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Z3 only recognises SD card now and then

TheBlackEx — Mon, 09 May 2016 13:39:32 GMT

Hey!

I bought a memory card for my Z3. I inseted the Card, but the Problem is, that the phone only recognises the card now and then. there are no certain circumstances when it has or hasn't got a connection.

The Support told me, that there are just certain SD cards, that the phone just dosn't work with very well. They didn't tell me which ones though. What cards are working for you? My Kingston 64GB microSDXC dosen't.

Best regards

Philip

Re: Z3 only recognises SD card now and then

Uliwooly — Mon, 09 May 2016 16:37:11 GMT

@TheBlackEx

You might want to reformat the SD card.

Re: Z3 only recognises SD card now and then

lokrsw — Mon, 09 May 2016 19:58:48 GMT

@TheBlackEx

With no problem for over 2 year's - SanDisk 128GB microSDXC™ UHS-I Ultra Class10

and as @uliwooly try said reformat card in Your phone.

Re: Z3 only recognises SD card now and then

Zann_H — Tue, 10 May 2016 04:46:50 GMT

Any electronic/electrical components have lifespan. While some can be fixed by reinitialising or updates, some can't.

For your case, there are only 2 possible causes. 1) Software(Android), or 2)hardware(the connectors from the motherboard to the sdcard unit or the sdcard itself).

1) You can usually fix this by reinstalling your Android via PCC.

2) There's nothing you can do about the connectors issue but to bring back to Sony service centre. But if the problem is your sdcard instead, it might be fixable. The first thing you might want to do is to backup all your data while you can. Once done, reformat the SDCard. What this essentially does it that it will identify any bad/corrupted area and try to reformat the table structure so that those area won't be used. Most of the time this will fix the issue. But what can also happen is that more corrupted areas might be found during the process and this will eventually cause your SD Card to be unreadable.

So if you are very confident that the your SC Card is not (starting to be)corrupted, feel free ignore this whole post. If not, start backiing up your data while you still can. 😃

Re: Z3 only recognises SD card now and then

Zero3hero — Tue, 10 May 2016 06:05:49 GMT

I have a 64Gb Kingston SD HC/XC UHS-I U3
Have had it for a year in my Z3 and have never had any problems. It's a great card, and pretty quick.

Hopefully MM doesn't screw that up for me once I install.