Is this not available? I'm pretty sure I have been able to format sd cards in all my phones back to the cupcake os. All I am able to do is unmount and thats it. Quite disappointed because my card went corrupt and I'm nowhere near a pc at the moment.
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my phone have fallen to the grownd and after that he showed me that the sd card is damaged and i have to format it...
after i tried to fomat it, its now shows me "blank sd card"- when i connect it to the pc its shows me that i must format it before connecting to the pc..
when i try to format the sd card its doing nothing...
what can i do? the card is dead?
plz help me
sdcards themselves are shock proof, have you tried to use it in a card reader on a pc?
i dont have one
then get one
Yeah, try and get a reader. I've put SD cards through the washer, then the drier, and I've dropped them and stood on them. I've even seen a guy drive over his camera by accident. (bog standard compact camera. camera was ruined, but the SD card was fine, and good as new). They can also survive dips in sea-water, although terminal corrosion can be an issue for that kind of thing. But they'll survive pretty much anything I've thrown at them.
Since the SD card is solid state, and this all happened because you dropped your phone, the unfortunate reality of the situation is that it is more likely that your phone is the problem rather than the SD card itself.
You need to find something else to test the SD card in - either another phone that takes SD cards (doesn't have to be a Hero), or a PC card reader. If the SD card works, the issue is almost certainly your phone.
Regards,
Dave
but i tried a different sd card on the phone and its worked fine...
the reader wont help me- i want to use the sd card on the hero...
try to repartition it in recovery.
thanks
thank you very much kendong2!
after partitioning again its working!
thanks fo the help,
Daniel.
Hey Everyone,
I'm having a slight problem with my new SD card. I just bought a new 16 GB SanDisk Class 2 High Capacity Micro-SD card. Unfortunately though, my Xperia X10a is not recognizing the card. When I insert the card into my phone, the phone acts like there is no SD card installed at all. It's been properly formatted to FAT32 and my laptop recognizes it fine. My phone recognizes my old SD card, a 4 GB PNY Class 4 High Capacity Micro-SD card just fine, but refuses to recognize the new SD card. Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this problem?
Thanks!
Format it on the phone....not on the computer.
Settings->SD Card....Unmount if it is mounted....and Format from that menu.
It needs to partition the drive itself properly.
I wish I could do that. But the phone doesnt even recognize that there is an SD card in the phone. It says that the SD card is missing even when I put the new SD card in.
Or if you have everything backed up....start from scratch.
Download and install SEUS from Sony. And reflash from scratch using SEUS.
If you had any app2SDcard app or any apps loaded on your old sdcard, they could be preventing any new SDCard from being added.
Thanks for replying.
I've tried going back to stock but it still seems to be not working. Stock firmware still fails to recognize that an SD card has been inserted.
Is the card any thinner than the old one? If so, add a piece of tape or piece of paper to the back of it, so it fits in the phone snuggly.
When you do a full repair using SEUS and install with the SDCard in the phone, it should auto format the card during the the reinstallation of stock 2.1
Did you actually reinstall using SEUS with the SDCard inside?
Otherwise trade in your new card for another card (make and model should be fine) this time....do not stick the card in your computer. First place it needs to go is in the phone.
Actually...an old post I read on another forum, one guy was successful after he stuck the SDCard in his camera, and formatted the card from the camera...and he was unsuccessfull when he originally formatted the card in his computer.
Thanks so much for helping. Somehow, I managed to get it working. Turns out that the cluster size of my SD card was set to auto, which caused it to have cluster sizes that the phone couldnt read. After reformatting it to 4 kb clusters and FAT32, it was recognized by the phone. Thank you so much!
I have a small 4gb microSD card that i had from my old phone and have been using it on the Atrix. I want to get a bigger one but seeing as I have this one now I wanted to format it and use it for backups, etc. It's been working find in my Atrix until just now. I formatted it using the Settings -> Storage -> Format SD card option. Now it will no longer mount properly. I have rebooted the phone a few times, removed the SD card and reinserted it, etc. It recognizes the card and says "Preparing SD card. Checking for errors." in the notification area. But it never completes that and mounts it.
Just now it said "Damaged SD card. SD card damaged. You may have to reformat it." So i tried again to reformat using the phone, and it still will not correctly mount. I'll try some more things, but wondering if anyone else has had this happen or knows of a solution. Thank you.
Problem solved myself. lol. I placed the card in my laptop and saw it was a mess of garbage files. Weird. So I formatted it on windows, then put it back in my Atrix, and all is well. heh.
Today I've run into a curious problem, and I've finally ran into a brick wall in solving it.
I have the Samsung galaxy S II Skyrocket, and I have a 16GB micro SD card that I just bought from wal-mart for it. The card has been awesome since I got it.
Earlier I was cleaning up stuff because I was running out of space, so I moved a bunch of stuff from the SD card to my laptop and deleted it off my sd card. When I went to move my stuff back over after having made my changes to it... the sdcard said it only had 5GB of memory left. That's weird, because I had just moved 10GB worth of stuff off of the sdcard. So something must be up.
I rebooted my phone and wiped the caches just to make sure it wasn't keeping stuff like that on it. I also got rid of the LOST.DIR folder. I would go through the whole card in Ubuntu terminal using ls -lh on every folder and there was no way that card only had 5GB of free space on it. So I went ahead and reformatted it.
This is where things went wrong.
Foolish me, and this was a mistake on my part, I chose ext 4 for whatever reason as opposed to FAT32. So now I have a 16gb sdcard that is blank and unreadable by my phone. My phone offers to format it, but the format does nothing. Formatting it in CWM also accomplishes nothing. And my other machines won't recognize the Sd card either, only my phone. My phone could see it, but say that it can't use it. Sdcard is blank or has an unsupported filesystem would be the error.
At least my phone could see it though, so I thought there must be a way to save this thing. My laptop couldn't recognize it for some reason, so using Gparted was out of the question.
After a couple attempted reformats and searching for apps that could format sd cards (I couldn't seem to find any) I went for a last ditch attempt and used the partition tool in CWM that I had read about some weeks ago for a completely unrelated task.
And voila I can see the card again. Except.. CWM partitioned 4GB, and those 4GB of data seem to be lost. No matter what, using windows, my phone, Gparted in ubuntu, they all say that the card has a max size of 10.7GB now as opposed to the 14.7 or so that it was supposed to have.
And now I'm stumped. Did CWM goof up and instead of partitioning off 4GB, it actually just destroyed 4GB and somehow made the sdcard work again at the cost of 25% of the data it is supposed to hold? Or is the way CWM partitions it something whacky where the 4GB is there but it is impossible to see it or access it or something..
tl;dr SD card had issues, repartitioning in CWM made it work again. Instead of having 16GB, it has 12GB. How to get those 4GB back?
Was using my wifi tether while phone was plugged in and when I checked my phone, I seen the white sd card with the exclimation point and when I pulled down my notification bar, it said "Removed SD Card, Insert a new one." I put it in another phone, said same thing. I put it in my laptop, and Windows didn't even recognize it in any way. When I put it back in my phone, it said "Damaged SD Card, Reformat needed" or whatever. When I tried to reformat it, it said it couldn't be reformatted. When I rebooted into 4ext to reformat it, it kept giving me errors that it couldn't be reformatted.
I'm running Dastin's WILD FOR THE NIGHT 2/15 4.2.2 rom. My SD card is a Lexar High-Speed Class 10 32GB.
All I'm trying to do is recover everything that is/was on it. I have a feeling that that isn't possible. I had 4GBs of music, about 10GBs of downloads, custom roms, etc.
If anyone knows how to recover my files or format the sd card without errors please tell me. Thank you.
I had the exact same problem once. no card reader was recognizing it. what i did was go to recovery and format the card from there. I remember i had to choose 4ext partition option or something like that to get it to format
Whenever I go into 4ext, it says sd card can't be mounted. The only way I got it to do anything was I used a friends desktop computer and it recognized it in My Computer, yet when I click Open, it says it's not accessible. I right clicked on it, did the full format, and at the end it said it couldn't be formatted. I went to properties and the disk is blue and it says 0kbs in all sections. I tried data recovery software, partition wizards, etc and no go. Can I send it to Lexar and have them do something about it?
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Go into recovery and then select make sd-ext4 partition option. It should format the card. then afterwards you can remove the ext partition by reformatting
What if the sd card isn't recognized by any computer? And I have data recovery software that "claims" it can restore your data even after a format. Is that even possible?
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I was once able to restore around 90 percent of my images on a corrupted card but i have never seen a card restore all the data on a card. It's all your luck
I had app backups, game data, videos, and about 4gbs of music. Will it restore them or images only?
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Due to corruption your memory card stopped working and need to repair corruption issue, go for Kernel for windows data recovery software for the recovery of your data from the corrupted sd memory card.
Well i put the sd card in an action replay sd card adapter (the one that you take the bottom off and it turns into a usb drive) and I was able to bring up everything that was on it. I backed it up and formatted it with win7 partition wizard or something, and I put it in a regular sd adapter and I got nothing. For some reason it only works with the AR USB adapter. How can I get the sd card to work in my phone now? I'm thinking I can just buy another 32GB (or 64) since I was able to get everything off of it, I'm just trying to avoid that so I can try and save this one still.
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