My phone started rebooting constantly during calls and t-mobile replaced it, I am using a 64gb SD card as adoptable storage, when I got the new phone and inserted the SD card, it said the card is not recognized, I put it back in the old phone and it works fine. I assume it's because it's encrypted to the old phone.
Is there a way to make the new phone recognize it without reformatting and restoring or buying another one and doing the adoptable storage first and then transferring?
this is a deal breaker for adoptable storage for me if I can't transfer without restore or without a second card in the new phone.
Called Samsung and T-mobile and they are both clueless.
Thanks in advance for the help,
Sam
Pretty sure that's how it's supposed to work.
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sammythebu11 said:
My phone started rebooting constantly during calls and t-mobile replaced it, I am using a 64gb SD card as adoptable storage, when I got the new phone and inserted the SD card, it said the card is not recognized, I put it back in the old phone and it works fine. I assume it's because it's encrypted to the old phone.
Is there a way to make the new phone recognize it without reformatting and restoring or buying another one and doing the adoptable storage first and then transferring?
this is a deal breaker for adoptable storage for me if I can't transfer without restore or without a second card in the new phone.
Called Samsung and T-mobile and they are both clueless.
Thanks in advance for the help,
Sam
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You might have to reformat by selecting the SD card from the storage setting. I had to do the same but my phone wasn't rebooting, just wouldn't read the card without formatting first.
So from what i've been reading, cause i was considering going adoptable storage, once you do it it's tied to the old phone and you would have to reformat the card and re-do the adoptable storage for a new phone or higher capacity sd card if you went up a size.
My question is can you back up the data on the card in the old phone to a pc or through smart switch for pc before putting it in the new phone and starting over? i think that may be the only way.
Keep us posted i'd like to know as well as i was planning on buying an sd card this weekend for the device.
Erikdrakon said:
So from what i've been reading, cause i was considering going adoptable storage, once you do it it's tied to the old phone and you would have to reformat the card and re-do the adoptable storage for a new phone or higher capacity sd card if you went up a size.
My question is can you back up the data on the card in the old phone to a pc or through smart switch for pc before putting it in the new phone and starting over? i think that may be the only way.
Keep us posted i'd like to know as well as i was planning on buying an sd card this weekend for the device.
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I was up until midnight trying to get this going and no luck. the only solution was to back it up with smart switch (which I did before messing with the card and phones) and reformat and restore.
Samsung support said that I should just remove it from one phone and plug it into the other and it should see everything. T-mobile had no clue about what I was talking about with adoptable storage....
I am up and running but it was not a clean process. so if your phone dies, you are SOL and if you need to replace it, you need to back it up and restore.
the reason I decided to go with adoptable storage was because I have a synology NAS and it can't back up from an SD card so by having the adoptable storage it would defeat the SD card limitation but I guess it's back to looking for another backup solution.
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Inserted my 8GB SD card and the phone isn't reading it. It did then I did a format and now it's not reading it.
Any suggestions? Thanks
HeavyComponent said:
Inserted my 8GB SD card and the phone isn't reading it. It did then I did a format and now it's not reading it.
Any suggestions? Thanks
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Wait, so let me get this straight...
Obviously... as you stated, the storage card wasn't being read by your device prior to your decision to format it, correct?
So, why the unnecessary formatting then...? Be sure that your SD CARD is able to be detected on a desktop PC or laptop. If so, check the SD CARD original format. Make sure it's FAT32. And did you format your card via Apple or a standard PC?
It was working fine on my previous phone. It had few stuff on it so I decided to format it. Then after the format HD2 won't read it. When I plug in the phone it to the computer it would usually read the media card, but in this case it doesn't.
Ok I happened to figure it out. I end up doing a format on the phone and that brought my SD card back to life.
stop reading my sd card
I am too facing the same problem, I have installed the total commander on my sd card and all of a sudden my card top reading.i restart the system and then got the message to format the card in order to read it. i did but still card was not reading. i inserted the card in my pc but still the card was not reading. i bring my hd2 to factory settings and then also not reading the card. then i again format the card but of no use. any help from anyone.
vikramdeepsingh said:
I am too facing the same problem, I have installed the total commander on my sd card and all of a sudden my card top reading.i restart the system and then got the message to format the card in order to read it. i did but still card was not reading. i inserted the card in my pc but still the card was not reading. i bring my hd2 to factory settings and then also not reading the card. then i again format the card but of no use. any help from anyone.
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SD cards are notorious for being "wiped" by mishandling them. If I had a dollar for every SD card I lost because I removed it from a PC without ejecting it first, I'd have enough for a Happy Meal at least.
It looks like your install of Total Commander wiped your card. If you have a way of testing it, check to see if it says "0b available". If so, it's junk.
These cards allow unlimited reads, but only about 1,000 writes to a block. They purposefully design them to hide blocks until one goes bad, then a new one comes up, but that is a limited "fix". Not sure I understand it all myself.
This is one reason why it is a bad idea to install a program to the SD card. As the program runs, it may write runtime data to the card, things like logs and such, this reduces the lifetime of the card drastically.
Is there any known fix for this? I've been searching over the forums, but no definitive answer. It was working before, it had some sync program installed on it?? (it came with it when i bought it).
I reformat the card and now it doesn't show up on the phone. I'm trying to get in contact with the original owner and hopefully he has a fix.
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Is there any known fix for this? I've been searching over the forums, but no definitive answer. It was working before, it had some sync program installed on it?? (it came with it when i bought it).
I reformat the card and now it doesn't show up on the phone. I'm trying to get in contact with the original owner and hopefully he has a fix.
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When you say you reformatted the card, what was the method you used?
What file system did you use when you formatted the card?
What size card is it?
Did you add any partitions to the card?
Can you add/remove files from the card when you have it plugged into a Windows PC?
Can you "see" the card when you have it inserted into the phone without the phone being connected to the PC?
Hello,
Just wondering if anybody has any knowledge on how to install a new SD card when you already have adoptable storage enabled. I'm assuming I could power down the phone and copy everything over, but my new SD card is 200gb vs 128gb installed. I'm worried the partition table wouldn't be set properly.
Any advice would be great!
Thanks,
Jaime
I haven't tried but perhaps unmounting the SD card would help?
deepfriedbutter said:
Hello,
Just wondering if anybody has any knowledge on how to install a new SD card when you already have adoptable storage enabled. I'm assuming I could power down the phone and copy everything over, but my new SD card is 200gb vs 128gb installed. I'm worried the partition table wouldn't be set properly.
Any advice would be great!
Thanks,
Jaime
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The data stored on your card must be moved back to the internal storage in order to avoid breaking your apps. You can do that from the internal storage menu. If you can't fit everything, you'll have to delete things until you're under the limit. At that point, you can go back into the SD card storage menu and format it as "portable", meaning it will work in other devices. If there's any data still on it, you will lose it. Then put in the new card and set it up for "adoptable" as the previous card was.
Anyone know what the phone's behavior will be when I insert an SD Card? Usually I would want to format the card with the phone if I'm going to keep it in there 100% of the time. But right now, I'll be removing it now and then.
Can I just plug it in, and the phone will recognize the directories that I already have on the card if the card was originally formatted in Windows? Obviously I can back up my SD Card first, format it on the phone, and move my stuff back to the card after.. Just wondering what the best way to go about this is. I haven't had a phone with an SD Card slot since my GSIII.
As long as the card is exFAT format it shouldn't be an issue. It will detect any media in it and display it accordingly (well should).
If the card is NTFS formatted, it won't work
if it a fat32 memory card you can cross-swap as much you want. You do not need to format on the phone... I never really did ...
I pulled my SD card out of the Note 7 and dropped it into the V20. No problems.
Cool. Thanks!
Will the card once inserted be encrypted or can it remain unencrypted in the v20 ?
I was running stock until today, with a Sandisk SD card formatted as internal storage because my phone was full.
After flashing a new ROM though, it's saying that the SD card is unsupported. I don't want to format it because it still has all my photos and videos on, is there anything I can do?
I presume when it gets formatted to work as 'internal storage' is gets formatted to extfs or something like that so Windows won't be able to read it to get the files off right?
Any ideas?
try using a card reader and see if it can read the data. worth a shot atleast.
tazzik said:
I was running stock until today, with a Sandisk SD card formatted as internal storage because my phone was full.
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If it was internal it is encrypted and AFAIK only usable with the device it was originally created with without altering the OS. So, from my point of view, no chance to get the data back. Maybe with some special tools, but that I don't know...
16gb isnt enough, bought a 64gb sandisk sd card but after inserting it in and setting up as portable storage, my phone cant write files to it??? I have to use a special browser with root access just to delete some pics. On my old phones it had a directory name like "sdcard1" but on this it has "9DAE-180F". Its recognizing it like a otg usb drive. Which i think is my mistake cuz i chose "setup as portable storage"
Now i have a lot of data on my sd card which would be a pain in the ass to backup and then retry formatting as internal storage. So what i wanna know is will it have proper sd card access for all normal apps and behave like a normal sd card like all other phones i ever used? Or am i just gonna waste time trying out all this.and formatting wouldnt work?
alihassan1397 said:
16gb isnt enough, bought a 64gb sandisk sd card but after inserting it in and setting up as portable storage, my phone cant write files to it??? I have to use a special browser with root access just to delete some pics. On my old phones it had a directory name like "sdcard1" but on this it has "9DAE-180F". Its recognizing it like a otg usb drive. Which i think is my mistake cuz i chose "setup as portable storage"
Now i have a lot of data on my sd card which would be a pain in the ass to backup and then retry formatting as internal storage. So what i wanna know is will it have proper sd card access for all normal apps and behave like a normal sd card like all other phones i ever used? Or am i just gonna waste time trying out all this.and formatting wouldnt work?
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I believe in MM and above we have to explicitly allow apps to access the external storage. check your gallery/photo app permissions and see if access to 'storage' is enabled
Update: i backed up all the data and when i formatted the card as an internal storage it extends the internal storage. Which solved the issue . But when i remove the sd card and connect it seperately some files show up and some dont. U dont know if the files is weather stored in internal or external storage which i dont care about anyways cuz im never getting the sd card out of the phone again. Lovin it
alihassan1397 said:
Update: i backed up all the data and when i formatted the card as an internal storage it extends the internal storage. Which solved the issue . But when i remove the sd card and connect it seperately some files show up and some dont. U dont know if the files is weather stored in internal or external storage which i dont care about anyways cuz im never getting the sd card out of the phone again. Lovin it
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android will encrypt the sd card if you set it as internal storage and you won't be able to access the content outside the phone, so if your phone goes crazy or bricked, there's high chance that you'll lose your files forever
pijes said:
android will encrypt the sd card if you set it as internal storage and you won't be able to access the content outside the phone, so if your phone goes crazy or bricked, there's high chance that you'll lose your files forever
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Damn man. This ****ty phone sucks.
2,3 days since I formatted as internal and now suddenly the sd card disappeared. IDK what happened. I was just browsing net and then there was the notification saying "sandisk sd card removed, please reinsert this device"
It just finished disappeared. Now it doesn't connect to anything tried reinserting , connecting to pc but no luck.
I'm sick and tired of this ****. I just wanna use the frikkin phone.
Thought I should restore via twrp but my backup was in sd card and twrp is also not detecting it.
Is there any way I can get my sd card working again?
After sdcard is fixed I'm gonna throw this piece of **** in a lake or something.
Please give me a solution anyone.
I had important data on that card.
It's a sandisk sd card 64gb