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Hi XDA, seriously problem here that I really, really need to fix.
My father left his phone at home for the FIRST time ever today, his HTC Desire HD was one of the first in the UK, he go it the first day it came out. Today he forgot to take his phone to work, so I put it on charge for him and left for school. He came home halfway through the day to find a warning in the notification bar alerting him that the SD Card had been un-mounted. On seeing this he immidiatley blamed me, as any father would do to a son that enjoys messing around with electronics, however after taking a closer look I noticed that the phone will accept any card except the one that was in it when it unmounted itself at some point within the day.
The card that broke, is the origional Samsung 8GB that came with it (on Orange anyway ~ unbranded as first in UK FTW) when the Samsung Card is inserted all the stats about the card show as Unavailable, and the phone doesn't even recognise a card as being inserted, the same happens when the SD Card is plugged into my computer running Ubuntu & Windows. The card is not recognised at all, infact Ubuntu thought I inserted an empty SD Reader, and thats from Ubuntu! My dad has so much saved to that SD Card, like literally 5 months of holidays and things, I know he should have made back-up's, but is there anyway we could get this back. Thanks.
Hey i had a simmaler problem but i fixed it with my 16gb micro sdcard by takeing it out of my phone and pluging it into my lapyop and move all the files off the sdcard and onto the desktop and then move then back and then put it back into the phone and turn it on and see if it worked
If it didnt please responed and tell me the exact message it says
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Hey i had a simmaler problem but i fixed it with my 16gb micro sdcard by takeing it out of my phone and pluging it into my lapyop and move all the files off the sdcard and onto the desktop and then move then back and then put it back into the phone and turn it on and see if it worked
If it didnt please responed and tell me the exact message it says
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Hey Man,
I would do this, but my computer doesn't detect the MicroSD even if its in a SD Reader and plugged into my PC?
I had a similar problem... after i got my DHD, I bought a 16gb card for storage. I used this for about 4 months then I started to get the dismount messages every now and then, particularly when the card was being used a lot (playing music from it especially). Then a few days later it would do it after every boot.
My PC can see the files on the card, but trying to copy them off throws an error. I can't format the card either. I have since bought a new one and that is working fine, so it may have just been a faulty card.
It is HTC's fault, bug in the rom causes that. Your father should get an OTA update any time soon that will prevent it from happening again. You can format the SD using a PC and a card reader, it might just revive the card.
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If you want to retreive data on the SD do not format or delete the partition.
Try to use a "data rcovery" tool first.
But if it's not recognise at all (like a piece of plastic and not as a non formated sd) all data maybe lost.
Usually OS corrupt the SD, it doesn't destroy it. If it's dead it not your fault or the OS fault. It's just no luck (try to explain this to dad ).
And beside I think its an San disc not an samsung, like I have, and try read it with partition manager. If not you can get a new one. And never buy Kingston cards, I had 5 of them and all died in few weeks.
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Kingston makes the best and fastest cards, you have just abused them or something like that..
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I do not think so, all Kingston was a waste of money for me, but my sandisc m2 micro sd are working fine for 6 years with no problem at all.
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Well, both Kingston and SanDisk have worked well for me, and the price is usually almost the same. The difference is that Kingston gives absolutely awesome warranty, and the cards are fast has h*ll. My Class4 Kingston reads 21 megs per second, and writes 12 megs per second.
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I do not think so, all Kingston was a waste of money for me
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IMO the Kingston of England is not the same one in Finland, call me stupid but I lived in both countries and bought many Kingston memory sticks/SD cards from both
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IMO the Kingston of England is not the same one in Finland, call me stupid but I lived in both countries and bought many Kingston memory sticks/SD cards from both
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This could be the reason, may be in Latvia are selling only the cheapest Kingston cards.
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strauts said:
This could be the reason, may be in Latvia are selling only the cheapest Kingston cards.
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Probably
Loads of bootleg Kingston cards in England and I never noticed any kind of warranty on them while it was the most tempting thing on the ones I used to buy from Finland
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It is HTC's fault, bug in the rom causes that. Your father should get an OTA update any time soon that will prevent it from happening again. You can format the SD using a PC and a card reader, it might just revive the card.
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Thanks for the information, i've sent an E-Mail to HTC complaining about it. Hopefully they will see the light, and send a new SD-Card as it was shipped with the phone from HTC.
I keep getting a warning on the top of me screen saying "SD card removed. Please insert new one"
This happen after trying to delete my MIUI content from my SD card through Astro. When I clicked delete it took some time the said "error while deleting " then I got this message.
I pulled the battery, and put it back in. SD card was read fine. As I was navigating through Astro again I got the SD card message again. I tried pulling the battery but nothing.
I've looked around on several site trying to find what's wrong with no luck.
I was trying to free up some new space to swap Rome again. I was on MIUI, then came to HTCclay.
My SD card is a 4gb sandisk(I think) cheap o from Walmart.
Any help would be nice. I don't have a computer with me right now, but my SD card is able to be read in recovery (although when I click on things it says "file not found" but labels are there) and it can be read on a friends phone.
I have since wipes my SD card in hopes of it working, but all that did is make me lose all my pics and music.
Any help and a fast response would be appreciated.
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I just pulled the SD card and reboot the phone with out it. Then put it back in and now I get this "SD card damaged. You may have to reformat it."
But it works fine on friends phone.
Wth is going on?
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Formatting does nothing
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I had this on a cheap 8 gig card that had been modded to look like a 32GB card from Amazon marketplace... got a refund but it was the card at fault. Got another one kicking around to try?
I will in a few hours. My shift is over at 8pm central. That's 2hours away. Ill give feed back when I try.
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No another SD card will not work. They all give me the same message.
Its so odd that I can see all the content in recovery, but it says file not found when I try to open anything. But I can not see any content when I turn my phone on.
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If your phone wont read any sdcards then its your phone. Anychance you got some dirt in there? You could try blowing it out real good or taking your old card cleaning it off real good then slide it in and out a few times. Also i would try doing a factory reset, if that dont work try wiping and flashing new rom. If none of those work then you got a broke phone. There was a website floating around that had all the parts for the vision. However i think that part is attatched to the mainboard..... So you might be better off getting a new phone. Thats worst case though hopefully one of the first things will fix it. Good luck!
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Well that's what I thought, but my phone can read the content in recovery so its got to be the program right?
Well this is where it gets very odd.
I had an old 542mb memory card from an old phone in a small case with some old pics on it and was swapping out my wife's 1gb card to view the pics. But the case broke and I had know safe way of keeping the 1gb card from my wife's phone so I popped it into my phone for the time being.
I played on her phone looking at old pics and what not. Then just so happen to look down at my phone and did not see the "you have a bad SD card" thing. I went to gallery and all her pics where there.
I went and grabbed my 4gb card (the original card that stopped working on me) and put it in my phone ......and nothing.
Had a small hope...lol.
Well my wife wanted to use my 4gb SD card, so we put it into her phone (some super cheap Samsung not even a smart phone). I jokingly said "watch it work in my phone now....lol"
Put it back in my phone and............bam working again.
I'm not sure what happen. If anyone can explain that would be nice. My SD card was put into several smart phones witch they all where able to read and use the card. After it was always put back into my phone with no luck. Now we put it into my wife's phone and it works again.....hmmmm. wish I would have not deleted all my songs,pics,backups,and documents......but oh well got my card back.
Sorry for such a long thread , just trying to put every little thing down.
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because it is happening randomly and the only constant is that the card in question at any given moment works in other devices i would blame your phone. If it works in recovery try a factory reset or flash an older backup to see if that fixes it. Also take a toothbrush with pure alcohol and give the contacts a cleaning. a rubber eraser works too just blow out the dust afterwords.
p.s. Sandisk is not a cheap brand of sd's theya re generally regarded one of the better and more reliable brands if not the best.
Ill clean it even though its working.
If it happens again ill try to swap out the rom, but I did do a factory reset. Was one of the first things I did.
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Its possible that putting the card in your wifes phone cleaned the contacts some. Its also possible that while you phone was able to read the directory of the disk without being able to read the files themselves. I know they are stored seperatly but i dont know if jits a specific contact on the card itself. That might explain why you could see the files in recovery. Im just taking guesses here but hey it makes sense in my mind.
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you said it wasn't working, which is it? lol
Last week, after rebooting my phone, I got a message in the notification tray that said "Damaged SD Card." My SD card was completely non-existent, as far as the phone was concerned. I plugged the phone into my computer and mounted USB storage. The drive showed up, but myy computer told me that the drive needed to be formatted (no data existed). I feared that I had lost all of my data. I decided to go for a hail mary and booted into CWM recovery, mounted the sdcard as USB, and run a "chkdsk /r" on the drive from within windows. It took over 2 hours to complete (32GB card), but all of my data came back! It's been about 5 days, and I haven't noticed any corruption of any kind.
I don't know what caused it initially, but I am sure glad I was able to recover it. I thought I'd post this here in case anyone else ran into the same issue. I know some of this info is posted elsewhere, but most threads involved a data recovery software.
Dave
I've experienced this problem before too after i kinda just tossed my phone up in the air and caught it (I do this when in bored). And I guess the impact with my hand was too much for the SD card slot, because then it said the SD card was damaged. All I did was take the card out, kinda blew on it like a Nintendo cartridge, and reinserted. It worked fine, and still til this day.
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I've experienced this problem before too after i kinda just tossed my phone up in the air and caught it (I do this when in bored). And I guess the impact with my hand was too much for the SD card slot, because then it said the SD card was damaged. All I did was take the card out, kinda blew on it like a Nintendo cartridge, and reinserted. It worked fine, and still til this day.
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I tried removing/reinserting mine and had no luck... But that is definitely something that you should try first!
Dave
honestly I had the same thing happen but I fixed it a lot quicker.
If you ever have that issue again go to your into storage and it should say mount sd. Hit that and let the phone do the rest.
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It can happen from a bad kernel as well. I had my SD card wiped out twice during kernel testing on my OG Epic. If you are a flashaholic, its good to backup that SD on your PC every once in a while just in case stuff happens. Corrupt files and such can cause it too
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This happened after I returned to calk's ROM from that ics build that was floating around before repo went private. I used chkdsk too to recover
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hijewpositive said:
I've experienced this problem before too after i kinda just tossed my phone up in the air and caught it (I do this when in bored). And I guess the impact with my hand was too much for the SD card slot, because then it said the SD card was damaged. All I did was take the card out, kinda blew on it like a Nintendo cartridge, and reinserted. It worked fine, and still til this day.
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+1 for the Nintendo cartridge reference
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Hi guys,
2 days ago my phone suddenly refused to recognize my sd-card. The card is ok, i checked it.
From this point on, I was not and am not able to use usb mass drive, even while being in recovery.
As the phone is rooted, s-off and all that stuff, i can get a replacement on the warranty way..or is it possible to unroot etc. without sd-card access??
Maybe you have some ideas, how i could fix this problem myself?
TY!
the slot is usualy about $15 and easy to replace, search ebay and amazon
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Okay, I ordered one of these on Ebay.
Is it possible to replace the slot without breaking the case? I mean, will the cover still fit together after opening it one time? Just made sum bad experiences with my net book...
opened my phone many times, you could never tell
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Hey,
so today i got the replacement sd-card slot.
Opened the handy, replaced the slot, everything was smooth and you couldn't tell i opened the desire, as u said.
But:
There is still no reaction to any form of sd card...
I know there is small hope for this, but could it be a software / driver error?
I remembered one thing:
I used and use at the moment "Virtuous Sense", based on Android 2.3.3.
Right before the problems started to begin, I used "Quadrasense 1.0" for a week or so.
When i became way slower, I wiped and restored my Virtuous Sense backup...
Maybe..?!
It's a bug in Sense 2.1 ROMs, u have to change the ROM if u want working SD card
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How can I, without sd card?
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Anyways, found the way to do it in the xda-Wiki.
Gonna try out now.
Does, sadly, not seem to work out. Went to ICS, still no sd-card..
wipe and flash with fastboot
if that won't work it could be the connection at the motherboard
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So its probably the motherboard connector... hard stuff.
Will flash my old rom now and try to stick with the internal storage -.-
This has been the second time getting this error on SG3.
The first time I checked if the card was corrupted by putting the sdcard in the netbook, it was recognized and displayed all the folders. Inserted the card again in the SG3 and it wasn't recognized, rebooted into recovery and fixed permisions and cleared cache/dalvik and rebooted. The card was back up and everything was ok.
Again happened today, tried the same thing and nada Now it also says "Sdcard blank or unregonized file system" in notification and it then prompts for format confirmation upon tapping it.
I've googled and oogled and keep finding different solutions, some I cannot try now since I'm at work. One of them suggest to move all files to PC and format the card, I'll give that a shot at home and see. Another was to update the firmware, but on the latest L13... Apparently, this has been ongoing for sometime and there is an open issue in google for this.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=19722
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9736 - Originally opened for LG Ally, but HTC and Samsung users have also reported it on the same issue.
Anyone else encountered this problem in SG3?
Happens to me all the time. Sometimes it will just continue to prepare then unexpectedly removed pops up, then that will cycle and kill my battery. I just got a new SD card hoping that would fix it but it did not.
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alaman68 said:
Happens to me all the time. Sometimes it will just continue to prepare then unexpectedly removed pops up, then that will cycle and kill my battery. I just got a new SD card hoping that would fix it but it did not.
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I'm researching like a mad man! Found a few tools but most are for HDD and not microsd... found the one below that is supposed to detect the card/drive even if it's not mounted or has a drive letter and revover the file system, repair partitions, recover ALL file types, etc but nada
Had a few important fotos, my most recent nanroid, my TB folder, that last one hurt the most.
I didn't back up after the first "fix" cause I thought it was a one time things, never heard of this error before. Lesson learned
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
If your computer can see it and you don't mind losing data do a low level format on the SDcard
Edit: my SDcard started liked yours but got so bad i couldn't use it at all with my phone, I'm fact Windows couldn't even see it i had to use Linux.
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If your computer can see it and you don't mind losing data do a low level format on the SDcard
Edit: my SDcard started liked yours but got so bad i couldn't use it at all with my phone, I'm fact Windows couldn't even see it i had to use Linux.
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Mine is in that state right now, XP won't pick it up, booting up Win7 PC to try it. My Nikin S70 detects it but it says unusable and won't format it either.
Guess my only option is to partition the netbooks HD and install Ubuntu on it, this gave a good excuse to try it out lol
Found this post that gives some pointers and explains the linux part.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4112485&postcount=9
ugggg...... my sd was just totally killed. Windows will not even recognize it now and it reads as a blank SD in the phone. did you figure anything out OP? Mine is 32G sandisk class 10.
this sucks
Same thing happened with me D: did anyone find a solution other than losing all the data on it?
And since I see this thread is fairly new, did everyone else happen to be on the leaked Jelly bean build? It happened to me after the phone rebooted while on the leaked ROM
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alaman68 said:
ugggg...... my sd was just totally killed. Windows will not even recognize it now and it reads as a blank SD in the phone. did you figure anything out OP? Mine is 32G sandisk class 10.
this sucks
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Apart from the info already here, nope... I need to buy an external sd reader that gets a drive letter assigned without the card and try to force mount on win and run chkdsk, it's the only thing missing. Not even Linux picks it up! Not even force mount! This sucks and seems to have been a problem in android for some time now...
I did order a sandisk 32GB Ultra, but would like to fix this one. Might use it for the camera or give it to my better half for their TF700.
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Next time it happens and your pc still happens to pick it up, run a chkdsk on it. Do not format it. It might prevent it from happening again...
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Same thing happened with me D: did anyone find a solution other than losing all the data on it?
And since I see this thread is fairly new, did everyone else happen to be on the leaked Jelly bean build? It happened to me after the phone rebooted while on the leaked ROM
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i was not on the JB leak. Beginning to think this is a hardware problem, so last night i unrooted and am going to the sprint store today.
I did try force mounting, chkdsk and everything else i could find but nothing worked. fortunately i am still able to return the SD card because i have only had it for a week.
My 64gb class 10 just started doing this after i formatted it to fat32. I am wondering if formatting could be our problem.
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My 64gb class 10 just started doing this after i formatted it to fat32. I am wondering if formatting could be our problem.
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Yes and no...It was stated by some members that there was a write-up saying that you shouldn't format your card because this would deduct part of it's useful life.
I never formated my card, it was inserted as soon as I bought the phone and been using it since and never formated it.
I'm going tonight to Wal-Mart and getting a card reader and seeing if that helps in fixing this. In an earlier post I attached a link to an old thread that gives a solution that seems to have helped others.
FYI, just got back from the store and it is definitely failure of the SD card reader. They tested it and my new phone comes tomorrow.
alaman68 said:
FYI, just got back from the store and it is definitely failure of the SD card reader. They tested it and my new phone comes tomorrow.
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Sprint store? How did they determine it?
I used another sdcard that I had, 8GB, and the phone read it ok...
Edit - then does this mean that there might be a factory reset on the card reader in the SG3? :/
all they told me was that they inserted another card and it happened. Mine also fried two cards so far, so it is definitely pretty bad and i was confident it would fail any test they gave it.
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all they told me was that they inserted another card and it happened. Mine also fried two cards so far, so it is definitely pretty bad and i was confident it would fail any test they gave it.
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hm... I'll clear up a 2GB one I have lying around and see how it goes before using the 32GB Ultra.
If it happens again, I'll visit the Sprint Store on Saturday.
Do you have TEP or was it covered under manufacturer warranty?
i do have TEP but it was covered under manufacturer warranty. took over an hour, but worth having the ability to use an SD card again
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i do have TEP but it was covered under manufacturer warranty. took over an hour, but worth having the ability to use an SD card again
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Kool! The way it should be, since it's a factory deffect.
I'll test out and see what goes on...
Thanks on the update.
Hey guys
Been reading this thread, having the same issue.
Actually the only reason I post because I'm troubled of the error other then having an actual problem, this error been spawning up for me for quite a while, though it does seem to work perfectly fine.
You think the SD card could just Die one day ?
I hope you guys could determine if there's a factory defect in the SG3 or the Card, I got the international GT-i9300, I hope i won't have to return it, since the shop it was bought from is located at Poland and I live in israel (let's say that handling via warranty is not an option).
Need to check perhaps with samsung if they know of any factory defects regarding microSD card readers, My SDcard brand is Sandisk 32GB ultra class 6.
I fixed mine by completely removing the battery and putting in sd card then boot up. Sounds dumb but it worked.
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