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Root Mount /sdcard not working?

clint.j.monroe

clint.j.monroe

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For some reason, I'm having trouble mounting my SD Card from Recovery (using Amon_Ra 2.3). I've tried it a few times and I just get the "Please insert disc into blah blah blah..." error when I go to access it.

Could someone maybe recommend some troubleshooting tips so I can figure out what's wrong?

Normally I'd just throw the card into a reader and plug that into the PC, but I don't have a reader available and I can't access anything outside of Recovery.

Basically I just need to get a ROM moved on to the sd card and this is the only way I can do it for right now, so any help is very much appreciated!
 
clint.j.monroe said:
For some reason, I'm having trouble mounting my SD Card from Recovery (using Amon_Ra 2.3). I've tried it a few times and I just get the "Please insert disc into blah blah blah..." error when I go to access it.

Could someone maybe recommend some troubleshooting tips so I can figure out what's wrong?

Normally I'd just throw the card into a reader and plug that into the PC, but I don't have a reader available and I can't access anything outside of Recovery.

Basically I just need to get a ROM moved on to the sd card and this is the only way I can do it for right now, so any help is very much appreciated!
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Could you just load up your phone and access the SD card from the phone's "mount" option rather then the recovery option?
 
lubberlick said:
Could you just load up your phone and access the SD card from the phone's "mount" option rather then the recovery option?
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Unfortunately not...here's the short version of the story for this:

I was a little bored at work this morning and decided I'd move the nand backups, ROM .zip's and music from my sd card to my work PC. I then reformatted the sd card and cleared everything out for a complete reset, so now I have no way of getting back to the phone's OS and it won't allow me to drag-and-drop files when I plug it in to my work PC via the USB cable. I figured using Recovery's Mount /sdcard option would work but thus far it hasn't.
 
clint.j.monroe said:
Unfortunately not...here's the short version of the story for this:

I was a little bored at work this morning and decided I'd move the nand backups, ROM .zip's and music from my sd card to my work PC. I then reformatted the sd card and cleared everything out for a complete reset, so now I have no way of getting back to the phone's OS and it won't allow me to drag-and-drop files when I plug it in to my work PC via the USB cable. I figured using Recovery's Mount /sdcard option would work but thus far it hasn't.
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Might I suggest pulling the SD card out of the phone and then inspecting the contacts. Once you are sure it is clean of debris replace it back into the phone making sure it is securely and properly in place. Then check to see if it will mount in recovery.

If that does not work you should use the recovery option to "partition" the card again in order to get another format since there is no data your really needing to recover from the card right now.
 
lubberlick said:
Might I suggest pulling the SD card out of the phone and then inspecting the contacts. Once you are sure it is clean of debris replace it back into the phone making sure it is securely and properly in place. Then check to see if it will mount in recovery.

If that does not work you should use the recovery option to "partition" the card again in order to get another format since there is no data your really needing to recover from the card right now.
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Ohhh, I must have been missing a step. After mounting the sdcard I went and selected USB-MS (USB Mass Storage), this let me right into it. I appreciate the help this morning!!
 
lubberlick said:
I'll be honest I'm scratching my head on this one, but your welcome :D
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Well I was operating under the impression that mounting the sdcard would allow me to hook it up to my PC via USB for file transfer, this was apparently not the case (I'm still learning lol). You have to use the USB-MS option to enable mass storage mode for file transfer. At least now I know lol.

Let this be a lesson: don't root/flash at work unless you have a fair amount of time to troubleshoot.
 
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