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Memory card issues!! HELP!?

i have a Sandisk 8gb memory card class 2. the 1 that comes with the mytouch 3g 1.2. n when i go to check my memory card capacity it only show 6gb out of 8. when i have nothing on the memory card what so ever! its blank! and stil doesnt show 8 or 7 gigs that im supposed to have! what do i do? can i get the missing memory back?

Your card is partitioned and the phone won't recognize the rest of the card. Try format it with this tool to see if you recover back the lost space
http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/sd/download/index.html

Galaxy tab fail to detect the internal sd card and the external sd card suddenly!

My galaxy tab fail to detect the internal sd and external sd card today. Don't know why.
The case is that:
if I use the application "my files" I have the following message
No SD card is inserted in your phone
in the the menu card and SD memory:
I have
Internal SD card
Total space not available
Space available not available
any possible action on:
Disassemble the SD card
Mount Sd Card
Format SD card
menus are dimmed
External SD card
Total space not available
Space available not available
any possible action on:
Disassemble the SD card
Format SD card
menus are dimmed
phone's internal storage can be shown as usual.
The above problem happened after backup all the apps (about 90 apps) into sd card (I am not sure which one) and then I shut down galaxy tab and put out the external sd card for copying some files. I returned the external sd card to the galaxy tab and switched it on. Then I found that it cannot detect the internal sd card and external sd card.
I had tried to hard reset it and still fail to solve the problem.
Help!
Anyone can help me?
I just got the phone for half day.
Panda2020

Weird thing, I got that same message today on my tab, but it was for a sec and disappeared.
However when i went inside the my files, all content and everything was ok.
Don't know why it gave that message.
Also i got the message for external sd card - not internal. (have a 32 gb one added).

I have exactly the same issue. I just got my today and have being going crazy on internet all day to try and find a solution to it...anybody has any idea on how to fix this...this is driving me crazy...

My external sd did that to me yesterday, had to format it on pc

leetut said:
My external sd did that to me yesterday, had to format it on pc
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how to reformat internal sd card ?

Im also facing the same issue. Cant mount both my Internal Sd and External SD.

I had a related problem. My tab originally had no external SD card, but there was a folder in storage called "external_sd". This is where I've been putting my music etc.
Today I went to add and actual external SD card. Upon doing so, the file explorer on the device now shows the new external card as "external_sd", and its icon portrays an SD card rather than merely a folder.
Problem was, my original "external_sd" folder was now nowhere to be found.
However, upon mounting via USB, my PC detects both storage devices - the internal memory containing the "external_sd" folder, and the actual external SD card.
So on a hunch I renamed the "external_sd" folder on my internal memory to "internal_sd", unmounted, and low-and-behold, I can now see my "external_sd" card, and my "internal_sd" folder.
It seems like Samsung mistakenly named a folder "external_sd" and this name collides with the name of an actual external SD. I never questioned the name, I just assumed they included memory that was logically external, but physically internal. Seems instead they just had a dumb name for a folder.
...or something else I don't understand.

Gpsrisk said:
how to reformat internal sd card ?
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Settings/ storage then format sd
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storage confusion(memory)

im just a bit confused about the sd card in general,,my phone of astro file manager has like,,,phone>sdcard>externalsd...which is weird and i never know if im searching my phone or my sd card...
when i try and load things i have dragged on my pc desktop onto sdcard they ussualy then go into phone>sdcard>external sd and never just .... sd card
i was trying to load images into sketchbook mobile and i could only do so from the phones camera pictures where i now have to drag everything omn the desktop....why cant i make use of my 32gb external sd card in this regard?
where are the applications for augmenting tehe sd card memory or whatever not for just having aplication sent to sd card memory,
does the sd card just work like say,,an external usb hard drive for a computer except you can put some inatalled application on it,,,,,but nothing like media,,photos videos etc?
or is it just me?
cheers

Your phone aka tab is divided into parts
System arnd 2 gigs
SDCARD arnd 14 gigs
System works as space for system
Sd as your sd card - Flashing doesn't destroy data on this
And if you place another SD card then it is termed as external_sd
So primary storage for you phone is SD Which is its own space
PS : there is usb storage folder (in sd card directory) also which is for your pendrives, etc
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dx.varun said:
Your phone aka tab is divided into parts
System arnd 2 gigs
SDCARD arnd 14 gigs
System works as space for system
Sd as your sd card - Flashing doesn't destroy data on this
And if you place another SD card then it is termed as external_sd
So primary storage for you phone is SD Which is its own space
PS : there is usb storage folder (in sd card directory) also which is for your pendrives, etc
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Works like a charm.. Please excuse my brevity.
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there are a lot more partitions than the 2 you mentioned!
efs
system (~1GB)
data (~2GB)
hidden
...
as far as i remember the note has 8 or 9 partitions (all of them have to be
subtracted from the initial 16gig (unformated!! formated it will be significantly less) storage!
so from your 16gigs you should see around 11GB as free mem on '"sdcard"!
i can't tell exactly because i have the 32gb internal version. with it a little more than 25,5GB are shown as "total" available (not free) storage!

as mentioned above
the rom has 1gb partition
data/system has 2gb
rest is used for sd card purposes around about 11.8gb
the device sees the internal memory as sd memory, the external sd card is seen under /external_sd
the file mangers will automatically go directly to the internal storage when browsing

i understand that I get about 12 GB left from 16 internally but.....
what can I actually do with the external_sd?
I cant load jpeggs onto sketchbook mobile at the moment. Reaally annoying
Any reason as to why it wouldn't recognize files in the external_sd?
Also we were saying about partitins and other random folder in the phone SD and external sd? anyone got a referrl to which ones can be deleted and generally how to make the phone and external sd card more navigation friendly?
please this would be really helpful

external_sd is your physical micro sd card, you can do what you want with it, i personally have all my music and movies on there
what files are you putting on the card?

Richy99 said:
external_sd is your physical micro sd card, you can do what you want with it, i personally have all my music and movies on there
what files are you putting on the card?
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i guess he has no card installed
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swap internal memory with external

hi guys iv recently purchased a 64gb class 10 sd card for my s4. i have tried using the internal 2 external app to swap the memories around so my phone recognises the sd card as the internal memory but this does not work and i get a warning saying something about it being exfat or something. how can i go about resolving this issue?
* i dont want to make any partitions as i would like everything on just 1 disk/space drive

format the sd to Fat32

still didnt work

[Q] Can 16GB internal memory Galaxy S5 use 128GB SD card?

The title pretty much says it all.
My wife has a Galaxy S5 with 16GB internal memory. When I put a 128GB miroSDHX card in it, the phone says the SD card is blank and refuses to mount it.
If I go into Settings>Storage, the only option under SD Card is Mount SD Card. If I tap that, it asks if I want to format the SD Card, If I tap that, I get a message like "preparing SD card" and a couple of seconds later, there is a notification in the title bar of the phone saying either "Blank SD Card" or "Damaged SD Card".
Smaller cards are mounted automatically.
The 128GB card is read just fine by a PC.
Is there something I am missing in getting the phone to recognize the large SD card?

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Ed Zachary said:
The title pretty much says it all.
My wife has a Galaxy S5 with 16GB internal memory. When I put a 128GB miroSDHX card in it, the phone says the SD card is blank and refuses to mount it.
If I go into Settings>Storage, the only option under SD Card is Mount SD Card. If I tap that, it asks if I want to format the SD Card, If I tap that, I get a message like "preparing SD card" and a couple of seconds later, there is a notification in the title bar of the phone saying either "Blank SD Card" or "Damaged SD Card".
Smaller cards are mounted automatically.
The 128GB card is read just fine by a PC.
Is there something I am missing in getting the phone to recognize the large SD card?
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According to gsmarena, the answer is Yes.
Memory
Card slot: microSD, up to 128 GB
Internal: 16/32 GB, 2 GB RAM

fffft said:
Yes.
It just sounds like your card isn't formatted properly. Probably an unrecognized or corrupt filesystem. Or less likely, out of spec or damaged card. Unfortunately you didn't give any details as to the card model or verbatim error messages so we have nothing to go on.
The card should be formatted as FAT32, not NTFS or exFAT. Try formatting the card as FAT32 on your PC. Mount it on your phone, then reformat again it from the phone Settings menu. If you have ongoing difficulties, check the card for corruption with the chkdsk utility.
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I will try formatting on my PC as FAT32, then.
There is no model number on the SD card or its packaging. Just SanDisk Ultra microSDXC UHS-1. 128GB. Speed up to 48MB/s** 320X.
No error messages, either. Just what I quoted from the notifications bar about "Blank SD Card". And in Settings>Storage, there is just one entry for the SD Card: Mount SD Card. Tapping that launches a couple of quick notifications about the SD Card being prepared. Then the notification that the SD Card is blank.
If I pull down the notification bar and tap the Blank SD Card notification, I get a popup to format the card, with OK, Cancel, and a warning that all data will be erased. Tapping OK yields another quick notification about the SD Card being prepared and that is all. And the Blank SD Card notification returns.
*Edit* Just noticed that the PC reports the file system as exFAT. But my PC (Win 8 Pro) offers only exFAT and NTFS as format options.

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Exfat should work no problem, I've got 64 GB class 10 that's formatted exfat and I've never had issues

thatsupnow said:
Exfat should work no problem, I've got 64 GB class 10 that's formatted exfat and I've never had issues
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Gave up on the 128GB.
A Samsung rep said that the problem was that I was using a Sandisk card and they are problematic with Samsung phones.
So I got a Samsung 64GB Class 10 card.
Same results. The phone reports that the card is blank or has an invalid filesystem. Tried to format on the phone. But no joy. The Samsung card is exfat.

So your phone might have problem with the card reader.
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Reader itself is fine. Can mount a 16GB card, FAT32 (aha!).
Went to a VZW store last night.
They could not get the 64 or 128 card to mount. One of them had a Galaxy S5 and the 64 mounted on his phone, no problems whatsoever.
I had him format the card on his phone and tried it again on ours. Same story.
So, after a half hour on hold, I spoke with someone in VZW tech support who at first was adamant that the problem was with the card. I pointed out that the odds of getting two defective cards are extremely small. And asked if the card is defected, how did the card mount in the employee's phone?
His "solution": Factory reset and if the card still does not mount, call tech support back.

Wife said she is tired of the jerkaround.
She will use the 16GB FAT32 card.