[Q] MicroSD card not recognized in Android, CWM it is - Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

As title states. I recently bought a used R800x to use as a gaming phone, everything was working peachy until last night. SD card wont mount, the backplate is on tight so the white switch is being pressed down. I have tried stock roms, I have reformatted the card 3 times, I have tried another card, same issue. I have tried custom roms, same result. Going to storage on the phone shows sd card not present and unable to connect to it via PC from within the phone after booting up. However if I go into recovery and mount no problems there. I was begining to think the microsd slot is shot but if that was the case it wouldnt connect at all CWM or not. Anyone have any ideas how to fix this issue or some suggestions?

So even when you press the switch down still nothing?
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psxpetey said:
So even when you press the switch down still nothing?
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That's what was happening.. I got it solved, somehow my phone stopped seeing the 2nd partition, ext3 from link2sd. I have to remove all partitions and reformat, only then did it see the card again, not sure why it did that. When the card was inserted with the ex3 parttion it saw it no problem for days then suddenly would not see the sdcard until I removed and formatted everything.
I had to start from scratch on a ftf again but all is working, sd card and all.

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SD card keeps unmounting

Tonight I have been having problems with my SD card, anytime I try and download a file to it, I get the error "SD card unexpectedly removed" and then I can't access the SD card at all until I reboot
Any help appreciated. I'm running miui freshly squeezed with a class 10, 16 GB card
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Back up everything you have in your SD card.
I had that same symptom once. After a few reboot I lost the SD card. It became unreadable/unformatted.
So, just in case. Back up your data first.
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Cheers, done a bit more digging and its an issue for quite a lot of people. Backed up the card and using the standard 8gb that came with the phone. Ordered a new one too from play.com, as they are in the sale
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I had the same problem unexpectedly too the other night. I took the SD card and via a usb adaptor I connected it to my Windows 7 computer. A window popped up asking if I want to scan and fix for errors or continue without scanning. I usually just continued without scanning when connecting my phone directly but this time I let it scan and fix. Low and behold once it finished the scan I tried it again in my phone and it mounted successfully. Ever since then I've had no further problems since either.
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This happened to my 16gb mmc. Went on for a couple of months. I ignored it and mounted it manually. It died a couple weeks ago. I had no back up. Devo
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octa_amide said:
Back up everything you have in your SD card.
I had that same symptom once. After a few reboot I lost the SD card. It became unreadable/unformatted.
So, just in case. Back up your data first.
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Yup, same happened to me, lost everything on the memory card (though I had backups of the important stuff)
Same Problem
Guys i have been experiencing the same problem for some days now.
Found this post here; Was thinking the problem has been solved over here, but you all are reporting your problem.
Any there anyway this problem can be fixed or as most of you mention. The lifespan of the card is getting close.
Or I should just prepare for a new sd card (which am not ready for now).
My Case here is kindda different because when i boot into recovery, the sd card shows up and works fine.
when i boot into android then it cant be found.
???
i have same problem with android 4.0.4 and sense 4+
i must be reset my phonee
my phone is HTC Desire 268. now for a little while my sd card did have a problem when i first brought it but it was fine afterwords but today after I restarted my phone, my phone again is getting problem with sd card the sd card mounts for a little time than it unmount ( giving the status "SD card unexpectedly removed"), then mount it self again and unmounts itself again. this happens 3 to 4 times before it competently unmounts and never mounts until i remove and add the sd card again and the cycle countinues. please can you help me.??

[Q] Help! Play doesn't recognize sd cards

Hey everyone
I recently bought an xperia play but it has only recognized my micro sdcard maybe once or twice and even then I was still unable to mount it. I know this is a common problem but believe me i've been searching and trying fixes for ages, the battery cover one, repair in se companion etc. So now I think the only thing to try is to downgrade my firmware because the times when it read the sd card was before i updated it. So any suggestions on other fixes or a how to on downgrading would be greatly appreciated bare in mind it will have to be quite in depth as I haven't hacked Sony Ericssons before just a HD2. Thanks for your help
Matt
P.S sorry if this is in the wrong thread or anything like that this is my first post.
I just went through that problem it turned out that my sd card was "damaged"or something like that and the play doesn't pick that **** up at all, so I popped it into my x10 it noticed it right away and fixed it for me. I'm still not sure what the damaged part was cause I was still able to use the card in a computer. Try it in a different phone see if it works
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Thanks for your help but yeah I tried a different sd, didn't work then i tried formatting both of the sd's still nothing and also tried them in different phones, I have no clue what else to try except downgrading and I don't know where to start
have you pushed the back cover properly into place - it has to click into place - I normally run my finger around the edge of the cover firmly just to make sure.
Normally the card won't mount or will keep un-mounting otherwise - don't know if it would say unrecognized. Maybe you formatted it in a format different to FAT32 - windows does it to bigger cards - try using EASEUS or similar partition managers
The battery cover fix was the first to come up when I started searching and i've been checking it's on securely everytime i put it on and whenever i've formatted it i've also checked that it is in fat32 but i will try a different partition manager and tell you how it goes
Thanks for the help
Tried it, still nothing
Can anybody point me towards a tutorial on how to downgrade or something because I can't find anything and I have no other ideas
Is it possible one of the notches on your back cover is broken and does not let xplay realise the back is on? If you could locate a friend with another back cover or test it in a mobile shop perhaps? Or maybe there is a way to make xplay to always believe that the cover is properly on somehow? Hope it helps
Under Settings/Storage, there is an option to Disable Safe SD Card. Try that to eliminate the cover as the problem.
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Good idea i'll check the back cover now. Also I went into settings/storage and there was nothing about safe sd card thanks anyway
Since my last post I have rooted my play and flashed back to an earlier firmware. The phone now detects the sd card but I am having a different problem instead, I am unable to mount because it says blank sd or corrupt etc. I have tried formatting the sd card on my phone and it still won't mount, any ideas?
You have tried using another SD card right?If formatting it won't work,either you have to get a new one or unfortunately,send it in to SE for repair(whatever its called) since it may be the sd card slot reader that's causing the problems.Another question,did the memory card come with your play?
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xperia play r800x sd problem fixed
I just went thru what your going thru and found a way to fix it
in addition to my sd card not reconised my wifi and for that matter
the top status bar were not working.
you will need >A working phone with a good sd card <
1-Turn both phones off <your x-play and the other working phone>i know you do not have to unmount but>> MAKE SURE YOU DO THIS to avoid frustation ..trust me ..
2-swap the sd cards
3-pick up the working phone which now has the sd card from your x-play in it <turn it on >
4-if you get a message on the top status bar <Damaged sd card> go to settings >storage>erease sd data
5- If the format worked then it will remount the sd card in to the phone and rebuild the file system in the sd card <if it worked then you are done swap the cards back>
6- <<if it does not and you get a unsuported files on sd card or still broken>> do not swap the sd cards put down that phone and turn on your x-play with the working card from the other phone >>
7- if your x-play is working with the other sd card then replace the sd card its no good
if 5 fixed it gg
if 6 your sd card is no good

[Q] SD card unexpectedly removed / Damaged SD card

Hello, I am on an HTC One V running PACman ROM 15.3, with the kernel JmzPrimoC+.
I started having this problem a couple weeks ago. It would randomly unmount my SD card saying 'SD card unexpectedly removed'.
This started to happen more and more often until it would say that as soon as I put the SD card in.
I did a factory reset, which helped for about 5 minutes before it started happening again. Now, more recently, it started saying 'Damaged SD card. SD card is damaged. Try reformatting it.'
I put it in my computer (which doesn't show anything wrong with it), and did a full format. It didn't help at all.
This problem is happening with both my regularly used SD card (SanDisk Ultra® microSDHC™ UHS-I 32 GB (the red and grey one)), and my ordinary SD card (8 GB class 4 Kingston).
I don't think this can be a hardware problem because when I boot to recovery, TWRP recognizes it perfectly.
But I don't either see how its a software problem, because a factory reset should have helped...
Please help me, any help will be greatly appreciated.
Maybe its a bug in the rom?
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Hhmmm...
Good idea. What other ROMs work with JmzPrimoC+ kernel? AOKP?
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OK, update, now TWRP won't read the card! Either card!
Now I'm getting really nervous...
Does this mean it must be hardware?
Is there ANYTHING I can do now?
Please help!
Wow, I screwed up really bad.
I was gonna use TWRP to flash a new rom, so I did a factory reset, and then started flashing the rom.
But in middle of flashing the rom it was interrupted. So I rebooted, rereset, and then I realized... it's not reading my card.
I can boot to bootloader and recovery, but that's it. No OS. I'm screwed.
Is there ANYTHING I can do?
Is it possible to flash a rom over USB? Or SOMEHOW get my card working again?
Just enter recovery and use adb sideload to flash a ROM.
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FangorX said:
Just enter recovery and use adb sideload to flash a ROM.
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How do I do that?
FangorX said:
Just enter recovery and use adb sideload to flash a ROM.
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But I need an SD card in order to use ADB sideload!
It fails every time because
Code:
E:Unable to mount /sdcard
Is there ANY way to do this without an SD card?
OK, I was able to do it following this guide.
I flashed the latest version of PACman. Still rejecting my SD card though.
I guess it's a hardware issue. Too bad my warranty is void from bootloader unlock :\
Try to partition SD Card in recovery
I am facing same issue and I came across this thread while looking for solution. Here is what I tried. That resolved issue for five minutes and then damn! same issue again but someone can find possible fix using the info here.
HTC One V rooted, currently running MIUI 3.1.2 with JB 4.1.2
Sandisk 8 GB SD Card.
Firmware CWM Recovery
I was facing same issue even before I rooted my phone while Original HTC ICS 4.0 Firmware was installed. MY observation is the problem starts few months after you start using SD Card. (Insert a new SD card in your phone, it will work fine for days / months and then will start giving same error.
While I tried thousand time to remove SD card, clean slot, clean card and reinsert, it did not work. May be worked just once for few seconds. When I tried to connect phone to PC and browse SD card contents, the card was not detected.
Booted to recovery, tried to format card, not detected. Tried to mount SD card, not detected. Then tried to partition SD card in Advanced options in recovery. The available options are 128MB, 256MB, 512MB, 1024MB, 2048MB and 4096MB. Since my SD card is 8 GB, chose the largest option. Now got an option to choose SWAP partition size. Chose 256 MB. Next chose option fix permissions, you have to wait until you see message permissions fixed message on screen.
Now rebooted phone, and voila! It worked!! SD card with 3.94GB memory is detected. But what happened to my rest of 4 GB?
Tried many apps to manage SD card from Play store. Using an app called APart, was able to delete partitions on SD card and create new ones. It worked for few minutes and then again I got SD card unexpectedly removed message.
Does this info makes any sense? I am not a developer and do not know much into phones but someone who know might be able to help. Buying a new SD card is not an option here because its going to work temporarily.
Have you tried formatting the SD card with your computer?
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Have you tried formatting the SD card with your computer?
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Yes, tried formatting SD Card using computer. Works fine when connected using adapter. Not detected when phone is connected to computer.

Suddenly Getting SD Card Unexpectedly Removed Error

Been working fine for over a month now all of a sudden the SD card appears to be randomly mounting/unmounting itself and has become unreadable on my phone.
I've put the SD card in my PC and it works fine so I suspect my phone has developed a fault. I hope I don't have to get an exchange as it's otherwise faultless and I'm dreading getting a unit that can't be S-Off'd
I haven't modified or installed anything prior to the fault developing,
Any tips would be most welcome.
PS It's a genuine Transcend Premium 300x 64GB bought from MyMemory.
stuart0001 said:
Been working fine for over a month now all of a sudden the SD card appears to be randomly mounting/unmounting itself and has become unreadable on my phone.
I've put the SD card in my PC and it works fine so I suspect my phone has developed a fault. I hope I don't have to get an exchange as it's otherwise faultless and I'm dreading getting a unit that can't be S-Off'd
I haven't modified or installed anything prior to the fault developing,
Any tips would be most welcome.
PS It's a genuine Transcend Premium 300x 64GB bought from MyMemory.
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Is it exfat or fat 32
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Android The Greek said:
Is it exfat or fat 32
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exfat
stuart0001 said:
Been working fine for over a month now all of a sudden the SD card appears to be randomly mounting/unmounting itself and has become unreadable on my phone.
I've put the SD card in my PC and it works fine so I suspect my phone has developed a fault. I hope I don't have to get an exchange as it's otherwise faultless and I'm dreading getting a unit that can't be S-Off'd
I haven't modified or installed anything prior to the fault developing,
Any tips would be most welcome.
PS It's a genuine Transcend Premium 300x 64GB bought from MyMemory.
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so are you on stock? if so have you tried a factory reset?
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exfat
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Copy everything off sd card. Convert to fat 32. Copy everything back.
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so are you on stock? if so have you tried a factory reset?
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Stock but rooted and S-Off'd
I've not tried a reset yet but it's been as good as gold until about an hour ago when it suddenly started flashing between "preparing SD card" & "SD card unexpectedly removed"
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Copy everything off sd card. Convert to fat 32. Copy everything back.
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I'll give that a go but why has it been working fine for over a month whilst exFAT if that is now the cause?
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Stock but rooted and S-Off'd
I've not tried a reset yet but it's been as good as gold until about an hour ago when it suddenly started flashing between "preparing SD card" & "SD card unexpectedly removed"
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well, a simple solution is to enter recovery and see if the sdcard works there if this way it works, change the rom/perform factory reset, if this doesn't, well, you might try to flash everything again, but i's possible that the sd slot is broken...
i wish you all the luck, let me know
I would copy EVERYTHING off the card to a PC and do a format and try a different file system. I would has perform the format on the phone, to make sure its gets formatted to the correct file systems.
Long story short, It sounds like you memory card is starting to get Corrupted. I have to SanDisk cards that started doing that in the biginning and ended up not being read at all on PC nor the Phone.
Also while its doing that, youll also notice the battery start to drain more, at leasst thats what happended on my Note 3 when I had the san disk cards going corrupt.
Ended up buying new Card and now everything is fine.
I doubt is the card reader built in phone, more then likely its your memory card going corrupt.
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I would copy EVERYTHING off the card to a PC and do a format and try a different file system. I would has perform the format on the phone, to make sure its gets formatted to the correct file systems.
Long story short, It sounds like you memory card is starting to get Corrupted. I have to SanDisk cards that started doing that in the biginning and ended up not being read at all on PC nor the Phone.
Also while its doing that, youll also notice the battery start to drain more, at leasst thats what happended on my Note 3 when I had the san disk cards going corrupt.
Ended up buying new Card and now everything is fine.
I doubt is the card reader built in phone, more then likely its your memory card going corrupt.
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I agree most likely the card. I'd download an sd card format tool and do a full format, don't use Windows format then do full check for bad sectors. I had a similar problem and it was the card at fault, but strangely worked ok on the pc.
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I'll give that a go but why has it been working fine for over a month whilst exFAT if that is now the cause?
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I have been through many a Samsung phones and always had corrupt sd cards in exfat. One day I saw a thread that said convert to fat32 and have never had a problem since.
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Thanks for all the advice.
I could read the card in recovery but it failed to format there.
I tried to format in windows but my only options were NTFS or exFAT, no FAT32. But this failed anyway also.
Downloaded a SD format application but this said the card was write protected and to move the lock switch, obviously MicroSD has no switch like standard SD.
So next I deleted all the files on the card and ran h2testw test. This failed and reported card is probably faulty.
Then I checked the contents of the card again and all the original files were back again, so it's definitely 'Donald Ducked'. I was able to get all my files backed up and fortunately I had my photos already thanks to Dropbox & G+.
So I will now look at getting MyMemory to replace it but my fear is they will want me to return the faulty card but it has sensitive information on it that I can't delete. Any ideas on how I can wipe it?
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Thanks for all the advice.
I could read the card in recovery but it failed to format there.
I tried to format in windows but my only options were NTFS or exFAT, no FAT32. But this failed anyway also.
Downloaded a SD format application but this said the card was write protected and to move the lock switch, obviously MicroSD has no switch like standard SD.
So next I deleted all the files on the card and ran h2testw test. This failed and reported card is probably faulty.
Then I checked the contents of the card again and all the original files were back again, so it's definitely 'Donald Ducked'. I was able to get all my files backed up and fortunately I had my photos already thanks to Dropbox & G+.
So I will now look at getting MyMemory to replace it but my fear is they will want me to return the faulty card but it has sensitive information on it that I can't delete. Any ideas on how I can wipe it?
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How did you attach the card to the pc? Try a usb card reader and then try again. If still problems download mini partition tool (Google) and delete the partition. You can then wipe it properly.
I reformatted the SD card from the settings within the phone and since then it been working fine :\
make sure you're using 2.0USB also..
when i connect my phone to charger
Its been few days i am noticing when i conmect my phone to charger it says 'sd card removed unexpectedly or either it suddenly stops showing content from my phone, then i have to go to settings unmount/mount the sd card frkm storage option and then it shows the content even when charging, or sometjmes it doesn'fshow option for that so on that case i have to restart my phone. What could be the possible reason and solution to that. It was fine on 4.4.4 now i am on 5.0.2 all stock htc one m8 h/k edition with sim unlock and s-off via sunshine.

[Q] Every SD card is seen as damaged

Hey guys!
So I have a little problem with my C2005.
I've been using CM11 recently, but I decided to switch to stock and to swap external/internal. Everything worked fine for me until one day I woke up noticing my phone is shut down, and after restart the SD card was unable to load, awaring me as of "damaged". I put my SD to to PC and another phones and any other device is able to mount it.
I tried to format the card and reinstall the stock system to phone, but still nothing. :/
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Philnexes said:
Hey guys!
So I have a little problem with my C2005.
I've been using CM11 recently, but I decided to switch to stock and to swap external/internal. Everything worked fine for me until one day I woke up noticing my phone is shut down, and after restart the SD card was unable to load, awaring me as of "damaged". I put my SD to to PC and another phones and any other device is able to mount it.
I tried to format the card and reinstall the stock system to phone, but still nothing. :/
Any ideas?
Thanks!
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are you ever check your memory card with software partition tool for your pc? just check is that your sd card still have active partition? if still have you still have a hope to recover that bro?
Try boot into custom recovery if visible there. You can partition, format sdcard because all tools available there.

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