SD Card SLOT is Bad?

[Brangwen]

Hi all,

First before everyong jumps in with "try reformatting your card"... I have... multiple times and methods and also tried 2 other cards. That being said....

About 2 weeks ago I started receiving the "SD card unmounted unexpectedly" error so I removed the card, put it in the PC and pulled my important items off and reformatted (in the PC - long version, not "quick format"), popped it back in the phone, same constant error... mount and unmount, over and over. I formatted in the phone... same result.

Off to buy a new SD card - preformatted in the PC (long version)... popped in the phone... same error over and over, format via phone... same result.

I found the tiny SD card that came with the phone in a drawer and tried THAT in the phone... same result.

My question is - can an SD card slot just magically "go bad" one day? Is it the physical slot in my phone itself? The phone is roughly a year old and I had not removed the SD card since the day I inserted it. Oh and yes, I tried blowing canned air up in the slot as well.

Any ideas?

THANKS!

 

[legalkill]

Mine has done the same thing, but also paired with the sim card error too. It is definitely a hardware issue with the card reader, and I think overheating. I am preparing to search for a new phone. This one has served me well since launch, and I probably would not replace so soon if the card errors would not have popped up.