Surely on some occasion it has happened to you that your phone Samsung does not recognize micro card SD, which you have installed on your mobile device. That is why throughout this post we will offer you a detailed solution on how to solve this problem.
Samsung does not recognize Micro SD card
One of the possible reasons why a Samsung does not recognize micro SD card, it is because the card format is not suitable. This can happen because these devices generally come to recognize those devices with exFAT or FAT formats, it can also happen when we place the card incorrectly.
And another possible cause is that the slot where this device is inserted is damaged or that its micro SD card is damaged or dirty. This is why we will help you find a solution.
Solution
In case you Samsung does not recognize micro SD card, you may have placed it incorrectly, we invite you to check first. In case it is ok, it could be the following reasons:
- The micro SD memory is bad.
- That this device does not work on the phone.
- Or that there is a problem in the slot.
That is why below we will give you a series of steps that you must apply:
Restart the phone
Sometimes the problem is that there are failures in the phone software and restarting it may solve it. After you have done this on the phone, insert the micro SD memory again.
Insert the micro SD memory into your computer
Another way for us to detect that our micro SD memory is in good condition is to place it in a PC. If your micro SD memory is not recognized by the computer, you may have to use another device to read it.
Check its operation
If your computer recognizes the micro SD card, then you have to go to the Windows start menu and type the word cmd in the search engine. When the command window is shown, right-click on it and choose to run as administrator.
Automatically, you will see the command window where you will have to write chkdsk x: / f, the x is the letter that corresponds to the external memory and is the parameter that will allow you to correct the errors that the card has. Try again to put the micro SD card in your device.
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Clean the slot contacts
The next step is to clean the contacts of the micro card slot SD, to get to check that the failure is due to dirty. Yes the memory after doing this still does not work, we advise you to format the memory from a computer.
Format the micro SD memory
To get to format the micro SD card without losing the files, you must do it from the computer. For this you have to click the right mouse button on the unit where the memory is located, then you have to select the format option and choose the exFAT or FAT32 file system.
Now you have to give click on the start button and wait the appropriate time while the formatting, when finish. Place the micro memory SD on your phone and see if it already reads it to you.
Reset your mobile device
In case none of the previous steps works for you, we recommend that you factory reset your mobile device in order to return it to its initial state. This procedure will erase everything you have on the phone.
In the following video you can see another way to solve the problem of the micro SD card without the need for a computer. So we invite you to see it in full.