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Are people selling fake sd cards?

Im not sure if u guys kno of this or not, but i got an email from ebay stating that people are selling fake sd cards, is that even possible?

people have always sold fake sd cards and usb drives
Thanks though! its always good to be aware!
..They are fake in the sense that they are not rated for what is advertised, i.e. less space is actually available, lower class ratings than advertised

i'm going to ask a stupid question how do you know the sd card is fake?

well, if its a 8GB card, formatted as fat32 it should be somewhere around 7.5 GB i think. If you got a fake one it would be substantially less.
As for the speed. Class 2=2MB/s class 6=6MB/s for the write speed. So take a 100MB file or so and transfer it to the sd card. you should get around your class speed. It may vary, even if you use an app to test the speed, but something suspicious would be always getting 2MB write speeds with a class 6 card

i bought a 32 gb card on ebay, wanna try to transfer all of my files from my current 8 gb card it won't go through .giving me some write disk error or something like that. It shows up as 32gb on my phone... but the files just wont transfer.. i mean some of them go tru, but others im gettin that error i stated earlier. did i do something wrong when i got the card? because i just put it in the phone and started to transfer ....
Thx 4 helpin

dont quote me on this, but I thought the only manufacture with a 32GB was san disk? that was a month ago so it probably has changed.
Heres my dumb question, did you format the card?

Yea i did. If by formatting ur reffeeing to placing the card in the phone, go to settings, then format. That is how u format, right?

yes.
do you still have a link to that auction or a similar item? what brand is it?

On the card it says microsd, hc, 32gb, then has a part number. Link to the auction is a bit difficult at the moment cuz im posting from my phone...

I just took a pic of it and attached it

I am going to go out on a limb here, but if it does not have a SanDisk anywhere, I am pretty sure they are the only manufactures of a 32GB micro sd card. I am also pretty sure they would put there name on it. That being said, I would say that you could possibly have a bum sdcard, but again I am only speculating.
Even if it is there are a few other things to try:
Try plugging the phone into a computer, choose hard drive mode and use a computer to format the card. (fat32)
Try to do a drive repair, or drive scan from the OS
You can also try some disk utilities that can be found just about all over the internet.
also, the files that wont go through (i did not read carefully at first ), ensure they are not larger than 4GB

http://www.sandisk.com/products/mobile-memory-products/sandisk-microsdhc
that is the sandisk 32GB sd card. Again, I am going on the assumption that they are the only ones that make this size card, so I could be proved wrong at any time!!!
I just looked at that pic, is that a 4 in the circle? I am almost sure they do not make a class 4 32GB sd card yet.

Everything you are sugessting i already did.. except get a drive software to scan the card. And no, the files were def not larger than 4gb per file, it was 5gb of data.. but not all in one file.
Thx for ur help, but from what we have discussed it would appeAr I have a bad card. Ill try to get u the linkto the auction if u want.
Thx 4 ur help.

snake411 said:
I just took a pic of it and attached it
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thats a fake card.
It's only 2gb

In looking for that ebay link.. i found tnat the user that sold me that card is no longer registered.. that shouldanswer if its fake or not.
Do me a fav tho... do anebay searc for 32gb microsd card, and ull see a list of cards that are being sold, like mine, and people are buying them w/o complaints. Is it possible this other company also makes valid sd cards?

I actually didnt see that many listings for '32 GB micro sd card' maybe its the search term, only saw like 1 or two.
In all honesty though, I would save your self the trouble and get a legit 16GB card. You can get class 6 for like 60 bucks and class 2 or 4 for around 20 or 30... I think someone has mentioned that in this thread or another, I lose track easily Try newegg.com or something

and PS you should start your claim process through ebay or paypal now!!!

Yea. I guess ill have to do that and get a "legit" card...thx 4 ur help

remember i asked you to search ebay 4 a micro sd 32 gb...
I did the search and the same huge list of cards came up..
Take a look at
http://cgi.ebay.com/New-32GB-TF-Memory-Card-32G-Micro-SD-SDHC-MicroSDHC-TF_W0QQitemZ230496573491QQcategoryZ20336QQvarZQQcmdZViewItem
Thats one of the listings selling the card i have.. and again, people are butin without any complaints at all . the manufacturer of the card seems to HC.
See what im talkin bout?

yes, I see from the link. But that is a reasonable price 200.00
But, the HC stands for high capacity, not the manufacture
Especially because this is 190.00, you can get a SanDisk for 200.00 and that will work guaranteed. That's just my opinion of the matter.
Unless you absolutely need 32GB all in one package, I would highly suggest taking a look at something like these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...ption=&Ntk=&CFG=&SpeTabStoreType=&srchInDesc=
here is where you can get a genuine 32GB Class 2 SanDisk:
http://www.sandisk.com/products/mobile-memory-products/sandisk-microsdhc

Replacing my iPod.

Okay so im selling my ipod touch to my friend and im fully replacing it with my HTC Aria. Therefore i am sinking as much money into this as i can get from the ipod. I need a 16gb+ MicroSD and an FM adapter. So i was wondering will this SD card work with my Aria? http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-microS...2801351&sr=8-1 And if this product looks any good for you all? http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Syste...ductPromotions ...And possibly getting some headphones not too sure could anyone give me some suggestions?

Elishallen said:
Okay so im selling my ipod touch to my friend and im fully replacing it with my HTC Aria. Therefore i am sinking as much money into this as i can get from the ipod. I need a 16gb+ MicroSD and an FM adapter. So i was wondering will this SD card work with my Aria? http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-microS...2801351&sr=8-1 And if this product looks any good for you all? http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Syste...ductPromotions ...And possibly getting some headphones not too sure could anyone give me some suggestions?
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Here you go (as far as the SD) http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-list...p?ie=UTF8&qid=1292813393&sr=8-1&condition=new

If you are going to replace the MicroSD, you should at least get a class 4. You would need this higher class iffn you ever decided to do apps to SD. Find the thread on partitioning EXT3 partitions. Ubuntu LiveCD method worked for me.

duckredbeard said:
If you are going to replace the MicroSD, you should at least get a class 4. You would need this higher class iffn you ever decided to do apps to SD. Find the thread on partitioning EXT3 partitions. Ubuntu LiveCD method worked for me.
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Can you link me to a sd card which you would recommend.

There are dozens of different makers, I would stick with one purchased from an established retailer. I have heard of counterfeit ones that are simply relabeled lower quality ones. Look for a 4 with a circle around it to show the class. Higher class number means faster speed. Speed will cost you more and higher speed cards typically come in higher capacities. I don't use music on my device, so 8GB is plenty for me.
Expect nandroid backups to take up about 1GB. Periodically clean out your clockworkmod folder. I copy out all but the previous 2 about every 3 weeks, deleting those that I know I'll never go back to.

Thanks everyone i ended up getting the original items i posted. I was really unsure on the class of memory cards so thanks duckredbeard.

Lexar 32gb micro SDHC class 10 card...failx2

ok so I am now about to be on my 3rd 32gb Lexar class 10 micro sdhc card. I am thinking that the first two since they were in the same shipment batch that they were just a bad bunch of cards. Just wanted to put the warning out there to you guys. My cards will just show up as corrupted and will not mount. Having to use a forensic software to pull all the non-backed up stuff off right now.
Anyone else having any problems with them?

I havent tried Lexar but I did buy a 32gig Class 10 Patriot and it has worked flawlessly so far

I have the lexar one and it works fine.

just warning you...37 days into this card and it failed....the first one lasted a little over 2 weeks.
back up, thats all I am saying

I got one coming... i'll see how it goes

dtmcnamara said:
just warning you...37 days into this card and it failed....the first one lasted a little over 2 weeks.
back up, thats all I am saying
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Where did you buy your cards from? I can't find it in stock anywhere. Thx.

sabesh said:
Where did you buy your cards from? I can't find it in stock anywhere. Thx.
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i work at Micro Center here in atlanta. We still have a few in stock

dtmcnamara said:
i work at Micro Center here in atlanta. We still have a few in stock
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Thx. I decided to try the Patriot version instead (not that it has any better reviews, but a few Atrix owners have reported success with it). Cheers.

Been running lexar since first week had the phone, no problems yet. What batch yours come out of? Also, ordered from provantage, shipped from new jersey or georgia one, will have to double check.

couldnt tell ya. I do know it was the very first shipment of them that came into our store like a week or two after CES. Im just thinking it was just a bad first batch. 3rd one is going fine so far...

I got mine through Beach Audio via Amazon. It's been working fine so far.

I got my Lexar class 10 a few weeks before the Atrix, it has been in the phone since the first boot and has worked great.

There is a known issue with micro sdhc cards with the atrix. Just like with the windows phone. Motorola is supposed to be coming out with an update to fix the issue.
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What kind of prices are you guys finding on these SD cards? It seems silly to me to buy a single 32gb card for $100~ when you can get 3-4 16gb cards for the same price.

dkirchik said:
There is a known issue with micro sdhc cards with the atrix. Just like with the windows phone. Motorola is supposed to be coming out with an update to fix the issue.
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I have friends at Moto and this is the first i have heard....
please offer even a shred of proof regarding your statements....
I know many people with Atrix and SD cards and NO issues.
Link to anything that mentions this known issue - this is nothing like Windows 7 -where the SD card slot was blocked at release.

Ririal said:
What kind of prices are you guys finding on these SD cards? It seems silly to me to buy a single 32gb card for $100~ when you can get 3-4 16gb cards for the same price.
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The highest capacity model of any data storage device always has a higher per unit of storage cost than lesser models... but it also holds the most. You've got to pay to play.
If you wanted to have access to 32 gb of data, you wouldn't want to be swapping out two 16 gb cards as needed to get that capacity would you? To me, that seems silly.

acabtp said:
The highest capacity model of any data storage device always has a higher per unit of storage cost than lesser models... but it also holds the most. You've got to pay to play.
If you wanted to have access to 32 gb of data, you wouldn't want to be swapping out two 16 gb cards as needed to get that capacity would you? To me, that seems silly.
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And I understand that. For me personally, taking 15 seconds to swap an SD card isn't really a big deal, especially since with this phone (thank science), the card slot is easily available under the battery cover, instead of the battery itself.
But, if I can get a decent price on a 32gb card I'm all for it. The price difference just doesn't seem worth it (to me) to save the 15 seconds

If you want to carry all 32gb with you, where di you put the extra 16gb card? It gets old remembering to put accessories in your pocket.
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Anyone else getting VERY SLOW transfers speeds with this card? Average I'm getting is 3.5mb/sec which is well below normal!! Therefore, it takes awhile to transfer a movie from my PC.

alphadog00 said:
If you want to carry all 32gb with you, where di you put the extra 16gb card? It gets old remembering to put accessories in your pocket.
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Like I said, it's really all about personal preferrence. I carry a shoulder bag around with me everywhere I go, so remembering accessories isn't really an issue. I always have my Lapdock, charger, bluetooth mouse, etc. with me at all times. This phone replaced any need I had for a netbook.
Still no word on prices people have got for these?

anyone havin problems with lexar sd cards?

i got a 32 gb class 10 lexar memory card....having problems its just dont wanna load stuff on my fone it gets stuck saying memory scaning...
i transfered like 5 gb of stuff on to it...i dont understand what the problem is

where did you buy it?
authentic lexar are good, it's a good brand, i have a few of them
try to do a full format as FAT32 and see if that helps

AllGamer said:
where did you buy it?
authentic lexar are good, it's a good brand, i have a few of them
try to do a full format as FAT32 and see if that helps
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amazon they had a special i got it with shipping for 50 bucks

so i formated and tried it again and everythin finally went over but it just seems the phone isnt rly recongizing it

I bought one from amazon a month ago. Ummm... I *think* i put it in my phone..unmounted it..reformatted it..mount it all from the phones sd card (storage) section..not the pc.
No troubles since. Sorry if that isnt specific enough...i was just hitting buttons at the time..
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Just got an 8gb Lexar card from Office Depot...seems to be doing ok. I was using a Sandisk one before and it would 'scan' after a few reboots, but then stopped saying that.
Also, I am a bit perplexed about how the memory is partitioned on this phone. I realize it has 16gb internal, but it looks like 10-11gb of that is partitioned to look like a memory card. I just bought App2SD Pro and realized that the 'SD' area is actually the internal phone memory and not the 8gb microSD I just put inside the phone. What gives here? any way to modify App2SD to see the actual card and not internal? can I repartition all 16gb to be in the same area on the phone (looks like about 2gb is free for apps on the Internal..)

I have a lexar 16gb sd card. Formatted before use and never had any trouble. If its having trouble detecting then it could be your current rom right now. What rom are you using? Because i do remember havinf trouble detecting sometimes with certain roms. Usually stock roms are good with detection as they do extensive testing before release and i doubt its the hardware.
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I would sell it on ebay & get a samsung one... Samsung 32gb class 10 is on sale at frys for $34.99 with 1.99 shipping. I have one on the way....
Here's the link
http://www.frys.com/product/6786695

All morning I've been asking whose phone keeps ringing. It's mine! My lexar 16MB/10 lost its mind this morning along with my ringtones. Got it on sale at buydotcom and never formatted it, just plopped it in and started using it.

I was going to get a 32MB from Amazon until I read reviews from people who bought Lexar cards saying they did the exact same thing. I don't know if it's a knock off brand amazon is selling or if it's those cards themselves

I got one from tigerdirect no issues so far. I only have 5gb space left from the 32gb.
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That's where I bought mine a while ago and I've had nothing but problems....
I reformatted it and it gave me multiple errors on multiple occasions...
Sucks because I paid I think near $100 at the time before the big price drop....kind of strange don't you think...
Are there knock off Lexars? Never knew...
I'm going with Samsung brand, ADATA or PNY, all of which are Korean made....not crap China.
FarReach said:
I was going to get a 32MB from Amazon until I read reviews from people who bought Lexar cards saying they did the exact same thing. I don't know if it's a knock off brand amazon is selling or if it's those cards themselves
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SanDisk Ultra 64GB microSDXC ($47.99)

I have ordered the 64 GB from Amazon twice and they both failed at 12GB, so I returned them. I saw this sale at BUY.COM and it says they are an authorized reseller, so I ordered one. It is only $47.99, shipped.
http://www.buy.com/prod/sandisk-ultra-64gb-microsdxc-card-with-adapter-class-10-u1/230276145.html
They also have a 32GB for $21.68
http://www.buy.com/prod/sandisk-32g...-sd-sdhc-card-with-card-reader/217036937.html

Did you buy an item that was sold by Amazon of from another vendor on Amazon? Did you suspect that the cards you bought were fakes or did you just get bad ones. I would be wary of buying this card again if I had two failures unless I could attribute the failures to being a fake Sandisk and I was sure that the 3rd was the real deal.

m20120 said:
Did you buy an item that was sold by Amazon of from another vendor on Amazon? Did you suspect that the cards you bought were fakes or did you just get bad ones. I would be wary of buying this card again if I had two failures unless I could attribute the failures to being a fake Sandisk and I was sure that the 3rd was the real deal.
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Nothing about the first two gave me the feeling they were fake. The first one I purchased from the Amazon Market, the second direct from Amazon. While copying files on my PC, they both started out at the same speed as my old class 4 16GB card. by the time they made it to 12GB, they had slowed to a crawl and then completely failed. At that point, they both died and couldn't even be formatted.
I will give it one last try with BUY.COM, if I have the same issue again, I am sending it back and buying a 32GB card.

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http://www.buy.com/prod/sandisk-32g...-sd-sdhc-card-with-card-reader/217036937.html
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Class 2 will make you and your phone frown.

Yeah I got excited then saw the 32gb was only a class 2
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Yeah I got excited then saw the 32gb was only a class 2
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Ah, didn't catch that. Thanks!

bishop0114 said:
Nothing about the first two gave me the feeling they were fake. The first one I purchased from the Amazon Market, the second direct from Amazon. While copying files on my PC, they both started out at the same speed as my old class 4 16GB card. by the time they made it to 12GB, they had slowed to a crawl and then completely failed. At that point, they both died and couldn't even be formatted.
I will give it one last try with BUY.COM, if I have the same issue again, I am sending it back and buying a 32GB card.
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Hi there,
if you like to know I am right now in the same situation. I buy a Sandisk microSDXC 64GB and the first time I put that card in my OLD card reader the PC recognize the card immediately, so to test the card I start copy a file .iso of 6.5GB into the card and then completely failed less than 6.5GB. Now I can't format the card, no way. I try with SD Formatter 3.1, HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool 2.1.8, Gparted Live, CMD from Windows 7, no way to format the card. I can only delete the wrong partitions. All the app see the full capacity card but I can't format the f....ng card. I made few research and somebody said I have to have Card Reader fit in with SDXC. All the devices which you use have to be compatible with SDXC, if not you have problems. That is not what I say, that is what the other people saying. I just don't understand why my PC recognize the card with my old card reader and then failed to copy the file and now I can't format the card, something wrong with this stuff.
Anyway, to be fully sure I buyed the Mobilelite G3 Kingston Card reader so I let you know when I get it if something change!
I hate this stuff, but I need this stuff!

Today I received the reader SDXC, no luck, all the same, I have to send back the card, so probably was not the reader the problem, this cards are **** and I don't know why?
If anyone know something about this cards, please let me know, thanks.

bishop0114 said:
I have ordered the 64 GB from Amazon twice and they both failed at 12GB, so I returned them. I saw this sale at BUY.COM and it says they are an authorized reseller, so I ordered one. It is only $47.99, shipped.
http://www.buy.com/prod/sandisk-ultra-64gb-microsdxc-card-with-adapter-class-10-u1/230276145.html
They also have a 32GB for $21.68
http://www.buy.com/prod/sandisk-32g...-sd-sdhc-card-with-card-reader/217036937.html
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Hi there, can you tell me if you get the good one or this cards are crap? Please, let me know, I need to know, thanks.

I got this card from the buy.com site and its worked fine for me. SD Tools shows the card as class 10. i've had no problems.

tool2269 said:
I got this card from the buy.com site and its worked fine for me. SD Tools shows the card as class 10. i've had no problems.
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which device do you use? Do you formatted the card in different system file (NTFS, FAT32)? The old device see the card?

I purchased the 64gb card. used the adapter that came with it and it was recognized by my PC immediately (used the PC to format in exFat).
I also had another USB style adapter that I used to plug my old 32gb class 6 card into. I had that connected to my PC as well.
Then i just transferred all the files from the 32 over onto the 64 using my PC, and popped the 64gb card into my phone after the files were all transferred.
I can plug my Galaxy 3 into my PC using USB and it'll recognize by my card memory and phone memory separately.

tool2269 said:
I can plug my Galaxy 3 into my PC using USB and it'll recognize by my card memory and phone memory separately.
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LUCKY YOU! Thanks for the fast answer, just my curiosity, your Galaxy 3 is compatible with SDXC? is that write somewhere?
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eclyptos said:
LUCKY YOU! Thanks for the fast answer, just my curiosity, your Galaxy 3 is compatible with SDXC? is that write somewhere?
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ofcurse, yes it is, I just saw the specs, ok, that's ok, I just don't know if my HTC HD2 will see the card.
Thanks.

$43.99 on Amazon this morning!