I'd noticed a corrupt file was keeping my external SD from functioning correctly, so I:
took it out
inserted into my PC
deleted the file
moved everything off
formatted it
moved everything back on
put the card back in
The phone then noticed it was inserted, went through scanning, etc, so I thought I was ok. Then I went to look at my photos & they weren't there. So I looked at the storage, & it says, "insert SD card for mounting." If I take it out & re-insert it, the phone notices that it's there, & scans, etc, but I can't, for example, even create a folder w/ES File Explorer. I also can't use the phone's "erase SD card" utility.
I can read the card & move files on/off via my PC no problem. Anyone ever seen/been through something like this?
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I'm wanting to backup & format my SD card following a problem with Sense not loading described in another thread. Having read various threads about this problem it seems that some, if not all, revolve around issues with the SD card.
Through File Explorer, on the phone, I've selected ''Show all Files'' from within my SD card directory. However after connecting my phone to my PC thru active sync there are some files that are visible on my phone in the SD card directory which aren't visible in the SD card folder on my PC screen. I've tried to find the show all files setting on my pc but haven't been able to.
Thing is I don't want to backup my card then format it and possibly not backup all files that are present on the card.
Any help appreciated.
Hi there,
Two days ago I copied all the files on my SD card to my laptop, changed my card from a 2Gb one to a 8Gb and copied all the files back again onto the new SD card. I never even looked for hidden files neither on the phone nor on the laptop and it all went without any problems and all is working fine.
For sake of good order, I can't guarantee it will work with you as well, but it should.
Bye,
Itamar
RoN_HD2 said:
I'm wanting to backup & format my SD card following a problem with Sense not loading described in another thread. Having read various threads about this problem it seems that some, if not all, revolve around issues with the SD card.
Through File Explorer, on the phone, I've selected ''Show all Files'' from within my SD card directory. However after connecting my phone to my PC thru active sync there are some files that are visible on my phone in the SD card directory which aren't visible in the SD card folder on my PC screen. I've tried to find the show all files setting on my pc but haven't been able to.
Thing is I don't want to backup my card then format it and possibly not backup all files that are present on the card.
Any help appreciated.
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itamar said:
Hi there,
Two days ago I copied all the files on my SD card to my laptop, changed my card from a 2Gb one to a 8Gb and copied all the files back again onto the new SD card. I never even looked for hidden files neither on the phone nor on the laptop and it all went without any problems and all is working fine.
For sake of good order, I can't guarantee it will work with you as well, but it should.
Bye,
Itamar
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Hi, thx for the reply. Think I'm just gonna bite the bullet and go ahead.
I used the instructions from iJimaniac to swap my storage from internal to external (love the mass storage now!) however all my apps that I originally had moved to the SD card have suddenly disappeared and now i have to remember and re-install them. I made a copy of everything under /mnt/sdcard and moved it to my external SD card before making the switch so that everything would still be linked ok. Any ideas on what went wrong? Note: i took everything on my external SD card and put it in a separate folder on my external SD card so I wouldn't lose any of that.
Well, I used a PC to copy .android_secure folder from the real external_SD to the new "fake" external_SD. If that doesn't work, I would copy back the original vold.fstab then move all apps to internal, then use modified vold.fstab and move your apps back to sd if you want. Remember to reboot after making a change. Several reboots might even be needed for all apps to show up (might want to try that before anything). Hope this helps!
Ok well the problem is apparently that the .android_secure folder on the sd card is empty. Strangely it also has no permissions and refuses to let me change it. Whenever i try to replace it with the full .android_secure folder it gives me a black screen and i have to restart. Any idea what might be wrong?
Well, it might not actually be empty, it looks empty when viewed with an android file browser, but when you look at it on a computer (might need to disable "hide protected system files" in windows folder options) you should see stuff in it. So, you need to copy the .android_secure folder FROM your REAL microSD card TO your REAL internal memory using a pc, not an android file browser. To be clear, I have figured out that android transfers the app to your sd card when you select "move to usb storage", so that can be deceiving. Your apps were on the sd card, but now you need to transfer them to your usb storage by moving the .android_secure folder. Hope you figure it out!
Ah something decided to start working again and all my apps came back! Thanks for your help!
No problem! What was probably wrong was your player was rebuilding the dalvik-cache. It sometimes takes a while I find. Glad you got it working.
The other day I had my SD card mounted to USB on my computer and I unplugged it directly without unmounting it. Stupid, I know... it was a mistake.
Since then I have an "sd card damaged" error and I am not able to navigate to the SDcard directory with Root Explorer. It says it's not mounted. If i try to take a photo, it says, to insert an SD card first.
Ive tried quite a few things and haven't been able to correct the error. This includes basically all approaches to formatting the SD card (recovery, etc...)
I currently do not have access to Odin.
any advice?
I bought a micro SD card and i am able to flash from that.
I am not able to save anthing directly on the phone though... web photos, etc... nada. Doesn't want to save to the microSD.
help.
thanks
well i cant explain it but i flashed a ginger bread rom and it's fixed.
i see the directories are differently organized, but still.... odd.
Hello Folks,
I am using XOLO Q600 running andriod jellybean OS, unrooted. I am having a weird experience with my sd card. Last evening I was playing a game and my phone got hung in next few minutes. I was not even able to shut it down. So I pulled out the battery and restarted it. Since then it is showing DAMAGED SD CARD error, and asking me to format it. But, again, I am unable to format it from my phone, and my can't read the card. I tried to connect my sd card to my laptop using a card reader, it is showing all the files, I am able to copy all the files to my hard drive, but I am not able to delete them. I tried all possble methods to format it, but vain. I even tried to low level format it, but it says card is readonly. When I again insert it into my phone, it says damaged sd card again, but if I try to format it many times (on the phone), say 5 to 10 times, luckily it is successful once and the card works fine in the phone, I can read all the files, but I can't delete any file, it says "No permission to delete". Now if I restart my phone, it would say DAMAGED SD CARD once again, and I would be screwed up. Someone please help !
I just starting have a problem today that I hope someone can help me fix. I was transferring a file from my PC to my phone when I received a "File Cannot be Transferred" notice, and a hanging copy progress screen. So I clicked cancel, safely removed my phone, and unplugged. Now I have nothing showing on my SD, in Storage Settings it displays the card along with an accurate Storage remaining (4.5 GB out of 64 GB), but the file explorer displays no files. I've tried rebooting, unmounting/remounting my card, and still nothing. I went into recovery and can see files and deleted the partially transferred file, when I reboot, the SD card loads, Folder Mount runs and successfully mounts to my SD, I can even go to the file explorer and see files briefly, then within a minute or two.....poof everything disappears. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance.