I got a Kingston16GB microSDHC Class 10 2A from eBay back in June and it was doing great. Then, all of a sudden, this morning, I got a "Removing SD Card" notification as I was booting up. My eStrong file explorer didn't see it in the phone and it didn't show up when I connected to my PC via USB. I then tried it in my PCs smart card slot and, again, nothing.
Meanwhile my original SanDisk 2GB seems to work fine and Kingston is sending me a new card upon receipt of my dead one.
My question is:
Not having backed up my Kingston (Duhh) - Should I expect any problems running the phone with the SanDisk until I receive my replacement Kingston? I'm not worried about my music, pics or docs cuz I can replace them from my PC - but I've installed & uninstalled a number of apps since I switched cards (and I see that the SD card has folders for a lot of apps).
Is there anything else to look out for? My dInc does seem to be a little jerky (like on installing updates) - but otherwise I haven't noticed any probs.
Any advice would be appreciated. I'm still running 2.1 update 1 - no root.
Thanx!
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Hey guys,
I have a 2gb SanDisk Transflash Micro SD and have been having some serious stablity issues with it. Ever since I first got it, it would lose a file or two randomly. Not a big deal, except that it was a picture of my kids once - that sucked.
But anyway, this morning the entire card contents (all 1.58gb) I had spent days compiling was inaccessable! The card still shows that it is full, but none of the files or folders is visible in either file explorer or in my card reader on my laptop. FYI: I had eight programs and 7 games installed on it as well as some music and movies. I don't want to reformat the card and lose all that, but I am afraid that this is my only option. I also don't want to keep using a card that is a timebomb!!!
Has anyone else with an Artemis (or any other unit) had this issue before and been able to rectify it? Any advice would be much appreciated! I'd love to hear that this is just a defective card and not a problem with the Artemis frying cards!!!
Same issue here
I have the same with my xda orbit, I have a 2GB microsd and once in a while suddenly I cannot access the data anymore, the folders and files are looking corrupt.
What helps for me is, to take out the memorycard, insert it again and make sure it is tight in the lock. Then, when you switch it on again, the files should all be accessible again.
I was thinking it might be a problem that the card is not tight enough in the lock so it would lose the contact, so what I did is that I used a small pice of plastic a little thicker than the lock of the sim-card to give higher pressure on the memorycard under the battery. Until now it works fine for me, but I do not know if it is a solution yet, I will have to wait some more days to see if it really works like that.
These problems do sound like a hardware issue. I doubt its the PDA or Windows and too many people have problem with too many different sized cards to be the card. It does sound like the card is suffering from an intermittant contact, I would try as above and make sure its a tight fit.
I,ve same issue. New HTCP3300, new SanDisk 2Gb micro. Installed set of application and then in one day found on the card folders with garbage names (even could not delete them). Reformat the card and install everything again. In couple days same probllem - programms installed on card don't work, and I can see strange folders on the card. Suddenly I found one not changed name on card with stored attachments of e-mails (more than 500) - long opening - then opened and after return to root I fount everything in place. Everything OK.
Does somebody has any idea what's happend?
How to fix it?
Kostja
I've had the same problem in my Trinity with a Kingston memory card. Finally gave up and tried a different brand of memory card and everything seems to be ok now. Definitely sounds like these two issues are related. On the Trinity forum the general consensus is that is may be a firmware problem causing compatibility issues with some memory cards.
I had the same problem a few mins ago, Luckily after a reset of the phone all of my files were readable again so I would imagine rather than the card being corrupt, maybe some allocation table gets messed up.
fingers crossed that it doesn't happen again!
I had the same problem
Transend micro SD 1gb
Hi,
Does this affect the MDA Compact 3, or just the P3300?
Regards
Just happened for the 2nd time with my 2GB sandisk card. A soft reset brought all of the files back so I suppose it's annoying rather than a big problem for me. Nice if O2 / HTC got it fixed though!
and my sandisk microSD 2gb card after formatting in P3300 has turned to 1gb
i had the same probleme
sundisk 512 mo
I had the same problem
SanDisk micro SD 2Gb
spangelsaregreat said:
Hi,
Does this affect the MDA Compact 3, or just the P3300?
Regards
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Hi spangelsaregreat
Same problem with the T-Mobile MDA Compact III. Comes standard with a 1GB micro-SD card from T-Mobile (Sandisk).
The complete Benelux Plus map directory was corrupt. Other files/directories on SD looked ok.
Couldn't delete the corrupt files, had to format the SD card in the MDA Vario-III.
Greetings, Ben...
I've had my MicroSD only a few days so far but I have not encountered this problem yet.
I took the pre-emtive action of cutting a small square of the MicroSD packaging (that awful lethal theft-proof stuff) and placing it on top of the MicroSD-caddy before I clipped the sim-caddy into place.
My previous attempts to put it directly on top of the MicroSD, underneath the metal clasp that holds it down, met with failure as - contrary to what I've read elsewhere - the clasp is actually a caddy into which you slip the MicroSD before closing- just like the sim... forcing it down on top of the MicroSD probably wouldn't do it much good.
Anyway, so far so good- I can only recommend you grab some nasty plastic shell packaging and butcher it, worth a try... surely?
Corrupt Sandisk MicroSD
Hi all
I have been at the receiving end of this too. I have had this memory card for almost a year in my qtek 8500. I had everything from business data, cv, client logs, tom tom, and more importantly loads of photos and vids of my baby boy.
The card did go weird and prevented my o2 orbit from booting up properly, it just locked up. Took me a short while to figure out that it was the card and after i removed it it booted fine. I put the card back in and presto all working again.
Just 10 minutes ago I checked out my tomtom and ¨no maps¨!!! After examining the card on my mac, pc and card reader it's screwed. All data gone. just a few 0 bite files and daft characters. Nothing left at all. I am very gutted about this. All business data backed up etc so no worries there but the photos guys!!! I will never get those baby pics back! :-( very upset about it and it's definitely the pissing orbit as no other problems in any other handset for almost a year!!!! :-(
Any solutions to this as I cannot possibly trust this machine to store my important data anymore. I would like the ability to be able to sync my public folders in outlook then i could at least drop data into there while out on the go for backup. I'm not a keen believer in having to plug my pda in my laptop all the time to back it up as I have over the air email etc and i want to avoid all that pap!
STILL TRYING TO GET TO TERMS WITH THIS LOSS :-(
Chris
www.chrislewis.tv
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I am starting to think it may be microSD. I recently got an 'M3 Simply' game programmer for the Nintendo DS Lite, it uses microSD. I was using a 2gb because I feared feeding it to my HTC and a 1gb should be enough, then it suddenly became unreadable and unmountable. It would not format either.
CE
Has anyone tried a data recovery program like R-Studio. It can recover files off formatted hard drives and I have used it successfully on my SD card when my Uni messed it up, similar sounding problems.Might work.........
I did and it didnt work. my corrupt microsd was unmountable.
MicroSD
Hum, having the same here...
No solution yet?
I've just got the same problem with my O2 Orbit and a SanDisk 2GB MicroSD Transflash.
I've possessed the device for 1 month and it had been fine until a week ago. At first the problem was strange characters appeared in folder and file names. I reset the device and saw everythings back as normal.
But this afternoon Program Files and My Documents folders disappeared on the storage card. Soft resetting this time does not help. System still shows unchanged volume of used memory so these are definitely still there.
The former issue is also being discussed in this forum: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=285511, but I suppose they are the same. Apparently this is a systematic fault so O2 and HTC must have been notified. Hopefully a solution should soon be found.
PPB
I have had my tp2 for a few months now and never had any problems with it, have had the memory card installed and working fine also, booting android from it many times. I was trying to open a file for Nostradamus mobile shell widgets and all the sudden my memory card just stopped showing.
I tried soft resetting multiple times, removing the card and putting it back in more than a few times. The phone doesn't show the card at all now, even synced with my computer it doesn't show it.
Any idea for what may have happened or how to fix this? None of the programs that I have installed to the card will work now that the phone doesn't read it. HELP!
have you tried plugging the card into your computer via a memory card reader? or another card?
I'd recommend doing both to figure out if the problem lies with your card or with your device.
best of luck
Hi,
Not sure if this helps, but I've had this twice in the lifetime of my device (European GSM, stock ROM, Touch Pro2). I used a Sandisk 16GB card, bought off the shelf from a major UK retailer (Phones 4U) and it worked great for about 6 months. Then suddenly one day, the TP2 stopped seeing the card. Not in Explorer, not in the "Memory" settings application, nowhere.
The card had never been out of the device, not had it (or the device) been in humidity, dusty situations, been subjected to shock etc. Just normal use. I tried the card in a PC card reader and attempted to format it. The PC would format it to about 80% then fail.
I took the card back to the retailer and exchanged it. Same thing happened another 3 months down the line, same issues. I'm on card 3 now and it's lasted about 8 months now.
tl;dr, try formatting it in a PC card reader, else it's an exchange/new card you'll need.
Adam.
Fixed!
Alright thanks to both of you for the advice, I did take my card out and try it in my girlfriends digital camera and it recognized it right away without a problem so I knew the card was still good. I lost the card reader for it so I formatted the card with the menu inside her camera, popped it back into my TP2 and it works again!
thanks again for the help guys!
Hi guys,
I've seen this issue addressed on forums for other devices but didn't see a thread for it here.
Anyone else experienced this before? Constalty getting an error message for "SD Card Unexpectedly Removed". It's a class 4 32GB SD Card, it's installed securely in my GS3 in an Otterbox case, running on my rooted stock JB device.
I can usually access the SD card data after a few minutes but then often when I wake my device still get the same message.
Do I need to format the card??
I had an S3 that initially reported this error. It eventually started ruining sdcards.
AT&T eventually ended up giving me a new one.
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Sianspheric said:
Hi guys,
I've seen this issue addressed on forums for other devices but didn't see a thread for it here.
Anyone else experienced this before? Constalty getting an error message for "SD Card Unexpectedly Removed". It's a class 4 32GB SD Card, it's installed securely in my GS3 in an Otterbox case, running on my rooted stock JB device.
I can usually access the SD card data after a few minutes but then often when I wake my device still get the same message.
Do I need to format the card??
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Anyone have any further input on this? Earlier tonight, mine gave me the same warning. (Also installed securely inside an Otterbox case, running stock/ non rooted). I just popped the card into my laptop and my computer doesn't see it. It really looks like the card's ruined and everything on it is gone. To say that's not cool is an understatement...
Mine started saying it's ejected last night, also in a case, randomly saying it's back. Still works fine in a pc. Assuming it's the slot and not the rom...poop. guess I need to Odin back to stock and try to get a replacement.
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Had the same issue with my S3.
Turned out that the SD card was dying, this caused it to be unmounted by itself and then mounted again (sometimes showing notification “sd card removed unexpectedly”), hence triggering the media scanning process.
I created an application to monitor how many times the SD card was removed, and turned out to be unmounted every ~3 mins!!!
I then bought a new Transcend 32GB Class 10 card, and until now, this never happens, no reports from the application whatsoever, and no media process eating my battery.
I just published this app in the play store now, this is the link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sdcardmonitor
It might be a bad sd card, i used to get that error on another phone when using a certain sd card but when i tried another one it worked fine. Maybe try another card see if you get the error.
Apparently sgs3 have problems with SD cards anyway
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1906058
I had this happen to my friends phone the other day. Best thing to do if you can't access the information may be to run chkdsk /r which will check for bad sectors and recover any readable information. Move tour info off the card and try to reformat to fat32
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Hi I had this phone for while and bought the sandisk Ultra 32GB class 10 sd card when I got this awesome phone. However lately my phone was acting strange. For past 4 days my phone will randomly unmount SD card and notify me that it got disconnected. When I turn on the screen then it will shortly mount the SD card and does not show these problem. Not only that these is happening consistently and keeping my phone awake and draining my battery as well. I don't have picture with me since I format my whole phone and SD card but this will happen at least 20 to 30 times in a hour.
I used to use Saurom Project Hybird 1.3.2 before and I format everything, from TWRP, and installed CleanRom ACE 4.5 but it is still happening with same problem.
Is there any way to fix these problem?
Same here
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Hi I had this phone for while and bought the sandisk Ultra 32GB class 10 sd card when I got this awesome phone. However lately my phone was acting strange. For past 4 days my phone will randomly unmount SD card and notify me that it got disconnected. When I turn on the screen then it will shortly mount the SD card and does not show these problem. Not only that these is happening consistently and keeping my phone awake and draining my battery as well. I don't have picture with me since I format my whole phone and SD card but this will happen at least 20 to 30 times in a hour.
I used to use Saurom Project Hybird 1.3.2 before and I format everything, from TWRP, and installed CleanRom ACE 4.5 but it is still happening with same problem.
Is there any way to fix these problem?
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I have the same problem with a 32gb San disk, after searching all day the only conclusion I came up with is that sd card is going bad and needs to be replaced preferably for one that is not a SanDisk. I guess they are not compatible
Thanks. I was hoping that I didn't had to do that. Anyway do you have any other brand that is good?
I guess your best bet would be going with a Samsung sd card just to avoid having problems in the future.
I'm having the same problem it is not your SD card or at least I don't think so I read a different XD a thread for hey note 2 on a different carrier it was over 17 pages long of people having the exact same issue some say that the SanDisk 32 they are so then and that put in a piece of paper behind them will solve the problem but I'm not finding that word besides I find it funny it only does this when my phone is in sleep or when I'm in a phone call it is very annoying I currently am being told I have a blank SD card and sometimes later it may just work for no reason
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If you're getting heavy Media Server battery usage with the unmounts, it's could be a bad media file on your SD card crashing the Media Server and causing the unmounts.
I deleted podcasts, videos, and mp3s off of my SD card and the error went away. A clean format of the card should also work.
I dont think that was my case. I format the sd card and keep it empty and mount the sd card and it was still having the problem. However when I change my sd card to my old one the error when away. I guess I got bad sd card.
I have the AT&T Captivate glide with stock ICS 4.0.4. My computer refuses to connect with my phone and always gives the "driver blocked to incompatibility" or "device not recognized" error. So in order to copy anything over I have to use a SD card adapter. No other options.
So that being said, I have a 64gb sd card. my captivate glide recognizes it after it formats it. I've been trying to copy music over to it and it copies but somehow disappears after few minutes. All my other files like app back ups and emulator roms, and pics don't disappear.
Is anybody else having the same problem or is there a fix for my disappearing music or connection problem.
And I'm using windows 8 pro if it makes a difference at all.
Please and thank you, I couldn't find another thread that helped with my problem, I did try to look, sorry if I missed it.
64gb SD cards use the SDXC architecture, which the Glide doesn't actually fully support. I actually looked this up before I bought mine. I have heard that it *can* work but I wouldn't bet on it. I would suggest testing with an SDHC card (4gb to 32gb) to ensure you don't have the same problems.