Hi partners! This is my first post here.
I have a Moto E LTE, installed Surnia on it, and it worked perfectly until now.
I've been using it only with the internal Storage, but now i wanted to expand.... so i bought a Kingston 16GB Micro SD Card Class 10.
I turned off te phone, inserted it, turned it on. The card was detected... I had to pick between using it as a Internal or External storage... and here's the thing. Either option follows with the formating of the card, and in both cases, the process abruptly ends at 30%. After that, the card is no longer readed by the phone.
I can remove and reinsert the card, and it will read it again, but the process still ends abruptly at formating.
Any clue? Any help?
I would be very thankfull.
I've search previously to make shure no one else posted the same question and i didn't find it. If it was answered in the past, im sorry i didn't find it.
Thanks so much, and excuse my bad english.
Pablo from Argentina.
Hey Pablo, 2 cases, bad formatting or bad card. Use a Card reader on your PC and format the card separately using FAT (choose the full format option), this will help identify if the card is physically damaged, if all's well, then put the card in your phone and choose the formatting option and most likely should work. If the formatting fails, most likely you have a bad card, google for other low lever formatting utilities to see if they can identify any bad sectors on the card.
Use Caution read up on what Internal and External storage well before you choose one of the options. Search for term Adoptable storage on Marshmallow and should give you a good idea.
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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.
I have a Class 2 SanDisk MicroSD, everything was just fine untill when browsing (Opera Mini) a notification popped up stating "Blank SD card". I tried the card in a Nokia E52, it didn't read it. Asked for formatting. Connected to PC right away and formatted, now I'm left with 30.6MB of space.Used all sorts of formatting tools, from cmd to 3rd party softwares. It shows total space as 30.6 only. Phone still won't read the card, and when inserting in PC asks for formatting every time.
Any ideas as to what happened? Googled for the solution, most of them stated SD Card as dead. Anyone out there who has come across this problem?
P.S:I ordered a 16GB Transcend Class 4 Card 5min ago. Still I'd like to know as to what happened to My card.
P.S 2: I had link2sd installed, and NO, I did not give swap space.Sd-ext also not readable.Did a wipe (Curiosity ) still didn't work.
Help Appreciated
Xr01d_GT said:
I have a Class 2 SanDisk MicroSD, everything was just fine untill when browsing (Opera Mini) a notification popped up stating "Blank SD card". I tried the card in a Nokia E52, it didn't read it. Asked for formatting. Connected to PC right away and formatted, now I'm left with 30.6MB of space.Used all sorts of formatting tools, from cmd to 3rd party softwares. It shows total space as 30.6 only. Phone still won't read the card, and when inserting in PC asks for formatting every time.
Any ideas as to what happened? Googled for the solution, most of them stated SD Card as dead. Anyone out there who has come across this problem?
P.S:I ordered a 16GB Transcend Class 4 Card 5min ago. Still I'd like to know as to what happened to My card.
P.S 2: I had link2sd installed, and NO, I did not give swap space.Sd-ext also not readable.Did a wipe (Curiosity ) still didn't work.
Help Appreciated
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Your SD card died probably from
1) Overload of the data processing from the SD card
2) Your SD card is worn out. Happens to Class 2 SD cards.
3) Make sure that the brand is reliable
4) Format your new SD card once every 7 months to make sure that your SD card is not infected with a virus. Scan the SD card from time to time.
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Xr01d_GT said:
I have a Class 2 SanDisk MicroSD, everything was just fine untill when browsing (Opera Mini) a notification popped up stating "Blank SD card". I tried the card in a Nokia E52, it didn't read it. Asked for formatting. Connected to PC right away and formatted, now I'm left with 30.6MB of space.Used all sorts of formatting tools, from cmd to 3rd party softwares. It shows total space as 30.6 only. Phone still won't read the card, and when inserting in PC asks for formatting every time.
Any ideas as to what happened? Googled for the solution, most of them stated SD Card as dead. Anyone out there who has come across this problem?
P.S:I ordered a 16GB Transcend Class 4 Card 5min ago. Still I'd like to know as to what happened to My card.
P.S 2: I had link2sd installed, and NO, I did not give swap space.Sd-ext also not readable.Did a wipe (Curiosity ) still didn't work.
Help Appreciated
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A dodgey memory card
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I went to use my phone last night after swapping the battery and it came up with a message saying:
"SD Card is damaged. Try reformatting it"
Its a Lexar Class 10 32GB card so obviously has a lot of stuff on it that I want to try and recover. I've tried sticking it in my laptop but it also complains that it is corrupt and unreadable.
Is there anything I can do to try and recover some of the files before I reformat it?
Also while Googling this issue I came across a topic saying that the S3 uses exFAT that causes an SD card to become corrupt over time and that its best to format the card using FAT32, is this true and if so if I format the card on my PC will this be FAT32?
Any help greatly appreciated!
look for undelete pro or similar wording on Play .
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Hello. When trying to flash my mini X android box, I used sd card from my sgs2. After that, I inserted the card to sgs2 and rebooted.
The telephone said "Corrupted card" and asked to format. However, it formatted internal sd card!! And it doesn't see the external one.
I've tried formatting external sd to fat32. No luck.
What should I do?
Kondra007 said:
Hello. When trying to flash my mini X android box, I used sd card from my sgs2. After that, I inserted the card to sgs2 and rebooted.
The telephone said "Corrupted card" and asked to format. However, it formatted internal sd card!! And it doesn't see the external one.
I've tried formatting external sd to fat32. No luck.
What should I do?
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check the link below ma8, hope it will be of some help with ur issue
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1734826
Well, this may sound stupid or strange, but what I couldn't do with gParted or Windows partition was easily done by putting sd-card to my Note 10.1
My problem is solved by now. The only thing that bothers me is that my internal sd is formatted and everything's lost. If anyone knows how to recover all data, please pm me
Kondra007 said:
Well, this may sound stupid or strange, but what I couldn't do with gParted or Windows partition was easily done by putting sd-card to my Note 10.1
My problem is solved by now. The only thing that bothers me is that my internal sd is formatted and everything's lost. If anyone knows how to recover all data, please pm me
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for ur internal sdcard data lost issue, check the link below
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2351896
First of all, im using a 4.1.2 stock and my device is rooted
So i had an Sandisk 64 GB class 10 for some time which one day became a "read - only" card...
So afterwards i bought a Samsung 32 GB class 10 which I found out also had problems because i could put about 10GB of files and everything more that 10 GB turned into wierd folders that their name starts with "μ" and there where no actual content inside and i couldn't delete them.
So now i'm at my third try, again with a Samsung 32 GB class 10 which also has the same problem, only now i can write on it about 20 GB of data before files start to get curropted.
Just want to say i bought all 3 SD card from Ebay, and though i guess they might be fake (tons of bad luck), after searching the web I found out there are many GS3 users with the same problem...
So i just want to put an end for this question..
Is GS3 frying SD cards? is there something i can do to stop it from destroying SD cards? can i fix somehow the SD cards?
thanks alot!
Hi! when you are asking a question you should include details such as operating system(4.1.2 , 4.3, 4.4, stock, rooted and so on) and file system. I noticed while searching google that the majority of "s3 fried sd cards" so to speak are sandisk and in your case it seams that there is no such "limitation". Maybe if you give more details someone might be able to help.
vader20 said:
Hi! when you are asking a question you should include details such as operating system(4.1.2 , 4.3, 4.4, stock, rooted and so on) and file system. I noticed while searching google that the majority of "s3 fried sd cards" so to speak are sandisk and in your case it seams that there is no such "limitation". Maybe if you give more details someone might be able to help.
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Well, I edited my post.
you can see the first lines contains the detailes you described.
can't think of any other relevant details.
What type of file system do you have on sd card? is it fat32 or Ext4?
vader20 said:
What type of file system do you have on sd card? is it fat32 or Ext4?
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not sure. I formated it with my GS3 and the computer won't recognize it without reformating it.
Worst case scenario is your phone somehow corrupted the sd card and that is that. I had a similar problem with my usb flash drive which i used on-the-go and unmounted it before removing it but when it happened i didn't make a backup(as always) and got stuck with a nice keychain. If you have the possibility to format it under windows with a card reader and choose fat32 at least you have a working sd card, otherwise use your warranty for the sd card(if you have one) and always BACKUP.
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Worst case scenario is your phone somehow corrupted the sd card and that is that. I had a similar problem with my usb flash drive which i used on-the-go and unmounted it before removing it but when it happened i didn't make a backup(as always) and got stuck with a nice keychain. If you have the possibility to format it under windows with a card reader and choose fat32 at least you have a working sd card, otherwise use your warranty for the sd card(if you have one) and always BACKUP.
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but do you think that my device is malfunctuning in a way that will keep frying my SD cards..?
well since this is the second sd card i personally send it on warranty(as hard as it may be without the phone) because it seems that something is not right with the contacts of the card reader circuit board. I read somewhere that on some phones the card reader slot had some contacts partially detached and so the sd card kept getting corrupted. Search a bit on google about this issue and take into consideration using your phone's warranty. Best of luck!
That is a bit strange. Unless you're used to remove the sd card with the phone accesing to it (no safe removing) or removing the battery while the phone is running, that's absolutely not normal.
I have my 32GB sd since 2010 and I never had any problem. I formatted it this year because it had tons of useless data and I liked to have it clean.
Of course it's not from Ebay! That is bulls**t and use to fail suddenly.