SD Card won't mount - Help! - Defy Android Development

My SD card won't mount.
It is probably the sbf I'm using. I tried updating my stock rom to official 2.2.2, but when I booted up an SD card icon was in my status bar. When I go into "SD card & phone storage settings", the option to "Mount SD card" is there. But when I press it, it tries to prepare it, and tells me that it is "safe to remove". Back to where I was before.
I tried flashing to Nordic, and other ROMS, but no joy.
What do you recommend?
Should I factory reset when flashing?
Android system recovery doesn't show a problem of mounting the SD card fyi.

ALWAYS wipe before you flash an sbf! I do it from recovery and immediately pull battery and boot into bootloader to flash. I had this SD card issue once while playing with tons of various roms. It has something to do with address mappings being screwed up. I would wipe all from recovery and reflash sbf

Would this also help if I'm getting a sd card not mounted error ? It's mounted but only for a short time... then apps that access the sd card say it's not mounted/ inserted.

Take the card out and check for error's on a pc..

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Try reformatting through your phone.
Settings > SD card and phone storage > unmount SD card > format SD card
bkoon1218 said:
Try reformatting through your phone.
Settings > SD card and phone storage > unmount SD card > format SD card
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When I go to that tab under settings, mount sd and format sd are grayed out. It says to insert an sd card. Any thoughts?
Try formatting to fat, not fat32. I think your phone will recognize it afterward and then you can use the phone format tool.
I know that this thread is marked solved, but I had a similar problem that this solution didn't clear up. I re-formatted the sdcard in the phone but, when I boot into recovery, CWM still can't mount it ("Error mounting /sdcard"). This means I can't make a backup, which is going to be a prerequisite for trying out a new rom.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
same issue...
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"If your problem is that you cannot mount the SDCard (as opposed to being able to mount it but it is empty) I ran into something similar during my 2nd ROM flashing experience. I got into this state by doing a factory wipe from the bootloader screen (as opposed to doing it from recovery). This wiped my entire SDCard partition, even the filesystem on it. So when I booted into Android, it failed to mount the SDCard altogether, saying that it was corrupted.
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1. Boot into recovery (for me was TWRP 2.1.8.1)
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3. Checkmark "Mount SDCard"
4. Connect device to PC via USB cable
5. Select "Mount USB Storage" in TWRP
6. On the PC, find the SDCard's drive in My Computer, right-click on it, and select "Format"
7. Proceed with formatting the SDCard ("Quick Format" is fine)
8. Safely remove the USB storage from Windows
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Will this work for me if i get a fresh sd card and follow these steps?
yes, but, make sure you uninstall all apps from the sd card before you insert the new microsd
WhiteDeath25 said:
yes, but, make sure you uninstall all apps from the sd card before you insert the new microsd
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Well, yes im hoping to get a new fresh sd card with nothing in it. Another thing, I removed the fried sd card and now the phone is booting. I hope it continues with a new sd card in it.

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