Hi, so I was pretty convinced something is wrong with the phone, but now I am not sure. Figured I'd start here.
I just bought a T-Mobile LG G3:
Build: KVT49L.D85110r
Android: 4.4.2
Model: LG-D851
Windows 8.1 on computer
I bought a generic 128GB SD card off eBay to put like 90GB of music (MP3, WMA, FLAC) since the phone supposedly takes up to 128GB of external memory. With other Android phones, I'd put the card in the phone, let the phone format it, then put the card in the computer to transfer the files, then put it back in the phone with no problems. When I started having issues with the first 128GB card, I thought it was bad so I bought another one, this time a name brand. Still having the same issues.
These are the issues and the various things I have tried:
1) Put card in phone, format, unmount, put card in computer, see it is exFAT, start copying music, hours later a message says the card is corrupted.
2) Put card in phone, format, unmount, put card in computer, computer doesn't recognize format and wants to reformat it, have tried formatting as both exFAT and NTFS (quick and slow), put music files on it, put card in phone, phone says it is empty or is a format it doesn't recognize, wants to format.
3) Format card on computer first, move to phone, phone recognizes it, take it back out, start putting files on it, hours later completes, put back in phone, phone says it is a format it doesn't recognize or it says it is empty, put back in the computer, and it is corrupted.
4) Put card in phone, format, mount, connect USB to computer, computer see the SD card in the phone, start moving files that way, eventually stops because it becomes corrupted somehow.
5) Same as the previous one, but play music as it is being uploaded to make sure files are moving over and card isn't corrupted, plays music as they move over, then eventually becomes corrupted and the player can't find any music on the card.
I am sure there are variations I didn't mentioned, but I have tried just about every configuration. I suppose it is possible both 128GB cards I bought are bad, but seems unlikely. Also, I have a 32GB generic card (FAT32) with music on it that runs fine between computer and phone. Not sure where to go from here other than return the phone (certified pre-owned)... which also restarts itself randomly sometimes.
Thanks for the help!
Related
Hi all,
I just got a new Sandisk 1GB Mini SD for my Wizard. I put it in my phone and it was recognized immediately. I copied a few files across (my TomTom install and a few maps) and then finished the install. I had to soft-reboot to get TomTom to work - but after rebooting my card doesn't work. When the phone starts up it asks if I want to format the card. I tap yes and it goes away - but doesn't really do anything.
I have taken the Mini SD out of my phone and put it into the card reader that's in my laptop. Windows recognizes that it is a SD card and also prompts to format it - but when I try to format it as FAT or FAT32 it says it can't complete. I have tried doing it through DOS too, but it comes back as saying that there is a bad Track 0 and the card is unusable.
I'm struggling to believe that the card is now poked after just copying some files onto it. I'm hoping that it's just something to do with the file system that has dies somehow. Does anyone know how to reformat the card (either through my phone or Win XP) or how can I resurrect this sucker?
Thanks in advance!
try pocket mechanics
thanks rudegear. I tried pocket mechanics, but it doesn't even recognise the card. I believe that pocket mech will only work if my phone can see the card first. this isn't even happening. the phone obviously knows that there is a card in it, as it says that the expansion slot is in use, but it can't read the card at all. any other ideas?
sounds like you have a fake card. 128mb cards formated to show 1gb, you copy more than 128 they corrupt. this happened to me
okay. I've given up on this card and have sent it back. no more trying to ressurect the dead for me!
has the new card solved the prob? The problem Iam having is almost identical to yours. I purchased a 2gig mini sd card (bn) for my atom. When inserted into my laptop's integrated sd reader, it would recognise a card has been inserted but would not open the card (but the Atom recognised the card).
Thinking I have bought a faulty card, I sent it back to manufacturer. The seller tested and concluded there is nothing wrong with the card but sent me a new one.
I had the same trouble with the new card. Convinced the card was not faulty, I purchased a new card reader.
The firt day i connected the card into the reader. things were SMOOTHE! I was lovn life. The card was read instantaniously and i proceeded to fill the card with a hole heap of goodies (including tomtom).
I used up approx 100mb of stuff that day and ejected the card from reader and inserted in my atom. Data was read with no trouble on pda and pc.
I inserted the sd card back into card reader the following day and now it seems the data originally put on from the first 'contact' is now locked. I cannot delete nor add anything else to the card. Oh and before anyone asks: yes, the lock was and is in the UNLOCK position (i dont even use the lock).
So my next move now is to exchange my card reader with a simpler/single slot. I read somewhere that cardreaders/devices sometimes lock data (dont know how true it is but got no choice).
in summery:
buying an external card reader solved the initial issue of recognizing/reading sd card but created another problem of LOCKING the sd card.
Is anyone else having issues with large sd cards?
I solve the problem by inserting card to Digital Camera that use SD card.
it formatted without error.
Card Reader and other phones does not format it. I think because of file system.
hmm... I will try that. will keep you all posted.
Hi all
I have been using my Orbit for about 2 weeks now and the 512mb card is beginning to look a little small, especially if I want to start putting some MP3s on it.
If I buy a larger card, say 2gig, can I simply copy the contents from the old one to the new one or will i need to re-install everything again?
Thanks for your help
Richard
Hi Richard,
You can just copy all the data over and it should work no worries.
I would suggest you do this in your pc because you will haveto replace the memory card in the phone, and when you boot the phone it might crash as nothing will be on it.
The best idea would be to turn the phone off, remove the memory card, copy everything on it to a folder on your pc, then put your new card in the pc, copy it all back onto that and then finally put the card back in your phone and boot it.
This worked fine for me, but you will need to have a card reader in your pc to read the sd card, and you will also need an adapter for the microsd card to go into (microSD -> SD adapter). If you are buying a new microSD card they usually have this with them.
If it fails you can just put your old card back in to recover.
Cheers, Towelie.
Thanks Towelie
I just need to get the new card now
Rich
So it's possible I might just be dumb and screwed up, but I think I might have reformatted something that I didn't mean to reformat.
I wanted to wipe my SD card because I found that there were random pics appearing in my gallery of people I've never seen before in my life (got the phone second hand but popped the SD card in that I used with my old Fascinate). Opening up My Computer, there were two different removable discs that were the SD card inside my phone and what I now presume to be internal storage. I backed up everything I wanted and wiped both the SD card and the other storage device via my laptop.
Here is the problem. Whenever I boot the phone up, there is a notification that says my SD card is either blank or not in a compatible format... It asks if I want to format it, I click OK, and everything seems fine... Until I have to reboot the phone and it does the same thing all over again. This is getting to be an annoyance because I don't want to keep deleting everything on my SD card whenever I reboot my phone.
Can anybody help me fix this?
Okay I definitely did something to the internal storage. I tried taking my SD card out and rebooting it and I am still getting the blank SD card notification. It won't let me format it. What do I do?
Try connecting the sdcard to your computer through a usb adapter, or any alternative to using the phone's USB-mount. Format it with FAT32. Put it back in your phone and see if it works. If not, you might have a corrupt sdcard. Try a different one if available.
What directory were the pictures appearing in? It's possible they were cached from the browser or some social app.
Hello,
I just got a 64 gb micro sd and just been experiencing issues since. I have formatted it to Fat32. It would randomly not show up when I plug in my phone, it does not show under it.
When I transfer music...they break? Will say something like so and so cannot be played, format is not supported or file does not exist. When I look at my musics on the computer, i cannot delete because it says i need written permission.
I am at lost for word at the moment because it is the second one I got...all having the same issue. When I format to exFat it does not even get mounted.
Backup your SD Card to your PC. Use the phone to Format, then put all your files back onto the Card.
I have already done that, it doesn't work...wouldn't mount
I'm having some strange issues with my S3 and micro SD cards. I noticed any attempt to access one of the folders will force crash any app that tries.
Then I did a nandroid backup from TWRP recovery and when I rebooted the phone, it claimed that the card was empty or damaged.
So I connected the card to my computer to backup everything that was there. Windows did say it needed to be scanned for errors but it didn't find any errors. It was formatted as exFat so I could put larger than 4 GB files on it.
When I put it back in my S3 it wasn't detected at all. No error messages, it was just as if I hadn't put any card in. Under Storage settings, under mount external SD card it just says to insert a card.
What I've found since then is in order to get the S3 to recognize that there is a card I need to do a full format (either FAT32 or exFAT) on my computer. If I do a quick format, it still won't be recognized. I need to do a full format.
But then, if I unmount and connect to my computer, then eject from my computer and put it back in my S3 it isn't detected again and I have to do a full format again.
I thought maybe the card had become defective, but I'm seeing the exact same behaviour now with a different card. The first one I was using was a class 10 32 GB lexar card. The second one is a class 10 16 GB Adata card. Both do the same thing. After a full format on my computer, they are detected on the phone but after unmounting, mounting on my computer, not doing anything except ejecting it, they stop being detected by the S3.
I've even tried re-formatting the card in the phone but that doesn't change anything.
Anyone know what's going on here? Is the phone defective? I don't want to send the phone in for warranty repair except as a last resort as I suspect that would mean several weeks without a phone.
Thanks!