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?
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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.
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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!
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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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.
Just a question i took the sd card out of my 3d and placed it into this phone and now when I mount to PC is is so slow tha tit normally crashes windows explorer before it loads the contents of the sd card. Anyone know any fixes or anything its terribly frustrating when trying to place roms on the sd card.
You probably need to reformat the sd card within the EVO LTE. That said, it sounds like you already have stuff on the sd card. So I would suggest putting the sd card back in your EVO 3D transferring your files to your PC. Then put the sd card in your EVO LTE, reformat it there, then load your files back on to your sd card from your PC. That's what I had to do when transferring my sd card from my old EVO 4G.
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You probably need to reformat the sd card within the EVO LTE. That said, it sounds like you already have stuff on the sd card. So I would suggest putting the sd card back in your EVO 3D transferring your files to your PC. Then put the sd card in your EVO LTE, reformat it there, then load your files back on to your sd card from your PC. That's what I had to do when transferring my sd card from my old EVO 4G.
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yea ill give that a shot thats about the only thing i saw a few others saying on other forums. other than the nand i made last night there is nothing i need on this card anyways.
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told it to format and it just sits there ....says formatting but no progress is made
Just upgraded my card. It's driving my crazy, is there anyway to view the external SD on my old card from my pc?
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dafoxs said:
Just upgraded my card. It's driving my crazy, is there anyway to view the external SD on my old card from my pc?
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If you have an micro sd adapter to put your sd into then and a slot for sd's on your pc, why cant you put your old sd card back in your phone and copy all over to your pc, then take it out...then put your new card back into your phone them just copy over what you want or need....it is time consuming, I just did this a week or so ago...upgraded from a 16 to 32gb ext sd...
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If you have an micro sd adapter to put your sd into then and a slot for sd's on your pc, why cant you put your old sd card back in your phone and copy all over to your pc, then take it out...then put your new card back into your phone them just copy over what you want or need....it is time consuming, I just did this a week or so ago...upgraded from a 16 to 32gb ext sd...
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Tried that, for some reason when I put the old card in, it showed up as almost blank. I cleared caches and all, still nothing. The new one works fine. Problem is all the pics are on the external. No biggy, most are on dropbox.
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For some reason, sometimes a copy and paste just doesn't copy the whole card. I copied many cards up to 32GB and didn't have any issues. However last month I tried to copy a card that had about 7GB on it. For some reason it only copied 4GB and left some folders out. I tried it again, and again it only copied the same 4Gb with the same folders only. No reported errors and it said complete. But it wasn't. Possibly a computer reboot may have fixed the issue but I was impatient.
Instead, I used winrar to zip the contents of the card up and then unzipped it on the new card. This way worked perfectly. 7Zip, Winzip, or an image program like UltraIso would work well also.