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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

My solution for the case of "SD Card blank or has unsupported filesystem"

Hi guys. I got a problem with my SD card after I recorded a video on my Nexus One (rom from Paul for very first Froyo over my rooted Nexus). I tried to to mount the SD card to my computer, but after clicking on the mounting button, the card appeared to have something wrong and displayed the warning message "SD Card blank or has unsupported filesystem". I could not access to the data on the card. I cared about my data so I tried to get the card out and used a card reader to read the content of the card from my Windows machine, but it seemed that Windows could not recognized the card. I thought the card was spoiled. I tried to save the card anyhow by trying to format it since I had the backup data on my computer already. Because I could not see the card on my Windows, I could not format it. I tried to format it on my N1, but after clicking on the format button, nothing happened. It seemed that my SD card was really spoiled.
But actually, I found a way that could help to save the SD card for my case. My solution is to try to partition the SD card using the ultility from my Recover section (I am using RA for nexus 1.7.0). The card after partitioning seems to work ok again. So I think the problem for my case is that the recording application already overwrote some data to the partition table on the card and that made my card inaccessible. Partioning the card again will help in this case but about the existing data on the card, I am not quite sure if it is still there. For my case, it's all gone.
Just a little experience to share ...

Hope this solution helps! Am doing the recovery thing now...

hi
i have got the exact same problem... samsung galaxy s with a 32gb micro sd... says unsupported file system and does not format it... windows cant see it in the memory card reader... could u please help me out...
thanks man !!

psychopython said:
i have got the exact same problem... samsung galaxy s with a 32gb micro sd... says unsupported file system and does not format it... windows cant see it in the memory card reader... could u please help me out...
thanks man !!
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You can try to partition your card on an Android phone with RA 1.7.0 (or newer) installed. You can have a look at following page which is about RA for nexus v1.9.0 alpha:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=611829
Good luck.

thanks man !
will give it a try... i first have to figure out how to get my phone into recovery mode. the three button method does not work for me.

psychopython said:
thanks man !
will give it a try... i first have to figure out how to get my phone into recovery mode. the three button method does not work for me.
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whoa whoa if you have a galaxy s, do NOT flash the one he linked to. that is for the nexus one only. if you need to partition in windows, try plugging in the card to a reader and opening disk management (type "disk management" w/o quotes after pressing the windows key)
right click the card and hit format

Check your data before formatting it may not be corrupt
I had the same problem, rather than format the card straight away, I mounted it in ra recovery so that it was accessible over usb, then copied off all my data before formatting the card.

My S4 (GT-19505) cannot read SD cards (SD card blank)

Hi XDA Family.
I recently flashed Omega Rom on my Galaxy S4 and everything went well. The next day I played my music from my SD card then there was an error "cant play this music file or something like this" after that my S4 was displaying that my SD card is blank or has unsupported files. The phone recommended that I need to format it using the phone. I formatted it like my phone said but it did nothing. Phone still displaying that SD card is blank or has unsupported files.
The next day bought a new SD card (8gb Scandisk) and the phone read it no problem. I transferred all my music to my new SD card and after playing my music the error appeared again and now both SD cards are showing that the SD cards are blank or has unsupported files.
Re flashed stock rom and stock kernel but still has the same errors on my SD card
Borrowed a memory card reader from a friend and formatted the SD card using my PC formatted it with all know file system. FAT32, exfat and NTFS but everything is not working.
Lastly I tried my SD cards with another Galaxy s4 and they worked without problems, formatted it using the phones formatting capability inserted it on my S4 but still has the same errors.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated guys.
Thanks in advance.

Any help would be greatly appriciated.

I have The same problem.
Pls help
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did you try any rescan sdcard application from playstore?

samersh72 said:
did you try any rescan sdcard application from playstore?
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Hi! Thanks for replying, I was beginning to lose hope that anybody would reply. Tried your suggestion. Downloaded 3 scanning SD card apps on Playstore but none of them worked. Both of my SD card still shows up as blank in my S4.
This only happened after i flashed a ROM, anything I still need to do to go back to stock? Already flashed an official softwas and kernel.

carlo06 said:
Hi! Thanks for replying, I was beginning to lose hope that anybody would reply. Tried your suggestion. Downloaded 3 scanning SD card apps on Playstore but none of them worked. Both of my SD card still shows up as blank in my S4.
This only happened after i flashed a ROM, anything I still need to do to go back to stock? Already flashed an official softwas and kernel.
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take a look here

samersh72 said:
take a look here
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Hi Good Morning!
Tried that last night still the same problem. Tried the chkdsk on CMD still the same problem. I can buy another SD card but I am just afraid that maybe a week or two the sd card will mulfunction again and I cant forget the fact that my PC and other S4 can read my SD cards.

Two possible reasons. Sandisk SD cards supposedly fail easily but yours is 8gb so it should be ok.
Next reason is Omega Rom bug, I personally don't have this issue but I have a similar one. My Sdcard does not mount as r/w automatically.

lambstone said:
Two possible reasons. Sandisk SD cards supposedly fail easily but yours is 8gb so it should be ok.
Next reason is Omega Rom bug, I personally don't have this issue but I have a similar one. My Sdcard does not mount as r/w automatically.
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Thanks for the reply lamstone, I have read somewhere that disabling the automount helps. Can you help me on how to disable automount? and can I do it if I am on stock firmware?
Thanks

Just use the card reader and adapter and attach it to your computer and format the card using exFAT file system. Then use it in phone. AFAIK the current custom recoveries already support exFAT. So you should be fine for anything. I had similar issue with my 32GB Sandisk Ultra card when I formated it using phone. No issues since I formated it as exFAT on PC.

Funkym0nkey said:
Just use the card reader and adapter and attach it to your computer and format the card using exFAT file system. Then use it in phone. AFAIK the current custom recoveries already support exFAT. So you should be fine for anything. I had similar issue with my 32GB Sandisk Ultra card when I formated it using phone. No issues since I formated it as exFAT on PC.
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Hi thanks for the reply.
Tried Fat32, Exfat and ntfs and all of the still has the same error. Actually bought a new 16gb sd card earlier I popped it in my s4 and still has the same problem.
This started happening when I flashed Omega rom. Is there anyhow I can check if I have a stock everything? My kernel, recovery and firmware?
thanks for the patience.

BUMP!!!
Anybody who can help me??
Another update is that I installed CWM recovery Philz Edition and tried hooking it up on the UBS cable and mount usb storage. My computer can now see my sd card inserted on my phone. Tried reformat while my phone is on CWM and connected thru USB cable and formatting goes thru but phone still says SD Card is blank or has unsupported files.
One thing that is strange though is that when I try to copy things to my SD card while my phone is attached to the USB cable my PC freezes like it cant copy any files to my SD card.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Same problem
carlo06 said:
BUMP!!!
Anybody who can help me??
Another update is that I installed CWM recovery Philz Edition and tried hooking it up on the UBS cable and mount usb storage. My computer can now see my sd card inserted on my phone. Tried reformat while my phone is on CWM and connected thru USB cable and formatting goes thru but phone still says SD Card is blank or has unsupported files.
One thing that is strange though is that when I try to copy things to my SD card while my phone is attached to the USB cable my PC freezes like it cant copy any files to my SD card.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I have the same problem. I bought an 16GB class 10 Kingston SD Card and inserted in my phone . Nothing. THen I disabled Developer options and it appeared. Then I though I will reformat it using directly the phone. Ok. Tried to use it bam "unexpectedly removed " and nothing. Then I tried another SD Card and the same happend first good then removed and so the third one.
Any updates on this thread ? Did you manage to make it work ?

This phone is pissing me off. I am having same problems with stock music player and Goohle Play Music app giving errors on any tracks in my Sandisc 32 gb class 6 micro SD. I have started to wonder if it is related to me using the Samsung Smart dock with a 500 gb external HDD to watch movies on HDTV. It mounts the drive and works great but following day I was try to play music that worked day before and now I get unsupported file type error and other error.
I tried avg to check for a virus(which is unlikely imo) and it shows no virus. I just tried this SD on another android device (Nabi 2 tablet running 4.0.4 and all songs play PERFECT without error. This must be my At&t galaxy S4. Any ideas anyone? I really dont feel like reformatting the sd since it seems to work fine on tablet. Also: I already wiped both music player apps in settings and eventually uninstalled and reinstalled the apps (and another musiv player also) to see if it was cache related. This made no difference.
Edit* oops. After rereading OP... I think I posted this in wrong thread.lol. But my issue with S4 and SD card error with music playback is similar so Ill leave my post unless mod wants to remove it. FYI I fixed my issue(somewhat). Ths SD card is fine as I suspected. The phone has an issue having stock music app, play music and mx player. Either one of the apps was running in background or the system was running sound in background. Hope to not have problem repeat itself. I bet custom rom would fix this if AT&T hadnt locked phone with sneaky update.

You can try flash Rom Cook MH8.
I think your problem will resolve.
Thanks

i think you need to try this.. Get your SD card and try to put in another phone example Blackberry (im not sure if it will work on HTC, alcatel etc. except samsung).
then format using other phone. after formatting ffrom other phone. reinsert the sd card on your samsung unit. then check the storage and try reformatting again using your Samsung.

still nothing
Well. I still do not know how to fix this and I searched and tried almost everything. Only thing that I think might be wrong that somehow the "auto mount SD " does not work.
Because the card is there. The phone cannot see it . Other phones do fine. And in CWM even I can see that there is indeed an SD card but cannot acces the files.
So... I really do not know

i am also having this problem but nothing seems to help have tried alot of thing but yeah :/ sp i have given up on it ! it is a 32 gb sd card loved it.. now i almost got anxiety cus i have so little storage xD hehe well well might buy a new sd soon

My class 4 32gb sdcard too stoped working properly these days.Sometimes it gets unmounted randomly or it doesn't get detected or it shows blank sdcard.I don't know what cause that but the best I could have done is to backup my data and buy a sammy 32gb class10 micro sd.I heard that S4 has problems with sandisk ones.
Sent from my GT-I9500 using Tapatalk 4

UPDATE:
My SD Card problems has not been fixed until now!
I just flashed the leaked 4.3 firmware and I tried to insert an SD Card just to try it and BAM! it worked!!! I am now afraid of rooting my phone because maybe the SD Card will not be working again but as long as my SD Card is working I am good!
Anybody who has problems with their SD Card should try to flash this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2465713
hope this helps!

[Q] GS4: SD Card not detected; used SDFormatter

Hello,
My GS4 (1337) isn't detecting my microSD card. My computer reads it and I've reformatted using SDFormatter, as recommended by many users in this forum (FAT32).
It's not detected in CWM 6.0.4.8 and PhilZ Touch 6.43.8, either... I've tried multiple ROMs and nothing seems to work. I've tried two different SD cards, as well. Each ROM just says to "insert SD card"
Are there any settings in ServiceMenu options that might be affecting it?
I've gotten 2 replacement SD Card/SIM card readers off of eBay and neither of those replacements have done the trick. Thinking there's something software related.
Thanks in advance for help.
diznanl

Formatting times in exFAT may go the

bunnys7679 said:
Formatting times in exFAT may go the
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Unfortunately, that didn't work either. I wish I had another android device, to pop it in there, format it, and see if that works... it did for this user:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44192667&postcount=12
Does anyone have any other ideas?
Thanks,
diznanl

diznanl said:
Unfortunately, that didn't work either. I wish I had another android device, to pop it in there, format it, and see if that works... it did for this user:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44192667&postcount=12
Does anyone have any other ideas?
Thanks,
diznanl
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Hi,
When I had an issue with a sdcard I plugged it into a camera and formatted from there. Maybe you have a friend who can lend a cellphone to you for this? Sorry, for now I'm out of ideas, only these two. If I come up with other idea I may post here again.
~Lord

if you insert it while the phone is ON, does it not even recognize that a card has been inserted? I thought that normally it will at least tell you that the inserted card is not readable and ask you if you want to format it?
is the card fully working on your pc? like, can you fill it with files to it's complete capacity without corruption and they are all read by the pc? if not then maybe a duff card? this is often the case if you buy cheap card online.
have you got a smaller capacity sd card that you can try in the phone just to rule out hardware issues on the phone itself?

Please cleans your micro sd hole with a spirit(which use in clean u r desplay)...nd format yor sd card in default extension. ..I think it worked...
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[Q] S5 Says Blank SD Card After Partitioning on Mac

The other day I partitioned my 32gb SD card on a Mac and formatted it as ntfs I believe so I could put OS X on it. I got home, wiped and reformatted it to FAT32 and transferred all my files back onto it so I could use it with my phone again. Except when I inserted it, it said that the card is blank or has an unsupported filesystem. So I reformatted it again using windows with no success, then using the official sd card formatter v 4.0. Still getting the blank sd card error. After many more wipes/reformats using exFAT and FAT32, still nothing. I even tried erasing and reformatting in a mac again, but nothing seems to work. However every computer I've tried recognizes both the card and all the data stored on it, my phone just doesn't seem to be able to read it. Any suggestions? Am I missing something very obvious? I've also tried both quick and full formats to no avail.

ocean's_1 said:
The other day I partitioned my 32gb SD card on a Mac and formatted it as ntfs I believe so I could put OS X on it. I got home, wiped and reformatted it to FAT32 and transferred all my files back onto it so I could use it with my phone again. Except when I inserted it, it said that the card is blank or has an unsupported filesystem. So I reformatted it again using windows with no success, then using the official sd card formatter v 4.0. Still getting the blank sd card error. After many more wipes/reformats using exFAT and FAT32, still nothing. I even tried erasing and reformatting in a mac again, but nothing seems to work. However every computer I've tried recognizes both the card and all the data stored on it, my phone just doesn't seem to be able to read it. Any suggestions? Am I missing something very obvious? I've also tried both quick and full formats to no avail.
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Please use paragraphs. That is too hard to read and I had to quit halfway through your post.
You want a Fat32 filesystem. Did you check in the settings menu to confirm that the card was mounted? Try a different card in the phone? Try formatting this card in the phone?
Just a matter of spotting a pattern in the differemt combinations.
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fffft said:
Please use paragraphs. That is too hard to read and I had to quit halfway through your post.
You want a Fat32 filesystem. Did you check in the settings menu to confirm that the card was mounted? Try a different card in the phone? Try formatting this card in the phone?
Just a matter of spotting a pattern in the differemt combinations.
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Yep. I would insert the card, get the error, then format it in my phone, still nothing. I tried restarting with card in, out, put the card in while the phone is off, etc. I know the full format on windows should erase everything from the card including partitions, but I'm wondering if some little bit of data from the Mac somehow stays stuck on the card through that.
Oh and I can click on "mount sd card" an infinite amount of times, it just gives me the error and unmounts.

We don't have enough information. Post the exact error you see, verbatim. And it would help immensely if you try the steps I suggested in my last post.

I've tried all that stuff repeatedly I guess I'm getting a bit frustrated with this thing and wasn't clear. And the exact error is "Blank SD Card - SD Card is Blank or has Unsupported Filesystem". I'm worried that my inexperience with macs killed my card

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I've tried all that stuff repeatedly I guess I'm getting a bit frustrated with this thing and wasn't clear. And the exact error is "Blank SD Card - SD Card is Blank or has Unsupported Filesystem". I'm worried that my inexperience with macs killed my card
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I'm sure that it is frustrating.
However you won't get closer to a solution unless you troubleshoot it in a methodical manner. Find out if another S5 recognizes the card. Then format it in your phone, reboot and see if that makea a difference.
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The Partition Problem
Maybe the Phone just detects the Blank Partition!
Try saving some Files through your Phone to the SD Card.
Android KitKat does not stop any Reading Access!
After that -- Tell me what happened.
Try the same thing with Another Phone like the Galaxy Note 3.
If it just makes issues on the S5, then it is an Internal Galaxy S5 Problem.