I have a buddy at work and his SD card seemed to go on the fritz with him and he couldn't recover his files. We tried copying via his phone, we tried via 2 SD card readers and even tried to plug it in my Vibrant and pull the files.
We fixed it by copying his files from his SD card to my internal 16gig memory and then we were allowed to copy to his PC. After the copying of file he formatted his SD card and then all of the sudden his phone was way more responsive and of course he could get to his files. It was almost like his phone was hanging up trying to read data off the SD card constantly and it was lagging the phone big time.
Anyways what I was trying to say we have portable SD card recovery devices in our myst. Why we were able to copy files from the SD card to internal and not SD card to PC is beyond me, but I was persistent.
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So today for no apparent reason my Touch HD couldnt' find and read the stuff I have on my micro memory card. I opened file explorer and tried removing and inserting my memory card. It shows up for a few seconds then dissappears again.
Only new thing added to the phone in the last week was the game, Experiment 13. (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=5005847)
Your card has most likely got a damaged file, stick your card in a reader and copy the files to your pc, a few at a time, this will allow you to find which file is causing the problem, once found copy all of the good files somewhere, format the card and restore all of your files back to the clean sd card, now put the card back in the phone when not charging or battery in, replace the battery and reboot, card should now be visible.
Use Total Commander on your PC to copy the entire contents of your card. It will show you which file(s) is(are) damaged. It happened to me a few days ago when device.nng (something to do with license files for iGo) got corrupted, and every time I browsed to the folder that contained that file (which was the root actually), the card would disappear. Also it would disappear on the PC as well when trying to copy that file. So just copied everything but that, formatted, and recopied.
Thanks for the replies. I'll give that a try. Just have to get a card reader thingy for my pc first.
this happened with me before after flashing new rom i needed to formate the memorycard to get it work again.
It hapenned to me too
I copied almost all files in a laptop card slot (with an adaptor SD/micro SD) because usb card readers gave much more errors.
Really there were some bad files, imposible to read.
I formatted the card totally, and restore. But it lasted working ok for only another week
At last, the only option was buying a brand new 16gb micro SD
Hello,
A micro SD card came with the phone. By browsing the card from my computer it looks like it contains the Route66 maps that came with the phone. However, the card doesn't show up on the phone. What gives? Other cards do show up.
Copy the files from the cards to your computer.
Format the card with your computer using Fat32 format.
Recopy the files back onto the formattted card.
I am going to swap my 2gb sd for a 16gb and want to know how to transfer the files correctly. It seems that the files I can see on my PC when mounted via usb, are only a fraction of the files I see via Root Explorer on the phone.
Whats the correct way prepare the new card, and transfer the files?
Thanks
mount the phone. Open the appropriate drive (2 should show). One us the internal for the os. The other is the 2 gig with avatar (sdcard/sd).
Copy to your desktop.
Get the new card with adapter mounted to pc now. Right click and format fat.
power off the phone after properly unmounting.
Swap cards in phone. Mount it again to pc. Move the avatar folder to new sd.
unmount. I would reboot. Make sure avatar works. if it didn't, you did not listen.
Thanks for the info
The way I did it is:
-put the new card in the phone
-format it using the phone (settings, SD Card and phone storage, format SD card)
-put the old sd card with adapter into PC
-mount the phone
-transfer files from old to new
So the only files that need to be transferred are the ones that show up when mounted/viewed on the PC? Are the files that I see on the card via Root Explorer when it is in the phone not needed? Are they just links or something?
Avatar is on the sd card (sdcard/sd)
Sdcard is the internal memory. Do NOT mess with that!
ah, so the sd card is actually the sd directory inside of sdcard...got it, thanks
Hello everyone, dire need of help here!
I got a new Micro SD card 64 GB Strontium for the phone and formatted it to use as Internal Memory - all previous phones I have been using SD card as portable storage, this is the first time I am using it as internal memory.
It worked fine for 2 days but suddenly yesterday all the photographs folders disappeared from the Gallery app (DCIM folder). I restarted the phone a couple of times but no luck - first some thumbnails disappeared, and then the entire folder!
Since this morning, the phone get restarted continuously, non-stop, while the SC card is inside the phone. If I remove the SD card, the phone works normally. So I am unable to use phone when SD card is inside - unable to copy all the files from the SD card onto a laptop even since the phone restarts before I can do anything on the connected laptop.
What do you think is the problem? How to resolve it?
How to recover all the pics and files on the SD card if I have to format it?
GSKC
GSKC said:
Hello everyone, dire need of help here!
I got a new Micro SD card 64 GB Strontium for the phone and formatted it to use as Internal Memory - all previous phones I have been using SD card as portable storage, this is the first time I am using it as internal memory.
It worked fine for 2 days but suddenly yesterday all the photographs folders disappeared from the Gallery app (DCIM folder). I restarted the phone a couple of times but no luck - first some thumbnails disappeared, and then the entire folder!
Since this morning, the phone get restarted continuously, non-stop, while the SC card is inside the phone. If I remove the SD card, the phone works normally. So I am unable to use phone when SD card is inside - unable to copy all the files from the SD card onto a laptop even since the phone restarts before I can do anything on the connected laptop.
What do you think is the problem? How to resolve it?
How to recover all the pics and files on the SD card if I have to format it?
GSKC
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Try this
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software/auto-formatting-sdcard-to-internal-t3583875
I would try to recover pics by mounting SD-CARD on PC. I've had SD-CARDs go bad a few times.
I am having this problem that I can't see the contents on my sd card, the card is fine it is detected by the phone and it does keep pictures, but when I connect it to laptop I can't see any files at all. In my last phone a samsung I cold easily move files from phone to pc and the other way, but I can't figure it out with Huawei.
Hisuite has not helped at all, is there anything I need to do in the phone to be able to see the contents of sd card? or is there another software I can use? how do you manage your files on sd card?