phone will not start up after reset - Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot

hi I am useing 4.3 Stock(ish)v03 and then once I put all my programs on the memory card insted of the phone memory as soon as I restart my phone it is locked up on the boot animation screen and it will sit there for 20min just getting hot but not doing anything else. this also happened on a full stock roms too from here as well. if I hold down the power botton and reset it some time it will finaly make it back in to android but not to often it sometimes will go in to safe mode android as well. I know its not th e phone becuase this is the second phone to do the same thing. does anyone know whats going on hear.

Sounds like a bad SD card. Remove your SD card and see if it boots. You may need to format the card or replace it.
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cruise350 said:
Sounds like a bad SD card. Remove your SD card and see if it boots. You may need to format the card or replace it.
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thanks I will give that a try

linuxgod05 said:
thanks I will give that a try
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yep it was the memory card. odd it works fine in my linux compuer for storage. oh well it was an san disk ultra 64gb xc1 that did not work in my S4. I got a samsung 64gb and it works just fine now.

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Memory card issue

It seems that either my memory card or my phone is messed up..I found out when I tried to take pictures the other day. Says please insert SD card. When I take the card out and insert it back in and start the phone back up it shows this little white task thing and says ok to take SD card out or something. Not sure what's going on? Any suggestions?
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format the card (backup ypur stuff first), if that does not fix it it is likely that the card needs to be replaced
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Appears that my Memory card is bad. That blows, no idea how that could happen? Oh well what do you do.

32gb micro sandisk not mounting ??

hi,just tried my new 32gb sandisk & it wont stay on,i plugged it in & it says i can safely remove & when i mount it it appears as 29gb and then vanishes again,ive erased the card but still wont stay & also restarted phone ??? any ideas ? is the card a duff ?
bloody hell now my old card is doing the samething & all my data,music & videos etc are not showing ?
none of my cards will stay mounted & ive factory reset also,they just appear & disappear 16gb & my new 32gb sandisk ?
notification keeps coming up to safely remove sd card
There is a little switch that clicks down when you put the back down. Be sure the back cover of your phone is all the way one or it won’t mount.
Also once you change cards your old card will not work in your phone again (data wise).
The phone seems to marry to the card then forget the old card. I learned that the hard way when I put a smaller card in while I rooted my phone (all I did was format the other card at that point). Then I put my main card back in all my games had to be reinstalled.
You can copy all the data files from one card to the other and the phone will recognize both properly
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Not that I know of. Like I said it forgot my SD after putting a new one in and formatting it. So i'm guessing one at a time.
ncaissie said:
Be sure the back cover of your phone is all the way on
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slide your finger pressing firmly at the edges of the back cover all around
thanks for the info folks,i didnt know the bloody cover had to be on to get the micro sd working
kenf2210 said:
thanks for the info folks,i didnt know the bloody cover had to be on to get the micro sd working
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Ah, it's actually more convenient because it allows you to change sd cards without restarting your phone.
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kenf2210 said:
thanks for the info folks,i didnt know the bloody cover had to be on to get the micro sd working
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Same, had the same issues at first, and this was the solution.
That feature is there so hotswapping your memory card won't cause data corruption.
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Droid X SD Card not reading

Well i bought a Droid X yesterday for my dad for 60 bucks phone works great just the backlight is dead. The Problem i am having is my micro sd card does not read i have formatted it in fat32 and still a no go. I have no clue what i am doing wrong. The SD card does read in my Xoom and my bionic so i know its not the sd card. and the chips in my phone and tablet does not work in the droid x.
SD Card remount
I had a problem, and have fixed the same problem for many friends, where my SD card could not be read. My first recommended fix is:
Goto Settings > Storage > Unmount SD Card
Then simply remount the SD Card once the unmount has completed.
If this does not work let me know and we'll try something else.
well i just found out one of the pins for the sd card is shot so the phone is shot. Is there anyway i can save the phone or is it just trash now.
I really don't like TouchWiz at all, so, when the first ICS sources became available, I started porting AOSP to our device.
There are still some major and many minor bugs, but ROM seems to be stable and usable.
Please look for buglist below, so you can decide, do you need to flash it or not.
I'll try to fix those bugs as soon as possible, so please, don't ask when something will be fixed, I really don't know for what. I'd like wast more for Louis Vuitton Luggage
Description: This is clean and clear ICS (4.0.3) without any modifications. This is not CM, just AOSP. It may be used with tablet or with phone UI.
Take out the SD card and put it in another phone and when something pops up, you press ok then when its done, you put it back in your phone at it should work fine
jakson0100 said:
Take out the SD card and put it in another phone and when something pops up, you press ok then when its done, you put it back in your phone at it should work fine
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still a no go i have swaped around 5 sd cards.
razielleonhart said:
still a no go i have swaped around 5 sd cards.
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If you've swapped around several microSD cards in your phone and none of them work, your phone is the problem. It more than likely has a dead card reader.
The only fix for this is to get a new phone.
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infazzdar said:
If you've swapped around several microSD cards in your phone and none of them work, your phone is the problem. It more than likely has a dead card reader.
The only fix for this is to get a new phone.
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ok thanks people if i cant use the sd slot i am going to kill this phone

[Q] external SD card causing sluggish boot

I'm using Note3 with the latest 4.4.2 (rooted)
It seems like my external SD card is causing my phone to be sluggish during boot/reboot.
- Phone boots to homescreen fine
- Phone cannot be put to sleep with power button
- External SD card not detected during this time
after awhile, the phone vibrates
- External SD card now detected
- Phone can now be put to sleep.
any suggestions?
sorry for the bump..
but any ideas? :X
Scan card with a antivirus, move files from card to a pc, format SD card, try with empty card, then add files not all at once to see what's causing the problem, then come back and ask ?
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Dejan Sathanas said:
Scan card with a antivirus, move files from card to a pc, format SD card, try with empty card, then add files not all at once to see what's causing the problem, then come back and ask ?
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thanks for the reply.
I reformatted my extSD and removed all the files (backup of my internalSD) and it seems to be working fine now.
- decent detection speeds...
it seems like the Note3 has issues detecting the SDcard once it's up to a certain size?
wilflare said:
thanks for the reply.
I reformatted my extSD and removed all the files (backup of my internalSD) and it seems to be working fine now.
- decent detection speeds...
it seems like the Note3 has issues detecting the SDcard once it's up to a certain size?
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I'd disagree. I have 1.2 gigs free of 64, and it wasn't formatted for at least 1.5 years, and I moved a gazillion of files but it flies on the Note.
Many things to consider when a sd card starts to f... around.
Edit : just checked, only 0.8 gigs
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Dejan Sathanas said:
I'd disagree. I have 1.2 gigs free of 64, and it wasn't formatted for at least 1.5 years, and I moved a gazillion of files but it flies on the Note.
Many things to consider when a sd card starts to f... around.
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hmm.. possibility of a damaged SDcard? ><
got this 64GB from Amazon.com...
I did a scan for errors on PC nothing wrong either ><
wilflare said:
hmm.. possibility of a damaged SDcard? ><
got this 64GB from Amazon.com...
I did a scan for errors on PC nothing wrong either ><
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Yeah, could be. You'll see how it behaves. From my experience, these kind of things are good to be bought original. I'm not sayin yours if fake, but you know what I mean...
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Dejan Sathanas said:
Yeah, could be. You'll see how it behaves. From my experience, these kind of things are good to be bought original. I'm not sayin yours if fake, but you know what I mean...
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I know.. hmm but Amazon.com is the last place I'll expect fakes :/

sd card corrupted

all of the sudden i have notification says that my sd card corrupted *its 32 gb sandisk ultra* when i put it in another phone it works fine and when i tried to install it it stops at 20% then fails but when i put the phone in the charger and restart the phone it works for small time and retearn to says it's corrupted is there any fix for that
AhmedZein said:
all of the sudden i have notification says that my sd card corrupted *its 32 gb sandisk ultra* when i put it in another phone it works fine and when i tried to install it it stops at 20% then fails but when i put the phone in the charger and restart the phone it works for small time and retearn to says it's corrupted is there any fix for that
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Buy a new SD.
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AhmedZein said:
all of the sudden i have notification says that my sd card corrupted *its 32 gb sandisk ultra* when i put it in another phone it works fine and when i tried to install it it stops at 20% then fails but when i put the phone in the charger and restart the phone it works for small time and retearn to says it's corrupted is there any fix for that
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Wolfcity said:
Buy a new SD.
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Although @Wolfcity is being rather blunt, he isn't wrong. It sounds like your using it as adopted storage which is incredibly hard on an SD card, but once errors occur you cannot trust it again... For the minor cost of an SD card, just replace it.
acejavelin said:
Although @Wolfcity is being rather blunt, he isn't wrong. It sounds like your using it as adopted storage which is incredibly hard on an SD card, but once errors occur you cannot trust it again... For the minor cost of an SD card, just replace it.
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My answer was a bit short indeed as I was thinking the same, a SD is not so expensive and maybe I presupposed that it is general knowledge from using HD and SD in PC or mobile that if a storage device starts producing errors you'll have to buy a new one real soon in almost all cases.
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