topic Re: SD card problem with Experia XP in Android

SD card problem with Experia XP

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 16:20:44 GMT

my Experia SP stopped recognising the SD card about a month after I first used it so I bought a new one. The phone recognised the new SD card for about two weeks but then again stopped recognising it. Has anyone else had this problem? Does anyone have a solution to the problem?

Re: SD card problem with Experia XP

MI5 — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 16:22:59 GMT

Do the SD cards work in other devices or in a card reader on your PC/Laptop?

Re: SD card problem with Experia XP

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 16:30:42 GMT

No, once the phone stops recognising them my laptop doesn't recognise them either so i keep losing my photos

Re: SD card problem with Experia XP

MI5 — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 16:31:28 GMT

What make are the cards? Sounds like they are going faulty.......

Re: SD card problem with Experia XP

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 17:22:08 GMT

They are both Kingston; the first was 8Gb and the seconf 32Gb. I've looked on the Sony forum and there are other users with the same problem

Re: SD card problem with Experia XP

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 17:26:26 GMT

I've just tried thge 32Gb card in my laptop again and it said that it neede formatting. I tried to format it and it said it was write protected, how can i remove write prorect, and is this likeley to solve the problem?

Re: SD card problem with Experia XP

MI5 — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 17:52:43 GMT

Is it a small micro sd card?

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/296914-32-remove-write-protection-micro-card

Re: SD card problem with Experia XP

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 18:05:17 GMT

Tjhanks for your help; i've tried this but once i have created the new folder and named it the only options i get when right clicking the new folder are:

Expand
New
Find
Delete
Rename
Export
Permissions
Copy key name

Any idea where i went wrong?

Re: SD card problem with Experia XP

MI5 — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 18:14:42 GMT

tbh I just found it by doing a search on Google... It does say to remove and reinsert the card from your PC so I assume you did that step too?

Re: SD card problem with Experia XP

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 18:19:54 GMT

Hi,

I've not read the forum articles but if other Sony forum users are reporting the same issue then perhaps a fault with the device..? To have one card pop is bad luck, another is quite suspicious in my book (esp. if a good brand like Kingy).

I have to wonder if the indexing/formatting part of the card is being corrupt and not easily fixable via phone or Windows so it's assumed the card has died. I've heard there's an HP disk formatting tool on t'internet which can rescue owners from such problems (but of course doesn't help with your loss of photographs and other valuable data. I typically use MyPhoneExplorer to grab a full backup of everything once a month (internal and plug-in storage).

Jonty.

Re: SD card problem with Experia XP

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 18:27:10 GMT

I've found that i had to open "New" to select "D Word Value (32bit), but having created "Write Protect" with a value of Zero, when i tried to format the micro SD card it still tells me that it's write protected

Re: SD card problem with Experia XP

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 18:37:38 GMT

Thanks Jonty,

I've just tried that but when i try to format the card it tells me that it's write protectred. Can't find out how to remove write protect

Re: SD card problem with Experia XP

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 18:38:45 GMT

I've tried the solution at http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/296914-32-remove-write-protection-micro-card but my card is still write protected

Re: SD card problem with Experia XP

MI5 — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 18:40:58 GMT

I think the card is fried.... 😞

Re: SD card problem with Experia XP

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 18:43:27 GMT

OK, Thanks for all your help

Re: SD card problem with Experia XP

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 18:58:20 GMT

Hi,

As MI5 suggests, I think the card is no more. Likely the 'write protect' hurdle isn't because it's write protected but 'fried'

Jonty.

Re: SD card problem with Experia XP

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 19:11:18 GMT

Thanks Jonty,

I now need to get O2 to accept that the phone is frying my SD cards - xon't think this will be easy because if they try a new card it will work - for a week or two

Re: SD card problem with Experia XP

MI5 — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 19:20:16 GMT

You may have more luck if you contact Sony directly rather than wasting your time with O2's repairers.....