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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.
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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.
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After resetting my phone to stock I formatted my SD Card and did a PGP wipe against it.
Phone didn't seem to notice.
Well its my own fault but I thought maybe I can save some others the heartbreak of a damaged sdcard. We all know that wp7 reformats the sdcard when installing the first time. Also if you switch sdcards while phone is off or anything and then boot into wp7 you will fry your card.
I flashed wp7 just to see what it was all about blah blah. Decided it was time to return to android. Blah blah i stuck my android sdcard with all my backups, pics, work stuff back into the phone and rebooted to flash android back through nand . Somehow i let it boot back to wp7 instead of nand and it killed my card. Lesson learned. Keep your sdcard 10ft. away from Wp7 at all times. Don't switch out your wp7 sdcard till you are actually back in android just to be safe. Oh and backup your sdcard!!!!!!!!
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Though the information is greatly appreciated, why did you post this here? This is a test forum created to see how the site would react to adding sub-forums when the new forum layout project is started on Saturday.
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If for any reason your sd card becomes corrupt just use this program: http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/HP-USB-Disk-Storage-Format-Tool.shtml
lol, hard lesson but it was obviously worth it as you wont be stupid enough to do something like that again, especially when it clearly states in read-me that card is partitioned etc.
Thank you for this post, I was not aware that something like this can happen, and now I'll take precautions so it wont happen to me.
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lol, hard lesson but it was obviously worth it as you wont be stupid enough to do something like that again, especially when it clearly states in read-me that card is partitioned etc.
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Did you actually read the second paragraph????? Yes I read the read-me. That's how I knew to use a spare sdcard. Plus the read me states that the card will be reformatted upon first boot and if removed the phone will lose all userdata. Had nothing to do with stupidity. Has to do with a pregnant wife needing my attention and me letting go of the power button to soon. Stuff happens.
Now to be more helpful than negative......unlike the athiest with his stellar "I don't believe in God, but I sure think I am a God of android" bad attitude.
The sdcard wasn't reformatted. It was showing as being damaged. I was able to find a simple, free data recovery program that was able to recover most of the card.
I see this may happen often because after using wp7 you may be in a haste to flash back to android (wp7 is just sad IMO). Just wait till you are booted into android just to be safe. Also while fixing my mess up yesterday I stumbled on another problem.
Recently read a post about partitioning the sdcard for optimum use when ram builds came out. System -ext. for data and another for cache. I picked up this sdcard off the desk after finding my main card had been damaged. Then did a task 29, flashed magdlr, and Mdj's gingerbread. Inserted the sdcard and did first boot. To my surprise I had all of my apps pre loaded and I hadn't logged into Google yet so I knew it wasn't Google data backup that loaded my apps. So I went into root explorer and saw the ext. and then realized which sdcard I had slid in. There for a second I thought "WOW me and mdj have the exact same apps". Blah blah reformatted card and reflashed gingerbread. Done.
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Thank you....srry for the mix up.
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Myself, and a few others, have manged to reformat the SD card in a single button press by puttinf it into a digital camera and using the format option. It shows the card as 200mb but after the lighting quick format reads the correct size...voila.
Thanks...good to know. I will try it today. It took 8 hrs. for that application to fix my sdcard so that the computer could read it. Though my phone still wont read it. Out of 3700 pics I recovered 98% of them, all of my work files and android apps. Got real lucky. Took another hour after that for the computer to copy them to another 16gb card. Made for a long night. Now when I get home I can reformat the bad card and use as backup.
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I´ve repaired a lot Sd cards, usb-sticks.... making a low-level format with this tool:
http://hddguru.com/software/2006.04.12-HDD-Low-Level-Format-Tool/
The only care you have to have is not to format your hd
madu2 said:
I´ve repaired a lot Sd cards, usb-sticks.... making a low-level format with this tool:
http://hddguru.com/software/2006.04.12-HDD-Low-Level-Format-Tool/
The only care you have to have is not to format your hd
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Do you have any suggestions for a good data recovery application. The one I used was free and easy to use but cost me about 4 he's of sleep. I know a lot of ppl experience sdcard corruption frequently maybe we can get it into a sticky that ppl will find before they reformat. I did not know till last night that it was possible to recover drives this way. I almost erased all of my families Christmas pics. PREGNANT wives don't like that kind of news. OF COURSE THE BEST WAY IS TO BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP
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Where is the wp7 Rom
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Its on the table by the remote control!!!
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Where is the wp7 Rom
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okay, i've tried using minitools partition to try and delete the 200mb partition and then recreate the entire 16gb that is my microsd as well as sdformatter with full (erase as well as overwrite) with size adjustment on but the problem is that i can only see one partition, the 200mb partition, i can't even see the the second partition or whatever that wp7 created. I even tried doing the low-level-format but it's still stuck at 200mb!
anyone have any other solutions?
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figured it out
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10719128&postcount=6
vinbomb said:
okay, i've tried using minitools partition to try and delete the 200mb partition and then recreate the entire 16gb that is my microsd as well as sdformatter with full (erase as well as overwrite) with size adjustment on but the problem is that i can only see one partition, the 200mb partition, i can't even see the the second partition or whatever that wp7 created. I even tried doing the low-level-format but it's still stuck at 200mb!
anyone have any other solutions?
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Just download and install SD Formatter 3 on your pc, run the program and in the options change FORMAT SIZE ADJUSTMENT to ON and leave it at QUICK FORMAT. Dont worry that it only shows the 200MB partition it will reformat your card and bring back its full size. It worked everytime for me.
Mark.
i tried that through android usb storage mode but it would keep on going back to 200mb. the only way that using sdformatter proved to be successful was to connect the microsd through magldr and not through android
thanks for the tip though!
google samsung sd formatter. Format as FAT32 with overwrite enabled. It fixed my bad card when i returned to android
By the way, you have to mount the card via MAGLDR as it wont mount in android (it is detected in windows this way)
vinbomb said:
i tried that through android usb storage mode but it would keep on going back to 200mb. the only way that using sdformatter proved to be successful was to connect the microsd through magldr and not through android
thanks for the tip though!
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have you bought the sd card from ebay? it might be fake. It happened to me too, bought a 32gb microsd, for about 20 euro, knew it was fake, but i just tried my luck. When the package arrived it got myself some brand new earrings, probably worth 2 bucks.
I did a factory reset and everything got erased from the internal memory, videos,pics,mp3s,....etc.
Is this normal?
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DKM119 said:
I did a factory reset and everything got erased from the internal memory, videos,pics,mp3s,....etc.
Is this normal?
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Yes, perfectly normal. In fact, it's pretty much the definition of "factory reset,' i.e., returning the device to the state it was in when it left the factory.
Well on my G1 and on my vibrant...this didn't happened...i know what a factory reset is and do...and this is really weird...
One thing is to erase the part of the memory that the OS is using...other is to "format" the internal memory all the time I do a factory reset.
Do this mean that I have to transfer my files to the microsd before a factory reset...or I flash a custom Rom?
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Well on my G1 and on my vibrant...this didn't happened...i know what a factory reset is and do...and this is really weird...
One thing is to erase the part of the memory that the OS is using...other is to "format" the internal memory all the time I do a factory reset.
Do this mean that I have to transfer my files to the microsd before a factory reset...or I flash a custom Rom?
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Is your G1 or Vibrant running some custom ROM/recovery? Some custom ROM/recovery modified the factory reset to not touch /data/media/, that'll explain why you kept your media when you reset. As for having to backup before factory reset (yes, you have to unless you root and install solarnz's modded CWM and use the factory reset on it (he disabled wiping of /data/media). For flashing custom ROM, you don't need to backup everything if the ROM won't wipe everything (read the desc of the ROM).
I'm using CWM on my vibrant but I guess Honeycomb handles the memory in a different way...like I said I totally understand that the OS is over written when I do a reset or flash another Rom..what I can't understand is why the rest of the available memory get overwritten too.
For example I have some pics and videos that was on the DCMI folder and some ebooks that I transfer from my pc and those got erased...and those were in the internal memory...anyway...got to do some restore now...
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I'm using CWM on my vibrant but I guess Honeycomb handles the memory in a different way...like I said I totally understand that the OS is over written when I do a reset or flash another Rom..what I can't understand is why the rest of the available memory get overwritten too.
For example I have some pics and videos that was on the DCMI folder and some ebooks that I transfer from my pc and those got erased...and those were in the internal memory...anyway...got to do some restore now...
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Like mentioned above, it is probably due to the version of CWM you're running on your Vibrant. If you install solarnz's CWM, it'll keep your media after wipe too.
Your Pics and Stuff that didnt get Erases before Was Probably on an External SD Card. The Transformer Reads The Internal Memory as an SD card too so you probably got confused. Anything on a SD you put in should be fine. Anything in Transformer SD card is erased.
It's a new thing with Honeycomb. Any built in storage is considered when doing a factory reset.
On 2.3 this was not the case (Nexus S for example).
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Your Pics and Stuff that didnt get Erases before Was Probably on an External SD Card. The Transformer Reads The Internal Memory as an SD card too so you probably got confused. Anything on a SD you put in should be fine. Anything in Transformer SD card is erased.
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Transformer actually wiped my MicroSD when I did a wipe before. Wipers be ware!
It's has really been the pain in the arse. Really.
I use Lord's Ice Cold Sandwich. This happens occasionally, when I tried to download SD data for a game, the SD card remounts as being read-only.
I tried full-wipe flash, format SD card with Disk Utility of Ubuntu, then reflash it with Android's utility. I tried unmounting sdcard in CWM. I tried fix permission option in CWM. Nothing helps so far.
Thanks in advance!!! :angel:
There's an app on the Play Shop which claims to fix this, give it a try
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Would be nice if you can post the name of the app too, I can't find it.
hadobac said:
Would be nice if you can post the name of the app too, I can't find it.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rootuninstaller.sdcardpermissionfix&hl=en
I guess the problem lies in permission thingy. Flash this zip file in here works: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1458021
Gud luck!
i think your card is getting faulty ......
back up all data and then go for any experiments ....
commando0 said:
i think your card is getting faulty ......
back up all data and then go for any experiments ....
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I actually tried that. The other day I backed up stuff than formatted the thing with Disk Utility tool of Ubuntu. I then went extreme, formatted it again on Android.
I guess the app above might help. The thing is I'm still under 18 for a credit card, hence gotta wait another year to be eligible.... mannnnn
Apparently, the SD card is still in R/W mode, it isn't til I start download data for games, download music, use dolphin... that it becomes read only. The process usually goes for half the bar, than stop.
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Should I repartition the SD card with swap storage and ext4 and stuff?
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Just format the card with 4ext then reflash rom.
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Are you able to flash your SD card? If you are having the same files after the formatting which you had then I don't think anything will work rather than replacing your SD card
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.
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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.
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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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