Sometime yesterday my epic stopped seeing the media on my sd card. The data is on the card, but my phone just won't read it. Any ideas?
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mbradford84 said:
Sometime yesterday my epic stopped seeing the media on my sd card. The data is on the card, but my phone just won't read it. Any ideas?
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Did you try popping it in and out? Happened to me once.
Sure did. I did it several times with no luck.
I have always been suspicious of the shutdown + battery pull technique (leaving it out for at least a solid minute) and yet oddly, it seems to work for things like this sometimes. It certainly can't hurt. And if you see the media scanning process begin on start up, you may be good. Maybe try that?
You mayb have to reformat your SD card. Backup your sd to a computer. Go to settings/sd card and phone settings/unmount sd than reformat. Than restore your backup. Reformatting usually fixes SD card issues.
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Before you reformat, make sure you don't have a file with a name that has a "period" at the beginning like ".nomedia" at the root of your sd card. Folders are fine, but a .nomedia file stops that section from being scanned, so if its placed on the root of the sd, nothing gets scanned
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Hey guys I just wanted to ask u all a question bout upgrading sd cards on the Evo. I just purchased a Lexar 32gb class 10 sd card from Amazon. I still hav the stock 8gb card that has all my data....music,movies,music videos,custom roms,kernals amd so on. I hav heard that some people are having problems with changing their cards. So my question is what is the proper procedure to getting this transfer to be successful. Is it better to format new card thru windows or phone? Do I need to partition the new card? What is the easiest procedure to transfer my 8GB card stuff to my new 32gb card. The reason Im asking is I dont want to corrupt the new card in anyway...as u all kno they are NOT CHEAP!!! I just want the transition to workout smoothly with NO problems. Any advice wud b much appreciated. Thanks Yall!!! Evo runnin MikFroyo v4.61 w/ netarchy-toastmod-4.3.4-cfs-havs-more-nososbc...overclocked to 1152mhz.
Copy the contents of your current card onto your computer or an external drive. Shutdown your device. Remove your current card and replace it with your new card. Make sure your device supports the 32 GB size. Reboot your device. Many cards already come formatted, however, it wont hurt to reformat it to be sure. When your phone finish booting up, go to the SD card and phone storage setting within the menu. Select unmount SD card. After it unmounts, the option to format it will appear. Select format. When finished, select mount. Back out of that menu back to your homescreen. Connect your device via USB to your computer or external drive and transfer the items you copied to your newly formatted card. Reboot your device when you're finished. You can also format from your computer and from within recovery. Take your pick.
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If am not wrong EVO supports max 16 GB and EVO Shift is 32 GB
^You're mistaken, the EVO does support the 32gb.
Says so on the HTC support page for EVO
Whew, you had me scared for a moment... I just ordered the same 32 gb microSD this morning. :]
I've been through 2 lexar 32gb cards. Within a matter of weeks to days, I was getting data corruption. Not sure if it's limited to the lexar class 10 cards, or any class 10. It would appear to function fine at first. At some point during the day i'd go to check my email and get a sd card mounted in read only mode message on the status bar. Rebooting would usually not help. Had to hook up the phone to the pc, mount the sd in recovery, then run a chkdsk. I'd typically get many many corrupted files.
Now mind you, i'm always careful to shutdown properly, only mount the sd when recovery. I've come to the conclusion that there is some incompatibility issue either due to the size, or perhaps lexar's ability to be downward compatible with the slower speed devices (I think the evo can only take advantage of up to class 6 devices).
Lets hope you have better luck than I did, but after multiple corrupted files, I'm back with the stock card, which has caused no issues at all (besides being low on space).
i have 32g patriot class 10 card and it works great for me. i just transfered my old sd card stuff onto my computer via the card adapter it came with. i inserted and formatted my new card into my phone. and transfered everything from my computer tomy phone via usb.
Ditto on the formatting with the phone. Since i am using ext, it had to be via the phone as I don't have the right tools to do it in windows.
FWIW, with the initial lexar card, there were no problems for nearly 3 weeks. With the replacement card they sent me, issues started showing up 2 days later. Could be my phone is less tolerant of media quality than others..
one thing you need to remember when copying the files, is to hit the option to see the the hidden files on your sd card, if you dont your phone will have glitches because it will be missing those files, because when they are hidden they dont get copied
Hate to hijack here but it's along the same lines.
If I don't listen to music or take a bunch of pictures what if any difference will I notice upgrading my class? Sorry I am coming from a Vibrant that had 14gigs internal and the sc card was purely optional.
I was thinking about just getting an 8 gig class 10 if it would make a difference.
pc to dupe sd card?
Could you just copy the sd card using an adaptor to your pc hard drive, then copy the files onto the larger sd card, again using the adapter in the pc. then install the new sd card into the phone? I am new, to this, i'm just askin.
blairan...I think you wud b safe to do that but u must format the new sd card first via phone(itself) or thru windows before any transfer of data is made. My question was simply that I hav read that many people hav had complaints bout corrupted files being present thru their new cards. Or problems with "read only" errors and not being able to access things on the card. If u are rooted and are running a custom ROM that allows Apps2sd to help free up internal memory on ur phone then u wud also need to partition the card as well to allow that. I just dont understand why their have been so many people having these problems with the 32g class 10 cards.
blairan...Im pretty sure u wud be safe to do that but if it is a new card u must make sure it is formatted first via phone itself or windows before u transfer anything to it. My question was simply I dont understand why so many people have complained bout corrupted files and or read-only errors on the 32g class 10 cards. Problems that seem to arise days or weeks later after installing new cards. I wud really like to get to the bottom of it and find out why.
blizzard1017 said:
Hate to hijack here but it's along the same lines.
If I don't listen to music or take a bunch of pictures what if any difference will I notice upgrading my class? Sorry I am coming from a Vibrant that had 14gigs internal and the sc card was purely optional.
I was thinking about just getting an 8 gig class 10 if it would make a difference.
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If anything, you'd probably notice quicker loading from apps that you've moved to the SD card. But admittedly, video, music, and photos are the places you'd see the most tangible improvement.
Doug,
I've tried this several times (I think I'm up to double digits, now) on my rooted Evo running the stock ROM. After I transfer all the files and reboot, several apps are not installed and the phone says it has a low amount of space. I've tried restoring a Clockwork Mod backup as well and I get the same thing. I have everything backed up in Astro, but when I try to install the missing apps, the low memory issue prevents them from being installed. Should I remove all my apps and start over? Should I un-root my phone and do a factory reset? I'm so frustrated I'm about to do the latter.
I'm upgrading to a 32GB class 10 card and I just can't figure it out. Any thoughts?
jmattix said:
Doug,
I've tried this several times (I think I'm up to double digits, now) on my rooted Evo running the stock ROM. After I transfer all the files and reboot, several apps are not installed and the phone says it has a low amount of space. I've tried restoring a Clockwork Mod backup as well and I get the same thing. I have everything backed up in Astro, but when I try to install the missing apps, the low memory issue prevents them from being installed. Should I remove all my apps and start over? Should I un-root my phone and do a factory reset? I'm so frustrated I'm about to do the latter.
I'm upgrading to a 32GB class 10 card and I just can't figure it out. Any thoughts?
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No, you do not need to unroot, but I do recommend you start from scratch. Since you already have the contents of your card backed up to your computer, go into recovery and re-partition and re-format your card. In amon_RA select "partition SD card" from the main menu. You will be prompted to set a size for 3 different things. Insert a zero each time. Doing so will allow you access to your entire card. Afterwards, copy the rom you want to use to the card via the MS-USB or the Mount USB option, if using ClockworkMod and flash it. Your paid apps will be listed in the Market after you've logged in with your credentials. Your unpaid apps will have to be redownloaded and reinstalled unless you have them backed up to Google's servers or backed up with Titanium Backup. Anyway, you will have a clean install of your rom, a clean install of your apps and a freshly formatted and partitioned SD card. If you still get the low memory error afterwards then I am assuming you have too many apps on your internal memory and thus, you will need to move many of them to your SD card to free up your internal memory. There are tutorials available to learn apps2sd. Anyway, I hope this helps you.
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Thanks so much. I'll give it a try.
jmattix said:
Thanks so much. I'll give it a try.
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You're very welcome. Enjoy the rest of your holiday...
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Okay so I had my dinc2 plugged into the computer to put stuff on the sd card. I ejected it with v-cast but must have pulled it out too soon. I tried pulling the card and putting it back in, pulling the battery and rebooting the phone. I tried plugging it into the computer again but there isnt an option to mount it when I try to change it from charge only. I try to access the card from the computer and I am not sure which drive it is. It shows the android in the devices on my computer. I am at a loss as to what to do. Can I repair the card? Im using windows 7. Thanks for any help.
Try testing your SD card by putting it into your pc directly using the bigger SD piece that your micro can fit in.. if your pc still doesn't read it, it might be dead. I've had it where I pulled it out too early and had to do that.. unfortunately I had to reformat the SD card as well and lost everything on it... Thank god for backups
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Hi everyone. First time to the forum year long archos user. I recently had Urukdroid 1.6.1 on my Archos 70it and was having problems with it (all kinds of crashes and wireless wouldn't connect anymore). I decided to reinstall Urukdroid but this time put it on my internal storage instead of the SD. All went well and its working great now. The only thing is if I reboot with the SD card in it boots into the old Urukdroid. So I decided to format and delete the partitions using my windows 7 machine. Everything looks like it worked partitions are gone and it is now formatted. But when I unplug it and plug it back into my computer, to my surprise, everything is back. Like it had never been formatted or partitions deleted at all. Does anyone know what is causing this? I have tried multiple computers I even took my wife's Nook Color and tried formating the SD card using it. I am pulling my hair out, it really seems like some kind of security issue or a device that is R/O.
Thanks
Use mini tool partition for pc...
First delete partition and formated if preferred...
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Man I was hoping this would work, but, it didn't. I am a computer technician and when you wipe a partition and format it shouldn't come back. Even when I have it still plugged in to my computer I see it as wiped away but as soon as I disconnect and view it its back. All the files are there and directories just like it was before I wiped it away. I am going crazy, thinking about buying a new sd card.
Try formatting in d device u used before....
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Lol just like you read it, I got a samsung original sd card 30gb and yesterday I out it in my computer first idk why but I did so then I put it in my phone and connected the phone to the computer so I had both internal and external reading n the same device.
So I started moving all the data I had on my old sd card to the new one 9gb total so as I was doing that I notice that the speed was really slow like it would take an eternity for the files to transfer so it tool like 45 mins just to transfer my cwm backups and some pics, music and videos and the rest was just random stuff so it only passed half of the files and it was a Lil bit late so I decided to stop it and somehow the folders that had the files are empty and it said I've used 15gb on the new sd card!
So after that I checked every folder I had on the computer and it was a total of 9 gb so I checked the files that got missing on the new sd card until I got to a folder that wasn't empty, it was called MEDIA so I looked at the info and that was wt was taking all that space so I tried deleting it through the fone and it said DELE FAILED so I plugged it into the computer so I tried deleting it from there and it told me the same thing.. I opened that folder to see wt it had and the craziest thing happened. Every single file was 1gb or more it was a total of 75 files so yall can do the math right? So I tried deleting it and it doesn't let me... The files have some weird symbols, they're not even letters there something like £¿¡¥~&^#. "/* something like that all of those files are something Romola and every time I tried to erase it it told me it was too large or to rename it and I did and it didn't let me so wtf happened to my sd card?
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Can you get into recovery on phone if so keep local copy on pc and format ext sd card in phone .....should say formatiing using mkdosfs if it does and completes your back to a exorcised sdcard but completely blank minus format space
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lagunas11 said:
Lol just like you read it, I got a samsung original sd card 30gb and yesterday I out it in my computer first idk why but I did so then I put it in my phone and connected the phone to the computer so I had both internal and external reading n the same device.
So I started moving all the data I had on my old sd card to the new one 9gb total so as I was doing that I notice that the speed was really slow like it would take an eternity for the files to transfer so it tool like 45 mins just to transfer my cwm backups and some pics, music and videos and the rest was just random stuff so it only passed half of the files and it was a Lil bit late so I decided to stop it and somehow the folders that had the files are empty and it said I've used 15gb on the new sd card!
So after that I checked every folder I had on the computer and it was a total of 9 gb so I checked the files that got missing on the new sd card until I got to a folder that wasn't empty, it was called MEDIA so I looked at the info and that was wt was taking all that space so I tried deleting it through the fone and it said DELE FAILED so I plugged it into the computer so I tried deleting it from there and it told me the same thing.. I opened that folder to see wt it had and the craziest thing happened. Every single file was 1gb or more it was a total of 75 files so yall can do the math right? So I tried deleting it and it doesn't let me... The files have some weird symbols, they're not even letters there something like £¿¡¥~&^#. "/* something like that all of those files are something Romola and every time I tried to erase it it told me it was too large or to rename it and I did and it didn't let me so wtf happened to my sd card?
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Sorry Bud...Fake Micro Sd Cards..