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Help 16GB Card Goes Out

ndh777

ndh777

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I used my phone for a bit yesterday then put it on the USB charger connected to a printer overnight to charge for me. I had left it on "Charge Only" and when I got up in the morning, I unlocked the phone and saw a message in the notification area that said "SD card in Read-Only" or something like that. I noticed that some of my apps that are installed half-way on the card and on my phone were not showing up either so I rebooted the phone hoping that the issue was resolved.

Then when my phone turned back on, it had another notification about the card but this time saying that the card was damaged and needed to be formatted. I rebooted the phone again and again and it continues to say this. I tried to format the card both from that notification and also from the settings menu and it still doesn't show. Instead, it says that the external card cannot be contacted or something like that. Then I tried putting the card in my mom's Android phone (Samsung Transform Ultra for Boost Mobile) and it only made her phone freeze on startup and not allow her to unlock the phone or even put it back in lock mode. When we took it out and turned back on the phone, it turned on fine.

I don't have an adapter to connect it to the computer right now but I was just curious about this issue. My phone has done the random damage about 3 times before but it has never been this bad. Is my card damaged beyond repair or possibly has a virus?

The last thing I did on the phone before leaving it on for the night was activate an unlock code so people couldn't just unlock it and look through the phone. Before that, in terms of downloading to the SD card, I'm not sure what was the last thing that I downloaded.
 
Also, when I go into Settings>SD Card, it displayed a 14.98GB card and asked if I wanted to Mount or Format but wouldn't do anything if clicked on either. Now it displays a "00" in both spaces where it is to display how much the card holds and how much is left on the card.
 
ndh777 said:
Also, when I go into Settings>SD Card, it displayed a 14.98GB card and asked if I wanted to Mount or Format but wouldn't do anything if clicked on either. Now it displays a "00" in both spaces where it is to display how much the card holds and how much is left on the card.
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do you have a card reader? your card might be going bad. maybe now is a good time to update the card to a class 10 card. this is a great deal:
http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-all-things-root/413571-sharin-love-16gb-class-10-card-25-a.html
 
ocnbrze said:
do you have a card reader? your card might be going bad. maybe now is a good time to update the card to a class 10 card. this is a great deal:
http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-all-things-root/413571-sharin-love-16gb-class-10-card-25-a.html
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Thanks! I've got my eye on a few 32GBs and it's my birthday in a month so I think I may hold out if I can lol

Yeah, my adapter for my computer is at the other house this weekend so I'll have to wait until Tuesday or whenever I get back but I was wondering about now for the short term. It says now that it's a blank card and has an unsupported file system.

This is so strange how this happens every once in a while and out of the blue.
 
ndh777 said:
Thanks! I've got my eye on a few 32GBs and it's my birthday in a month so I think I may hold out if I can lol

Yeah, my adapter for my computer is at the other house this weekend so I'll have to wait until Tuesday or whenever I get back but I was wondering about now for the short term. It says now that it's a blank card and has an unsupported file system.

This is so strange how this happens every once in a while and out of the blue.
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huh that is weird. so you can't see anything on your card? maybe it is the cable.
 
ocnbrze said:
well if you have a card reader you can hook it to the pc and reformat the card and see if that helps.

also check this out:
http://androidforums.com/3961358-post60.html
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Thank you! It looks like I'll go ahead and get one of those. I got home and hooked my card to my computer and tried to format it and it asked if I wanted to format it *back* to 1.35TB. Need I remind you, my card is actually 16GB LOL Oddly enough too, when I tried to format it, the card adapter got really hot and the computer said that it couldn't format the card. :( Looks like I'm upgrading to the 32GB I guess.
 
I ordered the card and paid more for 1 day shipping. I can't go another day without this freaking card :// $57 for me.

Thanks for the link and info ocn! Much appreciated!!!
 
ndh777 said:
I ordered the card and paid more for 1 day shipping. I can't go another day without this freaking card :// $57 for me.

Thanks for the link and info ocn! Much appreciated!!!
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don't rid yourself of the other card. Pm me and I'll see when I get home this afternoon if I can walk you through some things to help retrieve documents, pictures and any other information you want on there.
 
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