Hi,
Seen various SD card problems posted here and other forums but no solutions.
A few nights ago I was transferring a large number of files to my Desire and noticed the transfer windows froze so I disconnected my phone. When I then tried to turn the screen on it wouldn't turn on (though the led kept blinking). I eventually had to restart the phone by removing the battery.
Upon restarting I got an error saying the SD card was corrupted and needed to be formatted. Tried restarting again etc but didn't work so clicked on 'format' in the pop-up but nothing happened even after several attempts. Then tried doing this through the settings menu but again didn't work.
Gave up. Wake up next morning and phone screen won't come on again. Took out battery again and still had memory card problem so connected to pc and formatted card on there. I think after this the card started working again but WITH ALL THE DATA STILL ON IT. No idea how!?
This morning after 4 days working fine I connect phone to pc to transfer music and don't get an option to mount USB so I unplugged and get a new SD card error: blank SD card. SD card blank or has unsupported file system. So tried everything I tried last time but this time I can't mount the card so I can't access it on a pc to format it.
Anyone had similar problems on here? Seems to have happened to quite a few on Android forums etc. Any suggestions? Have tried putting card in and out several times. Have tried SD mount widget. Getting pretty desperate here.
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had exactly the same issue you had the second time, posted, found no fix.
Using a spare sd card I had in it's place, my phone registered it as blank again the next day! It was a reboot job though and it has been fine since..
Would like to get to the bottom of this before a blow a decent sized card
I have had many many bizzare and quite frankly random SD card errors with this phone. Nearly one everyday doing something. Most of them read the same SD card missing, needs formatting, is empty or corrupted notifications. The latest one occurred 5 mins back on reinstalling NewsRoom app -- suddenly left with a totally empty SD card when trying to save RSS to it. As in every case, an immediate reboot fixed the error so I can't offer any more help.
Whenever I've had the "needs formatting" error I removed the card for a few mins before replacing it back inand it worked fine thereafter.
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I've just tried leaving the card out for a few minutes with the phone off and reinserting to no avail. Tried restarting lots of times
Going to try another SD card now. Most people on other forums had problems with their stock 4gb cards whereas mine is an 8GB card i got separately. I think it's the phone at fault not the cards.
**Update** The other SD card is working fine so far. But i'm now left with a screwed up 8gb card that's not recognised by any pc. Any suggestions of how to fix this?
If my 4gb card is screwed up by the phone too i'll let you all know
SO I am having a problem with every EVO rom I flash. Here is what is happening.
- I will open Astro or EStrongs and click on the SD Card where I have my APP Apks stored and click on the folder and it will just close the program. So then I will reboot and try to install them again and it will install maybe 3 apps before it starts saying "App not Installed".
- I am also having the "File Permissions" problem on OMJ latest EVO Rom when I try and use the Camera.
I have the latest Sprint Software installed and everything else. Can anyone help me out and tell me whatr the problem can be? I thought this problem was fixed?
It might be a bad sd card
I had similar issues with the sd card that came with my phone. It would work for a little while and then all of a sudden I would get file permission errors. Sometimes it would even come up saying the data was corrupt and needed to be formatted. I tried formatting several times both in the phone and in the computer.
Nothing seemed to help the issue. I then went to the store and purchased a new 16GB SD card and have not had a problem since. On another note, I have since left the 8gb card in my computer and have not had any problems with it there.
Yeah, It was working working fine the all of a sudden it started having issues.
All,
Fairly recently I started having an issue with my phone(that may or not be custom kernel related). The issue is that after unmounting my phone from my PC the phone will reboot just after the internal and external media scan finishes. Other than running LostKernel my phone is completely stock. The custom kernel doesn't appear to be the culprit as the issue started well after I flashed the kernel.
It seems to be specifically related to having an external sd card in the phone. If I pull the card out of the phone and mount/unmount the internal storage, the problem doesn't occur. I have scanned the external sd card for errors from windows as well as reformatted it but it didn't fix the problem.
Any ideas?
Hey guys,
a few month ago, i created 2 threads here.
My sd-card simply stopped working and I couldnt find the issue, even replacing the slot did not help.
Today, suddenly, my bootloader recognized the card with a PC10IMG, just tried this one out.
I could upgrade, got to the newest radio, and android 2.3 (Virtous Sense 2) could use the sdcard.
But at first, wlan did not work, so i restarted the phone.
Now everything seems fine, except that after a few seconds, the SD-Card is "unexpectedly removed". or "damaged". I cannot format the card using the phone, even in recovery menu its unmountable after a few seconds. Example: I chose "install zip from sdcard", could find the rom on it, but when it started installing, the installation immediately aborted and after this, the sdcard wont answer anymore in any way. This is reproducable by simply formating the card again using the computer.
Any ideas how to fix this?
Thx in advance..
TreZc0_
Trezc0 said:
Hey guys,
a few month ago, i created 2 threads here.
My sd-card simply stopped working and I couldnt find the issue, even replacing the slot did not help.
Today, suddenly, my bootloader recognized the card with a PC10IMG, just tried this one out.
I could upgrade, got to the newest radio, and android 2.3 (Virtous Sense 2) could use the sdcard.
But at first, wlan did not work, so i restarted the phone.
Now everything seems fine, except that after a few seconds, the SD-Card is "unexpectedly removed". or "damaged". I cannot format the card using the phone, even in recovery menu its unmountable after a few seconds. Example: I chose "install zip from sdcard", could find the rom on it, but when it started installing, the installation immediately aborted and after this, the sdcard wont answer anymore in any way. This is reproducable by simply formating the card again using the computer.
Any ideas how to fix this?
Thx in advance..
TreZc0_
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Its possible the connections for the sd card slot are damaged or that you got a damaged replacement, or that you might have damaged it on installation. I'm leaning towards the connection on the main board being damaged in some way. it's strange that it is intermittent.
killj0y said:
Its possible the connections for the sd card slot are damaged or that you got a damaged replacement, or that you might have damaged it on installation. I'm leaning towards the connection on the main board being damaged in some way. it's strange that it is intermittent.
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I dont think its a problem with our memory cards. Either the card slot that Samsung made is of very poor quality or it is a problem with the latest ICS firmware. There A LOT of people facing this problem out there including my cousin who is the only other person i know with an S3. Not only does his memory card slot disconnect and reconnect, it completely killed it, it does work anymore. In some situations online, i have seen that people have ruined 2-3 memory cards by putting it in the S3.
I am facing the same problem and it is getting on my nerves. I live in a third world country so I might not receive a new phone.
Please find a solution XDA FORUM! :crying:
Had the same issue with my S3.
Turned out that the SD card was dying (the card brand is Team Group), this caused it to be unmounted by itself and then mounted again (sometimes showing notification “sd card removed unexpectedly”), hence triggering the “Media” scanning process and significantly draining the battery.
I created an application to monitor how many times the SD card was removed, and turned out to be unmounted every ~3 mins!!!
I then bought a new Transcend 32GB Class 10 card (made in Korea), and until now, this never happens, no reports from the application whatsoever, and no media process eating my battery.
I just published this app in the play store now, this is the link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sdcardmonitor
So as the title says my phone tells me to insert an sd card to use my camera which also causes problems with downloading images from WhatsApp or files from the Internet.
I am running CM14.1-20161202-NIGHTLY-D855 with gapps ARM, Android 7.1, Stock version.
I noticed that my sd card appeared to be unmounting itself whenever I rebooted my device, I tried formatting it, unmounting and rebooting but nothing seemed to work so I thought maybe it's just giving up and decided to buy a new one yesterday but alas, I have exactly the same issue. It's been formatted, unmounted, rebooted, remounted but nothing seems to work.
Any ideas?
Just incase anybody else is having this problem I have fixed the issue, You need to download the following app and just hit the fix button.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vinny.intsdfixer
(Just incase the link doesnt work for any reason the app is called "Int-SdCard write fix")