Question about putting micro sd cards into smartphones

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fox64

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If you buy a fresh new micro sd card ,can you just put it into any android smartphone and have it work like "plug and play"?

I ask this question because I put a micro sd card that I found on the floor In to a smartphone and it said "sd card damaged" " repair sd card. this will erase all data on the sd card".
So I hit yes and It did not work . Instead it put all these files with nonsense names that took up 80% of the sd cards storage and these nonsense files could not be erased even when I put the sd card in a computer (as if it were corupted or something).

The micro sd card already had android folders and music and other files on it ,so it must have already been in some other smartphone.

Is this why it messed up? or is it just more complicated to put an sd card into a smartphone than it is a tablet?
 
fox64 said:
If you buy a fresh new micro sd card ,can you just put it into any android smartphone and have it work like "plug and play"?
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Yes, it should.

The probelm could have been either the card wasn't formatted or the card is bad. Go into your device settings and format the card and see if it's usable. If not, it's probably a damaged card. Hence why someone probably threw it on the ground.
 
cool...so it seems a fresh one will work.
Afresh one does not need to be formated?

I think it was not formated. I put it into a desktop computer and listened to some of the songs on the sd card be for I monted it in the phone.
I think trying to format it is what corrupted it. the only way to erase the sd card now would be to rub a powerfull magnet on it LOL.
 
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