Could anyone please help me with the "SD card ejected unexpectedly" error? I have gone through countless online forums and posts but there is no definitive answer! Nothing has worked. I have SGH-T999 phone and 32 GB class 10 Transcend card. Here are my observations. Please help.
1. I tried CM, AOKP, BAM, Liquid Smooth ROM. I run into the same problem repeatedly. It's unpredictable. At times, it happens less number of times, at times, it is more.
2. I formatted the card in exFAT to see if it helps. but no luck! Perhaps the frequency has reduced. But it is still happening.
3. The original OS never had this problem. Once I flashed stock mod rom. It also didn't have any problem. The moment I get to AOKP or AOSP roms, it keeps happening!
Is there any solution or workaround to this problem? Please help.
Please format the card to FAT32 and then see.
Can you restore a Nandroid of the StockMod Rom and then see if it happens for few days ?
Perseus71 said:
Please format the card to FAT32 and then see.
Can you restore a Nandroid of the StockMod Rom and then see if it happens for few days ?
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I tried FAT32, same results. I however found less number of occurrences with exFAT though. with FAT 32, it was happening way too many times.
I do not have nandroid, I flashed StockMod Rom again and again, it was peace. no failure.
My s3 ate up b 3 quality sd cards in a year and a half. Alwaya got that error and norhing would work to fix. Except a new card
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Silly Question. Are the contacts of the SD Card ok ?
Perseus71 said:
Silly Question. Are the contacts of the SD Card ok ?
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I didn't have contacts on external SD card. I have photos, music on external card. Those are in tact. I can access those until the moment the phone throws the unexpected card error.
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So I have searched for this error and no one seems to have an answer that fits my problem. I got an error after booting that stated SD card unexpectedly removed and gave me a triangle with an exclamation point in the center
the card works fine
it will mount up perfectly from recovery, i even pushed several roms to it and tried (cyanogen, RR, and SkyRaider) all three worked beautifully, but as soon as I boot up BAM "SD card unexpectedly removed" and I can't access anything
the computer reads it just fine so I am pretty sure there is nothing wrong with the card, also with it reading in recovery it seems there is nothing wrong with the phone
is this a problem with ROMs?
I could try to do a factory reset and see if that works... but its really annoying :\
any help?
I would try reformatting the card on your PC. The card may have a bad sector that the PC and Recovery ignore. The phone OS tends to be a little more picky about those sort of things.
bigslam123 said:
I would try reformatting the card on your PC. The card may have a bad sector that the PC and Recovery ignore. The phone OS tends to be a little more picky about those sort of things.
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This worked
Thank you, I am running good now
I noticed when I was trying to backup my SD card (pictures and whatnot) that some of the files were corrupt
I will make sure I keep a regular backup just in case its a sign of the card going bad
good thing is my titanium backups were all perfect
eyeheartmozart said:
This worked
Thank you, I am running good now
I noticed when I was trying to backup my SD card (pictures and whatnot) that some of the files were corrupt
I will make sure I keep a regular backup just in case its a sign of the card going bad
good thing is my titanium backups were all perfect
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You are on the right path - don't forget, a good practice is to back up your SD card to your PC regularly.
Why? If (when really) the SD goes wonky, you have a PC backup of the card, and you can get another SD, format it on the PC, load the backups you made, and be back in business in short order.
smtom said:
You are on the right path - don't forget, a good practice is to back up your SD card to your PC regularly.
Why? If (when really) the SD goes wonky, you have a PC backup of the card, and you can get another SD, format it on the PC, load the backups you made, and be back in business in short order.
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yeah, fortunately I had done this about a month ago
I lost a few pictures that I took recently but overall it wasnt a big loss
I will def be doing this more frequently
Same problem with a twist
I receive the same error only i can't get anything to read the card after it happens. Any help would be appreciated.
Gilead said:
I receive the same error only i can't get anything to read the card after it happens. Any help would be appreciated.
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My solution was to format and start over, that was the only thing that worked for me
I've gotten this a few times and it is a PITA because it resets all the notification sounds and also the phone reboots. Once it does it, the only way I can get it to work is to remove the card, put it in the PC, let Win7 do a fix and repair errors and then it will work. I tried removing and reinserting, and it would mount the card and immediately give me the 'sd card unexpectedly removed' message.
I tried reformatting, and the sd card worked for a while and then I got the 'unexpectedly removed" message again after a few days. The last time it gave me that message, I just did the repair errors thing again and it's been working without fail for about 4 days now. It seems like it's going to be an ongoing thing though.
I've been googling like a mad person trying to find a real fix for this. I saw a thread on Android central where they guy said he put his wife's card in his phone and it did the same thing; but worked fine in hers. He mentioned it might be related to the 2.2 OTA update. My problem did start after that update.
In another forum thread, someone posted that they bought a new card, and it gave them the same message. So it doesn't appear to be a bad card; which is what I originally thought. I'd hate to buy a new one and have same issue (i have a 16gb card currently).
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I have the same problem! I'm using a Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 2. Previously i've been running Froyo 2.2 over the phone with a 16 GB microSD Card without problem. Later i've been using a 2 GB microSD Card and works fine, but now i'm runnin' Gingerbread ROM From verizon with 16 GB microSD Card and the messages "SD Card unexpectedly removed" don't stop.... the card works fine over other phones... even the stereo of my car can read perfectly the card's content.
I don't know if this is a problem with the update or what????
I don't think in the versions of "Bad sectors" because i check everthing and the problem persist.
The problem appears when i'm playing music... later of that the problem appears at the camera, the file explorer or another app that tries to read the SD Card.
I reboot the phone and works fine but after a couple of minutes the same [email protected]$%&t appears again....
I'm tired of reading forums telling me that is a problem with the sectors... that is a LIE!
no matters the class of the card because i've tried with Class 2, Class 4 and works fine.
This night i'll go to the store that solds me that coursed card to change it!
if tomorrow my problem was solved i been writing at this same forum!
daniel_irias said:
I'm tired of reading forums telling me that is a problem with the sectors... that is a LIE!
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I do not think someone saying it is bad sectors means they are lying.
I think they are merely trying to help you determine what the problem could possibly be.
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daniel_irias said:
I have the same problem! I'm using a Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 2. Previously i've been running Froyo 2.2 over the phone with a 16 GB microSD Card without problem. Later i've been using a 2 GB microSD Card and works fine, but now i'm runnin' Gingerbread ROM From verizon with 16 GB microSD Card and the messages "SD Card unexpectedly removed" don't stop.... the card works fine over other phones... even the stereo of my car can read perfectly the card's content.
I don't know if this is a problem with the update or what????
I don't think in the versions of "Bad sectors" because i check everthing and the problem persist.
The problem appears when i'm playing music... later of that the problem appears at the camera, the file explorer or another app that tries to read the SD Card.
I reboot the phone and works fine but after a couple of minutes the same [email protected]$%&t appears again....
I'm tired of reading forums telling me that is a problem with the sectors... that is a LIE!
no matters the class of the card because i've tried with Class 2, Class 4 and works fine.
This night i'll go to the store that solds me that coursed card to change it!
if tomorrow my problem was solved i been writing at this same forum!
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did you format the card and try again as suggested earlier? That usually clears up any issues with sd cards unless they're fubar'd. Just make sure you back your card up first.
Whenever my card does this I put it into my Windows computer, right click on the card and go to properties/tools/error checking/ and check both boxes and let it run. It fixes my issues every time without formatting the card.
I had that problem a while back with one of Verizon's updates after 2.2. Reformatted card. worked fine in other phones but still said same thing everytine I put it back in the dinc. Ended up getting a new SD card then all was fine.
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If you have an ext extension on your sd use G-Parted (google it) to format your ext2/3/4 partition.
My SD CARD recently has been giving me some issues. It has worked fine since I got the phone in Aug 2010. I went to access my pictures yesterday and as they started popping up, an SD card picture popped up and said please insert SD card. No pictures could be accessed. I went to phone and SD storage and it said my SD card was unmounted. I went to mount it when I saw this, pressed mount, started to mount and stopped all of a sudden. Now I have an icon of an SD card with a question mark in my taskbar. The message says" SD card damaged. You may have to reformat it." When I go to reformat it, it gives me the message "external media in unknown state". Any ideas?
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What's the point in posting a question if you don't get help?
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kniz said:
What's the point in posting a question if you don't get help?
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Because you need to give us more than 3 hours to help you. Being impatient and bumping your thread like this makes people NOT want to help you.
i wish someone could please help me with this issue because its also happening to me, it happend twice already on two different sd cards, i even took the sd card out and put it into my Samsung Epic but still it says the sd card is blank . please help
I used to get this message way back in June 2010 when I first bought my Evo. It happened exactly as you are describing. I thought my SD card was bad. So I moved all my contents to my PC, formatted the SD card, then moved the contents back. It may have been coincidence, but it helped, for a little while, and then the exact same problem returned.
All this happened before I had ever rooted. I then rooted my phone, installed a custom rom, and have never had the problem again, even though it was the exact same SD Card.
Are either of you who are having this problem currently rooted? Or are you both stock? If you are stock, you could try rooting, and installing the stock rom. If you aren't comfortable with that, then try formatting the card, and if you have a spare microSD try that just to troubleshoot it. If you get the same result with a different card that you know is good, that will narrow it down to being related to software on the phone.
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What's the point in posting a question if you don't get help?
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I had a similar issue, I reformatted my memory card, and the problem has not returned. It has been seven months since then.
If you are formatting it on a mac, make sure that you set the partition type correctly to MBR (Master Boot Record)
I have a t989, running Jedi Jelly 5 using a 32gb Sandisk sd card.
Every 2-3 days my sd card says it has an unexpected error and is blank and to reinsert another one. I check, it is inserted and it is indeed now blank. Then it will just keep mounting/unmounting itself. This will not stop happening and I have no idea what to do. I can format it in recovery which will stop it from mounting and unmounting itself, for the time being. Then, in a day or so it will erase itself and unmount itselfs again and it just repeats the cycle over and over until I format.
Please, anyone have any idea on what is wrong or what I can do to fix this? Before Jedi Jelly 5 I was running Jedi Jelly 4 and never had this problem.
Thank you in advance for any help whatsoever.
Either format it or try another rom. That's a weird situation.
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richardlibeau said:
Either format it or try another rom. That's a weird situation.
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Normally formatting will work for the time being but now I can't even format it. My computer won't recognize the sd card and formatting isn't working in the phone. It says it failed and says the sd card is blank or has unsupported content and to reformat, but I try and keep getting the same "failed" error. So now my sd card has been wiped clean and won't work at all. I have no idea what to do...
I just put in a different sd card, a 2gb SanDisk that I had in another phone, and the "blank sd card..." notification went away and all seems ok.
baseballmom813 said:
I just put in a different sd card, a 2gb SanDisk that I had in another phone, and the "blank sd card..." notification went away and all seems ok.
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Must of been a corrupted sd card. At least you a got backup to work
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it was working well until recently, thought it was a problem with intergalactic rom, but noticed a few others having the same issue on other roms, was curious to see if anyone found a fix?
tried another rom and still no luck,
it says that its been ejected and then reads it but says its not formatted, I try to format it but then it gives me an error.
working with a 32gb memory card, don't believe its class 10 but don't have it infront of me right now.
Eddiekranc said:
it was working well until recently, thought it was a problem with intergalactic rom, but noticed a few others having the same issue on other roms, was curious to see if anyone found a fix?
tried another rom and still no luck,
it says that its been ejected and then reads it but says its not formatted, I try to format it but then it gives me an error.
working with a 32gb memory card, don't believe its class 10 but don't have it infront of me right now.
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I had this issue in the past and I was unable to recover the sd card even after formatting. Can you see it while in recovery?
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Did you try checking if you can read the card on your laptop?
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Eddiekranc said:
it was working well until recently, thought it was a problem with intergalactic rom, but noticed a few others having the same issue on other roms, was curious to see if anyone found a fix?
tried another rom and still no luck,
it says that its been ejected and then reads it but says its not formatted, I try to format it but then it gives me an error.
working with a 32gb memory card, don't believe its class 10 but don't have it infront of me right now.
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did you ever format your sd card to fat32 before? or is it still exfat?
remember touchwiz roms use exfat, while aosp roms use fat32.
Just an fyi although its pia,
Its always best to format sd card via your phone. Save yes files then use your phone to format.
Having said this, if you lose anything try
http://filehippo.com/download_recuva/
Give it time... may seem slow but its working.
Works with sd or any hard drive probably phone internsl mem as well.
Gl!
Edit: forgot to mention, try it even if you already formated. Youll be amazed.
Pretty amazing tool for free
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Ive searched the forums here as well as google, and find many S3 users facing a Verrrrry similar problem, where their SD card is "Unexpectedly Removed" and then Remounts itself, and the process repeats, causing battery drainage, loss of access to apps etc.. Mostly Related to a SanDisk manufacturing default with certain chips.
My problem however, is slightly unique, in that, mine does not remount itself once it has been "removed". Once physically removed, and checked on a PC, all my files are still there, in working order. Ive Formatted, both "quick" and full format to Fat32, and the card works fine for about an hour to maybe a whole night if Ive done it right before bed. It seems as soon as it starts to be accessed in any way for more than ten minutes, it gets "removed".
Ive tried the following to try and remedy the problem. (Im fairly broke so buying a new card is last resort in my case)
-Both Formats of the card several times.
-Put it in another phone which reads it, format, unmount safely, mount into my phone, and no luck, doesnt even see it
-Factory Reset incase of any bugs in software that may be causing a malfunction of any kind
-Full Wipe X3 + Change of ROM
Im going to be borrowing a friends card for the night tonight, a spare 2GB he has, and see if the phone repeats the error, or if it really is fault of the SD card in question.
Phone Specs
Rogers S3
Running Darth Stalker 4.1.2? and now AoCP_By_The_Collective5.95 4.2.2
Kernel:3.4.53-cyanogenmod-g361781f
SD Card: Lexar 16GB Class 4 Micro SD HC
Anyone have any ideas as to what may be causing the problem? or does it really sound like the card is at fault? I question this only because the card works elsewhere, and works in my phone for the first little while, with or without files on it, after I format it..
I'll report back about the other card tonight.
Any Suggestions would be greatly appreciated, as I cant find this problem solved in any way, anywhere :s
Once you report back and if the new card works it sounds like the card. But if the second card fails it sounds like a hardware issue only if you tried different ROMS and kernels and going back to stock by using Odin.
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Bruce Lee said:
Once you report back and if the new card works it sounds like the card. But if the second card fails it sounds like a hardware issue only if you tried different ROMS and kernels and going back to stock by using Odin.
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I am experiencing a similar issue, but my pc wont recognize the sd card neither :crying:
Do you know how can I fix it?
thank you