Guest cartierv Posted December 31, 2010 Report Posted December 31, 2010 Everything fine earlier. Woke phone up just now, and K9 kept force quitting, wasn't sure what was happening so rebooted. Slow boot up and then the message "SD Card Damaged "SD Card Damaged. You may have to reformat " Is this a regular occurrence on Android ? It was a 4Gb HP card bought from WH Smiths for a different mobile but essentially new. I mean I wouldn't want to be replacing SD cards every month or so. It wasn't mounted on a machine and not unmounted properly earlier or something. It just decided to destroy the file system on the card while it was asleep apparently. I can't mount it on a computer as I had hope to get the data off... just freezes the Mac. I guess what was on there wasn't mission critical- well there was some backups from Titanium, some pics, sound and different stuff - usual stuff really. Shame. Hoped it would last until I got round to the next back up. If anyone has any last ditch ideas about getting data off let me know I saw a thread about 16 gb cards. I need a rock solid card that Android is not going to destroy.
Guest Frankish Posted December 31, 2010 Report Posted December 31, 2010 Never happened but i do backup my sdcard around once a week. :(
Guest unholyimp Posted December 31, 2010 Report Posted December 31, 2010 To my knowledge and my experience Android shouldn't kill SD cards. My wife has had a wildfire for some time now and I have a Vegas and a san fran and no problems with SD cards on any of them. I think you have been very unlucky. Do you have any windows devices you can try it in. Not a MAC man.
Guest Frankish Posted December 31, 2010 Report Posted December 31, 2010 I have used the same class 4 8gb card since my Tattoo in January, then in my Desire and now it's in my San Fran.
Guest samjam Posted December 31, 2010 Report Posted December 31, 2010 Everything fine earlier. Woke phone up just now, and K9 kept force quitting, wasn't sure what was happening so rebooted. Slow boot up and then the message "SD Card Damaged "SD Card Damaged. You may have to reformat " Is this a regular occurrence on Android ? It was a 4Gb HP card bought from WH Smiths for a different mobile but essentially new. I mean I wouldn't want to be replacing SD cards every month or so. It wasn't mounted on a machine and not unmounted properly earlier or something. It just decided to destroy the file system on the card while it was asleep apparently. I can't mount it on a computer as I had hope to get the data off... just freezes the Mac. I guess what was on there wasn't mission critical- well there was some backups from Titanium, some pics, sound and different stuff - usual stuff really. Shame. Hoped it would last until I got round to the next back up. If anyone has any last ditch ideas about getting data off let me know I saw a thread about 16 gb cards. I need a rock solid card that Android is not going to destroy. I had a brand-new full-size PNY SD card once that was very dodgy. If I copied a load of files to it and then unmounted the card and re-inserted it I got a load of nonsense back. Try the card with an adaptor and use it for your PC and see how well it behaves. If it is demonstratably bad on a windows machine then you have a clear case for an exchange.
Guest cartierv Posted December 31, 2010 Report Posted December 31, 2010 Thanks for the messages. Yeah I hope it was just a bad card. Actually I did notice some problems in the other mobile I tried it in. It worked fine in that phone, but it wouldn't mount when the phone was connected on the Mac. Just froze the Mac. I thought it might have been the USB interface on the phone was the problem at the time rather than the card. Anyway this had been perfectly mounting on the Mac in the SF, but I had wondered at times about some stability issues in the phone, like occasional reboots if that was related to a bad FS. If it's just a bad card, then better it happens now I suppose than later. cheers
Guest Azurren Posted December 31, 2010 Report Posted December 31, 2010 Mine died while I was still using my Pulse.. I blamed it on "SWAP" but a reformat solved it. Just keep backing up your SD cards / flash memory devices. No matter what the brand or quality flash memory is just a ticking time bomb :(
Guest oh!dougal Posted December 31, 2010 Report Posted December 31, 2010 Its not completely clear that you have tried removing the card from your phone and tried to access it from a card reader. If you are trying to read it from the Mac while it is still in the phone, you will still be dealing with whatever dirty contact between card and phone (or whatever) that caused the initial problem. If the phone can't read its own card, don't expect any computer to be able to access it through the phone. Very basic but functional micro-sd card reader cost me exactly £1 (at Poundland, naturally). In such a situation, I'd first try the card outside the phone, (card readers usually scrape themselves a good contact), then look at carefully cleaning the contacts on the card and phone before very attentively reinstalling the card in the phone. A bad card or a poor connection is more likely than software causing disk corruption. Linux ("Android") is not known for that, any more than the (Unix-based) Mac is. All electronics are (oddly enough) at greatest risk of failing when new. But the risk isn't that great, and cards should last for many years (unless you try and use them as though they were ram - like a swap partition - where they get intensive re-write usage). They may be a time-bomb, but the fuse should be very long indeed.
Guest Azurren Posted December 31, 2010 Report Posted December 31, 2010 Its not completely clear that you have tried removing the card from your phone and tried to access it from a card reader. If you are trying to read it from the Mac while it is still in the phone, you will still be dealing with whatever dirty contact between card and phone (or whatever) that caused the initial problem. If the phone can't read its own card, don't expect any computer to be able to access it through the phone. Very basic but functional micro-sd card reader cost me exactly £1 (at Poundland, naturally). In such a situation, I'd first try the card outside the phone, (card readers usually scrape themselves a good contact), then look at carefully cleaning the contacts on the card and phone before very attentively reinstalling the card in the phone. A bad card or a poor connection is more likely than software causing disk corruption. Linux ("Android") is not known for that, any more than the (Unix-based) Mac is. All electronics are (oddly enough) at greatest risk of failing when new. But the risk isn't that great, and cards should last for many years (unless you try and use them as though they were ram - like a swap partition - where they get intensive re-write usage). They may be a time-bomb, but the fuse should be very long indeed. Actually my pictures have been slowly corrupting since a few months after new. (Without swap.. Random pictures would go black then just disappear form the device, windows marks them as corrupt) Yes SWAP would kill the card but I was only using it for a few weeks before having to re-format and erase the partition. Not had a single problem since B) What are the chances of dirty contacts unless you frequently remove the back cover, the battery, the SD card "door" and the SD card itself. Still its worth a check :unsure:
Guest cartierv Posted January 1, 2011 Report Posted January 1, 2011 Thanks @oh!dougal and @Azzaren for the replies. Appreciate it. I'll pick up a card reader tomorrow and have a go with it.
Guest Ricey155 Posted February 21, 2011 Report Posted February 21, 2011 ive had my 16gb card for about 5 weeks no errors no problems im a bit like you mine woke up this morning and ive got the damaged sd card error (sd card damaged. you may have to reformat it. so best get to it see if it cures the problem (last thing i dl was ADVERTISING SPAM latest rom and install)
Guest HMZX Posted February 21, 2011 Report Posted February 21, 2011 the two topics are above each other! http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...estore-sd-card/
Guest haris.b Posted March 14, 2011 Report Posted March 14, 2011 (edited) i got the same notification on my blade. i have three 8gb sd cards and when i had the problem i switched to different card. it was ok until i connected the phone via usb to pc. after i tried to transfer music i got the same problem again. then i mounted 3rd sd card and had the same problem.. so im pretty sure the problem is not in sd cards (they are also shipped by zte i took them from zte v9 tablet). anyone has the possible fix for this problem? Edited March 14, 2011 by haris.b
Guest quakkaz Posted March 15, 2011 Report Posted March 15, 2011 (edited) i got the same notification on my blade. i have three 8gb sd cards and when i had the problem i switched to different card. it was ok until i connected the phone via usb to pc. after i tried to transfer music i got the same problem again. then i mounted 3rd sd card and had the same problem.. so im pretty sure the problem is not in sd cards (they are also shipped by zte i took them from zte v9 tablet). anyone has the possible fix for this problem? this is damned annoying, only had my zte blade a week or 2, its my first android phone. after i got it, i updated it straight away with the latest modaco rom. and now this morning im getting the same corrupt sd card problem. its sooo annoying. how the f*ck can android screw something so basic up as accessing sd cards. ive never had a problem like that with my nokia phones in the past. the phone couldnt access the card, saying it was corrupt. i managed to read it on the pc with a card reader and copy the files off. then tried formatting it to fat32 on the pc, which seemed to work ok, but the phone still wont recognise the card. its hard to believe that android is already on v2.2 (max version zte blade can handle) and something as basic as this hasnt been fixed, judging by the number of results in google for this same topic, it seems its quite a common problem... i wonder if its fixed in android 2.3... Edited March 15, 2011 by quakkaz
Guest haris.b Posted March 16, 2011 Report Posted March 16, 2011 this is damned annoying, only had my zte blade a week or 2, its my first android phone. after i got it, i updated it straight away with the latest modaco rom. and now this morning im getting the same corrupt sd card problem. its sooo annoying. how the f*ck can android screw something so basic up as accessing sd cards. ive never had a problem like that with my nokia phones in the past. the phone couldnt access the card, saying it was corrupt. i managed to read it on the pc with a card reader and copy the files off. then tried formatting it to fat32 on the pc, which seemed to work ok, but the phone still wont recognise the card. its hard to believe that android is already on v2.2 (max version zte blade can handle) and something as basic as this hasnt been fixed, judging by the number of results in google for this same topic, it seems its quite a common problem... i wonder if its fixed in android 2.3... yeah i forgot to mention that all cards are working on pc and my other phone nokia 5530 xm
Guest cenwulf Posted March 16, 2011 Report Posted March 16, 2011 My original 2GB card started playing up 2 weeks ago. I formatted it and re-installed everything. Then last week it completely failed. Couldn't be seen either by the phone or a card reader, so I couldn't re-format it. Had to buy another card and re-install everything again. The phone's got (mostly) the stock ROM on it, but with A2SD.
Guest _dg Posted March 17, 2011 Report Posted March 17, 2011 I got this error when I disconnected the Blade from my PC without first unmounting the device via Windows. The card is a 16gb Sandisk However the phone still worked and the Sd Card could still be browsed and files accessed I just reconnected the phone to the PC, and mounted the card, checked that the card was accessible from windows, then disconnected it again properly, and the error went away
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