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SD card trouble

Most of the time my phone will not recognize my SD card. I've got the one that came with it(why does if have a Samsung card ?). It's not rooted and all I have installed is apps from the market.
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Have you attempted to make a gold card? If so you might have gone wrong doing so
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Nope,no gold card.I've literally done nothing to it.
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A few people on this forum (including me) have had this problem. At least one person mentioned seeing it with a 16GB card, so it is probably not just a problem with the stock card. Popping the card out and back in should allow you to remount it from the settings.
I've noticed this has happened to me before after removing my phone from the charger. I wonder if it has something to do with the "Connect to PC" setting. Mine had been defaulting to "Disk drive", but since I have set it to "Charge only" I haven't seen the problem again.
I'm hoping this is just a software issue and not a hardware one.

I've had problems with mine as well but I found something that works for me. I use the "Safely Remove Hardware" on my pc, wait a few seconds and then re-mount. I almost never use that feature but it seems to help reset things for me.

I have seen this problem also on the stock card, Ive always used the "safely remove hardware" option when disconnecting it from the pc but yet it randomly disconnects itself from my phone. However i also do the disk drive setting when connecting it so i will have to try putting it to charge only

mine has always been set on charge only and it does it all the time. im gonna call att in a little while and have a talk with them about it. cause if its a hardware issue i want a different phone plain and simple. is everyone elses card a samsung 8g ?

Yes, mine is a samsung 8GB.

i did a little searching and it happens to the incredible as well regardless of the brand of card or size, sadly the forum i found it on never had a solution

Mine starting doing this before I left the ATT parking lot. At first I thought it may be having problems because of all the syncing the phone has to do during the first hour or so of being connected to your google account. A week later and it was still doing it once every two days or so. I took it back and they gave me a new phone and I haven't had an issue with it.

Some people are saying that it may not have been inserted correctly and to remove it using the spring mechanism and to re-insert it. this helped a few people from what ive read. that however hasnt worked for me, but may for others

ive taken mine out and cleaned it off jiggled it around and anything else you can think of. ive never had a phone with this prob. before. guess im gonna have to roll by the att store 2moro and get a new one.

just went to the shack and got mine replaced, the guy that handled it all said that the evo had the same problem and was fixed with an update so im hoping htc can get this fixed

i just wanted to make sure i wasnt the only one having this problem. guess ill stop by and get a new phone in the morning

Got my new phone and its working good for now
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[Q] SD card unexpectedly unmounted

for the last couple days I have experienced three times of the same issue - my SD card was unexpectedly unmounted, while during normal operation
I have tried power-off and power-cycle, but my Inspire would not mount the SD card back. I was only able to recover by powering of the phone then physically re-inserting the card.
Has anybody experienced a similar issue? Thanks

I think this is a common issue with the stock sd card. It happens to me every now and then too. You could try an after market. I hear folks seem to have the best luck with san disk.

Mine did the same thing when I first got mine. I formatted it and moved to a custom rom. Haven't had it happen since. It's a 16 gb sandisc that I've had since my lg incite a couple of years ago.
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it kept happening to me too so i just took my phone back and got a new one. havnt had one problem with the new unit at all. the guy at the store said he had replaced a few others for the same issue.

All I did was format the SD card and deleted any app2sd apps from the phone and its fine now. 2.2+ has app2sd stock so I think it causes conflicts if you install one from the market.
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I was having this same issue with my Inspire, with increasing frequency up until today. Today, my phone wouldn't even mount the sd card. I could mount it in clockwork recovery and see the contents on my computer (via usb), but once booted into my Android Revolution ROM, no luck.
To test whether the problem was the phone or the card, I stuck the card in my other phone - an Aria - and the card from that phone in my Inspire. Both worked! After that, I put the original card back in the Inspire, and lo and behold it worked!
Lesson learned: if your sd card stops working, put it in a different phone for a minute.

[Q] Internal Memory Scanning

Ive been waiting 20 minutes for this internal memory to stop scanning for about 20 minutes now. I dont know whats wrong, any suggestions?
Ive tried waiting it out and disabling mediascan. Im rooted and haventm essed around with any files. And until I get this fixed...I cant take pictures or look at any.

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reboot the phone

Hopefully you have this fixed by now.....
I had this happen the other day. I had it hooked to my computer with the SD card mounted. I disconnected the phone from the computer without unmounting the SD card first. The phone started scanning and didn't stop, just as you were reporting. To get it working again I reconnected it and remounted the SD card. It took a little longer than usual to mount but it eventually worked. I unmounted before disconnecting it after that and all was well. I typically disconnect without unmounting and have not seen this again, seems like a fluke.

DECIM8 said:
Hopefully you have this fixed by now.....
I had this happen the other day. I had it hooked to my computer with the SD card mounted. I disconnected the phone from the computer without unmounting the SD card first. The phone started scanning and didn't stop, just as you were reporting. To get it working again I reconnected it and remounted the SD card. It took a little longer than usual to mount but it eventually worked. I unmounted before disconnecting it after that and all was well. I typically disconnect without unmounting and have not seen this again, seems like a fluke.
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did it ever do it again?

omarsalmin said:
reboot the phone
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Do you SERIOUSLY think I havent done that? Take your time and think about that for a minute....
On another note...I guess this is a faulty phone. Not wanting to send it back since I have minimal backlight bleed...

blestsol said:
Do you SERIOUSLY think I havent done that? Take your time and think about that for a minute....
On another note...I guess this is a faulty phone. Not wanting to send it back since I have minimal backlight bleed...
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is probably the sdcard, might have gotten corrupted.
Try formatting the sdcard and see if that helps
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moshe22 said:
is probably the sdcard, might have gotten corrupted.
Try formatting the sdcard and see if that helps
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It scans the SD card fine but the internal one the phones sd I think...takes forever.

blestsol said:
It scans the SD card fine but the internal one the phones sd I think...takes forever.
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I see what you are saying I thought you meant the external one. In that case I would still format phone internal memory.
Could be corrupted
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Card errors.

I'm getting a lot of card unexpectedly removed errors. I was wondering if there is something known to cause this. I have reformatted the card a few times after experiencing this error using Windows 7. The card will work for a while, and then it happens again. I have a 16gb Sandisk card. It's only class 2. I wonder if it's the problem. I never had a single problem with it in my Tilt 2. I have about 9gb of music on it. I may scale that back to about 5gb. Also, when I place files on the card using the card reader rather than directly onto the phone in USB mode, I seem to get better results. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

I've got the same card with the exact same issue. It's enough to make me want to pull my hair out I do know that
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I used to have that problem till i switched ROM s. Try Leedroid's, TB fusion, or Cm7 nightlies with Lord mod ue kernel. I had no issues with those.

SD card unmounting on its own

Anybody having issues with their SD card unmounting repeatedly?
I would be listening to music or using another app, then I get a notification saying the SD card unmounted unexpectedly. To fix this, I would have to reboot. Sometimes rebooting once doesnt actually solve the issue.
I do have to say that when I boot into recovery (CWM) the card is present and readable (I am able to reflash ROMs from it).
I found similar threads for other devices, but there seems to be no solution offered.
When this problem occured, I was runnning ARHD 3.6.2 (not sure if that has anything to do with it).
Any solutions to this?
Thanks!

Can u tell us which firmware version your on, stock? android revolution XE?

Same here :/
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ROM: Android Revolution HD 3.6.2
Kernel: 2.6.35.14-Sensation-faux123-v0.2.1+
Radio: 10.58.9035.00U_10.15.9035.02_2
Thanks!

Mine just did this to me tonight. Now when you insert it I see the "Preparing SD Card" then about 2 seconds later "Removed SD Card". I had been using a SanDisk 8 GB class 2 thats been through 2 BlackBerry phones before this one, so I popped the Kingston 8 GB class 4 the phone came with in there and voila, it sees the card. Im thinking my card may have randomly gone belly up on me, but I will know more after I get a reader for my PC.
Just wondering if anyone else has had issues with SD cards randomly doing this with this phone. It seems I've read a lot about SD card problems with these phones while searching, I don't want to have to worry about losing all my data as much as I am now. The card was rock solid for about 3 years in the other phones, and I've had my Sensation less than a month.
~T.J.

This normally happens to me right before I start an app that would read or write into the data in the card: when I start playing MP3s, start games or apps installed in the card, accept a bluetooth file transfer, send a file from the card thru bluetooth, etc
I happens at least once a day. Generally, a simple reboot works to get the card back, but if it doesnt, I would have to open the cover and manually take out then reinsert the card.
I'm pretty sure it's not a hardware issue, though this is the first card I've used on my Sensation (bought brand new for use specifically with the phone).
Does branding of the card have anything to do with it? I admit that I got a brand that was slightly on the cheaper side, but had a lifetime warranty. If it matters, the card is made in Taiwan.
I haven't changed cards, as I'm still hoping this might just be a software bug. The reason I say this is because the very first time this happened, I had installed Always Flash, which I found to be an app that I could do without. I forced stopped the app and uninstalled it, and that's when the bug hit for the first time.
Hope someone knows the answer to this...
Thanks!

That's what happened to me, I opened titanium to do a backup and got a card removed unexpectedly error. The phone has never recognized the card since.
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no solutions found, unfortunately....
i just bought a new card
thanks!

ryanisler said:
no solutions found, unfortunately....
i just bought a new card
thanks!
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I've been having the same problem with my sensation xe. Sometimes it'll be fine for a week or more, and then it may unmount the card randomly 2 or 3 days in a row. Normally I have to shutdown, pull the battery and physically remove and re-insert the card to get it to remount, as just rebooting has never worked for me.
Tonite, even this wouldn't work. I ended up having to boot into 4ext and mount the card in there before rebooting the phone.
I really do hope someone can work out the reason our phones are doing this.
For the record, I'm using ARHD 6.7.0 and a 32g class 10 Strontium card.

anybody found a solution for this?... I also have the same problem. Tried several sd card and stock/no stock roms. Same thing every time.
I think it is a hardware prob.

I had this happen to me before but found a solution for mine. I checked my SD card and it was not locked in it's caseing so it was unmounting randomly. I removed the SD card and replaced making certain it was locked into the caseing and it's never happened again. It's definitely worth a try to check your card and make absolutely sure it's locked into the caseing. Would not hurt to check. For me, this solved my problem. My card was in the caseing but not locked in, this was causing my issue. I wish you the best. I do hope you get this fixed. Hopefully it's only that the card is loose ! Like I said it's worth a try. Best wishes.

I'd try fully formatting the card using gparted. I always do this if I have any suspicion that something may be wrong with a card and its never let me down yet.
Google it, its free and there are videos on YouTube showing how to use it so all it'll cost you is a bit of time, gotta be worth a go......
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