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sd card removed..anyone else have this issue?

after i boot up i get a toast notification "SD card removed" which is impossible since the sd is under the battery. i haven't touched the sd in months. anyone else have this issue or someone know how to fix it?

First thing to check is your cable. If you have a cheap cable, try the one that came with the phone ( HTC Cable ) . Cheap cables are notorious for causing all kinds of issues. Including the one you described. It has happened to me. Also, check the Micro USB port on the phone and on the PC. Make sure they're clean and dust free. If none of that works. Power off the device, remove the batt. Pull the SD Card and check it to make sure it's good. If it is load it back into the device and try it again to make sure it wasn't just loose. If after all that it still doesn't read it, you may have to reformat the card.

im confused what does the cable have to do with the phone reading the sd, few days ago my sd card just unmounted itself and hasnt been working since. i dont wanna format the card i have lots a stuff i need on it. the phone sees the sd in recovery and i can browse the sd.

gbL420 said:
im confused what does the cable have to do with the phone reading the sd, few days ago my sd card just unmounted itself and hasnt been working since. i dont wanna format the card i have lots a stuff i need on it. the phone sees the sd in recovery and i can browse the sd.
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I've never had this issue but you may want to try reformatting. Just copy all the contents of your sd over to your pc first, then format and copy back. It's kind of a head ache but if nothing else it's always good to have a backup... cause you never know when your card might get fried.

gbL420 said:
im confused what does the cable have to do with the phone reading the sd, few days ago my sd card just unmounted itself and hasnt been working since. i dont wanna format the card i have lots a stuff i need on it. the phone sees the sd in recovery and i can browse the sd.
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+1 to what Crump said. But if you do have a real HTC Cable try it. Or any other cable for that matter. Cheap cables have a tendency to fail. Which sometimes causes the card not to be read. If nothing else at least you eliminate the possibility of that being the issue. Also, it's easier than having to reformat the card.

thanks guys, it was the sd card i put in another phone (xperia arc) it read the card for about 5 mins, the arcs card was good in my shift. im formatting the card using the arc hopefully it works.

[Q] SD Card and Back Up Question

hello everyone, i backed up my files using the CWM recovery, this may seem like a simple question (im a noob) but where do the backed up files go? i do not see them on my sd card or on the nook (built in memory) can i delete the backed up files? or get to them? Also a member here told me to buy 2 sd cards is a good idea, one with all the info and the other empty for apps and music so i can keep the sd card in the nook without it going to CWM everytime i boot, but if i buy a new sd card do i need to format it? or just use it out of the box and into the nook, will my apps still work since the new sd card is empty and my files?

Android311 said:
hello everyone, i backed up my files using the CWM recovery, this may seem like a simple question (im a noob) but where do the backed up files go? i do not see them on my sd card or on the nook (built in memory) can i delete the backed up files? or get to them? Also a member here told me to buy 2 sd cards is a good idea, one with all the info and the other empty for apps and music so i can keep the sd card in the nook without it going to CWM everytime i boot, but if i buy a new sd card do i need to format it? or just use it out of the box and into the nook, will my apps still work since the new sd card is empty and my files?
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Always format new cards. And never use Windows format. Use this. A freebie. Windows format can corrupt uSD.
Your nandroid (CWM) backup will be in the Backup folder in the ClockworkMod folder. It should be on your uSD.
One uSD is enough as long as it's large enough to hold all you want to use. I've always used at least a 16Gb card. Always name brand (SanDisk). You really don't want to swap back and forth. As long as your nandroind is on removable memory you should be safe. Some people copy their nandroind backups to their desktop computers for safe-keeping. A bit OCD but not really a bad idea.

Ok very good info! But I use the nook color and I do not think I need to format the sd card?
HTC Wildfire S (VM) "s-off" "rooted" Stock Rom

If you use the uSD as flashable CwMR, then you wouldn't want to reformat the card, otherwise, you have to recreate it once again if you want to do a backup or install.

what i mean is my new sd card do i put it in my nook and format it thru cyannogen mod setting? says umount and format sd card, cause if i put the same CWM on the new sd card everytime i boot it will take me to cwm

Android311 said:
what i mean is my new sd card do i put it in my nook and format it thru cyannogen mod setting? says umount and format sd card, cause if i put the same CWM on the new sd card everytime i boot it will take me to cwm
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Others have formatted their uSD cards in their NC's but as a general rule I don't. I know I sound like a one-trick pony but one needs to start with a good formatted card otherwise everything else is for naught.

The reason I ask is because I don't want to keep pulling out my SD card everytime I turn my nook on, so if I were to format the new SD card how would I do it?
HTC Wildfire S (VM) "s-off" "rooted" Stock Rom

Either you confuse about CwM uSD or I (we) do not fully understand your issue.
1. If your uSD is a flashable CwM Recovery then it WILL BOOT into CwM Recover EVERY TIME you boot up with that uSD card plugged in. That's the way it is
2. If your uSD is for normal usage, you should NOT have any problem leaving the uSD card in the NC when booting up.

sorry i should have better explained, ok i get it now, my question in simple form is do i have to format the new sd or just simply pop it in the nook and go

[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.

A Question Never Asked or Seen Before!!!

Okay.
So I searched and searched, and did not see anything with similar phrasing, though, I'd assumed this had been asked before.
I have my Nook Color, running CM7 off an 8GB card.
I purchased a 32GB Card and dumped everything on it and proceeded to put it into the Nook, and try and load it up.
Guess what, it didn't work.
Is there any reason why this didn't work? Does it have to be on a 8GB card only because that's what CM7 was made to work off of?
If not, could anyone provide me with information in regards to getting the Nook to boot off a larger card?
THANKS!

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Okay.
So I searched and searched, and did not see anything with similar phrasing, though, I'd assumed this had been asked before.
I have my Nook Color, running CM7 off an 8GB card.
I purchased a 32GB Card and dumped everything on it and proceeded to put it into the Nook, and try and load it up.
Guess what, it didn't work.
Is there any reason why this didn't work? Does it have to be on a 8GB card only because that's what CM7 was made to work off of?
If not, could anyone provide me with information in regards to getting the Nook to boot off a larger card?
THANKS!
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The problem is that you cannot just copy stuff from one card to another using ordinary tools and expect it to boot. There are methods that allow you to clone from one to another, but it must be done with imaging software.
Get win32diskimager free from the web. Start that and choose the drive that has your SD in it and in the image box pick a location on your hard drive and give it a name to save the image to. Then click 'read'. It will read the card and create an 8GB image file where you told it to. When it has finished, eject the 8GB card and insert the 32Gb card. Select write and it will burn a clone of the 8Gb card to your 32GB card. Then get the free Mini-Tool Partition Manager software and expand partition 4 to fill the rest of the drive. You are done.
If you want to learn a little more about bootable SD cards, look at my tips thread in my signature.

[Q] Issues with SD Card not mounting on CM10

Hi guys, long time reader and first time poster here with a question. I apologize in advance if this has been asked and answered, but I have searched throughout the nook forums and have not found a solution yet to my problem and any help is greatly appreciated.
I have been wanting to use CM10 as my daily driver on my nook for awhile now, however everytime I flash the ROM and get things set up, I run into an issue where the ROM does not consider my SD card to be mounted. I have adjusted the settings to be set to Mass USB Storage as one person suggested in the development thread, I have formatted it numerous times to try to see if that was causing the issue, and so far nothing has worked.
I know that the SD card that is in my nook is good as it shows up in ICS without any problems. Does anyone else have any idea on what I could try to get the SD card to mount properly in CM10?
Thanks again for any help, and many apologies if this is answered in another thread.

Shinryuu said:
Hi guys, long time reader and first time poster here with a question. I apologize in advance if this has been asked and answered, but I have searched throughout the nook forums and have not found a solution yet to my problem and any help is greatly appreciated.
I have been wanting to use CM10 as my daily driver on my nook for awhile now, however everytime I flash the ROM and get things set up, I run into an issue where the ROM does not consider my SD card to be mounted. I have adjusted the settings to be set to Mass USB Storage as one person suggested in the development thread, I have formatted it numerous times to try to see if that was causing the issue, and so far nothing has worked.
I know that the SD card that is in my nook is good as it shows up in ICS without any problems. Does anyone else have any idea on what I could try to get the SD card to mount properly in CM10?
Thanks again for any help, and many apologies if this is answered in another thread.
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When you say mounted, you mean you cannot see it under storage devices within CM10? It does not show up in your file manager? That USB mass storage setting is just for seeing on your PC when you plug the USB cable in. It has nothing to do with seeing the card in CM10. And you tried formatting several times you said. How did you format it? In the PC with windows? You need to try SDFormatter which is a free windows program on the web. Other users have said that that makes them show up on the Nook. When the nook first starts up, it tries to read the SD and scan it, if it can't, it won't mount it. There could be something very simple wrong with the card that the nook sees and your PC does not.
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Leap,
I have to apologize, I used the wrong terminology in my original post. It seems that the issue I am having is with the SD card being stuck in RO mode and not being able to write to it from CM10. Anything that I have tried to download via the Play Store fails to install with an error saying that it could not install to USB Storage or SD Card. I have formatted the card via Windows, CWM, and using the SDFormatter program to no avail. I have also tried to fix permissions via CWM and Rom Manager and that has not resulted in resolving the issue that I seem to be having. I love the speed at which CM10 runs, and if I can get the SD Card to be RW it would easily replace the ICS build that I've been using forever now, I just don't know what else I can try to get the card to be RW while running CM10.

Shinryuu said:
Leap,
I have to apologize, I used the wrong terminology in my original post. It seems that the issue I am having is with the SD card being stuck in RO mode and not being able to write to it from CM10. Anything that I have tried to download via the Play Store fails to install with an error saying that it could not install to USB Storage or SD Card. I have formatted the card via Windows, CWM, and using the SDFormatter program to no avail. I have also tried to fix permissions via CWM and Rom Manager and that has not resulted in resolving the issue that I seem to be having. I love the speed at which CM10 runs, and if I can get the SD Card to be RW it would easily replace the ICS build that I've been using forever now, I just don't know what else I can try to get the card to be RW while running CM10.
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The problem is CM10 is very finicky about the format on the card. If it does not like it, it mounts it read only. Look for SDFormatter on the web and format with that. Should fix it.
Edit, I just reread and said you tried that. That should have fixed it. Do it again but turn off quick format.
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Leap,
Thank you for all the help you've provided, however it doesn't seem that doing a long format with overwrite in SD Formatter got it to work. I'm going to retreat back to ICS for now.

Shinryuu said:
Leap,
Thank you for all the help you've provided, however it doesn't seem that doing a long format with overwrite in SD Formatter got it to work. I'm going to retreat back to ICS for now.
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Just a question, after you format the card, do you move any files in it? I had the same exact problem and it must have been a defective file in my titanium backup folder because I had no problem using the same sd when I synch'd titanium via dropbox.
I installed the 19/11 nightly and it is better than anything I ever run on nook. even CM7

Tschumi,
After I finish formatting it via SD Formatter, I place it back into the nook completely blank and reboot the nook. After that, I try to download anything from the play store that requires SD install and it fails to install.

Shinryuu said:
Tschumi,
After I finish formatting it via SD Formatter, I place it back into the nook completely blank and reboot the nook. After that, I try to download anything from the play store that requires SD install and it fails to install.
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Use ROM Manager and select "Format SD card" which will allow apps to install. Nook will reboot into CWM and begin formatting SD card. Be FOREWARNED! You will lose anything you have stored on the SD card so make a backup and trasnsfer to your PC or somewhere you can later retrieve.

Ok so here's an update on this issue for me. It appears that no matter how many times I used SD Formatter to format my 16Gb micro sd card, it would not be recognized by CM10. I grabbed an old 8Gb micro SD card and threw it in my nook and it worked perfectly, so it appears that there's an underlying issue with the card itself that was causing the problems. Thanks to everyone for the tips and advice on how to fix this issue for me. I appreciate it.

Same issue here
Shinryuu said:
Ok so here's an update on this issue for me. It appears that no matter how many times I used SD Formatter to format my 16Gb micro sd card, it would not be recognized by CM10. I grabbed an old 8Gb micro SD card and threw it in my nook and it worked perfectly, so it appears that there's an underlying issue with the card itself that was causing the problems. Thanks to everyone for the tips and advice on how to fix this issue for me. I appreciate it.
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I am having the same issue with my 16GB Patriot microSD card. The card is recognized, but always displays as full (26GB used) in the settings menu. I have reformatted numerous times to no avail. I have an old 4GB card in there now with no issues.

danman6126 said:
I am having the same issue with my 16GB Patriot microSD card. The card is recognized, but always displays as full (26GB used) in the settings menu. I have reformatted numerous times to no avail. I have an old 4GB card in there now with no issues.
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It is that Patriot brand and CM10. CM10 is very finicky about sdcards. If it does not like how one performs, it changes it to read only. You can try formatting the card with SDFormatter, which you can get free on the web. That may help, but it may not.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on Hybrid SD