Root SD Card - Not Mounted

[dhdevans]

Stock HTC Desire rooted and flashed with CyanogenMod 10(-20120803). Kernel is evervolv-turba-jellybean (if this helps?).

As i understand it this particular model of phone has ongoing issues with internal storage so it may come as no surprise that i decided to take a stab at partitioning my 16Gb Kingston microSD card. Downloaded aparted, split it into 2Gb (ext2) and 13Gb (FAT32).

Then, suddenly, the SD card stops being recognised. The system keeps telling me it is safe to unmount the SD card.

Formatted the card via CWM recovery, but no dice. Card cannot be mounted via settings>storage and continually tells me it's safe to remove.

Thoughts and resolutions?

 

[nicka3200]

You've tried rebooting the phone?

I'm not familiar with your ROM. Does it support ext2? Ext4 may be a better option.

 

[dhdevans]

Rebooted a few times, each time the SD card fails to mount automatically and when i try to mount it the system tells me it is safe to remove. Frustrating!

This means i can't change the file structure of the SD card because it's not mounting.

 

[girolez]

Hi

I think the FAT32 partition has to be first on the card, before the EXT. The phone wont see the card if its after the EXT partition. You may need to repartition the card using something like gparted and a PC.

See http://androidforums.com/desire-all...dated-10th-august-2011-a.html#”1”

If thats not it, have you checked that the phone SD slot is working by trying a known good SD card in it?

Roger

 

[dhdevans]

@girolez, I think that will be the next plan. Swap the partitions around if i can, and then head to the gparted guide. Will report if anything else happens!

 

[dhdevans]

Thanks all; managed to reformat the SD card using the PC. It's split now (13Gb FAT32, 2Gb EXT4), but Link2SD is not able to mount the scripts to expand the memory.

Phone is still S-ON, fyi, so that could be an issue. Revolutionary is claiming it can't S-OFF the thing which, from what i read, is due to having a ROM on it that isn't stock.

Issues: need more internal memory, want to upgrade to a rom that is up to date and at least Android 2.3.

Solutions?

 

[nicka3200]

The S-Off issue should be straight forward. Have you tried running Revolutionary while in fastboot (from off hold the back key while pressing power).

If that doesn't work take a nandroid backup of your current set up. Wipe from recovery & flash a rooted stock ROM. Boot phone & run Revolutionary. Restore your previous nandroid.


I,m not sure all ROMs support simple2sd. There are a good many which have apps2sd+ support built in.

 

[dhdevans]

Nick, good suggestion. Have found AOKP Build 40 that is doing the trick. Seems to have reduced storage space and started installing things onto SD card. Still not s-off, but seems fine enough.

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