All of a sudden apps on storage card fail to load.
After a few reboots they reappear at random, but disappear again on reset.
Did not have that problem with stock, but after flashing Infused 1.14 (and on) the issue appears even with the (rooted) stock rom.
Any ideas?
I am trying to determine if I need to return and replace the phone before I lose the option.
Thank you in advance.
Answering the question by myself, in case others encounter the same issue.
The external card had something corrupted, and when the system was mounting it, all mess ensued.
Backed up all the data and reformatted.
System appears ok for now
I just had this same problem or at least something very similar to it. Initially I thought it was the 32GB SD card being too big since I read Android had a 16GB external card limit. But those posts were from a year ago and when I searched deeper I read that 32GB cards were being use without size problems now. There was one issue that seemed to affect some people and that was that android could have problems formatting a card that big and that's how I installed it in my Infuse initially- I let the Infuse format it, then popped in in my Macbook Pro (in OSX) to copy over the contents from the previous 8G card. I believe I have hidden files set to show, so I should be copying over everything- though, could this method of upgrading the card be a problem too?
It worked for a couple days, but last night during a reboot I tried to access the app tray and didn't know the card was still being scanned. It froze and I couldn't get past the secondary media scan after many tries. I didn't realize that apps were being automatically installed to the card.
Anyway, I was gonna return the card, but after reading your post, I'm thinking again about corruption due to poor formatting as the problem, so I'll try it again when I get home. Thanks for your post. I really want to be able to use this larger card so I'm keeping my fingers crossed this will solve the problem.
BTW, how did you format the card? I have Win7 x64Pro on my MBP as well if I need to use windows, but did you use FAT, FAT32, ExFat? I'm still a 'droid noob ;P. Thanks again!
-- Infuse 4G Rooted with stock ROM
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Is anyone else having issues with their sd card corrupting? I have an 8gb class 6 transcend card and it has corrupted 3 times in the last month. I always unmount the card in windows before unplugging the phone. It seems to do it when I'm writing to the sd card from the phone.
The first time I noticed it was when I deleted a picture with built in photos app.
The next time was today when I made a nandroid backup before applying an update (theme). The nandroid backup finished and when I went to apply the update it came up with an error (I didn't reboot between the backup and applying the update). I reset the phone and the sd card was unavailable.
At one point I did have the card partitioned with the apps on one partition. When it corrupted I reflashed the phone back to 1.42 and left the apps on the phone. I went back to one partition and left it at that (fat32).
I don't know if I just have a bad card or something else is going on. I never had any problems with 1.41. However because it did it while doing a nandroid backup would that rule out the software version?
I would like to find a solution, as I don't trust the card anymore without backing it up frequently.
i've had it happen once (files names corrupted) but assumed it was down to the card as i had the same happen when it was in my N95, i've now bought a new card and i'll see how it goes.
When mine goes down, it seems like it kills the partition. When I open a disk manager I don't see a partition on the card anymore.
Hey axion,
Yea your card is pretty much dead... this also happened to me yesterday on my 4 gig card... yyour card will still work however reformatting or creating anymore partitions won't help bring it back.. for future update.zips or recovery boots upload your update files to your stock 1 gig card.. remember to always safely remove hardware with any card mounted to the to a computer..
YES - and not only have I had the same problems, it's with the same brand card! Transcend 4 GB Class 6.
My phone started having issues where I installed an application and it would act wonky, then if I tried to reboot it'd lock up into an infinite loop.
The last couple of times, I solved the loop by doing a fsck on the partition in GParted (booted into a GParted Live instance from a laptop using a USB stick). The problem reoccurs though, making me think there's something problematic with the card.
There's an app in the thread on the cheap 8 GB cards (of which I'm holding my recently received shipment . There's an app in that thread used to test write performance, but it does some crude error checking, and I had an issue when I did that test.
I'm going to do a partition clone and report back.
my dodgy card was 4GB Kingston, one interesting problem i had with it was video refused to play, i could read and write the file fine but android would refuse to play it and meridian video player would report the wrong pixel size, time and codec which had me confused all last weekend.
I'm also frequently having problems with my 8gb card (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211341). Every few days I find myself firing up Ubuntu to fsck it and I always find errors. I often discover them when looking for a file on the phone (I usually do a find / | grep whatever and notice that I get "stale file handle" errors).
Should I get a newer/better card? I'm happy to pay more for a better one. I didn't know this brand, but it was the only class 6 I could find. If Sandisk made a faster card I'd get that, but I can only find a class 2. I have a 16gb Sandisk but it is only class 2 and therefore not good for apps, which is what I'm using the sdcard for.
If anyone can recommend a better one, I'll give it a try.
Does a 16gb class 8 exist yet? What about a 16gb class 6?
I just moved to the same card you have, mlevin - so I'll post back my experiences if I'm seeing anything.
I'm wondering if maybe moving the caches to SD isn't the greatest idea, since these devices aren't meant for continuous writes. If I have more issues, I might just move the caches back to the onboard memory.
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I just moved to the same card you have, mlevin - so I'll post back my experiences if I'm seeing anything.
I'm wondering if maybe moving the caches to SD isn't the greatest idea, since these devices aren't meant for continuous writes. If I have more issues, I might just move the caches back to the onboard memory.
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Yeah, that worried me as well, so I moved my caches back to the main storage and only have app, app-private and data symlinked to the card.
If you are having problems after moving apps and data to your ext2 partition, you have to push the original init.rc and mountd.conf back onto the phone so you can wipe to card fully and restore it to the FAT32 file system.
I had a similar problem on my tmobile wing (variant of the Atlas which is a modified version of the Herald) running Windows Mobile 6 and Windows Mobile 6.1. I think it was also when I used the SD card as a place to store cache for PocketIE. Maybe that's the issue, using it as cache storage. (This is my theory, not something that has been confirmed.)
g1 sd card deletes itself
I am on my 4th sd card. I am not sure what is corrupting/deleting my data. I can copy over some music/video/pdfs/wtfevers and it'll stick around for awhile. Then BAM, music folder empty(had 1 gig of music in it). BAM, 1 of 3 video files corrupted. OH wait, now all 3 are gone. awesome. I keep a backup on my pc so I can copy it all back over once it goes south. I have the doodledroid drawing app on my phone and the folder will go corrupt - not allowing me to save an image until I delete the folder so it can reinitialize(create a non-f'ed up folder). Also, my picture thumbnails get f'ed so I have to delete that folder so the G1 can remake a new non-corrupted set. My PDFs disappeared about 3 days ago. Cards all formatted fat32. blah.
Frustrating.
I have root
kila-user 1.1 PLAT-RC33
Anyone else find a solution?
BTW, my sd cards were:
sandisk 2gb
sandisk 2gb
PNY 4gb (current)
Lexar 4gb
mlevin said:
I'm also frequently having problems with my 8gb card (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211341). Every few days I find myself firing up Ubuntu to fsck it and I always find errors. I often discover them when looking for a file on the phone (I usually do a find / | grep whatever and notice that I get "stale file handle" errors).
Should I get a newer/better card? I'm happy to pay more for a better one. I didn't know this brand, but it was the only class 6 I could find. If Sandisk made a faster card I'd get that, but I can only find a class 2. I have a 16gb Sandisk but it is only class 2 and therefore not good for apps, which is what I'm using the sdcard for.
If anyone can recommend a better one, I'll give it a try.
Does a 16gb class 8 exist yet? What about a 16gb class 6?
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mlevin: I have that card. It's been fine...until I believe the other day. I was running 5.01H w/ apps to sd and my battery had died so I charged it. Upon turning it on the android screen kept looping as though it wasn't mounting the card. Worse came to worse and I had to end up reformatting the card and starting from square 1. Now that I reformatted it, I'm getting "insufficent space" errors when trying to install paid apps even though I did everything right.
I'm wondering if it is the card.....
Hello,
I'm hoping you guys can give me some pointers.
Ever since I started to update to Froyo builds, the only thing that doesn't work is the gallery. It ALWAYS locks up the phone tight, I have to pull the battery.
I have tried formatting the SD card (the one that came in the box with the N1, btw on Tmo, unlocked, non rooted), doing a factory reset before each update. Then I simply copy my photos into the phone. I don't copy the .thumbnails folder.
I'm now distressed because FRF85B is out and it's supposed to be the OTA update, and I tried it last night and got the same lockups.
Does this mean I can't use froyo on my n1? it's seems impossible to fathom that my phone would be different.
I'm out of things to try, besides a factory reset and a formatted SD card, I don't know how to troubleshoot this. Eclair works fine with the gallery never had a problem.
I've seen people complain about this on the net but never seen a solution.
Best Regards
I have found some ways to make the Gallery crash, like by getting info on certain files, but no lock-ups!
What about clearing the Application's data from the Settings menu?
(Applications--> Manage Applications--> All--> Gallery--> Clear Data)
Thanks for the tip. I haven't quite done that clear data, I've just been deleting crap off the SD card.
I ordered a 16GB class 10 SD card (can't find the 32gb anywhere heh heh and when I get it I'm going to do a factory reset and then flash to froyo and start over.
It is very possible that my SD card (the stock one out of the box) is too slow or otherwise has problems.
I will post back here just in case other people are seeing similar problems.
cheers
reapur said:
Thanks for the tip. I haven't quite done that clear data, I've just been deleting crap off the SD card.
I ordered a 16GB class 10 SD card (can't find the 32gb anywhere heh heh and when I get it I'm going to do a factory reset and then flash to froyo and start over.
It is very possible that my SD card (the stock one out of the box) is too slow or otherwise has problems.
I will post back here just in case other people are seeing similar problems.
cheers
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hi there
did you come right with this?
So I got the 16GB class 10 card, and had the same problems.
I had to do a wipe from the bootloader and format the SD card.
Now the phone is stable. I was able to copy my photos and music.
But when I try to put too much on the card, like Brut maps or just copy the app specific folders from the old sd card, I still get lockups.
I'm pretty sure now that it's not really gallery related but SD access, seems 2.1 handled it much better than 2.2
Still waiting for the exchange HTC setup for me.
I have this problem that keeps repeating itself.
I have been using the latest BiffMod Rom for a few weeks, all has been fine until I moved some apps to the MicroSD card via the inbuilt application manager.
The phone works fine for a while and then one day, nothing. the phone doesnt want to boot or anything. After some investigating it turns out its the MicroSD card that is corrupt.
If remove it from the phone, the phone operates as expected, If I insert it, I either get freezing, or the safely remove SD card message. The card wont mount.
I have tried the card in a Windows PC and it will read the Fat32 but freezes after a while.
Now this is not the first time this has happened and the pattern is emerging that it seems to be when ever I move apps to the SD.
Has anyone else had similar problems, I have gone through 3 of the same card in about as many months, luckily I have a bunch of cards from work. But its super annoying.
completely The card ends up been completly useless.
winkerg1 said:
I have this problem that keeps repeating itself.
I have been using the latest BiffMod Rom for a few weeks, all has been fine until I moved some apps to the MicroSD card via the inbuilt application manager.
The phone works fine for a while and then one day, nothing. the phone doesnt want to boot or anything. After some investigating it turns out its the MicroSD card that is corrupt.
If remove it from the phone, the phone operates as expected, If I insert it, I either get freezing, or the safely remove SD card message. The card wont mount.
I have tried the card in a Windows PC and it will read the Fat32 but freezes after a while.
Now this is not the first time this has happened and the pattern is emerging that it seems to be when ever I move apps to the SD.
Has anyone else had similar problems, I have gone through 3 of the same card in about as many months, luckily I have a bunch of cards from work. But its super annoying.
completely The card ends up been completly useless.
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1. Wrong section. Next time try Q&A
2. I for myself only killed 1 microsd 16gb with one of the first froyo roms and never experienced or heard sth similiar until now
3. try reformatting the card...
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winkerg1 said:
I have this problem that keeps repeating itself.
I have been using the latest BiffMod Rom for a few weeks, all has been fine until I moved some apps to the MicroSD card via the inbuilt application manager.
The phone works fine for a while and then one day, nothing. the phone doesnt want to boot or anything. After some investigating it turns out its the MicroSD card that is corrupt.
If remove it from the phone, the phone operates as expected, If I insert it, I either get freezing, or the safely remove SD card message. The card wont mount.
I have tried the card in a Windows PC and it will read the Fat32 but freezes after a while.
Now this is not the first time this has happened and the pattern is emerging that it seems to be when ever I move apps to the SD.
Has anyone else had similar problems, I have gone through 3 of the same card in about as many months, luckily I have a bunch of cards from work. But its super annoying.
completely The card ends up been completly useless.
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Well, for one, Biffmod moves apps2sd automatically, using scripts and when you do it manually, you are messing with the mod. So, thats where you messed up.
Secondly, I too messed up a 16GB Class10 SD card but, was able to fix it by reformatting it in ubuntu then again in Amon_RA recovery menu. I originally had it formatted 1024MB ext4/96MB swap...when I re-parted it, I had to change the sizes for it to work. Now, its 512MB ext4/32MB swap.
Third, a guy (MrBurrito) gave me this script file he made to try and fix the card. You copy it to your sd card, flash it in recovery, wait 10-20 seconds after it finishes and, then reboot. It didn't work for me but, I'll attach it, maybe it can work for you.
I've been using Dexter's froyo v1.3 for a week or two now, with basically no real issues. About 3 days ago or so, when I powered on my phone - you know how the sd card symbol appears in the status bar right when u turn on phone, it's loading sd card - so I see that symbol, but unlike how it usually is, it doesn't go away after a second (after it's loaded). So I pull down status bar and the icon says "checking for errors" and it doesn't go away at all. SD card just won't load. Oh I should mention -just remembered - I turned it on and I got "error with sd card, you may have to reformat" (or something like that) right before and then it just changed to "checking for errors" after I took out the sd card and reinserted.
Anyways, so my SD card isn't loading, right. I figured it might have something to do with the fact that I was using the SD card that came with it which is low class (2). I tried putting it in an SD card reader and put into my computer and it showed up and worked with no issues. But it just wasn't working on my XT720. So what I did was, I happened to have an extra micro SD card lying around (this one class 4) and I put it into the XT720. It worked just fine. That was a few days ago.
A few hours ago, I was using my camcorder on XT720. After using for quite a while I got "sd card not present, sd card must be present to use camcorder". I left the application and went to settings and my sd card was registered as present. I then went to gallery but I got the same "sd card not present" thing. My phone felt very hot at the time, which I assumed because I was using it for a while. I figured it might be an issue of overheating causing weird things. So I decided to power off my phone for a while and see what happens.
Upon turning on my phone, I was greeted with the SD card icon in the notification bar and upon pulling down; "Checking for errors". Now this new SD card won't load.
This is a really big issue for me, because I really need the SD card for stuff. Both SD cards seem to work fine in SD card reader on PC. Please let me know how I can fix this...
(sorry for making this so long, just wanted to have all info available).
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Apparently this looks like a huge, long unresponded to issue for many people and not specific to Dexter's Froyo: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2500
I'm going to try some of the solutions people posted, but problem seems unfixed for majority of users .
Gaaaaaah. My Android experience has been plagued with far too many issues....
What sucks is that if I want to flash back to stock to try to use warranty, I'm going to have issues if I need an SD card....
It seems you've already determined the issue, you have excluded the SD card(s) as the source of the problem. This leaves one thing - your phone is defective.
Flash it back to stock and send it in for service.
This issue has absolutely nothing to do with what software is on your phone.
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This issue has absolutely nothing to do with what software is on your phone.
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Yup, I've determined that as you can see in my edit... :-/
How can I flash back to stock without SD card?
syrenz said:
Yup, I've determined that as you can see in my edit... :-/
How can I flash back to stock without SD card?
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You don't need the sdcard to flash a stock SBF with RSD lite.
I kept having same problem. If u are using move 2 SD or anything like that select auto and not Justin external I had to reformation my card about 3 times b4 I figured it out. Dexter posted somewhere not to use these apps.
similar issue with sd card
The only problem I've had with my sc card is that most of the time after my phone has been rebooted, the sd card will show up as not present once the phone has completely finished booting. Sometimes I can just reboot again and it will pick up on it but usually what I have to do is shut it down, remove the card, start it up and then once it indicates the sd card is not present I can reinsert and it loads just fine. I have an 8gb class 4 that came with the phone.
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You don't need the sdcard to flash a stock SBF with RSD lite.
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This is very good to know. Thanks.
easye420 said:
I kept having same problem. If u are using move 2 SD or anything like that select auto and not Justin external I had to reformation my card about 3 times b4 I figured it out. Dexter posted somewhere not to use these apps.
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Nah, not using anything like that.
pillar2004 said:
The only problem I've had with my sc card is that most of the time after my phone has been rebooted, the sd card will show up as not present once the phone has completely finished booting. Sometimes I can just reboot again and it will pick up on it but usually what I have to do is shut it down, remove the card, start it up and then once it indicates the sd card is not present I can reinsert and it loads just fine. I have an 8gb class 4 that came with the phone.
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I tried that once (it was something mentioned in that link I posted) but it didn't work. I'll probably try it out again before attempting to use warranty.
I would also try reformatting the sdcard, just because Windows can read it doesn't mean there aren't issues with the card.
K, so I put it in SD Card reader and into PC and began transferring all the files on the card to a new folder. During this process I got a pop-up a bunch of times telling me specific files were corrupted and unreadable and couldn't be transferred (mostly music filer for the most part). I then formated the card to delete the remaining corrupted stuff. Now put into phone and it registers as being there and now things like camera are working.
Gonna have to see how it fares when stuff are actually on the card, but for now things are looking good.
Thanks for the help guys, will update if I encounter further problems.
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And after transferring some music on to it, it still seems to be working fine. Needless to say, I'm quite happy I don't have to go through the hassle of flashing stock and then trying to get a device exchange for warranty...
Though I am slightly worried that the device itself will corrupt things again (since my other SD card also worked fine for a few days). But I did also do a complete factory reset so perhaps there was some app causing issues that no longer will... Guess we'll see what happens.
I had problems with my stock (Cincinnati Bell) SD Card doing a similar thing -- showing up as no card inserted. Sometimes rebooting did the trick in fixing it. Then my phone fried and quit working. I thought it was related.
After I received a new (refurb) from Motorola as a warranty replacement, I used that same card and was getting the same error. So I upgraded to a new 32GB class 4 card and still got the error. I upgraded to Dexter's ROM and it still continued. I'd keep rebooting (three to four times sometimes) and eventually it would go away.
Then I decided to pull everything off the card, reformat & give it an ext3 partition using the method in the video tutorial in these forums. I haven't had the issue since -- it's been about a week now.
As the title says, something seems to be up with my SD card. I figured I'd nose around here before going out to pick up a card reader so I can mess with the darn thing on my computer.
Anyway, before anything else, I'm going to say that I've never had any issues with writing to my SD card since I picked up the Z3--neither on Kitkat nor on Lollipop. I don't even remember having to use the platform.xml fix.
Just today, however, I suddenly got an error when trying to copy some files to my external SD. I was more than a little surprised since, just a few days ago, I was moving files back and forth between the card and the internal memory without any problems. I tried backing something up in Titanium next, and got the infamous insufficient storage space error. I found it really weird but, since it wasn't anything new to me, I tried applying the fix, which didn't solve the issues. I also tried the Play Store app and FolderMount. FolderMount seemed to work so I uninstalled it (which you should be able to do, right?) and restarted my phone, to make sure whatever fixed things stuck. Aaand I ended up right back where I started.
Next, I thought of unmounting and remounting the card in Settings. What I saw there, though, was that the system wasn't detecting the card as mounted at all. I tried using the mount option but all I got was "Preparing SD card... " and nothing after that. Despite that, I could see and access/use everything on the SD card through ES and other apps. I pulled the card out and stuck it back in, and it finally started showing as mounted in Settings, but then everything else (ES and other apps) was showing that there was no SD card. Restarting the phone after that resulted in the original problem.
I've had a number of cards die on me in the past and, so far, I'm not getting any of the symptoms of that yet. If the card is indeed on its deathbed, I wouldn't be surprised either, as it is several years old. If I can, though, I would still rather forego the expense and trouble of getting a new card, so I'm hoping someone can point me in the direction of getting this sorted out.
Thank you!
Dying SD card, SanDisk UHS is so well known to start dying fast...I guess others that use similar components too...
I've been having some problems with the SD card also, and I suspect XZDualrecovery to do some weird stuff to the SD card..
I've been having problems with the SD card being 'damaged' according to the phone. However, if I take it out, and put it back in, it works like a charm again, until i reboot.
This error seems to coincide with XZDualrecovery, seeing that XZDR doesn't work anymore right before the 'damaged' messages.
When reinstalling XZDR, the error doesn't appear after reboot, and the thing is fine again for some time.
I really don't get why this happens though...