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Read-only sd card

Hi guys ,
I've been experiencing a quite frustrating problem for a while and I can't find any way out of it...
After some time my Magic 32B is turned on the sd card (4gb class 6) becomes read-only and none of my apps can access and write on it :
- Google listen return a I/0 error and stops streaming or downloading
- Camera won't work as it asks for an sd to be inserted
- Astro can access the sd but I cannot delete/move/rename any files...
If I reboot everything goes back to a normal status...but it's just for a while..
I tried fixing permissions..but it didn't help...
Any suggestion other than wipe/reformat...? I would like to avoid that...

Device

EDIT: Woops posted too fast without full title. Should be like, Device not reading SD card in various ways. Haha... man Im tired >.>
Hi guys,
So it seems I managed to screw something up regarding my SD card while I was messing around with my devices (MT3G 1.2). I figured maybe you can direct me to some things I haven't tried yet.
Here is all the available info:
When trying to access SD card in RA Recovery I get:
E: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0) (No such file or directory)
E: Can't mount SDCARD:
When booted into android, I constantly have "SD Card Removed" in my notifications and not amount of rebooting or reseating the sd card seems to change that.
If I slap the SD card in another device and mount the card on windows, it shows up seemingly alright there. I also tried simply formatting it fresh to FAT32 there and putting it back into my MT3G, but it didn't seem to make a difference.
After trying to format the card, I seem to get these files I haven't heard of before showing up on the card:
qxdm_20100531_060541_2.dm
qxdm_20100531_062913_1.dm
etc, etc... about 10 of them now.
I'm hoping that this is something I can reverse, and not some sort of really bad hardware or driver issue. Any hints or tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

technogecko6 said:
EDIT: Woops posted too fast without full title. Should be like, Device not reading SD card in various ways. Haha... man Im tired >.>
Hi guys,
So it seems I managed to screw something up regarding my SD card while I was messing around with my devices (MT3G 1.2). I figured maybe you can direct me to some things I haven't tried yet.
Here is all the available info:
When trying to access SD card in RA Recovery I get:
E: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0) (No such file or directory)
E: Can't mount SDCARD:
When booted into android, I constantly have "SD Card Removed" in my notifications and not amount of rebooting or reseating the sd card seems to change that.
If I slap the SD card in another device and mount the card on windows, it shows up seemingly alright there. I also tried simply formatting it fresh to FAT32 there and putting it back into my MT3G, but it didn't seem to make a difference.
After trying to format the card, I seem to get these files I haven't heard of before showing up on the card:
qxdm_20100531_060541_2.dm
qxdm_20100531_062913_1.dm
etc, etc... about 10 of them now.
I'm hoping that this is something I can reverse, and not some sort of really bad hardware or driver issue. Any hints or tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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That's very odd. qXDm is a program used with CMDA phones to mod ESN's and program them.. Flip phones and such.. not meant for smart phones since we'd have no use for a tool of that nature.
If you're running RA 1.7 then I believe accessing the SD card is out of question anyhow because something is broken with that.. not sure what though but I can't use mine either.

If you can boot into android, try this:
open the dialer and dial
Code:
*#*#4636#*#*
DON'T press call, just wait a sec. - a menu should appear. Choose the first item (phone information, or similar), and scroll down - there should be a button there with something about qxdm on it. Possibly 'disable qxdm'. Try selecting that.

Tried that, but it had "Enable QDSM SD Log", not disable... tried it regardless but made no real change anyway. :/

Did you ever find a solution to this issue? I have the same problem - it occured durring a SAPPIMG.ZIP flashing of my phone - it seems that for some reason QXDM was turned on during this proccess.
Typically, the following fastboot command would turn QXDM SD logging off, but it does not work for me (I believe it may only be available in ENG SPLs).
Code:
fastboot oem enableqxdm 0

HELP! can't mount SD card (i've already tried all the fixes)

I've been using android on my phone for awhile, and tried a bunch of different builds and never got this error. Yesterday when i was switching back to shubcraft all of the sudden the boot loader gives me
mounting /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 on /sdcard failed: invalid argument
failed
failed to mount sd card. cannot continue.
/bin/sh: cant't access tty; job control turned off
i tried loading just about ever build and get the same thing.
I've changed the startup.txt and i always reformat before i switch builds. i was thinking it might be the sd card itself, but it works fine in winmo.
if anyone can help me it would be much appreciated, im having android withdrawls...
oh and its the stock 16gb class 2
EDIT: It randomly started working again...strange...

This Is What I Do
I was getting either the same thing or something very close to it on about 2 rom to the best of my understanding is when your trying to flash (for lack of better words) a new rom you still have some left over traces either on your storage card or the phone so what you need to do is format your SD card and reflash your phones rom.
I took the origin file put it on my sd card unzipped it there went into the android rom folder cut the plain android folder paste it withe the other folders then reased every folder EXCEPT the PLAIN ANDROID FOLDER now put the sd card in the phone enable the the sound then install android.
To be able to watch the process after you flash your rom go to settings, system, power (battery) and uncheck everything so it doesn't sleep. when you install now you will see the progress and will be able to read the progress if you see 2 things have failed
This is my process and it hasn't failed yet when I didn't do it this way I had fails.

Striving said:
I was getting either the same thing or something very close to it on about 2 rom to the best of my understanding is when your trying to flash (for lack of better words) a new rom you still have some left over traces either on your storage card or the phone so what you need to do is format your SD card and reflash your phones rom.
I took the origin file put it on my sd card unzipped it there went into the android rom folder cut the plain android folder paste it withe the other folders then reased every folder EXCEPT the PLAIN ANDROID FOLDER now put the sd card in the phone enable the the sound then install android.
To be able to watch the process after you flash your rom go to settings, system, power (battery) and uncheck everything so it doesn't sleep. when you install now you will see the progress and will be able to read the progress if you see 2 things have failed
This is my process and it hasn't failed yet when I didn't do it this way I had fails.
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you can search a tool named SDFORMATER V2.0, it will be worked.

okay this is now happening to me as well!
had been using Android and various different builds without hitch.
but today after trying the Hyperdroid build the sd card fails to mount on startup.
Editing the startup.txt does nothing, have also flash to the latest chuckyrom and formatted the sd card time and time again and tried different builds.
anyone have any other suggestions?
Ta

working again now.
the fix for me was to reupload my backup to the sd, format then upload the required new build.
very odd...

snigs said:
working again now.
the fix for me was to reupload my backup to the sd, format then upload the required new build.
very odd...
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odd indeed...for me i had to reformat my sd card using my phone, didnt really make any sense to me but it worked

[Q] Booting Android off internal storage - WindowsMobile

This post is not about booting direct from nand without windows mobile.
I am running a very slim WM6.5 (Ozrom CleanEX) with 350meg available on storage.
The android rom I have chosen is NexusHD2 v1.1 total rom size is 186mb.
I edited the startup file to give me a IMG of 120meg.
I figured total of the rom 186meg and 120meg IMG will fit on the phones internal storage. I only actually have 60meg of applications I want to install.
I copied the files to internal storage (not sdcard)
and launched Haret.
It failed and said I needed rootfs on the root of my sdcard.
After coping the file to the root of the internal memory it still failed.
root of the sdcard it still failed.
copying rootfs to the android folder on the sdcard did allowing it to pass this error.
It then said building .img and once that passed it says
Failed to mount the SDcard. cannot continue /bin/sh: cant access tty, job control turned off.
After rebooting I inspected the sdcard and it showed that the data file was created in the android folder on the sdcard not on the internal memory. This is not what I was aiming for...
I tried launching haret again from internal memory and again I get
Failed to mount the SDcard. cannot continue /bin/sh: cant access tty, job control turned off.
Is there a way to overcome this?
Im sure this has been attempted before but could not find the correct search terms for google or XDA.. HD2/Android/Dualboot/nand/internal storage etc

I could be way off base since I'm just a regular jack off and not a dev but I'd be willing to bet there's some syntax problems going on. All the builds on here are designed to run on an sd card so haret's probably looking for everything it needs there.

I think you must be right!! I've done much fidling, as much searching as I can on the topic... Spouse I just sit back and wait for native nand... But I kind of like having winmo as well
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA App

Then why not just use the SD method? If your having problems with battery or performance keep trying different builds, roms and radios. It took me a long time but now I have got it spot on.
Also these builds are developed for SD cards, if your not a dev let them get on with developing something to run off internal memory and spend your time researching and experimenting! But with your sd card! You don't wanna brick your phone!
You may know all this already
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA App

i was hoping to achieve the same thing on my TMO HD2. I think the prob is that our internal storage is not mounted when android takes over. so, i think mounting the internal storage would be needed first before we can achieve what we want. which is to run android off internal storage.

[Q] Phone flashing itself.

I thought i will have no problems now and nothing will suprise me with my HTC, but of course i was wrong =)
As i solved my last problem with Google Play, now once my phone weirdly rebooted by itself, and when i loaded android it looked like it flashed itself cause i had Menu as i flash rom to set language and stuff.
I was like "wut.." but ok, i set my phone again, and then it started to download all apps i had before, but every dll ended up with an instant error
"There is insufficient space on the device."
I also looked at the App settings, selected All and huh, Internal Storage status bar was all grey with no info how much space is left.
I downloaded ROM (tytung's 4.2.2 ..) again through my phone, and tried to flash it again, but it said i have no EXT space, so i had to wipe my SD card in CWM and create 1gb ext partition.
Then it was all good, i downloaded all my apps without any problem and i was happy, but next day it was same thing, it rebooted with Setting Language Screen and afterall i have no storage. Now downloading tytung's ROM again to flash it...
Seem like an endless fun :crying:
Any solutions?
PS. I am on holidays, and i have no connection with PC, only phone + web.
#EDIT
Oh, when i try to flash ROM i get an error:
Code:
Mounting SD-EXT failed!
Please Create an EXT4 partition
(mmcblk0p2) on the SD Card First
Error Messages:
mount: mounting /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 on /NativeSD failed: Invalid Argument"
Making partition will help, but i bet that tomorrow i will have the same situation...

I was going to suggest changing the SD card. Or it could be the same problem with robbie, try to remove the sd card and clean the contacts on the sd, and clean the slot of the phone if possible.

Marvlesz said:
I was going to suggest changing the SD card. Or it could be the same problem with robbie, try to remove the sd card and clean the contacts on the sd, and clean the slot of the phone if possible.
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Thanks, i just caught myself that last time i partitioned EXT i set swap to 32mb or sth, and it should be 0 ofc, will see if that will or won't help, then i will try with sd card.
#EDIT, yay, it's stuck on green HTC logo now!
#EDIT2: couldnt stand this, deleted everything, gonna hard reset or wait till i get usb to install new rom ... anyway phone useless for now.