My galaxy tab fail to detect the internal sd and external sd card today. Don't know why.
The case is that:
if I use the application "my files" I have the following message
No SD card is inserted in your phone
in the the menu card and SD memory:
I have
Internal SD card
Total space not available
Space available not available
any possible action on:
Disassemble the SD card
Mount Sd Card
Format SD card
menus are dimmed
External SD card
Total space not available
Space available not available
any possible action on:
Disassemble the SD card
Format SD card
menus are dimmed
phone's internal storage can be shown as usual.
The above problem happened after backup all the apps (about 90 apps) into sd card (I am not sure which one) and then I shut down galaxy tab and put out the external sd card for copying some files. I returned the external sd card to the galaxy tab and switched it on. Then I found that it cannot detect the internal sd card and external sd card.
I had tried to hard reset it and still fail to solve the problem.
Help!
Anyone can help me?
I just got the phone for half day.
Panda2020
Weird thing, I got that same message today on my tab, but it was for a sec and disappeared.
However when i went inside the my files, all content and everything was ok.
Don't know why it gave that message.
Also i got the message for external sd card - not internal. (have a 32 gb one added).
I have exactly the same issue. I just got my today and have being going crazy on internet all day to try and find a solution to it...anybody has any idea on how to fix this...this is driving me crazy...
My external sd did that to me yesterday, had to format it on pc
leetut said:
My external sd did that to me yesterday, had to format it on pc
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how to reformat internal sd card ?
Im also facing the same issue. Cant mount both my Internal Sd and External SD.
I had a related problem. My tab originally had no external SD card, but there was a folder in storage called "external_sd". This is where I've been putting my music etc.
Today I went to add and actual external SD card. Upon doing so, the file explorer on the device now shows the new external card as "external_sd", and its icon portrays an SD card rather than merely a folder.
Problem was, my original "external_sd" folder was now nowhere to be found.
However, upon mounting via USB, my PC detects both storage devices - the internal memory containing the "external_sd" folder, and the actual external SD card.
So on a hunch I renamed the "external_sd" folder on my internal memory to "internal_sd", unmounted, and low-and-behold, I can now see my "external_sd" card, and my "internal_sd" folder.
It seems like Samsung mistakenly named a folder "external_sd" and this name collides with the name of an actual external SD. I never questioned the name, I just assumed they included memory that was logically external, but physically internal. Seems instead they just had a dumb name for a folder.
...or something else I don't understand.
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how to reformat internal sd card ?
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Settings/ storage then format sd
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So my phone detected my SD card finally, and I tried to format it using the "Format SD card" option under "SD card & phone storage"
It formatted my internal memory instead and I lost all my pictures ಠ_ಠ
Now it won't even detect my internal memory. It doesn't show up in explorer either.
What do?
Hi,
I formatted my external Sandisk SD Card 16GB as internal storage. Went to my native place and took tons of photos and videos. Everything was working good. Suddenly while coming back my phone lagged a lot and after a restart it failed to detect the SD Card. The problem still persists. I am feeling really bad for the photos and videos I will be loosing from it.
Need help in getting all my data back.
I did a little research and found out that the SD card is encrypted in the external-to-internal process and so any PC recovery applications wont be useful.
Did any one else face this issue?
Thanks
Did you migrated any Data to the Internal ? . If so just Migrate them back to the SD Card . Now you should be able to reformat as portable as the Format to Portable would be available.
This disappearance of either Internal Storage or External SD Card is caused because Android excludes to display the Storage Disk which has less files on it . So It doesn't show it . I had the issue but resolved it by re-migrating data from my SD CARD to INTERNAL which i migrated to my SD Card . Then I had the option to Format to Portable ( In the drop down menu of Storage & USB ) . Hit the Thanks If I helped you out
If i format my SD Card as internal storage on stock ROM and than change my ROM. Will it still be readable in new OS? or i will have to format it again and lose my data.
if i fomat my SD card as a internal and i format my internal storage via TWRP. I lost my SD card data???