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[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] CAR1977:
In order to get it to eject you need to push it in, it then should come out Shi that you can remove it. Don't pull it, push it in first...

sent by me from space...
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] derride8:
Can anyone help me?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] siennaw:
Have you tried formatting it from your computer as well?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mt3g:
Setting it to fat32?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] CAR1977:
Yes

sent by me from space...
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] princeasi:
Amen! Yeah I just learned the hard way a few days ago.

I'm just sayin!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] icase81:
The reason a phone wouldn't come with an SD card slot is because Android uses FAT32 filesystem for the external storage. If you use FAT32, you pay MSFT $7 or $8 per phone. Since Google doesn't make the Nexus phones, I'm sure there's an argument of who will pay the royalty in such a case. Google or the manufacturer who still gets their name on the phone, be it Samsung, LG or HTC, etc.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] derride8:
No, please tell me how do I go about doing that. (step-by-step)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] CAR1977:
Google is your friend....

sent by me from space...
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] derride8:
Lol.. I know, I Google my problem right after I sent the post.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] djmasters:
I used a 64G in my S2 without issues, moved it to the S3 without any hassles either.... Don't remember what brand, whatever was cheapest at Amazon that day. A little better if you format them using exFAT instead of FAT32, then you get large file size support and can still read/write without trouble.

Back to OP's point though (and I realize it's an old post)... if you're worried about wasting $40 then you probably shouldn't be spending $40...
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] devinhicks56:
im running with a 16gb sd card, same backups and a ~9ish GB music collection (also like mines in high quality)

havent had any problems yet:cool:
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] tnt8902:
Ive been using my Sdcard since G1 came out. Been in 3 different phones. Been partitioned, formatted, and repeat. Never crapped on me yet. Its atleast 5yrs old. 8gb. I need to upgrade tho.....

SGS3
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] x1tyme:
Shi***. My 32gb Scandisk dropped dead on me after 3 months. Lucky Amazon replace for free. Anyone have this problems before?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] :
Just happened to me - only had the card since October. After doing some reading here at XDA, I've purchased a Samsung 32gb to replace it.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] jxordan:
Both me and my brother's 32 gig sandisks died after like 2 months. Haven't got around to RMAing them yet
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mondokat:
Figured this out. I have to push on the surface of the card as I push it in for the "click" to happen. Hard to explain, but just trying to make it click doesn't work, has to be a perpendicular push at the same time...
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Jms122589:
I just had my 32gb sandisk card I've had for 3 months poop out on me yesterday. It started with my phone "checking SD" every so often then "SD unexpectedly removed" then "SD corrupted". I formated to FAT32 with Windows 7, and the computer says its fine but my phone says SD unexpectedly removed and what not with it. I put another used SD card in to rule out a phone SD slot issue and I have had no problems. So...what the heck?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] tnt8902:
People having issues with their sdcards. Leave the model, maker, size, class and where you purchased them so that we wont purchase these problematic sdcards. Thanks.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Jms122589:
Sandisk class 4 32gb purchased from Amazon about 3 months ago
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] derride8:
+1 same here, but mine never worked from start.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] :
+2 - exact same card.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] chuwee:
I've tried formating to exFAT and the S3 wouldn't read it. FAT32 is the only format that can be read on my S3. BTW, I have a sandisk 64 GB microsd
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mrbmg:
+3 same card :(
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] elracing21:
Seems like the class 4 32gb SanDisk cards tend to die after a while.

Thanks for sharing guys. I hope you all left negative reviews and informed amazon about the faults. They are usually quick to remove defective items like this if enough people contact them. You can even link them to the thread.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] thanhxvo:
The way that I see it, buy the memory card if you need it now. You can't worry too much about the future. If you are going to be stuck on a farm in the middle of no where any time in the near future, by no means just buy the card and stock up on movies now.

I haven't been paying too much attention to the other manufacturers but I know that the Nexus series do not plan on adding expandable memory because they think people are too dumb and will get confused. If you plan on getting a Nexus any time soon then the memory card will not be a good investment for the future. I don't know if Samsung will be shying away from the expandable memory but maybe they might if they start implementing their flexible displays.

But who knows? Buy it if you need it now. Buy it in the future if you need it in the future (or if the phones still support them). If you do decide to buy in the future you will get a better deal because memory is always getting cheaper :cowboy:
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] :
I don't think the sellers at Amazon know about thus issue. It appears to be issues with Sandisk cards. Yet, neither Sandisk nor Samsung seem to know about it.

Luckily my Amazon vendor is willing to exchange my card, but I'll be sending him to him the link to this thread so he'll know what's going on.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] 1slow4G:
Man are you guys sure yall didnt get a counterfeit sandisk? Ive had my legit 8gb sandisk for couple years and few phones with no issues

Sent from my Galaxy S3 using neighbors wifi :P
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mrbmg:
Through past few years I've bought an 8gb and 16gb Sandisk, one from the same seller. I've heard of larger cards on this phone having problems, so I'm wondering if I have one of the phones or all of them have these problems.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] 1slow4G:
Hope I dont have an issue with the sandisk 32 c4 I just ordered yesterday :(

Sent from my Galaxy S3 using neighbors wifi :P
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] :
So, it seems that the Sandisk cards don't play nice with this phone, so I'm shopping around for a new replacement card.

Any recommendations? Has anybody had a card that's lasted for more than three months in their SGS3? If you could leave as much detail as possible about the card you're using (manufacturer, card size, class, etc.), it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] nirogu325:
It's been 5 months I've been using a 16GB card (class 10) from this seller, Topram brand. I used the same card (although Class 6) in the Vibrant since I got it (mid-October 2010). No issues with that brand nor the seller *knock on wood*.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DigitalUnderground:
Ive had a 32gb sandisk for about a year now... used it on my last 2 phones that had sd slots. Have NEVER had an issue... a lot of ppl get sandisk clones though online and thise mess up a lot tho... just be careful who u buy from. I would never get any other brand
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Sk17z0:
I bought my 32 gig card from Amazon during BF for $14. I got my GS3 on Thanksgiving Day from Best Buy online for $50 through Tmo. So I figure after two more years with Tmo (which will be 10 total) if my next phone doesn't have an SD slot I can use that card to store just about anything I want from my laptop OR use it to make emergency copies of my house deeds, insurance, driver license, SS card, etc.

So investing in a SD card micro or regular is never a bad idea IMO.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] 1slow4G:
Yup. Alooot of fakes out there

Sent from my Galaxy S3 using neighbors wifi :P
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] raquel13:
I have a PNY 32GB class 4 micro SD card that crashed after about 4-5 months. I bought it at Best Buy.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] x1tyme:
Any inputs on samsung brands? I consider it .
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mannyg78:
Does anyone know if I format the internal SD, will it take away the root?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Aerowinder:
I use the Amazon class 10 cards. They are cheap. Too bad the largest size for their class 10s are 16gb.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] AustinKnight45:
I have dammed two of them in the last 4 month every time I get around 500 pictures it damages, I'm back to using my Transcend 8g c6 that I have had for I think my G1 days. I will not buy a Sandisk sd card again.:cyclops:
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] clenh:
I had a similar problem, end up having to rma my SanDisk 64GB microsd.

Sent from my SGH-T999V
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mondokat:
sd card not working?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/18/galaxy_s3_sandisk_msd/

Seems there's a known issue with sd cards in SGS3's, call for support if you have issues!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] jrplaga25:
How are you doing with CWM, I had a 64 SanDisk but it didn't recognize it.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mondokat:
I had lots of problems going from stock to CM, including CWM/TWRP not recognizing the card. I wasn't sure if it was the exfat/fat32 bug or if CWM/TWRP was trying to use the wrong device and was mounting it with the wrong command or what. Both recoveries had a similar problem, though.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] :
I ended up switching to a Topram 16GB class 6 card - been using it for months with no problem.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] prototype.77:
Samsung SD Card

I have been using a Samsung 32gb Class 6 for months now with no problems at all. I got it at Fry's for 20 bucks and couldnt be happier.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] SeaFractor:
Same card that I'm using.

No problems thus far. I use it for my Media Hub content and other applications that allow me to select another storage location than default.

Hope Samsung releases an update/app that allows applications to be moved to SD without the need to root.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] XperianceIT:
i as well use the Samsung 32gb card, no issues here. i avoid sdcards from ebay period, as most are crap or fake. I buy my cards from amazon lately due to being overseas not many places will ship to a APO.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] SeaFractor:
Downloaded the free HD "The Avengers" we all get from the Samsung Media Hub. Saved to the SD Card without a problem.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] swehes:
I had issues with my Sandisk card. They have formally agreed that there was an issue with it and that batches started in end of Jan this year would not have these issues. I RMA it and have got notification that my replacement is on its way back. I hope that it is true. Thank goodness for lifetime warranty.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] empeefizzle:
I have 2x 8gb Samsung and 1 32gb Samsung class 6 for the past 3 years.. All worked flawlessly! Love Samsung! :thumbup:
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] brandonp213:
Not sure if it helps anyone but back in my tmobile g2 days found out some phones like the HTC g2 only accept card's with image marked partition 1 , , sadly some sd cards contain .img with a blank or 0 partition causing the device to never see the card... On that same note even the slightest bit of data corruption will have the same effect . In both circumstances the cards can be fixed by reburn of image containing proper part. Dir. ..MUST BURN IMAGE, rename or adding folder won't work:)

Oh and thank you xda for keeping my crazy entertained.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] tnt8902:
Just bought me a 32gb SanDisk micro card from Walmart. I guess I waited long enough for the new batch to come out.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] tnt8902:
Transfering files from sdcard to pc seems fast, but when it's phone to pc, it's slow. Any ideas how to speed it up.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
Search for sd speed booster or similar in the store. Set read_ahead_kb to 2048.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] RedyRock:
Hello, I honestly hope someone can help me !!

My phone won't boot up at all. I keep getting the Samsung logo with the words "recovery booting...." in the top left corner but it never boots into recovery mode.. I'm able to go into the other mode(forgot the name of it) but anything I flash in Odin fails.. Does any have any ideas on how I can get my phone back up and running.? I really need your help

What cause this..?

I wanted to flash a rom so I booted into recovery but didn't know how to backup my phone using Android System Recovery 3e. There was no option for backup. I then proceeded to flash cwm_Superuser_v3.0.7. When I tried to reboot after the "pass" flash, it never went into recovery and now everytime I take the battery out and try to turn it on, it still wants to try to reboot into recovery... :(( HELP ME PLEASE..!!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
http://goo.im/devs/billard412/d2spr/Prerooted_Odin_tar_files/(NO_WIPE)SPR_L710VPBLJ7_ROOTED_JB.7z stock with root just flash in odin. From there since you'll have root access already just download goo manager and use it to flash a twrp recovery if u need it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] RedyRock:
I'll try that right now and let you know what happens. Thanks

What's the best thing to do if Odin keeps failing.?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
Check your drivers. Switch USB ports. Swap the USB cable. Reboot pc
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] RedyRock:
Still fails... :( I think because it's trying to boot into recovery but it isn't there.. :(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
The odin flash is a one click fix all type of deal. You do have the phone in download mode while you're attempting this right?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dr.devman:
ODIN!!!! I love it.

---------- Post added at 06:09 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:08 PM ----------

woops...I hate that feeling...sorry :(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Cbass15:
From what I've read you don't have CWM .. You have the stock recovery..You can't flash ROMS in stock recovery.. Does your phone boot up at all?

Personally TWRP is a better custom recovery anyway in my opinion.. CWM is so outdated..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] teh roxxorz:
It sounds to me like you didn't have debugging enabled on the phone,or didn't flash the cwm recovery tar in odin correctly, and jumped a step. I would completely start over, making sure you have the phone drivers installed correctly, then install the custom recovery.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] RedyRock:
Yeah, I tried everything but it failed everytime.. I fixed my phone tho, I used another laptop.

For some reason my laptop don't like Odin. I uninstalled the Samsung drivers, got rid of Odin, reinstalled everything, tried again but it still failed.. I don't know why my laptop is doing that but I got it now.

Thanks everyone for your help.!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jacobb23:
Ok, so I am not a noob..But I hadn't flashed anything since owning my orginal Evo..I followed all the steps for chain fire's root and have root access. I installed TWRP and haven't played with any gs3 roms yet so I went into twrp's list of compatible roms. I downloaded carbon and gapps. I tried to flash. What happens now is the same thing as this poster above me. I can boot into download mode at which point I attempted odin..after that process I booted up and still no recovery. I did manage to flash Carbon, just very poorly apparently, because all that happens when I boot up is that is says startup wizard has failed and gapps has failed..Should I try to use odin with the link provided above as well?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] osmosizzz:
As you guys know (or if you don't, you will now) that many manufacturers are releasing phones in which do not have an external SD card and are banging us over by providing really low storage option inside of phones. What got me thinking is that there is a 64GB SD card on sale for 40 bucks at certain retailers and i wanted to buy one and then i came out with the thought that, almost every new phones coming out doesn't have a slot for the SD card. Sure the s3 does but i wont have the s3 forever. What would you guys do?

I know some say, turn to cloud but lets be realistic (at least here in the states). For starters, t mobile doesn't have the best coverage meaning internet is not available everywhere which means if you go visit grandma's farm, you are bored to death and forced to play with cows or ride horses (although riding horses should make you put your phone down lol). Lets say you have glorious verizon with its "great" LTE network and coverage. Well then you are stuck at 2GB or what ever plan you have. point is that you are stuck, so once over the threshold, you are going to get rocked with a fee.

Taking a more personal look, my SD card consists mostly of music (7GB, 800 songs and counting..I like my songs high quality ala 320kbps mp3/aac or 1000kbps Flac), I have 2 nandroids (1 for stock TW JB and the other for AOSP...you know these can make dents on the SD card, apps that require large amounts of data on the SD card.) so right off the bat, i dont need a 64 gb but i know in the future (give or take 2 years, ill HAVe to go that high.)

What are your thoughts? should i just get it anyway? what do you think can be done to get the attention of manufacturers about this issue? any other thoughts?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RoberGalarga:
It's really simple: if you need the extra space, then buy it ;)(the prices will decrease after, hopefully).

Google doesn't think that's an issue, but rather the opposite. Google says "the SD Cards slow down the phone", so don't expect a "fix" to that situation (fortunately, that's not the policy of all manufacturers).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybervibin:
Don't think buy it man
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lifehacker7:
Hell ya! Buy it. My 32 gig card is almost full. I gotta buy a bigger one too! :D

Sent from my OC ed mind.!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] rtotheichie:
So I recently flashed kwes's rooted stock ROM, and now the XDA Premium app is showing not compatible with device in the play store. I tried clearing store data and uninstalling updates, but still no luck.

I haven't made any tweaks or changes, never had this problem with this ROM before.

Any suggestions?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Jomyah:
Mines like that too dropped my rating in the playstore to one star till fixed.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] RamDrt:
:good:

Had a simliar issue with an app today and I was able to resolve it by clearing data/cache. Did not uninstall any updates though....worked for me. Good luck :good:
[T-Mobile LG G2x] justjackyl:
Side load the apk

I can upload it later if you need it.

G2x-CM7 Nightly 11/18/12 Build, Trinity ELP Kernel
[T-Mobile LG G2x] gpmartinson:
Anyone have a lnk?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] rtotheichie:
I think that violates forum rules doesn't it? Since it's a paid app?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] justjackyl:
Good point.

Well, do you want the free one for the meantime?

Sent via Jellytime Sosei Bakedbean Iconia A100.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] rtotheichie:
The free one is still compatible, so my xda addiction is still being fed
[T-Mobile LG G2x] edekalil:
I have been that rom scense it came out and have had no problem with my xda premium app
[T-Mobile LG G2x] rtotheichie:
Yeah, the app isn't going to uninstall itself. The problem is it can't be downloaded if you don't already have it. Apparently the new xda premium app is only compatible w/ Android 3.+
[T-Mobile LG G2x] justjackyl:
That's kinda BS. You got a nandroid you could extract it from? than it would still be yours.

G2x-CM7 Nightly 11/25/12 Build, Trinity ELP Kernel
[T-Mobile LG G2x] rtotheichie:
Unfortunately, no. I formatted my sd card w/o thinking about my backups. I tried upgrading to ICS and making a backup w/ TiBu, but something corrupted the file when I tried to restore it on GB. Then my phone stopped working, so I've pretty much given up for the time being
[HTC Droid DNA] Sidewind75:
Just wanted to say I am officially Unlocked..TY to all those that made this possible
[HTC Droid DNA] sgt. slaughter:
Congrats....

Now feel free to post in one of those threads...
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] noneabove:
Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone knew where to get the stock keyboard app from phone for the nexus 7, I much prefer it's layout to the stock tablet one but I love the new swipe, thanks in advanced!
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] klefreak:
I also like the phone Keyboards with its Option to use umbers by long pressing querty keys...

Is it possible To achieve this ?
[Galaxy S II General] Razer(x):
Hi, i need somebody with CM9 to test this theme and tell me if contacts and mms are ok

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...S5yYXplcngudGhlbWUuYmx1ZWluZmluaXR1bWZyZWUiXQ..
[Galaxy S II General] Razer(x):
Nobody? guess nobody is using cm9 anymore
[Galaxy S II General] ronhoover88:
Will test and report... Is the text issue fixed?
[Galaxy S II General] Razer(x):
That's what i need to know :)
[Galaxy S II General] ronhoover88:
Text not visible in contacts. White on white
[Galaxy S II General] Prashanthme:
Ya same issue..
[Galaxy S II General] Razer(x):
Thanks for the help, much appreciated
[Galaxy S II General] ronhoover88:
No problem mate. Love your themes;):thumbup:
[Galaxy S II General] Prashanthme:
Also in stock messaging app the messages appear as white BOX.. when i click on it words appear as grey color. me too love the black infinitum :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonny68:
I'm gonna be selling my laptop and just using my Nexus 7, before i do i will be buying an external HD to copy all the music,etc,etc onto my laptop, question is, can i use the external HD to copy music,etc onto my Galaxy S3 as i said i won't have the laptop?

Cheers
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XenomorphXx121:
It depends what the external sd is and how big it is in memory size, some work and some don't.

I have a 1 tb external and it doesn't register on my phone not even if I repartition it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonny68:
sh^t im planning on getting a 1TB external HD this one in fact

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Sli...UTF8&colid=12HPR9PFUES4B&coliid=IYZBBEJ1LZLS4

i suppose i could go through the process of using OTG Cable with my Nexus 7 and then onto my phone but it's too much hard work to be honest, all i wanna do is to get music onto my phone from the external HD, this isn't good, ill have to reconsider my options unless anyone knows a better way?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XenomorphXx121:
As it's made by samsung it could work, mine is Seagrave which doesn't work

You could always send it back if it doesn't
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XenomorphXx121:
Ah figured out how to use my hdd by installing an app called paragon ntfs then plugging my wired hub into my otg cable then plugging my wired extended hdd into that.

It's a very annoying process just to plug a hard drive in but it worked :thumbup:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonny68:
Thanks mate any chance of a breakdown of what you done here and ill save this for future reference, have a buyer for my laptop so just need to order the external HD and copy my music and then sell the laptop.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XenomorphXx121:
Okay what I did was have my hub connected to the mains which is also connected to my otg cable of my note 10.1

Installed the paragon app that reads ntfc data on a hard drive (some are fat32 so don't need this app)

Then connected my external 1tb hard drive which is connected to the mains to the hub and all my files showed up on my note 10.1

Hope that's easier to understand :)

Oops sorry exactly the same process with a galaxy s3, get confused between forums :D