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Hi have a Lexar class 10 sd card that I purchased ~6 months ago for my Evo. Had issues with other cards, and this was the one card that was rock-solid for me on the EVO.
This morning, my Photon started acting very laggy. Programs would refuse to launch, and it was generally having issues.. Upon rebooting, my sd card was gone..
In windows, the sd card has a partition, but requires formatting now this card was rock solid for me in the EVO, so concerned that it died within 24 hours of having it in the photon
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No issue here from my 2 year old 8gig and it has been in since Sunday.
diomark said:
Hi have a Lexar class 10 sd card that I purchased ~6 months ago for my Evo. Had issues with other cards, and this was the one card that was rock-solid for me on the EVO.
This morning, my Photon started acting very laggy. Programs would refuse to launch, and it was generally having issues.. Upon rebooting, my sd card was gone..
In windows, the sd card has a partition, but requires formatting now this card was rock solid for me in the EVO, so concerned that it died within 24 hours of having it in the photon
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I had problems with the same microsd card, and wound up having to RMA it. I've heard of others who have had similar failure issues. I'm highly skeptical that the Photon actively caused it, as opposed to just poor coincidental timing.
Beknatok said:
I had problems with the same microsd card, and wound up having to RMA it. I've heard of others who have had similar failure issues. I'm highly skeptical that the Photon actively caused it, as opposed to just poor coincidental timing.
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re-formatted.. we'll see how it behaves..
(again though, 0 issues on the evo with this card..)
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I'm a Sprint Launch Ambassador supporting the Photon and I would also recommend backing up the data on the SD card and reformatting it. Keep me posted on progress.
mattvalenz said:
I'm a Sprint Launch Ambassador supporting the Photon and I would also recommend backing up the data on the SD card and reformatting it. Keep me posted on progress.
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it was corrupted to the point of not being able to see it in windows
A recovery program that I tried (EASUS recovery) showed the files and gave me the option of recovering them, but since I didn't have much on there, I opted to just format it..
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wow! my wintec 16g class 10 stopped working today , going to see if comp recognize it .. no cool!!
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While I do not know about the wintec card, but the Lexar one has been known to do this. There are a few xda threads scattered throughout the forum as well as over in Amazon that have mentioned the card as well as a few others that work for a while and then poof they act like this. it seems to be common with 32GB class 10. Another one that has issues is Patriot (see xda thread) but at least Patriot has acknowledge the issue.
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FYI. Estrong's File Explorer does not work correctly on the Photon. I have a 16gb sd card and Estrong's File Explorer will only detect 8gb of it. Use the factory installed file manager instead. I thought my card got wiped when I first got my Photon but that was the culprit. Windows showed all my files still intact.
tx_dbs_tx said:
FYI. Estrong's File Explorer does not work correctly on the Photon. I have a 16gb sd card and Estrong's File Explorer will only detect 8gb of it. Use the factory installed file manager instead. I thought my card got wiped when I first got my Photon but that was the culprit. Windows showed all my files still intact.
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Are you sure you're not seeing the internal media partition?
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diomark said:
Are you sure you're not seeing the internal media partition?
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All I know is that when in Estrong's File explorer I can switch between sdcard and phone memory and it only sees 8gb of my 16gb card. Im very familiar with Estrong's File Explorer. I've been using it quite a while. Not sure what else it could be because the stock file manager on the Photon sees all 16gb of my memory card.
If you're not seeing internal phone memory, internal SD card, and external SD card) three separate locations) then you're just not accessing the SD card correctly.
Try browsing to /sdcard-ext
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I have a microSD card in my phone and I don't have any problems with it not recognizing it. Maybe you have a bad card. Make sure the card works or the files you have are corrupted.
I a Sprint Product Ambassador and would love to look into this further to help. I need to narrow it down to any specfics I can get. So...
To anyone having the issue:
What was the brand? (i.e. Sandisk, Lexar)
Size of the card?
Any other information that may be pertinent.
One thing I noticed about file explorers in general, esfile explorer, astro, etc, they detect the internal memory as the sd card and not your actual sd card.
Also, I reformatted my sd card from my 3vo after backing it up, because in general when you put an old drive, or something similar into a new computer it may handle it differently than your previous computer did, in our case our phones. Now this may not be the case, but this is just my thoughts on how it may work. Which could in turn bork your card. Should be okay after a reformat.
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Just had my SDcard become corrupted while in phone. Showed "Damaged SD Card" warning in Notification bar. I then had to reformat the card. It's working just fine now. I think perhaps some data while writing to card becomes corrupt.
Others report if you have similar issues.
My card is a 16GB Class 10 Patriot (I think)
Ok i know theres a sim card slot, and 16gb of internal storage but im looking to see if there is a external slot for a Micro SD. I saw a post somewhere saying something about a MicroSD and another card possibly. but on the major sites like sprint. It only says 16 internal. nothing about external of having it or not.
Yes im aware of it being a stupid question but I see a site saying it does but then every other site doesnt even mention it.
It has an microSD card slot under the battery door. No need to remove the battery to extract the card.
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ok Thank you very much for the quick reply and a answer :-D i hit the thanks button for you.
My sdcard won't stay in.
I push it into the phone sdcard slot, hear the click, let go and bam it pops out again.
It won't stick in.
But is this in need for a phone replacement?
I can fix it myself, if fixable.
Yes, I am using a sdcard. 16GB
Locked in before, now it doesn't.
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try a different sd card first
Mine still has the same SD card that was put in it over a year ago when I bought the phone.
Never been pulled.
The amaze 4g seems to think of its internal memory as an sd card. Its saves things that should be going to the real sd card to the phones internal memory. If you look in astro or other file managers the real sd card is listed as ext_sd and the phone dosent use it. What gives i cant find much info on this. If you manually move the files to the real sd card (ext_sd) then the game cant find the data and wants to re download it. Apps to sd and such just move things back and forth between the phone storage and the "sd card" which is really the 10gigs of internal phone space not the true sd card. Very strange. Please help.
A lot of newer apps have a setting to store in ext_sd... if they don't, you're gonna have to move the stuff manually. Aside from editing the system files and changing the variables I don't think its going to be possible unless the app supports it. Sorry, just the way it is.
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I have over 100 apps and don't have that problem. None of them are on my ext_sd... Quite a few big apps too... I've seen a few ppl with the same prob, but I don't get why. Maybe it's because I don't have any music or movies on my phone...
I guess I will consider myself lucky :screwy:
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hd2joel said:
The amaze 4g seems to think of its internal memory as an sd card. Its saves things that should be going to the real sd card to the phones internal memory. If you look in astro or other file managers the real sd card is listed as ext_sd and the phone dosent use it. What gives i cant find much info on this. If you manually move the files to the real sd card (ext_sd) then the game cant find the data and wants to re download it. Apps to sd and such just move things back and forth between the phone storage and the "sd card" which is really the 10gigs of internal phone space not the true sd card. Very strange. Please help.
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it is a true sd card, its just internal and its separate from the phones internal memory. i wish there was a way to default to the external sd, but no dice
I notice your rooted and from the looks of your memory it looks like your phone is using the real sd card not the internal memorh. Im not rooted and mine looks opposite of yours i have like 7gigs free on my sd card and like 700mb of internal memory. I wounder if rooting fixes this issue and thats why more people dont seem to be having the issue.
hd2joel said:
I notice your rooted and from the looks of your memory it looks like your phone is using the real sd card not the internal memorh. Im not rooted and mine looks opposite of yours i have like 7gigs free on my sd card and like 700mb of internal memory. I wounder if rooting fixes this issue and thats why more people dont seem to be having the issue.
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It's using internal for downloads and everything on my external was placed there by me manually (except for my cwm backups - I have 3 cwm backups on my SD which is hogging most of the space. I deleted 1 BU and now have 2GB+ available on my external.
I don't know if rooting makes a difference. I mean I deleted some bloatware, but none of the stock apps are that big in size, and I only removed about 10 stock apps/widgets. I only ran my phone stock for about 4 hours so idk
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hd2joel said:
The amaze 4g seems to think of its internal memory as an sd card. Its saves things that should be going to the real sd card to the phones internal memory. If you look in astro or other file managers the real sd card is listed as ext_sd and the phone dosent use it. What gives i cant find much info on this. If you manually move the files to the real sd card (ext_sd) then the game cant find the data and wants to re download it. Apps to sd and such just move things back and forth between the phone storage and the "sd card" which is really the 10gigs of internal phone space not the true sd card. Very strange. Please help.
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The internal memory is much, much faster (test it with SD Tools or AnTuTu Benchmark), so I wouldn't be in a hurry to move things to /mnt/sd_card/ext_sd. So long as you have the camera and other apps storing on on the ext_sd card, the 9GB internal should be fine for data, right?
i love how forum responses are always anything but a response to what op asked.
this is standard behavior for devices that have their own internal (mounted on android as /sdcard) storage partitions. the point is that, if this is not done, the a device with a large internal storage sees no benefit of it other than have a ridiculously large /data partition (we'd have over 13gb for apps on the amaze 4g for example).
ics has a better way of dealing with this treating the whole internal storage (no partitioning anymore) but again, the internal storage takes priority over the sdcard.
in my opinion it's better. I hated android automatically making several directories on my sdcard, but I agree the media scanner still has a way to go including media in the sdcard.
your best option if you don't like the new setup is to get a device instead with no internal storage that relies instead on a microSD
No its not when all the new games need 700mb downloads and the only program that uses the real external sd card is the camera. I love the new games with console quality games that's why i got a phone with no battery life and a ton of horse power. It wasn't to send faster texts. But any app the has a check box to save to the sd card ends up using that internal space called sd card. So i have a full phone an empty "real" sd card and the only app the knows its there is the camera. I cant download my audio books unless i delete a game. I cant use that external space for anything but pictures. 16gb is a lot of space just for pictures. I get internal memory is faster i just wish other apps could use it. Not just the camera app. Its dumb to call that space sd card when every app thinks that space is an external sd card. No app looks for an ext_sd card. So your 32gig class 10 card you spenf $100 for cant be used for anything but pictures its a dumb programming move.
jubeh said:
i love how forum responses are always anything but a response to what op asked.
this is standard behavior for devices that have their own internal (mounted on android as /sdcard) storage partitions. the point is that, if this is not done, the a device with a large internal storage sees no benefit of it other than have a ridiculously large /data partition (we'd have over 13gb for apps on the amaze 4g for example).
ics has a better way of dealing with this treating the whole internal storage (no partitioning anymore) but again, the internal storage takes priority over the sdcard.
in my opinion it's better. I hated android automatically making several directories on my sdcard, but I agree the media scanner still has a way to go including media in the sdcard.
your best option if you don't like the new setup is to get a device instead with no internal storage that relies instead on a microSD
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Great answer if you don't like it get a phone with no internal memory brilliant! Why can't they just save the name sdcard for true external sdcards? The point of a ton of internal memory is to have a ton of internal memory so i dont get your point of no benefit. The benefit is i have 13 gigs for all these games that require almost a gig of space. I think thats why they started putting that much internal memory. With the new power of these phones the apps are getting huge. So put a lot of very fast internal storage space. And then you can use your real sdcard as you always have. Apps arnt 2mb any more. So 13gigs of app storage would be a great benefit in the day of gigabyte sized apps. SORRY FOR THE RANT IM DONE NOW. some people's kids just bother me with their logic.
Hey guys, ima level 3 technician and I use to work at a T-Mobile refurb center and have worked at RIM and to end some confusion.
The internal memory is in fact an sd card ranging in sizes from 4-32 gigabytes class 6, I've worked on my phone personally just to double check and found one as well
I'm currently in the process of decrypting the format of my internal sd card so I can transfer it and swap it with a 32gb patriot class 10 just a little info I wanted to share, also the capacitive buttons light leak is due to a physical malfunction in the amazes hardware where the screen and glass met which makes a slight crevice where in turn the light leaks thru creating that dreaded overshoot,
I fixed this by opening up my phone ( I do not advise this I am a professional and have all my equipment so I don't make mistakes) and putting a line of electric tape (black) between the two so there is no longer any way the light can leak thru.
again I don't advise any of this simply giving some information on these problems
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Alan Corona said:
Hey guys, ima level 3 technician and I use to work at a T-Mobile refurb center and have worked at RIM and to end some confusion.
The internal memory is in fact an sd card ranging in sizes from 4-32 gigabytes class 6, I've worked on my phone personally just to double check and found one as well
I'm currently in the process of decrypting the format of my internal sd card so I can transfer it and swap it with a 32gb patriot class 10 just a little info I wanted to share, also the capacitive buttons light leak is due to a physical malfunction in the amazes hardware where the screen and glass met which makes a slight crevice where in turn the light leaks thru creating that dreaded overshoot,
I fixed this by opening up my phone ( I do not advise this I am a professional and have all my equipment so I don't make mistakes) and putting a line of electric tape (black) between the two so there is no longer any way the light can leak thru.
again I don't advise any of this simply giving some information on these problems
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So... You will have the only 64GB Amaze with no light bleed? If you tape a folded piece of paper in your back cover to stop the squeaking, and somehow throw ICS on that, you can prolly sell that thing for $2M
Thanks for the clarification
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Lmao that made my night.
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Alan Corona said:
Hey guys, ima level 3 technician and I use to work at a T-Mobile refurb center and have worked at RIM and to end some confusion.
The internal memory is in fact an sd card ranging in sizes from 4-32 gigabytes class 6, I've worked on my phone personally just to double check and found one as well
I'm currently in the process of decrypting the format of my internal sd card so I can transfer it and swap it with a 32gb patriot class 10 just a little info I wanted to share, also the capacitive buttons light leak is due to a physical malfunction in the amazes hardware where the screen and glass met which makes a slight crevice where in turn the light leaks thru creating that dreaded overshoot,
I fixed this by opening up my phone ( I do not advise this I am a professional and have all my equipment so I don't make mistakes) and putting a line of electric tape (black) between the two so there is no longer any way the light can leak thru.
again I don't advise any of this simply giving some information on these problems
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Pics or it didn't happen I call full on bull**** that there is an internal "removeable" sdcard in this thing. It's a memory module aka a chip that is permanently attached to the board. I love it when kids make stuff up. Just because they named it sdcard your now super tech and going to remove and up grade it. Lol some peoples kids. Anything to make yourself sound cool get a life really. Or show me pic of this internal card shouldn't be hard for a super tech of your skill lol.
Alan Corona said:
Hey guys, ima level 3 technician and I use to work at a T-Mobile refurb center and have worked at RIM and to end some confusion.
The internal memory is in fact an sd card ranging in sizes from 4-32 gigabytes class 6, I've worked on my phone personally just to double check and found one as well
I'm currently in the process of decrypting the format of my internal sd card so I can transfer it and swap it with a 32gb patriot class 10 just a little info I wanted to share, also the capacitive buttons light leak is due to a physical malfunction in the amazes hardware where the screen and glass met which makes a slight crevice where in turn the light leaks thru creating that dreaded overshoot,
I fixed this by opening up my phone ( I do not advise this I am a professional and have all my equipment so I don't make mistakes) and putting a line of electric tape (black) between the two so there is no longer any way the light can leak thru.
again I don't advise any of this simply giving some information on these problems
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Lol a 12yearold T-Mobile rim working super tech you made my day, really thank you ,oh yeah & electric tape only comes in black just an fyi
I will post pics thank you
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hd2joel said:
electric tape only comes in black just an fyi
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Lol I hope you're joking
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hd2joel said:
Pics or it didn't happen I call full on bull**** that there is an internal "removeable" sdcard in this thing. It's a memory module aka a chip that is permanently attached to the board. I love it when kids make stuff up. Just because they named it sdcard your now super tech and going to remove and up grade it. Lol some peoples kids. Anything to make yourself sound cool get a life really. Or show me pic of this internal card shouldn't be hard for a super tech of your skill lol.
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This coming from the same guy that thought the s-off thread was bull**** because the hboot build date time stamp was the same in both pictures. Who are you again and why have you come to troll the amaze boards? You're clearly out of your league here pal....
this forum is full of haters. Why not just give the guy the benefit.
Chuck Norris CAN touch MC Hammer!
This thread has ran it's course.
Closed.
I just got the GNote a few days ago but i still keep my SGS2. I removed my 32GB micro SD from the SGS2 and put it in my GNote.
To my surprise, when i use ES File Explorer, i noticed that i still have some folders and files in /sdcard/external_sd/. I thot external SD is my 32GB card? I am confused. Btw, some of the folders are similar to the one on the 'real' external SD.
Also what then is /mnt/sdcard/external_sd?
Other than that the GNote is awesome!
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syed73 said:
I just got the GNote a few days ago but i still keep my SGS2. I removed my 32GB micro SD from the SGS2 and put it in my GNote.
To my surprise, when i use ES File Explorer, i noticed that i still have some folders and files in /sdcard/external_sd/. I thot external SD is my 32GB card? I am confused. Btw, some of the folders are similar to the one on the 'real' external SD.
Also what then is /mnt/sdcard/external_sd?
Other than that the GNote is awesome!
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It could be just a cache.
Try access the folder and see if it lets you through.