Samsung Galaxy S3 fried my SD card

[Anonymous]

There's been a lot of talk about this in US forums and it's finally happened to me...

Two or three days ago, my Galaxy S3 started to not recognise my Micro SD card (4GB Samsung). Battery life seemed to plummet at the same time (which I gather may be from it trying to read/fail, read/fail continuously). Popped it out and have plugged into my PC and I am currently running a scan on the card using CardRecovery (not looking hopeful). For some reason it is listing 4 drives for the one card and alarmingly in properties they all show '0 bytes free space, 0 bytes used space'. 

Does anyone have any suggestions for recovering the data or is it a basket case?

Judging from the large number of people who have experienced the S3 frying their SD cards, mine is not an isolated incident. One forum post indicated that the SD card gets fried when there is a power fluctuation not through overheating. S3 users/buyers - be warned. Keep your SD card backed up, because the phone frying your card is a very real possibility as happened to me.  

O2 released Android 4.1.2 today - does that fix the issue? My card is still unreadable. 

Any help/suggestions gratefully received.

[Anonymous]

I am not doubting the information you have read but SD cards are notorious for crapping out. 

Have you tried another SD card in the phone yet?

I doubt very much other than sending the card of at great expense without guarantee of retrieving the data. 

[MI5]

Not heard of this happening.... I'll have a Google...

[Anonymous]

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@MI5 wrote:
Not heard of this happening.... I'll have a Google...

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There are cases out there but all the ones I have read do not suggest that they have emliminated the SD as the fault. Samsung from the extracts/chat/emails I have read have said they have not heard of the issue. 

With 18 million S3's being sold worldwide a few thousand is not a known issue to them. 

[jonsie]

Well my card is all backed up just in case!

[MI5]

I wondering if the are all a particular type / size of card.....?

[jonsie]

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@MI5 wrote:
I wondering if the are all a particular type / size of card.....?

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You mean the phone's too powerful for the smaller sd card?

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

From the bits I have read sandisk seems to be a problem but the OP is using the samsung 4GB. 

I would still make sure it is not a SD card issue first. I have had loads crap out on me over the years ( I back up)

[Anonymous]

You're not alone. It has damaged my 2gb and 32gb card. I am far from impressed.