How to Get Back the External SD Card Notification I used to have a notification whenever the external SD card was in the tablet. Recently that notification has disappeared. How can I get this notification back.

I like this notification since I am able to eject the card from it without needing to go thru the settings menu to get to it.

What is interesting is that when I insert a different card the notification is back. I only am missing it for the original card. Last time I had this problem I factory reset my tablet. I would rather not have to do this again.

I searched for a solution but only found solutions to get rid of the notification, not the opposite. I tried to reboot my device but that didn't help.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Change the volume serial number of the sd card.

There might be various ways to do it, this one worked for me when I had the same problem after touching "clear all" when displaying notifications.

Mount the SD card on a windows PC.

Note the drive letter of the sd card by opening a windows explorer window.
For example let's say it was mounted as E:

In a command prompt window type the following command to find out the current volume id of the sd card, assuming the SD card is E: drive.

vol E: 


It should give you a number like 1234-5678

Download the Microsoft utility "volumeid" from this link at Microsoft:

Follow the instructions at the link for using the utility and give the SD card a new volume id.

Make sure you use the right drive letter, the drive letter of the SD card. You don't want to change your hard disk by mistake.

In a command prompt window, the syntax is:

volumeid E: 1234-5679


This will change the volume id of E: drive to 1234-5679

When you put the SD card back in you android device the device will think it's a different card and show the sd card mounted notification.