[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
[MENTION=838017]sherri[/MENTION] thank you for the reply. I love the neat toys and apparent stability of the PAC-ROM page, but if it is like the Pac Man game, I really don't want anything like that. That is why I love CM roms. They are like the real blur rom that comes with the phone, all serious and stuff, with all of the crap removed, superuser added, and lots of great features. Nice clean look and theme-able, so for me, this is great. If I have "little pac men" chomping around on the screen, I really would not like that too much. Pac Man as a theme would be alright because then if I don't want it, I don't use it. But if it is built in, not too happy about that. Just have to try it one day when I have time to see what it is really all about, it looks very promising. The whole idea of Liquid Smooth is that it is supposed to be fast, slick, and dependable. I am surprised that it slowed down your phone. If it were combined with something like Pac ROM, then I think it would slow things down.

The ext-sdcard will not mount. I have a SanDisk 64 Gb card and only had this issue once. I would insert it in the phone and it would not mount. I ended up putting it in a USB card reader, then completely formatting it in Windows and put my data back on it and that cleared it up for me. Let me put it in a card reader to find out the file system. Ugh, Windows wants to scan it for errors. Okay, see what happens. Oh, some errors were found and fixed. See attachment. Since I have the card out, even though I dismounted it in Android, the phone rebooted and keeps wanting to reboot. I will do a dalvik and cache wipe before putting it back in. Hmmm, no "Found" directory I can see on the card in Windows. But there is a lost directory. All Linux and Android file systems offer a lost + found directory for any sort of file system errors, they end up in lost + found. Usually useless bits to delete. I will wait for the app count (Accurate) and reboot phone before sending this to make sure all is well...

Phone is fine, all is well. :)

...oh! There is the "Found" directory. It is a hidden folder and is full of small .chk files. Useless. Delete them all.

Okay, the file system format is what I thought, exFAT. If your card is cleanly formatted in Windows with exFAT, it should mount and work just fine. My card actually "went bad" but is guaranteed for a very long time. SanDisk sent me a new one for free. I noticed that a backup file was named incorrectly and renamed it in ES File Explorer. When I went back later, I noticed that the name change did not stick. Huh? I then made another backup and would delete this one. It did not work, I could not make backups or write to the card anymore at all, only read from it. I found out that SanDisk has error checking built in. If anything abnormal is detected, such as a memory location that is not working, the card locks into read only mode to protect the data and you have to replace the card to fix it. My new card works very well.

It is a little bit of a PITA to fix this, because you have up to 32 GB of data and want to back that up completely by copying the entire card to Windows, format it, then copy everything back again. And that much data over a USB port takes quite a while. But you get a fresh start and a fresh card to work with. This "should" fix it. If there is something else wrong with it, get a replacement card from SanDisk. It has nothing to do with Windows registry or anything like that if the card does not mount in Android. The file system is likely corrupted in some minor way as it will not mount for you and you can still use it with a USB reader.

This CM11 snapshot is really good. :good:

EDIT:

I misunderstood what [MENTION=3315635]neoramasay[/MENTION] was saying about a Windows registry error. He is right about device ID numbers and corruption but that is only for Windows devices. I thought he was meaning this might be your Android situation. My bad. But really, a fresh format and the card should work. Unless, ...it is "broken" somehow. I don't remember what the card came with, probably was exFAT. Many USB hard drives and sdcards use FAT32 for maximum compatibility. But for the SanDisk cards, exFAT it is! Windows does a good job at formatting this card. Right click in "Computer" and Format... Then check the filesystem, it should be set to exFAT but if not, change it to exFAT. Good to go! :highfive: