Hi Team,
Is there a file manager which will allow me to copy files from the SD card to the phone's memory? I ask because I have ringtones on my SD card which the phone can't read when the USB is plugged in, and I'd like to move them to the main ringtone folder. Thanks!
UPDATE: Sorry to bother everyone - I found and used Root Explorer!
Couple weeks ago, I bought a 8gb external sd card for my vibrant. Its been working fine except for a couple of times when it wasn’t mountable for somereason. I had to restart the phone few times to get it to work. Yesterday, I turned my phone on and realized phone wasn’t recognizing external sd card. Instead I had a message in notification bar saying “Damaged external SD card. SD card is damaged. You may have to format sd card. ” I tried numerous times to take out the external sd card from the phone and putting it back in, with the phone being both turned off and turned on. I connected the phone to computer and it wasn’t readable and was only giving an option to reformat the sd card. Used a sd card adopter to try to read the card’s contents but with the same results.
I remember once I connected the phone to my pc and disconnected it without pressing the turn off sd card storage on the phone. This might have caused the problem.
What am I doing wrong? What is wrong with the sd card? Is there anyway I can retrieve my data stored on the card. How can it be fixed?
Thakns.
I was able to fix this issue with chkdsk command in dos command prompt screen from this thread . I couldn't find the answer in vibrant forum so im posting here in the hope it will help others in the future and will work as reference.
Open command prompt on your pc.
then type chkdsk followed by drive letter followed by /r - so if your card is detected as E then do: chkdsk e: /r
hit enter.
Windows will check your card and its file system along with files folders, used and unused space.
I got this issue multiple times .... I had to format the external sd multiple times but eventually it worked but the guy above seems to know what he's talking about, try what he said out and use my way as a last resort because you will lose all things stored on the sd my way
this is prime example of why i make backups of everything
vabeachfc3s said:
this is prime example of why i make backups of everything
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This is part of the learning process, its a tough process or we could be prepared like you
Today I got the same message as before when SD card didnt work.
"Damaged external SD card. SD card is damaged. You may have to format sd card.”
I was able to fix it again using the method described above. But im wondering why does the SD card keep giving me problems. Is there anything I could do to fix it?
Micro SD card are real sensitive. If you look at them wrong they'll take a ****. Any minor static discharge on them and they will be useless. You're just gonna have to get a new one. I know it sucks but I've been through 2 of them till purchased a Samsung one that has lasted. You're just gonna have to remember to back everything up like homie vabeachfc3s says. An old man told me once "he who doesn't have at least two backups of his files is someone who doesn't care to loose them".
sLiKK said:
I was able to fix this issue with chkdsk command in dos command prompt screen from this thread . I couldn't find the answer in vibrant forum so im posting here in the hope it will help others in the future and will work as reference.
Open command prompt on your pc.
then type chkdsk followed by drive letter followed by /r - so if your card is detected as E then do: chkdsk e: /r
hit enter.
Windows will check your card and its file system along with files folders, used and unused space.
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This worked to recover my SD on my AT&T Skyrocket. Thank you!
I believe I encountered the problem because I was trying to transfer too much data at once from my internal SD to the external SD (my entire Titanium Backup!).
This happened to me today on my Mmx A110.
Unfortunately the SD card is not mounting either by USB cable or memory card reader.
What can I do?
clude rrnothis
Same problem as me either... buy new sd
Damaged external sd card a110
I have tried chkdsk <diskname>: /r
I have tried chkdsk /X /F <diskname>:
I also cleaned and activated using diskpart
but nothing is working its still giving damaged external SD card. Any solution ???
sLiKK said:
I was able to fix this issue with chkdsk command in dos command prompt screen from this thread . I couldn't find the answer in vibrant forum so im posting here in the hope it will help others in the future and will work as reference.
Open command prompt on your pc.
then type chkdsk followed by drive letter followed by /r - so if your card is detected as E then do: chkdsk e: /r
hit enter.
Windows will check your card and its file system along with files folders, used and unused space.
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Click to collapse
I have tried formatting, wiping etc,.
I have tried chkdsk <diskname>: /r
I have tried chkdsk /X /F <diskname>:
It shows 45% completed then it stops. Any solution ???
I wanted to upgrade my SD card which was 8GB to a 64 GB one.
Issue was there were too many apps installed on the 8GB card hence a normal copy in windows din't do the trick, even when I did show hidden files.
The solution was to use robocopy from command line.
In this example, E: is the card.
First, put the old SD card in the card reader.
1. Open cmd (Win Key + R, then type cmd, Press Enter).
2. type "robocopy E:\ C:\MyBackupFolder /MIR"
3. Remove old card and put new SD card in the card reader.
4. type "robocopy C:\MyBackupFolder E:\ /MIR"
Done
Good to know!
Awesome Tip...
This is scary fast!
Especially when upgrading from a 64gb to 128gb card...
Thanks!
be careful
someone may be stupid enough to begin from the 4th step.
anyway , any undelete software you suggest ?
I just did this, almost everything was ok except for some apps that references the SD-card with the address "emulated/[serial NO#?]" so might want to watch that out
Not sure what i've done wrong, but since day 1 I got my RMN2... im unable to tell my apps to use other folders in SD card.
Like My Backup Root I cannot specify backup path to my SD Card, there's no prompt telling me to give permissions to the app to access my SD card... Same goes for Open Camera... ES file explorer when copying files to SD card...
How do i go about doing that
Okay nvm, I solved it... I've done this solution before and it didnt work... so not sure why it worked now...
Downloaded SD Card Fix from playstore... its meant for 4.4 but also works for RMN2
Just got my RMN2 a few days ago and had the same problem. The permissions could not give new permissions and so I tried the SD Card Fix and now my apps can delete and modify files from my sd card. Thanks.
I recently downloaded a big file by Utorrent android version on my phone, I have 64GB sd card in phone, the file size was 17GB! 17GB downloaded on sd card!!!! But after I downloaded it I couldn't download or delete any file to or from the sd card, I tried to format the sd card in every way I know, and tried to search for errors by windows , and cmd command to remove read only, but I couldn't fix the "read only problem".
Please if you have any suggestion let me hear it.
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Please anyone?
your question are not clear do you mean that your sd is RO not RW?
My SD card now is read only, I could not download or delete any file.
???
Help