storage works just fine.

Yes, a nandroid backup from your system/data partition saves all your additional apps with settings.

strongst said:
Yes, a nandroid backup from your system/data partition saves all your additional apps with settings.
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Yeah it says my SD card is on "Read-only" and can't complete the backup, according to some thread it's a FAT error and I gotta mount the SD card on my PC and fix the error thro windows, but I have no SD card reader, meanwhile I'll wait for other answers until I find an SD card reader.

The issue was most likely caused by updating LineageOS many times over and over again eventually causing a corruption, that and my micro SD dying and just being read only made it worst, so yeah, I'd recommend erasing cache, dalvik and system every few months to update LineageOS, well I wouldn't take this that seriously, since I don't really know that much, but yeah, phone is working just fine now, just installed everything from scratch and google helped me restore my apps.

dante0397 said:
Yeah it says my SD card is on "Read-only" and can't complete the backup, according to some thread it's a FAT error and I gotta mount the SD card on my PC and fix the error thro windows, but I have no SD card reader, meanwhile I'll wait for other answers until I find an SD card reader.
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The isssue you are talking about(sd read only mode). Im facing this problem and have done each and every method possible to give write access to sd card.
Well i can access the data(like can put anything i want in it) but can't modify it(copy, move, delete and even format). I looked for way arounds and tried my own method(even risked the data on sd) but no good comes out of it.
Im using rr and not lineage so we are on different boats in the same river.
If you get any solution pls inform me ans ill try it.

DgnrtnX said:
The isssue you are talking about(sd read only mode). Im facing this problem and have done each and every method possible to give write access to sd card.
Well i can access the data(like can put anything i want in it) but can't modify it(copy, move, delete and even format). I looked for way arounds and tried my own method(even risked the data on sd) but no good comes out of it.
Im using rr and not lineage so we are on different boats in the same river.
If you get any solution pls inform me ans ill try it.
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Some sdcards become read only over time, had also 2 of them which had those issues. See reviews on Amazon. It's a known problem of the SD card itself. Try to format your card with pc and check if it's writable again, otherwise it's dead.

strongst said:
Some sdcards become read only over time, had also 2 of them which had those issues. See reviews on Amazon. It's a known problem of the SD card itself. Try to format your card with pc and check if it's writable again, otherwise it's dead.
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Thanks for the concern and yeah i know that it is a problem with sd cards.
The thing i was saying that i literally tried each and every method formatting from pc to even twrp. I even used cmd for it and as a out come non of them work.
Well sd card is not dead. I can move, copy thing in it the problem comes after that. I cant delete or then move from sd card to other location. Its like read only compact disk(it will clear the idea what im talking about). My sd card is working as a read only cd does.

DgnrtnX said:
Thanks for the concern and yeah i know that it is a problem with sd cards.
The thing i was saying that i literally tried each and every method formatting from pc to even twrp. I even used cmd for it and as a out come non of them work.
Well sd card is not dead. I can move, copy thing in it the problem comes after that. I cant delete or then move from sd card to other location. Its like read only compact disk(it will clear the idea what im talking about). My sd card is working as a read only cd does.
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That's what I mean: they become read only. Search on Google.

I had the same issue. I tried reinstalling Linage OS, clearing the cache, etc. But what finally resolved it was clearing the data. So the issue was corrupted data that was keeping the device from booting.