It is not recoginized by my pc or my mac. I can not trnasfer files to it. I have tried using a card reader but there is no sucess. how can i repair it. From the htc i have no problem.
Any idea? do i backup everything on a linux pc and then format it? which format? fat32?
Most likely it's formatted with an EXT filesystem, or another Linux filesystem that the Mac and Windows don't have drivers loaded for.
With a USB cable plugged into your Magic, can Windows access the card through the device by mounting the SD card through USB?
Would be best if you could back up all of the files using Linux and format it FAT32 using Windows.
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I've been digging around but I haven't been able to find an answer: Is it possible to set up some shell scripts to be called before and after the external SD card is mounted and unmounted? I'm playing around with a chrooted Ubuntu install, and I'd like to be able to fire off the Ubuntu init process automatically on boot/whenever the card is remounted and the shutdown process when the card is about to be unmounted for USB Mass Storage use.
I'm selling my g1 and i already restored to factory settings so that the buyer can set up the phone his own way. except im not sure if i remembered to format the SD card.
I dont have a sd card reader anywhere and was wondering if there was any way to format the card without finding an extra sim and activating the g1 again
so I actually ended up finding a sd reader, but i cant seem to format the card on my mac because i had swap and partions running from back when i rooted my g1. is there anyway to get disk utility to format the card? right now every option is grayed out
Not unless your recovery supports adb (the stock one doesn't), in which case you can mount the card from adb...
how do i go about mounting the card via adb and then formatting it?
If you have a non-stock recovery like Amon Ra or Clockwork, simply boot into it (Home + Power) and mount the sdcard.
Then using partition magic or gparted (linux equivalent and imo much better) partition the card. To use gparted, you can use a live cd (or usb nowadays) to boot.
gooberguy said:
how do i go about mounting the card via adb and then formatting it?
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Well, you can't. Only custom recoveries allow adb, and since the phone has been wiped the option for USB debugging has been disabled.
Just boot the phone, format from settings, wipe again, boom.
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thanks it is really helpful
How do I access the backup from the SDcard I used to root with nookmanager? I believe the backup is on a second partition that isn't visible or formatted for windows.
Classic773 said:
How do I access the backup from the SDcard I used to root with nookmanager? I believe the backup is on a second partition that isn't visible or formatted for windows.
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Windows doesn't like multiple partitions on removable drives so you can't get to it with a card reader on your PC (at least not easily). Boot your Nook from the NookManager SD card then connect to your PC and two drives will show up - the NookManager partition and the backup partition. This will be also be good troubleshooting for your problem with your rooted NST not working as a USB drive with Windows. If you still don't get USB drives showing up in Windows even when booted into NookManager then I would suspect a cable or connector problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2468893&page=2 might be of relevance.
Hi guys, i know this has come up on here before and i've searched through all the threads but found only a lot of information which is of no use at all.
Ok heres the info on my phone:
HSPL 2.08
Task 29ned
2.15.50.14 Radio
CustomRUU
Magdlr
CWM and also tried TWRP
I've used windows format from recovery (usb mass storage) and also minitool partition starting with fat32 and 32kb sectors then ext3 partition but on mounting it only returns the following:
E: failed to mount /sdcard (Invalid Argument)
Error mounting /sdcard
so far tried fat32, ntfs, ext2, ext3 out of sheer desperation
Any help would be muchly appreciated but i'm assuming it might be the sdcard at fault i really don't know.
Thanks in advance.
Dan
Hi Dan
In minitool, did you set the primary/logical box to primary?
Why ext3?
Also what rom did you install, and what install method?
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Hi Dan
In minitool, did you set the primary/logical box to primary?
Why ext3?
Also what rom did you install, and what install method?
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Thanks for your reply, yes both were set to primary, ext3 as that what lots of threads on here advised. Formatted to fat32 first. I can see it on my pc but can't mount it on the phone? Any ideas?
No rom on the phone yet as i can't get the zip files to be recognised as the sdcard can't mount so you can see my problem now.
Am now getting a new error message saying:
E: Unable to write to ums lunfile (No such file or directory)
Thanks
Dan
Hi Dan, best to start afresh with your card. Use this https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/ to format it to fat32, and see if it shows up then.
I don't know of any latest roms using ext3, most use an ext4 partition on the sd card
Anyway, report back
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Hi Dan, best to start afresh with your card. Use this https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/ to format it to fat32, and see if it shows up then.
I don't know of any latest roms using ext3, most use an ext4 partition on the sd card
Anyway, report back
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Ok i'm slowly getting somewhere, twrp didn't work, minitool didn't work, cwm didn't work so then i tried the new version of twrp and formatted it on the sdcard which can now mount sdcard on twrp.
The issue i'm having now is that adb doesn't list it under devices. I'm having to use adb sideload as because its been formatted on the phone it can't be seen on the pc? Not sure if thats as i don't have the hd2 drivers on the pc but its got hd2 toolkit installed. Either way i now don't have any way of installing from the rom zips I have.
Thanks
Dan
Hi Dan, I don't think Android Debug Bridge will work if you do not yet have android on your phone (unless it works from twrp). It seems you have magldr installed, can you use usb mass storage to transfer your rom to phone?
Also I do highly recommend using the sd formatter i linked to earlier, but i assume you do not have a card reader, hence doing all from phone.
Best of luck
I had this problem to fix
i installed everything then formatted card to fat32 using mini partition wizard and then did EXt4 and swap partition from Cwm Recovery and it worked just fine
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I had this problem to fix
i installed everything then formatted card to fat32 using mini partition wizard and then did EXt4 and swap partition from Cwm Recovery and it worked just fine
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Just incase anyone has the same problem i had with the never ending unable to mount sdcard problem.
What this turned out to be was cwm would format the card but only a certain area, then if you format with windows it will again only format a certain area that it see with its own file system. Then minitools would have a strange arrangement of differing file systems and changing this by usb connection through magdlr kept creating these problems.
I was trying to use adb to connect the phone to the pc through usb drivers but in the end it simply wasn't worth the effort.
First I went over cwm with the latest version of twrp.
Then I went out to buy a new sdcard simply to get a sdcard to microsd card tool.
Reformat the sdcard (with minitool partition) once in the pc (using the microsd to sdcard tool) to fat32 or fat32 with an ext4 partition if yr doing nand and dataext. Both partitions need to be primary and make sure there are no other partitions on the card this may take a few goes as sometimes you get a random partition or I did anyway.
Then put your rom files on the sdcard using the pc.
Remove sdcard from pc and install in phone.
Boot phone into magldr and choose recovery and this will take you into twrp and simply choose install and find the rom file you want to install.
Don't worry if you have any problems in the rom install you can always go back into twrp and wipe the system which is the rom.
Hope that helps anyone who was experiencing the same issues.
Alternate workaround
I had the same problem others have above. I wound up using a different workaround, and was able to do it with just the phone, a USB cable, and a Windows 7 PC. No SD adapter was needed and there was no need to remove the microSD card from the phone.
I took a stock WinMo 6.5 TMOUS HD2, installed Black LK and TWRP and cleared everything (cache, etc.). Then I used Black LK (very similar to cLK) to re-partition the internal storage to accept my new Android ROM. All I needed at this point was to install the ROM. I tried to copy my Android ROM to a microSD card I had in another phone and then bring it over, but TWRP was unable to read the card. It also couldn't mount the card via USB.
I was able to use TWRP to format the microSD. Then TWRP was able to USB Mount the microSD, but when my PC dectected it, I received a popup indicating that I needed to format the SD before Windows could use it. I said "yes", and allowed Windows to format the card as one big FAT32 partition. It took a few minutes, during which I was a little nervous as there was no progress meter or anything else on either the phone or the PC to indicate it was working. But once it finished, Windows was finally able to access the microSD card and copy the .zip file for the ROM. Once that was complete, I told Windows to eject the microSD, then un-mounted it in TWRP. And, finally, TWRP was able to see the ROM file and install it to NAND from the microSD.
Anyway, thought I'd post it up in case anybody else runs into this and doesn't have a card reader or adapter.