Alright guys I need some help... my Thunderbolt keeps saying my sd card is blank and needs to be formatted then it says external media is in an unknown state. I've seen that this has been an issue with past HTC phones but none of the solutions have worked. I have a 16GB Class 4 Sandisk and an 8 GB Class 6 Transcend. They both work on my Win7 PCs and on my old LG Ally Android.
I've tried reformatting them with the Ally, with Windows, with GParted. I've tried changing ROMs (originally had Skyraider Zeus before the issue started) then tried CM7 RC1.
Currently in the process of going back to stock unrooted in case I need to send it back for warranty repair/replacement. Although this is difficulty because it requires a recognizable micro sd. Hboot and Clockwork Recovery only recognize the card about 5% of the time and it seems to be based on luck.
Any suggestions on what the issue is or how to fix it?
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So I've had (give or take a few minor details) exactly the same problem as you. I hope by now you've sorted it, but just in case you haven't and for others like me looking for the answer, this is what I've found and it's worked me and several others.
Its just a matter of removing the battery! simple, but even though the phone is off you still need to remove the battery and the card. Then insert the card then insert the battery. Its worked for both my cards that previously gave the message.
Hope this helps
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bucklandnick, perfect thanks!! Tried two SD cards with same results. Simple and does the job!
Be wary of that, if it starts happening frequently, you're going to have to have the phone replaced. My last Bolt started spontaneously saying the card was ejected, and refusing to remount it. Pull battery and card, replace, boot up, reads for a few then ejects. A few times I had to remove it, boot up, shut down, reinsert card, boot up again. it ended up corrupting my card and I damn near lost everything on it. If it happens more than a few times, contact VZW ASAP about getting a replacement, and back that sucker up!
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I dont know if I am the only one, but although I love this ROM and I find it perfect for my needs I just cant get around the fact that it destroys my 8GB microSDHC class 6 card by encrypting it. I have formated it endless times with the panasonic formatting tool it becomes usable, I put my files in it, it work for a few hours at best and the the phone hangs. usually using Total Commander, its interesting that it starts slowly, like 1 ever 5 secnds, showing my folders (I guess this is where the encryption begins. And then everything I try to open gives an error 18, data moved or something. Encryption desibled in setting, power administration disables it does that regardless.
After it does that if I soft reset or restart the phone the card will not show up anymore, either in the total comander, or file manager or any program that trys to access the card. After that if i put the sd back in my pc it shows everything just fine except an Encfitlog.menc file or something like that has being created. Its only that file thats all, no extensions have been modified no files moved nothing. And the computer reads and opens everything just fine. Sometimes if I delete the file the phone will read it again mst times it dosnt.
I know many think it can be bad SD card but the fact is that the computer reads it just fine and intrestingly enough so does the phone, for example i can install endless numbers of roms using the sd method. Even with the menc file on it the bootloader reads the card perfectly and flashes the RAPLPH.IMG everytime no erros. To me that means all hardware is working fine.
WHAT CAN IT BE????????????? PLEASE HELP I READ FOR HOURS DIFFERENT THREADS AND NOTHING HELPED. O LOVE THIS ROM BUT I NEED THE SD AS WELL
if anyone has any idea I would be extremely grarful!!!!!!
was the card properly inserted? The card slot is spring loaded. Try removing the card by pushing it in all the way, the card should pops out. That's when you know that you've inserted the card properly. If the card was inserted correctly, the easiest way to find out now is buying or borrowing a different card.
Yes of course, like I stated i can flash roms form the same sd card, it works for a while and then it just goes bananas. It seems to be a fairly common issue I just thought some one else might have figured out what triggers this error. Still no permanet solution.
Have you tried the second suggestion?
O tried the card in other phones and it works which is stait up wierd. Havent gotten around other cards to try yet. but is wierd i doubt its hardware related cause it reads the rom images perfectly to flash them. and doubt its the rom becuase i tried like 6 already ranging from stock 6.1 to heavily tweaked 6.5s yeilding always thesame results. its like they just dont get along. wierd. will look for another sd to try on my fuze and see how that goes
Try a different brand of Card
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O tried the card in other phones and it works which is stait up wierd. Havent gotten around other cards to try yet. but is wierd i doubt its hardware related cause it reads the rom images perfectly to flash them. and doubt its the rom becuase i tried like 6 already ranging from stock 6.1 to heavily tweaked 6.5s yeilding always thesame results. its like they just dont get along. wierd. will look for another sd to try on my fuze and see how that goes
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I too use NRG roms and have flashed them from AS and my SD. I have a Sandisk 8Gb card that I brought when I got my Raph and have never had a problem. I can only strongly recommend that you get another brand of card and check the results. Maybe there is something funky about the way they talk to your brand of SD card.
Check on the HTC site. I think they list compatible memory cards. I have a similar issue with a 16G card I bought. Sometimes it's all there and sometimes it's not...no rhyme or reason to it. I just went back to the 4GB for now haven't had the time or incentive to go further yet.
i guess its just that!!! I mean it is a very cheap card, Generic from Microcenter. But the on and off thing is what confuses me. I would thing it would be a work or no work thing and not a sometimes works some times it dosnt senarrio. An I tried the card on a Kaiser, Titan, and CDMA Raphael and works. And for certain things it works on this Phone as well. I noted one more thing. If the phone never goes to sleep it dosnt corrup the card. But as it goes to sleep when i press the power button it hangs for a second and pufff!!! card gone. But if i plug it to the computer via USB it will recognize that theres a card it just wont show it. And if i plug it in the computer with SD adapter is all there plus the forsaken menc file. But the whole sleeping thing leads me to thing it might be a power management issues of how the OS handles the memory voltage on sleep and resume. Could it be?????????
WIERD!!!! I guess the only OTHER logical explanaition (which dosnt totaly stasify me, THEY JUST DONT UNDESTAND EACH OTHER)
Will try to get a secondary card and post resulsts.
I'll tell you a strange issue (additional to the already mentioned on other posts) of the micro SD, I found and tested it today, and i have not resolved it yet.
ISSUE:
without notice, the phone is switched on etc, shows the notification "SD Removed, Please enter a new one", I thought it was strange since I had changed the micro with another, a san disk 16gb HC, nothing of strange.
i restart the phone, but the notification does not go away. i begin to be worried, 'cause it usually disappears.
I remove the backpanel, the secure of microsd and take it off.
So far nothing abnormal belief, and reinsert it.
The phone still does not see the new microsd.
i was in street so didn't proceed with further testing and i messd up for a while. arrived home i tried with 3 other microsd, the default supplied by LG, with still the old data within, and no one of them were detected
NEW two maxell 2gb microSD, HC always, are not detected.
I thought it was a pin problem, but keeping the vertical microsd clearly known that the pins are aligned correctly
(1 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1).
restarting the phone with and without early MicroSim they are not recognized.
The PC and other phones are working properly.
I also made a restore procedure from privacy-settings, but still no sign of life.
any suggestion?
Hmmmm.....U can try this tips to reformat sdcard @ link: goo.gl/5qQ6m
woofz said:
Hmmmm.....U can try this tips to reformat sdcard @ link: goo.gl/5qQ6m
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mine problem as i told is not an unmount problem but the absolute not detection mode, i tried the cards on another phone, all of them works.
by the way today i pick up the battery, and i looked for the little white warranty sticker, and it is a f****' pale pink!
the phone had no contact with water or everything like that, so it's impossible that i burned my warranty in this f****' way!
by the way i think is an hware problem, and i think is caused from some components on the little board on the upper side of the phone where are the antenna, speakers, vibrator engine, and the sd slot.
I had similar problem, my LG came up with error message that the micro sd card was damaged, i tried 3 different card and always had the same message.
I took my 16Gb sandisk card out of the phone and to a card reader.
The card worked perfectly on my PC so i started to take a backup of the card and then run some problem diagnostic tool and thank god, it finished and promped that some errors where fixed.
Since than it has worked perfectly in my optimus one...
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I had similar problem, my LG came up with error message that the micro sd card was damaged, i tried 3 different card and always had the same message.
I took my 16Gb sandisk card out of the phone and to a card reader.
The card worked perfectly on my PC so i started to take a backup of the card and then run some problem diagnostic tool and thank god, it finished and promped that some errors where fixed.
Since than it has worked perfectly in my optimus one...
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let me understand better, u ran the diagnostic tools on for the SD card or for the lg optimus one?, and if the second, can u post, send pm, with the link of them? Many many anyways for the answer =)
I simply ran the diagnostic tools on the sd card conected to my pc via usb card reader in win7. I was about to give up on this when i decided to try this, tough i didn't think it would actually work. but it did.....
someone at LG should look into this, my friend experienced exacly the same problem with optimus GT540. it was after installing some custom rom in his case, but i still have the original firmware, i haven't done any hacks but rooting, wich i don't belive could cause this problem...
oh, and i hope i am making my self clear, my english is not perfect since it's not my first language..
I do confirm.
This happened on my new phone.
Without any reason.
i've been using the SGS2 for over a month now with a 8gb sd card inserted without any problems. starting today, every time the phone runs on battery and the lockscreen was active, after unlocking android would report "SD card unexpectedly removed" and then start media scanning the SD card's content.
the card itself seems to be ok. other threads for other phones on xda suggested a formatting of the card would help with the problem - but not in my case.
as it seems to only happen when on battery and not when charging the phone, i suspect a software problem. it's pretty much reproducable on my phone - just a quick lock/unlock triggers the problem.
anyone has a similar experience and knows how to fix the problem? the constant media scanning eats away a lot of battery
I have had the same problem, my 16gb sd card was occasionally coming up as card unmounted after boot up but I could not get it to mount so I would have to take the card out and re-insert, then it would be ok for a few days until this week, then re-inserting did not fix it. I have tried to format the card but the phone just says "formatting" but that goes on for 30-40 minutes with the phone frozen and I have to pull the battery. I have tried to format the card in my laptop but that tells me that the card is locked. I am using a usb card reader which does not have a lock on it.
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I have had the same problem, my 16gb sd card was occasionally coming up as card unmounted after boot up but I could not get it to mount so I would have to take the card out and re-insert, then it would be ok for a few days until this week, then re-inserting did not fix it. I have tried to format the card but the phone just says "formatting" but that goes on for 30-40 minutes with the phone frozen and I have to pull the battery. I have tried to format the card in my laptop but that tells me that the card is locked. I am using a usb card reader which does not have a lock on it.
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your problem seems a different from mine tho - i removed and inserted the card multiple times: android can always access & format it without problems, but the "SD card unexpectedly removed" still appears every time i unlock the phone while being on battery. the card then is remounted automatically and scanned.
Exactly the same problem has started happening to my handset in the past couple of days. After playing around with formatting etc. I've noticed that the SD card isn't staying clicked into the holder. I've tried different cards, reinserting but nothing makes a difference - looks like it's going back to Samsung....
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Exactly the same problem has started happening to my handset in the past couple of days. After playing around with formatting etc. I've noticed that the SD card isn't staying clicked into the holder. I've tried different cards, reinserting but nothing makes a difference - looks like it's going back to Samsung....
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I'm pretty sure this is not the same problem that Heldchen is reporting. I believe I have a similar issue and it is completely software related, not physical as you are describing here. SD cards still lock into the slot just fine on my SG2 but I still get the "SC card unexpectedly removed". Does anybody have a solution yet for this?
Exactly the same problem
Mine is as skwirrel states, every time you come out of "hibernation", the SD card has to be re-scanned. There is no issue with the card coming loose or needing to be formatted
Use the search button!!!!!
http://www.google.com/cse?q=SD+card...ub-2900107662879704:fs7umqefhnf&ie=ISO-8859-1 + add galaxy s2 on the end it wont stick in the search for some reason
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I have been encountering a weird problem for some weeks. Whenever i reboot my optimus, memory card isn't recognized. No used/free space counter in settings, it's as if it just isn't there. Then, after some time "preparing sd card" appears in the notification center.
But the problem here is it isn't definite when will it appear- it can be after 5 minutes after booting or 7 hours. its just random. had been encountering it in cm7 for some time, thought ics would fix this problem (wiping everything). Worked like this for two days in ics.
Until tomorrow afternoon.
Now it just isn't recognizing it.
That's why i opened up my first thread.
Seems like the sd card read initialize settings are messed up. Used to be A flasher, but flashed my first ROM in two months, two days ago.
Ps: oh, and when it was getting recognized, the size of .androidsecure in root of the sd card wasn't getting analyzed, in windows it was.
Share your similar experiences, thoughts and let's come up with a solution to this one.
I think this is a hardware problem...
I believe by hardware you mean sd card. maybe but it works perfectly in windows pc, as well as Nokia phones.
Maybe the card holder (which, well, holds card in place) is acting up.
A point to be noted- other cards work flawlessly, and my card doesn't works in other phones. So, must probably (!) The memory card is the culprit.
Bought a new one altogether.
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Hi All,
Anyone have issues with their sdcard being detected with the G5? I have an 850 and a lot of the time the sdcard stops working or being detected and i cant see why. A reboot and then waiting 20 mins usually fixes it and it shows up in the storage section but its getting annoying.. May have to try another card to see what the story is with that but for now i wondered if anyone else had drama with it.
Cheers
Cass
Maybe the card is dying i would suggest backing up the data just to be safe
No problem with mine
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Backed up and reformated the card on pc as ntfs. Card detected on insert, it told me it was corrupt, which it was due to no ntfs support and it formatted it again as exFat. Lets see how it goes now.
Cheers
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Cass67 said:
Backed up and reformated the card on pc as ntfs. Card detected on insert, it told me it was corrupt, which it was due to no ntfs support and it formatted it again as exFat. Lets see how it goes now.
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Hope it goes well!
This seems to be frequent to a certain extent. This is a hardware issue. Same with S7 Edge or non-Edge (visit page: digitaltrends.com/mobile/galaxy-s7-edge-problems/8/
It seems that LG has the same issue. It could also be an Android 6 issue.
I got my new S7. I have sent to other one for repair. They changed the motherboard. Then it came back with the same issue. Then Samsung sent me a bran new S7. I have no more SD card notifications at all. Not even when I reboot the phone. Yesterday (again) I was listening to music (a set of 2 hours long) from my SD card. I started to look at pictures (again) at the same time. After 40 mins or so, my phone stopped the music and stopped being able to read my SD. Everything froze and I had to reboot. Then, again, a few mins later (listening to music and looking at pictures), it did it again. On the second time, I was not able to reboot the phone using the power button (keeping pressure for 10 seconds). I had to do it using the volume down/home/power. The phone screen was totally black and there was no way to unfreeze it. My notification light was flashing blue (as I had new emails and text), but the phone was not responsive at all.
It seems like Samsung just removed the SD notification as a whole in the new phone but did not fix the issue.
For those who don't have the issue, before commenting, I would appreciate if you could listen to music and look at your pictures at the same time (all from the micro SD card) for at least 30-40 minutes.
I strongly believe that ALL phones have this issue, but that those who don't just have not access pictures while listening to music (demanding on the SD card reading). Do it if you can... and see if it creates problems. And let me know once you did the above.
I forgot to mention. I am a computer and smartphone savy. I flashed all my S1, S2, S3, S4 on a daily basis. I did purchased another SD card (even if my sandisk is working perfectly on my S5). I got a Samsung evo 64gm. The issue remains on both SD cards, and before you comment about it, YES i did reformat on multiple occasions both with my pc AND within the phone. I also did factory reset on multiple occasions. So it is not the SD's the problem. Just trust, I did everything possible.
I have the g5 se and have bought a 128gb card (actually have 3) but none of the 3 work with this phone and when i manage to get the files (music) on the sd when in device it deletes them all is this still the issue people are having