I really need some help guys. I recently bought a 2gig memory card for my Dash running the Kavana 6.1 update. I later on inserted the card into one of my other phones and formatted it. However, when I view the storage card from Windows Mobile Device Manager, I no longer have my 1 point something gig of memory, but a paltry 966 MBs. Anyone know what happened and if there is a solution? I tried inserting the card into my memory slots using the adapters but no luck, as it never shows up..
wthe device manager might have corrupted the card because the dash is only supposed to have 1gig. cards is my guess and if thats the case u just have to reformatt on a card reader and not use with mobile manager...
wreiad said:
I really need some help guys. I recently bought a 2gig memory card for my Dash running the Kavana 6.1 update. I later on inserted the card into one of my other phones and formatted it. However, when I view the storage card from Windows Mobile Device Manager, I no longer have my 1 point something gig of memory, but a paltry 966 MBs. Anyone know what happened and if there is a solution? I tried inserting the card into my memory slots using the adapters but no luck, as it never shows up..
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try formatting your card in your phone you can use resco explorer to format it
The Dash (out of the box) can take up to 2gb card. Even after changing the ROM it would take a 2gb card. What phone did you use to format the card? if the phone you used to format it could not take a 2gb card it would format it exactly to what you are saying, basically change it to a 1gb card.
Format it in your computer use fat16, do a full format. Hopefully you will be able to erase the new file table that says 1gb and restore it to a 2gb.
rickwyatt said:
try formatting your card in your phone you can use resco explorer to format it
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It says to unlock it.
Bupahs said:
The Dash (out of the box) can take up to 2gb card. Even after changing the ROM it would take a 2gb card. What phone did you use to format the card? if the phone you used to format it could not take a 2gb card it would format it exactly to what you are saying, basically change it to a 1gb card.
Format it in your computer use fat16, do a full format. Hopefully you will be able to erase the new file table that says 1gb and restore it to a 2gb.
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How? I don't get that option...
you have fat32? try fat16.normaly have to show you the word (fat). if you windows dont give you this kind of fat , have to do in your phone.
good luck
wreiad said:
How? I don't get that option...
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wreiad said:
How? I don't get that option...
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Not on Vista you wont. You'll need a XP system... the only other option is to set your view types in windows exploere to show system and hidden files on the storage card then delete them. Then use your dash to format the card. Its a long shot but it might work. If not.. looks like you are in the market for a new 2gb card.
also remember windows never shows the full size of a card or any other form of storage. remember 1 gig is actually 1024 megs. and never shows the reserved system space.
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how do i do it . new to this phone
Simply put it into a card reader, and into a computer. Then find the drive with the card, right click it and click format.
Src: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_format_a_micro_sd_card
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However, I wouldn't think that you would want to format a memory card. I remember hearing somewhere that it could be bad. However it could have been formatting or defragmenting (i can't remember which, but both seems a little unusual to me to do with a card). I suppose it is safe to use windows to format the card, but an alternative is to plug it into the computer, select everything on it, and just delete it. Then again, thats my opinion.
You can't defragment the card, but you can format it. There's no reason that I would suggest a regular format over a quick format though...
Regular format just does a chkdisk i think, and there is no need for that in a card
cudahy_boy said:
how do i do it . new to this phone
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There shouldn't be a reason for format the card to be used with the phone. All the cards I've used, I just put in the phone and used without having to do anything to the card.
Hi,
I have convertedsome movies and copied them to the memory card, but since yesterday evening....Everything I copy over to the memory card just keep disappearing from the card after disconnecting...I have tried with mp3 audio as well, but there is nothing showing on the card, I have copy and cut both with the same result.. please help...I am using the 4gb that came with the phone..
Do you 'safely remove' the card before removing it from your PC?
bcmobile said:
Do you 'safely remove' the card before removing it from your PC?
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Yes I did, I have actually never taken it out of my phone all along, I only just took it out now to format on the pc as it wouldnt format on the desire, now windows is unable to complete the format, what other software can i use to force a format...
I had this exact issue with a cheapo 16gb memory card. I now use a branded 8gb and no problems at all. I had lost all photos and maps for copilot and decided enough was enough. Not sure if Android is not too happy with 16gb or the fact it was a cheap card.
I now use a Samsung class 6 8gb card. Works perfect.
saayinla said:
Yes I did, I have actually never taken it out of my phone all along, I only just took it out now to format on the pc as it wouldnt format on the desire, now windows is unable to complete the format, what other software can i use to force a format...
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You can format straight from the phone's settings
Goto settings>>SD & phone storage>> ... First choose Unmount SD card, then Format SD card, it will automatically remount it.
wibberly said:
I had this exact issue with a cheapo 16gb memory card. I now use a branded 8gb and no problems at all. I had lost all photos and maps for copilot and decided enough was enough. Not sure if Android is not too happy with 16gb or the fact it was a cheap card.
I now use a Samsung class 6 8gb card. Works perfect.
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Interestingly this is the sandisk 4gb card that came with the phone from Tmobile, so its shouldnt be a problem. I guess though
salahag said:
You can format straight from the phone's settings
Goto settings>>SD & phone storage>> ... First choose Unmount SD card, then Format SD card, it will automatically remount it.
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I did try to try to format on the phone but after formating it does not mount the card back to the phone. and I took it out and try to do it on a pc even try using the panasonic SD formatter but still will not format.
What do you reckon guys send it back to tmobile.. or what?
Yeah, if the panasonic formatter fails, Id send it back. I had a similar problem a long time ago with a SanDisk card and they were happy to replace it.
Yeah...thanks for that, just spoken to tmobile and they will put another in the post for me...
I've been dealing with this exact issue as well. Very frustrating. I had a 16GB SD card in my G2 and photos would intermittently disappear then reappear a few days later. I got an Amaze with a 32GB card and it does the same damn thing. Any suggestions?
Hello I have a big problem hope somebody can help me.
I have a 16g micro sd card. RA Recovery 2.2,
this is what happened:
I rebooted the phone in to recovery wipe everything in order to install a new rom I had just downloaded, after I wiped I try to install from sd card and I got a message saying that the card could not be mounted.
So I plug the phone on the computer turned on the USB-MS toggle, when I click on the sd card on the computer it tells me that the card is not formatted and ask if I want to reformat the card, If I click yes it brings me to the other screen but it tells me that the card is only 30.6mb and the card is 16g? it only gives me to option in the file system FAT or exFAT.
Can somebody help I really don’t want to lose the card
ps i have windows xp and windows 7 , the phone is running miui rom
Where did you get the card?
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I believe you will end up formatting SD card (FAT) but if you have anything that you want to keep you can move that to your PC. After you format card and phone recognise and accept it, you can try move your stuff from PC back to SD. Again that just my opinion and I may be wrong... Before anything, try to take card out > start phone > turn phone down > insert card again.
Rydah805 said:
Where did you get the card?
Sent From My HTC Evo 4G On The Now Network From Sprint Using Tapatalk Pro!
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i buy at walmart
erik077 said:
I believe you will end up formatting SD card (FAT) but if you have anything that you want to keep you can move that to your PC. After you format card and phone recognise and accept it, you can try move your stuff from PC back to SD. Again that just my opinion and I may be wrong... Before anything, try to take card out > start phone > turn phone down > insert card again.
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how can i change form FAT to FAT32 is that anyway to do that? in windows it only shows FAT or exFAT to format it with.
Cjunior said:
how can i change form FAT to FAT32 is that anyway to do that? in windows it only shows FAT or exFAT to format it with.
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I believe you can do that with older windows (XP), but is it necessary to do it ? FAT was just an example what I give to you. Why don't you format your card with phone using standard system?
erik077 said:
I believe you can do that with older windows (XP), but is it necessary to do it ? FAT was just an example what I give to you. Why don't you format your card with phone using standard system?
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i try but the only thing that shows is 30.6mb and this is 16g.
i was working before i had over 8g of pictures on it, when i restarted my phone and wipe to install a new rom it did something with the card. im about to give up hope
anybody had any idea to fix a bad fomated SD card??? it will only reconice 30.6mb and only gives me a option to format in FAT not FAT32 the card is supposed to be a 16g, im open to ideas
Cjunior said:
anybody had any idea to fix a bad fomated SD card??? it will only reconice 30.6mb and only gives me a option to format in FAT not FAT32 the card is supposed to be a 16g, im open to ideas
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Did you try booting into recovery, run partition, set swap at zero and ext at zero?? this should format the entire card...
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Did you try booting into recovery, run partition, set swap at zero and ext at zero?? this should format the entire card...
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i did, it didn't work
Did you ever solve this issue ?
Hello,
My rom(iNsertCoin) has crashed today for an unknown reason, and entered nonstop bootloops.
I have tried to reflash the iNsertcoin zip but it didnt work for some reason, also it told me it cant mount the sd-ext (I am using ra-desire 2.0.0).
I have turned the phone off, and when I returned home I put my A-Data 16gb Class 10 Microsd (which was bought from newegg, so it cant be fake) in my card reader, and I started to partition the card like this: 1gb ext4, 300mb ext4, 100mb linux-swap, rest to fat32.
all of a sudden the program just crashed and from that point it tells me the card has 1gb unallocated space, in windows 7 it keeps asking me to format the card but it never succeeds, and it says the card uses raw file system.
I have tried chkdsk, and it told me its not available for raw filesystems.
I have also tried a number of programs, the HP partition tool, SDFormatter, nothing really helped.
Also, I tried using diskpart -> clean all command on the card but it keeps giving me weird error messages but usually it tells me its not ready, and it looks like the card is not responsive, although the pc recongized it.
I have tried doing this from a number of computers, another W7 computer and a XP computer. nothing worked.
I cant allocate space in gparted, and it tells me to create a partition table, and when I try that, the program just hangs.
Oh yeah, and I tried to put the microsd card into an adapter and put it in my dad's dslr and tried to format it, but there was an error.
Have I killed my microsd card? :/
hfg666 said:
Hello,
My rom(iNsertCoin) has crashed today for an unknown reason, and entered nonstop bootloops.
I have tried to reflash the iNsertcoin zip but it didnt work for some reason, also it told me it cant mount the sd-ext (I am using ra-desire 2.0.0).
I have turned the phone off, and when I returned home I put my A-Data 16gb Class 10 Microsd (which was bought from newegg, so it cant be fake) in my card reader, and I started to partition the card like this: 1gb ext4, 300mb ext4, 100mb linux-swap, rest to fat32.
all of a sudden the program just crashed and from that point it tells me the card has 1gb unallocated space, in windows 7 it keeps asking me to format the card but it never succeeds, and it says the card uses raw file system.
I have tried chkdsk, and it told me its not available for raw filesystems.
I have also tried a number of programs, the HP partition tool, SDFormatter, nothing really helped.
Also, I tried using diskpart -> clean all command on the card but it keeps giving me weird error messages but usually it tells me its not ready, and it looks like the card is not responsive, although the pc recongized it.
I have tried doing this from a number of computers, another W7 computer and a XP computer. nothing worked.
I cant allocate space in gparted, and it tells me to create a partition table, and when I try that, the program just hangs.
Oh yeah, and I tried to put the microsd card into an adapter and put it in my dad's dslr and tried to format it, but there was an error.
Have I killed my microsd card? :/
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try using androids built in sd card format tool. settigns, sd card storage, unmount sd card, then format. try flashing clockworkmod recovery and using there builtin format ooptions,, if still no go, u mayb have friemd your sd card. by the way, u sjould always use your fat32 as your 1st rive and never 2nd or 3rd. im quite sure u makes your pc read the drives in the order u created them.
LINKSLOVESANDROID said:
try using androids built in sd card format tool. settigns, sd card storage, unmount sd card, then format. try flashing clockworkmod recovery and using there builtin format ooptions,, if still no go, u mayb have friemd your sd card. by the way, u sjould always use your fat32 as your 1st rive and never 2nd or 3rd. im quite sure u makes your pc read the drives in the order u created them.
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Thanks, but I have already tried to format it from the phone, and then recovery. didnt work.
and i made my fat32 as my first drive i just listed it last..
well I have sent it to A-Data today, in taiwan, and I'm hoping I will get a replacement card soon.
I have a freshly formatted 32 gb micro SD card (fat32) that I put in my Freshly rooted phone using Bliss Pop Rom. When I boot up my phone, go to storage and mount the micro SD, it automatically says that it now has 15bgb on it. Using ES file explorer I examine the contents of the card and there is nothing on it but yet it reads as 15gb left. What's worse is that when I try to copy or move a file to it, a message saying not enough space please free up space to proceed. I Googled the crap out of this issue. No luck. Please help. I use a lot of storage and the SD card is important to me.
Try on stock rom. If it works then stay on stock. Can't stress this enough. CM is to play around with but not as a daily driver. CM is garbage
vance74 said:
I have a freshly formatted 32 gb micro SD card (fat32) that I put in my Freshly rooted phone using Bliss Pop Rom. When I boot up my phone, go to storage and mount the micro SD, it automatically says that it now has 15bgb on it. Using ES file explorer I examine the contents of the card and there is nothing on it but yet it reads as 15gb left. What's worse is that when I try to copy or move a file to it, a message saying not enough space please free up space to proceed. I Googled the crap out of this issue. No luck. Please help. I use a lot of storage and the SD card is important to me.
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Try installing and running SDFix from Google Play Store. Make sure you have a nandroid backup before you do >anything< to your device.
ivanabq said:
Try installing and running SDFix from Google Play Store. Make sure you have a nandroid backup before you do >anything< to your device.
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Just to follow up. . I formatted the card on a PC using a an SD card adapter. After that I had the problem. I researched it and apparently that can mess up, corrupt micro SD cards. So I popped the same micro SD card in my Galaxy s5 and formatted it and the tried it in my LG G3 and it mounted and now works great.
Your microSD card isn't formatted properly
vance74 said:
I have a freshly formatted 32 gb micro SD card (fat32) that I put in my Freshly rooted phone using Bliss Pop Rom. When I boot up my phone, go to storage and mount the micro SD, it automatically says that it now has 15bgb on it. Using ES file explorer I examine the contents of the card and there is nothing on it but yet it reads as 15gb left. What's worse is that when I try to copy or move a file to it, a message saying not enough space please free up space to proceed. I Googled the crap out of this issue. No luck. Please help. I use a lot of storage and the SD card is important to me.
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SD cards and microSD cards should not be formatted by the Windows, Apple, or other default program. If you're running Windows, download and install SDFormatter. SD cards have special hidden files that are deleted by the Windows regular formatter. SDFormatter handles the removable media properly.
If you are going to use the SD or mSD card in a particular device, you should >always< format the card in that device before using it.
Yes, what the previous poster said... I wish you could have asked before you did it. Windows is bad at formatting for anything other than NTFS and so is Mac. If you have to format at all, use TWRP. But me personally I recommend to never ever format. I have always managed to turn them into RAW due to multiple formatting because like ivanabq said, Windows just deleted those files. These files are used by Android to read where everything is and if they are gone, it doesn't know how to read the card anymore. Good luck. Hope you get the space back.
Also could you tell us the brand of your microSD? Sometimes the knockoff brands will advertise more space and once you format it, it reveals that it is far less. You might be able to get a full refund knockoff or not.