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[Q] Samsung GT-P3113 Disappearing Internal SD Partition

I bought my daughter a refurbished Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 (GT-P3113) for Christmas 2012. If I recall, this was the 8GB model and there were two partitions. It has been running the stock OS, no custom ROMS. I cannot recall if I have ever installed any system updates. A few months ago, the internal SD partition just disappeared. I "fixed" this by installing a 16 GB SD card and redirecting as many of the apps as I could to save to the external SD. The tablet has been running terribly lately (lagging, locking up) so I decided to see if a factory restore would fix both problems. I don't know yet if it fixed the sluggishness, but the storage capacity is showing the same thing, total capacity of 4.59 GB.
Where did that partition go? Can I get it back safely? If I can get it back, can I trust it? She is only 8, so it's not like she is using this for critical data. If I have to, I will just stick to the existing fix, using the external SD card for storage until it is time to upgrade in a year or so.
Thanks,
Paul

Ok, so I installed all of the updates after doing a factory restore, and now the capacity is showing the full 8 GB. Now I am not 100% sure if there were two partitions to start with or not. I know that we also had an issue with her original SD card, so maybe that is what i am thinking of.
Anyway...it appears to be fixed for now.
PK

"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]
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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!)

Memory card gets corrupt as soon as i put in in the phone

Memory card gets corrupt as soon as i put in the phone plz help

What do you mean corrupt?...please give more detail...dose ur phones say sd is corrupt?...if so dose it give u option to format?...oh do tell.....
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I'm currently going through this sane issue this is very frustrating for me. I have 3 64gb micro sd cards that i bought that has been coming up as corrupted on my phone. 2 of them I bought on Amazon for $20 both sandisk, i figured since it's probably one of the fake sd cards that has to be the problem. This micro sd that I literally just bought from best buy is showing up as corrupted as well, i formatted it using the the android system rebooted my phone and the same thing occurred, i honestly didnt start having sd card problems until i updated to 6.0 I really just want to know why is this happening and is there any kind of fix to this.
My last resort is to go back to katana rom and try again. If that doesn't work then I'm either getting an replacement device ir a new phone

MartyMar_XVII said:
I'm currently going through this sane issue this is very frustrating for me. I have 3 64gb micro sd cards that i bought that has been coming up as corrupted on my phone. 2 of them I bought on Amazon for $20 both sandisk, i figured since it's probably one of the fake sd cards that has to be the problem. This micro sd that I literally just bought from best buy is showing up as corrupted as well, i formatted it using the the android system rebooted my phone and the same thing occurred, i honestly didnt start having sd card problems until i updated to 6.0 I really just want to know why is this happening and is there any kind of fix to this.
My last resort is to go back to katana rom and try again. If that doesn't work then I'm either getting an replacement device ir a new phone
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One thing I have found is when it comes to sd cards for the most part ur geting what u pay for.....Amazon is a big no no .....go spend the cash on a class 10 card....download mini partition wizard for free off of lo4d.com.....format it to fat 32 and try agian....
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trinilu27 said:
One thing I have found is when it comes to sd cards for the most part ur geting what u pay for.....Amazon is a big no no .....go spend the cash on a class 10 card....download mini partition wizard for free off of lo4d.com.....format it to fat 32 and try agian....
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So I totally forgot that I post in this thread, to make a long story short it was something wrong with MM on my device where every memory card [except my old 16gb SD] instantly gave me a corrupt message, so what I did was downgrade back to LP to test my theory to see if it was my SD or MM and I've had 0 problems so far. Didn't get a corruption message the second the sd card was placed, i mounted and uncounted the sd card several times and had 0 problems. All my apps are linking with Link2sd effortlessly on my Samsung sd card I bought a few days ago, so I'm concluding that something went wrong with MM.

MartyMar_XVII said:
So I totally forgot that I post in this thread, to make a long story short it was something wrong with MM on my device where every memory card [except my old 16gb SD] instantly gave me a corrupt message, so what I did was downgrade back to LP to test my theory to see if it was my SD or MM and I've had 0 problems so far. Didn't get a corruption message the second the sd card was placed, i mounted and uncounted the sd card several times and had 0 problems. All my apps are linking with Link2sd effortlessly on my Samsung sd card I bought a few days ago, so I'm concluding that something went wrong with MM.
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Really?.... I completely believe that ....I only had marshmallow on my G4 for a day or two before I downgraded to lollipop I like lollipop a lot more ..I get twice as much battery time now so I totally believe this what you're saying about your SD card... Unfortunately I think Android regressed with the release of marshmallow
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trinilu27 said:
Really?.... I completely believe that ....I only had marshmallow on my G4 for a day or two before I downgraded to lollipop I like lollipop a lot more ..I get twice as much battery time now so I totally believe this what you're saying about your SD card... Unfortunately I think Android regressed with the release of marshmallow
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I was enjoying MM for the simple fact that I'm able to video call people. I had to test out my theory by placing my Samsung sd card that I formatted on my laptop, in my LG L70 running cm13 and had 0 errors. I also rebooted the phone to see if it'll corrupt after starting up like it did in my lg g Stylo and again 0 errors. I then switched my sanddisk sd that was in my stylo and put it into my L70 and no errors popped up. I then formatted my Samsung on my laptop and right when I placed the sd card in my stylo, BAM! sd card corruption, so at that point I knew it either had to be MM or my phone, the only strange think like I said was My 16gb I had since the Sidekick phone era worked flawlessly every time when I had MM installed.

MartyMar_XVII said:
I was enjoying MM for the simple fact that I'm able to video call people. I had to test out my theory by placing my Samsung sd card that I formatted on my laptop, in my LG L70 running cm13 and had 0 errors. I also rebooted the phone to see if it'll corrupt after starting up like it did in my lg g Stylo and again 0 errors. I then switched my sanddisk sd that was in my stylo and put it into my L70 and no errors popped up. I then formatted my Samsung on my laptop and right when I placed the sd card in my stylo, BAM! sd card corruption, so at that point I knew it either had to be MM or my phone, the only strange think like I said was My 16gb I had since the Sidekick phone era worked flawlessly every time when I had MM installed.
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That is strange.....I wunder if it is mm doing it..... What exactly is it in the operating system that's making it do that......also when you would format your SD card did you format it the same every time or did you mess a round with it and try FAT32 fat16 so on and so forth?...iv owned the l70 and the stylo and didn't have any problems....well I bricked both phones but no problem with the sd cards........ Are you making sure to unmount the SD card every time before you remove it?... I'm really curious now I would like to know what it is that was making it do that just for my own curiosity sake
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trinilu27 said:
That is strange.....I wunder if it is mm doing it..... What exactly is it in the operating system that's making it do that......also when you would format your SD card did you format it the same every time or did you mess a round with it and try FAT32 fat16 so on and so forth?...iv owned the l70 and the stylo and didn't have any problems....well I bricked both phones but no problem with the sd cards........ Are you making sure to unmount the SD card every time before you remove it?... I'm really curious now I would like to know what it is that was making it do that just for my own curiosity sake
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I have no clue bro, I try to figure out why it was doing it in MM and not LP. I formatted both sd cards with their default settings and when I partitioned them I followed a guide to do it the right way.

[Completed] SD Card adopted as Internal Storage has become corrupted?

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

Phone doesn't detect SD cards

I've run into a rather interesting issue with my FRD-L04. My bootloader is unlocked and I'm running stock B385 with TWRP. No matter what I seem to do, the phone doesn't pick up any of the multiple SD cards I have.
EDIT: I've had a breakthrough!
The SD card appears to function ONLY IF the SIM card isn't in the tray. What on earth?
My SIM card was manually cut down from a full size one but I didn't think it would cause any problems. If I take out the SIM card and put the tray in with just an SD, it reads it completely.
I think this might have something to do with my SIM card being really old?

ToTheMacksimum said:
I've run into a rather interesting issue with my FRD-L04. My bootloader is unlocked and I'm running stock B385 with TWRP. No matter what I seem to do, the phone doesn't pick up any of the multiple SD cards I have.
I was previously testing an early version of RROS on the phone but quickly made my way back to stock nougat, but somewhere in the process my SD card slot may have lost functionality. I don't think I'm able to run the marshmallow rollback process if my SD card isn't detected. TWRP doesn't let me mount any of the cards I have.
I've tried using the DLoad method for the rollback package and it failed at 5%. I don't think it detects the card at all.
Is there something I can try to do to make the SD card slot work again? I'm formatting my SD cards in the appropriate format (Fat32). I have a 16GB Lexar 300x and a 2GB MicroSD card from Samsung, neither work.
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That is weird, try to format them with your computer and use exfat. See if that does anything :angel: do slow format as well if you have Windows. Not quick format.
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You are also able to run the roll back packages if you make a dload folder in the root of your honor internal storage. :victory:

damenbm said:
That is weird, try to format them with your computer and use exfat. See if that does anything :angel: do slow format as well if you have Windows. Not quick format.
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I just tested exFAT and it also didn't work on either card. A friend of mine just got the same phone and his SD card can even be accessed through Windows while the phone is plugged in, this never happens for me.

ToTheMacksimum said:
I just tested exFAT and it also didn't work on either card. A friend of mine just got the same phone and his SD card can even be accessed through Windows while the phone is plugged in, this never happens for me.
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When did this start to happen? Do the cards work in another phone?

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When did this start to happen? Do the cards work in another phone?
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The cards work in every other device except this Honor 8. It may have started happening when I switched from B360 to RROS and then back again, but I don't think I've ever seen them work on the phone, even with EMUI 4.1. I get no prompts or information in the files manager, just 32GB internal storage.

ToTheMacksimum said:
The cards work in every other device except this Honor 8. It may have started happening when I switched from B360 to RROS and then back again, but I don't think I've ever seen them work on the phone, even with EMUI 4.1. I get no prompts or information in the files manager, just 32GB internal storage.
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If you never have seen it work I would take it to a service center and have them look at the sd card reader :/ maybe someone with more experience than me with this matter could help you on the forms if you don't want to do that.

I've had a breakthrough!
The SD card appears to function ONLY IF the SIM card isn't in the tray. What on earth?
My SIM card was manually cut down from a full size one but I didn't think it would cause any problems. If I take out the SIM card and put the tray in with just an SD, it reads it completely.

If the update process in recovery even reaches 5% it means the phone detects the card with dload inside it. I'd recommend u to try and rollback and see.
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I've partially figured it out - It's clearly something to do with my SIM card. The phone will 100% recognize any SD card as long as the SIM is out, if the SIM is inserted it immediately disconnects the SD card.
My SIM card has storage on it for contacts because it's from around 2008 or 9. Should I try getting a new sim card and see if that fixes the problem?

ToTheMacksimum said:
I've partially figured it out - It's clearly something to do with my SIM card. The phone will 100% recognize any SD card as long as the SIM is out, if the SIM is inserted it immediately disconnects the SD card.
My SIM card has storage on it for contacts because it's from around 2008 or 9. Should I try getting a new sim card and see if that fixes the problem?
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May be you should Service centre. It may be hardware issue now but may worsen later so better to send it now or ask for a refund if it is still less than 10-15 days of purchase

shashank1320 said:
May be you should Service centre. It may be hardware issue now but may worsen later so better to send it now or ask for a refund if it is still less than 10-15 days of purchase
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The phone is 9 months old, I doubt it's still serviceable. I'm going to try upgrading to a new SIM card and see if it makes a difference
EDIT: I just reflashed the stock recovery from B360 via fastboot, and then ran the OTA for B388. The "quick update" failed so I chose "download full package" during the install as it worked with my previous update from B360 to B385.
It installed, and when the phone rebooted, my bootloader was relocked. It relocked itself via the OTA.
This also fixed the SD card issue.
I don't even know how that works. I should lock the thread somehow I suppose!

If you have any further issues. I'd recommend that your contact Honor directly as they should be able to help you resolve your issue quite easily.

ToTheMacksimum said:
This also fixed the SD card issue.
I don't even know how that works. I should lock the thread somehow I suppose!
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Glad to know this fixed for you. Enjoy.
9 month is still within warranty amd you can check with SC for sure for next 3 months