[Q] Is there any way to ignore the internal SD memory in Samsung GT-I9003?

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Hi everyone,

First things first, sorry if this was covered somewhere else in the forums, I really didn't find this question anywhere so I "had" to post this.

I got my Samsung GT-I9003 4GB a month ago, and everything was working perfectly until 3 days ago. It starts showing an "Internal SD card unexpectedly removed" error whenever the phone goes standby, then it forces me to terminate processes one after another, and finally it shuts down. I hadn't done any kind of ROM flashing nor rooting the device until the problems arose, so I don't know where the problem comes from.

I've tried to re-flash froyo 2.2.1 in my device, but the problem keeps showing up.

I found in this forums this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1088474) covering the possibility of swapping both internal memory and external SD. It works great, but I still had problems with the "external SD card" being "unexpectedly removed"...

It crossed my mind if it was possible to modify the vold.fstab file further to only detect the external SD card as the internal memory and ignore the internal memory, as if it wasn't even on the phone. I don't know if that's even possible (since I don't know much about file systems nor Android), but I'd appreciate your thoughts on the matter.

same issue

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Originally Posted by eikur

Hi everyone,

First things first, sorry if this was covered somewhere else in the forums, I really didn't find this question anywhere so I "had" to post this.

I got my Samsung GT-I9003 4GB a month ago, and everything was working perfectly until 3 days ago. It starts showing an "Internal SD card unexpectedly removed" error whenever the phone goes standby, then it forces me to terminate processes one after another, and finally it shuts down. I hadn't done any kind of ROM flashing nor rooting the device until the problems arose, so I don't know where the problem comes from.

I've tried to re-flash froyo 2.2.1 in my device, but the problem keeps showing up.

I found in this forums this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1088474) covering the possibility of swapping both internal memory and external SD. It works great, but I still had problems with the "external SD card" being "unexpectedly removed"...

It crossed my mind if it was possible to modify the vold.fstab file further to only detect the external SD card as the internal memory and ignore the internal memory, as if it wasn't even on the phone. I don't know if that's even possible (since I don't know much about file systems nor Android), but I'd appreciate your thoughts on the matter.

Was having the exact same problem with a further twist, the issue occured almost every half an hour at office and very rarely at home. Tried a factory reset and also GB update via Kies. Problem was still present, so have given it to samsung service and the service rep informed me that it was most likely a motherboard issue.

Recently one of my friends had the same issue. Samsung service center replaced the motheboard and the issue seems to be resolved.

Check this out to recover from a broken (but not fully broken) internal sd card ->http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...php?p=30195720