Anyone have similar issue?
unlike the evo 3d from review, the micro SD for me is on the side of the camera facing outward (no need battery remove)
but whenever i click on the card to push it in and out, the card will come out like usual microSD design but will not totally come out.
it seem to be locked inside.
Once you hear the click that it's out, you just gotta play around with it (gently), and try to pull it out with your fingernail. There's a little groove that blocks it from coming out easily for some reason.
You can't really damage the microSD card easily, so don't be too worried about that.
i did, there was the click sound, it came out halfway then it just stuck, i can push it back in but it does the same thing over and over. i gave up for now. i will check with rogers and see what is going on tomorrow
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OK so my card has been working great with no problems until about a week to a week and a half ago. Now it randomly uninstalls and gives me a warning message in the top bar that says " SD card unexpectedly removed. Unmount SD card before removing it to avoid data loss." When it does this I can no longer see my card in the phone file. I tried removing the card and formatting it in my computer and then reinstalling it. That seemed to be an improvement for about a week (I say seemed because it was a very short time). During that time it would sometimes mount and unmount on its own but always remounted.
Any advice is welcomed with the exception of dropping it in the trash.
I do not have another card to try but I would be willing if necessary to buy another. I just wanted the advice of others before I commit the money. Also does anyone know if the known issues with 32GB cards has been resolved? I may go head and get a 32GB class 10 instead if I have to buy one anyways.
Phone is running
Android 2.2
System version 4.1.83
Gingerblur 3.5 basic meaning I am running it the way it installs from XDA unmodded.
Memory PNY 16GB Class 10
There is a known issue with the contacts on the phone not "contacting" correctly with the SDCard. Some people have manually bent the contacts on the phone and solved this issue successfully. Personally I wouldn't want to do something like this myself.
How old is the card? Take it out and reseat it a few times, make sure it's getting a good connection. I have a few older cards that the edges have worn from taking them in and out of devices so much that they sit a bit loose. Could also be slightly malformed from the factory.
Same thing happened to me with a 16gb Patriot Class 10 micro sd in the atrix. I rebooted, shut down and reaseated teh card int eh phone, to no avail. Ive put it into a microsd to usb adapter tried in my comp and it wouldnt be recognized, after reinserting it a few times into the computer (running win7 64 bit), it had been recognized, but it said it had to be formatted, did so, yet the atrix still didnt recognize it at first, reinserted it a few times and than it worked, however i tried it several times in my laptop and desktop and at several occasions it wouldnt work, so i just filed for a RMA at patriot, describing the problem. Im just about to RMA the card tomorrow. After that ive put an older 8gb sandisk (class 4 or 6 i think) sd card in it and it works flawlessly again. So i just hope the 16gb card was broken and not that the atrix brakes cards ...
This happened a few days ago and I tried all the reseating and reformatting then and it mysteriously started working again. What Caelan says makes alot of sense as the very first time it happened I had the phone in my back pocket since the shirt I had on had no pocket. So I probably sat on it wrong and caused the problem. I have no idea how people are reaching inside the little metal cover and bending the pins with any degree of accuracy.
I do not currently have another card but I can take this one and stick it in my sons phone for a while and see how it does. That should tell me if it is the card at least. So what is Motos return policy...........anyone?
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This happened a few days ago and I tried all the reseating and reformatting then and it mysteriously started working again. What Caelan says makes alot of sense as the very first time it happened I had the phone in my back pocket since the shirt I had on had no pocket. So I probably sat on it wrong and caused the problem. I have no idea how people are reaching inside the little metal cover and bending the pins with any degree of accuracy.
I do not currently have another card but I can take this one and stick it in my sons phone for a while and see how it does. That should tell me if it is the card at least. So what is Motos return policy...........anyone?
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Don't know of any phone returns for this. People either try different cards till one works, (and they all will if you put them in and out enough times), or they bend the pins.
Personally, I kept putting my SDCard in and out, maybe 5 or 6 times, with the phone turned on, and then all of a sudden the card registered. No problems since, but I haven't removed it since either. The card I have has been in two other phones with no issues, reads fine on my PC, in a camera, in my spycam........only issues I had were with the Atrix.
It's not the SDcards folks, but if you keep swapping them out, trying different ones, of course it will eventually work.
I wnder if anyone has tried taking a piece of plastic shim stock and attaching it to the backside of the SD card to make it a little thicker? I work in machine tool repair on the electronics end but I have access to the shim material as thin as .0001". I may try a piece like 5-10 thousandths and see if just tightening up the spacing helps. I'll post back here in a few days if it helps.
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I wnder if anyone has tried taking a piece of plastic shim stock and attaching it to the backside of the SD card to make it a little thicker? I work in machine tool repair on the electronics end but I have access to the shim material as thin as .0001". I may try a piece like 5-10 thousandths and see if just tightening up the spacing helps. I'll post back here in a few days if it helps.
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You can't get shim stock .0001" thick. You can however get it .001" thick!
Good point added a zero didn't I? However if I look in the shim crib I bet I can find .0005" but it may not be the plastic. Either way I actually meant the .001 heh heh.
My phone started doing the same thing a few days ago. Did it once, then nothing for a couple of days. Last night it did the same thing a few times while I was asleep. A reboot fixed(?) it, but if I see it doing it more, back to the store I will go to complain.
OK so here is what I have doen so far. I pur a piece of plastic shim on the back of my card in an effort to se if just tightening it would work. It did not. I then took the memory card out of my phone and swapped it with my sons 8GB Sandisk. Both phones read the memory cards and are working. Makes little or no sense to me but I can use my sons 8GB but not my 16GB.
I am still open to any other ideas if anyone has any, with the exception of bending pins in my phone.
Well, hasn't happened again. I even used about 4 hours of nav over the weekend to really heat it up. Nothing. My bet is on a software glitch somewhere....
Started happening again today, and this time more than once. I think I might try and get a new phone....
In case anyone is interested it has been about a week since swapping memory cards with my son and my 16GB class 10 is still working fine in his phone and the 8GB that came with his from HTC is still woring in my phone. I don't know why or what happened but now I am afraid to spend the money on a 32GB card. Last call on ideas as I won't be updating this thread anymore unless the 8GB unexpectedly crashes.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1128038
May help some people out.
So, this morning I was at the beach, phone was fine, later i go into the bag of things I brought out to check my shiny new Evo 3D, only to find it turned off, and I haven't been able to get a thing working all day, won't come on, wont give me a startup vibrate, screen flash, charge light, or anything. No water damage either I've checked the water indicator and nothing is different. Any ideas on how to get it back up and running.
Also, my girlfriends OG Evo will come on, but no screen, screen will not show anything even though capacitive buttons glow a normal, no water damage on her phone either.
Did you get sand in it? Maybe too much heat while it was in the bag?
try to pull the battery. I have seen this on my rooted evo 4g with a custom rom.
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Did you get sand in it? Maybe too much heat while it was in the bag?
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It's been hours since i left the beach so sand and heat cant be the source
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try to pull the battery. I have seen this on my rooted evo 4g with a custom rom.
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I've done multiple battery pulls, and everything i can think of
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I've done multiple battery pulls, and everything i can think of
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Have you tried without the SD card in?
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Have you tried without the SD card in?
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Also try putting in another SD CARD and try to turn it back on...
So hold on....
Your new 3D and your GF's OG EVO both stopped working at the same time?
I'm assuming heat damaged the phones somehow.
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So hold on....
Your new 3D and your GF's OG EVO both stopped working at the same time?
I'm assuming heat damaged the phones somehow.
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I've tried different sd cards, and yes they stopped at the same time, I guess heat is the only option
This happened to my Evo 3D after a couple of hours out of the box.
This might be a dumb suggestion,but try it anyway. Take off your battery cover and put it back on. When I incorrectly put on the cover, the power button was jammed. Just a suggestion.
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Never had this issue my guess is it got cooked its like leaving your laptop in the car in the heat of the day a bad idea. Think the phones got spanked. I like the way they redid the power buttton on the 3d no more cracked housing or squeeky button
Same here! I just picked mine up from the store about 2 hours ago and it refuses to power on - i've tried it with and without the battery cover, as well as with different SD cards.
It happened after i booted up with a 16gb kingston card pulled from my original EVO - it booted fine the first time, after pulling the battery again now it won't come back up.
Hope this isn't one of those launch-day epidemic problems..
*edit* - tried again after swapping a 3rd microSD in, and it came up - i was able to replace it with my 16gb card, and it's working fine now. Must have something to do with the external storage
Also posted this on another site, I could use any/all help!
I was attempting to pull my battery but I accidentally grabbed the tab to the micro SD card instead, so when I yanked what I thought was the battery, I ended up breaking the card right where it goes into the phone, making it impossible to pull out. Of course, the slot isn't spring loaded and nobody at the VZW store had any ideas for me (great cust svc). I think my only option is to get a hex screwdriver and tear it apart, but I'll try any suggestions you may have!
Get a piece of tape about an inch long ans stick it down over the SD card. Then try to pull it off. Idk if it will work or not but its worth a shot!!
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maybe you can put something thin like a iphone sim card slot opener along the side where there is a small opening and then you can just maybe wiggle it out?
Is any of the sdcard exposed? If so, take a safety pin and press into the exposed area and angle it so you can push it out. I've not done it on this phone, but had a similar situation for a client of mine.
Did u ever figure this out?
i had this happen to me to, i would advise just getting the screwdriver, i tried a bunch of different things to get the stupid card end out and nothing worked, the slot is too small to get it out and in such and akward position that you cant really get to it, I took it apart (super easy like Incredible) and just took a paper clip to push it out from the back of the sd mount (The back end has an open spots on each corner of the mount so its easy to push out, just do one side a bit then the other and continue until it falls out.)
Hi everyone,
I am experiencing a problem with my Samsung Vibrant. It keeps saying "Sim Card removed" and asks for restarting. It happen every 5 minutes or so. Any one has an idea in how to solve? Running CyanogenMod 9 Nightly Vibrantmtd.
Peace!
Maybe try cleaning the contacts on the card. Or you may have fired your SIM card with that crazy Haitian heat down there. Might want to look in to getting a new SIM card and see if that works out.
Thank you for response Woodrube. I didnt come back to the post because i have solved the problem. It was about the sim card reader on the board of the phone. I changed it and it worked like a charm. I sold it right after. I'm now on Galaxy S2. The haitian heat is something a man should try before he dies man. I hope you'll have that chance... lol.
Well, i really appreciate your help man.
Peace.
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Hi, just wanted to add my own experience to this subject. My phone got a little bit wet, not submerged but just dripped on a little bit. Some of this water made its way into the back of the phone through the speaker hole and side slits. I compounded the problem by pushing the power button to turn it off instead of just pulling the battery; this caused the physical switch to suck some water in and short out, causing symptoms similar to a boot loop - put the battery in, phone immediately turns on, starts to boot, turns itself off just as boot animation comes up, repeat, until battery pulled. Long story short, I had to tear apart the phone, dissect the power switch, blot out water, and reassemble.
All good until I started right away getting 'SIM card removed, reboot phone' messages. Power down sometimes made it see the SIM again for a litle while, sometimes I had to pull the battery and jostle the SIM card and then it would work a while, etc.
I re-opened the phone after a week of this and discovered that while I was poking around inside, the ribbon connector for the SIM card / SD card reader daughterboard had become disconnected, on the hidden side of the motherboard (i.e. the screen side). I had to disconnect two similar ribbons on the battery side to be able to lift the whole assembly out of the case, push the SIM reader ribbon connector back into its receiver, and then all was well. I think it was only working at all because the being pushed up against the case was kind of holding the connector in place, if only in a janky way.
So, check for disconnected SIM card reader ribbon before ordering a new part. In fact, looking at the part online is what gave me the idea to check. I would post a link to the part, but as a new XDA user I'm disallowed until I make more posts. Google.
Thanks XDA for being awesome!
Currently running CM10 nightlies and loving my phone, after having official Froyo for nine months and hating it.
Yesterday I watched TV sitting on sofa and my phone (M4 Aqua) was right next to me. When I picked it up, I saw that the MicroSD card cover was open and the card was sticking out of the slot. When I tried to push it back, it clicks, but immediately pops out. Anyone has similar problem? I tested it on my tablet, which has the same mechanism of the slot. Unfortunetly it snapped right in to the slot. It means, that it is phones problem. I also tried blowing some air in to the slot with my mouth, but without success. Also, the phone haven't been dropped. Hope someone can help me!
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Yesterday I watched TV sitting on sofa and my phone (M4 Aqua) was right next to me. When I picked it up, I saw that the MicroSD card cover was open and the card was sticking out of the slot. When I tried to push it back, it clicks, but immediately pops out. Anyone has similar problem? I tested it on my tablet, which has the same mechanism of the slot. Unfortunetly it snapped right in to the slot. It means, that it is phones problem. I also tried blowing some air in to the slot with my mouth, but without success. Also, the phone haven't been dropped. Hope someone can help me!
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I'm experiencing the exact same problem. The SD card suddenly popped out and now bounces out when inserting it, even when pressed all the way in.
Where you / anyone able to solve it?