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Completely recovered from a "Damaged SD Card"

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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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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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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[Q] Phone keeps rebooting

Ok. This is the weirdest thing ever. My mom phone was stock. She didn't really do much. All of a sudden her phone started rebooting. It just reboots out the blue. She doesn't have any unusual apps either.
A factory reset didn't do anything, so Sprint is going to give her a replacement. It'll be here Friday. So in the mean time I decided to root it to see if that would fix the problem, but it didn't. It's still rebooting.
What could be causing that problem? I rooted, and put on Blazer 4.1 GB ROM. I'm about to try an ICS ROM to see if that would help. What's strange is that even after changing the ROM, the problem persisted. I'm guessing it's hardware related?

Its just the phone . That happened to my sisters e4gt. Started rebooting. All stock. Took it into sprint. And they gave her a replacement. Now it doesnt happen.
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Update: So I flashed an ICS ROM and it's not rebooting. I think I found the culprit. My mom's SD card that came with the phone wasn't reading on my computer. So I was using another one I had. I forgot to switch them out when the phone booted, but now the phone seems to be ok.
I put the SD card in my phone and my phone wouldn't read the SD card and also it went into Kernel Panic Upload Mode. So I'm guessing there's a problem with the SD card. Glad I found that out. LoL!!

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Update: So I flashed an ICS ROM and it's not rebooting. I think I found the culprit. My mom's SD card that came with the phone wasn't reading on my computer. So I was using another one I had. I forgot to switch them out when the phone booted, but now the phone seems to be ok.
I put the SD card in my phone and my phone wouldn't read the SD card and also it went into Kernel Panic Upload Mode. So I'm guessing there's a problem with the SD card. Glad I found that out. LoL!!
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The epic touch don't come with an SD card if she bought it brand new and sealed!! Then it don't come with an SD card. What's the make and model of this culprit?
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This is interesting i have been getting random shutdowns lately too on ics and gb. I suspect my aftermarket battery so today I switched back to stock battery. I will have to try the sdcard thing if it continues. Thnx for the tip.
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Update: So I flashed an ICS ROM and it's not rebooting. I think I found the culprit. My mom's SD card that came with the phone wasn't reading on my computer. So I was using another one I had. I forgot to switch them out when the phone booted, but now the phone seems to be ok.
I put the SD card in my phone and my phone wouldn't read the SD card and also it went into Kernel Panic Upload Mode. So I'm guessing there's a problem with the SD card. Glad I found that out. LoL!!
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What the hell is "Kernel Panic Upload Mode" ???
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What the hell is "Kernel Panic Upload Mode" ???
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It's something that shows up weird that shows up on your phone. I'm not too sure on the details about it though. It's on XDA. The source of this picture is from XDA. LoL!!
http://i41.tinypic.com/xmtt1w.jpg
krazy_smokezalot said:
The epic touch don't come with an SD card if she bought it brand new and sealed!! Then it don't come with an SD card. What's the make and model of this culprit?
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Oh it doesn't? LoL!! I've had SD cards for so long that I forget. LoL!! Yea, then that makes it even worst. She had a 2GB SD card. Actually, you're right. She had my Samsung Memoir and the SD card went with that. She wanted to keep the pictures. I'm guessing the memory card died out or something. LoL!! IDK. All I know is that when I took that SD card out, the phone started working perfectly.

No_Nickname90 said:
It's something that shows up weird that shows up on your phone. I'm not too sure on the details about it though. It's on XDA. The source of this picture is from XDA. LoL!!
http://i41.tinypic.com/xmtt1w.jpg
Oh it doesn't? LoL!! I've had SD cards for so long that I forget. LoL!! Yea, then that makes it even worst. She had a 2GB SD card. Actually, you're right. She had my Samsung Memoir and the SD card went with that. She wanted to keep the pictures. I'm guessing the memory card died out or something. LoL!! IDK. All I know is that when I took that SD card out, the phone started working perfectly.
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You should back up/move whatever files you want on that sd card to your computer and then try formatting it and check if it still causes issues.
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This is an issue with our ET4g. I have this issue and found many others in other forums do too. I have found many reasons that people suggested the caused; battery, rom, SDcard, wifi, or and apps... There are many suggestions to also limit the reboots. For me, when it reboots, I make sure wifi is off or turn it off and let it start up normally. One suggested to take out sdcard when it boots up, and then insert it after it booted. I wonder if the S2 bug has anything to do with it.
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When I got my E4GT I took the sd card out of my HTC Hero and put it in this phone. It worked ok for a day or two, then I started getting reboots and frozen screens. Someone in the forums suggested pulling the sd card which I did and the phone was happy again. I backed up the files on the card and reformatted it while in the S2. Never had another problem.

[Error] Sdcard unexpectedly removed

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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jamcar said:
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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imaconeheadXD said:
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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blazerboy567 said:
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.

alaman68 said:
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

alaman68 said:
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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Sd card dead?

I am running freegs3 newest version with stock kernel. I was showing a buddy some pics that were stored in my sdcard...a 32gb pny class 10. Everything was fine then I went to pull up another pic and phone started acting up...wouldn't pull up pics...finally got back to home screen. Tried to get to pics again no go. Got an ongoing message in notification screen saying something about new sdcard or unsupported files. Idk what happened but suspect my sd card. Anyone had this happen? Any recommendations?
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Try your sd card in someone elses phone and see if it works
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try this thread, it may help you... or at least make you feal unalone....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1906058
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well got home and put it into my adapter and laptop. It recognized the card, but said it was corrupted and needed to be reformated. i reformated it cuz I really didnt lose much except for a few pics. oh well... guess ill just be careful for a while and monitor it cuz the card is about 1 1/2-2 years old.

dbenney said:
well got home and put it into my adapter and laptop. It recognized the card, but said it was corrupted and needed to be reformated. i reformated it cuz I really didnt lose much except for a few pics. oh well... guess ill just be careful for a while and monitor it cuz the card is about 1 1/2-2 years old.
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Well shouldn't matter the age, as long as its taken care of. When you remove it, do you unmount it, or just remove it?

teh roxxorz said:
Well shouldn't matter the age, as long as its taken care of. When you remove it, do you unmount it, or just remove it?
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i rarely take it out, but when I do i always turn my phone off.

Memory card problems

My memory card keeps ejecting itself every time my phone gets the slightest knock, even when I'm trying to be gentle like putting it down on a table. I don't mean un mounting but actually coming out of the card slot.
Any one else having this problem?
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Does it click in place like it should?

Me too
Ulster1690 said:
My memory card keeps ejecting itself every time my phone gets the slightest knock, even when I'm trying to be gentle like putting it down on a table. I don't mean un mounting but actually coming out of the card slot.
Any one else having this problem?
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I'm also getting that same problem. I tried cleaning the micro sd with an eraser and the holder but i keep getting that message that the memory card has been ejected and immediately the phone starts checking it up. This doesn't happen when i'm using the sd, like when listening to mp3 stored in the micro sd.
Does anybody have a solution for this?

rainontin said:
I'm also getting that same problem. I tried cleaning the micro sd with an eraser and the holder but i keep getting that message that the memory card has been ejected and immediately the phone starts checking it up. This doesn't happen when i'm using the sd, like when listening to mp3 stored in the micro sd.
Does anybody have a solution for this?
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which sd card are u using as some san disk sd used to have incompatibility with note2 that was old lot but the new ones are fine and runs with no prob or best go for samsung sd

shhbz said:
which sd card are u using as some san disk sd used to have incompatibility with note2 that was old lot but the new ones are fine and runs with no prob or best go for samsung sd
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I'm using an Adata micro sd class 4. I've been using it for over a month and the problem started like a week ago.
And yeah, I want a new sd but i'm trying to see if the problem it's with the phone or the card and if there is something i could do to fix it.

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I'm using an Adata micro sd class 4. I've been using it for over a month and the problem started like a week ago.
And yeah, I want a new sd but i'm trying to see if the problem it's with the phone or the card and if there is something i could do to fix it.
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Well all u can do ia format with sd formatter tool and try to use then if prob persist with this or even odr sd then ur phn slot maybe the culprit

I've got Samsung 64gb class 10. Problem isn't with the card because I've tried a few different ones and always get the same result.
I think I've narrowed it down to a little stub on the back cover which I think is supposed to help keep the card in tight. I've filed it off to see if that makes any difference and so far so good.
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Ulster1690 said:
I've got Samsung 64gb class 10. Problem isn't with the card because I've tried a few different ones and always get the same result.
I think I've narrowed it down to a little stub on the back cover which I think is supposed to help keep the card in tight. I've filed it off to see if that makes any difference and so far so good.
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Could you take a pic of the stub? I'd be great if i could fix it instead of buying another 32gb sd.