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upgrading the SD card question?

replacing the stock 4gb card with 16gb.
Is it ok to copy ALL folders and files (including hidden etc) from one card to the other, then just use it? Or do I need to format the new card from the phone or some other procedure? cheers

I just copied the whole lot to my new 16GB and put it in and worked just like before but with more space

Thats great. Just what I wanted to hear. Thanks for the feedback.

No problems, and enjoy the extra space!

ive just copied the content of the 4gb to an 8gb card and when i booted the phone i am locked out of the android market. have no idea how and why this has happened but i have ried the online credit card solution, and also the over phone credit card soluton and in both instances i get sorry cos of a technical error cant unlock at this time.

mcgon1979 said:
replacing the stock 4gb card with 16gb.
Is it ok to copy ALL folders and files (including hidden etc) from one card to the other, then just use it? Or do I need to format the new card from the phone or some other procedure? cheers
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I've done almost the same as you but I've done one extra step. Put in the new 16gb card to the phone and then through settings, format the card..... then do all the copying!
That way everything works

i copied from a 4 gb card to an 8 gb card with no issues and no pre formatting of the card on the desire. I think your market issue might be unrelated. Maybe try restarting your phone, checking your network content restriction setting and accessing over WiFi not 3g.

Bandare said:
I've done almost the same as you but I've done one extra step. Put in the new 16gb card to the phone and then through settings, format the card..... then do all the copying!
That way everything works
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Im do same way.

cheers guys, not sure what started the issue. but i could sort it out the usual way as stated above. quick call to t-mobile this morning they took the lock off, but couldnt tell me why it happened.

thanks for the replies all. Good info. I will ut the blank 16gb in phone and format via settings. Then I'll put the 4gb back in phone, copy everything off it onto PC, put 16gb card in phone, copy everything on. Job done. We hope. Will report back if any problems. cheers.

Yup just transfer everything across to a bigger capacity card

Desire killed my 8gb microsd! Help?

Been using this 8gb microsd for a over 2 months and never had a problem was always flashing different roms until last week while i was running sense 2.04 the card just suddenly stopped working completely!
no phone can read it! tried it on a few nokia phones and my htc magic with no luck!
tried the card reader to see if it needs format but the reader can't read it and the reader does work i tried it with other cards...
Does anyone or have an idea what I can do to get it working again? I just want to get my photos on it even if i somehow have to format i can always use a recovery software to get the files back but it's not getting recognized... probably a hardware issue? anyone with any help would be appreciated !

Had the same problem, managed to copy stuff off onto pc but cannot re-format the card.
It says it is locked.

Not really the same thing... I can't even copy my files because it doesn't get detected at all! and now just tried a different card reader so again it doesn't seem to be the reader that the issue... could it be truly dead?

I've had that happen on my G1.
Grab an Ubuntu live disk, boot from it and then plug in your memory card reader with your microsd. It should read it and then you can copy your files over to your HDD. It shouldnt be too hard. If you have an ext partition it will also read that and you can copy the contents over to your hdd. Then using Gparted, you can repartition your sd card and then copy your stuff back over.

this happened to me about 6 weeks back - Desire and WinXP would not mount the card at all, manged to mount it through ubuntu but only got a couple of files (photos) back off the card. Back to the 4Gb as supplied sd just now

Hmm just tried ubuntu guys and didn't seem to get any luck... any other ideas? thx.

k4r1m said:
Been using this 8gb microsd for a over 2 months and never had a problem was always flashing different roms until last week while i was running sense 2.04 the card just suddenly stopped working completely!
no phone can read it! tried it on a few nokia phones and my htc magic with no luck!
tried the card reader to see if it needs format but the reader can't read it and the reader does work i tried it with other cards...
Does anyone or have an idea what I can do to get it working again? I just want to get my photos on it even if i somehow have to format i can always use a recovery software to get the files back but it's not getting recognized... probably a hardware issue? anyone with any help would be appreciated !
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I got same problem with froyo, my card is dead. I tried with all methods but no luck.

Yea i thought i would just post that my desire has also killed my 8gb class 2 memory card, no computer will properly recognize it. Cannot format it or anything.
If i brought a 16gb class 6 do you think the phone will kill that as well, just dont wana waste $80.

When this happened to my 4GB card. I booted the phone into recovery mode. Selected 'MS-USB-Toggle' and the PC then picked it up. Was able to copy photos off the card and reformat it.
Give that a try?
If you still don't come right, I think it is safe to say the card is dead. May have just been a faulty card, rather than the phone killing it. (Don't see how that would even be possible, anyway)

put your micro sd in a sd-card adaptor and format via digital-camera.
camera can format killed cards.
stupsi

stupsi99 said:
put your micro sd in a sd-card adaptor and format via digital-camera.
camera can format killed cards.
stupsi
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Hmmm, not so sure about that. Normally a dead card is a dead card. End of.
However give it a try - will be surprised if it works.

To add another phone to the list: my old HTC Hero toasted my 16GB SDHC.

Yep when I got my first desire it cooked a 16Gb Sandisk card... worked fine for almost 18 months in my Touch HD... less than a week in the Desire... toast!

Me too.
My Desire seems to have fried my 16Gb Sandisk card, although I'm still trying to work out if it's a genuine card as it looks different to my other sandisk cards but the seller assures me it's real. Lost my holiday photos!!!
Just bought another 16Gb card, will see how that goes.
Going to email HTC and see what they say.

stupsi99 said:
put your micro sd in a sd-card adaptor and format via digital-camera.
camera can format killed cards.
stupsi
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I second that, they do particularly well
You can also try a low level format tool
I have used this one before - oldie but goodie - http://hddguru.com/software/2006.04.12-HDD-Low-Level-Format-Tool/ but there are others

this has hapened to my lexar 16gb card.
Ihave a rooted desire; I went into the recovery menu, formatted the card to fat32 100%.
I then plugged it into my w7pc. did a low level format, dskchk-check and fix bad blocks.
then reformatted to ext: 512 and the rest fat32 in my device, been working ever since.

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just an update from my end... I have tried everything possible card is actually dead hardware wise nothing software wise can fix it, R.I.P. my sd card

(SOLVED)Sdcard Mounting/Unmounting by itself..

Hi guys,
Searched all over before asking, didnt found anything thats why have created this thread.
anyways, i have 32GB Fat32 formated sdcard (scan disk).
I am facing strange issue................the sdcard unmounts and mounts by itself.........................
tried formating the sdcard via pc....................all settings to default (allocation size and all)............but still having the issue and also formated the phone But still having the issue .......................its really annoying please help or suggest

apparently, note2 and sandisk dont get along well. i lost my 32gb class 10 card because my note fried it, and virgin mega-crap refused to return it
its pretty common so i guess you should replace it for a transcend or samsung one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2060405
plus, the thanks button is for a reason

lesalloum said:
apparently, note2 and sandisk dont get along well. i lost my 32gb class 10 card because my note fried it, and virgin mega-crap refused to return it
its pretty common so i guess you should replace it for a transcend or samsung one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2060405
plus, the thanks button is for a reason
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but i have a 16gb of scandisk also but that nevcer gave me this problem ............strange ........
anyone else?

I'm having this problem too. Can't seem to find a solution anywhere. I have the 32GB SanDisk :crying:

Happened to me before 3 days later my SD card went dead , i was lucky i had a backup on my PC

Dark.Soul085 said:
Happened to me before 3 days later my SD card went dead , i was lucky i had a backup on my PC
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i have switched to my 16gb scandisk again and no problem BUT would really like to solve my 32Gb problem . dont want to throw away my money

Help me...
My Micro SD Card brand Kingson 8GB Class 4 always ramdomly unmount and then remount on it own when screen in off. This is very annoying because my launcher will crash because I save some app on my sd card. I have formated it and the result still same.

happen to me too. still there is no solution for this?

Memory card problem dude!! I faced the same problem and got it replaced and now it works like a charm!!

jitin02 said:
Hi guys,
Searched all over before asking, didnt found anything thats why have created this thread.
anyways, i have 32GB Fat32 formated sdcard (scan disk).
I am facing strange issue................the sdcard unmounts and mounts by itself.........................
tried formating the sdcard via pc....................all settings to default (allocation size and all)............but still having the issue and also formated the phone But still having the issue .......................its really annoying please help or suggest
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Format in Fat32 with this tool hopfuly everything will be fine.
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/

jitin02 said:
Hi guys,
Searched all over before asking, didnt found anything thats why have created this thread.
anyways, i have 32GB Fat32 formated sdcard (scan disk).
I am facing strange issue................the sdcard unmounts and mounts by itself.........................
tried formating the sdcard via pc....................all settings to default (allocation size and all)............but still having the issue and also formated the phone But still having the issue .......................its really annoying please help or suggest
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Can u pls tell us how do you solved the problem pls.

jdomadia said:
Can u pls tell us how do you solved the problem pls.
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@jdomadia
:laugh::silly: SImple . I just bought a Samsung Class 6 32gb card
EDIT >> after that no unmountings or any problem, I think our note 2 really likes to have samsung sdcards in its p u s s y rather than any other co.

Ehhhhhhh... Seems like another fix cud be made

64 Gb unformattable
jdomadia said:
Can u pls tell us how do you solved the problem pls.
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I have a similar situation. 64Gb Sandisk Ultra card unmounts while formatting. Cannot write files to the card. Reading is perfectly working. Tried formatting in pc. Not getting formatted. Tried several methods, like through dos etc. Still no change.

try formatting in camera or video recorder, it should format it wothout hesitation

yaro666 said:
try formatting in camera or video recorder, it should format it wothout hesitation
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As of now, I don't have such equipments at disposal. I'll try to do that.

jitin02 said:
Hi guys,
Searched all over before asking, didnt found anything thats why have created this thread.
anyways, i have 32GB Fat32 formated sdcard (scan disk).
I am facing strange issue................the sdcard unmounts and mounts by itself.........................
tried formating the sdcard via pc....................all settings to default (allocation size and all)............but still having the issue and also formated the phone But still having the issue .......................its really annoying please help or suggest
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I'm using aLenovo A7000 running on ressurection remix V5.5.9 in which i don't have the option to unmount my sd card.Please suggest me a way to do it and also while transferring files from my pc on my phone...i switched my phone from a mass storage device to the'charging only'option and after that my phone doesn't get recognised at all by my pc as a usb mass storage device.... And i can't even find those options anywhere in the settings and usb debugging also isn't working.Pls help me ASAP!

My 16gb SD card also does this. Before it started though, all of my music files on it became damaged, but would still play partially, then end prematurely. I think this may just be cheap ass SD manufacturing. I say just boycott SD and get the Samsung card.

Solution / Fix:
Install Wake Lock PowerManager on google play. Enable Partial_Wake_Lock then viola! No more unmounted / eject problems. The problem is everytime your mobile is in sleep mode, the unmounting error occurs.
Also install SD Card Monitor to check the counter of mounted/unmounted/ejected sdcard.
Hope this helps.

onimax said:
Solution / Fix:
Install Wake Lock PowerManager on google play. Enable Partial_Wake_Lock then viola! No more unmounted / eject problems. The problem is everytime your mobile is in sleep mode, the unmounting error occurs.
Also install SD Card Monitor to check the counter of mounted/unmounted/ejected sdcard.
Hope this helps.
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Stupidest post 2016

New SD card

I just bought a new class 10 16gb SD card. What should I do? I want to put all my files at the previous SD card into it. I currently using cm 10 build 4.1. Thanks
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Turn off your phone.
Eject the card.
Copy *all* files within the old card into the new card.
Insert the new card.
Done

pepoluan said:
Turn off your phone.
Eject the card.
Copy *all* files within the old card into the new card.
Insert the new card.
Done
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Thx

SanDisk 16GB microSDHC Memory Card Ultra Class 10 UHS-I with microSD Adapter
Hello mates, greetings from Turkey.
i bought the following sd card and start using it in my i8150. However phone freezes / thinks a lot almost everytime when it starts using this SD i.e. during startup, previewing gallery, etc.
is this a known issue or something fixable?
here is the link of my new SD.

cozgun said:
Hello mates, greetings from Turkey.
i bought the following sd card and start using it in my i8150. However phone freezes / thinks a lot almost everytime when it starts using this SD i.e. during startup, previewing gallery, etc.
is this a known issue or something fixable?
here is the link of my new SD.
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Greetings from Greece too..
Maybe you have a "fake" or a faulty SD card. Try another and post results..

yannis_gr said:
Greetings from Greece too..
Maybe you have a "fake" or a faulty SD card. Try another and post results..
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i am sure it is not fake, but might be faulty.
i have no prob. with an old version 16 GB sd.
anyway, i will try the new card in another phone, then let you know the result.

cozgun said:
Hello mates, greetings from Turkey.
i bought the following sd card and start using it in my i8150. However phone freezes / thinks a lot almost everytime when it starts using this SD i.e. during startup, previewing gallery, etc.
is this a known issue or something fixable?
here is the link of my new SD.
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maybe you're copying a lot of files into your sdcard and some of it maybe a corrupt files.
try to format it again and put only the files you needed.
Sent from my GT-I8150 using xda

stpdkid said:
maybe you're copying a lot of files into your sdcard and some of it maybe a corrupt files.
try to format it again and put only the files you needed.
Sent from my GT-I8150 using xda
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for an exact solution, i formatted everything (phone, internal sd, external sd by following the "go pristine" procedure).
then put the new update zip files to re-install the rom, open the phone in CWM mod.
CWM saw the contents of the ext.sd and i started installing zip file.
CWM was saying that it is installing the zip, however it was doing nothing as there were no further progress of installation.
at that point i figured out that my phone and my new sdhc class 10 ext.sd card are not able to communicate in a healthy way.
card is working in laptop, but has trouble working in the phone. most probably card was corrupted at the first stage while i am buying iti from store.
so i am giving up this.
just fyi.

cozgun said:
for an exact solution, i formatted everything (phone, internal sd, external sd by following the "go pristine" procedure).
then put the new update zip files to re-install the rom, open the phone in CWM mod.
CWM saw the contents of the ext.sd and i started installing zip file.
CWM was saying that it is installing the zip, however it was doing nothing as there were no further progress of installation.
at that point i figured out that my phone and my new sdhc class 10 ext.sd card are not able to communicate in a healthy way.
card is working in laptop, but has trouble working in the phone. most probably card was corrupted at the first stage while i am buying iti from store.
so i am giving up this.
just fyi.
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May I ....... You Must Format that SD with FAT32 mod .... try to format it on your laptop then put it in your mobile it Will work ... Try that now

ElGzzar said:
May I ....... You Must Format that SD with FAT32 mod .... try to format it on your laptop then put it in your mobile it Will work ... Try that now
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Already did that before re-install attempt. I am attaching the formatting properties i used.

i think the (Allocation unit size) should be Default or 4096

ElGzzar said:
i think the (Allocation unit size) should be Default or 4096
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Hi,
here is what i did last hour.
formatted again in "default" format and tried to re-install rom from ext.sd.
During first attempt, attached screen does not changed for 30 minutes, so i gave up again and force to shut down the phone by pressing down power button for 8 seconds.
I thought the phone will shut down only, but it restared in CWM mode. Then i gave another try and this time phone processed the zip file.
so far no new problems but let you know in case of one.

use that Rom RemICS 1.7
and here it's the Link: http://d-h.st/xwI

cozgun said:
Hi,
here is what i did last hour.
formatted again in "default" format and tried to re-install rom from ext.sd.
During first attempt, attached screen does not changed for 30 minutes, so i gave up again and force to shut down the phone by pressing down power button for 8 seconds.
I thought the phone will shut down only, but it restared in CWM mode. Then i gave another try and this time phone processed the zip file.
so far no new problems but let you know in case of one.
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have you try to format using minitool partition or gparted?

No. Did not try gparted. Will try it later.
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---------- Post added at 08:12 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:04 AM ----------
Here is new situtation:
Phone sometimes loosing connection to ext.sd especially When i try to open a video from ext.sd.
Looks like my ext.sd has defect since it departed from the factory.
Lastly i will try a new format via gparted and if it fails again to work properly i will use it in my laptop only.
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Micro SD-Card Problem

Greetings everyone,
I tried finding a solution for this problem for quiet a while now already, but I simply can't find one.
I have a 64gb sdxc card by Sandisk and it doesn't work properly anymore.
The problem is, that it restores the partition always over and over again when I try to partition or format the sd card.
Like when I delete the partition and apply the changes and the card is beeing mounted again, it shows the same partition with the same files again before I deleted it.
Is there a way to fix this? Because except from that problem it works as it should.
Could it be that write protection issue I've read about here?
It first appeared when I used Omnirom for a while on my S3
Thanks in advance for your help :good:

folkbytes said:
Greetings everyone,
I tried finding a solution for this problem for quiet a while now already, but I simply can't find one.
I have a 64gb sdxc card by Sandisk and it doesn't work properly anymore.
The problem is, that it restores the partition always over and over again when I try to partition or format the sd card.
Like when I delete the partition and apply the changes and the card is beeing mounted again, it shows the same partition with the same files again before I deleted it.
Is there a way to fix this? Because except from that problem it works as it should.
Could it be that write protection issue I've read about here?
It first appeared when I used Omnirom for a while on my S3
Thanks in advance for your help :good:
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How old is the card? Any noticeable cracks, burns, or damage to the contact on the card?

Your card might be bad, I have had a bad experience with sandisk memory cards , i bought one and had to exchange it 5 times for a new one , finally i did get a reliable one.So if possible see If you can return it

Not sure how old the card is. Should be around a year I think.
The card has no damages from the outside. The pc can read it too, same for my phone. I can't write files on it or format it or delete partition.
When I remove the card and put it back into the reader, it has the same status as before I changed it.
I read too, that sandisk seems to have problems with their cards lately. Especially this 64gig model.
I guess too that it is really bad and no good anymore.

You should at least be able to return it since sandisk has a lifetime warranty (and seeing as there is not physical damage they will probably replace it with a bit of convincing)

As convenient as SD/micro's can be, they seem to have plenty of issues like this. Certain brands work wonders for some people and some are lemons. I've always had a good experience with Sandisk, but see if they'll replace it or check out Kingston or Transcend or another brand.

I'm gonna do that. Thanks for the help so far.

Solved!
folkbytes said:
I'm gonna do that. Thanks for the help so far.
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Try repair by MMC Medic app.