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[Q] 64g micro sd card

I just purchased a Samsung 64g micro SD card. I currently running wicked V3 rom. When I put the sd card in my device it doesn't even see it.
I tried it on my gf stock S4 and it recognized it. What do I need to do to get my wicked S4 to recognize the card? the card comes formated to exfat, do I need to change that?

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iskinner said:
I just purchased a Samsung 64g micro SD card. I currently running wicked V3 rom. When I put the sd card in my device it doesn't even see it.
I tried it on my gf stock S4 and it recognized it. What do I need to do to get my wicked S4 to recognize the card? the card comes formated to exfat, do I need to change that?
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Format it using FAT32 and it will work with the S4, that's exactly what I did to get my 64GB sdcard working.

Misterjunky said:
Format it using FAT32 and it will work with the S4, that's exactly what I did to get my 64GB sdcard working.[/QUO
sorry for being so noobish but anyway I put the sd card on my computer and I right clicked on it, clicked on format. and it only gives me the option for NTFS or EXFAT which is the default. do I need to download something?
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iskinner said:
Misterjunky said:
Format it using FAT32 and it will work with the S4, that's exactly what I did to get my 64GB sdcard working.[/QUO
sorry for being so noobish but anyway I put the sd card on my computer and I right clicked on it, clicked on format. and it only gives me the option for NTFS or EXFAT which is the default. do I need to download something?
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Do a google search and search for "windows fat32 format utility" and you will find a lot of free utilities
which can do that easily, all of these formatting utilities are very small files and easy to use.
Good luck!
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Misterjunky said:
iskinner said:
Do a google search and search for "windows fat32 format utility" and you will find a lot of free utilities
which can do that easily, all of these formatting utilities are very small files and easy to use.
Good luck!
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Thank you soooo much I really appreciate your help. I was able to do it
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Q. SdCard

So lately my sd card keeos getting removed unexpectedly?... its not getting removed or anything. Will wiping it aka formatting it make it okay again?
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I suggest you read this thread. A lot of members have had sdcard issues. Good luck!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2031009
Btw, I have been using a 64GB SanDisk Ultra Class 10 for over 6 months with no issues. All my music, videos, ROMs backups etc are stored on the card. It gets heavy usage.. the biggest common denominator of the thread appears too be that the size of the card is the main issue and not the brand. 32GB cards are having the most problems.

EyLaTnOgN said:
So lately my sd card keeos getting removed unexpectedly?... its not getting removed or anything. Will wiping it aka formatting it make it okay again?
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Hard to say when you didn’t tell us what kind of SD card it is, what size, and how long you have had it. You need to give more information.
If it is a 64 GB card, it is because android natively does not support exFAT file systems for storage. Your issue is that the format is not compatible. In this case, flash perseus kernel found in the original android development section. Problem solved.
If it is an SD card of 32 GB or less, the issue is likely that you need to just format it. In this case just find an adapter to plug it into your PC, when the little window pops up asking you what you want to do “open folder to view files etc etc” all that… just close that window. Open some other folder (doesn’t matter which one) and on the left side you will see the drive shown. It will probably show up as F: or something… maybe G: … maybe Z:… who knows… but it will NOT be C:… C is your computer drive, don’t touch that.
Find the storage device on the left side, RIGHT click on it, and select “format”….
UNCHECK the “quick format option”…
For the file system select “FAT32” and for the cluster size select 32kb… (default is 16, but 32 is better and will provide better performance.)
Start the formatting. It will take a while… so go grab some lunch. If that doesn’t solve the issue then I don’t know what to tell you without more information but my guess after that would be that you have had the card for a while and it simply needs to be replaced.
What size card is it, what class, and who makes it?

Admiral Sir Manley Power said:
If it is a 64 GB card, it is because android natively does not support exFAT file systems for storage. Your issue is that the format is not compatible. In this case, flash perseus kernel found in the original android development section. Problem solved.
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That's weird my 64GB SanDisk Class10 card, that I have been using for months on my Note 2, is exfat and I haven't had a single issue with it.
My card was exfat right out of the box and that is how I used it. Right out of the box. I have NEVER formatted it.
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I'm on Tweaked now. Before that Stock Android.

Jerry D said:
That's weird my 64GB SanDisk Class10 card, that I have been using for months on my Note 2, is exfat and I haven't had a single issue with it.
My card was exfat right out of the box and that is how I used it. Right out of the box. I have NEVER formatted it.
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I'm on Tweaked now. Before that Stock Android.
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What kernel are you using?

Admiral Sir Manley Power said:
What kernel are you using?
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I'm using the Stock Kernel.. if I don't my extsdcard doesn't get recognized. I'd have to format it to fat32.. Here is a pic from Terminal to show I'm exfat. Look at the last paragraph.

[Q] Fail to download and or write to SD.

I have scandisk class 10 SD card 64 GB.
its formatted using the note 8 device (exFAT).
Whenever I try to download a file or copy a file in note 8 to the SD. It fails and reboots my device. knowing that reading from the SD is perfect. I can play music and movies from SD with no issues.
the only way I can transfer files to the SD if I connect the SD to the PC directly.
I am not sure if this is an issue with Note 8 or SD. please help!

Mine does the same thing. Ive tried formatting in exfat and fat32, didnt help. It writes fine to an old 16gb class 4 card ive got but not the 64gb. Sucks but at least it reads fine
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I have SanDisk 64GB (xd1 afair) exfat formatted in N5100, and it works ok with stock ROMs MD1'S and MF2.

cthiel08 said:
Mine does the same thing. Ive tried formatting in exfat and fat32, didnt help. It writes fine to an old 16gb class 4 card ive got but not the 64gb. Sucks but at least it reads fine
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Thanks for letting me know. I thought I am the only one having this issue. Any solution?

p107r0 said:
I have SanDisk 64GB (xd1 afair) exfat formatted in N5100, and it works ok with stock ROMs MD1'S and MF2.
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Can you download or transfer files to the sd? Are the files more than 200 mb?

gilbertgk said:
Can you download or transfer files to the sd? Are the files more than 200 mb?
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Yes and yes.
Are you running stock ROM? afair custom kennels do not support exFat

p107r0 said:
Yes and yes.
Are you running stock ROM? afair custom kennels do not support exFat
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I am not using any custom Roms. And i formatted my sandisk ultra 64gb more than three times but the same issue keeps happening. I also tried to find other apps to transfer movies and music files from Iinternal memory to sd but that didn't help. I can't even download directly to my sd. It reboots my note 8 if I try to download or transfer files to my sd.
Any suggestions?

gilbertgk said:
I am not using any custom Roms. And i formatted my sandisk ultra 64gb more than three times but the same issue keeps happening. I also tried to find other apps to transfer movies and music files from Iinternal memory to sd but that didn't help. I can't even download directly to my sd. It reboots my note 8 if I try to download or transfer files to my sd.
Any suggestions?
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I'm afraid nothing beyond painfully obvious ones - trying with another similar card, trying the card on any other device supporting exfat (if ok, this would provide definitive proof that card is ok), trying on freshly installed latest ROM, trying with the same card formatted in fat32.

p107r0 said:
I'm afraid nothing beyond painfully obvious ones - trying with another similar card, trying the card on any other device supporting exfat (if ok, this would provide definitive proof that card is ok), trying on freshly installed latest ROM, trying with the same card formatted in fat32.
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Good suggestions... I hope the problem is with the card not the device.

gilbertgk said:
Good suggestions... I hope the problem is with the card not the device.
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device does not need to be hardware, it could be on the soft side as well, in such case reflashing/changing ROM could help

p107r0 said:
device does not need to be hardware, it could be on the soft side as well, in such case reflashing/changing ROM could help
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It seems like this is the last resort. I will reformat my note 8 and try again. I also forgot to mention, that few weeks ago I was able to transfer one 800 mb file but this stopped happening. So it seems like there is not enough memory to transfer although I tried clearing the memory.
I will let you know if this reformatting the note 8 will fix the problem.

gilbertgk said:
It seems like this is the last resort. I will reformat my note 8 and try again. I also forgot to mention, that few weeks ago I was able to transfer one 800 mb file but this stopped happening. So it seems like there is not enough memory to transfer although I tried clearing the memory.
I will let you know if this reformatting the note 8 will fix the problem.
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one more thing, just in case, check the card for errors on PC
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p107r0 said:
one more thing, just in case, check the card for errors on PC
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I already did that and no errors found

p107r0 said:
device does not need to be hardware, it could be on the soft side as well, in such case reflashing/changing ROM could help
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Reformatting the device didnt fix my issue. I am not sure now if it is the device or the SD. I need to test my sd in other devices and check if it will allow transferring of files

I am having the same issue as well. I try to move files from my internal too my external card and device reboots. I have the SanDisk 64GB card as well, it works fine in my S4. Could it be a software issue on the Samsung side?
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SD card problem.

Hi i have 2 sdcards one 16GB class 4 and one 64GB class 10. When i use the 64GB sdcard to install roms, it always shows installation aborted. I am only able to install roms using my 16Gb sdcard.
1) Is this a bug in the rom?
2) And anyways to solve this problem?

BUMP

You may be better off posting this in the thread of the roms you're trying to install.
I may be wrong but aren't some kernels limited to using fat/fat32 etc?
Or of course your 64er could be going faulty?
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3vo3d said:
You may be better off posting this in the thread of the roms you're trying to install.
I may be wrong but aren't some kernels limited to using fat/fat32 etc?
Or of course your 64er could be going faulty?
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Do you have any suggestion on which kernels to use? Im using GT-N7105

Sys81 said:
Hi i have 2 sdcards one 16GB class 4 and one 64GB class 10. When i use the 64GB sdcard to install roms, it always shows installation aborted. I am only able to install roms using my 16Gb sdcard.
1) Is this a bug in the rom?
2) And anyways to solve this problem?
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I've had this problem multiple times with multiple Samsung phones. At this point, I'm pretty sure it's the hardware of the phone, not your SD card, ROM, or anything else. I've went through many SD cards thinking they were defective when they were not.

agent929 said:
I've had this problem multiple times with multiple Samsung phones. At this point, I'm pretty sure it's the hardware of the phone, not your SD card, ROM, or anything else. I've went through many SD cards thinking they were defective when they were not.
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So my phone must be sent to the service center?

agent929 might be going a bit over the top.
I mean your sd card works when you are on a samsung rom doesn't it? it is just while being in the recovery that it won't get recognized or did i misunderstand you?

lolmensch said:
agent929 might be going a bit over the top.
I mean your sd card works when you are on a samsung rom doesn't it? it is just while being in the recovery that it won't get recognized or did i misunderstand you?
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Yup just that i cant install roms using the sdcard as it says.E: Can't open xxxx.zip (bad) Installation aborted. (using my 64GB sdcard) I will be able to install when using my 16GB sdcard.

Sys81 said:
Yup just that i cant install roms using the sdcard as it says.E: Can't open xxxx.zip (bad) Installation aborted. (using my 64GB sdcard) I will be able to install when using my 16GB sdcard.
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hm it could be due to your recovery. which partitions do you have? ar both exfat or is the 16gb one fat32 and the 64gb exfat or even ntfs?

lolmensch said:
hm it could be due to your recovery. which partitions do you have? ar both exfat or is the 16gb one fat32 and the 64gb exfat or even ntfs?
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Both the 16GB and the 64GB are fat32.

Sys81 said:
Both the 16GB and the 64GB are fat32.
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What you could try (even though I don't know how Android can handle this) is to create two partitions with each 32gb on your 64gb sdcard and see whether this works or not. Other than that I don't have too many ideas left :/

lolmensch said:
What you could try (even though I don't know how Android can handle this) is to create two partitions with each 32gb on your 64gb sdcard and see whether this works or not. Other than that I don't have too many ideas left :/
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What do you mean by that? And how do i go about doing it?

Sys81 said:
What do you mean by that? And how do i go about doing it?
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you can either do it with windows (Start > Control Panel > System and Maintenance > Administrative Tools > Create and Format Hard Disk Partitions > Disk Management) or with a tool like paragon partition manager (isn't free so you'd have to search for a freeware alternative) and there you shrink your 64gb fat 32 partition to a 32gb fat32 partition and create a new partition on the remaining 32gb of unallocated space also with fat32.
your pc will recognize your sdcard as if there were two. Now that i think of it, I really am not sure whether android will recognize your 64gb or better both 32gb partitions on your phone or if Android will say that you sdcard is corrupted.
If you do that and android suggests to format your sdcard DON'T DO IT ON ANDROID. I got myself some fried sdcards there. So if it doesn't work out you can delete one of the 32gb partitions and enlarge the other again to 64gb but do that from your pc.
You'll need a card reader or usb adapter or something. It won't work with the sdcard inserted in your phone as Android now uses mtp rather than ums and you can't perform those tasks from windows with mtp.

lolmensch said:
you can either do it with windows (Start > Control Panel > System and Maintenance > Administrative Tools > Create and Format Hard Disk Partitions > Disk Management) or with a tool like paragon partition manager (isn't free so you'd have to search for a freeware alternative) and there you shrink your 64gb fat 32 partition to a 32gb fat32 partition and create a new partition on the remaining 32gb of unallocated space also with fat32.
your pc will recognize your sdcard as if there were two. Now that i think of it, I really am not sure whether android will recognize your 64gb or better both 32gb partitions on your phone or if Android will say that you sdcard is corrupted.
If you do that and android suggests to format your sdcard DON'T DO IT ON ANDROID. I got myself some fried sdcards there. So if it doesn't work out you can delete one of the 32gb partitions and enlarge the other again to 64gb but do that from your pc.
You'll need a card reader or usb adapter or something. It won't work with the sdcard inserted in your phone as Android now uses mtp rather than ums and you can't perform those tasks from windows with mtp.
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Hmm ill give it a try later. Right now im guessing that my recovery does not support the sdcard. Im currently on CWM TOUCH 6.0.3.1. And looking for a rom with good battery life.

Guys I truly don't mean to be a stick in the mud about this, but you can search XDA and Google about this issue. A lot of people are having this exact same issue. That's why I said a 64 may or may not work with other brands, but the Samsung cards seem to always work like their suppose to (given they aren't defective). There are a few other threads about this on the forums as well. If you do by chance get it working please do share, and perhaps PM a mod and see if you can post a guide on it.

Note 2 has problems with some 64Gb card due to (here: my speculation) bad power supply and stabilization.
Kingston 64/10 makes my Note 2 unhappy.
Sandisk 64/U1 more or less stable with FAT32 but makes instability issues with exFAT.
Sandisk 32/10 and Kingston 32/10 are fully OK with FAT32.

Sys81 said:
Do you have any suggestion on which kernels to use? Im using GT-N7105
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I use saber kernel, I'm also n7105.
I presume you didn't just get a bad download of the rom, did you check it with md5?
I'm just throwing suggestions out there btw.
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3vo3d said:
I use saber kernel, I'm also n7105.
I presume you didn't just get a bad download of the rom, did you check it with md5?
I'm just throwing suggestions out there btw.
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Hmm i also on saber kernel. Im guessing its because my note 2 is not happy with 64GB sdcards. Maybe i should get a 32 one.

Sys81 said:
Hmm i also on saber kernel. Im guessing its because my note 2 is not happy with 64GB sdcards. Maybe i should get a 32 one.
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Are you using an aosp rom?
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3vo3d said:
Are you using an aosp rom?
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Nope im on JediX19

Sd card problem Lg G3?? Help

hi guys i bought an Lg G3 and i put the 16 sd card on it ,but the phone doesn t see it.
on my Oppo find 7 it s works.
can u help me?
i formated in Fat32 but it doesn t see it anyway.
thank u all.

danger2u said:
hi guys i bought an Lg G3 and i put the 16 sd card on it ,but the phone doesn t see it.
on my Oppo find 7 it s works.
can u help me?
i formated in Fat32 but it doesn t see it anyway.
thank u all.
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try going into settings>storage and there press mount sdcard

suljo94 said:
try going into settings>storage and there press mount sdcard
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nothing happens

danger2u said:
nothing happens
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try cleaning the card's connection pins with rubbing alcohol and a cotton swab if that doesn't work how old is the card and do you have an other one to determine if it is card related or device related

suljo94 said:
try cleaning the card's connection pins with rubbing alcohol and a cotton swab if that doesn't work how old is the card and do you have an other one to determine if it is card related or device related
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ok i ll try and let u know

What cluster size? Maybe the G3 is picky with that. I believe 32KB is the default.

flaring afro said:
What cluster size? Maybe the G3 is picky with that. I believe 32KB is the default.
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i tried to clean it but no chance.
how can i see what cluster size?

danger2u said:
i tried to clean it but no chance.
how can i see what cluster size?
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When formatting in Windows, it will ask you the cluster size. But now that I think of it, if the phone won't even try to format the card, it likely isn't detecting that there's something in the slot at all. If you bought it from a carrier, I'd bring it in and have them look at it with another card and give you a new phone if it's the slot.

Have you tried formatting it inside the phone?
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Jocelyn said:
Have you tried formatting it inside the phone?
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yes,but the phone doesn t see the sd card

danger2u said:
hi guys i bought an Lg G3 and i put the 16 sd card on it ,but the phone doesn t see it.
on my Oppo find 7 it s works.
can u help me?
i formated in Fat32 but it doesn t see it anyway.
thank u all.
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I have the exact same problem. Using a SanDisk 32GB ultra microSD card. When I insert it, it says SD Card inserted. But when I go to storage, it does not pick it up. Mount SD card and Erase SD Card are both greyed out.

danger2u said:
hi guys i bought an Lg G3 and i put the 16 sd card on it ,but the phone doesn t see it.
on my Oppo find 7 it s works.
can u help me?
i formated in Fat32 but it doesn t see it anyway.
thank u all.
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ace008 said:
I have the exact same problem. Using a SanDisk 32GB ultra microSD card. When I insert it, it says SD Card inserted. But when I go to storage, it does not pick it up. Mount SD card and Erase SD Card are both greyed out.
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try using ntfs format and do NOT use quick format in windows also clustersize as mentioned is best at 32 and were your cards storebought or ... and was the package sealed

suljo94 said:
try using ntfs format and do NOT use quick format in windows also clustersize as mentioned is best at 32 and were your cards storebought or ... and was the package sealed
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Tried as suggested. But still have the same result.

ace008 said:
Tried as suggested. But still have the same result.
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if you have a 2nd sdcard try that one if that doesn't work bring yoour phone in for repairs if you don't have a 2nd card be creative and ask one of your m8es if you can borrow his one for a second

solved.
the person who sell me the phone give me another phone.
there was an contact that was broken and thats way the sd card didn t work.
thank u all

Maybe I'm wrong but need unlock rule for external sd card in androud system (Google add him in android 4.4).
There is a "fixsd" in the Google play market.

All is good now. Downloaded SD Formatter for Mac. Reformatted it, and it reads now.

Put my 64GB card from my GS3 into my G3 and everything is gone. Put it back in the G3 and nothing shows either. What happened? Did I just lose 3000 pictures and 1000+ songs?

Who Am I? said:
Put my 64GB card from my GS3 into my G3 and everything is gone. Put it back in the G3 and nothing shows either. What happened? Did I just lose 3000 pictures and 1000+ songs?
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If you put it back in your gs3 and nothing is there or you can't mount it you lost everything... That's what happened to me... I had to use a microSD recovery to recover my card... It was a *****... Hope this helps, good luck...
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im using 128gb..no problems