Media Card Issue *maybe*

I have a 2GB media card in my bberry curve 8330 and when I'm trying to save some pictures to it it's showing "Directory Full" but when I look at my avail free space it's showing 1.1GB Free.  I'm stumped as I can't figure out how to save when it's showing no avail space.

Hi,
I also wanted to know what folders I should see on my phone when I go into Media, Explore, Media Card ?  From some of the threads I've been reading they mention that you should see blackberry,documents, music etc right under Media Card but mine is laid out as below
What's on my phone currently is :
Media Card
Folder Blackberry
inside Blackberry Folder is
subfolders documents, music, pictures, ringtones, videos & voicenotes
I've always saved all my pictures, videos etc to folder Media Card only not any subfolders...could that be the reason I got the msg "Directory Full" ?
Tonight I'm going to try uploading all of my stuff onto my home computer, doing a memory card format and then redownloading all of my info into the approp folders on the media card.

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  • Media card issue

    Am having an issue on my curve. It won't recognize or format my media card. Any suggetsions

    What size media card?
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  • Media Card Issues...P​lease Help

    About a week ago I could not save anything to my media card.  I put everything on my computer so I need to reformat my card and get it working again.  When I try to format it  I get  "Media Card Format Failed"  What should I do?

    Hi.  Have you tried reading the card on your pc? It's possible your card is failing, but try to read it on your pc.  If you can that would tell you it is not the card.
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  • Media card issues

    I have had my Blackberry Pearl for some time and have been very impressed with it however I have never been able to shoot video as when I try it gives the message 'insert media card to enable video'. There was already a media card inserted and I have purchased a new media card in case the fault was with the media card, not the phone - however it is still saying that a media card needs to be inserted to enable video shooting. I have pressed >OPTIONS.....>MEMORY and it states 'a media card is not presently inserted in the device'.....when I have tried two different media cards. Any ideas ??? x

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  • Alarm Tone, Media Card Issues

    Purchased Curve 9360 about a week ago. Had memory card in my old Blackberry which I transferred and was working fine. Tried to put in a new memory card (wanted more storage), transferred things onto it, everything fine.
    Tried to change alarm tone to one of my songs but keep getting a message saying there is no music installed, go to blackberry.com/mediasync to find out how to sync music, which is no help whatsoever.
    I have tried clearing the memory, reformatting etc but it all works fine apart from the alarm. I can't understand why it wont recognize that there is music in the folder.
    If anyone is able to help, knows the answer I would be thankful, its been driving me mad as it worked with my old memory card when I first transferred (now wont work with any memory card).

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    But if your husband's card works perfectly in your BB, and your (bad) card works perfectly in his phone... well--isn't that the answer ?
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  • Issue regarding media card since upgrading to v6

    Hello,
    I am experiencing a couple of problems with my device since the last prompted OS upgrade:
    1. When I plug the device into a USB port on my PC, it successfully begins charging but I do not receive the familiar "USB Drive / Sync Media / Charge Only" selection prompt. Furthermore, the device isn't being recognized as a peripheral by my PC and, as such, I cannot access its data.
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    2. When I send someone a voice note using BBM's "Send -> Voice Note" option, it no longer appears to save the voice note in the voice note collection in the Media section as it used to do.
    I assume these two problems stem from the same issue, but I can't imagine what it may be, and looking around the forums / Google has produced nothing useful.
    Appreciate any and all assistance.
    Yours,
    JT

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  • 8310, MicroSDHC card & Media loading issues !

    Hi, My first post & a query!!
    I have an 8310 provided by my work, and because it is provided by them (via O2) there seem to be a few things locked on it to minimise our tampering!  ...... I have purchased an 8gb Micro-SDHC card for it with the intention of using it for music, but whenever I try to load music onto it I can only get it to accept/recognise about 2.5gb of the music downloaded to it!
    When synch via device manager it will only accept 2.5gb. If it copy the music files using a card reader, it will only "see" a portion of what is copied ..... 
    When looking in the "Media Card" section of "options" it recognises the card and shows 7.4gb total space. Media card support is "On", no encryption, mass storage "On", etc., etc.,
    It says it's operating system is v4.2.2.181
    Any ideas as to where I'm going wrong? or what can be done to resolve my issues?
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    Hi and Welcome to the Forums!
    See this public knowledgebase article for sizes of SD cards supported by various device OS levels.
    http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB05461&sliceId=SAL_Pub...
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  • SD Card Issues and Sound Issues

    Hello all,
    I bought my Xperia Z2 probably 2-3 months ago and I have to say I do love this phone.
    However I have come across a few issues that seems to be, not so common as I cannot find any solutions online (Which is why I'm here).
    I am having 2 issues:
    1st Issue:
    SD Card Issue, this is a funny one as I have not been able to identify what actually causes this issue. Now this all started (or when I started to realise the issue) when I changed some settings in the Camera App. I saw that it was saving photos to "Internal Storage" and since I specifically bought a new SD card for the Xperia Z2, I wanted to store photos on the SD card instead.
    So I changed it to SD Card Storage and all is well (At least, that is what I thought).
    After taking some photos one day, I got home and wanted to preview them, in the photos app and Album (Sony's Photo Previewer) it shows that the photo is corrupted or missing (Depending on which app I'm using). This really annoyed me as the photos I took seems to be all lost and corrupted. So I tried to use a file explorer (Including File Commander) to find the actual file and open it, but it seems to have the same problem. I get this grey background with a picture of a mountain with like a thunderbolt sign (Broken sign).
    Following this, I have also tried to copy some video files onto the SD card and it has been giving me troubles too. I tried to copy videos onto the SD card in 2 ways, first way is to take the SD card out, connect it to a SD card reader and plug that into the computer. After it finished copying onto the SD card, the files would just disappear (I use computers a lot and this was very surprising and new to me... It's like the SD card deleted the files right after it was copied, or maybe even 'hid' the files).
    So since that method didn't work I thought I would try putting the SD card back into the phone and connect the phone to the computer then use Sony's MediaGO (Computer App) to transfer the videos and it sort of worked this time. I copied 14 videos over and only the first 2 videos are working, the others are all "Media is missing" or of some sort. I checked the video's format and they are all either .avi or .mp4 which I don't think is a problem as the first 2 videos are in .avi so surely other .avi videos would work too? Guess not...
    So it seems like I am having troubles with Video and Photos on the SD card as music is working 100% fine. Used Media GO to copy the music on and it's all working wonderfully.
    Some of you might suggest formatting the SD Card, I will say I have... I have tried the above methods before formatting AND after formatting (Formatting using Xperia Z2, or shall I say "erase").
    The SD card I have is Sandisk's 64GB Ultra (I bought this to anticipate 4K or at least 1080p video recordings).
    If the issue here is SD Card compatibility and I was silly enough to not have seen that prior, then I would gladly admit it's my fault and be happy that the solution would simply mean to buy another SD card.
    But that said, I highly doubt that would be the issue due to the fact that the SD card is made for performance (Not the best performance as the Extreme and Extreme Pro range are a lot better) and the card is new.
    2nd Issue:
    Now this issue is not as bad as the first issue, it's something to do with the sound. I understand the phone has 3 sound controls, one for the Ringtone for when you get a notification or/and phone call, one for Media and one for Alarm. 
    What I do is I have the Ringtone volume sitting at around 50% and Media will be dependent as I change it when I open an app but the issue I've been having is this:
    If I open an app (Mainly games that has sound/music) and I change the Media volume to say 70% or even 20%, whenever I get a notification whilst in-app the notification volume seems to be at 100% no matter what I do with the media volume. This is weird as my default Ringtone/Notification volume is sitting very low at around 50% or even if I change it to 20%.
    What am I missing here? Any thoughts?
    With the above 2 issues, last resort would be to factory reset my phone but will be willing to do it if there's a high chance of the issue getting fixed.
    Your thoughts will be greatly received as right now I'm just lost and not sure what to do with the issues. I'm slowly getting the feeling that I should just give up on the phone and use it for phone calls, music and forget about the whole photo/video taking which is very sad as I love the phone's photo/video taking features.
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    Hello Rickard,
    Thank you for the link, I have started the test and 10 minutes into the test the speed for writing dropped. Anyways I only managed to get through in writing 8GB of data then I gave up. I then started to verify that 8GB of data that was written on the SD Card.
    I have to say, it does seem like that SD Card is defective
    Thank you for providing the link, what I will do now is get another SD Card and see if the problem is still there.
    If the problem goes away I would consider my 1st issue being solved
    However I am still not sure about my 2nd issue as this is not related to the SD card. Even without the SD card in the phone I seem to be experiencing this problem.
    It's frustrating sometimes as if I'm trying to keep the volume down and play a game I can't because any notifications that comes through will be at 100% volume.
    Perhaps there's a setting I'm missing?
    Your help would be greatly appreciated.

  • Media card not being recognized by Media Sync / Dekstop Manager or Windows

    I hope someone can help me with this.
    I've got a Bold 9000 running OS 5.0.0.411 (the Vodaphone offiical release, not the Bell one).  I'm on Rogers though.
    I have an 8GB Sandisk card in it which the phone reads fine.
    However, Media Sync, Desktop Manager, and Windows 7 64-bit wont read it.
    I've done the following to try and fix this:
    - Mass Storage Mode Support is "on", doesn't help
    - tried reformatting the media card through the phone, doesn't help.
    - tried reformatting the media card through Windows, doesn't help.
    - tried uninstalling Desktop Manager and just installing the USB drivers, doesn't help.
    - tried re-installing Desktop Manager, doesn't help
    - tried updating the "RIM Blackberry SD USB Device" driver, no change as Windows says it has installed the right version.
    - tried both versions of Media Sync (older and just released version), doesn't help.
    - tried another SD card, doesn't help.
    - under Computer Management > Disk Management, the SD card shows up, but with no drive letter assignment.  If I try to assign one, it doesn't work.  Basically if I check anything but "Properties", it tells me there is no drive there.
    Does anyone have a suggestion to fix this or should I reload the older OS?  Admittedly, I don't know if even that will help because the last time I ran Media Sync on my phone was when I was running Vista so maybe it is not the phone but a Windows issue.
    Any suggestions would be appreciated.  Been searching for the last two days and can't seem to find an answer.
    Cheers.
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    Me too:
    BB Pearl 8120 (OS 4.5.0.124)
    Windows7 Pro 32bit
    BB Desktop Mgr. 5.0.1
    Reading/accessing the media card via USB always worked fine in XP, and still works fine in Ubuntu Linux (I could never get Bluetooth to do it at all). With the Windows7 upgrade, suddenly Windows can detect but not read the card. It's detected as a removable disk in Explorer, but when you try to open/browse it, Windows throws up a dialog that says "Please insert a disk into removable disk (F."
    The phone sees it just fine, XP sees it just fine, Ubuntu sees it just fine. It's more likely to be a Microsoft problem than a RIM problem, but it's still friggin' annoying. Does anyone know a workaround for this? The Desktop Manager software won't run under WINE for me.

  • Q10 connects to Media Card but not Device (Photos, Documents, etc.)

    Okay, I'm having a doozy of a time trying to figure this out. I've tried seven ways to Sunday and it's just not working the way it should.
    In the past, with BB Pearl, Curve ,and Bold, the device always connected upon USB contact with my computer... I could access photos I had taken and saved to the device as well as photos I had taken and saved to a memory card.
    Now, it isn't connecting right. If the Mass Storage option is turned on, I can access photos on the memory card (on my computer, it's the F drive)
    Oddly enough, the few times it has connected right, they show up as the Y and the Z drives. The Y drive is the memory card and the Z drive is the deivce drive.
    I thought I had it figured out, that if I wanted to access the device, then I had to have the mass storage turned to off and if I wanted to access the memory card, I'd have to switch it to on.
    It was working that way yesterday. I connected it to my computer and wala, everything connected, and it started backing it up right away.
    Today, nada.
    I've tried multiple USB cables and they're all working fine. Currently, I'm using the USB cable that came with the Q10.
    It doesn't matter if the bluetooth is on or off and it seems to require that the method of accessing documents is to connect by auto detect (vs connect to Windows) in the storage/media access.
    Sometimes when I plug it in, both old and new version of BB desktop pop up (BB Link and BB Desktop) The Desktop detects that it's connected to a Q10 but that there is no support for it.
    Could it be that I need to uninstall BB Desktop, maybe there's a software conflict in there somewhere?
    I just can't get it connect consistently! Help!
    Thanks!

    Hello scarlett 67,
    Sorry to hear you are having issues connecting to your BlackBerry® Q10 smartphone to your PC.
    To clarify does your and the PC recognize that the BlackBerry® Q10 smartphone? If so, there should be two drives that are recognized in My Computer; Y drive which is your device memory and X drive is your media card. Ensure to open both the photo and camera files on the X drive to search for the pictures that are saved on your media card.
    BlackBerry® Desktop Software and BlackBerry® Link should function successfully on the same computer. Check out this article for more details. 
    Please let us know if you are able to successfully access your media card on your computer.
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  • Problem with storing pictures to the Media Card

    I set my 8330 to store pictures to the media card.  It works for a while and then the device reverts to storing it on the device memory.  It does this without asking or telling me that it's done so.  It's very frustrating.  Anybody have any idea why it would do this?

    Hi and Welcome to the Forums!
    That's a very odd situation. Can you tell us, when this happens, does your BB "see" the media card at all? For instance, if when you notice this, can you do Media > Explore and get to the media card still?
    Another thing to check is your device OS version -- perhaps there is an update from your carrier that has fixes that would be useful...you can check your carrier via this portal:
    http://na.blackberry.com/eng/support/downloads/dow​nload_sites.jsp
    If your device OS is current, then you might want to try a different media card...perhaps there is something amiss with the one you have. 
    Also, how to do you go about recovering and getting it to again store on the media card?
    Thanks!
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  • Uninstalling Watsapp seems to have corrupted my pics! Cant view pics on media Card...

    OK, so watsapp went mental, despite doing several battery pulls it remained crazy. So, of course, the next step would be to delete and reinstall. So I deleted the app. I now find that I cannot open all the pictures on my media card :/ It takes ages to index and though the pics are definately there (file manager showing % of memory card free) I cant get to them. I cant pick up from the PC either - blackberry link isnt picking up anything on my card OR device...(however it HAS taken off 16 random pics and put into a folder in my documents; which incidentally, I cant seem to restore to my z10).
    Now I know what you're thinking; memory card has somehow been corrupted right? Well...No because I can view ALL my videos, music and 352 pictures (about 510 are inaccessible). I know it cant be the card as the pictures i can see are a complete mix match of dates from 2009 to present but all randomly mixed up :/
    I have re-installed watsapp and all convos have backed up...
    I have the latest softwarre so its not that. I can access everything on the card from PC but cant get them over into the link :/ WHY did BB have to make it like it has? (If it aint broke dont fix it!) The software was ace, you could just drag and drop. There is no 'restore' option or anything on my BB link.
    I am going to do the obvious - battery pull again. If no joy then rebook with no sim. Still no joy Reboot with no media card. I dont know what else to do.
    If I format the card will I lose all the pictures on it? I cant backup to the link either - there is no option :/
    Can anyone help me? PLEASE

    Hey MissKitten,
    Welcome to the BlackBerry Support Community Forums.
    Thanks for the question.
    Just to clarify, you are not able to view the contents of the media card on your PC as well? (Not through BlackBerry Desktop Software but through My Computer).
    I would suggest formatting the SD card, however formatting the SD card will erase all data.  So I would attempt to back it up if possible.
    Let me know if you have any more questions.
    Cheers.
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  • MicroSD Media Card is not being recognized by my BB 8100

    Hi,
    I currently have that problem with my Blackberry Pearl 8100.
    I put it a New 1 GB MicroSD (Patriot) card and connected the cable to the PC and on the PC I created a folder and added the music to it and pictures.  It worked fine but one day I took the SIM card out just because and when my phone restarted it would not go pass the providers screen. It stays there, it seems it freezes and it cannot be turned off.  So, I took the media card out and turned it on and it displays the screen with no problem. So again I turned it off and installed the card back in and it still the same problem. I also somehow I installed the media card in the phone without taking the battery out but it still doesn't recognize the card. Under Options says card is not installed.
    The first time I installed the card I don't think it was formatted(not sure). But it was working fine.
     I have installed another card and it still doesn't recognize another card. Also,the media card I tried it on another phone and it is not recognized. 
    Why would it work the first time as BrandonV(below) but not even locate it or make the phone not work while it has the Media card in?
    BrandonV, if you found a solution please let me know.
    Anyone else be kind enough to propose a solution.
    Thanks,
    Gaby
    this was someone trying to help out:
    Don't know why the BB would stop seeing the media card, but as far as your important stuff... have you tried putting the card into a reader hooked up to the PC to at least retrieve that stuff or move it to that other card that does work?
    Sorry that's all I can think of.

    Emesar wrote:
    I am having the same issue as the previous poster.
    Hi and welcome to the forums!
    Try this.
    1) With power ON, remove the back cover and pull out the battery.
    2) Remove the media card
    3) Insert the battery and replace the back cover.
    4) After boot up (~5 mins), check your Memory stats to be sure that is says that no media card is present.
    5) Pull out the battery again
    6) Put the media card back in and then insert the battery and reboot
    7) Launch the Media app and see if it is "Scanning" the media card (as it does for any new media card insertion).
    Best!
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  • Can't retrieve pics or video from the media card in curve 8320

    Hi. New & dumb to smartphones, so this 8320 is a big step into the current world. It was cheap, works great & I'm slowly getting it figured out.
    Only one issue so far. When I took pics without a media card & they were stored on the device, I could use the desktop software to transfer them to my computer.
    After I installed a media card, even though the the pics & videos are stored on the card and I can view them on the phone, the desktop software doesn't see them. It only shows the device. In the options menu, the media card support is on, & mass storage mode is enabled,
    When I plug the phone in to the computer, even though the computer beeps to show connection & the BB desktop software shows the phone connected, windows explorer does not recognize an external drive (phone) and in the desktop software there is no option for storing the pics on anything other than the device. I can remove the card & use a card reader to transfer the pics, but the BB software can't see them.
    What am I missing?

    Before start receiving the pictures in your blackberry device go to media, press menu and receive using bluetooth.
    After this start the file transfer and you'll be ok. 
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  • Z1 SD card issues..Often caused by FAKE SD cards, unbeknownst to the user and those trying to help?

    Hi All...
    Well for the last month or so Ive had problems with my 64 gb SD card..losing data, getting corrupt and requiring non stop formatting..until eventually it just died totally.
    Of course, throughout all this I was searching various forums for fixes and reasons why...and as far as I could see it was the fault of the Z1 'killing' SD cards ( I tried the card in other peoples phones and it did not work either..so I assumed it had been corrupted BY the phone!......since it HAD worked perfectly when i first got it)...
    Well...Once it finally died totally this week., I decided to send it back to Samsung for an RMA. The card I had was a good quality,  64gb Samsung Evo SDXC class 10...Bear in mind I purchased it from an  Ebay seller that had  1000s of positive feedback (1 or 2 negs regards late postage only) and the card arrived in the post in packaging with hologram etc, and all appeared good quality....
    Im actually pretty tech savvy..and indeed internet shopping savvy, and have never been ripped off or conned before.....I didnt buy a 64gb EVo that was ridiculously cheap or anything..I paid what they are worth (then about £27)
    But Samsung took one look at it and informed me it was a fake...the issue I had come up against was that the card worked fine up until its ACTUAL (not listed) capacity was reached..which was 7 GIGS!!!..not 64!!!...it was at that point that it started corrupting files and failing in general....
    Which in my case was a couple of weeks after installing it in my phone (and the day I got round to piling all my music on it!)......so I had a few weeks of actual use out of it while all seemd fine....enough time to leave positive feedback for the seller and all!.....DEVIOUS SWINES!!! : D.
    Anyway,
    Now Im wondering...since these symptoms (files vanishing, corrupting etc) have been talked about so many times on these forums and elsewhere...not only on the Xperia Z1, but on all phones and devices that use SD cards...I wonder just how many are REALLY down to fake SD cards.....They are VERY realistic looking fakes...they even work pretty well up to a point (though probs not as fast as a real class 10 if you were to actually test them)..
    In future, when offering help to people with SD card issues..i think I will make an effort to ask them first about the provenance of their SD card, and maybe try and get images of it. (after the fact Ive found several websites that show the fake ones...I even found an image of the EXACT fake I have..same serial numbers, and same tiny printing error and all!....which was THIS site https://thecounterfeitreport.com/product/504/Samsung-micro-SDXC-Memory-Cards.html)
    In all the threads I pored over, trying to find a fix for my SD card issues..I can not remember a single instance of someone asking if the card was definitely real or not..or anyone suspecting this to be the issue....(though Im sure there ARE, i didnt find one though..not that I would havee thought it was the case with mine,,,,since I had NO reason to think it WAS fake..what with the perfect packaging, and seller having no neg feedback after selling hundreds of them!).
    Im not some sort of SD card expert..BUT I am pretty up to date with regards consumer tech.....and until Samsung revealed to me I had been conned...I had absolutely no INKLING that the cause of my issues wa a fake card...on no forums did anyone ask the person with the issue 'are you sure your card is real?'.....and I am really coming round to think that these fake cards are RIFE out there on the market....so realistic looking, package and all, that probably otherwise legitimate sellers are trading in them......the KILLER being the fact they do actually work...maybe for MONTHS if it takes you a while to reach its true capacity....and certainly long enough in many cases to mean the nefarious seller gets away scot free!
    So watch out guys...I ceritanly will be in fuiture...Now I know that fake cards are a big thing.....its really easy to spot the fake ones (if the seller uses a REAL picture of the item on the listing!)...they are by no means identical to the real deal when you know what to look for (in the case of fake EVO 64gb like mine, just 'made in Taiwan' and the back being gloss black instead fo white, is enough to show it as fake.....but I did not know that at the time when an absolutely perfect lookng offical Samsung package turned up at my door!....
    Anyone else have this yet? Im sure they have....also, anyone wonder now if the cause of their woes is a fake card? If you would like to post here, Im happy to have a look at it!
    Thanks all!
    (Here is my fake one for you all to see : D...apparently it is a VERY common fake....wish I had known! I also wish i still had the very realistic packaging too!)

    Well to be honest I wasnt aware of such things myself until I got stung.....or  rather not aware that you could follow all the rules, and do everything right, like check for good feedback, (my seller had 1000s positve and 99% ratio....and not buy items that have a price that is 'too good to be true'...........and STILL get ripped off!
    You live and you learn! Ive been shopping online for just about 10 years and this was the VERY FIRST time Ive had a problem of ANY kind!
    I had gotten so confident shopping online, that I bought a pretty valuable watch online not a month ago..my first 'large' online purchase in fact.....a Casio GPW-1000 RAF edition... a quite rare '500 pieces in UK' item. Though it came from a large watch dealer, I realise now that it was still a risk (though I had the protection of paying by Credit Card..which I willl ALWAYS do from now on!)....as they may have sold a counterfiet item, and not actually realised it themselves...
    Since I have had this experience of buying a counterfeit product,, I haev been reading into the phenomena..and it turns out that Casio G Shock watches (the type I spent a fari bit of money on...a legitimate one luckily!) are very heavily counterfeited...and are ALL OVER Ebay....who seems to do nothing about it!
    I can understand (though not condone AT ALL) criminals counterfeiting a sought after watch design, or jewellery and things like that...because they have a market for them, in the shape of people that cant afford the real thing, and think its ok to buy a cheap and poor quality knock off, that only superficially appears to be real.......
    ...but I have to say its a big surprise to me that they would counterfeit something like an SD card, even if it is a quite highly regarded model.......and even go to such effort to copy the packaging perfectly......I think that the fact that so much effort went into faking a Samsung Evo 64gb sd card ..that it demonstrates that there are a LOT of them out there....hundreds of thousands for sure....but could there be millions?
    Due to this prevelance, I think it might well be worth asking each person that comes on the forum with an SD card problem, in particular those with a'new' SD that is losing data, or needs to reformat all the time, or any of the 'giveaway' symptoms...to ask them for an image of the offending article as a starting point.....and to then compare it to images of the real ones that are online...
    Im sure most of them will deny they own a fake....I certainly didnt think for one second my problems were due to a counterfeit card...as I said in my post...the first I knew of it was when Samsung themselves informed me!
    Otherwise we end up going round in circles trying to 'fix the unfixable'..which is what happend to me : D
    Anyway, I will keep an eye out for people on the forum, and a couple of other tech sites I frequent, and see if I can identify any more of these fakes, and hopefully can catch them soon enough that the customers can get their money back, since the problems often dont manifest themselves until the time for immediate refund is passed (once again, this happened to me, and Im having to claim through Paypal..though they are being very helpful...its only £22...but its the principle of the thing!)
    Thanks all, and stay vigilant!

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