My external SD card was working fine, had about 16Gb of Music on it. Tonight it has stopped working and is coming up with an error saying "SD card blank or has unsupported file" (I assume it means file system).
I put it into a converter and plugged into PC, Windows reported that SD card also had unsupported file system and asked to format it.
Is there a way to fix this? I really don't want to format the card and then copy all that music back on
Happened to me twice.You can try recuva to find files.
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Same here mate. I had a **** load of pics and music. I couldnt find a way around it so....i had to format the SD card...so painful
looks like an iphone but powered by android baby!!!!
Happened to me about 3 months ago, was changing from Checkrom to Krinyo's SlimRom. No apps on my ext SD.
No idea why/how/what happened, but I'd made a backup my SD to my pc. You guys didn't.
#Smug, self satisfied grin...
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Hi!
I've got a big problem and the thing is I don't know if that's with my phone or SD card.
To begin with, I have class 4 EMTEC SD Card (4 GB). I bought it about 3 days ago so it's quite new. My rom is Mik-os' CM7 and the problem is that every single time I copy something to or from that card and something bad happens (e.g. my PC loses connection with phone when copying files, or I tap "Turn off USB connection" on my phone too early) it results in "Blank SD Card" error and I must partition card every single time it happens. As you know, it can be quite frustrating, as I have most of my apps on SD card.
From my description, you may think that this is clearly my SD card's fault. But, the same thing happened earlier with my 2 GB SD card that came with my phone. I couldn't delete nor save anything on it using android's USB function, I had to do everything using recovery menu. And my my ROM that time was LOL 1.4.2.
So, my question is - is that my phone's fault or it's rather my SD card?
Also I have one bonus question - is there any way to backup apps installed on SD card? (But I'm not talking about TitaniumBackup, what I mean is if I can copy any folder to the computer, and when the "Blank SD card" error appears, just paste it to SD card and have all apps again.)
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My rom is Mik-os' CM7 and the problem is that every single time I copy something to or from that card and something bad happens (e.g. my PC loses connection with phone when copying files, or I tap "Turn off USB connection" on my phone too early) it results in "Blank SD Card" error and I must partition card every single time it happens. As you know, it can be quite frustrating, as I have most of my apps on SD card.
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Well I have this problem with Void.Forever ROM. Do not format it, just reboot your phone after this issue
Well, I tried rebooting, I tried to remove and insert the SD card again, but it didn't help and I always end up getting "Blank SD Card".
Its a bad sdcard. I had this problem on stock froyo too. Please replace your sdcard.
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The card that comes with the phone is pure junk, so the experience with that is irrelevant. Other than that, use USB card reader in PC. If it is dead, just RMA it.
As for the backup - the apps are in .android_secure folder. Nowever, this is not really a solution, you would have to backup the entire SD card, lots of other application data are scattered across all different directories on SD. Worse yet, if you backup the phone via recovery, it gets lost.
try using panasonic sd formatter and format ur sdcard create ext partition if u have atleast class 4 orelse dont and see if the prob persist
i switched my phone on an off again.... and then all my external sd card music was gone?checked storage and my sd card was (32gb card) 29.8gb/29.8gb available?
took the card out checked on my computer and yes it is all empty! except for some android secure and lost folder android makes by itself.
no corruption message. its a lexar class 10
why/ how would this happen?
faulty sd card? phone problem? virus? Help! so i know what to do next
Did u flash a Rom with instructions how to wipe? Maybe u format the sd card then.
It happened after using it last time on PC? Maybe there's the prob.
Any special apps u use?
CHEERS ;-)
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Look for a PC-based recovery app that can recover deleted data on SD cards, whack the SD card in a card reader attached to said PC, see if you might be able to recovery any of the erased data.
Seems your best (only) chance to me.
This works for me...
http://www.piriform.com/recuva
Good luck!
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Check the lost files directory .
jje
Nope i only flashed that new (at the time) 2.3.5 kernal and rooted my phone in December, and have not removed my card from my phone in a month
Trying recuva, normal scan picked up nothing, deep scan now...
done!
woohoo recuva worked. I recovered my lost files. I only put music and videos on my external sd card anyway, but i relabelled albums and artists once i transferred music to my phone. So i don't have to do that 2 hour job again.
Files not in their original folders but better then nothing.
I wonder why it happened? hmmm
thanks for the help
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.
I have been going crazy trying to figure this out. Ok So I have a 32GB micro sd card. I am running the latest build of cyanogenmod. Once i transfer the files to my phone (lets say music files) they work great. Now if i restart the phone all of the music files are gone on the sd card and I have a directory on the sd card called LOST.DIR
I cant seem to figure out how to make it so the files dont die and be moved to the LOST.DIR. Once in there they are a bunch of files which are not music files, i assuming they are curropt files.
How can i fix this?
I had problems like that until I started partitioning and formatting with mini-tool
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Format your sd card and try it again!
We'll more specifically repartition then format. Mini tool partition editor works great for windows
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So lately i changed my SD card in my device to a Samsung 32GB and when I transfered all my song, later I noticed on the music player that many of the artist are missing.
when I went to check what's going on, I found out many of the folders were been replaced by empty folders that their name starts with the letter "µ".
like for example, the folder "ACDC" became "µCDC".
I tried transferring everything back again facing the same problems with different folders.
I tried doing a factory reset and tried moving the song to the SD card through a card reader, and checked the files were OK before inserting the SD card back into the device and they seemed fined, but after I inserted the SD card I noticed the folders got curropted again.
also before I inserted the SD card there was like 500 MB of free space on the SD card, while after I inserted it suddenly the was like 15 GB of free space, caused by so many data that got deleted.
I don't believe the SD card is damaged, but that my device is messing my things up....
I also remember that I couldn't transfer any video files to the SD Card when it was in the device and could only transfer them into the device's internal memory.
what can I do?
Use the sd formatting tool on your pc to format the card, if still the same then throw it away. It sounds like a fake card, did all the files work while it was in the pc?
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boomboomer said:
Use the sd formatting tool on your pc to format the card, if still the same then throw it away. It sounds like a fake card, did all the files work while it was in the pc?
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All the files have worked while it was on the PC.
I even tried transfering everything via a card reader and everything check allright.
only when I insert it in my device some of the folders get screwd.