SDcards unreachable

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One of our FP1 shows exactly the same symptoms as those desctibed by @Toon here, and which apparently weren’t solved at the time.

After reboot and when going to settings>memory, at the bottom of the panel there is a brief flash on the SDCard line, saying the card is analyzed, and then card mentions just disappear, replaced by the ‘insert card’ wording corresponding to a missing card.

We did this with various cards, formatted variously (we never reach the stage where one could actually format the card from within the FP1); the behavior is similar whatever the card, including the ‘good old one’ that was used for years, and a brand new one.
(both can be perfectly read/written on any computer.)

Is this a hardware failure related to the microSD interface?

Is there a way to clean it?

(on the FP1 the contacts are totally out of reach for me, but there may be a way to dismount the metallic caging atop of them?)

Any help would be great!

Thank you!
Hervé

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Can you “see” any external SD card in #dic:recoverymode?

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Thank you Stefan. I am going to check this.

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OK : after turning the FP1 in recovery mode, I see very few things. Basically, my screen reads the following :

Android system recovery <3e>

Volume up/down to move highlight:
enter button to select

reboot system now
apply update from ADB
apply update from sdcard
apply update from cache
wipe data/factory reset
backup user data
restore user data

… and that’s all…
Does the fact I see the line “…update from sdcard” means the SDcard is detected?

Thank you!
H.

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Can you select “apply update from SD card”? You should see the folders that are on your SD card.

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I am going to try. Having no update on said cards, I take it for granted that this won’t trigger something irreversible :wink:

P. S. Stefan, your reaction during this christmas holiday time is impressive!

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