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Help Issue: Dismount/disappearing defect in the Included 8GB MicroSD?

Archon810

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I am having quite big problems with my EVO 4G's 8GB card that it came with.

The symptoms are: all data on it would randomly disappear and only a reboot would fix it.

The camera app starts complaining that it can't save pictures due to bad permissions.

The music app (TuneWiki) would go crazy and almost freeze the phone while trying to play the playlist that is loaded into its memory.

The gallery app would see no pics.

The ASTRO app would show empty dirs and some dirs as unavailable.

At least another EVO user is experiencing similar problems: Twitter / Neil Lund: @AndroidPolice I had the s ... Twitter / Neil Lund: @AndroidPolice I believe t ...

I am wondering how global this problem is and if other EVO owners are experiencing the same issues. I don't want to lose all my data one day and would rather alert HTC and Sprint if it's widespread.

Thanks guys.
 
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Could be a bad card. Do you have another one you could try.

I don't at the moment while I'm traveling on my honeymoon but what concerns me is that it indeed may be a bad SD card, in which case I'm wondering how many other EVO 4G owners are affected. The one I knew was affected - what are the odds of that?

Also, it doesn't happen every day but I am using my camera and music app a lot due to traveling, so you might still hit it one day.
 
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Actually I'm having the same exact issue as well. I didn't bother starting a thread since I'll be getting an aftermarket 16 gig Class 6 card, in a few days.

There is a widget out there that will unmount & remount your SDCard, so you don't have to reboot. That is a temporary workaround.

I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one. I wonder if the Evo's were shipped with super shitty sdcards.

One of the things I was planning on doing tonight was pulling all of my files off and reformatting the card, to see if that helps.
 
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I am having quite big problems with my EVO 4G's 8GB card that it came with.

The symptoms are: all data on it would randomly disappear and only a reboot would fix it.

Try re-seating the card. I had the same problem at the first startup. Powered off, removed the battery, pulled the SD card lever, removed the SD card, reinserted SD card, pushed in the SD card lever, installed battery and back cover and have not had the problem since.
 
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This is a "known issue" that requires a disc format to permanently resolve.

Can you elaborate with details please? I'm rather curious.

My card seemingly took its final shit on me, so I just reformatted it. Thankfully I didn't lose anything, so I'm copying my photos and music back over right now. Irritating and doesn't give me much confidence. At least my replacement 16gb card is en route.

Bummer. Did your EVO come with a 2GB card as well from Google I/O (full of music)? Maybe you can try that before you wipe the 8GB.

Nope, the seller kept it (I didn't really want it anyway).
 
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I have an I/O Evo that came with a 8gb card and it was disappearing also. So I bought a new card thinking that it was the card but it happened again. I tried re formatting both of them but it didn't make a difference. I was thinking of hard re setting the device but didn't really want to do that if It wasnt going to fix it.
 
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