Im trying to upgrade my 2GB standard card to a new 8GB i bought
The problem is, no matter how i transfer - simple drop and drag or a back up program - it always mucks up the order of my photos.
I know this doesn't seem important but its really annoying.
I've tried renaming them so they are the right order in name but the dam phone uses a mysterious newest/oldest tag i can't do anything with
Does any one have a solution or any advice on this?
P.S. some of my photos are pre-cupcake and thus have a different naming system, dunno if anything else is different
It's just something you have to deal with.
The easiest way would be to clone your fat32 partition to the new SD and than resize it.
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The easiest way would be to clone your fat32 partition to the new SD and than resize it.
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How would i go about doing that?
i believe in the android code, it is sorted by order added. may be wrong but that's been my experience
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Perhaps a stupid question but ...
If you swap from one SD to another it usually shows the first one ever used as StorageCard and the second one as StorageCard2 (guess something like a digital signature like other OS's do) and so on.
So far so good but the registry has links only to installed programs to "StorageCard". Is there a way to either CHANGE the name of additional storage cards that it remains "StorageCard" or an easy way to change ALL setting in the reg at once.
Sure, premises are that all programs exist on each SD card in the right directory structure.
try to use pocket mechanic to flag properties of old and new card
i have no experience just a suggestion
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Perhaps a stupid question but ...
If you swap from one SD to another it usually shows the first one ever used as StorageCard and the second one as StorageCard2 (guess something like a digital signature like other OS's do) and so on.
So far so good but the registry has links only to installed programs to "StorageCard". Is there a way to either CHANGE the name of additional storage cards that it remains "StorageCard" or an easy way to change ALL setting in the reg at once.
Sure, premises are that all programs exist on each SD card in the right directory structure.
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I recently had a problem that may help you out... For some unknown reason, my one and only "StorageCard" suddenly became "StorageCard2". So, I had a "StorageCard" directory that was empty and all my stuff in "StorageCard2".
Long story short, I removed the card, did a soft reset, deleted the "StorageCard" directory with File Explorer, powered off the Tilt, inserted the card and powered it back up. After all that, I had my "StorageCard" back.
Unless there's a script or utility floating around here, you may have to go thru a similar procedure when you want to swap cards.
Note that the "Phantom Storage Card" problem often comes from saving mail attachments to the storage card or having other applications write data to the card while running. The phone cannot release the card when it's removed (no "safely remove" option a la desktop windows), so you end up with a directory in main memory.
If you're encountering this problem frequently and have room in main memory, disabling those options and storing things in main memory often avoids the problem altogether.
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Note that the "Phantom Storage Card" problem often comes from saving mail attachments to the storage card or having other applications write data to the card while running. The phone cannot release the card when it's removed (no "safely remove" option a la desktop windows), so you end up with a directory in main memory.
If you're encountering this problem frequently and have room in main memory, disabling those options and storing things in main memory often avoids the problem altogether.
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Thanks... I thought my problem was related to mail. When it happened to me, the only thing in my "StorageCard" directory was mail. I suspect that I had done a soft reset and my Tilt processed some incoming mail (Exchange) before the storage card was ready to go.
Sooooo I foolishly formatted my SD card from FAT16 to FAT32 without transferring any of my files over to my desktop, therefore, everything has been erased...the cabs I dont really care about as I can just add them again, however the pictures are a devastating loss, there were many pictures on that card which I loved and would like to see again. I am aware that there is a tool somewhere out in googland (and hopefully xdaland) that allows me to bring back image files. If anyone knows the name or location of this tool it would be GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Chris
(If this is in the wrong section, feel free to move, and sorry ;P)
I've used data recovery programs before but can't remember the name of which one i prefer. I'd recommend just doing a google search for either "data recovery software" or "picture recovery". There are many free ones out there so i wouldn't suggest buying one unless your too lazy to read up on which ones best.
If i remember the name of which app i've used before i'll post back,
Good Luck!
Solution is here
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Sooooo I foolishly formatted my SD card from FAT16 to FAT32 without transferring any of my files over to my desktop, therefore, everything has been erased...the cabs I dont really care about as I can just add them again, however the pictures are a devastating loss, there were many pictures on that card which I loved and would like to see again. I am aware that there is a tool somewhere out in googland (and hopefully xdaland) that allows me to bring back image files. If anyone knows the name or location of this tool it would be GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Chris
(If this is in the wrong section, feel free to move, and sorry ;P)
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Try this
http://www.ufsexplorer.mobi/
if you format it i dont think you can recover it. formating wipes it clean. deleting simply deletes the address to where your data is located. recovery programs works by being able to relocate the data without the address.
@ denniegst: Somehow I don't think that formatting destroys data irrevocably. Otherwise utilities like Acronis Disk Director would be at least partly useless. And there would be no need whatsoever for things like DBAN, Eraser, Drive Cleanser... you name them.
@ OP: Provided you never saved anything on your newly-formatted SD card, there should be a very good chance of recovering your data.
At the time of typing this, I have a SanDisk-labelled RescuePRO mini-CD sitting on my desk. I got it with a memory card some time ago, never installed it, but it's supposed to save your bacon in situations such as these. Doubtless there are many others.
Ok, thanks for the posts guys, I believe I recovered the pictures. I used the RDMobile, thanks for the link!
slight problem, I ran the recovery, found the files, but when try to open it a pop up comes up saying;
There is no application associated with "Deleted SD Files"(what i called the backup) Run the application first, then open this file from within the application.
A bit confused on how to open the file to view my recovered files. any pointers
( I apologize for being a pest ;] )
...After looking through the settings, I thnk the problem might be where it asks me to define the file i saved...I am not quite sure what to define the file as?
sorry for the delay
I have not check these posts in a while sorry, the program you need is EZRecovery Pro, it will restore just about anything, deleted, formatted, raw etc.. do a Google/torrent search, by far the best and easiest recovery program I have found. And don't worry if you have written file to your card over the past few weeks, you would be surprised at how much data can be recovered even after a long period of write and rewrites. As always, if you like it, buy it.
try badcopy its good for memo cards and usb devices
I have got a probem which i posted in the below link...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=5948545#post5948545
but unfortunately havent got any response.
Hoping widening the audience may help
Any help will be appreciated.
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Hi All,
I have been stuck up with a problem, not sure if this is the right forum to ask teh doubt..but as this thread is dedicated to Storage cards i thought to give t a try.
Recently i had used my phones storage card on a system and my card got affected by a virus. All the card name and files in it were changed to special characters. when i checked (again on my pc this time) there is no data on my card, its hodden and only a file called "Secret.exe" on my card. However on checking the properties i can see that the used memory is quite huge which means my data is there on teh card but is not visible.
I had some imp data on the card so not possible to format the card.
Does any one have come across this virus and knows the way to extract my data?
Any kind of help will be appreciated, as i have checked on google and am afraid have not been able to find even one perfect solution for this one on a SD card.
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Thanks a ton...
Haven't come across this virus, but if you type 'secret.exe' into Google there is a lot of hits, including a few with 'removal' in the title
May help, may not, but let us know how you get on
Thanks Fallen Spartan....
I had checked most of the links given by Google and they are mostly for the PC getting affected where in u need to change the some registries to see the files.
I have tried those but have not succeeded.
Tried several shredder softs to extract the data as well... i am not concerned over the card...its teh data which i badly require and i have no no backup
does your card have an "autorun.inf" file on it? if so delete it.
Yeah Josefcrist... my card indeed has an "autorun.inf" file on it... but i am not sure i am able to delete it... any special way...tried shift deleting it couple of times...
Use a data recovery software get what you can off card, then format your card nice and simple removal
Re: data recovery BadCopy Pro works well.
Thanks Stylez i will try this soft and will let you know...
I did try recovering the data through a diff soft though which didnt work...
My fingers crossed for this one
this doesn't work?
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_secret_exe
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this doesn't work?
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_secret_exe
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Its meant for pc's not sd cards....look at nimish_fun's 2nd post. He has already tried solutions for pc's
a sdcard connected in drive mode or in a sdreader
can be scanned and cleaned with a normal virus scanner on the pc
same deal with undelete and anything else you can do with an external hd really
unless ur SD Card Reader is locked. then you have to move the switch.
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Use a data recovery software get what you can off card, then format your card nice and simple removal
Re: data recovery BadCopy Pro works well.
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Thanks a ton to all and stylez, this software really worked for me...i can't believe how easlity it extracted all the files for me...
One catch though it recovers and lets you preview all the files but needs the registration key to save the files... however in my case the key was worth buying
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Thanks a ton to all and stylez, this software really worked for me...i can't believe how easlity it extracted all the files for me...
One catch though it recovers and lets you preview all the files but needs the registration key to save the files... however in my case the key was worth buying
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That's cool Glad you sorted and the software is well worth the price tag.
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That's cool Glad you sorted and the software is well worth the price tag.
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Absolutely ... Cheers!!
i might be way off on this but im just being cautious. I decided i was gonna replace the 4gig class 2 sd that comes w/ the nexus with the 4gig class 6 i had in my g1. i decided to use my g1 to format the nexus sd card but noticed 1 thing i guess i just dont understand. When i dropped into parted with the nexus sd card i typed "print" just to see if it was only 1 partition but what i seen was this
Number___Start_______End_________Size______Type_____File System
___1____4194kB_____3965MB_____3961MB_____Primary______fat32
can someone explain to me what would be from 0-4194kB and also how the end size is bigger than the complete size. If that is how its supp to be and im just misunderstanding then please update me on how it actually works or if ive noticed something that needed to be pointed out.
Thanks, veritasaequita
3961MB + 4194kb = 3965MB, the "End" Size is just an Index. Partition starts at 4M, is 3961 MB in size, so it ends at 3965M
About the missing 4M at the start, I'll take a quick look at it.
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Looks like all zero to me, if you substract the mbr from the first 4MB. Perhaps somebody at google did some clever aligning? but then 4mb would be huuuuuge
thats kinda what i was thinking, actually my first thought was if it was a 4mb sorta kinda "swap type partition" for performance....prolly not though. im a perfectionist so im not gonna swap cards until i can fig out what or where those 4mb are and have them on my new card....i dunno my ears are smoking now...lol
veritas
well you can always just dd the old card to the new one and then enlarge the fat partition (or in your case: just omit the last step )
but why make such a fuss about 4mb of zeros? i've seen lots of strangely partitioned usb-sticks/flash disks --and-- a lot of people use other cards in ther n1's (because of the crappy size the n1 ships with). if you must you can always make a dd to a new card or store the dump somewhere for restore later (or just put the old card somewhere safe?).
but still, that seems paranoid and not perfectionistic... don't worry so much
ps: yeah, swap with 4mb wouldn't help much and on the other hand they would just mark it as "swap" in the partition table if it were the case.
im following, thanks for the insight bro
veritas
Just a guess, but most modern hard drives have a hardware cache at the start of the disk. i.e 8MB, 16MB, 32MB etc.
Maybe your SD card uses 4MB.
Also, the manufacturers use the non-technical "Billion Bytes" instead of "Giga Bytes" in the fine print. 4000000000 B (Billion Bytes) = 3814 MB
nope, cache would be invisible by definition.
also the 4mb are there just not allocated to any partition. this has nothing to do with how you calculate the size of the disk.
Just out of curiosity could there ever be a possible way someone like perhaps google could store something hidden to everyone else in that 4mb for maybe like a factory backup of the file system or a backup bootloader? Just exercising my brain, thats all...lol
It's nothing basically, all the hard drives in your PC will have a few meg space you can't partition.
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Just out of curiosity could there ever be a possible way someone like perhaps google could store something hidden to everyone else in that 4mb for maybe like a factory backup of the file system or a backup bootloader? Just exercising my brain, thats all...lol
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well of course you can store something there and if the IPL of the phone can access the sd card it certainly could execute that or flash something. there is a broad range of possibilities what you could and couldn't to with the 4 meg (a factory backup would be a little bigger ) and a backup bootloader wouldn't make sense, because you can feed something to the current loader directly. if you do anything worse to the phone like erasing the IPL, well thats what JTAG is for, just program the chips directly.
so of course this could be an evil tracking cookie and we all could get even more paranoid, but still its all zero's and not really "hidden" in any way, just not allocated and directly visible.
what i want to say: every facebook or other kind of web 2.0 shouldn't be worried about 4 unexplainable megs on some sd card
One of the on-screen icons when viewing an image in Gallery is "<3 Favourite". Can anyone tell me how/where this is stored?
A load of my favourites have disappeared (the marking, not the image itself), and I use the favourites tag to populate my Covers (screensaver) image.
I recently upgraded my SD card from 64GB to 200GB and whilst the number of files transferred was equal to the number on the original, I'm wondering if the information was stored on the SD card (although I think it more likely on the phone itself) and lost during the transfer. I have the old SD card still and would like to restore if possible. Thanks.
Have also lost my Music favourites. 36 views and no response. Anyone?
Maybe is a stupid thing, but some people might miss it.
Have you searched in the old SD card for the typical folders/files that start with a "dot", and that are hidden?