Samsung Focus, missing SD Card - Focus General

There is 8GB internal, if I wanted to remove the card I put in, I just need to remove it and Windows Phone will go to the internal storage?

There is 8GB internal flash memory. The MicroSD card is optional.

I thought it was something like that. It did just need time to charge.
If I was to say have put in any old card, and I wanted to remove said card, I can turn it off remove and re-format?

All fixed. Sorry. I clearly didn't get enough sleep and therefore am unable to think for myself.

Vakman said:
I thought it was something like that. It did just need time to charge.
If I was to say have put in any old card, and I wanted to remove said card, I can turn it off remove and re-format?
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You can reformat the phone but the card is another story. Search around here for explanation but basically it formats and passwords the card to where only a few devices can reformat it.

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Memory card writing slow: is this normal?

I have a question about MiniSD card writing slow:
I formated my card recently. now I'm trying to put data on it (about 700mb)
and it is taking longer than 3 hours and counting. I have written about 300mb so far.
Is this normal?
Is there software that can format the card in a way that it would write faster?/ or is this normal?
S.V.I said:
I have a question about MiniSD card writing slow:
I formated my card recently. now I'm trying to put data on it (about 700mb)
and it is taking longer than 3 hours and counting. I have written about 300mb so far.
Is this normal?
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Yes.
Is there software that can format the card in a way that it would write faster?/ or is this normal?
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No. Use an SD Card reader to load your card, then put it in the phone. That is the only fast way to do it. They are cheap (usually around $10 US), and totally worth it if, like me, you use your phone as a media player.
You are effectively asking the phone to read the file you send, copy it, then paste it into the SD Card. There is NO direct throughput, regardless of logic. Sorry to bear the bad news.
i was using the latest version of WM5storage.
formated the card with XP. then i tried a warez program to format it again. Pocket mechanic could not format it by the way.
anyway, just wanted to see if this was a usual thing. The card has pretty much become part of my phone; I lost the adapter that comes with it. I mostly use it to store cab files and photos in between flashing.
The main thing I noticed is that programs dont behave as well if put on storage card. I thought if there is a way to format it propperly, they might?
Thanx for your reply. glad to know i didnt kill my ca with XP.

'Blank External SD card' ???

was trying to access a game after putting it into my phone and it froze, causing me to take out the battery and restart it.
After that, the phone wouldn't read the memory card but everything was fine.
I went back to stock and still, it's not reading it but everything else works fine. I will eventually have to re-root it but anyone know what the problem is?
after pulling down the upper bar, it says "SD card blank or has unsupported file system." HELP!!!!!!!!!!
Do You have a micro sd to sd adapter and an sd reader? If so, does your computer read the info? If not then the card is messed up, and needs to be formatted (lose everything) or replaced. Sometimes cards just die.
If you don't have an adapter and sd reader, then you can try formatting it from your phone but again, you will lose everything.
Had a similar problem, in the end bestbuy replaced my sd card as it happened the day I bought my phone. I would start by trying to use it in either another phone or on a computer(like in a usb micro sd card adapter)
Dalamar1320 said:
Do You have a micro sd to sd adapter and an sd reader? If so, does your computer read the info? If not then the card is messed up, and needs to be formatted (lose everything) or replaced. Sometimes cards just die.
If you don't have an adapter and sd reader, then you can try formatting it from your phone but again, you will lose everything.
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seems like the card died because of a corrupted game file,..which sucks!
think I need to get another SD card...dammit..
computer won't read it, phone won't read it..
and like you devastator, i got the phone 5 days ago and had to replace the phone once already because of a crack inside the screen causing dead pixels. blahhh

Dropped phone, now it can't see my micro SD

Hi guys, I dropped my phone for the first time EVER in my life (was really sleepy).
Now I can't use my sd card, the phone gave me a popup that it was unexpectedly removed and after that it keeps saying it encountered a problem.
Things like Gallery tell me to "please insert an sd card", it's in there!
I have no idea what to do and it's at least three months left until I can get a new phone, please help me.
Oh, by the way, my phone's not rooted, just normal HTC Sense.
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: Thread can be closed, I was a dummy and didn't try to remove battery first.
Haha i know the feeling
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try to remove it and put it back again. if that doesnt help..recover your photos and everything else with some software and format it
Oh my God..
I didn't even drop it and now it happened again!
Removing the battery and micro sd card didn't work. :crying:
Depending on what important info you have on your SD card, you could consider formatting it via your PC, if you have an SD card slot somewhere.
I had a similar issue some months ago, and formatting the card (via Windows) did the trick.
Of course, remember that formatting the card will erase all data on it, and therefore it could render some apps on your phone to be useless / or not work.
(This might sound weird, but if you have another SD card, try formatting that too and putting that in your phone. Then take out the battery, put the original SD card in and see if it is OK after booting up.)

Valid option if I get the 16GB?

So, considering that 6.0 can format the sdcard to appear as internal memory, is there any good reason for going with 32GB or more? I would like to save the money and just get the 16GB and format the card so it appears internal.
Other than being slightly slower than internal memory, would this be a valid route going 16+card as opposed to 32+card?
I have a OnePlus One right now with the 64 and usually have about 20GB left so 32 is the base I need but I figure I might be able to get away with 16 if the card appears as all internal anyway.
Thoughts?
Yes, I went with a 16GB model also for the same reason. I installed a 64gb Sandisk extreme SD card that transfers up to 90mb/s. Nandroid backups went from 30 minutes on my old SD card (some cheap crap) to less than one minute. With a proper card you'll have no issues running apps off the SD.
The internal memory isn't much faster.
I've been considering using the adoptive storage, but I went ahead and bought the 32gb. Call me old fashioned, but I like having an SD card that is considered separate from the main storage for one big reason: If I ever have to do a wipe of the phone, I know that my photos, TWRP backups, and so on, are all safe as long as they are on the SD card. I don't know if we know what'll happen if you use the adoptive storage and you have to wipe the phone. Will it keep what is on the SD card part? Will it wipe it as well? My understanding is that it'll wipe it.
So I may just keep on doing what I'm doing... change the camera settings to use the SD card for pictures and videos, make the SD card the default place to save downloads, and only use the internal storage for app installs.
I use my SD card to store all of my media and reserve internal storage purely for apps. I can manage with 16gb since I don't have a lot of big apps. Adoptive storage is a nice feature but I don't think I'll be using it, since I like taking my microsd out and popping it in my laptop to manage my music, photos and movies.
Do we know FOR SURE that there will be no way to partition the external SD so that part of it is used for the OS (non-readable outside the phone) and part for external storage?
SalTNutz said:
Do we know FOR SURE that there will be no way to partition the external SD so that part of it is used for the OS (non-readable outside the phone) and part for external storage?
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I haven't read anything that would suggest so. Everything I've read indicates that it formats the entire card to be used as internal storage. The tradeoff, it seems, for allowing adoptive storage is to make it very difficult for your to remove the card and use it in another machine.
Well thanks guys. Still up in the air which phone I'll ultimately get and if it's the Moto, what size but this does clarify things.
hbar98 said:
I haven't read anything that would suggest so. Everything I've read indicates that it formats the entire card to be used as internal storage. The tradeoff, it seems, for allowing adoptive storage is to make it very difficult for your to remove the card and use it in another machine.
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why? whats the problem to pop it out,insert it into your pc and do the transfers and back to the phone? you can shut down the phone if you need
robert stig said:
why? whats the problem to pop it out,insert it into your pc and do the transfers and back to the phone? you can shut down the phone if you need
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If you format the card as adoptive storage you can't just pop out the card and read it from a computer. The computer won't be able to read it.
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Nokia 5 SD problem

Hi all,
My partner's phone - Got an interesting problem with the SD card. I bought an SD card, 64GB and put it in. It formatted fine and even offered to move the stuff off the phone and onto the card. Happy days. The problem now is, when I delete a file from the phone, it doesn't delete just from the phone, but both phone and SD card... lol. O...k. lol.
So I then sent a test file, a random video to myself from my partner's phone to my phone over WhatsApp then took the SD card out of my partner's phone and tried to delete it from her internal storage. It said the file couldn't be deleted because it was stored on the SD card.... yet, taking up space on the phone. So it was like having a dead body, no life, but taking up the room, on the internal storage, but when the SD card was put back, all "bodies" danced back to life again, making the video work as it once did. So it thinks they're saved on the SD card, and are, yet can't be removed from the phone and still taking space. In effect, it copied them but won't let the files leave the phone. So it was a weird mutation copy merge from internal to external storage. Sigh
So, I think I have to buy a new charger (current one charges but doesn't connect the phone to the pc) and manually cut from phone files and paste into sd card files, unless anyone has a better plan or actual way to fix this?
Thanks for your time,
Cormac
update
Well this is most interesting............................
I went to the shop and bought a cable that worked. When I connected it to the computer, I was able to see ONLY SD card, no internal memory..... so now it looks like it has dissapeared.. and merged with the internal memory.... which means that it now doesn't allow us to put stuff into the SD card. However, It seems to think it has more space.. I am hopeful it can allow this. I had to delete an app to make room for Facebook messenger update. Despite having the SD card in the phone... I don't like this... I dunno what to do. Any help welcomed.
Thanks,
Cormac
If you want seperate storage you have to use your SD card as an external storage rather than using as an internal storage. & Why did you buy a cable? The charging cable can be used for transferring data.

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