A few minutes ago I went to get a new ringtone for my phone on zedge. It said "SD Card not inserted.", then exited. I knew I hadn't taken it out so i went to my music player and there was no music, went to gallery and it said no external memory and closed. I popped the back case off, removed and reinserted the sd card and my phone came up with a notification that said "Damaged SD Card" and suggests that i format it. Now, i've had this sd card since i got my original dinc2 last december, and never had any problems. I got my replacement phone late august and still haven't had any problems. i haven't dropped it or anything. So i put my sd card in an adapter and plugged it into my laptop and the laptop reads it fine. i can view/access all files on the sd card. i don't have another sd card to test it on though :/. so should i back up my sdcard and format it to see if it fixes it or is it the sd card slot on the phone.
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JehC said:
A few minutes ago I went to get a new ringtone for my phone on zedge. It said "SD Card not inserted.", then exited. I knew I hadn't taken it out so i went to my music player and there was no music, went to gallery and it said no external memory and closed. I popped the back case off, removed and reinserted the sd card and my phone came up with a notification that said "Damaged SD Card" and suggests that i format it. Now, i've had this sd card since i got my original dinc2 last december, and never had any problems. I got my replacement phone late august and still haven't had any problems. i haven't dropped it or anything. So i put my sd card in an adapter and plugged it into my laptop and the laptop reads it fine. i can view/access all files on the sd card. i don't have another sd card to test it on though :/. so should i back up my sdcard and format it to see if it fixes it or is it the sd card slot on the phone.
edit: basic info on my phone
Rooted, s-off, running Paranoid Android 1.98a. 4ext recovery,
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Yes, you should, happened to me awhile back but problem fixed after
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GoonAssJuan said:
Yes, you should, happened to me awhile back but problem fixed after
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I agree, back up your data, just in case the card actually does die.
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after about 5 restarts it's working fine now. thanks for the help though, i'll remember it for future instances.
i think my phones in the halloween spirit of scaring me.
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I woke up this morning on the sight of 'SD Card blank or has unsupported filesystem' message on my DHD. I restarted my phone, shut it down then restarted, but the message is still there. When I touch the message, it asks me whether I want to format it, I choose 'yes' but nothing happened. Then I tried to read the micro SD card on my laptop; again, it detects the card but fails to read / format. I tried to format it by both FAT and NTFC (just to check whether it's possible) but after clicking on 'Start,' nothing happens. Windows, then, returns a 'was not able to complete the format' message. (Xtreme 16gb Class 2 micro SD card - but the card itself doesn't have 'Xtreme' printed on it).
The same thing happened with my previous SD card a week earlier (the one that came with the phone, Samsung 8gb Class 2 micro SD card). However, the card wasn't even proceeding to 'format' and wasn't detected by my laptop at all.
What could the problem be? Could this be caused by a particular app that I have installed? I got my DHD on 25th of October, but this problem is very recent, and I had no problems before.
Help me out, please...
What software version is the DHD on?
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What software version is the DHD on?
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Hi sengork,
The software number is: 1.72.405.3
I did a little research on the matter, and it seems as if this problem is since the latest OTA... but if that destroyed the first SD card, I don't know why the second one got damaged, too?
That's the thing. Most folk have not found out whether the OTA update (which you seem to have) causes only bundled Samsung SD cards to fail or whether it'd cause all cards to fail.
You might be the 1st example of the OTA causing failure on other SD cards. That is assuming that card didn't fail for some other non-OTA related reasons...
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Yes sengork, I haven't found anyone else to have had 2 of their SD cards destroyed by the phone.
Common when both 'frying' incidents occurred;
i. happened late at night, when I was asleep (not using the phone for a long interval of time)
ii. had an unread SMS (had Go SMS installed)...
Did the Xtreme card happen to come with one of those 'lifetime warranties'? How much was it?
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Yeah, it came with a 'lifetime warranty.' They have replaced the defective card and gave me a new one. It cost me around USD 30.
Well, today, my 3rd SD card has stopped working. I have no idea what the hell is going on...
It don't have to be broken....
Read this - I do not have a BB phone and to be honest - I have no clue what it means but might be helpfull... check this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11072352
For solutions on doing this with the DHD would be nice
Edit: can confirm in a BB - BlackBerry phone I was able to format the SD Card without problem and it is now accessable from the DHD again - issue fixed
check out: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11353140
there are a few more things about this story
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Der Matte
Hi guys,
I've seen this issue addressed on forums for other devices but didn't see a thread for it here.
Anyone else experienced this before? Constalty getting an error message for "SD Card Unexpectedly Removed". It's a class 4 32GB SD Card, it's installed securely in my GS3 in an Otterbox case, running on my rooted stock JB device.
I can usually access the SD card data after a few minutes but then often when I wake my device still get the same message.
Do I need to format the card??
I had an S3 that initially reported this error. It eventually started ruining sdcards.
AT&T eventually ended up giving me a new one.
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Sianspheric said:
Hi guys,
I've seen this issue addressed on forums for other devices but didn't see a thread for it here.
Anyone else experienced this before? Constalty getting an error message for "SD Card Unexpectedly Removed". It's a class 4 32GB SD Card, it's installed securely in my GS3 in an Otterbox case, running on my rooted stock JB device.
I can usually access the SD card data after a few minutes but then often when I wake my device still get the same message.
Do I need to format the card??
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Anyone have any further input on this? Earlier tonight, mine gave me the same warning. (Also installed securely inside an Otterbox case, running stock/ non rooted). I just popped the card into my laptop and my computer doesn't see it. It really looks like the card's ruined and everything on it is gone. To say that's not cool is an understatement...
Mine started saying it's ejected last night, also in a case, randomly saying it's back. Still works fine in a pc. Assuming it's the slot and not the rom...poop. guess I need to Odin back to stock and try to get a replacement.
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Had the same issue with my S3.
Turned out that the SD card was dying, 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.
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, 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
It might be a bad sd card, i used to get that error on another phone when using a certain sd card but when i tried another one it worked fine. Maybe try another card see if you get the error.
Apparently sgs3 have problems with SD cards anyway
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1906058
I had this happen to my friends phone the other day. Best thing to do if you can't access the information may be to run chkdsk /r which will check for bad sectors and recover any readable information. Move tour info off the card and try to reformat to fat32
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Hi I had this phone for while and bought the sandisk Ultra 32GB class 10 sd card when I got this awesome phone. However lately my phone was acting strange. For past 4 days my phone will randomly unmount SD card and notify me that it got disconnected. When I turn on the screen then it will shortly mount the SD card and does not show these problem. Not only that these is happening consistently and keeping my phone awake and draining my battery as well. I don't have picture with me since I format my whole phone and SD card but this will happen at least 20 to 30 times in a hour.
I used to use Saurom Project Hybird 1.3.2 before and I format everything, from TWRP, and installed CleanRom ACE 4.5 but it is still happening with same problem.
Is there any way to fix these problem?
Same here
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Hi I had this phone for while and bought the sandisk Ultra 32GB class 10 sd card when I got this awesome phone. However lately my phone was acting strange. For past 4 days my phone will randomly unmount SD card and notify me that it got disconnected. When I turn on the screen then it will shortly mount the SD card and does not show these problem. Not only that these is happening consistently and keeping my phone awake and draining my battery as well. I don't have picture with me since I format my whole phone and SD card but this will happen at least 20 to 30 times in a hour.
I used to use Saurom Project Hybird 1.3.2 before and I format everything, from TWRP, and installed CleanRom ACE 4.5 but it is still happening with same problem.
Is there any way to fix these problem?
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I have the same problem with a 32gb San disk, after searching all day the only conclusion I came up with is that sd card is going bad and needs to be replaced preferably for one that is not a SanDisk. I guess they are not compatible
Thanks. I was hoping that I didn't had to do that. Anyway do you have any other brand that is good?
I guess your best bet would be going with a Samsung sd card just to avoid having problems in the future.
I'm having the same problem it is not your SD card or at least I don't think so I read a different XD a thread for hey note 2 on a different carrier it was over 17 pages long of people having the exact same issue some say that the SanDisk 32 they are so then and that put in a piece of paper behind them will solve the problem but I'm not finding that word besides I find it funny it only does this when my phone is in sleep or when I'm in a phone call it is very annoying I currently am being told I have a blank SD card and sometimes later it may just work for no reason
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If you're getting heavy Media Server battery usage with the unmounts, it's could be a bad media file on your SD card crashing the Media Server and causing the unmounts.
I deleted podcasts, videos, and mp3s off of my SD card and the error went away. A clean format of the card should also work.
I dont think that was my case. I format the sd card and keep it empty and mount the sd card and it was still having the problem. However when I change my sd card to my old one the error when away. I guess I got bad sd card.
I have a SanDisk 32GB microSD card. I originally had one at launch but after a few months, I had a terrible case of Media Server constantly running in the background sucking up all of my battery. I got the card replaced by SanDisk as per a lot of discussions on the forum.
Its bee fine with this new card for over 5 months. Now, out of nowhere, I'm noticing that my Galaxy is EATING my data. Slowly over time more pictures and music files on my SD card are being wiped out. The files stay on the card, but read as 0 bytes and I can't open them.
Last week I lost an entire folder of pictures. No big deal, thats backed up.
This week I noticed half my music library is now a bunch of 0 byte files. What on earth?
I'm going to go home and copy my backup over SD card after reformatting and will report back. But what gives? What is this nonsense and why would it be doing this? I haven't dropped my phone or installed any crazy stuff on it as of late either.
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I'm on stock ROM with AutoChainFire root. 4.1.2
OmegaNemesis28 said:
I have a SanDisk 32GB microSD card. I originally had one at launch but after a few months, I had a terrible case of Media Server constantly running in the background sucking up all of my battery. I got the card replaced by SanDisk as per a lot of discussions on the forum.
Its bee fine with this new card for over 5 months. Now, out of nowhere, I'm noticing that my Galaxy is EATING my data. Slowly over time more pictures and music files on my SD card are being wiped out. The files stay on the card, but read as 0 bytes and I can't open them.
Last week I lost an entire folder of pictures. No big deal, thats backed up.
This week I noticed half my music library is now a bunch of 0 byte files. What on earth?
I'm going to go home and copy my backup over SD card after reformatting and will report back. But what gives? What is this nonsense and why would it be doing this? I haven't dropped my phone or installed any crazy stuff on it as of late either.
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What rom you are running? What format you have in your sd card, ie exFAT, FAT32 or NTFS? Highly recommend to format you sd card to FAT32.
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What rom you are running? What format you have in your sd card, ie exFAT, FAT32 or NTFS? Highly recommend to format you sd card to FAT32.
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4.1.2 - stock with autochainfire root
FAT32
The card may be damaged or corrupted..
Not uncommon for SanDisk...
Try a clean format to FAT32 and test again...
If the same conditions exist...a replacement may be in order...g
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gregsarg said:
The card may be damaged or corrupted..
Not uncommon for SanDisk...
Try a clean format to FAT32 and test again...
If the same conditions exist...a replacement may be in order...g
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How should I properly clean format?
Because I tried to format straight from the phone. But after 3 tries, it wasn't actually formatting the damn card even though it said it was. I removed the card and connected it to a hub on a PC to do it through Windows.
I know that it technically shouldn't matter. A format is a format. But is there any reason why I ~should~ do it through the phone at all? Or why it would even act funky like that?
I think I need to do a clean install on my phone too. Just to be sure.
So my SanDisk 32gb sd card stopped working and became completely unresponsive no matter what device i put it in. I tried it in various computers and my tablet and nothing will recognize it except the xperia play and all it says is blank SD card and i tried to format it but it wont even format. Is there anyway to force my SD card to format so i can use it again or is it dead.
I've had the same problem mate.
It was the SanDisk 32gb also so it's probably a bug with the memory card.
There's nothing you can do except for getting a new one
Now I have a Sony 32gb and I almost had the same problem on that....when I insert it into my tablet it sometimes says damaged sd card. But it still works.
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How old is the card?
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The card is only a year old, only used it for 6 months, this is the second card to go bad in this phone, same brand and size card also
but i have 2 in my tf700 and they perform like a dream, and this is my 3rd xperia play, so not sure what the issue is, maybe i keep getting bad phones
Hope you dont mind my asking. But, Do you have a habit of unplugging the SD card from your computer without first stopping the usb function on the task/start bar?
i never unplugged the usb cable i would always disable usb mode on my phone, but the very few times i took the card out and put in in my sd card reader i never disabled it, then again, ive never disabled it on any usb device ive ever owned and ive never had a failure like this