Have just bought a 32gb micro sd card - it was fairly cheap off ebay so I thought worth a punt. When I attach it to my computer using a usb card reader it shows as a fully functional removable disk with just under 30gb usable space and you can copy files easily to it. First time I copied about 15gb of mp3's to it. They copied over, but when I took the SD card out of the reader and put it in my I9000 the media scanner started and completed - but when I went into music player less than 1 gig of the music was there. Worse still when I re-entered the microSD into the card reader the only files now showing on the micro SD card were the ones showing on the i9000 music player - it appears that the i9000 has somehow 'deleted' the rest. I've tried this about 3 or 4 times now each time with the same result. Formatting the SD card on the phone doesn't help neither does formatting to FAT32 using windows on the pc. When I originally copy the files onto the SD card using the card reader they can all be used by the PC media player so it's not as if the PC is somehow 'ghost' copying them onto the sd card. Also the sd card shows up on the phone's screen as having 30 gig of usable space. Anybody got any ideas or do I have to accept that it's a duff card??

Sounds like you may have a hacked card.

Is the seller reputable?

Proper 32GB MicroSD cards should be around the £45 mark at present.


EDIT: Try filling it full and see if it displays all the files properly on the PC.

I have had this problem since owning a galaxy s.

I too have a 32gig card purchased from Amazon, so assume it is legit. It seems some files will play and others will, not found a pattern to it yet.

All deleted files appear in the lost.dir.

It's really annoying me. All files play normally via my PC.


dog-man

OK. Worth further investigation then.

Sandisk or another brand?

I'm cheap so only have a 16GB.

Mine's a sandisk 32gig.

As well as having files vanishing into the lost.dir, I also get lots of instances where I get a message that the file cannot be played as it is not supported.

I have had this in every firmware version I have tried, official and custom.

It's very annoying.


dog-man

Does the phone support 32GB sd card?

Does the phone support 32GB sd card?

It does according to Samsung.

I was just wondering why I only had a 16GB card, then I remembered I'm cheap:)

I also had this problem. I bought a cheap 'Unbranded' card from Ebay and it caused me nothing bu problems. Phone freezing up, files would disappear from the card etc. I've discarded mine now. The Ebay sellers account has since disappeared.

Mine is supposed to be a 32gig sandisk card.

I will try a few experiments with it on my pc and see if it behaves as it should on that.


dog-man

Strangely, I cannot access the card using win 7 64 bit or xp 32 bit.

I could originally access the card with the PC when I first got the card.

Is it possible that the galaxy formats it in a way that a windows PC cannot access it?


dog-man

Cheers-found out that mine was a hacked card (paid for 32gb got 2gb) - still you take a punt on ebay for a cheap card and you're liable to get your tootsies burnt!!! There's a good tutorial re: establishing whether yours is a hacked card or not here http://www.slideshare.net/Flashdomain/the-hacked-memory-scam-guide - that may prove useful for anybody who comes across this prob in future also some numpty on ebay is trying to flog this info as an ebook so it'll save you a couple of quid to him as well.

I got mine from Amazon and if it turns out to be hacked, I will make a complaint.

It cost me £53, so I am hoping it is a genuine 32G card.


dog-man

I got mine from Amazon and if it turns out to be hacked, I will make a complaint.

It cost me £53, so I am hoping it is a genuine 32G card.


dog-man

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dog-man

I am currently in the process of trying to fill the card.

I have gone past the 8g stage so if it is a hacked card, I am assuming it can only be a 16g card rather than a 32g card, but I will see..........

dog-man

I have a new Galaxy S (GT I9000). Love it. Except there is a problem with the SD card - not quite the same as above but equally annoying.

The phone goes through a continuous cycle of recognising the external SD card is in place and then notifying me that the card has been unexpectantly removed - all this while the phone is idle and lying flat on the table. This goes for about 48 hours before i am notified that i have to reformat the SD card. I do this and then the whole process starts again. I have used both the SD card supplied with the phone and my own card with the same results. There is no apparent pattern to the cycle of phone reading/rejecting the card.

I have already received one replacement phone and now the new phone is starting the same process. Before i take this phone back i would like to find out if this is a standard problem or if i have just been very unlucky in getting two phones with the same problem?

As well as the disk management tool on MP3 utilities which I mentioned above that can be used on SD cards there is also HD Tune (free trial from http://www.hdtune.com/) which can also be used to find out whether there are any bad sectors (stonkr - think that this may be the problem with your Sandisk from Amazon i.e. it is faulty rather than hacked - if that's the case then HD tune will find it out on a health scan of the disk). Download it, run it - have your sd card mounted to your PC as removable drive and it should show up as one of the drives available to scan in HDTune. Hope this helps-may help Weezl as well -i.e. the fact that you have the same problem on two phones and the one common link is the ext SD card points to fact that the SD card is faulty and not the phones. I used to use HDTune when I had a business repairing faulty Ipods - it is really good

Just interested to know how you got your phone replaced. Thanks.

Me too I am having the same problem. Do we have to bring back the phone or just the micro SD?

Me too, I have exactly the same problem. I hope I could make them replace my phone.