Anyone experienced issues with their MicroSD card? - Samsung Galaxy S10 Questions & Answers

Really strange issue which started shortly after the phone got updated it suddenly didn't recognised my MicroSD card. Did all the usual trying the card in another device to make sure it was working then tried a different MicroSD card in the S10 and it didn't detect it either. Restarted the phone and it didn't read the card still. As I'm just about to call to get a replacement the phone suddenly detects the card and it was normal again so I just shrugged and carried on as you do.
Fast forward to today as I'm coming home and listening to some music on the underground the phone decided to throw it's toys out the pram again. It just won't read the MicroSD card. Got on the blower to get a replacement sent. All arranged after a bit of back and forth about trying all sorts including "formatting the card" despite the phone not detecting any card. :laugh: Anyway I hang up & the little son of a gun starts working literally seconds after. Too late Holmes, you're getting picked up in the morning.

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Help with my phone

I've got two problems here. The first one happened a few weeks ago, the second one happened last night.
Ok first problem: my phone tells me to "insert sim card" even though one is already in there. I've tried everything: cleaning the sim card, cleaning the place on the phone where the sim card goes, bending the metal holder thing, putting numerous pieces of various types of paper in between the sim card and the metal holder, got a new sim card. I'm currently using the sim card in a razr phone, so it ain't the sim card. And I tried someone else's sim card in my phone and it didn't work either. Any suggestions?
Now the second problem is really serious: last night I installed Core Player on my phone and it installed fine and I watched a few videos using it. I've still got the phone connected to the computer through the usb cable. All of the sudden, it turns off. So I turn it back on, but it turns back off within 10 seconds. All it shows on the screen is "PDA Corner Ultimate". I've tried a hard reset and it doesn't work. I've tried 3 different batteries and that doesn't work either. Any suggestions?
Please help.
I think the next step would be to reflash the ROM, putting the OEM 6.1 back on it, Even if you have it now, just try reflashing it, its one step further then a hard reset.
I would have already tried that, but it won't stay on long enough for me to reflash it. The phone only stays on for like 10 seconds. It gets stuck in the splash screen.

Faulty SD Card?

I have been using a class 2 16 GB SD card that I bought off play.com for a while now, and it worked perfectly in both my Hero and my N1, until recently. Since flashing Froyo, I have been having some issues, for example my mp3 files are not indexed in the music app, so nothing shows up, also my phone was freezing, both when I unplugged it from USB and at other random intervals.
So I decided to try another SD Card to see if it would clear up the music indexing problem. Since then, that has worked, and my N1 does not seem to have frozen at all.
Has anyone else had any issues like this, and could the SD card be causing my phone to freeze? (By freeze I mean it sits with whatever I was doing on the screen, but is completely unresponsive, and sometimes if I wake the phone it sits on the slide to unlock screen with the screen dimmed.
Thanks for any help.
I have a issue like this and I re-formated the the card and all worked for me. I again had the issue with another card I just took all data off the card and all worked so there was a file that had corrupted on the card. Hope this helps
That is definitely useful. Thank you.
Did your problem involve freezing at all?

[Q] SD Card makes 5830i **** laggy.

Hello everyone,
Today, I just received the dreaded "blank SD or unsupported file system" all of a sudden from the stock Samsung 2GB Micro SD Card. Everything gone, Card Fried.
But then I tried to put in a separate memory card into the phone. It's a Kingston 2GB. But the moment I even put it in, the whole phone freezes into oblivion. Only when I take it out and wait 5 seconds, will the phone run at normal speeds again.
Another issue is that I am unable to format the aforementioned Kingston Card from the phone. When I try to do so, the phone just says Erasing... then it stops. When I try to press the Mount SD card option, phone just freezes, until, of course, I remove the card and wait 5 seconds.
All this suddenly happened today. I have been owning this 5830i for about 2 months now, no problems, and suddenly today...
Any insight into these issue are greatly appreciated. Thank you.
To help give a more visual approach to this problem, I have decided to take some time off to create a video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMoaGPYH6UE
Hope this clarifies things.
OMG what is this shenanigans? I just put the KINGSTON card into the phone and waited two hours, and the phone had the cheek to work normally again. Yay its solved, but I still find this issue to be very strange. Fickle phone, I guess.
I just found a solution to the Kingston Card Lag Problem.
Go google Panasonic SD Formatter and Format the SD Card using a card reader. Then put the card back in the phone and the Card will work normally again.
umm umm. lol?

Check Battery Cover message problem

Hey all,
I ran into an issue with this message and was able to resolve it. My round-about story (with all the details, some immaterial to the issue)...
The issue: Anytime the phone would be accessed/woken up after a few minutes of not being used, I would get the message to check the battery cover. I also would get the message when rebooting but that one appears to be normal. The one that appears each time after minutes of inactivity is not normal. I would only get the message to check the charging port cover after removing the charging cable, so that always remained normal and as it should.
I did the usual: ensured that the battery cover was on correctly, securely and entirely...several times. I figured it was an issue that I was going to have to live with. I also noticed that I would intermittently get a message about my SD card. Sometimes the error would say that it is blank, sometimes it would say it is blank or has unsupported files on it, other times it would simply tell me it was safe to remove my SD card. All for no apparent reason. I placed my card in my daughter's S5 and it worked. Placed it in my wife's S5 and it worked. Checked it on my PC and it worked. I even went so far as to wipe it out, format it and try again. Still received the error message on my phone. Not frequently but often enough to where I began to wonder if I was sold a bad phone.
I read some folks recommended doing a factory reset. I had nothing to lose so I did. I was reinstalling everything and things went well for the first few minutes and then the screen died. The phone was live, the buttons would light up but the screen would never turn on. I immediately headed over to the store and spoke with a really cool manager would agreed to swap out the phone for a new one since I have only had it 3 weeks (as opposed to sending me to the circus tent that is the maintenance facility). New SIM, new phone. Was a happy camper.
Got home, installed everything...and again....the messages started coming to check the battery cover. Frustrated I just decided that it was an issue I was going to have to live with afterall. Hopefully a fix will come about later, right? Well, it wasn't too much longer that the SD errors started again but this time more often. This can't be good. So, I decided to try swapping out the SD cards on my phone and my daughter's phone for a longer period of time. Let's do it overnight. So, in the morning I checked my phone (with her SD card). No messages at all. I checked her phone with my SD card. Hers now had the check batter cover message. I let both sit for a few minutes and checked them again. No messages on mine, but hers once again had the check battery cover. No errors regarding the SD card tho and it was able to access the content on the SD card just fine. Both SD Cards are 16GB SanDisk.
So, to further test, I swapped the SD cards again, putting her card back in her phone and mine back in my phone. Sure enough, mine was getting the check battery cover and hers was not.
So, long story short, it turns out that my SD card is causing the check battery message. It was throwing SD card errors on my phone but not on hers. So, for those people getting the constant battery cover message but not getting the SD card errors....try swapping out SD cards and see if that resolves the issue.
Hope that helps and wasn't too wordy...just wanted to make sure all the info was there.
EDIT:
SD Card that went bad was SanDisk microSD 16GB. Was replaced with an identical card and works fine. It has been a couple of weeks now and the replacement SD card in my GS5 continues to function properly and I no longer get the pop-ups unless I reboot or have actually removed the battery cover. I left the bad one in my tablet this whole time just to see and sure enough it was giving errors for a week and now it simply no longer works.
TQWorld said:
Hey all,
I ran into an issue with this message and was able to resolve it. My round-about story (with all the details, some immaterial to the issue)...
The issue: Anytime the phone would be accessed/woken up after a few minutes of not being used, I would get the message to check the battery cover. I also would get the message when rebooting but that one appears to be normal. The one that appears each time after minutes of inactivity is not normal. I would only get the message to check the charging port cover after removing the charging cable, so that always remained normal and as it should.
I did the usual: ensured that the battery cover was on correctly, securely and entirely...several times. I figured it was an issue that I was going to have to live with. I also noticed that I would intermittently get a message about my SD card. Sometimes the error would say that it is blank, sometimes it would say it is blank or has unsupported files on it, other times it would simply tell me it was safe to remove my SD card. All for no apparent reason. I placed my card in my daughter's S5 and it worked. Placed it in my wife's S5 and it worked. Checked it on my PC and it worked. I even went so far as to wipe it out, format it and try again. Still received the error message on my phone. Not frequently but often enough to where I began to wonder if I was sold a bad phone.
I read some folks recommended doing a factory reset. I had nothing to lose so I did. I was reinstalling everything and things went well for the first few minutes and then the screen died. The phone was live, the buttons would light up but the screen would never turn on. I immediately headed over to the store and spoke with a really cool manager would agreed to swap out the phone for a new one since I have only had it 3 weeks (as opposed to sending me to the circus tent that is the maintenance facility). New SIM, new phone. Was a happy camper.
Got home, installed everything...and again....the messages started coming to check the battery cover. Frustrated I just decided that it was an issue I was going to have to live with afterall. Hopefully a fix will come about later, right? Well, it wasn't too much longer that the SD errors started again but this time more often. This can't be good. So, I decided to try swapping out the SD cards on my phone and my daughter's phone for a longer period of time. Let's do it overnight. So, in the morning I checked my phone (with her SD card). No messages at all. I checked her phone with my SD card. Hers now had the check batter cover message. I let both sit for a few minutes and checked them again. No messages on mine, but hers once again had the check battery cover. No errors regarding the SD card tho and it was able to access the content on the SD card just fine. Both SD Cards are 16GB SanDisk.
So, to further test, I swapped the SD cards again, putting her card back in her phone and mine back in my phone. Sure enough, mine was getting the check battery cover and hers was not.
So, long story short, it turns out that my SD card is causing the check battery message. It was throwing SD card errors on my phone but not on hers. So, for those people getting the constant battery cover message but not getting the SD card errors....try swapping out SD cards and see if that resolves the issue.
Hope that helps and wasn't too wordy...just wanted to make sure all the info was there.
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"Xposed G-Touchwiz"
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gertlily.xposed.touchwiz
This app removes those pop ups must be rooted and have exposed.
galaxy s4 nutjob said:
"Xposed G-Touchwiz"
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gertlily.xposed.touchwiz
This app removes those pop ups must be rooted and have exposed.
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Did you even read what he posted or skimmed through it?
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Megadoug13 said:
Did you even read what he posted or skimmed through it?
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If you get rid of the pop ups then they're won't be SD card errors correct?
galaxy s4 nutjob said:
If you get rid of the pop ups then they're won't be SD card errors correct?
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Um no. Obviously there was an SD card issue. That needs to be taken care of. Oh somethings wrong here let me get rid of the warnings. That's not how things are done. Whether you take the pop ups away or not doesn't fix the problem. It's just not allowing to tell you the problem
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TQWorld said:
Hey all,
I ran into an issue with this message and was able to resolve it. My round-about story (with all the details, some immaterial to the issue)...
The issue: Anytime the phone would be accessed/woken up after a few minutes of not being used, I would get the message to check the battery cover. I also would get the message when rebooting but that one appears to be normal. The one that appears each time after minutes of inactivity is not normal. I would only get the message to check the charging port cover after removing the charging cable, so that always remained normal and as it should.
I did the usual: ensured that the battery cover was on correctly, securely and entirely...several times. I figured it was an issue that I was going to have to live with. I also noticed that I would intermittently get a message about my SD card. Sometimes the error would say that it is blank, sometimes it would say it is blank or has unsupported files on it, other times it would simply tell me it was safe to remove my SD card. All for no apparent reason. I placed my card in my daughter's S5 and it worked. Placed it in my wife's S5 and it worked. Checked it on my PC and it worked. I even went so far as to wipe it out, format it and try again. Still received the error message on my phone. Not frequently but often enough to where I began to wonder if I was sold a bad phone.
I read some folks recommended doing a factory reset. I had nothing to lose so I did. I was reinstalling everything and things went well for the first few minutes and then the screen died. The phone was live, the buttons would light up but the screen would never turn on. I immediately headed over to the store and spoke with a really cool manager would agreed to swap out the phone for a new one since I have only had it 3 weeks (as opposed to sending me to the circus tent that is the maintenance facility). New SIM, new phone. Was a happy camper.
Got home, installed everything...and again....the messages started coming to check the battery cover. Frustrated I just decided that it was an issue I was going to have to live with afterall. Hopefully a fix will come about later, right? Well, it wasn't too much longer that the SD errors started again but this time more often. This can't be good. So, I decided to try swapping out the SD cards on my phone and my daughter's phone for a longer period of time. Let's do it overnight. So, in the morning I checked my phone (with her SD card). No messages at all. I checked her phone with my SD card. Hers now had the check batter cover message. I let both sit for a few minutes and checked them again. No messages on mine, but hers once again had the check battery cover. No errors regarding the SD card tho and it was able to access the content on the SD card just fine. Both SD Cards are 16GB SanDisk.
So, to further test, I swapped the SD cards again, putting her card back in her phone and mine back in my phone. Sure enough, mine was getting the check battery cover and hers was not.
So, long story short, it turns out that my SD card is causing the check battery message. It was throwing SD card errors on my phone but not on hers. So, for those people getting the constant battery cover message but not getting the SD card errors....try swapping out SD cards and see if that resolves the issue.
Hope that helps and wasn't too wordy...just wanted to make sure all the info was there.
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Damn I was hoping for something different. I'm getting the same messages,
But I haven't put a SD CARD in yet. Still have my Note 2 running, S5 is a work phone. I've tried different ways to install cover. Mostly following the pressure point indications that flash up with the message pops up.
I'll monitor it, I can't remember when the last time I've seen them. Forgot phone at work yesterday charging it.
If I don't get messages any more, my fix was putting the cover on starting at the top. You definitely need to hear the clicks on all sides. I noticed sometimes I would not hear the top click if I started putting cover on from the bottom or sides.
Good find on the SDCARD issue though. Can you edit your first post and add in make/model of the cards that are working for you, and the one that is causing errors as reference.
It would be interesting to know if it's specific makes/models/sizes of cards that cause the message.
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Megadoug13 said:
Um no. Obviously there was an SD card issue. That needs to be taken care of. Oh somethings wrong here let me get rid of the warnings. That's not how things are done. Whether you take the pop ups away or not doesn't fix the problem. It's just not allowing to tell you the problem
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I agree the issue will still stand but I see two issues being addressed and I solved one
dicksteele said:
Damn I was hoping for something different. I'm getting the same messages,
Can you edit your first post and add in make/model of the cards that are working for you, and the one that is causing errors as reference.
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Done. Both the bad one and the replacement were the same make/model.
galaxy s4 nutjob said:
I agree the issue will still stand but I see two issues being addressed and I solved one
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Actually, you were treating the symptom, not the cause. That's the same as if your car was leaking oil in the driveway and you simply put a pan under the car to catch the oil. Sure, you are no longer getting oil on your driveway but it doesn't change the fact that your car still has an oil leak and will eventually lock up the engine if not fixed. By fixing the actual problem (bad SD card), I was able to resolve the pop-up notices.
Fix the problem and the symptoms go away.
TQWorld said:
Actually, you were treating the symptom, not the cause. That's the same as if your car was leaking oil in the driveway and you simply put a pan under the car to catch the oil. Sure, you are no longer getting oil on your driveway but it doesn't change the fact that your car still has an oil leak and will eventually lock up the engine if not fixed. By fixing the actual problem (bad SD card), I was able to resolve the pop-up notices.
Fix the problem and the symptoms go away.
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When everything is working properly do you get the "check battery" pop up after reboot and "check charging flap" after charging? YES it's built in annoying I was offerin a suggestion to get rid of those annoying pop ups that is all.
What's the title of this article?
galaxy s4 nutjob said:
When everything is working properly do you get the "check battery" pop up after reboot and "check charging flap" after charging? YES it's built in annoying I was offerin a suggestion to get rid of those annoying pop ups that is all.
What's the title of this article?
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Yes, the message does now appear only when it is supposed to and no longer appears when it is not supposed to. When it appears as designed, it is not a problem. It may an annoyance to some, but is in no way a problem because that's what it was designed to do. When the pop-ups do appear at times when it is not supposed to then it is considered a problem because that isn't what it was designed to do. Mine was doing it when it wasn't supposed to. This is why the title of the post was called "Check Battery Cover message problem" and not "Check Battery Cover message toggle to shut it off from showing up when it's supposed to."
TQWorld said:
Done. Both the bad one and the replacement were the same make/model.
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Wow that's a trip. I was expecting it to be an issue with maybe the top of the card being slighter fatter.
I was beginning to question whether the I-Balson case I put on it was tripping a sensor.
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Me Too!
OMG! I've been having the same issue for a few weeks now. Same phone, same message errors and a SanDisk SD card (but 4GB)! I am taking the SD card out of my phone RIGHT NOW! Thank you SO MUCH for posting this! -Corrie
Slightly bend connectors - Samsung S5 - check batteri message
Hi!
I´ve also had the same issue for some time and it started when I got a new flip wallet case. Now I got real tired of this and I tried to solve the issue by simply and carefully BEND the two connectors on the back of the phone nearby the camera. And that SOLVED my issue - the message is gone!! Before it came frequently all the time. :good:
Hi!
I´ve also had the same issue for some time and it started when I got a new flip wallet case. Now I got real tired of this and I tried to solve the issue by simply and carefully BEND the two connectors on the back of the phone nearby the camera. And that SOLVED my issue - the message is gone!! Before it came frequently all the time.
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Hi,
May i know which direction did u bend the connectors?
galaxy s4 nutjob said:
I agree the issue will still stand but I see two issues being addressed and I solved one
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I know this is an old thread, but oh man! is this guy for real? can't tell if it's a poor attempt at trolling, or a poor attempt at issue comprehension and resolution.
Old thread but I just got bit in the butt by this one. I was only getting the message about the back cover on reboots. I would have thought that you would never see this message unless there was an issue, but did some reading and it seemed that this was normal behavior. So I took the phone snorkling (yes I know you're not supposed to take it in salt water but figured I could clean out the headphone jack). By the time I took it out of my pocket to take pics, it was dead (no more than 5 minutes). Took off the back cover, found water which left salt behind after it dried. Phone has not recovered, I am going to try to take it apart this weekend and clean out the salt. It was a work phone and already been replaced, but I'd like to try to get the pictures off of this from my vacation. It would be nice if there was a way to know for sure if the phone is properly sealed up before going into the water with it. Work gave me another S5, but I won't be exposing it to any water because I can't trust that it's properly sealed.

SD Card formatted as internal storage randomly unusable on cm13

I love marshmallow's adoptable storage feature, allowing me to install more apps. This feature worked beautifully for about a month and a half. However, I shut down the device, plugged it in to charge, went to sleep, and the next morning, the apps that were moved to the sd card were not available anymore. They were all greyed out on my launcher(Nova). I moved about 4 gigs worth of mostly games. Fortunately, most of them had cloud storage, but some favorite games didnt. This isn't that big of a problem, but I'd like to try to fix it. So, I went here for help.
At first, I thought the class 10 SanDisk 16gb sd had just gotten bumped out of the slot where the connections happen, so I opened the back cover and removed and inserted the sd card. The notification that prompted me to put the sd back in went away for a few seconds, but then came back. I repeated the process of removing and inserting the sd a few times, but still no moved apps were available. I put the sd into an adapter, then into my laptop, and it showed on file explorer. So the sd card could still be recognized, but maybe unusable.
I dont know what happened, one day it was working, the next day it wasn't. I know i formatted it as internal and portable storage a few times, so maybe that wore it out. I'm running cm13
Hello,
On my phone I used the micro SD card normally as external storage. On day I plugged in my headphones and there was no music. I though that the micro SD card must have come out. However, reinserted it it didn't work. I wouldn't open on computer either. While I don't have a solution, I am pretty sure I also had the same problem.
Once I was taking pictures with my phone when it crashed and rebooted. Some hours before the crash I uninstalled some apps and installed some others (but never rebooted the phone). After the phone started again after the crash, all the pictures and files were gone, the uninstalled apps were there as if I've never uninstalled them and the new installed ones dissapeared.
TheSaffronArmy said:
Hello,
On my phone I used the micro SD card normally as external storage. On day I plugged in my headphones and there was no music. I though that the micro SD card must have come out. However, reinserted it it didn't work. I wouldn't open on computer either. While I don't have a solution, I am pretty sure I also had the same problem.
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how long have you used your sd card? i'm sure that the more you use a micro sd card, the more it will wear out and become unuseable/corrupted. That has happened to me before, where the sd card just stopped working.
KyleSaki714 said:
how long have you used your sd card? i'm sure that the more you use a micro sd card, the more it will wear out and become unuseable/corrupted. That has happened to me before, where the sd card just stopped working.
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I have used it for about 1 year. So it may be that but, it has never occurred before.
Same problem here, you can read it here. While I am writing hopefully my files from Titanium Backup are transfered to my laptop. It got worse and worse, in my opinion the sd-card has reached it's end of life because of it's heavy usage. Error occured the first time after the phone got really hot recording gpx tracks. Bye bye sd-card
Another opinion is that warranty is over after two years, so the phone can quit it's duty now - obsolescense plans
Androphilius said:
Same problem here, you can read it here. While I am writing hopefully my files from Titanium Backup are transfered to my laptop. It got worse and worse, in my opinion the sd-card has reached it's end of life because of it's heavy usage. Error occured the first time after the phone got really hot recording gpx tracks. Bye bye sd-card
Another opinion is that warranty is over after two years, so the phone can quit it's duty now - obsolescense plans
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yeah, i'm starting to think my micro sd just bailed from wear like that too, but i got to use mine for just over 3 months. i ejected the sd and put it into my computer, and interestingly enough, on my computer it reads 16 megabytes. i was like WAAT that cant be, i formatted it, put it back in my phone as portable, and it read as the normal 14gb. i'm starting to think my sd as internal is the cause of my random reboots. im even running the lastest cm13 update too...
i guess ill try and use my sd as just portable storage from now on, and see if i get any random reboots..
I switched to TurboROM which is using the sd-card as a portable media device, so no more encryption, heavy usage and complete data loss if you do not get your encryption key with root permission.
System space left after complete recovery of my apps with TB is quite nice - but you do not have the possibility to use App2SD (correct me if I am wrong).
So the only way to save internal system space is to move pictures, movies and heavy openstreetmap cards to external.

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