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Files are missing from the memory card!

Hi,
I am having a weird problem and that is any file that I copy on the memory card goes missing and I can not see it. Files are on the card though since checking the memory card size is giving the approximate correct used space. Is there anyone else having the similar issue? I tried even a hard reset but it didn't help. by the way I am running TouchFlo v14 for the wing.
Also is anyone know how to format a memory card, I couldn't find it anywhere.
thanks,

The disappearing storage cards is a common thing.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=294324&highlight=disappearing+sd
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=304346&highlight=disappearing+sd
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=289980&highlight=corrupt+SD
As far as formatting the card, I use a program called CNETX flash format which installs on the phone.

Missing 1go Kingston card
I carefully followed all of the above instructions for the pagefile change. It appears to work///got the dos window etc. but upon restart, my storage card with all the programs has disappeared...nowhere to be found "not installed"!
What did I do wrong please??? have I somehow destroyed the card? Is the disappearing act related to this tweak or simply coincidental. I would really appreciate some feedback here!

wow at first i thought that this is only a problem for a few but it seems many suffer from it! i think i am going to use the last link for future updates on this issue. i just formatted my device to see what will happen...
which instructions did you use shepperd?

actually i lost all the pictures and music on my card a couple times. the first time i just recreated the my pictures and my music folder on my storage card and it all came back. the second time this didn't work and i ended up having to bring the microsd card to my friends dorm who had a card reader in his laptop and i used a freeware undelete utility to recover all the missing files.
this happened to me both times while reflashing the phone so from now on i've removed the microsd card while flashing the phone and i've had no problems since.

applecarriage said:
actually i lost all the pictures and music on my card a couple times. the first time i just recreated the my pictures and my music folder on my storage card and it all came back. the second time this didn't work and i ended up having to bring the microsd card to my friends dorm who had a card reader in his laptop and i used a freeware undelete utility to recover all the missing files.
this happened to me both times while reflashing the phone so from now on i've removed the microsd card while flashing the phone and i've had no problems since.
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thanks. i think this is useful information. by the way can i ask you the name of the software you used in your friends laptop?
thank you!
Never mind. I think any undelete program should work...

Help on Transfering pics to mircoSD

Alright so Ive been running NAND on my HD2 for 7 months with no issues,
one day the sandisk 16gig microSD failed on me, it wouldnt read,
I contact sandisk and they couldnt offer me a recovering but they did send me to another company,
anything more than 8gig is $175 which is stupid,
I decide to upgrade to a 32gig and I just received it today, my issue is Ive transfer all my music with no issue but the pictures/ camera pics arent showing up.
I formatted the SD card already, anyone know whats going on or what I need to do ?
Thank you

you can do it via computer if you have the detected port or if you don't like me I did it at fed-ex when I had the same problem.

kevin37 said:
you can do it via computer if you have the detected port or if you don't like me I did it at fed-ex when I had the same problem.
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Ive done that , the issue is , the pics are loading on the microSD card but on the PHONE it doesnt show up , none of the pictures are showing up.
the music is showing up( Mp3) but none of the pictures on my phone.
if I mount my 4gig microSD card back , everything else works...
im running NAND Andriod 2.3

DoHBoi1o1 said:
Alright so Ive been running NAND on my HD2 for 7 months with no issues,
one day the sandisk 16gig microSD failed on me, it wouldnt read,
I contact sandisk and they couldnt offer me a recovering but they did send me to another company,
anything more than 8gig is $175 which is stupid,
I decide to upgrade to a 32gig and I just received it today, my issue is Ive transfer all my music with no issue but the pictures/ camera pics arent showing up.
I formatted the SD card already, anyone know whats going on or what I need to do ?
Thank you
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If you have reformated your old SD card then everything is gone from it with no recovering it. I am asumming you formated your new 32G card. As far as your pictures i don't really know what to tell you if they are not showing up on your computer when you have it plugged into your computer with a reader.

ok maybe I should have rephrase it,
the pictures that I transfer from my 4gig sd to my PC is showing,
then from my PC back to my 32gig SD , shows up in my card and in my PC display.
when the 32g goes into the phone, the pictures arent displaying at all.
even on my 4gig card, I have a folder label PICS .
when I try to copy and move the PICS folder into the 32 gig , it is not showing up as soon as its plugged into my phone..
im stump on this one, I havent had the slighest idea what to do now, as Ive search all over the place.
the card is already formatted , a friend said I may need to patitrion the card because its too big ? but I dont see that still helping to display the pictures...
any other ideas guys and gals ?
Thanks

DoHBoi1o1 said:
ok maybe I should have rephrase it,
the pictures that I transfer from my 4gig sd to my PC is showing,
then from my PC back to my 32gig SD , shows up in my card and in my PC display.
when the 32g goes into the phone, the pictures arent displaying at all.
even on my 4gig card, I have a folder label PICS .
when I try to copy and move the PICS folder into the 32 gig , it is not showing up as soon as its plugged into my phone..
im stump on this one, I havent had the slighest idea what to do now, as Ive search all over the place.
the card is already formatted , a friend said I may need to patitrion the card because its too big ? but I dont see that still helping to display the pictures...
any other ideas guys and gals ?
Thanks
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I don't really see partitioning the SD card as something you need to do either as the HD2 is speced as being able to handle a 32G SD card. Besides if you partition the SD card wouldn't that really defeat the purpose of having a 32G card as it would reduce the storage space to whatever you partition it to. Maybe you had a bad format when you formatted it. You could try to format it again, but try to use some different software maybe the formatting tools found here or the Panasonic utility.

wait, lets take a step back. i understand your description of the problem. my question is, when you say you can't see the pictures when you insert the loaded 32gb card in the phone, do you mean the album/gallery application doesn't show them? have you tried seeing if the picture files are there using a file explorer app on the phone (try app called "root explorer")?
if the pictures are appearing in the file explorer but NOT in the album/gallery application, then i suspect it is an issue of the album/gallery application's "cache". these applications typically maintain a cache of thumbnails as well as a background process that periodically monitors changes on your sd card and builds/maintains its cache. try to search for ways to clear the cache to give the background process a clean slate to begin re-indexing your pictures on your new sd card.
let us know if this helps.

ASCIIker said:
wait, lets take a step back. i understand your description of the problem. my question is, when you say you can't see the pictures when you insert the loaded 32gb card in the phone, do you mean the album/gallery application doesn't show them? have you tried seeing if the picture files are there using a file explorer app on the phone (try app called "root explorer")?
if the pictures are appearing in the file explorer but NOT in the album/gallery application, then i suspect it is an issue of the album/gallery application's "cache". these applications typically maintain a cache of thumbnails as well as a background process that periodically monitors changes on your sd card and builds/maintains its cache. try to search for ways to clear the cache to give the background process a clean slate to begin re-indexing your pictures on your new sd card.
let us know if this helps.
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acually the gallery , astro viewer, file manager , none of if shows up the pictures,
before I could swap my 4 gig or 16 gig with no issues, I would transfer pics from my PC straight to the phone and use those images or jpgs for either caller IDs or just to have them on my phone.
now, nothing is showing up which is werid , Never had an issue until I swap out this 32gig card, Could it be not formatted right ?
I will check into the cache, not sure how to go about this but I will mess with the phone now

well tried the cache thing , didnt help...
I have no idea whats going on , not sure why it wont read any of the pics in the 32gig card,
but when I plug back my 4gig , all my pics show up.
you guys think this has to do with the way its format ?
I formatted the card thru my computer , not thru the phone, I dont see any options to format it on my phone.
Cyanmods NAND 2.3.2
not sure if that helps

are you hot-swapping your cards?
Reboot the phone with the 32gb card inside and see if the phone picks them up then.
Iyts a known issue with Android when cards are mounted for USB mass storage on the |PC that cards sometimes dont pick up the new files.

I never did try that , thanks man !!

nopes that didnt help at all...

SD Card is Damaged. Try Reformatting it.

Anyone else getting this with their S4? I bought my S4 two weeks ago and a Sandisk 64gb card to go with it and started seeing this error about twice a day. I returned it for a Samsung SD and didn't see the error for almost a week until today.
The card actually appears to be fine, all I have to do is remount it after seeing the message and all is good, it's just worrisome cause I store all my photos on there. I'm wondering if it could be the phone itself? I have one day left to exchange it, but it's rooted.

SD Errors are because the card is physically moving when its being written to. This cause bad sectors on the card. Try putting a piece of thin scotch tape and cut to shape of the face of the SD Card. See if it fits more snug....
Are you jogging with the S4 or something? Samsung SD's are class 10 which I think write faster. Maybe that is less likely to cause damage because its written so fast? Not sure....
Try the tape trick and see if it reduces the problem. Else its a physical problem with the slot.

i also have a class 10 64gb, some guy on the forum posted this problem too, he said that by formating the card with a PC and then formating it with the format utility in the phone settings has solved his problem. If not, might be a slot problem like slider mentionned

I had this problem too with my 32 gig class 10. When I put my shock absorbant case on it my problem went away
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337

I had never had an issue with a Sandisk card until my S3 ate a 32GB. I then started readibg how the S3 ate non- Samsung cards. I have been using a Samsung card with no issues

hope you make regular sdcard backups and copy to pc
polish_pat is correct, reformat your card with sdformatter, use Full Erase On and Size Adjustment On
Of course backup first
you shouldn't have to reformat again in phone--
if the card is good this should solve your issue

I had tried 3 different San disk 64GBP class 10 cards and had this problem, the fourth one works so far...doing some searching I found lots of complaints from lots of different device forums about this card. Only fix I found was running chkdsk repair on the card in Windows but this only worked for a few people ( couldn't save my first three cards)
anyway, imo exchange the card or better yet buy a different brand
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using xda premium

Posting here as doing a search revealed this is the closest to the problem that I'm having. I've had my AT&T Samsung Galaxy S4 for approximately 1 month now. I purchased a Sandisk 32GB SD Card for the phone. Two days ago I began experiencing issues where when unlocking the phone I would notice the card would unmount then remount (this was in the notification bar). Later that night, the card unmounted and there wasn't any way to get it recognized again. I posted in some other forums and someone said there were some good posts here.
I've contacted Sandisk regarding the card and they refused any involvement stating it's a problem with the phone, not the card. They determined this because once I was able to get the phone to recognize the card and plugged the phone into the PC, the card was able to be read. As long as it's readable, it's fine. After dealing with this I eventually found my MicroSD to SD reader and plugged it into my media reader in my printer. I had quite a few issues from time to time reading the card, however I can't 100% for sure say whether this is the card or the printer.
Anywho, I grabbed copies of what I needed. Formatted the card on the PC, then formatted it on the phone. I began to copy my entries however at one point instead of saying I had 29.* GB Available, it said something like 2.0 EV of 3.0 PE or something like that... these weren't the typical numbers I've seen nor the units of storage space. I apologize that I can't recall that information. I reformatted again and it worked. Left the card in the phone empty over night then tried to copy files later today. This worked.
Now, approximately 48 hours after the problems began, I noticed more issues. SD card stated that it had been damaged and that I should reformat it. While this message stayed in notifications, I confirmed I was still able to read files on the SD card. When googling that error hoping I'd find more resources, the card again unmounted.
One of the resources I found had me do a CHKDSK /F /X on the card. I did this and found no issues. I've replaced it back into the phone and it seems to be working for the moment.
1) Are there any confirmations if this is a bad card, or if perhaps any applications are causing the card to do this? I do have QuickPic and have enabled some of the hidden file features if that helps.
2) Do we know if there are any logs that can be pulled to help verify this?
3) Is it a specific card? (I've heard SanDisk 32gb, but also have heard non-Samsung SD will fail)
Looking to get this resolved ASAP. This card was purchased directly from AT&T when the phone was purchased. I am just looking for some confirmation that if I have to buy another card, I'm not going to gamble if that's going to have the problem as well.
Thanks! If I forgot anything please ask!
Edit: Per the thread, this is a Class 4 card. Also the phone was not moving when it was writing data. I've been couch-ridden all day and unlocked it. I don't believe the phone was in deep-sleep mode as I had received a text not long before I began noticing these messages.

same problem
i have the same problem and guess what ?
the phone is acting like the ***** it stays ok for 3 weeks while that time i download to many stuff to my ext card 32g Elixir Memory after that it crach and give me notification that sd card is damaged and i have to reformat it sucks
by the ****in way this's the fifth time it crash i changed the memory to sony and same and changed to Kodak and the same
so abso****inlotley its the S3 for me soon its going to trash

polish_pat said:
i also have a class 10 64gb, some guy on the forum posted this problem too, he said that by formating the card with a PC and then formating it with the format utility in the phone settings has solved his problem. If not, might be a slot problem like slider mentionned
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This works! It fixed the issue I was having with my SanDisk 64GB.

SD Card Issue in S5

Hello All,
Im Hoping Someone Would Be Able to Help me with an issue....
ive got the samsung galaxy s5 SM-G900I with telstra here in Australia, on the 26th of last month i went to my fathers wedding, i was taking photos on my phone with the camera it spent most of its time on the camera app (once closed itself down prob due to inactivity) anyways after a while it stopped taking pictures.... the capture button on screen was grayed out but i could still see through the camera.... i though ok weird and closed the app down and opened it with the same result... then a popup came up that said "Camera Failed" when i pressed ok the camera app closed.... tried to bring it up again and it was a no go so i decided to reboot my phone..... it shut down properly but never turned back on so i though ok maybe it turned itself off so i tried to turn it back on and got nothing..... i pulled the battery out and put it back in and the phone turned on and the camera was working perfectly fine again so i though oh ok glitch but all good.... anyways i went back to taking and i found that all the pics i had taken that day were gone from the SD card...
it took me a minute to relize that all the photos on my card were gone.... i went to investigate and say that the card wasnt mounted under storage and i though all good again and hit mount and nothing happened.... then i saw a notification saying either an unformatted card or an unsupported file system... i checked in another phone with it and got the same issue and it seemed the card had gone bad, anyway i got home that night and plugged the card into my computer and found that the card was reading up as a raw file system.... so i went stright to data recovery but before the data recovery could finish scanning the card all of a sudden there was my sd card reading up perfect in my laptop... which was weird to me as i havnt seen that happen before, so i backed up everything on my card to my computer and plugged the card back into my phone and it came up with a different error i think it said something about the card maybe being corrupt.... so i put it back into my computer and ran a chkdsk on it and it showed that everything on the card was corrupted..... so i decided to wipe the card and start again and i transfered everything back onto it and everything was working perfectly fine as if nothing had happened...anyway fast foward to monday this week and i went to take some photos and recorded a video on my phone (went stright to the SD card) and i checked it afew hours later because i got busy and i had found that everything i had done that day had corrupted and photos that i had taken about 4 or 5 days ago were also corrupted... images that i had seen to be working fine.... so i backed up my SD card again and though ok im gunna have to buy a new sd card and i redirected the save location for photos back to internal storage.... anyway today my SD card was still in my phone... all of my music is on it still and i was listening to music while i was heading out to the shops.... and i noticed that afew of my songs were playing for a second or 2 then skipping to the next or just pausing and throwing an error about the song being corrupt...
so i put the SD Card into my Samsung Galaxy Tab S and the songs that were "Corrupt" on the SD Card were working fine on the tablet..... so i am wondering.... is it the SD Card or the Phone?
thanks Help would be amazing!

paul118 said:
Hello All,
Im Hoping Someone Would Be Able to Help me with an issue....
ive got the samsung galaxy s5 SM-G900I with telstra here in Australia, on the 26th of last month i went to my fathers wedding, i was taking photos on my phone with the camera it spent most of its time on the camera app (once closed itself down prob due to inactivity) anyways after a while it stopped taking pictures.... the capture button on screen was grayed out but i could still see through the camera.... i though ok weird and closed the app down and opened it with the same result... then a popup came up that said "Camera Failed" when i pressed ok the camera app closed.... tried to bring it up again and it was a no go so i decided to reboot my phone..... it shut down properly but never turned back on so i though ok maybe it turned itself off so i tried to turn it back on and got nothing..... i pulled the battery out and put it back in and the phone turned on and the camera was working perfectly fine again so i though oh ok glitch but all good.... anyways i went back to taking and i found that all the pics i had taken that day were gone from the SD card... it took me a minute to relize that all the photos on my card were gone.... i went to investigate and say that the card wasnt mounted under storage and i though all good again and hit mount and nothing happened.... then i saw a notification saying either an unformatted card or an unsupported file system... i checked in another phone with it and got the same issue and it seemed the card had gone bad, anyway i got home that night and plugged the card into my computer and found that the card was reading up as a raw file system.... so i went stright to data recovery but before the data recovery could finish scanning the card all of a sudden there was my sd card reading up perfect in my laptop... which was weird to me as i havnt seen that happen before, so i backed up everything on my card to my computer and plugged the card back into my phone and it came up with a different error i think it said something about the card maybe being corrupt.... so i put it back into my computer and ran a chkdsk on it and it showed that everything on the card was corrupted..... so i decided to wipe the card and start again and i transfered everything back onto it and everything was working perfectly fine as if nothing had happened...anyway fast foward to monday this week and i went to take some photos and recorded a video on my phone (went stright to the SD card) and i checked it afew hours later because i got busy and i had found that everything i had done that day had corrupted and photos that i had taken about 4 or 5 days ago were also corrupted... images that i had seen to be working fine.... so i backed up my SD card again and though ok im gunna have to buy a new sd card and i redirected the save location for photos back to internal storage.... anyway today my SD card was still in my phone... all of my music is on it still and i was listening to music while i was heading out to the shops.... and i noticed that afew of my songs were playing for a second or 2 then skipping to the next or just pausing and throwing an error about the song being corrupt... so i put the SD Card into my Samsung Galaxy Tab S and the songs that were "Corrupt" on the SD Card were working fine on the tablet..... so i am wondering.... is it the SD Card or the Phone?
thanks Help would be amazing!
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Whoa. That would be painful to read. Can you break that into paragraphs?
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fffft said:
Whoa. That would be painful to read. Can you break that into paragraphs?
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sorry about that.... not the best when it comes to that lol, i just edited it i hope it makes it easier to read

I'm not trying to give you a hard time, but that is still hard to read. If I got the gist of your post, you had a camera failed message and apparently SD card corruption.
There isn't enough information (or maybe it's in the middle of those paragraphs) to tell what happened. Probably just a temporary glitch, but you could have anything from an actual camera failure to a physical SD card defect.
Try clearing your system cache. I wouldn't worry about the failed camera message if it doesn't recur. If it does, search for the camera failed threads, Samsung was providing warranty replacements for some early production camera failures.
If you are searching for photos, see if your phone put them on the internal sdcard (since the external SD wasn't accessible). Otherwise you could consider a data recovery app to see if photos can be recovered from your external SD card.
Is your external SD card bad? We don't have enough information to know yet? Do a search for an app to test the card integrity or you can probably use the fsck command to test the card and correct (if possible) filesystem errors, followed by reformatting and remounting the card. The fact that the card was readable on another device doesn't differentiate between an marginal or unstable card and a sound card. You'll have to test and reformat the card to really tell.
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fffft said:
I'm not trying to give you a hard time, but that is still hard to read. If I got the gist of your post, you had a camera failed message and apparently SD card corruption.
There isn't enough information (or maybe it's in the middle of those paragraphs) to tell what happened. Probably just a temporary glitch, but you could have anything from an actual camera failure to a physical SD card defect.
Try clearing your system cache. I wouldn't worry about the failed camera message if it doesn't recur. If it does, search for the camera failed threads, Samsung was providing warranty replacements for some early production camera failures.
If you are searching for photos, see if your phone put them on the internal sdcard (since the external SD wasn't accessible). Otherwise you could consider a data recovery app to see if photos can be recovered from your external SD card.
Is your external SD card bad? We don't have enough information to know yet? Do a search for an app to test the card integrity or you can probably use the fsck command to test the card and correct (if possible) filesystem errors, followed by reformatting and remounting the card. The fact that the card was readable on another device doesn't differentiate between an marginal or unstable card and a sound card. You'll have to test and reformat the card to really tell.
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thats ok i know your not trying to give me a hard time on it im sorry that its so dificult to read, ill see if i can try this alittle better
on the 26th of last month i was taking photos for my fathers wedding when the camera stopped working, it wouldnt let me take photos so i closed the camera app and opened it again thats when i got the camera failed message
i tried to reboot my phone but it froze during the reboot and didnt start up again so i pulled the battery out and put it back in, when the phone started up again the camera was working perfectly fine but the SD card was coming up as unreconized file system or unformatted,
i got the SD card to my Laptop and the File System Read up RAW i started data recovery and while it was scanning the card everything started working again and i got all my photos back without the need for using data recovery
put the SD card back into my phone and it read corrupt so i reformatted it and restored everything back into it and the card worked fine,
Fast Foward to Monday This Week and i recorded a 10 minute video at 1GB size and took some photos.... and they corrupted.... no issues with the camera or anything like that.
Today i Was Listening to Music that was stored on my SD Card (64GB Class 10 Transcend) and it skipped a song about 2 seconds into it and another song it tried to play and failed coming up with an error about it being corrupt, ive taken the SD Card out of my phone and put it into my Samsung Galaxy Tab S and the songs that were "Corrupt" worked perfectly fine on my tablet
so im wondering if it could be the SD Card or the Card Reader in the Phone? the System Cache in the phone has been cleared.
Thanks i hope thats helped you able to understand it better and again i am sorry for my poor writeing skills

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Today i Was Listening to Music that was stored on my SD Card (64GB Class 10 Transcend) and it skipped a song about 2 seconds into it and another song it tried to play and failed coming up with an error about it being corrupt, ive taken the SD Card out of my phone and put it into my Samsung Galaxy Tab S and the songs that were "Corrupt" worked perfectly fine on my tablet
so im wondering if it could be the SD Card or the Card Reader in the Phone? the System Cache in the phone has been cleared.
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Thank you for going through that again.
The basic question or mystery that we are trying to solve is why does the external SD card only appear to have problems in your phone and not the tablet? And how can we tell if it is a card issue or something other aspect of your phone?
While it could be some problem with your phone e.g. bent or damaged SD card slot, corrupt driver or other causes.. it would be hard to track down without further hints. i.e. there are so many possible causes that we need to narrow it down.
So it's easier to tackle this by elimination. Lets test the hell out of the card because that is easier to do.. and despite the fact that it appears to work in your tablet, it's still more likely to be a card problem. Why would it only affect your phone and not the tablet if it is a card problem? There are lots of reasons, but just to give one example.. it could be a problem on just one area of the card.. and that happens to be where your phone is preferentially storing files.
If that makes sense so far.. then the plan is to see if we can identify a card defect. So.. grab an app that will check for file system errors (chkdsk, fsck, etc), check partition structure and do extended read /write tests on the card. At a glance perhaps one of these apps: Lewy or Dewy.
Most likely you have some bad clusters which fsck or chkdsk could repair. But it's best to run an extended card test.. that may take a few hours but it's still a lot quicker than trying to search for all the possible causes of phone problems. If your card passes with no issues.. I'd be inclined to back up your phone and then install a brand new, 100% fresh and stock firmware temporarily. That should in one swoop tell you if it is a hardware or software issue. Again, we are looking for expedient ways to narrow down the possible causes.
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i will give u a hint ... try to make your topics, in your case, a loooooot less than your post so a lot more people would help you.

fffft said:
Thank you for going through that again.
The basic question or mystery that we are trying to solve is why does the external SD card only appear to have problems in your phone and not the tablet? And how can we tell if it is a card issue or something other aspect of your phone?
While it could be some problem with your phone e.g. bent or damaged SD card slot, corrupt driver or other causes.. it would be hard to track down without further hints. i.e. there are so many possible causes that we need to narrow it down.
So it's easier to tackle this by elimination. Lets test the hell out of the card because that is easier to do.. and despite the fact that it appears to work in your tablet, it's still more likely to be a card problem. Why would it only affect your phone and not the tablet if it is a card problem? There are lots of reasons, but just to give one example.. it could be a problem on just one area of the card.. and that happens to be where your phone is preferentially storing files.
If that makes sense so far.. then the plan is to see if we can identify a card defect. So.. grab an app that will check for file system errors (chkdsk, fsck, etc), check partition structure and do extended read /write tests on the card. At a glance perhaps one of these apps: Lewy or Dewy.
Most likely you have some bad clusters which fsck or chkdsk could repair. But it's best to run an extended card test.. that may take a few hours but it's still a lot quicker than trying to search for all the possible causes of phone problems. If your card passes with no issues.. I'd be inclined to back up your phone and then install a brand new, 100% fresh and stock firmware temporarily. That should in one swoop tell you if it is a hardware or software issue. Again, we are looking for expedient ways to narrow down the possible causes.
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Im Sorry it took so long to reply to you, The 2 apps u suggested did not work they wouldnt detect the SD Card, i put it into my laptop and backed up my data and i ran a chkdsk on it and it came back clean said nothing was wrong with it, i have hard disk sentinel installed on my laptop and ive run a surface scan on it that is doing read write read test selection on 2 passes and has been running all day.... the first pass came back clean on it but the second pass has picked up 4 bad blocks near the end of it... its come up "7/08/2014 9:43:09 PM ! Verify error, Sector: 99480300" afew times with different sectors on it, im wondering if the camera issue i experenced could have caused my card to screw up like this? or even the phone not booting back up without taking the battery out first after the camera issue happened? would you consider Transcend a good brand for SD Cards? mine was a Transcend Premium 300X Class 10 Micro SD Card 64GB, im thinking of getting a 64gb Samsung Pro Micro Sd Card now... are those good?

Hey mate! finally i have someone who has the same issue as me! this happened to me last week. i was going through my photos and they looked to be all corrupted. i didnt take much notice as i didnt really need them. i was at the gym and my music was all gone. it was all saved to my samsung 32gb SD card. i got home and there was a message saying SD card is damaged. i lost everything. i did a format and nothing happened. it still said SD card failed.
i went and bought a new Samsung Evo 32gb SD card and it is doing the same thing. i plug it into my laptop it works fine. when i chuck it back into my s5 it says its corrupt. i have no idea whats going on. SD card reader in the phone maybe damaged somehow? i dont i have ever dropped my s5. its driving me mad.

My wife's 64GB card is now doing the same. Formatted and working twice. Images all saved to cloud but a pain waiting for it to happen again.
Ordered a new 64GB card today. Hoping that sorts the issue. If not its return to store time. Happy knox is intact.
Sent from my Galaxy S5 running NeatRom 0X1

my galaxy S5 does not read SD card also..
i think most likely is the software issue.

Just wanted to chime in here. I have a hardware failure with my s5 SD reader, and it was my fault. I had to replace my digitizer, hence putting My Straight talk sim into a temp phone for a fee days.
I cut my sim down to nano size for the temp phone, then stuck the now nano sim back in the s5 after repair, I didn't have a sim converter, and ended up bending pins. Thankfully the sim still works but I toasted my SD slot. Not only will it not read any SD card, it breaks any working one i put in it. I'm a hardware guy, so I'm going to give a go at fixing it, but I'm pretty sure the whole assembly is soldered to the board, no replacing this assembly. At least I don't believe so.

SD Card Help 64 GB SanDisk Ultra XC1

Hi all,
I have searched the forum before posting this (know the drill) but can't seem to find a answer to my particular question. And I should probably preface this with, I'm completely new to Android after using iOS for a number of years - wow what an eye opener!
I have purchased this SD Card to use within my Moto G4 -
SanDisk Ultra Micro SD
XC1
64GB
It's red and grey in colour.
I originally set it up as adoptable storage, but since my main use for this was to be able to sync Spotify playlists offline, I had read that internal storage (the old fashioned way) was the way to go. So I used the phone to format the SD card. Now, because of the size, my presumptions were that this was in exFAT format. Regardless of this however, I figured that the best thing was to let the phone handle it.
This however, was causing me issues with "Storage Area Not Found" etc with Spotify - too much information, cut a long story short - I ended up formatting the whole thing in Windows using a 3rd party tool to FAT32. This then seemingly solved the issue, or so I thought.
I'd mentioned this in length on the Spotify forum (thinking that it was Spotify at fault) and the guys on there suggested that I let the phone do it's thing and format the card. However, the camera will give me an error message saying that it couldn't save the image.
So now i'm here - Guys I have no idea how to make this work!
The current situation, I have a 64GB card, formatted by android that (seemingly) every time I turn the phone off, won't be recognised by Spotify or my camera (possibly other apps), unless I unmount and remount it again.
I receive the error message in my camera that the photo can not be saved, and the Storage option in Spotify doesn't appear which indicates that It can't recognise the SD.
Just to be clear, the SD card mounts on boot and is clearly mounted when I navigate to Storage and USB (and when I use ES File Explorer), but something in the background is not telling the other apps that it's there!
ANY ideas on how to set this up properly would be GREATLY appreciated! Thanks for your time reading through this.

Most likely your SD card is broken, I recently bought the same SanDisk 64GB red/gray card and mine is not recognized by the OS. Simply file a RMA with Sandisk and they will send you a new card with a week. These cards have lifetime warranties and remember to backup precious data in multiple location.

carolvityboyz said:
Most likely your SD card is broken, I recently bought the same SanDisk 64GB red/gray card and mine is not recognized by the OS. Simply file a RMA with Sandisk and they will send you a new card with a week. These cards have lifetime warranties and remember to backup precious data in multiple location.
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Thank for this! I have just filed an RMA so will see what will happen. Does your replacement work ok? If you, did you do anything special to get it working, or just popped it in the phone and off you go?

Did you select to allow the camera/photo viewer app, and spotify, permissions to the sdcard? In newer releases of android every app that requires media extensions must be allowed permission to access the said media. You would have been asked the first time you opened either application.

JKASS5 said:
Did you select to allow the camera/photo viewer app, and spotify, permissions to the sdcard? In newer releases of android every app that requires media extensions must be allowed permission to access the said media. You would have been asked the first time you opened either application.
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Thanks for the reply mate. Yes I had noticed this, which I think is a great addition to android. Can't believe it wasn't there prior to 6.0, but yes I'd made sure the correct permissions are set.
It seems to be either the SD Card, or something happens with the phone restarts, or goes in to a deep sleep so to speak.

Just to give an update.
I've managed to arrange a replacement card via SanDisk, pretty good customer service - even though it's scripted.
I've subsequently managed to find a 32GB class 10 card I had, formatted it in windows and popped it in - so far so good, so I suspect a dodgy SD card for now. I've heard of manufacturers saying that they support a certain format/size, but in reality the phone/OS struggles!
Thanks for the responses!