Hi All
I am hoping someone on this forum can help me before I rip my hair out (whats left of it).
I have recently got a HTC Desire and purchased a new 32GB Micro SD card. The SD card is fine and recognised when I first put it in, format it and factory reset the phone.
Boots up fine, recognises the SD fine and all apps work.
HOWEVER, when I plug my phone into the Mac I mount the SD card as a disk drive, Mac recognises it fine then I sync my ITunes music to it (about 8GB worth) then eject the drive from the Mac and remount the drive to the phone.
About 30 - 60 seconds after remounting to the phone I get an error message advising that the SD card is mounted as read-only. I try to unmount and remount again and it does the same.
The SD card basically renders itself useless.
I then take the Micro SD card out of the phone and put into the SD card adaptor for the Mac and run a disk varification on the card, the Mac itself cannot even fix it.
The ONLY way I can see to sort this is to reformat the Micro SD back to FAT32 and put it back into the phone, format and factory reset.
Again this ONLY happens at the point of syncing etc from the Mac.
Now before everyone starts to blame the Mac, after doing some Googling, it seems this also happens on Windows machine.
How do I stop this as its becoming a massive annoyance.
Gav
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Hi all,
I just got a new Sandisk 1GB Mini SD for my Wizard. I put it in my phone and it was recognized immediately. I copied a few files across (my TomTom install and a few maps) and then finished the install. I had to soft-reboot to get TomTom to work - but after rebooting my card doesn't work. When the phone starts up it asks if I want to format the card. I tap yes and it goes away - but doesn't really do anything.
I have taken the Mini SD out of my phone and put it into the card reader that's in my laptop. Windows recognizes that it is a SD card and also prompts to format it - but when I try to format it as FAT or FAT32 it says it can't complete. I have tried doing it through DOS too, but it comes back as saying that there is a bad Track 0 and the card is unusable.
I'm struggling to believe that the card is now poked after just copying some files onto it. I'm hoping that it's just something to do with the file system that has dies somehow. Does anyone know how to reformat the card (either through my phone or Win XP) or how can I resurrect this sucker?
Thanks in advance!
try pocket mechanics
thanks rudegear. I tried pocket mechanics, but it doesn't even recognise the card. I believe that pocket mech will only work if my phone can see the card first. this isn't even happening. the phone obviously knows that there is a card in it, as it says that the expansion slot is in use, but it can't read the card at all. any other ideas?
sounds like you have a fake card. 128mb cards formated to show 1gb, you copy more than 128 they corrupt. this happened to me
okay. I've given up on this card and have sent it back. no more trying to ressurect the dead for me!
has the new card solved the prob? The problem Iam having is almost identical to yours. I purchased a 2gig mini sd card (bn) for my atom. When inserted into my laptop's integrated sd reader, it would recognise a card has been inserted but would not open the card (but the Atom recognised the card).
Thinking I have bought a faulty card, I sent it back to manufacturer. The seller tested and concluded there is nothing wrong with the card but sent me a new one.
I had the same trouble with the new card. Convinced the card was not faulty, I purchased a new card reader.
The firt day i connected the card into the reader. things were SMOOTHE! I was lovn life. The card was read instantaniously and i proceeded to fill the card with a hole heap of goodies (including tomtom).
I used up approx 100mb of stuff that day and ejected the card from reader and inserted in my atom. Data was read with no trouble on pda and pc.
I inserted the sd card back into card reader the following day and now it seems the data originally put on from the first 'contact' is now locked. I cannot delete nor add anything else to the card. Oh and before anyone asks: yes, the lock was and is in the UNLOCK position (i dont even use the lock).
So my next move now is to exchange my card reader with a simpler/single slot. I read somewhere that cardreaders/devices sometimes lock data (dont know how true it is but got no choice).
in summery:
buying an external card reader solved the initial issue of recognizing/reading sd card but created another problem of LOCKING the sd card.
Is anyone else having issues with large sd cards?
I solve the problem by inserting card to Digital Camera that use SD card.
it formatted without error.
Card Reader and other phones does not format it. I think because of file system.
hmm... I will try that. will keep you all posted.
Twice now, the phone has complained all of a sudden that the SD card can't be read. I tried plugging it into a computer, switching to hard disk mode and then back to charge only to get it to re-read the card, at which point it says the card has no filesystem.
In each case it had no problem reading the card after ejecting and reseating it (which of course means powering it down). Has anyone else had this?
unmount card in phone, format it in Android and try again...mine was having issues not seeing photos I've added to my card to formatted it and now it's fine
Or plug the card directly into your computer and format it as fat32. Worked fine for me!
Just got my HTC Desire yesterday, and I have some trouble with it. When I connect it to my MacBook and try copying some music onto SD card i get "Error 36" and it fails. It can copy one, two files, and then this error kick in, it's quite random...
I googled and found that it is acctually a bug in OSX with FAT32 drives, and was resolved with 10.6.2 update, but I'm running 10.6.4 and I still have this problem...
Anyone else had the same problem, how to solve it, any ideas? Can i reformat the SD card without loosing my data, contacts etc... It's kinda lame to have a brand new device, and I can't fill it up with music :/
cheers!
How big is your SD card? If it's 4GB you could format it as FAT and see if that has any effect? If not I'd back up your data and then re-format as FAT32 and see if that works.
I tried reformatting the card but no change... anyways I found a temp solution to the problem.
It seems that FAT32 to FAT32 works OK, as opossed to HFS+ to FAT32, so I just copy the content to an USB drive, and then copy it from the USB drive to the SD card... no errors that way, although it is kinda pain in the ass...
cheers!
hey guys i need your help... my 32gb mini sd card suddenly stopped working... by stopped working i mean i am unable to format it.. unable to copy files to it... delete files from it.
what happens is i format it on windows and the format succeeds, i open the drive on windows i copy new files and all, but when i plug it in back to my desire hd, all is back to what it was before as if i did nothing, all the previous files are there, even if i copy files on it i synce 20gb of music took me a while, then to discover that when i plugged it back into dhd none of them were there...
its as if what ever i do to the card nothing impacts it.. i even used panasonic formatter, tells me its formatted, i put it in dhd and all is still there...
i even plugged it in a mac repartitioned, formatted as a mac journal drive, i plug it back in all is like before...
id really appreciate ur help, i bought this sd card from a nokia store in dubai. and i am currently running on my dhd cyanogen astounding broccoli
i've got exactly the same problem, and it's the second time it happens.
always xith a 32GB sdhc card, one with a class 2 and other a class 10.
and with a 4GB or a 2GB, it properly works.
any idea??
Have you tried checking it for errors? Is your 32GB legite or a Chinese fake? Have you tried formatting it in the phone? Unmount > format > mount
try format card on telephone, i use with no problem trascend 32gb
I'm having some strange issues with my S3 and micro SD cards. I noticed any attempt to access one of the folders will force crash any app that tries.
Then I did a nandroid backup from TWRP recovery and when I rebooted the phone, it claimed that the card was empty or damaged.
So I connected the card to my computer to backup everything that was there. Windows did say it needed to be scanned for errors but it didn't find any errors. It was formatted as exFat so I could put larger than 4 GB files on it.
When I put it back in my S3 it wasn't detected at all. No error messages, it was just as if I hadn't put any card in. Under Storage settings, under mount external SD card it just says to insert a card.
What I've found since then is in order to get the S3 to recognize that there is a card I need to do a full format (either FAT32 or exFAT) on my computer. If I do a quick format, it still won't be recognized. I need to do a full format.
But then, if I unmount and connect to my computer, then eject from my computer and put it back in my S3 it isn't detected again and I have to do a full format again.
I thought maybe the card had become defective, but I'm seeing the exact same behaviour now with a different card. The first one I was using was a class 10 32 GB lexar card. The second one is a class 10 16 GB Adata card. Both do the same thing. After a full format on my computer, they are detected on the phone but after unmounting, mounting on my computer, not doing anything except ejecting it, they stop being detected by the S3.
I've even tried re-formatting the card in the phone but that doesn't change anything.
Anyone know what's going on here? Is the phone defective? I don't want to send the phone in for warranty repair except as a last resort as I suspect that would mean several weeks without a phone.
Thanks!