Broken SSD card leads to problems even after replacement

Apps & Core Settings
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The SSD-card in my G960 broke the other day. I replaced it with new one, but now the filesystem seems to be corrupted. Most of the stuff still works, but some folders and filesystem operations won’t work with the new SD-Card.

  • Camera can’t save images and I can’t change the picture location, because the choose dialog just crashes
  • I cannot access Settings → Storage, because that also just crashed
  • The Download folder shows an Hour Glass and the message “Can’t load content at the moment”. I can’t save files there.
  • I can’t backup my Authenticator App, because it cannot find it’s backup folder and I can’t change it because the file dialog crashes.

I assume that’s all because of “Adoptable Storage” that sort of had combined the internal storage with the SD-card, and now that is gone. Re-formatting the new SD-Card for Adoptable Storage or External Storage doesn’t seem to help either.

Can I somehow re-create/repair the filesystem, so I can at least backup my Authenticator app and factory reset the device? I’m a paying Iodé customer if that makes any difference.

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This sounds like what you may have experienced, and I don’t think you can fix that really, without a reset of the device.

If I understand correctly, your SD-card was essentially an extension of the internal storage. So when the card broke you lost some percentage of your file system.

You could maybe try to mount your device to a computer, and copy some of the file system data to your PC, then reset you phone. You also might be able to use something like SMS IMPORT/EXPORT to export your contacts and SMS/MMS messages, and phone call logs.

But I’ve never experienced this myself, so knowing what is salvageable is questionable I would think.

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Correct. Oddly nothing that seems to be that critical. But yeah.

I don’t really care about anything on that phone save the authenticator apps’ data. It must be there, since the apps still work. I just can’t export it, since one doesn’t have a non-cloud export and the other’s export functionality crashes when it tries to access the file system.