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[Q] External SD Card Corruption/Problem

Hi all...
I am a noob - please don't hate!!
I have recently bought a Samung Galaxy S I9000 and I immediately flashed MIUI onto it. Ever since I have been using MIUI, I have had serious problems with my SD card (8gb) which came with the phone. I currently have about 2 gigs of music on it and playing the music is absolutely fine however it seems that after 15 - 20 min of not playing music, the external sd card becomes either corrupt or incorrectly read. When I try and play a song, it comes up with "file type not supported". Looking in the "external_sd" directory on the internal sd card, I find 20-30 files with file names full of funny symbols and letters. The files are also extremely massive and way exceed the card's total capacity (viewing the details on the "external_sd" tells me there is a total of 20gb used - on an 8gb card???).
I can rectify the problem by simply rebooting the phone but it is highly annoying!
I would like to know what I could do to fix this problem? Ideally it would be great to have the external SD card as a seperate volume on the phone and not a directory on the internal SD card.
Any ideas?

WoodyWoodsta said:
Hi all...
I am a noob - please don't hate!!
I have recently bought a Samung Galaxy S I9000 and I immediately flashed MIUI onto it. Ever since I have been using MIUI, I have had serious problems with my SD card (8gb) which came with the phone. I currently have about 2 gigs of music on it and playing the music is absolutely fine however it seems that after 15 - 20 min of not playing music, the external sd card becomes either corrupt or incorrectly read. When I try and play a song, it comes up with "file type not supported". Looking in the "external_sd" directory on the internal sd card, I find 20-30 files with file names full of funny symbols and letters. The files are also extremely massive and way exceed the card's total capacity (viewing the details on the "external_sd" tells me there is a total of 20gb used - on an 8gb card???).
I can rectify the problem by simply rebooting the phone but it is highly annoying!
I would like to know what I could do to fix this problem? Ideally it would be great to have the external SD card as a seperate volume on the phone and not a directory on the internal SD card.
Any ideas?
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Your card sounds like it's faulty, but formatting it will temporary fix your issues.
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I also have an external SD card problem !
Up until a few weeks ago, there were no issues. I have some *.avi files stored on the external SD card and these were indexed by Android and visible in the Video player app.
For some unknown reason, the files on the external SD suddenly were not visible in the Video app (yet they are still visible, and playable, via ES explorer).
Now, when I go to Android settings, I no longer have menus for "internal SD card" and "external SD card". Instead I have "SD card" menu, and "USB storage" menu...
Can anyone help me get things back to the way they were???!

clandestino123 said:
I also have an external SD card problem !
Up until a few weeks ago, there were no issues. I have some *.avi files stored on the external SD card and these were indexed by Android and visible in the Video player app.
For some unknown reason, the files on the external SD suddenly were not visible in the Video app (yet they are still visible, and playable, via ES explorer).
Now, when I go to Android settings, I no longer have menus for "internal SD card" and "external SD card". Instead I have "SD card" menu, and "USB storage" menu...
Can anyone help me get things back to the way they were???!
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Hi,
You are being displayed the 'sd card' and 'USB storage' options because you might have updated your firmware. I am currently on JVQ firmware 2.3.4 and get the same options. 'sd card' stands for the external sd card while 'USB storage' stands for internal sd card. If you tell me the history of your updation or flashing, i might be able to help you better.

@ OP: get a new SD card, that's it

Prateek G. said:
Hi,
You are being displayed the 'sd card' and 'USB storage' options because you might have updated your firmware. I am currently on JVQ firmware 2.3.4 and get the same options. 'sd card' stands for the external sd card while 'USB storage' stands for internal sd card. If you tell me the history of your updation or flashing, i might be able to help you better.
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thanks. I updated to JVQ but then went back to JVH (darky's rom) via an Odin flash. You could be correct, the JVQ firmware could have caused this issue. But it still remains even after reverting to JVH...?

What about completely reformatting the SD card via, e.g. Windows?

Thanks for the suggestions. My dad also bought the same phone and he has exactly the same problem so it doesn't seem to be card specific. I don't like this sd card situation (I was previously on Nokia).
Perhaps it's a MIUI specific issue?

To quote Adidas: "Impossible is nothing."

Same problem here. I am on stock 2.3.3 italian firmware, rooted through cfroot 3.7 then flashed semaphore and now galaxian. Issue is definitely not kernel dependant. My external sd is a class 4 card 8 gb from sandisk. Anyone could suggest a card that's working flawlessly on our sgs?
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ZioGTS said:
Same problem here. I am on stock 2.3.3 italian firmware, rooted through cfroot 3.7 then flashed semaphore and now galaxian. Issue is definitely not kernel dependant. My external sd is a class 4 card 8 gb from sandisk. Anyone could suggest a card that's working flawlessly on our sgs?
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UPDATE: I installed another Sandisk Ultra 8gb that I used to keep in my TomTom. Apart from discovering that the latest is class 6 (weird, the had exactly the same blister pack...), this seems to work perfectly. Oh my.

ZioGTS said:
UPDATE: I installed another Sandisk Ultra 8gb that I used to keep in my TomTom. Apart from discovering that the latest is class 6 (weird, the had exactly the same blister pack...), this seems to work perfectly. Oh my.
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Just thought I'd mention this for reference sake - I also tried an old 8Gb class 6 sd card and have no issues for a week! My initial card (that came with the phone) was class 2. Happy now

Look like SGS is picky when it comes to SD cards... And i paid the same money for the two cards, they had identical packages!

[Q] MIUI Problem

Im using newest MIUI rom and i can't see files on my sdcard when i go to file explorer. I tried remove sd card but it didn't help and on recovery i can see files on sd card? Anyone else have same issue?

Make sure you're looking at the external SD card and not the internal storage as that tripped me up a few times

langers1972 said:
Make sure you're looking at the external SD card and not the internal storage as that tripped me up a few times
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Yes i am looking SDcard NOT internal storage. When i take SD card out i can't see even the internal storage. It says then that Please insert SD card, when i do that i can only see internal storage

Go to x5 settings and change the setting under sd storage. Then do a reboot.
Sent from my u8800

boss_y said:
Go to x5 settings and change the setting under sd storage. Then do a reboot.
Sent from my u8800
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That was the solution to my problem. Thanks!

Sent from my u8800

"Your phone does not have SD card"

"Insert SD card"
I get this error when I try to move apps to sd with apps2sd. Obviously, I have an sd card, which I use regularly.
How to fix? (wendyallisson where are you when I need you!)
Thanks,
Jason
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Maybe your sd card needs formatting. Have had that problem before on another phone in the past.
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Thats because u have Phone memory (1GB i guess) and the inbuilt SD Storage 11.6 gb or so
and u need to PUT in an External SD card so that u can move the apps

SD Card on SGN10.1

Hello,
I have several questions
(1)
I have Galaxy Note 10.1. I noticed that there's a partition called "sd card" I think this is not the external sdcrd but rather an internal memory partition. Can somebody verify ?
(2)
Also, I am looking to buy Sandisk 64Gb micro sdcard to be use on my GN10.1 (SanDisk Ultra 64 GB MicroSDXC Class 10 UHS-1 Memory Card with Adapter (SDSDQU-064G-AFFP-A) ) , does this work on this tablet ?
(3)
and is there a way to use this 64Gb drive to mount as "sd card" partition ?

lee.n said:
Hello,
I have several questions
(1)
I have Galaxy Note 10.1. I noticed that there's a partition called "sd card" I think this is not the external sdcrd but rather an internal memory partition. Can somebody verify ?
(2)
Also, I am looking to buy Sandisk 64Gb micro sdcard to be use on my GN10.1 (SanDisk Ultra 64 GB MicroSDXC Class 10 UHS-1 Memory Card with Adapter (SDSDQU-064G-AFFP-A) ) , does this work on this tablet ?
(3)
and is there a way to use this 64Gb drive to mount as "sd card" partition ?
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1. The sd card partition is the internal memory, so if you have a 16 GB note, then you will have a 16 GB "sd card" partition.
2. Works perfectly in mine
3. When you insert it, it gets mounted into "ext sd card" I don't know if it's possible to change that or even why you would want to
Steve

Ah another thing I love about this tablet is that all the internal memory full 16gb can be used for apps etc, unlike my previous note phone.

The reason I want to mount external micro sdcard as internal memory sdcard is to save space, I have lots of apps, games on my tab.
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lee.n said:
The reason I want to mount external micro sdcard as internal memory sdcard is to save space, I have lots of apps, games on my tab.
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If you took the time to read the forums or search, you would see that the mod you request already exists...........
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I plan on getting the new Samsung 64gb pro class 10 micro sd
Sent from my GT-N8010 using xda app-developers app

It should be noted that you can store stuff on the external sd card but running apps from the external sd card in a non-rooted state is another matter. AFAIK it can't be done.

Thanks for all your replies. So is it better if I root my devices? haven't done any rooting on any of my android devices, so im kinda hesitant. Can you tell me how to root my devices in safest way?

Method 2 from the rooting guide. Don't forget to run triangleaway after to reset your flash counter... All instructions are in the flash guide in developement forum...

[Q] Issue with 64GB SD card in Samsung Galaxy S4 I9500

Hello
I own Samsung Galaxy S4 I9500 and it is rooted. I recently purchased a class 10 Sandisk Micro SD card with 64 GB capacity. I was very happy that I did but my happiness did not last long when I have come to know that 3rd party apps do not have write permission in Kitkat. After some research I was successful to make the SD card writable to 3rd party apps by modifying the permissions.xml file.
Everything seems to be fine at this time but it was not actually. The SD card when seen under storage in settings would show me that it is mounted with 62.5 GB capacity and 60 GB free. But when I try to browse the files in SD card, there are nothing. Apps saved in SD card do not open and I am also unable to capture images from camera to SD card storage.
I thought may be unmounting the SD card and mounting it back would work and it worked but after a while the same problem. My device shows that it has mounted an SD card but cannot access anything saved in it. So, I have to unmount and mount SD card every time and this is very much annoying.
Any help regarding this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks you for your time.

uzair007 said:
Hello
I own Samsung Galaxy S4 I9500 and it is rooted. I recently purchased a class 10 Sandisk Micro SD card with 64 GB capacity. I was very happy that I did but my happiness did not last long when I have come to know that 3rd party apps do not have write permission in Kitkat. After some research I was successful to make the SD card writable to 3rd party apps by modifying the permissions.xml file.
Everything seems to be fine at this time but it was not actually. The SD card when seen under storage in settings would show me that it is mounted with 62.5 GB capacity and 60 GB free. But when I try to browse the files in SD card, there are nothing. Apps saved in SD card do not open and I am also unable to capture images from camera to SD card storage.
I thought may be unmounting the SD card and mounting it back would work and it worked but after a while the same problem. My device shows that it has mounted an SD card but cannot access anything saved in it. So, I have to unmount and mount SD card every time and this is very much annoying.
Any help regarding this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks you for your time.
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Is thd s.d exfat format ? Try to format from win p.c. and see if it's works.if yes ,try in the phone.if not
try folder mount from play store.not all the app works on external s.d.
Giovanni.
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Thank you for your reply.
Yes. It is Ex FAT format. Which format should I format it to? Ex FAT or just the FAT format.
It is not about applications. The card just gets undetected after some time and nothing can be accessed including music and images. I have to unmount it and mount again for the device to detect the SD card.

Format your SD Card on your phone its self. Go to settings, storage and than SD Card and format it.

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gio_b said:
Is thd s.d exfat format ? Try to format from win p.c. and see if it's works.if yes ,try in the phone.if not
try folder mount from play store.not all the app works on external s.d.
Giovanni.
Sent from my GT-I9500 using XDA Free mobile app
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Thanks mate.. Followed your instructions... Working fine as of now.