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So I attempted the OTA 2.2 update and I'm honestly not sure what exactly went wrong. I waited for Verizon to push the update, but apparently the update was corrupted because the OS was acting very sporadic and my Baseband wasn't upgraded because it was (and still is) on 1.x.
I attempted to upgrade the baseband and thing got really strange... I could try to explain everything I've done to try to fix the phone but I really can't come to a solid conclusion. I've worked extensively in the iPhone jailbreaking scene but the Android stuff is a bit different so I'm still learning how the phone is logically designed, etc the hard way.
Here's where I am now:
I cannot boot into recovery via any means... I'm pretty sure that the partition is deleted because it just jumps straight back to HBOOT. When I was still able to get into recovery, the sdcard couldn't mount as well as a few other things in /dev/block. I can't get HBOOT to recognize ANY PB31IMG.zip's nor would clockwork install them from recovery before I lost recover... when I try to flash recovery with fastboot, it says not allowed. I didn't think it would be an issue because I have S-OFF.
I feel like if I can re-flash the newest clockwork or cyanogen from HBOOT, I can then mount my sdcard and restore to 2.1 and then try to OTA again (after a nandroid backup), but I can't really get around HBOOT's permission hissy-fit.
I can't just take my phone back to the verizon store either because I'm in college and have no car and there isn't one nearby.
Any help is appreciated!
crizh4x said:
I can't get HBOOT to recognize ANY PB31IMG.zip's
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One simple thing to check: is your SD card formatted FAT32? If it's the stock 2GB one, then probably not. You need FAT32 to flash PB31IMG.zip...
Yup, if you can get to hboot you're fine, just make sure its formatted correctly as previous poster said.
Hmm ok well, I read that little bit elsewhere and you are completely right, the card was fat16 so I formatted it as fat32 and it still doesn't offer to update the zip... The only thing I can think of is perhaps there was a problem with me having to use my phone as the card reader? I don't really have any other options there and now I can't mount it in recovery to try again.
I have a blackberry 9650 that could act as the reader I suppose... If I can get it to boot without the battery. I somehow had it pulled and left it all the way back home.
Any tips are still appreciated. Thanks guys!
I am not 100% sure this will work but since it sounds like your phone is not bricked but you have issues getting the right files on your SD card...
Card readers for your computer are dirt cheap, no?
Head to Best Buy, pick one up, and then download and transfer the files you need on it over from the computer. Then put the SD card back in your phone, and start over.
I hope someone will chime in if this sounds like a bad idea for some reason...
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I am not 100% sure this will work but since it sounds like your phone is not bricked but you have issues getting the right files on your SD card...
Card readers for your computer are dirt cheap, no?
Head to Best Buy, pick one up, and then download and transfer the files you need on it over from the computer. Then put the SD card back in your phone, and start over.
I hope someone will chime in if this sounds like a bad idea for some reason...
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Or I'm sure one of your friends have a laptop or another smartphone..
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The problem is that I can't easily get to a place that sells MicroSD card readers. If I were so able, I would just go to the Verizon Store and get my unit replaced, as the technicians advised me to do on Twitter.
I need a way to format the SD card from fastboot or something else... perhaps my Blackberry 9650 will do it if it's only getting a charge from the sync cable. I shouldn't have left its battery at home. My mistake
Has anyone else had an issue with formatting it from a phone directly?
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The problem is that I can't easily get to a place that sells MicroSD card readers. If I were so able, I would just go to the Verizon Store and get my unit replaced, as the technicians advised me to do on Twitter.
I need a way to format the SD card from fastboot or something else... perhaps my Blackberry 9650 will do it if it's only getting a charge from the sync cable. I shouldn't have left its battery at home. My mistake
Has anyone else had an issue with formatting it from a phone directly?
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I formatted mine in the phone. FAT32 format is FAT32 format.
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I formatted mine in the phone. FAT32 format is FAT32 format.
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I completely agree.. however I'm unable to get it formatted. One of my suite mates has a Moto Droid so hopefully it can format it and all will be well.
Here's another question though.. Why can't I flash a recovery image via fastboot? I keep getting "writing 'recovery'... FAILED (remote: not allowed)" and I'm using official images with S-OFF set so I don't really see what the problem is. I've searched around quite a lot and can't find much on it. I at least want to be able to boot recovery, or maybe flash the system partition back from hboot via fastboot.
Just curious. Thanks guys!
I had some problems with my SD Card as well (it would not recognize PB31IMG.zip) during hboot, but clockworkmod could read it. I believe there was a problem with the SD Card, kind of wierd to explain, but I replaced it with another SD Card and that problem has gone away. Could be your card is "partially" defective.
this scenario kind of happened to my friends's new incredible. unfortunately he is not rooted nor s-off. After he applied the OTA and rebooted the phone it just FC's after the boot screen animation. I'm hoping that the factory reset/data wipe will fix this thru the stock recovery or hopefully will let me put the signed .zip RUU on the sdcard and flash thru the stock recovery.
Ill let you know how things go, but it seems im in a darker situation than you are as I have no clockwork recovery to play with and get this working.
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I had some problems with my SD Card as well (it would not recognize PB31IMG.zip) during hboot, but clockworkmod could read it. I believe there was a problem with the SD Card, kind of wierd to explain, but I replaced it with another SD Card and that problem has gone away. Could be your card is "partially" defective.
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One of my SD cards is fully defective, but the one from my Blackberry is fine... I just have no means to format it.
And to the poster above me, I don't have recovery anymore since my recovery partition is apparently wiped (my bad ), however I do have S-OFF. It's just all frustrating. Why can't I flash it straight over USB like the iPhone? I miss my beloved DFU Restores with iTunes
You do need to format the SD card to fat 32 and I would do a factory re-set also.
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You do need to format the SD card to fat 32 and I would do a factory re-set also.
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I realize the first bit but the second bit is impossible, check the rest of the thread.
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One of my SD cards is fully defective, but the one from my Blackberry is fine... I just have no means to format it.
And to the poster above me, I don't have recovery anymore since my recovery partition is apparently wiped (my bad ), however I do have S-OFF. It's just all frustrating. Why can't I flash it straight over USB like the iPhone? I miss my beloved DFU Restores with iTunes
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You realize that you don't need a micro SD reader if you have the full size sd to micro adapter card that comes with almost all micro sd cards...
Also make sure you didn't rename your file PB31IMG.zip.zip. One zip is enough and if it's a zip file, Windows will put the proper extension on automatically.
If you can get into hboot, you're not hosed yet.
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You realize that you don't need a micro SD reader if you have the full size sd to micro adapter card that comes with almost all micro sd cards...
Also make sure you didn't rename your file PB31IMG.zip.zip. One zip is enough and if it's a zip file, Windows will put the proper extension on automatically.
If you can get into hboot, you're not hosed yet.
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I have read that around... I work on a Mac and I have it setup so that file extensions are always displayed but I was last trying most of these fixes from a Win7 pc that isn't setup that way... the file extensions are hidden but that said, unless I saw "PB31IMG.zip" in explorer, I wouldn't have any issues because there is only one hidden file extension. However, now that most of the people here at my college have gone home for the weekend, I can't verify that =/
I understand that I'm not really hosed... I knew I wasn't bricked, but I'm close and it should get some people to look at this thread just a little bit more. It's a dirty little trick but it works. Hence "potentially"
And yes, I'm aware of the SD adapter thing, if I had one I could just format it through my digital camera... too bad all of my MicroSD cards came with my phones so there is no adapter.
You must be at the only college without a Walmart within walking distance. I hope you get it working, as a new SD card formatted FAT32 should fix you right up - I wouldn't trust your current card given what you've described already.
-M
smw420 said:
You must be at the only college without a Walmart within walking distance. I hope you get it working, as a new SD card formatted FAT32 should fix you right up - I wouldn't trust your current card given what you've described already.
-M
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Much less the only college where you don't have friend or a friend of a friend that has what you need. Much less a resident dorm geek around to ask for help. I'm sure if you ask around someone would have a reader or adapter. Perhaps you will have to use it under their supervision so they make sure it doesn't grow it's own feet, but I'm sure if you asked around.
I searched the forums, but was unable to find anything relating to this.
I rooted my A500 and then installed Acer Recovery Installer 1.5, and installed CWR 1.3.4 with it. Now I'm trying to do a full backup of my device, but once I'm in CWR, It says there is zero % room on my SD card. It's an 8GB card so I know there is room for it but I think that it's not detecting it. (In Root Explorer, my SD card is under "/mnt/external_sd" and "/mnt/sdcard" appears to be just system storage. Is that normal?) Do I need to do an extra step to backup? I want to put a custom ROM on it, but I always do a backup in case something goes awry...Thanks!
Try a new microSD card, CWM doesn't work with all cards plus you're not the only one, I believe to have read like 20 times the same issue you have.
Thanks for the fast reply!
I'll try that then. I have a 32gb class 6 coming in the mail so I'll try that when it gets here.
I didn't realize it was already discussed! I searched for all sorts of related things I could think of, but couldn't find anything close. Sorry!
EDIT: I forgot to mention, I have used this card on an Inspire 4G and it worked fine with CWR. Could it just be because it's another device?
You can try out an usb stick to, it works for me like charm. I used a noname 16gb usb stick for all of my backup and restore.
I have three 8gb micro SDHC cards, and one (older) 1gb microsd card (non HC).
I only managed to get backups and zip flashing to work with the 1gb card.
So there's definately something goin on there.
I hope the problem will be solved at next release of CWR. I never had this problem because I didn't used a micro sd till now, but I´m planing to buy one to get more space. I think a list of supported sd cards would be good for all of us.
I'll try the USB stick and see how that goes for me. I didn't realize that USB was an option! It's strange though, I never had something like this happen on my Inspire so I thought I was just messing something up.
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I hope the problem will be solved at next release of CWR. I never had this problem because I didn't used a micro sd till now, but I´m planing to buy one to get more space. I think a list of supported sd cards would be good for all of us.
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That's probably a good idea!
I acknowledge that there is most definately a problem with using some sdcards.
But something just occurred to me that some people may not understand.
If you have a USB stick inserted, clockworkmod sees that as /sdcard instead of your real microsd.
So if your trying to use a microsd card, make sure there is no usb stick connected during bootup to recovery.
If you want to use as usb stick instead of the microsd, make sure it's connected during bootup to recovery.
When I was first trying it, I had nothing plugged into the USB port, but then I tried it with the USB stick last night and it made a backup so then I flashed a ROM. I got stuck in a boot-loop though so I tried to restore it and it didn't work. I ended up just going with a different ROM. I'm a little hesitant now when wanting to flash a new ROM. If I have a Micro SD card in and a USB stick in could that be messing something up? Should I have taken the SD card out before recovering from USB? It's running fine now with the ROM, but if I ever want to flash something else, I'd like to be prepared just in case!
UPDATE well it looks as though I have found a solution to my woes. I made several attempts of formatting the 2gb card in my laptop to no avail. I tried my old captivate that it originally came out of and the cappy had troubles reading it. I then stuck it in my evo and it registered instant, so I did asdcard format on my evo and then finally the tablet registers the card. In case this helps anyone else
First off someone please enlighten me on the tabs use and the way it mounts the external SD, I read somewhere that it only uses it for media files such as music books and pics. I have an 8GB that belongs in my EVO, and a 2gb that I had for my captivate I was hoping to use in my Tab for now.
Here's my story, maybe someone can shed a little light here: My tab was purchased with Stock 3.1, I was getting annoyed by the constant update request so I went ahead and rooted and installed CWM without incident, then I decided to install the Stock rooted update from here, however when I insert my SD cards they say they are unavailable. So I stick my 2gb in my laptop format to fat32 (should this be different?, typically it works in every other device I own) It still won't read, I did exactly as others point out in other threads but still I am stumped as to how the card is made available to the OS ? Now in a fit of frustration I pulled my 8gb out of my evo put the 2gb in and wham there it is, I put the 3.2 download on the 8gb popped it in tab entered CWM and flashed the update, I don't know if the 2gb is mountable in CWM I will try tonight but the 8gb was mountable through CWM however my 8gb also was not available to Android even after the update.
So what the heck is the use of the external SD and how is it used?
I think you might have an issue with your ROM,
I use my external SD for my titanium backups and other files I want to keep portable. I have used the SD card through my PC via USB and directly by putting into the PC's card reader.
Have you tried using a file manager? I use File Manager HD and the external card shows up as Storage on the left bar.
As for the filesystem, I think I may have originally formatted as FAT but I have also pulled my SD out of my Blackberry and used it to install Honeylicious through CWM,
All in all I dont think you should be having the issues that you are having...
Good luck
If it won't mount in CWM you need to format it in your android phone, that fixed it for me. Once it is formatted correctly you'll see a notification that an SD card is installed. Also my PC wouldn't see it until I put a custom rom on. Also to store items on it you can use a file manager to move things to and from it.
~Sent from my Droid SuperCharge~
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If it won't mount in CWM you need to format it in your android phone, that fixed it for me. Once it is formatted correctly you'll see a notification that an SD card is installed. Also my PC wouldn't see it until I put a custom rom on. Also to store items on it you can use a file manager to move things to and from it.
~Sent from my Droid SuperCharge~
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The 8gb card did mount in CWM but would not mount in the OS, or when it would I would get it was unavailable or sometimes even empy when I know there is only about 1 gb free space, I did not test the 2gb in CWM mainly because it was late and I needed to go to bed, but I will try tonight. The 8gb is the one I updated to rooted 3.2 with, I still need to go to 3.2.1 ? Is there a rooted Stock 3.2.1 floating around I really havent looked much into it yet
I have noticed that getting the iconia to read some sd cards is like tossing dice..Most people who have this issue says one card works perfect in every device but not in the iconia.. Some say the card will work sometimes and not others .. Some say the card works in cwm and not with file manager..
The issue here i think is that you have two CARDS THAT ARE FUSSY ABOUT mating with the iconia. OR Your rom .i would read the threads in the rom you are using.. IF still nothing that sounds like your issue ask the DEV about this.. If STILL No luck you can either try to buy a new diffrent card or flash a new rom to try and Diag. this issue..
Good luck..
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Is your microSD formatted FAT32?
If it is anything else, your unit may have trouble reading it depending on what ROM you are using - Not all ROM's are capable of reading NTFS or other file systems.
Sometimes, microSD's freak out as well, and the only way to get it back to normal is to format it in a Symbian phone (Nokia)
Also, make sure you are using the correct mount point for the card - /mnt/external_sd - Root Explorer and other apps like it can get there.
Other than that, you may just have a bad microSD, I have had many of them die for seemingly no reason.
i recently flashed thors 1.7 touch recovery and when i rebooted my sd card wouldnt mount so i tried inserting it into my computer and my computer would not recognize my sd card either does anyone know how i can fix this its a 16gb sd card and I'm not trying to spend another 40$ for another one but I am thinking this one is toast.....any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!!!!!
As far as I know, there is no way to recover them. Once they are dead, they are gone. You can find the 16gb ones now for under $20 though.
eweo911 said:
As far as I know, there is no way to recover them. Once they are dead, they are gone. You can find the 16gb ones now for under $20 though.
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yea i thought so thanks man
You could try reformatting it. If that doesn't work, it's most likely dead.
Jim
if its a cheap card you might be lost.. i buy pny cards they have a lifetime warranty.. I Think the reason they do this is because i have NEVER EVER had a bad one from them. They are a cheaper memory provider that is often over looked for there superior quality.. Of course some other brands are backed just as well..
If your tab phone or computer will not read it . well i do not think anyone can help you.
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if its a cheap card you might be lost.. i buy pny cards they have a lifetime warranty.. I Think the reason they do this is because i have NEVER EVER had a bad one from them. They are a cheaper memory provider that is often over looked for there superior quality.. Of course some other brands are backed just as well..
If your tab phone or computer will not read it . well i do not think anyone can help you.
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Yea its a 16 gb sandisk and I can't get it read in anything so I just went out and bought a new one but o well
Try Reformatting it through CWM recovery, then see if it mounts.
subnoize soulja said:
i recently flashed thors 1.7 touch recovery and when i rebooted my sd card wouldnt mount so i tried inserting it into my computer and my computer would not recognize my sd card either does anyone know how i can fix this its a 16gb sd card and I'm not trying to spend another 40$ for another one but I am thinking this one is toast.....any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!!!!!
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I don't know if that will work cause when I have it in my tablet and I go to install flash from zip there is nothing to choose from but I can give it a go but I doubt it will work I'll post back and let you know
Try this formatter with uSD to SD adapter.
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/
I have been able to recover photos from a corrupted SD card using the free version of this tool from Zero Assumption Recovery. Worth a try before you reformat.
My SD card was corrupted recently after my phone rebooted. All my photos and important data were recovered successfully after using TestDisk (developed by Christophe Grenier).
After recovering my files onto my laptop, I reformatted the SD card. I did it because the recovery process undeleted useless files.
Just do a Wiki search for TestDisk.
Note: As I am a newbie I'm not permitted to post the link.
HTC Desire
ROM: MIUI-XJ v2.2.10 (D2EXT X-PART)
Recovery: 4EXT Classic
Acer Iconia A500
ROM: civato-FLEXSTRIKER-R9.5
subnoize soulja said:
i recently flashed thors 1.7 touch recovery and when i rebooted my sd card wouldnt mount so i tried inserting it into my computer and my computer would not recognize my sd card either does anyone know how i can fix this its a 16gb sd card and I'm not trying to spend another 40$ for another one but I am thinking this one is toast.....any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!!!!!
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I've never ever had such a bad experience but I really don't think that the card is dead unless you pushed it hard and crack the chip.If you use a windows PC ,once you plug the card (make sure it is properly placed into the micro sd adapter) then nothing happens ,as you say (it could be auto mount turned off ) press the windows key + R and type diskmgmt.msc.
This will open the disk manager of windows OS and you will be able to see all attached devices e,g HDD partitions ,USB thumb drives ,sd card and so on.If it s still not visible try to plug the card reader into another USB port.As a rule windows always informs you once you plug any USB device.If the device is not responding it gives an error
good luck.
Not always true... I had an sd card that just died... Neither Android, linux or windows pc recognised it... Windows recognised the sd card reader was attached but "was empty, attach an sd card"... 16Gb card to be tossed...
If the card is truly unmountable/unreadable and you really need to get data off of it, you could also try the service at recoverfab.com . They start where most free data rescue and formatting software can no longer help.
David
You may recover data from corrupted SD card with special recovery tool, see this useful guide: corrupted sd card data recovery
hope this helps.
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Hi,
I tried using all kinds of different zero assumption recovery software and sd card repair software but with no look. I thought I wouldn't be able to retrieve any of the pictures I had on my sd card. That is until I found a company called recoverfab.com, they've been able to restore the majority of the files I thought I'd lost forever. I would certainly recommend them to anyone who desperately needs files recovering from an sd card.
My SD Card had the same problem and this, all of a sudden it was unreadable! I tried every method under the sun including trying to access it through an arduino and using SPI which is the alternative way of communicating with the device. I found a company called RecoverFab who said they could read the data from the memory chip even if the erst of the card was dead! So in a last ditch attempt I sent it over to them and the day after they received it I got an email and they had recovered 100% of everything on the SD card! I have never been so happy as it was all the photos from my girlfriends 21st! Superb communication and service!
Ok, here's my case laid out. I've searched the forum to death, so I'm pretty sure what I have here is a head scratcher so I'm hoping someone can help me out.
I bought a used HD2 off craigslist. It came with WP7.5. When I plugged in the data cable (i.e. USB cable), I didn't get a prompt for mounting to SD card. I installed Zune and got all the drivers (going through the MS troubleshooting list), and the phone was able to mount to Zune with only 200 mb. No problem, right? This error is common. I find out that if I use an SD Formatter, I can clear the card, which is 16gb, back to it's original state by mounting the card through MAGDLR.
After restarting the phone, I still couldn't get more storage than the allotted 200 mb, except it had decreased to ~150 mb. My phone was filling up quickly. I researched that, under WP7+, there should be a "connections" option under settings for mounting the SD card through the cable, so I thought "Hey, maybe it's because this flash of WP is missing something." so I reflashed my HD2 to stock rom using a guide.
While as a stock HD2 (T-mobile), I had now 600 mb of space on the phone to use, but I noticed that the HD2 still wasn't sensing my card. Bad card, maybe? So I tried an 8 gb I had, a 2 gb I had, and a 32 gb I KNOW works from my tablet (and still works on my tablet). I decided maybe it was the ROM's fault, so I decided to flash android on it, since I'm used to android from my other phones.
So I follow Jayce's guide and put on the proper HSPL, MAGDLR, the right Radio, and CWM to flash a new android ROM and banish my problems once and for all.
PROBLEM, I'm stuck here because (dope!) even MAGDLR and CWM DO NOT SENSE MY CARD(S). Now I'm stuck and I don't know what to do. Is there a way to get it running at the very least? I know the microSD slot is pretty much the most reliable piece on the phone, so I don't think it's broken.... but maybe it is?
So either a) somebody help me get the phone running with any ROM or b) somebody help me figure out how to get the SD cards working.
Sh*t out of ideas here.
[edit] OK! I FLASHED IT USING THE OL' HOLD DOWN THE "DOWN VOLUME BUTTON AND FLASH THE STOCK" Could still really use help with the SD card sensing thing though....
it wouldn't be the first bad sd card slot reported here, so, reliable it may be, break proof it isn't.
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it wouldn't be the first bad sd card slot reported here, so, reliable it may be, break proof it isn't.
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Okay, following what has to be my 5th reformat of the same card, it worked!!!!! I quickly installed android on it. I'm not taking that card out anymore. It'll stay inside
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Okay, following what has to be my 5th reformat of the same card, it worked!!!!! I quickly installed android on it. I'm not taking that card out anymore. It'll stay inside
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I had a bad SDCard too, it doesn't work in recovery but does in the ROM... I think you should really think about replacing your card. Flash memory has a limited amount of writes, so I wouldn't be surprised if you lose your data or find it unusable one day.