Micro SD card died. Airdroid transfer gone awry?

[nightelfdruid]

Well my 8gb Micro SD card took a dump. Not quite sure what the cause was. External storage was working just fine. I installed Airdroid (decided to see how it compared to Wi-Fi File Transfer). I tried using it to transfer the first season of The Big Bang Theory to my phone. Well something went wrong [mod edit]

Has this ever happened to anyone? Airdroid seemed like a very impressive app. I personally believe the fault was my own, I'm just trying to narrow down the possible causes to prevent it from happening again. I have another 8gb card for the time being (been looking for a deal on a 64gb). The one that died was about 2 years old, recycled from my Xperia Play. I did not format the card, perhaps that was a mistake on my part.

 

[cole2kb]

One of two things happened:

Your SD card is old, and they can go bad. It could just be a coincidence as far as timing is concerned.

Your phone somehow lost it's connection with the SD card momentarily while data was being read or written. Could be a software issue, a hardware issue, but honestly, whatever the cause, I imagine it's just a fluke.

I wouldn't worry about it happening again.

If you want, try to put it in an SD card reader on your PC and see if the computer will read it. If you've kissed all your data goodbye already, try to format it while it's in the phone (using the options under Settings > Storage) and see if it fires back up.

 

[nightelfdruid]

Thank you so much for the quick feedback Chris. It's shot. This morning I had tried another phone, a camera, a card reader... Nothing. I'm at peace with the data loss. Luckily the important stuff was on the phone's internal storage. *hugs phone*

P.S. Sorry you had to edit my post.

 

[cole2kb]

Lol, no worries. If you keep an eye on bensoutlet.com they usually have some killer deals on SD cards.

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