So, just realized that using a Micro SD with the Note 2 isn't as easy as just inserting one in. I'm reading that the phone has to be rooted and some other apps have to be downloaded in order for the SD card to be used with the phone. Is that the case? So, if the phone isn't rooted the SD card is useless?
Pictures and videos and any music you may download all go there keeping them off the internal memory makes the SD card very useful.
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Electroman365 said:
So, just realized that using a Micro SD with the Note 2 isn't as easy as just inserting one in. I'm reading that the phone has to be rooted and some other apps have to be downloaded in order for the SD card to be used with the phone. Is that the case? So, if the phone isn't rooted the SD card is useless?
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I believe you were given some very wrong information. You can use a micro SD card on a non rooted phone and no apps have to be downloaded to use one.
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That's weird and confusing. I found this info on youtube. The other thing, why isn't my phone recognizing the SD card then? Well, it shows on top but I can't store anything on it as if the phone doesn't recognize it's in.
Maybe its upside down..lol
But you'll need to reboot after inserting it. The phone should say preparing SDCard. Or you can mount it in settings.
Open your camera app and set the storage to Memory Card then you can use your file manager to move your other files to the sdcard..
Also, if you use your browser to download things, you can set the default to the sdcard as well.
Electroman365 said:
That's weird and confusing. I found this info on youtube. The other thing, why isn't my phone recognizing the SD card then? Well, it shows on top but I can't store anything on it as if the phone doesn't recognize it's in.
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Try reformatting it on your computer in fat32.
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So i have no idea how it happened but my sd card went crazy on me. I was just using my phone and then I clicked on an app that i had on my sd card and said that it couldnt be found, then it said that i had a blank sd card and that it needed to be formatted. I tried everything; pulling the battery, mounting, remounting, putting it in and out, tried to mount in recovery, tried to format in recovery...... NOTHING WORKED! So then i tried to plug it in on my computer (windows 7) and it wouldnt mount, so i couldnt format it.... Is there ANYTHING I can do!?!?!!?!? someone please help me cause it is a 16gb sd card and all i have left is a 2gb one... HA that wont work for me. Any help is appreciated!!
dtraini7 said:
So i have no idea how it happened but my sd card went crazy on me. I was just using my phone and then I clicked on an app that i had on my sd card and said that it couldnt be found, then it said that i had a blank sd card and that it needed to be formatted. I tried everything; pulling the battery, mounting, remounting, putting it in and out, tried to mount in recovery, tried to format in recovery...... NOTHING WORKED! So then i tried to plug it in on my computer (windows 7) and it wouldnt mount, so i couldnt format it.... Is there ANYTHING I can do!?!?!!?!? someone please help me cause it is a 16gb sd card and all i have left is a 2gb one... HA that wont work for me. Any help is appreciated!!
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Pull sd out of phone and use a card reader to see if it can be read from the pc. If you can read it with the pc, copy all your files to the pc and then format the sd fat32. Once formated put the files back on the sd and put it back in the phone and see if it works then.
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Pull sd out of phone and use a card reader to see if it can be read from the pc. If you can read it with the pc, copy all your files to the pc and then format the sd fat32. Once formated put the files back on the sd and put it back in the phone and see if it works then.
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That is what I have been trying to do, my card reader does work I tested it on another card, but my reader doesn't even read the corrupted one... My computer just says insert disk into drive
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If the pc cant read or format it then im sorry to say your sd has more than likley bit the dust.
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If the pc cant read or format it then im sorry to say your sd has more than likley bit the dust.
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Damn.... Ok I wonder what happened tho!?
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dtraini7 said:
Damn.... Ok I wonder what happened tho!?
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How old is it? Sometimes they just go out, especially with heavy use.
cmlusco said:
How old is it? Sometimes they just go out, especially with heavy use.
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Ummmm probably a couple months over a year
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If ur phone has a recovery mount usn on phone recovery. Then scan the card with a data recovery tool. Its worked for me in the past
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I have tried that and it gives me an error and says I can't mount it.
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I have tried that and it gives me an error and says I can't mount it.
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have you ever pulled the SD card out of a device before Unmounted it? Sounds like the the chip inside is dead. There are some places that you can take it to and they can pull the info off of it. its not cheap but they do exist. It all depends on if you really want the info off of it or not.
Have you tried "SD Card Tester" from the Market, Or H2testw 1.4 for the PC?
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have you ever pulled the SD card out of a device before Unmounted it? Sounds like the the chip inside is dead. There are some places that you can take it to and they can pull the info off of it. its not cheap but they do exist. It all depends on if you really want the info off of it or not.
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Not that I remember... But ah its ok it was mostly music and roms that I can just put back on lol
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Have you tried "SD Card Tester" from the Market, Or H2testw 1.4 for the PC?
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No I have not.... Lemme see what that does.
Edit: I tried the SD card tester and it said error: no permission to write to SD card.
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If the pc cant read or format it then im sorry to say your sd has more than likley bit the dust.
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lol hope the author's SD is good...
Over the weekend my phone has decided to not read my sd card anymore. I copied the whole card to my external drive and formatted it via the computer twice, I booted the phone back up and everything on my card was still there. I used the option in my rom (ILWT) to erase my memory card, no luck. I then formatted the card via cmd prompt today which didn't work, and then my last shot in the dark was to reformat the card via 4EXT recovery. My phone still gives me the "insert sd card" when I take a photo and all my of files are still on it. Anyone have an idea of what happened?
the sd card slot probably is bad if it won't work in recovery or a rom, could be the small cable that connects it or the tray it self. about 10~15 on ebay and a 10 min fix
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demkantor said:
the sd card slot probably is bad if it won't work in recovery or a rom, could be the small cable that connects it or the tray it self. about 10~15 on ebay and a 10 min fix
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Good call, will investigate.
Have you tried the card without the phone? In a pc reader or another device.
GinoAMelone said:
Have you tried the card without the phone? In a pc reader or another device.
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Yup, card still has everything on it.
It seems more like a broken SD card to me. Have you tried another one?
You can also try some low level formatting tool like HDD Low Level Format Tool (from hddguru.com).
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Yup, card still has everything on it.
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Have you attempted to copy off everything on the card, and then doing a full format of it on the computer (including maybe low level formating).
IF that still doesn't work, try another SD card, and if that doesn't work, I suspect the slot itself is bad.
I'm running Task AOKP, and it was reading the SD Card fine. I took it out and used a micro sd card adapter to upload some music onto it (didn't have cord on me) and when I plugged it back in it would say "Preparing SD Card" but my photos or music won't show up. I tried rebooting and mounting and unmounting but nothing worked. Any solutions? Searched for this but didn't find a fix other than "Try a different rom"
If you didn't "safely remove" the card from the computer it may have become corrupted. Are you able to see the contents if you put the card back into the computer?
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Greycloak42 said:
If you didn't "safely remove" the card from the computer it may have become corrupted. Are you able to see the contents if you put the card back into the computer?
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Turns out wouldn't read anything for the first 7-10 minutes of it being in the phone. After that the stuff showed up. I don't know why it takes so long all of the sudden.
My external sd cart (named extSdCard) on my sgs3 747 Lh9 dissapeared after backing up with rom manager and then pushing a file over from my computer to my phone. I tried putting it in another android phone and it called it a blank sd card and it wouldn't even open! Please help me figure out how to fix this, I have alot of important stuff on my external sd.
Seems like it got corrupted. You can try out some of the file recovery apps from the market but I've never used any so I can't vouch for them.
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d3athsd00r said:
Seems like it got corrupted. You can try out some of the file recovery apps from the market but I've never used any so I can't vouch for them.
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ok, which ones do i choose from?
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I've never used any so I can't vouch for them.
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Yeah
Tyler.Boston1 said:
My external sd cart (named extSdCard) on my sgs3 747 Lh9 dissapeared after backing up with rom manager and then pushing a file over from my computer to my phone. I tried putting it in another android phone and it called it a blank sd card and it wouldn't even open! Please help me figure out how to fix this, I have alot of important stuff on my external sd.
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Don't format your sd card yet. This happened to me several times. It's the phone itself. The card doesn’t stay locked properly. You'll notice faster battery drain for a few days if it's like anything that happened to me. Back up your sd card if possible. Reinsert the card while the phone is off. I push the metal guard in a little so it stays in. Turn it back on. It should work. You can follow what I did at your own risk.
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Similar thing happened to me a few days ago. Notification bar said that the card was damaged. I simply put it into my PC card reader and ran Mini Tool Partition wizard (Google the free download) and I did a scan and fix and I did lose some files from a recent folder transfer (which is what I think caused the problem) but the card file system was quickly repaired and no reformatting was necessary. In other words, the card did not have physical damage.
Hi!
I just installed the UK Jelly Bean ROM on my Galaxy Ace 2 and i haven't noticed any issues while using the phone. However, when I try to copy a big file to my sd card connecting the phone to the computer (using mass storage mode), the copy process just freezes. Connecting the SD Card to a normal SD adapter works, there are not any issues copying files that way, but it's imposible to copy files using the phone. Any way to fix this?
Thanks!
Manu270891 said:
Hi!
I just installed the UK Jelly Bean ROM on my Galaxy Ace 2 and i haven't noticed any issues while using the phone. However, when I try to copy a big file to my sd card connecting the phone to the computer (using mass storage mode), the copy process just freezes. Connecting the SD Card to a normal SD adapter works, there are not any issues copying files that way, but it's imposible to copy files using the phone. Any way to fix this?
Thanks!
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there's no problem in it...if you have done partitioning then you may have the problem.Try rebooting the phone
Manu270891 said:
Hi!
I just installed the UK Jelly Bean ROM on my Galaxy Ace 2 and i haven't noticed any issues while using the phone. However, when I try to copy a big file to my sd card connecting the phone to the computer (using mass storage mode), the copy process just freezes. Connecting the SD Card to a normal SD adapter works, there are not any issues copying files that way, but it's imposible to copy files using the phone. Any way to fix this?
Thanks!
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I thought I was the only one! I don't think there's a fix for it, not as if Samsung care. Be careful, because of how many times I've had to re-copy files and the constant freezing my SD card was destroyed!
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Yeah, that is really annoying, you are not the only one. I've noticed that on MB2 as well, I thought it was a problem in the leak version but it seems they did not bother fixing it. I don't think there is a fix apart from using MTP rather than mass storage for now. Or use apps like AirDroid (or similar) to copy files via WiFi/Data.
Jamielawther said:
Be careful, because of how many times I've had to re-copy files and the constant freezing my SD card was destroyed!
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It may not be completely destroyed - have you tried running chkdsk /f (or fsck on linux) on your SD card? That saved my card anyway
I usually just take the SD out now and put it into a card reader, I don't like MTP or the hassle of other apps. Besides, I never use the internal SD anyway.
It's definitely dead, I've tried everything from low level formats to what you mentioned. Completely dead, like the one I had before it.. My last phone and the Ace have went through a 32gb SanDisk, 16gb SanDisk and a temporary 4gb no name card in the space of just over a year.
I've had a SanDisk Mobile Ultra 8gb in for a while now and it appears to be working fine so I'm quite happy atm
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