It says that windows needs to scan my drive to see if there are errors. I always hit continue without scanning, but what would happen if I clicked for it to scan?
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It says that windows needs to scan my drive to see if there are errors. I always hit continue without scanning, but what would happen if I clicked for it to scan?
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It would scan the drive for errors.
and fix them. Nothing will break, it never has for me. It just means that you disconnected it from your computer without unmounting the sd card first.
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It would scan the drive for errors.
and fix them. Nothing will break, it never has for me. It just means that you disconnected it from your computer without unmounting the sd card first.
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thanks, running now.. I was just afraid it may try to correct something voodoo had changed..
elijahblake said:
thanks, running now.. I was just afraid it may try to correct something voodoo had changed..
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Nope, my sd card for my camera does this from time to time. It generally only takes two minutes or so for my eight gig card.
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Nope, my sd card for my camera does this from time to time. It generally only takes two minutes or so for my eight gig card.
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yeah it worked fine.. at first i did the scan and check for errors AND try to fix bad sectors but that seemed like it wasn't working so I cancelled and just scanned and fixed errors and only took 30 seconds or so..
yeah it would scan and probably not find anything, if it did it would fix it without harming any of your data.
if it does that repeatedly after scanning to verify there are no errors, try going in the notification try on windows and right clicking on the little USB icon then hit eject on whatever the drive is.
I think windows might store its own data about whether or not you eject it properly because that has happened multiple tines with flash drives and stuff. Hope I helped.
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Hey guys, I posted this on androidforums but got no response. So I figured I would ask here, see if anyone can help.
I've been having a problem more and more with mounting my phone to my pc as a disk drive. I want to pull pics off and add things obviously. Increasingly, my phone just won't mount as a disk drive. I have to connect and disconnect it several times to get it to work. And now today, it won't mount no matter what I do.
~ Rebooted the phone
~ Make sure debugging is off (won't work either way)
~ Tried making it automatic and/or make it ask which connection
~ Used "Safely Remove Hardware" and it doesn't help
~ The pc sees the drive added but won't go any farther
~ My phone sees the card just fine and I can access it just fine (32gb)
~ If I take the card out and mount to the pc, it sees it just fine
~ The phone still charges while connected to the pc
~ Sideloading also still works just fine
~ Stock Inspire, no root or anything
So what the hell? Makes no sense... I've since downloaded "Wife File Explorer Pro" and it works like a champ. I can see all the contents and folders of the card and I can upload/download just fine. I'm fine using the Wifi Explorer but I don't like the fact that I can't use my cable. I'm not exchanging the phone so that's out. Any thoughts or ideas? Appreciate your time!
have you tried a different usb cable?
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have you tried a different usb cable?
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Ahh, yes I did, forgot to include that.
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Ahh, yes I did, forgot to include that.
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ah, ok. it 'kinda' sounds like it's in charge only mode instead of disk mode. do you have it set to ask each time or default to one of the settings?
select diskdrive on phone and I have debugging enabled, make sure to install htc sync, my computer will see the drive but cant access it till i actually select mount as disk drive and click done, then it is accessible, you can try a different usb port, and then try restoring phone if all else fails, your pics should still be on phone.
Sometimes I forget to select the "Done" button at the bottom of the screen to lock in my choice for the USB.
Yeah, I've tried all of this. I've set it to disk drive and automatic and it only charges. I've set it to ask me each time, and it does not. Typically when you plug it in, the usb icon shows up at the top but it no longer does this yet will still charge. Ask, don't ask, debugging on or off, it just doesn't work. When I plug it in, the pc shows the new connection as the H drive but says nothing is inserted. When I remove it, that "drive" disappears. I always make sure and hit done when I choose, nothing seems to work.
Oh well, it's no big deal really. That Wifi Explorer works really well so I can access everything from my browser through wifi. It works suprising well!
I had this problem earlier today I physically removed my memory.card and rebooted.the phone and that fixed it. But it scared me. I have a wintec 16 gb men card class 10. What are you using?
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I had this problem earlier today I physically removed my memory.card and rebooted.the phone and that fixed it. But it scared me. I have a wintec 16 gb men card class 10. What are you using?
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I'm using a SanDisk 32gb card, just a slow class 2. Did you mean you re-booted the phone without the card in it and then put it back in after boot up? Or removed it, shut down, re-inserted card and then powered back on?
So I've been having this issue for about a week now. All the apps installed on my phones SD card once I reboot are not loading up. I know the data is still there because the first time that it happened I spent the better part of day freaking out thinking everything was gone gone. At some point I thought of checking of the data by plugging in into the computer. Turns out (1) all the apps miraculously return (2) I can't mount the SD card anymore (3) I can't unmount the SD card anymore either.
What is the deal? It's kind of annoying to lost everything every time you reboot. I'm not really in the mood to tether my phone each time for the unforeseeable future just to keep everything loaded. Has this happened to anyone before? What should I do?
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So I've been having this issue for about a week now. All the apps installed on my phones SD card once I reboot are not loading up. I know the data is still there because the first time that it happened I spent the better part of day freaking out thinking everything was gone gone. At some point I thought of checking of the data by plugging in into the computer. Turns out (1) all the apps miraculously return (2) I can't mount the SD card anymore (3) I can't unmount the SD card anymore either.
What is the deal? It's kind of annoying to lost everything every time you reboot. I'm not really in the mood to tether my phone each time for the unforeseeable future just to keep everything loaded. Has this happened to anyone before? What should I do?
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What do you mean, the icons? I'm going to assume that's what you're referring to, for this reply...
If that's what you meant, icons on the home screen take a few seconds to get themselves drawn, if apps are on SD.
You can switch to a different skin then switch back to your original skin, to get them to redraw. Or delete/reposition them one at a time. It's a workaround, but changing the skin temporarily is faster.
It's a sense bug, I'm pretty sure.
Doesn't happen if apps are installed on the phones internal storage, so until they fix it, move your apps onto internal storage, if you don't want to deal with this each time you reboot. They run faster if they're not on your SD anyway.
Unless you have waaaay more apps than you really need, of course.
Sorry should've been a little more specific. The shortcuts on my home screen are all no longer working and I'm well aware of how long it takes for sense to load them up on startup but even when I go to display all apps it only displays the apps on internal storage. In fact each and every app on the card (in the apps settings) has a funny icon that has a little "sd" on it now and just says computing and will not load.
And since writing this I can no longer get the phone to load any apps from the sd card by tethering it to the computer. It's still accessible - just downloaded today's song from amazon and played it - but apps on it are almost like they're gone.
This happens to me sometimes too. But usually when it happens to me I can go into Settings - Applications - Manage Applications and move the troublesome app to internal storage, and then it's fine. It never completely disappears.
It might do you some good to reformat your SD card. Move everything off of it first, then format it, then put everything back on.
Is it the stock 8GB SD card, or a different one?
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This happens to me sometimes too. But usually when it happens to me I can go into Settings - Applications - Manage Applications and move the troublesome app to internal storage, and then it's fine. It never completely disappears.
It might do you some good to reformat your SD card. Move everything off of it first, then format it, then put everything back on.
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Sold, since I can no longer access the SD card and I've got nothing to listen to at work...
zuriken said:
Is it the stock 8GB SD card, or a different one?
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Yup.
@homeslice976 copied, formatted (made sure it was FAT32), copied everything back and no dice. Same symptoms, Apps will not load.
@zuriken I don't know why you asked about the stock SD card or not, do you think it needs to be replaced? It's only been since February.
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@homeslice976 copied, formatted (made sure it was FAT32), copied everything back and no dice. Same symptoms, Apps will not load.
@zuriken I don't know why you asked about the stock SD card or not, do you think it needs to be replaced? It's only been since February.
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Did you do a full, not quick format? Scan for bad sectors/errors?
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Did you do a full, not quick format? Scan for bad sectors/errors?
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full format, chkdsk /f, still nothing though. This is honestly getting to the point where I'm tempted to switch to another phone. Why can't I access my stuff?
Another new bonus, every time I get some sort of alert it now plays random MP3s from the SD card. What is going on...
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full format, chkdsk /f, still nothing though. This is honestly getting to the point where I'm tempted to switch to another phone. Why can't I access my stuff?
Another new bonus, every time I get some sort of alert it now plays random MP3s from the SD card. What is going on...
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I'd try a brand new, good quality SD card before resorting to switching phones.
Have you flashed any custom roms or anything? I didn't see you mention either way.
Scott_S said:
I'd try a brand new, good quality SD card before resorting to switching phones.
Have you flashed any custom roms or anything? I didn't see you mention either way.
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It's gonna be a little while until I can try a new SD card but I'll get back to you.
The only ROM I loaded was the one to originally root that removed the uploading cap from ATT.
I also solved where the random sounds were coming from apparently it doesn't want to play my selected theme and no matter what I do the only one that works is the original HTC default 2010 one or if I download any only the Celesta theme plays... I have a sinking feeling that copying all this funky data isn't going to resolve anything but I'll give it a go.
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It's gonna be a little while until I can try a new SD card but I'll get back to you.
The only ROM I loaded was the one to originally root that removed the uploading cap from ATT.
I also solved where the random sounds were coming from apparently it doesn't want to play my selected theme and no matter what I do the only one that works is the original HTC default 2010 one or if I download any only the Celesta theme plays... I have a sinking feeling that copying all this funky data isn't going to resolve anything but I'll give it a go.
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Good luck.
Since you haven't been messing with multiple roms and such, I don't know what else it could be, other than the SD card taking a dump.
Hi guys.
Whats is the correct way to log on to a SD card?
When I put the SD card of my canon in the dock it fails to notice the card. I have to restart my TF. Then it sees the card. Is this normal?
After that, finding the files on the card seems to be a bit awkward as well.
thanks for your help!
Steven
If the card was not in the tf when you started it, you need to go to the menu and mount it after inserting it. You should also unmount it before removing it just to be safe. This can be done in the lower right task bar.
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If the card was not in the tf when you started it, you need to go to the menu and mount it after inserting it. You should also unmount it before removing it just to be safe. This can be done in the lower right task bar.
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Which menu?
Click on clock.
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Click on clock.
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Just so you know, I know. But if you're going to give cryptic advice might as well not give it at all. May be obvious to you but for someone who doesn't know its not obvious.
OK, But not sure what is cryptic about lower right task bar. There is only one and if you click on it one of the options is mount and unmount SD card.
tnx
That's a good tip. I didn't know where to mount the card.
I'll try that next time. Thanks!!
Steven
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OK, But not sure what is cryptic about lower right task bar. There is only one and if you click on it one of the options is mount and unmount SD card.
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You said use menu. Which menu? Under settings? In an app that is bleedingly obvious to everyone but newbies?
In fact, nobody uses the word menu for this particular task, so this in itself is cryptic. Please understand that I've been dealing with 1337s and 1337 wannabes ever since I got my first computer. I can sniff out one like a hounddog.
c'est la ton qui fait la musique
wtf is a 1337?
Steven_nl said:
Hi guys.
Whats is the correct way to log on to a SD card?
When I put the SD card of my canon in the dock it fails to notice the card. I have to restart my TF. Then it sees the card. Is this normal?
After that, finding the files on the card seems to be a bit awkward as well.
thanks for your help!
Steven
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I've noticed this as well. I notice that if I have the card in, undock and redock it doesn't mount properly. I haven't played with it much, but I think if I eject the card and then undock it works better. Definitely a bug. Rebooting always resolves the issue.
This seems like an unlikely connection, but I have a Canon camera as well. Another annoyance as well is that the SD images don't show up in MediaStore (Gallery).
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Another annoyance as well is that the SD images don't show up in MediaStore (Gallery).
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I use QuickPic. Yoy can choose the included folders.
not solved
so I tried looking in the "menu" after installing the card. No luck. I have to rrestart the TF to make it show up. when i do, it shows up on the task bar.
Also always remember to check theres no boot flags on the sd and its formated correctly i once formatted to ext2 for a project forgot to switch back then wondered why my phone wouldnt read it lol
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It's formatted by my Canon.
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It's formatted by my Canon.
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You mean the camera? Might be worth putting it to the pc backup your data then wipe it and do one big fat32 partition with no flags
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OK tnx
I use a 600D. It's advised to format the SD card in the cam to erase the images.
Not sure what kind of format that is. (low level?). I'll give it a try.
Mind you. the TF has problems detecting the cam (connected through USB) as well. I have to restart my TF to get working also.
It was working uhh I dunno a few days ago, this morning it wouldn't mount. I initially thought it was a MIUI problem (1.11.1) I rebooted, nothing. I wasn't even getting the usb disk toggle in my status pull down. I checked the USB settings and "ask on connect" was on. So I rebooted into RA and tried USB-MS, still not coming up on my PC. On my phone I can go into Astro and see the SD and everything on it fine, I played some music and watched some videos, so I'm assuming there's nothing wrong with it. I'm also assuming there's nothing wrong with the usb cable because it's charging my phone.
I've exhausted ideas on how to fix this, any help would be lovely.
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It was working uhh I dunno a few days ago, this morning it wouldn't mount. I initially thought it was a MIUI problem (1.11.1) I rebooted, nothing. I wasn't even getting the usb disk toggle in my status pull down. I checked the USB settings and "ask on connect" was on. So I rebooted into RA and tried USB-MS, still not coming up on my PC. On my phone I can go into Astro and see the SD and everything on it fine, I played some music and watched some videos, so I'm assuming there's nothing wrong with it. I'm also assuming there's nothing wrong with the usb cable because it's charging my phone.
I've exhausted ideas on how to fix this, any help would be lovely.
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Try plugging your SD card into PC with an adapter. You may need to reformat your SD card. SD card corruption is a known issue with MIUI
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Try plugging your SD card into PC with an adapter. You may need to reformat your SD card. SD card corruption is a known issue with MIUI
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But if the card was corrupt then wouldn't the phone be able to not access it directly either? I know when I ran my last Rom (Synergy) a few times when I plugged the cable in I'd get windows popup saying errors detected and it needed to be scanned. I don't have an adapter I guess I should to go and get one.
thanks for the reply.
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But if the card was corrupt then wouldn't the phone be able to not access it directly either? I know when I ran my last Rom (Synergy) a few times when I plugged the cable in I'd get windows popup saying errors detected and it needed to be scanned. I don't have an adapter I guess I should to go and get one.
thanks for the reply.
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Here is what I would do. Use dropbox to back up any files that the phone doesn't see as corrupted then reformat the SD card. Also remember that when you unplug from the PC that you have to "safely eject" it before unplugging. This is normally the cause.
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Here is what I would do. Use dropbox to back up any files that the phone doesn't see as corrupted then reformat the SD card. Also remember that when you unplug from the PC that you have to "safely eject" it before unplugging. This is normally the cause.
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Thanks for the feedback, it magically decided to pop up on it's own, I had it plugged in and charging and when I came back from lunch there it was. I scanned it and it seems a-okay. I'll remember the safely eject thing, I know about it I just tend to forget to do it, and by tend I mean always lol
When I installed cromi-x everything was working perfectly but the next day my 32gb micro sd that I've been using on it since the tablet first came out stopped working for some reason, it was not getting detected anymore but if I go to settings > storage I can see "MicroSD" and the only option there is mount external storage which does absolutely nothing every time I click on it and that option with "MicroSD" disappears whenever I remove the micro sd card.
And ever since then my tablet has been waking up with like a 1 second delay, but if I remove my micro sd card it wakes up with normal speed/no delay.
First time doing this kind of stuff so not sure what's wrong...
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When I installed cromi-x everything was working perfectly but the next day my 32gb micro sd that I've been using on it since the tablet first came out stopped working for some reason, it was not getting detected anymore but if I go to settings > storage I can see "MicroSD" and the only option there is mount external storage which does absolutely nothing every time I click on it and that option with "MicroSD" disappears whenever I remove the micro sd card.
And ever since then my tablet has been waking up with like a 1 second delay, but if I remove my micro sd card it wakes up with normal speed/no delay.
First time doing this kind of stuff so not sure what's wrong...
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Sounds like the sdcard is causing the issues. Worth reformatting it?
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Sounds like the sdcard is causing the issues. Worth reformatting it?
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yea, for some reason I cannot get this micro sd card to work on any pc/phone/tablet anymore, it detects it but there's nothing there for me to get into the storage let alone try to format it. I tried a different micro sd card and it works perfectly on the tablet and my sd card reader... not sure how my first micro sd broke or something after installing cromi-x, i did literally nothing to it besides putting the files in to install cromi-x
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yea, for some reason I cannot get this micro sd card to work on any pc/phone/tablet anymore, it detects it but there's nothing there for me to get into the storage let alone try to format it. I tried a different micro sd card and it works perfectly on the tablet and my sd card reader... not sure how my first micro sd broke or something after installing cromi-x, i did literally nothing to it besides putting the files in to install cromi-x
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Well CROMi-X doesn't do anything to the card, so I don't see how my ROM could break it. Sounds like something corrupted or maybe the card has died. What brand is it?
There are other low level tools you can use that maybe able to rescue it but if windows can't see it you may not be able to use them.
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There are other low level tools you can use that maybe able to rescue it but if windows can't see it you may not be able to use them.
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Can you drop some names? I have a big capacity card that has refused to act its age for some time now. I've tried H2testW and the thing reported the correct storage but slowed down considerably after writing half its capacity.
You can try Gparted. You would have to burn the image to a CD or create a bootable stick and run it from there. Make sure your BIOS is set for booting from a bootable disc or USB drive before it boots Windows.
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You can try Gparted. You would have to burn the image to a CD or create a bootable stick and run it from there. Make sure your BIOS is set for booting from a bootable disc or USB drive before it boots Windows.
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I have Gparted installed in Linux. Don't cut it. Does it low-level format? Seems pretty quick for such a chore.
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Can you drop some names? I have a big capacity card that has refused to act its age for some time now. I've tried H2testW and the thing reported the correct storage but slowed down considerably after writing half its capacity.
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http://hddguru.com/software/HDD-LLF-Low-Level-Format-Tool/
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/
And a paid for one
http://corrupted-sd-card-recovery-pro.software.informer.com/
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http://hddguru.com/software/HDD-LLF-Low-Level-Format-Tool/
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/
And a paid for one
http://corrupted-sd-card-recovery-pro.software.informer.com/
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Tried formatter 4. Took the whole day to erase 64GB. The program found no errors. Repartitioned it again with Gparted. Still encountered data loss. Guess the card has expired. But thanks again for the tips.
What brand/size was your card?
I had a similar experience with a cheapo 16GB card a few years ago.
Thanks,