I can see the sd card cover on the side but I'm not sure how to remove it. I already took the back cover off the phone. Can someone show me the proper to remove this cover?
just pry it out with your fingernail.. from the back.
its hinge is towards the top part.
I recall watching an unboxing video and the reviewer mentioned it's much easier to remove the SD card cover if you remove the battery cover first (which defeats the purpose of having the SD card cover, unfortunately).
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I can see the sd card cover on the side but I'm not sure how to remove it. I already took the back cover off the phone. Can someone show me the proper to remove this cover?
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It took me awhile too. I thought I was going to break it.
With the batt cover off, you'll see a little red arrow next to one side of the SD Cover. The side with the arrow will pull completely out (gotta pull a bit harder then you'd expect). The other side stays in (and has a flexible leg).
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When you remove the battery cover, you’ll see the SIM card slot and next to it a metal cover that’s just about the right size for a memory card. The cover is secured by the phone’s backing that is riddled with tiny screws with "VOID" stickers covering them. You also have several metal tabs/hooks that pinch into the backing to help hold it in place plus, what appears to be, a plastic rivet holding things down as well. On top of all that, there’s no mention of accessing the microSD card slot in the User’s Manual.
i keep getting a notification telling me that my SD card is ready to unmount, although ive not actually selected unmount SD card. When i then select mount SD card it only stays mounted for a few seconds before i get the notification again. Does anybody know the cause of this and how i can stop it?
Check the back cover
And make sure its properly closed
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Theres a tab in the top middle of the back cover, if its not properly supressed the SD card will keep unmounting...
Push down fairly hard and make sure the cover is on completly.
Make sure the back cover is properly mounted press it along the edges
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Theres a tab in the top middle of the back cover, if its not properly supressed the SD card will keep unmounting...
Push down fairly hard and make sure the cover is on completly.
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I had this problem for two whole days when I first got it!
Why do android phones have the silly back sensor?
Had it as well on the first day - was too scared to break the back cover and did not push it in properly all the way - now I just press it firmly along all the edges and don't have a problem
The easiest way to put on the back cover is to slide out the game pad first, then press along the edges
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aaaaargh why would SE do something like that ?!?! i have just had the worst 30 minutes of my life thinking of smashing the phone after bazillion mounts and unmounts...and countless reboots..after upgrading my 8gig card to twice the size...does anyone have a reasonable explanation on why is the @#$%^&* button there?
Further than that thank you all for helping me out of this misery you guys really saved me
SE probably thought: main reason to open back cover is to swap SD card!
Unsafely removing SD card might mean loss of data though
let's automagicly have the SD card unmounted when the back is open!
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SE probably thought: main reason to open back cover is to swap SD card!
Unsafely removing SD card might mean loss of data though
let's automagicly have the SD card unmounted when the back is open!
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Makes sense to me, however I do wonder, if the back cover wasn't so flimsy and light, making myself included have a fear of snapping it , if the original poster would have had this sd card issue in the first place?
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making it flimsy it what actually prevents from breaking when you let it fall or hit a corner when it's in your pants. It bends a little and absorbs the impact. Flimsy material often is very light and besides that a lot of people are actually complaining about the phone being to have so possibly every gram mattered.
Personally I would prefer a heavier/bulkier phone (a thick battery with extra big back cover should ariver shortly ).
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making it flimsy it what actually prevents from breaking when you let it fall or hit a corner when it's in your pants. It bends a little and absorbs the impact. Flimsy material often is very light and besides that a lot of people are actually complaining about the phone being to have so possibly every gram mattered.
Personally I would prefer a heavier/bulkier phone (a thick battery with extra big back cover should ariver shortly ).
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Heavier phones are harder to slip out of your hand. Unfortunately, they are also more prone to taking damage.
I find the plastic back easy to hold, and the curvature helps.
Metal backings are harder to break, but they are easier to drop, and get dented.
All in all, I really like the way SE designed the Play.
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Check the back cover
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This worked for me too. Thanks.
Odp: [Q] problem with SD card unmounting on its own
FK1983 said:
I had this problem for two whole days when I first got it!
Why do android phones have the silly back sensor?
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It's not silly. It's kind of important especially because you can eject your sdcard without pulling battery out which actually a few phones have. It's not safe to eject mounted sdcard as it's data may be in use therefore the sdcard in data may get corrupted. It's hard to find custom rom which is using this back sensor to unmount sdcard as IMO everyone which actually knows something about Android already is aware of this...
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You can disable this feature in sdcard under settings if you don't like it.
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rom: miui 4
kernel: Turbo v3.1
I agree with people that XPlay is really durable, I drop it atleast twice a week... 5 times would be my record.
therefore I find this quote to be completely wrong:
Heavier phones are harder to slip out of your hand. Unfortunately, they are also more prone to taking damage.
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I dont know why but I just drop it
thankfully my play is still in top shape and only backside damage is not caused by dropping.
Im kinda curious though... is it bad that my SD card almost never unmounts automaticly when I rip the back open... it used to do that but not anymore.
So I got this brand new Galaxy Nexus today and when I press down on the cover (at the bottom of the camera) it makes this popping sound. It sounds like either I have a defective device or Samsung has pretty bad build quality.
Mine does it too, I think it's just a little gap between the phone and the cover under the camera hump. I think I'll try to stick a small piece of masking tape on the inside of the cover tomorrow to snug it up.
Oh thank God, I thought it was just my phone. I stuck some paper in there and it stopped.
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Mine does it too, I think it's just a little gap between the phone and the cover under the camera hump. I think I'll try to stick a small piece of masking tape on the inside of the cover tomorrow to snug it up.
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Fubaya, did that end up helping you? Placing tape right underneath the camera?
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Fubaya, did that end up helping you? Placing tape right underneath the camera?
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I had to swap my phone because of a hardware problem and the new phone's cover moves a little but doesn't pop and I don't have any good tape so I haven't gotten around to trying it yet.
Mine does it too. It seems to just be some kind of gap back there. I have a Diztronic case now and it doesn't bother me anymore.
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Ok guys,I had this same issue. And I fixed it. Here's what I did.
The LTE version of this phone has a small plastic rib on the inside of the battery cover right next to the sim card. I found that the sim card from vzw is just a tad too long and it interferes with that rib. That rib is supposed to hold the sim card in place so that it doesn't come loose. I took out the sim card and filled/shaved the card down by about 0.5mm. This still left plenty of material beaten the chip and the end of the card, but created a space between the rob and the card such that the cover can seat fully and no longer hit/rub on the sim card.
Everything is nice and tight and quiet now. Stupid vzw and their improperly dimensioned cards was the problem.
Just got my Verizon Note 4 yesterday and of course had to take back off to put battery in....for the life of me I cannot get all the snaps to close on the back cover...If I get them all at the top..I have one two not snapped at the bottom and vice versa...
How in the hell you get the darn back plate to close and snap securely all the way around...? Is there a pattern or tick one needs to follow?
TIA
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Just got my Verizon Note 4 yesterday and of course had to take back off to put battery in....for the life of me I cannot get all the snaps to close on the back cover...If I get them all at the top..I have one two not snapped at the bottom and vice versa...
How in the hell you get the darn back plate to close and snap securely all the way around...? Is there a pattern or tick one needs to follow?
TIA
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Insert the bottom tabs 1st. Make sure they're engaged properly then work your way up.
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Insert the bottom tabs 1st. Make sure they're engaged properly then work your way up.
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trying my darndest to follow these directions but i have a stubborn clip on the bottom right corner of the back cover. it refuses to house properly, and it's to the point where i've tried forcing it and put a little dent in the cover. it seems like shoddy work, and i'm getting rather frustrated at the fact that i have a back cover that just won't sit properly on the phone.
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trying my darndest to follow these directions but i have a stubborn clip on the bottom right corner of the back cover. it refuses to house properly, and it's to the point where i've tried forcing it and put a little dent in the cover. it seems like shoddy work, and i'm getting rather frustrated at the fact that i have a back cover that just won't sit properly on the phone.
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Totally agree....PIA getting mine back on and its still not all the way on!
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Totally agree....PIA getting mine back on and its still not all the way on!
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i know this thread has been knocked back a good amount of pages and i'm not trying to bump for the sake of spamming, but this is definitely an issue for at least two of us on here. nobody else is finding that the back plate doesn't fit properly? i've narrowed it down to being an issue of the bottom two snaps on either side being too close together, most likely from the backplate becoming somewhat deformed. i went into a small local retailer and they made it sound like it was my fault, as though i had removed the backing improperly and caused the issue. i'm going to stop by a larger store later today to see if they'll take a look, but before i go in i want to get some idea of how common this issue is for other people.
so again, is anybody else having trouble closing the phone back up after opening the back cover? is it just me and parcou here who can't seem to get it to fit?
No issue here. I remove my back twice a day and it goes back on with no problem. I just lay it on the device and push it on both sides up near the heart rate monitor until it snaps in place then just go around the edges to make sure it snaps all around. I don't try to line up the top or bottom at all.
Same here
I had the same prob but with a little force an what sounded like a bone break it went on. I have not taking the back off since.
The tab at the top, in the corner, next to the headphone jack will not snap on mine. The back creaks when I squeeze it there, but the gap between the back and the phone just opens back up when I stop squeezing. Does this sound like something I should mention to Verizon? The gap is definitely big enough to allow dirt or moisture to get into the phone.
No problem with mine. placed the battery on and snapped it back together. I had to be showed how to pull the back off. Like they said use the top right corner to do that. - If I remember that right for the side ...
I had the a couple of the clips never seem to click into place. I thought I would break the glass pushing so hard.
I got a black replacement back from Ebay, much more tacky feeling that my original white back. It clicked right into place.
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Just got my Verizon Note 4 yesterday and of course had to take back off to put battery in....for the life of me I cannot get all the snaps to close on the back cover...If I get them all at the top..I have one two not snapped at the bottom and vice versa...
How in the hell you get the darn back plate to close and snap securely all the way around...? Is there a pattern or tick one needs to follow?
TIA
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Sorry, no issue here either.
This totally sounds like a back plate problem tho.
Were you able to get your hands on a new back cover or maybe test out a back cover of a display model at a Verizon store?
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Just got my Verizon Note 4 yesterday and of course had to take back off to put battery in....for the life of me I cannot get all the snaps to close on the back cover...If I get them all at the top..I have one two not snapped at the bottom and vice versa...
How in the hell you get the darn back plate to close and snap securely all the way around...? Is there a pattern or tick one needs to follow?
TIA
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Sorry about that issue. This is weird since I have no problems. I purchased a battery charger and a second battery and I change batteries everyday and have no issues... thank God.
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I've been having that same problem, with both the original backing and the book like car that Samsung makes. The $50 case from Samsung is going back until they're cheaper and I'm just getting something for the back from eBay to cover the open spaces.
Hello,
It's September 2017 - I just got my new old stock Verizon Note 4 and I'm seeing the same back cover problem. Out of the box it was not seated at the bottom edge. I could seat it at the bottom, or top - but not both.
The solution for me was to start by seating the bottom edge and the first clip up both sides. Then I left the rest of the side clips unseated and used my thumbs pressed in the center of the cover to slide it towards the top. I alternated this with working on the top clips and and got one and then the rest seated. I snapped the rest of the side clips in place last.
I hope this helps!
Pete
I have recently removed and inserted the SD card several times and I now notice a little bit of play in the SD card cover opposite the hinge mechanism. While it does sit flush, it can be moved back and forth very slightly. Is this normal? Does anyone have it where it does not move at all?
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It depends on your definition of "very slightly". I can move mine very slightly but it never opens unless I use my finger nail.
To be honest it sounds like yours is moving more than mine because the amount mine moves is not noticeable and nothing I would complain about but it does move so I voted that it moves but in reality it is very secure and not a problem.
I have an T800 10.5" and my card slot cover does not move at all,I have to use my fingernails to pull the door open, I suppose how loose it is might opened on how ofter you change your microsd.
At least Samsung gives us a microsd cover, the Asus Transformer had the card sticking out of the slot by a couple of mm, and it could fall out with ease and lost, so a lot of people cover the card slot in sticky taper.
John.
Pleske said:
It depends on your definition of "very slightly". I can move mine very slightly but it never opens unless I use my finger nail.
To be honest it sounds like yours is moving more than mine because the amount mine moves is not noticeable and nothing I would complain about but it does move so I voted that it moves but in reality it is very secure and not a problem.
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I think yours may be similar to mine. I also have to use my finger nail to actually open it.
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I have an T800 10.5" and my card slot cover does not move at all,I have to use my fingernails to pull the door open, I suppose how loose it is might opened on how ofter you change your microsd.
At least Samsung gives us a microsd cover, the Asus Transformer had the card sticking out of the slot by a couple of mm, and it could fall out with ease and lost, so a lot of people cover the card slot in sticky taper.
John.
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For reference, I have a T700 8.4" unit. The movement is very slight. Specifically, the movement is from side to side on the end where the little hook is located, opposite of the hinge mechanism. I only noticed it by accident when I was using a can of compressed air to blow dust off. You could try that with yours and see if you notice any movement.
I was curious to see if it was limited to a select few units or if this is a common trait.