Hello,
I have bought a Trasnscend 32GB micro SD card. However I keep having this annoying error: the phone thinks that the SD card gets removed and a message saying SD card removed unexpectedly keeps appearing. This happens especially when I am running an app that is on the SD card or seeing videos or photos that are on it. And it has come to the point that it is almost unusable...
Please let me know what SD card you suggest I use the causes no errors. Do you use it? How has is been working?
I would like to have at least 32GB SD card. Anything over that is fine too.
Thank you very much.
Mine microsd is from fujifilm 32gb.. and works very good..
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Would anyone know of a way I could fix my SD card? So that I don't have to buy a new one.
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Woke up this morning and my stock unmodified DHD told me Backup Everything has failed (normally scheduled @ 4am every day). Logs revealed it could not write to the SD card mount point. In addition to this notification bar was displaying "SD card removed unexpectedly".
Initially I thought this would be related to the recent OTA update and SD card issues being reported by various forum members with relation to it.
However upon further reboots and detailed examinations the phone could not find the card at all. This prevented me from being able to format the card even after a reboot. Same results with multiple card readers on different PCs and even in other phone handsets... Nothing detects the card anymore.
Looks like the HTC bundled 8GB microSD card (class 2) is broken for good... Lost all my NYE photos and videos... Restored from an older MyPhoneExplorer full SD card copy onto a spare SD card and seems to be working ok now.
What I'd like to know is whether anyone else has experienced similar hardware failure on their bundled SD card.
I didn't expect such a card to fail within 3 weeks of purchase. And shipping the phone back for SD card replacement would not be worth the postage fees for me. Overall I'm finding Android platform very unreliable.
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I had frequent dismount on my class2 microSD 8 gb card by HTC (made by Samsung). It got so irritating that I need to reboot my phone to gain access back.
I changed over to a Sandisk 8gb class 4 microsd card, and the problem is solved.
Think the microsd card is crap, and has nothing to do with the android OS.
I (and many other users, it seems) have the same problem with the SD card being fried. The fact we are all getting the problem now indicates that it defintitely the result of a recent update, and not because the "card is crap"....
well as stated in another thread I had this problem from the very first day I got my DHD, after changing to anothe uSDHC the problem is gone
See existing thread...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=897312
It appears that replacing the SD card with a new one is the way forward, try to get one off HTC if possible. I havent heard of any replacement cards being fried yet.
Wow, a Samsung SD Card that dies, unheard of... (former Galaxy S i9000M owner....)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=868569
I'm so far doing alright with a spare SanDisk microSD. Which card did HTC issue as replacement?
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Hi
I bought a new 16Gb sd card to go with my new Arc. I am having some problems with apps that want to use it noteably Copilot. The app seems to be unable to write to the sd card. Also images I have saved there do not appear in the gallery or appear blank. Is this a problem with the sd card or have I seated it badly in the phone. I did notice when I installed it that there is no click when the card goes in.
Jon
My phone came with 8gb card in it. I purchased a few games and downloaded a bunch of free ones. I still have 4gb of space yet I can't download anything because the memory is full. I can't move anything else to the sd card because it's all grayed out. I have moved all the apps that would let me.
So I pulled the sd card out and none of my apps have icons anymore. I put the card back in and they didn't come back. Will I have to buy those games again? How do I get more games if the phone says no memory even though there is 4gb of space. The SD says un-mounted in the setting but when I click mount it says SD blank in the top left. When I look at the apps in the apps settings it shows things like Com.andoop.jailbreak and lest my uninstall but not install. They have little black icons instead of the game icons and it has a picture of the micro SD card on the icon.
I wanted to buy a bigger card but this is a nightmare.
Any help would be appreciated.
ye this sometimes happen with apps to sd
usually with the games there is a folder named downloads on the sd card the game apks should be in there, you should be able to reinstall em and it will pick up the old data files on the sd card
note that the sd card wont mount untill you put the case back on the fone as the case has a notch that presses a button to tell the fone that it can be remounted
Thanks
I have the case on but it is still saying blank.
I'll back everything up when I get home and format the card from the phone.
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Thanks
I have the case on but it is still saying blank.
I'll back everything up when I get home and format the card from the phone.
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ok what make sd card is it?
do not buy a cheap micro sd card off ebay called memorette
i have had to of the fake cards of 2 different supliers
supposed to be 32gb class 10
turned out to be class 5 4gb
they show 32gb when inserted but if you try and put more than 4gb on it looks like it has transfered but when u mount card back to fone it all but vanished
have u tried putting card into pc/laptop with a usb adaptor?
if you do format the card copy the gameloft folder and the download folder to your pc/laptop first, saves you having to redownload
Thanks
it is the card that came with the phone. Upon closer inspection I seen a break in the SD Card. I will retun it to Rogers tomorrow. I'm going to go buy a new card. A 16 or 32 GB card.
If you an avid gamer I suggest you plump for a 32gb class 10
I've got 8gb of music 12gb of roms
3gb of game loft games
Plus 2gb of play station pocket games
N apps videos n pictures
It all adds up
Why buy a small card n upgrade later might as will do it now saves all the messing about imo
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lol reboot one or twice you should see everything coming back ...
The SD is not formated it's just that you removed it so android did a cleanup in the interface...
Reboot until you see everything back
and you can't check the content of your SD card or play your games when you are in mass storage mode... (the sd is being used by the computer)
It turned out that my SD card was broken. Of course my wireless provider would not replace it even though they installed it before I bought the phone.
I picked up a 16GB because that is all I could find. 32GB were expensive so I’m not sure I would have bought one if I had found one. You can close this topic you want.
Thanks
Had a cheap integral 32gb card that I got free with my contract die after about a week so I replaced it with a 64gb Samsung which has been fine up till now. Came up with a sd card damaged notification tonight and it unmounted itself so I manually mounted it again and it seems ok so far
Anyone else had sd card issues?
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Had a cheap integral 32gb card that I got free with my contract die after about a week so I replaced it with a 64gb Samsung which has been fine up till now. Came up with a sd card damaged notification tonight and it unmounted itself so I manually mounted it again and it seems ok so far
Anyone else had sd card issues?
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64gb Sandisk routinely unmounts and reports being "damaged". Typically happens when writing lots of files to it or playing music from it.
A re-mount seems to fix it temporarily.
I was hoping it was because of the brand, but if your Samsung card is doing it too..
Did you format yours before using it?
Not yet, its just using the factory formatting it came with.
This is the one I have:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B009HPFUGI/ref=noref?ie=UTF8&psc=1&s=computers
I've got a semi-decent class 10 card and it had been fine until at the weekend when the phone seemed to "lose" the SD card. It was still mounted but the phone seemed to think there was no card in the slot. I took the card out, replaced it, rebooted the phone multiple times but nothing fixed it.
Then about 2 hours later it randomly found the SD card again. Its been fine since but I've no idea what happened or how to stop it happening again
I'm having issues with a Sandisk 64gb class 10 card. It randomly (at least once a day) says damaged sd card. If I restart the phone than everything goes back to normal..
I was thinking of trading to a samsung branded SD card, but since you're having the same issues I guess thats not the solution..
I already formated the card in windows (quick format unchecked) default exfat settings. The errors keep coming.
Maybe going to fat32 will help? I want to keep exfat for bigger files.
rellagher said:
I'm having issues with a Sandisk 64gb class 10 card. It randomly (at least once a day) says damaged sd card. If I restart the phone than everything goes back to normal..
I was thinking of trading to a samsung branded SD card, but since you're having the same issues I guess thats not the solution..
I already formated the card in windows (quick format unchecked) default exfat settings. The errors keep coming.
Maybe going to fat32 will help? I want to keep exfat for bigger files.
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Hey use fat32 cards they are Damn useful u can use them to establish a dualboot and can extend it partition size of urged internal memory transcend or a branded samsung mmc will be useful
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I had probs with mine...worked for a day and now says "mount SD Card" and "Blank Card"....tried formatting it on the PC which took a while but worked. Can access it on PC, popped it back in phone and same messages as above....I was putting it down to being a cheap card (not sure on make, class 10, came with phone...probably an ebay special)
I had problems with a sandisk 64gig card. Was constantly getting "sd card unexpectedly removed" errors every few minutes and then remounted. Changed cards and all seems fine. It might just be bad cards that are at issue. But one error and then its fine is hardly worth worrying about.
I have exactly the same problem with Sandisk 64 GB SDXC class 10 card. I think it is a S4 firmware bug and hope it will be fixed in next releases. In other devices the card works perfect.
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I have exactly the same problem with Sandisk 64 GB SDXC class 10 card. I think it is a S4 firmware bug and hope it will be fixed in next releases. In other devices the card works perfect.
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Exactly the same with me. Sandisk 64 GB SDXC class 10 card previously working perfect on SGS3, in SGS4 is driving me nuts!
Message "damaged SD card" pops up at boot, and even during usage.
Fixes unmounting and remounting the card, or spontaneously after a while. I hope to be a firmware issue, and be fixed soon! Very annoying for a phone of this price!
I think this issue is with all cards of all file formats... I have Samsung Class 10 32G .. same issue... does anyone know if any of the Custom Rom's have this prob?
I have the same issue I think it has something to do with exFat, anyways I just formatted to fat32 and now the card reads, mounts and unmounts just fine. I used a program called guiformat to format to fat32
Thanks raviraaj! Randomly came to this thread from a google search. Very helpful
Yep, same issue
I got a class 4 card free with the phone (from carphone warehouse) It died after about a month of use. Completely dead, isnt seen by the phone or laptop etc. I got a 64g class 10 scan disk card after this and am very worried that it will get killed also (and all my date with it). Ive seen one error message sdo far with the new card and am hoping that its not going to happen to it.
Sounds like its an issue with the phones rather than the cards.
I Have the same problem with my s4, it mount / dismount my 64 sd for a mounth about, and... Burned it.
This card has a 10 year warranty, (it's a 64 GB microSDXC UHS-I card PRO from Samsung) so i take en RMA number and send it to Nederland for repairing.
They send me a new card this week.
I think there is a bug in the firmware, it's worst went s4 is rooted, now in exfat / untooted, it's working for me.
Hey there,
i got my new s4 couple of week back and it was working fine but now i'm facing couple of problem
1. there is no internet app in my phone. yes i do have chrome but the internet browser is not there.
2. this is the biggest one. i got a san disk 64gb XC I sd card and installed it in my phone. it worked fine. but now every now and then i'm getting the message "SD card unexpectedly removed" not only this. it stops my music, if i'm going something in my gallery or downloading attachments from mails.
when i got this card i formatted it from phone and got the problem for the first time. i plugged it into the pc and formatted it again but the problem is still the same. i invested a bit of my saving in the phone and card too!!!!. i don't wanna invest for a new card...
PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!
u.mak said:
Hey there,
i got my new s4 couple of week back and it was working fine but now i'm facing couple of problem
1. there is no internet app in my phone. yes i do have chrome but the internet browser is not there.
2. this is the biggest one. i got a san disk 64gb XC I sd card and installed it in my phone. it worked fine. but now every now and then i'm getting the message "SD card unexpectedly removed" not only this. it stops my music, if i'm going something in my gallery or downloading attachments from mails.
when i got this card i formatted it from phone and got the problem for the first time. i plugged it into the pc and formatted it again but the problem is still the same. i invested a bit of my saving in the phone and card too!!!!. i don't wanna invest for a new card...
PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!
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The bad news is you may have a bad quality sd card.
Try another card.
It worked for me.
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Gillion said:
The bad news is you may have a bad quality sd card.
Try another card.
It worked for me.
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Thanks for your reply
i will get a new card but what if the problem is there in my phone..... investing 100 bucks again for a card and problem comes in my phone or in the software. i'll definitely get another one but want to be sure that its just my card.
Borrow a card... you can keep the other card or sell it cheap
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Borrow a card... you can keep the other card or sell it cheap
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Yeah that's possible
thanks......
Since I changed my card to a better quality card the phone was more stable.
The other card triggered battery drains and camera crashes and then it had the unmount problem before the card eventual failed.
New one solved all problems.
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