Anyone else or am I unlucky?
If I go to Settings/SD and Phone storage, I can see there is a card and it tells me total space, available space etc.
But if I try to play any mp3 that I have put on via pc, it tells me no music found. I get other errors telling me there is no SD card present, when there is.
I can access card through pc. I have formatted, tried another card, put original card in (a camera) and the card works fine in that, so I think it is a phone issue
You might be unlucky, as it seems faulty. Does the card mount OK when you connect to a PC?
Yes it does - have tried a variety of cards, 3, and all work, but not on phone
Ok - all sorted. Took it back and had it exchanged!! phew.....
I have just had the same problem. If you do a google search for h2testw this is a great bit of software that I found, it takes a time to run but it will tell you if the card is stuffed or a fake.
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This is my first post, and I'm usually pretty careful about following instructions. I'm currently running Skyraider's 3.0 RC2, but to my dismay, I am finding that my phone still refuses to recognize my SD Card. Under settings it says it is unavailable, and when connected to PC, it gives an option to mount to disk but doesn't mount upon selecting this.
My phone is rooted with S-Off and 2.15 radio...Did a full wipe of everything before I flashed 3.0 RC2. Shows that my kernel is now King #2, but I have had this issue with many other roms and kernel combinations. I have been unsuccessful in finding a solution when searching the forums, and the only way to regain functionality is to restore a previous backup without any roms installed.
Any help is much appreciate. Thanks!!!
P.S. I've also tried mounting the card in clockworkmod's advanced recovery settings, but this does not change a thing. Internal storage is also currently unavailable. Mount through usb in recovery does work, but this doesn't help when I cannot access my sd card after boot.
I had a similar issue a couple days ago after upgrading from stock 2.1 to SkyRaider 2.5.2.
When I'd go to set my ringtones, the option for the SD card wasn't there. As if it wasn't reading it was in the phone at all. I opened up Astro file manager to see if it could read it and it in fact did. I could see that all the ringtones were still on the card right where they should be and they would play from Astro when I clicked on them. But, the option to actually set them still wasn't there.
I'm not exactly sure what 'fixed' it, but I went in to set my notification tone and suddenly the option to select from the SD card was there. Then, I could then access the card to set ringers as well. I'm sorry I don't have anything more specific. The card just seemed to suddenly decide to let the OS know it was there. I also rebooted the phone a couple times as well as removing the card while the phone was in use and reinserting it. Not sure if any of that helped the situation or not.
I had asked about this in two separate threads and not one person responded, so I'm guessing the issue is rare.
If you don't get anywhere with it, maybe try a different SD card just to see if it shows up.
Good luck.
I've had the same issue but was able to resolve it. Mount the sd card from a laptop or PC. If you can read the card copy the contents onto the PC (I placed mine in a separate folder). Then go into tools and do an error checking. After replacing the SD card back in the phone see if everything is ok. this fixed my SD card. However, I've had the SD card lose its primary disk notation so I had to reformat and then transfer the previous save files on the SD card from my backup an that solved my other issue. Also, some times the SD card speed can cause this issue and it is perfered that you a class 4 or better. I hope this helps.
Well, I took your advice and pulled the sd card only to mount it separately and scan it for errors. None were found. I've also reformatted and restored all the files that were on it. Phone still does not recognize card or internal storage. My phone did, however, recognize another card I had on hand and I believe it may be a compatibility issue between my 8 Gb A-Data brand Micro SD card and 2.2 roms. FYI...It's a class 6, and the one I tried that was recognized was a 6gb sandisk (class 4). I'll look into getting a 16 or 32 gig sandisk in the near future and keep you posted. Thank you guys for your insight.
always 'safely remove hardware' (stop the device, etc.) from your windows machine before unplugging your incredible
if you don't, you end up not being able to see the SD card until you restart your phone
Just reformatted my SD card, checked for errors after unmounting etc... and now it seems to work ok, although one of the music players I normally use doesn't seem to recognise it!!
I have adata 16Gb class 10 card I order her trough ebay It's original for sure, and I have been using her for like half a year or so, and recently when my mobile shuts down (low battery) my mobile said blank card and and to format her. I have htc desire(amoled) I'm using Runnymede 6.1 stable ROM, and I don't think that has do to anything with my card blank, becouse it was happening on previous rom two but just so you know. Can someone please help my I tried full format ejecting card putting her back, and same thing, is my card dying ?
Did you check your card on a PC? Is it recognized and can you access it? If so, make a backup and try to check the card with on board tools (e.g. for Windows: http://www.ehow.com/how_6857598_check-sd-card-errors.html).
Alternatively, there are plenty of tools on the web, like
SDFormatter (https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/)
or
H2testw (http://www.heise.de/download/h2testw.html)
Good luck!
PS. A while ago, I also had some trouble with my Samsung 16GB Class 10 MicroSD. I formatted it again and had since no more issues.
When I format her (trough my phone usb becouse I don't have sd card reader) she is okay again and PC recognized her but after some time she did that again blank sd and that usually happends when my phone shuts down not by me but when battery is low even sometimes for some other reason, it's iritating becouse I have to format her and install ROM again.
Mmh, it is a little hard to tell whether the problem is solely down to your sd card or also to your phone, as long as you are not able to test the card outside the phone with a PC etc. Have you tried touse the PC tools in disk drive mode? According to this thread, H2testw works this way. You might also wanna try apps from google play/android market, e.g. 'SD Tools' or 'SD Card Tester'. I have not used any of those, so I can't tell if they are useful.
Finally, don't you have any opportunity to use a friend's PC or borrow a card reader? Nevertheless, I would strongly recommend you to buy a proper (from my experience the cheapest ones suck, e.g. are very slow, don't recognize some card formats) card reader, either a multi-format one or a microsd2usb one.
If you still have guarantee on your card, why not simply get a replacement by the reseller? I mean, if you can still access the card (at least for a while) then you should be able to create a backup and later restore it to a new card.
tablord said:
Mmh, it is a little hard to tell whether the problem is solely down to your sd card or also to your phone, as long as you are not able to test the card outside the phone with a PC etc. Have you tried touse the PC tools in disk drive mode? According to this thread, H2testw works this way. You might also wanna try apps from google play/android market, e.g. 'SD Tools' or 'SD Card Tester'. I have not used any of those, so I can't tell if they are useful.
Finally, don't you have any opportunity to use a friend's PC or borrow a card reader? Nevertheless, I would strongly recommend you to buy a proper (from my experience the cheapest ones suck, e.g. are very slow, don't recognize some card formats) card reader, either a multi-format one or a microsd2usb one.
If you still have guarantee on your card, why not simply get a replacement by the reseller? I mean, if you can still access the card (at least for a while) then you should be able to create a backup and later restore it to a new card.
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I run H2testw and no error found. I was planing to buy microsd card reader allInOne and that kind of reader I know that cheap one sucks, but I didn't have anything to put in until now I mean I still have my phone and card in it and when I connect it to PC I can format her so I don't know should I really bought that reader...I don't know about guarantee becouse I throw away that serial number that was on the case and with that serial number you can register on adata site and see If you still have guarantee but now I can't becouse I don't have it
*deep breath*
I noticed that my Note II had bounced a rather small app update for lack of space on the phone. Okay, fine. I have a bunch of games on there (GTA is huge) and I guess I have to move/delete some stuff. Then I realize that my camera app has been storing stuff on the phone instead of the 64gb Class 10 Kingston SD card (in b4 "Kingston is crap!"). So I make that change and tell the phone to start saving photos to the SD card. Fine. There are already some photo files on the SD card, so I decide to use ES File Explorer to move the existing photos from my DCIM folder to the one on the SD card. ES tells me everything went fine, and a subsequent check confirmed this. All good so far.
Then I went for a drive and decided to play tracks off my phone. What? Nobody home. No music for some reason. Everything's gone. Fine, I'll look into it when I get home.
This morning: "Oh, I have a photo of that! Let me just get it..."
Nobody home.
Go to ES File Explorer, and all the files and folders on the stupid SD card are 404.
Go to my computer. Connect my Note II and look at the drives on the phone. Windows shows the phone's storage, and shows the card storage, which says there's stuff on there (as in, space is taken up). Click into the drive and... Nothing's there.
Unmount the SD in Settings and put it into a card reader. Maybe the phone's goofing up, right? Windows says that the card needs to be formatted (because it's using an unfamiliar filesystem).
Nuts.
Put the card back into the phone. The phone will recognize the filesystem, so it should be-- What?
Phone says the card is now blank or using an unsupported filesystem.
So there's my problem. How do I proceed? I know that stuff's on there. I just know there's something stupid going on that's preventing me from getting at it.
As long as I can yank my latest photos off there, I don't mind wiping the card and starting over, since it's just media stuff I was keeping on there anyway. What do I use to crack into it?
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
UPDATE: Various file recovery apps (in both Windows and the phone) are telling me that the card now has truly nothing on it. There are many, many really great swear words I want to share with you right now, but am prohibited from using on this forum. It actually HURTS not to use them right now.
Why do people seem to have so many problems with 64gb Class 10 cards on the Note II?
I had similar problem, I was trying to use software for SGSII to map SD card as usb flash disk to a PC and it didn't work and when I disconnected I had same symptoms as you. I put the card in reader and connected to PC and repaired with Minitool (just search for "MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition"). I lost couple of folders but most of it was ok.
Good luck!
Sounds like You have a Corrupted Boot sector.
Put the SD card in a Card Reader on Your Windows PC.
Open a Command Prompt and Type This - chkdsk /X /F <SD card drive letter>:
If Your SD card is Drive G, It would Look Like This - chkdsk /X /F G:
This will repair the Boot Sector if that is the Problem.
Put the SD card back in Your Phone and You should be Good To Go.
This may be the wrong place to ask this, and if it is, I apologize.
I also apologize for this being so long, but I wanted to include as much info as possible in case someone has a solution I haven't tried yet.
I have a Sandisk 32gb micro SD in my S3 (AT&T, rooted, running StockMOD 4.4 RC 2). The card worked perfectly fine before all of this started.
I ordered a new (generic) 64gb micro SD card through Amazon about a month ago. When I tried to copy my data to it, I got a 0x80070570 error, which seemed to point to a card defect. I sent it back, and finally got a replacement.
I unmounted the old card and put the replacement card in my S3. The new card didn't register in the phone at all.
I popped it out (the phone didn't recognize it, so I couldn't unmount it), put it in a USB card reader, and plugged it into my desktop (Windows 7 Home, 64 bit). The card said that it was formatted to FAT32. Since windows doesn't give you the ability to format to FAT32, I tried exFAT. I figured at the worst, when I put it in the phone, the phone would not recognize the file structure and give me the option to format it.
Well, a quick format didn't work (Windows said it was unable to complete it.) I tried a full format and when it got to the end, Windows said it couldn't complete that either. I put it back in my phone and it was recognized with a "blank card or unrecognized file system" error. It gave me the option to format it, so I did. After a maybe 2 seconds, the phone said it was checking the card for errors, then gave the "blank card" message again. I tried several times, but the same thing happened. I rebooted into recovery (CMW 6.0.4.7) and it seemed to show the card. I tried to format it there, but got the message "could not format /storage/sdcard1". I tried to mount it and got a "error mounting /storage/sdcard1" error.
I put the card back in the reader and my computer doesn't see anything there anymore. No drive letter. Nothing showing up in disk manager. I can't see it through diskpart's list volume or chkdsk (all run with admin privileges.) If I take the card out of the reader, the reader shows up as drive H (in all places). But once I put the card in, the drive disappears from everywhere.
So I figure I got another bum card. I put the old micro SD card back in my phone and it didn't see it. There's no message - the phone just doesn't recognize anything there. I rebooted, but still nothing. I booted into recovery and CMW doesn't see the old card, even though it worked perfectly fine up until this point. I tried wiping the cache and dalvik, but that didn't change anything. I booted without a card, inserted it, and the phone doesn't see it. I booted with the card in the phone, and it doesn't see it. I booted without a card, shut it down, inserted the cart, and rebooted, and that didn't work. The only thing I haven't tried yet is a factory rest. I put the old card in the reader and my computer doesn't see anything (just like the new one.) I tried disk manager, diskpart, chkdsk, etc. and it doesn't show up.
I tried 2 different card readers (1 USB, 1 internal) and neither reads either card. I tried 2 different micro SD to SD adapters, and neither one helps. I've tried reading the cards on 2 different computers, but neither sees either card. I found an old 2 gb micro SD card, plugged it into the USB adapter and it shows up in both computers fine. I tried both adapters and both work fine with the 2 gb. I also put the 2 gb in my phone, and it worked fine. So I think it's pretty safe to rule out an issue with the computer, the phone, the adapter, and the reader. Which leaves me with a card problem.
All of the solutions I've found online require that the computer actually assign a drive letter and see the card, even if it can't read it. I don't have that, so none of those work for me.
I get that the new card was probably a bum card. But why would my old card crap out all of a sudden? I had just taken a backup of what was on there, so it worked in the reader 30 minutes before I swapped out cards. I've inspected the contacts and they look fine to me. No scratches or crap on there.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get my 32 gb working again? Losing data isn't a problem, since I backed it up before I started this whole thing.
I've pretty much given up hope on the 64 gb at this point.
Really hard to say. But just a guess, maybe the card reader caused some sort of damage to the card. Would explain why both the new ones didn't work either.
Like I said though, it's purely a guess. But if windows doesn't recognize it no matter how you plug it in, I'm not sure there will be much you can do.
And just FYI, since this is a question, it should've been posted in Q&A.
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Thanks, @DocHoliday77. I was afraid of that. Even though I don't see any damage it's possible something happened. I don't know.
I was just hoping that there was some kind of software that might be able to access the card without checking the file structure. Something that could format it without knowing, or caring, what was on it before.
And thanks for the heads up on where this should have been posted. Next time I'll ask my questions in Q&A.
Could be something internal that allowed too much power to the card maybe. No way of knowing that I'm aware of. There may be recovery software out there, but it may cost more than its worth or it may require special equipment. Been a long time since I've looked into that type stuff though.
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Hey guys and girls!
This morning my phone turned off by itself (13% battery left) and needed somewhat longer than usual to reboot (in the meantime I plugged it back in to the charger). First thing I noticed was that my whole theme got reset as well as it started showing me introductional tips ("long press here to move your apps to the homescreen, ecc.). It also started to update apps in the Play Store even though I set it to manual ... so basically a LOT of things were reset.
The biggest problem I'm having now is though that all my files (pictures, videos, music) that are stored on an external micro SD card are corrupt. It's not possible anymore to open anything. I already removed the micro SD card and put it into an adapter to have a look at the files via the laptop. But nothing, even though the sizes of the files seem OK, I can't open them.
Does anyone have a clue as to what exactly happened here? Are those files lost (at least of some I have a backup) or is there anything I can do to "repair" them? Help is really appreciated, thanks!
PS: Things like the card unmounting and re-mounting never occurred. So I can't tell if the card was dying or if actually the phone ruined my files.
Did you happen to be using a SanDisk SD Card? I've had my 10 brick 2 of those until I switched to Samsung SD Cards about a year ago and haven't had issues since.
I never could manage to recover files from the damaged SD cards.
I have a Samsung SD card and had something similar.
I guess I was on Viper Rom and basically my phone restarted around 15-20% of battery. After a long wait for booting back again, all my settings were gone.
Files and others in the SD card was okay but basically until I formatted the card, I wasn't able to boot into the Download Mode to install a new rom...
I fixed the restart issue by installing the official HTC Rom.
Thanks for your replies.
It is indeed a SanDisk 16GB card. It seems though that the card is still working (no problems accessing it via phone or laptop), just the files appear to be broken. In the meantime I also tried apps like PC Inspector File Recovery, but to no success
I'm still on stock HTC Sense by the way, no root, nothing.
Anyone know though why that happened (resetting everything, etc.)?
Hit me with a PM I'll give you a SanDisk restore tool which works quite ok. there is a huge chance some files can be recovered, some will be damaged though. Don't push any new files on the card after you tried to restore the files
HTC 10-Corrupted microSD card
I know this is an older thread, but I was wondering if there is a solution. I have an HTC 10 which has an micro SD card in it, that is "married" to the phone. When connected to a computer, the computer recognizes the phone, and the microSD card, and begins to load the folders/files. Eventually this process stalls, and the phone/drive is no longer readable by the computer. To get the computer to recognize the phone/card again, I need to restart the phone, but the same thing happens again.
I have like 20gigs of data on the card, and cannot just put the card in a reader, because it's encrypted to the phone. Any possible solutions? It's frustrating to see the files/pictures for a minute or two, and then have them disappear. I have tried copying/pasting the files while they're visible, but this often triggers the computer to no longer recognize the phone/memory card. I've tried to un-encrypt the microSD card, but the phone can't recognize/access the microSD card long enough to complete that process.
Please help if you can.
Glenn