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SD Card Problem

Ok well I removed my sd card from my G1, and when I put it back in it gives me a "Blank SD Card" notification. I tried resetting my G1, and it didnt work. So I mounted it on my laptop and now it says "Drive G is not formatted would you like to format now?." I am really not trying to lose all my data and apps, and I kno my stuff didnt get deleted, how can this b fixed?

One of two ways, in my eyes.
First try looking at paragon, it might be able to find the partitions again and hopefully repair them.
Two try a data recovery program, personally I like GetDataBack but it only works for FAT and NTFS and not EXT2 if your data and apps were on that partition.

Hmm I tried GDB and it took about an hour and what do u kno I need the licensed version to get my files off, and will Paragon work? Cuz I dont wanna waste another hour.

SD Card fix ok
just put the sd card inside the adapter that all sd card brings when you get it.ok
AND than insert it on your labtop and copy all your files to your computer and format your sd card..

jcarloss said:
just put the sd card inside the adapter that all sd card brings when you get it.ok
AND than insert it on your labtop and copy all your files to your computer and format your sd card..
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As I said in the original post when I mounted it is said it needed to format, but anyway I found a program and got my files off, but I need to recover my ext2 partition which I dont think will happen

http://www.diskinternals.com/Linux-Recovery/
Never tried it but it might be worth a shot.

jashsu said:
http://www.diskinternals.com/Linux-Recovery/
Never tried it but it might be worth a shot.
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Yea I tried it but I need the paid version to recover

Have you tried inserting the sdcard into a computer running ubuntu? It will probably recognize the ext partition without any trouble.

Will I b able 2 use ubuntu to restore it?

AsaSpades said:
Will I b able 2 use ubuntu to restore it?
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I dunno, that's why I asked if you had tried it yet or not. You can always burn a Ubuntu livecd and test it without installing anything. As long as the partition table is intact it should be accessible.

jashsu said:
I dunno, that's why I asked if you had tried it yet or not. You can always burn a Ubuntu livecd and test it without installing anything. As long as the partition table is intact it should be accessible.
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Its gonna b a long ass download, and the table is intact, but I just need to get the files off it, and id rather kno if ubuntu can do [email protected] b4 I download it, I wish I can jus find a free program for ext2 partitions

Blank SD Card
AsaSpades said:
As I said in the original post when I mounted it is said it needed to format, but anyway I found a program and got my files off, but I need to recover my ext2 partition which I dont think will happen
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I loaded up Cyanogen's latest last week, formatted my 16gb to EXT2 and Fat32... all was working great for a week, then today, my G1 went blank. Upon a restart, the SD card came up with "Blank SD Card." Viewing the card from my card reader... can't read any files... what's the program that you "found?" I'll probably just fight through reformatting and rebuilding all my files... Later I'll perform file backup when I get it right.

this sound like your problem??
Hey asaspades, something like this happened to me a while back and I could read it on my laptop/cardreader and recover my files and reformat. Obv u have tried this. The thing is the same thing has hsappened not 10 min ago lol. When this happened before I was running my g1 as stock but now I have cyanmod (3.6.8.1 I think) amd apps 2 sd on ext2 partition. I am not at a computer atm but will try to recover the same way as before though I won't be able to access the ext2 partition (will try with ubuntu, hav wubi installer on pc). Oh and I rebooted after I realised something was wrong and now have a constant preparing sd card checking for errors notification. This sound kinda similar to your problem at all? I would like to know what is causing this. Maybe I just have a bad/corrupted sdcard lol. Anyway its really pissin me off not knowing
Left 4 a while and it now says damaged sdcard you may need to reformat.

Blank SD Card?

ok i was playing with Ak-47 app on The dudes cupcake then next thing you know it says Blank sd card now I cant use any apps and under settings<SD card & storage it says total space and availalable space unavailable and unmount sd card. When I go to notifications bar where it says Blank SD card it suggest to re format sd card....What should I do? even when I mount onto pc under removable **** it suggest to reformat. What should I do? I dont wanna brick my phone. Also it wont let me see any files under removable disk.

duan19 said:
ok i was playing with Ak-47 app on The dudes cupcake then next thing you know it says Blank sd card now I cant use any apps and under settings<SD card & storage it says total space and availalable space unavailable and unmount sd card. When I go to notifications bar where it says Blank SD card it suggest to re format sd card....What should I do? even when I mount onto pc under removable **** it suggest to reformat. What should I do? I dont wanna brick my phone. Also it wont let me see any files under removable disk.
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chances are u might have to start from fresh n format ..
http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter/

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What if I perform a wipe and Alt-s...will that work or will it brick my phone.

duan19 said:
What if I perform a wipe and Alt-s...will that work or will it brick my phone.
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wiping doesnt do anything to your sd card

Refomat?
Well Could I just use the onscreen selection on my phone to reformat or will this cause problems.

duan19 said:
Well Could I just use the onscreen selection on my phone to reformat or will this cause problems.
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that i dont know. i just use a card reader and format then depending on what build im using i wipe and start fresh

same thing happened to me last week on one of the dudes builds. My sd card was ruined. I tried to reformat it and then repartition it but it wouldnt let me repartition even though i deleted the old one. I messed with it for hours, before some one told me that it was ruined. all the transfering of info back and forth fried it i guess. I ended up buying a new one, this time class 6 (old one was class 2) I got it for 20 bucks (8gb) not to shabby of a price! sorry for your misfortune. Good luck

duan19 said:
ok i was playing with Ak-47 app on The dudes cupcake then next thing you know it says Blank sd card now I cant use any apps and under settings<SD card & storage it says total space and availalable space unavailable and unmount sd card. When I go to notifications bar where it says Blank SD card it suggest to re format sd card....What should I do? even when I mount onto pc under removable **** it suggest to reformat. What should I do? I dont wanna brick my phone. Also it wont let me see any files under removable disk.
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The same thing happened to me about 4 days ago, however Im running cyangones 3.4 Rom not the dudes, tell me ....were you running any themes at the time like the hero theme or any other? Are you using apps to sd as in do you have your sd card partitioned ? Im trying to figure out why this happened to me also, as of right now it has happened twice in 4 days then, I wiped my phone, reformatted / repartitioned my sd card and am not using any custome theme with cyanogens 3.4 rom and it seems to be ok. I only have a few apps right now because I want to make sure it doesnt happen again before I load up my sd card again with apps.

i had no themes and i was using app2sd. but i wasnt using any apps at the time.. just thought i would ad my 2 cents

djwaz said:
The same thing happened to me about 4 days ago, however Im running cyangones 3.4 Rom not the dudes, tell me ....were you running any themes at the time like the hero theme or any other? Are you using apps to sd as in do you have your sd card partitioned ? Im trying to figure out why this happened to me also, as of right now it has happened twice in 4 days then, I wiped my phone, reformatted / repartitioned my sd card and am not using any custome theme with cyanogens 3.4 rom and it seems to be ok. I only have a few apps right now because I want to make sure it doesnt happen again before I load up my sd card again with apps.
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thats how it started with my sd card..but when i reformatted i went to Jacman 1.62 build then thatts where my card just got fried...partition table got corupted

Yes maybe because its class 2 8 gigs
And yes to other gut I does has some hero in the dude 1.3r2.

Yes maybe because its class 2 8 gigs
And yes to other gut I does has some hero in the dude 1.3r2. bout to try to reformat I guess tell you what happens in a minute.

ok
I reformatted then put files back on G1(including the dudes cupcake 1.3r2(cant give up on the perfect mod lol)) then wiped and Alt-s....only diffrence this time is that i am gonna use appmanager and not put everything on class 2 8 gig so it will not burn out...and hopefully it want destroy my sd card.Thankx to everyone you guys were a big help.

very interesting topic....
same here:
I tried with 3 other sdcards, 2 of them are 100% ok, NO GO, doesnt work anymore. First I thought that my G1 reader has a problem, some time it works, some time not. Im on dudes 12b with apps2sd. The fact that no card works tells me:
- Phone error
or
- Software problem (really strange if this is the problem)
I wipe right now and will tell you if the card works again....

i had similar problem last week when switching from cyan 3.4 to dudes 1.3 i first tried just doing an alt - w and that gave me a lot of errors and force closes so i started over and reformatted/repartitioned my sd. Now my sd card doesnt read when i plug into pc but still works in phone. everytime i want to change/edit sd i have to pull sd out and use an adapter..it sucks cuz the lil sd latch is such a pain to open and close on the g1..

ok wipe didnt anything... really strange thing I can do nothing anymore, card is not readable (in pc it is readable, but not in my g1)....
Config:
Dudes 1.2b
No themes, no extras
APPS2SD, 500 MB EXT Partition
8 GB Class 6 Card
If anyone has a hint for me, any help is welcome.

could this have something to do with apps2sd... this is happening to me as well, and it only started when i switched from jac 1.4 to the dudes 1.3rc1 it works good for about 24 hours sans the bluetooth issue. then the next time i check the phone its all whacked out and says to reformat the card.

Found this, hope that helps, unfortunately I dont have an external reader here:
source: http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f7/unable-to-retain-formatting-on-sd-card-17338/index2.html
Turns out this is no more than an annoyance affecting the 1.5 JF builds. (not sure it's exclusive to those).
Anyway, long story short. The phone will always complain about the partitioning on the sd card and offer to "fix" the problem by re-formatting.
The key to the problem is to reboot the phone after the card has been re-partitioned. This will make the annoying pop-up dissapear and keep the partitioning table as defined.

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Rerun apps to SD, uninstall reinstall all listed apps.

I had had this happen also. But I think most of it was my doing. I have a bad habit of not removing device safely after I copy files, I just use the eject button lol.. my p.c. even told me that I had removed usb device before the files were finshed bing prossed.. well whatever happend it didn't fry my card I just had to reformat it and. Run martins great skrip over agin and it was good to go.. I even went to buy a new usb cable just in case lol .. on hero/rosie running smooth ; )

Can't mount USB

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.
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No cigar :/

fatkitty420 said:
Something I didn't think of... I'll give it a shot and post back.
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No cigar :/
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Im not sure of anything else. Im sorry.

A2SD - Help needed

I just posted this in the "General" forum. I take it that it's not a good thing to remove your SD card when you're running A2SD. I wanted to see if my apps were "really" running on the card, so I figured I'd just pop it out, see if the apps worked or not, then pop it back in. Well, the apps didn't work, but after re-inserting the card, I don't see any of the apps I had installed.
Anyone know how to fix this?

General is the proper place for this thread. Please avoid double posting threads in the future, especially in the inappropriate forum.

Restart the phone.
And, no, it's not a good idea to remove the SD card while running Apps2SD. You can seriously corrupt your ext partition that way, forcing you to reformat everything.
lostpilot28 said:
I just posted this in the "General" forum. I take it that it's not a good thing to remove your SD card when you're running A2SD. I wanted to see if my apps were "really" running on the card, so I figured I'd just pop it out, see if the apps worked or not, then pop it back in. Well, the apps didn't work, but after re-inserting the card, I don't see any of the apps I had installed.
Anyone know how to fix this?
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tkirton said:
Restart the phone.
And, no, it's not a good idea to remove the SD card while running Apps2SD. You can seriously corrupt your ext partition that way, forcing you to reformat everything.
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Thanks for the helpful reply, Tkirton. I ended up getting my icons back using "a2sd install", but they weren't working right. Forced shutdown of almost everything when I would try to launch them.
I just did a factory reset wipe and am reinstalling PlainJaneT2 right now. If they're still jacked up, I'll assume that I corrupted the ext partition and just re-do everything. Then I'll be smart and immediately create a backup!
Thanks again.

Ugh... Sd card issues.. Not my day (rant)

So I dropped my phone today (doh!) And the battery and evrything came out.. put it back in andwent about my day no worries... so I look in rom manager and see there's a new recovery and when I try to download it says my sd isn't mounted so I take the battery out and lo and behold my sd card came out too (double doh!) Went back to my job searched for my sd card to no avail... But its ok I thought I have one from my old blackbery at home (finally I get a break)... put it in... works fine... but it has pictures and videos that i'd rather not remember (or let my fiancee see lol) as well as the blackberry data which I know I don't need so I pick out the few things I want off the card and save them to a new folder on the phones root via root explorer... then I. Go to sd card settings and format it.. it finishes then a nice little error pops up saying "blank sd card or unsupported file system" (DOH! DOH! DOH!)... But we ain't done yet the stoory goes on... I decide maybe a reboot will fix it... Nope... So I go to root explorer and figure if its blank let's just put something on it... but my created backup folder dissapeared after reboot... (F#*!&... S#*%... D#&$... D*$&... D!*%!!!!!!!) Can someone please ease my pain by telling me how to at least get my sd card to mount and be recognised as anything but blank??? it would really make my day... I understand I've probably lost all the stuff I wanted to save but o well... FML
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When ever I had this problem (phone doesn't see the sdcard), I removed my sdcard, put it into an adapter and inserted it into my computers card reader, then reformatted it to FAT32, then put it back into the phone and everything worked great.

joemm said:
When ever I had this problem (phone doesn't see the sdcard), I removed my sdcard, put it into an adapter and inserted it into my computers card reader, then reformatted it to FAT32, then put it back into the phone and everything worked great.
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Thanks ill give that a try when I get home... I just don't understand why htc put the oprion on the phone if it basically "breaks" the sd card ... I was expecting it to just wipe it clean like new ya know
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ctraywick1 said:
Thanks ill give that a try when I get home... I just don't understand why htc put the oprion on the phone if it basically "breaks" the sd card ... I was expecting it to just wipe it clean like new ya know
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Happened to me as well. I must admit it is an annoyung 'feature'. Hope otheres see this and take heed.

I actually used the format (although on a brand new card) just yesterday and it worked fine. So I guess 'milage may vary' is what is happening.

Mnemoch said:
I actually used the format (although on a brand new card) just yesterday and it worked fine. So I guess 'milage may vary' is what is happening.
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Probably true but formatting it to fat32 on the computer fixed it.. after figuring out I had to do it through command prompt cuz anything else froze the computer completely until it crashed but all is well now thaks to the members of xda... now if only there were a way to recover my lost data lol
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