My computer won't let me open up my E: drive (My Eris's SD) saying that I need to format it.
Won't formatting delete it?
EDIT: After saying that my SD card was missing from the phone I popped it out and then back in. All better it seems. Sorry to waste the topic.
Yeah for anyone else that ends up reading this, when you get that error message, all you have to do is pop the SD Card out and then put it right back in.
Works every time.
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I turn my phone off at night because random emails wake me up. I turn on my phone this morning and I have an SD card icon in the notification area saying that my SD card is damaged. It says that I need to format it to fix the problem, but I wait to see if there is an easy fix like rebooting or something like that, but it was still there after rebooting. I was going to wait to backup my SD card on my computer before formatting, but one of my friends formated it without asking me first when I showed him what was happening...
Now the icon is gone, but my SD card is full of files that have weird characters (like greek letters and square root symbols) in their filenames, and I can't figure out what is going on.
The /sdcard folder contains the following:
.android_secure
Android
download
LOST.DIR
nandroid
tmp
and 4 files with weird characters as filenames.
Help! I don't know what to do!
UNCbassbone said:
I turn my phone off at night because random emails wake me up. I turn on my phone this morning and I have an SD card icon in the notification area saying that my SD card is damaged. It says that I need to format it to fix the problem, but I wait to see if there is an easy fix like rebooting or something like that, but it was still there after rebooting. I was going to wait to backup my SD card on my computer before formatting, but one of my friends formated it without asking me first when I showed him what was happening...
Now the icon is gone, but my SD card is full of files that have weird characters (like greek letters and square root symbols) in their filenames, and I can't figure out what is going on.
The /sdcard folder contains the following:
.android_secure
Android
download
LOST.DIR
nandroid
tmp
and 4 files with weird characters as filenames.
Help! I don't know what to do!
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I could be wrong but I think those are the standard folders that android makes when a card is formatted. As to why it happened I dont know. Maybe a bad sd card.
Try formatting it to a FAT32 on your computer then putting it in your phone and see what that does.
Just did that and it says:
"Windows could not complete the format."
Hm.... well are you having problems with saving anything to your sd card like pictures or anything. If not, then I wouldn't worry too much about it. Also can you mount your sd card to your computer and transfer files?
Don't worry about it..
You can completely wipe out your sd card if you wanted to and when you reboot it will reinstall back the files needed for the phone on the sd card.. If it is bothersome then just delete them.. It was probably just the lost&found garbage or whatever from the format... Seriously don't worry... LoL
I have those on my sd card but nothings wrong with my phone.
If someone could close this that would be great. Eventually my computer asked me to scan my sd card for errors and it fixed everything.
Hi all,
Today, out of the blue, I see a message in the status bar saying "Blank SD card" and "SD card blank or has unsupported file system".
I don't care too much about the data on it (I have backups), but I tried to format it (within Android) a few times and remount it and it still gives me that message.
I also tried to format it in CWM but I get an error message saying that the SD card can't be mounted.
So I'm a bit stuck here... what can I do?
Thanks!
SD card
rent0n said:
Hi all,
Today, out of the blue, I see a message in the status bar saying "Blank SD card" and "SD card blank or has unsupported file system".
I don't care too much about the data on it (I have backups), but I tried to format it (within Android) a few times and remount it and it still gives me that message.
I also tried to format it in CWM but I get an error message saying that the SD card can't be mounted.
So I'm a bit stuck here... what can I do?
Thanks!
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rent0n,
I had the same problem about 3 months back. when I went back to the store, they swapped my card. When I asked about all my info, the told me it couldn't be recovered. Sorry for your loss.
mj
Well I bought both the phone and the and the sd card on eBay so...
I can't believe I can't do ANYTHING to fix this... any idea?
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using XDA App
hey, if you still have the sd card, try running testdisk on it. i cant post links as i am a newb, sorry
after my ICS update i get the message: "No SD Card Inserted" message ??
also my pics are not on the phone. i backed everything up to Kies, but i thought pics were supposed to be there. all my songs and contacts are.
should i just take the SD card out and then put it back in ??
even when i plug it into my PC it only shows the phone...no SD card.
ahh nvm, i clicked Mount SD Card (not knowing what that means) and now it recognizes it.
noobs>Note
Hahahaha, happy you resolved it. It made me super worried for a second. But would you mind putting solved in the title for future referencing? Thanks.
Solved
like that i hope? i'll try to remember thanx
only 1 problem remains, i click Gallery and i get a message: "Media Scanner Running" ... but when i click My Files, i can see the pics so i know they are there...i just cant view them :-\
i even restarted the GNote as well (awesome that it can be restarted now instead of just "Turn Off" and then turn on) and after restart, the same "Media Scanner Running" message pops up and nothing happens. any ideas?
**SOLVED** nevermind again! lol now it started working. **SOLVED**
Does MediaScanner run automatically when you mount amd unmount the SD card? For some reason my doesnt.
From my Galaxy Note
So I took my phone to sprint cause the browser would freak out on me and always force close. Sometime it would reboot as well. They said it would take an hour so I left and came back. When I got back the tech said he tried to reproduce my issue (not sure what he did) and now the phone will not see the external sd card. So he replaced it with a new phone (old firmware) and the new one wont see the sd card either.
When I put the sd card into a reader and put it in my pc, it says I need to format it. Says cant read file system. When I put it in my phone it tells me the same thing, unsupported file system and wants me to format.
What the heck could he have done to break this card? Any help is greatly appreciated!!! I have a ton of pics I would like back
Awesome newb video by the way! Made me laugh...
Just rooted and I like it, I don't wanna go back, but I can't get the microsd to pick up...I'll give all the info I can--def newb to root/droid but my background is IT, so hopefully we can figure out how to fix it so I can keep the root and not go back to stock(if that would even repair the problem)
Got a pny 32G microSD, droid incredible 4g lte(Verizon) that I rooted using the unlock script and fakeCID and then loaded Vipers Venom LTE custom rom...somewhere in this process-I think right after unlocking-it quit accessing the sd card...I've looked around and read some things about this 'USB brick' thing, but I don't know if it's applicable to me...here's what it does now:
SD card is in phone, but under 'Storage' Total Space and Available show unavailable, and everything else is greyed. If I try and pull the card the phone gives me the 'sd card unexpectedly removed' error.
Windows XP has no issue reading/writing to this card with a card reader. I've formatted a few times fat32 with xp(which i hate doing)and put it back in the phone, with the phone off, booted, and nothing happens. Oddly, when it first happened, after installing the custom ROM, when I'd do this procedure the phone would see the card on boot, but stay forever on 'preparing sd card/checking for errors' and never complete.
Back on the phone side of things, booting into the 'recovery mode', where you flash and whatever, it can see the card, see it's contents, and I wrote some sort of log to the card(option in the menu), so it can access it...oddly, I could not load my Viper rom from the microsd card, it failed on the file, but put it under some folder on the phone and that's how i ended up flashing the ROM, which I was nervous about doing as everything I saw said put the rom on the external sd card...
If I plug the phone into the XP pc via usb cable, choose use as disk drive, no problem accessing phone data, but 'please insert disk' on the card. Cannot push data when in usb debug mode via adb commands either. Oddly, dunno if this is related, it gives me 2 drives and also a CD ROM drive--tried dialing that##7 number for the option to disable cd rom, but it was already disabled. Dunno if this is related, but throwing it in there.
Tried chkdsk on the sd card with Xp, no errors, no problems. Hell, the card's not two weeks old and I've only had the phone a little over a month. I've done a bit of research the past couple of days and the only thing I haven't tried is the very confusing procedure i've seen for some of these 'usb brick' problems, but is that my problem. I'm hoping if all else fails i can go back to stock, just downloaded the stock rom, but will that even fix it? Gots to have my trailer park boys on my sd card to watch! Thanks for the help guys and gals! Sorry for the long post, but I like to give info--if kernel version or any other data like that is required, I can post it.
zazaray said:
Got a pny 32G microSD, droid incredible 4g lte(Verizon) [...] it quit accessing the sd card...
SD card is in phone, but under 'Storage' Total Space and Available show unavailable, and everything else is greyed. If I try and pull the card the phone gives me the 'sd card unexpectedly removed' error.
Windows XP has no issue reading/writing to this card [...] formatted a few times fat32 [...] and nothing happens. Oddly, when it first happened, after installing the custom ROM, when I'd do this procedure the phone would see the card on boot, but stay forever on 'preparing sd card/checking for errors' and never complete.
[...] booting into the 'recovery mode', where you flash and whatever, it can see the card, see it's contents [...]
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i tried to slim down your quote, but from my experience i'd still say the sd-card is somehow busted! i had a similar prob with the SD card in my Dinc4G two weeks ago. i _was_ r/w quite fine even from custom rom and at one point, the card just quit. removing and reinserting just ended in "preparing sd-card" and directly after that "safe for removal" ... wasn't able to access it any more within Viper, recovery (TWRP for me) was still seeing the card fine just like on your end.
putting the SD-card into a Win-laptop it _appeared_ fine and came error-free with scandisk etc ... BUT when i tried to backup all data from it before formatting (had like 10G on my 16G card) there were a couple of files that failed to read and i could NOT recover at all anymore. I formatted the SD-card again after that (full format, not fast/quick!) ... and put most of the files back. it is working again now in my Dinc4G but the card sure has some defect sectors (and usually _tends to die soon_ after such errors appear first!
i'd heavily recommend that you try to source some other micro-sd card first and try if you custom rom can read from it again. if that works fine and you see your SD-card from within the settings menu in the rom. you can be pretty sure that it's really the card.
PS: even brand new mem cards tend to fail at times :cyclops: ... just try to erase all private data on it (means: _fully overwrite_ with other stuff until the card is completelly filled) ... and then try to get a replacement from where you got your (fairly new) SD card from.
hope that helps a bit
i agree with the above post... try a different card. if formatting it doesn't fix it, it's time to try a new card.
j13smiley said:
i agree with the above post... try a different card. if formatting it doesn't fix it, it's time to try a new card.
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Thank you for the help, I resolved this issue, as it is the card, but now I have a different issue, unfortunately...