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microSD problem?

Ok no idea how this happened so I'm sorry I can't say exactly what went wrong. Last night I noticed that for some reason none of my mp3s were showing up in the library. Was out with some friends so just went on with my night until I tried to use PocketCM Contacts. Some reason it wouldn't load and I had to uninstall it and switch my softkey back to standard contacts. Latter on I realized that everything on my storage card was somehow gone.
In settings - memory it still shows the same amount of file space taken up on the card and I have tried removing it a few times and resetting.
If it's all gone that's ok because I have copies of all the programs I had installed. Only problem really is that I don't think I have the mp3s on my computer.
Was just wondering if this has happened before and if there is a chance the files are still there since the space on the card is still used. I also plugged the phone into active sync and it also shows nothing on the card.

This is a common problem and there are lots of things that cause it. Primarily, it is installing programs on your SD card, and leaving them running and your phone hibernating.
Typically when this happens, a simple soft reset will fix the problem... but I always suggest keeping up to date back ups of your SD card in order to avoid losing all your data.
I'm in a car at the moment using internet sharing on my phone, so I'm not going to find you all the links, but run a search on the site for "Corrupt SD Card" or "disappearing SD card" and you'll find lots of info about it.

Thanks man. Since I lost all my programs I think I'm gonna reflash the phone too. Want to try touch-it out.

man it has happened to me like 3 times on my wing. the first time i soft reset my phone and it worked. The next time i deleted my documents folder because it was showing 2 of them and i lost everything. I formatted the card and it messed up again this weekend. I ended up flashing to the touch it rom yesterday to see if it would make my phone more stable because i read that it might be the phone making my card act up.
I searched for ways to fix it and downloaded programs but they didnt work because my SD wasnt recognized by the programs. I lost 400 songs and ringtones and videos the first time and 500 songs the next. I have all the songs on my cpu but i made them all smaller to save space and that took a while. I dont even feel like putting anymore music on there because i might end up losing it all again.

Just keep contant backups of your card in case it happens... I bought a USB 2.0 card reader Stick thing for like $20... so I can copy files back and forth faster than thru activesync.

HD Unusable Slooooooow

Has anyone experienced the following:
I have tried several different ROMS. After I flash the ROM things go really well. All is working, running fast and then after 24 to 36 hours my device just gets so bogged down that it takes a long time to do anything. Any program I launch will easily take at least 30 seconds to launch if it launches at all. If i soft reset it does nothing for the problem. I have changed batteries to see if that helped (of course it didnt nor did I expect it too). All that fixes it is another hard reset.
Does this sound like an issue i need to send the phone into HTC for? Possible hardware issue? Could a bad SD Card cause something like that? HARD SPL? Anyone else been through this? thanks in advance guys/gals

mallman said:
Has anyone experienced the following:
I have tried several different ROMS. After I flash the ROM things go really well. All is working, running fast and then after 24 to 36 hours my device just gets so bogged down that it takes a long time to do anything. Any program I launch will easily take at least 30 seconds to launch if it launches at all. If i soft reset it does nothing for the problem. I have changed batteries to see if that helped (of course it didnt nor did I expect it too). All that fixes it is another hard reset.
Does this sound like an issue i need to send the phone into HTC for? Possible hardware issue? Could a bad SD Card cause something like that? HARD SPL? Anyone else been through this? thanks in advance guys/gals
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Have you used cooked and shipped roms too?
If you have not tried, try to flash a shipped rom and see how goes. If it will go well then try to reflash with your preferred cooked one.
If you have already tried a shipped one, I don't know, it's a little strange. If you thik to have a bad SD card, try to use the pda without it. But I don't think it can cause all the things you have written.

I had a similler issue and a clear storage solved it.
after flashing your HD or any other pocket pc with cocked or original ROM, it always recommend it to do a cealr storage from settings-->systems--> clear storage.
do a clear storage and i am sure your issue will dissapear.
good luck

love is me said:
I had a similler issue and a clear storage solved it.
after flashing your HD or any other pocket pc with cocked or original ROM, it always recommend it to do a cealr storage from settings-->systems--> clear storage.
do a clear storage and i am sure your issue will dissapear.
good luck
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well trying to backup the data on my card showed me it has major problems lol. thanks for the tip. will try to jsut format it and see what happens.

mallman said:
well trying to backup the data on my card showed me it has major problems lol. thanks for the tip. will try to jsut format it and see what happens.
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What do you mean with "major problems"?
What you described is really weird.
I flash too all the time, but the HD never gets slow.
Is clear storage for your SD card then?

mcowly said:
What do you mean with "major problems"?
What you described is really weird.
I flash too all the time, but the HD never gets slow.
Is clear storage for your SD card then?
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when i tried to copy stuff from my card onto my pc to back up the data it kep freezing up on my pc and became unreadable. i would have to take the card out and start again. Eventually i just formatted it and now it works great. No clear storage doesnt appear to be for the storage card but I tried it. I had so much stuff on my SD card that im sure my HD was trying to run programs and since my SD card was unreadable it was killing the device.

I had a similar problem, and I was forced to format my SD card too. Luckily I was able to save 95% of contents before to lose everything .I experienced some folders became unreadable (unaccessible), and card was full of "strange" folders with unreadable characthers and improbable sizes (I thought I had some terabyte ).
I think stock microsd isn't the best... Simply I must remember to backup it more often
Exactly like mallman, formatting solved the problem

dagosjt said:
I had a similar problem, and I was forced to format my SD card too. Luckily I was able to save 95% of contents before to lose everything .I experienced some folders became unreadable (unaccessible), and card was full of "strange" folders with unreadable characthers and improbable sizes (I thought I had some terabyte ).
I think stock microsd isn't the best... Simply I must remember to backup it more often
Exactly like mallman, formatting solved the problem
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Well the only difference is that my problem came back this morning which was after formatting yesterday. I have determined my card is bad so I swapped it out for a new card and we will see how that goes. If my device is having the problem and i just take the card out my device runs like a champ, pop it back in and slooooow I agree, I will get my card on a regular backup schedule very soon. Well, once my ned 16gb gets here. This 8 gig is just too small lol

I ran into a problem like yours when using WAD 2 on my Polaris with particular cooked ROMS that seemed to have a SD card problem....see post on Lakeridge here where someone pointed out to me where the problem was coming from http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14568&highlight=WAD+storage , the only way I fixed the problem was flashing to a different ROM.

namaste74 said:
I ran into a problem like yours when using WAD 2 on my Polaris with particular cooked ROMS that seemed to have a SD card problem....see post on Lakeridge here where someone pointed out to me where the problem was coming from http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14568&highlight=WAD+storage , the only way I fixed the problem was flashing to a different ROM.
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checking it out now. I can tel lyou that this has to be the porblem because of course my 8gb card wasnt the solution because my device is dog slow AGAIN lol
edit: ok i will try a new rom and see. I have had this problem with Dutty's and Dav, if it happens to a third rom I will try th estock ROM and if it happens there I am spellbounded

HD is not slow. If yours takes 30 seconds to respond, something is wrong. I would take a look at the SD card. I used to have this problem in my Athena, causing constant freezes and soft reset. When I did a sktools benchmarking, it was clear that the unit was reading and writing to the card extremely slowly. I reformatted the card with incorrect parameter causing that problem. After reformatting with the formating parameter, my Athena resume the nomal fast response.

mallman said:
checking it out now. I can tel lyou that this has to be the porblem because of course my 8gb card wasnt the solution because my device is dog slow AGAIN lol
edit: ok i will try a new rom and see. I have had this problem with Dutty's and Dav, if it happens to a third rom I will try th estock ROM and if it happens there I am spellbounded
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Check out Johnpatcher's barebone ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=472972. I find it runs excellent but you'll need to archive CABs of your favorite programs. The performance I think is great, commented about that in the thread too (WAD 2 on the ROM), I have like 70% - 65% free memory all day.

ok testing touch of HD with WAD2 to see if I can replicate teh problem. (fingers crossed)

mallman said:
ok testing touch of HD with WAD2 to see if I can replicate teh problem. (fingers crossed)
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I had it running on Laurentis's ROM too without a problem. Shame he seems to have left. But i do really recomend the barebones ROM, at first boot it only used 10% mem.
Anyway, hope it works for you and keep those theme's coming

namaste74 said:
I had it running on Laurentis's ROM too without a problem. Shame he seems to have left. But i do really recomend the barebones ROM, at first boot it only used 10% mem.
Anyway, hope it works for you and keep those theme's coming
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well i never had a problem with the shipped rom and WAD2. I can confirm that touch of HD rom also shows the same problem. I can try the barebones rom and see what happens then if it doesnt work i am going back to shipped rom because nothign beats WAD2 (in my humble opinion)
and ps. i have tried multiple SD cards so i confirmed that isnt the problem

mallman said:
well i never had a problem with the shipped rom and WAD2. I can confirm that touch of HD rom also shows the same problem. I can try the barebones rom and see what happens then if it doesnt work i am going back to shipped rom because nothign beats WAD2 (in my humble opinion)
and ps. i have tried multiple SD cards so i confirmed that isnt the problem
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Maybe you might want to PM those cookers to let them know about the bug, it was prevalent on many Polaris ROMS too for some time. Good luck, the barebones ROM hasn't had any problems so far, its fast and very responsive but lacks the bells and whistles of the bigger ROMS.

Now that you are speaking of, I can confirm I was using WAD2 (the trial, I don't think is important...) when I had the problem.
I'm currently NOT using at the moment because too many problems still with TF3D and no more problem with microSD card.
At this point I think I'll wait a little before to try again
I too would like to use WAD!

just wanted to report back so far so good with the stock ROM. Ive rebooted and done all kinds of things that typically kill it with the cooked ROMs.

strange story!!
maybe you make too many themes??

mcowly said:
strange story!!
maybe you make too many themes??
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lol, im guilty!!!
Well just for everyone's knowledge, still no problems with stock ROM so I am willing to say problem solved. I cant run a cooked ROM and expect to use WAD2 I will start PM'ing all the cooks I see tomorrow and letting them know this and maybe they know of a fix. Thanks for all the help everyone

Has Flashing wiped my Micro SD??????

First of all thanks to all on the forum for all the useful tips and tweaks.
I finally took the bold step of my first flash two days ago to Dutty's latest Rom.
As he advised I have slowly added programmes and tweaks to make sure there were no bugs. Last night I was playing around with different wallpapers after a day of the phone being stable. Waking up this morning I found a lot of my tweaks for the today screen had reset themselves. Using file explorer i tried to open my storage card (I kept all the cabs i have been using on it) and it wasn't found. I took i out and have tried to open it through my laptop and it keeps asking to 'insert card' i.e it can't see it either. I tried a hard reset on my HD to see if it was anything I had installed and still nothing!
I have most things backed up on my PC and yesterday set up microsoft myphone so hopefully I haven't lost anything...BUT. Has flashing caused this or is it just coincidental that my storage card has gone tits up!
many thanks in advance.
P.S Off topic. has anybody else found that the Virgin advert causes a stuttering effect when scrolling down a page?

Hi Mate,
take a look at this link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=506560
Should explain all, it looks like when you upgrade to one of the newer roms not based on the 1.14 it kills the SD card, you could try formatting it again..
Happens quite randomly , so ...
Bloke

Cheers Bloke
Although the cause doesn't seem to be very clear. I flashed my HD without the SD card in. I have a sandisk card. It came with the phone but it was a replacement phone so not exactly bundled per se. (after getting the phone on an upgrade last Dec with Orange actually paying me a fiver for it, I lost it/had it stolen after owning it a month and had to then fork out £160 for it )
Sods law that i haven't been backing up my SD card as the majority of it was music that i have on my laptop anyway.
Thanks once again

I've never lost any info on my SD Card from flashing any roms, and I've flashed a lot. Even when going from 1.14 roms to 1.59 roms. No probs
However I have heard others have had similar problems and unfortunately only remedy was to format card. Once formatted problem shouldn't arise again

So to update:
tried out spare sd. Not a problem although only looked at it rather than file swap etc
Hard reset: still didn't find card
flashed stock 1.14 rom. Had colours go strange on screen whilst first installing but then touch flo started and colours as norm. Put SD card in and it wasn't found. Soft reset with card in and once booted funny colours came back (all kind of negative and opposite original colours, kind of cool but obviously not good). Still not finding card. Took card out and soft reset, all good and colours back to normal.
So, it seems, I will have to format. Bye Bye data!
I tried to look at the card from command prompt on my PC (xp pro) and it still couldn't see it. Muchos corruption me thinks. Not sure how I am going to format it now?
I hope HTC will look into this and release some sort of fix. Unless they know it's a hardware fault on the card reader and realise it will cost a small fortune to fix everybodies HD not to mention the bad publicity.

Okay, maybe not the most common method to do this, but when I had this happen to me, I also couldn't format the card anymore in my PC (Vista). What I did wat put the card in an old Samsung phone I had lying around, and the phone initialised the card for itself. After that it was also readable again on my PC and in my HD.
Since this happened to me I always take out the SD Card if I flash my phone. Just to be on the safe side.

Damaged SD Card

[Q] SD Flashed itself?
OK so, not quite sure what happened with my SD card today but it pretty much flashed itself and gone done broken the format for my apps2sd.
I was heavily using my phone today for gps and what not by driving around from garage sale to garbage sale with my ole lady. anyways, i noticed that my ringtones werent the same at about half way through, but i didnt think anything of it and kept on going. i got home later, still was doing it, so i went to terminal:
su
reboot
rebooted. when it came up it said my card was damaged and cant be used......is there anyway way to restore it or recover information off it?
edit: yes i still have root. no the card isnt readable in windows but my mac ID's it but cant do anythign with it.

Well i really don't know how or when this happened but my phone now says "Damaged SD card" under my notifications and i can't access my card anymore. I have tried pulling it out and putting it back in, resetting my phone, and mounting to my computer but it never reads. I know formatting the card would restore it but i don't want to lose my pictures, music, and files that i had stored on it. I was just wondering if anyone has had this problem and knows how to solve it... Thanks!!

SD Card formatted as internal storage randomly unusable on cm13

I love marshmallow's adoptable storage feature, allowing me to install more apps. This feature worked beautifully for about a month and a half. However, I shut down the device, plugged it in to charge, went to sleep, and the next morning, the apps that were moved to the sd card were not available anymore. They were all greyed out on my launcher(Nova). I moved about 4 gigs worth of mostly games. Fortunately, most of them had cloud storage, but some favorite games didnt. This isn't that big of a problem, but I'd like to try to fix it. So, I went here for help.
At first, I thought the class 10 SanDisk 16gb sd had just gotten bumped out of the slot where the connections happen, so I opened the back cover and removed and inserted the sd card. The notification that prompted me to put the sd back in went away for a few seconds, but then came back. I repeated the process of removing and inserting the sd a few times, but still no moved apps were available. I put the sd into an adapter, then into my laptop, and it showed on file explorer. So the sd card could still be recognized, but maybe unusable.
I dont know what happened, one day it was working, the next day it wasn't. I know i formatted it as internal and portable storage a few times, so maybe that wore it out. I'm running cm13

Hello,
On my phone I used the micro SD card normally as external storage. On day I plugged in my headphones and there was no music. I though that the micro SD card must have come out. However, reinserted it it didn't work. I wouldn't open on computer either. While I don't have a solution, I am pretty sure I also had the same problem.

Once I was taking pictures with my phone when it crashed and rebooted. Some hours before the crash I uninstalled some apps and installed some others (but never rebooted the phone). After the phone started again after the crash, all the pictures and files were gone, the uninstalled apps were there as if I've never uninstalled them and the new installed ones dissapeared.

TheSaffronArmy said:
Hello,
On my phone I used the micro SD card normally as external storage. On day I plugged in my headphones and there was no music. I though that the micro SD card must have come out. However, reinserted it it didn't work. I wouldn't open on computer either. While I don't have a solution, I am pretty sure I also had the same problem.
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how long have you used your sd card? i'm sure that the more you use a micro sd card, the more it will wear out and become unuseable/corrupted. That has happened to me before, where the sd card just stopped working.

KyleSaki714 said:
how long have you used your sd card? i'm sure that the more you use a micro sd card, the more it will wear out and become unuseable/corrupted. That has happened to me before, where the sd card just stopped working.
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I have used it for about 1 year. So it may be that but, it has never occurred before.

Same problem here, you can read it here. While I am writing hopefully my files from Titanium Backup are transfered to my laptop. It got worse and worse, in my opinion the sd-card has reached it's end of life because of it's heavy usage. Error occured the first time after the phone got really hot recording gpx tracks. Bye bye sd-card
Another opinion is that warranty is over after two years, so the phone can quit it's duty now - obsolescense plans

Androphilius said:
Same problem here, you can read it here. While I am writing hopefully my files from Titanium Backup are transfered to my laptop. It got worse and worse, in my opinion the sd-card has reached it's end of life because of it's heavy usage. Error occured the first time after the phone got really hot recording gpx tracks. Bye bye sd-card
Another opinion is that warranty is over after two years, so the phone can quit it's duty now - obsolescense plans
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yeah, i'm starting to think my micro sd just bailed from wear like that too, but i got to use mine for just over 3 months. i ejected the sd and put it into my computer, and interestingly enough, on my computer it reads 16 megabytes. i was like WAAT that cant be, i formatted it, put it back in my phone as portable, and it read as the normal 14gb. i'm starting to think my sd as internal is the cause of my random reboots. im even running the lastest cm13 update too...
i guess ill try and use my sd as just portable storage from now on, and see if i get any random reboots..

I switched to TurboROM which is using the sd-card as a portable media device, so no more encryption, heavy usage and complete data loss if you do not get your encryption key with root permission.
System space left after complete recovery of my apps with TB is quite nice - but you do not have the possibility to use App2SD (correct me if I am wrong).
So the only way to save internal system space is to move pictures, movies and heavy openstreetmap cards to external.