I have a Verizon branded Note 8 that I got from Verizon directly. I run an MDM (Mobile Device Management) application for work and was setting up policy for Android devices when I discovered this. I required external SD cards to be encrypted. MDM software kept reporting that my phone's external SD card was not encrypted, after I had gone in and encrypted it. So I reformatted the external SD card via the Note 8 itself. Android notification says that SD card is encrypted, just as it did before. However the MDM software throws a warning that it is not encrypted. I contact the Vendor of the MDM software and they have me pull the card out and check the contents from my PC. (why didn't I already think of that, I assumed it was the MDM falsely reporting the card as not encrypted). Once in my windows 10 PC, I am able to open and browse all files on the SD card. Damn. The phone is reporting the SD card as encrypted but it is not. This was a brand new SanDisk 200GB Micro SD, never used in anything other than the Note 8 and now my Windows PC for the encryption verification test I ran. I did a chat with Samsung support and they told me to try another card but either way the phone is still falsely reporting that the SD is encrypted when it is in fact not. I tried the process 3 or 4 times with the same result. Anyone notice this same issue? Anyone verify that their device is in fact encrypting their SD card by placing the card into another system? Seems like a big deal for a company that touts KNOX as a Secure implementation for Android phones.
chrishuns said:
I have a Verizon branded Note 8 that I got from Verizon directly. I run an MDM (Mobile Device Management) application for work and was setting up policy for Android devices when I discovered this. I required external SD cards to be encrypted. MDM software kept reporting that my phone's external SD card was not encrypted, after I had gone in and encrypted it. So I reformatted the external SD card via the Note 8 itself. Android notification says that SD card is encrypted, just as it did before. However the MDM software throws a warning that it is not encrypted. I contact the Vendor of the MDM software and they have me pull the card out and check the contents from my PC. (why didn't I already think of that, I assumed it was the MDM falsely reporting the card as not encrypted). Once in my windows 10 PC, I am able to open and browse all files on the SD card. Damn. The phone is reporting the SD card as encrypted but it is not. This was a brand new SanDisk 200GB Micro SD, never used in anything other than the Note 8 and now my Windows PC for the encryption verification test I ran. I did a chat with Samsung support and they told me to try another card but either way the phone is still falsely reporting that the SD is encrypted when it is in fact not. I tried the process 3 or 4 times with the same result. Anyone notice this same issue? Anyone verify that their device is in fact encrypting their SD card by placing the card into another system? Seems like a big deal for a company that touts KNOX as a Secure implementation for Android phones.
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Yikes - I'll check mine when I get home!
- R. Kruse Ludington
Galaxy Note 8<-5<-3<-S3<-Nexus; Droid X; HTC HD2<-Touch Pro 2<-Tilt<-8525; O2 XDA II<-XDA
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How did you format the card?
Maybe try removing card, putting in Winblow$ PC and running diskpart...
Code:
list disk
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select disk (x)
Code:
clean
and thats it.
No new partitions or anything. Just put it in Sammy Note and let it take it from there.
Worth a go?
The card was formatted in the Note 8 itself, then the encryption utility in Settings was used to attempt to encrypt the card. After the attempt, all appears to have been successful from the perspective of the phone. However the card is fully readable in my Windows PC, using the laptop's built in card reader. I could try all of those things but it still doesn't resolve the issue that my Note 8 gives an Android notification after boot up that my SD card is encrypted when in fact it is not. Thanks for your response.
Hmmm... Will try on my Exy and report back...
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Bump for you.
I feel your pain in the opposite way. I encrypted my phone and keeps turning off when booting up phone again.
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I recently sold my Sandisk 2gb micro and bought a Sandisk 4gb micro. From time to time my stuff on the card get deleted. Since I bought it (3-4 days ago) I have had to reload everyone 4-5x. Has anyone experience this problem?
I'm using the rom that came with the Tilt when it first came out.
Are you using the card outside of the phone on any PC?
If you are, you may need to update the drivers on your PC.
Any SD card above 1Gb requires a new formatting technique as the filing system is different.
Writing to a card on a PC with old SD card drivers can cause file allocation corruption and sometimes you will even lose access to the card completely.
Check out your card maufacturers website or any others (Toshiba, Sandisk etc.) and download any OEM driver updates or new formatting utility they have for you PC.
Failing that, only tranfer data to the card via Activesync (I know its a pain!) after formatting the card on the phone.
Farsquidge said:
Are you using the card outside of the phone on any PC?
If you are, you may need to update the drivers on your PC.
Any SD card above 1Gb requires a new formatting technique as the filing system is different.
Writing to a card on a PC with old SD card drivers can cause file allocation corruption and sometimes you will even lose access to the card completely.
Check out your card maufacturers website or any others (Toshiba, Sandisk etc.) and download any OEM driver updates or new formatting utility they have for you PC.
Failing that, only tranfer data to the card via Activesync (I know its a pain!) after formatting the card on the phone.
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I'm using a Sandisk Micro mate to connect to my computer. It came with the card
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Ultra-MicroMate-Bundle-SDSDRH-4096-901/dp/B000J5LA9Q
ZzFDKzZ said:
I'm using a Sandisk Micro mate to connect to my computer. It came with the card
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Ultra-MicroMate-Bundle-SDSDRH-4096-901/dp/B000J5LA9Q
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That does not mean a great deal! It is only providing a USB link to the SD. If you use the Windows file system to access that card without it having the latest SD file system updates loaded on your PC it will not work correctly.
Don't get me wrong, I don't want to sound fussy here but did you get a driver CD with the adapter? Most people don't bother updating the drivers if their computer recognises the device to start with.
Only trying to be helpful.
Farsquidge said:
That does not mean a great deal! It is only providing a USB link to the SD. If you use the Windows file system to access that card without it having the latest SD file system updates loaded on your PC it will not work correctly.
Don't get me wrong, I don't want to sound fussy here but did you get a driver CD with the adapter? Most people don't bother updating the drivers if their computer recognises the device to start with.
Only trying to be helpful.
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Hi, no I did not received a driver cd for it. I'm gonna go search for a new driver online.
EDIT: Went to the Sandisk site and they do not have an driver update for this device. Sandisk Micromate SDDR-113
that happened when i installed my 6gb microsd(I transfered files from 2gb microsd to 6 gb). Things started to dissapear but not delete(available memory space didn't go up). You need to reformat the card, and redo everything for it to fix
ekw said:
that happened when i installed my 6gb microsd(I transfered files from 2gb microsd to 6 gb). Things started to dissapear but not delete(available memory space didn't go up). You need to reformat the card, and redo everything for it to fix
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Yeah weird right. I realize my card was blank but it came out that 1.3gb were being use. I just reformat my card, hopefully this won't happen again.
I have AT&T Tilt with Sakajati's HyperDragon IV Windows Mobile 6.1 OS ROM, I also have this 8 GB micro SD card, which has around 3.5 GB of data, but for some reason I am not able to write on it any more. When ever I tried to format it I get this message which says " The card is write protected" I don't remember putting any password or anything. I can read data from that card on any computer or phone, but can write anymore data on the card. I can't delete anything from the card either.
Can someone suggest what could be wrong with the card and how can I unlock it?
I have tried low level format also, the format completes without any error, but when see in file explorer all the files are still there. If I try to format from SD formatter, I get error "The memory card is write protected", windows format doesn't give any error, just runs and in the end says "Windows can't comeplte the format". Card is working file and have no problem in reading the data it has, just can't write new one ot delete old one.
This is very weird problem... any help/comment is good.
Not sure if this will help....
I've had very similar issues over time...
Because of high TomTom & Music Use.
Both are loaded and work off my SD Card (6 GB worth)
What I finally found that worked for me, was to get a 2nd card and backing up my SD card to my Desktop PC, so later I could transfer to the 2nd SD Card when needed.
Then I do a Complete Format [Full FAT32 Format] of the old SD Card, via the Mini SD adapter on my Desktop PC.
I found that formating within the phone doesn't always work...
If this is not the case I can think of 2 other reasons for potential problems..
~Some ROM's require the removal of SIM & SD Cards when installing?
~If you were using an adapter formating the SD Card and it was not set to write mode?
Best of Luck!
JAC,
Thanks for your reply, but I have already tried FAT32 formatting using micro sd card, but as I said before, but it errored out.I even tried low level format, but didn't work. There is no locking swithc or anythign in micro SD card, not sure how the data can be locked. If it was ecrypted I was not able to read data on other devices. So what happened? Any help!!!
Like everything else, sometimes things just wear out, break or are just low quality to begin with. If you can read it on other devices, then transfer it and get a new card.
There is also a trick used by nefarious suppliers that takes a 4GB (or any size chip) and format it in a way that it appears as a larger chip. Then when you go to write to it the whole thing goes crazy.
This is why I recommend using reputable resellers and buying good quality Name Brand Chips, Like Sandisk or Kingston.
I have the above memory card for my N7000 (Rocket Rom v3) and am having problems verifying its capacity.
H2testw (Windows utility) verified it as having no errors and as 32Gb
ES File Explorer's SD card analyst displays capacity as 11.06Gb
SD Tools displays capacity as 11.6Gb
I have tried copying music (21Gb) to the sdcard using two methods. Firstly connecting the phone as a media device which was very slow and started to throw up errors after a while. Then secondly by removing the SD card from the phone and plugging it into my laptop (Win7) which was far quicker. This second method didn't throw up any errors BUT when I put the card back into my phone no files were found!
I am beginning to think I have a fake SD card which when plugged straight into my laptop is telling it 'Yes I'm a 32GB card' but for some strange reason allows it to copy too many files to the card without complaint. I am going to do some tests to check this out.
In the meantime is there an alternative utility which is guaranteed to verify what my card is either on Android or MS?
Thanks
Please try to do a SD card format on your laptop before putting it in your phone
It might be an issue with its storage that is preventing android from detecting the full size
If that didn't work, try to format the memory card over the phone (using settings)
Best of luck
Mohammed Atef said:
Please try to do a SD card format on your laptop before putting it in your phone
It might be an issue with its storage that is preventing android from detecting the full size
If that didn't work, try to format the memory card over the phone (using settings)
Best of luck
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Okay there were 2 problems, the first one was getting the memory card to be read by my note which I've now managed to do, not sure what I did but there you go, but it certainly wasn't reading before.
The second problem and this is a little embarrassing but when ES File Explorer opens up it displays the contents of the "/sdcard/" by default which on my old desire was the external sdcard but on my note its the internal memory! Not the external sdcard! To view the external sdcard you need to navigate to "/storage/extSdCard/" which is downright misleading unless you come from a Unix mindset of course
SDTools just seems incapable of picking up the external SD card and can only see the internal memory.
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I added a 32G mSD in the ext slot. It is very slow to access and sometimes locks up Android File Transfer.
Anyone have any idea or a work around?
have you took any steps to remedy the situation?
if not please answer below
1. did you format from the phone or from your PC/Mac?
2. have you tried running diagnostics on your external card to see if its corrupted or not?
3. is SD card authentic? meaning was it purchased from reputable website or retailer?
4. have you tried with other SD cards and see if situation persists?
if SD card was received during the LG promotion, they aren't very good cards. both of my 32GB from LG (sandisk brand) failed. sandisk was nice enough to honor warranty replacement for both and works much better.
phone formated after diagnostic on Mac.
Amazon. SanDisc class 10. Brand new.
same issue with other cards in the ext slot.
please try format the card from your phone. see if that helps.
frankly, formatting from PC and phone shouldn't make any difference but won't hurt to try. my card is formatted via pc with exFAT. no issues.
it was phone formatted originally.
gave up and tried AirDroid, which had no issues.
I'm out of ideas at the moment.
I'll get back to you if I think of something.
Kindly share information regarding how to Encrypt micro sd card on Nokia 8 (Android 8.1), there is no option in settings menu.
You cant.
micro sd card
MrBelter said:
You cant.
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means if my device is stolen then sd card data remains unprotected,
Is there any way to protect the data?
Dunno, the SD Card is intended to be used portable storage and to be swapped between devices should you wish, if you encrypted it then that wouldn't be possible.
Anything you wish to be encrypted i suggest you store it on the phone itself.