topic Re: My phone doesn't see the SD card in Other/General

My phone doesn't see the SD card

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:49:47 GMT

After updating to 2.3.3 my phone no longer sees the SD card.

When I go to settings > storage, it says the SD card is unavailable.

When I connect my phone to my computer with a USB cable, my phone just says "please insert memory card and reconnect USB cable"

I tried restarting the phone, then I tried restarting it again without the SD card and again with the SD card... Still doesn't see it.

What should I do?

Re: My phone doesn't see the SD card

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:26:37 GMT

I've got exactly the same problem on my x10i, tried everything i can find on google (i've even completely reformatted the 8gb card that worked fine before the update) and still nothing...

*i've just mailed customer support about it, hopefully they've got a solution

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Re: My phone doesn't see the SD card

Uliwooly — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 01:45:50 GMT

repair it with Update Service, make sure you remove the SIM and SD cards

Re: My phone doesn't see the SD card

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 02:25:17 GMT

Just tried it. Doesn't help.

Re: My phone doesn't see the SD card

Uliwooly — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 02:40:55 GMT

can you test it on another phone and reformat your SD card there?

Re: My phone doesn't see the SD card

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 03:25:40 GMT

my card works fine in my nokia 5800, i used it to connect to the pc whilst i formatted it. ive re-installed the update and it made no difference, ive also tried a 1gb card that works fine and it doesnt see that either.

Re: My phone doesn't see the SD card

Uliwooly — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 07:33:07 GMT

if might be the phone itself you might have to contact SonyEricsson

Re: My phone doesn't see the SD card

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:08:09 GMT

I don't have another phone to test it on... But when I connect it to my PC with an adapter, the PC sees it just fine and I tried formating it and all and still nothing.

What I did try is check another card on the phone... I didn't have a microSD one so I checked a 64 MB TransFlash and the phone saw it just fine.

Is my card just broken or corrupted or something?

Re: My phone doesn't see the SD card

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:20:58 GMT

but the cause of the problem seems to be the 2.3.3 android update, because everything worked fine before that

Re: My phone doesn't see the SD card

Uliwooly — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:56:11 GMT

You can always flash back to 2.1

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=920746

Re: My phone doesn't see the SD card

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:56:55 GMT

I asked my friend's colegue to try it on her Galaxy S and her Galaxy S read it just fine. She formatted it through the Galaxy S and now it works fine on my phone aswell.

So I guess trying it on another phone was a good answer

Thx!

Re: My phone doesn't see the SD card

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:58:46 GMT

Ahm, this is completely off topic but I accidently pressed "Helpful Answer" instead of "Correct Answer", is there a way to change so you get more points?

Re: My phone doesn't see the SD card

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 15:00:52 GMT

I have got exactly the same problem - have tried all and also waiting a reply from Sony. Very fed up, yes the new display is very nice but no good if the SD card cant be recognised, Sony its over to you - again.:smileyangry:

Re: My phone doesn't see the SD card

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 23:23:15 GMT

nice one! did the same through my old nokia 5800, worked a treat

Re: My phone doesn't see the SD card

Uliwooly — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 23:36:17 GMT

not quite but you can give the correct answer to another post

Re: My phone doesn't see the SD card

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 09:47:33 GMT

I bought my X10 last year (May 2010) and it has never recognized the presence of the SD card.

There was a brief moment of joy when in Maplin yesterday. I went to buy a new SD card, and suddenly the phone recognized the existing one so I did a quick back up but today, once more, 'no SD card present'.

A few weeks back I took the phone back to the Carphone Warehouse because the battery died and 4 weeks later I received a brand new phone, they couldn't repair the old one, but same problem as always, no recognition of SD card.

It's clearly a design fault & as soon as my contract expires next April I will be changing to a more reliable and probably NOT the latest phone!

Re: My phone doesn't see the SD card

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 07:06:25 GMT

I also had problems with miniSD. The phone also miniSD seen.Solved the problem as follows. Through the card-reader miniSD content copied to the computer. Then he took a miniSD format under FAT32. Previously copied data transferred to the Computer for miniSD. Put the card into the phone - it worked.

Re: My phone doesn't see the SD card

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 23:44:53 GMT

i am find problme :

THIS program is https://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/SDFormatterv3.0.zip

DOWNLOAD and instlation on your pc

open program and formatte your memory card in pc

after put card inyour mobile ,will read the card

good louk for all

i am sory from all be couse my language not very good

i am arabic from syria

Re: My phone doesn't see the SD card

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 01:21:17 GMT

Go to www.ulozto.net/8625460/backupandrestore-rar , download and extract to your desktop. You will have two icons: backupandrestore and deskclock. Conect your phone and copy both from your desktop to SD card in your phone. Disconect phone and instal it.

It will run perfect