Recent content by Andre de Guerin

Hi, if its any help I found that reformatting the card using the excellent tool "FAT32Format" often works. If the phone is really fussy then try Winhex (tm) one pass zeros which should take about 40 minutes, then try it. Worked on 128GB, tried 64, tried 200. 2/3 isn't bad. You don't even have to...

Hi, a lot of these cards are showing up used because of the Note 7 demise. As they are (in theory) Samsung certified there should be no issue with them working in the 4. Has anyone else run into issues doing this, as mine wouldn't work with a 128GB until it was reformatted using FAT32Format then...

Thanks re. the index issue. On the flip side people may be listing their 256GB uSDs for sale soon. Its not like Samsung want them back and besides which most people use the card for personal data so there would be significant issues sending them back with the cards in. A useful tip, a write...

Hi I recently did some experiments with my S3 Neo, after fixing the random shutdown problem and adding internal scintillator to the front camera for detecting X-rays and gammas the next task was fixing the severe screen burn. Its interesting to note that on this one the green is not burned in at...

Hi, See my comments below, published back last year. I discovered an interesting bug on some microSD cards which allows the lock to be defeated using low energy x-rays and also permits dead but electrically OK cards to work again for data recovery purposes. The vulnerable cards so far seem to...