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Mini SD Corrupt?

Hey i recently purchased a 16GB Mini SD. As soon as i got it i formatted it to FAT32 then tried loading Android onto it. Went to file explorer on my phone and the SD didnt show up. So i plugged my phone back into the comp (i dont have an SD reader on my comp) and it showed the SD's storage to have 707GB! Yes 707GB! lol Unless this is a super magic card, something is wrong lol.
I Have tried formatting it again but under windows the only options are exFAT and NTFS. Im not to sure what exFAT is?
Any light shed on this is appreciated

how much did you pay?
i guess its one of these cheaper ones which are only shown with a higher capacity but are in reality a 2gb card or something like that.
DN41

$40 Australian dollars. Thing is when i first put in the phone it read 16GB but when i tried putting Android on it it wasnt read by the phone. And now its 707GB, i wish it was really haha

try to format it as ntfs or exfat and back to fat32...
does this help?
DN41

I tried formatting to NTFS and a window pops up 'windows was unable to complete the format'
And thats all hmmm.. maybe a dodgy card?

Did you not mean microSD? I'd love to see how you can fit a miniSD (larger than microSD) into the microSD slot of HD2.
Where did you purchase your card from, mate? If the answer is eBay then there's a good chance it's fake.

I bought a 32GB micro SD (Kingston) off ebay... It showed up as a 32GB sd card on my laptop, and tried to work on my phone, but every time would try to run android I had problems... I thought I was just a noob doing something wrong, and honestly wasn't gettin a lot of help from others on the forum. Tried new builds, new ROMs, nothing.. Bought a new 8GB card, Perfect! Everything works! The questionable cards seem to lead to questionable results. I would buy one from a brick & morter store and try it. If it works, great, if not, take it back. Good luck!

jonathongeiger said:
It showed up as a 32GB sd card on my laptop
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...and I beg you could probably read/write 32GB of data on your laptop.
However, a common hack used by fake cards is to only store indexes of files beyond its real capacity on the card and store the actual data on your hard disk. Once you take the card to other host (i.e. HD2) then it would all fall apart...

As far as i know its a legitimate card. Came fully sealed in the original packaging. And yes it is a microSD, im sure you know what i mean.
Question i ask now is it possible to bring back a corrupt card to life. I downloaded this tool to re-format but no luck. It says 'this format is not recognized' i even read somewhere else putting it in the freezer might give it a kick start haha

tomar5e said:
As far as i know its a legitimate card.
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You must got a good deal if you bought locally then. www.staticice.com.au tells me the cheapest 16GB microSD is $41 plus delivery and it's only class 2.
tomar5e said:
Came fully sealed in the original packaging.
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Depends. IF you bought a fake it could be well packed as real. Then again, I don't know where you bought yours from.
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And yes it is a microSD, im sure you know what i mean.
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I replaced my hd2 SD card 3 times all of them are SanDisk 4 GB, 8 GB, 16 GB.
And every time it works for 2 weeks or 3 then it get corrupted so I’m sick of buying SD cards for this device.
I have no idea why it's getting corrupted even the tech support says my device is ok no problems found.
So I decided to save my money and wait for HTC Windows Phone 7

i had nothing but problems with android on the hd2 and micro sd's all are genuine cards too, managed to recover the files and format the cards luckily otherwise i'd be buying two new micro sd cards, leave android for android devices lol, windows phone 7 out soon no doubt there'll be some new roms out for us happy HD2 owners then.....

Fahads said:
I replaced my hd2 SD card 3 times all of them are SanDisk 4 GB, 8 GB, 16 GB.
And every time it works for 2 weeks or 3 then it get corrupted so I’m sick of buying SD cards for this device.
I have no idea why it's getting corrupted even the tech support says my device is ok no problems found.
So I decided to save my money and wait for HTC Windows Phone 7
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I have the same prblm with the 2gb and 4gb microsds. The 2gb one got corrupted till the extent I can't format it nor recover the files from it.
The same happened to the 4gb except that the format on my hd2 seems to be working but not helping much, it's taking too much time and yet the storage card folder still didn't appear.
The formatting prgms on my computer gave me errors when i tried formatting the microsd. So in the end, the microsd is corrupted badly as the first one.
I realized that it been a while since your last post, so any luck in fixing ur prblm?

Hey ppl's, this has just happened to me a second time today. I happend once before when I was traveling. Though I think I have quite possibly found a link. While I was traveling i was useing the Win mobile app for facebook to upload photos (which i hardly use) Then today I was using it (randomly) again and shortly after the micro SD card was unreadable. Could it be something to do with the app / the way it creates multiple subfolders to cache photos from facebook profiles?

I just bought a kingston 32gb class 6 micro sdhc but when ever i put it in my hd2 it just freezes up and as soon as I remove the card it works fine again.At first i though that it was a fake so I:
1)performed multiple tests,
2)reformated a 1000 times,
3)even putting 20gb of data just to make sure.
Turns out that it is authentic and it works perfectly on my girlfriend's htc BalckStone it also worked when I installed NAND (which i later removed due to insufficient memory).Ive been searching for days, I think its a windows mobile issue, any tips??

[Q] Micro SD card won't stay in --- returning to B&N NOT an option

Arrrrgggghhhhh . . . micro SD card won't stay in. I know I'm pushing it in far enough and it feels like it's locking in place. I had NO problem ejecting it so it just doesn't make sense.
I've tried 2 different cards and neither will stay in. I search XDA and internet for solution but the only thing that I find is to return it because it appears the SD card slot is broken. I bought my NC used on eBay over 2 months ago and everything has been working fine, so returning it is NOT solution for me.
Any suggestions are very, very much appreciated!!
By the way, this is my first post . . . so, please be gentle!!!

Can you get it to boot from it if you hold it in with your finger?
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flynlady said:
Any suggestions are very, very much appreciated!!
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The same thing happened to me, I also couldn't return it. I bought it from eBay and I live in Europe.
I couldn't fix the SD slot, but I noticed that if I force the card to stay in it connects. In the end I pushed a folded piece of thin cardboard between the card and the plastic, which forced the card to stay in. It has worked ok for the last 4 months or so. I cannot remove the sd-card though, but since I have a 32gb one, it doesn't really matter.

Could it be out of spec cards and not the nook that is causing the problems? Have you tried other cards or brand of card to see if they might stay in place?

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Could it be out of spec cards and not the nook that is causing the problems? Have you tried other cards or brand of card to see if they might stay in place?
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For me at least the sd card slot was definitely broken, I tried at least three different cards from different brands that were official ones/not counterfeit.

Similar happened here. In this case, after about 8 months the 2 retaining springs fell out, so the card wouldn't "latch" in place. At least I could put the card in and have it work but had to use a dental tool to rescue it.
It was still under the original warranty (and I did buy the 1yr extended as well-I think I'm going to be glad that I did).
B+N CS was slow and slightly clueless- but unfailingly nice. Had a "new" refurb in 5 working days.
Even if you're the second owner, you might want to call CS and run the serial # to see if there's still any warranty left. Couldn't hurt.....
Otherwise, if you're brave enough, you can try to get in there and remove the springs entirely. The card will stay in place but you will need a tool of some sort to remove it when needed.

I had the same issue, called B&N and they wanted to to take it to the closest B&N to me which is like an hour away. I kinda did something that was bad for me to do but I erased everything before attempting to install a ROM. I was able to boot into recovery but I can install stuff from the uSD. i ended up erasing the entire nook to where it boots to a screen that says
Code:
A N D R O I D _
and said something had happened and the CS finally sent me a new nook.

Thanks for all of the feedback. The Nook boots up just fine. I needed to install the old version of Marketplace so that's when I discovered that the sd card won't stay in. I had JUST used it to restore a backup and I had no problems ejecting it nor to I recall hearing anything weird or seeing anything fall out (other than the sd card). I'll try rantak's sugguestion of a piece of cardboard.
I spent 45 minutes at B&N when I first bought the NC as I wanted to register it in my name but because I couldn't contact the previous owner to deregister, B&N basically refused to help me with anything! And I felt they were looking down on me because I bought a used NC on eBay. It wasn't like I would NOT be a customer but after that . . . I'm NOT a customer any longer!!!

Mine now does this to, but if I push hard it will finally stay in place, but I'm afraid that will sooner or later cease working as a solution.
And I've rarely removed the sd card.

Mine did this in the middle of a nightly update. I had to physically hold the card in while I wiped it and restored to stock so that I could get it replaced under warranty. Called B&N on a Monday night a new refurb by Wednesday night. Great customer service!
This is why I do not recommend people put CM7 on the card and then keep swapping between stock and CM7. Eventually the slot will fail. Mine failed and I never remove the card.

patruns said:
Mine did this in the middle of a nightly update. I had to physically hold the card in while I wiped it and restored to stock so that I could get it replaced under warranty. Called B&N on a Monday night a new refurb by Wednesday night. Great customer service!
This is why I do not recommend people put CM7 on the card and then keep swapping between stock and CM7. Eventually the slot will fail. Mine failed and I never remove the card.
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I know it's an option but it would be great if you can write up a little up-to-date instructions and post in one of those HOW_TO thread such this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1303843
It would be great help for others.

I thought about that, but the how to restore to stock thread pretty well covers it other than you have to physically hold the card in during the entire process....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690&page=29

This is why I do not recommend people put CM7 on the card and then keep swapping between stock and CM7. Eventually the slot will fail. Mine failed and I never remove the card.
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What do you mean by this? At first I thought you meant swapping as in taking out/putting in the sdcard all the time, but then you say mine failed and I never remove the card.
I have been running off the sdcard for a long time and only just recently (to update to 7.1) had a need to remove the card.
I could see constantly swapping the card out, but I don't see the effect of simply running off it.

sark666 said:
What do you mean by this? At first I thought you meant swapping as in taking out/putting in the sdcard all the time, but then you say mine failed and I never remove the card.
I have been running off the sdcard for a long time and only just recently (to update to 7.1) had a need to remove the card.
I could see constantly swapping the card out, but I don't see the effect of simply running off it.
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I meant swapping the card in and out. In my case, it was more severe as the slot failed and I never touch the card. Just trying to emphasize the point that the slot is fragile.

[Q] My Micro SD won't click in the micro SD slot

Hey Everyone,
I just got my Xperia T & I know it has enough memory of 16gb on the phone but I just wanted to slap in a Class 10 8gb card that I had as well & my card doesn't click into the slot. Man I don't want to be opening a new phone to fix this. Anyone else have this issue or know of a fix?
Thanks
Moe

farufas said:
Hey Everyone,
I just got my Xperia T & I know it has enough memory of 16gb on the phone but I just wanted to slap in a Class 10 8gb card that I had as well & my card doesn't click into the slot. Man I don't want to be opening a new phone to fix this. Anyone else have this issue or know of a fix?
Thanks
Moe
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have you got the right size card, and are you putting it in the right way round?

gregbradley said:
have you got the right size card, and are you putting it in the right way round?
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Yup there is only one way you can put it & it says microSD by the slot which I have, i've got a Samsung microSD.

farufas said:
Yup there is only one way you can put it & it says microSD by the slot which I have, i've got a Samsung microSD.
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The card should go in with the writting towards the back of the phone and and the wobbly edge towards the bottom of the phone.
I have a samsung 32gb class 10 and it fits in fine. With this card the writting is upsaide when i put it in

That's how it is dude, like I said the card goes into the slot but just doesn't stay it pushes out. The micro sim clicks in fine?

farufas said:
That's how it is dude, like I said the card goes into the slot but just doesn't stay it pushes out. The micro sim clicks in fine?
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Not sure what it is then....you do have to push it in quite far....you can only just see it when its in properly

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Not sure what it is then....you do have to push it in quite far....you can only just see it when its in properly
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tried that dude & it still didn't work so didn't want to break anything inside by putting more force into it. Anyway thanks for your help will try getting it checked out and if it won't get fixed last option is to sell this one and i guess get another one.

SD Card size listed wrong by N9

I bought a 400gb micro SD card to use with my NOTE9. Seems to work fine but in phone settings it says the card is only 183gb. Anyone know how to fix this? I've formatted the card few times already. TIA

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I bought a 400gb micro SD card to use with my NOTE9. Seems to work fine but in phone settings it says the card is only 183gb. Anyone know how to fix this? I've formatted the card few times already. TIA
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That's odd. Have you tried formatting the card through a PC using exFat? I noticed you said you tried formatting but I'm assuming you formatted it through the phone.

I don't have a PC anymore. Just a Chromebook

TokedUp said:
I don't have a PC anymore. Just a Chromebook
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You should be able to format an ad card with a Chromebook.

Link to the card you bought? I'm in the market for a new one....
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Is it possible that the SD Card is partitioned strange?
If so a format wouldn't fix that. You would probably need to use DiskPart

could also be a fake. 200GB sold as 400GB.

last1youlove said:
Is it possible that the SD Card is partitioned strange?
If so a format wouldn't fix that. You would probably need to use DiskPart
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If op had a Windows PC, then diskmanager would be all he needed to fix a partion ****up, but op only has a Chromebook.

I doubt it's fake cuz I used it in my Switch and it was list as just under 400gb. I bought it on Amazon on Black Friday 2 years ago when I bought the Switch.

Have you tried reformatting it in ex-FAT using the default allocation size?

No I haven't had access to a computer recently. Will try when I can. Thanks

freeza said:
could also be a fake. 200GB sold as 400GB.
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IIRC most fakes will display the size as listed on the box but will destroy data as the real capacity is reached

NM Memory Card not Working after update to 10.0.0.190

NM Memory card not getting picked up after last update, anyone else experienced this?
Before last update the memory card was chosen as primary storage and was working fine for a while.

I've not seen anyone else mention the same problem so it looks like it's rare.
Im about to buy a genuine Huawei 128GB card but think I'll hold off for now until I see how this thread develops. Or doesn't.
These forums are nowhere near as busy as they used to be. Android has become less open source and development is stifled. Manufacturers not allowing b/l unlock certainly makes things less interesting.
Anyway, I hope you get some good advice here.

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I've not seen anyone else mention the same problem so it looks like it's rare.
Im about to buy a genuine Huawei 128GB card but think I'll hold off for now until I see how this thread develops. Or doesn't.
These forums are nowhere near as busy as they used to be. Android has become less open source and development is stifled. Manufacturers not allowing b/l unlock certainly makes things less interesting.
Anyway, I hope you get some good advice here.
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I am waiting for a NM card reader to arrive to check that the card is not stuffed (hopefully not so I don't lose everything on it)
The threads have definitely been quite nowadays but hoping for some positive feedback with this problem

OK good luck and keep us informed.
Huawei sure benefitted us with their proprietary nano memory card and associated card reader...... what a great earner.
I have any one of 4 Micro SD cards here that I could have used.

Told you these forums are quiet (dead).
I bit the bullet this morning and ordered a genuine (it better be) Huawei 128GB card for £41.00. Ten minutes later I wanted to check something on the listing and the exact same item had increased to more than £46.00. Crazy

gavinwatson said:
NM Memory card not getting picked up after last update, anyone else experienced this?
Before last update the memory card was chosen as primary storage and was working fine for a while.
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I didn't had any issue with the (original) NM card after .190 update, but I'm not using it as primary storage

I'm also on .190 so I'll post back here and update how things go when my card arrives on Monday.
Thanks @TorpedoGirl

I thought it was dumb too to not have an SD card slot. I guess they got me too as I went with a bigger capacity phone to not have to buy a card.

I got my card delivered a day early, only 3 days from ordering it to arriving from Spain. I've always had great service from Amazon.
The packaging was different from what I'd previously seen, it was much smaller and printed in Chinese so I was a bit wary.
Anyway I checked it out on the Huawei website and it was validated as a genuine OEM card.
After inserting it and powering up I did a format and was surprised to see the capacity showing as:
Used 10.01 GB / 123.81 GB.
It's a new card, I'd not put a single file on it.
I've since copied some music and pictures to it, keeping the original files in internal storage in case there are any problems with the card - hopefully there won't be. I'm still using internal storage as default location.
My phone was on 10.0.0.190 but I got the update to .195 earlier today and so far everything is OK with the NM card.
If I do have anything go wrong I'll update back here.
@gavinwatson
Have you had any luck with your original problem or is your card still not recognised?

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I got my card delivered a day early, only 3 days from ordering it to arriving from Spain. I've always had great service from Amazon.
The packaging was different from what I'd previously seen, it was much smaller and printed in Chinese so I was a bit wary.
Anyway I checked it out on the Huawei website and it was validated as a genuine OEM card.
After inserting it and powering up I did a format and was surprised to see the capacity showing as:
Used 10.01 GB / 123.81 GB.
It's a new card, I'd not put a single file on it.
I've since copied some music and pictures to it, keeping the original files in internal storage in case there are any problems with the card - hopefully there won't be. I'm still using internal storage as default location.
My phone was on 10.0.0.190 but I got the update to .195 earlier today and so far everything is OK with the NM card.
If I do have anything go wrong I'll update back here.
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Haven't had any luck as of yet, still need to get my card reader to see if the card is still fine, will update when I receive though, once I get card reader, depending on what is on it I might format the phone and try again

OK, I'm interested to see what you find out.
I think its only Huawei that make the NM card reader, it's ~£20 on Amazon UK. I've not seen any other brands.

@gavinwatson
Any developments? Has your card reader arrived?

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Any developments? Has your card reader arrived?
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Sorry actually only ordered today and should get it next week, getting a YAOMAISI Dual Use NM Card Reader from amazon which was fairly cheap

gavinwatson said:
Sorry actually only ordered today and should get it next week, getting a YAOMAISI Dual Use NM Card Reader from amazon which was fairly cheap
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Previous one ordered was refunded as could not be delivered

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Sorry actually only ordered today and should get it next week, getting a YAOMAISI Dual Use NM Card Reader from amazon which was fairly cheap
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Sure, np.
I just had a look at that Yaomaisi, it reads SD cards too so that's a bonus - I think the Huawei reads only the NM card.
Things are still OK with my NM card, no problems at all.

I bought a Yaomaisi NM card and it worked flawlessly for 2 months,then wasn`t read at all after an update. Bought a Huawei NM card reader (does both sd and nm) but the Yaomaisi wasnt able to be read in the official reader. I spoke to the seller of the card and they said that only Huawei cards could be read in the official reader and they sent me the Yaomaisi NM card reader and the card was read with no errors - the only problem being that i had to format and put everything back on the card(100gb of music).
So i`ll wait and see what happens with the update to 10.1

NM Card Reader Arrived
I received the NM card reader just now, luckily all my data was still on the NM card that I could see with the reader.
Copied data off, formatted card, inserted into phone and working again.
I think this time I will not be using the NM card as default storage though, not sure if that was the cause but lets see how it goes. (Assuming it might be as the read/writes would be constant with accessing apps over the card)

That's great, no data loss. Hope you have no further problems.
My cards is still functional, hope I also don't have any future problems.

My nano memory card is not being recognized now. It worked fine for six months and was also selected as the primary storage. I'm on update 10.0.0.195. I'm currently waiting for a card reader and also hoping for a happy resolution. If I lose the data l'll be devastated. I used it for taking photos. Six months worth of photos, not backed up anywhere... I have obviously learned my lesson!

OEM Huawei card or generic?