Hi,
my girlfriends HTC One M8 has been kind of mad the last few months
(uncontrollable reboots, lacking power- and volume buttons, announcing reboot and doing nothing)
and since I gave her a micro SD card to use, the device "successfully" performed a factory reset about a day ago.
The problem is that her phone now asks her to format the card but she still wants the saved data on it.
Is there any way to recover or access the data ?
Somehow I could also get the Device ID because she sent a mail with it to a support-team of an app a few weeks ago.
Her phone is not rooted but mine is and the computer can't access the micro SD card if I insert it into a card reader, neither recovery tools I tried do.
Thanks in advance.
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I've recently ran into a problem where i cannot access my memory card on my dash.
I was playing around with my friends phone and wanted to see if i could send him some mp3's but bluetooth didn't work, so i decided to take out my microsd card out of my dash and put it in his phone.
I couldn't find the storage space on his phone so i asked him to look for it. He found it and the phone couldn't read the card so it prompted him to format and before i could say no, he clicked yes.
I put the card back into my dash and tried to boot up but failed, got stuck on the startup screen. Im guessing its because i have so many startup programs stored on my storage card. So i performed a hard reset and it no longer got stuck at the startup screen.
Now the problem is that when i go to my file explorer, it won't detect my microsd card. Is this caused by the hard reset or perhaps because my friend decided to format my memory card on his phone?
Any help would be appreciated as to how to save my memory card. Maybe i just need to go buy a new card, just thought I would ask on the forum before i did that.
So if it doesnt detect it, no option to format it, right?
I would but it in a pc and see if it detects it. If it does, format it to Fat or Fat32 and put it back in your phone and see what happens.
Need a way to access internal memory so I can fix my usb or sd card see following for information:
Short Version:
USB wont work and SD card wont work so I cannot use the following method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695243
Long Version:
So right after i had backed up my rom i did a wipe, then the phone stopped recognizing my sd card. I took it to Sprint they couldn't figure it out, so i was stuck in Bootloader. yesterday i did a hard reset and wa-la i can now use my phone ...sorta. It will turn on I can access everything, but it freezes up and shuts off after 40 seconds (i got it to stay for 2mins one time) also it still will not recognize my sd card. I tried other cards still no luck and I know my card works because I can use it in my laptop. So i did a little searching on xda and found a fix, but i cant do the fix unless i plug my phone into the laptop and run a cmd prompt well now here is the other problem my computer sees the phone (listed as My HTC) but my phone wont recognize that it is plugged in. It will charge when it is shut off thats about it. Well back to xda and there is a fix for the usb, but.... I need my phone to recognize my sd card because the files will be on it. In short to fix my sd card i need usb and to fix the usb i need my card I am stuck in a horrible loop, so what I need is a way to access my phones internal memory so I can install the usb files on it so that i can fix usb then my card, then recover my rom.
Thanks to wall who help or at least try
Im not totally sure if this will help, but i know you can mount the sd card as usb storage in Amon_Ra and also in settings under "storage" or so i believe there are settings for mounting and unmounting the Micro Sdcard check those, it should be mounted in the settings for your phone to see it. hope i helped
I just had this exact same problem. Nandroid, wipe, flash, then stuck in bootloader spent two days trying fixes, unroot, root, and,had to turn it in. Luckily best buy has an awesome warranty.
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thanks all... ended up replacing my phone, but if anyone ever finds a way to fix it let me know! Thanks again
I was really hoping that this thread would not dead-end. I've got what sounds like a similar issue...in addition to not being able to reformat my SD card (in Windows or in Android) due to it being detected as write-protected, but it's not write protected.
I'm really anxious to try the aforementioned thread to fix USB and SD, but I can't detect, mount, or format my SD card. Am I screwed?
*EDIT* Fixed the write-protection issue...working on the rest now.
*EDIT* Still can't format card through Android. Is there an ADB or fastboot command to format the SD card?
I got the dreaded bootloop two weeks ago, but I didn't think this should affect data on my SD card. However I cannot read it in Windows. I've just got my repaired phone back and booted with the SD card in (phone has been factory reset of course) and I just got a notification saying "SD card is corrupt. Touch to fix" and it takes you to format SD card.
Just wanted to check the SD card really is toast or is it somehow locked to the original install or my google account somehow and I can still get the data off somehow?
zeroid said:
I got the dreaded bootloop two weeks ago, but I didn't think this should affect data on my SD card. However I cannot read it in Windows. I've just got my repaired phone back and booted with the SD card in (phone has been factory reset of course) and I just got a notification saying "SD card is corrupt. Touch to fix" and it takes you to format SD card.
Just wanted to check the SD card really is toast or is it somehow locked to the original install or my google account somehow and I can still get the data off somehow?
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Have you selected adoptable storage in settings? This means extending your internal storage with sd card space.
If yes no chance. The sdcard gets encrypted when doing so and you can access it only from within android.
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No that wasn't how I formatted it. Oh well, not too worried about it as Google photos backed up everything I really wanted from it.
zeroid said:
I got the dreaded bootloop two weeks ago, but I didn't think this should affect data on my SD card. However I cannot read it in Windows. I've just got my repaired phone back and booted with the SD card in (phone has been factory reset of course) and I just got a notification saying "SD card is corrupt. Touch to fix" and it takes you to format SD card.
Just wanted to check the SD card really is toast or is it somehow locked to the original install or my google account somehow and I can still get the data off somehow?
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Ok what i did on my wifes. If u have even a old cheapy rooted device. Format the card but dont save anything on it yet or ypu will start writing over old data marked for deletion I use disk digger pro. It can recover most of ure pictures some movies and music. The larger the files harder it is to recover. I know its not a surefire method to save all but i was able to pull 800 of 850 pics and movies of my wife sd that kept corrupting. As long as u do a quik format. And dont write over any of the card. The datA is on the marked for delete side. But is techñichly still there. Do not to full format. Will replace the data with loads of 1$ and0$. And the data will be gone forever.
Hey guys and girls!
This morning my phone turned off by itself (13% battery left) and needed somewhat longer than usual to reboot (in the meantime I plugged it back in to the charger). First thing I noticed was that my whole theme got reset as well as it started showing me introductional tips ("long press here to move your apps to the homescreen, ecc.). It also started to update apps in the Play Store even though I set it to manual ... so basically a LOT of things were reset.
The biggest problem I'm having now is though that all my files (pictures, videos, music) that are stored on an external micro SD card are corrupt. It's not possible anymore to open anything. I already removed the micro SD card and put it into an adapter to have a look at the files via the laptop. But nothing, even though the sizes of the files seem OK, I can't open them.
Does anyone have a clue as to what exactly happened here? Are those files lost (at least of some I have a backup) or is there anything I can do to "repair" them? Help is really appreciated, thanks!
PS: Things like the card unmounting and re-mounting never occurred. So I can't tell if the card was dying or if actually the phone ruined my files.
Did you happen to be using a SanDisk SD Card? I've had my 10 brick 2 of those until I switched to Samsung SD Cards about a year ago and haven't had issues since.
I never could manage to recover files from the damaged SD cards.
I have a Samsung SD card and had something similar.
I guess I was on Viper Rom and basically my phone restarted around 15-20% of battery. After a long wait for booting back again, all my settings were gone.
Files and others in the SD card was okay but basically until I formatted the card, I wasn't able to boot into the Download Mode to install a new rom...
I fixed the restart issue by installing the official HTC Rom.
Thanks for your replies.
It is indeed a SanDisk 16GB card. It seems though that the card is still working (no problems accessing it via phone or laptop), just the files appear to be broken. In the meantime I also tried apps like PC Inspector File Recovery, but to no success
I'm still on stock HTC Sense by the way, no root, nothing.
Anyone know though why that happened (resetting everything, etc.)?
Hit me with a PM I'll give you a SanDisk restore tool which works quite ok. there is a huge chance some files can be recovered, some will be damaged though. Don't push any new files on the card after you tried to restore the files
HTC 10-Corrupted microSD card
I know this is an older thread, but I was wondering if there is a solution. I have an HTC 10 which has an micro SD card in it, that is "married" to the phone. When connected to a computer, the computer recognizes the phone, and the microSD card, and begins to load the folders/files. Eventually this process stalls, and the phone/drive is no longer readable by the computer. To get the computer to recognize the phone/card again, I need to restart the phone, but the same thing happens again.
I have like 20gigs of data on the card, and cannot just put the card in a reader, because it's encrypted to the phone. Any possible solutions? It's frustrating to see the files/pictures for a minute or two, and then have them disappear. I have tried copying/pasting the files while they're visible, but this often triggers the computer to no longer recognize the phone/memory card. I've tried to un-encrypt the microSD card, but the phone can't recognize/access the microSD card long enough to complete that process.
Please help if you can.
Glenn
My phone restarted itself yesterday and went into a continuous boot loop. I figured out that I could get the phone to restart if I removed the card. I need to get the stuff off the card and then format it so that I can re-use it in the phone. I purchased a micro sd card reader and plugged it into my windows 10 machine. It tells me that the card must be formatted before it can be used as it does not contain a recognizable file system.
Does anyone have any ideas on how/if I can get the stuff off the card? The phone will boot into bootloader with the card inserted so there may be a way to transfer the stuff to a computer that way??
It is a stock un-rooted phone and the sd card is formatted as internal memory.
Thanks. Any help would be so greatly appreciated.
as internal storage, the card can only by read from the phone itself, which means you have to somehow get into twrp.
I'm not rooted so I suppose that means I'm screwed?
rooting process does not need functional Android system start, besides you can always go to fastboot and do a
fastboot boot recovery.bin
which boots with twrp temporarily.
Same here!
I'm stock, unrooted and today (over night) the phone sucked off 50% the battery. When I tried to start it, it froze till i realized that it's an issue with the SD-Card. I did absolutely nothing before going to sleep and the SD-Card was always the internal memory. I can start the phone without the SD-Card an plug it in...it will be detected, but you can't even format it back to portable in the phone. And the phone without the data it needs to work properly is now useless - looks like a factory reset + throwing away the SD! DAMN!
capedukewuhaha said:
Same here!
I'm stock, unrooted and today (over night) the phone sucked off 50% the battery. When I tried to start it, it froze till i realized that it's an issue with the SD-Card. I did absolutely nothing before going to sleep and the SD-Card was always the internal memory. I can start the phone without the SD-Card an plug it in...it will be detected, but you can't even format it back to portable in the phone. And the phone without the data it needs to work properly is now useless - looks like a factory reset + throwing away the SD! DAMN!
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I just ended up formatting my SD card in the computer, having the phone forget the SD card, putting the SD card in and formatting it in the phone. SD card Works. Obviously you lose everything on the card but I did not have to do a factory reset of the phone or did I have to discard the SD card.
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roywood said:
I just ended up formatting my SD card in the computer, having the phone forget the SD card, putting the SD card in and formatting it in the phone. SD card Works. Obviously you lose everything on the card but I did not have to do a factory reset of the phone or did I have to discard the SD card.
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nice to hear!
My SD is dead. PC won't format it, Laptop and Actioncam either. Maybe because it had a failure when I tried to format it in the phone while it had those strange issues.
Who knows?!