What just happened to my phone?

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Is everything on the phone saved on a micro SD card? My husband works construction, and carries his phone in his pocket. Every so often it’ll get dusty and the phone will stop reading the SD card, and he’ll spazz out crying that his phone has been erased. Then I take out the SD card and wipe it off. Magically, all his stuff shows up again.

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