sd card problem

[tiggerruff]

hi im new to this forum, i have a galaxy ace after a weeks use the phone comes up with the message damaged sd card and tells me to format the sd card, the problem happens about once a week, i spoke to vodafone they sent me a new sd card, but the problems still happening, im thinking of sending this phone back, any ideas what the problem may be

 

[damewolf13]

Welcome to Android Forums, Tigerruff!
I am not sure what is causing that problem, but it sounds like maybe a card reader issue. I am not sure what, if anything, you can do to fix that, but hopefully someone here with more knowledge than me will see this and help you.

 

[ayush29k]

Have you tried formatting the card from the phone?

 

[NCC369]

get a SanDisk SD-card

I had this problem alot. Some days it would come up 5 days in one day and the only fix to getting access to the SD card was to remove it, and put it back.

I tried:
-formatting it from my computer
-formatting from the phone
-clearing all apps and data
-Contacting Samsung Support, they told me to do a hard reset on the phone

Nothing worked.

I then read on another forum after searching the web for many hours that replacing the supplied SD-card with a new Sandisk SD-card (the brand seems to matter greatly in this case) fixes the problem.
I was sceptical and did not believe a brand could be so different, but I was also desperate. I bought a Sandisk-card (smallest I could find for experimentation-purpose : 2Gb for