anyway to solve it?
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SD card unmounted without you doing anything? What did you do before you encounter such problem? I experience it before.. when after flashing a ROM.. and it occurs.
But as I know flashing ROM can corrupt the SD card. So you may consider to format it.(of course save all the necessary files in it first)
a failing sd card will also cause this, i had a 16gb give up the ghost last week, only realised when i took the card out and put it directly into my computer and it kept un mounting.
It doesn't have to be a bad SD-card though. Android is pretty picky, so even some bad files or something similar might be the cause.
I had the same problem and for me (not everyone though) reforming the card on the pc fixed it.
im using the ota rom as i have not root it.. it failed 5 times in a row today... after restarting the 6th time it worked...
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When I tried to access an app that was installed on SD, my phone locked up. Upon a reboot I no longer have access to the card, all the apps' shortcuts are broken and all the options like mount SD card, format SD card are greyed out. Also when I connect the use cable there is no option to mount as disk drive anymore. I've rebooted, tried removing the card etc but no luck. Anyone else had this? I can't find my micro SD card adapter right now so I cart try it in my pc.
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Did you try running checkdisk from windows to repair it?
No cos I can't mount it in Windows
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Try repartitioning your sd card. Could be a corrupt ext partition, or your sd is completely screwed.
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I'll have to find my adapter
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Sounds like a bigger problem than a broken ext if nothing can read/mount the sd card. Might be the end of your sd cards life im afraid
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I've only had it about 2 months.....get what you pay for I suppose (click). Anyway still no luck with the adapter so I'll see if anyone's got one at work tomorrow.
OK, I found my adapter (and my old microSD card hiding within), windows has no problems seeing the 16gb card and my old (original 4gb) card has the same problem in the phone. For good measure I did a chkdsk on the card.
What are my options?
I've performed a full reset and still got the problem. Anyone got any suggestions?
anyone? I'm thinking it's a desire hardware fault.
any help? cheers
A number of us have had failed SD cards. In my case, Windows could see it well enough to copy most of the data off but failed to reformat it. I suggest you try to copy the data somewhere safe and then reformat in Windows. If the reformat works it's probably a hardware issue. If the reformat doesn't work it's probably the card.
I'm sure others will have different views!
Yeah but it's same with both my cards. I'll give it a go anyway cheers.
The one that came with the phone .. ( 8GB Class 2 ) came up with with a read only error last week ...
The card was dead.
I got a 8GB card class 6... used app brain .. and restored all my apps fine... etc
fab.. phones faster .. no problems
After inserting my old card again I now get the dreaded -
SD card damaged. You may have to reformat it.
Of course when you follow the wizard to format it, it doesn't seem to format it. I did try a full format in Windows earlier, no luck.
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Just to help anyone who stumbles over this thread in search of an answer, I've had to send it away for repair, it appears to be a hardware fault. 2-3 weeks.
Hello, XDA commnity. I'm really hoping you guys can come through for me once again, and I apologize if this has already been discussed before.
Anyway, a little while ago, while rebooting my phone (a rooted Droid 2 running Liberty 1.5 if that helps) I got a message in the notification bar that my SD card was damaged.
Please tell me if I can recover all my card's contents without having to format the card. I have a lot of important stuff on there (including two nandroid backup images) and I absolutely MUST recover everything. Please have some good news for me!
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This happened to me this morning. I crapped my pants, remounted my SD card in Settings > Storage and it mounted just fine. As soon as it did I managed to back up everything on the card.
Failing that, try booting into Ubuntu if you've got it handy and try reading the card from there. I've had memory cards/sticks which Windows has reported dead but worked just fine on Ubuntu before.
Hope this helps.
My SD CARD recently has been giving me some issues. It has worked fine since I got the phone in Aug 2010. I went to access my pictures yesterday and as they started popping up, an SD card picture popped up and said please insert SD card. No pictures could be accessed. I went to phone and SD storage and it said my SD card was unmounted. I went to mount it when I saw this, pressed mount, started to mount and stopped all of a sudden. Now I have an icon of an SD card with a question mark in my taskbar. The message says" SD card damaged. You may have to reformat it." When I go to reformat it, it gives me the message "external media in unknown state". Any ideas?
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What's the point in posting a question if you don't get help?
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kniz said:
What's the point in posting a question if you don't get help?
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Because you need to give us more than 3 hours to help you. Being impatient and bumping your thread like this makes people NOT want to help you.
i wish someone could please help me with this issue because its also happening to me, it happend twice already on two different sd cards, i even took the sd card out and put it into my Samsung Epic but still it says the sd card is blank . please help
I used to get this message way back in June 2010 when I first bought my Evo. It happened exactly as you are describing. I thought my SD card was bad. So I moved all my contents to my PC, formatted the SD card, then moved the contents back. It may have been coincidence, but it helped, for a little while, and then the exact same problem returned.
All this happened before I had ever rooted. I then rooted my phone, installed a custom rom, and have never had the problem again, even though it was the exact same SD Card.
Are either of you who are having this problem currently rooted? Or are you both stock? If you are stock, you could try rooting, and installing the stock rom. If you aren't comfortable with that, then try formatting the card, and if you have a spare microSD try that just to troubleshoot it. If you get the same result with a different card that you know is good, that will narrow it down to being related to software on the phone.
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What's the point in posting a question if you don't get help?
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I had a similar issue, I reformatted my memory card, and the problem has not returned. It has been seven months since then.
If you are formatting it on a mac, make sure that you set the partition type correctly to MBR (Master Boot Record)
Tonight I have been having problems with my SD card, anytime I try and download a file to it, I get the error "SD card unexpectedly removed" and then I can't access the SD card at all until I reboot
Any help appreciated. I'm running miui freshly squeezed with a class 10, 16 GB card
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Back up everything you have in your SD card.
I had that same symptom once. After a few reboot I lost the SD card. It became unreadable/unformatted.
So, just in case. Back up your data first.
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Cheers, done a bit more digging and its an issue for quite a lot of people. Backed up the card and using the standard 8gb that came with the phone. Ordered a new one too from play.com, as they are in the sale
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I had the same problem unexpectedly too the other night. I took the SD card and via a usb adaptor I connected it to my Windows 7 computer. A window popped up asking if I want to scan and fix for errors or continue without scanning. I usually just continued without scanning when connecting my phone directly but this time I let it scan and fix. Low and behold once it finished the scan I tried it again in my phone and it mounted successfully. Ever since then I've had no further problems since either.
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This happened to my 16gb mmc. Went on for a couple of months. I ignored it and mounted it manually. It died a couple weeks ago. I had no back up. Devo
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Back up everything you have in your SD card.
I had that same symptom once. After a few reboot I lost the SD card. It became unreadable/unformatted.
So, just in case. Back up your data first.
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Yup, same happened to me, lost everything on the memory card (though I had backups of the important stuff)
Same Problem
Guys i have been experiencing the same problem for some days now.
Found this post here; Was thinking the problem has been solved over here, but you all are reporting your problem.
Any there anyway this problem can be fixed or as most of you mention. The lifespan of the card is getting close.
Or I should just prepare for a new sd card (which am not ready for now).
My Case here is kindda different because when i boot into recovery, the sd card shows up and works fine.
when i boot into android then it cant be found.
???
i have same problem with android 4.0.4 and sense 4+
i must be reset my phonee
my phone is HTC Desire 268. now for a little while my sd card did have a problem when i first brought it but it was fine afterwords but today after I restarted my phone, my phone again is getting problem with sd card the sd card mounts for a little time than it unmount ( giving the status "SD card unexpectedly removed"), then mount it self again and unmounts itself again. this happens 3 to 4 times before it competently unmounts and never mounts until i remove and add the sd card again and the cycle countinues. please can you help me.??
Hey,
So ive been having some problems since i got my T989 in november. About once a month my SD card just seems to fail... like just now, i rebooted the phone (power off then on) and it comes up with "SD card is Damaged" Why is this happening? its getting really frustrating because i like to do all my nandriod backups onto the SD card...
Anyone got any advice? Could the card be faulty? The other times it was basically doing the same thing. Eject the sd card properly, remove it, plug it back in... Failed!... ugghhh.
Sounds like it is just that...sd card is faulty. They are so cheap that I'm not sure why you don't just buy a new one?
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When I turn on my sgs2 this morning, I suddenly get this message:
damaged sd card
you may have to reformat it.
why is that? what caused it?
does anyone know?
because there is nothing wrong last night when I turn it off.
is it possible to fix it without reformatting it ?
I hate losing all those datas.
my sd card is transcend class 10 16gb, I have used it for only 3 months with no problem at all.
I have tried reboot several times, take it out, clean it and insert it again,
but nothing works.
Please help.
My rom: wanamlite v6.7
My kernel: Phenomenal Black v2.1
Try putting it into your computer and see if it opens. Also, windows may offer to fix it (which shouldn't reformat it).
Either way if you can get it to open on a laptop or something even for a bit you should be able to save your data.
Freezer trick (like for fried harddrives) might also work.
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Why did u buy transcend sd card?i am using Kingston 16 gb class 4 card and i think it gives the best performance.Class 10 sd card should perform better than class 4.You may consider sandisk as second option.I am sure u are gonna lose ur data.
Hi Guys,
thanks for all the advices.
when first I connected the sd card to windows, windows could read the directory.
however, if I click on the file, it gave error message: file not found.
then, after did some searching on xda, I found more similar thread like this.
and some told me to run window error checking and chkdsk /r.
the problem is, it seems that every time I run these program, the sd card is getting harder to read.
then, I run them again and again, finally the sd card now can not be read at all.
Too bad, I guess it is time to reformat.
PS. I should do more reading and searching before I run chkdsk:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20697924&postcount=65