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htc desire and 16GB SDHC from Sandisk

Hi!
a few weeks ago I bought myself a nice 16GB sd card on e-bay. The seller had 100% positive feedback on similar items, so I thought, this must be a nice guy. However, whenever I try to copy files to the desire after 2GB or so the transfer freezes and the file system of the card gets damaged, so I have to format it. Any suggestions as to how this could be explained/fixed? Otherwise I'm asking my money back (thank you paypal!)

i've a 16gb sandisk sdhc class 2 but never had such problems, maybe is something software related?

Ok heres the deal...
There is a chance the sandisk you purchased is not real, its fake, a 2GB reprogrammed to appear as 16GB. The packaging will appear perfectly real etc, due to the nature of memory carads returning them to sellers is near impossible as they will direct you to manufacturer.
The card might be damaged, have you tried a reformat, delete partition and recreate?
have you tested this in another machine?

+1 fake SD card. It's really hard to find legit SD cards on ebay
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16GB san disk play.com 34.99 free postage
Job Done
Get your money back mate, take the guy to the cleaners....
Then walk this way------------http://www.play.com/Mobiles/Mobile/4-/6738120/SanDisk-16GB-Micro-SD-HC-Memory-Card/Product.html
JD

JupiterDroid said:
16GB san disk play.com 34.99 free postage
Job Done
Get your money back mate, take the guy to the cleaners....
Then walk this way------------http://www.play.com/Mobiles/Mobile/4-/6738120/SanDisk-16GB-Micro-SD-HC-Memory-Card/Product.html
JD
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haha.
is there any reason why i shouldn't get the pny 16gb card from play.com? its £7 cheaper than the sandisk

It's your choice mate. I've had bad experiences with Sandisk cards in the past and only buy Kingston ones now.

i had the same issue with a 16gb kingston...package and all was 16gb, but it was a very slow 8gb...thrown it away.

Its seems more and more of the 16Gb cards from ebay are fake.
Have heard more and more reports of this recently.

I've had the same issue with large cards coming from eBay, so I'd decided not to be a cheapskate again and plumped for the best 16GB I could find.
Scan dot co dot uk
LN32905 - Kingston 16GB Class10
I also picked up an 8GB card for my Hero (Legendroid):
LN32725 - Transcent 8GB Class6
Haven't regretted it at all, however the price of the 16GB is a LOT.

Yeah i'd be looking to get a refund on that, sometimes the seller isn't at fault though, it could be that his/her supplier has a fake batch of cards. This is getting more and more frequent and a quick google search will show many horror stories as well as ways of checking to see if your card is actually a fake.
My advice would be to stay clear of ebay for memory and buy from a reputable distributor like play.com or mymemory.com
I purchased a sandisk 16GB ultra mobile (class4) from mymemory.com, think it was around the £45 mark at the time. Currently using around 9GB of it with no issues. Also transfers files much faster than the 4GB class2 that my desire was bundled with.

I am also having this kind of trouble with a Sandisk 16GB card.
The possibility that it is fake is very small for 3 reasons:
1. It works perfectly as a 16GB at my computer
2. It works perfectly as a 16GB at my camera
3. It was bought at the Sandisk master distributor here in Israel.
I tried to format it in the following way:
1. In recovery mode I partitioned the card.
2. I upgraded ext2 -> ext3 and then again ext3 -> ext4
3. took the card to the computer and formatted it FAT32.
4. copied the material from the old card to the new one.
And still, when I try to turn the Desire on with this card on it, it stays booting forever.
I am using REDUX Gingerbread rom.... is there something I am missing?
Thanks in advance,
Helio

heliod said:
I am also having this kind of trouble with a Sandisk 16GB card.
The possibility that it is fake is very small for 3 reasons:
1. It works perfectly as a 16GB at my computer
2. It works perfectly as a 16GB at my camera
3. It was bought at the Sandisk master distributor here in Israel.
I tried to format it in the following way:
1. In recovery mode I partitioned the card.
2. I upgraded ext2 -> ext3 and then again ext3 -> ext4
3. took the card to the computer and formatted it FAT32.
4. copied the material from the old card to the new one.
And still, when I try to turn the Desire on with this card on it, it stays booting forever.
I am using REDUX Gingerbread rom.... is there something I am missing?
Thanks in advance,
Helio
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use gparted / any partition manager to check whether you have duplicate ext partitions, it causes freeze, and make sure both fat and ext are "primary" drives and not "logical" drives

heliod said:
I am also having this kind of trouble with a Sandisk 16GB card.
The possibility that it is fake is very small for 3 reasons:
1. It works perfectly as a 16GB at my computer
2. It works perfectly as a 16GB at my camera
3. It was bought at the Sandisk master distributor here in Israel.
I tried to format it in the following way:
1. In recovery mode I partitioned the card.
2. I upgraded ext2 -> ext3 and then again ext3 -> ext4
3. took the card to the computer and formatted it FAT32.
4. copied the material from the old card to the new one.
And still, when I try to turn the Desire on with this card on it, it stays booting forever.
I am using REDUX Gingerbread rom.... is there something I am missing?
Thanks in advance,
Helio
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When you've copied the material from the old card to the new one... did you copied all partitions with a nandroid restore (and not just fat32 partition) ?

I just bought a 16GB card on ebay for £20 delivered, class 6. He specifically said it would meet the class 6 spec so I will Paypal him if it doesn't. I'll also test it in linux by dd'ing all the way to the 16GB to ensure it works.
Will report back.

Its seems more and more of the 16Gb cards from ebay are fake.

My £20 delivered turned up. It's a Lexar (apparently) and testing shows;
write speed: 8.4mb/s
reading: 8.1mb/s
So I'm not sure, read speed should be higher!

Second time got 7.9mb/s and 15.2mb/s. I think it's legit.

Same happens to me!

Yeah I've been stung with a knock off SD card as have two of my friends. I was 'lucky' mine was just poor quality so it had really bad read/write speeds and was able to send it back. My friends cards just didn't work and they couldn't get refunds.
The cards on eBay are cheap for a reason, pay the extra and get it from a reputable retailer is my advice.
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256GB SD card working

Everything i can find on the internet says our galaxy s4 only supports up to 64GB sd cards but I just bought a cheap ($14) 256GB Class 10 micro sd card and my M919 is reading it fine. I'm running 5.0.1
If this has already been discussed else ware, sorry for the re-post!

Download the H2TESTW program to your PC and run it to determine the true capacity of your card, because I'm 99% certain you just got ripped off. Currently, the largest MicroSD card is 200GB, by Sandisk.

Definitely a fake. 200+ gb in microsd cannot feasibly be sold for $14 without taking a major loss. But if/when a real 256gb microsd card is made, the S4 will likely work with it. I don't believe there is a hard upper limit on the capacity supported by the S4's card slot.

Yeah, package might say it, but plug it into your computer and check the bytes on it.

try to copy data on that fake sd (200gb) . after 16gb or 32gb later you will get error .

Yeah it's probably fake
Nothing will cost that cheap!

probably china fake

Wanna buy a bridge?

For a class 10 SD you pay about 1 euro per GB, it is probalby a class 2 which has 4-16GB on it.

China fake

it's definitely a fake one.

bullets4me said:
Everything i can find on the internet says our galaxy s4 only supports up to 64GB sd cards but I just bought a cheap ($14) 256GB Class 10 micro sd card and my M919 is reading it fine. I'm running 5.0.1
If this has already been discussed else ware, sorry for the re-post!
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Did y check that does the it is read as 256GB instead of of 64GB.

Stay away from that bridge. It will fail! I have a tunnel you can buy for much cheaper!

200GB Sd

I see in the specs that the SD is limited to 200GB. I have a 256gb - wll that be recognized but limited to 200gb, or will it not be recognized at all?
If so, could it be partitioned to 200gb to get around this limitation?

From what I've heard they said 200 because that's where the technology is. Why say 1tb when there is no 1tb. So in theory it should work.

gaww said:
I see in the specs that the SD is limited to 200GB. I have a 256gb - wll that be recognized but limited to 200gb, or will it not be recognized at all?
If so, could it be partitioned to 200gb to get around this limitation?
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You have a 256GB micro SD card?

se1000 said:
You have a 256GB micro SD card?
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Saw someone on here in another thread (might have been the Int. S7 forum) that said they had a "200GB" SD. Didn't seem right. It should be 256GB but what do I know. Turns out SanDisk makes a 200GB card... weird, right? Anyway, they do exist.
Edit: from what I'm reading around the web, 200GB is the current cap on microSD cards? A 256GB card is most likely fake and will read at 200 or lower capacity. Is this right?

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KCRic said:
Saw someone on here in another thread (might have been the Int. S7 forum) that said they had a "200GB" SD. Didn't seem right. It should be 256GB but what do I know. Turns out SanDisk makes a 200GB card... weird, right? Anyway, they do exist.
Edit: from what I'm reading around the web, 200GB is the current cap on microSD cards? A 256GB card is most likely fake and will read at 200 or lower capacity. Is this right?
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I been using sandisk 200 gp sd card with 90 mgbs transfer and it works great. I do have a 512 gb sd card i got off ebay. i used it in my note 4 and lg4. it works, but i believe it to be unreliable. i just tried it in the s7 and it reads 500gb and i can access all files and pics. so i do believe if you could find a good 512 g card it will works. this is a cheap one i got off ebay. just fyi. regards.

drtvadr said:
I been using sandisk 200 gp sd card with 90 mgbs transfer and it works great. I do have a 512 gb sd card i got off ebay. i used it in my note 4 and lg4. it works, but i believe it to be unreliable. i just tried it in the s7 and it reads 500gb and i can access all files and pics. so i do believe if you could find a good 512 g card it will works. this is a cheap one i got off ebay. just fyi. regards.
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SD cards of that size do exist. I should have clarified that I was talking about MicroSD, no standard sized cards. 200GB is the largest MicroSD size currently available.
I take that back there is a 512GB MicroSD but at about $1,000 (US) I don't think many here have it lol. Who made your 512GB card? Have you tested it to make sure it actually hold that much? Cons are very tricky and its very easy to change the capacity a card reports to a computer.

sd card
it is a microsd and was bought on ebay. came from china. on a pc or on the phone it clocks in at about 500 gb.
KCRic said:
SD cards of that size do exist. I should have clarified that I was talking about MicroSD, no standard sized cards. 200GB is the largest MicroSD size currently available.
I take that back there is a 512GB MicroSD but at about $1,000 (US) I don't think anyone here has it. Who made your 512GB card? Have you tested it to make sure it actually hold that much? Cons are very tricky and its very easy to change the capacity a card reports to a computer.
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drtvadr said:
it is a microsd and was bought on ebay. came from china. on a pc or on the phone it clocks in at about 500 gb.
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That's what you were being told. It's easy for those cons to make a 32gb card tell a pc or even a phone that it's actually 500gb. The test is to see how much you can actually put on it before you get errors. I bought a 64gb card on Ebay and it came from China. I learned very quickly that it couldn't handle that much data. I moved a few apps over no problem but as soon as I moved 20gb of music over I could no longer read the card. Get rid of the music and the card is readable. I complained to the seller and they said they'd exchange it. Well for the price and the time it took I decided not to. At the very least I got a thumb drive style microsd card reader out of that deal.

I wish 512 gb memory cards were affordablr

Corwinder said:
That's what you were being told. It's easy for those cons to make a 32gb card tell a pc or even a phone that it's actually 500gb. The test is to see how much you can actually put on it before you get errors. I bought a 64gb card on Ebay and it came from China. I learned very quickly that it couldn't handle that much data. I moved a few apps over no problem but as soon as I moved 20gb of music over I could no longer read the card. Get rid of the music and the card is readable. I complained to the seller and they said they'd exchange it. Well for the price and the time it took I decided not to. At the very least I got a thumb drive style microsd card reader out of that deal.
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I was just keeping my mouth shut lol. I tried to hint at that to him but he seemed dead set that it was somehow the only 512GB microsd in existence or a got a $1,000 object for 1/100th the price. Oh well, some have to learn lessons the hard way.

San 200's are $79 on amazon right now.

se1000 said:
You have a 256GB micro SD card?
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Do now

SD card

I have had my mobiles all with internal storage since my first smartphone, and so had both the limits of whatever the phone had and also the simplicity of one storage. I'm now getting into the G4P and I had a 64GB and a 128GB microSD card, the 64GB was in a family member's phone and worked fine, the 128GB I found less reliable, I got another G4P and found the SD card was often not being seen by the phone, and taking back cover off and rebooting etc, and if it did work I was getting like 2MB-4MB.
Anyhow, older wiser, I bought a Samsung Evo+ card based on reviews, unlike the daily deal brand I got before, and its night+day different. I can now tell the Moto camera app to write to SD and it doesn't crash, and the card stays visible.
If you're making the journey into the G4P don't skimp on the cheapest SD card it ruins the experience.

nigelhealy said:
I have had my mobiles all with internal storage since my first smartphone, and so had both the limits of whatever the phone had and also the simplicity of one storage. I'm now getting into the G4P and I had a 64GB and a 128GB microSD card, the 64GB was in a family member's phone and worked fine, the 128GB I found less reliable, I got another G4P and found the SD card was often not being seen by the phone, and taking back cover off and rebooting etc, and if it did work I was getting like 2MB-4MB.
Anyhow, older wiser, I bought a Samsung Evo+ card based on reviews, unlike the daily deal brand I got before, and its night+day different. I can now tell the Moto camera app to write to SD and it doesn't crash, and the card stays visible.
If you're making the journey into the G4P don't skimp on the cheapest SD card it ruins the experience.
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Not sure if size makes a difference but I'm currently using a 32gb high speed card in my g4p and it was pretty cheap at Walmart. It also seems to work very well.

32 gb card is enough for me to deal with.
I bought 32 gb sd card along with g4 play from amazon and my friend bought same with 64. He is facing phone storage issue whereas I am not. I think sdhc card is more reliable than sdxc.

I'm currently using a 64 GB MicroSDXC UHS-I Card from the relatively unknown manufacturer 'QUMOX'.
I was pleasantly surprised.Particularly with regard to the comparatively low cost.
In any case is the performance as every bit as good as the from SanDisk based on my experience.

I'm using a 32GB Kingston card, SDHC, that I purchased in November of 2014 for my LG F6. I replaced that phone 2 weeks ago with a Moto G4P, and I have had zero trouble with it. My music collection is on there, and I've been using it every single day since I purchased it.

256GB MicroSD card?

Kingston 256GB Micro SDXC Card 45Mb/s UHS-1 Class 10
Has anyone tried with any 256GB yet. And is it working?
Regards
Tunc

SanDisk 200GB Ultra Micro SDXC UHS-I U1 Card with Adapter - 90MB/s
Lexar 200GB 633x High Performance Micro SDXC UHS-I U1 Card - 95MB/s
Samsung 256GB EVO Plus Micro SDXC UHS-I U3 Class 10 - 95MB/s with Adapter
Integral 256GB Micro SDXC Card For Smartphone and Tablet UHS-I U1 - 90MB/s
SanDisk 256GB Ultra Micro SD (SDXC) Card with Adapter Class 10 - 95MB/s
Here are other types.

I bought one from WISH for £8+ will be testing.
https://www.wish.com/search/256gb microsd#cid=58c2f9d12a53b65282c748e3

eresen said:
I bought one from WISH for £8+ will be testing.
https://www.wish.com/search/256gb microsd#cid=58c2f9d12a53b65282c748e3
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I'm pretty sure that will be a Fake!!

I don't think it will work honestly.

it works
i use samsung 256gb microsdxc for my note edge n915t

eresen said:
I bought one from WISH for £8+ will be testing.
https://www.wish.com/search/256gb microsd#cid=58c2f9d12a53b65282c748e3
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Mate, run it through H2Test. You can probably get away with just running the 1st 16gb, I use 32gb but I'm a pedantic little sh!t.
If it's fake, it will fail at around the 8gb mark.
The 1st 2,4 or 8gb's are usually fine but anything after gets corrupted. H2Test will let you know if the card is real or fake.
I got a 256gb micro sd card off ebay from a seller that was there since 2006, good reputation and very little negative feedback. The card was packaged like a Samsung card, had everything right. Ran it through H2Test and found after the 1st 7.5gb that everything was corrupted.
I found out why the seller has such a good rating as I complained, got my money back, within 30 minutes at 10:30pm at night, but then couldn't leave feedback.
Most people throw the sd card into their PC or phone, it says that it's xxx size and they think it''s fine. Trouble is, after they fill up the 8gb then they loose anything they save be it photo's, video or documents.
Very upsetting if you take a photo of your kids or someone you love only to find it doesn't exist later, just a header with no data...
Unfortunately there are a lot of sellers out there who either honestly don't know or are out to sell to suckers and these knockoff cards are becoming far too common and are almost, if not are, indistinguishable from the real items...
Lesson here, if it's too good to be true, it usually is...
Good luck with your card, but at that price I REALLY am suspicious and you would have to be some kind of idiot not to test it out before loosing those precious memories forever....

Bro you get what you pay for, and 256gb run north of $150 range so if you see a version going for 8 pounds which is what one that's like 32gb goes, then youre likely to get that as well.
Never had a prob with the Sandisk Ive had it for a year and a half and outlasted my phone that just soft bricked. I highly recommend their stuff, Ive never tried the Samsung versions, they were not out when I was shopping for mine at the time