Can't Mount SD Card in CWM 5.x! - Acer Iconia A500

So i went to flash a ROM and now it says while flashing that the flash was aborted because the system can't mount the SD card. I'm using the newest CWM and have flashed stuff before. Not sure what to do, it wont let me make backups, restore, or flash anything.
I find it kinda strange, because once I reboot my tablet, everything's working fine, but it's not letting me install a custom rom
And yes, I have...
1. Unlocked by booloader.
2. Rooted my phone along with installing superuser.
3. Installed CWM recovery through fastboot (or whatever it's called, lol)
Has anyone gone through the same thing?

Bump....
Cm on guys I really need to get this rolling ...

What class SD Card are you using? I have issues with CWM on this Tablet reading anything above a class 6. I have a Class 10 SD Card that I have to swap Out and put in a different slower class card to flash roms and what not so I personally have had to deal with this because of the speed. Anyway hope that helps you out.

I'll try another sd card and see if it work out. Thanks for the advice!!

Bump. Using a different SD card didn't work, unfortunately

Silencer96 said:
Bump. Using a different SD card didn't work, unfortunately
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Back up all ur SD card files to PC
In CWM, you will find a Advance/ partition Sd card
Use this and make a 128 mb one, Reboot to CWM and CWM will recognize your card.

demonntl said:
Back up all ur SD card files to PC
In CWM, you will find a Advance/ partition Sd card
Use this and make a 128 mb one, Reboot to CWM and CWM will recognize your card.
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thank you very much....really helpful

Please help me i have a similar problem. I tried to partition it and it worked but it wouldnt recognize my sd card. Idk what happened maybe i formatted by mistake and now i dont have a system (or atleast it wouldnt boot up) and i have a cwm that doesnt mount recovery so i cant flash.
please someone help me! i need my phone

FIXED!
Nevermind. I did it wrong. U were supposed to partition sd card make it 128-128 and then while still in advanced setting restart launcher. Then you have to go to mount the card manually through mounts and storage.
if you just shut down the device it wouldnt work.
thank you for helping me fix this demonntl

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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.

[Q] CWM Error mounting /sdcard!

I used the NVflash root method from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1125714, but when I tried to update CWM from v3.0.2.8 to v3.1.0.1 it can't mount the sdcard. Every solution I've seen says that you need to format the sdcard but I can't format it using Windows because it views it as a media device and I can't format it from CWM because it needs to mount it to format it. Any ideas on how I can get it working? Or should I try flashing roms by another method?
Pic shows all the different things I've tried and the messages that it produced.
take a micro sd card and put it in
go into recovery and go down to advanced
repartition the micro sd card
reboot
put what evere you want to flash in the micro sd card and flash
take your sdcard out and use SD Formatter 3.0 to format it. Now try re-flash the new CWM.
daniel9522 said:
take a micro sd card and put it in
go into recovery and go down to advanced
repartition the micro sd card
reboot
put what evere you want to flash in the micro sd card and flash
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I repartitioned it but now I can't add anything to it. The TF can't find the card and my computer can't read it.
I formatted it, it worked. Now to get it to stop aborting the roms I'm trying to install. Thanks guys

Recovery: "Can't mount sdcard"

Hi guys i have the following problem:
when i press "choose zip from sdcard" in CWM it tells me that it cant mount the sd card...
what could be the reason for this ? any solutions ?
EDIT: even when i press mount usb storage under CWM i get the following error:
E: Unable to write to ums lunfile(no such file or directory)
thanks
Hi there...
I had this issue earlier this afternoon. What you can do it is format your SD Card via SDFormatter or format it using any digital camera.
leewenxu said:
Hi there...
I had this issue earlier this afternoon. What you can do it is format your SD Card via SDFormatter or format it using any digital camera.
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hi
thanks for ur help
i tried that several times but i wasnt succesful :/
end1one said:
hi
thanks for ur help
i tried that several times but i wasnt succesful :/
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hmm.. did you take out you sd card as you phone was in cwm and insert it again ??? if yes shut down you HD2 insert you sd card and start ad recovery and do not take it out if it is in cwm. because if you take it out and insert it again it can not detect it I don´t know why but it is so. if it did not helped than flash you recovery again maybe it helps than.
Deluxestar said:
hmm.. did you take out you sd card as you phone was in cwm and insert it again ??? if yes shut down you HD2 insert you sd card and start ad recovery and do not take it out if it is in cwm. because if you take it out and insert it again it can not detect it I don´t know why but it is so. if it did not helped than flash you recovery again maybe it helps than.
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hmm i tried everything ..inserted sd card before booting into CWM and also reflashed recovery...still the same problem :/
but thanks for your help
try loading into bootloader (hold volume down while turning on) and flash all the way back to win rom has worked for me when i messed up partition then format card from win rom hope it helps
end1one said:
hmm i tried everything ..inserted sd card before booting into CWM and also reflashed recovery...still the same problem :/
but thanks for your help
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hmm..... than is maybe you sd card broken or it can be that its a hardware problem try with another sd card good luck
i had the same problem a couple weeks ago
took me awhile ti figure it out but it was
the sd card wasnt seated properly
after messuing wioth it putting it in and taking it out
4 or 5 times it finally set right and worked
well i tried everything...the problem is it works in the magldr menu when i press usb mass strg but when i boot into recovery by pressing "AD recovery" and choose there mount usb storage it doesnt recognize the sd card... :/
Hi end1one,
had exactly the same problem now, I tried another SD card, same issue.
Format your card with SD Formatter from SD Association - this helps; then copy your ROM-ZIP and then insert card in the phone and power it up to CWM.
Good luck
sd mount problem recovery mode
i changed my sd card to samsung sd card probably class6 thats solved my problem.. previously i was trying to use a nokia nuron micro sd 4gb that did not work.
format the card in fat16.......................it resolved my problem

[Q] Lost my external SD

Flashed my a500 several times. Decided to go back to taboonay. In recovery I decided to clean everything. I formatted everything that had an option to format including SD. I thought that was the internal however I was wrong and lost all my backups and roms. No problem I thought, went to my desktop put the new rom on sd card the reinstalled in my device.
OK the problem: It will not flash the rom because recovery can nolonger mount my sd card. I've tried other sd cards formated fat.
Any ideas?
Holyoblation said:
I've tried other sd cards formated fat.
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and did those other cards work?
sorry
No, other sd cards did not work. So what I have is a tab that when turned on goes strait to acer logo and loads nothing. I can however open to recovery however it will not mount the sd card. Also, it is not recognized when plugged in to my dell.
Solved
Ok, after reading this thead
- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1295926 -
I found that yes formating the sd card in either windows or linux will not work. Using my android phone to format the card works. It is now mountable. However I still could not flash directly to taboonay as I wished, but following this thread
- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1276227 -
got me up and going again.
Put the rom on a thumbdrive. Plug the thumb drive in. Turn it on to boot to recovery. It should let you install from zip without having to mount. Works for me.

problem with Recovery

Hi All, i have never had this problem before so i am at a loss.
i am booting into Recovery to flash a new rom but the error message of Cant Mount SD card is all i get. i am using the same SD card as i always use. so re format to FAT32 both full and quick but still no joy. if i boot up normally then look with file mangers i can see the files on the sd card.
sorry i can not remember which was the last flash i put on. Anyone any ideas please ?
frankfurtjoe said:
Hi All, i have never had this problem before so i am at a loss.
i am booting into Recovery to flash a new rom but the error message of Cant Mount SD card is all i get. i am using the same SD card as i always use. so re format to FAT32 both full and quick but still no joy. if i boot up normally then look with file mangers i can see the files on the sd card.
sorry i can not remember which was the last flash i put on. Anyone any ideas please ?
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I would try the latest Thor recovery and then a different SD.
Format it in android Phone .
This has happened in the past to many.. Just all of the sudden as you say. I believe the best result on solving this has been to format the SD Card with a Android cell phone OR by downloading sd format . utility and using that.. I ALWAYS Use my cell phone.. Honeycomb should have put a format utility in it.
Formatting a card in windows for android on some sd cards seem to cause trouble. as the card gets full. Android formatting seems to do something different then windows.Not sure what or why.
Good Luck

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