Help Sandisk 32gb class6 MicroSD stopped working, cannot be detected, cannot format....

[GTWalling]

SanDisk cops to malfunctioning Micro SDs in Galaxy S3s ? The Register

 

[toasterz]

thanks for the link GTWalling, unfortunately that doesn't help at all. It seem that Sandisk do not acknowledged the problem. If i have to play 15$ to get a replacement card with is worth 30$ that is no help

 

[JDMtonyV]

this also happened to me dose Samsung do anything to help or replace you pictures and music or are you left alone?

 

[JDMtonyV]

or sandisk im not shure who's to blame?

 

[davoid]

Neither of them help you replace your pictures or music. Or I should say they might help you replace them with new stuff, but not retrieve the ones you've lost.

That's why you ended up posting here.

Sandisk however will replace your card free of charge (or even the retailer from which it was purchased).

 

[CybrGuy]

thanks for the link GTWalling, unfortunately that doesn't help at all. It seem that Sandisk do not acknowledged the problem. If i have to play 15$ to get a replacement card with is worth 30$ that is no help

SanDisk replaced my card with very little grief. They even sent a call tag. Whole process took less than a week.

In your chat with support include a link to the register story or the SanDisk mea culpa.

 

[neojima]

Hey guys. I happened upon this thread today while researching my own MicroSD problem -- a 32GB chip showing up as 32MB. I was really kicking myself, as it started intermittently having issues on Friday, and totally died on Sunday. (I should have A) been taking backups regularly and B) taken a snapshot at the first sign of trouble. Lesson learned.)

I tried a number of data recovery techniques to no avail. I even tried The Freezer Trick, which for those of you might not know, is the method of pulling data off nearly-dead hard drives. (You leave the hard drive in a freezer for a day or so, then pull it out and try to get data off before it heats up. There are some important nuances regarding condensation, but that's the jist.) The problem I encountered was that I'd pull it out of the freezer and it'd be at room temperature by the time I got it into the USB reader -- MicroSD cards apparently don't have enough mass to retain the cold.

So I took it to another level: I put the card and reader in the freezer, with a USB extension cable leading out. I left it for a couple of hours, and then plugged it into my laptop (with the card+reader still in the freezer) and lo and behold, there was my data. A quick rsync command later, I had it all safe and sound on spinning rust. ;-)

I can't promise anyone this will work for them -- I really don't know -- but I thought I'd share my entirely unexpected success story. Might be worth a try!

 

[ScandaLeX]

I will never ever buy another SanDisk card as long as I live. This is the only brand I've ever had issues with. Nothing like thinking everything on it is safe....false hope.

 

[neojima]

I can absolutely understand that feeling. My wife is more than a little freaked out that she has two or three more of this exact model that she's been trusting, and our roommate has another. Obviously both have been appropriately warned.

I consider myself extremely fortunate that my last photo backup was only three months ago, and that I was able to recover this at all. I don't expect such fortune again.

 

[THE W]

Are you guys formatting your cards in your phones or on your computers?

Are you formatting to FAT32 or exFAT?

When you take photos or record video do they go directly your internal or external memory?

 

[Yesevil]

If you contact Sandisk they will replace the card providing it is under 12 months old. I had the same problem with a class 10 card and they sent me a replacement.

My advoce would be buy a Samsung Card (Class 10), had mine in now for 6 months no issues at all.

 

[nigsy]

I even tried The Freezer Trick,

I think it was just a coincidence it worked...but good for you.

I works with traditional hard drives (and it's saved me more than once), because the cold causes the platters to contract slightly, freeing them to spin until they warm up.

SSDs and MIcro cards have no moving parts, so this can't work. Worse still you don't want condensation getting in your phone or your card reader in case it shorts!!

 

[acejay]

Guys I've got the same issue, me and my girlfriend have the exact same phones a Samsung s3 Mini GT-I8190 and we both have a sandisk 32GB Micro SD

Anyways her one works great no problem, but mine kept on saying There is no memory card detected so I kept removing it and re-inserting it which fixed the problem for a few weeks. But then the error kept coming up more and more frequently until removing it and reinserting it didn't fix it anymore. I ignored it for a little while, thinking maybe the contacts where not touching correctly or something but then I started getting errors on my phone such as "The memory card is blank, you need to reformat it" etc.

I started getting worried at this stage so again i removed it and reinserted it into the phone but this time the phone didn't even detect the card. So i took it out and connected it to my PC but same problem, it wasn't even being detected. Took a long time to try and seek the card but no joy

I was absolutely devastated coz I lost so many photos and videos. I didn't even bother trying recovery software coz the card wasn't even being detected by the pc in the first place. So I got a quote from a recovery specialist and they said it would cost at least $500+ to get data back.

So I just put the memory card aside for about two weeks and just today decided to try it again...

AND IT WORKED.... managed to get all my data back safely on my PC

I have no idea why it suddenly started working but it just did and am pretty happy for that.

So yeah Im just letting you guys know if the same issue happens, maybe put your mem card away for a lil while and try it again after a few weeks and see how you go.