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[Q] "SD card blank or has unsupported file system"

Hi all. I've been doing some research on this for some time now, and I haven't been able to find anything of relevance.
I have a 32GB Kingston microSD card that my phone cannot read. I get the following error:
"Bank External SD card
SD card blank or has unsupported file system."
When I try to format it with my Galaxy [2.2 legit froyo], it will still not let me mount it. Now this SD card may be FAT32 or it maybe NTFS - I'm not too sure, but which ever one it is, my phone doesn't like!
I don't know how to access this memory card via my computer, I was wondering if there was a fix for this or if there was a program on the Market that will allow me to format back and forth with NFTS and FAT32 through my phone?
I've tried everything, whatever I do just does no work, so please don't be telling me to make sure I've put it in correctly or take it out and put it back in because they simply do not work.
Thanks in advance...

No? Bump... Please help me, I hate having no space on my phone!

Try using a card reader and see if shows up on the computer. Sd formatter has worked for me before to bring an unresponsive card back. Do a google for sd formatter.
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mikuni_03 said:
Try using a card reader and see if shows up on the computer. Sd formatter has worked for me before to bring an unresponsive card back. Do a google for sd formatter.
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How can I go about actually connecting my microSD to the computer..?

You will need an sd card reader and the adapter for the micro sd.

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.

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

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..

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.