I had a 16gb card in since release date, changed it a few weeks ago for a 32gb sandisk ultra. no problems. and my 16 gb sandisk was a few years old
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I was rooted up until yetersay, no problems with SD cards failing.I've had my SG3 for about 2 months and all i do is read and write to my external sd card. All my music is stored on it (i listen to music constantly), I have movies and tv shows on it (which I swap out frequently) and anything the SG3 camera does (video and picture) goes right to the sd card. Never a hiccup or anything.
I think it would really help this convo if people start adding in if they are rooted, if they are using a custom rom, or forcing apps to the sd card.
I'm unrooted and stock everything. no customization apps.
usually when i see posts like this, it's always a rant on SanDisk cards. i haven't used a SanDisk card in years after one failed on my DS flash card =P
after that time, i was strictly sticking with Kingston and Patriot. until Samsung released their own micro SD cards plus the benefit of the whole "water-proof and shock-proof" guarantee on them.
been using a Samsung 32 GB since then, no issues.
While these are certain to have an affect, in the case of my wife's phone, apart from sticking a brand new SD card in her phone and formatting it, it was never disconnected from the phone....
It is only about what you do with the card, how you take it out, connect the phone to PC and disconnect it and what files you have on there.
The OP might just as well have had a virus that killed the cards.
One way or another, S3 has no widespread problem with cards as the title might suggest.
... I have given the phone for warranty repairs, lets hope they figure out the problem and it never happens again!
While these are certain to have an affect, in the case of my wife's phone, apart from sticking a brand new SD card in her phone and formatting it, it was never disconnected from the phone.
As to claiming it's the kind of files -- really??? Her card had music (mp3), pictures and video (taken with the phone). If you can't store these on an SD card, then what is the point of having one?
Oh, give me a break -- this is an Android phone, not a Windows PC. And as I said, my wife's card had NOTHING on it when it was inserted into her phone.
What is "widespread" depends on your definition, but my wife and I had had several smart phones, I know quite a few folks with smart phones (including iPhones) and the ONLY instances I've personally run across in all these YEARS of phone corrupting SD cards -- is with THIS phone -- BOTH of our SG3s. That's "widespread" enough for me!
If both you and your wife experienced that, it just means you connect the phones to a PC that breaks the cards or has virus or something like that.
Disagree. Both of my cards were fried by two different S3s and neither phone had ever been connected to a PC. Next...
Disagree. Both of my cards were fried by two different S3s and neither phone had ever been connected to a PC. Next...
This is a pretty disturbing thread to read. I just got a 32GB Sandisk class 10 on a Black Friday/Cyber Monday special last week. I've never had an SD card die on me ever. If this changes with the S3, I will not let this go quietly. I'll come back to this thread in a month or two to update on how it's going.
A Google search for "phone killed SD card" turns up links discussing Samsung, HTC & Windows phones, not just the S3. I'm not saying it doesn't have some sort of issue, but it certainly isn't the only one.
I think to make a real call on it, you'd have to somehow get stats for many different phones showing SD card failure rates. A few of the links even suggest it is an ICS problem, so it will be interesting to see if the reports of the issue on the S3 die down as more folks move to JB...
First of all I am on Jelly Bean and never had a problem with ICS, so I would not say its an ICS issue. Second of all search "galaxy s3 sd card unexpectedly removed" and you will see what I mean. Actually it is such a popular google search, that when you start typing " galaxy sd card" google will provide you "unexpectedly removed" as the third most popular search term!!
All this is just a thread with a few people reporting issues. I am going to repeat:
Samsung sold MILLIONS of S3s and you really think only a few people have this problem when all the phones are defective? I call this BS campaign.
ljbad4life said:I'm going to have to call you out on this...
Szadzik said:You say so, I say that it cannot be coincidence that two people living together have their cards broken in the same phone model.
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