topic Micro SD cards in Android

Micro SD cards

RCL — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 08:32:14 GMT

Hi this is just to help anyone if it happens to them. My husbands SP had a message saying "system UI not working" sent to Sony who repaired it came back put sim and SD card in same message came up called Sony back yesterday about phone still not working and nice gentleman went through all setting nothing could still be done with phone. He sent some info by email to try and said he'd call back today. Spoke to my son who lives away explained to him he said try taking sim and SD out and try them one at a time turned out the SD card had become corrupted. So lot of apologies to Sony but none of the advisors I spoke to had heard of the UI system failure before so it will be a learning curve for them also. Sorry this has been long winded but I thought it may help someone else.

Re: Micro SD cards

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 08:35:38 GMT

thank you for your insights.

Im sure this will help anyone who may be in the same situation too.

Re: Micro SD cards

MI5 — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 09:03:36 GMT

"System UI" covers a multitude of potentials - The only way to find out which aspect of the system is causing the issue is to work through them one by one, as you did......
For anyone else reading this, it could also relate to an app that has been installed or updated.

Re: Micro SD cards

RCL — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 09:13:51 GMT

We did think it was an app as I had just installed a new one for him it was dredge which the kids use, as software companion didn't work we had to send it to Sony, and when it came back yesterday had same problem so it was a process of elimination.

Re: Micro SD cards

MI5 — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 09:16:36 GMT

That's the best way.
Well done for finding it

Re: Micro SD cards

viridis — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 09:20:09 GMT

What size was the sd card and was it from a legitimate seller, some are dodgy as hell with a fake capacity for really cheap prices. once it fills beyond its real capacity all hell breaks loose because your phone is looking for data that doesn't exist. This can then cause a system ui failure.

Re: Micro SD cards

viridis — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 09:38:02 GMT

Like this one.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00FLB53LO?cache=48b988ea0b80db1a49963c6219e49fe4&pi=AC_SX110_SY165&qid=1412156178&sr=8-5#ref=mp_s_a_1_5
I guarantee, once that card fills beyond 2 or 4GB, there's gonna be problems.

Re: Micro SD cards

RCL — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 09:44:31 GMT

It was legitimate it came from O2 shop

Re: Micro SD cards

RCL — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 09:45:26 GMT

It is a couple of years old though x

Re: Micro SD cards

viridis — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 09:51:48 GMT

Yeah, probably just corrupted then. What brand is it. Some have really good warranty

Re: Micro SD cards

aldaweb — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 12:44:06 GMT

Some of the Sandisk cards used to have a licence for their recovery software printed on one of the inserts, never had to use it myself but my Sis used it to recover photos from a corrupted SD from a camera.