[Q] Formatting SD card - Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Can you format an SD card without any repercussions? I have an INCREDIBLE amount of junk on it, and I just want to start over with it, since I'm being mailed a new Fascinate and all. So are there any essential files or folders that I should not go delete-crazy with?

When you get your new phone (assuming you don't have an sd card reader for your pc) pop in the sd and move everything to your pc, then you'll have everything you have now just in case you need something on there ie: roms, kernels, zip files,music, recovery files, and the like. Disconnect your phone from your pc and verify it copied them or moved them. Then just format it and start over by connecting to your pc and moving the files you wanted back on.
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Changing sd card!!! Correct way to do this?

This might have been asked before but I have some specific questions I need to ask.
I bought a bigger sd card for my vibrant. What do I need to do before and after mounting the new sd card so that I dont loose any data that is on my previous sd card.
I found these instructions in another thread. Wondering if its safe to follow these and if I need to do anything else.
1. Using usb cable connect your phone to a pc as a hard-drive. Copy all the files on the phone into a folder on the pc.
2. On your phone, go to settings > SD & Phone storage > Unmount SD card
Turn off your phone, open up the back remove battery and SD card.
3. Insert new card, replace battery and cover. Turn phone back on.
Settings> SD & Phone Storage > Format SD Card
4. Once formatted then copy and paste all the files on your pc back into your phone.
Other questions I have:
How do I make sure I dont loose my nandroid backups and titanium backups?
Also, How can I make sure camera/gallery saves all of the newly taken photos and videos to the new sd card?
You could just turn the phone off completely and switch out the cards.
- As to nandroids and TB they default to the internal SD so they should still be there unless you move them urself.
- For new pics and videos. In the camera app change the settings to save to SDcard its default set to phone Good luck!
^^Agreed.
Everything that apps store on your phone defaults to your internal SD card. So unless you manually moved stuff to your external MicroSD, there probably isn't very much on there, except maybe the avatar movie if you still have the original 2gb external card that came with the phone.
But seeing as you're upgrading your external SD card and will be at a computer, I suggest making a backup of everything on your internal SD card too, just for safe keeping. I have a backup of both my internal and external SD cards on my computer, and every once in a while I copy over any new files just to keep an updated record. It gives me peace of mind knowing that I'm ready for any unexpected SD corruptions. I think it's a good habit to get into.
Good Luck!
^^Agreed^^
Backing up to PC is always a good idea. I backup my nandroids and TB's as well. I also hide them on my friends and families PC'sshhh, they'll never know.

SD Card/Data Transfer Question

I went and picked up my Photon from Sprint yesterday. Today I decided to back up everything on my SD card before I go ahead and "customize" the Photon. I took the SD card out of my Moto Droid X and put it in the Photon before I decided to back it up. When I go to copy the SD card over to the PC the process keeps freezing (getting not responding in task manager). I'm running Win7 ultimate x64 on the pc. Is there a solution?
Thanks
If u can open sd and view files its not.your card its a pc issue make sure the lock switch on sd reader is off ir just copy your sd card from the photon to its internal memory then take ur sd out then put a new sd in the photon and copy back to new sd
then take out new sd put old sd in and copy all data again this may be lengthy but would allow you to mirror all files to two sd using internal storage
Or try a diff pc
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Thanks for the reply. I finally took the card out of the Photon and put it back in the DX and everything transfered perfectly. When I put it back in the Photon I formatted and then factory restored and all is good.

SD Card unexpectingly stopped working.

Was using my wifi tether while phone was plugged in and when I checked my phone, I seen the white sd card with the exclimation point and when I pulled down my notification bar, it said "Removed SD Card, Insert a new one." I put it in another phone, said same thing. I put it in my laptop, and Windows didn't even recognize it in any way. When I put it back in my phone, it said "Damaged SD Card, Reformat needed" or whatever. When I tried to reformat it, it said it couldn't be reformatted. When I rebooted into 4ext to reformat it, it kept giving me errors that it couldn't be reformatted.
I'm running Dastin's WILD FOR THE NIGHT 2/15 4.2.2 rom. My SD card is a Lexar High-Speed Class 10 32GB.
All I'm trying to do is recover everything that is/was on it. I have a feeling that that isn't possible. I had 4GBs of music, about 10GBs of downloads, custom roms, etc.
If anyone knows how to recover my files or format the sd card without errors please tell me. Thank you.
I had the exact same problem once. no card reader was recognizing it. what i did was go to recovery and format the card from there. I remember i had to choose 4ext partition option or something like that to get it to format
Whenever I go into 4ext, it says sd card can't be mounted. The only way I got it to do anything was I used a friends desktop computer and it recognized it in My Computer, yet when I click Open, it says it's not accessible. I right clicked on it, did the full format, and at the end it said it couldn't be formatted. I went to properties and the disk is blue and it says 0kbs in all sections. I tried data recovery software, partition wizards, etc and no go. Can I send it to Lexar and have them do something about it?
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Go into recovery and then select make sd-ext4 partition option. It should format the card. then afterwards you can remove the ext partition by reformatting
What if the sd card isn't recognized by any computer? And I have data recovery software that "claims" it can restore your data even after a format. Is that even possible?
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I was once able to restore around 90 percent of my images on a corrupted card but i have never seen a card restore all the data on a card. It's all your luck
I had app backups, game data, videos, and about 4gbs of music. Will it restore them or images only?
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Re:
Due to corruption your memory card stopped working and need to repair corruption issue, go for Kernel for windows data recovery software for the recovery of your data from the corrupted sd memory card.
Well i put the sd card in an action replay sd card adapter (the one that you take the bottom off and it turns into a usb drive) and I was able to bring up everything that was on it. I backed it up and formatted it with win7 partition wizard or something, and I put it in a regular sd adapter and I got nothing. For some reason it only works with the AR USB adapter. How can I get the sd card to work in my phone now? I'm thinking I can just buy another 32GB (or 64) since I was able to get everything off of it, I'm just trying to avoid that so I can try and save this one still.
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[Q] Folders are getting delted randomly

So lately i changed my SD card in my device to a Samsung 32GB and when I transfered all my song, later I noticed on the music player that many of the artist are missing.
when I went to check what's going on, I found out many of the folders were been replaced by empty folders that their name starts with the letter "µ".
like for example, the folder "ACDC" became "µCDC".
I tried transferring everything back again facing the same problems with different folders.
I tried doing a factory reset and tried moving the song to the SD card through a card reader, and checked the files were OK before inserting the SD card back into the device and they seemed fined, but after I inserted the SD card I noticed the folders got curropted again.
also before I inserted the SD card there was like 500 MB of free space on the SD card, while after I inserted it suddenly the was like 15 GB of free space, caused by so many data that got deleted.
I don't believe the SD card is damaged, but that my device is messing my things up....
I also remember that I couldn't transfer any video files to the SD Card when it was in the device and could only transfer them into the device's internal memory.
what can I do?
Use the sd formatting tool on your pc to format the card, if still the same then throw it away. It sounds like a fake card, did all the files work while it was in the pc?
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boomboomer said:
Use the sd formatting tool on your pc to format the card, if still the same then throw it away. It sounds like a fake card, did all the files work while it was in the pc?
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All the files have worked while it was on the PC.
I even tried transfering everything via a card reader and everything check allright.
only when I insert it in my device some of the folders get screwd.

[Q] Malfunctioning microSD card after unsafe USB Eject from PC.

So I just got a 64GB Samsung EVO microSD for my HTC One M8. I installed it, and plugged my phone into my pc to transfer some music onto it.
I started by moving the music off the device storage onto the card through windows explorer, and it seemed to be transferring fine. It was taking a while as I had about 7Gb of music on the device already. Then like an idiot I unplugged the phone from the new dock I just got and was trying to get to work with my phone cases, while the files were still transferring.
Now, it won't let me paste anything to the SD card or device storage. Dragging files across to the SD card or device just freezes the folder icon where I dropped it. I am using clover as a windows explorer augment, if that makes any difference. But it doesn't look like I can transfer anything to the SD card from my phone either, as I just tried moving the music across with ES file explorer, and it came up with an error about needing a root to write to SD.
I have tried formatting the microSD from the phone, uninstalling the pc drivers for the phone and letting it reinstall them. Tried removing the card then replacing it, and restarting the phone. I have tried using SnapPea to transfer files across, all to no avail. Strangely, SnapPea and ES File Explorer are listing two SD cards, the first being identical to the files on the device storage, and the second being the actual SD.
I have no idea what is going on. I don't have a card reader to try formatting the card without the phone involved, but it seems like ejecting the phone erroneously has messed up the device storage as well seeing as I can't transfer files to either from my PC now.

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