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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?
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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?
Hi all
I have a Fujitsu ARROWS X F-05D, which running Android 2.3.5. It has 4GB internal storage and supports microSD card.
I tried to format the phone’s internal storage through Windows 7, the operation was failed during the formatting process. After that, I cannot access either the phone’s internal storage or micorSD card. Both of them show “Unavailable” under Settings Storage [Built-in storage] and [SD card]. The [Delete data in built-in storage], [Mount SD card] and [Erase SD card] were dimmed. I had performed a phone hard reset but the problem persists.
If I connect the phone with PC, windows can recognize there has USB mass storage attached and assigns two drive letters accordingly. However, if I want to access either of them, windows will ask to insert a storage media. In addition, the phone will not prompt to ask user to confirm connect the phone as a USB mass storage.
Without external storage, most apps cannot be functioned normally or simply can’t install at all. Could anyone please kindly advise how to fix it?
Regards,
Boy
boytse said:
Hi all
I have a Fujitsu ARROWS X F-05D, which running Android 2.3.5. It has 4GB internal storage and supports microSD card.
I tried to format the phone’s internal storage through Windows 7, the operation was failed during the formatting process. After that, I cannot access either the phone’s internal storage or micorSD card. Both of them show “Unavailable” under Settings Storage [Built-in storage] and [SD card]. The [Delete data in built-in storage], [Mount SD card] and [Erase SD card] were dimmed. I had performed a phone hard reset but the problem persists.
If I connect the phone with PC, windows can recognize there has USB mass storage attached and assigns two drive letters accordingly. However, if I want to access either of them, windows will ask to insert a storage media. In addition, the phone will not prompt to ask user to confirm connect the phone as a USB mass storage.
Without external storage, most apps cannot be functioned normally or simply can’t install at all. Could anyone please kindly advise how to fix it?
Regards,
Boy
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In case ur system is messed up like this i suggest u to reflash a stock rom via odin or adb
jiffer1991 said:
In case ur system is messed up like this i suggest u to reflash a stock rom via odin or adb
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Hi Jiffer,
Reflash a stock rom is a reasonable try. However, my phone is an unpopular model outside Japan, and I don't know Japanese to looking for help in Japanese forum. As such, I am unable to obtain either stock rom or custom rom for a try.
As a turnaround, I want to know how to locate the phone's internal storage and how to format it through adb.
Regards,
Boy
boytse said:
Hi Jiffer,
Reflash a stock rom is a reasonable try. However, my phone is an unpopular model outside Japan, and I don't know Japanese to looking for help in Japanese forum. As such, I am unable to obtain either stock rom or custom rom for a try.
As a turnaround, I want to know how to locate the phone's internal storage and how to format it through adb.
Regards,
Boy
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Hmm i dont know much about adb i tried a bit but in fact i never had to use it so i dont have many experience with adb
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=502010 this might help u
jiffer1991 said:
Hmm i dont know much about adb i tried a bit but in fact i never had to use it so i dont have many experience with adb
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=502010 this might help u
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Hi Jiffer,
Thank you for your refer. That thread is actually a guide to install Google ADK which including adb but lack of deeper elaboration on commands and syntax.
Anyway, thank you for your enthusiastic to help in solve my problem.
Regards,
Boy
boytse said:
Hi Jiffer,
Thank you for your refer. That thread is actually a guide to install Google ADK which including adb but lack of deeper elaboration on commands and syntax.
Anyway, thank you for your enthusiastic to help in solve my problem.
Regards,
Boy
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Thats what Im here for
Was a Solution ever found this problem? I have the exact same issue.
Also reflashing the rom with a stock is not an option, as it requires the internal memory to do so.
Pinkydash said:
Was a Solution ever found this problem? I have the exact same issue.
Also reflashing the rom with a stock is not an option, as it requires the internal memory to do so.
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I did solve the problem at last but unfortunately forget how to fix it since my handset was damaged by water linkage after a very short period.
I only remember the problem lies on the corruption of partition table. I replaced a file (sorry, forget what file again!) through adb. After reboot, the system prompts me something wrong in the partition table and asks me to format internal storage, after that. The device resumes normal.
boytse said:
I did solve the problem at last but unfortunately forget how to fix it since my handset was damaged by water linkage after a very short period.
I only remember the problem lies on the corruption of partition table. I replaced a file (sorry, forget what file again!) through adb. After reboot, the system prompts me something wrong in the partition table and asks me to format internal storage, after that. The device resumes normal.
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Darn.... Well if you ever do remember which file it was and how you did it, I would really appreciate it if you could help me out
Same problem here
Any solution?
a bit of a resurrection post but I just resolved mine, I deleted the data/ cache of the contacts and contact storage.
I also purged every contact I any program I have and then reimported them into one program. I let it all populate and everything was fine.
A|ex said:
a bit of a resurrection post but I just resolved mine, I deleted the data/ cache of the contacts and contact storage.
I also purged every contact I any program I have and then reimported them into one program. I let it all populate and everything was fine.
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Also resurrecting an old thread lol. So should i pull the internal sd card using adb and push it back after deleting it? Or would that be crazy.
I apologize if this has been answered somewhere else here before. I have been searching for days and have not found the full answers to my questions anywhere.
Recently I updated my GT-P7510 CM9 to an experimental CM10 from by pershoot. After getting it up and running I was looking at my internal storage usage and numbers didn't seem to add up (must have done a dirty flash at some point in the past to cause this). My internal storage in root explorer showed 8.93gb in use and 28.01 total storage. I copied everything to a USB drive to back it up and noticed there was only 7.45gb actually on the internal storage. I have seen this problem before on my S2, and I always just reformat the internal SD card (emmc) to regain the missing space. However, since the tab does not have a micro SD slot, I have no way of wiping the internal sdcard (data/media) without wiping out the rom too from how I understand it. Somebody correct me if I am wrong...
So, does anybody know of a way to successfully wipe/format the sdcard (data/media directory) in CWM or other method that will not wipe out the rom and send the device straight to cwm with no way to install a new rom? Or do I have to revert back to stock to accomplish the format of sdcard like I have read for a few other similar situations? Everything works fine (CM10 & CM9 both run awesome), I just want that extra 1.48gb of missing/phantom storage back. And, without mass storage mode, I cannot perform a disk check in win7. This has really got me frustrated to find a solution without having to start over. I wish this tab had a micro SD slot!
Currently I am running CM9 nightlies (7-31) for p4wifi (gt-p7510). My cwm recovery is version 6.0.1.0. Any help is greatly appreciated, and I do apologize if this has been covered before. Thanks in advance to those of you smarter than I.
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Ok, I seemed to have figured this one out and now feel pretty stupid for not digging a bit further before asking.
After I decided to go ahead with the sdcard format using CWM, I noticed that the space was still being used somewhere. After I started to dig a bit, I noticed that all of my apps still worked after the format. Basically, the extra space is being consumed by the /data/app folder housing all user apps. CWM must be designed to ignore this directory when formatting the internal sdcard which is why there was still some storage being used.
I feel like an ubernoob for asking this, but my S2's internal sdcard is not mapped to data/media, so I had to learn a bit better about how this thing works I suppose. Anyways, I hope this information can be useful to someone out there having similar questions.
bkress said:
I apologize if this has been answered somewhere else here before. I have been searching for days and have not found the full answers to my questions anywhere.
Recently I updated my GT-P7510 CM9 to an experimental CM10 from by pershoot. After getting it up and running I was looking at my internal storage usage and numbers didn't seem to add up (must have done a dirty flash at some point in the past to cause this). My internal storage in root explorer showed 8.93gb in use and 28.01 total storage. I copied everything to a USB drive to back it up and noticed there was only 7.45gb actually on the internal storage. I have seen this problem before on my S2, and I always just reformat the internal SD card (emmc) to regain the missing space. However, since the tab does not have a micro SD slot, I have no way of wiping the internal sdcard (data/media) without wiping out the rom too from how I understand it. Somebody correct me if I am wrong...
So, does anybody know of a way to successfully wipe/format the sdcard (data/media directory) in CWM or other method that will not wipe out the rom and send the device straight to cwm with no way to install a new rom? Or do I have to revert back to stock to accomplish the format of sdcard like I have read for a few other similar situations? Everything works fine (CM10 & CM9 both run awesome), I just want that extra 1.48gb of missing/phantom storage back. And, without mass storage mode, I cannot perform a disk check in win7. This has really got me frustrated to find a solution without having to start over. I wish this tab had a micro SD slot!
Currently I am running CM9 nightlies (7-31) for p4wifi (gt-p7510). My cwm recovery is version 6.0.1.0. Any help is greatly appreciated, and I do apologize if this has been covered before. Thanks in advance to those of you smarter than I.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1804824 Here's a topic about same problem,could say,U'll finde in replays all the information u need!
Vinchenzo13 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1804824 Here's a topic about same problem,could say,U'll finde in replays all the information u need!
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Although that is a similar problem, I asked if there is a way to fix it without going that route? I appreciate your reply, but I already knew it could be resolved by going back to stock (2nd paragraph of my post).
bkress said:
Although that is a similar problem, I asked if there is a way to fix it without going that route? I appreciate your reply, but I already knew it could be resolved by going back to stock (2nd paragraph of my post).
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Ow sorry didnt notice few words,i think u could just flash a cwm via odin wich can wipe/reset all data if im not mistaking,
I'll chek this out is there any cwm'ds who can do that,coz i rememba reading one forum where guy was complaining that he did wipe and everything was formated!
Vinchenzo13 said:
Ow sorry didnt notice few words,i think u could just flash a cwm via odin wich can wipe/reset all data if im not mistaking,
I'll chek this out is there any cwm'ds who can do that,coz i rememba reading one forum where guy was complaining that he did wipe and everything was formated!
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I can accomplish a full format of the internal sdcard on my galaxy s2 without it affecting the rom in any way whatsoever and it is running cwm 6.0.1.0 also. From how I understand it, the partitions are set up differently on the s2 and this device. The s2 has a separate partition for the internal sdcard making it possible to format via cwm. On this device, the sdcard is part of the data partition meaning wiping it will leave you with no rom installed and no storage on the sdcard. I think all versions of cwm can wipe the slate clean, it is just a matter of everything else being wiped clean also. But, if you are aware of a cwm that let's me accomplish this, I would love to find it. Thanks again.
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bkress said:
I can accomplish a full format of the internal sdcard on my galaxy s2 without it affecting the rom in any way whatsoever and it is running cwm 6.0.1.0 also. From how I understand it, the partitions are set up differently on the s2 and this device. The s2 has a separate partition for the internal sdcard making it possible to format via cwm. On this device, the sdcard is part of the data partition meaning wiping it will leave you with no rom installed and no storage on the sdcard. I think all versions of cwm can wipe the slate clean, it is just a matter of everything else being wiped clean also. But, if you are aware of a cwm that let's me accomplish this, I would love to find it. Thanks again.
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I have the same issue .. I was manually formatted using my windows 7 laptop.. flash back to old stock samsung firmware.. still 4.11 GB internal USb storage instead of 11.8 GB.. Any help please..
I think it's possible with adb shell (the android sdk for Windows)
Have you seen that : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1003645
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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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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.