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SD card unexpectedly removed error.....

Ugh. This is so annoying. I have a HTC inspire all stock. Just the newest update from ATT. Also when I got the phone about 2 months ago I purchased a 16 gig class 2 sandisk SD card and had this error over and over.
So I formatted it in the phone and had zero issues for a month. Now today we went on a trip and I used Google maps with navigation and once I got to my destination and closed out maps and did other things on my phone all of a sudden guess what came back. Yep. SD card removed. This time I received it like 5 times. The last time I pulled both the SD card and battery also I uninstalled the update to Google maps and so far its fine. I just wish they would freaking figure the problem out I'm getting annoyed with it.
Anyone else have this issue yet or a fix for it?
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slocav said:
Ugh. This is so annoying. I have a HTC inspire all stock. Just the newest update from ATT. Also when I got the phone about 2 months ago I purchased a 16 gig class 2 sandisk SD card and had this error over and over.
So I formatted it in the phone and had zero issues for a month. Now today we went on a trip and I used Google maps with navigation and once I got to my destination and closed out maps and did other things on my phone all of a sudden guess what came back. Yep. SD card removed. This time I received it like 5 times. The last time I pulled both the SD card and battery also I uninstalled the update to Google maps and so far its fine. I just wish they would freaking figure the problem out I'm getting annoyed with it.
Anyone else have this issue yet or a fix for it?
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That is pretty dang weird! I have a bone stock Inspire as well. I am using just the 8 gig class 4 SanDisc card that came with the phone and have not had that problem. However, I have not used navigation and only use data when I'm on my home WiFi network. Sorry I can't help you further, maybe one of these other guys on here will be able to help you correct it. I would say try backing up the entire SD card to your computer, to back up all you files on it, and try reformatting from your computer. When I say from your computer, I mean take it out of the phone and get it connected directly to the pc. If that doesn't work, I'm all outta options. Good luck, and let us know if that works or not.
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Yeah I will try it when I get home on Sunday. There are a ton of posts on googles site for developers with this same issue across a ton of other phone manuacturers. Some say its 2.2 issue but idk. I am so mad now its doing it again. Now I can lock the screen and 20 minutes later ill unlock and it does the SD card again. I managed to unmount it before it did it again. I wish Google would fix it.
Here is the post I'm talking about. I know it says LG ally but if you see all the posts there are a lot of them different brands.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9736
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Whenever I used weatherbug on my Inspire, I was had the SD card unmount problem...

Hmmm. Let me uninstall weatherbug its worth a shot. I have had it on my phone for a few weeks now without issue tho.
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I would wonder if it doesn't have something to do with the slower data transfer speeds of class 2 flash media, but that may only effect the ability to record 720p video.

Hopefully it's a REAL 16 GB card from SanDisk, and not a counterfeit card.

Well I deleted weatherbug app and no SD card inexpecdly removed error. Oh well that's weird. And its a real card I purchased it at Hastings in Richmond ky.
Also slower speed hasn't effected anything. I recorded some videos of my son playing and it was just fine.
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I used to have that issue all the time when I was on froyo. I haven't had it at all on gingerbread. I think it is an app2sd problem in froyo.

i saw something similar but with the sim card...
i think it was the door

Well the error is back. God this is annoying as Hell. Once the screen locks when it goes to sleep I guess it comes right back. I tried installing contract killers this morning and it caused it to do this again. So I deleted it and it won't stop....
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Do you happen to be running the "Flight Control" game app? It can do strange stuff if you leave it paused for too long (forcing a battery-pullout).

nope no flight control app... well i had to back up my photos and videos online so i can format the card in the phone.... its been about 30 minutes so far so good.. i hope this is fixed... sucks because i lost all my progress on all my angry birds games and everything lol...

Still getting this crap. It's fine unless I access the card on a game. If I play contract killer the first time I open it works fine. But if I close and go back it will say checking integrity of the file it will close out and POP up the sd card error. You guys think heat can do this? It was fine till I drove with maps on and the battery got warm. I just wonder if the card is going bad?
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Ok so weird. Now that I am home with a WiFi connection I havent received this error at all in 24 hours..... ugh of course when I was in the woods (literally) this past weekend it flipped out and almost messed up my whole weekend. Now I'm home its fine. FML
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Well that's pretty strange..
Do you get the same sort of problem if your phone is in Airplane mode?
Do you have a mini/micro SD card reader for your PC (or another phone) to try the card in? If so, maybe you could try playing a large video file directly from the card, just to see if stays stable.

Yeah I can try that today. That's a good idea never thought to do that. Now airplane mode I never tried but so far its been two days and no sd card error. I do know I am going to start backing that Dang thing up from now on tho after this.
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How fantastic. This pos is doing the same crap again..... I sware I want to blow this mofo up when it does this crap!!! When is ginger bread coming they say it's fixed in gb
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slocav said:
How fantastic. This pos is doing the same crap again..... I sware I want to blow this mofo up when it does this crap!!! When is ginger bread coming they say it's fixed in gb
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You may want to root and install a gb ROM. There are a bunch out there.
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when the error pops out press it on the notification bar and while its working to fix the problem unmount the card under settings at the same time format it and it should work ok after

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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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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Issues with your phone? Report them here!

If you are having issues with this phone and people are, go here:
https://supportforums.motorola.com/community/google-android/atrix2?view=discussions
Register and complain away, the forum admins are actually passing the concerns to the techs. Maybe we can see some bug fixes?

Yep, I registered yesterday
No root issues though, lol

Only have 2 issues which have already been mentioned in the Community Forums.
1. Install or move a program to your SDCard, icon stays on phone, but phone thinks program has been uninstalled ! (This apparently was the same problem the original Atrix 4G also has)
2. 8GB internal memory, only 4GB shown.. install anything on your phone filling 500MB, and your phone will come back stating there in no room left !
To me, these are 2 HUGE issues they need to resolve quickly.
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LordGeek said:
Only have 2 issues which have already been mentioned in the Community Forums.
1. Install or move a program to your SDCard, icon stays on phone, but phone thinks program has been uninstalled ! (This apparently was the same problem the original Atrix 4G also has)
2. 8GB internal memory, only 4GB shown.. install anything on your phone filling 500MB, and your phone will come back stating there in no room left !
To me, these are 2 HUGE issues they need to resolve quickly.
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Do you mean 8gb sdcard memory? IIRC, the Atrix 2 only has 4.5gb internal storage

916x10 said:
Do you mean 8gb sdcard memory? IIRC, the Atrix 2 only has 4.5gb internal storage
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No.. internal. Look at full specs on PhoneArena and GSMArena.
Built-In Storage : 8192MB
Correct me if I'm wrong .. thats 8GB .. not 4GB.
Attached are 2 screenshots .. one from PhoneArena, other from GSMArena.

I have issues with bluetooth when connected to my car stereo. Most of the time, occasionally it works just fine, when listening to anything by bluetooth in my car I get drop outs in the audio that last any where between .5 seconds and 3 seconds. They sometimes happen in a pattern of a long drop followed by a short drop withing .5 seconds. It does not seem to effect phone calls but that leads to another problem.
While listening to an internet radio station and a call came in while in the car the radio (iheartradio) kept playing after I answered the call from the car stereo touch screen. I had to kill the radio app in order to keep the audio out of the call. The other side told me they heard my radio over the phone.

Random reboot
Random reboots while listening to any audio app (dogcatcher, Pandora, stock music player). I am using wired headphones and the phone will just randomly reboot. Very annoying

Interesting, any certain amount of time before it reboots? I use xiialive lite with zero cut outs or reboots. Been rocking it for awhile, are you streaming and recording at the same time?
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LordGeek said:
No.. internal. Look at full specs on PhoneArena and GSMArena.
Built-In Storage : 8192MB
Correct me if I'm wrong .. thats 8GB .. not 4GB.
Attached are 2 screenshots .. one from PhoneArena, other from GSMArena.
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Those are the last two places I'd expect spot on info from.
Looking at the official Motorola website under the specs for this phone, it does list 8gb as the internal storage capacity.....but it also has a footnote that states:
Available user memory varies due to the configuration of the phone, which varies by service provider.
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So I decided to check AT&T's website and found that it says "up to 8gb"
So based on the above listed information on the two websites that really matter, it's safe to assume that the reason it's not showing 8gb in available internal storage is due to AT&T's configuration.

I saw that also.. but the fact is.. we can't use it. If you go to "Settings" "Storage" .. look under Application Storage. Mine states 4.13GB .. now here is the bug .. install 500MB of stuff (anything) .. once you reach 500.. watch your phone state you're out if memory !!!!
You can't move your apps to the SDCard, because, if you have to reboot your phone .. it will keep the icon on your screen/listing .. but the phone will come back with an error stating it was uninstalled .. yet all you did was move it from Phone to SDCard.
Those are 2 major bugs that they really need to resolve .. yet the funny thing is, the original Motorola Atrix 4G had the same bugs.. you'd think they would have learned from there first mistake.
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LordGeek said:
I saw that also.. but the fact is.. we can't use it. If you go to "Settings" "Storage" .. look under Application Storage. Mine states 4.13GB .. now here is the bug .. install 500MB of stuff (anything) .. once you reach 500.. watch your phone state you're out if memory !!!!
You can't move your apps to the SDCard, because, if you have to reboot your phone .. it will keep the icon on your screen/listing .. but the phone will come back with an error stating it was uninstalled .. yet all you did was move it from Phone to SDCard.
Those are 2 major bugs that they really need to resolve .. yet the funny thing is, the original Motorola Atrix 4G had the same bugs.. you'd think they would have learned from there first mistake.
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qft I find this quite annoying
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process com.motorola.process.system force close
Bout to go to the support forums and report this. Found an issue today. Getting a message window saying com.motorola.process.system error. Only option I had was force quit. Anyone else faced?

@cloudedhopes
Go to settings, date & time.
Switch "Automatic" off.
Set timezone to some INCORRECT timezone ( say Greenland )
Switch "Automatic" on.

rahul255 said:
@cloudedhopes
Go to settings, date & time.
Switch "Automatic" off.
Set timezone to some INCORRECT timezone ( say Greenland )
Switch "Automatic" on.
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I read that somewhere and it worked for now atleast. I think since DST moved the time... this might have caused the issue. But can't say for sure. Purely dumb guess and error.

LordGeek said:
I saw that also.. but the fact is.. we can't use it. If you go to "Settings" "Storage" .. look under Application Storage. Mine states 4.13GB .. now here is the bug .. install 500MB of stuff (anything) .. once you reach 500.. watch your phone state you're out if memory !!!!
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I understand and know that, but that wasnt the issue I was addressing. It was your claim that the phone is only reporting half of available internal storage, just 4 gb of 8gb, which simply isnt true. But you can bring up other unrelated issues and ignore that if you want, lol.
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I usually got around 20 minutes in but it would always reboot at random times beyond that. I gave up and returned the phone for a new one. No issues so far. Keeping fingers crossed.
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I'm pretty sure it's 6gb internal memory + 2gb on the included micro sd card. Of that 6gb, 1+gb is being used by the OS and pre-loaded apps. The phone seems to load everything that's downloaded onto the 2gb sd card, so it will fill up pretty quick.

LordGeek said:
Only have 2 issues which have already been mentioned in the Community Forums.
1. Install or move a program to your SDCard, icon stays on phone, but phone thinks program has been uninstalled ! (This apparently was the same problem the original Atrix 4G also has)
2. 8GB internal memory, only 4GB shown.. install anything on your phone filling 500MB, and your phone will come back stating there in no room left !
To me, these are 2 HUGE issues they need to resolve quickly.
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When you installing a program and the phone alert that "there is on room left", then you can re-install this program again, then it will be successful.

gdj80 said:
I have issues with bluetooth when connected to my car stereo. Most of the time, occasionally it works just fine, when listening to anything by bluetooth in my car I get drop outs in the audio that last any where between .5 seconds and 3 seconds. They sometimes happen in a pattern of a long drop followed by a short drop withing .5 seconds. It does not seem to effect phone calls but that leads to another problem.
While listening to an internet radio station and a call came in while in the car the radio (iheartradio) kept playing after I answered the call from the car stereo touch screen. I had to kill the radio app in order to keep the audio out of the call. The other side told me they heard my radio over the phone.
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this bluetooth issue is a gingerbread issue itself, not device specific. i have had this since froyo on 2 different devices already.
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spd_rcr said:
I'm pretty sure it's 6gb internal memory + 2gb on the included micro sd card. Of that 6gb, 1+gb is being used by the OS and pre-loaded apps. The phone seems to load everything that's downloaded onto the 2gb sd card, so it will fill up pretty quick.
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my guess is that it's 8gb internal
- 1gb /system
- 1gb /ram
not sure on the downloaded stuff though. check settings > applications to see what the default installation location is.

Atrix 1 vs Atrix 2
Can't really complain but I found this funny...
I have both Atrix 1 and 2, Atrix 1 has the CM7 rom and scores 6000+ using AnTuTu Benchmark, Atrix 2 is obviously stock and only scores around 4000 using the same benchmark.
I will try to wait patiently for movement in the rom arena. It's hard, I'm a flash junkie.

Files gone..

Many of you have compplained about sd card corrupting i havent experienced that but this, morning i woke up to my music and videos, missing from my sd card. I know they were on there because i listened to a song with my headphones on, and when i laid down for sleep i watched 30 mins of a training video for certification test ill be taking next month.
Weird right.
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Is this a question?

Lol I meant to ask if anyone has seen behavior like this? That's about 10 GB gone and only 512 mb in lost.dir.
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jae18708 said:
Lol I meant to ask if anyone has seen behavior like this? That's about 10 GB gone and only 512 mb in lost.dir.
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So the files are actually gone? Did you lose everything, or just some of your files?
How are you checking if the files are still there? File explorer app on the phone, plugging in the phone to your PC - or perhaps the best option, pull the card and use a card reader?
Very strange indeed. I've used this phone for 8 months or so - while I've always had the same SD card in it, I've never had data go missing.

arrrghhh said:
So the files are actually gone? Did you lose everything, or just some of your files?
How are you checking if the files are still there? File explorer app on the phone, plugging in the phone to your PC - or perhaps the best option, pull the card and use a card reader?
Very strange indeed. I've used this phone for 8 months or so - while I've always had the same SD card in it, I've never had data go missing.
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I was able to recover about 4GB, it was that little because i copied some files over while getting dressed in the morning (not realizing that files had been lost). The training videos were about 6gb but i didnt really care about those since i have a subscription to cbt. Most of photos and videos are lost now tho. Something told me to dd this sdcard the day before.
I used photorec on linux and recuva in a virtual machine. I put the sdcard in a usb card reader.
The only theory i have is that my battery died because i didnt charge it that night (was at about 30%), and it didnt shut down properly in time. You would think it would have time to shutdown properly but that's the only reason I could come up with.
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SD card

After Pie update my camera storage keeps reseting to internal memory. I move it back to my SD card, but after a while it goes back to internal.
Anyone else having this issue? How to make it stick to SD card?
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donkeykong1 said:
After Pie update my camera storage keeps reseting to internal memory. I move it back to my SD card, but after a while it goes back to internal.
Anyone else having this issue? How to make it stick to SD card?
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Same here, did you find a solution for this?

Unfortunately not. I just check my storage before I snap a picture. I can say it's more stable as time passes by. It doesn't happen that often anymore

I think it only happens after a reboot.

I thought so too, but it's not the case for me. I don't reboot my phone, and it never rebooted on its own. It simply switches to internal memory randomly.

I have the same problem. Do you know if it happens to everyone with Android Pie or only happens to a few? It bothers me because the camera settings change without warning and I have to be aware in the case of recording a long video.
The frustrating thing is that with so little news about the developments it is very possible that we remain with the problem eternally.

Happens in my HTC U12+ as well. It's quite annoying that it happens. One always got to check, and as I tend to forget to check it, I always see it later and got to move my pictures to SD manually.
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Try forcing permissions for removable storage. It doesn't solve the issue complitely, but it happens much less. I could go for weeks without it switching to internal memory
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p50kombi said:
Same here, did you find a solution for this?
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I formatted my Sdcard, this cured it for me

jab5555 said:
I formatted my Sdcard, this cured it for me
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I have not tried that. I put it directly from my previous mobile phone (U11 +). Before formatting it, I would like you to confirm to me in a few days that it still behaves the same. That is, after restarting the mobile phone having established external storage in the camera continues to maintain the setting.
If you don't mind, I'd appreciate you giving us some feedback. Thank you.

avalvidares said:
I have not tried that. I put it directly from my previous mobile phone (U11 +). Before formatting it, I would like you to confirm to me in a few days that it still behaves the same. That is, after restarting the mobile phone having established external storage in the camera continues to maintain the setting.
If you don't mind, I'd appreciate you giving us some feedback. Thank you.
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I had u11+ as well, have you cleared the data in the camera app? (obvious usually catches me out lol) I formatted mine via PC after transferring all stuff off my Sdcard, then I formatted the Sdcard inside the phone, it then allowed me to flash from 128gb ruu before it wouldbt. It won't work with twrp tho got be 32gb Sdcard ,it dont recognise & refuses to mount

After five days and two cell phone resets I can say that it works correctly. Formatting the sd card seems to solve all problems. Now the camera is always set to external storage.

Formatting the card did not bring any improvement.
At random times, the recording changes to internal memory. In addition, after a restart, usually ringtones (phones, event, alarm, notification in YaataSMS) also return to the system settings.
This is an HTC nut kicked, drama.
regards
q.

qriozum said:
Formatting the card did not bring any improvement.
At random times, the recording changes to internal memory. In addition, after a restart, usually ringtones (phones, event, alarm, notification in YaataSMS) also return to the system settings.
This is an HTC nut kicked, drama.
regards
q.
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You're right. Today it was in the internal memory without having reset. Dammit.
To avoid problems with the ringtones it is better to have the audio files in the internal memory. After moving them, the sounds have not changed again.
Kind regards.

Unfortunately, after more than 10 years of loyalty to the HTC brand, seeing deadlock, no new premium smartphones, no staff that Google took over - this year I will change the brand.
I'm sorry, but U12 + is the last smartphone of this brand
regards
q.

Same Problem here since Pie-Update. I tried everything you all tried, including buy a brandnew microsd, formatted it in the Phone and... still it changes to internal memory.