Hi all.
I've had my Galaxy S4 (UK unlocked, unrooted), using Nova Launcher for about 2 months now. It was all pretty smooth sailing up until a few weeks ago.
After having taken some pictures a few weeks back, I got my first taste of the dreaded "SD card has unmounted" and "Blank SD card". I am now seeing these and other SD card related pop-up warnings CONSTANTLY. Not sure if my photos and music are safe or not. Sometimes I can see them in the library, sometimes I can't. Don't really know if any pictures I'm taking anymore are saved or not.
I've recorded some video which is VERY choppy and bad quality, which I assume is also SD card related? I've also had the phone heat up the entire screen and go from what is usually an exceptionally good battery life to losing 15% battery in a matter of 10 minutes literally!! The heat starts radiating from just below the camera lens where the SD card is housed.
This was on a 32 GB Class 4 Sandisk microSD card (I know, I've read all about them!!!) so I thought I'd found the culprit. Despite the fact that this card works absolutely flawlessly on my old phone, I ordered a Samsung 64 GB Class 10 card just to be ultra safe on the side of compatibility.
As soon as I inserted the new card and booted up, all seemed fine... I then plugged in the USB lead to my computer (Win 7) and used Media Player to sync a few albums across and it crashed Media Player and the new memory card is now corrupt.
I've tried re-formatting the card from within the phone. This simply causes my phone to freeze and eventually restart itself. I've tried re-formatting on my PC using exFat and FAT32, but the progress bar just sits there doing nothing for hours. So I guess I'll have to send that back too?!!
On top of this, I find even very basic games struggle A LOT on this phone. Some basic 3d racing games struggle rendering graphics and very jerky and obviously I'm very shocked at this considering the processing power.
I do love everything else about this phone despite this, so I'm going to get a refund and buy another one (which is now also cheaper, so that's a bonus) and give Samsung one more chance.
If there was another choice of a 5" screen, removable battery and SD card space and as well supported as this phone then I would be looking elsewhere.
Is there anyone at all that has no troubles with this very annoying SD card issue? My brother has a Galaxy S2 and he says if he rests his phone too "hard" on a table, i.e. normally, his card unmounts and there's numerous threads about the S3 SD card issues.
Any other suggestions? Thank you
I've had my Galaxy S4 (UK unlocked, unrooted), using Nova Launcher for about 2 months now. It was all pretty smooth sailing up until a few weeks ago.
After having taken some pictures a few weeks back, I got my first taste of the dreaded "SD card has unmounted" and "Blank SD card". I am now seeing these and other SD card related pop-up warnings CONSTANTLY. Not sure if my photos and music are safe or not. Sometimes I can see them in the library, sometimes I can't. Don't really know if any pictures I'm taking anymore are saved or not.
I've recorded some video which is VERY choppy and bad quality, which I assume is also SD card related? I've also had the phone heat up the entire screen and go from what is usually an exceptionally good battery life to losing 15% battery in a matter of 10 minutes literally!! The heat starts radiating from just below the camera lens where the SD card is housed.
This was on a 32 GB Class 4 Sandisk microSD card (I know, I've read all about them!!!) so I thought I'd found the culprit. Despite the fact that this card works absolutely flawlessly on my old phone, I ordered a Samsung 64 GB Class 10 card just to be ultra safe on the side of compatibility.
As soon as I inserted the new card and booted up, all seemed fine... I then plugged in the USB lead to my computer (Win 7) and used Media Player to sync a few albums across and it crashed Media Player and the new memory card is now corrupt.
I've tried re-formatting the card from within the phone. This simply causes my phone to freeze and eventually restart itself. I've tried re-formatting on my PC using exFat and FAT32, but the progress bar just sits there doing nothing for hours. So I guess I'll have to send that back too?!!
On top of this, I find even very basic games struggle A LOT on this phone. Some basic 3d racing games struggle rendering graphics and very jerky and obviously I'm very shocked at this considering the processing power.
I do love everything else about this phone despite this, so I'm going to get a refund and buy another one (which is now also cheaper, so that's a bonus) and give Samsung one more chance.
If there was another choice of a 5" screen, removable battery and SD card space and as well supported as this phone then I would be looking elsewhere.
Is there anyone at all that has no troubles with this very annoying SD card issue? My brother has a Galaxy S2 and he says if he rests his phone too "hard" on a table, i.e. normally, his card unmounts and there's numerous threads about the S3 SD card issues.
Any other suggestions? Thank you