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2GB MiniSD Card issues

Hi, I recently bought a 2GB MiniSD card for my Treo750v. When I put it into the system it worked fine, I installed some programs and put some music on. Then I left the phone alone for a while and the automatic keylock came on. When I returned to the phone and activated it from keylock the sound that is played when removing the card was heard and it reported that there was no card installed when there clearly was. To return the card to working order i had to remove and re-insert it. After that it was fine until keylock came back on and the same thing happened again!
Anyone got any ideas on why this is doing what it is doing!
Point to note, the card works perfectly in an HP device running WM5 and my Digital Camera!

I am starting to think this is a "problem" with the Treo because mine does the same with a 512mb card. Sometimes it wont be "seen" by the PDA but not a problem when put in my other pda.......
Jim

I get the same thing, also with a 2 gig card. But it happens only every other day or so. Still very annoying. Have no clue why this is happening.

I had the same trouble, too. But the trouble has already disappeared by replacement of 2GB mini SD to 1GB mini SD.
Remainning problem is that Spb pocket plus still cannot get application icons on storage card.

Went to a Vodafone store today and told them about the issue. They said it is a known issue and was a problem on a couple devices. They said if I would bring the box and invoice, they would exchange the device. Will do that in the next few days. Hope that solves it.

I have the same problem with my 512mb card and my 2Gig card. But I am in the U.S. and cant bring it in to Vodafone. Does anyone know what else can be done?

I should've did some homework and checked this forum before jumping on my 2GB which I bought 3 days ago. 'doh... I have the same issue here... except in the midst of playing with it, inserting and removing etc... all the data got corrupted. I have to figure out how to reformat the whole card.
Hopefully, there's a software fix later.

Hey
Thanks guys n gals for ur help!
magxs I might have to do the same!!!
Oh bum, silly silly smartphones! I just want something that works!

I've also been having problems with my Treo 750v and the miniSD card (2GB SanDisk Ultra II).
When I insert the card, the Treo sees it and can run programs that are installed on it. When I return the Treo after it has been off for a while the card is no longer recognised and the memory manager claims that no storage card is installed. At this point all I can do is either take the card out and reinsert it, or otherwise to a soft reset. The time it takes for the Treo to loose its connection to the card varies; sometimes I can turn it on after a few minutes and the card is gone, sometimes it still works after a couple of hours.
When I came across this discussion yesterday, I phoned up Vodafone and reported my issue. According to the customer service rep, this is not on their list of known issues but he agreed to an exchange anyway. I'll get the new device today. I hope that'll fix it, but by now have my doubts.
Someone else suggested formatting the SD card, citing issues with FAT16 vs FAT32. I might try that if the new Treo still suffers the same issue.
In another thread on this topic, someone reported that such an issue was observed on some other PPC device and was fixed by a ROM upgrade. I emailed Palm about it. Palm eventually got back to me today saying:
This may occur only with cards that are not Palm branded. If possible please try to use a Palm card to test it.
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Either that's a lame excuse, or they're trying to force people into buying their overpriced own branded accessories by making their hardware incompatible with the industry standard. Unless SanDisk don't know how to make miniSD cards...
I guess my next step - after the reformatting - will be to throw £60 at a Palm branded storage card; I don't expect that would work any better than my current card, but at least then Palm can't argue that I'm using "unsupported hardware".

I exchanged my Treo yesterday at a different Vodafone store. The people there didn't know anything about SD card issues either, but they exchanged it anyway. Have been running the new device for about 24 hrs now and no issues, yet. But even on the first device, the problems only started later and even then it wasn't an everyday occurrence. So, I will need to watch it a bit longer.

new rom
Have you tried loading the Cingular ROM and see if it fixes this problem?

After two full days with my new Treo, the SD card was lost again over night. So, it doesn't seem to be an issue that just a few devices were affected by. Too bad....
I didn't try any other ROMs yet.

I have the Cingular ROM, and have the same exact problem.

hi,
i am new to this board and hope you dont mind my bad english. i am from germany and proud owner of a treo 750v
and i tell you what: i am so glad i am not alone with the storage card problem.
it was nearly making me mad.
now i know that there are a lot of other people with the same problem. that may not solve it but gives me a better feeling an hope for an update which solves that.
PS: i use a 1gb sandisk

Well It's working
I bought another MiniSD card the other day, a 512Mb Kingston one, and so far so good, it works well (about 5 days now) and has not been "lost" so far! Not sure if it's the size of card or the make or what but I will keep investigating this!
Hope you resolve your issues!!
A

What kind of card did you have issues with?
I get the feeling the this might be related to specific cards. To find out: please everybody state which card you are using and if you have problems.
I'm using Sandisk Ultra II 2GB and it's dropping out.
Thanks

magxs said:
What kind of card did you have issues with?
I get the feeling the this might be related to specific cards. To find out: please everybody state which card you are using and if you have problems.
I'm using Sandisk Ultra II 2GB and it's dropping out.
Thanks
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i am using sandisc (normal) 1 gb and have the problems.

Card Type
Mine was a generic 2GB card bought on EBAY but the one that is working now is a Kingston 512MB card. The Generic 2GB works perfectly in my Digital camera. There are no Identifying marks on the 2GB card sadly so Cannot say for sure who makes it!

I'm also using a SanDisk Ultra II 2GB, and it's getting dropped regularly.

Sounds like SanDisk is the one to blame.
But would be good to have more reports before we all go out buying new cards. Keep em coming...

replaced speaker but now the SD slot gets real hot with an sd card in it

hey guys, i repaired my speaker by replacing it after mine broke, but now a new problem occurred, this time my SD Slot tends to get really hot after a few mins with a card in it do you guys know what the problem is? because i tried my SD card on my Tilt 2 and now it wont read it, supposely it fried up the card itself as well, plz help me out thanks
UPDATE: ok soo earlier when i tried to put the "fried" card in, the phone turns on when it notices i inserted a card but doesnt recognize it, when, i plug in my phone to my PC, the menu shows that i can set the phone as a storage device, but again the phone doesnt recognize the card in the file explorer on the phone

Are you running Android on it (it looks to be the case, based on your sig). I would say that that is your answer-but maybe it's happening when winmo isn't running as well.

Farmer Ted said:
Are you running Android on it (it looks to be the case, based on your sig). I would say that that is your answer-but maybe it's happening when winmo isn't running as well.
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oops sorry i forgot to update my signature, im running the latest EnergyROM at the moment
UPDATE: just put in a spare 8GB card from my Tilt 2 and it actually detected it and no overheating, i researched on my problem and its been common for MicroSDs to overheat which basically means its done, soo i guess thats problem solved

Where did you get a replaacement speaker? Mine's ****ed.

Eid said:
Where did you get a replaacement speaker? Mine's ****ed.
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glad i read this one, i'll have to start paying more attention to my sd card now...
i bought 4 speakers from this guy. he air mailed it to me, so i got it within a week and a half. and it's cheap.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110548910421&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

problem with apps stop working

Just got the phone 2 days ago, downloaded a number of apps from Android Market, moved the ones to SD cards that I could, but after a while, a lot of them fail to start with the error " has stopped unpectedly" when I try to launch. Used same apps on my 3G slide without issues. Have done charging of the phone during that time... And I'm using the same SD card I used in the 3G, so don't thinki its the card..
Any ideas out there. An issue with the phone??

I cleared the problem by remounting the SD card via the settings command. So still a question of is there an issue with the phone losing the SD mount or possible I need to try another SD card. If it continues, I will try another card...

I've had my sdcard randomly unmount on me a couple of times.. It's happened on both my first and second MT4GS, but it's very infrequent.
Doesn't seem to be ROM dependent, although i've been running stock modded my way for a little while now. I think the last time it happened to me was about 8 or 9 days ago, and it's happened 3 times since I got one in the first week of august.
I had it happen to me the first time before we had S-OFF for the phone, so it's nothing any of us did.
I wasn't worried enough about it to look into why or do something about it...though I was keeping track of how much it happened in case that changed. Now that I see i'm not alone maybe we should see what's going on and if it's something to worry about.
I've had a different memory card in each time it happened, one PNY and two SanDisk cards ( 8 and 16 gig). I don't remember what I was doing when they happened, or how long the phone had been on.
I don't mount/unmount the card manually while the phone is on, the only time I ever swap them is when no battery is in the phone. ( overkill, I know, but having seen someone pull a hard drive from a running x86 machine...I just have the methods i'm comfortable with.)
Has anyone else experienced this? If so, see about throwing some details about it here.

Thanks for the post. Its been good ince I remounted yesterday. But when I thought about it, I did remove the card with the phone powered off and put it back in beofre the problem happened yesterday. Now the apss were working after that, but stoppedworking later on then I remounted. So it could be related to the card removal/replacement. I will not remove the card anymnore aand will see if the problem occurs again..
FYI - Im using a 16GB sandisk

Depending on which apps you moved to the sdcard that could be your problem entirely. I know if i try to move system apps or widgets or something like that it'll cause it to fc every time. i try to keep as many on my phone as possible except for games and crap that aren't in any way essential to the phones functionality and i know i'm not going to need access to very frequently since putting things on the sdcard affects their speeds.

WTF - Warning - SD Card contents

I haven't searched but saying that I've never seen anything like this on Desire or Sensation threads before.
I went to copy something over to the phone (using Windoze Explorer) and when I looked at the contents. I saw the attached. The phone, when I use Root Explorer, and PC agree :-((
For reference I've used Linux, PC (Explorer) and ADB 100% to copy files over successfully before, so no posts about using one or not using one.
All the Filenames etc. have been completely screwed up. Looks like they've been converted to DOS 8.3 format.
I have never ever seen this before. I think I must have run something on the PC when the phone was USB connected. It's about the only thing I can think of, the phone/SD Card/ROM have been 100% reliable so far.
LUCKILY, I made a rare backup of my SD Card yesterday. I usually remember to make one once in a blue moon.
All I can think is to recommend folks to disconnect the USB drive when not needed and do Backups (of the Phone and also the SD Card).
Anyone seen this before ??

sorry to say this to you but your memory card has gone corrupted.
i know this because this has happened to me alot of times.
this happens if you use unbranded memory cards but this also happens to branded memory card.
the only solution i can give to you is buy a new memory card. and the main reason this happen when you connect your phone to your pc/laptop and use it as diskdrive and take the wire out while transferring data.
the only way to prevent is to use a safe remove usb and than change your diskdrive to charge only and wait till everything is loaded and then disconnect your usb wire.
also if you fornat your memory card it will work but i can tell you this that this willhappen again and this could happen without connecting your phone to computer. so to only prevent data loss buy a good new memory card.

Shery4life said:
sorry to say this to you but your memory card has gone corrupted.
i know this because this has happened to me alot of times.
this happens if you use unbranded memory cards but this also happens to branded memory card.
the only solution i can give to you is buy a new memory card. and the main reason this happen when you connect your phone to your pc/laptop and use it as diskdrive and take the wire out while transferring data.
the only way to prevent is to use a safe remove usb and than change your diskdrive to charge only and wait till everything is loaded and then disconnect your usb wire.
also if you fornat your memory card it will work but i can tell you this that this willhappen again and this could happen without connecting your phone to computer. so to only prevent data loss buy a good new memory card.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm 99.8% sure it still works and he doesn't have to buy a new memory card yet .. I don't know where you get the idea that his memory card is completely dead! It looks like he still has his files, there's just all that junk in there! Worse comes to worst, he has to reformat it which I think may not even be necessary
Anyway, I've had a similar situation as yours and "repairing it" fixed those issues up. I didn't even reformat it, just repaired it. Try that! (Assuming you haven't already reformatted it anyway)

KAwAtA said:
Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm 99.8% sure it still works and he doesn't have to buy a new memory card yet .. I don't know where you get the idea that his memory card is completely dead! It looks like he still has his files, there's just all that junk in there! Worse comes to worst, he has to reformat it which I think may not even be necessary
Anyway, I've had a similar situation as yours and "repairing it" fixed those issues up. I didn't even reformat it, just repaired it. Try that! (Assuming you haven't already reformatted it anyway)
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Update:
Card is fine. Just the filenames/pathnames got screwed.
As I said luckily I had done a backup of it yesterday, only by accident. I mounted the card on the PC directly (USB adapter) and deleted / copied stuff back.
It must have been something on my PC I ran as it changed the filenames/pathnames to 8.3. I did run something (can't remember the name) as I had problems doing the copy (SD Card to PC) for the backup. A few (4 if I remember) files were too long, exceeded the 255 limit. I D/L something to see what was the issue, turned out to be some book preview I'd accidently down loaded from the market.
All good and working now....
As I said just a warning that **** on the PC can screw the SD Card on the phone.
Backups (Nandroid and SD Card) are a pain but can be life savers.

KAwAtA said:
Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm 99.8% sure it still works and he doesn't have to buy a new memory card yet .. I don't know where you get the idea that his memory card is completely dead! It looks like he still has his files, there's just all that junk in there! Worse comes to worst, he has to reformat it which I think may not even be necessary
Anyway, I've had a similar situation as yours and "repairing it" fixed those issues up. I didn't even reformat it, just repaired it. Try that! (Assuming you haven't already reformatted it anyway)
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i don't mean that he should buy a new memroy card because after formating/repairing it the memroy card will work but this corruption can happen again. if this happens again the onl;y thing he can do is buy another memroy card. this has hapened to my unbranded memroy card which was 16 gb class 10 and it happened atleast 5-6 times. since i couldn't take another corruption i have ordeered class 10 32gb lexar memory card which is working fine and its hasn't gave me any problem since i've been using it

Man that's what happened to one of my other 4 gb cards I don't use anymore. It was kinda funny. I ended up reformatting it, but an odd thing has happened... 3gbs went down to 1.7gbs... I can't even access the remaining 2gbs... no matter what I've tried.
I didn't buy a new card since it works just fine. Been using it as a "mini" file storage card for 4 months and no issues yet. =D

You sure everythings fine? A lot of files on that card read "0KB" which is definitely not a good thing.
Best of luck.

Anyone with any issues with an SD card should first attempt a low level format.
I'll leave you all to Google that one.
Sent from my MyTouch_4G_Slide

It's fine.
Just that something I used, never used it before, to check filename/pathname lengths (due to FAT issues), seems to have converted everything to DOS 8.3 format. The ones that didn't conform to that were created after a phone re-boot.
This was only as a warning that **** does happen and backups, while a pain in the arse to do, can save a load of pain.
Off to try some ICS ROMs now so expecting a load more pain, d/l, CWM, Wipe, Swear, revert back to CM7. ;-)))) Just need to make sure that nothing updates my HBOOT..

Try .. A Full format of the SD Card
You need to do a Full format and wipe of the SD Card .. I have " fixed" a few this way.
I use: HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool - Seems to work for me

I9505 overheating? Check this, you never know...

Hi everyone,
I just wanted to let you know about what I have found out.
A couple days ago my I9505 started to overheat a lot, although it was not used and in my pocket. At first I thought it was the battery, so I switched it off and took the battery pack out, but it turns out it wasn't hot... but the phone was! Especially the upper part (around the camera, and even on the screen side). I waited and restarted the phone. After a while it did it again and my phone rebooted by itself after a few hours, which was a complete surprise: I have been running the last stable version of SlimBean, which is awesome and really stable for the past couple of months (the reason why although I have tried some KK based rom I ended up going back to 4.3).
Anyway, I though maybe something was wrong with my settings and I decided I would test a few KitKat ROMs, and so I did:
- SlimKat
- OmniRom
- CarbonRom
- AOKP
- CM11
- and a few more...
With all of them, I experienced the same issue. And I had them all for a few hours, because I know at the beginning the phone always retrieves data and apps from google servers, so I figured it was bound to heat, but not that much! And the random reboots happened in all of them.
This morning, I was ready to flash back to a stock ROM to have the phone serviced (I have knox tripped but I don't care, I don't think they would mess around with me about it here in Europe, at least from what I've heard, and anyway, I'd just tell them that Kies did it ), when I realised that Hey! the day before it started, I was unable to copy/paste all the data from my 32GB microSD card to my computer using the USB cable. I would systematically get an error saying that the device has been disconnected from the computer. I had even wondered if my USB cable was damaged, but seeing that the phone charged alright, I did not pay too much attention to it.
I started to investigate the card and retested some ROMs I had tested previously. This time I would not connect, but I did try with and without the card, and BINGO! every time I put the card in, it would overheat.
I then tested my card with an adapter in my computer, and there seemed to be something wrong with it, because even then the copy operation would hang! So I formatted the card (after I had backed up everything I could), and put it into the phone, where I formatted it again with the phone. Now the card has been (albeit empty) for a few hours in the phone, and no overheating or random reboot in sight (running the latest stable SlimKat).
So if your phone starts to overheat, especially the upper part, check what happens when you remove the SD card.
Hope I'll have helped someone with this. If you don't hear more about me in this thread, it means everything's alright. I'll start re-loading things on the same microSD card. I'll see if it is still faulty or if the phone heats up. If it does, I'll try with another microSD and see if it does the same.
Cheers!
Fa

Do tell me if the micro sd card is the problem. I have this overheating issue since a year and haven't been able to sove it. Yet. But i remember trying to rovercome this issue by the micro sd csrd method, it hadn't worked..
Anyways, this issue with s4 is too common, i know 10-15 people with the same issue, so i think its a hardware fault..
Sent from my GT-I9500 using xda premium

Thanks for this, very useful advice. Just recently I was having some issues with my phone not writing to my SD card and the card inexplicably filling up with data. It turned out to be corrupted data in the Android folder, so I backed up my stuff, formatted the card etc and that fixed it (as well as freeing up about 6gb of space on the card)
After reading your post it occurred to me that corrupted data may have been causing overheating in your phone, due to the card constantly being read over and over.
I didn't experience any overheating myself but it could well be the same cause. Either way, definitely worth checking if you're having overheating issues.

Very interesting. I for one reformat my SDcard every 2 to 3 months. Just a simple maintenance that i like to do. This is something good to keep in mind and thank you for sharing mate.

armaan.ag said:
Do tell me if the micro sd card is the problem. I have this overheating issue since a year and haven't been able to sove it. Yet. But i remember trying to rovercome this issue by the micro sd csrd method, it hadn't worked..
Anyways, this issue with s4 is too common, i know 10-15 people with the same issue, so i think its a hardware fault..
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So! Some more info on this (just in case someone's interested), but first FYI Armaan.ag, the card seemed to be the issue.
I had another microSD card of the same capacity, so I copied every single file that was on the faulty card to my computer, and I noticed there were two mp3 files that were in fact not really mp3 files, but rather some junk that the phone must have created at some point.
I deleted these two files and copied all the rest to the new card, and it works just fine. So at least it's not a hardware issue on the phone: it reads the card content fine and does not overheat (well, IMHO a phone should not overheat when it encounters a corrupted file, but that's another issue)
As for the first (faulty) card, I have formatted it (full format) and checked it for errors. Windows tells me it is fine. I'm now copying all files back to it, I'll test it when it's ready. If it still crashes my phone, then I'll try on my wife's phone (I9300) and see what it does before I return it for exchange (the card is not even 3 months old).
Cheers!
Fa

fabecoool said:
(well, IMHO a phone should not overheat when it encounters a corrupted file, but that's another issue)
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When the OS is indexing files on the sd card the CPU will be working, if there is corrupted data on the card, it can interfere with the data indexing and cause the OS to read the card over and over. This will keep the CPU active for longer than it needs to be, and when the CPU is active for extended periods of time it can cause overheating.
Alternatively, the overheating could have been caused by a physical fault with the sd card reader or the sd card itself. Either way let us know how you get on.

fabecoool said:
Hi everyone,
I just wanted to let you know about what I have found out.
A couple days ago my I9505 started to overheat a lot, although it was not used and in my pocket. At first I thought it was the battery, so I switched it off and took the battery pack out, but it turns out it wasn't hot... but the phone was! Especially the upper part (around the camera, and even on the screen side). I waited and restarted the phone. After a while it did it again and my phone rebooted by itself after a few hours, which was a complete surprise: I have been running the last stable version of SlimBean, which is awesome and really stable for the past couple of months (the reason why although I have tried some KK based rom I ended up going back to 4.3).
Anyway, I though maybe something was wrong with my settings and I decided I would test a few KitKat ROMs, and so I did:
- SlimKat
- OmniRom
- CarbonRom
- AOKP
- CM11
- and a few more...
With all of them, I experienced the same issue. And I had them all for a few hours, because I know at the beginning the phone always retrieves data and apps from google servers, so I figured it was bound to heat, but not that much! And the random reboots happened in all of them.
This morning, I was ready to flash back to a stock ROM to have the phone serviced (I have knox tripped but I don't care, I don't think they would mess around with me about it here in Europe, at least from what I've heard, and anyway, I'd just tell them that Kies did it ), when I realised that Hey! the day before it started, I was unable to copy/paste all the data from my 32GB microSD card to my computer using the USB cable. I would systematically get an error saying that the device has been disconnected from the computer. I had even wondered if my USB cable was damaged, but seeing that the phone charged alright, I did not pay too much attention to it.
I started to investigate the card and retested some ROMs I had tested previously. This time I would not connect, but I did try with and without the card, and BINGO! every time I put the card in, it would overheat.
I then tested my card with an adapter in my computer, and there seemed to be something wrong with it, because even then the copy operation would hang! So I formatted the card (after I had backed up everything I could), and put it into the phone, where I formatted it again with the phone. Now the card has been (albeit empty) for a few hours in the phone, and no overheating or random reboot in sight (running the latest stable SlimKat).
So if your phone starts to overheat, especially the upper part, check what happens when you remove the SD card.
Hope I'll have helped someone with this. If you don't hear more about me in this thread, it means everything's alright. I'll start re-loading things on the same microSD card. I'll see if it is still faulty or if the phone heats up. If it does, I'll try with another microSD and see if it does the same.
Cheers!
Fa
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Thanks for this!

Getting an S4 this week so will keep the page bookmarked should I have any of the issues mentioned here. Thanks.

Google plus heated my s4, check settings and unchecked other folders.
Maybe upload on WiFi only. And when charging?
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Mines doing the same thing.

Everything fine now
Just thought I'd let you know after re-formatting the card:
Complete format with windows, then erase card on the SGS4, which then complained that my card must be formatted, so I formatted it with the phone.
I've been going with the original "faulty" card for more than a week now, and I have had no overheating issue. All the files (except the corrupted files) that were on the card when the problem occurred are back on it. And no issue.
Hope this helps!
Cheers!
Fa

fabecoool said:
Just thought I'd let you know after re-formatting the card:
Complete format with windows, then erase card on the SGS4, which then complained that my card must be formatted, so I formatted it with the phone.
I've been going with the original "faulty" card for more than a week now, and I have had no overheating issue. All the files (except the corrupted files) that were on the card when the problem occurred are back on it. And no issue.
Hope this helps!
Cheers!
Fa
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1.this is a 7.9mm phone
2.the back cover is thin as a sheet of paper
3.the sdSlot has been installed behind the processor (for speed reasons) and it's made of metal components so there s heat transmission
just replace your cover with the stock one of the 9505 black edition and tell me ..anyway i wanna try this solution tnx in advance

charlie878 said:
1.this is a 7.9mm phone
2.the back cover is thin as a sheet of paper
3.the sdSlot has been installed behind the processor (for speed reasons) and it's made of metal components so there s heat transmission
just replace your cover with the stock one of the 9505 black edition and tell me ..anyway i wanna try this solution tnx in advance
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You're not wrong at all, but the fact here is that there was a real problem: it was really hot AND there was a huge drain on the battery, which changing the back cover wouldn't have solved.
Besides, I no longer need to do anything, since after formatting the card, it's back to normal, i.e. no overheating. But you're right that heat reaches the surface of the back cover when e.g. downloading or watching streamed videos for some time.
Cheers!
Fa

The i9500 overheats too, so I'll cehck if the SD Card is the problem next time it happens. Thanks!