SD card in, phone won't boot - EVO Shift 4G General

So yesterday I was trying to find a picture on my phone, but right before I clicked the gallery icon, the phone said "SD card suddenly disconnected" or something like that.
So I rebooted, which is what i usually do when I get a SD card error.
Now the phone won't boot with the SD card in. The computer shows the status bar on the top loading when I use a micro-sd adapter, but it will not respond and restart Explorer if I try to to right-click or access it.
I'd really like to get my pictures back at least.

I would try to put the sd card in another phone and try and see if it works. If it does, make a back up on your pc, then format your card. Then restore the back up.
Don't know if that would fix it but its worth a try.
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Yeah had similar thing happen other day. Phone popped up a little msg sayin "can't read sd card so popped it into comp copied to desktop reformatted card copied everything back all good
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Enraged21 said:
I would try to put the sd card in another phone and try and see if it works. If it does, make a back up on your pc, then format your card. Then restore the back up.
Don't know if that would fix it but its worth a try.
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+1 I would use SD Card Formatter . Works great, and it's free .

prboy1969 said:
+1 I would use SD Card Formatter . Works great, and it's free .
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Or, you know, just right click the drive and select format.

linuxman008 said:
Or, you know, just right click the drive and select format.
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Lol +1
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linuxman008 said:
Or, you know, just right click the drive and select format.
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Enraged21 said:
Originally Posted by linuxman008
Or, you know, just right click the drive and select format.
Lol +1
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Yes that works. But it also sometimes does not format the entire card . Such as in the case of an sd ext partitoned card.

Anyone know how to remove the partitions? Like get it back to the factory partitions?
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I guess this card is just going to get put away, the computer won't read it to format it, that's the problem.
If I try to right click the drive, it says not responding the Explorer crashes and restart.
I'm pretty sure I said that in the op.
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Did you try a different SD Card adapter?

prboy1969 said:
Did you try a different SD Card adapter?
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No. I did try it in another phone, an Evo. I did boot, but said the SD card was damaged and it needed to be formatted.
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I tried running chkdsk on it, it also froze up the cmd window.
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Well if you can get the SD Card to show in another phone. Place the SD Card into the other phone, boot into recovery and format it from there.

It won't mount or anything in the other phone.
I let the chkdsk run for a while, it finally said it cannot read RAW files.
I found a utility that is supposed to fix this error, I have yet to try it though.
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Well the card might actually be dead then. I would still try and see if you can format it some way. BUt from what your describing it might be done.

What rom were you using. I went throught 2 8gig card recently because of this in a really short span of time. I think it might have to do with the card getting partitioned in a way where part of the card isn't readily read anymore
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I'm using an old Rom. It's nfx stock v2.0.
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"removed external sd card"

Ok, I have a Samsung Fascinate.
Rooted, CWM, ROM Manager, Root Explorer, Titanium Backup, SetCPU, ASTRO, JT 1000 voodoo kernel with animation.
Ok the problem is and I am almost certain that what caused it is flashing JT's 1000 kernel over top the original 0.2 JT voodoo kernel. However I had read in the forums that people have done this with no problem and I believe in the install thread it says you CAN do it with indeed no problems. However soon after doing the flash everything was working great and I took a couple pictures at dinner which is how I know it was working. Later last night I went to take another picture while out and it wouldn't let me because the SD card wasn't being detected.
I have a sd card reader but not with me and won't until I get home later tonight but I figured maybe until then I can get some help to how to fix it for when I do get home.
I have took a 8gb mini sd from my girlfriends HTC Eris and put it in just to see if it would read which it does perfectly fine. However you plug my 16gb back into the phone and it doesn't even recognize plugging it into the phone.
Any ideas?
all the views and no replies?
any ideas would help guys!
Sounds like your sd card is corrupted. Did you try the card in another phone? Try to reformat the card.
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Copperhed said:
Sounds like your sd card is corrupted. Did you try the card in another phone? Try to reformat the card.
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the back up that I made and all, wouldn't that be on the sd card though?
I would think trying to save the card would be a better choice at first eh?
anyone else?
vecchioni27 said:
anyone else?
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If the card works in another device, then I would wonder if the problem could be voodoo specific, such as the 0 internal memory issue. As far as I know, the only fix for that is the complete voodoo removal process, and a wipe in both stock recovery and cwm.
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Daswolven said:
If the card works in another device, then I would wonder if the problem could be voodoo specific, such as the 0 internal memory issue. As far as I know, the only fix for that is the complete voodoo removal process, and a wipe in both stock recovery and cwm.
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I tried to put the card into my sd card reader on the computer and it wont read it...assuming its a bad card. When its in the phone the sd card reader slot heats up too a massive HOT temp really quick within second and doesn't do anything. I guess I am gonna unroot using another sd card and take the phone to verizon and be like wtf....
I un-rooted and am gonna take the phone to the verizon store.
I plugged a 1GB from my old phone into the sd card slot and re-flashed CWM to see if I just removed the kernel's if maybe that would fix the sd card but I am almost positive its the sd card that is fried somehow...But it put the phone back to stock except it was rooted...not sure how that happened but i guess everything was on the sd card that I had done???
So confused but basically I am just gonna goto the store get a new card when they realize mine is bad and then re-do everything...Just never flashing a kernel on top of another one again whether people say its safe or not!
vecchioni27 said:
I un-rooted and am gonna take the phone to the verizon store.
I plugged a 1GB from my old phone into the sd card slot and re-flashed CWM to see if I just removed the kernel's if maybe that would fix the sd card but I am almost positive its the sd card that is fried somehow...But it put the phone back to stock except it was rooted...not sure how that happened but i guess everything was on the sd card that I had done???
So confused but basically I am just gonna goto the store get a new card when they realize mine is bad and then re-do everything...Just never flashing a kernel on top of another one again whether people say its safe or not!
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I can assure you that had nothing to do with your card. Sometimes you get a bad lot. I order about one a month for various things, and have had to RMA here and there. I swapped the one my phone adopted with for an 8gb class 10 anyway, because the stock are class 2.
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Daswolven said:
I can assure you that had nothing to do with your card. Sometimes you get a bad lot. I order about one a month for various things, and have had to RMA here and there. I swapped the one my phone adopted with for an 8gb class 10 anyway, because the stock are class 2.
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I am a bit confused...it sounds like you said it had nothing to do with the card but then went on to say how you RMAed a few here and there and such...lol
vecchioni27 said:
I am a bit confused...it sounds like you said it had nothing to do with the card but then went on to say how you RMAed a few here and there and such...lol
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Lol. I mean to say the kernel flashing cannot cause the sd card to fail. The card was probably bad to begin with. A bogus card will simply fail, sometimes after functioning fine for awhile.
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Lol. I mean to say the kernel flashing cannot cause the sd card to fail. The card was probably bad to begin with. A bogus card will simply fail, sometimes after functioning fine for awhile.
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oh ok, makes sense now...however a bad sd card pretty much screws me over because that is what held everything on it including the kernel and such along with all my apps?
vecchioni27 said:
oh ok, makes sense now...however a bad sd card pretty much screws me over because that is what held everything on it including the kernel and such along with all my apps?
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No. the install file for the kernel, but that installs it on the phone. Apps are stored on the internal memory, not the sd card. Pretty much, it just holds your music, pictures, application data in some instances (not the app itself), and any files you need to flash.
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No. the install file for the kernel, but that installs it on the phone. Apps are stored on the internal memory, not the sd card. Pretty much, it just holds your music, pictures, application data in some instances (not the app itself), and any files you need to flash.
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So when I get my new sd card tomorrow and load launcher pro back onto the phone, my apps should still be on the phone??
what if I can't even download launcher pro due to this problem of it not letting me download an app because it says I don't have enough internal memory available...
Whoa.
Now that problem is the internal memory issue, not the external sd card. That is voodoo related, and the post about completely removing voodoo addresses it. I ran into that once, and it took about soften minutes to fix following those instructions.
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vecchioni27 said:
So when I get my new sd card tomorrow and load launcher pro back onto the phone, my apps should still be on the phone??
what if I can't even download launcher pro due to this problem of it not letting me download an app because it says I don't have enough internal memory available...
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If its internal and not your sdcard here is your solution.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=804784
nemesis2all said:
If its internal and not your sdcard here is your solution.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=804784
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awesome, thanks!

SD card issue

So all of the sudden I get a notification that my memory card had a problem and that it's "read only".
It was totally fine then this. Is my card corrupted or is it a hardware thing?
I can get it to recognize it....then it goes right back to read only.
I've used the same card from my G2...to Nexus One...to Vibrant to my now MT4G.
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try formatting it with a card reader...
Probably messed up. Mine did it too and only thing I could do was format.
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So all of the sudden I get a notification that my memory card had a problem and that it's "read only".
It was totally fine then this. Is my card corrupted or is it a hardware thing?
I can get it to recognize it....then it goes right back to read only.
I've used the same card from my G2...to Nexus One...to Vibrant to my now MT4G.
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Dang. What about all the apps that I mved to SD and folders? Ill lose all of that? It wont allow me to move them back to the phone
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Vinsane said:
Dang. What about all the apps that I mved to SD and folders? Ill lose all of that? It wont allow me to move them back to the phone
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I will tell you the truth. You will lose everything. After this you will learn to backup your sd card on your computer.
I wiped out mine too. Somehow, my card became corrupted and would not mount. I lost everything. Still pisses me off.
Good news is there is a stock 'ROM' here and you can just start over. I know it sucks, but think of it as a learning experience. What else can you do?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=845756
One question I had is: Is there a way after it wont mount to get it to mount? Like... can you go into terminal and mount it at all?
Hope this eases you mind man.
jjlean said:
One question I had is: Is there a way after it wont mount to get it to mount? Like... can you go into terminal and mount it at all?
Hope this eases you mind man.
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You can put in into another android phone and it will work just fine (most likely). Has happened to me multiple times in G2 (part of a reason it went back to t-mo).
Alternatively, you can try USB mount option in ClockworkMod recovery and see if phone will recognize your card in recovery, you can then copy everything over to PC and re-format the card.
Wait! Before you reformat, plug it into a Windows machine and run checkdisk on it. I just had this problem yesterday and this fixed it for me. I didnt lose my data or anything because it wasnt reformatted. Just check both the boxes on the dialog box when you run checkdisk and hopefully itll work for you too.
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How to run Chkdsk from My Computer or from Windows Explorer
Double-click My Computer, and then right-click the hard disk that you want to check.
Click Properties, and then click Tools.
Under Error-checking, click Check Now. A dialog box that shows the Check disk options is displayed,
Select the Automatically fix file system errors check box.
Select the Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors check box, and then click Start.
I too have been experiencing this problem, and have tried almost everything to fix this crap! but no luck, I'm not sure what's causing this, but I've tried several SD cards already and even replaced my phone thinking it was the device card reader, but I still have the same problem... Hope someone can shed some light on this matter...
But to the OP before you go formatting it, you can try to save the files on your SD first by going to recovery > connect device > mounts and storage > mount USB storage. You should see your files from the SD card so you can back those up at least.
Good luck!
Had that happen to me when I popped in a new card. Put the old one back in, same thing happened.
Turned out that the restore didn't work correctly. Was able to restore the stock backup I made after rooting and haven't had issues since. I played around trying to get different kernels working, and had to restore a few times. The one time just didn't take fully.
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I got it fixed without loosing anything! Plugged it into a machine that I just updated to win 7..and it said there was a problem with my card and if I wanted windows to see if it could fix it. Yes. It worked!
Check disk is it!
Backed up all my card and plugged it back into the phone...and it works great again.
Thanks for the feedback and help guys
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Nice!
Vinsane said:
I got it fixed without loosing anything! Plugged it into a machine that I just updated to win 7..and it said there was a problem with my card and if I wanted windows to see if it could fix it. Yes. It worked!
Check disk is it!
Backed up all my card and plugged it back into the phone...and it works great again.
Thanks for the feedback and help guys
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Good to know, I suggest backin up often now though. I still get random sd corruption every few days after the first one. Its like my phone got devirginized or something lol.
Vinsane said:
I got it fixed without loosing anything! Plugged it into a machine that I just updated to win 7..and it said there was a problem with my card and if I wanted windows to see if it could fix it. Yes. It worked!
Check disk is it!
Backed up all my card and plugged it back into the phone...and it works great again.
Thanks for the feedback and help guys
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Glad I could help

new micro sd error!!!!

could be a very noob question but cant find any solution... i just purchased a 32 gb micro sd for my evo... evo reads all the files n everything on it but when i try to flash a rom or anything from that sd card it says "cant open /sdcard/.... (bad)" any idea what this error is n why am i getting it ??? what am i doing wrong ?? i simply formatted it n coppied a new rom to it so i could start fresh but seems like thats not happening.. help guys....
metallized said:
could be a very noob question but cant find any solution... i just purchased a 32 gb micro sd for my evo... evo reads all the files n everything on it but when i try to flash a rom or anything from that sd card it says "cant open /sdcard/.... (bad)" any idea what this error is n why am i getting it ??? what am i doing wrong ?? i simply formatted it n coppied a new rom to it so i could start fresh but seems like thats not happening.. help guys....
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Search google for a tool to format your card with. Most of the time you can format it normally as fat32 but youre actually supposed to format it them a special way
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i actually formatted my card from the fone itself... n i just realise that while i boot my fone to recovery it does not read anything like normally it reads all the images on ur sd card.... but when i open file explorer it does read all the fines on it..... just wont read while flashing...
What brand model card?
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spiicytuna said:
What brand model card?
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its sandisk 32gb micro sdhc
n everytime i use a card reader to put it on my computer it reads n does everything perfectly but give me a messege as soon as i put it in the computer sd card slot saying "please insert the last disk of the Multi-Volume set and click OK to continue" i don know if that has anything to do with it...
Where did you buy the card from?
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disastar said:
Where did you buy the card from?
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radio shack...
Do a google search for the multi volume error and see what pops up.
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disastar said:
Do a google search for the multi volume error and see what pops up.
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nothing so far.... doesn't hboot requires some files on sd card to boot onto recovery successfully ??? i tried copying those files from my old sd card but did not help.... and funny thing, when i search multi volume error on google the first link is this page rite here..... lol
metallized said:
nothing so far.... doesn't hboot requires some files on sd card to boot onto recovery successfully ??? i tried copying those files from my old sd card but did not help.... and funny thing, when i search multi volume error on google the first link is this page rite here..... lol
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Formatting it differently didn't help?
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xHausx said:
Formatting it differently didn't help?
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nop... formatted it from computer=no good, on the fone=no good, using a different software=no good....
Exchange the card it may be bad, I've held off buying a 32gb card because half of the reviews on Newegg for 32gb cards are negative and report failures or DOAs. Seems like the techs a little immature. Sandisk is the most reliable brand though.
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nop... formatted it from computer=no good, on the fone=no good, using a different software=no good....
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Try scanning it from windows to see if it shows any bad sectors, you may have a bad card
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xHausx said:
Try scanning it from windows to see if it shows any bad sectors, you may have a bad card
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if it had any bad sectors why would it work with no problems on my computer... with sd reader or usb reader...... i think its not working coz it does not have those rsa keys on it n simply copying to the new sd does not work....

Sd card won't mount via phone or pc. Help?

So this morning I was deleteing files off my sd card from my phone. Then tried to mount it through my computer to put some files on. Wouldn't mount on the pc via the phone.
Disconnected it and it no longer was mounted on my phone.
Took out the card and used a card reader and it no longer was able to be read on my pc without the phone.
Anyone have any ideas to get my sd card back and working. Currently I had to resort to using a 2gb card that I could fill within seconds.
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InfDaMarvel said:
So this morning I was deleteing files off my sd card from my phone. Then tried to mount it through my computer to put some files on. Wouldn't mount on the pc via the phone.
Disconnected it and it no longer was mounted on my phone.
Took out the card and used a card reader and it no longer was able to be read on my pc without the phone.
Anyone have any ideas to get my sd card back and working. Currently I had to resort to using a 2gb card that I could fill within seconds.
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maybe the card magically stopped working? lol (no joking actually)
Had this happen to me once.
Had to reformat, then use recovery software to get my files back.
Lol its okay i really dont expect people to know the answer. Ill just try cleaning it.
@theguyabove
What software did you use?
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InfDaMarvel said:
Lol its okay i really dont expect people to know the answer. Ill just try cleaning it.
@theguyabove
What software did you use?
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how are u gonna clean it if u just said the pc wont read it at all? if it reads only thing u can do is format it
Clean the metal strips. It doesnt read at all. Its just found, as in my pc sees a storage device and so does my phone somewhat.
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Problem solved, just had to fight a dragon.
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InfDaMarvel said:
So this morning I was deleteing files off my sd card from my phone. Then tried to mount it through my computer to put some files on. Wouldn't mount on the pc via the phone.
Disconnected it and it no longer was mounted on my phone.
Took out the card and used a card reader and it no longer was able to be read on my pc without the phone.
Anyone have any ideas to get my sd card back and working. Currently I had to resort to using a 2gb card that I could fill within seconds.
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Mine did this yesterday after flashing a ROM. Lost everything. I was able to see things using CWM but not the phone itself or the PC. Formatted it with CWM and it wiped everything but still the phone or computer wouldnt read it. I waited a couple hours and loaded it back into my computer and just left it. A couple minutes later Windows popped up a box asking if I wanted to format it. I did a quick format and it read the card size. Previously it errored out saying it could not format it. I dont know what happened and why it all of a sudden worked
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Problem solved, just had to fight a dragon.
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what did you do to solve the problem? I've run into a similar issue, here is a link to a thread I created in Q&A
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1218414
I still won't have access to a pc until tomorrow, hopefully ubuntu will be able to work some magic for me
I formatted after using the options under error checking failed. Everything moved exceptionalling slow while doing this however.
I did it under windws xp. Not much difference with win7 or vista I suppose. Ubuntu even.
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Everyone having SD card issues, before you format it or do other crazy stuff, try going into your gallery on the phone first. Works for me everytime my sd goes "invisible"
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SD card not working with iCS rom

I have this problem were the sd card will not take anything on it. If I place a new folder and a picture on it, it erases itself on its own. Or I'll put a album on there and maybe 5-8 songs might appear. I am running passion ics with a 32gb sd card. Just want to know if there is a zip that needs to be flashed or if this is a problem. Thanks for reading!
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thepa said:
I have this problem were the sd card will not take anything on it. If I place a new folder and a picture on it, it erases itself on its own. Or I'll put a album on there and maybe 5-8 songs might appear. I am running passion ics with a 32gb sd card. Just want to know if there is a zip that needs to be flashed or if this is a problem. Thanks for reading!
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i had a lot of issues with a sd card that i used with my computer or camera before using it on the phone. search for a program called SDFormatter and format your card. you should be ok after that
mikka06 said:
i had a lot of issues with a sd card that i used with my computer or camera before using it on the phone. search for a program called SDFormatter and format your card. you should be ok after that
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At first I was a little worried about using this program, but I ran it and it worked for about 2 hours. Out of no where the music that I was moving over kept disappearing and stopped allowing me to copy files from the pc to the sd. I tried formatting the card after that and I was allowed to put the files that were on there before formatting but nothing after that. Is there any other solution to this fiasco that I am faced with!
I have a similar issue. I haven't tried writing anything to my SD card, but it looks like its empty in MIUI and ES file explorers. I can boot into recovery and see that the files are there. Any suggestions?
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