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Help S3 killed my SD card

nREMfan

nREMfan

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After two weeks of using a SanDisk Class 4 card, I woke up this morning to well, nothing. All of my music and photos are gone and the phone won't recognize the card. Tried rebooting, remove/insert, wash and repeat to no avail.

I've seen other post about this as well. So, before I go out and buy another one, can anyone give me a "successful" brand to get? If it matters, the card was never removed since the initial purchase. So no handling of the card or anything. It just failed.
 
nREMfan said:
After two weeks of using a SanDisk Class 4 card, I woke up this morning to well, nothing. All of my music and photos are gone and the phone won't recognize the card. Tried rebooting, remove/insert, wash and repeat to no avail.

I've seen other post about this as well. So, before I go out and buy another one, can anyone give me a "successful" brand to get? If it matters, the card was never removed since the initial purchase. So no handling of the card or anything. It just failed.
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Is it really an issue specific to the S3? I've seen plenty of posts in multiple phone forums about dead or dying SD cards- also, have you tried reading/formatting the card in a computer?
 
nREMfan said:
Not yet. On the road currently for business. But I will try tomorrow.
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If it is readable in a computer, try doing a reformat & see if that helps. On the other hand, they are so cheap now, it might be worth the peace of mind to just get a new one. Sandisk cards seem to get consistently good reviews- I don't have one in my S3 currently, but bought a 16GB one for my old phone because the original card would sometimes barf when trying to record HD video. Never had any issues with it...

EDIT: Oops, just saw it's a Sandisk you're using...
 
nREMfan said:
After two weeks of using a SanDisk Class 4 card, I woke up this morning to well, nothing. All of my music and photos are gone and the phone won't recognize the card. Tried rebooting, remove/insert, wash and repeat to no avail.

I've seen other post about this as well. So, before I go out and buy another one, can anyone give me a "successful" brand to get? If it matters, the card was never removed since the initial purchase. So no handling of the card or anything. It just failed.
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From my experience, the brand is not the issue -- the PHONE is the issue.

I've seen this happen several times now, with different brands/speeds/sizes of SD cards -- and the first thing in common was that, in ALL cases, it was a Samsung Galaxy S3.

The second thing in common is that, in ALL cases, NONE of the data that used to be on the SD cards could be recovered -- and I tried several different, well-know data recovery apps on each of the cards.

I know folks with GS 2's and they've never had this problem in all the time they've had their phones.
 
WAWood8 said:
From my experience, the brand is not the issue -- the PHONE is the issue.

I've seen this happen several times now, with different brands/speeds/sizes of SD cards -- and the first thing in common was that, in ALL cases, it was a Samsung Galaxy S3.

The second thing in common is that, in ALL cases, NONE of the data that used to be on the SD cards could be recovered -- and I tried several different, well-know data recovery apps on each of the cards.

I know folks with GS 2's and they've never had this problem in all the time they've had their phones.
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Guess I'll be sticking to internal memory...
 
My Sd Card just died!!! S3 told me the card had been unexpectedly removed. Couldn't access it in the phone or on PC. The card is a scandisk ultra 32gb. I bought the card from costco when I got the S3 about 2 months ago. I know costco will get me a new card, but is there any way to retrieve whats on my card?
 
Its a KNOWN s3 thing bud.
We hear so many cases of Sandisk because theyre always on sale, everyone has em.
Sandisk will replace it if u tell em it was in an s3 though.
Samsung will only replace thier own branded chips!
Anyone heard of a samsung chip gettin toasted?
That would be great.. (not for the person obv') :)
 
I don't think that it's a S3 hardware issue but more of a problem with Samsungs kludge to workaround JB not supporting external storage. Hopefully a future firmware will address the issue.
 
No mate ive read MULTIPLE posts of it happening on stock ICS on the s3.
It hates large capacity cards and especialy high class cards.
Mines a 32gb class10 but its ok so far, think its luck.
Im new to this forum.. has everyone figured out yet theres a good and bad batch of glass yet?
 
My s3 just did the same thing again, but this time it fixed itself. It said damaged SD card this morning, then preparing SD card. I lost only a few pictures that was inside the camera folder. Everything else s are still there like mp3s, pics in other folders, backups.

The first time it kill the ad card, it won't read it until i ran RECUVA to it on the computer and got back about half if my stuff back.
 
I've had cards go bad in several different types of phone and multiple brands. Also have had them go bad in cameras and in my computer. Seriously doubt it's your phone. SD cards are crappy as hell in general.
 
If you take a look at the Sandisk 64GB class 10 reviews on Amazon, there are a lot of people indicating problems, especially with Android ICS and JB due to Sandisk, not to the GS3. Complaints are specific to the card and maker so there's probably more of a card quality or file-type issue.

There are lots of people reporting that it works fine for them on GS3 though. I trust the quality control on phone makers way more than on media makers. I've had way too many bad media products to think it's the phone. I won't elminate the OS as a culprit, but I'm thinking card is more the issue. The issue with Sandisk is well documented.
 
i have had no issue with my Transcend 32 gb sd class IV card. Was considering updating to a 64gb class 10 but not sure if i should after reading so many threads saying memory card fried.
 
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