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
shind12kl said:
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.
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I have had my tp2 for a few months now and never had any problems with it, have had the memory card installed and working fine also, booting android from it many times. I was trying to open a file for Nostradamus mobile shell widgets and all the sudden my memory card just stopped showing.
I tried soft resetting multiple times, removing the card and putting it back in more than a few times. The phone doesn't show the card at all now, even synced with my computer it doesn't show it.
Any idea for what may have happened or how to fix this? None of the programs that I have installed to the card will work now that the phone doesn't read it. HELP!
have you tried plugging the card into your computer via a memory card reader? or another card?
I'd recommend doing both to figure out if the problem lies with your card or with your device.
best of luck
Hi,
Not sure if this helps, but I've had this twice in the lifetime of my device (European GSM, stock ROM, Touch Pro2). I used a Sandisk 16GB card, bought off the shelf from a major UK retailer (Phones 4U) and it worked great for about 6 months. Then suddenly one day, the TP2 stopped seeing the card. Not in Explorer, not in the "Memory" settings application, nowhere.
The card had never been out of the device, not had it (or the device) been in humidity, dusty situations, been subjected to shock etc. Just normal use. I tried the card in a PC card reader and attempted to format it. The PC would format it to about 80% then fail.
I took the card back to the retailer and exchanged it. Same thing happened another 3 months down the line, same issues. I'm on card 3 now and it's lasted about 8 months now.
tl;dr, try formatting it in a PC card reader, else it's an exchange/new card you'll need.
Adam.
Fixed!
Alright thanks to both of you for the advice, I did take my card out and try it in my girlfriends digital camera and it recognized it right away without a problem so I knew the card was still good. I lost the card reader for it so I formatted the card with the menu inside her camera, popped it back into my TP2 and it works again!
thanks again for the help guys!
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,
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.
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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So like everyone else, im experiencing the same problem! I keep receiving messages like "preparing sd card" everytime I wake up my phone! This can't be due to the problem to sd card because I don't receive any message when my phones is awake.
Even I can listen to music for hours without sd card error.
However when I don't play any music or no processes is running that needs the sd card the error keeps appearing!
How do i resolve this! I think it's a software issue! Maybe because the quad core gorse to sleep which causes this problem? I don't know!
What are your views? What you think solves the problem?
Thanks
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Would I be correct in guessing that you have a Sandisk SD card!
If so, that may very well be the problem.
Dmwitz said:
Would I be correct in guessing that you have a Sandisk SD card!
If so, that may very well be the problem.
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Nope its a transcend 32 GB class 4 memory card
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imrhay said:
Nope its a transcend 32 GB class 4 memory card
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This is the only card I've successfully used for any length of time without that error, and I've tried 3 previous ones from other manufacturers
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B009HPFT14/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
See this review too:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R9D6...etail-glance&nodeID=340831031&store=computers
launton said:
This is the only card I've successfully used for any length of time without that error, and I've tried 3 previous ones from other manufacturers
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B009HPFT14/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
See this review too:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R9D6...etail-glance&nodeID=340831031&store=computers
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Thanks! Looks like only Samsung sd cards are compatible with note 2
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imrhay said:
So like everyone else, im experiencing the same problem! I keep receiving messages like "preparing sd card" everytime I wake up my phone! This can't be due to the problem to sd card because I don't receive any message when my phones is awake.
Even I can listen to music for hours without sd card error.
However when I don't play any music or no processes is running that needs the sd card the error keeps appearing!
How do i resolve this! I think it's a software issue! Maybe because the quad core gorse to sleep which causes this problem? I don't know!
What are your views? What you think solves the problem?
Thanks
Sent from the undoubtedly best phone on earth, the Samsung Note II
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hi,
i think it could be most likely software,
as i have stock 4.1.1,no root and took an old 8 gig sd ( think it is a sandisk ,not sure )
from one of my old htc phones ,working perfect. .
i have no problem such as you described " "preparing sd card"
it works 100% no errors nothing.
( and i forget sometimes i have ext. sd card in phone ! )
@imrhay
Try this.
Backup all your data on your SD Card
Reformat Your SD Card using your phone.
Then restart your phone.
I apologize if this thread is made too often. I've been searching around for a fix, however I can't seem to find anything.
I'm running Cyanogenmod on my GS3. I've had an 8GB SD card that I pulled over from my old Evo 4G that has served me well for years, however I figured it is about time I moved on after spending the last few months deleting apps and videos to make space for more. I purchased a Sandisk 64 GB SDXC card and am attempting to use it with my phone, however I get the dreaded "Damaged SD Card - Try reformatting" error.
Of note, the 8 GB SD card still works perfectly fine, so I don't believe it is a problem with the SD card slot or anything. In fact, this is the first time I've touched the slot since purchasing the phone a year or two ago.
I've tried many things that people have recommended to others from searching around, however nothing seems to have worked.
I've tried reformatting it with three different programs as well as running chkdsk on cmd.
I've tried letting the reformatting process on the phone, which is prompted to me when pressing the notification for the Damaged SD Card", run for 15 minutes and it continues to run with the message "Unmounting SD Card" (which is odd since the card isn't mounted in the first place).
I can read the card perfectly fine on my laptop through the card reader, however it does prompt me to format the card every time I switch it over from the phone to the laptop, saying something along the lines of it not being in a language the laptop can read. After formatting, I can view the card as a drive.
Does anyone happen to have a fix for this? I would really like to start using my new card.
From a quick Google search on your problem it seams that SanDisk and Samsung galaxy's don't play nice with each other due to a flaw in SanDisk cards you may want to contact SanDisk about the issue.
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Did you format the SD Card to FAT32 before using it ?
spirithandler said:
From a quick Google search on your problem it seams that SanDisk and Samsung galaxy's don't play nice with each other due to a flaw in SanDisk cards you may want to contact SanDisk about the issue.
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I suppose I will do that. Thank you.
prboy1969 said:
Did you format the SD Card to FAT32 before using it ?
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The only options I'm given to format it is exFAT and NTFS. I have only tried exFAT.
EDIT: I searched around and found that Windows only allows you to format to FAT32 with 32 GB or less. I downloaded a Fat32Formatter program that let me bypass that, formatted the card, and it works perfectly now! Thank you so much!
Your welcome . Glad you got it sorted out.
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