I woke up this morning to find my default ring tone had changed. Upon investigating, I found a message saying my SD card was unmounted. Under settings, all items related to the SD card were greyed out.
I rebooted but that did not fix the issue. So I removed the card and put it in my computers card reader. It offered to scan and repair so I selected that, however, it just sat there doing nothing, so I cancelled.
I put it back in my EVO and booted, but still the card remained unmounted. I returned it to my computer, rinse, repeat, only this time, after like five or ten minutes, the files showed up. The first thing I did after that was try to copy everything to a folder on my HDD. Some items copied, but then the copy process froze.
I have been backing up with titainium and another app for texts, but these BU to my SD card! So unless I get this card going again, my back-ups are gone.
So question #1: Is this a known issue?
#2: Is there any process I can try to get my files back?
#3: Do I need to throw my 16 GB card away?
i had the same issue
you're gonna have to do a complete reformat from the android settings
fixed it for me...gonna have to start from scratch
unknown cause...
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I ran fix permissions and it ended with no errors. It then suggested to reboot the phone. I used quickboot to reboot the phone and when it came out, the SD card (16 KB SANDISK) card is reported as having errors and might need to be reformatted. I put the card in the card reader on my pc and it looks ok. I can see all the directories and even copied a 2GB map file to the pc with no issues.
Any ideas on what is causing this and how to recover without reformatting?
Thanks.
Rom Manager & SD card failure
Windows 7 did not help in any way, but a reboot to XP allowed me to scan the disk and fix any errors. Back running, case closed, but I still don't know why it happened. There is a fix permissions file left on the card, but for the time being I just going to move on. NTF, you can kill this one, if you want.
I need to swap out an sd card and I copied everything off of it to a folder on my pc desktop. Turned off the USB first, then the tab itself. Changed the cards, powered up the tab, and copied everything in the transfer folder back to the new sd card and said Yes to All when asked about replacing files.
The tab started giving me an application not responding error (should've wrote down the exact wording) and was rebooting instead of powering off when I tried to shut it down. When it finally stopped, I put the old card back in and now am functional again.
Where did I go wrong? Didn't find anything in a search.
Tab rooted, with old card in, by z4root. Very little on the old card, no A2SD. Nothing that can't be replaced. Mainly looking for info so if I get a bigger card later.
Thanks a bunch.
what desktop OS? if windows, make sure hidden files/folders are visible when you copy everything over. If you have a card reader, that would be a faster and cleaner way also.
So, no idea what causes this. But the phone was fine till this Saturday night, it died Sunday morning, I charged it back to 100%.
Ever since then, when is start the phone it will boot up, on the notifications bar it will have "Preparing SD Card" - "Checking for Errors" and then reboot itself. And do it over and over again.
I took out the SD Card and put it back in, same issue.
Phone boots up properly without the SD card in there.
I haven't put anything on the SD card for around 2-3 weeks since I last synced my music. And music and some pictures is all there is on the SD Card. All applications are installed to Internal phone memory.
I am lost, what can I do? I can't even format the SD card if the phone doesn't stay on.
try formatting the card via pc with a memory card reader.
Had a similar problem. Had to put the sdcard in a card reader. Found some corrupt files on the card. Copied what I could to the pc, reformated the card, and copied everything back to card. Worked fine afterwards.
I purchased a new SanDisk 32GB microSDHC card for my Magic a few weeks ago. As of the beginning of this month, I started noticing some strange things happening like the card being set to read-only at random. I first noticed it from the camera app where it stated that I needed to insert an SD card before using it. I checked using Root Explorer, and strangely enough it was mounted as read-only. I mounted it back as R/W, and everything seemed fine...or so I thought.
A few days later, I was gonna send those pics that I took with the camera, but they were gone and nowhere to be found on my SD card. I got suspicious so I took a few test pics after (again) having to set the SD card with R/W permissions using Root Explorer. I checked the card, and the pics were there, but as soon as I tried to send them via MMS, the files disappeared. From here, I put the card in my PC's card reader and copied a random file to it. No issues with that, so I put the card back into my phone and that file was gone. Scratching my head some more, I put the card back into my PC and copied another random file. Then I refreshed the folder view within Explorer, and the file was not there. Seeing that I could read the files on the card, I feel that something strange was going on, so I made a backup to my PC. The files copied fine, and I can see the contents on my computer, so reading from the card isn't an issue. I, then, attempted to reformat it from the computer. Windows complained that it was unable to format the card, so I thought I'd go with something a little more refined when dealing with partitions. Using Paragon Partition Manager, I was unable to reformat without first deleting the partition already present, so I did just that. However, after deleting the partition, it gave an error saying that this drive cannot be formatted. Having gotten really frustrated with this issue, I decided to try out GParted on my laptop. I put the card in my card reader on that and ran GParted. It recognized the card, but showed that it was still partitioned...leaving me to believe that Partition Manager didn't actually delete the partition as it said it did. Didn't worry about that too much, and went ahead and deleted the partition through GParted and reformatted to FAT32 with no errors whatsoever during the process, and everything seemed to work fine. However, the used file space was exactly the same as it was before starting this process. I slapped the card back into my PC, and sure enough nothing has changed.
It now seems that the state of my card is somehow "frozen". I can read the files already existing on the card, but nothing can be written to it. The only thing that I did differently with this SD card, in comparison to any other card I've used, is using Swapper (org.azasoft.free.swapper) to create a swap file on my SD card that appeared to work fairly well until all this happened. Though maybe a 1GB swap file wasn't such a great idea, and most likely unnecessary anyways.
I've had a card die on me in the past, but just because it was old. Though, it was completely unusable...couldn't read or write from/to the card, respectively. So being able to read from the card is quite new to me, and I'm not sure if I've killed it, or if (possibly) there is a chance for revival. Normally, I wouldn't worry about it too much and just have the card replaced, but due to the highly sensitive data currently present on the card, that's completely out of the question at this point.
Any insight on this issue would be very highly appreciated.
I would see if you can get it replaced. If you can't, and their is sensitive info on it, completely destroy it (break it into several pieces, blend it, then use fire) and buy a new one.
Seems like you've done everything I could think of. So I'm not sure what to suggest to try and fix it. Maybe try to dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/whateveryoursdcardiscalled and then format?
you should really encrypt sensitive data so you don't have to worry about it when problems occur
tl;dr
However, it did seem like an issue I had with an SD card back when I was trying linux distros on USB sticks. My 16GB was turned into an 8GB one. That sucked LOTS. You know what fixed it?
My camera
Yeah, I put the SD on it and pressed Format. It automagically partitioned it and it's working correctly as we speak ... try other devices, such as handycams, cameras, mp4s, iPhone/iPod & such. They can do what Linux + gParted and Windows can't =)
I've got a sim-free, unrooted Note 3 that I bought from Amazon.
When I move too many apps to the SD card and start the phone with the SD card in, the phone never finishes booting (it hangs at the blue pulsing SAMSUNG text).
When I take the card out (or put another one in), the phone boots fine. (Put the original one in again, phone refuses to boot.) I also put a second SD card in after moving a load of apps to SD, I restarted the phone and it got caught in a boot loop.
Apparently the problem is closely related to the .android_secure folder being bigger than a 1GB, so I'm testing this with a formatted SD card. I've moved a few apps to the SD card. For sh1ts and giggles I'm going to copy 1.5GB of data to the .android_secure folder and see if the phone reboots OK.
This clearly has been a huge issue previously, (http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=25563 and http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1446961) but it seems that the complaints about it dried up over the last year or so.
Is it still a known problem? Thanks, Richard
With 32g why would any one need to move apps to sd?
Teleported from my SM-N9005 from the Enterprise
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There's already a thread about this subject:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2467005
Try removing your SD card when booting. Then go to WIFI settings and turn of the option to automatically scan for wireless networks when wifi is of.