A faulty card managed to partially destroy the SD drive in my XDA.
I took off the plastic broken piece ( a sort of guide for the card). Now it manages to read from the card but doesn't write anymore.
Anyone can offer a solution please? I could not find an easy way to open the machine to access the drive.
Many thanks!!
Gonz
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Hi!
I'm having a SD 2GB memorycard. There is a problem reading the card. When I'm using Windows disk management tool the card is not recognized at all but when using R-Linux (http://www.data-recovery-software.net/Linux_Recovery.shtml) the software knows there is a memorycard plugged in but can't see the size of it. It knows it's a SanDisk card but that's it.
I've tried reading the card with a couple of different cardreaders but with the same result. Connecting the card to Linux didn't make a difference either.
I know there are alot of bright people on this forum, so, any advice?
Is there maybe some special hardware to use and so on? Help would be great.
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The topic said "Physically damaged MemoryCard". The card casing is broken but the card itself is intact, I think.
I've have an XDA Stellar for 17 months, with the same Sandisk 8GB Micro SDHC storage card all along. Some months ago, it suddenly stopped recognising the card, but my PC could read the card fine. I couldn't face another hard reset, soft resets did nothing nor did blowing air from a can into the slot.
A month later, I changed batteries (which wasn't unusual; I have two official batteries for when I can't get to a charge), and suddenly the card was recognised although I had to reload most of my programmes, but at least I could access them and most of my files again. I was too superstitious to change batteries again although that made little sense to me.
Last week, the card 'disappeared' again and nothing (even a battery change) will fix it. The phone is nearly useless to me without all my programmes on that card. Does anyone have any suggestions for a solution? I've found nothing that works and it's driving me mad. Thank you for any possible help.
hi
first of all i am not a professional but what i would do in your case is:
put the storage card in another phone
sync with pc/save files in a folder in pc like sd backup
buy a new card and put it in your phone you are using now
copy the items in your new card
i dont know if it helps try at your own risk (there isnt much risk)
No Storage Card recognised now
Finalforce111, thank you for your response. But I forgot to add that I had tried other cards when this happened and it won't recognise any, not even eg the one that came with Copilot. So no storage cards are recognised, although they were before.
But thank you very much for your suggestion; it is much appreciated.
I would like to say that your Card Interface is somehow broken,i´ve your lucky,its just a cold soldering place..
The LCD screen on my G2 got cracked the other day. T-mobile would not replace it since it was physical damage. I didn't have insurance, so they would not help me. They wouldn't even let me pay them for parts and repair. So I had to order a new LCD online, and repair it myself. I followed the instructions I found online, and replaced the LCD. My phone turned on, and the LCD was working. But now my phone does not recognize any SD cards. I opened my phone and check the SD card reader ribbon. It was plugged back in fine. I hope I didn't damage it. I have searched for hours, and tried every solution I have come across. But I think my problem is with hardware and not software. Does anybody here have some expertise they could lend me?
Thanks in advance.
BeardedPuma said:
The LCD screen on my G2 got cracked the other day. T-mobile would not replace it since it was physical damage. I didn't have insurance, so they would not help me. They wouldn't even let me pay them for parts and repair. So I had to order a new LCD online, and repair it myself. I followed the instructions I found online, and replaced the LCD. My phone turned on, and the LCD was working. But now my phone does not recognize any SD cards. I opened my phone and check the SD card reader ribbon. It was plugged back in fine. I hope I didn't damage it. I have searched for hours, and tried every solution I have come across. But I think my problem is with hardware and not software. Does anybody here have some expertise they could lend me?
Thanks in advance.
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When ever my phone has not been able to mount my sd card or recognize it, all I did was pull it out and copy all the files off of it onto my computer, then reformat the sdcard to fat32 which erases everything off it, then recopied all my files back onto it, put it back in and it works, every time.
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I have tried reformatting. I reformatted via my Mac, Windows, and my Old G1. None of them help in my case I'm lost. I have tried different SD Cards. They work in my G1, but not G2. I have tried a factory reset out of desperation. Nothing, makes a difference. I think my SD Card Reader is busted. And I do not know how to fix it
Hi,
I think my Xtrons TD696A may be faulty.
The SD card keeps unmounting and saying unexpectedly removed. Then somtimes remounting again. And will keep doing this.
I have tried Kingston and Samsung cards 16 GB and 32 GB.
Also tonight when I was changing the card I couldn't get it to click into place.
Eventually it did but then wouldn't again, like its faulty inside possibly
I am on Malalysk firmware. And have tried factory resets too.
Any advice. Do I need to format the SD card in a certain way other than FAt 32, does allocation size or anything else matter?
I may have to try and return the unit to stock before I send it back if that is possible. Only problem is seller is in Italy. Im in UK, so really didn't want to return it!
Thanks
there was a post or thread where someone had taken a photo of a bad connection between the sd card slot and the wires soldered to it.
Can anyone help me find this?!
Thanks
Or is there a general guide to opening the case and accessing the front SD card reader?
Help please lol
You might try putting the sdcard in your pc and formatting it to exFAT. Then put it in the head unit and have android format it. I had to do this myself.
luniz7 said:
You might try putting the sdcard in your pc and formatting it to exFAT. Then put it in the head unit and have android format it. I had to do this myself.
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thanks, i tried that after seeing it suggested here, unfortunately it didnt work for me.
Really think its a hardware issue as sometimes by pushing the area around the card slot, it will mount/unmount etc
Well I took the front off (warranty probably already void due to installing custom ROM and rooting anyway!)
But couldnt get the PCB out of the front screen case, might have been glued in or something and didn't want to force it.
Coulndt see any obvious solder breaks.
Managed to wedge in a bit of paper to see if it possibly might put a bit more pressure on the sd card contacts, but doubt it will do anything.
We'll see when I get it back in the car
Thinking I can probably do without an SD card reader anyway really...
Seller is advising to only use class 4 cards, im 99.9% sure that isn't the issue though!
phil001 said:
Hi,
I think my Xtrons TD696A may be faulty.
The SD card keeps unmounting and saying unexpectedly removed. Then somtimes remounting again. And will keep doing this.
I have tried Kingston and Samsung cards 16 GB and 32 GB.
Also tonight when I was changing the card I couldn't get it to click into place.
Eventually it did but then wouldn't again, like its faulty inside possibly
I am on Malalysk firmware. And have tried factory resets too.
Any advice. Do I need to format the SD card in a certain way other than FAt 32, does allocation size or anything else matter?
I may have to try and return the unit to stock before I send it back if that is possible. Only problem is seller is in Italy. Im in UK, so really didn't want to return it!
Thanks
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Hi
i have an problem with the sd card with the same unit ta696a.
took the sd card out, unit was off, put a new card in and would not turn on, only in recovery mode, looks like mcu is damaged as tryed factory firmware with same results...
Hi folks of XDA! I am in a bit of a pickle right now with my micro SD card that I purchased a while back from ADATA.
Long story short, I purchased a 64GB micro SD card from ADATA due to my needs of a little more storage than what this phone offered. I ended up using the micro SD card as adoptable storage as I wanted to be able to use both my internal and micro SD card for 'everything'. It worked great until the night before I was suppose to go on a cruise: music wasn't being downloaded as it said it had insufficient storage space, and I couldn't take pictures with the camera app because it couldn't find the storage. I got frustrated as it was showing I had over half of the storage available on my SD card and I just did not have time to meddle with this problem; it was late at night and I simply needed my phone for taking pictures & videos & music.
I ended up doing a 'no no' and ripped the micro SD card out of my HTC One M9 without formatting or anything (literally just popped it out of my phone), restarted the phone, and surprisingly nothing was corrupted; everything on my phone was still working. But not surprisingly, the micro SD card got a little weird where when I put it back into my phone, it did not recognize it and my phone wanted me to format the micro SD card. Fair enough. I did that and it said it could not be formatted ("Volume partition disk: 179,32 public' failed..."). Fair enough.
I went onto my Windows 10 PC, slotted my micro SD card into the adapter that it came with, slid the little notch away from the 'lock' on the adapter, and my computer says it needs formatting. I try formatting it but all it keeps saying is that it's 'write protected'.
I slid the notch on the adapter to the lock, and away, as well as kept it in the middle; nothing helped, it kept saying it was write protected no matter which part it was on.
I tried using scotch tape to cover it as some people on the internet found it to work when their slid mechanism broke. Still did not work.
Tried using another adapter, and it still said it's write protected.
Resorted to using the DiskPart technique via CMD; everything shows up, the micro SD card status is online and disk 1, 58GB, 0 free space.
Tried going further into the steps (i.e. "attribute disk clear readonly" & another way, "select partition"), and it says it could not be recognized due to fatal error of hardware.
Would anyone happen to be in this situation before and was able to get their micro SD card fixed or knows a fix for me? I'll be happy to give you more in-depth detail if needed. Thank you!
Moomoomania
Did you figure it out? I've had similar issue. I had to insert and remove multiple times until my PC recognized it... I think when I booked to Linux it worked though.
That sounds to me like the SD card is toast. I think it's built into the cards themselves that if the controller is going, it goes into read-only mode so that you can get your data off of it. I had an SD card bite it the first day I owned it a few years ago in a camera. I would use either a Linux VirtualBox or Linux Live Disc to copy your data to your computer and buy a new card.
bigp951 said:
Did you figure it out? I've had similar issue. I had to insert and remove multiple times until my PC recognized it... I think when I booked to Linux it worked though.
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Unfortunately I still haven't figured out how to fix my micro SD card; it's just sitting on my desk collecting dust and sadness. I'll update this thread if I happen to fix it!
Also, "booked to Linux"?
uagent said:
That sounds to me like the SD card is toast. I think it's built into the cards themselves that if the controller is going, it goes into read-only mode so that you can get your data off of it. I had an SD card bite it the first day I owned it a few years ago in a camera. I would use either a Linux VirtualBox or Linux Live Disc to copy your data to your computer and buy a new card.
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Fortunately everything important like photos were already backed up into the cloud and my micro SD card has life time warranty so I guess I'll have to end up using it. AHHH cost of shipping & time from my impatience with removing the micro SD card. My hunch is that the encryption that occurred when I used the micro SD card as an adoptable storage may have ultimately screwed it up... ://
If anyone have any clues to how to fix the problem or would like me to try things with it, feel free to post a reply
Moomoomania said:
Unfortunately I still haven't figured out how to fix my micro SD card; it's just sitting on my desk collecting dust and sadness. I'll update this thread if I happen to fix it!
Also, "booked to Linux"?
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I've tried using Linux but it's not working.
I'm having Two SD-cards collecting the dust as yours .
Please reply if you find any solution for revering those adoptable sd-cards back to working.
Thank U....
The nature of solid state memory is that any errors causes a complete failure. You will never recover the sd card. Return it to the manufacturer for a replacement.
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DevelopersWork said:
I've tried using Linux but it's not working.
I'm having Two SD-cards collecting the dust as yours .
Please reply if you find any solution for revering those adoptable sd-cards back to working.
Thank U....
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Hey! Sorry for the late reply (school exams) but mine is still collecting dust and will be probably forever. For the price that I've paid (~$30), it's not worth to replace and it's better if I just purchased a new SD card. Time + effort to get a new one is far too great for me to care about getting a replacement.
Moomoomania said:
Hey! Sorry for the late reply (school exams) but mine is still collecting dust and will be probably forever. For the price that I've paid (~$30), it's not worth to replace and it's better if I just purchased a new SD card. Time + effort to get a new one is far too great for me to care about getting a replacement.
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Thanks for the reply
But even after sdcard replacement if you use same rom in your device then the new one is also going be damaged
My device has only customs roms of android 6.0 so there still bug in them if i get new sdcard i cannot use latest version in my device So i have to search for solution to unlock these sdcards
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Thanks for the reply
But even after sdcard replacement if you use same rom in your device then the new one is also going be damaged
My device has only customs roms of android 6.0 so there still bug in them if i get new sdcard i cannot use latest version in my device So i have to search for solution to unlock these sdcards
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Oh I see. Fortunately for me right now, I am not using a custom ROM. I've been sticking to stock HTC and will proceed to do so until HTC stops giving out updates. I am not quite sure what you could do except try to manage with the 32GB like me by deleting all unnecessary apps, putting all your photos and videos into Google photo, and caching music that you find yourself listening to the most these days. So far it has been working well for me to the point where I don't find it necessary to have an SD card anymore! Perhaps it's a different case for you.