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Memory Card issue

Quick little question here. I was playing music on my tilt last night and it started bogging down and operating really slow. The music started to get all choppy and was jumping around all over the place. Eventually exclamation points appeared next to pretty much all my music. I went in to look at my storage card to see what was wrong with the files and now pretty much everything on my memory card is gone. The only thing left on my card is inbox mail attachments. All my pictures/videos/audio/files/cabs are all gone. But, its still reading that my 2 gig card has only .8 gig left.
Basically 2 questions
1) Do I just have to bite the bullet and reformat my card now?
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2) My background was a picture I took that was stored on my card. The image is still there but I can't find the photo. It's a very sentimental picture that I'm trying to keep. How would I be able to keep it?
any suggestions? insight?

I'm really taking a shot in the dark here but if windows mobile is anything like windows, it will store a copy of your background image in a system folder and use that for displaying the background. If this is the case, then you should be able to find a copy of it somewhere in the windows folder.. have you poked around at all?
As for the issue with your memory card, are you able to read it on your computer via usb? Or if you have a card reader, can you read anything off of it from that?

l3urton32 said:
Quick little question here. I was playing music on my tilt last night and it started bogging down and operating really slow. The music started to get all choppy and was jumping around all over the place. Eventually exclamation points appeared next to pretty much all my music. I went in to look at my storage card to see what was wrong with the files and now pretty much everything on my memory card is gone. The only thing left on my card is inbox mail attachments. All my pictures/videos/audio/files/cabs are all gone. But, its still reading that my 2 gig card has only .8 gig left.
Basically 2 questions
1) Do I just have to bite the bullet and reformat my card now?
and
2) My background was a picture I took that was stored on my card. The image is still there but I can't find the photo. It's a very sentimental picture that I'm trying to keep. How would I be able to keep it?
any suggestions? insight?
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This may be a dumb suggestion, but if all else fails (to save your photo), you can uncheck all your today plugins, and take a screenshot, so just your photo would show.
Probably not ideal, but it was just a thought

there are many card, usb flash, sd, etc. data recovery / rescue apps.
they will find and recover anything--reformatted, deleted, whatever.
get one as soon as possible. and save to your PC

amkaos said:
there are many card, usb flash, sd, etc. data recovery / rescue apps.
they will find and recover anything--reformatted, deleted, whatever.
get one as soon as possible. and save to your PC
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These usually only work if it is a quick format, (quick format just deletes the table) - so not really "anything"

zeezee said:
These usually only work if it is a quick format, (quick format just deletes the table) - so not really "anything"
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He didn't say anything about a format, quick or otherwise. These programs are designed to read the raw data so if they're a chance there's something left on there, it's worth trying.

[Q] Auto backup pictures to Google from USB OTG

I have a USB OTG cable, and it comes in handy for looking at pictures from SD cards and the like.
I was wondering if there is any app or setting that I can use that will basically hoover pictures from an SD card and then back them up to Google+ Photos.
I know it does this on the desktop with Picasa installed, but being able to automatically upload photos from an SD card while I'm out and about would be handy.
Thank you for your time!

hbar98 said:
I have a USB OTG cable, and it comes in handy for looking at pictures from SD cards and the like.
I was wondering if there is any app or setting that I can use that will basically hoover pictures from an SD card and then back them up to Google+ Photos.
I know it does this on the desktop with Picasa installed, but being able to automatically upload photos from an SD card while I'm out and about would be handy.
Thank you for your time!
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FolderSync can do this. You could also use Tasker to start the FolderSync once the sd card was connected.

farfromuman said:
FolderSync can do this. You could also use Tasker to start the FolderSync once the sd card was connected.
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Thanks! I'll take a look at that. I have done a few things with Tasker, so I may be able to figure it out. I just wish it was automatic like it is on my computer when I insert an SD card or USB key into my computer.

Info from sdcard to Nexus 6

So during the long eons between ordering my 64gb Midnight blue Nexus 6 and its actual delivery I am in pondering mode:
Best way to transfer the info & files from my GS4 sdcard to Nexus 6?
1. Connect GS4 to PC, drag 'n drop to pc file. Connect Nexus 6 to PC & reverse d&d?
2. Remove sdcard from GS4 & put into card reader connected to PC & do the d&d thing.
3. Card Reader for micro usb plugged into Nexus 6 & move the files into internal memory.
4. Is there a direct phone to phone method that won't take forever? If so, what?

wtherrell said:
So during the long eons between ordering my 64gb Midnight blue Nexus 6 and its actual delivery I am in pondering mode:
Best way to transfer the info & files from my GS4 sdcard to Nexus 6?
1. Connect GS4 to PC, drag 'n drop to pc file. Connect Nexus 6 to PC & reverse d&d?
2. Remove sdcard from GS4 & put into card reader connected to PC & do the d&d thing.
3. Card Reader for micro usb plugged into Nexus 6 & move the files into internal memory.
4. Is there a direct phone to phone method that won't take forever? If so, what?
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Lolipop apparently has a new system to move content from your old phone to your new one via tapping them together (NFC). Not sure how it actually works, though - probably sets up a P2P share via WiFi and moves things that way.
In my opinion, the best way is the simplest: tether old phone to a PC then back up, tether new phone to PC and restore. You will not be able to get everything that way (texts, for example, aren't easy to move unless you are using something like Hangouts as your SMS app), but it will work for most things. And, of course, keeping as much stuff on the cloud to begin with is a good way to start; photos/music/docs, etc can just be pulled down from GDrive/OneDrive/DropBox/etc as needed.

I plan on using my < $1 OTG cable and an SD card reader.

Illrigger said:
Lolipop apparently has a new system to move content from your old phone to your new one via tapping them together (NFC). Not sure how it actually works, though - probably sets up a P2P share via WiFi and moves things that way.
In my opinion, the best way is the simplest: tether old phone to a PC then back up, tether new phone to PC and restore. You will not be able to get everything that way (texts, for example, aren't easy to move unless you are using something like Hangouts as your SMS app), but it will work for most things. And, of course, keeping as much stuff on the cloud to begin with is a good way to start; photos/music/docs, etc can just be pulled down from GDrive/OneDrive/DropBox/etc as needed.
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Pretty sure the new transfer thing is lollipop to lollipop only.

Thanks for the info, guys.
Wifi direct and NFC are in kit kat, pretty sure. Someone mentioned an app called Super beam that is supposed to organize & facilitate the process.
In my experience wired communication has been faster than a wireless one. But the PC method takes two transfers. ...to pc & then back to the other phone. So the wifi direct method could be just as fast.
The otg cable & card reader sounds as if it might be the fastest since only a single, wired transfer is involved.
That said, I guess priority should be given to ease of use. Preserving the file / folder structure and being able to set up the whole thing as a batch operation would be paramount.

joshua.justice said:
Pretty sure the new transfer thing is lollipop to lollipop only.
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Nope ... It utilizes your google account to go and grab apps and setup from previous devices, plus if you use NFC it will use that to read the other phone. There have been several reviews and videos on it already.

ES File Explorer let's you transfer files phone to phone via WiFi. I'd imagine that putting it in a micro USB reader like the meenova would be faster though.

I backup all my stuff on OneDrive and Google Drive. All the app will be download when I activate the phone so no need to worry on that.

polke45 said:
I backup all my stuff on OneDrive and Google Drive. All the app will be download when I activate the phone so no need to worry on that.
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Hadn't really thought about these.
_MetalHead_ said:
ES File Explorer let's you transfer files phone to phone via WiFi. I'd imagine that putting it in a micro USB reader like the meenova would be faster though.
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polke45 said:
I backup all my stuff on OneDrive and Google Drive. All the app will be download when I activate the phone so no need to worry on that.
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So what backup app do you use for this.
I know that Titanium doesn't back up personal data like pictures, music, documents etc

wtherrell said:
So what backup app do you use for this.
I know that Titanium doesn't back up personal data like pictures, music, documents etc
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For personal data, I backup my photo on the cloud drive same with document. I usually load my music from my computer using iSyncr so no need to worry about personal data
I rarely put any important stuff on my phone only because I'm screw if i lost my phone
One way i get my stuff backup is set the directory on the cloud drive to backup. Not sure if Google Drive does it but I'm using OneDrive to backup all my photo directory
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I backup texts using SMS Backup & Restore.

If you want to keep using the card as well, you can always do something like this.
https://shopmeenova.appspot.com/st/order.html

rkennison said:
If you want to keep using the card as well, you can always do something like this.
https://shopmeenova.appspot.com/st/order.html
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Ah, yes. For every thing else there's Meenova. Thanks. I have one on order.

SD card from another Samsung device in note 8

I have an SD card that was being used in a Galaxy tab s2 , it contains all my past images and stuff. When I put it inside my Note 8, Google is now backing up all the data in the camera dcim sd card folder again. Is this normal behavior everytime moving a SD card from one device to another?
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It is for google... Regardless whether its been backed up before, this particular phone hasn't. You can effectively turn off google drive backup, fill your phone with photo's and video's and then turn it back on and google drive will do as it always does, back it up...
Hope you are on WIFI or have an unlimited plan though as it could get quite expensive if there's a lot there...

I would rename folder from DCIM to anything else, like TAB2pics for example and let the camera create new DCIM folder and start fresh. I don't think Google will back up non DCIM pic folders. I'm not Google expert to help you with fixing what's already done outside of manually deleting them, but make sure you don't delete things you want to keep.

Just wondered why it would backup the SD card dcim folder again only because I'd put it in a new device.
I normally have just the camera folder and or download folder set to backup on Google photos. Basically it's wasn't backing up or synching anything ( as there was none ) from the internal storage of the phone.
Was doing thousands of pics backups and synching once I'd put my old 256gb Samsung SD card into the N8.
Yes, this was a time where I actually set the phone intentionally to keep WiFi ON when asleep LOL. Also never have it backup on cellular , I'm on true unlimited plan but I value my battery life as well, hence my global Google backup is generally to occur when on WiFi, but I'm not so sure it was backing up and synching with me having turned WiFi off during sleep. A bit a silly move , as in essence it'll being only doing this when two criteria is met , WiFi on and not sleeping.
I'm thinking once it eventually finishes it's backup then , it will be it until the next time I move SD card into my future device.
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After thinking about it, actually I'm not sure how exactly google sync works: if you rename your old DCIM directory, would old pictures still stay on your google account, would they be updated back to new DCIM directory, or would they be sync with new DCIM folder and old pictures erased? I have 3 devices linked to my Google account and it become so confusing, that I use Google for current pics only, and every few months I do full back up to my laptops and SD card, erase everything from Google and phone (and start fresh), but I have thousands of pictures and videos, so everything wouldn't fit on my Google account anyway.

Question How to change camera photos save location

Hi there, is there any way to change camera photos save location. Default is external storage/DCIM/camera. I use my NAS cloud to back up photos but it needs photos exacly in DCIM folder to backing up.

Dizzyrul3z said:
Hi there, is there any way to change camera photos save location. Default is external storage/DCIM/camera. I use my NAS cloud to back up photos but it needs photos exacly in DCIM folder to backing up.
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Hey.
Not a direct solution as such, but more a possible workaround.
Could try looking into such apps as these which will automatically move the files to the chosen folder:
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