The other night I was watching a movie, checking my phone periodically. With it in my lap, it lit up at one point to alert me that the SD card had been unexpectedly removed. So I took off the back cover, popped it out and popped it back in and it still didn't recognize it.
I restarted the phone multiple times and even when connected to my computer through USB it doesn't recognize that there's an SD card, although I don't have a stand alone SD card reader to try out. Is there anything I can try, or is my card dead?
If you could get an SD card reader, you could use your computer to format it. Is it the 8gb that came with the phone?
CM7 Inspire 4G
Yeah it's the one that came with the phone.
Sucks because all of the puppy pictures of my new dog are on there.
it happened to me also a couple of days ago. When i got it to read the sdcard to format it on my computer, it said it was only a 30mb card not a 8gb card. Then i could not format it at all. i did a full wipe, but nothing worked. Replaced it with a 16gb card.
jwlyons said:
Yeah it's the one that came with the phone.
Sucks because all of the puppy pictures of my new dog are on there.
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Exact same thing happened to me back on CM7 RC1, with the stock card.
There's an SD formatter that I used to have on my computer. I think it was made by Toshiba...search the Internet for it and at least you could get a little more out of your SD, at the cost of formatting it.
CM7 Inspire 4G
Here, give this a try:
http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/sd/download/index.html
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Despite the Orange site still saying Sensation coming soon, they are available. I was upgraded on my plan this week and Orange shiipped my nice shiny Sensation yesterday.
Everything fine except for the SD Card.
Doesnt work - isnt detected, never mind not mounting etc.
The phone didnt think there was one inserted. Tried my SD Card from my Hero, still the same.
Tried the SD Card from the Sensation in my Hero and in my PC - not a problem - reads and loads fine. The card is a San Disk 8 gig loaded with thwe factory software.
Phoned Orange last night and they are sending a replacement via courier today. The girl on the phone did say I am not the only person reporting this problem.
Will see what happens when the replacement arrives.
Eddie
HTC Sensation
Orange
Stock Build 1.35.61.1
HTC sense 3.0
Anddriod 2.3.3
Kernel 2.6.35.10
Did you make sure it is FULLY inserted?
Just got mine today, took out the card to see what class it was, thought Ive put it back in properly, and it wasnt showing up.
YOu really have to push it in until you see very little of it left outside.
Maybe stating the obvious but give it a try...
I have a similar problem with the SD card, I took delivery today of 21 Sensations from Orange with an 8GB SD card in. The card is shown as mounted on the phone but as soon as it is connected to a PC and Mass Media device option is selected it then unmounts and becomes unavailable.
Does anyone else have this problem or is it a fault with the devices?
SD card not working
I am having the same issue. Very frustrating. I cannot seem to find the answer to the issue anywhere. Please help!!!
Troogroove said:
I have a similar problem with the SD card, I took delivery today of 21 Sensations from Orange with an 8GB SD card in. The card is shown as mounted on the phone but as soon as it is connected to a PC and Mass Media device option is selected it then unmounts and becomes unavailable.
Does anyone else have this problem or is it a fault with the devices?
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I think what you are experiencing is normal. When you connect it as mass media, your phone act as a media reader. That is how you transfer files to your phone's micro sdhc via copy and paste or drag and drop. Remember to eject it before you pull the plug or files will get corrupted.
Hello i have a big problem. I installed the ROM coredroid one week ago and yesterday my 32gb sdcard stopped working. I checked it in my computer and it works fine, but when i insert it. It shows not available in my phone.
I tried another sdcard but only with 4gb and it worked fine in my phone.
Does anyone know what happened and what can i do?
The 32gb sdcard is also not recognized in recovery mode.
Is there maybe an electrical damage? But why works the 4gb card?
Thanks in advance.
the sd could have been damaged in the download corrupt file. but will it it give you the opotion to format the sd card
no there are no option to format the sdcard, to only one option would be to format it at windows and put it again in.
i will try it later and post my result
also have you tryed putting the sd card in another phone to see if it works
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no there are no option to format the sdcard, to only one option would be to format it at windows and put it again in.
i will try it later and post my result
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There is an option to format your SD. Go to settings, storgage etc..., unmount SD, and you will have (enabled) the option to format it.
Something like that. I cannot see it on my phone right now, but I have done it before.
I think the sdcard is damaged. I can read the index on my computer, but when i try to backup anything then its near impossible. It transfers the files with only 4-8 KB/s instead of 10-20 MB/s.
Damn i hope my seller will replace the card. Its only 2 month old.
Never thought that a sdcard is possible to get this cause.
If you remove the sd card alot you can damage the contact points at the bottom of the card and it wont work . Scratches from putting it in and out over time wears the gold contact points out.
Happened to me ,thx god i save my important files on my computer.
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I think the sdcard is damaged. I can read the index on my computer, but when i try to backup anything then its near impossible. It transfers the files with only 4-8 KB/s instead of 10-20 MB/s.
Damn i hope my seller will replace the card. Its only 2 month old.
Never thought that a sdcard is possible to get this cause.
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I had the same thing happen. I was able to finally get everything off my card, though it took a long time because I had to transfer one folder at a time or the card would just act like it was removed if I tried more. Anyway,once I finally got everything backed up, then I reformatted via card reader on my computer, then I put it in my phone and reformatted again. The I was able to load everything back on, and it's Been fine ever since. All I can figure is it for corrupted when I was shooting video while the battery died a couple of times. But like I said, its been a month since that happened,and all is good so far.
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I never took it out of my phone. Its stopped working while i used it. It showed me the message sdcard is unmounted and then it was gone. I copy now my important data from sdcard, but it takes very much time with 30 KB/s.
Maybe a format will help.
Hello. Recently just got a 8gb class 6 micro sd card for my HTC Desire (CDMA). When I put the card it it's not being picked up by the phone. Not giving me any kind of error message in the notification bar, just acts like no SD card is installed. My previous card was an 8gb class 2 card that came with the phone, so I know it can do high capacity. Threw the card in a card reader and re-formatted it FAT32, still nothing. Tried putting the card in a friends Samsung Galaxy and it picked up fine. Also my old card still works when I put it back in the phone, so I'm truly stumped here. The phone is rooted but Im not running any custom roms..
Well i think the problem in in your phone. Maby some dust on those golden pins or something you cound try another card to check if its the card or phone itself.
RyanJWZ said:
Well i think the problem in in your phone. Maby some dust on those golden pins or something you cound try another card to check if its the card or phone itself.
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My old card works fine in my phone, and the new card worked in a friends phone, and on my PC. Tried re-formatting (FAT32 and FAText) and naming the volume. For some reason my phone just won't pick it up. No error messages or anything, just acts like there is no micro sd card in it.
im on my second s3 (first one screen shattered) which ive had for about 3 months now and since new i got a 32gb scandisk 10 sd card, everything was working fine till about a week agao then i started getting "sd card unexpectly unmounted" i would remove the card, reinstall, then would get the message " preparing sd card " then phone would show card but either say "blank card or unsupported files" then sometimes the phone wouldnt read that there was a card installed. i tried pressing mount sd card and nothing would happen.
now the strange thing i have a galaxy tab2 and the 32gb works great in that, so i tried formatting card with tab2, reinstalled iinto s3 and same problem. now i did take the 2gb card i had in my s3 and it works fine,the phone is rooted and have always ran Cleanrom or Wicked sensations roms. i did a loy of searchs but havent had much help on finding an answer.
somebody please help.
Bill
anyone?
I had the same problem, come to find out, it was a cheaply made sd card. Think I paid 10-15 bucks at most for a 32gb class 8 card. I bought a scandisc card and have been fine since.
And just for info.... I read online that others were having this same issue and that it was the card not seating in the slot very well. If you took your phone back to the store they would exchange it. I took it in, got a new phone, and the same thing happened (unrooted, rooted, romed, it didn't matter) Got a new card and it was fixed.
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Have you tried connecting it to your computer via sd adapter to see if files are there. If you cant read any files it may be a bad card but you can always format it while connected to the computer and see if that helps. If computer reads your files i would suggest you move files to computer, format, then try it on your phone and if it still doesnt work than maybe its the problem suggested above my post with it not seating correctly. Good luck
this is my second last port of call i have a galaxy s2 i9100 running jelly bean 4.1.2...i have a kingston 16gig class 10 micro sd card for the phone now its been working just fine for the last couple of months until a few days ago, i went to get something out of the card and noticed it somehow unmounted it self, it gave no options to re mount if i pressed format it did nothing at this point i was getting worried i have so many pictures and videos saved on this card of family functions, so i took it out put into the pc and the pc wont recognise it if i go to device manager its very slow to refresh but when it does it still doesnt find the card at this point i have no way of getting into the card at all what i wanted to know is
1. is it possible that if the card reader in the phone is faulty could it damage the card to point where it cant be recognised at all in windows?
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2. does anyone know how i can possibly get into this card to retrieve this info?
ps. at the moment im running a 2 gig backup card to see if its the reader in the phone but so far so good any help would be appreciated
My sd card wouldnt work after less than 1 year of use. Unfortunately, only a few files were saved because it lagged and neither the computer or my smarthpone would read it.
However, formating it solved the problem.
Some personal experience.
Ironically, I also own a Kingston. Now I just use it for music storage.