I am not sure about anyone else, but with Tainted Vanilla I can't seem to mount my SD card anymore. I didn't post this in the thread for it because it seems as though that thread is completely dead.
I can still push it on the SD card using CMD, but I can't mount it for some reason. Is it just me or is this something left out of TD?
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I did try that. Either way I never got a notification and I was never able to mount it for some reason.
cronic5 said:
I did try that. Either way I never got a notification and I was never able to mount it for some reason.
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Sounds stupid but do you have an external HDD connected at the same time? Sometimes when I have an External HDD connected and then connect my phone it will mound then dismount in a loop and cause the HDD to do the same thing? Sometimes the phone won't mount I just un-plugg to be safe. Worth a shot?
Not trying to be mean, but when u have a issue with a certian rom post it in that thread.
This keeps the forum clean
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I am having the same issue. I just cooked a rom.. and i cant test it out because TV isn't mounting my card. also, when I take it out to plug into a card reader, i have I/O errors when I try to transfer items onto it. Even when I copy paste the items. I can't seem to get ADB to work for me anymore, so I have not tried through CMD yet
morphius2036 said:
Sounds stupid but do you have an external HDD connected at the same time? Sometimes when I have an External HDD connected and then connect my phone it will mound then dismount in a loop and cause the HDD to do the same thing? Sometimes the phone won't mount I just un-plugg to be safe. Worth a shot?
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I have no external hard drive. When I ran the stock, Evil Eris, and Sensable, it would mount fine. As soon as I flashed Tainted Vanilla it no longer mounted. I know Tainted Vanilla is uncompleted (for all intents and purposes), but I was mainly wondering if this was an error on my side, or if this is how Tainted Vanilla was made.
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Not trying to be mean, but when u have a issue with a certian rom post it in that thread.
This keeps the forum clean
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I apologize, but the Tainted Vanilla thread is pretty dead, and a reply would have taken forever.
I was actually having the same issues, had to flash back to Ic3
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It's the second time this has happened. I'm not sure what I did the first time to fix it.
Basically, when I try to mount my SD card via USB it tries to - but then fails and goes back to "preparing SD card" on the phone. It never shows up on the PC.
I'm running Gumbo 1.5C with kernel.
I tried going back to my RUU image/formated SD and start over but the problem still persists. The card is partitioned for Apps2SD. If I need to format the card can someone provide instruction to either move whatever is installed on the SD card back to the phone or how to back up the SD card so I wont have to clean everything up again.
Would be very much appreciated!
Thanks!
I am always the person who asks the stupid "is it plugged in?" questions...
Did you try using the SD card in a different device?
Does the phone let you store on it?
Can you install new Apps?
Did you try a different SD card?
Kcarpenter said:
I am always the person who asks the stupid "is it plugged in?" questions...
Did you try using the SD card in a different device?
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No, I don't really have another device to try it in... but it does work. The card does mount through the Recovery USB toggle. It just doesn't mount through the OS.
Does the phone let you store on it?
Can you install new Apps?
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Yes and yes.
Did you try a different SD card?
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I can try another one when I get home but the problem is I wont have any of the apps that were installed on the SD card.
What I did just try is "unmount" the SD card on the phone so it looks like I'm about to remove it - then restart. It's still not working. I kind of want to say that the problem arose when I pulled my phone off the USB cable while the card was already mounted - to answer an important phone call. I'm just not sure how to replicate or undo the problem.
fatkitty420 said:
I kind of want to say that the problem arose when I pulled my phone off the USB cable while the card was already mounted - to answer an important phone call. I'm just not sure how to replicate or undo the problem.
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This will kill it every time.
The best thing to do is go into recovery make a back up of the EXT partition - theres an option for it some where. Mount the card in recovery copy the backup to the desktop. Power the phone off swap the SD card. Partition it with the EXT partion. Mount the new card as USB in recovery copy the back up to it (make sure you keep the original folder path exactly the same). Restore the EXT back up. *catches breath*
Maybe this will work for you. I had a very simliar issue destroy my 16gb. It was sadening those things aren't cheap.
Kcarpenter said:
This will kill it every time.
The best thing to do is go into recovery make a back up of the EXT partition - theres an option for it some where. Mount the card in recovery copy the backup to the desktop. Power the phone off swap the SD card. Partition it with the EXT partion. Mount the new card as USB in recovery copy the back up to it (make sure you keep the original folder path exactly the same). Restore the EXT back up. *catches breath*
Maybe this will work for you. I had a very simliar issue destroy my 16gb. It was sadening those things aren't cheap.
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I may give this a shot later, I just want to wait to see if anyone else has a solution. The reason being; this has happened to me before. About 2 months ago. I think I fixed it by changing to a different ROM... which is not what I want to do now. I like the speed I had now. There must be some haywire code that gets corrupted if I dismount improperly considering the SD card is still fully functional.
And... Bump.
fatkitty420 said:
And... Bump.
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How about... did you try a different usb plug, different usb port, different computer?
kbizzle said:
How about... did you try a different usb plug, different usb port, different computer?
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Something I didn't think of... I'll give it a shot and post back.
Edit:
No cigar :/
fatkitty420 said:
Something I didn't think of... I'll give it a shot and post back.
Edit:
No cigar :/
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Im not sure of anything else. Im sorry.
So all of the sudden I get a notification that my memory card had a problem and that it's "read only".
It was totally fine then this. Is my card corrupted or is it a hardware thing?
I can get it to recognize it....then it goes right back to read only.
I've used the same card from my G2...to Nexus One...to Vibrant to my now MT4G.
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try formatting it with a card reader...
Probably messed up. Mine did it too and only thing I could do was format.
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So all of the sudden I get a notification that my memory card had a problem and that it's "read only".
It was totally fine then this. Is my card corrupted or is it a hardware thing?
I can get it to recognize it....then it goes right back to read only.
I've used the same card from my G2...to Nexus One...to Vibrant to my now MT4G.
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Dang. What about all the apps that I mved to SD and folders? Ill lose all of that? It wont allow me to move them back to the phone
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Vinsane said:
Dang. What about all the apps that I mved to SD and folders? Ill lose all of that? It wont allow me to move them back to the phone
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I will tell you the truth. You will lose everything. After this you will learn to backup your sd card on your computer.
I wiped out mine too. Somehow, my card became corrupted and would not mount. I lost everything. Still pisses me off.
Good news is there is a stock 'ROM' here and you can just start over. I know it sucks, but think of it as a learning experience. What else can you do?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=845756
One question I had is: Is there a way after it wont mount to get it to mount? Like... can you go into terminal and mount it at all?
Hope this eases you mind man.
jjlean said:
One question I had is: Is there a way after it wont mount to get it to mount? Like... can you go into terminal and mount it at all?
Hope this eases you mind man.
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You can put in into another android phone and it will work just fine (most likely). Has happened to me multiple times in G2 (part of a reason it went back to t-mo).
Alternatively, you can try USB mount option in ClockworkMod recovery and see if phone will recognize your card in recovery, you can then copy everything over to PC and re-format the card.
Wait! Before you reformat, plug it into a Windows machine and run checkdisk on it. I just had this problem yesterday and this fixed it for me. I didnt lose my data or anything because it wasnt reformatted. Just check both the boxes on the dialog box when you run checkdisk and hopefully itll work for you too.
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How to run Chkdsk from My Computer or from Windows Explorer
Double-click My Computer, and then right-click the hard disk that you want to check.
Click Properties, and then click Tools.
Under Error-checking, click Check Now. A dialog box that shows the Check disk options is displayed,
Select the Automatically fix file system errors check box.
Select the Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors check box, and then click Start.
I too have been experiencing this problem, and have tried almost everything to fix this crap! but no luck, I'm not sure what's causing this, but I've tried several SD cards already and even replaced my phone thinking it was the device card reader, but I still have the same problem... Hope someone can shed some light on this matter...
But to the OP before you go formatting it, you can try to save the files on your SD first by going to recovery > connect device > mounts and storage > mount USB storage. You should see your files from the SD card so you can back those up at least.
Good luck!
Had that happen to me when I popped in a new card. Put the old one back in, same thing happened.
Turned out that the restore didn't work correctly. Was able to restore the stock backup I made after rooting and haven't had issues since. I played around trying to get different kernels working, and had to restore a few times. The one time just didn't take fully.
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I got it fixed without loosing anything! Plugged it into a machine that I just updated to win 7..and it said there was a problem with my card and if I wanted windows to see if it could fix it. Yes. It worked!
Check disk is it!
Backed up all my card and plugged it back into the phone...and it works great again.
Thanks for the feedback and help guys
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Nice!
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I got it fixed without loosing anything! Plugged it into a machine that I just updated to win 7..and it said there was a problem with my card and if I wanted windows to see if it could fix it. Yes. It worked!
Check disk is it!
Backed up all my card and plugged it back into the phone...and it works great again.
Thanks for the feedback and help guys
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Good to know, I suggest backin up often now though. I still get random sd corruption every few days after the first one. Its like my phone got devirginized or something lol.
Vinsane said:
I got it fixed without loosing anything! Plugged it into a machine that I just updated to win 7..and it said there was a problem with my card and if I wanted windows to see if it could fix it. Yes. It worked!
Check disk is it!
Backed up all my card and plugged it back into the phone...and it works great again.
Thanks for the feedback and help guys
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Glad I could help
Hello everyone. I tried to search answer to this question, but so far found nothing.
This is known issue, when using Android SD build.
When I transfer files to my phone, the apps do not see the files. I have to restart my phone in order to see them. Does anyone knows how to fix it? I found ROM that I love, and it turns out to be such frustrating.
PS: I am also a noob, just got HD2 this afternoon.
Do you mean that you transfer them from your PC? If that the case it's worth checking if you not connecting to PC through Disk Drive, as this making "sd card" inaccsesible from phone apps. When you disconnect from PC, your files should be visible to the apps again.
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You can install SDRescan.
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Do you mean that you transfer them from your PC? If that the case it's worth checking if you not connecting to PC through Disk Drive, as this making "sd card" inaccsesible from phone apps. When you disconnect from PC, your files should be visible to the apps again.
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Im noob, but not that much
Lets see how brainmaster's app will work
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You can install SDRescan.
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Sadly it doesn't work as well. I have to reboot the phone in order to get my files.
Some builds on sd dont fully support mass storage.
mattfmartin said:
Some builds on sd dont fully support mass storage.
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Alrighty then. Ill try another build
AntonJart said:
Hello everyone. I tried to search answer to this question, but so far found nothing.
This is known issue, when using Android SD build.
When I transfer files to my phone, the apps do not see the files. I have to restart my phone in order to see them. Does anyone knows how to fix it? I found ROM that I love, and it turns out to be such frustrating.
PS: I am also a noob, just got HD2 this afternoon.
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Download MULTI MOUNT from market, and use it to enable the SD to the PC (not the android built in function) This is a must for all SD builds! cause with the standard method you can corrupt your data.Multi Mount allos the phone and the pc to access the card at the same time with no risk
So this morning I was deleteing files off my sd card from my phone. Then tried to mount it through my computer to put some files on. Wouldn't mount on the pc via the phone.
Disconnected it and it no longer was mounted on my phone.
Took out the card and used a card reader and it no longer was able to be read on my pc without the phone.
Anyone have any ideas to get my sd card back and working. Currently I had to resort to using a 2gb card that I could fill within seconds.
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So this morning I was deleteing files off my sd card from my phone. Then tried to mount it through my computer to put some files on. Wouldn't mount on the pc via the phone.
Disconnected it and it no longer was mounted on my phone.
Took out the card and used a card reader and it no longer was able to be read on my pc without the phone.
Anyone have any ideas to get my sd card back and working. Currently I had to resort to using a 2gb card that I could fill within seconds.
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maybe the card magically stopped working? lol (no joking actually)
Had this happen to me once.
Had to reformat, then use recovery software to get my files back.
Lol its okay i really dont expect people to know the answer. Ill just try cleaning it.
@theguyabove
What software did you use?
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InfDaMarvel said:
Lol its okay i really dont expect people to know the answer. Ill just try cleaning it.
@theguyabove
What software did you use?
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how are u gonna clean it if u just said the pc wont read it at all? if it reads only thing u can do is format it
Clean the metal strips. It doesnt read at all. Its just found, as in my pc sees a storage device and so does my phone somewhat.
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Problem solved, just had to fight a dragon.
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InfDaMarvel said:
So this morning I was deleteing files off my sd card from my phone. Then tried to mount it through my computer to put some files on. Wouldn't mount on the pc via the phone.
Disconnected it and it no longer was mounted on my phone.
Took out the card and used a card reader and it no longer was able to be read on my pc without the phone.
Anyone have any ideas to get my sd card back and working. Currently I had to resort to using a 2gb card that I could fill within seconds.
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Mine did this yesterday after flashing a ROM. Lost everything. I was able to see things using CWM but not the phone itself or the PC. Formatted it with CWM and it wiped everything but still the phone or computer wouldnt read it. I waited a couple hours and loaded it back into my computer and just left it. A couple minutes later Windows popped up a box asking if I wanted to format it. I did a quick format and it read the card size. Previously it errored out saying it could not format it. I dont know what happened and why it all of a sudden worked
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Problem solved, just had to fight a dragon.
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what did you do to solve the problem? I've run into a similar issue, here is a link to a thread I created in Q&A
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1218414
I still won't have access to a pc until tomorrow, hopefully ubuntu will be able to work some magic for me
I formatted after using the options under error checking failed. Everything moved exceptionalling slow while doing this however.
I did it under windws xp. Not much difference with win7 or vista I suppose. Ubuntu even.
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Everyone having SD card issues, before you format it or do other crazy stuff, try going into your gallery on the phone first. Works for me everytime my sd goes "invisible"
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After successfully putting DARKSENSE on my phone, I decided to put music on my phone, to try the beats audio feature for the rom.
Thing is... the computer wont recognize the phone! ):
Please help. Now I can't even flash a new rom if i wanted too. i need to mount my sd card to do it.
thanks.
( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1283682 )
HTC HD2 MAN said:
After successfully putting DARKSENSE on my phone, I decided to put music on my phone, to try the beats audio feature for the rom.
Thing is... the computer wont recognize the phone! ):
Please help. Now I can't even flash a new rom if i wanted too. i need to mount my sd card to do it.
thanks.
( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1283682 )
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Did you come from a full wipe before flashing it? also try going into cwm > mounts and storage > USB storage. it will mount
Nicgraner said:
Did you come from a full wipe before flashing it? also try going into cwm > mounts and storage > USB storage. it will mount
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Yes, always. cwm recovery or the app?
oh, you meant recovery.
theres:
mount/data
mount/sdcard
mountsystem
which one?
mount /sdcard, obviously
I'm not running Clockworkmod, so I can't check. But I believe it's the lowest option under "mount" menu. Something like "USB mass storage".
Jack_R1 said:
mount /sdcard, obviously
I'm not running Clockworkmod, so I can't check. But I believe it's the lowest option under "mount" menu. Something like "USB mass storage".
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yup! mount USB storage.
saranhai said:
yup! mount USB storage.
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it still says at the bottom left of my computer (windows vista) :
"USB DEVICE NOT RECOGNIZED"
HTC HD2 MAN said:
it still says at the bottom left of my computer (windows vista) :
"USB DEVICE NOT RECOGNIZED"
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have you installed the HTC Drivers onto your computer?
http://www.htc.com/us/support/t-mobile-mytouch-4g/downloads/
aznprodgy said:
have you installed the HTC Drivers onto your computer?
http://www.htc.com/us/support/t-mobile-mytouch-4g/downloads/
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Yup, i even reinstalled it. nothing still
Settings/connect to PC and choose
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samething as connecting the usb and pulling down the notif. bar and changing charging only to mounting the sd card.
i think its the rom.
The rom wouldnt affect clockwork mod from connecting..
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HTC HD2 MAN said:
After successfully putting DARKSENSE on my phone, I decided to put music on my phone, to try the beats audio feature for the rom.
Thing is... the computer wont recognize the phone! ):
Please help. Now I can't even flash a new rom if i wanted too. i need to mount my sd card to do it.
thanks.
( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1283682 )
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are you sure the phone doesnt have physical damage ? i had darkside sense too and my usb stopped working , and when i changed to cm7 it still didnt work , i came to the conclusion that my usb has physical damage, now when i want to get a new rom i download straight from my phone
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it was working perfectly fine until darksense.
Nicgraner said:
The rom wouldnt affect clockwork mod from connecting..
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well technically, it is connecting, but the computer just wont recognize the device.
Can you try it on another PC or OS like Linux?
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not at the moment. I'll to download straight from my phone's internet and attempt to flash a gb rom from faux123 and see if it connects.
OK... I'm doomed. My last hope is putting stock mt4g froyo rom
Most likely, as mentioned, one of the data lines (most likely D-) has been physically disconnected/damaged during ROM installation, when you plug and unplug the phone a lot. No new ROM will help you, if you can't mount the phone in recovery. Change USB cable, and if it doesn't help - it's your phone's USB port.
oh boy...but it doesnt make sense to me how the computer can detect the device and not recognize it/