So I can't figure out the cause of this but here are the facts and the dilema.
The issue - Phone gets really hot, battery drastically drops (I mean from 75% to 25% in under 10 mins), cannot read the SD card, if I try to wipe cache and davlik cache and reboot the phone automatically reboots into recovery. Thankfully after pulling sd card, sim card, and battery I was able to get the phone to boot up properly again, but today the issue started again. I haven't wiped dalvik or cache today because the phone won't read the sd card.
My thories on causes: (1)phone was sitting my my sink in the morning and some water leaked to where the phone was sitting, the sticker is now pinkish-white, but the phone was never submerged in water it was a mere puddle, (2) I purchased a new sd card, could be a bunk card causing issues, (3) I am running Weapons but haven't seen anyone else with this issue. I haven't downloaded any new apps.
Any thoughts?
Let's see...
1. So was it OK before you put it in the sink this morning?
2. Does it run OK without the new SD card?
A. I didn't put it in the sink - water sprayed from the faucet to the area of the phone. It really did not get that wet, and as I stated the sticker is mostly white with some pink on it.
B. Update - I took the sd card out and no more overheating or battery issues. WTF? I am going to put the old 8 gb card in when I get home. I bought a 16 gb class 4 SanDisk on Amazon.
Has anyone else had this issue?
try a different kernel, or a different rom all together (while testing different kernels)
expect to flash it many many times and playing around with apps and titanium backup (or your favourite app manager/uninstaller/backuper) before you get DAT setup
i say kernel specifically because maybe it's not using the sd card efficiently
more likely i would think though is that maybe you had a bad app(le) killing the phone that happened to be installed on said sd card
Man of La Mancha said:
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1. So was it OK before you put it in the sink this morning?
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LOL! LG made him do it!
Sorry OP, but that was funny.
Update, went back to old SD card and there are no issues. Contacted seller of SD card and got a full refund after sending links to several other sites reporting the same issue.
As I stated the wate exposure was minimal - my blackberry's sticker turned pink when I had the phone in my pocket in a rainstorm - but thanks for the childish comments - you guys are real winners.
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On the average once a day my phone "loses" the SD card. Things will be working fine, but then suddenly it won't be able to find the apps I've got installed to my ext2 partition, nor will it be able to see the fat32 partition.
When it happens, I've got to shut the phone down, take out and reseat the card.
I've swapped out my sd card and tried another one and it's exhibiting the same behavior, so I don't think that's the issue. Seems to have started happening around the time I installed the JF 1.43 update.
Anybody else having this issue? Or could it be that my phone's just starting to go bad?
sounds like hardware to me :-/
hopefully someone has a tip you can try
alapapa said:
sounds like hardware to me :-/
hopefully someone has a tip you can try
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That's what it sounds like to me. It's annoying but usable at this point. If it gets worse, though, I guess I'll have to send it back and get a refurb unit.
I had the same problem with the sdcard the phone came with but it went away after upgrading it.
I had this problem too and what I've found may sound really stupid, but keep in mind it's an observation, not a statement of fact...
It seems that the SD card is REALLY sensative to temperature. I live in Vancouver and over the the winter, we've had anything from below zero to above, I've noticed that whenever the phone was in the cold, the SD card would never stay mounted, but recently in the warm weather, the I haven't had a single problem with it becoming "lost" sounds stupid, but it could be your problem to if you live in a colder climate. Mind you it still gets lost, but a simple reseat of the SD card normally fixes this for me.
Meeker
I've had a similar issue wasnt sure what was causing it. The I noticed that I fiddle with the sdcard door. After doing that the card wouldnt show up anymore so i think I dislodged it slightly. Never know could be the issue.
i had this very VERY strange thing happen. On my universal i upgraded it to WM6.1. I was very nervous about bricking my phone at first, but everything went well, and i used my phone for about 6 months. Then all of a sudden, i'm walking down the street one day, and i get a phone call, and my phone decides to turn on the "Low Battery alarm" at the same time i pickup the call...
My phone completely freezes, and so i reboot my phone, and i get this "No SIM card" error. Which, i know there is a SIM card in there, because i didn't take it out, and it was working just fine only 30 seconds prior.
So, i went home, swapped out the SIM card to one of my old SIM cards (a number from a previous city) and viola! No SIM Card error.
Something happened to my phone at that moment in time and just like FRIED my SIM card. So, easy solution, i just go and get a replacement SIM card. Ok , DONE.
....Happy pimpin with my HTC Univeral, right?... WRONG....
At the same time this happened, my SD card slot just seemed to STOP working. Which is really weird. I even tried enabling some system background processes and whatnot, ...basiclly turning EVERY process on. But that still had no effect.
And i can do almost nothing useful with this device now except for make phone calls and do SMS. Having a large brick in my pocket just for phone calls is a bit of an overkill i think.
So , any suggestions? How do i get my SD card working again.
BTW, i'm in china, and every repair shop that i went to REFUSES to touch any HTC phone. There seems to be a massive education gap. But if i had a nokia phone it would be no problem for them....
*sigh* STUPID CHINKS!
*grunts*
any thoughts on how to solve this problem with the SD Card?
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any thoughts on how to solve this problem with the SD Card?
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Hi welcome to forum and well you can try to flash another rom and see if it works or not.. if it doesn't then might be hardware problem...
i'm downloading the original WM5 ROM now, and will try to reflash it tonight. I really never needed WM6, except for when i was at university (here in china), they had a problem with the CAT5 cabling, and had to redo all of it. And so the entire dorm was out of internet for 1 month. So i used my phone as a WiFi router to share my 3G data connection with my notebook. For some reason, the software would only work properly with WM6... *sigh*....
now i have a 3G Net card for my notebook....hehe
^_^
Details please?
Which ROM?
What SD card?Make?Capacity?
How is battery working?
Did you try ANY other cards?
Did you try formatting it?
Because SD cards getting corrupt is a very comman thing.
I did lost three 4GB SD cards last year and one 8GB SDHC. ( all made in China )
So I know how it feels.
Damaged SIM...it never happened to me.
As a rule in china... NEVER under any circumstances buy anything without a warrenty. HAHA. I've been here for like 4 years. But with that aside...
i can put the same SD card in my computer, and it reads just fine.
I have even changed from formatting it as FAT32 to FAT16, and still it doesn't register.
I have had the same problems with the 4GB cards too. Unless they're really high quality, they're kinda crappy and prone to defect. However, the card(s) that i have are low capacity. 512 MB, and 2 GB. So there wouldn't be any issues with the capacity of them being too large.
Ok, this sucks....when i try to reflash my phone back to WM5,.....it says i have the wrong image ERROR code 100 i think it is.
But i downloaded the Factory image from this forum for WM5.
I have WM6.1 on it now, so....how do i downgrade? Just reflash?
BTW, this is an English Language Version. So that shouldn't be too conflicting.
DaoMingJin said:
Ok, this sucks....when i try to reflash my phone back to WM5,.....it says i have the wrong image ERROR code 100 i think it is.
But i downloaded the Factory image from this forum for WM5.
I have WM6.1 on it now, so....how do i downgrade? Just reflash?
BTW, this is an English Language Version. So that shouldn't be too conflicting.
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have a look on the Wiki
Perhaps using the MTTY app can help you
Good luck,
i found the reason why it failed....that rom is not ENGLISH
my SD card dissapered on my UNI when my battery got old. it seems it just didnt have enough power. I put an old SD card in and that works but i got a new battery within a week.
whenever my universal didn't have enough power for the SD card , it would sound the low battery alarm, and then tell me it didn't have enough power for the SD card.
I would think that if i can still run wifi for 40 minutes or so (on a full charge), there should be enough amps in the battery to turn on the SD card....at least...one would think *grin*
Ok, well, i somehow managed to get my phone flashed to WM5......using the German WM5 ROM mind you
It's actually not in german, everything is in english. Anyways, whenever i put an SD card in, it still doesn't show up.
The IO conctroller used in Uni usually never die.
I would suggest you to unmount the device, use a hot air gun on the SD socket connector and nearest different points.
regards
So last night for the second time i get a red triangle notification that tells me my SDcard was unmounted unexpectedly, basically it thought i removed it but obviously i didn't since u can't even reach it with the battery in. I'm assuming its a hardware defect. In order to fix it i have to remove the SD card and reinsert it.
Anybody else have this problem?
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Thats a HW defect, if you are rooted, unroot and take it back. They will give you a brand new device.
That's what I'm going to do, only problem is i bent the kickstand and left tool marks when i fixed it
Sent from my ADR6400L
What is the HW defect? This problem of having my sd card unmounting unexpectedly happend only twice, does doing a FAT32 format help? When this would happen to you, was it happening all the time? Thanks, any info will help
Hi all,
Having the same **** here, SDcard was unmounted unexpectedly....
OK.... trying to tell what happened:
I have the phone since Jan 2011 (HTC DHD) I bricked my digitizer and 2 weeks ago I was brave enough to open it to try to replace the digitizer, but gave it up as the display/Digitizer unit was glued....
However, after I put the DHD together again Problems with SD-Card...
By now - I ruled out for myself that it is not software related, as I Wiped the phone fully (formated /data , /system , /cache and so on) and installed a rom, I never had this problem before with - but now I have...
Also I tested with other SD-Card and having the same problem (SD Card Kingston 2 GB and Sandisk Class4 23GB)
So as Said I can rule out the Software and the SDCard itself....
I'll disassemble the phone again to see if there is maybe a loose connector...
If you don't hear from me again this solved my problem
Kind Regards,
Der Matte
OK.... I am Happy to say that I belive that I fixed my issue.....
as stated before, I opened the device and put it together and then I got the error as described above....
Now I just took a few tools and opened it again....
2 things I found wich were not 100%
1: connector to the mainboard was bended a tiny bit but looked correctly seated anyway...
2: very close to the SD-Card reader unit (the slot where you push in the card...) there is a bit of tape... half of it is isolated - half of it is not esolated to get the ground connected to the frame....
I placed the sticker 180 degrees... so the isolated part was not at the right place...
I corrected this - so far all is working again....
So I presume... as I had a Hardware issue in the phone (fair enough caused by myself) all the people having the same symptomps are having a HW problem as well.....
So Now I am optimistic, to get my digitizer replaced too - but this time I will get better tools first
Hope this helps all the other people having these symptoms
If the error comes back, I will update this....
My device HTC DHD
Der Matte...
Had the same issue with my S3.
Turned out that the SD card was dying (the card brand is Team Group), this caused it to be unmounted by itself and then mounted again (sometimes showing notification “sd card removed unexpectedly”), hence triggering the “Media” scanning process and significantly draining the battery.
I created an application to monitor how many times the SD card was removed, and turned out to be unmounted every ~3 mins!!!
I then bought a new Transcend 32GB Class 10 card (made in Korea), and until now, this never happens, no reports from the application whatsoever, and no media process eating my battery.
I just published this app in the play store now, this is the link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sdcardmonitor
i had bought a 16 gb micro sd and it's been like 4 month and in this 4 month my memory card corrputed like 10 times
today my memory card corrupted because i was playing blood and glory and after half an hour phone turned off and when i turned it back on nothing showed checked my app in manage and it showed all my app are corrupted can any one tell me how can i stop my memory card from corrupting because i don't want to keep moving 16 gb files every after 2-3 weeks plyus it's annoying
please help me with this because i really dont want this to happen
i'm using class 10 microsd that's has it no name on it
Shery4life said:
i had bought a 16 gb micro sd and it's been like 4 month and in this 4 month my memory card corrputed like 10 times
today my memory card corrupted because i was playing blood and glory and after half an hour phone turned off and when i turned it back on nothing showed checked my app in manage and it showed all my app are corrupted can any one tell me how can i stop my memory card from corrupting because i don't want to keep moving 16 gb files every after 2-3 weeks plyus it's annoying
please help me with this because i really dont want this to happen
i'm using class 10 microsd that's has it no name on it
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It might just be a naff uSD card. I've had a couple of cards fail totally (Nokia, Desire & Sensation). The general advice seems to be to buy a uSD card made by recognised manufacturer (e.g. SanDisk).
On the other hand you say: "after half an hour phone turned off". Was it a complete power off in the middle of playing the game ? If so it might be fair enough if it's part way through writing stuff to the uSD card.
Has it been the same situation each time prior to having the corruption ?
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It might just be a naff uSD card. I've had a couple of cards fail totally (Nokia, Desire & Sensation). The general advice seems to be to buy a uSD card made by recognised manufacturer (e.g. SanDisk).
On the other hand you say: "after half an hour phone turned off". Was it a complete power off in the middle of playing the game ? If so it might be fair enough if it's part way through writing stuff to the uSD card.
Has it been the same situation each time prior to having the corruption ?
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mostly it just get corrupted for no reason
but coulpe of time it happened straight after i took it off from my pc and forgot to do safe eject and it got corrupted
and today while the game was on my phone turned off completely and after i turned it back on the files were corrupted
Shery4life said:
mostly it just get corrupted for no reason
but coulpe of time it happened straight after i took it off from my pc and forgot to do safe eject and it got corrupted
and today while the game was on my phone turned off completely and after i turned it back on the files were corrupted
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Hmm,
1) mostly for no reason, no idea.
2) forgot to safe eject from the PC. Well we know the possible reason for that.
3) probably the same issue as 2) just on the phone instead of the PC.
1 ?? Might just be a card on the threshold of failing.
2 & 3 are probably due to the fact that the device was still being written to when it was suddenly not there. FAT can be a bit sensitive like that.
Try to unmount your SD card, take it off phone then put it in again, reboot.
Hope this helps!
My wife's sensation did the same thing, I had to take out the SD and put it into my SD card reader on my laptop, format it and then put it back in the phone. The phone then wanted to format it again which it did and now it seems fine.
By the way, the data was intact when I put it in my SDcard reader. I was able to back up the data before I formatted it.
i say quickly buy another 16gig micro sd for $8.00!!!
im trying not to advertise here but this is a deal that cant be missed, and i have order from this site so i can vouch its a legit site too thats where i got my 32ig for 20 bucks
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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..
Sent from my GT-I9500 using xda premium
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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!