I've had the phone about a week and a half and keep having the same problem. The SD card will be recognized for the first few hours, but I will then get a "damaged sd card" message. The same thing happens every time I restart the phone. I've tried reformatting it, using it on my laptop, factory resetting my phone etc, the sd card works, just not in this phone. Should I wait for the 6.0 update to see if it fixes anything or try to get a new phone?
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Help SD card problem (Moto X Pure)
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chanchan05
The Doctor
Well, you have to be sure that the phone supports 128GB cards in thr first place.
I double checked online and it does. I must have got a bad sd card can be my only guess seeing as how my old card works.
chanchan05
The Doctor
Yeah. You should try getting a refund or something if that's the case.
I've actually had a lot of bad experiences with 128gb SD cards and a good chunk of different devices. After you use it and take up about a quarter of the memory, the device will stop reading the card. This is not an issue with a PC, meaning that certain phones take issue with these cards. So far, I've managed to replicate the issue with 2 LG G3's, a Galaxy S5, and a Galaxy Note 4. Apparently these devices have difficulty reading cards that have too much memory. I would recommend switching to a 64gb SD card, I have yet to find issue with these cards on any of the devices I've tried them on.
The G3, S5 and Note 4 all support 128GB cards according to the manufacturers' specs, and I've actually seen a Note 4 using a 128GB Sandisk Extreme, so the problem may well be with the card(s) rather than the devices.
Oh I know, I've seen the specs, and like I said, I did try 128GB cards in them. They'll read em for a while, but eventually the only thing they will detect is that the card is mounted, but it won't actually read any of the memory. Tried 3 different brands of 128gb SD cards and replicated the issue on all 4 devices. It's why I've thus far stayed at 64gb SD cards for now and have recommended the same while at my job.
