When I connect my 4s (EU) to my PC, it detects the SD card (128GB Kingston or 64GB, both tried exFat and FAT32 formatted), but when opening the contents, it says there's nothing on it, while it has over 40 gb of data on it...!
What's going on? The card is up to spec!?!
The phone's own memory is shown correctly and I can access all maps. The SD card however is detected, but not accessible.
The only files I can see are the ones I copy from PC to phone's sd card over USB connection. But I want to copy photos and videos from phone to PC.....
I already tried uninstalling the Alcatel Idol 4s driver, and reconnected to get this phone mounted again, and the result is the same.
Anyone have this too? Fix?
PS: I've tried FAT32 formatting as well as ExFAT, both cases the PC detects the card, even tells me how much space is available, but shows NO contents and tells me the map is EMPTY!?!?!
Do you try usb debugging? Is ur phone locked when you connect it to pc?
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i have a problem....my sd card not detect on pc..any suggestion can hard reset my sd card??by the way how to backup data on device storage??
What do you mean that your "sd card not detect on pc"?
If your PC cannot access the SD card via USB connection to your phone while you are still able to access it on your phone, check that your X1's USB mode is set to "Disk Drive/File Transfer/Mass Storage" under Settings>Connections> USB to PC
If it cannot be detected on your X1 but can be detected if you were to directly plug your SD card into a card reader in your PC, blow into the SD slod on your phone.
If your SD card can be detected by the PC which prompts you to format it, it probably got corrupted and you need recovery tools like Recuva to recover the content. If it can be detected by either, it's probably dead.
Hello,
I can not see the external sd card on my windows PC.
I can see the internal sd card as a drive and i have read write access on my win PC (XP/ prof and win7 prof)
I can see the external sd card as a drive but cannot see any files or folders.
connected USB cabel
select mass storage device
not possible to connect USB to PC via dialog (no notification is vissible in notification bar)
reconnect usb cable
Now it is possibel to connect USB to PC via upcoming dialog on phoneselect mass storage device Message box comes up telling that some apps may not work because they have access to sd card
After disconnecting the phone from PC I cannot access the external SD card on my phone until reboot of phone.
I can access the the external sd card using a card reader on my PC.
I think I got these problems since flashing Voodoo-stable-5.1-Froyo-2.2.1-GT-I9000
Firmware Version 2.2
Baseband I9000XXJPP
Kernel 2.6.32.9
I tried to format the sd card with the phone - no changes.
Best regards and thanks in advance O
I have the exact same problem, when I connect with usb cable to my win 7 x64 system using the mass storage option, at first I do not connect at all, then I have to remove the usb cable once, after that I can connect but only see the sd card on the phone itself, the external sd card is invisible.
When I remove the usb cable I am also unable to see the external sd card on the phone itself and I have to restart my phone in order to see it again.
My proplem is solved. By error I installed the voodoo 5.1. on Froyo 2.2 . But it should have been installed on Froyo 2.2.1 as mentioned in the filename of the zip file. I thought froyo 2.2.1 is included in the voodoo update.
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Answer SD card not visable.
Set the USB to choose on connect and the select through the prompts and it works for me.
5.0.2 kernel are for 2.2
from 5.0.3 its all for 2.2.1 i also have same problem if i flash new kernel on 2.2 rom
I made the mistake when my phone froze today to pull out the battery, instead of waiting for an automatic reboot. Now my phone complains that my external SD card has an invalid filesystem, or is blank... when i press that notification i get the option to format the SDcard, but i just moved all my applications to my SDcard 3 days ago, which would make me lose everything.
Is there a way to recover it without losing all its content?
I've tries a micro SD cardreader for my computer, but either the cardreader is broken, or my computer doesnt recognise the card at all...
I've tries a micro SD cardreader for my computer, but either the cardreader is broken, or my computer doesnt recognise the card at all...
In that case NO but a format may recover the card though it could wipe all data .
jje
And computer cant recognize the files either?
Then I'm pretty sure there's nothing to do.
so far ive found out that my laptop sees the card, but i cant access the files on it. it looks like the filesystem got corrupted or wiped or something, because looking at the properties of the card it sais: filesystem: none.
i found out about testdisk, and will try that out overnight. its a 16 GB card, so that is going to take a while.
Recuva free ware may be worth trying to recover files if card can be seen
jje
Or you could try this: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-recover-data-from-a-corrupt-memory-card-or-usb-drive/
HI!
I have this problem that when I turn on the file sharing, the computer shows only internal memory card and not the external. Because the phone itself recognizes the external card I have tried to unmount and mount several times without any improvement. I am currently using the latest CM7 nightly, but the problem seemes to have started after I changed the card from 4gb to 16 gb. Any ideas?
EDIT: Erasing sd card from the phones menu helped to solve the problem.
Go Setting>Storage and remount your sd card and try???
I've done that several times....no help... android system accesses the card without problems...music, pics etc.
Did you physically remove your card and reinsert it, or just software remount?
Have you tried the card directly in your computer?
Have a look in windows device manager and see if it reports any problems. (right
click my computer and select manage)
I have tried it all and everything is ok with the sd card itself (I copied recent nightly from the computer on the sd card) also recovery recognizes is... there are also no problems in device manager...
Try to put on debugging mode. And try it with debugging mode on.
If the debugging mode is on try to take it off.
Regards Kali
I tried that also and nothing changed.... I have a feeling that it is somehow attached to me using mybackup pro... I restored application apk and data from another phone to this one and It seems that usually the application data should go to internal memory card. In this case it is on external card... so i believe that somehow the programs are still using the card when connected and do not allow phone to share it out... It's just a guess though...
EDIT: so I think the solution is to wipe everything and start all over again
So I fresh installed Rom and wiped everything and the problem still exist... still can see files with file managers in phone and when connected to computer, autorun shows only internal card...
Edit: I tried now 2gb sized sdcard and it works perfectly... the problem is with 16gb card.
Weird. Did you try another USB-port?
I tried different USB-s now and still same I found out that when I connect the phone, under my computer appears two removable disks.... if I turn on the usb connection, only one transforms to usable removable disk (internal) and the other one asks to insert the removable disk. I used the same sd card on my HTC desire with CM nightlies and it worked perfectly... could it be CM-s bug?
Sorry to ask (maby the obvious)
On Your phone.. using your filemanager (Root explorer astro or what-ever..)
Browse to sdcard
Do you have a folder called _externalSD?
On this phone, for some reason the external SD is not mounted under./ but as i said under ./sdcard/ (i.e its mounted under the internal SD card..)
Just a thought
Where the different cards are mounted doesn't make any difference. And as he said, it works with other cards (2GB and 4GB).
CyanogenMOD mounts internal card as /mnt/emmc, and external card as /mnt/sdcard by default.
When turning on USB storage, both cards should be unmounted and shared over USB.
Hi, I had the same problem with mine, and as you said in one of your previous posts, I had to do a format through the phone and as soon as I did that I was good to go.
I did use the same memory card in my old hero so this might have something to do with it... I'm not sure.
By formatting do you mean from the menu Erase SD card? On the desire I actually had the formatting request from the computer, but there was another problem (some of the rom's files were on the sdcards ext or something and I had no access to the card from the USB).... kind of a similar problem if I think back now but after changing to CM, the problem disappeared.
I forgot to mention I am running completely stock rom and unrooted (for the time being) and there is just an option under sd card & phone storage setting to format external sd card
After erasing the sd card from the phone, the computer recognized it i'm currently copying stuff back and i'm pretty sure it does not affect the recognition
I faced the same problem. I had Swapper2 on my NC, and after I uninstalled it (and cleared the data of Swapper2, just in case) everything went to normal back again.
^ a solution.
Hi all,
I just got the Xperia TL, and have had problems mounting the SD and internal phone storage in OS X (running Mountain Lion). It mounts fine under Win 7 (both in Bootcamp and running my Bootcamp partition in Parallels), but Disk Utility doesn't even see the partitions when I connect the phone via USB. The phone registers that the SD card is "mounted" to USB when the phone is connected, so I don't really know what gives.
This card was previously used in another Android device, and mounted fine to OS X over USB. I just took it out of the Xperia TL and reformatted it, put it back in the phone, erased it again in Android (just to be thorough), and it is still not showing up in OS X. The phone still says "Internal storage and SD card mounted to PC" when USB is connected. Any other ideas?
Fixed it: had to download and use Android File Transfer, and the devices internal storage and SD card show up in the application window.
I guess the problem is that OS X doesn't understand the MTP protocol natively, which is apparently the protocol the Xperia TL uses to transfer files over USB, and not MSC (mass storage device class).