I have a question about the SD card overheating issue. Are people having the same problem with the faster class 10 SD cards, or is it just the class 4 cards. I have a Sandisk16gb class 4 card, and I am experiencing overheating issues. Thoughts? Should I try upgrading to a card with a faster transfer rate? Running stock OC1 unrooted. Any input would be very helpful.
budz4brains said:
I have a question about the SD card overheating issue. Are people having the same problem with the faster class 10 SD cards, or is it just the class 4 cards. I have a Sandisk16gb class 4 card, and I am experiencing overheating issues. Thoughts? Should I try upgrading to a card with a faster transfer rate? Running stock OC1 unrooted. Any input would be very helpful.
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Your SD card is overheating? How do you know this? Do you mean your phone is overheating?
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It's a known issue, that the phone will overheat, specifically where the SD card is located. So I suppose, yes the phone is overheating. I have never heard of anyone else asking the same question as I have. It is a common problem on the last 2 or 3 stock I545 OTA roms. If not I suppose I've spent days and days and days of dead end research, trying to figure this out (this is only a fraction of the problems this phone has). All I wanted to know is if someone has had different results with a better class SD card, or if it's just the lower class cards this seems to be a problem. I have tried different class 4 cards all the same result. It doesn't seem to overheat in that area when the card is removed.
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budz4brains said:
It's a known issue, that the phone will overheat, specifically where the SD card is located. So I suppose, yes the phone is overheating. I have never heard of anyone else asking the same question as I have. It is a common problem on the last 2 or 3 stock I545 OTA roms. If not I suppose I've spent days and days and days of dead end research, trying to figure this out (this is only a fraction of the problems this phone has). All I wanted to know is if someone has had different results with a better class SD card, or if it's just the lower class cards this seems to be a problem. I have tried different class 4 cards all the same result. It doesn't seem to overheat in that area when the card is removed.
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I'm pretty sure the area of the SD card is getting warm because the CPU is located there as well. I don't think its possible for an SD card to overheat. I would look into apps that may be overloading your device and heating it up.
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Hey guys,
Sorry I tried searching but the search seems to be broken at the moment and I didn't see anything after scrolling through many pages.
Recently I've started getting this message alot when I wake the phone. Is there a fix? It usually goes away as the phone sees the card once the screen is up but sometimes it says that the card is corrupted and needs formatting and I need to restart to get it back.
Any tips or fixes I'm not aware of?
Your card is dying. Back up your data from it. I got that message for about a week then the card was unrecognizable.
There are seveal threads from this and other forums about this very problem.
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Are you using a Sandisk card? If yes that might be the problem. I have had 2 of them and they did the same thing. I just exchange it to PNY brand
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jacky37 said:
Are you using a Sandisk card? If yes that might be the problem. I have had 2 of them and they did the same thing. I just exchange it to PNY brand
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I had the same thing with a brand new Sandisk card. Sent it back to amazon and bought a Samsung card. No more problems.
mtrain said:
I had the same thing with a brand new Sandisk card. Sent it back to amazon and bought a Samsung card. No more problems.
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DAmnit really? Yes I bought a brand new sandisk. Hopefully I can still return to Amazon! Thanks guys.
I agree with the other posters, sandisk cards are junk (& I have 3 sandisk 64 gig cards)
I have now had three sandisk cards burn up on me.
I still use them, but I back them up to my LT religiously.
Got it returned and have a samsung on the way! Thanks everyone!
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Hey guys,
Sorry I tried searching but the search seems to be broken at the moment and I didn't see anything after scrolling through many pages.
Recently I've started getting this message alot when I wake the phone. Is there a fix? It usually goes away as the phone sees the card once the screen is up but sometimes it says that the card is corrupted and needs formatting and I need to restart to get it back.
Any tips or fixes I'm not aware of?
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It doesn't depend on your sd-card. I test it with several sd cards I have, no way.
It's a well known bug, with no fix at moment.
The only workaround - which is working for me - is to keep the wi-fi constantly enabled. Have a try. The sd-card won't unmount.
Else, error doesn't occur if there are not on the sd-card (incl. sd-ext partition) apk's which are running (i.e. widgets, whatsapp & etc).
If you find a fix, SHARE IT
Had the same issue with my S3.
Turned out that the SD card was dying, this caused it to be unmounted by itself and then mounted again (sometimes showing notification “sd card removed unexpectedly”), hence triggering the media scanning process.
I created an application to monitor how many times the SD card was removed, and turned out to be unmounted every ~3 mins!!!
I then bought a new Transcend 32GB Class 10 card (made in Korea), and until now, this never happens, no reports from the application whatsoever, and no media process eating my battery.
I just published this app in the play store now, this is the link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sdcardmonitor
really is Sandisk issue?i faced the same for my Sandisk 32gb class 10,but when using kingmax 32gb class 10 no such issue..if so should consider abt Samsung 32gb class 10 card soon..
I do not believe it's dependant upon the brand. I have the issue with a 32gb class 4 PNY. I notice the problem correlates to the wake lock delay. They may both be associated with the deep sleep issue.
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Desperately waiting for the fix...
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Desperately waiting for the fix...
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Waiting for a fix? The is no fix other than buy a new SD card. This thread was resolved last year. Lol.
It seems some cards do not play well with this phone. I had this issue with a Lexar 32gb. I now have a sandisk 64gb with no issues.
I haven't seen anybody else out here that has mentioned this yet, but every once in a while (couple times a day), my SD will say it was unexpectedly removed, and the inserted again. Normally this wouldn't bother me, but I cache Spotify to my SD card and it stops playback.
I thought it might be isolated to me, but a Co worker with an S4 is experiencing the same thing. I do have a ROM, but I saw this on rooted stock as well.
Sorry if this is covered somewhere else already.
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I haven't seen anybody else out here that has mentioned this yet, but every once in a while (couple times a day), my SD will say it was unexpectedly removed, and the inserted again. Normally this wouldn't bother me, but I cache Spotify to my SD card and it stops playback.
I thought it might be isolated to me, but a Co worker with an S4 is experiencing the same thing. I do have a ROM, but I saw this on rooted stock as well.
Sorry if this is covered somewhere else already.
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I've had similar issue too
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inzandity said:
I haven't seen anybody else out here that has mentioned this yet, but every once in a while (couple times a day), my SD will say it was unexpectedly removed, and the inserted again. Normally this wouldn't bother me, but I cache Spotify to my SD card and it stops playback.
I thought it might be isolated to me, but a Co worker with an S4 is experiencing the same thing. I do have a ROM, but I saw this on rooted stock as well.
Sorry if this is covered somewhere else already.
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How you cache your Spotify data on memory card I thought theres not sd swal available yet
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How you cache your Spotify data on memory card I thought theres not sd swal available yet
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I'm not sure as I don't see an option for it, but to verify I downloaded another album and saw space being taken from the SD card
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yep my 64 gig SanDisk card did this on my gs3 and 4. I'm sending it back because it might be faulty idk. my 32 gig SanDisk never does it though.. 32 is a class 4, 64 is a class 10 so i think the class might be the issue on samsung phones. hopefully I just had a faulty card, because i miss having all that space.
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So I am having a problem where my Sandisk 32GB MicroSD card is getting dismounted from the phone. It gives me an error message like "SD card has been removed. Please use the Safely Eject SD card option to prevent data loss" or something like that. Then, it finds the card and runs the media scan, which renders my card useless for that time period. The screen also turns on for a minute or so during this time. Then it stays mounted for maybe up until 5 minutes before starting over again.
This absolutely rapes my battery, taking it from a full charge to dead battery in less than two hours. I thought maybe the SD card was going bad even though it's fairly new, so I took it out and tried it on my old Motorola smartphone, and it works fine and never dismounts. So I thought perhaps it's something with my phone, so I tried an older 8GB micro SD, and it works fine without dismounting at all.
Some info. Phone is running stock 4.0.4 with root and unlocked bootloader. The 32GB SD card worked fine for maybe 3 months until this problem suddenly started. Any ideas?
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So I am having a problem where my Sandisk 32GB MicroSD card is getting dismounted from the phone. It gives me an error message like "SD card has been removed. Please use the Safely Eject SD card option to prevent data loss" or something like that. Then, it finds the card and runs the media scan, which renders my card useless for that time period. The screen also turns on for a minute or so during this time. Then it stays mounted for maybe up until 5 minutes before starting over again.
This absolutely rapes my battery, taking it from a full charge to dead battery in less than two hours. I thought maybe the SD card was going bad even though it's fairly new, so I took it out and tried it on my old Motorola smartphone, and it works fine and never dismounts. So I thought perhaps it's something with my phone, so I tried an older 8GB micro SD, and it works fine without dismounting at all.
Some info. Phone is running stock 4.0.4 with root and unlocked bootloader. The 32GB SD card worked fine for maybe 3 months until this problem suddenly started. Any ideas?
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It's behaving like mine did when the SD card croaked. 32GB SanDisk here as well...first SD card I've ever had die on me. I was able to get it to read, one time, on my TF101 to rescue my photos...now it won't read anywhere. I'm not sure what to tell you, except that I'd back that card up pronto, just in case...
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It's behaving like mine did when the SD card croaked. 32GB SanDisk here as well...first SD card I've ever had die on me. I was able to get it to read, one time, on my TF101 to rescue my photos...now it won't read anywhere. I'm not sure what to tell you, except that I'd back that card up pronto, just in case...
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Yeah, it was a somewhat common issue for a few of us about 4 months ago. I know blenkows and I both had it happening a lot. For me it eventually went away, not sure what the deal was, there.
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Yeah, it was a somewhat common issue for a few of us about 4 months ago. I know blenkows and I both had it happening a lot. For me it eventually went away, not sure what the deal was, there.
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My SD card wouldn't stop doing it. I just gave with it. Uploaded all my music to Google Play, put the 16 GB card that the phone came with in there. All is well now. Haven't had a problem with the card in there yet but I rarely use it now anyways. Basically just there for backups
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Your card is defective.
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Well thanks for the responses, I already backed up the data that was on there. I can't find my receipt for it...any idea if Sandisk is good about replaced defective cards?
I went through four RMA replacement 64gb class 10 SanDisk cards, ate the $90 loss and spent $80 on the Samsung equivalent. It's faster and I have had zero problems with it. However, I used SanDisk cards for nearly a decade before those without any problems.
The SanDisk hi capacity cards seem to not work well in the lgog. They worked fine in my card readers, just not the lgog slot.
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I also had this problem with a 32gb sandisk. I RMA'd it and it happens less frequently for the new one. I'd say it happens once every few weeks now instead.
It's your card. I haven't experienced this at all n I'm using a no name class 10 32gb card. I was looking scandisk card but luckily I read the reviews n they where all negative
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So over night my S4 decided that it would corrupt my 32GB Sandisk SD. Second time its happened. Ever happen to you? What cards work best?
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So over night my S4 decided that it would corrupt my 32GB Sandisk SD. Second time its happened. Ever happen to you? What cards work best?
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I had lots of issues with my Sandisk 64GB card. It would unmount itself several times a day, and sometimes would end up corrupted. I replaced it with a Samsung 64GB like 2 months ago, and I have not had a single issue since.
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I had lots of issues with my Sandisk 64GB card. It would unmount itself several times a day, and sometimes would end up corrupted. I replaced it with a Samsung 64GB like 2 months ago, and I have not had a single issue since.
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And I had issues with the Samsung 64GB until I finally formatted on the phone itself. Since then it's been fine. It seems the SD card issues vary greatly from phone to phone and card to card. I can only offer my experience.
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I've had issues with my SD card unmounting itself too. It seems to be random, and happens maybe once a week. It always comes back after a minute or so. I tried formatting it, but it didn't seem to alleviate the issue. My card is a 32gb sandisk class 4.
Hello
Wondering if anyone else has had this experience.
I'm on the Stock Verizon 5.0.1 rom. I encrypted my SD card. I chose to not encrypt media files.
Afterwards, the phone began overheating frequently, I couldn't figure out what App was causing it. Then I remembered that I just encrypted the SD card. So I deactivated the encryption and now the phone is fine.
Anyone else have the same experience?
I use a Sandisk Ultra 128gb card.
Thanks
Sch-I545 model support until 64GB of memory card as far as I know, if you have 128 GB, that could be the reason...
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I'm not encrypted running same ver. 5.0 with 32g sd and getting the overheating from SD . If I remove it, no overheating. Any ideas what could be causing this?
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The 128gb card works fine. But maybe a different card will work better. I assume that the overheating is associated with the encryption overhead, but I don't know.
I'm not having the issue without the encryption. deaves7, maybe you have a bad SD card? Have you tried another?
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Hello
Wondering if anyone else has had this experience.
I'm on the Stock Verizon 5.0.1 rom. I encrypted my SD card. I chose to not encrypt media files.
Afterwards, the phone began overheating frequently, I couldn't figure out what App was causing it. Then I remembered that I just encrypted the SD card. So I deactivated the encryption and now the phone is fine.
Anyone else have the same experience?
I use a Sandisk Ultra 128gb card.
Thanks
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Yes I have had the same thing happen
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Update.
I backed up all my SD Card data, reformatted the card from within the Galaxy S4, and then enabled encryption.
So far no overheating, but the amount of data on the card is a lot less because I haven't copied all my files back.