SD Card Issues

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Jusyt started having an issue with my SD Card noticed really today but a few times in the past.

The SD card seems to 'drop out' I.E. It wont be picked up by the phone.

I currently have the 6.5 UK Offical ROM installed.

Edit:

Seems to be caused when I use RSS Hub and it downloads a feed and freezes.

Almost like it tries to write to the SD, messes up and this drops out the SD Card???

Already discussed here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=580159

Thank you for that however that didnt resolve my issue and I wasnt prepared to buy a new card just yet. (I know they are cheap but I always have to get my moneys worth! )

So I have solved the issue.

It appeared there was a file or two that were either corrupted or were located in bad sectors and when the phone tried to read these from the SD Card it failed and the SD Card bummed out.

As opening the folder containing the files also dropped out the SD Card I backed up my data thus:

Connected the phone to the pc via Data Storage.

ran xcopy from command prompt:

xcopy e:\*.* c:\phone_backup /E

This would freeze on the corrupted files so I would then reboot the phone and reconnect it and create a txt file in the C: Drive called file.txt and it contained just the name of the file.

Then you can run:

xcopy e:\*.* c:\phone_backup /E / EXCLUDE:file.txt

This would then attempt to copy the files whilst excluding any files listed in file.txt.

After a few more resets and a few more files added to the list I was able to copy off most of everything.

I then ran the SD Card through the Panasonic SD Card Formatter twice and copied all the files back.

12 Hours later and no issues as of yet. Fingers Crossed!!

If anyone needs a better explanation or help let me know!

I wish you all the best with your method, but how to apply it to an empty SD which has been formatted with Panasonic app (all settings tried)? In that case there are no files to work on..

If the card cant be read at all then it will not work but if it works up to a point and accessing something or something running (RSS HUB, scheduled email download) crashes it this may help.

I would suggest trying to card in the phone in data storage mode, in a camera, in a usb card reader. Try different ways and if one works get the files off you can.

Without using a data recovery tool like Photrec you cant recover data on a card formatted with Panasonic tools. Make sure you get what you can off it before you format!!

Sie: Thanks for taking the trouble of explaining what you did, others with a card problem might find that very useful. I use command line but wasn't aware of the "exclude" switch, it's very handy to know.

Why not "tag" this thread with something to help people find it

No problem Pete have done that now.

Wasn't aware of the 'tag' function till just.

I think it helps to add resolutions to things if you find them incase anyone else comes across the same issues.