phone wont read sd card - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III

I have the card in the phone and it was reading it just fine. I turned the phone on and off and it will not read the SD card now.
I tried to
1. turn it on and off again
2. open the back and re insert the card.
3. I tried to go to settings and mount the card but it says the card is not present
4. I used the card on my PC and it can read it fine.
Thanks for the help

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Anyone? I would appreciate some ideas

SD card not readable
badbeats said:
Anyone? I would appreciate some ideas
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The sd card my just be broken. Where did you get it from? Was it used before? Send a link of the sd card that you have.

Have you copied the contents of your sd card onto your computer, formatted the sd card to Fat32, then copied those files back onto your sd card?

This should fix you up...
1) Power down phone
2) Remove card
3) Mount the card in a card reader on a Windows machine and have it do an error check (and automatically fix file system errors).
4) While Windows is scanning your card, boot your phone with an empty card slot and then shut it down again after the boot is complete.
5) When Windows has finished repairing the card, reinsert in phone and boot normally. If it was not a physical problem with the card it should work again.
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ikr said:
The sd card my just be broken. Where did you get it from? Was it used before? Send a link of the sd card that you have.
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The card can be read on 3 different windows computers. I got it from Fry's probably. Yes. Could not find one

SlimSnoopOS said:
Have you copied the contents of your sd card onto your computer, formatted the sd card to Fat32, then copied those files back onto your sd card?
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I had nothing on the card and formatted just before I put it in the G 3. It was working for the 1st day. Then it was not working. I then reformatted it again in my pc but it still was not being read.

Stresa said:
This should fix you up...
1) Power down phone
2) Remove card
3) Mount the card in a card reader on a Windows machine and have it do an error check (and automatically fix file system errors).
4) While Windows is scanning your card, boot your phone with an empty card slot and then shut it down again after the boot is complete.
5) When Windows has finished repairing the card, reinsert in phone and boot normally. If it was not a physical problem with the card it should work again.
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You are the MAN! It worked!

badbeats said:
You are the MAN! It worked!
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Excellent, I thought it might..
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cboy82 said:
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I think you need to unmount the external SD before removing it...try going into fastboot and running the adb commands for mounting the SD card again, they can be found in several of the guides.
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[Q] Damaged SD card storage

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My Desire S is running on rom BlindMIUI_v2.5.25 which I loaded June 5th of this month. Suddenly since 3 days back it is saying "Damaged SD card storage" and also saying "Format USB storage, erasing all files stored there, action cannot be reversed"
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Looks like It's corrupted. A format should fix it. Connect it to your computer via a memory card reader or mount it in recovery and backup everything to your computer if possible. Then do a full format of the card (uncheck quick format in Windows). After that use the 'format sdcard' option in recovery and then copy the backed up data to the phone.
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format the sd card in a other format
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sashank said:
Looks like It's corrupted. A format should fix it. Connect it to your computer via a memory card reader or mount it in recovery and backup everything to your computer if possible. Then do a full format of the card (uncheck quick format in Windows). After that use the 'format sdcard' option in recovery and then copy the backed up data to the phone.
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Hello sashank,
Thanks for so prompt response. See I have just inserted another SD card and now phone does not get any SD card. It says "SD card is not available". From this it seems to me it is rom problem not the SD card. Am I correct? Should I change the rom and go for a newer version which is MIUI.us-2.6.8 or just a format will do?
Please advise.
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darkion2411 said:
format the sd card in a other format
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Hello darkion,
The phone is giving the option to format it. Should I do the format through phone or is there any other way to do it. Please advise me in details.
Would appreciate your help.
If your phone is giving an option to format it then use it. I find it strange that it didn't detect the other SD card too, but in any case if it's asking you to format it instead of just not detecting it then it doesn't seem like an issue with the card slot. So format it in the phone and see how it goes. Alternatively, go into recovery-wipe and format-format sdcard. I always use this for formatting my card as it works better then formatting it in the ROM itself, especially when my card gets corrupted.
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You should not forget to simply clean your sd-card and the slot in your device a little bit. This might be an easy solution, you should at least try it.
Or maybe you've already done .. ?
Damaged SD card storage
sashank said:
If your phone is giving an option to format it then use it. I find it strange that it didn't detect the other SD card too, but in any case if it's asking you to format it instead of just not detecting it then it doesn't seem like an issue with the card slot. So format it in the phone and see how it goes. Alternatively, go into recovery-wipe and format-format sdcard. I always use this for formatting my card as it works better then formatting it in the ROM itself, especially when my card gets corrupted.
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Hello sashank,
What I did is I formatted it in the PC so as in recovery as you said in the earlier response. The phone give the option but it does not work so I could not formatted it through phone.
It seems like working now. Phone shows there is SD card and through file explorer I can go to SD cards file. But only thing is that when I go to SD card files through file explorer, it take few seconds to retrieve the SD card files which never happened before.
Thanks for all your help.
Ok, when you format it in the PC, if you're using Windows, choose a cluster size of 32k in the format window. It gives a better read and write speed, especially read speed. So the SD card shouldn't take that long to show files. In general you'll see the card is giving faster speeds, both on the phone and when transferring files from the computer.
Also there's another way to increase the read speed of the SD card in the phone, which is by setting a higher read ahead speed. If you want to know more you can search about it, but otherwise just install this app SD Speed Increase, set your read ahead speed to 2048kB and tick 'set on every boot'. You shouldn't feel any SD lags after this. This speed increase is only on the phone though, won't reflect if you're transferring files from a computer. You need to be rooted for this to work.

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Most likely, you might have write protection on. You can disable it by getting the Micro SD card adapter and sliding it back to off.
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Or try formating it on android itself.
For me also windows couldnt format but android did it..
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Ditto what sanjay said.
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man4u2nv said:
you could try copying the contents of the SD card onto your PC using the card reader, format the SD card, then copy back the contents from the PC, worked for me
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Thanks guys for the suggestions. I have tried new roms and am thinking about ormatting the card. Cheers again:good:

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So my phone doesn't detect my SD card at all. I've tried almost everything. I cleaned the card, tried to solve the problem on the device and looked for my phone compatibilities with the SD. It is a Kingston SD card and my phone does not detect anything when i put my SD in it. So if anyone nas an ideja what the problem could be please help. Thanks..
Beks98 said:
So my phone doesn't detect my SD card at all. I've tried almost everything. I cleaned the card, tried to solve the problem on the device and looked for my phone compatibilities with the SD. It is a Kingston SD card and my phone does not detect anything when i put my SD in it. So if anyone nas an ideja what the problem could be please help. Thanks..
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try put the sd card in other device or try put other sd card in your j7.If doesnt detect, backup your data then format your phone.If problem still occur your sdcard slot are problem.
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Beks98 said:
So my phone doesn't detect my SD card at all. I've tried almost everything. I cleaned the card, tried to solve the problem on the device and looked for my phone compatibilities with the SD. It is a Kingston SD card and my phone does not detect anything when i put my SD in it. So if anyone nas an ideja what the problem could be please help. Thanks..
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