Hi all
I'm having a problem with my Micro SD Card.
I have tried to put a pile of songs on it and then I was going to use it as my MP3 player.
It will let me copy about 490 songs onto the SD Card but after that it won't let me copy anything for love or money.
It's a 32gb card so I really can't see why it won't do it. My phone has not been rooted (yet). It is still the same as when it came out of the shop.
When I go to My Computer on my PC it tells me that there is about 29gb free. Am I missing something?!?!?
Adrian
What brand is it (supposed to be) and where did you buy it? Have you ever managed to store more than a couple of GB on it?
Check it with H2testw
It is a no name brand.
I have not yet tried to get more than a couple of gb on it. I'm going to try that overnight and post a reply on here.
I will also use H2testw but I think it will take a while to do.
I will post the answers on here tomorrow afternoon.
I am testing a different Micro SD card using H2testw at the moment just to see what results appear.
Adrian
There's also a SDCardTester app in the Android market that works like H2testw.
After using the H2testw it would appear that the micro sd card is faulty.
It will be given back to the person who gave it to me!!!
Thank you for all your advice.
Adrian
Adrian_london said:
After using the H2testw it would appear that the micro sd card is faulty.
It will be given back to the person who gave it to me!!!
Thank you for all your advice.
Adrian
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I'd say fake rather than faulty.
Joey2o11 said:
I'd say fake rather than faulty.
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Probably!!
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I recently purchased a transcend 4 gb sdhc card (speed class 6) for my hermes. I have wm6 official att rom and it will show the files in file explore. The problem is when I took a photo the other day I go back and some of the photos(not all) are now just an icon. When I tap the icon it says it can not be accesed.
I did search and found were someone could not delete the items, but I do not have that problem I just want to view/know photos will stay put.
Thanks if anyone can help!!
Nicholas
well, got a same problem here, but mine is with kingston micro sdhc class 4gb class 4. have the same problem. the only way tht i can think of is to remove the card n insert it back again. well then can use as normal, but after a while it the prob will come again, so need to do tht all over again. btw i use crc's 11.2.
Now that i have had some more time to play with the new card i have noticed that if i pull the sd and reinsert it it will usually work. But sometimes even after reinserting the sd some file ie. picture files only show the icon not the thumb picture. Anyone have recomendations for brands of cards that do not have this problem, or is this a problem with SDHC cards?
I just got my AData 8gb sdhc card class 6 and have had none of the problems you have. Sorry, just wanted to let you know the problem could be with the rom you're using, etc....
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I recently purchased a transcend 4 gb sdhc card (speed class 6) for my hermes. I have wm6 official att rom and it will show the files in file explore. The problem is when I took a photo the other day I go back and some of the photos(not all) are now just an icon. When I tap the icon it says it can not be accesed.
I did search and found were someone could not delete the items, but I do not have that problem I just want to view/know photos will stay put.
Thanks if anyone can help!!
Nicholas
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It sounds like the file is corrupted. Did you try to use it as usb memory stick and run check disk?
Ok checked the folders and noticed that a folder said it was corrupt. But when I try to play music files from the card it will say those are corrupt on the hermes but then they have no problem playing on my computer.
Im about to give up on sdhc, I want to buy a adata 4gb from newegg, but cannot pull the trigger because I do not want to get burned again.
Thanks for help.
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Ok checked the folders and noticed that a folder said it was corrupt. But when I try to play music files from the card it will say those are corrupt on the hermes but then they have no problem playing on my computer.
Im about to give up on sdhc, I want to buy a adata 4gb from newegg, but cannot pull the trigger because I do not want to get burned again.
Thanks for help.
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Just to let you know I have a 8gb microsd (AData). I've used it for over a month and had no problems at all.
8gb SDHC Kingston good for about 6 months
Nothing's perfect. I rode it hard. Don't give up on SDHC, but personally, I never trust any drive/storage, period. Allwaysync and Mobsync are my best friends. I saw it coming, too. I had to reboot a couple of times to get my x7501 to read it, and about a week later, there it went.
I was just googling around to see if I could recover some of the stuff I did today on it (some pics, a couple of xls files). I synced last night, so most of it's copied. It's all about the data for me.
I'm replacing it with a SanDisk for about US$31. A week or so ago got a 4gb with SD and Mini SD adapters for $15, I meant to use it in my camera with a Memory Stick adapter.... I went with the idea that I could use an just about any adapter if I got the smallest form factor I could, that way I can be flexible when something does go out on me.
Almost all drives will fail eventually. The less you pay (or hunt for a good deal on a good brand) the less time you get. If you didn't get your time out of it, send it in for a replacement, or replace it with a more reputable, albeit more expensive and stodgy, brand so you'll be more sure it'll work out of the box and for a while.
I hope my two cents saves someone a headache or two. Backup. Backup. Backup. Buy well, and backup.
Hi
Anyone using a class 10 Memento 32gb Micro Sd Card.
I am having problems with this - it tends to get damaged and i lose all the data.
it has already happened twice to me
Anyone having similar problem with such a card - or not having such problem with such a card?
Ken
sounds like a fake to me, I got a card of ebay once, 32gb that was actually 4gb or 8gb cant remember. Works fine till the limit is hit, or data gets put on the part that dont exist.
Take it out of the phone, put in reader, connect to pc, format, copy some major size files to it's capacity. Then you will know if it's very faulty or very fake.
I bit the bullet and got a lexar class10 32gb and very impressed with it
Let me know how you get on
Search would have revealed same question same brand of card .
jje
Jje
Sorry yet can't understand what you are saying?
Can you please clarify?
Ken
If you searched the forum via the search button or had a good memory
then you will have found similar post as you made
Memento card not working properly ..
my reply to that post was never heard of that make of card least from memory it was that make of card
add to that the multiple posts of 32GB cards not working properly as they are fakes .
Test card with sd card tester my suggestion .
jje
Hi
Thanks for your reply
i inserted card into sd card holder and inserted in pc - i did a scan disk and got no errors.
i tried trasnfering 6gb of data and it transfered.
Is there any more testing i can do?
Ken
copy the 6gb file again and again till you fill 32gb
Hi i own a SE Xperia Mini Pro (SK17i) it came with version 2.3.3 and i upgraded to 2.3.4, i also recently bought a new 32GB memory and i inserted it in and the phone is not rooted.
And now my problem is:
when i insert music in the phone the phone tells me it cannot playback the song... also when i take a picture i review it, its ok but after a while like 2 mins the picture becomes corrupted. and sometimes the phone also deletes my apps, or loses them when i transfer the app to my SD drive.
What I already did:
- formatted the SD drive (stay with same problem)
- factory restored the phone (stay with same problem)
- i re-downloaded and installed the android version 2.3.4 (stayed with the same problem)
- send the songs with bluetooth (it plays the songs but then tells me i cant send anymore things on bluetooth due to storage issues...
- try sending the pictures and music throught USB (cant read the files corrupted and later on it deletes the files on the SD drive)
Conclusion:
- when the phone was in version 2.3.3 it worked fine and when i updated and changed the sd drive... everything went wrong
so it could be the SD drive or the Update to 2.3.4 wasnt good...
So i wanted to know if someone could help me...
I THOUGHT OF GOING BACK to version 2.3.3.... if anybody can give me instructions on how to do that please or a link to that instructions.... or if someone knows the problem and have a solution for it please really need your help thanks alot.
Jemarhel Supriana
Where did you buy the 32 gb card??? Maybe its fake and that is why dont work Fine... Or it work Fine with 2.3.3???
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i bought it in holland... at a turkish shop... nope didn't test it when it was 2.3.3.... you could have a point there i will give it a try tonight when i come back from the library.... and i will post my reply about it.....
i got a sd card from a friend in the library i tested it and up till now i took a picture and its still there and i also copied a song to my phone through usb and it plays so seems like you were right that it could have been a fake card and i wasted 28 euros on that.... but the sd cards looks exactly the same.... only difference the 32gb it says sandisk Micro SD and the other just says MicroSD weird..... is there any chance i can make it work or i dont know ? the one of 32gb
How about SDHC cards? Does SK17i support this cards?
no, only microSD
The problem persist due to a fake sd card!! My friend faced da same problem wen he bought a fake card on another android!! The softwares fine!! U shud buy another branded one!!
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i got a sd card from a friend in the library i tested it and up till now i took a picture and its still there and i also copied a song to my phone through usb and it plays so seems like you were right that it could have been a fake card and i wasted 28 euros on that.... but the sd cards looks exactly the same.... only difference the 32gb it says sandisk Micro SD and the other just says MicroSD weird..... is there any chance i can make it work or i dont know ? the one of 32gb
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Well the fake cards look exactly as a original one , another thing you can do its buy a adapter where you can insert the sd and use it like a usb in the computer, if the problem its still there, the most probable reason its like you buy a fake one , generaly this cards have only 2 gb of capacity and dont come in a retail pack,
I bought a no name 64GB Class 10 MicroSD card to replace my 32GB but I can't seem to get my data transferred over cleanly. I've formatted it numerous times (exFAT) both on my PC and my GNote. I have the 32GB card backed up to my PC. I've tried copying from my phone (32GB) to the PC (64GB) and vice versa. Sometimes it will go all the way through without a problem but always only some of the files and folders are copied correctly. Other times, it will throw one of several different errors and the stuff that looked had been copied will vanish. For example, this morning I was copying certain files, essentially one by one and checking in ES File manager to see if they were on the phone's external SD card (64GB) and they were. Then after doing this for a bout an hour it would hiccup and everything I'd copied over and verified with ES File Manager would be gone!?
If it matters, I'm running Windows 8 PC with 4GB ram and 1.31 TB of HD storage. On my Gnote i've tried it with both a stock ICS TW ROM and JellyBeer 4.1.0 with no joy. I've done a bunch of searches here and on Google but nothing seems on point. If it's a bad SD Card, how do I test for that?
When I had a weird problem like that it turned out the SD card was fake. This program determines your actual SD card size.
http://fightflashfraud.wordpress.co...ld-standard-in-detecting-fake-capacity-flash/
Other then that, fat32 is what you should use in Android. Maybe even try letting the phone format the card through settings/ storage. Be advised there will be data loss so backup anything beforehand.
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When I had a weird problem like that it turned out the SD card was fake. This program determines your actual SD card size.
http://fightflashfraud.wordpress.co...ld-standard-in-detecting-fake-capacity-flash/
Other then that, fat32 is what you should use in Android. Maybe even try letting the phone format the card through settings/ storage. Be advised there will be data loss so backup anything beforehand.
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Thanx! I'll check it out and report back.
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Thanx! I'll check it out and report back.
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Thanx Scariola! You were right. It was a 4GB card masquerading as a 64GB card.
DaElderGeek said:
Thanx Scariola! You were right. It was a 4GB card masquerading as a 64GB card.
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sorry that this was the way to find out. No name high capacity SD cards would be a red flag.
I even had a couple that said Kingston 32gb which were actually 2gb. Flea bay and craigslist at its worst.
Thanks for reporting back. Hopefully more people are aware of the SD card validator link I posted now.
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sorry that this was the way to find out. No name high capacity SD cards would be a red flag.
I even had a couple that said Kingston 32gb which were actually 2gb. Flea bay and craigslist at its worst.
Thanks for reporting back. Hopefully more people are aware of the SD card validator link I posted now.
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The validator is certainly in my toolbox now. Thanx again. It takes forever to run on the large capacity drive but it was definitely worth. The white lettering is beginning to smudge. Really low class work. I'm getting my money back . . . I think. I think the poor schlub who sold it to me bought and is selling a bunch of them. I think he now knows how exposed he is.
Ok, after buying a cheap and corrupted 64gb micro sd card, I went and spent the money on a 64gb sandisk card. It works just fine. Now, I am rooted and have synergy rom build 104 which is also running fine. I noticed before I flashed the rom that cwm wouldn't recognize my external sd card. I read up on that and found that cwm won't read cards formatted to exfat. So, I formatted the card to fat32 and remounted, transferred all my music back onto the card. Everything worked just fine until I plugged my phone into my computer. I was able to open and navigate through the files like normal, except when I went to open the music folder where all my mp3s were. I tried this on 2 different computers and on both the computer froze with the sand timer. The phone itself was fine, my music player(poweramp) was and is able to play the files with no issue. Also, when I unmounted the card and put it into a card reader and then connected the card reader to my computer and voila! Everything was fine, I was able to open the music folder and scan through the music files. I am not sure what the issue is. Can anyone shed some light as to whether this is a phone/rom issue, a micro sd card issue, an mp3 issue? Any ideas would be appreciated.
That sounds like a bad sd card. Have you ran a checkdisk on it?
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If it's a SanDisk 64GB MicroSDXC UHS-1 then they have a replacement program where the older cards had issues in the S3/S4 devices. They sent me a free replacement and everything seems to be working. No Damaged card errors as of yet.
DarkMenace said:
If it's a SanDisk 64GB MicroSDXC UHS-1 then they have a replacement program where the older cards had issues in the S3/S4 devices. They sent me a free replacement and everything seems to be working. No Damaged card errors as of yet.
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Hm, been searching around for this exact issue. Coworkers S4 with this exact SD card has been getting the removed unexpectedly error. Reformatted a few times, restarted phone, error comes back. It's in my Note 2 at the moment for troubleshooting, and so far so good, but this makes me move more toward an actual SD card issue in combination with the s4, and not the phone itself.
h1p1n3 said:
Hm, been searching around for this exact issue. Coworkers S4 with this exact SD card has been getting the removed unexpectedly error. Reformatted a few times, restarted phone, error comes back. It's in my Note 2 at the moment for troubleshooting, and so far so good, but this makes me move more toward an actual SD card issue in combination with the s4, and not the phone itself.
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The SanDisk issue only affects the Galaxy S3/S4 as they told me. My other 64gb Sandisk card works just fine in my tablet.
DarkMenace said:
If it's a SanDisk 64GB MicroSDXC UHS-1 then they have a replacement program where the older cards had issues in the S3/S4 devices. They sent me a free replacement and everything seems to be working. No Damaged card errors as of yet.
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I called them and they are going to exchange it out for me. The weird thing is that I didn't get any damaged card error messages on the phone itself. It mounted it as soon as I popped it in. Even after formatting to fat32, it mounted right away with no issues. It only happened a couple days after I transferred all my music onto it. Is the free replacement they give you a newer card or newer model number?
+1 to the above. SanDisk told me they have a new version of the 64gig card with updated firmware, specifically for the S4. Package tracking shows mine is to be delivered on Monday.
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I called them and they are going to exchange it out for me. The weird thing is that I didn't get any damaged card error messages on the phone itself. It mounted it as soon as I popped it in. Even after formatting to fat32, it mounted right away with no issues. It only happened a couple days after I transferred all my music onto it. Is the free replacement they give you a newer card or newer model number?
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It's the newer models. With the updated Firmware.
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+1 to the above. SanDisk told me they have a new version of the 64gig card with updated firmware, specifically for the S4. Package tracking shows mine is to be delivered on Monday.
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Yeah, the guy said they were having stock issues and said it would take 3 weeks for mine to ship. Oh well, at least they are exchanging it. Thanks for the help guys!
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So are all 64GB cards having issues, like other brands? I want a 64 bc my backups are freaking huge and taking up space. And with being rooted how would I transfer everything to the new card without messing up the phone?
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+1 to the above. SanDisk told me they have a new version of the 64gig card with updated firmware, specifically for the S4. Package tracking shows mine is to be delivered on Monday.
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So when this card tanks, I have to drop the big money on a card specifically made for this phone. Is this a problem with existing cards or did Samsung do something that required this firmware change?
tylerdurden531 said:
Yeah, the guy said they were having stock issues and said it would take 3 weeks for mine to ship. Oh well, at least they are exchanging it. Thanks for the help guys!
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They told me that too. My guess is it's due to the mass recall of the chips for the S3/S4. They said it's not present in Tablets so my 64GB in my tablet would be fine.
+1 problem with Sandisk 64Gb UH-1 card. Unexpected removal error. I am writing just for statistics. Just got my new Verizon S4 - and have problems...
FYI - I'm having a similar issue with a Samsung 64GD card. Got it to see the music for a while yesterday but after a reboot it can no longer see it.
Update, I received my new card and just popped it in. My phone automatically formatted it to exFAT. I'm not going to try changing it to FAT32, but is there any version or way I can get cwm to recognize the card in exFAT format? I tried TWRP, but when I flashed a rom it soft bricked the phone so I would like to stick with cwm.