SD card problems after Lollipop upgrade

[Nestor Perozo]

Galaxy S5 - Tmobile - SD 16gb
My SD card was working fine shortly after the upgrade to Lollipop until I did the first restart: the card was no longer recognized. I thought the problem could be with the card, so I backed it up using my laptop (yes, it was readable from the laptop) and did a full format in FAT32. Still no luck. Then, out of nothing, I decided to unlock the phone using the backup password instead of my finger print: immediately I saw in the top of the phone the message "preparing SD card" and it was recognized by the phone. I repeated the test: restarted the phone and unlocked it using the finger print: SD card not available. Then locked the phone and unlocked it using the backup password: the card was recognized. Since then I'm not using any locking method for my phone (will try other methods later).

Has anyone gone through something similar?

 

[itguyjax8430]

Galaxy S5 - Tmobile - SD 16gb
My SD card was working fine shortly after the upgrade to Lollipop until I did the first restart: the card was no longer recognized. I thought the problem could be with the card, so I backed it up using my laptop (yes, it was readable from the laptop) and did a full format in FAT32. Still no luck. Then, out of nothing, I decided to unlock the phone using the backup password instead of my finger print: immediately I saw in the top of the phone the message "preparing SD card" and it was recognized by the phone. I repeated the test: restarted the phone and unlocked it using the finger print: SD card not available. Then locked the phone and unlocked it using the backup password: the card was recognized. Since then I'm not using any locking method for my phone (will try other methods later).

Has anyone gone through something similar?

Welcome to Android Central!

Try removing your finger prints from the phone that are stored and then putting a fresh set on. Try using the scanner again and see if that fixes the issue.

 

[Nestor Perozo]

Thanks for the suggestion, but it wasn't necessary. After a Couple of days without any screen locking, I activated the finger print method and is working fine, I have restarted the phone and the card is recognized right away, without any "tricks". Perhaps the bug was caused because I did the upgrade with the screen lock set to finger prints...

 

[Wilmer Imperio]

i got same problem on galaxy note 4. I almost gone to factory reset.
Once I key-in the back up password my sd card now detected!
You save me a lot of time. Thanks

 

[LNRproductionmedia]

Thank you a Million... Gotta love google... becuz the people who make these devices have no clue to help us...

 

[928quest]

Just upgrade my Note4 (July 19 2015) to lolipop, same issue, Logging on with pass word solved it thanks.