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64GB Microsd Card(Not working for our phones?)

So i was anybody has a 64gb microsd card from sandisk in there vibes. I currently have one but im having issues with it in all roms. My computer reads it and the phone recognize it and i try formatting it but after it formats it acts like nothing happened.
Edit: Nvm i seem to fix it, had to go back on my g2 and reformat on that phone then bring it back to my vibes.

I thought this phone only supported up to 32GB?

Phone only supports up to 32 GBs. Think it says so on the box.
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jalaldaniel said:
I thought this phone only supported up to 32GB?
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theking_13 said:
Phone only supports up to 32 GBs. Think it says so on the box.
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It can support 64gb Microsd cards from Sandisk. You have to insert it in your vibes and it will appear that you have a error n your sd all you have to do is format it and you have a working 64gb card in your phone. I'll pot picture later on for proof. I'm currently putting most of my music collection in my phone so it may take a while.

pocket now says original galaxy s handles it fine, but i'm gonna wait a few months till i get sgs 3. hopefully by then it will be cheaper too
http://pocketnow.com/android/how-well-are-android-phones-handling-64gb-sdxc-memory-cards

SladeNoctis said:
It can support 64gb Microsd cards from Sandisk. You have to insert it in your vibes and it will appear that you have a error n your sd all you have to do is format it and you have a working 64gb card in your phone. I'll pot picture later on for proof. I'm currently putting most of my music collection in my phone so it may take a while.
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Which SD card did you buy, can you pose link, thank you.

Blank SDXC card since this morning

I've not seen any messages from other users anywhere in this section of XDA. So i was wondering if any of this sounds familiar to anyone of you.
I bought the 64gb SDXC card from Sandisk 2 weeks ago. Formatted it in the phone when prompted after i inserted it. After this i used it for over 2 weeks and had no problems whatsoever..
This morning i woke up and the phone said it had a blank SD card in it and asked me if i wanted to reformat it...
Since i have a lot of pics, video's and other personal files on it. This is really not on my wishlist.
This weekend when i get back home, ill try to recover my files and try to reformat the SDXC card. Which i bought from a proper store so it's really not a fake since i paid over 70 euro's for the thing.
Was just wondering if more people have been experiencing any problems with these cards? Or what might be the problem with it. Furthermore, when i formatted the card in the phone itselve. Dit i formatted it into FAT32? I think it was still Exfat myselve, but this is just a Q a friend asked me.
Oh btw, i did not root the phone, so no SU or other tricks. Just a stock version.
P.s. Sorry, i had my eyes shut when posting. This should be in "Questions section" My apologies to the Mod's

Looks like your card corrupted and might still work if you format but I reckon you should get a replacement.

Hmm that's not really the answer i was hoping for. Since the card is only 2 weeks old. And what sais the new card won't be corrupted either then within 2 weeks. I am not looking forward into spending 70 euros every other 2 weeks for a new SD card and losing my data all the time.
There must be some cause to what made this happen..

Sorry mate but when this happens it's almost 100% certain the card's f ***ed, I mean it's happened to me plenty times and if you keep the card you just sitting on a timebomb of lost data.

Maybe if it's a faulty card i can get a new one since i just bought it 2 weeks ago thrue warranty service.
140 euros for 1 card is too much..

Yeah it is a faulty card so they have to replace it, but tell them this has happened more than once though because it just makes it easier.

It helps if you tell us which ROM & kernel you are using. I had the same issue with 2 of my 64gb when using AOKP with Siyah & his exFAT vold.zip mod. Since I have two 64gb cards, I formatted one with exFAT & FAT32 on the other in linux. I'm currently using AOKP & a FAT32 formatted 64gb card with no issues.
I do have a nandroid of Omega 6.0 so if I need exFAT on my 64gb for large movie files, I can go back to that.

It happened to me 2 times., when I first put my card in it said it was blank and asked if I wanted to format it. I did and the next day it said the same thing. Then I format it in my computer put the card back in the galaxy and said the card was blank. Fat32
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As i said in OP i'm using stock ROM. I did not alter the device in any way.

Got my money back. Can buy another in time. Will do with 32gb now. Kinda worried it 'll happen again. Since Samsung never officially announced the device to be compatible.
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Erikdeperik said:
Got my money back. Can buy another in time. Will do with 32gb now. Kinda worried it 'll happen again. Since Samsung never officially announced the device to be compatible.
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Actually, I was pretty sure Samsung did say the S3 supports adding up to 64gb external storage.

msgnyc said:
Actually, Samsung did say the S3 supports up to 64gb SDXC external storage.
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Ist more a kernel thing... reading exfat, ntfs, fat32 and so on, so normally compatible in sdxc means the kernel can read exfat. Otherwise you have to format to fat32

Twiz kernels support the exFAT fs but AOSP/AOKP does not and card has to be formatted with a FAT32 fs in order to work in those ROMs... I had this same issue were my card stopped working after a week or so as well. I purchased it from Amazon so I have been able to return it for a full refund but I've been seeing more and more similar issues so am not sure if I should order another 64GB or a 32GB... either way, definitely try and get a refund, good luck!

It's a format issue. SGS3 has a problem with exFAT above 32GB of storage which eventually corrupts data after a certain amount of data has been reached on the sdxc card IIRC, so you have to format it to fat32 if you are planning to use more than that. Problem is windows cannot format 64GB in fat32 format, so you need to find 3rd party programs to do such task.
I believe 32gb exFAT is fine as plug and play however.

format 64GB micro SD card to fat32

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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anomy13 said:
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.

kabuk1 said:
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.

v8dreaming said:
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?

new ion? said:
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.

v8dreaming said:
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

new ion? said:
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.

L_E_O said:
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.

v8dreaming said:
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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[Q] microSD card died

I had a SanDisk Mobile Ultra MicroSDHC Class 6 32GB (formatted FAT32) in my Galaxy S3 with no issues for about a month. Then one day I was at work, unlocked my phone and got a "SD card has been unexpectedly removed" notification. After that the microSD card wasn't recognized in the phone, my laptop, nor my desktop PC.
Has anybody else had this issue?

AlienMindbender said:
I had a SanDisk Mobile Ultra MicroSDHC Class 6 32GB (formatted FAT32) in my Galaxy S3 with no issues for about a month. Then one day I was at work, unlocked my phone and got a "SD card has been unexpectedly removed" notification. After that the microSD card wasn't recognized in the phone, my laptop, nor my desktop PC.
Has anybody else had this issue?
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question is, where did u buy the sd card it might of been a fake, their are multiple sdcards which look good and real but overall are fake due to the ability to operate in heat, so it might of overheated and crashed(died) its a big issue with fake sd cards out there, they usually go out or burnt due to not being able to take the heat of the phone. On normal operate the sd card should be able to take 40 to 45C which make it 90-100 Ferenheit, if its a real SD card it should be able to take more then this and reach upto 65+C or around there.
easy ways to spot a fake is if ure saving files on ure phone and it says u got a class 6 or class 10 sdxc card and its operating less then it should, it crashes on u when trying to open a file or it resets itself and tries to scan again for it. in many cases it will get too hot and burnt out, or it just stops operating out of the blue.

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question is, where did u buy the sd card it might of been a fake, their are multiple sdcards which look good and real but overall are fake due to the ability to operate in heat, so it might of overheated and crashed(died) its a big issue with fake sd cards out there, they usually go out or burnt due to not being able to take the heat of the phone. On normal operate the sd card should be able to take 40 to 45C which make it 90-100 Ferenheit, if its a real SD card it should be able to take more then this and reach upto 65+C or around there.
easy ways to spot a fake is if ure saving files on ure phone and it says u got a class 6 or class 10 sdxc card and its operating less then it should, it crashes on u when trying to open a file or it resets itself and tries to scan again for it. in many cases it will get too hot and burnt out, or it just stops operating out of the blue.
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I bought the card from Adorama (a photography focused site) in April. SanDisk is letting me RMA the card (just got that approved last night). I just want to make sure it's not my phone causing the problem. Up until the "unexpectedly removed" error, I never had any issues with it crashing or having to scan for itself again (unlike the class 4 I was trying to test the card slot with right now).

AlienMindbender said:
I bought the card from Adorama (a photography focused site) in April. SanDisk is letting me RMA the card (just got that approved last night). I just want to make sure it's not my phone causing the problem. Up until the "unexpectedly removed" error, I never had any issues with it crashing or having to scan for itself again (unlike the class 4 I was trying to test the card slot with right now).
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If that's the case have u tried varies card readers or card ports to see if it could be the unit itself..... However if it does out that way, I believe scndizk does back this up with a lifetime warranty if ure sd card does stop operating and then should be able to replace it.

sd card question...
I have a 32gb Samsung class 10 sd card in my S3 - running codenamedroid. receintly, when i connect to my desktop i shows an sd card but it doesnt display whats on the card or whats in my internal for that matter... my sd card is formatted to fat32. when i pull my sd card out and plug it directly into the comp everything shows up fine. how do i get it to show up when i plug my phone to the computer. i have searched for a while but no answers. does anyone know why this is happening ??? thanks

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I have a 32gb Samsung class 10 sd card in my S3 - running codenamedroid. receintly, when i connect to my desktop i shows an sd card but it doesnt display whats on the card or whats in my internal for that matter... my sd card is formatted to fat32. when i pull my sd card out and plug it directly into the comp everything shows up fine. how do i get it to show up when i plug my phone to the computer. i have searched for a while but no answers. does anyone know why this is happening ??? thanks
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Did u do a swap in memory, switched ure ext to internal and internal to external recently?

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Did u do a swap in memory, switched ure ext to internal and internal to external recently?
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no... nothing like that. it worked fine with TW roms, but im curious if its a CM10 issue. everything shows up on my phone (photos, music, etc) but nothing shows up when i plug it into the computer..

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no... nothing like that. it worked fine with TW roms, but im curious if its a CM10 issue. everything shows up on my phone (photos, music, etc) but nothing shows up when i plug it into the computer..
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go tot he android development or pm the dev for the CM10 mod and see if he could answer ure question, havent heard about this happening so he might have th answer.

AlienMindbender said:
I had a SanDisk Mobile Ultra MicroSDHC Class 6 32GB (formatted FAT32) in my Galaxy S3 with no issues for about a month. Then one day I was at work, unlocked my phone and got a "SD card has been unexpectedly removed" notification. After that the microSD card wasn't recognized in the phone, my laptop, nor my desktop PC.
Has anybody else had this issue?
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FWIW, had the same exact problem. Only thing, I was running a STOCK ROOTED device. The SD just died. Tried on my laptop, DOA. Wound up sending back and got another one, so far so good(knock on wood).

I 32 gb patriot card from frys brandnew for 20$.....this badboy started telling me "vard removed unexpected error...even tried reformatting....truly believe its a gs3 thing....but i had no probs with my 8gb card....really pissed about this.....any ??????
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And im also on stock ...non rooted
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soufdallas said:
I 32 gb patriot card from frys brandnew for 20$.....this badboy started telling me "vard removed unexpected error...even tried reformatting....truly believe its a gs3 thing....but i had no probs with my 8gb card....really pissed about this.....any ??????
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Even so the gs3 should be able to read ure 32gb flawlessly since it's supportive to sdhc, now it does also supports sdxc which is expected from higher performance sd cards to not be able to read or install correctly on the gs3 unless u format to extfat or fat32. Chances are u might have a bad sd card. By default their storage capacity is 32, after that, that's where u need to take does drastic measures. Try formatting it on ure computer, if it doesn't format then ure gs3 should read it, if it doesn't format u already know.

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, 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

Ext SD Card Not Recognized

Like the title says, picked up an SD card, doesn't show up under the Storage menu or when I connect to PC via USB. I've downloaded an app that lets me format the SD and it shows up there, but after formatting I still can't access or even see that the SD card in installed.
It's a GSKILL class 10 64gb SDXC

Hmmmm. Have you tried a different card to see if you get the same results? I'm using a Lexar 633x 64Gb card. No problems to report so far.

Retarded Timing said:
Hmmmm. Have you tried a different card to see if you get the same results? I'm using a Lexar 633x 64Gb card. No problems to report so far.
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Just tried, thus SD card works in my S5 but not my g3, and another SD card same manufacturer doesn't work on g3.
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I wonder if you're formatting it in a way the G3 doesn't like.

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I wonder if you're formatting it in a way the G3 doesn't like.
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Well I'm not formatting like anything. Went straight from the packaging to my phone, then to my S5 and that's it
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maybe you got a broken pin in the micro sd slot

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maybe you got a broken pin in the micro sd slot
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Can't be the case because the SD card shows up in formatting apps from the play store.
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I have a Samsung 32 GB micro SD card. Says 10 HC on it. It worked immediately when I popped it in and I didn't have to format it or anything. Has all my previous files on it.
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I am having the same problem with a dual sim D858 G3.
Have tried Sony, Samsung, Sandisk MicroSDXC cards of various capacities, none work.
Anyone have a solution ?

Hmmm, investigation with a torch and loupe revealed that one of the MicroSDXC reader pins were bent down.
Managed to lift it with a needle and now it works fine.
This was on a new phone, wonder if other people's problems had a similar cause ?

Format the SD Card in storage settings. It should format and be useable

Try couple things:
1. Try (may be borrow from a friend if you don't have one lying around) a different brand name card. Some generic brand cards (especially from eBay) are little flimsy and does not provide proper contacts. It happened to me on both HTC M8 and LG G3. Tried SanDisk card and all went well.
2. Try formatting the card using PC into Fat 32 format (you can always reverse this formatting to ex-fat) and see if this make any difference.
3. This one sounds very basic but under storage, sometime you have to manually click on "mount SD card".
Good luck!

Ok try this
1- but it in lapttop slot (card reader of laptop ) dont try another way .
2- use SDformatter 4 .
3- ok now put it in your device.
I hope it will work properly
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I have this problem too. April 2017 and LG STILL haven't sorted it out. Impossible for so many owners to have faulty phones. Definitely a SOFTWARE issue ! Terrible customer service. I actually NEED to use an SD card in my work. .Never getting an LG phone again.

Redman7164 said:
I have this problem too. April 2017 and LG STILL haven't sorted it out. Impossible for so many owners to have faulty phones. Definitely a SOFTWARE issue ! Terrible customer service. I actually NEED to use an SD card in my work. .Never getting an LG phone again.
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Have spoken to a repair shop and what they said is that this is a typical issue with the LG G3, another one (which I also see a lot) is spontaneous reboots, even when the phone is seemingly doing nothing. And these issues get only worse over time. The only way to solve them is to replace the mainboard, which probably isn't worth it. Looked at alibaba.com, they are around 30-40 USD. I have reflashed the stock firmware in my futile attempts to get both issues solved, but it is obviously a hardware issue.

Yeah stopped working too. I've noticed an issue with a pin in the MicroSD card slot. I imagine this is the issue. I'll open it up when I have time.

Take the card out, insert it in a PC and check it for errors. DiskGenius or MiniTool Partition Wizard can help you here. DiskGenius can also check for partition table errors.
Also make sure the card is formatted exFAT, not FAT32 or NTFS and that the cluster size is either 8K or 128K.
If that doesn't work back up your files, format as exFAT with 128K cluster size, then copy the files back. You may have to do this anyway if a partition table error is detected.