SD card major Issue S7 and S7 Edge are both affected.

[boulianc]

I got my new S7. I have sent to other one for repair. They changed the motherboard. Then it came back with the same issue. Then Samsung sent me a bran new S7. I have no more SD card notifications at all. Not even when I reboot the phone. Yesterday (again) I was listening to music (a set of 2 hours long) from my SD card. I started to look at pictures (again) at the same time. After 40 mins or so, my phone stopped the music and stopped being able to read my SD. Everything froze and I had to reboot. Then, again, a few mins later (listening to music and looking at pictures), it did it again. On the second time, I was not able to reboot the phone using the power button (keeping pressure for 10 seconds). I had to do it using the volume down/home/power. The phone screen was totally black and there was no way to unfreeze it. My notification light was flashing blue (as I had new emails and text), but the phone was not responsive at all.

It seems like Samsung just removed the SD notification as a whole in the new phone but did not fix the issue.

For those who don't have the issue, before commenting, I would appreciate if you could listen to music and look at your pictures at the same time (all from the micro SD card) for at least 30-40 minutes.

I strongly believe that ALL phones have this issue, but that those who don't just have not access pictures while listening to music (demanding on the SD card reading). Do it if you can... and see if it creates problems. And let me know once you did the above. Thanks.

 

[SpookDroid]

I've done this a few times on mine (T-Mobile, Edge version) while at home; just leave the slideshow on TV while the music plays on home stereo, all from the SD card. Is your card 'fast enough', though?

That being said, and while I haven't had issues with THIS phone, I have had SD card issues in the past with a lot of Samsung phones. Cards getting corrupted/damaged left and right until I finally gave up trying to use them in Sammy phones... until now. There was even a case where SanDisk issued a recall on cards and would replace them immediately with you just saying you had a Samsung phone.

 

[boulianc]

I forgot to mention. I am a computer and smartphone savy. I flashed all my S1, S2, S3, S4 on a daily basis. I did purchased another SD card (even if my sandisk is working perfectly on my S5). I got a Samsung evo 64gm. The issue remains on both SD cards, and before you comment about it, YES i did reformat on multiple occasions both with my pc AND within the phone. I also did factory reset on multiple occasions. So it is not the SD's the problem. Just trust, I did everything possible.

 

[SpookDroid]

Oh, I believe you, I just had to ask (one user last year had similar issues with 2K video and it was because their card wasn't meant for the high-speed transfers).

I was hoping Samsung would have figured out how to do SD cards right this time around, but it seems they still have issues. I haven't had issues so far, but then again, in the past it took the phones a few months before they fried the cards. In any case, I just use that now for storage of media I already have elsewhere. I've learned my lesson

Might be worth mentioning, the problems with mine also seemed to accentuate when I moved cards from one phone to another... so maybe Samsung's SD card implementation doesn't like to share?