Ok, first of all--I'm a total noob here, so please bare with me...my vibrant (stock 2.1--rooted, but I've been too "chicken" to try flashing any other ROMs...) has suddenly started giving me a message in the notif bar saying "internal sd card damaged" and then it will tell me "can not mount external sd card--mount point absent or incorrect"; I've tried connecting my phone to my pc with no luck--I've not tried to reformat my internal sd card yet, simply b/c I've got about 9gb full of photos/video of my toddler on there, and I just can't erase all of it without seeing if there is any way to recover them/fix my internal sd card, if that is even possible--? I've tried taking out the external card to see if I can connect pc to phone to access internal sd card and I still can't get it to work...please let me know what I need to do??
Please, anyone...?
Hey. I bought a new _cheap_ SDHC card online, 32gb... When I put it in my phone, the phone gets pretty slow while there's a notification saying "Preparing SD card" "Checking for errors."
Now it stays there for a long while and the phone gets very hot... Is the card defect or is there something that can be done?
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Well the problem is that i can't mount the card since i don't have a card reader...
Please forgive me for not being psychic, you didn't say that originally.
No need to be hostile man.
Anyways, i let my phone run for a few hours, still nothing...
Does anyone have any idea? The phone IS rooted, so that might have something to do with it, gonna try to unroot it today to see if that makes any difference.
this happened to once, I bought a 32 GB from amazon and it was cheap. It was a disaster, all my data I stored in it was erased spontaneously. I returned it and had a refund. My guess, the sd_card is inferior
y don u get a cardreader an check for eerors or format an c....or u can set usb debugging and do tht if dont hav card reader...some use 64gb card wiv no prblm..
You don't need a card reader to check for errors if you don't have one. Just plug your phone with the card in it into a computer and search for your card in windows explorer and check for errors there. You can also format it from there also.
I managed to check it on a card reader today, windows does recognize something is going but doesn't allow me to format it or do anything except change the drive letter basically... When i check it through computer -> manage -> disk management it shows it as a MBR? Why is that and any way to go around it?
Oh and i can't access the card while it's in my phone at all, it just keeps looking for errors and doesn't mount it?
preparing SD Card and checking for errors
I am also having the same problem, My sd card always shows the message Preparing sd card and checking for errors in galaxy fit and I have formatted it in my pc and then tried all the other methods like deleting the msdos file from system/bin etc but still the problem persists. would there be any problem with my phone of sd card slot kindly reply
When i bought my android phone (Xolo Q800) the android which came with it was **** (I'm assuming corrupt/virus filled) and i put a 4gb memory card in it where the /DCIM/.thumbnail folder was equivalent to 60GB and this happened with 3 4GB memory cards. Now the issue is I tried formatting by phone and it doesnt do anything, by pc i tried Computer>Computer Management>Disk Management and tried formatting from there and it says Formatting Failed. I tried SD Card formatter "sdcard.org" which doesnt work and gives error "The memory card is write protected. Please release the write protect switch." Since this is a Micro SD card it doesnt have a write protect switch. Any help as to how i can format the card or anything or is it lost forever? Also to mention the files are in DCIM/.thumbnails and i cannot rename this files, delete this files, or format the memory card because of this any help please.
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When i bought my android phone (Xolo Q800) the android which came with it was **** (I'm assuming corrupt/virus filled) and i put a 4gb memory card in it where the /DCIM/.thumbnail folder was equivalent to 60GB and this happened with 3 4GB memory cards. Now the issue is I tried formatting by phone and it doesnt do anything, by pc i tried Computer>Computer Management>Disk Management and tried formatting from there and it says Formatting Failed. I tried SD Card formatter "sdcard.org" which doesnt work and gives error "The memory card is write protected. Please release the write protect switch." Since this is a Micro SD card it doesnt have a write protect switch. Any help as to how i can format the card or anything or is it lost forever? Also to mention the files are in DCIM/.thumbnails and i cannot rename this files, delete this files, or format the memory card because of this any help please.
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By any chance are you using an ADAPTER to format card on pc? ADAPTERS do have write protect switches on them.
Hi,
can anyone tell me if it's possible to write a script to run on start-up to ensure my phone sets my Storage to SD
Occasionally I find it has all of a sudden returned to internal storage and when I use my camera photos go to the internal rather than my SD card
Hoping someone can help
thanks
Stef
I am pulling my hair out here.
I can not, no matter what I try, get access to the internal storage of my 7.2.
If I put an SD card in I can see the files on that but thats it.
Connecting the phone to a PC and selecting file transfer on the phone I get "The folder is empty" from windows.
I have tried all sorts of File Managers on the phone and none of them can access the internal storage
What the actual frick is going on!?!
Seansmit17 said:
I am pulling my hair out here.
I can not, no matter what I try, get access to the internal storage of my 7.2.
If I put an SD card in I can see the files on that but thats it.
Connecting the phone to a PC and selecting file transfer on the phone I get "The folder is empty" from windows.
I have tried all sorts of File Managers on the phone and none of them can access the internal storage
What the actual frick is going on!?!
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This is only a guess, but might help.
You reference an SD card.
When did your issue start?
If you setup SD card to extend (act as part of) internal storage, then your comments make sense.
You only see files when SD card is present because device is setup with internal storage to = true internal + SD card size.
You would need to configure SD card to work in multiple devices for your SD card and internal storage to display separately.
This might not be the issue you're having, but only suggestion I can provide at the moment.