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[Q] External SD Card Wipes anything copied onto it!

Here's a weird one. I am not trying anything complicated. I just want to copy some music to my new 32GB external SD card that arrived in the post today. I put it into a microSD to SD adaptor, and slide it into my laptops SD slot. It shows up as fat32 and I drag 30 gigs of music on to it. After a long time it completes, and I check in with XP to make sure its all good. Yep fine.
However, the moment I insert it back into my I9000 things get weird. The status bar pops up the usual "Initialising SD card" message, then the media scanner comes up and completes in like a second. Then when I try to browse it from within the phone, the entire music directory has disappeared, and the OS is reporting that there is 28gb of 32gb free on the external sd. So I unmount the SD, slot it back into my pc, and find to my dismay the music directory has indeed been erased.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.. I need my tunes!!
Cheers,
C
Samsung Galaxy S I9000, running Firmware 2.2, Baseband: I9000XXJPH, Kernel version 2.6.32.9 root(at)SEI-28 1

My 1st guess is fake/faulty card.
Copy files onto card with a reader.
Eject.
Insert again into reader.
Try to copy from card. (If it fails -> card is faulty or is FAKE)

CheekyGreek said:
The status bar pops up the usual "Initialising SD card" message, then the media scanner comes up and completes in like a second.
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If I were to guess, when the phone says it's "Initializing SD card" it's likely formatting the card and erasing whatever data you had on it...
When you install the card in your PC, do you format it again and then copy the files? If so, try not to format it on the PC and let the phone do the formatting.

I fully agree. Let the phone format the card and then use MOUNT mode to copy the music over. It seems Fat32 (formated on PC) won't work well for our phones prob due to a flag setting or something the like too big cluster settings. Let the phone sort it out.

Thanks for the help peeps. Here's what I've tried:
Xan: I tried copying files to and from the device using my PC's card reader, and found no problems with it. It is a Kingston MicroSD SDC4/32GB bought from a reseller on Amazon. Are there any tools for around for the pc to run diagnostic tests on SD cards? Maybe I should give that a go? But from the looks of it I think the error lies in the phone somewhere...
An Droid: I am inclined to agree with you. In my original post I stated that it said "Inititialising SD Card", this was a mistake, as it actually says "Preparing SD Card". I have tried formatting it from both the PC and the Phone and still get the same problem.
Icky Boo: I tried this method last night. Used the USB Debugging mode to Mount the phone's card's onto my PC. My Computer displays the two cards as two seperate Drives. I then tried copying all my music onto it. When the copy completed, I pressed "Turn of USB Storage Mode" on the I9000, which immediately prompted the status bar to again show "Preparing SD Card". Then when I used a file explorer to look at the card, it only had about a gig of music copied onto it. It is quite clear now that in "Preparing SD Card" it is doing something strange. Is there anyway to disable this?
Also there is a directory on the SD called Lost.DIR which seems to increase in size every time this happens. Could be a clue?
Finally, just to confirm my phone is mounting it correctly, to browse the SD card from within the phone the path is /sdcard/external_sd/ right? (I understand this is the new path for Froyo 2.2?)
Thanks for the help, sorry for the essay!
C
UPDATE: Ok, Xan, you were right all along. Finally got a new SD card (sandisk this time, not Kingston) and it works just as it should. Thanks for the help and to everyone else too

[Q] SD card :(

Hey guys. Today i decided to treat my X8 by buying a 8GB class 4 micro sd card to replace the stock 2GB micro sd card...all went well ! Within half an hour i copied & pasted everything out of my old card and into the new. That is until i tried to play some songs when i found that none of my songs appear...AT ALL ! Then i tried going into gallery. Same thing !!! I need help with this cuz i don't want to know that i wasted all that money on something that doesn't work T-T
P.S. : Running GDX V21, Alfs kernel V04. I've tried formatting it and THEN pasting the files from my old card. Still the same
P.S.P.S : By "my" X8, I mean my friends one which, in a few days or weeks will be mine

RohinZaraki said:
Hey guys. Today i decided to treat my X8 by buying a 8GB class 4 micro sd card to replace the stock 2GB micro sd card...all went well ! Within half an hour i copied & pasted everything out of my old card and into the new. That is until i tried to play some songs when i found that none of my songs appear...AT ALL ! Then i tried going into gallery. Same thing !!! I need help with this cuz i don't want to know that i wasted all that money on something that doesn't work T-T
P.S. : Running GDX V21, Alfs kernel V04. I've tried formatting it and THEN pasting the files from my old card. Still the same
P.S.P.S : By "my" X8, I mean my friends one which, in a few days or weeks will be mine
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mayb u got a corrupt sd card?

open file explorer in the phone and look if there is something on the card. if you see all your folders and files, try to reboot your phone or install this from the maket.
if you don't see the files on your sd card, try to format the card from the settings in phone, not with pc
hope this will help you

crap...my sd card was also damaged ..it says sd card is damaged please format it...my heart broke ..4gb worth of pics , songs , videos GONE

there might be 2 solutions that I know:
1) Sdcard or the files may be corrupted. - Try to format the sdcard and put just one picture(a picture that you can view without any problems on pc) and see if you can view it.
2)nomedia - make sure there isn't any ".nomedia" file in the root of sd card or check in the folders where your music is store.
HOPE THAT HELPS

kirmada said:
mayb u got a corrupt sd card?
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I tought so too but the problem with that theory is i can still see those files thru root explorer and even titanium backup still works

fifo171 said:
open file explorer in the phone and look if there is something on the card. if you see all your folders and files, try to reboot your phone or install this from the maket.
if you don't see the files on your sd card, try to format the card from the settings in phone, not with pc
hope this will help you
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I'll try that....I've also tried formatting via phone...still nothing

ok so formatting doesn't do any good no matter how i format it...

RohinZaraki said:
I tought so too but the problem with that theory is i can still see those files thru root explorer and even titanium backup still works
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try again with ur 2gb card and if dat works and the 8gb dnt? den the card is corrupted
btw i thot of upgrading my sdcard to 16gb too,my concern is the recovery folder, shud i copy the folder into the new card like any normal folder copy paste and will it work?

You can try formatting your SD card from your computer, maybe it helps.

Use the pc. There 2 types of format. FAT AND ntfs. Have you tried both? Also try quick and the regular one.
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I've full wiped and reflashed gdx v21...it works thnx guys for all your help !

get a card reader and try it with your computer if those files are really important... you could also try one of the many data recovery tools.. just google it..

Guts, i find this problem happens when i flash the update vold+chargemon.zip if i don't it's ok....is there any workaroun ? I cant connect Mass Storage if i don't flash it

When my phone says my SD IS DAMAGED, o just reboot and everytihibg is fine
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Ok...after ALOT of experimenting i finally pin pointed the prob....i used this app called Rescan Media Root...they say that every boot is slow because yr phone is scanning all the media files (Media Scan)...if you disable it, it'll speed up boot time ! But what happens in my case is it disabled the scanning, forever...so it never bothered to scan the sd card for my media files :S...after i reenabled it, it worked !

RohinZaraki said:
ok so formatting doesn't do any good no matter how i format it...
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try to format ur sd card to this low formatting tools
http://hddguru.com/software/HDD-LLF-Low-Level-Format-Tool/HDDLLFsetup.4.12.exe
this save my 4gig sd card
this is free for personal use

Reflash rom. Full Wipe. If still not working return the sdcard back to the shop.

Phone wont accept sd card data

So just today I got my phone working with CM 9 and everything works but the phone wont accept my SD card data.
If I go to the gallery it says I need a SD card, so it didn't recognize it but if I go to the file manager I can open my SD card and see all my files it I still can't access them. For example a song I had on the SD card I can see it but it won't let me listen to it.
I'm sure that the SD card isn't broken or anything it works fine on other phones and it did work on this phone until I installed CM 9.
Does anyone know of a solution?

mreminemfan4ewver said:
So just today I got my phone working with CM 9 and everything works but the phone wont accept my SD card data.
If I go to the gallery it says I need a SD card, so it didn't recognize it but if I go to the file manager I can open my SD card and see all my files it I still can't access them. For example a song I had on the SD card I can see it but it won't let me listen to it.
I'm sure that the SD card isn't broken or anything it works fine on other phones and it did work on this phone until I installed CM 9.
Does anyone know of a solution?
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Have you tried to format the sd card on fat32 from pc?

I have heard something about having to reformat my SD card but I don't know how?

mreminemfan4ewver said:
I have heard something about having to reformat my SD card but I don't know how?
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There's two ways to do it first I suggest you back up the files to your PC then place you sdcard back in your phone go to storage and format the external card that way or once you've backed up the sdcard whilst it is still connected to our PC right click on our sdcard and format should list of options
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try to do "Fix permissions" going into recovery mode.
It may help... Just try once.. nothing can happen to you device..

mount unmount problem

Hi. My Note turned off at night with no battery. when i turned it on, i lost lots of files on the SD and the OS mounts the sd card and immediatly unmounts it....
i have all my files there..
anyone know what the problem is?
thanks

How old is your battery? Did you try with another and charged one?
You can access your files with adb from your PC and your device in recovery. But first you should check the old or buy a new battery.

ThaiDai said:
How old is your battery? Did you try with another and charged one?
You can access your files with adb from your PC and your device in recovery. But first you should check the old or buy a new battery.
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thanks for your reply.
the battery should be 3 years old.
i didnt try another battery. but the phone can get charged and its on. the problem is that it shos a system notification sayng that it is mounting the micro sd card and then righ after saying its unmounting it.
the only way i can acess some of the files is putting it on an SD adapter and put it on my laptop. but tons of data just disappeared from the card...
on the other hand, i put it on a Note II and it can mount the card but i can only see the files I also see on my pc....
my life is on that sd card

So you are talking about your external sd card.
You can try to restore deleted files on the card with tools on Windows.
Or try "diskdigger" on your device (I restored deleted pictures on my my sd card).
But I think the last one won't help if your card isn't mounted at all.

ThaiDai said:
So you are talking about your external sd card.
You can try to restore deleted files on the card with tools on Windows.
Or try "diskdigger" on your device (I restored deleted pictures on my my sd card).
But I think the last one won't help if your card isn't mounted at all.
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the weird part is that i can only manage to recover files inside the folders i can see,
what ineed is to recovers files and folders i cannot see..this is strange

T 715 SD card notification

Hello guys...
On my device, this message constantly appears:-
SD Card
SD Card has been inserted
OK Go to myfiles
...any idea how to make it dissappear.
Thanks in advance..

artdze said:
Hello guys...
On my device, this message constantly appears:-
SD Card
SD Card has been inserted
OK Go to myfiles
...any idea how to make it dissappear.
Thanks in advance..
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I only get this message once I insert the microsd card into the tablet, I get the option not now or go to my files, and I always press not now, and it never come up again until I take out the card and re insert.
do you keep taking out the card or does the message just comes up without you removing/insert the card.

artdze said:
Hello guys...
On my device, this message constantly appears:-
SD Card
SD Card has been inserted
OK Go to myfiles
...any idea how to make it dissappear.
Thanks in advance..
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Backup all your data from sd card and format the card from settings/storage

Probably a card on its way out.

Hello ...

kms108 said:
I only get this message once I insert the microsd card into the tablet, I get the option not now or go to my files, and I always press not now, and it never come up again until I take out the card and re insert.
do you keep taking out the card or does the message just comes up without you removing/insert the card.
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thank you guys for your quick reply. Apologize for the insufficient info. Okay, initially when I inserted the card, the tab is in off mode. Once I powered it up, I didn't get that message. I straight away go to my files and the sd card content is already there, so I thought that is normal, but after a while that message cames on. It goes off once you touch anywhere on the screen or the soft keys. This thing happened on and on. the only thing I haven't done is formatting the card. I gonna try that method afterwards. wish me luck...>_<

artdze said:
thank you guys for your quick reply. Apologize for the insufficient info. Okay, initially when I inserted the card, the tab is in off mode. Once I powered it up, I didn't get that message. I straight away go to my files and the sd card content is already there, so I thought that is normal, but after a while that message cames on. It goes off once you touch anywhere on the screen or the soft keys. This thing happened on and on. the only thing I haven't done is formatting the card. I gonna try that method afterwards. wish me luck...>_<
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It is always best to go through the procedures when insert or removing the sd card, use the menu and unmounts the SD card then format, it's best not to continuous taking out the SD card, even though you can do that.

hmm.... I believe I have tried doing all the method mention before. no joy... formatting process unable to complete(using onboard programme), its only done half way before that message appear again....tried several times....still the same....can't format using PC(ahh....couldn't find my card reader)..so I've concluded that I have to change a new card...even though previously all the content inside works flawlessly. anyway....thanks all for the advices given.

I had that problem with an old microSD and my T810. Changing it with a new one (faster and best branded) solved the problem.
No more messages.

artdze said:
hmm.... I believe I have tried doing all the method mention before. no joy... formatting process unable to complete(using onboard programme), its only done half way before that message appear again....tried several times....still the same....can't format using PC(ahh....couldn't find my card reader)..so I've concluded that I have to change a new card...even though previously all the content inside works flawlessly. anyway....thanks all for the advices given.
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There are two more method you can try, download the Panasonic SD formatter and use that program to format the SD card, or you can format the card using a old nokia phone that runs on the old S40 OS.

artdze said:
Hello guys...
On my device, this message constantly appears:-
SD Card
SD Card has been inserted
OK Go to myfiles
...any idea how to make it dissappear.
Thanks in advance..
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I had a 16gb sandisk do this on my s2, swapped it yesterday for a newer, faster 64gb card and so far so good. I'd try a different card or buy a new one.

kms108 said:
There are two more method you can try, download the Panasonic SD formatter and use that program to format the SD card, or you can format the card using a old nokia phone that runs on the old S40 OS.
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wow... I wanna give this method a try, looks very promising....

I can't guarantee that the SD formatter work,but it's. A very good program made by the SD association, but the Nokia one has a good chance, previously I has some dead micros, and some that will not detect, even on a PC, the nokia fixed it.