That sucks! I have never heard of an SD card of any type just getting fried. You might want to exchange your phone.

I have a 4GB Kingston that I had in my Verizon ENV 2, HTC Touch Pro and now have moved to my Hero. Some Cards and Ratings

I am definately going to backup my card on a regular basis. Good luck getting that figured out.

 

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I could not help but notice that you have been burning thru Sd cards..That is kinda odd.What I think it is, is that they have both been class two...go spring the extra few bucks for a class six and se how that goes for you. I have a 4 gb class six Trancsend that was only like 18 bucks at radio shack and I have really put it through the paces...flashing roms or themes fro it once a day sometimes. I could be wrong but I would go that road efore the lame and long process of warranty

 

Try A-Data or Transcend (I personally prefer Transcend), I've always had better luck with those brands versus ScamDisk. Look for them cheap on newegg.com

 

I use class 6 because it's highly probably through out the day the card will be removed and used in a laptop or some other device. In the end it's really all up to you and how you plan on using the card.

American Hero does have a good point about static electricity. Do you work or live in an environment that may cause SE build up?

 

this same thing happened to my stock 2gb card

 

God forbid this happens to me but I've came from a Vzw Storm 1 and I just basically used that 8gb Sandisk on my Hero which is now rooted and have not had any issues... could be a bad sd reader batch the Hero has...

 

Best place to get them for sure... Plus their return policy is pretty good if you get a DOA.

These MICRO cards are very finicky... I think the higher class speeds are more fragile as well. I lost data 2x on my class 6 (once in another phone and once on my laptop while mounted there) and subsequently now I make sure I back it up frequently because all the data recovery programs work only so well. Small static discharge, removal and insertion, dropping them, etc. Also, maybe it's just from the old magnetic media days, but I always format the media in the drive or device in which it is to be used. Sometimes, the media can not be read when formatted somewhere else.
I would go with class 6, but other then speed there is nothing wrong with down shifting to class 2, lol.

Hope it all works out.

Regards

 

Thankfully I have never had an flash device fail on me (one broke when in my wallet). However as the size of my storage mediums increase the more I worry. The 1TB drive on my desk gives me ulcers lol.

 

I realized very early on that the 2gb card was not going to fit my needs so I used a bunch of my rewardzone points and got an 8gb card at BestBuy. Since then i've rooted, used recovery rom, made 10 or so Nandroid backups, picture downloads and have 3.5gb of music I stream to my bluetooth earpiece.

If you keep frying cards, something is wrong with your micro sd card port in my opinion.

 

I'm a lot more inclined to believe that this issue is the result of a broken or poorly-written application and that "corrupted" is a lot more accurate explanation of what's happening to the card than "fried."

Pete

 

Anyone with a corrupt sd card running Astro File manager? I've had my hero for about a month now with no problems with my sd card. yesterday installed Astro and now this morning my card is corrupted.

I'm not sayin'...just askin'...

 

Running Astro file mgr since I got the phone, 8 gig transend class 6 card and knock on wood, no problems as of this reply.

 

I've used Astro for 2 months with the stock 2gb card and have not had a problem. My wife uses it on her Moment as well and likewise, no issues with it.

 

You can get an iPhone, don't have to worry about upgradable memory there.

 

Since this is not happening to everyone else and this is what, your third card blown? You obviously have some other issue. Have you replaced the phone yet or a different brand of card? It is still under warranty, right? Take it to a Sprint owned store and see what the tech(s) say.

 

That's 3 cards in as many months?

The chances you got 3 bad cards is fairly slim, somewhere on the order of ~ 3%

I'd say it's pretty likely you've got a phone with a faulty SD controller - if you plan on sticking with your Hero i'd get it exchanged.

I've got a 16gb class 6 ADATA card in mine, and it's been pushed, pulled, reformated, repartitioned, copied, deleted, cached on, swapped on, sat on, washed in my pocket, and dropped in a glass of water once. When it's dry, it never skips a beat.

SD Flash, even the micro variety, is a pretty hearty storage medium - outside of physical card damage (think: bending it / snapping it in half) you shouldn't see these kind of failure rates. It could just be bad luck, but I'd hedge my bets and exchange the phone instead.