So I have a really odd problem... basically, my micro sd card works fine on my s7 card slot, but when I try to put it in the S8 one it doesnt fit... its like its a little to big and doesnt really stay even (so I never even tried to push it inside since I was worried i could do some damage).
Anyone else experienced this? How is it possible?
tharghan said:
So I have a really odd problem... basically, my micro sd card works fine on my s7 card slot, but when I try to put it in the S8 one it doesnt fit... its like its a little to big and doesnt really stay even (so I never even tried to push it inside since I was worried i could do some damage).
Anyone else experienced this? How is it possible?
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not sure if you have a defective unit or how hard you pushed but i remember when i first received the phone i thought the same thing. I ended up watching a youtube video and saw that you really had to push to get it to snap in place. I tried pushing it little bit harder and it did snap into place.
Thanks a lot, worked.
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Anyone know why ??? It just wont click in anymore... I woke up one day and it was just sticking out - Ive tried jamming it in but its just not reading it!!
Anyone have any problems like this before ? All my stuff os on the card :'(
Only replying so you dont feel alone. But 1st off check if anyone broke inside it, Anything stuck? I could suggest opening it if you have the tools to check it out and maybe fix it if its not latching right.
Also you can still get a adapter at radioshack for the mini sd. I did. It was 20$ came with SD, Mini SD and Micro SD all in one. So least you could get your stuff. =)
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Does it work if you hold it in? If so, I didn't like that mine came out occasionally so I hot glued it in. Hold it in, run a small bead of hot glue on top wait a sec and press the glue into place with your thumb. The glue wont run into the phone and it's easy enough to remove when you actually want it out. If your careful you can even heat it a little with a hair dryer to smooth out the glue. Personally, I don't ever take mine out. I had problems with the device not recognizing my files after removal. I install most everything to the SD that works right there.
**Try this at your own risk. I've done it several times and never had a problem. Just don't blame me if you break something.**
You can apply a thin layer of sticking tape around it to keep it firmly in the slot,but make sure you don't cover the connections with it.It'll stick in there and work proper.
Cheers
It just doesnt seem to be reading it at all - But when I plugged in into my wii all the music is still on it and it seems to be working fine.
When I try and jam in my old card it flashing for a second to say would you like to format the card so it must be working kinda... Argh!
Its really annoying - I used it as an mp3 player quite a lot and theres just not enough internal space...
Hopefully it will fix itself soon as that appears to be the only hope
I'm wondering if maybe the mech is loose and pushed inside. May take a little surgery. If I remember right there is some sort of spring loaded mech that keeps pressure on the card connections while in the slot.
Today I removed my minisd card and put it back in shortly after, but something went horribly wrong
Somehow I broke the thing that holds the card in position so now it wont stick in.. so I tried to make it stuck in with a paper which works but it doesn't get recognized then, I guess the mechanism which holds the card always turns on a switch thats tells my wizard to start reading the card
Does anyone got any idea to fix it, cause this sux big time (I bought the phone a few months ago for €200), I cant find my receipt but ill try to get a copy of the shop .
Im so pissed right now
Nobody knows, the warranty is overdue
Could I open the phone and maybe fix it myself?
I got the service manual but not the tools, anyone ever seen the inside of the phone, would it even be possible to fix it?
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Hi there
i had a similar problem - had to buy another htc 8125 and unfortunately it came with a broken slot for the minisd card. At first i thought i wasn't pressing the card enough for the thing to click and hold it. Then i realised it was broken. As far as i could see from the little opening there was a white slider which is pushed down by the wider side of the minisd card. It has a spring behind it and somehow it has to click in down position and hold the card.
i tried to push it down with a very very small screwdriver and understand the way it worked. With my bad luck i pushed a little harder and broke that white slider. It just broke in the middle and one part stayed down and the other was pushed up by the spring. It broke exactly at the place where it was pushed by the memory card. So my card was not jumping anymore out - it just stayed in but was not recognised by the phone.
I didn't know what else to do so i found some instructions on how to open the phone and went for it with the hope to reach the memory card slot an hopefully fix it. HTC has taken good care of the stupid slot. It is soldered to the motherboard and nothing much could be done. There are 4 points that hold it but i didn't go that far to unsolder it (didn't know how many springs and other parts would jump out of it). Anyways - what i noticed was the following:
there are two small "plates" at the bottom of the slot. Wheny ou isnert the card they touch and i think this is what makes the slot active and knowing that there is a card in it. I had some dirt betwen them and that was preventing them from making a contact. After i removed that small piece of dirt and inserted the card it worked like a charm. It stays so tight in there now that i hardly can get it out - which is not that bad because i can always use the usb cable to transfer whatever i want.
I think i still have those manuals for opening the phone, so if you decide to go this far and can't find them i can send you an email.
Hope i was of any help
There's no need to open or disassemble the phone to repair the slot,just apply a thin layer of any adhesive tape around it but make sure you do not cover the connectors and insert the card firmly in the slot.
Cheers !
But well even if I push it in it doesnt get detected(I added a piece of paper to hold it in but it didnt detect it still).
I think ill buy a torx screwdriver and open it.
I'll still advise you to check the mini sd in some other phone,if it still doesn't get detected than get a new one or it may need to be reformatted.Opening up the phone might lead onto more problems.
Cheers !
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I'll still advise you to check the mini sd in some other phone,if it still doesn't get detected than get a new one or it may need to be reformatted.Opening up the phone might lead onto more problems.
Cheers !
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I got a 2gb minisd and a 512mb minisd both dont work so im sure its the phones fault , they have always worked fine.
So...
I own a Bell Atrix. My carrier is Bell.
I flashed my phone with OLYEM 1.4.2.
Rooted it with Seven's script.
Made sure ADB was allowed to su.
Installed GingerBlur.
Phone got stuck in a reboot loop.
Re-flashed with OLYEM.
Now, I cannot mount my microSD. The settings show as unavailable and the manual mount is greyed out. I have tried a battery pull, a different microSD etc. My microSD works flawlessly in a different phone. I really do not know what crapped it. Was it GingerBlur, the flashing or just bad luck...
This means I cannot root the phone anymore and im stuck with OLYEM and a defective phone.
I took the phone to Bell for repair. They said it's been over 30 days from the buy date so they have to send it to an external firm to have it checked... I just hope they will not come back to me saying I voided my warranty.
Please let me know if you have had this problem or if you think there is something to be done if worst comes to worst.
Thanks!
I had the same issue but it wasn't related to updating. I had to take the sd card out and press down on the metal piece that holds the card in place to get it to have better contact. This worked for a while and then i pressed down even harder and it wouldn't read at all so I had to stick something under the metal thing and pry it back up and now it works great.
Just semantics, but it should be "micro SD", rather than "mini SD" (which is a different card type).
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I had the same issue but it wasn't related to updating. I had to take the sd card out and press down on the metal piece that holds the card in place to get it to have better contact. This worked for a while and then i pressed down even harder and it wouldn't read at all so I had to stick something under the metal thing and pry it back up and now it works great.
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What did you stick under it to pry it back up? I may have to do this myself so I just want to know,
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What did you stick under it to pry it back up? I may have to do this myself so I just want to know,
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I used the semi-pointed but round end of a nice pen to press it down and when I had to reverse it I used the nail file part of some little finger nail clippers. Just stuff I had sitting around at my desk at work
Thanks for the suggestion! If I get it back and it's not fixed, I will try that. Bell rep told me it would take from 3 to 6 weeks. Yeah... 6 weeks.
Meanwhile, they gave an HTC Desire Z. I really like SenseUI. It works so much better for me when I compare it to Motoblehh. However, I do not like the feeling of the phone. The movable parts do not appeal to me.
Thanks again!
The Bell rep also told me it was the first Atrix they sent back for repair...
Ok, going really basic and this probably is not your issue, but I just had the same issue with a camera and one phone not recognizing one of my cards. I had to reformat it in windows and it has worked perfectly since. Probably because I was switching between so many devices or just coincidence, just passing this on.
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i just get this issue i want to try gingerbreak and i couldnt find my micro sd i reboot and so on many times, perhaps i make it work you need push pretty well, and try moving when its on the phone
brucewee said:
I had the same issue but it wasn't related to updating. I had to take the sd card out and press down on the metal piece that holds the card in place to get it to have better contact. This worked for a while and then i pressed down even harder and it wouldn't read at all so I had to stick something under the metal thing and pry it back up and now it works great.
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There are two metal plates that need to make contact - if they don't the card isn't detected.
http://guide-images.ifixit.net/igi/JhXk4VIeX3CahwaY.huge
In the lower left of the sd card slot you can see the two plates. When the card is in the slot, these two plates should touch. When I got my phone, they were not touching, so I bent them slightly to make the contact.
If the link doesn't work, just go to the iFixit teardown and look at the pics at the bottom of the first page.
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I just got my phone back. Looks like the firmware flash was what broke the phone. The repair slip shows a software update only.
Im just happy they repaired it. I think I will wait for a Bell SBF...
Thanks!
For some reason that is beyond my comprehension my TAB has decided not to read my SIM card anymore.
I just flashed OC 3.0.1 Wipe, with the modified P1000N kernel the same as always this worked perfectly. I rebooted and lost 3G, I rebooted again and lost SIM card recognition.
I switched SIM's at home, SIM works on other phone, got a new SIM at work, same problem. Somebody suggested an /efs problem, but I reflashed everything from scratch and nothing changed.
Any other suggestion?
EDIT: Ok it's fixed. Bent SIM connector in the TAB I guess I'm lucky I have a service Center at work.
Good info, maybe someone else facing the same problem can use this info.
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That's really worrying me. I've had this happen often myself, and wouldn't like to pull it apart to try and unbend the connector.
Wonder if there's an easier way to fix it, or at least work around it (though jamming some paper behind the other side of the SIM card will probably only make it worse eventually?) Don't know.
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That's really worrying me. I've had this happen often myself, and wouldn't like to pull it apart to try and unbend the connector.
Wonder if there's an easier way to fix it, or at least work around it (though jamming some paper behind the other side of the SIM card will probably only make it worse eventually?) Don't know.
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I have just came across this same problem, the tablet knows a sim card has been inserted, probably because of the spring mechanism, but it nevers asks for the Pin Code and always indicates No Sim Card.
Can anyone tell me how many "Connecters" are in the sim card slot. With a strong light I can barely make out 3 close to the entrance and possibly 4 connecters further in. ( Their placement is strange though as it appears that they wold not match up with the Sim Card ( I could be wring though).
I don't not want to try and pull the tablet apart and therefore I too would like to know if it might be possible to bend the connectors, does anyone have any idea how I might possibly proceed.
Cheers Roy
Not sure if anyone who is using a micro-sd card has noticed, but mine is really really snug against the battery. Whenever I take the battery out, I'm afraid it'll snap my sd-card in half. The sd-card is definitely pushed all the way in. Looking closely, it seems like the edge of the sd-card is not exactly flush with the plastic around it so it sticks out a tiny tiny bit into the battery area. The battery is definitely pushing against the card as it's harder to insert the battery in with the sd-card also inserted.
Is anyone else seeing this "issue"? (fyi, this is for the moto e4)
yeah, same here! luckily I haven't needed to remove the battery yet.
Mine is very very close to the battery also, but since the battery comes out from the bottom first, you shouldn't have any issue with it damaging the SD card.
not here. it's fine.
By me it's fine also
While mine does seem very tight, I can confirm at least on my unit that the micro SD is not at risk of damage. That's after I put the battery in a few times very carefully to watch where it contacts the SD card. It is very snug, though.
I actually did a few "aggressive" removal and installs of the battery a few times to test this and my SD card still works fine so everything should be good. If it ends up bothering you too much you could actually use a fine grit sandpaper paper and file down the end of the SD card a little bit.
Mine seemed fine when I used an SD card for rooting on the US version (XT1768). Do you have the international version (XT1760)? I've seen reports that they are a bit physically different.
I have the US version. After a couple weeks of using the phone, it now seems like the battery is not as snug against the sd card as when the phone was new. I had taken the battery out and reinserted it several times over the weeks as well. Perhaps things have been "broken in" now.