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Mounting the Hero (FIXED)

I'm on Windows XP, and all the sudden the only way I can use as mass storage is in recovery with the usb/ms toggle. With the device on and connected I get the USB Debugging Icon and the device charges. I did everything on this thread (that i could was for windows 7) any thoughts? Thanks.
EDIT- my hero just didnt want to be mounted yesterday. today all is well.

Does it even give the option to mount? Have you seen any of those "Your sd card is damaged" errors?

Kcarpenter said:
Does it even give the option to mount? Have you seen any of those "Your sd card is damaged" errors?
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No it doesnt bring up the charge only, blah blah blah options. I am getting no sd card errors either and in recovery everything works fine. I just backed it all up. Should i try reformatting the card you think?

sdotcarlisle said:
No it doesnt bring up the charge only, blah blah blah options. I am getting no sd card errors either and in recovery everything works fine. I just backed it all up. Should i try reformatting the card you think?
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I would reformat the card and also check your USB cable. Lastly, make sure it's not your computers USB port that's causing the problems. Also, plug the USB cable into the motherboard itself on the back of your computer and if you can, test another device to check the ports as well
You should rule out all hardware problems, before actually having to format the card, but that's just me.

pseudoremora said:
I would reformat the card and also check your USB cable. Lastly, make sure it's not your computers USB port that's causing the problems. Also, plug the USB cable into the motherboard itself on the back of your computer and if you can, test another device to check the ports as well
You should rule out all hardware problems, before actually having to format the card, but that's just me.
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yea tried different cords and ports first. no go. restoring the nandroid now to see if worked. *fingers crossed*

Now when i plug it in it reboots and just keeps going through boot loop.

sdotcarlisle said:
Now when i plug it in it reboots and just keeps going through boot loop.
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Sounds like a dead filesystem. I recommend formatting/repartitioning your SD card.
Were/are you using A2SD?

smw6180 said:
Sounds like a dead filesystem. I recommend formatting/repartitioning your SD card.
Were/are you using A2SD?
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I am/was using a2sd. i did repartition; that is when i get boot loop when plugged in

sdotcarlisle said:
I am/was using a2sd. i did repartition; that is when i get boot loop when plugged in
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Repartition back to all fat32 (select 0's for swap/ext), then the rest for fat32.
See if it mounts. If not, probably a bad SD card.
If it does, repartition again, then upgrade ext2 to ext3.
If it mounts you're gold. If not, you might just have a fried SD card.

sdotcarlisle said:
I am/was using a2sd. i did repartition; that is when i get boot loop when plugged in
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How did you go about formatting your card? Did you use a mini sd card adapter and mount your sd card into your computer and format?
Or... did you format your card via recovery, making sure to set swap-size and ext2/3/4 to 0, while leaving your FAT32 set to remainder?
If you did one of the ways above, then try doing the other way and see if that fixes the issue.

I mount my hero every night in bed.

regaw_leinad said:
I mount my hero every night in bed.
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yea i usually eff it. now its effing me.

Try switching to a silicon-based lube....

smw6180 said:
Repartition back to all fat32 (select 0's for swap/ext), then the rest for fat32.
See if it mounts. If not, probably a bad SD card.
If it does, repartition again, then upgrade ext2 to ext3.
If it mounts you're gold. If not, you might just have a fried SD card.
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pseudoremora said:
How did you go about formatting your card? Did you use a mini sd card adapter and mount your sd card into your computer and format?
Or... did you format your card via recovery, making sure to set swap-size and ext2/3/4 to 0, while leaving your FAT32 set to remainder?
If you did one of the ways above, then try doing the other way and see if that fixes the issue.
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i'll try this i did through recovery and did 32 swap. could it be a bad sd even though it'll mount in recovery and in an sd card reader?

tejasrichard said:
When I saw that title with you as the author.....let's just say I thought this thread would be going in a different direction....
Thought maybe you found a new use for the micro-usb port.
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LOL, naw the ports too big

sdotcarlisle said:
i'll try this i did through recovery and did 32 swap. could it be a bad sd even though it'll mount in recovery and in an sd card reader?
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Tried the steps listed above. maybe just a bad sd or i'm bound to only mount in recovery. does that mean i'm too old to mount?

sdotcarlisle said:
Tried the steps listed above. maybe just a bad sd or i'm bound to only mount in recovery. does that mean i'm too old to mount?
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Do you have another SD card lying around you can try?

sdotcarlisle said:
Tried the steps listed above. maybe just a bad sd or i'm bound to only mount in recovery. does that mean i'm too old to mount?
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*gives blue pill*

Ya know, you might try reinstalling the sdk, and updating HTC sync. Your drivers might have gotten corrupted somehow. I had issues with mine intermittently till I did both of the above.

tejasrichard said:
Ya know, you might try reinstalling the sdk, and updating HTC sync. Your drivers might have gotten corrupted somehow. I had issues with mine intermittently till I did both of the above.
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good thinking. thanks

[Q] "can't mount /sdcard" problem in clockworkmod,help

as title, please advice

I see /sdcard is mounted by default.

after i format my sd card on a android device, the problem is solved~ now i have android 3.1 running on my acer a500

same problem
can't solve
please help

If u have an android phone u can format ur card with ur phone. that will solve ur problem, thats the only way
i had the same probleme

Helly Queefy
Same problem here. This is horrible!

Queef Gurl said:
Same problem here. This is horrible!
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please you a android phone to format your micro sd card, that will solve the problem

I had the same issue, tried formatting the sdcard with my PC (fat32) but that did not work. The device itself running plain Android 3.0.1 never had an issue to access this fat32 formatted card but nogo with CWM.
I then bought a fresh new, preformatted sdcard and with this one it worked like a charm.
Maybe formatting with Android would have solved my issue too...
Regards,
Kuni

How to use your PC to format!
Hey guys,
I'd strongly recommend using this program to format SD/SDHC Cards of any type:
SD Formatter 3.0 for SD/SDHC/SDXC
It works wonders and negates the need to format with an Android device.
Hope it works for you as it did for me!
Cheers,
Alex

Brilliant .. thanks! I struggled with this problem for hours and used multiple SDHC cards--none worked, until I formatted with that tool!

I just can't mount my sdcard at all it works fine in my fascinate but when I pop it in the micro sd slot it doesn't work
Sent from my MIUI Fascinate

thanks so much! was having a bear of a time, couldn't figure out why it still worked in honeycomb but not in CWM. got it now! even tried formatting with android phone and computer before. now onto trying my custom cooked taboonay! lol that's so much fun to say...

I eventually gave up and put my new rom on a thumb drive. Clockwork mounted my thumb drive as /sdcard and all was gravy.
Sent from my A500 using Tapatalk

I had the same problem and had to buy a different brand sd card and it worked fine. I was using a Walgreen genaic card and cwr wouldn't see it then got a sandisk and it was all good.

Sandisk ultra 32GB class 10 doesn't work

My S4 does not recognize my new sd card. Just got it today I put my photos and music on it but it is not detected on the phone, any fixes? Already formated it twice

You might have to format it to fat32 or install a kernel that recognizes your current microsd format.

i formatted to fat32 on my PC with a 64GB microSD. from then on it works fine. when i got the S4 i just swapped it in and it works fine. full format to fat32 and see if phone recognizes it.

It came default formated to fat32, gonna try to do it again and see what happens

Bizarre48 said:
It came default formated to fat32, gonna try to do it again and see what happens
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I always let my phone format new SD cards...

I still get nothing, it gets recognized on my computer and I can see the files through a file expolorer on the phone, but whatever I copy from my computer over does not show up in gallery or the music app

Bizarre48 said:
I still get nothing, it gets recognized on my computer and I can see the files through a file expolorer on the phone, but whatever I copy from my computer over does not show up in gallery or the music app
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Have you tried formatting it with the phone?

joeybear23 said:
Have you tried formatting it with the phone?
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Yeah, formatted on my phone first, then computer. still nothing

Bizarre48 said:
Yeah, formatted on my phone first, then computer. still nothing
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weird...

joeybear23 said:
weird...
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Yup, I'm using goldeneye rom, gonna try to flash back to stock

[Q] cannot format my 64gig sd card by any means

Hey!
not sure if its belong to here but couldn't find anywhere better, any way-
I'm trying to format my s4 sd card's. sandisk 64 gig ultra.
can't do that.
first I tried to just use window's one(card in an adapter in my laptop)
it said that it's locked. it wasn't
I tried to use some other software, deep format ect'
did it thing, said that its been formatted, but it's all still there! I tried to manually delete the files on the phone, it "deleted" them, but when i replug it to the laptop they were back!
what can I do to finally format it?
thanks!

galshahaf said:
Hey!
not sure if its belong to here but couldn't find anywhere better, any way-
I'm trying to format my s4 sd card's. sandisk 64 gig ultra.
can't do that.
first I tried to just use window's one(card in an adapter in my laptop)
it said that it's locked. it wasn't
I tried to use some other software, deep format ect'
did it thing, said that its been formatted, but it's all still there! I tried to manually delete the files on the phone, it "deleted" them, but when i replug it to the laptop they were back!
what can I do to finally format it?
thanks!
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I reformat my 64gb with this tutorial from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1803814
Sent from Hell

no good. on the app it shows that it works, but not really. the drive itself stays untouched..

galshahaf said:
Hey!
not sure if its belong to here but couldn't find anywhere better, any way-
I'm trying to format my s4 sd card's. sandisk 64 gig ultra.
can't do that.
first I tried to just use window's one(card in an adapter in my laptop)
it said that it's locked. it wasn't
I tried to use some other software, deep format ect'
did it thing, said that its been formatted, but it's all still there! I tried to manually delete the files on the phone, it "deleted" them, but when i replug it to the laptop they were back!
what can I do to finally format it?
thanks!
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In windows in run type cmd n hit enter.
now type the foll command: convert drive_letter:/fs:ntfs
you can change ntfs to FAT32 as per your preference. It will clear your lock issue n will also format ur sdcard. All the best n let me know the result.

Galaxy note 3 doesnt recognize my SD Card

Hello all,
I have been using Galaxy note 3 for the last 3 years or so, have rooted it, installed AOSP and stock ROMs (including the latest Note 7 ports) on it. So I have a fair understanding of how the phone works, and am able to work with errors on a very comfortable basis (sometimes, with help from other XDA members as well).
Now, here's where I am stuck. I was running a Note 7 port ROMs (Phronesis and Magma-NX), and also ran an AOSP ROM. Since last week, my phone has not been able to recognize my SD Card (I have two cards: one, a 32gb card, and the other a 128gb card) on either of the stock or AOSP ROMs. It says: Corrupted. So I begin to format the card (both of them) on the phone itself, and I keep getting this message when I try to format my SD Card via phone:
thread binder_7 gave up waiting for partitionPublic after 180000ms
The SD Cards format properly on my laptop. The end result is my phone doesn't recognize any memory cards, and I basically end up working with the internal storage of 32gb. I havent encountered this error before, and I have no clue about what to do. I have tried googling it, and Google gives me a result for partitionPrivate and not partitionPublic. I dont know if these are the same things or not, and in either case, I absolutely dont know
what to do.
Can anyone suggest/guide as to what should I do?

I had an issue where my phone wouldn't see an SD card unless it was given a name when attached to a PC, might be nothing to do with it but could be worth a try?
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3dd1 said:
I had an issue where my phone wouldn't see an SD card unless it was given a name when attached to a PC, might be nothing to do with it but could be worth a try?
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Sorry buddy, but didn't quite understand when you said" given it a name". How and what did you do to name your SD Card? I will definitely try anything to make it work

I have same problem and I never fix it. I follow so many guides from Google without luck, seems that my N3 decide to not read external memory any more.

Badbullet said:
I have same problem and I never fix it. I follow so many guides from Google without luck, seems that my N3 decide to not read external memory any more.
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Hey buddy, in that case, what did you do? Did you end up using a lot of cloud based storage on your note 3?

Shreyu said:
Hey buddy, in that case, what did you do? Did you end up using a lot of cloud based storage on your note 3?
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Yes, I use Google Photo app for my pictures and videos, Spotify 4 music, large files like Twrp and Titanium backups stored on external hard drive.

Badbullet said:
Yes, I use Google Photo app for my pictures and videos, Spotify 4 music, large files like Twrp and Titanium backups stored on external hard drive.
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I guess that is probably working good for you; do you have your photos and videos setup to be directly posted on the Cloud then?

Definitely, you have various options how to upload directly, with mobile plans, only with WiFi, only on charge.

Awesome, thanks buddy.. Did you try to have someone look up the SD Card slot to see if it was damaged or if it needed a replacement?

Shreyu said:
Hello all,
I have been using Galaxy note 3 for the last 3 years or so, have rooted it, installed AOSP and stock ROMs (including the latest Note 7 ports) on it. So I have a fair understanding of how the phone works, and am able to work with errors on a very comfortable basis (sometimes, with help from other XDA members as well).
Now, here's where I am stuck. I was running a Note 7 port ROMs (Phronesis and Magma-NX), and also ran an AOSP ROM. Since last week, my phone has not been able to recognize my SD Card (I have two cards: one, a 32gb card, and the other a 128gb card) on either of the stock or AOSP ROMs. It says: Corrupted. So I begin to format the card (both of them) on the phone itself, and I keep getting this message when I try to format my SD Card via phone:
thread binder_7 gave up waiting for partitionPublic after 180000ms
The SD Cards format properly on my laptop. The end result is my phone doesn't recognize any memory cards, and I basically end up working with the internal storage of 32gb. I havent encountered this error before, and I have no clue about what to do. I have tried googling it, and Google gives me a result for partitionPrivate and not partitionPublic. I dont know if these are the same things or not, and in either case, I absolutely dont know
what to do.
Can anyone suggest/guide as to what should I do?
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Just to check, have you tried to convert your sd cards into internal storage (adoptable storage) before the problem occurs ?

@zlazaar I'm not sure bro.. All I did was just copied one app from my internal memory to the external SD Card. But I didn't jot try to convert Tele external SD into an internal memory.. Do you think that's what the issue is here?

Shreyu said:
@zlazaar I'm not sure bro.. All I did was just copied one app from my internal memory to the external SD Card. But I didn't jot try to convert Tele external SD into an internal memory.. Do you think that's what the issue is here?
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Can you try this please :
- Format one of your sd cards using your PC (use this recommended tool)
- Make sure you choose FAT32 as file system before format
- Check if you got the correct total size of the formatted sd card
- Shutdown your phone, put your sdcard, boot directly to recovery
if the recovery is able to recognize the sd card with the correct total size, then you don't have a hardware failure.

Shreyu said:
Sorry buddy, but didn't quite understand when you said" given it a name". How and what did you do to name your SD Card? I will definitely try anything to make it work
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When you connect it to a PC, when viewing My Computer as it used to be called, you can see all of the drives, C:, D: etc, on that screen if you right click above your SD card drive select rename, it should be under removable drives. A long shot but also an easy one so worth a punt.

3dd1 said:
When you connect it to a PC, when viewing My Computer as it used to be called, you can see all of the drives, C:, D: etc, on that screen if you right click above your SD card drive select rename, it should be under removable drives. A long shot but also an easy one so worth a punt.
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I totally agree, sd card volume must have a name.
Thank you

zlazaar said:
Can you try this please :
- Format one of your sd cards using your PC (use this recommended tool)
- Make sure you choose FAT32 as file system before format
- Check if you got the correct total size of the formatted sd card
- Shutdown your phone, put your sdcard, boot directly to recovery
if the recovery is able to recognize the sd card with the correct total size, then you don't have a hardware failure.
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@zlazaar Hey buddy, so I downloaded the SD Formatter, and did a quick format (should I have done full Format - if yes, which one - Erase or overwrite). I also tried the Format Size Adjustment ON and OFF.
I have 2 SD Cards, one 128gb and the other a 32gb. The SD Formatter formatted the 128gb card as an exFAT, and the it formatted the 32gb card as a FAT32. However, TWRP still didn't recognize either of the cards. I still dont have the cards running on the phone..

3dd1 said:
When you connect it to a PC, when viewing My Computer as it used to be called, you can see all of the drives, C:, D: etc, on that screen if you right click above your SD card drive select rename, it should be under removable drives. A long shot but also an easy one so worth a punt.
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Hey bud, so I did rename the SD Cards, but still, not working. The phone still doesn't recognize the memory cards