Dropped my phone, didnt power off but somehow managed to unmount my sd card. When i go to settings to mount it, it says my card is damaged. Am i screwed or is there something i can do?
My notification window is saying i may have to reformat it
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you'll need to insert it into your computer using a car reader for this, though. I'm not sure if it will mount while in the phone since the phone is not recognizing it....
Thx for the info guys, however i went into recovery amd tried to reformat remount amd it wouldnt work so i think its done for but i will try thoae when i get home
Thx for the info guys, however i went into recovery amd tried to reformat remount amd it wouldnt work so i think its done for but i will try thoae when i get home
So after putting the card in a computer, it read it as a 30MB card vs 32GB and would not format.... Running an 8GB for now til I get another card
Ummm, that's actually normal.
Used by memory makers, GB is normal powers of 10 used to define something - so a 32 GB Micro SDCard is 32,000,000,000 bytes.
however, Bytes are actually calculated base 2, meaning powers of 2. So, 1 GB is actually 1,073,741,824 bytes long. Thus, 32 GB is really 34,359,738,368 bytes, not 32,000,000,000.
And, if you divide 32,000,000,000 by 1,073,741,824 you get 29.8023223876953125 actual GB, which rounds up to 30 GB.
It's the same with all sorts of magnetic media - USB Flash devices, hard drives and SSDs, etc.
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Same idea applies (and sorry for my stupidity - I was overly excited on reading some tweets). 32 MB in media terms is 32,000,000 bytes. 32 MB (in terms of actual bytes) is actually 1,048,576 bytes / MB * 32 = 33,554,432 bytes. Dividing 32,000,000 by 1,048,576 gives you 30.517578125 MB of actual usable space.
b/c it hasn't been corrupted yet. For whatever reason, either the fall or something else messed the card up right when it was either being read (usually not a major problem) or when it was being written to (can easily cause problems if the writing is interrupted).
I was hoping that the card would be readable by a data recovery program like recuva or else pandora - and it still might be after you format it, as long as you select quick format and not a full format, on your computer. But, some things may be permanently lost.
After you try and get what you can (if anything), then I highly recommend that you go back and manually format again, this time using the full format setting - it may take a while (up to 30 minutes, or even longer) but you'll be using a fresh card, and avoid having issues in the future.
With no moving parts in a SD card i find it rather hard to completely 'bork' it. Though with out trying myself..... Windows 7 pc you are trying to format it on?
Sir?!?! Is this your new found respect for your elders?
Do you have any other devices that take an SD card that you can try to format it in? Is there any physical defects on it? Does it look like it is damaged?
Sir?!?! Is this your new found respect for your elders?
Do you have any other devices that take an SD card that you can try to format it in? Is there any physical defects on it? Does it look like it is damaged?
Haha i still have no respect for elders!
It doesn't look damaged as far as I can tell. I have 2 digital cameras I can try them in.
O, one last question - it does seem that the device is hosed, as in permanently.
Is this the SDCard the came with the phone brand new, or did you buy a used phone and it came with the 32 GB SDCard?
Since you're using an Evo 4G I'm assuming new - and if that is the case, since that phone is, what, like 4 months old at the latest (more like 2) it really *should* be under warranty....
You could take it into the store and say the phone was dropped and it stopped working (and neglect to tell them that you've tried a lot of this troubleshooting stuff we've recommended) or you could go in there straight away and say you know it's dead, and the phone is fine, so the card is bad and needs to be replaced an tell them every thing you've done to try to restore it....
Something is not right though. If Windows recognizes the card as a 30 MB card, then that means the it's making an electronic connection to something on the card that gives the specs - but it simply cannot format the card for whatever reason....
Thus, I'm asking about the origin of the card - b/c it sounds suspicious at best, as if it is a cheap knock-off fake 32 MB card that a lot of people have bought on eBay and the like only to find out that they are fakes....
Hmm... not looking too good. I'm sure you tried this, but don't recall reading it... could you try to format it in your phone?
This may work, not 100% sure on it though...
If you have a linux live cd (or could download one), you could try the dd command. You specify an input file and an output file. the final command would look something similar to this...
You don't think they'd care it stopped working from a fall or that I'm rooted? I have a feeling they'd try to make me pay for a new one (in which case I walk out saying eff you, your stuff is expensive)
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Ummm, that's actually normal.
Used by memory makers, GB is normal powers of 10 used to define something - so a 32 GB Micro SDCard is 32,000,000,000 bytes.
however, Bytes are actually calculated base 2, meaning powers of 2. So, 1 GB is actually 1,073,741,824 bytes long. Thus, 32 GB is really 34,359,738,368 bytes, not 32,000,000,000.
And, if you divide 32,000,000,000 by 1,073,741,824 you get 29.8023223876953125 actual GB, which rounds up to 30 GB.
It's the same with all sorts of magnetic media - USB Flash devices, hard drives and SSDs, etc.
Scary thing is this happened to me once and i actually understand all the bytes as I studied it at home university and didn't pass but learnt a lot of things by it
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Oh crap!
but i will try thoae when i get home
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