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SD card not recognized.

Hello fellow DC owners. I have a question. When I reboot my phone, more often than not, the SD card is not read and thus all of the apps on the SD card are shown as not being installed. When this happens they are also missing from my market (except if they were purchased then it shows just that). The only fix for this that I've found is to remove the SD card reboot without it then reinstall it and reboot again. The unmount SD card option in the settings doesn't work at all. It hangs up. I have tried all of the repitable SD mounting Widgets I can find to no avail. For my launcher I am using GO Launcher and I love it.
If there is any help you can give I'd appreciate it.
I am unrooted and using the GO Launcher.
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jbl79705 said:
Hello fellow DC owners. I have a question. When I reboot my phone, more often than not, the SD card is not read and thus all of the apps on the SD card are shown as not being installed. When this happens they are also missing from my market (except if they were purchased then it shows just that). The only fix for this that I've found is to remove the SD card reboot without it then reinstall it and reboot again. The unmount SD card option in the settings doesn't work at all. It hangs up. I have tried all of the repitable SD mounting Widgets I can find to no avail. For my launcher I am using GO Launcher and I love it.
If there is any help you can give I'd appreciate it.
I am unrooted and using the GO Launcher.
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never heard of this happening before... you may need to make copies of everything you have on there and format it then it should read it correctly, also does it read fine in your pc or another phone?

yes the SD card is good had it on motodroid before this checked it on pc also. This happened after EE4 build. Even tried reformat and factory reset to no avail. For several months I just moved all apparently to phone and used SD for photos and downloads. Bit ran low on memory which caused more problems.
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anoninja118 said:
never heard of this happening before... you may need to make copies of everything you have on there and format it then it should read it correctly, also does it read fine in your pc or another phone?
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I put the SD card in my of, copied everything, reformatted it, and put everything back on it but I still have the same problem.... any other suggestions?
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jbl79705 said:
I put the SD card in my of, copied everything, reformatted it, and put everything back on it but I still have the same problem.... any other suggestions?
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hmm search these forums for a thread with the 'sd card fix', its supposed to fix the read/write sd bug from EE4 which might be what you have here.. its old, I'll look to and post a link if I can find it
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anoninja118 said:
hmm search these forums for a thread with the 'sd card fix', its supposed to fix the read/write sd bug from EE4 which might be what you have here.. its old, I'll look to and post a link if I can find it
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I did the research you mentioned and didn't find the thread you are talking about.
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Here is the sd card fix from Kejar.
http://db.tt/2N4bUp3a
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mefloump said:
Here is the sd card fix from Kejar.
http://db.tt/2N4bUp3a
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I am sorry that i am so technologically illiterate. .. Please forgive me... But... What am i supposed to do with this link?
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mefloump said:
Here is the sd card fix from Kejar.
http://db.tt/2N4bUp3a
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Step-by-step please.
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That file will prolly fix it. Unfortunately you have to be rooted to flash it in cwm recovery. So short of trying another SD card temporarily, that's all i know to do
You should hit the thanks button for mefloump for finding and posting that file for you. Just a tip

wampuscat said:
That file will prolly fix it. Unfortunately you have to be rooted to flash it in cwm recovery. So short of trying another SD card temporarily, that's all i know to do
You should hit the thanks button for mefloump for finding and posting that file for you. Just a tip
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Not quite sure as to how to do the "thanks " thing. There's not a button on the application to do so, but I am grateful.
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I tried all the recommendations everyone had to no avail but, My problem was finally corrected with the OTA Droid update. Thank you to everyone who tried to help.
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Do NOT use kejar's SDCard Root Fix on Gingerbread, it will break USB Mass Storage Mode.

SD randomly wiped

wtf. My girl has a rooted thunderbolt running shiftsense rom. Out of nowhere a symbol pops up and says blank SD card or unsupported file format. I tried putting it in mine and similiar issue. Any way to save this thing? Any idea how it happened? She didn't do anything and was sitting in a meeting. She lost data and phone connection and when she found me, this symbol was up also.
I tried remounting SD card with no luck. Please help! Ton of pictures and other important documents on there.
Almost seems like a remote wipe.
Please feel free to pm me here also it email directly at [email protected]

Sounds like the file system on the sdcard became corrupt. I've had this happen to me twice now on different roms. Try putting the card in a computer and see if it can read anything and format it afterwards.
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bpyazel said:
Sounds like the file system on the sdcard became corrupt. I've had this happen to me twice now on different roms. Try putting the card in a computer and see if it can read anything and format it afterwards.
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Yeah windows can scan the drive and try and repair corruptions. Worth a try.
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MHX Superlite 5.0 mediascanner

I flashed the MHX Superlite 4.5 yesterday. Media scanner "starts" whenever I open gallery or music or any app that accesses media. Songs/pictures on my external SD card would not be recognized by either stock music player,play music,gallery
I flashed MHX Superlite 5.0 today. The problem persists. I searched the thread and found that someone suggested to run "SUPERIPE" then reflash.........I'm assuming they meant Superwipe. I ran Superwipe TWICE, re flashed and still no change.
Fortunately there is no stick when restarting or shutting down, but I could live with that.............Need my music
Thanks
Update: I have tried a new ROM AND a new sd card and the problem persists!

how big is your media stick? brand?
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3GB
Scan disk
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sounds like you might have filesystem problems with the sd card? i suggest you copy all your stuff off it using the mount usb storage option in cwm (mounts and storage > usb), and then format /sdcard under cwm, or remove the card, format it under a windows computer, and reinsert it.

formatted the sd card (while connected to my PC and using the default FAT32 setting)
problem persists
I can view files via the my files app
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I've had pretty good luck doing the following to fix strange errors:
Wipe data
Format system twice
Format data twice
Format cache twice
Run superwipe
Flash rom
Wipe cache and dalvik before first boot (this requires holding the volume buttons on the superlite 5 install at the appropriate time)
I'm sure this method is at least 50% superstition on my part, but it works for me every time.

I just want to state for anyone who ever reads this
I finally got the media scanner to work
Method
flashed through Odin original skyrocket leak
Flashed cwm
Ran super wipe
Flash ROM
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I had the same problem, with a different ROM. I think there was something corrupt or messed up on the internal sd card, cuz after I moved everything to the computer, it worked fine. The one click worked because it wipes the emmc. I went straight from GB to a ICS rom, that's why I had a problem.
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eagle0042 said:
I had the same problem, with a different ROM. I think there was something corrupt or messed up on the internal sd card, cuz after I moved everything to the computer, it worked fine. The one click worked because it wipes the emmc. I went straight from GB to a ICS rom, that's why I had a problem.
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I woke up and found that somehow my wall paper had reset itself, and the media scanner was not working again. Thanks to what you said, I knew to format the Emmc and media scanner works again.
I did remove everything from the SD card to my PC and format the card a few days earlier but that didn't solve the problem.
It seems you understand what's going on. Could you explain a little more. I rather understand than just know to format emmc
Thanks

To be quite honest, I'm not 100% sure what causes media scanner to lock up. From what I read elsewhere on the internet, it could be a corrupt file, or maybe its just that ICS's media scanner handles files differently than GB's media scanner. I'm leaning more toward the latter, as GB media scanner never had a problem when running a GB ROM, and there is some reason as to why the one click ICS was designed to wipe the emmc (internal sd card).
Hope that helps clear any confusion!
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Issue with internal sd card

Alright so for some reason my internal card loads, but apps like my music player and photo gallery don't see files. But when I go into my file manager, everything shows. I'm running on CM9 nightlies 8/08 to be exact. I deleted the apps that I updated today and manually cleared out the caches, and the problem still persists. I don't get why everything shows on the file manager. I JUST WANT MY MUSIC PLEASE HELP ME
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I should also note that I can play my music from the file manager. Just nothing shows up in stock player or music player pro
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Same here, exact problem. Just started today, I got it back but out of nowhere, poof, gone again.

I wonder if it has anything to do with them shutting off Flash support today?
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I'm gonna flash some cm10 roms since I haven't yet..Might as well use this as an excuse. I'll let you know if it persists over.
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And it persists over to cm10. Something had to happen today for this to happen to both of us on the same day.
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I took a picture and added some music files from my tablet, and they all show up. But nothing that has been on there will show up. THIS IS SO WEIRD.
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It will be there until you restart then it will be gone again. This is not good. back up your files to your computer asap. I'm guessing our internal cards are about to give up.

Yeah I backed up my pictures already.
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There has to be a bad file somewhere on the SD card. It keeps restarted the scan in Storage as I'm watching it every time it hits Misc.
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I formatted my internal (by mistake) and its showing pictures I just transferred from my external to internal.
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so you see the text "scanning media card" or something like that when you first boot? All I see now is "Preparing Media Card". My stuff is back now after clearing data in "media storage" in the app manager and then running the Rescan Media ROOT.apk but I'm sure it will vanish again like last time.

Just try formatting internal if it happens again. It sucked moving all my music back over but nothing has disappeared
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I just read on Rootz that it was a ROM Manager mess up and it's been corrected...
"ROM Manager had an update that messed up a .nomedia file which has now been updated again to fix that. Perhaps that is the cause of your gallery issues?"
"Thanks! That was it. I actually had to remove updates to that app, and reinstall the latest to fix it. Great call."

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30320286&postcount=2
This fixed it for me. I manually deleted the .nomedia file with a root explorer program, make sure hidden files are viewable if you do this.
Additionally, I had to clear data in Media Storage under settings -> application -> All
Reboot to Recovery and wipe cache partition then reboot phone and everything should be back.
Make sure you update to the latest version of Rom Manager prior to all this.
I'm running SkyICS by Seanzscreams and just ran into the nomedia problem today, so its not an isolated issue CM10

SD Card (Internal Storage) Problem [Solved]

Ok, just today my pictures + videos stopped showing up in MX Player or Gallery. My music shows up after an extensive scan from Poweramp (87 seconds when it normally only takes 10-20 seconds) I can also access storage via a file browsing app with no problems. I've already tried fixing permissions to no avail. Any idea what could be happening? Help?
I'm running PARANOIDANDROID 1.99 + Matr1x 22.5 cfs
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Snuffalofagus said:
Ok, just today my pictures + videos stopped showing up in MX Player or Gallery. My music shows up after an extensive scan from Poweramp (87 seconds when it normally only takes 10-20 seconds) I can also access storage via a file browsing app with no problems. I've already tried fixing permissions to no avail. Any idea what could be happening? Help?
I'm running PARANOIDANDROID 1.99 + Matr1x 22.5 cfs
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Backup media files, and format sdcard
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Snuffalofagus said:
Ok, just today my pictures + videos stopped showing up in MX Player or Gallery. My music shows up after an extensive scan from Poweramp (87 seconds when it normally only takes 10-20 seconds) I can also access storage via a file browsing app with no problems. I've already tried fixing permissions to no avail. Any idea what could be happening? Help?
I'm running PARANOIDANDROID 1.99 + Matr1x 22.5 cfs
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It's rom manager. they put a .nomedia file in there that is messing everyone up.

stoneule said:
It's rom manager. they put a .nomedia file in there that is messing everyone up.
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So just delete it? I saw it on the SD Card directory and was wondering what that was since it just popped up after I first started up ROM manager
EDIT: Done, now everything is showing up, thanks!
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Can u help me guys, after flashing cmrex v1, i've got same problem with u , my gallery n my music cannot read sdcard, I did full wipe twice, n when I explore my device using rootexplorer, there is two directory sdcard n storage/sdcard0/do u guys get the same problem with me ???
Sorry for bad english
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Snuffalofagus said:
So just delete it? I saw it on the SD Card directory and was wondering what that was since it just popped up after I first started up ROM manager
EDIT: Done, now everything is showing up, thanks!
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I deleted the .nomedia file but google music still doesn't see the 5gb of music on my phone when i check the box that says on device only. It gives the me message saying to see my full library to uncheck on device only. I'm running the 8/2 build of JB with the built in kernel on my NS4G.

bmwjnky said:
I deleted the .nomedia file but google music still doesn't see the 5gb of music on my phone when i check the box that says on device only. It gives the me message saying to see my full library to uncheck on device only. I'm running the 8/2 build of JB with the built in kernel on my NS4G.
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Same here, i deleted nomedia files but still no music, no pictures
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Did you guys update rom manager? If you're stock, I don't believe there's anything you can do (nothing I've heard of anyway) If you're running a custom ROM, try reflashing the ROM and gapps and they should show up. (Read in another thread that it worked) Rom manager really screwed us over.
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peepee999 said:
Same here, i deleted nomedia files but still no music, no pictures
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this happen to me and i solve it.
del ".nomedia" at the root path of sdcard, and then reboot. the media service will scan you sdcard, after a few minute you will find you media files again.

peepee999 said:
Same here, i deleted nomedia files but still no music, no pictures
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What I did:
Update Rom Manager -- delete any .nomedia files from your sd card -- clear cache/data on gallery/music/etc -- clear data on media storage --wipe cache/dalvik -- reboot Flashing won't get rid of the .nomedia files on SD
Maybe some unnecessary steps but worked

Found another instance of the .nomedia file. Found it by going in the Android folder then into the Data folder. Deleted it, cleared cash in gallery and music, rebooted into recovery, wiped dalvik then rebooted phone. It now sees my music with the on device only box checked.