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I have a huge problem any one know how to fix?

My phone says its not able to read my SD card?
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Format it... do u have important files on it?
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What does that mean
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It means it erases all the information off of the card
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Why would I wanna do that
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evouser22 said:
Why would I wanna do that
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maybe to fix it?

But I don't wanna lose my stuff
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Then maybe try the card on another device and see if u can connect it to your computer and backup all the files,then format it and try on ur shift again
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Mount your phone as a disk drive. When windows asks if you want to scan and repair go for it.
That doesn't work your sd card is hosed. Pick up a new one with a higher speed class off of new egg.
Copy everything from the sd to your computer and copy over to the new card.
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BrandoKC said:
Mount your phone as a disk drive. When windows asks if you want to scan and repair go for it.
That doesn't work your sd card is hosed. Pick up a new one with a higher speed class off of new egg.
Copy everything from the sd to your computer and copy over to the new card.
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Well the same thing happened to me last night. SD Card left the party. But, gave what you said and a shot and it worked. Now, going to keep a working copy on the desktop. Plus going to pick up a new card today ( just in case ). Also an excuse to get a bigger card.

prboy1969 said:
Well the same thing happened to me last night. SD Card left the party. But, gave what you said and a shot and it worked. Now, going to keep a working copy on the desktop. Plus going to pick up a new card today ( just in case ). Also an excuse to get a bigger card.
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Check out the 16GB Class 10 Wintec on NewEgg. I've had mine since I picked up my shift and it's been great. I think it goes for about $25.

My phone started doing this yesterday. Its done it with 7 cards so far. 3 are new.
I went back to work today, on the inland waterways, stuck without sd access for a month. Now clockwork can't mount it half the time.
Toasted by Nightly.

BrandoKC said:
Check out the 16GB Class 10 Wintec on NewEgg. I've had mine since I picked up my shift and it's been great. I think it goes for about $25.
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Thanks, will check it out.

Update: Definitely an internal problem. I thought it was just an error in MIUI but it's showing up in every rom now. I can format all of my cards and mount to flash. Within an hour I get the Damaged SD Card error.
Toasted by Nightly.

Do the sd cards wiggle around in the concave area it lays in? Before writing a dissertation about my guess of what it might be, I will ask this first.
When it's plugged into the computer, phone and cable, how do you disconnect the phone from the computer?
Does ruu back to 100% stock produce the same results?
Are you overclocked?
Are the cards all the same size and from the same manufacturer?

herbthehammer said:
Do the sd cards wiggle around in the concave area it lays in? Before writing a dissertation about my guess of what it might be, I will ask this first.
When it's plugged into the computer, phone and cable, how do you disconnect the phone from the computer?
Does ruu back to 100% stock produce the same results?
Are you overclocked?
Are the cards all the same size and from the same manufacturer?
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I've got three wintechs and four sandisks. Fit snug. I always unmount from comp side then unmount from phone side. Only time I mount at all is in recovery, actually.
Toasted by Nightly.
Edit: sizes range from 2gb to 16gb, and I have formatted all cards just to make sure they were the right file system and not ext2(3/4) reiser... so on.

Well if putting a piece of paper the size of the card on top of the card, then pushing the lock bar down doesn't help then I would take it to a sprint repair center. The paper needs to be thicker than sheet paper. Like one of the cards they have inside magazines for a subscription or maybe a post card. That should help keep the card stationary and better contact with the pins for the SD card. If that doesn't help then I would ruu back to complete stock, format a card in the phone and put some files on it. Nothing that could remotely be associated with roms or rooting or unlocking then find a sprint repair place. Take it there and try to make it corrupt the card in front of the tech. They might take it apart to see if something is loose or broken. If it can't be fixed quickly and easily, they will probably give or order a refurbished. If you are lucky you might get a new one. Don't give them a hard time when you are there or they can make life suck for you.

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Well if putting a piece of paper the size of the card on top of the card, then pushing the lock bar down doesn't help then I would take it to a sprint repair center. The paper needs to be thicker than sheet paper. Like one of the cards they have inside magazines for a subscription or maybe a post card. That should help keep the card stationary and better contact with the pins for the SD card. If that doesn't help then I would ruu back to complete stock, format a card in the phone and put some files on it. Nothing that could remotely be associated with roms or rooting or unlocking then find a sprint repair place. Take it there and try to make it corrupt the card in front of the tech. They might take it apart to see if something is loose or broken. If it can't be fixed quickly and easily, they will probably give or order a refurbished. If you are lucky you might get a new one. Don't give them a hard time when you are there or they can make life suck for you.
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Yeah, it'll be fun lol. I'm on a boat for a month anyways so I'm screwed.
At least I've got fastboot!

If you need to save or whatever a file, you could just send it as an email attachment to yourself. I don't know if there's such a program as something that makes a virtual drive online. I dunno. I'm just trying to think of ideas to use until you can get it fixed.
How about bluetooth file transfer to a computer or another phone...

New SD Card after update

Well.. after yelling at tech support people for I don't know how long, they made sure my latest replacement had the new firmware update.
The Bad News First.... it is no better. It crashes, but now it seems that sometimes it catches itself first and throws itself out onto the home screen. What happens then is, that you can't enter an app (including things like the market and people). I just loads and kicks right back onto the home screen before booting. To get this to stop you have to reboot. So instead of crashing now, it essentially forces you to reboot the phone to use it. Fantastic stuff Dell.
The Even Worse.... None of the other 4 phones I had ever had any error pertaining "directly" to the memory card (though I still think the memory card is causing all of this). The phone now 2 has given me the non-compatable card error, and the first time was at the very first initial boot up of the phone. Bravo Dell.
So Im sick of worrying about the warranty. By the time this gets fixed the phone is going to be so out of date, most of the apps won't play on it anyhow. What they are doing is criminal, but there is nothing that is getting done unless a bunch of you jump on the class action table with me.
But anyhow.. to my real question. I am done with this mess and am going to swap a new card in. The phone came with NoDo, but when it booted it updated with the security patch. What is going to happen when I swap cards after an update? And if so what can or should I do? Any help is appreciated... thanks in advance.

Replacing the sd card requires a hard reset and you will be back at the OS version you were before you did the reset. The procedure to replace the card is here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12188811&postcount=53
Only thing I would say is try and use a Sandisk Class 2 card, they seem to have the best compability.

Cool..that's what I am trying to figure out now... I see some on amazon listed as Class 2, but apparantly even though they are listed as that, they send what ever they have.

efjay said:
Only thing I would say is try and use a Sandisk Class 2 card, they seem to have the best compability.
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This. All reports seem to support this statement (as well as my personal experience).

missionsparta said:
Cool..that's what I am trying to figure out now... I see some on amazon listed as Class 2, but apparantly even though they are listed as that, they send what ever they have.
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I tried the amazon route and I am going to try Microcenter, they have one listed and even though its more expensive I can buy it knowing exactly what I'm getting.

efjay said:
I tried the amazon route and I am going to try Microcenter, they have one listed and even though its more expensive I can buy it knowing exactly what I'm getting.
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I wound up spending a bit more to be sure I had a genuine SanDisk Class 2 as well.
I notice in your sig you are still getting lockups - what card are you currently using?

raremage said:
I wound up spending a bit more to be sure I had a genuine SanDisk Class 2 as well.
I notice in your sig you are still getting lockups - what card are you currently using?
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Currenty have a Transcend class 2, got the Sandisk and will try my luck with it later.

Uncle.... Haven't even had this phone a full 24 hours yet and there is already dust under the screen.....you have got to be kidding me. Dell should just refund everyone and reimburse them with what is needed tuo break their newly signed mobile contracts. They have NO CLUE what they are doing and it is obvious that isn't going to change any time soon. I guess this is user error also...hahahaha

missionsparta said:
Uncle.... Haven't even had this phone a full 24 hours yet and there is already dust under the screen.....you have got to be kidding me. Dell should just refund everyone and reimburse them with what is needed tuo break their newly signed mobile contracts. They have NO CLUE what they are doing and it is obvious that isn't going to change any time soon. I guess this is user error also...hahahaha
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You don't mention where your location is....but where ever you are, don't move near me. You are the holder of the worst phone karma there is.
No offense meant...hope none is taken.

missionsparta said:
Uncle.... Haven't even had this phone a full 24 hours yet and there is already dust under the screen.....you have got to be kidding me. Dell should just refund everyone and reimburse them with what is needed tuo break their newly signed mobile contracts. They have NO CLUE what they are doing and it is obvious that isn't going to change any time soon. I guess this is user error also...hahahaha
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My brother's phone has a layer of dust particles under the screen, probably covering like 75% of the screen real estate. He doesn't want to go through the hassle with calling Dell and getting a replacement sent out so we're probably going to go to the Microsoft Store where we purchased the phones and see if they will do a swap. I've heard they're very helpful in that regard.
They really need to do some quality control on this - the dust issue is pretty terrible and I would have thought it would have been fixed by now. We've had the phones since November/December and I thought the dust issue was a one off flaw.

Once I get a unit with no dust, Im pulling the card. The error THE STOCK CARD keeps giving me is that there is an issue with the memory card. It then tells me to "either remove the storage card or replace it with a new compliant one". And the sticker may said void under it, but no where on it right now does it say void.
So if they have a problem, I took a picture with the camera and the phone SPECIFICALLY states to "REMOVE THE CARD". There problem now... I don't care what they say anymore. They had their chance to fix it... the product is telling me to do it.... and I don't see "Void" anywhere. Took pictures and covered my tracks. Time to get this going myself.

Memory Card - Beyond a joke!

Hi,
I'm really hoping someone might be able to give me some advice.
I've had my Desire HD for about eight months now, and counting the one I lost about 10 minutes ago, I've gone through a total of ten memory cards.
Each time I get a message saying it's been unexpectedly removed, or that it is blank or damaged. I've tried Sandisk and Samsung cards, all Class 2 / 8GB.
I hardly ever remove the memory card, but when I do I am always careful to unmount it. The same as when I connect it to my PC via USB.
After the 8th memory card died, the Gingerbread update had just been released, and I was hoping it was due to a software issue. However, as expected, my 9th memory card died shortly after. I contacted HTC who sent me ONE replacement SD card, to which I explained that I wanted my phone repaired. Courier picked it up, they said that it was being caused by a software issue and simply done a reset.
I knew it wouldn't work, and low and behold my 10th memory card has just died.
I am now contemplating going to Phones4U and asking for a replacement, as someone else has mentioned in the forum. However, there was one thing I wanted to check with people first.....
I connect my phone to my car stereo via Bluetooth, which I use as a handsfree and to listen to music that is stored on my phone. Now, normally I just turn my car stereo off. How likely is it that this could be causing the card failure? I don't see how, as the memory card isn't physically being removed, but I wanted to get people's thoughts on this before I start pushing Phones4U for a replacement!

I don't think your cards are physically damaged. They just need to be formatted.

ozaghloul said:
I don't think your cards are physically damaged. They just need to be formatted.
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I don't think it's my cards that are physically damaged, but it must be a hardware issue with the phone. Each of the memory cards either say it's been removed, or that it's blank or damaged. Some of them I can put into my PC and repair. Some of them worked again after I had formatted them, however 5 out of the 10 would not even be picked up by my PC.
I have now emailed Phones4U, so I shall see where I get (if anywhere) with them.

What HTC firmware are you using? There was an issue with 1.72 that caused symptoms such as yours. That is one of the issues that got the OTA pulled.
I have the phone number for Phones4U's written complaints team, the team that you always get told don't accept incoming calls. Should you need it, just let me know.

Sounds a very similar problem to mine mate........
s32bauer said:
I don't think it's my cards that are physically damaged, but it must be a hardware issue with the phone. Each of the memory cards either say it's been removed, or that it's blank or damaged. Some of them I can put into my PC and repair. Some of them worked again after I had formatted them, however 5 out of the 10 would not even be picked up by my PC.
I have now emailed Phones4U, so I shall see where I get (if anywhere) with them.
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Hi there s32bauer,
I think i may have seen the same problem, although i have only tried 2 /sdcards and they BOTH work on the PC or lappy afterwards.
See this thread for more on my issue,
Hope you have a little more luck than myself.
I have had some great help off some great people on here at XDA though......Thanks guys...
P.S. Have you been running any custom ROM's? If so, what were they?

i had the same problem when on 1.72, i went through 3 16sdhc cards. i fixed this by rooting and using leedroids gingerbread.
all three cards which were broke i managed to fix and they are now in good use in my wifes wildfire and our galaxy tabs, the 32gb card i now have in my phone has been in there for about 4 months now with no more unexpected removals.
The only other time i had this problem was with my motorola milestone, it also ate cards - but the phone was next to useless as it was sig locked and never updated (got a full refund as flash never arrived in the 9 months i owned the pos).

Gone through 10 memory cards that's absolutely insane!! Even more insane that a OTA can be released that causes it.
I think your owed some replacements if the cards are screwed.
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The same has happened to me... I broke around 5 SDcards like that. Problem solved by rooting the phone and Gingerbread !

andyharney said:
What HTC firmware are you using? There was an issue with 1.72 that caused symptoms such as yours. That is one of the issues that got the OTA pulled.
I have the phone number for Phones4U's written complaints team, the team that you always get told don't accept incoming calls. Should you need it, just let me know.
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I've been through quite a lot. The first two died on 1.32 I believe. Then I lost SIX on the 1.72 firmware. Another one once I'd upgraded to Android 2.3, and then the final one the other once I'd received it back from HTC.
The number for Phones4U would be brilliant, thanks!

LandUzu said:
Hi there s32bauer,
I think i may have seen the same problem, although i have only tried 2 /sdcards and they BOTH work on the PC or lappy afterwards.
See this thread for more on my issue,
Hope you have a little more luck than myself.
I have had some great help off some great people on here at XDA though......Thanks guys...
P.S. Have you been running any custom ROM's? If so, what were they?
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Hey, thanks for the link. I'll have a look through, although I'm going to continue to push for a brand new replacement I think.
Tried 1.32, then to 1.72, and then Android 2.3. One of them was a custom ROM, but had one die on that one too unfortunately, so I'm quite sure it's just my phone being a dud! lol

ToneyEricsson said:
Gone through 10 memory cards that's absolutely insane!! Even more insane that a OTA can be released that causes it.
I think your owed some replacements if the cards are screwed.
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Hmmm, HTC Support only feel that I'm entitled to ONE replacement card lol. Pathetic really. Still, hopefully Phones4U might be a bit more co-operative.

just to confirm...
s32bauer said:
Hmmm, HTC Support only feel that I'm entitled to ONE replacement card lol. Pathetic really. Still, hopefully Phones4U might be a bit more co-operative.
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i have bought another 4GB sd card and my DHD STILL wont recognise it......its a dud handset imo.
How old is yours out of interest? Ive had my DHD since January.
Good luck with Phones4U.

s32bauer said:
Hmmm, HTC Support only feel that I'm entitled to ONE replacement card lol. Pathetic really. Still, hopefully Phones4U might be a bit more co-operative.
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Just been looking at the SanDisk warranty on faulty non working micro SD cards - you should be able to get replacements as long as you have proof of purchase.
Maybe spread them out over a few weeks each if you have a few
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Ive gone through 2 (ebay) 32gb sd cards in 2 months, both didnt last a reboot, and were fubar afterwards, can anyone else who is running a 32gb card confirm it works ok? Or have I just been unlucky with 2 bunk suppliers?

Sounds more like you got crap cards off eBay, my 32gb card works great
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whoops wrong thead

kujoswrath said:
Sounds more like you got crap cards off eBay, my 32gb card works great
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Any pointers on which type of card yours is? I think it needs to be a sdhc card but dont know what class number it should be. I seem to see that they have different classes.

Or which seller you purchased from??

[Q] sd card problems

My new NST does not seem to read my Sd cards anymore (I was able to use it only a couple of times). I don't really remember forcing the card but I don't really feel the spring in the slot anymore. Since I don't live in the US, I can't go to a BN store unfortunately. What can I do? I would appreciate any pointers and help?

leoparis said:
My new NST does not seem to read my Sd cards anymore (I was able to use it only a couple of times). I don't really remember forcing the card but I don't really feel the spring in the slot anymore. Since I don't live in the US, I can't go to a BN store unfortunately. What can I do? I would appreciate any pointers and help?
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I faced this problem before... After I replaced the SD card with original SD card HC
it is worked well.. If your SD card original HC then make format by PC using USB card reader..

Ketabi said:
I faced this problem before... After I replaced the SD card with original SD card HC
it is worked well.. If your SD card original HC then make format by PC using USB card reader..
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I think his problem is that the spring in the SD reader broke, not the SD card itself.

The card used to work so it's probably Sd vs SDHC issue. Also, I slide the card all the way in and use my nail to take it out, rather than pushing on the spring. I wonder what exactly happened. I have owned and used many devices with SD card slots and soemthing like this has never happened to me.

leoparis said:
The card used to work so it's probably Sd vs SDHC issue.
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I don't think that'd be an issue, but it might.
leoparis said:
Also, I slide the card all the way in and use my nail to take it out, rather than pushing on the spring. I wonder what exactly happened. I have owned and used many devices with SD card slots and soemthing like this has never happened to me.
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Huh. I tend to use the spring rather than trying to pry it out.

Googie2149 said:
I don't think that'd be an issue, but it might.
Huh. I tend to use the spring rather than trying to pry it out.
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Sorry a typo. I agree with you that it's probably not an SDHC issue.
I would prefer the spring as well but it's not working for some reason. I still don't understand why or how the slot could have been damaged (this seems to be the only explanation). If that's the case, the SD card slot must be very very fragile.

leoparis said:
I would prefer the spring as well but it's not working for some reason. I still don't understand why or how the slot could have been damaged (this seems to be the only explanation). If that's the case, the SD card slot must be very very fragile.
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Was it broken when you purchased it?

Googie2149 said:
Was it broken when you purchased it?
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No it was fine for a day or so.

Micro SD cards are so fragile...
Yeah, be sure to use the spring when ejecting it.

brendan10211 said:
Micro SD cards are so fragile...
Yeah, be sure to use the spring when ejecting it.
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My cards are fine in fact. The slot seems to be damaged somehow and that never happened to me before.

[Q] i9505 overheating with SD card in. looses power REALLY fast after SD card failur

Hey everyone!
A week ago i bought a SanDisk MicroSDHC Ultra UHS-I - 32GB and installed it on my SGS4. It started right away telling me there was a problem. It said that the "SD card had been removed unexpectedly". It was installed right and I couldn't really move it around. After it was installed my phone began to become REALLY hot over the area where the SD card is and started to loose power just as fast. I have an old 8GB Samsung cad and it was in the phone before with no problem. No i can't use that card either as it also starts to overheat and even with no SD card in my phone i can't even get 10 hours of battery time on my phone. Even with little use.
Is there a fix for this or do i need to send my pride and joy in for repair??
Thanks in advance. Jakob
PS: Please tell me if you need more info about what happened.

No issues here, phone is idle for almost 2 days now with a 16 GB SD card mounted

MichelN said:
No issues here, phone is idle for almost 2 days now with a 16 GB SD card mounted
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As I said. I didn't have any problems with the old 8GB card i had in it before. It was only after i installed the new 32 GB card i got problems!

Malong said:
As I said. I didn't have any problems with the old 8GB card i had in it before. It was only after i installed the new 32 GB card i got problems!
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A weird prob cud u give us photos of the prob and some battery analysis and find out when ur phone overheats its temp

qazmed said:
A weird prob cud u give us photos of the prob and some battery analysis and find out when ur phone overheats its temp
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I can't show you the error message as i don't have that card any more- I send it back and waiting for a new one. Thought my problem was with the card only....
The phone gets hot every time I use it. But REALLY hot if the SD card is in. By battery analysis do you mean under the settings menu or is there an app that can do that? (sorry for the dumb question)

Okay. Took a screen cap of the battery setting. I have now turned off all goggle "places" thing and i hope that will give me some battery life.
Anyway i can test the battery and see if it's okay?

Malong said:
Hey everyone!
A week ago i bought a SanDisk MicroSDHC Ultra UHS-I - 32GB and installed it on my SGS4. It started right away telling me there was a problem. It said that the "SD card had been removed unexpectedly". It was installed right and I couldn't really move it around. After it was installed my phone began to become REALLY hot over the area where the SD card is and started to loose power just as fast. I have an old 8GB Samsung cad and it was in the phone before with no problem. No i can't use that card either as it also starts to overheat and even with no SD card in my phone i can't even get 10 hours of battery time on my phone. Even with little use.
Is there a fix for this or do i need to send my pride and joy in for repair??
Thanks in advance. Jakob
PS: Please tell me if you need more info about what happened.
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I have the exact same card and have no issues. Try to format the card from the phone itself first before using.

ilabs said:
I have the exact same card and have no issues. Try to format the card from the phone itself first before using.
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Tried that. Didn't work. Although i haven't tried it with the old Samsung card. Gonna give that a go!

It sounds like the card is faulty. Try using phone for a day with no SD card in it and it should be fine hopefully
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Obagleyfreer said:
It sounds like the card is faulty. Try using phone for a day with no SD card in it and it should be fine hopefully
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That's what i have been doing, and it still gets hot and can't hole battery life. I am trying the formatted SD card (Samsung 8 GB) right now to see if it helps! Thanks thought!!

Malong said:
That's what i have been doing, and it still gets hot and can't hole battery life. I am trying the formatted SD card (Samsung 8 GB) right now to see if it helps! Thanks thought!!
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Which firmware is your phone currently running? I think the newer firmwares fixed the overheating issue due to memory cards.

ilabs said:
Which firmware is your phone currently running? I think the newer firmwares fixed the overheating issue due to memory cards.
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I just formate the card and it seems to have done the trick!! :fingers-crossed: YAY!
I'm running JDQ39.I9505XXUMBMF5.

Malong said:
I just formate the card and it seems to have done the trick!! :fingers-crossed: YAY!
I'm running JDQ39.I9505XXUMBMF5.
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Thats great to hear. I don't now if any newer updates have been rolled out for your region yet but MF5 is an update or two old now. Do check for new updates in general.

ilabs said:
Thats great to hear. I don't now if any newer updates have been rolled out for your region yet but MF5 is an update or two old now. Do check for new updates in general.
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Thanks! Still crossing my fingers this was it. I still need to have a look at the battery. But right now it lasts a lot longer and it doesn't get hot any more!
I just did a check and the MF5 is the newest one for me here. I'll keep an eye out for future updates!