[Q] Can't load any roms from CWM, "can't mount /sdcard" - Fascinate General

I know I am not the only one... over the last two days I have done ALOT of reading in this forum and others. I have seen other with this problem, but I am not seeing solutions.
I used DL09.tar.md5, the "Official" release from the development forums. Then I rooted. No problem. I can use various file managers to browse the SD card, no problem. I can even install apk's. Most of the time I can see the SD card from the computer, no problem. But every single time I try to load any .zip through the clockwork manager, I get:
can't mount /sdcard
in CWM recovery, I even get this when I try to browse the sdcard for .zip
Please, someone tell me there is something obvious I am missing. Is my sdcard just bad? Am I just going insane? I really just want to stop fighting with it and be able to get a stable build! but I need to be able to use .zips through CWM!

i had this same issue when i was upgrading to DL30. For some reason when it couldn't mount the SD card I said "screw it" and physically ejected the SD card then reinserted, it worked. Sometimes it makes the Recovery boot, but others it didnt.

now, randomly, after removing CWM and redoing it it worked for a bit... failing again though...

Make sure you have the latest cwm. There is a new non voodoo one.. I had some issues last week.. It was telling me the card was busy.. I used the di01 md5 tar to odin back to stock and that seemed to fix
Rocking dj05 and jt's voodoo 5

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So I installed clockworkmod

As the title says, I installed clockworkmod, but don't really know what to do next. When I installed it, it basically erased my nand and left me with no OS. From what I gather, this is right, and the machine would have been ready at that point to run update.zip files off of the sd card? But I can't get the computer to recognize the device at this point to place files on the sdcard. In addition, I had formatted my sdcard as was suggested, so I was stuck in clockworkmod, with a blank sdcard and no way to access it. Did I do something wrong? I'm sorry to sound like such a n00b, but I am trying to teach myself as much as I can about all of this with what I can glean from these forums, but this whole clockworkmod thing seems to get glossed over. I am also a bit confused as to what nandroid backup is. Thanks for the help.
You can mount your SD card in CWM, browse the menu a bit and you'll find it. Then copy your build.zip (it doesn't have to be called update.zip persé) to your SD card, unmount again and run the zip updater, all done through CWM. Easy as pie!
Nandroid backup is a full system backup to your SD card. It is advised to take one before flashing a new rom. If something goes wrong or you just don't like it, you can restore the nandroid backup and all your apps, settings, texts, ... literally everything are back to normal. Nandroid backups and restores are all done through CWM too.
What I appreciate most about having a recovery is that you don't need a computer anymore. Just download a rom to your SD card with your phone, boot into CWM, flash it, and voila, you're good to go. Got some sudden troubles? Just temp restore that nandroid backup from a couple of days ago and you'll manage till a computer is within reach. And so on...
Edit: I haven't slept for 40 hours, it's ****ing hard to read every word of a text right now so I'm just picking some and making the best out of it. I hope I correctly understood what you asked, if not I'll try again tomorrow.
To be honest, I'm not 100% steady when it comes to ClockWork Mod. I installed the excellent NexusHD2 Gingerbread NAND ROM, and that is "ClockWork Mod ready". I've used it for backing up my current build before trying another one, and then restoring everything afterwards, and I've also installed a couple of updates (GPS fix, YouTube delay fix).
I don't know about retro-fitting it to a ROM that you already have flashed on your device. As you say, you lose your current ROM, so I don't see how that's useful. (That's probably my lack of understanding of CWM, and I look forward to more educated responses on this thread!)
My recommendations would be to either spend the next couple of days reading up about CWM and find out exactly where you stand with it, or do what I did and just get a ROM that has it built in.
thanks guys. I think I'm figuring it out. If I have any more probs, you'll hear from me LOL!!

[solved] need help recovering epic 4g after trying to install a ROM

Sadly, I have goofed up my phone right out of the gate. I do not think it is bricked, but I'm unsure how to proceed and more than a little spooked by how quickly things went from great to non-functioning.
I took my stock Epic 4G and followed a tutorial to install Froyo. That went without a hitch. I then used noobnl's one-click script method to root the phone, and that also seemed to work well.
Then I tried to install the Nebula ROM with DK28 modem and pit, using Odin3 v1.61. Since then, my phone will not boot past the Samsung logo. I can still get into Clockwork, but repeating the ROM installation process has not made any difference. I then noticed that I'm running Clockwork Mod Recovery v2.5.1.0, when Nebula apparently requires v2.5.1.5 or newer.
So can anybody help me fix what I've broken? I've tried searching the forum for this problem, but have not been able to find anyone with my particular form of stupid.
Thanks in advance for suggestions.
Cincinnatux said:
Sadly, I have goofed up my phone right out of the gate. I do not think it is bricked, but I'm unsure how to proceed and more than a little spooked by how quickly things went from great to non-functioning.
I took my stock Epic 4G and followed a tutorial to install Froyo. That went without a hitch. I then used noobnl's one-click script method to root the phone, and that also seemed to work well.
Then I tried to install the Nebula ROM with DK28 modem and pit, using Odin3 v1.61. Since then, my phone will not boot past the Samsung logo. I can still get into Clockwork, but repeating the ROM installation process has not made any difference. I then noticed that I'm running Clockwork Mod Recovery v2.5.1.0, when Nebula apparently requires v2.5.1.5 or newer.
So can anybody help me fix what I've broken? I've tried searching the forum for this problem, but have not been able to find anyone with my particular form of stupid.
Thanks in advance for suggestions.
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Odin back to this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=794138 then root using this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=770388 then install this if you want cw3 and ext4 if not skip it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=897612 but check on the rom ur flashing because most rom are now using ext4 and cw3. Also if you want and ur rom has the option for no journaling flash this before flashing a rom http://code.google.com/p/bonsai/downloads/detail?name=ext4-format_nojournal-1.1.3.zip&can=2&q= . I know Bonsai and Midnight roms have the option for it. Well best of luck to you and if you have any question or concerns please post them here and ill or one the many helpfull people here at xda will assist you.
Thanks, asj2583, for the quick response. For whatever reason, it did not occur to me to try putting the phone in download mode!
So to get the phone back on-track, I:
1. Started Odin3 v1.61
2. Removed the SD card from the phone
3. Plugged the Samsung USB cable from the phone to the computer (which is running 32-bit Windows Vista)
4. Clicked on 'PDA' in Odin3, then selected the Froyo TAR that had worked before, then I clicked on 'START.'
5. Let Odin3 do its thing, and now my phone is back up and running unrooted Froyo.
Moving forward, I:
1. went here and downloaded One Click Root 2.5.5.
2. On the phone, went into Menu/Settings/Applications and enabled 'Unknown sources,' then unplugged the USB cable and clicked on /Development to enable USB debugging and Stay Awake.
3. I plugged the USB cable back into the phone and ran the 'run.bat' file I extracted from the One Click Root 2.5.5 download. In short order my phone rebooted into rooted Froyo. (confirmed by going into Applications and seeing that 'Superuser' is installed)
Now it's time to set up CW3 and ext4:
1. I went here and downloaded a different One Click Root (anyone know if I could have used this instead of 2.5.5?).
2. Again, with USB debugging enabled and the USB cable plugged in, I clicked on 'run.bat' extracted from the One Click Root CWM3 download. After a brief wait, the phone rebooted. Theoretically, at this point I have Clockwork Mod 3.0.0.5 and my phone can handle ext4 filing. (Speaking of ext4, I thought that was intended for handling LARGE files on teranyte-plus HDDs. How is it the right choice for a smartphone?)
And to try a new ROM:
1. I went here and downloaded CyanogenMod 6.2 prebeta 14 and saved it to the root directory of my phone's SD card.
2. Powered down the phone, and reinserted the SD card.
3. Powered up into ClockworkMod Recovery. The screen showed that it was running v3.0.0.5. ClockworkMod automatically checked for ext4 but failed to mount. ClockworkMod suspected my files are still in rfs (admittedly, I never reformatted my SD card to ext4). ClockworkMod created a backup named 'before-ext4-convert-1296478915' in case I need to restore. At this point, I found myself in ClockworkMod's menu.
4. In ClockworkMod, I ,ped data/factory reset 3 times, cache partition 3 times and, under /Advanced, wiped Dalvik cache 3 times. I then went back to install zip from SD card and chose the CyanoGen Mod I wanted to try, but it failed. ClockworkMod noted that Amend scripting (update-script) is no longer supported and that I need to switch to Edify scripting (updater-script and update-binary) to create working update zip packages. So I went back to my SD card and told ClockworkMod to install gapps-hdpi-20101218-EPICv1.0.3.zip, which completed without error. Then I told ClockworkMod to install NebulaMod. The phone rebooted and all seems well.
Thanks! I sure was stuck last night, and just needed a nudge in the right direction.
Whoah. Whatever you do, don't follow my advice. This just bricked the phone. It will not even power up any more. Damn.
Correction. Not bricked. Just really, really scary. Thanks to Koadic I'm back at unrooted Froyo. I think maybe I'll stay here for a while.
Cincinnatux said:
(Speaking of ext4, I thought that was intended for handling LARGE files on teranyte-plus HDDs. How is it the right choice for a smartphone?)
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Ext4 wasn't intended solely for handling large files. It made some changed to ext3 that allows handling of larger files and also increases the subdirectory limit, which makes it suitable large files or large disks. Ext4 also added journaling. These are not the reasons we use ext4 on our phones. I think all of our ext4 roms mount the disks with the noatime flag, and many people are running the no-journal mod. This makes ext4 act more like ext2 with the ability to allocate extents instead of individual block.
"Amend scripting (update-script) is no longer supported and that I need to switch to Edify scripting (updater-script and update-binary) to create working update zip packages."
My phone also says this when I try to install the Truly-Epic rom. I'm on DK28 like the rom says to be on, and on CWM3 and EXT4...yet...it doesn't want to install. Anyone know what for or what might be any problems?
how long did it take for your phone to power up after rooting with ext4 and cwm3? mine has been at it for a while now. i flashed back to stock dk28 using odin and did the process over and it gets stuck backing up my information and just keeps creating before ext4 back ups til my memory is gone

MIUI Uninstall problems

Hi,
Yesterday I installed MIUI RC5b, and had the external sd error. I read around and found that if you get a garbled screen after the bootloader, you have to downgrade it because you have a gingerbread one. That was my problem since I come from JVK, so I flashed EZBase and that fixed it.
I was getting the Cyanogenmod logo after the bootloader one, but still, I had no external sd, so I decided to flash a Doc's Kitchen rom back. After that, the phone gets stuck in the boot screen, does not even get to the boot animation.
I flashed a clean JM9 firmware, and got no problems, but if I install CWM and flash anything else, it locks again. From CWM, I cannot mount /system /data or /cache, because I get a "Cannot mount /system: !" error message.
I've also tried applying / removing lagfixes, and flashing EZBase and upgrading to the kitchen rom.
Reinstalling MIUI I got "SD Card damaged" notification, but everything else works fine.
I'm pretty out of ideas here. I've been reading around and haven't found anything similar.
By the way, MIUI rocks. I just wish I could solve the external SD problem and I would use it forever.
Anyone has any tips?
Thanks.
JaviLoL said:
Hi,
Yesterday I installed MIUI RC5b, and had the external sd error. I read around and found that if you get a garbled screen after the bootloader, you have to downgrade it because you have a gingerbread one. That was my problem since I come from JVK, so I flashed EZBase and that fixed it.
I was getting the Cyanogenmod logo after the bootloader one, but still, I had no external sd, so I decided to flash a Doc's Kitchen rom back. After that, the phone gets stuck in the boot screen, does not even get to the boot animation.
I flashed a clean JM9 firmware, and got no problems, but if I install CWM and flash anything else, it locks again. From CWM, I cannot mount /system /data or /cache, because I get a "Cannot mount /system: !" error message.
I've also tried applying / removing lagfixes, and flashing EZBase and upgrading to the kitchen rom.
Reinstalling MIUI I got "SD Card damaged" notification, but everything else works fine.
I'm pretty out of ideas here. I've been reading around and haven't found anything similar.
By the way, MIUI rocks. I just wish I could solve the external SD problem and I would use it forever.
Anyone has any tips?
Thanks.
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Could you try to use another sdcard?
I think you should try to reinstall again. Follow the guide provided by galnet or itskapil.
Sent from my GT-I9000
I have installed RC6, and I have exactly the same problem.
When I insert the microsd, I get a "damaged sd card" notification telling me I have to format it. If I press "format", the card formatted is the internal sd, instead of the external.
And after that, /mnt/emmc is still empty and I cannot copy anything there.
It must be a deeper problem, as I thinks it is what makes me unable to install any other ROM.
did you ever fix the miui problem, or get into download mode to reflash another rom? I used miui, then bricked my phone trying to flash back to darkys

Troubles with Rom Manager and Flashing

I am having a lot of issues with Rom manager. Whenever I create a backup and try to back it up it refuses to work. It acts like it worked. But when I try to restore to that backup it says MD5 mismatch. I am currently running a froyo leedroid rom. I have tried to flash over to a GB Leedroid rom and a Coredroid rom. Neither of them work.
It says finding update package
opening update package
can't open file bad.
I am seriously annoyed with rom manager WTF is the point in creating a damn backup if I can't restore it at a later point?
Now my sdcard will not mount says its is mounted as read only and it wont do a damn thing now...
Bump wondering how to check an MD5. Still wondering what is up with Rom manager. Silly question but am I having troubles because I bought a different memory card for the phone? I did a partition and wiped it but just not sure.
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/File-Management/MD5-Checker.shtml
use that to check the MD5. Obviously something getting corrupt along the way. I cant imagine its the memory card but Im not 100%. Hopefully someone with more knowledge than me will pop along shortly.
berserkerx87 said:
I am having a lot of issues with Rom manager. Whenever I create a backup and try to back it up it refuses to work. It acts like it worked. But when I try to restore to that backup it says MD5 mismatch. I am currently running a froyo leedroid rom. I have tried to flash over to a GB Leedroid rom and a Coredroid rom. Neither of them work.
It says finding update package
opening update package
can't open file bad.
I am seriously annoyed with rom manager WTF is the point in creating a damn backup if I can't restore it at a later point?
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Hi I'm pretty new here so I'm may be wrong about this, but could it be a problem with Froyo and GB? It's like using office 2010 and 2007 version, may not be backward compatible. But I may be wrong, just a a guess on my part.
berserkerx87 said:
It says finding update package
opening update package
can't open file bad.
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Looks to me like you've got a flaky SD card, certainly I have no problems creating and restoring backups although I am on CM7 but that shouldn't make a difference, first off though make sure youre running the lastest ROM Manager and Clockwork versions then try a different SD card.
Okay I am still having issues with Rom manager. I tried putting in a new sd card and it will not mount to the system. I hit mount and it just pops back up saying its ready to remove. I now can't reboot into recovery nor flash clockwork recovery. It said an error occurred while flashing your recovery.
Also I really don't like that I can't even take a picture or use my camera because it says it can't save to the SD card due to insufficient file permissions. Yes I have done fix permissions in rom manager. But it still wont work..
have you tried to do it directly in CWM?
if so, try to flash a newer CWM version (through fastboot, ROM Manager is known to cause some problems).
Hello iam also having problems but i am have my DHD freeze at the splash screen when trying to enter recovery, any ideas please.
berserkerx87 said:
Okay I am still having issues with Rom manager. I tried putting in a new sd card and it will not mount to the system. I hit mount and it just pops back up saying its ready to remove. I now can't reboot into recovery nor flash clockwork recovery. It said an error occurred while flashing your recovery.
Also I really don't like that I can't even take a picture or use my camera because it says it can't save to the SD card due to insufficient file permissions. Yes I have done fix permissions in rom manager. But it still wont work..
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ROM manager wouldn't prevent mounting of a new SD card, thats got to be a hardware issue or an issue with your current ROM, try flashing either a different custom ROM or a stock ROM if your SD card woes continue it's a hardware issue, if not it's a ROM issue but either way I think we can safely rule out ROM manager.
sidon100uk said:
Hello iam also having problems but i am have my DHD freeze at the splash screen when trying to enter recovery, any ideas please.
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Try reflashing Clockwork recovery, either from Fastboot or from ROM manager.
Tried using ROM Manager but got nowhere so i followed this post and it worked first time http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1003723 , it was great for new guys like me.
But thank you for your help.
I figured out what the problem was. Even though I had formatted that new sd card it still wouldn't mount so I formatted it on the computer and now everything is fine. I don't use that other sd card anymore. I guess it was really just a bad sd card. So a word of advice to everyone that not all sd cards are created equal!
Thanks for all the help everyone!
Wise words there! I've been through 4 memory cards lol and each one broke. One after the other.
I use Rom Manager only to install CWM, and then I flashed all new rom by recovery from SD card.
I propose not to save a money on buying cheap card. It so important

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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