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HELP!!! The microSD card disappeared

Well, This morning about an hour ago, i opened Total Commander and saw that there is no flash card I restarted the device, but the problem persisted. I synced the phone with the PC and again there is only the phone memory... I put out the card and then inserted again, boot the phone, but the problem didn't solved... Can someone help me please

vessk0 said:
Well, This morning about an hour ago, i opened Total Commander and saw that there is no flash card I restarted the device, but the problem persisted. I synced the phone with the PC and again there is only the phone memory... I put out the card and then inserted again, boot the phone, but the problem didn't solved... Can someone help me please
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First, try ejecting and reinserting the card in another device.
Try connecting in Disk Drive mode to save data.
Try using the card in a card reader to save data.
Try using the card in a camera to save data.
If all fails, try to format the card using HD2, card reader or camera.

did you install sd tuneup, speed or whatever its called?
if so uninstall it, cause it makes the storage card dissapear in file explorer among others...

So, I've tried to connect via DISK DRIVE and i succeeded. Ive done backup on my PC and than format the card from PC. But this isn't solving the problem. No way to see the card in the phone except the DISK DRIVE mode.
EDIT: The only one application that see the memory card is FORMAT SD CARD, I formatted the card for second time, this time with that app, but also that didnt helped. The phone says that there is not installed sd card...
I dont want to hard reset the phone, because I've installed so much applications and so much registry optimizations...

vessk0 said:
So, I've tried to connect via DISK DRIVE and i succeeded. Ive done backup on my PC and than format the card from PC. But this isn't solving the problem. No way to see the card in the phone except the DISK DRIVE mode.
EDIT: The only one application that see the memory card is FORMAT SD CARD, I formatted the card for second time, this time with that app, but also that didnt helped. The phone says that there is not installed sd card...
I dont want to hard reset the phone, because I've installed so much applications and so much registry optimizations...
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Maybe one of those is the culprit.

Hmm, I dont know, it was working, until I went to eat, and when I backed, the card disappeared. :/

someone?

very weird...

Seems like I have a somewhat similar problem but in my case, the storage card is "only" disappearing until I switch off/on or reset my HD2.
Any help would be highly appreciated

Did you change these registry keys?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=585729

This might be a silly question but...
...you don't have it plugged into a PC do you?

This problem happens to me only when i scroll to music and photos in Sense tabs.. The application tries to read photos or music from the SD that's when the sdcard disappears after that..
Any suggestions?
Just flashed to 1.48.xxx.x this morning and i still have the same problem..

the missing storage card is a symptom of a problem on your card. What happens is that the Windows Mobile would poll/query the card as it tries to access the file, if the card doesn't respond within the threshold window, the system will assume the card is no longer there, and therefore will 'hide' the storage card in the file explorer.
If your card has a bad memory location, the above will happen. Sometimes a reformat might help, but in my case, I have this problem reoccuring after awhile after a format, so I went on to have it replaced by the dealer.

I hope this is not another bug! The same happened with my 16 GB card. I tried it in another device and it no longer worked in that one either. I just thought it was the sd card faulty.

zenkinz said:
the missing storage card is a symptom of a problem on your card. What happens is that the Windows Mobile would poll/query the card as it tries to access the file, if the card doesn't respond within the threshold window, the system will assume the card is no longer there, and therefore will 'hide' the storage card in the file explorer.
If your card has a bad memory location, the above will happen. Sometimes a reformat might help, but in my case, I have this problem reoccuring after awhile after a format, so I went on to have it replaced by the dealer.
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I've been using it on my HD and it was fine, it was fine on my HD2 too the first 4 days then after that it happened, keeps disappearing...
I'll check another SD card for a day, but until then i'm hoping to get a solution for my 16GB disappearing card..

The only way to get your card working is to hard reset your HD2, very, very weird... :/

vessk0 said:
The only way to get your card working is to hard reset your HD2, very, very weird... :/
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That's not possible, i flashed a new ROM this morning and i'm still having the same issue with the microSD..

For me was possible..

Belynda said:
I hope this is not another bug! The same happened with my 16 GB card. I tried it in another device and it no longer worked in that one either. I just thought it was the sd card faulty.
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same has happened to me, my lovely 16gb is now not working, using the 2gb that came with the HD2...
happened after i took it out to show someone, put it back in, it says its there, after a short file "no sd card".
im going to by a new one but before that i will try it in my sd card reader on my laptop.

vessk0 said:
For me was possible..
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Then maybe we're dealing with more than one issue here..
Right now I'm trying to use my 8GB now and see if the issue should occur this time..
Cheers

SD card error on boot... Please help!

When I boot my rooted CM 5.0 beta 5 Nexus, the "preparing SD card" shows in the statusbar for about 30 seconds. It used to only show for 2-3 seconds. If I try to open "music" I get a message "we have encountered an error with your SD card" and then it says "scanning SD card". It will then load the music, so it works, it just takes a minute. Also, if I open gallery right after the "preparing SD card", it shows all the thumbnails for a half second, goes blank, and then takes about 45 seconds to load the thumbnails again. It is obvious that I have an SD card error, so how do I fix that? I have run chkdsk numerous times... I have tried removing folders from the SD card, and I am having trouble isolating the problem... Is there an alternative disk checker that I should know about? Please help! Thanks!

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Anyone?

Well, you can take your SD Card out and put they in laptop (most of the new one) have card reader build in. Now you can run check disk on the sd card. See is it defective or not. But in many case is the bug in the rooted and after market rom causing those issues.

I did already run chkdsk several times... It showed no errors. I also used the 4gb card that the phone came with, and got errors with that one too...

[Q] microSD card unexcpectedly unmounted

Hi,
I've a Desire HD with the 8GB microSD card that came within. Randomly I got a message something like "Sd card unexpectedly unmounted and I can't access the card. The only way to have it back again is rebooting the telephone with the option Fast Boot disabled.
Any clue about what this should be?
Regards,

I had a similar issue, although I never got the warning, well, it never actually unmounted.
I would try and take a photo and it would drop to the homescreen. I figured I had to unmount and remount the SD card
I did a factory reset to fix it. Maybe the same can help you?

pfonseca said:
Hi,
I've a Desire HD with the 8GB microSD card that came within. Randomly I got a message something like "Sd card unexpectedly unmounted and I can't access the card. The only way to have it back again is rebooting the telephone with the option Fast Boot disabled.
Any clue about what this should be?
Regards,
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I have had the same from time to time and figured it was due to low quality of the SD-card.
So I actually just switched a few moments ago for another SD-card i got laying around. This is a class 6 card though and a bit better than the class 2 samsung card that comes with the phone. We'll see how this will turn out. Hopefully its a bad microsd card and not the phone.

This solved it. Havent had any problems with the card unmounting since i changed the card.

I had this problem, even start a new thread...
This is due to some corrupt file inside the sdcard or even a bad sector.
Try to do a "chkdsk /f /r" on the sdcard...

Hi,
I've checked the original SD Card with chkdsk as sugested and everything seems OK.
Since then I've changed the original card with a 16GB Class4 Kingston card and the problem does not happen again.
Let's see......
Regards,

If I did only "chkdsk /f" it also reported that the sdcard was alright... but I still had problems...
I had to use "chkdsk /f /r" to discover that I had a bad sector...
Now, for a few days I still hadn't any problems...
Oh, this didn't happened with the stock 8GB card... it was another SD card that I already had.

Replacing the stock card did help.

Problem with SD apps

Hi. Whenever I mount my SD card to the PC and then unmount it, all the apps on the SD card remain unavaible for about 20 minutes, when they slow start to reappear again. Any ideas why this happens? Maybe some app is causing this...

sounds like a very slow sd card, mine is a 16gb class2 and it takes a couple of minutes to load everything

moni94 said:
Hi. Whenever I mount my SD card to the PC and then unmount it, all the apps on the SD card remain unavaible for about 20 minutes, when they slow start to reappear again. Any ideas why this happens? Maybe some app is causing this...
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lol.. instead of quote, i hit the thanks button. anyway, i would suggest that you backup all ur mem card contents on PC and format your mem card. I have class 4, 4GB card and i faced the same problem. (about 7-10 mins). formatting the mem card solved it and now it takes just a couple of mins.

ephbee said:
sounds like a very slow sd card, mine is a 16gb class2 and it takes a couple of minutes to load everything
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Well I benchmarked my SD card and it gives the following results:
write: 3.8 MB/s
read: 1.5 MB/s
I think this is ok for a class 2 card, isn't it?

My class4 write upto 10mb
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using XDA App

maaz_obaid said:
lol.. instead of quote, i hit the thanks button. anyway, i would suggest that you backup all ur mem card contents on PC and format your mem card. I have class 4, 4GB card and i faced the same problem. (about 7-10 mins). formatting the mem card solved it and now it takes just a couple of mins.
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Did you format the sd card through the phone or through your pc? And did you change its file system?

moni94 said:
Did you format the sd card through the phone or through your pc? And did you change its file system?
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i unmounted sd card and formatted it using a memory card reader via PC. did'n change file system.. i left everything to its defaults.
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using XDA App

[Q] SD Card on S4 suddenly stopped working

Hello
About 12hrs ago, everything on my Samsung Galaxy S4 phone was working perfectly fine.
I was using my camera to record a video when the playblack crashed and the phone suddenly did a restart. When the phone booted back up again, the phone could no longer read the SD Card. I did several restarts and took out the SD Card and put it back in again and still the phone refuses to see the SD Card.
I know the problem ISN'T the SD Card because when I put the SD card into an adapter and plug it into my computer, the computer can read and see everything on the card.
Any one else have this problem and know how to solve it?
My phone isn't rooted or hacked
Thanks!

djkomic said:
Hello
About 12hrs ago, everything on my Samsung Galaxy S4 phone was working perfectly fine.
I was using my camera to record a video when the playblack crashed and the phone suddenly did a restart. When the phone booted back up again, the phone could no longer read the SD Card. I did several restarts and took out the SD Card and put it back in again and still the phone refuses to see the SD Card.
I know the problem ISN'T the SD Card because when I put the SD card into an adapter and plug it into my computer, the computer can read and see everything on the card.
Any one else have this problem and know how to solve it?
My phone isn't rooted or hacked
Thanks!
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-Go to setting/storage and check what is the status for the external SD. May be it is not mounted.
- second check if you get any other SD card to test the phone behavior with it.

lolo9393 said:
-Go to setting/storage and check what is the status for the external SD. May be it is not mounted.
- second check if you get any other SD card to test the phone behavior with it.
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I tried a 16G SD card and it connected perfectly.
is there an App which forces the phone to mount the SD Card?

djkomic said:
I tried a 16G SD card and it connected perfectly.
is there an App which forces the phone to mount the SD Card?
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Save your SD card content to your computer and reformat it direct from the phone. If it is successful revert back the data et voilà!
if not Ok it is something wrong with the memory card itself...

I have similar problem. Two days ago suddenly I got message SD card unexpected removed. That puzzled me because I didn't touch SD card at all. Turned phone off and on and seemed to be ok since yesterday. I had SD card removed message again and phone doesn't see any card anymore. I tried bunch of SD cards and no luck. Reset my phone, reinstalled firmware and still nothing. Opened even my phone check sim and SD card board connector.
All my SD card tested, formatted on PC. Any ideas?