I purchased a BLU R1 HD, non-amazon prime version, running Android 6.0 when it was first released. A little while later I got a Patriot XL 64Gb microsd card to format as internal memory. Everything has been fine, it's not rooted and I have no desire to root, it's not tweaked in any way, it's just a stock Android phone. Until last night for some reason it decided that my adopted storage was corrupt. I have not done anything to the phone recently, I ran a backup just the other day but did not at that time grab my pictures off the phone because I ran out of time and would come back to it later.
I have no idea what happened. I put my phone on the charger and went to sleep, and woke up this morning to corrupted storage. I have not since done anything to the phone.
Is there any hope of getting my pictures off of it now? Or do I just have to re-format the card and drive on?
Update, I cannot format the card, it stops at 20% for awhile and then just quites with no error message.
RainbowMagicMarker said:
Update, I cannot format the card, it stops at 20% for awhile and then just quites with no error message.
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Greetings and welcome to assist. It is possible for a sd card to just die unexpectedly, it's happened to me. Have you tried your card in a pc or different device ? There are several data recovery programs which may recover your photos etc
Good Luck
Sawdoctor
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Today when I rebooted my OPO, my phone seems to be partially unable to read my internal storage or something. Swiftkey notifies me the error of unable to store language pack, EverNote prompts me that SD card has been changed/removed. Worst of all, I am unable to take pictures with my Camera or even screenshots. When I try to take a picture, it says "Please insert an SD card before using the camera."
As we all know, the OPO does not come with an external SD card slot, so what is the issue with my internal memory/internal SD? I am still able to access my songs and e-books which are stored in my 'internal SD' though.
Would appreciate if anyone knows how to overcome this issue.. I've tried to recover data a week back using TWRP and re-booted the phone countless times to no avail.
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Hi.
Today when I rebooted my OPO, my phone seems to be partially unable to read my internal storage or something. Swiftkey notifies me the error of unable to store language pack, EverNote prompts me that SD card has been changed/removed. Worst of all, I am unable to take pictures with my Camera or even screenshots. When I try to take a picture, it says "Please insert an SD card before using the camera."
As we all know, the OPO does not come with an external SD card slot, so what is the issue with my internal memory/internal SD? I am still able to access my songs and e-books which are stored in my 'internal SD' though.
Would appreciate if anyone knows how to overcome this issue.. I've tried to recover data a week back using TWRP and re-booted the phone countless times to no avail.
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Update: When I attempted to download an app from the Google Playstore or through an APK file, it says "Storage is full." even though I have 32GB of space left.
Helpp! This is getting aggravating and is leading to more problems.
Same problem happened to me; did a factory reset now phone stuck on cyanogen logo screen and phone will not boot to anything. Next phone will have to have an SD card. I have backups but some recent information was not backed up.
ballaz said:
Same problem happened to me; did a factory reset now phone stuck on cyanogen logo screen and phone will not boot to anything. Next phone will have to have an SD card. I have backups but some recent information was not backed up.
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Holy shizz... I thought of trying to factory reset to see if it solves the problem. So basically your phone is sorta bricked? Are you gonna send it back for warranty/check the problem at a local hardware shop?
Devilfishy said:
Holy shizz... I thought of trying to factory reset to see if it solves the problem. So basically your phone is sorta bricked? Are you gonna send it back for warranty/check the problem at a local hardware shop?
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The same is happening to me.
Any solution?
This morning I went to access a movie on SD Card only to find that my 32 GB SD Card had been erased??
It was fine last night before I went to bed.
Only thing I did was reboot the phone before I went to bed. Spotify wouldn't open properly and clearing the cache didn't help so I rebooted the phone and went off to sleep!!
Checked card in my computer and it is indeed erased. I reformatted it and put it back in to phone and I'll monitor for a while.
Anyone else have this happen to them?
---Previous to this the phone kept unmounting my old 32 GB Sandisk Card. The card that got erased last night was a 32GB Transcend
http://forum.xda-developers.com/z3/help/64-gb-sd-card-issues-t2912108
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This morning I went to access a movie on SD Card only to find that my 32 GB SD Card had been erased??
It was fine last night before I went to bed.
Only thing I did was reboot the phone before I went to bed. Spotify wouldn't open properly and clearing the cache didn't help so I rebooted the phone and went off to sleep!!
Checked card in my computer and it is indeed erased. I reformatted it and put it back in to phone and I'll monitor for a while.
Anyone else have this happen to them?
---Previous to this the phone kept unmounting my old 32 GB Sandisk Card. The card that got erased last night was a 32GB Transcend
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exactly i had issue with Transcend i format it by windows linux and the support app and even repair firmware but no success
after few days it erased so i take it to warranty and the new one is work properly
so that was sd-card issue
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I've had my Idol 3 for a couple of weeks now and I just love it . . . so do my 'green' friends! However . . .
My Idol 3 got a major upgrade today, and now the phone won't permit mounting of the SD card . . . home of many apps!
The option under Settings/Storage is not greyed out, it's just that when I tap 'Mount SD card' nothing happens. I'm also getting a continuous notice, i.e. "SD card safe to remove".
The card was not removed either before or after the upgrade, but since I have had the above problem I have done reboots, restarts and hard reboots, and and have removed and replaced the card a couple of times . . . . I'm at a loss on this one!
Does anyone have any suggestions that will help me get the SD card mounted please?
Many thanks!
Just maybe a very strange coincidence here. I have been using the same 32gb sd card since I bought this phone and never had a single issue with the card or the phone (related to the sd card). This morning I checked to see if there was an update, I did not download or install it (since I'm rooted) but man ever since that moment I have been having f-ed up sd card issues. The same types of problems with it randomly unmounting the card and telling me the card is safe to remove, finding the card unmounted and touching the Mount button does nothing and just now I removed the card and my Chromebook is asking if I want to format it... WTF?
All this makes me wonder if Alcatel secretly installed some updates in the background today even though I did not intend for a system update. Hmmm.
I had similar issues with a sandisk microsd.....with it randomly losing everything on the sd....I switched to a samsung microsd and the issue went away so I think it's just very picky with the cards and you should try different manufacturers...also fat32 seemed more reliable than exfat. Samsung and Adata are two I had good results with outside sandisk which I previously considered the gold standard.
Thanks folks.
At this time I don't think it's an SD card issue unless the update corrupted it.
I mean, it was fine before the upgrade guvnor!
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Thanks folks.
At this time I don't think it's an SD card issue unless the update corrupted it.
I mean, it was fine before the upgrade guvnor!
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Backup the data to pc...format the card in the phone...copy the data back.
Same happened to me on the first OTA update and on this OTA update. I took my SD card out, put in a computer, copied all my files to a desktop folder, re-formatted the SD card, moved all my files from the desktop back on to the SD card once the format was complete and the phone mounted the card no problem. Total PITA and will consume about an hour and a half of your time to do all this. Not sure why this keeps happening on OTA updates, but next time, if Alcatel releases another OTA update, move all your apps back to the phone and remove your SD card prior to initiating an update. Only think I can think of?
Thanks both. Formatting is apparently the only way to go except that my computer wouldn't read the card via the phone.
Soooooo, I have mounted the micro SD in an adapter, and the card is currently being copied to my computer.
I'll let you know how that goes after I've done the format and copied things back.
Maybe just removing the SD card prior to an upgrade will prevent corruptions, or do you think that the upgrade 'needs' the SD card in place?
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Thanks both. Formatting is apparently the only way to go except that my computer wouldn't read the card via the phone.
Soooooo, I have mounted the micro SD in an adapter, and the card is currently being copied to my computer.
I'll let you know how that goes after I've done the format and copied things back.
Maybe just removing the SD card prior to an upgrade will prevent corruptions, or do you think that the upgrade 'needs' the SD card in place?
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As the external sd is considered "optional" there is no reason you can't pull it prior to doing an upgrade to eliminate the chance of it getting corrupted.
If you have TWRP flashed and your situation is like mine was you'd find IT could read the card just fine and adb access while in TWRP copied off the data for me so seems related to the actual rom.
The solution
As some of you may have expected, and suggested, I was able to resolve my issue by . . .
1 Backing up the data on the SD card
2 Formatting the SD card
3 Copying my data back to the SD card
However, the .android_secure folder on the SD card was 'locked' by the phone, so I removed it and using Windows Explorer I copied the contents - all my apps that had been moved to the SD card - manually.
If you go this route yourself, your 'favorites' that you dragged to the home screen will be missing, so you'll have to re-do that process. It only takes a matter of minutes.
I want to thank those of you who responded with suggestions that pushed me all the way to the top of my 'success' mountain. The view is great!
Now if only the upgrade hadn't corrupted my SD card in the first place. Grrrrrr!
However, for those that don't realize it, the Idol 3 is a terrific phone that is soon to increase in popularity and recognition.
phototraveler said:
As some of you may have expected, and suggested, I was able to resolve my issue by . . .
1 Backing up the data on the SD card
2 Formatting the SD card
3 Copying my data back to the SD card
However, the .android_secure folder on the SD card was 'locked' by the phone, so I removed it and using Windows Explorer I copied the contents - all my apps that had been moved to the SD card - manually.
If you go this route yourself, your 'favorites' that you dragged to the home screen will be missing, so you'll have to re-do that process. It only takes a matter of minutes.
I want to thank those of you who responded with suggestions that pushed me all the way to the top of my 'success' mountain. The view is great!
Now if only the upgrade hadn't corrupted my SD card in the first place. Grrrrrr!
However, for those that don't realize it, the Idol 3 is a terrific phone that is soon to increase in popularity and recognition.
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You might consider installing syncthing and running it on the pc and phone...it uses p2p technology to sync folders between devices....open source version of bittorrent sync. Glad you are back up and running.
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.
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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]
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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!)
Merry Christmas!! Hope we all had a lovely day yesterday!
Hi there, I updated my s10e SM-G970F to android 10 2 days ago. I noticed the device being slowler than usual. With a couple laggy issues.
Yesterday the SD card (Sandisk 400gb class 10 U1) just stopped working. On the settings menu in the storage option , the card is "corrupt". I need to format it to use it again (i had made a backup already) but no luck, it comes up with "158mb used out of 2GB" . However on the laptop the SD card comes up with the full storage capacity and still has all my data on, even after "formatting" on the phone.
The SD card isn't a fake or broken in any way, I had bought it in July this year and ran a full test to ensure it is a legit one. The card works perfectly on the Xperia XZ2C on Android 8.0.
Up till the android 10 update, the card was working completely fine.
My conclusion is that the update messed the system up somehow. Can anyone help me out with this issue? Is there any way I can downgrade to the lastest Android 9 on the S10e?
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Merry Christmas!! Hope we all had a lovely day yesterday!
Hi there, I updated my s10e SM-G970F to android 10 2 days ago. I noticed the device being slowler than usual. With a couple laggy issues.
Yesterday the SD card (Sandisk 400gb class 10 U1) just stopped working. On the settings menu in the storage option , the card is "corrupt". I need to format it to use it again (i had made a backup already) but no luck, it comes up with "158mb used out of 2GB" . However on the laptop the SD card comes up with the full storage capacity and still has all my data on, even after "formatting" on the phone.
The SD card isn't a fake or broken in any way, I had bought it in July this year and ran a full test to ensure it is a legit one. The card works perfectly on the Xperia XZ2C on Android 8.0.
Up till the android 10 update, the card was working completely fine.
My conclusion is that the update messed the system up somehow. Can anyone help me out with this issue? Is there any way I can downgrade to the lastest Android 9 on the S10e?
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Same problem here, did you get it figured out?
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Your SD card might have gone bad. That happened to me with my Axon 7.
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Ye it was the SD card. It went corrupt so Sandisk replaced it free of charge ?
I have the same problem on Nokia2.3 after updating to android 10
It seems the problem with the update, as I noticed when choosing using the sd card as phone storage it format it to GPT not fat32, even if I format it to fat32 it reformat it.
I hope this problem be fixed with even an update patch.
I think the alternative is to root it and use the old methods as they were very efficient.
I don't know why not to look into these methods and adopt it by system developer s
Clear system cache on boot menu... always after a firmware update.
Try a hard reboot if that doesn't get it.
I highly doubt reformatting the card will help unless the OS corrupted it somehow. Backup the data and reformat. Not a big deal if that's all it takes.
Hard reset, with a large firmware update it may be the best way to go.
Firmware updates; have a damn good reason(s) to do them if you like your current OS version and it's fast and stable.
Security is rarely a problem with even ancient Android OS's unless you do something stupid.
I ran Kitkat until last year, now running Pie and
-not- going to Q on my 10+.