So I finally decided to ditch my stock 8GB SD card for my phone and buy a 32GB and all was well when I got and copied everything over to it except for the music since it was taking way too long. Everything was running perfectly.
I decided to take the card out of my phone and use a card reader to plug it directly into the computer. The transfer time was greatly decreased to I did it that way. But when I went to put it in my phone, it said that the card was blank or file system unsupported. I put it back in my computer and it could still read it so I decided to format it using the computer which cleared everything off fine.
I then put it back in my phone and it said the same thing, so I decided to format it again using the phone which it said it erased everything, but it could sill not read it. I went to put it back in the computer and the computer told me it could not read it and that I should format it again, so I tried to, but now the computer can't even format it.
Any ideas on what to do or am I in need of another card?
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I just fully rooted my phone to the OTA 1.32.651.6 last night and everything was working fine. I completed a nandroid backup, updated the radio, and followed everything to a T. I haven't had any issues with my sd card until a few minutes ago when I shut my phone off and turned it back on. Now I am getting a blank SD card error and it is telling me I have to format the card. I don't understand why it was working after I rooted and now all of a sudden it is not. I even did another nandroid backup earlier today. Any help on fixing this would be appreicated.
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I just got home and tried another 8gb sd card and my phone reads it just fine, so it's not the phone. Looks like somehow my SD card got corrupted during the restart. I tried putting my original card in a reader on my computer but in both mac os and windows, it is telling me I need to format the card in order to read it. Is there any other ways you can think of to get my data off of it? Also, since I am in root, is there any files you think I should put back on my memory card if my original one can't be saved?
Can anybody help?
Mine is doing the same thing. A few days after putting the latest Fresh on my phone it suddenly told me that my sd card dismounted and now needs to be formated. Trouble is the phone won't format it and it won't let me do it from my computer. I'm trying to find out what's going on but I don't know that there's anyway to salvage the data. My phone did this once before and I couldn't save anything which sucked, but it still formated the sd card. I'll report back if I find anything.
I picked up my phone looking to download a new ROM to it but then found that my ES File Explorer (given root permissions) was not able to view my external SD card via the mnt folder. At the same time, I was trying to back up my apps and such via Titanium Backup but it said that it couldn't backup anything because my card was full (it's default save location is my external card). It just said "Empty". I went to check my Settings to see if my card was somehow unmounted, but nope, it said it was still there. Even said that I had 11.27 GBs left out of 29 GB or whatever and gave me the usual options to Unmount and such. I pulled off my battery cover and the card was still there, so I assumed that the Android system might just need to sit for a while and cool off while off. Then I turned it back on to find that ES was still not able to view the contents of externalSDcard. So I went to my Root Browser and it too said that no files were there. I then went into my Settings and now it just says "Insert SD card".
I've had this happen before on other Android phones so I did what I normally do and hook it to my PC and reformat it. Windows found the device when I attached it via a SD card reader (the big fat kind like in your standard camera), it didn't want to format it. Windows brought up the prompt and said that it only could format 1GB so I knew Windows wouldn't be able to recognize it. I even tried formatting it via Command Prompt and typing "Format G:" and it too said there was only 1024MB to be formatted then went through trying to format and then said it failed.
I then tried pulling up Ubuntu's Disk Utility to format it. At first, Ubuntu wouldn't even correctly identify the device! Then I got the Disk Utility to recognize it and it couldn't even recognize how many GB/MB were originally on the card! Trying to format just brought up a message telling me that it couldn't do anything.
I had this happen a few times with my HTC Evo 4G OG but was able to format the card and put it back into my phone and have it work. Of course, the last time with my old 16GB card ended with it being destroyed much like this.
Please tell me that I can do something to fix this. Anything?!?!
This card is a 32GB Class 10 Patriot. This has happened before in my old HTC Evo 4G OG with a 16GB Class 4 SanDisk card. That card became unusable after a few times of this happening except I was able to fix it those times using the methods I tried above and allowing my phone to recognize the card again.
I have a 32gb sd card that i have had in the phone since i got it (in july), been working fine. all the sudden while i was on twitter a notification popped up saying the card had been removed. so i took the back off, removed it and put it back in, it wouldnt read the card. took it back out, turned the phone off, turned it back on and when it was back on i reinserted the card, it said card inserted, then never mounted it.
i took the card out and put it into a card reader on my computer and it worked great.
any ideas on what else i can try?
stock rom, rooted. if that helps.
anyone?
If it isn't detecting on your phone, try plugging it via usb->microsd adapter or sd. If windows doesn't detect then the card is probably dead.
Pull everything you want to keep off the card, reformat with yourcomputer, put it back in your phone. Should detect it then. Same thing happened to me on cwm6.0.1.4 touch.
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What does it say in Settings -> Storage?
I had similar experience recently with 64gb card after attempting format it to FAT32 on computer. I wrecked the card and it become totally useless, but the symptoms where similar, except it would show me "empty card" message and attempts format it on phone would "succeed" yet would not mount, keep showing "empty card"...
If you have another card, you could test with it, if it works, then perhaps format on computer could fix it.
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If it isn't detecting on your phone, try plugging it via usb->microsd adapter or sd. If windows doesn't detect then the card is probably dead.
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I wish people would read complete post before replying...
i dont have another card to test.
the card works great on my computer, just not in phone.
when its in the phone it just keeps popping up n the notifications saying "SD card is safe to remove" 5 min after i get rid of the notification, it comes back.
i got a message on my phone asking me if i want to reformat it (i had already copied everything from it to my comp for a back up) so i did that, but it didnt work.
I will try reformatting on my computer.
Try a factory reset and reformat the SD to FAT32 or just use the phone to do it.
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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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Hey guys and girls!
This morning my phone turned off by itself (13% battery left) and needed somewhat longer than usual to reboot (in the meantime I plugged it back in to the charger). First thing I noticed was that my whole theme got reset as well as it started showing me introductional tips ("long press here to move your apps to the homescreen, ecc.). It also started to update apps in the Play Store even though I set it to manual ... so basically a LOT of things were reset.
The biggest problem I'm having now is though that all my files (pictures, videos, music) that are stored on an external micro SD card are corrupt. It's not possible anymore to open anything. I already removed the micro SD card and put it into an adapter to have a look at the files via the laptop. But nothing, even though the sizes of the files seem OK, I can't open them.
Does anyone have a clue as to what exactly happened here? Are those files lost (at least of some I have a backup) or is there anything I can do to "repair" them? Help is really appreciated, thanks!
PS: Things like the card unmounting and re-mounting never occurred. So I can't tell if the card was dying or if actually the phone ruined my files.
Did you happen to be using a SanDisk SD Card? I've had my 10 brick 2 of those until I switched to Samsung SD Cards about a year ago and haven't had issues since.
I never could manage to recover files from the damaged SD cards.
I have a Samsung SD card and had something similar.
I guess I was on Viper Rom and basically my phone restarted around 15-20% of battery. After a long wait for booting back again, all my settings were gone.
Files and others in the SD card was okay but basically until I formatted the card, I wasn't able to boot into the Download Mode to install a new rom...
I fixed the restart issue by installing the official HTC Rom.
Thanks for your replies.
It is indeed a SanDisk 16GB card. It seems though that the card is still working (no problems accessing it via phone or laptop), just the files appear to be broken. In the meantime I also tried apps like PC Inspector File Recovery, but to no success
I'm still on stock HTC Sense by the way, no root, nothing.
Anyone know though why that happened (resetting everything, etc.)?
Hit me with a PM I'll give you a SanDisk restore tool which works quite ok. there is a huge chance some files can be recovered, some will be damaged though. Don't push any new files on the card after you tried to restore the files
HTC 10-Corrupted microSD card
I know this is an older thread, but I was wondering if there is a solution. I have an HTC 10 which has an micro SD card in it, that is "married" to the phone. When connected to a computer, the computer recognizes the phone, and the microSD card, and begins to load the folders/files. Eventually this process stalls, and the phone/drive is no longer readable by the computer. To get the computer to recognize the phone/card again, I need to restart the phone, but the same thing happens again.
I have like 20gigs of data on the card, and cannot just put the card in a reader, because it's encrypted to the phone. Any possible solutions? It's frustrating to see the files/pictures for a minute or two, and then have them disappear. I have tried copying/pasting the files while they're visible, but this often triggers the computer to no longer recognize the phone/memory card. I've tried to un-encrypt the microSD card, but the phone can't recognize/access the microSD card long enough to complete that process.
Please help if you can.
Glenn