SD card not being detected - AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin

Anyone else having issue with the phone not detecting/mounting an SD card?
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jjgrantham said:
Anyone else having issue with the phone not detecting/mounting an SD card?
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I don't have my S4 yet, but when I got my S3 at launch, I had to format my SD Card with my PC for my phone to read it. Could be worth a shot.

Ok cool thanks ill try that.
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Quick question.. Can you try this out for me? I am having a similiar issue with the microSD card. Put music or video in the sd card and navigate to it using the My Files app. I can access everything on my sd card via My Files app explorer but the stock music app or 3rd party apps cant detect it.

JIM2004 said:
I don't have my S4 yet, but when I got my S3 at launch, I had to format my SD Card with my PC for my phone to read it. Could be worth a shot.
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This worked. Thanks

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SD card becomes Read-Only after a while

After using my phone for sometime, the SD card becomes read only.. I can't modify anything on the card. Apps like Zedge don't start because it says SD not detected. The camera clicks pictures but nothing gets saved. However i can watch videos and play songs but cant write anything on the card. Remounting the SD solves the problem temporarily.
Running stock GB rom, rooted. Does anyone else have this problem? How do i fix it?
Boot the phone w/o SD once and see if help if not u might need to reformat ur sd
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Booted without SD, and re-inserted it again. Lets see if it happens anytime soon
Still happens. It happens when phone isnt in use for long time(while im sleeping). Help anyone?
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formatting the card didn't help..the problem still exists..can anyone please help?
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I faced a similar problem with my defy
Try to install MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition (google it, its free)
use external card reader to mount sd card and select the memory card
select wipe the select the last choice (phases) the select apply, it will take more than 8 hours to finish
then insert to your mobile
also it is better to install CM7.1
I made that it and it worked for me
In custom ROMS this has never happened to me.. when i reverted back to stock i found this issue
8 hours? really?
Me too facing the same problem!!!
oSandmaNo said:
After using my phone for sometime, the SD card becomes read only.. I can't modify anything on the card. Apps like Zedge don't start because it says SD not detected. The camera clicks pictures but nothing gets saved. However i can watch videos and play songs but cant write anything on the card. Remounting the SD solves the problem temporarily.
Running stock GB rom, rooted. Does anyone else have this problem? How do i fix it?
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I use 4 GB class 4 SD card on my Micromax Canvas 2 Plus A110q....after a month or so, my SD card turned read only...I tried to format it and was successful..but when I remounted it, the files were back!! I changed my mmc and got a new 4 GB class 4 SD Card....but after some time, it also turned read only!! I have also googled it and found no results!! If u anywhere get the solution, plz tell me also..
DarkSJ1998 said:
I use 4 GB class 4 SD card on my Micromax Canvas 2 Plus A110q....after a month or so, my SD card turned read only...I tried to format it and was successful..but when I remounted it, the files were back!! I changed my mmc and got a new 4 GB class 4 SD Card....but after some time, it also turned read only!! I have also googled it and found no results!! If u anywhere get the solution, plz tell me also..
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Use external card reader and use HDD low level format tool.
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Solution!
oSandmaNo said:
After using my phone for sometime, the SD card becomes read only.. I can't modify anything on the card. Apps like Zedge don't start because it says SD not detected. The camera clicks pictures but nothing gets saved. However i can watch videos and play songs but cant write anything on the card. Remounting the SD solves the problem temporarily.
Running stock GB rom, rooted. Does anyone else have this problem? How do i fix it?
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Your adapter at mobile is locked ???
Can be it...

[Q] microSD card formatting problem...

I had used my 8GB microSD card to get the process going to install CM on my nook. But now that I want to use this card for something else, nothing I can do in Windows will reformat the card to completely free up the 8GB. Can anyone make sense of this for me?
tinpanalley said:
I had used my 8GB microSD card to get the process going to install CM on my nook. But now that I want to use this card for something else, nothing I can do in Windows will reformat the card to completely free up the 8GB. Can anyone make sense of this for me?
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You need to use a Windows program called SDFormatter. It is free on the web. It has an option to automatically adjust the size for you. Plus it makes it in the right format where the nook can easily read it.
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Did that. Worked perfectly.
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just for reference, it can be found under downloads on
www.sdcard.org
it works great!

Sd card

Is anyone having problem with there sd card I get a error saying it a blank sd card but when I put it back n my note 2 everything still on it
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I even tried to format it
have you tried formatting the card?
Yes I formatted it still don't work but I put it n my note 2 it works
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MicroSD "Blank" - Galaxy Note 3
I am having the same issue, phone refuses to see my SD card. Has anyone figured out a work around for this, or is it most likely a hardware issue? Galaxy Note 3 (SM-N900V), non rooted.
Have tried multiple microSD's (SanDisk 32GB HC C4, Sandisk 32GB HC U1) that both read correctly on PC. Have tried reformatting with through Windows --> my computer --> format and with SDA SD formatter software (full format, not quick). Phone still will not recognize it.
Also tried connecting phone via USB with SD card inserted, it doesn't show up anywhere in the directory to try formatting it there (image attached). I do get the option to format what I am assuming is the entire phone, this seems like a poor decision.
I have dug around the forum, the majority of the fix's point towards reformatting via PC, does not seem to solve the issue for me. Any advice very much appreciated!! Really hoping it isn't going to require a new phone.
Thanks!
You could do a factory reset and see if that helps. If not, you might have a bad SD card slot.
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Bad SD card slot
Yep it was a bad SD card slot. Had Amazon send a replacement, read the card right away.
The problem was the phone it was a brand new phone I went to Verizon in they replace it with a new at the store
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KitKat 4.4.2 and SD card

What was all the commotion about a while back regarding KitKat and SD cards? My phone seems to function EXACTLY the same as a phone running 4.2.2. I can move files about on the SD card, I can install appd to SD card, I can use third party apps to move files around on the SD card...
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4.2.2?never seen on a note 3
The 4.2.2 part was in reference to my old phone, the Galaxy Mega 6.3
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U talking about coming from asop rom into tw rom there's a problem with the SD card?
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waynester21 said:
What was all the commotion about a while back regarding KitKat and SD cards? My phone seems to function EXACTLY the same as a phone running 4.2.2. I can move files about on the SD card, I can install appd to SD card, I can use third party apps to move files around on the SD card...
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I am on MDK bootloader unlocked and one day I tried aosp and kitkat 4.4.2, it was running fine and I still could move app to sd card as usual but later I found out my sd card became useless, I still can use the card to store any thing but I cannot delete file that I stored from sd card and card cannot be formatted either. Does kitkat 4.4.2 broke the sd card? It seems that I can delete everything from card successfully but when I check card again, all files I deleted are still on the card. Does anyone have any idea?
urcboss07 said:
I am on MDK bootloader unlocked and one day I tried aosp and kitkat 4.4.2, it was running fine and I still could move app to sd card as usual but later I found out my sd card became useless, I still can use the card to store any thing but I cannot delete file that I stored from sd card and card cannot be formatted either. Does kitkat 4.4.2 broke the sd card? It seems that I can delete everything from card successfully but when I check card again, all files I deleted are still on the card. Does anyone have any idea?
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Do you mean you back to touchwiz from aosp by restoring backup or by fresh install?
Rosli59564 said:
Do you mean you back to touchwiz from aosp by restoring backup or by fresh install?
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Google broke the SD card unless your rooted. The system can access the SD Card, but users can't write to it. If you have root you can edit the platform.xml and add R/W to media to fix the issue.
Samsung/ATT/T-Mobile could have fixed it but didn't. It's considered a security risk by Google, there are people that are for releasing the code as is and people that believe that Samsung should have addressed it.

Corrupted Memory Card!

Lately my Samsung 32GB EVO microSD HC Memory Card started acting in a weird way.
Following are the error I'm getting:
1-Unable to delete anything on the card
2-Unable to format the card using my beloved 6p.
3-I can copy stuff from the Sd card but cannot CUT or Delete anything.
Also tried Windows to Format the card,still no luck.
Any kind of help would be appreciated.
weirdzombie_21 said:
Lately my Samsung 32GB EVO microSD HC Memory Card started acting in a weird way.
Following are the error I'm getting:
1-Unable to delete anything on the card
2-Unable to format the card using my beloved 6p.
3-I can copy stuff from the Sd card but cannot CUT or Delete anything.
Also tried Windows to Format the card,still no luck.
Any kind of help would be appreciated.
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Use this program, I had same issue, https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html, hope it works.
00111101 said:
Use this program, I had same issue, https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html, hope it works.
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Tried that Tool,didn't work for me
Faulty card. I had 3 of them burn out on me. Got 2 rma'd,. Still have one bad one.
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