So yesterday I was booting on my Motorola Triumph as usual (imagining what it will e like to get my Evo 3d in a couple of months) and it goes to the homescreen, and starts loading the SD card as usual. OK. A couple seconds later it says there's an error with the SD card, it said something along the lines of that there was an error and I needed to reformat it. Now, I have rooted it and I'm running CM7 Heavenly Divine, I've swapped ROMs about a million times, I'm used to errors.
No biggie, so I format it and move on with my day.
The next day, my dad (with a Triumph, UNrooted of course) told me there was something going on with his Triumph. He had been trying to add more music3 onto his SD card, and yet he was getting the same error I was! Just a day apart! What are the chances?!
We both have class 4 Patriot 16gb Micro SD cards that we got on Amazon, and they've been working wonderfully until now. The thing is though, I wonder if it's a littlem ore than coincidence that they both had the same error at about the same time.
We both got our Triumphs about a year ago (or whenever they came out, time has no meaning to me anymore).
So the question is what's up with this? Has this happened to anybody else out there (perhaps spontaneously like my dad and myself)? Anything I could've potentially done wrong? Help me out here guys if you could. Thanks!
For all you people out there who are following this post, I was using my Triumph again today (obviously) and I turned it on this morning and the SD card failed again. I formatted it (again urgh ) and changed back to MIUI in case it was the ROM that was doing it and it seems to be working swimmingly at the moment.
If it decides to not work again or if my dad's decides to stop working again I'll tell you guys. I'd be more annoyed about this, but I'm definitely going to be upgrading to the 3D the second it's coming out. So something like this isn't ABSOLUTELY horrible...
I had that problem when I flashed cm7 reloaded "error formatting SD" , never done it with miui I'm sticking with miui
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bad sd card?
Given that you and your dad got your cards at the same time and they are the same make and model, it could be a manufacturing flaw with that batch of sd cards. Have you tried a different sd card (like the 2gb that came with the phone) to eliminate the card as the culprit?
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I've reviewed the threads (many very old) on here and none seem to really address my concern, so here goes...
I have a 32GB Patriot Class 10 card for my Inspire 4G smartphone. I'm running Revolution HD rom and the rom's rock solid...great performance, battery life, etc.
For some damn reason, I cannot figure out why I'm getting errors from Android (Froyo) telling me that the SD card is damaged. It will prompt me to format and start over, each time basically causing me to reinstall apps and I'll lose pictures and video in the process each time this happens.
When it happens:
Windows 7 will not allow access to the card (only option is format) and Android device cannot (or will not) mount the card. Unless I format that is.
I've tried formatting via Windows as well as via Android but this seems to happen to me every 1-2 days now. It's getting really old and I'm about fed up with it.
I don't know if it's something to do with the rom I'm using, or if it's the micro SD card itself...or if it's (uh oh) the card reader port built into the Inspire 4G. Who knows. Maybe it's how class 10 works for all I know. It's really lame.
It might even somehow be the fact that I was running apps from the SD card. I don't know if this relates, but I've forced non-movable apps to the SD card sometimes via Titanium Backup as well. Maybe that plays a role in this.
I'm at my wit's end and don't know what else to do. Appreciate any feedback!
Did you get this card from eBay?
After you put the card in your Windows machine, when you are done, do you right click on the drive and hit "eject" or do you just pull it out?
Try the stock 8gb card for a day and see if you get any errors. I'm betting your 32gb card has the issue.
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Hey fellas.
Just realized that I wasn't necessarily using the most current version of Revolution rom. I had beta 2 HD, which may have been some time ago. I re-flashed with the one released yesterday (v3.2) and re-formatted the card as well.
So far so good, so we'll see how it goes on my 32GB Patriot Class 10. Card was purchased at Fry's Electronics in Wilsonville, OR.
Also, I always "eject" the card from Windows and also "unmount" in Android before removing the card. Always!~
After a flashed ROM from CM7 back to bamf 1.6.3 REMIX, I was greeted by a READ-ONLY error with my SD Card.
Tapping on it to correct the issues doesn't work. I cannot even format it. So I am sad right now. I am going to have to drive all the way back to the Verizon store and hope they will exchange it out. I have only had the phone for 2.5 weeks.
this happened to me too, but "fixed" itself
I had the same problem when I flashed Black Hole and I thought it was a problem with the ROM. I restored to Liquid 1.3 and it went away, but then came back again on a different Liquid install. Not sure what causes it, but restoring and reflashing seems to fix it for me sometimes. Using a 32GB class 6 SD and flashing from ROM Manager and from within recovery.
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What brand of microSD cards ship yall's TBolt? Are they Kingston, SanDisk, or something else/something de-branded?
andrewc513 said:
What brand of microSD cards ship yall's TBolt? Are they Kingston, SandDisk, or something else/something de-branded?
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SanDisk 32GB Class 4
Not using the "stock" card, switched to a Komputerbay class 6 as soon as I received the phone (I had been using the card without incident for several months in a Droid previously). This weird "sd card mounted as read only" issue only happened the couple times though and not sense. ???
Swapped out the card today at the VW store. They thought it was odd. Walked away with a free MicroSD card reader.
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Swapped out the card today at the VW store. They thought it was odd. Walked away with a free MicroSD card reader.
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My SD card just crapped out on me. I thought it was my phone at first and I panicked, but the 16GB from my D2 works fine in it for now. I put the 32GB SD in my Transformer, my D2, and my Win7 PC and they all choke on it. Win7 locks up Explorer and the Transformer reboots when I insert it... I guess I'll have to go to Verizon too. I haven't even had this card for a week yet... :-(
BTW, Nice screen name. My brother likes to go by that name on the home caller id system. It's funny hearing it said out loud when he calls. "Call from: Turd Ferguson!" lol
Happened to me as well, first week of owning the phone, wasn't even rooted yet. Verizon swapped the card out for free under warranty, haven't had a problem since.
Add me to this list as well. Been using a 16 gig card from my incredible and haven't had an issue yet.
On the way home yesterday, I tried to play some music from my phone, and my phone said there was no SD card availalbe. I tried several things, and sure enough, my SD card is dead. I called Verizon, and they walked me through everything I just did. They declared it dead. They said they are out of stock, but would be happy to send me a 16Gb card. Eh...NO! They said the only thing they could do was to put me in touch with Sandisk to do an RMA. So, Verizon connects me to Sandisk. I explain to them that Verizon has already declaired the card dead, and I just need an RMA # to return it. It really is just that simple, but no we have to spend the next 30 mintues doing everything a 3rd time to prove the card is dead. Then Sandisk comes back and says the 32 GB card is out of stock, but that they can send me 2 16 GB cards instead. NO!!! I don't want 2 16 GB cards!!! Just send me the 32 GB card when you have one. They said ok, but it will be at least 3-4 weeks. After an hour and a half on the phone with Verizon then Sandisk, I have an RMA number. I am going to take a chance and go to my local Verizon to see if I can just swap it out there. Until then I am back to my 16 GB Sandisk card from my Touch Pro. This is the third Sandisk microSD card that has gone bad on me. I think I will be avoiding Sandisk from now on.
I'm not sure why this happens, but you can fix it by formatting the card.
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I'm not sure why this happens, but you can fix it by formatting the card.
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I tried. The card is dead. I tried formatting using Win 7, the Thunderbolt, and also using a SD card format tool made by HP. All said it was either damage or could not be formatted. I have only had the phone 6 weeks, and I had no backup of my SD card. So backup your SD cards!!!
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I tried. The card is dead. I tried formatting using Win 7, the Thunderbolt, and also using a SD card format tool made by HP. All said it was either damage or could not be formatted. I have only had the phone 6 weeks, and I had no backup of my SD card. So backup your SD cards!!!
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Have you tried formatting it from clockworkmod?
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Have you tried formatting it from clockworkmod?
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Yeah, clockworkmod says formating...done, but the phone and pc won't register the presence of a card. It's dead, but thanks for the suggestion.
Ok so I have a samsung class 10 16Gb micro SD card in my sensation 4g, and as of the last 2 weeks I thought my phone was breaking and needed a new one because the old one kept restarting while trying to use navigation, pictures weren't loading in the gallery, and certain apps would just randomly force quit.
After 2 weeks of dealing with the crap and trying to fix it myself, went and got T-mobile to send me a warranty replacement, and In order to prep for my new device I decided to wipe my card and keep only pictures and music, because it was about 1.52 Gb from being full and I didn't know why the SD Maid app wasn't cleaning out the junk data from previous apps.
In the end with the newly formated memory card my phone works like new, so the warranty replacement is just going to help, because this one had a small screen scratch. Anyone noticing the similar symptoms to the stuff in bold should try to format their memory card, and do a factory reset, it might help
Thanks for the information! This is good to know. I also discovered something with the sd card, I also noticed similar symptoms on a cheap sd card I had got.then I had recently purchased a new one and it was a trusted brand and when I put it I'm my device the symptoms were gone! There is definitely something to this! Bottom line is best to buy a good trusted brand of sd card and not the bargain brand or it could cause trouble!
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i had to repartition and reformat mine sd-card,
after 4EXT has told me partitions aren't alighned.
there are tools section in 4EXT anyone can check sd-card with
Thank you SO much, Guy. I've been having those exact same issues to a T. I was getting frustrated with having to find pictures via Astro, not gallery, and last night I got lost because Google Nav kept rebooting my phone. I was ready to huck it out the window. I will try this, and hope it helps!
Earlier today I got an error message saying that my micro SD card had been removed and I should unmount it first next time, but I hadn't actually removed it. After rebooting and re-inserting the card it still wouldn't recognize it until about the 3rd try. From there it worked fine for another 15 minutes before saying the card had been removed again. I got tired of fixing it so I let it be for a while... long story short it then went to an error message saying that the card was "empty" to now being completely unable to recognize it. I insert the card but there's no error at all; it just doesn't exist.
If I plug it into my laptop with a USB adapter, the card doesn't exist there either.
Did the phone just somehow destroy my micro SD card? I don't have another to test out and I can't restore stock from recovery because my backups were saved to the external card. -_-
Mine has destroyed 2 since Nov. Both were SanDisk. They are sending me a new one though, still sucks. If I had insurance, I would send this thing back.
The first was about 1.5 years old, so i just chocked that one up to being old, this one is two months old.
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bobAbooE said:
Mine has destroyed 2 since Nov. Both were SanDisk. They are sending me a new one though, still sucks. If I had insurance, I would send this thing back.
The first was about 1.5 years old, so i just chocked that one up to being old, this one is two months old.
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Damn, seriously? Mine is a SanDisk as well and only a few months old; how'd you get them to send a replacement?
I've rebooted a million times and my wifi is still constantly downloading and my 4G connection isn't. Really weird that this all happened at the same time.
I called the warranty department and explained the problem. I think they have a lifetime warranty. You have to send the old one first and then it's 7-10 business days to get the new one. They pay for shipping, so I did it.
Not sure if it's the phone doing it or not. It just happened, I was listening to music and it happened.
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bobAbooE said:
I called the warranty department and explained the problem. I think they have a lifetime warranty. You have to send the old one first and then it's 7-10 business days to get the new one. They pay for shipping, so I did it.
Not sure if it's the phone doing it or not. It just happened, I was listening to music and it happened.
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I was listening to music as well, but the files were on internal storage. The was right before I couldn't get the volume to work and had to reboot. I had also just taken a picture (which saves to micro SD) by using the shortcut on the lockscreen, then hit the back button and realized that Pocket Planes was still running. Maybe this screwed up the card; I don't know.
Here's a thread about it. No real answers but maybe there's something in there.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1856564
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not my gs3, but my sammy note 10.1 just killed my 32gb one.......
Funny how I avoided the Galaxy Nexus and the Nexus 4 for the lack of external storage, and yet this phone just kills my micro SD card anyway.
If i were u id start to get worried...my 16gb blue S3 killed My Sd card right B4 dying Off on me.....went To The Service Store nd they said I Need A new mb.....since no Insurance I Ended Up Sellng That Crap For what Its Screen Is worth! The Phone Was On 4.1.2.......im Abt To Give Up On all Sammy Products As each One of Them Ends up With An Issue.....never Had them With Htc......i Guess thats What to Expect when they throw 100M handsets At People Per yr.....
I bought a new 32GB microSD card in late April. After googling this issue, it appeared as though most SD card failures were SanDisk, so I bought a Kingston 32GB card instead.
In less than 3 months of use, I randomly received an error message today that the SD card was unexpectedly "removed," even though I did not remove it. After rebooting and re-inserting the card, the phone does not detect it. Neither does my USB microSD card reader; the card is essentially destroyed.
5 months and two SD cards ruined. I don't want to bother paying ~$5 to return the defective card to Kingston and wait another month for a replacement. This phone is clearly defective and incapable of handling external storage for more than a few months before destroying it.
Thanks, Samsung!
No solving solution yet>?
I am really amazed !!! So many smart guys are here at XDA and nobody found solution to this problem yet? I cant believe Samsung did not find a solution to this yet..... they live this problem in fog.
Hundreds maybe thousands of people have this problem with their Micro SD cards all over the new are many forums with this commune problem. I have search and did not find a solution nowhere.
I got my S3 about 2 years ago.....I purchase at that time a Kingston 64gb, class 10 card for it. Worked for few months and started whenever I try to view pictures from it to unmounts by its self. I restart the phone and work for few minutes then again disappear. I format it with laptop in FAT32 ....work for few days and then die all the way that could not format with the laptop anymore. So I went and exchange it with a new one, again this one I did from start Fat32 so wont be problems.....again die on me this second brand name card. SOOOO?????
What is the solution? Anyone?
I intended to upgrade now to S4 black edition since I don't like anything about S5 but I read on internet that S4 may have same problem...so I think I will wait for LG G3 because it sound very promising compare to Samsung crappy phones and their slow reaction to solve a problem.
Samsung, is been 2 years already since you ignore this problem and you did not find a solution to this problem !!! Wake up !
No wander your stock go lower and lower every day.
Maybe someone should take this up on TV.
Hey guys, would appreciate if someone could give me some help on an issue I'm having with a 32 gig SD card (SanDisk Class 10 bought at Best Buy so it's definitely legit). Anyway it worked great for a long time, however, recently I tried to use the Gremlin Remover on my phone, it crashed and burned in the middle of the process as I've heard can often happen with Gremlin Remover. I did a restart, and after that problems began to appear with my SD card. Almost all the data on it disappeared and it started to constantly mount and dismount from the phone. I thought it might have just been the failed Gremlin Remover run, so I reformatted it in Windows, put Gremlin Remover, black hole system wipe, and my ROM back on and did a complete wipe and restore of the phone, card seemed to be working okay, but then the next day it started dismounting and saying it had been unexpectedly disconnected again. Now I can't get the phone to recognize it at all so I can't connect it to Windows to get it formatted. The strange thing is that my tablet (Asus Transformer TF300) can mount the card and read the data on it. However I can't reformat from the Asus since it won't mount as USB storage in Windows. Is it probable that the card is completely fried? Or does it maybe just need a good reformat? If a reformat would fix it, how would I go about doing it? Is it possible to reformat through terminal commands? Or some other way? Anyway thanks in advance for any help.
I too have a Sandisk class 10 uSD card that just recently failed on me. It started losing files one night, then it stopped mounting. Now it just shows up as a 30-something MB drive that I can't format. I have tried many methods of restoring it to no avail.
Maybe try to format it using external sd card reader? microsd to sd?
I think there's a known issue with these cards. I bought one of these a couple wks ago from a deal posted on slickdeals.
I haven't had any problems with mine but after the purchase I started reading comments in the thread about how these cards are known for mount/dismount trouble and high failure rates. I believe in still under my return period with Amazon so I've been debating exchanging it for a different brand like Samsung. Sorry, I'm at work posting on my phone so I can't post a link.
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Maybe try to format it using external sd card reader? microsd to sd?
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This has already been tried, without any luck. I tried to format via Disk Utility on Mac OS, numerous drives tools under Windows, and gdisk under Ubuntu, and nothing will revive it. Zed's dead.
Chitown021 said:
I think there's a known issue with these cards. I bought one of these a couple wks ago from a deal posted on slickdeals.
I haven't had any problems with mine but after the purchase I started reading comments in the thread about how these cards are known for mount/dismount trouble and high failure rates. I believe in still under my return period with Amazon so I've been debating exchanging it for a different brand like Samsung. Sorry, I'm at work posting on my phone so I can't post a link.
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I too saw a number of reviews that noted the same type of failure, so I may end up giving another brand (like Samsung, as you suggested) my business. Sandisk does not seem to want to take any responsibility for my uSD card failing after only 8 months of normal use.
namaui said:
I too have a Sandisk class 10 uSD card that just recently failed on me. It started losing files one night, then it stopped mounting. Now it just shows up as a 30-something MB drive that I can't format. I have tried many methods of restoring it to no avail.
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Same thing happened to me when I tried to format. Been meaning to thank you guys for all the comments, good to know it's not just me. Anyone have luck with RMA's?