[Q] SD Card Who? - Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

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.

Hey all my Q. Is I am switching my 4g SD card to a 32g SD card and I was wondering if I just copy and past and everything stays the same or do I have to do something else when I switch my SD card...
Thanks. In advance
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You can just copy and paste everything from the old to the new and it should work fine. The only thing I can think of that might be a problem is if you are using an EXT partition for apps2sd. You probably won't be able to copy that data over.
gorbisloth said:
You can just copy and paste everything from the old to the new and it should work fine. The only thing I can think of that might be a problem is if you are using an EXT partition for apps2sd. You probably won't be able to copy that data over.
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Yeah that what I was thinking. .. o well I will try it out.. hey thanks for your help...
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[Q] Link2SD not working on HTC Aria

hey after partitioning using minitool... when i safely remove the drive... on my mobile it shows 'Blank SD card' SD card blank or has unsupported filesystem. when i click it, it says format SD card... what should i do. i have HTC Aria 2.1
Well the best thing to do is copy all the files over to the computer, format, and put back all your files
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supetawesomedude said:
Well the best thing to do is copy all the files over to the computer, format, and put back all your files
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sorry i wanted to ask how do u partition my sd card... i did format my card and after that got my files back on my sd card but then partition was gone... can u pls help

Help!!! No sd card showing to flash rom

ok so i have not done a nandroid ohhh hooo
I have done a full wipe, im in CWM i go to click install zip from sd card (so I can put my new rom on) and my external sd card isn't showing up only my internal one that has been wiped, I try and mount usb storage and it says
E:Unable to open ums lunfile (no such file or directory)
Need help IM STUCK
ok so I restarted my phone and everything was back to normal??? is this normal after a wipe???
And I tried Recovery again and my external sd card won't show up and my internal card only shows about 3 foldesr when there is about 30, I have put my new rom on both sd cards and it isn't showing up
Need Help
Your putting it on the internal sd. You have to navigate to _external sd and place the file there. Sorry for bad explanation.. im on the toilet
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i put it on the internal and external and wouldn't pick either up,i cant navigate to external sd
PS dont forget to wipe ya ass
Try removing and re-inserting the sd card. If it fails, try it while phone is off
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drrogern said:
Try removing and re-inserting the sd card. If it fails, try it while phone is off
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how can I try it with the phone off???u mean test the sd card? I know that works 100%
Turn it off, take of the back cover and remove the sd card physically.
Btw, I always wipe (after doing a backup) ,)
when im clicking apply zip from sd card now, it says
E:cant mount /sdcard
ok sorted now thanks man
Glad it worked out for you.
Have a nice weekend.
drrogern said:
Sorry for bad explanation.. im on the toilet
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remind me to never ask to borrow your phone lol.

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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External SD card problems

I'm having trouble using my external SD card on my get i9000 I have a 32gb men card in it and its not using any of it an I can't get it to use any. I have cm9 on my phone if that helps any lol please help
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scouse83 said:
I'm having trouble using my external SD card on my get i9000 I have a 32gb men card in it and its not using any of it an I can't get it to use any. I have cm9 on my phone if that helps any lol please help
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Did you format it ?
scouse83 said:
I'm having trouble using my external SD card on my get i9000 I have a 32gb men card in it and its not using any of it an I can't get it to use any. I have cm9 on my phone if that helps any lol please help
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It is mounted, isn't it?!
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Yea it is mounted mate
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scouse83 said:
Yea it is mounted mate
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Are you trying to copy from PC to ext sd?
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It should show up as a seperate drive with the phone if you're mounting it as a USB drive. It would show up as something called Removable Disk (with a drive letter) if you haven't renamed the card before.
You are aware that on your phone the Ext sd is called emmc on cm base roms?
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Its there when I connect via PC but that's not the prob I have a 32 gb mem card that's not getting used by the phone at all phone men and built in external is full and can't get it to use my SD card
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slaphead20 said:
You are aware that on your phone the Ext sd is called emmc on cm base roms?
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And I don't have a file called emmc either mate
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Go to your file manager and look for 2 folders
emmc
sdcard
one will be external sd & other internal sd
If you are on stock ROM then looks for SDcard>external_sd
I have a external file an a SD file but this phone has internal memory and external SD built in to it just that dosnt allow me to use mine to move apps to etc I managed to put some pics n music on it but wanna use it to save space on my phone aswell
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Stock?
Are you running a stock rom?
What were some of the things you were doing before this problem started?
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No I got ics rom on it and it hasn't worked since I rooted the phone mate I think its got somfin to do with the phone having its own internal and external SD cards I don't know if I can removed external SD card myself but I doubt its just like a normal SD card
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If you're running cm9, ur external sd card is at mnt/emmc. If you were to put to mnt/sdcard/externalsd/, you are simply placing ur files to internal sd.
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I don't have them files there will see if I can upload screenshot to show you guys
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No mint files
I have no mnt files an can see my SD file there
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not able to mount external sd card
not able to mount external sd card in my ics cynogan mod 9 pls help
scouse83 said:
I have no mnt files an can see my SD file there
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