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SD Card Problems

if someone could help me with this, it would be greatly appreciated.
ever since about 3 days into flashing freshes 0.1 ROM, I have been getting unexplained SD problems. for example,
1) I would open up the camera and I would get an error mesage saying " cannot write to SD card: no sufficient privileges.
2)when i open up my music app,(I have about 10 albums of music in my music folder on my SD Card), I get a force close, or just no music would show up at all.
3) when i use a file explorer like ASTRO, I would go into a folder that I know has files in it, yet it's showing me an empty folder, or when i try to delete a file i would just get an error message.
4) and finally, when I open up my gallery, it would either get a force close, or say SD card is unmounted, or just show no pictures at all.
I updated freshes 0.2 rom thinking it may have solved the problem. but it didn't
then flashed Damage's 3.0 Rom and still same problems.
Is this software related or just my SD card going bad,( its the stock 8GB card that came with it.
It never used to be like this. just started happening about 3 days ago
I posted this in Q&A but no answers. thought posting here would help out more.

The OTA update is supposed to fix this issue for good. If you don't want to do the OTA, then just try formatting the SD card while connected to your computer.

I have been having the same exact issue with my EVO. I started on the fresh.1 then .2. I tried 2 other roms and still was having the same issue.
After a reboot it would work for a little bit then work off and on.
I downloaded the sd-formatting tool and did a full erase and format while connected to a windows box. Then reformatted again with the evo.
Same issue still.
I plan on ordering a new class 6 sd card from new egg tomorrow to see if it is just a batch of bad/faulty sd cards.

If you haven't installed the OTA update, there really isn't much fault with the device itself, seeing as how it's already been fixed.

I'm currently running:
RvU 1.3.2.
"This is based off of the latest leaked RUU that has the OTA update included (1.32.651.6)."
I thought the OTA update is built into most of the ROMs currently available or am I missing something.
If not how do you go about installing it. I have had the phone check for updates but it says that there are no update available.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. This is my first android devise so I'm a little new to this.

im running omj's 1.3 rom and i have the sdcard issue all the damn time its driving me nuts.. is the fix not in this rom or does it not matter ? it seems like any time i use a file system too to access the fs or use dropbox or anything the sdcard gets all fu**ed up and i need a reboot to fix it.

halehouse said:
I have been having the same exact issue with my EVO. I started on the fresh.1 then .2. I tried 2 other roms and still was having the same issue.
After a reboot it would work for a little bit then work off and on.
I downloaded the sd-formatting tool and did a full erase and format while connected to a windows box. Then reformatted again with the evo.
Same issue still.
I plan on ordering a new class 6 sd card from new egg tomorrow to see if it is just a batch of bad/faulty sd cards.
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let me know if this fixes things

I just placed my order on newegg for a new class 6 sd card. So we will see in a couple days if this fixes it or if I'm just missing something.

I swapped sd cards with a friends EVO and it words perfectly in mine. I have downloaded about 150MB of podcasts to the sd card without issue. Astro manager is now able to drill down and has no issues seeing sub folders.
I will post back if I have any other issues as well as when I get my new SD to confirm that it is still working without issue.

I was having the same intermittent issue with the sd card, running the OMJ EVO 2.1 Eclair v1.3 ROM...swapped out the sd card with one from my old samsung jack and so far I have not had any issues...tried to duplicate the sd card errors just doing what i normally do but seems to be working fine now...

so its just bad SD cards being shipped out with them?

@halehouse what Gig is the SD card you ordered? Im looking for a 32gig class 6 microsd and cant find one ANYWHERE. except the scandisk website...if i wanted to pay 200 for it

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@halehouse what Gig is the SD card you ordered?
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I just orders an 8Gig class 6 card.
A few days ago the second sd card that I had gotten from another EVO (that was about to be taken back to sprint) failed. Showing blank card, and several format attempts did nothing.
I dot my new class 6 sd card from new egg 2 days ago and it is working perfectly so far. Faster transfer rates also.
I think it may be an issue with the sd cards but I really not for sure.

I cant turn my phone off

For some reason i cant turn my phone off. I've used 5 different versions of android and the first two roms worked fine, i could turn my phone off normally and start android right up again. But for some reason i get the error cant find rootfs on root of sd card when i try and reboot my phone after the first boot. so basically my phone cant run out of battery otherwise i have to clear out my memory card and redo everything all over again.
i dont know why this is happening but i am currently running on Omega v13 gtx rom.
Please help me try and find a way to fix it because it really sucks having to reformat my memory card every time my phone dies. Thank you

Reformat (2 or 3 times) and reinstall.
Ensure you read the "readme" file from whatever rom you are using on the SD card.
Last ditch.... consider that HTC is sending new SD cards to those who call and complain their card is unrecognized. (You may have a bad card; and HTC will replace for free.... Search these forums for info).....

i've tried that and i still havent been able to get things fixed, and im pretty sure my sd card isnt defective since only the newer builds have been doing this

WP7 7720 and SD card trick?

I wanted to pass along something i ran into while loading Yuki/xboxmod mango build on one of my HD2's (3 in the family). All of them have the stock 16gb sd card.
only one of mine loaded cleanly.
the other 2 regardless of hard resets would lock up upon the final restart on any zune updates. I tried several different sd cards that i had working on previous builds, all without any measure of success past the base 7004 rom.
I was able to do the following successfully on both non working phones.
I installed up to and including the very first (isv?) beta of mango with no sd card in the phone. At this point to move forward it told me i didnt have enough space. I put the 16gb card back in and did a hard reset (double volume method)
at this point i ran the zune update again. They both updated without any issues at that point and the cards are functioning perfectly in the phones.
I know there is a huge thread so i thought this might get lost in the middle of it and thought this could be helpful to those with sd card issues during the update proccess. Hope this helps some people out!

Take out your sd card and turn on your phone....if it turns on go to settings,about,reset...now don't let it boot...stop it at magldr screen...now take your sd sd card and format it in your Nokia phone....and insert it back into your phone and then boot it into wp7...now it should boot normally....im sure this will work
And next time please post in the q&a section

@fahd_freak: Well he wasen't exacly asking any questions was he, so it might not be as wrong anyway.....? And I have tried Hard reset a hundred of times my SD card just will not work with encryption even though i worked with the non encrypted WP7!
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But I can report I had the same error my WP7 constantly gave my the SD card error upon any kind of reboot (Common reboot og because of an update) and I tried your way but i still didn't work.
I bought a new 16GB kinston Class 10 MicroSD card and now my HD2 works like a charm.
Could it be the "Nokia Trick" that renders the SD card useless/as the card can't use the encyption part any longer or something like that?

Here is the thread you should be reading!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1239705

norphf said:
@fahd_freak: Well he wasen't exacly asking any questions was he, so it might not be as wrong anyway.....? And I have tried Hard reset a hundred of times my SD card just will not work with encryption even though i worked with the non encrypted WP7!
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oops sorry didn't see that he had posted a solution for the problem
So did u try getting the old sd card to work??

Sorry double post..

[Q] Phone no longer recognizes SD Card

Hello XDA Community,
I recently encountered quite a frustrating problem. I bought a brand new 64GB kingston microSD card yesterday. I was running stock android 4.4.2 on my SGH-1337m device. I recently flashed the "Kangakat" rom and although everything works perfectly, the only error I can't seem to fix is this SD issue. By flashing this ROM, my device model is now "GT-I9505G" 4.4.4 rather than SGH-1337m.
Upon entering the SD card it first says "preparing SD card" and then seconds later says "SD card safe to remove" unable to mount to the device.
I have tried many solutions offered on this forum but have't been able to find a successful one. I have tried to mount through settings, take out the SD card reboot then enter it again, the SD card IS placed in correctly, and the SD card does work, it is not corrupt (connects to computer perfectly).
I appreciate all your help,
Wasbo.

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Wasbo said:
Hello XDA Community,
I recently encountered quite a frustrating problem. I bought a brand new 64GB kingston microSD card yesterday. I was running stock android 4.4.2 on my SGH-1337m device. I recently flashed the "Kangakat" rom and although everything works perfectly, the only error I can't seem to fix is this SD issue. By flashing this ROM, my device model is now "GT-I9505G" 4.4.4 rather than SGH-1337m.
Upon entering the SD card it first says "preparing SD card" and then seconds later says "SD card safe to remove" unable to mount to the device.
I have tried many solutions offered on this forum but have't been able to find a successful one. I have tried to mount through settings, take out the SD card reboot then enter it again, the SD card IS placed in correctly, and the SD card does work, it is not corrupt (connects to computer perfectly).
I appreciate all your help,
Wasbo.
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Sounds to me like your rom or kernel doesn't like exfat formatting which your sdcard probably has.
I would suggest reformatting as fat32 or finding a kernel that works.

saj222 said:
Sounds to me like your rom or kernel doesn't like exfat formatting which your sdcard probably has.
I would suggest reformatting as fat32 or finding a kernel that works.
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Thank you very much for your help saj. I'm going to give that a try later today, I just have two follow up questions. First, do you recommend a kernel that is very effective? And second, my phone have been typically only connecting to 3G even though it's set to LTE preferred, could this be because of the kernel as well?

Wasbo said:
Thank you very much for your help saj. I'm going to give that a try later today, I just have two follow up questions. First, do you recommend a kernel that is very effective? And second, my phone have been typically only connecting to 3G even though it's set to LTE preferred, could this be because of the kernel as well?
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1) Read this thread and you'll find this issue has been discussed. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2307779 See the last post for a compatible kernel. Be sure to get the right kernel for your device.
2) Not likely connected to kernel but I could be wrong. Are you sure there is LTE coverage where you are located?

Note 4 detect SD card but can't read it!

I have a very specific problem that I have been trying to solve.
I have a Galaxy Note 4.
For the past few days, my phone has not been able to read the SD card and is stuck on "Preparing SD Card"
Here are the facts I have come up with:
- My phone will not read any SD card and will continuously stay at "Preparing SD card" no matter how long any card is in the phone
- The current SD card can be read in others phones and my computer.
This leads me to believe the SD card is not corrupted and that the files may still be able to be accessed. The other info I have found from forums tells me the best way to get the phone to read an SD card again is to reset it, but I don't want to do that.
Try to use app name [ SD insight ] from the market, it can read the manufacturing of SD and all the information! But still cant browsing the file.
I would be so appreciative of any suggestions.
Thank you for any help you can provide!

I'd take your device to a Samsung Service Center as there is a chance that your device's microSDCard reader is faulty and needs to be repaired.

DarkGuyver said:
I'd take your device to a Samsung Service Center as there is a chance that your device's microSDCard reader is faulty and needs to be repaired.
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Thank you for replay, actually I take it to one phone workshop and tell me same as you say, but still I an confused if can get all information from th SD card why I cant brows, and afraid I did some thing wrong after root my phone and its the reason for this.

which brand is your SD card? try formatting it using pc and try again. sometimes memory cards get write protected after sometimes. you can read from it but can't write or delete from it anymore. I had a transcend SD card with this problem

Onimusha999 said:
Thank you for replay, actually I take it to one phone workshop and tell me same as you say, but still I an confused if can get all information from th SD card why I cant brows, and afraid I did some thing wrong after root my phone and its the reason for this.
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Actually rooting your device should cause such a problem. Unless you delete the drivers for the microSDCard reader on your device. I'd recommend reinstalling the stock firmware onto your device to see if that will fix your problem. But don't root it this time around.

DarkGuyver said:
Actually rooting your device should cause such a problem. Unless you delete the drivers for the microSDCard reader on your device. I'd recommend reinstalling the stock firmware onto your device to see if that will fix your problem. But don't root it this time around.
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I didn't delet any driver, just install some app with some editing in there files. You're right, I will reinstall stock firmware before take the phone to workshop. Thanks again

ashik6six6 said:
which brand is your SD card? try formatting it using pc and try again. sometimes memory cards get write protected after sometimes. you can read from it but can't write or delete from it anymore. I had a transcend SD card with this problem
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Thank you foe reply, its not famous brand (kingmax) but work perfectly in computer and other phone, also try another SD card and not work in the phone. I will reinstall stock firmware to make sure the problem from hardware not software especially because I root my phone and get some errors like screen not rotating and hotspots not working.

Onimusha999 said:
Thank you foe reply, its not famous brand (kingmax) but work perfectly in computer and other phone, also try another SD card and not work in the phone. I will reinstall stock firmware to make sure the problem from hardware not software especially because I root my phone and get some errors like screen not rotating and hotspots not working.
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If you are getting those errors then there is a possibility that the rooting process messed up the OS and the device drivers on your device. Reinstalling the stock firmware back onto it should solve your problems.

DarkGuyver said:
If you are getting those errors then there is a possibility that the rooting process messed up the OS and the device drivers on your device. Reinstalling the stock firmware back onto it should solve your problems.
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Done, thank you.
After re-install the stock firmare every thing return to work fine, SD card and also flash USB. it seem that driver to read external storage was delete by BusyBox or anther root app.
Any way I didn't lost any of my app or data, thank all of you guys.