Hi. I have just this morning started seeing 'USB Storage Damaged' in the notifications drop menu.
Both my internal storage and sd card do not appear under settings and storage. All it says is unavailable. I know the external as card is thankfully ok, because I tried it in my brothers s2 and my files, folders, videos were there.
Does anyone know how to fix this error, my internal 16gb storage or recover the data??
Thank you for any help.
Well if it is really not damaged then you could try do a Virus checking by connecting it to a PC, if that doesn't do then try to Hard Reset the phone (factory reset). If still doesn't work then you are unlucky and probably the Internal Storage is corrupted.
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Try RECUVA to recover the data .
jje
anyone else have any other ideas.... ?
please i do not want to lose my data/files.
thank you for your help so far guys @ithehappy & @JJEgan
ps factory reset will delete my files from internal usb storage (16GB).... ?
What OS are you....
ichigo786 said:
anyone else have any other ideas.... ?
please i do not want to lose my data/files.
thank you for your help so far guys @ithehappy & @JJEgan
ps factory reset will delete my files from internal usb storage (16GB).... ?
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What OS are you using?
If you run linux or have access to a machine with linux when you plug the S II into the usb port, it should show both drives internal sdcard and the external sd. Then is just a question of coping the files across from the internal sdcard to the PC and do a factory reset on the phone.
Hope it works for you.
ichigo786 said:
anyone else have any other ideas.... ?
please i do not want to lose my data/files.
thank you for your help so far guys @ithehappy & @JJEgan
ps factory reset will delete my files from internal usb storage (16GB).... ?
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yes factory reset ll delete all the files...
see if after connecting ur phone to pc,,,u cn see the files or not??
install some anti virus from the market and let it check ur phone,,
thanks for the replies ill try them when i get home from work.
any other ideas...
greatly appreciate all the help, once again thank you
please does anyone have any other ideas.
im at a lost ive run a virus check and nothing was found.
my titanium backup files are on the internal storage and i want a way to recover them.
i can not even use titanium backup because it wont allow me to save the backups on the internal storage nor the SD card.
please someone must have some sort of an idea as to how to fix my internal storage.
thanks again
Can you Sync all your data to Google a/c and do a Factory Reset?
Internal SDcard
ichigo786 said:
please does anyone have any other ideas.
im at a lost ive run a virus check and nothing was found.
my titanium backup files are on the internal storage and i want a way to recover them.
i can not even use titanium backup because it wont allow me to save the backups on the internal storage nor the SD card.
please someone must have some sort of an idea as to how to fix my internal storage.
thanks again
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Well if the phone is not able to access the sdcard your only option as far as I can see, is to try and access the card via a PC.
I know that on linux I have easy access to both cards on my system, and can run fschk to see what problems it reports, on the internal storage.
But a word of warning, only check for errors, as the sdcards have a different file structure than ordinary hard disks and it could damage the card permanently.
Sorry that I have no solution to your problem other than the above.
still no luck
anyone else have any idea as to what i could possibly do/try.
thank you for everyones help
The weird thing is, when the filesystem is corrupted in any way the OS just reformats it.
So there must be something different.
What exately do you see when you connect the S2 to the PC in mass storage mode? (NOT Kies mode)
Do you see the drives? Any content?
Either it's something with the drivers in the FW or it might be a hardware defekt....
I also encounter this issue today. My Swiftkey problem starts to have problem, so i reboot the phone and right away it tell me the SD-CARD is damage.. It gives me option to FORMAT the card but i dont want to do that yet until i can backup my pictures and other data on it.
Any help guys? What did you do OP?
I see this turning into another Samsung quality failure. I too have this issue, first the 32gb external SD, than the internal USB and now again the external SD. Damn!
This can't be a hardware problem, must be software/OS related.
Luckily I have a backup on my Linux Mint PC so I formated all those suckers but 2x external SD can't be a coincidence.
Question is, now what?
i think if you dont mount or dismount the USB storage correctly when you insert in the USB cable, it will eventually lead to flash memory failure.
One more.
Same problem here. Good to hear there are a few cases, I could not figure out what I did wrong.
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i think if you dont mount or dismount the USB storage correctly when you insert in the USB cable, it will eventually lead to flash memory failure.
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I haven't sync or connected the phone to a PC for ages so that could not be it.
It sucks not being able to do a backup or access an old one now.
damn lost all my pics!!!!!!
what do you guys use after this incident for backing up automatically on wifi? I have all my pics automatic upload to Google+ private album when plugin charging over 3G
SugarSync
I had to format the SD card after all and I know now why it happened to me.
I bought a extra battery on eBay, and let's just say it is not the same quality as Samy's so when using it it would shot off the phone without warning when about 5% juice level left. This unexpected whiting down eventually led to memory's corruptedness.
And to answer question on previous post I use Sugarsync and thanks to it I didn't lost a thing.
I am having the same problem and as xxlikquidxx it also happened to me in connection with a swiftkey update/failure!??
Did any of you figure out a way to fix it? I have not formatted yet but did that fix the problem for you? Yes I know it is not the fix I would like either!
I noticed that my SD card is not accessible either. Not on the phone and not if I connect my phone to my computer in USB mass storage mode. But if I take out the SD card and puts it into my card reader it works perfectly. Could it be that there is not a problem with the memory (internal or SD) but only with the mounting? Could it be that a reset without a USB storage format could do it? Or does it make sense that because it cant mount the USB storage then it cant mount the SD card either?
Thanks in advance.
Damned....the same thing happened to me after a normal reboot.
Anyone knows is there a proper fix for this? Or is a trip to the service center necessary?
As the title suggests, I have a unique problem where I can't transfer any zip files containing kernel files to the root of my sd card because my Mac (please don't flame) says "~contains files that can't be read or written" However, I can transfer almost anything else. This is really annoying, please help.
have you tried using root manager?
Thanks for the reply. better late than never but I flashed a new rom and no more problems.
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Please help me
Hello
I bought a Samsung Galaxy S from Ebay, and have the same issue like you, it doesn't read SD card or local storage I can't even connect it to my computer and worst is locked to a provider called T-mobile, When I try to start the camera it say TURN OFF USB STORAGE BEFORE USING CAMERA...
Any help will be really appreaciated as I try to contact the seller for over a week and no signs from him
Thank you in advance for any help you can provide
Mike
Need help/advice. I updated my phone with the newest Fresh Evo LTE 5.3.1 and the radio firmware. And after rebooting...noticed the Damaged Phone Storage notification. At first I thought it was no big deal cause it was the micro sd card. But then I found out it is the data/second partition on the internal phone storage. I tried to erase the phone storage...but that does not work. I am thinking of trying to restore back to stock and hoping the stock image restores the second partition.
Do you know what might of happened? And any options on trying to fix this problem?
You most likely need to reformat it. Best method so far seems to be booting into twrp and mounting the internal sd to PC and formatting it. Unless there's another cause, I don't know of any issues so it would help to wait for someone who has has to deal with anything similar before taking my advice
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You most likely need to reformat it. Best method so far seems to be booting into twrp and mounting the internal sd to PC and formatting it. Unless there's another cause, I don't know of any issues so it would help to wait for someone who has has to deal with anything similar before taking my advice
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Thanks that worked...mounting to my PC in TWRP and formatting. Lost all my pictures and videos...will teach me for not syncing to one of those cloud storage services
Just make it a habit to back up your cards. Its always a good habit to back everything up
this just happened to me after a hard reset...can you show the exact steps i cant seem to figure out how to mount this?
Reboot to TWRP and look for mount, make sure it's set to internal and mount storage, in Windows a dialog should pop up saying that the card needs to be formatted
my phone is samsung a9 . ihave found that my phone storage is reduced from 127 gb to 7.95 gb and my sd card got damaged what can i do for this
Help!
I do not know what happened, all of a sudden one morning I woke up and found my SD card has all their files erased! I did not touch the phone nor did the phone hang, what could have caused this?? Will I be able to recover any of the data on it?? The SD card was not corrupted or anything like that, my laptop can read it just fine, my phone can read it just fine, but all my files went missing! I had my Titanium Backup file on the SD card. I was told to get an SD card and backup my files on to it cause android sometimes may have problems, I never would of thought android would erased my SD card by itself. :crying:
I have read related threads about this, but none seem to have an answer or solution.
If anyone has any information or insight on this topic, please let me know.
Android Version - 2.3.5
SD Card - Samsung 8gb Micro SD
86b said:
Help!
I do not know what happened, all of a sudden one morning I woke up and found my SD card has all their files erased! I did not touch the phone nor did the phone hang, what could have caused this?? Will I be able to recover any of the data on it?? The SD card was not corrupted or anything like that, my laptop can read it just fine, my phone can read it just fine, but all my files went missing! I had my Titanium Backup file on the SD card. I was told to get an SD card and backup my files on to it cause android sometimes may have problems, I never would of thought android would erased my SD card by itself. :crying:
I have read related threads about this, but none seem to have an answer or solution.
If anyone has any information or insight on this topic, please let me know.
Android Version - 2.3.5
SD Card - Samsung 8gb Micro SD
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I don't know whether that is possible but maybe some kind of weird error can do it., also is there any app set as administrator? Also formatting is easy to do if a kid took it and went to storage settings, and recovery of data is possible to a certain extent if you connect your device or card as a usb device in a computer and by running a data recovery software like TuneUp Undelete or something else.
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king_below_my_lord said:
I don't know whether that is possible but maybe some kind of weird error can do it., also is there any app set as administrator? Also formatting is easy to do if a kid took it and went to storage settings, and recovery of data is possible to a certain extent if you connect your device or card as a usb device in a computer and by running a data recovery software like TuneUp Undelete or something else.
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I'll give those software a shot, thanks.
If anyone else have any suggestions, please post.
Recuva.
K I erased my sd rom using some tut on making a partition on it for lik2sd but now i did somehing wrong seems i wiped all d sd card and my moto e is all messed up. My pc seems to see the phone but if I try to copy anything to the phone I get a error (error: cannot copy item deice has either stooped working or has been disconnected) It is 100% connected and shows up but not the sd card just internal, the sd card is in the phone. All I am trying to do now is flash a stock or any rom that gets my phone back up and running. Plese someone help me I might as well buy a new phone without having the extra memory abd I dont want to do that if I can fix it u know.
Cheers all I really hope some will help me il be really grateful
RiceydDr0id said:
K I erased my sd rom using some tut on making a partition on it for lik2sd but now i did somehing wrong seems i wiped all d sd card and my moto e is all messed up. My pc seems to see the phone but if I try to copy anything to the phone I get a error (error: cannot copy item deice has either stooped working or has been disconnected) It is 100% connected and shows up but not the sd card just internal, the sd card is in the phone. All I am trying to do now is flash a stock or any rom that gets my phone back up and running. Plese someone help me I might as well buy a new phone without having the extra memory abd I dont want to do that if I can fix it u know.
Cheers all I really hope some will help me il be really grateful
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So what is now broken, the internal SD or the external SD? If it's the internal then try to flash the stock ROM. If it's external try to put the SD into a card reader and format it using this tool.