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[Galaxy S III Accessories] jfcooley:
According to an article it was "a limited run". Not sure what that means.

Since they were easy to deal with and offered to replace it I'm going to give it another shot.

If this one fails I'll look at other cards.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] House M.D.:
They are really suck on customer service. I had this same issue at the end of last year, asked for RMA on January 2013, and they got it in the first week, and then it took them about a month to replace it. And the customer support are overseas, India, and everyone will give you his/her word about solving the problem, ecpeically the supervisors, big fat liars. Oh boy, it was a really pain till I got it replaced.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] ghostofcain:
No problem here last time I RMA'd a card, the real headache was having to pay the postage but jfcooley got prepaid postage so no biggie there.

My personal thoughts on what maybe up with the cards is that maybe they deviate from SDHC specification, and that samsung devices are relying on spec being followed hence are more sensitive? It'd certainly explain why they where so happy to fix and replace them, Just my thoughts.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] jfcooley:
I plan on sending off tomorrow. The email I got said 7-10 days after they received it. I'll try and post actual and results with new card.

Meanwhile my no name class 4 32gb is holding up well. Slower...but this is why I kept it around.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] mcbyte_it:
Can you please write the model number of the one you are RMAing? so that we might have a list of models that might suffer from the issue (the code above the barcode)

mine is: SDSDQU-032G-U46A, bought from Amazon Italy

still ok, only for 1 day it gave random Checking for errors, never again.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] jfcooley:
These are the numbers I gave off back of card.

32gb Ultra HC1 from Newegg.

2476DG7AM05A
[Galaxy S III Accessories] abovebeyondgal:
have the same problem , in my country Sandisk doesnt know nothing about this problem

what can i do ?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] jfcooley:
http://kb.sandisk.com/

Here is where I started. Don't know if region specific.

On left choose "Live Chat".

Hope it helps.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] tallgrasshawk:
Same card and had the same thing start to happen. More frequent errors over a few days then phone said card was removed unexpectedly. Dead. Nothing left, in a pc or anything.

SanDisk replaced it no problems. Very quick turn around
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Beefvvl:
I have the 64gb microSDXC from Team and never had any issues.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] House M.D.:
This is for SanDisk, not for Team
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Westylakey:
Sandisk sent me an rma number with no return address. Now I have another email saying my replacement will be posted today??? So perhaps I haven't got to send mine back.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] GiantJay:
I have had this card for over a year with not a single issue.

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-MB-MP...3856825&sr=1-8&keywords=samsung+micro+sd+card
[Galaxy S III Accessories] sak500:
Did you read the title of the thread? This is about SANDISK cards having issues. I myself had to send my 32GB Sandisk class 10 card after 3 months of use, dying suddenly, to Sandisk and they replaced it FOC.

DOnt mess up the thread by saying your XYZ card is fine, it's SANDISK issue.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] jfcooley:
I've been delayed by my stubborn assed jeep. Haven't dropped my card off yet. Will report actual turn around time

Meanwhile I'll be kicking my jeep.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] sak500:
After getting the replacement 32gb class 10 card from sandisk a few months ago, the new one started giving the sdcard removed message again and again. I think it's about to go as well. DAMN sandisk..
[Galaxy S III Accessories] ghostofcain:
That's my worry. Currently waiting on replacement card but as we have no idea when manufacturing fix was implemented I have no way of knowing if it has it or not. TBH if this one craps out on me I'll get my cards from someone else in future.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] boggie81:
Going to get an RMA, without having to send the faulty one back. At first they said that I'd have to send it back, but after a few hours they changed their minds. Mine just died in a GS2 after the battery ran out completely. I didn't have any mount/remount problems before, or any other errors.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] nokli:
My 32gb Sandisk also started fannying about after just 6 months.

Initially, taking the card out of the phone worked but now it's unreadable in the phone or on the PC.

I spoke with Amazon UK last week via web chat and also sent that same web link in the OP.

Customer service rep agreed to refund my money inc. free-post return of the faulty card.

Since its a Sandisk issue, I'm just gonna buy a Samsung card for my s3 now.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] platypusgravy:
My 64 gb SanDisk ultra Class 10 started playing up about 2 weeks after purchase. I sent an email off to SanDisk to commence an RMA. Everything went smoothly to start and I sent the card at my expense in a padded envelope via registered mail.

After about 2 weeks I had heard nothing and the RMA status on the SanDisk website had not changed so I contacted them. It was from here things got a bit strange. SanDisk claimed they had not received the package. I sent them a copy of the registered mail receipt confirming delivery but was also required to describe the delivery envelope and how I had packaged the card and what I had written on the outside.

Once I had done this SanDisk then confirmed they had received my card and would process my RMA. After another week SanDisk said they did not have any 64gb cards in stock and would I like 2 x 32 gb cards. I declined and said I wanted a 64 so I could keep everything (music & pictures) on 1 card. They said I would have to wait until stock arrived but could not tell me when that would be.

By this stage I was getting a bit annoyed at the length of time and delay especially considering on the front page of the SanDisk website they were advertising 64gb cards from the online store as available for immediate delivery. I escalated the RMA and about 2 weeks later a new card arrived.

While everything worked out ok, throughout the entire experience I always got the feeling that they made the customer jump through hoops looking for an excuse to deny the warranty claim or get out of the claim as cheaply as possible. While this is probably sound business practise it does leave a bad taste and I would be hesitant to buy other SanDisk products.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] ghostofcain:
SD Insight from Google play will display info re your card including product revision and manufacture date.

My replacement card is revision 8 manufactured in Jan 2013, Just wish I'd got data from failing card before RMA.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Ravin_Dave:
Ghostofcain - didn't know about that app. I got a replacement swapped out from Amazon as I didn't think it fair to pay postage back to CZ. I had originally got an RMA from Sandisk, but when I fired off an e-mail to Amazon telling them the situ, they sent out a replacement same day !!

My new card is problem free for now, but I'm gunna check it with SD insight. :)
[Galaxy S III Accessories] jfcooley:
Got email my replacement is shipping today. Will post #s to see if any comparison to bad cards can be made. Guess I'll get it early next week.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] stas333:
called scandisk about the issues, they are sending me a replacement card
[Galaxy S III Accessories] moto211:
I just picked one of these up on best buy's deal of the day last week. It's a revision 8 manufactured in January 2013. I'll make sure to post back if I start having any issues.

Sent from my SGH-T999
[Galaxy S III Accessories] stas333:
Where does that say?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] ghostofcain:
Install SD Insight, open > menu >details, and it's all there.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] hellboy2703:
Does the 64gb ultra have these problems?

SD insight showed

Model no. SU64G

Manufacture Date Dec 2012

Rev. 8
[Galaxy S III Accessories] stas333:
Mine says manufacture date December 2012, Rev.8
[Galaxy S III Accessories] ghostofcain:
We honestly don't know what models / versions are affected and SanDisk aren't offering any more information at present. But AFAIK the issues affect all SanDisk ultra microSD cards up to the point that the fix was implemented.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] kronium:
My healthy card 32gb is showing Rev. 8 and this was manufactured in Jun 2012. So we're probably looking for Rev. 9 manufactured at LEAST after January 2013.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] ghostofcain:
Yeah, my faulty card was purchased in October 2012 so I'd expect that to be the same revision as your June 2012 card.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] stas333:
you guys should try sliding a piece of paper between the card and the outer shell of the slot so that the card is pressed firmly against the phone. i have done a few months back, and so far so good.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Ravin_Dave:
The replacement card I received from Amazon was as follows :

SD insight showed

Model no. SU32G

Manufacture Date Jan 2013

Rev. 8

The original faulty one that failed in my S3 was one of 2 twins bought at the same time. The other one is still currently working in my GTab2 :

SD insight showed

Model no. SU32G

Manufacture Date June 2012

Rev. 8

Assuming that the one in my tab and the failed one were of similar age and rev, and the one I have had as a replacement are at least the same rev, I don't know if it's one of the "Fixed" ones or not. :(
[Galaxy S III Accessories] netter123:
I had intermittent problems with a sandisk 64gb card I bought in November. I already sent it back, so not sure of details. But the replacement I just got from amazon says it was manufactured in February and still revision 8. No problems with this one so far.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] mcbyte_it:
My 32gb started again doing rescan media every few wakeups, and I am starting to worry, and I already made a backup of the contents.

But about this RMA, I bought mine a couple of months ago from Amazon Italy, should I do RMA through SanDisk or directly amazon?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] ghostofcain:
Personally I'd RMA through Amazon, SanDisk might charge you postage. Before sending your card off can you get your revision data from your card? (use SD insight off Google play).
[Galaxy S III Accessories] mcbyte_it:
It says:

Manufacture date: October 2012

Rev. 8
[Galaxy S III Accessories] ghostofcain:
Ok thanks, that at least confirms there hasn't been a change in version number between October and February whether the fix was implemented without a change in versioning or later we'll have to guess.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] pjobson:
Managed to recover data from bad SanDisk 32GB micro SDHC that would not mount

Hi All,

Something to try if you are left like I was with a 32GB SanDisk micro SDHC that neither computer nor phone would recognize or mount.

I was surfing around trying to see what options are available for data recovery on a dead card when it can't be mounted (there are paid services for data recovery and very expensive as they pull the memory chips out and associate with an external memory controller......) and discovered on an obscure forum that someone had frozen theirs and brought it back to life long enough to pull the data off.......

In desperation I did the same thing by placing in a ziplock in the freezer. It did not work the first time while in freezer for duration of 1 hour, however the second time I tried it for 2.5 hours and low and behold, the damn thing came back to life............. And it is still working.......... Now I do not trust this card anymore and will certainly follow through with the RMA that was provided by SanDisk but I sure was glad to get the 22GB of data back from it........ I also have ordered a class 10 Samsung card as I just don't trust the SanDisk in a SGS3 anymore.....

I really hope this post helps a lot of people get their data back as it really sucks when you lose that irreplaceable picture of loved one, child etc etc

Cheers

-phil
[Galaxy S III Accessories] ghostofcain:
^^ this would only help with a hardware failure, so that's a clue to what maybe going on.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] sak500:
I've recovered my 500GB WD passport drive by the above method. Although i kept it in freezer overnight. Still working today from the freezer trip about 6 months back.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Beefvvl:
We know that. We were just giving an alternative since you all are having issues with your card.

Maybe it would benefit to know what alternatives you or future purchasers have. Don't trip.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] jfcooley:
I've received mine:

Rev 8 manufactured 2/13
[Galaxy S III Accessories] mcbyte_it:
:crying:

My SD Card just died !!!!!!! rescan 3 times in a row, then neither device nor PC can detect it any more !!!

But as I see, SanDisk is still selling Rev8 card, what can I get to be on the safe side?

Update:

Tried a few times in PC, now it is readable again, amd it is back detected in the device, but will ask for replacement
[Galaxy S III Accessories] ghostofcain:
If you didn't buy it direct my advice would be to claim a refund from retailer and buy a different brand of card. SanDisk have issued no information on when fix was implemented so no assurance that any replacement card will be good.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Ravin_Dave:
This really is bad form by Sandisk. If they have indeed released a "fix" then they should at least tell people what it is and when it was released. That way we can know if any replacement cards are viable or not. My new replacement is still OK for now, but for how long, nobody knows ? :(
[Galaxy S III Accessories] jfcooley:
Only been 2 days but no issues. Write times are better on this card than the defective I had. Averaged 6-8 per second on first while this one tend to stay at 10-11.

I keep looking for errors but none. If its fixed I'm happy. I font mind replacement of 1 card, but if this one fails I'll switch.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] kronium:
STAY AWAY FROM SANDISK!!!

Opened up a support ticket with Sandisk, asked about the issue and the Register article. Here is their response:

"I would like to inform you that we have checked the link you referred us to and that link does not refer to any Sandisk forums or official Sandisk webpage that says their are issues with these cards.Once again please be informed that Sandisk ultra microsdhc cards do not have any know issues and we have not introduced any kind of fix to these cards."

There you have it, Sandisk is sweeping the problem under the rug. It is only a matter of time before your card craps out. I wash my hands of that company and their crappy products..
[Galaxy S III Accessories] jfcooley:
Odd. I had no issues when I chatted with them. Had RMA before I asked.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] kronium:
They'll replace the card. But you may very well get another faulty one.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] ghostofcain:
There is obviously an issue with ultra micro sd cards in Samsung devices, if SanDisk think they can sweep this under the carpet by quietly replacing cards whilst denying the issue then they will destroy their own reputation.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] jfcooley:
I guess my opinion is I saw no such denial. I contacted them after reading the article and explained I believed to be affected by that issue. I had an RMA email before it was mentioned in the support chat.

Maybe I was lucky, maybe I had a person who knew what was going on, or just didn't care. I will say that I give a company 1 chance to keep me as a customer and so far they have done so.

Now if this one fails it will be a different story, but until then im satisfied.

Im not going to condemn them until i have all the facts. Just how i am.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] bukote:
the fault is not in the sd card or cell phones. Samsung's version is the one with the bug, the 4.1.2 fails, try to put CM or AOSP and remove the fault. provided that the failure is that the installation and removal of android microsd.

sorry for my bad English. I am using a translator
[Galaxy S III Accessories] m1c4d0:
I have also contacted SanDisk RMA regarding my 32GB Ultra card. They've asked some questions and offered me to destroy the card and send them pictures. I did it and today I received email stated... We will send out your new product and you don't have to send us your current one.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] boggie81:
They sent me a replacement, but instead of a class 10, it's a class 4. They're now "looking into the matter" for the last few days....
[Galaxy S III Accessories] ghostofcain:
So your saying SanDisk is replacing non faulty cards enmasse because Samsung have a problem? Seems unlikely, how come affected cards are, eventually, unreadable by PC or phone?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] ghostofcain:
Nice
[Galaxy S III Accessories] ghostofcain:
Not so nice.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] sak500:
So since tHere are 100s of brands out there so everyone should come in here and start saying their cards are fine as if we dont know anything?

On topic: Sent my replacement card back to Retailer a week back no news. The same 32gb class 10 card had been doing the same mounted / unmounted sh#$T for few days and sometimes made the phone crawl to a stop and i would lose all access to my files/music /videos on it.

Tried formatting in pc which took 3 hours and finally but again same sH#$t of mounted / unmounted so had no choice but to give it back to retailer since it was still under 1 year warranty. WIll check with them tomorrow as to what became of it.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Nautiliux:
Good topic, well I esplicar my case I have the SanDisk Mobile Ultra 64GB Class10 microSD micro and had several problems, in my Galaxy S3 i747m I could solve it by changing the format to ExtFAT a FAT32 using this program MiniTool Partitions from Windows7, since from windows only gave me the option NTF and ExtFAT ....
[Galaxy S III Accessories] sak500:
I was already on FAT32 so that doesn't solve the issue.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] mossolb:
It looks like I'm starting to get this problem too with my Ultra 32GB. It will unmount itself while I am making nandroid backups.

I haven't seen any remounting of itself in Android yet but I'll probably give it another week or two before I go ahead and do a RMA. I do have a Ultra 64GB in the package too and I guess that could have problems too?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] ghostofcain:
It could well do, the problem is exacerbated by SanDisk's silence on the issue.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Meebsy:
Got an Ultra 64GB Class 10 and so far no problems of the like but will definitely keep an eye on it.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] mossolb:
That's a shame. Well my 32GB is acting up again trying to do another nandroid. I'll start the RMA process with the 32GB and see how the 64GB will work.

I do notice a pattern though. My card seems to unmount itself while doing a nandroid around with around 9 to 10GB already filled. I noticed there's only one other post in this thread where someone mentioned how much space they had used which was around 22GB. I am wondering is there any relation to the capacity used and the card crapping out.

*Oops edit, I had my storage space reversed.*

Edit2*

Decided to see what happens if I ran H2testw to completely load it and scan it through once and it passed on the computer.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] mcbyte_it:
I contacted Amazon Italy about the issue, asking what can I do about it, and they immediately responded to me that they already sent me a replacement and will wait for me to return the defective one within 30 days.

I guess I will sell the replacement as it is, and get something else...
[Galaxy S III Accessories] sak500:
Got my 32gb class 10 card replacement card, replaced and this time it's feb 2013 mfg'd. Hopefully 3rd time's a charm.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] edthesped:
I'm thinking might be problematic. Every once in a while it just loses mount and I have to reboot the phone to get the card to be recognized again. One time files and folders became corrupted and I had to reformat to get it to work again.

Sandisk is stating around a month to turn around. Has anyone had experience exchanging through Amazon with purchases made six months prior.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] ghostofcain:
European retailers have an obligation to replace the card within the first twelve months, in my experience I had no issue getting a replacement of a card purchased from play marketplace five months ago.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] stas333:
got my replacement card today. says rev.8 feb 2013. will update if the issue is solved
[Galaxy S III Accessories] moparfreak426:
I've had 2 SanDisk 32gb class 4 cards just die on me, unrecoverable, cant even wipe clean, wouldn't recognize in phone or computer. Now using a PNY 32gb class 10

Sent from my SPH-D710 using Xparent Skyblue Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III Accessories] neekos:
Hi all.

I received my replacement card from Sandisk on Tuesday (16th April). The revision number is 8.0. The manufacture date is March 2013. I'll let you all know how I get on.

Thanks
[Galaxy S III Accessories] stas333:
So far so good. No problems at all.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] no1adamg:
Same I have a sandisk 32g and 2x Samsung 32g all class 4 and all don't work sandisk did for a couple mths then started playing up so i grabbed 2x Samsung and both no good cant copy or play pictures or movies on them.. So i grabbed a sandisckultra class 10 seems to be OK now
[Galaxy S III Accessories] mbarry55:
I just got my S3 on Saturday, and coming from a GNexus, I needed an SD card. So yesterday I saw Staples had these marked down pretty heavily, I got the 16GB class 10 for 19.99. Didn't see this thread prior to that...so far its working ok.

The card I got was Revision 8, mfg date Feb 2013. Kept my receipt and packaging though just in case.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] mcbyte_it:
Got my replacement from, and unpacked it just today, still Rev 8.0, manufactured in Jan 2013.

Hope it works better :|
[Galaxy S III Accessories] sflesch:
For those of you concerned about RMAs to SanDisk:

FWIW I had a regular 32GB class 4 I RMAed recently. The initial response was a little slow, but once the answered me, the replies came back fairly quickly. They emailed me a UPS label, so no cost to me. I swear they either saw that it was picked up by UPS or they went ahead and shipped me my replacement, because it left it for UPS on Monday and I had my new card on Wednesday.

Question about devices:

I recently got an ultra 32GB and had to wait to use it (I sent my Nook back to SquareTrade and got cash, so I was shopping for devices). I finally got a Nook HD and tried using the 32GB SanDisk Ultra. I got it to boot once, but nothing since then. The Samsung phone seems to get all the attention, but do those of you having issues have other devices? I'm wondering if that was the issue I was having.

TYIA/:laugh:
[Galaxy S III Accessories] hotze:
Galaxy Note2 - 2 times a Sandisk Crasches!

I have the same Trouble. Two Sandisk 32Gb Class10 are dead using a Galaxy Note2 ! :(
[Galaxy S III Accessories] greenmatthew:
16mb scandisk micro SD card - retreive data?

Hi. Galaxy sII with a scandisk SD card.

Used SD card to store photos. Loads of photos started getting corrupt.

Now phone does not recognise SD card and other phones do not recognise it either.

Does anyone know a way of retrieving data?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] rl421403:
Some people said,

keep your card in freezer for 3-4 hours or overnight.

And it will work again, atleast to backup data. no harm in trying.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] njay22:
I have been having problems with my 64gb ultra class 10 (Sandisk) ever since I bought it in April 2013! It's so frustrating - get a message saying SD card was unexpectedly removed, etc etc and then keeps causing problems. Sometimes after a reboot it settles down only to stop working again. Will contact Sandisk for a replacement... disappointing as I paid extra money to buy what I thought was a good brand

for the record my card details are revision 8, feb 2013