I'm having some issues with my SD card and I'm wondering if it is a card issue or a phone issue. I switched my podcatcher app to save files to my 32 GB Lexar Class 10 card. I get a lot of download errors related to being unable to reach the filesystem and I get a lot of playback issues where I can't playback a file past a particular point. Today, I got a notification that my card was removed unexpectedly even though I never even took the back off the phone.
So I assume my issues are being caused by the phone losing connection to the card. The card seems firmly seated. It doesn't wiggle around at all. I have formatted the card a few times and it hasn't helped. I chose the Lexar because I've always considered them a high quality brand.
Does anyone have any thoughts on which is broken and what my next steps should be?
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Brand: Lexar 32GB Class 10
(I'm a big fan of Lexar. After my personal experience with prior Lexar SD chips in my previous phones and after countless hours of research, I'm loyal to Lexar. So the brand isn't the issue.)
I take lots and lots of pictures and video.
I had over 3000 photos on my phone and a few 1080p video.
I play xplane simulator game a lot and after a while the phone can get pretty warm.
So I'm thinking...(I do have a case on the phone as well.)
Could the heat from playing the game be responsible for the error message I'm receiving?
It said something along the lines of, "Damaged external SD storage..."
Right now I'm recovering the files and reformatting the card.
Now I'm a little gun shy to put it back in even after reformatting, because I don't know if it'll go out on me again...
I don't see any physical damage so it has to be file corruption caused by heat?
i have a Class 4 32GB Lexar, it is okay, not my favourite, too slow for my taste
have you tried re-partitioning the disk and formatting it?
i've been using a 32GB ADATA class 10 on my T989 for 2 weeks now, one night i left some game running for 10+ hour after i passed out playing the game and when i woke up the phone was burning at 50c
all my stuff are still in good shape in my SD card and phone itself
so, IMO i think your card was not affected by the heat, rather it's just wearing out, or it just needed a clean up
You do know Flash storage have limited writes, right?
it's not like a PC hard drive with unlimited rewrites
It's very normal for a 32G class 10 card to have problems. Look at newegg or amazon reviews. All class 10 cards (any brand) has a LOT of complaints saying card died. So I avoid putting important stuff in SD card altogether.
rather than avoid, you should keep multiple backups of important stuff
that's why i keep multiple copies of my SD cards
32GB SD Card issues with Galaxy S2
Hi all,
Got a similar problem here.
Transcend Class 10 32GB Card
Works in PC, HTC Desire - no probs.
Put in Galaxy S2, it starts Media Scanning, a few seconds later reports SD Card Damaged, requires formatting.
It's right - take it back out (again, umpteenth time!), put it in PC or HTC - card is "damaged". (Nothing permanent, can reformat.)
Samsung support claim to not know anything - mind you they "play dumb" about the camera "pink spot" issue, until you challenge them to get real...
Oh, dear!
Brian
Hey guys,
It started when My phone became very hot, and then I turned it off. so, when I turned it on it said my memory card was damaged.. After It started to work again. So, I didn't look into it and yesterday my gs3 turned off by it self and it said my Memory card is damaged. I just re-formated it again. My memory card is a Patriot 16gb class 10. Should I contract Patriot? my memory card still has warranty....
Most likely the memory card (micro SD) is damaged. Have you tried removing the memory card and seen if the problem is gone? If that works then you can also try using a different memory card and see if the issue is still present (there is a possibility the memory card reader is defected too).
Hey guys I have searched and found nothing. The last few days when I wake my phone up, up in the corner it will show sd card unexpectedly removed then a few seconds later it will go to the prepping sd card or whatever it says. A few times I have gone to my music and pictures and nothing is there but I just put it asleep wake it up and its loading up my stuff. I know it's a Samsung think as my S2 did it and my S3 did it once. Anybody else having the same problem? It worked fine up until the last few days
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My phone randomly unmounts the sdcard and I have to rescan my music.
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Was experiencing the same problem and the frequency of seeing "preparing SD card" was beginning to increase over the last few days. I tried formatting in the phone and formatting on the pc but neither helped. In desperation I changed cards from a 32gb Sandisk Ultra UHS-1 card to a 16GB TRanscend Class 6 card and my problems seemed to have stopped (over the last 12 hours or so). Haven't seen "Preparing SD Card" since switching. What types of cards were you guys running? Am wondering if I just go a bum card (works ok in the pc) or if there is a problem with the class of card or a problem with my phone. Don't really know where to go from here besides leaving the 16gb card in it.
I am using a Sandisk Ultramobile 32GB card, and I haven't had any problems with it at all.
I use iSyncr and store about 20GB of music in Alac format on it from my iTunes library, and have iSyncr set to display a notification when the Android media scanner is active, and I haven't seen any unusual scanning, or unmounting/preparing activity.
jkawamura said:
Was experiencing the same problem and the frequency of seeing "preparing SD card" was beginning to increase over the last few days. I tried formatting in the phone and formatting on the pc but neither helped. In desperation I changed cards from a 32gb Sandisk Ultra UHS-1 card to a 16GB TRanscend Class 6 card and my problems seemed to have stopped (over the last 12 hours or so). Haven't seen "Preparing SD Card" since switching. What types of cards were you guys running? Am wondering if I just go a bum card (works ok in the pc) or if there is a problem with the class of card or a problem with my phone. Don't really know where to go from here besides leaving the 16gb card in it.
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64gb uhs1 here so far no problems.
For me, that was always a sign of a failing SD card.
Thank you for confirming that the Note 2 works with UHS-1 cards. I figured as much since I have seen a number ofpeople mentioning that these are the cards they are using. A bit miffed at the problems I am having. Guess I'll see if I can exchange.
I'm having a problem with my free space not showing up properly. I have a 32gb class 10 that show ~5gb in one app and ~15gb in another. I had some corrupt files the other day so I backed it up and formatted it. So I think my card is going bad.
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Had the same issue with my S3.
Turned out that the SD card was dying, this caused it to be unmounted by itself and then mounted again (sometimes showing notification “sd card removed unexpectedly”), hence triggering the media scanning process.
I created an application to monitor how many times the SD card was removed, and turned out to be unmounted every ~3 mins!!!
I then bought a new Transcend 32GB Class 10 card (made in Korea), and until now, this never happens, no reports from the application whatsoever, and no media process eating my battery.
I just published this app in the play store now, this is the link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sdcardmonitor
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Hey guys I have searched and found nothing. The last few days when I wake my phone up, up in the corner it will show sd card unexpectedly removed then a few seconds later it will go to the prepping sd card or whatever it says. A few times I have gone to my music and pictures and nothing is there but I just put it asleep wake it up and its loading up my stuff. I know it's a Samsung think as my S2 did it and my S3 did it once. Anybody else having the same problem? It worked fine up until the last few days
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My phone just started having this problem on Friday... it doesn't let the phone sleep...happens probably 1 out of 4 times when I turn the phone screen on. Went to sleep during the night with 88% on the battery and 6 hours later my phone was at 55% and I had a message saying the SD card might be corrupted. Would you like to format it? Media process woke up my phone for 2 hours, so is it time for a new SD card? I'm gonna check out this SD card app I saw in this thread. Any feedback would be appreciated.
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This seems to now be a "known issue" (as in here on the forum) with specifically the SanDisk 32GB UHS-1 Class 10 red/gray cards and Samsung phones. I had the same problem pop up out nowhere after using the card just fine for a couple of months. I switched this SanDisk card with a Patriot 32GB Class 4 card that was in my Acer A500 tablet, and now both devices are perfectly happy. My Acer A500 has absolutely no problem with the SanDisk card, so it doesn't appear to be a failing SD card issue. I tested it like a dozen times before reformatting it and putting it in the Acer A500.
There's a far more extension discussion about this on the T-Mobile Note 2 forum:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2031009
Guess this is mostly a canadian concern, but has anyone else's external SD mysteriously been deactivated when the phone is exposed to temperatures below freezing for relatively long periods of time ?
For example, taking a walk outside for +/- 30 minutes when the temperature is around -10°C (~ 14°F).
It behaves exactly as if it's being manually deactivated in Setting --> Storage.
The card comes back to life after leaving the phone untouched for 5 minutes on the table upon returning to "normal" room temperature (~ 21°C / 70°F).
Never encountered this issue with the exact same SD card in my good ol' GS1 (i9000m), so I'm wonderring if it's the GS3 that doesn't tolerate the cold very well of if it's my SD card that's getting old.
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It was indeed the external SD card that seemed to be the problem. Switched temporarily to a 16Gb SD from my old GS1 i9000m and couldn't reproduce. Have bought a Sandisk Ultra 64Gb Class 10 micro SD card since then and couldn't reproduce with it either.
Glad it's not the phone! :victory:
Re: External SD vs. cold temperatures
I've had stuff like this happen, (Canadian as well). I always thought it was due to moisture but it's never been a big issue
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Normal Operating Temperatures for SD Cards are: -13ºF to 185ºF (-25ºC to 85ºC)
There's a possibility that the SIII can't read the SD cards under cold conditions?
I'm not 100% sure, as I've only owned my S3 for a week and a half, and still playing and tweaking it..
I also live in Canada (Montreal), so our weather conditions are about the same.. So i will let you know if i encounter this problem or not?
I would try to re-format your card?? maybe that will help??
Use the Panasonic SD Formatter Software for Windows, and then I format inside my S3 for best performance.
Try that, maybe it will help???
It's an issue when :
Your camera is set to record images/videos on that SD card and you want to use it
You meet someone on your way and want to show that person pictures you've taken
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I also live in Canada (Montreal), so our weather conditions are about the same.. So i will let you know if i encounter this problem or not?
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If you're courageous enough, go take a walk outside today, or this evening, and see if you can reproduce.
Temperature a freakin' cold enough for it to happen these days! lol
Also, it's been discussed that most people think that SanDisk Extreme III is the SD card for extreme temperatures.
Which brand? is it?
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Also, it's been discussed that most people think that SanDisk Extreme III is the SD card for extreme temperatures.
Which brand? is it?
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Lexar 16Gb ... class 6
But like I said, this exact same card used to be in my GS1 and never encountered this issue back then.
Re: External SD vs. cold temperatures
I had an issue last week where, when I was outside on a job site, my sd card became corrupted. Lost everything on it and the card was damaged so badly I couldn't even reformat it to get it working. Had to get a new card. Don't know if it was coincidental or not. It was only about -4 C.
Mine got corrupted as well the first time as I didn't expect this to happen.
I kept trying to access it up to a point where when it was available again it got corrupted.
Had to format it and lost everything.
Since then, when this happens, I let the phone sit for a while and never had data corruption since.
Still curious to know if this is phone or memory related...
It was indeed the external SD card that seemed to be the problem. Switched temporarily to a 16Gb SD from my old GS1 i9000m and couldn't reproduce. Have bought a Sandisk Ultra 64Gb Class 10 micro SD card since then and couldn't reproduce with it either.
Glad it's not the phone! :victory:
Hi there,
One of the biggest frustrations for me with my new HTC M8 has been SD cards.
All of my usual cards I use in various devices have all been too slow for Zoe so I invested in a Class 10 32GB. Get the same warning 'To enjoy a better Zoe experience, please use a higher class SD card' or a message very similar.
I've also had a few times when my SD card has become corrupt at various times.
Am I alone in experiencing these problems?
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Hi there,
One of the biggest frustrations for me with my new HTC M8 has been SD cards.
All of my usual cards I use in various devices have all been too slow for Zoe so I invested in a Class 10 32GB. Get the same warning 'To enjoy a better Zoe experience, please use a higher class SD card' or a message very similar.
I've also had a few times when my SD card has become corrupt at various times.
Am I alone in experiencing these problems?
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Im using adata class 10 32gb card same pop up. Do I need a faster SD card?
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Im using adata class 10 32gb card same pop up. Do I need a faster SD card?
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It may be the way the card is formatted.
I always reformat my card FAT32 before putting it into a new device. Once I put it in the new device, I then have the phone reformat it also... then move everything on to the card...
Hi,
I did all the steps you mentioned. Anybody recommend a fast card that dosent bring up the zoe pop up ?
Oh' Thanks for all your help.
I have the same problem with mine, it half corrupted itself today after i opened the camera app, the camera froze and the phone unmounted the sd card, i removed it and put it back in numerous times and it wouldn't read, had to put it into a friends Z1 to get the card back working, but now all the photos are deleted, luckily google backs them up automatically.
How could HTC mess up such an important feature on a flagship phone.
Mine does not have this pop up.
I am using a Sony Micro SD HC with a 10 in a circle (Class ten is that?), i1, 40mb/s, model SR-32UY
I bought it from tesco, 32gb, for about 20 I think, in the UK.
Zoe's record perfectly.
I formatted the card in my phone on Venom Rom.