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SD card not being detected

When I tried to access an app that was installed on SD, my phone locked up. Upon a reboot I no longer have access to the card, all the apps' shortcuts are broken and all the options like mount SD card, format SD card are greyed out. Also when I connect the use cable there is no option to mount as disk drive anymore. I've rebooted, tried removing the card etc but no luck. Anyone else had this? I can't find my micro SD card adapter right now so I cart try it in my pc.
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Did you try running checkdisk from windows to repair it?

No cos I can't mount it in Windows
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Try repartitioning your sd card. Could be a corrupt ext partition, or your sd is completely screwed.
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I'll have to find my adapter
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Sounds like a bigger problem than a broken ext if nothing can read/mount the sd card. Might be the end of your sd cards life im afraid
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I've only had it about 2 months.....get what you pay for I suppose (click). Anyway still no luck with the adapter so I'll see if anyone's got one at work tomorrow.

OK, I found my adapter (and my old microSD card hiding within), windows has no problems seeing the 16gb card and my old (original 4gb) card has the same problem in the phone. For good measure I did a chkdsk on the card.
What are my options?

I've performed a full reset and still got the problem. Anyone got any suggestions?

anyone? I'm thinking it's a desire hardware fault.

any help? cheers

A number of us have had failed SD cards. In my case, Windows could see it well enough to copy most of the data off but failed to reformat it. I suggest you try to copy the data somewhere safe and then reformat in Windows. If the reformat works it's probably a hardware issue. If the reformat doesn't work it's probably the card.
I'm sure others will have different views!

Yeah but it's same with both my cards. I'll give it a go anyway cheers.

The one that came with the phone .. ( 8GB Class 2 ) came up with with a read only error last week ...
The card was dead.
I got a 8GB card class 6... used app brain .. and restored all my apps fine... etc
fab.. phones faster .. no problems

After inserting my old card again I now get the dreaded -
SD card damaged. You may have to reformat it.
Of course when you follow the wizard to format it, it doesn't seem to format it. I did try a full format in Windows earlier, no luck.
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Just to help anyone who stumbles over this thread in search of an answer, I've had to send it away for repair, it appears to be a hardware fault. 2-3 weeks.

[Q] Issues with SD Card

Hi everyone,
I am having an issue with my SD card and hope someone can help.
I have bought an SD card for my HTC Desire HD. This is a Lexar (High-Speed) 32GB Micro SD-HC card. I have had this for around 3 months.
All has worked well until recently. I have been unable to sync and access anything on the card. For example, I use root explorer on the mobile to view all of the files within the SD card. This has worked previously, but recently hasn't. When I try to view the SD card files the app crashes.
Also, when I try to sync any files to the mobile using HTC sync, the sync seems to progress and complete according to my PC, but nothing seems to be available on the SD card. I tried to sync music files to the card, HTC sync carried the sync out to my phone, but nothing is showing when I use this with any music apps.
I am now constantly receiving messages on my mobile asking me to download my language pack again for my SMS application. I may also receive a message saying the SD card is read only, press here to fix. I have tried to press this and the SD card seems to be re-set but doesn't actually fix anything.
I have also tried to format the SD card through the phone. Have taken the SD card out of the phone and re-inserted this. Still no luck.
Does anyone have any idea as to what else I can possibly do or is this SD card basically become faulty and I'm going to have to replace this?
Any help and suggestions are much appreciated.

I think your SD card just became problematic, and maybe soon it will become unusable too. Maybe you should try replacing it if it still in warranty time. (life-time wrranty?).

sd card
Maybe your card is broken. You'd better buy a new one.

Have your tried to read your SD with your computer?

Lexar
I don't want to extrapolate from my Lexar SD Card to every other SD Card of the same brand, but my Lexar 16 GB class 6 card had a lifetime of roughly 3 months, too and then started to make problems. Coincidence..??
I had a case of total data loss including bad sectors etc...
Even reformatting at the PC and doing a chkdsk helped only for another few weeks, then the first bad sectors re-appeared.
I changed now to a SanDisk which was much cheaper and is faster anyway, despite the fact that it has no class XX defintion printed on. ;-)
But regular backup is your friend, anyway, nandroid and titanium saved my day, at least to 90% of the data.
cheers
Fritz

Schakel said:
Have your tried to read your SD with your computer?
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Yeah, I can read the card on my PC. I try to add files manually on to the card (without HTC sync) this adds but when I try to view with the mobile and doesn't seem to show the file. I then try to read the card again and the file I have added has gone.
Thanks for the help guys. I think I'll buy a new card and go for sandisk. I'll try and find one with a good warranty or lifetime warranty. Anyone got examples of cards or suppliers who provide a lifetime warranty?

SD Card issue

Hi, I seem to be having an odd problem with my Desire, I'm running a Stock Desire on T-Mobile UK, using the SD card that came with the phone, I had no problems until yesterday when the phone reported that no SD card was in it, it is acting as if no card is in it at all when using the Samsung card that came with it. First thing I tried was to put the Micro SD card in my Laptop, it worked, could read the files, so I was worried that the card reader on the phone had gone, they I found an old Nokia 512 MB card and tried that in the desire, it worked fine, no problems, so I'm not quiet sure what to do from here.
I was thinking backup the micro SD that came with the phone, format it in windows, and then see if it works, one question, what would be the best way to back it up?, are there hidden files that require extra software rather than just dragging and dropping in windows?
If not then I will buy a new SD and hope that works.
Thanks for any help
PS. I don't know if this is in the wrong section, so sorry if it is.

Since it can't read the card anymore, you can't backup apps. Format it with Android, or use SDFormatter.

pav4n said:
are there hidden files that require extra software rather than just dragging and dropping in windows
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No, you can select and move or whatever you want.

New Sd Card

I have a DHD that was my GF's. I used my old SD card 2GB to root it Running Rev HD. I have now taken all the item's off the 8Gb card that was in it originally.
Can i just put the old card back in or should i put the rom on the 8GB card?? Also i'm under the impresion that the HTC SYNc will be on the original card. Will this cause a problem??
I used th AHK to root.
Please advise
Thanks
DJ Westie

After its rooted the cards irrelevant the phone remains rooted I've swapped a few
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Well not irrelevant lol holds loads of info on,just copy the cards info onto desktop then just transfer back to other card
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you can also download HTC SYNc from HTC site.

[Q] Downgrading/Rooting w/o SD-card

Heya,
I just received my repaired HTC Desire Z and seems they reset it and removed (and stole -.-) my SD card.
Now until I have a new SD card, I already wanted to try and root it again. But is that possible without one? Guides say that I need one with enough capacity but can't I use my internal space with 1GB?

Som3guy said:
Heya,
I just received my repaired HTC Desire Z and seems they reset it and removed (and stole -.-) my SD card.
Now until I have a new SD card, I already wanted to try and root it again. But is that possible without one? Guides say that I need one with enough capacity but can't I use my internal space with 1GB?
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(Evil people.) No u can't, u don't have access to this memory, even when u connect the phone to ur computer, u will not get any popup. When u will try to push something into the phone though ADB, it will say something about sdcard not mounted.
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Yes You need an SD card, it's the only area of memory that you can store files to be flashed/restored/backedup/etc as rooting/flashing etc is going to wipe that internal memory anyways depending on which action.
Did you least notify them that they did not provide back an SD card?
But yea you'll need to get a new SD card for you to do anything recovery/rooting/etc wise.

Well I'm quite sure that I won't get my SD card back since it was the HTC repair center and I guess it is a standard procedure to remove SIM card and sd card before resetting anything. I was warned by the shop with the sim card but guess he forgot to tell me about the sd card. Gonna try it but well...
Anyways, can I borrow an sd card from a friend, root my smartphone and give it back afterwards? Or are the files on the card required?

Nope you can use the borrowed sdcard and then not use an sd until you get one. Any files put on that sd are not of use for the most part after root. You can save them to your pc and download them to your sd when you get it if you'd like but you'll be fine with out them as well
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Great thanks for the quick reply