Samsung galaxy S3 stopped reading (32gb) SD card - Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)

Hi,
My brother got the new Galaxy S3 and its a verry nice phone. We got a 32gb SDcard for it and it worked perfectly for a few days, untill last week the phone suddenly refused to recognise/detect/read the SD card...
The card still works perfectly fine on a laptop, its only on the phone it doesnt work anymore. My brother doesnt recall doing anything special that could have caused this problem (last thing he did was updating the IMDB android app).
When we tried another (16gb) card and it reads just fine. So its not the phone either?!
Anyone has a clue what could be wrong here and how to fix it?
thank you!

use the fone to format the sd card

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[Q] sd card problem

Hi,
I got my Optimus one not long ago and I bought kingston 8G for it though it would work fine. The phone read the card well and show the memory correct and I can use it pretty good on my phone. The thing later I found out is the phone itself restart after the idle time exceed 1hr which is crazy. The phone works really good until I upgrade my original sd card (samsung 2G which came in with) to Kingston microsd 8G. I don't know where exactly is wrong, and I couldn't return the sd card either since it work fine on both phone and on computer with card reader. If someone got same problem with me, please let me know or help me out!! Thanks in advance.
I think it is a firmware problem,Mine and others do the same with the standart 2G card...
Firmware keeps updating itself when I go on WIFI connection. I don't know about these stuffs either. But now, the problems are ended..the phone doesn't read any card anymore whether 2G or 8G, it keeps saying that "sd card removed. Insert a new one". I've tried restart again & again but the message doesn't go away and my phone decide not to recognize the card.Both of the cards work fine on computer. I think I need to visit the shop where I bought to check on it. Btw, is that problem considered in the warranty case? I don't know.. It wasn't even a month with me. So sad!
winnie34 said:
Firmware keeps updating itself when I go on WIFI connection. I don't know about these stuffs either. But now, the problems are ended..the phone doesn't read any card anymore whether 2G or 8G, it keeps saying that "sd card removed. Insert a new one". I've tried restart again & again but the message doesn't go away and my phone decide not to recognize the card.Both of the cards work fine on computer. I think I need to visit the shop where I bought to check on it. Btw, is that problem considered in the warranty case? I don't know.. It wasn't even a month with me. So sad!
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Are you using any app2sd ? If yes, it could be a problem also if ur using an app storing data on your SD card. It makes you're cell restart.
I have the "mount / unmount" problem on my LG, I saw on a french forum that it was better to try with another file system, sometimes it was solving, sometimes not. I don't think it's really a card problem, I gave my LG GW620's sd to my girlfrend and her old samsung is using it without any problem's, but on mine it was crashing every 30mins....
killdashnine said:
Are you using any app2sd ? If yes, it could be a problem also if ur using an app storing data on your SD card. It makes you're cell restart.
I have the "mount / unmount" problem on my LG, I saw on a french forum that it was better to try with another file system, sometimes it was solving, sometimes not. I don't think it's really a card problem, I gave my LG GW620's sd to my girlfrend and her old samsung is using it without any problem's, but on mine it was crashing every 30mins....
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I have some problem with his original sd and with a new 4gb class 4 sd...
Do you solved the problem ?? how ?
My problem disappeared after I formatted the card directly on the phone.
i reAD sumwher ... a claSS 10 sd cARd is fully funcTional with lg o1 !!
allsalvati said:
My problem disappeared after I formatted the card directly on the phone.
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I have the same problem but more problem when my LG O1 didn't recognize the card and I couldn't mount or format the card on my phone.
This happened when I partitioned the card. My PC still sees the card well but my phone doesn't.
I read a lot of posts from a lot of forums and I did try every guides steps by steps but it seemed as the LG O1 doesn't have any button-press-combination as others. For ex: when I pressed Back + Power On, nothing happened as It was said that the phone might come to FastBoot.
As help on this issue will be in much appreciated.
I fixed it. If your PC still recognizes the sd card, it's ok. Go to Manage (right click on My Computer) -> Device Management -> Storage -> you should see your card there. Try to delete volumn or format the EXT2 and Linux Swap.
Put the card back to your phone. It should recognize the card and then, unmount and format card and mount it back. Done.
I have a small question. What is the best class for this phone? The class 10 is fully used by phone or does not reach that read/write speed? Some micro sd class 10 are declared between 20 and 30 MB/S. The p500 has these capabilities? Or a Class 6 card is enough?
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UP!
The price for 32GB class 6 is very different from class 10.
Lg Optimus One is able to full use write/read speed of class 10?
Thanks
Help! I inserted a sandisk 4gb class 4 and my phone didn't recognized it (i got the 'SD card removed. Insert a new one.' notification). Then, i inserted back the original 2gb sd card from the box, but that notification is still there and it can't be recognized. But both my PC and a another android device (a galaxy tab) can detect it. So, i tried formatting both the 4gb and the original 2gb with the galaxy tab and inserted it to my O1 but nothing has changed. I tried updating to the official V10E firmware but it makes no diffrences. Any help please?
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For future, don't remove SD card during phone is running because of app moved to SD card. Especially when you plan insert new one, and if you do that with custom ROM with app2sd its equivalent to suicide.
Is mass storage mode works? Is MS works in curstom recovery? Did you try format memory card in phone? Delete of caches?
The_ERROR said:
For future, don't remove SD card during phone is running because of app moved to SD card. Especially when you plan insert new one, and if you do that with custom ROM with app2sd its equivalent to suicide.
Is mass storage mode works? Is MS works in curstom recovery? Did you try format memory card in phone? Delete of caches?
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Thx for the reply,
I haven't install a custom ROM yet. All i did was enable JIT+HW accel from a thread here.
1. Mass storage didn't work. It just appears as a new drive which i can't access.
2. I updated my O1 to V10E... I lost root, custom recovery,etc. so i can't try that
3. I formated it with another android device (a galaxy tab)
4. How do you delete the caches???? Sorry, new here
You had got me. For now I have not idea how to proceed.
Anyway, remove battery, remove SD card, clean sd card with some soft cloth, check if metal contacts looks fine (try clean that if not), insert SD card, insert battery and try it again.
If this not help, you can try some shaking and so on. It's sounds crazy, but I know one guy whose shaking helped him to flash firmware to phone, which not works at all. Maybe it's some cheats for all these issues.
ad 4) You can delete caches via custom recovery, but related to 2) you can't so, this hint is useless.
I did everything u said. I checked the SD card & the slot and they seem ok.
This might sound dumb, but what do you mean by 'shaking'? Which part are you suppose to shake?? Sorry, im still new to androids
BTW, i went to the LG customer care. The technician checked it and said that they are going to replace the SD card slot. She said that sparepart (the SD card slot) is going to arrive sometime in mid-January due to the holidays.
By the shake I mean grab phone and do quick movements with phone from left to right and back.
But it seems, that you have some trouble with hardware part(s) of phone.

[Problem] Occasional restart of the phone

Hi,
I am a n00b in regards to P500, but I used to have an LG GT540 which pretty much similar.
Anyway, I got my P500 yesterday and installed the V10B ROM with arabic support through KDZ. All went fine. I rooted with Z4Root and also all went fine. The probelm now is that the phone restarts every few hours without doing any thing. I mean sometimes when its in my pocket, others wen it is just laying there on the table.
Is that a hardware issue or a ROM issue?
Any help appreciated.
Jst rewipe and reflash and chk again
Got that fixed by changing the SD card. I had a class 4 8GB Kingston that seemed to cause this by the "SD card unexpectedly removed" error and causing the phone to freze and restart.
I changed it to a class 10 card and the problem stopped. 12 hours now without the restart or the "sd card unexpectedly removed" issue. I will test more and report here.
Class 4 sd cards unmount when the phone tries to write something to the card. There is no problem with reading data from the cards. I have the same problem but I can't buy a new card now and as long as I don't write anything to the card the phone will not restart. Thank goodness I dont have a 3g connection.

ADATA 32 GB MicroSD Not Working

Hi to everyone in this awesome forum, I must say I´m new here (As registred user) -sorry for my bad english, I´m mexican- but I must say I've used this forum too many times to solve a lot of problems/questions Ive ever had with my Galaxy S2.
I hope you can help me out with the problem I have with my MicroSD guys, I've just bought an ADATA 32GB Class 4 MicroSD for my Galaxy S2, all seemed well until it just stop transfering my music to it, first I think it was the cable but no, tried with another one and the same, formated the sd in the phone and it just said that it was empty and after that the phone can´t recognize it so, I formated it again by my PC and tried it again, still don´t work, formated it in a camera and the camera recognizes it perfectly, tried again in the phone, still no luck, by times I can transfer data to it via phone but it just freezes and stop, I don´t now what can cause this problem, I've been searching all around but still no luck, hope you can help me guys!
Thanks in advance
FerchoFI said:
Hi to everyone in this awesome forum, I must say I´m new here (As registred user) -sorry for my bad english, I´m mexican- but I must say I've used this forum too many times to solve a lot of problems/questions Ive ever had with my Galaxy S2.
I hope you can help me out with the problem I have with my MicroSD guys, I've just bought an ADATA 32GB Class 4 MicroSD for my Galaxy S2, all seemed well until it just stop transfering my music to it, first I think it was the cable but no, tried with another one and the same, formated the sd in the phone and it just said that it was empty and after that the phone can´t recognize it so, I formated it again by my PC and tried it again, still don´t work, formated it in a camera and the camera recognizes it perfectly, tried again in the phone, still no luck, by times I can transfer data to it via phone but it just freezes and stop, I don´t now what can cause this problem, I've been searching all around but still no luck, hope you can help me guys!
Thanks in advance
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Google for h2testw. It is free and will perform an integrity check of your flash card. If h2testw fails your flash card is either of poor quality or defective. If h2testw succeeds you can be quite sure that your flash card is fine and search for the problem elsewhere.

microSD will not mount on anything after rom install!

Hey guys, so yesterday i rooted my s3, and installed the supernexus rom, which is the best ive used so far,
But today I went to upload some more music onto my sd card, and it wont mount or even read on anything, tried my phone, computer (windows and mac) and its a 32gb card, so would be great to get it working again, but i really have no clue how to fix it if it wont mount.
Anyone have the same issue or know a solution? :/
Cheers,
Cam

SD Card issues

Hi!
I have an european honor7 (plk-l01) with b140. Today I've tried to add a SD card to the phone and it doesn't work.
I've tested this card in another phone and it just worked; after that, I've tried another working sd card in my phone and it doesn't work either.
Has any of you had similar issues? Could it be a software glitch due to b140 or is it more likely to be a hardware problem?
Thanks for the help!
I have no issues with sd card
<-- B121 & B140 both worked fine with 2 sdcards, one 16GB FAT32, the other 64GB EXFAT
Is it yourself who posted on the vmall forum? I'm having the same issue on the same firmware and same update version. Did you find a solution to this?
I have contacted vmall service to see what they say as well, I'm presuming it's a hardware issue and will have to go back. I've only had it a few days and was really happy with it up to now
Mine was working fine but then pop up messages that sim card is ejected and a restart is needed few times and since then the sim is working fine but the SD card isn't working and changing the ROM didn't help , I'm using the Chinese version
I have the same issue. I had sdcard in the phone for few weeks and yesterday i putted second sim card in and took the sdcard out and when i put the sdcard back again its not working anymore. But both simcard slots are working.
its seams hardware ?
A hardware specific issue .
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Take it to repair centre
Or better yet, get replacement.
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