Sd card error - T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII

Hello, I have a completely factory phone that I have never rooted or flashed. My phone all of a sudden cannot read my sd card and says I have to format it, I've pulled the battery out and restarted it, I've taken the sd card out and put it in my computer as well and my computer says there is an error and the card needs to be formatted. I would just do that except for the fact that I have probably 200 pics on my sd card that I would like to get off first. Would anyone no how I could recover the pics on my sd card or repair it so I don't have to format it.
I would appreciate any help solving this problem.
Thanks
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There are data recovery programs out there that I hear work pretty well. Just google and tou should find plenty if free ones you can try.
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SD card not being detected

When I tried to access an app that was installed on SD, my phone locked up. Upon a reboot I no longer have access to the card, all the apps' shortcuts are broken and all the options like mount SD card, format SD card are greyed out. Also when I connect the use cable there is no option to mount as disk drive anymore. I've rebooted, tried removing the card etc but no luck. Anyone else had this? I can't find my micro SD card adapter right now so I cart try it in my pc.
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Did you try running checkdisk from windows to repair it?
No cos I can't mount it in Windows
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Try repartitioning your sd card. Could be a corrupt ext partition, or your sd is completely screwed.
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I'll have to find my adapter
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Sounds like a bigger problem than a broken ext if nothing can read/mount the sd card. Might be the end of your sd cards life im afraid
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I've only had it about 2 months.....get what you pay for I suppose (click). Anyway still no luck with the adapter so I'll see if anyone's got one at work tomorrow.
OK, I found my adapter (and my old microSD card hiding within), windows has no problems seeing the 16gb card and my old (original 4gb) card has the same problem in the phone. For good measure I did a chkdsk on the card.
What are my options?
I've performed a full reset and still got the problem. Anyone got any suggestions?
anyone? I'm thinking it's a desire hardware fault.
any help? cheers
A number of us have had failed SD cards. In my case, Windows could see it well enough to copy most of the data off but failed to reformat it. I suggest you try to copy the data somewhere safe and then reformat in Windows. If the reformat works it's probably a hardware issue. If the reformat doesn't work it's probably the card.
I'm sure others will have different views!
Yeah but it's same with both my cards. I'll give it a go anyway cheers.
The one that came with the phone .. ( 8GB Class 2 ) came up with with a read only error last week ...
The card was dead.
I got a 8GB card class 6... used app brain .. and restored all my apps fine... etc
fab.. phones faster .. no problems
After inserting my old card again I now get the dreaded -
SD card damaged. You may have to reformat it.
Of course when you follow the wizard to format it, it doesn't seem to format it. I did try a full format in Windows earlier, no luck.
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Just to help anyone who stumbles over this thread in search of an answer, I've had to send it away for repair, it appears to be a hardware fault. 2-3 weeks.

External media in unknown state?

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)

HELP! sd card wont mount

well i flashed a kernel and didnt like it so i went into recovery and began flashing my nandroid backup. from there it was all going fine but stopped in the middle and said, oops something went wrong. after that i tried to get back into my sd to see if i had another backup. i then realized that my sd card was unmounted and i tried to mount it but to no avail. this is where i began to freak out because everything was wiped and the backup didnt work and i couldnt boot to anything except the bootloader and recovery. i finally got adb working and was able to flash cm9 directly to the phone so i have my phone working again YAY! so phone isnt brickd, maybe just sd card.
so is there anyway to try and recover my sd card to get my stuff back? i havent tried to format it yet because i want my pictures and all that :/ still need to get a card reader and try it in a pc
Captain Throwback has a thread about fixing the SD mount on the EVO if that is the problem. Have you tried a different card or tried your card in a different phone?
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Captain Throwback has a thread about fixing the SD mount on the EVO if that is the problem. Have you tried a different card or tried your card in a different phone?
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i havent had a chance to do either of those but i tried using the adb fastboot commands to makes the sd card recognized and mount again but it didnt work. gotta find another sd card or something or a card reader. any suggestions other than that?
Sorry but if the captain's thread didn't fix it than your card is most likely bad. I would try it in another device before trying to format it just in case. Maybe someone else will chime in with some other ideas.
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Don't format it until you try it in a card reader. There's a chance the card is corrupted, but I've also had cards not read on my phone, at all, then pop it in a card reader, and Windows reads it without a problem
yeh i will definitely do that thanks. im really hoping it just glitched out and my phone isnt reading it and can save everything. no idea how it happened still. just restoring a nandroid backup and it said there was an error then no sd card :/
so got a card reader and popped it into the pc and it was all there now formatting the card to exFAT and going to see if it works
so its still saying there is no sd card... i know it works because it read on the computer fine. any ideas of why its not showing up in recovery or on my phone? and ideas how to fix?
I don't think the Evo can read exFAT. I'd go with FAT32.

cwm doesn't see sd card?

I have yet to run into this one.
I had to odin my epic.
When it was time to flash from my sd card, cwm didn't see it???
I tried mounting it, but it says there's nothing to mount.
When I boot up into stock, it see's it no problem......soooo now I have a sort of not really rooted phone.....LOL
anyone have any ideas on this....I tried formatting the card in the phone also....
and its the same card I've been using...
OK......I still don't know what caused it......however, CWM has a partitioning tool, no I never noticed it before, so I went there, repartitioned my sd card.....and now my phone sees it
Same gd problem, not terribly happy with reformat, but it's worth a shot.
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Please need help, SD card

I need some serious help. I have been trying to get this fixed for the better part of a year now and I give up. I can't access my SD card, by any means.
I can't download an app with rooted premission
I can't wipe from ANY recovery
I can't take it out and wipe on another device
I can't wipe it from my computer
I can't do ANYTHING to it, i can't even delete files off of it.
My 64gb sd card is rendered worthless, it's driving me insane. Can somebody please help me before I rip my hair out?
sounds like your sd card is write protected....or its gone bad....check your sd manufaturer to see how to disable write protection....try that first....if you can install another card and see if you can add, delete, or modify files on that card....next insert card in question into your pc and see if you can do the same on it...if not you may just have a bad sd card
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It's not a bad SD card. I had a android version on it and then when you install the new one, it ****ing puts your SD card on lock down.
Nothing can access it and the files on it before I installed the new android version work, I just cant put anything on it or take anything off.
ok...so you need to share previous andriod version...new version...how you took the update ota or flash....build version....kernel etc. Each rom has its own little quirks and requirements and you have not given any info for others to see what may be going on...what I'm hearing is that your sd worked before you took the update but does now work after the update...
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I am pretty sure I just updated from stock to cyanogen
gonna have to be alot more specific....we can't read your phone...without the details no one can begin to help you
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No matter what I put it, there is no write protection switch. It just keeps saying I need to turn it off or it's write protected.
I removed it from my phone, put it in a microSD card converter to SD. It is directly in my slot in a laptop. I downloaded programs to try to overwrite this and it still says write protected.
just a quick interjection...sd card write proection has been an issue for some time....especially sandisk cards....I had the same problem...could read not write...could not delete move or change any files on the card...all it said was write protected though I had never enabled this....bought a new card...copied the files from old card to pc (the only thing I could do with the card)...dumped those files onto the new card and reinserted....everything has worked fine since with no problems whatever. I will say that I did not buy another sandisk card.
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Mine is a samsung..
The situation is just ****ty.. the files on it work but some of them are corrupt and **** everything up. I cant listen to music because every other song crashes my phone and it has to reboot.
Just spent 60$ on a sd card for nothing
well its out here now and someone has your answer
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well its out here now and someone has your answer
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I hope. I've been working this for a long time intermittently . Just give up every time after a few hours.
You could try this app to check the card. There are plenty of counterfeit sd cards out there.
http://www.humanlogic.com/sdinsight/
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