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Micro SD card failure

AJ — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 07:57:40 GMT

Is anyone else having micro SD card failures, I'm onto my 3rd in 5 months. I've have a scandisk 16gb and Verbatim 32gb both fail. The 1st lasted a month the second for 4 months.

They are in full working order one night , the next morning I unlock the phone and it states SD card error please reformat - when I check the card on a PC it is unreadable.

Any ideas?

Card brand recommendations?

Phone settings / problems?

Re: Micro SD card failure

AJ — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 15:03:07 GMT

Should mention I am now using a Sony SDHC 32GB card, if it fails then I can address the issue with Sony and not get any '3rd party equipment' replies.

Re: Micro SD card failure

closer — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 07:27:25 GMT

My card was Kingston and it lasted for 5 months, dying with the same message as yours. I think the problem is with the phone itself, and there was a similar topic I've read earlier. I hope the problem is software (but it's not likely) and I won't have more problems with my new card, and after update.....

Re: Micro SD card failure

UM — Sat, 05 Oct 2013 20:22:41 GMT

I have had the exact same issue.

I ignored the messages for reformating and they came and went periodically. My phone then broke and I had a new one sent out and have tried inserting my old SanDisk 32GB card in but it will not accept it. Neither will my PC. Both ask me to reformat which I do but both fail. Now the message asking me to put in a new card won't go away, so I put one in and its constantly flashing up and interrupting my apps by asking me to reformat it.... which it wont do!!!!! Really annoying but not sure how to resolve?

Re: Micro SD card failure

UM — Sat, 05 Oct 2013 20:24:15 GMT

Btw the way I should mention, the new new phone is on the updated operating system and the issue still remains.

Re: Micro SD card failure

AJ — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 08:30:51 GMT

I'm 1 month in with the Sony SD card, no problems yet - I guess it just a waiting game to see what happens

Re: Micro SD card failure

AJ — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 08:19:02 GMT

28th October and the card has failed - a new record for card frying

Sony card installed on 6th September so I didn't even get 2 months out of the £20 card - all my music gone again.

Card was fine last night - look at the phone this morning and the card is not just blank - it doesn't exist as far as the phone is concerned

PC won't read it either

Time to speak to sony !!!!!

Re: Micro SD card failure

FlorisGeldhof1 — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 09:04:10 GMT

I'm getting angry about it. I've got a xperia Z tablet and an xperia T smartphone. The tablet already killed 2 32 gig kingston cards in a few months. After only a few days in the smartphone a brand new 16 gig kingston card is completely dead.

Tried several ways to format/mount the card, bit it still remains as dead as a dodo.

Who is responsible, Sandisk or Sony...

Re: Micro SD card failure

AJ — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 09:13:58 GMT

I have spoken to Sony tech support, they think there is a fault with my phone and I now have to return it for repair.

I have not returned it as yet as it will not be easy to be without a phone for up to 2 weeks.

I purposely used a Sony SD card last time so only 1 manufacturer is involved.

I will return the phone next week and post updates on here

Re: Micro SD card failure

rkuk2k — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 14:37:53 GMT

I'm afraid that there is no point sending your phone away. I did the same earlier this year. Sony gave me a brand new phone and the same problem happened with the new phone. They refused to replace my £20 micro SD card and the new phone has since corrupted another card.

Re: Micro SD card failure

FlorisGeldhof1 — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 15:21:49 GMT

Yesterday i used the sony chat with the problem. They said the only solution was to send the phone and the tablet back to the shop. But reading this makes me think twice about sending it back.

Re: Micro SD card failure

AJ — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 07:55:01 GMT

I too am now dubious about sending it back.

Also as a result of these issues I will not even consider a Sony phone for my Son.

I'm looking at Nokia, Samsung or HTC - although with all of these I think my first stop will be the forums.

I am also no longer considering the Xperia Z tablet, have decided to pay the extra and get the iPad Air.

Sorry Sony - I wanted to stay with a brand I like but I'm not going to keep buying SD cards.

Re: Micro SD card failure

stuvw — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 08:11:13 GMT

I've had the same prolem on 2 cards. (z Tablet)

Obviously they haven't fixed this for anyone who has returned their product.

There should be a recall.

Also bad Kit KAt taking too long to fix.

Re: Micro SD card failure

Zumba — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 12:12:37 GMT

Same issue here - had an SD card in my Xperia T with lots beautiful photos of my daughter.

Planning to get rid of the phone as I wouldn't trust it again. Will never buy a Sony phone again after this.

To boot, after the last update to firmware 205 the battery life on my phone has dropped from 2 days to less than 12 hours.

Re: Micro SD card failure

AJ — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 14:09:42 GMT

I've not posted anything for awhile because I didn't want to jinx anything but my current memory card - scandisk - has lasted 9 months so far.

However I too have just started getting serious battery life problems - may be worth starting a new thread.

As of 1 maybe 2 weeks ago my battery won't last 12 hours - at times I can actually watch the charge go down.

It will go down even in stamina mode + power save mode whilst asleep

It also suddenly brings the screen back to life and does random vibrates

I've just done a software repair via PC and am only installing apps 1 at a time to see if they may be causing it

Re: Micro SD card failure

MissPissedOff — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 22:34:02 GMT

So pissed off.

Sony's updates are killing off MicroSD cards.

Mine is a Sandisk 32Gb, with (last time I checked) 18Gb of pictures on it. These pictures go back over 3-4 years. Gone. I cannot remember what I ever saved and what didn't.

All those pictures. Gone.

I now have to buy a new one for the simple reason there isn't enough memory on my phone for my apps to do an update; then i will have to wait for that to be broken too.

So thank you Sony. Don't suppose you are going to buy me a new MicroSD card are you?

Be careful guys.

Re: Micro SD card failure

Gadis012 — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 04:16:35 GMT

I bought my Sony C5 Ultra 10 months go, and with it, a micro SD card. I've been using the phone (with the sd card inserted) without any problems. I've stored my pictures, music, files, etc. in there and always worked fine.
Yesterday, I got a notification on my phone about a new software update. Once I got home, I had the phone updating only to discover that after it finished, my sd card is no longer detected...
Any help would be appreciated please.

Kind regards,
Sue