Problems with MicroSD card - G2 and Desire Z Accessories

Hey guys, I've been having problems with my memory card lately. The one that came with the phone got damaged (due to me putting it into my card reader backwards) so I got a new one from Walmart. Since then I've had a lot of trouble. It worked ok for a day or two then at work one day I took it out of my locker and it said "bad removal". The card wasn't touched, it was just sitting in my locker. It has happened again a few times. I can temporarily fix it by reseating the card in the slot but it comes back. Now that doesn't even work. It just comes up saying I don't have a card. I've ruined my otterbox case trying to get this working (it won't grip the phone anymore because I've removed it so many times) and I'm very annoyed. I figured I'd ask if anyone has any idea what could be wrong before I go back to Bell with it. By the way, the phone is stock Android 2.2
Edit: Just realized I posted this in the wrong forum. Mod please move?

anyone got any ideas?

What brand of card did you get? Some cheap cards are notorious failing long before their time.
Maybe its defective. If its still pretty new, try to exchange it.
The other issue is that maybe you damaged the card tray when you inserted the card backwards.

This really sounds like you got some b-ware. You should return it to your dealer.

What brand of card did you get?
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It's a Lexar.
Some cheap cards are notorious failing long before their time.
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Two days? Seriously?
Maybe its defective. If its still pretty new, try to exchange it.
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It worked okay for the first day.
This really sounds like you got some b-ware. You should return it to your dealer.
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WTF is b-ware?

Well I went into Bell and they suggested I try another card so they got one of theirs and it worked fine. It's been okay so far so I guess I'll have to keep it. Only problem is I got a 4gb instead of the 8gb from Walmart for the same price. They wanted another 20 for the 8gb. The guy wasn't totally sure what it was but he assumed it was that their cards have been tested with each phone to ensure they work whereas the otehr is just a generic card. And he mentioned something about it being class 6, whatever that is.

My G2 has been experiencing SD card issues for a month or two now. I've been exclusively on CM7 nightlies, but since nobody else seems to have had this issue, I assumed it was me. Usually when using something that accessed my SD card, the phone would "unexpectedly" remove itself. Sometimes a reboot would mount my card again (can't mount through settings), but oftentimes I'd have to wait it out and reboot after a few days/reboot 20 times in hopes that it'd read it. I would re-set my SD card in the slot several times, but it doesn't do anything.
I'm still at the mercy of it and am contemplating unrooting my device to bring it in for warranty because it is a very big issue that is crippling my phone. I purchased a new SD card, but the problems still persist. Multiple data wipes/rom changes have occured as well as formatting said cards, but it's all the same.
Right now I just flashed CM7 stable (card was working [it plays funny, but if I try to use the camera, it usually dies]), and I hope that my card issues are gone, but I am fairly confident it's a hardware issue.

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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.
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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.
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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!!
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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.
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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.
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i am using sandisc (normal) 1 gb and have the problems.
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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.
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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.
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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

[Q] why my htc hd7 reset after every 5 days ?

my htc hd7 driving me crazy and i tried many roms but still the same problem after 5 or 7 days of flashing the new rom my phone suddenly do a hard reset i lost many pictures and many other because of this can any one help me plz​
Sounds very much like a hardware bug. I'd get the phone replaced under warranty if I were you.
Are you flashing stock ROMs or custom ones? The custom ones may be less stable than the stock, but you shouldn't be having the problem you describe anyhow. Does anybody else have access to the phone? It's entirely possible for kids to accidentlaly hard-reset the phone; it takes a little effort but less than you might think.
i flash custom roms and no one touch the except me and my phone warranty expired
It's entirely possible that the custom ROMs are buggy, and even slightly possible that they damaged the phone somehow (not likely, but possible). Have you tried flashing a stock ROM and seeing if the problem continues? Be aware that it will overwrite HSPL if you do so, but it's easier to re-unlock the bootloader than handle constant hard resets.
If that doesn't fix the problem, you're probably SOL. I've not heard of anybody else experiencing what you describe unless it was a hardware problem. I guess you could try opening up the phone (it's tricky but totally possible, especially if you don't mind voiding your already-expired warranty) and re-seating the internal microSD card.
i opened the phone and re-seated the sd card now i must wait 5 days
if it reset again i will try to flash it with the stock rom
I hope that helps! Sorry I can't offer more advice (except to search for anybody else who has had this problem). My HD7 has stayed perfectly stable without a single unexpected hard-reset, so I can't help you from experience.
Have you changed the stock sd card to a higher capacity/different sd card at some point?
This could be the cause, if the card is not 100% compatible/fast enough etc. After 5-7 days of use the memory card could reach a point where it has certaint level of data and the problems start.
EDIT: Asking because you so nonchalantly told you opened the phone and re-seated the sd card, kind of gave me the impression you did it before?
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Have you changed the stock sd card to a higher capacity/different sd card at some point?
This could be the cause, if the card is not 100% compatible/fast enough etc. After 5-7 days of use the memory card could reach a point where it has certaint level of data and the problems start.
EDIT: Asking because you so nonchalantly told you opened the phone and re-seated the sd card, kind of gave me the impression you did it before?
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hhh yes i did it before to change the sd card from 16gb to 8gb class 2
i noticed that if i put the phone in my pocket it became too warm from the down back side maybe this is the cause of the problem
and it get very hot if i put it in charge too
The class 2 card is too slow, stock is class 4. Putting too slow card in the phone can cause all sorts of problems.
I changed on my HTC 7 Pro from SanDisk 8gb class 4 card to SanDisk16 class 2. After 4 days or so it started to cause resets and after little more time programs wouldnt run anymore etc.
Now I ordered a Samsung 32gb class 10 that people all seem to have good results. It was 32eur delivered. The phone is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy faster and no more problems at all. I installed it a week ago.
What I read its not only the class either, some cards seem to have compatibility issues also. This Samsung card seems to be working for everyone, but there are more choises.
The "class" rating on SD cards is a rough measure of their sequential read and write speeds. This is important for things like cameras, which need to rapidly write a lot of data in a smooth sequence. The phone needs a certain amount of this, but not much - Class 4 cards are about as slow as you can buy today, and will do just fine. What the phone does need is extremely fast random access. Many SD cards, especially "high-speed" ones, actually perform relatively poorly in this regard. It's generally not tested for, either, so even within the same brand of card individual chips may vary.
Im sure whats above is correct, I dont know much about the tech side of this.
However Im pretty sure the OP's problems are due to the sd change.
The thing for me and what Ive read for others too, is that the problems do not start right after change of the card, everything looks normal for a while.
yes every looked normal in the first week but before this class 2 8gb sandisk card i tried a normal card calss 4 16gb and it didn't work
Reliable 32gb Samsung SD card ?
@Loco5150
Now I ordered a Samsung 32gb class 10 that people all seem to have good results. It was 32eur delivered. The phone is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy faster and no more problems at all. I installed it a week ago.
What I read its not only the class either, some cards seem to have compatibility issues also. This Samsung card seems to be working for everyone, but there are more choises.[/QUOTE]
I don't suppose you have a link for this Samsung card do you ? I'm a bit wary of buying SD cards due to all the problems with compatibility and fakes.
Thanks
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Well I know about the fake cards, specially on eBay. I bought from eBay , German seller, member since 99 and sells a lot of memory.
The seller seems to have raised the price for the card little since I purchased, I paid 27,90+shipping. (he had +10 sold at that point, now 40)
Here is the link for that :http://www.ebay.de/itm/180835219519.
EDIT: The price seems to be at the right ballpark for this card. I saw similar price (discounted) for the same card on some store link posted here at XDA. It was some of the topics regarding memory upgrade on WP7 device (most likely at HD7 or HTC 7 Pro section).
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Well I know about the fake cards, specially on eBay. I bought from eBay , German seller, member since 99 and sells a lot of memory.
The seller seems to have raised the price for the card little since I purchased, I paid 27,90+shipping. (he had +10 sold at that point, now 40)
Here is the link for that :http://www.ebay.de/itm/180835219519.
EDIT: The price seems to be at the right ballpark for this card. I saw similar price (discounted) for the same card on some store link posted here at XDA. It was some of the topics regarding memory upgrade on WP7 device (most likely at HD7 or HTC 7 Pro section).
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Thanks.
I have to hard reset my phone this weekend due to a bizarre problem with Internet Explorer on my phone, if that doesn't fix it, I may swop out the sd card and flash my first Rom
Do keep us posted on your new card.
Garrickus
Im using Ansar's lates rom btw. When I started to have problems with the old card I didnt flash a new rom, just changed the card and did a hard reset... Tomorrow I think it will be 2 weeks with this new card, no weird behaviour at all.
i changed my memory to sandisk 16 gb calss 4 and now my phone reset and restart many times a day omg i can't find the samsung calss 10 in my town and i can't buy from ebay
There are other cards that work too. You can find more info about cards here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=883582
Read and surely you can find a card you can buy from your city.
where i can find the memory card references?

GS3 destroying SD cards?

My shiny new Galaxy S III has now destroyed two 32gig micro SD cards on me. About two weeks after I installed the first card, my phone started giving messages about the SD card being improperly removed, then it would immediately try to re-mount it, then would say it was removed again, then finally started just repeating the "unable to mount SD card" error until I physically removed the card. I argued with best buy to give me another one, and now today (about two weeks after installing the new one), the same thing happened. I put the card into a USB reader to try it on my computer, and now even my PC does not recognize the card.
Has this happened to anyone else? What can I do to fix this?! I pre-ordered the phone from verizon, so I'm now well out of warranty replacement time.
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My shiny new Galaxy S III has now destroyed two 32gig micro SD cards on me. About two weeks after I installed the first card, my phone started giving messages about the SD card being improperly removed, then it would immediately try to re-mount it, then would say it was removed again, then finally started just repeating the "unable to mount SD card" error until I physically removed the card. I argued with best buy to give me another one, and now today (about two weeks after installing the new one), the same thing happened. I put the card into a USB reader to try it on my computer, and now even my PC does not recognize the card.
Has this happened to anyone else? What can I do to fix this?! I pre-ordered the phone from verizon, so I'm now well out of warranty replacement time.
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I have a 32gb MicroSD card and haven't had a problem. I do wish I could use it more as internal memory rather than hardly usable external storage...but that's a different issue.
Sorry I couldn't help, but just wanted to say that Galaxy S III does support that much external storage. Maybe a hardware issue? Try troubleshooting it with another MicroSD card.
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My shiny new Galaxy S III has now destroyed two 32gig micro SD cards on me. About two weeks after I installed the first card, my phone started giving messages about the SD card being improperly removed, then it would immediately try to re-mount it, then would say it was removed again, then finally started just repeating the "unable to mount SD card" error until I physically removed the card. I argued with best buy to give me another one, and now today (about two weeks after installing the new one), the same thing happened. I put the card into a USB reader to try it on my computer, and now even my PC does not recognize the card.
Has this happened to anyone else? What can I do to fix this?! I pre-ordered the phone from verizon, so I'm now well out of warranty replacement time.
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Gotta be the cards you're getting I would think. I had a 16gb card that came with my Droid x almost 3 years ago in it for almost 2 months before the card finally crashed.(I'd abused that card tho, carried it in my jeans pocket, left it sitting on my table etc) Then I put my 64gb in it. It's been a little over two weeks now and no probs with it. I've written too it and erased and so on so I've actually used it. It's almost full now actually lol.
I have that same 16 GB from the droid x. Do I still need to format it if I flash a ROM? And how do I check what format its in
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My 32gb card was doing that on stock until I finally installed a custom rom. No problem since.
Synergized GS3
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I also had trouble with my external 16gb card after flashing 2 ROMs (synergy & beans v9). I was not even able to get a computer to recognize the sd card after the flashing.
I thought it had to do with using a stock, then rooted stock, then custom kernel. i thought the combination and repeated TBU access over a 4 day period just trashed it. maybe there is more to the story?
1) What is your ROM flashing history (what roms, how long were each installed)?
2) Which rom did you notice the problem on?
3) Were the original and replacement cards the same make/model?
4) What format were the cards in (FAT32, exFAT, or other)?
5) are/have you overclocked your cpu?
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I have that same 16 GB from the droid x. Do I still need to format it if I flash a ROM? And how do I check what format its in
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nope. all i did was take my 16 gig from my droid x (that OEM card is tough) and slap it in my s3.. and it works.
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1) What is your ROM flashing history (what roms, how long were each installed)?
2) Which rom did you notice the problem on?
3) Were the original and replacement cards the same make/model?
4) What format were the cards in (FAT32, exFAT, or other)?
5) are/have you overclocked your cpu?
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Thanks for the responses guys. I'm still fully stock, I haven't done anything to the phone (yet). I don't know what the format was, I just put them straight into my phone and let it do whatever it wanted to do. The original and replacement are the same make and model, from the same store. So before i panicked too much, I was considering buying a new/different card from amazon and seeing if it does the same thing still.
Just didn't know if anyone else was experiencing this, or had any thoughts on why that would randomly happen on a completely stock phone?
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I was considering buying a new/different card from amazon and seeing if it does the same thing still.
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That sounds like your best bet. There are plenty of crappy cards out there. My ADATA 8GB class 10 has been great so far. I have noticed that the GS3 gets really hot right near the cards (micro sd and sim). Can't be great for the cards long term.
I've had my VZW GS3 since 7/5 and have been fine with my card. I've seen plenty of people who've had trouble with FAT32 vs exFAT, but none who have lost their card.
I have seen a ROM break cards before (an early AOSP gingerbread build for the Fascinate claimed one of mine), so I've actually been looking. This is the first thread I've seen.
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That sounds like your best bet. There are plenty of crappy cards out there. My ADATA 8GB class 10 has been great so far. I have noticed that the GS3 gets really hot right near the cards (micro sd and sim). Can't be great for the cards long term.
I've had my VZW GS3 since 7/5 and have been fine with my card. I've seen plenty of people who've had trouble with FAT32 vs exFAT, but none who have lost their card.
I have seen a ROM break cards before (an early AOSP gingerbread build for the Fascinate claimed one of mine), so I've actually been looking. This is the first thread I've seen.
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I've also noticed it gets really hot toward the bottom of the phone. Now that I think of it, both times I noticed the SD card issue right after taking the phone out of my pocket. Maybe it's just getting too hot? I wonder if my case is also holding in a lot of the heat and making it worse? I wish there was a way I could test things without breaking an SD card every time!
My GS3 fried a new 32gb card that I put in it after about 3 weeks. Randomly got an "unreadable SD card error", can't correlate with any specific activity. I reformatted the SD card & it works again in the phone. I was rooted, running stock at the time. Maybe it's the heat, but I don't recall it being hot at the time (I also don't recall it not being hot...)
Try sandisk.I was having problems with lesser brand
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I have been using the 32 GB San Disk brand card that came with my thunderbolt and it's been working great.
I really don't know what could cause that to happen to a card and I haven't noticed any other reports of it happening with this phone.
If it comes down to it VZW SHOULD give you a replacement because it could be something to do with the card slot in the phone. I would try talking to them if you can't get it worked out.
So going on the theory that maybe it's just getting too hot, I just ordered a 16gig sandisk ultra micro SD card. It claims to be "temperature proof", whatever that means. Hopefully that clears things up, otherwise I'll have to deal with Verizon, and I'll be super mad if they give me a refurbished phone when this issue actually started two weeks after I got the phone.
If I don't post back here then you can assume all has gone well!
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same as others, used the same 16gb card from my droid x, transferred to the bionic when it was released, and now have been using it in the GIII since release. no issues.
I don't believe the phones are getting too hot to do the damage. The hottest temp my battery has gotten had been 106 and they say that heat damage isn't even a concern until around 140 or so. I would think the cards could take the same if not more than the batteries.
I had a similar problem, my sd card wasn't destroyed, but it would randomly become unmounted. It started happening after I hooked my phone up to my corporate email and it forced me to encrypt my device. After I removed the corporate account it stopped happening. This was all on stock TouchWiz from the factory.
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My shiny new Galaxy S III has now destroyed two 32gig micro SD cards on me. About two weeks after I installed the first card, my phone started giving messages about the SD card being improperly removed, then it would immediately try to re-mount it, then would say it was removed again, then finally started just repeating the "unable to mount SD card" error until I physically removed the card. I argued with best buy to give me another one, and now today (about two weeks after installing the new one), the same thing happened. I put the card into a USB reader to try it on my computer, and now even my PC does not recognize the card.
Has this happened to anyone else? What can I do to fix this?! I pre-ordered the phone from verizon, so I'm now well out of warranty replacement time.
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I have had my 64gb SD card for a month and so far nothing went wrong. did you buy your SD cards from a reputable source? I have always used sandisk SD cards try buying one from Sandisk or even Samsung. if you bought your card from ebay make sure the card works, I have heard that some times people sell damaged cards for very cheap. But other than that good luck.
16 GB class 10 sandisk 30 mb/s version died on me with this phone after 2 weeks, stock ROM, formatted with phone. It was brand new.
The error I had was it became read only. And no it was not fixable, I tried everything. Low level format, checking permissions, different OS's, putting it in SD adapter and messing with lock switch on there.
I read class 10s are more prone to die quicker and aren't necessarily better, but just different from a lower class. Ie a lower class will last longer because it read and writes differently and doesn't skip certain safeties like a class 10 does.
Running a class 4 16gb sandisk now and it is annoyingly slow.
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Your SD card likely isn't the problem

I was going to post this in response to a couple of people in the development sections but my post count is too low so I'll post it here instead.
The SD slot in this phone seems to have an issue with corrupting SD cards, I've had to format both my old and new SD card multiple times with this phone as it becomes unusable every few days. I'm not versed enough in hardware to know if this is a bad connection between the SD slot and the "motherboard" of the phone. I've seen a number of people have their SD cards go bad with this phone and I assume that means we had a manufacturing issue. It would be really cool if a hardware hacker experiencing this issue could take a look inside and confirm whether or not the hardware is connected correctly.
Well, perhaps there's a high number of bad readers....
I've had the same card in my Q since the day I got it (mid-September), no issues.
Mine wouldn't read the day I swapped up from My Epic 4g Touch to This phone, So I popped in an sd reader backed up my data then let the Moto format it, no issues sence
Curious to know what class of card you guys are running. I've been running a Patriot class 10 but my previous was a class 4 without branding that came with my old Transform.
I'm really hoping that I just had my old SD card die at a bad time and that my newer SD card was just sent bad. Today I couldn't get the card to read from the SD slot in my computer, and it would not be cool if my phone caused it to become that way.
Solust said:
Curious to know what class of card you guys are running. I've been running a Patriot class 10 but my previous was a class 4 without branding that came with my old Transform.
I'm really hoping that I just had my old SD card die at a bad time and that my newer SD card was just sent bad. Today I couldn't get the card to read from the SD slot in my computer, and it would not be cool if my phone caused it to become that way.
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Class 10 Maxell
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2074251
No issues here. I tossed the crappy class 2/4 that shipped with my Epic long ago.
Well I found an extra class 4, 2 GB SD card lying around the house when I was cleaning today. It may be that the local shipment of phones was bad, so if this SD card goes on me then I'll try exchanging the phone in another town just to be safe.
Just out of curiosity does anyone know whether Sprint orders enough phones for replacements with their original shipments? I'm not from a very large town so I'd imagine they would keep replacing with phones from the same batch.
I've got a Samsung 32GB class 10 mSD.
Nearly everytime I reboot my Photon Q it says "SD Card is damaged".
Go into settings, Mount SD Card once or twice and it works.
I've read, that other Android Devices have also problems with that size of SD Cards. (Google)
I had also problem in recovery restoring a backup, the restore process didn't went correctly
(said that everything was fine), had to use my 2GB mSD, which worked nicely and the backup also.
So I think it's an android/kernel issue than a hardware issue.
I have noticed that I get the corrupt sdcard error everytime I try to use the "mass storage" or "media device" setting with Windows.
I use Ubuntu 99% of the time and leave it connected in "camera" mode, have never had that pop up like that...
I usually just use ADB to copy everything anyway so I do not miss the "mass storage" mode at all.
Just had a 16gb class 10 microcenter branded card go belly up on me. Phone just all of a sudden said it was removed and now nothing seems to recognize the thing. The mount option is completely greyed out, and does the same on my note 10.1 if i pop it in there.
When your cards have gone did they completely disappear and refuse to read?
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I wonder if it's the c10 cards...
You guys really shouldn't be using high class cards in a phone - there's really no benefit, as phones use SD card's very differently from camcorders or cameras...
On my ooooold phone, anything above Class6 was bad juju. I have always had class4 or lower cards, no fried cards (yet... lol)
kinda what I am feeling too. Not sure what class card I have but it was just a cheap 32gb from wallmart... Only had that error pop up once with this one though, and that was after trying to use usb storage.
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arrrghhh said:
I wonder if it's the c10 cards...
You guys really shouldn't be using high class cards in a phone - there's really no benefit, as phones use SD card's very differently from camcorders or cameras...
On my ooooold phone, anything above Class6 was bad juju. I have always had class4 or lower cards, no fried cards (yet... lol)
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Class 10 shouldn't make a difference to a device. The class/speed only comes in to play when transferring data from/to a computer, which will be faster on Class 10 vs Class 4 or 6.
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arrrghhh said:
I wonder if it's the c10 cards...
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As best as I can tell, thats a negative. Ive been running with a 32GB class 10 since around when the phone was released, and Ive had no issues. Quite surprising on its own, seeing as I abuse the poor thing. True that class 10 arnt useful for the phone specifically, but some shops only carry class 10 cards.
@hfase
I dont seem to have any issues with mass storage, with ~1GB written a day. Im quite curious as to why some people have this issue.
ADegtyarev said:
As best as I can tell, thats a negative. Ive been running with a 32GB class 10 since around when the phone was released, and Ive had no issues. Quite surprising on its own, seeing as I abuse the poor thing. True that class 10 arnt useful for the phone specifically, but some shops only carry class 10 cards.
@hfase
I dont seem to have any issues with mass storage, with ~1GB written a day. Im quite curious as to why some people have this issue.
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Maybe it's all down to the quality of the actual card itself?
Perhaps the cheaper no-name / off-name brands have a much higher failure rate....?
I'm not really sure, short of actual hardware issues on the device.
AW: Your SD card likely isn't the problem
Well here is my experience:
I am using a new san disk 32GB class10 micro sdcard. It was never format ed/ used before. The q itself formated the disk.
I have had no problems until using the twisted asanti prebuild
Version. Since then I only got problems with the qu saying the sdcard would be corrupt, after reboot. ( I expected some additional wired things, like the currents widget, which I deleted before reboot reappeared). So I would suggest it is an error in un mounting the sdcard before shutdown, which causes this failure.
Since I usually do not reboot the phone expect for flashing new roms, I had no trouble since then.
Hope this might help to further circle the problem, and maybe find a solution for this.
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Since CM10 I haven't noticed any SD-Card issues, but I have the feeling, that there are some issues, which aren't detected.
In the last few days my CM10 was acting weird.
1. The gallery (together with the camera app, 2in1 app) disappeared in the App Drawer (was still in /system/app) and didn't appear again after overwriting gallery2.apk again.
2. The Google Weather App had a graphical issue, so I was sure, that there was a flash issue by restoring ASA14 and flashing CM10 (from SD-Card!).
I solved this issue in copying the nandroid backup and CM10 to the phone and flash it from there.
I have tested my SD-Card in my external cardreader, it had no issues in doing so.
My guess is, that the SD-Card needs more power than the Photon Q can give and is losing some read/write commands.
arrrghhh said:
Maybe it's all down to the quality of the actual card itself?
Perhaps the cheaper no-name / off-name brands have a much higher failure rate....?
I'm not really sure, short of actual hardware issues on the device.
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I think This may have hit the nail on the head. I have had a couple cheap discount cards die but they really died. Cant even read in the PC and one even got really hot when plugged in. Got a good branded card from amazon and havent had a problem since.
Mordannon said:
I think This may have hit the nail on the head. I have had a couple cheap discount cards die but they really died. Cant even read in the PC and one even got really hot when plugged in. Got a good branded card from amazon and havent had a problem since.
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I've used better Samsung and Sandisk cards and have had this issue. It just randomly wipes all my data and creates the LOST.DIR with it all in there, but file names are all renamed and would takes years to sort through and try to figure out what is what. All my photos, music, etc.. were basically gone then. It didn't matter that the card was a name-brand or not. I've had the issue with several cards.
I constantly have this problem as well, and I've found that mounting the SD card with a reader or in another phone in a Linux environment fixes it for the most part. I think files still get lost, but you get most of what you had back.
I got a 32GB UHS1 card last week and it hasn't had a problem.

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