I'm running viper 1.8.0 on my M8 and I've had a 128gb card in there since I got the phone last June. This afternoon, all of a sudden, the system apps stopped reading the SD card. My gallery and music apps say there's no files. I initially thought my card got wiped somehow, but looking in the storage section of the settings app, it still shows 20gb used. Checked in ES file explorer and all files are there and I can view them, so they're not corrupt. I connected to my laptop and backed up the SD card and formatted from the phone, and put the files back on and still won't read. However, I tried taking a photo and then that one shows up in my gallery! But that's it! Even though it's in the same folder as the rest of them. What's going on here?
joe_the_man said:
I'm running viper 1.8.0 on my M8 and I've had a 128gb card in there since I got the phone last June. This afternoon, all of a sudden, the system apps stopped reading the SD card. My gallery and music apps say there's no files. I initially thought my card got wiped somehow, but looking in the storage section of the settings app, it still shows 20gb used. Checked in ES file explorer and all files are there and I can view them, so they're not corrupt. I connected to my laptop and backed up the SD card and formatted from the phone, and put the files back on and still won't read. However, I tried taking a photo and then that one shows up in my gallery! But that's it! Even though it's in the same folder as the rest of them. What's going on here?
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Your system apps have updated, but you are still on original M8 firmware. That's the only thing I can think of. I know that quite a few HTC apps updated recently.
I'm guessing you are S-On. You need to return to stock ROM and recovery so that you can update via OTAs, or gain S-Off and update manually (the easiest way).
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Your system apps have updated, but you are still on original M8 firmware. That's the only thing I can think of. I know that quite a few HTC apps updated recently.
I'm guessing you are S-On. You need to return to stock ROM and recovery so that you can update via OTAs, or gain S-Off and update manually (the easiest way).
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Yeah I am s-on. I've been putting off updating because of the lack of a free couple hours to do it all. What you're saying sounds right and I guess htc is pushing me to the wall to update now. Thanks for the help! Much appreciated!
joe_the_man said:
Yeah I am s-on. I've been putting off updating because of the lack of a free couple hours to do it all. What you're saying sounds right and I guess htc is pushing me to the wall to update now. Thanks for the help! Much appreciated!
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I see you are running Viper ROM. There is an option in Venom Tweaks > Advanced to fix internal/external sd card access.
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I see you are running Viper ROM. There is an option in Venom Tweaks > Advanced to fix internal/external sd card access.
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I don't have that option in tweaks. I'm running an old Venom rom. Maybe it wasn't in there at the time?
joe_the_man said:
I don't have that option in tweaks. I'm running an old Venom rom. Maybe it wasn't in there at the time?
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It wasn't. Not till Lollipop. (4.0.0)
I'd try to format from your PC (various freeware available) to exFAT format.
Folks have had some funky results formatting on the phone's built-in utility (including read issues).
redpoint73 said:
I'd try to format from your PC (various freeware available) to exFAT format.
Folks have had some funky results formatting on the phone's built-in utility (including read issues).
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I didn't think of format, since it was working for him before. I use fat32, and haven't had any problems. Just another suggestion if exfat doesn't work for you, and the SD format is the culprit.
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I didn't think of format, since it was working for him before. I use fat32, and haven't had any problems. Just another suggestion if exfat doesn't work for you, and the SD format is the culprit.
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FAT32 is the tried and true, longstanding format. And until pretty recently, my "go-to" format as well (and what I recommended to folks). However, its somewhat inefficient, and has a lot of limitations compared to "newer" formats. My understanding, Windows can't format FAT32 above 32 GB (although 3rd party PC applications can). And some folks here have file sizes above 4GB (believe it or not), which are not supported by FAT32.
I believe most current SD/MicroSD cards come pre-formatted exFAT due to the larger file and total capacity features. They used to be pretty universally pre-formatted FAT32.
I agree it certainly doesn't hurt to try FAT32, as another suggestion as you stated. My main point is to re-format on a PC, rather than the phone; as I've seen folks with similar read issues have better success doing it this way. The exact format (as long as the phone supports it) is probably not the critical factor.
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I've searched and search, but is seems my terms are good generic to get me any decent results. If I've missed something, I apologize.. Here's my issue...
I try a new ROM every couple weeks. Recently I loaded Redemption's latest version on my Incredible. Shortly after, the SD just stopped working.
I've tested about 12 different SD cards that work great in our company's other DInc phones, and although they work great in the others, nothing will work in this phone -- the SD reader just appears to be fried.
I'm suspicious this has to do with Lou's Kernel somehow (not his oversight, but just some random thing -- because we've had 5 SD card's go bad since using RR w/Lous kernel).
Is there any way to flash a new kernel/ROM from the internal storage rather than the SD?
Thank you in advance!
rkmFL said:
I've searched and search, but is seems my terms are good generic to get me any decent results. If I've missed something, I apologize.. Here's my issue...
I try a new ROM every couple weeks. Recently I loaded Redemption's latest version on my Incredible. Shortly after, the SD just stopped working.
I've tested about 12 different SD cards that work great in our company's other DInc phones, and although they work great in the others, nothing will work in this phone -- the SD reader just appears to be fried.
I'm suspicious this has to do with Lou's Kernel somehow (not his oversight, but just some random thing -- because we've had 5 SD card's go bad since using RR w/Lous kernel).
Is there any way to flash a new kernel/ROM from the internal storage rather than the SD?
Thank you in advance!
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I think you can download things onto the internal memory if you don't have an sd card, but I'm not sure. I've never actually tried tbh. But... I'm not sure if CWM would let you install from anything but the sd card... Idk lol I hope someone can help ya out with this.
Sent from my Droid Incredible running Myn's Warm TwoPointTwo RLS5.3.
rkmFL said:
Is there any way to flash a new kernel/ROM from the internal storage rather than the SD?
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As far as I know, no there is not. But just to make sure the SD reader is gone, at least try an RUU. Grab a known good SD card, put the PB31IMG.zip on the root of the card (make sure the card is formatted as FAT32 first), and boot into hboot (PWR + Vol DN).
See here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=969973
The RUU zip here: http://dougpiston.com/files/RUU/bui...and-2.15.00.07.28-hboot-0.92.0000_PB31IMG.zip
Rename PB31IMG.zip.
Hi Brett,
That's exactly the type of thing I was looking for, thank you!
After downloading the RUU and saving to the SD / renaming PB31IMG.zip -- I booted to the HBOOT about 10 different times, and it locked up every time.
I know what you're referring to, how HBOOT will check for a file and prompt the upgrade; however, in this case it just locks-up. Perhaps the SD is truly fried.
Now the trick is how I return under my warranty, being that I cannot get it back to a stock ROM.. Ugh!
Thanks again for the great tip!
-RKM
I've never used this because I'm on a Mac. But, I think you should be able to flash an RUU through USB instead of having to use the SD card.
http://dougpiston.com/files/RUU/RUU...4k_NV_1.70_PRL58006_release_152016_signed.exe
Due to size limitations (GPads only coming in 16gb varieties) I am beginning to run low on space on my Gpad (v500 running cm11). However I have a 64gb microSD card and I would like to use this as much as I can to conserve space on the internal memory.
There are a few ways to solve this but I not fully know how to do this.
Firstly, is it possible install apps to microSD card? If so, how? I know some devices support this and some do not. My phone for example does not but I have heard that some people have had success with this.
Next, there are some rather large folders on my internal storage that I would like move to my sdcard however the apps that use those folder can only read them where they are currently located (cmupdates, ebooks, etc).
I read about symlinks and managed to make a few but the only place I was able to make a symlink was to /data/media/0. But the changes to that do not show up the apps which I believe read either /sdcard or /storage/emulated/0. And for my SDcard I can get to it either in /mnt/media/sdcard1 or through /storage/sdcard1.
I tried and succeeded in making a link between /mnt/media/sdcard1/eBooks and /data/media/0/eBooks however the link does not show up in /sdcard or /storage/emulated/0 and it does not show up in the apps, leading me to believe that is where the apps read the sdcard from.
If anyone can answer the above two questions or give any other suggestions for maximizing available space on my internal card please let me know.
Thank you!
I think most of your issues could be resolved with Link2SD (under 10 posts, can't post a link to Google Play).
You can also use an app called Foldermount. It's only $.99 ( if I recall correctly) for the unlocked version. This allows you to move any folder to SD card. I like it as it guides you thru the way and will move the data for you as well. Latest version has been updated to allow apps from play store to install properly. Well worth the $1 price.
mzfckr993 said:
I think most of your issues could be resolved with Link2SD (under 10 posts, can't post a link to Google Play).
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cbb77 said:
You can also use an app called Foldermount. It's only $.99 ( if I recall correctly) for the unlocked version. This allows you to move any folder to SD card. I like it as it guides you thru the way and will move the data for you as well. Latest version has been updated to allow apps from play store to install properly. Well worth the $1 price.
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Thanks guys! Looks like using these two combined I can get exactly what I wanted. I'll use link2SD to put apps on the SD card and Foldermount to move the other folders I want moved.
Thanks again!
Can you let me know if this works for you? I can't get mine to read or write my SD card at all! I can't even move a picture from my Box cloud account to the SD card. Are you experiencing this? Or did I get a bad unit?
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Can you let me know if this works for you? I can't get mine to read or write my SD card at all! I can't even move a picture from my Box cloud account to the SD card. Are you experiencing this? Or did I get a bad unit?
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These solutions did work for me, I am still tweaking to get it the way I like it especially since every time I update my Rom Link2SD has to generate new scripts. I can ready and write to the SD card just fine and I could before I started using this as well. I am not sure why you aren't able to write to your sd card. Could it be a bad SD card? Try plugging it into your computer.
I've tried 2 different SD cards both of which I can move files to and from on my computer. So I know it's not the card. I'm thinking maybe I should exchange it out for another day one...
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I've tried 2 different SD cards both of which I can move files to and from on my computer. So I know it's not the card. I'm thinking maybe I should exchange it out for another day one...
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Probably... That sounds like a device issue not card.
How are the cards formatted?
The ROM you are using may not support the format.
1barlog17 said:
I've tried 2 different SD cards both of which I can move files to and from on my computer. So I know it's not the card. I'm thinking maybe I should exchange it out for another day one...
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How are the cards formatted?
The ROM you are using may not support the format.
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I'm not sure I just put the card in my computer and clicked format SD card. I'm not rooted or running any special ROM, it's completely stock out've the box.
Well, if you did it from your PC, it may be formatted NTFS, and you need them formatted FAT 32. Get it here; http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html Not only allows formatting almost any format xFAT, Fat32, NTFS, etc.. and you can partition them also which is not supported by Windows, but IS supported by most Android ROMs. I doubt there is anything wrong with your device.
1barlog17 said:
I'm not sure I just put the card in my computer and clicked format SD card. I'm not rooted or running any special ROM, it's completely stock out've the box.
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Well, if you did it from your PC, it may be formatted NTFS, and you need them formatted FAT 32. Get it here; http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html Not only allows formatting almost any format xFAT, Fat32, NTFS, etc.. and you can partition them also which is not supported by Windows, but IS supported by most Android ROMs. I doubt there is anything wrong with your device.
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Thanks for the tip, this makes me feel a little better about my purchase, I'll give it a try. I'm also thinking of buying a 64gb San Disk card and hopefully it will just work with a brand new one.
These solutions did work for me, I am still tweaking to get it the way I like it especially since every time I update my Rom Link2SD has to generate new scripts. I can ready and write to the SD card just fine and I could before I started using this as well. I am not sure why you aren't able to write to your sd card. Could it be a bad SD card? Try plugging it into your computer.
Lucien2 said:
These solutions did work for me, I am still tweaking to get it the way I like it especially since every time I update my Rom Link2SD has to generate new scripts. I can ready and write to the SD card just fine and I could before I started using this as well. I am not sure why you aren't able to write to your sd card. Could it be a bad SD card? Try plugging it into your computer.
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I have been trying to fix the issue with Rom updates and link2sd. You have to provide the Rom (in my case cyanogenmod) a backup script so it can back up the files. I am planning on figuring it out at some point but if you get it before I do would you mind posting your script? Thanks!
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colwellkr said:
I have been trying to fix the issue with Rom updates and link2sd. You have to provide the Rom (in my case cyanogenmod) a backup script so it can back up the files. I am planning on figuring it out at some point but if you get it before I do would you mind posting your script? Thanks!
Sent from my VS870 4G using XDA Premium HD app
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So a follow up with this, I was able to get a script working. I don't know if this feature is unique to cyanogenmod or not but any script in /system/addon.d will execute itself during a rom install and be restored automatically if it was wiped. So using 50-cm.sh as an example I made a script called 11-link2sd.sh to perform the backup of the mount script for link2sd which is located in /system/etc/init.d/11link2sd.
I then had insert this script and my mount script into a cyanogenmod update and flash it in. But after that I tried flashing an update of cm11 to test it and it worked! Attached is my script which should also work for anyone who is able to flash it into their /system/addon.d folder.
Hey there.
So, I have this wonderful HTC M8. Love it. It's great. Except for my experiences with microSD cards. Basically, I bought a $30 samsung µSD, 64gb, great, wonderful, everything. Something killed it. It lost its formatting every time I mounted it in either Android or Mac OS. So, I returned it, bought a different brand (unbranded, 64gb, $10). This card works great... as long as I don't write data to it from anything except Android. I'm rooted/S-off, so I was able to mount it as RW with ES File Explorer, and yeah. But whenever I copy files to its root directory from my Mac, Android proudly declares that the card is damaged and needs to be reformatted. At this point, I'm going to assume that this isn't a problem with my card, and more a problem with how Android handles things (or how I'm writing files). What the hell is going on, and how can I fix it?
Thanks!
crashfocus said:
Hey there.
So, I have this wonderful HTC M8. Love it. It's great. Except for my experiences with microSD cards. Basically, I bought a $30 samsung µSD, 64gb, great, wonderful, everything. Something killed it. It lost its formatting every time I mounted it in either Android or Mac OS. So, I returned it, bought a different brand (unbranded, 64gb, $10). This card works great... as long as I don't write data to it from anything except Android. I'm rooted/S-off, so I was able to mount it as RW with ES File Explorer, and yeah. But whenever I copy files to its root directory from my Mac, Android proudly declares that the card is damaged and needs to be reformatted. At this point, I'm going to assume that this isn't a problem with my card, and more a problem with how Android handles things (or how I'm writing files). What the hell is going on, and how can I fix it?
Thanks!
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I have problems too with my microSD. I backup to my mSD, whether with TWRP or CWM, and it always fails to restore. I've re-formatted it and I've had the same problem with the dialogue "Damaged .... needs to be reformatted."
Did you ever figure out the problem?
Don't compress the backup
I have no problems writing to, backing up to SD Card from PC or phone. Not sure while you're experiencing your issue but with root and a root file manager, all should be fine.
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Don't compress the backup
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I haven't been compressing my backups. I actually tried it both ways once. I keep getting "Failed...can't verify md5". Something like that.
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I have no problems writing to, backing up to SD Card from PC or phone. Not sure while you're experiencing your issue but with root and a root file manager, all should be fine.
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Yeah, I can backup to. I just can't do a restore from the mSD. It's weird. Maybe because I formatted it on a Mac, but it was done with MSDOS (FAT). I'll try formatting it on a PC and see if that works.
Format it with your phone.
I'm having different SD card issues, Zoe won't work with my sd card, its a sandisk ultra 64gb class 10 UHS-1 and it says I need a higher class card with at this moment is impossible.
I formatted mine with my phone to try resolve it but made it worse, it formatted it to HTFS/NTFS and when i checked what the storage was like on it, it only read that it was a 10gb card, but my computer picked it up as a 64gb card, so try not to use the phone to format it. I went back to it being fat32 with an app from the playstore, can't find any apps to format it as exFAT though.
Other than that mine is fine.
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I've tried that too with no luck.
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I've tried that too with no luck.
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Writing to sd card restrictions were placed by Google in KitKat 4.4+ versions as a part of 'system enhancements'. I have rooted my M8 and the following three things worked for me:
1. Buy San Disk or another reputed brand card (authentic, fake/generic one gave me the same error message). Generic one are flimsy and often will give you an error message that card was unmounted unexpectedly.
2. Removing write-off protection, see the process at: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2701816
3. If above two methods still give you the same issue, try formatting the card in fat32 format. It will limit the each file size to 2GB but at least will make the card usable (use this only after trying item#1 & 2).
Good luck.
Hi people. I had installed this ROM (Marshmallow 6.0) in my LG G3 D858HK dual sim. The link to the ROM is http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g3/development/lg-g3-d856-7-8-android-marshmallow-t3294053
But after installing the same my MicroSD card says its corrupted and asks to format it. I have formatted it several times and also by PC with a card reader. But still the issue persists. I don't get the option to set up my card as either INTERNAL or PORTABLE storage as it should be in Marshmallow ROMS. It directly starts to format as Portable storage and starts at 20% and shows successfully formatted. But still it shows that the card is corrupted. My card is working fine. I checked it. Please help.
I have the same problem and not yet identified the reason for this. Have you tried other ROMs? For me it is also happening on CM 13 and CandySix.
Answer.
Hope that helps, it worked for me with the same problem and works always....
link is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeU0CxSWR5o
Cheers
I have the same issue with a Samsung 64GB microSD in a LG G3 d851 (T-Mobile USA). The card works fine in Windows and Android Lollipop. However I am testing several Marshmallow ROMs and so far I got this corrupted message in LightDark, Turbo and DU ROMs. However it works fine in Tesla-M. All of them are AOSP Android M ROMs. It seems that there is a problem somewhere but at least Tesla-M tells us that it can be fixed.
Fat32 lads, instead of exFAT format to fat32. The root in MM causes exFAT cards not to be read and stupidly the phone formats it to exFAT. Also the SIM contacts won't appear, instead you have to download an app to copy them from sim to phone.
I'm experiencing something similar.
I am on fulmics 4.2 on a d855. I had no problems for some weeks, than the phone started mounting and unmounting my sdcard, I tried all the suggestions I read online. Like slow formatting (tried all the types of partition), also I tried with the phone format. My best result was the read of the sdcard for just some hours, but then it started auto-expelling it.
I obviously tried with more sdcards and it's not a problem with them. Any suggestions? It's a software problem or an internal hardware problem?
I tried change the kernel a xceed and the sd card is recognized but not funcionally complete,(the radio fm do not work with xceed)
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humtum0499 said:
Hi people. I had installed this ROM (Marshmallow 6.0) in my LG G3 D858HK dual sim.
The link to the ROM is http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g3/development/lg-g3-d856-7-8-android-marshmallow-t3294053
But after installing the same my MicroSD card says its corrupted and asks to format it. I have formatted it several times and also by PC with a card reader. But still the issue persists. I don't get the option to set up my card as either INTERNAL or PORTABLE storage as it should be in Marshmallow ROMS. It directly starts to format as Portable storage and starts at 20% and shows successfully formatted. But still it shows that the card is corrupted. My card is working fine. I checked it. Please help.
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Hi all,
I found out that the same SD card I have since I bought the S5, May 2014, just got corrupted.
It won’t format in the phone, I use the AParted, ES File Explorer, FX Explorer and it never work.
I can still use it in a camera, PC, another Phone and it worked fine!
I put the card back in my PC, reformat in Fat32, ext4, NTFS and each time never worked in the S5.
I did the same thing with a bran new one too, same results.
It starts after updating SuperSU 2.61 to 2.71, in Marshmallow.
Few days’ work fine and then, corrupted.
I tried many options people have here and still the same result, corrupted.
I fix it (I hope) with doing a full factory reset in Marshmallow first.
Got to TWRP and did a full Wipe, Format Data and Adv. Wipe; select everything.
Yes, that clean a lot.
Use Odin and re-flash Marshmallow.
Everything is fine now, but it is only a few days that I did this, so it might still happen.
Could it be the version of SUperSU I took that has something? Or It is actually Marshmallow 6.0.1 with SuperSU ?
We might never know as the version change often.
Hope that will help someone.
VE2HRJ
VE2HRJ said:
Hi all,
I found out that the same SD card I have since I bought the S5, May 2014, just got corrupted.
It won’t format in the phone, I use the AParted, ES File Explorer, FX Explorer and it never work.
I can still use it in a camera, PC, another Phone and it worked fine!
I put the card back in my PC, reformat in Fat32, ext4, NTFS and each time never worked in the S5.
I did the same thing with a bran new one too, same results.
It starts after updating SuperSU 2.61 to 2.71, in Marshmallow.
Few days’ work fine and then, corrupted.
I tried many options people have here and still the same result, corrupted.
I fix it (I hope) with doing a full factory reset in Marshmallow first.
Got to TWRP and did a full Wipe, Format Data and Adv. Wipe; select everything.
Yes, that clean a lot.
Use Odin and re-flash Marshmallow.
Everything is fine now, but it is only a few days that I did this, so it might still happen.
Could it be the version of SUperSU I took that has something? Or It is actually Marshmallow 6.0.1 with SuperSU ?
We might never know as the version change often.
Hope that will help someone.
VE2HRJ
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Hi all,
Here it is again, my SD card is corrupted again by the OS… but I can access the card by my PC or another phone!
So it seams to be a combination of OS 6.0.1 (Canadian Rogers), how it is rooted (Twrp) and the SuperSU free v2.76.
I’ll wipe the phone again and re-install the original Os from the carrier, no Root & no SuperSU.
I’ll wait for a week and see.
Keep you posted.
Have a great one!
VE2HRJ
Try this...
Hi All,
I rooted by phone this week also using the KingRoot method and also had the same issue. The below steps resolved it for myself and hopefully for you.
Since this is my first post I can't paste the URL to the site as the forum won't let me, so you'll have to google it, sorry about that.
Google - 32fat guiformat and look for the site 'GUI Format - Ridgecrop Consultants Ltd'
Download the program by clicking on the picture.
Run the program and select the drive letter of your memory card. Set the Allocation unit size to 32768 and untick Quick Format the press Start.
The format process takes maybe 45mins. But afterwards you'll have a full 64GB card formatted as FAT32 and will work in your phone again. Hope this helps you...
Enjoy your day.
JMP$EA31
If you can verify that more than one card works in a computer but not on the phone, and that formatting the card in the phone goes to 20 % very quickly, while afterwards going to 100 % but still tells you it´s corrupted, then indeed it´s simply the installation of Marshmellow that suddenly no longer wants to work with the file system of the card.
For me, the 32fat guiformat program told me that card was locked by another application, so I did it manually:
In windows elevated command prompt - after backing up eventual data on the card:
diskpart
list disk
(now find out which one is your sdcard, let´s call it x)
select disk x
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
format fs=fat32
When the format is finished, if the cards size is beyond 32 GB, you´ll get a message about that the disk is too big.
At this point I managed though to make a quick format in the before mentioned FAT32 GUI Format program, and bingo - the card is recognized in the phone again.
No need for the diskpart stuff of course, if you already had success with the GUI thingy, just telling in case anyone experiences the same problems as me.
It may be that there´s a way to tell diskpart to use a different cluster size to avoid the error at the end, and also there may be a trick to make the card available to fat32gui. without first going through the diskpart step In my case though, I had the error on two different computers, on which none of them were accessing the card from any applications, disk management, win explorer etc.
Finally I´d like to add that this is not a general error for all Marshmallow phones: My huawei p8 worked fine with the card, also on Marshmallow, before I had to reformat it to fat32.
It´s a pretty sucky bug: Never mind the hassle of formatting the card, as long it works. What bothers me is the 4 GB limit of files in fat32. It´s easy to have a movie nowadays which is larger than that.
PS: Some people recommend using an app called aparted to format the card on the phone, which now has another name. I tried that, but it kept on closing itself, so perhaps it´s not compatible with Marshmallow or the same plus LG G3.
JMP$EA31 said:
Hi All,
I rooted by phone this week also using the KingRoot method and also had the same issue. The below steps resolved it for myself and hopefully for you.
Since this is my first post I can't paste the URL to the site as the forum won't let me, so you'll have to google it, sorry about that.
Google - 32fat guiformat and look for the site 'GUI Format - Ridgecrop Consultants Ltd'
Download the program by clicking on the picture.
Run the program and select the drive letter of your memory card. Set the Allocation unit size to 32768 and untick Quick Format the press Start.
The format process takes maybe 45mins. But afterwards you'll have a full 64GB card formatted as FAT32 and will work in your phone again. Hope this helps you...
Enjoy your day.
JMP$EA31
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Thank you. It worked.
humtum0499 said:
Hi people. I had installed this ROM (Marshmallow 6.0) in my LG G3 D858HK dual sim. The link to the ROM is http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g3/development/lg-g3-d856-7-8-android-marshmallow-t3294053
But after installing the same my MicroSD card says its corrupted and asks to format it. I have formatted it several times and also by PC with a card reader. But still the issue persists. I don't get the option to set up my card as either INTERNAL or PORTABLE storage as it should be in Marshmallow ROMS. It directly starts to format as Portable storage and starts at 20% and shows successfully formatted. But still it shows that the card is corrupted. My card is working fine. I checked it. Please help.
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same problem i tried everything aparted, wiping partition from twrp, cmd promt.
maybe busybox
I know this is an old thread but I've recently had this same situation but I found it was a result of installing busybox with Busybox Pro from Stericson. I used the "Smart Install" feature and selected to "Replace all symlinks" and "Clean Mode".
Basically, I believe by doing clean mode and replacing all symlinks, I had replaced needed System applets which somehow had hindered the OS from being able to correctly mount any External SD Card.
After using TWRP to factory reset (Wipe System, Data, Dalvik, Cache, Internal Storage) I Odin Flashed the latest stock firmware and then proceeded to root, etc. BTW, My phone is a T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 4 SM-N910T on Net10 prepaid network.
Worked for me!!
JMP$EA31 said:
Hi All,
I rooted by phone this week also using the KingRoot method and also had the same issue. The below steps resolved it for myself and hopefully for you.
Since this is my first post I can't paste the URL to the site as the forum won't let me, so you'll have to google it, sorry about that.
Google - 32fat guiformat and look for the site 'GUI Format - Ridgecrop Consultants Ltd'
Download the program by clicking on the picture.
Run the program and select the drive letter of your memory card. Set the Allocation unit size to 32768 and untick Quick Format the press Start.
The format process takes maybe 45mins. But afterwards you'll have a full 64GB card formatted as FAT32 and will work in your phone again. Hope this helps you...
Enjoy your day.
JMP$EA31
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Thanks so much for posting this! Solved my problem with no issue. :good:
VE2HRJ said:
Hi all,
Here it is again, my SD card is corrupted again by the OS… but I can access the card by my PC or another phone!
So it seams to be a combination of OS 6.0.1 (Canadian Rogers), how it is rooted (Twrp) and the SuperSU free v2.76.
I’ll wipe the phone again and re-install the original Os from the carrier, no Root & no SuperSU.
I’ll wait for a week and see.
Keep you posted.
Have a great one!
VE2HRJ
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Did you ever find out a resolution to this? I'm having the same problem -- card works in computer and other devices, but not tablet which was rooted (twrp) with supersu installed. In fact, no sdcard will work now in that tablet, formatted using gui formatter mentioned earlier or not.
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VE2HRJ said:
Hi all,
Here it is again, my SD card is corrupted again by the OS… but I can access the card by my PC or another phone!
So it seams to be a combination of OS 6.0.1 (Canadian Rogers), how it is rooted (Twrp) and the SuperSU free v2.76.
I’ll wipe the phone again and re-install the original Os from the carrier, no Root & no SuperSU.
I’ll wait for a week and see.
Keep you posted.
Have a great one!
VE2HRJ
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Zerokool1995 said:
I know this is an old thread but I've recently had this same situation but I found it was a result of installing busybox with Busybox Pro from Stericson. I used the "Smart Install" feature and selected to "Replace all symlinks" and "Clean Mode".
Basically, I believe by doing clean mode and replacing all symlinks, I had replaced needed System applets which somehow had hindered the OS from being able to correctly mount any External SD Card.
After using TWRP to factory reset (Wipe System, Data, Dalvik, Cache, Internal Storage) I Odin Flashed the latest stock firmware and then proceeded to root, etc. BTW, My phone is a T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 4 SM-N910T on Net10 prepaid network.
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Did this work?
kitelooper said:
Hope that helps, it worked for me with the same problem and works always....
link is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeU0CxSWR5o
Cheers
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Is there another link for this video? The one above no longer works.
Hey guys pls help me
After custom ROM installation of 7.1 my phone Gionee M2 shows sdcard corrupted and also my sim contacts disappeared!! Pls tell me how to fix it.
Okay, I might need some input here on how to enable the phone to give permissions to write to the SD card. It goes into a loop after following the steps below in red. I've tried to go into the phones settings and app permissions to give it access and to no avail there. Am I at loss here or is there some way to give it permission?
I have tried installing File Manager apps with no avail. Is there any steps that I may have missed? Thanks!
I don't know if you're the same user who posted about this issue the other day in another thread, but:
I know I had that exact same issue at some point, but that was likely at least two months ago.
What firmware are you on? The early November, later November, or December firmware? Not sure if it's a factor but it might be.
What definitely solved it for me (but I'm not sure if a newer firmware was a factor) was ironically the fact that I have my MicroSD card formatted ExFAT, which the Pixels have never been able to read natively (Google would have to pay Microsoft royalties for including ExFAT support).
I finally paid for the full exFAT/NTFS for USB by Paragon Software app, and I use it through my preferred file manager X-plore File Manager. At least if you're using one of the filesystems that Paragon supports, the app mounts it and you can find a Paragon listing in the file manager with which you can access the contents.
If your MicroSD card is already formatted a way that the Pixel natively supports (FAT32, not sure what else), then this might not help you.
If you're on one of the November firmware versions, I would either manually update to the December firmware (third link in my signature below to get the files), if you're preferred area's December firmware is available there, or wait a couple of weeks for the late January update.
I don't recall if the Paragon app might have a trial, then you could try it anyway.
roirraW edor ehT said:
I don't know if you're the same user who posted about this issue the other day in another thread, but:
I know I had that exact same issue at some point, but that was likely at least two months ago.
What firmware are you on? The early November, later November, or December firmware? Not sure if it's a factor but it might be.
What definitely solved it for me (but I'm not sure if a newer firmware was a factor) was ironically the fact that I have my MicroSD card formatted ExFAT, which the Pixels have never been able to read natively (Google would have to pay Microsoft royalties for including ExFAT support).
I finally paid for the full exFAT/NTFS for USB by Paragon Software app, and I use it through my preferred file manager X-plore File Manager. At least if you're using one of the filesystems that Paragon supports, the app mounts it and you can find a Paragon listing in the file manager with which you can access the contents.
If your MicroSD card is already formatted a way that the Pixel natively supports (FAT32, not sure what else), then this might not help you.
If you're on one of the November firmware versions, I would either manually update to the December firmware (third link in my signature below to get the files), if you're preferred area's December firmware is available there, or wait a couple of weeks for the late January update.
I don't recall if the Paragon app might have a trial, then you could try it anyway.
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Thank you for the suggestion. I have the latest November update and the SD card was exfat formatted but upon inserting it via the adapter, the phone wanted to format it to FAT32 for it to recognize as portable storage. I was able to copy/move items to the SD card but not able to watch any videos with VLC; the phone doesn't recognize it while the exfat/ntfs app is installed. I had to uninstall for the phone to recognize it to play videos in the card. It seems I have to reinstall the app to move items from or into the card, using the app. Seems like a nuisance, but I am able to do the things that I wanted to do in the first place. Thanks!
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Thank you for the suggestion. I have the latest November update and the SD card was exfat formatted but upon inserting it via the adapter, the phone wanted to format it to FAT32 for it to recognize as portable storage. I was able to copy/move items to the SD card but not able to watch any videos with VLC; the phone doesn't recognize it while the exfat/ntfs app is installed. I had to uninstall for the phone to recognize it to play videos in the card. It seems I have to reinstall the app to move items from or into the card, using the app. Seems like a nuisance, but I am able to do the things that I wanted to do in the first place. Thanks!
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You're welcome! Since you have it mostly working although in an inconvenient way, I'm glad, and hopefully the January update fixes things for you if you don't want to or can't manually flash the December update in the meantime. It's optional if you want to go any further, but I am curious if you don't mind...
Which of the following two is accurate?
Did you reformat the card to FAT32?
or
Did you keep it in ExFAT?
Since you mentioned using the Paragon app, it makes it sound like you did keep the card in ExFAT format, since you shouldn't need the app if it's in FAT32 format.
To make sure I understand the rest correctly, you're saying:
Using the Paragon app I mentioned, you were able to copy or move files from the phone to the MicroSD card
You weren't able to watch videos from the MicroSD card
No matter which format you chose, it's confusing since you said, "The phone doesn't recognize it while the exfat/ntfs app is installed" but you also said, "It seems I have to reinstall the app to move items from or into the card". Those seem to be contradictory, but I'm guessing you just mean one of those in one circumstance and the second in the other circumstance.
I could potentially do similar tests with mine (in ExFAT), and with videos and VLC - I just want to make sure I understand exactly what the situation is.
roirraW edor ehT said:
You're welcome! Since you have it mostly working although in an inconvenient way, I'm glad, and hopefully the January update fixes things for you if you don't want to or can't manually flash the December update in the meantime. It's optional if you want to go any further, but I am curious if you don't mind...
Which of the following two is accurate?
Did you reformat the card to FAT32?
or
Did you keep it in ExFAT?
Since you mentioned using the Paragon app, it makes it sound like you did keep the card in ExFAT format, since you shouldn't need the app if it's in FAT32 format.
To make sure I understand the rest correctly, you're saying:
Using the Paragon app I mentioned, you were able to copy or move files from the phone to the MicroSD card
You weren't able to watch videos from the MicroSD card
No matter which format you chose, it's confusing since you said, "The phone doesn't recognize it while the exfat/ntfs app is installed" but you also said, "It seems I have to reinstall the app to move items from or into the card". Those seem to be contradictory, but I'm guessing you just mean one of those in one circumstance and the second in the other circumstance.
I could potentially do similar tests with mine (in ExFAT), and with videos and VLC - I just want to make sure I understand exactly what the situation is.
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Replying to which I've read in order:
1) The phone reformatted the card to FAT32 from it's previous state.
2) Yes and yes; the Paragon app allowed me to copy and move files to and from the SD card, where as the normal Files app doesn't allow me to.
3) I understand that it sounds contradictory but it is true, with the Paragon app installed, it overwrites the privileges to the Files app and also, VLC doesn't recognize the videos with the Paragon app installed. Hence why I said "reinstall the app to move items from or into (meant 'onto') the card."
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Replying to which I've read in order:
1) The phone reformatted the card to FAT32 from it's previous state.
2) Yes and yes; the Paragon app allowed me to copy and move files to and from the SD card, where as the normal Files app doesn't allow me to.
3) I understand that it sounds contradictory but it is true, with the Paragon app installed, it overwrites the privileges to the Files app and also, VLC doesn't recognize the videos with the Paragon app installed. Hence why I said "reinstall the app to move items from or into (meant 'onto') the card."
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Understood perfectly, and I absolutely believe you - I just wanted to make sure I didn't misunderstand anything.
Have you thought about trying X-Plore File Manager that I suggested, to see if you get any different experience (in combination with the Paragon app)?
roirraW edor ehT said:
Understood perfectly, and I absolutely believe you - I just wanted to make sure I didn't misunderstand anything.
Have you thought about trying X-Plore File Manager that I suggested, to see if you get any different experience (in combination with the Paragon app)?
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Before I download that app, upon installing the Paragon app, it told me with the card being a FAT32, I needed to use the Total Commander file manager app for it to work
Maxninja said:
Before I download that app, upon installing the Paragon app, it told me with the card being a FAT32, I needed to use the Total Commander file manager app for it to work
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Hmmmmm. I thought I remembered it only suggesting you use Total Commander - not saying you needed to (but I wouldn't take their word for that anyway). You should be able to use any file explorer, reasonably speaking. If the next update fixes it for you (as mine has been fixed and working fine at least through X-Plore File Manager), then you won't even need the app except for using with the unsupported filesystems (ExFAT, I think maybe NTFS...).
Where the h3ll are you guys putting this microSD card in?????
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Where the h3ll are you guys putting this microSD card in?????
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Reread my second post.
Hello,
I've gt the same question.
I've reread Maxninja's second mail but this does not clear things up for me.
As far as I know the pixel (all of them) never supported external microsd cards, they do not have a slot for them..
So how come you are talking about a MicroSD card?
deboopi2 said:
Hello,
I've gt the same question.
I've reread Maxninja's second mail but this does not clear things up for me.
As far as I know the pixel (all of them) never supported external microsd cards, they do not have a slot for them..
So how come you are talking about a MicroSD card?
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My second post states thusly:
".. upon inserting it via the adapter .."
I was going to say oh sh#t and I just gave away my 512gb SanDisk cruzer to my auntie and I could've use it in my p6p !!!
Thanks for clarifying
deboopi2 said:
As far as I know the pixel (all of them) never supported external microsd cards, they do not have a slot for them..
So how come you are talking about a MicroSD card?
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Almost any storage is supported externally (through the USB-C port) on any phone including the Pixel phones, although as I noted earlier in the thread, not all phones support all filesystem formats. For the Pixel as far as I know it has to be formatted in FAT32, Ext4, or you have to use the Paragon app I linked to. I'm not sure if there are other formats the Pixel supports natively. Prior to the Pixel 1, I would expect that all the Nexus phones supported through the Micro-USB port. There are all sorts of adapters and hubs, big and small, expensive and cheap, that would work for these purposes.