Gang,
I believe I've found a thread that describes a problem similar to mine:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=552826
It talked about the camera folder messing up. But in that thread, at least they can still see the files, but having the wrong file sizes. Mine just vanishes.
Here is what I'm experiencing right now. I took about 10 pictures sequentially, was able to view them via Resco Photo Viewer (This has been my pic viewer ever since). Then after a few days when I wanted to show them to a friend, the contents in my \DCIM\100XPRIA\ folder in the SD card were all wiped out clean! Another thing I noticed is that every time I go into this folder, it takes a while before I get control of my phone again (around 10 seconds after), after that, it shows me nothing. I tried taking pictures again, the camera app was complaining about not being able to take the picture. The next thing I did was to rename the DCIM folder to "DCIM Temp", then created another DCIM folder. I was able to take pictures again, and guess what, all the missing pictures reappeared in "DCIM Temp"! I was able to open the pictures again. But again after a few days, the new pictures in DCIM\100XPRIA have gone missing. I tried the folder renaming technique again but it didn't work anymore. I couldn't take pictures again. The next thing I did was to change the "Save To" option of the Camera App to save to phone instead of memory card. I was able to take pictures, was able to open the pictures via Resco Photo Viewer, but then when I transferred the pictures to the SD card, again I couldn't open the picture. I was thinking it might be a faulty SD card, but how come only pictures that were taken by the X1 camera have this problem? All of my documents can be opened, pictures from other sources can also be opened, videos etc. Only the X1 camera pictures have multiple problems (either vanishing or can't be opened).
I currently have an R3A ROM, with a 16GB Sandisk micro SD card. I never take the SD card out, I always use the supplied USB cable to connect the X1 to my computer as a flash drive. I first noticed this problem when I still had R2A. But I never thought of it as a camera problem, because I just thought the SD card got corrupted when one time I pulled the USB cable from my PC too quickly, and got that "delayed write failure" balloon message from Vista. The symptoms I've experienced that time was the phone being unresponsive for 10secs when I try to go into some folders (like the DCIM folder I have explained at the start of this post). That prompted me to reformat the SD card and took the opportunity to upgrade to R3A. Right now when I step back and try to remember those affected folders in the SD Card (when still in R2A), I seem to recall all of them having at least 1 file that came from the camera app, like:
\DCIM\100XPRIA
\My Documents\My Pictures\Family
\My Documents\My Pictures\Gadgets
.
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All the pictures the camera took go straight to \DCIM\100XPRIA, I then rename some of them and transfer to these other folders.
Does the X1 camera app have problems creating its output files? If yes, is there a patch or 'new' ROM I can install to get rid of this problem? I really hope someone can help me.
Thanks for your time.
Any takers? I hope somebody has experienced this problem and can guide me through, thanks!
I haven't heard or experienced this problem yet. I think you should try formatting the card again after you backup. Then before reloading the files, test to see if the same thing happens to your pictures.
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Hi, guys,
Here's one from Kaiser newbie (sorry if there's an answer to this somewhere, tried, but couldn't find it):
Have a (un)brand(ed) new Kaiser and this 2GB Micro SD Card. The thing is, no matter what I do, I can't force that bundled TT6 Navigator (or any other version, for that matter!) to install on my SD!!!
Before you ask, I need it because I am frequently commuting throughout Balkans, and (as if that alone wasn't enough ) the ONLY map TomTom released covering that area so far was v6.08 East Europe BETA which has around 170MB. There's a lot of local forums stating that it is quite operational, but needs a bit of tweaking to get it there, which includes puting both TT6 app and the Eastern_Europe-Map folder to the root of SD.
Piece-a-cake, I thought, but then I hit the wall... I do get to a point of being asked for an install location, but even if I select my SD card ("Storage card"), I end up with TT6 installed in default Program Files folder! Tried with ActiveSync, manual install, CabInst and some other reg-tweakers (promising to solve things but failing miserably), etc., to no avail.
Not just that app, to be specific, some other behave likewise, but then, there are also those that play along, so...
What gives?!?
Try making a "My Documents" folder in the Root of the SD card, then install there or if you already have the maps there, just copy the map folder into My Documents on your SD card.
Are you sure the actual app is installed in the devices main memory. When you install to the SD it still has to install some files on the device - such as the shortcut to the actualy program.
MakaveliReturns
Try making a "My Documents" folder in the Root of the SD card, then install there or if you already have the maps there, just copy the map folder into My Documents on your SD card.
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Well, tried that one up, as well as making SD card "Program Files", but doesn't work that way. I'm sure it's because after I move the "Navigator" folder from MyDevice Program Files to SD card, there's a plenty of registry keys still pointing out to the default location... The problem is I can't make ActiveSync to actually install the damn thing anywhere on SD card.
unwired4
Are you sure the actual app is installed in the devices main memory. When you install to the SD it still has to install some files on the device - such as the shortcut to the actualy program.
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Yes, because I located several folders on MyDevice with TomTom related files, and NONE on my SD card...
Thanks anyway, guys, any help is appreciated.
Quick update:
I did the hard reset. I'll try out "fresh" install, maybe something got messed up in my registry, then I'm back with results - usefull if someone else out there have the same problem (and I've found quite a few of those unfortunate souls ).
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I'm sure it's because after I move the "Navigator" folder from MyDevice Program Files to SD card, there's a plenty of registry keys still pointing out to the default location.
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Yeah, this isn't going to work. The installation needs to go to the SD card in the first place.
Uninstall whatever it is you want on the card.
When you do the installation, make sure the card is in the phone. Connect your phone to your PC and don't immediately launch the installation. In WMDC or Active Sync, go to "Add/Remove Programs." There's a check box on the screen that will open that says "Install applications to default location" or something along those lines. If you can uncheck it, do so (it's not available sometimes).
When you actually do the install, check the mobile phone - it should be prompting you for where you want to install the app. Select the radio button for the Storage card, and you should be good to go.
Ok, now this is ridiculous!
After a hard reset, tried to install TTN 6, and, when asked for an install location, selected "Storage card"... Nevertheless, the damn thing installed to the Mobile device instead (again, so I give up trying to put it on SD for good!), but, to my surprise, I have managed to start it up and it even recognized my map ("Eastern_Europe-Map" folder on SD card)! Boy, was I happy as a pig in the s... Simpsons Movie ! Quited and started the app several times to ensure it's lock and loaded for good - yep, it was working all right...
But, guess what? After a later soft reset, TomTom hit me back with "No map found" again, seems like it has lost the "show-me-the-map-location-key-thingy" from the registry!!!
So, who da f#$% do I have to kill for this?
Try installing it from the sd card - ie put the cab files on the sd card and load it from there.
Thanx, tried that one already (described in my previous post), it got me closest to the goal, ie. that's how I got TT6 recognizing my map from SD card and working as a peach 'til next soft reset...
What could change in execution of an app after just reseting a device? The only thing coming to my mind is some Windows-style-run-once-regkey that screws things up, which makes no sense since the app should be legit, coming bundled with the Kaiser an all that...
Any idea?
I would guess it more to some registry settings remaining from the flawed installations.
Is there a setting in TT that tells it where to find the maps?
I don't know how, but, hey - it's working now!
Right.
First of all - it's working. I don't know the apparent reason, but what i did was:
1) A hard reset.
2) None of that Spring Backup restore stuff. Although I used to restore just emails and personal database, left it out completely this time around.
3) Installed manually all of the usual tweaks, apps and stuff first, then put the TT6 cab down to my SD card again.
4) Synchronized my emails, contacts and the likes using ActiveSync.
4) Installed TT6 from SD card again, but before starting it for a first time, made a full Spring backup - the idea was, if the thing tends to work just for the first time it's started, I could easily restore it should it start loosing it again after a soft reset.
And that was it. Then started TT6, played around with it for a couple of minutes, and did a soft reset.... TA-DAAAAAH, it's up and running again and again, so no problem with it anymore.
Is it just me, or this makes no sense whatsoever, but, hey, it's working so why bother with it any longer.
Thanks a lot for your help, see you again in next week's episode of "I don't know how, but, hey - it's working now!"
Cheers.
Ok. This is weird. I've been using my phone to tether these past 2 days. Racked in about 800mb of usage.
Heres the weird part:
I was going to show my friend a picture and I opened up my photos. I only had about 10 pictures in there to begin with but when I opened it I had over 100 pictures. They were pictures of parts of sites I had visited while tethering. I had a picture of Chumley EX's Avatar the one with the little kitten in the bag, had pictures of banners from websites, pictures of random people from myspace, they all appear to be little GIF images. I manually deleted them but when I go to view pictures I have empty spaces with a Circle with a slash through it. Like a stop smoking sign. What's wrong?
By the way when I click on the blank spot where a picture is supposed to be (the stop smoking circle looking icon) it says "Unable to open this type of "JPEG" file. On some others I get " Cannot delete '0' The file is in use"
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I fixed it. How did I do it you may ask? By default pictures are stored in memory at in the DCIM-100MEDIA folder. I copied allt he pictures in the 100MEDIA folder. (those weird pictures were no where to be found in there by the way). I copied them in the my documents folder on device memory. After verifying my pictures copied successfully I deleted the DCIM folder on sD card and created a new DCIM folder with a folder called 100MEDIA in it. I copied all my pictures back in the sD and voila problem solved. Kind of freaky how it saved pictures from sites I visited while tethering. Asa precautuion I'm going to move all info from sD card and reformat it.
don't use the camera often, but recently, I found when taking a picture, all is normal, good scene on screen, autofocus, etc and when I shoot the picture, it does not save. Running a Tilt, stock ROM, and have tried various camera/album combinations trying to find one that works. Currently with Navadi version 5. Interestingly enough, I can take video and it works well, just will not save still photos. Camera program sees my storage card, everything seems normal, except no photo file after snapping the shot. I am out of ideas.
i think it is saving them to the dcim folder on ur sd card
Nope, nothing there. It does not even go through the usual motions of freezing the frame for a second while saving. I have scoured the phone and card and find nothing.
Fire up schaps advanced config, check the "Save location" under "Camera" and "Default storage locatin for images" under "Locations".
By combining the two you should be able to find it. I left the DCIM option on once and took me ages to find the photo, but it was in a DCIM folder on my storage card, somewhere...
Also,
Use total commander or resco file explorer to search for the files. *.jpg for example
Ta
Dave
Thanks, already tried all of that, seems there is either a software or hardware issue with saving pictures. I am beginning to believe it is a hardware issue, although a curious one indeed. I am pretty good with these devices and this one has me stumped, never lost to a computer yet, though. If it is a hardware issue, maybe tough to fix.
I have a similar problem: taking pictures works fine and it saves them in the correct folder on my storage card, as I set it in Advanced Config.
But whenever I take a GPS photo, I can't find the pictures anywhere. Are GPS photos being saved somewhere else I don't know about? If so, does anyone know which folder they're saved to? If not, has anyone else had this particular problem?
PDADoc said:
But whenever I take a GPS photo, I can't find the pictures anywhere. Are GPS photos being saved somewhere else I don't know about? If so, does anyone know which folder they're saved to?
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The GPS photos are stored in \My Documents\My POI (or \Storage Card\My Documents\My POI if you've chosen to store your pictures on your SD card).
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don't use the camera often, but recently, I found when taking a picture, all is normal, good scene on screen, autofocus, etc and when I shoot the picture, it does not save. Running a Tilt, stock ROM, and have tried various camera/album combinations trying to find one that works. Currently with Navadi version 5. Interestingly enough, I can take video and it works well, just will not save still photos. Camera program sees my storage card, everything seems normal, except no photo file after snapping the shot. I am out of ideas.
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I've had similar issues with mine (also running the stock AT&T ROM). What I've found is that the "press halfway to autofocus, but all the way to take the picture" thing often makes me believe that I've taken the picture, when I haven't. If I am more careful about pushing the button in all the way, it'll take the photo and save it.
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The GPS photos are stored in \My Documents\My POI (or \Storage Card\My Documents\My POI if you've chosen to store your pictures on your SD card).
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Yes, I actually found out about the same time you posted this reply.
Thanks for your help!
Possibly related issue: My tilt camera will save fine to device storage, but if I tell it to save to the SD card, I get nothing. If I catch the photo while it is displayed for review, and click the mail button, I can send it in an email. Even stranger, if I take a jpeg, and copy/paste it to the DCIM folder, it never appears, but I can write to other parts of the card fine.
I think this is a software problem, not hardware.
EDIT:
Found solution on another thread. Camera dosen't like folders created already on the card, so to solve, just delete the DCIM folder, and restart camera.
Hi guys!
Ive had this happen once or twice before.
I have the following folder route:
Storage Card/Backup/PIM
Storage Card/Backup/ SPB Finance
Storage Card/Backup/SPB Pocket Plus
Suddenly the contents of a folder will disappear !
Browsing to the folder via explorer will s how an empty folder, using the application to find the file will also show nothing.
This first happened with the folder SPB Finance. Suddenly all my backup were gone and never returned. So I began backing up to SPB Pocket PLUS folder.
But now all 3 folders are empty!
In PIM folder, I used to see my PIM backups, but now browsing to it will show an empty folder. If I open up PIM to restore to a file in there, the folder PIM wont open.
Same with SPB Finance, if I restore to a file created earlier, it wont be there. I backedup to the folder today,and finance said successfully backed up, but browsing to the folder shows nothing, even when I try to restore to the file I just created, it shows nothing!
Ill be able to open Storage Card then Backup, but PIM folder wont open (the little plus sign doesnt change to minus).
This is very alarming!
As far as I know, I can only say its happened in the Backup folder as its the one I access the most to restore and backup to. It could be happening in other folders but I have not discovered it yet.
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Hi guys!
Ive had this happen once or twice before.
I have the following folder route:
Storage Card/Backup/PIM
Storage Card/Backup/ SPB Finance
Storage Card/Backup/SPB Pocket Plus
Suddenly the contents of a folder will disappear !
Browsing to the folder via explorer will s how an empty folder, using the application to find the file will also show nothing.
This first happened with the folder SPB Finance. Suddenly all my backup were gone and never returned. So I began backing up to SPB Pocket PLUS folder.
But now all 3 folders are empty!
In PIM folder, I used to see my PIM backups, but now browsing to it will show an empty folder. If I open up PIM to restore to a file in there, the folder PIM wont open.
Same with SPB Finance, if I restore to a file created earlier, it wont be there. I backedup to the folder today,and finance said successfully backed up, but browsing to the folder shows nothing, even when I try to restore to the file I just created, it shows nothing!
Ill be able to open Storage Card then Backup, but PIM folder wont open (the little plus sign doesnt change to minus).
This is very alarming!
As far as I know, I can only say its happened in the Backup folder as its the one I access the most to restore and backup to. It could be happening in other folders but I have not discovered it yet.
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have you tried another sd card? sound like your current one is going bad.
The issue is its happened before, on another sd card, thats why I manually migrated all my data to this current one thats also acting unreliable.
This has happened to me before, with some files missing then the entire content on micro SD card gone, but still showing 2gb of storage space used.
I did some searching on google and basically there are softwares out there that you can use to recover the files that are now missing, but I tried and it's quite troublesome and not entirely successful.
Sometimes could be that your SD card is faulty, but most of the time is just your device that is not reading the card properly.
My advice to you, which was what I did:
1) plug your SD card on one those card readers and do a thorough format of the drive.
2) Do a hard-reset or a Clear Storage of your phone.
3) re-install everything.
4) After you're done re-installing, use SPB Backup and do a backup of your phone's memory and storage card.
The only reason I've done the backup was in case my SD card was faulty then I wouldn't have to reinstall everything again after purchasing a new card.
But so far, a long time has passed and the formatted SD card is working fine. No missing files or folders.
Same thing happens to me. The other day the voices for TomTom just disappeared! I keep a backup of the card, so I just copied them across. I'm not sure what the real cause is but the idea of re-formatting the card sounds good. I'm not looking forward to a hard reset but that may be needed too. No help I'm afraid but at least you're not alone. Maybe someone knows the real cause.
Storage Card missing file fixed
I had the same issue.
Where after a reinstall I found several folders and files missing from my storage card.
It happened more than once, and this fixed it when I saw the problem.
Here is what I did to get the files back.
If files seems missing from the Storaga card
to show the files again
Copy a file with the same name of an already existing file (one of those who disappeared) on the storage card in the storage card root folder. (myChannels.opml or zz.txt)
When the file is copied all the other files and folders will show.
The file copied could be showed stored in a 8.3 file name format (old DOS file.ext), and you might not be able to delete it.
I think the issue might be related to invalid file names (or an invalid long file names) in the storage card.
If you did not have this probllem I suggest you put a short text file on the storage card root folder so that you can use this trick to restore the folders and files if you experience the problem.
I've had the same issue but I noticed that reconnecting to ActiveSync solves it. The files dissappeared after using my Tilt as a guest on a second computer and I've had it happen a few times. Returning to my main computer and syncing restores them every time though...
My Tilt just started doing this too. I usually notice either my Storage Card/Program Files/Egree Files in the directory missing or the Data files for Egress on the storage card missing. I also recently flashed to L26 KaiserTouch V1M2D.
After a reset the files will show up again.
I'm not sure if Egress or the new Rom causing this. Very odd and I'm not sure how to troubleshoot it.
OK it happened again and I could not fix it.
This time I reformatted the card
drmc said:
Same thing happens to me. The other day the voices for TomTom just disappeared! I keep a backup of the card, so I just copied them across. I'm not sure what the real cause is but the idea of re-formatting the card sounds good. I'm not looking forward to a hard reset but that may be needed too. No help I'm afraid but at least you're not alone. Maybe someone knows the real cause.
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thats wierd, my Tilt's tomtom maps mistiriously vanished today and last friday I swiched from landscape to portrate and it went black, I use wisbar advanced desktop and what caused it to go black was that my skin which was stored on the card mistiriously vanished. I think its time to backup my pictures and videos before they vanish.
Fix is here
Yea, this happens to me all the time. Sometimes a directory go missing, sometimes entire card looks blank. When use PC to read the card, the directory also seems to be blank... It's very annoying! It becomes even worse after I change to a 8G card (from 4G)...
Lucky, after some google I found following solution seems to work. at least I didnt have any of this problem for 2 weeks after apply this. (It was once almost every week. I end up having a backup for SD card)
Just modify following registry keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\SDCARD\ClientDrivers\Class\SDMemory_Class\High_Capacity\BlockTransferSize
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\SDCARD\ClientDrivers\Class\SDMemory_Class\BlockTransferSize
Change original 64 (on my HTC WM6.1 tilt) to 32 (dec) or smaller value.
Smaller value=better reliability=slower card access
This key means the number of data 'blocks' transferred during one transaction. Larger value means "more data blocks get transferred during one transaction". Larger cards have larger block (a.k.a sector) that means more data per block. This exacerbate the data loss which caused the folder content missing..
Please be noted it's recommended to backup your phone before registry hack. I will not responsible for any data loss or malfunction caused by doing those registry hack. If you do not know what registry edit works then I recommend not doing it since it can render your device not usable unless applying a hard reset (which lose all your data!)
Please let us know how it works for you.
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!
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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