My GS4 has froze twice in the past week.
A damaged icon for the SD card pops up when it does it.
My OtterBox isn't easy to get off, and I'm tired of having to pull the battery.
All my data is still on the SD card when I restart the phone.
I use SD Maid to keep everything clean, and I've stopped a bunch of unnecessary apps
from running.
No apps are installed on the card.
I was going to move most of my apps to the SD with FolderMount, but I'm kind of leery now.
Is my SD card bad?
Could it be a battery problem?
I've noticed that the phone gets kinda warm when playing games.
What do you guys think?
Reptile360666 said:
My GS4 has froze twice in the past week.
A damaged icon for the SD card pops up when it does it.
My OtterBox isn't easy to get off, and I'm tired of having to pull the battery.
All my data is still on the SD card when I restart the phone.
I use SD Maid to keep everything clean, and I've stopped a bunch of unnecessary apps
from running.
No apps are installed on the card.
I was going to move most of my apps to the SD with FolderMount, but I'm kind of leery now.
Is my SD card bad?
Could it be a battery problem?
I've noticed that the phone gets kinda warm when playing games.
What do you guys think?
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I have seen others on here having similar issues due to a bad SD card. Any chance you can switch it out and see how the phone runs without it? Possibly with no SD card at all even..
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I'd try re formatting the card after saving all your stuff too. May be worth a try
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Mistertac said:
I have seen others on here having similar issues due to a bad SD card. Any chance you can switch it out and see how the phone runs without it? Possibly with no SD card at all even..
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I'd try re formatting the card after saving all your stuff too. May be worth a try
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I saved all my stuff and reformatted, but I found out that most of the issues are caused by SanDisk cards.
I'm going to try a Samsung card.
GS4 owners beware - stay away from SanDisk!
Yup. RMA that SanDisk ASAP
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My coworker is stock rooted gingerbread with a 32GB sd card (with 25gb still available for use). He's been that way for about 2 months now, and uses stock camera and gallery.
For some reason now, his pics aren't saving. I just tried myself with his phone, and the pic was saved to ext_sd/dcim/... I saw it in the folder using root explorer. Within 5 min, the pic was replaced with the triangle error sign.
Any thoughts?
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few things to try...
clear gallery data
change save location to int sd
format ext sd
ive gotten those on rare occasions, but couldnt pinpoint it down to anything in particular
mrmako777 said:
few things to try...
clear gallery data
change save location to int sd
format ext sd
ive gotten those on rare occasions, but couldnt pinpoint it down to anything in particular
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I will have him try... I told him to let me throw ics on that shiz and call it a day
Side note, you've been one of the most helpful people here man... For that, I publicly thank you :beer:
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update?
andy55 said:
update?
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It didn't bring the pics back obviously but pics are saving (idk where... Can't find using root explorer) but they are saving.
He has to xfer media to int sd before formatting
And I told him to get a sandisk
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Possible bad sd card. If its from ebay, it may be a fake 32 gb. Test the card with H2testw.
pbcal said:
Possible bad sd card. If its from ebay, it may be a fake 32 gb. Test the card with H2testw.
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My thoughts exactly! I hate eBay, and that is where he got it (for cheap... Go figure ). I didn't know there were cards that read 32 but were only 8. It makes sense since he has used 6gb of space (and we all know 8gb isn't really 8gb)
Thanks
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I just received my 32 GB micro SD and I'm gonna put it in my note. I had a 16Gb. When I put in the 32gb it slowed down and my phone would freeze more often. I am running Liquid Smooth Jelly Bean 4.1.2 RC8. Ima format the 32gb so it can fresh it out. Should I reflash my ROM since I've upgraded the storage?
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Did you move any system function or apps onto your ad card? I would put in the 32 and format and partition it, then take everything off the 16 and put it on the 32. Then report back your findings.
BTW- did you buy the same class card?
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Now that I'm thinking about it, a rom re flash couldn't hurt.
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Yeah I bought the same class SD card, and all I transfered was my music and pictures. I formated the 32gb already and transfered all my files. I'm thinking just to reflash it just if anything
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LittleRedDot said:
Now that I'm thinking about it, a rom re flash couldn't hurt.
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How would it help?
rangercaptain said:
How would it help?
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I never said it would help, I said it couldn't hurt. And since the OP's post wasn't getting much love I figured I would add my 2 cents.
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format the card to FAT32 file structure,(PC with card adapter) and give it a go in the phone....g
Had one of my 32gb micro's crap out on me today. Of course it was my more valuable to me card. Popped it my laptop to grab some files for a new Novena flash only to get a "must be formatted." Fired up testdisk 6.13 to have a peek at the partition before panic set in, just to find it detected as 32mb. Was a genuine Sandisk. Not impressed. Can't for the life me get the partition repaired. I'm fine with taking the data loss now, but can't get it to format. Going to try HP Drive Key Boot Utility once I borrow someone's WiFi in the a.m.
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Jonahng1994 said:
I just received my 32 GB micro SD and I'm gonna put it in my note. I had a 16Gb. When I put in the 32gb it slowed down and my phone would freeze more often. I am running Liquid Smooth Jelly Bean 4.1.2 RC8. Ima format the 32gb so it can fresh it out. Should I reflash my ROM since I've upgraded the storage?
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i read a thread here in the forums, cant post the link though, "sd card becomes lil slower when the memory is almost full or completely full..
btw go for class 10 which gives 10Mb/s r/w speed...class 2 is very slow...
so even if the memory card is 8gb class 10 it will show some performance..but 32gb class4 will be fine..but at some times u will feel it has become rather slow.." i didnt see if you mentioned what class the SD card was. hope this helps a little.
My genuine 32GB SanDisk MicroSDHC UHS-1 Class 10 card did the same thing almost immediately after I got it in Septemeber. It eventually died after two months of use. SanDisk RMA'd it, and I'm waiting for the replacement. I'm expecting that the replacement will also die... I think our phones is killing these SanDisk UHS-1 cards.
Mine was a week shy of a year old. Be my last SanDisk. Doubt it's our Notes doing it though. Had mine in and out of a Captivate, S2, Note dozens of times.
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Just lost another 32 GB card so now I'm starting to wonder if it really is my phone killing them. Had a media ejected... message pop up after a reboot. History after that.
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And I thought sandisk was the best ....
Obviously that isn't the case ....g
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Just lost another 32 GB card so now I'm starting to wonder if it really is my phone killing them. Had a media ejected... message pop up after a reboot. History after that.
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I just got my replacement from Sandisk. Let's see how it holds up.
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This thread is defeinetly interesting. I originally had a patriot 16GB class 10 (excellent card BTW), as I began to run out of storage I decided to buy this sandisk ultra 32GB HC1 supposebly read/write speeds are better than class 10? Wrong.. my speeds dropped even with tinkering with system tuner/ SD settings didn't seem to help much.. I have screenshots somewhere of both cards tested and compared.Well besides that One month goes by and my device kept trying to randomly read and scan the card as if I just turned the phone on? Games and apps wouldn't start saying app not installed? Eventually the card crapped out asking for a reformat, luckily I backed up the card before it crashed. I sent it back to Sandisk they RMA'ed me a second one I'm using now.. going on two weeks no issues so far. I'm thinking maybe there's a bad lot out there?
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gregsarg said:
And I thought sandisk was the best ....
Obviously that isn't the case ....g
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I have been using a Transcend 32gb class 10 card with no issues, almost a year now. Give them a try.
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Hey guys
I just got my new micro sd card (Samsung SDHC 32GB class 10). Till today I used stock EVO's 8GB Samsung class 6. So, I downloaded my old card content to my laptop and copied it to my new card but my pictures, videos and music files are not copied and all apps that were on my old card cannot be installed. I did this card to card tranfer many times before and never had a problem. What am I doing wrong?
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Did you first format the new card inside the phone? Try doing that first and afterwards copy your stuff
posedatull said:
Did you first format the new card inside the phone? Try doing that first and afterwards copy your stuff
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Yes, of course. Tried to format it three times and copy content different ways but same thing happens
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Hmm... That is odd. I have heard that the phone had some problems with samsung cards, but i remembered them with 64gb cards... Try a different rom, just for the sake of argument. If that aint it, then i think the card and the phone dont get along too well
I don't know about you but my phone came with Samsung memory card so I thought I'd go for the same manufacturer with more memory. I'll try again tomorrow from scratch and see what happens. Thanks a bunch m8
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I meant what i have seen other people around here talk about... I have a no name 32gb class 6 that never gave me any problems, but i have seen discussions about this in the past.
Good luck tomorrow, I hope a proper flash will fix your card
I didn't mean any disrespect man. You helped me a lot. I'll try tomorrow and post what happened
Just wanted to say - my phone is fast as hell with this card. I can't belive the smoothness and speed
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donkeykong1 said:
I didn't mean any disrespect man. You helped me a lot. I'll try tomorrow and post what happened
Just wanted to say - my phone is fast as hell with this card. I can't belive the smoothness and speed
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Dude, I didnt feel disrespected at all, chill
Ok, did it. Looks like my files got corrupted while copying from my old sd card to my laptop. I managed to save my pics and music but I had to download all apps that I had from playstore.
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Well congrats for saving at least part of your stuff . I had the same problems a few times, noticed them once when I tried to defrag my card and it was a bit over 50% fragmented. Since then, once every 2 or 3 months I copy all my stuff to my laptop and I format the card (slow format, not quick) to be sure I won't have my data corrupted. Also, I might suggest trying a different usb cable, that could be another reason why your stuff got corrupted.
Anyway, you said you saved the important stuff, so all is well now. Enjoy your new card
Well, my new card erased itself complitely yesterday
I noticed a significant lag while opening apps on sd this week and card reader gave me class 2 read and write speeds. So I guess it's broken. Back to stock
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posedatull said:
Since then, once every 2 or 3 months I copy all my stuff to my laptop and I format the card (slow format, not quick) to be sure I won't have my data corrupted.
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Sorry but you mean formatting the SD card from the computer or from the EVO?
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Sorry but you mean formatting the SD card from the computer or from the EVO?
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If he said slow format I guess he means computer. Evo doesn't have slow or fast format. Correct me if I'm wrong Posedatull
Any suggestions about what card I shoud buy?
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Hello XDA Community,
My Phone started to make me angry the last 3 days. I have this little problem, I always get a warning "SD Card has been removed". But the thing is I dont pull the Card out or anything. I tried to turn off the Phone take the SD out and put it back in, It worked for 1 Day, and today the same happend again. To make the SD Card work again, I have to pull it out and put it back in - that gets pretty annoying.
Anyone of you guys have the same issue? What do you think could this be? An Phone Issue or maybe my SD is damaged?
G
Regards
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bwsoveryou said:
Hello XDA Community,
My Phone started to make me angry the last 3 days. I have this little problem, I always get a warning "SD Card has been removed". But the thing is I dont pull the Card out or anything. I tried to turn off the Phone take the SD out and put it back in, It worked for 1 Day, and today the same happend again. To make the SD Card work again, I have to pull it out and put it back in - that gets pretty annoying.
Anyone of you guys have the same issue? What do you think could this be? An Phone Issue or maybe my SD is damaged?
G
Regards
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I Also had this issue (eventually it wouldnt Mount at all) and it turned out to be a corrupted sdcard. Pop the sdcard in your computer and run a scan and repair any damage on the sdcard
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You may Have to Replace it though if nothing works and you cant recover any data (if you can then start making backups Now)
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bwsoveryou said:
Hello XDA Community,
My Phone started to make me angry the last 3 days. I have this little problem, I always get a warning "SD Card has been removed". But the thing is I dont pull the Card out or anything. I tried to turn off the Phone take the SD out and put it back in, It worked for 1 Day, and today the same happend again. To make the SD Card work again, I have to pull it out and put it back in - that gets pretty annoying.
Anyone of you guys have the same issue? What do you think could this be? An Phone Issue or maybe my SD is damaged?
G
Regards
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What???
You too ....Me too i had the same problem today...san-disk 32GB; Class 4...fixed it after 2 hours of trying ....took the sd-card out and put it back again and again and again with usb connected to my laptop....finally SD-formatter was able to detect it and now its working after formatting....
limaakum said:
What???
You too ....Me too i had the same problem today...san-disk 32GB; Class 4...fixed it after 2 hours of trying ....took the sd-card out and put it back again and again and again with usb connected to my laptop....finally SD-formatter was able to detect it and now its working after formatting....
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Congrats man Yeah 64gb for me fortunatly my replacement should be in the post about now
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So, I copied the whole SD on my PC. Formatted it, let Windows (chkdsk) check the Card but no errors were found. Ive tried another Programm (Easus Partion Manager), checked the Card with the Programm, but it was the same, no Errrors. So I copied everything back on my SD, lets hope that it works now.
Thanks for the help anyway. :thumbup:
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Try to run a badblocks utility to make sure it has no bad blocks.
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So, I put my SD card from my Galaxy Note 2 and stuck it straight into this phone, and now it says the SD card is damaged. I've tried reformatting in the phone, no go... Reformatting on computer with Windows, and various other formatting programs, no go... Any ideas on how to get it working again?
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How old is it?
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I replace mine every new phone. If you've been on it since Note 2 it's probably just dead. I put the one I bought 6 months ago when my S3 was stolen and replaced in this with no issue. So it's not a Sammy to LG thing.
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I have swapped several between the two phones note 3 to g3 and back
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pulled a 64G sandisk out of my note 3 put it in with no issues
Same here, pulled a 64 from my evo. Plugged it in and whala. Hey I remember some of those roms. Ha
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sinisin said:
How old is it?
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I replace mine every new phone. If you've been on it since Note 2 it's probably just dead. I put the one I bought 6 months ago when my S3 was stolen and replaced in this with no issue. So it's not a Sammy to LG thing.
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It is probably at least a year and half old... This one has actually lasted me awhile... I guess I felt like I was getting lemons and then this one lasted longer than the others. I think you are right now. I hate paying for something that will die so soon :/
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Try finding "USB Image Tool." Free. Pulled my 64GB SanDisk from my Galaxy S3 and my G3 killed it too Sad day. Everything I had on my phone was on that card. Backed up to it and wiped my S3 to give to my wife. Pulled the card and it died lost everything. Used that tool to make an image of the card so I can keep working to try to recover it. Then hit 'Reset' in the tool to reset the bootsector on the card. Could format and use it after that.
I had my SD card get damaged by the phone the other day. Just happened when I answered a call
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Just happened twice with my Verizon LG G3. First time around, I wrote off my 32gb card (SanDisk Ultra Class 10) as possibly bad because it came from a damaged tablet (card wasn't able to format; trying to RMA it). Now, less than a week after, my 16gb card (Patriot LX Class 10) is now showing damaged as well. We'll see if I can recover functionality with that card (at least my pictures were backed-up).
Both cards are genuine, and have never had any problems up until this particular phone.
UPDATE: Cannot recover/reformat SD card (on any device), and might be looking at another RMA. Not sure if it is worth it at this point to try to get a replacement phone while I'm at it (since I use this one for business, and not a lot was being saved to the card itself). Plus, considering all of the posts I've seen around this, I'm not sure if there is a bigger issue.
My g3 killed my 32gb card. Killed it dead.