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Root [Virgin Mobile/Sprint] Issue with mount sdcard!

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HaTrEd360

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Anyone have the occasional issue where their sdcard randomly unmounts and mounts again? A lot of the time mine unmounts and doesn't mount again for a few hours, and even plugging it into a computer does nothing. Then a miracle happens and it works fine for another few days.


Possibly electric shortage in the card?
 
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HaTrEd360 said:
Anyone have the occasional issue where their sdcard randomly unmounts and mounts again? A lot of the time mine unmounts and doesn't mount again for a few hours, and even plugging it into a computer does nothing. Then a miracle happens and it works fine for another few days.


Possibly electric shortage in the card?
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I have experienced that too. So far no issues but it is a nuisance.
 
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I have this issue as well, which causes major issues with Link2SD making the phone completely crash in some cases. I read somewhere that baking up the card and formatting it using the phone itself, then putting the stuff back on can solve the issue. However, this is a problem in my case as the SD card now can't be seen under Linux to back things up. And I can't do it under Windows, as it can't recognize the sd-ext partition. So I would say try this if your computer recognizes the card. Let me know what happens.
 
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I have two of these phones. Here is my test phone. 1384335231622.jpg mine was doing the same thing so my easy fix was to make the SD slot tighter. Take a precision Phillips head and push directly into the middle of the metal housing for the SD card. Make it good and tight and the random unmounting should be done. :)
 
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j475328 said:
I have two of these phones. Here is my test phone. View attachment 64207 mine was doing the same thing so my easy fix was to make the SD slot tighter. Take a precision Phillips head and push directly into the middle of the metal housing for the SD card. Make it good and tight and the random unmounting should be done. :)
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It turned out that my sdcard was just dead. I am sure I took it out of my old phone way to many times and it eventually damaged it even tho I unmounted it first. Because my computer doesn't even read it. I got a new one and have had no problems.
 
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