SD Card - Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

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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Related

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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Galaxy s killed at least one if my Micro SDs

One month ago i bought on ebay a 32 gb Mirco Sd, i put it in my phone which told me to format it: i did it and than it stopped to be shown in both phone or computer.
Ok, i thought i had bought a fake and i started again to use my old 16 gb Micro SD i've had for one year.
This morning i switched on my phone phone and it told me that it had a problem with the Micro SD and i needed to format it; i did it and since than it happend the same happend with the one i thought was a fake (now i'm not so sure).
It stopped to work anywhere!
Do anybody have any ideas to solve this?
clean the contacts on the card and the phone. Make sure your computer's reader can handle that size of sdcard. the computer usually can, but the reader may have a problem. Verify that it is formatted as FAT.
I cleaned the contacts and now my phone sees the micro sd: it only says "empty sd stick or unsupported filesystem", but in the memory settings i can't mount it and if i try to format it nothing happens.
The pc still doesn't see the sd, i've even tried with 2 different readers
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Do u remove sd crd often, if u do then pls go to settings-sdcarf and storage and unmount your sd card or it will get corrupted. Its an amdroid problem. The rest part where it doesnt work anymore is wierd.
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I remove it sometimes, but not that often, however i can't do that, because so far it still can't be mounted nor formatted and also it can be seen by the computer
Nobody can help me?
sciacallo010 said:
Nobody can help me?
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Buy a new card.
AdamOutler said:
Buy a new card.
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I don't like so much that solution, I mean, I spent 60€ for this sd and i'd prefer to have it working
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sciacallo010 said:
One month ago i bought on ebay a 32 gb Mirco Sd, i put it in my phone which told me to format it: i did it and than it stopped to be shown in both phone or computer.
Ok, i thought i had bought a fake and i started again to use my old 16 gb Micro SD i've had for one year.
This morning i switched on my phone phone and it told me that it had a problem with the Micro SD and i needed to format it; i did it and since than it happend the same happend with the one i thought was a fake (now i'm not so sure).
It stopped to work anywhere!
Do anybody have any ideas to solve this?
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I used to have this issue with my old sdcard. If you can get the computer to read it first try this :https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/. If that doesnt work try some software called partition magic and use it to format the card. This might not work for you but i was having the same issue as you and it did for me.
JJbdoggg said:
I used to have this issue with my old sdcard. If you can get the computer to read it first try this :https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/. If that doesnt work try some software called partition magic and use it to format the card. This might not work for you but i was having the same issue as you and it did for me.
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Thanks mate!
Do you have any ideas to make the computer read the sd?
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sciacallo010 said:
Thanks mate!
Do you have any ideas to make the computer read the sd?
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No probs, and the only way i could get the computer to read the sd card was using a card reader, multiple reboots, removing and re-inserting the sd card until it decided it wanted to be read....as you might imagine it took a while, good luck

[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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Update
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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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?
The more info the better
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
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I have no mnt files an can see my SD file there
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Phone Won't Read SD card

I reformatted my SD card that was in my phone a while back but the problem now is that is my phone will not read the SD card. It only shows the internal memory.
Maybe the SD card is damaged? Have you tried it on a different device?
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Are you sure u formatted it to fat32?
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I tried it in my Tablet and it doesnt show the sd card either. But when i use the SD card adapter for my computer it reads it
HAYDENB said:
I tried it in my Tablet and it doesnt show the sd card either. But when i use the SD card adapter for my computer it reads it
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Which file system did you format it to? ie: fat32?
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HAYDENB said:
I tried it in my Tablet and it doesnt show the sd card either. But when i use the SD card adapter for my computer it reads it
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I am going to reformat it again using my computer this time
HAYDENB said:
I tried it in my Tablet and it doesnt show the sd card either. But when i use the SD card adapter for my computer it reads it
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Okay, most likely somehow your format got interrupted so I suggest to try formatting it again. If that doesn't work Mount it to a PC right click the SD cards partition and click properties then scan disk and post error results if there are any.
EDIT: sorry, didn't notice your upper post.
Not formatting through a pc might've been the problem all along, keep us posted.
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YeledKaki said:
Okay, most likely somehow your format got interrupted so I suggest to try formatting it again. If that doesn't work Mount it to a PC right click the SD cards partition and click properties then scan disk and post error results if there are any.
EDIT: sorry, didn't notice your upper post.
Not formatting through a pc might've been the problem all along, keep us posted.
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I used my pc to format the card and it reads the sd card. Thanks guys
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HAYDENB said:
YeledKaki said:
Okay, most likely somehow your format got interrupted so I suggest to try formatting it again. If that doesn't work Mount it to a PC right click the SD cards partition and click properties then scan disk and post error results if there are any.
EDIT: sorry, didn't notice your upper post.
Not formatting through a pc might've been the problem all along, keep us posted.
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I used my pc to format the card and it reads the sd card. Thanks guys
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I'm glad it worked out for you eventually .
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