i rember about a couple of years ago there was a device that was like a little external hdd for your phone that u can add on and tape to the out side of yor phone http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/340/C6598/ well i was wondering if they can make something like this. isnt it possible for someone to make like a really thin sd card reader so we can add a second 4gb sd card and stuff it behind the battery cover.
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Hi All,
My micro SD slot seems to be broken (
Does anyone know how to fix these? I think one of the lugs that holds the metal cage on has snapped - quite how, I dont know. It means it is only held on in 3 sides
This means that it isnt recognising any SD card I put in it - which sort of kills the whole idea of the phone for me... 64mb isnt enough!
Thanks in advance for any ideas
If this is the wrong from then please move it but my problem is that the card reader is having a hard time reading my memory card. It will only read it if I put it all the way in and hold it in with my nail.
Not even sure how this happened. I took the card out to load some cabs onto it and when I stuck it back in it didn't read it. I thought it was the card itself until I tried another card.
So right now I have the card in there and I've got a piece of paper in there propping it up for a tight fit. Is there any way to repair this? Not exactly sure which part of the slot has the problem. (pins or walls?)
Anyhow anybody had a similar issue and if so, how did you solve it?
Thanks.
Came to the conclusion that there is a connection issue with the phone to the card slot. I guess the paper wedge + WM5Storage will have to suite me.
You could take apart and see if there is anything you can see wrong... Heres the service manual for disassmbly :http://michael-channon.spaces.live.com/PersonalSpace.aspx?_c02_owner=1
Cheers...
PS. This will void warranty....
Some pins maybe miss align.
Anyone know why HTC decided to go with that really weird design for the SD card? It's such a pain in the Ass =( why not just a normal slot.
I imagine that to help make the phone thinner they brought it to the inside. I also imagine they figure that with 32gb cards getting cheaper, more and more people will just "set it and forget it." All this is purely speculation though.
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I really wish the SD card was more accessible. If it was a spring loaded slot feed on the side of the phone, for example.
It would be nice to swap cards and have one card for "ipod mode", one with some movies or tv shows and one for general use, for example.
Even having to pop the battery cover would be OK, but having to remove the battery is a showstopper.
dadewy said:
I really wish the SD card was more accessible. If it was a spring loaded slot feed on the side of the phone, for example.
It would be nice to swap cards and have one card for "ipod mode", one with some movies or tv shows and one for general use, for example.
Even having to pop the battery cover would be OK, but having to remove the battery is a showstopper.
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Maybe the required removal of the battery thing is to make sure that you don't eject the SDCard while writing to it/reading from it or anything like that.
I dunno.
I'd love a more accessible design too.
catachresistant said:
Maybe the required removal of the battery thing is to make sure that you don't eject the SDCard while writing to it/reading from it or anything like that.
I dunno.
I'd love a more accessible design too.
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I thought of that too... ideally, we could have the device sense when the battery cover is off and umount the sdcard at that point.
The question remains what to do if the sdcard is busy at the time. I guess the same problem exists when attaching the usb cord in "drive" mode, and that seems to work OK, so do whatever it does
Oh well, nice to speculate but we're stuck with the current (crap) design.
Hmm or are we? Flex ribbon cable to make the sdcard external anyone? I can't think of an elegant way to do this, unfortunately, there's no room between the battery and battery cover, that's for sure.
How do I remove the card from the phone to replace it? Seems like the text "microSD" is getting in the way of the card sliding out from the slot. Is there some trick that I should know? (First phone that I've not been able to switch cards with).
Thanks in advance for not laughing at me. I realize this should be easy, but the card doesn't have a push-remove feature and extracting it by gently pulling at the "lip" isn't working either.
That's strange, if I push mine in, it will pop right out. Don't know what to tell you. Maybe something else has gotten lodged in to the slot with the sd card?
I know the first time I tried to pull my SD card out, I had a really difficult time getting it out, after pushing it in.
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Is it the 16gb that came with the DIncII?
One of my smaller (2gb) cards has a "label" that covers some contacts near the griping area of the card.
No idea why that isn't just a thin layer of some form of epoxy like other cards.
I just use it in an adapter with my Cannon camera.
When you finally get it out of there, if it's not the one that came with the phone then look for a label to remove and put a VERY thin coat of nail polish (clear) over anything that might need it.
Careful not to get any on the data contacts.
And be sure to let it dry for a long time before you put it back in.
Better yet, unless it's the only card you will ever own, get a new one.
Most of these cards have a lifetime warranty.
If it's the one that came with your phone, get on with VZW and have them send a new one.
If the card you are using has no catch tab, then you should NOT put it in this type of device.
It was made for a camera or something that uses an adapter that does NOT have a catch mechanism.
Like the old pushbutton radios that you could pull the button to preset the station, but if you push more than one button at one time you could snap the string.
The catch lock may have locked against the area of the card where the tab should be.
And as stated check the slot for things in there that should NOT be in there.
Like the broken off tab from a card that was pulled out.
Or an eyelash would even mess things up.
Anytime I remove my card I allays "puff n spit" (suck like taking a toke and spit AWAY from the device) before and after removal.
No telling what might have crawled around the slot.
The worst thing to do is to blow things INTO the slot.
Hope that helps..
As the title says, my S3 will no longer hold the SIM card. The spring just keeps popping the SIM card back out.
Does anyone know how I could play a bit of operation to just disable the spring?
I just want to get a few more weeks out of my s3 until the new nexus 5
arasarn said:
As the title says, my S3 will no longer hold the SIM card. The spring just keeps popping the SIM card back out.
Does anyone know how I could play a bit of operation to just disable the spring?
I just want to get a few more weeks out of my s3 until the new nexus 5
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I had a phone where the microSD slot stopped working right. A piece of business card trimmed to the right size to slip into the tray along with the SD card added just enough tension to hold the SD card in place without becoming hopelessly wedged. Something similar might work for this if you can find the right thickness card. Good luck.
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I had a phone where the microSD slot stopped working right. A piece of business card trimmed to the right size to slip into the tray along with the SD card added just enough tension to hold the SD card in place without becoming hopelessly wedged. Something similar might work for this if you can find the right thickness card. Good luck.
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I wound up electrical taping it into place.
Hopefully that holds for a while...
Nope. That worked for about five minutes. Back to the drawing board.
I folded up a piece of tape and used it with more tape, to jam everything in tight together. Seams to have lasted ten minutes now.
I had the same problem and did this.
Samsung Galaxy S3 I747- (AT&T) SIM Card/ Micro SD Memory Card Slot Holder Flex Cable Replacement Kit
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arasarn said:
As the title says, my S3 will no longer hold the SIM card. The spring just keeps popping the SIM card back out.
Does anyone know how I could play a bit of operation to just disable the spring?
I just want to get a few more weeks out of my s3 until the new nexus 5
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For anyone that comes across this in the future (or if you still need a solution):
At the bottom of the SD card slot (while holding the phone upright) there is a small spring which is responsible for pushing the card out. You can pull the spring out with a small phillips screw driver, knife or other thin point.
At the bottom right of the SD card slot there is a small tab like feature. Bend this up, and put your screw driver downwards into this small hole. Now pry the spring out. It will take a few attempts, and it will definitely help if you use a flashlight and look to see whats going on in there.