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Who else has the SD card probelm?

Have you had the SD card probelm?

  • Yes and I'm using the SD card from a previous phone.

    Votes: 8 12.9%

  • Yes and I'm using the SD card that came with the phone.

    Votes: 29 46.8%

  • Yes and I'm using the SD card from a previous phone and the phone freezes.

    Votes: 3 4.8%

  • Yes and I'm using the SD card that came with the phone and the phone freezes.

    Votes: 11 17.7%

  • No, I have not had this probelm.

    Votes: 11 17.7%
  • Total voters
    62
jen8112

jen8112

Android Enthusiast
Just trying to see if we can find a solution to the Optimus's SD card problem. Mine, and others, will unmount then remount their SD card all by themselves. Some have reported the phone freezing after this and they need to go a battery pull. Mine has not froze, yet.
 
Well I swapped out my old SD with the one it came with and it just did it again. Uggg! Time to email LG! ;)
 
You mentioned that you're now getting the errors with the card that came with the phone, right? Did you format the card from the PC before putting it back in your phone?

From another forum thread:

1) Connect phone to PC and mount as external USB drive. Copy all the contents off the SD card onto the PC.
2) Un-mount from your PC
3) Un-Mount the SD card from your phone. Menu > Settings > SD Card and phone storage.
4) After the card is unmounted, select the option to format it. This will format in FAT16 which will work fine for something less than 2 TB.
5) After formatting the card, remount it.
6) Hook back up to PC and mount to PC and copy contents back over that you saved from step 1.
7) Enjoy your phone not constantly unmounting and remounting your SD card.
 
I formatted the SD card as well.. Three hours and counting without an error. Holding my breath.

Really annoying problem. Otherwise the phone is great. Sprint data reception in my area sucks, so I might be returning anyway. :(
 
DaveG said:
1) Connect phone to PC and mount as external USB drive. Copy all the contents off the SD card onto the PC.
2) Un-mount from your PC
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New Android and Smart Phone user here. I'm having the SD card problem. The apps that I have loaded to the SD card suddenly disappear and I get message "application is not installed on your phone." I went to the local sprint store but they were little help. Two days ago the phone froze after overnight charging and I got it going again by pulling the battery. This morning I got the update sent to my phone and after installation all was good again with the SD card apps. Now tonight they are gone again.

I just got a 16G micro SD card that I can use to replace the one that came with the phone. I'd like to know how I should proceed?

I apologize for the simple question, but I'm not sure how to hook the phone up wo my Windows 7 PC to copy the SD card contents. When I hooked it up with the USB cable it said I needed to install a Windows driver on my phone my I wasn't sure if I should do that. I'm thinking I could copy the contents, install the new micro SD card in my phone, and then download the contents from my computer via usb.

Any help with some advise on how to proceed, or how to hook up to my computer would be appreciated. Sorry if this question is so basic, but I wasn't sure where would be a better place to ask.
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You can always use the adapter that came in the box to put your SD card directly into your computer to copy the files. I did this then put the card back in a reformatted in the phone. People say it's better to do it on your computer but I couldn't figure out how to do it that way. ;)
 
Ok thanks, I used the SD card adapter and copied old files to my new 16G micro card. Still no apps show from my SD card. Removed battery and restarted and still no luck. Not sure what's going on, or what to try next.
 
Tried one more time with my SD card problem. Using the SD adapter, I reformatted my 16G micro SD card, using my laptop copied files back to the new card, and this time it is working. Hopefully this will continue to work......Thanks for the help.
 
Looks like I'm the only one that had the card issue with a card other than the card that came with the phone. Switched to the one it came with and still had the problem. Switch to a third card that I reformatted and so far so good! ;)
 
pulled the card, formatted the card yesterday via computer and had the problem just now. Most of the time it fixes itself, but periodically the card just tanks and typically have to remount it.
 
Glad to know this is not all just me. I had the phone delete the apps from the sd card and sprint told me just to take them off the card and put them on the phone. What is the point in that? They exchanged the phone and the new one the card un mounts. I did the format and it is still doing it. Any other ideas?
 
No, I did not have any apps on the card when it happened to me. I think it has done it once since I reformatted the card.
 
I have reformatted my card (from my old Hero) and it still unmounts and mounts itself. I don't have any apps on the card, but this is really annoying.
 
Jen,
Is there any coorelation to the power left in the phone? The last couple of days I have been intentionally trying to drain my battery (per a different posting) and I have noticed once I get below about 25% the phone intermittently does not recognize the SD card in the drive. At full power I have had no issues.

(just fyi, It is the original SD card.)
 
I formatted the card while plugged into my computer, and it still said SD card unmounted, but it seems to resolve itself after a few minutes. Hasn't happened to me in a while though.
 
I was having the unmounted card and phone freezes issues and then I swapped out a new 16gb sandisk card I bought and it has not happened in 5 days. I am keeping my fingers crossed.
 
I just reformatted my SD (the one that came with the phone) and I am doing ok so far...but it has only been about 10 minutes...

I am on my 3rd Optimus with this issue. I think I would feel better about the issue if Sprint would just admit it, but they will not. Nothing like great customer service...according to everyone at Sprint I have talked to, I am the only person having the issue. It is nice at least to know I not going crazy and others are having the issue too. I am still up in the air as to if I should keep this thing. I almost want to return it, because I only have 8 days left to decide.
 
I've had my S about 2 weeks now. I haven't had the sd card unmount on me yet that I know of.

I thought I had an issue due to angry birds suddenly disappearing from my phone but it turns out that, much to my surprise, angry birds installs to the SD card by default so when I swapped out the stock 2GB SD card for an 8GB I had to redo the install.

I'm not sure I'm a fan of how the install to SD feature works at this point in time...
 
I was just about to do the whole format thing on the PC when it occurred to me that it may just be a en error. So I ran the error checker instead and viola , it did the job. Didn't need to format the card and everything was back to normal and faster.
 
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