i'm running windows vista...not a perfectly working OS i might add, but it's worked for this in the past. i wanted to use my old 8gig class 2 SanDisk microSDHC card that came with my phone with the new Eris FroyoKaos ROM. i'm currently using a 8gig Trancender (trancend, whatever) class 6 card (faster than class 2). so i used my micro to standard size SDcard adapter in my computer card reader - and nothing came up. doesn't recognize that there's a card in there.
so i plugged in my phone to the computer, backed up the files i planned to put on the new card, safely unmounted, and put the old card in my phone...and it froze. completely. i took the card out and nothing happened. did a battery pull - put the card back in - powered it on - and it froze after the notification of preparing the sdcard. again, completely.
wtf chuck?
running an Eris with ZenEXP-Eris v7.
dusthead said:
i'm running windows vista...not a perfectly working OS i might add, but it's worked for this in the past. i wanted to use my old 8gig class 2 SanDisk microSDHC card that came with my phone with the new Eris FroyoKaos ROM. i'm currently using a 8gig Trancender (trancend, whatever) class 6 card (faster than class 2). so i used my micro to standard size SDcard adapter in my computer card reader - and nothing came up. doesn't recognize that there's a card in there.
so i plugged in my phone to the computer, backed up the files i planned to put on the new card, safely unmounted, and put the old card in my phone...and it froze. completely. i took the card out and nothing happened. did a battery pull - put the card back in - powered it on - and it froze after the notification of preparing the sdcard. again, completely.
wtf chuck?
running an Eris with ZenEXP-Eris v7.
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id like to know too, after partitioning yesterday about 6 hours into the worked real smooth and i went to my recovery and no zips or any roms i had put on there earlier dont appear anymore and now my phone says i need to reformat? is that the same as repairing the sd:ext thru recovery screen?
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Hey Everyone,
I'm having a slight problem with my new SD card. I just bought a new 16 GB SanDisk Class 2 High Capacity Micro-SD card. Unfortunately though, my Xperia X10a is not recognizing the card. When I insert the card into my phone, the phone acts like there is no SD card installed at all. It's been properly formatted to FAT32 and my laptop recognizes it fine. My phone recognizes my old SD card, a 4 GB PNY Class 4 High Capacity Micro-SD card just fine, but refuses to recognize the new SD card. Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this problem?
Thanks!
Format it on the phone....not on the computer.
Settings->SD Card....Unmount if it is mounted....and Format from that menu.
It needs to partition the drive itself properly.
I wish I could do that. But the phone doesnt even recognize that there is an SD card in the phone. It says that the SD card is missing even when I put the new SD card in.
Or if you have everything backed up....start from scratch.
Download and install SEUS from Sony. And reflash from scratch using SEUS.
If you had any app2SDcard app or any apps loaded on your old sdcard, they could be preventing any new SDCard from being added.
Thanks for replying.
I've tried going back to stock but it still seems to be not working. Stock firmware still fails to recognize that an SD card has been inserted.
Is the card any thinner than the old one? If so, add a piece of tape or piece of paper to the back of it, so it fits in the phone snuggly.
When you do a full repair using SEUS and install with the SDCard in the phone, it should auto format the card during the the reinstallation of stock 2.1
Did you actually reinstall using SEUS with the SDCard inside?
Otherwise trade in your new card for another card (make and model should be fine) this time....do not stick the card in your computer. First place it needs to go is in the phone.
Actually...an old post I read on another forum, one guy was successful after he stuck the SDCard in his camera, and formatted the card from the camera...and he was unsuccessfull when he originally formatted the card in his computer.
Thanks so much for helping. Somehow, I managed to get it working. Turns out that the cluster size of my SD card was set to auto, which caused it to have cluster sizes that the phone couldnt read. After reformatting it to 4 kb clusters and FAT32, it was recognized by the phone. Thank you so much!
I pulled my Sandisk 8gb class 6 from my old Samsung Android. I even formatted it after pulling the data I wanted to keep. Powered off and installed it, reboot. Plug in USB and connect it as "disk drive", copy files from PC. Disconnect, phone says "preparing SD card" then "memory card unexpectedly removed" and shows unavailable in the storage section of settings. I've rebooted, removed card, reinstall, reboot and it shows again. Then it will do it again after connecting to the PC. I've even reformatted, and it does it again.
I went through the full process listed above for the fourth time, and have been able to connect and disconnect to the PC copy files two times without an error.
Any ideas? Thanks!
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I pulled my Sandisk 8gb class 6 from my old Samsung Android. I even formatted it after pulling the data I wanted to keep. Powered off and installed it, reboot. Plug in USB and connect it as "disk drive", copy files from PC. Disconnect, phone says "preparing SD card" then "memory card unexpectedly removed" and shows unavailable in the storage section of settings. I've rebooted, removed card, reinstall, reboot and it shows again. Then it will do it again after connecting to the PC. I've even reformatted, and it does it again.
I went through the full process listed above for the fourth time, and have been able to connect and disconnect to the PC copy files two times without an error.
Any ideas? Thanks!
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Have you tried formatting the card with your lte?
wolfclan68 said:
I pulled my Sandisk 8gb class 6 from my old Samsung Android. I even formatted it after pulling the data I wanted to keep. Powered off and installed it, reboot. Plug in USB and connect it as "disk drive", copy files from PC. Disconnect, phone says "preparing SD card" then "memory card unexpectedly removed" and shows unavailable in the storage section of settings. I've rebooted, removed card, reinstall, reboot and it shows again. Then it will do it again after connecting to the PC. I've even reformatted, and it does it again.
I went through the full process listed above for the fourth time, and have been able to connect and disconnect to the PC copy files two times without an error.
Any ideas? Thanks!
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My wifes card had the same issue. I looked at the card while plugged into my PC and saw some strange files in the root and deleted them. Though you formatted so I am not sure if you would have them. Once I deleted those files (they were hidden system files) her card worked fine. You may need to make sure you can see system files on your computer though. Might be worth a shot.
I had the same issue...actually with 2 different cards. One 16gb and one 2gb. They worked fine when pulled from the GS2 they were in. Once in the Evo lte they stopped working. Put them in adapter to computer and again kept disappearing. I finally said screw it and started using internal storage. I have yet to get a sd card to work.
I plan on taking phone in when I have the time.
im getting the same thing with mine. beginning to think they arent as compatible as people let on about
Picked up the sandisk 32GB class1 UHS card from newegg last week. No errors or other issues.
When I had the original evo, I bought a lexar class10 32GB card. I had strange issues with it. After a few days of use, the phone would drop it (unmounted). Given that my email and other apps make use of this storage space, this was unacceptable. Got a no name 16GB card class2 from a friend and had no further issues.
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Picked up the sandisk 32GB class1 UHS card from newegg last week. No errors or other issues.
When I had the original evo, I bought a lexar class10 32GB card. I had strange issues with it. After a few days of use, the phone would drop it (unmounted). Given that my email and other apps make use of this storage space, this was unacceptable. Got a no name 16GB card class2 from a friend and had no further issues.
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i got the same card but 64gb version from newegg and nothing but issues
it seems i successfully got the card to mount in my OG EVO using amron ra style recovery. it claimed to wipe. im jsut attempting to partition the card to see if it errors out. will report back
anyone else have any thoughts to share? I sent my card back to Newegg for a replacement
I got the galaxy s3 a couple weeks ago, and when I got it I just put my old sd card in it and it worked fine. I could transfer files to and from it fine, when I hooked the phone up to a computer I could easily copy and paste files to the sd card that was mounted to phone. The sd card I used was an 8 gig Samsung, I recently upgraded to a 32 gig PNY sd card and have had nothing but problems with it. For the first week it would always say sd card was unmounted or unreadable and gave me an error, then mounted and worked. Finally got that fixed, but it would never work for file transfer from my computer, I have to physically take the sd card out of the phone and plug it directly into my computer to actually get files to transfer onto it. But transferring files onto my phones memory works fine, just the sd card has issues. Even when transferring from my phones storage to the sd it hasn't worked in my experience, any help would be appreciated. I don't want to have to root or anything because I know the phone works fine, I think PNY just sucks I haven't had the greatest experience with any of their products.
Okay so the card is doing the error message with the phone again so I guess I need to fix that first, Help?
Hey guys. Recently bought a 16G class 10 sandisk microSD
It has been working fine for the last few weeks until I accidentally removed it w/o unmounting.
I'm not concerned with keeping anything on it as it is only a few weeks old but I am unable to mount it in order to format it. In fact my Note doesn't see it at all (running current CM10) My samsung captivate (running the same thing) can see it and says it's blank and needs to be formatted however it is unable to do so.
When I use my PC adapter is doesn't recognize it for almost a minute then finally claims it needs to be formatted but is unable to.
It's almost brand new and I really haven't even used it yet so I'm wondering if you guys might be able to give me some advice as to what I can try with it.
Thanks in advance.
same here
I am having the same problem. I have a 32GB scanDisk class 4 rating i picked up from radio shack on sale.
1. turned phone off, w/o unmounting SD card first
2. removed SD card
3. Inserted into my MBP (because my flash drives were all full)
4. copied material off / erased what was added to the disk (about a month later)
5. inserted the disk again
while the disk is in, the OS constantly asks me to format it but when I do the disk looks the same(to the OS) :
"SD card blank or has unsupported file system"
I get this error before formatting and then again after formatting.
Help if possible. Thanks.
Hello,
So my sd card (16gb) appears to have stop working and the phone gives me the message “SD Card is blank or has unsupported filesystem.” This started yesterday after I changed default storage for my camera to sd card. Before that it was working just fine.
I restarted the phone, no luck with that. Turn off phone and remove and cleaned sd card, still no luck. I plugged in my phone to the computer to access the sd card, but did not show up, I guess its cause the card is not mounted? So then I thought I’ll just plug in the sd card to my computer and back up everything and then format to correct, but no that didn’t work… when I plugged it in my computer, my computer did not even recognize my card.
At first I thought maybe my adapter is broken, so I plugged in a spare sd card (1gb) I had lying around and that on worked just fine. So I googled what could be wrong and read that it could be that the adapter does not support HCSD cards. So then I plugged in my sd card into a USB sd card reader (which had a slot for micro sd which I used), but same thing – did not recognize 16gb card, but it did for 1gb card. I checked to see if it’s a driver issue, but it was up to date. Then I doubted the USB card reader didn’t support HCSD like the adapter, so I went out and bought a new USB card reader (one that works with HCSD cards) from bestbuy (Insignia SD/MMC Memory Card Reader). Still did not recognize card with new reader on computer.
I googled to see what my options were, but the solutions that I found all had the computer recognize the card – which mine isn’t doing… but I still tried a few things I read like chkdsk in command prompt, but I got “Cannot open volume for direct access” error.
Even though my computer does not recognize the card, my phone does recognize it but corrupt and offers to format. I also tried it on different phones (Galaxy S2 T989, and Blackberry Bold 9650) to see if it can read it, but same thing it recognizes it but corrupt and unreadable.
I’m still looking around for solutions, but if anyone can help me with this, please do. Please let me know if you need more info.
Info on devices/cards:
T-mobile Samsung Galaxy S5 16gb – 5.1.1 stock rom – no root
16gb micro sd card class 2 – got it with HTC HD2
Micro sd to SD adapter – got it with Samsung Beat T539
Focus camera card reader - got it with camera bundle
Insignia SD/MMC Memory Card Reader
Galaxy S2 T989 – was using latest stock rom – no root as well.
Computer – Lenovo Y50 running windows 8.1 currently. only few months old.
Sounds like the SD is toast. It's not easy to extract corrupted data from a micro sd card