Tuesday, February 28, 2012

N900 Corrupted EMMC Solution

HI There!
In This Topic I'll Not Explain Personal Experience Of Me, I will explain solution for who lost his internal memory capacity or his emmc became corrupted or not usable.
In Maemo Talk "talk.maemo.com" I've posted many threads explaining that my emmc became unusable and i couldn't store or remove anything from it.
I spent more than 3 months trying to find solution for this problem with no luck!
Finally i knew that was a hardware problem caused in Toshiba EMMC chip.
I suggested that i could install Android on the external memory card on file system "1GB" and use the left "7GB" storage on the SD card as mass storage instead of the internal "32GB" storage, but the problem was that Android system always reads the "32GB" as SD card, And couldn't find the left space of the external SD card.
One of the professional developers in Maemo Talk Told me how can i mount the left space of SD card on Android SD card file system to read it as the external SD card.
Then u wont need the internal "32GB" memory again!

First... u will need to install Android on your External SD card.
After installing Android on Your N900, U will need to grant "super user permission" to Terminal Emulator By Adding
    SU



You are able now to mount the left space of your SD card on Android SD card file system.
Add
    umount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1


-"if u got an error don't care about it"
Then Add
    mount -t vfat /dev/block mmcblk0p1 /mnt/sdcard



-u shouldn't get any error-
Then go to settings--storage, and see if the capacity of the SD card changed or not.
Good luck!

Important Notes:
1- You can download Terminal Emulator Here
2- U will need to enter this command every boot time.
3- file system "sdcard" not required to be named with "sdcard", u may found another name, To be sure Add
    SU


Then
    ls


.. u should find file called "mnt" if u don't find it, try to change directory listing by this command
    cd


.." till u find it, then type "ls mnt", u should find file system "sdcard".

If i did any mistake, or u have any questions don't hesitate to comment it!
Hope I helped u! ;)

2 comments:

  1. dear plzz plzz suggest me that how can i install android in sd card pls
    salim.jvd@gmail.com

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  2. dear i will be very thamk full you to if u tell how to install android in sb card with step by step guid plzz.

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