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HELP! System refuses to see ANY SD Card inserted

i had this very VERY strange thing happen. On my universal i upgraded it to WM6.1. I was very nervous about bricking my phone at first, but everything went well, and i used my phone for about 6 months. Then all of a sudden, i'm walking down the street one day, and i get a phone call, and my phone decides to turn on the "Low Battery alarm" at the same time i pickup the call...
My phone completely freezes, and so i reboot my phone, and i get this "No SIM card" error. Which, i know there is a SIM card in there, because i didn't take it out, and it was working just fine only 30 seconds prior.
So, i went home, swapped out the SIM card to one of my old SIM cards (a number from a previous city) and viola! No SIM Card error.
Something happened to my phone at that moment in time and just like FRIED my SIM card. So, easy solution, i just go and get a replacement SIM card. Ok , DONE.
....Happy pimpin with my HTC Univeral, right?... WRONG....
At the same time this happened, my SD card slot just seemed to STOP working. Which is really weird. I even tried enabling some system background processes and whatnot, ...basiclly turning EVERY process on. But that still had no effect.
And i can do almost nothing useful with this device now except for make phone calls and do SMS. Having a large brick in my pocket just for phone calls is a bit of an overkill i think.
So , any suggestions? How do i get my SD card working again.
BTW, i'm in china, and every repair shop that i went to REFUSES to touch any HTC phone. There seems to be a massive education gap. But if i had a nokia phone it would be no problem for them....
*sigh* STUPID CHINKS!
*grunts*
any thoughts on how to solve this problem with the SD Card?

DaoMingJin said:
any thoughts on how to solve this problem with the SD Card?
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Hi welcome to forum and well you can try to flash another rom and see if it works or not.. if it doesn't then might be hardware problem...

i'm downloading the original WM5 ROM now, and will try to reflash it tonight. I really never needed WM6, except for when i was at university (here in china), they had a problem with the CAT5 cabling, and had to redo all of it. And so the entire dorm was out of internet for 1 month. So i used my phone as a WiFi router to share my 3G data connection with my notebook. For some reason, the software would only work properly with WM6... *sigh*....
now i have a 3G Net card for my notebook....hehe
^_^

Details please?
Which ROM?
What SD card?Make?Capacity?
How is battery working?
Did you try ANY other cards?
Did you try formatting it?
Because SD cards getting corrupt is a very comman thing.
I did lost three 4GB SD cards last year and one 8GB SDHC. ( all made in China )
So I know how it feels.
Damaged SIM...it never happened to me.

As a rule in china... NEVER under any circumstances buy anything without a warrenty. HAHA. I've been here for like 4 years. But with that aside...
i can put the same SD card in my computer, and it reads just fine.
I have even changed from formatting it as FAT32 to FAT16, and still it doesn't register.
I have had the same problems with the 4GB cards too. Unless they're really high quality, they're kinda crappy and prone to defect. However, the card(s) that i have are low capacity. 512 MB, and 2 GB. So there wouldn't be any issues with the capacity of them being too large.

Ok, this sucks....when i try to reflash my phone back to WM5,.....it says i have the wrong image ERROR code 100 i think it is.
But i downloaded the Factory image from this forum for WM5.
I have WM6.1 on it now, so....how do i downgrade? Just reflash?
BTW, this is an English Language Version. So that shouldn't be too conflicting.

DaoMingJin said:
Ok, this sucks....when i try to reflash my phone back to WM5,.....it says i have the wrong image ERROR code 100 i think it is.
But i downloaded the Factory image from this forum for WM5.
I have WM6.1 on it now, so....how do i downgrade? Just reflash?
BTW, this is an English Language Version. So that shouldn't be too conflicting.
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have a look on the Wiki
Perhaps using the MTTY app can help you
Good luck,

i found the reason why it failed....that rom is not ENGLISH

my SD card dissapered on my UNI when my battery got old. it seems it just didnt have enough power. I put an old SD card in and that works but i got a new battery within a week.

whenever my universal didn't have enough power for the SD card , it would sound the low battery alarm, and then tell me it didn't have enough power for the SD card.
I would think that if i can still run wifi for 40 minutes or so (on a full charge), there should be enough amps in the battery to turn on the SD card....at least...one would think *grin*

Ok, well, i somehow managed to get my phone flashed to WM5......using the German WM5 ROM mind you
It's actually not in german, everything is in english. Anyways, whenever i put an SD card in, it still doesn't show up.

The IO conctroller used in Uni usually never die.
I would suggest you to unmount the device, use a hot air gun on the SD socket connector and nearest different points.
regards

SD card unexpected unmount

So last night for the second time i get a red triangle notification that tells me my SDcard was unmounted unexpectedly, basically it thought i removed it but obviously i didn't since u can't even reach it with the battery in. I'm assuming its a hardware defect. In order to fix it i have to remove the SD card and reinsert it.
Anybody else have this problem?
Sent from my ADR6400L

Thats a HW defect, if you are rooted, unroot and take it back. They will give you a brand new device.

That's what I'm going to do, only problem is i bent the kickstand and left tool marks when i fixed it
Sent from my ADR6400L

What is the HW defect? This problem of having my sd card unmounting unexpectedly happend only twice, does doing a FAT32 format help? When this would happen to you, was it happening all the time? Thanks, any info will help

Hi all,
Having the same **** here, SDcard was unmounted unexpectedly....
OK.... trying to tell what happened:
I have the phone since Jan 2011 (HTC DHD) I bricked my digitizer and 2 weeks ago I was brave enough to open it to try to replace the digitizer, but gave it up as the display/Digitizer unit was glued....
However, after I put the DHD together again Problems with SD-Card...
By now - I ruled out for myself that it is not software related, as I Wiped the phone fully (formated /data , /system , /cache and so on) and installed a rom, I never had this problem before with - but now I have...
Also I tested with other SD-Card and having the same problem (SD Card Kingston 2 GB and Sandisk Class4 23GB)
So as Said I can rule out the Software and the SDCard itself....
I'll disassemble the phone again to see if there is maybe a loose connector...
If you don't hear from me again this solved my problem
Kind Regards,
Der Matte

OK.... I am Happy to say that I belive that I fixed my issue.....
as stated before, I opened the device and put it together and then I got the error as described above....
Now I just took a few tools and opened it again....
2 things I found wich were not 100%
1: connector to the mainboard was bended a tiny bit but looked correctly seated anyway...
2: very close to the SD-Card reader unit (the slot where you push in the card...) there is a bit of tape... half of it is isolated - half of it is not esolated to get the ground connected to the frame....
I placed the sticker 180 degrees... so the isolated part was not at the right place...
I corrected this - so far all is working again....
So I presume... as I had a Hardware issue in the phone (fair enough caused by myself) all the people having the same symptomps are having a HW problem as well.....
So Now I am optimistic, to get my digitizer replaced too - but this time I will get better tools first
Hope this helps all the other people having these symptoms
If the error comes back, I will update this....
My device HTC DHD
Der Matte...

Had the same issue with my S3.
Turned out that the SD card was dying (the card brand is Team Group), this caused it to be unmounted by itself and then mounted again (sometimes showing notification “sd card removed unexpectedly”), hence triggering the “Media” scanning process and significantly draining the battery.
I created an application to monitor how many times the SD card was removed, and turned out to be unmounted every ~3 mins!!!
I then bought a new Transcend 32GB Class 10 card (made in Korea), and until now, this never happens, no reports from the application whatsoever, and no media process eating my battery.
I just published this app in the play store now, this is the link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sdcardmonitor

memory card corrupted

i had bought a 16 gb micro sd and it's been like 4 month and in this 4 month my memory card corrputed like 10 times
today my memory card corrupted because i was playing blood and glory and after half an hour phone turned off and when i turned it back on nothing showed checked my app in manage and it showed all my app are corrupted can any one tell me how can i stop my memory card from corrupting because i don't want to keep moving 16 gb files every after 2-3 weeks plyus it's annoying
please help me with this because i really dont want this to happen
i'm using class 10 microsd that's has it no name on it

Shery4life said:
i had bought a 16 gb micro sd and it's been like 4 month and in this 4 month my memory card corrputed like 10 times
today my memory card corrupted because i was playing blood and glory and after half an hour phone turned off and when i turned it back on nothing showed checked my app in manage and it showed all my app are corrupted can any one tell me how can i stop my memory card from corrupting because i don't want to keep moving 16 gb files every after 2-3 weeks plyus it's annoying
please help me with this because i really dont want this to happen
i'm using class 10 microsd that's has it no name on it
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It might just be a naff uSD card. I've had a couple of cards fail totally (Nokia, Desire & Sensation). The general advice seems to be to buy a uSD card made by recognised manufacturer (e.g. SanDisk).
On the other hand you say: "after half an hour phone turned off". Was it a complete power off in the middle of playing the game ? If so it might be fair enough if it's part way through writing stuff to the uSD card.
Has it been the same situation each time prior to having the corruption ?

gol_n_dal said:
It might just be a naff uSD card. I've had a couple of cards fail totally (Nokia, Desire & Sensation). The general advice seems to be to buy a uSD card made by recognised manufacturer (e.g. SanDisk).
On the other hand you say: "after half an hour phone turned off". Was it a complete power off in the middle of playing the game ? If so it might be fair enough if it's part way through writing stuff to the uSD card.
Has it been the same situation each time prior to having the corruption ?
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mostly it just get corrupted for no reason
but coulpe of time it happened straight after i took it off from my pc and forgot to do safe eject and it got corrupted
and today while the game was on my phone turned off completely and after i turned it back on the files were corrupted

Shery4life said:
mostly it just get corrupted for no reason
but coulpe of time it happened straight after i took it off from my pc and forgot to do safe eject and it got corrupted
and today while the game was on my phone turned off completely and after i turned it back on the files were corrupted
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Hmm,
1) mostly for no reason, no idea.
2) forgot to safe eject from the PC. Well we know the possible reason for that.
3) probably the same issue as 2) just on the phone instead of the PC.
1 ?? Might just be a card on the threshold of failing.
2 & 3 are probably due to the fact that the device was still being written to when it was suddenly not there. FAT can be a bit sensitive like that.

Try to unmount your SD card, take it off phone then put it in again, reboot.
Hope this helps!

My wife's sensation did the same thing, I had to take out the SD and put it into my SD card reader on my laptop, format it and then put it back in the phone. The phone then wanted to format it again which it did and now it seems fine.
By the way, the data was intact when I put it in my SDcard reader. I was able to back up the data before I formatted it.

i say quickly buy another 16gig micro sd for $8.00!!!
im trying not to advertise here but this is a deal that cant be missed, and i have order from this site so i can vouch its a legit site too thats where i got my 32ig for 20 bucks
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PBA replaced by service centre .... now 16GB internal SD V/s 4GB earlier !

Hi
so i was having problems earlier (restart + factory resets, multiple force close errors etc) - service centre tried twice to flash to other ROMs but errors kept repeating. I finally took a photo of the 'internal SD card unexpectedly removed' error and showed it to them - they replaced the mainboard.
Now earlier, my Internal SD card space was 1.52 GB; after replacing, it is now 11.73GB ! surprised as to why they'd do such a thing. this has happened with a few other users too as ive read on this forum.
also theyve put me on 2.3.6 GB so no further upgrades necessary. wifi, 3g, gps all work now. Just got the phone back an hour ago, so hoping the restarts and force closes are done with.

Good for you brother

that's the policy Samsung follows.....customer shows up with "bricked" phone,shows a n00by face,and Samsung rewards them with the motherboard from another version of i9003 as they've run out of 4Gb ones

That was not bricked phone, But a with motherboard memory issue.

[Q] Dead Nexus S, any way to recover data from internal memory??

Hey fellas.
I've got a Nexus S, and it is totally dead. I dont know if I could call it bricked, cause it didnt happen during rooting or flashing roms etc.. It just slowly happened, first sign being that the power button didnt work properly, then after an hour or so with a few manual reboots trying to fix the power button, the phone didnt turn back on again. I've tried almost everything, but the phone wont give a single sign of life, nothing...
So my question for you guys is... is there any hope of reaching the data on my internal memory on the Nexus S? I'm pretty sure that me myself wont be able to do it, but is there anyone who knows something about if there is a way for the "repair shops" to do something about it..?
I know that I can JTAG the phone etc...but that will delete all the data from the card, and I dont want that to happen...
Thank you for suggestions

If the emmc is dead i don't see u having the data back, such an operation will cost u more than the phone and i'm sure no shop will be able to extract ur data expect if u have big money to spend and send it to a specialized company
Best bet ? count ur losses and move on, because even if you want only to fix the phone will run around 100$

Magusxd said:
If the emmc is dead i don't see u having the data back, such an operation will cost u more than the phone and i'm sure no shop will be able to extract ur data expect if u have big money to spend and send it to a specialized company
Best bet ? count ur losses and move on, because even if you want only to fix the phone will run around 100$
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Thx for answering .
Well, I dont know if the emmc card is dead or not, the card itself might aswell still be functional and good to go, only that there is something else that is messed up with the phone, like cables,connections or similar... I'm for the moment in a country where it's pretty cheap with repairing stuff, to JTAG the phone costs only about 18 Euro..
But, lets say that the emmc card is totally intact, and that the data is still on it.. arent there any emmc card readers around (I think I've seen one on amazon..), that could read the card then..? If not, shouldnt a repair shop be able to connect some cables or so to the card and extract data?

Virpan said:
Thx for answering .
Well, I dont know if the emmc card is dead or not, the card itself might aswell still be functional and good to go, only that there is something else that is messed up with the phone, like cables,connections or similar... I'm for the moment in a country where it's pretty cheap with repairing stuff, to JTAG the phone costs only about 18 Euro..
But, lets say that the emmc card is totally intact, and that the data is still on it.. arent there any emmc card readers around (I think I've seen one on amazon..), that could read the card then..? If not, shouldnt a repair shop be able to connect some cables or so to the card and extract data?
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99% ur emmc is bricked, a shop needs to desolder the emmc and place it on an external programmer to withrdraw the data.
Amazon doesn't carry this type or programmers the emmc is solder on the motherboard
Go ask some shops, they will riff box it / jtag it or they will remove the emmc and read it externaly you don't have any other solutions that u can try yourself.
Please update if a shop replay to u positively about something like this thanks