I bought SGS3 and 16gb Transcend memory card.
I transferred my data from my nexus s to memory card through windows with memory reader, then I putb memory card in SGS3, but phone was making lots of hanging and removing SD memory unexpected. and it couldn't read it again, so I have formatted it and it happen continuously.
so I gave back the memory card and I bought 32gb Sandisk class 10, but the problem still is there.
after searching in forum I found there is no mass storage usb option with SGS3, but there is PTP and MTP.
when I am transferring data through MTP also , the process stops in between and after that phone cant read data properly.
what is wrong and what should i do?
Upgrade the firmware through Kies if you're on stock or through Odin/CWM otherwise.
Then check if it still applies.
d4fseeker said:
Upgrade the firmware through Kies if you're on stock or through Odin/CWM otherwise.
Then check if it still applies.
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I already upgraded firmware to latest one and the new thing is that just now I Tried an 8gb memory card I copied my data on it and its working perfectly.
what is the problem?
Maybe the contacts on the SD card are dirty, try cleaning them with alcohol (The one in your medecine cabinet, don't waste your good Wodka on it)
Also, make sure it's not exFAT formatted.
No body else has same problem?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1771442&page=2
I got the galaxy s3 a couple weeks ago, and when I got it I just put my old sd card in it and it worked fine. I could transfer files to and from it fine, when I hooked the phone up to a computer I could easily copy and paste files to the sd card that was mounted to phone. The sd card I used was an 8 gig Samsung, I recently upgraded to a 32 gig PNY sd card and have had nothing but problems with it. For the first week it would always say sd card was unmounted or unreadable and gave me an error, then mounted and worked. Finally got that fixed, but it would never work for file transfer from my computer, I have to physically take the sd card out of the phone and plug it directly into my computer to actually get files to transfer onto it. But transferring files onto my phones memory works fine, just the sd card has issues. Even when transferring from my phones storage to the sd it hasn't worked in my experience, any help would be appreciated. I don't want to have to root or anything because I know the phone works fine, I think PNY just sucks I haven't had the greatest experience with any of their products.
Okay so the card is doing the error message with the phone again so I guess I need to fix that first, Help?
Hey guys. Recently bought a 16G class 10 sandisk microSD
It has been working fine for the last few weeks until I accidentally removed it w/o unmounting.
I'm not concerned with keeping anything on it as it is only a few weeks old but I am unable to mount it in order to format it. In fact my Note doesn't see it at all (running current CM10) My samsung captivate (running the same thing) can see it and says it's blank and needs to be formatted however it is unable to do so.
When I use my PC adapter is doesn't recognize it for almost a minute then finally claims it needs to be formatted but is unable to.
It's almost brand new and I really haven't even used it yet so I'm wondering if you guys might be able to give me some advice as to what I can try with it.
Thanks in advance.
same here
I am having the same problem. I have a 32GB scanDisk class 4 rating i picked up from radio shack on sale.
1. turned phone off, w/o unmounting SD card first
2. removed SD card
3. Inserted into my MBP (because my flash drives were all full)
4. copied material off / erased what was added to the disk (about a month later)
5. inserted the disk again
while the disk is in, the OS constantly asks me to format it but when I do the disk looks the same(to the OS) :
"SD card blank or has unsupported file system"
I get this error before formatting and then again after formatting.
Help if possible. Thanks.
Hello,
Hoping someone can help with this issue.
My phone is an international galaxy s3. Bought september 2012 with a class 10 sandisk 32GB SDCard. Around november, suddenly, phone keeps displaying "preparing sd card", "damaged sd card", etc. when phone wakes up from sleep, this causes media process to continually run in the background, killing battery. Force stopping the Media process doesn't help as after sometime, Media process will run again.
I solved the issue by buying another SDcard, same brand, class 10 32GB as well.
And now, after 2 months, same issue reappeared with my new SD card! Displayed the same preparing sd card issue, and now my phone seldom deep sleeps because of the android.process.media process. It keeps sending wake locks.
Anybody knows what the issue is and how to solve?
Thank you very much
Same problem here, I'm on my third SD now and after a week or so the same problem happens?
Carry out a proper test of the SD card .
http://fightflashfraud.wordpress.co...ld-standard-in-detecting-fake-capacity-flash/
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toughthrone said:
Hello,
Hoping someone can help with this issue.
My phone is an international galaxy s3. Bought september 2012 with a class 10 sandisk 32GB SDCard. Around november, suddenly, phone keeps displaying "preparing sd card", "damaged sd card", etc. when phone wakes up from sleep, this causes media process to continually run in the background, killing battery. Force stopping the Media process doesn't help as after sometime, Media process will run again.
I solved the issue by buying another SDcard, same brand, class 10 32GB as well.
And now, after 2 months, same issue reappeared with my new SD card! Displayed the same preparing sd card issue, and now my phone seldom deep sleeps because of the android.process.media process. It keeps sending wake locks.
Anybody knows what the issue is and how to solve?
Thank you very much
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1st u backup ur sd n ex-sd card deta on pc, after that u format both sd card then u flash new fw(download via sam mobile) via pc odin , may be its slove ur problem brother.
sam77744 said:
1st u backup ur sd n ex-sd card deta on pc, after that u format both sd card then u flash new fw(download via sam mobile) via pc odin , may be its slove ur problem brother.
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I managed to temporarily solve the problem by buying another sd card (my 3rd SD as well), but this time I bought a class 4 16GB one.
One thing I noticed, when using ES file explorer, and checking the last modified of the SD cards (the old ones), it shows as 1970-01-01. When I reformat it, it goes back to the correct last modified date, but over time it goes back to 1970. This new SD card still shows the correct last modified date so far.
@JJEgan: I did try that SD card test tool from before (1st SD card) and didn't show any problems. I doubt it is a fake one though, I bought it in Korea with the hologram packaging and all, the 2nd one I bought in the Philippines but also looks legit (using SD test tool app also seems fine for both).
@sam77744: I already tried a factory reset. and formatted SD card in the PC, in the galaxy s3 itself, same problem.
Is it possible for the phone to mess up with the SD card over time? In such a way that even if you format the SD card lots of times, it will really not work well with the phone anymore?
By the way, my phone ran 4.04 then upgraded to 4.1.1 over the lifespan of the 1st sd card, then 4.1.1 and then upgraded to 4.1.2 over the lifespan of the 2nd sd card. Stock ROM, never rooted, updated 4.1.1 via Kies and 4.1.2 via OTA.
Will be grateful to any ideas on what might be wrong and how to permanently fix, I can't keep buying new SD cards every month
Download the SD Formatting tool, available for free from the manufacturers association's website. I've had several cards over the years that corrupted after formatting in the phone, but were okay after using the tool.
I'm not convinced that class 10 cards are the best option for phones, yes for cameras where only a small number of large files of written, but in phones where a large number of small files are written a class 6 might be better for real life use.
I recently purchased a 64GB Samsung evo sdxc card to use with my Galaxy s4 zoom as an upgrade from my 32GB sd card i had been using. I put all my files onto my laptop and proceed to copy the entire folder to the sd card (24GB or so) everything went fine and I put the sd card into the phone and it seemed as if there was nothing on the card music pictures etc. I put the card back into my computer to find that the folders that i copied were still there but the contents of the folders were no longer there. trying this a few more times I copied the files again after formatting the SD card , but instead of putting it in the phone i just removed it from the laptop and put it back in . I received the same results each time i did this. i even tried to format it to Fat 32 to see if that would fix it and still just as before the same result. I have used many sd cards and have never had this problem before, this is the first time ive owned an sdxc card but it should be compatible with my s4 zoom, so the results i am getting have baffled me. any help with my situation would be very appreciated.