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Sd card issue!

Hi I'm having trouble getting my phone to read the sd card. When I put it in it says safe to remove sd but apart from that the phone doesnt even register that the card is in? I have had the sd card in my laptop for a while but formatted it first. I have a friend and its the same for his android but the 2gb he got with his phone works fine. Is there some sort of file structure that has to be on the sd for the phone to pick it up? Really need help thanks.
CM7 BTW
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No special structure i would fully format the card as fat 32 not quick format .
jje

Ok thanks for the reply. Also read that formatting in recovery mode could work? That was for a diff phone though with the same problem
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formatted my sd card :(

hey guys quick question...I have note 2 and by mistake I formatted my micro sd card through cwm recovery...now all my data is gone including pictures and videos.. does anybody know how to get back data..i really need one the video I had in my micro sd card...
any help will be great
thanks

I had same mistake, i was not be able to back the data
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You can install a recovery program on the computer and Connect the memory card to the computer, Retrieve Information

I have used hexamob recovery twice to recover images...
It offers to recover videos too...
Make sure u dont write or put anything on the card or ull not be ale to recover anything...
if it's helping you it must be thanked.
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There are a lot of recovery applications out there for all OS's. Just plug your SD card in to your computer and run one.
Things to bear in mind, any and all writes to the SD Card decrease the chance of getting the erased data back. Removing it from anything until you're ready to try to recover the data is your best bet.

mayank9856 said:
I have used hexamob recovery twice to recover images...
It offers to recover videos too...
Make sure u dont write or put anything on the card or ull not be ale to recover anything...
if it's helping you it must be thanked.
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Ooopps... I have done lots of writing and had put some different roms and pics
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If you write on it after the format, i don't think there's a way back.

Buddy just try our recovery softwares...
I'm up to sell my 64gb strontium card and to be on a safer side, I had written up the card to limit and formatted..
Still recover software could find the earlier files...
I again filled up the card and formatted it...
Dam again it could find the files....
Now I'm just encrypting the card to my tablet...
Hope it doesn't recover files again...
Or ill have to sack tge idea of selling it
if it's helping you it must be thanked.
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File transfer question

I just got a new 64g SD card. If I boot my phone into twrp an mount SD card then on pc drag all files off SD card then unmount an pit in my new SD card an mount that then pull all files back over so everything work the same as it did since I have important files on my SD card for my phone? Or is there a easier way fig I would like tho this out before I do it since I have never upgrade SD card before.
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Tigerstown said:
I just got a new 64g SD card. If I boot my phone into twrp an mount SD card then on pc drag all files off SD card then unmount an pit in my new SD card an mount that then pull all files back over so everything work the same as it did since I have important files on my SD card for my phone? Or is there a easier way fig I would like tho this out before I do it since I have never upgrade SD card before.
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no.its the best.
though u can connect them both at the same time and transfer directly.
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prantoroy said:
no.its the best.
though u can connect them both at the same time and transfer directly.
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press thanks
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I built my own pc an didn't included card reader. So I don't know how I can do that. O wait I have a usb card reader I could use that to hook on to pc an then direct transfer correct?
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Tigerstown said:
I built my own pc an didn't included card reader. So I don't know how I can do that. O wait I have a use card reader I could use that to hook on to pc an then direct transfer correct?
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Yes. If you have a dedicated card-reader for your PC then it will almost certainly be quicker for transfering the files than using your phone in the middle.

SimonTS said:
Yes. If you have a dedicated card-reader for your PC then it will almost certainly be quicker for transfering the files than using your phone in the middle.
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Thanks for your input. I'm bout to try an do this direct transfer after my morning ritual
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Tigerstown said:
Thanks for your input. I'm bout to try an do this direct transfer after my morning ritual
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glad could help!!

prantoroy said:
glad could help!!
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U did too I didn't know I could direct transfer. Now I need to install a SD card reader in my pc. I just build a beast an left out card reader. I now see the reason for having one.
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Tigerstown said:
U did too I didn't know I could direct transfer. Now I need to install a SD card reader in my pc. I just build a beast an left out card reader. I now see the reason for having one.
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g8.close thread.

What phone are you actually using? If you're trying to transfer files from your PC to your Phone, by using its USB cable should make the work easily done. But if its an older phone, a card reader is the best option that you can get. Just in case that you are using a smartphone that kinda latest or even not quite latest, you can try using AirMore. Its an app that you can use to wirelessly transfer your files from phone to PC and vice versa.

rogergarciapogi said:
What phone are you actually using? If you're trying to transfer files from your PC to your Phone, by using its USB cable should make the work easily done. But if its an older phone, a card reader is the best option that you can get. Just in case that you are using a smartphone that kinda latest or even not quite latest, you can try using AirMore. Its an app that you can use to wirelessly transfer your files from phone to PC and vice versa.
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Necro-posting a thread that is SIX years old? Seriously? :silly:

Blank MicroSD Card

I used to have to have a 32gb MicroSD card in my Note 3 which i used to use for my files. After I rooted my phone, I thought it would be a good idea to store my TWRP backups to my MicroSD card as it frees up internal storage but however after I initially made my 1st backup to my card, the system booted up and apparently the card was blank. I know this to be false as I have loads of photos on it and I selected the MicroSD card in recovery to make my nandroid backup to and after like 3 minutes, it was made.
Question is. How do I get my MicroSD card back to normal. I'm aware of formatting it and then mounting it in recovery but I don't want to lose my files on the card. I inserted the card into my laptop and the command prompt said it had a RAW file system.
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Don164 said:
I used to have to have a 32gb MicroSD card in my Note 3 which i used to use for my files. After I rooted my phone, I thought it would be a good idea to store my TWRP backups to my MicroSD card as it frees up internal storage but however after I initially made my 1st backup to my card, the system booted up and apparently the card was blank. I know this to be false as I have loads of photos on it and I selected the MicroSD card in recovery to make my nandroid backup to and after like 3 minutes, it was made.
Question is. How do I get my MicroSD card back to normal. I'm aware of formatting it and then mounting it in recovery but I don't want to lose my files on the card. I inserted the card into my laptop and the command prompt said it had a RAW file system.
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you can use " get data recover my file " software for recovery ......use its professional version (you can find it at torrent ) .

rishav754 said:
you can use " get data recover my file " software for recovery ......use its professional version (you can find it at torrent ) .
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Would I use that after I format my card and which file system should I format it to so TWRP can recognize it
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I used Recuva. It's from the people that make CCleaner. Worked for me. But honestly, don't let it restore files that are partially damaged, because if they're music or photos or videos, they won't play/display correctly, and it'll cause wakelocks from the media scanner until you find and delete them.

Product F(RED) said:
I used Recuva. It's from the people that make CCleaner. Worked for me. But honestly, don't let it restore files that are partially damaged, because if they're music or photos or videos, they won't play/display correctly, and it'll cause wakelocks from the media scanner until you find and delete them.
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Thanks for the advice, should I just format the MicroSD card and then use Recuva to recover the files
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Don164 said:
Thanks for the advice, should I just format the MicroSD card and then use Recuva to recover the files
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Don't reformat, just put the microSD card into your computer (with an adapter, or with something that will let it show up as mass storage, not MTP). Point Recuva to the card. It'll tell you what files are partially restorable and fully restorable. Like I said, don't restore the damaged stuff. From experience, what'll happen if you do is you're gonna get wake locks and no app will be able to tell you which files are damaged. So you'll end up having to format the entire card anyways to get rid of the wake lock/damaged files.

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Don't reformat, just put the microSD card into your computer (with an adapter, or with something that will let it show up as mass storage, not MTP). Point Recuva to the card. It'll tell you what files are partially restorable and fully restorable. Like I said, don't restore the damaged stuff. From experience, what'll happen if you do is you're gonna get wake locks and no app will be able to tell you which files are damaged. So you'll end up having to format the entire card anyways to get rid of the wake lock/damaged files.
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I've formatted the MicroSD card as I had a backup of the files on my laptop and everything seems to be working fine.
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Don164 said:
I've formatted the MicroSD card as I had a backup of the files on my laptop and everything seems to be working fine.
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You Could Have Used Easus Data Recovery

pushkardua said:
You Could Have Used Easus Data Recovery
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I discovered a backup on my laptop so I just formatted it so my Note 3 could read it
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Lost files wile moving and using hide it pro.

Please help me i've tried everithing...
I have a very large stash of pics that I kieep in Hide it pro app. I've set the app to unhide to a folder and them move that folder to the pc. when I tryed to open the folder on the PC I saw that there was only one photo inside (the first one) all the other 200 where lost.
I've run to the vault directory of hide it pro and there were the files, try to copy them and it was impossible, so I reboot the phone and the files were gone. GONE!
Now I've try to recover them with disk digger and other recovery software without any luck. If I could I would made a complete backup of the phone internal memory and them mount it has a drive and simply use recuva to get the files. But the process is to hard to understand and I can't see to know how to copy all content using adb not to the sd card but to the PC. My sd card is smaller than the internal memory so it'll not be able to acomodate a raw file from that size (64gb).
Any ideas? I believe that the files are simply lost on a regular hard drive or sd card it'll be easy but on the phone internal memory is a hell of a problem to get them out. Note that I must find the photos that are now archives with a changed name, hide it pro changes the file name...
please help.. thank you

You could try mounting it to your pc and running the program "recuva".. Worth a try.
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Deliquified said:
You could try mounting it to your pc and running the program "recuva".. Worth a try.
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the question is how to mount it on the pc... i've read about it and it's really hard.

Larzul said:
the question is how to mount it on the pc... i've read about it and it's really hard.
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You should just have to plug it into your pc with a usb cable and install the drivers.. Afterward it should show up as a drive and scan it.
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The issue is that the S3 with android 4.3.1 is connect like MTP and not like a regular USB drive. So it is almost impossible to mout it. The only way I heard is with ADB.

Snag a micro SD to USB A adapter/card reader. Plug your microSD into your PC this way.
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thats a great idea , the only problem is that the photos were in my internal memory...
[QUOTnE=trebuchet76;53458617]Snag a micro SD to USB A adapter/card reader. Plug your microSD into your PC this way.
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