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Formatted my SD card...and now it won't work

My SD was acting a fool (after deleting many ROMs, it still said I had 73MB free). Nothing I did would change it so I decided to format the card. I used Disk Utility (on Mac) and formatted for FAT32. After I did that, my phone said it was in a format it couldn't recognize, so I formatted it from the phone itself. Now, when I enter recovery and attempt to install zip from sdcard, then choose zip from sdcard, it says "E:Can't mount /sdcard". I don't really know what to do, as I formatted it from my phone. I figured that was sure fire but I guess not so much. I tried to find what format I need the SD card in to work properly but I couldn't find anything.
Can someone help me out?

Fat32 is correct for the phone. Do you have a usb reader for the sdhc microsdcard or one of those sdcards that let the microsd card fit in to read it from the pc?
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Reboot in recovery, if it says it can't mount it... pop out the sd from your phone and pop it right back in and see if it works. No need to mess with mount points for it either.
Also, did you check if your lost.dir folder is taking up space? Sometimes that thing can get big.

Could have been a bad flash, try to flash it again. I know I had a problem when I bought a new sd card. You can also try to flash it from a different phone. Otherwise, if you have access to a pc, I can tell you how to format it from the command line, which is, in my opinion, better to do if you're having a problem with the quick format that the phone does.

ericalanMICHAEL said:
My SD was acting a fool (after deleting many ROMs, it still said I had 73MB free). Nothing I did would change it so I decided to format the card. I used Disk Utility (on Mac) and formatted for FAT32. After I did that, my phone said it was in a format it couldn't recognize, so I formatted it from the phone itself. Now, when I enter recovery and attempt to install zip from sdcard, then choose zip from sdcard, it says "E:Can't mount /sdcard". I don't really know what to do, as I formatted it from my phone. I figured that was sure fire but I guess not so much. I tried to find what format I need the SD card in to work properly but I couldn't find anything.
Can someone help me out?
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Sounds like what i did one day when i wanted to wipe everything so i did including formatting my SD card through recovery. so it left me with nothing on my phone including a bootable rom! lol. if this is the case with you. Here is what i had to do. Download a new rom to my PC then plug my phone into my PC via USB/ Boot into recovery/ Mount storage/ Mount SD card/ Copy the Rom to SD card then Flash the Rom. Not too sure if this helps, I hope it does, again it sounds like the same problem i had.

Sometimes SD cards break...for some reason they will just stop working, probably due to manufacturing techniques. My old 256mb card went bad, I just tossed it yesterday as a matter of fact. it had no name brand. I still have a 4gb pny that works perfectly and a SanDisk 32gb which also works great. If you do have to get a new SD card, I would recommend getting the highest class you can afford highest out the right now I believe is C10. That will increase your transfer speeds....both of my current cards are class4 and it can take a little bit of time to transfer gigs of data between the phone and computer. If you have any other device that can accept the "card" put it in there and check if it can send and receive data/ format to proper disk size, if not then your card is broken.

Once you go class 10 you don't look back lol
Loving my Lexar 32gb class 10 microsd.
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[Q] external sd card problem

hi guy's!
i have a Galaxy Ace GT-S5730i
and i was having some problems with the internal storage
so i saw this thread by jocala
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1757767
that i can use the external sd card as an internal storage
any how .. it didn't work!
but what happened now is that my phone can't read the sd card at all
and saying things like "no such as directory" or something like that
and i can't download the swapsd.apk again cause it needs an sd card to be downloaded to first!
if only i can download the apk from any where directly to the internal phone storage
i can get the swap back to default again!
any help please?!
and yes i am a noob!

Take out the SD card and put it into an SD card reader and put that into your computer and use a free partition program to basically repartition the entire card or delete and format a new partition.

didn't work
orangekid said:
Take out the SD card and put it into an SD card reader and put that into your computer and use a free partition program to basically repartition the entire card or delete and format a new partition.
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hey, thanks for helping
but it didn't work
did what you asked me to do, but nothing really changed!
thanks again
any other ideas?

Strange, formatting the sd card usually fixes these kind of problems :/
Have you tried it a couple times? Formatting does fail on occasions. Also make sure you do a full format, not a quick one
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jman2131 said:
Strange, formatting the sd card usually fixes these kind of problems :/
Have you tried it a couple times? Formatting does fail on occasions. Also make sure you do a full format, not a quick one
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well, the sd card is working probably on the pc with the card reader!
so i guess - just guessing - that the problem is in the device it self!
i formatted the phone it self but it didn't work, and i'm going to go with what you are saying
and i will do a full format
thanks a lot

didn't work, does the FAT,FAT32 and the rest of those stuff matter?!
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when ever i open "My Files" it says "Your phone does not have SD card inserted" although it is!

take a cloth and clean your SD card area in your phone, also use that canned air stuff and do a quick spray.

[Q] Micro SD Issue

Hello all,
I am suffering from an weird issue, that I had never aware of...
After found some issues with "Memory card Unexpectedly removed" and "Screenshot couldn't be store in SD card"
I tried to format SD card, but what I found --->I can't Format SD card...
I tried :::::
--> Scanned with Antivirus (Kaspersky) and removed 1 Trojan from 3rd Party apk file..
--> Unmount the Card and Format it via Phone...
--> Formatted via 4EXT recovery
--> attached with PC and Formatted with FAT32..
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CAN'T SUCCEED....
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EDIT :: I can't write any data as well
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And by chance, if Format succeeds then after when I insert the SD card again to device or attaching with PC, ALL THE DATA COMES BACK again without any Data Loss
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Help Me.....My device details are listed in My Signature...

hunt007 said:
Hello all,
I am suffering from an weird issue, that I had never aware of...
After found some issues with "Memory card Unexpectedly removed" and "Screenshot couldn't be store in SD card"
I tried to format SD card, but what I found --->I can't Format SD card...
I tried :::::
--> Scanned with Antivirus (Kaspersky) and removed 1 Trojan from 3rd Party apk file..
--> Unmount the Card and Format it via Phone...
--> Formatted via 4EXT recovery
--> attached with PC and Formatted with FAT32..
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CAN'T SUCCEED....
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EDIT :: I can't write any data as well
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An by chance, if Format succeeds then after when I insert the SD card again to device or attaching with PC, ALL THE DATA COMES BACK again without any Data Loss
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Help Me.....My device details are listed in My Signature...
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Hi,
Are you sure the sd card is sitting in it's housing properly ?
Does it still click in and out?
Could there be some dust or fluff preventing it from making good contact with the phone?
Is there any way you could get a card reader,and try it directly into the PC
What about trying a different card?

malybru said:
Hi,
Are you sure the sd card is sitting in it's housing properly ?
Does it still click in and out?
Could there be some dust or fluff preventing it from making good contact with the phone?
Is there any way you could get a card reader,and try it directly into the PC
What about trying a different card?
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Not an issue with Housing and Phone, I think It's an Issue with Micro SD itself...
I tried it with connecting with PC via Card Reader, but If i Format the card and again read it via Phone, All the Data comes back without any Data loss.....
It's the Problem with SD card only...I know that diff SD card solve this, but as this is my 32gigs, i have to solve it cause I can't afford any other 32 gig SD card...
EDIT:: Any way to Forcefully Format SD card.... ??

hunt007 said:
Not an issue with Housing and Phone, I think It's an Issue with Micro SD itself...
I tried it with connecting with PC via Card Reader, but If i Format the card and again read it via Phone, All the Data comes back without any Data loss.....
It's the Problem with SD card only...I know that diff SD card solve this, but as this is my 32gigs, i have to solve it cause I can't afford any other 32 gig SD card...
EDIT:: Any way to Forcefully Format SD card.... ??
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Hi,
I know this is a silly question,but some sd cards have a lock.
Is yours locked?

malybru said:
Hi,
I know this is a silly question,but some sd cards have a lock.
Is yours locked?
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No..It's not Locked....
EDIT:: My Memory card have ONLY Read Permission, NOT Write Permission

Here's how I formatted my 64gig. SD card. Pull battery, put battery back in, press power and volume down at same time, when in bootloader choose recovery, press power to go to it. Once in 4ext. Recovery choose format SD card. It will ask are you sure. Hit yes. Let card format. This will work. It worked for me. Remember to back up data if any on SD card because formatting will erase it. I did mine this way because the device wasn't recognising my card in the phone. It worked perfectly. Hope this helps! Best wishes. It worked for me. Hopefully this will also work for you!
Sent from my HTC Sensation

realsis said:
Here's how I formatted my 64gig. SD card. Pull battery, put battery back in, press power and volume down at same time, when in bootloader choose recovery, press power to go to it. Once in 4ext. Recovery choose format SD card. It will ask are you sure. Hit yes. Let card format. This will work. It worked for me. Remember to back up data if any on SD card because formatting will erase it. I did mine this way because the device wasn't recognising my card in the phone. It worked perfectly. Hope this helps! Best wishes. It worked for me. Hopefully this will also work for you!
Sent from my HTC Sensation
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Already mentioned that I tried by Formating from 4Ext, but after completion the data will remain as it is.....
The Problem is Data is remaining As It is.....No Write...No Format...Only Read..
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use SD formatter and format the SD card...(google the tool)

ganeshp said:
use SD formatter and format the SD card...(google the tool)
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Error while formatting via SDFormatter ::
The Memory Card is write-protected.Please release the write protected switch
P.S.:: I had not put any lock and as I have multi-card reader so no any locking system in Card Reader...
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Sounds like the SD card is locked some how. Maybe you can return it to the seller for another one? He should return it without issue after you explain to seller what's happening. You have tried just about everything. Perhaps return is an option now? Seller should give you another card free of charge. Wonder why it's locked in the first place?? If I we're you, I'd contact your seller right away. I don't see why he wouldn't replace it. Best of luck to you. Hopefully you can resolve this issue.. best wishes!
Edit.. search on google unlocking micro SD card, or unlocking write protected SD card. It said there is a small sliding lock on the adapter, look carefully on the side. It said to place micro SD into adapter and slide tiny lock in opposite direction. Towards contacts is unlocked towards top is lock. You will see the lock switch if you look carefully on the adapters side. It's a tiny switch. This is suppose to unlock the write protection. Check it out on Google! Hope this helps you out! Best wishes!
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realsis said:
Sounds like the SD card is locked some how. Maybe you can return it to the seller for another one? He should return it without issue after you explain to seller what's happening. You have tried just about everything. Perhaps return is an option now? Seller should give you another card free of charge. Wonder why it's locked in the first place?? If I we're you, I'd contact your seller right away. I don't see why he wouldn't replace it. Best of luck to you. Hopefully you can resolve this issue.. best wishes!
Edit.. search on google unlocking micro SD card, or unlocking write protected SD card. It said there is a small sliding lock on the adapter, look carefully on the side. It said to place micro SD into adapter and slide tiny lock in opposite direction. Towards contacts is unlocked towards top is lock. You will see the lock switch if you look carefully on the adapters side. It's a tiny switch. This is suppose to unlock the write protection. Check it out on Google! Hope this helps you out! Best wishes!
Sent from my HTC Sensation
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I know there is a small unlock key provided on card Reader for Locking/Unlocking the Card Write Protection, But I'm not using Single Card Reader, I'm using Multi-card reader (which is capable of reading 4-6 different types of card at the same time) and in this Card Reader there is no any Lock/Unlock switch...
I also tried Format from RECOVERY...Also tried by connecting via data cable and tried to format it from Windows...All the possible tries i had done so far...
As Ganeshp suggested I tried SDFormatter,
But didn't work----> It says can't Format..Write Protection..

[Q] Micro SD card problem

Hello all and everyone who may be able to help me out! I recently got a new phone (galaxy nexus) and decided to root and s-off my evo 3d. After another sad fail at s-off, my sd card was acting up. When its in a phone, it will say the card is blank or it is using an unsupported file system. Upon formatting option nothing happens. When i insert the sdcard into an adapter and put it into my computer, i can navigate to my computer and when i try to get into the drive, "my computer" crashes and i have to remove the card to get back to the start screen. I can use the drive for other things but it just wont read this card and makes the computer freeze. ive tried programs and whenever i try to select the drive, again the program im using crashes. Other cards work fine so it seems the card itself is the problem. worked fine before. Can anyone help me out here?

Had a similar problem a while back seems i had forgot to remove the password before plugging the card into my pc. Not sure how that will help you here tho.

replace the card and check if it is working than the card is defected

NomadSpin said:
Had a similar problem a while back seems i had forgot to remove the password before plugging the card into my pc. Not sure how that will help you here tho.
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I never had a password on it.
shashank281295 said:
replace the card and check if it is working than the card is defected
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I know the card works. I just can't do anything or my computer just stops.
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AGoogleUser said:
Hello all and everyone who may be able to help me out! I recently got a new phone (galaxy nexus) and decided to root and s-off my evo 3d. After another sad fail at s-off, my sd card was acting up. When its in a phone, it will say the card is blank or it is using an unsupported file system. Upon formatting option nothing happens. When i insert the sdcard into an adapter and put it into my computer, i can navigate to my computer and when i try to get into the drive, "my computer" crashes and i have to remove the card to get back to the start screen. I can use the drive for other things but it just wont read this card and makes the computer freeze. ive tried programs and whenever i try to select the drive, again the program im using crashes. Other cards work fine so it seems the card itself is the problem. worked fine before. Can anyone help me out here?
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Is your phone able to read/detect your card?
If yes then:
Go to Phone Settings> Storage Settings> Unmount SD card> Erase SD card.
Report if that works.

If it's dead, most reputable manufacturers offer a warranty on their cards. Go to their website & look up the procedure for getting an RMA. That's much cheaper than buying a new card.

rishabhgangwar said:
Is your phone able to read/detect your card?
If yes then:
Go to Phone Settings> Storage Settings> Unmount SD card> Erase SD card.
Report if that works.
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When the cards in my phone, it gives a notification saying that is an unsupported file system or that it is A blank SD card. When it is in the phone it will not let me erase. when I select Format, it's just kind of stops. and if I select it again, nothing. Can't use unmount or mount as they are greyed out. Wish I could format it.
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AGoogleUser said:
When the cards in my phone, it gives a notification saying that is an unsupported file system or that it is A blank SD card. When it is in the phone it will not let me erase. when I select Format, it's just kind of stops. and if I select it again, nothing. Can't use unmount or mount as they are greyed out. Wish I could format it.
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I had a similar problem figuring out that moving Apps to external sd and then removing this sdcard CAN DESTROY the sdcard controller - better unmount card then remove it or switch phone off and remove it !
Even more worst - it's still working sometimes on any PC with adapter - if you have warranty on that sdcard i would replace it in the store bought !

jha1 said:
I had a similar problem figuring out that moving Apps to external sd and then removing this sdcard CAN DESTROY the sdcard controller - better unmount card then remove it or switch phone off and remove it !
Even more worst - it's still working sometimes on any PC with adapter - if you have warranty on that sdcard i would replace it in the store bought !
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ive had SD cards fail a few times without rhyme or reason, but corrupted data by doing the above more than once.

Go to Phone Settings> Storage Settings> Unmount SD card> Erase SD card.

fixxxer0 said:
ive had SD cards fail a few times without rhyme or reason, but corrupted data by doing the above more than once.
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Maybe i had luck - but since the failure i have been very carefully !
Nowadays sdcards should beeing built that writing more than 100000 times should be possible - so such an error should also not occur
but what the sdcards are very sensitive is heat - temperatures above 55 ° C (131 F) is almost a no go! (or increasing failure rate drastically !)
bursa1616 said:
Go to Phone Settings> Storage Settings> Unmount SD card> Erase SD card.
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No when this failure appears - formatting is not possible anymore - the "controller" inside the sdcard is defect !

After searching a lot in XDA, I found a thread which can help you.
Take a look
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=367912&page=2
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bursa1616 said:
Go to Phone Settings> Storage Settings> Unmount SD card> Erase SD card.
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Already tried brotha.
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rishabhgangwar said:
After searching a lot in XDA, I found a thread which can help you.
Take a look
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=367912&page=2
Hit thanks if I helped you.
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Just by replying with some information your helping me out. I have tried many SD card repair tools but when the card is in my computer, and if I do anything related to the card, the program just crashes until I pull the card out. I will post a video later. I've never seen this before. If nothing works I'm just gonna get another.
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well, i stuck the sd card in my dads win 7 laptop and it formatted right away. Maybe win xp just couldnt handle it?

AGoogleUser said:
well, i stuck the sd card in my dads win 7 laptop and it formatted right away. Maybe win xp just couldnt handle it?
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Nice to read that you are out of trouble now.
Sent from my LG-P500

{HELP} Sd-Card dead/corrupted?

So i'm using xperia j and i wanted to install some rom
So I used my mom's htc desire x as it gives better speed and I just pulled the card and on her phone it showede that sd card removed unexpectedly and now my card's not working
So here's how it goes I used some software so I got all my data
I am using a card reader so on my pc it shows the card and all the stuff inside it but cannot copy or delete anything
I used chkdsk and diskpart commands not working
I used 3~4 software's to format it not working
On my phone it shows Damaged sd card please format it nothing happens and the error pop's up again
Is there any fix or should I buy a new card?

AnshSingh said:
So i'm using xperia j and i wanted to install some rom
So I used my mom's htc desire x as it gives better speed and I just pulled the card and on her phone it showede that sd card removed unexpectedly and now my card's not working
So here's how it goes I used some software so I got all my data
I am using a card reader so on my pc it shows the card and all the stuff inside it but cannot copy or delete anything
I used chkdsk and diskpart commands not working
I used 3~4 software's to format it not working
On my phone it shows Damaged sd card please format it nothing happens and the error pop's up again
Is there any fix or should I buy a new card?
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First, check the card reader, make sure the lock is off (you can find it in the left side of the card reader)
Then, check the gold bar in the back side and make sure there is no dust
If still persist, try to enter and re-enter the card reader to your sd card slot in computer.
If it really really still persist, then you should buy the new one :fingers-crossed:
Hope it helped!

Vroyaloko said:
First, check the card reader, make sure the lock is off (you can find it in the left side of the card reader)
Then, check the gold bar in the back side and make sure there is no dust
If still persist, try to enter and re-enter the card reader to your sd card slot in computer.
If it really really still persist, then you should buy the new one :fingers-crossed:
Hope it helped!
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Thanks for replying but it didn't help
I used my friends card reader it still can do the same stuff but no luck formatting it
My card is readable
I even installed a rom from it as cm can read my card but not format it

why u not unmount it first before u take it out.?
have u reformat it to fat32 ...
if still not working better u buy a new one..
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FaIzaL3040 said:
why u not unmount it first before u take it out.?
have u reformat it to fat32 ...
if still not working better u buy a new one..
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Yeah I was in a hurry so I didn't :crying:
Can you tell me how to reformat it to fat32?
It shows that it is fat32

AnshSingh said:
Yeah I was in a hurry so I didn't :crying:
Can you tell me how to reformat it to fat32?
It shows that it is fat32
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It really doesn't matter if you unmount it first, that shouldn't break the SD Card (personal experience), It's most likely your SD Card is locked whilst locked it's probably also corrupted, Make sure you haven't got the lock on the SD Card reader (The little nob on the side should be alligned with the word 'Lock' this means Lock is off)