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Evo evowned my sd card

So I plug my 16 gig in to format it and poof. Never even recognized it. Now nothing recognizes it, namely my previous phone.
Any way to salvage it? I tried to plug it into the pc directly but no dice. Possible that the converter card was not sdhc compatible.
Suggestions?

The card is not recognized when you plug it into the PC? Methinks it's a bunk card instead of the phone borking it.

maybe, but it was a bit too coincidental being as I have been using the card since november.

When I had that problem, I went and got the thing formatted by a digital camera and it came back to life.
It's worth trying if you have one handy at least.

GPARTED is the answer to all your formatting needs... Seriously, download it, throw it in your computer, and restart. Should boot into it.

Thanks for the great feedback. I'll let y'all know how it goes when I get back to my comp.

you might of formated it as ext instead of fat

One trick is to format the card in a camera, then back to your phone.
Also, what brand card is it? Transcend has an auto-format utility that may fix your card. Also Transcend has a lifetime warranty for flash type cards and will replace your card with a new one, you just need to start an RMA on their website and mail it in.

Installed Fresh 0.2 and was FC like mad, then finally no sd card. I then ran RUU to back to stock with no problems. Started to use mybackup and would not work. The phone reported a blank sd card, formatting failed to report any actions, not sure about this but thought something would display ie progress. Removed it and put it in my Windows7 64bit desktop and nothing, showed disk but not formatted. Put it in my Windows7 32bit Netbook and all was good. Back into phone and Astro showed everything was there, I am at a loss here but something is going on with these SD cards or the rom! Weird business this is!

download the SD Format tool?
http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter/

Retiredfinally said:
Installed Fresh 0.2 and was FC like mad, then finally no sd card. I then ran RUU to back to stock with no problems. Started to use mybackup and would not work. The phone reported a blank sd card, formatting failed to report any actions, not sure about this but thought something would display ie progress. Removed it and put it in my Windows7 64bit desktop and nothing, showed disk but not formatted. Put it in my Windows7 32bit Netbook and all was good. Back into phone and Astro showed everything was there, I am at a loss here but something is going on with these SD cards or the rom! Weird business this is!
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Was this the 8GB card that came with your Evo?

It was the one that came with it. I gave my son the Hero with an 8gig thinking I was good. It is a Scandisk so figured it was ok, same as Hero anyway. I tried the SD formatter, older version I see so thanks for that update. Just weird that nothing worked until I put it in the Netbook with 32bit 7.

[Q] Weird problem with SD card!

Hello,
friend got her hands on a htc desire. She let some small shop unlock it before really testing it. Now we got the following problem:
The SD Card doesnt work. At first everything seemed to work okay. She took 52 pictures, even installed on app on the sd card. Then it basically froze.
We can delete half of the pictures and make some new ones. After the phone is rebooted all pictures are gone. Apps cannot be installed on the sd card.
If I remove the sd card and put it in my Nexus One everything works fine. New pictures survive the reboot, old ones get deleted.
When she puts the sd card in her desire, everything is back to 52 pictures and 1 app on it.
You cannot copy stuff like update.zip on the sd card, because the phone will only notice 52 pictures on it... Rom Manager has a "fix" option which doesnt work and partition it didnt help it - if it did anything at all.
We even bought a new 8 gb one, same problem. Some other people reported the same problem in forums, but there is never an answers what did fix it.
Its S-OFF with AlphaRev.
Sadly we both have no idea how to fix it and no android development skills. My plan would be to go back to RUU to see if the problem is still there. If yes, just get a new one from HTC. If no, unlock it again.
Sadly when it comes to roms and the "simple guides" we fail to reproduce even the first steps. "Go to fastboot and enter command XYZ" - yet we cannot enter any commands there.
Any help is welcome.

Can you connect your phone to pc in adb mode? Or simpler: what happened when you are connecting your phone to pc? Does it ask about mass storage mount? Is it in debug mode? If not, I think that it is classical USB-Brick, else... I don't know what is wrong...

I had also a problem with my sd-card.
Put it in a card reader and make checkdisk with windows solved my problem.

Weird, my answer disappeared.
When we connect it to a pc, we can delete files, format it, run scandisk, copy stuff on it. Everything works fine. When we put it back into the phone, the old 52 pictures and nothing else is on it.

And I thought I was the only one…
My problem is as follows, I had with my 1st Desire a 8gig Class 4 Transcend SD card which was perfect and connecting to and from my home and work pc was effortless.
Then my Motherboard burnt out on that phone sent it back and when I got the new one I put my 4gig Class 2 SD which I got with the phone back in and no issues.
A few days later I bought a new 8gig Kingston Class 4 SD ( I lost my Transcend SD card) and after 2 days I would get “SD mounted as read only” so formatted the SD copied my data back to my 8gig Kingston card which worked fine on my PC but the same problem persisted when I put it back in my phone. I was using ADW launcher and kept getting the same errors all the time, then I switched to Launcher Pro and since then I have had no SD card problems.
Also when I was using standard HTC sense I also never had a problem, I hope this is of some help.

I rooted my htc desire using Unrevok 3 and also tried to partition sd by mini tool home version . unfortunately after partition i cannot access or recognize sd in my desire.

Still not making any progress, ..

[Q] CyanogenMod 7 is ruining my SD cards

Now I'm not moaning about CyanogenMod here, I'm just trying to understand how I can fix the issue.
Basically, I had CyanogenMod 7 RC2 on my Desire Z. That was it.
Eventually I saw through ROM Manager that the full release of 7 was out so I downloaded, took a backup, wiped everything and did a fresh install of the new ROM.
It installed fine, but none of my apps that needed root access were getting it.
So I booted into recovery, restored my backup, root was back.
I then installed 7.0 over my RC2. That worked fine, but again root was gone.
At this point, my phone started damaging SD cards.
It suddenly started saying that my 8GB card that came with the phone was damaged. I tried to fix it on the phone, but it just said 'Checking card' and then giving up.
Putting it in an old MP3 player, it is not detected at all.
Putting it in a card reader, the card is unreadable and when I try to format it Windows says the card is 'read only' (this is not due to the reader).
I put a functional 2gb card I had lying around into my Desire Z and it broke it in the exact same way.
My question to you guys is - what could be causing this and how do I fix it because I have a 16gb card coming and I'm obviously cautious of putting it in the phone.
Also, how would I go about flashing the new Cyanogenmod 7.02 ROM if my phone keeps breaking SD cards I put into it?

This error can be because when ever you install a CyanogenMod ROM over another, It leaves files your new ROM think is useful such as data that the new ROM doesn't support. It is damaging your SD Card because it keeps attempting to fix the error but is making it worst by trying to remove system files. Your best bet is to try another ROM and see if it does the same thing and report it to CyanogenMod Developer Team if it only does this to CyanogenMod ROMs otherwise it would be just a virus on your SD Card feeding off of personal data. If it is only CyanogenMod ROMs, we will adress this issue ASAP. Hope I helped

Thank you VS4, you are indeed helpful
I've since heard some people have managed to fix their SD cards by formatting them in ClockworkMod but I can't even mount it first in order to do this! Is my card truly dead?
Also, do you think the reason that CM7.0 had no root (even when it was a clean install) was due to me not 'fixing permissions'?
Thanks

Just a note to say that I've managed to fix it!
Despite being unable to 'mount sdcard' in clockworkmod, I found I was able to activate USB Storage and through this I was able to format the card (Windows 7 was previously saying that the same card was 'read only' in a multitude of card readers).
I hope this helps any poor chap with the same problem.

I had this exact same problem, munched 2 of my 8GB cards, and had a 16 on the way. I somehow fixed it before the 16 came and I've never had the issue since, glad to see an explanation of it.

Thanks, nofixio!
I had the same problem on my Samsung Fascinate with CM7. It ate my 16GB SD card to the point where the phone wouldn't recognize it, CWM wouldn't mount it, and it wouldn't show up on my computer in multiple SD readers.
I wasn't quite clear what you were suggesting when you said you were able to "activate USB Storage." I thought maybe you meant within CWM. That didn't work for me, but I was able to boot the phone up with the problem SD card in it and turn on USB storage as normal. Suddenly my computer could not only see the SD card, it could see all the files that were on it before it died! I backed everything up, formatted the card in Windows, and everything's good now. Thanks for the tip!

rfschmid said:
Thanks, nofixio!
I had the same problem on my Samsung Fascinate with CM7. It ate my 16GB SD card to the point where the phone wouldn't recognize it, CWM wouldn't mount it, and it wouldn't show up on my computer in multiple SD readers.
I wasn't quite clear what you were suggesting when you said you were able to "activate USB Storage." I thought maybe you meant within CWM. That didn't work for me, but I was able to boot the phone up with the problem SD card in it and turn on USB storage as normal. Suddenly my computer could not only see the SD card, it could see all the files that were on it before it died! I backed everything up, formatted the card in Windows, and everything's good now. Thanks for the tip!
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how do i activate usb storage? i have several memory cards that stopped working out of no where and i have important files on them. PLEASE HELP!!!

hotboyray said:
how do i activate usb storage? i have several memory cards that stopped working out of no where and i have important files on them. PLEASE HELP!!!
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I'm not sure why you would ask this in such an old thread but... Try just plugging it in to your computer maybe? What ROM are you on?

noneabove said:
I'm not sure why you would ask this in such an old thread but... Try just plugging it in to your computer maybe? What ROM are you on?
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im running cm7 ... it wont read from computer. i tried several micro sd card readers. it just tells me it cant format. its just like what was mentioned before.

Weird, I've never had any problems with Cyanogen 7 roms. I've flashed one over another and had no issues at all, Mayb because I use SuperWipe before hand? Or maybe its a certain sd card issue???

Running Desire Z and Andromadus Beta 11 I had similar problem after I had applied remote wipe from Exchange (wanted to see if it works). Remote wipe worked: it destroyed contents of SD card and erased phone back to factory settings. After wipe mounting SD card failed and Andromadus seemed to be unable to format the card.
Solution: Booted phone to Clockwork recovery and applied advanced -> Partition SD Card.
Posted this on this thread since it came first when searching solution.

hotboyray said:
how do i activate usb storage? i have several memory cards that stopped working out of no where and i have important files on them. PLEASE HELP!!!
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Go into Recovery (Clockwork), go to mounts and storage, then scroll down and it should say mount USB storage.

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.

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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.

[Q] Micro SD Card stopped working in everything

This may be the wrong place to ask this, and if it is, I apologize.
I also apologize for this being so long, but I wanted to include as much info as possible in case someone has a solution I haven't tried yet.
I have a Sandisk 32gb micro SD in my S3 (AT&T, rooted, running StockMOD 4.4 RC 2). The card worked perfectly fine before all of this started.
I ordered a new (generic) 64gb micro SD card through Amazon about a month ago. When I tried to copy my data to it, I got a 0x80070570 error, which seemed to point to a card defect. I sent it back, and finally got a replacement.
I unmounted the old card and put the replacement card in my S3. The new card didn't register in the phone at all.
I popped it out (the phone didn't recognize it, so I couldn't unmount it), put it in a USB card reader, and plugged it into my desktop (Windows 7 Home, 64 bit). The card said that it was formatted to FAT32. Since windows doesn't give you the ability to format to FAT32, I tried exFAT. I figured at the worst, when I put it in the phone, the phone would not recognize the file structure and give me the option to format it.
Well, a quick format didn't work (Windows said it was unable to complete it.) I tried a full format and when it got to the end, Windows said it couldn't complete that either. I put it back in my phone and it was recognized with a "blank card or unrecognized file system" error. It gave me the option to format it, so I did. After a maybe 2 seconds, the phone said it was checking the card for errors, then gave the "blank card" message again. I tried several times, but the same thing happened. I rebooted into recovery (CMW 6.0.4.7) and it seemed to show the card. I tried to format it there, but got the message "could not format /storage/sdcard1". I tried to mount it and got a "error mounting /storage/sdcard1" error.
I put the card back in the reader and my computer doesn't see anything there anymore. No drive letter. Nothing showing up in disk manager. I can't see it through diskpart's list volume or chkdsk (all run with admin privileges.) If I take the card out of the reader, the reader shows up as drive H (in all places). But once I put the card in, the drive disappears from everywhere.
So I figure I got another bum card. I put the old micro SD card back in my phone and it didn't see it. There's no message - the phone just doesn't recognize anything there. I rebooted, but still nothing. I booted into recovery and CMW doesn't see the old card, even though it worked perfectly fine up until this point. I tried wiping the cache and dalvik, but that didn't change anything. I booted without a card, inserted it, and the phone doesn't see it. I booted with the card in the phone, and it doesn't see it. I booted without a card, shut it down, inserted the cart, and rebooted, and that didn't work. The only thing I haven't tried yet is a factory rest. I put the old card in the reader and my computer doesn't see anything (just like the new one.) I tried disk manager, diskpart, chkdsk, etc. and it doesn't show up.
I tried 2 different card readers (1 USB, 1 internal) and neither reads either card. I tried 2 different micro SD to SD adapters, and neither one helps. I've tried reading the cards on 2 different computers, but neither sees either card. I found an old 2 gb micro SD card, plugged it into the USB adapter and it shows up in both computers fine. I tried both adapters and both work fine with the 2 gb. I also put the 2 gb in my phone, and it worked fine. So I think it's pretty safe to rule out an issue with the computer, the phone, the adapter, and the reader. Which leaves me with a card problem.
All of the solutions I've found online require that the computer actually assign a drive letter and see the card, even if it can't read it. I don't have that, so none of those work for me.
I get that the new card was probably a bum card. But why would my old card crap out all of a sudden? I had just taken a backup of what was on there, so it worked in the reader 30 minutes before I swapped out cards. I've inspected the contacts and they look fine to me. No scratches or crap on there.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get my 32 gb working again? Losing data isn't a problem, since I backed it up before I started this whole thing.
I've pretty much given up hope on the 64 gb at this point.

Really hard to say. But just a guess, maybe the card reader caused some sort of damage to the card. Would explain why both the new ones didn't work either.
Like I said though, it's purely a guess. But if windows doesn't recognize it no matter how you plug it in, I'm not sure there will be much you can do.
And just FYI, since this is a question, it should've been posted in Q&A.
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Thanks, @DocHoliday77. I was afraid of that. Even though I don't see any damage it's possible something happened. I don't know.
I was just hoping that there was some kind of software that might be able to access the card without checking the file structure. Something that could format it without knowing, or caring, what was on it before.
And thanks for the heads up on where this should have been posted. Next time I'll ask my questions in Q&A.

Could be something internal that allowed too much power to the card maybe. No way of knowing that I'm aware of. There may be recovery software out there, but it may cost more than its worth or it may require special equipment. Been a long time since I've looked into that type stuff though.
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