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Can't mount USB

It's the second time this has happened. I'm not sure what I did the first time to fix it.
Basically, when I try to mount my SD card via USB it tries to - but then fails and goes back to "preparing SD card" on the phone. It never shows up on the PC.
I'm running Gumbo 1.5C with kernel.
I tried going back to my RUU image/formated SD and start over but the problem still persists. The card is partitioned for Apps2SD. If I need to format the card can someone provide instruction to either move whatever is installed on the SD card back to the phone or how to back up the SD card so I wont have to clean everything up again.
Would be very much appreciated!
Thanks!

I am always the person who asks the stupid "is it plugged in?" questions...
Did you try using the SD card in a different device?
Does the phone let you store on it?
Can you install new Apps?
Did you try a different SD card?

Kcarpenter said:
I am always the person who asks the stupid "is it plugged in?" questions...
Did you try using the SD card in a different device?
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No, I don't really have another device to try it in... but it does work. The card does mount through the Recovery USB toggle. It just doesn't mount through the OS.
Does the phone let you store on it?
Can you install new Apps?
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Yes and yes.
Did you try a different SD card?
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I can try another one when I get home but the problem is I wont have any of the apps that were installed on the SD card.
What I did just try is "unmount" the SD card on the phone so it looks like I'm about to remove it - then restart. It's still not working. I kind of want to say that the problem arose when I pulled my phone off the USB cable while the card was already mounted - to answer an important phone call. I'm just not sure how to replicate or undo the problem.

fatkitty420 said:
I kind of want to say that the problem arose when I pulled my phone off the USB cable while the card was already mounted - to answer an important phone call. I'm just not sure how to replicate or undo the problem.
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This will kill it every time.
The best thing to do is go into recovery make a back up of the EXT partition - theres an option for it some where. Mount the card in recovery copy the backup to the desktop. Power the phone off swap the SD card. Partition it with the EXT partion. Mount the new card as USB in recovery copy the back up to it (make sure you keep the original folder path exactly the same). Restore the EXT back up. *catches breath*
Maybe this will work for you. I had a very simliar issue destroy my 16gb. It was sadening those things aren't cheap.

Kcarpenter said:
This will kill it every time.
The best thing to do is go into recovery make a back up of the EXT partition - theres an option for it some where. Mount the card in recovery copy the backup to the desktop. Power the phone off swap the SD card. Partition it with the EXT partion. Mount the new card as USB in recovery copy the back up to it (make sure you keep the original folder path exactly the same). Restore the EXT back up. *catches breath*
Maybe this will work for you. I had a very simliar issue destroy my 16gb. It was sadening those things aren't cheap.
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I may give this a shot later, I just want to wait to see if anyone else has a solution. The reason being; this has happened to me before. About 2 months ago. I think I fixed it by changing to a different ROM... which is not what I want to do now. I like the speed I had now. There must be some haywire code that gets corrupted if I dismount improperly considering the SD card is still fully functional.

And... Bump.

fatkitty420 said:
And... Bump.
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How about... did you try a different usb plug, different usb port, different computer?

kbizzle said:
How about... did you try a different usb plug, different usb port, different computer?
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Something I didn't think of... I'll give it a shot and post back.
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No cigar :/

fatkitty420 said:
Something I didn't think of... I'll give it a shot and post back.
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No cigar :/
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Im not sure of anything else. Im sorry.

Very big problem

Hello, I have my tattoo rooted for about 3 months now. I had the latest fyodor ROM now, but all of the sudden when I connected to disk drive it showed me mixed content, and if I clicked nothing happened.I tried running other roms that I had in the card, but same. I even tried a restore point to a completely other rom but nothing. PLEASE HELP ME!

Mod. edit: not dev related, moved to general

xyell0w said:
Hello, I have my tattoo rooted for about 3 months now. I had the latest fyodor ROM now, but all of the sudden when I connected to disk drive it showed me mixed content, and if I clicked nothing happened.I tried running other roms that I had in the card, but same. I even tried a restore point to a completely other rom but nothing. PLEASE HELP ME!
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What do you mean by mixed content?

http://yfrog.com/2tmixedcontentj that is what I mean.

Can u display the content of your card on your phone? if yes, I would suggest to connect the phone to usb (don't mount the sd card to pc), start adb and pull every content to your hdd (adb pull /sdcard/* YOURBACKUPLOCATION). Then reformat the sd card (format device J: via Windows) to FAT32...this should do it

EDIT: I did it, but when I pull it says : 0files pulled. 0 files skinned.

It's probably corrupt.
Try on a newer version of Windows (I see you're using Win 2000! Unless it's a skin).
Can you see them in Astro?
And have you done anything to your SDcard recently? like tried to make a Goldcard?
Also try accessing the SD card without going through phone (even if I don't think it's the problem, but better try everything before formatting). You can do this in many ways, e.g some computers (especially laptops) and printers have built in SDcard readers, or you could use a camera or Micro SD to USB adapter (like this one or this one).

I made my goldcard when I rooted the phone. It's a skin, it's XP actually No I didn't do anything to it. But do I really need to adb pull? 'cause I can replace what's on it(music bla bla).
well I'll format it, because I'd rather do this than spend money
edit: hmm strange, if I click on properties it shows me exactly the memory on it, it's 1.12 gb free.
well actually now it's in scaning for errors xD, hmmm no problem found. Ok FORMATTING NOW.
YEY FORMAT WORKEDThank you, although I would have done this too xDD

xyell0w said:
I made my goldcard when I rooted the phone. It's a skin, it's XP actually No I didn't do anything to it. But do I really need to adb pull? 'cause I can replace what's on it(music bla bla).
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Well then take a deep breath, and format it

Thank you, although I would have done this too xDD
YEY FORMAT WORKED
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[Q] sd card read only

hey im a little new to droids. i have rooted my mytouch 4g and was installing iced glacier for the rom and it was successful. but now get an error message saying sd card read only. any ideas o how to fix?

Can you still access the sdcard rw through recovery?
BTW, make sure you post questions in the q&a section. I'm sure when a mod sees this they will tell you the same and move the thread.
My MyGlacier 4G MINE!!!

Had same issue, card probably had a sector corrupt. Plug into pc and right click select check card for errors and fix. It will say it found and fixed errors, you will be good after that. Thats what I get when I buy a 8gb class 6 card for $7.99
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i had to pull everything off of it onto my computer then reformat the sd card then put everything back on it. i guess i had a corrupt file on it

I was in the process of pulling, reformatting, etc. But, as Johnowa stated, the option to "scan and fix", which I usually ignore, popped up, I thought, "Why not?", and it actually fixed the problem. As was mentioned, it was likely a bad sector. Hope this helps.

As the others have said, see if you can "scan and fix" or pull everything off it and reformat it. BTW, its Android. Droid is Verizons line of Android phones.

Kienz said:
I was in the process of pulling, reformatting, etc. But, as Johnowa stated, the option to "scan and fix", which I usually ignore, popped up, I thought, "Why not?", and it actually fixed the problem. As was mentioned, it was likely a bad sector. Hope this helps.
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I would add one thing here.
Make sure you copy everything off the card BEFORE you "scan and fix" I had done that before without loosing anything. This time (on a 16 GB card I had used in another device previously), after it did the scan and fix, it generated a very long list of bad sectors, etc. and the result was an effective loss of most of the contents.
After the "fix", I reformatted and copied everything back without a problem.

Also... is this when its plugged in? I have noticed that mine likes to go into DISK MODE everytime I plug in the USB to charge. After I chnaged that in settings, I found my cable is slightly bad because if it moves the wrong direction, it pops it into disk mode again.

my apologies for posting in the wrong section i wont let it happen again. so ive tried pluging the phone into the pc to clear or format and my pc wont recognize it tried uninstalling the driver and reinstalling it and tried removing it ftom the phone and putting it in a reader directly into pc and still nothing. most likley i will go buy another today. i can access format sd card from clockwork mod but it stood idle for about 10 minutes saying formatting sd card is that normal i just removed the battery and stopped it

tbigtone210 said:
my apologies for posting in the wrong section i wont let it happen again. so ive tried pluging the phone into the pc to clear or format and my pc wont recognize it tried uninstalling the driver and reinstalling it and tried removing it ftom the phone and putting it in a reader directly into pc and still nothing. most likley i will go buy another today. i can access format sd card from clockwork mod but it stood idle for about 10 minutes saying formatting sd card is that normal i just removed the battery and stopped it
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Sounds like you got a lemon. If this is the one you got with the phone I would call t-mo.

just got off the phone with tmobile they are gonna credit the cost of a new sd card to my account due to htc has no parts available. thanks guys for all the help. Happy Holidays!!

Please post questions in Q&A section.

Aurora ICS sdcard problem.

First I want to thank dzo for his amazing work. Thanks to him, we now have an almost fully functional ICS port!
Now, to get to the point... I upgraded from dzo's v.1.1 to v1.2 ICS yesterday. The ROM is very nice and smooth, and it seems like everything is functioning like it should. BUT, after my first reboot after flashing v1.2, I got the message about corrupt sdcard. So I rebooted into recovery, then rebooted to recovery through recovery again P), and then rebooted normal. The message was still there, so I unplugged the sdcard from my phone and plugged it into my computer through a cardreader. The PC said I had to format it before use, so that's what I tried.. the format-window hung up, and stood still on 0% for about an hour. I got kinda bored of waiting and unplugged the sdcard, then put it back into my phone. Now my phone says something like: "blank sdcard or has an unsupported filesystem etc.). I've tried several sdcard formatting programs, but nothing seems to work :S Now my PC doesn't even recognize my sdcard as an sdcard anymore, but as an empty disk or something.
The worst part is that I actually bought my sdcard yesterday, the same day as got corrupted/blank..
any tips would be appreciated!
edit: My sdcard is a SanDisk Class 4 16GB

Hi,
I have the same sdcard and in most cases my U8800 Pro does not mount correctly this microsd. I don't know if this is a kernel problem or a rom problem.
Anyway I advice you to format your sdcard with a specific format-tool, please download it here:
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/sdfmt3_1.zip
This is a free software developed by Panasonic (if I'm not wrong).
This tool helped me with my sdcard BUT I have to say that Huawei U8800 is a little buggy for the sdcard mount.
Regards
kalo86

kalo86 said:
Hi,
I have the same sdcard and in most cases my U8800 Pro does not mount correctly this microsd. I don't know if this is a kernel problem or a rom problem.
Anyway I advice you to format your sdcard with a specific format-tool, please download it here:
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/sdfmt3_1.zip
This is a free software developed by Panasonic (if I'm not wrong).
This tool helped me with my sdcard BUT I have to say that Huawei U8800 is a little buggy for the sdcard mount.
Regards
kalo86
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Thanks for your reply! Actually I have allready tried ths program. I installed, and opened it. Then I connected the sdcard to the PC, but the program said it couldn't recognize it... So just to be sure it wasn't the program, I tried to connect another sdcard, and that one was recognized. Weird stuff...
Maybe the card is just broken?

This happened to me too. There is nothing you can do, the sd card is broken. Reformatting is impossible, since no reader will recognize the card. You'll just have to buy a new card or get it replaced via warranty.

I have the exact same problem olfyboy, I think the card is ruined

That sucks! :/
well.. time to use my good old 2gb then..

hello guys
plug you sd card in your mobile go in recovery and check did it show your sd card there if not go in advance option reboot in recovery again...
i hope this time you see your sd card
if it this method not work then put ur sd card in some Symbian phone (Nokia, sony ericsson) in symbian phone you are able to format
i hope this method work for you best of luck

maybe a software named Usboot can help you.

Pls try aurora 1.4. Dzo solved sdcard problem

Thanks for your replies guys!
Sadly I think my sdcard is completely broken. No device is able to recognize it, and those who can, says that it's completely blank or does not have a supported file-system.

olfyboy said:
Thanks for your replies guys!
Sadly I think my sdcard is completely broken. No device is able to recognize it, and those who can, says that it's completely blank or does not have a supported file-system.
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From those devices that recognize it, can you format it? Put some files on it?

Blefish said:
From those devices that recognize it, can you format it? Put some files on it?
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No..
Those who can recognize it, and says that it needs to be formatted, doesn't do anything when I click format.
And, no, I can't put any files on it.

olfyboy said:
No..
Those who can recognize it, and says that it needs to be formatted, doesn't do anything when I click format.
And, no, I can't put any files on it.
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I'm still in the same position too, I've tried all the suggestions here.
I can read files but can't write or format.
Read speed is VERY slow (a few bytes per second)

I can't even read my files. I tried my sdcard with 2 different pcs. And none of them recognize it. I think its ruined.

Any news? Is there anyone with solution? :/

Özgürce said:
Any news? Is there anyone with solution? :/
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No.. our sdcards are probably completely broken. Nothing to do with it :/ The only thing you can do about it, is really just to buy a new one.
I, myself, have ended up using an old 2gb sdcard..

I don't get why is happens or why it only happens to us. Any ideas what caused it? I don't care sd-card but I really want my images back in that card. =)

Maybe I can help you
Özgürce said:
I don't get why is happens or why it only happens to us. Any ideas what caused it? I don't care sd-card but I really want my images back in that card. =)
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what is the OS on your PC?
maybe I can help you. first of all you have to install a recovery software on your PC ( I prefer "Recover My Files") and extract your photos from SD to your PC.
then if you ask me I will tell you how to format your SD and use it again.

Idk is it a same situation but 2 weeks ago my sd went broke. Ics was showing its empty which i was sure it wasnt. First i tried it with my old phone but no luck. I can connect it to my comp (both win and ubuntu) via sd card reader and no luck. Then i tried fix permissions in cwm and then it recognized, all my old files were there.
I know it doesnt make any sense but if you guys didnt try this just give it a luck.
G luck.
Sent from my U8800

mca_feat said:
what is the OS on your PC?
maybe I can help you. first of all you have to install a recovery software on your PC ( I prefer "Recover My Files") and extract your photos from SD to your PC.
then if you ask me I will tell you how to format your SD and use it again.
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I think you misunderstood the situation. My phone or my pc doesn't recognize the sdcard. Thy not see ant disk when I attach it. I know what your meaning but the problem bigger than this.
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[Q] Bricked after SD to internal and unlock

Im looking for any suggestions. I just got my moto x 1575 and soon after upgrading to MM, I installed a new micro SD and found that I could use it as a part of the internal storage. I opted for this feature and proceeded on to unlocking my BL afterwards (http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x-style/general/guides-how-to-guides-beginners-t3200808).
All seemed to be going well when I ran 'fastboot reboot' until it wouldnt let me get past the google account login window. This page just loaded endlessly. I rebooted and tried again multiple times with no success.
Next I go into TWRP and wipe data. After that, the phone started to freeze at the blue Motorola logo (before the animation).
Is there anyone who can help? I am wondering if I can simply flash and image and if so which image do I need to flash?
I have fastboot access but ADB will not connect.
I can boot into TWRP but SD memory seems to be messed.
If would really appreciate if someone could assist me with this and willing to donate to anyone who can get me going.

Which phone do you have/where you located (USA?)? Can't point you to a image to flash without knowing. Once you do find the correct image, format microsd card outside phone and put the image on the microsd.

bw03 said:
Which phone do you have/where you located (USA?)? Can't point you to a image to flash without knowing. Once you do find the correct image, format microsd card outside phone and put the image on the microsd.
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Thank you for your reply. I am using the US model, XT1575.
I am unable to access the SD card. I may be able to push files to it but my computer will not recognize the phone in ADB devices right now. Im still trying to work on that.

check device manager on your pc while booted to twrp. look to see if the device has the drivers installed.

rsa 329 said:
check device manager on your pc while booted to twrp. look to see if the device has the drivers installed.
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Ive installed ever driver I can find. It shows up as being installed correctly in in device manger.

ay0ung said:
Ive installed ever driver I can find. It shows up as being installed correctly in in device manger.
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it shows up installed while in adb sideload?

Since you say you already have TWRP on the phone, pull sd card from the phone and format it in windows. No need to use ADB.
Put this image in: http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x-style/development/rom-trupurex-fast-smooth-t3237155.
Put sd card back in phone, boot into TWRP and flash your phone.
BTW, I'm using the linked ROM and its good.

bw03 said:
Since you say you already have TWRP on the phone, pull sd card from the phone and format it in windows. No need to use ADB.
Put this image in: http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x-style/development/rom-trupurex-fast-smooth-t3237155.
Put sd card back in phone, boot into TWRP and flash your phone.
BTW, I'm using the linked ROM and its good.
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Thanks I was actually returning to say I got it resolved. In a similar was as you suggest.
The Micro SD is trash now I think (a shame to b/c I got the 64Gb card yesterday) windows will not format it, in any type format.
However, the adb issue I was having was related to the laptop I was using (running Win10) it seems. I got a laptop from someone else (running Win7) and connected while in TWRP and copied the exact ROM you suggested, bw03.
Wiped, flashed, wiped, and held onto my butt cheeks and it finally booted. I'm ecstatic as this was a Christmas gift.
Anyways... I found a place on Christmas Day with micro SDs (tried to charge me $20 for 8Gb.. lol) poped it in and chose the portable format option in MM and again, I am unable to access memory card and internal storage. I'm still trying to figure this out and will post anything worthwhile.

When you say you can't access card, you mean through windows? If so, you need to pull the menu down on the phone and select mtp when connected via the USB.

bw03 said:
When you say you can't access card, you mean through windows? If so, you need to pull the menu down on the phone and select mtp when connected via the USB.
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Yea, i know that. It does nothing when I select mtp. It reverts back to charging right after.

Yeah, I was reluctant to make sd card into internal. You get a warning that sd card will only work on MXP prior to execution. Not doing it until we get to bottom of this.
Sent from my XT1575 using XDA Free mobile app

chindynasty said:
Yeah, I was reluctant to make sd card into internal. You get a warning that sd card will only work on MXP prior to execution. Not doing it until we get to bottom of this.
Sent from my XT1575 using XDA Free mobile app
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That's a smart move. I have been trying to understand how I fudged it.. I'm certainly not new at this and currently work as a server tech so I know most things like this are user error, but I did everything normally.
I've been trying things all kinds of ways. Installed Ubuntu just to see if I could have any luck there, but nothing.
At my work computer (Windows), I went back to the driver idea. I pluged it in but thought to revoke its previous auths... something I never tried before. Windows checked for the drivers and everything worked well after that.
I'm not sure if that would have resolved it the whole time, but it works well now.
Now i'm worried to even flash another ROM from storage. Ill likely transfer it to internal storage with ES explorer.