Hi guys.
I've got an original 16gb Lexar, Class 10, bought on Amazon. My software is Gingerbread 2.3.3.
A few days ago I got a "Blank SD Card" error. The only solution seemed to be the format of the card. I have put the card into a card reader in my computer to try and get the data back, but all I managed to recover was some pictures from my holiday (I used a program for that). The card was in RAW state. I couldn't format it with my phone (nothing happened when I did) so I formatted it using my computer. I also did a factory reset to start from a scratch.
The same error appeared today morning. I did the same thing, but I insalled only trusted and well known apps such as Go Locker, Zedge and Fancy widgets. Everything was fine up to now - I didn't get an error this time, but everything on my card has been deleted (only the system folders such as DCIM and Android are on it, but there's nothing inside of them). All the application installed on my card are unavailable.
I'll be grateful for any help, I have no idea what to do. :crying:
Thanks,
Draggy
Edit: It's a Micro SDHC card of course, sorry for the mistake.
Are you sure it's a legit card?
Check if there is holographic stickers or anything that mark the product genuine.
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I'm having a weird problem with a Nexus One. It had a 2GB microSD card in it that seemed to go corrupt (all the file names went crazy) so I reformatted it and it happened again within minutes. So today I bought a new 8GB microSD card and and the Nexus now gives the error of "Blank SD Card - SD card blank or has unsupported filesystem." It is unable to format the card, but it doesn't give an error. I tried formatting the card to FAT32 on my computer, still the phone thinks it is blank/unsupported.
I'm hoping the SD slot isn't fried... any thoughts?
You could try reformating the SD card in a computer using SDformater with erase on.
I have the same problem for a few weeks now. My phone can't seem to read the sd card at all. Thought it was the sd card so I bought a new one, but problem remains. I know both cards work (have tested them in another phone and the computer reads them). I've tried formatting the card in the phone and reformatting with erase on using SDFormatter in my computer but my phone refuses to read it. Think it might be my sd slot as well...
Currently running CM 7.1.0. Haven't tried a factory reset or flashing another ROM (how would one go about doing that with no sd card?) as I'm not too keen to lose that data if I can help it.
Did you manage to fix it?
I was not able to fix it and after many hours of troubleshooting, so I gave up. Good luck to you, and please reply if you find a solution.
My sd card just formatted itself.
Last thing i remembered is that my musics in my sd card, my phone couldnt read it. so i took it out. put it back in the phone, bam the entire sd card got erased.
is there anyway to get those things back? more importantly my photos
LitoNi said:
My sd card just formatted itself.
Last thing i remembered is that my musics in my sd card, my phone couldnt read it. so i took it out. put it back in the phone, bam the entire sd card got erased.
is there anyway to get those things back? more importantly my photos
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Try some free data recovery software. Google it, and use a card reader on your PC to help, but it does not look good.
Thanks for your reply.
Ive actually did that and got trolled by this program. After scanning all the files, it asked me to purchase the program in order to get the files back. I got fed up and reformatted the sd card and start from scratch.
Right now I'm facing one issue. After putting stuff back into the sd card, I unplugged it and the sd card un mounted itself. I pulled it out and plug it back in with restart and all and the phone still cant read it.
Is it the sd card problem or my phone?
Or what else should I do?
Thanks on advance.
LitoNi said:
Thanks for your reply.
Ive actually did that and got trolled by this program. After scanning all the files, it asked me to purchase the program in order to get the files back. I got fed up and reformatted the sd card and start from scratch.
Right now I'm facing one issue. After putting stuff back into the sd card, I unplugged it and the sd card un mounted itself. I pulled it out and plug it back in with restart and all and the phone still cant read it.
Is it the sd card problem or my phone?
Or what else should I do?
Thanks on advance.
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There are plenty of good free ones that dont do that, however, if you have now formatted the card all the information is lost.
Which format did you format it too? Make sure its FAT or EXT2, 3 or 4. The best bet is to format it in recovery.
I knew it would be a problem if I reformat it, but I was really fed up certain programs like those. I didn't want to waste time so I chose to reformat it.
My first attempt with FAT didn't work, and tried the others as well.
This morning I reformatted and stick it into the phone and erased every thing on the sd through the phone again. And now it seems to work fine.
Somehow the first few tries the phone reformatted the sd even when I did it through the computer already.
Anyway, thanks alot buddy
Hey guys,
Im new to the forum but ive been following quietly for a while. I thought id make my first post, a new thread because ive been having an issue which i dont know is common or not but has been killing me for the past 4 days and i havent been able to find a solution.
BASICALLY,
My MicroSD 64GB (Master UHS-1 Class 10) has all of a sudden decided not to work on me and here is the problem.
First let me establish a few things.
-> MicroSD reads on any computer (im running mac)
-> MicroSD was formatted on my Xperia Z and has been working for the last 3 weeks
-> I have ejected the MicroSD several times without properly unmounting it from the phone (being honest)
-> Files can be read and copied onto the computer
-> Files can be copied onto the MicroSD but once ejected from the computer and reinserted, the files disappear. Its as if the files that are existing on the MicroSD are locked there forever.
-> Files can be deleted and do appear to have been deleted, however once the MicroSD is reinserted into the computer, (Via usb or SD reader), the files just appear again.
Problems:
-> I am trying to format the MicroSD using Disk Utlilty on Mac but to no avail. i have tried every single option and i have even used SD formatter 3.1 which is a third party program. On mac, all i get is an error saying "Mac OSX was unable to repair the disk" -"you can still open or copy files on the disk, but you cant save changes to files on the disk. Back up the disk and reformat as soon as you can."
-> windows gives me the same error. in windows format. I can do exactly the same i.e copy and paste files onto the MicroSD which disappear, i can delete files which reappear and when i attempt to format using even MS-DOS's "DiskPart" utility, which is supposed to be epic, it still does not work..
I just want to reformat the disk and kill everything on it and return it back to normal.
Ive looked at so many searches and read so many web pages, forums, blogs, everything but i could not find a solid solution. Nothing Works.
MY FINAL PROBLEM!!
Once the Micro SD is placed into the Xperia Z, a message pops up saying "preparing micro SD card.. Checking Errors" This message DOES NOT disappear for hours. ive had it on for half a day and it drained my battery to 26% before i realised that it was killing my battery. it was on standby aswell. I have an old 2GB microsd which i used and the message pops up for about 1 second before it disappears.
This is my problem. I cant use the MicroSD on my Xperia Z anymore. The phone just wont read it. It will prepare it for the next century.
If anyone has any suggestions to how i can get these haunted files off my MicroSD and get it back in working order id really appreciate your help!!
Thanks!!
FAT32, NTFS or exFAT?
Running stock or rooted?
I'm running third party software (paragon), and using NTFS.
17gb bluray movie worked without stuttering, and overall seems stable.
I'm rooted.
Thanks benziii for your reply!
My Xperia Z is rooted and with unlocked bootloader. I think it may have something to do with corrupted files? because of removing the MicroSD without unmounting it all the time perhaps? or i really dont know.
By the way its formatted as MS-DOS (FAT) at the moment =/ cant seem to do anything still. or change it.
Tired formatting in different format with no luck
& im trying to get access to a windows computer atm because i find there are many more third party apps on windows than there is on mac.
My Xperia Z is unlocked and rooted and I am using Sandisk 64gb class 10 sd card and no problems. But its just me! :laugh:
If I were to guess I'd say that the card has been corrupted. It may work with a low level format, or it may not.
re: MicroSD
danielz04 said:
Thanks benziii for your reply!
My Xperia Z is rooted and with unlocked bootloader. I think it may have something to do with corrupted files? because of removing the MicroSD without unmounting it all the time perhaps? or i really dont know.
By the way its formatted as MS-DOS (FAT) at the moment =/ cant seem to do anything still. or change it.
Tired formatting in different format with no luck
& im trying to get access to a windows computer atm because i find there are many more third party apps on windows than there is on mac.
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1. Removing the card without unmounting it is seriously asking for problems.
2. My Xperia Z documentation says it supports up to 32gb cards. i.e. not 64gb.
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danielz04 said:
Thanks benziii for your reply!
& im trying to get access to a windows computer atm because i find there are many more third party apps on windows than there is on mac.
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Perhaps, but it's doubtful they can do anything you can't do on your Mac or Linux.
On OS X, you can run the following two items from the terminal as root:
1. fdisk
2. newfs ((I assume you want "dos" or "exfat" file system types).
Just, you know, make sure you get the drive right and don't nuke your Mac's hard drive by accident!
I thought max size was 32gb also
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Officially it is, but I've seen 64gb cards referenced as working many times. I think it's just a matter of the phone not working to SDXC specifications. Though that's hardly a good reason, as everything else on the phone is first class...
Everyday is a learning day.
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It seems your SD card is dead My SXZ broke one SD card (32GB Transcend Ultimate, 10 class) in the first week of using - now it is recognized as 1 GB unknown disk with RAW filesystem. So I had to buy new one (32 GB Sandisk Ultra, 10 class).
My phone just loses SD sometimes and doesn't recognize it till restart. Before installing .434 firmware update I met this problem very often. Now (after installing .434) I meet it sometimes when open stock Camera app. I think that is firmware bug, so waiting for next updates.
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It seems your SD card is dead My SXZ broke one SD card (32GB Transcend Ultimate, 10 class) in the first week of using - now it is recognized as 1 GB unknown disk with RAW filesystem. So I had to buy new one (32 GB Sandisk Ultra, 10 class).
My phone just loses SD sometimes and doesn't recognize it till restart. Before installing .434 firmware update I met this problem very often. Now (after installing .434) I meet it sometimes when open stock Camera app. I think that is firmware bug, so waiting for next updates.
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I was doing some research and realised that before a MicroSD card dies, it will write protect the data before the MSD card dies so that you can back up any data. you can delete files and copy files but they will autodelete themselves after the card is remounted. thats exactly the problem that i have.. oh well thanks guys. i sent the card back for replacement!! hopefully next one i wont screw over too.
Lesson learnt. never eject sd card without unmounting on phone first!! thanks guys!
Jeka21rus said:
It seems your SD card is dead My SXZ broke one SD card (32GB Transcend Ultimate, 10 class) in the first week of using - now it is recognized as 1 GB unknown disk with RAW filesystem. So I had to buy new one (32 GB Sandisk Ultra, 10 class).
My phone just loses SD sometimes and doesn't recognize it till restart. Before installing .434 firmware update I met this problem very often. Now (after installing .434) I meet it sometimes when open stock Camera app. I think that is firmware bug, so waiting for next updates.
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Interesting.
I bought a 32GB Transcend class10 MicroSD card from Amazon at the same time as I ordered my Xperia Z.
I did manage to copy around 10Gb of music to it, using Sony Bridge For Mac before it was suddenly 'disconnected' part way through the copy process (I was filling it to 25Gb with music from an iTunes Playlist).
After that I tried it in the Mac directly and a Windows laptop, neither of which would write to the MicroSD card, some of the files could be read, but not many. While SDFormatter claimed to have formatted the card, the files (or their names at least) were still visible, further attempts at formatting the card (with SDFormatter) claimed it was write protected.
Putting it directly into the Xperia Z would cause it to reboot after 2-3 minutes.
I returned the card to Amazon. If it had worked on my Mac (or laptop) I might have kept it, but working on nothing made it useless.
I am currently using an old 8Gb MicroSD card that came with (I think...) the Sony Arc I had a few years back and it seems to work perfectly. I'm loath to buy another 32Gb card to find that it doesn't work.
I assume there is no reason why the Xperia Z shouldn't work with a 32Gb MicroSD card? Do I need to ensure that I get a different class of card, or is a class 10 card suitable? Is it just not compatible with the Transcend card?
Any suggestions you have will be most helpful.
danielz04 said:
I was doing some research and realised that before a MicroSD card dies, it will write protect the data before the MSD card dies so that you can back up any data. you can delete files and copy files but they will autodelete themselves after the card is remounted. thats exactly the problem that i have.. oh well thanks guys. i sent the card back for replacement!! hopefully next one i wont screw over too.
Lesson learnt. never eject sd card without unmounting on phone first!! thanks guys!
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same thing happens to me! files remove and reappear ! "chkdsk /f command" in windows shows that one of my files is cross-linked! here is the message:
\App\install\.goutputstream-5JN7ZW is cross-linked on allocation unit 1181239.
i i tried formatting with windows paragon linux (fdisk,mkfs.msdos,gparted,testdisk...)even i ran windows 98 and ran scandisk for fixing cross-link issue ! but till now no luck.
can anyone help me with this
thanks in advance!
in my opinion there is no way to repair this, just throw it in trashbin.. ive tryd almost all..
I'm in the middle of an RMA with SanDisk right now. It seems that once the sd decides to be read only to protect itself, it's done. Replacement is the only option.
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i have the same problem with my 32gb sandisk sdcard,Tried almost everything and nothing worked.
I had my Samsung Galaxy Mini for over a year now and had absolutely no problems what so ever even after rooting it.
Week ago every application I try to install gives the "usb memory not mounted" error, so after searching and trying to solve this problem as it is an internal memory space issue couldn't solve and gave up eventually.
Days after I tried to install another application and it did install successfully, but then I restarted the phone and it was gone along with all pictures I captured at this duration were all gone, so I thought it was a SD card issue and started on trying to figure what was that.
I tried to add, remove files via the PC but after mounting the SD card to the device like there's lock and nothing happened. Tried to format the SD card using the device settings and the PC but still after reconnecting the SD card nothing changed.
Thought perhaps the SD card is broken, so I bought a new one which worked fine before mounting it to the device tried to take a picture and there it was, then I unmounted the SD card and mounted it once more in to the mobile and the picture was gone and the same story happened again. I even tried with another 3 brand new SD card, same story happened.
Please if you know what is that and if there any way to unlock the card tell me what to do.
PS. The microSD adapter isn't locked. And I'm not an android professional I'm a newbie XD
ok, so my microsd card is a samsung 64gb hc/hx? Computer says HX, microsd card says HC... class 10.
I've been putting music on it etc, then when reboot my phone, it like restores to an older stage, files will delete themselves, folders i deleted reappear and the new music is gone etc.. I do it again, same thing happens. Its extremely frustrating.
I notice ill put an apk on there, the icon changes, and it wont open the apk also.
Ive formatted my sd card on both computer and on the phone but the problem remains...
Here an image of a zip when trying to open, it was recently put on the sd and opened fine before rebooting.
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ok, so my microsd card is a samsung 64gb hc/hx? Computer says HX, microsd card says HC... class 10.
I've been putting music on it etc, then when reboot my phone, it like restores to an older stage, files will delete themselves, folders i deleted reappear and the new music is gone etc.. I do it again, same thing happens. Its extremely frustrating.
I notice ill put an apk on there, the icon changes, and it wont open the apk also.
Ive formatted my sd card on both computer and on the phone but the problem remains...
Here an image of a zip when trying to open, it was recently put on the sd and opened fine before rebooting.
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Same problem here. Any solution?
Are you doing this from the phone? Are you on KK?
If so you need to Google "third party write to sd card restrictions on KitKat "
The solution is to root and apply the write to sd card fix
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Root and fix done. The same thing happens if I copy files from pc to micro sd. When I put micro sd in the phone, directory and files above 8/10gb disappear.
You have a broken or dodgy sd card then.
I bought a 64 gig card of eBay write cheap but it was really a 4 gig card formatted to look like a 64 gig one...
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Tried with 3 different micro sd. The result was the same.