i'm not really sure what happened. yesterday my phone can detect my mem card.
but a while ago, when i connected my s2 to the computer, it can only detect the phone memory. i tried looking at the storage option, and again, it can't detect the mem card. i tried copying a file into the mem card thru a third party file explorer, and it copied it successfully (although the phone still can't detect it).
i tried connecting the mem card to the computer using a mem card reader, and it detected it.
any thoughts?
Your sayings it won't mount in "storage" settings? Ie continually greyed out?
1. Trying backing up your data to pc (use card reader or mount the sdcard while your in CWM Recovery.
2. FULL format (not quick) FAT32 default allocation.
3. Replace card and try first before moving saved data back.
Edit: also make sure its inserted correctly (actually remove battery to check)
Also try another card that is formatted same as above.
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i figured it out. i was using siyah kernel 1.7.7 when the problem ensued. i flashed back to a previous version i remembered was working fine. it's solved now.
+1 to you for helping thanks!
I would attempt a reformat again, ensure its the correct format. use a pc not mac ha
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First of all let me say hello to everybody on this forum. (Hello!)
My problem is the following: I have recently bought a Galaxy ACE (Gingerbread 2.3.3). Everything seems to work fine, except when I try to use the phone as a USB mass storage device. I'm using Windows XP, which correctly detects the SD card and lets me access the files on it, but does not let copy files to it. Instead it just shows me that the SD card is full, which isn't true, as the card is new and files on it have a total amount of about 300KB.
Some additional info: tried formating the SD card from the phone, tried removing it and even the battery o).
Any thoughts?
Tried formatting it through Windows Explorer?
What about a partitioner?
I'm running Linux, and GParted has never disappointed me.
If that doesn't work, then seems like it's a problem from the SD Card.
Thank you! That did the trick.
Dear XDA'ers.
I've had an S2 for a while now and I've been running CM9 since early alpha. Recently I decided to buy an SD card (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005FY61EK/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00) so that I can use it to store my movies. After I got it, I realised that MoboPlayer or AirDroid couldn't detect the SD card and the only way I could put something on it was through a physical USB cable. Now, today I wanted to try something but I found out that my phone doesn't show the SD card at all anymore. I tried taking it out and putting it back in several times as well as flashing the latest CM9 nightly but nothing happened. The only apparent difference that I can see when I put the SD card in is that in the Storage section in Settings, under the SD card tab, I have an option "Mount SD Card" but when I press it, it says preparing SD card yet nothing happens.
Is the SD card fried or what's wrong with it?
I've had the SD card for less than a week so its hard to believe that it's dead already.
Have you got a micro SD card reader that you could use to see if the card is fried? Connect it to your computer, and if it shows up it isn't fried. Also check the format of the card to make sure it is in FAT32 format.
Chris.
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Ahh, I know the problem now (I completely forgot about this).
I formated it to NTFS just before I stopped working since I assumed that it works the same way a USB does (but clearly, I was wrong).
I'll format it back and see what's what.
Have u tried going into settings/memory/left softkey/storage config and select the only options there is?
have you tried other system folders?
i had the same problem before, I found out my sd card mounted as a system folder called "emmc" I'm using resurrection remix rom 2.3
Yep just fixed mine today by downloading https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.qbanin.binder&hl=en if you are unsure of what to select just see the screenshots i followed this selections and it now works fine
Alright, I've fixed it.
Basically, I had formatted it to NTFS because otherwise it gave me some error about file (the file was around 4 gb's and it acted this way with anything over 3) being too big when I was trying to copy it onto the SD card. Now that someone said it has to be in FAT32, I formatted it back and now it works perfectly.
Thanks to everyone who helped me.
Hello
Very weird problem. I flashed yesterday the cyanogenmod 9 stable and everything is working except one, my 64GB SDXC don't mount and the system notifies me that is damaged.
If I connect to the computer with an adapter, it asks me to format it, but then works perfectly in the PC. I even used the SD formatter Full format instead of windows.
When I connect to the phone, same problem its damaged, but if I connect again to the computer it asks again to format it, so it seams that the phone is screwing that SD card. But... If I use any other SD card, everything works on the phone, it's just that SD card that the phone is screwing.
I appreciate your help
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CM9 doesn't recognize exFAT. Re-format it to FAT32 and you'll be fine.
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snedcor said:
Hello
Very weird problem. I flashed yesterday the cyanogenmod 9 stable and everything is working except one, my 64GB SDXC don't mount and the system notifies me that is damaged.
If I connect to the computer with an adapter, it asks me to format it, but then works perfectly in the PC. I even used the SD formatter Full format instead of windows.
When I connect to the phone, same problem its damaged, but if I connect again to the computer it asks again to format it, so it seams that the phone is screwing that SD card. But... If I use any other SD card, everything works on the phone, it's just that SD card that the phone is screwing.
I appreciate your help
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Format your card by inserting in some other Android phone, hopefully issue will be resolved.
Hi all,
I've got a very strange problem.
my ext sd card gone crazy today.
I'm currently using the lates official stock rom and didn't have any problem untill this morning.
When I press either home or turn on button the lock screen turn on in 2-3 delay and got the following messages in the statusbar:
"preparing sd card"
"sd card removed"
"empty or corrupted sd card"
and the phone doesn;t recognize my card.
Sometimes I need to reboot,sometimes just use the home butten when lockscreen applied and ok.
I've got a genuine Sandisk 32GB class10 microsdhc.
What do you think guys?
That is more common that it should, unfortunately.
Your card is really corrupted, and I've had it happen to my about 4 times with the S II and once with the S III (with different brands and sizes of uSD cards)
What you should do is:
- turn off the phone and remove the uSD card
- using a card read (of any kind), insert the card in the computer
- Windows (if that's the case) will detect the card is faulty and will ask you to format the card. SAY NO.
- try to copy/backup whatever file you can from the uSD card to your computer
- after that, backup the uSD card using FAT32
- copy the files back from the computer to the uSD card
- insert the card in the phone and turn it on.
There's two ways to fix this eitger by replacing ur current sd card or formatting this one using a computer.
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Simonetti2011 said:
That is more common that it should, unfortunately.
Your card is really corrupted, and I've had it happen to my about 4 times with the S II and once with the S III (with different brands and sizes of uSD cards)
What you should do is:
- turn off the phone and remove the uSD card
- using a card read (of any kind), insert the card in the computer
- Windows (if that's the case) will detect the card is faulty and will ask you to format the card. SAY NO.
- try to copy/backup whatever file you can from the uSD card to your computer
- after that, backup the uSD card using FAT32
- copy the files back from the computer to the uSD card
- insert the card in the phone and turn it on.
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Thanks for the help.
So the card is almost empty,because I use dropbox and everything will be saved there,so I dont care if I loose everything.
what do you mean when you say"backup the uSD card using FAT32"?
how can I do that? I know how to format the card to FAT32/FAT etc but this is not clear for me.
1more thing:when my phone says"sd card corrupted" and remove it from the device and plug in to the pc the computer not recognize at all.I have to reboot my computer to recognize it...
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Thanks for the help.
So the card is almost empty,because I use dropbox and everything will be saved there,so I dont care if I loose everything.
what do you mean when you say"backup the uSD card using FAT32"?
how can I do that? I know how to format the card to FAT32/FAT etc but this is not clear for me.
1more thing:when my phone says"sd card corrupted" and remove it from the device and plug in to the pc the computer not recognize at all.I have to reboot my computer to recognize it...
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sorry! I meant: format it using FAT32. don't do a quick format, but a full format (even although we aren't supposed to do that to flash media).
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sorry! I meant: format it using FAT32. don't do a quick format, but a full format (even although we aren't supposed to do that to flash media).
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ok,thanks and I'll give it a try
tried all the supported.formats without any success...
phone keep saying "sd card removed" sd card empty" however if I connect to the pc while I got these messages at statusbar the sd card starts working the oc recognize it,I can copy/paste read to/from the card and when I unplug it from pc it works untill I use the lockscreen...and all the **** starts again...very annoying.
just tried with my old gs2 and works flawlessly...
Similar issue solved with chkdsk /f
I realize this thread has been inactive for a while, but I found it by doing a search in Google after having the same "SD card damaged" error and thought someone might benefit from some extra input.
I solved a similar issue with my SD card by mounting it on a Windows PC (which did recognize it, however as unformatted) and running a "chkdsk /f" command from the windows command line (note: my card was already formatted as FAT32 before the issue occurred). CHKDSK did the trick - it now mounts again flawlessly on Android and I am not missing any of the 20GB of data on it.
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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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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