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[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] AxAtAx:
All old and worthless now.....let em mess with the older ones...

• Galaxy S 4G

• Galaxy S2 AT&T

• Galaxy S2 Skyrocket

• Galaxy S2 T-Mobile

• Galaxy S2 Epic 4G

• Galaxy S Showcase

• Droid Charge

• Galaxy Prevail

Apple is friggin stupid. Talk about monopoly. They tried this crap back in MA Bell days. And look at it today. Keep fighting Samsung, you will win.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] md1008:
Gs2 still sells, this would hurt Samsung as well as carriers
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] JaZart:
This.

Even though these are no longer premier flagships, the GSII line is still in the upper echelon all things considered.

Though I will admit that the droid charge can be banned from earth as far as that goes.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] md1008:
I am not sure Nazi Apple are targeting Sprints GS2 but I heard rumors that Boost Mobile is going to release that phone for Sprints Prepaid line up.

I was tricked into buying the galaxy s 3 because I thought it was an iPhone :(

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[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] micahman:
Just glad our phone isn't on there...
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] crayzeeteri:
Wow

I've been reading all about this, and I am just APPALLED if I have to pick a word! Apple's mama needs to spank them and put them in time out for acting like a bunch of immature, spoiled, bully brats! These are supposed to be adults, not to mention the smartest on the planet, and their acting like punks! Should Ford sue Chevy for having power windows? Or Guess sue Levi for pockets on the backs of their jeans? Or Nike sue Vans for having shoelaces? (I don't know who made what 1st, but u get it) This is ridiculous! Reminds of the schoolyard bully who wants to beat up that girl because she's prettier! I own both the iPhone and the new SGS3 - had the Vibrant before that, and although they have a similar look with similar features, they are not the same AT ALL, just 2 devices offering consumers variety and companies competition AS IT SHOULD BE! No different than 2 brands of stereos, TVs, washing machines, or anything else. They're just mad because the SGS 3 definitely kicked the iPhone's butt in every way! SO WHAT - Stop cryin, get over it, and go make a better device to compete like everyone else does, ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!! Maybe Nintendo WII should sue them for making the XBOX Kinect, or Sony or whoever made the 1st walkman should sue them for making something you can listen to music on that's portable that you plug headphones into! Jeez people, COME ON!!!! I'm getting rid of my Apple devices promptly, and I don't care if Apple makes a device that makes my money, cooks, washes my dishes, and tucks me in at night - I will NEVER buy from them again, just on principle! I refuse to support a bunch bullying spoiled BRATS that are showing my kids the exact behavior that I have always tried to tell them is NEVER OK and will not be tolerated! I still can't believe anyone is condoning this crap! Unbelievable!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] vw671:
People put it to Apple with your wallet. I used to buy all kinds of apple products but stopped two years ago as I do not agree with their business practices. I encourage you to do the same if you feel likewise.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Android_Monsters:
+ 1
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] AxAtAx:
Well put crayzeeteri, well put. Microsoft did it because they had no competition, big bullies back in the day, similar with this Apple crap.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] crayzeeteri:
I like bananas better

Well thank ya! Kinda got a lil wordy, maybe a bit carried away :D Really won't hurt me at all, I just got a lil heated over the fact that they can get away with it and that our justice system is actually that retarted that they would rule in favor and therefore tell the world this is bs acceptable. On a side note, y'all ever seen the LG Prada?(pic below) It came out long before iPhone....hmmmm....look familiar? Just thought it was funny considering a huge part of their ***** - sorry, "case" was the shape/look. LOL! Now I'd actually LMFAO if LG turned around n sued them! Just to make a point!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] AxAtAx:
HEHE I sold my iPad this morning (after reading your post lastnight) to a co-worker here, and agree, I will NEVER buy an apple product again. Got me some spending money, now I am going to buy the wife a Galaxy S3 to. :) This is her lucky day....
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DD-Ripper:
Sent From My Pencil
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] chrisram88:
Check this out guys. Idk what to think of it yet.

http://techfanatix.com/apple-pours-...ngers/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

Sent from my SGH-T999
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] SpydaPig:
I hate apple with a passion. They are just going way too far with this.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] chrisram88:
You are not alone.

Sent from my SGH-T999
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] vw671:
What do I think?

I canceled my wife's iPhone 4 yesterday and now my house is Apple free! :)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] chrisram88:
You make us proud lol.

Sent from my SGH-T999
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] codeman0624:
My shiny new Galaxy S III has now destroyed two 32gig micro SD cards on me. About two weeks after I installed the first card, my phone started giving messages about the SD card being improperly removed, then it would immediately try to re-mount it, then would say it was removed again, then finally started just repeating the "unable to mount SD card" error until I physically removed the card. I argued with best buy to give me another one, and now today (about two weeks after installing the new one), the same thing happened. I put the card into a USB reader to try it on my computer, and now even my PC does not recognize the card.

Has this happened to anyone else? What can I do to fix this?! I pre-ordered the phone from verizon, so I'm now well out of warranty replacement time. :eek:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Young War:
I have a 32gb MicroSD card and haven't had a problem. I do wish I could use it more as internal memory rather than hardly usable external storage...but that's a different issue.

Sorry I couldn't help, but just wanted to say that Galaxy S III does support that much external storage. Maybe a hardware issue? Try troubleshooting it with another MicroSD card.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Brian Gove:
Gotta be the cards you're getting I would think. I had a 16gb card that came with my Droid x almost 3 years ago in it for almost 2 months before the card finally crashed.(I'd abused that card tho, carried it in my jeans pocket, left it sitting on my table etc) Then I put my 64gb in it. It's been a little over two weeks now and no probs with it. I've written too it and erased and so on so I've actually used it. It's almost full now actually lol.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bby144:
I have that same 16 GB from the droid x. Do I still need to format it if I flash a ROM? And how do I check what format its in
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] blestsol:
My 32gb card was doing that on stock until I finally installed a custom rom. No problem since.

Synergized GS3
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] fritzboyle:
SD card gs3 issue

I also had trouble with my external 16gb card after flashing 2 ROMs (synergy & beans v9). I was not even able to get a computer to recognize the sd card after the flashing.

I thought it had to do with using a stock, then rooted stock, then custom kernel. i thought the combination and repeated TBU access over a 4 day period just trashed it. maybe there is more to the story?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mybook4:
1) What is your ROM flashing history (what roms, how long were each installed)?

2) Which rom did you notice the problem on?

3) Were the original and replacement cards the same make/model?

4) What format were the cards in (FAT32, exFAT, or other)?

5) are/have you overclocked your cpu?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] scarrmrcc:
nope. all i did was take my 16 gig from my droid x (that OEM card is tough) and slap it in my s3.. and it works.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] codeman0624:
Thanks for the responses guys. I'm still fully stock, I haven't done anything to the phone (yet). I don't know what the format was, I just put them straight into my phone and let it do whatever it wanted to do. The original and replacement are the same make and model, from the same store. So before i panicked too much, I was considering buying a new/different card from amazon and seeing if it does the same thing still.

Just didn't know if anyone else was experiencing this, or had any thoughts on why that would randomly happen on a completely stock phone?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mybook4:
That sounds like your best bet. There are plenty of crappy cards out there. My ADATA 8GB class 10 has been great so far. I have noticed that the GS3 gets really hot right near the cards (micro sd and sim). Can't be great for the cards long term.

I've had my VZW GS3 since 7/5 and have been fine with my card. I've seen plenty of people who've had trouble with FAT32 vs exFAT, but none who have lost their card.

I have seen a ROM break cards before (an early AOSP gingerbread build for the Fascinate claimed one of mine), so I've actually been looking. This is the first thread I've seen.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] codeman0624:
I've also noticed it gets really hot toward the bottom of the phone. Now that I think of it, both times I noticed the SD card issue right after taking the phone out of my pocket. Maybe it's just getting too hot? I wonder if my case is also holding in a lot of the heat and making it worse? I wish there was a way I could test things without breaking an SD card every time!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] rgrossie:
My GS3 fried a new 32gb card that I put in it after about 3 weeks. Randomly got an "unreadable SD card error", can't correlate with any specific activity. I reformatted the SD card & it works again in the phone. I was rooted, running stock at the time. Maybe it's the heat, but I don't recall it being hot at the time (I also don't recall it not being hot...)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] erm1001:
Try sandisk.I was having problems with lesser brand
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] JBO1018:
I have been using the 32 GB San Disk brand card that came with my thunderbolt and it's been working great.

I really don't know what could cause that to happen to a card and I haven't noticed any other reports of it happening with this phone.

If it comes down to it VZW SHOULD give you a replacement because it could be something to do with the card slot in the phone. I would try talking to them if you can't get it worked out.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] codeman0624:
So going on the theory that maybe it's just getting too hot, I just ordered a 16gig sandisk ultra micro SD card. It claims to be "temperature proof", whatever that means. Hopefully that clears things up, otherwise I'll have to deal with Verizon, and I'll be super mad if they give me a refurbished phone when this issue actually started two weeks after I got the phone.

If I don't post back here then you can assume all has gone well!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] hollywoodo:
16gb card from droid x

same as others, used the same 16gb card from my droid x, transferred to the bionic when it was released, and now have been using it in the GIII since release. no issues.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Brian Gove:
I don't believe the phones are getting too hot to do the damage. The hottest temp my battery has gotten had been 106 and they say that heat damage isn't even a concern until around 140 or so. I would think the cards could take the same if not more than the batteries.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Raegx:
I had a similar problem, my sd card wasn't destroyed, but it would randomly become unmounted. It started happening after I hooked my phone up to my corporate email and it forced me to encrypt my device. After I removed the corporate account it stopped happening. This was all on stock TouchWiz from the factory.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] alexyaz:
I have had my 64gb SD card for a month and so far nothing went wrong. did you buy your SD cards from a reputable source? I have always used sandisk SD cards try buying one from Sandisk or even Samsung. if you bought your card from ebay make sure the card works, I have heard that some times people sell damaged cards for very cheap. But other than that good luck.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] foocankill:
16 GB class 10 sandisk 30 mb/s version died on me with this phone after 2 weeks, stock ROM, formatted with phone. It was brand new.

The error I had was it became read only. And no it was not fixable, I tried everything. Low level format, checking permissions, different OS's, putting it in SD adapter and messing with lock switch on there.

I read class 10s are more prone to die quicker and aren't necessarily better, but just different from a lower class. Ie a lower class will last longer because it read and writes differently and doesn't skip certain safeties like a class 10 does.

Running a class 4 16gb sandisk now and it is annoyingly slow.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] iamjackspost:
I've been having the same exact problems with two cards. I have a 16g and 8g, both kingston, also both formated FAT32. I haven't been flashing roms a whole lot, but I was running Synergy 1.7 with imosyon's leankernal (not overclocked) when it first happened. I unmounted the card, and when I put it back in it was constantly unmounting/remounting it. I think I'll try a Sandisk (been meaning to get one for a while anyway) and I'll see if anything changes. I'm hoping that it's just the kingston brand.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] nosympathy:
My sandisk does this too. I started wondering if it was synergy. I didn't have it do that until I started running synergy. That or bad timing.

Doesn't do it all the time, but will start unmounting and remounting like crazy out of nowhere. Destroys my battery life.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] vudugan:
My 16gb from DX lasted bout 3 weeks until 1 day I got notification saying "Sd card blank". Could not reformat on phone nor pc. Tried a couple of recovery programs to no avail. Currently coming to 1 week on new 32gb class 10. Not sure of lifespan on cards. Guess I'll have to keep an eye on this thread.

VZW SGS3 Tap a Talk
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] got556:
Guess I'll go ahead and subscribe to this thread. I've got a Sandisk 32GB Class 4 coming in today. No way I'm sticking my Sandisk 64gb card in...especially when I paid $80 for it back in the day. :good:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] iamjackspost:
My 8g kingston is now fried. Was working this morning, now it won't show up in the phone or the computer. Wondering if it is ROM related (Synergy) or if I should hassle verizon for a new phone.

I reformatted and wiped my 16g, I'm going to switch ROMs and see if that one gets fried too.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] codeman0624:
Well now I can see that I'm definitely not the only one. I think everyone can feel confident that it's not custom ROMs that are doing this, since myself and at least one other person have had this problem on a fully stock phone.

Both cards died on me completely, cannot even be read by a PC. They were both 32gig PNY cards...and I had always thought PNY was a decent brand? My new sandisk card will be here Friday. I also ordered a "breathe case" for my phone, hopefully to help with it getting warm. I figure if this new sandisk ultra "temperature proof" card dies along with the vented case, I can safely assume it's a real hardware issue and not just the thing getting very warm.

I have also watched my battery temperature, and it's never gone above about 109F. But I'm also not sure where the temp sensor is for the battery. If it's near the top, then there's still a good possibility that the bottom of the phone (where the SD card is) gets much hotter than that. So there's still a slight chance it could be a thermal issue. Unfortunately I can't really let you guys know if it has been fixed, I can only inform you if it hasn't yet broken. But I'll keep everyone updated.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] fusiongalaxy:
I've had my phone now for about 2 weeks and haven't experienced this issue yet. Using my old 16gb card out of my droid x that got dunked in water twice and still works lol. Will report back though if I ever have any issues. Sure hope I dont though.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Blue6IX:
Been using a 64 sandisk card i've had since a few weeks after they came out. Used it in a mytouch 4g slide - I promise you, the heat issues you are having look like a cool autumn day compared ro how stupid hot the mt4gs gets.

That device gets hot enough with a stocl battery that I seriously consider whether it's safe to hold at times, and I do professional fire performances.

The card is holding up fine, never had a problem with it even after going through that htc furnace. Didn't have to reformat the card to use in the SGSIII - was drop and go from the mt4gs.

The mt4gs did eat a couple of off brand cards, even a pny one, but never a sandisk card. While heat may be the issue, card quality could end up being the determinant factor.

Dunno if any of this ramble helps, some random thoughts after skimming the thread.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Masa6GCS:
I've had problems before when switching between roms, generally I now make sure to format the card, FAT32, and then flash a new rom and I haven't had any problems after that first wrecked sdcard
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] iamjackspost:
I'm wondering if this is a TouchWiz problem. Has anyone had any problems with sd cards on AOSP roms? I've been running AOKP since last night, and so far my kingston 16g card has been holding up.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] codeman0624:
So it's been almost a month since I got my new SD card and case, and I'm happy to say that I've had no issues whatsoever. And I've also been using the card more heavily than I did previously, so I'm quite pleased.

I still don't know for certain what the original issue was, whether it was just a bad SD card brand, or too much heat, or something else entirely. But now I have a Sandisk Ultra SD card, and the elago breathe case. I've actually noticed that the phone stays noticeable cooler with this case, versus the previous case I had. But I like the case anyway, and don't plan on changing it back.

Just wanted to pass along that doing these two things seemed to fix my problem of SD cards being destroyed. I'm still fully stock, but now I'm considering going to some custom roms now that I'm more confident that my SD car is alright.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mybook4:
Thanks for following up!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] iamjackspost:
Just an update, I ended up getting a replacement S3, and was still getting problems with my Kingston 16GB, regardless of the rom. I've since upgraded to a sandisk 32, and have had zero issues (been using it for about a month). I'm guessing it was a combination of the brand plus the cards being somewhat old. Regardless, I now backup everything important, like I should have been doing all along.:good:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] brandonb0013:
similar problems

Now I read through all four pages of this thread... and no one had the exact problem I'm having. I have had this happen about three different times. Once about a month ago. Once last night and once just now. What happens, is it runs fine for ever. Until I go to make a backup in twrp 2.3.1. Sometimes it'll backup successfully, sometimes it'll fail. When it fails, that's when my card doesn't show up. I am running king kang, which is a hybrid, but it also happened the first two times on cm10 which I ran for abit a month with no problems. And the card will eventually come back, but I have found no patterns or anything other than it happens after a backup fails. So it's either twrp which I've heard 2.3 can be kind of hit and miss, but I know it's worked before. Or its the cm10 Rom.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ryanallaire:
so once the sd card stops working, that's the end of it? No one has attempted to recover info? Reason i'm asking is cuz i have about a years worth of pics and vids that i don't wanna lose if i can help it....
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] brandonb0013:
I usually just continue to do reboots, recovery reboots, try it in the computer (sometimes doesn't show) then it'll just start working again lol. It's so random. If you don't want to lose it, pull it out and copy info to your computer.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] wingtytn:
i hav a few quetions for hav u moded ur gs3 ( swapped internal with sd) or using apps that deal with mem and sd . if so that would cause the problem i killed a 32gig where the device got hot and burnt out my sd from wat i did to my device lucky me i hav mutliple sd cards avil to me but i understand
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ryanallaire:
my thunderbolt would get hot and i never had issues with the card going bad, seems like something else is the problem....
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] brandonb0013:
My phone dies but get hot and no I don't run it off the sd
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] AndroidDan2013:
Watch your MD5's!

I've had one 16 GB Sandisk SD card die and another 4 GB card that just started going bad. I just now figured out the 4 GB was going bad after a recent Synergy ROM upgrade. I flashed the ROM from the ext SD card and it worked fine. I reflashed the same zip file later and got stuck on splash screen. Eventually figured it out when I stuck the card in my computer and checked the MD5 checksum - showed it had gotten corrupted.

Took a lot of time to figure out and get back in service. One thing to keep in mind if your card is acting flaky.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ummduh:
Just had a 32GB class 10 SanDisk die in my gs3. Has been in it since I got the phone, a few months now. First sd card I've ever had fail, and I've got some old cards.

Running cm10.1 nightlies.

Computer doesn't recognize the card anymore either.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] brandonb0013:
Try taking it out and rebooting and reinstalling it in the computer for a while. See if it comes back. Mine always does this after twrp backup fails. Usually takes me 10-15 min of playing with it. I also have a 32gb SanDisk
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] rgrossie:
I've had my GS3 cause a 32Gb Sandisk to fail, but once I reformatted it worked out again. Unfortunately I lost everything on the card. That was on stock last summer.

Just this past weekend I was wiping my phone back to stock to start over (having memory use issues that were solved with this) and the same SD card dies completely, even though it was removed prior to the wipe. This card is now dead. Computer says "reformat to read this card", then when I reformat it still doesn't read, wants to reformat again. Cycle repeats. I was loading CM10.1 at the time.

I took the card out without unmounting it, and it was out while I did the complete wipe. In this case it seemed like the act of removing the card (or putting it back in) wiped it out. I'm wondering if it got some charge from the battery, or something like that to kill it. Cards are cheap, that doesn't bother me, but I'm pissed because I took for granted that the files on there would be fine and now they're lost.

I guess the bottom line is- don't trust the SD card to hold important data. Data needs to be backed up to a computer.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ummduh:
It was dead as of last night. Right after I posted that, I double checked and it was mounted on my phone and usable. My computer still doesn't recognize it, doesn't show up even in the disk manager.

. Same on my phone, doesn't say it needs to be formatted or anything, just doesn't recognize a disk has been inserted at all. I did manage to back up the important info.

I noticed it dismounted from my phone a few hours after updating to the current nightly. Weird.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bobAbooE:
Just lost number 2. I called sandisk and they are going to exchange it.

I formatted on my phone and comp multiple times, kept getting unmounted and removed over and over again.

Just glad they are replacing.