Hey, I've had my Evo for a couple weeks now, and have recently started experiencing an issue that has been since happened quite frequently - the SD card will randomly appear empty, and I won't be able to add files to it. The only way to get around this, it seems, is to reboot the phone.
At first I thought my MicroSD card that came with the phone was defective, so I got Best Buy to exchange it today, but it just started happening again! My phone is rooted and running the latest RvU ROM, if that could have anything to do with it. Does anyone have any help, or is this just a hardware problem? (If it is, I'll just exchanged the phone at Best Buy, since I'm within my 30 days.)
Thanks!
vonStemmington said:
Hey, I've had my Evo for a couple weeks now, and have recently started experiencing an issue that has been since happened quite frequently - the SD card will randomly appear empty, and I won't be able to add files to it. The only way to get around this, it seems, is to reboot the phone.
At first I thought my MicroSD card that came with the phone was defective, so I got Best Buy to exchange it today, but it just started happening again! My phone is rooted and running the latest RvU ROM, if that could have anything to do with it. Does anyone have any help, or is this just a hardware problem? (If it is, I'll just exchanged the phone at Best Buy, since I'm within my 30 days.)
Thanks!
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Same thing for me. I tried Baked Snack and now Fresh 0.5.3, both have the same issue. Rebooting seems to work for a short time, but it always fails when I'm using programs that access the SD a lot such as the Gallery app or the Camera. As long as I stay clear of those it seems to hold up a bit longer, but I've had it fail while using Astro File Manager too.
When I was running The latest stock OTA I had no issues. I posted a similar question in the threads for both ROM's with no response yet. Because of that, I was beginning to think I had a bad card too.
I don't want to go back to stock. I just can't understand why this keeps happening.
Glad to know I'm not the only one.. I just wish there was some resolution to this.
I contacted HTC and they said it wasn't a known issue with the phone, so they said I should go to Best Buy and exchange it. So maybe our SD slots are just defective?
I have this problem too. It empties every day it seems and I need to reformat the SD card just to get it working again. It erases all my pictures and video and is very frustrating.
It seems to happen most often when I am taking a picture or going into Gallery, but has happened in other instances as well.
I hope HTC releases a solution that addresses this.
Also, it tells me in the notification bar that the SD card is damaged or unsupported file type or something along those lines.
And for the record, I am running a stock Evo.
i welcome u guys to my world.i been having the problem since day one tried everything and nothing worked.fully rooted,new radio,tried few roms,formated SD card,put in a new SD card and still that random SD failure.i reboot about 3-4 times a day and its really irritating.im afraid i might brake my evo one day or jus claim for a new one.
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im afraid i might brake my evo one day.
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This is how I feel
I'm tempted now to go back to stock and verify, but I never had a single issue on my phone until it was rooted. However, it's possible that the problem was there and I didn't encounter it.
If I take that step and find that it is still an issue on the stock OTA, I will most likely try to get the card replaced or have the phone if it persists after a new card.
It's very inconvenient and makes the camera pretty unreliable. Plus I am a field tech, and I store .pdf's on the card for different devices. If the SD is frakked I can't be sure I can get to important paperwork in the field.
It's not the SD card.I have already reformated the SD and even put a new 16gb SD card but same issue everyday.
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It's definitely not the SD card. I've formatted it, gone to Best Buy and had the SD card replaced, and used a different SD card.
It could be the ROMs we're using, but I've got a serious problem with this phone if using a rooted ROM does this.. And few other people are experiencing the problem. That leads me to believe it's a hardware defect.
My suggestion jus get your phone exchanged ASAP.
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Yeah.. I've contacted Best Buy and they'll let me know when they get their next order in
Unfortunately I am am outside my 30 day exchange period so I cannot do that.
Well, I hate to break it to you guys, but custom ROMs is not the issue. I am stock and have had my phone since launch morning (June 4) and today, for the first time, my SD card contents disappeared. I was changing wallpaper when the default wallpaper kept coming up as the wallpaper. Note that the when selecting a wallpaper, the gallery showed all my images (cached?) but when I went to Gallery, nothing was there. I pulled the battery to reboot and now the SD card contents are back.
I had the same thing happen with me. I've also experienced other strange things related to the card. When hooking the phone up to my macbook, sometimes files copy and sometimes they don't (to the card). I was thinking it was an app corrupting the card. I've tried large files (100-200mb) and small files (like apks or old video game console roms). It seems that when data is going to the card very aggressively, it doesn't wasn't to copy. What I mean by aggressive is like 2+ dialog boxes of files being copied at the same time.
More often than not, it seems like lots of small files pisses the phone off and it parts me back by bowling the card. Lots of files means hundreds to thousands.
I saw this thread awhile ago but didn't look at it until today. At least I'm not going crazy or even maybe have a bad card. The cards never gave me any problems with the devices its been in for maybe the last 3 years until last week.
I gotta find another card to try. I am using sandisk 16gb. Maybe a different brand? Anyone try that yet?
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I'm doing a test now. I removed the suspect 16gb card from the phone and put in a 8gb card that has never been in the evo ever. I put the 16 in a sd adapter which goes into a usb adapter. All are official sandisk. I formatted the 16 in my macbook as fat32. I am now copying 8557 files to the card which size total is about 6.97gb. After a few minutes, I'm down to 6291 files to go and almost half way finished copying. I have not received one error message or anything that might lead me to believe there is something wrong somewhere. I'm starting to think there's nothing wrong with the card(s). It's the gd phone! I am so pissed now!!!! I keep looking back at the progress window and it's chugging along no problem. I am thinking about something tho. When I was changing cards I noticed that even when the card's lock bar was down, the card could wiggle a little. HMM. I'm gonna get a piece of thick paper and put it on top of the card and see if that helps make the card not want to wiggle as much when the lock bar is in place.
I will report back if I find out if it works or not in like 24 hours or less.
I don't think it makes any difference what rom you are running but I went to the one stock rooted "EVO_1.47.651.1_Rooted_stockrom.zip" one calkulin posted.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=712695
That link is just in case someone stumbles across this post later and wonders what I'm talking about.
So far, so good. I will give progress reports when I'm at work when I'm able to. I hope I may have stumbled across a simple fix to a defect.
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I had the issue you guys are talking abou this is what I did to resolve my issue.
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Just got a new SDHC card and simpleroot worked. The SDHC that came with my phone died. I placed a spare in there that was a 2gd regular micro and Hboot would not read the IMG for nothing.
If simple root is not working then it's the Sh!tty card acting up.
Happy ending for me.
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It's definitely not the SD card. I've formatted it, gone to Best Buy and had the SD card replaced, and used a different SD card.
It could be the ROMs we're using, but I've got a serious problem with this phone if using a rooted ROM does this.. And few other people are experiencing the problem. That leads me to believe it's a hardware defect.
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For those who post before reading the thread, I am STOCK and this also happened to me. Battery out/in fixed the issue (for now).
So far I'm going on around 16 hours without the card screwing up. If you wanna try this, get a business card. Pull the card out of the phone. Lay the card on the business card at a corner. Measure about twice as long and normal width. Cut the business card. Fold the piece in half length wise so its the same size as the sd card. If it's too big, snip the non folded end of the paper and measure it so that its the same size as the sd card. Put the card into the phone and make sure its ask the way in. don't force it to hard. Then hold the card down and slide the paper, folded end first, on top of the sd and into the card bay. Make sure the paper isn't sticking out of the card well where the battery would be on top of. Gently push and lock the lock bar down onto the card. If you have to push firmly then the paper is too thick. Place the battery in the phone and put the cover back on. That extra bit of thickness added to the card I think is keeping it from scooting around in the sd card well and judging by the size of the contacts on the card, it wouldn't take much movement to get off the contacts. The folded end under the lock bar and the other end being held down by the battery I think is doing the trick. Just power down before removing the battery next time.
So far, this is working for me and I'm keeping my fingers crossed...
Just another update and bump off the topic...
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I agree the ROM probably isn't the problem, but definitely come back and let us know if the paper helped at all. It could just be that the SD card is loose.. It seems like sometimes if my SD card stops being read, but I leave the phone alone, it'll work again later, without rebooting, which is odd.
I am trying to figure out whether it is my SD card or phone at fault.
The issue I am experiencing is that my desire sits at the carrier (O2) screen after about 5 days of use. I format the SD and install a new ROM and it works, again for 5-6 days then just gets stuck at the boot screen. I'm fairly sure it has to be the SD card but don't really want to buy a new one if that isn't the case. Has anyone else experienced this issue and was it resolved by getting a new SD card?
Its kinda hard to figure it out since the only information you provided is your carrier... and that you tried other unnamed rom
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Could it be a case of overheating which has affected many desires? Next time it hangs chill it down properly in front of an AC. Then restart.
My phone used to do quite the same thing. Sometimes it would just freeze and the only option was to pull the battery, or if it shut down because of empty battery though it would show about 17% actually, it would be stuck at the splash screen. I quickly figured out that sd-ext would get corrupt, and the only fix would be to format it.
When I finally got some time, I bought a new card and that seemed to have fixed it, but I cannot guarantee, since I was so excited about having bigger and faster storage that I flashed both a new ROM and recovery that week. Anyway, I haven't had any other issue since.
So I'd say try a new recovery and ROM after fully formatting your SD card (i.e. erase both /sdcard and /sd-ext and create new partitions) and if that doesn't cut it, you should think of getting a new micro sd.
Good luck!
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yeah, sdcard can be worn. I had a few cards that worn out by using it with Data2ext, because than there were many I/Os operations and it finally killed one card so I couldnt even modify the boot record.
So for the last week I've been trying to flash different roms to see if it's the phone itself or just the current ROM I'm using. But I've come to the conclusion that it is the phone itself. It had already started to split down the middle a few weeks ago and so I put a cellairis case on it but that has made it almost impossible for me to take the battery out without destroying this thing. What is happening is that I wipe everything (Of course!) using smelkus, most times 2-3 wipes before flashing, I flash the rom and gapps if need be and then reboot. Well everything works good for about an hour, some times even a whole day and then everything starts to go buggy. My touch screen becomes non responsive, my soft keys don't work..nothing. I hold the power button to bring me back to the lock screen and unlock the phone again and it's working for a few minutes and then the same thing happens. My keyboard pops up when it wants to, i cant swipe through home screens without a massive stutter, nothing is functional. I've had it since Aug 2010 and i've taken great care of it but I know nothing lasts forever these days. Has anyone else ever experienced this and was there anything you were able to do to fix it? I guess I will have to break this case off of here and try to start with my battery but if that doesn't work does anyone have any suggestions? I know this has probably been brought up before but im at work and dont have time to browse through the millions of threads. Any help is appreciated!
I've had a similar issue (random craziness) when I partitioned my sd card and forgot to set swap to zero. Most of the roms I've been flashing recently have recommended a partitioned card so if yours isn't that could be it too. Hope you figure it out. Btw I see your from gville..I know your ready for the big dance this weekend...Go Noles..Lol.
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I've had a similar issue (random craziness) when I partitioned my sd card and forgot to set swap to zero. Most of the roms I've been flashing recently have recommended a partitioned card so if yours isn't that could be it too. Hope you figure it out. Btw I see your from gville..I know your ready for the big dance this weekend...Go Noles..Lol.
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Now that you mention it i think that might be what it is! I will have to go back and give that a try. Thanks for that man! And yea definitely ready to put a hurting on the Noles as usual! LOL
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I've had a similar issue (random craziness) when I partitioned my sd card and forgot to set swap to zero. Most of the roms I've been flashing recently have recommended a partitioned card so if yours isn't that could be it too. Hope you figure it out. Btw I see your from gville..I know your ready for the big dance this weekend...Go Noles..Lol.
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So i got around to finally trying that and it still is acting up. I've tried multiple roms and they all do the same thing after about the first hour or so. Could it be my sd card?
What size sd card do you have? My phone started acting up after I put a 32gb card into it. Later I found out that sometimes OG EVOs have even issues with those.
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What size sd card do you have? My phone started acting up after I put a 32gb card into it. Later I found out that sometimes OG EVOs have even issues with those.
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I have a 16gb, i tried the 32 before as well and my Evo fried it almost immediately.
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I have a 16gb, i tried the 32 before as well and my Evo fried it almost immediately.
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Really? So, ummmmm....new phone for Black Friday? Sounds like your phone needs to be serviced, and good luck with that.
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This is a long story, so bear with me here. I've looked everywhere on the Internet, and cannot find anybody with the problem I've had. So... about 3 month's ago, my Verizon Xperia Play started acting strange. About 3 weeks after I installed a 32gb Micro SD card on it, I noticed some problems. My phone would randomly turn the screen on and off. The power button would not work SOMETIMES. And, the phone would randomly restart itself from time to time. Needless to say, I was getting frustrated, so I wiped all the memory from my 32gb SD card, and tried to mount it again. My phone told me that the SD card could not be mounted, and was corrupt... So, I put the 8gb SD card that the phone came with back in the phone, and the problems didn't happen anymore. I decided to buy another 32gb SD card, thinking that the first one was defective. I've had this new 32gb SD card for about 2 months now, and the original problems are STARTING to come back. I don't understand... I play A LOT of games on my Xperia Play, and have a lot of music, so I really enjoying having the extra space on my phone. I can't take the phone to Verizon, as I'm through Page Plus (saving money, ha) right now. Has anyone else had a problem remotely like mine...? Any suggestions to what I could do to possibly fix this problem...?
James_Evan_Bond said:
This is a long story, so bear with me here. I've looked everywhere on the Internet, and cannot find anybody with the problem I've had. So... about 3 month's ago, my Verizon Xperia Play started acting strange. About 3 weeks after I installed a 32gb Micro SD card on it, I noticed some problems. My phone would randomly turn the screen on and off. The power button would not work SOMETIMES. And, the phone would randomly restart itself from time to time. Needless to say, I was getting frustrated, so I wiped all the memory from my 32gb SD card, and tried to mount it again. My phone told me that the SD card could not be mounted, and was corrupt... So, I put the 8gb SD card that the phone came with back in the phone, and the problems didn't happen anymore. I decided to buy another 32gb SD card, thinking that the first one was defective. I've had this new 32gb SD card for about 2 months now, and the original problems are STARTING to come back. I don't understand... I play A LOT of games on my Xperia Play, and have a lot of music, so I really enjoying having the extra space on my phone. I can't take the phone to Verizon, as I'm through Page Plus (saving money, ha) right now. Has anyone else had a problem remotely like mine...? Any suggestions to what I could do to possibly fix this problem...?
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Try going back to 2.3.3 if you're not already on it. 2.3.4 is a piece of crap and forced closed almost everything on me.
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Try going back to 2.3.3 if you're not already on it. 2.3.4 is a piece of crap and forced closed almost everything on me.
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Actually, I'm already on 2.3.3. I heard that 2.3.4 was crap, so I just didn't update (nor can I now that I'm with Page Plus). So I'm at a loss. :/
James_Evan_Bond said:
Actually, I'm already on 2.3.3. I heard that 2.3.4 was crap, so I just didn't update (nor can I now that I'm with Page Plus). So I'm at a loss. :/
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2.3.3 isn't much better than 2.3.4 but it's still the best choice.
If you have the 800X try flashing Cola I rarely ever get a forced closed app, and when I do it's usually after texting somebody due to me not ever deleting old messages and picture messages.
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2.3.3 isn't much better than 2.3.4 but it's still the best choice.
If you have the 800X try flashing Cola I rarely ever get a forced closed app, and when I do it's usually after texting somebody due to me not ever deleting old messages and picture messages.
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My phone actually isn't rooted (nor would I know how to). I just don't understand why even on the stock ROM that is installed, that these problems would be happening... I guess I could try rooting. I just don't want to screw up my phone in the process of actually rooting it...
ok guys im sick of this.
My Desire HD is killing all of my SDCards till now.
every once in a time (like 2 months, 3 months)
my DHD just kills the sdcard that is inserted..
I try to plug the SD to other devices but it shows it doesnt work and it is demaged..
So everytime i go and buy a new SDCard and everything is working fine for 2 3 months.
2 days ago my DHD killed another SDCard and im preety much sick of this.. i forget to backup like a moron and it freaks me out.
I will go and buy a new SDCard, but I just wanted to know how to fix it. how to prevent my DHD kill another SD Card..
Formatting really doesn't matter, its something with the system..
I have wondered if there any thing i can do? for example buy a new SDCARD reader suitable for my dhd and replace it with the one i have now or something?
is there anything like that or something?
My DHD killed like 4 SDCards till now..
Thanks.
Well what brand SD cards are you using?
Also do you have any apps that constantly write to SD? Reason being is that flash memory has a limited amount of reads and writes. If you have some random app that is using your SD as its sandbox then that would explain it.
As for the brand, better brands tend to make cards that last longer.
Finally by formatting, I assume your referring to formatting the card after it dies, to see if it will still work. If not try that.
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