sd card

[josesaucedo]

My droid does not read the sd card. I tried another one and it does not read it either.

Does anyone has had this problem? If so, is there something to do to fix it?

Thanks so much.

[demmo86rt]

You may have to format the card. Make sure it's FAT32 format.

[josesaucedo]

Can you tell me how to format it?

Thank you.

[Wildman]

Strange, can you clearify a little more info for me?

1. Are they not reading on phone or pc?

2. Do you have usb cable plugged into phone?

3. Have you checked the phones connection status in status bar?

[josesaucedo]

The sd card is installed but the phone does not read it. In the sd card window nothing shows up.

Total space: unavailable 

Available space: unavailable

And yes, I have the phone connected to the pc and the pc does not read it either.

Thank you.

[josesaucedo]

seems ike the usb has to be unplugged in order for the phone to read the sd card.... Thank you for your help. Now I only need to know how to format the sd card.

Thank again guys.

[Wildman]

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josesaucedo wrote:

seems ike the usb has to be unplugged in order for the phone to read the sd card.... Thank you for your help. Now I only need to know how to format the sd card.

Thank again guys.

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Sounds like you may not have drivers installed for card to read on PC and also you can switch phone to charge  only mode so you can have ohone plugged into pc charging and use card on phone. (Drop top status bar when plugged in and select USB Connections > USB Mass Storage)  Check out this post : http://community.vzw.com/t5/DROID-X-by-Motorola/USB-Connection-Issue/td-p/294666/page/2

In oder to format the card you should remove card from phone and place it in a reader on a pc and format it the same way you do a hard drive.

[demmo86rt]

You can format your card one of two ways, either from the recovery screen on your phone (google "boot droid x recovery" to find the process), or via your computer, just make sure, if done via computer, you use FAT32. To format via windows, right-click on your card and choose format. Just be aware that you will lose all data that may be on the card.

[Wildman]

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demmo86rt wrote:
You can format your card one of two ways, either from the recovery screen on your phone (google "boot droid x recovery" to find the process), or via your computer, just make sure, if done via computer, you use FAT32. To format via windows, right-click on your card and choose format. Just be aware that you will lose all data that may be on the card.

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Sorry but there isnt a option to format card by accessing the recovery mode but there is in fact two ways..

1. Place in PC reader and right click card under Computer area on PC and select Format..

2. Connect phone a Mass Storage device and then right click card under Computer area on PC and select Format..

[demmo86rt]

Maybe you can only do it with some custom recoveries. Mine has that option.

[Wildman]

Are you accessing the recovery mode by pressing home and power button from a power up state?  Also do to looks like the screen below..

Only options I see is...

reboot system now

Restart device into Android OS.

apply sdcard-update.zip

Update device with update.zips on sd card

wipe data/factory reset

Wipe device internal memory back to factory.

wipe cache partition

Deletes system cache information.

Am I missing something?

[demmo86rt]

You're probably not missing anything, I have an Eris, and my recovery mode is not the standard one that came with the phone.