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memory card number 6 has died

The Desire HD has got to be the best phone I have ever had, however I have now lost six memory cards to it.
I am running on the 1.32 version, as I've not upgraded the firmware since hearing some of the horror stories. I'm running the stock rom, and I'm always very careful when connecting my phone to the PC or removing the memory card (I.e I always make sure I unmount it first, etc).
I'd lost five memory cards when they came up saying it had been unexpectedly removed. There didn't seem to be a pattern. I returned the phone and got a new one after the third card, since last night I've now lost another three the same way.
The strange thing is that my friend also bought the same phone, two months after me, and has had the same problem (although has only lost two so far).
Does anyone know what else might be causing this? Any software that might be causing it? I've noticed that one or two of them have died shortly after I've taken a picture or video (like last night, for example).
I have tried to restore the memory cards by trying them in a PC, but it won't even let me format them to start over again.
I love this phone to bits, but I can't keep losing memory cards like this. There must be some reason for it. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Wow that is crazy! I've had the phone for around 3 and a half months and I'm still rocking the 8GB that came with the phone. If it's software related flashing a newer rom could fix it.
I would suggest a custom rom since I've been pretty much running LeeDroid a few weeks after I got the phone and recently switched to CM7 and I never had this issue.
Flashing is pretty much straight forward, the chances of bricking are ... well I haven't heard of someone bricking a DHD. If you just follow the steps it won't take long and if you don't
read up enough the worst that could happen is a headache
Also, what kind of sd cards were you using? Brand/Size/Class?

I lost my 8gb card which came with my DHD the other day too. That was my first loss since I got the phone in October last year. The card can't be read on any other device either.
If it is software related then I would like to know so I can try to do something about it.
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noisy_lightning said:
I lost my 8gb card which came with my DHD the other day too. That was my first loss since I got the phone in October last year. The card can't be read on any other device either.
If it is software related then I would like to know so I can try to do something about it.
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What are you guys doing with the cards? Is this happen during normal usage with the card inside the phone? Or after removing the card from the phone and use it somewhere else?
bye
sven

ErOR22 said:
Wow that is crazy! I've had the phone for around 3 and a half months and I'm still rocking the 8GB that came with the phone. If it's software related flashing a newer rom could fix it.
I would suggest a custom rom since I've been pretty much running LeeDroid a few weeks after I got the phone and recently switched to CM7 and I never had this issue.
Flashing is pretty much straight forward, the chances of bricking are ... well I haven't heard of someone bricking a DHD. If you just follow the steps it won't take long and if you don't
read up enough the worst that could happen is a headache
Also, what kind of sd cards were you using? Brand/Size/Class?
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Sounds like flashing a custom ROM might be an idea. I have used a mixture of Samsung and Sandisk cards, all have been 8GB.

noisy_lightning said:
I lost my 8gb card which came with my DHD the other day too. That was my first loss since I got the phone in October last year. The card can't be read on any other device either.
If it is software related then I would like to know so I can try to do something about it.
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I'd also be interested to know what, if any, software could be causing this.

Sven424 said:
What are you guys doing with the cards? Is this happen during normal usage with the card inside the phone? Or after removing the card from the phone and use it somewhere else?
bye
sven
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With both me and my friend, the cards have been in the phone all the time. The only time I've tried to remove it was to see if I could recover the files on a PC.

Also, like I said, a few times it seems to have occurred after taking a video or picture. In fact the second time I had one die, it seemed to be one particular HD video causing it, and once I had deleted the file by going through the PC, the memory card worked fine again.

s32bauer said:
Also, like I said, a few times it seems to have occurred after taking a video or picture. In fact the second time I had one die, it seemed to be one particular HD video causing it, and once I had deleted the file by going through the PC, the memory card worked fine again.
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The same thing happened to me. (mp3 instead of video) Android seems to be pretty picky about corrupt or somehow malformed files I guess.

Sort of leaves me wondering where I go from here.
Even if I replace the memory card, I'm on edge the whole time as to whether it's just going to die on me again!

Where did you get the memory cards?
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Most premium memory cards these days, come with 5yr minimum guarantee try returning one of your dead cards to the manufacturer and see what they say? Personally I have never had an issue with my card and had a DHD from november but I have run custom ROM's (mainly CM) since root was achieved.

Ive had the DHD since the first week of uk release, im 3 cards down myself

No dead SD Cards here.
2 months on stock, 4 on custom roms
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s32bauer said:
With both me and my friend, the cards have been in the phone all the time. The only time I've tried to remove it was to see if I could recover the files on a PC.
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Same until the card died in my phone it has never been taken out by me, it arrived with the card in the phone on arrival and till last week its stayed there.
I have no idea what went wrong, I went to sleep after using it the night before. I woke up and the phone was sat at the sim pin prompt (so obviously failed in some form over night) when I checked my SMS later in the day they were all gone so I tried to restore from SMS Restore and it failed to find the file on the SD card. When I looked into it more I realised the card was dead.
Tried it on my laptop and work PC, AND my HD Camcorder and it does not register in any of them, its as if the controller on board the card has died rather than it corrupting the data on it.
Cant say I am impressed at the moment, I have the notification bug for SMS, it keeps removing the SMS database, failed to lock onto WiFi in some occasions unless I disable then enable wifi, and now its destroyed a microSD card. Think I shall be off back to an iphone next.

Hi
Have any of you having SD Problems, tried booting to Recovery> Fix Permissions, or used Rom Manager> Fix Permissions.
Take Care
TheQuest

Had mine for 5 month now, and still using the original SD. No problems.

Mine has now chewed through two memory cards however I have come to expect random things from my desire
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I've had my memory cards from various places. I had the one that came with the original handset, and then when I had my phone replaced HTC gave me another one with it.
Since then I've also purchased the rest from stores, and even two of them were the more expensive higher quality ones. All gone.
I have noticed this morning that I am able to access the card through my PC. The first three times I put it in, I got a message saying that it couldn't access it, and would need to format it. The fourth time I put it in, it's opened everything as normal. When I put it back in my phone, it comes up preparing SD card, and then a few seconds later says it's unexpectedly removed again.
Those that haven't had card issues, are you running a custom rom? If so, what do you think the best choice would be, and would it affect the normal day to day operation with things like use of the Android Market, etc?

My phone is stock and no customization.
Not sure what the correct route would be as the cards have been destroyed by our devices so would this be covered under card warranty?
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[REF/REQ] My "fried" SD card fixed itself ..**verified by another xda'er**

I will be as short winded as possible - but I want to put detail together so that the awesome devs here can gain as much info to try and see if any of this can help to solve the elusive SD card fry..
I'm not kidding when I say my borked SD card fixed itself while in the phone this afternoon. Here is a detailed list of what took place today.
ROM: MIUI 1.8.5
Kernel : Glitch 11.1 HL
*** I noticed phone being very unresponsive/laggy first thing this morning. ran fine before i left for work but when i leave i switch to 3G, with switching from WIFI to 3G i saw a strange message in the status bar that flashed 2x for about 2 seconds each time that said "URL NOT FOUND" and then 3G kicked on.. i had to airplane mode it because data was showing as working but it wasnt. switched out of airplane 3G running fine.
*** drove to work, sitting in parking lot playing with phone before work.. while using the feedly app to read news, it suddenly froze and gave a COM.PROCESS error with force close.. i left that and it wouldnt let me back in to feedly. i then tried facebook. got a white screen and same - COM.PROCESS force close. the phone rebooted itself and came back up with the notifier in status bar about "SD CARD INCOMPATIBLE FORMAT OR NOT PRESENT" .. nothing i could do at that point, since i wouldnt be near a computer all day. all the apps worked fine all day, just no SD card.. this is the 2nd "fry" i have had..first was on JT kernel last week.
*** about 2pm, my phone chirped at me that i had a text message. i opened gmail first, since i had an email sitting there...read that, and as soon as i opened the text message (which was an MMS actually - a video to be precise) a pop up opened and said something to the effect of "USING SD STORAGE CAN ENHANCE YOUR EXPERIENCE, TURN ON NOW?" with an ok button.. i pushed OK and bing - sd card was working again.
the video MMS somehow triggered something that got the sd card to be readable again. its been running fine the last 2 hours, no error messages.
I hope this can help someone dig deeper and/or go in another direction to find the source of the sd card bug..

thanks for the info!
My SD Card fried while running CM7. Will try to send myself an mms to see if I get the same prompt.

GunM3tal - It was an mms video .. im not sure if that makes a difference.

I am also VERY curious what that "URL NOT FOUND" when switching from WIFI to 3G means.. ive never seen that message before.. and i have been running MIUI for 3 of the last 4 weeks.
something is trying to connect to the internet, or something is constantly connected to a URL and in the 3 second lag between WIFI and 3G its not connected.. that worries me..
Does that have something to do with frying the card? what url is the phone trying to connect to? what program? i havent downloaded anything new lately, and nothing out of the ordinary is in task manager...

Sweet! Seems to be a working exploit.

mrjake1970 said:
I am also VERY curious what that "URL NOT FOUND" when switching from WIFI to 3G means.. ive never seen that message before.. and i have been running MIUI for 3 of the last 4 weeks.
something is trying to connect to the internet, or something is constantly connected to a URL and in the 3 second lag between WIFI and 3G its not connected.. that worries me..
Does that have something to do with frying the card? what url is the phone trying to connect to? what program? i havent downloaded anything new lately, and nothing out of the ordinary is in task manager...
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It is getting the Verizon wireless name. It polls Verizon's server I am guessing to see what the network is called incase they change the name I guess.
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My sd card couldn't be read for a couple of days while I was on miui 7/22 and glitch a few weeks ago. Then I noticed one day it was working again. Maybe it was an mms that got it running

I just tried this method. Had my wife send me a video mms with my fried stock 16gb card in. I had the option to reformat after that, lo and behold it formatted, no problem.
What the F***!
Maybe now we can figure out how to address the problem so it doesn't happen again.
Edit: btw, I'm on 7/22 miui. I put my other card back in that I've been using and it said damaged, I rebooted and it came back. So for those who try this, don't freak out, just try a reboot if the same thing happens.

Neuman.Tim said:
I just tried this method. Had my wife send me a video mms with my fried stock 16gb card in. I had the option to reformat after that, lo and behold it formatted, no problem.
What the F***!
Maybe now we can figure out how to address the problem so it doesn't happen again.
Edit: btw, I'm on 7/22 miui. I put my other card back in that I've been using and it said damaged, I rebooted and it came back. So for those who try this, don't freak out, just try a reboot if the same thing happens.
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Hahah that's the weirdest **** I've read on this forum so far. So glad that people that "fried" their cards can now get them working again.

I can not wait to try this when i get home!

Glad i stumbled on this and its working for others as well..
That will also maybe help the awesome devs find a solution
Samsung Fascinate
GeeWiz. 0.2 :: Stock ROM kernel

This doesn't really restore the SD card...you can just put it in and click format when the notification bar tells you your card is blank. Unless I'm mistaken.
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I tried this but to no avail my 16 is still gone and stuck with a 2
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papstar said:
This doesn't really restore the SD card...you can just put it in and click format when the notification bar tells you your card is blank. Unless I'm mistaken.
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Before giving this a shot not a single thing would format it, not even the option from the notification bar

My card was damaged this morning. I am running cm7 7/14 with gb bootloader from jt and his v3 kernal. My friend messed his phone up at work and needed to borrow mine to edit a sdcard file. So I unmounted my card and removed it. Put his card in and mounted sd boom damaged sd card. Then put mine back in and it said damaged sd card. I left the card in and rebooted phone. The card mounted with no problem during the boot while u can see the lock screen.
Sd card works fine but I will not removing it again!!!!! That was a close call this morning. Hope this info helps someone if not I just got very lucky

drose6102 said:
My card was damaged this morning. I am running cm7 7/14 with gb bootloader from jt and his v3 kernal. My friend messed his phone up at work and needed to borrow mine to edit a sdcard file. So I unmounted my card and removed it. Put his card in and mounted sd boom damaged sd card. Then put mine back in and it said damaged sd card. I left the card in and rebooted phone. The card mounted with no problem during the boot while u can see the lock screen.
Sd card works fine but I will not removing it again!!!!! That was a close call this morning. Hope this info helps someone if not I just got very lucky
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I predict that you will have continuing problems with those SD cards now. While I was able to do the same with my backup SD card, it has continued to degrade. Certain apps can't access the card as of yesterday and CWM recovery is iffy on mounting it. Curiously, 4.0.1.4 (orange) is hit or miss, but 4.0.1.0 (blue) can access it but has trouble performing flashes or nandroid restores. Probably because we're not supposed to use three button recovery with jt's vanilla GB.
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from what it appears it depends on what happens exactly to the card...some people like me get the unrecognized/incompatible format - no sd card inserted error, and some get the sd card is damaged error.
so far from this thread, my card was completely fine (i had the incompatible format issue) with this "fix" and the damaged sd card that nobody could format is now formattable (is that a word?)
so i would assume a few things...
1. use mms video from another phone to send it to the fascinate with the borked card in the phone.
2. (TOTAL GUESS) you should probably be on the same build (e.g. miui/cm7) that you were on when it borked the first time.
3. it *should* give you the option to do something with it - either fix it, or be able to format it.
thats all any of us know right now. but whatever signal MMS videos send to the SD card to wake it up is what can be traced back to the system...maybe the SD card now gets the "SLEEP OF DEATH" like the system did with some kernels..deep sleep for the sd card? who knows...thats why i posted this in the DEV section..these devs are light years smarter at figuring this out than me. i know just enough to be dangerous
rock on..
papstar said:
This doesn't really restore the SD card...you can just put it in and click format when the notification bar tells you your card is blank. Unless I'm mistaken.
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Mr. Jake, I believe what you had, what I believe, is a soft-burned sd card. What this means is, reboots would have been a simple remedy for your "damaged" or "blank" sd card.
There comes a point when it's a HARD burned card and there's no turning back from it. If 5 reboots doesn't fix your sd card, might as well buy a new one, which is what I did.
this BURNING issue seems to be more apparent in the 8.5 MIUI. I'm hoping the 8.19 MIUI will fix the 3G glitches as well as a permanent proactive fix for the sd card burning problem.

shilohdrummer said:
Mr. Jake, I believe what you had, what I believe, is a soft-burned sd card. What this means is, reboots would have been a simple remedy for your "damaged" or "blank" sd card.
There comes a point when it's a HARD burned card and there's no turning back from it. If 5 reboots doesn't fix your sd card, might as well buy a new one, which is what I did.
this BURNING issue seems to be more apparent in the 8.5 MIUI. I'm hoping the 8.19 MIUI will fix the 3G glitches as well as a permanent proactive fix for the sd card burning problem.
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cool cool.. i just got excited because it seemed to fix the issue first - and second, may give the devs the ability to find out what is causing the issue in the first place since they can trace a sd card commit that does *something* to modify the glitch..
something to work with is better than guessing..
im still learning this developing thing..so many failures and very few successes with modding for me.. so any bit of help i can give is something i treasure after getting so much from this group...

Hmm I wonder if this would work on the Inc2 to fix a borked sdcard.
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Droid X corrupting SD card

So as the title says, my droid x just corrupted my second sd card in two months. Anybody else experience this, and is there a way to salvage my sd card?
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I can't help but I can sympathize. Just lost my 16GB card. Subscribed for future.

I didn't figure out how to salvage the sdcard, but I called Verizon and they are replacing my phone, although the tech support rep said that they had no record of any similar incidents happening with the DX. I'll have the replacement tomorrow.

Interesting Update
So I got my replacement Droid X from Verizon, and I rooted it and reloaded all my app backups. Everything was fine for about a day, and then my phone started to give me sd card errors and it starting acting very sluggish. So I just wiped my phone completely and started over. After a fresh wipe (still rooted) I started to manually download my apps, and then the same thing happened. The phone started to act sluggish and then I got the sdcard damaged notification. Luckily this time I was actually able to just reformat the card and that fixed it, but I don't know whats going on.
So I just got down removing root and doing a full system format. I am in the process of redownloading my apps, but I don't know if something with root may have been causing it. I will update in a few days when I know more (not having root sucks... I've had a rooted phone since the G1).

I've had SD card issues en masse with my Droid X. Motorola has pissed me off with this phone, along with their "turning on your screen and getting a black screen, forcing a battery pull" issue that ALL their freaking Gingerbread devices seem to have...........

New Android Pay Error

Hey guys, just wondering if someone else has run into this issue. I mess around with other roms and kernels, but today I wanted to go back to stock. So I flashed the latest factory image and life was good. When I went to add my card in Android Pay, this error message popped up. This is the only device I've used Android Pay on, so I don't know how I can remove my card from the other "devices". This is my only card that is supported in Android Pay, and it was working on a rom earlier in the day. I spoke with the Google Support team and they had no idea, and it was escalated. It's too soon to expect a response though, so if anyone has an idea please let me know!

Sounds pretty straightforward. The card has been added too many times, maybe you used the same card in multiple rooms?
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You need to remove that card from any other devices that have Android Pay on them.
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Go to play.google.com and select the link to My accounts. After logging in select Payment methods.

On a related note. I initially activated AP and added my amex card with my N6 shamu. Once I got my 6p, I removed my Google accounts from the N6, factory reset and now my wife has it. Over the last couple of days, I've received two emails from amex stating that my card had been removed from AP on my Motorola device. My Amex card is still functional and showing on my N6P. I assumed that by deleting my Google account and factory resetting the previous phone, any associated AP cards would also be removed. However, that does not appear to be the case. Lesson learned, delete all cards from AP before changing/selling your device etc...

I had this error previously. You have to call the bank that the card is through. That's what I had to do.

Galaxy S7 SD Card Notification Fix.

I have a Galaxy S7 SD820 Version.
I have heard many people having issues and same for me.
Im currently using 32GB SD card class 10 UHS-I with Lexar and Encrypted.
This is what i did.
I have installed Good Lock and the problem is gone.
Many people are stating the problem is hardware. However, that might not be the case.
I was getting the notification about 10+ times a day.
After changing to Good lock from Samsung no more SD Card notification.
I also heard updates fixed the problem. I did not get any update so this is going to be a temp. fix.
I didn't want to change my Lock Screen with Good Lock but Im starting to liking it.
Anyways, hope this helped for someone!
Good Luck!

chingoo04 said:
I have a Galaxy S7 SD820 Version.
I have heard many people having issues and same for me.
Im currently using 32GB SD card class 10 UHS-I with Lexar and Encrypted.
This is what i did.
I have installed Good Lock and the problem is gone.
Many people are stating the problem is hardware. However, that might not be the case.
I was getting the notification about 10+ times a day.
After changing to Good lock from Samsung no more SD Card notification.
I also heard updates fixed the problem. I did not get any update so this is going to be a temp. fix.
I didn't want to change my Lock Screen with Good Lock but Im starting to liking it.
Anyways, hope this helped for someone!
Good Luck!
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I read one guide on Google which suggests to backup your data and click format on your phone so it formats as the correct format. That method combined with the APD3 update last week fixed the notification for me instead of having to download an app. Depending on your carrier, you may not have that update, but I think that is what truly fixed it so see if you can wait for an upgrade as when I had my S5 on AOSP, I would get that message after every reboot too until developers fixed it

I used to get the notification 10+ times per day too. I installed the April update for AT&T model and it's fixed.
I only saw the notification once during the first reboot after installing the update, then never again, even after reboot. I didn't reformat the SD card after update. The notification just gone.
I'm really happy now.

I just got an update also. It seems like the notification pop up is gone. However, when i encrypt the SD Card. I still see the pop up for SD card Encrypted Message. Before it was for both. Currently, i decrypted the SD card.
Anyone did the encryption and seeing the pop up? However, I do not see the pop up when i use Good Lock. Only with the stock lock.

chingoo04 said:
I just got an update also. It seems like the notification pop up is gone. However, when i encrypt the SD Card. I still see the pop up for SD card Encrypted Message. Before it was for both. Currently, i decrypted the SD card.
Anyone did the encryption and seeing the pop up? However, I do not see the pop up when i use Good Lock. Only with the stock lock.
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I received the notification multiple times after installing goodlock. Hated the other things it changed, so I uninstalled it... I still get the popup, but it seems to be less frequent.... no updates have been installed. Still on APB6.