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[Q] Android wont boot on SDHC card?

Hello all, first post here.
I just bought an HD2 from eBay and it's in immaculate condition. I checked the HSPL and it was 1.66 Cotulla. Along with the phone came a 2GB SD card, to which I put darkstones FroyoStone 2.2 with Sense; and it has been working perfectly with no issues (except battery lasts about 12 hours with average usage).
However I want to install and test other builds on my 8GB SDHC which I have lying around. I have formatted this many times to GUID/MacFS, ext3 and FAT32 over it's lifespan.
When I tried to boot Android on my Omnia i900, I had an error with the SD Card and it never loaded; now when I boot the same or different Android ROMs on the HD2, they never boot. Even the exact ROM I have working on a 2GB SD card that I am using as a daily is not working on this card.
Could anybody help me with this issue?

sounds like the sdcard may have died from all the formats/flash's...
do you have a partition manager program etc that can check the card its self? most linex based partition programs will tell you if you have dead blocks.
personaly if im takeing a card thats had all sorts of partitions thrown at it, i format it, wipe it, then do a 0 wipe, this usualy fix's it.

Can I do this using the OSX Disk Utility to 'Zero Out' all the data or should I boot into Ubuntu and somehow get gParted working?
Thanks

i have no experiance with osx, but yes, gparted will usualy do the trick.

disk utility worked, thanks for the help. saves me buying a new card

good to hear! its amazing how much faster things run on a clean card...
format people!

I have question that goes with this one....I am running core series V4.1 it has the andriod boot on the windows side and I used one andriod build in this mode , but when I try others it seems it does want to go? What could be the issue?

Seems I just booted up Evo Core series on my phone, WOW i may never back to windows

FenderGuy said:
Seems I just booted up Evo Core series on my phone, WOW i may never back to windows
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hey guys,
same pbl, got a kingston cl. 4, 16gb and can't boot android...
got screen HTC logo on black background, then it restart..
seems that card is too slow for android on HD2.... I don't know...
will try to format...
Modesty23
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SD card issues
modesty23 said:
hey guys,
same pbl, got a kingston cl. 4, 16gb and can't boot android...
got screen HTC logo on black background, then it restart..
seems that card is too slow for android on HD2.... I don't know...
will try to format...
Modesty23
Rom ENERGY (LAST 27.12.10)
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Had the same issue, Kinston class 4 , 4 GB card that just wont run Android on my HD2... Then I took a 1GB class 2 SD card that came with my HTC Touch (ELF) and it runs like a charm!!! Runing darkstones superRAM Froyo build and its BLAZING FAST! People do tend to have issues with Kinston class 4 SD cards for some weird reason, so imma gonna buy myself a 8 gig class 2 noname card and post here if I have any issues...

Frustrated!

I am running energyROM on my tmo HD2 and Ive downloaded 3 different versions of Android and it cant seem to boot any of them! I never had a problem booting Android now I cant at all! I formatted my card 3 times, flashed new rom and it still just sits there at the screen with the HTC logo, what do I need to install to get it to work again?

wat is ur radio?
x.xx.50.xx works with android.
and read through the forums.
i am sure u can find watever answers u need there.

my radio is 2.08.50.08_2

King Royalty said:
my radio is 2.08.50.08_2
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hey
2.08 is ok, id go for something more recent tho... 2.12 - 2.15
take a look here for some trouble shooting tips:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7088391&postcount=3

I give up, I installed new zimage, initrd.gz, module, flashed the radio to 2.12, formatted my card and it just doesnt wanna boot any further past the screen with the htc logo.

King Royalty said:
I give up, I installed new zimage, initrd.gz, module, flashed the radio to 2.12, formatted my card and it just doesnt wanna boot any further past the screen with the htc logo.
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have you tried different SD card.

denyboy said:
have you tried different SD card.
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I tried another card and it worked, but the card thats not working on is a 16GB SanDisk Class 2 that I paid $40 for! Is there anyway to fix this issue?

ouch! $40 for a class 2?
ive had luck in the past reviving " dead " sd cards bu useing a linux box, removing the partition and reformating from scratch.
its worked when windows wouldnt. on the plus side a linux box will report bad sectors etc that would otherwise be overlooked by mr bills silly os.
if all is good to go, your lucky.
on a side note, geting a fast (class 6) card will make a diferance on how well android runs.

Android don't start on 16 g sd card class 6

i have new 16 g sd card class 6 Serioux but android doesn't want to start. i tried all type of format, even partitioning. nothing work. Somone have an ideea why ? On my old sd card toshiba 8g class 4 android working great.

criszz said:
i have new 16 g sd card class 6 Serioux but android doesn't want to start. i tried all type of format, even partitioning. nothing work. Somone have an ideea why ? On my old sd card toshiba 8g class 4 android working great.
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Did you format, within phone, to FAT32? It looks as though you have experience with builds so I'm sure that you are installing the Android folder on the root of the SD card...make sure that you don't create a folder and then add the build folder to the root folder; it creates a sub and that causes problems.

deadmansink said:
Did you format, within phone, to FAT32? It looks as though you have experience with builds so I'm sure that you are installing the Android folder on the root of the SD card...make sure that you don't create a folder and then add the build folder to the root folder; it creates a sub and that causes problems.
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thank you for answer , i'm not a newbie on Android. this card always was formatted with fat32 on pc , and phone, also with panasonic sd formatte 2.0. Card is working well , 5-6 mb on test with hdd tune. i made him active , bootable , xfat , fat 16, partitioned in 2, changed cluster, tried everything who cross my mind without any succes. No build start. i waitted 2 hour's for data.img to be created but no succes. i tried with version copy pasted from my old card who works, still nothing. i don't know what else to do .
btw, i checked your thread, very nice job.

criszz said:
thank you for answer , i'm not a newbie on Android. this card always was formatted with fat32 on pc , and phone, also with panasonic sd formatte 2.0. Card is working well , 5-6 mb on test with hdd tune. i made him active , bootable , xfat , fat 16, partitioned in 2, changed cluster, tried everything who cross my mind without any succes. No build start. i waitted 2 hour's for data.img to be created but no succes. i tried with version copy pasted from my old card who works, still nothing. i don't know what else to do .
btw, i checked your thread, very nice job.
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It might be as simple as the "Serioux" card isn't supported; the only other thing that I know off the top of my head is at the bottom of my thread; I had found a link to the formatting issue and that's where I came up with the idea of formatting within WinMo.

deadmansink said:
It might be as simple as the "Serioux" card isn't supported; the only other thing that I know off the top of my head is at the bottom of my thread; I had found a link to the formatting issue and that's where I came up with the idea of formatting within WinMo.
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what u say is stuck on green htc logo , well, i pass this step, im stuck on next logo/animation, just plays over and over.

criszz said:
what u say is stuck on green htc logo , well, i pass this step, im stuck on next logo/animation, just plays over and over.
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I know that it does take some builds to load as it creates the data.img, especially a larger one; if you opted for the 1gb for instance.
You are using the same build as the other card? And, you loaded the file the same way? Did you do it through USB connect?
Let's see if we can't get this goin'!

criszz said:
i have new 16 g sd card class 6 Serioux but android doesn't want to start. i tried all type of format, even partitioning. nothing work. Somone have an ideea why ? On my old sd card toshiba 8g class 4 android working great.
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What build are you using, or trying to use? If I don't answer right-quick it's 'cause I'm getting ready for X-Mas...

deadmansink said:
I know that it does take some builds to load as it creates the data.img, especially a larger one; if you opted for the 1gb for instance.
You are using the same build as the other card? And, you loaded the file the same way? Did you do it through USB connect?
Let's see if we can't get this goin'!
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tried three build's on both sd card's. on toshiba 8g all works fine. on serioux 16 g stuck. right now i'm on serioux card with Core_Droid_HD_V0.4 build and i watch that startup nice animation with droid in a fire circle. boring . i plan to let in that way till morning. like u say maybe this ''serioux'' card's are not suported. i'll report later. hope santa will come ))

still don't working.

criszz said:
still don't working.
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I think it might be the card. I know that I've seen class 2 and 4 around working; your "Serioux" card is the only one that I can find, as far as brand, and nothing about it working or not working on HD2, maybe return it and get another brand?

It's definately the card. I bought a wintec class 10 16gb and android wont run hardley at all on it, went and bought a 16gb sandisk class 2 at radioshack and android runs flawless on it. The shame is that the sandisk class 2 tests at class 10 speeds. They have it on Newegg for $34, Get model # SDSDQ-016G-A11M. There are two versions on newegg so make sure you order the right one. You won't be disappointed.

thank u all for support. i will try to get another brand. in this time maybe android will boot from nand

Have you tried formatting your SD card with WinMo? This helped someone a couple of months ago, it's got something to do with a partition index file.

StephanV said:
Have you tried formatting your SD card with WinMo? This helped someone a couple of months ago, it's got something to do with a partition index file.
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yes , tryed everything. nothing works.

I used to have a similiar problem on some builds here.
Have u tried replacing a builds kernel, say hastarin because that definitely helped me boot into Android. I faced the same issue Aa you too.. which build are u flashing too btw?
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[Q] Compatible/Recommended SDHC cards?

Hello everyone, I would have posted this under:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=881937
but my less then 10 post restriction is not allowing me to .
My problem is once the ROM boots up, as soon as it says "Preparing SD Card", my phone freezes. The only thing I can think of is that I have an incompatible SD card. I am currently using the one that came with my phone which is a class 2 16gb SanDisk. What would you guys recommend that I use?

Use a program called SDFormatter (from Panasonic) .. format it.
Then use windows format utility to give it a slow format 4096 cluster FAT32
Works great for me on "broken" cards.

He's right. The stock card should work.

reodan92 said:
Hello everyone, I would have posted this under:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=881937
but my less then 10 post restriction is not allowing me to .
My problem is once the ROM boots up, as soon as it says "Preparing SD Card", my phone freezes. The only thing I can think of is that I have an incompatible SD card. I am currently using the one that came with my phone which is a class 2 16gb SanDisk. What would you guys recommend that I use?
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A class 2 Sandisk should be fine unless it's defective. Maybe you have build setup wrong... have you tried a different build? Try that and see if it works. Are you trying to dualboot or anything like that? Or load the build with magldr?

Azerox said:
Use a program called SDFormatter (from Panasonic) .. format it.
Then use windows format utility to give it a slow format 4096 cluster FAT32
Works great for me on "broken" cards.
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Alright thanks for the info, I'll give that a try and see how it goes.
jvillejoe said:
He's right. The stock card should work.
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zarathustrax said:
A class 2 Sandisk should be fine unless it's defective. Maybe you have build setup wrong... have you tried a different build? Try that and see if it works. Are you trying to dualboot or anything like that? Or load the build with magldr?
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Possibly and no I haven't tried a different build yet but I will if this continues to happen. I am not dual booting at this moment but I am using magldr to boot up android.

reodan92 said:
Possibly and no I haven't tried a different build yet but I will if this continues to happen. I am not dual booting at this moment but I am using magldr to boot up android.
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If you are using magldr, you need a build compatible with magldr or edit the init.rc file in the build to make it work with magldr. Look at the thread in my signature... post 2 has some builds that I edited to work with magldr. I'll be adding more soon.

Alright, well I've formatted my sd card and now it's worse then before. It just stays stuck at the MAGDLR screen and doesn't boot up at all. As far as I know the build is compatible with MAGDLR so I'm not sure what the problem is.

Partition Problem - Android and WP7

Hi,
I'm using wp7 now for more than 2 months and i am quite happy. i can do everything i want to. but now i wanted to install android, so that i can dual boot both of them.
as i have only one 16gb sd card i followed the steps mentioned in the 3rd method, here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=913815 .
But Partition Wizard Home Edition only shows one partition of 200 mb. now i cant really delete the bigger one and create a new one.
maybe you can tell me what i am doing wrong and find a solution. furthermore i am not sure about the right android version i have to use, because i don't know the meaning of nand, sd , magldr...can i use this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=970542 ?

Hi bluffmaster26,
On my notebook card reader i also can't see partitions on my 16gb sd card. But everything is ok when i use external USB card reader. Try with such card reader.

did u try it on a different computer?sometimes windows 7 gets messed up?
if that doesnt work,try to post your mini partition screenshot,
i have a 16 gb sd card as well. working gr8
(dont forget to thanks the developers )

hey all,
andreyyor tipp helped.
thanks a lot!!