Hello I have a big problem hope somebody can help me.
I have a 16g micro sd card. RA Recovery 2.2,
this is what happened:
I rebooted the phone in to recovery wipe everything in order to install a new rom I had just downloaded, after I wiped I try to install from sd card and I got a message saying that the card could not be mounted.
So I plug the phone on the computer turned on the USB-MS toggle, when I click on the sd card on the computer it tells me that the card is not formatted and ask if I want to reformat the card, If I click yes it brings me to the other screen but it tells me that the card is only 30.6mb and the card is 16g? it only gives me to option in the file system FAT or exFAT.
Can somebody help I really don’t want to lose the card
ps i have windows xp and windows 7 , the phone is running miui rom
Where did you get the card?
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I believe you will end up formatting SD card (FAT) but if you have anything that you want to keep you can move that to your PC. After you format card and phone recognise and accept it, you can try move your stuff from PC back to SD. Again that just my opinion and I may be wrong... Before anything, try to take card out > start phone > turn phone down > insert card again.
Rydah805 said:
Where did you get the card?
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i buy at walmart
erik077 said:
I believe you will end up formatting SD card (FAT) but if you have anything that you want to keep you can move that to your PC. After you format card and phone recognise and accept it, you can try move your stuff from PC back to SD. Again that just my opinion and I may be wrong... Before anything, try to take card out > start phone > turn phone down > insert card again.
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how can i change form FAT to FAT32 is that anyway to do that? in windows it only shows FAT or exFAT to format it with.
Cjunior said:
how can i change form FAT to FAT32 is that anyway to do that? in windows it only shows FAT or exFAT to format it with.
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I believe you can do that with older windows (XP), but is it necessary to do it ? FAT was just an example what I give to you. Why don't you format your card with phone using standard system?
erik077 said:
I believe you can do that with older windows (XP), but is it necessary to do it ? FAT was just an example what I give to you. Why don't you format your card with phone using standard system?
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i try but the only thing that shows is 30.6mb and this is 16g.
i was working before i had over 8g of pictures on it, when i restarted my phone and wipe to install a new rom it did something with the card. im about to give up hope
anybody had any idea to fix a bad fomated SD card??? it will only reconice 30.6mb and only gives me a option to format in FAT not FAT32 the card is supposed to be a 16g, im open to ideas
Cjunior said:
anybody had any idea to fix a bad fomated SD card??? it will only reconice 30.6mb and only gives me a option to format in FAT not FAT32 the card is supposed to be a 16g, im open to ideas
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Did you try booting into recovery, run partition, set swap at zero and ext at zero?? this should format the entire card...
jauger said:
Did you try booting into recovery, run partition, set swap at zero and ext at zero?? this should format the entire card...
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i did, it didn't work
Did you ever solve this issue ?
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how do i do it . new to this phone
Simply put it into a card reader, and into a computer. Then find the drive with the card, right click it and click format.
Src: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_format_a_micro_sd_card
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However, I wouldn't think that you would want to format a memory card. I remember hearing somewhere that it could be bad. However it could have been formatting or defragmenting (i can't remember which, but both seems a little unusual to me to do with a card). I suppose it is safe to use windows to format the card, but an alternative is to plug it into the computer, select everything on it, and just delete it. Then again, thats my opinion.
You can't defragment the card, but you can format it. There's no reason that I would suggest a regular format over a quick format though...
Regular format just does a chkdisk i think, and there is no need for that in a card
cudahy_boy said:
how do i do it . new to this phone
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There shouldn't be a reason for format the card to be used with the phone. All the cards I've used, I just put in the phone and used without having to do anything to the card.
I figured out the problem.
ogfrier said:
i just recently used mini tool partition wizard to wipe all the partitions off my SD card and now that i did that my sd card isnt recognized on my computer. it shows up on partition wizard and ive tried about everything i can think of but it wont show up. and i even switched SD cards and it still wont, and ive tried different usb ports and different usb cords. so im not sure if i did something wrong in partition wizard or what, all i did was wipe partitions and delete partitions on my sd card. it mounts on my phone and it says "blank SD card" and when i click the notification it pops up and says format SD card and i go ahead and format it. im getting pretty irritated to be honest and i feel like ive went through every option i can think of ive restarted the laptop ive rebooted my phone i even flashed a old backup of my old SD card ive factory reset and all so im completely lost, so if anyone can offer any advice its greatly appreciated.
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are u saying u changed the sd card on ur phone and the new one didn't show up either when u enabled mass storage..??
did u try using a card reader..??
are you used card reader for partitoning?
Put the card in a card reader.
Then open minitool.
Right click on the top slab where your memory card is shown and select delete partition.
Apply.
Now you will have unallocated space.
Create new partition, fat32 and primary.
Apply. I guess that would solve it.
Well I figured it out. I had to go to disk manager on my laptop and change the removable disk name and the file it shows up under. Thank you guys though, and no I wasn't using a card reader. I was just trying to wipe my partitions then create a bigger one so I can have more internal storage if that makes sense.
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Well I have a new version of CWM Mod, and apparently when you format the sd-card, it no longer formats the inner sd card but your external sd card. I was really pissed as I lost all my data I had saved, but it also managed to screw up my sd card. Neither of my computers recognize my SD Card and I have no idea how I can go about restoring it. My phone can detect the sd card but it will say its corrupt randomly. So I'm guessing CWM formatted the card in a really screwed up way. Any suggestions brahs?
I'll even try to mount the sd card on CWM but it wont be able to mount it. It's a shame to waste a 32 gig sd card like this
Have you tried to format through the phone storage? Menu/settings/storage/format
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mrbmg said:
Have you tried to format through the phone storage? Menu/settings/storage/format
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Only gives me the option to mount or unmount the SD card
How old is the SD card? This phone is know for eating up the 32 GB cards. I had one for less than 3 weeks and it did the same. I use trwp but there is a thread about cards and our misfortunes with the 32 GB.
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Make sure you card is not in exfat. CWM will not read cards in exfat, I had the same problem. If it is you are going to need to format it to fat 32. Most 32gigs sd cards and higher come in exfat now. You are most likey going to have to do it on the computer also it cant be done from CWM.
Mateoftw said:
Well I have a new version of CWM Mod, and apparently when you format the sd-card, it no longer formats the inner sd card but your external sd card. I was really pissed as I lost all my data I had saved, but it also managed to screw up my sd card. Neither of my computers recognize my SD Card and I have no idea how I can go about restoring it. My phone can detect the sd card but it will say its corrupt randomly. So I'm guessing CWM formatted the card in a really screwed up way. Any suggestions brahs?
I'll even try to mount the sd card on CWM but it wont be able to mount it. It's a shame to waste a 32 gig sd card like this
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Aoe316 said:
Make sure you card is not in exfat. CWM will not read cards in exfat, I had the same problem. If it is you are going to need to format it to fat 32. Most 32gigs sd cards and higher come in exfat now. You are most likey going to have to do it on the computer also it cant be done from CWM.
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Yes but my computer won't even detect the SD Card. It was fine and dandy up until yesterday when I hit format on CWM on the SD Card thinking I was formatting the internal storage (since it's labelled /sdcard) but it formatted the actual SD. Windows won't detect my Micro SD and neither will my Mac. However if I put the SD card into my phone and connect via USB, it shows up.
Mateoftw said:
Yes but my computer won't even detect the SD Card. It was fine and dandy up until yesterday when I hit format on CWM on the SD Card thinking I was formatting the internal storage (since it's labelled /sdcard) but it formatted the actual SD. Windows won't detect my Micro SD and neither will my Mac. However if I put the SD card into my phone and connect via USB, it shows up.
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You pressed format /sdcard, and it formatted your extsd? That's a pretty serious bug, so thanks for the heads up. What version of CWM are you running?
Op. I did the same thing a long time ago. I have gotten into the habbit of removing the sd card when I am formatting with a custom recovery. I also back up the sd to my pc and reformat the sd when changing roms. A bit off topic but I also wipe system before flashing a new rom. So far I have avoided many of the issues mentioned day after day. Maybe I am lucky but my wierd habits have been successful so far.
jcbofkc said:
Op. I did the same thing a long time ago. I have gotten into the habbit of removing the sd card when I am formatting with a custom recovery. I also back up the sd to my pc and reformat the sd when changing roms. A bit off topic but I also wipe system before flashing a new rom. So far I have avoided many of the issues mentioned day after day. Maybe I am lucky but my wierd habits have been successful so far.
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Did you manage to fix the problem though? Not to be rude but I'm looking for solutions towards this specific situation, not advice on what to do next time :crying: :crying: :crying: :crying:
Aerowinder said:
You pressed format /sdcard, and it formatted your extsd? That's a pretty serious bug, so thanks for the heads up. What version of CWM are you running?
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5.8 something. It's weird because it allows for both internal and external SD use. When you backup the first open is to save to external then its internal. First version of CWM i've ever used with such an option.
For anyone wondering about a solution, I used an android 2.3 device which actually has a format option for the SD card and now my computers recognize it again. Life is good
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I've had a 2 GB SD card in my WFS, it was formatted properly, Int2Ext4+ and everything else was working, now I need more space so I changed to a 8 GB SD card, but when I try to format it with MiniTool Partition Wizard it says bad disk or something like that. Then I need to eject the SD card and insert it again and then I have to format it again.
Is it possible that there is something wrong with the SD card and I should just buy a new one? It was working before when it was just used to save data on it, but when it comes to formatting it doesn't really work.
Pr3no said:
I've had a 2 GB SD card in my WFS, it was formatted properly, Int2Ext4+ and everything else was working, now I need more space so I changed to a 8 GB SD card, but when I try to format it with MiniTool Partition Wizard it says bad disk or something like that. Then I need to eject the SD card and insert it again and then I have to format it again.
Is it possible that there is something wrong with the SD card and I should just buy a new one? It was working before when it was just used to save data on it, but when it comes to formatting it doesn't really work.
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it said error bad disk because you might had formatted it wrongly or take out sdcard many reasons.
just put that in your phone properly and then power off phone.after power off remove sdcard and put it in card reader with computer.
and then it ll said format memory card then format it and then you can use minipartitional tool.
crossfire77 said:
it said error bad disk because you might had formatted it wrongly or take out sdcard many reasons.
just put that in your phone properly and then power off phone.after power off remove sdcard and put it in card reader with computer.
and then it ll said format memory card then format it and then you can use minipartitional tool.
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I don't think that's the problem, cause I did everything like how I did on my previous SD card, and on that card it was working properly.
But I'll try to do what you said, if it doesn't work I'll buy a new one, it's not so expensive anyways.
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I don't think that's the problem, cause I did everything like how I did on my previous SD card, and on that card it was working properly.
But I'll try to do what you said, if it doesn't work I'll buy a new one, it's not so expensive anyways.
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Yeah buy new one..but for info..sd cards wont brick that easy..
I formatted around thousands time..nothing goes wrong
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crossfire77 said:
Yeah buy new one..but for info..sd cards wont brick that easy..
I formatted around thousands time..nothing goes wrong
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It was always working wierdly, that's why I didn't use it in my phone in the first place, but since it was good enough for my mp3 player I thought I'd give it a try again, guess I shouldn't have.
SD-Card removed unexpectedly
I partitioned the sd-Card and used INT2EXT4+ ., internal memory is fine reading above 800MB cuz it was 1 GB partition, but i am getting error over and over again that ''SD-Card removed unexpectedly'' and ''damaged sd card'' my card has total 8GB
Its a weird problem....but maybe you changed the file system of your sd card or something like that. Otherwise..you should buy a new one!
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since few weeks i am observing with differents roms (KK ,JB, ICS all) the SD card after reboot is not getting mounted immediately, mostly it is taking about more than 5 minutes after boot, and also sometimes not mounting untill i click on an app which is installed is SD card.
and walkman also talking so many reboots to find media(songs) in SD card after new rom install.
is it card problem or anytinh else?
Try with another card and see if the problem still persist.
wao
georgeiulian89 said:
Try with another card and see if the problem still persist.
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If i dont have another SD card? then i should buy yah ok thnx
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wasim9283 said:
If i dont have another SD card? then i should buy yah ok thnx
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format your card with minitool or easus and then try again. just connect your phone to your computer with the sd card in ums mode and format it to fat32 (if it is <=32 gb).
obviously you should backup the stuff on the card to your pc first ^^