hi there. i bought a new class 6 8gb Micro sd card about a week ago.
When my phone was using the class 2 card my phone with an installed rom and was working perfectly. In the following sequence, i started using my new card. formatted the card to FAT32 and then booted into fastboot and formatted it into fat32-ex2-linux. reboot my phone with the new card in still and all it does is loop over and over.
i put my old sd card back in and the phone boots right away. is ther anywhere in the sequence which tells you guys im going wrong and if so can someone please advise me on which way to go?
thank you very much
edit - did a data wipe and fresh install with the class 6 sd card and it does the same again. looping over and over on the boot screen. will be going back to the class 2 for now
for your info this phone is a voda magic. 32b. cheers
this is what i did for my sd card.
-booted into Amon_RA's recovery mode with the NEW sd card.
-formatted it to FAT32 then to fat32/ext2/swap
-wipe data off phone
-pull new sd card out and put another sd card that has your rom you want to flash to
-flash rom
-once flashing is complete, pull out sd card with update.zip and put in NEW formatted card
-Reboot phone
thanks for you reply! unfortunately no luck.
does anybody else have any other ways of doing this?
thank you
bump!!!!!!
i must just have a dud card. even tried putting a nandroid restore image onto it but after the restore, same story.
gutted
quick update on the situation. Wiped the card, reformatted all with new partitions and success! it booted with new rom etc.
after around an hour my phone had turned itself off. only way to turn it back on was to pull the battery and then power on. after around the same amount of time the phone did the same.
i pulled the card. phone powered on and then stayed on. very strange
someone give me some help please!!
thanks
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k so after trying to flash a new rom(aloysuis) i hung on the black htc screen. i abondoned that card, inserted my old, reflashed fixxxed on there and its fine. i put my other sd card in that wouldnt work, formatted and copied the working card contents back on it. running fixxxedsense my phone upon loading says "sd card removed, Insert a new one. plug it in and it doesnt give me an option to mount, but when im in recovery mode it lets me mount and see all the contents i put on there. Did i ruin my sd card r is there a problem with the partitions maybe?
Hey guys. I'm currently running this ROM, I've been using it for a few days and have had no problems but today, when I turned the phone off and turned it back on, it took ages to turn back on. Then when it did it all looked them same but was kept freezing etc., then up in the notification bar it said "SD Card Removed Unexpectedly" then my phone went crazy with FC's.
So I took out the battery and restarted the phone. Then, it would turn on and go to the lock screen but then it would reboot and be at a continuius* boot loop of the HTC 'Quietly Brilliant' screen.
So then I took out the battery again, this time I took out the SD card too and booted up and my phone was normal again. Obviously with no phone storage though as there was SD card in. Then after I just skipped the setup I put my SD card back in to my phone and went to the music player and all my saved songs on my SD card played. But no internal storage (I have the SD card partitioned with a 1GB Ext3 partition). Then with the SD card in knowing it still works I rebooted again, only to come back to the HTC screen again.
So basically, how can I fix this?
If I'm going to need to format my SD card is there a way I can backup what's in the Ext3 partition?
Thanks,
L.
Bump. Need to be able to use my phone properly again urgently. Thanks.
Skellyyy said:
Bump. Need to be able to use my phone properly again urgently. Thanks.
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It sounds like something is really funky (faulty hardware?) with either your SD card or your phone. You could try reformatting it with that Panasonic tool...
You can backup your SD-EXT partition with CWM/CWR. You can boot CWM from MAGLDR without flashing anything. Just put zImage and initrd.gz from the CWM download on the root of your SD card and boot "AD SD" from MAGLDR.
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It sounds like something is really funky (faulty hardware?) with either your SD card or your phone. You could try reformatting it with that Panasonic tool...
You can backup your SD-EXT partition with CWM/CWR. You can boot CWM from MAGLDR without flashing anything. Just put zImage and initrd.gz from the CWM download on the root of your SD card and boot "AD SD" from MAGLDR.
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Thanks for the reply. It's not the phone as I have a 2GB SD card in it right now but that's not big enough.
Yeah I have a problem with CWM, when I click AD SD it says some Kernel error thing.
Is there any other way to find the files in my Ext partition using my computer?
Skellyyy said:
Thanks for the reply. It's not the phone as I have a 2GB SD card in it right now but that's not big enough.
Yeah I have a problem with CWM, when I click AD SD it says some Kernel error thing.
Is there any other way to find the files in my Ext partition using my computer?
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Unfortunately not that I am aware of. Where are the CWM files located on your SD card? Are they on the root or in a subfolder? Did you modify the path MAGLDR looks for the "AD SD" path? Are you using the latest CWM release?
Yep they're on the root of it. I think it's 1.12 I have ATM. How do I modify the path? :S
Nevermind. I tried re-installing and it worked on my 2GB SD. But the thing is, the files I want are on my 16GB that won't read lol. I'll try flash it on that now.
Tried to flash my 16GB. Says SD Kernel Open Failed in red letters? Works with my other SD card though? :S
Now I just tried with my 2GB and it's saying the same thing again.
Had my HD2 for over a year now and finally got fed up of lack of WinMo apps, which my housemate with his iPhone loved to point out all the time. So I decided to try out Android a few days ago.
Read all tutorials etc and installed Skink's clean desire rom v1.3 using cwm. Got everything set up and was really pleased with my shiny new phone. Everything was working like a dream!
I decided to get a new 16 GB SD card as my 8GB card was full of music etc. Here is where the problems started...
To get all data onto 16GB SD card:
I partitioned it using cwm using same size partition size as on 8GB (1024mb)
Copied all files on 8GB fat32 partition onto 16GB fat32
With the 8GB SD card in the phone did a backup using cwm
Copied backup onto 16GB card inserted it into phone and did a restore
Now the fat32 and ext3 partitions on the 16GB card and 8GB card should be the same, so everything should carry on working fine when i boot up my phone.
It didn't I just kept getting lots of stopped unexpectedly errors until finally everything stopped loading even the home screen, and I'd have to remove battery. However if I just put my old 8GB card in everything worked fine as before
So after much frustation I gave up on this method and decided to just wipe everything on 16GB card and start from scratch:
Formatted 16GB card
Repartitioned it using cwm
wiped data, cache, dalvik cache
installed clean desire rom from sd card
booted up started reinstalling all apps etc
Now here is where things get very strange, I'd start reinstalling apps and reconfiguring to how it was before and then randomly I'll get a stopped unexpectedly error, like process.android.media or something similar. But it seems as if everything would carry on working, then slowly I get more errors until for example as soon as you click on internet you get an error and it closes.
I believe the problem lies with the sd card seeing as that is the only thing that has changed. I also think this rom stores more than just apps on the sd card. Because after I get a few of these stopped unexpectedly errors nothing is saved on the phone. For example I'll change the ringtone from x to y click ok, but when I click back on change ringtone it's still on x. But I can still play music that is stored on the sd card. After I reboot the phone for a while I can make changes and they are persistent but eventually I end up back at this strange state. It's almost as if I can read from the SD card but not write to it.
Another example when I've got to this strange state, I'll add a folder to home screen, add apps into etc. But when I restart the folder has gone.
If I reinsert my 8GB card and do a restore, I get everything back and it works perfectly. But I want to use my 16GB card, that's why I bought it!
My questions are:
Does anybody have an idea of what is going on when it gets into this strange state?
Does anybody know how to fix it?
Is there some way of testing the SD card?
Should my first method of getting all data onto new sd card have worked?
SD Cards are:
Samsung 8GB class 6
Transcend 16GB class 6
Sorry for the long post, any suggestions are greatly appreciated
Flashed my a500 several times. Decided to go back to taboonay. In recovery I decided to clean everything. I formatted everything that had an option to format including SD. I thought that was the internal however I was wrong and lost all my backups and roms. No problem I thought, went to my desktop put the new rom on sd card the reinstalled in my device.
OK the problem: It will not flash the rom because recovery can nolonger mount my sd card. I've tried other sd cards formated fat.
Any ideas?
Holyoblation said:
I've tried other sd cards formated fat.
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and did those other cards work?
sorry
No, other sd cards did not work. So what I have is a tab that when turned on goes strait to acer logo and loads nothing. I can however open to recovery however it will not mount the sd card. Also, it is not recognized when plugged in to my dell.
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Ok, after reading this thead
- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1295926 -
I found that yes formating the sd card in either windows or linux will not work. Using my android phone to format the card works. It is now mountable. However I still could not flash directly to taboonay as I wished, but following this thread
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got me up and going again.
Put the rom on a thumbdrive. Plug the thumb drive in. Turn it on to boot to recovery. It should let you install from zip without having to mount. Works for me.
Thank you ahead of time for reading,
I have finally gotten my NC to run CyanogenMod 7.2.0-RC1-encore-KANG without any bugs, but I have one problem. Everything works fine and dandy, but when I reboot or power on my NC, it will go straight to recovery. In recovery, I press the first option to reboot, and it usually reboots into recovery again a few times. After anywhere from 1-7 times, it will boot normally into the rom.
Before this, I tried many different methods of rooting, and all of them left me with a buggy rom that would freeze a lot. This time, I simply wrote 8 GB CWR onto my 8 GB class 4 sd card using windiskimager and then installed the zip file for the rom in CWR. I feel like I skipped some steps, but the rom itself works flawlessly, the only problem I have is the minor one where I have to boot several times to get to the rom. How can I make it so that my NC boots directly into the rom, rather than recovery?
Thank you so much for your help and if you need any more details, let me know.
Since the NC looks at the SD card first, it will always boot from any boot files on it. If you don't want to mess with the SD card, simply remove it during boot (assuming that your CM is on the nook itself (aka EMMC)), and it will boot into CM 7. Then push the card in after the loading screen starts, and it will find the card without problems.
So, I guess we would need to know where you installed the rom, and what steps did you skip in the install process.
I am not really sure where I installed the rom. These are the steps that I took:
1. Wrote 8 gb CWR onto my blank 8 gb sd card.
2. Put the card into my nook, booting it into recovery.
3. Connected the nook to my computer and put the CM7 zip file on the sd card.
4. Unmounted the nook and then "installed zip from sd card"
5. Installed the rom and the rom started up after the reboot.
Now I have the problem described above. I don't really want to reinstall the rom in any way because everything works great, but it is a minor inconvenience whenever I need to reboot.
Thanks for your help.
You need to remove the SD card. You wrote CWR to it and it will always boot to recovery if that card is inserted. Once in recovery it is actually take a shortcut boot to boot the ROM which is why it seems like it works. As soon as you try and reboot or boot from power off though it is going to the SD card first.
Just remove the SD card and you should be fine.
Thanks for your reply,
Your method works, but is there any way I can leave the sd card in during boot? This is just for convenience because I have a lot of files on the sd card and my NC is in a case so I don't like removing the sd card. If not, then it is all good.
Thank you!
You should just be able to delete the boot files from the card and be fine.
MLO
u-boot.bin
uImage
uRamdisk
I think alternatively, you can use one of the bootloaders to set it to boot from the nook rather than the SD card (or from alternate images or recovery images for that matter).
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whoisanhd said:
Thanks for your reply,
Your method works, but is there any way I can leave the sd card in during boot? This is just for convenience because I have a lot of files on the sd card and my NC is in a case so I don't like removing the sd card. If not, then it is all good.
Thank you!
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You don't actually have to remove the card. You can just pop it out for a sec (still seated but not engaged) and then push it back in. You don't have to physically remove it. You might also want to check to see if the things are being installed to your portable SD card versus the internal memory. Sometimes it says SD, but the files are on the internal card not your external.
(Oh, and be sure to leave thanks with the thanks meter if it helped).
whoisanhd said:
Thanks for your reply,
Your method works, but is there any way I can leave the sd card in during boot? This is just for convenience because I have a lot of files on the sd card and my NC is in a case so I don't like removing the sd card. If not, then it is all good.
Thank you!
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Once you have used the bootable SD card you don't need it anymore (except possibly for recovery) and you can always create it again in the future.
Ideally you will add recovery to internal memory through ROM Manager or flashing it from a zip before formatting your bootable SD card back to normal. Then copy any data files you have off of the card and onto the pc. Format the bootable SD card back to normal to recover all of the space. After formatting add your files back onto the card and then put it back in your Nook and use as a normal SD card. No more worries about rebooting into recovery.