Hello, I had Transformer about a year now. I have installed CyanogenMod 10 (JB 4.1) but the problem i have as my microSD card that I just bought will not get recognised in Transformer. I have "Samsung 32gb Class 10". It works fine if I put it thought the adaptor to the docking station and get recognised straight away. I tryed to format it to FAT32 and then insert it in the microSD slot but still same, it just does not wont to know it. I Kingston 16gb Class 2 and its absolutely the same problem. Can it be that the microSD slot it knacked since I've bought it? Please help someone.
P.S Mount SD card comes up in the Settings > Storage but after i press it in couple of minutes table says "Unfortunately, Setting has stopped"
Romashka87 said:
Hello, I had Transformer about a year now. I have installed CyanogenMod 10 (JB 4.1) but the problem i have as my microSD card that I just bought will not get recognised in Transformer. I have "Samsung 32gb Class 10". It works fine if I put it thought the adaptor to the docking station and get recognised straight away. I tryed to format it to FAT32 and then insert it in the microSD slot but still same, it just does not wont to know it. I Kingston 16gb Class 2 and its absolutely the same problem. Can it be that the microSD slot it knacked since I've bought it? Please help someone.
P.S Mount SD card comes up in the Settings > Storage but after i press it in couple of minutes table says "Unfortunately, Setting has stopped"
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I think that you must be right. Your sd card slot must have problem.
But before any coclusion you have to see some things. What rom do you have? Did you try it with a different clean install (after making a nandroid backup for not loosing everything)?
I have kingston 16gb class 4 and I have no problem. (FAT32)
Finally I couldn't be surprised if sd card slot is mulfumctioning from beginning cause mine has problem with internal mic from beginning.
i am on CyanogenMod 10
Romashka87 said:
i am on CyanogenMod 10
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#1 Ensure that the contacts for the SD card are clean.
#2 Give the slot a quick blow out with some compressed air or such. NO VACUUM CLEANERS.
#3 After doing the above steps, put in the card, then power down. wait about 3 minutes, and power it back up into normal boot. These should get the device to see it and accept it. Other wise you may have gone and goofed up the locking mechanism inside that is not allowing the contacts to seat correctly. This can be resolved by a tear down and rebuild with a good service tech.
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#1 Ensure that the contacts for the SD card are clean.
#2 Give the slot a quick blow out with some compressed air or such. NO VACUUM CLEANERS.
#3 After doing the above steps, put in the card, then power down. wait about 3 minutes, and power it back up into normal boot. These should get the device to see it and accept it. Other wise you may have gone and goofed up the locking mechanism inside that is not allowing the contacts to seat correctly. This can be resolved by a tear down and rebuild with a good service tech.
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I am electrical engineer, if i had a manual how to dissemble it i could do it my self and buy a spare microSD connection/slot from ebay.
Romashka87 said:
I am electrical engineer, if i had a manual how to dissemble it i could do it my self and buy a spare microSD connection/slot from ebay.
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Here's a nice YT link to a tear down that should help you along with tearing it down. It's rather simple to do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG9gEYRALtU
MasterDecker said:
Here's a nice YT link to a tear down that should help you along with tearing it down. It's rather simple to do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG9gEYRALtU
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Thank you, ill have a look what is wrong inside and report back
Right, Scratch all that about disassembling it. I restored to Stock ROM.
I go to Settings > Storage and there is:
SD CARD
Mount external storage device
I press on it and its saying "Preparing external device..." but Setting freezes, after i try to copy anything on the microSD card it says "Insufficient storage". So i dont know what to do.
Romashka87 said:
Right, Scratch all that about disassembling it. I restored to Stock ROM.
I go to Settings > Storage and there is:
SD CARD
Mount external storage device
I press on it and its saying "Preparing external device..." but Setting freezes, after i try to copy anything on the microSD card it says "Insufficient storage". So i dont know what to do.
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Plug it into the computer and see what files are there. May just need to clear out some things. BUT I am beginning to be more inclined to say that there is an issue within the card itself. If the tab can see it it should be able to mount it. If it is saying that there is not enough space, either format it via the computer and re try or take it back and tell them that it is a bad card.
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Plug it into the computer and see what files are there. May just need to clear out some things. BUT I am beginning to be more inclined to say that there is an issue within the card itself. If the tab can see it it should be able to mount it. If it is saying that there is not enough space, either format it via the computer and re try or take it back and tell them that it is a bad card.
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There is nothing on the card, it is Formated in FAT32 and i tryed NTFS, Its a 3rd card and i dont think i am that unlucky it works in the phone, camera, pc, in tablet via docking station.
Romashka87 said:
There is nothing on the card, it is Formated in FAT32 and i tryed NTFS, Its a 3rd card and i dont think i am that unlucky it works in the phone, camera, pc, in tablet via docking station.
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NTFS won't work. I'm sure you are aware of that. Format it from your phone, THEN put it back in the tablet. If it is still the case, then you have ruled out the card being the issue, and are back to that it could be dust / dirt / debris in the port, OR that you have a faulty port.
I revert to the stock Asus ICS ROM from there website. Reformated microSD card to FAT32 with Long formating. Wiped all data from Tablet. Insertet a card and it might show straight away or not show at all or after pressing Mount External Storage, Setting will freeze and message with Wait or Close will pop up. If the microSD mounted and the SD card sigh apper in the bottom of the screen near clock i can get in to the card and creat folders, but if i try to copy something in it, it says Insuffician Storage. So i dont think it something with the card or a port, because it can detect the card accasionly and get in to it. So is there any way to do something with the main software part, not the android it self with something that android installed to or there is nothing that android get installed to? Thank you
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I have been transferring etc to sd card ok after mounting it on the G1 screen. For some reason now after updating the radio it gives me a BSOD! Not sure whether pulling out the 8gb sd card and installing the 1GB update card may have stuffed it or not but it says to run chkdsk on it......
The reason i am transferring onto it is i have a folder called media and in it i have a folder notifications which has the icq "UHOH" on it- but for some reason it keeps disappearing from my card. Any ideas of why?
thanks
i have stuffed the sd card- mustn't have dismounted it properly or something- the whole mount/unmount etc when plugging in the G1 is confusing- to mount is easy but how do you dismount it from the PC when you have finished using it?
ok. can someone tell me how to dismount the g1 from the pc properly so as not to damage the card again- it is fixed now with chkdsk.
the instructions say to "You can also go to Home > Settings > SD card & phone
storage, and clear the Use for USB storage check box." but of course that is not there..... I see there is an unmount/eject sd card but i thought that was for unmounting card from the G1 itself so i could take the card out without turning G1 off.
Did a search and couldn't find anything on this.
How do i unmount it when G1 is connected via USB to pc?
****edit***** can a mod please move this thread to the plain old "dream" section?
i got you
Look for safely remove hardware it should be in the notification area(it looks like a usb plug with a check on it) Right click that and click Safely remove hardware now just find your device and remove it
have fun
Edit: or just right click on Removable Disk(whichever the G1 is find out) in MY Computer and press Safely remove hardware or Eject not sure if its the same as
Safely remove hardware
but any ways have fun again
thx mate- so i don't have to do anything from the G1?
MontAlbert said:
thx mate- so i don't have to do anything from the G1?
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no problem(were all family here), not that i know of but thats a good idea
humble said:
no problem(were all family here), not that i know of but thats a good idea
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hmmm.. think idid that...wonder why my sd card stuffed up? My notifications and alarms folders went missing...
hope this helps mate
well now maybe your card is corrupt. Its happen to me before with an external hard drive(just pulling it out without safely removing hardware.)Corruption!!
try this use a different mem card(one in the house or new) to get to the root of the problem (most likely you need a different mem card)
Hi,
just to advise:
i bought a microSDHC 8gb kingmax Class10,that i swapped with the supplied
one but after only 10 hours of my desire's use, i had a message "sd card appears as read only etc" so it's corrupted(not yet having time to format it on my laptop)
So i put my Sandisk 8gb class4 back, so far 24hours still functionnal
so perhaps a defective one
This has happened to me using my G2. I have gone through 3 SD cards and lost some very important data. It has gone as far as completely killing 2 of them and not being read by computers or data recovery machines designed to get the data back...
Superthrust said:
This has happened to me using my G2. I have gone through 3 SD cards and lost some very important data. It has gone as far as completely killing 2 of them and not being read by computers or data recovery machines designed to get the data back...
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same here
a couple of days ago my 16GB SD card went compltely unusable, not recognized by windows or any repairing tool
and yes I always dismount the card from the phone after unplugging the USB cable
Hi, perhaps you could tell us what brands/size were involved(editing your post) if you dont mind
@gtrab : i a newbie for android, is that important to unmount the card after unplugging the usb(shouldnt it be rather before ;-) ?
invasion13 said:
Hi, perhaps you could tell us what brands/size were involved(editing your post) if you dont mind
@gtrab : i a newbie for android, is that important to unmount the card after unplugging the usb(shouldnt it be rather before ;-) ?
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LOL yes I meant "before"
and yes, it is important to unmount any USB thumb drive or USB card reader before removing it from a Windows PC
I am not sure if this is related or not, but I found Windows trying to use the card to "accelerate windows performance" or something like that (its an option that pops up when any USB gets connected, I never enable it, but I found a windows-related file there and I just deleted it)
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and yes, it is important to unmount any USB thumb drive or USB card reader before removing it from a Windows PC
I am not sure if this is related or not, but I found Windows trying to use the card to "accelerate windows performance" or something like that (its an option that pops up when any USB gets connected, I never enable it, but I found a windows-related file there and I just deleted it)
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Thanks for your tips, it could be useful to avoid corruption
Hey all.
FIrst off I dont recommend this phone. haha, that being said...
I just bought a 16gb microsd card for it. I was able to install it and transfer a bunch of tunes over. Then when I disconnected it from the computer, it has a little sd card icon with a sprocket at the top left of the screen and says "checking for errors". As a result, I dont have access to the info on the sd card > music contacts photos etc.
Its been 12 hours or so and this status has not changed.
Can anyone shed any light on this issue? Has it "farted" or do I just have to wait...
Thanks.
Have you tryed turning the device off taking the battery and SD card out then putting it all back and turning it back on, had issues with my phone not recognizing my SD before and it worked for me, just give it a try and see.
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Thanks, but tried that many times...
I did try removing the battery and card multiple times to no avail.
I even sacrificed my programs etc through a hard reset. As soon as the reset completed, I have the same notification about the sd card.
Some details...
When I first inserted the 16gb SDHC card, the phone acknowledge its presence and I formated the card in the phone. It said there was over 15gb available... all fine...
I then was able to que it up with my pc through the USB cable and transfer about 8 gbs of music to the phone... transfer when fine.
Upon removing the phonne, it started with this "preparing sd card, Checking for errors" nonsense.
I am firmly convinced that there ACTUALLY is no SDHC support on these Acer Liquid E phones. My old 2 gb card that came with the phone works just fine and is back in the phone now. My only other option is to buy a 4 gb card and see if that will word fine, as 4 gb is not considered SDHC. then step up again to a 8 gb card (SDHC) and see what happens.
Does anyone else have a SDHC card in there Acer Liquid E? Does it work?
There is also NO help from Fido or Acer to work through issues...
Really makes me want to go back to the iPhone........ grrrrrrrrr....
Make sure that you formatted it to FAT32 first of all and does the card still connect to the computer using a card reader ? Why don't you try formatting it on your liquid by going onto storage and then unmounting it then format.
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Thanks... no go though. At wits end...
Thanks for your attention!
When formatting in the phone, it doesnt allow you the choice to format specifically in FAT32 or other. I can only assume it is formatting in the proper system.
As for mounting and unmounting (what I feel this phone has been literally doing to me for the 6 months i've had it.lol)... as the sd card was stuck in this "checking for errors" sequence I had no access to mount or unmount the card or reformat again. These options were simply greyed out and not accessable.
I have not placed it into a card reader to reformat through my PC. I will try this step next and see what happens. I will have to find a card reader, or perhaps plug it into my camera as the card came with an sd adapter... see if that route will work.
Regardless. extremely user non-friendly phone here in the Acer Liquid E.
I need assistance to restore the external sd card on my Galaxy Tab plus. For some reason My Files began crashing on start-up. I then discovered that the extStorage link was no longer available in any explorer. When I open the settings menu and click Storage it force closes as well. I tried a Factory reset to no avail. I located a new Myfiles.apk on line, but it wont install.
Please, if anyone has any ideas short of flashing the rom, let me know.
Now I'm kind of a noob in regards to tablets, but if it was me, I would turn off the tablet completely and then remove the microSD card. I would then turn on the tablet and make it is functioning properly. If so and if I had one, I would plop in a different microSD card and see what that does.
If that is all working, then suspicion falls on the original microSD card. I would then put the microSD card in a SD or USB adapter and insert that into, again if you have one, a laptop or desktop computer. If it does, see if you can copy the files over to the computer and then use the computer to refomat the card to "Fat 32".
I would then take the card out and plop it back into the tablet and if everything is working.
If so, dismount it from the tablet, insert it back into the computer, copy your files over and then plop it back into the tablet and see if it now reads your files properly.
This is kinda like a crime scene, you need to do small discrete tests to see where the problem lies. Is the culprit your tablet or the tablet card port or the microSD card or a corrupt file on the card or was it Colonel Mustard with a knife in the parlour closet...
G.B.
And remember, talking dogs are liars.
Been there, done that.
Ja, I have tried that approach. It seems this criminal is a tad more sinister. I think my only option now is to flash the stock rom. I was hoping to do that when ICS came out though.
Thanks for the help!
When I installed cromi-x everything was working perfectly but the next day my 32gb micro sd that I've been using on it since the tablet first came out stopped working for some reason, it was not getting detected anymore but if I go to settings > storage I can see "MicroSD" and the only option there is mount external storage which does absolutely nothing every time I click on it and that option with "MicroSD" disappears whenever I remove the micro sd card.
And ever since then my tablet has been waking up with like a 1 second delay, but if I remove my micro sd card it wakes up with normal speed/no delay.
First time doing this kind of stuff so not sure what's wrong...
Momioka said:
When I installed cromi-x everything was working perfectly but the next day my 32gb micro sd that I've been using on it since the tablet first came out stopped working for some reason, it was not getting detected anymore but if I go to settings > storage I can see "MicroSD" and the only option there is mount external storage which does absolutely nothing every time I click on it and that option with "MicroSD" disappears whenever I remove the micro sd card.
And ever since then my tablet has been waking up with like a 1 second delay, but if I remove my micro sd card it wakes up with normal speed/no delay.
First time doing this kind of stuff so not sure what's wrong...
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Sounds like the sdcard is causing the issues. Worth reformatting it?
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Sounds like the sdcard is causing the issues. Worth reformatting it?
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yea, for some reason I cannot get this micro sd card to work on any pc/phone/tablet anymore, it detects it but there's nothing there for me to get into the storage let alone try to format it. I tried a different micro sd card and it works perfectly on the tablet and my sd card reader... not sure how my first micro sd broke or something after installing cromi-x, i did literally nothing to it besides putting the files in to install cromi-x
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yea, for some reason I cannot get this micro sd card to work on any pc/phone/tablet anymore, it detects it but there's nothing there for me to get into the storage let alone try to format it. I tried a different micro sd card and it works perfectly on the tablet and my sd card reader... not sure how my first micro sd broke or something after installing cromi-x, i did literally nothing to it besides putting the files in to install cromi-x
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Well CROMi-X doesn't do anything to the card, so I don't see how my ROM could break it. Sounds like something corrupted or maybe the card has died. What brand is it?
There are other low level tools you can use that maybe able to rescue it but if windows can't see it you may not be able to use them.
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There are other low level tools you can use that maybe able to rescue it but if windows can't see it you may not be able to use them.
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Can you drop some names? I have a big capacity card that has refused to act its age for some time now. I've tried H2testW and the thing reported the correct storage but slowed down considerably after writing half its capacity.
You can try Gparted. You would have to burn the image to a CD or create a bootable stick and run it from there. Make sure your BIOS is set for booting from a bootable disc or USB drive before it boots Windows.
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You can try Gparted. You would have to burn the image to a CD or create a bootable stick and run it from there. Make sure your BIOS is set for booting from a bootable disc or USB drive before it boots Windows.
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I have Gparted installed in Linux. Don't cut it. Does it low-level format? Seems pretty quick for such a chore.
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Can you drop some names? I have a big capacity card that has refused to act its age for some time now. I've tried H2testW and the thing reported the correct storage but slowed down considerably after writing half its capacity.
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http://hddguru.com/software/HDD-LLF-Low-Level-Format-Tool/
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/
And a paid for one
http://corrupted-sd-card-recovery-pro.software.informer.com/
sbdags said:
http://hddguru.com/software/HDD-LLF-Low-Level-Format-Tool/
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/
And a paid for one
http://corrupted-sd-card-recovery-pro.software.informer.com/
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Tried formatter 4. Took the whole day to erase 64GB. The program found no errors. Repartitioned it again with Gparted. Still encountered data loss. Guess the card has expired. But thanks again for the tips.
What brand/size was your card?
I had a similar experience with a cheapo 16GB card a few years ago.
Thanks,