Help SD card... what happened?

excav8ter · Nov 30, 2014

My notifications bar had an icon of an SD card pop up today, it said "blank card or unsupported files on SD card". Then it gave me an option to format it. I don't have much on the card so i formatted it. I did lose a lot of music and some pictures, but i am puzzled as to what mayhave happened. Has anyone had this before? Now, my phone won't even recognize the 16gb card that i have had for 3 or 4 years. I have another card, 32gb, that i will use in the mean time. But i am afraid of the same thing happening to the 32gb card. Any thoughts or suggestions?

Phone is a Galaxy S5 sport, 16gb.

Thanks.

AZgl1500 · Nov 30, 2014

For whatever reason, the S5 seems to prefer SanDisk or Samsung brand SD cards type 10.

What brand and type was the SD card you were using? As to why it was working and just quit, I don't have a clue.

Apparently you did not remove the SD card and try to recover the files off of it with a PC before you formatted it? Have read about a lot of SD cards not working in the phone, but they will with a PC.

WAWood8 · Nov 30, 2014

I went through a half dozen SD cards on my former SG3 before I upgraded to the SG5. But, since I started using a Samsung SD card, I haven't had any problems.

excav8ter · Nov 30, 2014

I didn't remove the card and try to read it on a laptop. I don't have much on the card. Just pictures and so on. I put a 32gb card in, from my Galaxy tab 3 7.0
No idea what could have happened.

pastafarian · Nov 30, 2014

I've had this happen several times over the years with an Evo4G (HTC), LTEvo (HTC), N2, GS3, GS5 and G3 (LG). The cards were of various manufacturer. Every time it happened, I was able to recover everything via a pc. There was a correlation of some cards being more susceptible as they spanned devices. The Samsung 32GB that failed in my G3 once also failed once in my N2. I have never been able to discover why the cards stop being readable and it has never occurred more than once in a particular device. If it happens again, don't fret, get to a pc with a card reader and

chkdsk /X /F <SD card drive letter>:

in a few minutes, all should be fixed.

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