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SD card problems

Some apps that I've pushed to my external SD card suddenly show up as not installed and I then have to reinstall from the market. Any ideas what's wrong?
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Right now the phone is having problems when you store any apps on the SD card. Make sure they are all stored internally and that should solve your problems.

you have 4gb of app storage, there's no need for apps2sd especially since it breaks the apps, sd card and everything else.

But for me such as with evernote the data is stored on the SD card and the app fails when the SD card unmount itself and I have to resync it.
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mariol66 said:
Some apps that I've pushed to my external SD card suddenly show up as not installed and I then have to reinstall from the market. Any ideas what's wrong?
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Yes, theres a bug in the software causing this to happen when apps are installed on the sdcard. Just make sure all ur apps are in internal storage and you should be fine, or is 4gb not enough?
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No I have a lot of games and such and to use the SD card option would be nice. It's made for a reason you know lol
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Well until Moto provides a update you WILL continue to have the problems having the apps on your sd card. There is no way around it right now.

mariol66 said:
No I have a lot of games and such and to use the SD card option would be nice. It's made for a reason you know lol
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I agree it would be nice, but then again there are alot of things that would be nice, doesnt make them happen any sooner. You've been made aware of what the issue is, how to avoid it, and now can decide how you want to proceed from here on out.
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jrw 28 said:
well until moto provides a update you will continue to have the problems having the apps on your sd card. There is no way around it right now.
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never use the atrix 2 to format your card, do it with a card reader in windows

I'm on my 2nd Atrix 2. The first one had trouble with the sdcard as most of the people are writing about on XDA so I got a replacement. The 2nd one works perfectly with the same sdcard installed. In addition to fixing the sdcard issues, wireless works more reliably and call quality is better indicating they may have had some hardware quality control issues vs. software issues. If you're within your 30 days return period I would suggest getting a replacement.

Returned for a skyrocket
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JRW 28 said:
Well until Moto provides a update you WILL continue to have the problems having the apps on your sd card. There is no way around it right now.
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I've been monitoring this and moved many of my non essential apps to my SD card for testing purposes. Then I set my phone so any updates to apps has to be approved, none of my apps nor is the phone auto update.
Worked fine for two weeks until I finally updated three apps. Then I lost 7 apps on the SD card

Clovett said:
Worked fine for two weeks until I finally updated three apps. Then I lost 7 apps on the SD card
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I've been doing some testing of my own and get the same results everytime as you. Motorola def has some bugs here and seems like the RZR might be having them as well. Hopefully this update will cure them.

JRW 28 said:
Hopefully this update will cure them.
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What update is this?

They are fixing to start testing on a new build
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20340416&postcount=1

I'm trying to be patient for that update. But, it's a tough bone to swallow spending $65 for an SD card just to store MP3s on. It would be nice to have some sort of rough ETA from Moto on the update (i.e., before my 30 days is up). I'd try a Samsung Infuse, but that would be taking a step backward in video and processor.

cowhow said:
I'm trying to be patient for that update. But, it's a tough bone to swallow spending $65 for an SD card just to store MP3s on. It would be nice to have some sort of rough ETA from Moto on the update (i.e., before my 30 days is up). I'd try a Samsung Infuse, but that would be taking a step backward in video and processor.
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I hope you aren't holding your breath

916x10 said:
I hope you aren't holding your breath
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Nope. I'm guessing that when Moto pushes out the update ATT will have to put their blessing on it and we all know how quick that will happen.

cowhow said:
Nope. I'm guessing that when Moto pushes out the update ATT will have to put their blessing on it and we all know how quick that will happen.
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yup just spoke to a att rep and they have no idea when there will be a update. was gonna exchange my phone but today was my 30 days. im using the stock microSD card and apps are still disappearing but i just dont lose my contacts. im at a loss as to what to do now. i suppose my only option is to wait and see what the devs cook up or that dreaded att update.

tylercarter said:
yup just spoke to a att rep and they have no idea when there will be a update. was gonna exchange my phone but today was my 30 days. im using the stock microSD card and apps are still disappearing but i just dont lose my contacts. im at a loss as to what to do now. i suppose my only option is to wait and see what the devs cook up or that dreaded att update.
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Try a warranty exchange. I promise the issues you have seen tylercarter, is not exactly what everyone else has, especially with google contacts disapperaing. If you bought it at ATT they are decent if you go into a store. If you bought it at best buy forget it, even 1 day past 30 day they will tell you too bad so sad. ATT took care of me three times even at 40 days, they let me switch to a different phone each time. That was back in march so.... give it a try.
I hate to say it, but fixes for this issues with the SDcard most likely will never come. Now if we can get the source code for this phone, then WE can fix the issue much like cyanogen did those type of things for many phones. I will definitely do the fix for it once we get that.
Jim
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Missing half of Internal Storage GS3

I have a 32GB Galaxy S3
For some reason when I go to Settings>Storage
Under Device memory>Total Space 16.00GB(My external SD shows up as having 32GB)
If I plug my phone into my laptop I see two drives Phone(~12GB) SD card (32GB)
I've tried going to mounts and storage in cwm and formatting system, data, cache and sd card. I have also tried different roms
Is it possible that my phone is mislabeled and I received a 16GB by mistake.
Anyone no what I'm doing wrong

I have read on here somewhere that a few people did get mislabeled s3's that said they were 32gb and were actually 16gb. May want to take it into a store and see what they say.
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MIKEYFTP said:
I have read on here somewhere that a few people did get mislabeled s3's that said they were 32gb and were actually 16gb. May want to take it into a store and see what they say.
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I guess that's the only explanation that makes sense. Barring any other bright ideas, I guess I'll return to stock and do an exchange. Really sucks as JB roms just started rolling a few days ago and I finally got my phone running perfectly.

sololhj said:
I guess that's the only explanation that makes sense. Barring any other bright ideas, I guess I'll return to stock and do an exchange. Really sucks as JB roms just started rolling a few days ago and I finally got my phone running perfectly.
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Ya definitely but paying for a 32GB one and getting a 16 is not cool. That is a big deference, I definitely feel you on it being a bad time cause these JB roms are awesome. But one day shouldn't be too bad, plus they will have some better updated Verizon's by then. Good luck man that sucks for sure.

Yeah, you have a 16gb. 16gb are really 12gb "4gb ROM" so you should go asap to a store
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Let us know what happens
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Yeah keep us posted since their not selling 32gb ones at my local Verizon anymore. They do have the black one though!
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just stick a 64gb sd card in the external slot and have vzw credit you the difference. im not sure why most folks want 32gb of internal anyway. i prefer to keep my stuff on ext that way if i need to wipe internal, i dont have to move anything.

droidstyle said:
just stick a 64gb sd card in the external slot and have vzw credit you the difference. im not sure why most folks want 32gb of internal anyway. i prefer to keep my stuff on ext that way if i need to wipe internal, i dont have to move anything.
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:good:
The only other reason would be resale value and/or sellability... but probably still wouldn't make economical sense.
I made the mistake of having most of my stuff on the phone memory (sold my extSD card with my last phone) and it got wiped when my phone soft bricked and required an ODIN.
Now I have a class 10 64Gb SD card from BB ($49) and it's great.
It is worth to note that I had to format as Fat32 to get CWM to read it in recovery mode. Now ALL my data and backups are on the extSD card!!!

intelinside83 said:
Yeah keep us posted since their not selling 32gb ones at my local Verizon anymore. They do have the black one though!
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Here's an update
I went to Verizon this morning and presented my problem to the Tech. She is baffled. She proceeds to convene a veritable round table of management, techs and sales people. After some tense moments of deliberation, they offer me a 16GB Micro-SD card(note I believe they only carry class 6).
It takes all my composure not to fall to the ground in a seizure of laughter.
Now even if I didn't have a 64GB class 10, how would replacing the missing internal memory(high quality memory), with low quality class6 external memory even close to equivelant.
After noting my reaction, they proceed to offer a full replacement. Needless to say, I chose the latter

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Movies onto sd card

Hi i am going on a vacation this weekend and i want some couple of movies onto my sd card, but i cant quiet get it to work. i have cyanogenmod installed, and a sandisk class 10 card. and i have transfered a movie onto the card but it wont play, in any player, if i transfer it onto the internal memory it works just fine. i have tried with several different filetypes and movies. and if i transfer music. when i play the music it skips ( it fastforwads, like in the oldcasettes) th e music and movies work fine on internal memory. i have tried to transfer the movies through windows media player sync options, and just copied the movie onto the sd card when the tablet was connected. and i have also taken the sd cartd into and card reader where i then copied the movie over. will uninstalling the cyanogen mod work, or what?
i wouldreally appreciate some help before the weekend....

Martin.oszust said:
Hi i am going on a vacation this weekend and i want some couple of movies onto my sd card, but i cant quiet get it to work. i have cyanogenmod installed, and a sandisk class 10 card. and i have transfered a movie onto the card but it wont play, in any player, if i transfer it onto the internal memory it works just fine. i have tried with several different filetypes and movies. and if i transfer music. when i play the music it skips ( it fastforwads, like in the oldcasettes) th e music and movies work fine on internal memory. i have tried to transfer the movies through windows media player sync options, and just copied the movie onto the sd card when the tablet was connected. and i have also taken the sd cartd into and card reader where i then copied the movie over. will uninstalling the cyanogen mod work, or what?
i wouldreally appreciate some help before the weekend....
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Bro try mxplayer and in it click refresh option all videos on your device will be displayed and then try to play them...
I don't think its CyanogenMod problem but still u can try flashing stock!!!!!!
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Which version of CM are you running atm? Stable?
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Endiej said:
Which version of CM are you running atm? Stable?
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Hi, yeah i was using stable.
but i went back to stock rom! and stil doesnt work.. and im going on a vacation tomorow
i have tried with another sd card. and it worked good. but that card is only 2 gb
i cant format the card with sd formater it says that its write protected... weird. cant format it through windows either-
so i think theres something wrong with the card. if som1 could help me oout!

Go to the store while there is still time and get a new card.
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Agoattamer said:
Go to the store while there is still time and get a new card.
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theres nothing else i can do ?

Martin.oszust said:
theres nothing else i can do ?
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Simply slide down the lock pin in sd card adapter/reader
And you are done.then format
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Droidlover123 said:
Simply slide down the lock pin in sd card adapter/reader
And you are done.then format
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tried that
didnt work..

Martin.oszust said:
theres nothing else i can do ?
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If the card is bad then it is bad. What else is there to say? Micro sd cards are only a $1 per GB. I'm sure you can find one on sale today at your local BestBuy, Walmart, or Radio Shack.

Indeed, if your card is bad there's nothing you can do. Doesn't have anything to do with your ROM or Tablet itself.

It may not be a bad card.Some devices see certain brand class 10 cards as class 1 and this causes problems. This was a big issue with some cannon cameras and camcorders about 3 years ago.
Also, only buy sd cards from trusted sources online. Many, many counterfeit cards sold online. Have even heard of people getting counterfeit cards on trusted sites like amazon. I only buy mine from b&h, newegg or locally from bestbuy.
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Zagnutty said:
It may not be a bad card.Some devices see certain brand class 10 cards as class 1 and this causes problems. This was a big issue with some cannon cameras and camcorders about 3 years ago.
Also, only buy sd cards from trusted sources online. Many, many counterfeit cards sold online. Have even heard of people getting counterfeit cards on trusted sites like amazon. I only buy mine from b&h, newegg or locally from bestbuy.
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As a mather of fact, I just read that the SanDisk CLass 10 cards have a common issue and that SanDisk even apologized for this issue already.

Exactly. C10 cards can indeed be problematic. I've been using c6 cards for the past 3 years becuase of these problems. I have no need for c10 cards. IMO c10's are really only good for things like cameras tha record at extremely high bitrates. For average use like in a phone or tablet, not really any reason to use a c10. But some people insist on getting every little bit of speed they can.
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It's the card. OP has already stated he can't format using windows either.
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Martin.oszust said:
Hi, yeah i was using stable.
but i went back to stock rom! and stil doesnt work.. and im going on a vacation tomorow
i have tried with another sd card. and it worked good. but that card is only 2 gb
i cant format the card with sd formater it says that its write protected... weird. cant format it through windows either-
so i think theres something wrong with the card. if som1 could help me oout!
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from my experience, 2GB sdcard usually is class 2 or class 4 sdcard. So it's much slower

64 gb sd card

Do you guys have any feedback on the SD card below? I was going to get a scandisk sdcard..but I have seen bad reviews that the sdcard is un-mounting on the S4. or do you guys recommend another sd card let me know.
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-microSDX...1386098187&sr=8-9&keywords=micro+sd+card+64gb

gordo80 said:
Do you guys have any feedback on the SD card below? I was going to get a scandisk sdcard..but I have seen bad reviews that the sdcard is un-mounting on the S4. or do you guys recommend another sd card let me know.
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-microSDX...1386098187&sr=8-9&keywords=micro+sd+card+64gb
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Has xcellent reviews. Both Sony & Amazon will stand behind it. I got the Samsung one & it's perfectly flawless so far.
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I've had my samsung 64gb uhs1 for a week now. The kern that came with my rom didnt supoort exfat sd cards. So I flashed kt kernal and it works flawlessly. Stock kernal supports exfat btw.
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As far as i am aware about that sd card, it should run flawless. I have one with the same specs, only it.s from Samsung. It.s even on sale the sd card, it would be a shame not to buy it. Have fun with it, and may you have no problems using it !

I have Scandisk extreme 64gb, I have had no issues with it its far quicker than any card our there as it reads and write 80mbs more costly than the rest but a massive thumbs up from me on this one
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The "unmounting SD card" problem has more to do with the kernel than anything else. I've had a SanDisk card and it's worked fine with the KT kernel -- so there's really no need to buy a Samsung card.

I started to buy one from Amazon on black Friday. I put it in my cart and forgot about it. Now the price has jumped back up. What a dummy.

I suggest that you get the SanDisk Ultra 64GB, lifetime warranty and no hassle using it.

I have the SanDisk Ultra 64GB and it works great in 4.2.2, but then with 4.3 and 4.4 I had to root the phone to modify platform.xml to allow apps to save files to the SD card. Works for me since I have the Google Play Edition and it's moderately easy to root the phone, but it still messes with over the air updates, so I can't say that I actually recommend anyone else doing the same, unless you like to tinker.

Hey MPCookson, could you give me some info on how you modified the xml to get the 64GB cards to work on 4.4 roms...ive searched and searched for methods to get this to work and have been unsuccessful with everything ive tried...reformatted the card to exfat, tried every 4.4 rom out there and cant get it to pick up my card...any insight would be VERY helpful!

gordo80 said:
Do you guys have any feedback on the SD card below? I was going to get a scandisk sdcard..but I have seen bad reviews that the sdcard is un-mounting on the S4. or do you guys recommend another sd card let me know.
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-microSDX...1386098187&sr=8-9&keywords=micro+sd+card+64gb
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No unmounting problems with my 64GB Sandisk card here.

moejoe88 said:
I started to buy one from Amazon on black Friday. I put it in my cart and forgot about it. Now the price has jumped back up. What a dummy.
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It's $35 now. Almost the same price when in Black Friday.

extrem0 said:
It's $35 now. Almost the same price when in Black Friday.
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Thanks for the heads up on that.

The unmounting only happens if your kernal doesn't support exfat sd cards. Only fat32. Stock kernal and kt kernals support exfat that I know of but others like ptmr's doesn't. So it's not an sd card issue.
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Brutal Pineapple said:
The unmounting only happens if your kernal doesn't support exfat sd cards. Only fat32. Stock kernal and kt kernals support exfat that I know of but others like ptmr's doesn't. So it's not an sd card issue.
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Had a problem with a sandisk 32gb (1 year old). Was trying different formats fat32 / exfat with supported kernel. But then it started to get unexpectedly removed very frequently. Fortunately it seemed working good in other devices (pc, tablet). I backed up everything and started a RMA. They told my card was defective and accepted it as a damaged card (I tried to fix it formatting without success). I have read some bad reviews about sandisk cards but I think this issue was only affected by some batches. I really liked theirs RMA support and I bought a new one (64gb this time). Hope it lasts more than the other one.
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Thanks for the heads up on that.
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You're welcome!

[Q] SD Card removed unexpectedly??

Anyone getting this error? SD Card removed unexpectedly?
I put the External SD Card I used in my Galaxy S3 for 2 years into new Xperia Z3 and within 10 minutes I was getting this error.
Removed card and formatted it. Put card back in and within a couple of minutes the same error?
Unsure what to do at this stage. I will try another card and see how that goes but I never had a single issue with that SD Card in the GS3 for 2 years.
It's a SanDisk SD Card. 32GB.

UBIQUE
Are you sure it is inserted all the way in? It has to sort of click into place.

gregbradley said:
UBIQUE
Are you sure it is inserted all the way in? It has to sort of click into place.
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I'm sure!!
I've put another card in since the OP. Different brand (Transcend). That seems to be working OK.
Possibly just an issue with the SanDisk but as I said it dos work perfectly in my older GS3

G1032 said:
I'm sure!!
I've put another card in since the OP. Different brand (Transcend). That seems to be working OK.
Possibly just an issue with the SanDisk but as I said it dos work perfectly in my older GS3
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Not sure then about that then, but if you have another one that works its problem fixed.
OT
Are you RA?

gregbradley said:
Not sure then about that then, but if you have another one that works its problem fixed.
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Are you RA?
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RA?

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RA?
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With a name like G1032 I suspect British Army and with your avatar I suspect Royal Artillery (RA)

same issue but resolved by changed to a new samsung evo sdcard.
i believe my previous card is good but only not compatible

I've had similar issues on low end phones, but not high end ones. Could be a software bug in 4.4.4 since I have seen this happen on a few phones. Then again, could be SD Card corrupt issues and you may want to get it replaced.

Same here. Has happened 2x in a week.
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With a name like G1032 I suspect British Army and with your avatar I suspect Royal Artillery (RA)
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Ah.
No not RA. Just random numbers I picked a couple of years ago!!

Found a resolution to this.
Did two things, but don't know which one solved it.
Reformatted card to exFat and also stuck a small thin label to the back of the card to increase overall thickness of the card to make certain it stayed in place. 14 or so hours now without issue.