Won't see media from SD card - Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Sometime yesterday my epic stopped seeing the media on my sd card. The data is on the card, but my phone just won't read it. Any ideas?
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mbradford84 said:
Sometime yesterday my epic stopped seeing the media on my sd card. The data is on the card, but my phone just won't read it. Any ideas?
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Did you try popping it in and out? Happened to me once.

Sure did. I did it several times with no luck.

I have always been suspicious of the shutdown + battery pull technique (leaving it out for at least a solid minute) and yet oddly, it seems to work for things like this sometimes. It certainly can't hurt. And if you see the media scanning process begin on start up, you may be good. Maybe try that?

You mayb have to reformat your SD card. Backup your sd to a computer. Go to settings/sd card and phone settings/unmount sd than reformat. Than restore your backup. Reformatting usually fixes SD card issues.
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Before you reformat, make sure you don't have a file with a name that has a "period" at the beginning like ".nomedia" at the root of your sd card. Folders are fine, but a .nomedia file stops that section from being scanned, so if its placed on the root of the sd, nothing gets scanned
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[Q] Messed up sd card?

So i was preparing to transfer a rom from my pc to my sd card. I mounted my sd card to the pc like normal. For some unknown reason, I pulled the usb cable out of my phone without unmounting first. I then closed everything out and remounted my sd card to the pc. When I attempted to copy over the rom zip, it was just extremely slow, like 1+ hrs to go slow. I cancelled the operation with some difficulty. When I again remounted my sd card, the pc wanted to run a check and fix on it. Reluctantly, I did it and it finished without finding any errors on the sd card file system. So I tried again with the same results. I can, however, transfer files from the sd card to the pc with no issues. What the heck? Any help would be appreciated.
Copy your SD card to your computer to back it up, and format the SD card FAT32, then copy the contents back to the card.
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That's what I figured. Just wanted to check for options before I did that. Do I need to remove the sd card from the phone, or can I just do it through the mount? It's one thing I haven't had to do before.
If you have a USB card reader that'd be ideal, but if not you can do it when mounted via USB.
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Backup and format complete.
Currently restoring my sd card files. Going VERY slow, just like when I was trying to copy a zip file over originally. Transfer speed started at 1.5 mb/s and has steadily dropped dowm to 176 kb/s (not a mis-type). Now is working it's way back up. Any idea why it would do this? Never had this issue before. Frustrating.
No idea. Maybe try another SD card if you can, maybe try it on another computer to see if that makes a difference...? Are you using the HTC Incredible USB cable or aftermarket?
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It's the htc cable. The transfer rate did go back up to 1.5mb/s eventually. What is odd is that it transfered just fine from the sd card to the pc. Seems like it's working though. Around 2hrs or so for 6.45 gig from pc to sd card. Sound reasonable?
To be honest: I'm not sure if that's good or bad, I'd have to give it a try and let you know.
Yeh, I've always claimed to be only partially retarded. :-D Never actually thought about that option. All is good now. Things seem to be working as planned. Thanks for all the input.
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While its transferring slowly, click the "details" arrow in the transfer window so that you can see what exactly is happening. Transferring a ton of tiny files (i.e. cache) slow the transfer rate down considerably.
This happened to me when Zedge had a cache leak... It transferred slowly when it got to the app's cache folder, the eta climbed up to like a hour for 2 gigs! WTF! After looking at the details i fount that there were thousands of tiny files in Zedge's cache folder that just bogged down everything as the computer recognized each and every one of them. I deleted the folder completely and all was well again.
2+ hours is a long time for 6 gigs via a USB 2.0 wire, it should be like 10-15 minutes.

Phone restarting...

About two weeks ago my SDcard kept coming up as damaged/corrupted in my e4gt and in my evo 4g so I figured I was sol and formatted it. Now there's nothing saved to it except the normal stuff that's saved when formatted via android. But now I was trying to move a large file to the SD card both rom toolbox and root browser freeze after about 300ish MB and my phone restarts. I tried just straight moving the file, copying it and zipping it and no matter what it locks up and restarts. I tried just redownloading the file onto the SD card directly with the same end result it locks up and restarts. Anyone know what could be causing this?
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Maybe you SD card is damaged or corrupted still? If it is trying to write to a corrupted sector that would explain the crashes, and a mere format isn't going to fix corrupted sectors.
As to how to fix our even test for corrupted sectors on a ssd I am at a loss.
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Have you tried checking it on your computer with Scandisk? Might find something, though I had a card that was giving me random problems (disappearing apps, phone saying card was damaged) even after Scandisk said it was okay, no problems after using a new card.
Be careful about ever letting Scandisk RESTORE damaged files because you will likely end up with a bunch of useless CHK files (been there...).

SD card keep get in corrupted

My keep getting corrupted
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don728871 said:
My keep getting corrupted
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me too. I would like to know how to recover data from it if anyone knows.
I've had this issue ever since upgrading to ICS. It will say sd unexpectedly removed, or corrupted sd card a few times per day. Tried a new sd card, and got a replacement phone from T-Mobile..still does it on every Rom I use. Quite annoying. But, I have found that taking out my battery and holding the power button for a few seconds to drain all the juice out seems to bring it back.
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It means that the sd card is formatted to something that its not supported by the phone. I had this problem before, save all the data on your computer, make a folder and name it sd backup. then on the phone do a factory format only on the sdcard. or you can do it on recovery, it will format the sdcard too. then move all your stuff back from the computer and you're good to go
Dude I tried NTFS ext4 and fat32
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Have you tried to use the sd card on another phone? or on your computer
gypsy214 said:
Have you tried to use the sd card on another phone? or on your computer
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I like an app that
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I have this same issue and I run the stock rom. Has happened on 2 different cards now, with the last one making the card appear unformatted. I have to use data recovery software now to get all my stuff back. I'm thinking about getting my phone replaced as it's a couple weeks from 1 year old.
turbodroid said:
I have this same issue and I run the stock rom. Has happened on 2 different cards now, with the last one making the card appear unformatted. I have to use data recovery software now to get all my stuff back. I'm thinking about getting my phone replaced as it's a couple weeks from 1 year old.
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it happened to me again while i was restoring apps after loading a different rom. this time, i put it in a card reader and ran chkdsk /r on it, and all my files reappeared. so i back it up this time. i am not sure why it happens so much.
i had this with one of my sdcard not long ago. i copied all the data from the sdcard to my computer and formatted the sdcard using another phone and put the data back on it and never had an issue since. i probably could have used the s2 to format while i was troubleshooting but it got fixed before i could try.
don728871 said:
My keep getting corrupted
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This happened to mine too. Well sorta, I can see my files, but I can't add or delete stuff off of it when connected to the computer. idk what else to do, maybe buy a new sd card.
hitech456 said:
This happened to mine too. Well sorta, I can see my files, but I can't add or delete stuff off of it when connected to the computer. idk what else to do, maybe buy a new sd card.
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If you can save all your files to computer then let the computer format sd card to default fat32 not ntfs. Then move files back to sd card and it should fix the problem. I have done this method several times and it worked for me.

[Resolved] Rom not reading SD Card

I'm running Task AOKP, and it was reading the SD Card fine. I took it out and used a micro sd card adapter to upload some music onto it (didn't have cord on me) and when I plugged it back in it would say "Preparing SD Card" but my photos or music won't show up. I tried rebooting and mounting and unmounting but nothing worked. Any solutions? Searched for this but didn't find a fix other than "Try a different rom"
If you didn't "safely remove" the card from the computer it may have become corrupted. Are you able to see the contents if you put the card back into the computer?
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Greycloak42 said:
If you didn't "safely remove" the card from the computer it may have become corrupted. Are you able to see the contents if you put the card back into the computer?
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Turns out wouldn't read anything for the first 7-10 minutes of it being in the phone. After that the stuff showed up. I don't know why it takes so long all of the sudden.

[Q] extSdCard gone! Please help!

My external sd cart (named extSdCard) on my sgs3 747 Lh9 dissapeared after backing up with rom manager and then pushing a file over from my computer to my phone. I tried putting it in another android phone and it called it a blank sd card and it wouldn't even open! Please help me figure out how to fix this, I have alot of important stuff on my external sd.
Seems like it got corrupted. You can try out some of the file recovery apps from the market but I've never used any so I can't vouch for them.
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d3athsd00r said:
Seems like it got corrupted. You can try out some of the file recovery apps from the market but I've never used any so I can't vouch for them.
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ok, which ones do i choose from?
d3athsd00r said:
I've never used any so I can't vouch for them.
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Yeah
Tyler.Boston1 said:
My external sd cart (named extSdCard) on my sgs3 747 Lh9 dissapeared after backing up with rom manager and then pushing a file over from my computer to my phone. I tried putting it in another android phone and it called it a blank sd card and it wouldn't even open! Please help me figure out how to fix this, I have alot of important stuff on my external sd.
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Don't format your sd card yet. This happened to me several times. It's the phone itself. The card doesn’t stay locked properly. You'll notice faster battery drain for a few days if it's like anything that happened to me. Back up your sd card if possible. Reinsert the card while the phone is off. I push the metal guard in a little so it stays in. Turn it back on. It should work. You can follow what I did at your own risk.
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Similar thing happened to me a few days ago. Notification bar said that the card was damaged. I simply put it into my PC card reader and ran Mini Tool Partition wizard (Google the free download) and I did a scan and fix and I did lose some files from a recent folder transfer (which is what I think caused the problem) but the card file system was quickly repaired and no reformatting was necessary. In other words, the card did not have physical damage.

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