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[Q] Using ROM Manager to Partition External SD Card

So... I was trying to partition my external SD card for some ext3 action, and I went through ROM Manager. After booting me into recovery and repartitioning my "SD Card", I think it actually repartitioned my internal SD card because now my device won't boot and I'm trying to reimage through Odin. Has anyone done this yet? Am I screwed? I get through all of the boot animations but it seems to be hanging on the GalaxyS animation and then goes to a black screen but the onscreen keys are lighting up....
Should I try booting into recovery and wiping? During the Odin process it tries that, and it shows that the wipe fails in red. Is there any way to restore the internal SD card partitions to default?
Thanks! If I'm missing a sticky or thread somewhere else, let me know. I've been all over this forum since the device was released so I feel I'm fairly familiar with the processes involved.

It wiped the internal SD card and so I can't even get into ClockWork recovery or try to reset factory defaults.

Oh well. Lesson learned. If anyone else is thinking about doing this in ROM Manager, DONT. YOU WILL BRICK YOUR PHONE. Took it to the store and they gave me a new one. It was doing some other funky stuff too, so I don't feel too bad.

Oh I just wrote the whole thread for fixing it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=745547

Mount SD Card

Im having a problem mounting my SD card on my Xoom (external SD card).
It doesnt work at all for CWM, which is strange when normally it should pick it up.
Any hints or tips on trying to get this work?
Specs; Euroxoom 3G

If you have an android phone, format it with that. If not, download an SD card formatting program to your computer, and format it there.

lol i think you misunderstood, but mind you i never put it.... there is no issue with the formatting etc, ....
Problem is the xoom does not detect and Micro Sd card i have, i dont think its a faulty port etc, but i thought motorola hadnt released a software update for it to work? yet people can still flash stuff through CWM?

the sd card slot is activated using tiamat kernel in 1.3.2 or newer

you need to install one of the kernel mod packs. See post 3 of the tiamat 1.4.1 kernel post in the development forum. They'll also get your charging light working.

fkofilee said:
Im having a problem mounting my SD card on my Xoom (external SD card).
It doesnt work at all for CWM, which is strange when normally it should pick it up.
Any hints or tips on trying to get this work?
Specs; Euroxoom 3G
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Did you root your Xoom, and install the Tiamat kernel?
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im trying to install the Tiamat Kernal... lol but to flash in CWM you need a working SD card slot xd

fkofilee said:
im trying to install the Tiamat Kernal... lol but to flash in CWM you need a working SD card slot xd
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You can't flash a kernel from CWM until after you have rooted and pushed a custom kernel via ADB first. There are many threads in the development section on how to do this. Look for one that matches your "Euroxoom ". Or, if yours is a wifi only, there is a great tutorial by LanD Master in Q and A, for us noobs.
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meh i was trying to avoid pushing it, mind you i suppose its time to brush off those adb skills at work tomorrow lol

fkofilee said:
meh i was trying to avoid pushing it, mind you i suppose its time to brush off those adb skills at work tomorrow lol
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I didn't have a working sd card slot and I flashed the clockwork recovery last night. I read that clockwork has its own kernel which will detect the sd card. It didn't detect it at first but that was because I inserted the sd card AFTER I booted to CWM. I rebooted, with the sd card still in, and CWM recognized it. Then I loaded the tiamat kernel and flashed it.

Correct. You can infact flash clockworkmod recovery without having already installed a sdcard enabled kernel.
Technically the recovery image is a boot image - it contains it's own kernel and starts its operating system of a ram disk, due to this we can flash the recovery to the boot partition if we need to. (Useful if you screw up a kernel on the wifi models where you can't boot into recovery without doing "adb reboot recovery")
However, don't forget you need an external sdcard to use clockworkmod, the internal storage will not work.

[Q] Broken Micro SD Slot, How Can I Get Back to Stock?

The thread title sums it up. I am running cyan off of emmc. One day my sd card is popped out. When I try to push it in, it doesn't catch! Just slides in, makes somewhat of a click, and slides right back out.
So, I am stuck on this build, no memory hence no music. No video. Or limited music/video to the 5GIG internal. I can't download anything either.
So, I have searched and found some ADB threads but no walkthrough per-se. I must admit they are quite out of my know how. I have too say they are quite intimidating.
ANY help or pointers are most welcome and appreciated

Well, you're out of warranty per se, I mean they can't prove anything if you flash back to stock.
In regards to the sd card slot, there's no way of making it stay in to read?

Phatdawg said:
Well, you're out of warranty per se, I mean they can't prove anything if you flash back to stock.
In regards to the sd card slot, there's no way of making it stay in to read?
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that's the thing, I try and it doesn't work.
if I can get stock on I can have my dear nook again!

I guess you _might_ be able to save your stock nandroid backup into the emmc, then boot into recovery and install from that location.
Of course, if you screw it up, you're going to be hosed.
I imagine the pin for the sd card got bent into the slot itself, you might be able to fix it if you do a semi nook tear down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SVO2JCgqPM

Phatdawg said:
I guess you _might_ be able to save your stock nandroid backup into the emmc, then boot into recovery and install from that location.
Of course, if you screw it up, you're going to be hosed.
I imagine the pin for the sd card got bent into the slot itself, you might be able to fix it if you do a semi nook tear down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SVO2JCgqPM
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Emmc?! Maybe not. That I have never heard of.
Any ADB options? Anyone?

If you did not install CWR to eMMC, 8 interupted powerup cycles may work.
Turn off, hit the power button, and as soon as it starts to power up hit the power button again to turn it off before it gets completely started
8 times

moSess said:
Emmc?! Maybe not. That I have never heard of.
Any ADB options? Anyone?
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eMMC is your internal memory. Try the 8 failed boot method explained above.
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Technically, he should be able to usb mount his emmc, copy a nandroid there and then boot into recovery and flash the nandroid from there, no?

w8wca, my recovery is on emmc, so, no go
koopakid08, when i say i have never heard of it, it i meant flashing anything fron internal memory. I highly doubt it would work
Phatdawg, same thing. If i saw some post or thread about booting from internal on ANY device, i would try it out. I have not. As such i wont try it.
Thanks for the help though!
Anyone else???

moSess said:
The thread title sums it up. I am running cyan off of emmc. One day my sd card is popped out. When I try to push it in, it doesn't catch! Just slides in, makes somewhat of a click, and slides right back out.
So, I am stuck on this build, no memory hence no music. No video. Or limited music/video to the 5GIG internal. I can't download anything either.
So, I have searched and found some ADB threads but no walkthrough per-se. I must admit they are quite out of my know how. I have too say they are quite intimidating.
ANY help or pointers are most welcome and appreciated
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This EXACT situation happened to me YESTERDAY, and this is what I did to flash back to stock for a warranty return/repair:
1) I downloaded the stock 1.2 update .zip from this thread. This .zip has been modified to be flashable via CWM. There are two versions, one that retains CWM, and one that erases CWM in favor of stock recovery. If you're going to be sending your Nook in for repair/replacement, I would recommend the stock recovery version.
2) I mounted my micro SD via a standard SD adapter onto my laptop and copied the .zip from step 1 into the root directory (easier to find for later steps, but you could put it anywhere on the card).
3) This is the hard part: I then inserted the micro SD into the Nook's slot, and held it there with my left index fingernail. This hurt after a few minutes, but hey, no pain, no gain, right?
4) Holding the card in place, I booted into CWM, scrolled to "mounts and storage", and then "mount /sdcard". I then backed out to the main CWM menu and made a nandroid backup (this is optional).
5) After the nandroid completed, I selected "install zip from sdcard", then "choose zip from sdcard". I then scrolled to the zip I downloaded in step 1 and hit "n". This flashed the stock, unrooted system 1.2.
6) I probably should have done another factory reset at this point, but I didn't. I rebooted, and ended up in a bootloop on the Nook splash screen. Luckily, I was able to get into the stock recovery using the method from this post. I was able to perform a factory rest from the stock recovery, and BAM! I had myself a bone-stock non-rooted Nook Color that is all ready to be sent back to B&N for a warranty repair/replacement!
I hope this helps, it seems to have worked for me. Make sure to give that thread I linked to earlier a good look, those guys did some good work getting the update sorted out.
Oh, and be ready for a sore finger!
EDIT: If you don't have any way to mount your card in another device, you could probably use the sore finger method to hold the card in long enough to move the .zip over via USB.

Zennmaster said:
This EXACT situation happened to me YESTERDAY, and this is what I did to flash back to stock for a warranty return/repair:
1) I downloaded the stock 1.2 update .zip from this thread. This .zip has been modified to be flashable via CWM. There are two versions, one that retains CWM, and one that erases CWM in favor of stock recovery. If you're going to be sending your Nook in for repair/replacement, I would recommend the stock recovery version.
2) I mounted my micro SD via a standard SD adapter onto my laptop and copied the .zip from step 1 into the root directory (easier to find for later steps, but you could put it anywhere on the card).
3) This is the hard part: I then inserted the micro SD into the Nook's slot, and held it there with my left index fingernail. This hurt after a few minutes, but hey, no pain, no gain, right?
4) Holding the card in place, I booted into CWM, scrolled to "mounts and storage", and then "mount /sdcard". I then backed out to the main CWM menu and made a nandroid backup (this is optional).
5) After the nandroid completed, I selected "install zip from sdcard", then "choose zip from sdcard". I then scrolled to the zip I downloaded in step 1 and hit "n". This flashed the stock, unrooted system 1.2.
6) I probably should have done another factory reset at this point, but I didn't. I rebooted, and ended up in a bootloop on the Nook splash screen. Luckily, I was able to get into the stock recovery using the method from this post. I was able to perform a factory rest from the stock recovery, and BAM! I had myself a bone-stock non-rooted Nook Color that is all ready to be sent back to B&N for a warranty repair/replacement!
I hope this helps, it seems to have worked for me. Make sure to give that thread I linked to earlier a good look, those guys did some good work getting the update sorted out.
Oh, and be ready for a sore finger!
EDIT: If you don't have any way to mount your card in another device, you could probably use the sore finger method to hold the card in long enough to move the .zip over via USB.
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Thank you for this. I kind of came up with a similar fix. I used some scotch tape to fatten up the end of my sd and achieved the same result. I was able to flash this -->http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690&highlight=stock
It worked great. I just wish there was a method to flash the Nook without the sd. I know this is one of its greatest strengths. Just if you have a sd hardware problem, you're toast

Cannot get back to OS.

So yesterday I rooted my Atrix and loaded CM7 on there. Everything was going fine. I then started seeing errors saying that my SD was unmounted or not found while in the OS. I tried looking it up and all I could find was that I should try formatting so I wiped everything off it, didn't work. So now I went into ClockworkMod recovery to reset to factory and now it's not booting up to the OS at all. It just sticks at the logo screen where it says "Unlocked". I am able to get back to recovery screen but that's it. I can't access the SD card at all because it's empty and it can't find it.
Anyone have any ideas as to how to fix this?

Reinstall CM7. you can enable USB mode from recovery, just copy the CM7 zip back on from your computer, and you should be good to go.

Znichols513 said:
So yesterday I rooted my Atrix and loaded CM7 on there. Everything was going fine. I then started seeing errors saying that my SD was unmounted or not found while in the OS. I tried looking it up and all I could find was that I should try formatting so I wiped everything off it, didn't work. So now I went into ClockworkMod recovery to reset to factory and now it's not booting up to the OS at all. It just sticks at the logo screen where it says "Unlocked". I am able to get back to recovery screen but that's it. I can't access the SD card at all because it's empty and it can't find it.
Anyone have any ideas as to how to fix this?
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Did you wipe the internal or external?
If I were you I would do a complete fastboot wipe and flash another ROM. That way you eliminate a bunch of possible problems.

When I try to mount USB storage, it says "Unable to write to ums lunfile (No such file or directory)"
Also, I wiped the internal one. I don't have an external SD. And how do I do a fastboot wipe?

Do you think it might work if I got an external SD card and put the files on there? Then try to flash CM7 from it?

Need Stock-i500-VZW-Kernel.tar.md5

Hosed my Fascinate by trying to flash a recovery through Odin -> The recovery also had a kernel in the file that I didn't realize. Phone attempts to boot then reboots into recovery. I would prefer not to do a factory reset until I try reflashing the right kernel.
I am aware of this thread that used to have the file I need, but evidently the guy has removed it from his Dropbox now. Does anyone have a copy they can throw up for me? I think I could use the recovery image, too, but it is a little bit easier to find so don't go to great lengths for the recovery.
Will reflashing the correct kernel even fix my problem? I haven't touched /system. Should all my stuff still be there when I get back in?

Skyroket said:
Hosed my Fascinate by trying to flash a recovery through Odin -> The recovery also had a kernel in the file that I didn't realize. Phone attempts to boot then reboots into recovery. I would prefer not to do a factory reset until I try reflashing the right kernel.
I am aware of this thread that used to have the file I need, but evidently the guy has removed it from his Dropbox now. Does anyone have a copy they can throw up for me? I think I could use the recovery image, too, but it is a little bit easier to find so don't go to great lengths for the recovery.
Will reflashing the correct kernel even fix my problem? I haven't touched /system. Should all my stuff still be there when I get back in?
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If you have access to your sd card via windows, look for http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1459905 on kernels. The stock is in post 1 at the bottom with the rest of the links. Download it, copy to your sd card and install it via recovery and it should work. If not, find droidstyle's guide, download the CWM 2.5 flash that in Odin, then install kernel.
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Edit: Got it. Thanks!! It's booting up fully!!
Nothing below this line matters anymore, but I am leaving it for Google arrivals. The problem I list in this post was caused by excessive copying of the files. I first downloaded the file from the internet, copied it from Firefox downloads folder to my desktop, copied it up to my LAN server, copied it over to my Motorola Droid Bionic SD card, unmounted the SD card and put it into the Fascinate for installation.
The RIGHT way that worked was removing the network component. I just plugged the Bionic into the PC and mounted USB storage mode, copied files over, unplugged, let the SD card remount on the Bionic, manually unmount on the Bionic, remove the card and put it into the Fascinate.
Thanks for being patient with me. Your thread is obvious at the top of the forum but I ignored that method because it was flashing zips in recovery, which I couldn't get into at the time. I got the CWM 2.5 to work, and I did make a successful nandroid backup (will a factory reset restore the kernel, now that I have a backup?).
I did try to flash both versions of that stock kernel kernel-eh03-GB.zip and kernel-eh03-GB_signed.zip and get the same error on both. I even tried with a different SD card:
-- Installing: SDCARD:kernel-eh03-GB.zip
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
E:Can't open /sdcard/kernel-eh03-GB.zip
(bad)
Installation aborted.​
I've tried downloading the files again, too. I wonder if it's worth noting that I did previously try to mount the SD card to Windows from CWM. It mounted, but when I tried to copy the file over, Windows told me the media was write-protected. WTF? Haven't seen that since floppies.
I think I'm going to call it a night and if I don't hear anything else on this in the morning I'll just do a factory reset and see if that restores the kernel. Then I can reinstall CWM and restore my backup. *long sigh*
Thanks again, man.

Skyroket said:
Thanks for being patient with me. Your thread is obvious at the top of the forum but I ignored that method because it was flashing zips in recovery, which I couldn't get into at the time. I got the CWM 2.5 to work, and I did make a successful nandroid backup (will a factory reset restore the kernel, now that I have a backup?).
I did try to flash both versions of that stock kernel kernel-eh03-GB.zip and kernel-eh03-GB_signed.zip and get the same error on both. I even tried with a different SD card:
-- Installing: SDCARD:kernel-eh03-GB.zip
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
E:Can't open /sdcard/kernel-eh03-GB.zip
(bad)
Installation aborted.​
I've tried downloading the files again, too. I wonder if it's worth noting that I did previously try to mount the SD card in CWM. It mounted, but when I tried to copy the file over, Windows told me the media was write-protected. WTF? Haven't seen that since floppies.
I think I'm going to call it a night and if I don't hear anything else on this in the morning I'll just do a factory reset and see if that restores the kernel. Then I can reinstall CWM and restore my backup. *long sigh*
Thanks again, man.
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Thats alright, dont worry about it man. Yeah it does sound like you need a factory reset. your phone isnt accepting the download. for ****s and giggles tho, try not using CWM to put the file onto your SD card, and plug it directly into your computer and redownload and transfer that way and see if it takes, if not then you'll definatly have to factory reset. Go here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1238070 Follow section 4 to return to stock. That should fix it.

Please note my previous edit. Thanks, again!

Skyroket said:
Please note my previous edit. Thanks, again!
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Lol didn't see that till after I clicked reply. No problem. Glad you got it working bro
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