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I spent the last few weeks trouble shooting why my phone started to have random lockups/reboots with a growing frequencey. I have through process of elimination found that my external 32gb sd card seems to be the culprit. I used it for 1 week and each day I had my phone reboot itself 5-8 times and randomly lockup while using apps to the point I had to do a battery pull. I then went all of last week and only had to restart my phone 1 time by battery pull *new app froze, found it to be poorly designed* and no random reboots on its own.
I spent last night backing up all the data on my sd card. I kept movies/music/pictures on it but did not run any apps off of the card. I told windows to format it fat32 and then test the card and it said it found no problems. I copied the videos and such back over to the card then installed it. Within 1 hour the phone had already frozen up and rebooted itself.
For reference I am currently running Trigger 3.2 Final with KB5. I have also tried with Project V *forget exact version* and with CM7. All produce the same issue.
If you can think of something else I could try I would be most grateful. I am out of ideas. Have any of you ever experienced something like this?
what brand & class is the SD card?
i saw a deal at target last weekend... $8 for a dane-elec brand 8gb class 4 microSD card at target
i bought it for my gf so she could double the capacity of her current 8gb sandisk class 2 card that she had in her nexus one.
i copied everything over to the new card and after 10 minutes her phone started acting weird. as soon as the screen timed out, it would not come back on. you could operate the phone if you guessed where the buttons were on the black screen; even answer calls!
but you could not get the screen to come back on unless you rebooted and kept it awake.
i thought it was funny that she never had issues until immediately after i put the new card in, so i powered the phone off and swapped the old one back in.
no problems for a whole day. i put the new card back in the next day and it started messing up again.
so we returned the dane-elec and i snagged a kingston 8gb class 4 and tried again. no problems.
i know hers is an N1 but i figured it could be related. good luck!
My card is a Sandisk 32gb Class 4
+24 Hour Bump back up to page 1. Still cant figure this one out.
Have you also formatted the internal and re-installed the rom?
My girlfriends phone was running Axura for like 5 months and started having issues fc/freeze/reboot. I did everything and tried different rom's and kernels still same problems. Formatted internal SD and reinstalled Axura and she's been good since May.
Back everything. Pull the titanium folder. When you reinstall just copy everything back and you should be good. Also check out Br1ck'ds Ginger Zen thread second or third post for ultra cleaning steps.
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Had the same issue on project v. Random soft boots and freezes. Thought it was the rom. Tried a few things but noticed the external scanning was unusually long. Took out the card and reformat it. Evrything good again.
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Yeah I have tried formatting both through phone and pc no noticible difference. It is the external card causing issues not internal. I could try to format internal but when I installed trigger last it was from a clean print to stock format reroot etc. Process. Not sure if that would be the same more or less.
illego said:
Had the same issue on project v. Random soft boots and freezes. Thought it was the rom. Tried a few things but noticed the external scanning was unusually long. Took out the card and reformat it. Evrything good again.
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Come to think of it the first symptom started I was on project v.
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Sending back to front , still cant figure this one out. I have at this point tried a 16gb card my friend has and It had some of the symptoms but not all. What would you guys do to test the SD Card?
Love me some edt, but perhaps try a different rom from abother group. Problem persists im calling hardware issue.
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I have has so many screen lockups with my X2 (screen is unresponsive but the physical buttons work), then it comes back with in 1 min or so. I SBF'd the new GB build and left it COMPLETE stock Rooted. NO bloat removed or anything. took out my 8 gig SD card and used Internal memory.
my X2 ran so freaking nice yesterday. fast, responsive, NO freezes and i used it allot all day. This morning, after charging, i rebooted, then when i got to work, i reinserted my 8 gig class4 SD card (i also used a 32gig card and got freezes as well) and within 15 min BOOM i got my first lock up surfing.
i am conviniced that it eaither has to do with the SD card slot itslef, or maybe the X2 does NOT like certian "class" cards?
i would love to see any of you who are getting lockups with screen unresponsive issues to try this and see if you get the same results? i was also getting freezes and lockups with ecliplse ROM when i ran a custom rom.
thoughts???
Interesting thoughts. I'm running a Lexar 16 GB class 6 card with no issues.
My phone doesn't lock up per se. What it does do sometimes is while surfing, the lock screen flashes and goes right back. Every once in a while I actually have to slide to unlock. Is this what you're talking about? Happens stock and rooted. I do use app called no lock and figured thats the problem.
it jsut seems way to strange that it ran perfect all day, the last time i used it with the SD card it was freezing all the time...
seems VERY fishy
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My phone doesn't lock up per se. What it does do sometimes is while surfing, the lock screen flashes and goes right back. Every once in a while I actually have to slide to unlock. Is this what you're talking about? Happens stock and rooted. I do use app called no lock and figured thats the problem.
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nope. the screen just hangs there...forzen on what ever you were doing last. the only thing that works, is the physical buttons on it...then it comes back
dvigue said:
nope. the screen just hangs there...forzen on what ever you were doing last. the only thing that works, is the physical buttons on it...then it comes back
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Are you using the stock browser?
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Are you using the stock browser?
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yep, but it does not only happen when im surfing.....
I have a patriot LX 32GB class 10 micro sdhc card and I haven't had any of these problems while surfing stock or my main browser opera.
Although my X2 did kill my old Lexar 32GB class 10 microSD card upon a low battery shutdown.
killed it? really? what happend? it just fried?
it is just so strange that not one lock up then as soon as i inserted it within 15 min lock up....
if this issue would get resolved i would honestly keep this phone..but if it keeps happening, i might move to the bionic
My X1 killed an SD card too, that is how I got my X2... Verizon caught an earful. I can't remember for the life of me what brand of SD card it was, but I got it with my Storm 2 in 2009 when I came back to the US.
I have never had any issues with my x2 locking up, stock or otherwise.
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killed it? really? what happend? it just fried?
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After the shutdown hooked up to charger and SD card would not mount.... at all. Took out and tried it on all 6 of my computers (Windows, Linux, Mac) all tried to mount the card... nothing.
IMO 32gb micro-SDHC cards just aren't as reliable as their big brothers. Just recently I was going nuts trying to figure out why Titanium Backup was freezing up -- guess what, bad SD card. Had a 32gb Class 10 card that worked fine since about Easter in the phone, and SDFormatter took 3 hours to "reformat" it. I decided to toss it and went back to a 16gb Class 10. So far, not a single hiccup.
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IMO 32gb micro-SDHC cards just aren't as reliable as their big brothers. Just recently I was going nuts trying to figure out why Titanium Backup was freezing up -- guess what, bad SD card. Had a 32gb Class 10 card that worked fine since about Easter in the phone, and SDFormatter took 3 hours to "reformat" it. I decided to toss it and went back to a 16gb Class 10. So far, not a single hiccup.
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I think you are on the right track; although I believe it also depends on the brand of the card. Almost everything I buy memory wise is Patriot and I am very happy with them. I only bought the Lexar card because at the time it's the only class 10 microSD that my local computer store had.
L2_n19h7m4r3 said:
After the shutdown hooked up to charger and SD card would not mount.... at all. Took out and tried it on all 6 of my computers (Windows, Linux, Mac) all tried to mount the card... nothing.
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I'm thought mine was a fluke. Glad to know it happend to someone else. I thought I did something wrong. Lol
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I wasn't even touching my phone, it was sitting on a table by itself, and I heard the SD-Card mounting sound. I thought maybe my phone restarted like they do periodically. Went and picked it up and it said SD-Card Format complete........... man was I furious!
AtLemacks said:
I wasn't even touching my phone, it was sitting on a table by itself, and I heard the SD-Card mounting sound. I thought maybe my phone restarted like they do periodically. Went and picked it up and it said SD-Card Format complete........... man was I furious!
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Was it the stock card that came with the X2?
L2_n19h7m4r3 said:
I think you are on the right track; although I believe it also depends on the brand of the card. Almost everything I buy memory wise is Patriot and I am very happy with them. I only bought the Lexar card because at the time it's the only class 10 microSD that my local computer store had.
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Uh, okay, if you say so. But I've had three 32gb micro-sdhc cards go bad on me since they became available ... one was a Wintec, the other two, including this latest one, were Patriot.
Just sayin' ...
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Uh, okay, if you say so. But I've had three 32gb micro-sdhc cards go bad on me since they became available ... one was a Wintec, the other two, including this latest one, were Patriot.
Just sayin' ...
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Call up Verizon and get a replacement phone.
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Was it the stock card that came with the X2?
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Nah, I said on the other page it was the one that came with my Storm 2. They didn't give me a new SD card when I upgraded last October. So I used it in my X1 and that is how I got my X2. I am a very influential individual when it comes to Verizon. Almost every phone upgrade on all 4 of my lines have been free in one way, shape, or form Me, paid for Storm 1, got 2 free, paid for X1, free to X2. My mom Eris to Inc 2 for free, my brother OG Droid to X1 AND X2 free. I don't ever settle for the bare replacement.
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Nah, I said on the other page it was the one that came with my Storm 2. They didn't give me a new SD card when I upgraded last October. So I used it in my X1 and that is how I got my X2. I am a very influential individual when it comes to Verizon. Almost every phone upgrade on all 4 of my lines have been free in one way, shape, or form Me, paid for Storm 1, got 2 free, paid for X1, free to X2. My mom Eris to Inc 2 for free, my brother OG Droid to X1 AND X2 free. I don't ever settle for the bare replacement.
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Stupid
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Let me start out by saying that I have searched for any threads that have covered this, and have come up empty.
This has happened twice to me in the last two months. Running task650's V.9, which is an awesome ROM. I've got a Lexar Class 10 32gb card. Twice in two months have I booted up and the media scanner would show a broken sd card notice. I tried booting the phone without the card, and then re-installed the card. Same notice of bad sd card on boot.
At this point I took the card and stuck it in a laptop, which generated a "can not open due to corrupt or unreadable file" and "reformat drive" or something like that. I was forced to format, losing photos, vids, and TiBu folder. I synced to Dropbox and got the backup folder re-installed.
Any ideas about what could have corrupted the card? I suppose the card could be damaged. I paid good bucks, as it is not a low end card. Replace the card? Any guidance would be appreciated.
I have a Lexar Class 10 32GB card. Same issue, after first time reformatted and same thing happened a week or two later.
I did an RMA with Lexar, think there is a 1 year warranty. Got a new card, been working fine the past several months.
Ok. Thanks for the input. I've got a Kingston Class 10 on the way.
I was hoping it wasn't in the phone hardware.
Thanks, I just reminded myself to do a backup of that card itself to my PC.
Sorry to hear about your problem though.
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LiLChris06 said:
Thanks, I just reminded myself to do a backup of that card itself to my PC.
Sorry to hear about your problem though.
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Looks like I will be starting practice myself
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This just happened to me two days ago. Lost some pics that was about it. Pissed me off because they were of my son and you'll never get those moment back but too late now. Always backup!!
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This just happened to me two days ago. Lost some pics that was about it. Pissed me off because they were of my son and you'll never get those moment back but too late now. Always backup!!
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Yeah, I lost some New Years day photos and vids with my wife. I'll NEVER find her in that good of a mood again!
It makes me wonder about my decision to place my TiBu folder on the external card, along with Nandroid backups. True, it syncs to Drop Box for TiBu but do I need the extra headache of wondering if my card is going to get smoked again? I suppose I should be backing it all up to pc..
I'm not sure but it seems to be a problem with the phone and class 10 cards.
My first one was a 16gb class 10 micro sd that one day just decided to stop working (lasted a month or so). Couldn't access it via the phone or PC.
So I went out and got a 32gb class 10 and after a month or so again it stopped working
Knowing this I refused to buy a class 10 card again. I went to Walmart and got the cheapest 32gb micro sd (Sandisk class 4) and so far so good. no problems at all
Lost everything I had too on the first 2 cards so learned the hard way to do backups to my PC.
Not the class, it's probably the brand. Some brands have terrible quality control, especially if you go for a cheaper one. I have one from Amazon Basic and it works just fine. My brother uses one from SanDisk with zero problem.
Class 10 is also newer. The technology to manufacture these is not that old. I suspect some manufacturers still need to refine their process.
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me too
Posted this on similar thread here, but want to make sure people know it's a problem:
Got a similar problem here.
Transcend Class 10 32GB Card
Works in PC, HTC Desire - no probs.
Put in Galaxy S2, it starts Media Scanning, a few seconds later reports SD Card Damaged, requires formatting.
It's right - take it back out (again, umpteenth time!), put it in PC or HTC - card is "damaged". (Nothing permanent, can reformat.)
Samsung support claim to not know anything - mind you they "play dumb" about the camera "pink spot" issue, until you challenge them to get real...
Oh, dear!
Brian
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I thought my Galaxy was shagging the Card - but it could be a Fake
Testing now with H2testw (also visual clues available) see
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Hope this helps
Brian
Buy a 500gb external hard drive for like 50 bucks they're cheap now. Backup everything to it once a week. Never lose data. Profit.
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Sounds like a brand issue, but have you ever tried checking the drive for errors?
Given that even your PC gives you a "damaged" message, it may not work. Once inserted, go to "My Computer," get to properties, and check for errors (enable the "automatically fix file system errors" option). In the past, this has corrected "corrupted" SD cards for me.
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Let me start out by saying that I have searched for any threads that have covered this, and have come up empty.
This has happened twice to me in the last two months. Running task650's V.9, which is an awesome ROM. I've got a Lexar Class 10 32gb card. Twice in two months have I booted up and the media scanner would show a broken sd card notice. I tried booting the phone without the card, and then re-installed the card. Same notice of bad sd card on boot.
At this point I took the card and stuck it in a laptop, which generated a "can not open due to corrupt or unreadable file" and "reformat drive" or something like that. I was forced to format, losing photos, vids, and TiBu folder. I synced to Dropbox and got the backup folder re-installed.
Any ideas about what could have corrupted the card? I suppose the card could be damaged. I paid good bucks, as it is not a low end card. Replace the card? Any guidance would be appreciated.
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The only corruptions I have experienced on this phone were when using MTP to transfer files from the PC. Since I stopped using MTP and use only USB Storage mounting, I have not had any more problems.
I've actually experienced this twice. Both times flashing to AOKP. I'm not blaming AOKP but just saying. The first time even my PC wouldn't read it and it needed to be reformatted. The second time my pc could read it and after nandroiding back to shostock2 it was fine.
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So I am having a problem where my Sandisk 32GB MicroSD card is getting dismounted from the phone. It gives me an error message like "SD card has been removed. Please use the Safely Eject SD card option to prevent data loss" or something like that. Then, it finds the card and runs the media scan, which renders my card useless for that time period. The screen also turns on for a minute or so during this time. Then it stays mounted for maybe up until 5 minutes before starting over again.
This absolutely rapes my battery, taking it from a full charge to dead battery in less than two hours. I thought maybe the SD card was going bad even though it's fairly new, so I took it out and tried it on my old Motorola smartphone, and it works fine and never dismounts. So I thought perhaps it's something with my phone, so I tried an older 8GB micro SD, and it works fine without dismounting at all.
Some info. Phone is running stock 4.0.4 with root and unlocked bootloader. The 32GB SD card worked fine for maybe 3 months until this problem suddenly started. Any ideas?
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So I am having a problem where my Sandisk 32GB MicroSD card is getting dismounted from the phone. It gives me an error message like "SD card has been removed. Please use the Safely Eject SD card option to prevent data loss" or something like that. Then, it finds the card and runs the media scan, which renders my card useless for that time period. The screen also turns on for a minute or so during this time. Then it stays mounted for maybe up until 5 minutes before starting over again.
This absolutely rapes my battery, taking it from a full charge to dead battery in less than two hours. I thought maybe the SD card was going bad even though it's fairly new, so I took it out and tried it on my old Motorola smartphone, and it works fine and never dismounts. So I thought perhaps it's something with my phone, so I tried an older 8GB micro SD, and it works fine without dismounting at all.
Some info. Phone is running stock 4.0.4 with root and unlocked bootloader. The 32GB SD card worked fine for maybe 3 months until this problem suddenly started. Any ideas?
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It's behaving like mine did when the SD card croaked. 32GB SanDisk here as well...first SD card I've ever had die on me. I was able to get it to read, one time, on my TF101 to rescue my photos...now it won't read anywhere. I'm not sure what to tell you, except that I'd back that card up pronto, just in case...
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It's behaving like mine did when the SD card croaked. 32GB SanDisk here as well...first SD card I've ever had die on me. I was able to get it to read, one time, on my TF101 to rescue my photos...now it won't read anywhere. I'm not sure what to tell you, except that I'd back that card up pronto, just in case...
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Yeah, it was a somewhat common issue for a few of us about 4 months ago. I know blenkows and I both had it happening a lot. For me it eventually went away, not sure what the deal was, there.
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Jank4AU said:
Yeah, it was a somewhat common issue for a few of us about 4 months ago. I know blenkows and I both had it happening a lot. For me it eventually went away, not sure what the deal was, there.
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My SD card wouldn't stop doing it. I just gave with it. Uploaded all my music to Google Play, put the 16 GB card that the phone came with in there. All is well now. Haven't had a problem with the card in there yet but I rarely use it now anyways. Basically just there for backups
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Your card is defective.
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Well thanks for the responses, I already backed up the data that was on there. I can't find my receipt for it...any idea if Sandisk is good about replaced defective cards?
I went through four RMA replacement 64gb class 10 SanDisk cards, ate the $90 loss and spent $80 on the Samsung equivalent. It's faster and I have had zero problems with it. However, I used SanDisk cards for nearly a decade before those without any problems.
The SanDisk hi capacity cards seem to not work well in the lgog. They worked fine in my card readers, just not the lgog slot.
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I also had this problem with a 32gb sandisk. I RMA'd it and it happens less frequently for the new one. I'd say it happens once every few weeks now instead.
It's your card. I haven't experienced this at all n I'm using a no name class 10 32gb card. I was looking scandisk card but luckily I read the reviews n they where all negative
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Randomly when I use either the stock camera app, or stock gallery, the SDCard will randomly disconnect itself and take about 5-15 minutes to come back up. Does anyone know a fix for this? I am using a sandisk 16GB card.
I have tried doing a FDR with wiping davlic and system cache with the same results, I have even tried re-installing the ROM on the phone with the same results.
Your card is going bad. Happened to my sanddisk as well. Back it up and reformat. Might help for a bit. It did with my wife's.
tlarseth said:
Randomly when I use either the stock camera app, or stock gallery, the SDCard will randomly disconnect itself and take about 5-15 minutes to come back up. Does anyone know a fix for this? I am using a sandisk 16GB card.
I have tried doing a FDR with wiping davlic and system cache with the same results, I have even tried re-installing the ROM on the phone with the same results.
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Read this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2477623
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Your card is going bad. Happened to my sanddisk as well. Back it up and reformat. Might help for a bit. It did with my wife's.
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This card is only two months old.
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Read this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2477623
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The problem is only in gallery and camera. I can view files on the card even in the same directory with any other app with no problems. I called sandisk already they said it is a software issue that I need to contact Samsung about it.
tlarseth said:
This card is only two months old.
The problem is only in gallery and camera. I can view files on the card even in the same directory with any other app with no problems. I called sandisk already they said it is a software issue that I need to contact Samsung about it.
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My card failed after one month and my wife's same sandisk class 10 failed after 2 months. It has been covered in the threads over and over. Sandisk had a known bad batch of cards. Mine would not work in phone but would in PC so I was able to back up. My wife was not so lucky and lost everything.
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My card failed after one month and my wife's same sandisk class 10 failed after 2 months. It has been covered in the threads over and over. Sandisk had a known bad batch of cards. Mine would not work in phone but would in PC so I was able to back up. My wife was not so lucky and lost everything.
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I will call them again, maybe this time I will get a CSR who cares and gets stuff handled.
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I will call them again, maybe this time I will get a CSR who cares and gets stuff handled.
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I bought mine at radio shack. When I took them back they were even familiar with the problem at radio shack.
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I bought mine at radio shack. When I took them back they were even familiar with the problem at radio shack.
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I bought mine at Wal*Mart, the one near me gives people a huge hassle on returning or exchanging electronics.