Related
all of a sudden i realized my storage card's content (2GB) just dissapeared.
I have over half of my non OEM programs installed on it and i cannot use them.
has this happened to anyone before?
how do i fix this?
thanks
Well... It happened to me in some way, but after about a minute all was back again. Don't really know why. Maybe soft reset would help?
I had that issue a while ago, apparently it was gone, but the space was still occupied. I didn't find a solution so i had to reformat it and it never happened again.
This exact same thing happened to me yesterday; all of a sudden, when using Resco Explorer, all of the contents of my storage card disappeared. The card looked blank. However, it also still looked like the space was occupied - meaning I did not have 6 GB of free/empty space - just no content. I re-formatted the card on my desktop and am re-syncing now but I have no idea how or why this happened. I have not recently installed any new software.
Nothing disappeared. Turn off the phone, take the card out and put it back in, then turn the phone on. Did you even soft reset first?
ronfin44 said:
Nothing disappeared. Turn off the phone, take the card out and put it back in, then turn the phone on. Did you even soft reset first?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Tried it didnt work. I guess i have to re format
This happened to me and it was from a loose card and a soft reset found my data.
Soft reset didnt help. I tried a hard reset and Nothing. Its like my device cannot recognise my sd card at all. when i check in the setting it says the storage card is not installed.
what do i do?
I can say that it happened to me because I installed a P2P program and it froze and I had to reset. THen my sotrage card got messed up.
It's like any flash memory. If it's in the middle of writing and your phone gets turned off or something then you will corrupt your data. I don't know if you can buy some third party program to get your stuff back. maybe.
????
I had this problem too.....Here's a couple of things you can do
1) take out sd card , take compressed air and blow a little air inside where sd card goes , put card back in and do it slowly wiggle it ever so slightly , take out sd card and do this one more time , this worked for me.
2) in file explorer under "storage card" look for a file called " MSMETADATA ...and DELETE it for some reason this file freezes your device from reading you card
3) go to windows media player and go to library and update your library , see if your sd card shows up there , thats the way I knew my phone was reading my card
4) bad card....I have had a bad card before and it was doing the same , I bought a new one and things got better
good luck my friend
mike
this happened several times on my 8525, and once on my tilt. I've never pinpointed exactly what happened, but it IS a big problem that was supposedly fixed by HTC on the tilt.
I stuck the card in my computer and ran some data recovery tools. They dont always work, but you get lucky sometimes. I then formated the card and copied the data back.
ronfin44 said:
Nothing disappeared. Turn off the phone, take the card out and put it back in, then turn the phone on. Did you even soft reset first?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I turned the phone on and off several times and did several soft resets; I also went into Windows Media Player and attempted to update my library but it would not read my storage card. Neither would the "HTC Audio" program, or CorePLayer, or Resco File Explorer/Photo Viewer; nothing would even recognize the card. Also, when I used a card reader in my PC nothing appeared either. I had to re-format and re-copy my files.
Hey guys, thanks for your advise.
Im gonna buy a new microSD card and see if my kaiser recognises it. Hopefully it does. If so thats great.
Just hope its not the phone with the problem.
i'll let u know whats up
by reformat...do u mean hard reset?
Try this:
With the card in a read/writer or adapter that works (not the phone), go into DOS: Start>Program Files>Accessories>Command Prompt or Start>Run and type in CMD and Okay.
Change the directory to C: drive (i.e. cd\C: )
Type chkdsk e: /f /r at the c: prompt (e: is whatever your card drive is).
Let it run. If it asks about saving a file, you may as well say NO as it will be corrupted or a partial file.
Then EXIT and try the card. Data, for the most part, should still be there and not destructed like FORMAT will do.
Mack
bluemamba said:
by reformat...do u mean hard reset?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No - by re-format I mean I inserted the card into a card reader and re-formatted it as "FAT32" on my desktop PC. I tried to do his on my phone first with SK Tools and MemMaid but neither would recognize the card.
Well. My SDcard (scandisk) is not recognised by my phone or my card reader, so i could not format it.
I bought a new Kingston one and my phone recognises it.
I guess it was the card after all.
Mack5305 said:
Try this:
With the card in a read/writer or adapter that works (not the phone), go into DOS: Start>Program Files>Accessories>Command Prompt or Start>Run and type in CMD and Okay.
Change the directory to C: drive (i.e. cd\C: )
Type chkdsk e: /f /r at the c: prompt (e: is whatever your card drive is).
Let it run. If it asks about saving a file, you may as well say NO as it will be corrupted or a partial file.
Then EXIT and try the card. Data, for the most part, should still be there and not destructed like FORMAT will do.
Mack
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I had the same problem: after something went wrong with an install file from my card on my Kaiser, all files on the card were deleted.
I was able to retreive the card content on my PC (from a card reaceder) with the free program "PC Inspector File Recovery".
After that, I restored the content to the card. I performed a checkdisk (see Mack5305 above). I then removed the directory MSMETADATA.
After this, I could use the card again.
Hi, it seems like i've messed up my phone. It began when the phone hung it self so i just powered it off and then on again. And now all my progs/apps that I've installed to the memorycard stopped working and i also got an error message right after the boot up. But I think I've located the error but I don't know how to fix it. When I looked in the file explorer there is a folder called memorycard2 which my memorycard now is linked to and the phone is reading from it. Although all my progs/apps is linked to memorycard not memorycard2.
But there is a folder called memorycard too but it's all empty, any sugestion how to fix this problem, I hope hard reset wont be the answare to solve it
thx in adv.
Delete that folder?
Copy all of the card contents to a PC. Format the card and copy them back.
Easy fix...
Rename \Storage Card to anything else. Soft reset. Delete the folder you renamed (not storage card as it is now fixed).
WHen this happened to me i think i took all memory cards out - disconnected from the PC and deleted the Storage Card folder - put my memory card back in and it re-created a "storage card" folder instead of Storage Card 2
Thanks for all the replies guys. I think everyones solution will work although I went with buzz83 sugestion since it seemd sloppiest. My phone runs so much faster now and it also enabled the hardware acceleration for SPB MS3, the carusell is spinning like a chamber on a rustless revolver!
Oh yeah, it did solve my problem!
xudo said:
Thanks for all the replies guys. I think everyones solution will work although I went with buzz83 sugestion since it seemd sloppiest. My phone runs so much faster now and it also enabled the hardware acceleration for SPB MS3, the carusell is spinning like a chamber on a rustless revolver!
Oh yeah, it did solve my problem!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It's because you changed registry values to have things like internet cache/history etc stored on your storage card.
I am having an occasional but ongoing problem with loss of data from the SD Card in my Diamond II.
The card is an 8GB HC (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MicroSD-Micro...MemoryCards&hash=item3cb6213376#ht_1880wt_905).
Examples of the problem -
- I copied a complete directory of data from the PC to the card with the card in the PC. Data copied OK and was readable. But when I put the card in the phone the directory was still there but empty. When I then tried to re-copy the data to the directory over the USB connection, an error stating that the device was disconnected appeared on the PC - but I could still read other directories - so the directory was obviously corrupt - and could not be deleted from the card using the PC. I could delete it on the phone though.
This problem has occurred at least a dozen times.
- I have various music albums on the card. They show up in their correct 'album' on the phone. However occasionally after a restart of the phone some tracks appear in an 'unknown' album. If I delete the files and re-copy to the phone off the PC, they once again appear in the correct album. So it appears the MP3 tag is somehow being corrupted or 'misread'.
My question is - are these symptoms of a bad card, or is it possible there is a problem with the phone causing corruption of the card, and if so - what?
pewe said:
I am having an occasional but ongoing problem with loss of data from the SD Card in my Diamond II.
The card is an 8GB HC (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MicroSD-Micro...MemoryCards&hash=item3cb6213376#ht_1880wt_905).
Examples of the problem -
- I copied a complete directory of data from the PC to the card with the card in the PC. Data copied OK and was readable. But when I put the card in the phone the directory was still there but empty. When I then tried to re-copy the data to the directory over the USB connection, an error stating that the device was disconnected appeared on the PC - but I could still read other directories - so the directory was obviously corrupt - and could not be deleted from the card using the PC. I could delete it on the phone though.
This problem has occurred at least a dozen times.
- I have various music albums on the card. They show up in their correct 'album' on the phone. However occasionally after a restart of the phone some tracks appear in an 'unknown' album. If I delete the files and re-copy to the phone off the PC, they once again appear in the correct album. So it appears the MP3 tag is somehow being corrupted or 'misread'.
My question is - are these symptoms of a bad card, or is it possible there is a problem with the phone causing corruption of the card, and if so - what?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I would format the card (but I apprehend that you've done this already). If this makes no difference, and if the card works well on your pc-system, I would advise you to make a hardreset and/or flash a stockrom ...
Furthermore, to locate the problem it would be nice if you could test your TD2 with another card.
Good luck!
Thanks Braunie.
As I have re-formatted the card a few times, I don't think this will cure it.
The 'Seller' has agreed to replace it, so I sent it back today.
If I get the same problem with the new one I'll get a new 'branded' one and try that.
If that fails I'll have to try the hard reset etc. - but that would be a pain as I'd have to re-install the added software and re-configure it - but if that's what it takes......
Thanks again
pewe said:
As I have re-formatted the card a few times, I don't think this will cure it.
The 'Seller' has agreed to replace it, so I sent it back today.
If I get the same problem with the new one I'll get a new 'branded' one and try that.
If that fails I'll have to try the hard reset etc. - but that would be a pain as I'd have to re-install the added software and re-configure it - but if that's what it takes......
Thanks again
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I have had similar issues where the card will work from the PC but not on the device and it turned out to be a bad card.
I have had similar issues where the card will work from the PC but not on the device and it turned out to be a bad card.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Here's hoping..........
Hi,
I have a question regarding media storage location of Whatsapp - I don't necessarily expect a solution but would like to at least verify the behaviour on other phones.
My old android device (Sony Ericsson SK17i) saved the Whatsapp media files to the external SDCard.
I bought a S3 mini this week and noticed a difference: Whatsapp media files are not stored on external SDCard anymore, but on the internal storage. I guess that this comes from the internal storage being presented as SDCard0, so maybe Whatsapp thinks that this is in fact the external SD-Card.
Can somebody with S3 mini check how this behaves with his phone? Within Whatsapp I didn't find a way to configure this, can anyone think of a solution to that?
Many thanks in advance.
I bought a S3 mini this week and noticed a difference: Whatsapp media files are not stored on external SDCard anymore, but on the internal storage. I guess that this comes from the internal storage being presented as SDCard0, so maybe Whatsapp thinks that this is in fact the external SD-Card.
Can somebody with S3 mini check how this behaves with his phone? Within Whatsapp I didn't find a way to configure this, can anyone think of a solution to that?
Many thanks in advance. [/QUOTE]
mine saved on phone internal too....and i'am afraid there's no setting from within whatsapp to store in external sd card....however you can reduce space by using directory bind....search around and you will find it.....directory bind or link2sd should do it....
nazri5363 said:
mine saved on phone internal too....and i'am afraid there's no setting from within whatsapp to store in external sd card....however you can reduce space by using directory bind....search around and you will find it.....directory bind or link2sd should do it....
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
ok, thanks for double-checking, I was afraid so. I don't want to link the whole app to sd card, but directory bind sounds like a very good idea, I haven't thought of that.
FolderMount (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2192122) did the trick. Thanks!
F157 said:
FolderMount (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2192122) did the trick. Thanks!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
How do you managed to make the default Image preview program to work properly?
I marked the "Media verification" checkbox on the folder mount configuration so that de SD Card folder wouldn't appear on the image preview program, but now I only can see some black thumbs with no image "attached" that points to internal memory.
Did any of this happened to you? Or something similar with the images or how you see them?
in my S4
whenever i open this app , notifications comes saying :
checking for root ......
exit
and nothing happens !
install GL to SD from google play and move the data from sdcard0 to ext and link it
Nothing worked out for my xperia zl
evildog1 said:
install GL to SD from google play and move the data from sdcard0 to ext and link it
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This seems like a solution to my problem- moved my whatsapp media folder using the manual settings in Gl to SD, but it seems wonky. I took a picture of myself and sent it to someone, and it worked fine. Image is stored in my "sent" folder on the card, which also shows up in internal if I browse there with an explorer. I click on the image in whatsapp, it becomes full screen.
But when someone sends ME an image, it seems to never download. I see the thumbnail, I click it, and then it says that the media is not found on the SD card.
Sure enough, I browsed the folder in explorer (hooked up to my computer as PTP, browsing in windows 7) and the file isn't there. Only the one that I originated. I tried to create a file there, and it actually timed out on me and said device wasn't available. So it seems to sometimes work but not other times? How strange!
Dishe said:
This seems like a solution to my problem- moved my whatsapp media folder using the manual settings in Gl to SD, but it seems wonky. I took a picture of myself and sent it to someone, and it worked fine. Image is stored in my "sent" folder on the card, which also shows up in internal if I browse there with an explorer. I click on the image in whatsapp, it becomes full screen.
But when someone sends ME an image, it seems to never download. I see the thumbnail, I click it, and then it says that the media is not found on the SD card.
Sure enough, I browsed the folder in explorer (hooked up to my computer as PTP, browsing in windows 7) and the file isn't there. Only the one that I originated. I tried to create a file there, and it actually timed out on me and said device wasn't available. So it seems to sometimes work but not other times? How strange!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
it seems you have root permission problem. you may try to fix permission via custom recovery. GL to SD is working fine and i'm able to download additional data on ext SD.
evildog1 said:
it seems you have root permission problem. you may try to fix permission via custom recovery. GL to SD is working fine and i'm able to download additional data on ext SD.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ah, that might have been it.
In the mean time I gave up, removed it and went with foldermount, linked above. Works just fine out the door, cleaner UI too.
Move WhatsApp Media To External SD Card
This App automatically redirects WhatsApp media to the External SD Card in order to save memory: I cannot post the link, but you can search Nicola Rosada On Play Store and download Photo & File Redirect.
Dishe said:
Ah, that might have been it.
In the mean time I gave up, removed it and went with foldermount, linked above. Works just fine out the door, cleaner UI too.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I got foldermount and used it to mount data/obb folders from some apps to my ext SD card. But this is what i get for whatsapp: The data and obb options are greyed out so i cant select them and it says there is no data to begin with (0 B). How did you do it? Thanks
Thanks for saving me to ask this question. My son has a SG Grand Prime SM-G530H and is facing the same problem.
Dishe said:
This seems like a solution to my problem- moved my whatsapp media folder using the manual settings in Gl to SD, but it seems wonky. I took a picture of myself and sent it to someone, and it worked fine. Image is stored in my "sent" folder on the card, which also shows up in internal if I browse there with an explorer. I click on the image in whatsapp, it becomes full screen.
But when someone sends ME an image, it seems to never download. I see the thumbnail, I click it, and then it says that the media is not found on the SD card.
Sure enough, I browsed the folder in explorer (hooked up to my computer as PTP, browsing in windows 7) and the file isn't there. Only the one that I originated. I tried to create a file there, and it actually timed out on me and said device wasn't available. So it seems to sometimes work but not other times? How strange!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Got the same Issue - can send Images and theyll get stored on SD via Foldermount, but when i receive images, just got the blurry thumbnail and after i downloaded the image i got that "Media is not found on the SD card" issue.
Anyone knows what i did wrong?
This is weird and probably not relevant to anyone, just thought I would put it out there.
I backup apps before I update from Play Store, so that I can roll back if there is any problem with a new version. Cleverly, I decided it was time to move the contents (5.54Gb) of the backup folder to my PC so I connected my Z1 (still running KitKat .108, it works flawlessly and I love Xposed) to the computer, accessed the folder on sd card (took a while to read) and selected all files and right clicked on the destination folder to paste. And nothing happened, just nothing. Selected the files again, same result, nothing happened. Went back and selected the folder, tried to paste that, nothing happens. Left it for a minute or two, to see if anything would happen. Nothing. So I disconnected from PC and and rebooted Z1.
And attempted to move the files again, only to find they were all gone. Now the folder was empty, but according to file managers the space is still being used. I have been through the entire sd card, hidden folders and all, can't find the files manually and the space has not been freed up. Tried to use GT Data Recovery app, it finds over 800 files in standard scan mode and over 3000 in full scan mode (there were 1042 files that were lost) but would not recover the files as it is coded to recover to internal memory only (even when recovering from sd card, WTF!) and there is not enough space. Second pass says no files to recover, first pass used 30% of battery.
I have left my Z1 in MTP mode for USB connections, as it has proved to be the least troublesome mode for data transfers (although my experience with every other Android phone has been the exact opposite).
I have no idea why this happened or how to recover the loss.
gandalf_grey91 said:
This is weird and probably not relevant to anyone, just thought I would put it out there.
I backup apps before I update from Play Store, so that I can roll back if there is any problem with a new version. Cleverly, I decided it was time to move the contents (5.54Gb) of the backup folder to my PC so I connected my Z1 (still running KitKat .108, it works flawlessly and I love Xposed) to the computer, accessed the folder on sd card (took a while to read) and selected all files and right clicked on the destination folder to paste. And nothing happened, just nothing. Selected the files again, same result, nothing happened. Went back and selected the folder, tried to paste that, nothing happens. Left it for a minute or two, to see if anything would happen. Nothing. So I disconnected from PC and and rebooted Z1.
And attempted to move the files again, only to find they were all gone. Now the folder was empty, but according to file managers the space is still being used. I have been through the entire sd card, hidden folders and all, can't find the files manually and the space has not been freed up. Tried to use GT Data Recovery app, it finds over 800 files in standard scan mode and over 3000 in full scan mode (there were 1042 files that were lost) but would not recover the files as it is coded to recover to internal memory only (even when recovering from sd card, WTF!) and there is not enough space. Second pass says no files to recover, first pass used 30% of battery.
I have left my Z1 in MTP mode for USB connections, as it has proved to be the least troublesome mode for data transfers (although my experience with every other Android phone has been the exact opposite).
I have no idea why this happened or how to recover the loss.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I don't have much to say about recovering the files but I do have something to share.
First of all, were you trying to move (cut and paste) the files to PC?
Based on my own experience I can guarantee you that it will never work.
Every time I tried to move things from SD Card (connected to Z1) to PC nothing happens at all. Instead, if you want to move things from internal memory it works flawlessly. I don't know what's the problem but I do know that you can't move things from SD Card to PC connected to phone.
So you have 2 option to move your things (assuming that they didn't magically disappear).
First one is to copy and paste (instead of cut) and then delete them from the SD Card.
Second one is to remove your SD Card from your phone and connecting it directly to your PC (using adapter or something) and then move the files.
I'd suggest you to connect the SD Card directly to PC and open it and change windows settings to show hidden files and check if you can see them. If you can't, then all I can say is to go to some shop to check it for you.
Regards,
~J2C
Just2Cause said:
First of all, were you trying to move (cut and paste) the files to PC?
Based on my own experience I can guarantee you that it will never work.
Every time I tried to move things from SD Card (connected to Z1) to PC nothing happens at all. Instead, if you want to move things from internal memory it works flawlessly. I don't know what's the problem but I do know that you can't move things from SD Card to PC connected to phone.
So you have 2 option to move your things (assuming that they didn't magically disappear).
First one is to copy and paste (instead of cut) and then delete them from the SD Card.
Second one is to remove your SD Card from your phone and connecting it directly to your PC (using adapter or something) and then move the files.
I'd suggest you to connect the SD Card directly to PC and open it and change windows settings to show hidden files and check if you can see them. If you can't, then all I can say is to go to some shop to check it for you.
Regards,
~J2C
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for the reply. You are probably right, for some strange reason I tried to move the files at first, only after that did I try to copy but I fear it was too late. Will have a go at removing the card and seeing what I can do with a PC.
Thanks for the advice.