Hello,
I recently tried to flash the Epic Sense ROM and it screwed up my SD Card, it wouldn't install system files and I was waiting over an hour. I pulled the battery out and ever since then, I wasn't able to paste any files to it because there was no paste option. I decided to format, but I was not able to because it said that the card was write-protected. I even made sure that the switch on the side was unlocked. I tried using CWM to format, but no luck. Is there anyway I can fix this?
Thanks
I have also tried the manage computer and tried to format using that, but the format option was greyed out I wish someone could help me fix this.
i went through this but it was cuz the switch was on lock
have you tried to format it through the phone?
A_Flying_Fox said:
i went through this but it was cuz the switch was on lock
have you tried to format it through the phone?
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Same here. Its always the little things that jam me up..lol
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It won't format through phone, it says cannot delete folder whenever I try. I used ESFileExplorer and Astro, I even tried the CWM formatter, but no luck. Does anyone know how I can format the card or make it readable again?
Thanks
gokuman56 said:
It won't format through phone, it says cannot delete folder whenever I try. I used ESFileExplorer and Astro, I even tried the CWM formatter, but no luck. Does anyone know how I can format the card or make it readable again?
Thanks
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Did you try pulling SD card, put it directly in PC, save everything to PC, format card, then put SD back in phone and format. Then put whet you want back on SD from your PC
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JohnCorleone said:
Did you try pulling SD card, put it directly in PC, save everything to PC, format card, then put SD back in phone and format. Then put whet you want back on SD from your PC
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Yeah, I tried formatting on PC, says write protected. I can only copy the files, and then I tried putting it on the phone and formatting, but it just makes me wait when I use CWM and then says its done, but nothing happens. When I use esFile Explorer, it just says that the files cannot be deleted.
If you have a way to try another computer, card reader, and Micro to mini adapter that might work.
Also, you might try this format utility written specifically for SD cards at the bottom of this page:
https://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/
It's also possible that your card was damaged by the flash or battery pull. At least 16 gb cards are pretty cheap these days.
I tried the formatter, said the card was write protected.
Any other options? or should I start searching for a micro sd card?
gokuman56 said:
I tried the formatter, said the card was write protected.
Any other options? or should I start searching for a micro sd card?
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I know you said you had the switch on the adapter in the unlock position, but I've had adapters who's switches were so loose that just inserting them in the reader slid the switch back to lock. Make sure that's not happening too. (unlock or writable is forward, towards the contacts. write protect is towards the end of the adapter that sticks out)
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I know you said you had the switch on the adapter in the unlock position, but I've had adapters who's switches were so loose that just inserting them in the reader slid the switch back to lock. Make sure that's not happening too.
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I'm 100% sure thats not the case because I have even tried formatting on my phone and also tried formatting another micro sd card with the same adapter.
gokuman56 said:
I'm 100% sure thats not the case because I have even tried formatting on my phone and also tried formatting another micro sd card with the same adapter.
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I'm out of ideas. A quick search on google doesn't bring up any software solutions either. Sorry.
sounds like its messed up i guess
to be clear, you went into Settings> SD Card> Format on the phone and it didnt work?
i agree with the other guy. atleast 16gb is pretty cheap these days lol
I've had this issue in the past. This is what I do.
Put it in a full size SD adapter and push the lock switch to lock.
Plug it into my laptop via either a built in SD card slot or a USB card reader (depending on which laptop I have in front of me.)
try to delete a file (it should tell me it's locked)
eject the card by right clicking on the drive and choosing eject
flip the lock switch back to unlocked
Plug it into my laptop via either a built in SD card slot or a USB card reader
try to delete a file
It usually lets me at that point and then I can format it via the phone. I did have one instance where I was never able to get it out of locked mode and I had to buy a replacement.
Good luck.
I have the same issue right now and i've been using an sd adapter and my laptop's reader all the time.
I coppied all my files on a folder and i'm doing a format right now (not quick)... :fingers-crossed:
Have you tried a pc with Linux or a Mac? I'm pretty sure that'll work!
I' ve fixed it but later on it got me the same msg again... So i had to transfer my files from my Mac. But i' ve found out that the transfer from recovery is working even if i can't transfer via the card reader of my laptop...
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My mini sd card isn't being seen by my phone. I plug it in and go to file explorer but I can never get to it. It appeared once but disappeared. It's only 512mb too. =(
Bump for the same issue. I'm on Core's 2.0 ROM using 1GB Kingston Micro SD w/a miniSD adapter.
My computer can read the card but the phone can't.
thejaredhuang said:
Bump for the same issue. I'm on Core's 2.0 ROM using 1GB Kingston Micro SD w/a miniSD adapter.
My computer can read the card but the phone can't.
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Try reformatting it on the pc - i prefer fat32 but try fat16 if that does not work.
Did you format the card with your computer? I had that problem with my card and had to find a way to remove the formatting that the computer did. I found the answer to my problem on the Cingular website.
Insert your card into your card reader. Right click "My Computer" and click on "Manage". Then left click "Disk Management", find your card and delete the partition. At this point, you can then stick the card into the phone and it will ask if you would like to format the card. Even though the computer will not recognize the card, your phone will.
I don't know the circumstances of what caused the problem, but if you did what I did, then the above helped me salvage a perfectly good (and new) miniSD card.
Curious D said:
Did you format the card with your computer? I had that problem with my card and had to find a way to remove the formatting that the computer did. I found the answer to my problem on the Cingular website.
Insert your card into your card reader. Right click "My Computer" and click on "Manage". Then left click "Disk Management", find your card and delete the partition. At this point, you can then stick the card into the phone and it will ask if you would like to format the card. Even though the computer will not recognize the card, your phone will.
I don't know the circumstances of what caused the problem, but if you did what I did, then the above helped me salvage a perfectly good (and new) miniSD card.
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Similar to what i have done to resurrect some cards when all seems lost.
Goto control panel - administrative tools - computer management - disk management.
Now attach card to pc via card reader or wm5torage and with luck it will appear on the list of drives - now format or do as curious d described.
Curious D said:
Did you format the card with your computer? I had that problem with my card and had to find a way to remove the formatting that the computer did. I found the answer to my problem on the Cingular website.
Insert your card into your card reader. Right click "My Computer" and click on "Manage". Then left click "Disk Management", find your card and delete the partition. At this point, you can then stick the card into the phone and it will ask if you would like to format the card. Even though the computer will not recognize the card, your phone will.
I don't know the circumstances of what caused the problem, but if you did what I did, then the above helped me salvage a perfectly good (and new) miniSD card.
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I stuck it in my phone first then I decided to put files on it. There was a temp folder on it (presumably from the phone, so I'm guessing it read on its first attempt). Then I deleted the temp folder (probably shouldn't have) and put my files on it. After that my phone wouldn't read it any more. The computer could and my old SX66 could as well.
I opened disk management and it won't let me delete the partition. Partition Magic won't either because I'm guessing it doesn't see removable drives. I formatted it again and I'm still out of luck.
Thanks for the tips guys.
I've got a Kingston 2GB microSD in a miniSD adapter. At first, it would not recognize it at all...after many insertions/resets/powering off&on. Took the advice to reformat it to FAT32 on my PC then reinserted it. Still no go. Soft resetted it and bingo, it worked. I then removed it to transfer my files from my 1GB miniSD, reinserted and then it wouldn't see it. Removed, reinserted. Still no go. After soft-reset, it finally worked.
I know that my phone does have an issue with recognizing an inserted miniSD...sometimes it does sometimes it doesn't. Usually by inserting it firmly it would work. But maybe the microSD makes it even more flaky.
In short, I think the FAT32 format and the soft-reset makes it work...presuming you can get your phone to physically recognize it.
So i read on droidxforums.com that i can that i could use my internal memory for my music by using root explorer to move it to a music directory within /system. and an app called Astro Player I tried just moving one album to the /system. when i opened Astroplayer it automatically read all the rest of my music. so i figured i would take my music off the SD completely. after deleting it it still showed up within Astro. however the Directory what gone from SD. soi wasnt sure if there were still some reminisce or something left.
So i figured i could copy all my important info to my pc and format the SD and format. I inserted the SD directly to my pc via an adapter and tried to format. It failed to complete. so i tried putting it into my phone and tring that way.
I now get a pop op that says i need to format before i can use it. I click to format and it tells me there is no disc.
did i just kill the sd card? is there any way of formatting and getting it back to normal?
any advice is appreciated. thank you so much.....
What are you trying to format it with on the pc? If you are on linux i would recommend giving gparted a try. It has always worked for me. Make sure you format it to FAT...
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you likely formatted it to NTFS in windows, reformat it again to FAT, and make sure it's fully seated in the slot of your phone.
Formatting an SD card won't break it.
Problem Fixed!
No i was trying to format it Fat32 via windows. But i was trying to do a "quick format"
Formated without "quick format" selected. Took about an hour. but everything is back to normal.
Thanks for the help you guys.
Lucky SOB. I had the same issue, and it was a bad SD card. I had the same problem, basically; started copying my music to SD card on the phone, phone froze and xfer hung in Windows at about 15% of the card filled, did a battery pull and tried doing a full format (fat32 of course, which is the default for memory cards in any version of Windows, by the way; only way you get NTFS is if you manually select it, or the card was already NTFC) and it hung at about 15% of the way through. I pulled the 8GB micro SDHC card from my HTC Touch Pro, did a full format on my laptop no problems, put it in my Droid X and filled it, no problems. I'm waiting for a call from Costco as to when I can get the memory card swapped.
@ixobelle: formatting an SD card when it's bad can definitely "break" it (to be more precise, 'expose the broken parts')
I have a MyTouch 4G rooted, with Ice Glacier 1.1.6 and I was trying to remove some files from my SD card and when i eject my phone, all the files i deleted appeared back onto the sd card. I tried everything to fix this problem. When i tried to format the card using a card reader, i get an error saying format wasnt able to be complete. i tried error checking as well. i am not able to add files to the sd card too. does anybody know what is going on??
thanks!
Try formatting it thru the phone.
Settings -> Storage -> Format SD Cards
just tried that, did not work. after i click format, the sd card would get mounted again and everything is still on the sd card..
this is what i have noticed, i can delete files using astro and it will stay off until i unmount it and mount it again. thats when the files appear back on the sd card.
Hmm... can you open the files on your PC?
yeah i can open files on my PC. this is weird. when i take pics, itll save onto the sd card but will be gone when i unmount or connect my phone to the computer so i can see the files on the sd card
I've heard of this once before. Solution was to put the sd card into an adapter and format with a camera.
format with a camera? meaning to plug this sd card in a digital camera and plug the camera into the pc then format?
No, format through the cameras menu options.
whenever i tried to turn on my camera with this messed up sd card in there, the camera doesnt even want to boot up....any other suggestions??
Sorry, thats all I got.
Sounds like a bad disk. Run a CHKDSK /f from your pc.
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chkdsk didnt work. at the end of the process, it says "disk error occurred during the writing of the file allocation" ??
It appears you need to go shopping. However, the SD card should be replaceable under warranty, unless our warranties specifically exclude the card. Call your local T-Mobile dealer and see if they'll replace it.
Yeah I think its time for a larger memory card anyway. So all I have to do is copy everything from my old memory card onto the new one that I will get then stick it in my phone right?
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Every time I connect my Rooted Nook Simple Touch to my laptop to transfer books, I get the blue screen. I then shut down the computer and restart it. When I re connect the Nook, everything works just fine. However, I do get the pop up that says whether I want to scan and fix the memory card in Nook.
Does anyone know whats wrong here? I am now afraid to connect my Nook to my computer fearing that it may crash it.
Almost the same thing happened to me once, perhaps the issue is with your micro sd card.
I would suggest you try to backup and format your micro sd, might be corrupt or something. Worth a shot.
mantion said:
Almost the same thing happened to me once, perhaps the issue is with your micro sd card.
I would suggest you try to backup and format your micro sd, might be corrupt or something. Worth a shot.
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How Do I format it? Will I lost my root if i format the sd card?
sLiKK said:
How Do I format it? Will I lost my root if i format the sd card?
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You connect your micro sd to your computer from an adapter (NOT YOUR NOOK) and you format with a program like sdformatter or the default windows formatter.
You WILL lose all data from your micro sd, but not the root. Therefore try backing it up first and recopying the things you really need.
Hello,
My GS4 (1337) isn't detecting my microSD card. My computer reads it and I've reformatted using SDFormatter, as recommended by many users in this forum (FAT32).
It's not detected in CWM 6.0.4.8 and PhilZ Touch 6.43.8, either... I've tried multiple ROMs and nothing seems to work. I've tried two different SD cards, as well. Each ROM just says to "insert SD card"
Are there any settings in ServiceMenu options that might be affecting it?
I've gotten 2 replacement SD Card/SIM card readers off of eBay and neither of those replacements have done the trick. Thinking there's something software related.
Thanks in advance for help.
diznanl
Formatting times in exFAT may go the
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Formatting times in exFAT may go the
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Unfortunately, that didn't work either. I wish I had another android device, to pop it in there, format it, and see if that works... it did for this user:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44192667&postcount=12
Does anyone have any other ideas?
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diznanl
diznanl said:
Unfortunately, that didn't work either. I wish I had another android device, to pop it in there, format it, and see if that works... it did for this user:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44192667&postcount=12
Does anyone have any other ideas?
Thanks,
diznanl
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Hi,
When I had an issue with a sdcard I plugged it into a camera and formatted from there. Maybe you have a friend who can lend a cellphone to you for this? Sorry, for now I'm out of ideas, only these two. If I come up with other idea I may post here again.
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if you insert it while the phone is ON, does it not even recognize that a card has been inserted? I thought that normally it will at least tell you that the inserted card is not readable and ask you if you want to format it?
is the card fully working on your pc? like, can you fill it with files to it's complete capacity without corruption and they are all read by the pc? if not then maybe a duff card? this is often the case if you buy cheap card online.
have you got a smaller capacity sd card that you can try in the phone just to rule out hardware issues on the phone itself?
Please cleans your micro sd hole with a spirit(which use in clean u r desplay)...nd format yor sd card in default extension. ..I think it worked...
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