🇬🇧 🇫🇷 SD-Card not recognized

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Hello everyone,

I’m pleased to join the Fairphone community, by buying a Fairphone 3+ one week ago on the official website of the company.
I have done all the OS upgrade, everything looks fine, except a SD card issue :

  • I added to the phone a SanDisk Ultra 200 GB as external memory (not as internal memory option). It was recognized without trouble, just asked me first to reformat it. Then media, like photos or music (Spotify), were working fine with this SD card.
  • For an unknown reason, after a simple reboot, my SD card was not recognized anymore. Even after another reboot nothing. I have removed and replaced again the SD card into the slot. Once, the phone asked for a new reformat, but even then, it was not seen after the reformating process. Now, whatever I do (replace it, reboot etc), the SD card is not recognized anymore.
  • I have checked, the SD card itself works fine on another Android device, or on my computer. I have changed to another SD card (128 GB), but same result, not recognized.
  • Finally, I have done a hard reset, thinking of a software issue. But still, the SD card is no longer recognized.

Do you have any idea of how to solve this issue ? Is anyone had the same problem ? For me, it looks like an hardware issue… but why ?
Thanks a lot for your feedback !

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Bonjour Ă  tous,

Je suis très heureux de rejoindre cette communauté Fairphone, un téléphone que je souhaitais acheté depuis un long moment ! J’ai acheté le Fairphone 3+ il y a une semaine, cependant je rencontre quelques difficultés avec ma carte SD :

  • J’ai ajoutĂ© une carte SD SanDisk Ultra 200 GB comme mĂ©moire externe (et non comme une mĂ©moire interne). Tout fonctionnait bien, il a fallu simplement la reformater lors de la première utilisation. L’ensemble des mĂ©dias, comme les photos, vidĂ©os ou musique s’y sont exportĂ©s sans soucis.
  • Pour une raison qui m’échappe, après un redĂ©marrage, la carte n’a plus Ă©tĂ© reconnu. Après un second redĂ©marrage, le tĂ©lĂ©phone a demandĂ© de nouveau un formatage. Mais mĂŞme lĂ , suite Ă  l’opĂ©ration, la carte n’était plus reconnu. Et maintenant, peu importe ce que je fais, redĂ©marrer, enlever / remettre la carte SD et autres, impossible d’y avoir accès.
  • J’ai vĂ©rifiĂ© que la carte SD n’était pas morte, en l’utilisant sur un autre tĂ©lĂ©phone Android et sur mon ordinateur, et tout fonctionne bien de son cĂ´tĂ©. J’ai changĂ© la carte SD pour une autre plus petite de 128 GB, mais mĂŞme constat, impossible de la reconnaĂ®tre.
  • Enfin, pensant peut-ĂŞtre Ă  une erreur logicielle, j’ai reformatĂ© complètement mon tĂ©lĂ©phone. Mais cela n’a pas rĂ©solu le problème malheureusement.

Donc j’aimerai savoir si vous avez des idées pour solutionner cette situation ? Avez-vous déjà rencontré ce type de problème ? J’ai le sentiment que c’est un problème hardware, mais ce comportement me surprend.
En vous remerciant pour vos retours, je serai heureux qu’on puisse en discuter. En anglais comme français, là où vous êtes le plus à l’aise.

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Hi Jamy and welcome to our community :slight_smile:

From what you have written, I can only say that I have rarely read such a thorough, well thought-out and complete approach to narrow down and deal with an issue with a Fairphone :+1: In other words: I really haven’t got any other idea what you can still do to fix it, and frankly I believe other users here will find it hard to do so as well. As you say, it looks very much like a hardware issue.

You should really contact Fairphone Support and send them your above problem description:

https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

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Hi,

Thank you for having a look to my problem and for your reactivity :slight_smile:
Then I will contact Fairphone Support as you suggested (thanks for the link btw !)

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