Written on November 21st, 2009 at 9:00 am by

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memory cardMobile phone have become integral part of our day today life.So does the memory card for mobile phones.Mobile Phones internal memory cannot hold large amount of data thats were memory cards becomes inevitable.Most often we transfer our data to our PC and free up occupied space in memory card.

Are you facing this problem where your mobile phone flashes “Memory Card Is In Use By Another Application ” whenever you connect your mobile to PC in Data Storage mode via USB port? Lets see how to resolve this problem..

What is the reason behind this “Memory Card Is In Use By Another Application” problem?

The simple reason behind this is you are using a theme that is residing in your memory card as the current theme.


So how to resolve it?

All you need is to move the current theme you are using to mobile memory preferably to themes folder and start using it from there.

This should resolve your problem!


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44 Responses to “How To Resolve Memory Card Is In Use By Another Application Problem”


  1. Ramkumar

    2 years ago

    Thanks for the info. Mostly i used to remove the memory card and transfer .
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    Reply

    • Shunmugha

      2 years ago

      Welcome Ramkumar .That’s another good alternative..

      Reply

  2. S.Pradeep Kumar

    2 years ago

    Thanks for sharing this info Sham… :)

    I never came this prompt so far.. lucky me.. :D
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    Reply

  3. Rajesh Kanuri

    2 years ago

    Thanks for the useful info
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  4. techprism

    2 years ago

    Most of the time , removing the MEM card form the card slot or Card reader, helps to show error messages.

    Thanks for sharing.
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    Reply

  5. BlogrPro

    2 years ago

    I don’t even have faced such thing. I am using Sony ericsson mobile. What’s your mobile buddy?
    .-= BlogrPro´s last blog ..Is Blogging an Addiction? =-.

    Reply

  6. Water

    2 years ago

    Finally problem solved!! :)
    I was wondering what was wrong with my mobile. Now i can tell my friends.. Great buddy :)

    Reply

  7. a_usman

    2 years ago

    Thanks for this info. though other open apps may cause the problems too but themes are one of top cause.
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  8. Avi Singh

    2 years ago

    Yups…It works…
    Thanks for sharing this useful trick.
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    Reply

  9. Ruchi

    2 years ago

    Never got such problem yet but I will surely take care for future. Thanks for sharing.
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  10. ameba

    2 years ago

    ohhh thanks a lot
    thanks for sharing how to solve this problem
    ^^

    Reply

  11. fatings

    2 years ago

    It worked! Thanks

    Reply

  12. Munner

    2 years ago

    i move the them from memory card to the memory phone but still problem.

    Reply

  13. Bimal Roy

    2 years ago

    I haven’t faced any problems like this till now but can’t say if I will face some. So thanks for sharing friend.
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    Reply

  14. Bhagavathinath

    2 years ago

    Thanks for sharing guys.

    Reply

  15. Gayathri

    2 years ago

    Kudos! I never had such a prompt solution.

    Reply

  16. yash

    1 year ago

    Thanks Awsume

    Reply

  17. A.S.Miyamoto

    1 year ago

    Thankyu so much!!! It was so simple that I feel kind of stupid kekek

    Thanks a lot!

    Reply

  18. asad

    1 year ago

    thanks a lot problem has been solved

    Reply

  19. Akhilesh Tekade

    1 year ago

    This really worked with my Nokia 2730.
    Thanks yaar!

    Reply

  20. Mouad

    1 year ago

    very good tip. thank you

    Reply

  21. gamay

    1 year ago

    tnx a lot..

    Reply

  22. Sherwin

    1 year ago

    Wow, it actually worked!! Thanks, period.

    Reply

  23. loi

    1 year ago

    thank so much.. I used to removed my memocy card from my cp whenever i copied files and get my card reader. I thought that my cp was memory full already.

    Reply

  24. Hemanth

    1 year ago

    1. In the message settings use phone memory
    2. select the theme which is installed on memory card
    3. Remove the memory card
    4.Resart the mobile and then insert the memory card.

    Reply

  25. prakaash

    1 year ago

    hey man , thank you very much . i was having trouble with it for some time . was not able to open the microsd from computer .
    changing the theme made file transfer possible once again .

    Reply

  26. pau

    1 year ago

    OH MY GOD, I LOVE YOU DUDE! THANKS A LOT! xD

    Reply

  27. SaMo

    8 months ago

    THaNK U THaNK U THaNK U THaNK U THaNK U THaNK U THaNK U THaNK U

    Reply

  28. Hiren

    8 months ago

    Greate Idea man

    Really my problem has been solved

    Many thanks,

    I always refer this website when any problems occurs in my mobile

    Reply

  29. RealMadrid

    5 months ago

    Hey thanks man from now on i’ll install all my new themes in the themes folder(Phone memory) rather than doing it in my memory card….THANKS ONCE AGAIN !!!!!

    Reply

  30. dil

    4 months ago

    thank u soooooo much for resolving this problem friend.

    Reply

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