So I have a backup saved on my device and all roms saved internally..That's eating a lot of space.
Sometimes I may want to format the phone when things go wrong and want to be able to install via my SD card (plus save room). When I first rooted, that caused a major headache. I have a 128gb SD card, yet it shows 0mb when selected in TWRP. Do I have to format it a certain way?
psantos1091 said:
So I have a backup saved on my device and all roms saved internally..That's eating a lot of space.
Sometimes I may want to format the phone when things go wrong and want to be able to install via my SD card (plus save room). When I first rooted, that caused a major headache. I have a 128gb SD card, yet it shows 0mb when selected in TWRP. Do I have to format it a certain way?
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Have you mounted the sd card in TWRP? If it is, then unmount and try mounting it again. If that doesn't work then you might have to reformat the card
KUSOsan said:
Have you mounted the sd card in TWRP? If it is, then unmount and try mounting it again. If that doesn't work then you might have to reformat the card
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To what format? I formatted it to the default thinking it was corrupted but it never was able to be read. And no it can't be mounted because it's like it's not even in.. When the phone's on though it's read perfectly
psantos1091 said:
To what format? I formatted it to the default thinking it was corrupted but it never was able to be read. And no it can't be mounted because it's like it's not even in.. When the phone's on though it's read perfectly
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Maybe try flashing a fresh version of TWRP? What version are you using? It should be able to read it if your phone reads it. Is it in exFAT format?
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After turning off my phone today and then back on it says the sd card is damaged and needs formatting. I just got this card last month. Has anyone else had this? I took the back off and put it back on so it's not the switch.
Even my pc says it needs formatting. I moved everything from to the SD with titanium. Does anyone know if that will be a problem if I format?
ncaissie said:
Even my pc says it needs formatting. I moved everything from to the SD with titanium. Does anyone know if that will be a problem if I format?
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Your back-ups will all be gone, as will saves from emu's etc. All content that was on the sd card will be gone. If a format fixes the sd-card you can start backing things up again. apps that installed to the sd would probably have to be reïnstalled. If you format with clockworkmod you can create a sd-ext partition besides the normal partition. I believe costum roms like cm7 can use this to make apps transferred to sd run quicker.
I have a nook color with dual boot from sd card. The sd card having an android 3.0 version.
After I got the 1.4.1 update, I noticed that I was able to access the sd card( the boot partition alone) from the stock OS boot of nook.
But now, dont know how, I dont see that anymore.
Was this a flawed update that was fixed or am I missing something.
Do help please.
I could really use the advantage of using the bootable sd card as a regular storage card when using the stock OS of nook. I prefer reading on the stock OS of nook.
Not sure why you're not seeing the SD card anymore, does it still boot?
SD card installs create multiple partitions on the SD card and the Nook will only be able to access the first one (boot). It should be accessible with any version of the Nook default OS.
You should have a media partition with a decent amount of room (1-5gb depending on NC version). That would give you more room than the 100-or-so mb on the boot partition.
Just found out that you can point the emmc install to see the "sdcard" partition of the sd card using the following info:
racks11479 said:
use root explorer and edit vold.fstab to "4" instead of "auto" for sdcard mount
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Yes, I can boot from it. Every time I plug in the SD card, the notification already says that it is safe to remove the SD card. In the device Info part of the setting, the "Unmount SD card" is already greyed, though it does say that the SD card is found.
It is however useful for me to know that the boot partition should always be accessible.
I did remove the SD card a couple of times without unmounting it first, could this possibly have corrupted the card?
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Yes, I can boot from it. Every time I plug in the SD card, the notification already says that it is safe to remove the SD card. In the device Info part of the setting, the "Unmount SD card" is already greyed, though it does say that the SD card is found.
It is however useful for me to know that the boot partition should always be accessible.
I did remove the SD card a couple of times without unmounting it first, could this possibly have corrupted the card?
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Try to boot the uSD card (the one with Android 3.0 on it) and see what happens.
If it can, then it's good, if not, you can say it's corrupted.
Yes, I can boot from it. So I assume the card is OK
I plugged in other uSD cards and they get recognized fine. So I assume the Nook stock OS device recognition is OK.
I should probably recreate the boot partition as a last ditch effort
I had the same problem at first, but now I have mounted the correct sdcard partition that I wanted to mount.
I couldn't get it to work with editing the vold.fstab file at first. Then at some point after I manually mounted the correct partition through adb shell and edited the vold.fstab it now works.
I've rooted my S4, and now I'm trying to partition the SD card so that I can use link2sd and free up some more space. Does anyone know how to do this using a Mac??
Many thanks in advance!
chrissy_a said:
I've rooted my S4, and now I'm trying to partition the SD card so that I can use link2sd and free up some more space. Does anyone know how to do this using a Mac??
Many thanks in advance!
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I think you can do it using twrp recovery.
Link
GDReaper said:
I think you can do it using twrp recovery.
Link
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Ahh yes, I forgot to mention...I already found that guide, but on twrp 3.0.0.0 there is no such option...
chrissy_a said:
Ahh yes, I forgot to mention...I already found that guide, but on twrp 3.0.0.0 there is no such option...
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A resize option may appear only after you have formatted the sd card using twrp.
GDReaper said:
A resize option may appear only after you have formatted the sd card using twrp.
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Oh, okay. I might try that...how certain is this 'may appear'? I'm concerned about losing stuff...if I backup my SD card onto computer through a file manager, will it back up EVERYTHING or could I still lose some data?
chrissy_a said:
Oh, okay. I might try that...how certain is this 'may appear'? I'm concerned about losing stuff...if I backup my SD card onto computer through a file manager, will it back up EVERYTHING or could I still lose some data?
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You just copy everything from the sd card onto the pc. Android apps usually store their data on the internal storage, so the sd card has only files that you put there.
I recently formatted my /data partition as ext4 and after the format there was a resize option, which wasn't there before formatting.
GDReaper said:
You just copy everything from the sd card onto the pc. Android apps usually store their data on the internal storage, so the sd card has only files that you put there.
I recently formatted my /data partition as ext4 and after the format there was a resize option, which wasn't there before formatting.
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I wiped my SD card using TWRP, but still there is no 'resize' option
chrissy_a said:
I wiped my SD card using TWRP, but still there is no 'resize' option
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As I was saying, I used the "change file system" option to format my data partition, and that gave me the resize option.
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As I was saying, I used the "change file system" option to format my data partition, and that gave me the resize option.
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Ahh okay, got it. But with this method, is there a way to choose the size of the partition? When I click on 'resize', there are no settings - just a 'swipe to confirm'...
Also, when I turned on my phone I still have no extra internal memory, and the SD card is not found. I try to mount the SD card from Settings -> Storage, but it just says "Blank SD card"...
My cheat sheet.............
1-CMD Run as admistrator
2-diskpart
3-list disk
4-select disk (#)
5-detail disk
6-clean
6-clean
7-create partition primary
8-active
9-format fs=fat32 quick
Here is a YouTube video showing how to do it. Except our sd card needs to be formatted fat32.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5VVjEopxfw
My cheat sheet.............
1-CMD Run as admistrator
2-diskpart
3-list disk
4-select disk (#)
5-detail disk
6-clean
6-clean
7-create partition primary
8-active
9-format fs=fat32 quick
doctor-cool said:
1-CMD Run as admistrator
2-diskpart
3-list disk
4-select disk (#)
5-detail disk
6-clean
6-clean
7-create partition primary
8-active
9-format fs=fat32 quick
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Or you could just use SD Formatter 4 for even faster easier fixing.
http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/d...l-to-restore-full-capacity-on-sdhc/sdxc-cards
works great
glen5678 said:
Or you could just use SD Formatter 4 for even faster easier fixing.
http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/d...l-to-restore-full-capacity-on-sdhc/sdxc-cards
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EDIT................Read next post
On second thought......
glen5678 said:
Or you could just use SD Formatter 4 for even faster easier fixing.
http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/d...l-to-restore-full-capacity-on-sdhc/sdxc-cards
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After using the scan dish program several times I noticed the SD card was not recognized by teamwin recovery every time.
It could have been a fluke but I think.
The MS DOS commands in the OP are more reliable.
I'm using lenovo A7000 and recently updated marshmallow and chosen 32GB SD card as internal memory. It was worked as internal memory perfectly quite some time, all of sudden I got message that SD corrupted and doesn't show data stored in the card, it shows zero files, I lost all media files!! However USB storage option in settings SD card shows 6.5GB used out of 28GB. Since it's treated as internal memory I'm not able to read the card in other devices. I have important media files and documents in SD card and I didn't backup them. I'm bit worried!!! How to recover the data from SD card. I assume if SD card changed back to portable, it will format and lose data!!! Please support
ramu.malisetti said:
I'm using lenovo A7000 and recently updated marshmallow and chosen 32GB SD card as internal memory. It was worked as internal memory perfectly quite some time, all of sudden I got message that SD corrupted and doesn't show data stored in the card, it shows zero files, I lost all media files!! However USB storage option in settings SD card shows 6.5GB used out of 28GB. Since it's treated as internal memory I'm not able to read the card in other devices. I have important media files and documents in SD card and I didn't backup them. I'm bit worried!!! How to recover the data from SD card. I assume if SD card changed back to portable, it will format and lose data!!! Please support
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I've heard of this problem before. Good luck
After step 9, is it possible to change it to another format type or does it need to stay on fat32?
Also, does the sdcard need to be connected directly to the pc? When I tried list disk while the sdcard was still in the phone (sdcard>phone>usb>pc), it wouldn't come up.
Had the same thing happen to both mine and my wife's SD cards in the Note 4....I think its the phone screwing things up. When it happen to me the phone rebooted and then the card was corrupt. The are like ticking time bombs..
I use the drive format tool from hiren''s boot usb. 1 click and Works like a charm.
glen5678 said:
Or you could just use SD Formatter 4 for even faster easier fixing.
http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/d...l-to-restore-full-capacity-on-sdhc/sdxc-cards
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Or you could pop that bad boy in another already booted android device and format (dont Use the note 4 )
mojoswagger1980 said:
Or you could pop that bad boy in another already booted android device and format (dont Use the note 4 )
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We can just format these corrupted micro sdcards by using the Format SD card in the phone's storage settings? What do you mean by 'dont Use the note 4' though?
I wiped it on my computer, then put it back in once android was started and immediately wiped it, it's worked every time so far.
mojoswagger1980 said:
Or you could pop that bad boy in another already booted android device and format (dont Use the note 4 )
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The note 4 will bootloop with the sdcard you used to root due to the fact it has your bootloader original CID stored on it as a fail safe (something messes up during the procedure ) but any device not using said CID is fine ....I used a Huawei ascend to format .worked fine and formatted card without need of pc.
I was running stock until today, with a Sandisk SD card formatted as internal storage because my phone was full.
After flashing a new ROM though, it's saying that the SD card is unsupported. I don't want to format it because it still has all my photos and videos on, is there anything I can do?
I presume when it gets formatted to work as 'internal storage' is gets formatted to extfs or something like that so Windows won't be able to read it to get the files off right?
Any ideas?
try using a card reader and see if it can read the data. worth a shot atleast.
tazzik said:
I was running stock until today, with a Sandisk SD card formatted as internal storage because my phone was full.
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If it was internal it is encrypted and AFAIK only usable with the device it was originally created with without altering the OS. So, from my point of view, no chance to get the data back. Maybe with some special tools, but that I don't know...