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Completely recovered from a "Damaged SD Card"

Last week, after rebooting my phone, I got a message in the notification tray that said "Damaged SD Card." My SD card was completely non-existent, as far as the phone was concerned. I plugged the phone into my computer and mounted USB storage. The drive showed up, but myy computer told me that the drive needed to be formatted (no data existed). I feared that I had lost all of my data. I decided to go for a hail mary and booted into CWM recovery, mounted the sdcard as USB, and run a "chkdsk /r" on the drive from within windows. It took over 2 hours to complete (32GB card), but all of my data came back! It's been about 5 days, and I haven't noticed any corruption of any kind.
I don't know what caused it initially, but I am sure glad I was able to recover it. I thought I'd post this here in case anyone else ran into the same issue. I know some of this info is posted elsewhere, but most threads involved a data recovery software.
Dave

I've experienced this problem before too after i kinda just tossed my phone up in the air and caught it (I do this when in bored). And I guess the impact with my hand was too much for the SD card slot, because then it said the SD card was damaged. All I did was take the card out, kinda blew on it like a Nintendo cartridge, and reinserted. It worked fine, and still til this day.
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hijewpositive said:
I've experienced this problem before too after i kinda just tossed my phone up in the air and caught it (I do this when in bored). And I guess the impact with my hand was too much for the SD card slot, because then it said the SD card was damaged. All I did was take the card out, kinda blew on it like a Nintendo cartridge, and reinserted. It worked fine, and still til this day.
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I tried removing/reinserting mine and had no luck... But that is definitely something that you should try first!
Dave

honestly I had the same thing happen but I fixed it a lot quicker.
If you ever have that issue again go to your into storage and it should say mount sd. Hit that and let the phone do the rest.
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It can happen from a bad kernel as well. I had my SD card wiped out twice during kernel testing on my OG Epic. If you are a flashaholic, its good to backup that SD on your PC every once in a while just in case stuff happens. Corrupt files and such can cause it too
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This happened after I returned to calk's ROM from that ics build that was floating around before repo went private. I used chkdsk too to recover
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hijewpositive said:
I've experienced this problem before too after i kinda just tossed my phone up in the air and caught it (I do this when in bored). And I guess the impact with my hand was too much for the SD card slot, because then it said the SD card was damaged. All I did was take the card out, kinda blew on it like a Nintendo cartridge, and reinserted. It worked fine, and still til this day.
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+1 for the Nintendo cartridge reference
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[Q] Phone keeps rebooting

Ok. This is the weirdest thing ever. My mom phone was stock. She didn't really do much. All of a sudden her phone started rebooting. It just reboots out the blue. She doesn't have any unusual apps either.
A factory reset didn't do anything, so Sprint is going to give her a replacement. It'll be here Friday. So in the mean time I decided to root it to see if that would fix the problem, but it didn't. It's still rebooting.
What could be causing that problem? I rooted, and put on Blazer 4.1 GB ROM. I'm about to try an ICS ROM to see if that would help. What's strange is that even after changing the ROM, the problem persisted. I'm guessing it's hardware related?

Its just the phone . That happened to my sisters e4gt. Started rebooting. All stock. Took it into sprint. And they gave her a replacement. Now it doesnt happen.
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Update: So I flashed an ICS ROM and it's not rebooting. I think I found the culprit. My mom's SD card that came with the phone wasn't reading on my computer. So I was using another one I had. I forgot to switch them out when the phone booted, but now the phone seems to be ok.
I put the SD card in my phone and my phone wouldn't read the SD card and also it went into Kernel Panic Upload Mode. So I'm guessing there's a problem with the SD card. Glad I found that out. LoL!!

No_Nickname90 said:
Update: So I flashed an ICS ROM and it's not rebooting. I think I found the culprit. My mom's SD card that came with the phone wasn't reading on my computer. So I was using another one I had. I forgot to switch them out when the phone booted, but now the phone seems to be ok.
I put the SD card in my phone and my phone wouldn't read the SD card and also it went into Kernel Panic Upload Mode. So I'm guessing there's a problem with the SD card. Glad I found that out. LoL!!
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The epic touch don't come with an SD card if she bought it brand new and sealed!! Then it don't come with an SD card. What's the make and model of this culprit?
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This is interesting i have been getting random shutdowns lately too on ics and gb. I suspect my aftermarket battery so today I switched back to stock battery. I will have to try the sdcard thing if it continues. Thnx for the tip.
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No_Nickname90 said:
Update: So I flashed an ICS ROM and it's not rebooting. I think I found the culprit. My mom's SD card that came with the phone wasn't reading on my computer. So I was using another one I had. I forgot to switch them out when the phone booted, but now the phone seems to be ok.
I put the SD card in my phone and my phone wouldn't read the SD card and also it went into Kernel Panic Upload Mode. So I'm guessing there's a problem with the SD card. Glad I found that out. LoL!!
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What the hell is "Kernel Panic Upload Mode" ???
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SouthPhilly said:
What the hell is "Kernel Panic Upload Mode" ???
Sent From My Galaxy Class Star Fighter...
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It's something that shows up weird that shows up on your phone. I'm not too sure on the details about it though. It's on XDA. The source of this picture is from XDA. LoL!!
http://i41.tinypic.com/xmtt1w.jpg
krazy_smokezalot said:
The epic touch don't come with an SD card if she bought it brand new and sealed!! Then it don't come with an SD card. What's the make and model of this culprit?
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Oh it doesn't? LoL!! I've had SD cards for so long that I forget. LoL!! Yea, then that makes it even worst. She had a 2GB SD card. Actually, you're right. She had my Samsung Memoir and the SD card went with that. She wanted to keep the pictures. I'm guessing the memory card died out or something. LoL!! IDK. All I know is that when I took that SD card out, the phone started working perfectly.

No_Nickname90 said:
It's something that shows up weird that shows up on your phone. I'm not too sure on the details about it though. It's on XDA. The source of this picture is from XDA. LoL!!
http://i41.tinypic.com/xmtt1w.jpg
Oh it doesn't? LoL!! I've had SD cards for so long that I forget. LoL!! Yea, then that makes it even worst. She had a 2GB SD card. Actually, you're right. She had my Samsung Memoir and the SD card went with that. She wanted to keep the pictures. I'm guessing the memory card died out or something. LoL!! IDK. All I know is that when I took that SD card out, the phone started working perfectly.
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You should back up/move whatever files you want on that sd card to your computer and then try formatting it and check if it still causes issues.
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This is an issue with our ET4g. I have this issue and found many others in other forums do too. I have found many reasons that people suggested the caused; battery, rom, SDcard, wifi, or and apps... There are many suggestions to also limit the reboots. For me, when it reboots, I make sure wifi is off or turn it off and let it start up normally. One suggested to take out sdcard when it boots up, and then insert it after it booted. I wonder if the S2 bug has anything to do with it.
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When I got my E4GT I took the sd card out of my HTC Hero and put it in this phone. It worked ok for a day or two, then I started getting reboots and frozen screens. Someone in the forums suggested pulling the sd card which I did and the phone was happy again. I backed up the files on the card and reformatted it while in the S2. Never had another problem.

Sd card problem!

Blank SD card.(unsupported file system)
i try re-format it. but after awhile the problem just keep coming back.
i think the problem is the phone ( XPERIA ION OF CAUSE ) is putting something inside that cause it to have problem.
Note: i format it...(start from clean)
put some video inside. ( cause it happen before so i don't want to put a lot of things )
works fine for about a day?
i try to open the video by the photo widget, fail. video cannot be played
i reboot phone
Blank SD card.

icbless said:
Blank SD card.(unsupported file system)
i try re-format it. but after awhile the problem just keep coming back.
i think the problem is the phone ( XPERIA ION OF CAUSE ) is putting something inside that cause it to have problem.
Note: i format it...(start from clean)
put some video inside. ( cause it happen before so i don't want to put a lot of things )
works fine for about a day?
i try to open the video by the photo widget, fail. video cannot be played
i reboot phone
Blank SD card.
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Are you formatting the card with the phone or in your computer? Have you tried you phone with a different card? Maybe you have a damaged phone, same goes for the card. I got a 64 GB card for my phone, and had to format it with the phone before being able to use it, after that I haven't had any trouble. The only thing is that every time that I connect my phone through USB to my PC (Win7), it tells me the card is damaged and gives me the option of scanning and fixing it or ignore it. I choose ignore, but it a bit annoying to do it every time.

josemald said:
Are you formatting the card with the phone or in your computer? Have you tried you phone with a different card? Maybe you have a damaged phone, same goes for the card. I got a 64 GB card for my phone, and had to format it with the phone before being able to use it, after that I haven't had any trouble. The only thing is that every time that I connect my phone through USB to my PC (Win7), it tells me the card is damaged and gives me the option of scanning and fixing it or ignore it. I choose ignore, but it a bit annoying to do it every time.
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when this happen for the first time..i format it using computer.
now this is the 2nd time happening and this time i format using phone. i will let it run for a few days to see if there is problem or not =)

I havent heard of this issue. Was it the card that came with the phone? If so id take it back amd have em replace it!
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icbless said:
when this happen for the first time..i format it using computer.
now this is the 2nd time happening and this time i format using phone. i will let it run for a few days to see if there is problem or not =)
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sounds like you have a faulty micro SD card, I had the same problem when I tried to put one into my blackberry. It worked fine on my computer but when I put it into my phone I kept getting errors, eventually it just stopped working all together.

I have a 64gb card and no problem at all. Pop it right in format using phone and just never have any problem with phone or laptop

killerskincanoe said:
I havent heard of this issue. Was it the card that came with the phone? If so id take it back amd have em replace it!
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Your phone came with a memory card?! Mine didn't.
Back on topic, I have had similar issues. I found that is I keep the phone in mass storage mode, and dont allow the internal memory to connect to the computer my issue goes away. I have ICS installed. So long as my internal memory does not connect, my issue has not come back. Give that a shot and see if it works for you as well.
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Yes. BEST BUY! came with 8gb card.
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Right, it came right out of the box with an 8gb card already on the phone.
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what else came in box? i`m feeling myself ripped off lol

vladvertigo said:
what else came in box? i`m feeling myself ripped off lol
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Untold pleasures and goodies.......................................cord, adapter and useless manual, lol.
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vladvertigo said:
what else came in box? i`m feeling myself ripped off lol
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Ditto. I got the phone, charger, and 1 screen protector. No physical memory card. Seriously.
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tribalartgod said:
Ditto. I got the phone, charger, and 1 screen protector. No physical memory card. Seriously.
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Ah, I didn't get a screen protector. I guess that's the trade off.

me too , i have this probs

I had this issue once with my OG Dinc. The card just stopped working in the phone but still works fine in the computer to this day. I would bet on your card being faulty.
As for the Ion sd card I feel cheated as mine came with a 4gb card. ?? Got it at Boo Buy also. Lucky for me I had just picked up a 8gb card for another Dinc I acquired.

I too, have the same problem. I have to reformated my card a few times since I got the phone (just about a month). My card is fine, but after using a while, it became unuseable even in my computer. Reformat it, everything's fine but a week later, it came back! I'm on 2.3.7.

Saigonian said:
I too, have the same problem. I have to reformated my card a few times since I got the phone (just about a month). My card is fine, but after using a while, it became unuseable even in my computer. Reformat it, everything's fine but a week later, it came back! I'm on 2.3.7.
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Could just be the card. I've had bad ones from the start, had good ones go bad, etc..
I have a generic card that would not work at all unless it was put in to an adapter, and then only sometimes. I've since put it into my Zoom H2 recorder where it seems it's the only place it wants to work full time.
I personally won't buy any off brand SD cards anymore, Sandisk only for me, have yet to have one of these crap out yet.

Make sure you are unmounting the phone in windows before you unplug it. That is what corrupted my card on my incredible.

jeriku said:
Could just be the card. I've had bad ones from the start, had good ones go bad, etc..
I have a generic card that would not work at all unless it was put in to an adapter, and then only sometimes. I've since put it into my Zoom H2 recorder where it seems it's the only place it wants to work full time.
I personally won't buy any off brand SD cards anymore, Sandisk only for me, have yet to have one of these crap out yet.
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I see. I'm living in Vietnam, those brand-name cards are so expensive. This card I've used for more than a year with my old Arc, class 10, without any problem. Since it goes with my new Ion, there comes problems! I'm saving money to buy a new card based on your advice! Thank you so much!
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Make sure you are unmounting the phone in windows before you unplug it. That is what corrupted my card on my incredible.
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Yes, I did it all the time and sometimes I turned off the phone to take the card out for safety. Thank you!

Mine didn't come with sht! wth???
Probably is the card though, I've had similar issues in the past, none with Ion though. Sdcards can be rather fickle and hidden files can get stuck on there much like on a flash drive. I have a box full of flash drives that are irreparable.
Try replacing the card first. Also I usually let Windows repair mine when it asks. Seems to help. eb
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[Q] sd card unmount unexpectedly

Hye everybody..im having a small problem with my n2..my external sdcard sometime get unmount automatically after unlocking to home screen. .anyone having this problem? This can effect battery life since the media will be rescan each time it happen. .may I know the cause of the problem and if possible a way to solve it..tq
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coincidentally, am experiencing the same thing recently
am pulling my hair off due to it lol

me to exp the same problem is it because of phone or the card?

Experienced it before... And I flashed a different kernel, it is solved.
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melvinchng said:
Experienced it before... And I flashed a different kernel, it is solved.
Accidentally sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note 2
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Which kernel? Am relief to hear others are having the same problem..I guess it may relate to firmware or kernel since few people are having the same problem..
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Yes, it's been happening to me too when unlocking the phone (and seemingly more recently over the last week).
Using a Sandisk Ultra card and on the standard 4.1.1 ROM.

Let me guess, you are all using sandisk ultra cards? These cards appear to be a real pain in the a s s . Mine, (bought new off Amazon in October) went tits up and I believe it was the card that somehow caused corrupted files and caused my "media" process to be a complete battery hog.
About a week before the card totally failed to be recognized by my computer or my phone, I got those random messages about my sd card being unmounted and then it would just automatically scan it as if I had just inserted it when in reality I never took it out. I was able to copy everything to my computer about an hour before it was complete toast
I suggest you copy any important files on the card to your computer or wherever before it completely fails. I don't know what to do about getting a new card. I already filed a warranty claim with Sandisk but I am hesitant to use their brand again. Sandisk seems to be THE brand out there. I would like to try another brand.

livingaboard said:
Let me guess, you are all using sandisk ultra cards? These cards appear to be a real pain in the a s s . Mine, (bought new off Amazon in October) went tits up and I believe it was the card that somehow caused corrupted files and caused my "media" process to be a complete battery hog.
About a week before the card totally failed to be recognized by my computer or my phone, I got those random messages about my sd card being unmounted and then it would just automatically scan it as if I had just inserted it when in reality I never took it out. I was able to copy everything to my computer about an hour before it was complete toast
I suggest you copy any important files on the card to your computer or wherever before it completely fails. I don't know what to do about getting a new card. I already filed a warranty claim with Sandisk but I am hesitant to use their brand again. Sandisk seems to be THE brand out there. I would like to try another brand.
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Im using a sandisk ultra 32gb card ever since i got my sgn2 a few months bck, never even formatted it to anything else n flashed a s#itload of roms n kernels too never had or have a prob, btw currently using omega 8.0 n perseus alpha 29....
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livingaboard said:
Let me guess, you are all using sandisk ultra cards? These cards appear to be a real pain in the a s s . Mine, (bought new off Amazon in October) went tits up and I believe it was the card that somehow caused corrupted files and caused my "media" process to be a complete battery hog.
About a week before the card totally failed to be recognized by my computer or my phone, I got those random messages about my sd card being unmounted and then it would just automatically scan it as if I had just inserted it when in reality I never took it out. I was able to copy everything to my computer about an hour before it was complete toast
I suggest you copy any important files on the card to your computer or wherever before it completely fails. I don't know what to do about getting a new card. I already filed a warranty claim with Sandisk but I am hesitant to use their brand again. Sandisk seems to be THE brand out there. I would like to try another brand.
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Yes im using a sandisk ultra 32 gig class10..however my other friends also having the same problem but he is using kingmax..now im not sure weather the problem rise because of the sd or default in the phone itself..
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livingaboard said:
Let me guess, you are all using sandisk ultra cards? These cards appear to be a real pain in the a s s . Mine, (bought new off Amazon in October) went tits up and I believe it was the card that somehow caused corrupted files and caused my "media" process to be a complete battery hog.
About a week before the card totally failed to be recognized by my computer or my phone, I got those random messages about my sd card being unmounted and then it would just automatically scan it as if I had just inserted it when in reality I never took it out. I was able to copy everything to my computer about an hour before it was complete toast
I suggest you copy any important files on the card to your computer or wherever before it completely fails. I don't know what to do about getting a new card. I already filed a warranty claim with Sandisk but I am hesitant to use their brand again. Sandisk seems to be THE brand out there. I would like to try another brand.
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You explained well.... same sad story!!!

im using transcend 32 gb its work fine in my note but its not work properly in note 2

My views on this issue
I have started facing this issue since the past 3-4 days and here are my views that can also serve as valuable information for everyone else:
- This error message started to appear only after I upgraded to android 4.1.2 by flashing the stock rom via odin.
- Im also using the SanDisk Ultra Class 10 32GB card
- I have not rooted my phone after upgrade and my phone is in fully stock condition, although it was rooted before.
- I dropped my phone once. But it was a very minor drop and everything was fine after the drop as it was on 4.1.1 at that time and i was on the same for further 10-15 days and never witnessed the error during these days..
These things should also be considered-
- The method of copying data from PC to phone. I use data cable and copy to the folders while the card is in the phone.
- Whether you remove the card without unmounting it.
I have tried formatting the card from windows using fat32 setting. It didnt help.
Formatted it with the phone and still saw the error once in the past 24hours..
In future, if I encounter the same problem, I might get the card replaced by visiting the sandisk service center here in India. Or, I can try flashing 4.1.1 again and revert back the result. As of now, everything seems to be fine as I have not seen the error for about a day or so.. (Fingers crossed)

sagarb said:
im using transcend 32 gb its work fine in my note but its not work properly in note 2
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Thats what makes me feel uncomfortable. .if the card is the problem I think my pc wouldn't recognize it or reading the data in it..however it is doing fine with the pc..
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rascal123 said:
Thats what makes me feel uncomfortable. .if the card is the problem I think my pc wouldn't recognize it or reading the data in it..however it is doing fine with the pc..
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and i read pple's card getting fried due to this issue

rascal123 said:
Thats what makes me feel uncomfortable. .if the card is the problem I think my pc wouldn't recognize it or reading the data in it..however it is doing fine with the pc..
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my doubt is wheather phone is having problem or the card im confuse which service center should i go first samsung or transcend .another thing is today i flashed 4.1.2 india stock rom again through odin now card wont dectecting at all but it is good and recognize with note and my pc

Paul013 said:
I have started facing this issue since the past 3-4 days and here are my views that can also serve as valuable information for everyone else:
- This error message started to appear only after I upgraded to android 4.1.2 by flashing the stock rom via odin.
- Im also using the SanDisk Ultra Class 10 32GB card
- I have not rooted my phone after upgrade and my phone is in fully stock condition, although it was rooted before.
- I dropped my phone once. But it was a very minor drop and everything was fine after the drop as it was on 4.1.1 at that time and i was on the same for further 10-15 days and never witnessed the error during these days..
These things should also be considered-
- The method of copying data from PC to phone. I use data cable and copy to the folders while the card is in the phone.
- Whether you remove the card without unmounting it.
I have tried formatting the card from windows using fat32 setting. It didnt help.
Formatted it with the phone and still saw the error once in the past 24hours..
In future, if I encounter the same problem, I might get the card replaced by visiting the sandisk service center here in India. Or, I can try flashing 4.1.1 again and revert back the result. As of now, everything seems to be fine as I have not seen the error for about a day or so.. (Fingers crossed)
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I have not rooted my phone after upgrade and my phone is in fully stock condition, although it was rooted before.
my card unmount problem started ever snice i came to stock from root

sagarb said:
I have not rooted my phone after upgrade and my phone is in fully stock condition, although it was rooted before.
my card unmount problem started ever snice i came to stock from root
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Have u try other card than the one u currently use?
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My sd card got broken today...nothing can read it anymore.. any idea on how to recover files from broken sd card?
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I can confirm that the sd card is the causing of this problem..just replace to a new one n didn't facing any problem yet
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Rooted my phone and install CWM I get this problem, but after format the sd card to fat32, everythings go well......

Sd card dead?

I am running freegs3 newest version with stock kernel. I was showing a buddy some pics that were stored in my sdcard...a 32gb pny class 10. Everything was fine then I went to pull up another pic and phone started acting up...wouldn't pull up pics...finally got back to home screen. Tried to get to pics again no go. Got an ongoing message in notification screen saying something about new sdcard or unsupported files. Idk what happened but suspect my sd card. Anyone had this happen? Any recommendations?
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Try your sd card in someone elses phone and see if it works
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try this thread, it may help you... or at least make you feal unalone....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1906058
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well got home and put it into my adapter and laptop. It recognized the card, but said it was corrupted and needed to be reformated. i reformated it cuz I really didnt lose much except for a few pics. oh well... guess ill just be careful for a while and monitor it cuz the card is about 1 1/2-2 years old.

dbenney said:
well got home and put it into my adapter and laptop. It recognized the card, but said it was corrupted and needed to be reformated. i reformated it cuz I really didnt lose much except for a few pics. oh well... guess ill just be careful for a while and monitor it cuz the card is about 1 1/2-2 years old.
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Well shouldn't matter the age, as long as its taken care of. When you remove it, do you unmount it, or just remove it?

teh roxxorz said:
Well shouldn't matter the age, as long as its taken care of. When you remove it, do you unmount it, or just remove it?
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i rarely take it out, but when I do i always turn my phone off.