Hi,
Can anyone recommend an SD card for the HD2 please? Possibly looking at an 8 or 16GB card. I feel its time to upgrade from my piddly little 2GB card that came with the phone.
Thx.
im with ya mate........ BUMP
Not really sure of the question!?
if you're asking which brand... ive always used sandisk, i have two 16gb (class 2) & an 8gb (class 6) card from sandisk, & have no problem with them, Kingston are also a quality brand.
i have had 2 cards die for no reason in about a 4 year period (always keep a spare now!), but this can happen.
if you are asking what size... go for the largest one you can afford.
@ RoN_HD2, i see you are in the uk, try CEX: http://www.cex.co.uk/search/index.php?stext=micro+sd&ispostback=1&mode=buy
you get a 1 year warranty, even on sd cards, if the card stops working within warranty period they will replace it.
So I got a Samsung 32GB class 10 MicroSD card off eBay for my soon to ship AT&T Samsung Galaxy S3 and I ran some tests on it and got some weird results and I'm wondering if I got an el-fako. It was a bulk packaged one (ie just in an adapter case holder).
I ran h2testw and got results lower than I was expecting (like 15 read/6 write) but that didn't bother me too much. But then I tried to run CrystalDiskMark; I didn't realize that selecting 5 made it run the tests 5 times and it was taking forever, so I left it running when I went to bed. When I woke up it was frozen on Random Write 4KB (QD=32) [1/5] hitting stop did nothing and I couldn't close the program or even end the process in task manager. When I went into the disk in my windows explorer it froze windows explorer and then I couldn't do anything really involving the SD card. I even had to cold power down the system since attempting to shut down within the OS did nothing.
Now today running CrystalDiskMark it ran the first 7 tests fairly quickly on 1 iteration and then it's again stuck on the last test Random Write 4KB (QD=32) [1/1]. Or at least it's been doing that test for like a half hour with no change and as mentioned overnight it didn't get past it so I doubt waiting will do anything for me. A screenshot of the results so far are attached.
Now having said that, I am using the built-in 7in1 card reader in a 4 year old dell Vostro 1700 so it wouldn't surprise me if the reader couldn't handle the top speeds of the card or even if it freezing up was the fault of the reader but I am concerned. Anyone have any thoughts?
Ebay fake Samsung SD cards
I had the same issue. 15 R/ 6 W, when class 10 clearly should be constant speeds of 24 Read and 13 Write. Brought from ebay seller moe_122 for £19.99 32GB Class 10 Samsung Micro SD.
I tried this both on my laptop card reader and my PC, using both the SD card adapter and a standalone USB Micro SD card reader.
I then checked out images of some available from Amazon and they are clearly different. Genuine mSD shown on Amazon had writing on back, whereas the one I'd received was blank.
I have today, emailed them requesting a replacement, they instead offered a full refund. the only thing is now I have the S3 but no micro SD card, and I have to post it back to them. They tried to say that I was liable for return postage but I was not having it. In the end I just escalated to ebay resolution center and they begrudging agreed to refunding me the postage.
I just brought one from amazon for £19.99 with free super saver delivery.
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This is why you never buy Sd-Cards from ebay!!
Try Amazon, I'd recommend Sandisk also
AW079 said:
I had the same issue. 15 R/ 6 W, when class 10 clearly should be constant speeds of 24 Read and 13 Write. Brought from ebay seller moe_122 for £19.99 32GB Class 10 Samsung Micro SD.
I tried this both on my laptop card reader and my PC, using both the SD card adapter and a standalone USB Micro SD card reader.
I then checked out images of some available from Amazon and they are clearly different. Genuine mSD shown on Amazon had writing on back, whereas the one I'd received was blank.
I have today, emailed them requesting a replacement, they instead offered a full refund. the only thing is now I have the S3 but no micro SD card, and I have to post it back to them. They tried to say that I was liable for return postage but I was not having it. In the end I just escalated to ebay resolution center and they begrudging agreed to refunding me the postage.
I just brought one from amazon for £19.99 with free super saver delivery.
Thank me if you found this useful.
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Yeah mine has writing on the back and it matches every picture I've seen so far. I know that doesn't really indicate anything re: fake/bad but it's at least not an obvious fake.
This will be my first time ever having an issue with an eBay purchase if it is one and the buyer has 99.99% positive on like 80k deals so I'm sure worst case I get a replacement or a refund. I'm not too worried about it; it's just annoying if in fact it is a bad card/fake. I would have bought from Amazon but at the time I ordered they didn't have any good deals and the eBay price was like $10-$15 cheaper. Of course since then there have been a couple deals at the same or better pricing. If it turns out this one is going back I'll probably try and be patient and pick up a 64gb sandisk if they drop to ~$50-$60 again soon.
Hm...
Argh... as a noob i cannot yet post link to the photo of mSD card on amazon.
I too have had positive experiences with ebay so far, but when it comes to things like this, I guess it is better to go with a reputable seller like Amazon.
Go into your phone shop dealer and see what cards they sell there.
erikk said:
So I got a Samsung 32GB class 10 MicroSD card off eBay for my soon to ship AT&T Samsung Galaxy S3 and I ran some tests on it and got some weird results and I'm wondering if I got an el-fako. It was a bulk packaged one (ie just in an adapter case holder).
I ran h2testw and got results lower than I was expecting (like 15 read/6 write) but that didn't bother me too much. But then I tried to run CrystalDiskMark; I didn't realize that selecting 5 made it run the tests 5 times and it was taking forever, so I left it running when I went to bed. When I woke up it was frozen on Random Write 4KB (QD=32) [1/5] hitting stop did nothing and I couldn't close the program or even end the process in task manager. When I went into the disk in my windows explorer it froze windows explorer and then I couldn't do anything really involving the SD card. I even had to cold power down the system since attempting to shut down within the OS did nothing.
Now today running CrystalDiskMark it ran the first 7 tests fairly quickly on 1 iteration and then it's again stuck on the last test Random Write 4KB (QD=32) [1/1]. Or at least it's been doing that test for like a half hour with no change and as mentioned overnight it didn't get past it so I doubt waiting will do anything for me. A screenshot of the results so far are attached.
Now having said that, I am using the built-in 7in1 card reader in a 4 year old dell Vostro 1700 so it wouldn't surprise me if the reader couldn't handle the top speeds of the card or even if it freezing up was the fault of the reader but I am concerned. Anyone have any thoughts?
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Hey Erikk, I am having the same exact problem as you, I am using the card reader in my new laptop and my card is benching much higher as it should be but when I am getting to the same test it gets frozen on Random Write 4KB (QD=32) [1/5] and nothing happens I can't end process, I have to cold power down like you as well. I know for a fact the microSD card I got is not a fake because I compared with other real samsung 32gb mircosd cards. I got mine at a MicroCenter. I don't know what to do at this point because the card is fantastic as far as speed is concerned it just gets stuck at that part...
Appreciate help from anyone that knows a possible solution, returning it may be the only option but I have a hard time believing the card it self is defective.
There are so many fake cards on eBay it's not even funny. I got burned once and will never buy there again. I'd rather pay a little more at my local store, at least then I have the peace of mind of being covered by consumer protection laws.
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UPDATE: Booting into safe mode did the trick, I no longer get frozen on Random Write 4KB (QD=32) [1/5] ALSO my speeds seem to have improved some more as well. lol :victory: No defect with the card after all, just something was not working well with crystaldiskmark in the normal OS environment.
I just don't get why people spend £500 on the best phone available then go to Ebay to find the cheapest card they can possibly find.
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Yeah mine has writing on the back and it matches every picture I've seen so far. I know that doesn't really indicate anything re: fake/bad but it's at least not an obvious fake.
This will be my first time ever having an issue with an eBay purchase if it is one and the buyer has 99.99% positive on like 80k deals so I'm sure worst case I get a replacement or a refund. I'm not too worried about it; it's just annoying if in fact it is a bad card/fake. I would have bought from Amazon but at the time I ordered they didn't have any good deals and the eBay price was like $10-$15 cheaper. Of course since then there have been a couple deals at the same or better pricing. If it turns out this one is going back I'll probably try and be patient and pick up a 64gb sandisk if they drop to ~$50-$60 again soon.
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If you want them cheap get them from ebay, but dont blame anyone if you get a fake one, you get what you pay for. It has been said many times, many ebay sellers sell fake micro sd.
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Always get a good quality card reader, dont compare the cheap and nasty one's with a branded one, you won't get the same results.
Michael_P said:
I just don't get why people spend £500 on the best phone available then go to Ebay to find the cheapest card they can possibly find.
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Cos they just spent all their money on a $700 phone....
I went to eBay because it was cheap enough that I really didn't care if I got burned on a fake card (plus with all the paypal/ebay protections the burn would only be the annoyance of disputing the charge). I am now fairly certain it's not a bad or fake card; in the S3 antutu reads it with the correct speeds. I think it was just the 5 year old multi-card reader built into my laptop that was having issues.
So either way, I'm happy now with my card.
I'm normally very careful, but I made the mistake of buying some "Sandisk" SD cards from Ebay.
They looked absolutely perfect, the welded plastic packaging was flawless, yet sadly they turned out to be fake.
A typical scam is to reprogram and rebrand cheaper, smaller capacity, slower or otherwise low quality cards as pass them off as high quality brands.
Often everything seems OK until the card is part-used, when files start to corrupt. Of course, often by the time this becomes apparent, the seller has scarpered.
If the price looks too good to be true, it often really is too good to be true.
Well the seller I bought from has been an ebay member since 99, has 80k+ ratings and 99.9% positive feedback, so hopefully I won't have that happen. But yes SD cards are definitely one of the riskier items to buy off ebay.
Best tool to test SD for fakes is called H2testw. I have bought one fake on eBay, and seller also had 99% positive feedback. I guess people buy 32GB card and never get past the 1GB or 2GB by the time they leave the positive feedback. If you pass the real space everything will be corrupted. So you really never know until you try to get data out of the SD to use it. Try that tool and it will full the SD card and then read it back.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=730285
PS. I don't ever buy SD card from eBay anymore.
fireboypr said:
Best tool to test SD for fakes is called H2testw.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=730285
PS. I don't ever buy SD card from eBay anymore.
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That sounds a really helpful tool, thanks!
I'm sure you are exactly right about the typical Ebay scam.
I watched one seller who had vast amounts of sales and great feedback.
They suddenly flooded the listings with vast numbers of "Kingston" brand cards at silly low prices.
Nothing happened for a while, then suddenly the bad feedback started to roll in on that supplier about corrupt data. Of course, all the cards had been sold. Seller vanished without trace.
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Best tool to test SD for fakes is called H2testw. I have bought one fake on eBay, and seller also had 99% positive feedback. I guess people buy 32GB card and never get past the 1GB or 2GB by the time they leave the positive feedback. If you pass the real space everything will be corrupted. So you really never know until you try to get data out of the SD to use it. Try that tool and it will full the SD card and then read it back.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=730285
PS. I don't ever buy SD card from eBay anymore.
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Yeah my card passed H2testw. It just came back with speeds I thought were too low for what the card should have been capable of. With the tests I've run with the phone itself I think those slow tests were just indicative of the crap reader my ancient laptop has. So I guess I got lucky in the eBay crapshoot.
fireboypr said:
Best tool to test SD for fakes is called H2testw. I have bought one fake on eBay, and seller also had 99% positive feedback. I guess people buy 32GB card and never get past the 1GB or 2GB by the time they leave the positive feedback. If you pass the real space everything will be corrupted. So you really never know until you try to get data out of the SD to use it. Try that tool and it will full the SD card and then read it back.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=730285
PS. I don't ever buy SD card from eBay anymore.
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you don't need to give feedback in an instant, test it out first then decide.
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erikk said:
Yeah my card passed H2testw. It just came back with speeds I thought were too low for what the card should have been capable of. With the tests I've run with the phone itself I think those slow tests were just indicative of the crap reader my ancient laptop has. So I guess I got lucky in the eBay crapshoot.
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you need a good quality external card reader to get upto standard results, kingston and sandisk has the fastest card reader on the market costing approximate USd 35 - USD 45.
card reader built into laptop does what it suppost to do, but at low speed.
Fake or Real
I have downloaded sd tools on my S3 and I'm getting results of 7.2 MB/s write speed, and, 17.6 MB/s read speed.
Is this fake or real?
Why guys. first of all thanks everyone from the forum.i'm learning a lot here.
My question is about the sandisk 64 gb micro sd card. I bought one on amazon (sold on there by Superior Electronics Outlet).
the card arrived and never really worked properly. The phone didn't reconize it. I frmated the card on the phone and on windows and still no go.
I could see it on minitool partition wizard but not on windows. Tried everything humanly possible. created partitions, formated, but still no go.
i was able to copy some data to it once when it almost worked, but again it didn't work on the phone. my old cards work normaly.
So i gave up and filled on amazon for return of the card and filed an A-to-z Guarantee claim.
Have any of you had a problem like that ? what are my changes of getting a refund ?
really don't want to waste the 80 bucks i paid on it.
Thanks
Some SD is just faulty from fabric.shouldn't be any problem to get a refund or changed to new one.
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Why guys. first of all thanks everyone from the forum.i'm learning a lot here.
My question is about the sandisk 64 gb micro sd card. I bought one on amazon (sold on there by Superior Electronics Outlet).
the card arrived and never really worked properly. The phone didn't reconize it. I frmated the card on the phone and on windows and still no go.
I could see it on minitool partition wizard but not on windows. Tried everything humanly possible. created partitions, formated, but still no go.
i was able to copy some data to it once when it almost worked, but again it didn't work on the phone. my old cards work normaly.
So i gave up and filled on amazon for return of the card and filed an A-to-z Guarantee claim.
Have any of you had a problem like that ? what are my changes of getting a refund ?
really don't want to waste the 80 bucks i paid on it.
Thanks
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How much did you pay for? Some Chinese guys' were selling 64gb on ebay for 16$ and many people bought on this forum but so far only 1 person received it and he says it's fine.
I had issues getting my 64GB card working in mg SGS3 as well. Not until I actually put something on it would my phone detect it and tell me the card was "unknown" and offering me to format it.
I paid 80 dollars on amazon. It's an american company that sells throught amazon.
I just started buying there so i am really hopping that they refund me or send me a new card.
The strange thing is that it almost worked one time...but then without a reason, it died again.
I googled a little and seems that amazon is easy on refunds.
you may format you card as exfat ,then try again?
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you may format you card as exfat ,then try again?
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i already did. Somehow the card won't alow itself to be written. I can create partitions but never formated completly without erros.
i managed to use chkdsk on it at it had lost chains in every cluster on the card. Since it cannot be writen nothing can be done.
I'm worried about time. so far no news from amazon or the seller....and i filled the complain on the very next day the card arrived.
I have recently been having an issue with my GN2 photos. I am currently running Beans build 18 rom with a sandisk highspeed 64gb SD card. About every 3rd picture just shows up like 30-80% gray a couple days after being taken. They are fine for a couple days but then go bad. I do have my phone storing them on the SD card which I recently formatted from the phone.
I would greatly prefer to store photos on my SD card as I take a lot of photo's.
Any suggestions?
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I have recently been having an issue with my GN2 photos. I am currently running Beans build 18 rom with a sandisk highspeed 64gb SD card. About every 3rd picture just shows up like 30-80% gray a couple days after being taken. They are fine for a couple days but then go bad. I do have my phone storing them on the SD card which I recently formatted from the phone.
I would greatly prefer to store photos on my SD card as I take a lot of photo's.
Any suggestions?
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did you get your SD card from ebay, i got one from there and there are alot of fake sd cards on there see this link
http://forums.ebay.com/db2/topic/Reviews-Guides/Beware-Of-Fake/5100011530
I have about 4gb in roms on it and it still shows appropriately. I paid $40 for it on eBay so it wasn't any steal deal and the seller was very reputable.
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I have about 4gb in roms on it and it still shows appropriately. I paid $40 for it on eBay so it wasn't any steal deal and the seller was very reputable.
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sometimes the seller will buy in bulk from somebody else and the seller does not even know that there was a problem with the sd card. how it works is the sd card will say it has 32gb on cell phone and on box but really it only has 2-5 gb on them. the last i check ebay for sd cards i could not find a single legit one. you leave the feedback before you realize that it is fake. (this happened to me as well and i was having same issues. but maybe it is something else.....
More specifically, don't use the generic no-name 64GB SD cards with your XZT.
I've been using a generic 8GB SD card with my XTZ since I got it, in fact I've been using the same card for like 2 years now in many different devices and it's never had a hiccup, even after formatting to different file system types.
Recently decided to get a generic 64GB because they're only $10! I bought 2 in case I got a bad one. Popped the cards in the XTZ and it formatted them without problems. I added some comics and music, they played fine, images displayed quick and snappy.
Fast forward to a few days later and there are all sorts of bull**** problems:
•Sometimes the XTZ will stop recognizing the SD card and display the "ready to remove SD card" message. It won't recognize it again until it's reformatted on the PC.
•Music won't play, some files won't display sometimes, and flipping through images is agonizingly slow.
•Available storage will show as very low even if the card is empty or has few things on it. Sometimes the card will show as having 67GB of storage.
•Even if you erase the SD card, if you plug it into a computer it'll show that it still has old files on it.
•Formatting the card to FAT32 or exFAT on the PC fixes the problems, BUT, the problems start happening again whenever you turn off your tablet and turn it back on. Or if you sneeze, it'll get messed up again. Or even when you look at it funny it'll get messed up again.
•At one point an SD card turned into RAW format. How the hell?
•Running Check Disk on the SD cards shows 0 errors, but sometimes it will show hundreds of errors. What the ****?
I'm done with these cards, trying to get a refund now.
Will a 32GB generic card work? Should I just stop being cheap and get a name brand name 32GB? lol
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Should I just stop being cheap and get a name brand name 32GB? lol
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My vote is YES, stop being cheap and by a brand-name SD card; e.g., SanDisk.
I'm using a San Disk class 10 64 gb card on my Tab and XZ2 and it's insanely fast and so far (3 weeks and counting) very reliable.
I once got a cheap 64gb card and it ended up corrupting files every time I exceeded 16gb so yeah, buy a more expensive one and you'll be happy.
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My vote is YES, stop being cheap and by a brand-name SD card; e.g., SanDisk.
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Completely agree.
Got a SanDisk Class 10 64gb myself and couldn't be happier. It pays off to buy from a reliable brand.
That's funny, because I originally bought a Sandisk 64G card for my XTZ and had exactly the same problems as described (turned out to be a fairly widespread manufacturing defect). Replaced it with a Samsung 64G card (which was cheaper) and it's been perfect.
I have had no problems at all with both a 64gb and a 128gb card in mine.
Never buy a no-brand ad card. The way these are made is one of the two:
1- When a chip maker builds an sdcard it is subjected to various tests before it is sold. For example if a large number of the memory cells fail the read/write test at hot temperature the part is unusable. Some people somehow get their hands on these rejected parts and repackage (sometimes in packaging that looks very closely like samsung or sandisk) and sell them as good parts. It is then a matter of time before the sdcard fails in your system.
2- This one is even more common. They take a let's say 4GB card and change its firmware and electronically label it as 64GB or whatever they want. You buy it and put it in your device. For the first 4GB your files are saved fine but once you exceed that (which may happen months after the purchase of the card) it will fail.
Conclusion: never buy a no-name sdcard if you want your data to be safe.
As an update, I got a refund from ebay automatically for the card because the seller didn't respond to the dispute. So, yay lol
More importantly, I used this program to format the no-name sd cards and they work fine... for now. Speeds are snappy, I can view comics and music and stuff with no lag, etc.
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm
Of course, this formats them to the FAT32 file system, so you can't win them all lol. The card still shows up as the proper size in the settings though.
The other card seems to be a fake capacity, I try to put more than 2gb of stuff on it and it just gets erased.
I'm buying a 64GB Samsung Evo card since they're pretty good at $30.