Root not in loop anymore.. SD card card not mounting and only booting while plugged in!!ANY suggestions?

[electroguy27]

I was stuck in a boot loop of hell last night and got GREAT help from you guys
BUT NOW i can get the ROM that messed it up to boot but i cant mount the sd card to do a restore or update .. PLEASE HELP!!!

 

[Rxpert83]

Are you able to mount it in recovery?

 

[dustwun77]

Hey Electroguy.

pick one thread or the other or folk are gonna get confused. guess you figure you could use the company, huh?

Prob someone will come in and have some suggestions.

You must have escaped the boot loop of death, or didn't have it. hang in there and see what folk can come up with.

 

[MizzouBrent]

Can you flash a stock rom in recovery? I would stay away from your backup in this case. So if you are in RA I would

MS-USB to make your USB connection to a PC active
Put this on your sd card: [ROM][STOCK][12/4/11] 4.54.651.1 (updated) - xda-developers
Flash it
reboot

 

[argedion]

can you mount the usb in Recovery by doing a usb toggle?

 

[argedion]

Can you flash a stock rom in recovery? I would stay away from your backup in this case. So if you are in RA I would

MS-USB to make your USB connection to a PC active
Put this on your sd card: [ROM][STOCK][12/4/11] 4.54.651.1 (updated) - xda-developers
Flash it
reboot

Going with a different Rom was going to be my next suggestion if he is able to toggle from recovery.

 

[electroguy27]

sorry..i know youre absolutly right.. im just stressed.. been workin on this for days now.. with your help of course i cant mount in recovery no. let me try to flash the rom through usb. do i want the odexed or deodexed??

 

[mikem0269]

I was stuck in a boot loop of hell last night and got GREAT help from you guys
BUT NOW i can get the ROM that messed it up to boot but i cant mount the sd card to do a restore or update .. PLEASE HELP!!!

First I would try removing the sd card and reinserting it. Maybe a bad conection.

 

[MizzouBrent]

First I would try removing the sd card and reinserting it. Maybe a bad conection.

Good idea. I would go with Odex, since it will just be for a backup sake anyway. Odex is cleaner and a little faster. I thought it was supposed to be smaller too, but the Odex download looks bigger. But I prefer Odex.

I'll bet the sd card connection just isn't good. Open that sucker up and make sure it's snapped in correctly.

 

[electroguy27]

ive tried several sd cards so thats not it.. downloading now...

 

[argedion]

ive tried several sd cards so thats not it.. downloading now...

What size cards are you trying? 2gig 4gig 8gig?

I have read somewhere that the EVO doesnt like anything less than 8gig SDCARD

Also is the card readable through a card reader on your computer?

 

[electroguy27]

Can you flash a stock rom in recovery? I would stay away from your backup in this case. So if you are in RA I would

MS-USB to make your USB connection to a PC active
Put this on your sd card: [ROM][STOCK][12/4/11] 4.54.651.1 (updated) - xda-developers
Flash it
reboot

my computer isnt recognizing the toggle, do i need to download drivers or anything first?
and im using an 8gb hdsd now and it was a 16gb originaly

 

[dustwun77]

do you happen to have an adapter that you can use to put your card in to and see if the pc can read the card?

Maybe put a new rom to flash on it too.

 

[electroguy27]

thats what i want to do but how can i flash it without it reading or mounting my sd?

 

[dustwun77]

but the card is readable by your pc? just trying to establish that...

 

[MizzouBrent]

Right, or even try it in another phone. If it's corrupted, it won't read anywhere.

 

[mikem0269]

By everything ive read here including trying several sd cards Im wondering if the recovery is the problem. Just throwing this out there to see what everyone else thinks. Maybe bad flash or download.

 

[MizzouBrent]

I don't think so, because he said the phone couldn't read the sd card once it boots either. Maybe the whole port went bad somehow? I've never heard of that happening on an Evo, but I suppose anything is possible.

 

[electroguy27]

me neither which is why this is driving me crazy!! it says CANT MOUNT /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (no such file or directory)
and amon ra is now running and its still not mounting

can i install a ROM without the sd card?

 

[MizzouBrent]

You're 100% sure that it's snapped in correctly? It's tricky to get it in there just right.

 

[argedion]

I don't think so, because he said the phone couldn't read the sd card once it boots either. Maybe the whole port went bad somehow? I've never heard of that happening on an Evo, but I suppose anything is possible.

i thinking like you he has either a) a bad port or b) gotten some trash up in the port from trying different cards. (Maybe a spray some contact cleaner in the slot where the sdcard goes? I'm just guessing anyways.

I also agree that you need to try to see if any of the cards will work in windows.

More specifically if they will be recognized by windows. If not please go to mmc and check the disk manager and tell me if it pics it up in there and what it tells you about the partition ie.. Fat 32, Fat or Unrecognised.