I successfully achieved S-OFF after it strangely rebooted to Amon Ra, where I had to manually reboot by pressing power. Anyway, after the device booted up and everything seemed fine with S-OFF established, I am getting a blank SD card error. I tried to reformat from the device and from the computer but for some reason, my device nor my computer will even recognize my SD card. This is really worrying me as I just purchased a 32GB card recently and now it seems to be completely fried. Is this a known issue??
tschmid5 said:
I successfully achieved S-OFF after it strangely rebooted to Amon Ra, where I had to manually reboot by pressing power. Anyway, after the device booted up and everything seemed fine with S-OFF established, I am getting a blank SD card error. I tried to reformat from the device and from the computer but for some reason, my device nor my computer will even recognize my SD card. This is really worrying me as I just purchased a 32GB card recently and now it seems to be completely fried. Is this a known issue??
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What happened is that the partition got erased so the computer is not recognizing it. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1613448
I used Gparted live CD to make a partition , then reformat it in fat 32 and all is good.
mjh68 said:
What happened is that the partition got erased so the computer is not recognizing it. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1613448
I used Gparted live CD to make a partition , then reformat it in fat 32 and all is good.
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How do I do this? What is Gparted live CD??
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How do I do this? What is Gparted live CD??
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Gparted is a linux program and you can dowload it free as an ISO file that your burn onto a CD. Once, you burn it then just put it into your drive and restart your computer and it will boot up into the program . http://www.ehow.com/how_4442619_use-gparted-live-cd-partition.html
This will help.
otherwise I am sure any partition manager will work.. just google some not sure which are free .
Also, I was never asked to install their hboot, but still have S OFF. Once it booted to Amon Ra I just pressed reboot and it booted the phone up and controlbear said s-off is already established, exit.... Is this normal?
UPDATE: I just used an SD to USB adapter and plugged it into my computer and just did a quick format to FAT32 and all is well!
tschmid5 said:
UPDATE: I just used an SD to USB adapter and plugged it into my computer and just did a quick format to FAT32 and all is well!
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Great ! mine wouldn't do that for some reason only formatted to 108kb lol .
Same thing happened to me. I put the SD card in another phone, and formatted it via USB on my computer (win 7). I clicked the device default button when prompted.
edit: Sorry, I lied. I formatted it in the phone. When I did the above it only formatted to 108kb. Doing it in my old droid x restored it back to 14GB.
mjh68 said:
Great ! mine wouldn't do that for some reason only formatted to 108kb lol .
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Same thing happened to me. Try this SD Format program. It worked great. heck, I had two SD cards that both had about 105k. Both back up to par now.
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/eula_windows
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Great ! mine wouldn't do that for some reason only formatted to 108kb lol .
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Mine worked after i got S-OFF i put it back in my phone and reformated after I used another SD to gwt y ROM back up on my phone give that a shot.
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I could read my SD cards in other devices, but I could not read internal or external SD after going s-off. I flashed the Engineering HBOOT and GB Firmware package in the dev section and it fixed my issues. I am running an ICS rom with the old firmware patch and everything is good now.
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I believe this has been covered in different ways, just wondering if this sounds like a device fault.
Took the 1gb microSD out of my work blackberry (was working fine) and put it in my atrix....not recognized. Pressed the clip down a little, still not recongized. Rebooted, not recognized, not option to mount or format in settings.
Any thoughts? I know the card is good.
Norcalz71 said:
I believe this has been covered in different ways, just wondering if this sounds like a device fault.
Took the 1gb microSD out of my work blackberry (was working fine) and put it in my atrix....not recognized. Pressed the clip down a little, still not recongized. Rebooted, not recognized, not option to mount or format in settings.
Any thoughts? I know the card is good.
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put it in the micro sd adapter and format it make sure to use fat or fat 32 as a file system
deziguy420 said:
put it in the micro sd adapter and format it make sure to use fat or fat 32 as a file system
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ill give that a try as soon as I get home, don't think I have an adapter here at work. thanks
Norcalz71 said:
ill give that a try as soon as I get home, don't think I have an adapter here at work. thanks
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let me ask you this...does it recognizes on ur pc/laptop?
deziguy420 said:
let me ask you this...does it recognizes on ur pc/laptop?
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doesnt seem to, although i have never used an android device prior to this one to see how it should recognize.
if i plug the usb cable in, i can see the phones internal memory as basically an external HD just like a flash drive, but I dont see the SD card
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doesnt seem to, although i have never used an android device prior to this one to see how it should recognize.
if i plug the usb cable in, i can see the phones internal memory as basically an external HD just like a flash drive, but I dont see the SD card
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in your setting>>storage>>sd card (what you see under that is there an option available to unmount sd..if yes then unmount sd then choose format..)
deziguy420 said:
in your setting>>storage>>sd card (what you see under that is there an option available to unmount sd..if yes then unmount sd then choose format..)
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under that menu, mount sd card and format sd card are greyed out, and total and available space are white but do not do anything when clicked and say "unavailable" below in smaller font
popped the microSD card into my card reader, plugged it into the laptop, and reformatted as FAT32.....atrix still doesnt see it and the options are still greyed out. doesnt seen it when plugged into the computer either. i see the internal storage but not the SD
Norcalz71 said:
popped the microSD card into my card reader, plugged it into the laptop, and reformatted as FAT32.....atrix still doesnt see it and the options are still greyed out. doesnt seen it when plugged into the computer either. i see the internal storage but not the SD
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what rom are you using?..have you tired other microSD?
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what rom are you using?..have you tired other microSD?
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only have the one microSD on me right now so no. currently on stock 1.8.3 but rooted (IIRC it still is). I am doing a fresh flash to wipe everything back to 1.2.6 though and get ready for unlocking and gingerbread.
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only have the one microSD on me right now so no. currently on stock 1.8.3 but rooted (IIRC it still is). I am doing a fresh flash to wipe everything back to 1.2.6 though and get ready for unlocking and gingerbread.
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well I was gonna tell you to wipe via CWM...but that approach was my next option..
flashed back to 4.1.2.6 and then 1.5.7....still no SD card getting recognized.
Time to think about seeing if they will replace the phone? the card works fine in the card reader and in my other phone.
yeh it's time to replace the phone...seems like sd slot is messed up..
deziguy420 said:
yeh it's time to replace the phone...seems like sd slot is messed up..
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phone was purchased just after release, end of February. is this something I should expect to be replaced under warranty from ATT?
I recently got a 32 gb micro sd for my view, I just finished formatting it on my pc. I used a fat32 format, not sure if thats totally the right file system, but found a few people that used it. Anyway, the tablet recognizes the card but the camera can't save to the sd card and when i goto gallery it just says insert sd card.
thelonerangers said:
I recently got a 32 gb micro sd for my view, I just finished formatting it on my pc. I used a fat32 format, not sure if thats totally the right file system, but found a few people that used it. Anyway, the tablet recognizes the card but the camera can't save to the sd card and when i goto gallery it just says insert sd card.
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Use SD Formatter and reformat
Here you go ,,, http://db.tt/ZiKvQviN
I used ur program, seems like it just kept it at fat32 is that right?
thelonerangers said:
I used ur program, seems like it just kept it at fat32 is that right?
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Is it working now?
Wife is playing with the tablet right now. Ill let ya know in about an hour or so. Thank you.
thelonerangers said:
Wife is playing with the tablet right now. Ill let ya know in about an hour or so. Thank you.
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lol ok ... BTY take the card out of the Flyer and format it in your computer
I did, I got the card plugged into my pc right now. Just gotta wait on her so i can slip it back in and see what happens
Nope, when i goto gallery it say insert sd card. So something didnt work.
thelonerangers said:
Nope, when i goto gallery it say insert sd card. So something didnt work.
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what rom are you on?
I had this error and had to reboot and wait about 15 min.
Sorry, tablet is stock, didnt even get a chance to upgrade it to honeycomb yet.
I think that did it, just wanna connect tab to pc and see what comes up
thelonerangers said:
I think that did it, just wanna connect tab to pc and see what comes up
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Glad you got it
I skimmed through the general thread and FAQ and couldn't find anything on this, so I figured I'd post this!
I didn't have a smaller SD card and figured nothing bad could happen, so just used my 32GB SD card and it boinked out. Thought it was done for...until today! Here's how I got it to work.
1. Make sure you have your SD card in your phone.
2. Boot into your recovery (I used TWRP and haven't tested this on Amon Ra.)
3. Mount your USB storage and go to "My Computer" to view your storage drives.
4. Your SD card should pop up as a Removable Disk that has no info. Simply format the drive, reboot into your ROM, and bam! Fully working SD card
If anyone can test this in Amon Ra and let me know if it worked, be much appreciated, thanks!
easiest way is this:
do your s-off. boot into amon ra. goto the options and format the SD card right then and there.
you're supposed to always format the card right after S-oFF, or else the slot tends to not work right or something. this is pretty much why they said to try to use an extra backup card instead of using your own personal one, so ya don't have to lose everythin
Whoops, just realized I posted this to development lol. Sorry to any mod, if you could please move it.
jayochs said:
easiest way is this:
do your s-off. boot into amon ra. goto the options and format the SD card right then and there.
you're supposed to always format the card right after S-oFF, or else the slot tends to not work right or something. this is pretty much why they said to try to use an extra backup card instead of using your own personal one, so ya don't have to lose everythin
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I couldn't even get S-Off to work, lol. I tried for about 30 minutes and ended up with a "dead" SD card. My recovery didn't even see my SD card, I just mounted my USB storage for S&Gs to see what would happen.
Something I find that really helps as well is to make sure you don't flash the Gingerbread hboot when using the S-OFF program. I didn't think it would, but it did manage to give me SD card issues until I flashed a proper ICS hboot.
I'm only mentioning this because after I S-OFFed and got the SD card issues, formatting it did nothing at all to fix the problem. Only after I got the right hboot did everything finally start working again.
SirSigma said:
Something I find that really helps as well is to make sure you don't flash the Gingerbread hboot when using the S-OFF program. I didn't think it would, but it did manage to give me SD card issues until I flashed a proper ICS hboot.
I'm only mentioning this because after I S-OFFed and got the SD card issues, formatting it did nothing at all to fix the problem. Only after I got the right hboot did everything finally start working again.
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I didn't even get that far lol. S-Off didn't work and my SD card was a dud afterwards. my computer would see the drive, but wouldn't do anything with it. My phone just said "blank SD card" and couldn't format.
Chyrux said:
I didn't even get that far lol. S-Off didn't work and my SD card was a dud afterwards. my computer would see the drive, but wouldn't do anything with it. My phone just said "blank SD card" and couldn't format.
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Same here.
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Doddzilla said:
Same here.
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It was strange. I just figured that it would have erased the contents of my card and that was it. thought I had lost it entirely lol. Glad I didn't just throw it away.
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It was strange. I just figured that it would have erased the contents of my card and that was it. thought I had lost it entirely lol. Glad I didn't just throw it away.
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What did u do to fix it?
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Doddzilla said:
What did u do to fix it?
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The method I posted. Just went into recovery, mounted USB storage and formatted my card from Windows. The only downside is that formatting can ruin an SD card...but it's not much to worry about if the card isn't working, anyway =p
Chyrux said:
The method I posted. Just went into recovery, mounted USB storage and formatted my card from Windows. The only downside is that formatting can ruin an SD card...but it's not much to worry about if the card isn't working, anyway =p
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formatting can ruin an SD Card? please elaborate. i format SD cards all the time.
I've had a few where the format went "bad" due to some reason and rendered the SD card completely useless. Same has happened to a few people I know and have read of the issue before. I didn't mean that to say "Formatting your SD card enough will ruin it" lol.
*EDIT* I wish I knew about that insurance you talk about in your sig when I bought my phone
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Same here.
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same here.....
I just unmounted mine in Android and formatted it with Windoze. Then I formatted it again in Android. I've corrupted SD Cards all kinds of ways. It's real easy to do if you get stupid with the overclocking/undervolting. I've formatted the 32 gig I first got for my BlackBerry 9630 a few dozen times. It's still as reliable as any other SD Card I have. Better than some, in fact. The only real good way to format a solid state memory device is to write zeros to it. If not, NAND (which your SD Card is) device write cycles can take twice as long.
guys i tried all the format methods listed above still no luck, windows states its a raw format with 0 mb available
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guys i tried all the format methods listed above still no luck, windows states its a raw format with 0 mb available
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I had to download a program that was made just for formatting SD cards. Once I used that it formatted the card fine but windows and my phone would not.
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Thanks Chyrux. Your method worked for me . was about to throw away the card but you saved it.
Thanks 1m+ times
Well How many times should I thank you
Thanks Thanks this was the only working method thx very much
Okay so I have a Sandisk 64gb sdxc and it works in my GS3 just fine as exfat. However, I would like to format it to fat32 so I can take full advantage of CWM and accessing my SD card. I have tried the following:
-CMD promt format to fat32 in windows and it formatted fine, but SG3 woud report as damaged SD card.
-Format to fat32 with swissknife and it formatted fine, but SG3 woud report as damaged SD card.
-Format with E4GT but the E4GT would not even recognize the 64GB card regardless of how it was formatted.
-Format in my Xoom but it would also not recognize the card.
So what is my solution here? Is there a way to format this card in FAT32 and use it in my GS3 or do I need to just deal with Exfat until the CM team develops an exfat compatible CWM?
If i format it to FAT32 then go directly into CWM it recognizes the card but when I boot up it still gives and SD card damaged error. Guess i will just have to deal with no CWM access if I use the 64gb card.
exactly my experience. fat32 format the phone reads it occasionally and then starts to report it as damaged.
hyann said:
exactly my experience. fat32 format the phone reads it occasionally and then starts to report it as damaged.
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Thanks for the verification. Either CWM will need to be made to work or I will need to go back to the 32gb card i guess.
Thought there would be more people here using the 64gb cards with thier GS3. Anyone have a work around?
I used the GUI version of Fat32 Format: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm
Worked for me. Win7 x64 with a 64 GB Sandisk card. I'm using rooted stock AT&T ROM and it has never complained about an invalid card. CWM works fine, too.
I wonder if it'd work formatting fat 32 on a Mac. Only way a year ago I was able to format a 250GB hdd fat32 so I could backup my PS3 back then.
Tried through windows and even though I found ways to format it, it never worked right.
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i had to do this earlier today for cwm purposes! use a free prog called active partition manager. i already did a nandroid also. otherwise, that exfat will give you mounting error.
use extfsd
A full format in swissknife then a quick format in Active Partition Manager is the only thing that worked for me. Got it working though!! Thanks for all the help.
drothenberger said:
I used the GUI version of Fat32 Format: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm
Worked for me. Win7 x64 with a 64 GB Sandisk card. I'm using rooted stock AT&T ROM and it has never complained about an invalid card. CWM works fine, too.
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This is what I used too. Other methods didn't "stick" for some reason, maybe the tools weren't actually formatting it to FAT32 but exFAT and just figured that it wouldn't matter to most people using the tool. This tool, however, worked perfectly. Haven't had any errors since using it.
Didact74 said:
A full format in swissknife then a quick format in Active Partition Manager is the only thing that worked for me. Got it working though!! Thanks for all the help.
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great! glad i could help out as it took me at least an hour myself.
Just got mine and all it says is blank sd card, and it is not willing to format it via my phone or windows as well as third party programs. Not sure what's going on. Windows formatting just says it can't, while 3rd party programs just hang forever. Any ideas?
SONE9 said:
Just got mine and all it says is blank sd card, and it is not willing to format it via my phone or windows as well as third party programs. Not sure what's going on. Windows formatting just says it can't, while 3rd party programs just hang forever. Any ideas?
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I just had the same problem. Other than downloading some software to install FAT32, what I came up with was installing it in my Epic 4G Touch. It saw that it was blank, and then allowed me to format it.
drothenberger said:
I used the GUI version of Fat32 Format: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm
Worked for me. Win7 x64 with a 64 GB Sandisk card. I'm using rooted stock AT&T ROM and it has never complained about an invalid card. CWM works fine, too.
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This just ended about two hours of frustration and searching. Thanks for posting that link!
Wanted to see if anyone else is experiencing the same issue I am.
Was using my phone and my Samsung 64GB class 10 Micro Sdcard "ejected" although it was still in the phone. It had been working fine for a week. I manually ejected and placed it back in but it will not read. I get the "Scanning/Preparing SD card" Message but it always says unavailable. Thinking that my card crapped out on my, I put a brand new Kingston class 10 64 GB sd card but experiencing the same results. Oddly enough, I have an old Class 10 Transcend 8GB card that will read. I am running the stock OS-Unlocked Boot/Rooted/S-off. Only mods I have done are flashing the released HTC kernel that is R/W. (Dont know if I need to reflash the one that came with the phone), and flashed the SD card write fix posted in this thread :http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2700310
Anyone know where I can get the stock ATT kernel that may have the correct drivers for ext sd? Any suggestions?
Copy what you have on the sdcard to computer and format fat32 then retry card in phone
Wonders_Never_Cease said:
Copy what you have on the sdcard to computer and format fat32 then retry card in phone
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Hey, thanks for the reply.
I have a SD card reader on my laptop and it recognized the card just fine but if I put the card in the phone and plug in the phone to computer via USB, it will NOT recognize/see the card.
Im pretty sure it is a software issue. Does anyone have access or a link to the stock ATT kernel/boot.img?? I'd like to troubleshoot but forgot to make a back up before I flashed the R/W kernel released here. Thanks.
Doesnt matter if the sdcard reader sees it fine in windows, your more than likely going from windows to android, try what I suggested. If the card is not formatted @fat32 it will not be read in phone...
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Hey, thanks for the reply.
I have a SD card reader on my laptop and it recognized the card just fine but if I put the card in the phone and plug in the phone to computer via USB, it will NOT recognize/see the card.
Im pretty sure it is a software issue. Does anyone have access or a link to the stock ATT kernel/boot.img?? I'd like to troubleshoot but forgot to make a back up before I flashed the R/W kernel released here. Thanks.
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Doesnt matter if the sdcard reader sees it fine in windows, your more than likely going from windows to android, try what I suggested. If the card is not formatted @fat32 it will not be read in phone...
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Maybe I forgot to mention it but both cards are FAT32 formatted. Also, the samsung card was working just fine for a week before these issues started happening.
Im still searching for the stock att kernel.
Ok did you reformat and try them again?
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Maybe I forgot to mention it but both cards are FAT32 formatted. Also, the samsung card was working just fine for a week before these issues started happening.
Im still searching for the stock att kernel.
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Ok did you reformat and try them again?
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Went to try and reformat them again and am getting some weird results.
If i plug them directly into the computer with an adapter and use SDFormat to format them, then the M8 will read the cards? However, it only reads half the amount of memory (30gb) and I do not have an option within SDFormat to change the size. Since M8 now reads the card, I went to format it within the storage settings and once that completes, it no longer recognizes the card...?? Not sure how that is possible unless the phone is reformatting the card to a format it does not recognize..?
Use sdcard reader on laptop format fat32,set it to default size...it varies on different cards, 4 kb 8kb 16kb etc...
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Went to try and reformat them again and am getting some weird results.
If i plug them directly into the computer with an adapter and use SDFormat to format them, then the M8 will read the cards? However, it only reads half the amount of memory (30gb) and I do not have an option within SDFormat to change the size. Since M8 now reads the card, I went to format it within the storage settings and once that completes, it no longer recognizes the card...?? Not sure how that is possible unless the phone is reformatting the card to a format it does not recognize..?
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Thanks for the continued assistance. I have done this but still only have Half of the advertised memory. When I first installed it out of the box, it worked and showed full memory (62gb). Also, the default windows formatting tool will render the card unreadable by the M8 so im using the program called SDFormatter. Seems like I'm running in circles so I guess I'll just deal with half the memory for now. At least it works.
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Ive never had a card unreadable after a format in windows...lol...something new to me...usually what Ill do is format in windows then reformat on phone....Justa as an after thought have your done a Backup & Reset,then hit reset all data on the phone with the sdcard in it?...may be worth a try...
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Thanks for the continued assistance. I have done this but still only have Half of the advertised memory. When I first installed it out of the box, it worked and showed full memory (62gb). Also, the default windows formatting tool will render the card unreadable by the M8 so im using the program called SDFormatter. Seems like I'm running in circles so I guess I'll just deal with half the memory for now. At least it works.
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http://www.ducky-pond.com/posts/2013/Sep/partition-an-sd-card-or-flash-drive-on-windows/
Use above instructions to remove all partitions from sd card. Insert into phone it will prompt you about it being damaged and ask if you want to format it. Answer yes.
If you still continue to have issues, it is most likely a hardware issue.
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http://www.ducky-pond.com/posts/2013/Sep/partition-an-sd-card-or-flash-drive-on-windows/
Use above instructions to remove all partitions from sd card. Insert into phone it will prompt you about it being damaged and ask if you want to format it. Answer yes.
If you still continue to have issues, it is most likely a hardware issue.
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Thank you guys for the help!
I tried using the above fix (disk part) but it didnt even recognize the device. L0ng story short. I was able to use BOOTICE to reformat my KINGSTON Sd card to 60 GB but my samsung only reads 30 (even though it is advertised as 64) I read that when you reformat some Samsung cards, there is a protected area that most generic formatting utilities can overwrite and render the card to half capacity. Not sure if that's the case but oh well. Got it the other card to work. Thanks so much guys! Now if I can figure out why the phone isn't turning on now.....