MicroSD Card - Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III

I purchased a Sandisk Ultra 32GB Micro SD Card. It had been working OK but this afternoon after I watched a movie I had stored in the card, it stopped working. The phone is unable to recognize it and I have tried using an adapter for my PC but it does not prompt nor recognize its presence. Logically, I believe this tells me the card no longer works but I am curious as to what could have led to this as it stopped working within two hours after it had been working just fine. Any thoughts? Any manner to get back to working?
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arkbishop said:
I purchased a Sandisk Ultra 32GB Micro SD Card. It had been working OK but this afternoon after I watched a movie I had stored in the card, it stopped working. The phone is unable to recognize it and I have tried using an adapter for my PC but it does not prompt nor recognize its presence. Logically, I believe this tells me the card no longer works but I am curious as to what could have led to this as it stopped working within two hours after it had been working just fine. Any thoughts? Any manner to get back to working?
Thanks!
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This is somewhat common. There are two threads about it that I know of. Contact sandisk and it will be replaced. I'm on the 3rd one...

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[Q] Question about SD card problem

I'm looking for some thoughts on a problem I encountered. Due to a problem with the camera, I got a refurbished phone under warranty. When I got it, I took the 8GB micro SD (not the original HTC, but a faster card from Transcend) from my old phone where it had worked flawlessly and installed it in my refurbished phone. Wouldn't mount. Put it back in the original phone; wouldn't mount. Computer wouldn't recognize it through multiple adapters/readers. Not erased or formatted, nothing would recognize it. I know crap happens sometimes. I had an old 2GB card that I installed and it worked with no problems.
I RMA'd the card back to Transcend (which is another story) who would not replace it due to a scuff mark on the edge of the card - physical damage!!!
Anyway, I ordered a new Adata card, 8GB class 10 and when it arrived, I transferred files to it on my computer (so it was working) and put it in the phone. Wouldn't mount. Put it back in the computer and no files could be seen. Ran scandisk, files reappeared. Installed back in the phone, wouldn't mount. Now it's fried, too. Computer won't recognize it anymore. Installed 2GB card back in phone and it mounts and works fine.
I've got a replacement phone coming again from TMobile - it's got to be the phone doing this. But I'm out 2 SD cards. I'll try a RMA on the Adata card to see if I can get a replacement, but I may buy another card in the meantime.
Does anybody have any thoughts on this problem? Why would the phone play nicely with the 2GB card but neither of the 8GB cards? I don't think I can do anything different, but at $15 a shot, I'm starting to hesitate buying a new card to put in the replacement phone when it gets here.
Thanks.
As a clarification, the original Transcend card was a class 6 card. The Adata was a class 10 and I read that some phones won't work with some class 10 cards...
denzelnuke said:
As a clarification, the original Transcend card was a class 6 card. The Adata was a class 10 and I read that some phones won't work with some class 10 cards...
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as always, the best class to use with phones are class 4. their cheap and they work good
well, i was hesitant bout the whole "which classes will the g2 work with" situation.
i bought a pny 16gb class 10 and it works. so i dunno if its more of a this specific phone situation over an entire group of phones.

Bad SD card???

Something is fishy with our SD cards (both my wife and I), since they've somehow seemed to "go bad" about 2 weeks apart. We both have the S3 16GB and I bought two 32 GB SanDisk cards for our phones. Everything seemed fine until about 2 weeks ago when her card went out, then last night my card seems to have gone bad too. All the phone says is it's "safe to remove the card", can't access the card in any way. I currently can't find my adapter to test the micro card in my laptop, but I should at some point. Is anyone else experiencing anything like this with their SD cards?
I had a problem with my 64gb Sandisk card that went bad duing a rom flash. I have EASEUS Partition (can be downloaded free) installed on my PC and the partition on the SD card was missing. I reformated the partition using FAT32 and it has been fine now for over two weeks.
Just a note I now remove my SD card when I flash ROMs. I know it should be safe but it takes a few hours to rebuild 58gb.
This phone fried my 16gb card
What class sdhc is it?
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My 64gb SanDisk errored too within the first week. Formatted and working since. Mine stopped working when I changed a battery (yes, the phone was off).
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where did you buy the card? also what class is it?
I'm having the same problem with my 32gb sandisk class 4. it was working fine on my LTEVO but the moment I put it on in my GS3 the card went dead.
32GB Class 10 PNY formatted to FAT32 has been flawless for me...and I've used the same sd card in two previous devices (E4GT & Evo LTE)
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fujirio said:
where did you buy the card? also what class is it?
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Class 4 SanDisk and I bought them on Amazon. Wasn't a bulk type card without proper packaging either, it arrived in the mail packaged like what you would see in B&M's. In any case, I'm going to need to locate my adapter so I can attempt to format them.
douknownam said:
Class 4 SanDisk and I bought them on Amazon. Wasn't a bulk type card without proper packaging either, it arrived in the mail packaged like what you would see in B&M's. In any case, I'm going to need to locate my adapter so I can attempt to format them.
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If it is screwed like mine then the adapter will do nothing... my card is completely fried
mauricehall said:
If it is screwed like mine then the adapter will do nothing... my card is completely fried
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I find it hard to believe that there is actually a "bad batch" of SD cards from SanDisk... I have a friend that also has an S3 (Verizon) that said his 32 GB card (not sure of the class) went bad as well. It would make more sense that the S3 is somehow making them bad or not recognizing them anymore. However, most of my assumptions may just be wishful thinking.
I had some problems that I think were more CM9/exFAT support related with a 64gb UHS-1 card. I used this to format it and it's been fine since

Usb storage damaged message

I keep getting a usb storage damaged message. I have read that it is sometime an issue with the galaxy s3. Also sometimes when I first unlock the phone it says prepping sd card even though I did not remove it.
Also my SD card is a SanDisk 64gb class 10. I have read that this can be an issue with a certain crop of SanDisk.
Any tips? As of right now entitling works and if it's just messages popping up.
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Have you tried using the SD card in other devices and on a computer?
I had a *similar* problem with an old MicroSD card in my original Galaxy phone and formatting the card seemed to work. I can't speak too much to your issue because the largest MicroSD card I've used is 32 and it's been flawless.
Yeah, verify across devices first. If not, try filing a claim with SanDisk if you purchased the sdcard only recently and it's already gone bye-bye.

[Q] GS3 - micro SD problem

Hi there, I have a problem with my micro SD card, it is a Verbatim micro SD, class 4, 32gb. This morning when I woke up my phone stopped recognizing the card. I tried to restard the phone, reenter the card, put it on a different phone...nothing. Can someone help me? I haven't dropped the phone or something.
It may be a fake micro-SD card.
I faced this issue and then replaced the card with real SanDisk card.
And now everything ok.
fuzi26 said:
Hi there, I have a problem with my micro SD card, it is a Verbatim micro SD, class 4, 32gb. This morning when I woke up my phone stopped recognizing the card. I tried to restard the phone, reenter the card, put it on a different phone...nothing. Can someone help me? I haven't dropped the phone or something.
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Them cards tend to go out very fast and randomly. I only buy sandisk cards cause' there the only ones that seem to last forever with me.Only thing you can do is get a new card, that cards dead
That card last for over an year than, but my most concerning question is, can I somehow save the data from it?
fuzi26 said:
That card last for over an year than, but my most concerning question is, can I somehow save the data from it?
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You might be able to save a little bit of data with linux but im no expert on it.
So now, my question is, should I buy a class 10 micro sd any brand or sandisk is recommanded?
fuzi26 said:
So now, my question is, should I buy a class 10 micro sd any brand or sandisk is recommanded?
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Sandisk is recommended in my opinion, but a sony SD should work just as well

Question USB card reader not working

Hi, I bought a cheap USB Type C microSD card reader and it works great on the computer, but I was only able to get it to work on my S22 once, and another person's S9 Plus also once.
The card is formatted in FAT32 so I know it works on Android (and it did, once..), the phones just aren't detecting/doing anything...
wall_ said:
Hi, I bought a cheap USB Type C microSD card reader and it works great on the computer, but I was only able to get it to work on my S22 once, and another person's S9 Plus also once.
The card is formatted in FAT32 so I know it works on Android (and it did, once..), the phones just aren't detecting/doing anything...
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Save your data on the card and format it as exFAT.
It's possible that the cheap USB Type C microSD card reader you purchased may not be fully compatible with your mobile devices. While it works fine on your computer, mobile devices can have stricter compatibility requirements.

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