I believe I found the problem with rebooting when trying to tether/mount your sd card. If you have anything that is system related running from sd card, it will reboot when you try to mount it to your pc. I tried this a few dozen times last night and today and certain apps, like the theme I use, Rover blue. If I move it to my sd card and run it from there, I get a reboot all the time. If I move it back to my phone, it mounts flawlessly. I would suggest to anyone having this reboot problem, check what you have running from your sd card and if system related, move it to the phone and try it. Works great for me.
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ugh, here we go:
I am running cyanogenmod 4.04 with the latest recovery. I have the hard spl. I am not themed. I am using auto apps2sd with partions.
Soooo, this was working well until I had to take out my sd card for something. As soon as I did, the whole phone froze up, so I restarted. The first 'alert noise' that usually occurs after startup happpened at the end of the android screen. After this I was bombarded by a HELLUVA lotta force closes. I mean, all over the place. In these was included advanced launcher which I had my home set as as default. They would all loop, and I couldn't do anything. Oddly enough, the notification bar was still working, and I was able to view and answer an email!
My question is as follows:
1: what did I do wrong
2: what can I do to fix it.
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For several reasons, I would really like to avoid wiping at the moment, so if there are any alternatives, I'd appreciate it.
1) took out sd card
2) fix_permissions in recovery
evilkorn said:
1) took out sd card
2) fix_permissions in recovery
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Then I can put it back in and reboot?
EDIT: I did the above and nothing interesting happened.
It might be worth noting, however, that I rebooted without the sd card, installed ahome lite, and then didn't set a default home. I was able to use 'home' with the sd card in, and that works fine, as well as the apks packaged in cm (dialer, gmail, alarm clock ect.)
So basically it's like this with Apps2SD... say you are running Windows on your desktop, but you have all your programs installed to an external hard drive, you have a whole lot of programs up and running (not to mention you have your pagefile split across your drives - dalvik-cache), and you rip that external hard drive off. What do you expect to happen? Major system failure.
When you are running Apps2SD, the only time it is safe to remove your SD card is when the phone is NOT booted or booting. Meaning, it has to be off or in either the bootloader or recovery modes.
You may have to format the EXT partition of your SD card, wipe, and reflash your ROM.
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So basically it's like this with Apps2SD... say you are running Windows on your desktop, but you have all your programs installed to an external hard drive, you have a whole lot of programs up and running (not to mention you have your pagefile split across your drives - dalvik-cache), and you rip that external hard drive off. What do you expect to happen? Major system failure.
When you are running Apps2SD, the only time it is safe to remove your SD card is when the phone is NOT booted or booting. Meaning, it has to be off or in either the bootloader or recovery modes.
You may have to format the EXT partition of your SD card, wipe, and reflash your ROM.
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****.....let me see if I an access my sd card with this adapter, hold on.
ugh, put the card in and reboot into recovery and go to the console and type 'fix_permissions', you have to have cyan recovery or use the one with more options like the RA, link in sig, i think there is even an option for it and you don't have to type it in console.
i was just trying out andftp (unsure if this was the reason, but it was the last thing i did) off the marketplace and couldnt get it to stay connected. decided to end that and reboot, phone started back up saying sd card not found and the notice asks me to "format cancel"
just put the sdcard in my pc and its showing everything on the card so i'm backing it up. have been using it no problem for the past 20days so its not the format of the card or anything. once i'm done backing up i figure i'll reformat the card and see how that goes but couldnt find anything searching the forums. anyone had this problem or possibly why it started doing this after a restart of the phone?
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i was just trying out andftp (unsure if this was the reason, but it was the last thing i did) off the marketplace and couldnt get it to stay connected. decided to end that and reboot, phone started back up saying sd card not found and the notice asks me to "format cancel"
just put the sdcard in my pc and its showing everything on the card so i'm backing it up. have been using it no problem for the past 20days so its not the format of the card or anything. once i'm done backing up i figure i'll reformat the card and see how that goes but couldnt find anything searching the forums. anyone had this problem or possibly why it started doing this after a restart of the phone?
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I had this issue when I had my CLIQ. This was the beginning of my SD card dying. I hope its not what yours is doing, but just was similar to what happened to mine before it died on me all together.
i just got it roughly 20 days ago, hope its not
I've had a similar problem with my SD card. I could read the files just fine on a pc - albeit a manuell fsck found errors which could not be corrected even after several passes.
After reformating the card it now works fine again. This happend about two weeks ago.
after backup and reformat it still wouldnt read in phone, tried putting files back on also. finally booted phone up without a sdcard in, rebooted with it in and it recognized it. stock, not rooted, hopefully doesn't happen again
My nook color stays not much longer than 1min after loading all the apps & just after that it reboots. I've tried installing a fresh rom couple of times & wiping each & everything but just after installing all the apps again, it reboots. Have tried both by installing it manually & restoring through titanium backup as well, but same result. It works fine only when I remove my micro sd. I know that some apps doesn't works when installing in micro sd & that's why I've installed all my apps in internal memory. I never faced that issue when I was using Phiremod v6.3 build. Recently after moving into the latest nightly build, this issue occurred. Please tell me how can I resolve this issue? I've been trying to find the solution from so many days but couldn't able to find. Thanks
You could use ROM Manager to restore the last ROM if you did a backup or just reinstall it. I am a little confused about what you mean by loading all the apps. Apps are generally loaded as you use them, not at boot up. When you first boot up you can usually see the SD card icon at the bottom of the screen before it gets mounted. It is possible the card got corrupted. If you don't have anything on it but app backups and it works fine when the card is out you could try reformatting the card on your PC or with a camera that uses micro SDHC cards.
You also might have a misbehaving app loading on startup.
When I first boot the system, the sd card icon shows at the bottom of the screen & disappears after loading all the games from it. After that I can see all my apps & games in app drawer but after a min, it gets reboot. I only have games in sd card, not a single app & neither any app in my internal memory which loads at startup.
Well if the nook boots and runs just fine without the SD-card inserted, then we can be pretty certain that something on the card is messed up. Lot's of possibilities: Corrupted .apk file, partially corrupted file structure on the SD-card itself, Hell it could also be auto-update panicking because it's trying to update an app that has yet to load off the SD-card.
First thing I would try is formatting the SD-card within CM7.
Also try turning off auto-update
If that fails, connect the SD-card to your computer and scan it with windows to check for any file table corruption.
If that fails, it's hard times ahead for you. You'll have to go through the apps one-by-one to see which one is being the little bastard.
Good luck.
Thanx for The help. But all I have on my SD card is just game. Before installing anything on my internal memory, I restored my games backup 1st to my SD card through titanium backup. It was then working absolutely fine. After that I installed apps manually just to see which app is causung error. But all were installed without any problem, used for a while then I manually reboot. Since then I am getting this issue.
Is this the right forum for support questions?
I have a MT4G running 2.2.1 rooted
I have been having this problem for a long, long time. I'm at my wits end.
If I remove the SD card, plug the phone in to the PC, shut down, or restart then the phone seems to forget how to access apps that are on the SD card. They show up on my home screen as the generic android icon(all of them the same) and don't appear at all in the app drawer. Apps not on SD work fine. I can go into Astro and see the files, all of them. I can open videos, music, pictures, etc. that are on it. But if I try to click on an app that is installed to it, it says "Could not launch the requested activity." App Manager shows the apps, but with generic icons and no info and all apps show computing instead of sizes. Settings>SD Card shows the card & the sizes but won't unmount.
On top of that, it won't let me install or uninstall any apps unless I remove the SD Card. Sometimes even when the SD card apps are showing up, I still can't install apps.
I've been at this for months now. I have tried EVERYTHING every single responder to previous posts has suggested. Pull the battery, pull the SD card, pull the sim card, unmount(would freeze and not do anything), reset, format, different SD cards in this phone(found those apps fine that I also had), this SD card in other phones(found it fine, but only the apps that that phone also had), This SD card in the PC with no phone(found it fine), mounting it through recovery, fixing permissions, deleting and reinstalling things, EVERYTHING! I am so far beyond frustrated at this point I'm going insane.
I can get the apps back after dozens of tries of pulling the battery, pulling the SD, rebooting, shutting down, etc in various orders and sometimes it takes days to get them back. But to then say, "OK they are back I'm never restarting again," is unrealistic and then of course apps stop installing/uninstalling and I have to reboot. And poof, gone again! :-/
I have everything thoroughly backed up with Titanium Pro and I did a Nandroid backup before doing a factory reset, but my god was that annoying having to redo everything, and it didn't even work. I've uninstalled apps individually to see if it was a specific app. I've done the reverse and uninstalled everything and reinstalled one at a time to see if one triggered it, and it kept happening randomly, never twice after the same app.
So the only conclusions I have been able to form are that it's not any of the apps, and it's not the SD card itself. Someone please, please put me out of misery and give me a new solution!
Try new SD card.If it is still happening, try flash anther Rom.
Thanks for the reply.
Tried new SD Cards already. Will see what new ROMs are out to try.
Out of curiosity, did you format the card to FAT 32?
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Out of curiosity, did you format the card to FAT 32?
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Yes. I formatted it on the pc and also tried a format in the phone the one time I was able to get it to unmount.
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if you have a custome recovery try format the sd by this way try mount and unmount by recovery and say what happens
I had been using a 16GB external SD card on my phone and it had been working fine. I decided to swap it out for an 8GB card and now my phone doesn't even see that the card is installed. When I try to mount the card using the storage settings, it tells me that it's preparing the SD card and then it doesn't do anything else.
I've tried reformatting the card, reinstalling CM9, purging both cache and Dalvik. Nothing seems to help. The card works perfectly on my PC. What should I do to get the card to work on my phone?
What happens if you put the 16 back in? Does it mount or does it fall into the same behavior as the 8? So your file explore won't see the emmc or it is just that settings->storage doesn't see it?
Just so we are clear (and I assume you know this b/c you are running nightlies) but I have to ask, you know that External_SD is now the emmc? Sorry.
Thank you for your help. When I put the 16GB back in it acts the same way now. When I browse to the emmc folder with Root Explorer, it shows it as being empty, even though I have the SD Card installed. For some reason, it's just not mounting any of them at all. Very weird.
Did you unmount it before you took it out initially? Maybe try putting it in and rebooting and see if it mounts. Or try rebooting w/o it and them putting it in to see if it remounts. Gotta be something simple cause those are always the hardest to find.
I would suggest a few options then.
1. Post something in the CM9 thread and maybe someone will know a little more about it and possibly some code that you might type in the re-mount it. I have an idea what it would be but I am not running CM9 now, so not sure I can do it ad-hoc.
2. If you can see your internal, then maybe make a nandroid and Odin back to stock 2.1, then reinstall. (but your OP says that you already did that, hmm.)
3. There was a mount fix floating around somewhere on Euphoria or Passion maybe Slim or AOKP. That was mainly for mounting to PC.
See what Faultexception thinks, since he is maintaining the CM9 ROM.
I did unmount it before removing it. I've tried all of the steps you've suggested and even posted on the CM9 thread. Hopefully someone on there has dealt with this before. Thanks for your help. I appreciate it.
I too is having the exact issue, have tried all the above and still nothing.
Haha been having this issue on ics passion for months.. ive just ggotten over it.
My 8gb doesnt work but my exact same model/brand 4gb does.. nothint i can do will fix it.
ive tried secure formatting to every fs imaginable and several other things
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