[My Fault]Problems accessing large microSD - Moto G7 Plus Questions & Answers

Hey all,
I just recently got a G7 Plus, and while I was setting it up I used an old 16 gig microSD and the phone had no troubles accessing it.
128's went on sale so I grabbed one, but now Android is being all weird. I'm running LineageOS 17.1. It shows up in settings but there's no 3 dot menu, just an eject button. If I click on it in Settings, it just closes. In Ghost Commander I can't get write access, even after trying to grant it permissions with the Storage Access Framework. I have full read /write in Root mode.
Any ideas? I first formatted it as exFAT, then last night I tried FAT32 but it's the same problem. I can try ext3/4, but holy hell it takes hours just copying things back on.
Thanks.
P.S.
It's a 128 gig SanDisk that I bought from Best Buy. My computer uses it just fine, so I'm pretty sure it's legit. And again, works in Root mode.

Just tried deleting all partition tables and letting Android format it... Same damn problem...
What the heck?

Turns out it was my fault! I'd frozen the default Files.apk... Not bright!

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SD Card Error

I am using Cyanogen 5.0.6 on my N1. I flashed it about 5 days ago.
Backstory: So I was connected to my car stereo via bluetooth on my way to work this morning when the songs stops playing. I then pressed the skip button on my receiver but nothing happened. I then looked at my phone and realized that it was off. I tried pressing the power button to turn it back on but that did not work. Then I removed the battery and then replaced it and pressed the power button. It turned on. The main problem became evident when I got to the home screen and it said "Blank SD card - SD card blank of has unsupported filesystem."
Is there a way to recover the data that was on this sd card? It is asking me to format the card, but I would rather recover the files if possible before formating. Also, is this a glitch with Cyanogen, the 5.0.6 ROM, Android 2.1 or something else?
If anyone could help me, I would greatly appreciate it.
No idea what could have caused it but as for recovering files just try one of the many programs out there.
Ive persoanlly had success wity a program called recova for windows
Thanks Phantom.
I had a spare memory card at home. It was full of videos so I had to format the card. Once it was formatted, I stuck it in the phone and rebooted. Everything was fine for about a half hour. I then loaded up some of my files that I wanted on the card, mainly just photos and documents. Then I thought I would go back to Cyanogen 5.0.5.3 so I loaded up the zip file on the root of the card and turned the phone off. When I went into bootloader it wouldn't recognize the card. So I was forced to restart the phone. Once it got to the home screen, a notification popped up saying that the SD card is damaged. [naturally there were expletives]. So now I have two SD cards that I cannot use on my phone. When I put the cards into a USB adapter, the computer only sees a few MB of the SD card and does not allow me to format.
I have now just about reached the limit of my computer knowledge.
The two main questions are:
1. What caused this?
2. How can I fix it?
Please keep in mind that I am a noob when it comes to most of this stuff so I would appreciate the help to be kept in layman's terms as much as possible.
Thank you!

SanDisk16GB Micro SDHC won't read on mac os or android phone. Help!?

This memory card has been used in my Nexus One Android running Froyo. I was using the phone last night (specifically FourSquare) and it froze up, I'm not sure if it was writing something to the micro sd but I removed the battery to restart the phone. When it restarted it said "checking memory card for errors", but after waiting for ten minutes nothing was recognized and I restarted it again, this time removing the sd card. Fast forward a few hours. I tried repeatedly different methods to get the phone to recognize it and finally gave up. I put an older memory card in the phone which worked just fine.
I have a usb micro sd reader and plugged it in to the mac. Usually iPhoto pops up but nothing happened. I ran disk utility to see if the memory card could be recognized and still nothing. I tried many free software programs but they all require the memory card to at least be recognized, which mine is not. Any Ideas? I've ran out of them. I just want a few pictures and a video but if thats not possible at least a way to reformat sd card for future use.
Cliffnotes: Card corrupted by android phone, no longer recognized by phone or mac os, tried several sd recovery programs to no avail, I just want the pics!
Sounds like it's not corrupted, it just died. Sorry dude. Time for a new card.
Had my 8 gig die the other night. Mine is recognized when I put it in my laptop but when ok try to copy any file, it can't access. It does see all of then though. I've been trying some recovery software but haven't had any luck so far.
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j.bruha said:
Sounds like it's not corrupted, it just died. Sorry dude. Time for a new card.
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Thanks. You're probably right. I guess this is where the iPhone has an advantage over us Android users. Permanent on board storage.
r3vmixman said:
Thanks. You're probably right. I guess this is where the iPhone has an advantage over us Android users. Permanent on board storage.
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So if that storage goes out, you replace the whole phone. Sounds like quite the advantage...
Versus cheap expandable memory. Hmm.....
Ok I found a half satisfying solution. The sd card reader has a lock switch. When I click lock I am able to read everything, thus letting me copy it to my computer. I guess putting it in lock mode makes everything read only. The card is still dead, imo. No way to reformat it in this mode and removing the lock switch only reverts to my prior problem.
r3vmixman said:
Ok I found a half satisfying solution. The sd card reader has a lock switch. When I click lock I am able to read everything, thus letting me copy it to my computer. I guess putting it in lock mode makes everything read only. The card is still dead, imo. No way to reformat it in this mode and removing the lock switch only reverts to my prior problem.
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That means your card is dead. When a flash card dies, it cannot be written anymore, but it can still be read from because the data is still there, it's flash memory so its nonvolatile. By forcing it to read only mode, you should be able to recover your data, like you just did.
Awesome suggestion on setting to read only. It worked for me too. I'm happy to at least get the stuff off it, even if it's dead.

[Q] HELP! About to throw my NEW NOOK HD+ OUT! ETA: SOLVED!

ETA: I've gotten it all figured, I think, and you can read my updates in the comments. I am STILL STUCK on this though:
ANY IDEA WHERE I CAN GET A NEW REPLACEMENT NOOK HD+ CABLE??? This 'unique' style is the STUPIDEST IDEA EVER, because I cannot find one ANYWHERE on Ebay or Amazon, and am NOT paying a crapload of cash to B&N to get this cord plus other stuff I don't want. The cord has a very loose, bent, worn spot on it just before it gets to the plug for the Nook end, and it frequently disconnects itself. (I know how to keep an eye on it though so this wouldn't be the reason for my other problems in this post.)
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I got a new Nook HD+ based on the amazing HD display and that I was looking for an eReader/Tablet closer to 10"
I was NOT happy at ALL with the original Nook OS, so after a while of digging and asking around, and not being able to shell out $60+ for the Amazon.com 'N2A' or 'AFN' cards, I found the thread on here showing how to install it myself. (Cyanogenmod 10.1) Well, it installed clean and easy, but then I tried putting in my formatted (empty) 32gb micro SD card, and then tried sideloading my videos, ebooks, etc. I have tried several different ways to transfer files to this thing, and it WILL NOT WORK! It refuses to show ANY of my files, even though it shows that all this space has been used on the card.
I was just trying to delete all these files and start over with transferring them, but now whenever I open the 'My Nook' window from the 'My Computer' window when my HD+ is connected, it will sit there on a white empty box, and show the top bar loading for like EVER. It shows this green bar S L O W L Y loading up, and it has never done this before! It took a good 20 minutes to do this on the SD card window, and then just showed a blank box, when it still had files on it.
I took out the card and formatted it again in my laptop SD card adapter. I was then trying to access the files in My Nook to delete some of them, and it does the same loading forever BS.
Before I did this clean CM 10.1 install, the Nook would still not show any files sideloaded onto a card. I have tried my 64gb Samsung class 10 SDXC card also, with the same results of not showing any files. I am using Calibre to load the ebooks up, and I see them all in the folder when I check it on my Laptop, but I haven't really installed any apps from the Google store yet, so I don't know for sure if the ebooks will work. I just know that searching the files on the Nook itself show NOTHING...
PLEASE HELP!! I have spent literally a WEEK of SOLID TIME in converting video files, transferring files, and formatting/installing/rooting/whatever my Nook, and I haven't gotten ANYWHERE really. I love the interface on this CM OS, but I am primarily wanting to use this for watching MY MOVIES that I have already on my laptop...
ANY help is much appreciated, because I feel like I wasted a crapload of money and this is just sitting here driving me nuts!!
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!
Ok
Couple of things to check here.
1. If you put the card into a windows machine, does it show that the card is 32gig? Does it show any files on the card?
If YES to both, then the card is fine. If NO, then you need to reformat the card and get it back to 32gig and showing files. If you need help with that, there are some apps on the web that can help....
2. On your Nook, load up a file viewing app. For ease of comparison, load "File manager HD"from the Play Store. Use the app to navigate to the External SD card and validate that you can see the card, that it is 32gig and you can see files? If yes you are good to go, if no, then if number 1 above is OK, there is something wrong with the CM 10.1 load or with your Nook.
3. If the issue is now installing APK files from the card, you should be able to from File Manger HD, as long as you have turned off "unknonw sources" in the settings menu.
Settings -- Security -- unknonw sources checkmark needs to be checked.
Give those things a shot and report back your results. the HD+ is an awesome unit and it sounds like you may have a tiny issue somewhere.
Thanks for the help, but the card is fine. I've used the card for other things before, and I have formatted it multiple times. My question is, how can you expect to see files on it after it has been formatted? The format wipes all files from the card.
Also, I was not trying to load apps. I thought I had made that clear in my post, that my problem is trying to load videos/movies onto the card. I searched online for hours, and couldn't find anything useful or helpful on why I couldn't load video files, but there was a huge abundance of forums, YouTube videos, and other help on how to load apps to an SD card...
I stayed up the whole night messing with this, and ended up taking the 64gb class 10 card from my phone and using that in my Nook, and after about 12 hours of straight work, I got some movies to load on it. I found a half-decent video player in Gapps that I could watch them on.
My next problem: the battery on this thing is horrendous. I had it sitting, fully charged before hand, and in sleep mode, for about 4 hours, and the battery went down 10%! I notice when I am browsing the Nook, not playing videos or getting online, I discharge about twice that fast. At this rate, I will be darn lucky to watch a 2-hour movie before the battery dies...
Aaron Camp said:
Ok
Couple of things to check here.
1. If you put the card into a windows machine, does it show that the card is 32gig? Does it show any files on the card?
If YES to both, then the card is fine. If NO, then you need to reformat the card and get it back to 32gig and showing files. If you need help with that, there are some apps on the web that can help....
2. On your Nook, load up a file viewing app. For ease of comparison, load "File manager HD"from the Play Store. Use the app to navigate to the External SD card and validate that you can see the card, that it is 32gig and you can see files? If yes you are good to go, if no, then if number 1 above is OK, there is something wrong with the CM 10.1 load or with your Nook.
3. If the issue is now installing APK files from the card, you should be able to from File Manger HD, as long as you have turned off "unknonw sources" in the settings menu.
Settings -- Security -- unknonw sources checkmark needs to be checked.
Give those things a shot and report back your results. the HD+ is an awesome unit and it sounds like you may have a tiny issue somewhere.
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slow_mo_panda said:
I have tried several different ways to transfer files to this thing, and it WILL NOT WORK! It refuses to show ANY of my files, even though it shows that all this space has been used on the card.
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1: What ways did you try exactly? Have you tried Airdroid? That is my go to for transferring files to and from my devices. That way, I don't have to mess about with connecting USB cables and whatnot.
2: What is "it"? You say "it will not work" and "it refuses to show.." and "it shows all this space".
slow_mo_panda said:
but now whenever I open the 'My Nook' window from the 'My Computer' window when my HD+ is connected, it will sit there on a white empty box, and show the top bar loading for like EVER. It shows this green bar S L O W L Y loading up, and it has never done this before! It took a good 20 minutes to do this on the SD card window, and then just showed a blank box, when it still had files on it.
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So you have the SD card loaded in the Nook and are browsing it via USB cable on your Windows 7 machine? Just trying to clarify how exactly you are doing this.
slow_mo_panda said:
I took out the card and formatted it again in my laptop SD card adapter.
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Did you use the same adapter to load the files? Did that not work?
slow_mo_panda said:
I was then trying to access the files in My Nook to delete some of them, and it does the same loading forever BS.
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Does this occur when the SD card is freshly formatted or only when there are files on it?
slow_mo_panda said:
Before I did this clean CM 10.1 install, the Nook would still not show any files sideloaded onto a card. I have tried my 64gb Samsung class 10 SDXC card also, with the same results of not showing any files. I am using Calibre to load the ebooks up, and I see them all in the folder when I check it on my Laptop, but I haven't really installed any apps from the Google store yet, so I don't know for sure if the ebooks will work. I just know that searching the files on the Nook itself show NOTHING...
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Odd. What size and format are the movies? Do these cards work fine on other devices?
How did you format the SD cards? Did you put them in the Nook and format them, or did you format them in Windows and then put them in the Nook? Are they formatted with the correct file type? Taken from the user manual:
To format the memory card, do this:
1.
Tap the
Format Now
button to format the memory card.
Your NOOK displays a warning that formatting the memory card will erase its contents.
2.
Tap the
Format Now
button again to confirm that you want to format the memory card.
Your NOOK formats the card with the exFAT file system.
Have you try formating your sdcard to fat32. Try that it should work
SPH-L720_!
kmahoney said:
How did you format the SD cards? Did you put them in the Nook and format them, or did you format them in Windows and then put them in the Nook? Are they formatted with the correct file type? Taken from the user manual:
To format the memory card, do this:
1.
Tap the
Format Now
button to format the memory card.
Your NOOK displays a warning that formatting the memory card will erase its contents.
2.
Tap the
Format Now
button again to confirm that you want to format the memory card.
Your NOOK formats the card with the exFAT file system.
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Where is that option is CM 10.1? I have been unsuccessful in finding an in device format method. If it's in the user manual, chances are this operation is in the stock rom and does OP no good.
hooah212002 said:
Where is that option is CM 10.1? I have been unsuccessful in finding an in device format method. If it's in the user manual, chances are this operation is in the stock rom and does OP no good.
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I don't there is one (as far as I can see). My point was that I believe the 64 GB SD has to be formatted with exFat in order to work. I think the 32 GB card can be either exFat or Fat32.
kmahoney said:
I don't there is one (as far as I can see). My point was that I believe the 64 GB SD has to be formatted with exFat in order to work. I think the 32 GB card can be either exFat or Fat32.
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Ahh, I see. I did not know that. thanks.
hooah212002 said:
1: What ways did you try exactly? Have you tried Airdroid? That is my go to for transferring files to and from my devices. That way, I don't have to mess about with connecting USB cables and whatnot.
2: What is "it"? You say "it will not work" and "it refuses to show.." and "it shows all this space".
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I tried every way. And no, I couldn't try ANY apps because I hadn't gotten that far yet. I always start by just transferring my content and then shop for apps. When I was saying "It" I meant the card.
So you have the SD card loaded in the Nook and are browsing it via USB cable on your Windows 7 machine? Just trying to clarify how exactly you are doing this.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I had usually accessed the card via my Nook plugged into my laptop, unless I was re-formatting the card or deleting files from it, then I had it in my laptop's SD slot.
Did you use the same adapter to load the files? Did that not work?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>When I said 'adapter' I meant just the regular SD card size adapter I had insterted the micro card into. And this adapter had been working fine for a long time before. I did try other adapters also.
Does this occur when the SD card is freshly formatted or only when there are files on it?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>After I had put some files on it, and was then going back to delete some or all of them, this loading problem occurred. And I hadn't even used a third of the space on my card, so it should not have been so slow to show 3 or 4 files in the window.
Odd. What size and format are the movies? Do these cards work fine on other devices?
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Not sure what size you mean, I had several HD .mp4 movie files, none bigger than 2gb. I used the 32gb card multiple times to transfer movie files between computers, and the 64gb card I finally got to work was in my Note 2 phone since the day I bought it. I am not happy I had to take the card out of my phone, but oddly enough, the 32gb card that the Nook refused to take is working fine with videos in my phone now...
If you didn't see my comment just below my OP, I have it working now, more or less...
kmahoney said:
How did you format the SD cards? Did you put them in the Nook and format them, or did you format them in Windows and then put them in the Nook? Are they formatted with the correct file type? Taken from the user manual:
To format the memory card, do this:
1.
Tap the
Format Now
button to format the memory card.
Your NOOK displays a warning that formatting the memory card will erase its contents.
2.
Tap the
Format Now
button again to confirm that you want to format the memory card.
Your NOOK formats the card with the exFAT file system.
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I used the free windows program/app called 'SDFormatter' that was recommended to me in the thread that I used here for the CM 10.1 Rom... And I got the 64gb class 10 card that WAS in my phone to work after it was formatted to exFAT.
FORMAT
To clarify all the other comments/confusion on SD card format...
The 32gb card I had I am not positive what format it was, but I believe it was FAT32, and the Nook did NOT format the card, or make any effort to, and even after I formatted it myself in many ways, it was still FAT32...
The 64gb card was either always exFAT, or was turned into exFAT when I formatted it just prior to inserting into the Nook. I believe this was a big reason the 32gb card wasn't working for me, along with my having to COPY the 'My Files' folder from the Nook Onboard storage, and PASTE the folder into my SD card storage, which I then put all my videos and other content into, and afterwards it worked fine...
slow_mo_panda said:
I got a new Nook HD+ based on the amazing HD display and that I was looking for an eReader/Tablet closer to 10"
I was NOT happy at ALL with the original Nook OS, so after a while of digging and asking around, and not being able to shell out $60+ for the Amazon.com 'N2A' or 'AFN' cards, I found the thread on here showing how to install it myself. (Cyanogenmod 10.1) Well, it installed clean and easy, but then I tried putting in my formatted (empty) 32gb micro SD card, and then tried sideloading my videos, ebooks, etc. I have tried several different ways to transfer files to this thing, and it WILL NOT WORK! It refuses to show ANY of my files, even though it shows that all this space has been used on the card.
I was just trying to delete all these files and start over with transferring them, but now whenever I open the 'My Nook' window from the 'My Computer' window when my HD+ is connected, it will sit there on a white empty box, and show the top bar loading for like EVER. It shows this green bar S L O W L Y loading up, and it has never done this before! It took a good 20 minutes to do this on the SD card window, and then just showed a blank box, when it still had files on it.
I took out the card and formatted it again in my laptop SD card adapter. I was then trying to access the files in My Nook to delete some of them, and it does the same loading forever BS.
Before I did this clean CM 10.1 install, the Nook would still not show any files sideloaded onto a card. I have tried my 64gb Samsung class 10 SDXC card also, with the same results of not showing any files. I am using Calibre to load the ebooks up, and I see them all in the folder when I check it on my Laptop, but I haven't really installed any apps from the Google store yet, so I don't know for sure if the ebooks will work. I just know that searching the files on the Nook itself show NOTHING...
PLEASE HELP!! I have spent literally a WEEK of SOLID TIME in converting video files, transferring files, and formatting/installing/rooting/whatever my Nook, and I haven't gotten ANYWHERE really. I love the interface on this CM OS, but I am primarily wanting to use this for watching MY MOVIES that I have already on my laptop...
ANY help is much appreciated, because I feel like I wasted a crapload of money and this is just sitting here driving me nuts!!
PS: ANY IDEA WHERE I CAN GET A NEW REPLACEMENT NOOK HD+ CABLE??? This 'unique' style is the STUPIDEST IDEA EVER, because I cannot find one ANYWHERE on Ebay or Amazon, and am NOT paying a crapload of cash to B&N to get this cord plus other stuff I don't want. The cord has a very loose, bent, worn spot on it just before it gets to the plug for the Nook end, and it frequently disconnects itself. (I know how to keep an eye on it though so this wouldn't be the reason for my other problems in this post.)
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!
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What apps are you using? Different apps store things in different places, I was trying epub readers and the last one found 3 copies of every book I had scattered all over internal and external storage.
I settled on the Nook Reader app, and it took a while to figure it out. I installed the APK, then I had to reboot the HD+ to get the Nook folder to show up on my pc. I then simply moved the epub files to BN NookHD+/internal storage/Nook/My Documents/ - I used the following - /Author/Book/epub file. They were showing up as they were being pasted, and work fine.
For movies I use MX Player with the mkv codec so I can watch movies with converting them. I would also rather stream with ES File Explorer and MX Player, but I can move the files to my sd card and watch as well.
You can only get the cable from B&N, or search for a used one, yes it's stupid, but it's also covered under the warranty. Take it back and they will replace it, under the 1 year warranty or the extended 2 year one, they replaced my cord/charger (wall part) with no questions ask - it hummed - and annoyed me, I told the gal working "This thing hums and is distracts me while reading, I need another one" the gal said "No problem" grabbed a box and pulled one out and away I went. You can also buy just the cable for $14.95.
My Nook sometimes loads very slowly when connecting it to my Windows 7 desktop, but nothing like you are describing.
When you used SD Formatter, did you enable "Format Size Adjustment"?
slow_mo_panda said:
Thanks for the help, but the card is fine. I've used the card for other things before, and I have formatted it multiple times. My question is, how can you expect to see files on it after it has been formatted? The format wipes all files from the card.
Also, I was not trying to load apps. I thought I had made that clear in my post, that my problem is trying to load videos/movies onto the card. I searched online for hours, and couldn't find anything useful or helpful on why I couldn't load video files, but there was a huge abundance of forums, YouTube videos, and other help on how to load apps to an SD card...
I stayed up the whole night messing with this, and ended up taking the 64gb class 10 card from my phone and using that in my Nook, and after about 12 hours of straight work, I got some movies to load on it. I found a half-decent video player in Gapps that I could watch them on.
My next problem: the battery on this thing is horrendous. I had it sitting, fully charged before hand, and in sleep mode, for about 4 hours, and the battery went down 10%! I notice when I am browsing the Nook, not playing videos or getting online, I discharge about twice that fast. At this rate, I will be darn lucky to watch a 2-hour movie before the battery dies...
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Did you mess with the Performance settings in CM10.1? If not, I'd say the battery is dying. That is way to short, I streamed "Lucky Number Slevin" @ 720P for an hour and fifty minutes and didn't use, but 15% of my battery, it was fully charged before starting the movie. So everything was turned on and actually working the whole time.
slow_mo_panda said:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Not sure what size you mean, I had several HD .mp4 movie files, none bigger than 2gb. I used the 32gb card multiple times to transfer movie files between computers, and the 64gb card I finally got to work was in my Note 2 phone since the day I bought it. I am not happy I had to take the card out of my phone, but oddly enough, the 32gb card that the Nook refused to take is working fine with videos in my phone now...
If you didn't see my comment just below my OP, I have it working now, more or less...
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slow_mo_panda said:
To clarify all the other comments/confusion on SD card format...
The 32gb card I had I am not positive what format it was, but I believe it was FAT32, and the Nook did NOT format the card, or make any effort to, and even after I formatted it myself in many ways, it was still FAT32...
The 64gb card was either always exFAT, or was turned into exFAT when I formatted it just prior to inserting into the Nook. I believe this was a big reason the 32gb card wasn't working for me, along with my having to COPY the 'My Files' folder from the Nook Onboard storage, and PASTE the folder into my SD card storage, which I then put all my videos and other content into, and afterwards it worked fine...
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Sorry, I answered your questions out of order, I'm too tired to order things correctly, but I think I answered everything. Oh, I'm using the cheapest Sandisk Class 4 32GB card, I could buy at Staples for $30, and it works fine.
Hope this helps, don't get too discouraged, when you get it working right, it's a great tablet.
Good Luck!
Thanks for tips, Still hung-up on battery/cord...
dagem said:
You can only get the cable from B&N, or search for a used one, yes it's stupid, but it's also covered under the warranty. Take it back and they will replace it, under the 1 year warranty or the extended 2 year one, they replaced my cord/charger (wall part) with no questions ask - it hummed - and annoyed me, I told the gal working "This thing hums and is distracts me while reading, I need another one" the gal said "No problem" grabbed a box and pulled one out and away I went. You can also buy just the cable for $14.95.
When you used SD Formatter, did you enable "Format Size Adjustment"?
Did you mess with the Performance settings in CM10.1? If not, I'd say the battery is dying. That is way to short, I streamed "Lucky Number Slevin" @ 720P for an hour and fifty minutes and didn't use, but 15% of my battery, it was fully charged before starting the movie. So everything was turned on and actually working the whole time.
Hope this helps, don't get too discouraged, when you get it working right, it's a great tablet.
Good Luck!
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I found and wrote down the number for B&N, I will try giving them a call tomorrow. Do you know if they would send me one free if I bought the Nook secondhand? Should I just not tell them I got it used?
Yes, my battery seems to be pretty bad off, and the guy who sold it on eBay of course said it was barely used, and had NO problems. I have emailed him thru ebay asking for a partial refund, and I may contact ebay about this if he does not want to be cooperative. I paid $145 for it, which is basically what I could get a new one for now, I just didn't notice that when I got it a couple months ago. Do you think B&N would sell me a cheap battery? Or do you know where I can get one? I had bought a 'Like NEW' Nook First Edition (still my fav. basic eBook Reader) for my mom around Christmas time for $60, and then after I got it, and she used it for all of 15 minutes, turned it on 2 or 3 times, and it ended up freezing on the screensaver. I tried looking up and attempting any 'fixes' and nothing was working. I've powered it down and removed the battery and it's oddly still showing a screen saver pic. :/ So I had to contact the seller after it had been about 4 weeks since I bought it, and he used the excuse of it being over a month, and said I had emailed him and said it was working great before, when all I'd done was send him an update that I did get it and my mom was happy, but this was before she tried turning it on again. After sending eBay a complaint, they made the guy refund my money. I would have even returned the reader to him if he had worked with me in the refund, but I still have it, for all the good it is. Basically a paperweight. lol
Anyway, thanks for the tips, and I REALLY hope I can figure out the battery thing because I love the Android Nook, and I finally have a tablet with HD movie playback which is what I've wanted for a long time!
slow_mo_panda said:
I found and wrote down the number for B&N, I will try giving them a call tomorrow. Do you know if they would send me one free if I bought the Nook secondhand? Should I just not tell them I got it used?
Yes, my battery seems to be pretty bad off, and the guy who sold it on eBay of course said it was barely used, and had NO problems. I have emailed him thru ebay asking for a partial refund, and I may contact ebay about this if he does not want to be cooperative. I paid $145 for it, which is basically what I could get a new one for now, I just didn't notice that when I got it a couple months ago. Do you think B&N would sell me a cheap battery? Or do you know where I can get one? I had bought a 'Like NEW' Nook First Edition (still my fav. basic eBook Reader) for my mom around Christmas time for $60, and then after I got it, and she used it for all of 15 minutes, turned it on 2 or 3 times, and it ended up freezing on the screensaver. I tried looking up and attempting any 'fixes' and nothing was working. I've powered it down and removed the battery and it's oddly still showing a screen saver pic. :/ So I had to contact the seller after it had been about 4 weeks since I bought it, and he used the excuse of it being over a month, and said I had emailed him and said it was working great before, when all I'd done was send him an update that I did get it and my mom was happy, but this was before she tried turning it on again. After sending eBay a complaint, they made the guy refund my money. I would have even returned the reader to him if he had worked with me in the refund, but I still have it, for all the good it is. Basically a paperweight. lol
Anyway, thanks for the tips, and I REALLY hope I can figure out the battery thing because I love the Android Nook, and I finally have a tablet with HD movie playback which is what I've wanted for a long time!
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I don't think they will send you one for free, I took mine in and exchanged it, but I was still under my extended 2 year warranty. I also spend a lot of time at my B&N, so that may have helped speed me through the process.
They will not sell you a battery, they claim you have to be a "certified tech" to change them. From the tear-down posted on youtube, it seems quite possible and fairly easy, but don't know where you'd get a battery. It's a risk removing the plastic around the screen, and it seemed like the clips/tabs that hold it on got broken, so you would probably need some two-sided foam tape, kind of like body-side molding tape, made by 3M.
I would try and get eBay to give you a refund or at least enough to cover sending it in for battery replacement and another $15 for the cord replacement as well. "Like new" doesn't have a messed up cord, and a battery that won't hold 30% of it's original charge, offer to send eBay pictures of the damaged cord.
UGH. Ebay!
dagem said:
I would try and get eBay to give you a refund or at least enough to cover sending it in for battery replacement and another $15 for the cord replacement as well. "Like new" doesn't have a messed up cord, and a battery that won't hold 30% of it's original charge, offer to send eBay pictures of the damaged cord.
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Well, I called B&N and after 30 min. wait, spoke to a barely legible lady who checked my account, and said that she was 'placing the order' after she asked if I wanted them to send me a new one. She never once indicated that it would be charged to my account, or that they were charging me for the cord. But then she said that they were out of cords, and to try calling back Monday. But then she didn't sound like she really knew well enough what she was doing, as I had to explain to her 3 times when she first answered my call, that I needed a NEW CORD, because the one I had had a short in it.
As for eBay, the d-bag I emailed (goldnuggetpawn) about the Nook said, "We tested the product thoroughly, and there were no problems with the battery, and the cord was brand new, and the auction showed pictures of the cord. We only offer a complete refund within 14 days of purchase, and it has been longer than that. We do not offer partial refunds."
So basically I have a Nook that's about to crap out any time, that I have to keep plugged into the wall to use, and that I have to fight with multiple time to transfer files on because the cord is junk. I have to say I am BEYOND DONE with eBay and their BS. I seem to have the WORST luck with them, and I have had enough. They allow people to get away with anything, and I am currently stuck with them trying to charge me $67+ in 'seller fees' because I listed 2 items, one which I actually sold (a netbook for $200) and one which someone did use the 'Buy-Out' for, but then never bothered to pay me, contact me, or respond to my emails. So I get charged a huge fee for selling something that I was never paid for! And they are saying it's too late to file a non-paying buyer report, because I did what they told me to do and tried filing a different report first, then was told I had to wait for the buyer to respond (when they had already not replied to half a dozen messages!) and apparently after all that, it had been too long to file another report. This buyer/scammer who made an account just minutes before buying my DVD lot, lives in Tunisia (allegedly) when I had made the auction to sell to US and Canada ONLY. I am just so tired of being burned, I guess.
It's going to be hard to show in pictures, because the cord is still intact, it's just very loose and 'bendy' on the end, and it shouldn't be, it's in a thick rubberized type coating, and does not bend.
Anyway, thanks for the help, and I will keep working on it. I may be forced to just sell it now as an Android CM10.2 (I think it would sell better that way) and get me something else...

SD Card formatted as internal storage randomly unusable on cm13

I love marshmallow's adoptable storage feature, allowing me to install more apps. This feature worked beautifully for about a month and a half. However, I shut down the device, plugged it in to charge, went to sleep, and the next morning, the apps that were moved to the sd card were not available anymore. They were all greyed out on my launcher(Nova). I moved about 4 gigs worth of mostly games. Fortunately, most of them had cloud storage, but some favorite games didnt. This isn't that big of a problem, but I'd like to try to fix it. So, I went here for help.
At first, I thought the class 10 SanDisk 16gb sd had just gotten bumped out of the slot where the connections happen, so I opened the back cover and removed and inserted the sd card. The notification that prompted me to put the sd back in went away for a few seconds, but then came back. I repeated the process of removing and inserting the sd a few times, but still no moved apps were available. I put the sd into an adapter, then into my laptop, and it showed on file explorer. So the sd card could still be recognized, but maybe unusable.
I dont know what happened, one day it was working, the next day it wasn't. I know i formatted it as internal and portable storage a few times, so maybe that wore it out. I'm running cm13
Hello,
On my phone I used the micro SD card normally as external storage. On day I plugged in my headphones and there was no music. I though that the micro SD card must have come out. However, reinserted it it didn't work. I wouldn't open on computer either. While I don't have a solution, I am pretty sure I also had the same problem.
Once I was taking pictures with my phone when it crashed and rebooted. Some hours before the crash I uninstalled some apps and installed some others (but never rebooted the phone). After the phone started again after the crash, all the pictures and files were gone, the uninstalled apps were there as if I've never uninstalled them and the new installed ones dissapeared.
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Hello,
On my phone I used the micro SD card normally as external storage. On day I plugged in my headphones and there was no music. I though that the micro SD card must have come out. However, reinserted it it didn't work. I wouldn't open on computer either. While I don't have a solution, I am pretty sure I also had the same problem.
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how long have you used your sd card? i'm sure that the more you use a micro sd card, the more it will wear out and become unuseable/corrupted. That has happened to me before, where the sd card just stopped working.
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how long have you used your sd card? i'm sure that the more you use a micro sd card, the more it will wear out and become unuseable/corrupted. That has happened to me before, where the sd card just stopped working.
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I have used it for about 1 year. So it may be that but, it has never occurred before.
Same problem here, you can read it here. While I am writing hopefully my files from Titanium Backup are transfered to my laptop. It got worse and worse, in my opinion the sd-card has reached it's end of life because of it's heavy usage. Error occured the first time after the phone got really hot recording gpx tracks. Bye bye sd-card
Another opinion is that warranty is over after two years, so the phone can quit it's duty now - obsolescense plans
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Same problem here, you can read it here. While I am writing hopefully my files from Titanium Backup are transfered to my laptop. It got worse and worse, in my opinion the sd-card has reached it's end of life because of it's heavy usage. Error occured the first time after the phone got really hot recording gpx tracks. Bye bye sd-card
Another opinion is that warranty is over after two years, so the phone can quit it's duty now - obsolescense plans
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yeah, i'm starting to think my micro sd just bailed from wear like that too, but i got to use mine for just over 3 months. i ejected the sd and put it into my computer, and interestingly enough, on my computer it reads 16 megabytes. i was like WAAT that cant be, i formatted it, put it back in my phone as portable, and it read as the normal 14gb. i'm starting to think my sd as internal is the cause of my random reboots. im even running the lastest cm13 update too...
i guess ill try and use my sd as just portable storage from now on, and see if i get any random reboots..
I switched to TurboROM which is using the sd-card as a portable media device, so no more encryption, heavy usage and complete data loss if you do not get your encryption key with root permission.
System space left after complete recovery of my apps with TB is quite nice - but you do not have the possibility to use App2SD (correct me if I am wrong).
So the only way to save internal system space is to move pictures, movies and heavy openstreetmap cards to external.

Corrupted SD Card backhanded Android Firmware

I have been the owner of this Samsung Galaxy S9 for about 13 months now, and earlier today my battery died. When I turned the phone back on after partial charging, it acted extremely strangely. It rebooted to the secure boot pin screen a few times, and even to recovery mode a couple of times, rebooting about every 3 minutes. But that isn't it; wifi and cellular refused to connect, the screen would not go off if I pressed the power button, the settings app would not open, many other apps barely works, and the device was very slow for the time it was on.
I did the usual troubleshooting steps, clearing the cache in recovery mode, booting into safe mode, uninstalling recently installed apps, scanning with Knox and Malwarebytes, nothing. But, I remembered the day before, inside Samsung Gallery, there was a little text box before my images that said "SD Card has corrupted information, please back up your SD card and consider replacing it." I didn't think too much about it, or screenshot it. Well, to try something, I removed the SD card and booted normally. The only thing I changed that time was the lack of the SD card and voila, it worked fine. Haven't had an issue since, and I honestly think it might be running better.
For my amateur speculation/hypothesis: I believe when Android starts up, it tries to index installed SD cards. The card I am using is an old Samsung Evo 32 GB card, to the tune of 5+ years. Possibly, with the age of the card, there was light corruption in one folder or cell, and Android didn't know what to do with it. I can't find any corrupted files, but I guess Android hung on parsing the microSD card. I just wanted to share my experience and see if anyone had heard of something similar; I sure cannot find anything on it.
TL;DR: A corrupted microSD card in my Galaxy S9 caused Android to lose most function, and bootloop. Usual troubleshooting did nothing, however, removing the card returned the OS back to normal.

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