Problem mounting External SD Card - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have my S III fully updated and in warranty. I resetted my mobile many a times and reflashed it by Odin also but still can't mount my SDCard. my mobile automatically mount and unmount the SD Card.
please help me fixing my problem

format it from PC

Formatting the card also doesn't help
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Have you a spare to test?

Checked with another sd card. Same problem exist
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If you format card as FAT32 or exFAT and did a factory reset.... I'd suggest trying for warranty
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Samsung customer care says its not in warranty.
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abhinitagrawal said:
Samsung customer care says its not in warranty.
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Why not .
jje

replace the slot yourself, it's around $5

Temp fix. Try putting something (a thin piece of cardboard) between the sd card and the upper section of the sd card slot, to make sure it makes proper contact with the pins.

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Can't mount External SD Card

I've tried my S3 with 3 types of card now, 2gb SanDisk, 16gb Kingston and a 32gb Samsung Ultra Mobile. Each of varying classes.
I have used countless ROMS from stock to CM10 and AOKP/AOSP and I can't get the option to mount my card in the storage menu to highlight.
I have formatted them on my laptop as Fat32 and exFat but neither have worked yet they have worked in other Galaxy handsets.
Can any of you guys think of something I need to do to solve it or is it a case of a faulty phone?
Thanks in advance
Paul
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Which windows version are you running?
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Windows 7 Pro
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If the card works with other GS3 but not yours then it is very high possibility your GS3 is faulty. Send it back to Samsung.
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PAULO76 said:
I've tried my S3 with 3 types of card now, 2gb SanDisk, 16gb Kingston and a 32gb Samsung Ultra Mobile. Each of varying classes.
I have used countless ROMS from stock to CM10 and AOKP/AOSP and I can't get the option to mount my card in the storage menu to highlight.
I have formatted them on my laptop as Fat32 and exFat but neither have worked yet they have worked in other Galaxy handsets.
Can any of you guys think of something I need to do to solve it or is it a case of a faulty phone?
Thanks in advance
Paul
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Tried it in different phone's and formatted it again but still didn't work???
The s3's faulty for sure. Get an exchange.
Looks like I'll have to bite the bullet and send it back. If I get a chance I'll see if I can get someone to try it in their S3.
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i have the same prob
Got my 64GB working
I upgraded from 32GBPNY to 64GB SanDisk. Couldn't mount the 64. Tried many things, but in the end, I formatted the 64 to ExFat because it became damaged and I don't have the fat32 option on my mac. Next I put in the 32, and made sure it was readable and mount/unmounted twice, just to make sure, then I put in my 64. After I saw details (card cap, and available), I went to the dev options and set "protect external SD" to on. Rebooted to Recovery and backed-up to ex sd. Once the back up completed I rebooted, went into the settings / more tab / storage. I am now able to mount and unmount at will. Hope this helps!

[Q] New 64 Gb micro Sd advice?

Hello All,
Like many others I have started purchasing my accessories early, so that they are ready when I get my Note 2 delivered to my door. I just received my micro SD card, and I have a few questions. I am wanting to have all my music and pictures loaded onto the SD card prior to the phone arriving. My only questions is would it be better to keep it in the format that it was sent in which was exfat, or should i format it to Fat32? I did do a search but I was unable to find a definitive answer which was best. It sounds like the note 2 can support both formats. Also most people leaned toward the exfat due to it not having the 4gb size file limitation, but I have not heard anyone successfully doing this even with it as exfat.
Any thoughts or opinions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Matt
I would ask the international folks since they actually have the device.
That being said, I will use exFAT as long as their isn't a drop in I/O performance.
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It is best to format your card in a phone. I would wait till you have the Note2. I know people that have had issues formatting cards on their computer and using them in the galaxy s3
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In order for CWM recovery to read the ext sd, it will need to be reformatted to fat32...also your pictures wont show up in the gallery, atleast this is how the gs3 is and I dont think the gn2 will be any different.
droidstyle said:
In order for CWM recovery to read the ext sd, it will need to be reformatted to fat32...also your pictures wont show up in the gallery, atleast this is how the gs3 is and I dont think the gn2 will be any different.
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So just to confirm what you are saying is it is probably best to format it to Fat32?
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So just to confirm what you are saying is it is probably best to format it to Fat32?
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Yes thats what I had to do on my GS3...
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Yes thats what I had to do on my GS3...
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Agreed, find a free tool online to format it, windows didn't do the job right for me
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droidstyle said:
In order for CWM recovery to read the ext sd, it will need to be reformatted to fat32...also your pictures wont show up in the gallery, atleast this is how the gs3 is and I dont think the gn2 will be any different.
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That's why I use twrp...it reads ntfs fat32 and exfat...twrp on my gnex and Tf300T transformer tablet.
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droidstyle said:
In order for CWM recovery to read the ext sd, it will need to be reformatted to fat32...also your pictures wont show up in the gallery, atleast this is how the gs3 is and I dont think the gn2 will be any different.
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Sounds like the perfect place to store porn
Just a note about the sd cards for this phone. I talked to a Samsung rep last night and asked them what size, speed and file format works in the Note II. He said up to a 64GB Class 10 card formatted to FAT32 will work, and that it can be formatted in the phone.
I just wanted something official since I was reading so many conflicting posts on-line about what works and what doesn't.
I'm using 64gb formated exfat and have no issues. See the file sizes?

Sdcard empty????

This just started happening to me this evening. I randomly get this message. .. Sdcard empty, unmounted, or not present. Never experienced an error like this in the past. I'm running Beans 7, sdswap, perseus kernel with 5g profile. Does anyone have a clue to this problem?
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What class of sdcard do you have? Sdcard specs, please. Bet it's crap. Lol. Seriously. Not being a jerk. Troubleshooting.
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What class of sdcard do you have? Sdcard specs, please. Bet it's crap. Lol. Seriously. Not being a jerk. Troubleshooting.
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Its a Sandisk Ultra 32gb Micro SDHC Class 10. Im very doubtful its a sdcard problem. U know of a better sdcard? Rebooting seems to fix the issue temporary
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riotdog7 said:
Its a Sandisk Ultra 32gb Micro SDHC Class 10. Im very doubtful its a sdcard problem. U know of a better sdcard? Rebooting seems to fix the issue temporary
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Nope! That's what I got. Lol. You pop it out and back in?
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Yep.... still doing it
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Just noticed a message come across my notification bar also. ... sd card unexpectedly removed. ....
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I would transfer everything you can off it and format it. Step one.
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riotdog7 said:
Its a Sandisk Ultra 32gb Micro SDHC Class 10. Im very doubtful its a sdcard problem. U know of a better sdcard? Rebooting seems to fix the issue temporary
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Did you get it from Amazon? If so it probably is a bad card. I've seen quit a few people who got a bad batch from ordering on Amazon. Try what Wolf said, backup and format
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kintwofan said:
Did you get it from Amazon? If so it probably is a bad card. I've seen quit a few people who got a bad batch from ordering on Amazon. Try what Wolf said, backup and format
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No I purchased it a month ago from best buy
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After doing a little research I see this seems to be a common issue. Just cant find a fix.... I'll try backing it up and reformatting it.
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Same issue I encountered after flashing a rom., I wiped card reformatted then put everything back on card to have it happen again .should i reformat and start fresh ? I'm using a 32 gb sandisk class 4. I think I've had since my thunderbolt .
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After doing a little research I see this seems to be a common issue. Just cant find a fix.... I'll try backing it up and reformatting it.
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Tried that. Several times. Been having similar problems with my sd card. Its a samsung 64gb class ten. I cant find any of my downloads. I am a noob but I think the sd swap does something to the card. Only causes a problem if you flash a new rom (or reflash same) that doesn't have swap.
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Aren't you supposed to delete a few files when returning from a swap? Though I read that.
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Well... After reformatting my scdard and also performing a fresh and clean install of my beans 7 rom, I'm still having the same problem once again.... I reformatted to extfat. Should I have went with fat?
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I slow reformatted mine and the error came up again after a few hours. Decided to just buy a new one so hopefully the card was just crapping out and not the phone. If end up posting again it must be the phone. Hope you don't hear from me again in this thread lol
Im having the same exact issue as you. Its very annoying
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Sandisk 64GB SDXC which happens to be Made in China is crap and confirmed by comments made by others on Amazon saying the same. Pay a little extra for Samsung 64GB SDXC and have the peace of mind.
Same issue for me and I bought my sdcard from Best Buy also...I am running Jelly Bean ROM B7. The card is only 2 months old so I doubt the card went bad, this has to be some app/process that is effecting the sdcard swap program. Very annoying and reboot of phone resolves issue but I have to reboot every hr, it is unreasonable. It only started happening to me since B7 which i installed about 7 days ago. I may trying going back to B6 which i was using with no issues for a while.
I'm just waiting for my Sandisk 64gb ultra cl10 to die bought it about 3 weeks ago so will see glad it has a 10year/lifetime warranty. Plenty of people are having same problems with these cards and not just in phones. Easy way to tell if its bad/going bad is to format it and stick it in another device see whats up... pretty sure if your card is not mounting or being seen it's going bad if it pops back up from time to time it's about to be dead.
Well I finally returned the sdcard at Best Buy which honors manufacturer warranties. Been a week on the new card, so far so good...
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Can't see SD Card

Hi guys,
All the sudden noticed I can't see my SD card on my phone.
Plugged it into my Linux machine and it said it couldn't read the device and my Windows box wants me to reformat it. On the S3 it says the card is blank or the file type isn't supported.
Any suggestions?
format it
I'm trying to recover the photos from it though.
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Unlikely you will. The file system is corrupt. You can't even mount it without formatting it.
Sorry dude, most likely it's all gone.
Tip for the future. Use foldersync to backup files to online storage or a computer that's always on.
...or dropbox auto upload...
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Ok thanks. You think if I reformat and then use a tool like recuva I might be able to get some stuff back?
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Maybe. These programs work independently of the file system. Depends if just the fs was corrupt or the data too.
Prepare yourself for it not working though
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Sdcard

Has anyone ran into a issue with their sdcard and their Note2?
Last night I used my Note2 with no issues. Woke up this morning and noticed I had a alert message saying that the sdcard had been unexpectedly unmounted. Couldnt get the sdcard to remount. The phone wouldn't/couldnt reconize thw sdcard. And even my laptop couldn't reconize it. But the phone reconized a different sdcard, so I know the phone reader is still working. But this is a Lexar 64gb class 10 xc sdcard. Not some cheap trash. I lost my nandroid backups, movies, pics, etc....
Just glad I wasn't running the Jellybeans v18 on the sdcard swap selection. Then I wouldn't be able to use my phone period. Lmk if you have seen these sdcards go out before. Just beware!!!
Why wouldn't you be able to use it phone if card goes down
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Why wouldn't you be able to use it phone if card goes down
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What he's referring to is JellyBeans additional "SD Swap" feature which basically makes your phone see your SD Card as the internal storage. I don't know why he thinks his phone wouldn't work though, as with any phone the Internal Storage/SD Card is not required for the device to operate.
miketoasty said:
What he's referring to is JellyBeans additional "SD Swap" feature which basically makes your phone see your SD Card as the internal storage. I don't know why he thinks his phone wouldn't work though, as with any phone the Internal Storage/SD Card is not required for the device to operate.
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I understand to SD swap. it was the unable to use my phone if card failed thing. I thought it should even if card failed
TheMyth said:
Has anyone ran into a issue with their sdcard and their Note2?
Last night I used my Note2 with no issues. Woke up this morning and noticed I had a alert message saying that the sdcard had been unexpectedly unmounted. Couldnt get the sdcard to remount. The phone wouldn't/couldnt reconize thw sdcard. And even my laptop couldn't reconize it. But the phone reconized a different sdcard, so I know the phone reader is still working. But this is a Lexar 64gb class 10 xc sdcard. Not some cheap trash. I lost my nandroid backups, movies, pics, etc....
Just glad I wasn't running the Jellybeans v18 on the sdcard swap selection. Then I wouldn't be able to use my phone period. Lmk if you have seen these sdcards go out before. Just beware!!!
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I've ran into this issue with Lexar jump drives and had to use command prompt in W7 to make them work again. It always happened when I would write a Linux distro to the drive to use as a bootable disk.
The fix requires you completely wiping the drive, which the two jump drives in question that I always have issues with are actually micro SD card readers with whatever size card in them.
Here is the link explaining how to fix it:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/219693/unable-to-format-usb-stick-to-full-capacity/
What I have to do though is select the disk drive and once in it I have to use the Create Partition Primary command instead of selecting a partition because on my drives there are no partitions and it won't even show up under Computer most of the time. Give it a shot and see if it gets you back up and running, if not you may have a faulty card that Lexar needs to replace.
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I was reading, some people are problems with the scandisk 64gig cards. The card might be dead from what I've read. But don't hold it against me, just passing some info. I haven't ran across this problem.
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simmons80 said:
I was reading, some people are problems with the scandisk 64gig cards. The card might be dead from what I've read. But don't hold it against me, just passing some info. I haven't ran across this problem.
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I went through 5 sandisk 64GB cards before I got one that worked for more than a week. All brand new cards. That was back when the GSIII first came out though.
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I myself used an adata 64gb class 10 and understand completely about the card just not wanting to work. Granted I'm keeping to 32gb class 10s until I see better reviews in the bigger cards.
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Samsung Galaxy Note 2
Retired devices:
Huawei Ascend, Droid Charge, Droid Bionic
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I went through 5 sandisk 64GB cards before I got one that worked for more than a week. All brand new cards. That was back when the GSIII first came out though.
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See I've never experienced any issues with either of my SanDisk 64 GB Class 10 and neither has anyone else I know that owns one. I wonder if they had a bad batch?
I haven't seen anything about other manufacturers 64GB Class 10 cards having issues yet but it is either something to do with Class 10 cards or a bad batch.
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I just had a sandisk 32 gig class 10, and a 16 gig both go out on the same day. One in my wife's note 2, the other in my daughters tab2. Neither was recognised in windows completely. I reformatted both, but 16 gig will show blank card on the wife's phone until unmounted remounted. Both less than 6 months old, on the same day. I blame the solar flares, what else can I blame it on?
"One small step for man, One giant leap for mankind" said anyone who has tried Moon Rom
Sandisk work the best
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Sandisk work the best
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I wouldn't say that, I would say they are the most expensive therefore people think they work the best. Cause everything that costs more is better, right?
Honestly PNY and Samsung cards are just as good.
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There was a problem with SanDisk ultra sd cards during the manufacturing process and they will replace your card for free
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How intresting. I just put in a 32 gig SanDisk Micro class I (has an I in the little U at the base o the card, guess it one ups the class 10...).
I record movie torrents. No problems so far on my Note 2 rooted not unlocked b loader
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wife's 32gb card just started acting up. Sometimes the phone reads it, other times not. Haven't had time to investigate it yet.
Are you using moon rom v3? Same thing happened to me. It kept saying it was un mounting and remounting. I rebooted my phone and gave a sim lock message. Thought I was screwed. I flashed beans and now im back to normal.
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I had 2 cards die in this phone. Same message and everything. But I rebought them and replaced the old cards with the new one
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james873 said:
There was a problem with SanDisk ultra sd cards during the manufacturing process and they will replace your card for free
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How do you go about doing this? I have no original paperwork or packaging, just a dead 32GB Sandisk card.
call 1-866-SANDISK (726-3475) and tell them about your problems they will ask for the numbers off the card. They make you send your to them first then when they recieve it they'll send you a new one.
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My samsung 64g Class 10 has worked perfectly since I got it in February.
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