Hello everyone!
TL;DR: Got a faulty Samsung card which reloads on any device constantly, can't perform formatting or safe-erasing.
So I bought this Samsung Class 10 EVO 32G card for my CM12.1'ed Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 in June, and it ran smooth and fast until... about a week ago I left my tablet on one night (with charger), uploading traveling photos for backup at a slow upload speed hotel room. I got up to check my tablet in the morning and I kept getting an notification saying "Checking SD card for errors" and stuff. The notification appeared for about seconds, then reloaded itself (disappearing then popping out), again and again. :crying:
It seems that the tablet couldn't hold up the communication with the SD card for longer than a blink... At first I thought it might be my tablet too hot last night (it's cool in the morning though) and burned the card reader module, so I instantly turned off the device and removed the card.
It turned out that the tablet is ok and it was my card's fault... The backup failed within one hour after I went to bed. :( I got the same problem plugging it in my phone or PC. I can see the root directory in Window's Explorer, and if I'm quick, I can manage to open a few folders and see the files ok, except I lost all my recent documents and photos into a 20GB giant LOST.DIR folder... When a 5-second or so period expires, the explorer hangs and I guess the card got disconnected again... :(
I contacted the retailer for the issue. They offered a replacement but not a fix to save my precious data. I searched online for hours but don't seem to find a useful answer... Later I found that the card wont disconnect when I switch on the READ ONLY mode on my SD adapter (!). This discovery almost made me cry!!! :victory::victory::victory: I then managed to recover some of the lost files, minimizing the damage, but I find myself unable to format the card or safe-erase any files since once I switch off the READ ONLY, I won't get a steady mount. Even a delete or copy command will hang the system. That's a huge problem because I have quite some sensitive files, passwords laying there, reachable once you enable READ ONLY mode... But I can only get a replacement when I return the faulty card.
How can I safe-erase a card in my situation? I'm really desperate for some help. Thank you very much in advance! :laugh::laugh::laugh:
TL;DR: Got a faulty Samsung card which reloads on any device constantly, can't perform formatting or safe-erasing.
So I bought this Samsung Class 10 EVO 32G card for my CM12.1'ed Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 in June, and it ran smooth and fast until... about a week ago I left my tablet on one night (with charger), uploading traveling photos for backup at a slow upload speed hotel room. I got up to check my tablet in the morning and I kept getting an notification saying "Checking SD card for errors" and stuff. The notification appeared for about seconds, then reloaded itself (disappearing then popping out), again and again. :crying:
It seems that the tablet couldn't hold up the communication with the SD card for longer than a blink... At first I thought it might be my tablet too hot last night (it's cool in the morning though) and burned the card reader module, so I instantly turned off the device and removed the card.
It turned out that the tablet is ok and it was my card's fault... The backup failed within one hour after I went to bed. :( I got the same problem plugging it in my phone or PC. I can see the root directory in Window's Explorer, and if I'm quick, I can manage to open a few folders and see the files ok, except I lost all my recent documents and photos into a 20GB giant LOST.DIR folder... When a 5-second or so period expires, the explorer hangs and I guess the card got disconnected again... :(
I contacted the retailer for the issue. They offered a replacement but not a fix to save my precious data. I searched online for hours but don't seem to find a useful answer... Later I found that the card wont disconnect when I switch on the READ ONLY mode on my SD adapter (!). This discovery almost made me cry!!! :victory::victory::victory: I then managed to recover some of the lost files, minimizing the damage, but I find myself unable to format the card or safe-erase any files since once I switch off the READ ONLY, I won't get a steady mount. Even a delete or copy command will hang the system. That's a huge problem because I have quite some sensitive files, passwords laying there, reachable once you enable READ ONLY mode... But I can only get a replacement when I return the faulty card.
How can I safe-erase a card in my situation? I'm really desperate for some help. Thank you very much in advance! :laugh::laugh::laugh:
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