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[Q] SD Card Help!

Hey guys. I'm currently running this ROM, I've been using it for a few days and have had no problems but today, when I turned the phone off and turned it back on, it took ages to turn back on. Then when it did it all looked them same but was kept freezing etc., then up in the notification bar it said "SD Card Removed Unexpectedly" then my phone went crazy with FC's.
So I took out the battery and restarted the phone. Then, it would turn on and go to the lock screen but then it would reboot and be at a continuius* boot loop of the HTC 'Quietly Brilliant' screen.
So then I took out the battery again, this time I took out the SD card too and booted up and my phone was normal again. Obviously with no phone storage though as there was SD card in. Then after I just skipped the setup I put my SD card back in to my phone and went to the music player and all my saved songs on my SD card played. But no internal storage (I have the SD card partitioned with a 1GB Ext3 partition). Then with the SD card in knowing it still works I rebooted again, only to come back to the HTC screen again.
So basically, how can I fix this?
If I'm going to need to format my SD card is there a way I can backup what's in the Ext3 partition?
Thanks,
L.

Bump. Need to be able to use my phone properly again urgently. Thanks.

Skellyyy said:
Bump. Need to be able to use my phone properly again urgently. Thanks.
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It sounds like something is really funky (faulty hardware?) with either your SD card or your phone. You could try reformatting it with that Panasonic tool...
You can backup your SD-EXT partition with CWM/CWR. You can boot CWM from MAGLDR without flashing anything. Just put zImage and initrd.gz from the CWM download on the root of your SD card and boot "AD SD" from MAGLDR.

Digital Outcast said:
It sounds like something is really funky (faulty hardware?) with either your SD card or your phone. You could try reformatting it with that Panasonic tool...
You can backup your SD-EXT partition with CWM/CWR. You can boot CWM from MAGLDR without flashing anything. Just put zImage and initrd.gz from the CWM download on the root of your SD card and boot "AD SD" from MAGLDR.
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Thanks for the reply. It's not the phone as I have a 2GB SD card in it right now but that's not big enough.
Yeah I have a problem with CWM, when I click AD SD it says some Kernel error thing.
Is there any other way to find the files in my Ext partition using my computer?

Skellyyy said:
Thanks for the reply. It's not the phone as I have a 2GB SD card in it right now but that's not big enough.
Yeah I have a problem with CWM, when I click AD SD it says some Kernel error thing.
Is there any other way to find the files in my Ext partition using my computer?
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Unfortunately not that I am aware of. Where are the CWM files located on your SD card? Are they on the root or in a subfolder? Did you modify the path MAGLDR looks for the "AD SD" path? Are you using the latest CWM release?

Yep they're on the root of it. I think it's 1.12 I have ATM. How do I modify the path? :S

Nevermind. I tried re-installing and it worked on my 2GB SD. But the thing is, the files I want are on my 16GB that won't read lol. I'll try flash it on that now.

Tried to flash my 16GB. Says SD Kernel Open Failed in red letters? Works with my other SD card though? :S
Now I just tried with my 2GB and it's saying the same thing again.

help me roll my phone back

had a great froyo on the sd card working for months. i tried 7 and want to go back to the sd card version. I have read a need to roll back to 6.5, but when I try to go into the boot logger all it comes up as serial. are there simple directions to flash the chuck light rom back that i loved. realative noob here so please help in simple terms if we can or point me in the right direction. thanks

have you connected the usb cabel.

yes and it stays at serial in the bootloader

instead of running from pc put the files on your sd card and restart phone.

grafix01 said:
yes and it stays at serial in the bootloader
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Just stick a stock WinMo rom on root of your sd card and rename it to "leoimg.nbh" then power up into bootloader and flash rom from card.

but when i open the boot loader it says serial, i cant change it to sd card or usb.

are you entering the tri colour screen 3 or 4 different colours on screen.
if you put the file on sd card and rename as above post says you dont need to press anything it will go straight to the LEOIMG.nbh file

somebody need to do a video on it on youtube????????

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrmlqrfCvas

its a 4 color screen

and since the win 7 is loaded it wont allow me to hook it with active sync so i could even put the old bootloader on.

have you tried putting the files on the sd card (format card 1st)

yeah, no luck with the files on sd card.

did u rename the .nbh file to LEOIMG.nbh

ok. got back to 6.5. went to load android on my 16 gb card, which is now telling me its only 199 mb card...any ideas. stuck it in the computer to see if i could format it and it says its only 200 mb card?

yes when you put 7 on it it messes the card up use sd formatter you will get the full 16 back get it from here http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter/eula/

would of been nice a little thank you or summit.TUT TUT TUT.

[Q] Dual boot sd situation

Would appreciate some guidance, if anyone can help...
In December we got two new Nook Color Devices, one had 1.2 and the other 1.3. Had one 8gb micro sd card, and without understanding much about it, I followed verygreen's instuctions to create a card for dual booting. The 1.3 machine was used for installing cm7 (7.10) and the latest gapps file. But the card was then removed from that unit and inserted into the other Nook Color which had 1.2 in its firmware. I now think this was improper but am unsure what the repercussions were.
The system was used succesfully for several weeks. Occasionally the Nook side was booted from menu. Then suddenly after a cold boot, CM7 started but the virtual sd card was not recognized. Removed the card from the unit and investigated using Windows XP and Minitool Partition Wizard and found the "CM7 SDCARD" partition was corrupted. I reformatted that partition in Minitool, and then used the card for about another week in the 1.2 NC. At that time multiple partitions on the card suddenly became corrupted and fearing the sd card itself was defective I ordered some higher quality sd cards (now have 4 8gb sandisk class 4 cards to play with). Meanwhile the 1.2 NC accidentally booted into the Nook side with wifi enabled when it was charging and updated itself to 1.4.1. Before receiving the new sd cards, I reformatted the possibly defective sd card and recreated dual boot system using Verygreen's instructions (in the 1.3 unit but transferred into the 1.2 unit after creation). I was able to restore some of the apps using Titanium (but only because I had copied some of my original backups to my pc)
The unit with 1.3 on it had not been used much with wifi, and it still had/has 1.3 on it. One of the new cards is now in that NC (created as before with the Verygreen instructions).
I'm in a quandary what to do with the other unit.
Could using the 1.3-created sd dual boot card in the 1.2 Nook have caused partitions to become corrupted?
Where are applications going? Doesn't look like they're in the large sd card partition. I didn't think I had that much on there, (just some free apps from google and amazon) but I might I have run out of space? I never elected "move to sd card" or "clear cache" for any apps and don't know if that is a requirement when you use dual booting.
I haven't found instructions for what to do to create a dual boot card for 1.4.1. My original 8 gb card is in the unit, but I'd like to create a new boot card using the higher quality medium. Just want to understand what's happening. Is use of a 1.3-based card bound to lead to more corrupted partitions? Any suggestions on how to create a reliable dual boot card for this unit?

Sherip said:
Would appreciate some guidance, if anyone can help...
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I'm in a quandary what to do with the other unit.
Could using the 1.3-created sd dual boot card in the 1.2 Nook have caused partitions to become corrupted?
Where are applications going? Doesn't look like they're in the large sd card partition. I didn't think I had that much on there, (just some free apps from google and amazon) but I might I have run out of space? I never elected "move to sd card" or "clear cache" for any apps and don't know if that is a requirement when you use dual booting.
I haven't found instructions for what to do to create a dual boot card for 1.4.1. My original 8 gb card is in the unit, but I'd like to create a new boot card using the higher quality medium. Just want to understand what's happening. Is use of a 1.3-based card bound to lead to more corrupted partitions? Any suggestions on how to create a reliable dual boot card for this unit?
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Can't tell you what issues you may be having with the sd card, but verygreen's "dual boot" (it's not really dual boot, but that's another story) method is independent of the stock rom (1.2, 1.3, 1.4, whatever). When you boot to the sd card, everything needed is on the card. When you boot to the Nook, either by using the sd card menu or removing the card, you get whatever stock ROM is currently installed in the emmc. If you properly created the sd card, you can insert it in any NC and use it.

I read through all and by the end, I'm lost
Anyway, if you are dealing with verygreen's uSD cards, you should be all set and not to worry anything on the eMMC. It's independent.
As why those partitions corrupted, I don't know as I never hit that problem. Just curious, why do you say it corrupts?

votinh said:
I read through all and by the end, I'm lost
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Oh well, if no one else has had the issue of sd card corruption hopefully its not a side effect of using verygreen's image together with cm7 7.1.0, google apps and user apps.
Anyway, if you are dealing with verygreen's uSD cards, you should be all set and not to worry anything on the eMMC. It's independent.
As why those partitions corrupted, I don't know as I never hit that problem. Just curious, why do you say it corrupts?
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The behavior was a little different each time. Has happened 3 times now.
Once it totally locked up. Powered off and back on. Got my home screen with icons but in the notification area an image of the sd card persisted for maybe 5 minutes while the unit was otherwise locked up. Finally the sd card image cleared, but es file explorer empty sdcard. When tested on the PC, that partition's data was corrupted. Recovery (using pc software) retrieved a bunch of files but without their proper names. That time my apps were not destroyed. I didn't have to redo verygreen's procedure, just reformatted CM7 SDCARD partition.
Another time I had powered off. Restarted and it booted in Nook instead of CM7. Removed the card and tested on the PC and both the boot and CM7 SDCARD partitions were unreadable. Didn't attempt any recovery. Wiped out and reformatted the card, then redid the verygreen procedure on it.
The third time (last night ) was more similar to the first time. I got some forced closes and couldn't get back the status bar. Rebooted. Got the sdcard icon showing for about 5 minutes. When it cleared, my files were inaccessible. Removed the card and tested on the PC. CM7 SCDARD partition content was corrupted.
The (bad?) sd card didn't give any errors when tested prior to the break downs. Its labeled as a sandisk 8gb class 2. Was a gift.
I'm back up and running after redoing the verygreen procedure using one of the new sandisk 8gb class 4 cards. This time I actually used my unit instead of another to do the unpacking/recovery loading of cm7 and google apps. I've never applied any of the nightlies. Maybe I should look into that. Also have never deliberately done any other procedures, such as overclock it.
Praying the corruption issue doesn't hit me again. I guess my NC's internal flash drive could possibly be defective. If so, at least its still under warranty.

Can not gain Root. [v1.3.0]

Hello, I'm new to the Nook world. I'm Currently Trying to Root a Stock Nook v1.3.0.
Here's how the about screen looks (Minus User Info)
::Software Version::
1.3.0
::Model Number::
BNRV200
::Serial Number::
2014370085802011
I have a 2G SanDisk MicroSD Card.
I've followed the directions on this thread to the T.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054027&highlight=1+3
I have my SD Card setup with the Clockwork Image.
http://monster-rootpack.googlecode.com
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So here's the issue.
I turn of my Nook, put in my Micro SD, plug in USB. But the nook boots straight into the Nook 1.3.0. No ClockworkMod Recovery.
I've tried using an 8G, 4G, and a couple of 2G's I have laying around. None of them work.
I'm using my phone as the SD connector, mounted in Clockwork. SD Only, nothing else (Can't do ADB, that's how I know its only the SD connected).
I just wanna get MIUI on my nook. Can somebody please help me, as I'd love to have this Nook Rooted.
Please feel free to PM me any info you have.

Just to make this point clear, you run the risk of damaging your cell phone by using it as a SD connector.
There is no need to root the factory firmware to install MIUI.
First download this bootable CWM image, HERE
If you are using windows, download Win32DiskImager, HERE
Use Win32DiskImager to flash the bootable CWM image to your SD card, this is where it can damage your phone if you don’t select the correct drive
Once the image has been flashed to the SD card, use windows explorer to copy the MIUI zip file onto the SD card.
With the Nook Color off, put that SD card into your NC, and turn it on
Now it should boot into recovery, and you can flash the MIUI zip to the device

Don't use your phone as your SD reader and make sure to run Win32 as admin.
Sent from space

koopakid08 said:
Don't use your phone as your SD reader and make sure to run Win32 as admin.
Sent from space
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Thanks, I'm going to try and find my R4 Card Micro SD Adpator.
Sent from my MIUI.us Sensation 4G using Tapatalk

NC mostly boots into recovery, only sometimes boots into rom

Thank you ahead of time for reading,
I have finally gotten my NC to run CyanogenMod 7.2.0-RC1-encore-KANG without any bugs, but I have one problem. Everything works fine and dandy, but when I reboot or power on my NC, it will go straight to recovery. In recovery, I press the first option to reboot, and it usually reboots into recovery again a few times. After anywhere from 1-7 times, it will boot normally into the rom.
Before this, I tried many different methods of rooting, and all of them left me with a buggy rom that would freeze a lot. This time, I simply wrote 8 GB CWR onto my 8 GB class 4 sd card using windiskimager and then installed the zip file for the rom in CWR. I feel like I skipped some steps, but the rom itself works flawlessly, the only problem I have is the minor one where I have to boot several times to get to the rom. How can I make it so that my NC boots directly into the rom, rather than recovery?
Thank you so much for your help and if you need any more details, let me know.

Since the NC looks at the SD card first, it will always boot from any boot files on it. If you don't want to mess with the SD card, simply remove it during boot (assuming that your CM is on the nook itself (aka EMMC)), and it will boot into CM 7. Then push the card in after the loading screen starts, and it will find the card without problems.
So, I guess we would need to know where you installed the rom, and what steps did you skip in the install process.

I am not really sure where I installed the rom. These are the steps that I took:
1. Wrote 8 gb CWR onto my blank 8 gb sd card.
2. Put the card into my nook, booting it into recovery.
3. Connected the nook to my computer and put the CM7 zip file on the sd card.
4. Unmounted the nook and then "installed zip from sd card"
5. Installed the rom and the rom started up after the reboot.
Now I have the problem described above. I don't really want to reinstall the rom in any way because everything works great, but it is a minor inconvenience whenever I need to reboot.
Thanks for your help.

You need to remove the SD card. You wrote CWR to it and it will always boot to recovery if that card is inserted. Once in recovery it is actually take a shortcut boot to boot the ROM which is why it seems like it works. As soon as you try and reboot or boot from power off though it is going to the SD card first.
Just remove the SD card and you should be fine.

Thanks for your reply,
Your method works, but is there any way I can leave the sd card in during boot? This is just for convenience because I have a lot of files on the sd card and my NC is in a case so I don't like removing the sd card. If not, then it is all good.
Thank you!

You should just be able to delete the boot files from the card and be fine.
MLO
u-boot.bin
uImage
uRamdisk
I think alternatively, you can use one of the bootloaders to set it to boot from the nook rather than the SD card (or from alternate images or recovery images for that matter).
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whoisanhd said:
Thanks for your reply,
Your method works, but is there any way I can leave the sd card in during boot? This is just for convenience because I have a lot of files on the sd card and my NC is in a case so I don't like removing the sd card. If not, then it is all good.
Thank you!
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You don't actually have to remove the card. You can just pop it out for a sec (still seated but not engaged) and then push it back in. You don't have to physically remove it. You might also want to check to see if the things are being installed to your portable SD card versus the internal memory. Sometimes it says SD, but the files are on the internal card not your external.
(Oh, and be sure to leave thanks with the thanks meter if it helped).

whoisanhd said:
Thanks for your reply,
Your method works, but is there any way I can leave the sd card in during boot? This is just for convenience because I have a lot of files on the sd card and my NC is in a case so I don't like removing the sd card. If not, then it is all good.
Thank you!
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Once you have used the bootable SD card you don't need it anymore (except possibly for recovery) and you can always create it again in the future.
Ideally you will add recovery to internal memory through ROM Manager or flashing it from a zip before formatting your bootable SD card back to normal. Then copy any data files you have off of the card and onto the pc. Format the bootable SD card back to normal to recover all of the space. After formatting add your files back onto the card and then put it back in your Nook and use as a normal SD card. No more worries about rebooting into recovery.