So lately (this past month) my SD card will unmount itself. But it really isn't. I try to remount and it says 'blank SD card." Most of the time, if I pull it and reboot it loads up. It use to happen maybe once a week but now it happens multiple times a day - started 2 days ago.
So I'm trying to figure out if this is a hardware issue - bad interface on physical card contact, something with the ROM, or a bad SD card. I'm going to clear the card and reformat. I'm also copying the apps to another card and will run that for a few days to see if it "umnounts/goes blank". I searched under Caulkins E4GT thread for similar issues - didn't find any answers.
Anyone else have this issue? How to fix?
Thanks.
Did you ever find a solution to this? My stock GS2 just starting doing the same thing...
Sounds like the SD card is either corrupted or dying
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Do you have a Ram expander/Swap file active?
I know that can unmount an SD card sometimes, but a quick press of "mount SD card" fixes it.
Don;t know what else it could be other than a corrupt card.
Swap kills SD cards. It is not needed on this phone.
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Swap kills SD cards. It is not needed on this phone.
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Figured it was worth a shot. lol
though I've not seen swap kill an SD card yet...
Mine was doing the same thing. Replaced the SD card and it hasn't happened since.
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Just got the Verizon nexus and running jb sorcery 2.2 and now I'm wondering about partitioning...should you be partitioned or not. I'm coming from the evo 4g and it was a big thing for that phone. Thanks for the help
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Theres no partitioning to speak of. The Galaxy Nexus has (effectively) 1 big partition for the entire internal storage.
The reason why people re-partitioned older devices like the Evo 4G is because out of the box they weren't always partitioned in a way that all users liked. The Galaxy Nexus solves this problem because it doesn't have an external SDcard or USB Mass Storage support so the phone doesn't need to be partitioned in the first place.
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Theres no partitioning to speak of. The Galaxy Nexus has (effectively) 1 big partition for the entire internal storage.
The reason why people re-partitioned older devices like the Evo 4G is because out of the box they weren't always partitioned in a way that all users liked. The Galaxy Nexus solves this problem because it doesn't have an external SDcard or USB Mass Storage support so the phone doesn't need to be partitioned in the first place.
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Thanks for clearing that up for me
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Did any one else get a faulty Micro SD card with there phone??
I never used mine, first thing I did was stick my 32 gig card in.
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yeah I never tried my either, I stuffed my 64gb class 10 before it was even powered up
Thanks for the reply's guy's!!! Ended up going to the At&t store and they replaced the sd card with a new one.
Anytime an SD card is inserted into the phone, I start getting Mediascanner partial wakelocks that are hurting battery life. If I eject the SD card, time awake = screen-on time almost perfectly. I deleted all the files from the card and reformatted and still get the same scanner wakelocks. Seems like this has to be an error in the OS? Card is a 32gb Sandisk Ultra.
I had this issue. Eventually I found out it was a corrupt file. So I took everything off, formatted and started from scratch.
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As I mentioned above, wakelocks continued when only a blank newly formatted sd card was inserted into the phone.
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As I mentioned above, wakelocks continued when only a blank newly formatted sd card was inserted into the phone.
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Do you have another sd card lying around to try and see if it your sd card?
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I am testing it now with a blank reformatted 16G Samsung SD card I had from my Epic 4G.
Interesting. So far the problem does not seem to be occurring with the Samsung SD card (at least with no files on it). I will monitor it for a while today and add a few files to see what happens.
I loaded a couple of movies to the 16G Samsung card and still no problem.
For some reason, the phone does not like the 32G Sandisk Ultra.
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I loaded a couple of movies to the 16G Samsung card and still no problem.
For some reason, the phone does not like the 32G Sandisk Ultra.
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are both cards formatted to the same file system?
The samsung is fat32. I tried the Sandisk on both fat32 and efat with the same result. The phone has some issue with the sandisk.
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Glad you found the issue. Stinks the issue was with the card.
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From doing some more searching, it seems like others might be3 having issues with the Sandisk 32g as well.
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Battery life is much better now that phone is sleeping again.
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There is an app in the playstore that runns a script that disables the media scan after the first one It is called media rescan root
Since the issue seems to be the card, I wilo just stick with the samsung card for now. Thanks thought.
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The sandisk 32g ultra card up and died last night while trying to reformat it. It is going back to amazon.
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I use nothing but sandisk cards ever. Never had issues with it.
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The sandisk 32g ultra card up and died last night while trying to reformat it. It is going back to amazon.
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How are u formatting the card
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Tried every which way. Exfat, fat32, formatted in pc, formatted in phone, etc. Seems others are having issues with recent sandisk 32 ultras.
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Tried every which way. Exfat, fat32, formatted in pc, formatted in phone, etc. Seems others are having issues with recent sandisk 32 ultras.
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Sorry bro. What I did was put the sd card in my galaxy s2 and formatted then I installed on my note to and transfered everything from pc.
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Sorry bro. What I did was put the sd card in my galaxy s2 and formatted then I installed on my note to and transfered everything from pc.
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Wow I stand corrected. Some how it all show up as generic hierarchical as the format.
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Hi
Sometimes when I turn on the screen I notice the SD Card symbol is "ON" in the notification bar. Is it because my Note II keeps remounting the SD Card and thus rescanning the SD Card?
Why does it keep doing this?
I have my songs all stored on the SD Card and because it keeps remounting it, the songs do not stay in the playlist!
How do I keep the SD Card permanently mounted?
My Note II is running stock ROM.
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Hi, have you tried removing the SD card anfd inserting it back in? I had the same problem with my Sensation XE before and sfter a couple of in and out, it finally worked.
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Hi, have you tried removing the SD card anfd inserting it back in? I had the same problem with my Sensation XE before and sfter a couple of in and out, it finally worked.
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Ok let me try this out. Thanks for your suggestion.
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Ok let me try this out. Thanks for your suggestion.
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Nope... plugged and unplugged by SD Card a number of times and still the SD card gets rescanned.
Can't keep my songs on SD Card in my playlists.
Does any one else experience this at all? Am I the only one experiencing this?
I have the same issue. Till now, not able to find a solution. Planning to send it back for warranty claim!
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This is a warning that your sd card may soon be destroyed. It afflicts s3 and note 2. just backup your data. For more info search the thread- "s3 the sd card destroyer"​
Did u try another card? If child b the card faulty or about to fall
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Did u try another card? If child b the card faulty or about to fall
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Yep I changed to another SD card and no more remountings
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I had a 32gig scandisk class 10 and it kept re mounting every so often... also sometimes my pictures wouldn't show up in gallery. Tonight I bought a Samsung 32 gig class 6 and all is well.
I believe it was the stupid scandisk that didn't want work properly. Hope this helps!!!
Had the same problem, my supplier gave me a new card, problem solved
the same with a 32gb sandisk class10, after ~2 moths of use without a problem.
Amazon gave me back the money and my old 4gb card is working fine.
I had encountered the same issue with my n7000 and my s3. Your SD card is on the way out. Try to format it first but it that doesn't work your best course of action is to replace.
Guess what? My 32GB Class 4 SanDisk went all flaky a couple of days ago. I got an error message saying that the SD cannot be read and to reformat it.
Absolutely not! All my new pictures and songs are all being stored on the SD card!
I rebooted my phone and it could read the ca4d again but it's no longer stable.
Sigh
Why do we have this problem with the Note II?
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The memory cards have been a problem.
It was sexy for a couple of weeks but when I was to go for a holiday, it messed up bad.
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I've experienced the same issue once on my Note 2 with a Sandisk 32Gb card.
My 32GB class 4 Sandisk microSD card that I thought was working well finally died. I tried reformatting it and it worked for a little while more but finally died and could not even be reformated.
What can we do about the Note II propensity to kill microSD cards?
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Damn, I really hope it's not the Note 2 that's killing cards. I just sent back my 64gb SanDisk card which died after about 4 months of use. So while I'm waiting for a replacement, I have a 32gb cards in the way.
In over ten years of using removable flash storage I've never had a card die in me and I've had at least 15 different CF, SD and micro sd cards. Why does this "high end" sandisk card have so many issues on modern devices?
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My 8gb class 4 Kingston card also died while being used on my Note 2. Was previously using the same card on s2 and s3 too. I'm hoping with all these reported cases of sd cards dying, correlation doesn't equal causation! I'll nevertheless get a Samsung sd card for replacement. Hoping samsung cards should theoretically work better on samsung phones. Haha
I have got same problem on my 32 GB class 10 memory card and got it replaced.though I got a brand new sd card but still confused o using it.... wheyher I shuld use it or get it change with samsung 32gb class.any advice would be great
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I read a lot about people who got Note II and it ruined their sd cards, i did not think it will happen to me but it just did, 16GB Patriot SD Card got broken it was acting weird the last two days, now I have 32GB on its way to me.
Haven't had that problem.
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My 16 gb sandisk is working fine since the last 4 days.
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I read a lot about people who got Note II and it ruined their sd cards, i did not think it will happen to me but it just did, 16GB Patriot SD Card got broken it was acting weird the last two days, now I have 32GB on its way to me.
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Why you are buying such crap like 'Patriots' cards?
Buy SanDisk cards.
I have 32GB SanDisk micro SDHC ultra card and have no problem at all.
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+1 SanDisk ultra disk. ..32 gb... not even a flicker of issue
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backup all data from memory card via previous phone.
then format it twice.
Thanks guy for the advice, 32GB san disk is what I bought
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UtkarshGupta said:
backup all data from memory card via previous phone.
then format it twice.
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My laptop and Xperia arc doesn't recognise the sd card anymore
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Try to leave the card in the phone and use a cable instead. The more you handle the card the greater the risk of ruining it. It's not Note2 specific... the same goes for all phones.
Brgds... /Tubgirl
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