New to the forum, I did a search but came up empty, I have a rooted LG G# 35B rooted stock rom. it has a 128gb samsung sd card I had it for at least 6 months, no issues, last week it started unmounting my SD card by itself and unless I restart the phone it wont mount again, I did a factory reset and formated the card 3 times then mounted the card on the phone again and same issue, it will not go away also starts crating and deleting .txt files one called SNP_LOG .txt because of the modified nature of the phone I cannot do the OTA I have the 5.1.1 lollipop, also I have put on an 8G SD card and a 32GB same issue.
Try downgrading via the 10B TOT to try to verify if the problem is software or hardware. By your description I'm wondering of software but that's just a guess.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=67945841
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=68040923
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=68098895&postcount=1470
ilanpro said:
New to the forum, I did a search but came up empty, I have a rooted LG G# 35B rooted stock rom. it has a 128gb samsung sd card I had it for at least 6 months, no issues, last week it started unmounting my SD card by itself and unless I restart the phone it wont mount again, I did a factory reset and formated the card 3 times then mounted the card on the phone again and same issue, it will not go away also starts crating and deleting .txt files one called SNP_LOG .txt because of the modified nature of the phone I cannot do the OTA I have the 5.1.1 lollipop, also I have put on an 8G SD card and a 32GB same issue.
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My wife's stock phone had this issue on 48A. I downgraded it to 10B and then took OTA's back up to 35B. It still had the issue. Went back to 10B and still had the issue. IIRC there is a post about this issue on the main LG G3 forum in case you are interested.
I have the insurance on my devices so 3 replacement devices later she got a phone that works again. Good luck!
I'm on 46A and had a similar issue with a Samsung 64 GB card I have been using for about a year. Recently it started unmounting and remounting out of nowhere. Eventually, the phone claimed that it was corrupted. I opened up a file viewer and it seemed as though it had reformatted it. Since I backed it up at the start of all this, I put it in my computer to restore the data. However, all of the files that were on there before were still there and in-tact. I tried a 16 GB card I had sitting around to no avail. After doing some Googling, it seems that these symptoms are apparently a relatively common hardware issue with the G3 (which sucks, because this phone was still doing great after 2 years).
TL;DR - you may want to try different SD cards if you have any. That will help narrow down the issue and whether or not it's software or hardware. If I find any more info on the similar issue I'm having, I'll post it here.
Has anyone tried something like deoxit on the sd card when they start going bezerk?
I wonder if the card or the slot contacts get dirty or microscopic corrosion.
I use deoxit on alot of contacts and it works well.
Brian
still cannot get it to work, also I keep getting this messages for creating an snp_log.txt and then deleting the file I search for it and erase it and it keeps doing it, also a DelMe file 1-21 keeps pooping up
running lg g3 35b-xdeb sdcard formated exfat, I had this issue happening 6 months ago with a 64gb sandisk card till the card become "unwriteable" to any device or pc. I can no longer write to the card and it is readable but pretty much useless. I replaced with a 128gb sandisk card and all went well. Problem is starting again. everytime I reboot the phone and use a passcode to log in, it unmounts and mounts once. I removed xposed and many other apps still to no avail. I did read somewhere that the card needs a "label" on the volume for lollipop. .I did noticed my card was unlabled. I placed a label on my sdcard but it still is happening. I have also read that backing up the card and doing a complete "non quick" format my help out. doing a backup on my card now. let ya know the results. I did place another 128gb card in my phone and the problem still existed. I tried formatting another card to ext4 but it still was happening. I do feel my issue is software related.
incase your unsure if this is happening to you all you need to do is launch the camera app and it will ask you to "save photos to sdcard" whenever it unmounts the sdcard.
Does anyone know any log files i can examine? since my phone can be rebooted and sit for hours and then when I log in with a passcode it unmounts perhaps I can see which app if it is an app that may be doing this. I am on lollipop but I did run the sdcard fix for kit kat on it. maybe a script still exists. I really like this phone and would love to sovle this. I'm wondering if it is an issue with the internal memory that is causing an unmounting and remounting of volumes. would love to solve this.
update:
So I tried backup the sdcard to a hardrive using windows 10. kept failing on files. I decided to try backing up using a linux-ubuntu dist. when it would fail on the files it would actually unmount the whole drive. can't remember the error exactly something to do with no enpoint. I started select directories one by one to copy. I came to an assumuption. the only directories with corrupt files were files that I copied from the internal memory to the sdcard. my tool of choice used to be using es-file explorer. I hate making blind assumptions especially if i'm wrong but that was definitely a common denominator.
So I kept getting "sdcard unmounted" and "sdcard mounted" after reboot and login. I decided to do a full wipe but not before doing a backup of my rom. (just for testing purposes and data backup) I tried nandroiding to the internal memory which had 18gig left and it kept failing saying not enough space. so I backed up to external_sd which worked fine. I then decided to do a format of internal memory from twrp. restored backup and an earlier backup and still mounting issues. I then installed latest stable of cm12.1 and it... worked. don't know why but I decided to install xdabeb 3.1.1 6.0 mm stock image. wow does it work great. all my needs were met. xposed for 6.0 sdk23, tether, g3 toolbox mmbeta. awesome slim down stock. no sdcard mount issues with original card. I actually think the external_sd mount issue is actually a byproduct of an issue with the internal memory. and I believe cm12.1 install might have done some kind of fsck(filesytemcheck) my pipe dream? my incorrect guess? prolly. give it a try. cm12.1 installs so quickly it can't hurt.
WARNING!
DO NOT FORMAT INTERNAL MEMORY IF YOU HAVE NOT COPIED /TWRP BACKUP FOLDER FROM INTERNAL MEMORY TO A SDCARD OR USBDRIVE IF YOU NEED IT.
you were warned (sorry bout the caps....felt it was needed)
I'm seeing this problem as of yesterday, and it started after I took the 49A OTA, but I do not believe that was the issue. I'm wondering if it's more because the phone is almost 2 years old? I don't take the SIM nor the SD Card out at all. I did drop my phone last week. It was in a case and it landed flat on it's back, but I wonder if that still might have caused an issue and it just happen to coincidentally rear it's ugly head yesterday when I took the 49A OTA? 10B and all subsequent OTAs exhibit the same issue.
Going to take it into Cell Phone Repair today and get an estimate to see how much it will cost to get it fixed. Would like them to fix the USB port as well as it appears to be loose and I have numerous connect/disconnect issues with the PC so I have to be VERY careful when flashing so as to not bump or jostle the cable or phone while connected to the PC.
Cell Phone Repair gave me a quote to replace the SIM/SD Card slot of around $90 USD. They did say there was a 50% chance that the phone might not turn on if they do the work and that would be the end of it. I'm going to leave it alone.
Now, one thing I have noticed is, the card ejects usually when I launch an app. From what I can tell, it only appears to happen once for the app. Yesterday, the Facebook app seemed to do it. Today, my Twitter app did it.
I'm wondering if it's due to permissions? I wonder if the OTA changed something in regards to the access allowed to the external SD card and that's causing it to eject the card, and then remount it with the proper permissions? Usually, it seems to take a bit of time to remount, but it usually does, and then from that point, I don't see it happen for that app anymore.
Any ideas on this?
UPDATE: I just launched Twitter again and it didn't eject the card. I launched Facebook as well and same thing, no dismount. But I then launched Google+ app and it ejected the SD card. Still waiting to have it remount the SD card. Like I said, sometimes it's quick. Other times, it takes some time to remount the card. But this seems to be the issue and I'm wondering if that's normal? It happens with any SD card I put in.
iBolski said:
Cell Phone Repair gave me a quote to replace the SIM/SD Card slot of around $90 USD. They did say there was a 50% chance that the phone might not turn on if they do the work and that would be the end of it. I'm going to leave it alone.
Now, one thing I have noticed is, the card ejects usually when I launch an app. From what I can tell, it only appears to happen once for the app. Yesterday, the Facebook app seemed to do it. Today, my Twitter app did it.
I'm wondering if it's due to permissions? I wonder if the OTA changed something in regards to the access allowed to the external SD card and that's causing it to eject the card, and then remount it with the proper permissions? Usually, it seems to take a bit of time to remount, but it usually does, and then from that point, I don't see it happen for that app anymore.
Any ideas on this?
UPDATE: I just launched Twitter again and it didn't eject the card. I launched Facebook as well and same thing, no dismount. But I then launched Google+ app and it ejected the SD card. Still waiting to have it remount the SD card. Like I said, sometimes it's quick. Other times, it takes some time to remount the card. But this seems to be the issue and I'm wondering if that's normal? It happens with any SD card I put in.
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My wife's SIM slot stopped working about a month ago. I got an RMA on LG's site to send it to them for a repair quote. They wanted about $75 to repair or $150 for a complete refurb. We didn't have it repaired and then sent it back. We're hoping to buy two new non-contract unlocked phones in the near future. Probably the HTC 10 Unlocked or the Google Pixel XL 128 GB, but that latter isn't too likely given the very high price combined with its unavailability.
My wife is unfortunately using her old flip phone for now.
Mainly wanted you to know LG's quote as I'd be more comfortable having LG repair it than someone else, I just didn't want to put more money into phones that I'll be looking to replace soon anyway, and with the Swappa selling price of the G3 being only $50 more than that repair cost.
roirraW "edor" ehT said:
My wife's SIM slot stopped working about a month ago. I got an RMA on LG's site to send it to them for a repair quote. They wanted about $75 to repair or $150 for a complete refurb. We didn't have it repaired and then sent it back. We're hoping to buy two new non-contract unlocked phones in the near future. Probably the HTC 10 Unlocked or the Google Pixel XL 128 GB, but that latter isn't too likely given the very high price combined with its unavailability.
My wife is unfortunately using her old flip phone for now.
Mainly wanted you to know LG's quote as I'd be more comfortable having LG repair it than someone else, I just didn't want to put more money into phones that I'll be looking to replace soon anyway, and with the Swappa selling price of the G3 being only $50 more than that repair cost.
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Thanks. $150 is what Verizon quoted me for a replacement G3. My issue is, I do not want to buy another phone. I actually love this phone. I'm comfortable with it and it does what I need. And with one daughter in college and the other getting ready to start college next year, I need to save money and I do NOT want to be paying more money a month for a new phone. With this phone just having gotten off contract, by VZW bill dropped $20/month which is nice. That's $240 saved over the course of a year. Might seem like peanuts to some, but for me, every little bit helps.
I've flashed back to 10b again to test out the SD card because it's really annoying that right after the 49A OTA, it started happening. I just can't see that it was already bad but never showed, or that the 49A OTA caused the issue to show up. I'm just wondering if there's something with the 49A OTA that causes this issue. Other people have reported to me that they experienced the exact same issue as me with the SD card constantly ejecting. Maybe the slot IS bad, but it's not as sensitive to it except with the 49A.
I had thought I saw the same issue on 10b, but now for the past couple of hours, I've ran on 10b and haven't seen one issue with the SD card. So, I'm now slowly going up the OTA chain until I can get back to 48A where it last worked without any issues and see what happens there.
I have verified that the SD card is fine. Or at least, it appears so. I copied all the files off of it, did a format, chkdsk, etc and nothing comes up bad about the card.
So, the drama continues on with my phone!
Well, it's been confirmed via another user where vzw told him the latest 49a ota is not compatible with our phone in some instances in regards to the SD card. Last night I flashed back to 10b and I'm back on 48a now and no SD card issues. Zero. I've been going over 12 hours now and not a single unmount. Thanks Verizon. Nice testing. ?
I'm curious if those on 49a not expediting issues with their SD cards if they are on the K or non-k model of the g3?
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Heyy All, (sorry if this is in the wrong section!!!!)
I have a couple of questions.. I wanted to partition my SD card so that apps2sd would work. Here are the steps i took:
Did a nandroid backup
I copied all information from SD card to my computer
rebooted phone into recovery
chose partition SD card - Then upgraded ext2 to ext3
copied and pasted all files back onto the SD card
nandroid restored
in recovery I am able to access all files on the SD card but when i reboot my phone an icon comes up in the notification bar that looks like a SD card with an exclamation point with the error "Blank SD card or unsupported file system"
Can anyone tell me how to fix this? or why my files are no longer on the SD card when I reboot my phone?
Thank you all very much!
You must be running a Froyo-based ROM, which with the "normal" way of partitioning through any kind of recovery, Froyo doesn't recognize the FAT32 partition. You're going to have to search the Eris Dev forum for a thread by Conap called something like "Using old Apps2SD with Froyo".
FYI, no offense if you already know this, but did you know that Froyo's built-in Apps2SD doesn't require partitioning at all, although it has different limitations than the "old" style Apps2SD.
here's a link to the thread that roirraW "edor" ehT is referencing:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=811548
good luck and let us know if you need any other help!
Awesome thank you very much guys!!.. I actually figured it out thought. I just reformatted the card and got rid of the extension. Put all of my files back on and its as good as new!.. Thanks again
I have a problem with my SD card, not sure if partitioning will do anything for it, perhaps mine is corupted some how.
Running KF37, on Sunday my Eris froze up, any apps I had on my SD where unable to open or recognized. My phone was very slow and would not respond very well. I took my SD card out and plugged it into my computer and it would not open (I can't remember the error message) said something like "no contents" . After about an hour I was able to open my SD card and everything was there, so I backed it up. I placed it back in my phone and I still could not get my apps to work, those that are Apps2SD.
Due to the phone freezing up and the battery being extremely hot I had it replaced.
The new Eris, I flashed the latest Nonsensikal, it restored all my apps, but would not allow me to move them to SD. When I went under "manage apps" to list all my apps it showed "computing" instead of their file size. It would fail to move to SD every time. Then I would get a FC of the launcher and only have a black screen with no acess, I could at least see my notification bar and pull that down but that was all I could do on the phone...a reflash of Nonsensikal had no effect to fix this.
So, last night I install KF38, no FC's but I still can't move apps to SD, they fail each time.
I delete everything off my card, reformate it but it doesn't help.
I partitioned it (for the first time...not sure if I didn't it right but I beleive I followed the instructions) and I still can not get Apps2SD.
Any thoughts?
Romparoo said:
I have a problem with my SD card, not sure if partitioning will do anything for it, perhaps mine is corupted some how.
Running KF37, on Sunday my Eris froze up, any apps I had on my SD where unable to open or recognized. My phone was very slow and would not respond very well. I took my SD card out and plugged it into my computer and it would not open (I can't remember the error message) said something like "no contents" . After about an hour I was able to open my SD card and everything was there, so I backed it up. I placed it back in my phone and I still could not get my apps to work, those that are Apps2SD.
Due to the phone freezing up and the battery being extremely hot I had it replaced.
The new Eris, I flashed the latest Nonsensikal, it restored all my apps, but would not allow me to move them to SD. When I went under "manage apps" to list all my apps it showed "computing" instead of their file size. It would fail to move to SD every time. Then I would get a FC of the launcher and only have a black screen with no acess, I could at least see my notification bar and pull that down but that was all I could do on the phone...a reflash of Nonsensikal had no effect to fix this.
So, last night I install KF38, no FC's but I still can't move apps to SD, they fail each time.
I delete everything off my card, reformate it but it doesn't help.
I partitioned it (for the first time...not sure if I didn't it right but I beleive I followed the instructions) and I still can not get Apps2SD.
Any thoughts?
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First, most of the time with Froyo ROMs you don't want to partition the SD card. If you do there's a special way to get it to work with Froyo, but the only reason you would want to partition it is for advanced reasons and nothing having to do with getting Froyo-native Apps2SD working.
Have you gone into Menu/Settings/CyanogenMod settings/Application settings and checked "Allow application moving"?
roirraW "edor" ehT said:
Have you gone into Menu/Settings/CyanogenMod settings/Application settings and checked "Allow application moving"?
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Thanks for responding
Yes, this is not the issue, though I wish it were. I have been running the Froyo rom's for a very long time.
As I tried to explain, life was going great for me and my Eris until Sunday when the little guy froze up and became very laggy. At that point my apps that were on my SD card no longer worked, and when I removed my SD card and plugged it into my computer it would not open for about an hour or so, I got an error message, something like "no content" or something like that.
I did not do anything to my SD card (other than copied the contents to my computer) when I plugged it into my new Eris. I still could not move apps to the SD.
Which at that point I thought that perhaps something happened to it and that I might need to partition it, which I did through recovery, but still no luck.
I am trying to do it via the thread link from this thread via gscripts and connecting it to my pc, but I can't seem to figure it out correctly.
I am not sure why apps wont work or move to the SD. I don't think it is corrupt or damaged because I can access everything on the card, save on it, play music from it, pictures, ect.
I don't want to use a different SD, I bought this 16GB Class 6 only for my phone and I use about 11GB so far.
Eagerly Waiting....
Thanks again.
Romparoo said:
Thanks for responding
Yes, this is not the issue, though I wish it were. I have been running the Froyo rom's for a very long time.
As I tried to explain, life was going great for me and my Eris until Sunday when the little guy froze up and became very laggy. At that point my apps that were on my SD card no longer worked, and when I removed my SD card and plugged it into my computer it would not open for about an hour or so, I got an error message, something like "no content" or something like that.
I did not do anything to my SD card (other than copied the contents to my computer) when I plugged it into my new Eris. I still could not move apps to the SD.
Which at that point I thought that perhaps something happened to it and that I might need to partition it, which I did through recovery, but still no luck.
I am trying to do it via the thread link from this thread via gscripts and connecting it to my pc, but I can't seem to figure it out correctly.
I am not sure why apps wont work or move to the SD. I don't think it is corrupt or damaged because I can access everything on the card, save on it, play music from it, pictures, ect.
I don't want to use a different SD, I bought this 16GB Class 6 only for my phone and I use about 11GB so far.
Eagerly Waiting....
Thanks again.
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Okay, since you said you weren't sure if you partitioned it right, did you choose "0" for the Ext2 and also for the Swap size? That's how you should normally do for use with a Froyo ROM.
I wish I had a Class 6 16GB to play with.
The only GScripts I can think of related to partitions are for if you partition your SD card some other way other than recovery, which is what would be necessary in order to arrange and access the partitions in a way that Froyo can deal with.
After repartitioning your SD card, can you use a Micro SD to USB adapter (not through the phone) to access the contents okay?
If you can but still can't on the phone, then your phone probably is damaged and needs replaced.
I am pretty sure it is the phone, and not my SD card. I tried 3 other SD's and none of them allowed me Apps2SD.
I did get it partitioned finally But that did not help my problem
I am going to try and reflash a ROM and see if that helps, I doubt it at this point.
I am able to flash in recovery but for some reason I can not install apps via Astro that are stored on the SD. I can access content on card but no app access...bizarre
I just unrooted and flashed flashback 2.1 (no sense to continue to root when this phone is going back in a couple days).
As for a replacement, it will be here Monday. Believe it or not, this new replacement, which was a brand new Eris in the box, I activated Wednesday night overheats as well Yesterday I picked it up off my desk and the back was very hot (just like it's predecessor on Sunday) and the awake time was more than 100%. So Asurion is sending yet again another Eris, this will be my 6 Eris. So I will see how this replacement goes.
As for the Eris, I called Verizon about Asurion who did offer me 2 alternatives to the Eris, the LG Vortex and the Moto Devour (not comparable IMO), the tech rep at Verizon I spoke with agree with me that both alternatives are not comparable and that I should have been given the option for the Incredible since it is the next version after the Eris in my same manufacture line. So I called Asurion back who then asked me to call Monday when my Eris arrives so they can verify with a higher supervisor to ship me out the Incredible. If I do end up with the Incredible I hope there are some good ROMS for it.
Romparoo said:
I am pretty sure it is the phone, and not my SD card. I tried 3 other SD's and none of them allowed me Apps2SD.
I did get it partitioned finally But that did not help my problem
I am going to try and reflash a ROM and see if that helps, I doubt it at this point.
I am able to flash in recovery but for some reason I can not install apps via Astro that are stored on the SD. I can access content on card but no app access...bizarre
I just unrooted and flashed flashback 2.1 (no sense to continue to root when this phone is going back in a couple days).
As for a replacement, it will be here Monday. Believe it or not, this new replacement, which was a brand new Eris in the box, I activated Wednesday night overheats as well Yesterday I picked it up off my desk and the back was very hot (just like it's predecessor on Sunday) and the awake time was more than 100%. So Asurion is sending yet again another Eris, this will be my 6 Eris. So I will see how this replacement goes.
As for the Eris, I called Verizon about Asurion who did offer me 2 alternatives to the Eris, the LG Vortex and the Moto Devour (not comparable IMO), the tech rep at Verizon I spoke with agree with me that both alternatives are not comparable and that I should have been given the option for the Incredible since it is the next version after the Eris in my same manufacture line. So I called Asurion back who then asked me to call Monday when my Eris arrives so they can verify with a higher supervisor to ship me out the Incredible. If I do end up with the Incredible I hope there are some good ROMS for it.
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I'm sorry to hear about your rotten luck and that we weren't able to solve it. We'll be sorry to lose another Eris user but I hope they get you the Incredible. I haven't looked but I'm sure the Incredible has some comparable ROMs available for it. It certainly doesn't hurt that it's more powerful.
Good luck!
Hi,
Over the last week, I've had two SD cards die on me:
The first card I've had since I got my i9300 S3 (13 months). Prior to last week, it worked flawlessly (KomputerBay 32GB class 6). Then suddenly after rebooting I see an SD card damaged error. After trying chkdsk and fsck it looks like the card is certainly damaged but was able to recover some of the files.
Thinking it was just bad luck and the card dying, I purchased a 32gb class 10 Lexar card brand new. In the meantime, I used a 4GB Samsung SD card that came with the S3 for approximately 5 days and it worked fine with no errors or corruption.
With the new card, I copied over all my files, music etc. After an overnight using the phone, some calling etc. I rebooted the phone only to get the same error. Windows didn't even recognise the card let alone recover it. fsck likewise. Did a full format again and restored some files from original backup, it's been less than 24 hours and so far so good but I am not ready to relax just yet.
I'm really baffled as to what could be causing it as the card seems only to fail after a reboot. Prior to then, the card displays as mounted in system settings and files are accessible. The only other strange thing I've noticed is that when playing music/podcasts and turning off the screen the playback jitters for a moment or two before returning to normal. This started quite recently. I'm using UltimaROM 13.0 at the moment with Boeffla kernel. Have disabled all SD related optimisations and have no CPU or GPU overclocking or undervolting. I've been using Ultima for months with no major config changes recently.
I'm at the point now where I am almost scared to reboot! Last time I rebooted I unmounted the SD just in case. The only other possible difference in behaviour is that as I was travelling I had my phone on charge all night and although I can't be 100% sure rebooted with the phone charging (though again, its not the first time I've rebooted while charging). I've googled this far and wide and most SD related issues seem to be caused by the card randomly unmounting. I've never seen this in my instance.
Any ideas on what this might be or what I could do to troubleshoot further? I don't want to restore to stock, unroot, reset counters etc. and return to Samsung unless I can be at least reasonably confident its a hardware issue.
Thanks,
thegrantonstarcause said:
Hi,
Over the last week, I've had two SD cards die on me:
The first card I've had since I got my i9300 S3 (13 months). Prior to last week, it worked flawlessly (KomputerBay 32GB class 6). Then suddenly after rebooting I see an SD card damaged error. After trying chkdsk and fsck it looks like the card is certainly damaged but was able to recover some of the files.
Thinking it was just bad luck and the card dying, I purchased a 32gb class 10 Lexar card brand new. In the meantime, I used a 4GB Samsung SD card that came with the S3 for approximately 5 days and it worked fine with no errors or corruption.
With the new card, I copied over all my files, music etc. After an overnight using the phone, some calling etc. I rebooted the phone only to get the same error. Windows didn't even recognise the card let alone recover it. fsck likewise. Did a full format again and restored some files from original backup, it's been less than 24 hours and so far so good but I am not ready to relax just yet.
I'm really baffled as to what could be causing it as the card seems only to fail after a reboot. Prior to then, the card displays as mounted in system settings and files are accessible. The only other strange thing I've noticed is that when playing music/podcasts and turning off the screen the playback jitters for a moment or two before returning to normal. This started quite recently. I'm using UltimaROM 13.0 at the moment with Boeffla kernel. Have disabled all SD related optimisations and have no CPU or GPU overclocking or undervolting. I've been using Ultima for months with no major config changes recently.
I'm at the point now where I am almost scared to reboot! Last time I rebooted I unmounted the SD just in case. The only other possible difference in behaviour is that as I was travelling I had my phone on charge all night and although I can't be 100% sure rebooted with the phone charging (though again, its not the first time I've rebooted while charging). I've googled this far and wide and most SD related issues seem to be caused by the card randomly unmounting. I've never seen this in my instance.
Any ideas on what this might be or what I could do to troubleshoot further? I don't want to restore to stock, unroot, reset counters etc. and return to Samsung unless I can be at least reasonably confident its a hardware issue.
Thanks,
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Have you read the other SD Kill thread? Should come up in a search
rootSU said:
Have you read the other SD Kill thread? Should come up in a search
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Do you mean http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1906058 ? If so, yes though the key difference for me is that my card doesn't seem to randomly unmount like most reports indicate. Also, it's very recent. Don't also see any possible solutions in there unless I'm missing something?
Hi All,
Anyone have issues with their sdcard being detected with the G5? I have an 850 and a lot of the time the sdcard stops working or being detected and i cant see why. A reboot and then waiting 20 mins usually fixes it and it shows up in the storage section but its getting annoying.. May have to try another card to see what the story is with that but for now i wondered if anyone else had drama with it.
Cheers
Cass
Maybe the card is dying i would suggest backing up the data just to be safe
No problem with mine
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Backed up and reformated the card on pc as ntfs. Card detected on insert, it told me it was corrupt, which it was due to no ntfs support and it formatted it again as exFat. Lets see how it goes now.
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Backed up and reformated the card on pc as ntfs. Card detected on insert, it told me it was corrupt, which it was due to no ntfs support and it formatted it again as exFat. Lets see how it goes now.
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This seems to be frequent to a certain extent. This is a hardware issue. Same with S7 Edge or non-Edge (visit page: digitaltrends.com/mobile/galaxy-s7-edge-problems/8/
It seems that LG has the same issue. It could also be an Android 6 issue.
I got my new S7. I have sent to other one for repair. They changed the motherboard. Then it came back with the same issue. Then Samsung sent me a bran new S7. I have no more SD card notifications at all. Not even when I reboot the phone. Yesterday (again) I was listening to music (a set of 2 hours long) from my SD card. I started to look at pictures (again) at the same time. After 40 mins or so, my phone stopped the music and stopped being able to read my SD. Everything froze and I had to reboot. Then, again, a few mins later (listening to music and looking at pictures), it did it again. On the second time, I was not able to reboot the phone using the power button (keeping pressure for 10 seconds). I had to do it using the volume down/home/power. The phone screen was totally black and there was no way to unfreeze it. My notification light was flashing blue (as I had new emails and text), but the phone was not responsive at all.
It seems like Samsung just removed the SD notification as a whole in the new phone but did not fix the issue.
For those who don't have the issue, before commenting, I would appreciate if you could listen to music and look at your pictures at the same time (all from the micro SD card) for at least 30-40 minutes.
I strongly believe that ALL phones have this issue, but that those who don't just have not access pictures while listening to music (demanding on the SD card reading). Do it if you can... and see if it creates problems. And let me know once you did the above.
I forgot to mention. I am a computer and smartphone savy. I flashed all my S1, S2, S3, S4 on a daily basis. I did purchased another SD card (even if my sandisk is working perfectly on my S5). I got a Samsung evo 64gm. The issue remains on both SD cards, and before you comment about it, YES i did reformat on multiple occasions both with my pc AND within the phone. I also did factory reset on multiple occasions. So it is not the SD's the problem. Just trust, I did everything possible.
I have the g5 se and have bought a 128gb card (actually have 3) but none of the 3 work with this phone and when i manage to get the files (music) on the sd when in device it deletes them all is this still the issue people are having
First off, this may be a dupe from another thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-lg-g3/general/vs985-ota-updated-to-49a-11-11-t3498269), but I wanted it as main topic so that what was discovered does not go unnoticed by people who may not read the entire thread. Maybe someone can sticky this as well since this is a major issue with the 49A OTA?
Last week, I took the 49A OTA for the G3. I have an older model (non-K model) and immediately, upon rebooting, I started getting multiple SD card ejection notifications. It would unmount and remount my SD Card several times throughout the day. This would happen at random times, although my feeling was that it occurred whenever an app attempted to read and/or write to the SD card. Sometimes, after it unmounted, it would take anywhere from a few minutes to maybe an hour or more to remount it without rebooting.
This continued on throughout the week as I waited to see if it would clear up. It didn't. A factory data reset didn't help and one time, I saw a SIM card failure. Posting in the forums, it was a few days later that @nulloverride posted this very important tid bit of information:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=69676134&postcount=17
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I actually just spoke with Verizon's support people. It turns out the device is not compatible with the latest Android updates. Maybe going back to square one with it will fix the problem, but they said they would give me a new device with the updates disabled until the problem is fixed. I don't know if that means I'll have to give them the new phone back when the updates are working or what. I'm kind of partial to this one, now. But I do know that possibly bricking my phone with this KDZ or TOT stuff is a less appealing option than getting a free replacement and/or upgrade. I'll find out more tomorrow.
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I have since flashed back to 48A via a 10B TOT flash. The reason I did this is to see if the error would show up in any of the other OTAs. They didn't. I have been on 48A since November 17th, and not ONE, I repeat, not ONE single SD card error has appeared. I have gone to 49A twice and both times, as soon as I get to 49A, SD card errors start popping up. And the SD card is fine (reformatted, did a full disk check on it). Any SD card I put in resulted in the error, and now with @nulloverride stating what he learned from the VZW rep pretty much confirms that the 49A OTA is the culprit.
So, I would state for anyone considering taking the 49A OTA to refrain from it. I've added a poll to see what the demographic is across K and non-K models of the VS985.
Again, this might be a dupe, but I feel it should be a main topic so that more people see it.
UPDATE #1 (11/21/2016):
Well guess what. No sooner do I post this and I get the dreaded "SD Card has been unmounted", but it remounted it right up. However, it occurred when I attempt to launch two apps that had just updated over the weekend that I hadn't launched since they were updated:
1. Google Opinion Rewards
2. Google Play Music
Both times, when I launched each app, I saw the SD card was unmounted but then it was remounted immediately without any issues. I'm wondering if these apps have been updated with new permissions and needed to remount the SD card? Maybe this is part of some new functionality? It does appear under 49A that maybe that is what is going on, however for me it causes the phone to have a "seizure" (as I like to say) and may not remount successfully for some reason. Strange. But, this time, under 48A, it mounted the card both times pretty quickly without any issue. So maybe this is normal when it works but under 49A, something is broken where it can't remount for some reason? Other than that, I have NOT seen this at all, so I wonder if in this case, it's an app issue (since both apps were recently updated). Not sure if the Rewards app needs access to the SD card, but I do have my music on the SD card, so Google Play Music would need to access the music from there.
UPDATE #2 (11/22/2016):
Switched SD cards and it happened again. Switched to a 2gb card. OUCH! So far, no issues. Wondering if it was the SD card all along? Upgraded to 49A since then and so far (fingers crossed) no issues. But, that's how it was before. This 2gb card is old, but hasn't been used much so hopefully, there aren't any bad areas. Surprised doing a chkdsk on the other SD cards didn't bring up anything. Will continue to monitor and update as I find more info.
Tekcafe rom VS98549A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FxIk7x-CaE
I've talked about this in another thread, forgetting I had this thread.
I have determined that in Safe Mode, I experience no issues with my SD card being unmounted unexpectedly. Once I boot back into Normal (Unsafe?) Mode, boom. SD Card becomes unmounted.
Something with the 49A OTA has broken something within the phone. This does NOT appear to be a hardware problem. But, the issue persists across ALL versions of the software (10b through 49A).
I called into Verizon today and they searched and saw that, as I already knew, I'm not the only one with this issue with this phone after the 49A OTA. She stated they are looking into the issue to resolve it. She's getting ready to patch me directly in with LG so we can discuss if they know what is going on. Seems like a firmware update issue that even a 10B TOT flash won't fix because it might be in a protected area of the phone that only the OTAs can update.
Also, I notice that 2 others have voted in the poll and are experiencing this issue and they are like me in that they have the older non-K model of the phone.
Okay. LG was of NO help. They said I could send my phone in and they would do a diagnostic and they have a way to flash it back to the way it was before the 49A OTA. Yeah, so do I which is 10B, etc. None of those work. Oh, and I would have to pay for any repairs as it's out of warranty.
I told her this was due to an official OTA. So basically, they can send out updates to out-of-warranty phones that break them, yet I would have to pay for any repairs? Sorry. That doesn't fly in my book.
Verizon said that they know of the issue and are looking into it, so I'll wait and see because if that is true, and they do come up with a fix, then I'm definitely going to wait because this phone has been great, and still is for me.
Now, if they want to send me a completely new phone free-of-charge and I turn this one in after I get the new one, yeah. I'll do that. And by new, I mean a replacement G3, preferably not refurbed. Heck, I'll take the K model because I won't root or flash back to 10b. I haven't for almost a year, except to try and debug this SD card issue I've been having since the 49A OTA.
In any case, anybody else that is having this issue, if you haven't already done so, reboot into safe mode. This is how you do it:
Power off the phone
Press and hold power + volume down until you see the menu
Choose Safe Mode and boot into it.
Once in Safe Mode, do things that would require writing and/or reading to/from your SD card (such as storing pictures from your camera on it). Copy files to your SD card, delete them, etc. Stay in that mode for as long as you can (you can still receive phone calls and text messages as well as make calls and send messages). You won't have access to any downloaded apps until you boot out of safe mode.
I want to know if this works for everyone, and then when they boot back into normal mode, if their SD card issues come back.
I've inspected the SD card slot. It is NOT damaged in any way. All pins are there and are in good condition. I think safe mode proves that. If this were a hardware failure, it should occur in safe mode and it doesn't. Something the 49A OTA updated (probably in a protected area of the firmware) is causing this and even flashing back to older versions doesn't overwrite that protected area. But for some reason, when in Safe Mode, it's either ignoring that area, or it's something else in the firmware that was updated that Safe Mode bypasses.
Okay, another update on my plight on figuring this out. I decided to uninstall two apps. Not sure why I chose them, but I did:
Greenify (mine I donated but I'm not rooted)
Nova Launcher (paid for)
I removed Nova because in Safe Mode, I'm running the default LG Home launcher. Greenify (even though it's not in root mode) I decided to remove since it's supposed to hibernate background processes.
Once I removed both, it appears so far that the problems have gone away. I haven't installed either one yet, but I will and I'll update what I find. If it's Greenify, then it must be something it's doing, which I find a little strange, but maybe the 49A update "broke" something in Greenify? If it's Nova, then again, something is going on with that.
I'm going to run without either app for the next day or so to see what happens. The thing I cannot understand is, I had ran without using either app I believe after factory resetting and still the problem persisted. So this might be a false positive for me. Definitely, safe mode the problem does not persist as I left my phone in safe mode for about 2 hours.
UPDATE: Okay. Apparently it wasn't Nova or Greenify as it started happening again after awhile. Safe Mode still cures it for some reason. It never umounts in Safe Mode, but once I reboot out of Safe Mode, it unmounts. So I guess we wait and see what Verizon/LG have to say about this, if anything. Not holding out too much hope though.
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Also, I notice that 2 others have voted in the poll and are experiencing this issue and they are like me in that they have the older non-K model of the phone.
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I'm one of the ones who voted. I'm sorry, I misread the poll. I am NOT having any issues with my SD Card slot after the 49A update. Sorry for the confusion.
dmoney98 said:
I'm one of the ones who voted. I'm sorry, I misread the poll. I am NOT having any issues with my SD Card slot after the 49A update. Sorry for the confusion.
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No biggie. Are you on a k model or non k model of the vs985?
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No biggie. Are you on a k model or non k model of the vs985?
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I am on the non-k model of vs985.
Dammit. Wish i would have read this before giving away my 128gb sd card. I thought it was just another failing piece of hardware.
First it was the internal mic.
Next the aux port.
Now the sd card slot.
So much for an upgrade from my unbreakable G2.
Time to revert to 12b and get my card back. Thanks OP!
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afextwin said:
Dammit. Wish i would have read this before giving away my 128gb sd card. I thought it was just another failing piece of hardware.
First it was the internal mic.
Next the aux port.
Now the sd card slot.
So much for an upgrade from my unbreakable G2.
Time to revert to 12b and get my card back. Thanks OP!
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I have no idea if it truly is an issue with the update or people's phones just started to miraculously start to fail after taking the OTA. I'm hoping it's the former and that there is a fix for this. In cany case, sorry to hear you gave away your SD card, but it sounds like you have more than just the SD card issue. I'm only having an SD card issue. No other failures. Your's definitely sounds like hardware failures with the list you gave and I doubt it's due to the upgrade.
I'm about ready to flash to a non-stock ROM to see if that might cure the issue.
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I have no idea if it truly is an issue with the update or people's phones just started to miraculously start to fail after taking the OTA. I'm hoping it's the former and that there is a fix for this. In cany case, sorry to hear you gave away your SD card, but it sounds like you have more than just the SD card issue. I'm only having an SD card issue. No other failures. Your's definitely sounds like hardware failures with the list you gave and I doubt it's due to the upgrade.
I'm about ready to flash to a non-stock ROM to see if that might cure the issue.
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This might be unnecessary for me to remind you but I definitely recommend flashing the 10B TOT before testing to see if a custom ROM solves it, and if you decide to go back to fully stock I'd flash the 10B TOT once again beforehand.
Edit: Of course I forgot you're running completely stock, in which case flashing the TOT before will be necessary in order to root, etc, anyway.
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This might be unnecessary for me to remind you but I definitely recommend flashing the 10B TOT before testing to see if a custom ROM solves it, and if you decide to go back to fully stock I'd flash the 10B TOT once again beforehand.
Edit: Of course I forgot you're running completely stock, in which case flashing the TOT before will be necessary in order to root, etc, anyway.
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LOL. No biggie. I'm thinking of trying it just to see if the issue goes away, but if the 49A did touch a protected area that I cannot flash over, and that is the main reason why I see this issue across all version of the stock image, going to AOSP-based probably won't help, but it's still worth a look.
I guess what I need to do is backup my apps with LG backup, flash back to 10B, root, restore from LG Backup, then use TiBu to back up. Ugh! I know there is an LG Backup tool in the Google Play store, but I don't know if it will work from non-stock based ROMs.
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LOL. No biggie. I'm thinking of trying it just to see if the issue goes away, but if the 49A did touch a protected area that I cannot flash over, and that is the main reason why I see this issue across all version of the stock image, going to AOSP-based probably won't help, but it's still worth a look.
I guess what I need to do is backup my apps with LG backup, flash back to 10B, root, restore from LG Backup, then use TiBu to back up. Ugh! I know there is an LG Backup tool in the Google Play store, but I don't know if it will work from non-stock based ROMs.
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As far as I know, the only LG Backup we can use is the one built into the stock ROMs. The one in the Play Store, unless there's another I'm unaware of, is for using on a non-LG device to move some of your data to an LG device, and according to the picture in the Play Store, looks like it has to happen between two different devices because they connect either directly via USB or wirelessly to do the transfer.
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As far as I know, the only LG Backup we can use is the one built into the stock ROMs. The one in the Play Store, unless there's another I'm unaware of, is for using on a non-LG device to move some of your data to an LG device, and according to the picture in the Play Store, looks like it has to happen between two different devices because they connect either directly via USB or wirelessly to do the transfer.
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Looks like Backup in 49A, revert to 10b, restore in 10b, root, TiBu it, flash AOSP ROM.
10b through 48A all show the same symptom. Might definitely be a hardware issue for me, but I find it really odd that as SOON as I upgraded to 49A, that's when my problems started. Never, I mean, never had one single issue with my SD card up until that point.
Still waiting to hear back from "possible solutions" to my issue from VZW. I have a feeling is "We can get you a discounted upgrade". Nope, nada, no way. If you broke it, you fix it for free, VZW.
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Looks like Backup in 49A, revert to 10b, restore in 10b, root, TiBu it, flash AOSP ROM.
10b through 48A all show the same symptom. Might definitely be a hardware issue for me, but I find it really odd that as SOON as I upgraded to 49A, that's when my problems started. Never, I mean, never had one single issue with my SD card up until that point.
Still waiting to hear back from "possible solutions" to my issue from VZW. I have a feeling is "We can get you a discounted upgrade". Nope, nada, no way. If you broke it, you fix it for free, VZW.
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It was the same deal for myself (and for others) with my wife's SIM slot, except 49A wasn't even out yet, and she was on @xdabbeb 's VS985 v3.1.1 ROM. It's just ironic since although I haven't taken my SIM out a lot on my own G3, hers might've only been taken out once or twice since she got her phone. Never any hint of trouble and all of the sudden it no worky.
Since I've heard that the SIM slot is a common problem on the G3, and that the SIM and Micro SD card slot are both together, it could be that they're both just flaky. I certainly feel more secure with the SIM and Micro SD card trays, rather than slots.
By the way, I personally always had a lot of trouble using Titanium Backup on the G3 (and my my previous Galaxy S3). Especially for restores, always took a bunch of restarting to get everything restored. I'm guessing it has to do with such a custom framework because (not to be OT) on my HTC 10, which is very close to stock Android, and even a custom ROM based on the stock HTC Android, Titanium Backup was back to being completely dependable.
As many may know, I no longer have the G3. It died last week, so I'm now on the Samsung S7. It would still be interesting to see if Verizon does issue a fix IF the OTA is indeed what caused the SD card issue. But now I'm beginning to think my issue was hardware failure. I guess it was just blind luck/coincidence that right after the 49A OTA, that's when my SD card slot started to fail.
I wasn't able to use the SD card that I used in this phone, thinking I needed a newer rom. Installed: Tesla 5.1.1 ROM, TWRP 3.0.2.0, SuperSU 2.79. When I go to recovery the notification light flashes red/blue. My goal with this dinosaur is to use it for a music player, nothing else. I am no longer with VZW. Do I need a carrier to make this work? Is there a tool like I have with my N6P? What info do you need from me to make this happen? Happy Holidays!
PS: I cannot factory reset from settings, TWRP app or flashify.
TIA
Meth
Download mode and the 10B TOT.
TIA
Straight into the phone, or through the LG installer?
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Download mode and the 10B TOT.
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Straight into the phone, or through the LG installer?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=69287997&postcount=6
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I was able to return to stock. The microSD card is formatted FAT32 it was formatted exFAT before. The phone still cannot see microSD card, what gives. I am able to see it in other hardware (WIN10 desktop and MP3 player)
What gives?
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I was able to return to stock. The microSD card is formatted FAT32 it was formatted exFAT before. The phone still cannot see microSD card, what gives. I am able to see it in other hardware (WIN10 desktop and MP3 player)
What gives?
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Maybe your MicroSD card slot has gone bad. There've been at least several others that have had something similar happen over the past few months. For my wife's VS985, the SIM slot just all of the sudden went bad. LG wanted $75 to repair it, it would probably be the same for the MicroSD slot since they're together.
Do you have another card to test with it just in case? Did you format it from the phone? If not I would recommend trying that.
I'll have to dig. I don't know if do
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Another card, nothing, invisible.
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Another card, nothing, invisible.
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I'd say the SD card slot is dead then. That's what happened to mine. It would constantly unmount it and then remount it and then it would stop remounting and I wouldn't be able to see it.
Then, it just died altogether. So, that's what I'm thinking is going on with your phone. If the SD card is visible in other devices but not the G3, the SD card slot has gone bad.
I took the phone into a Cell Phone Repair (CPR+) shop and they quoted me $60 if I remember correctly, but they also said that there was a 50/50 chance that after the replacement, the phone might not turn back on. I chose to live without the SD card as I needed the phone.
LG quoted me the same price as @roirraW "edor" ehT got, and yet I would be without a phone for almost two weeks. Decided it wasn't worth it, so I lived without the SD card for over 2 weeks and then it died altogether. :crying:
Loved the G3, but loving my S7 right now.
It seems that LG quality has gotten questionable. This G3 D851 / AT&T variant randomly dismounts the card, giving a warning against removing the card without first dismounting. Sometimes it will remount, others it won't, necessitating removal and chkdsk'ing it w/ a pc. Situation was worse with stock rom. Now running Fulmics, which seems to have improved the situation somewhat.
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It seems that LG quality has gotten questionable. This G3 D851 / AT&T variant randomly dismounts the card, giving a warning against removing the card without first dismounting. Sometimes it will remount, others it won't, necessitating removal and chkdsk'ing it w/ a pc. Situation was worse with stock rom. Now running Fulmics, which seems to have improved the situation somewhat.
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Quality or not, that's definitely a sign of the SD Slot starting to fail. When this first happened to me, I had just updated to the latest 49A OTA. Going back to 10b or even 48A appeared to fix the issue. I say appeared, because within a few weeks, it started to show up in any version of Android for the G3 I ran and it got progressively worse as time went on, until finally in December, the phone died. Whether it's a battery issue or not, I cannot say as I refuse to shell out money for a new battery (and since I now have a brand new S7 to boot).
It would be interesting to know how long this lasts for you. Again, for me, it appeared to work when I went back to older versions, but eventually, even they started to do the same thing. I think it's definitely a sign of the hardware failing.
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Quality or not, that's definitely a sign of the SD Slot starting to fail. When this first happened to me, I had just updated to the latest 49A OTA. Going back to 10b or even 48A appeared to fix the issue. I say appeared, because within a few weeks, it started to show up in any version of Android for the G3 I ran and it got progressively worse as time went on, until finally in December, the phone died. Whether it's a battery issue or not, I cannot say as I refuse to shell out money for a new battery (and since I now have a brand new S7 to boot).
It would be interesting to know how long this lasts for you. Again, for me, it appeared to work when I went back to older versions, but eventually, even they started to do the same thing. I think it's definitely a sign of the hardware failing.
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I think it's a hardware fail. I resurrected a note 2 from the drawer. It's going now 😬
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