Disclaimer: This is my first post. I have looked at other threads relating to this issue but I couldn't find any that answered my question. Also I want to add that the help and information I have gained from this website has been immeasurable, so thankyou in advance!
Today out of no where I went to play some music on my Skyrocket and noticed that everything on my SD card had been erased and the only thing that was left was an empty LOST.dir folder.
Luckily I back things up fairly regularly and haven't lost anything important that I know of. But I am obviously concerned that this has happened out of the blue.
Is there any way to determine what caused this or what happened? Could it have been a malfunctioning app? A virus? Is my SD card defective?
I connected my SD card to my computer with a card reader and ran Recuva. In the comment section it often states that many of the files have been overwritten with nonsensical paths (such as "F:\?\vZP}Û±Ÿð.Íÿ")
I have been running CM 10.1.2 since it's release and my phone has been pretty stable. My SD card is a Lexar 32 GB Class 10 Micro.
Any suggestions?
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My HTC Touch Cruise corrupts the microSD card filesystem very often. I installed SD Sentry to warn me of it so that I can soft reset the HTC and prevent the corruption to became permanent. I know there was a similar problem on the P3300 and HTC made a patch for it. Is there a solution for the Touch Cruise?
I doubt it's a wide enough problem to warrant a patch as there would be a lot more people mentioning this kind of fault. I suspect it's a dodgy connection in your SD slot. Have you tried re-seating the card?
Yes, I did pull out the card and put it in again. The problem remains. It doesn't fail while reading from it (nor writing), so I think it's not a bad connection issue.
My 6GB MicroSD card was acting funny. Files were disappearing but there were on the card if I read it on my PC, strange.
Anyway, I copied everything onto my desktop, formatted the card and put everything back and I haven't had any more issues since. Hopefully that did it.
I have come across another topic on this forum reporting the same problem. It appears as if more people experience similar problems ....
I have the same problem encountered. My 4G memory card has been corrupted 2 times in 3 weeks. It happen after I taken the pictures. the first time was the whole picture folder become some funny text with the .iff extension. The second time was added additional my document folder. My problem right now is that, I'm not sure is this my touch cruise causing the problem or the sd card.^o)
penguinjet said:
I have the same problem encountered. My 4G memory card has been corrupted 2 times in 3 weeks. It happen after I taken the pictures. the first time was the whole picture folder become some funny text with the .iff extension. The second time was added additional my document folder. My problem right now is that, I'm not sure is this my touch cruise causing the problem or the sd card.^o)
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I found the problem, this is due to the defective sd card. although kingston claimed that their sd card without problem, however the problem gone after I placed the new replacement sd card. Anyway, I am happy now.
I had the same problem, since I use a diamond rom (from udk) it's gone...
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I had similar problem after just 2 day of usage. I bought SanDisk 8 GB microSD card and put it in my HTC. After taking some pictures another day, the album froze. Went to File Explorer, the card was blank. System>Memory stated it is a 7.3 GB card (that's OK) and that it has 2 GB data written (that's also true). I tried reading data from various card readers, connected to a PC, but I had no luck. Some even couldn't see the card. I managed to reformat it and had no problems since.
I didn't have this problem when using the 1GB card included with the phone. But ever since I changed to a Kingston 4GB card (less than a month), I've encountered this problem at least 4 times.
My DCIM folder disappeared once, DCIM folder was emptied after using the camera once, the SD card was filled with folders named with random characters once, and my backup folder was emptied once.
I'm still trying to figure out what is the cause.
I have an HTC Wizard (Cingular 8125) and I run both PIE and Opera Mobile 8.5, sometimes both at the same time. Anyway, I originally had moved the cache files to the SD card to save internal memory on the device. A few months after I got the device, the SD card failed. I thought it might have been due to very frequent access (read/write) by the browser operation. Has anyone else experienced issues with using the SD card for the browser cache. I have a long commute and do heavy browsing, for up to 2 hours/day.
Thanks,
I assume the problem is not with the reading/writing.. probably with the software itself.. unless your wizard is truly overused.
What exactly are you asking? how to overcome the problem if the SD card failing? or how to retrieve the info from it?
I use my SD Card for RSS reader cache... have done so for years (on my Himalaya) and haven't had a problem...yet
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I assume the problem is not with the reading/writing.. probably with the software itself.. unless your wizard is truly overused.
What exactly are you asking? how to overcome the problem if the SD card failing? or how to retrieve the info from it?
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I was just wondering if anyone else had an issue with the card failing? It may have been a hardware failure. I read somewhere that there were a large but finite number of read/write cycles for a SD card. My thought was that if I was spending a lot of time surfing and the card was constantly reading and writing to the same area that it might have caused it to burn out. I was wondering if anyone else had experienced the same thing. Since then I have only used my SD card for storage and seldom used programs however, recently I started having memory issues and was thinking of moving the cache to the card again.
I can tell you that the probability of that happening is so minimal, you will probably be hit by lightning before that happens.
Of course, a hardware failure may be the problem.. a nice phat SD card costs nothing nowadays. I suggest you try to somehow read it on a comp and bring back the files and move them to a new card. of course, before buying a new card you should check that the problem is with the card rather than the device.
All of a sudden apps on storage card fail to load.
After a few reboots they reappear at random, but disappear again on reset.
Did not have that problem with stock, but after flashing Infused 1.14 (and on) the issue appears even with the (rooted) stock rom.
Any ideas?
I am trying to determine if I need to return and replace the phone before I lose the option.
Thank you in advance.
Answering the question by myself, in case others encounter the same issue.
The external card had something corrupted, and when the system was mounting it, all mess ensued.
Backed up all the data and reformatted.
System appears ok for now
I just had this same problem or at least something very similar to it. Initially I thought it was the 32GB SD card being too big since I read Android had a 16GB external card limit. But those posts were from a year ago and when I searched deeper I read that 32GB cards were being use without size problems now. There was one issue that seemed to affect some people and that was that android could have problems formatting a card that big and that's how I installed it in my Infuse initially- I let the Infuse format it, then popped in in my Macbook Pro (in OSX) to copy over the contents from the previous 8G card. I believe I have hidden files set to show, so I should be copying over everything- though, could this method of upgrading the card be a problem too?
It worked for a couple days, but last night during a reboot I tried to access the app tray and didn't know the card was still being scanned. It froze and I couldn't get past the secondary media scan after many tries. I didn't realize that apps were being automatically installed to the card.
Anyway, I was gonna return the card, but after reading your post, I'm thinking again about corruption due to poor formatting as the problem, so I'll try it again when I get home. Thanks for your post. I really want to be able to use this larger card so I'm keeping my fingers crossed this will solve the problem.
BTW, how did you format the card? I have Win7 x64Pro on my MBP as well if I need to use windows, but did you use FAT, FAT32, ExFat? I'm still a 'droid noob ;P. Thanks again!
-- Infuse 4G Rooted with stock ROM
I was wondering if anyone here is having problems trasnfering pictures from their computer to the Sensation. Once in awhile a window would pop up saying that their is a corrupt section on the sd card and would I like to scan and fix it but when I take the microSd out and put it on my computer, it says that it's fine. Another is when I am able to transfer picture files and folders and several hours later, it would be gone. It was weird. I double checked it to make sure it transfered and it did but later on the day to show friends, the file would be gone. Anyone else having this issue? Should have I formatted the card first or not?
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not to dredge up too old of a thread but I am starting to see this issue now, with multiple SD Cards. I'm afraid its a hardware issue since the SD Card reader on the sensation looks to be at fault. This is for all file transfers, not just pictures, too.
How did you fix this (if you did)? Like you said, i can read/write fine with the card in my SD Card slot on my computer, but if this is a hardware issue I would like to fix it before my warranty gets closer to expiring..
Has anyone noticed slow SD transfer since upgrading to ICS?
The simple copying of files from PC to SD has become unbearably slow. Even after fixing the SD (from the dialog that came up, not sure if it actually did anything) no change.
Taking the SD out and copying direct is very fast.
It wasn't like this on Gingerbread.
My Sensation is stock o/s, not rooted, I use Sense.
Note: I had posted this a few days back on a thread about reboots, no responses so reposting here as it's really a separate topic, hope that doesn't violate rules, etc.
With root, you can increase cache size your SD to 2048kb. You can also buy a faster card. What class you have now?
I had a similar problem. My file transfer was only a little slower on ICS, but it was noticeable. On top of that, my SD card would unmount without warning during larger transfers. This was on a Lexar 32 GB Class 10.
I ended up pulling the card a week ago, backing up the contents to my PC and just reformatting the thing in my PC as FAT32. It came as FAT32 from the factory, but I've read a lot of posts where people fixed their SD errors by reformatting the card in a PC.
So far, no unexpected SD unmounts, and speed might be better. Or it could be my imagination.
Not sure if this will fix your problem, but it's something to try if you have no other leads.
I have a class 10 sans disk. Didn't notice any slow down going to ice really.. Not that I can remember what GB was like sd card was misaligned apparently according to 4ext. I formatted my sd with my PC, hit the default format settings, not quick format then stuck it in my phone.
Thanks for the replies, they don't sound like my situation.
My card was always secure, and the copying is vastly different inside and outside the phone, so I can't fault the card.
Something is buffering between the phone and the card. The difference is night and day.
I can just take out the card and copy direct each time, but that's kinda stupid and inconvenient, there's got to be a better way. And I'd be surprised if it were only affecting my phone.