MicroSD Card Not Working Anymore

omega8bit

Well here's the deal. I own a 1GB MicroSD TransFlash Card for my phone, an LG enV. I don't have a port to directly transfer files to my card, so what I do is I take the microSD card and put it in an adapter and plug that into my camera. I transfer my files from the camera and once I'm done, I take it out and put the card into my phone.

For about 6 months it's been working fine.


Today I decided to put a .PNG file into the card so I can set it as my wallpaper on my phone. I dragged the .PNG file in the MY_PIX folder, and unplugged the camera. I then put the card into my phone like I've always done.


My phone started acting very strangely. I could still access my MP3 files that were in my TransFlash card, but a few things happened while the card was in my phone:

- 2 second delays when you press END to get to the main menu.
- I can't access two of my .JPG files on the card, along with the .PNG file I added today.
- I took a picture with my camera feature on my phone and attempted to save it, but it kept saying ERROR.


So I took out the card and played with the phone a bit. Everything turned out fine. The delays stopped, it was perfectly fine.


I put the TransFlash card back into my camera and attempted to take out that .PNG file that I added.

The computer made a "ding" that said that it detected the device, and attempted to Autoplay it.

The Autoplay froze. I tried to open My Computer, but that froze too.



I unplugged my camera and took out the card, and then everything worked fine again. My Computer opened with no freezing.




So I've pinpointed my problem: and that's my microSD TransFlash Card. Have I screwed it up permanently? Was it that darn .PNG file?

bakuryu

sometimes it's better that you backup all data, do a format of the memory card and then restore the data.

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omega8bit

Oh okay, I never knew that my phone had Format Memory Card function!

Thank you very much! Everything works perfectly fine now.

shista

Now that you have formatted it already it's okay. But in future U can try to do a error checking (windows chkdsk) on the card in Ur PC. Most of the times U will be able to fix the errors in file system and avoiding formatting and data loss. However it's still always a good idea to backup ur card data.