[Q] HUGE problem! please help - Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

i used my 8gb spare sd card to record a concert and take some pics with my thunderbolt, it worked amazingly. Until the last song, when the battery died during recording. I thought no big deal, i'll just charge it when i get home.
But when i came home it said "sd card corrupted: format now?" or something along those lines. When i plugged it into my computer it said the same thing.
Thing is i know pictures and videos were recorded because i was watching them over again on my thunderbolt and they played fine.
I don't want to loose over 300 pictures and 2 hours of hd footage, can ANYONE help.
sorry if this is the wrong section.

if it is saying something like "Scan to fix errors" when you plug it into the computer, hit cancel.... never seen a format warning.

Bonetwizt said:
if it is saying something like "Scan to fix errors" when you plug it into the computer, hit cancel.... never seen a format warning.
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it says "windows can't read this disk, format now?"

SanxDiegoxSand said:
it says "windows can't read this disk, format now?"
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your card sounds corrupted.... format to fat32 in windows.

Check the sd card on pc and see if you can right click on it and go to properties, see if there is a scan and fix option...

fixxxer2008 said:
your card sounds corrupted.... format to fat32 in windows.
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wouldn't let me format to fat32. had to format to NTFS. IS there any way i could even get back some of the files.

If you formatted you are toast. Sounds odd that you couldn't format to fat32 in windows. If you are rooted you will need to reformat it again...do it from within clockwork recovery under mounts and storage.
courtesy of my rooted bolt

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[Q] Fried the SD Card?

I did a right click in Windows then clicked format, which Ive done before, but I canceled the format and now the phone nor the computer is recognizing the SD card. Ive tried reformatting with windows again, but to no avail. Ive read a few posts referring to this one program that was supposed to be great for formatting in FAT32, but for the life of me I cant find it.
Any thoughts on this one? I can imagine its not the best thing in the world to cancel mid-format....
Thanks in advance guys.
Ok looks like the plot might have thickened. I exchanged the 2GB SD card from my G1 to the HD2 and windows is not recognizing that one when I mount it as a storage device. Im using Chucky's rom which comes with the WM5torage program to mount as mass storage device.
It does however recognize the 2GB one when I dont use it as a mount storage device and just click on the Chucky Rom icon in "My computer."
This might be of no use and completely unrelated, but Im just calling it like Im seeing it.
Figured it out...thanks
Ok I didnt figure it out. The phone is now recognizing the card, but I dont think its formatted to FAT32. Windows format wont do it. Format program included on Chucky's Rom wont do it. Ive loaded Darkstones Android on the card and have tried booting, but it gets stuck at what I believe is the data store part.
It says: Failed to mount the SD card. Cannot continue. cant access tty; job control turned off
Then its creating line by line the data store (I think) infinitely like this:
102.9012851] ACR=4093 FL=1256 RAAC=91
153.9813371] ACR=4093 FL=1256 RAAC=91
203.9012351] ACR=4093 FL=1256 RAAC=91
253.9019381] ACR=4093 FL=1256 RAAC=91
303.9812351] ACR=4093 FL=1256 RAAC=91
Its been doing this for an hour or so.
Any Ideas?
Anybody have any idea?
Ive also tried formatting with Panasonics SDFormatter V2.0. That was the program I couldnt remember the name of above in the first post.
Have you tried to reformat it inside the phone?
I know I had a sdcard in my old G1 that for some reason my PC would never detect...one day I said to hell with it and used the phone to format the SD card...never had a problem after that (back up any photos to dropbox or something)
agentaaron said:
Have you tried to reformat it inside the phone?
I know I had a sdcard in my old G1 that for some reason my PC would never detect...one day I said to hell with it and used the phone to format the SD card...never had a problem after that (back up any photos to dropbox or something)
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Sure have. Im really at a loss. Ive tried the reformat w/chuckyrom's program, G1 default program, and some random Samsung phone default. On top of that Ive used the Panasonic's SDFormatter V2.0 and windows default.
Obviously its not the random programs Ive used thats at fault. Somehow when I canceled the reformat process when this whole thing started, it changed something about how the SD card is read.
Also, when I mount it it Windows recognizes it as 16GB, BUT when I load it up in the SDFormatter program it'll say 124KB for the size and "device type not supported" and wont let me format at all. I dunno man
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[Q] Cannot change SD card Permissions

after bricking and recovering the phone. my permissions on sd card will not change, so trying to update with a zip brings up error. i have no tick marks in user at all. When I try and press ok. they don't save. tried another sd card, still the same. anyone any idea's?
Did you sort this? I'm having a similar issue, my phone's not bricked though.. just can't write to my SD card..
I get this error message when I try to change permissions: "sdcard permissions cannot be changed because the file system is read-only."
try use ur com to fix it. right click on it and select properties and then on the tap tools, select error checking then select check now and then click start
make sure that the automatic fix error is tick.
xcxa23 said:
try use ur com to fix it. right click on it and select properties and then on the tap tools, select error checking then select check now and then click start
make sure that the automatic fix error is tick.
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Thanks
Can't access my SD card from my PC at the moment.. so working on this now. No other options it seems..
i hope its works because i does it whenever i have problem with it. however,
worst case, u need to format it.
but if u found out other ways, let me know ya..
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Got my PC reading my SD card.. formatted NTFS and now it won't mount in my phone (HTC Desire HD)..
I'm under the impression it's better to format NTFS than FAT32 with Android's file system..?
quantumtraveler said:
Got my PC reading my SD card.. formatted NTFS and now it won't mount in my phone (HTC Desire HD)..
I'm under the impression it's better to format NTFS than FAT32 with Android's file system..?
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harlo.. well, fat32 are universal because all android phone can read it. usually the main part for the sdcard is fat32, as far as i know. so i suggest you to use fat32 instead of ntfs
correct me if im wrong
Yip, I took the looong route!! Had to re-format with FAT32.. to add to my frustration, 2 out of the 3 laptops we have at home could not read the SD Card when formatted NTFS! Finally got it sorted on a Vista machine.. lol at least Vista's good for something
So, all sorted. Thanks for the love

Help please,i can,t use storage card on FRX06

Hello guys,as my title thread ,i,v installed android(FRX06)on my touch pro2 ,it work,s but ,but android can,t see my storage card ,can any body explain me how should i fix it please?
i have already the phisical keyboard problems ,but the imporatante issue for me in storage card for now,thanks.
What do you mean android can't see your sd card? It's running off your sd card so it clearly can see it.
Probably he means that when you go to SD Card options [I forgot the actual name] in Settings, the SD card is considered "not detected" and doesn't show you the remaining capacity of the SD card. If so, I had the same problem when I first put FRX06 a month ago.
What you can do is to do a FULL format using the HP Tool. It needs to be the HP Tool and a FULL format or else it won't work.
I'm guessing you also didn't have your ringtones working while you were at it huh?
Well, give full formatting a try. :]
kuyaChristian said:
Probably he means that when you go to SD Card options [I forgot the actual name] in Settings, the SD card is considered "not detected" and doesn't show you the remaining capacity of the SD card. If so, I had the same problem when I first put FRX06 a month ago.
What you can do is to do a FULL format using the HP Tool. It needs to be the HP Tool and a FULL format or else it won't work.
I'm guessing you also didn't have your ringtones working while you were at it huh?
Well, give full formatting a try. :]
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Thank you very much my friend, your advice was good,now i can see my SD card doing only a quick format with hp tool
Have a very nice day,byeeee
I actually suggest a full format if you want the FRX06 build to work properly. But whatever works for you.
SOLVED.
no SD card
folks, I have the same problem.
I did a FULL FAT32 format to a 512 card.
FRX06 boots and runs smooth, I just "don't have an SD card", you know, for taking photos and stuff.
Do I have to make 2 partitions? or what?
Oh, HP Tool does nothing for me, it doesn't detect my card in my laptop's slot.
Am I weird, or what??
OFFTOPIC but I have no pulldown notification bar either. Nor FRX06 neither Gingerbread ALPHA. (I am using the right calibration file, I compared it with the one attached in the post)
I can get to notifications from home by pressing menu, then I can pull it UP, but not down. HM?????
moolash said:
folks, I have the same problem.
I did a FULL FAT32 format to a 512 card.
FRX06 boots and runs smooth, I just "don't have an SD card", you know, for taking photos and stuff.
Do I have to make 2 partitions? or what?
Oh, HP Tool does nothing for me, it doesn't detect my card in my laptop's slot.
Am I weird, or what??
OFFTOPIC but I have no pulldown notification bar either. Nor FRX06 neither Gingerbread ALPHA. (I am using the right calibration file, I compared it with the one attached in the post)
I can get to notifications from home by pressing menu, then I can pull it UP, but not down. HM?????
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For the notification bar, try making your own calib file, instructions in the first post.
HP Tool is necessary, or something else other than the built-in Windows/WinMo utilites. If your card reader doesn't work, have you tried using WinMo and the phone in 'mass storage' mode so it just shows up as another disk drive in My Computer?
Notification bar was a question of calibration. Thx.
As for the SD card, it is visible in my desktop, a can format it in several ways, except for HP Tool, that doesn't recognize it. Is being not visible in Android a question of formatting really?
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moolash said:
Notification bar was a question of calibration. Thx.
As for the SD card, it is visible in my desktop, a can format it in several ways, except for HP Tool, that doesn't recognize it. Is being not visible in Android a question of formatting really?
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Unless you figure out some other way, yes it is a question of formatting really.
What do you mean you can 'format it several ways' if the HP Tool doesn't see it? Are you sure you're doing it correctly?
I can format it with Total commander, regular rightclick format in windows, etc, but HP Tool doesn's handle it. It is win7, it's in my cardreader slot shown as secure digital card in windows. I run HPtool as admin, of course, starts up but the pull down options stay dimmed. How should I format it? Wouldn't HPTool format it just FAT32 too?
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moolash said:
I can format it with Total commander, regular rightclick format in windows, etc, but HP Tool doesn's handle it. It is win7, it's in my cardreader slot shown as secure digital card in windows. I run HPtool as admin, of course, starts up but the pull down options stay dimmed. How should I format it? Wouldn't HPTool format it just FAT32 too?
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It's not that the Windows utility doesn't format as FAT32 - my theory is it doesn't touch the partition table, and something gets hosed with it.
I've had TONS of people that were skeptical it would do anything (especially since you can backup all your data and restore) but every single one of them said it fixed the "No SD Card" issue in apps.
Figure out the issue with the HP Tool, it works great for me. I used it in Win7 as well, but I don't have a Win7 box handy to test on - I do know that it works on Win7 tho.
Edit - perhaps try the SD card inserted into the phone in WinMo & use mass storage mode? Not sure why it wouldn't show up in the HP Tool, gotta try something different.
mkfs.vfat on a Linux box seems to work well too - try an Ubuntu LiveCD?
Entropy512 said:
mkfs.vfat on a Linux box seems to work well too - try an Ubuntu LiveCD?
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Yes, as does GParted - which probably does the same command thru a pretty GUI .
With the phone connected, the sd card being a disk drive HPTool recognizes it, and after formatting I DO HAVE an SD card. ) Thx
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Yes, as does GParted - which probably does the same command thru a pretty GUI .
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That is correct - gparted is basically a frontend to the various Linux partition and filesystem management tools - mkfs, resize2fs, fdisk, etc.
moolash said:
With the phone connected, the sd card being a disk drive HPTool recognizes it, and after formatting I DO HAVE an SD card. ) Thx
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We have another believer .
Not sure if it has been said if it has my bad. But it seems you are trying to do the FAT32. download the HP tools. then when you plug in your device pick the disk drive option that will set it as if it was a thumb drive then run HP tools and for me it was my F: drive sorry if its not a help

Really frustrated... Major Problems with SD Card

So,
My SD card isn't recognized on the phone - saying it's unavailable, and my computer says it needs to be formatted.
I can't install any app, the phone just soft resets. So it's all due to my SD Card.
I can't format it because I have so much stuff on it - from pictures, to files, to everything. Anyone know how to fix it so I can at least get my stuff off it?
This is really not good if I have to format it...
I have no Idea how to help you, but what up bro didn't know you had the gs2 i remember you for the ole captivate forums lol.
You have to format it then use a recovery program.
My 2 suggestions, which I went through the same issue and got 95% of my stuff...
1. iCare Data
2. Recuva
I can't format it because I have so much stuff on it - from pictures, to files, to everything. Anyone know how to fix it so I can at least get my stuff off it?
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What do you mean you can't format it? What stops you from doing so?
Can you first, xfer all your personal stuff to other place/space/computer/....., then format it and move those stuff back in when done?
Why can't you do that?
votinh said:
What do you mean you can't format it? What stops you from doing so?
Can you first, xfer all your personal stuff to other place/space/computer/....., then format it and move those stuff back in when done?
Why can't you do that?
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The reason why you can't transfer it is because he needs to format it so its properly read.
I think his uSD can't be read properly in his phone, he didn't say it can't be read in his computer.
What is a Samsung Captivate Galaxy S II?
votinh said:
I think his uSD can't be read properly in his phone, he didn't say it can't be read in his computer.
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If thats the case, then he should copy all existing data to his computer, format, then recopy everything back over...
But he did say in his OP that the computer said it needed to be formatted. So that tells me that his computer can see the card, but cant access it.
Use Recuva or testdisk (google is your friend).
testdisk works great for SD cards and USB devices. The issue will be that it will see the file, but not the filename, so it will numerically name them. small price to pay to get your info back from a would-be dead SD card..
0p3nsrc said:
Use Recuva or testdisk (google is your friend).
testdisk works great for SD cards and USB devices. The issue will be that it will see the file, but not the filename, so it will numerically name them. small price to pay to get your info back from a would-be dead SD card..
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Yea thats why I like iCaredata (find it how you want to) but it keeps folder structure and other things so its easier to track your files.
Maybe try mounting the SD in CWM? I used this when the SD contents wouldn't show after a bad flash.
iRide113 said:
So,
My SD card isn't recognized on the phone - saying it's unavailable, and my computer says it needs to be formatted.
I can't install any app, the phone just soft resets. So it's all due to my SD Card.
I can't format it because I have so much stuff on it - from pictures, to files, to everything. Anyone know how to fix it so I can at least get my stuff off it?
This is really not good if I have to format it...
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Maybe your sd card is defective (can't be ruled out). Have you tried another sd card?
LiLChris06 said:
Yea thats why I like iCaredata (find it how you want to) but it keeps folder structure and other things so its easier to track your files.
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Only problem I've ever encountered is the picture size isn't the same as the original. Always smaller.
Just used iCaredata and it worked like a champ.
Thanks, Admin can close.

Messed up my internal sdcard format

I was trying to reformat my internal sdcard using windows and somehow messed it up. I cannot see it or format it from within android or windows now. It shows up but only as much as to tell me that it needs formatted.
How can i fix this?
And after it tells you it needs formatting in windows it doesn't give you the option to go ahead and format it? Should be FAT32 btw...
Try right clicking on Computer and go into "Manage". Then go to Storage > Disk Management. See if you see it listed there. It should give an indication of whether it is healthy or not. You can select it in there and format it there if it will let you.
still formated wrong
Thanks for the response sorry it took me so long to respond back.
I can only format it from recovery, otherwise it shows the device but says there is no card installed.
from recovery i formatted it fat32 but then upon reboot it doesn't show up as a readable partition as in i cannot put files there or anything else. It doesn't complain about it being corrupt any more.
Any other ideas? i have a feeling i need to format it from linux but dont know the details.
Thanks
EDIT: i ended up going back to RUU and it fixed it. Thanks
feralicious said:
And after it tells you it needs formatting in windows it doesn't give you the option to go ahead and format it? Should be FAT32 btw...
Try right clicking on Computer and go into "Manage". Then go to Storage > Disk Management. See if you see it listed there. It should give an indication of whether it is healthy or not. You can select it in there and format it there if it will let you.
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