I just received a used AT&T LG Phoenix (P505) that I acquired from ebay. It does not detect any of the micro-SD or SDHC cards that I've inserted into the card holder. All of the cards work as I use them with other phones and computers.
When I start the phone, I get the following notification:
Removed SD card
SD card removed. Insert a new one.
Anybody know if this something that can be fixed by a "hard reset" or some other method, or do I need to contact ebay buyer protection?
Thanks!
The card slot is damaged. Get it changed from LG service centre.
When u insert, try to go to Settings>SD Card>Insert.
If no, try hard reset.
And if it won't either, the slot is damaged.
Take a good look at the pins in the SD slot, with magnification & good lighting. If they look at all bent, send it back.
I suppose you could also try cleaning the contacts. It's worth a shot.
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I got the seller to refund me, minus shipping both ways. I did try to clean the contacts with no luck. The pins did appeared to be correctly aligned. If you're in the market for one of these, you're gonna want to test the micro SD slot, there are numerous Optimus One (or derivative) phone on eBay with the same issue. the lack of internal storage makes the phone nearly useless without it.
That sucks. At least you got (most of) your money back, without a hassle.
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Could always try reformatting the cards to fat32 in windows. And perhaps error check
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DarkCoding said:
When u insert, try to go to Settings>SD Card>Insert.
If no, try hard reset.
And if it won't either, the slot is damaged.
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What is a hard reset?
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I'm thinking of buying an htc hero for $20 but the guy says the sd card slot is broken and doesn't click when you push in the card. Is there a way to fix it? I mean for $20 it seems like a good deal since it's 2.1, still newish and apparently works great. So if I do buy it I'm going to try and fix the spring since my sd card has everything I need from my old phone.
Glue it in place
That might work. Then again it might not.
Just make sure the pins on the SD are touching the pins on the device and it will work, 100%
I have a Samsung S II and no matter what I do I can't get it to read the sdcard. I've tried several sdcards but still the same result, it won't recognize it.
The only thing I can think of (apart from a faulty sdcard slot) is that I don't have a sim card in the phone.
Does the S II need a sim card inserted in order for the sdcard to work?
If not, does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can get the sdcard to work?
BTW the phone is totally stock and it's Australian, unlocked but originally with Optus.
One strange thing is that everything in the back of the phone seems upside down. The battery contacts are on the left not the right, the sdcard goes in upside down and on the right not the right way up and on the left. The sdcard slot is directly underneath the sim card.
I hope so someone can help.
cheers
I no longer use my S2 so it has no sim in it, popped a sdcard in just now & can read/access it just fine.
Sticker on the phone chassis under the battery, what does it say ? (Where did you get the phone ?).
Card not reading is non of the sim card business.
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MistahBungle said:
I no longer use my S2 so it has no sim in it, popped a sdcard in just now & can read/access it just fine.
Sticker on the phone chassis under the battery, what does it say ? (Where did you get the phone ?).
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Thanks.
Sticker says as follows:
MODEL: GT-I9100
SSN: -19100GSMH
RATED: 3.7V
FDD ID: A9LGT9100
and a big CE0168
Remove your IMEI. They can be nicked/re-used.
Where did you get the phone - reason I ask is your comment about battery contacts/position of sim slot/etc.
MistahBungle said:
Remove your IMEI. They can be nicked/re-used.
Where did you get the phone - reason I ask is your comment about battery contacts/position of sim slot/etc.
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Thanks I removed the IMEI.
I bought it from a samsung reseller. I was told the reason the contacts and sim card are like they are is because it was originally made for use with the Optus network
Really ? Interesting. Reason I ask is we've seen our share of knock-offs on here over the past 2+ yrs, and they tend to have differences like the ones you've mentioned. Or they can sometimes be other SGS2 variants even though they're branded as I9100's.
Re: the SD problem, if it were me, try the obvious first - try it with a sim. After that, I'd probably do a clean install of stock, even though your phone already is running stock/hasn't been 'messed with', or even try a factory reset first.
Obviously with something like this you're rather limited with what you can do (you're stuck with things you can try on the firmware side), if that doesn't fix things, send it back to the seller/Samsung for warranty service if your warranty is still good, otherwise take it to a local mobile repair shop for diagnosis.
I've already tried the factory reset but made no difference. I think the problem is a hardware fault because I got my son to take a look at it and he couldn't get the sdcard to stay in the slot, it just kept springing out. Putting the sim cards in does keep the sdcard in the slot but it still doesn't get recognized by the phone.
I contacted the reseller and it looks like I'll be sending it back to be replaced under warranty.
Thanks for all the help.
cheers
No probs. Best of luck.
hi guys me and the mrs both got Samsung s3 and with bought both 32 & 64gb micro cards to load music onto but though the music does load with in days the phone says the card is corrupt and needs formatting and so we lose all our loaded music and have to reload it all again, this is happening every few weeks or so and now becoming a real pain.
we bought the cards of ebay and are just cheap branded cards we have tried around 4 different cards now and all do the same.
do you think it may be that its just cheap cards or has anyone else had this problem of losing all the data on there cards on Samsung phones?
was thinking of buying Kingston cards but they cost loads and don't want to pay that sort of cash out if there not going to work either
any advice would be great
Thanks
lowrider692000 said:
hi guys me and the mrs both got Samsung s3 and with bought both 32 & 64gb micro cards to load music onto but though the music does load with in days the phone says the card is corrupt and needs formatting and so we lose all our loaded music and have to reload it all again, this is happening every few weeks or so and now becoming a real pain.
we bought the cards of ebay and are just cheap branded cards we have tried around 4 different cards now and all do the same.
do you think it may be that its just cheap cards or has anyone else had this problem of losing all the data on there cards on Samsung phones?
was thinking of buying Kingston cards but they cost loads and don't want to pay that sort of cash out if there not going to work either
any advice would be great
Thanks
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Easy way to check is if the phone say's it is corrupt and needs formatting don't format it take it out plug into your pc with a sd card adapter and check the contents.If you can read and play the contents then it is the phone software that is the problem if not the cards are at fault and it would probably be a wise investment to get a better card.
Cheap sd cards on ebay are usually fakes, much smaller cards rigged to read what is printed on them.
You can download a tool on your pc to check the real capacity.
I've lost the contents of my SD card three times now with my XT1528. I've tried two different cards (Kingston 16Gb class 6, Samsung 32Gb class 10) and yet I keep losing anything stored on my cards. Have had no problems with other handsets with these same two cards. Thanks to Verizon, my phone is bone stock. I'm thinking my handset has a bad card slot. Opinions?
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brotherswing said:
I've lost the contents of my SD card three times now with my XT1528. I've tried two different cards (Kingston 16Gb class 6, Samsung 32Gb class 10) and yet I keep losing anything stored on my cards. Have had no problems with other handsets with these same two cards. Thanks to Verizon, my phone is bone stock. I'm thinking my handset has a bad card slot. Opinions?
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Also had this problem have you tried formatting it via twrp and through settings (erase sd card) it works for me, for now
I would say it's probably a bad slot. I haven't had any issues with my XT1527 with a 32GB card. I've also had the card in and out and done various custom partitions like fat32+ext4 without any data loss or corruption.
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Also had this problem have you tried formatting it via twrp and through settings (erase sd card) it works for me, for now
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Sadly I have the Verizon variant, I'm not eligible for the unlock program. My bootloader is locked down like a prison, so TWRP isn't an option.
I'm going with the bad slot diagnosis. My handset will have to serve as is until after the holidays, then I can justify replacing it.
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brotherswing said:
Sadly I have the Verizon variant, I'm not eligible for the unlock program. My bootloader is locked down like a prison, so TWRP isn't an option.
I'm going with the bad slot diagnosis. My handset will have to serve as is until after the holidays, then I can justify replacing it.
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have you tried formatting it through system setting? setting>storage>erase sd card, it works for my 32gb strontium, in my case i think it's faulty. Don't forget to back-up your files
I had a 32gb card that was used for ages and i think it got worn out and died.
over time it would disappear on me more and more when inserted in my Moto-E.
I had pulled it from a Galaxy S3 way back..
I used to have it scanned all the time with Kaspersky..
This caused it to get read in full every single time i put it into a PC.
I am suspicious that caused excessive wear and tear on it.
bought a new one but 16gb this time and it's working fine now.
main reason i got it was to put my MP3's on the card.
My old one kept having the music vanish and a prompt would come up asking to format it or it would simply vanish.. only for it to show back up and be fine later after restarting etc.
not sure if this is the same problem as you guys but i figured hey i might as well mention my story
i got tired of trying to reformat it via different methods or using different partition types and i simply gave up tinkering with it and bought a new one.
the new on has not given me a problem once.
I wanted to use dual sim+SD card .....but my sim card tray is stucked........it is not getting out at all.......please help me
Feeling sorry for you bro...i wanted to try the same. Now i will never try to use dual sim and sd card altogether in the tray.
I had already burnt 1 of my sim cards while trying to separate the sim card chip from the plastic.
i suggest you should contact any good mobile repair shops to help you out.
Pavel Sajjad Khan said:
Feeling sorry for you bro...i wanted to try the same. Now i will never try to use dual sim and sd card altogether in the tray.
I had already burnt 1 of my sim cards while trying to separate the sim card chip from the plastic.
i suggest you should contact any good mobile repair shops to help you out.
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Yes,I will contact and I will never try this dual sim+ SD card trick
sakibshahriyar98 said:
Yes,I will contact and I will never try this dual sim+ SD card trick
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Confirmed working dude.....2sim+sd:silly:
Pavel Sajjad Khan said:
Feeling sorry for you bro...i wanted to try the same. Now i will never try to use dual sim and sd card altogether in the tray.
I had already burnt 1 of my sim cards while trying to separate the sim card chip from the plastic.
i suggest you should contact any good mobile repair shops to help you out.
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You are lucky bro
RS Dinesh said:
Confirmed working dude.....2sim+sd:silly:
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The tray's height is really very small! Several times, I did not receive signal on the second SIM due to the SIM chip always slightly 'moving' away from its original position when I slided in the tray. Only some better glue could help here..
But from this experience I know that it can be very tricky to open the tray one more time after all 3 cards are in. In used a paper clip to pull hard - and I mean really hard - several times from the trays hole. This worked for me several times. The tray flew several meters ... Wish you good luck!
edit: I used a 64GB microSD card from Lexar and I suppose that the card's height is slightly depending on the memory capacity. If you tried 128GB card, it may be much worse. Dunno how the different vendor's card differ regarding the card's thickness.
sakibshahriyar98 said:
You are lucky bro
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there is absolutely no lucky here, the key is how to make your sd card as thinnest as possible.
i use sand paper and applied to my sd card on trade mark side, and it can be as thin as i want. use double tape to attach 2nd sim on sd card and it can be work flawlessly.
abihary said:
there is absolutely no lucky here, the key is how to make your sd card as thinnest as possible.
i use sand paper and applied to my sd card on trade mark side, and it can be as thin as i want. use double tape to attach 2nd sim on sd card and it can be work flawlessly.
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I should have used sand paper to make thr sd card thin ......by the way can you open your sim tray like before ?
sakibshahriyar98 said:
I should have used sand paper to make thr sd card thin ......by the way can you open your sim tray like before ?
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yes...as smooth as before...
becareful if you want use this way, if you make your sd card too thin, your phone won't read it. if this hapen, put any plastic tape on the backside of your sd card and the phone will be able to read it again.
abihary said:
yes...as smooth as before...
becareful if you want use this way, if you make your sd card too thin, your phone won't read it. if this hapen, put any plastic tape on the backside of your sd card and the phone will be able to read it again.
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Ok