Install SD Card in Galaxy J7

Samsung Galaxy J7 Sky Pro smart phone, front view, with screen protector In place.

You can add up to 128 GB more internal storage (memory) to your Galaxy J7 phone. The added storage space allows you to store lots of music, movies, video, or documents on your phone. So here, we give the procedure to install SD card in the Galaxy J7. Indeed, inserting a memory card on this phone is an easy routine that even the novice should have no hardship doing.

Install SD Card in Galaxy J7: Step by Step

1. Power Off the J7 Galaxy Smart Phone

First, locate the power button on the J7, as highlighted by the green arrow in the next picture. It’s on the top right edge.

The Galaxy J7, right side view, showing Power-Wake-Sleep button highlighted.

Next, press and hold the Power button until the Power Off / Restart / Emergency Mode choices screen appears.

This screen is as shown next.

Showing the -Power- screen on the phone, with the -Power OFF- button highlighted. Be sure to turn OFF the Galaxy J7 before attempting to install an SD card.

Next, tap the red Power Off button, shown in the last picture.

Then, the Power Off confirmation screen comes up, as shown next.

The -Power Off- screen with the red -Power Off- button highlighted.

Finally, tap the large, red Power Off button, as pointed at by the green arrow in the last picture.

The phone then powers down, as shown next.

The phone displaying its -Powering Down- screen.

After several seconds, the phone completely shuts down. It’s screen then goes totally dark, as shown next.

Front view of the Galaxy J7 powered OFF. It is now safe to install a new SD card.

2. Flip the J7 Phone So its Back Faces Up

Secondly, hold the J7 TracFone in left hand, as shown next.

Rear view of the Galaxy J7, showing the battery cover snapped into place. To install an SD card, you must remove this cover, as we show below.

3. Remove the Back Cover

Locate the cover release slot, as pointed at in the next picture by the green arrow.

Back cover of the phone, with its release-to-open slot highlighted.

Then, insert a small flat head screwdriver or other thin, flat object into the slot, and turn it gently, to snap open the back cover, as shown next.

The Galaxy J7 with its back cover open.

Removing the back cover reveals the battery and micro SD card slot, as shown next. See the battery at the left center of the phone, and the card slot near the right edge just above the lower right corner.

Showing the installed battery in the back of the phone.

4. Remove the Battery

Taking out the battery ensures that the phone is completely powered down. To protect the smart phone as well as your new micro SDXC card, there should be no power in the phone when you install the new storage card.

Back of the phone, with the cover and battery removed.

5. Cut New Micro SD Card from Package

We’ve tested this Samsung Ultra micro SD card with the Galaxy J7 TracFone. It works well. The phone can access the entire 128 GB of memory on this UHS-1 storage device. Plus, the access is plenty fast for most if not all phone uses like running apps, storing pictures, and viewing pics and movies from it.

SanDisk Ultra 128 GB MicroSDXC UHS-1 memory card and SD card adapter, showing package front.

There-s an inner plastic tray in the middle of this package that holds the memory card and adapter. To get that out, we cut a vertical slit just to the right of the microSD card itself.

The Sandisk Ultra 128 GB micro SD card and memory card adapter. Showing the inner plastic package, front view.

This inner clear tray that holds the adapter and card has a thin, Cellophane-like cover. Peel this off to gain access to the Micro SD storage card inside.

Front view of the new SD card, held in hand. Avoid touching the gold pins on the back of this card before you install it in the Galaxy J7.

Note that we won’t need the SD card conversion adapter, since the J7 TracFone accepts the micro SD card directly.

6. Install the SD Card in the Samsung Galaxy J7 Phone

Lay the new microSD card into the little memory card well, as shown in the next picture, pointed at by the green arrow.

Back view of the Galaxy J7. Showing a new microSD memory card positioned in slot but not yet snapped into place.

Then, slide the card down toward the bottom of the phone, as shown next, until it snaps into the installed position.

A new micro SD card fully installed in the J7.

7. Replace the Battery

insert the battery, label side up, as shown next.

The installed micro SD memory card and battery.

8. Replace the Back Cover

Snap the back cover over the battery and new SD card, as shown next.

The battery cover installed once again.

9. Power Up the J7

As you did when you turned off the J7, press and hold the Power button until you see the screen appear, as shown next.

Showing the phone powering up, displaying its introduction screen.

After a few seconds, the Samsung logo screen appears briefly, as shown next.

The Galaxy J7 displaying its logo screen while powering on.

Then, the TracFone startup screen appears briefly.

Showing the TracFone logo screen while the Galaxy J7 powers up after we install a new SD card.

The phone has finished booting when its lock screen appears. Note that you may not see a lock screen on your phone if you’ve not configured screen locking.

The phone’s lock screen after power up, with the new SD card installed notification highlighted.

10. Access the Just-Installed Memory Card

Quickly tap and release the Power button. Since we’ve set up a PIN code on our J7 TracFone, our phone prompts us for that code as shown next.

The Galaxy J7 at the PIN prompt screen.

Next, key in your PIN code.

Note. After entering your PIN code for the first time after installing the new SD card, the J7 invites you to copy files to the new card.

So you should get a notifications list screen like we saw on our phone, shown next.

The Notifications screen with the new SD card entry highlighted, after we complete the procedure to Install SD Card in Galaxy J7.

Here, you can tap on that notification, and follow the prompts to copy any files you wish to copy from the J7’s internal memory to the new micro SD card.

11. Done with How to Install SD Card in Samsung Galaxy J7 !

You have now successfully installed your new micro SDXC memory card if the phone notifies you about copying your media files to the card, as discussed in the last step.

If you don’t see any notifications about the SD card, it’s possible that the card didn’t seat the right way in the storage socket. So, power down and open up your J7 TracFone again and check that the card is pushed all the way into the socket. Warning: Do not press too hard though, lest you damage the delicate micro SDXC memory card or the socket.