hiya i wonder if any1 can help!
basically my phone was telling me my sd card had been removed (no big deal i thought, this seems to happen to my phone from time to time since running this ROM (bruce2728's cm10)).
i can usually either remove the sd card and put back in, or the same with the battery to get it working again. but no matter how many times i try it wont work. also when using this ROM (and before this problem) every time that i try to enter storage from the settings menu, settings force closes.
so completely out of ideas i tried doing a wipe and trying again. now u see im fairly new to all this and that seems to get touted as a way to fix some things, so i thought id give it a go.
but now my phone wont get past the white with green HTC logo, its been sat like that for about an hour! and in recovery it just says that it cannot mount sd card!!
i feel im firmly up **** creek. is there any way to fix this? perhaps a way to flash a ROM without using sd card to a phone that wont boot up?
i feel i might need to flash a new bootanimation.img as i changed this from the default in the ROM, could i also do this without an sd card or a phone that wont get past HTC logo?
i hope there is someone out there that can help!
thank you in advance,
Max
I would install ARHD from Mike1986 it seems to help resettle the device running a sense ROM. Make sure you follow his instructions using ext4 and super wipe
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if you are S-ON enable smartflash first from 4ext and then flash the rom
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if you are S-ON enable smartflash first from 4ext and then flash the rom
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yeah thats what i always do but because i cant access my sd card i cant flash the ROM which is saved on it. it just keeps saying cant mount /sdcard
Max792 said:
yeah thats what i always do but because i cant access my sd card i cant flash the ROM which is saved on it. it just keeps saying cant mount /sdcard
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The recovery won't pick up the SD card? That is very odd. Do you have any others around to test with?
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heavy_metal_man said:
The recovery won't pick up the SD card? That is very odd. Do you have any others around to test with?
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I'm assuming you've tried pulling the battery, unseating the sd card, reseating it, putting battery back, and going to recovery right?
If that doesn't work I'd suggest trying to read the sd in card in a PC... is it readable there?
All in all you can get to recovery so you arent that bad off, just need to figure out what's up with the SD.
Yes I can view my SD card on both my PC and my tablet :/ but when I boot into 4ext it says problem mounting SD card, may take longer without. Then when 4ext loads I can't manually mount SD or browse for zip file. You think this is more likely a hardware issue with my sensation?
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Yes I can view my SD card on both my PC and my tablet :/ but when I boot into 4ext it says problem mounting SD card, may take longer without. Then when 4ext loads I can't manually mount SD or browse for zip file. You think this is more likely a hardware issue with my sensation?
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On your PC, copy all your files off your SD card, format your SD card (makes sure the filesystem is set to fat32), and then just put 1 file on it, a ROM, and see if the recovery detects it. If that doesn't work then you can always try using a different SD card.
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On your PC, copy all your files off your SD card, format your SD card (makes sure the filesystem is set to fat32), and then just put 1 file on it, a ROM, and see if the recovery detects it. If that doesn't work then you can always try using a different SD card.
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Okay thanks I will try this, but I think its the SD card tray that has gone because I just squeezed it and it was able to mount, however only for a second then 4ext rebooted
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Max792 said:
i can usually either remove the sd card and put back in, or the same with the battery to get it working again. but no matter how many times i try it wont work. also when using this ROM (and before this problem) every time that i try to enter storage from the settings menu, settings force closes.
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This isn't part of your SD card problem. This was a ROM bug that was fixed in the Jan 9th update. Any use of the storage menu from the settings on the late December to Jan 6th builds caused a FC.
So if you are using one of those builds, don't factor in th esettings FC in your diagnosis of the problem.
SD card ejections were also an issue on the Dec 21 - Jan 3rd builds if I recall correctly. I had one day where the SD card would just unmount and refused to remount. It was a problem experienced by only a handful of people and seemed to be very limited. Though if you can't mount in recovery than that's probably not the issue.
Also, you said you could press the SD card into the slot and it mounted for a second...
2 things on that note.
First, your SD card might be the problem. Maybe the contacts are worn out. Take a lcose look at it and make sure it looks okay. No corrosion, etc...
Second, the metal housing around the SD card...that can be mashed in slightly to put more pressure on the card. Take the card out and press the middle of that housing in. It could create enough force to hold the card in more securely. Be VERY careful with this option though.
Also, did you make sure another SD card got the same problem? If another card works, then your card is just f'ed.
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This isn't part of your SD card problem. This was a ROM bug that was fixed in the Jan 9th update. Any use of the storage menu from the settings on the late December to Jan 6th builds caused a FC.
So if you are using one of those builds, don't factor in th esettings FC in your diagnosis of the problem.
SD card ejections were also an issue on the Dec 21 - Jan 3rd builds if I recall correctly. I had one day where the SD card would just unmount and refused to remount. It was a problem experienced by only a handful of people and seemed to be very limited. Though if you can't mount in recovery than that's probably not the issue.
Also, you said you could press the SD card into the slot and it mounted for a second...
2 things on that note.
First, your SD card might be the problem. Maybe the contacts are worn out. Take a lcose look at it and make sure it looks okay. No corrosion, etc...
Second, the metal housing around the SD card...that can be mashed in slightly to put more pressure on the card. Take the card out and press the middle of that housing in. It could create enough force to hold the card in more securely. Be VERY careful with this option though.
Also, did you make sure another SD card got the same problem? If another card works, then your card is just f'ed.
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cheers mate helped a lot. i did actually see that kind of talk in the thread but kind of passed over it because it hadnt affected me... yet!
if it was a ROM bug i feel im totally f'ed as i cant flash a new version due to the inaccessible sd card.
yeah ive been doing this exact mashing you speak of lol, hopefully it will work or i am completely out of ideas :\
cheers everybody for your help tho guys really appreciate it
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cheers mate helped a lot. i did actually see that kind of talk in the thread but kind of passed over it because it hadnt affected me... yet!
if it was a ROM bug i feel im totally f'ed as i cant flash a new version due to the inaccessible sd card.
yeah ive been doing this exact mashing you speak of lol, hopefully it will work or i am completely out of ideas :\
cheers everybody for your help tho guys really appreciate it
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Find the exact rom you were on and take the boot IMG out of it. Wipe your data and cache and then boot to fastboot. With the boot.IMG
In your adb folder do fastboot boot boot.IMG and see if it boots into the rom.
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okay, so i've found myself in a bit of a pickle. Recently I've been running the CM7 nightly's, but today I tried out the RoyalGinger rom and I believe it either corrupted my SD card or it's blocking my SD card from being used/read.
Tried several times to reformat it but each time it said 'checking SD card', but the weird thing is I have an active wireless connection, but I'm not getting texts. I can download from market, get on Facebook, etc, but my texts won't come in until I reboot the phone. A few times I booted it up and it wouldn't allow me to even see my homescreen because it'd pop up with EVERY app force closing (including google services, framework, etc), I was able to get back to my homescreen by clearing by Dalvik Cache luckily, however I'm still unable to do most anything. I went in to wipe/restore but it says cannot find SD card, directory invalid, cannot mount, etc.
Is there a way to reformat my SD card through terminal? If so could I get the code procedure for it? or anyone have any ideas other than picking up a new micro (which isn't a big deal but I'm strapped on money til Friday) but i'd still prefer to know that it's JUST my SD card and not my phone memory. Anyone? Anyone? Beuler? Beuler? Thanks in advance. I'm really sorry if I posted this in the wrong section, but c'mon, everyone gets one.
Ok so do u have a stock backup rom? Ide say go to rom manager and go to recovery and whipe etc.. Then install that stock back on it.....And can ur sd card even read at all? Just get any.file manager and check your sd.
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I think I have a backup rom of CM6, but not an actual android stock rom. It won't allow me because it says 'must have an SD card inserted' then it says must have clockwork mod recovery installed, which I do, the current version. Now that it says that I'm afraid to boot my phone into recovery, and I can't really tell if my SD card will read. I was able to use my file manager and the entire SD folder is blank.
ten minutes later: still boots into recovery, none of my backups are available on it. I was thinking about downloading a rom from the phone and trying that way, but I don't know if it'd save to the (apparently unreadable) SD card.
Ok try this...... Find out what recovery you use 3.0.0.5 or the normal 2.5.1.4 for froyo then download a rom thats the same recovery as the one u have on it right now...... If its the same as your cyanogenmod 6 then install that from the recovery manually!!!
if its not then download a rom that is and make sure you use a file manager to see if the download sticks in your sdcard. And if it doesnt stick then......your problem sir might be a corrupted sdcard, or a phone that cant read your sd.
Hope its not either or, so give it a shot.....
And ur supposed to have a stock backup as soon as you root and switch roms man Lol makes life easier
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And ur supposed to have a stock backup as soon as you root and switch roms man Lol makes life easier
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Lol agreed that's saved me a couple times now
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It sounds like he doesn't have access to his sdcard. It doesn't matter how many backups you make if that's the case...
If you happen to have a sdcard reader or a microsd usb adapter you could format it in windows, copy the files you need, and start again. Also did you try connecting to your pc and seeing if it's readable that way? You can format the card if your pc recognizes it. If you have adb set up you can push the recovery image to the phone without a sdcard. But once again without a working sdcard you won't be able to flash a new rom.
Hey guys I'm pretty sure it's just my SD card. I tried saving an image, just to test it and it says 'an SD card is required to download images.bin', so I'm HOPING it's just my SD Card, however my notifications are working properly so I can at least deal with it til friday, if it IS my SD card reader in the phone, well... I have a plan for that, however due to already technically breaking that I shouldn't go into it. Thanks to you guys for taking the time to post and if you know anything else that might help me I'd gladly accept it.
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It sounds like he doesn't have access to his sdcard. It doesn't matter how many backups you make if that's the case...
If you happen to have a sdcard reader or a microsd usb adapter you could format it in windows, copy the files you need, and start again. Also did you try connecting to your pc and seeing if it's readable that way? You can format the card if your pc recognizes it. If you have adb set up you can push the recovery image to the phone without a sdcard. But once again without a working sdcard you won't be able to flash a new rom.
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Hi, I have a reader on my laptop but not the adapter, so I can't tell and yes, you were right, I can't see any of my backups (which I have my stock, then cm6 and cm7) so I either need to find an adapter or get a new SD card. luckily I pulled all of my camera images off my phone last night when I put the new rom .zip on the phone sd, so I'm not really worried about 'losing' anything as long as I get my phone working back in proper condition.
Well that happened to me before as well.. All i did was replace sd cards lets the phone do its thing flash a different rom like CM6 or CM7 and then once replaced i got the adapter for my old sd card reformatted through windows and put it right back in and it worked.. So try that?
Ill have to. Thanks a lot guys I do appreciate any comments and suggestions and ill be picking up a new sd later thia week to fix it but can amyone recommend a good brand sd to pick up? the apparently failed one was a samsung 8gb
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Hp is very good, u probably can find one with 8 gb. At best buy.. But if u want a 32 gb then thats online all day
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I usually use sandisk so yeah try that?
Something similar happened to me. Your SD card likely has a bad or corrupted file. I used Win7 to copy over what I could to a folder in my PC. The Win7 automatically refused to copy over the corrupted files while carrying over everything else. In XP, your file transfer stops and you have to try again to ensure you have everything that's not corrupted transferred over.
After copying, I just went ahead and formatted the SD to FAT32, transferred everything back, installed on my phone, and voila.
Go into recovery and partition the card. You'll lose everything on it but it should be useable after that
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So out of the blue a notification pops up about the sd card being blank????? This is a fairly new card only used it a hand full of times..... Windows does not recognize it said insert card..... Only time i have seen that was with protected cards like Wp7...... Good thing i can still recover the data..... Wonder if it could have been electromagnetic waves from the solar flair..... Is this related to the sd card issue in other threads.....
Edit : Well I got it fixed had to do a low level format, reset write protect, full format with windows, then format on atrix 2 followed by transferring my backup .img..... Good thing i backup every few days..... If anyone needs the tools i used just let me know.....
What are you using to backup?
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What are you using to backup?
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I use Roadkil's DiskImage v1.6 to backup my sd card..... Pop my sd card out when I do any changes I do not want to lose pick store image about 5 min later i am fully backed..... As for my android system I have yet to install cwm link for it is down.....
I have an 8gb card that seems to be dead. My phone don't recognize it, windows doesn't recognize it, all signs say it's toast. I'm interested in any tools you have so that I can check one more time before I just toss it. I'm sure it's done for, but sure it can't hurt to double check.
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I have an 8gb card that seems to be dead. My phone don't recognize it, windows doesn't recognize it, all signs say it's toast. I'm interested in any tools you have so that I can check one more time before I just toss it. I'm sure it's done for, but sure it can't hurt to double check.
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My card was like that @ first but this worked ..... First try this out http://hddguru.com/software/HDD-LLF-Low-Level-Format-Tool/ it should detect the sd card..... run the low level format it will return a bunch of errors that's ok just let it finsh ..... next you can try to format with windows if that does not work try this https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/eula_windows/ should get you back going.....
Nope, none of those recognized the card. I swapped some know good ones to be certain, and they showed, but not the 8gb. It was a cheapo that I don't even remember where I got it, so F-it/ lol
Thanks for the reply and the tools though, I appreciate it nonetheless.
I'm about ready to send my phone back and get a warranty replacement. But I just did a fresh wipe/format of the the sd cards and then reloaded all my rom and kernel. Running ICS using Owain/Harsh combo and I checked the Vold fstab and it has an 8 not a 9. also loaded a gb rom first because that's what the dev thread said to do. New to the forum not new to rom replacement. trying to get braver about asking for help. It sees the external and switches it back and forth every boot and even mid boot. no recognition of the internal hence why I want to just warranty replace the thing. I'm at my end please guys give me some suggestions
thanks anyone who can throw in some ideas.
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I'm about ready to send my phone back and get a warranty replacement. But I just did a fresh wipe/format of the the sd cards and then reloaded all my rom and kernel. Running ICS using Owain/Harsh combo and I checked the Vold fstab and it has an 8 not a 9. also loaded a gb rom first because that's what the dev thread said to do. New to the forum not new to rom replacement. trying to get braver about asking for help. It sees the external and switches it back and forth every boot and even mid boot. no recognition of the internal hence why I want to just warranty replace the thing. I'm at my end please guys give me some suggestions
thanks anyone who can throw in some ideas.
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what do you mean by they are swtiching? do you mean mounts it as /emmc then /sdcard? i really hope not cause that sounds bad...
make a backup, and flash a gingerbread rom and let it boot fully to check if the problem is still happening, then report back.
also, before you warranty it, try putting back a completely stock rom and see if the problem is still there.
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what do you mean by they are swtiching? do you mean mounts it as /emmc then /sdcard? i really hope not cause that sounds bad...
make a backup, and flash a gingerbread rom and let it boot fully to check if the problem is still happening, then report back.
also, before you warranty it, try putting back a completely stock rom and see if the problem is still there.
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well no worries about the making a backup.. i haven't installed much because of the issue, so far the sd card has remained as the external with emmc not being mountable from settings>storage...
flashing gb will report back
repartioning my sd card back to full use.
So my problem was simpler than i thought evidently the format that I did to the internal sd wasn't complete so while in gb I used the erase sd tool and voila I have internal sd memory again the only issue I'm having now is it's like 6gb instead of the 8 it should be because way back when i partitioned my sdcard for sd-ext... hence why i was trying to format in the first place... any help for that.
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So my problem was simpler than i thought evidently the format that I did to the internal sd wasn't complete so while in gb I used the erase sd tool and voila I have internal sd memory again the only issue I'm having now is it's like 6gb instead of the 8 it should be because way back when i partitioned my sdcard for sd-ext... hence why i was trying to format in the first place... any help for that.
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Is it the internal or external that's smaller than it should be?
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Is it the internal or external that's smaller than it should be?
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Both.
Hi All,
I am using ICS Asianic V2.0 by Darkmantra. And I was playing with my phone last night (Build prop to be specific). I set VM heap to 12 and rebooted and after that It would not boot up. It cannot go beyond HTC logo with white background.
I can boot to recovery, I'd tried a few things that i think made it worse. I re-installed build prop tweak from SD card but did not work. I did a factory reset and a few others which i can no longger recall.... So I decided to just go right ahead and re-flash the ROM from SD card but I was not able to. I was getting an error: "e:can't mount /sdcard"
Is there still hope for my phone? any help will be appreciated...
Thanks in advance.
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Hi All,
I am using ICS Asianic V2.0 by Darkmantra. And I was playing with my phone last night (Build prop to be specific). I set VM heap to 12 and rebooted and after that It would not boot up. It cannot go beyond HTC logo with white background.
I can boot to recovery, I'd tried a few things that i think made it worse. I re-installed build prop tweak from SD card but did not work. I did a factory reset and a few others which i can no longger recall.... So I decided to just go right ahead and re-flash the ROM from SD card but I was not able to. I was getting an error: "e:can't mount /sdcard"
Is there still hope for my phone? any help will be appreciated...
Thanks in advance.
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Sometimes happens, try turning phone off, take out sd card, put back in and try again
The problem is that the phone thinks the SD Card is unmounted. (Sorry to restate the obvious)
Physically removing the card and putting it back in might work. But if you do it with the power off the phone might not realize anything is different.
If you have 4EXT Recovery, you can try to remount it from within the recovery. First try to mount it. Then unmount. Then mount it again. See if that works.
If neither of those work try to mount it with ADB.
And if all else fails, copy the files to your computer using a card reader, format the card, recopy everything back to the card, and start over. I had a situation like that once where this was what finally got the card to remount. Something got glitched on the card so it wasn't being recognized.
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The problem is that the phone thinks the SD Card is unmounted. (Sorry to restate the obvious)
Physically removing the card and putting it back in might work. But if you do it with the power off the phone might not realize anything is different.
If you have 4EXT Recovery, you can try to remount it from within the recovery. First try to mount it. Then unmount. Then mount it again. See if that works.
If neither of those work try to mount it with ADB.
And if all else fails, copy the files to your computer using a card reader, format the card, recopy everything back to the card, and start over. I had a situation like that once where this was what finally got the card to remount. Something got glitched on the card so it wasn't being recognized.
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Thanks Skipjacks!!
I do not know what solved it but here is what I did....
- formatted the SD card (have no important data in it anyway)
- copied ROM to SD card
- set phone to Recovery mode without SD card
- Hot plug SD card
- tried to update from SD card and it was able to recognize it...!
- i was able to install my ROM..
thank you! I appreciate the help!
Hey guys, there is a strange issue that I found out about just today.
My Co-Ed has a Sensation with official ICS update on it - no root, no hacked apps, nothing related to unofficial.
So the problem is that almost every pic she has on her device and every tracks is beign displayed twice in the gallery and the stock music player.
The file manager doesn't show two of the same files, so maybe it's a problem with SD card. The thing is - if she deletes one track - both of the displayed ones dissappear.
Whay could be the problem and how can it be solved? Should she change hee SD card, reinstall the ROM or try a factory reset? Hope you can help me (and her)
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Hey guys, there is a strange issue that I found out about just today.
My Co-Ed has a Sensation with official ICS update on it - no root, no hacked apps, nothing related to unofficial.
So the problem is that almost every pic she has on her device and every tracks is beign displayed twice in the gallery and the stock music player.
The file manager doesn't show two of the same files, so maybe it's a problem with SD card. The thing is - if she deletes one track - both of the displayed ones dissappear.
Whay could be the problem and how can it be solved? Should she change hee SD card, reinstall the ROM or try a factory reset? Hope you can help me (and her)
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one suggestion is backup everything from the sdcard to a pc and format the sdcard
then put everything again on it
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one suggestion is backup everything from the sdcard to a pc and format the sdcard
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Thanks, we'll try that. Any other suggestions on how to fix this bug?
It only appeared recently, probably because the internal storage/SD card is almost full and there's no space left, or am I wrong?
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When you format your SD card it will erase everything on it so you can restore from computer only what you want restored. So essentially you start with a new fresh card. Or if you want more space buy another SD with more space transfer what you saved on computer and do it that way. Best wishes. FYI Amazon has 64 class 10 on sale pretty cheap. I got one. It works perfectly! You have to format through recovery first to get device to recognise it. You do this by putting card in slot, pulling battery, put battery back in, press volume power at same time, boot into boot loader, press recovery, power for yes, then in recovery press format SD card. You have to get in recovery like this because UN formatted SD will prevent the usual way. Once formatted you're good to go. Device will then detect the card perfectly. It's been running perfectly in mine ever since. I got a great deal on the San disk. Take a look you will be surprised how cheap the 64 class 10 is. Also I tested the SD and yes it's truly the class 10.running exactly as it should. Hope this helps you out. Best wishes
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