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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ichigo786:
Hi. I have just this morning started seeing 'USB Storage Damaged' in the notifications drop menu.

Both my internal storage and sd card do not appear under settings and storage. All it says is unavailable. I know the external as card is thankfully ok, because I tried it in my brothers s2 and my files, folders, videos were there.

Does anyone know how to fix this error, my internal 16gb storage or recover the data??

Thank you for any help.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ithehappy:
Well if it is really not damaged then you could try do a Virus checking by connecting it to a PC, if that doesn't do then try to Hard Reset the phone (factory reset). If still doesn't work then you are unlucky and probably the Internal Storage is corrupted.

Regards.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Try RECUVA to recover the data .

jje
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ichigo786:
anyone else have any other ideas.... ?

please i do not want to lose my data/files.

thank you for your help so far guys @ithehappy & @JJEgan

ps factory reset will delete my files from internal usb storage (16GB).... ?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] el.motar:
What OS are you....

What OS are you using?

If you run linux or have access to a machine with linux when you plug the S II into the usb port, it should show both drives internal sdcard and the external sd. Then is just a question of coping the files across from the internal sdcard to the PC and do a factory reset on the phone.

Hope it works for you.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guitarmafia:
yes factory reset ll delete all the files...

see if after connecting ur phone to pc,,,u cn see the files or not??

install some anti virus from the market and let it check ur phone,,
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ichigo786:
thanks for the replies ill try them when i get home from work.

any other ideas...

greatly appreciate all the help, once again thank you
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ichigo786:
please does anyone have any other ideas.

im at a lost ive run a virus check and nothing was found.

my titanium backup files are on the internal storage and i want a way to recover them.

i can not even use titanium backup because it wont allow me to save the backups on the internal storage nor the SD card.

please someone must have some sort of an idea as to how to fix my internal storage.

thanks again
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ithehappy:
Can you Sync all your data to Google a/c and do a Factory Reset?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] el.motar:
Internal SDcard

Well if the phone is not able to access the sdcard your only option as far as I can see, is to try and access the card via a PC.

I know that on linux I have easy access to both cards on my system, and can run fschk to see what problems it reports, on the internal storage.

But a word of warning, only check for errors, as the sdcards have a different file structure than ordinary hard disks and it could damage the card permanently.

Sorry that I have no solution to your problem other than the above.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ichigo786:
still no luck :( :(

anyone else have any idea as to what i could possibly do/try.

thank you for everyones help
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HellcatDroid:
The weird thing is, when the filesystem is corrupted in any way the OS just reformats it.

So there must be something different.

What exately do you see when you connect the S2 to the PC in mass storage mode? (NOT Kies mode)

Do you see the drives? Any content?

Either it's something with the drivers in the FW or it might be a hardware defekt....
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxlikquidxx:
I also encounter this issue today. My Swiftkey problem starts to have problem, so i reboot the phone and right away it tell me the SD-CARD is damage.. It gives me option to FORMAT the card but i dont want to do that yet until i can backup my pictures and other data on it.

Any help guys? What did you do OP?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackspp:
I see this turning into another Samsung quality failure. I too have this issue, first the 32gb external SD, than the internal USB and now again the external SD. Damn!

This can't be a hardware problem, must be software/OS related.

Luckily I have a backup on my Linux Mint PC so I formated all those suckers but 2x external SD can't be a coincidence.

Question is, now what?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxlikquidxx:
i think if you dont mount or dismount the USB storage correctly when you insert in the USB cable, it will eventually lead to flash memory failure.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marcoacero:
One more.

Same problem here. Good to hear there are a few cases, I could not figure out what I did wrong.

I haven't sync or connected the phone to a PC for ages so that could not be it.

It sucks not being able to do a backup or access an old one now.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxlikquidxx:
damn lost all my pics!!!!!!

what do you guys use after this incident for backing up automatically on wifi? I have all my pics automatic upload to Google+ private album when plugin charging over 3G
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marcoacero:
SugarSync

I had to format the SD card after all and I know now why it happened to me.

I bought a extra battery on eBay, and let's just say it is not the same quality as Samy's so when using it it would shot off the phone without warning when about 5% juice level left. This unexpected whiting down eventually led to memory's corruptedness.

And to answer question on previous post I use Sugarsync and thanks to it I didn't lost a thing.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peter296:
I am having the same problem and as xxlikquidxx it also happened to me in connection with a swiftkey update/failure!??

Did any of you figure out a way to fix it? I have not formatted yet but did that fix the problem for you? Yes I know it is not the fix I would like either!

I noticed that my SD card is not accessible either. Not on the phone and not if I connect my phone to my computer in USB mass storage mode. But if I take out the SD card and puts it into my card reader it works perfectly. Could it be that there is not a problem with the memory (internal or SD) but only with the mounting? Could it be that a reset without a USB storage format could do it? Or does it make sense that because it cant mount the USB storage then it cant mount the SD card either?

Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenkiller:
Damned....the same thing happened to me after a normal reboot. :(

Anyone knows is there a proper fix for this? Or is a trip to the service center necessary?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KamalKhattak:
If your using windows there is a option to check drive fire errors do that and if you can't mount sdcard use multi mount sdcard from market to mount them. I get this with my sdcard it solves it for me and does not delete data except for the corrupted files.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aincalandorn:
I had this a while back. If you have CWM installed, boot to recovery, go to advanced and mount storage (or something like that), then connect a USB cord and you should be able to salvage your internal storage files.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arewold:
Got the same "USB Storage damaged" error message. For me it affects both internal USB and the 32 GB sdhc card (neither is available in Settings -> Storage).

I got this error message after simply turning off the phone before a flight and turning it back on when I landed. The only cause I suspect right now is that one of the numerous apps I have installed over the last few days (per Google's 10 billion promo) has screwed up something in the file system.

Have tried numerous reboots and inserting/removing SD card, as this solved the problem last time I had it - but thenit only affected the SD card, not the internal USB memory.

Not feeling like doing a complete reset, but looks like I may have no other choice...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxlikquidxx:
preventive maintenance is the best remedy for this.

- Set Titanium Backup to weekly backup the whole phone.

- Backup all pictures to Google+ album. You can set it automatically in the Setting.

- Store all pics, vids, important info on your external microSD card. The external card is less likely prone to damage and can be salvage using flash memory recovery software. I got a 32gb class 4 card for $30 shipped on Amazon. They are cheap. Get it.

Anyone got better tips, please feel free to chime in.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pachi72:
Are you all using stock rom or custome roms?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxlikquidxx:
i use Lite'ning ROM
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Badeeb:
Hi there,

I have the same problem with my internal storage ..

yesterday i deleted "Google Maps" and installed the one in this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1007132

then I reboot the phone and the problem appears "USB storage damaged"

when i plugged the phone to PC the memory appears but can't open it .. is says that it need format ..

my phone is rooted, so when i reboot the phone to recovery mode i tried "Install zip from scard" and tried to explorer the files .. all my folders there =/

so i asked a friend and he told me to try "Droid Explorer" .. and it worked fine =) only in recovery mode ..

so i backup all my important files .. and now i'm looking for solution without format the internal storage, i flashed the rom again but it didn't work .. so i'll keep looking and if i found something i'll let you know =)

i hope this will help ..
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaibosh:
Same issue here, immediately after installing a Swype beta update (Running VillainRom 3.0)

Currently copying everything off via CWM Mount USB (Thanks Aincalandorn!), and will then format to hopefully do a current Titanium backup of everything..

Edit: Format does nothing, so I can't use Titanium to do a backup - Backing up via CWM (since it CAN access the internal storage), and will just have to jump through a few more hoops to get things back once I reset..

FFS - everything's breaking on me at the same time! Fine yesterday, today issues with my phone, PC & internet connection. Isn't end of the world still 360 odd days away?!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boy1010994:
I have the same problem too.

I have tried many of the above solution. but i cannot get access to the internal file even in cwm mode
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sharkster1021:
me too

had the same error occur 2 days ago on my SGS2 for absolutely no reason... unfortunately, several restarts later it still doesn't work... i would like to try the windows error checking method on my phone cos i've seen that it has solved the problem for many without sacrificing stored data but unfortunately my phone has not been rooted... and not having access to my internal storage means i can't copy the files needed for rooting...

if there's an alternative rooting method not requiring access to internal storage/SD i'd really appreciate your help!

cheers
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maskerwsk:
i had this problem after usb decided to unmount itself half way through file transfer,

after reboot it took about an hour for usb scanner to finish.

also ran other checks like quadrant, scores were in the hundreds due to seriously slow write speeds.

i flashed XXKK5 (stock) through odin and problem still exsisted,

then i plugged into windows and windows asked to scan and fix usb storage, i let it and now all working fine.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skimminstones:
Thankyou, just saved me from tearing my hair out.

Opened CWM to delete an old backup and the phone rebooted, then came up usb damaged. Thought id lost some pics id not got round to saving on the pc. Wouldnt connect to my pc and es file explorer was saying sd card was empty or damaged.

Did what you said and all my files were there and could copy them all to the pc in cwm recovery mode :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reala:
I have just done the windows thing.

- Received the notification bar error message.

- Reboot to CWM

- Mount internal SD

- Connect phone to the Windows PC (mine is 7 x64, but does not matter)

- Windows sends the message if you want to fix the device (backup now if you want to), so click on "check and try to repair" (something like that)

- Put both ticks in the options, Windows asks, if you want to unmount the volume to do the process, so click yes

- Wait to finish

Now you are good to go again.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Snakeforhire:
Well not really.. The internal SD is formatted with RFS (when coming out of the factory or when reformatting it via the settings menu), which is a bastardized version of MS's FAT32 filesystem (some coked-up Samsung engineer mujst've just applied MS's own method to their products, and added a few custom settings to the filesystem to make it unrecongnizable by partitioning tools (the partition ID code isn't the same as FAT32/VFAT anyway), but the functionality remains the same as far as I've been able to ascertain.

So it's just a matter of booting into recovery on the phone, hooking it up to your computer, fire up adb on your computer (obviously you need to have the Android SDK setup on the computer beforehand, as I'm sure you did :) ), and issuing the right commands (I think it was 'adb shell', 'su', 'umount /mnt/sdcard', and 'mkfs -vfat /dev/block/mmcblk0p11'). That's how I fixed mine anyways, but it was awhile back already. :)

Of course, this won't save your data. For this you'd need to mount the partition first, and then run a recovery software that will recover stuff from the partition over it (and which can access remote filesystems). I personally use FileScavenger, it's pretty nifty and damn small (something like 500Kb, it's entirely coded in x86 assembler) (even after it's been formatted 10 times it still finds remnants of the deleted files).. ;)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dnmtsn:
I had the same problem, notification bar error + sd card not available. I tried to reformat, but the phone just displayed "formatting" for a couple of seconds then reverted to the same state with no changes.

So I connected the phone to my laptop (Win XP) and tried to connect to the phone with a program called My Phone Explorer (look it up on google, I am not allowed yet to post links).

So, this one only saw some files that didn't make any sense to me, a "mnt" folder was empty and most of the folders it saw were empty... there was no SDCARD folder...

Then I tried windows explorer, but both drives that should belong to the phone were asking to insert a drive. Kies was not installed - I installed Kies, the laptop wanted to reboot so I disconnected the phone, and this is when I noticed that the notification error was gone and I had access to my files again.

I'm not saying that using My Phone Explorer helped in any way, in fact I think that just connecting it to the laptop and starting the USB connection mode on the phone did the trick, but I can't know for sure.This is a freak occurence, I'll make sure I backup my stuff now.

Oh, and I ran an antivirus (AVG), which didn't find anything...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chilsta:
Installing CWM Recovery when the internal storage is inaccessible

OK, I'm in the same predicament. Would like to try to recover some photos/videos from my internal storage before I give in & try reformatting.

Have just rooted my SGS2 via Odin and S2 Root from here. Am still on an insecure ROM.

Phone's working fine: rooted OK, but when I use CWM to install its custom recovery it says "SD Card needs to be mounted to use ROM Manager".

When I have the custom recovery I can mount the internal storage and try to fix with Chkdsk.

So- is there a way to get CWM custom recovery on the phone through Odin/ ADB?

Thanks
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Snakeforhire:
yep, just flash a CF-root kernel and you'll be set :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chilsta:
Well that was easier than I was expecting. Installed a Chains CF Root kernal with Odin and on reboot both the internal and SD memory were magically working fine again. No recovery mounting/ disc error correction needed.

So I think I could have skipped previous steps I took to root and just installed that Chains CF Root kernal on the stock phone to get this sorted.

Having read a few discussions on this issue it sounds like this could be caused by people using 32GB SD cards. I've been using a 16GB card for over 6 months without an issue, then within a couple of weeks of changing to (a genuine Samsung class 10) 32G this issue cropped up.

Be interesting to hear what size cards others experiencing this issue had in their phones as I'll go back to 16G if this is likely to be an ongoing problem.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Snakeforhire:
CF-root kernels are one of the things you should always have on you ( preferably on a spare usb card rather than the internal storage ;) -along with Odin and the genuine samsung usb cable, plus a spare charger... I always have those in my rucksack (and most times much more than that), so that I can reflash anywhere there's a computer. :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brunofm:
Hello, I was unpleasantly surprised with this error this morning when I turned on my phone. I was using it normally until yesterday, but today all I'm getting is that "Internal USB damaged" error. I removed the battery many times, tried many rebootings, and still nothing. I checked the messages in this topic and saw many solutions that worked for some and not for others, but I didn't really find one that would help me, and I was hoping someone could aid me.

I'm on stock 2.3.4, unrooted, and I wanted to access the contents of my internal USB storage without formatting so as not to lose all my pictures and such. I have access to Windows 7 and Linux (OpenSuse), so any solutions or thoughts would be much appreciated.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodemail:
Hi,

I have a similar problem...

My SGSII battery ran out and when I started the phone after recharge, it started to give an error that the internal storage is damaged and also stopped to recognize the microSD card.

The microSD connected to the PC it is recognized and does not accuse error with chkdsk. I tried to format the MicroSD (on the phone) and then to mount it, but it does work.

Also, connecting the phone to PC in mass storage mode simply shows teh drive letters, I can't access the drives.

I did not want to format the internal storage before be able to copy my data, and I think the problems are related.

I managed to mount and access the internal storage using the terminal emulator (running on the phone) using the command

mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p11 /sdcard/

But the rest of the system does not recognize even after this procedure, and I don't know the command to do the same with the MicroSD; or copying data to a PC to then try to wipe or factory reset.

I've tried to reinstall the ROM with ODIN and did not solved the problem.

Also tried to install CWM recovery, but it can not mount / sdcard (gives error).

Could anyone help me?

Thank you!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chapas:
Two month old Lexar card asking to be formated!

Hello,

I also have a very similar problem, I have a 32GB Lexar external SD card and since yesterday, I really don't know how but he started to giving me the same message, asking if I want to format the card, I canceled it and connected to my Windows XP but he didn't showed up as it used to show.

I tried to recover my data using easy recovery Pro but it only detected 1GB and it was unformatted. I don't know what to do I have lots of pictures that I need to retrieve but i don't know how. Could this be some kind of virus that erases the first block of the cards could someone help please. I did a scan disk with EASEUS Partition Master, it shows that sector 1 has a bad sector!

Thanks,

Chapas
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hunteres:
As the tittle say. i have purchased the premium version and installed CWm through it. i never used it before, i was always going through odin or cwm manualy. but yesterday i tryed to instal CyanogenMod 7 for Samsung Galaxy S II and that was reason for purchase the rom manager. but i coudlnt even see it in avaible ROMS. i did ther install the harder way. but i wanted automatic updates. i made research and i am left with no clue how to fix this issue.

i can only see cognition ROM's untill 1.06 :( and Darky's old roms. nothing else.

i tryed;

reflashing whole ROM

factory reset

wiped cache

reinstaled

and i also checked the option advanced in menu with no luck.

can someone give me idea how to fix this bad issue. i am unable to see roms.

Thanks
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hunteres:
Any ideas? I am stuck...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaukassus:
Its not available for rom manager yet.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whaleyboy:
I've also got this issue. I can only see these options under download rom: extras, google apps, designgears roms and Novek, which I'm pretty sure are the ones I could see in the free version of rommanager. Although I'm not looking to install cyanogen it says in the cyanogen thread that it should be available in rommanager now.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whaleyboy:
Bump....can anyone help? :-(
[Atrix 4G Android Development] eval-:
[MOD] Radio SBFs N_01.95.00R (Retail SouthEast Asia) & CWM N_01.100.00R (Orange FR)

Here are some radios users recently requested:

N_01.95.00R

(from retail southeast asia .sbf here)

AT&T .sbf

International .sbf

N_01.100.00R

CWM file
[Atrix 4G Android Development] aleve1983:
can i flash 1.100 cmw on gb 4.5.91?
[Atrix 4G Android Development] eval-:
Untested, but think it should be fine.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] aleve1983:
work for me on att cherry 5d
[Atrix 4G Android Development] krypt0se:
Thanks a ton for this!

You sir are awesome!
[Atrix 4G Android Development] dereknas:
Can convert all to CWM?
[Atrix 4G Android Development] polaris441:
This is what I'm looking for
[Atrix 4G Android Development] lunzi88:
SEA users, does this improve the speed?
[Atrix 4G Android Development] sesame.qian:
Great information, that's I need
[Atrix 4G Android Development] NFHimself:
Hi,

Don't use the N_01.100.00R radio on the Bell GB firmware, it works but the speed is rather bad and sporadic. Think 300 baud modem for wifi and original ATT radio for uploads divided by 2. :)

Cheers!
[Atrix 4G Android Development] sergey1977:
use N_01.100.00R radio but in 3g always have 1 bar signal.

rom 4.5.91 att. how to fix this problem?
[Atrix 4G Android Development] Phoneguy589:
How do install the sbf? RSD? I know it's a noob question but I'm used to flashing img's and usg zips through CWM.

edit: Used RSDlite, and the AT&T radio only showed 1 bar. Speed was slower than the .30 radio in case anyone was curious.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] sergey1977:
I install through CWM.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] Phoneguy589:
You installed the ATT SBF through CWM? How did you do that?
[Atrix 4G Android Development] TheSmokingAndroid:
so im on a bell atrix running 4.5.91 and have downloaded both N_01.100.00R and the International and both are giving me only 1 bar? any ideas?
[Atrix 4G Android Development] sergey1977:
CWM file

I use the CWM file in the head of topic
[Atrix 4G Android Development] TheSmokingAndroid:
Ya i tried that and still one bar...weird huh?