This is something I have already posted in both LOS groups and no fix so far, coming here. Here’s the copy-paste of the post I made prior, plus an update at the end for clarification.
-( So, here we go again. The first time I had an issue was because of a scam card. Now, I have a real SD card. Problem: I have been trying to move music and photos to it to keep on my new device (Moto G Stylus 5G 2022 / milanf) and when I insert it into my phone it says “Issue with SD card.” And it wants me to set it up. However, when I plug it into a computer it’s totally fine. I can’t find any answers online, and the only other issue I saw similar was someone using a Xiaomi device running LOS 17. I didn’t have the issue on my phone until the most recent LOS 23 update on the 8th of Jan. What do I do to resolve this? I don’t want to have to carry multiple devices with me, for the time being, to access certain photos or music.
- edit: I neglected to add this detail. It has been formatted by the Lineage device, but the issue persists.)
I have been able to move music over after it’s been formatted by the phone and that seems to be fine, but when I insert the SD card into my old Samsung Note 10 Plus and then download all the pictures and videos I have I then reinsert it into my LOS phone and it says the SD card is corrupted. I didn’t have this issue until the latest update and I don’t know what to do to fix it. Nothing is wrong with the card, I’m at my wits end. I have been dealing with this for a month. Please help.
Forget using an SD card.
Install either Syncthing or Resilio Sync on both devices (or your phone and PC, which is what I do) and simply let it sync the folders you want (for Windows use SyncTrayzor, Android use Syncthing-Fork, iOS use Möbius).
They’re both robust and tolerate network disconnects fine, can be confugured to use only WiFi.
Best part, if you sync important folders to your PC, you always have that stuff, and new phone can just sync from there (which is faster and not dependent on old phone being on or even existing).
Syncthing is better on battery in my experience, Resilio is a little more robust but requires more RAM while running as it keeps the sync index in memory.
I use Syncthing on all mobile devices, any photos sync to home nearly instantly, other folders are set to sync only on WiFi or charging, depending on size and importance. It hardly affects battery after initial sync.
Always leave your sd card in the same phone, install "KDE connect " to transfer all music or photos. Make sure both devices are on the same WiFi network. I use this on android grapheneos,lineage, linux.
Is there a reason why it shouldn’t go back and forth between devices? Also, I end up trying to use LocalSend instead of KDE connect, as it allows for full folder transfers, but my wifi sucks so it takes hours no matter what.
My personal experience is, every device in which you insert an SD card, you format it in the device, otherwise this sometimes leads to problems. Suspect that it has something to do with the small partition in the front, is a few mb in size where all data is listed because of partition. What is your upload speed? Reduce your distance from your Wi-Fi router for both devices
And sometimes phones encrypt external storage. So if that’s enabled, the SD card will be unreadable once pulled out from the phone. That’s by design to protect personal information. Can be avoided by either formatting the sd card on a computer, or disabling that default setting.
Forgot about that ,ty
