Help Blank SD Card !

PygmyArr · May 14, 2010

i've emailed htc asking about this problem, and they've replied

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Dear Glen Thank you for contacting us in regards to your SD card, I can help you with that. Please provide your serial number and postal address so I can put a new one in the post for you. Thank you for contacting HTC. Best regards, Mike B HTC

so if you're SD card dies, pop an email off to them (i used HTC websites ticket support system) and they appear to be replacing them, free of charge, which suggests they're getting a few complaints about it and are probably investigating it further.

brad-short · May 14, 2010

Good that HTC are on the case, but my gut feeling is that it is not the SD cards that are the issue. But we will see.

OFI · May 18, 2010

Well mine has just done this 'SD card damaged'

Tried rebooting and reseating and it still won't work.

Card reads fine in my laptop..

formatted it. Appeared to work at first until I unmounted it then it didn't see it at all.

Ended up formatting in my laptop and refitting it.

Seems to work so far..

Hope this isn't a common occurrence

suicida · May 18, 2010

I had the same problem with a card that had been in my G1 for 18 months with no problems. I think it might be related to the backup settings in Privacy>Backup my data and settings. After it ran a backup my card became corrupt. I reformatted, turned off the backup, and haven't had a problem since (fingers crossed...)

OFI · May 19, 2010

Funny you say that..

The backup thing gave an error earlier and a few minutes ago I just tried to take some photos and it said it didn't have write permissions on my card.

Rebooted and it's working again for now hmm

I too have been using this card for probably 2 years in another phone. I'm sure it's not the card at fault.

itsallsp · Jul 29, 2010

I'm having exactly the same issue: 4gb microSD stopped working after 3 months on T-Mobile UK. Won't mount on any device, won't reformat.

HTC tech support said
#1 Return your phone to us. I asked why?
#2 Strike that. Ask T-Mobile to swap out the SD card

I'm now waiting on T-Mobile for a response...

Update: a nice but incomprehensible lady at T-Mobile is posting a new card out.

Moods · Aug 1, 2010

All,
I've had the phone for 2 weeks now, and I got snatch by this SD failure yesterday. I'm betting that this SD problem has nothing to do with the SD cards, as this problem seems to be building up all over the world for different sizes of cards (ref reading different forums in different countries).I spent last week taking pics and video of the family on vacation and lost everything yesterday. The phone has greyed out the dismount option and the format option. No response, what so ever. I have used the SD card in my previous HTC, without any problems (had it for over two years).
Need to get a card reader and see what the PC says (hoping to restore the media files), and will contact shop where I bought the phone here in Norway to see what they say. Will keep you all posted.

PS I really feel HTC is not coming clean on what the actual problem is. Has anyone heard anything?

michaelwaite · Aug 2, 2010

I am getting fed up with this problem. I am on my third SD card now using HTC Hero 1.6.

At first card lasted about a month before I sent it back. The new card I just bough from Tesco has not worked long enough for me to reinstall the apps (like TTS and Dictionary) that use it.
But my brother has had a Hero for a year and never had a problem.

Frustrating. I am waiting to see if the problem remains following upgrade to 2.1 before complaining to 3uk.

matluz · Aug 2, 2010

Hi just got desire and found that my 4gb sd card shows an error. It says to format it but does it contain any useful data as supplies?
I put in a 8gb one kingston and it works fine?

Thanks
Mat

michaelwaite · Aug 9, 2010

Here is a copy of my entry in the Hero forum on this issue:-

I have made some progress on this issue.

I needed to factory reset my phone (to fix a broken wifi) and so made list of all my fav apps. Then reinstalled them.

As soon as I started installing the text-to-speech engines (google extended and also the pico extra voices) the SD card would fail or become faulty very soon.

So I carried out another factory reset and did not install any of the text-to-speech apps.

The phone has since been stable for quite a few days with only about three occasions when the SD card was no longer recognised. One while installing a collings french-english dictionary, the second while installing a number of books and the third while uploading a few MB of podcasts into Carcast.

Each of these occasions required a significant amount of SD card access.

So either there is something deeply wrong with some Android card access code or a hardware fault.
But I note that this issue is reported in the Desire forum as well. I assume the desire has completely different hardware from the Hero.

What to do next? I will wait for the 3UK 2.1 update and then take stock.

Michael

Morat · Sep 25, 2010

My phone just ate my card

I'm still running 2.1 (damn Orange) and I switched my phone off completely to see if a reboot would trigger me getting a notification for the 2.2 update. Yes I was clutching at straws......

Anyway, when the phone came back up - I got the damaged SD card error message. I haven't ever connected this phone to a PC. I tried rebooting again, and reseating the card but no go. The card was an 8gb one I bought separately from the phone.

ChristianX10 · Jan 25, 2011

I lost all my pictures and had to recover them with the photorecover application. I tried to format the SD using android's format option and nothing, I also used SDFormatter and nothing.
I was about to purchase a new SD Card, but I first wanted to fix a configuration in Roadsync because it was crashing my Xperia, making it unusable.
Roadsync was using the SD Card as the location for email storage, so I changed that location to the internal memory. After that I gave another try to the android's format option, and.. voila, it displayed a different message, it prepared the SD card!!

The SD Card is working perfectly now!!!

Gunnar said:
Hi Folks,

My Desire has suddenly stopped recognizing my 4GB SD Card today. Just says it's blank and needs formatting !
When I try to access the card via my PC it just wants to format it...but when I bring up the format window the PC only sees 30MB and a format of FAT. The Properties show it formatted as RAW.
The Error Notification I get is:
Blank SD Card - SD Card blank or has unsupported filesystem.
Is my card fried or is there a way out of this ?

Cheers,
Pete.

Waldoug · Jan 31, 2011

Hello Peeps, My 4Gb card got wiped out after Flashing windows 7 on my HD2 the Rom was installed successfully but my card was wiped out in the process, when I Plug it to the computer it wont show any physical memory but it is recognized I know because it makes a sound when I insert it, Clicked on properties tab and it shows 200Mb of free space with 0 being used WTF. does anyone here knows how to fix that
issue because Format on windows FAT 32 puts me back with 199Mb, i'm not trying to recover any files just want my 4Gb of space back so I can reuse card

SUroot · Feb 1, 2011

Try gparted live cd

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

Stompie · Feb 3, 2011

Hi everyone, i just registered to tell you something you may find interesting.....SD CARD FORMATTER!! The newest version on this moment is v3 and IT WILL WORK for you when you have any sd card that doesn't show its true size. Just google sd card formatter. I hope i helped and i know i helped. Have a nice day everyone!!!
Stompie OUT

Waldoug · Feb 8, 2011

Hey Stompie, Youre awesome bro! I just format My Micro SD with SD Card Formatter and got my sd card Like New condition thanks a bunch.

Stompie · Feb 8, 2011

I'm glad i helped the first person and glad to help many others. Stompie OUT

feelgoodmiller · Jun 29, 2011

I have a 4 gb sd card and the same thing is happening to me i think that there just wack

piyush_dave85 · Aug 29, 2011

sir one week ago my mobile sleep down form my hand and after that day memory card is not shwos in my mobile . i have show in computer but not shows in comouter so how to back up my data which is important pls help me

alacemessi02 · Jan 14, 2012

Hey do not use your card further as it may reduce the chances of recovery. If the situation demands for the formatting of the memory card then do it followed by any data recovery solution for pictures. Photo recovery for Mac is an ultimate tool that easily recovers photos from memory card even it is formatted. Do not wory about the SD card you are with because it is compatible with almost all type of SD card.

togger161 · Jan 14, 2012

My SD card died last night and no matter what software I used I could not bring it back to life. Had to go buy another this morning. Ah well.

sonyalowery3 · Feb 9, 2012

All I had to do was erase sd card data, reboot and problem was fixed.

ToXcRebel · Feb 9, 2012

i factory reset my phone but i took out the sd card before doing it (unmounted it) then when it is started back up (from reset) non of the that i had on my sd card were on my phone?

Lgaddis · Jun 10, 2012

My Samsung Sharp is saying blank sd card. i am unable to access my camera or gallery.......... How can i fix this?

Pankaj Mishra · Dec 22, 2014

I purchased a 16GB SanDisk memory card from a guy yesterday, he showed me his files using my Micromax bolt mobile his datas and photos and I insisted to delete his datas except some of the latest songs???Soon after I went to my room,when I tried to see some songs that he hadn’t deleted but while opening my file manager it showed blank SD card,I was shocked because I gave Rs.300 for that memory card as he said he purchased 8 months ago and was in good condition as he showed while selling this, but after reaching my home when I checked it display it's blank and needs formatting !Then again and again I reinserted and checked it but it displays the same even if they after tomorrow when I inserted in my friends mobile it displayed damaged SD card but in my mobile it displays blank SD card,so I am confused what even I couldn’t ask him to refund my money .So please can any one help me out to get rid of this problem,I will be very thank full to do so????????When I connected through a card reader to my pc Windows showed that it needed to b formatted and as soon as I format it displayed Windows was unable to complete the format.And when I tried the process by going to Control panel-Administrative tools-Computer Management-Disk Mangement-Format,it displays 30MB RAW files,when I click format it displays the same Windows was unable to complete the format.

So please help me as I haven’t used it a single day and couldn’t even blame that guy who sold it???????

I tried a lot by browsing on internet several methods but not worth it??????

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