I was trying to take photo's with my desire, but I was recieving a message saying that the photo's couldn't be saved to the sd card. I was a bit puzzled as I knew I had more than 3gb of the card left. Anyway I decided to go into the storage settings of the phone and sure enough according to my phone the total space on the sd card was 0 and the available space was 0. and it also showed that the internal storage was 64.02 mb.
Anyway, I decided to take the battery out and remove the sd card, and then I reinstalled them. When my phone had restarted I checked the storage settings again and my phone is now showing that the sd card has a total of 3.69gb with 3.43gb available, and also, my internal storage is now showing that I have 78.44mb internal storage available.
Can someone shed some light on what may have happaned.?
This happens on Android sometimes. Just removing and reinserting the card will fix it 99% of the time.
alexperkins said:
This happens on Android sometimes. Just removing and reinserting the card will fix it 99% of the time.
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If that's the case, then perhaps next time it happens you could try unmounting and mounting it (ie in software!). Would safe the hassle/risk of taking the phone apart each time.
poldie said:
If that's the case, then perhaps next time it happens you could try unmounting and mounting it (ie in software!). Would safe the hassle/risk of taking the phone apart each time.
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Just out of curiosity, how to you mount the card after unmounting it? I looked everywhere but had to take the card out and insert it again....
I get something similar, but it's not free space related. Sometimes after unplugging my phone from my PC while being in Mass Storage mode, the card is mounted in read-only mode. It's an odd behaviour that only gets fixed if i replug it into my PC and remove it again.
OnlinePredator said:
Just out of curiosity, how to you mount the card after unmounting it? I looked everywhere but had to take the card out and insert it again....
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Uh..yeah, just noticed there's no mount option. Odd, being a Linux device. You're going to have to unmount then reboot.
Perhaps this'll become possible when Android supports installing to SD card.
I've been experiencing the same thing this weekend, but I've not used my phone as a storage device, only battery charging. A reboot fixes the problem but not ideal! Is this a HTC phone issue or Google Android problem? It needs to be addressed!
I am also concerned about internal storage space as it seems to either decrease or increase for some reason. For example, yesterday I had 78mb free internal storage space, earlier on it had dropped to 67.04mb,, than an hour later it went down to 66.25mb I have since switched my phone off and on and now the internal storage is at 80.1mb. I am assuming that the internal storage issue is maybe to do with caches. Would this be correct.?
wendy75 said:
I am also concerned about internal storage space as it seems to either decrease or increase for some reason. For example, yesterday I had 78mb free internal storage space, earlier on it had dropped to 67.04mb,, than an hour later it went down to 66.25mb I have since switched my phone off and on and now the internal storage is at 80.1mb. I am assuming that the internal storage issue is maybe to do with caches. Would this be correct.?
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I don't know, but memory is supposed to be used. Android should be keeping stuff in memory so that it can be used quickly when needed rather than loaded/initialised from scratch each time. Depends on the OS really. I'd suggest not killing tasks and rebooting just to maintain a lot of free memory for the sake of it. If there's a problem then it needs to be fixed but I've not heard of anyone running out of memory and having trouble loading stuff after 24 hours after a reboot.
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Just out of curiosity, how to you mount the card after unmounting it? I looked everywhere but had to take the card out and insert it again....
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Same problem for me ... until I found the "SDMount widget". No need to reboot anymore.
Happened to me twice with my 32GB card, now don't take this the wrong way, but I'm glad to see others have experienced this with lower capacity cards!
Thanks for the headsup about the Mount widget, should be very handy.
sdmount ........ thank you for the heads up
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Hi, I just want to see if this is a common problem or it's just my memory card. I bought a 16GB card from Newegg to hold all my music and whenever the card is actually in my phone, (Flashed to EnergyROM Geneis), it is SLOW. Lagging everywhere, almost useless and occassionaly after long hours will give me a "emergency low memory" error, and I will have to reset by taking the battery out. When I remove the card, after a few minutes the phone is MUCH faster, it still lags a bit, but definately useable, and it's just very smooth compared to the jaggy and stiff movements when the card is in.
Whats up? Thanks.
naa, i wouldnt say this is normal mate, prob a duff memory card, try another one and see how it goes.... i have noticed a slow-down on mine when i use my storage card to save all my emails , but apart from that, no difference card in / card out.
Come to think of it.... I may be having the same problem.
About a week ago I installed 3 new pieces of software. After a few days I noticed that my phone has been feeling laggy. So 1 by1 I unistalled the software... still the problem persists.
Reading your post made me think... hmm about a week ago I also installed a 4 gb memory card! The card works fine, I can access it, and store stuff on it.
Also, come to think of it. I was making panoramic photos last night and my phone kept freezing after the 2nd photos. And would crash- resetting itself. I had the phone set to save images to the card. Setting it to save them to the phone it stopped crashing... maybe my memory card is too slow. Perhaps, there is a setting in the phone which affects the through put from the phone to the card that can be tweaked. I seam to remember see settings for power saving features for the micro sd card.. Could this be the culprit?
my well-used card made my tp2 quirky so i reformatted fat32 in vista and all is good.
maybe there is so much songs in your card.
or your card speed is slowly.
I've tried a reboot and removing the battery. All the applications on the SD card have loaded. Under "battery usage" it has media scanner running, but the force close button is greyed out. It's draining the battery pretty bad - 25% in under an hour.
Anyway to stop it or is this a hardware issue that needs a replacement?
I could try a restore but I don't think this is ROM related. Running Caulkins E4GT 3.0.
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I've tried a reboot and removing the battery. All the applications on the SD card have loaded. Under "battery usage" it has media scanner running, but the force close button is greyed out. It's draining the battery pretty bad - 25% in under an hour.
Anyway to stop it or is this a hardware issue that needs a replacement?
I could try a restore but I don't think this is ROM related. Running Caulkins E4GT 3.0.
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Try pulling the sdcard, reboot your phone, let it complete media scan. Shutdown the phone insert you're sdcard, startup your phone and see what happens.
If that doesn't work but into recovery and under advanced try fixing permissions.
Good luck!
I had the same problem in the past. It never stopped running and burned through the battery. The fix was to find the app in settings and clear the data. I believe it was the media storage app.
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rwilco12 said:
Try pulling the sdcard, reboot your phone, let it complete media scan. Shutdown the phone insert you're sdcard, startup your phone and see what happens.
If that doesn't work but into recovery and under advanced try fixing permissions.
Good luck!
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So it boots up and the media scanner stops without the SD card. I guess the next step is to get a new SD card?
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So it boots up and the media scanner stops without the SD card. I guess the next step is to get a new SD card?
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I'd try bashing up the data on it, formatting it and then try inserting it again to see how it does. If it still gives you issues then yeah if say it's probably time for a new card. :-(
Yeah, I did that last month, back-up, wipe, reformat and it worked ok until just recently. I did put in an extra 4 gb SD I had laying around - scanner stopped after a reboot - so yes it is the card.
I was using a 16 GB class 2 - which I feel is a bit slow with the 8MB camera on the touch. Real slow to (like 5 seconds) before I can take another photo.
Any suggestions for brands and class for the Touch? Kingston and San Disk are the biggest names - would a class 4 be ok? or 6? 10 would be overkill for sure.
Thanks.
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I'd try bashing up the data on it, formatting it and then try inserting it again to see how it does. If it still gives you issues then yeah if say it's probably time for a new card.
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I can see this as a reply See bold word.
"So I tried using a 50lb sledge, now the card doesn't work at all! Time for a new card!"
I keep seeing a message saying sd card was suddenly removed, and then it reactivates the SD card and everythings fine, and sooner or later, the cycle keeps repeating.
I saw this happening in the last week or so on my galaxy s3 i had before the note 2, so i know its not the phone and its the card.. but i was wondering what i could do to maybe fix this? I already tried formatting the sd card once, but im thinking maybe this card is permanetely damaged somehow?? Anything I can do to kinda get it to stop acting up or am i out of luck?
If you can backup the contents of your SD card to a PC, try this video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkHbka7_XPo&feature=player_embedded
This is apparently a recurring issue, it happens on my 64gb uhs1 card too, and its a genuine card. I still haven't been able to track down the cause of it, and it's fairly annoying. The card just locks up and ignores commands sent to it and the kernel times out on it and sees it as dead. No actual data loss or anything.
yeah.. i feel like everytime i turn the screen on i see 'preparing SD card'
im thinking it has an effect on battery too.
I'm having a problem with my ext sd card. It starts fine but after a while (usually a couple hours) it reads 0mb in storage setting. The only way to fix it (which doesn't work too well with poweramp) is unmount it and mount it again then it reads 59.67gb like it should or restart the phone. I remember having an sd card problem with my gs2 where it would randomly say the sd card has been removed but this is different. The problem came after almost a month of no problems using Dandroid 4.7 at&t with stock kernel. I love every feature about this rom (other than poor battery life, just disabled wifi location access to see if that helps) and the look of it and i don't want to reflash something else. Any suggestions?
I had similar issues with an sdcard I was using. I was able to determine the card was behaving erratically with the heat from the phone. It eventually got worse and I replaced the card with a different brand card and all is well.
Well it has been asked many times in this phone's section why it reboots. Somewhere I've read that it might be the SD card. I got Kingmax 16gb class 6 Micro SD hc card, and I've noticed after I install some ICS or the "official" 4.1.2 jelly bean it works fine at the beggining. After I put the music and pictures on SD card which take about 4gb space it continues to do well for first few hours (once even a whole day) and then it suddenly restarts. After that first restart the phone starts restarting more frequently like 3-4 times a day, and it annoys me. Is it maybe the SD card problem? And is there any way to check it?
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Well it has been asked many times in this phone's section why it reboots. Somewhere I've read that it might be the SD card. I got Kingmax 16gb class 6 Micro SD hc card, and I've noticed after I install some ICS or the "official" 4.1.2 jelly bean it works fine at the beggining. After I put the music and pictures on SD card which take about 4gb space it continues to do well for first few hours (once even a whole day) and then it suddenly restarts. After that first restart the phone starts restarting more frequently like 3-4 times a day, and it annoys me. Is it maybe the SD card problem? And is there any way to check it?
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remove the sd card and use the phone without it, if it still restarting on its own . The rom you're using is the problem
Mr.201 said:
remove the sd card and use the phone without it, if it still restarting on its own . The rom you're using is the problem
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Thing is I often need the phone, and it has low memory on its own, that is why I didn't use that method
kirov37 said:
Thing is I often need the phone, and it has low memory on its own, that is why I didn't use that method
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The method is for troubleshooting lol (-_-") , if you didnt try to remove the presumably and have a go you wouldnt know what is actually faulting
Mr.201 said:
The method is for troubleshooting lol (-_-") , if you didnt try to remove the presumably and have a go you wouldnt know what is actually faulting
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Well I did remove, but I didn't use it for more than 2 hours like that, not a whole day.
Try another memory card with different class
And play song on third party apps like google play music or poweramp etc..
Try memory card on different phone & check memory card is damaged or not
Dump the memory card on water (do it your self i am not resposible for any damage) dry with clean soft cloth
If not working this method
Reset your mobile
Flash your mobile or goto service center
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