Can a cellphone damage the sd card? - Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

My wife was having having trouble playing songs from her micro sd card (the tracks kept skipping a beat or so), so she bought a new micro sd card. She used the micro sd card for a few days and today the smartphone would not see the micro sd card when she went to "storage". I've tested it on my cellphone and on my computer and none could detect the micro sd card. Could the cellphone have damaged the micro sd card somehow or is this most likely a coincidence?

Personally I think if it's a new card it's just a bad card. It happens.

OK few questions is the SD card SanDisk?
How large is it?
If it is a SanDisk then it is possible for some issues just read up on it.

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Mini SD with adapter help me

I buy a 2Gb mini sd with adapter, but when i insert the memory in my prophet, the memory is not appear in the memory manager. is not possible use a mini SD with the prophet and Magician?
net36854 said:
I buy a 2Gb mini sd with adapter, but when i insert the memory in my prophet, the memory is not appear in the memory manager. is not possible use a mini SD with the prophet and Magician?
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Are you sure the card can be detected properly? do you have a sd card reader to see if windows can detect?
I don't have SD reader
No, i don't have a sd card reader to use with the computer to verify the card, but the sd card is a Kingstom standard mini sd card with him adapter to SD.
The card isn't reconigzed by the prophet and isn't reconigzed by the magician.
The type and size have problems with this models of XDA?
My guess is that the mini-sd to sd card adapter is busted. you should double check with another device to be sure. I doubt sd slot on the pda is busted (have you tried another sd card?). I've used a 2gig sandisk mini-sd car with an adapter in my dopod818pro no problems.
my miniSD adapter is a bit.. wacky. Try this.
Take both of them out.
Take the miniSD out of the adapter
Reinsert it, firmly but not too 'pushy'.
Now, the trick here, when you insert both of then into your phone, try not to push it on the miniSD, instead, push it on both side of the adaptor (eg ONLY touch the adapter when pushing into the phone, and balance it (left and right)).

SD CARD issue

hi,
I've got a problem with my sd card in my prophet. the prophet can not read the sd card the card. when I use the explorer prophet doesn't show the sd card. also I can not the start the apps stored on the sd card.
When I insert the SD Card into a card reader or an other xda I can see all the data on it but not in my xda prophet. Soft reset doesn't help.
check if the card is sdhc or simply sd
sdhc cards don't work with prophet
its a 2GB SD Card from Sandisk that I use for over one year. The issue exists since last week.
it seems like it's some hardware problem
if you haven't warranty, maybe try to open your prophet and clean up pins in prophet's reader
[sorry for my english]
it seems like a hardware problem. the prophet has got warranty, so I will send it for repair.
thank you all for your support.

Microcenter Micro SD Cards

So I recently bought an 8GB Class 6 MicroSD card from Microcenter (One of the generic Microcenter ones) and when I plug it into my Vista x64 machine and try to navigate to it, explorer.exe hangs and freezes until I unplug it. Ubuntu recognizes it, but it will not show up in GPartEd, mind you this is with two card readers on different computers. The phone recognizes it but won't save anything to it.
And on top of that I had my dad exchange the card out for another one because it is closer to where he works (Microcenter is about 20 minutes away), and they both do the same thing, has anyone experienced this also?
Are you using an SDHC card reader? Those cards are SDHC. Make sure your card reader has SDHC letters on it.
SDHC is not the same as a SD card. Older card readers will hang the OS.
I went to a MicroCenter and asked about the $50 (or so) card and they told me that it was actually just a class 2 so I refused to buy it. Instead I got a NAME BRAND (AData) from Newegg for the same price and I love it! I don't have any issues.
But it sounds like you need a new or different SDHC adapter.
Edit: Have you tried just using the phone as the adapter by mounting it?
If you can access the card that way then my guess is that it's not the card.
mayurt7 said:
Are you using an SDHC card reader? Those cards are SDHC. Make sure your card reader has SDHC letters on it.
SDHC is not the same as a SD card. Older card readers will hang the OS.
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I can confirm this. I have a 4 GB SDHC card that will not work in my current reader. I got a smaller regular non-high-density card to recover with. Either get a small card (2 GB) or upgrade your reader.
I did find out that I needed an SDHC reader. I just bought one and it works great.

External SD card Reader BROKEN!

I don't know why, but my external sd card reader DOESN'T clip the SD Card when inserted. It always ejects the card . I considered to fix it myself, but it seems that a tiny piece is not fitting well so I'm thinking of ordering a replace part that I could use to get over this.
I have found screens, buttons, SIM readers, but nothing about SD card readers. Do any of you know where to buy this ext. reader?? Thanks!
Solved! I have seen that the SIM card reader comes with the SD Card reader. I will order one. Thanks!
Good to know...thanks 4 the info!

Priv Not seeing SD card

Okay so my Priv I bought recently is not seeing my sdcard. I have used a 8gb, 16gb and 32g microsd cards. It acts like it literally does not see the SDcards. All cards have been slow formatted to fat32. I am aware of any sd cards bigger then 64+ they need to be exFat and have the exfat app installed to see it. But these are small cards. No matter what I do they are not being recognized. It is literally like I have no sd card installed.
Has anyone come across this and if so anyone have an idea for a solution?

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