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Solved - Help - Dropped desire in a puddle, now not recognising any micro SD cards

Hi,
Being the idiot I am I was running yesterday without making sure my belt case was securely closed and managed to drop my desire in a puddle. After drying it off and reassembling it I'm having 2 issues:
1. Thr phone isnt recognising either of the 2 micro sd cards I've tried so far. It doesn't even show them as unformatted or similar, just no card inserted.
2. The phone seems to have lost its battery backup, on boot up the time and date are wrong, defaulting to jan 7th 1980.
I'll try sticking it in the airing cupboard once I'm home to make sure it is properly dried out, any other suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
Bill
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Edit: recovery mode does see the sd card so I don't think this is a hardware issue?

Tried flashing an ruu?
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Not yet, will try that once I get home if a format of the card doesn't help.
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The date thing happens when you have an instant loss of power - ie battery falls out. Happened to me a few times, unfortunately the fix is to delete the Android created directories from the SD Card - so it should fix itself if you get the SD Card sorted.

Stick it in a air tight container with loads of rice. Then leave it for bout a week to let it dry off
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Thanks everybody, out turned out that the SD had died, once I followed the suggestion to RUU I got the phone back into a state that it would read other cards.
I've now ordered a replacement 32gb so should be fully back up and running soon.
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SD card problems

I keep getting a warning on the top of me screen saying "SD card removed. Please insert new one"
This happen after trying to delete my MIUI content from my SD card through Astro. When I clicked delete it took some time the said "error while deleting " then I got this message.
I pulled the battery, and put it back in. SD card was read fine. As I was navigating through Astro again I got the SD card message again. I tried pulling the battery but nothing.
I've looked around on several site trying to find what's wrong with no luck.
I was trying to free up some new space to swap Rome again. I was on MIUI, then came to HTCclay.
My SD card is a 4gb sandisk(I think) cheap o from Walmart.
Any help would be nice. I don't have a computer with me right now, but my SD card is able to be read in recovery (although when I click on things it says "file not found" but labels are there) and it can be read on a friends phone.
I have since wipes my SD card in hopes of it working, but all that did is make me lose all my pics and music.
Any help and a fast response would be appreciated.
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I just pulled the SD card and reboot the phone with out it. Then put it back in and now I get this "SD card damaged. You may have to reformat it."
But it works fine on friends phone.
Wth is going on?
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Formatting does nothing
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I had this on a cheap 8 gig card that had been modded to look like a 32GB card from Amazon marketplace... got a refund but it was the card at fault. Got another one kicking around to try?

I will in a few hours. My shift is over at 8pm central. That's 2hours away. Ill give feed back when I try.
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No another SD card will not work. They all give me the same message.
Its so odd that I can see all the content in recovery, but it says file not found when I try to open anything. But I can not see any content when I turn my phone on.
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If your phone wont read any sdcards then its your phone. Anychance you got some dirt in there? You could try blowing it out real good or taking your old card cleaning it off real good then slide it in and out a few times. Also i would try doing a factory reset, if that dont work try wiping and flashing new rom. If none of those work then you got a broke phone. There was a website floating around that had all the parts for the vision. However i think that part is attatched to the mainboard..... So you might be better off getting a new phone. Thats worst case though hopefully one of the first things will fix it. Good luck!
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Well that's what I thought, but my phone can read the content in recovery so its got to be the program right?
Well this is where it gets very odd.
I had an old 542mb memory card from an old phone in a small case with some old pics on it and was swapping out my wife's 1gb card to view the pics. But the case broke and I had know safe way of keeping the 1gb card from my wife's phone so I popped it into my phone for the time being.
I played on her phone looking at old pics and what not. Then just so happen to look down at my phone and did not see the "you have a bad SD card" thing. I went to gallery and all her pics where there.
I went and grabbed my 4gb card (the original card that stopped working on me) and put it in my phone ......and nothing.
Had a small hope...lol.
Well my wife wanted to use my 4gb SD card, so we put it into her phone (some super cheap Samsung not even a smart phone). I jokingly said "watch it work in my phone now....lol"
Put it back in my phone and............bam working again.
I'm not sure what happen. If anyone can explain that would be nice. My SD card was put into several smart phones witch they all where able to read and use the card. After it was always put back into my phone with no luck. Now we put it into my wife's phone and it works again.....hmmmm. wish I would have not deleted all my songs,pics,backups,and documents......but oh well got my card back.
Sorry for such a long thread , just trying to put every little thing down.
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because it is happening randomly and the only constant is that the card in question at any given moment works in other devices i would blame your phone. If it works in recovery try a factory reset or flash an older backup to see if that fixes it. Also take a toothbrush with pure alcohol and give the contacts a cleaning. a rubber eraser works too just blow out the dust afterwords.
p.s. Sandisk is not a cheap brand of sd's theya re generally regarded one of the better and more reliable brands if not the best.

Ill clean it even though its working.
If it happens again ill try to swap out the rom, but I did do a factory reset. Was one of the first things I did.
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Its possible that putting the card in your wifes phone cleaned the contacts some. Its also possible that while you phone was able to read the directory of the disk without being able to read the files themselves. I know they are stored seperatly but i dont know if jits a specific contact on the card itself. That might explain why you could see the files in recovery. Im just taking guesses here but hey it makes sense in my mind.
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you said it wasn't working, which is it? lol

HTC Wildfire S Problem with digitizer replacement..

Hi guys I'm new at this, but here is the thing if anybody could help I'd really appreciate it, she let the phone fall on the floor and the digitizer screen broke, so she bought a new replacement and gave it to me to fix it, I mount everything and when I turn on the phone everything works except the digitizer, it does not work at all, I checked every connection and everything is fine.. What can I do?
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It has its stock rom, I tried clear storage with hboot, nothing..
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I have the same problem, did you solve it?

Nope not yet, im trying something but i dont have it right now, ill post it in a while so you try it
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My too
I have a "dead" left column on digitizer,no matter how many time I re-assemble the phone. Is the digitizer bad ?

Try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21955821
this might work

elrichie23 said:
Hi guys I'm new at this, but here is the thing if anybody could help I'd really appreciate it, she let the phone fall on the floor and the digitizer screen broke, so she bought a new replacement and gave it to me to fix it, I mount everything and when I turn on the phone everything works except the digitizer, it does not work at all, I checked every connection and everything is fine.. What can I do?
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Digitiser might be faulty. Dirt in connection? Use air blaster spray thing to clean. Moisture? Leave in dry rice, oven.
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I will try it, but the thing is that for the gold card to work i need the phone on usb debugging and the digitizer i have does not work at all, im gonna get the broken one from my friend tomorrow and try this, thank you very much to everybody!
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Try what mstfkaratas posted that is what I told you I was going to try... But today when I was going to try it noticed that the phone needed to be in usb debugging so I'll have to wait till' I get the broken digitizer back! I'll let you know tomorrow if my friend brings it to work!
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mstfkaratas said:
Try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21955821
this might work
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Big Thanks, it's works

make sure you closed all locks at those LIF sockets, the connections might be faulty when failed to do, no matter how precisely you put the connector on its place... also be aware that there are two pin rows on the socket, so even slightly pulled out connection will be faulty... got same problem with display when reassembling waterlogged phone, skips in connection made the display look like very poor CRT screen

same problem
Hi guys,
i have the same problem, but i can't activate the usb-debuging. That means I can't create a gold-card, which is needed in the link posted above :/
What can I do?

Same thing happened to me tried using broken digitizer to activate it but it didn't work either...
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I'm stuck at the usb debugging step as well.
Anyone found a solution?
Apparently orangade got it (see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1436314&page=4, post #38) but I can't find that RUU.

if you have another android device you can use it to create gold card
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new digitizer also, screen touch screen not working, help please tried every thing. does the phone need to be rooted to do the gold card.. would this even work.. done a few wildfires. and this is the first one i have a problem with...

Had a similar problem, 1st replacement digitizer would only respond in a small part of the screen. Figured it was a faulty part so ordered another one from a different supplier. This time none of the screen would respond. Phone was set to 'charge only' and debug mode was disabled.
Tried this:
https://sites.google.com/site/repairlinks/htc/htc-wildfire-s-calibration
Formatted the MicroSD card first. I got a different message in step 7 but continued to follow the instructions and it worked perfectly!

New HTC Wildfire S digitizer not responding.
So I have been having a similar problem. I am attempting to replace the digitizer on my friend's HTC Wildfire S. The first time I replaced it, it didn't work. So I bought another replacement part made sure I was buying for the right model (tmobile). After installing the new one it still doesn't work. I have been trying everything I possibly can to get it to work. The first thing I tried was creating a gold card but I can't because usb debugging isn't turned on and I can't access it to get the CID. I have also tried rooting it but that also requires usb debugging. Then I tried loading the CalibrationWildfireS files onto the sd card and go through the steps (located here: https://sites.google.com/site/repairlinks/htc/htc-wildfire-s-calibration) and ran into a security issue wich caused it to fail. I have put a lot of hours into research and attempts at trying to fix this but I am stumped. Can somebody please help me. Facts: The phone is tmobile (gsm), bought a new gsm replacement, the touch screen is unresponsive, usb debugging is off and inaccessable. Assumptions: this is a software issue (pretty sure), there is a solution.

GLJ27 said:
So I have been having a similar problem. I am attempting to replace the digitizer on my friend's HTC Wildfire S. The first time I replaced it, it didn't work. So I bought another replacement part made sure I was buying for the right model (tmobile). After installing the new one it still doesn't work. I have been trying everything I possibly can to get it to work. The first thing I tried was creating a gold card but I can't because usb debugging isn't turned on and I can't access it to get the CID. I have also tried rooting it but that also requires usb debugging. Then I tried loading the CalibrationWildfireS files onto the sd card and go through the steps (located here: https://sites.google.com/site/repairlinks/htc/htc-wildfire-s-calibration) and ran into a security issue wich caused it to fail. I have put a lot of hours into research and attempts at trying to fix this but I am stumped. Can somebody please help me. Facts: The phone is tmobile (gsm), bought a new gsm replacement, the touch screen is unresponsive, usb debugging is off and inaccessable. Assumptions: this is a software issue (pretty sure), there is a solution.
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You have security fail because you didn't create a goldcard. Try generating the CID while in USB Fastboot. Can you do this? I mean does it show the white HBOOT screen when u press VOLdown + POWER buttons? Or it doesn't work AT ALL?

polfrank said:
You have security fail because you didn't create a goldcard. Try generating the CID while in USB Fastboot. Can you do this? I mean does it show the white HBOOT screen when u press VOLdown + POWER buttons? Or it doesn't work AT ALL?
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Yes I can load it into the fastboot and it shows the HBOOT screen but when I tried to get the CID for the goldcard it just didn't work. I thought it was because usb debugging wasn't turned on but I'm not sure. What is the process you recommend to get the CID?

[Error] Sdcard unexpectedly removed

This has been the second time getting this error on SG3.
The first time I checked if the card was corrupted by putting the sdcard in the netbook, it was recognized and displayed all the folders. Inserted the card again in the SG3 and it wasn't recognized, rebooted into recovery and fixed permisions and cleared cache/dalvik and rebooted. The card was back up and everything was ok.
Again happened today, tried the same thing and nada Now it also says "Sdcard blank or unregonized file system" in notification and it then prompts for format confirmation upon tapping it.
I've googled and oogled and keep finding different solutions, some I cannot try now since I'm at work. One of them suggest to move all files to PC and format the card, I'll give that a shot at home and see. Another was to update the firmware, but on the latest L13... Apparently, this has been ongoing for sometime and there is an open issue in google for this.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=19722
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9736 - Originally opened for LG Ally, but HTC and Samsung users have also reported it on the same issue.
Anyone else encountered this problem in SG3?

Happens to me all the time. Sometimes it will just continue to prepare then unexpectedly removed pops up, then that will cycle and kill my battery. I just got a new SD card hoping that would fix it but it did not.
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alaman68 said:
Happens to me all the time. Sometimes it will just continue to prepare then unexpectedly removed pops up, then that will cycle and kill my battery. I just got a new SD card hoping that would fix it but it did not.
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I'm researching like a mad man! Found a few tools but most are for HDD and not microsd... found the one below that is supposed to detect the card/drive even if it's not mounted or has a drive letter and revover the file system, repair partitions, recover ALL file types, etc but nada
Had a few important fotos, my most recent nanroid, my TB folder, that last one hurt the most.
I didn't back up after the first "fix" cause I thought it was a one time things, never heard of this error before. Lesson learned
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

If your computer can see it and you don't mind losing data do a low level format on the SDcard
Edit: my SDcard started liked yours but got so bad i couldn't use it at all with my phone, I'm fact Windows couldn't even see it i had to use Linux.
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jamcar said:
If your computer can see it and you don't mind losing data do a low level format on the SDcard
Edit: my SDcard started liked yours but got so bad i couldn't use it at all with my phone, I'm fact Windows couldn't even see it i had to use Linux.
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Mine is in that state right now, XP won't pick it up, booting up Win7 PC to try it. My Nikin S70 detects it but it says unusable and won't format it either.
Guess my only option is to partition the netbooks HD and install Ubuntu on it, this gave a good excuse to try it out lol
Found this post that gives some pointers and explains the linux part.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4112485&postcount=9

ugggg...... my sd was just totally killed. Windows will not even recognize it now and it reads as a blank SD in the phone. did you figure anything out OP? Mine is 32G sandisk class 10.
this sucks

Same thing happened with me D: did anyone find a solution other than losing all the data on it?
And since I see this thread is fairly new, did everyone else happen to be on the leaked Jelly bean build? It happened to me after the phone rebooted while on the leaked ROM
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alaman68 said:
ugggg...... my sd was just totally killed. Windows will not even recognize it now and it reads as a blank SD in the phone. did you figure anything out OP? Mine is 32G sandisk class 10.
this sucks
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Apart from the info already here, nope... I need to buy an external sd reader that gets a drive letter assigned without the card and try to force mount on win and run chkdsk, it's the only thing missing. Not even Linux picks it up! Not even force mount! This sucks and seems to have been a problem in android for some time now...
I did order a sandisk 32GB Ultra, but would like to fix this one. Might use it for the camera or give it to my better half for their TF700.
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Next time it happens and your pc still happens to pick it up, run a chkdsk on it. Do not format it. It might prevent it from happening again...
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imaconeheadXD said:
Same thing happened with me D: did anyone find a solution other than losing all the data on it?
And since I see this thread is fairly new, did everyone else happen to be on the leaked Jelly bean build? It happened to me after the phone rebooted while on the leaked ROM
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i was not on the JB leak. Beginning to think this is a hardware problem, so last night i unrooted and am going to the sprint store today.
I did try force mounting, chkdsk and everything else i could find but nothing worked. fortunately i am still able to return the SD card because i have only had it for a week.

My 64gb class 10 just started doing this after i formatted it to fat32. I am wondering if formatting could be our problem.
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blazerboy567 said:
My 64gb class 10 just started doing this after i formatted it to fat32. I am wondering if formatting could be our problem.
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Yes and no...It was stated by some members that there was a write-up saying that you shouldn't format your card because this would deduct part of it's useful life.
I never formated my card, it was inserted as soon as I bought the phone and been using it since and never formated it.
I'm going tonight to Wal-Mart and getting a card reader and seeing if that helps in fixing this. In an earlier post I attached a link to an old thread that gives a solution that seems to have helped others.

FYI, just got back from the store and it is definitely failure of the SD card reader. They tested it and my new phone comes tomorrow.

alaman68 said:
FYI, just got back from the store and it is definitely failure of the SD card reader. They tested it and my new phone comes tomorrow.
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Sprint store? How did they determine it?
I used another sdcard that I had, 8GB, and the phone read it ok...
Edit - then does this mean that there might be a factory reset on the card reader in the SG3? :/

all they told me was that they inserted another card and it happened. Mine also fried two cards so far, so it is definitely pretty bad and i was confident it would fail any test they gave it.

alaman68 said:
all they told me was that they inserted another card and it happened. Mine also fried two cards so far, so it is definitely pretty bad and i was confident it would fail any test they gave it.
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hm... I'll clear up a 2GB one I have lying around and see how it goes before using the 32GB Ultra.
If it happens again, I'll visit the Sprint Store on Saturday.
Do you have TEP or was it covered under manufacturer warranty?

i do have TEP but it was covered under manufacturer warranty. took over an hour, but worth having the ability to use an SD card again

alaman68 said:
i do have TEP but it was covered under manufacturer warranty. took over an hour, but worth having the ability to use an SD card again
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Kool! The way it should be, since it's a factory deffect.
I'll test out and see what goes on...
Thanks on the update.

Hey guys
Been reading this thread, having the same issue.
Actually the only reason I post because I'm troubled of the error other then having an actual problem, this error been spawning up for me for quite a while, though it does seem to work perfectly fine.
You think the SD card could just Die one day ?
I hope you guys could determine if there's a factory defect in the SG3 or the Card, I got the international GT-i9300, I hope i won't have to return it, since the shop it was bought from is located at Poland and I live in israel (let's say that handling via warranty is not an option).
Need to check perhaps with samsung if they know of any factory defects regarding microSD card readers, My SDcard brand is Sandisk 32GB ultra class 6.

I fixed mine by completely removing the battery and putting in sd card then boot up. Sounds dumb but it worked.
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my DHD is a killing SDCards machine... what to do?

ok guys im sick of this.
My Desire HD is killing all of my SDCards till now.
every once in a time (like 2 months, 3 months)
my DHD just kills the sdcard that is inserted..
I try to plug the SD to other devices but it shows it doesnt work and it is demaged..
So everytime i go and buy a new SDCard and everything is working fine for 2 3 months.
2 days ago my DHD killed another SDCard and im preety much sick of this.. i forget to backup like a moron and it freaks me out.
I will go and buy a new SDCard, but I just wanted to know how to fix it. how to prevent my DHD kill another SD Card..
Formatting really doesn't matter, its something with the system..
I have wondered if there any thing i can do? for example buy a new SDCARD reader suitable for my dhd and replace it with the one i have now or something?
is there anything like that or something?
My DHD killed like 4 SDCards till now..
Thanks.

Well what brand SD cards are you using?
Also do you have any apps that constantly write to SD? Reason being is that flash memory has a limited amount of reads and writes. If you have some random app that is using your SD as its sandbox then that would explain it.
As for the brand, better brands tend to make cards that last longer.
Finally by formatting, I assume your referring to formatting the card after it dies, to see if it will still work. If not try that.
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