Hey guys,
A friend of mine gave me his desire to root and flash a rom, while I was partitioning the SD card - everything went well (I used a windows app to create the partitions while the desire was plugged in in USB mode.
All went well until I disconnected it after the process was complete - now the phone nor PC detects the card.
What are my options?
Cheers
You're using a usb card reader on your pc or whilst in your phone (plugged in via cable)?
zedmarcus said:
You're using a usb card reader on your pc or whilst in your phone (plugged in via cable)?
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Using a card reader with the microsd adapter
Use gparted in the reader to see what you can see.
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Use gparted in the reader to see what you can see.
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Yup. Try that
OK this is unusual, I managed to boot into recovery and mount the SD and sd-ext without any issue - I even booted into a custom rom I flashed from SD, but I still can't get the phone to detect it when booted.
Corrupted fat-32
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Like rootSU said, try it with GParted in your pc and see if it can find it. If so, format it all and re-partition it.
OK I managed to get it fixed - seemed like an issue with the partition - I used recovery to mount USB storage (it worked) and I re partitioned it and it is now functioning correctly.
Cheers guys and thanks a lot everyone for their inputs !
What did you repartition with?
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What did you repartition with?
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I used MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition ! very nifty app !
You're very lucky, its an awful app. I feel so strongly about it, I even put it in my signature (incase you missed it).
I bet its because you used minitool that it broke in the first place.
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You're very lucky, its an awful app. I feel so strongly about it, I even put it in my signature (incase you missed it).
I bet its because you used minitool that it broke in the first place.
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wow, that is rather fine print haha, I hadn't seen that there - I too have a feeling it broke cause of the app, but it did manage to fix it - hopefully I won't have to go through this again - if I have to I'll use gparted - Lesson Learnt !
I'll make it bigger
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I'll make it bigger
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I'd increase 1 or 2 again people can't seem to read on this forum
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I'd increase 1 or 2 again people can't seem to read on this forum
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Way aye, but I dont want it to take over other things
hi. i've faced the same problem too with my galaxy mini.
but, when i mount usb storage it said that "unable to write to umslunfile (no such file or directory)" . and when i format sd card it said "error mounting sd card, skipping format".
my sd card cant detected by any phone or laptop. cant be formatted or mounted. what to do? please help me. there's so much important things there.
Hi there,
Ive been through the same issue just the other day and after read and try lots of things, i had to do something stupid but has worked for me... If you have a digital camera laying around, put your sd card and camera will do its thing..will prompt you asking if you want the sd to be formated... Thats it sd alive and hoping to receive runny rom in my case
hope this works for more people. Take care. Peace.
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Hello everybody,
I bought the above micro sd card but the problem is when installed it i realised that the phone dont seem to be able to able to mount it...
what should i do ?
Is it formatted to Fat32?
The more important question is what message it shows when tried mount it.
I have had the same isue, only way for me was to use a RUU file
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You can also try formatting it with Android.
it says something like unable to write ums lunfile
PoLiThS said:
it says something like unable to write ums lunfile
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I googled and found this on a other forum:
Code:
I get error mounting sdcard (no such file or directory) and unable to write to ums lunfile (no such file or directory)
Edit: I Solved the problem by rebooting into recovery using rom manager. Thanks.
It's interesting how can be people independent and resourceful if the really want to. Then why we have so many question threads are beyond my comprehension.
People should use Google more before posting....
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People should use Google more before posting....
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^This.^
10char
Of course i googled before asking this question..
The problem is... I boot into recovery but i cant mount my SD. I used other phones and the card is recognised normally
An alcatel one touch 908 and my previous HTC touch HD.
I'm running Leedroid 3.3.3 Data++ version which means i cant boot without an sd card becouse many things run from the sd-ext partition and of course since i cant mount the SD i cannot even flash again Leedroid or any other Rom.. so i cant simply reboot into recovery using Rom Manager.
But since u told me all this i'm going to simply install a clean CM7 nightly and try to reboot into recovery via rom manager..
USB brick. Search for solution.
My usb working flawlessly. Everything happening had to do only with this specific card
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As far as I know unable to mount sdcard is part of USB brick.
i can mount any other sd card but this specific one.... and i try to find what's wrong here..
Fire up Android and format SD card with it.
Terepin said:
USB brick. Search for solution.
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Where the hell did you get that information? The fact that an SD card cannot be mounted is not in the least related to a USB brick, they are two totally seperate issues. You may find that on restoring SD card functionality that you then have a USB brick but it's not necessarily so and it cannot be ascertained without first fixing the SD card issue (and by the symptoms as described I highly doubt he has a USB brick).
To the OP, I would suggest that you copy everything from the SD card to your PC via an SD card reader. You can then either format it via G-Parted (Linux bootable disk) or via MiniDisk Partition Wizard. Copy everything back plus the rom of your choice.
You'll then need to flash the rom (assuming that your phone now 'sees' the SD card). You're going to lose everything that you installed, there's no way around this. The copy back and forth is to restore your music / photos and if you're lucky one or two of your apps may find an existing file of history to restore.
Please also report any messages the phone gives regarding the SD card and also try another SD card (if you have one) before you go the above route.
wierd things happening....
When i boot into recovery with power+vol down i cant mount my sd but if i do it through rom manager it works flawlessly... anyway i kept it this way. I installed a clean CM7 build formated my card and then all the things i do i do them via Rom manager...
btw i see speed increase using a class 10 card compared to class 4
PoLiThS said:
wierd things happening....
When i boot into recovery with power+vol down i cant mount my sd but if i do it through rom manager it works flawlessly... anyway i kept it this way. I installed a clean CM7 build formated my card and then all the things i do i do them via Rom manager...
btw i see speed increase using a class 10 card compared to class 4
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what are the recoveries u talking about?
when u go in recovery with power+vol down u access the permanent recovery (what version?); while using rom manager u access another recovery version probably (as rom manager use fake flash, even if the latest version should use permanent flash)
sorry for being late answering..
both recoveries are 5.0.2.0
I have a reaaal issue since yesterday night..suddenly i get the notification that "sd card has encountered an unexpected error amd cannot be mounted". Since then, i cannot access the sd card, i tried rebooting,removing it, trying to find it in recovery but NO LUCK! Yet still the ext partition seems to be there..ANY HELP pls?
Windows cannot access it either,but sd repair programs can see it,but still no luck in repairing it. Any useful program to use?
Thanx,
T.
P.s: running v37, joyflash micro sd 16gb class10
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i guess its time to buy a new card...even my card had same prob..
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Try reformat it in the PC using Gparted - if that's not working, Search for USB BRICK and fixing.
If that won't help, then buy a new SD.
Well if thats the case, i will recover al my files with the repair programs i have,and then try to format it..but i was hoping for a way to recover everything without formatting the card..
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davebugyi said:
Try reformat it in the PC using Gparted - if that's not working, Search for USB BRICK and fixing.
If that won't help, then buy a new SD.
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Gparted live? Have never used it since all partitions are made through recovery amonra.
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Buy a reputable brand card
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thanito said:
Gparted live? Have never used it since all partitions are made through recovery amonra.
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AmonRa is reliable, but when the card is messed up, it maybe won't work correctly.
I am using GParted for partitioning, easy to use and always works.
Search Developent for tutorial (also with video).
Well gparted saved my sd card when the phone wont recognized and even the computer wont even recognized.
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Well gparted saved my sd card when the phone wont recognized and even the computer wont even recognized.
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Well I run Gparted live USB, and the weird thing is that even gparted could not see the sd card.
In windows Disk Management it sees the sd card as RAW partition..any clue about the RAW format???
I rescued a lot of my files with other programs but even when they show that the sd card is healthy, windows, linux, android cannot recognize it. The only solution is to format it i think..
So i have no idea how it happened but my sd card went crazy on me. I was just using my phone and then I clicked on an app that i had on my sd card and said that it couldnt be found, then it said that i had a blank sd card and that it needed to be formatted. I tried everything; pulling the battery, mounting, remounting, putting it in and out, tried to mount in recovery, tried to format in recovery...... NOTHING WORKED! So then i tried to plug it in on my computer (windows 7) and it wouldnt mount, so i couldnt format it.... Is there ANYTHING I can do!?!?!!?!? someone please help me cause it is a 16gb sd card and all i have left is a 2gb one... HA that wont work for me. Any help is appreciated!!
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So i have no idea how it happened but my sd card went crazy on me. I was just using my phone and then I clicked on an app that i had on my sd card and said that it couldnt be found, then it said that i had a blank sd card and that it needed to be formatted. I tried everything; pulling the battery, mounting, remounting, putting it in and out, tried to mount in recovery, tried to format in recovery...... NOTHING WORKED! So then i tried to plug it in on my computer (windows 7) and it wouldnt mount, so i couldnt format it.... Is there ANYTHING I can do!?!?!!?!? someone please help me cause it is a 16gb sd card and all i have left is a 2gb one... HA that wont work for me. Any help is appreciated!!
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Pull sd out of phone and use a card reader to see if it can be read from the pc. If you can read it with the pc, copy all your files to the pc and then format the sd fat32. Once formated put the files back on the sd and put it back in the phone and see if it works then.
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Pull sd out of phone and use a card reader to see if it can be read from the pc. If you can read it with the pc, copy all your files to the pc and then format the sd fat32. Once formated put the files back on the sd and put it back in the phone and see if it works then.
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That is what I have been trying to do, my card reader does work I tested it on another card, but my reader doesn't even read the corrupted one... My computer just says insert disk into drive
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If the pc cant read or format it then im sorry to say your sd has more than likley bit the dust.
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If the pc cant read or format it then im sorry to say your sd has more than likley bit the dust.
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Damn.... Ok I wonder what happened tho!?
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dtraini7 said:
Damn.... Ok I wonder what happened tho!?
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How old is it? Sometimes they just go out, especially with heavy use.
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How old is it? Sometimes they just go out, especially with heavy use.
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Ummmm probably a couple months over a year
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If ur phone has a recovery mount usn on phone recovery. Then scan the card with a data recovery tool. Its worked for me in the past
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I have tried that and it gives me an error and says I can't mount it.
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I have tried that and it gives me an error and says I can't mount it.
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have you ever pulled the SD card out of a device before Unmounted it? Sounds like the the chip inside is dead. There are some places that you can take it to and they can pull the info off of it. its not cheap but they do exist. It all depends on if you really want the info off of it or not.
Have you tried "SD Card Tester" from the Market, Or H2testw 1.4 for the PC?
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have you ever pulled the SD card out of a device before Unmounted it? Sounds like the the chip inside is dead. There are some places that you can take it to and they can pull the info off of it. its not cheap but they do exist. It all depends on if you really want the info off of it or not.
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Not that I remember... But ah its ok it was mostly music and roms that I can just put back on lol
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Have you tried "SD Card Tester" from the Market, Or H2testw 1.4 for the PC?
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No I have not.... Lemme see what that does.
Edit: I tried the SD card tester and it said error: no permission to write to SD card.
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If the pc cant read or format it then im sorry to say your sd has more than likley bit the dust.
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lol hope the author's SD is good...
Recently got my phone which runs through Kodoos and cant seem to find an answer online via HTC manual?
ive browsed several SDcard threads here on the forums and none seem to be covering my problem?
in the Settings/Storage menu:
Storage card:
Total space
Unavailable
Available
Unavailable
Make more space
*light grey and cant access*
Mount storage card
*light grey and cant access*
Erase storage card
*light grey and cant access*
Storage card encryption
*light grey and cant access*
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[Q]: Is there a way to format this SDcard?
[Q]: is there a way to change the setttings whereas pics, music ,etc, can be directly sent to the SDcard?
[Q]: how do i access the SDcard when it wont let me into the card or it shows it is unavailable?
Try to format the card in pc using an incompatible format like ntfs and then put it in the phone and then the phone should ask you if you want to format the card. If not try to go to settings and format manually.
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hlavicka82 said:
Try to format the card in pc using an incompatible format like ntfs and then put it in the phone and then the phone should ask you if you want to format the card. If not try to go to settings and format manually.
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okay...
ill give the pc a shot but if that fails then where exactly is this "format" feature ,cuz i cant see it anywhere?:silly:
swampdawg73 said:
okay...
ill give the pc a shot but if that fails then where exactly is this "format" feature ,cuz i cant see it anywhere?:silly:
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formatted the sdcard using ntfs and still the HTC doesnt see it? ugh!!
swampdawg73 said:
formatted the sdcard using ntfs and still the HTC doesnt see it? ugh!!
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dude. just format the sdcard using your pc in FAT16 format. you can also try fat32 but I don't know how it plays with android.
cheers!
PS: after you format it using the above method, it's good to take the sdcard out from your phone and then put it back. just to be on the safe side
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dude. just format the sdcard using your pc in FAT16 format. you can also try fat32 but I don't know how it plays with android.
cheers!
PS: after you format it using the above method, it's good to take the sdcard out from your phone and then put it back. just to be on the safe side
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well...tried FAT16 and no luck?
im getting very frustrated at the thought of a phone that doesnt even see a simple SDcard when my PC does?
Well it might be some hardware issue. The phone does not recognize that sd card is in right? Does the phone show something when you plug in the card while the phone is on?
Did you try to put in other card?
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Well it might be some hardware issue. The phone does not recognize that sd card is in right? Does the phone show something when you plug in the card while the phone is on?
Did you try to put in other card?
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nothing shows up when putting the card into the phone while it is on, but it does state SDCARD REMOVED when pulling it out from the phone
May be the SD card have some defect. Insert some other SD card and see if the phone nose it out.
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May be the SD card have some defect. Insert some other SD card and see if the phone nose it out.
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ill probably end up doing that and just buy a new sdcard but i have a feeling itll do he same thing seeing as my PC sees it just fine and my last phone used it without a glitch. Now formatting this card for this phone, ive lost 1gb of photos!
Well I just did a small test. I have formatted a spare SD card with NTFS(I used MiniTool Partition Wizard for that) and put it in the phone. It told me that the SD card is blank and not properly formatted and asked if I want to format the card.
So this is something that your phone should do too. So my conclusion is that there must be either something wrong with the card or with the phone. So hurry to try a different SD card and if it doesn't work you should ask for replacement device.
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Well I just did a small test. I have formatted a spare SD card with NTFS(I used MiniTool Partition Wizard for that) and put it in the phone. It told me that the SD card is blank and not properly formatted and asked if I want to format the card.
So this is something that your phone should do too. So my conclusion is that there must be either something wrong with the card or with the phone. So hurry to try a different SD card and if it doesn't work you should ask for replacement device.
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thanks everyone so very much for all your help!!!
i called Future Shop (where i purchased my device) and explained everything including your guys help to them, and they said it sounds like the devices card reader is defective. So...seeing as i just got this on Friday last week, i can exchange it for a new device at no cost.
:good:
just got back in from future shop....
seems it was the sdcard that was defective but...
after coming home, i reformatted the old sdcard back to ntfs and dropped a pic on it from my PC and it still works?? lol
for some odd reason the device just didnt see the card? maybe cuz it was generic? maybe cuz it was only 1gb? i dunno??
however...got me a new 8gb sdcard for 14.00, thatll do me just fine!!
again, thanks for all the help
SDcard unaccessable
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ill probably end up doing that and just buy a new sdcard but i have a feeling itll do he same thing seeing as my PC sees it just fine and my last phone used it without a glitch. Now formatting this card for this phone, ive lost 1gb of photos!
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I am also having same problem with my htc one v
plzzzzzzz help me
I dnt knw wht to now
I have tried all the technic which is written above but still the problem is same
Ok So i have 2 micro sd cards one 8GB and one 32GB. I had recently just bought the 32GB one to give myself a good amount of space but unfortunately they both just stopped working all together. Basically one day my GS3 just began rejecting my 32GB card so i attempted to format it on my computer with a usb adapter, i tried both windows and mac os trying a range of programs but it just won't format. I even tried to format it using CWM but it can't mount it. but i don't think its fried because i just got it and it was working fine for like 2 - 3 weeks...so then i put my 8GB card in for 2 days and same thing...can't format or erase or mount on android...i've searched all over the web and need help cuz at this point i feel like my phone is destroying SD cards.
And one last piece on info if it helps I'm running the task AOKP 4.1.1 rom with their latest release and their latest O/C Kernel and clockwork mod touch on an AT&T Galaxy s3
please help as soon as possible
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Ok So i have 2 micro sd cards one 8GB and one 32GB. I had recently just bought the 32GB one to give myself a good amount of space but unfortunately they both just stopped working all together. Basically one day my GS3 just began rejecting my 32GB card so i attempted to format it on my computer with a usb adapter, i tried both windows and mac os trying a range of programs but it just won't format. I even tried to format it using CWM but it can't mount it. but i don't think its fried because i just got it and it was working fine for like 2 - 3 weeks...so then i put my 8GB card in for 2 days and same thing...can't format or erase or mount on android...i've searched all over the web and need help cuz at this point i feel like my phone is destroying SD cards.
And one last piece on info if it helps I'm running the task AOKP 4.1.1 rom with their latest release and their latest O/C Kernel and clockwork mod touch on an AT&T Galaxy s3
please help as soon as possible
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Yeah, this happens to me too. Reboot, let the phone say the card is damaged, open the back case while the phone is on, remove and re-insert sdcard and that should solve your problems.
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Yeah, this happens to me too. Reboot, let the phone say the card is damaged, open the back case while the phone is on, remove and re-insert sdcard and that should solve your problems.
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sorry but it didn't work its not mounting any other suggestions...
Us the HP usb format tool to format it in your computer.
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One program.. http://www.easeus.com/ easus partition manager. Format anything there it works. There is a thread on the 32gig on this already. Format to fat32
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Sorry guys neither program worked
If you are using windows try using the Command prompt. You will need to select the volume of the sd cards then delete it. I beleive they will become as RAW disks where you will have create them as new disks from disk management.
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If you are using windows try using the Command prompt. You will need to select the volume of the sd cards then delete it. I beleive they will become as RAW disks where you will have create them as new disks from disk management.
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would you be able to explain that in just a bit more detail...like the commands and such
thank you so much in advance.
blanco613 said:
would you be able to explain that in just a bit more detail...like the commands and such
thank you so much in advance.
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Open up an admin command prompt, then type 'diskpart' it'll start the utilitiy in command prompt. Then type 'list volume' it'll show volumes 0 through ~8 or so depending on how many you have. Once you know the number that is associated with your sdcard volume, then type 'select volume x' x being the number of your volume. Then type 'delete volume'
After that go into disk management and find your sdcard. It'll say unallocated. Right mouse click and create new simple volume.
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Open up an admin command prompt, then type 'diskpart' it'll start the utilitiy in command prompt. Then type 'list volume' it'll show volumes 0 through ~8 or so depending on how many you have. Once you know the number that is associated with your sdcard volume, then type 'select volume x' x being the number of your volume. Then type 'delete volume'
After that go into disk management and find your sdcard. It'll say unallocated. Right mouse click and create new simple volume.
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sorry it still didn't work...it now picks up my 32GB micro sd card as a 31mb of RAW storage that is not formatable in any way. And my 8GB in the same way but for some reason 121mb of RAW...
i seriously have no clue whats going on with my stuff...
if anyone has any clue please let me know...and i know there are a lot of post about micro sd cards out there but i have never seen anything like this...
and thank you everyone for the help that i'm getting and any more help that you can offer
Did you buy real microsd cards ?
they are probably fake lol
expertzero1 said:
Did you buy real microsd cards ?
they are probably fake lol
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no they are SanDisk...got em at radio shack...
so maybe the sd card slot is faultyyyy
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so maybe the sd card slot is faultyyyy
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ill stick another one in there and see...only a 1gb this time...its just annoying because they were both working perfectly and so was the phone.
blanco613 said:
ill stick another one in there and see...only a 1gb this time...its just annoying because they were both working perfectly and so was the phone.
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ok i can report that it is not the phone...i just stuck my other 4gig sd card in there and it work fine...any new ideas...cuz i really dont want to have to buy 2 new sd cards
blanco613 said:
ok i can report that it is not the phone...i just stuck my other 4gig sd card in there and it work fine...any new ideas...cuz i really dont want to have to buy 2 new sd cards
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Go here:
https://www.sdcard.org/home/
Download the SD Card Formatter and try to format your card using that tool; see if that works. I made the mistake of formatting my brand-new SanDisk 64GB microSD card, which worked perfectlyin my Galaxy S III prior to that, and it wouldn't work afterwards. I tried all different methods of formatting & formatting programs to no avail. As soon as I used this program, my card worked like a charm in my phone again!
Good luck!
Dennis
Ive tried that and many other formatting programs but none of them work
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try sandisk SDXC 64gb - ppl report good results with it.
Also - reflash stock ROM with nontrip root method.
did you try guiformat?
I will try this program next thanks guys
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