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i just got a new sd card switch to a 32g but for some reason when i try to put ALL my fav tunes on there it always seems to screw up and not copy most of them...what am i doing wrong i know i have enough space..
Maybe try putting the songs in small portions if you have a lot.. other than that I don't know, bro.
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achang9523 said:
i just got a new sd card switch to a 32g but for some reason when i try to put ALL my fav tunes on there it always seems to screw up and not copy most of them...what am i doing wrong i know i have enough space..
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Did you try formatting the card? Where did you buy it? I have heard many many many times that ebay is infiltrated with fraud 32gb cards. They are really 4 or 8gb or something like that. When you mount the card in your computer or phone, what does it show the total size as?
it shows the right amount...
Fraud cards still show the "right" amount as far as I know. Dunno if they do in the phone though
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achang9523 said:
i just got a new sd card switch to a 32g but for some reason when i try to put ALL my fav tunes on there it always seems to screw up and not copy most of them...what am i doing wrong i know i have enough space..
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I agree that it could be a fake card. Where did you buy it from and how much did you pay?
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mobile shack, about $30
$30 for a 32 gig definitely sounds fishy.
achang9523 said:
mobile shack, about $30
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You have been EVOfied.
You can test your card's real capacity with a utility like h2test, which will write files until it's full and then verify them. Though you've basically already verified it...if it consistently stops writing files at a certain capacity, that's probably the true capacity of the card. As others have said, if you bought it from ebay, it's common.
http://www.heise.de/software/download/h2test/19574
Don't let the German scare you. It supports English.
Just went through this with a Wintec card bought from Fry's. Here's what will happen with your card, too:
Code:
while (patience == good)
{
Card will spontaneously corrupt data;
Reformat card;
Restore data from back (you do have a backup, right?);
}
beat card into powder with a ball-peen hammer;
I spent $119 for my card and this happened. Return it if you can.
jimbobtexas said:
Just went through this with a Wintec card bought from Fry's. Here's what will happen with your card, too:
Code:
while (patience == good)
{
Card will spontaneously corrupt data;
Reformat card;
Restore data from back (you do have a backup, right?);
}
beat card into powder with a ball-peen hammer;
I spent $119 for my card and this happened. Return it if you can.
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I used to get corrupted stuff too. What I did that stopped it for me was put a thick piece of paper on top of the card and into the slot. When the battery was on top of the card, out would keep it from moving. I suspected the card and phone contacts weren't staying firmly set. If a write cycle happened when the connection was intermittent, corrupt files and or file allocation table.
Is the microSD card in the Evo when you transfer all that stuff to it? If so, it might be worth a shot to take it out and just use a standalone card reader or USB adapter to hook it up to your computer and then transfer that way. No idea if it would make a difference, but just another thing you can try.
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mobile shack, about $30
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That is a fake card. Sorry.
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My wife has been using her et4g for many months and she has a 32 gig sd card installed but can't seem to put anything on it pics, app, etc. I have formatted and mounted it any ideas?
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What class? Some low end sd cards wont work as it doesnt allow fast enough write/read speed
i have the same problem. it's from amazon, and made by amazon, 16 gb class 10. it used to work find on GB but after the ics update, I can't install any apps on it, but i can move files to it
Things don't save to external by default. I've always used mine as a backup, to unload crap from the phone's memory to it. I don't know how to make things save and use the external, if that's possible.
Perhaps its a bad card. Have you tried it in an adapter on a computer or another device? If the card works it could be something else.
I doubt its the class affecting it unless its a really cheap POS.
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I believe it's a class 4 or 6 the phone can see it in the menu /settings /storage section and you can mount and format it there. But we are unable to to move anything to it
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Have you formatted it with Windows or with the formatter from the SD Card Association?
LordJummy said:
Perhaps its a bad card. Have you tried it in an adapter on a computer or another device? If the card works it could be something else.
I doubt its the class affecting it unless its a really cheap POS.
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to the other guy, i know it's not saved on sd on default, but i tried to move the apps, and it doesn't work.
and also yes, i have used it with adapter on a computer and it works fine
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Don Qua said:
Have you formatted it with Windows or with the formatter from the SD Card Association?
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yes i have, too many times
I guess phones can be finicky. One of my old phones didn't like a card. I don't remember if it was my evo or epic, but one of them didn't like sandisk or Samsung cards. I've got a pny 32, forgot the class, and its not giving me any problems. Never heard of a card not accepting files. You think maybe the rom might have a snafu in it? I don't remember if you said she was running custom rom or not. Try a different brand. If it still does it then the phone might have a hardware problem.
I purchased a Sandisk 64GB micro SD card through Amazon. I got the card and put it in my phone and the phone said it was damaged. It wouldn't mount the SD card to format it. I tried to format it with my laptop, but it would not give the option for fat32.
I did a Google search and found this.
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm
You have to use Dos commands, but it formats the SD card to fat32 in about 3 seconds. Needless to say, this has to be done on a Windows computer. Mine is running Vista.
BE CAREFUL! IF YOU AREN'T PAYING ATTENTION, YOU COULD FORMAT THE WRONG DRIVE AND MESS UP YOUR COMPUTER!
(If this is in the wrong place, please move to the correct forum.)
I'm sure most of you already know how to do this. I just figured I would post it for people that don't.
How much did u pay for it?
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How much did u pay for it?
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The micro SD card? 60 bucks off of Amazon about a month ago. I thought the first one was defective so I sent it back. Just got the replacement today.
v8dreaming said:
The micro SD card? 60 bucks off of Amazon about a month ago. I thought the first one was defective so I sent it back. Just got the replacement today.
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Was it the class 6 or the class 10 one? I got the class 10 64gb for like 75
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wow 64g, can save me loads of porn.........
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If it won't format in the phone, it may be defective. I went through something similar, I ordered a 64gb class 6 card off Amazon a few months ago. It was made by "Komputerbay" & had good reviews, but would not format at all in my phone. Wouldn't even mount or anything. I sent it back & ordered a Sandisk, and it formatted in my phone right away with no problems.
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If it won't format in the phone, it may be defective. I went through something similar, I ordered a 64gb class 6 card off Amazon a few months ago. It was made by "Komputerbay" & had good reviews, but would not format at all in my phone. Wouldn't even mount or anything. I sent it back & ordered a Sandisk, and it formatted in my phone right away with no problems.
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It's not defective. I'm using it in my phone right now. I find it interesting that people are able to mount this card in their phone when, out of the box, it's in a format that the phone doesn't recognize. Also, without a workaround, you aren't supposed to be able to format anything over 32GB to fat32.
This is my understanding after reading up on it anyway.
skyfolly said:
wow 64g, can save me loads of porn.........
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I have 55GB of music and we aren't allowed to use the wifi at work. Streaming music for 8 hours straight would kill my data plan.
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I have 55GB of music and we aren't allowed to use the wifi at work. Streaming music for 8 hours straight would kill my data plan.
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you can't use grooveshark at work?
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you can't use grooveshark at work?
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They password protected the wifi network. So, we aren't allowed to use it.
I could use grooveshark with my cell data, but I would go through my 5GB data plan in about a week.
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They password protected the wifi network. So, we aren't allowed to use it.
I could use grooveshark with my cell data, but I would go through my 5GB data plan in about a week.
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You have a computer workstation connected to the internet no?
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Jesus H! Thank you for this! I've been fighting this for about a week now since I started playing with CM10 on the S3. Tried 4 or 5 methods of formatting with various commands and apps, and the most I could get out of the card was 32 GB in FAT32.
There's also a gui version of the utility that worked when all other found the card unreadable. Took all of 10 seconds!
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm
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You have a computer workstation connected to the internet no?
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No I do not. I do not sit down to work. I am a diesel mechanic.
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Jesus H! Thank you for this! I've been fighting this for about a week now since I started playing with CM10 on the S3. Tried 4 or 5 methods of formatting with various commands and apps, and the most I could get out of the card was 32 GB in FAT32.
There's also a gui version of the utility that worked when all other found the card unreadable. Took all of 10 seconds!
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm
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Glad it worked for you also.
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No I do not. I do not sit down to work. I am a diesel mechanic.
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Never mind then lol. I'm glad to hear you work with your hands... I'm going to school for a desk job and half the time I wish I could be under some motor
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I thank v8dreaming for posting the link to Ridgecorp.
I downloaded their fat32 format tool, and now my Sandisk 64GB micro SDXC works with my 3year old Samsung Jet S8000!
more memory than a $1000,- iPhone FTW
thanks again!
For those of you having a problem with formatting your 64 gig card in FAT32 go here.
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm
EDIT - LOL I just saw your post but here is the link.
05Warrior said:
For those of you having a problem with formatting your 64 gig card in FAT32 go here.
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm
EDIT - LOL I just saw your post but here is the link.
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I have followed the tutorial and have formatted it, but windows still reports a size of 27.4GB which would mean 32GB.
I have a class 10 64GB card, i can format it in exfat no problem, just not fat32.
Any ideas?
Just in case someone has this problem
I was trying to format my sandisk 64gb that was formatted in exfat but I was having an error message saying that the card was being used by another program but there was nothing using it. What I did was that I formatted it with windows 7 to NTFS and after it was done I used the program again and this time it works. To make sure I put my card in the phone and formatted it with the phone also. I tried to formatted it in the phone before and it was formatted but it stayed in exfat. I want it to be FAT32 because the clockworkmod recovery touch can't access the card formatted in exfat to make backup. Now I will try it with fat32 which they say it will work.
Try to get another recovery like twrp, it let's you use your external sd.
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This has been the second time getting this error on SG3.
The first time I checked if the card was corrupted by putting the sdcard in the netbook, it was recognized and displayed all the folders. Inserted the card again in the SG3 and it wasn't recognized, rebooted into recovery and fixed permisions and cleared cache/dalvik and rebooted. The card was back up and everything was ok.
Again happened today, tried the same thing and nada Now it also says "Sdcard blank or unregonized file system" in notification and it then prompts for format confirmation upon tapping it.
I've googled and oogled and keep finding different solutions, some I cannot try now since I'm at work. One of them suggest to move all files to PC and format the card, I'll give that a shot at home and see. Another was to update the firmware, but on the latest L13... Apparently, this has been ongoing for sometime and there is an open issue in google for this.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=19722
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9736 - Originally opened for LG Ally, but HTC and Samsung users have also reported it on the same issue.
Anyone else encountered this problem in SG3?
Happens to me all the time. Sometimes it will just continue to prepare then unexpectedly removed pops up, then that will cycle and kill my battery. I just got a new SD card hoping that would fix it but it did not.
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alaman68 said:
Happens to me all the time. Sometimes it will just continue to prepare then unexpectedly removed pops up, then that will cycle and kill my battery. I just got a new SD card hoping that would fix it but it did not.
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I'm researching like a mad man! Found a few tools but most are for HDD and not microsd... found the one below that is supposed to detect the card/drive even if it's not mounted or has a drive letter and revover the file system, repair partitions, recover ALL file types, etc but nada
Had a few important fotos, my most recent nanroid, my TB folder, that last one hurt the most.
I didn't back up after the first "fix" cause I thought it was a one time things, never heard of this error before. Lesson learned
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
If your computer can see it and you don't mind losing data do a low level format on the SDcard
Edit: my SDcard started liked yours but got so bad i couldn't use it at all with my phone, I'm fact Windows couldn't even see it i had to use Linux.
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jamcar said:
If your computer can see it and you don't mind losing data do a low level format on the SDcard
Edit: my SDcard started liked yours but got so bad i couldn't use it at all with my phone, I'm fact Windows couldn't even see it i had to use Linux.
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Mine is in that state right now, XP won't pick it up, booting up Win7 PC to try it. My Nikin S70 detects it but it says unusable and won't format it either.
Guess my only option is to partition the netbooks HD and install Ubuntu on it, this gave a good excuse to try it out lol
Found this post that gives some pointers and explains the linux part.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4112485&postcount=9
ugggg...... my sd was just totally killed. Windows will not even recognize it now and it reads as a blank SD in the phone. did you figure anything out OP? Mine is 32G sandisk class 10.
this sucks
Same thing happened with me D: did anyone find a solution other than losing all the data on it?
And since I see this thread is fairly new, did everyone else happen to be on the leaked Jelly bean build? It happened to me after the phone rebooted while on the leaked ROM
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alaman68 said:
ugggg...... my sd was just totally killed. Windows will not even recognize it now and it reads as a blank SD in the phone. did you figure anything out OP? Mine is 32G sandisk class 10.
this sucks
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Apart from the info already here, nope... I need to buy an external sd reader that gets a drive letter assigned without the card and try to force mount on win and run chkdsk, it's the only thing missing. Not even Linux picks it up! Not even force mount! This sucks and seems to have been a problem in android for some time now...
I did order a sandisk 32GB Ultra, but would like to fix this one. Might use it for the camera or give it to my better half for their TF700.
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Next time it happens and your pc still happens to pick it up, run a chkdsk on it. Do not format it. It might prevent it from happening again...
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Same thing happened with me D: did anyone find a solution other than losing all the data on it?
And since I see this thread is fairly new, did everyone else happen to be on the leaked Jelly bean build? It happened to me after the phone rebooted while on the leaked ROM
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i was not on the JB leak. Beginning to think this is a hardware problem, so last night i unrooted and am going to the sprint store today.
I did try force mounting, chkdsk and everything else i could find but nothing worked. fortunately i am still able to return the SD card because i have only had it for a week.
My 64gb class 10 just started doing this after i formatted it to fat32. I am wondering if formatting could be our problem.
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My 64gb class 10 just started doing this after i formatted it to fat32. I am wondering if formatting could be our problem.
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Yes and no...It was stated by some members that there was a write-up saying that you shouldn't format your card because this would deduct part of it's useful life.
I never formated my card, it was inserted as soon as I bought the phone and been using it since and never formated it.
I'm going tonight to Wal-Mart and getting a card reader and seeing if that helps in fixing this. In an earlier post I attached a link to an old thread that gives a solution that seems to have helped others.
FYI, just got back from the store and it is definitely failure of the SD card reader. They tested it and my new phone comes tomorrow.
alaman68 said:
FYI, just got back from the store and it is definitely failure of the SD card reader. They tested it and my new phone comes tomorrow.
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Sprint store? How did they determine it?
I used another sdcard that I had, 8GB, and the phone read it ok...
Edit - then does this mean that there might be a factory reset on the card reader in the SG3? :/
all they told me was that they inserted another card and it happened. Mine also fried two cards so far, so it is definitely pretty bad and i was confident it would fail any test they gave it.
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all they told me was that they inserted another card and it happened. Mine also fried two cards so far, so it is definitely pretty bad and i was confident it would fail any test they gave it.
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hm... I'll clear up a 2GB one I have lying around and see how it goes before using the 32GB Ultra.
If it happens again, I'll visit the Sprint Store on Saturday.
Do you have TEP or was it covered under manufacturer warranty?
i do have TEP but it was covered under manufacturer warranty. took over an hour, but worth having the ability to use an SD card again
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i do have TEP but it was covered under manufacturer warranty. took over an hour, but worth having the ability to use an SD card again
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Kool! The way it should be, since it's a factory deffect.
I'll test out and see what goes on...
Thanks on the update.
Hey guys
Been reading this thread, having the same issue.
Actually the only reason I post because I'm troubled of the error other then having an actual problem, this error been spawning up for me for quite a while, though it does seem to work perfectly fine.
You think the SD card could just Die one day ?
I hope you guys could determine if there's a factory defect in the SG3 or the Card, I got the international GT-i9300, I hope i won't have to return it, since the shop it was bought from is located at Poland and I live in israel (let's say that handling via warranty is not an option).
Need to check perhaps with samsung if they know of any factory defects regarding microSD card readers, My SDcard brand is Sandisk 32GB ultra class 6.
I fixed mine by completely removing the battery and putting in sd card then boot up. Sounds dumb but it worked.
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My memory card keeps ejecting itself every time my phone gets the slightest knock, even when I'm trying to be gentle like putting it down on a table. I don't mean un mounting but actually coming out of the card slot.
Any one else having this problem?
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Does it click in place like it should?
Me too
Ulster1690 said:
My memory card keeps ejecting itself every time my phone gets the slightest knock, even when I'm trying to be gentle like putting it down on a table. I don't mean un mounting but actually coming out of the card slot.
Any one else having this problem?
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I'm also getting that same problem. I tried cleaning the micro sd with an eraser and the holder but i keep getting that message that the memory card has been ejected and immediately the phone starts checking it up. This doesn't happen when i'm using the sd, like when listening to mp3 stored in the micro sd.
Does anybody have a solution for this?
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I'm also getting that same problem. I tried cleaning the micro sd with an eraser and the holder but i keep getting that message that the memory card has been ejected and immediately the phone starts checking it up. This doesn't happen when i'm using the sd, like when listening to mp3 stored in the micro sd.
Does anybody have a solution for this?
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which sd card are u using as some san disk sd used to have incompatibility with note2 that was old lot but the new ones are fine and runs with no prob or best go for samsung sd
shhbz said:
which sd card are u using as some san disk sd used to have incompatibility with note2 that was old lot but the new ones are fine and runs with no prob or best go for samsung sd
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I'm using an Adata micro sd class 4. I've been using it for over a month and the problem started like a week ago.
And yeah, I want a new sd but i'm trying to see if the problem it's with the phone or the card and if there is something i could do to fix it.
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I'm using an Adata micro sd class 4. I've been using it for over a month and the problem started like a week ago.
And yeah, I want a new sd but i'm trying to see if the problem it's with the phone or the card and if there is something i could do to fix it.
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Well all u can do ia format with sd formatter tool and try to use then if prob persist with this or even odr sd then ur phn slot maybe the culprit
I've got Samsung 64gb class 10. Problem isn't with the card because I've tried a few different ones and always get the same result.
I think I've narrowed it down to a little stub on the back cover which I think is supposed to help keep the card in tight. I've filed it off to see if that makes any difference and so far so good.
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I've got Samsung 64gb class 10. Problem isn't with the card because I've tried a few different ones and always get the same result.
I think I've narrowed it down to a little stub on the back cover which I think is supposed to help keep the card in tight. I've filed it off to see if that makes any difference and so far so good.
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Could you take a pic of the stub? I'd be great if i could fix it instead of buying another 32gb sd.