My phone resets about 30 times in a row and gets INCREDIBLY hot to touch. Soon as it loads up, the "Media Scanner" goes off then it resets. Usually it's a soft reset, but it varies, sometimes the whole thing just shuts off and reboots.
I took the MicroSD card out (32GB) and now it works.
So how do I fix this ?
Does anyone know how to format an External SD card ? Steps ?
Should I just delete everything on the external then put the stuff back on ?
Please advice ?
If you still have your microSD adapter you can scan, copy over any files you want to keep and then format it using your CPU. If that doesn't work, buy new card.
Buddy of mine had random reboots with huge battery drain when rebooting.
His SDCard turned out to had failed on him, since he took it out, not a single reboot anymore.
Funkadelick said:
My phone resets about 30 times in a row and gets INCREDIBLY hot to touch. Soon as it loads up, the "Media Scanner" goes off then it resets. Usually it's a soft reset, but it varies, sometimes the whole thing just shuts off and reboots.
I took the MicroSD card out (32GB) and now it works.
So how do I fix this ?
Does anyone know how to format an External SD card ? Steps ?
Should I just delete everything on the external then put the stuff back on ?
Please advice ?
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You can format it in a PC that has a flash memory card reader, though you will probably have to slip the microSD card into an adapter first.
EDIT: mudferret beat me to it.
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EDIT: mudferret beat me to it.
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First off, I tried searching around and couldn't find anything relating to this. I found things relating to high temperatures and abnormal battery usage but found nothing about this being cause by a memory card.
Anyways, since inserting a 4GB SanDisk memory card into my phone the battery gets drained very quickly. What makes this even stranger, when I plug the phone in to charge, the temperature gets very hot (~48C) and the battery doesn't charge. I'm assuming it doesn't charge because of the high temperature.
Since removing the memory card the battery life has returned to normal and the phone charges as it should at normal temperatures.
I'll appreciate any help or tips on how to fix this issue.
ThatBadAssMofo said:
First off, I tried searching around and couldn't find anything relating to this. I found things relating to high temperatures and abnormal battery usage but found nothing about this being cause by a memory card.
Anyways, since inserting a 4GB SanDisk memory card into my phone the battery gets drained very quickly. What makes this even stranger, when I plug the phone in to charge, the temperature gets very hot (~48C) and the battery doesn't charge. I'm assuming it doesn't charge because of the high temperature.
Since removing the memory card the battery life has returned to normal and the phone charges as it should at normal temperatures.
I'll appreciate any help or tips on how to fix this issue.
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I would assume that the SD Card you have is faulty somehow. I would first try another SD Card to see if it also causes the same problem. If it does then it is likely a hardware issue and if it does not then you know it was a faulty card...
Just my opinion... Anyone else have any advice?
Use something like OS monitor to see if the media scanner process or DRM processes is going nuts.
It may be that you have some media on your SD card that the media scanner cant deal with and it causing it to get stuck, try backing up and formatting the card.
Also what rom are you on?
Well this is something, I re-inserted my memory card and now the phone doesn't boot up properly. I tried removing the memory card and it still doesn't boot up properly.
Usually the screen with the 'S' that says Samsung Galaxy S II goes away after a second or two, now it stays for about a minute and doesn't even take me to the home screen. It takes me to the screen that says "To begin touch the android" (the screen you see when you turn the phone on for the first time and asks you to setup a google account) but heres another twist, I can't interact with that screen because in the foreground there are several errors saying Sorry! --- application has stopped please try again and these errors just keep looping.
My rom is stock android 2.3.3
ThatBadAssMofo said:
Well this is something, I re-inserted my memory card and now the phone doesn't boot up properly. I tried removing the memory card and it still doesn't boot up properly.
Usually the screen with the 'S' that says Samsung Galaxy S II goes away after a second or two, now it stays for about a minute and doesn't even take me to the home screen. It takes me to the screen that says "To begin touch the android" (the screen you see when you turn the phone on for the first time and asks you to setup a google account) but heres another twist, I can't interact with that screen because in the foreground there are several errors saying Sorry! --- application has stopped please try again and these errors just keep looping.
My rom is stock android 2.3.3
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Your best if you don't want to have to format your phone is to use odin to flash your stock rom again (make sure its a non wipe package)
That should leave your user apps/data but you might lose stuff like sms's.
ThatBadAssMofo said:
Well this is something, I re-inserted my memory card and now the phone doesn't boot up properly. I tried removing the memory card and it still doesn't boot up properly.
Usually the screen with the 'S' that says Samsung Galaxy S II goes away after a second or two, now it stays for about a minute and doesn't even take me to the home screen. It takes me to the screen that says "To begin touch the android" (the screen you see when you turn the phone on for the first time and asks you to setup a google account) but heres another twist, I can't interact with that screen because in the foreground there are several errors saying Sorry! --- application has stopped please try again and these errors just keep looping.
My rom is stock android 2.3.3
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Is your phone brand new? Did you just get it?
I had a Motorola Xoom Tablet that was like that right out of the box and I had to Factory Reset / Wipe the device to fix it.
Follow the advice of the previous poster and try to flash your stock ROM again with Odin and see if that fixed the issue and if not then you will likely have to Factory Reset your device.
If THAT fails then it is off for a warranty repair or to a service center Id assume...
veyka said:
Your best if you don't want to have to format your phone is to use odin to flash your stock rom again (make sure its a non wipe package)
That should leave your user apps/data but you might lose stuff like sms's.
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After clicking force close about a hundred times (literally) I managed to get back to the home screen but I've noticed some stuff has changed, See where it says Phone Contacts Messaging Applications in the middle image for me it just says Applications.
Any idea as to whats going on here?
EDIT: I just noticed if I try to open an app, the app crashes instantly.
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Is your phone brand new? Did you just get it?
I had a Motorola Xoom Tablet that was like that right out of the box and I had to Factory Reset / Wipe the device to fix it.
Follow the advice of the previous poster and try to flash your stock ROM again with Odin and see if that fixed the issue and if not then you will likely have to Factory Reset your device.
If THAT fails then it is off for a warranty repair or to a service center Id assume...
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I've had this phone since July (when it became available in Canada). It worked flawlessly until I decided to put in a memory card a few days ago.
EDIT: And I just tested the memory card in my old phone and it works just fine there.
Hello!
I have got a 64GB micro sd card, it was running for a year or so in my Galaxy S3, before in The Note2. It was pre formatted in exFat - everything worked fine without a problem. (It is a SanDisk SDXC card, the grey/red one)
A few days ago I was walking home and my battery was about 3 or 4 percent. I wanted to listen to some music on my way home, suddenly there was no more music and I couldn't start the phone. I tried the power button, I hoped there may be a little power left, but the screen kept black.
At home I charged my phone. When I started it later the SD Card wasn't recognized. Although I had a lot of music on it I wanted to format it in my phone (I have got all music and the rest of the card backed up on my pc)
It doesn't work, there was some notice like "...couldn't be formatted" I don't know the exact words.
Then I tried to format it from the PC (the card still in the phone) - I couldn't even see the card.
Then I tried it with a card reader, and later on in a laptop with a card reader and both times the same:
If the card gets recognized it has to be formatted, but the size of the card is "32.6 MB" which is definitly wrong. This isn't space that was on the card left, there were some GBs left. Even if I try to format it the PC stops and says something like "couldn't end the formatting" -> my PC has german language, I can't tell you exactly
What can I do now?
Has someone had a similar problem? It was a 64GB card, and these are not cheap
Have I maybe killed the card when the battery was near 0% and I tried to restart the phone?
I am pleased about every answer.
Have a nice day
lienot
See SanDisk card problems via Google return to SanDisk .
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The problems I have in my SII(Rooted) is very unusual. First is what I have was the micro SD. It was suddenly write-protected. SO what I did, I opened root manager in ES file manager and made it from RO to RW but no difference, it still stays at RO. 2nd is, It only scanned SOME music files in my sd card and phone memory. It was like selected which will be put inside the music player. I did sdrescan but it only worked a bit and when I click to trigger to scan, it didn't work. It only read the other some (Not read) in the music player but still not the whole songs. And my 3rd major problem is my battery. I Did SetCPU and POWERMAX and Easy Battery Saver but the result is just the same. It sucks battery life like crazy. Every Music File I play (2-5 mins) It gets 2 PERCENT of the battery EACH. And only after 10 mins after plugging my phone out of my charger, it's 92 percent from 100 which usually have to be in 100 percent only or 99. This problem ruined also my datas inside my phone. All of my files are missing. Even the wifi passwords. Does anyone know the solution of this problems? The screenshot is my battery history. My battery crazy drain started when I went to a session where there aren't any cell signal. And when I got my phone back after the session it's only 56 from 92. And after that, my phone memory suddenly have 0.00B. Not kidding. My phone doesn't even have virus I checked it and all and I am forced to delete 8 apps. And then after that day my phone went to these problems. Changing to a new battery is not a solution. It's still a same result. And that's what I noticed is that the phone itself is the problem. The drain is going out of control.
seems like your SD card is broken? Can you run an integrity test on it?
Have you tried using your phone without the SD card for a day or two just to see how this affects battery life?
Also a Better Battery stats log would help analyse the source of the problem.
this will delete all your data on your phone (not full wipe)
go to settings>storage>scroll and when you see format sd card click it
Before you do this transport your foto's and important stuff on your pc or cloud storage.
and if this doesn't work try to format your external sdcard on your pc to fat32 i belief good luck!
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and for your battery do this:
while your phone is on charge it to 100%
and then go to recover mode and use clockworkmode or other recover mode's with wipe battery state avalible
and power off your phone and charge it to 100% and if it is 100% let it charge for 5 min
now pull your battery out and let your phone rest for 1 hour, and after a hour battery in phone on and hope that it work
I had some unusial battery drain (not so bad as yours) but it helped! good luck one again!
Try formatting you SD card in Fat32 mode via Windows
I got the same problem a years back with my SD card too.
When ever it's in my phone, it will keep in the restart loop, or restart normally then just shutdown itself until i had to remove the battery to on it again, or just shutdown randomly until i need to remove the battery to re-on it.
It even make my song or picture in the card unreadable or read in partial (song with annoying chirping sound, picture with annoying block/mosaic)...
Things get all good, when i just remove the SD card and use the phone without SD card.
I use a Kingmax 16G class 10, even format it into FAT32, scan the card (no bad sector at all)
So i contacted the manufacturer and stated my problem facing, they have no solution but change a new card.
Once the new card is put in, all the problem gone. i was wondering....
May be you can try change your SD card (if you have extra piece) to try it out.
Also I heard try not to use anything higher than class 4, but what makes it true, i'm still looking for the fact.
Jerryky said:
I got the same problem a years back with my SD card too.
When ever it's in my phone, it will keep in the restart loop, or restart normally then just shutdown itself until i had to remove the battery to on it again, or just shutdown randomly until i need to remove the battery to re-on it.
It even make my song or picture in the card unreadable or read in partial (song with annoying chirping sound, picture with annoying block/mosaic)...
Things get all good, when i just remove the SD card and use the phone without SD card.
I use a Kingmax 16G class 10, even format it into FAT32, scan the card (no bad sector at all)
So i contacted the manufacturer and stated my problem facing, they have no solution but change a new card.
Once the new card is put in, all the problem gone. i was wondering....
May be you can try change your SD card (if you have extra piece) to try it out.
Also I heard try not to use anything higher than class 4, but what makes it true, i'm still looking for the fact.
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That actually helped.... My battery stopped draining fast.... holy crud thank you!
Thank you guys!!!
Wow you have pretty similar case with mine. Here the battery drain fast. It suddenly drain after i try to force turn off the phone due to stuck "i don't know why the phone stuck suddenly"
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Wow you have pretty similar case with mine. Here the battery drain fast. It suddenly drain after i try to force turn off the phone due to stuck "i don't know why the phone stuck suddenly"
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My battery in my S4 was almost dead so I went to swap it with a charged one. I didn't shutdown the phone, I just pulled the battery and put in the new one.
After my phone restarted I got a bad SD card notification. I pulled the SD card and tried to read it with 2 different computers and both times Windows said I needed to format before using...
I ended up formatting it with Windows and running a card recovery program to get most of my photos back. Now I have to deal with downloading all my music from Google Play again and replacing all the other files I had on there. The SD card does work normally but it was a pain in the ass.
So moral of the story, shutdown your phone before pulling the battery, because your phone just might be accessing your SD card when you do it.
I'm on the latest sky dragon build every once in a while my phone will either crash or the audio won't work (this includes navigation and ring tones.) If it's the latter, I'll reboot the phone but it will hang at the red Verizon screen. If it crashes it'll reboot and hand at the Verizon screen. I'll pull the battery and turn the phone on, but it still hangs. Until I pull the battery and remove the SD (64gb class 10 sony) then I turn the phone on, and it boots doing. Then I insert the SD card and everything work find again.
There've been occasions in the past that for me and for others as well that something's wonky with the Micro SD card that's solved by reformatting the card and starting back from scratch. I know how much of a pain it is to move all your stuff off and put anything back on you definitely want to keep there, but there's not really anything else to try, I don't think. That's the inconvenient aspect of the now getting convenient-sized largish Micro SD Cards.
Good luck!