I have an LG G2x, rooted, running MIUI. After about a year of use, my SD card is acting up. Its almost full, but I cant edit or delete most of the files on it. Ive tried formatting it, both from the phone and on my pc. Nothing helps.
Anyone got any ideas??? Thanks in advance.
Have you tried putting out into a sdcard reader then formatting from a pc
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Yeah, tried that. And using USB storage on the phone.
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I had one do that too. You're out of luck, I tried everything, even removing it during a format, just to screw it up. I asked everyone I know that knows anything about computers and only one person offered any sort of possible answer was that the controller had gone bad. You're also the only other person that I've encountered that has had this happen. Ironically the card was a Sandisk, not some cheap off brand.
Dang. Well, thanks. I just need a new SD card I guess..
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I restored to stock using
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1112555
then rooted it using super one click and then backing up my recovery file and using 3e recovery file...then downloaded rom manager and used that to install bionix rom but same issues I have had since getting my infuse...I will download apps and in the middle of them installing, my phone will reboot and delete random apps...I've unrooted and tried a couple times...so do I just have a bum device? I've moved the apps to phone memory also. They delete also when simply just rebooting my device. It seems over time that it becomes the same apps that delete while others will stay.
I have tried searching but couldn't come up with much. I am going to attempt to unroot and then try it all over again.
EDIT: Finished and it is still removing apps with every reboot...guess the phones going back.
....move problem apps to phone instead of sd.
Is it doing the samething under stock ? And have u tried installing from .apk instead of market?
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I move them all right away to the phone memory and when I first got the phone I noticed it was doing it when it was stock also. I read somewhere about a certain number of phones having a problem with the LCD at the very bottom where it looked like txt rolling under old warped glass? It's not noticeable unless your looking for it...but if there was a bad batch of phones maybe this is related?
Fee454 said:
I move them all right away to the phone memory and when I first got the phone I noticed it was doing it when it was stock also. I read somewhere about a certain number of phones having a problem with the LCD at the very bottom where it looked like txt rolling under old warped glass? It's not noticeable unless your looking for it...but if there was a bad batch of phones maybe this is related?
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I would say take it back bro
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Yea that's my only other option. I'm nearing my 30 day return so i'll have to this week.
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I copied all my photos and zedge ringtones to my external sd card and it is not showing up on my phone when I search. In fact nothing I have ever put there besides a couple divx's that I put there actually stay. I have a 32gb sandisk class 2.
Am I missing something simple here or is my phone just a lemon. First time android user.
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I.dont think.sounds like its not scanning media
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I.dont think.sounds like its not scanning media
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Picks up on my moviefiles and a couple youtube downloaded vids but most things I copy over from my pc dont show up. It looks like it used up the space tho.
I un mounted and remounted too. Says scanning media/completed
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I.would unformat wipe your card mount it. Then let.media scanner run.whens it done open settings and select usb debugging and check.unknown sources.try that if you havent yet
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I.would unformat wipe your card mount it. Then let.media scanner run.whens it done open settings and select usb debugging and check.unknown sources.try that if you havent yet
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Usb debugging and unknown sources are already checked. I will reformat card and try that. I'm at work so I'll have to verify that it worked once I'm home
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Fee454 said:
I copied all my photos and zedge ringtones to my external sd card and it is not showing up on my phone when I search. In fact nothing I have ever put there besides a couple divx's that I put there actually stay. I have a 32gb sandisk class 2.
Am I missing something simple here or is my phone just a lemon. First time android user.
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Here is a suggestion.
Put your phone into mass storage mode and copy/backup everything on your external sd card to your computer.
Unplug usb go to settings>applications>development and disable USB debugging, then plug in USB cable from computer, and select mass storage mode.
Then open "computer or my computer" on your pc and find your external sd card drive icon.
Right click mouse on the icon and select "format"
(be 100% sure that the drive you are formatting is your external sdcard)
After you are sure of that, uncheck the box which says "quick format" leave all other options alone and start the format, when its done formatting
copy all the files you backed up to your external sd card and I am almost certain that after doing this you will have no problems with your external sdcard.
Good luck!
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Here is a suggestion.
Put your phone into mass storage mode and copy/backup everything on your external sd card to your computer.
Unplug usb go to settings>applications>development and disable USB debugging, then plug in USB cable from computer, and select mass storage mode.
Then open "computer or my computer" on your pc and find your external sd card drive icon.
Right click mouse on the icon and select "format"
(be 100% sure that the drive you are formatting is your external sdcard)
After you are sure of that, uncheck the box which says "quick format" leave all other options alone and start the format, when its done formatting
copy all the files you backed up to your external sd card and I am almost certain that after doing this you will have no problems with your external sdcard.
Good luck!
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I will try that once I'm home from work thanks for everyones responses. One question is my phone is now in ext4 format I believe. Would that cause any kind of issue?
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Formatting my 32gb now....I purchased it off a coworker who cannot use it in his phone...it is currently in fat32 format...is that right? I'm not sure if that is how it came or if he formatted it that way.
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Formatting my 32gb now....I purchased it off a coworker who cannot use it in his phone...it is currently in fat32 format...is that right? I'm not sure if that is how it came or if he formatted it that way.
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Thats fine
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I thought it was fixed. Rebooted all last night and all apps stayed. I just rebooted a few min ago and 5 apps are now deleted. First android experience is not a good one. I really wanted give this a chance too.
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Its not android. Don't let a bad device mess up your opinion of this phone and definitely not android as a whole. Just exchange and your issues will go away.
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Its not android. Don't let a bad device mess up your opinion of this phone and definitely not android as a whole. Just exchange and your issues will go away.
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Yeah that's what im going to do. Just frustrating.
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OK so by my name you can see where I came from. I started with the atrix and it sucked , very unhappy with that phone. Went back into my iPhone 4. Then tried the HTC inspire, crashed non stop , very dissapointing. Nothing seemed to measure up and facetime was something I missed big time. Back to my iPhone those phones lasted 4 weeks combined. I have been in this phone for 3 weeks and while I look for.things I was use too some, its overall a better phone for me than iPhone. Like the SMS apps, customization better, the screen being bigger is a huge one. The 8 MPH camera is awesome. Used a pic I took for my website and it looks great. Multiple launchers to give you the feel you want. I get some force closes , but my ios did too. I was jailbroken so I could use my phone to the fullest.
The speed of this phone is great and I am sold on android after this. That's just my thoughts I would say u have a bad unit and give it another shot. I will get the galaxy s2 when it arrives. If the iPhone 5 isnt 4.2" I wont even sniff it, unless there is chocolate on it.
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OK so by my name you can see where I came from. I started with the atrix and it sucked , very unhappy with that phone. Went back into my iPhone 4. Then tried the HTC inspire, crashed non stop , very dissapointing. Nothing seemed to measure up and facetime was something I missed big time. Back to my iPhone those phones lasted 4 weeks combined. I have been in this phone for 3 weeks and while I look for.things I was use too some, its overall a better phone for me than iPhone. Like the SMS apps, customization better, the screen being bigger is a huge one. The 8 MPH camera is awesome. Used a pic I took for my website and it looks great. Multiple launchers to give you the feel you want. I get some force closes , but my ios did too. I was jailbroken so I could use my phone to the fullest.
The speed of this phone is great and I am sold on android after this. That's just my thoughts I would say u have a bad unit and give it another shot. I will get the galaxy s2 when it arrives. If the iPhone 5 isnt 4.2" I wont even sniff it, unless there is chocolate on it.
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Good to know. I hope my replacement infuse works the way it should. I will be exchanging it in about 6 hours.
So, I've been running Serendipity 7 on my Infuse for maybe 3 days until I went back to stock firmware, but it seems everytime I try to put all my music onto my external SD, it deletes it all and saves 3-4 bands with scattered songs from the album. I had this same problem with my Captivate, but it would put the files into LOST.dir instead of just deleting them. I've looked around on Google since I started having problems back in June/July and couldn't find anything.
Right now, my Infuse is running stock Froyo and rooted. I haven't really done much else. The SD is a Sandisk 32gb.
To add a bit more, when all 19gb of music is on the SD card, I safely remove it and then plug it in just to make sure it's still on there. The music doesn't delete till it's plugged into the phone. I've tried using the SD card slot on my computer and USB through my phone and it always deletes either after I disconnect from the computer or when I plug the SD into my phone.
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Do you have any .nomedia files on your phone? I don't think the media scanner is the issue here, but it's always a possibility. Did you try storing the music on your phone's internal memory instead of the SD card? Maybe the card is going bad?
I haven't put any .nomedia files on my phone. As for the SD card, it is brand new. I can put the media ob my internal, but when I move it to the external it deletes itself.
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Now it's deleting apps that are installed on the external SD...
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It's most likely a faulty external sim card.
I should stop buying from eBay. I've only gotten one good SD card from them. This I've was still in GE case too. It's like it will only allow 1-2 gigs of the 32 before it deletes the files.
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I should stop buying from eBay. I've only gotten one good SD card from them. This I've was still in GE case too. It's like it will only allow 1-2 gigs of the 32 before it deletes the files.
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Search e-bay for this problem. They are also selling cards that are fomatted to show more space then what they have.
I once bought an 32gig usb drive, it would look like everything that I copied was there, but would only play the first 4gig.
These mostly come from china. Like I said, do a search and you'll never buy memory off e-bay again.
Very good point, I completely forgot about that. Thank you so much.
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Now there are a bunch of no extension files in my LOST.dir. They just now showed up. Damned Chinese products.
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I make it a rule to never buy electronics off eBay. Local craigslist only for me. That being said, it definitely sounds like a borked SD card.
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Yo, easy as pie to fix this. if your SD card is in deed broken. Wally World (walmart) is your solution, go buy a San Disk 32 GB like yours then switch out the cards and return the faulty one. Thank you.
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But to show my age, back in the early 80’s, when we were hacking drives to copy 5 1/4 discs, we'd burn out drives in a few weeks. So we'd buy a new one and swap out the internal components.
Cranky...
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I'm telling ...
But to show my age, back in the early 80’s, when we were hacking drives to copy 5 1/4 discs, we'd burn out drives in a few weeks. So we'd buy a new one and swap out the internal components.
Cranky...
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"I'm Telling" bahahah! i member in elementary that **** was serious. who ever saw you do something you weren't supposed you, from that moment on you were their ***** until you caught them doing something... real talk.
Hey guys, I just recently saw when I turned my phone on, it says sd unexpectedly removed, when in fact it is in there. If I take it out and re insert it, it doesn't say anything? I would try to use this on my laptop but I know the reader on my laptop is busted (plus I'm at work). Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Not sure, I had a 32gb card myself and it started acting weird on me. Doing th e are thing, acting like it wasn't there, needed formating or some such. I switched to my old 16gb card from my droid X and it worked perfectly. I think not was just a bad card. It's possible as the prices came down and these cards got cheaper the quality control has dropped. . I might add that that was my second 32gb card The first one wouldn't even work in my laptop when i tried to format it and got so hot that it burned my fingers when took it out!
Short Story is you may have a duff card. Try an old sd card just to make sure it's not your phone.
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Not sure, I had a 32gb card myself and it started acting weird on me. Doing th e are thing, acting like it wasn't there, needed formating or some such. I switched to my old 16gb card from my droid X and it worked perfectly. I think not was just a bad card. It's possible as the prices came down and these cards got cheaper the quality control has dropped. . I might add that that was my second 32gb card The first one wouldn't even work in my laptop when i tried to format it and got so hot that it burned my fingers when took it out!
Short Story is you may have a duff card. Try an old sd card just to make sure it's not your phone.
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I know it's not my phone, tried my friends card and it worked. If I insert my card in his phone it says blank sd card and when I try to format it, it says in know media state....
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Sounds like a duff card. What brand of card is it?
I'd say as a last ditch attempt when you can try using a laptop and make sure it's not formated to exFAT. When mine went bad my laptop wouldn't even let me format it
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Sounds like a duff card. What brand of card is it?
I'd say as a last ditch attempt when you can try using a laptop and make sure it's not formated to exFAT. When mine went bad my laptop wouldn't even let me format it
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I needed one ASAP for work, I just ended up getting a free replacement from Verizon. Tha ks for all your help guys! Mods can go ahead and lock this thread=)
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I had a generic 32GB card workinf for me perfectly from day one, but recently I bought a SanDisk 64GB and I can't get my phone to recognize it (my computer does), I'm thinking it has to be in the right format, which formats will the phone recognize and which won't it?
Try it in cwm. There is a page that does give info on partition and speed somewhere on the net.
Afterward, fix permissions.
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levilib said:
I had a generic 32GB card workinf for me perfectly from day one, but recently I bought a SanDisk 64GB and I can't get my phone to recognize it (my computer does), I'm thinking it has to be in the right format, which formats will the phone recognize and which won't it?
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Fat32 if you intend to be a rooted user
Fat32 is the stock format OOB and will work well with all devices.
Ext4 is androids partition for apps.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1633915
Great question answered.
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If you can, transfer all info to computer and format card in phone if possible.
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If you can, transfer all info to computer and format card in phone if possible.
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How do you format on the phone?
Settings >> Storage >> Format
tried that to, still won't work.
when i try mount it says damaged sd card reformat.
i've tried formatting it on the computer in exFAT and NTFS, the only 2 options windows offers
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tried that to, still won't work.
when i try mount it says damaged sd card reformat.
i've tried formatting it on the computer in exFAT and NTFS, the only 2 options windows offers
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did a bit of googling, found a program that will format into fat32 format since windows 7 and 8 wont. finally works!
I got this notification on my SIII saying the SD card is blank? I am not sure what happened but all my photos are gone except for 1. I have downloaded Glary undelete (free undelete file softwre). I then tried to scan the card with the software and it says the card is not formatted, do you want to format? I thought I read here that if i format the card I will lose any ability to recover the deleted photos? Can anyone help me with my problem???
Check to see if you have any files in LOST.DIR
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Same thing happened to me the other day. Just started getting a notification that "SD Card removed. Please insert a new one". All my pics, videos, nandroid backups, etc. gone. I put it into a card reader in my computer and nothing came up. Please keep us up to date if you find a fix and I'll be sure to do the same.
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Check to see if you have any files in LOST.DIR
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No luck on finding anything in the Lost.dir folder. Thanks for the advice the I really appreciate it!!!
I had it happen right when I got the phone, sucks. I make a habit of backing up to dropbox every few days.
I couldn't get it to mount one day, a quick spray of canned air into where the card goes seemed to fix it. It must get really dusty in there.
Another cool thing about dropbox, esp if you have the hacked 50gb account, you can "favorite" all of your music and it will allow you to listen to it without using data. I keep all my music in the favorite section, it takes time to do the first time but better than being stuck at work without music.
This has happened to me twice before. Turns out the SD cards died. Both 32gb sandiscs. Finally pay the extra for a Samsung 32gb class ten. Haven't looked back
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I have the 32 gig class 10 sandisk and it just happened to me last night. Got the phone and card last Nov. Not sure what's going on. A different card works in my phone. Can't even get this cars to work at all. Did you get a free replacement? Got mine on amazon. Really sucks. Had a lot of stuff on there since I assumed it would be safe.
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Always have a backup because recently I've noticed these phones tend to do this to the memory card.
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Just got my SanDisk replacement. Sent it out last Tuesday and got the new one today. Just call them, it's easy. I got mine from Amazon too, you don't need a receipt or anything.
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Just got my SanDisk replacement. Sent it out last Tuesday and got the new one today. Just call them, it's easy. I got mine from Amazon too, you don't need a receipt or anything.
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I thought you got your replacement from SanDisk somehow, not Amazon (hah)! Now I'm much more interested; Amazon has great customer support and that's where I bought it.
I bought it on Amazon but called SanDisk and they replaced it.
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I'm having issue with extSdCard. Every time phone sleeps, upon wake it says that sdcard was suddenly removed, and is Preparing SdCard.
It is a 32gig, an I got another one same thing occurred.
Also running LKernel 1.8
Anybody heard of this or no a fix?
Verizon Samsung Galaxy S3 32gig
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I've had a 16gb and a 32gb sd card go bad on this phone. I've ran 10+ roms, I don't think it's a rom issue. You can try formatting it in your comp if you can, just back it up. I formatted mine probably 20 times and it didn't fix the issue. If they are SanDisk, call the warranty department, explain your issue and they should send you a new one, they did that with mine. Good luck, it's an annoying issue and I can't seem to figure the cause.
I know for my new one, roms on internal only, music on external. And I will keep a usb thumb drive plugged in so i will have an option to eject.
Ok, I'll try to contact Sandisk for warranty. In the mean time I might head to Walmart an try another one to see if resolves issue...
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I found a 1gb at home and it's been running fine. Good luck.
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