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Sd card saying damaged when I restart my phone

Basically when I restart my phone, I get a pop up that says my Sd card is damaged but when I go to settings and mount it, it works fine until I do another reboot. The one annoying thing that happens is it wipes anything that was saved from my phone like DCIM picture and music etc but everything else is still there(that I saved from my pc).
Any idea what's causing it?
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What phone and which vendors SD card?
Didn't I see that Sandisk has a bad batch recently of 32 GB cards?
Also have you tried reformatting?
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It's a HC 64gb card running on SGS4 phone. I've tried reformatting off my pc and phone but to no avail. It worked fine on my Note 2
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Do you have another card to try? Since its a new device and it worked on your old phone you need to rule out the phone as the issue.
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Xbyl said:
Basically when I restart my phone, I get a pop up that says my Sd card is damaged but when I go to settings and mount it, it works fine until I do another reboot. The one annoying thing that happens is it wipes anything that was saved from my phone like DCIM picture and music etc but everything else is still there(that I saved from my pc).
Any idea what's causing it?
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Your sd card is dying...same thing started with my card.formatted,used it for a couple of days and started again,and ny S4 didn't recognized anymore
tried to format n my PC but didn't see it at all...

See if the manufacturer will replace it.
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I guess it's one of those annoying things. I'll get a new Sd card, might be the easiest solution
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Sd card has 16 gb but only 896 mb shown?

My SanDisk sd card has 16 gb on it but on S4 and all devices it has only 896 mb? How can I fix it? Already tried reformatting.
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Google search "counterfeit sd card". Maybe that is the issue.
Or if you have a windows 8 PC with an SD card reader and a full size SD card adaptor, try using the built in "Disk Management" utility to see the actual room on the card and to reclaim it if it is there.

pcguy22 said:
My SanDisk sd card has 16 gb on it but on S4 and all devices it has only 896 mb? How can I fix it? Already tried reformatting.
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DOWNLOAD a free re-partition tool and try to re-partition the card. good luck
true on the counterfeit might be a 1gb hacked to look like 16gb its been a big issue goin on for a while. did you order from ebay?

pcguy22 said:
My SanDisk sd card has 16 gb on it but on S4 and all devices it has only 896 mb? How can I fix it? Already tried reformatting.
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It sounds like you go burned TBH.
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I bought it from radio shack. I thought SanDisk was reliable?
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pcguy22 said:
I bought it from radio shack. I thought SanDisk was reliable?
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they pretty much are I never had an issue with them just exchange it if you just got it and test it while your still in the store..

I have read about the San Disks having issues with this phone. Forget where. The 64gb Samsung solved those issues. They didn't talk about smaller Samsung cards. And don't remember if it was only a certain size San Disk card.

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they pretty much are I never had an issue with them just exchange it if you just got it and test it while your still in the store..
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The OP said the card reported limited storage on other devices as well, but didn't say what other devices, so I'm thinking it is a problem with the card in general this time.

i'm running a Sandisk 64gb right now for about a yr had it in my S3 and now in my S4 and a 32gb sandisk before this one no issues

Gallery and sd card issues

Hi guys and girls
I hope someone can help, I have just got a galaxy s4 and just purchased a 64gb sd card, ive converted the sd card to fat32 but whenever I put photos on the sd card they wont show, it just shows a white icon like a broken face and if I put music on the card it plays a 3 second snippet then moves to next song.
If I place the photos and music on the internal memory it works fine
Ive persisted for 3 days and ive given up, please help me
Many thanks in advance
Steve
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Anyone?
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And now my apps that I put on via apps to sd are broken too
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Try to format from your phone settings and see how it goes.

I tried factory reset and that didnt work
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Any other ideas
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Reformat your sd card through com0uter place it in the device, reformat it using the device. I believe this should do the tr8ck
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Thanks for the replies, ive tried that and still no use it seems to be saving photos ive taken but anything I download to sd through apps doesnt work, ive tried putting a music album on through kies and that didn't work either, I just cant understand what is going on, never had this issue with the s1 or note so is it possibly an s4 issue?
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I have a plane to upgrade my SD card from 16GB to 64GB. After few minutes working with Google I found out that so many peoples complain about problem of their s4 with SD card. S4 made SD card go to some places like hell. SanDisk is the most card name has a trouble.

Try downloading Media Scan from the playstore i think the images will appear on your gallery eventually.
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As you increase the size of the sd card ...there are more memory issues popping up....I suggest you take the sd card and fix it to a different phone and see if the pics are readable....if they are not....its a problem with the sd card...so better check it out....if the pics are readable...try a different card on your s4...I myself use a 32gb Kingston sd card with life time warranty. ..just in case something like this would happen...so first isolate where the problem is...then it'll be easy to find a fix...good luck...hope this helps

Thanks for the advice, I will try a 32gb card that I have for a few days and try the 64gb in my archos tablet and see what results I get. Ill post my results asap, thanks again
Steve
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Microsdxc ultra or extreme?

Hello, did any of you test these cards from Sandisk on your Note 3? Any issues found? If you have any experience, please share. And also will i find any real difference between ultra and extreme version? I want to record 4K and 1080P videos, so that might be importand to me. Thank you!
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I'm getting my ultra soon, so I can let you know. I think it is more than sufficient.
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encho said:
I'm getting my ultra soon, so I can let you know. I think it is more than sufficient.
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Ok, dont forget me! Thanks!
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ioannis66 said:
Ok, dont forget me! Thanks!
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I use a a Sandisk 64gb Ultra in both my GoPro Hero 3 BE and my GN3. I record a lot of motorcycle rides, events and other things
Never a problem.

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I use a a Sandisk 64gb Ultra in both my GoPro Hero 3 BE and my GN3. I record a lot of motorcycle rides, events and other things
Never a problem.
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I also use a SanDisk Ultra 64gb but had mixed results.
The card usually performs great (half-full) but I have seen 2 types of issues, probably tied to the water-damage on my S4 and now trying to see how it lives on a Note 3 (which has the infamous boot-loop issue, apparently solvable by triggering a reboot through recovery).
My old device randomly ejects the card (especially during intensive access, like Spotify reading cache) and can also popup a write error message when copying files through Solid Explorer : when this happens the data will be lost and on reboot the card reverts to it's last state.
If, after a few weeks, it still works fine on the Note 3, I will try to update this feedback with results.
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Ok, dont forget me! Thanks!
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I received my card and did few videos, both 1080p and 4k. Zero issues so far. Will do some more action shots when I have a chance.
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How much space does it take a 5min 4K video on the sd card?
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New stock update now no sd card

My s5 is a completely stock UK model on Tesco/O2. It's had a couple of system updates.
I last did one a couple of days ago and now the phone won't recognise the sd card. It initially flashed the message "sd card unexpectedly removed" (or similar).
I've tried restarting, removing sd, restarting then putting card in. All to no avail.
The card works fine in my son's s4.
Any ideas please?
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petest said:
My s5 is a completely stock UK model on Tesco/O2. It's had a couple of system updates.
I last did one a couple of days ago and now the phone won't recognise the sd card. It initially flashed the message "sd card unexpectedly removed" (or similar).
I've tried restarting, removing sd, restarting then putting card in. All to no avail.
The card works fine in my son's s4.
Any ideas please?
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Have you backed up and reformatted card?
I'm having another problem, in that I can't get music to my SD card!
Have you got music on your external SD card?

No music. Got a few films and work pdfs.
I'm wondering if anybody else has any problems after recent updates
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petest said:
No music. Got a few films and work pdfs.
I'm wondering if anybody else has any problems after recent updates
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I had an update last week. My S5 works fine. But it's an O2 model which will be different from yours.
-Airax

I had an update...unlocked s5....locked up my phone n had to pull battery.
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Just remembered something. When I tried to move a couple of movies to the sd using ESFILEEXPLOR it wouldn't let me. I managed to move them with the stock file explorer though.
I was reading another thread about compatible sd cards and it seems there are a few people with issues, mainly caused after transferring music to the card as opposed to leaving it in the system memory
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I have a scandisk ultra 32gb from my s3...never had any issues with it in all my galaxy phones
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Are you rooted?
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No
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I heard there were a few problems with this stock update and I was trying to avoid it because my phone was fine, no problems with really anything. It updated when I connected to WiFi... oops. Now it won't read my SD card and pretty much every time I unlock my phone, it tells me to check my back cover because it thinks it's not all the way attached. Realllyyyy annoying and I have no idea how to fix this.
Edit; I'm on an att s5

The warnings wont go away unfortunatly but had no sd card issue....if anything after update my screen was unresponsive till i pulled the battery
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Mount unmount. .from storage settings. ..or incompatible so maybe
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