Sometimes They Just Play Dead
So I found a micro SD for my phone. Paid too much, but I wasn’t coming home without one and I wasn’t much interested in tramping all over town looking for a better price. Card is now installed in phone, waiting for me to put 8 zillion books and fuck-tons of video on it.
The best part may be that I learned something. I had one of the sales-tech-whatever people check the phone as well as the other two cards I brought with me. Phone is fine. And astonishingly, so are the other two cards that I had thought were corrupted or dead.
This is what I learned: sometimes phones do this (fail to recognize a card and pretend it’s dead) after a software update, or for no particular reason. Put the card in an adapter and check it on the comp. All the files should still be there. If they are, wait a day or two, then put the card back in the phone. It should work.
I can do that now, since I’ll have a couple of spare cards at my disposal.