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I think I found a solution to the stupid Android System battery drain...

This is REALLLYYY a PITA but as of right now I'm pretty sure it actually worked. So if your Android System is taking up 25%+ and higher than your screen for taking up battery (in Settings--->Battery stats), then try this. As of right now my screen is #1 and Android System is only at 15%!
**Try this while your charging your phone to 100% to see if it actually worked!!**
1. Download and install Kies3.
2. Copy all contents of your ext SD Card to your computer.
3. Go into Settings-->Scroll down to System and click on Storage.
4. Format your ext SD Card by pressing "Format SD Card".
5. Go into Kies3 and and copy all of your contents back onto your SD Card.
6. Once that process is finished, download SD Scanner.
7. Go into the SD Scanner app and scan the internal storage (default one) and ext SD Card (/storage/extSdCard <-- must be typed exactly like that).
8. Reboot your phone once your phone has hit 100%.
9. See if it worked for you, hope this helps, and if it doesn't then I'm sorry but it worked well for me!

What exactly does this do? Just wondering but thanks for your active posts you have some really helpful stuff here
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timothylockhart said:
What exactly does this do? Just wondering but thanks for your active posts you have some really helpful stuff here
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It made the Android System battery drain go down, and instead of Android System being the #1 battery drainer, screen is!

But what does it actually do? Put media scanner to sleep (something that was a HUGE problem on the s3 - media scanner always running)?

crazymook said:
But what does it actually do? Put media scanner to sleep (something that was a HUGE problem on the s3)?
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This is more what I was asking what cons does this have
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crazymook said:
But what does it actually do? Put media scanner to sleep (something that was a HUGE problem on the s3)?
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It scans ALLL of your media for you (hence why I said to scan internal, then your ext Sd Card). Thus eliminating the need for Android to scan your media.

Pretty sure media scan would still run tho...no? Especially if ure taking pics, adding music, etc etc.

crazymook said:
Pretty sure media scan would still run tho...no? Especially if ure taking pics, adding music, etc etc.
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Yes but if you're like me and have a 32GB EXT SD card and have 28 Gigs worth of stuff on it... Then it deff works and is worth it lol.
Sent from a Galaxy 5 light years away

Well i tried it... Will hope for the best but..... Kies wouldnt let me add any of my files I carry on my SD card like my titanium backup youtube apk or ceberus apk....
only media files...
Also I have heard of people just removing their sd card and getting god like battery maybe we just have junk sd cards? Planning on getting a 32gb micro class 10 soon enough....
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Joe0113 said:
Yes but if you're like me and have a 32GB EXT SD card and have 28 Gigs worth of stuff on it... Then it deff works and is worth it lol.
Sent from a Galaxy 5 light years away
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So how do you add non multimedia files through kies? what does this sd scanner do? caches it or? Like i dont see how this does anything at all i have heard people talking about removing their micro sd card and getting a huge boost of battery so maybe I just have a junk one planning on getting a micro sd 32gb class 10 soon

Joe0113 said:
This is REALLLYYY a PITA but as of right now I'm pretty sure it actually worked. So if your Android System is taking up 25%+ and higher than your screen for taking up battery (in Settings--->Battery stats), then try this. As of right now my screen is #1 and Android System is only at 15%!
**Try this while your charging your phone to 100% to see if it actually worked!!**
1. Download and install Kies3.
2. Copy all contents of your ext SD Card to your computer.
3. Go into Settings-->Scroll down to System and click on Storage.
4. Format your ext SD Card by pressing "Format SD Card".
5. Go into Kies3 and and copy all of your contents back onto your SD Card.
6. Once that process is finished, download SD Scanner.
7. Go into the SD Scanner app and scan the internal storage (default one) and ext SD Card (/storage/extSdCard <-- must be typed exactly like that).
8. Reboot your phone once your phone has hit 100%.
9. See if it worked for you, hope this helps, and if it doesn't then I'm sorry but it worked well for me!
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Noticed this method of Wipe SD Card in another thread, seemed to have worked for me as well. Now battery drain most from screen.

I'm getting terrible Android System drain as well. I've greenified everything and battery life is noticeably improved, but AS drain is still top battery hog. Guess I'll try removing my SD card and if that works I'll wipe it. Pretty frustrating though that this is an issue
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What are you guys formatting your SD Card to? (what format)

Formatted it to whatever phone formats too... this actually really worked and helped but can I add files to my sd card and such as normal or am o limited now
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I'll try this and report back also. I'm on a Note 3 with the S5 port. It's going to take a long time to move over 50gb of stuff back and fourth though lol

MikeyLee said:
I'll try this and report back also. I'm on a Note 3 with the S5 port. It's going to take a long time to move over 50gb of stuff back and fourth though lol
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Literally took almost 2hrs to move 28 GB worth of stuff... Good luck brotha haha.
Sent from a Galaxy 5 light years away

Use usb 3.0 its faster.
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JoshBeach said:
Use usb 3.0 its faster.
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I did -__-
Sent from a Galaxy 5 light years away

I'm in the process of moving around 50gb of files from the card to my PC and then will go back tomorrow and do this. It is actually high time that I re-organize all of the thousands of images on my card anyway. I think I'll store them by quarter to keep to only a few thousand per folder. Thanks!

This doesnt work. After you start an app or scan folders, for music player for example, Android OS and Android System are right back at the top

MikeyLee said:
This doesnt work. After you start an app or scan folders, for music player for example, Android OS and Android System are right back at the top
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Worked for me. I'm averaging one day six hrs total use with 5hrs on screen time per charge.
Sent from a Galaxy 5 light years away

Photo Corruption on my S7 Edge

This weekend I attended a school play for one of my kids. Since it was the first weekend with the phone we took lots of pictures. Once we got home though none of the pictures were retrievable. They all had a blank grey photo screen with a ! at the button. I tried to get at it with my PC but same results. Now I got a pissed off spouse and no answers to how this would of happened. Also it was not on a MicroSD. (one is on the way). All data was saved on the device's memory.
If anyone has a trick of a fix for this, it would be greatly appreciated.

Have you tried powering the phone off for a minute then power it back up in recovery and delete the cache
Have you tried opening them up with a different program like ES explorer or disk digger
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Also after the reboot try the camera out again. does it's save any new photos that you tried to take?

I had the same issue. I took a bunch of family photos then had some lag, freezes and then a Corrupt Card message! I pulled the card and was able to save it on my win 10 pc with the sd adapter. It was the kingston 64 gb from the costco bundle. I bought a samsung pro +128 from bestbuy($89) and hope I never have this issue again.

I've taken a picture and had it just not save, but nothing like that corrupted grey screen you got.
Also I know you weren't using an SD card but when you get it I would highly recommend that you keep save to device on and transfer to your card later as needed. I found that the camera app stutters hard when opening or when saving a picture if it's straight to the card. I have a top class Sandisk 128gb card but still use the transfer method because I love the speed of the camera. Not quite as fast as last year's but 1.8 seconds from double click of the home to saving a picture is about on par with the 1.5 seconds of the s6/edge/edge+/note5.

Same crap
I have the same issues. But it does random photos. I have had the phone since the 2nd with tmobile. Since then I have taken aproximately 50 photos. Over the last 4 days they all have slowly changed to that grey crap thing and the pics are gone. WTF samsung........... I added a sd card today, even though its set to, it still dont put any photos on the card. And I still lose them to this crap glitch. Begining to really hate this phone beyond measure.

Corrupt file
I have a 128gb sd card, using the Verizon model. I took a pic and noticed it not saving to sd cards dcim. So I reboot and it to says my sd card is corrupted in storage. I just popped it in my laptop and deleted the last photo in dcim folder. It seems okay again and didn't have to format again. I hope this doesn't happen often.

I'm having the same problem with my new S7, it's July 1st, 2017 and last week all photos from about Monday onward started not showing up and just have this gray !
I took a photo again today and I looked at it and it looked fine and now I can't retrieve it. Is there any fix for this problem? I've tried reindexing, reboot 5 times, shutting down complete.

Same problem here
I am facing the same problem. Did you find solutions? If so please help me too

Ive actually been surprised at how I haven't needed to fuss at all with storing photos. It prompted me once to store on the sd and thats what its done with every photo.
My first thought would be the sdcard. I was lucky to find a high speed 128 gb Samsung in the clearance section ($20)
Test another sdcard. Im pretty sure its not a software issue.

Help Please! MAJOR SD card issues!

New to XDA, not new to Android.
Phone: Moto X Play
Rom: Stock Marshmallow 6.1
Issue: SD Card disappears randomly (formatted as internal storage!!!)
Bootloader never unlocked, never rooted.
I have a sandisk 32gb micro sd card that works when I first start the phone. The problem is that it will randomly, completely, disappear.
Now I'm not, IMO, a complete noob. I am fairly (99%) sure it is indeed the sd card at fault. Ok, not an issue, I can always replace it with a new one.
The issue is, of course, that EVERYTHING is on my SD card, most importantly, my photos.
Even without accessing a file manager (phone idle, browsing web, playing games) the sd card will eventually fail leaving it inaccessible until the phone is restarted. When attempting to access my photos, which is what I need most, it fails MUCH quicker.
Having not used the "Google Photos" app before (just Gallery), I am not at all sure if my photos were ever backed up online, If they were, I'm not sure where to look.
Trying to access them via usb, wifi file transfer, bt tranfer, and even from file managers on the phone itself, result in an almost immediate failure of the sd card. 5 seconds or so tops.
The card is formatted as "Internal Storage" and I have not been able to find a way to get a computer or anything else to read it, and I would imagine for security reasons, there is no way.
Here's the question: Is there any way to get photos off the sd card, that wont take me three million years in 5 second intervals, while having to restart the phone every bleeping time the sd card fails to get it to recognize the sd card again?
Suggestions please!
Thanks in advance,
Canabian

Canabian420 said:
New to XDA, not new to Android.
Phone: Moto X Play
Rom: Stock Marshmallow 6.1
Issue: SD Card disappears randomly (formatted as internal storage!!!)
Bootloader never unlocked, never rooted.
I have a sandisk 32gb micro sd card that works when I first start the phone. The problem is that it will randomly, completely, disappear.
Now I'm not, IMO, a complete noob. I am fairly (99%) sure it is indeed the sd card at fault. Ok, not an issue, I can always replace it with a new one.
The issue is, of course, that EVERYTHING is on my SD card, most importantly, my photos.
Even without accessing a file manager (phone idle, browsing web, playing games) the sd card will eventually fail leaving it inaccessible until the phone is restarted. When attempting to access my photos, which is what I need most, it fails MUCH quicker.
Having not used the "Google Photos" app before (just Gallery), I am not at all sure if my photos were ever backed up online, If they were, I'm not sure where to look.
Trying to access them via usb, wifi file transfer, bt tranfer, and even from file managers on the phone itself, result in an almost immediate failure of the sd card. 5 seconds or so tops.
The card is formatted as "Internal Storage" and I have not been able to find a way to get a computer or anything else to read it, and I would imagine for security reasons, there is no way.
Here's the question: Is there any way to get photos off the sd card, that wont take me three million years in 5 second intervals, while having to restart the phone every bleeping time the sd card fails to get it to recognize the sd card again?
Suggestions please!
Thanks in advance,
Canabian
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Format the card using computer (Not quick format )
Quick format didn't worked for me.
And don't make card as internal, use it as portable

with the sd card in the phone, go to settings - apps, show system apps. then select External Storage, force stop it or clear it cache. do the same to Media Storage. reboot the phone, once everything loaded wait for 5-10 minutes especially if you have lots of files in a large sd card. once that done, connect the phone to your pc (use mtp if i'm not mistaken) and hopefully you can now access the internal (sd card) contents.

jerryn70 said:
Format the card using computer (Not quick format )
Quick format didn't worked for me.
And don't make card as internal, use it as portable
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This will HOPEFULLY resolve the issue AFTER I get my photos off the card!
What I need help with is getting roughly 10 gigs of data off a card that works intermittently for roughly 5 seconds at a time....
-Canabian

pijes said:
with the sd card in the phone, go to settings - apps, show system apps. then select External Storage, force stop it or clear it cache. do the same to Media Storage. reboot the phone, once everything loaded wait for 5-10 minutes especially if you have lots of files in a large sd card. once that done, connect the phone to your pc (use mtp if i'm not mistaken) and hopefully you can now access the internal (sd card) contents.
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I will try this and report back.
One question... If the card is formatted as internal storage, clearing data for external storage and media storage will not cause the phone to "forget" the sd card will it?
Thanks,
Canabian.

I think I have come up with a solution to my own problem. If this works satisfactorily, I will let others know as this may help many other people facing this issue.
I am on a linux pc. I am going to try to use RSYNC to copy the files over. This SHOULD copy files over, deleting them from the source folder as it goes. Once the sd card fails, which it WILL, once I reboot the phone and start rsync once again, it should "resume" where it left off.
Here is the command for anyone else that may need it:
rsync -v --progress --remove-source-files --recursive --append-verify /path/to/source/files /path/to/destination/folder
Hopefully this works the way I hope it will. Will post back with my results when I can.
Thanks again,
Canabian.

I had the same problem, and the solution (that maybe someone posted somewhere in the internet) is using a faster SD card. Since I switched to a sandisk extreme pro, the problem disappeared. Be careful, though, when using Samsung SD cards: my moto x play doesn't like them much (I had to replace them twice before buying the sandisk; in some way the partition tables of the Samsung SD cards were damaged, plus they became read-only, resulting in two unusable cards).

jauffre said:
I had the same problem, and the solution (that maybe someone posted somewhere in the internet) is using a faster SD card. Since I switched to a sandisk extreme pro, the problem disappeared. Be careful, though, when using Samsung SD cards: my moto x play doesn't like them much (I had to replace them twice before buying the sandisk; in some way the partition tables of the Samsung SD cards were damaged, plus they became read-only, resulting in two unusable cards).
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which samsung model did you use? I just replaced my normal class 10 strontium card yesterday with a brand new samsung evo plus u1 card and formatted it as internal storage. so far the phone feels a bit snappy with this card.

dude search a little in this section and i hope u find the fix.i just let u know that our device has very sensitive sd pins and many users had accidentally bented them and didn't know the problem!
i hope u are not one of them!so if you are lucky,next time u put the sd be veeeery careful!i personally didn't put it out from the time i bought it...

pijes said:
which samsung model did you use? I just replaced my normal class 10 strontium card yesterday with a brand new samsung evo plus u1 card and formatted it as internal storage. so far the phone feels a bit snappy with this card.
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It was just a Samsung Evo class 10. The strange thing is that I tried also a Sandisk of the same class, which gave me only the "external memory missing" problem, while the Samsung ones became just unusable plastic. But maybe I should try better Samsung SD cards.

Recurring "SD Card encrypted" notification

Does anyone else have an issue with a recurring notification popping up? Android System - SD card encryption - SD card encrypted. I can get it to go away by tapping it, but it comes back an hour or so later (sometimes longer).
I have used this very SD card in my T-Mobile S7 Edge for months (also encrypted) with zero issues until the day I switched to my T-Mobile S8. I've seen many threads out there about this (or similar) SD card notification issues but no definitive answer - some say software issue and some say hardware issue.
if it matters, I encrypted the SD card as soon as I put it into the phone, then applied the latest T-Mobile firmware update (NRD90M.G950USQU1AQD9). Following the advice of other threads, I have since tried decrypting, re-formatting (in the S8), re-encrypting, etc. Same issue. Been able to record 4K clips and 1080P videos on this SD card for almost an hour continuously without issue, so not sure the card is to blame.
I also just installed SD card monitor and can see "EJECT, UNMOUNTED, BAD_REMOVAL, MOUNTED" events occurring over a 3 second period, again and again - about 15 times an hour.
Would appreciate any suggestions!

SD card not supported
I'm getting a similar error. The SD card has been functioning properly for the past 5 days. All of a sudden, I got a notification that the SD card is not supported. In addition, every app that was linked to the SD card vanished! I had to reinstall all of my apps. I would like to know how to fix it. The error keeps on popping up.

I think my problem is the SD card, itself. My computer won't recognize it, either. I just ordered a replacement from Amazon.

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I think my problem is the SD card, itself. My computer won't recognize it, either. I just ordered a replacement from Amazon.
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Glad you figured it out. Maybe it's the card in my case too, and just coincidence that it stopped working the exact time I put it into my S8. I'll get another SD card to test with.

It is not likely to be the card. If the card is encrypted, your computer will not be able to access it.
I took the SD card out of my S7 and put into my Verizon S8. Seemed to work fine for the past few days even though I was seeing the same SD card encrypted Android system notification. Yesterday I moved a number of apps to the SD card. This morning the phone rebooted itself and instantly all of the apps that I had moved over to the SD card were gone. No greyed out icons, no folder references, nothing. Rebooted into safe mode and I get the same SD card encrypted Android system notification. Android system storage can see the card and reports the 10.55GB that has been used from it.

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It is not likely to be the card. If the card is encrypted, your computer will not be able to access it.
I took the SD card out of my S7 and put into my Verizon S8. Seemed to work fine for the past few days even though I was seeing the same SD card encrypted Android system notification. Yesterday I moved a number of apps to the SD card. This morning the phone rebooted itself and instantly all of the apps that I had moved over to the SD card were gone. No greyed out icons, no folder references, nothing. Rebooted into safe mode and I get the same SD card encrypted Android system notification. Android system storage can see the card and reports the 10.55GB that has been used from it.
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Have you tried using SD Card Monitor on your S8? I put my SD card back into my S7E and have been running SD Card Monitor - and not seeing any "EJECT, UNMOUNTED, BAD_REMOVAL, MOUNTED" events there (unlike the 15 per hour on my S8), so becoming disheartened that my S8 needs to go back...

I get the exact same thing, but it only happens when the SD card is encrypted. If I decrypt, everything seems fine

Something is wrong with the way Samsung encrypts sd cards... My s7edge my note7 and now this S8... I encrypt because it makes me feel safer... It works perfect about a week or two... Then all of a sudden after a update or a reboot... The phone and no device can read the card and none of my apps or pics and videos can be found and I have to format the card for it to be iseable.. and this is with two different cards. Idk of it's because after an update the encryption key changes or what but it sucks. That this is 3 generations that this issue has been existent

I'm having the same issue with the notification after encrypting. Battery is also draining pretty rapidly while phone is just sitting idle. Using the Samsung 256gb card that came with $99 Gear VR offer. Used card unencrypted for 3 days no issues, then encrypted it and this issue began. Unencrypting as I type. Not worth the aggravation and battery drain.

I got the 256gb Samsung card that came with the immersion bundle. It repeatedly un-mounts with a "bad_removal" multiple times an hour. This happens whether it is encrypted or not. Each time this results in a notification whenever the card is encrypted. I have formatted on the phone, a full format from windows, and a full format with sdformatter tool. In a 24hr period yesterday it did this 70 times. So yea, I cannot use the card for any apps, as it makes them inaccessible until the phone is rebooted. The whole point of the 256gb card with the immersion bundle was so you could install some of the Oculus VR games there due to their large size. My old SanDisk 64gb card I had in my S7 edge and an old 16gb card i had work fine. I called Samsung and had to talk with the e-commerce dept since this was part of a promo. They have no process for replacing a defective card that is part of a promo, so they had to escalate. I am now waiting to hear back.

FayezZ said:
Glad you figured it out. Maybe it's the card in my case too, and just coincidence that it stopped working the exact time I put it into my S8. I'll get another SD card to test with.
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It's not your card. I bought the SanDisk Micro SD card & installed at the time I upgraded to the Galaxy S8 on Verizon. Of course I want to encrypt my micro SD card when i set up the SD card Now the notification will not go away. I have done everything everyone else has done even checked for updates. NOTHING!!!

TablezZ said:
It's not your card. I bought the SanDisk Micro SD card & installed at the time I upgraded to the Galaxy S8 on Verizon. Of course I want to encrypt my micro SD card when i set up the SD card Now the notification will not go away. I have done everything everyone else has done even checked for updates. NOTHING!!!
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I think it is a problem with encryption. I had a lot of issues getting write access to micro sd with serial apps. Problems disappeared disabling encryption. Tested with two different cards.

robto said:
I think it is a problem with encryption. I had a lot of issues getting write access to micro sd with serial apps. Problems disappeared disabling encryption. Tested with two different cards.
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So you are thinking it's Samsung's encrypt in method on the S8 that is causing every ones problem and there is nothing to do but harrass Samsung for a software update?

TablezZ said:
So you are thinking it's Samsung's encrypt in method on the S8 that is causing every ones problem and there is nothing to do but harrass Samsung for a software update?
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Yes, thats what i am waiting for. I unencrypted my micro sd 5 days ago and seems to be ok so far.
Also, read somewhere that encryption + apps moved to micro sd causes a lot of issues in S8.

robto said:
Yes, thats what i am waiting for. I unencrypted my micro sd 5 days ago and seems to be ok so far.
Also, read somewhere that encryption + apps moved to micro sd causes a lot of issues in S8.
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I never moved any apps to myicro SD card bc it'll cause issues between this app phone and network. The app was not mentioned to be ran off an encrypted external drive. So I get that. Did the SD card actually encrypt correctly? I do not have a PC or another phone to check.
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My real concern is if the card actually encrypted properly and the system UI just needs to be updated to not continuously notify myself of the encrypted SD Card

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TablezZ said:
I never moved any apps to myicro SD card bc it'll cause issues between this app phone and network. The app was not mentioned to be ran off an encrypted external drive. So I get that. Did the SD card actually encrypt correctly? I do not have a PC or another phone to check.
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My real concern is if the card actually encrypted properly and the system UI just needs to be updated to not continuously notify myself of the encrypted SD Card
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The problem is actually a lot worse than you guys think. It's not just with encryption, initially that is what I thought as well. But, turns out the notifications don't happen when it's not encrypted. What's actually happening is the card is ejecting nonstop every time you get that notification and then remounting itself. This is an ongoing big widespread problem. Download 'SD Card Monitor' from Google Play and you'll soon find out that's exactly what it's doing. Complain here on the Samsung forum about this issue, it is now pages and pages long. Unfortunately I can't drop the link because I'm new here sooo just search samsung forums (samsung.community) yourself and it will be one thats above 15 pages long. To clarify this is happening even when it is not encrypted you just don't know it.

HelpNeededTech said:
The problem is actually a lot worse than you guys think. It's not just with encryption, initially that is what I thought as well. But, turns out the notifications don't happen when it's not encrypted. What's actually happening is the card is ejecting nonstop every time you get that notification and then remounting itself. This is an ongoing big widespread problem. Download 'SD Card Monitor' from Google Play and you'll soon find out that's exactly what it's doing. Complain here on the Samsung forum about this issue, it is now pages and pages long. Unfortunately I can't drop the link because I'm new here sooo just search samsung forums (samsung.community) yourself and it will be one thats above 15 pages long. To clarify this is happening even when it is not encrypted you just don't know it.
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Fantastic! Some call the chaiman of Samsung.....oh yeah he's in jail.

TablezZ said:
Fantastic! Some call the chaiman of Samsung.....oh yeah he's in jail.
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Yepppp. The more I'm looking into this issue though, the more it seems like an unfortunate hardware issue. It's certainly happening on many phones and probably many more, but not all of them. It's not any apps I've installed or anything, so your guess is as good as mine at this point. I've done every test imaginable and I'm coming up empty. Also, if you bother to waste your time calling Samsung they wont do a thing. They will just say to send your phone in and wait up to 14 days to get it back with either a new phone or a fix. If I know anything further I'll be sure to update this forum or you can just go to the Samsung one.

Your amazing! & I completely agree with your findings as I can not find a problem with the apps etc. Last year phones blowing up this year hardware software synergy problems what's next, the iris scanner is going to fry your retinas blind? ??

TablezZ said:
Your amazing! & I completely agree with your findings as I can not find a problem with the apps etc. Last year phones blowing up this year hardware software synergy problems what's next, the iris scanner is going to fry your retinas blind? ??
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Who knows! haha I mean it COULD be a firemware/software issue that will be resolves in the coming weeks/months...years LOL. As I recall the s7s had similar problem with the SD card notifications and it was never clearly stated whether it was a hardware or firmware issue. Some carriers just hid the notifications and that was that. Samsung didn't do much of anything about it or acknowledge it in a proper manner. I've done about 20 tests so far and will be doing more eventually just kind of taking a break. It's just a very strange problem because the phones read the info just fine it just doesn't STAY mounted.

First impressions horrible. Second impressions, love it.

Had the Priv for a few days. I set it up with a 128gb memory card formatted as extended memory.
It was HORRIBLE. So laggy.. Facebook for example kept freezing so badly that android wanted to close it every few minutes. I can't tell you how disappointed I was. ?. I was going to return it.
I noticed that apps took ages to install. Like 5 minutes and more.
I reformatted as external media, reduced the animation times, and now it flies! Not as quick as my Huawei P9, but everything else makes up for it. Loving a more normal Android for a start, the P9 was great but they ruined android.
Now I love my Priv. If you have problems, try what i did with the memory card.
But i wish it had notifications pop up on the edge, when the screen is off.
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RedMist said:
Had the Priv for a few days. I set it up with a 128gb memory card formatted as extended memory.
It was HORRIBLE. So laggy.. Facebook for example kept freezing so badly that android wanted to close it every few minutes. I can't tell you how disappointed I was. ?. I was going to return it.
I noticed that apps took ages to install. Like 5 minutes and more.
I reformatted as external media, reduced the animation times, and now it flies! Not as quick as my Huawei P9, but everything else makes up for it. Loving a more normal Android for a start, the P9 was great but they ruined android.
Now I love my Priv. If you have problems, try what i did with the memory card.
But i wish it had notifications pop up on the edge, when the screen is off.
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Picked up a Priv the other day. I flashed the modified AT&T firmware with international software so no ATT bloat. But the phone is so slow and lags. WHen you state you formatted as external media, how did you do this> And are you referring to the internal storage or the SD card? For some reason my Priv will even recognize my SD card (32gb) I place the SD card in my pc and it sees it no problem. I have formatted the sd card to fat32/exFAT/ntfs, etc and no matter the format Priv will not see it....

The issue you're having is that you are not formatting the SD card correctly. That particular memory card that you are using was previously formatted as internal storage on another device and is encrypted. It's a fairly simple process through command line. A quick Google search will help you out. If you can't find, let me know and I'll pull it for you.

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WHen you state you formatted as external media, how did you do this> And are you referring to the internal storage or the SD card?
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I factory reset the Priv with a new card inserted. I honestly can't remember the exact procedure, but I'm pretty sure it asked me how I wanted to use it. Either as external media, or to extend the internal memory (So it all appears as internal memory, and encrypted)
For me, the best solution was to use it as external memory.