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External SD or ICS Leak

Okay so I have a 32 GB external SD card, and I use my phone everyday to play music and take pics, everything gets stored to my External SD but for the last week or so, My SD card doesn't load my music, it says I have it but then doesn't have anything playable, then Gallery doesn't load, it says scanning media but even after an hour of scanning nothing works, But when I take my SD card out and connect it to my comp I see everything and everything is functional, could it be a problem with the ICS leak? or maybe my phone? I'll go back to Gingerbread if I have to...

Donnyohs said:
Okay so I have a 32 GB external SD card, and I use my phone everyday to play music and take pics, everything gets stored to my External SD but for the last week or so, My SD card doesn't load my music, it says I have it but then doesn't have anything playable, then Gallery doesn't load, it says scanning media but even after an hour of scanning nothing works, But when I take my SD card out and connect it to my comp I see everything and everything is functional, could it be a problem with the ICS leak? or maybe my phone? I'll go back to Gingerbread if I have to...
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Sounds like a problem with your phone or a bad flash. Try reflashing whatever ROM you are on. Make sure you read and follow directions for whatever ROM you use. Not following directions can cause some really weird bugs.
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Okay so I should reflash... weird because I never had any problems with any of the times I flashed... I'll try to see if I can flash it tonight

Weird, mine did the same, but I didn't change anything. Aliens attacking?
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I have similar problem with only music not showing on MUSIC PLAYER(cd + note icon), scan sdcard, clear data wouldn't do anything. But they show up on PLAY MUSIC(Head Phone icon)

Donnyohs said:
Okay so I have a 32 GB external SD card, and I use my phone everyday to play music and take pics, everything gets stored to my External SD but for the last week or so, My SD card doesn't load my music, it says I have it but then doesn't have anything playable, then Gallery doesn't load, it says scanning media but even after an hour of scanning nothing works, But when I take my SD card out and connect it to my comp I see everything and everything is functional, could it be a problem with the ICS leak? or maybe my phone? I'll go back to Gingerbread if I have to...
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Take everything off and put the blank sd back in the phone and format the sd with the phone, then load your stuff back on.
i727-ucle2-SkY IcS

This could be fixed with a simple factory reset. I'd try that before re-flashing anything.

Dirtburgler said:
Take everything off and put the blank sd back in the phone and format the sd with the phone, then load your stuff back on.
i727-ucle2-SkY IcS
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I would also try what's recommended above but first format it in he computer after you have removed your stuff THEN boot up the phone without the SD card. Insert it. Format it then reset he phone so it can rescan it after the format. Copy a temp or test file such as a single song onto it. See if it reads it. If it does it may be OK. If not then reflash/reset ROM. I am running the ucle2 leak and have had no issues. Course I'm running the stock pics leak rooted with bloatware quarantined so it may be a sky ics from issue.
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The problem went away after I did a factory reset!!! But I just hate redownloading apps now, and setting everything back up

Anyone tried to just go to Applications, then Media Storage, then clear the cache for that? Then restart the phone, that cache is what the phone maintains to know what music files, photos, videos, etc are on there and creates a minature DB for it to search instead of looking at the files directly. When the media scan happens initially it builds that cache, maybe for some reason its corrupt. Ive had that happen (not exactly your problem) where I get doubles of everything, clearing that cache and letting it re-scan everything fixed it for me.
I agree doing a factory reset sucks to have to resetup everything again. For the others still having the issue, try clearing that first, then proceed with factory reset if needed.
Dixit

[Q] Feel stupid - SD card problem.

I've been searching all over for a similar issue but no luck.
I accidentally pulled the SD card w/ out unmounting it. From everything I've read the SD card is usually messed up and needs to be formatted. In this case everything on it is okay except that I can't play my music in through music player unless I go through root explorer and select a song. What is wrong here?

Chelseablue said:
I've been searching all over for a similar issue but no luck.
I accidentally pulled the SD card w/ out unmounting it. From everything I've read the SD card is usually messed up and needs to be formatted. In this case everything on it is okay except that I can't play my music in through music player unless I go through root explorer and select a song. What is wrong here?
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Did you try remounting it through Settings/Storage?
If it's in the Xoom, unmount and remount. Or you could backup the sdcards contents, reformat it in a android phone, then reinstall your content and try it again.

I did try the unmount/mount thing but unfortunately it didn't fix it. I was afraid I might have to backup and format the card, 26gb is going to take a while. It's just odd how its only my music, it will play through Root Explorer using the music player but won't play directly through the music player itself.
I'll give it a go later and report back.

Have you tried another music player? or uninstalling updates and reinstalling them?

Yep, winamp plays just fine. The problem is only with the Google Play Music player. It just says "Couldn't play the track you requested" It won't allow me to delete it to reinstall it or remove updates. I think I'll try flashing a new rom before formatting the SD. The latter is very undesirable.

Okay, all of a sudden the mp3s don't appear as mp3s anymore. They just read as 'file' they didn't say that earlier today. Strange that they play just fine in other scenarios .Now amost everything looks ruined.
Thanks guys. Format time.
Btw, files look ruined according to Windows Explorer. Root Explorer says everything is normal.

Pardon my rambling on, but everything on the card works on my Incredible - even the Google Music player plays everything just fine.
I'm absolutely perplexed

Have you tried clearing out the data for Google Play Music? Or the other affected apps?

Yep tried that but it didn't fix it.
Now I can't even get the SD to mount in neither the phone or Xoom. The eff is going on here?!
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Well I got the Xoom to see it but it says blank SD and offers to format it. I just worry that if I format the SD card it formats the internal card. I should be safe?

Have you tried looking at the card on a computer without the xoom? (Sdcard reader etc)
If that doesn't work, if you are worried about formatting the Xoom's internal storage, you could always just pop the sdcard into a computer, and then format it to fat32. Then you can just put the sdcard back into the xoom and you should be good to go. Just note, that would erase all of your data on the card.

[Q] Cannot delete or add to SD card

A few days ago, I tried taking some pictures with my Droid Charge and the pics would not save. I tried in the stock camera app and in CameraZoom EX. CameraZoom gave me an error message "failed to save photo to SD car (error code=2). I figured I was out of space.
My Titanium Backup scheduled backup did not run the next day. So, I assumed I was out of space.
I connected the phone to my PC and deleted some pics and music. WHen I was in WIndows explorer, it said I had about 2 GB free after doing all of this.
When playing music today, I noticed files that I had deleted before still present on the phone. I thought this was weird. I went back and checked and all the stuff I thought I deleted was still there.
I searched on the CameraZoom EX error code 2. It directed to remove and reinsert the card and reboot. I tried that. I have tried unmounting and then mounting with no success either.
My phone seems to be working fine, but I cannot delete or add anything to the microSD card (the original that came with the phone). It does not matter if I use my WIndows 7 laptop, desktop, or various file managers on the phone itself.
ANy idea what is going on?

To me, it sounds like the SD card is going bad. Not a common occurrence but it can happen. You're lucky you can still read from it... I would suggest getting a new SD card (Verizon might even give you a new one free) and copying your data to it before sectors start going bad. By the way, how did you manage to full up 32 gb?
Or I could be blowing this out of proportion and it's just a matter of write protection on the card.
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Another option is to copy everything off the SD card, format it, and try to write everything back. Sometimes a format can joggle a bugged card.

It is mostly music that I have on there. I am not sure how write protection would have gotten on the microSD card or how I would remove it. It does not have a physical togge like an SD card does.
I think I may have to try re-formatting. Ugh.

It is mostly music that I have on there. I am not sure how write protection would have gotten on the microSD card or how I would remove it. It does not have a physical togge like an SD card does.
I think I may have to try re-formatting. Ugh.

Corrupted SD card. Call VZW and be nice on the phone, explain the situation, hopefully they send you a new one.

Hmmm, this is interesting. I cannot even format the microSD card. I tried to do it through Windows Explorer. It looked like it worked. I then tried to copy files back on and it choked halfway through on a movie, I think.
Anyway, what was more interesting is that when I looked at the drive again, everything was back where it originally was. So, the re-formatting must not have actually worked.
I then tried to erase the SD through the options in Android. I unmounted. I then selected Erase SD card. After rebooting (to just be safe), the SD card still is untouched.
THis microSD card has become an impenetrable force. More realistically, it must have write-protection enabled somehow as that is the only thing I can think of.
The question is how do I find out if write protection is enabled and how to disable it? Any ideas are appreciated. Thanks.

[Q] My external SD files keep corrupting after loading them in my phone!

I have always used micro SD cards to help store all my music and pictures and such, however earlier today after copying some music over, my files weren't being read by my music program Zplayer. I assumed maybe it just read wrong, so I unmounted it and then mounted it again. After this however, it still was not being read so I cleared my app data and restarted my phone. After again not reading my files, I put my SD back into my computer to check and realized that my Music and Photos folder were missing. :crying:
After looking around a little, I realized all files on my SD card disappeared but my LOST.DIR filled with unreadable files. I have used this same 32 GB SD card before so I do not understand why this is happening. Now after reformatting my SD card using my phone AND computer, when I put only one album on it worked perfect. I tried adding a few more after that, and it worked as well. I assumed it was back to normal so I added all the rest I had on my itunes library and then put it into my phone.
After the previous two successes I was disappointed to see that my phone stopped reading my music files again. I used ES File Explorer and saw that my music folder WITH the music files were still intact and in their correct directories. I tried to play a song using the built in ES player, and it played perfectly, so I tried just unmounted and mounting again, thinking it might fix it.
Again still nothing was read and I looked at my file directories and a message popped up saying something around "sd/ext_sd/Music was not found" and discovered once again that my files were missing and my LOST.DIR folder had again been filled.
I am at a lost now as I can not figure this out and I am scared that any information I put on my card will be ruined. No messages pop up warning me my card is corrupted, my files just disappear after being put in my phone for some reason.
TL;DR Whenever I add files to my SD card and put it in my phone I can see the files but they are not read. After unmounting and mounting them again all the files keep moving to the LOST.DIR folder even after reformatting.
Phone Model: LGMS769 (LG OPTIMUS L9) T-Mobile/Metro PCS :silly:

SD Card broken?
Maybe the SD card you are using is broken. Is it old? Can you try with another SD card?

This issue happened to me on my PSP memstick which i figure out that it was unmounting issue from the PC, I simply unplugged the usb without safe removal which really shocked me
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The weird thing is that I bought this SD card about a week or two ago. I use another SD card for another device and I have not had any problems. My current one just started corrupting everything after I added more files last night. Also I do not use the USB cable, I unmount the card from my phone then use a SD card reader to copy files, not showing any issues!

Try The corrupted SD card on another phone if you can. Yet it highly possible that it is a bad SD card (damaged during the shipping or whatever)
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Micro SD Card problem

Hello guys,
Recently I bought micro SD Card, SanDisk 64GB, and it's getting really annoying...problem is, while I listen music, or sometimes when I open Album (I transferred all my media on SD Card), music sometimes stops, and some songs cannot been played, there is no songs anymore, there is no pictures in album anymore and I get notification like "Still ejecting, don't remove SD card". Then I need to close the app and open it again, or even worse, I need to restart my phone. Is there anyone there who could know solution for this, is this SD Card problem or System UI problem? Btw, I'm on Android 6.0.
Hope you guys understood what is my problem and that you have some sort of solution.

Hi,
apparently we are having the same problem. Iam using the 32GB version from my last phone but the same issue. Did you solve it already?

Nope, I kinda gave up. Gonna look for new card

stegi737 said:
Hi,
apparently we are having the same problem. Iam using the 32GB version from my last phone but the same issue. Did you solve it already?
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Nope, I kinda gave up. Gonna look for new card

Try checking on pc if it is a sd card problem, if it is then clean it softly with some cloth and a bit of alcohol, also see if u have any .nomedia files in your folders, have had same problem this morning with music and all media apps, just rebooted, btw I have SanDisk 128GB all music on sd and all music is flac and no problems whatsoever

AMJ19 said:
Try checking on pc if it is a sd card problem, if it is then clean it softly with some cloth and a bit of alcohol, also see if u have any .nomedia files in your folders, have had same problem this morning with music and all media apps, just rebooted, btw I have SanDisk 128GB all music on sd and all music is flac and no problems whatsoever
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I tried to turn off battery optimisation for System UI, Android System and Settings storage, after couple hours, still got no notification or problems whatsoever. I'll let you guys know if there is something new happens.

Did a clean format in PC with FAT32. Then put it into the phone-again the ejecting message. So put it out and in again-no problem. Format the card in the phone and now it seems to work.
Will see tomorrow if there will be any issues.
Anyway thx for tips.

Take a look at:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=64708721&postcount=5 UPDATE#20.d
Is your card class 10 ?
There's some issues with "ultra high speed" (SDXC class 10+) and their detection,
they randomly get thrown off and sometimes get re-detected

stegi737 said:
Did a clean format in PC with FAT32. Then put it into the phone-again the ejecting message. So put it out and in again-no problem. Format the card in the phone and now it seems to work.
Will see tomorrow if there will be any issues.
Anyway thx for tips.
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AMJ19 said:
Try checking on pc if it is a sd card problem, if it is then clean it softly with some cloth and a bit of alcohol, also see if u have any .nomedia files in your folders, have had same problem this morning with music and all media apps, just rebooted, btw I have SanDisk 128GB all music on sd and all music is flac and no problems whatsoever
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zacharias.maladroit said:
Take a look at:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=64708721&postcount=5 UPDATE#20.d
Is your card class 10 ?
There's some issues with "ultra high speed" (SDXC class 10+) and their detection,
they randomly get thrown off and sometimes get re-detected
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It looks like I just kinda make notification appearing more rarely but again, this morning notification appeared. In few days I'll get another Micro SD card, hope that would solve my issues.
And to the zacharias, thanks for your reply but as it seems in that thread, Update #20.d it's all about when music isn't playing, at me there is no specific time of the day or actions when card goes in ejecting mode, it could happen while I even listen the music (couple times already), while I browse my album pictures or just randomly, without any action caused. I think it could be a Micro SD card problem, or (I would like if this is an issue) some applications are causing this problem.
Thanks again guys! Post more if you have some suggestions or solutions.