Hello, I am having a problem with the media players of my GS3, both the video and the audio. I have several movies and a lot of music on my external micro sd card, I have had both the phone and the card for about 3 months now, I have watched every movie on my phone multiple times, and listened to every song multiple times. a couple of days ago while re-watching one of the movies about 3/4 of the way through it froze up and would not play it anymore. I had to reboot the phone a few times to finally get it working again. then today while I was listening to the music player, half way into a song it started skipping track after track, sometimes it would skip them one after the other and sometimes it would stop and play one for a few seconds and then skip it. Then after stopping the music player I decided to try and watch a movie. This is where it got really strange, I clicked on a random movie and it said "unable to play video" did this with several movies, then it started to play one for about a minute then froze up, the wierd part is that it is never the same movie it will try to play, I did a reboot and tried the same movie that attempted to play and it no longer would even try, but one of the ones that would not try to play earlier started up, then froze. I don't think my sd card is corrupt because it recognizes it being there and reads that there is data on it. It almost seems like it is reading the card intermittently, anyone have any idea why it is just now acting this way? if it is not reading the card all the time would a factory reset help? Also I have not dropped it or gotten it wet.
Edit: just as I finished this post I looked at my phone and there was a notification saying "sd card unexpextantly removed", then while typing this edit I unlocked the screen again and got a notification saying "preparing SD Card"
Edit: I ran the sd card on my pc, worked just fine, did a scan disk and no errors. I completly removed the card and battery, pressed down on the card holder with my thumb, placed card back in and it played a whole movie, then froze ten minutes into the next. I don't know if the card reader is messing up or if it is something else going on, going to try a different card tonight and see what happens, if anyone has any ideas I would love to hear them, also the card is a 32gb class 4 micro SDHC SanDisk and I bought it brand new from amazon when I got the phone
Update: my other card was not compatible, so I reformtated the origanal card, and did a factory reset, so far I have watched one whole movie and am half way through another, with no problems, other then a little annoying click every few minutes in the headphones, but the videos have not froze yet. Hopefully it fixed it, if not I think I will take it to att store and see if they can have the card reader worked on.