This is my first phone without an SD card. I am use to plugging in my phone, selecting mount SD as drive and it shows up on my desktop. Now with the ONE, I want to put music on it and there is nothing showing to mount.
What am I missing?
HuDuVuDu said:
This is my first phone without an SD card. I am use to plugging in my phone, selecting mount SD as drive and it shows up on my desktop. Now with the ONE, I want to put music on it and there is nothing showing to mount.
What am I missing?
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Hi there,
Anyone know a way to remount the sd card after it has been unmounted. I find the sd card becomes unmounted sometimes and other times I accidentally unmound the sd card in the settings. However I can't find anyway to remount the sd card other than resetting the phone. I was thinking that perhaps theres a command I can use in the terminal, perhaps someone more knowledgeable of linux could help me with this one. Cheers.
Alan
the command
mount sdcard
lets you access the sdcard through adb and Terminal if thats what you're after? From there you can just cd sdcard and do what you want.
using this still shows your sdcard as unavailable in settings though, and you still can't listen to music/view pictures.
edit: after using this on my phone i needed to actually turn the phone off and back on again to get the sdcard working. maybe not the best thing to use. ><
no its not terminal access of the sd car i was looking for. Occasionally I open an application on the phone and find the sd card is inaccessible because its been unmounted. I wasnted to find a quick way of remounting it so the phone sees it as available, without restarting the phone.
make sure your cover is all the way closed. That solved my unmounting problem.
Remounting SD Card
If you have it connected to your computer via USB, just drop down the system status bar at the top of the page and select the USB item. This will pop a message that gives you the option to "Mount" or "Don't Mount" your SD card.
hurricaneflossie said:
if you have it connected to your computer via usb, just drop down the system status bar at the top of the page and select the usb item. This will pop a message that gives you the option to "mount" or "don't mount" your sd card.
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omg look at the date?
Here's a weird one. I am not trying anything complicated. I just want to copy some music to my new 32GB external SD card that arrived in the post today. I put it into a microSD to SD adaptor, and slide it into my laptops SD slot. It shows up as fat32 and I drag 30 gigs of music on to it. After a long time it completes, and I check in with XP to make sure its all good. Yep fine.
However, the moment I insert it back into my I9000 things get weird. The status bar pops up the usual "Initialising SD card" message, then the media scanner comes up and completes in like a second. Then when I try to browse it from within the phone, the entire music directory has disappeared, and the OS is reporting that there is 28gb of 32gb free on the external sd. So I unmount the SD, slot it back into my pc, and find to my dismay the music directory has indeed been erased.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.. I need my tunes!!
Cheers,
C
Samsung Galaxy S I9000, running Firmware 2.2, Baseband: I9000XXJPH, Kernel version 2.6.32.9 root(at)SEI-28 1
My 1st guess is fake/faulty card.
Copy files onto card with a reader.
Eject.
Insert again into reader.
Try to copy from card. (If it fails -> card is faulty or is FAKE)
CheekyGreek said:
The status bar pops up the usual "Initialising SD card" message, then the media scanner comes up and completes in like a second.
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If I were to guess, when the phone says it's "Initializing SD card" it's likely formatting the card and erasing whatever data you had on it...
When you install the card in your PC, do you format it again and then copy the files? If so, try not to format it on the PC and let the phone do the formatting.
I fully agree. Let the phone format the card and then use MOUNT mode to copy the music over. It seems Fat32 (formated on PC) won't work well for our phones prob due to a flag setting or something the like too big cluster settings. Let the phone sort it out.
Thanks for the help peeps. Here's what I've tried:
Xan: I tried copying files to and from the device using my PC's card reader, and found no problems with it. It is a Kingston MicroSD SDC4/32GB bought from a reseller on Amazon. Are there any tools for around for the pc to run diagnostic tests on SD cards? Maybe I should give that a go? But from the looks of it I think the error lies in the phone somewhere...
An Droid: I am inclined to agree with you. In my original post I stated that it said "Inititialising SD Card", this was a mistake, as it actually says "Preparing SD Card". I have tried formatting it from both the PC and the Phone and still get the same problem.
Icky Boo: I tried this method last night. Used the USB Debugging mode to Mount the phone's card's onto my PC. My Computer displays the two cards as two seperate Drives. I then tried copying all my music onto it. When the copy completed, I pressed "Turn of USB Storage Mode" on the I9000, which immediately prompted the status bar to again show "Preparing SD Card". Then when I used a file explorer to look at the card, it only had about a gig of music copied onto it. It is quite clear now that in "Preparing SD Card" it is doing something strange. Is there anyway to disable this?
Also there is a directory on the SD called Lost.DIR which seems to increase in size every time this happens. Could be a clue?
Finally, just to confirm my phone is mounting it correctly, to browse the SD card from within the phone the path is /sdcard/external_sd/ right? (I understand this is the new path for Froyo 2.2?)
Thanks for the help, sorry for the essay!
C
UPDATE: Ok, Xan, you were right all along. Finally got a new SD card (sandisk this time, not Kingston) and it works just as it should. Thanks for the help and to everyone else too
Hi
until last night whenever I plugged in the O2X to my PC I got 2 different partitions up for the SD card.
today only one SD partition shows up. the other partition, that I used to save music etc. does not.
Android can read it as I can still access my music. But on my PC I cant get it to show up anylonger.
Would anyone know why?
SD card
I have a mostly similiar problem. Today a connect my P990 to PC via USB and it cant mount my SD card. I tried everything and I figured out that the problem isnt in my PC but in phone is something wrong... Normally the android is mount sd card and it works fine just, when I plug phone to pc via usb is cant load sd card, its mount only internal memory. I really disapointed and I dont know whats wrong :/ sorry for my bad english.
problem solved:
just had to remove the card and re-insert it.
sorry for that easy fix, im kinda new and didnt think of it first.
my internal sd shows 5.5GB
marco_ch said:
Hi
until last night whenever I plugged in the O2X to my PC I got 2 different partitions up for the SD card.
today only one SD partition shows up. the other partition, that I used to save music etc. does not.
Android can read it as I can still access my music. But on my PC I cant get it to show up anylonger.
Would anyone know why?
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I have another query:
my internal sd shows 5.5GB is that normal? I thought 8GB was the internal storage capacity. Please enlighten!
Hi,
I'm having this issue where the SD phone memory is not shown on the computer when I connect my S1 to the computer.
When I check my phone's file manager, I see it has 3 folders:
1. SD card: 13.43GB -> this one is not shown, I want to see this as it has all my pics
2. EMMC: 1.81GB -> this one is seen on the computer
3. Internal storage
My computer shows the EMMC drive and an empty drive letter.
I have latest stable CM and I have a 16GB SGS 1.
Please advise...
Thx
Justchillz said:
Hi,
I'm having this issue where the SD phone memory is not shown on the computer when I connect my S1 to the computer.
When I check my phone's file manager, I see it has 3 folders:
1. SD card: 13.43GB -> this one is not shown, I want to see this as it has all my pics
2. EMMC: 1.81GB -> this one is seen on the computer
3. Internal storage
My computer shows the EMMC drive and an empty drive letter.
I have latest stable CM and I have a 16GB SGS 1.
Please advise...
Thx
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Boot into recovery mode look for mounts and mount your sd card then plug your phone into the computer - it should come up then. If it does not mount then unmount the sd card (IMPORTANT) then mount the external card (remember to unmount the external card before unpluging from computer or rebooting your device. Hope this helps.
kevnac said:
Boot into recovery mode look for mounts and mount your sd card then plug your phone into the computer - it should come up then. If it does not mount then unmount the sd card (IMPORTANT) then mount the external card (remember to unmount the external card before unpluging from computer or rebooting your device. Hope this helps.
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Hi, the sd_card was allready mounted.
I'm not sure what to mount in the menu?
Things remain the same here...
Anybody got some tips?
Justchillz said:
Hi, the sd_card was allready mounted.
I'm not sure what to mount in the menu?
Things remain the same here...
Anybody got some tips?
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if you are in recovery try to mount the external sd card and see if your pictures are there they will be under a file called DCIM. Double click on DCIM and you should have your pictures. Remember to unmount before disconnecting from computer
Are you using fast charge?
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my card is a GSkill 32gb class 10. a bit ago i copied some movies to it, nearly to the brim. then the phone just went crazy and showed mounting and unmounting sd again and again. so i restarted it and then the phone said sd card corrupted, format it. plugging in the data cable didnt work so i used a card reader to plug the sd to pc. there it showed sd is full but the only files i could see was some game data files on android/obb folder and LOST something folder. i moved those files from the sd and plugged it to the phone again but still nothing. then in a forum i saw something
put your sd card into any phone which can be used as usb storage(exposes the sd as a drive in MS Windows).
I used Win 7.
Alternatively you could use any micro sd to sd adapter and then plug it in directly in your laptop/computer or n a card reader connected to the computer through USB.
Start command prompt with administrative privileges: Right click on desktop and choose new shortcut and type cmd at command line.Next right click the cmd icon and select Run as Administrator.
Type in the newly popped out window:
chkdsk <drive letter of the sd>: /r
Wait for the process to finish.
Remove sd and put it back into the phone.
Job done! ;0)
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http://centraladvisor.com/it/os-it/...laxy-s3-reports-sd-card-damaged/#.U2Ke8vmSxmz
tried it,it said the file system is fixed but still its the same. sd is full but no files are visible. i CAN NOT loose my files in the sd. so please someone help me to recover them
Can the files be seen on the phone? Saying: use any file explorer to see if you can enter the external SD and its files.
mrjraider said:
Can the files be seen on the phone? Saying: use any file explorer to see if you can enter the external SD and its files.
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Sd wont even mount. Phone saying "sd corrupt, format it"
What does your computer say?
mrjraider said:
What does your computer say?
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Used a card reader (coz phone wont mount sd, so no data transfer). Pc says nothing, card works.card is full but cant see any files. They are not hidden or anything, i checked
Check the card for errors.. Via windows..
mrjraider said:
Check the card for errors.. Via windows..
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I did, says the card is fine
Weird uhm download and install hd tune pro (trial) and run a deep scan on your sd
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card works now on the phone. windows checkdisk have backed up all the files to FOUND.000 and FOUND.001 folders. tried to recover from them but only the pictures are working, everything else is corrupted
If you want to check the card for errors then use this program it's an exe file that requires no installation basicly it will fill the card with data then empty it and report back on data lost/corrupted you would need a card reader as this won't work through a phone http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/H2testw.shtml
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mrjraider said:
Weird uhm download and install hd tune pro (trial) and run a deep scan on your sd
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can't find your app on play store
It is a PC program.. IF you install this you are able to fully check your Harddrives and SD card when mounted as MSC or as usb