Is there anyway to force format a corrupted MicroSD card? While partitioning the card, I messed up pretty bad. The card is unreadable to the G1, and when inserted into my computer is undetectable and even causes Windows Explorer to hang. I have tried several computers with memory card readers, different cell phones, etc.
--wow. the simplest of devices solved my problems. I used a Nokia 5310, it allowed me to format the memory card without any checks. Thank you for simple phones.
Damn... I have a 2GB card with the exact same problem. I wonder if my BB Curve would do the trick... probably not
Had the problem and fixed it this way:
First, turn off the autoplay on the PC. That will resolve the hanging problem as Winblows attempts to figure out what the hell is being inserted into it (sounds like my last date!)
Next, download and install a program called Flash Drive Tester v1.12 and run it on the card. It will basically blank the card completely as it does its test.
You should be able to reformat in Windows by doing a "Full Format" on the drive.
Problem solved (at least for me)
kinda same problem
Hey there, I hav had my g1 for a while now and maybe 4 or 5 months ago when looking through my albums it loaded up all the thumbnails (took longer than usual) but when I tried to view any it just blanked all the thumbnails and started loading them again. Eventually managed to recover my files and reformat card using pc. No problems till now, same thing happened again. Has any1 else had this problem? It is the stock 2gig Transcend microSD. Also now I'm running apps2sd on a partition on my card and cyanogenmod but as I said this happened before when everything was stock. Thanks in advance people
Hi guys,
Here's my problem:
I have a rooted G1 with Cyanogens 4.0.4 ROM and the 1.3 Recovery image.
On Friday my SD Card decided to damage itself on me. I had an ext:2 partition where I kept all of my cache and apps. Now that it has gone and destroyed itself somehow (I really have no idea how, as I was just using my phone as normal) I have lost all of my apps.
Also, I lost all access to the market. I get the 'A Server Error Has Occured' message and no matter how often I try it it has not started working since Friday.
I tried to re-format the SD card using Windows, but it failed each time. So, I decided to cut my loses and buy a new card.
Now I have an UNPARTIONED 4GB card in my G1, and the card itself seems to be working without incident. However, I still cannot access the market.
I have tried doing a factory reset - this didn't work. I have tried taking out the SIM card and putting in another one and swapping it back - this didn't work either.
I am wondering whether there was information on the old card that the market can't find, therefore is crashing on me?
I'm really looking for any help I can get here. I'm pulling my balding hair out.
Thanks.
OK, I fixed it with this:
http://mistical.com/2009/06/18/android-move-cache-back-to-internal-memory/
I hope this post helps anyone else who runs into a similar problem.
this happened to me this morning i reflashed this would have saved me a lot of time
I have a month old Milestone (GSM) which replaced my HTC Diamond. I did an OTA update to 2.1 update1 (SCHOLS_U2_02.36.0 build). Phone came preinstalled with an 8GB MicroSD card.
I have a major problem now: the SD card almost never works. Neither does any app which needs the sd card. "Sd card & Storage" settings does not open and hangs till it is force closed. It is detected on booting up the phone (Initializing SD card), but after that invariably turns to "sd card unexpectedly removed" if I try to access it (through File Manager/Settings/ASTRO/anything else).
System occasionally asks me to format the sd card saying "corrupted sd card", i have done it only once. Every other time I turn the phone off, remove battery & sd card, reinsert both and start the phone back up. The boot up recongnizes the SD card again, but the whole cycle repeats if i try to access the sd card or use an app that requires sd card functionality.
Also, connecting the phone to my laptop and trying to read the card also results in "SD card removed unexpectedly" and the laptop hangs if I try to enter the drive.
I have not tested a different MicroSD card (not possible to for some time). I have seen many instances of this problem elsewhere on the internet, and none seem to have any resolution. XDA is my last hope.
Please help.
PS: Maybe it's related, but the Camera doesn't work either. When accessed, the camera (and the camcorder) just show up as black screens and nothing else (no menu, no settings). It has to be force closed each time.
I have a very similar experience. The funny part is the card is mounted, but not visible.
Let me explain :
1. If i try any generic app which tries to access the SD card, it says it's not there.
2. Settings>SD card & phone storage says Unavailable to everything, like if the card is not mounted.
3. Fun starts now - Ghost Commander has no problem reading and opening directories and files on the SD card.
4. if i connect the phone to computer via "Charge only" option, i have no problems to view the SD card contects via "adb shell", "ls /sdcard" commands.
I suspect that this is another of the superb Motorola firmware updates, where at least 1 thing must break, or it wouldn't be Motorola Milestone firmware.
Same here. I only have a milestone since a few days, did you guys have that problem before the latest software patch already?
At least i know now that it is not my sdcard that makes problems.. seem to be a common bug
Just wanted to add that I'm having the same problem on my Milestone running the 2_02.36 build for Singapore.
I've noticed that Astro can still see the SD card and all the 3rd party apps that write to the SD card work fine as well. It's only the built-in Android apps (Camera, Settings etc.) that don't work.
It is a well known problem
I've been researching the last 2 days and found tons of complaints about the SDCard problems, there are a few lac fixes out there, but this is where the real problem starts.
Since my SCCard unpredictable unmounts or corrputs itself constantly, it is not even possible to install open recovery because after the reboot, the sdcard causes some problems that interrupt the process of a clean install (started with the exploit downgrade). And most fixes that "might" work, require Open recovery due they are scripted for that purpose and also enable a "roll-back" this way.
However, there is a solution to it, but since Motorola Europe has announced that from Ocober 18.th they begin with the froyo rollout, I'll wait.
Anybody that still wants to give it a shot, here's how I'd go for it:
- Root the milestone with the 1-click-rooting tool
- Install a console and su as root
- push the files via adb to the sdcard and execute the according how they are set up in the .sh
Ok, here's my fix: Downgrade to 2.0, not with the vulnerability sbf, but simply download bootloader and rom from here: http://and-developers.com/sbf
Fire up RSD Lite, start phone and press d-pad, once you're there, connect phone, downgrade bootloader and os.
There are differend sbf: System and non-system. The ones that are not system files, will completely restore your phone to original. I've chosen that option, now it works flawless, no missing features or apps, except the Xing app, which i couldn't care less.
In my case the card comes back after few reboots and then keeps working until next reboot, so if it comes back i try not to run off the battery .
This was not the case with the previous software version. This thing started after the software update.
Its effing annoying because half the functionality of the phone goes for toss if the sd card is not reading!
I have tested all "official" releases for the milestone. The only one that does a good job is 2.0. No battery drain, no sdcard unmount or whatever. Of course i also checked out the G.O.T. 2.2.1 Froyo.. some awesome performance increase, but then again, if i can't get of the house without carrying my charger, because within less than 8 hours its empty, it is simply not ment as an everyday phone. So i rather stick with the older, but solid version, which btw. is a common thing in IT anyway.. trying to get of this "version-junkie" trip ;-)
MenoDev said:
I have tested all "official" releases for the milestone. The only one that does a good job is 2.0. No battery drain, no sdcard unmount or whatever. Of course i also checked out the G.O.T. 2.2.1 Froyo.. some awesome performance increase, but then again, if i can't get of the house without carrying my charger, because within less than 8 hours its empty, it is simply not ment as an everyday phone. So i rather stick with the older, but solid version, which btw. is a common thing in IT anyway.. trying to get of this "version-junkie" trip ;-)
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FYI, 2.0 has a problem of its own too - the camera autofocus bug.
No doubt about that. Ans release bug free? I still like the os for the fact tust its young and "beta"...with a great potential. (My personal opinion)
Sent from my Milestone using XDA App
Hey Guys,
I myself have been having this issue ever since the latest update. Lets see, i got this phone in April this year and i have been having a lot of problems with the phone. The music player and camera auto-focus bug in 2.0, for instance, and the service centre in Singapore are not helpful at all till around August when they actually employs a Manager. Customer service picked up though after that and finally in Oct, after i called up Starhub and Motorola to scr*w them up, they are willing to exchange my milestone with a new one and i updated it to SHOLS_U2_02.36.2 and thats when my sd card problem started.
So 3 weeks later, yesterday, i had enough of the sd card problem. The problem just keeps getting worse. I almost wanted to slam my phone. Back to what i tried, I have tried to restore to factory settings, change my sd card (even though i doubt its the problem), and finally found the fix.
I flash my phone with Vulnerable Recovery for my bootloader, used RSD to downgrade my sbf to SHOLS_U2_02.36.0 and it worked. Oh and for those who doesn't want to lose any data, use the service version. I used the service version and it is working fine for almost a day now. No sd card unexpectedly removed, or any error message pertaining to sd card.
This is going to be my last Motorola phone ever. Sorry about the long post =X
booting sd card with latest stable 7 release.
Just turned on my nook in android mode and all my applications on sd card are not accessible.
I have rebooted numerous times and used recovery and still no apps. When I open settings, I can see the apps on the sd card tab but cannot move them back to phone or clear them.
Don't know what happen? Any solutions to get my sd card applications working again? My nook will boot up fine with sd card but lost all the sd card apps.
The sd card storage is strange. I have a 16bg and now says .89mb used and 1.0gb free. it used to say 13.? free.
Any Thoughts?
appreciate the help
similar problem
I just started a new thread a few minutes ago describing a similar problem. I lost the ability to browse apps after installing a couple of them from App Brain. I know the apps are there, but I have no way to browse and launch them.
Wish I could say I have an answer for you...
I'm not sure of the exact cause of your problem. But i had a similar issue recently on CM9. Changing to a different launcher fixed the basic problem, and then when i switched back to my preferred launcher, the sd card apps were still visible. Hopefully this will work for you too. I ended up switching to a different launcher permanently.
This can happen if you swap what cm7 views as the sdcard, from removable to emmc. Check your settings within Cyanogen/Applications. If use internal storage is checked, then the system is looking for your SD apps on the wrong SD.
Or you could have a corrupted card. I hope it is the first option. Hope this helps.
Looking at your memory fluctuations, I bet the above is right. That is the available memory amount for a nook out of the box without the customizable repartition zips. Which are awesome. At the moment, you have all your memory allocated to data, which is totally unnecessary, and a waste of perfectly usable forage. If you need directions to the directions (assuming this solves your problem, post and ask.
Hello
Recently upgraded my Tab to Overcome 4.1.0.0. Upgrade went fine. Everything also was running fine. When I restore everything to the external SD the Tab seems to go into a cycle of rebooting where tab will come up, you can get in, it runs slow but eventually reboots. If I take the external card out it runs fine. I have formatted the card a couple times and it seems to format fine. Is there a way to turn on some sort of permanent logging to see what is occuring just before the tab reboots.
Ric
Grab a different card and try it first.
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Don't Think it was the card
Just did a wipe and load of my tab. Loaded cm9 ICS card is in there mind you nothing on it yet but the tab is not rebooting. Unless it is just a certain sector or that I had too much data on it somehow as dumb as that sounds. Still no real answer though. Thanks for the help though.
Ric
bad sdcard can be a real problem.
A new one isn't costing that much, or just grab any from your old phone, even a 2GB one, and try.
you side-tracked it by loading ICS.
The solution could be real.
For anyone arriving here due to a search, the problem is not related to a bad SD card. I had this same problem and took it as an excuse to upgrade to a new Class 10 Lexar. That didn't fix the problem. It's apparently also not related to no-wipe vs wipe; I did a full wipe and restore, and that didn't fix the problem. I eventually tracked the problem down specifically to having apps moved to the SD card.
Overcome 4.1.0 is apparently *really* sensitive to having a lot of apps moved to SD. With no apps on the SD card, it appears to be perfectly stable. It may be possible to have one or two on the SD card without it breaking; I haven't found the exact limit. I do remember that the Kratos edition of Overcome was also a little glitchy with a lot of apps moved to SD, but mostly in that icons wouldn't load properly, not that the system always rebooted.
The fastest fix (which won't require a wipe but WILL require good backups, hope you've been using Titanium Backup regularly) is to drop the external SD card into your computer and delete the ".android_secure" directory. This will require you to restore from backup any of your apps you moved to SD. Unfortunately, if you're like me, only about half of them will fit, so you now get to be choosy (it might be time for some spring cleaning anyway), or start looking for another ROM, as the maintainer of this one has moved on to other things and there will be no further fixes coming.