Database Develop

How to transfer files faster

I use ActiveSync. But it is 2 slow. A friend of mind told me that Storage Card could turn to hard drive - how this is possible ?

You can insert your Micro SD card (w/ SD adapter) into a card reader and insert that into your USB port.
Much more faster/convenient that way.

markata said:
I use ActiveSync. But it is 2 slow. A friend of mind told me that Storage Card could turn to hard drive - how this is possible ?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
the program many people use and include in many roms here is wmstorage, which works pretty well, but again its still limited to your device's usb speed which for the most part is 1.1.

that way is definately faster (removing card and using reader), but i find that if i have programs installed on the card and i remove it to transfer, then put back into the phone, those programs installed on the card no longer work properly. i would need to soft reset everytime. kind of annoying

I don'f find it easy everytime when I want to put some mp3s or just 1 .avi or 2, to remove the stick.
And now I read that it works also with car audio system that has USB - that's really great

Huh?
NguyenHuu said:
that way is definately faster (removing card and using reader), but i find that if i have programs installed on the card and i remove it to transfer, then put back into the phone, those programs installed on the card no longer work properly. i would need to soft reset everytime. kind of annoying
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Wait a second ... are you removing the SD card while the phone is on and running? Y-I-K-E-S.
You might want to try turning the phone off, then removing your card, adding whatever you want onto the card, reinserting, and turning it back on.

i never did any such thing
there are only 2 things to take any spc actions before removing removable media
from both pc and pda
1 something is being written to it but still located in the write cache
2 a program is running directly from the flash

ubuntu is smarter than me

i just got a new g1 and when i click on the device in ubuntu i put a checkmark by the device in the usb list but it immediately just disappears, am i missing something?
I dont remember doing anything special to get it to recognize my last g1, although towards the end of that g1's life id have to frequently restart ubuntu because id encounter the same problem...very, very, very frustrating, thanks

Hmm, I do sometimes have problems mounting the G1 is ubuntu, but its normally fixed be logging out and in or remount in the phone and mounting in ubuntu again. When this happens I see "Usb Device" in the computer are of nautilus, but that refuses to mount.

AdrianK said:
Hmm, I do sometimes have problems mounting the G1 is ubuntu, but its normally fixed be logging out and in or remount in the phone and mounting in ubuntu again. When this happens I see "Usb Device" in the computer are of nautilus, but that refuses to mount.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
ok well then i suppose there arent any setting im supposed to configure when attempting to mount a new device, although it mounted the other g1 so i dont know if this would even count as a new device.
But at least i know its not the settings i need to be looking at...
its just so damn irritating that i plug in the device, it appears on the list of devices in the ubuntu usb icon, then i check the htc...box and i get the connecting sound immediately followed by the disconnecting sound...argh

DMaverick50 said:
ok well then i suppose there arent any setting im supposed to configure when attempting to mount a new device, although it mounted the other g1 so i dont know if this would even count as a new device.
But at least i know its not the settings i need to be looking at...
its just so damn irritating that i plug in the device, it appears on the list of devices in the ubuntu usb icon, then i check the htc...box and i get the connecting sound immediately followed by the disconnecting sound...argh
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Could explain what you mean by "check the box"? I just go to computer and mount it from there or places from the gnome panel and click to mount. You are using Nautilus right? Also it never says anything about HTC for me, just the label I gave to the fat32 volume :-S

AdrianK said:
Could explain what you mean by "check the box"? I just go to computer and mount it from there or places from the gnome panel and click to mount. You are using Nautilus right? Also it never says anything about HTC for me, just the label I gave to the fat32 volume :-S
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Get ready to laugh, i dont know what nautilus is, care to elaborate?. I start up ubuntu, and on the bottom right there is a usb icon, and when i plug in a usb device it shows up there, so i click on the respective device, in this case the phone which shows up as 'htc device...' and then i mount from phone. if i just click (check) the device w/o mounting i can use terminal and what not but once i mount it i can see and change all of the partitions with gparted.

nautilous is the name for the explorer in ubuntu like Windows Explorer in Windows. I still dont get what you are trying to say. Are you saying you can mount it but it disapears or does it mount and you cant change or remove anything?

Can you help me see if I can fix an SDHC card

Hi, my 8GB SDHC card is readable, but not taking any writes.
I was transferring a few movies to my G1 down a USB cable when it stopped and disappeared as if it had been disconnected. When I plug it back into my PC it offers to fix errors, neither this nor trying to format does anything, one of them did mange to blue screen my PC though, only the second cause I've had on win7.
Formatting on the phone also does nothing, the card just stays in the state it was, all the files are still there.
Is it broken, or are there some commands to throw at it which might help. I have got cyanogen on my phone now with root.
Thanks.

You can try some of the commands, but I would look at the card in Ubuntu and see what happens.

Well I thought about linux, but I don't have a card reader atm to fit a microSD so I need to go through my G1. I tried "fdisk/sdcard" and it seems the card is read-only, so I think I may need to do something from the phone or wait for my card reader to arrive.
I'll get a new ubuntu disk on the download anyway so I can have a look later, last time I tried kubuntu it kept freezing so not sure what I did with the disk.

AdamPI said:
Well I thought about linux, but I don't have a card reader atm to fit a microSD so I need to go through my G1. I tried "fdisk/sdcard" and it seems the card is read-only, so I think I may need to do something from the phone or wait for my card reader to arrive.
I'll get a new ubuntu disk on the download anyway so I can have a look later, last time I tried kubuntu it kept freezing so not sure what I did with the disk.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You can still use your phone as a card reader in Ubuntu. If you need any help with it you can look at my guide I have in my sig.

Well I tried in Ubuntu and even though it allowed me unmount the partition, after deleting and recreating partitions the app hung, then wouldn't open again. So I checked the card, still exactly as it was.
So the card is just not taking writes at all. I won't throw it away until I try a card reader, but it's shopping time, got a couple of 2GB, but they are far too small to be useful.

[Q] SD card Help

If this is in the wrong section I apologise
Hi, well my milestone started getting really slow and crashing,
the back touch button at the bottom panel then stopped working and then the SDHC card could not be read by the phone.
I sent the phone off to be repaired, however the microSD won't connect to the computer. Searching on google has brought me no help at all (just those rubbish 'tech-help sites' which copy and paste from each other...)
the computer will add a drive (unused drive letter of D) which is shaded out, and says
'please insert a disk into drive D'
So I think that it has broken. Is there any way of recovering data? there's photos and alot of stuff on it.
thanks very much,
Ross

What you probably need (unless your card is really damage), is to format it, anyway if you search on the net there are some free programs that may help you to recover data from an SD (I don't remember which ones, you have to search them by yourself..)
If you need to format it, sometimes is just enough connect the SDcard and disconnected again and let windows see it as a new drive, then it will ask you automatically to format it.
I recommend (to avoid problem like this in the future) to do the FULL format not the quick one.
If with windows won't work, you can use a software to partition hard drives, like this two (the best actually):
http://download.cnet.com/Partition-Wizard-Home-Edition/3000-2094_4-10962200.html (support linux partitions for app2sd)
or:
http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm
I recommend you to try first with Partition Wizard Home Edition, I had your same
problem a couple of times and this sofware always helped me, and, if in the future you are planning to flash new roms and modifiy your phone, just as a suggestion, is always better backup your SD, on your PC or on a pen drive.
Good luck, and let me know if you will succeed..

Thanks for that, I tried this out, but unfortunately none of it could help me
My SD card won't connect at all, the drive appears but it won't show a card at all, even in the partition tool, or the windows control panel, disk manager
thanks,
Ross

Is it a 16gb card?
On windows xp, you may have a problem seeing it.
You would need a card reader that can read 16gb sd cards if this is the case.
I know this because I've had a devil of a time making an ext2 partition on my 16gb card this week
I finally managed to do it but nothing I did made windows xp see the card through an older card reader. I had to keep the card in the phone and use the phone as a card reader

it's an 8gb card, and I use windows 7 sorry, I bought a 16gig one as a replacement, and it reads fine, I just want to get the data, I can't even re-format cause it won't recognise it :/

Rmg12gra said:
it's an 8gb card, and I use windows 7 sorry, I bought a 16gig one as a replacement, and it reads fine, I just want to get the data, I can't even re-format cause it won't recognise it :/
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Seems like you've tried everything, last suggestion, try this:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CWVWPLBF
You may get lucky...

Micro SD card suddenly unreadable

I have scoured the other forums, but I wanted to post a thread with my exact symptoms. Last night, my phone just stopped recognizing my micro sd card, which unfortunately contained some important data. I tried the card in other devices and it is not recognized in them either. It's as if the card is not even there. At this point, I could probably contact samsung or sandisk and get a replacement card, but more importantly is extracting the data. Is there a program or method I can use to capture the data from the card even if it's not being recognized. I don't have access to sd card reader, but I could pick one up if necessary. Currently, plugging the phone into a computer does not show the card as existing at all, much less reading any data. Any advice is appreciated.

There are a lot of programs out there that you could use to attempt recovery of the files. I was able to recover a lot of data on a friend's micro sd card a few years ago. There is a pretty good article here http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/storage/3481659/how-get-files-off-corrupt-sd-card/
Best of luck to you.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I537 using Tapatalk

I had the exact same thing happen about a month ago. The card said 'ejected, safe to remove' or something along those lines at some random time. I took the card out and neither of my 3 computers would read the card. It didn't error, it just did NOTHING, like it didn't exist. The only thing I cared about were the pics so I tried 3 different adapters, still didn't work. I ended up cleaning the contacts with alcohol (TINY bit on a q-tip) and put the adapter in the reader, THEN the micro SD card. After about a dozen times inserting/removing it finally read the stupid card. I pulled the pics and did a full reformat in windows (unchecked quick format) scanned it for bad blocks and formatted again after putting it back in the phone. I set google to autobackup my pics to G+ now. It hasn't done it since but I definitely won't trust my SD card with anything I can't easily replace or isn't constantly backed up.

Avail211 said:
I had the exact same thing happen about a month ago. The card said 'ejected, safe to remove' or something along those lines at some random time. I took the card out and neither of my 3 computers would read the card. It didn't error, it just did NOTHING, like it didn't exist. The only thing I cared about were the pics so I tried 3 different adapters, still didn't work. I ended up cleaning the contacts with alcohol (TINY bit on a q-tip) and put the adapter in the reader, THEN the micro SD card. After about a dozen times inserting/removing it finally read the stupid card. I pulled the pics and did a full reformat in windows (unchecked quick format) scanned it for bad blocks and formatted again after putting it back in the phone. I set google to autobackup my pics to G+ now. It hasn't done it since but I definitely won't trust my SD card with anything I can't easily replace or isn't constantly backed up.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Try Flickr for backup online, you have 1 Terra-byte space there. @ Google+ it's 1G
http://www.flickr.com/
(for uploading there are several options, i use the one below, but other work fine to i think.)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.tomdog.android.flickruploader.pro
Have fun

I don't think the sdcard socket works very well on these phones. My sdcard stayed to act up, and when I opened up the phone, I found it unplugged. I know it was firmly seated when I installed it. Days could easily get corrupted if the card has a flaky connection.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I537 using Tapatalk

I just had this same issue happen to me a few weeks back. My mico SD inexplicably unmounted from my phone, tried to plug it into my computer using my SD adapter and it acted as if nothing at all was plugged in. I did a google search and found some recommended programs to try and retrieve data from corrupted SD cards, but nothing worked since the computer wouldn't even recognize anything was plugged in. I tried plugging it into my netbook, my Mac computer at work, one of those photo lab machines at Target--nothing would recognize there was a card plugged in. I was distraught because I hadn't thought to backup my photos in months, and I did not want to lose them.
However in my searching for a solution, I saw many people mention Recoverfab (recoverfab.com), a professional in Germany who has a good success rate at recovering data from these SD cards that won't mount. I was sold the minute I saw that if he is not able to recover your data, there is no charge. I contacted him and filled out the order form. Shipping from the midwest, my card got to him in little over a week and he had my photos recovered the very next day. Depending on the size of the card it can get a little pricey, but for me it was well worth getting all my pictures back. I'm going to be sure to set my google+ account to backup my pictures going forward now, but if I ever had something like this happen again I would use Recoverfab again without hesitation.
I hope this helps, and good luck on retrieving your data!

Thanks for sharing the manual ways and providing information about other product. Moreover, I need to suggest Remo Recover tool that is capable enough to restore data from unreadable Micro SD card.

I hope you have managed to recover your data as I can understand your situation as I was scratching my head a few days ago in a similar situation. After doing a lot of googling, I was able to recover the SD card with the entire data and am using the same micro sd card without formatting.
My card was not showing at all on any of my laptops and on the phone it stated blank SD card.
Step 1
You can attempt to fix it using the desktop windows' built-in chkdsk utility.
Open up command prompt (start->run->cmd.exe) and type
chkdsk /X /F
My SD card reader is F:\ drive, so i used the following command:
chkdsk /X /F F:
Either it may ask you to repair and you may follow the instructions or it may say chkdsk is not available for raw files (this is the message I got not to worry as the sd card at least shows up)
Step 2
Download the Windows version of TestDisk.http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
(free software)
Unzip the downloaded file to your C: drive and open C:\testdisk-7.0-WIP > right click " testdisk_win.exe" and select run as administrator (the program doesn't have to be installed).
This may take time, even hours depending on the size of your SD card, so be patient.
A. At the first window select “No Log” and press Enter.
B. Select what drive to analyse, choose “Proceed” and press Enter.
C. Select partition type – option 2 - EFI GPT and press Enter
D. Confirm at "Analyse" with Enter to proceed. The drive/partition will be analysed.
E. Confirm at "Quick Search" with Enter to proceed.
F. TestDisk should say “Structure OK”. Choose the drive/partition to fix. (OPTIONAL: Press*p*to list your files - here you can copy your files to the pc; Files listed in red are deleted entries. Go back to the previous display)
G. Press enter to proceed.
H. Select “Write” and press Enter
I. Press “Y”.
J. Press and close TestDisk. Reboot the computer.
Hope this helps and do let me know
Sent from my GT-I9295 using XDA Free mobile app

SD card unusable
Hi
New user here
I have a 32 Gb micro SD (SP Elite) that has suddenly become unusable. It has no data on it that I can't afford to lose.
I use it in my Galaxy Tab S tablet as a place to store ebooks, music, movies etc when I travel so all can be replaced easily.
I believe the problem started when I had the tablet plugged into my PC and I deleted some files from the SD at that time. Ever since then the card is unusable. The tablet doesn't see it any more with its own file manager but if I install it into a USB-micro SD holder and then to my computer I can at least see it but I'm told I need to "format this card before using".
A "quick" format fails immediately and a long format runs till the green bar gets to 100%, long pause, more flickering lights on SD holder then fails.
I`ve tried the CHKDSK but that says unavailable for RAW drives.
Tried several free recovery programs but most just want to help recover files.
My best hope seemed to be the TestDisk program and I`ve trying various things but I`m out of my depth with many of the options.
On my first run through it found no partitions so I tried setting one up starting from 1 and ending at the number it suggested. I then went back to the PC and tried a long format that went all the way to the end before failing (see above).
Second attempt:
I start TestDisk, select No Log, identified the SD card, selected partition type INTEL/PC, ANALYSE.
Now I have some result ...
Invalid FAT boot sector
1P FAT32 LBA 0 130 3 3852 227 23 61888512
1P FAT32 LBA 0 130 3 3852 227 23 61888512
No partition is bootable
I suspect I might just have to create a boot sector but I'll hold off in the hope that someone will offer some help.
I could easily replace this card as it's not that expensive but it seems they fail fairly frequently so I'd like to learn how to recover one if possible.
Thanks

SD card problem resolved
Problem turned out to be with a USB hub I was using. Just for "fun" I tried the SD in a USB port at the rear of my desktop and it formatted!!!!
Files copied with no problem and are recoverable/readable.
Happy camper
Albergman said:
Hi
New user here
I have a 32 Gb micro SD (SP Elite) that has suddenly become unusable. It has no data on it that I can't afford to lose.
I use it in my Galaxy Tab S tablet as a place to store ebooks, music, movies etc when I travel so all can be replaced easily.
I believe the problem started when I had the tablet plugged into my PC and I deleted some files from the SD at that time. Ever since then the card is unusable. The tablet doesn't see it any more with its own file manager but if I install it into a USB-micro SD holder and then to my computer I can at least see it but I'm told I need to "format this card before using".
A "quick" format fails immediately and a long format runs till the green bar gets to 100%, long pause, more flickering lights on SD holder then fails.
I`ve tried the CHKDSK but that says unavailable for RAW drives.
Tried several free recovery programs but most just want to help recover files.
My best hope seemed to be the TestDisk program and I`ve trying various things but I`m out of my depth with many of the options.
On my first run through it found no partitions so I tried setting one up starting from 1 and ending at the number it suggested. I then went back to the PC and tried a long format that went all the way to the end before failing (see above).
Second attempt:
I start TestDisk, select No Log, identified the SD card, selected partition type INTEL/PC, ANALYSE.
Now I have some result ...
Invalid FAT boot sector
1P FAT32 LBA 0 130 3 3852 227 23 61888512
1P FAT32 LBA 0 130 3 3852 227 23 61888512
No partition is bootable
I suspect I might just have to create a boot sector but I'll hold off in the hope that someone will offer some help.
I could easily replace this card as it's not that expensive but it seems they fail fairly frequently so I'd like to learn how to recover one if possible.
Thanks
Click to expand...
Click to collapse

Help with "blank" sd card
I am trying this method on my daughter's SD card that stopped working today. It won't even show up in her phone, my phone, or my PC. I have gotten to step F, but mine comes back saying "The following partition can't be recovered" and it listed one partition. What can I do from here?
Help please all my daughters photos are on this SD card and she would really like to recover them.
Thanks
Step 2
This may take time, even hours depending on the size of your SD card, so be patient.
A. At the first window select “No Log” and press Enter.
B. Select what drive to analyse, choose “Proceed” and press Enter.
C. Select partition type – option 2 - EFI GPT and press Enter
D. Confirm at "Analyse" with Enter to proceed. The drive/partition will be analysed.
E. Confirm at "Quick Search" with Enter to proceed.
F. TestDisk should say “Structure OK”. Choose the drive/partition to fix. (OPTIONAL: Press*p*to list your files - here you can copy your files to the pc; Files listed in red are deleted entries. Go back to the previous display)
G. Press enter to proceed.
H. Select “Write” and press Enter
I. Press “Y”.
J. Press and close TestDisk. Reboot the computer.
Hope this helps and do let me know
Sent from my GT-I9295 using XDA Free mobile app[/QUOTE]

abroach said:
I am trying this method on my daughter's SD card that stopped working today. It won't even show up in her phone, my phone, or my PC. I have gotten to step F, but mine comes back saying "The following partition can't be recovered" and it listed one partition. What can I do from here?
Help please all my daughters photos are on this SD card and she would really like to recover them.
Thanks
Step 2
This may take time, even hours depending on the size of your SD card, so be patient.
A. At the first window select “No Log” and press Enter.
B. Select what drive to analyse, choose “Proceed” and press Enter.
C. Select partition type – option 2 - EFI GPT and press Enter
D. Confirm at "Analyse" with Enter to proceed. The drive/partition will be analysed.
E. Confirm at "Quick Search" with Enter to proceed.
F. TestDisk should say “Structure OK”. Choose the drive/partition to fix. (OPTIONAL: Press*p*to list your files - here you can copy your files to the pc; Files listed in red are deleted entries. Go back to the previous display)
G. Press enter to proceed.
H. Select “Write” and press Enter
I. Press “Y”.
J. Press and close TestDisk. Reboot the computer.
Hope this helps and do let me know
Sent from my GT-I9295 using XDA Free mobile app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
[/QUOTE]
How many partitions did it list. If it listed more than one then try the other one. At point F you could try typing P and list the files and check if these are the correct files if yes you have an option to copy them to computer as well.

Type of alcohol?
Avail211 said:
I had the exact same thing happen about a month ago. The card said 'ejected, safe to remove' or something along those lines at some random time. I took the card out and neither of my 3 computers would read the card. It didn't error, it just did NOTHING, like it didn't exist. The only thing I cared about were the pics so I tried 3 different adapters, still didn't work. I ended up cleaning the contacts with alcohol (TINY bit on a q-tip) and put the adapter in the reader, THEN the micro SD card. After about a dozen times inserting/removing it finally read the stupid card. I pulled the pics and did a full reformat in windows (unchecked quick format) scanned it for bad blocks and formatted again after putting it back in the phone. I set google to autobackup my pics to G+ now. It hasn't done it since but I definitely won't trust my SD card with anything I can't easily replace or isn't constantly backed up.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hey i was just wondering what type of alcohol you used?

Help for testdisk error
How many partitions did it list. If it listed more than one then try the other one. At point F you could try typing P and list the files and check if these are the correct files if yes you have an option to copy them to computer as well.[/QUOTE]
I got this error, can anyone tell me if I can go anywhere from here?
Analyze cylinder 8/1992 : 00%
Read error at 7/230/32 (lba = 126976)

I have a similar issue... My S3 stopped reading my sd card last night and I've been scouring the internet ever since trying to find a solution. At the moment, None of my devices can read it.
If I plug it into my computer, right clicking the card freezes explorer and I have to pull it out otherwise it crashes explorer after a while.
Opening the testdisk program would leave it scanning indefinitely. (Please wait.........)
edit:I'll try leaving it in my computer for a few days. Because I tried overnight. T_T
Formatting doesn't seem like an option because I can't interact with it in any way from my computer
I've tried Testdisk and Zar but to no avail.

You may try to take out memory card and then connect micro SD card to computer with a card reader, you can then try this sd card data recovery solution.
The sd card data recovery solution helped me before. hope that it helps you also.

Where do we go now?
Albergman said:
Problem turned out to be with a USB hub I was using. Just for "fun" I tried the SD in a USB port at the rear of my desktop and it formatted!!!!
Files copied with no problem and are recoverable/readable.
Happy camper
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
@Albergman - What happened to your higher calling of finding a fix for the problem?? You bowed out with formatting the card. As I read your post, I was hoping that you would be a god-send since your problem seemed identical to what I am having now. Main difference however, I want to save my data - so unlike you, formatting is not an option for me(not the first one at least). I have tons of games progress data and car maintenance data (very precious) that would hurt me to see lost (looking for suggestions for back up options for these app related data).
So far, I have tried zar and recovered pics and videos (which are already backed up automatically). Ran the TestDisk for detecting partition but took a long time (64GB card) and the PC restarted to install Windows updates http://cdn3.xda-developers.com/images/smilies/mad.gif . Will try that again, maybe later.
So now trying out the partition recovery on zar. It has detected the file system (fat32) but the offset is 0kb, which is concerning. But I will let it complete the process and remain hopeful.
Hope to get this resolved with the help from the community.
Update:
The Zar partition recovery mode seems stalled at 99%. Will have to use the task manager to kill it.

Error with Zar
Repeated the attempt to recover partition with Zar but got an error - Unable to continue: Unsupported filesystem (see screenshot). Can anyone suggest anything that I can go other than format?

SD card is unformattable and yields "invalid media or track 0 bad "
So i posted a thread a few hours ago and a user directed me to this thread. I am going to try this tomorrow on my friends SD card when he gets into work but do you think this will work with the problem i'm having? as a refresher, whenever he inserts his SD card into his computer it says it must be formatted, which then goes on to fail(just like all of you in this thread) when he inserts it into his GS4 active or my GS4 it says "mount" but never mounts. I've tried programs and cmd ideas but nothing worked as well. I've attached my thread for reference but i will check in tomorrow and update how this method went. Fingers crossed
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...ds-invalid-t3153717/post61781525#post61781525

TheGr8One said:
Hey i was just wondering what type of alcohol you used?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I just had the same problem. The card was detected but wouldn't read in my GN4 and wasn't recognized in the reader on the desktop. Swabbed it with a little alcohol and was able to view on the computer but not the phone. Backing it up as I type to reformat and restore a few files to see what happens.
Thanks for the tip! :good: