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Sd card saying damaged when I restart my phone

Basically when I restart my phone, I get a pop up that says my Sd card is damaged but when I go to settings and mount it, it works fine until I do another reboot. The one annoying thing that happens is it wipes anything that was saved from my phone like DCIM picture and music etc but everything else is still there(that I saved from my pc).
Any idea what's causing it?
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What phone and which vendors SD card?
Didn't I see that Sandisk has a bad batch recently of 32 GB cards?
Also have you tried reformatting?
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It's a HC 64gb card running on SGS4 phone. I've tried reformatting off my pc and phone but to no avail. It worked fine on my Note 2
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Do you have another card to try? Since its a new device and it worked on your old phone you need to rule out the phone as the issue.
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Xbyl said:
Basically when I restart my phone, I get a pop up that says my Sd card is damaged but when I go to settings and mount it, it works fine until I do another reboot. The one annoying thing that happens is it wipes anything that was saved from my phone like DCIM picture and music etc but everything else is still there(that I saved from my pc).
Any idea what's causing it?
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Your sd card is dying...same thing started with my card.formatted,used it for a couple of days and started again,and ny S4 didn't recognized anymore
tried to format n my PC but didn't see it at all...

See if the manufacturer will replace it.
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I guess it's one of those annoying things. I'll get a new Sd card, might be the easiest solution
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Gallery and sd card issues

Hi guys and girls
I hope someone can help, I have just got a galaxy s4 and just purchased a 64gb sd card, ive converted the sd card to fat32 but whenever I put photos on the sd card they wont show, it just shows a white icon like a broken face and if I put music on the card it plays a 3 second snippet then moves to next song.
If I place the photos and music on the internal memory it works fine
Ive persisted for 3 days and ive given up, please help me
Many thanks in advance
Steve
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Anyone?
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And now my apps that I put on via apps to sd are broken too
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Try to format from your phone settings and see how it goes.

I tried factory reset and that didnt work
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Any other ideas
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Reformat your sd card through com0uter place it in the device, reformat it using the device. I believe this should do the tr8ck
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Thanks for the replies, ive tried that and still no use it seems to be saving photos ive taken but anything I download to sd through apps doesnt work, ive tried putting a music album on through kies and that didn't work either, I just cant understand what is going on, never had this issue with the s1 or note so is it possibly an s4 issue?
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I have a plane to upgrade my SD card from 16GB to 64GB. After few minutes working with Google I found out that so many peoples complain about problem of their s4 with SD card. S4 made SD card go to some places like hell. SanDisk is the most card name has a trouble.

Try downloading Media Scan from the playstore i think the images will appear on your gallery eventually.
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As you increase the size of the sd card ...there are more memory issues popping up....I suggest you take the sd card and fix it to a different phone and see if the pics are readable....if they are not....its a problem with the sd card...so better check it out....if the pics are readable...try a different card on your s4...I myself use a 32gb Kingston sd card with life time warranty. ..just in case something like this would happen...so first isolate where the problem is...then it'll be easy to find a fix...good luck...hope this helps

Thanks for the advice, I will try a 32gb card that I have for a few days and try the 64gb in my archos tablet and see what results I get. Ill post my results asap, thanks again
Steve
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App icons changed

So I've had this thing for about a week now and the growing list of complaints is still mounting. Now I have an issue where almost all my apps, only those on the sd card, need to be redownloaded. The icon for them is just the Android guy with a little sd card on the lower right of the icon. When I touch it it takes me to Google play and says it's not installed. Anyone experiencing the same? I have reinstalled a few and when I did it seems my info is still there. No idea why it happened.
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jasnoc said:
So I've had this thing for about a week now and the growing list of complaints is still mounting. Now I have an issue where almost all my apps, only those on the sd card, need to be redownloaded. The icon for them is just the Android guy with a little sd card on the lower right of the icon. When I touch it it takes me to Google play and says it's not installed. Anyone experiencing the same? I have reinstalled a few and when I did it seems my info is still there. No idea why it happened.
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Have you tried reformatting the sdcard with the phone (not with windows)?
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Was going to until I noticed that when I reinstalled the apps my data was still there so I didn't want to risk losing all my data
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Is the card mounted OK? - does it keep unmounting itself? Could be messing up the file system but not actually destroying data., which would indicate a card problem, tried testing the card also? - Try another SD card if you have one, or alternatively format it via the phone and lose the data, then redownload.

Mounting seems fine, actually unmounted and remounted a few times with same results. Haven't tried testing it, what's a good way to do so? I guess an idea would be to transfer app off card back to phone and reformat and see what happens.
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New stock update now no sd card

My s5 is a completely stock UK model on Tesco/O2. It's had a couple of system updates.
I last did one a couple of days ago and now the phone won't recognise the sd card. It initially flashed the message "sd card unexpectedly removed" (or similar).
I've tried restarting, removing sd, restarting then putting card in. All to no avail.
The card works fine in my son's s4.
Any ideas please?
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petest said:
My s5 is a completely stock UK model on Tesco/O2. It's had a couple of system updates.
I last did one a couple of days ago and now the phone won't recognise the sd card. It initially flashed the message "sd card unexpectedly removed" (or similar).
I've tried restarting, removing sd, restarting then putting card in. All to no avail.
The card works fine in my son's s4.
Any ideas please?
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Have you backed up and reformatted card?
I'm having another problem, in that I can't get music to my SD card!
Have you got music on your external SD card?

No music. Got a few films and work pdfs.
I'm wondering if anybody else has any problems after recent updates
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petest said:
No music. Got a few films and work pdfs.
I'm wondering if anybody else has any problems after recent updates
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I had an update last week. My S5 works fine. But it's an O2 model which will be different from yours.
-Airax

I had an update...unlocked s5....locked up my phone n had to pull battery.
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Just remembered something. When I tried to move a couple of movies to the sd using ESFILEEXPLOR it wouldn't let me. I managed to move them with the stock file explorer though.
I was reading another thread about compatible sd cards and it seems there are a few people with issues, mainly caused after transferring music to the card as opposed to leaving it in the system memory
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I have a scandisk ultra 32gb from my s3...never had any issues with it in all my galaxy phones
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Are you rooted?
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No
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I heard there were a few problems with this stock update and I was trying to avoid it because my phone was fine, no problems with really anything. It updated when I connected to WiFi... oops. Now it won't read my SD card and pretty much every time I unlock my phone, it tells me to check my back cover because it thinks it's not all the way attached. Realllyyyy annoying and I have no idea how to fix this.
Edit; I'm on an att s5

The warnings wont go away unfortunatly but had no sd card issue....if anything after update my screen was unresponsive till i pulled the battery
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Mount unmount. .from storage settings. ..or incompatible so maybe
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(Help) sd card error

My phone has all the sudden started un mounting my sd card on its own. I can restart my phone and all my pics, songs, apps show up as normal- but as soon as I turn the screen off and back on again it tells me that the sd card has been removed and won't even acknowledge it to be re mounted.
I am on the alliance rom and have tried multiple other roms and it still does the same thing.
I have not tried reformatting my card yet as that was going to be my last option. Anyone else had this issue or know something else I can try?

Do you have another phone to try the SD in? That'll at least narrow down if it's the phone or card. I'm on alliance ROM as well and haven't had that problem
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chrisbass said:
Do you have another phone to try the SD in? That'll at least narrow down if it's the phone or card. I'm on alliance ROM as well and haven't had that problem
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I tried my sd card in my buddies S4.. No issues and it didn't un mount or remove the sd..
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Also, when you guys are taking out your sd card can you push it upward and it automatically ejects it a little bit? Like spring loaded? The s4 does that, but my s5 isn't doing it.

dclay89 said:
Also, when you guys are taking out your sd card can you push it upward and it automatically ejects it a little bit? Like spring loaded? The s4 does that, but my s5 isn't doing it.
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No, the slot isn't spring loaded.

jcollier said:
No, the slot isn't spring loaded.
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Thank you. Just making sure I hadn't screwed something up.