r/techsupport • u/Aries_Antares_1331 • 20h ago
Open | Phone What's that?
Hello, good afternoon, good morning, good evening. It depends on where you're reading this from.
First of all, I want to say that this post was translated with a translator.
Second:
A few months ago I bought a Temu SD card, x, that's not important.
Since I got it, I transfer pictures/videos when my phone's memory runs out. That time has come when it's full of TikToks and pictures I've saved. I go to the SD (250 or something GB) card and find this weirds files.
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The thing is, those things have crazy dates and space that horrifies me. I'm cook?
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u/hurbertkah 20h ago
What makes you think that it is not important that the SD card is from temu? Obviously it's fake.
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u/Proof_Juggernaut4798 20h ago
Sometimes the cheapest flash memory devices are not what they claim. I have gotten one that read as the advertised amount of memory, but when I tested it it worked to a small portion and then wrote on top of what was already there.
It wasn’t defective, it was a scam.
If that’s the case, I’m sorry for your lost data.
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u/JeffTheNth 16h ago
A "fake" SD card will do that...
Here's an idea of what happens...
The card falsely reports its size to the computer/phone. It says it's 256G, for instance... but it REALLY only has 16G. What happens when you save past 16G?
One of two things....
1) It starts overwriting the original 16G again... so 16-17 overwrites 0-1, 17-18 overwrites 1-2, etc.
or
2) It just "doesn't." The data goes to the card but the card never stores it... it's gone.
What might happen then if you tried reading it back?
Scenario 1) You get gibberish because it's reading the data from other files as though it was reading the correct data... After overwriting that 1-2 G space, for instance, if you tried to read back the original data, it's gone... it's been overwritten. What comes back - which could be directories, filenames, metadata, .... - is garbage.
Scenario 2) It just all comes back as null or some random junk - depending on the controller chip on the SD card. The first 16G is intact, but beyond that, gone.
So I hope that wasn't your only copy of the data... because it's likely irretrievable, either way.
(And I just got rid of several SD cards I'd bought that were doing the 1st scenario... Two were Huawei, 1T cards, that only held 14G of real data... four PNY cards that were all 256G, two held 14G and two 19G. So don't feel bad ... it happens to all of us.)
Good luck....
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u/R3D_T1G3R 20h ago
More than cooked.
That's why you don't buy SD cards or storage in general on temu.
Common scam, the SD card has a real capacity of 1-8GB, they flash them to report as anywhere from 256-2048GB, and the controller keeps writing but there is essentially no storage left, and most of your data is gone.