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Simple sd question

Can you access your Mini sd card while on the phone or just the phone sd. I'm curios what the point of having a extra sd card is if I can't use it on my phone. I download programs say they can then I can't seem to get it.
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xxsicknessxx said:
Can you access your Mini sd card while on the phone or just the phone sd. I'm curios what the point of having a extra sd card is if I can't use it on my phone. I download programs say they can then I can't seem to get it.
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YES you can access your external sd card from your phone......lol
that would not make much sense if you could not, what is the problem your having - is the card not showing up in your file explorer. how big is the card (32 and under should be fine)

Its sixteen. The phone shows It but when I transfer files to my sd it stays on the phone. Do I need format it? I only seem have access to phone sd
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I can see it but not format. I can mount and un
Mount it
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Like in titanium back up I got sd card and ext sd what heck. If there is a way to combine the phone sd and ext sd let me know. If there is a thread on this link me please its hard browsing on my phone
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OK at start it says very fast can't access sd card because security hope this means its a easy fix.
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What are u using to move and copy. There should be no issue. ONLY time I have seen that is when the card is corrupt or not compatible
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I have all the normal root programs. There are apps on it but I just don't get why it says can't read sd for security at boot plus it shows sd card and a ext sd card. Could my issue be because of my Rom boneskeeter or from root. Let me ask this. What takes bulk memory because my sd card is half full my ext sd card is one gig full but if I unmount it my apps gone. So maybe I'm just confused about Whats going on. I can't seem move anything big to the ext sf card. Only apps. Sigh. Maybe I should delete all backups of titanium back up redo it then make sure there on as card. System memory which like 500mb . USB storage which two gigs then sd storage which is five gigs full and twelve Max then ext sd is one gig full Max sixteen. I wonder what wrong. Once I got a computer it should be easy. Some numbers off but hopefully you get point. Ext sd has have apps but just one gig. Why is there a phone sd card and what's USB then. I'm noob confused trying figure out with just phone hard.
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wow....
i would love to be able to decipher any of that dribble, but for now:
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Hmm I doing get it does the hamster help me? I think I have have a computer to set it up. Checked the sd package details
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xxsicknessxx said:
Hmm I doing get it does the hamster help me? I think I have have a computer to set it up. Checked the sd package details
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what?
do you speak english?

I still don't understand why it shows my usb is all full but sd is empty yes I moved apps to sd so why
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honestly. i have tried to understand just a piece of what you are babbling about in this thread and have come up with nada.
can you explain IN DISTINGUISHABLE ENGLISH, what it is you are asking?
you want to be able to use your external sd? so use it. move your music/videos/pictures to it and use it.
what apps do you think need to use it?

[Q] (Help!)(Still Unsolved) SDCard Issues (i9003)

We all know the popular SDCard (MicroSD) issues regarding android...
Yes, I know, this is only my 3rd post... I'm not a noob, I've been reading a lot from XDA since its early beginning... I was a symbian developer during its glory days... I do a lot of android but I am not into developing (yet) for it...
Back to SDCards... I've read a lot of post regarding sdcard problems...
My only concern is that the SDCard automatically mounts itself to read only after some read and write operations... I thought this was normal... But after some research, I found out that it was a sign of corruption... The gradual increase of files in LOST.DIR indicates a serious problem...
To give a more concrete evidence regarding this theory, I started testing with 2 Galaxy SL devices, 2 usb cables and 3 SDCards of different class and capacity... I use 2 Galaxy SL's to identify if my unit has a bad card reader...
These are the test that I've managed to perform:
1. Copy Music Tracks to device via Mass Storage
2. Copy files from Internal SD to External SD via phone
3. Download a large file using the phone and save the file to External SD
4. Delete a large group of files in External SD using phone
The Cards that are use are:
1. SD A (class 2)(4 GB)
2. SD B (class 6)(16 GB)
3. SD C (class 10)(16 GB)
These are the Results:
1. Using Mass Storage to copy Music Tracks to SDCard prove to be successfull (All SD's)
2. Copy files from Internal SD to External... The operation finished but after the operation, the sdcard was mounted as read only (SD B and SD A)
3. Downloading a file to SDCard... There are some instances that the download will fail because the SDCard was mounted as Read Only during the progress of downloading (All SD's)
4. There are some instances that Deletion of file suddenly stops... The reason, the SDCard was mounted Read only...
5. Every Instance of an error, a file is created at LOST.DIR (After the filesystem check at boot)
I check all SDCards to look into its integrity (via CHKDSK /R)... All SDCard diagnostic tools found no problem regarding the Cards... I put the same ROM on the phones (Rooted and Deodexed Stock KPQ) and both phones share the same results above... Recently, this problems persist in all the ROM's that I have tried (CM, MIUI, Stock) And all kernels (UC, Vurrut)... I think finding for a solution for our device first would help us create a solution for others too...
Anyone of you having similar issues...? Your solution and comments is highly appreciated... Many people are having these problems... Making data reliability on the SDCards quite frustating...
Is there a way to "permanently" mount SDCard as RW to prevent it from mounting as Read Only... I really hope that there is a solution to this problem...

Hi, I know it's been a moment but I'll share what I've experienced, my sdcard was supposed to be a 32GB one but in reality it was a 4GB one, you can't see it on windows through, lot of files were appearing in that lost.folder once I exceed 4GB and all my MP3 were getting mixed up, corrupted.
The funny part of this is that all steps trying to verify that sdcard (chkdsk) were showing no problem at all, now I bought a real 32GB from Samsung and it works fine
Your sdcard should be corrupted or just a fake one.
From my side I ain't getting any problem concerning the fact that my sdcard mounts itself as R/O
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i dont know i have a class6 16-gig sd card and now i have the phone for a motherboard fix. they said that my 16 gig sd card were one of the culprits of the motherboard and usb storage (internal memory) excommunication of my galaxy sl. they prefer that i should use a 4 gig or lower sd card to lessen chances of this to happen again.

that's very strange... how can a sdcard "destroy" the phones motherboard...?

landono5 said:
that's very strange... how can a sdcard "destroy" the phones motherboard...?
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Yes I'm wondering that. Now I'm just scared of what may happen to my phone
Cheers
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bscraze said:
Yes I'm wondering that. Now I'm just scared of what may happen to my phone
Cheers
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How shall that work? The only thing I could think of is that a device can not handle SDHC, SDXC cards and thus throws a error like "card corrupted", "no sd card", "card not compatible" but break the motherboard?
P.S. Why don't you insert the banner as to your signature in the user cp? Would prevent others to "quote" it.
The interesting thing is that I never had any problems with my cards, neither with my old 4GB class 4-6 or the new 16GB class 10. Also with the situations you mentioned. But now I know a bit better for what this strange LOST.DIR filder is... For me it's empty all the time.

Taraen said:
How shall that work? The only thing I could think of is that a device can not handle SDHC, SDXC cards and thus throws a error like "card corrupted", "no sd card", "card not compatible" but break the motherboard?
P.S. Why don't you insert the banner as to your signature in the user cp? Would prevent others to "quote" it.
The interesting thing is that I never had any problems with my cards, neither with my old 4GB class 4-6 or the new 16GB class 10. Also with the situations you mentioned. But now I know a bit better for what this strange LOST.DIR filder is... For me it's empty all the time.
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It is in my signature, just that signatures from the app just add it behind your post, and is not really your signature
Cheers
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That's why I wrote "In the user cp"
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Taraen said:
That's why I wrote "In the user cp"
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Ah yes sorry I misread
Cheers
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Taraen said:
How shall that work? The only thing I could think of is that a device can not handle SDHC, SDXC cards and thus throws a error like "card corrupted", "no sd card", "card not compatible" but break the motherboard?
P.S. Why don't you insert the banner as to your signature in the user cp? Would prevent others to "quote" it.
The interesting thing is that I never had any problems with my cards, neither with my old 4GB class 4-6 or the new 16GB class 10. Also with the situations you mentioned. But now I know a bit better for what this strange LOST.DIR filder is... For me it's empty all the time.
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Would you suggest that the phone is the one with problems..? Or maybe the possibility that both of my cards are bad...
Btw.. Can you change the mount of your sdcard using root explorer (r/w and r/o)..?
After formatting my card, the button to mount the sd to read only is gone, but after some time it returns.. Allowing you to mount the sd to r/w or r/o... I think that contributes to my problem

landono5 said:
Would you suggest that the phone is the one with problems..? Or maybe the possibility that both of my cards are bad...
Btw.. Can you change the mount of your sdcard using root explorer (r/w and r/o)..?
After formatting my card, the button to mount the sd to read only is gone, but after some time it returns.. Allowing you to mount the sd to r/w or r/o... I think that contributes to my problem
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Not really, I only wanted to say that I never had such problems.
Mounting works, I have done it on my computer, but that won't make any difference:
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Taraen said:
Not really, I only wanted to say that I never had such problems.
Mounting works, I have done it on my computer, but that won't make any difference:
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Do you know a way to forcefully mount the card to r/w only..? In a way that the card cannot be mounted as r/o...

Sorry but this is a question I can't answer. I'm not a developer, but I don't think that there is some kind of "permanent" mount.

Samsung Galaxy SL SD card issues
I'm having the same problem. At first I thought it was the native music player because the problem would happen a few minutes after I'd pause music. The phone would restart on it's own, wipe the files on the SD card then restart. I downloaded another music player to try to correct the problem. It worked for a few days then it happened again. It wiped all the files on the SD card. This time it seemed to be worse. After a few minutes it restarted again, and this time wiped all the programs that were saved on the SD card, and reformatted the phone completely (including language and account settings). I have installed the latest firmware, and tried using the phone without a SIM card and it still happens. I basically have an unusable phone. Please help. I haven't tried replacing the SD card but I'm having doubts whether it's because of the SD card why the problem is happening. I used to own a Samsung Galaxy S and I used that card on that phone, and it worked fine. If I buy a new SD card, how would I know what kind to get and are there any other fixes to this issue? Please help!

[Q] 64gb wont work

Ok, i dont know if this has been posted before but this is my BIG problem. When ever I plug in a 16gb sandisk memory card to my galaxy note 10.1 n8000 it works seamlessly without any problems it shows how much space i have and other options like unmount and the like.
BUT, when I plug in my 64gb sandisk microsdXC it doesn't even mount and the only option i see is mount sd card and when i press on that it shows that sd card can be removed.
I want to know why it is like this. I want to use my 64gb on this and I have already got a replacement for the memory card and i also tried reformatting the cards with exFAT and Fat32. I am at a loss and I don't know where I can find the info to get this fixed. I am begging for anybody to help me with the steps to get this fixed
This is how it looks with the 16gb memory card
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This is how it looks with the 64gb memory card

kennyx13 said:
Ok, i dont know if this has been posted before but this is my BIG problem. When ever I plug in a 16gb sandisk memory card to my galaxy note 10.1 n8000 it works seamlessly without any problems it shows how much space i have and other options like unmount and the like.
BUT, when I plug in my 64gb sandisk microsdXC it doesn't even mount and the only option i see is mount sd card and when i press on that it shows that sd card can be removed.
I want to know why it is like this. I want to use my 64gb on this and I have already got a replacement for the memory card and i also tried reformatting the cards with exFAT and Fat32. I am at a loss and I don't know where I can find the info to get this fixed. I am begging for anybody to help me with the steps to get this fixed
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This is kinda strange, because i had the same problem with the same card, but found out of the box its exFAT, reformatted to FAT32, now works flawlessly...depending on firmware (i'm on 4.0.4 XXALI3, no exFAT support) even exFAT is said to work finally, don't remember which one actually. Thanx you SAMSUNG, finally acknowledged those cards come with exFAT out of the box...i would try to reformat and make sure it's really FAT32, as not all windows machines seem to produce FAT32 out of the box (I'm on MAC). hope this helps...

my baseband version is N8000UBLG5 4.0.4
I have tried to reformat on my windows 7 alienware laptop. It is really weird. I was worried because I thought that it might be a hardware problem but when i used the 16gb memory card it worked flawlessly. I only used the format option that comes with windows. Could this be a problem with the software? I just hope that this is not a problem with the hardware. I hope someone could shed some light on this for me.

You can't format a 64gb sd card fat32 using window natively, you need another program such as Easius partition manager to do it. This might be your problem....

ultramag69 said:
You can't format a 64gb sd card fat32 using window natively, you need another program such as Easius partition manager to do it. This might be your problem....
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where do i download this?

Still doesn't work
Ok, I tried using the formating program and still same thing. It wasn't able to fix it. The only option that shows in the storage part is "mount sd card". And still when I click on that, it shows a notification that says that sd card is safe to remove. Im really at a loss here. I guess that because I can use the 16gb memory card, its probably not a hardware problem right? I have the n8000 3g+ wifi model. I don't know what region it is but I bought it at amazon.com

Is the sd card recognised in windows? Can you open up and copy files to/from it?
If you have another phone you could try to format it in that BUT be careful as it can screw them up...

ultramag69 said:
Is the sd card recognised in windows? Can you open up and copy files to/from it?
If you have another phone you could try to format it in that BUT be careful as it can screw them up...
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yes It is recognized in windows and yes I can copy files on it. I actually tried it on my galaxy s3 phone and it was recognized. That is why im really wondering why this won't work on the n8000...I am hoping to find someone who could fix it, I would gladly pay for the fix if it would be repaired.

kennyx13 said:
yes It is recognized in windows and yes I can copy files on it. I actually tried it on my galaxy s3 phone and it was recognized. That is why im really wondering why this won't work on the n8000...I am hoping to find someone who could fix it, I would gladly pay for the fix if it would be repaired.
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you could try to format in the S3...mine isn't' available right now,so I can't try myself...not sure if S3 does exFAT though....

If you have access to a Digital Camera and a Micro SD to SD Adapter you could insert the micro sd card in the adapter and then insert both into a Digital Camera and reformat using the cameras format instructions.
Worked for me in the past.

What Do I Do If My SD Card is Corrupt?

I cant see my files on my SD card when view them on my PC. This happens even if the SD card says its got 4.3 GBs of files.
Does this mean that my SD card is corrupt? Do I need to buy another one? Would reformatting fix this SD card?

yahanna said:
I cant see my files on my SD card when view them on my PC. This happens even if the SD card says its got 4.3 GBs of files.
Does this mean that my SD card is corrupt? Do I need to buy another one? Would reformatting fix this SD card?
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try backup the files to your computer, if it's able to transfer the files and the file can be opened normally (eg. open document or picture)
then format the card on your phone, and then transfer the files back to your sdcard

luqeckr said:
try backup the files to your computer, if it's able to transfer the files and the file can be opened normally (eg. open document or picture)
then format the card on your phone, and then transfer the files back to your sdcard
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But do you think that its better to just buy a brand new sd card? Or do you think reformatting it would make it like new without any issues?

yahanna said:
But do you think that its better to just buy a brand new sd card? Or do you think reformatting it would make it like new without any issues?
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if your card is quite old, or it's a cheap brand then you should get a new one.
if you like to save some money, then try to reformatting is just cost you little time to know if it's still usable

yahanna said:
I cant see my files on my SD card when view them on my PC. This happens even if the SD card says its got 4.3 GBs of files.
Does this mean that my SD card is corrupt? Do I need to buy another one? Would reformatting fix this SD card?
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There are theese Sdcard readers .. those are cheap ones ... something like this
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If it isnt the sdcard problem... i doubt its the drivers fault of you're pc .. try to reinstal it
hope my suggestion can help you ! Had one situation like this but i had driver problem from my pc

Format the sdcard. Backup your files first. If not, just buy a new sd card.

if u tried formatting and its working then congrats....u saved some bucks....
otherwise i suggest buying a good brand SC card with enough memory to support your needs.

jemappelle said:
if u tried formatting and its working then congrats....u saved some bucks....
otherwise i suggest buying a good brand SC card with enough memory to support your needs.
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Yeah thanks man. I formatted it and its now working well. So I wont be buying an SD card any time soon. Thanks!

SD card corruption

Guys the sd card corruption problem is worse on this device,wateva sd card..............its so hard to overcome since it keeps on currpting itself dono wats the cause....... i mean out of 300 videos 50 videos are corrupted,some game datas are corrupted,this is dreadful,and most disgusting is we dono wat is currpted wen we chkdisk on system it wil say it has found some files which we dono wat are them it could contain even important & cofidential data............. so guys i want to spread this word to huawei pls help guys,we just want the functional OS.........
P.S: i have strontium 64gb 566x(having sd card as default option)

it happened to me too
In the first days I connect de mobile to pc and I see that was the problem, the sd dissapear until I extract the sd and put it again
now didn't happened more

Similar issue I too faced
Right now Im using my old 8gb sandisk sd card which is working fine in this device. last week I was bought kingston 32 gb class 10 sd card, it asked me for formatting when i restart the mobile with the message "the sd card is empty or not supported to this device"
which sd card supported to this device. Im looking for 32 gb storage.

mayu4u2 said:
Right now Im using my old 8gb sandisk sd card which is working fine in this device. last week I was bought kingston 32 gb class 10 sd card, it asked me for formatting when i restart the mobile with the message "the sd card is empty or not supported to this device"
which sd card supported to this device. Im looking for 32 gb storage.
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What i did to overcome this issue is first i formatted using SD formatter with options (full overwrite,format size adjustment off)...................then i formatted in our mobile............. AND last do not use usb cable for data transferring instead use usb card reader to transfer files............. these helped me alot...............till now i have not had any problems if u done what i said above...........

mayu4u2 said:
Right now Im using my old 8gb sandisk sd card which is working fine in this device. last week I was bought kingston 32 gb class 10 sd card, it asked me for formatting when i restart the mobile with the message "the sd card is empty or not supported to this device"
which sd card supported to this device. Im looking for 32 gb storage.
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I use a SanDisk SDXC 64 GB Class 10 Ultra. It works perfectly.
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SanDisk
I'm using a SanDisk 16gb Card. No problem here. I think it's hardware-sided from the SD-Card.

kackalarm said:
I'm using a SanDisk 16gb Card. No problem here. I think it's hardware-sided from the SD-Card.
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same card for me. Working perfectly w/o any troubles.
Also, looks like this phone does not like exFat formatted cards, it just corrupts them. So try to format your card to another FS, maybe that would help u.