Evo got screwed up by putting in a new SD card - EVO 4G General

i transfered all my data to my new sd card. shut the phone off and put the new card in. booted it. i got a text. tried to reply and wouldnt let me. phone shut off and wouldnt boot. i went into recovery to clear cache and dalvik cache. rebooted and now its like its on a fresh new rom no apps no nothin. but its EXTREMLY SLOW now. 5x slower than my htc hero. and its freaking out.
i tried nand back up.. nothin. i tried everything.. wont stay on long enough for ruu.
so any ideas to help me fix this.

I usually format the new sdcard with the phone. Then I copy onto it, except for lost.dir which does not get over written.
Use the settings to unmount the sdcard, then reformat it. Copy from the old sdcard on to the new. Hopefully that will do.

ok i will try that in a sec. thank you

Did you get one of those cheap memory cards from China? If so, that may be the problem. I tried one of those cheap SD cards when I first got my phone and it worked all kinda ways messed up while it was in there. Try putting the old card back in. If you see it works with no problems, then it's your SD card.

the phone is still glitched out even with the old card
EDITwilly900wonka after i did that process it worked. probably not a smart move copying the file over as well. i just did a exact copy with all the files. nand .androidsecure and everything else on the lines of movies music and photos

kyhassen said:
the phone is still glitched out even with the old card
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Weird. Try wiping cache and dalvik cache,. If not, hopefully you have a NAND backed up that you can restore to.

Once you get your EVO back up and running I would advise you to run AVG Anti-Virus to speed your phone back up. Also install a custom ROM, this will most defiantly speed up your EVO.

xXViRuSXx said:
Once you get your EVO back up and running I would advise you to run AVG Anti-Virus to speed your phone back up. Also install a custom ROM, this will most defiantly speed up your EVO.
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i been using custom roms. but i was on mikfroyo then myn warm. then MIUI which i loved but it wont accept it now. so im off to something new. i tried koin elite. but that sucked for me...

I made the mistake of putting a blank SD card into my phone then formatting it with the phone. I lost all my apps etc. Even transferring all the files back to the phone didn't fix it. What I found you should do is boot into recovery before you ever boot into the phone. Then format and create the needed partitions, then mount the SD card while in recovery and move the files to the card. Wipe cache and dalvik and reboot. Phone acts like you never changed the card. From my experience its the most problem free method
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Whats the best SD card for the EVO?
Say I want a 16GB card.
Does the evo support class 6 and 10?
Can I then use the MikFroyo A2sd? Or do I need to start with a wipe and a fresh install of MikFroyo?

ive had this happen during an sdcard switch as well. weird since I wasn't using apps2sd. i had to restore my nandroid.
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OneStepAhead said:
ive had this happen during an sdcard switch as well. weird since I wasn't using apps2sd. i had to restore my nandroid.
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it sucks. but oh well.
Nandroid FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

had that problem on my first 2 card switches the realized that what works for me is taking old card out, putting new one in(i do not open anything)just go to format the sd card then put the old one back in plug phone to pc in usb drive and opend my pc hit folder properties on my phones drive and select view hidden files. then copy all the info into my pc. then close all open windows on pc and change my phone back to charging only then unplug turn off the phone and remove and replace sd card with new one, turn on again plug to pc in usb drive and copy all the files i copied into the new sd card and hit replace on all the repeated folders. that method works flawlessly for me every time

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Apps to Sd and now g1 screen frozen

I had JF 1.5 cupcake with hard spl and apps 2 sd2 well I noticed my phone was lagging a lot and force closing a lot so I wiped it while I was at work and it was much faster then I restored my apps and market kept forcing close after doing marcus apps2sd commands but not the program.
then i wiped again and used jf lucids app "lucid app" and it still forced closed then I did the wipe again and did the marcus again using the terminal not the apps2sd2. well I gave up so I bought a new card for 3 bucks brand new never opened 8gb class 4 from my buddy.
now I tried to unmount the card and put the 8gb straight in out of the box and the g1 screen freezes. so I thought it was because of the apps so I put the old sdcard in and it booted phone then I made the biggest mistake ever apparently and formated the card with paragon the old sdcard I mean.
now the phone won't boot just hangs on the g1 screen no matter which card I put in and I can still get into recovery but am not sure what do from here I've tried wiping it with the old sdcard and the new sdcard and with no sdcard nothing works.
I have adb 1.5 on my pc and everytime I try to push update.zip to /sdcard/update.zip it says sbin/sh adb: not found.
what can I do.
it's my only phone.
PlatinumMOTO said:
I had JF 1.5 cupcake with hard spl and apps 2 sd2 well I noticed my phone was lagging a lot and force closing a lot so I wiped it while I was at work and it was much faster then I restored my apps and market kept forcing close after doing marcus apps2sd commands but not the program.
then i wiped again and used jf lucids app "lucid app" and it still forced closed then I did the wipe again and did the marcus again using the terminal not the apps2sd2. well I gave up so I bought a new card for 3 bucks brand new never opened 8gb class 4 from my buddy.
now I tried to unmount the card and put the 8gb straight in out of the box and the g1 screen freezes. so I thought it was because of the apps so I put the old sdcard in and it booted phone then I made the biggest mistake ever apparently and formated the card with paragon the old sdcard I mean.
now the phone won't boot just hangs on the g1 screen no matter which card I put in and I can still get into recovery but am not sure what do from here I've tried wiping it with the old sdcard and the new sdcard and with no sdcard nothing works.
I have adb 1.5 on my pc and everytime I try to push update.zip to /sdcard/update.zip it says sbin/sh adb: not found.
what can I do.
it's my only phone.
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whats the error message it says when your wiping ?? try to use haykuro rom, and see if that will work
the wiping goes fine no errors it just hangs on the g1 screen.
I can't load anything on the sdcard I broke my usb sdcard reader so I dont' have one now I always use the phone.
is there a way to fastboot and do it?
am I gonna have to reflash rc29 and start all over again?
PlatinumMOTO said:
am I gonna have to reflash rc29 and start all over again?
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yea you need a card reader, if you where in dallas, i have plenty of those, they come in handy when flashes dont work right
I was able to flash the images seperately now I'm gonna flash jfmod back onto the phone so far so good except my service keeps cutting out.
ok new problem I managed to get the phone to load like I said earlier and installed the new sdcard now I did another wipe and then applied the update of JFMod and its stuck yet again.
when I go into fastboot and try fastboot update update.zip it says something like android-info.txt not found

Blank SD Card?

ok i was playing with Ak-47 app on The dudes cupcake then next thing you know it says Blank sd card now I cant use any apps and under settings<SD card & storage it says total space and availalable space unavailable and unmount sd card. When I go to notifications bar where it says Blank SD card it suggest to re format sd card....What should I do? even when I mount onto pc under removable **** it suggest to reformat. What should I do? I dont wanna brick my phone. Also it wont let me see any files under removable disk.
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ok i was playing with Ak-47 app on The dudes cupcake then next thing you know it says Blank sd card now I cant use any apps and under settings<SD card & storage it says total space and availalable space unavailable and unmount sd card. When I go to notifications bar where it says Blank SD card it suggest to re format sd card....What should I do? even when I mount onto pc under removable **** it suggest to reformat. What should I do? I dont wanna brick my phone. Also it wont let me see any files under removable disk.
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chances are u might have to start from fresh n format ..
http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter/
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What if I perform a wipe and Alt-s...will that work or will it brick my phone.
duan19 said:
What if I perform a wipe and Alt-s...will that work or will it brick my phone.
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wiping doesnt do anything to your sd card
Refomat?
Well Could I just use the onscreen selection on my phone to reformat or will this cause problems.
duan19 said:
Well Could I just use the onscreen selection on my phone to reformat or will this cause problems.
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that i dont know. i just use a card reader and format then depending on what build im using i wipe and start fresh
same thing happened to me last week on one of the dudes builds. My sd card was ruined. I tried to reformat it and then repartition it but it wouldnt let me repartition even though i deleted the old one. I messed with it for hours, before some one told me that it was ruined. all the transfering of info back and forth fried it i guess. I ended up buying a new one, this time class 6 (old one was class 2) I got it for 20 bucks (8gb) not to shabby of a price! sorry for your misfortune. Good luck
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ok i was playing with Ak-47 app on The dudes cupcake then next thing you know it says Blank sd card now I cant use any apps and under settings<SD card & storage it says total space and availalable space unavailable and unmount sd card. When I go to notifications bar where it says Blank SD card it suggest to re format sd card....What should I do? even when I mount onto pc under removable **** it suggest to reformat. What should I do? I dont wanna brick my phone. Also it wont let me see any files under removable disk.
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The same thing happened to me about 4 days ago, however Im running cyangones 3.4 Rom not the dudes, tell me ....were you running any themes at the time like the hero theme or any other? Are you using apps to sd as in do you have your sd card partitioned ? Im trying to figure out why this happened to me also, as of right now it has happened twice in 4 days then, I wiped my phone, reformatted / repartitioned my sd card and am not using any custome theme with cyanogens 3.4 rom and it seems to be ok. I only have a few apps right now because I want to make sure it doesnt happen again before I load up my sd card again with apps.
i had no themes and i was using app2sd. but i wasnt using any apps at the time.. just thought i would ad my 2 cents
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The same thing happened to me about 4 days ago, however Im running cyangones 3.4 Rom not the dudes, tell me ....were you running any themes at the time like the hero theme or any other? Are you using apps to sd as in do you have your sd card partitioned ? Im trying to figure out why this happened to me also, as of right now it has happened twice in 4 days then, I wiped my phone, reformatted / repartitioned my sd card and am not using any custome theme with cyanogens 3.4 rom and it seems to be ok. I only have a few apps right now because I want to make sure it doesnt happen again before I load up my sd card again with apps.
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thats how it started with my sd card..but when i reformatted i went to Jacman 1.62 build then thatts where my card just got fried...partition table got corupted
Yes maybe because its class 2 8 gigs
And yes to other gut I does has some hero in the dude 1.3r2.
Yes maybe because its class 2 8 gigs
And yes to other gut I does has some hero in the dude 1.3r2. bout to try to reformat I guess tell you what happens in a minute.
ok
I reformatted then put files back on G1(including the dudes cupcake 1.3r2(cant give up on the perfect mod lol)) then wiped and Alt-s....only diffrence this time is that i am gonna use appmanager and not put everything on class 2 8 gig so it will not burn out...and hopefully it want destroy my sd card.Thankx to everyone you guys were a big help.
very interesting topic....
same here:
I tried with 3 other sdcards, 2 of them are 100% ok, NO GO, doesnt work anymore. First I thought that my G1 reader has a problem, some time it works, some time not. Im on dudes 12b with apps2sd. The fact that no card works tells me:
- Phone error
or
- Software problem (really strange if this is the problem)
I wipe right now and will tell you if the card works again....
i had similar problem last week when switching from cyan 3.4 to dudes 1.3 i first tried just doing an alt - w and that gave me a lot of errors and force closes so i started over and reformatted/repartitioned my sd. Now my sd card doesnt read when i plug into pc but still works in phone. everytime i want to change/edit sd i have to pull sd out and use an adapter..it sucks cuz the lil sd latch is such a pain to open and close on the g1..
ok wipe didnt anything... really strange thing I can do nothing anymore, card is not readable (in pc it is readable, but not in my g1)....
Config:
Dudes 1.2b
No themes, no extras
APPS2SD, 500 MB EXT Partition
8 GB Class 6 Card
If anyone has a hint for me, any help is welcome.
could this have something to do with apps2sd... this is happening to me as well, and it only started when i switched from jac 1.4 to the dudes 1.3rc1 it works good for about 24 hours sans the bluetooth issue. then the next time i check the phone its all whacked out and says to reformat the card.
Found this, hope that helps, unfortunately I dont have an external reader here:
source: http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f7/unable-to-retain-formatting-on-sd-card-17338/index2.html
Turns out this is no more than an annoyance affecting the 1.5 JF builds. (not sure it's exclusive to those).
Anyway, long story short. The phone will always complain about the partitioning on the sd card and offer to "fix" the problem by re-formatting.
The key to the problem is to reboot the phone after the card has been re-partitioned. This will make the annoying pop-up dissapear and keep the partitioning table as defined.
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Rerun apps to SD, uninstall reinstall all listed apps.
I had had this happen also. But I think most of it was my doing. I have a bad habit of not removing device safely after I copy files, I just use the eject button lol.. my p.c. even told me that I had removed usb device before the files were finshed bing prossed.. well whatever happend it didn't fry my card I just had to reformat it and. Run martins great skrip over agin and it was good to go.. I even went to buy a new usb cable just in case lol .. on hero/rosie running smooth ; )

I need testers willing to sacrifice their SD card.

I think i may have come across something of a program corrupting memory cards. Twice in less than a week , I have had an SD card get corrupted by the Eco. Both times I was running the program wardrive. Both times, the program was either running or had not completely shut down before I did a restart or shutdown. When the phone came back up, the card was reported being corrupted. This time, I have everything backed up at home.
Could someone verify this so I can make sure it isn't just me and I will tell the programmer of that app about that.
The test is very simple. FIRST, BACK UP ALL YOUR CONTENTS OF YOUR CARD TO A SAFE PLACE BECAUSE THIS COULD BORK YOUR CARD (A FORMAT WILL FIX IT I THINK). Install the app wardrive. Turn on your WiFi and go and fire up the program and go for a walk or drive with the program running. While its collecting data, shut down the phone or restart it if you have that app to reboot with. If what I suspect is true, the card will be corrupt when the phone is restarted. I tried rescuing the info on it but it didn't work. Post your findings here. I have a sandisk 16gb card BTW. If you format the card and copy your backed up stuff back to the card, everything "should" be okay then, although I am not promising any success. Try at your own risk, but I would appreciate if someone else could verify this.
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I don't know if it makes any difference but I'm running Damage Control 3.2.3 rom
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Testing now. Ive used wardrive several times without it affecting my sd card. but lets see......
Booting up now......
Nope. Everything is still working just fine on my SD card. Guess its just you. LOL
Im also on DC 3.2.3 FYI.
Another thing I forgot to mention that might make a difference is that before, I had maybe 6.5gb of stuff on the card. About 5.6 of that was around 4000 apk files. Maybe having that many files had something to do with it. What I'm thinking is that while the or a program was writing to the card, the system shut down before it finished writing the file(s) or updating the file allocation table/list on the card. Windows did that stuff all the time if power was lost while the harddrive was accessing. When you rebooted, you got the bsod or it wanted to run check disk. Any other theories?
I'm trying this experiment on the same card but empty and cannot recreate the problem. I will have to throw all the files back on when I get home later and see if that has something to do with it.
One last note:
Last night I spent well over an hour formatting this card with xp in fat32, just like the phone does. I did a full format, not quick. The phone seems to just be a quick format.
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Ugh... Sd card issues.. Not my day (rant)

So I dropped my phone today (doh!) And the battery and evrything came out.. put it back in andwent about my day no worries... so I look in rom manager and see there's a new recovery and when I try to download it says my sd isn't mounted so I take the battery out and lo and behold my sd card came out too (double doh!) Went back to my job searched for my sd card to no avail... But its ok I thought I have one from my old blackbery at home (finally I get a break)... put it in... works fine... but it has pictures and videos that i'd rather not remember (or let my fiancee see lol) as well as the blackberry data which I know I don't need so I pick out the few things I want off the card and save them to a new folder on the phones root via root explorer... then I. Go to sd card settings and format it.. it finishes then a nice little error pops up saying "blank sd card or unsupported file system" (DOH! DOH! DOH!)... But we ain't done yet the stoory goes on... I decide maybe a reboot will fix it... Nope... So I go to root explorer and figure if its blank let's just put something on it... but my created backup folder dissapeared after reboot... (F#*!&... S#*%... D#&$... D*$&... D!*%!!!!!!!) Can someone please ease my pain by telling me how to at least get my sd card to mount and be recognised as anything but blank??? it would really make my day... I understand I've probably lost all the stuff I wanted to save but o well... FML
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When ever I had this problem (phone doesn't see the sdcard), I removed my sdcard, put it into an adapter and inserted it into my computers card reader, then reformatted it to FAT32, then put it back into the phone and everything worked great.
joemm said:
When ever I had this problem (phone doesn't see the sdcard), I removed my sdcard, put it into an adapter and inserted it into my computers card reader, then reformatted it to FAT32, then put it back into the phone and everything worked great.
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Thanks ill give that a try when I get home... I just don't understand why htc put the oprion on the phone if it basically "breaks" the sd card ... I was expecting it to just wipe it clean like new ya know
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Thanks ill give that a try when I get home... I just don't understand why htc put the oprion on the phone if it basically "breaks" the sd card ... I was expecting it to just wipe it clean like new ya know
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Happened to me as well. I must admit it is an annoyung 'feature'. Hope otheres see this and take heed.
I actually used the format (although on a brand new card) just yesterday and it worked fine. So I guess 'milage may vary' is what is happening.
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I actually used the format (although on a brand new card) just yesterday and it worked fine. So I guess 'milage may vary' is what is happening.
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Probably true but formatting it to fat32 on the computer fixed it.. after figuring out I had to do it through command prompt cuz anything else froze the computer completely until it crashed but all is well now thaks to the members of xda... now if only there were a way to recover my lost data lol
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Clearing my SD Card

So after all these apps and Rom flashes and everything, I've noticed that my SD card is bloated with left over directories and files and such. Is it ok to just copy the content of the SD Card to my computer, then format it as Fat 32, then put it back in the phone and everything will be fine?
I'm just cautious as to what the Rom's might be putting on it, and what the nandroid backups are going to do if they are moved.
Just trying to be careful, thanks!
badogg said:
So after all these apps and Rom flashes and everything, I've noticed that my SD card is bloated with left over directories and files and such. Is it ok to just copy the content of the SD Card to my computer, then format it as Fat 32, then put it back in the phone and everything will be fine?
I'm just cautious as to what the Rom's might be putting on it, and what the nandroid backups are going to do if they are moved.
Just trying to be careful, thanks!
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The only things that would get messed up would be rom manager backups ( copy them back into the correct folder after you put it back into the phone) titainum backups, any apps you install to SD.
I do this every few months myself. i hate all the bloat
I believe anything leftover on your sdcard would be typically from apps not roms. In regards to copying your sdcard contents, just copy everything onto your pc, reformat, then paste it all back on. As always, be careful and delete only what you know is in excess or no longer used.
You'd be fine.
Will work as long its formatted in the phone after youve erased your card
I had the same issue but I somehow deleted Gvoice and Gtalk and now can't download from market. Can anyone tell me how to fix this? Any help would be appreciated, its been days and I'm dying over here ={
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IVXX said:
I had the same issue but I somehow deleted Gvoice and Gtalk and now can't download from market. Can anyone tell me how to fix this? Any help would be appreciated, its been days and I'm dying over here ={
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weird. I'd reflash the ROM..
I tried something different recently.
After cleaning up my SD card, and reloading different ROM and stuff, I removed my card and put it into my PC. Then using Perfect Disk, ran "Smart Placement" then "Consolidate Free Space" I have no data to back up the speed feeling. The file access just seems a little snappier.
ZooDad
Yeah I flashed the ROM and Gapps back and everything was fine. Thanks ^_^

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