SD card issue

[Vinsane]

So all of the sudden I get a notification that my memory card had a problem and that it's "read only".

It was totally fine then this. Is my card corrupted or is it a hardware thing?

I can get it to recognize it....then it goes right back to read only.

I've used the same card from my G2...to Nexus One...to Vibrant to my now MT4G.

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[pack]

try formatting it with a card reader...

 

[jjlean]

Probably messed up. Mine did it too and only thing I could do was format.

So all of the sudden I get a notification that my memory card had a problem and that it's "read only".

It was totally fine then this. Is my card corrupted or is it a hardware thing?

I can get it to recognize it....then it goes right back to read only.

I've used the same card from my G2...to Nexus One...to Vibrant to my now MT4G.

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[Vinsane]

Dang. What about all the apps that I mved to SD and folders? Ill lose all of that? It wont allow me to move them back to the phone

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[jjlean]

Dang. What about all the apps that I mved to SD and folders? Ill lose all of that? It wont allow me to move them back to the phone

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I will tell you the truth. You will lose everything. After this you will learn to backup your sd card on your computer.

I wiped out mine too. Somehow, my card became corrupted and would not mount. I lost everything. Still pisses me off.

Good news is there is a stock 'ROM' here and you can just start over. I know it sucks, but think of it as a learning experience. What else can you do?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=845756

One question I had is: Is there a way after it wont mount to get it to mount? Like... can you go into terminal and mount it at all?

Hope this eases you mind man.

 

[borodin1]

One question I had is: Is there a way after it wont mount to get it to mount? Like... can you go into terminal and mount it at all?

Hope this eases you mind man.

You can put in into another android phone and it will work just fine (most likely). Has happened to me multiple times in G2 (part of a reason it went back to t-mo).
Alternatively, you can try USB mount option in ClockworkMod recovery and see if phone will recognize your card in recovery, you can then copy everything over to PC and re-format the card.

 

[99danman]

Wait! Before you reformat, plug it into a Windows machine and run checkdisk on it. I just had this problem yesterday and this fixed it for me. I didnt lose my data or anything because it wasnt reformatted. Just check both the boxes on the dialog box when you run checkdisk and hopefully itll work for you too.

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How to run Chkdsk from My Computer or from Windows Explorer
Double-click My Computer, and then right-click the hard disk that you want to check.
Click Properties, and then click Tools.
Under Error-checking, click Check Now. A dialog box that shows the Check disk options is displayed,
Select the Automatically fix file system errors check box.
Select the Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors check box, and then click Start.

 

[rjhay22]

I too have been experiencing this problem, and have tried almost everything to fix this crap! but no luck, I'm not sure what's causing this, but I've tried several SD cards already and even replaced my phone thinking it was the device card reader, but I still have the same problem... Hope someone can shed some light on this matter...

But to the OP before you go formatting it, you can try to save the files on your SD first by going to recovery > connect device > mounts and storage > mount USB storage. You should see your files from the SD card so you can back those up at least.

Good luck!

 

[dclaw_fantum]

Had that happen to me when I popped in a new card. Put the old one back in, same thing happened.

Turned out that the restore didn't work correctly. Was able to restore the stock backup I made after rooting and haven't had issues since. I played around trying to get different kernels working, and had to restore a few times. The one time just didn't take fully.

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[Vinsane]

I got it fixed without loosing anything! Plugged it into a machine that I just updated to win 7..and it said there was a problem with my card and if I wanted windows to see if it could fix it. Yes. It worked!

Check disk is it!

Backed up all my card and plugged it back into the phone...and it works great again.

Thanks for the feedback and help guys

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[jjlean]

Nice!

I got it fixed without loosing anything! Plugged it into a machine that I just updated to win 7..and it said there was a problem with my card and if I wanted windows to see if it could fix it. Yes. It worked!

Check disk is it!

Backed up all my card and plugged it back into the phone...and it works great again.

Thanks for the feedback and help guys

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[rjhay22]

Good to know, I suggest backin up often now though. I still get random sd corruption every few days after the first one. Its like my phone got devirginized or something lol.

I got it fixed without loosing anything! Plugged it into a machine that I just updated to win 7..and it said there was a problem with my card and if I wanted windows to see if it could fix it. Yes. It worked!

Check disk is it!

Backed up all my card and plugged it back into the phone...and it works great again.

Thanks for the feedback and help guys

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[99danman]

Glad I could help