[Q] SD Card problem - EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi all.
I have a 32 gb class 6 card (Topram) which I purchased about 2 weeks ago. I partitioned it with a ext2 and converted to an ext3 and had been running Mik 3DSupersonic with a2sd with no problems. Today I was copying the contents of the card to my computer using a card reader and something went wrong. Upon inserting the SD card back into the phone it was unrecognized. I have tried partitioning it with my phone through RA Anon recovery (it completes almost instantly) unsuccessfully and also through my Windows 7 computer without success. Are there any tricks I can try or is this brand new card shot?
Thanks for any insight.

I can pretty much guarantee you have a fake card. Where did you purchase it from?

sitlet said:
I can pretty much guarantee you have a fake card. Where did you purchase it from?
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Really? It was working fine for over 2 weeks. I purchased it through buy.com from a third party seller. I doubt it.

Yeah sounds like a 2gb card hacked to read 32gb until you try filling it up past the 2gb. If you don't mind me asking, how much did you pay for it?
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THREESTRIPEBRAND said:
Yeah sounds like a 2gb card hacked to read 32gb until you try filling it up past the 2gb. If you don't mind me asking, how much did you pay for it?
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If you're right it had to be bigger than a 2gb because I had upwards of 9 gb on it when it was working. I paid $46.75 Here's the link http://www.buy.com/pr/product.aspx?sku=219375390
I've contacted Topram about a warranty replacement. I'll keep you posted on the outcome.

bytes2bits said:
If you're right it had to be bigger than a 2gb because I had upwards of 9 gb on it when it was working. I paid $46.75 Here's the link http://www.buy.com/pr/product.aspx?sku=219375390
I've contacted Topram about a warranty replacement. I'll keep you posted on the outcome.
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Topram is really not a very good brand. SanDisk is the only manufacturer that actually has a working 32gb card out right now.

sitlet said:
Topram is really not a very good brand. SanDisk is the only manufacturer that actually has a working 32gb card out right now.
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I learned my lesson now. I wouldn't have even considered it except it had very good reviews.

i have a small question about sd cards, i have a sandisk 8gb class 4 sd card that i am using and i used the app SD Tools to test the speeds of my card and my results were as if the class of my card was higher than 4.....but i dont fully understand what speeds are for each class, from what i have read a class 4 should have 4mb of write speed, but mine ranges from 8-10 on the tests...does that mean my card is like a class 8 or 10?...if anyone could clear this up for me that would be awesome...ill put a screenshot of my test results if that would help also...
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this is the fastest results btw

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[Q] anyone actually installed an micro sdxc card on EVO?

I've searched for this but no real confirmation:
Would my EVO 4G support a micro SDXC 64GB card? Anyone actually done this?
OR, is there any way to get my EVO above 32 GB of internal memory? Just want to fit all my music...
pretty sure the max for android is 32gb...try it and find out. should be 32 though
Yeah I don't think the evo will handle a SD card larger than 32gb...
Does this even exist yet? I didn't think microSDXC was on the market yet. I've seen SDXC cards, but haven't seen micro.
That said, I really do wish that some of the newer phone coming out would have support for this (since it's backwards compatible with microSDHC cards), just for future-proofing. Then again, maybe cost effective microSDXC cards are still far enough away that it doesn't really matter.
I can not find any 64gb micro SDXC cards available in the world, I'm googling and turning up nothing.
They better hurry, because Apple is about to have 64gb phones and customers expectations will be to match them.
Any updates? I know the 64GB micro SDXC works in the Galaxy S2 phones if you format the card as FAT32. Anyone brave enough to try the same in the Evo 4G?
I'm pretty sure it will work - mine works in my SGSI, SGSII, Sensation, and Transformer.
http://www.androidnz.net/2011/09/sandisk-64gb-micro-sdxc-cards-confirmed.html
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I can not find any 64gb micro SDXC cards available in the world, I'm googling and turning up nothing.
They better hurry, because Apple is about to have 64gb phones and customers expectations will be to match them.
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This is not true. Not everybody wants the same thing. Apple is **** anyway, so who cares what they are coming out with.
Evo4eva said:
This is not true. Not everybody wants the same thing. Apple is **** anyway, so who cares what they are coming out with.
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We concur with Evo4eva's statement of fact about Apple...it's unanimous!
SanDisk is selling them directly. Expensive, but price will drop soon.
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EVO does not support more than 32g
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EVO does not support more than 32g
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Neither does anything else, but it works.
You need to reformat the card as fat32. This will limit the max size of a file to no more than 4gb.
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EVO does not support more than 32g
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if you want to be precise, no phone on the market supports microsd (all variation) above 32GB, but thats on paper, sometimes the unexpected do happen in real life, and manufacturer dont like to release these info out.

Just got a 16gb Class 10 SD card

I just received my 16gb class 10 microSD today. I got it from Buy.com
http://www.buy.com/prod/oem-16gb-16...class-10-card-reader/q/loc/101/220244316.html
It was $32 after tax.
It comes with an adapter and a reader, which basically looks like a little usb flash drive that you put your memory card into and then plug into the usb port.
So far, no problems with it. It is actually like 14.9gb, but I guess thats just how it goes. It's been holding and managing files well, but I don't really know how to accurately test it. I've been downloading a lot of songs and pictures, taking pictures and video, moving files around, deleting things, and its handling everything, no errors.
Just one more update...
The card is still working well. No problems what-so-ever. If you're looking for a good LEGIT 16gb card, this one is a good deal.
I've just noticed that nobody really follows up on a review for batteries or sdcards, they only talk a lot.
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Just one more update...
I've just noticed that nobody really follows up on a review for batteries or sdcards, they only talk a lot.
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Most people are looking for speed tests to validate a card being the class that it claims. Since there are so many ones that tend to exaggerate their speeds.
Perhaps run a speed test on the card and post the results. You can find some freeware ones doing a Google search. I personally have used Crystal Disk Mark and it worked fine.
http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskMark/index-e.html
You could try SD tools app. I bought a class 4 16g sandisk.
I modified the read ahead to 2048 but didn't do a test before dunno if it helped
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ok hows this? I didnt change any sd card/storage settings.
That's niiice
Looks nice...I might have to buy one because I think my POS Wintech 16gb cl10 card is starting to fail on me.
My 8 gig class two that I've had through two completely different phones and countless downloads and erasing files as well as a few reformats has similar speeds after using SD speed boost...I've hit higher but scaled it back as I was afraid of hurting it.
Post a pic, lets see what urs comes in at.
urrgevo said:
My 8 gig class two that I've had through two completely different phones and countless downloads and erasing files as well as a few reformats has similar speeds after using SD speed boost...I've hit higher but scaled it back as I was afraid of hurting it.
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That's quite a price. I prefer Kingston but you can only get a 16gb Class 4 for that price.
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ok hows this? I didnt change any sd card/storage settings.
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Awesome. I tested my slow 8GB card and it doesn't even come close to that. Just bought one of these. Thanks for the speed test. Hopefully mine is as fast.
I just bought this today and hopefully it will be here by the end of the week. I will post some screenies of my speed test when it comes in as well. If mine has this same speed this is a great deal for anyone looking for a 16gb card. Anyone else who bought this should post some screenshots of their speedtest results on this card. The more we have verify the speeds the more likely we will know whether this is good or just a gimmick or just luck of the draw on speed.
Bought one of these for my 2nd EVO today. Will post speeds when SD card received and tested. I have a 32GB Class 10 in my 1st EVO and it screams but don't need quite that much storage capacity in 2nd EVO. Hope it turns out to be a good buy with great speed.
so i just did a test on my class 2 card i bought from frys, i get a 10 mb/s write but only a 5 mb/s read. this probably explains all the time i have to wait for my pictures to load in my gallery.

[Q] Which card is better?

This: http://datacomp.sk/kingston-micro-sdhc-16gb-class-4-adapter_d82251.html
Or this: http://online.asbis.sk/16-gb-microsdhc-karta-a-data-class-10-adapter-v3_d138300.html
Kingston was always a reliable card. I had it with my previous phones.
But A-Data is better specs wise and it is reliable, too. Class 10 will be faster than class 4 and A-Data is reported to be one of the class 10 cards working flawlessly with the Desire.
I'd go with the A-Data.
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Kingston was always a reliable card. I had it with my previous phones.
But A-Data is better specs wise and it is reliable, too. Class 10 will be faster than class 4 and A-Data is reported to be one of the class 10 cards working flawlessly with the Desire.
I'd go with the A-Data.
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I can join this opinion.
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Both are reputable memory manufacturers so I'd go with the more favorable price/warranty ratio.
Well, this is interesting behavior. I transcoded all Ambient Nights from 320 kBps MP3 into 192 kBps aacPlus. The moment I copied them onto SD card, performance of entire phone went to hell. Any idea why?
Just for your info, this is my ADATA 8Gb class 10 result, on Stock rooted Gingerbread..
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I just checked card for bad sectors. None.
JACKOPT! File name format was causing slowdown. When I changed it to 01. artist - track all is working again. Now, since I have hundreds of tracks to rename, do you know good freeware software that we will do it?
I think Media monkey could pull that off.
I would prefer Partiot:
pamatove-karty.heureka.sk/patriot-micro-sdhc-16gb-class-10/
I am currently happy with Lexar
www .sunnysoft.sk/zbozi/150PLX-027/lexar-microsdhc-32gb-pametova-karta-high-speed-class-10-se-cteckou.html
Previous one was Transcend 8 GB class 6. No problems with that either. Quite fast. Even comparing to the latest Class 10 card.
You should also remember a nice company Sandisk. Their class 2 cards are faster than any class 10 cards for small files. And I have a reason to believe that it would speed up custom ROMs from sd-ext a lot.
I bought this one: http://www.qcomp.sk/shopping/product_details.php?idp=abC4310711
Anyway, I used Rename Master.
Great price.
And I had to pay for mine class six one five euros more... congratulations to your choice, anyway.
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Well, it wasn't because of file name. The only reason I can think of is audio format. I'll see more tomorrow. Wish me luck.
P.S.: I can't get more than 5 MBps from card while in phone. But the card itself is workin as should; I get speeds between 10 MBps to 12 MBps.
Yep, it was file format. Now I'm back to business.
Question: Desire doesn't have SD specification v3.0?

32Gb Samsung Class 10 : Is this real or fake ?

I just orderd 32GB Samsung Class 10 card but i am not sure if it's real or fake
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130670421178&ssPageName=ADME:L:OC:GB:3160
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Results :/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVNshcZixKI
Soon as you receive the card, use H2testw 1.4 to test the card ( it will take some time ). If the card fails then contact the seller for a refund. If you have problems then open a dispute with Paypal ( hope you paid using Paypal ).
http://sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/2...standard-in-detecting-usb-counterfeit-drives/
The seller is top-rated 99.99%, I doubt it is fake.
I own this card and the image looks real. Ridicilously cheap though.
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I have bought 32GB Class 4 Sandisk. It's good, it writes the data on card at 4 Mb/s in actuality
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i too bought this card. couldnt belive the price either (28€). tested it, and it came close to the stats posted.
finally something good and cheap for our S2.
i have ADATA 32 GB CLASS 4 and i feels like its slow gives 5 mb write
10 to 11 mb read
i have kington 32G class it can use normal
bidboy said:
Soon as you receive the card, use H2testw 1.4 to test the card ( it will take some time ). If the card fails then contact the seller for a refund. If you have problems then open a dispute with Paypal ( hope you paid using Paypal ).
http://sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/2...standard-in-detecting-usb-counterfeit-drives/
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it passed the test
Another 32GB Class 10 option
I found the lexar 32GB Class 10 one quite good.
Plus it comes with a free reader for that extra boost of speed coping stuff to/from it from the computer.
Search for "Lexar 32GB Micro SDHC High Speed Card with Reader - Class 10 Extreme Speed" to find it
I bought that 32Go Samsung Class 10 microSD card, and it works really fine, with 10 in writing and something like 20-25 in reading.
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I bought that 32Go Samsung Class 10 microSD card, and it works really fine, with 10 in writing and something like 20-25 in reading.
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what program you used....mid to share?
dadyal said:
I just orderd 32GB Samsung Class 10 card but i am not sure if it's real or fake
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130670421178&ssPageName=ADME:L:eek:C:GB:3160
Results :/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVNshcZixKI
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another method u can check and find out if the card is real or fake is if u download sd card tester from goople play and that will also tell u wether its a real card or a fake 1 by validating the write and reading speeds.

Sd damaged? Is this normal for android?

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Yo. Tablet shut down and when I rebooted, I saw this messae. Is tnks a commonandroid problem?
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it is common for the galaxy s3 to damage sd cards...
The same happened with Note 3 twice with two different card (64GB and 32GB)
What brand is the SD card? Maybe it's Made in China junk. Even Sandisk have had batches that suffered premature death. I've never had any issues with several Samsung phones since the original Galaxy S but I stick to established brands like Samsung, Delkin, Sandisk, etc.
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What brand is the SD card? Maybe it's Made in China junk. Even Sandisk have had batches that suffered premature death. I've never had any issues with several Samsung phones since the original Galaxy S but I stick to established brands like Samsung, Delkin, Sandisk, etc.
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Sandisk 64gb, toshiba 32gb
I had a pny 64 die in it and a 64 sandisk that works fine in every other device start acting up the way he pny did before dieing. a 32gb sandisk is working fine now with no hiccups. I'm not risking another $50 card in it whether it's the tablets fault or not.
I shoulda jumped on that 35 bb deal though.
I am using sandisk 64gb class 6 on my note 10.1 2014 with no problems so far
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My S4 had that message happening with a Sandisk Extreme 64gb card a lot but it would always work still. Formatting it fixed it. My Samsung 64gb Extreme card hasn't had any issues yet in my Note. If you haven't formatted it yet, I would try that.
I had similar problem with the first note 10.1 2014, it had problem with the microsd slot. the card would work for a few minutes and then it would stop detecting it, showed corrupt sd card errors. I think the microsd module was broken, it "sunk inside", so it was really hard to insert the microsd with just fingers. I exchanged it for the new one.
The sd card works fine now, but this too has that weird defect with the module sunk in, i have to use the edge of another microsd card to fully insert one inside till it clicks in.
Not sure if anyone else have the same problem, but I may return this again and buy one from different store.
the tablet reboot when installing/update apps from play store will the sd card in (SanDisk 64gb).

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