xperia camera wont save to card - XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

when i tried taking a picture using the main camera yesterday it said something like "camera failed to capture image" i finally got it to take a picture by selected the internal memory so it looks like its something to do with the external card. i can save other files (such as mp3s) and use them fine. is there a special folder that needs to be made on the external card or has someone heard of this problem before? ive got the R2A generic rom that recently came out. thanks

usually the phone creates a folder /Storage Card/DCIM/100XPRIA. Try to create it manually if it doesn't happen.

yeh ive got that folder. actually, ill try deleting it, possibly its got corrupted or something. ive never tried taking a picture before so dont know if its something thats happened after i put on the new rom
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lol that seemed to of done the trick! i deleted it and now it works.

have the same problem using the R2 rom .... could somebody help? tried the above

it's only happen to me after changing from 4gb to 16gb card. I think something to do with memory card.

i have a 16gb card too. i set the camera to save to the internal memory, then deleted the folder from the memory card, then set the camera to save to the memory card and let it create a new folder. it then worked fine.

anothadave said:
i have a 16gb card too. i set the camera to save to the internal memory, then deleted the folder from the memory card, then set the camera to save to the memory card and let it create a new folder. it then worked fine.
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Try to do the way you do it. Not working

is there any way to change the save-location for taken pictures ?

anothadave said:
i have a 16gb card too. i set the camera to save to the internal memory, then deleted the folder from the memory card, then set the camera to save to the memory card and let it create a new folder. it then worked fine.
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How can you change it to save to the memory card?
Kind regards

Just look in the settings of the camera itself. It is ajustable to storage card among other options.

I had the same problem - fixed it by formatting the card something must of got corrupt

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My Documents dir corrupt again!!! Photos gone!

After I installed the official HTC rom with GPS support I noticed that I could not take safe any photos anymore taken by the cam to the storage card.
Under The My Documents folder there should be a dir My Pictures. But everything under the My Documents dir is gone.
I deleted the entire My Documents dir through activesync. Take a picture and the dir My Documtens\My Pictures was there again and myu photos are saved again.
I thought the problen was solved untill now. The same thing happend again!!!
Does more people has this problem? I save my photos to the main device now and copy them by hand to the storage card.
I use a MiniSD 2 Gb card.
Greetz,
John
jjplayground said:
After I installed the official HTC rom with GPS support I noticed that I could not take safe any photos anymore taken by the cam to the storage card.
Under The My Documents folder there should be a dir My Pictures. But everything under the My Documents dir is gone.
I deleted the entire My Documents dir through activesync. Take a picture and the dir My Documtens\My Pictures was there again and myu photos are saved again.
I thought the problen was solved untill now. The same thing happend again!!!
Does more people has this problem? I save my photos to the main device now and copy them by hand to the storage card.
I use a MiniSD 2 Gb card.
Greetz,
John
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Did you try to slide the card out and in?
Did you try soft reset?
This always solved my Card Problems.
Hard Reset
Hard reset did the trick...
But it is frustrating when you have taken a picture and you can not save it.
That photo is gone.
I will format my miniSD card on fat instead of fat32. Maybe that will help.
John
There is plenty of memory card recovery software available. Try for example CARDRECOVERY... If you haven't formated your card yet, try it.
ok I have the photo back.
What can I do to prevent to happen this again.
Or am I the only one having this problem?
jjplayground said:
ok I have the photo back.
What can I do to prevent to happen this again.
Or am I the only one having this problem?
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I think it is a good idea to copy your data off of your sd card and reformat it when you do a ROM upgrade. Then your device can make all of the directories over agian the way they should be, not the way the other rom set them up. Then just copy your data files back to the card in the correct location.
Good suggestion
Can I still do that, or do I have the flash the rom again first?
And should I format the miniSD card in FAT or FAt32?
Many thanx!
John
jjplayground said:
ok I have the photo back.
What can I do to prevent to happen this again.
Or am I the only one having this problem?
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Just happened here too .. I switched from DOPOD to LSVW ROM. I didn't delete the directory on the storage card. I made pictures today ... but nothing has been stored anymore on my storage card, not from b4 and not from today.
Matterhorn said:
I think it is a good idea to copy your data off of your sd card and reformat it when you do a ROM upgrade. Then your device can make all of the directories over agian the way they should be, not the way the other rom set them up. Then just copy your data files back to the card in the correct location.
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A work around is nice (but costs a lot of time, especially with a TomTom map of Europe for example), but nicer is to solve the bug .... and it looks now a bug to me in WM5
I had the same problem. Consistently happened on my 2GB Corsair. Switched to a Kingston and it hasn't happened since. Seems to be a quality issue.

Storage card problems

Today i installed a bunch of different HTC programs and Skype
and i played with skype and it worked fine and after a little while i went to use it again and it wouldnt work .. and i find out that my storage card which was called "storage card" is now called "storage card 2" does anyone know how that happened? now any of the programs that i installed to it wont work because they are looking for "storage card"
any help would be greatly appreciated
Thats easy to fix, just delete the storage card folder that it created and reboot your phone and your storage card 2 will be storage card again. That's usually caused by you taking the card out and the phone trying to write something to the card such as email attatchments or whatever and since it doesn't find a card it creates a storage card file on your phone to replace it then when it find the card again it renames it to storage card 2.
i jus had the same sort of problem i deleted both sotrage cards, i deleted a new folder named storage card which showed as a normal windows folder and now wen i soft reset and the card is no where to b seen :s

Storage Card not showing up

Hi guys
Had problems yesterday with my Storage Card being renamed to Storage Card2 etc and could not figure out what was up. Renamed it back as described in various places (By deleting the Storage Card folder created and resetting).
Today however the Storage Card is not showing up at all. Have tried the following:
- Remove storage card, copy contents onto PC using card reader and formatting. Copy contents back and put in phone. -> No luck.
- Hard reset. -> No luck.
Never had any other roms than the standard. Have not upgraded to 6.1 yet.
Could the contents stop it from showing up?
Cheers
Louis
One thing i could think of is a corrupt file.
Try formatting it again (with all your files backed up in your PC) and just insert the card with nothing on it. If it shows up and your phone reads it, a good bet that one or more of your files from your backup is corrupt and the phone is unable to read the card.
yes i suppose that is a logical step to do. lets hope it is. but luckily it is still under warranty if it is hardware...
Reformated the card (FAT32 is this right?) and loaded into HTC TyTN II without restoring files onto it (i.e. completely blank).
Still not showing up...
Any ideas?
ur storage card reader might have become faulty. i would recommend a warranty exchange for ur device.
Installing WM6.1 sorted this out...
I have the exact same problem as you had.. But I already have WM 6.1 and the storage card still doesn't show up..
Tried formating, etc and still nothing.. I can see all the contents if i use a card reader on my PC, but once I insert de card on my kaiser it doesn't show up..
Any ideas?
Have you hard reset? It didn't help me until I installed the WM6.1. Otherwise is it still under warranty. I was actually on the way to take mine in when I installed 6.1. Actually I should have taken it in as I have a scratch on my screen and I suspect they would have replaced the phone...
This problem usually happens if you are using a third party file explorer like Resco etc. and make non visible areas such as your ROM visible.
It then treats the new area as Storage card and the SD card becomes Storage card2.
Just check if you have any other memory areas set as viewable and undo this.
My storage card completely disapeared but came back when I installed WM6.1. Didn't use 3rd party explorers etc. But this might be Baretto's problem.
This problem also occurs when running Card Export II. The Storage Card is renamed as Storage Card2. The only solution is to remove the card and re-insert it.
This solved the problem for me.
Regards,
MAC
The problem I originally described here was the Storage Card disappearing completely. Not renamed etc. I.e. there is no Storage Card2. Baretto may have a similar problem to mine or his may also just be renamed.
Yes, I have the exact same prob as lrossouw did. My mem card wasn't renamed. It just disapeared..
I've already did hard-reset, and I don't use any third party explorer.. I already formated the card.
My only hope is to flash another rom.
I'm using the official HTC 6.1 portuguese rom and i'de like to stick with this rom..
If I was the only one with this problem, I would think it would be a hardware prob, but lrossouw solved his prob by flashing another ROM, so I'm hoping there will be another solution..
EDIT: Just tried to flash another ROM and still no success.. Still Can't find my mem card
I got one better for you. I had to wind up formatting mine because of this. Here's the deal. I go to open up my storage card and the folder is there but none of my files are showing. Then I go to the memory to check the space available and it was still showing that I had half of the card full. So I popped out the card and plugged it into my computer with the same results, nothing. So then I soft reset twice, nothing. I pim backed up my phone and hard reset, nothing. The pim back up was on my card but nothing else. Then I made another my documents folder and for a split second it showed the files that use to be in the old my documents. So seeing that all was lost I formatted my card and I haven't had any problems yet. I started a thread about this but no one responded so I assumed no one else had this problem.
P.S. I have an 8gig sdhc card
cragordon said:
I started a thread about this but no one responded so I assumed no one else had this problem.
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No one has answered you, because there are already other threads about that problem.. Search and you will find them..
This thread is not about empty mem cards.. It's about the device not recognizing the card, so pls refer to other threads..
Thanks
Baretto is it possible to reflash it with the wm6.1 rom? It might fix it.
lrossouw said:
Hi guys
Had problems yesterday with my Storage Card being renamed to Storage Card2 etc and could not figure out what was up. Renamed it back as described in various places (By deleting the Storage Card folder created and resetting).
Today however the Storage Card is not showing up at all. Have tried the following:
- Remove storage card, copy contents onto PC using card reader and formatting. Copy contents back and put in phone. -> No luck.
- Hard reset. -> No luck.
Never had any other roms than the standard. Have not upgraded to 6.1 yet.
Could the contents stop it from showing up?
Cheers
Louis
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LOL,
Guy this is the easiest fix ever.
All you do is delete the folder that says "Storage Card" then remove & reinsert the SD card. SD 2 will disappear & be corrected upon reinsertion.
This issue happens because of the Unload delay & sometimes because of SD Power management issues.
Always best to make sure SD Card Power Management is DISABLED.
GSLEON3 said:
LOL,
Guy this is the easiest fix ever.
All you do is delete the folder that says "Storage Card" then remove & reinsert the SD card. SD 2 will disappear & be corrected upon reinsertion.
This issue happens because of the Unload delay & sometimes because of SD Power management issues.
Always best to make sure SD Card Power Management is DISABLED.
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As I & Baretto posted before (read the bit you quoted) there is no *spoon* (edit:storage card folder). It is not there. Can't delete it if it is not there. There is no Storage Card 1,2 or any number either. The storage card is not showing up anywhere and not as SD2 either.
Mine was fixed by upgrading to wm6.1. Baretto is on wm6.1 already.
@ lrossouw
I already tried to reflash it with HTC original 6.1 rom and other 6.1 cooked roms and nothing..
I'm getting desperate..
I'm thinking about sending it to the warranty, but I'm predicting 1 or 2 months without my Kaiser if I do so
@ GSLEON3
What do you mean by "SD Power management issues"? As lrossouw said, I don't have the SD card rename problem, but maybe my Kaiser ins't recognizing the SD card because of something related with power mangement..
It might be power related. My phone was on very very low battery power just before this happened for me. In fact had to reset itself a couple of time due to low battery. The next day the storage card was gone.
Anythign similar for you Baretto?

HELP !!!

I think I damaged my Kingston SD while I was trying to format it. Now when I put it into place it keeps saying "SD card safe to remove
You can safely remove your SD card". ;( My Galaxy is running MIUI 4.3 Help me, please! What should I do ?
When I inserted my SD with to my laptop none of the files were deleted nor the card was formated.I used Panasonic SD program to format but there is the same notification showing only when I insert the card in the phone.
Gamer4etoCS said:
I think I damaged my Kingston SD while I was trying to format it. Now when I put it into place it keeps saying "SD card safe to remove
You can safely remove your SD card". ;( My Galaxy is running MIUI 4.3 Help me, please! What should I do ?
When I inserted my SD with to my laptop none of the files were deleted nor the card was formated.I used Panasonic SD program to format but there is the same notification showing only when I insert the card in the phone.
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Insert the card, ignore any messages and reboot the phone.
Once the phone comes back up, go to Settings > Storage and see if you can Mount the external SD card.
That worked for me when I got similar messages after swapping cards.
That didn`t work out. I get the same notification.Other ideas ?
I just made hard reset ... still the same problem
btw I noticed something weird in PC/Sync Setting / Default connection type there are two options *Charge only or *Mount SD card??!!! what does this means
What partition is your sdcard after you format it? It still fat32?
Hmm... if it still maybe that is MIUI bug
hm yes it is Fat32 but other strange thing I just saw from the card reader - there is a LOST.DIR folder created with nothing inside ...what does it mean ?
Gamer4etoCS said:
hm yes it is Fat32 but other strange thing I just saw from the card reader - there is a LOST.DIR folder created with nothing inside ...what does it mean ?
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The LOST.DIR directory is normal, it is where corrupted files get dumped. If the Directory is empty that is just fine.
Have you tried inserting a different MicroSD card?
I`m going to try one later today .
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mmm No that doesn`t work either.
I`m suppose downgrade to original firmware should do the trick === I hope so
JOB DONE pheu downgraded to 2.2.1 froyo the job went smoothly .I assume it is not a hardware fault just the MIUI is having this kind of a bug .
Thanks for you all that tried to help

[Q] Trouble swapping SD cards on Lumia 520

Recently been issued Lumia 520s at work but only had 2gig sdcards in..
Have played around with it and moved apps to sdcard etc.
Now I copied everything including the hidden folders to an 8gig sdcard and swapped over to in on the 520... Everything seems ok but all apps moved to sdcard now say they are unavailable!!!! Any ideas what am doing wrong and how to over come the issue?
Regards
Lohtse
lohtse said:
Recently been issued Lumia 520s at work but only had 2gig sdcards in..
Have played around with it and moved apps to sdcard etc.
Now I copied everything including the hidden folders to an 8gig sdcard and swapped over to in on the 520... Everything seems ok but all apps moved to sdcard now say they are unavailable!!!! Any ideas what am doing wrong and how to over come the issue?
Regards
Lohtse
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you need to reinstall them again because you can't swap app's from one sd card to another. (its encrypted with the sd card ID )
so just reinstall your app's and all is ok.
ceesheim said:
you need to reinstall them again because you can't swap app's from one sd card to another. (its encrypted with the sd card ID )
so just reinstall your app's and all is ok.
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thats flippin stupid!!!!!!
and I can't even reinstall as there's no option as it says that is one the sdcard even though its unavailable..
any ideas how to over come this?
ceesheim said:
you need to reinstall them again because you can't swap app's from one sd card to another. (its encrypted with the sd card ID )
so just reinstall your app's and all is ok.
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thats flippin stupid!!!!!!
and I can't even reinstall as there's no option as it says that is on the sdcard even though its unavailable..
any ideas how to over come this?
lohtse said:
thats flippin stupid!!!!!!
and I can't even reinstall as there's no option as it says that is on the sdcard even though its unavailable..
any ideas how to over come this?
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just remove it from the sd card ( laptop is the more easy way)
doesn't work lumia still thinks they are installed !!!!!
It's to prevent cheating (or piracy) by copying/modifying the app data; it's not "flippin stupid" at all.
1) Put the old card back in your phone.
2) Move the apps from the card to the phone (if you have to, just uninstall the apps instead).
3) Eject the old card and put in the newer, larger one.
4) Move the apps back to the card (or re-install them to the card).
Yeah, it'll take a few minutes and it would be nice if there was an easier way to do it, but the solution shouldn't be difficult.
I have no issues with the locking down of swapping cards but should at least give us the option to reinstall or reinstall like they do after an update of the os! Thats why its flippin stupid!.
As to moving back to internal its not possible as have moved 60% of apps to cards tonsave space on phone...

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