I've been noticing lately that my external SD card randomly goes "missing" on my phone. I've noticed this on rooted stock and now on my current ROM, so I'm not sure it's ROM-dependent. I usually notice when I stop hearing my text notification sound (which is stored on there), and app icons in the launcher turn to the Android unknown icon. If I check the Storage settings it tells me there's no card present. Once I reboot it reappears and everything goes back to normal, beyond me needing to manually set my notification sound back.
Is anyone else experiencing the same thing? Ideas on a cause/fix?
I was having the same problem until I backed up all photos and important files to my PC then formated my card. Restored my pics and a few music albums and hasn't happened since. Hope this helps you
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I was wondering if it might be card-related. Backing up a 32GB card takes a while, but I guess your route is a relatively easy starting point.
Well, I reformatted the card and put all my data back on it a couple of days ago and the problem happened again today. Any more thoughts?
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Well, I reformatted the card and put all my data back on it a couple of days ago and the problem happened again today. Any more thoughts?
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Also had this problem and it ended up being a bad data file on my SD card can't remember what it was because this happened to me several weeks ago. It could also be a problem with the card or the SD alot.
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I'm having a sporadic but frequent problem with my Epic, wherein media files (on the SD card) suddenly become unplayable. Specifically, podcasts in Dogg Catcher, and audio books in MortPlayer, Ambling Book Player, and Audible will suddenly stop working and the app will report some sort of error such as "media file not playable" or some such.
This happens approximately once per day at unpredictable times, and my original response was to reboot the phone, which did fix the problem temporarily. Now I've discovered that unmounting the SD card, then remounting it and allowing the Android media scanner to complete will also temporarily fix the problem. In either case, however, the problem returns within a day or two, maximum.
Has anyone else experienced this kind of problem, or have any advice on how I might go about fixing them?
(FYI, my phone is rooted and I am running Syndicate Frozen 1.1 ROM, but this problem was happening before the root procedure back when I was running stock, and persists even after moving to Syndicate.)
Thanks!
Just taking a shot in the dark here, but it sounds like the problem might be with your sd card... a possible solution might be to copy all of your data off of the card, reformat it, and then copy you data back on to the card, OR try/get a different sdcard altogether.
Again, not claiming I know what the root problem is, but the reformat is worth a try as it has seemed to help with other sd card reading issues for others.
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Just taking a shot in the dark here, but it sounds like the problem might be with your sd card... a possible solution might be to copy all of your data off of the card, reformat it, and then copy you data back on to the card, OR try/get a different sdcard altogether.
Again, not claiming I know what the root problem is, but the reformat is worth a try as it has seemed to help with other sd card reading issues for others.
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Thanks, I'll backup my SD card and reformat it to see if that helps. I should know within a day or two anyway.
I'm having a similar issue where all my media files disappear and it says "no SD card detected". If i pop the card out and back in it works, but it's annoying.
FWIW this is a replacement SanDisk card (class 4), my first one was lost in a drunken phone drop at the bar.
I have this exact same issue... Never had issues when stock, but since rooting and flashing ACS101 through ACS110... Although it sounds like it's not related to this since you've had issues longer.
I've tried clearing dalvik cache, normal cache, and messing around with the DRM service, but it's still unstable and audio/video files quit working after random amounts of time.
Let me know if the SDCard fix works for you.
My wife's phone has the same problem. Completely stock, with the official FroYo update. No root or anything so far. Her phone also has an issue where it pauses for up to 30 seconds before actually dialing when a call is attempted, then often fails to actually complete the call. I think she might just have a lemon...
Hi,
New here and new to smartphones. Having an issue with my phone. All the sounds will disappear in the phone and it will not read or write to the SD card. The SD card is the 2gb one that comes with the phone. Restarting does nothing, only a master clear will get it back working right. There are no apps on the phone, and only a few pictures and a few mp3's.
The phone is running 2.3.5, have had it exchanged through t-mobile and it still does it, anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
rootoo
I have the tmobile version. Are you saying there is no sound coming out if the phone?
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The phone will still make a sound, just all the ringtones, notifications, and the SD card are gone. It does not display any sounds or alerts to choose from, the menu is blank with nothing on it.
Thanks,
rootoo
Your SD card is unmounting by itself, so it's either the SD card that has a problem, or your phone's connection pins.
Either way, send it back.
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Ok, I've noticed this several times and its extremely annoying.
In messaging every now and then it drops my selected ringtone that I made. And most importantly I use alarm clock extreme. I've have a selected track to play as the alarm and it ALWAYS goes to silent... It's not waking me up which is gonna get me into trouble. Why is it doing this? I've never had this problem before on my s1 epic 4g.
I think it has to do with the sd card. I've noticed occasionally it'll say sd suddenly removed but it's not. Does the phone derp out with the sd when it tries to sleep? Why? This has never been a problem for me before.
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Lord Syrics Jr. said:
Ok, I've noticed this several times and its extremely annoying.
In messaging every now and then it drops my selected ringtone that I made. And most importantly I use alarm clock extreme. I've have a selected track to play as the alarm and it ALWAYS goes to silent... It's not waking me up which is gonna get me into trouble. Why is it doing this? I've never had this problem before on my s1 epic 4g.
I think it has to do with the sd card. I've noticed occasionally it'll say sd suddenly removed but it's not. Does the phone derp out with the sd when it tries to sleep? Why? This has never been a problem for me before.
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I should note, on stock with root, if I leave the normal alarm clock "clock"app installed, that took over and started play an alarm ringtone from the phone selection.
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I'm just recently started having this same problem with Alarm Extreme as well as my Music playlists disappearing. I also have a custom alarm for Calengoo events so that disappears, too. It's definitely something to do with the SD card. I think for the time being I'm going to move the songs I use for Alarm Extreme, as well as my custom alarms/ringtones to internal memory. I just deal with the Music playlist issues.
I'm getting tired of waking up to birds chirping instead of my music, because birds chirping just ain't gonna wake me up. I'll let you know if I figure anything out.
FYI, I'm using a SanDisk 32GB Class 10 SD card -- brand new, bought specifically for this phone rather than using the old abused one in my EVO 4G.
I also had the same problem with sounds on my sdcard. Moving them to the internal card solved it for me too.
The problem for me turned out to be the SD card. The SanDisk 32GB UHS Class 10 (red/grey) card is about half the thickness of any other SD card I own. What's happening is the pin connection in the SD card slot loses partial contact (same thing happens with this card in my wife's Galaxy S3), the Note 2 thinks the card has been removed, so it resets all the custom alarms, music, and ringtones back to defaults. I also lose all the playlists in the stock Music app.
Anyway, I moved all my music to internal memory, but I also switched the SanDisk card out for a Patriot 32GB Class 4 card that I had in my Acer A500 tablet. The A500's SD slot seems to be a better design and it doesn't seem to have a problem with the thinner SanDisk card. Meanwhile, my Note 2 seems very happy with the thicker Patriot brand card.
Not sure what other brands have thinner cards now, but I know that SanDisk does, but Patriot and Kingston seem to be the standard thickness.
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As you can see, it's keeping my phone awake. I had heard sometimes some corrupted media on the external sometimes causes it to freak out, so I formatted the external SD and then made a custom reference point in BBS.
If I disable the Media Storage app the problem obviously goes away, but that kills the camera, gallery, etc. I'm thinking there may be a problem with the sd card itself as it has sometimes said 'Preparing SD Card' when I wake it up every now and again. I've seen a few reports of the S3 and Note 2 killing Sandisk 32 GB cards..
I'm running stock.
Any ideas?
Dude, check this out:
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=37199
Also, search the forum here for the issue, there are *many* posts like yours here already.
You could try an app called rescan media root. In the settings you can have it to keep the media scanner off. I used to use it all the time with my gnex with no ill affects. Only thing is, if you add something to the sd card while plugged into the computer you may have to rescan media with the app for the computer to recognize it, other than that it's a huge battery saver.
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I had a similar issue with corrupt MP3's on my storage. They played fine, but were incomplete in some way. Ran MP3validator (http://www.gromkov.com/faq/repair/mp3_validator.html) through them and fixed the errors and reformatted the card to FAT32 to boot. Media scanner usage back to normal.
A few days ago while trying to review some images taken with the phone (with Sandisk 64Gb card inside) and stored on the external SD card, I could not pull up the images. On the Gallery screen where you see all the recent images, the image was present, but when I tap on the image, I get a black screen with the words "media not found". When I went back to the Gallery screen which showed the screen full of images, now the requested image has been replaced by a black and white clapboard (like they use in the movie industry before the camera starts to roll). This all happens when using "Gallery". If I use "Photos" (I think that's AT&T installed), sometimes the image will be there and other times over the past few days it won't. Sometimes when I get the Media not found message, I can still pull it up with "Photos".
I thought it was a OS issue with the camera, so I restored the phone using the built-in restore function (my Root is still there), but that did not seem to help.
I changed the setting for the camera so that it would store images to the internal memory instead of external, and that did seem to work for the few hours I had it set to that, although that was not a very long time to test whether the issue is SD card related. Today I switched it back over to storing on the external SD card, and at one point a video I took this morning worked, and then later when I wanted to view it again, I got a message that it was an "unsupported file type", and I could not pull up the video.
I unmounted the card, and have it sitting connected to my Windows 7 machine, and I'm doing an error check-autofix-scan and recover right now, although it is taking forever, and I do not see any progress whatsoever on the progress bar and it's been about 15 minutes so far. As an asides, I have about 30Gb of music also stored on this card and the phone can see it and play it with no issues.
Any thoughts? SD related, phone related, OS related? I don't remember doing anything or installing anything just prior to the issue starting....
Oh, and yes, I meant to type "unsupported" in the title
andygold said:
A few days ago while trying to review some images taken with the phone (with Sandisk 64Gb card inside) and stored on the external SD card, I could not pull up the images. On the Gallery screen where you see all the recent images, the image was present, but when I tap on the image, I get a black screen with the words "media not found". When I went back to the Gallery screen which showed the screen full of images, now the requested image has been replaced by a black and white clapboard (like they use in the movie industry before the camera starts to roll). This all happens when using "Gallery". If I use "Photos" (I think that's AT&T installed), sometimes the image will be there and other times over the past few days it won't. Sometimes when I get the Media not found message, I can still pull it up with "Photos".
I thought it was a OS issue with the camera, so I restored the phone using the built-in restore function (my Root is still there), but that did not seem to help.
I changed the setting for the camera so that it would store images to the internal memory instead of external, and that did seem to work for the few hours I had it set to that, although that was not a very long time to test whether the issue is SD card related. Today I switched it back over to storing on the external SD card, and at one point a video I took this morning worked, and then later when I wanted to view it again, I got a message that it was an "unsupported file type", and I could not pull up the video.
I unmounted the card, and have it sitting connected to my Windows 7 machine, and I'm doing an error check-autofix-scan and recover right now, although it is taking forever, and I do not see any progress whatsoever on the progress bar and it's been about 15 minutes so far. As an asides, I have about 30Gb of music also stored on this card and the phone can see it and play it with no issues.
Any thoughts? SD related, phone related, OS related? I don't remember doing anything or installing anything just prior to the issue starting....
Oh, and yes, I meant to type "unsupported" in the title
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I ran the checkdisk and it did not seem to run at all. After a while it just shut off by itself. I'm currently running Norton Antivirus on the card just to see. And, I popped in a 32Gb card I had laying around, just to see, as a trouble-shooting method. strange thing though...when I open up Gallery, I can see all of the old photos taken long ago that were stored on the now-removed 64Gb card. If I click on them, they open up, although I don't know why as they were stored on a card that is no longer in the phone. I took some pics with the new card installed, and then when I went to review those images, they are there (but the "old" images from the larger card are now gone). I wonder if the phone stores old images that reside on external memory in a secondary folder internally on the phone, as they were there to view even though the card was removed...