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So, like the title says, I accidently formatted my SD card today not even 20 min into having my phone. For some reason I thought I had put my other 8GB card into the phone, and when I went to look, sure enough the phone had the Class 4 card in it. What were/are the contents of the SD card. Am I missing anything I didn't have before? Did I delete my movies?
You shouldn't have any problems, I started mine with a blank 16 gig from the first boot of the phone and I have no problems and nothing is missing.
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So, like the title says, I accidently formatted my SD card today not even 20 min into having my phone. For some reason I thought I had put my other 8GB card into the phone, and when I went to look, sure enough the phone had the Class 4 card in it. What were/are the contents of the SD card. Am I missing anything I didn't have before? Did I delete my movies?
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There was some sample music and the Green Hornet 3D movie. I wiped mine as well, but copied the contents to my computer hard drive first. If you want a copy, you can send me your empty card and I'll fill 'er up for you.
Me 2 anyone have the 2d and 3d sample photos that came with the phone I can download
I didn't reformat my card but I have a feeling the girl at Radio Shack who was setting up my phone my have. I spent all day trying to figure out why The Green Hornet wouldn't play, finally figured out it wasn't there. I don't have that or any of the sample pics that are supposed to be on there. The thing that sucks is that the movie has DRM and I'm sure it would be illegal for someone to post a download link on here or something. That is one of the reasons I might try and have the phone replaced tomorrow. I'm a little annoyed that I didn't get everything I paid for. Even if I were to simply watch it once and delete it, that's my choice.
erikivy said:
There was some sample music and the Green Hornet 3D movie. I wiped mine as well, but copied the contents to my computer hard drive first. If you want a copy, you can send me your empty card and I'll fill 'er up for you.
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erikivy,
I'm in a similar boat and I would LOVE for you to hook with up with the original files! Can I mail you a. 4.7GB DVD to get them? I only have one SD card and can't be without it.
Wouldn't it being licensed make it okay to upload...can't play it without the license, right? If anyone does UL it or put in their dropbox or something, I would appreciate a link...I too formatted the card (as well as hard resetting) the minute I got the phone in my grubby hands....
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awenthol said:
Wouldn't it being licensed make it okay to upload...can't play it without the license, right? If anyone does UL it or put in their dropbox or something, I would appreciate a link...I too formatted the card (as well as hard resetting) the minute I got the phone in my grubby hands....
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Someone here already put it in a dropbox. Dropbox shut the link down because of too much activity (not because of content). If anyone wants to upload it again, I'd suggest something like filedropper.com.
mwalt2 said:
Someone here already put it in a dropbox. Dropbox shut the link down because of too much activity (not because of content). If anyone wants to upload it again, I'd suggest something like filedropper.com.
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it is being worked on as we are posting about it ..have a link to the sample 3d pics.zip in another thread the full sdcard zip is 1.90 GB ..that possibly will be upped soon as well.. patience ...
ScrapSilicon said:
it is being worked on as we are posting about it ..have a link to the sample 3d pics.zip in another thread the full sdcard zip is 1.90 GB ..that possibly will be upped soon as well.. patience ...
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1140089
Let me start out by saying that I have searched for any threads that have covered this, and have come up empty.
This has happened twice to me in the last two months. Running task650's V.9, which is an awesome ROM. I've got a Lexar Class 10 32gb card. Twice in two months have I booted up and the media scanner would show a broken sd card notice. I tried booting the phone without the card, and then re-installed the card. Same notice of bad sd card on boot.
At this point I took the card and stuck it in a laptop, which generated a "can not open due to corrupt or unreadable file" and "reformat drive" or something like that. I was forced to format, losing photos, vids, and TiBu folder. I synced to Dropbox and got the backup folder re-installed.
Any ideas about what could have corrupted the card? I suppose the card could be damaged. I paid good bucks, as it is not a low end card. Replace the card? Any guidance would be appreciated.
I have a Lexar Class 10 32GB card. Same issue, after first time reformatted and same thing happened a week or two later.
I did an RMA with Lexar, think there is a 1 year warranty. Got a new card, been working fine the past several months.
Ok. Thanks for the input. I've got a Kingston Class 10 on the way.
I was hoping it wasn't in the phone hardware.
Thanks, I just reminded myself to do a backup of that card itself to my PC.
Sorry to hear about your problem though.
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LiLChris06 said:
Thanks, I just reminded myself to do a backup of that card itself to my PC.
Sorry to hear about your problem though.
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Looks like I will be starting practice myself
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This just happened to me two days ago. Lost some pics that was about it. Pissed me off because they were of my son and you'll never get those moment back but too late now. Always backup!!
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Skyler2Dope said:
This just happened to me two days ago. Lost some pics that was about it. Pissed me off because they were of my son and you'll never get those moment back but too late now. Always backup!!
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Yeah, I lost some New Years day photos and vids with my wife. I'll NEVER find her in that good of a mood again!
It makes me wonder about my decision to place my TiBu folder on the external card, along with Nandroid backups. True, it syncs to Drop Box for TiBu but do I need the extra headache of wondering if my card is going to get smoked again? I suppose I should be backing it all up to pc..
I'm not sure but it seems to be a problem with the phone and class 10 cards.
My first one was a 16gb class 10 micro sd that one day just decided to stop working (lasted a month or so). Couldn't access it via the phone or PC.
So I went out and got a 32gb class 10 and after a month or so again it stopped working
Knowing this I refused to buy a class 10 card again. I went to Walmart and got the cheapest 32gb micro sd (Sandisk class 4) and so far so good. no problems at all
Lost everything I had too on the first 2 cards so learned the hard way to do backups to my PC.
Not the class, it's probably the brand. Some brands have terrible quality control, especially if you go for a cheaper one. I have one from Amazon Basic and it works just fine. My brother uses one from SanDisk with zero problem.
Class 10 is also newer. The technology to manufacture these is not that old. I suspect some manufacturers still need to refine their process.
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me too
Posted this on similar thread here, but want to make sure people know it's a problem:
Got a similar problem here.
Transcend Class 10 32GB Card
Works in PC, HTC Desire - no probs.
Put in Galaxy S2, it starts Media Scanning, a few seconds later reports SD Card Damaged, requires formatting.
It's right - take it back out (again, umpteenth time!), put it in PC or HTC - card is "damaged". (Nothing permanent, can reformat.)
Samsung support claim to not know anything - mind you they "play dumb" about the camera "pink spot" issue, until you challenge them to get real...
Oh, dear!
Brian
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I thought my Galaxy was shagging the Card - but it could be a Fake
Testing now with H2testw (also visual clues available) see
YouTube video watch?v=ePdITNObDYE
Hope this helps
Brian
Buy a 500gb external hard drive for like 50 bucks they're cheap now. Backup everything to it once a week. Never lose data. Profit.
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Sounds like a brand issue, but have you ever tried checking the drive for errors?
Given that even your PC gives you a "damaged" message, it may not work. Once inserted, go to "My Computer," get to properties, and check for errors (enable the "automatically fix file system errors" option). In the past, this has corrected "corrupted" SD cards for me.
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Let me start out by saying that I have searched for any threads that have covered this, and have come up empty.
This has happened twice to me in the last two months. Running task650's V.9, which is an awesome ROM. I've got a Lexar Class 10 32gb card. Twice in two months have I booted up and the media scanner would show a broken sd card notice. I tried booting the phone without the card, and then re-installed the card. Same notice of bad sd card on boot.
At this point I took the card and stuck it in a laptop, which generated a "can not open due to corrupt or unreadable file" and "reformat drive" or something like that. I was forced to format, losing photos, vids, and TiBu folder. I synced to Dropbox and got the backup folder re-installed.
Any ideas about what could have corrupted the card? I suppose the card could be damaged. I paid good bucks, as it is not a low end card. Replace the card? Any guidance would be appreciated.
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The only corruptions I have experienced on this phone were when using MTP to transfer files from the PC. Since I stopped using MTP and use only USB Storage mounting, I have not had any more problems.
I've actually experienced this twice. Both times flashing to AOKP. I'm not blaming AOKP but just saying. The first time even my PC wouldn't read it and it needed to be reformatted. The second time my pc could read it and after nandroiding back to shostock2 it was fine.
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Hi guys
I know about the SanDisk Micro-SD card problem with Samsung Galaxy S3's and I happen to be one of the victims.
My SanDisk Micro-SD 32gb Ultra has had problems in the past. It sometimes says blank sd card but it eventually works again. At one point it said sd card damaged but the card still worked. Up until yesterday it hasn't stopped working for a while but now my phone says blank sd card. I tried putting it into a windows computer but it cannot be detected. When using a usb adapter it just shows a device in drive "?:" and can't do anything with it and when using a micro sd to sd card reader it doesn't show at all. In Mac the micro sd to sd card reader is detectable and shows the size of 32.1 MB and is called "Apple SDXC Reader Media". The micro sd card itself is not detectable it seems. I have tried many device recovery software but none of them work. They all seem to just be scanning the card reader and not the micro sd itself.
Does anyone know how I can recover the Micro-SD card?
It is quite important because I have my school laptop data backed up on it (which was just handed in for a system upgrade and being wiped) and also my phone pictures, videos and other stuff.
Any help will be greatly appreciated
blackhand64 said:
Hi guys
Does anyone know how I can recover the Micro-SD card?
It is quite important because I have my school laptop data backed up on it (which was just handed in for a system upgrade and being wiped) and also my phone pictures, videos and other stuff.
Any help will be greatly appreciated
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It may be recoverable by a specialist company, But i believe the going rate is approx £900. My first step would be to try sticking it in the freezer for at least 8 hours (but as long as you can manage the longer the better) then try it in your phone, if this works back up all the data and RMA the card to SanDisk. Let this be a lesson to us all that all data on our cards should be backed up regularly, I understand you werent expecting the card to fail but had you lost your phone the result would have been the same.
I doubt you will be able to recovery the data, formatting the card with the sd formatting tool might make the card useable again but I doubt it. When I've had cards corrupt more than once it is best to throw them away and get a different make.
You can try looking for a specialist data recovery expert, locally or on the web - if the data is very valuable to you.
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It may be recoverable by a specialist company, But i believe the going rate is approx £900. My first step would be to try sticking it in the freezer for at least 8 hours (but as long as you can manage the longer the better) then try it in your phone, if this works back up all the data and RMA the card to SanDisk. Let this be a lesson to us all that all data on our cards should be backed up regularly, I understand you werent expecting the card to fail but had you lost your phone the result would have been the same.
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First of all I don't have £900 to throw around, besides the fact it totally isn't worth £900 to get it fixed.
Second, before I start chucking my SD card in the freezer what exactly does freezing it do and how will it help it? You sure it won't just destroy it for good? I can leave it in the freezer for as long as needed as I can't exactly use the card in the mean time.
Thanks for the reply though
Hope I can get it to work
Freezing is a method that may give a brief recovery on some hard disc failures .
Note hard disc never heard of freezing ram or why it could work .
jje
JJEgan said:
Freezing is a method that may give a brief recovery on some hard disc failures .
Note hard disc never heard of freezing ram or why it could work .
jje
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There's someone around here that reported it worked for them, and it's not gonna do any harm to try. But true it would be at best a temporary fix.
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ghostofcain said:
There's someone around here that reported it worked for them, and it's not gonna do any harm to try. But true it would be at best a temporary fix.
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Well I left it in the freezer for almost 24 hours and tried it and it still doesn't work
What do I do
Any other suggestions?
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I have the same card, no problems at all.
Gesendet von meinem GT-I9300 ^_^
toterkeks said:
I have the same card, no problems at all.
Gesendet von meinem GT-I9300 ^_^
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You are lucky enough to have a card without the problem. Doesn't help my situation though....
When did you get it?
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blackhand64 said:
Well I left it in the freezer for almost 24 hours and tried it and it still doesn't work
What do I do
Any other suggestions?
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Not a lot.Contact retailer, or SanDisk direct for a replacement card and chalk it down to experience.
This is a known issue with sandisk at the moment. They are replacing cards when they die.
As for data, please look into foldersync for future. Sync data to cloud or computer
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rootSU said:
This is a known issue with sandisk at the moment. They are replacing cards when they die.
As for data, please look into foldersync for future. Sync data to cloud or computer
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Ok then I'll just have to get it replaced.
A thought just occurred to me though.
Before I had my school laptop backed up on my micro-sd card I had it backed up on a usb. Because it was only an 8gb usb I transfered it to my micro sd because it took up too much space. I've heard of software that can recover deleted files from devices. Would it be possible to recover the deleted backup on my usb? The backup in total would have been about 1 - 2gb. If so, what free program could I use to recover it?
Thanks in advance
Possibly. As an IT support engineer, I don't want to get your hopes up though.
Things like NTFS get back may work but most if them are not free.
I took Handy recovery 1 (free version) from a bootable cd tool once, you could try that and may recover a small amount of data but its always safest to assume it gone.
The more you use the usb device, the less chance you have of recovery
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No worries mine died after 5 minutes of use bought from amazon 64gb ultra sdxc .I had it working but the data I put in gets erased immediately and if I reboot my phone the data is still there then it shows 59.47 gb as full seconds later blank sd or damaged error.now it just won't format in any way fat 32 or exfat.im rma back to Sandisk in the morning.
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rootSU said:
Possibly. As an IT support engineer, I don't want to get your hopes up though.
Things like NTFS get back may work but most if them are not free.
I took Handy recovery 1 (free version) from a bootable cd tool once, you could try that and may recover a small amount of data but its always safest to assume it gone.
The more you use the usb device, the less chance you have of recovery
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If nothing works then I may take it to my school IT guys (when school starts again, currently holidays)
Think they would have something to fix the card or recover the data?
It depends on the state.
The media has a File System. This could be FAT32, NTFS, exFAT etc. Essentially (without going technical) imagine these file systems as a database table. When you add a file to the media, an entry is written to the table to identify the exact location of the file on the media. That way, when an operating system views the card and the user accesses a file, the table tells the OS where to look for the file.
Typically with these file systems, when you delete the file, the file remains. Only the Table entry is removed. The OS can no longer locate the file. the OS is shown the free space as per what the table says - not what is really the truth.
So once a file is deleted, 3rd party applications can scan the media and find the files (without using the table).
Of course there is a problem in that any space that the table shows as unallocated (you deleted the file), new files will overwrite the old files. That is when the data becomes unrecoverable.
So yes, it's possible that even if the formatted filesystem is damaged, the data on the media can be recovered. But if you added new files since, then the chances are the unreferenced data has been actually overwritten. In this case, it is gone.
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It depends on the state.
The media has a File System. This could be FAT32, NTFS, exFAT etc.
So yes, it's possible that even if the formatted filesystem is damaged, the data on the media can be recovered. But if you added new files since, then the chances are the unreferenced data has been actually overwritten. In this case, it is gone.
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What file system are you taking about here? The damaged file system (micro-sd card) can't have new files added to it as it is inaccessible. It also has not been formatted since the problem. The usb with the deleted files is not damaged and not formatted but I have put new files on it since. Sounds like you're combining the two different devices. Sorry if this is a bit confusing.
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blackhand64 said:
What file system are you taking about here? The damaged file system (micro-sd card) can't have new files added to it as it is inaccessible. It also has not been formatted since the problem. The usb with the deleted files is not damaged and not formatted but I have put new files on it since. Sounds like you're combining the two different devices. Sorry if this is a bit confusing.
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Both; I am answering the question for both devices at once. I'm not confused
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Both; I am answering the question for both devices at once. I'm not confused
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Ok. I thunk I'm da confused one
Anyway, so basically you're saying that it is possible for the IT guys at my school to fix the micro sd card and recover its data right? I don't think I'm going to bother trying to recover the deleted one on my usb.
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The s3 doesn't play very well with sandisk cards in general (samsung confirmed this) . I personally use a pny and have no issues, I would suggest trying to return the card and get a different brand.
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I have the 16 gb s4 and its great an all that we have a micro sd slot but I have found the whole concept unreliable at best. For one I have had 2 different sd cards fail. One gskill 32gb class 10 and a samsung 64 gb fail. All my pictures, roms and app gone. I back them up but still not being able to trust them is a huge concern. And the 64 gb seemed like a great idea except you have to format it fat32 to get recovery to view it, and when I did that my phone constantly wanted to format it back exfat. I pretty much have no option to get a 32 gig with a mdk rom either. Just my rant as I figure out how to rma both of these cards.
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Sounds like you've just had some bad luck. I've been using a 64gb Class 10 SanDisk formatted for exFat and it's worked fine so far (I even use Folder Mount to move a bunch of stuff from internal to external).
Surprised the Samsung card failed on you.
Btw, the exfat/64gb issue only exits for some implementations. I'm running Barebones ME7 rom w/ktoonsez kernel and Phils/CWM recovery and both the recovery and the kernel support 64gb exFat.
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I have the 16 gb s4 and its great an all that we have a micro sd slot but I have found the whole concept unreliable at best. For one I have had 2 different sd cards fail. One gskill 32gb class 10 and a samsung 64 gb fail. All my pictures, roms and app gone. I back them up but still not being able to trust them is a huge concern. And the 64 gb seemed like a great idea except you have to format it fat32 to get recovery to view it, and when I did that my phone constantly wanted to format it back exfat. I pretty much have no option to get a 32 gig with a mdk rom either. Just my rant as I figure out how to rma both of these cards.
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you might be just out of luck
I'm using a sanDisk Ultra 64GB on my S4 and everything works fine (FAT32 formatted)
I've never had any SD card fail me. Never heard of gskill and there is the possibility that the samsung sd card you got was a fake...depending on where you got it. I've used PNY, Samsung, and SanDisk sd cards and all have lasted me a long time through heavy usage.
I have a 64 gig sd card and never had an issue. I use it all the time.
first thing I did was wipe and format it in twrp recovery to whatever format it wanted.
golden.
Two cards failing? Unbelievable bad luck (I have never had a storage device of any type fail...not even platter hard drives...and I'm 43 and have had my own pc of some sort for 25 years), a bad card reader in the phone, or operator error.
I'm thinking bad card reader in the phone.
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I've had a couple cards go bad. It happens. Learned to do periodical back ups.
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During last week of owning my S3, i took my samsung 32gb microsd out when i replaced my screen , upon getting it all finished and putting it back in, the sd was dead. I feel you on that though, sucks to loose all the pictures. Wouldnt get recognized on either of my pcs, Old 8mp digital cam tried to format it but couldnt do it.
I bought an authentic sandisk 32gb microsd to replace it, so far so good.
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Two cards failing? Unbelievable bad luck (I have never had a storage device of any type fail...not even platter hard drives...and I'm 43 and have had my own pc of some sort for 25 years), a bad card reader in the phone, or operator error.
I'm thinking bad card reader in the phone.
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You need to go buy a lottery ticket, hdd/ssd/ram are the number one thin besides power supplies that die in computers. I have had probably a 10 percent failure amomg desktop ssd's since they first got popular. I build alot of computers and its definitely a brand/product line importance. Even the good guys come out with bad products time to time.
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You need to go buy a lottery ticket, hdd/ssd/ram are the number one thin besides power supplies that die in computers. I have had probably a 10 percent failure amomg desktop ssd's since they first got popular. I build alot of computers and its definitely a brand/product line importance. Even the good guys come out with bad products time to time.
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I know it's crazy. My mom plays freecell on an old pc that I bought in 1999...and it's still on its original hard drive...and still boots an xp install I made in about 2005.
I've never had ram die either. Only power supplies and monitors.
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I had an almost identical issue a while back. I used to always use a Sandisk 32gb class 10 card in my S3 and other devices. I used the same card for 3 or 4 years. When I got my S4 I decided to make the jump to a 64 gb card due to the small internal storage. So I went out and bought a 64 gb Class 10 Sandisk since I have always had good experiences with their cards. First thing I popped it into my computer and re-formatted it to Fat32. Then I plugged it into my phone and it seemed to work fine for a while, then randomly it would unmount itself and remount for no apparent reason. It would do it randomly 3 or 4 times a day. I tried wiping and reformatting to fat32 again, tried exfat, and even NTFS. Failing all that I took it back and exchanged it for another identical one. Same EXACT issue... So I gave it one last shot and exchanged one more time. At this point the ladies at Wal-mart are looking at me sideways like I'm running a scam or something. Lol. Anyways, the third one worked spectatularly. I haven't had one single unmount with it and I have all the storage I could possible need. I keep two Nandroid backups on my memory at all times (and with the S4 they are HUGE, 4gbs or better) and I have like 15 gbs of music, not to mention other miscellaneous files and apks and such, and I still have 30 gbs left.
I say just try it again man. Third times a charm. And I personally would always recommend Sandisk. I have never had one fail me and lost my data or anything. They have always worked for me.
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I had an almost identical issue a while back. I used to always use a Sandisk 32gb class 10 card in my S3 and other devices. I used the same card for 3 or 4 years. When I got my S4 I decided to make the jump to a 64 gb card due to the small internal storage. So I went out and bought a 64 gb Class 10 Sandisk since I have always had good experiences with their cards. First thing I popped it into my computer and re-formatted it to Fat32. Then I plugged it into my phone and it seemed to work fine for a while, then randomly it would unmount itself and remount for no apparent reason. It would do it randomly 3 or 4 times a day. I tried wiping and reformatting to fat32 again, tried exfat, and even NTFS. Failing all that I took it back and exchanged it for another identical one. Same EXACT issue... So I gave it one last shot and exchanged one more time. At this point the ladies at Wal-mart are looking at me sideways like I'm running a scam or something. Lol. Anyways, the third one worked spectatularly. I haven't had one single unmount with it and I have all the storage I could possible need. I keep two Nandroid backups on my memory at all times (and with the S4 they are HUGE, 4gbs or better) and I have like 15 gbs of music, not to mention other miscellaneous files and apks and such, and I still have 30 gbs left.
I say just try it again man. Third times a charm. And I personally would always recommend Sandisk. I have never had one fail me and lost my data or anything. They have always worked for me.
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Did you format back to Fat32 on your third try? I am going through the same thing and I am on my second card, waiting for the third to come in the mail. The first one I did Fat32 and out of the blue it would get extremely hot, and then say safe to remove card without me doing anything.
The second one, I left as is, copied everything over and left it exFat. That lasted about a week and then stuff started disappearing in gallery view, BUT it was there in Root explorer. The card it a Sandisk 64 gb Mobile Ultra.
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Did you format back to Fat32 on your third try? I am going through the same thing and I am on my second card, waiting for the third to come in the mail. The first one I did Fat32 and out of the blue it would get extremely hot, and then say safe to remove card without me doing anything.
The second one, I left as is, copied everything over and left it exFat. That lasted about a week and then stuff started disappearing in gallery view, BUT it was there in Root explorer. The card it a Sandisk 64 gb Mobile Ultra.
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Yeah mine was the same issue, only I didn't notice any heat to speak of. And yes on the first card I got, I used a windows program called fat32format and formatted it before ever even putting it in my phone. It would intermittently unmount and remount exactly as you are describing. So I took it out, wiped and reformatted to fat32 again. Still did the same thing. So as a last ditch I tried formatting to exfat. My phone and recovery both read the card just fine, it would just unmount randomly, or when I was either listening to music or viewing my gallery (something that required high read speeds) and it would unmount and interrupt it. So, thinkiing that it was just a faulty card I exchanged for a identical new one. Same issue. This time I used a different program to reformat to fat32, I forget the name of it, but it was a command line based reformatting tool for windows. I used it and had that same problem even after several reformats. At this point I was starting to wonder if it was a problem with my phone's SD card slot., So as a last effort I did one more exhange, reformatted using the command line tool and haven't had one single unmount since then, and I have ALOT of stuff on it. I would just suggest keep trying. I think that Galaxy phones are just sensitive to card reading and if you don't have an absolutely perfect one it will have problems. Or who knows, maybe I just had that off chance of one in a million by getting two bad cards in a row. Either way, I would suggest reading this thread (if you haven't already): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1773735
Use the first method on your new card. That I think is the most foolproof formatting method. Good luck, you will find the right card eventually.
Thank you!! Ill give it a shot tomorrow when the new card arrives. I appreciate that thread reference too! Fingers are crossed.
kaos2569 said:
Thank you!! Ill give it a shot tomorrow when the new card arrives. I appreciate that thread reference too! Fingers are crossed.
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Yeah no problem. Good luck
There may be a pattern....
But I am not sure exactly what it is.
I have two nearly identical SG4s (1 for + 1 for my wife) and both have the 64GB SanDisk Micro Ultra. One phone is completely stock (my wife's) and the card is lightly used and formatted exFat. Mine is rooted and Roomed (Synergy) with TiBkup and CWM. Like other folks, I had to reformat the card to Fat32 in order to work with CWM.
As far as I can tell, she never sees any un-mount/re-mount messages on her phone but it is lightly used and she might not notice. I DO see occasional un-mount/re-mount messages, but I cannot tie it to a specific program or event. Sometimes happens right after reboot. Sometimes happens when I launch TiBkup. But goes for days with no issues.
I have never lost any data or noticed any performance hits, but now I am worried that I might.
Guess it is time to take more backups of the backups...
I have had lots of computer equipment fail over the years, but never exactly like this...
Well I followed everything nicholi2789 suggested and low and behold my card is actually working good. It does not get hot when reading ( not as hot as the other 2 anyway) and I can see a big time difference in speed. So I guess its true, the third times a charm in the case of these 64 gb Sandisk Ultra cards.
Big thanks again to nicholi2789 for pointing me in the right direction!
I bought a SanDisk Microsdxc class 10 64gb and let the phone format. It's working great. It has the fastest speeds out of all I've seen.
It's a SanDisk Ultra 64 GB MicroSDXC Class 10 UHS-1 Memory Card with Adapter (SDSDQU-064G-AFFP-A)
At Amazon.
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kaos2569 said:
Well I followed everything nicholi2789 suggested and low and behold my card is actually working good. It does not get hot when reading ( not as hot as the other 2 anyway) and I can see a big time difference in speed. So I guess its true, the third times a charm in the case of these 64 gb Sandisk Ultra cards.
Big thanks again to nicholi2789 for pointing me in the right direction!
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Glad you figured it out man. I didn't really do anything except to say keep trying. Lol. Good deal though.
Randomly when I use either the stock camera app, or stock gallery, the SDCard will randomly disconnect itself and take about 5-15 minutes to come back up. Does anyone know a fix for this? I am using a sandisk 16GB card.
I have tried doing a FDR with wiping davlic and system cache with the same results, I have even tried re-installing the ROM on the phone with the same results.
Your card is going bad. Happened to my sanddisk as well. Back it up and reformat. Might help for a bit. It did with my wife's.
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Randomly when I use either the stock camera app, or stock gallery, the SDCard will randomly disconnect itself and take about 5-15 minutes to come back up. Does anyone know a fix for this? I am using a sandisk 16GB card.
I have tried doing a FDR with wiping davlic and system cache with the same results, I have even tried re-installing the ROM on the phone with the same results.
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Read this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2477623
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Your card is going bad. Happened to my sanddisk as well. Back it up and reformat. Might help for a bit. It did with my wife's.
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This card is only two months old.
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Read this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2477623
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The problem is only in gallery and camera. I can view files on the card even in the same directory with any other app with no problems. I called sandisk already they said it is a software issue that I need to contact Samsung about it.
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This card is only two months old.
The problem is only in gallery and camera. I can view files on the card even in the same directory with any other app with no problems. I called sandisk already they said it is a software issue that I need to contact Samsung about it.
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My card failed after one month and my wife's same sandisk class 10 failed after 2 months. It has been covered in the threads over and over. Sandisk had a known bad batch of cards. Mine would not work in phone but would in PC so I was able to back up. My wife was not so lucky and lost everything.
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My card failed after one month and my wife's same sandisk class 10 failed after 2 months. It has been covered in the threads over and over. Sandisk had a known bad batch of cards. Mine would not work in phone but would in PC so I was able to back up. My wife was not so lucky and lost everything.
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I will call them again, maybe this time I will get a CSR who cares and gets stuff handled.
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I will call them again, maybe this time I will get a CSR who cares and gets stuff handled.
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I bought mine at radio shack. When I took them back they were even familiar with the problem at radio shack.
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I bought mine at radio shack. When I took them back they were even familiar with the problem at radio shack.
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I bought mine at Wal*Mart, the one near me gives people a huge hassle on returning or exchanging electronics.