Here's the deal:
My at&t SGS2 cannot read my microsd (transcend 16gb)....and i haven't backed up (I was too lazy...)
This morning i noticed a strange notification regarding my microsd....something about it being UNMOUNTED......but since i was sleepy, i ignored it
Over the course of the day, i noticed less no. of songs and pictures being displayed, so i remembered this morning's msg and when i opened my battery case, i noticed it had bulged out, so i inserted it back in and then restarted but alas!, my phone could'nt read it......tried restarting 3-4 times each time removing the sd and inserting again, but from then onwards my phone hasnt been able to read my microsd......
I connected my phone to the pc via usb mass storage, but it showed only 1 drive(instead of the usual 2 drives...[1 belonging to the microsd of course]).....the thing is that even the pc doesnt read it.......SO MY QUESTION ARISES HERE:::Can i somehow get back my precious data???...it doesnt matter whether i can use my microsd or not....i just want back my DATA......Please Help if you can!!!! A lot of thanks!!!!!!!!!
You will want to plug the sd card into your pc. You might need to get an adapter. If your data shows up, make a backup right away. If it doesn't, try any number of undelete programs. Piriform makes one I like to use.
Your SD card could be shot and there may be no way to get any of the data.
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You will want to plug the sd card into your pc. You might need to get an adapter. If your data shows up, make a backup right away. If it doesn't, try any number of undelete programs. Piriform makes one I like to use.
Your SD card could be shot and there may be no way to get any of the data.
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Thanks, Ill certainly try out what you said.......what i want to ask is can something like this just happen overnight naturally, or is there a reason for this problem???
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You will want to plug the sd card into your pc. You might need to get an adapter. If your data shows up, make a backup right away. If it doesn't, try any number of undelete programs. Piriform makes one I like to use.
Your SD card could be shot and there may be no way to get any of the data.
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Sorry for the inconvenience, but can u please tell me more about this "piriform", which you mentioned???
SD cards can go bad just like any other storage medium.
Here is the link to the software:
http://www.piriform.com/recuva/download
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Red_81 said:
SD cards can go bad just like any other storage medium.
Here is the link to the software:
http://www.piriform.com/recuva/download
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Thanks 4 the link. Just d'loaded it.....can u please give me a rough idea how to use it??? thanks a lot!!!!!
Insert sd into computer. Run program. Select drive letter of sd card. Hit go, start, or whatever the button is.
If you need more help than that read the help menu on the program.
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Insert sd into computer. Run program. Select drive letter of sd card. Hit go, start, or whatever the button is.
If you need more help than that read the help menu on the program.
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Well, i tried the method you gave, but whenever i choose to scan, it gives an error saying that-"FAILED TO SCAN THE FOLLOWING DRIVES: E: THE DEVICE IS NOT READY"-......maybe this is bcoz my pc could not detect the sd in the first place.........yet....thanks 4 ur help....IF u know any thing else please reply.......THANKS again...!!!!
If your computer can't read the card, it is most likely toast.
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I need help, my phones sd card slot holds the ed card sometimes and sometimes it just ejects it. I mean it the sd card slot physically, I can't seem to know how to make it hold the sd card all the time. Please help and thanks in advance.
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ameedi600 said:
I need help, my phones sd card slot holds the sd card sometimes and sometimes it just ejects it. I mean the sd card slot physically, I can't seem to know how to make it hold the sd card all the time. Please help and thanks in advance.
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Please someone reply
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Not sure where you bought your phone at. Have you taken it to a tmobile store and have them try? It could be a defect.
No it has been working just fine for like 10 months now for some odd reason it sometimes holds it and sometimes not
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thats really odd.... when you insert the sdcard can you feel the spring engage? does the lock engage?(feel a little click after spring is compressed)? do you unmount the external_sdcard often? maybe things have just worn down....(i've only removed the sdcard a few times stepped up from the 2G, to a 8G, currently patriot class10 16G) but never had any problems with any external_sdcard staying in place.
take that bad boy apart!! its just some phillips screws i imagine its just a spring issue. I was gonna do the "hardware GPS fix" tonight so i'll take a look at the setup while im in there if there isn't a fix posted by then.
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Not sure where you bought your phone at. Have you taken it to a tmobile store and have them try? It could be a defect.
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namadrider123 is correct it sounds like a easy phone replacement from tmobile that should be the #1 fix option for this problem (or any hardware problem for that matter) always attempt to get hardware defects replaced under warranty before you go messing with stuff yourself (good rule of thumb!)
It holds it sometimes but the little click thing isn't holding it. For now it is but if I take it out it will be hard to push it back in.
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It was suggested you take it in to get it looked at, might need to be replaced. Or just fixed
We're comin from a pure power source.
Alright then thanks anyway
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This happened to me last night. I lost a lot of videos, pics and music randomly. A lot of pics have an error and all the pics I lost say it is a file of 64kb. But when I try to open I get a file error. Has this happened to anyone else? Could it be the phone or the memory card? I had this card on my OG EVO with no problems.
See if you can view the files on another memory card. If so, then the memory card has gone bad.
Wait the file size went down to 64kb? Yea the memory card may be corrupt.
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damn man... that sucks
i was having issues with my SD in the evo4G so i started backing it up to my computer weekly just in case.
Sorry to hear about your loss of media
If the card has gone bad will reformatting it possibly fix it or do I need a new one?
Used to happen constantly on my hero! Wipe your SD card and it should be good. Back when I had my hero it would happen when my phone would die but once I wiped it a couple of times, took it out and put it into my computer and made sure everything was off and it was good. Hope it works for you.
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BigRick10 said:
If the card has gone bad will reformatting it possibly fix it or do I need a new one?
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Doesn't hurt to try that and see if it works... If the files work on other cards or even on your comp, it is safe to say it has gone bad. But like I said, it doesn't hurt to try it.
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Used to happen constantly on my hero! Wipe your SD card and it should be good. Back when I had my hero it would happen when my phone would die but once I wiped it a couple of times, took it out and put it into my computer and made sure everything was off and it was good. Hope it works for you.
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Ahhh see! We may have a solution! Thanks!
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Will try that thanks.
Not sure if this is the correct place for this thread but I recently purchased a 32GB Micro SD and it has an issue when I go to write stuff to it via USB from phone or adapter into front of PC.
When I put things onto it only certain things stay. For example, when I copy my music folder # - Bs get written on it and if I try to put on pictures nothing happens.
It goes through the process as if it is writing the files but then they go away whenever I remove the device.
Any ideas or thoughts?!?!?
THANKS!
It may be a faulty sd
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If you bought a cheap off-brand card, it's probably just the fact that it's a crappy product. If it's a well known product that gets good reviews, it's probably a defect.
Try formatting the card and see if that helps.
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It's a SanDisk 32GB.. I formatted it to FAT32. I don't know if that the correct format or not. Heard anything about SanDisk?
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It's a SanDisk 32GB.. I formatted it to FAT32. I don't know if that the correct format or not. Heard anything about SanDisk?
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Format it in mobile phone. Fat32 is correct format.
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Format it in mobile phone. Fat32 is correct format.
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What do you mean by format it in mobile phone? How do I do this?
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What do you mean by format it in mobile phone? How do I do this?
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It's in Settings somewhere. Browse around the options - it'll be in a menu titled storage or something similar, or possibly in about phone if there's storage info there.
You should also be able to do it from recovery.
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It's in Settings somewhere. Browse around the options - it'll be in a menu titled storage or something similar, or possibly in about phone if there's storage info there.
You should also be able to do it from recovery.
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In my storage options i have "Erase SD Card" nothing about formatting. is that what i want?
Hey guys.
So I went to work today and while I was on break, my phone acted up a couple of times. Once, the mobile internet cut itself off and I had to restart my phone to get it to turn back on.
Then when I get off of work, my phone isn't reading my SD card.
I tried unmounting and then mounting it back several times, but no luck getting anything.
So then I hooked it into a card reader on my computer and all the files show up, then suddenly the computer got an error saying that the driver wasn't recognized and then stopped reading it.
What is the problem and how can this be fixed?
I can even open Root Browser app and it shows all the files on my SD card. All pictures, music, videos, etc.
But for some reason when I go to gallery, music, or whatever else... it won't pull up.
Back it up to pc if u can then reformat it to fat32
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Back it up to pc if u can then reformat it to fat32
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I wish I could. My computer will read it but only for a few seconds and then says something about a driver error.
I'm guessing the card may be going bad?
Can u mount phone to pc?
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Can u mount phone to pc?
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Just tried doing this, and surprisingly, yes. So I got it all copying to the computer now.
It just doesn't make sense to me that it can mount like this and my files still be on the card and not read when I go to pull them up. Especially when I go to Root Browser and I can see all the files.
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So I copied all files to my computer, formatted the SD card again, put all files back onto the SD, and still have the same problem.
Note that my phone is reading the SD in Root Browser; however, when I go to my gallery, music, videos, etc.. my phone tells me that there are none and acts as if the SD card is empty. I even go to SD and Storage and it says my card is empty, but it's not.
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You're going to need a new one bud. There is definitely something wrong with it physically if you have done aall of that and it is still doing that.
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Just wiped my phone completely and restored my most recent backup and now my phone reads it just fine, so problem fixed.
Undoubtedly my phone got set to some strange setting while it was in my back pocket that I never knew my phone had.
Strange. =\
Thanks for the help guys. I suppose if you see anyone or if you run into this problem in the future, here's how it can be fixed.
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You didn't use quick format, did you? If so, try formatting it without quick format.
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RBarnett09 said:
Just wiped my phone completely and restored my most recent backup and now my phone reads it just fine, so problem fixed.
Undoubtedly my phone got set to some strange setting while it was in my back pocket that I never knew my phone had.
Strange. =\
Thanks for the help guys. I suppose if you see anyone or if you run into this problem in the future, here's how it can be fixed.
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I had the same problem, I did the same thing as well. I noticed it happen when I downloaded a free game app from Amazon App store. I had to uninstall it b/c it kept on force closing. Soon after I had this SD problem.
vargo911 said:
I had the same problem, I did the same thing as well. I noticed it happen when I downloaded a free game app from Amazon App store. I had to uninstall it b/c it kept on force closing. Soon after I had this SD problem.
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The thing is... I haven't downloaded or changed anything at all with my phone in over 2 weeks. Either it tripped out or something happened to where a setting changed while it was in my back pocket.
Glad I fixed it.
I had a feeling it was probably a setting issue that happened, so I got the idea to restore from a backup to get back original settings and BAM!
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I have a PNY 32gb sdcard that's been working perfectly since I picked up the S4 in May. This morning there was a message on my phone saying there isn't an sdcard detected. I've tried popping it in and out several times, rebooting, etc. None of that helped. It's not even visible in recovery. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm stumped.
Sometimes sd cards go bad without warning. It's best to keep your important things backed up on your computer. Sounds to me like you need a new card.
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yutzyscott said:
Sometimes sd cards go bad without warning. It's best to keep your important things backed up on your computer. Sounds to me like you need a new card.
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Yeah, I guess the obvious next troubleshooting step here is trying a different sdcard (which I don't have now). Just wanted to see if there was a known issue slash easy solution that was out there already.
You can try your sd card in your computer before trashing it. You might be able to get it to work long enough to retrieve your saved files.
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