RotoRooter said:
So I was in the same boat you are in. Nothing could read the card except for my Nokia n97 mini. It recognized the card as "locked" and prompted for a password. I bypassed the prompt and went to the file manager. From there it let me format the card and it is back to normal. See, Symbian is good for something after all!
PS: I tried the same process with an E71 and had the same successful results. All recent Symbian phones should work as it appears they can handle the encryption and password. The card is now happily back in my HTC EVO.
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This is the best news of the day .
one downside: you need a symbian phone .
ceesheim said:
There are some people reporting that if you replace the sd card of your WP7 phone and then want to use it again for your pc it isn't reconsigned any more .
this mean that you can not use it and you can not format it (for the time being it is bricked )
lets hope someone knows a way to fix it .
edit : maybe it is wise to make this sticky for a view weeks .
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correct. Once the card is formatted for the phone, it can only be used with the phone.
Huh? You cant even format it after using it on the phone? Maybe Windows will fail to format it but there has to be a way to get it formatted again. They can't brick your card.
Ren13B said:
Huh? You cant even format it after using it on the phone? That doesn't make any sense at all.
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No , you can't format the sd card any more after using it in your phone .
you can only use it on your wp7 phone .
and that could be real expensive if you brick your class 6 32GB sd card .
More than likely there will be an app or tool to fix this in the short run. Never say never around XDA.
ceesheim said:
No , you can't format the sd card any more after using it in your phone .
you can only use it on your wp7 phone .
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Use the damn Disk Manager and repartition the SD card.
Tom Servo said:
Use the damn Disk Manager and repartition the SD card.
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Common sense prevails once again!!!
Tom Servo said:
Use the damn Disk Manager and repartition the SD card.
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That would be my first guess.
I guess what is surprising me is for how long the phone has been in preview and in devs hands, why in the hell are so many features that are probably in the phone or are questioned to be in it, not being found already? God the first thing I do when I get a new gizmo is to search every nook and cranny of every option and setting. A good example is this and how NOBODY has tried it yet with a replaced microSD from an HD7, and how long it took for somebody to find a way to add your own ringtone. (Its right there in the Zune Hub!?! Who Knew!?!) lol
Seriously If I had a device at any point before/at the release, I could have easily found answers to a lot of questions that have been asked. Sadly with real life not landing me a job as a website tech reviewer or dev I get pushed to the back of the line. Not to toot my own horn but I really do feel like a fairly high quality QA person. I may not be able to write my own code, but I can poke and play with yours till I find all the bugs and all the features.
Anyone with a loner HD7 wanna throw it my way for test and analyzing purposes until I can get my hands on my own Sprint HTC 7 Pro? I can probably provide some really useful feedback and quality video that could easily rival a lot of these sites.
IM0001 said:
That would be my first guess.
I guess what is surprising me is for how long the phone has been in preview and in devs hands, why in the hell are so many features that are probably in the phone or are questioned to be in it, not being found already? God the first thing I do when I get a new gizmo is to search every nook and cranny of every option and setting. A good example is this and how NOBODY has tried it yet with a replaced microSD from an HD7, and how long it took for somebody to find a way to add your own ringtone. (Its right there in the Zune Hub!?! Who Knew!?!) lol
Seriously If I had a device at any point before/at the release, I could have easily found answers to a lot of questions that have been asked. Sadly with real life not landing me a job as a website tech reviewer or dev I get pushed to the back of the line. Not to toot my own horn but I really do feel like a fairly high quality QA person. I may not be able to write my own code, but I can poke and play with yours till I find all the bugs and all the features.
Anyone with a loner HD7 wanna throw it my way for test and analyzing purposes until I can get my hands on my own Sprint HTC 7 Pro? I can probably provide some really useful feedback and quality video that could easily rival a lot of these sites.
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The reason is because it hasn't released to the USA yet. I have noticed that other areas lack the adventurous spirit.
I'm excited to see what will come after Monday.
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how long it took for somebody to find a way to add your own ringtone. (Its right there in the Zune Hub!?! Who Knew!?!) lol
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Little bit off topic, but I consider my self to be a fiddler trying to find out every little option. I truely cannot find anything in zune on how to set ringtones?!
Where!? and How?!
In the tech video somewhere a day or 2 ago the guy said the option was within the zune hub. Of course no showing or saying how. Is there not a longpress on a song or the 3 dots option anywhere you can see?
Sitting stuck in the US really stinks. I wish Microsoft would give me a dang job lol. Need to get in touch with some more contacts.
That's because the setting doesn't exist. You can only use the ringtones that are on the phone right now.
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Little bit off topic, but I consider my self to be a fiddler trying to find out every little option. I truely cannot find anything in zune on how to set ringtones?!
Where!? and How?!
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That's because the setting doesn't exist. You can only use the ringtones that are on the phone right now.
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Exactly. Geez, why are people refusing to believe this, it's a well known fact that at the moment you cannot set your own ringtones.
As for replacing the SD card in a HD7, been there done that. Works great, however HTC's WP7 hardware really sucks, so unless you're a diehard fan (or get them free) go with Samsung or LG. LG is actually the better choice in many aspects (just not, unfortunately, when it comes to hardware/feel).
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Use the damn Disk Manager and repartition the SD card.
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Did you test this ?
the card is seen as a 0GB card and it is write protected .
ceesheim said:
Did you test this ?
the card is seen as a 0GB card and it is write protected .
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Have same problem.
I try to Format with.
Killdisk (BootCD)
hddguru
Panasonic SDFormater 2.0 + 3.0 (beta)
Autoformat 1.4 (Transcent)
HP USB Disk Storage Formater
and Linux
I found this information on this forum :
http://www.techspot.com/vb/post391796-6.html
and some more info:
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?act=ST&f=82&t=69211&st=0#entry474505
Ok XP can only see one partition on a removable USB but if change the USB driver to a fixed disk driver then XP will see it as a hard drive then we can have lay down multiple partitions as we like. Now open regedit and goto HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\USBSTOR
and double click on USBSTORE and you see a subkey below it, select the first subkey below USBSTORE and right click and select Copy Key Name
Here is mine, yours maybe different.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\USBSTOR\Disk&Ven_Generic&Prod_ USB_Flash_Disk&Rev_0.00
Now we need only need this part:
USBSTOR\Disk&Ven_Generic&Prod_USB_Flash_Disk&Rev_0.00
Copy and paste it temporarily into notepad.
You will now need this driver. http://www.xpefiles.com/viewtopic.php?t=92
Unpack it to a folder on your desktop. Inside the folder is the file cfadisk.inf. You need to open this file and scroll down to you see the line %Microdrive_devdesc% = cfadisk_install, specific data
Now you need to replace all lines %Microdrive_devdesc% = cfadisk_install, specific data with
the line you copied from your registry like so.
%Microdrive_devdesc% = cfadisk_install,USBSTOR\Disk&Ven_Generic&Prod_USB_Flash_Disk&Rev_0.00
There could be more lines so replace all and save the file.
Goto Device Manager and click on disk drives. You see your USB listed, dbl click on it and goto the driver tab and click update driver and install from a specific location and choose the driver to install and click on Have Disk and browse to the cfadisk.inf file your modified driver on your desktop and force that to replace your existing driver. It might ask you to reboot. You should now have your USB showing as Local Disk
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I used this to make more partitions on a usb stick , maybe you can use this to make a local Disk of it and then make a new partition on it .
unfortunately I do not have XP anymore but diskpart under windows7 does not detect the media itself so it cant do a diskpart in the first case.
Its like the media does "not exist" anymore.
I really don't want to throw away my 16GB and my 32GB card and am still trying out solutions here.
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unfortunately I do not have XP anymore but diskpart under windows7 does not detect the media itself so it cant do a diskpart in the first case.
Its like the media does "not exist" anymore.
I really don't want to throw away my 16GB and my 32GB card and am still trying out solutions here.
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I don't understand , if you connect the sd card to the pc the pc don't see the sd card at all ?
IM0001 said:
That would be my first guess.
I guess what is surprising me is for how long the phone has been in preview and in devs hands, why in the hell are so many features that are probably in the phone or are questioned to be in it, not being found already? God the first thing I do when I get a new gizmo is to search every nook and cranny of every option and setting. A good example is this and how NOBODY has tried it yet with a replaced microSD from an HD7, and how long it took for somebody to find a way to add your own ringtone. (Its right there in the Zune Hub!?! Who Knew!?!) lol
Seriously If I had a device at any point before/at the release, I could have easily found answers to a lot of questions that have been asked. Sadly with real life not landing me a job as a website tech reviewer or dev I get pushed to the back of the line. Not to toot my own horn but I really do feel like a fairly high quality QA person. I may not be able to write my own code, but I can poke and play with yours till I find all the bugs and all the features.
Anyone with a loner HD7 wanna throw it my way for test and analyzing purposes until I can get my hands on my own Sprint HTC 7 Pro? I can probably provide some really useful feedback and quality video that could easily rival a lot of these sites.
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The SD card cannot be reused to prevent piracy and information threft.
If you have business information on you SD card (say, emails, PPT/Word/XL documents), you don't want anyone to be able to just remove the SD card and use it in another phone. It's well known that WP7 uses a Raid-like setup for storage to show SD+Internal storage as one continuous unit.
Why people think you'd be able to just remove the SD card and view it in another computer/phone is beyond me... It's like common sense has gone AWOL these days...
Making the card unreadable improves security. Perhaps this isn't a big deal to many, but until you have a phone stolen/lost with confidential infromation on it, you don't know what it feels like to know that the informatin is safe and inaccessible to others.
Also, it's totally random which SD cards will work correctly in WP7 devices. The cards that do work are only shipped in bulk (to manufacturers, most likely), and aren't available for consumer purchase.
It's totally possible that a card may work right now, but as it ages it will start to fail and you will be forced to remove it.
Paying $200 for a 32GB Class 6 card right now isn't even worth the risk.
SD Card Size and Class has nothing to do with compatibility. It has more to do with random read/write speeds, which aren't the same as the card's throughput (i.e. Class).
That is probably why there aren't ay 32 GB WP7 devices available at the moment. If you want more storage you can either:
1. Buy a 16GB device and deal with it if it's enough for you.
2. Buy a 16GB device and wait for WP7 compatible SD Cards to become available.
3. Don't buy a phone and wait for 32GB phones are available (and maybe by the time the WP7-compatible SD cards are available and you can get up to 64GB storage).
4. Wait until a manufacturer releases a phone with 32GB+ NAND Flash Memory in it.
IMO, Microsoft should have dictated NAND Flash memory. SD cards do nothing but create support issues, and allow the manufacturers to skimp a lot (by using the lowest class cards available, among other things).
N8ter said:
The SD card cannot be reused to prevent piracy and information threft.
If you have business information on you SD card (say, emails, PPT/Word/XL documents), you don't want anyone to be able to just remove the SD card and use it in another phone. It's well known that WP7 uses a Raid-like setup for storage to show SD+Internal storage as one continuous unit.
Why people think you'd be able to just remove the SD card and view it in another computer/phone is beyond me... It's like common sense has gone AWOL these days...
Making the card unreadable improves security. Perhaps this isn't a big deal to many, but until you have a phone stolen/lost with confidential infromation on it, you don't know what it feels like to know that the informatin is safe and inaccessible to others.
Also, it's totally random which SD cards will work correctly in WP7 devices. The cards that do work are only shipped in bulk (to manufacturers, most likely), and aren't available for consumer purchase.
It's totally possible that a card may work right now, but as it ages it will start to fail and you will be forced to remove it.
Paying $200 for a 32GB Class 6 card right now isn't even worth the risk.
SD Card Size and Class has nothing to do with compatibility. It has more to do with random read/write speeds, which aren't the same as the card's throughput (i.e. Class).
That is probably why there aren't ay 32 GB WP7 devices available at the moment. If you want more storage you can either:
1. Buy a 16GB device and deal with it if it's enough for you.
2. Buy a 16GB device and wait for WP7 compatible SD Cards to become available.
3. Don't buy a phone and wait for 32GB phones are available (and maybe by the time the WP7-compatible SD cards are available and you can get up to 64GB storage).
4. Wait until a manufacturer releases a phone with 32GB+ NAND Flash Memory in it.
IMO, Microsoft should have dictated NAND Flash memory. SD cards do nothing but create support issues, and allow the manufacturers to skimp a lot (by using the lowest class cards available, among other things).
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The more I read on the WP7 and its "expandable" storage the more I am convinced that MS has implemented RAID0 stripping to provide a higher bandwidth/speed increase in I/O and disregard data integrity error checking. This leads me to believe that WP7's performance on a slower media is horrendous (MicroSD cards), and without a doubt it is a cost saving for manufacturers because no one in their mind is going to pay a premium price for high capacity NAND storage.
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I have a HTC EVO 4G which is supposed to support up to 32 gb memory so I purchased a 32 GB micro card on ebay a few months ago and come to find out, it was a fake. I bought another one and filled it up to about 29gb and it worked fine for a few days then it just stopped working and now the phone I had it in won't recognize it's in there nor will my laptop. The difference being that at least my computer sees that something is there but won't read it i.e. it says drive h: in computer when I put it in but says insert drive when I try to access it. Also, it starts to get extremely hot after a few seconds to a minute. My husband has one as well from the same company, the same brand and has 30gb of stuff on his and hasn't had a problem yet (this has been at least three months ago now). Before anyone says it; yes it is 32gb, I tested it before I put it in my phone (thus the fact that I had 29gb of stuff on it before it went screwy), yes it is in the slot properly or else it wouldn't even say H: drive at all and no, my card reader isn't bad and yes it is compatible with my computer and the card as it is what I used to put the stuff on it originally and it still works fine with my husbands 32gb card and all of my other cards. My computer works fine with his card and it worked fine with mine before it went bad. Now, all of that being said; is there anything that can be done or will I have to just buy a new one?
There are programs out there that allow low level access to the drives that windows does not.
Get ahold of one of them and see if you can wipe it and repartition it.
There has always been a problem with the eBay cards, that's why they are cheaper, because not all memory cards are created equal. Unfortunately, my guess is that this boils down to you get what you paid for. There really isn't much you can do other than try to format the card. My experience is that you have lost the data on that card for good, and that more than likely, the card is dead. Sorry, hopefully someone may have a better answer for you.
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skydeaner said:
There are programs out there that allow low level access to the drives that windows does not.
Get ahold of one of them and see if you can wipe it and repartition it.
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could you provide program names? I'm very interested in something like this.
Norton Partition Magic
Acronis Disk Director
Paragon Partition Manager
Those are all commercial packages, though. If you want something free, you can try GParted, a bootable Linux CD.
Anyone know of any tools to try to recover data on a card like this? PC doesn't recognize card.
Hey my SD Card might be messed up. I have moved all files off of it and I need to format it now. I am going to use the SD Association SD Formatter 3.0 from http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/
I was wondering what the best settings are to use for it?
It is a 32 GB Class 10 Patriot card.
Format type can be Quick, Full (Erase), or Full (OverWrite).
Format Size Adjustment can be either On or Off.
What should it be?
Just do a full format(slowest) and keep all the other settings set to default
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issafram said:
Format type can be Quick, Full (Erase), or Full (OverWrite).
Format Size Adjustment can be either On or Off.
What should it be?
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XsMagical said:
Just do a full format(slowest) and keep all the other settings set to default
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Those settings are specific. What type of full. Full (Erase) or Full(OverWrite)?
And formatting through Windows asks for an allocation unit size. What is the best for that?
Just tight click on SD card click format and click quick format
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And formatting through Windows asks for an allocation unit size. What is the best for that?
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Make sure you check it for errors first either way...
Leave the blocks/etc as default and do the FULL/Overwrite this first time (quick format does not clean as well)..and come back and check it in the morning...yes it takes a long time.
Your phone should be able to set it up for you in recovery (AR2.3) and allow you to adjust the swap (0,32,64 are common) and the ext2 partition (1024,2048 are common) followed by upgrading it to ext3. With that size of card it may take 10-20 minutes to set all that up.
Either way, if your card is having problems the error check would be first. Hope you get it corrected.
I know this is a bit late and hopefully you got straighten out but, from what I read yesterday while shopping for a larger sd, I found that the Patriot cards are not intended for use with smartphones. At least that is what it says in consumer comments on Amazon.com.
Kept me from buying the same card you have, Patriot 32GIG class 10. Scroll down to the very 1st comment and read the very first line of the comment:
http://www.amazon.com/Patriot-Signa...FTCU/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1310224093&sr=8-5
Amazon Customer Comment said:
According to the manufacturers of this card on their own forums, this does not work properly in Android or Windows phones. I guess it is a problem with the way this card is partitioned or formatted. Symptoms of the problem are regular freezing of the phone you put it in (requiring a battery pull to reset) and the card eventually becoming corrupted (losing all the data that is on it and requiring a reformat). On the official acknowledgement of the problems posted to their forums they give no indication of what we are supposed to do with these cards that don't work. It might be possible to repartition and reformat this card yourself to get it to work but I haven't been successful at that yet.
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Now you see why I didn't buy it. Stick to the Name Brand cards to minimize your problems and read reviews and comments. Good Luck!
thank you for this
rdisanza said:
I know this is a bit late and hopefully you got straighten out but, from what I read yesterday while shopping for a larger sd, I found that the Patriot cards are not intended for use with smartphones. At least that is what it says in consumer comments on Amazon.com.
Kept me from buying the same card you have, Patriot 32GIG class 10. Scroll down to the very 1st comment and read the very first line of the comment:
http://www.amazon.com/Patriot-Signa...FTCU/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1310224093&sr=8-5
Now you see why I didn't buy it. Stick to the Name Brand cards to minimize your problems and read reviews and comments. Good Luck!
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Yes and that was related to specific phones, NOT the EVO 4G. I do read the reviews and comments and I saw those issues people were having. Patriot is one of the few companies that makes cards that are 3.0 spec'd. It has been more than fine.
I have been having a problem lately with my SD card.
When the phone boots up sometimes it fails to recognise the apps installed on the card.
The media scanner stalls at 0% when this happens.
Also I can still access the files on the card through a file explorer.
After messing with it & then letting the phone cool down, it is working now.
But I wanted to know if this was likely the card or the phone?
My first thought was that the card is going out.
I am running SRF 1.1.1 on EC05 modem
BTW: the card is a stock 16GB about 11 months old
I've started having issues with my SD cards lately. My stock 16gb fell off the map. Doesn't even get recognized as a solidstate device when I connect it up to my ubuntu desktop (kernel logs state "waiting for drive to spin up"... its SD...). Bought a new class10 16gb uSD, after a few weeks it got the 'card not recognized', didn't get recognized in windows or linux either. Ended up formatting it. Now I run My Sync Center and sync often to keep the SD card backed up.
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I've started having issues with my SD cards lately. My stock 16gb fell off the map. Doesn't even get recognized as a solidstate device when I connect it up to my ubuntu desktop (kernel logs state "waiting for drive to spin up"... its SD...). Bought a new class10 16gb uSD, after a few weeks it got the 'card not recognized', didn't get recognized in windows or linux either. Ended up formatting it. Now I run My Sync Center and sync often to keep the SD card backed up.
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Thanks for help. Sounds like a format may help more than a new card.
BTW: did the class 10 card make a noticable difference?
Every Card has its plus or minus, the more you flash etc, the more you abuse it. I had a 16 gb class 4 and I am a machine in trying something new or adapting and changing....so. I have had it for over a year, just upgraded to 32 gb class 10 and you can see the difference. I am not saying jump the gun and go get what I have. Whatever makes you happy, there are articles that explain all that about sd cards.
As far as it being a Rom issue, possibility. No Pointing Fingers, just take into consideration alot of things before you ask or point at one thing. Things Happen.
Save Data do not copy the rom once downloaded transfer directly and give that a whirl. Look at all you have flashed and done since you have had your card and how long have you had it. How many times did you take it out? How much have you downloaded and taken/cleared off the card? No different than a pc, its all in that little hard disk!!! I am not asking, just take all that into consideration.
Window shop with Patience if you decide to get a card, and look for a deal.
Hope this helps.......just another one of everyones Helpful Friends and XDA!!
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Every Card has its plus or minus, the more you flash etc, the more you abuse it. I had a 16 gb class 4 and I am a machine in trying something new or adapting and changing....so. I have had it for over a year, just upgraded to 32 gb class 10 and you can see the difference. I am not saying jump the gun and go get what I have. Whatever makes you happy, there are articles that explain all that about sd cards.
As far as it being a Rom issue, possibility. No Pointing Fingers, just take into consideration alot of things before you ask or point at one thing. Things Happen.
Save Data do not copy the rom once downloaded transfer directly and give that a whirl. Look at all you have flashed and done since you have had your card and how long have you had it. How many times did you take it out? How much have you downloaded and taken/cleared off the card? No different than a pc, its all in that little hard disk!!! I am not asking, just take all that into consideration.
Window shop with Patience if you decide to get a card, and look for a deal.
Hope this helps.......just another one of everyones Helpful Friends and XDA!!
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Thanks, you bring up some good points I realy had not considered.
I put my existing card in the sd slot of my laptop & scanned it for errors & bad sectors. It reported errors found & possible data loss. Total capacity is down by 1GB now. Most likely my fault, I remember a few ROM related issues that wound up in a reflash (a couple of times within a week), tried running without the journaling on. BIG MISTAKE!!!!! Anyway, thinking about it this started about when that freeze up caused the ROM break down. I might need to replace it since it has sectors breaking down. Card does seem to work ok since I run the repair scan.
Thanks again for the advise.
will this http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IVPU7AO/?&ascsub&tag=gizmodoamzn-20&ascsubtag=[referrer|www.google.com[type|link[postId|1662669135[asin|B00IVPU7AO[authorId|5727177402741770316[type|mod-title be okay with our phones?
currently have the sandisk ultra 64gb and i have tons of "unexpected removal" problems with it..
masri1987 said:
will this http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IVPU7AO/?&ascsub&tag=gizmodoamzn-20&ascsubtag=[referrer|www.google.com[type|link[postId|1662669135[asin|B00IVPU7AO[authorId|5727177402741770316[type|mod-title be okay with our phones?
currently have the sandisk ultra 64gb and i have tons of "unexpected removal" problems with it..
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I've been using the same card for a couple of weeks now with nothing negative to report about it. My came saves their by default and I have several movies that I have watched off of it as well without any problems. I've seen others here on XDA who have had problems with it though...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-verizon/help/samsung-evo-microsd-64gb-card-problem-t2950988
masri1987 said:
will this http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IVPU7AO/?&ascsub&tag=gizmodoamzn-20&ascsubtag=[referrer|www.google.com[type|link[postId|1662669135[asin|B00IVPU7AO[authorId|5727177402741770316[type|mod-title be okay with our phones?
currently have the sandisk ultra 64gb and i have tons of "unexpected removal" problems with it..
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If the card is seated securely and you are getting those errors sounds like a defective card.
Have you tried a low level format?
Have you tried other phones, devices?
If so do you get errors on those also?
Have you run any test on the card itself. Are you sure you are not mistaking issues with the new SD card permissions (or lack there of) for errors?
Those are some of the steps I suggest to figure out if the card is bad right out of the box, yes this happens a lot more than you think it does, or that card don't play nice with device this still happens even though it should not, or the card is on its way out. If nothing seems to be working try and get a replacement that should fix your issues and if it don't, don't buy that kind of card anymore
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If the card is seated securely and you are getting those errors sounds like a defective card.
Have you tried a low level format?
Have you tried other phones, devices?
If so do you get errors on those also?
Have you run any test on the card itself. Are you sure you are not mistaking issues with the new SD card permissions (or lack there of) for errors?
Those are some of the steps I suggest to figure out if the card is bad right out of the box, yes this happens a lot more than you think it does, or that card don't play nice with device this still happens even though it should not, or the card is on its way out. If nothing seems to be working try and get a replacement that should fix your issues and if it don't, don't buy that kind of card anymore
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formatted it many times, S4\S5\Note3\Note 4 and G3 all give me the same errors with the same card
And keep in mind i have gotten this ultra replaced before from sandisk to the same issue.. just gonna give up on sandisk altogether to be honest.. .i just don't know much about Samsung's cards.
these are my options in regards to getting another card..
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IVPU7AO/?&ascsub&tag=gizmodoamzn-20&ascsubtag=[referrer|www.google.com[type|link[postId|1662669135[asin|B00IVPU7AO[authorId|5727177402741770316[type|mod-title
(if the evo one is bad ill go with this)
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anyone?? i must make a decision...
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masri1987 said:
formatted it many times, S4\S5\Note3\Note 4 and G3 all give me the same errors with the same card
And keep in mind i have gotten this ultra replaced before from sandisk to the same issue.. just gonna give up on sandisk altogether to be honest.. .i just don't know much about Samsung's cards.
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I have never had a issue with SanDisk but is the luck or unlucky of the draw[emoji1]
Formatting many times is no good for SD cards should really only format when you HAVE TO. There is really no need to format reformat... Usually after some time of using the card you can get back some lost performance by performing a low level format. But again really should only do that when you NEED to.
I have the Pro version (the Grey and more expensive one) Samsung card you have listed, I love it as far as performance and what not but I use it quite often for various devices not only in the N4, but for many people an expensive high capacity high performance card will be pretty much a waste (at least until root comes our way). Many people can survive on the devices memory alone, if I had to I totalaly could without any issues. Most things are streamed/synced/cloud and whatnot so there is no need to have a large amount of things stored on a SD specially when you take into consideration the new android sdcard permissions. Only system apps can even write to the card, no normal apps can.
This may change down the road hopefully, Google will be persuaded into changing that policy, or at least once we have root we can make our own rules.
Unfortunately Android has the stigma of being the "Least Secure Mobile OS" and I think Google is going to move in the direction trying to rectify this. That is going to be unfortunate for us I believe, because technically the statement that Android is the least secure of the mobile os's at this time is true. If the user knows nothing about computers, software, Linux and whatnot then yes this is true. But for many of the same reasons Android is considered vulnerable are the reasons the advanced user loves Android. Unfortunately I think many of these things are going to change and the advanced users will be stuck with solutions to problems we never had in the first place because the vast majority of people need there hand held in everything they do. LOL sorry about the rant but above that is my 2 cents of your card question.
Same issue and now extreme battery drain by IndexService
mademan420 said:
I've been using the same card for a couple of weeks now with nothing negative to report about it. My came saves their by default and I have several movies that I have watched off of it as well without any problems. I've seen others here on XDA who have had problems with it though...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-verizon/help/samsung-evo-microsd-64gb-card-problem-t2950988
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I had the same problem with my Note4. I suspect this to be the cause of my recent problems with IndexService.
The last days I noticed an extreme batterydrainage. (50% in 4 hrs only cheching mail and reeding some ebook and newspaper) 44% usage by IndexService and 17% by screen.
At first i thought it was my Next UI . Deleted it . No changes.
Then I found out about similar issues on S5 and note 3 to be caused by corrupt pdf files. I deleted all documents, pictures, ... everything! Nothing changed.
i took out the SDcard. The same or even worse. Keeps the phone checking for SDcard when none installed?
So I reconnected the SDcard and formatted it again. STILL NO CHANGES.
Suggestions anyone?
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I have never had a issue with SanDisk but is the luck or unlucky of the draw[emoji1]
Formatting many times is no good for SD cards should really only format when you HAVE TO. There is really no need to format reformat... Usually after some time of using the card you can get back some lost performance by performing a low level format. But again really should only do that when you NEED to.
I have the Pro version (the Grey and more expensive one) Samsung card you have listed, I love it as far as performance and what not but I use it quite often for various devices not only in the N4, but for many people an expensive high capacity high performance card will be pretty much a waste (at least until root comes our way). Many people can survive on the devices memory alone, if I had to I totalaly could without any issues. Most things are streamed/synced/cloud and whatnot so there is no need to have a large amount of things stored on a SD specially when you take into consideration the new android sdcard permissions. Only system apps can even write to the card, no normal apps can.
This may change down the road hopefully, Google will be persuaded into changing that policy, or at least once we have root we can make our own rules.
Unfortunately Android has the stigma of being the "Least Secure Mobile OS" and I think Google is going to move in the direction trying to rectify this. That is going to be unfortunate for us I believe, because technically the statement that Android is the least secure of the mobile os's at this time is true. If the user knows nothing about computers, software, Linux and whatnot then yes this is true. But for many of the same reasons Android is considered vulnerable are the reasons the advanced user loves Android. Unfortunately I think many of these things are going to change and the advanced users will be stuck with solutions to problems we never had in the first place because the vast majority of people need there hand held in everything they do. LOL sorry about the rant but above that is my 2 cents of your card question.
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no and i agree with you regarding your rant.. it's just sad there is no recognition for the hardcore base user group.
So i think i'm gonna bite the bullet and buy the pro... I've done some more research and it seems that specifically the Ultra 64gb sandisk card manufactured a year or later ago has a technical 'fault' according to sandisk. i don't care for another sandisk so i'm gonna just buy the pro...
although i feel exhaustd with sandisk.. there is a 64gb extreme sandisk microsd ...
how is the quality of the extreme cards compared to the samsung pro?
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I had issues with my 64g SanDisk ultra when I got my note 4. Worked fine in my note 2 until I moved it to my note 4. Then I started to get the SD card unexpectedly removed, constantly remounting. Formatted it in the phone in the computer nothing worked. Couldn't even copy back the stuff that was on it. Purchased a PNY 4k compatible micro sd and it works great. I will never get another SanDisk.
Hello,
I have made some photos directly saved on my SD card. After a wile it is nomore posible to display them. I only get a grey square with an exclamation mark.
My SD Card is an PNY 256 GB High Performance Class 3 (normally 30 Mo/s).
Photos are no longer recognized by the different PC sofware and are no longer reparable.
Do somebody have the same problem?
I have seen this problem before, with kingston and sandisk cards, in your case most surely it is the same thing, try with another card to check
You could check with PNY if they offer some sort of recovery/check. If you see it as a drive on your PC you can run "checkdisk" for errors. Sometimes I use MiniTool Partition Wizard Free to run "surface test" on problematic SDs, though 256GB card will take a long time for that program to ping every cluster.
I have a samsung 64gb sd card and have no problems with mine I think its because of the 3 back the card up and put back on and see if happens I bought a 256gb of wish before got refund on it but the right speed to it was so slow and after a while it lost pictures and so on
I have tested the card with chkdsk and there is no problem!
Tested with H2testw an got a different answer; first the speed is not that given on the markin (appr. 10Mo/s instead of 30 Mo/s) and after 14,9 Go tested, it says that the rest is defective.
I surely got one of the "best quality" chineese copy.
mzsquared said:
You could check with PNY if they offer some sort of recovery/check. If you see it as a drive on your PC you can run "checkdisk" for errors. Sometimes I use MiniTool Partition Wizard Free to run "surface test" on problematic SDs, though 256GB card will take a long time for that program to ping every cluster.
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MiniTool Partition Wizard Free did not find any error an the surface
I've noticed that I get corrupted pictures on SD card only after a few days of passing through an airport. I am led to believe that it's due to the X-Ray scanning they do which could damage some sectors of the SD card. If you want to continue to use SD, I'd recommend spending the extra bit to get a genuine card that is hardened against X-Ray/other scanning methods.
I've personally moved on to cloud backups; currently using my Office 365 subscription that gives me 1TB of OneDrive storage. Also allows for 5 other users each with their own access to the Office suite and 1TB of OneDrive storage each.
Hope that helps!
Make sure your card is authentic.. on internet you find many scam SD cards cheap and their memory is not what your device tells you. It looks like it records but after a while it deletes previous files like older photos... because its real memory is like for example 1GB instead of 64...
Buy them premium on trusted shops (careful with amazon for example).
Corrupted card. Highly unlikely the card is bad.
Corrupted cards will however behave like this.
Do a low level format with a PC apk designed to do this like Lexar's. It will tell you if any unremappable sectors exist and remap them if doable.
Do Not use Windows to low level format.
Do Not switch cards between devices particularly cams without formatting first in cam before using. Switching cards with data on them can corrupt them.
Same may apply to phones...
Make sure contacts are clean. Never touch with fingers.
ALWAYS protect cards from ESD; if you can feel a static discharge it's already enough to fry SD cards and sims.
The pesky grey thumbnails, yep I got that also, it started around the same time as when these threads were created using other Samsung mobile devices. coincidence? I think not. My SD Card is Samsung bought from Samsung website direct so no chance of fake.
Limeybastard said:
The pesky grey thumbnails, yep I got that also, it started around the same time as when these threads were created using other Samsung mobile devices. coincidence? I think not. My SD Card is Samsung bought from Samsung website direct so no chance of fake.
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There can only be one folder on the Android who's name has DCIM in it. If there's more than one it will cause mayhem... on the SD card if you copy images from the internal memory DCIM folder rename the new folder something different!
blackhawk said:
There can only be one folder on the Android who's name has DCIM in it. If there's more than one it will cause mayhem... on the SD card if you copy images from the internal memory DCIM folder rename the new folder something different!
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I should clarify, those greyed out thumbnails were visible before and location wasn't changed on the SD card. Only things that changed were inserting the same SD card into another device.
Limeybastard said:
I should clarify, those greyed out thumbnails were visible before and location wasn't changed on the SD card. Only things that changed were inserting the same SD card into another device.
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Yeah that's generally not a good idea. It can corrupt the card especially if the two devices are writing to it. Had it happen to me before with Canon cams; you don't share a card unless you cam format it first. Not sure of the exact cause only how to prevent it.
That hasn't happen with my N10+ twins, yet, maybe because they're the same model. Something I need to keep in mind...
blackhawk said:
Yeah that's generally not a good idea. It can corrupt the card especially if the two devices are writing to it. Had it happen to me before with Canon cams; you don't share a card unless you cam format it first. Not sure of the exact cause only how to prevent it.
That hasn't happen with my N10+ twins, yet, maybe because they're the same model. Something I need to keep in mind...
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Yeah that's what probably occurred as I sometimes forget to "unmount" SD card. ooh errr
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Yeah that's what probably occurred as I sometimes forget to "unmount" SD card. ooh errr
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Good point.
That maybe it; I recently accidentally did a swap without a dismount without incident but did power the phone off first.
OTG has spoiled me
I need to be more careful...
Generally it's best to leave the SD card in place and do everything through the phone instead.
On Canon cams there's no dismount option I believe, plug and play.
blackhawk said:
Good point.
That maybe it; I recently accidentally did a swap without a dismount without incident but did power the phone off first.
OTG has spoiled me
I need to be more careful...
Generally it's best to leave the SD card in place and do everything through the phone instead.
On Canon cams there's no dismount option I believe, plug and play.
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Got the Note 10 plus today. Pretty impressed, almost like new condition coming from Samsung, all plastic films intact on sides and front back etc. Even the imei is etched in the back glass. Definitely a new frame and oledpanel used during the their refurbished process. However to nit pick one small area of the back glass edge to frame gap is bigger near the camera lens side. That was me inspecting it with a light and magnification lol.
The OLED panel is crisp and uniform. Very pleased so far.
Limeybastard said:
Got the Note 10 plus today. Pretty impressed, almost like new condition coming from Samsung, all plastic films intact on sides and front back etc. Even the imei is etched in the back glass. Definitely a new frame and oledpanel used during the their refurbished process. However to nit pick one small area of the back glass edge to frame gap is bigger near the camera lens side. That was me inspecting it with a light and magnification lol.
The OLED panel is crisp and uniform. Very pleased so far.
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Yay! In time for the weekend.
What's it loaded with? 12?
A new AMOLED panel is great news!
Not sure what the gap is; it should be sealed with a custom cut double side adhesive seal. Should be uniform. I'll take a look at my copies closer next week...
I got a 1tb Sandisk Extreme on the way from B&H Photo, $189 total. Beware there seems to be some counterfeits being sold at half price... that's how you tell.
Lol, funest, best running old phone I ever had
blackhawk said:
Yay! In time for the weekend.
What's it loaded with? 12?
A new AMOLED panel is great news!
Not sure what the gap is; it should be sealed with a custom cut double side adhesive seal. Should be uniform. I'll take a look at my copies closer next week...
I got a 1tb Sandisk Extreme on the way from B&H Photo, $189 total. Beware there seems to be some counterfeits being sold at half price... that's how you tell.
Lol, funest, best running old phone I ever had
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Don't get mad bro, it came with android 11 and I upgraded it to 12. The imei shows manufacturer date of April 2022.
Just finished doing some adb disabling and removal of leeching apps. Runs nice and cool and battery even out of box didn't drain 1 percent every on min
Limeybastard said:
Don't get mad bro, it came with android 11 and I upgraded it to 12. The imei shows manufacturer date of April 2022.
Just finished doing some adb disabling and removal of leeching apps. Runs nice and cool and battery even out of box didn't drain 1 percent every on min
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Now, now... you can tell me all about the big bad Android 12 latter. Anyway learning new curse words helps to develop one's character...
It's not a ☠big deal☠ as you probably can roll it back to 11 if needed.
Those skulls mean nothing...
Just browsing my SD card and similar. Occured a while back before Note 10.