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"removed external sd card"

Ok, I have a Samsung Fascinate.
Rooted, CWM, ROM Manager, Root Explorer, Titanium Backup, SetCPU, ASTRO, JT 1000 voodoo kernel with animation.
Ok the problem is and I am almost certain that what caused it is flashing JT's 1000 kernel over top the original 0.2 JT voodoo kernel. However I had read in the forums that people have done this with no problem and I believe in the install thread it says you CAN do it with indeed no problems. However soon after doing the flash everything was working great and I took a couple pictures at dinner which is how I know it was working. Later last night I went to take another picture while out and it wouldn't let me because the SD card wasn't being detected.
I have a sd card reader but not with me and won't until I get home later tonight but I figured maybe until then I can get some help to how to fix it for when I do get home.
I have took a 8gb mini sd from my girlfriends HTC Eris and put it in just to see if it would read which it does perfectly fine. However you plug my 16gb back into the phone and it doesn't even recognize plugging it into the phone.
Any ideas?

all the views and no replies?
any ideas would help guys!

Sounds like your sd card is corrupted. Did you try the card in another phone? Try to reformat the card.
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Copperhed said:
Sounds like your sd card is corrupted. Did you try the card in another phone? Try to reformat the card.
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the back up that I made and all, wouldn't that be on the sd card though?
I would think trying to save the card would be a better choice at first eh?

anyone else?

vecchioni27 said:
anyone else?
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If the card works in another device, then I would wonder if the problem could be voodoo specific, such as the 0 internal memory issue. As far as I know, the only fix for that is the complete voodoo removal process, and a wipe in both stock recovery and cwm.
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Daswolven said:
If the card works in another device, then I would wonder if the problem could be voodoo specific, such as the 0 internal memory issue. As far as I know, the only fix for that is the complete voodoo removal process, and a wipe in both stock recovery and cwm.
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I tried to put the card into my sd card reader on the computer and it wont read it...assuming its a bad card. When its in the phone the sd card reader slot heats up too a massive HOT temp really quick within second and doesn't do anything. I guess I am gonna unroot using another sd card and take the phone to verizon and be like wtf....

I un-rooted and am gonna take the phone to the verizon store.
I plugged a 1GB from my old phone into the sd card slot and re-flashed CWM to see if I just removed the kernel's if maybe that would fix the sd card but I am almost positive its the sd card that is fried somehow...But it put the phone back to stock except it was rooted...not sure how that happened but i guess everything was on the sd card that I had done???
So confused but basically I am just gonna goto the store get a new card when they realize mine is bad and then re-do everything...Just never flashing a kernel on top of another one again whether people say its safe or not!

vecchioni27 said:
I un-rooted and am gonna take the phone to the verizon store.
I plugged a 1GB from my old phone into the sd card slot and re-flashed CWM to see if I just removed the kernel's if maybe that would fix the sd card but I am almost positive its the sd card that is fried somehow...But it put the phone back to stock except it was rooted...not sure how that happened but i guess everything was on the sd card that I had done???
So confused but basically I am just gonna goto the store get a new card when they realize mine is bad and then re-do everything...Just never flashing a kernel on top of another one again whether people say its safe or not!
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I can assure you that had nothing to do with your card. Sometimes you get a bad lot. I order about one a month for various things, and have had to RMA here and there. I swapped the one my phone adopted with for an 8gb class 10 anyway, because the stock are class 2.
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Daswolven said:
I can assure you that had nothing to do with your card. Sometimes you get a bad lot. I order about one a month for various things, and have had to RMA here and there. I swapped the one my phone adopted with for an 8gb class 10 anyway, because the stock are class 2.
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I am a bit confused...it sounds like you said it had nothing to do with the card but then went on to say how you RMAed a few here and there and such...lol

vecchioni27 said:
I am a bit confused...it sounds like you said it had nothing to do with the card but then went on to say how you RMAed a few here and there and such...lol
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Lol. I mean to say the kernel flashing cannot cause the sd card to fail. The card was probably bad to begin with. A bogus card will simply fail, sometimes after functioning fine for awhile.
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Daswolven said:
Lol. I mean to say the kernel flashing cannot cause the sd card to fail. The card was probably bad to begin with. A bogus card will simply fail, sometimes after functioning fine for awhile.
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oh ok, makes sense now...however a bad sd card pretty much screws me over because that is what held everything on it including the kernel and such along with all my apps?

vecchioni27 said:
oh ok, makes sense now...however a bad sd card pretty much screws me over because that is what held everything on it including the kernel and such along with all my apps?
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No. the install file for the kernel, but that installs it on the phone. Apps are stored on the internal memory, not the sd card. Pretty much, it just holds your music, pictures, application data in some instances (not the app itself), and any files you need to flash.
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Daswolven said:
No. the install file for the kernel, but that installs it on the phone. Apps are stored on the internal memory, not the sd card. Pretty much, it just holds your music, pictures, application data in some instances (not the app itself), and any files you need to flash.
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So when I get my new sd card tomorrow and load launcher pro back onto the phone, my apps should still be on the phone??
what if I can't even download launcher pro due to this problem of it not letting me download an app because it says I don't have enough internal memory available...

Whoa.
Now that problem is the internal memory issue, not the external sd card. That is voodoo related, and the post about completely removing voodoo addresses it. I ran into that once, and it took about soften minutes to fix following those instructions.
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vecchioni27 said:
So when I get my new sd card tomorrow and load launcher pro back onto the phone, my apps should still be on the phone??
what if I can't even download launcher pro due to this problem of it not letting me download an app because it says I don't have enough internal memory available...
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If its internal and not your sdcard here is your solution.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=804784

nemesis2all said:
If its internal and not your sdcard here is your solution.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=804784
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awesome, thanks!

Erase SDCARD??

Ok, so I'm running out of space on my sdcard and I'm wondering if I can erase all the files on my sdcard and not screw up my root and other rooted privileges or my whole phone for that matter?
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I formatted yesterday and everything is fine.
Sent while sitting on the toilet.

Be aware, if you start erasing stuff, your apps/system wont work correctly. The OS stores a lot of stuff on there, especially apps that have been moved to the sd card.

tjwilk said:
Ok, so I'm running out of space on my sdcard and I'm wondering if I can erase all the files on my sdcard and not screw up my root and other rooted privileges or my whole phone for that matter?
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Good question. At least for this noob. What can I delete? What HAS to stay? This is really good to know being that I have been toying with the idea of formatting so I can use apps2sd.
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What I did was move all my apps back to the phone (if you have some on SD card) and formatted.
Sent while sitting on the toilet.

After resetting my phone to stock I formatted my SD Card and did a PGP wipe against it.
Phone didn't seem to notice.

Does it come with an SD card?

Hello,
I was wondering if the nook comes with an SD card... as i suppose you need one to root it, right?
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Fekish said:
Hello,
I was wondering if the nook comes with an SD card... as i suppose you need one to root it, right?
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No it doesnt, it has 8GB internal memory on the device, but you need to buy one. I just got a new NC yesterday and im waiting for my 8GB sd card in the mail so i can start hacking it.

cool thanks
but i suppose later, we can put in the internal memory, any files/books that we want right?

Fekish said:
cool thanks
but i suppose later, we can put in the internal memory, any files/books that we want right?
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Yes you can.

Fekish said:
cool thanks
but i suppose later, we can put in the internal memory, any files/books that we want right?
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In fact, the CM7 on SD uses the internal memory for ephemeral user data (dalvik cache, etc), so there's more SD available.

SD Card Won't Mount (CM7.2)

Hi. I am running Cyanogenmod 7.2 stable on my Evo Shift.
A few days ago, out of nowhere my phone began displaying "SD card safe to remove, You can safely remove SD card." I removed the card, removed the battery, blew on the card old school NES style, but the issue remains whenever I reboot the phone. None of my apps that are on the sd card will work and I can't access anything on the card. Is there any way to fix this or at least recover the data off the card? I have not tried to access the card in a card reader on my PC yet.
Thanks in advance for any help regarding this issue.

Your SD card could be toast I've gone through a few of them running app 2 sd
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could try reformating it on your computer

+1 on trying to reformat your SD Card. You ca try SD Card Formatter. Works quite well. I've attached it below.

Although formatting your sd card will erase all your data, it may be the only way to make it usable again
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prboy1969 said:
+1 on trying to reformat your SD Card. You ca try SD Card Formatter. Works quite well. I've attached it below.
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What's wrong with formatting it in recovery?
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Turkbot, are you implying that App2SD is the cause of this? Should I avoid App2SD in the future? There's no way I could have all the apps I want on my phone without it or an alternative.
Everyone else, thanks for all the replies. I guess I will just reformat. Luckily I backed up fairly recently.

casper312 said:
Turkbot, are you implying that App2SD is the cause of this? Should I avoid App2SD in the future? There's no way I could have all the apps I want on my phone without it or an alternative.
Everyone else, thanks for all the replies. I guess I will just reformat. Luckily I backed up fairly recently.
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Well I tried to partition one of my 16 gig sd cards and it ****ed up in cwm and I had to throw it away but that doesn't happen very often
Edit: really? You can't cuss on here? What are we, like 12 years old now... That's lame
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I've been running a2sd of some kind for the past couple of years on different devices. From xdandroid for the tp1 (does that count? Everything is run from sd) to the moment, to the optimuss, to my shift. If not running a2sd, then running link2sd. I have yet to kill an sdcard, using the same sd on half of these devices. Can it kill an sdcard quicker? Yes. Will it? For some I'm sure but not everyone. It def. Will wear it out faster but for the most part, it should last longer than the device in my experience.
However on my lg I did have an issue with corruption and had to run a script every so often (unintended battery pulls were the biggest reason). If you google a2sd for the optimus s on androidcentral, I have that script posted to fix sd errors. If I find it ill post. May help your situtation, may not lol.
e2fsck -yf /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 is the script I used. Our mmcblk0p2 is different however. Hopefully someone can chime in with the correct location.
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sparksco said:
What's wrong with formatting it in recovery?
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Nothing. It's just that I prefer to use SD Formatter. I've run into an issue once or twice Formatting the SD Card in Recovery.
TEAM MiK
MikROMs Since 3/13/11

prboy1969 said:
Nothing. It's just that I prefer to use SD Formatter. I've run into an issue once or twice Formatting the SD Card in Recovery.
TEAM MiK
MikROMs Since 3/13/11
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I understand completely, one time I formated my sdcard and I never thought I would get it to mount again until I popped it in a card reader and put some stuff on it. Seems like blank sdcards don't like to mount sometimes.
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[Q] How can I do a factor reset and wipe?

I want to wipe my nexus 4 so that's its fresh and has nothing on it how it was when i got it. When I do a factory reset and wipe all it still keeps some files i put on there.
What am I missing?

Do you mean SD files? A factory reset won't touch those. You should format SD in recovery.

android88 said:
Do you mean SD files? A factory reset won't touch those. You should format SD in recovery.
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Okay perfect what gets formatted? Which files stay
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T89 said:
Okay perfect what gets formatted? Which files stay
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None on your SD.
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do a factory reset and format sd in recovery

If you haven't noticed, there is no physical "SD" - so if I format "SD" right now - will my system still run?
I've asked google and it's not getting me anywhere ;(

T89 said:
If you haven't noticed, there is no SD - so if I format SD right now - will my system still run?
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Yes it will. Don't worry. I formatted my SD the other day.
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android88 said:
Yes it will. Don't worry. I formatted my SD the other day.
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Very helpful, thank you - one more thing - I'm assuming I will lose all nandroid backups, music, photos correct? - Apps will stay?

T89 said:
Very helpful, thank you - one more thing - I'm assuming I will lose all nandroid backups, music, photos correct? - Apps will stay?
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Correct. You'll lose all SD data (pictures, music, Nandroid's, ROM .zips, etc.) but keep your apps and such.

Okay perfect - so if the apps stay im guessing i can just use rom manager to get my rom again etc, does my flashed recovery stay?. Its just wiping physical data ive put on there.

T89 said:
Okay perfect - so if the apps stay im guessing i can just use rom manager to get my rom again etc, does my flashed recovery stay?. Its just wiping physical data ive put on there.
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Yes, your recovery stays.

Thank you, here goes nothing!