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[Q] SD Card Who?

My Samsung captivate is not seeing External SD cards... anything i can do so it can see

Have u tried reformatting ?? or the directory path may be wrong.

I don't know how to do that
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Under Settings, under Storage there is the option.
Be sure to save ur stuff from that external sd card to ur pc first, then format it.
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What ROM are you running?

Ice Cream Hackish 10
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Probably something with the ROM. I always had problems with sd cards on cm7 and both the ics builds. Kept losing the card everytime the phone went to sleep.

Now I'm on stock kk4 rom and its still not showing up...
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No offense, I am only trying to cover the bases. But is ur external sd card being recognized under Menu/Settings/SD card and phone storage/SD card ?? And if so, is it mounted ??
Also, is the directory path /sdcard/external_sd ?? (u can look at My Files in the app drawer and see)

mrhaley30705 said:
Probably something with the ROM. I always had problems with sd cards on cm7 and both the ics builds. Kept losing the card everytime the phone went to sleep.
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I kept having this problem on kb2 and jf6. I swapped the card for one that had about 3gb of stuff on it and no more problems. Either my first card is bad, or it needs to have some stuff on it.

4-2ndtwin said:
No offense, I am only trying to cover the bases. But is ur external sd card being recognized under Menu/Settings/SD card and phone storage/SD card ?? And if so, is it mounted ??
Also, is the directory path /sdcard/external_sd ?? (u can look at My Files in the app drawer and see)
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Nope
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SD Card

I installed cm7 on my captivate and after about a hour the SD card quit working. Any idea?
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rolltide1995 said:
I installed cm7 on my captivate and after about a hour the SD card quit working. Any idea?
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Which sd card? The external or the internal one?

sNoxious said:
Which sd card? The external or the internal one?
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External. Sorry.
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Try a different sd card

mrhaley30705 said:
Try a different sd card
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+1. If the problem still persists, try to reflash the rom that you're using.

Also make sure you have checked/unchecked the USE INTERNAL STORAGE in case what you are seeing as external is actually internal sdcard and vice versa. But what you have doesnt seem like a cm7 issue I have seen before so unless you had it connected to a pc and pulled the cable out while something was being done to the external sdcard (removable) that corrupted the card. Jn that case pull out the card, reinsert it and see if it starts to work. Also then at that point check to make sure you can see the files on the INTERNAL SDCARD at the correct location mnt/sdcard. Then if the external card still is not working try to reformat it to see if you can save it.
I have had the external sdcard turn off after a small fall where I had to actually power off the phone, pull the card out and put it back in, then reboot the phone and it was fine. Hope you get it figured out.
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rolltide1995 said:
I installed cm7 on my captivate and after about a hour the SD card quit working. Any idea?
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i think its an cm7 issue i got the error of corrupt sd card but a simple reboot just make it ok

I just tried the SD card a computer and I can read and write. But it still doesn't work in my phone.
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rolltide1995 said:
I just tried the SD card a computer and I can read and write. But it still doesn't work in my phone.
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Have you tried reflashing your current rom?

sNoxious said:
Have you tried reflashing your current rom?
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Yes
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rolltide1995 said:
Yes
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How about other sd cards? Have you tried to put it on your phone?
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The external SD card folder is in a different location on ICS. It's in the root area under EMMC. (It used to be under something like sdcard/external-sd).
I thought mine wasn't working either. Not only that, but my media database got corrupted so that external sd songs wouldn't play because my Captivate was searching for them in the old location.
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Oops i thought you said CM9. Perhaps CM7 works similarly though. Check it our.
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Blank external SD card or cannot read file system

Hi, I just recently have run into this issue: getting notification that my external SD card is either blank or the file system cannot be read, and saying i need to reformat. I did, and still getting same error. Up until a few days ago all was fine with my phone and Sd card so very puzzled. Thought i would post on here to see if anyone has had the same problem or knows of a fix, before i reflash the rom or change roms all together.
Running:
SauROM KK4 with corn 7.06
Thanks
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Try a different sd card

Unfortunately, I don't have another one I can use at the moment... would have to buy a new one,
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[Help!] SD Card

Hello XDAians..
So, basically, something is wrong with my SD Card after partitioning using Swapper..
Now, my phone doesn't even read my SD Card. You can't go through files, etc.
I know the problem is not the ROM nor the PHONE.. because my phone reads my brother's SD Card which is the same class, space & type..
I can't format because MiniPartition tool also doesn't recognize my SD Card.. Help?
My SD Card is a Class 2, 8GB, MicroSDHC.
Please help. I really need my SD Card to install new ROMS and MODS..

Have you tried CWM built in

It also doesn't read anything
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Try it in a computer. That doesn't work, it's fried. I had that with a 16GB PNY card. My current Samsung works fine no matter what I do
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x10man said:
Try it in a computer. That doesn't work, it's fried. I had that with a 16GB PNY card. My current Samsung works fine no matter what I do
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The thing is, I don't have an adapter for the SD Card..

If it isn't working in cwm then you only have to find a adapter and partition again...
I got the same, after I deleted swap it solved
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Hmm.. I know I got an adapter somewhere in my house.. Just need to find it..
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Mini tool partition is the best...
Use it and delete swap
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hmm if you swaps, i recommend u use a class 6 or higher to lower risk

please use class 2 sd class

maybe you can use card reader to check it..is it still FAT format or not
then try to fix it or something else like repair your sdcard
and turn on your phone WITHOUT sdcard
last, turn it on again WITH sdcard

swapping internal to sd card

i tried to swap sd card with vstab but it always end up with bootloop for 2 times . can you give me the correct way?
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Can you upload Vold.fsatb here ?

Someone posted that somewhere in formu, search for it. Working on JB.