I turn my phone off at night because random emails wake me up. I turn on my phone this morning and I have an SD card icon in the notification area saying that my SD card is damaged. It says that I need to format it to fix the problem, but I wait to see if there is an easy fix like rebooting or something like that, but it was still there after rebooting. I was going to wait to backup my SD card on my computer before formatting, but one of my friends formated it without asking me first when I showed him what was happening...
Now the icon is gone, but my SD card is full of files that have weird characters (like greek letters and square root symbols) in their filenames, and I can't figure out what is going on.
The /sdcard folder contains the following:
.android_secure
Android
download
LOST.DIR
nandroid
tmp
and 4 files with weird characters as filenames.
Help! I don't know what to do!
UNCbassbone said:
I turn my phone off at night because random emails wake me up. I turn on my phone this morning and I have an SD card icon in the notification area saying that my SD card is damaged. It says that I need to format it to fix the problem, but I wait to see if there is an easy fix like rebooting or something like that, but it was still there after rebooting. I was going to wait to backup my SD card on my computer before formatting, but one of my friends formated it without asking me first when I showed him what was happening...
Now the icon is gone, but my SD card is full of files that have weird characters (like greek letters and square root symbols) in their filenames, and I can't figure out what is going on.
The /sdcard folder contains the following:
.android_secure
Android
download
LOST.DIR
nandroid
tmp
and 4 files with weird characters as filenames.
Help! I don't know what to do!
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I could be wrong but I think those are the standard folders that android makes when a card is formatted. As to why it happened I dont know. Maybe a bad sd card.
Try formatting it to a FAT32 on your computer then putting it in your phone and see what that does.
Just did that and it says:
"Windows could not complete the format."
Hm.... well are you having problems with saving anything to your sd card like pictures or anything. If not, then I wouldn't worry too much about it. Also can you mount your sd card to your computer and transfer files?
Don't worry about it..
You can completely wipe out your sd card if you wanted to and when you reboot it will reinstall back the files needed for the phone on the sd card.. If it is bothersome then just delete them.. It was probably just the lost&found garbage or whatever from the format... Seriously don't worry... LoL
I have those on my sd card but nothings wrong with my phone.
If someone could close this that would be great. Eventually my computer asked me to scan my sd card for errors and it fixed everything.
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This morning, my PDA suddenly showing many missing programs, all that I installed on SD Card disappeared!!. When I use File Explorer, it only shows that I have only 2 folders, Mail Attachment and Temp.. where are the rest??
The weird thing is that when I look at the capacity (using card reader)... it shows that I only have 300MB Free space, 700MB in use, which is about right. But why can't I see them? These two folders are only less than 1MB. Can anyone give me suggestion what to do? I'd like to retrieve all that are in my SD Card.
All comments would be greatly appreciated. Thx
it happened to me when i used my moto.. n i simply used a file recovery software n got all my data back.. it happens when u lose the mft...
Does it mean I have to start thinking of buying new SD Card? Why is this happening? corrupted SD Card?...
might be caused by a memory hole.. but... cant say specifically till u test all the MUXed bits of the card...
yeah.... Sometime My all of Data also lost...
too bad...
Same happened to me, but i go t to my data thru a card reader.... Had to hardreset for the prophet to see the data again...
rohanmaini said:
Same happened to me, but i go t to my data thru a card reader.... Had to hardreset for the prophet to see the data again...
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this happens in case the refernce bit from the fat table is lost.. not in case when MFT IS GONE
this guy had his mft dropped
it happened to me to!
It's happpened to me last week. When I inserted back SD card, card couldn't be read and asked me to format. I check with Pc it's also same. What I frustated most, My 2GB SD card becomes 1GB after reformating. What's wrong and how to gain back my previous 1GB?
This is really weird.. I think my SD card needs to retire.
After playing with it, I just couldn't bring back all the files and folders in my SD card, so I decided to reformat it and reinstall everything back again. After I finished reinstalling everything.. I was happy and I soft reset the SD Card again and boom, everything disappeared again, only Mail Attachment and Temp folders that were there..
This SD card is going to waste bin.
damn, i had just solved the stuck at android logo now theres another problem!!
first, i copy my backup files before it is my music my apk installer and so on from my pc to my sd card via usb after that i pull my usb plug. then my phone freeze. i remove my battery and switch it on again. then in the notification bar i see "preparing sd card checking for errors" its normal at my first thought. i waited for it to dissapear like 2 mins i was like wtf. then i go to settings and sdcard and phone storage>mass storage only is still ticked. then i try to unticked it, then my phone freezes and it forces closes. then i restert my phone. and it still there!! "preparing sdcard checking for errors". how to fix this??
i check in google and most of people said just format or wipe your sd card, but all my music, videos, pictures and all my files are already in my sdcard, i cant just format it i must backup it up first but i cant, cause i cant acces my sdcard through usb. please help!!! dang it, and im sorry if im spamming the general forums. please help
shotgun32 said:
damn, i had just solved the stuck at android logo now theres another problem!!
first, i copy my backup files before it is my music my apk installer and so on from my pc to my sd card via usb after that i pull my usb plug. then my phone freeze. i remove my battery and switch it on again. then in the notification bar i see "preparing sd card checking for errors" its normal at my first thought. i waited for it to dissapear like 2 mins i was like wtf. then i go to settings and sdcard and phone storage>mass storage only is still ticked. then i try to unticked it, then my phone freezes and it forces closes. then i restert my phone. and it still there!! "preparing sdcard checking for errors". how to fix this??
i check in google and most of people said just format or wipe your sd card, but all my music, videos, pictures and all my files are already in my sdcard, i cant just format it i must backup it up first but i cant, cause i cant acces my sdcard through usb. please help!!! dang it, and im sorry if im spamming the general forums. please help
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omg now my phone cant boot up stuck at the android logo. again.
Use a microsd adaptor so that you can access your card using a card reader. If you have to borrow it from a friend. The same thing happened to me and I just copied everything to my PC, formatted the card, put it back in the phone, and just for assurance, formatted it using the custom recovery. Now everything works perfectly fine.
yep. use a microsd card adaptor. if you don't have one then buy.
i think your problem is on sd the sd card.
i inserted a broken sd card once on my phone, one time it boots up and sometimes it wont. but when it do boots up, my phone freezes whenever i try to access the contents of that sd card.
What SD card you have in your phone?
Good investment should be Sandisk or Lexar 8 Gb 4x.
I installed MIUI on my girlfriend's fascinate last night and this morning she's just told me her phone has a notification for a damaged SD card... I told her to try unmounting/removing it and the problem persists making me believe it's the internal card.
Can anyone point me in the correct direction to fix this? I'd like to recover as many of the files from the phone before wiping it if possible.
Thanks!
First thing you should do to confirm whether it's internal or not is to just try swapping the MicroSD with another. I really don't know for sure, but I don't think it would tell you that you have a damaged SD card if it's talking about the internal storage.
Do you have a card reader for your PC? Plug it into that and see if it works. If it detects it, try running a chkdsk on it. If something got corrupted on it somehow, that should take care of it. You shouldn't have to format it.
She's currently at her family's house (we're in college... don't live on our own ) but I'll try that later. She tried putting her microSD in her brother's phone and both phones displayed a damaged memory card notification, which makes me think it may be both.
Also, she's got cwm red, not orange. Could that be the issue? If so, how do I switch to orange?
Oxirane said:
She's currently at her family's house (we're in college... don't live on our own ) but I'll try that later. She tried putting her microSD in her brother's phone and both phones displayed a damaged memory card notification, which makes me think it may be both.
Also, she's got cwm red, not orange. Could that be the issue? If so, how do I switch to orange?
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If the same MicroSD gave a damaged message in another phone, it's almost certainly the MicroSD.
I know there's some issue with Gingerbread ROMs corrupting SD cards. I thought it didn't apply to CM7 or MIUI, but I'm not totally sure. CWM shouldn't have anything to do with it, though. It's odd that she has red CWM, though. How does she enter recovery?
I'd expect chkdsk to handle it. Once you've got access to it and a PC, open the command prompt, and try "chkdsk x: /f /x", where x is the drive letter for the card.
I would think you could just look at the SD card & phone storage section in Settings. Damaged memory card usually appears as not present.
The SD doesn't show up in the mounts and storage, yes. Any idea how to recover those files?
Does the internal memory show up?
From my experience, once it's corrupted it can't be used again. There are several programs that may help you recover files on the card but you probably will not be able to use the card again unless you can get it formatted on something else, ie camera.
Does the internal memory show up?
From my experience, once it's corrupted it can't be used again. There are several programs that may help you recover files on the card but you probably will not be able to use the card again unless you can get it formatted on something else, ie camera.
Oxirane said:
The SD doesn't show up in the mounts and storage, yes. Any idea how to recover those files?
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If you have a card reader on a PC there's a program called Recuva that may be able to recover pics, video, etc.
try formatting it
Today i was transferring files from my sd card when suddenly the connection was lost. Now i cant delete things from my phone using a file manager. it always says error deleting. what do i do, format it?
Q Rock said:
Today i was transferring files from my sd card when suddenly the connection was lost. Now i cant delete things from my phone using a file manager. it always says error deleting. what do i do, format it?
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That happened to me before. Try to back up all of your SD card contents onto your computer, then wipe the SD card from the settings menu and copy your stuff back. That worked for me, and fixed a couple of FCs I was getting.
another problem with my sd card. every time i connect to a computer it says do you want to scan and fix. i said no and now it takes my computer forever just to read the thing what should i do.
Awesome newb video by the way! Made me laugh...
Just rooted and I like it, I don't wanna go back, but I can't get the microsd to pick up...I'll give all the info I can--def newb to root/droid but my background is IT, so hopefully we can figure out how to fix it so I can keep the root and not go back to stock(if that would even repair the problem)
Got a pny 32G microSD, droid incredible 4g lte(Verizon) that I rooted using the unlock script and fakeCID and then loaded Vipers Venom LTE custom rom...somewhere in this process-I think right after unlocking-it quit accessing the sd card...I've looked around and read some things about this 'USB brick' thing, but I don't know if it's applicable to me...here's what it does now:
SD card is in phone, but under 'Storage' Total Space and Available show unavailable, and everything else is greyed. If I try and pull the card the phone gives me the 'sd card unexpectedly removed' error.
Windows XP has no issue reading/writing to this card with a card reader. I've formatted a few times fat32 with xp(which i hate doing)and put it back in the phone, with the phone off, booted, and nothing happens. Oddly, when it first happened, after installing the custom ROM, when I'd do this procedure the phone would see the card on boot, but stay forever on 'preparing sd card/checking for errors' and never complete.
Back on the phone side of things, booting into the 'recovery mode', where you flash and whatever, it can see the card, see it's contents, and I wrote some sort of log to the card(option in the menu), so it can access it...oddly, I could not load my Viper rom from the microsd card, it failed on the file, but put it under some folder on the phone and that's how i ended up flashing the ROM, which I was nervous about doing as everything I saw said put the rom on the external sd card...
If I plug the phone into the XP pc via usb cable, choose use as disk drive, no problem accessing phone data, but 'please insert disk' on the card. Cannot push data when in usb debug mode via adb commands either. Oddly, dunno if this is related, it gives me 2 drives and also a CD ROM drive--tried dialing that##7 number for the option to disable cd rom, but it was already disabled. Dunno if this is related, but throwing it in there.
Tried chkdsk on the sd card with Xp, no errors, no problems. Hell, the card's not two weeks old and I've only had the phone a little over a month. I've done a bit of research the past couple of days and the only thing I haven't tried is the very confusing procedure i've seen for some of these 'usb brick' problems, but is that my problem. I'm hoping if all else fails i can go back to stock, just downloaded the stock rom, but will that even fix it? Gots to have my trailer park boys on my sd card to watch! Thanks for the help guys and gals! Sorry for the long post, but I like to give info--if kernel version or any other data like that is required, I can post it.
zazaray said:
Got a pny 32G microSD, droid incredible 4g lte(Verizon) [...] it quit accessing the sd card...
SD card is in phone, but under 'Storage' Total Space and Available show unavailable, and everything else is greyed. If I try and pull the card the phone gives me the 'sd card unexpectedly removed' error.
Windows XP has no issue reading/writing to this card [...] formatted a few times fat32 [...] and nothing happens. Oddly, when it first happened, after installing the custom ROM, when I'd do this procedure the phone would see the card on boot, but stay forever on 'preparing sd card/checking for errors' and never complete.
[...] booting into the 'recovery mode', where you flash and whatever, it can see the card, see it's contents [...]
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i tried to slim down your quote, but from my experience i'd still say the sd-card is somehow busted! i had a similar prob with the SD card in my Dinc4G two weeks ago. i _was_ r/w quite fine even from custom rom and at one point, the card just quit. removing and reinserting just ended in "preparing sd-card" and directly after that "safe for removal" ... wasn't able to access it any more within Viper, recovery (TWRP for me) was still seeing the card fine just like on your end.
putting the SD-card into a Win-laptop it _appeared_ fine and came error-free with scandisk etc ... BUT when i tried to backup all data from it before formatting (had like 10G on my 16G card) there were a couple of files that failed to read and i could NOT recover at all anymore. I formatted the SD-card again after that (full format, not fast/quick!) ... and put most of the files back. it is working again now in my Dinc4G but the card sure has some defect sectors (and usually _tends to die soon_ after such errors appear first!
i'd heavily recommend that you try to source some other micro-sd card first and try if you custom rom can read from it again. if that works fine and you see your SD-card from within the settings menu in the rom. you can be pretty sure that it's really the card.
PS: even brand new mem cards tend to fail at times :cyclops: ... just try to erase all private data on it (means: _fully overwrite_ with other stuff until the card is completelly filled) ... and then try to get a replacement from where you got your (fairly new) SD card from.
hope that helps a bit
i agree with the above post... try a different card. if formatting it doesn't fix it, it's time to try a new card.
j13smiley said:
i agree with the above post... try a different card. if formatting it doesn't fix it, it's time to try a new card.
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Thank you for the help, I resolved this issue, as it is the card, but now I have a different issue, unfortunately...