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 .
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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.
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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?
Hi, I am sure there is a lot of samsung galaxy s2 users having experience on internal and external sd card suddenly not mount. This is so critical to me. As i have a lot of memorable photo keeping in my phone earlier (The photoes taken when i registered with my wife). I dont have any further backup and now i face a trouble that internal and external memory sd card not mounted. If you ask me to do format, ofcourse i know this can solve the memory problem...but do you think i will do it?? Ofcourse not man, those memorable photos only one a life time can take, so what do you think...where is the solution???? why samsung manufacture never provide us a better support center?? ... why in the forum no one has solution. (Maybe rooting the phone may help, but you know what i never play the root root thingy)........i need help ... i wanna cry to the God.... i wan my photos back. Help....help
ingfong192 said:
Hi, I am sure there is a lot of samsung galaxy s2 users having experience on internal and external sd card suddenly not mount. This is so critical to me. As i have a lot of memorable photo keeping in my phone earlier (The photoes taken when i registered with my wife). I dont have any further backup and now i face a trouble that internal and external memory sd card not mounted. If you ask me to do format, ofcourse i know this can solve the memory problem...but do you think i will do it?? Ofcourse not man, those memorable photos only one a life time can take, so what do you think...where is the solution???? why samsung manufacture never provide us a better support center?? ... why in the forum no one has solution. (Maybe rooting the phone may help, but you know what i never play the root root thingy)........i need help ... i wanna cry to the God.... i wan my photos back. Help....help
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Well...I too had got the same problem once....that time I didn't even know how awesome android development SGS2 has...ended up formatting the SD card...
Well..you can always recover all the photos using any recovery software after formatting the phone..
Try factory resetting the phone(only your system memory gets wiped) and see whether the problem gets solved...
Well there are other apps but you need root..
Long back I had got this problem...my internal memory wasn't getting mount and when I tried to access it told that it got corrupt and needs to format..
To solve that I connected my phone to PC after connecting in mass storage mode (settings>wireless more options>USB>turn on USB storage) and connected to PC...
It didn't get detect over there in PC ,but in phone the turn on USB storage option changed to turn off USB storage...I clicked on that and the media scanner started...
All the data I thought I lost was back...
Anyways you always have the option to factory reset and try...
Press thanx if I helped...
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umair241995 said:
Well...I too had got the same problem once....that time I didn't even know how awesome android development SGS2 has...ended up formatting the SD card...
Well..you can always recover all the photos using any recovery software after formatting the phone..
Try factory resetting the phone(only your system memory gets wiped) and see whether the problem gets solved...
Well there are other apps but you need root..
Long back I had got this problem...my internal memory wasn't getting mount and when I tried to access it told that it got corrupt and needs to format..
To solve that I connected my phone to PC after connecting in mass storage mode (settings>wireless more options>USB>turn on USB storage) and connected to PC...
It didn't get detect over there in PC ,but in phone the turn on USB storage option changed to turn off USB storage...I clicked on that and the media scanner started...
All the data I thought I lost was back...
Anyways you always have the option to factory reset and try...
Press thanx if I helped...
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda app-developers app
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Oh No man i did factory recovery , that is not help although the internal memory is alive now but the storage data all gone. Please advice what software you use to retrive/restore back the lost data.
Much appreciate my God
ingfong192 said:
Oh No man i did factory recovery , that is not help although the internal memory is alive now but the storage data all gone. Please advice what software you use to retrive/restore back the lost data.
Much appreciate my God
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Thanks umair241995 , ignore my post, you know what , i have successfully recovery myself by installed a software called photo, Audio & video files recovery... now everything recovery back. But still i cannot accept this defect exist galaxy s2. :good::good:...thanks dudes
I've used photorec to undelete 3GB of photos from my camera's sdcard once, got almost all of them back. It runs on linux and supports all files, not only photos.
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ingfong192 said:
Oh No man i did factory recovery , that is not help although the internal memory is alive now but the storage data all gone. Please advice what software you use to retrive/restore back the lost data.
Much appreciate my God
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I hope you recovered all your data back...though how the hell did the data of internal memory get wiped after factory resetting the phone... is the first time I've heard about it. ..
Anyways, post again if the problem still persists in your phone or files not recovered properly. .. Don't start storing data in your internal memory before getting back your photos. ... the data after formattin still remains in the phones memory in raw form...but if you put some other data in your phone it gets overwritten and deleted. ..
Press thanx if I helped...
I dnt know what Ive done last night
But all the files in my internal storage are disappeared.
I mean the image file.
So any way to find the file out?
My device is a Sony Xperia SP , which is rooted but with locked BL.
please provide possible solution as much as u can/__\
I really need ur help as there are too many important and valuable photos there.
Please help!!
PS.Never ask me to use MSC mode instead of MTP, as my photos are save in internal memory
Undelete and Remote for Android are tried but useless
Hello Guys...
This is the first time I'm posting on XDA... Sadly after my phone has died on me.
I was using a custom rom for my Micromax A120. But while changing the internal partition something happened, and my PC asked me to format my internal memory as it was showing 0 space.
But after I did that.. Everything is gone. Even in Custom Recovery mounts are not happening properly, my phone is not getting detected on sptools. I'm stuck basically. Please help!!! In serious trouble.
Guys anyone...Please help..I'm really worried.
souradip_bublai said:
Hello Guys...
This is the first time I'm posting on XDA... Sadly after my phone has died on me.
I was using a custom rom for my Micromax A120. But while changing the internal partition something happened, and my PC asked me to format my internal memory as it was showing 0 space.
But after I did that.. Everything is gone. Even in Custom Recovery mounts are not happening properly, my phone is not getting detected on sptools. I'm stuck basically. Please help!!! In serious trouble.
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Please help guys...
Hi, this is probably a noob question but anyway. So i installed a custom rom in my phone when i noticed that the storage space was low, i searched through many forums and couldn't find anithyng related, only an app that shows the complete space of all of the partitions called DiskInfo, it shows an unmounted partition called fat and the only way to access to it is connecting the device to a pc in usb mass storage mode in TWRP. is there any way to mount it or make it usable for the phone?.
When i access to settings and storage only shows the internal storage and nothing else. Can't attach images because new user sorry.
Thanks in advance and sorry for the bad english.
CamilorozoCADC said:
Hi, this is probably a noob question but anyway. So i installed a custom rom in my phone when i noticed that the storage space was low, i searched through many forums and couldn't find anithyng related, only an app that shows the complete space of all of the partitions called DiskInfo, it shows an unmounted partition called fat and the only way to access to it is connecting the device to a pc in usb mass storage mode in TWRP. is there any way to mount it or make it usable for the phone?.
When i access to settings and storage only shows the internal storage and nothing else. Can't attach images because new user sorry.
Thanks in advance and sorry for the bad english.
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INCREASE YOUR ANDROID INTERNAL MEMORY || BY MOUNTS2SD (BEST WAY) in androcustomroms. Google it. It worked for my ZTE Blade L3 4.4.2 stock rom. Try it. Link2sd did't work for me.
EDIT: if you still can't, use Apps2sd. It works better for me.