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size=4>Erratic or intermittent flash card storage:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=006402820-25082015><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>I
bought two 32gb class 10 "house brand" microSD cards from Micro
Center.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=006402820-25082015><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>They
test fine, and store anything but jpegs from the phone's camera with no
problems. Doesn't seem to matter whether I format them in the phone or in
plugged into my PC's USB. File checks, etc in the PC always are
OK.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=006402820-25082015><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>The
camera in my Galaxy S2 would take pictures and display them, but I could not
send them of access them via USB from my PC. They would soon become
impossible to display. I could see file names and file sizes, but no
images. I was told it was a problem with the card, but no test I ran, nor
substituting an identical card would change the behavior. As said above,
other stuff including jpegs put on the card(s) via USB were OK and
long-lasting. I think I had saved a few jpegs received in the phone as
attachments, and they were OK also. Card and phone checks were all OK,
including backup and restore operations.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=006402820-25082015><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=4>Changed to a Galaxy S5 and had the very same camera behavior on those
cards. Did the checks and backup/restore operations again and no
improvement in ability of the phone to take and store photos on the Micro Center
cards.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=006402820-25082015><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=4>Searched the web many times and consulted with Sprint tech support
several times. Nothing seeming relevant on the web, and the not-so-bright
tech support folk online and in stores said the card is bad, but no test can
find a fault or fix a corrupted photo (even though file sizes etc seem
OK).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=006402820-25082015><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=4>Discovered that the Samsung Galaxy S5 can accept bigger microSD cards
(128gb max), so got a Samsung class 10 64gb microSDXC "EVO" card and populated
it from a backup of the smaller card. The Samsung card seems to have no
problem with photos taken by the S5's camera, but cannot display older corrupt
photos from the S2's camera that were in the backup file and thus on the
new Samsung card. Tests via my PC of the Samsung card show no problem as
was the case for the earlier cards.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=006402820-25082015><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=4>Nothing I can find or do seems to show why the Samsung card is "better"
and OK.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=006402820-25082015><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4>Did I
forget the spunkwater and magic words needed to use brand-X cards in a
Samsung Galaxy phone?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=006402820-25082015><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=4>Chuck</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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