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SD Card freezing phone

Hi guys,
I am having a problem with my phone, i've researched everywhere but it seems that no one is experiencing the issue as me, or at least I couldnt find anybody.
The thing is that one day after syncing my phone, when I unmounted the sd card(in the correct way) and I inserted it in the phone, the phone started to freeze everytime I locked it, once I locked the phone it became unresponsie, everytime. I can turn on the display but it doesnt respond to touch, the digital buttons either. However, if I get a notification it does show up in the display, so the phone its not dead.
This behavior happens with every card I have, ive tried with 3 different cards and everytime I sync them to my mac my phone responds this way.
I did a factory reset, I wiped everything and installed different roms but the issue remains. I also formatted the cards several times.
For the phone to work correctly it has to be card-free or with a sd card that has never synced with my computer.
I uploaded a video to make the problem more understandable, Im really desperate so any help will be greatly appreciated,
thank you!!
Edit; Sorry, I dont know why the youtube thumbnail doesnt show up here,
Heres the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYIWBuJrJmA&feature=youtu.be

fmac said:
Hi guys,
I am having a problem with my phone, i've researched everywhere but it seems that no one is experiencing the issue as me, or at least I couldnt find anybody.
The thing is that one day after syncing my phone, when I unmounted the sd card(in the correct way) and I inserted it in the phone, the phone started to freeze everytime I locked it, once I locked the phone it became unresponsie, everytime. I can turn on the display but it doesnt respond to touch, the digital buttons either. However, if I get a notification it does show up in the display, so the phone its not dead.
This behavior happens with every card I have, ive tried with 3 different cards and everytime I sync them to my mac my phone responds this way.
I did a factory reset, I wiped everything and installed different roms but the issue remains. I also formatted the cards several times.
For the phone to work correctly it has to be card-free or with a sd card that has never synced with my computer.
I uploaded a video to make the problem more understandable, Im really desperate so any help will be greatly appreciated,
thank you!!
Edit; Sorry, I dont know why the youtube thumbnail doesnt show up here,
Heres the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYIWBuJrJmA&feature=youtu.be
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If the issue only happen AFTER you sync it to your PC that would make me think to look at what files you are syncing and how you are doing it. What are you loading on to your sd card? What class is your SD card as I have seen cards with a class less then 4 can cause issues.

Yes I thought of that, im just syncing music, and its the exact playlist i've been syncing before with this phone. I did a virus scan and nothing. Maybe a file suddenly became corrupted, but there is no warning about that..
I've tried with class 6, class 4 and class 2, all with the same problems..
I forgot to clarify that yesterday I synced the same files and for a while everything worked perfectly, I was able to play my music, etc. But all of a sudden I opened the camera app and the phone freezed, It did this everytime until I removed the card...
I appreciate your help, thanks

fmac said:
Yes I thought of that, im just syncing music, and its the exact playlist i've been syncing before with this phone. I did a virus scan and nothing. Maybe a file suddenly became corrupted, but there is no warning about that..
I've tried with class 6, class 4 and class 2, all with the same problems..
I forgot to clarify that yesterday I synced the same files and for a while everything worked perfectly, I was able to play my music, etc. But all of a sudden I opened the camera app and the phone freezed, It did this everytime until I removed the card...
I appreciate your help, thanks
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Sounds like maybe the virus scan is not detecting it. Are you syncing it while the card is in the phone? I would try that with blocks of music until the problem pops up and then you can slim it down from there

zelendel, thanks for your help, I did try those things and the problem remains.
However after trying different things I discovered that the files are not the problem because I synced all my music wirelessly and everything worked perfectly. Until I connected my phone to my mac without syncing and unmounted the sd-card.
My guess is that there is a problem with the mount-unmount mechanism, it may be a hardware issue I dont know. Its weird, because once I unmount, the sd-card prepares and the phone identifies it, but after that I cant open any music application, camera, etc and once I lock and try to unlock the phone, it freezes as I stated before.. Im lost
What do you think? any ideas?
thanks again!

Same Thing here in Xperia mini St15i Please Helpppppp?!

bump. come on, no one? i cant run aosp roms because of this.

fmac said:
zelendel, thanks for your help, I did try those things and the problem remains.
However after trying different things I discovered that the files are not the problem because I synced all my music wirelessly and everything worked perfectly. Until I connected my phone to my mac without syncing and unmounted the sd-card.
My guess is that there is a problem with the mount-unmount mechanism, it may be a hardware issue I dont know. Its weird, because once I unmount, the sd-card prepares and the phone identifies it, but after that I cant open any music application, camera, etc and once I lock and try to unlock the phone, it freezes as I stated before.. Im lost
What do you think? any ideas?
thanks again!
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Sorry, something that is confusing....if you are unmounting your sdcard then that is why that you cannot open files..it is unmounted. What happens when u pull your sdcard out? unmount it from settings>storage and see how the phone behaves....if works smoothly then it might be a slot issue....
If your phone rooted?

Its stock rom? Hace u ever do something to ir? Probably its hardware problem.
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Hello fellas
Same problem experienced here on two different Huwawei android phones -> sonic and ideos..gingerbread and froyo respectively.
Everytime the phones do sdcard I/O opps, all UI elements become unresponsive but bg tasks run coz they ring during incoming calls and texts.
The sdcard is the same...a 4gb kingston.
I know the sdcard works well because i've tested it more than once using H2testw 1.4 ....no flaws reported at all!
The card also works flawlessly on my nokia E63.
Does anyone have a fix for this?

sd card error ... guess so.
Hey there am too experiencing the same prob . When i insert the sd card class 2 the phone freezes , and becomes unresponsive until i remove the card ... Since dis post is about 2 yr old so guess there might b some solution to dis prob ... .... thankzz in advance

[Q] Apps gone

Hi after having to switch my phone off, when I turned it on again it appears that all the apps I moved to the SD card are no longer there. I have just spent some time downloading them from the market again.
Question is why has this happened and how do I stop it from happening again
Thanks in advance

Solution
Hi Nexus.
I think you'll find that the apps still exist, they're just fragmented on the SD
card. This has happened to me plenty of times.
I've found it's only apps that are installed on the SD card and it's never
happened with apps on the phone's internal ROM.
A good way to check is to go into: Settings- Applications- Manage applications-
then tap the SD card tab. That list shows all of your apps installed on the SD
card. I found that when apps here got fragmented/corrupt they didn't show their
original app icon. Instead they showed the stock android app icon. This is a good
way to tell if the missing apps in question are still there but are just fragmented.
The way to solve this, the way that's worked for me, is to plug the phone into a
pc and mount the SD card as a disk. Then on the PC access the SD card via
explorer and right click- properties- tools- then click de-fragment.
This may take up to 30 mins as it's not as fast as a HDD.
From using this technique my apps have always returned and I can use them
with no problems again.
I've also noticed that this issue only happens if I restart or turn the phone off. I
don't understand what is corrupting the apps as the SD card is mounted
correctly and is the one supplied as standard.
I hope I've helped, and I guess this will save you from re-downloading all of your
apps again.
I'm happy to hear anyone's thoughts/suggestions onto why this is actually
happening in the first place too.
Cheers, Dms

Hi thanks so much for the answer. This has been bugging me for ages and even though I have been searching I have not had any joy solving it until your reply.
As you said it only seems to happen to apps on the sd card, and I would like to know why they are not "persistent" There must be a developer who understands the Android system who can explain why this happens and what you can do to make apps you have on your sd card permanent.
As you said it only happens to me when I re start my phone.
Thanks again for the answer

Hi. It's no problem. Yes I havn't seen anything about this issue being mentioned either.
I'd like to know what's causing it. Whether it's a hardware fault or something in the software.
It's a real pain having to hook it up to my pc to sort it out. Especially when I'm away from a pc, I can't use half of my apps.
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G+ auto-backup not working - can't manually upload either

If this is the wrong forum please direct me to the correct one.
I recently did a fresh install of SlimKat 5.4 on my I9100, and Google+'s Auto-Backup isn't working.
Even if I manually select photos in the Gallery and 'share' to 'Photos' (whereupon it attempts to upload them to my G+ account) it simply does nothing.
What is going on here? Does anybody have any suggestions? Additionally, when I open the Photos app, it lists all the images on my device and they can be opened, but they are completely black, as if it's having trouble reading them properly.

Ok, I know partially why now - I'm also having a problem whereby I can't see any SD Card image folders when I open Gallery. They exist and I can navigate to them via Explorer, but Gallery can't access them - nor can Photos. I've tried clearing Gallery's cache but that won't fix it.
What could be causing this? I also tried re-seating the SD Card in case it was physically loose.
Whan can I do??

lations said:
Ok, I know partially why now - I'm also having a problem whereby I can't see any SD Card image folders when I open Gallery. They exist and I can navigate to them via Explorer, but Gallery can't access them - nor can Photos. I've tried clearing Gallery's cache but that won't fix it.
What could be causing this? I also tried re-seating the SD Card in case it was physically loose.
Whan can I do??
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Ok, so I've also tried: formatting the SD card, tried a new SD card, and neither of those things made any difference.
There must be a simple reason for this?
Has nobody had this happen before?

Additionally, Google Music doesn't display any music files, and sometimes when I navigate to the SD card in Root Explorer, the rom freezes.
So it sounds like it's a problem with the SD card port, or perhaps the ROM itself has problems. There shouldn't be anything wrong with the SD card port though, it was fine before I upgraded to Slimkat 5.4.....

SD card slot issue

hi! couple od days ago i was simply listening to music, but songs were switching after ~30sec and later didn't even want to play anything. I've gone to settings and seen something pretty weird ( look screenshot). in laptop card works fine. I've tried those simple methods - mounting, unmounting, shutting down etc... did anyone of you heard or faced something like this? hope you know some solution.. that honor 6 is so problematic

janusz10007 said:
hi! couple od days ago i was simply listening to music, but songs were switching after ~30sec and later didn't even want to play anything. I've gone to settings and seen something pretty weird ( look screenshot). in laptop card works fine. I've tried those simple methods - mounting, unmounting, shutting down etc... did anyone of you heard or faced something like this? hope you know some solution.. that honor 6 is so problematic
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its a bug rmove and insert the sd card or connect to pc in mass storage mode then switch to file transfer(mtp) mode.
Above methods always fix this issue for me

shubham412302 said:
its a bug rmove and insert the sd card or connect to pc in mass storage mode then switch to file transfer(mtp) mode.
Above methods always fix this issue for me
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removing and inserting didn't worked for me, but hope that this second method will work. I'll try it and let you know!

none of those methods work.. i'll format that sd card, hope it'll work

I have this problem too and nothing seems to help. 3 different brand cards, one brand new. did chckdsk with no errors, formatted to exFAT.... but i still get "now safe to remove" and "preparing sd card" one after the other all the time

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.