Every morning when I unplug my Desire from my PC and try to play music on it, I get a message saying the SD Card is still connected and cannot be used. The only way to fix this is to turn it off and on.
Does anyone have a fix for this?
Do you unmount Desie before you unplug it from PC?
No I just unplug it
samcory said:
No I just unplug it
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Well theres you answer..
Quick way to unmount
Have you had a look on the market for USBSwitcher? Its a handy widget that you just tap once when you want to mount then tap again to unmount.
Its included in one of the ROM's im on currently but as far as i know it wouldn't require root access.
I wouldn't keep 'unplugging' without unmounting as you'll corrupt all your SD card data
Good luck
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I have a problm with my Evo as that it literally thinks its connected to a PC when it's not.
I had the phone, checked for a Astro Fime Manager for a file I placed on SD Card. When I was checking, most things appeared but when I checked other folders, like the Download folded, nothing showed in there. But I know I had files in that the folder.
I then connected the phone to my PC and without it asking me if I wanted to charge it, sync it, use it for disk drive or internet connection, it went straight to the "Use it as a disk drive" feature. Verified because soon as I plugged it into my computer, the SD Card opened on my PC.
I then clicked to have the phone just "Charging" and now I can see everything on my SD card again.
Do anyone know what this problem could be or how to fix it? I thought it was one of the SD Card Problems that was occurring to some phones. But according to this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695243
Their SD card stopped working altogether before doing the fix.
Another question about this, will "Debugging" cause this if left on? I had it one for doing the adb stuff when I rooted etc.
Turn off the auto USB switch in the settings of Double Twist.
chazglenn3 said:
Turn off the auto USB switch in the settings of Double Twist.
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Thank you so much!!!!! I've been wondering why it was doing this. I was about to go buy a new SD card.
Thanks again!
I had this same problem a while back. I wonder why they thought this was a useful feature. They could have just changed the default option for when you plug in the USB.
Hey everyone first time poster here. I have been researching the question I have in the forums and have not found an answer to my question yet so I figured I would just ask it. I just recently bought my htc evo and tried transferring a SNES rom over to my evo from my PC. At first my computer would not recognize that I was trying to have my evo seen as a disk drive (yes I did have it set to disk drive and not to charge only or another option). eventually it worked (I dont even know what I did, if I did anything at all). After I put this ROM onto my phone my sd card is mounted as read only (cant get it back to write), and no matter what I do I cant get my computer to read my phone as a disk drive. I tried changing the disk drive to another letter which didnt work, under device manager my computer recognizes I have an android phone plugged into my computer, but it still will not show anything in the "my computer" folder, it sees I have a device in, but I click on it and it says "please insert a disk into removable disk F". If anyone can help with this I would greatly appreciate it and thank you for taking the time to read all of this.
Well the first thing to make sure of is that after plugging in the device you go to the notification bar and press on the USB Mass Storage notification, then select "Turn on USB storage". If you've done that simple step and it still doesn't see the SD card, then very simply try a different USB port on your computer.
Even if your card is in read only mode, you should still be able to read it
I don't know why it would be in read only unless you forgot to mount it with read/write after an advanced command.
interesting, I have never seen the option of "turn on mass USB storage" when I've gone to the notification bar? In my notification bar I have a picture of the sd card with a question mark over it. When I drop down the notification bar the notification pertaining to the sd card says "mounted readonly" and the explaination says "The SD card has an unexpected problem. Tapping...." I have no idea what it says after that as it wont allow me to view the rest of the explanation.
As for the problem that this is causing is that it seems I cannot save anything to the sd card. The camera stops working to where I cant take pictures, or download music, and I'm assuming that its because these functions need somewhere to save the files and since the card is on read only nothing will be allowed to save on it?
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interesting, I have never seen the option of "turn on mass USB storage" when I've gone to the notification bar? In my notification bar I have a picture of the sd card with a question mark over it. When I drop down the notification bar the notification pertaining to the sd card says "mounted readonly" and the explaination says "The SD card has an unexpected problem. Tapping...." I have no idea what it says after that as it wont allow me to view the rest of the explanation.
As for the problem that this is causing is that it seems I cannot save anything to the sd card. The camera stops working to where I cant take pictures, or download music, and I'm assuming that its because these functions need somewhere to save the files and since the card is on read only nothing will be allowed to save on it?
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theres probably an error on the sd card, may need to reformat if its from a different phone too. Try to reformat, probably the only thing possible right now. But before you do that, go to your settings and enable usb debugging and see if that works first to allow your sd card to mount to the pc. Then it should be read as a drive. if not, your gonna have to reformat. so try this, if not, I can try to trouble shoot you more......
thanks for your reply. And yes I shouldve said before that I tried the USB debugging feature as well and that didn't do the job either. I saw reformatting as a suggestion in another thread but didnt see information on how to do it and that is out of my realm of knowledge. If you could explain to me how to do it I would greatly appreciate it.
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thanks for your reply. And yes I shouldve said before that I tried the USB debugging feature as well and that didn't do the job either. I saw reformatting as a suggestion in another thread but didnt see information on how to do it and that is out of my realm of knowledge. If you could explain to me how to do it I would greatly appreciate it.
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yea, no problem man, just go to settings>sdcard/sd>unmount the volume>reformat!
let me know if that works for you if not, something else is wrong.
well I go into settings> SD phone & storage> Unmount SD card, is something supposed to happen or am I supposed to do something else? After I tap that nothing happens and the "format SD card" option isnt highlighted meaning its not even an option to choose.
Hmmm. Unmount then remount then umonint again turn the phone off and on see if the uloption highligjts
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oh wow that worked man!! Thank you so much for your help, you just saved me a bunch of frustration, now it shows up as a disk drive on my computer and the sd card is read/write compatible. Can't thank you enough man, do you happen to know of a reason as to why this would happen? I mustve set it to be like that somehow I just can't imagine how I did that. Also is there an app or way to back up all your files and apps on your phone and sd card and transfer them to your computer just in case something like this happens again at least I'll have backups so I wont loose everything.
Glad i could hel you. Ita no problem that you cant thank me enough, just as long as we solvee tue prob. You Could have dropped your phone and it knocked the SD card around or it just didn't read it correctly on boot. As far as I know, I don't know of any apps to backup SD card contents and phone data. I would just make a nandroid backup and store on PC. So if you make any vital errors, u can restore using your recovery agent.
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So what basically happened is I connected my phone to a friends computer and it looked like they may have had some sort of virus that some how corrupted my sd card in some way. So at the moment I can still view everything on the card just fine when its in my evo but once I mount it as disk drive I can't see anything at all other than a few zip files. So what do I need to do to get all my info off the card before I perform a reformat?
Connect it to your computer and have windows do an error check on it. You disconnected while windows was writing to the card. Never disconnect your phone without first clicking on the safe to remove hardware icon and wait till it says it is safe to remove.
cruise350 said:
Connect it to your computer and have windows do an error check on it. You disconnected while windows was writing to the card. Never disconnect your phone without first clicking on the safe to remove hardware icon and wait till it says it is safe to remove.
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I already did the error check and it said there weren't any, also at the time I wasn't writting anything to the card and I always click the remove icon.
Most days when I unplug my DHD from the PC or laptop I get this error message and the only way to resolve it is to reset the phone. The default setting is internet pass-through for usb connections.
Mr Google & the search function at this forum do not shed any light on this issue.
Mine has also done this but not every time I unplug it. I removed the Micro SD card and the battery, put it all back together again and I've not seen this problem re appear.
Try to check for errors from the pc. That worked for me
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Seahorse said:
Most days when I unplug my DHD from the PC or laptop I get this error message and the only way to resolve it is to reset the phone. The default setting is internet pass-through for usb connections.
Mr Google & the search function at this forum do not shed any light on this issue.
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Reset the phone? Did u mean a full wipe or just reboots.. Tried checking your pc, maybe something is scanning the sd card, and when u suddenly remove it, the card is in mounted state, hence sd card not ready..
I've had this problem, and formatting the SD card solved it.
You should try it.
Every time I plug-in the phone to the PC, it deleting all the apps on the SD card, What should I do ?
Give it a few minutes after you unplug your phone, they should come back. They're not getting deleted. When you plug your phone into the computer, it unmounts your sd card. That means all of your apps that are on your sd card lose their link to the phone. Once the sd card remounts and is completely scanned, the apps are relinked.
I steal have the apps, i just cant enter them, i know what i am saying
kingston951 said:
I steal have the apps, i just cant enter them, i know what i am saying
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This can usually be avoided by unmounting the phone on your pc FIRST (by right clicking the directory and choosing "eject", or by using the icon in the bottom right on the task bar, assuming you're using windows).
Then you should unmount from the phone by selecting "unmount usb storage" or something like that, from the phone itself.
Only when you've done both of these things should you disconnect the cable from the phone. I follow this process every time and I never get the temporary sluggish behaviour after unmounting.