My SD card just mounts and unmounts when install it, when I plug it into a G3 it works and a Windows 8 tablet. Anyone know any tricks to make it mount or should I just return it.
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My SD card just mounts and unmounts when install it, when I plug it into a G3 it works and a Windows 8 tablet. Anyone know any tricks to make it mount or should I just return it.
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Copy all the contents into a folder on your computer. Reformat as FAT32 and try inserting it into the M9.
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I've looked at the other threads on this but, none seem to match my problem.
I've a 16 GB MicroSD card in my S2. S2 is not-rooted running stock ROM.
This card used to mount ok. It no longer will.
In Settings->Storage, space reported is unavailable (because it's not mounted).
I can run Format SD Card option which returns quickly.
Running Mount SD Card, it's says Mount in Progress but it never completes.
If I put the card into an SD card reader, it looks fine. FAT32 formatted card, with approx 16GB available.
Any ideas?
PeteW said:
I've looked at the other threads on this but, none seem to match my problem.
I've a 16 GB MicroSD card in my S2. S2 is not-rooted running stock ROM.
This card used to mount ok. It no longer will.
In Settings->Storage, space reported is unavailable (because it's not mounted).
I can run Format SD Card option which returns quickly.
Running Mount SD Card, it's says Mount in Progress but it never completes.
If I put the card into an SD card reader, it looks fine. FAT32 formatted card, with approx 16GB available.
Any ideas?
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I had similar problems with two other sd cards.
First running without any problem, and then suddenly the message appeared that the sd card is empty or not connected.
In both cases, the sd card was broken.
But in my cases, the sd card could not be used in a USB adapter by PC either.
As the sd cards were nearly new, I could make a warranty replacement and now I have got a card which works fine for about two months.
You can check this, by switching the sd card into another phone.
And use another sd card in your phone.
If the other card will work in your phone and your sd card will have issues in the other phone too, replace the broken sd card.
Good luck !
P.S.: You should format the sd card with your phone and not by your PC.
Other MicroSD Card works
It_ler said:
You can check this, by switching the sd card into another phone.
And use another sd card in your phone.
If the other card will work in your phone and your sd card will have issues in the other phone too, replace the broken sd card.
P.S.: You should format the sd card with your phone and not by your PC.
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Thanks for the response. I should have said that another 4GB card worked in the phone ok. This did lead me to think it was a card problem. However, he fact it works via a PC indicates otherwise.
Will try it in another phone.
Just throw it away?
Has anyone seen this before i.e. not working in phone but ok in SD reader?
If so, did you manage to resurrect it? Or is it time to throw it out?
PeteW said:
Has anyone seen this before i.e. not working in phone but ok in SD reader?
If so, did you manage to resurrect it? Or is it time to throw it out?
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Try this. Settings>Application>Development
Check usb debugging.
Connect phone to pc. In notification bar click "usb connected" message, and click on "connect usb storage" button. You won't see the sd card mounted in pc!
Now disconnect phone, reboot. It might mount
See if there's any luck.
Since you're not rooted, solutions are quite limited in numbers
droidphile said:
Try this. Settings>Application>Development
Check usb debugging.
Connect phone to pc. In notification bar click "usb connected" message, and click on "connect usb storage" button. You won't see the sd card mounted in pc!
Now disconnect phone, reboot. It might mount
See if there's any luck.
Since you're not rooted, solutions are quite limited in numbers
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Tried disconnecting and rebooting in 2 senses of the word
1. Hitting the disconnect usb storage button on screen
2. unplugging the usb cable.
Unfortunately, neither worked.
i'm having this problem now both on internal and external sdcard... it wont even mount on recovery... i'll try see if i can this done.. Windows damages everything.. i made a cleanup of the sdcard and a format..
I have a car stereo that is usb enabled and I would love to use my phone to store my music on and be able to play it through the stereo. The problem I am having is that when I plug the phone in I'm guessing my stereo recognizes the internal storage mounting first and won't pick up the 32GB Micro SD Card.
My Question: Are there any apps out there that will automatically mount the SD when the phone is plugged in, but not mount the internal storage?
I've tried the Auto Mount app, but that mounts internal and external both, I need something that ONLY mounts the SD card.
Thanks.
Not sure if this will work but, I know when you plug into a computer and mount as a disc drive, it unmounts the SD card from the phone for the computer to read. What happens if you unmount the SD card in settings, then plug in your phone? Like I said not sure if it will work, just throwing out ideas.
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Comicazy said:
Not sure if this will work but, I know when you plug into a computer and mount as a disc drive, it unmounts the SD card from the phone for the computer to read. What happens if you unmount the SD card in settings, then plug in your phone? Like I said not sure if it will work, just throwing out ideas.
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I'll give that a shot and see what happens. Thanks.
Try This:
Settings>Connect To PC>Default Connection Type>*Change This To Disk Drive*
Xtreme Outcast said:
Try This:
Settings>Connect To PC>Default Connection Type>*Change This To Disk Drive*
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I think that will cause the same problem as the Auto Mount app though, it mounts both the Phone's Internal and External storage. I'm looking for something that mounts the SD Card only, not both. Thanks though, I'll give it a shot and see if maybe it will mount them in a different order.
dawynkoop said:
I have a car stereo that is usb enabled and I would love to use my phone to store my music on and be able to play it through the stereo. The problem I am having is that when I plug the phone in I'm guessing my stereo recognizes the internal storage mounting first and won't pick up the 32GB Micro SD Card.
My Question: Are there any apps out there that will automatically mount the SD when the phone is plugged in, but not mount the internal storage?
I've tried the Auto Mount app, but that mounts internal and external both, I need something that ONLY mounts the SD card.
Thanks.
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Hopefully this isn't insulting your intelligence. But when your phone is mounted as storage, you should see /sdcard/ext_sd . This is a mount point for /sdcard2 so you should be able to access everything on your 32GB card via that directory.
MrSmith317 said:
Hopefully this isn't insulting your intelligence. But when your phone is mounted as storage, you should see /sdcard/ext_sd . This is a mount point for /sdcard2 so you should be able to access everything on your 32GB card via that directory.
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From what I can tell that mount point only works when browsing storage through the phone, when connected to the pc/car stereo it only acts as an empty folder.
I have the same problem with my Galaxy S2.
I pinned my hope on an app called USB Sharer but unfortunately it won't run on my phone, you might wanna give it a try (cost $ though, the developer refunded straightaway when I said it didn't work on my phone)
Supposedly with that app the usb is emulated and so you can pick which files & folders to share
So my S3 Pebble Blue is on it's way & I want to put all music & stuff on to my 64Gb Micro sd card.
Do I....
1: Format on the pc, if so which format & would the S3 still want to format when I put it in.
2: Format it in the phone & then remove & insert in to PC to transfer all my music & stuff?
I am familiar with android & formatting micro sd cards. I just wondered if being a 64Gb would be a different matter.
Ta
Just format in phone.
Michael_P said:
Just format in phone.
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Cheers Matey
I also just received my SGS3 and inserted the SanDisk 64gb micro sdxc card.
I didnt format it, because it just seemed to work fine without formatting. Now I put all my data on it, but after a restart of the phone the card is suddenly corrupted...
In my phone it recognizes the card, but says its corrupted and needs to formatted. It then ejects the cards for safe removal. In my pc it doesn't recognise the card at all.
Does anyone have an idea on how to recover the data on it?
And what is otherwise the best way to format it?
Thx
RE:- 64GB MicroSDXC errors
I would use a external compatible Micro SDXC reader and connected it to your computer and try and recover the card on the PC. (first)
i) what operating system are you using on the PC.
ex-fat format problem in windows xp. If you have windows 7 it should be able to read ex-fat cards natively.
If you have xp you can try and install the
search for the knowledge base article 955704 on Microsoft Technet support package to enable xp to read ex-fat cards.
In the past I have used my external 9 in one reader to fix corrupted cards to recover the files from them using recuva or similar software it will restore the files onto your pc hard disk.
let me know how you get on.
Thanks a lot for the quick advice.
I don't have an external reader yet, so I ordered one just now. I have win7 on my pc, so I guess that will be ok. I'll try it later this week when I have the reader in.
Once I have it recovered (or not), what is the best practice for setting up the card? What's the best way to format it?
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I also just received my SGS3 and inserted the SanDisk 64gb micro sdxc card.
I didnt format it, because it just seemed to work fine without formatting. Now I put all my data on it, but after a restart of the phone the card is suddenly corrupted...
In my phone it recognizes the card, but says its corrupted and needs to formatted. It then ejects the cards for safe removal. In my pc it doesn't recognise the card at all.
Does anyone have an idea on how to recover the data on it?
And what is otherwise the best way to format it?
Thx
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Free PC program Recuva http://www.piriform.com/recuva mount via USB or scard adapter.
Or even try Hexamob (need root) our some other file recovery app
When done, best and easiest to format through phone.
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Hi when i try to delete anything off my external SD card it wont delete. i also cant copy things from my internal storage to sd.
When i plug it into my PC with my USB cable and try to delete anything it says the same.
I've just plugged it in to my PC with a USB micro SD adapter and everything works fine.
Does anyone know anything about this? I'm really quite confused
Check the card for errors/run chkdsk on it. (I recommend copying your stuff first as I have had chkdsk get rid of important files [that didn't seem corrupted to me, but what do I know]. This was only once, mind.)
If you look at the mount options for the external sdcard, you'll spot this: /dev/block/vold/179:49 on /storage/extSdCard type vfat (rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,
noexec,noatime,nodiratime,uid=1000,gid=1023,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_utime=00
20,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro).
In your case, I imagine rw is ro. If you want to verify if your card is getting remounted ro because of errors, look through the output of dmesg.
Got it sorted, thanks. chkdsk was the answer. :highfive:
How do you run chkdsk on s3
How do you run chkdsk on an S3 connected to a computer? There is no drive letter to specify.
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Check the card for errors/run chkdsk on it. (I recommend copying your stuff first as I have had chkdsk get rid of important files [that didn't seem corrupted to me, but what do I know]. This was only once, mind.)
If you look at the mount options for the external sdcard, you'll spot this: /dev/block/vold/179:49 on /storage/extSdCard type vfat (rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,
noexec,noatime,nodiratime,uid=1000,gid=1023,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_utime=00
20,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro).
In your case, I imagine rw is ro. If you want to verify if your card is getting remounted ro because of errors, look through the output of dmesg.
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Happens quite often on SIII, not sure of the exact reason. And its not because of the mount option changing to ro.
No you can't run it by connecting the phone to PC. Need a card reader to connect the microSD to the PC and then run chkdsk
i think this is a possible solution
settings > storage > unmount sd card (wait for it to become safe to unmount)
then press mount sd card. you dont have to take the card out of the phone.
it solved this problem in my galaxy beam just now^^
yep
jreo said:
i think this is a possible solution
settings > storage > unmount sd card (wait for it to become safe to unmount)
then press mount sd card. you dont have to take the card out of the phone.
it solved this problem in my galaxy beam just now^^
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This worked for me as well.
Thanks so much
Galaxy s4 sd card "write-protected" - solution
Had this same problem with a Sony 64 gb microSDXC card. Fixed it by switching to MTP mode.
martonic said:
Had this same problem with a Sony 64 gb microSDXC card. Fixed it by switching to MTP mode.
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I'm having trouble with this. Cant figure out any way to get it to work. Problem is, Im having trouble with internal memory as well. Nothing wants to work.
Worked perfectly
jreo said:
i think this is a possible solution
settings > storage > unmount sd card (wait for it to become safe to unmount)
then press mount sd card. you dont have to take the card out of the phone.
it solved this problem in my galaxy beam just now^^
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Thank you very much...It worked great.
hello guy.now it becomes almost 1 month i have bad prob with my memory.
i can't write on external memory by phone itself and it says memory is write protected.but when i put microSD in a adapter and use it on the computer, i can do everything on meemory card.
please help me guys.
format it
Glebun said:
format it
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thx for your suggestion.but i want to solve this problem without formating memory card.
do you think it's possible?
boobool said:
thx for your suggestion.but i want to solve this problem without formating memory card.
do you think it's possible?
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When you bought it, did it come with a micro SD to SD adapter? If so, that adapter might have a button thing on the side. Insert your micro sd card in the adapter, slide the thing on the side so it works.
the switch only works while the card is in adapter, it doesn't change anything for the microsd card.
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Connect phone to the computer through adb, pop out and reinsert your MicroSD and then run "mount" and "dmesg"
Paste output here.
It's possible the filesystem is damaged, then it will go read-only until the filesystem has been fixed or formatted. A fsck.vfat (?) should fix it for FAT32, equivalent tools exist for Fat64 and NTFS. Note that you may have data corruption if your filesystem is really defective.
he switch only works while the card is in adapter, it doesn't change anything for the microsd card.
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Yes, the switch only blocks a write-line on the SDcard so it cannot be altered. MicroSD do not have it on themselves due to their size.