Hello ! I have an isssue with 2 sd cards. When I insert an sd Card inside my phone, it says "looking for errors" then I have a message that say "SD card is corrupted, tap here to format it" then it says "unable to format sd card".
I can use that SD card on pc and i tried to format it but when it's on my phone it's not working...
I have an XPERIA E5
Hi,
Seems obvious, but can your phone support the size of the SD? Some are limited 32, 64, 128...
Depending on your computer OS you might have to possibility to format at different level(quick, or deep - if I remember well) and set the type FAT, FAT32, NTFS. The standard for SD cards is, if I got it right, FAT32
What version of Android are you running, what manufacturer? Has your card ever worked on that phone before?
Has the card been inserted in other android devices (encrypted, specific to manufacturer)?
Many questions, but it's difficult to help you otherwise
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can anyone please tell me how to format mmc card for xda...there's 3 options in win xp ...fat32....fat...ntfs....i cant format it from the xda , keep getting error code 31.....an error occurred while formatting the storage card folder...........thanks
Try formatting to Fat or Fat 32, however if the xda wont format it there may be a problem, make sure the "lock" switch is in the off position. I have had a problem with sd cards before, what I did was a sd backup from the xda, it then seemed to work ok, just deleted the backup and it worked ever after.
theres no lock switch on the mmc card...i've tried storage tools and flash format...the card must be buggered
i have a different problem, but im sure its connected to the formatting somehow! my card only fills up HALF way!
there is 40% more room availble, all scans prooves this, yet i cant add anything to it, im thinking, its the way its formated, was there a 'directory' limit to how many files that can exist in root?
and wasnt it related to the type of formatting? so my question is...
which format/cluster/ect... is best to fully use a 256 card? and 512/1G.?
Hello,
I actually started a topic last week concerning the same thing. i'm copying bits and pieces of it here; it also helps address your concern about which format to use and the sd card limitations. the first point below address which format you should use for the sd card; in this case use FAT. by the way, i use an sd-card reader (usb plugged) to format the card; it shows up as "removable disk e" in my laptop's window's explorer.
1) i'm using a 512 mb card; i was having some difficulty because the memory of the card would only go up to around 300. at first i thought there was a problem with the card itself so i had to constantly erase the contents to make mp3s, files, pics, mpegs, etc fit. then i stumbled upon the pc command for formatting disks; there were 3 options to format the sd card: FAT, NTFS and FAT32. when i used fat32; the behavior was the same and the memory usage would only go up to 300 max. when using ntfs; my xda2 refused to recognie the card (it wouldn't show up in the explorer app). when i formatted using FAT, everything was great. i can now use the sd card to it's limits and am no longer restricted to the 300-mb trouble i was having.
question: what's the difference in the 3 formats? i don't really know but obviously using FAT format was the best thing to do, but what's with the other formats?
2 cents worth.
cheers mates
robson
thanks Robson...but i have sent to back for a replacement....i tried it in my reader but the pc could not see the sd card...so i went out and bought a 128mb card while i wait for the new one to come....had no problems with the 128 worked straight away
thanks for the tip - from now on FAT is to be my solution
one more thing to add, I do have 256MB SD card on my XDA I and WM2003, ver 4.0.21
I can use my 256MB card to the full limit, the card has been formatted with CnetX format utility (www.cnetx.com) with FAT16 and FAT32 and apart from the fact that content has been missing from time to time, so I had to re-load the files ... when I locked the card, everything is fine now
regards,
monika
today I have tested sandisk 512MB SD card ....
I am allowed to fill it up to the full limit of roughly 484MB
I am curious about the other thing .... buying 512MB SD card for its prce it's almost a rip-off and you get only 484MB in return, I remember old times back with IPAQ + PCMCIA sleeve with inserted flash card 1280MB of sandisk - the size written on the back of the card WAS EXACTLY matching what PPC2002 was showing .... 1280MB
to me it seems like either different "disk geometry" or disk format - can anyone explain it to me pls
regards,
monika
I press unmount and then format and i press yes. But nothing happens. It doesnt format and it doesnt remount my sdcard.
Anyone else had this problem?
Im running Modaco (tried on both 2.2 and 2.6)
Yep, I had this problem earlier today. Just bought a new 16Gb sd card, tried to format it and nothing. Nothing on the phone and if I tried to mount it to Windows, it would say mounted, then Windows would say it needs to format the card, but would fail when you try.
In the end, the only thing I could do was to put the card into my work phone (a Touch Pro) and mount it to Windows via that. I was then able to format the card in Windows. Put it back back in the Hero and rebooted (because the SD card error message wouldn't go away). After that, it was fine.
Don't know why it doesn't work, but I think you will need to mount the card in Windows somehow and format it that way.
Plug it via a memory card reader and format it as FAT32 by right-clicking your memory card under "My Computer" and selecting Format..
// This is an alternative method and will most likely work
My 2 yr old 8gig Sandisk SDHC class 2 sudden;u went kaput, cannot be detected by my Topaz (strangely, my Topaz cannot detect other microSD as well, a 4Gb Sandisk Class 6 which is working fine on a Raphael).
The error message on my XP SP3 PC is like this:
Exception Processing Message c0000013
Parameters 75b6bf7c 4 75b6bf7 c 75b6bf7c
[Cancel] [Try Again] [Continue]
Can't detect, thus can't format.
Any help, please?
i'd think that this is connected to apps2sd feature. try partitioning it in recovery image, or format in card reader in pc.
Hi I have a problem with my 64gb sd card.
Phone tells me error: have to reformat.
PC the same
when i start into bootloader I can access the sd card. Backup the phone to it read from the card no problem.
What can i do to recover the sd card data? Afterwards i can reformat but forst i have to get the data that is actual on there and seems also accessible.... but not by android or Win
deady said:
Hi I have a problem with my 64gb sd card.
Phone tells me error: have to reformat.
PC the same
when i start into bootloader I can access the sd card. Backup the phone to it read from the card no problem.
What can i do to recover the sd card data? Afterwards i can reformat but forst i have to get the data that is actual on there and seems also accessible.... but not by android or Win
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I had the same problem but with 16GB
On SII specification you can read that it supports sdcards up to 32GB
But I'll try to help you
Check SDCard on another computer (if it reads it, make backup on HDD, Pendrive, etc. and then format it on FAT32) or another phone (it's not important on which). If it won't help, I'll think about it
Recently purchased the Cat S60 (Android 6.0.1), which has so far proven to be a fantastic phone, however, the SD Card, a Lexar 128GB, has a habit of suddenly becoming "corrupt", but it isn't. I plug it into my computer with a reader, do a chkdsk, finds no problems, and plug it back into the phone, but it still shows up as corrupt. However, if I reboot the phone a few times, it suddenly realizes it isn't corrupt.
My question is, is there a reason for this happening, and if so, is there a way to fix it?
I would backup everything on your SD Card to your PC. Format SD Card in the S60, once you have formatted the SD Card in the S60,
To Format the SD Card in S60. Go to Setting --> Storage & USB
- Select the SD Card in question
- Select the 3 vertical dotes and select settings
- Select Format (Format as Internal makes the SD card part of the internal memory)
transfer the contents back to the SD Card. You might found a corrupt file while copying over which could be causing the SD getting corrupt all the time.
I have the same issue with my nvidia shield k1 and have found a lot of people having same problems with marshmallow phones.its probably the integrated space formatting.
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My Tabe 3 T820 is no longer recognizing the micro SD card. It states it is not supported and needs to be formatted to be used. The card is readable on my computer. I backup up the contents and then formatted the SD card using the tablet. It says that the format is complete and then tells me the SD card not inserted and asks for the card to be formatted. I bought a new SD card and the same thing occurred twice. There was a security update for Android Pie on September 25th. This problem has popped after the update. Any ideas on how to resolve this? Thanks.