Photo's getting distorted days after taking - Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II

I have recently been having an issue with my GN2 photos. I am currently running Beans build 18 rom with a sandisk highspeed 64gb SD card. About every 3rd picture just shows up like 30-80% gray a couple days after being taken. They are fine for a couple days but then go bad. I do have my phone storing them on the SD card which I recently formatted from the phone.
I would greatly prefer to store photos on my SD card as I take a lot of photo's.
Any suggestions?

LT.Dan said:
I have recently been having an issue with my GN2 photos. I am currently running Beans build 18 rom with a sandisk highspeed 64gb SD card. About every 3rd picture just shows up like 30-80% gray a couple days after being taken. They are fine for a couple days but then go bad. I do have my phone storing them on the SD card which I recently formatted from the phone.
I would greatly prefer to store photos on my SD card as I take a lot of photo's.
Any suggestions?
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did you get your SD card from ebay, i got one from there and there are alot of fake sd cards on there see this link
http://forums.ebay.com/db2/topic/Reviews-Guides/Beware-Of-Fake/5100011530

I have about 4gb in roms on it and it still shows appropriately. I paid $40 for it on eBay so it wasn't any steal deal and the seller was very reputable.

LT.Dan said:
I have about 4gb in roms on it and it still shows appropriately. I paid $40 for it on eBay so it wasn't any steal deal and the seller was very reputable.
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sometimes the seller will buy in bulk from somebody else and the seller does not even know that there was a problem with the sd card. how it works is the sd card will say it has 32gb on cell phone and on box but really it only has 2-5 gb on them. the last i check ebay for sd cards i could not find a single legit one. you leave the feedback before you realize that it is fake. (this happened to me as well and i was having same issues. but maybe it is something else.....

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16gb micro sd problem

I bought a new kingston 16 gb micro sd.
Now the card says it is not bigger than 961 MB.
I have format the card twice fat and fat32 but it is still 961 MB..
What do I wrong, or is the card wrecked?
Thnx
If that happened to me, I'd take it back where I got it for a replacement.
tuony said:
I bought a new kingston 16 gb micro sd.
Now the card says it is not bigger than 961 MB.
I have format the card twice fat and fat32 but it is still 961 MB..
What do I wrong, or is the card wrecked?
Thnx
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If you got it on ebay there is a 95% chance you bought a fake 16GB micro SD card. I stay away from memory cards offered on ebay. Its a very good chance that it actually is a 1GB card made to report that it has 16GB when it doesn't. If you did get it on ebay hopefully ebay or paypal will be able to help you get your money back.
FAKE MicroSD was made in Kingston factory
This is interesting read.
Buyer of Kingston MicroSD need to take notice.
http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=918
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This is interesting read.
Buyer of Kingston 16 GB MicroSD need to take notice.
http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=918
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Yeah, I just read about that today too, and remembered this thread...I'm guessing the problem is more widespread than just Kingston, and is the source of many of the SD card issues people are having...just like the one above (including the "ghost-source" cards found on e-bay).
Here's an article with a slightly shorter explaination of the same report in that link chompx2 posted above.
So can anyone suggest a good class 6 card? I don't want to get one that turns out to be a fraud. And as bad as that would be, it would be even worse if I got one that worked as advertised and then a couple months later dies and loses all of my data.
Any suggestions for a card that wil be reliable for the long term?
Try the A-DATA 16GB Micro SDHC Class 6. I just got mine from Newegg.com.
I swapped out my Sandisk 8GB Class 2. I noticed a big difference on speed. I got mine for $54.86 including tax. Shipping was free. Mine does not come with a SD adapter but I already have a couple of them. Newegg does have Micro SD cards with the adapters. Just search around. Hope this helps.
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Try the A-DATA 16GB Micro SDHC Class 6. I just got mine from Newegg.com.
I swapped out my Sandisk 8GB Class 2. I noticed a big difference on speed. I got mine for $54.86 including tax. Shipping was free. Mine does not come with a SD adapter but I already have a couple of them. Newegg does have Micro SD cards with the adapters. Just search around. Hope this helps.
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001VLIVEE
is it the same as this one? minus the adapter which i can use
if yes i am ordering one.
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001VLIVEE
is it the same as this one? minus the adapter which i can use
if yes i am ordering one.
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Yes, looks like the same one with an adapter.
A bunch of fake cards are out there under Kingston. I got hosed too. :-/
dtsouers said:
A bunch of fake cards are out there under Kingston. I got hosed too. :-/
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Was it from ebay? SD cards are one of the items that I've started just paying the small premium to get from a known-good vendor (i.e. newegg, etc), just because of how commonly they're counterfeited and find their way into "unofficial" sales channels like e-bay and so forth
In December 2009 I purchased 2x 16GB microSD cards from eBay China for my new HD2. They took 2 1/2 months to arrive and when I got them they both only showed as 1GB and the writing on the cards were flaking. I was so upset. I could have gotten an 8GB microSD locally for less than the price of one of those fake 16GB microSD cards. At the time I had the original HD2 2GB in my phone, so even the 2 fake cards were useless.
I tried the Paypal resolution process, and it did not work. I never got back the US$80 I spent. The seller has disappeared.
In 2008 I bought 16GB microSD cards from eBay UK when they first came out at US$110 each and those were real (one was lost in a car, the other sold several months ago), so this time I was looking for a deal. I lost big time on those fake cards.
I bit the bullet and bought a single 16GB microSD Class 6 (also from eBay but from Topram US) to hold out until the 32GB microSDs came out (and now until they get faster and the price gets cheaper).
Stick to 'reputable' sellers on eBay, do not make a purchase based only on the best price, or take the risk of not getting what you paid for.
Here is a good seller with a good deal
I bought a 16gb class6 card from this US seller a year ago. It has been a great card and I have had no problems whatsoever.
Here is a link to a Kodak (Lexar) 16gb Class 4 card for BIN $40.24 with free shipping.
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Lexar-Media...-/400143735721?pt=PCC_Drives_Storage_Internal
I very recently bought a 32GB microSD on ebay from a HK seller grandtechdigital.
The card was a fake. It does have a capacity somewhere around 8-16GB, though. I only ended up paying $31 US for the card, and the seller gave me a refund since it was not 32GB.
The trick with Ebay is to make sure you file your dispute in time if you are getting jerked around. If you wait too long, then you have no recourse. I could be wrong, but I think you only have 60 days.
Good Luck!
Does anyone know how to fix the bad card I have? I know that it needs to be reprogrammed to show the actual capacity. Right now, it looses files when I try to copy too much data to it.
Found another even better deal!!
Check out this one!! 16GB Topram Class 6!!
http://www.buy.com/prod/topram-16gb...-with-sd-adapter-and/q/loc/101/212691587.html

32gb SanDisk Micro SD Only $22 at Amazon

Hello,
Not that many of us Photon Owners are lacking for Storage, but this deal for the 32gb SD Card is so good that I figured it was worth bringing to everyone's attention.
Here is the link:http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-microSDHC-Flash-Memory-SDSDQM-032G-B35/dp/B004G60AD6/
There are multiple options, but this one is eligible for Free Shipping for Amazon Prime Members and I think anyone whereas some of the others have $4.99 Shipping.
Cheers,
JJ
Not to jack this, I got my 64Gb card from NEWEGG for $99.00!
Wow. Newegg has some insane prices. They are great in that they are Authorized Dealers for everything they sell, but their Return Policy is pretty brutal should there be a need for a Return/Exchange. With an SD Card, that is certainly not an issue, but on the AV Forum where I am a Moderator we have had Members with horror stories when AVR's come damaged or they simply want to Return it, That is a sick price for a 64gb SD Card.
I thought the photon could only take up to 32gb external storage? Is there a way to make 64gb work? I could easily max out my 32gb card if i put some more music on it.
Jeff213 said:
I thought the photon could only take up to 32gb external storage? Is there a way to make 64gb work? I could easily max out my 32gb card if i put some more music on it.
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There is instructions here someplace but, put card in reader (or slot on your desktop if you have one?) put reader in SDHC on computer and type:
format /FS:NTFS G:
replace 'G' with whatever drive your computere assigns the card. Go to media player and move your playlist, movies, whatever, then put in photon.
I bought one of these a couple weeks ago. Works great, but file transfers are kinda slow since it's a class 4.
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Bought one and when it arrived, it had pictures from the previous owner of whatever it came out of. It had pics of a funeral and a wedding
The seller I got it from was CTCstore and I'll be sending it back tomorrow for a replacement. I tried to erase the contents and formatted it 3 times and every time the pics came back(and no it wasn't write protected). Weird
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-MB-MP...ref=sr_1_5?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1335223620&sr=1-5
while its only 16GB it has a read of 24MBps and write of 21MBps (over double a class 10) perfect for ubuntop
shabbypenguin said:
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-MB-MP...ref=sr_1_5?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1335223620&sr=1-5
while its only 16GB it has a read of 24MBps and write of 21MBps (over double a class 10) perfect for ubuntop
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Hello,
That looks mighty intriguing. SanDisk makes a quality product, but I must say that Samsung appears to shame it. As for the 64gb SD Card, I honestly thought it was for a different application and not for the Photon. It too thought 32gb's was all it could handle...
Cheers,
JJ
I just bought a 32 GB Lexar card that's very hit or miss from Amazon last week. I should have waited!
using this for my other phone used up all my phone storage last week and this is a great deal!
Jungle Jack said:
Hello,
That looks mighty intriguing. SanDisk makes a quality product, but I must say that Samsung appears to shame it. As for the 64gb SD Card, I honestly thought it was for a different application and not for the Photon. It too thought 32gb's was all it could handle...
Cheers,
JJ
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The information you seek is here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1423587&highlight=sdxc
and mine is working great!
dsims7_2000 said:
Not to jack this, I got my 64Gb card from NEWEGG for $99.00!
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Amazon now has the 64GB card for $91.79. Hate to recall what I paid for it!
I got a nice AData class 10 32GB for $33 last week with a coupon code. Works sweet.
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Samsung Galaxy Siii KILLS SD CARDS!!!!!!

Okay,
So I had a PNY class 10 for less than a year in my evo 4g, worked flawlessly. Bought a Sprint Siii, formatted my PNY and used it fine for a few months then all of a sudden one day my phone said I had a blank or unsupported SD card and that I had to format it. Of course I lost all my pictures and such. I tried all the programs to recover, tried adapters on the computer, I followed all the suggestions. Then gave up and tried to format it, that didn't even work, seeing that I could not format it... Hey I just thought according to all the smart people (sarcasm) online it must be dead, even though I never had an SD card die on me in any of my other 50 devices that used various SD cards.
So I just felt horrible for buying a budget SD card PNY, I didn't think was that bad, but now knew it was trash since it just died on me less than a year, and back when the EVO was out class 10 16 gig was expensive that was almost 4 years ago.
This time I thought I was not going to skimp on the card, I went straight for SanDisk Ultra 32 GB MicroSDHC Class 10 UHS-1 from Amazon even made sure according to those wonderful lemmings online on posts about this, it was an official SanDisk SD card that I had to cut open.
So Got my new card everything was peachy keen for about a month, and please get the wonderful irony in this, last Friday I bought my mom an Siii from Sprint because they were having a sale for them for $50. I thought to myself I had to upgrade her crappy SD card and I ordered her the same card...It comes I install it in her new Siii and less than an hour later the SD card in my phone says either SD card removed. Insert a new one. or SD card is blank or has unsupported files. So it appears my Siii struck again... I immediately took the SD card out of my mom's phone and told her its better to use the internal storage. Of course all my pictures and things are gone. Over 400 pictures! back up back up you say... okay I have after my last lesson most of them are on my dropbox but still not all of them. YET THIS SHOULD NOT HAPPEN TWICE IN A ROW. I refuse to just believe that "SD cards just die" I call BS maybe once in a while but not like this.
I think there is a problem with this phone and Samsung will never admit it since they sold over 30 million phones and are the envy of Apple, but I was hoping that someone on here could prove it, figure out how to fix the SD cards to recover the information or prevent this, and or take some kind of poll to see how common this is with the Siii I have a feeling this is a known issue to someone/I will not be buying another sd card to use with a phone again. This experience is abhorrent.
I've found this youtube video youtube.com/watch?v=1fjNkQkQZ2U

Don't use 64GB micro SD cards with your XZT

More specifically, don't use the generic no-name 64GB SD cards with your XZT.
I've been using a generic 8GB SD card with my XTZ since I got it, in fact I've been using the same card for like 2 years now in many different devices and it's never had a hiccup, even after formatting to different file system types.
Recently decided to get a generic 64GB because they're only $10! I bought 2 in case I got a bad one. Popped the cards in the XTZ and it formatted them without problems. I added some comics and music, they played fine, images displayed quick and snappy.
Fast forward to a few days later and there are all sorts of bull**** problems:
•Sometimes the XTZ will stop recognizing the SD card and display the "ready to remove SD card" message. It won't recognize it again until it's reformatted on the PC.
•Music won't play, some files won't display sometimes, and flipping through images is agonizingly slow.
•Available storage will show as very low even if the card is empty or has few things on it. Sometimes the card will show as having 67GB of storage.
•Even if you erase the SD card, if you plug it into a computer it'll show that it still has old files on it.
•Formatting the card to FAT32 or exFAT on the PC fixes the problems, BUT, the problems start happening again whenever you turn off your tablet and turn it back on. Or if you sneeze, it'll get messed up again. Or even when you look at it funny it'll get messed up again.
•At one point an SD card turned into RAW format. How the hell?
•Running Check Disk on the SD cards shows 0 errors, but sometimes it will show hundreds of errors. What the ****?
I'm done with these cards, trying to get a refund now.
Will a 32GB generic card work? Should I just stop being cheap and get a name brand name 32GB? lol
StickyWidget said:
Should I just stop being cheap and get a name brand name 32GB? lol
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My vote is YES, stop being cheap and by a brand-name SD card; e.g., SanDisk.
I'm using a San Disk class 10 64 gb card on my Tab and XZ2 and it's insanely fast and so far (3 weeks and counting) very reliable.
I once got a cheap 64gb card and it ended up corrupting files every time I exceeded 16gb so yeah, buy a more expensive one and you'll be happy.
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My vote is YES, stop being cheap and by a brand-name SD card; e.g., SanDisk.
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Completely agree.
Got a SanDisk Class 10 64gb myself and couldn't be happier. It pays off to buy from a reliable brand.
That's funny, because I originally bought a Sandisk 64G card for my XTZ and had exactly the same problems as described (turned out to be a fairly widespread manufacturing defect). Replaced it with a Samsung 64G card (which was cheaper) and it's been perfect.
I have had no problems at all with both a 64gb and a 128gb card in mine.
Never buy a no-brand ad card. The way these are made is one of the two:
1- When a chip maker builds an sdcard it is subjected to various tests before it is sold. For example if a large number of the memory cells fail the read/write test at hot temperature the part is unusable. Some people somehow get their hands on these rejected parts and repackage (sometimes in packaging that looks very closely like samsung or sandisk) and sell them as good parts. It is then a matter of time before the sdcard fails in your system.
2- This one is even more common. They take a let's say 4GB card and change its firmware and electronically label it as 64GB or whatever they want. You buy it and put it in your device. For the first 4GB your files are saved fine but once you exceed that (which may happen months after the purchase of the card) it will fail.
Conclusion: never buy a no-name sdcard if you want your data to be safe.
As an update, I got a refund from ebay automatically for the card because the seller didn't respond to the dispute. So, yay lol
More importantly, I used this program to format the no-name sd cards and they work fine... for now. Speeds are snappy, I can view comics and music and stuff with no lag, etc.
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm
Of course, this formats them to the FAT32 file system, so you can't win them all lol. The card still shows up as the proper size in the settings though.
The other card seems to be a fake capacity, I try to put more than 2gb of stuff on it and it just gets erased.
I'm buying a 64GB Samsung Evo card since they're pretty good at $30.

[Q] 128gb micro sd

Hello all.
I searched through the forums and couldn't find anything so i thought i would ask here.
huawei says this supports 32gb external sd. i have a 64gb card in there now. i know this may seem like a stupid question, but would it support the 128gb micro sd cards that are out now?
would there be any issues reading the files on it?
Get one and let us know!
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superbass311 said:
Get one and let us know!
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well of course i ordered one without knowing if it will work. i will report back when it arrives.
good_apollo said:
well of course i ordered one without knowing if it will work. i will report back when it arrives.
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waiting on you. Soon as you give me the go ahead i'm ordering one right behind you. My brother has on in a Note 3 so lets see if it works on ours. I have a 64gb in now and its working great.
It should arrive Thursday. I ordered a cheap one on eBay just to see if it reads.
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good_apollo said:
Hello all.
I searched through the forums and couldn't find anything so i thought i would ask here.
huawei says this supports 32gb external sd. i have a 64gb card in there now. i know this may seem like a stupid question, but would it support the 128gb micro sd cards that are out now?
would there be any issues reading the files on it?
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It should work. I asked about 64gb cards and while looking online, found Sandisk's compatibility database. If you search on the HAM2, Sandisk indicates that micro SD cards upto 128 GB should work. http://pct1.sandisk.com/Default.aspx I'm looking forward to your post once you are using your new card.
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It should arrive Thursday. I ordered a cheap one on eBay just to see if it reads.
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How cheap is that? if just 20-40 dollars, then they are definitely fake sdcard. mean you can format/read/write all fine and show 128gb, but they can't hold 128gb content. Just be careful and test it throughly before store your valuable pictures on it.
Somebody give an update! Does the 128 work or what? lol? Take screenshot to prove it
superbass311 said:
Somebody give an update! Does the 128 work or what? lol? Take screenshot to prove it
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Hard to believe no one has tried one.
beware eBay FAKE flash cards
good_apollo said:
It should arrive Thursday. I ordered a cheap one on eBay just to see if it reads.
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I browsed eBay recently, and found several 128GB microSD cards.
Unfortunately, there is no single one which is not fake (at least, I have not found one).
Some of them are sooooo obvious fakes, that I'm getting shocked to see people buying them (some buyers simply don't have brains).
For instance, I saw several so called Samsung PRO 128GB microSD cards (with photos showing that this is anything but Samsung card, if you pay attention to these pictures). In fact, Samsung never released 128GB microSD card (they don't have such product on their web-site).
But some idiots do buy this junk (it's probably a 8GB card hacked to report itself as 128GB).
Recently, I bought Samsung EVO 64GB microSD on eBay (well, first 4 purchases from different sellers were a disaster - all were a counterfeit). One of the sellers was even a power seller (621 feedback, and not a single negative/neutral one).
I was a buyer #45 of that card, previous 44 buyers bought this junk card and left a positive feedback (either they don't know how to check an SD card, or they left a positive feedback too soon, and now they can not change it).
I was the first one who reported (tested with H2testw) that this card is a FAKE.
Still ... people continue to buy (they don't get bothered with a "COUNTERFEIT card" negative feedback).
Seriously?! If you don't pay attention to such feedbacks, you deserve to be scammed
Only the fifth one was genuine EVO 64GB microSD card.
95% of all microSD cards (64GB and larger) on eBay are fake. Make sure you know how to test it BEFORE you start to use it.
Added: genuine EVO 64GB microSD card works just fine in my HAM2 (at full capacity, though had to reformat it inside the phone - HAM2 did not like default exFAT format)
well said, especially the software (h2testw) to test the sdcard.
so after reading all that ebay buyer beware did you get a 128gb and stick it in your phone or not? lol
Well heck, it sure looks like someone would know by now. Wonder why they aren't saying.
If I don't change my mind I am ordering one of these phones tomorrow and will order a 128 gb card to go with it. If it doesn't work I am going to be like the other poster who said they ordered one and not post anymore. Just kidding.
there is a significant difference between 32GB and 64GB cards.
First is SDHC, second is SDXC.
Windows does not even want to format SDXC card using FAT32 type (only NTFS or exFAT are allowed).
Not all (old) devices are compatible with SDXC. Thus, they are stuck with SDHC, which is up to 32GB only.
But there is not big difference between 64GB and 128GB cards. Both are SDXC, after all.
Thus, if device can work with 64GB card (full capacity , not just 32GB), it HAS to work with 128GB either.
How can it not?!
PS: sorry, but I'm not going to spend $90 just to play with 128GB card. I have three 64GB SD cards, and it is enough for me. (I had 16GB card in my old HTC phone, and did not find a significant reason to switch to 32GB).
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Did you ever receive this 128GB microSD card off eBay seller?
is it a real card? or is it a fake? (you can use h2testw on it, you don't need to write all 128GB on it, 16GB is enough - most fake cards are 8GB or smaller).
meanwhile, I periodically checking responses of other buyers to the same scammer where I bough my fake Samsung 64GB microSD card. He already sold more then 400 those cards, and only 6 people (including me) left a negative feedback telling that this is a pure fake card (one person tested the speed and reported that read/write speed is about 4x slower then claimed - exactly what I measured on my low quality fake card, but still, he left a positive feedback, because he did not bother to use h2testw).
I also saw that one poor fella bought 24 such cards (in a single purchase) couple of days ago. He just wasted his $500+ for that garbage. Unfortunately, eBay hides the information about buyers now. There is no way to contact this buyer and tell him a truth
I got the 128GB card to work in my Ascend Mate 2.
I did however have to format it to FAT32 (It would not recognise NTFS or EXFAT).
I used a program called guiformat.exe
I hope this helps.
There is a program you have to use to format the card into fat32 i believe. I had to use it for my 64gb to be compatible foe my previous note 2
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genpix said:
I browsed eBay recently, and found several 128GB microSD cards.
Unfortunately, there is no single one which is not fake (at least, I have not found one).
Some of them are sooooo obvious fakes, that I'm getting shocked to see people buying them (some buyers simply don't have brains).
For instance, I saw several so called Samsung PRO 128GB microSD cards (with photos showing that this is anything but Samsung card, if you pay attention to these pictures). In fact, Samsung never released 128GB microSD card (they don't have such product on their web-site).
But some idiots do buy this junk (it's probably a 8GB card hacked to report itself as 128GB).
Recently, I bought Samsung EVO 64GB microSD on eBay (well, first 4 purchases from different sellers were a disaster - all were a counterfeit). One of the sellers was even a power seller (621 feedback, and not a single negative/neutral one).
I was a buyer #45 of that card, previous 44 buyers bought this junk card and left a positive feedback (either they don't know how to check an SD card, or they left a positive feedback too soon, and now they can not change it).
I was the first one who reported (tested with H2testw) that this card is a FAKE.
Still ... people continue to buy (they don't get bothered with a "COUNTERFEIT card" negative feedback).
Seriously?! If you don't pay attention to such feedbacks, you deserve to be scammed
Only the fifth one was genuine EVO 64GB microSD card.
95% of all microSD cards (64GB and larger) on eBay are fake. Make sure you know how to test it BEFORE you start to use it.
Added: genuine EVO 64GB microSD card works just fine in my HAM2 (at full capacity, though had to reformat it inside the phone - HAM2 did not like default exFAT format)
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This is why Amazon is your friend. If someone does you like that you can report them and 99.9% of the time Amazon will side with the buyer.
Rommul said:
I got the 128GB card to work in my Ascend Mate 2.
I did however have to format it to FAT32 (It would not recognise NTFS or EXFAT).
I used a program called guiformat.exe
I hope this helps.
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I would always and highly recommend one format the card in the phone. That way it always works best -- whether it's a phone, camera, etc...
E.g., That's what I did when I got my Sandisk Ultra 64GB C10/UHS-1 (Amazon-US). I stuck it in the HAM2, and it immediately offered to format it (FAT32) when I went to Storage, as it couldn't read it (ExFAT).
BTW, for those that don't know, a few things to always remember ...
- In all NT-based Windows (2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8), Microsoft has always defaulted to formatting NTFS and, in more recent years (Windows 7 and 8), ExFAT is offered for devices greater than 32GiB (33.8GB)
- FAT32 has always supported up to 128GiB (137GB), despite the default in Windows' tools, although it does result in a rather large cluster size for 64GB and 128GB devices
- Last time I checked, ExFAT is required for the SDXC branding, and some aspects of UHS performance guarantees, hence why >33.8GB cards come pre-formatted ExFAT
- Because of some of the design to NTFS, tied to the system that created it (long story, has to do with Access Control Entries, ACEs, for security), ExFAT is safer for mobile use
- Microsoft enforces the ExFAT patent far more often, whereas the FAT design has some prior art involved
Again, the easiest way is to just stick the card in and let the device format it. That way it's guaranteed to work with the device. I've just learned to trust this from years of dSLR cameras.
No device I've used in 64 or 128 capacities have given me the ability to physically format within the phone itself. Just reads "Blank card". Then when I tap "Format" it cycles the notification to "Checking card for errors."
Does this on the HAM2, Nvidia Shield, Samsung devices. How are people formatting within their devices?
Also, FWIW I have tested a Sandisk 64GB and 128GB Extreme card (the 128GB is now in the Shield as it's getting quite full of games).
Used "guiformat" (there are a couple other tools floating around) to format to FAT32 (also works on flashdrives and external HDDs).
It works. You can't re-format the card from within the HAM2 though (tested 64/128GB). If you hit "Erase SD Card" it will remount, show "checking for errors", then dismount. And it will continue to do so until you re-format it using a FAT32 program on another machine.
Also, Can't use App2SD but Link2SD works (got "pro" licenses for both).
FWIW both cards were correctly aligned by SDFormatter before being converted, and there are no issues in other devices.

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