[Q] All Files Deleted? - Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Something odd just happened. I picked up my Xoom and woke it up. It said my lock screen pic couldn't be found. I thought that odd because I hadn't made any changes to it. But Maybe it dismounted the SD card for some reason. So I used Root Explorer to look for the file again but it should nothing on my sd card. I plugged it into my computer. Didn't even show an SD card. Again not wholly odd. Restarted it but it stuck at the dual core M screen. Booted into recovery, went to install and it says there is nothing on my Xoom at all. No internal files. No files on the sd card. When I tell recovery to rebbot it warms me no OS is installed. This was definitely unexpected. I don't get how it would just deleted every single file on the entire device when it worked fine just yesterday.
Any ideas? It's a 4G Xoom 1, running Omni's 4.4.2 ROM. Or I should say that's what it was running.
ETA: I pulled the SD card and the files are actually still there. The Xoom just doesn't see them.
ETA: Well... nevermind I guess... I put the sd card back in the Xoom and now suddenly the files on it and the OS is back. It booted just fine. Leaves me even more

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Upgrade to Cyanogen 4.2.12.2 results in blank screen

Yesterday I upgraded to 4.2.12.2. After rebooting I see the Tmoble screen then the android screen then nothing.
After doing some reading last night I pulled the SD card and rebooted. The phone now boots properly. If I then insert the SD card I can access images and audio files but my apps are still gone.
Did something change with Apps2SD? Does anyone have suggestions on how to recover?
Thanks
whitej8 said:
Yesterday I upgraded to 4.2.12.2. After rebooting I see the Tmoble screen then the android screen then nothing.
After doing some reading last night I pulled the SD card and rebooted. The phone now boots properly. If I then insert the SD card I can access images and audio files but my apps are still gone.
Did something change with Apps2SD? Does anyone have suggestions on how to recover?
Thanks
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wrong section..but use a sdcard reader put your files on the computer..let your phoone boot up without the card..then reformat for sdcard(fat32 ext2 swap etc.)..then put the files back on the sd..see if that works..*not an expert just something i would try*

[Q] SD Card keeps disappearing? Help.....

Xoom WiFi 3G model..........
Twice now my SD card has disappeared without explanation. I got it working last night by shutting down the Xoom and restarting it, however, it doesn't seem to be fixing the problem this time, by just shutting down the Xoom and restarting it.
Any ideas?
One side note, I haven't been able to test it out yet but when I went in to Best Buy today the wireless lady shut it completely off without unmounting the SD card. Would that have anything to do with it?
EDIT
Ok I figured it out and thought I would post in case someone else has this problem. There are probably other ways to get your SD card to show up while in the Xoom but this is what I did to fix it.
1. Removed SD card from Xoom and put it in my computer
2. Copied files to computer (optional)
3. Formatted the SD card in the computer
4. Put files back onto the SD card from the computer
5. Booted the Xoom completely off
6. Placed freshly formatted and loaded SD card back into the Xoom
7. Start Xoom back up...........viola. Magic! A lot of work in order to get things working but whatever it takes, right? I'll make sure I unmount the SD card in the Xoom before completely shutting it down next time.

[Q] External SD Problem RAZR HD MAXX

I restarted my phone yesterday and now there is a message in my system tray that the phone is trying to prepare my SD card andd checing fro errors. I have pulled the SD card multiple times and nothing. It just shows like my SD card is wiped. When I access it through Recovery I can see all the files. Also when I put the card into another phone I can access all the files. Anyone know whats going on?
Save contents to my computer, reformatted and replaced data. Everything working fine now.
How long have you had the SD card? Do you write to it constantly? It might be starting to fail and you might want to get a new one immediately before you start to lose files.
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"SD Card safe to remove" "Preparing SD card" over and over again.

Hi fellows, sorry to bother you i always try to manage to solve all problems on my own (researching) but there no info on the subject.
A bit of history: im the happy owner of an MT7-L09 since last month. I bought it with a Sandisk Ultra 32gb micro sd class10. I've been using the phone without any problems. Didnt even tried to root it.
What i actually did was to set up the SD card as a the default memory location. I dont actually really know what this does apart from saving all media in the SD (mainly google play music, photos and videos i shoot with the camera, some big obb files, etc).
Last week i downloaded oficial Lollipop 5.1.1 release and did a manual update. All good, i kept on using it without any problems (aside from considerably lower battery life) for a couple of days.
Then i decided to gain root access. I followed this steps after googling for help.
I gained root access but after this, it keeps looping between "sd card safe to remove" and "preparing sd card" as long as my sd card is in its slot.
After that i:
Got SD card out, used a PC to backup contents (no damages), gave it a quick format in windows fat32, then format in android. PROBLEM WAS STILL THERE
Then i went back to the pc and gave the card a slow full fat32 format, then format again in andoird. PROBLEM STILL HERE
I also recently bought an action cam with the same SD model. Got that one out and placed it straight into the phone replacing the other. SAME TYPE of SD HERE, SAME MODEL. PROBLEM PERSISTS.
I think it might be related to flashing a recovery or something like that while i had my sd card as default memory location. I really dont know what to do to ger it read any of my SD cards again.
Shall i flash original kit kat firmware again? maybe 5.1.1 again and loose root access? I couldnt find any information regarding this issue rather than try another SD card which i already did (the problem surfaced after the process of gaining root access).
Any clues?
Thaks
Sebastian
I just started having this problem today. I have been on the official 5.1.1 since it launched and never came across any issue until this morning. I never ever rooted or flashed anything custom and the boot loader is still locked.
As of today I started having this issue, looping between "SD card safe to remove" and "Preparing SD card" however I am able to access the SD Card and intervals. The SD Card works perfectly fine on any other device.
One thing I changed recently (2 days ago) is the default memory location, I set it to SD Card, so I am going to revert that setting back to Internal Memory and see if it fixes the issue. Thanks for the tip
If anyone else has come across this issue and/or knows how to fix it please help
UPDATE: I tried reverting the default location setting back to "Internal storage" and found that the setting had already reverted back automatically, presumably because the SD Card is not always available So no luck with that. I am starting to suspect it's a hardware issue!
UPDATE 2: I left the SD Card in the device and connected it to the PC in order to take a backup using HiSuite. As soon as I plugged it in the error stopped cropping up. I finished the backup, unplugged the USB and so far the "SD card safe to remove" and "Preparing SD card" did not show up again. It's been over an hour now. Yesterday I plugged in the device to my PC in order to copy some pictures so something may have happened at that point I'm suspecting.
kta said:
I just started having this problem today. I have been on the official 5.1.1 since it launched and never came across any issue until this morning. I never ever rooted or flashed anything custom and the boot loader is still locked.
As of today I started having this issue, looping between "SD card safe to remove" and "Preparing SD card" however I am able to access the SD Card and intervals. The SD Card works perfectly fine on any other device.
One thing I changed recently (2 days ago) is the default memory location, I set it to SD Card, so I am going to revert that setting back to Internal Memory and see if it fixes the issue. Thanks for the tip
If anyone else has come across this issue and/or knows how to fix it please help
UPDATE: I tried reverting the default location setting back to "Internal storage" and found that the setting had already reverted back automatically, presumably because the SD Card is not always available So no luck with that. I am starting to suspect it's a hardware issue!
UPDATE 2: I left the SD Card in the device and connected it to the PC in order to take a backup using HiSuite. As soon as I plugged it in the error stopped cropping up. I finished the backup, unplugged the USB and so far the "SD card safe to remove" and "Preparing SD card" did not show up again. It's been over an hour now. Yesterday I plugged in the device to my PC in order to copy some pictures so something may have happened at that point I'm suspecting.
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It's been over 12 hours now so I'm guessing all it needed was to connect it to the pc again [emoji2]
Sent from my HUAWEI MT7-L09 using Tapatalk
Now that you mention Hi Suite, i played arround a bit with it before the error appeared. im gonna give it a shot
I've done that the root and installed the recovery and microSD goes into loop does not know what to do help ..
Mine is still steady after a few days, hope you fix yours too [emoji6]
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Solved. It must be some issue caused by HiSuite. I connected, made full backup, safely extracted SD from computer and problem seems to have ceased.
Thanks
Sebastian
I got this problem today after reflashing stock recovery.
It disappears after remove and reinsert sd card, but after a reboot problem was still there.
Now I solved checking debug usb setting, because after recovery flash it has been disabled itself.
I have this problem but with the USB storage device, I bought a new one which has two plugs, one is usb the other is micro, to transfer from laptop to phone without cables. It works on PC, it works on my husband's Huawei Mate 7, but just loops on mine. Other USB storage work fine on my phone with cable, but this new one just loops "preparing to connect" and " USB removed", even when trying to connect with cable.
All software is up to date, no modifications have been made.
Any simple ideas would be appreciated (I'm not into flashing/rooting etc!)

corrupted sd card but PC sees it just fine

So, about the problem. All was fine untill a few hours ago. My note 10 notified me that my SD card is corrupted. OK, no biggie, lets just take it out and put it back in. Worked before, but not today.
Tried the same SD card in my laptop, worked without any problem. I'm feeling trolled. Next i tried with otg sd card adapter. It says "no supported partition was found".
Next, tried another SD card, still nothing. Tried that one with otg - bam, works. So, it's not card that's bad. Tried another one, was empty so i formatted it on phone. Nope - still corrupted. No matter how many times i formatted it, it's always corrupted.
But it works on laptop. All 3 of them work on laptop. Two of them i can see with otg, the one that was all the time in the phone says no supported partition.
Then i thought, maybe the sd reader in phone broke. Rebooted to recovery and guess what? First SD card that showed corrupted message works just fine in recovery. Now, one reset to factory setting would probably solve the problem but i have tons of apps that i'd need to backup and no space to do it because my sd card ain't showing in OS.
All i wanna know is am i doomed to reseting android or is there any trick i could use to avoid that?
Copy all things on your pc,format the SD Card in the Phone and copy all Things back to SD Card
nope, didn't work. had to reflash OS

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