Can't get my SD card to store ANYTHING, my Tab S is out of memory,, HELP PLEASE

[Nourhangasser]

I have the same problem!!! Tab freezes after a few minutes of inserting the memory card and doesn't work unless i take it out
If youu found a solution please share

 

[Purpleash22]

I have a Samsung Tab S 10.5 with internal memory of 32Gb and bought a Samsung 64G memory card for it which went straight in and works fine. I tend to use it for storing TV Series and Music Videos and three or four films to watch on the tablet (when wife is watching Coronation Street or something equally boring) or stream to my Samsung Smart TV. As well as other things stored, to my 64Gb Micro SD card, it fills three quarters, so I thought it would be good to buy a 128Gb Micro SD Card (not Samsung) but appears 10 grade good quality. It inserts fine, then reformated in Tablet and it recognises the card showing two files: Android and LOST.

However, nothing will transfer to the new 128Gb Micro SD card as it says 'Action FAILED' immediately. I remove the SD Card and insert a spare 8Gb Mirco SD card from my old Mobile Phone. It recognises it, Reads and Transfers OK. I try my original 64Gb Micro SD card and fine but when trying the new 128Gb SD, back to the same problem. It recognises it, and will open the Android Folder to show the two existing files within but will not allow any transfer of data on to it. !!! A useless 128Gb Micro SD Card. I have not tried Reformatting to FAT32 or EXFAT32 yet in a PC.

 

[treetopsranch]

You said: " I have not tried Reformatting to FAT32 or EXFAT32 yet in a PC. "

I would try that. Another possibility.....maybe the card is a counterfeit card.

 

[76ankles]

bought a new 16gb card & at first it was working fine. the next day i couldn't do anything, the task couldn't be completed for "some unknown reason". i ended up erasing the sd card, i was able to move 3 songs & it wouldn't let me do anything again. after i erased it in storage settings it didn't ask to reformat card. i just want my music thats all.

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! The SD card could be corrupt, defective, or counterfeit. Install SD Insight to see if the card is genuine or counterfeit. Counterfeit cards are programmed to report more storage than they actually have, and if you try saving more than the card can actually hold, then files can start getting corrupt.


If it's a valid card, then go to Settings>Storage, Unmount the card, remove it, and insert it into your computer. Can the computer read these files? Backup as much as you can right now, then run chkdsk to look for bad sectors: http://forums.androidcentral.com/am...guide-using-chkdsk-fix-corrupted-sd-card.html.

 

[davo8]

Have a 64 GB Samsung EVO micro SD card in our new 32 GB Galaxy S2 tablet. It worked fine for about 6 months and managed to store about 40 GB of pics, video and music on it. It recognizes the card when installed but now will not allow access or additional storage. Operates as a read only device on our Windows 10 PC. Can view and copy off everything but cannot edit or add and cannot re-format. Have tried all the over ride write protect tricks and done all the scans to check for corrupt files viruses etc. Everything checks out as fine but I cannot unlock it.
I attempted the reformat in the Samsung S2 and it temporarily allowed some files to be accessed but did not reformat. I just put in a very cheap 32 GB micro SD card and it works perfectly but I am wary of making it the camera storage default as I don't trust the tablet system anymore.
I have done a lot of online research on this issue and despite finding lots of folk with similar issues I have not found a suitable explanation for this random behaviour. Not happy.

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! The SD card could be corrupt, defective, or counterfeit. Install SD Insight to see if the card is genuine or counterfeit. Counterfeit cards are programmed to report more storage than they actually have, and if you try saving more than the card can actually hold, then files can start getting corrupt.


If it's a valid card, then go to Settings>Storage, Unmount the card, remove it, and insert it into your computer. Can the computer read these files? Backup as much as you can right now, then run chkdsk to look for bad sectors: http://forums.androidcentral.com/am...guide-using-chkdsk-fix-corrupted-sd-card.html.

 

[Lin Ux]

Welcome to Android Central! The SD card could be corrupt, defective, or counterfeit. Install SD Insight to see if the card is genuine or counterfeit. Counterfeit cards are programmed to report more storage than they actually have, and if you try saving more than the card can actually hold, then files can start getting corrupt.


If it's a valid card, then go to Settings>Storage, Unmount the card, remove it, and insert it into your computer. Can the computer read these files? Backup as much as you can right now, then run chkdsk to look for bad sectors: http://forums.androidcentral.com/am...guide-using-chkdsk-fix-corrupted-sd-card.html.

This does not work!!! There is nothing wrong with my SD Card. The content appears intermittently on the Tab 2 then disappears. Format from the Tab 2 and other external applications (showing as write protected) both fail. This only started happening since the most recent update which coincided with my device becoming about 6 months old. Has anyone found a solution? I have about 45Gb data on my SD card (now backed up using a computer) but can't read/write to it using my Tab S2 or write to it using my computer. :-\

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! When you say it doesn't work, do you mean that SD Insight told you the card is valid, and that chkdsk shows that the card has no bad sectors? You mention that your computer won't write to it -- can it read the card? It still sounds to me that the card has become partially corrupt or damaged.