Hey all, thanks for taking the time to look.
I recently re-flashed the stock software using RSD Lite to my Bionic to pass down to a friend. It processed everything fine but once it was complete I took the phone off the USB and now it will not recognize an SD card or download anything to internal storage either. Has anyone experienced this?
I'm wondering if I should just go ahead and do another flash of the software or not, or if it's something I can do without having to reset the whole phone for them again.
Thanks in advance!
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I ran into this problem as well when I got my Bionic a few months ago, and RSDed from GB to JB. The phone didn't recognize either the internal storage or the micro SD card. After several reboots, the phone eventually recognized that internal storage existed, and gave me the option to format it; I also was able to press the issue more quickly by installing ES file explorer and attempting to navigate the file system, which brought up the option to format. The stock Motorola file manager did not produce the desired effect.
For the microSD card, I eventually had to (after backing up its contents) delete the partition, resulting in an unformatted card; I booted the phone and manually mounted it (settings--> storage, mount SD card), which then produced a prompt to format the card. An annoying solution, but it did work with two different microSD cards. Even though they worked fine in Windows and in an MP3 player, the phone would only recognize them after deleting the partition and reformatting in the phone.
I hope this is reproducible in your phone, and solves the problem.
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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.
My Note is absolutely stock, never been rooted, but had an over the air update to LQ2. I’m using a Lexar Class 10 32Mb sd card.
Since the update I have found that uninstalling an app takes several minutes to complete, although installing them is fine. Also, in Settings > Storage I get Calculating… but it doesn’t give the result. However, without the sd card all is normal, including an almost instant uninstall. I’ve tried a different sd card with the same result.
I’ve copied all my USB Storage files to the PC and would like to reformat it and copy them back, but am worried that a reformat might be affected by the Emmc bug.
Or if anyone can come up with another solution……..
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My Note is absolutely stock, never been rooted, but had an over the air update to LQ2. I’m using a Lexar Class 10 32Mb sd card.
Since the update I have found that uninstalling an app takes several minutes to complete, although installing them is fine. Also, in Settings > Storage I get Calculating… but it doesn’t give the result. However, without the sd card all is normal, including an almost instant uninstall. I’ve tried a different sd card with the same result.
I’ve copied all my USB Storage files to the PC and would like to reformat it and copy them back, but am worried that a reformat might be affected by the Emmc bug.
Or if anyone can come up with another solution……..
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You are wanting for format your Class 10 32Gb EXTERNAL SD Card?
If so then you can just connect to Windows with a USB Drive reader or connect via the SD slot in your PC and perform a format of the card.. It does not involve using the phone..
No, it's the 11.07Gb internal partion that I was going to format, as I think it might be corrupted. But before doing so I want to be sure that there's no possibility of it being affected by the Emmc bug.
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No, it's the 11.07Gb internal partion that I was going to format, as I think it might be corrupted. But before doing so I want to be sure that there's no possibility of it being affected by the Emmc bug.
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Ok in this case my suggested steps would be as usual;
- Backup your data
- Flash GB ROM via PC Odin
- Do your Wipes / Formats
- Update to / Reflash the Stock ICS you're using now
- Copy your data back over..
However, be careful with copying app data etc as this may also be corrupted
Here's a quick breakdown. I got a 32gb SD Card (Sandisk) for Christmas. I hadn't been able to get it to work properly with my phone since then, thinking I needed a microsd reader to format it. I finally did so and have had a number of problems with it. For starters, I ended up soft bricking my phone as when i rebooted it showed that there was no safe system enabled in safestrap, and I ended up accidentlly rebooting when I didn't have an OS installed.
I FXZd the phone back and have since then been attempting to get the SD card working. All of the phone's SD and Internal memory are cut and pasted onto my PCs hard drive. Here's what keeps happening.
I attempt to copy the files from the PC to the SD card via plugging in the phone via usb. I get an error that says it cannot read the file from the PC after it attempts to transfer some of the files. I then used the MicroSD reader I have and was able to cut and paste everything over successfully. When I put the SD card in my phone, a bunch of my apps are back, terrific. Some of my key apps are not back, however, and none of the data/settings are there. I had a titanium backup file copied on the SD card along with everything else, and Titanium is finding the apps that have reappeared, but none of the ones that seem to be missing. Trying to get titanium to locate the backup folder results in the program saying theres is no backup in the folder (again despite the files being in the backup folder).
Here's wehre I really start to get agitated. Once I plug the phone into the computer with teh SD card in the phone everything works great. As soon as I uplug the phone, I get a message saying the SD card is corrupt and needs to be formatted. WHen I plug the phone back in, there are only 4 folders and a handful of files on the SD card, even though there was just 16+gigs of information on there, and now there's almost nothing. I have then reformatted the card and repeated this process several times, to the same result. The SD card seems to work fine with a portion of the data until i plug the phone into the PC, at which point the SD card tells me its corrupt again.
I have no idea why this is consistently happening, but I'm extremely frustrated that I've essentially lost most of my important data when all I wanted to do was plug in a new SD card. Any help will be greatly appreciated, I have no idea what to do from here. Thanks in advance if anyone has any advice.
Edit: the 4 file folders that remain are .android_secure, LOST.DIR, Music, and Safestrap.
As I recall, Lost.dir is what it sounds like - essentially files that get lost somehow, the entire folder is populated with 1000s of files whose names are only numbers between 1 and 217279. Only about 8gb is being used on the SD card, despite being more than 16gb being used on there before plugging in the phone and going into usb storage mode.
Okay, just to specify as a follow up - I've accepted that I'm probably going to lose all of my application data - whatever, it happens.
Regardless, I could still use a little help - essentially, every time I plug my phone into a computer, everything works fine, then when I unplug the phone (pushing the button to turn off usb mass storage), my it tells me I have a damaged Sd card and recommends I format it.
Thus far i reset the phone and its fine. Any advice on how to avoid this repeated error other than that? I'm running CM10.1 if it matters, and have heard there are some SD issues with it maybe? but haven't been able to turn up any answers on google.
Thanks in advance if anyone has any advice.
I also have a 32GB SanDisk card that intermittently gives me the "damaged" error message. It's very inconsistent, but a reboot or two always fixes it. This happens on stock ICS or CM 10.1. Wish I had an answer for both of us.
So long story short my wife's bionic was acting up, I rooted it and installed bootstrapper upon rebooting from cw I got the encryption unsuccessfull error. I ended up downloading the firmware file from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2240725 and using rsdlite to push the files. I pulled her sd card out and copied everythign off it, unfortunately all her current pictures are on the internal memory (or was on it). When I go to storage it can see that the phone has 16GB of internal storage however it only shows 3.61GB free. I had to format the sd card to get it work properly.
The phone doesn't take a picture without the sd card in, however if I go to gallery to look at the pictures it tells me it can't find any external memory. I have tried to take some screen shots but those won't save.
I really need some help getting this phone functioning properly. Thanks in advance!
In settings => storage, there is the Transfer Data to SD card option. However I have tried multiple times to use it and it always fails to transfer the data. I have tried restarting the phone and trying it immediately after and I have also removed and reinserted the microSD. The weird thing is that the option used to work back in November. Any ideas?
Taking photos and videos (including 4k) and saving them directly to the sd card works, and transfer of files via file manager also works so I don't know what the problem could be.
I am on latest stock without root and locked BL.
Thanks
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In settings => storage, there is the Transfer Data to SD card option. However I have tried multiple times to use it and it always fails to transfer the data. I have tried restarting the phone and trying it immediately after and I have also removed and reinserted the microSD. The weird thing is that the option used to work back in November. Any ideas?
Taking photos and videos (including 4k) and saving them directly to the sd card works, and transfer of files via file manager also works so I don't know what the problem could be.
I am on latest stock without root and locked BL.
Thanks
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The same name can not exist on the SD card or the procedure fails. For example, if there is DSC0001.jpg on internal, but already there is DSC0001.jpg on the SD, then the transfer fails
Thanks for the suggestion. I have just removed all photos from my SD card and tried again but I still get the error. I even deleted the whole DCIM folder and it still didn't work.
J-_-M-_-C said:
Thanks for the suggestion. I have just removed all photos from my SD card and tried again but I still get the error. I even deleted the whole DCIM folder and it still didn't work.
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Probably the SD card is not liked by the phone? I've tried this option for photos and videos and it worked for me. I have a Sandisk Class 10 UHS-I (45MB/s) 32 GB microSD.
Other than that, you can use a file manager or a computer to move files to SD if the transfer option refuses to work.
I've got the exact same card and capacity! The option used to work before with this card so I don't know what could be wrong now.
Try format the sd card on the phone. I had a similar issue when it would save video/picture to the sd but wouldn't allow me to view it "wrong url" or something. Again the sd worked fine on previous devices. Formatting it sorted the issue
AnGrY sCoTsMaN said:
Try format the sd card on the phone. I had a similar issue when it would save video/picture to the sd but wouldn't allow me to view it "wrong url" or something. Again the sd worked fine on previous devices. Formatting it sorted the issue
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Yes, I also formatted the card in the phone, not on a computer.
I've formatted the card and it worked :highfive: Thanks guys!