[Q] Phone won't detect anything above 8gb micro sd - Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE

Hey guys I took my sdcard out of the phone formatted it and when I put it back in the phone it now wont detect the sdcard and also it wont detect internal storage also...
EDIT: or nvm I rebooted it a couple times but now it detects the phone storage but when I put in my 16gb micro sd it does nothing until I remove it. When I remove it, it shows that it has been removed, but before that it doesn't show a sdcard is inserted... Yet when I put an 8gb one it it shows that it's in the phone...

Well we just discovered that our phones say there is no external storage at all. From best buy.
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jmaeishi said:
Well we just discovered that our phones say there is no external storage at all. From best buy.
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Really? My internal storage is there but it won't let me use anything above an 8gb card...
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alainater said:
Really? My internal storage is there but it won't let me use anything above an 8gb card...
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Format it in the phone, not on a computer. I'm using a 64gb in it right now, no issues.
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-viperboy- said:
Format it in the phone, not on a computer. I'm using a 64gb in it right now, no issues.
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I concur with this statement.

I too have a 64 gig card and I formatted it in the phone. The phone sees it as 59+gigs which is cool. But what I am trying to figure out is how to save or move apps to the actual sd card. Not phone storage that is the 9+ gigs, but the actual 64 gig card.
Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.

I don't think there is a way to do this right now with out changing the mount points
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-viperboy- said:
Format it in the phone, not on a computer. I'm using a 64gb in it right now, no issues.
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The thing is that the phone doesn't even detect that i've inserted the card. When I insert the 8gb card it shows preparing the sd card and it gives me all the options to unmount/format/everything else. When I put the 16gb one in everything is still grayed out and it doesn't even think i've inserted a micro sd card.

Spyderekz said:
I don't think there is a way to do this right now with out changing the mount points
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So how hard is it to do that and/or how soon before you think it could happen? It seems though HTC could maybe do something or is just the way Android is. It just seems that it should just be a part of it. LOL. I mean I already have some music on the sd card by creating the folder...I just don't want to run out of space on my phone.

Ok, i'm going to bestbuy in a little bit to pick up a 32gb micro sd and see if it'll work with that...

alainater said:
Ok, i'm going to bestbuy in a little bit to pick up a 32gb micro sd and see if it'll work with that...
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I hope it does, but wouldn't be the same thing?

crow11ad said:
I too have a 64 gig card and I formatted it in the phone. The phone sees it as 59+gigs which is cool. But what I am trying to figure out is how to save or move apps to the actual sd card. Not phone storage that is the 9+ gigs, but the actual 64 gig card.
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Where did the other 4+ gig go? 4gb is a huge amount of storage
Monnie

Ok weird I bought the 32 gb one and it works fine. Guess the other one wad bad? It's weird cause ny computer saw it as a working sd card
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Micro SD card issue!

I just got a new Patriot 16gb micro sd card to upgrade my stock one. My problem is when I moved my stuff to the sd card from my 8gb to the 16gb the new card works for a couple minutes then the phone shows the "sd card has unexpectantly been removed" or something like that but the card is still in the phone. What did I do wrong?
You need to format you card from the phone menu than recopy all of your stuff back to it and you should be good to go.
I did that already and it still gives me the error.
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jscarano said:
I just got a new Patriot 16gb micro sd card to upgrade my stock one. My problem is when I moved my stuff to the sd card from my 8gb to the 16gb the new card works for a couple minutes then the phone shows the "sd card has unexpectantly been removed" or something like that but the card is still in the phone. What did I do wrong?
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That's the problem with crap sd cards like Patriot sorry... Your should've gone with Sandisk bud.
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What's a good brand for fast SD card? I'm looking on upgrading my16gb Samsung SD for a 32gb.
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jrocc28 said:
What's a good brand for fast SD card? I'm looking on upgrading my16gb Samsung SD for a 32gb.
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I've been using Sandisk since my days on evo 4g, works amazing.
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envioustitan08 said:
That's the problem with crap sd cards like Patriot sorry... Your should've gone with Sandisk bud.
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Yea im probably just gonna return it today and get sandisk.
Were can I find the cheapest SD card?

[Q] Pictures not saving suddenly

My coworker is stock rooted gingerbread with a 32GB sd card (with 25gb still available for use). He's been that way for about 2 months now, and uses stock camera and gallery.
For some reason now, his pics aren't saving. I just tried myself with his phone, and the pic was saved to ext_sd/dcim/... I saw it in the folder using root explorer. Within 5 min, the pic was replaced with the triangle error sign.
Any thoughts?
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few things to try...
clear gallery data
change save location to int sd
format ext sd
ive gotten those on rare occasions, but couldnt pinpoint it down to anything in particular
mrmako777 said:
few things to try...
clear gallery data
change save location to int sd
format ext sd
ive gotten those on rare occasions, but couldnt pinpoint it down to anything in particular
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I will have him try... I told him to let me throw ics on that shiz and call it a day
Side note, you've been one of the most helpful people here man... For that, I publicly thank you :beer:
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update?
andy55 said:
update?
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It didn't bring the pics back obviously but pics are saving (idk where... Can't find using root explorer) but they are saving.
He has to xfer media to int sd before formatting
And I told him to get a sandisk
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Possible bad sd card. If its from ebay, it may be a fake 32 gb. Test the card with H2testw.
pbcal said:
Possible bad sd card. If its from ebay, it may be a fake 32 gb. Test the card with H2testw.
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My thoughts exactly! I hate eBay, and that is where he got it (for cheap... Go figure ). I didn't know there were cards that read 32 but were only 8. It makes sense since he has used 6gb of space (and we all know 8gb isn't really 8gb)
Thanks
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Be CAREFUL, might just be me though

But it completely formatted my sd card when i put the card in the fone.... lucky I had a backup, but just a heads up..
*Edit* False alarm I think, I was using a file explorer and it only saw the phone partion as one sd card
*edit again* to find your sd card go to sdcard/ext_sd. just trying to help!! yay evo!!!
Grats I got mine too!
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so it did or didnt format your card??
Did not format my 32gb. Installed while phone was on.
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butterbuns said:
so it did or didnt format your card??
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Pretty sure the file structure was different so she didn't see her card at first.
Apparently I'm blind, but where the hell does the card go?!
thenags said:
Apparently I'm blind, but where the hell does the card go?!
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Physically where does it go?
-Look behind the power button, you should see a small gap where you can pry the top polycarbonite cover off. It's in there.
Or once inserted, how do you find that data?
-As said above, look under /sdcard/ext_sd
ticklemepinks said:
But it completely formatted my sd card when i put the card in the fone.... lucky I had a backup, but just a heads up..
*Edit* False alarm I think, I was using a file explorer and it only saw the phone partion as one sd card
*edit again* to find your sd card go to sdcard/ext_sd. just trying to help!! yay evo!!!
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I was thinking the same thing then I saw the ext_sd folder and there it was. I was about to be pissed because I didn't back-up. The last time I switched sd cards I lost all of my music which wasn't backed up on my computer
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regalpimpin said:
Physically where does it go?
-Look behind the power button, you should see a small gap where you can pry the top polycarbonite cover off. It's in there.
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There it is! Thought I was going nuts.
I see that screen shots, downloads from the browser are saving in the sd card folder (phone's 10 gb of memory) and not on the ext_sd folder(I have a 32 gb sd card)... how do we get it so that everything saves to the Ext_sd and not the phones memory?
b1time said:
I see that screen shots, downloads from the browser are saving in the sd card folder (phone's 10 gb of memory) and not on the ext_sd folder(I have a 32 gb sd card)... how do we get it so that everything saves to the Ext_sd and not the phones memory?
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Browser menu / settings / advanced
Than u should find it and for screen shots I'm not sure
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Also chrome seems to work pretty well too
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Micro sd card partition?

So I just got my new 64gb class 10 sd card, and last time I did a partition on sd card was about 2 year ago on the og evo, and I remember its was useful to have a partion ext.3 but now I see there is ext.4 also along the ext.2 as well. so my question is do I still need to partition sd card and which partition should I use? and what size? thank a lot!
U can see fat32 on mini partition tool....fat32 work on all android mobiles
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I'm getting one in the mail also Saturday and was going to ask also. Don't you just put the card in your phone and format it and it works to get all 59GB? Then transfer all of my info from my 32gb card over to it?
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xbmoyx said:
I'm getting one in the mail also Saturday and was going to ask also. Don't you just put the card in your phone and format it and it works to get all 59GB? Then transfer all of my info from my 32gb card over to it?
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yeah, your correct but that to transfer your data from one card to the other. I'm asking about sd partition? and ext.4 and what it does?
and if nessecasry to have. I notice some roms show in the description something about ext.4 partition.
ralg0528 said:
yeah, your correct but that to transfer your data from one card to the other. I'm asking about sd partition? and ext.4 and what it does?
and if nessecasry to have. I notice some roms show in the description something about ext.4 partition.
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Oh, well I was going to transfer all my data on my 32 go my laptop then from my laptop to my new 64. If I do it this way does my card have to be "Partitioned"?
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keep in mind; fat32 has 4GB single file limit which means you wont be able to save anything larger than that such as blu-ray 1080p rips, etc...
raclimja said:
keep in mind; fat32 has 4GB single file limit which means you wont be able to save anything larger than that such as blu-ray 1080p rips, etc...
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Ok cool, good to know. I don't think I have anything greater than maybe 1.5gb in size which is a TWRP backup.
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Sdcard

Has anyone ran into a issue with their sdcard and their Note2?
Last night I used my Note2 with no issues. Woke up this morning and noticed I had a alert message saying that the sdcard had been unexpectedly unmounted. Couldnt get the sdcard to remount. The phone wouldn't/couldnt reconize thw sdcard. And even my laptop couldn't reconize it. But the phone reconized a different sdcard, so I know the phone reader is still working. But this is a Lexar 64gb class 10 xc sdcard. Not some cheap trash. I lost my nandroid backups, movies, pics, etc....
Just glad I wasn't running the Jellybeans v18 on the sdcard swap selection. Then I wouldn't be able to use my phone period. Lmk if you have seen these sdcards go out before. Just beware!!!
Why wouldn't you be able to use it phone if card goes down
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earled said:
Why wouldn't you be able to use it phone if card goes down
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What he's referring to is JellyBeans additional "SD Swap" feature which basically makes your phone see your SD Card as the internal storage. I don't know why he thinks his phone wouldn't work though, as with any phone the Internal Storage/SD Card is not required for the device to operate.
miketoasty said:
What he's referring to is JellyBeans additional "SD Swap" feature which basically makes your phone see your SD Card as the internal storage. I don't know why he thinks his phone wouldn't work though, as with any phone the Internal Storage/SD Card is not required for the device to operate.
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I understand to SD swap. it was the unable to use my phone if card failed thing. I thought it should even if card failed
TheMyth said:
Has anyone ran into a issue with their sdcard and their Note2?
Last night I used my Note2 with no issues. Woke up this morning and noticed I had a alert message saying that the sdcard had been unexpectedly unmounted. Couldnt get the sdcard to remount. The phone wouldn't/couldnt reconize thw sdcard. And even my laptop couldn't reconize it. But the phone reconized a different sdcard, so I know the phone reader is still working. But this is a Lexar 64gb class 10 xc sdcard. Not some cheap trash. I lost my nandroid backups, movies, pics, etc....
Just glad I wasn't running the Jellybeans v18 on the sdcard swap selection. Then I wouldn't be able to use my phone period. Lmk if you have seen these sdcards go out before. Just beware!!!
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I've ran into this issue with Lexar jump drives and had to use command prompt in W7 to make them work again. It always happened when I would write a Linux distro to the drive to use as a bootable disk.
The fix requires you completely wiping the drive, which the two jump drives in question that I always have issues with are actually micro SD card readers with whatever size card in them.
Here is the link explaining how to fix it:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/219693/unable-to-format-usb-stick-to-full-capacity/
What I have to do though is select the disk drive and once in it I have to use the Create Partition Primary command instead of selecting a partition because on my drives there are no partitions and it won't even show up under Computer most of the time. Give it a shot and see if it gets you back up and running, if not you may have a faulty card that Lexar needs to replace.
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I was reading, some people are problems with the scandisk 64gig cards. The card might be dead from what I've read. But don't hold it against me, just passing some info. I haven't ran across this problem.
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simmons80 said:
I was reading, some people are problems with the scandisk 64gig cards. The card might be dead from what I've read. But don't hold it against me, just passing some info. I haven't ran across this problem.
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I went through 5 sandisk 64GB cards before I got one that worked for more than a week. All brand new cards. That was back when the GSIII first came out though.
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I myself used an adata 64gb class 10 and understand completely about the card just not wanting to work. Granted I'm keeping to 32gb class 10s until I see better reviews in the bigger cards.
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Huawei Ascend, Droid Charge, Droid Bionic
nosympathy said:
I went through 5 sandisk 64GB cards before I got one that worked for more than a week. All brand new cards. That was back when the GSIII first came out though.
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See I've never experienced any issues with either of my SanDisk 64 GB Class 10 and neither has anyone else I know that owns one. I wonder if they had a bad batch?
I haven't seen anything about other manufacturers 64GB Class 10 cards having issues yet but it is either something to do with Class 10 cards or a bad batch.
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I just had a sandisk 32 gig class 10, and a 16 gig both go out on the same day. One in my wife's note 2, the other in my daughters tab2. Neither was recognised in windows completely. I reformatted both, but 16 gig will show blank card on the wife's phone until unmounted remounted. Both less than 6 months old, on the same day. I blame the solar flares, what else can I blame it on?
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Sandisk work the best
downhillvinnie said:
Sandisk work the best
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I wouldn't say that, I would say they are the most expensive therefore people think they work the best. Cause everything that costs more is better, right?
Honestly PNY and Samsung cards are just as good.
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There was a problem with SanDisk ultra sd cards during the manufacturing process and they will replace your card for free
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How intresting. I just put in a 32 gig SanDisk Micro class I (has an I in the little U at the base o the card, guess it one ups the class 10...).
I record movie torrents. No problems so far on my Note 2 rooted not unlocked b loader
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wife's 32gb card just started acting up. Sometimes the phone reads it, other times not. Haven't had time to investigate it yet.
Are you using moon rom v3? Same thing happened to me. It kept saying it was un mounting and remounting. I rebooted my phone and gave a sim lock message. Thought I was screwed. I flashed beans and now im back to normal.
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I had 2 cards die in this phone. Same message and everything. But I rebought them and replaced the old cards with the new one
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james873 said:
There was a problem with SanDisk ultra sd cards during the manufacturing process and they will replace your card for free
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How do you go about doing this? I have no original paperwork or packaging, just a dead 32GB Sandisk card.
call 1-866-SANDISK (726-3475) and tell them about your problems they will ask for the numbers off the card. They make you send your to them first then when they recieve it they'll send you a new one.
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My samsung 64g Class 10 has worked perfectly since I got it in February.
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