[Q] HELP! My S2 Erased My SD Card By Itself! - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

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.

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[Q] Please Help - Internal 16GB USB Storage Damaged

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.
Regards.
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.
xxlikquidxx said:
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?

Help! Damaged (internal?) SD card

I installed MIUI on my girlfriend's fascinate last night and this morning she's just told me her phone has a notification for a damaged SD card... I told her to try unmounting/removing it and the problem persists making me believe it's the internal card.
Can anyone point me in the correct direction to fix this? I'd like to recover as many of the files from the phone before wiping it if possible.
Thanks!
First thing you should do to confirm whether it's internal or not is to just try swapping the MicroSD with another. I really don't know for sure, but I don't think it would tell you that you have a damaged SD card if it's talking about the internal storage.
Do you have a card reader for your PC? Plug it into that and see if it works. If it detects it, try running a chkdsk on it. If something got corrupted on it somehow, that should take care of it. You shouldn't have to format it.
She's currently at her family's house (we're in college... don't live on our own ) but I'll try that later. She tried putting her microSD in her brother's phone and both phones displayed a damaged memory card notification, which makes me think it may be both.
Also, she's got cwm red, not orange. Could that be the issue? If so, how do I switch to orange?
Oxirane said:
She's currently at her family's house (we're in college... don't live on our own ) but I'll try that later. She tried putting her microSD in her brother's phone and both phones displayed a damaged memory card notification, which makes me think it may be both.
Also, she's got cwm red, not orange. Could that be the issue? If so, how do I switch to orange?
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If the same MicroSD gave a damaged message in another phone, it's almost certainly the MicroSD.
I know there's some issue with Gingerbread ROMs corrupting SD cards. I thought it didn't apply to CM7 or MIUI, but I'm not totally sure. CWM shouldn't have anything to do with it, though. It's odd that she has red CWM, though. How does she enter recovery?
I'd expect chkdsk to handle it. Once you've got access to it and a PC, open the command prompt, and try "chkdsk x: /f /x", where x is the drive letter for the card.
I would think you could just look at the SD card & phone storage section in Settings. Damaged memory card usually appears as not present.
The SD doesn't show up in the mounts and storage, yes. Any idea how to recover those files?
Does the internal memory show up?
From my experience, once it's corrupted it can't be used again. There are several programs that may help you recover files on the card but you probably will not be able to use the card again unless you can get it formatted on something else, ie camera.
Does the internal memory show up?
From my experience, once it's corrupted it can't be used again. There are several programs that may help you recover files on the card but you probably will not be able to use the card again unless you can get it formatted on something else, ie camera.
Oxirane said:
The SD doesn't show up in the mounts and storage, yes. Any idea how to recover those files?
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If you have a card reader on a PC there's a program called Recuva that may be able to recover pics, video, etc.
try formatting it

[Q] Files randomly gets deleted. (SGP 5.0)

Hello everyone! This is my first post in this forum but i've been using this forum for months now..
Anyone knows why my files are getting deleted randomly and placed in LOST.DIR? Files are still in their locations but their size is 0.0kb.
They somehow go to LOST.DIR and become unreadable. Is it a faulty Micro SD card or my Player 5?
My SGP 5.0 is using:
PARANOID ANDROID v2.57.4- March 07 Update
Mercurius v5 Kernel
This problem also happened on Stock GB ROM, anyone know what is happening? any help is much appreciated.
rap2191 said:
Hello everyone! This is my first post in this forum but i've been using this forum for months now..
Anyone knows why my files are getting deleted randomly and placed in LOST.DIR? Files are still in their locations but their size is 0.0kb.
They somehow go to LOST.DIR and become unreadable. Is it a faulty Micro SD card or my Player 5?
My SGP 5.0 is using:
PARANOID ANDROID v2.57.4- March 07 Update
Mercurius v5 Kernel
This problem also happened on Stock GB ROM, anyone know what is happening? any help is much appreciated.
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Google told me in 5 seconds time to,read this or many other similar threads.
http://androidforums.com/motorola-droid-3/447049-lost-dir-what.html
This is not any related to our very good device, it is android behavior. (good anyway)
Thanks!
But Google didn't help. I know what LOST.DIR is for.
This doesn't happen only on startup, sometimes it's hours or days before files get deleted.
I also do the whole safety remove thing on my PC and SGP 5, and let it finish checking the mem card.
There's also nothing wrong with the files, my iPad and blackberry have the same files in them but don't get deleted.
I know the SGP 5 is a good device, i have one...
If it's android behavior, why is it wiping half my memory card's worth of files for no reason?
rap2191 said:
Thanks!
But Google didn't help. I know what LOST.DIR is for.
This doesn't happen only on startup, sometimes it's hours or days before files get deleted.
I also do the whole safety remove thing on my PC and SGP 5, and let it finish checking the mem card.
There's also nothing wrong with the files, my iPad and blackberry have the same files in them but don't get deleted.
I know the SGP 5 is a good device, i have one...
If it's android behavior, why is it wiping half my memory card's worth of files for no reason?
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Try backing up your files and format
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Already did that several times now but it still happens.
I've formatted my SD card, restored it to default, de-fragmented it, full factory reset my SGP 5. It still happens.
Maybe it is a faulty SD Card?
Also, this happened twice already, after copying files to my SD Card from my PC, safety removed it, my SGP said "broken sd card, please reformat", even my pc can't read the card...
It must be my sd card that's causing the problem and hopefully not my Player, what do you guys think?
rap2191 said:
Thanks!
But Google didn't help. I know what LOST.DIR is for.
This doesn't happen only on startup, sometimes it's hours or days before files get deleted.
I also do the whole safety remove thing on my PC and SGP 5, and let it finish checking the mem card.
There's also nothing wrong with the files, my iPad and blackberry have the same files in them but don't get deleted.
I know the SGP 5 is a good device, i have one...
If it's android behavior, why is it wiping half my memory card's worth of files for no reason?
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Fine,
You may Check for some days with another ext Sd card to discriminate this case.
Do you have backup application running or some auto cleaning apk like "forever gone" starting at certain times?
lolo9393 said:
Fine,
You may Check for some days with another ext Sd card to discriminate this case.
Do you have backup application running or some auto cleaning apk like "forever gone" starting at certain times?
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No cleaning apps... I'll try with a different SD card... Thanks for the help.
It happens to me as well. I assume it has something to do with the Galaxy Player (or the SD Card). If it doesn't happen, the SD card randomly gets damaged.
so i bought a new SD card, a Kingston Class 10 32gb, using it for more than a week now and so far no file deletion. I think it's because i was using a cheap SD card, a TDK 32gb Class 2... if the problem happens again, it must be Android's check disk that's causing it.

[Q] help with vold.fstab restoration

so im currently using a samsung i5510m on android 2.2.2. recently i rooted my phone so i could switch my external SD card as internal since the phone only carries around 150mb of data. so, after rooting the device i edited my vold.fstab file the way i saw on one of the posts on xda. all was well until i rebooted my device, after which it refused to recognize SD card. just to be sure that the card didn't get corrupted i used a card reader and plugged it into my PC, it loaded up with the files. i thought it could be fixed if i formatted the card and so i did.however it didn't fix the problem and neither did factory reseting the device. Ive tried adb commands but its all been useless since the it cannot access the card and neither the phone itself. Ive tried using my other SD cards too but the result is the same.
any help guys? how can i restore the vold.fstab to the way it was since i think thats the problem here?
thanks in advance

Accidentally pressed format sd card in recovery, but quickly removed.Is my data lost?

Hi,
I was browsing through recovery looking for the option to copy files into the sd card while in recovery, just so i didn't have to remove. Well, for some stupid mistake ( i still can't figure out why i even confirmed the option), i pressed the format sd card and when i realized it a second later i removed the card right away.
I don't think it really had time to delete anything or much, but when i inserted the card in my computer it said that the card should be formatted to be used and the same thing appeared on the phone, so im guessing some crucial file that allows me to use the card was deleted.
So, did i just lose all my data? Is there a way to recover the card files?
Thanks in advance!
griffin_1 said:
Hi,
I was browsing through recovery looking for the option to copy files into the sd card while in recovery, just so i didn't have to remove. Well, for some stupid mistake ( i still can't figure out why i even confirmed the option), i pressed the format sd card and when i realized it a second later i removed the card right away.
I don't think it really had time to delete anything or much, but when i inserted the card in my computer it said that the card should be formatted to be used and the same thing appeared on the phone, so im guessing some crucial file that allows me to use the card was deleted.
So, did i just lose all my data? Is there a way to recover the card files?
Thanks in advance!
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Removing it while erasing might have had corrupted the data, too. Unless there's some magic software which can check for deleted files on these types of SD cards.
you can recover your deleted data by downloading "diskdigger" from google play in my opinion it's the best app for this issue.. another app is "undeleted for root users"... you can recover photos, videos, and some texts.....
If this reply helped you don't miss to press thanks Buttom to know ?
shikara13 said:
you can recover your deleted data by downloading "diskdigger" from google play in my opinion it's the best app for this issue.. another app is "undeleted for root users"... you can recover photos, videos, and some texts.....
If this reply helped you don't miss to press thanks Buttom to know ?
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Keep in mind these might not work as the phone cannot access the card or file system of it, this is why it appears as an unformated card and the phone or computer cannot do anything with it besides reformatting
griffin_1 said:
Hi,
I was browsing through recovery looking for the option to copy files into the sd card while in recovery, just so i didn't have to remove. Well, for some stupid mistake ( i still can't figure out why i even confirmed the option), i pressed the format sd card and when i realized it a second later i removed the card right away.
I don't think it really had time to delete anything or much, but when i inserted the card in my computer it said that the card should be formatted to be used and the same thing appeared on the phone, so im guessing some crucial file that allows me to use the card was deleted.
So, did i just lose all my data? Is there a way to recover the card files?
Thanks in advance!
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Try active file recovery software
Samsung Galaxy S3 I9300
Rom: Archidroid v2.4.6
Philz recovery
Boeffla kernel 2.3b6
Viper4android powered sound
Hi
Thank you all for the replies.
I ended up using a recovery software to retrieve the files, since they were all still there because i stopped the formating process right away.
So, recovered the files, formated the card and put the files back.
I was hoping i could just restore the filesystem and those files, but that was the only solution i got at the time.
Thank you all for the help and suggestion!
Recovery of accidentally formatted SD card is possible in couple of minutes. By means of Remo Recover tool, you can get back files lost from SD, CF, MMC and XD cards.
griffin_1 said:
Hi,
I was browsing through recovery looking for the option to copy files into the sd card while in recovery, just so i didn't have to remove. Well, for some stupid mistake ( i still can't figure out why i even confirmed the option), i pressed the format sd card and when i realized it a second later i removed the card right away.
I don't think it really had time to delete anything or much, but when i inserted the card in my computer it said that the card should be formatted to be used and the same thing appeared on the phone, so im guessing some crucial file that allows me to use the card was deleted.
So, did i just lose all my data? Is there a way to recover the card files?
Thanks in advance!
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You can try out this application as shown here, youtu.be/sk8vPyUV9YY

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