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:
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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.
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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!
Hey guyzz Please help me,whenever i reboot my blade all apps ( installed app on sd card )and folder on root of my sd card are deleted but the files on the root of sd card are not deleted...tried everything but cant solve this problem...please dont tell me to take a new one but help me ...
rohitzz said:
Hey guyzz Please help me,whenever i reboot my blade all apps ( installed app on sd card )and folder on root of my sd card are deleted but the files on the root of sd card are not deleted...tried everything but cant solve this problem...please dont tell me to take a new one but help me ...
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Hi,
i can not find my external sd card in my phone. it was working but now it is gone!?! i have tried 3 other cards but phone detects none. i have reset phone and flashed v10 but still i can not see the card. it was working as sdcard1 before. also i could choose the external card for standard storage before but now its gone (check attachment).
somebody has any tips for me???
regards
rakeem78 said:
Hi,
i can not find my external sd card in my phone. it was working but now it is gone!?! i have tried 3 other cards but phone detects none. i have reset phone and flashed v10 but still i can not see the card. it was working as sdcard1 before. also i could choose the external card for standard storage before but now its gone (check attachment).
somebody has any tips for me???
regards
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Yes here is a tip: sell the phone and buy a proper one instead of a fake one and why are you even posting here? You don`t have a Galaxy S5.
Sorry wrong thread. Can any mod move this?
Thanks,
Hi, i recently got a galaxy s4 that was already on kitkat when i got it.
It didnt come with a micro sd card so i decided to buy a 32gb card from amazon.
I recieved the micro sd card in the post today, put it straight into my galaxy, tried to move music from the phone to the sd card through astro file manager but it came up with a write failed error!?!
I was reading today that it has something to do with the kitkat update? Is this true?
I see it as pointless having a phone with expandable storage capabilities but due to the heavy touchwiz you only have a 9 gb device.
I dont have a computer at the moment and was wondering if there was any work around to getting my files from my phone to the sd card?
Sorry if this has been asked a lot but i just got my s4 so a bit late to the party.
Thanks for any info given
Take care
This is fixable if you're rooted. Go to the Play Store and download SD Card Fix. Run it to modify the system file which controls read/write access to the card.
If that doesn't solve the problem, then either the card or the slot is damaged.
P.S. If you're not rooted, it is possible to root without needing a PC using Mobile Odin, but using a PC may be a better option.
dazza_84 said:
Hi, i recently got a galaxy s4 that was already on kitkat when i got it.
It didnt come with a micro sd card so i decided to buy a 32gb card from amazon.
I recieved the micro sd card in the post today, put it straight into my galaxy, tried to move music from the phone to the sd card through astro file manager but it came up with a write failed error!?!
I was reading today that it has something to do with the kitkat update? Is this true?
I see it as pointless having a phone with expandable storage capabilities but due to the heavy touchwiz you only have a 9 gb device.
I dont have a computer at the moment and was wondering if there was any work around to getting my files from my phone to the sd card?
Sorry if this has been asked a lot but i just got my s4 so a bit late to the party.
Thanks for any info given
Take care
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Use Stock File Manager should be fine...
Thanks for ur replies, i tried using the stock file manager and its done the trick. Thanks very much for ur help
I tried 5 diffirent brand and capasity of SDcards
I tried with PC format, mount on when phone close and open.
But it still doesn't recognize the SD card..
İf is it hardware problem or classic S4 problem?
Replace the sd slot. It´s hardware problem.
thank you, I'll try this evening
Yes, I changed SDcard soket and fixed