Help New SD Card Won't Mount?

byulax22 · Oct 7, 2012

Any suggestions on how to get my Optimus M to recognize my new 16 GB SD card? I know the card is good, as I can put it in an adapter and access it from my laptop, but my M won't recognize it for some reason. It will still recognize my 8 GB one though. I read that you have to format it, so I downloaded an SD formatter software to my laptop and performed the formatting, but no change. Any ideas? I figure I'm missing some easy step I should know, but it's been 2 years since I did it the first time. Thanks

sammyz · Oct 7, 2012

Format the SD card with the phone. You may have to mount it first with the SD settings.

byulax22 · Oct 8, 2012

Therein lies the problem, no matter what I do I can't get it to mount. The phone won't recognize it. It's the same problem with an unformatted 2 GB SD card I have too, so I must just be missing a step. Any ideas?

byulax22 · Oct 10, 2012

sammyz said:
Format the SD card with the phone. You may have to mount it first with the SD settings.

Does anyone else have any suggestions? I'm at a loss.

sammyz · Oct 10, 2012

byulax22 said:
Therein lies the problem, no matter what I do I can't get it to mount. The phone won't recognize it. It's the same problem with an unformatted 2 GB SD card I have too, so I must just be missing a step. Any ideas?

It won't mount any other SD card?

byulax22 · Oct 10, 2012

sammyz said:
It won't mount any other SD card?

It will mount my 8 GB that I've used since I got the phone. It's never had any problems, I just wanted to go with a larger 16 GB card. But it's weird that it won't recognize either the 16 GB or an extra 2 GB one I have lying around.

BRAINZ2013 · Oct 10, 2012

I had this problem first you need to format the card on the pc next make sure all files are off after format. Next put the sd card in the phone format in the device. The next thing after format in device mount. Now it may or may not. But u want to pull the battery for 5min put battery back in power up device see if she mount

BRAINZ2013 · Oct 10, 2012

If it don't mount you may need to return the sd card for a 16g. Class 10 card

BRAINZ2013 · Oct 10, 2012

http://androidforums.com/showthread.php?p=4894679

Read this post this would help you out :rolleyes:

:what:

byulax22 · Oct 10, 2012

BRAINZ2013 said:
I had this problem first you need to format the card on the pc next make sure all files are off after format. Next put the sd card in the phone format in the device. The next thing after format in device mount. Now it may or may not. But u want to pull the battery for 5min put battery back in power up device see if she mount

I've done all of this to both SD cards, and can't get the phone to recognize them even after they've been formatted. It still says to insert an SD card, even though it's been installed. I can't even get to the point of formatting. :thinking:

jadog888 · Oct 10, 2012

Do you have a custom recovery? If so, then partition it in recovery. Should mount in recovery on sd-ext mount. If not then you have a bad card.

jadog888 · Oct 10, 2012

You should be able to format the sdcard in recovery also. Formatting with a PC can make it not readable. It's always best to use the phone to do this.

sammyz · Oct 10, 2012

Your not formatting it as NTFS are you?

BRAINZ2013 · Oct 10, 2012

You have a bad card or your putting the card in the wrong way you need to return the card or purchase a NEW. 16GIG. CLASS 10 CARD..... COMP USA HAS A SALE ON

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