Hello,
So my sd card (16gb) appears to have stop working and the phone gives me the message “SD Card is blank or has unsupported filesystem.” This started yesterday after I changed default storage for my camera to sd card. Before that it was working just fine.
I restarted the phone, no luck with that. Turn off phone and remove and cleaned sd card, still no luck. I plugged in my phone to the computer to access the sd card, but did not show up, I guess its cause the card is not mounted? So then I thought I’ll just plug in the sd card to my computer and back up everything and then format to correct, but no that didn’t work… when I plugged it in my computer, my computer did not even recognize my card.
At first I thought maybe my adapter is broken, so I plugged in a spare sd card (1gb) I had lying around and that on worked just fine. So I googled what could be wrong and read that it could be that the adapter does not support HCSD cards. So then I plugged in my sd card into a USB sd card reader (which had a slot for micro sd which I used), but same thing – did not recognize 16gb card, but it did for 1gb card. I checked to see if it’s a driver issue, but it was up to date. Then I doubted the USB card reader didn’t support HCSD like the adapter, so I went out and bought a new USB card reader (one that works with HCSD cards) from bestbuy (Insignia SD/MMC Memory Card Reader). Still did not recognize card with new reader on computer.
I googled to see what my options were, but the solutions that I found all had the computer recognize the card – which mine isn’t doing… but I still tried a few things I read like chkdsk in command prompt, but I got “Cannot open volume for direct access” error.
Even though my computer does not recognize the card, my phone does recognize it but corrupt and offers to format. I also tried it on different phones (Galaxy S2 T989, and Blackberry Bold 9650) to see if it can read it, but same thing it recognizes it but corrupt and unreadable.
I’m still looking around for solutions, but if anyone can help me with this, please do. Please let me know if you need more info.
Info on devices/cards:
T-mobile Samsung Galaxy S5 16gb – 5.1.1 stock rom – no root
16gb micro sd card class 2 – got it with HTC HD2
Micro sd to SD adapter – got it with Samsung Beat T539
Focus camera card reader - got it with camera bundle
Insignia SD/MMC Memory Card Reader
Galaxy S2 T989 – was using latest stock rom – no root as well.
Computer – Lenovo Y50 running windows 8.1 currently. only few months old.
Sounds like the SD is toast. It's not easy to extract corrupted data from a micro sd card
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Hello,
Just got myself a second hand S740. The phone works fine, but one thing doesn't seem to work, my Micro SD card slot.
I tried 2 different cards, both 2 GB. The one is a Kingston, the other is a brand I don't know from the top of my head. I formatted the cards first as FAT32, later as FAT. I also tried a hard reset, but this didn't solve the problem.
Before I'm going to contact HTC about this, I want to make sure my SD card slot is really broken. I asked the person I bought this phone from and he said he always used an Micro SD card in the phone and it worked fine.
So, if the card doesn't show up in the explorer and doesn't work using the storage USB mode when connected to PC, what can I do to verify my card slot is really broken? By the way, tested cards work fine when inserted in my cardreader at my PC using a Micro SD - SD adapter.
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 tried 3 different SD cards from 3 different cameras, none worked on my tablet, all worked on vaio laptop. Is my port damaged or am I missing something here?
make sure the format is FAT32
hmm..I'm not in the same country as my laptop now, I'll check when back home
I am thinking of buying an S1 but I read a comments on another sitre about the SD card that indicates you cannot move apps to the card (as you can with most other android devices).
Is this true? If so would it better to get a 32GB S1?
Try to plug the camera in via the USB host function, should work.
Sometimes I have to reboot the device with the sd-card pre inserted before it will recognize it. Maybe that might work?
On off suggestion didn't work...will check if fat 32 tomorrow
I bought a SDXC 128GB card for my tablet. I formated it with FAT32 and it works like a charm.
Happened to me too... fat32 formatted and all, still wouldnt detect it. I had to put it in and out until i finally saw the message on screen about the sd card being connected =/
I got my Dell Streak second hand but the 16Gb card that came with it wasn't working. Not that the seller had mentioned it.
So, I've actually bought 2 16GB micro SD cards and both have had the same problem. The device recognises it upon first installation but when writing further data upon it, e.g. connecting it via USB or taking the micro SD card out and using an SD adapter, the files become corrupted. It doesn't matter what type of file it is, it all gets corruped and it says that the SD is damaged when the phone is trying to mount the SD card again.
This is the 3rd time it has happened so it's no coincidence.
My 4gb that I had in my previous XDA Orbit has been working fine ever since I got my Streak with no problems whatsoever.
Am I missing a driver for 16gb+ SD Cards?
EDIT- Just had a thought. I was transferring all my stuff from my previous card that was in my Streak to the new one, could this have caused any problems? I assumed you could transfer all SD data from one card to another and still have all the apps and data working?
EDIT x2- Had another thought! It seems like when things get put onto the root of the SD card, it causes corruption but when it gets put into a folder, it seems okay. Now this isn't a problem when the device writes things to the SD card- they get put into the appropriate folders, however I have never had this problem with the aforementioned 4gb card and always write pictures and movies onto the root of the SD card to view without any problems.
My old nokia was on its last legs, so I borrowed my sister's Smart 2 to use. I inserted my SIM card, and my micro SD card (which worked fine on my Nokia and on my PC). Things were working fine until I attempted to download something from the browser, but it told me that I had to have an SD card to do so. Which I found odd, considering there WAS one in there.
Now, I've checked and made sure I'm putting it in the right way, and I've even tried changing the format via my PC from FAT(default) to FAT32 and exFAT, to no avail. The main problem is that when I go into
Settings -> SD card and phone storage
with the SD card inserted into the phone I still get "Mount SD card - Insert and SD card for mounting" which is greyed out, as well as "Erase SD card". So for some reason it's still not picking it up. If it sheds any light on the problem, it's a 1gb SD card
Dreenar said:
My old nokia was on its last legs, so I borrowed my sister's Smart 2 to use. I inserted my SIM card, and my micro SD card (which worked fine on my Nokia and on my PC). Things were working fine until I attempted to download something from the browser, but it told me that I had to have an SD card to do so. Which I found odd, considering there WAS one in there.
Now, I've checked and made sure I'm putting it in the right way, and I've even tried changing the format via my PC from FAT(default) to FAT32 and exFAT, to no avail. The main problem is that when I go into
Settings -> SD card and phone storage
with the SD card inserted into the phone I still get "Mount SD card - Insert and SD card for mounting" which is greyed out, as well as "Erase SD card". So for some reason it's still not picking it up. If it sheds any light on the problem, it's a 1gb SD card
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Okay... I don't have much experience with the Smart 2, but most Android phones work similarly. What you can try is, back up all the data you want to keep onto your computer, insert SD card into phone, and have the phone reformat it. If the phone does not recognize card, make sure the SD card slot works. You may have to unscrew phone and make sure all wires are connected. If the SD card works on your Nokia and PC, it should be fine. Also, make sure there is no dust or dirt in SD card slot. Hope this helps