[Q] Is my microSD screwed? - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi all,
Today, out of the blue, I see a message in the status bar saying "Blank SD card" and "SD card blank or has unsupported file system".
I don't care too much about the data on it (I have backups), but I tried to format it (within Android) a few times and remount it and it still gives me that message.
I also tried to format it in CWM but I get an error message saying that the SD card can't be mounted.
So I'm a bit stuck here... what can I do?
Thanks!

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rent0n said:
Hi all,
Today, out of the blue, I see a message in the status bar saying "Blank SD card" and "SD card blank or has unsupported file system".
I don't care too much about the data on it (I have backups), but I tried to format it (within Android) a few times and remount it and it still gives me that message.
I also tried to format it in CWM but I get an error message saying that the SD card can't be mounted.
So I'm a bit stuck here... what can I do?
Thanks!
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rent0n,
I had the same problem about 3 months back. when I went back to the store, they swapped my card. When I asked about all my info, the told me it couldn't be recovered. Sorry for your loss.
mj

Well I bought both the phone and the and the sd card on eBay so...
I can't believe I can't do ANYTHING to fix this... any idea?
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using XDA App

hey, if you still have the sd card, try running testdisk on it. i cant post links as i am a newb, sorry

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SD card blank or has unsupported filesystem

I'm having a problem with my 8GB sandisk card. My Htc Legend keeps giving me a pop up in the notification blind that says SD card blank or has unsupported filesystem. I've done some searching on google and notice people are having this problem with their Desires and other various android devices.
However I haven't come across a fix. I noticed one Legend owner had it occur after a restore of data from sd card. I'm having a feeling this happened to me as well since I got the OTA firmware upgrade yesterday. And I'm having the problem with the sd card today and I had the option to save date to sd. Today I unchecked it since I started using another card and I'm afraid of that one getting ruined.
Is there a way to fix my other card as I don't want to just throw away a perfectly fine 8GB card.
I've tried reformating in phone and pc. Have tried it in other phones. PC doesn't read it. Blackberry 8900 will not boot with it inserted and freezes if inserted after boot. myTouch 3G slide gives the same error. And does nothing when formatting.
i had this when i first got my new sd card and the phone basically to get it working i just went into the phone and formatted it via the android os then it mounted fine settings > storage > format (you may have to unmount first if it is still mounted )
noobdeagle said:
i had this when i first got my new sd card and the phone basically to get it working i just went into the phone and formatted it via the android os then it mounted fine settings > storage > format (you may have to unmount first if it is still mounted )
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I've tried this numerous times and it does not do anything. Does not show the option to unmount.
Hi all,
I guess my problem is very similar. Using an DHD with a 8 GB SD Card...
I did a factory restore including to wipe all data on SD card.
the DHD was rebooting and now I get the message Blank SD Card - SD card blank or has unsupported filesystem. in the notification bar.
is there any App I can restore my SD card? made full backup so ****ting on data just wana bring it back working.
Card gets not mounted... when I hit the message in notification bar it ask me to format card - I did multiple times with no success.
Anyone knows how to restore the card? Hope it's not gone for ever :-(
Thanks for help
same problem here, i guess a new sd card is due
Following I found out regarding the issue"SD card Blank/unsuported filesystem":
Just read my update here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11353140
there are 2 ways to fix this (one of them I can confirm restored the filesystem on my SD card)
Kind Regards,
Der Matte
PS.: thanks @ GOOGLE
PS.PS.: maybe a mod can merge the threads as I think this is a general problem with HTC phones
scr6 said:
I've tried this numerous times and it does not do anything. Does not show the option to unmount.
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The sd card usually goes to raw format. Raw format supported software can help you extract the files and then you can use the full format option in windows 7, quick format checkbox unchecked.
MatteFugger said:
Following I found out regarding the issue"SD card Blank/unsuported filesystem":
Just read my update here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11353140
there are 2 ways to fix this (one of them I can confirm restored the filesystem on my SD card)
Kind Regards,
Der Matte
PS.: thanks @ GOOGLE
PS.PS.: maybe a mod can merge the threads as I think this is a general problem with HTC phones
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same problem for me. I tried with factory reset but nothing happened. I tried my HTC with others new sd card but still is the problem. sd card comes corrupted after i put into the place. I format the sd card in the pc and in my nokia and it works well but not in my HTC.
wow i recover my files
hi guys, i had same problem, but then i set this sandisk ultra to my nokia xpress music and there was everything,,, my arc s cant open it anymore but nokia opens... try to reset your sd s to others phone...

[Q] After ICS update: "No SD Card Inserted" message ??

after my ICS update i get the message: "No SD Card Inserted" message ??
also my pics are not on the phone. i backed everything up to Kies, but i thought pics were supposed to be there. all my songs and contacts are.
should i just take the SD card out and then put it back in ??
even when i plug it into my PC it only shows the phone...no SD card.
ahh nvm, i clicked Mount SD Card (not knowing what that means) and now it recognizes it.
noobs>Note
Hahahaha, happy you resolved it. It made me super worried for a second. But would you mind putting solved in the title for future referencing? Thanks.
Solved
like that i hope? i'll try to remember thanx
only 1 problem remains, i click Gallery and i get a message: "Media Scanner Running" ... but when i click My Files, i can see the pics so i know they are there...i just cant view them :-\
i even restarted the GNote as well (awesome that it can be restarted now instead of just "Turn Off" and then turn on) and after restart, the same "Media Scanner Running" message pops up and nothing happens. any ideas?
**SOLVED** nevermind again! lol now it started working. **SOLVED**
Does MediaScanner run automatically when you mount amd unmount the SD card? For some reason my doesnt.
From my Galaxy Note

[Q] SD Card Won't Mount

Hey so I've been trying to find a solution to this problem for a while now and I can't seem to find anything to fix it.
So I went to format my SD card through my phone (I am running Liquid's ICS rom atm). I went into settings > storage > erase sd card, and followed through on everything. After I accepted that my stuff would be lost I got a notification saying the SD Card is safe to remove, and in storage it gives me the option to Mount the SD Card.
However, when I press mount it acts like it is mounting for like half a second then quickly just says it is safe to remove and the mount button is clickable again. No matter how many times I click it, it will just do the same thing.
I tried booting into recovery and mounting it through there and formatting it and other nonsense and it just says error mounting sd card.
I have also taken out my battery and sd card and left it for like 10 minutes and tried again. Still nothing.
The only thing I haven't tried doing yet is putting it into a computer to manually format it that way, but I don't have a device to be able to do that at the moment so I am looking for a way to solve this without having to drive 23 miles to the nearest electronics store to fix this.
I don't think my SD card is corrupt, I mean it was working perfectly (it is a 32gb card from Verizon when I got the TB) and it just started doing this after I tried to format it through the ROM.
Any ideas?
EDIT:
HEY! So holy **** I had a little bit of a moment there. Anyway, I solved the problem on my own. So what I did was boot into recovery, and partition the SD Card under the Advance option. I just did the first setting for each so my operation was like this: Recovery > Advance > Partition SD Card > (Power button for whatever the first option was until it started partitioning).
After that I tried mounting the SD card and it didn't give me an error. So I went into the recovery settings to format the sd card (still in CWM recovery) and after it formatted I booted up and sure enough to worked!
So this thread can be deleted or locked or whatever. Other people may run into this problem and this worked for me so yea.
Thanks for the thread space lol
Have you tried 4ext Recovery?

[Q] Newly rooted--sd card issues

Awesome newb video by the way! Made me laugh...
Just rooted and I like it, I don't wanna go back, but I can't get the microsd to pick up...I'll give all the info I can--def newb to root/droid but my background is IT, so hopefully we can figure out how to fix it so I can keep the root and not go back to stock(if that would even repair the problem)
Got a pny 32G microSD, droid incredible 4g lte(Verizon) that I rooted using the unlock script and fakeCID and then loaded Vipers Venom LTE custom rom...somewhere in this process-I think right after unlocking-it quit accessing the sd card...I've looked around and read some things about this 'USB brick' thing, but I don't know if it's applicable to me...here's what it does now:
SD card is in phone, but under 'Storage' Total Space and Available show unavailable, and everything else is greyed. If I try and pull the card the phone gives me the 'sd card unexpectedly removed' error.
Windows XP has no issue reading/writing to this card with a card reader. I've formatted a few times fat32 with xp(which i hate doing)and put it back in the phone, with the phone off, booted, and nothing happens. Oddly, when it first happened, after installing the custom ROM, when I'd do this procedure the phone would see the card on boot, but stay forever on 'preparing sd card/checking for errors' and never complete.
Back on the phone side of things, booting into the 'recovery mode', where you flash and whatever, it can see the card, see it's contents, and I wrote some sort of log to the card(option in the menu), so it can access it...oddly, I could not load my Viper rom from the microsd card, it failed on the file, but put it under some folder on the phone and that's how i ended up flashing the ROM, which I was nervous about doing as everything I saw said put the rom on the external sd card...
If I plug the phone into the XP pc via usb cable, choose use as disk drive, no problem accessing phone data, but 'please insert disk' on the card. Cannot push data when in usb debug mode via adb commands either. Oddly, dunno if this is related, it gives me 2 drives and also a CD ROM drive--tried dialing that##7 number for the option to disable cd rom, but it was already disabled. Dunno if this is related, but throwing it in there.
Tried chkdsk on the sd card with Xp, no errors, no problems. Hell, the card's not two weeks old and I've only had the phone a little over a month. I've done a bit of research the past couple of days and the only thing I haven't tried is the very confusing procedure i've seen for some of these 'usb brick' problems, but is that my problem. I'm hoping if all else fails i can go back to stock, just downloaded the stock rom, but will that even fix it? Gots to have my trailer park boys on my sd card to watch! Thanks for the help guys and gals! Sorry for the long post, but I like to give info--if kernel version or any other data like that is required, I can post it.
zazaray said:
Got a pny 32G microSD, droid incredible 4g lte(Verizon) [...] it quit accessing the sd card...
SD card is in phone, but under 'Storage' Total Space and Available show unavailable, and everything else is greyed. If I try and pull the card the phone gives me the 'sd card unexpectedly removed' error.
Windows XP has no issue reading/writing to this card [...] formatted a few times fat32 [...] and nothing happens. Oddly, when it first happened, after installing the custom ROM, when I'd do this procedure the phone would see the card on boot, but stay forever on 'preparing sd card/checking for errors' and never complete.
[...] booting into the 'recovery mode', where you flash and whatever, it can see the card, see it's contents [...]
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i tried to slim down your quote, but from my experience i'd still say the sd-card is somehow busted! i had a similar prob with the SD card in my Dinc4G two weeks ago. i _was_ r/w quite fine even from custom rom and at one point, the card just quit. removing and reinserting just ended in "preparing sd-card" and directly after that "safe for removal" ... wasn't able to access it any more within Viper, recovery (TWRP for me) was still seeing the card fine just like on your end.
putting the SD-card into a Win-laptop it _appeared_ fine and came error-free with scandisk etc ... BUT when i tried to backup all data from it before formatting (had like 10G on my 16G card) there were a couple of files that failed to read and i could NOT recover at all anymore. I formatted the SD-card again after that (full format, not fast/quick!) ... and put most of the files back. it is working again now in my Dinc4G but the card sure has some defect sectors (and usually _tends to die soon_ after such errors appear first!
i'd heavily recommend that you try to source some other micro-sd card first and try if you custom rom can read from it again. if that works fine and you see your SD-card from within the settings menu in the rom. you can be pretty sure that it's really the card.
PS: even brand new mem cards tend to fail at times :cyclops: ... just try to erase all private data on it (means: _fully overwrite_ with other stuff until the card is completelly filled) ... and then try to get a replacement from where you got your (fairly new) SD card from.
hope that helps a bit
i agree with the above post... try a different card. if formatting it doesn't fix it, it's time to try a new card.
j13smiley said:
i agree with the above post... try a different card. if formatting it doesn't fix it, it's time to try a new card.
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Thank you for the help, I resolved this issue, as it is the card, but now I have a different issue, unfortunately...

[Q] SD card; works in CWM, not in android

Hi everyone,
I'm terrible sorry if I'm asking a question that's been answered before, but I tried my best searching the forums to find a solution without luck.
I've just flashed my phone to cyanogen first, and then paranoidandroid. The problem i'm having is that i can't get my sd card working.
It works in CWM, and I've tried formatting it there many times; but i only get the "Blank SD card" error, and nothing happens when i format it
in android. I've tried formatting it in windows in FAT32, but i just get the same error msg or "Damaged SD card" error.
I think I got it working in cyanogen by changing the location for where the image were being stored, but i can't find that option in paranoidandroid even though it looks like the exact same camera app.
My phone is i9300t and the sd card i'm using is sandisk 64g.
And responds is welcomed with thanks
Daavidh said:
Hi everyone,
I'm terrible sorry if I'm asking a question that's been answered before, but I tried my best searching the forums to find a solution without luck.
I've just flashed my phone to cyanogen first, and then paranoidandroid. The problem i'm having is that i can't get my sd card working.
It works in CWM, and I've tried formatting it there many times; but i only get the "Blank SD card" error, and nothing happens when i format it
in android. I've tried formatting it in windows in FAT32, but i just get the same error msg or "Damaged SD card" error.
I think I got it working in cyanogen by changing the location for where the image were being stored, but i can't find that option in paranoidandroid even though it looks like the exact same camera app.
My phone is i9300t and the sd card i'm using is sandisk 64g.
And responds is welcomed with thanks
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Edit; got it working by putting it into another phone and transferring a file on it.

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