Hi everyone,
First things first, sorry if this was covered somewhere else in the forums, I really didn't find this question anywhere so I "had" to post this.
I got my Samsung GT-I9003 4GB a month ago, and everything was working perfectly until 3 days ago. It starts showing an "Internal SD card unexpectedly removed" error whenever the phone goes standby, then it forces me to terminate processes one after another, and finally it shuts down. I hadn't done any kind of ROM flashing nor rooting the device until the problems arose, so I don't know where the problem comes from.
I've tried to re-flash froyo 2.2.1 in my device, but the problem keeps showing up.
I found in this forums this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1088474) covering the possibility of swapping both internal memory and external SD. It works great, but I still had problems with the "external SD card" being "unexpectedly removed"...
It crossed my mind if it was possible to modify the vold.fstab file further to only detect the external SD card as the internal memory and ignore the internal memory, as if it wasn't even on the phone. I don't know if that's even possible (since I don't know much about file systems nor Android), but I'd appreciate your thoughts on the matter.
same issue
eikur said:
Hi everyone,
First things first, sorry if this was covered somewhere else in the forums, I really didn't find this question anywhere so I "had" to post this.
I got my Samsung GT-I9003 4GB a month ago, and everything was working perfectly until 3 days ago. It starts showing an "Internal SD card unexpectedly removed" error whenever the phone goes standby, then it forces me to terminate processes one after another, and finally it shuts down. I hadn't done any kind of ROM flashing nor rooting the device until the problems arose, so I don't know where the problem comes from.
I've tried to re-flash froyo 2.2.1 in my device, but the problem keeps showing up.
I found in this forums this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1088474) covering the possibility of swapping both internal memory and external SD. It works great, but I still had problems with the "external SD card" being "unexpectedly removed"...
It crossed my mind if it was possible to modify the vold.fstab file further to only detect the external SD card as the internal memory and ignore the internal memory, as if it wasn't even on the phone. I don't know if that's even possible (since I don't know much about file systems nor Android), but I'd appreciate your thoughts on the matter.
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Was having the exact same problem with a further twist, the issue occured almost every half an hour at office and very rarely at home. Tried a factory reset and also GB update via Kies. Problem was still present, so have given it to samsung service and the service rep informed me that it was most likely a motherboard issue.
Recently one of my friends had the same issue. Samsung service center replaced the motheboard and the issue seems to be resolved.
Check this out to recover from a broken (but not fully broken) internal sd card ->http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30195720
Every few hours or so, I will get this message. My music player playlist will be wiped out, I am assuming the phone lost connection with the SD card, hence the connection with the music files on my SD card.
I am running CheckROM v5.5, Jelly Bean. FYI, the problem happens even when I was using ICS.
I have read around and tried to reformat from phone, but the problem persists. Any kind souls to help out here? If there any app to check if this is a faulty card or something? It's still covered under warranty I believe, so I can get the SD card changed.
Thanks
budisuharto said:
Every few hours or so, I will get this message. My music player playlist will be wiped out, I am assuming the phone lost connection with the SD card, hence the connection with the music files on my SD card.
I am running CheckROM v5.5, Jelly Bean. FYI, the problem happens even when I was using ICS.
I have read around and tried to reformat from phone, but the problem persists. Any kind souls to help out here? If there any app to check if this is a faulty card or something? It's still covered under warranty I believe, so I can get the SD card changed.
Thanks
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Try out the card in another device, if you get the same message the card is faulty.
There is a Windows tool for checking cards, have a look in one of the sd card threads and you should find the name of it, or Google it
thank you both for your suggestions
@gee it would be hard to replicate that environment, since the message occurs randomly at infrequent intervals, but thanks anyway
I have same problem too, when I on gingerbread my phone being normal and no error sd card but when I on Jelly Bean my phone being "preparing sdcard checking error"
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.
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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.
Hi,
I have Galaxy S3 running CM10.1 Siyah Kernel (problem has occured over several months of various CM10.1 nightlies) and I just cannot figure out why the following is happening. Please read the thread carefully because I've ensured that every sentence contains details which should be important clues to the root of the problem.
Sometimes following reboot, the phone completely refuses to read my memory card. In this state, the phone does not give me the Unmount option, but when I remove the memory card directly then it does show the 'Removed SD card in the' notification. Now if I insert it again, it shows 'Preparing SD card' in the notification and this notification doesnt go away by itself (which it should if the mount is successful) and the card does not mount. This situation does not change no matter how many times I repeat the process. After several attempts, I get the ongoing 'Damaged SD Card' notification. Dozens of reboots dont help either.
After loads of trial-and-error's, I have concluded that almost everytime that this issue has occurred was when the memory card was in-use (playing songs etc. Accessing anything off the memory card basically), although on rare occasions it has also occurred when no apps were in use at all. This gets me to believe that the software is failing to properly release some kind of lock on the memory card before rebooting.
Now the only way to get the memory card working again on the cellphone is to put it in my laptop memory card reader, and it can instantly read the memory card. Now if I safely remove the memory card from my laptop and insert it in the S3, then it always mounts on the first go. Now it will work perfectly again, until some completely random time (usually at least 1 week away) when it will start its problem again.
Also note that whenever this problem occurs, Developer Options does not load and crashes.
I want to reiterate that this is not repeatable each time. Even if the conditions are exactly the same (well, as far as I can see as an end user anyway), the problem will very likely just occur in just 1 out of the 50 attempts.
I have already got the memorycard+sim card slot replaced from samsung under warranty. I have also paid extra to buy the SanDisk memory card from SanDisk themselves based in the Czech Republic - so it is extremely unlikely that it is hardware fault.
Can anyone shed some light on this situation? Feel free to ask for any clarifications, I have tried to put as much information as possible.
Thanks
Make a nandroid, flash a stock rom and test again. Format the card using sd formatting tool first.
If that cures it then ask your kernel or rom chef for help.
The phone pop-up just said "security updates". No link was provided in the notice or on the "LAST SYSTEM UPDATE" screen.
I haven't looked on Verizon's web pages to see if it's listed there.
Thanks! https://www.verizonwireless.com/support/lg-g3-update/ only says:
Software Version: VS98549A
The current software update gives you the most up to date Android™ security patch on your device.
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and LG's site doesn't list 49A yet http://www.lg.com/us/support/product-help/CT10000027-1414534794596-software-updates?search=&categoryId=CT10000027&superCategoryId=CT10000003&symptom=&subsymptom=&sort=
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Thanks! https://www.verizonwireless.com/support/lg-g3-update/ only says:
and LG's site doesn't list 49A yet http://www.lg.com/us/support/product-help/CT10000027-1414534794596-software-updates?search=&categoryId=CT10000027&superCategoryId=CT10000003&symptom=&subsymptom=&sort=
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I doubt this fixes Dirty Cow. I think it's what was announced not too long ago about the latest Google patches.
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html
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I doubt this fixes Dirty Cow.
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Yeah I doubt it too.
Well, I took the OTA today. So far, the only issue I had was that it kept ejecting my SD card. A reboot nor power down didn't work, so I allowed it to finally tell me it ejected the card, opened the back with the phone still on, pulled the SD card down to eject it, then pushed it back in and after several reboots, things are working again. Not sure what happened, but it's okay now. The SD card is good as I've verified it via file system checks, so not sure why the OTA caused it to burp like that, but so far, the new OTA is working fine.
I don't know if I can still downgrade. Since this is my daily driver phone, I don't feel like trying to attempt to downgrade back to 10b. My feeling is, this was mainly fixing all the other security issues (minus Dirty Cow more than likely since that is at the kernel level and the kernel is still v3.4 which is dirty cow vulnerable).
Hopefully someone else can test if you can TOT back to 10b.
UPDATE: Hmm. I'm getting sporadic "SD Card has been ejected" messages. It almost appears as if it's not seated tightly enough. But this issue only started AFTER taking the 49A OTA. I've never had this issue before. Going to have to keep looking at what the issue is. When I get home, I'll copy all the data off, reformat it and try again. It almost seems like it's not sitting tight enough in the slot any more (maybe). Not sure if the OTA has something to do with it or it's just coincidence.
UPDATE #2: Inserted a different SD card and so far, no issues. So, it might be the SD card. It's relatively new and I limit the amount of writing I do to it. Mainly, pictures and music. The card giving issues is a 64GB card and it's been in the phone for over a year. The current card not giving issues is a 32GB card, so we'll see how it goes. I'll try to format the card when I get home tonight and see if that fixes the 64GB card. It's just strange that this issue began immediately after the OTA was done upgrading and rebooted the phone today. I've never seen an issue with the card before this.
UPDATE #3: Okay, it's happening with ANY SD card I insert. So either the SD Card slot is bad all of a sudden (I haven't had ANY issues until AFTER I did the OTA), or else the OTA did something. Tonight I'm going to try and downgrade to 10b, so I guess that test is coming after all! LOL
I have been having similar issues since the last OTA update, only with both my SIM and SD card. Sometimes it only happens once a day, sometimes it happens every ten minutes, but I now get frequent errors of "No SIM Card Inserted," "SIM Card Not Readable," and "Your SIM Card is not from Verizon." When I reboot the phone, it will read the SIM card again (for awhile) and usually pops up a message "An SD Card has been inserted." This started happening the day I downloaded the previous update (currently on VS98548A).
Kiruvi said:
I have been having similar issues since the last OTA update, only with both my SIM and SD card. Sometimes it only happens once a day, sometimes it happens every ten minutes, but I now get frequent errors of "No SIM Card Inserted," "SIM Card Not Readable," and "Your SIM Card is not from Verizon." When I reboot the phone, it will read the SIM card again (for awhile) and usually pops up a message "An SD Card has been inserted." This started happening the day I downloaded the previous update (currently on VS98548A).
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Thanks for the feedback. So it appears I'm not the only one then. I'm going to factory reset first and see how that goes. If that doesn't work, then I'm going back to 10b, then upgrade all the way to 48A and then stopping there. I'll just have to deal with the update notifs as I do not root. I use NFL Mobile and Android Pay, so I cannot root.
Well, I'm screwed. The download mode won't come on now. It got interrupted in the middle of the TOT flash and now I can longer get into download mode. When holding the Vol Up button (after powering down), and then plugging in the USB cable, some text comes up at the top left about no download mode or something. It says "Boot Certification Verify. Secure Booting Error" and then goes blank, and flashes between red and blue for the LED light. I think I'm screwed.
I can get into the stock recovery, but factory data reset, safe mode, continue power on all result in the same error message. Is there any way to fix this?
UPDATE: Okay. Had to use the hard brick recovery option.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-lg-g3/general/how-to-hardbrick-guide-using-test-t3276928
Wow! Never had to take apart the phone before. Had to manually flash each piece (after extracting from TOT file) until I could get it back to boot into DL mode. Then I was able to flash via LG Flash tool because I couldn't get the final partition (sbl1) to flash that way. Holding the wires was fun (I don't do solder) but I'm back up and operational. Whew!
I did notice I was still having issues with the SD card in 10b, so maybe it's the SD card slot in the phone because it's happening with all SD cards. Darn. I wonder how much a new motherboard is? Now that I know how to take it apart, I'm comfortable with doing that (just unhooking all the stuff from the motherboard is a little hairy for me, but it looks easier than when I had to fix my daughter's iPod screen once. That was a pain!)
BTW, this proves you CAN still downgrade to 10B from 49A, so that is still possible.
However, I'm still having issues with the SD card, and it occurred also with 10B and all the subsequent OTAs after it. Not sure if the 49A OTA started something, but it looks like the SD Card slot might be bad. It's just suspicious that the SD card issue started happening after I accepted the 49A OTA. Before that, never had na issue with the SD card being unmounted.
This morning I also saw one time where it couldn't sense my SIM card. Uh oh. That's not good. I really wanted to hold off on getting a new phone as this phone works just fine for me and has been good with minimal to no issues.
I feel comfortable enough to replace the motherboard since I had to open it up last night to fix the hard brick issue. Motherboards are around $110 USD it appears from what I can tell. Verizon was going to get me a new G3 for $150 USD if we couldn't get it fixed. I'm going to take it to a cell phone repair shop in town and see what they say. Maybe they have the motherboard for cheaper and I'll just buy the board and replace it myself.
Oh, and I am back on 49A since the SD card issue was prevalent throughout all the OTAs after I was able to recover my phone. Although, I have noticed it's not happening as much now. Not sure why. I'm still going to see how much it would cost to repair the SIM/SD slot.
UPDATE: Wow. Murphy's Law struck me bad! After thinking everything was fixed, this morning I found out that I couldn't receive or send texts nor phone calls. My wife had to call my work phone asking why I wasn't answering her texts nor her phone calls. Finally got it working after various factory resets and working with Verizon. Still getting the SD card messages, so definitely going to see if Cell Phone Repair+ can give me a good estimate on repairs. But at this point, I'm now fully operational. That was an exercise in frustration!
No problems here
As the OP, I have not seen any such problems with the 49A update. I have a (FAT32) 32GB SanDisk microSD card inserted. I do see a "SD card unmounted" message upon completion of booting, but it is immediately followed by a "SD card inserted" message. Access to the microSD card works fine.
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I run with the internal eMMC storage encrypted, but the microSD card is NOT encrypted. Before the 49A update, I briefly tried encrypting the microSD card, only to decide that was a bad idea: Unlike Microsoft's BitLocker encryption of "To-Go" storage, the Android encryption of a microSD card is tied to the device, which means encrypted files on a microSD card are USELESS for backup (think about it).
Due to the above, shortly before the 49A update, I inserted a blank 32GB microSD card (which the G3 formatted) and started over with loading content to it. It was about 1/2 full at the time of the 49A update.
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As the OP, I have not seen any such problems with the 49A update. I have a (FAT32) 32GB SanDisk microSD card inserted. I do see a "SD card unmounted" message upon completion of booting, but it is immediately followed by a "SD card inserted" message. Access to the microSD card works fine.
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I run with the internal eMMC storage encrypted, but the microSD card is NOT encrypted. Before the 49A update, I briefly tried encrypting the microSD card, only to decide that was a bad idea: Unlike Microsoft's BitLocker encryption of "To-Go" storage, the Android encryption of a microSD card is tied to the device, which means encrypted files on a microSD card are USELESS for backup (think about it).
Due to the above, shortly before the 49A update, I inserted a blank 32GB microSD card (which the G3 formatted) and started over with loading content to it. It was about 1/2 full at the time of the 49A update.
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It seems to have calmed down. I normally never see this sort of behavior ever, so it was very alarming. Especially when I couldn't send or receive phone calls nor texts. But as I think back on it, I did restore some system apps that I had backed up with LG backup (or at least system settings), so maybe that caused the issue. Once I did a factory reset (twice - must have been a lot of gunk), I saw the dismount then a remount a few times after the boot and then things were fine.
I'm just glad things appear to be working fine. Fingers, toes, and eyes crossed!
Let's just put it this way: I was not ready to get a new phone. I really still enjoy this phone as it does everything I need and it does still very well. The camera is fine for me for the type of pictures I take (casual). It plays music, games, etc fine. I always hate getting a new phone because then sometimes, some of the apps I enjoy don't work on the new phone for whatever reason. So at this point, I want to stick with this phone as long as I can.
@DeanGibson or anyone else who is on the 49A OTA, I expect the Android software version still says 6.0 (as opposed to 6.0.1 or other), correct? I was at a point I could've flashed the 49A KDZ and check myself (which I'm uploading now) just a little while ago but I couldn't think of a reason I would want to, and I just finished restoring my phone back the way I had it.
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The 49A OTA reports 6.0, patch level 2016-10-01, build MRA58K.
I have a similar issue with the SD card. Only in my case I found that my old card was corrupted. I went out and got a new one today, but it doesn't show up in the phone. In the Settings menu there's no option to even do anything with an SD card. I did get ONE message about ejecting an SD card when I pulled it out when the phone was still running, but otherwise I don't see any options. You're saying the solution is to roll my phone back two or so versions? Or to roll back to the factory settings and then update to the latest and see how it goes? Will that wipe out all my photos and everything?
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I have a similar issue with the SD card. Only in my case I found that my old card was corrupted. I went out and got a new one today, but it doesn't show up in the phone. In the Settings menu there's no option to even do anything with an SD card. I did get ONE message about ejecting an SD card when I pulled it out when the phone was still running, but otherwise I don't see any options. You're saying the solution is to roll my phone back two or so versions? Or to roll back to the factory settings and then update to the latest and see how it goes? Will that wipe out all my photos and everything?
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Yes, flashing back to an older version will wipe everything, so whatever is on your internal memory needs to be copied down off the phone to your PC before you flash back to 10b. But, I don't know if 49A really is the culprit here. I really do think now that it is my SD card slot. It must have been ironic coincidence that the issues started showing up right after I took the 49A OTA. That's all I can say because going back to 10b, I saw the same issue, so I really do believe that my SD card slot is bad.
The 49A_04 KDZ is now in the same place as my other KDZ and TOT uploads, linked to at the bottom of the first post in @annoyingduck 's stickied return to stock thread in this section.
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Yes, flashing back to an older version will wipe everything, so whatever is on your internal memory needs to be copied down off the phone to your PC before you flash back to 10b. But, I don't know if 49A really is the culprit here. I really do think now that it is my SD card slot. It must have been ironic coincidence that the issues started showing up right after I took the 49A OTA. That's all I can say because going back to 10b, I saw the same issue, so I really do believe that my SD card slot is bad.
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I don't think the slot is bad unless however many people's phones decided to go bad all at once. Mine started acting up a week or so ago after my phone spent all night plugged in but didn't charge and was really hot. I think that coincided with some device update as well. The problem then was that it wouldn't recognize the SIM card. I took it to the shop and they gave me a new SIM which seemed to solve the problem (I thought the excess heat had fried the SIM card). Then the 11/11 update happened and my SD Card started acting up. I thought the same thing could be true of the SD card so I got a new card and when I downloaded the SanDisk recovery tool I saw a bunch of corrupted files from the old card. Now, having had the new card in my phone since the afternoon, I am seeing a lot of error messages involving the card not ejecting properly or the files being corrupted (there's no files, yet - it's a clean format). So, it's definitely something resulting from either the overheating a couple weeks ago, or the 11/11 update or a combination of the two. I would really hope LG and/or Verizon wouldn't send us the Order 66 code for our phones, but if they really did trash it I'll be getting a new phone and they damn sure better not want their deductible.
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I actually just spoke with Verizon's support people. It turns out the device is not compatible with the latest Android updates. Maybe going back to square one with it will fix the problem, but they said they would give me a new device with the updates disabled until the problem is fixed. I don't know if that means I'll have to give them the new phone back when the updates are working or what. I'm kind of partial to this one, now. But I do know that possibly bricking my phone with this KDZ or TOT stuff is a less appealing option than getting a free replacement and/or upgrade. I'll find out more tomorrow.
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I actually just spoke with Verizon's support people. It turns out the device is not compatible with the latest Android updates. Maybe going back to square one with it will fix the problem, but they said they would give me a new device with the updates disabled until the problem is fixed. I don't know if that means I'll have to give them the new phone back when the updates are working or what. I'm kind of partial to this one, now. But I do know that possibly bricking my phone with this KDZ or TOT stuff is a less appealing option than getting a free replacement and/or upgrade. I'll find out more tomorrow.
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Nice find there! I can concur as well. I'm currently back at 48A and have NOT had one sdcard issue. That really sucks. Means they didn't test very well. I hope they have another update to address that issue. So 48A is the latest I'll go to. Wish I could disable the update myself so it doesn't notify me of 49A.
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Rom tekcafe vs985 49A
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DeanGibson said:
As the OP, I have not seen any such problems with the 49A update. I have a (FAT32) 32GB SanDisk microSD card inserted. I do see a "SD card unmounted" message upon completion of booting, but it is immediately followed by a "SD card inserted" message. Access to the microSD card works fine.
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In order to increase my external storage, today I replaced the above 32GB card (formatted FAT32 by the G3, as I recall) with a SanDisk 128GB card (formatted exFat by Windows 10). Did the same thing on my two LG G Pad X8.3 (VK815) tablets (which is running the same build/patch level as the G3). No problems so far.