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Factory reset for no reason

My phone reset itself for no reason. It was laggy so I restarted. When it rebooted, all the apps I had installed wod force close (samsung default apps worked fine) and all my personal info was gone (phone nos, contacts, settings, etc).
When this happened first two times, i replaced my phone. Now it happened on the replacemwnt SGS.
I am thinking it may be the sd card (I am using an 8gb external sd I have from my previous Moto Mestone). I've been running for about a week with no reset since I took the card out from the phone. I would however like to use the sd card for the additional storage.
Anybody know if the sd card could have been the problem and maybe how to fix it?
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mars0212 said:
Anybody know if the sd card could have been the problem and maybe how to fix it?
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Yes, it sounds like this
Did you already try to boot the phone without the external-SD-Card being plugged in? Or just tried booting with another external SD-Card?
If not, copy over your data form ext. SD-Card to your PC and reformat the external SD-Cardwithin the system settings.
Maybe there are some system files from your Milestone left which SGS doesn't like

Installed Darky's rom. Do not seem to have that problem anymore.
Thanks
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Help! My sdcard cannot be recognised!

My GT540 won't recognise my SD card after during copying a file to the SD via PC the PC crashed, and now it won't recognise it! I can't mount USB either! It is either corrupted or it was also dropped during the PC crash, could the reader be broken? Any ideas to fix it?
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have you tried to format sd card on comp. ?
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slidingpimp said:
have you tried to format sd card on comp. ?
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I've bought a new one and formatted it, says blank when it has pic on it. About to try sdcard.org's SD formatter
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That didn't work and after a reflash (twice, first one crashed phone completely) it still says blank. It turns out that my sd reader on the phone (in the back is broken, as it has to be in a certain place to read it. I shall try and flash back to 2.1 and take it back to CPW

Quinny899 said:
That didn't work and after a reflash (twice, first one crashed phone completely) it still says blank. It turns out that my sd reader on the phone (in the back is broken, as it has to be in a certain place to read it. I shall try and flash back to 2.1 and take it back to CPW
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Not necessarily...
I had same problems (actually not in 2.3.3, and 2.3.4, then in older versions), and I was really crazy...i formatted my SD a million times, on a million different ways! The biggest stupidity is that I don't know what combination actually worked...
But I've noticed some things: never format, or copy larger amount of data from computer over the phones card reader! Put the card in PC-s card reader and use MiniTool Partition wizard, or something similar (I use Acronis Disk Director, and for me it's incomparably better then anything else), and then copy same data for your phone on that card (just that is not blank).
Another thing that might helped me (I'm not sure if it was coincidence, or it really helped): After format, I went first to recovery>mounts and storage>mount /sdcard(and mount /sd-ext if you have it). Then you can try mount USB storage in recovery and try to trasfer some data (to find out if it's really problem in phones card reader). If you transfer data successfully, reboot system and find out if you are pressing the thanks button, or throwing the phone directly into the wall!
(And have you tried to use another PC/card reader)
It's not scientifically nor empirically proved...but I don't know, you can try! I hope you'll succeed!

Thanks for your help but it turned out that the reader had a slightly bent joint. Bend it back and it works now!
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Thanks everyone!
Thank you everyone for your help! The method above didn't work for long, so I found that it was a combination of position of reader on chip (back of phone, just move the whole reader, BE CAREFUL), the pins (as above) and the SD itself. I found that it was sometimes telling the TRUTH (WHAT???) when it was saying "SD Card damaged", what you do is copy the files to a PC using a sd reader and then format it, then put it back in again. Worked for me, although I had to format before copying files, so it was good that I had backed up my sd to pc just 1/2 a day before it all went wrong.

Fixing sd card

I'm having a weird problem with my 16gb sd card I've been using gingerdx 15 and Linux dx 003 and first off my card was working fine but I left the battery die then after turning phone back on the phone is acting as if there's no card is inserted nothing happens when I insert it and it won't Mont or anything I've tryed my old 1gb and it works fine so I tryed the card in a card reader and windows can access it fine so copyed all my stuff off it and run a full disk check and didn't give any errors so I formatted it yet the phone still wont acknowledge the card I don't understand what's going on as the card appears to be fine as windows can read and write to it fine does anyone know why this is happening?
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Maybe you can try reformat on the phone?

I can't as it just says there's no sd card inserted all the options are unavailable just acts as if I haven't inserted one
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In my case i reverted to SE stock ROM eclair and reformat from there.A lot work to do...
Maybe someone here have other solution...

I thought about flashing back just not sure if it will make any difference as far as detecting the card
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I have the same problem with my 8GB card in GingerDX, KuyaDroid and GingerCrutz. In GingerXperia, GingerKaskus SD works fine. In CWM 4.0.1.5 my SD is not mounted and I can't mount it manually.
Sorry for bad English.

Well I've just tried flashing back to stock but no luck it still wont read the card
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Same...
Same problem.
Try to format it with SDFormater on Pc with Cardreader, on other mobile...
Is it possible the linuxDX does crash some sd?
btw. sometimes my computer can read the sd card but only ~5 mins than crash. Mobile can't read it

I think it was something to do with gingerdx as only had problems with it after installing it and have u tried running check disk on your card to see if it finds errors as I don't have the 5 min thing with computer as my card reads perfectly on computer all the time as I've even done surface scans and it comes up with no errors and ive tried copying music and videos to it and they playback fine
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Linux dx v4 is out....sd card compatibility is fixed

lotus13 said:
Linux dx v4 is out....sd card compatibility is fixed
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His problem is not same with this.
LDX is fixing the /sdcard path
His case is the SD card not recognized by phone.
Probably too large memory for our phone.

looks like my cheap sd goes broken. lifetime at 14 days...

safix8 said:
looks like my cheap sd goes broken. lifetime at 14 days...
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Lol only had mine a few weeks aswell sending it back 2day tho to get it tested and hopefully a replacement if it's broke
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[Q] U8800 (not Pro) 2.3.5 beta 1.0 issues

Does anyone have issues with the SD card after the upgrade?
It says that my 16Gb Sandisk format is unsupported but it fails to format and mount it.

Do you have the chance to format the card directly with your phone instead with the computer?

csteddy said:
Does anyone have issues with the SD card after the upgrade?
It says that my 16Gb Sandisk format is unsupported but it fails to format and mount it.
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men, you can put the SD on the garbage because it happen the same to mine to. It's impossible to read it is destroy.
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I tried doing it using Settings/Storage/Format via the phone as well but that failed.
Using the SD Formatter from the SD Association worked where Windows Quick Format failed. Never had that before.

vlc_marcos said:
men, you can put the SD on the garbage because it happen the same to mine to. It's impossible to read it is destroy.
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Maybe you can search the SDCard in the bin and try to format with the SD Formatter

I had that happening to me before also. This stopped happening after a couple reflashes of the international version. SD mounting on recovery is still broken though.
Too bad the rom never stays operational for more than 1 or 2 hours... it always ends up in a reboot and bootloop until full wipe.

HI
I have updated new 2.3.5 but my screan keeps restarting after Huwei Icon

happens to me also.. now my fone can't read SD card.....

My phone doesn't turn off after i reverted to 2.2.2! When i turn it off, it reboots only. And that is happening everytime! And when i restored a backup, the phone boots only into recovery and then also everytime!
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Just so people don't think it happens to everyone, I'm using a 16GB microSD card and it mounts just fine.
Before, when I had an Optimus Boston (Gigabyte GSmart G1305) with CM7 (2.3.*) and the card failed to mount, but after some upgrade it started working. With the 2.1 stock ROM it worked.
Can't tell if the problem was fixed by the CM crew or came from the vanilla android code though.

SD card not working with iCS rom

I have this problem were the sd card will not take anything on it. If I place a new folder and a picture on it, it erases itself on its own. Or I'll put a album on there and maybe 5-8 songs might appear. I am running passion ics with a 32gb sd card. Just want to know if there is a zip that needs to be flashed or if this is a problem. Thanks for reading!
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thepa said:
I have this problem were the sd card will not take anything on it. If I place a new folder and a picture on it, it erases itself on its own. Or I'll put a album on there and maybe 5-8 songs might appear. I am running passion ics with a 32gb sd card. Just want to know if there is a zip that needs to be flashed or if this is a problem. Thanks for reading!
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i had a lot of issues with a sd card that i used with my computer or camera before using it on the phone. search for a program called SDFormatter and format your card. you should be ok after that

mikka06 said:
i had a lot of issues with a sd card that i used with my computer or camera before using it on the phone. search for a program called SDFormatter and format your card. you should be ok after that
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At first I was a little worried about using this program, but I ran it and it worked for about 2 hours. Out of no where the music that I was moving over kept disappearing and stopped allowing me to copy files from the pc to the sd. I tried formatting the card after that and I was allowed to put the files that were on there before formatting but nothing after that. Is there any other solution to this fiasco that I am faced with!

I have a similar issue. I haven't tried writing anything to my SD card, but it looks like its empty in MIUI and ES file explorers. I can boot into recovery and see that the files are there. Any suggestions?
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