All of my recent devices have had memory cards that could be used to flash but with this feature missing on the Nexus, does this essentially mean that we'll have to go back to flashing via USB cable? Or would there be other methods such as partitioning?
Flash just like on the nexus s. USB storage works just like a built in SD card
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Since it's a nexus series, just do an oem_unlock & flash via fastboot
Me no understand question. I flash once a week on my Vibrant. It hasn't had a microSD card in it for a year. Question no compute. Possible how dis?
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I have two microSD cards:
- 1st one came with my SE Xperia Arc S, and has 8GB
- 2nd one came with Samsung Focus (Windows Phone7) and has 16GB
...And thats all I know about them.
I pulled out the second one from S.Focus, and tried to use it in Xperia Arc but the phone acts like there is no card inserted, also tried the other way, with 8GB from Sony in Samsung Focus, with the same result.
Do I miss something here? Is there a preparation needed or something like that?
You will need to format the card from within the phone to get the right file structure.
If you need the data back up to pc,format card, then re place the data back again.
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Is there a possibility that Samsung's card is not compatible with Xperia and vice versa?
Tried to format it from within Xperia but that 16GB simply not detected, also format (prepare?) options are greyed out. Maybe would need to format it first on PC them move to Android hm.
If both are "Micro SD" cards, and looks the same(size and shape), then it should be "compatible". If it doesn't work, I reckon the card is damaged, and therefore can't be read by your phone.
From settings did you unmount the card to format?
If card not recognized by phone then only option is to format with pc. Make sure you format with right properties ie fat32.
If after this card still not recognized by phone then think it is damaged.
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Try using a PC to copy the contents first (if you need to).
My cards are fine, and working well on their origin phones, the problem begins if I try to swap them.
Well gonna try again, with unmounting first.
Finaly managed to do it after some research....
I will write how I did it, so maybe someone else can find that usefull:
0. Dismounted 8GB card on android menu and pulled it out
1. Backed up data from 8GB android card on my pc
2. Unlocked Focus card with SD unlock (thru the Windows Phone app)
3. Formated 16GB Focus card with SD Formatter 3.1 (full format with erase) on PC
4. Copied saved data to 16GB card and inserted to android phone - everything fine and working well
5. Inserted 8GB card to Samsung Focus (I didnt do anything before, it still has Android data inside)
6. To make new sd card work had to reset the phone to factory but it had custom bootloader and I couldnt do it via hardware keys (soft method was off limits) so I flashed it to WP7 rogers rom (a carrier official rom)
7. Samsung Focus booted and 8GB android card were detectable and working fine.
Not that easy as it seems, cant we just swap the cards eh?
Glad to hear you got them working.....
If the cards are out the box then yes they clean plug straight in .but if used before on different Phones which run different os then the file structure on the card will be different..... So neither can read the other card.
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Is or has anyone thought of or tried this?
What I would like to do is use a terminal of sort to run an emulator on my phone to run grub4dos off my phones SD card.
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I'm confused on what you mean... our internal storage already mimics an SD card
So a home PC can run through "virtual memory" an environment where one can test USB Boot Devices. Qumeu is the program I am currently using to check my USB Flash drives with "ISO" files.
Essentially I run Qumeu and then I can see in a GUI my USB device and work with it.
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What i have going is as such:
2 partitions on my SD-Card. First partition is for my phones pictures, apps and roms ect... Second partition has my ComputerToolbox on it. Grub4DOS is the bootloader along with the ISO's i am currently using for troubleshooting a computer.
What I am currently doing is "removing my MicroSD Card" and then put it into a "Standard SD Card". I then place that Standerd sdcard into the computer which I would be fixing and run things as if I were using a USB for preboot repair/recovery.
What i find interesting is for Android Devices I have to remove the SD Card.
For my IPhone one can just plug the phone in through a USB and not have the issue of the computer "Read" the device as a usb device.
Any and all help is very welcome... Thankyou.
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Hey all,
So I've had a bit of a 2 part problem here. I flashed Infamous v3.6 a few weeks back on my S4, and everything has been flawless... Except for 40% of my apps fail to recognize the properly mounted 16GB MicroSD that I have in the phone. So, I attributed this to the ROM not handling the card properly, "oh just a bug in a custom rom". The OS itself, as well as file manager, etc, all see the SD Card just fine. But certain apps won't pick it up, I.E. photo collage apps, hungry shark, etc.
So I downloaded a bunch of ROM's today, going back to AOKP and a different TW ROM, etc. Set them all on my desktop. Stripped all of the files off my External SD Card to clean it up. Thought maybe, before flashing a new ROM, using the reformat SD card that's built into the S4 under options may resolve the issue.
Did the reformat, didn't solve the issue.
Now, I'm trying to xfer my downloaded ROMS to the phone, and the 1.5 gb file completes, but cuts it short ~1.3 GB (no way I'm risking flashing that), but some of my smaller AOKP roms won't transfer.
Spits up the "Cannot Copy Item: The device has either stopped responding or has been disconnected" error. This happens when trying to transfer it to the external SD, or internal memory. Gapps/Photosphere transfer just fine (much smaller zips).
I'm wondering:
Does it have to do with the way the card is formatted now and what file partition this rom supports?
That being said, how do I reformat it? Considering MTP/PTP don't support it as a "drive" that is reformattable via PC.
BTW, running Win 8 with the newest Samsung USB Driver.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I can't even flash a new rom since I ripped my older downloaded roms of the SD, and I can't put new ones on
Thanks
Suggestions:
Format the sd card as fat32.
Change usb cable.
Change usb port on the pc.
Try a different sd card.
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Tried different ports, and it's a brand new cable for a brand new phone but I'll try swapping that out. What's the easiest way to format it to fat32? Through CWM? I feel like at some point someone in these forums said to avoid partitioning the sd card that way.
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My Gnex died on me mysteriously and i did the usual battery pull. Guess what, it was hard bricked, no recovery,no download mode no nothing. only a black screen. I have seen videos on debricking a galaxy s3 using 'debrick.bin' on their micro sd cards. Their explanation is that the phone will try to boot from the internal sd however if that fails it will move to the next best one which is the micro sd card and boot from it. So is it possible to reuse this concept on the galaxy nexus with a usb drive attached to the otg cable and boot from it. If so, who is capable of providing 'debrick.bin' for galaxy nexus users.
Methods tried:
Usb Jig
Omap Flash
I don't think so. Since i velieve the drivers for that are loaded in OS and not available in Recovery/download mode. Still it might work.
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OK, so for months now I have done everything from buying a new cable, battery, fully erasing both internal and external (I have a card reader I can put my micro SD card in), reformatted everything, tried using other computers to connect the phone, and the list goes on.
I never thought about this until lately, but is it possible to put a tar ROM file on my micro SD card and install it by adb sideload it in recovery? My phone has just been having too many glitches and I'm sick of it.
Thanks!
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h4kudoshi said:
OK, so for months now I have done everything from buying a new cable, battery, fully erasing both internal and external (I have a card reader I can put my micro SD card in), reformatted everything, tried using other computers to connect the phone, and the list goes on.
I never thought about this until lately, but is it possible to put a tar ROM file on my micro SD card and install it by adb sideload it in recovery? My phone has just been having too many glitches and I'm sick of it.
Thanks!
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How about chainfires Flashfire app?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/general/paid-software/flashfire-t3075433
I've never used it myself, but maybe you can look into it.
h4kudoshi said:
OK, so for months now I have done everything from buying a new cable, battery, fully erasing both internal and external (I have a card reader I can put my micro SD card in), reformatted everything, tried using other computers to connect the phone, and the list goes on.
I never thought about this until lately, but is it possible to put a tar ROM file on my micro SD card and install it by adb sideload it in recovery? My phone has just been having too many glitches and I'm sick of it.
Thanks!
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I have the same problem with my note 4 and I build cm13 for our device so imagine how bad it pisses me off but anyways the only fix is buying a new micro USB port for the note 4 cuz something malfunctioned with ours and there's no way to fix it.