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.
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Hello,
I'm brand new at Linux (actually less than that) but I'm pretty tech savvy, so i figured if i rooted my phone by following instructions it wouldn't be too bad. well trying to make a long story short...
...rooted my phone, it worked, set programs to run from SD, it worked, then about an hour later I opened up lynda file manager and my phone crashed back to the original home ( i use ahome) I tried to go back into ahome but it didnt show up on my phone, as a matter of fact all of my apps where gone that came from the market. I decided to reset my phone figuring it was just a glitch with the file manager, and i found myself stuck at the blinking android of DOOM!!!! I was able to boot into safe mode, alt-w my phone and restart it.
...ok here is my question thru all of that mess, my 8gb SD card now shows that it is only 7gb and nothing about the 900mb that i turned into sk2 it is gone! I used paragon partition 9 to make it and it wont even show up in that. I want to retry to put apps on my SD, but if my card is gonna keep messing up i dont care to have to go thru all of the steps again.
...has this happened to anyone, or do you know anyway to fix(prevent) it from happening again?
thanks,
-tekka
ps please forgive any errors in this post for i am to tired to try and correct them. gnight everyone
tekkaman_01 said:
I'm brand new at Linux (actually less than that) but I'm pretty tech savvy, so i figured if i rooted my phone by following instructions it wouldn't be too bad. well trying to make a long story short...
...rooted my phone, it worked, set programs to run from SD, it worked, then about an hour later I opened up lynda file manager and my phone crashed back to the original home ( i use ahome) I tried to go back into ahome but it didnt show up on my phone, as a matter of fact all of my apps where gone that came from the market. I decided to reset my phone figuring it was just a glitch with the file manager, and i found myself stuck at the blinking android of DOOM!!!! I was able to boot into safe mode, alt-w my phone and restart it.
...ok here is my question thru all of that mess, my 8gb SD card now shows that it is only 7gb and nothing about the 900mb that i turned into sk2 it is gone! I used paragon partition 9 to make it and it wont even show up in that. I want to retry to put apps on my SD, but if my card is gonna keep messing up i dont care to have to go thru all of the steps again.
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firstly - not even sure what "tech savvy" means
secondly - when you move the apps to SD for the first time they are all still installed but do NOT show in the market .. they are reset as FREE until you install them a second time
thirdly - how are you checking partitions? because after you wiped the phone you have to redo the process to mount the EXT2 to the phone .. otherwise it seems to not exist
fourthly - fear not .. you are not the first to have this dilemma
busybox df -h
I've had to wipe and re wipe so many times now....good thing it's kinda fun I think I have my partition strait now and have verified my system\sd\apps and data folder.
Is there any way to make the phone still boot up at least if it looses that connection?
derekedw said:
I've had to wipe and re wipe so many times now....good thing it's kinda fun I think I have my partition strait now and have verified my system\sd\apps and data folder.
Is there any way to make the phone still boot up at least if it looses that connection?
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boot into the recovery console .. that's about it
I had JF 1.5 cupcake with hard spl and apps 2 sd2 well I noticed my phone was lagging a lot and force closing a lot so I wiped it while I was at work and it was much faster then I restored my apps and market kept forcing close after doing marcus apps2sd commands but not the program.
then i wiped again and used jf lucids app "lucid app" and it still forced closed then I did the wipe again and did the marcus again using the terminal not the apps2sd2. well I gave up so I bought a new card for 3 bucks brand new never opened 8gb class 4 from my buddy.
now I tried to unmount the card and put the 8gb straight in out of the box and the g1 screen freezes. so I thought it was because of the apps so I put the old sdcard in and it booted phone then I made the biggest mistake ever apparently and formated the card with paragon the old sdcard I mean.
now the phone won't boot just hangs on the g1 screen no matter which card I put in and I can still get into recovery but am not sure what do from here I've tried wiping it with the old sdcard and the new sdcard and with no sdcard nothing works.
I have adb 1.5 on my pc and everytime I try to push update.zip to /sdcard/update.zip it says sbin/sh adb: not found.
what can I do.
it's my only phone.
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I had JF 1.5 cupcake with hard spl and apps 2 sd2 well I noticed my phone was lagging a lot and force closing a lot so I wiped it while I was at work and it was much faster then I restored my apps and market kept forcing close after doing marcus apps2sd commands but not the program.
then i wiped again and used jf lucids app "lucid app" and it still forced closed then I did the wipe again and did the marcus again using the terminal not the apps2sd2. well I gave up so I bought a new card for 3 bucks brand new never opened 8gb class 4 from my buddy.
now I tried to unmount the card and put the 8gb straight in out of the box and the g1 screen freezes. so I thought it was because of the apps so I put the old sdcard in and it booted phone then I made the biggest mistake ever apparently and formated the card with paragon the old sdcard I mean.
now the phone won't boot just hangs on the g1 screen no matter which card I put in and I can still get into recovery but am not sure what do from here I've tried wiping it with the old sdcard and the new sdcard and with no sdcard nothing works.
I have adb 1.5 on my pc and everytime I try to push update.zip to /sdcard/update.zip it says sbin/sh adb: not found.
what can I do.
it's my only phone.
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whats the error message it says when your wiping ?? try to use haykuro rom, and see if that will work
the wiping goes fine no errors it just hangs on the g1 screen.
I can't load anything on the sdcard I broke my usb sdcard reader so I dont' have one now I always use the phone.
is there a way to fastboot and do it?
am I gonna have to reflash rc29 and start all over again?
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am I gonna have to reflash rc29 and start all over again?
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yea you need a card reader, if you where in dallas, i have plenty of those, they come in handy when flashes dont work right
I was able to flash the images seperately now I'm gonna flash jfmod back onto the phone so far so good except my service keeps cutting out.
ok new problem I managed to get the phone to load like I said earlier and installed the new sdcard now I did another wipe and then applied the update of JFMod and its stuck yet again.
when I go into fastboot and try fastboot update update.zip it says something like android-info.txt not found
i was just trying out andftp (unsure if this was the reason, but it was the last thing i did) off the marketplace and couldnt get it to stay connected. decided to end that and reboot, phone started back up saying sd card not found and the notice asks me to "format cancel"
just put the sdcard in my pc and its showing everything on the card so i'm backing it up. have been using it no problem for the past 20days so its not the format of the card or anything. once i'm done backing up i figure i'll reformat the card and see how that goes but couldnt find anything searching the forums. anyone had this problem or possibly why it started doing this after a restart of the phone?
psylink said:
i was just trying out andftp (unsure if this was the reason, but it was the last thing i did) off the marketplace and couldnt get it to stay connected. decided to end that and reboot, phone started back up saying sd card not found and the notice asks me to "format cancel"
just put the sdcard in my pc and its showing everything on the card so i'm backing it up. have been using it no problem for the past 20days so its not the format of the card or anything. once i'm done backing up i figure i'll reformat the card and see how that goes but couldnt find anything searching the forums. anyone had this problem or possibly why it started doing this after a restart of the phone?
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I had this issue when I had my CLIQ. This was the beginning of my SD card dying. I hope its not what yours is doing, but just was similar to what happened to mine before it died on me all together.
i just got it roughly 20 days ago, hope its not
I've had a similar problem with my SD card. I could read the files just fine on a pc - albeit a manuell fsck found errors which could not be corrected even after several passes.
After reformating the card it now works fine again. This happend about two weeks ago.
after backup and reformat it still wouldnt read in phone, tried putting files back on also. finally booted phone up without a sdcard in, rebooted with it in and it recognized it. stock, not rooted, hopefully doesn't happen again
Hi all ive just bought a 16 GB micro SD card for my HD2. When I put in in it completely hangs my Phone. If I put it in then boot, it wont start it just stays in a boot cycle. If I put it in when WM has started it just becomes totally unresponsive and when I remove the card WM resumes normal working. The thing I dont understand is, that it works perfectly in the PC reading and writing. Ive formatted it a few times, no difference.
Any Help much apreciated.
RReckless
PS yes I did search
Have you tried doing a full format and not just a quick format?
Ricey
Yep I could understand if it just didnt work well on the phone or if it was an intermitant thing or if it was sluggish but it totally freezes it.
Hard Reset you phone and format SD card again this resolve you problem.
does any other SD Card work fine in the phone (what size)?
You formatted it with your computer, what settings did you format it to?
Thanks for all your help and sorry for wasting your time but the card is faulty. I thought it was working perfectly on the pc because it appeared to be writing to it and formatting properly but the data then couldnt be read.
Thanks again
RReckless
Go download H2testw 1.4 and do R+W+V on it.
i transfered all my data to my new sd card. shut the phone off and put the new card in. booted it. i got a text. tried to reply and wouldnt let me. phone shut off and wouldnt boot. i went into recovery to clear cache and dalvik cache. rebooted and now its like its on a fresh new rom no apps no nothin. but its EXTREMLY SLOW now. 5x slower than my htc hero. and its freaking out.
i tried nand back up.. nothin. i tried everything.. wont stay on long enough for ruu.
so any ideas to help me fix this.
I usually format the new sdcard with the phone. Then I copy onto it, except for lost.dir which does not get over written.
Use the settings to unmount the sdcard, then reformat it. Copy from the old sdcard on to the new. Hopefully that will do.
ok i will try that in a sec. thank you
Did you get one of those cheap memory cards from China? If so, that may be the problem. I tried one of those cheap SD cards when I first got my phone and it worked all kinda ways messed up while it was in there. Try putting the old card back in. If you see it works with no problems, then it's your SD card.
the phone is still glitched out even with the old card
EDITwilly900wonka after i did that process it worked. probably not a smart move copying the file over as well. i just did a exact copy with all the files. nand .androidsecure and everything else on the lines of movies music and photos
kyhassen said:
the phone is still glitched out even with the old card
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Weird. Try wiping cache and dalvik cache,. If not, hopefully you have a NAND backed up that you can restore to.
Once you get your EVO back up and running I would advise you to run AVG Anti-Virus to speed your phone back up. Also install a custom ROM, this will most defiantly speed up your EVO.
xXViRuSXx said:
Once you get your EVO back up and running I would advise you to run AVG Anti-Virus to speed your phone back up. Also install a custom ROM, this will most defiantly speed up your EVO.
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i been using custom roms. but i was on mikfroyo then myn warm. then MIUI which i loved but it wont accept it now. so im off to something new. i tried koin elite. but that sucked for me...
I made the mistake of putting a blank SD card into my phone then formatting it with the phone. I lost all my apps etc. Even transferring all the files back to the phone didn't fix it. What I found you should do is boot into recovery before you ever boot into the phone. Then format and create the needed partitions, then mount the SD card while in recovery and move the files to the card. Wipe cache and dalvik and reboot. Phone acts like you never changed the card. From my experience its the most problem free method
Sent from my (insert daily ROM name here) Evo 4g
Whats the best SD card for the EVO?
Say I want a 16GB card.
Does the evo support class 6 and 10?
Can I then use the MikFroyo A2sd? Or do I need to start with a wipe and a fresh install of MikFroyo?
ive had this happen during an sdcard switch as well. weird since I wasn't using apps2sd. i had to restore my nandroid.
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OneStepAhead said:
ive had this happen during an sdcard switch as well. weird since I wasn't using apps2sd. i had to restore my nandroid.
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it sucks. but oh well.
Nandroid FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
had that problem on my first 2 card switches the realized that what works for me is taking old card out, putting new one in(i do not open anything)just go to format the sd card then put the old one back in plug phone to pc in usb drive and opend my pc hit folder properties on my phones drive and select view hidden files. then copy all the info into my pc. then close all open windows on pc and change my phone back to charging only then unplug turn off the phone and remove and replace sd card with new one, turn on again plug to pc in usb drive and copy all the files i copied into the new sd card and hit replace on all the repeated folders. that method works flawlessly for me every time