I ought a new Samsung EVO+ SD card for the Tab S3 but the Tab doesn't want to know about it.
The card is original. I verified size and speeds. Exactly as package describes. But once I stick the SD card in. It says Unsupported SD card and asks me to format it for portable storage. When I do this the bar doesn't go beyond 20% and it gives me an error. The numbers change but most stays the same.
command'14 volume partition disk:179,64 public' failed with '400 14 Command failed'
it totally doesn't make sense to me at all. Googling the middle numbers brings me to other brands with faulty SD card slots or motherboard issues.. I'm a bit afraid now...
What I tried:
reformatting the card in exfat different cluster sizes.
checked for errors in windows
upgraded latest oreo firmware (obviously)
did a factory reset on tablet
cleaned SD slot with air
I have no clue what's going on but I'm afraid I need to send it back. But before I do it I'd thought I'd ask here if anyone had a similar issue before.
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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
Hey. I bought a new _cheap_ SDHC card online, 32gb... When I put it in my phone, the phone gets pretty slow while there's a notification saying "Preparing SD card" "Checking for errors."
Now it stays there for a long while and the phone gets very hot... Is the card defect or is there something that can be done?
Have a look for H2testw
Well the problem is that i can't mount the card since i don't have a card reader...
Please forgive me for not being psychic, you didn't say that originally.
No need to be hostile man.
Anyways, i let my phone run for a few hours, still nothing...
Does anyone have any idea? The phone IS rooted, so that might have something to do with it, gonna try to unroot it today to see if that makes any difference.
this happened to once, I bought a 32 GB from amazon and it was cheap. It was a disaster, all my data I stored in it was erased spontaneously. I returned it and had a refund. My guess, the sd_card is inferior
y don u get a cardreader an check for eerors or format an c....or u can set usb debugging and do tht if dont hav card reader...some use 64gb card wiv no prblm..
You don't need a card reader to check for errors if you don't have one. Just plug your phone with the card in it into a computer and search for your card in windows explorer and check for errors there. You can also format it from there also.
I managed to check it on a card reader today, windows does recognize something is going but doesn't allow me to format it or do anything except change the drive letter basically... When i check it through computer -> manage -> disk management it shows it as a MBR? Why is that and any way to go around it?
Oh and i can't access the card while it's in my phone at all, it just keeps looking for errors and doesn't mount it?
preparing SD Card and checking for errors
I am also having the same problem, My sd card always shows the message Preparing sd card and checking for errors in galaxy fit and I have formatted it in my pc and then tried all the other methods like deleting the msdos file from system/bin etc but still the problem persists. would there be any problem with my phone of sd card slot kindly reply
Hey,
I have a 64GB Sandisk Ultra microSD card. I am now on my third dead card, after killing all three through a re-partition and format using Mini Partition Wizard Home.
Originally, I got over 6 months of trouble free operation from the card, with 4 partitions. When I recently upgraded my phone, I went to repartition the card, and it died. I got a replacement from Sandisk (as they have a 10y warranty), and when I went to re-partition the replacement, it died as well. Tonight I just got the next MicroSD card replacement and again, as soon as I reformatted it (I wanted it all EXT4) IT DIED!!!
Originally, I thought it died because I defined the partitions in reverse order (ie the last partition first and the first partition last). Now, I think it was because when I create the EXT4 partition these last three times, I am using a 4K cluster size instead of the default. The first time I partitioned and formatted it (and it worked), I would think I had left it on default. Other than that, I cannot see what I have done that would cause the issue????
Anyway, now I have a Micro SD card that is not recognised by Mini Partition wizard, so I can't reformat it and bring it back to life.
In windows partition manager, it does show up, but as having a size of 0 bytes, and therefore I cant add or delete any partitions. I have searched high and low, and all I can find are recovery software for deleted files or partitions. But my card has no partitions. I also downloaded the micorSD industry standard SDFormatter, but it does not see the card as an option to reformat.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I could recover the card? I think Sandisk may get a little difficult when I get back to them saying I killed another card, and I do not want to wade through the whole returns process and wait for a replacement card, again.
Any ideas? I am getting desperate. The card can't be physically damaged, i would guess if I could re-flash the firmware or something, the card would come back to life.
Maybe a format would do? Well, if you can go with losing the data on it.
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Maybe a format would do? Well, if you can go with losing the data on it.
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That's the problem. I can not reformat it, as nothing (useful) can see the card, to enable the creation of a partition to apply a format to.
At the very best, I can see it as having 0 bytes. ie I can not add a partition to apply a format to it. If I could reformat it (ie define a partition), all would be ok. The card is dead, and it was brand new (for the 2nd time) so there is no data on the card to recover.
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
Recently my Redmi Note 3 (Kate) stopped detecting my Micro SD card. The phone didn't fall down, I didn't change Kernel or ROM neither. It just stopped out of the blue.
Weird thing is that on my computer the card works perfectly fine. Tried different cards with different sizes (16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB). All work fine on my computer but the phone doesn't see them.
A few times a day I get a notification that my phone detected a corrupted SD card and tries to fix it but quits with an error.
My first thought was that it was caused by the ROM I'm using (Citrus CAF) but the cards aren't even detected in TWRP (official and RedWolf).
So I guess it isn't the ROM's fault then.
Any ideas?
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Attached you can see the error message I get when trying to format the SD card
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Attached you can see the error message I get when trying to format the SD card
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Try to flash it on PC in ntfs or exfat format
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I don't know how to edit and attach a picture.
Attached you can see the error message I get when trying to format the SD card
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Try a small size and format using FAT32 and tell me.
Ooooo... I didn't see the other post if TWRP doesnt see it try to mount it from there or just go to wipe and just select micro sd and see what's the output..
Hey! I am glad I am not the only one encountered this. I went to search everywhere in the web and most of it are talking about a corrupted micro SD card.
I cross checked by switching my alternative phone micro SD card into my redmi note 3 and it doesn't work as well. Both micro SD card works perfectly on my other phone and laptop, just when inserted into redmi note 3, it doesn't detect, nothing happened at all. There's no option to mount or unmount or view it from file explorer or via computer. I tried to clear cache memory too. It all happened suddenly on normal everyday usage, nothing new happened.
I faced Similar problems with sd card. But i have warranty on my xiaomi and i send it to them to check it. And they raplaced mainboard. Problem doesnt appear since that data.
Make SD card Detectable
If your SD card becomes undetected then do not worry, even after trying several solutions, your SD card is not able to read then try some other fixes. Some fixes that you can try to make SD card readable on android phone are to check android phone’s compatibility, clean the SD card gently, update SD card driver, try CHKDSK command prompt, format SD card into NTFS/FAT32/exFAT and more. You can go through to get the steps to fix this error using these solutions: