Ultra does not recognize my SD card. Any suggestions? - Sony Xperia Z Ultra

Old card worked but got 'damaged' few times when rebooting. Hadda format it each time.
Gotta new card now Ultra doesn't even recognize.
How to remedy?
Appreciated!

does your pc recognize
rockky said:
Old card worked but got 'damaged' few times when rebooting. Hadda format it each time.
Gotta new card now Ultra doesn't even recognize.
How to remedy?
Appreciated!
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what brand is the card? can you check if you are able to read it on your pc. try to use any format tool to format to fat32 and check

Thank you.
It's a Sandisk
What tools o you refer to?
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https://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter/#download try this

rockky said:
Thank you.
It's a Sandisk
What tools o you refer to?
QUOTE=nihal1983;46095671]what brand is the card? can you check if you are able to read it on your pc. try to use any format tool to format to fat32 and check
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I got a brand new sanDisk 64gb ULTRA. Worked fine sometimes, and then would stop working on my galaxy device. worked fine on my PC.. sanDisk told me to cut it up, take a pic of it as proof, and then they sent me a new one.
There is a fault with low power devices and some of their cards. This could be your problem too

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[Q] Komputerbay 64gb SDXC not working in S2

Hello:
I purchased a Komputerbay 64gb SDXC Class 6 card from Amazon, planning to use it in my S2. Unfortunately, it does not seem to work. I wanted to get the Sandisk, but they were sold out...
When plugged in, I get an error about an empty card, and offer to format it - this seems to be stuck, does not finish even after an hour.
The card seems to work fine in my Macbook, and in a Huawei Mediapad running ICS.
Any ideas ? Returning the card is not easy - I got it on a trip to US, and I am now back in Czech republic.....
Thanks for any info, Paul.
in order for it to work in an S2 the card needs to be formatted to Fat32 - it doesn't support exFat (default format of sdxc cards)
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Try connecting your phone to your comp and format it to Fat32 from there
beaver2233 said:
in order for it to work in an S2 the card needs to be formatted to Fat32 - it doesn't support exFat (default format of sdxc cards)
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Thanks for the reply.
It is the formatting in the S2 which does not seem to work - never finished, seems stuck.
Paul.
KCA. said:
Try connecting your phone to your comp and format it to Fat32 from there
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interesting ides....
When connected in USB debug mode, only the build-in memory shows up on my Mac. The uninitialized USB card does not show up in Disk Utility ( the OS X program for formatting ).
Thanks, Paul.
Take card out of phone, put in computer, format FAT32.
Plug it into your MacBook, open up disk utility, format the disk as FAT32. Backup the stuff on it before you do it though!
OriginsOfLewis said:
Plug it into your MacBook, open up disk utility, format the disk as FAT32. Backup the stuff on it before you do it though!
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Thanks for the suggestion - this was one of the first things I tried...no go.....
The card formatted this way works fine in an Huawei MediaPad ICS tablet....I am beginning to think there is some hardware incompatibility between the card and the S2. There are user reporting success with this card and S2 on Amazon.
Paul.
Are you running a custom Rom in your S2? I had similar problems, for some reason the format tool doesn't seem to work right. I used this tool - EaseUS Partition Manager to first remove the exFAT partition, then create a new Fat32 partition with the total space used (remember to select 'apply' between steps) then I put it in the phone and it all worked. If it still does not work after that I'd sort out an RMA.
Gsm arena says s2 suports sd cards up to 32 gb maybe this is a problem...
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9100_galaxy_s_ii-3621.php
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Sgs2 supports only cards up to 32g you bought wrong card.
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brack11 said:
Sgs2 supports only cards up to 32g you bought wrong card.
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I'm running a 64GB card in my SGS2, it does support them but they must be formatted to Fat32 (which windows doesn't support doing so a 3rd party app is needed)
Try Gparted.Google to find download and tutorial
sometimes windows doesn't format correctly
Windows can't format an sd card larger than 32gb with fat32, only ntfs or exfat I think
I should say I also used Easeus Position Manager to actually format the card. I also put the card in a card reader, it wasn't in my GS2 when I first formatted it to Fat32 from exFat.
This isn't necessary, it's just how I did it.
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It does support cards larger than 32GB as long as they're formatted correctly.
The screenshot just shows that my GS2 does recognise the card.
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paulcc said:
Hello:
I purchased a Komputerbay 64gb SDXC Class 6 card from Amazon, planning to use it in my S2. Unfortunately, it does not seem to work. I wanted to get the Sandisk, but they were sold out...
When plugged in, I get an error about an empty card, and offer to format it - this seems to be stuck, does not finish even after an hour.
The card seems to work fine in my Macbook, and in a Huawei Mediapad running ICS.
Any ideas ? Returning the card is not easy - I got it on a trip to US, and I am now back in Czech republic.....
Thanks for any info, Paul.
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This worked for me in less than a minute: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1698672&page=9 (see post 85).
Note: despite the thread being about the SIII, it did the trick for my SII (ROM: CyanogenMod nightly august 26th; kernel: Siyah v4.1.1).
I have had a 64gig card in my phone from Sandisk.
suddenly after 7 months it started to do funny things, not saving pics/movies etc.
Using a galaxy s2 with 4.1.1 and 3.0.15 siyah kernel
Ressurection remix JB
On my computer have the same problem with the card, i can write stuff on it, can read stuff and delete,
When i turn the card out of the computer and then insert it again.
Nothing has changed, nothing extra on the card and the pieces ive deleted are back again and still working.
Got a really expensive 64gig writeable here :S
Can not format it also , even with some tools like posted before, it gives an error.
So boys and girls, it does not always work fine.
And Sandisk says, o no, your phone doesnt support it so no service.
Screw them i say, i never buy sandisk anymore :laugh:
64 GB what are you planning to do?
Anyways... You need that post #85 tweak
Peace
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Omaxe said:
64 GB what are you planning to do?
Anyways... You need that post #85 tweak
Peace
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post 85 tweak ?
Well its my music in my car, and i have pics on it, lucky that i saved them a few times.
to be honest 64gig is pretty fast filled with some livesets on it and the 720 or 1080p movies

{Q} How to format a 64gb sdxc card to fat32?

Okay so I have a Sandisk 64gb sdxc and it works in my GS3 just fine as exfat. However, I would like to format it to fat32 so I can take full advantage of CWM and accessing my SD card. I have tried the following:
-CMD promt format to fat32 in windows and it formatted fine, but SG3 woud report as damaged SD card.
-Format to fat32 with swissknife and it formatted fine, but SG3 woud report as damaged SD card.
-Format with E4GT but the E4GT would not even recognize the 64GB card regardless of how it was formatted.
-Format in my Xoom but it would also not recognize the card.
So what is my solution here? Is there a way to format this card in FAT32 and use it in my GS3 or do I need to just deal with Exfat until the CM team develops an exfat compatible CWM?
If i format it to FAT32 then go directly into CWM it recognizes the card but when I boot up it still gives and SD card damaged error. Guess i will just have to deal with no CWM access if I use the 64gb card.
exactly my experience. fat32 format the phone reads it occasionally and then starts to report it as damaged.
hyann said:
exactly my experience. fat32 format the phone reads it occasionally and then starts to report it as damaged.
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Thanks for the verification. Either CWM will need to be made to work or I will need to go back to the 32gb card i guess.
Thought there would be more people here using the 64gb cards with thier GS3. Anyone have a work around?
I used the GUI version of Fat32 Format: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm
Worked for me. Win7 x64 with a 64 GB Sandisk card. I'm using rooted stock AT&T ROM and it has never complained about an invalid card. CWM works fine, too.
I wonder if it'd work formatting fat 32 on a Mac. Only way a year ago I was able to format a 250GB hdd fat32 so I could backup my PS3 back then.
Tried through windows and even though I found ways to format it, it never worked right.
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i had to do this earlier today for cwm purposes! use a free prog called active partition manager. i already did a nandroid also. otherwise, that exfat will give you mounting error.
use extfsd
A full format in swissknife then a quick format in Active Partition Manager is the only thing that worked for me. Got it working though!! Thanks for all the help.
drothenberger said:
I used the GUI version of Fat32 Format: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm
Worked for me. Win7 x64 with a 64 GB Sandisk card. I'm using rooted stock AT&T ROM and it has never complained about an invalid card. CWM works fine, too.
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This is what I used too. Other methods didn't "stick" for some reason, maybe the tools weren't actually formatting it to FAT32 but exFAT and just figured that it wouldn't matter to most people using the tool. This tool, however, worked perfectly. Haven't had any errors since using it.
Didact74 said:
A full format in swissknife then a quick format in Active Partition Manager is the only thing that worked for me. Got it working though!! Thanks for all the help.
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great! glad i could help out as it took me at least an hour myself.
Just got mine and all it says is blank sd card, and it is not willing to format it via my phone or windows as well as third party programs. Not sure what's going on. Windows formatting just says it can't, while 3rd party programs just hang forever. Any ideas?
SONE9 said:
Just got mine and all it says is blank sd card, and it is not willing to format it via my phone or windows as well as third party programs. Not sure what's going on. Windows formatting just says it can't, while 3rd party programs just hang forever. Any ideas?
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I just had the same problem. Other than downloading some software to install FAT32, what I came up with was installing it in my Epic 4G Touch. It saw that it was blank, and then allowed me to format it.
drothenberger said:
I used the GUI version of Fat32 Format: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm
Worked for me. Win7 x64 with a 64 GB Sandisk card. I'm using rooted stock AT&T ROM and it has never complained about an invalid card. CWM works fine, too.
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This just ended about two hours of frustration and searching. Thanks for posting that link!

micro sd card help :(

hi
i have a 16gb sandisk class 10 sd card
for somereason now after i formatted it it cannot be recognised in windows, it shows as damaged card in my sk17i when i try format it on the phone it sits there for hours
tries eaus recovery to ormat it, it says its write protected??? is it corrupt? i managed to get it working last time this happened but i have no idea what has happened to it.
im not fussed about looking whats on it. i just want it to work again. windows wont format it. tried IHIREX boot cd.
is there a sector scanner that might run through and check it? windows disk cheking wont check for errors as its not formatted. mini partition pro shows bad disk.
very frustrating... is there a way of fixing it or do i have to buy a new card?
thanks in advance
also it says cannt do anythign with it as its a RAW drive??
If you didn't already try this,
There is a command line tool called "diskpart" which comes with windows. You have to use command prompt. Open command window and type "diskpart" . It is used to partition disks and external hard drives. It might be useful. I haven't used it much because I'm on linux. Just give it a shot.
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If you didn't already try this,
There is a command line tool called "diskpart" which comes with windows. You have to use command prompt. Open command window and type "diskpart" . It is used to partition disks and external hard drives. It might be useful. I haven't used it much because I'm on linux. Just give it a shot.
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appreciate your reply, but ive tried that wth no avail
this has happened before. it seems like the boot sector has messed up?
just dont wanna have to buy a new sd card
Tried it with gparted for ubuntu?
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Tried it with gparted for ubuntu?
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i dont have ubuntu, i have backtrack 5 though. could i do a sudo command using that?
dreamz12345 said:
i dont have ubuntu, i have backtrack 5 though. could i do a sudo command using that?
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I don't even know what backtrack means
EDIT: yeah you can use gparted package with backtrack 5 . Just google it
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Try this https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/
Source: http://www.patriotmemory.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-897-p-3.html
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still no go,
i can give it a drive letter. but it shows as a Raw file system, cant format in ANY program
when i do a sector scan the first block is red, then it stops at 25.867%
could it be the MBR or boot secotr gone? if so is there programs to help combat this?
Try gparted and yes it works with backtrack. In my previous comment in the "source" link a guy had the same problem as yours, the card says "write protected" and the only strong reply he got was to get the memory card replaced
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gouthamthemostwanted said:
Try gparted and yes it works with backtrack. In my previous comment in the "source" link a guy had the same problem as yours, the card says "write protected" and the only strong reply he got was to get the memory card replaced
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im runinnng a low level format on it, VERY slow. and loads of bad secotrs, go knows how this has happened, i only formatted it to fat 32 put it back in my phone and it said damaged.
damn sandisk
the first block is red. so it must be somethign easy to fix somehow. ive been at this since 11am this mroning and its now nearly 6pm. its driving mem ad, i dont wantto have to buy a new sd card because i done nothing to even mess this one up
So, you are finally formatting your memory card? which software works for you? gparted? Is your memory card working after format? Keep posted :thumbup:
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gouthamthemostwanted said:
So, you are finally formatting your memory card? which software works for you? gparted? Is your memory card working after format? Keep posted :thumbup:
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hi,
still not formatted no.
im running a low level format program, its on 36% with loads of errors. ill see how it works when its finished, if not im gonna have to buy a new sd card
very strange, i didnt even do anything with it and it just decided to bugger up
dreamz12345 said:
hi,
still not formatted no.
im running a low level format program, its on 36% with loads of errors. ill see how it works when its finished, if not im gonna have to buy a new sd card
very strange, i didnt even do anything with it and it just decided to bugger up
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Card Still under warranty period? Warranty Replacement?
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Card Still under warranty period? Warranty Replacement?
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nah i brought it from ebay, said 2-3 days delivery, after 4 weeks i assumed it got lost in the post so i got a refund. but sure enough 3 days later it arrived. so i dont think he will take it back. a class 10 16gb sd card is only £10, but i just dont understand how these things get corrupt and break so damn easy
ok im running ANOTHER surface scan on it now. it has got a lot further than it did before, theres about 220 red bad blocks. ini partition tool shows it as a bad disk.
before when this happened i plugged it into me xbox and configured it as a memory unit, then re formatted it on me pc but it wont do it this time.
is there a way or a program that will scan and fix bad blocks? windows cant do it because it cant pick it up as an actual memory card
dreamz12345 said:
hi
i have a 16gb sandisk class 10 sd card
for somereason now after i formatted it it cannot be recognised in windows, it shows as damaged card in my sk17i when i try format it on the phone it sits there for hours
tries eaus recovery to ormat it, it says its write protected??? is it corrupt? i managed to get it working last time this happened but i have no idea what has happened to it.
im not fussed about looking whats on it. i just want it to work again. windows wont format it. tried IHIREX boot cd.
is there a sector scanner that might run through and check it? windows disk cheking wont check for errors as its not formatted. mini partition pro shows bad disk.
very frustrating... is there a way of fixing it or do i have to buy a new card?
thanks in advance
also it says cannt do anythign with it as its a RAW drive??
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I had the same problem!!take a nokia phone(a non special os one) and insert thar sd in it.then go to file manager and it will ask you to format sdcard.once its done,you revived it.
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You can actually use BackTrack to do what another user said to do with Ubuntu/linux. It's the same thing.
dreamz12345 said:
nah i brought it from ebay, said 2-3 days delivery, after 4 weeks i assumed it got lost in the post so i got a refund. but sure enough 3 days later it arrived. so i dont think he will take it back. a class 10 16gb sd card is only £10, but i just dont understand how these things get corrupt and break so damn easy
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Sandisk, Ebay, and low price all point to counterfeit.
Mini partition shows it has 112 bad sectors. Is. There no way to fix it? Like certain dos programs or sd repairs.
Its wierd. When I go to cwm and mount usb it formats fine to fat 32 in windows. Then cwm crashes and its bk to spuare one. Arrrgg!
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dreamz12345 said:
hi
i have a 16gb sandisk class 10 sd card
for somereason now after i formatted it it cannot be recognised in windows, it shows as damaged card in my sk17i when i try format it on the phone it sits there for hours
tries eaus recovery to ormat it, it says its write protected??? is it corrupt? i managed to get it working last time this happened but i have no idea what has happened to it.
im not fussed about looking whats on it. i just want it to work again. windows wont format it. tried IHIREX boot cd.
is there a sector scanner that might run through and check it? windows disk cheking wont check for errors as its not formatted. mini partition pro shows bad disk.
very frustrating... is there a way of fixing it or do i have to buy a new card?
thanks in advance
also it says cannt do anythign with it as its a RAW drive??
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my suggest is should you trying by find first pid and vid its chip then download its siftware formatter that provided to it then reflash the card system with it
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aminxs said:
my suggest is should you trying by find first pid and vid its chip then download its siftware formatter that provided to it then reflash the card system with it
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USB\VID_0FCE&PID_E134&REV_9454
USB\VID_0FCE&PID_E134
thats what i get. i dont understand what you mean by the rest sorry. lol

SD Card blank or has unssuported filesystem

Hi guys,
so recently i screwd up my phone and needed a motorola factory cable to fix it. Now that i have it and up and running, i seem to have another problem.
My SD Card is not recognized in the phone. when i put it in my other phone, it works fine with all data there. Connected to my com and it reads it and what not. So i tried formating it again, and same problem.
Tried fastbooting my phone back twice to stock unrooted, and its the same. Tried factory reset, the same..
any idea how can i fix this? Or do i need to get my self a new SD Card T_T
thanks!!
Format the sdcard as fat32 partition from the PC. Use a program that can partition disks/ cards like MiniTool Partition Wizard
Hi! thanks for the reply, tried that, same thing
Hi, just to add..i tried a friends SD card in my phone, and im getting the same error. could it be due to h/w problem?
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my SD card locked up on cm 10.1 and it won't format or do anything
BADDINOROX99 said:
my SD card locked up on cm 10.1 and it won't format or do anything
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locked up can you be more specific ?
naifs_br10 said:
locked up can you be more specific ?
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For some reason it got stuck on write protected mode I've tried putting it in the adapter and unlocking but it doesn't work I can't delete files or add any more files its a 64 gigabyte Micro SD card I can only read files on my computer and when I put it in my phone it says unsupported files
BADDINOROX99 said:
For some reason it got stuck on write protected mode I've tried putting it in the adapter and unlocking but it doesn't work I can't delete files or add any more files its a 64 gigabyte Micro SD card I can only read files on my computer and when I put it in my phone it says unsupported files
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have you checked if 64 gb is supported from what i read most phones only support upto 32 gb, also forget the adapter try using it in another phone and see it could be the sd card is corrupt but make sure to check the phone is 64 gb supported sd card
Android 4.0+ supports up to 64gb SD.
Nexus⁴
yeah.. maybe 64gb is not supported..
Quite easy.Uninstall the SD CARD and install it again for several times. And it will be ok.
My english is bad....Or even worse than bad....
myturbo1 said:
Android 4.0+ supports up to 64gb SD.
Nexus⁴
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Thank you sir
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Thank you sir
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No problem. Use the thanks button lol
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[Q] Ext SD Card Issues

Wanted to see if anyone else is experiencing the same issue I am.
Was using my phone and my Samsung 64GB class 10 Micro Sdcard "ejected" although it was still in the phone. It had been working fine for a week. I manually ejected and placed it back in but it will not read. I get the "Scanning/Preparing SD card" Message but it always says unavailable. Thinking that my card crapped out on my, I put a brand new Kingston class 10 64 GB sd card but experiencing the same results. Oddly enough, I have an old Class 10 Transcend 8GB card that will read. I am running the stock OS-Unlocked Boot/Rooted/S-off. Only mods I have done are flashing the released HTC kernel that is R/W. (Dont know if I need to reflash the one that came with the phone), and flashed the SD card write fix posted in this thread :http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2700310
Anyone know where I can get the stock ATT kernel that may have the correct drivers for ext sd? Any suggestions?
Copy what you have on the sdcard to computer and format fat32 then retry card in phone
Wonders_Never_Cease said:
Copy what you have on the sdcard to computer and format fat32 then retry card in phone
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Hey, thanks for the reply.
I have a SD card reader on my laptop and it recognized the card just fine but if I put the card in the phone and plug in the phone to computer via USB, it will NOT recognize/see the card.
Im pretty sure it is a software issue. Does anyone have access or a link to the stock ATT kernel/boot.img?? I'd like to troubleshoot but forgot to make a back up before I flashed the R/W kernel released here. Thanks.
Doesnt matter if the sdcard reader sees it fine in windows, your more than likely going from windows to android, try what I suggested. If the card is not formatted @fat32 it will not be read in phone...
Blueoval24 said:
Hey, thanks for the reply.
I have a SD card reader on my laptop and it recognized the card just fine but if I put the card in the phone and plug in the phone to computer via USB, it will NOT recognize/see the card.
Im pretty sure it is a software issue. Does anyone have access or a link to the stock ATT kernel/boot.img?? I'd like to troubleshoot but forgot to make a back up before I flashed the R/W kernel released here. Thanks.
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Doesnt matter if the sdcard reader sees it fine in windows, your more than likely going from windows to android, try what I suggested. If the card is not formatted @fat32 it will not be read in phone...
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Maybe I forgot to mention it but both cards are FAT32 formatted. Also, the samsung card was working just fine for a week before these issues started happening.
Im still searching for the stock att kernel.
Ok did you reformat and try them again?
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Maybe I forgot to mention it but both cards are FAT32 formatted. Also, the samsung card was working just fine for a week before these issues started happening.
Im still searching for the stock att kernel.
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Wonders_Never_Cease said:
Ok did you reformat and try them again?
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Went to try and reformat them again and am getting some weird results.
If i plug them directly into the computer with an adapter and use SDFormat to format them, then the M8 will read the cards? However, it only reads half the amount of memory (30gb) and I do not have an option within SDFormat to change the size. Since M8 now reads the card, I went to format it within the storage settings and once that completes, it no longer recognizes the card...?? Not sure how that is possible unless the phone is reformatting the card to a format it does not recognize..?
Use sdcard reader on laptop format fat32,set it to default size...it varies on different cards, 4 kb 8kb 16kb etc...
Blueoval24 said:
Went to try and reformat them again and am getting some weird results.
If i plug them directly into the computer with an adapter and use SDFormat to format them, then the M8 will read the cards? However, it only reads half the amount of memory (30gb) and I do not have an option within SDFormat to change the size. Since M8 now reads the card, I went to format it within the storage settings and once that completes, it no longer recognizes the card...?? Not sure how that is possible unless the phone is reformatting the card to a format it does not recognize..?
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Thanks for the continued assistance. I have done this but still only have Half of the advertised memory. When I first installed it out of the box, it worked and showed full memory (62gb). Also, the default windows formatting tool will render the card unreadable by the M8 so im using the program called SDFormatter. Seems like I'm running in circles so I guess I'll just deal with half the memory for now. At least it works.
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Ive never had a card unreadable after a format in windows...lol...something new to me...usually what Ill do is format in windows then reformat on phone....Justa as an after thought have your done a Backup & Reset,then hit reset all data on the phone with the sdcard in it?...may be worth a try...
Blueoval24 said:
Thanks for the continued assistance. I have done this but still only have Half of the advertised memory. When I first installed it out of the box, it worked and showed full memory (62gb). Also, the default windows formatting tool will render the card unreadable by the M8 so im using the program called SDFormatter. Seems like I'm running in circles so I guess I'll just deal with half the memory for now. At least it works.
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http://www.ducky-pond.com/posts/2013/Sep/partition-an-sd-card-or-flash-drive-on-windows/
Use above instructions to remove all partitions from sd card. Insert into phone it will prompt you about it being damaged and ask if you want to format it. Answer yes.
If you still continue to have issues, it is most likely a hardware issue.
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c5satellite2 said:
http://www.ducky-pond.com/posts/2013/Sep/partition-an-sd-card-or-flash-drive-on-windows/
Use above instructions to remove all partitions from sd card. Insert into phone it will prompt you about it being damaged and ask if you want to format it. Answer yes.
If you still continue to have issues, it is most likely a hardware issue.
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Thank you guys for the help!
I tried using the above fix (disk part) but it didnt even recognize the device. L0ng story short. I was able to use BOOTICE to reformat my KINGSTON Sd card to 60 GB but my samsung only reads 30 (even though it is advertised as 64) I read that when you reformat some Samsung cards, there is a protected area that most generic formatting utilities can overwrite and render the card to half capacity. Not sure if that's the case but oh well. Got it the other card to work. Thanks so much guys! Now if I can figure out why the phone isn't turning on now.....

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