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Kaiser isn't reading the SDcard

You may remember me. I posted a thread before about 'sd card failure'.
I stopped posting because the problem was gone. until now.
I was listening to same music when I got a notification that my battery was low, then my Kaiser hung, I soft reset it and then it stopped reading the SD card.
I tried a hard-reset, no go.
My PC is reading both (a 1 GB and a 8 GB micro SD card) without any problems
Any ideas what happened?
I going to find out how I fixed it the first time, but I’m afraid that it was an accidental repair.

Have you tried accessing the sd card on a PC to ensure the events of the hang did not corrupt the card in some way?

Yes I have,
to be sure I formated the SD card. Didn't work.

Guys, sorry..
The Kaiser is reading the sd-card again.
I hate it whene I dont understand what is wrong.
Sorry for the ****like English
Thanks for help anyway

All HTC phone types have this same problem. It does not occur often, but when it does all you can do is re-insert, and re-insert, and re-insert... until suddenly the problem is gone again. I don't think anyone knows what causes it, but taking the card out and putting it back in 10-20 times seems a sure way to fix it.

SteRo said:
All HTC phone types have this same problem. It does not occur often, but when it does all you can do is re-insert, and re-insert, and re-insert... until suddenly the problem is gone again. I don't think anyone knows what causes it, but taking the card out and putting it back in 10-20 times seems a sure way to fix it.
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It does..
Good to here I'm not the onlyone with this problem.
Thanks for de replays

You all didn't mention what brand/size/type card? I had this problem with every HTC phone I owned, EXCEPT the Tilt/Kaiser. I'm on my 10th month now with -0- problems.

GWelker62 said:
I had this problem with every HTC phone I owned, EXCEPT the Tilt/Kaiser. I'm on my 10th month now with -0- problems.
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Exact same here. Just not 10 months yet

No Idea Why Nexus One SD Card Damages

This is like the fourth time the stock SD card gets damaged. Does any one know how I can avoid this. I keep losing everything every time... this really sucks. The phone is not even mounting to my pc...

I've fried a few, best bet is to backup every time you plug into your computer.

MoogooGai said:
This is like the fourth time the stock SD card gets damaged. Does any one know how I can avoid this. I keep losing everything every time... this really sucks. The phone is not even mounting to my pc...
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It might be time to spend the 10 bucks to get a real SD card.

custom374 said:
It might be time to spend the 10 bucks to get a real SD card.
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I agree, I had the same problem a few times and after inserting a new reformatted 8gb class 4 I've had now SD problems for 5 months.

MoogooGai said:
This is like the fourth time the stock SD card gets damaged. Does any one know how I can avoid this. I keep losing everything every time... this really sucks. The phone is not even mounting to my pc...
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Have you tried rebooting the phone? When I first got my N1 and was hosing with it, one boot the SD card didn't mount.. I poked around in the settings for a few minutes, and finally just rebooted it. Been fine since.
However, the suggestions to upgrade the MicroSD are valid, the standard one is a Class 2 IIRC, I'd suggest at least Class 6.

SanDisk16GB Micro SDHC won't read on mac os or android phone. Help!?

This memory card has been used in my Nexus One Android running Froyo. I was using the phone last night (specifically FourSquare) and it froze up, I'm not sure if it was writing something to the micro sd but I removed the battery to restart the phone. When it restarted it said "checking memory card for errors", but after waiting for ten minutes nothing was recognized and I restarted it again, this time removing the sd card. Fast forward a few hours. I tried repeatedly different methods to get the phone to recognize it and finally gave up. I put an older memory card in the phone which worked just fine.
I have a usb micro sd reader and plugged it in to the mac. Usually iPhoto pops up but nothing happened. I ran disk utility to see if the memory card could be recognized and still nothing. I tried many free software programs but they all require the memory card to at least be recognized, which mine is not. Any Ideas? I've ran out of them. I just want a few pictures and a video but if thats not possible at least a way to reformat sd card for future use.
Cliffnotes: Card corrupted by android phone, no longer recognized by phone or mac os, tried several sd recovery programs to no avail, I just want the pics!

Sounds like it's not corrupted, it just died. Sorry dude. Time for a new card.

Had my 8 gig die the other night. Mine is recognized when I put it in my laptop but when ok try to copy any file, it can't access. It does see all of then though. I've been trying some recovery software but haven't had any luck so far.
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j.bruha said:
Sounds like it's not corrupted, it just died. Sorry dude. Time for a new card.
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Thanks. You're probably right. I guess this is where the iPhone has an advantage over us Android users. Permanent on board storage.

r3vmixman said:
Thanks. You're probably right. I guess this is where the iPhone has an advantage over us Android users. Permanent on board storage.
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So if that storage goes out, you replace the whole phone. Sounds like quite the advantage...
Versus cheap expandable memory. Hmm.....

Ok I found a half satisfying solution. The sd card reader has a lock switch. When I click lock I am able to read everything, thus letting me copy it to my computer. I guess putting it in lock mode makes everything read only. The card is still dead, imo. No way to reformat it in this mode and removing the lock switch only reverts to my prior problem.

r3vmixman said:
Ok I found a half satisfying solution. The sd card reader has a lock switch. When I click lock I am able to read everything, thus letting me copy it to my computer. I guess putting it in lock mode makes everything read only. The card is still dead, imo. No way to reformat it in this mode and removing the lock switch only reverts to my prior problem.
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That means your card is dead. When a flash card dies, it cannot be written anymore, but it can still be read from because the data is still there, it's flash memory so its nonvolatile. By forcing it to read only mode, you should be able to recover your data, like you just did.

Awesome suggestion on setting to read only. It worked for me too. I'm happy to at least get the stuff off it, even if it's dead.

Nexus One Freezing Up

I APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE FOR SUCH A LONG POST. I have searched for an answer to this question and I apologize in advance if I am reasking the same question. I have a problem with my N1 freezing up. It happens a couple of minutes after I turn on the phone. The phone just freezes and won't respond at all. I have contacted HTC. I have swapped out the phone twice (this is my third phone). It keeps happening. I think I have narrowed it down to a problem with the memory card reader. I have bought three separate 8Gb cards two from Sandisk and one from Kingston. It doesn't matter it still happens. Just sometimes when I switch cards it won't happen for a couple of days. I should mention that I formatted all of my cards with FAT32 in windows and I formatted them using the phone also. I ran CHKDSK on all of them and although there were errors on one card it even happens with cards that CHKDSK says are fine. I even used a 2Gb card and the phone froze up then too. I am at a loss as what to do next and I am tired of playing musical micro memory cards. P.S. the phone does NOT freeze up when I DO NOT use an SD card at all. (BTW I also think HTC sent me one of those N1s with the SLCD screen...) Thank you for your help. (Moderators please be kind enough to move this if I have posted in an incorrect place. Thank you)
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I finally figured out what was causing the problem. The CNet Audio by Mediafly app when stored on the SDCard was somehow causing the phone to freeze. It sounds ridiculous but after exhaustive troubleshooting with every variable that seems to be it. If this info helps anyone...If not and a mod would like to trash this post. Please do what you would like. Thank you.
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[Q] External SD card not getting registered from time to time?

When I first got my 2x I had no problems with a dismounting SD card. But recently it has started to happen and generally when the phone reboots on its own and such. When it then comes back online it has dumped the External SD card and I am either forced to peel off the cover and then disconnect and reconnect the card.
Or simply reboot manually and go from there. Either of the 2 methods remounts the card, but I am simply at a loss as to what causes the phone to dump it the first time around.
Anyone got any ideas or tips on this?

Tried with different cards?
I have not experienced this whatsoever. I'm using Transcend 8 GB class 6.

I don't really have a huge choice of cards considering the one I am using is a 16 gig one . And it worked juts fine in the HTC Desire I had before the LG.
And it worked fine in the beginning, with the LG. The phone only started being a bit retarded about it a week or 2 ago >_<

I've had the exact same problem. No idea when/why it happens :<

Same here...

And same here, started a couple of days ago.

I would try to format the card with SD Formatter from Panasonic. Do a Google search. I works real good.

I notice this problem only happens to me if I restart the phone using an app (or via clockwork). I have resigned myself to no longer restarting but to instead, shutdown the phone and manually powering it on again..

bullyfrog said:
I notice this problem only happens to me if I restart the phone using an app (or via clockwork). I have resigned myself to no longer restarting but to instead, shutdown the phone and manually powering it on again..
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Please add your support to the thread over at MoDaCo about Paul's reboot app then...

Same happened to me last night. I've had my Optimus 2X for 5 weeks now, never had any spontaneous reboots, it was quite stable actually. Last night I mounted an 8 GB Kensington external SD for the first time on this phone, with some music and videos on it. After booting up, everything worked perfectly. Then, I went listening to songs via YouTube. All of a sudden, nothing but a very loud humming, which continued after I removed and put back the earphone plug. And then, the phone rebooted by itself, for the first time. After it had rebooted, the external SD was still visible using AndroZip, but it was empty! I was pissed off and went to sleep. Just now, I shut off the phone and started it again, and the external SD is back, with all the stuff I put on it last night. So this incident kind of freaked me out. I mean, the 2X isn't what you call a low-end, cheap phone, is it?

same problem here

Did this happen to anyone on stock rom or could the issue be related to a custom rom?
I have been using a class 6 16GB sdcard (unbranded from a reliable seller @ ebay) for about 2 weeks and did not encounter such error, but I am still on stock rom.

topanyel said:
Did this happen to anyone on stock rom or could the issue be related to a custom rom?
I have been using a class 6 16GB sdcard (unbranded from a reliable seller @ ebay) for about 2 weeks and did not encounter such error, but I am still on stock rom.
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Didnt have it on stock, so it could be a custom rom problem, though i had it on fr17 and cm7 and everything based on that. Seeing as fr 17, if im correct, uses stock as a base it should be possible to happen on stock aswell. Someone correct me if im wrong though
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sometimes i also have the mount problem, also in recovery ...
a reboot helps in most cases, sometime it needs 2 ...
i also notified that software reboot to recovery (with an app, o2x reboot) causes mounting problems of sd card more often than rebooting with magic keys ...
but it´s not happening regularly, so i can live with that ...

i had it twice on stock, but in a month's time, so it isn't so frequent fortunately

I have the problem on stock rom and if I do a restart... The phone gets hot where the sd card is once loaded back up. Its shows as Unavailable in SD & Phone Storage and have to then just switch the phone off/on and it shows up again. Strange!.
It must be something to do with a soft reset!....

has anyone figured out a solution to this problem yet?

I was about to start a new thread on this prob,luckily i saw this 1st. I also face this prob. My class4 16gb sd card sometimes become unavailable without any notice. Any solutions?
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have you guys tried to format the card ? i hear that fixes it for lg optimus one/s/v and so on which also has severe mount unmount issues (also optimus s got an update from sprint which resovled it)

xilw3r said:
have you guys tried to format the card ? i hear that fixes it for lg optimus one/s/v and so on which also has severe mount unmount issues (also optimus s got an update from sprint which resovled it)
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Already tried that unfortunately both computer format and phone format.
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