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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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Inesplicable deletion of files

Looks like the phone, inexplicably deleted all the directories and files that were stored in my 32 GB Class 10 Lexar micro SD card. It happened once, a few days ago, and today I was at the point of listening to some mp3s when I realised that it happened again today, although now only the "music" directory was deleted.
Does anybody have an explanation?

Which rom, anything suspicious installed, anything new installed, rooted, connected it to a different computer, anything else which might help others to help you?
Also, wrong forum.

could be faulty card. also make sure you do not just eject the card from phone and/or computer without first properly unmounting it.
if it is a new card, or you do not care about data on it, reformat with this tool
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/

Well, I'm on stock ROM KI4 (Android vers. 2.3.4), my phone is unrooted and I never touched the card since I first put it in the phone, 2 months ago. However the first time I had the unpleasant surprise to find all the directories deleted I was on a previous ROM (android 2.3.3), so it seems that the issue is not ROM dependant. I do have quite a few apps that I downloaded from forums and therefore may be suspected to play tricks. It may be these, or it may indeed be compatibility issues with the micro SD, but what seeems strange to me, is that I don't get errrors in reading or writing files on that memory, but simply all of a sudden, at the point of opening a file, I realize the file no longer there together with its entire directory...
Ok, I was just wondering if I was the only one experiencing this issue, and as it looks so, then I'll keep monitoring the situation to see if it happens again, in such case I'll try to investigate more deeply the possible causes.
Thank you both for the useful sugggestions, and kreoXDA for the link to that utility... It may become handy!
And sorry if I am in the wrong forum (am I?). I thought that this was the right one.

JuniorGG said:
it may indeed be compatibility issues with the micro SD, but what seeems strange to me, is that I don't get errrors in reading or writing files on that memory, but simply all of a sudden, at the point of opening a file, I realize the file no longer there together with its entire directory...
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If you haven't already, I would strongly recommend checking your SD card using h2testw.

No actually, I haven't... thank you, I'll do it!

oinkylicious said:
If you haven't already, I would strongly recommend checking your SD card using h2testw.
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There's a similar program, SDCardTester, in the Android market, so you can test on the SGS2 itself.

Ok, that would a more significative test. And it will let me test the card even now that I am away from home and I have no access to a PC. Thank you.

If you bought a 32gb sdcard off ebay at a knockdown price then I suspect you have been conned.
Try the sdcard test as suggested, it is probably a 1gb card with false code.
If it is from ebay, Dont return item either as recorded delivery will be too expensive, greater than cost of card, phone ebay and they should refund you.
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No I'm quite sure that the card is not a fake. I have been using it for 2 or 3 months, filling it almost fully with no problems of capacity, speed, data corruption or whatsoever. Yes I bought the card from ebay, but from a well respected seller at "normal" price and it definitely came sealed by the manufacturer in its original blister.
I've just tried testing with SD Card Tester and everything looks OK. I get about 10 MBps r/w that if I'm not wrong is compatible with the class of the card.
I'm suspecting more android or some malware, rather than the card or some incompatibilty issues, to have erased all its contents except one directory with 5 pictures in it.
Well, as I said, for the moment I think the best thing I can do is simply to keep monitoring the situation.
Thank you mates anyway.

You need to do the capacity test...
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I have been having a similar issue with a genuine 16gb class 10 from kingston. Files dissappearing or beconing corrupt. Assuming its a faulty card but not had chance to check.
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Me too... it's not easy to perform an exhaustive test...

And here we go again... yesterday I noticed that all the apps that were installed on the sd card had gone... this thing begins to hurt my nerves...

Are you sure the files are deleted or did the as card just unmount?
Happened to me and I just restarted phone, all good.
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In fact, that's the first thing I suspected, but unfortunately unmounting / mounting the SD card, even phisically removing / reinstalling it from the slot, and shutting off / turning back on the phone didn't solve the problem...

Well just to give some more info. Its def not a mount/unmount issue as the card contents become corrupt randomly. Im just wondering if its a spec issue as in is class 10 causing a problem. My card is being swapped out by kingston so i will update when I can.
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JuniorGG said:
it's not easy to perform an exhaustive test...
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JuniorGG said:
And here we go again... yesterday I noticed that all the apps that were installed on the sd card had gone... this thing begins to hurt my nerves...
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Yet you still haven't followed the advice in the thread, which was to run h2testw or SDCardTester to check the true capacity of the drive, and ensure data written to is is not corrupted.

I too face this similar problem. Use a Nokia 8gb card, don't know if Nokia manufactures it or not. Anyway, my files get deleted too. Apps also get corrupted. Is this a sd card slot problem. Maybe it's faulty?
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No one??
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Sd Card issues

when i move an app to the sd card it moves it. when i move my music into the sd card it does it. yet when i go into settings>storage it still shows that its all on my phone memory and not the sd card. anyone knw why?
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JoshuaFCB said:
when i move an app to the sd card it moves it. when i move my music into the sd card it does it. yet when i go into settings>storage it still shows that its all on my phone memory and not the sd card. anyone knw why?
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Could be that it is copying it rather than moving it, or the phone takes a few mins to update it's read storage parameters

it doesnt copy it because on the storage on the sd card remains the same.
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Reboot....
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ShadowLea said:
Reboot....
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reboots wont do anything. its a problem with the phone not reading storage correctly
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JoshuaFCB said:
reboots wont do anything. its a problem with the phone not reading storage correctly
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I know, usually letting the phone re-index does the trick.
I take it reformatting the card also does nothing?
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phone will not start up after reset

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.

[Q] HELP problems writing in micro SD S4

Hi my problem is, I was transferring some videos from my desktop to my S4 micro SD, it suddenly threw an writing error, a few seconds later I unplug my phone from the usb and then plug it again, I was able to copy the files.
Everything was okay until I restarted my phone, the videos were gone. And now doesn´t matter if I write or delete something from the SD card every time that I restart my phone or remove the SD it returns to what it was.
This is my 2nd 64GB micro SD having this problem the first one was with my Samsung Note 10 2014, but was exactly in the same way.
I need to know if it can be fixed and how or do I need a new SD card.

I can think of a couple of possible causes.
I'm wondering if you might have a fake microSD card. In other words, looks like 64GB, but is really only 32, or maybe 16 GB, or something else. Think where did you buy the card. If you bought on line especially, this could be the case. You can get software that will check it.
If the card really is 64GB, then maybe you can try reformatting it to see if that corrects the problem.

creepyncrawly said:
I can think of a couple of possible causes.
I'm wondering if you might have a fake microSD card. In other words, looks like 64GB, but is really only 32, or maybe 16 GB, or something else. Think where did you buy the card. If you bought on line especially, this could be the case. You can get software that will check it.
If the card really is 64GB, then maybe you can try reformatting it to see if that corrects the problem.
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I bougth both cards in BestBuy, and they were working fine the last one until yesterday.

Try hard formating the card ...

ahsandon007 said:
Try hard formating the card ...
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It didn't work, it finish formatting but all the data still there.

TDrkKnight said:
It didn't work, it finish formatting but all the data still there.
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I guess card is fake ...

ahsandon007 said:
I guess card is fake ...
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No, it's an original card I bought both about a year ago everything was working fine until a few days ago... I think this is a very rare issue so I'm going to copy all content to my pc and destroy the SD. But thanks for your answer

TDrkKnight said:
No, it's an original card I bought both about a year ago everything was working fine until a few days ago... I think this is a very rare issue so I'm going to copy all content to my pc and destroy the SD. But thanks for your answer
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Use SD card Formatter tool
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/

ahsandon007 said:
Use SD card Formatter tool
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/
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I think is damaged, (I'm really sure that is unlocked). Well at least I know what I'm going to do with my next paycheck... Buy a new SD Card . Thanks ahsandon007.

TDrkKnight said:
I think is damaged, (I'm really sure that is unlocked). Well at least I know what I'm going to do with my next paycheck... Buy a new SD Card . Thanks ahsandon007.
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Memory cards corrupt because you copy large files at a time which cause fault in memory card internal circuits...Copy data at some intervals give it break dont try to fill 64gb at a time..

TDrkKnight said:
I think is damaged, (I'm really sure that is unlocked). Well at least I know what I'm going to do with my next paycheck... Buy a new SD Card . Thanks ahsandon007.
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Run this up the flagpole and see if it helps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1J5jGWM9ss&hd=1