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Help Issues with SD Card

BK_Droid

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Mar 29, 2017
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Running Nougat v7.
SD card has been working fine until this morning - have been saving camera & voice files to it for a while now.
All of a sudden, I get the error message that it's unable to save files to the SD card and they will now be stored on the device.
I backed up my data and formatted the card, but it's still happening.
I then followed the steps in the first portion of this article but nothing has changed.
http://itechify.com/2016/07/29/unable-save-file-sd-card-s7-solution/

Am I going to have to factory reset my phone? Any other advice? I don't have another SD card to test but am thinking I should go that route before resetting. Thoughts?

TIA!
 
The card has never left the phone, never put it into a reader. I'm going to try with a different one before resetting.
I only bought the card last July - hasn't even been a year. It's one of those SanDisk ones. Wondering if this is typical because I'd expect it to last longer.
 
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The card has never left the phone, never put it into a reader. I'm going to try with a different one before resetting.
I only bought the card last July - hasn't even been a year. It's one of those SanDisk ones. Wondering if this is typical because I'd expect it to last longer.

Its not typical, they usually last longer thank that.

Personally, I'd experiment with it before giving up. Try putting the card in a reader and using it on a computer. If it works on a computer then you know that your phone device hardware/software has an issue and the card is probably fine.

If you get into contact with SanDisk, they can verify the serial number printed on the card and let you know if it is a legitimate non-counterfeit SanDisk product. They will also likely replace it under warranty for you.
(SanDisk was recently purchased, hopefully their policies have not changed too much since then)
 
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Its not typical, they usually last longer thank that.

Personally, I'd experiment with it before giving up. Try putting the card in a reader and using it on a computer. If it works on a computer then you know that your phone device hardware/software has an issue and the card is probably fine.

If you get into contact with SanDisk, they can verify the serial number printed on the card and let you know if it is a legitimate non-counterfeit SanDisk product. They will also likely replace it under warranty for you.
(SanDisk was recently purchased, hopefully their policies have not changed too much since then)
I found a weird file that might have done it. I downloaded some podcast episodes - it was a bunch of them at once. 6 episodes in, and the file for episode 6 is actually a combination of 2 other episodes from 2 different podcasts that I had downloaded a few months ago that were half listened to. So I'm guessing the files got jumbled when I downloaded them. Not sure where to go from here but will try it on a computer.
 
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