Is anyone else getting their SD cards fried?

**colestein** · 09-13-2011, 02:43 PM

I've had this phone for about 6 weeks. In that period of time I've had 2 16gb micro SD cards fry in the phone. One was a Patriot and one was a SanDisk, so it's not like I'm using the cheapest thing I can get my hands on.

I'm rooted, not overclocking or anything. (as a matter of fact, I underclock most of the time using the on demand feature in setcpu). Recovery is TWRP and the only rom I use is CleanRom.

When it fried today, I was using the "album art grabber" app to download some album images. The phone rebooted and the sd card was toast.

Anyone else finding excessive failure rates on their Evo 3D? Is there anything I can be doing to safeguard this from happening again and again?

thanks

**cheechmo** · 09-13-2011, 07:42 PM

I haven't had that problem, at least not yet. Still using the original card that it came with.

**jheiii** · 09-13-2011, 08:18 PM

Yes. First week I had it actually. Annoying to say the least. Asked for a replacement handset and Sprint is giving me the run around saying the card was poor quality. I even pay $7/month for insurance. This is the one part of the phone that has me aggravated still and I consider myself rather technically savvy.

**xchan89** · 09-14-2011, 12:00 AM

Yup...totally sucks **** still haven't gotten it to work. I just ended up buying a new one...bought a 32 GB class 10 lexar evo better not fry it...or I'll be out 90 bucks...

**cosmos0001** · 09-14-2011, 11:38 AM

no. just have stock still 8gb.

**scaryhumor** · 09-14-2011, 07:55 PM

Was it the stock 8gb that came with your phone? I've bought a "SanDisk" 16gb from Amazon, that was fake & fried.

**eze036** · 09-15-2011, 09:26 AM

i had this issue before it happened to my og moto droid, epic, evo and there were 8 or 16gb..i been unmounting the sd card before removing it or turning device off..no probs so far with evo 3d or photon..there were all san disk

**itslame** · 09-15-2011, 01:01 PM

I know on reboot that the art grabber attempts to grab images from the card before the SD is mounted. But once the homescreen in stable, I can access my SD card just fine. It's a Patriot 32GB card. Are you sure your not mistaking the initial mount error as the card being "Fried"?

**davidminor03** · 09-15-2011, 09:12 PM

I haven't had it 'fry' per say but since applying the new update the phone seems to loose the sd card and thinks it has been unmounted. The only way to get it to recognize it again is to power down and power back up... doesn't happen often but when it does it always seems to be at the most inconvenient moment.

**syphex** · 09-15-2011, 09:31 PM

I've been using a 32gb Sandisk purchased from Amazon since lauch and it's been great. I haven't had any issues so far. Fingers crossed.

**cgardnervt** · 09-16-2011, 08:16 AM

Mines still good. I have the one it came with. (8Gig) So far so good! no issues for me. I am thinking about upgraded the SD card soon though. Might go with a ScanDisk SD card. I hear they are good.

**NxTech3** · 09-16-2011, 01:43 PM

i use a 16GB from Samsung and a 16GB from SanDisk and both still work just fine... I dont see that issue in the S and R center either...

**LancerzRalliart** · 09-16-2011, 02:54 PM

I dont have a 3d but I had a evo shift that fried my 16gb sandisk card. But sandisk does offer a limited lifetime warranty so I did the online chat a got a instant rma approval for a new card. They provide a free ups label to return it and all. I purchased the card from newegg.com in january and it actually died about 2 months ago but I just realized they have the limited lifetime warranty. So if your sandisk card died just do a online chat at , they don't ask for proof of purchase or anything.

**p.mills** · 09-19-2011, 04:55 PM

Looks like my 16 gb sandisk class 2 just became toast. There was one other time where the SD card unexpectedly dismounted (no jars to the phone or anything) and it came back ok on reboot. This time, I didn't have the same luck, and when I popped it into my computer, the card needed formatting.

**Scynfewl** · 09-22-2011, 07:11 AM

Might be coming to that.

EVO3D since launch, stock 8GB card, unmounted 3 times in two days unsolicited.

**CarrieK** · 09-22-2011, 08:00 AM

Originally Posted by cgardner

Mines still good. I have the one it came with. (8Gig) So far so good! no issues for me. I am thinking about upgraded the SD card soon though. Might go with a ScanDisk SD card. I hear they are good.

I'm thinking about doing that too. I've got way too much stuff on here!