Brand new sd card: Android says corrupt, works in Windows

[Android Central Question]

I have an LG G6 and just bought a Samsung 256GB microSD. I copied everything from my old card onto my PC, then onto my new card, and put in my new card, and Android says it's corrupt and needs formatted. I try to format it and it always gives an error saying the command failed. Put it back in my PC (which now can't use the card either) and performed a format (without the Fast option). But it still won't work -- Android just says it's corrupt and always fails to format it. Any ideas?

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! What filesystem are you formatting the card in -- FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, or something else?

 

[ManiacJoe]

Is the LG G6 spec-ed to work with a card that big?

 

[B. Diddy]

The LG site says up to 2 TB: https://www.lg.com/us/cell-phones/lg-US997-Platinum-Unlocked

 

[Rukbat]

Any phone that can accept cards larger than 32GB can accept cards up to 2TB. Some phones are listed as being able to use up to the size they were tested with (because we don't have cards larger than 512GB yet), but the phone can handle 4096 address bits, which goes out to 2TB.

 

[gnznroses]

Thanks for the responses. Update: I re-inserted the old card and now it says it's corrupt too. And also gives an error when trying to format it. Someone on another forum reported the same issue and also reported this came with their sd/sim card tray breaking, which mine also did. I just got a replacement tray today (because after inserting/removing a few times it broke in half) but that didn't help. They suggest a pin might get bent when the tray breaks and snags on something. Any ideas? I bet sending it in for a fix would cost half what the phone cost me...

 

[Laura Knotek]

Where did you purchase this card? If it was from eBay it might be counterfeit.

You may want to try this app to check the card. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.humanlogic.sdi

 

[Rukbat]

If the card got corrupted from a broken tray, it's corrupted. Fixing the tray won't "uncorrupt" it. But a new, working card wouldn't get corrupted.

 

[gnznroses]

lol, the new card is legit, and it corrupted two cards, including the old one that I've used for two years. I think the theory of a broken pin is correct, preventing it from accessing or formatting the card correctly. Any card it corrupts is easily fixed by reformatting in Windows. I'm just gonna buy a new phone, this one's vibration went out already too (apparently a common problem on this model).