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Internal and externa Sd issues

Hello, this is my firt post and i need help!
Now when i connect in kies mode the phone keeps mounting and unmouting the Sd cards! and hangs in starting,doesnt get recognised by keys. This issues only occurs in kies mode and not in mass storage. Could it be related to kies, the usb port or phone?
Thanks
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Ok, I've tested in another pc and it does the same: keeps mounting and unmouting both sd cards and stays in starting to kies without connect to kies... So i thinks it's not kies itself or usb ports... Is there anything wrong with the phone or it's something i installed to? (before the problems it disconnected by mistake from kies then I got a damaged internal sd card info and external sd card corruption, but both are working fine and I didn't get that notification anymore...). What can i do? Shall a format solve this?
Formated the internal sd and nothing... but wait... removed the external sd card and voilá! it now works!!!

Odd. I know there's a bug in kies that won't let you connect if you have media files with more then 16 letters. That could be reason. Check your files and rename them. Also do a format the SD car dwith your phone in settings. Unmount then format. That should also help
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Ok, it's doing the same again, with or without external sd... So i realy don't know what's appening!

Be sure to use the latest kies , it's a kies bug , but i am prety sure that the latest one has it fixed .

Internal SD card trouble

I just flashed serendipity 6.4 and it runs very very well. However since flashing, my pc has not recognized my internal SD card. The external sd card immediately pops up when connected. I can't access it from my pc at all, but when just on my phone, I can browse the file in astro. I already tried changing the it to mass storage in the usb settings. Any tips?

Check to make sure its mounted.
Settings>sd card and storage> internal sd
Thats the only thing I got.
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If the above doesn't work, go into recovery and try and mount SD cards from there and see what it does. If it still doesnt mount flash to stock and get it warranty replaced

Im gonna try flashing back to stock and see if it recognizes. It should... hopefully. thanks

Next time, post in the ROM-specific sticky if your question is related to a certain ROM.

[Q] SOLVED: Connecting with USB shows only internal memorycard...

HI!
I have this problem that when I turn on the file sharing, the computer shows only internal memory card and not the external. Because the phone itself recognizes the external card I have tried to unmount and mount several times without any improvement. I am currently using the latest CM7 nightly, but the problem seemes to have started after I changed the card from 4gb to 16 gb. Any ideas?
EDIT: Erasing sd card from the phones menu helped to solve the problem.

Go Setting>Storage and remount your sd card and try???

I've done that several times....no help... android system accesses the card without problems...music, pics etc.

Did you physically remove your card and reinsert it, or just software remount?
Have you tried the card directly in your computer?
Have a look in windows device manager and see if it reports any problems. (right
click my computer and select manage)

I have tried it all and everything is ok with the sd card itself (I copied recent nightly from the computer on the sd card) also recovery recognizes is... there are also no problems in device manager...

Try to put on debugging mode. And try it with debugging mode on.
If the debugging mode is on try to take it off.
Regards Kali

I tried that also and nothing changed.... I have a feeling that it is somehow attached to me using mybackup pro... I restored application apk and data from another phone to this one and It seems that usually the application data should go to internal memory card. In this case it is on external card... so i believe that somehow the programs are still using the card when connected and do not allow phone to share it out... It's just a guess though...
EDIT: so I think the solution is to wipe everything and start all over again

So I fresh installed Rom and wiped everything and the problem still exist... still can see files with file managers in phone and when connected to computer, autorun shows only internal card...
Edit: I tried now 2gb sized sdcard and it works perfectly... the problem is with 16gb card.

Weird. Did you try another USB-port?

I tried different USB-s now and still same I found out that when I connect the phone, under my computer appears two removable disks.... if I turn on the usb connection, only one transforms to usable removable disk (internal) and the other one asks to insert the removable disk. I used the same sd card on my HTC desire with CM nightlies and it worked perfectly... could it be CM-s bug?

Sorry to ask (maby the obvious)
On Your phone.. using your filemanager (Root explorer astro or what-ever..)
Browse to sdcard
Do you have a folder called _externalSD?
On this phone, for some reason the external SD is not mounted under./ but as i said under ./sdcard/ (i.e its mounted under the internal SD card..)
Just a thought

Where the different cards are mounted doesn't make any difference. And as he said, it works with other cards (2GB and 4GB).
CyanogenMOD mounts internal card as /mnt/emmc, and external card as /mnt/sdcard by default.
When turning on USB storage, both cards should be unmounted and shared over USB.

Hi, I had the same problem with mine, and as you said in one of your previous posts, I had to do a format through the phone and as soon as I did that I was good to go.
I did use the same memory card in my old hero so this might have something to do with it... I'm not sure.

By formatting do you mean from the menu Erase SD card? On the desire I actually had the formatting request from the computer, but there was another problem (some of the rom's files were on the sdcards ext or something and I had no access to the card from the USB).... kind of a similar problem if I think back now but after changing to CM, the problem disappeared.

I forgot to mention I am running completely stock rom and unrooted (for the time being) and there is just an option under sd card & phone storage setting to format external sd card

After erasing the sd card from the phone, the computer recognized it i'm currently copying stuff back and i'm pretty sure it does not affect the recognition

I faced the same problem. I had Swapper2 on my NC, and after I uninstalled it (and cleared the data of Swapper2, just in case) everything went to normal back again.
^ a solution.

SD Card - what's going on?

My SD card somehow had 2 partitions, /sdcard, and /sdcard_ext.. If I plugged in my phone to my PC or took out my microSD, the only one I was able to see is the ext, and everything (pictures, apps, etc), were stored on /sdcard
So I formatted my microSD, now there's just 1 partition but, when I move apps, it doesn't show that it's taking up any more space, so where are they being moved to? How do I fix them to move to the SD?

Haloman800 said:
My SD card somehow had 2 partitions, /sdcard, and /sdcard_ext.. If I plugged in my phone to my PC or took out my microSD, the only one I was able to see is the ext, and everything (pictures, apps, etc), were stored on /sdcard
So I formatted my microSD, now there's just 1 partition but, when I move apps, it doesn't show that it's taking up any more space, so where are they being moved to? How do I fix them to move to the SD?
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Your SD card doesn't have two partitions. "SDCard" is the phones internal storage, while "SDCard-ext" is the micro-SD card. Are you sure when you took out the micro-SD card "ext" was showing? I'm willing to bet you have that part backwards.

EDIT: Okay great, formatted SD, got it working now.
I'm having another problem, I can't get internal storage to appear when I plug it in & choose usb mass storage, it keeps going to sd card. I've installed the drivers and everything, and am using moto's own cord (I know it doesn't work sometimes unless you do), how do I fix this?

Haloman800 said:
EDIT: Okay great, formatted SD, got it working now.
I'm having another problem, I can't get internal storage to appear when I plug it in & choose usb mass storage, it keeps going to sd card. I've installed the drivers and everything, and am using moto's own cord (I know it doesn't work sometimes unless you do), how do I fix this?
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How long have you waited? An internal storage with a lot of items can take a while to site up, particularly on win 7 machines, and can be made worse by your anti virus program if it is set scan removable devices. Since you just formatted the sdcard it probably got scanned quickly whereas the internal storage may be taking longer to get scanned....
You might also try rebooting with a battery pull if it doesn't register after 10 minutes and see if that helps.
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If you have "USB debugging " on it will not show your internal card.
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Peichor said:
If you have "USB debugging " on it will not show your internal card.
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Untrue. I have USB Debugging on and I have no problem seeing either the internal storage or external storage.

I turned of USB debuggging, still only showing up SD card... So all my pictures, video, etc. is being stored on my internal rather than my SD card? How do I change this? I set in the camera apps to save to SD card rather than internal, but it's still saving to "sdcard" which is internal.. Even if that worked, all the apps that save stuff to SD would actually be saving it to internal..
How do I fix this???

I've ran into the same issue with Windows 7 X64, sometimes one of the drives will just not get recognized. Even after uninstalling and re-installing the drivers. But a quick reboot of the PC seems to clear it up. Weird ...

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I've ran into the same issue with Windows 7 X64, sometimes one of the drives will just not get recognized. Even after uninstalling and re-installing the drivers. But a quick reboot of the PC seems to clear it up. Weird ...
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This is highly pc dependent. I run w7 x64 and haven't had issues since I was stock. I wish we/motorola could figure out why.

way to stop the SD card from mounting?

i noticed that every time i plug my phone to my computer it allways mounts the SD card even if i did not tell it to. is there a way to choose not to mount the phone? i tether my phone alot and so when i plug it in it will change all my ringtones because the SD card is mounted and all my ringtones are on it

I'm running the latest ICS leak and I've found that the device will remember what USB option you gave it. Since there is no charge only option on the leak, I select the "camera device" option. Now everytime I plug it into a computer it defaults to that and the sd cards stay mounted.
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I keep mine in "mtp" mode on ICS, you still can access the card to copy files to it and the phone has access so your tones remain the same.