So I downloaded the latest OTA update last night, and it installed just fine (phone worked fine, etc). I went to bed later last night, then when I woke up this morning, I got a "SD Card blank or has unsupported file system" message!
The first message I got was actually something a bit different. Unfortunately, I can't remember exactly what it was, but I clicked on the notification and it tried to do something with the SD Card (probably remount it or something), and ever since I've been getting the "SD Card blank or has unsupported file system" thing.
Now my only option given when I click on this notification is to format the SD Card. This is really annoying; I don't want to format my card and lose all the data! Are there any 'fixes' for this? I noticed a lot of people had this problem with the original HTC Desire.
P.S. I haven't rooted my phone or anything like that, so that wouldn't be an issue.
Edit: I tried all the usual stuff such as rebooting, taking the battery out, reseating the mem card, etc, numerous times to no avail. I got so tired of it that I just tried the format option, but it won't even let me format it! It just does nothing after I click it.
Have you tried the card on your PC using an external reader?
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Have you tried the card on your PC using an external reader?
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Yep, it just says "Insert a disk into Drive F", but it even says that with a backup card which does work with my phone... so I'm thinking there's a driver or a hardware problem with my USB micro SDHC adapter.
So I put the card into a regular SD adapter, then put that into my laptop's SD card reader and it recognised it. I'm now trying to recover any files I can, as the partition seems to be messed up (needs reformating). Anyone know what the best software for recovering data is?
Same thing happened too mee. Dont know why.
Got off the phone with a HTC rep a few hours ago. HTC will be sending me a new SD Card tomorrow, and have escalated this problem as well as that of the text messages up to the engineering department.
UK customers, try contacting them through here first (no spaces): htc.com /uk/ cs_mail.aspx
Make sure you inform them that other SD cards work fine with your phone, and that the SD card is unreadable in other readers too. That way they know it's not your phone.
Hey all,
I had the same Problem: SD Card blank / unsupported filesystem...
This happened when I used the factory restore option and checked the CheckBox to wipe all data on SD Card...
Phone rebooted - problem was there
Long research...
What I figured out so far:
there seems to be an issue on the DHD with the "format SD" option as far as I read, this is caused due a Software bug...
I am using the following Custom ROM: Modified CyanogenMod 7.0 Beta Nightly #31 (Feb. 9, 2011) Download (Server DE, Europe) | MIRROR (Server DK, Europe) which can be found @ http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=918639
But other users stated they had the issue also with the "Official" release....
Here the solution worked for me:
just put the SD Card in a BlackBerry Phone and format it using the BB (it was poping up when I inserted the card stating no filesystem and it asked me to format the SD Card - i did so...) - action took me less than 2 mins and Card is now accepted again in my DHD.
I would advice not to use the internal functions of DHD to format any SD card - best way I presume is using the USB-Data connection and format it from the PC.
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following Post I found at some other forum (not tested as I have no card reader) thanks @flopasques (autor):
1) Install this tool on your computer : http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3
1) Mount the SD card (notifications on the HTC).
2) Don't click any button if Windows displays a pop-up (where it asks you if you want to format). Let this pop-up opened.
3) Open the Panasonic tool and format your SD Card (Quick format is working well).
4) Close the pop-up (if applicable).
5) Unmount the card from the notifications.
6) Remove the card and reinsert it in the phone.
7) Now, it should be correctly detected.
--> Never use the format option on HTC phones, that's my only advice !
Hope this bring some light into the darkness
Posts regarding this I found on XDA forum (not all of them are for the DHD but might contain some helpfull info):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/sho....xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11072352
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=698193
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=588766
many tnx for your efford but didnt work for me
the card was formatted with the blackberry but neither my pc or my htc managed to reckognise it
greetings
karlanal said:
many tnx for your efford but didnt work for me
the card was formatted with the blackberry but neither my pc or my htc managed to reckognise it
greetings
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Try formatting with windows, select type of filesystem as fat instead of fat32.. Works for me, and i noticed even faster write access speed.. about 4-5MB/sec on class 2 sandisk 4gb..
The problem in my case was the SD card didn't have a valid partition table. Here's how I solved the problem on a rooted Samsung Captivate running Cyanogen 7 (it should work on other versions):
Enter adb shell, insert the SD card into the slot and type:
# dmesg
This returns kernel messages. Look at the end, it will tell you what device was inserted with additional information:
<7>[22821.137721] sdhci: card inserted.
<7>[22821.336235] Universal : Card status 1
<6>[22822.591613] mmc2: new high speed SDHC card at address b368
<6>[22822.598715] mmcblk1: mmc2:b368 46608 15.4 GiB
<6>[22822.601085] mmcblk1: unknown partition table
Take note of the device, in this case it's "mmcblk1"
Now use fdisk to create a new partition table like this:
# fdisk /dev/block/mmcblk1
Create a new empty DOS partition table:
Command (m for help): o
Create a new primary partition:
Command (m for help): n
Command action
e extended
p primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 1
First cylinder (1-505824, default 1): enter
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-505824, default 505824): enter
Print the partition table and review the changes:
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/block/mmcblk1: 16.5 GB, 16574840832 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 505824 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/block/mmcblk1p1 1 505824 16186360 83 Linux
Note that mmcblk1p1 is partition 1 on mmcblk1.
Write the partition table to disk and exit:
Command (m for help): w
Power cycle your phone so it properly re-reads the partition table and go into Settings, Storage and format/mount your card.
or the easiest u guys can do is "FULL FORMAT" not quick format but full format ur sd card using FAT32
Resolved!
In case you want to recover data from your "dead" SD card:
This morning I was also surprised with the evil "SD Card blank or has unsupported file system" message. Restarting my Desire HD did not fix the issue. So I removed the SD card and put it in a Windows PC, but even the PC did not recognise the card. Windows simply persisted that the drive was empty. I began to fear that many MANY great pictures of my kids would be lost forever...
A friend of mine suggested trying the "GetDataBack" tool for Windows. So I installed it and started it while my SD was in the PC (even though Windows thought is was not). After a long wait the tool actually noticed that there was indeed a volume in the SD drive! I continued on to the next step and "GetDataBack" actually started reading my SD card! It reported a few broken sectors, and then it really got busy! After half an hour (16GB card) I was presented a complete directory structure of my SD. I could even view all the pictures I took
I quickly purchased "GetDataBack" so I could copy the files from my SD. This worked perfectly! I was able to recover ALL my files!
So then I was still stuck with this dead SD card. Clicking "format" on my phone simply did nothing. Windows wouldn't format it either, as it was convinced that there was no disk in the drive. I tried an old Nokia phone, an old digital camera without success. I finally put the SD card in my relatively new digital camera (Canon Powershot SX200) and it was able to format my SD card without any problems!!! After that Windows would happely accept my SD card, so I formatted it again. Finally I copied all my files back on the SD card, and that was all...
Back in business! All I need to do now, is get a decent backup application ASAP.
If you intend to use "GetDataBack" to do the same as I did... make sure to wait as long as it takes, even when the application (or even Windows) may seem stuck.
Good luck!
rett78 said:
The problem in my case was the SD card didn't have a valid partition table. Here's how I solved the problem on a rooted Samsung Captivate running Cyanogen 7 (it should work on other versions):
Enter adb shell, insert the SD card into the slot and type:
# dmesg
This returns kernel messages. Look at the end, it will tell you what device was inserted with additional information:
<7>[22821.137721] sdhci: card inserted.
<7>[22821.336235] Universal : Card status 1
<6>[22822.591613] mmc2: new high speed SDHC card at address b368
<6>[22822.598715] mmcblk1: mmc2:b368 46608 15.4 GiB
<6>[22822.601085] mmcblk1: unknown partition table
Take note of the device, in this case it's "mmcblk1"
Now use fdisk to create a new partition table like this:
# fdisk /dev/block/mmcblk1
Create a new empty DOS partition table:y
Command (m for help): o
Create a new primary partition:
Command (m for help): n
Command action
e extended
p primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 1
First cylinder (1-505824, default 1): enter
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-505824, default 505824): enter
Print the partition table and review the changes:
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/block/mmcblk1: 16.5 GB, 16574840832 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 505824 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/block/mmcblk1p1 1 505824 16186360 83 Linux
Note that mmcblk1p1 is partition 1 on mmcblk1.
Write the partition table to disk and exit:
Command (m for help): w
Power cycle your phone so it properly re-reads the partition table and go into Settings, Storage and format/mount your card.
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Hi I have a question, does this works for internal or external sd cards? I have the same trouble with internal sd card, but the only way I can connect it to pc is through the cellphone
I dropped my Desire HD, and there was a big dent on the back over, exactly where the SD card sits. Since then, I've had this problem. I figured that the SD card probably got shock damage, so I bought another one. It was a Sandisk 8Gb, and when I put it in, all was well. 10min later I checked my phone, and the same thing happened!
Now I'm thinking that there is something wrong with my phone. I was going to claim on insurance, but I tried the 2Gb card from my old Hero (Sandisk 2Gb) and it works fine.
Is there any differences between the 2Gb and 8Gb that would make the 8Gb not work?
Is my phone buggered?
hammernl said:
In case you want to recover data from your "dead" SD card:
If you intend to use "GetDataBack" to do the same as I did... make sure to wait as long as it takes, even when the application (or even Windows) may seem stuck.
Good luck!
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Hey, thanks for the tip. I've tried a few, and this seems by far the best one out there.
The problem is, it takes too long, and I mean TOOOOO long. I left it overnight and it was still going. So I came back in the evening....... still going!
I've set the options to 'Recover deleted files', and it is scanning now. When I set the options that you use for a new operating system installation, it takes forever.
It recognises my SD card, but only sees an 8Gb card as being 500Mb :-(
In case you need to recover the data, this small green ware will do the work for you.
Enjoy!
I am facing similar problem in unrooted HTC desire S
rett78 said:
The problem in my case was the SD card didn't have a valid partition table. Here's how I solved the problem on a rooted Samsung Captivate running Cyanogen 7 (it should work on other versions):
Enter adb shell, insert the SD card into the slot and type:
# dmesg
This returns kernel messages. Look at the end, it will tell you what device was inserted with additional information:
<7>[22821.137721] sdhci: card inserted.
<7>[22821.336235] Universal : Card status 1
<6>[22822.591613] mmc2: new high speed SDHC card at address b368
<6>[22822.598715] mmcblk1: mmc2:b368 46608 15.4 GiB
<6>[22822.601085] mmcblk1: unknown partition table
Take note of the device, in this case it's "mmcblk1"
Now use fdisk to create a new partition table like this:
# fdisk /dev/block/mmcblk1
Create a new empty DOS partition table:
Command (m for help): o
Create a new primary partition:
Command (m for help): n
Command action
e extended
p primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 1
First cylinder (1-505824, default 1): enter
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-505824, default 505824): enter
Print the partition table and review the changes:
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/block/mmcblk1: 16.5 GB, 16574840832 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 505824 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/block/mmcblk1p1 1 505824 16186360 83 Linux
Note that mmcblk1p1 is partition 1 on mmcblk1.
Write the partition table to disk and exit:
Command (m for help): w
Power cycle your phone so it properly re-reads the partition table and go into Settings, Storage and format/mount your card.
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I'm also having the same problem like this guy. my HTC desire S once showed "micro SD card removed unexpectedly and after that it shows Blank SD card. I checked the card in laptop and in other mobile,it runs. but I've tried 3 cards in my mobile but it shows Blank SD card again and again. I've done master reset and also tried following codes on SDK tool as a guy from androidforums.com suggested me:
fastboot OEM enableqxdm 0
fastboot reboot
though I don't know what are they intend to do.
now my question is, will your method work on my unrooted desire S?
pls check my post here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1607368
SAPPH1RE said:
Try formatting with windows, select type of filesystem as fat instead of fat32.. Works for me, and i noticed even faster write access speed.. about 4-5MB/sec on class 2 sandisk 4gb..
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Windows 7 does not have an option to format with fat, only fat32
ri123 said:
Windows 7 does not have an option to format with fat, only fat32
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there's an app called cardtrick used to format digital cam's sdcard to install hack and that has the fat format...
http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CardTricks
Format the sd card using your computer. After you do this you may find that the phone still has the same notification. Reboot phone and try formatting again. If your sdcard is in Raw format this should work.
I posted this in the CM7 thread in dev but I am not getting any responses so, perhaps I will get more luck here:
Ok guys I posted this before and didn't get a response and it just happened again. My wife was using CM7 RC1 and her phone froze and forced a reboot. When it came back up her sdcard showed unmounted so she remounted it was unrecognized. I took it out and put it in a reader in my linux computer and ran all sorts of tests and repair programs nada. It was dead as a door nail.
Now this was the default one that came with it so I thought, eh well she has had it for 9 months or so maybe it was a fluke. So I gave her mine, and bought a nice LX series 16GB class 10. I was getting ~16MBps writes and 19MBps reads it was great.
Then just a moment ago i was playing angry birds rio, and it froze and rebooted. Guess what, same thing wouldn't mount and my computer shows it totally hosed it can't be reformated or anything. What is going on that's now 2 sd cards dead both while using CM7 withing a couple of weeks of each other. I searched "sdcard" "sdcard fail" etc etc on this thread and came up with nothing.
I have found things like this:http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/1...d-but-not-rly/
Which seem to state that rebooting etc will fix it but no dice. I can't even get any info from gparted or df about it. What is going on? That second card wasn't cheap, and I only had it about 7 days before this happen!
This doesn't work btw http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...03&postcount=2
dmesg is giving me this:
[497112.250528] sd 66:0:0:0: [sdb] READ CAPACITY failed
[497112.250531] sd 66:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
[497112.250596] sd 66:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense not available.
[497112.250604] sd 66:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
[497112.250609] sd 66:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[497112.250612] sd 66:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
[497112.250615] sd 66:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[497112.250802] sd 66:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
With a card reader.
Nada with fdisk -l, lsusb turns up nothing, but lsscsi gives me this:
[66:0:0:0] disk Multi Flash Reader 1.00 /dev/sdb
Showing the reader is at least TRYING to read the card but its having no luck I tested my wife's card and the exact same results. Something is knocking out these SDcards, and this one is only a few (7) days old.
Nothing guys? No one has had this issue or has any input?
wow i did the cm7 now my sd card won't mount no sd card will
MikeBrWade said:
Nothing guys? No one has had this issue or has any input?
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I'm sorry, Mike, but I haven't experienced anything like that and I've tested a boatload of roms, kernels, etcetera. I did notice that when I initially flashed Cyangenmod 7, I did get an SD card error in the notification panel, however, other users stated that all I needed to do was delete the LOST_DIR folder. I did and all was well. I've since flashed Nightlies 29 & 30 without any problems or errors with the SD card and I have a technically slow Class 2 16GB MicroSD card.
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Mike,
I have the same issue on my Gtab. I installed CM7 and now I can't "find" my SD card... I am trying to figure this out.... it's annoying. Let me know if you have any luck.
Nope. Had to buy a new card. Hasn't happened since. I will give CM the benifit of the doubt and perhaps that was just two bad SD cards.
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Not running CM7, but just lost my LX 32GB card the same way, 2 days ago. I was depending on the card way too much, and lost about 4 months of pics/videos, etc. It was only half full, but should be backing up to my computer more often! Put the old 8GB back in, wiped, reloaded stock OTA rooted ROM. All good for now. Bought a 16GB card, gonna try again.
So I was in recovery partioning my 16Gig Sd card for A2SD and dropped my phone, the battery came out and CWM had not finished the partion. Now My SD card only says it is a 13.69 Gig capacity card but the partions are not there. I tried formating the card and it didnt work. I also tried doing a windows error check and defragment which didnt help either. the partitions dont show up on my computer management either as they would when it was partioned normally. Does anyone know how to recover the lost parts of my card???
Edit: I also tried going back into recovery and repartioning but that doesnt do anything now
I'm not to worried about the a2sd but I do want my 2.3 gigs that are missing back
Most cards won't give the full storage space of card. What class is it? My 32 GB card shows only 29.9 out of 32.
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Spastic909 said:
Most cards won't give the full storage space of card. What class is it? My 32 GB card shows only 29.9 out of 32.
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class 4... and i know i will never fully show 16G but it normally would say 15.8 I believe and since there is nothing on it then it should still say that. When the battery came out i think it corrupted those parts as they cant be found anywhere. I'm going to try this when I get home :
"You can also do it from within Windows XP with a program called diskman
(http://www.diskman.co.uk), but you want to be careful with that program, it
gives you unlimited power to screw up your drives. If you're brave enough to
try diskman, download and unzip the 4.2 alpha, open a command prompt, and cd
to the directory where you unzipped diskman to. Then type the following:
diskman4 console (starts the diskman console)
drive mount hostl x: (replace x with the drive letter of your card)
drive part 1 1 (make your card partitionable)
drive remount 1 (remount the card to activate the changes)
volume list (check the number of volumes)
volume delete 1 (assuming there is only one volume)
exit (close the diskman console)
Then eject the card, reinsert it, and Windows should be able to format it to
it's full capacity.
Tony "
from http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/22525-36-card-format-volume-problem
I am unable to partion my new 32GB class 10 sd card to ext3/4. I need to partion it for apps2sd but when I do it it will run the process but will format as other instead of ext3/4. any advise. Aslo I have flashed my phone over to the cricket wireless network and I keep getting a hands free actvation screen run every boot, I think it has something to do with sprint. Does anyone know what it is and how to delete so I don't receive that every boot.
Thanks is advance...
bump and over 100 views and no one has an idea ?
So no one has ever had a issue with there sd card not formatting to ext3
32 GB SD Cards done't play well with this phone. It's posted in a lot of places
HipKat said:
32 GB SD Cards done't play well with this phone. It's posted in a lot of places
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Thanks for the reply, I would under stand that if I was using my phone to partition,but I'm using my computer and when its done it says other format instead of ext3. So I have not got to the phone issue yet lol
jmh033089 said:
Thanks for the reply, I would under stand that if I was using my phone to partition,but I'm using my computer and when its done it says other format instead of ext3. So I have not got to the phone issue yet lol
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try formating it in recovery. i used the latest smelkus mod recovery to partition my 16gb class 4 about 2 days ago. see if it will work for your card. if it doesn't work there then its probably a card issue
PhxkinMassacre said:
try formating it in recovery. i used the latest smelkus mod recovery to partition my 16gb class 4 about 2 days ago. see if it will work for your card. if it doesn't work there then its probably a card issue
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did that before I posted, thanks. I have contacted the seller and if I don't get a new one I will get my money back and buy a name brand this time lol
The media is likely to be defective.
1.8 GByte OK (3952533 sectors)
5.4 GByte DATA LOST (11341931 sectors)
Details:0 KByte overwritten (0 sectors)
0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors)
5.4 GByte corrupted (11341931 sectors)
0 KByte aliased memory (0 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x00000000778f2a00
Expected: 0x00000000778f2a00
Found: 0x0000000000000000
H2testw version 1.3
Reading speed: 9.86 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4
might be the card ROFLMAO
HipKat said:
32 GB SD Cards done't play well with this phone. It's posted in a lot of places
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I have a PNY 32GB class 10 card and had no issues with it.
with out a dought its the card, I'm having so many issues its not even funny...
What is the brand?
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I'm using the 7 inch model and it writes to the 32 gig card, but it will not write to my 64 gig. I've tried various formats (NTFS, FAT, FAT16, FAT32, maybe a few others) and it will read the 64 but will not write to it. Anyone know why this is?
Try exFAT.
ketut.kumajaya said:
Try exFAT.
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I tried that last night. No luck. I put the card in and view it in the storage part of settings. It displays 62.5 gb available. Then I try to create a folder or move something over to it, and I get a message saying could not write file. Then I looking in the storage part of settings again and it says 0.00 b available. For some reason it wants to read the drive as full when it is empty. I don't have it rooted yet. Does that matter?