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I had apps2sd by lucidrem running on my phone and it was fine. I was out today and my sd card was 'removed' although I didn't touch it. This ended up bricking my phone, because the sd is removed and there is no data or delvik etc. Is there a method to use apps2sd without it being permanently affected when an sd is removed?
A reinstall of rom has fixed it however I have lost everything off the phone now
Thanks
Tucka
LucidRem's Apps2SD uses symlinks which I believe is now preferred over the one used by MarcusMaximus (forgot what its called ) only way to remove a sdcard safely without screwing up your phone is if the phone is turned off. No idea how the sdcard was 'removed' if you didn't touch it. Happened sometimes to me, but never found out what caused it. Hope this helps.
Best to apply Apps2SD again really or use a ROM that automatically enables it by default if a partition exists (Cyanogen/Dude).
Also a small sidenote... The term "brick" means your device would no longer be functional at all, I.E Unable to turn it on using any method. A more suitable term would probably be "crashed" instead.
I only mention this because the term bricked is being used far too loosely to describe the wrong symptoms.
Sorry for loosing brick loosly, just presumed that was what it was when the phone won't get past the G1 splash. So, say I want to watch a movie or something on a different memory card (won't be able to fit all my stuff on one) all I have to do is switch phone off, remove memory card, insert different one (preferably also with a2sd configured for meridian video?) and that will work?
I think the problem is with movement and sudden knocks that the card comes out. I was running through a storm when it said memory card was removed.
Thanks
No worries about the terms as there are an awful lot of them in the world of technology! Long as we're all learning then we can't argue ^_^
To be honest, hot swapping SD cards is a bit long winded... Its best to save up and invest in a larger memory card if possible (Class 6). Not sure what size your SD card is, but if it can't hold a movie then it could be time to buy a new one.
Also if you use the older Apps2SD program (1.1 I believe) it uses Symlinks as alritewhadeva mentioned and it shouldn't cause your phone to crash totally if the SD card is removed.
Best solution though is to buy a new SD card, you should be able to find one on the cheap on the net.
its an 8gb C4, however I am travelling and will be on a 10 hour flight later this month, and was wanting lots of films and tv shows etc. May just compress and squeeze them onto my 8GB.
Thanks a lot
Tucka
using a2sd and 2 memory cards doesnt work. All your app data and cache is on your sd card and the phone wont be able to boot without the right sd card in the phone (trust me i have tried). I suggest buying a new card maybe 16 gb.
Hope they have a charging point on your flight! It would kill your battery watching a movie for that long haha. Better off with an iPod/MP3 player I reckon.
But yeah, you can either add more compression or reduce the resolution/framerate to fit more on your SD card. Quality will drop but at least it will keep you entertained.
2 batteries plus a portable battery charger ftw
Haha, that should be sufficient then! Very well prepared ^_^ I was thinking about getting one of those wind up backup chargers for emergancy use once... No idea if its any good.
If everything is sorted tuka, could you please edit the title to add "[SOLVED]" so people know? Thanks!
[Q] SD Flashed itself?
OK so, not quite sure what happened with my SD card today but it pretty much flashed itself and gone done broken the format for my apps2sd.
I was heavily using my phone today for gps and what not by driving around from garage sale to garbage sale with my ole lady. anyways, i noticed that my ringtones werent the same at about half way through, but i didnt think anything of it and kept on going. i got home later, still was doing it, so i went to terminal:
su
reboot
rebooted. when it came up it said my card was damaged and cant be used......is there anyway way to restore it or recover information off it?
edit: yes i still have root. no the card isnt readable in windows but my mac ID's it but cant do anythign with it.
Well i really don't know how or when this happened but my phone now says "Damaged SD card" under my notifications and i can't access my card anymore. I have tried pulling it out and putting it back in, resetting my phone, and mounting to my computer but it never reads. I know formatting the card would restore it but i don't want to lose my pictures, music, and files that i had stored on it. I was just wondering if anyone has had this problem and knows how to solve it... Thanks!!
I have installed this app on Drizzy's Hero Builds, Cyanaogen, and now JAXROM and in all the cases this app has caused my sd card to fail and come across as damaged... when i set the app up i only chose to move browser cache and move google maps cache to the sd but left all the others on the phone... it worked good for a few hours in each instance... but then my phone would go to sleep and the problems would happen. my phone wouldnt come out of sleep and i would be forced to pull the battery. once the phone restarted i would get the "damaged sd card" or "sd card has been removed" notification. so i installed move cache and all seems fine.... for now...
anyone else run into any type of problem with this app?
it should be the other way around. moving cache to your SD card will cause it to fail more quickly because the cache will keep on writing to the sdcard. that is why the devs leave it on your internal memory, plus it is faster off internal then on sdcard. maybe your problem is something else, something deeper. did u replace ya sdcard or u still using the same one that is supposively "damaged" ?
NguyenHuu said:
it should be the other way around. moving cache to your SD card will cause it to fail more quickly because the cache will keep on writing to the sdcard. that is why the devs leave it on your internal memory, plus it is faster off internal then on sdcard. maybe your problem is something else, something deeper. did u replace ya sdcard or u still using the same one that is supposively "damaged" ?
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im still using the same sdcard and havent had any problems since i removed the app...
what brand memory card and how old. It may not have wear leveling so the constant writing to it by moving your cache there is slowly killing it or it may just be time to get a new one. I would say try a new card and see if problem persists. I just grabbed a class 6 8gb from fry's for $18. If problem remains then return the card and just dont use that app
Johnny Blaze said:
what brand memory card and how old. It may not have wear leveling so the constant writing to it by moving your cache there is slowly killing it or it may just be time to get a new one. I would say try a new card and see if problem persists. I just grabbed a class 6 8gb from fry's for $18. If problem remains then return the card and just dont use that app
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using class 4 sd. brand new. i am planning on getting class 6. do you know the specs on yours? i have a frys right down the road but last time i went they only had class 4. if you could leave like brand or something that would rock... or maybe use barcode scanner and share it somehow lol
I love marshmallow's adoptable storage feature, allowing me to install more apps. This feature worked beautifully for about a month and a half. However, I shut down the device, plugged it in to charge, went to sleep, and the next morning, the apps that were moved to the sd card were not available anymore. They were all greyed out on my launcher(Nova). I moved about 4 gigs worth of mostly games. Fortunately, most of them had cloud storage, but some favorite games didnt. This isn't that big of a problem, but I'd like to try to fix it. So, I went here for help.
At first, I thought the class 10 SanDisk 16gb sd had just gotten bumped out of the slot where the connections happen, so I opened the back cover and removed and inserted the sd card. The notification that prompted me to put the sd back in went away for a few seconds, but then came back. I repeated the process of removing and inserting the sd a few times, but still no moved apps were available. I put the sd into an adapter, then into my laptop, and it showed on file explorer. So the sd card could still be recognized, but maybe unusable.
I dont know what happened, one day it was working, the next day it wasn't. I know i formatted it as internal and portable storage a few times, so maybe that wore it out. I'm running cm13
Hello,
On my phone I used the micro SD card normally as external storage. On day I plugged in my headphones and there was no music. I though that the micro SD card must have come out. However, reinserted it it didn't work. I wouldn't open on computer either. While I don't have a solution, I am pretty sure I also had the same problem.
Once I was taking pictures with my phone when it crashed and rebooted. Some hours before the crash I uninstalled some apps and installed some others (but never rebooted the phone). After the phone started again after the crash, all the pictures and files were gone, the uninstalled apps were there as if I've never uninstalled them and the new installed ones dissapeared.
TheSaffronArmy said:
Hello,
On my phone I used the micro SD card normally as external storage. On day I plugged in my headphones and there was no music. I though that the micro SD card must have come out. However, reinserted it it didn't work. I wouldn't open on computer either. While I don't have a solution, I am pretty sure I also had the same problem.
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how long have you used your sd card? i'm sure that the more you use a micro sd card, the more it will wear out and become unuseable/corrupted. That has happened to me before, where the sd card just stopped working.
KyleSaki714 said:
how long have you used your sd card? i'm sure that the more you use a micro sd card, the more it will wear out and become unuseable/corrupted. That has happened to me before, where the sd card just stopped working.
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I have used it for about 1 year. So it may be that but, it has never occurred before.
Same problem here, you can read it here. While I am writing hopefully my files from Titanium Backup are transfered to my laptop. It got worse and worse, in my opinion the sd-card has reached it's end of life because of it's heavy usage. Error occured the first time after the phone got really hot recording gpx tracks. Bye bye sd-card
Another opinion is that warranty is over after two years, so the phone can quit it's duty now - obsolescense plans
Androphilius said:
Same problem here, you can read it here. While I am writing hopefully my files from Titanium Backup are transfered to my laptop. It got worse and worse, in my opinion the sd-card has reached it's end of life because of it's heavy usage. Error occured the first time after the phone got really hot recording gpx tracks. Bye bye sd-card
Another opinion is that warranty is over after two years, so the phone can quit it's duty now - obsolescense plans
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yeah, i'm starting to think my micro sd just bailed from wear like that too, but i got to use mine for just over 3 months. i ejected the sd and put it into my computer, and interestingly enough, on my computer it reads 16 megabytes. i was like WAAT that cant be, i formatted it, put it back in my phone as portable, and it read as the normal 14gb. i'm starting to think my sd as internal is the cause of my random reboots. im even running the lastest cm13 update too...
i guess ill try and use my sd as just portable storage from now on, and see if i get any random reboots..
I switched to TurboROM which is using the sd-card as a portable media device, so no more encryption, heavy usage and complete data loss if you do not get your encryption key with root permission.
System space left after complete recovery of my apps with TB is quite nice - but you do not have the possibility to use App2SD (correct me if I am wrong).
So the only way to save internal system space is to move pictures, movies and heavy openstreetmap cards to external.
My S21 is completely destroyed.
what are the possible ways to recover data from this device?
or should I just forget about it?
Nothing was backed up?!!
A data recovery service might be able to. If you had an SD card... now you understand one huge reason to always have one and use it as a data drive. Then regularly and redundantly backup the SD card to at least 2 hdds that are physically and electronically isolated from each other and the PC.
blackhawk said:
Nothing was backed up?!!
A data recovery service might be able to. If you had an SD card... now you understand one huge reason to always have one and use it as a data drive.
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Unfortunately no. Got busy with S22U and was too lazy to backup my old device. It was a 512GB device, so never felt I would need an SD card. And now I'm pulling my hair thinking should I punch my face or not.
nazmulnsu said:
Unfortunately no. Got busy with S22U and was too lazy to backup my old device. It was a 512GB device, so never felt I would need an SD card. And now I'm pulling my hair thinking should I punch my face or not.
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It happens... I lost a 30 yo database that wasn't replaceable.
This N10+ is 512gb with a 1tb card. Lol, sometimes I use the internal memory to temporarily backup the SD card.
It's much easier it is to set up a new phone with an SD card slot. I got a second N10+ about 8 months ago. I simply put the .5tb card from the older phone in it to completely load it. When I finally got my new 1tb card a few months ago for the older N10+ I copied all the files on it to internal memory. Then got the new 1tb card in the phone and repopulated it with the data I stored on internal memory. Eventually the .5tb card in the newer phone will be upgraded to 1tb as well.
Right now I have those 2 SD cards, a .5tb flashstick and at multiple hhds with backup data for the phone(s). I might lose some data but never all my data. Once bitten, twice shy.
blackhawk said:
It happens... I lost a 30 yo database that wasn't replaceable.
This N10+ is 512gb with a 1tb card. Lol, sometimes I use the internal memory to temporarily backup the SD card.
It's much easier it is to set up a new phone with an SD card slot. I got a second N10+ about 8 months ago. I simply put the .5tb card from the older phone in it to completely load it. When I finally got my new 1tb card a few months ago for the older N10+ I copied all the files on it to internal memory. Then got the new 1tb card in the phone and repopulated it with the data I stored on internal memory. Eventually the .5tb card in the newer phone will be upgraded to 1tb as well.
Right now I have those 2 SD cards, a .5tb flashstick and at multiple hhds with backup data for the phone(s). I might lose some data but never all my data. Once bitten, twice shy.
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Sorry to hear that. I'm gonna be more careful from now on. I set up a 20TB fileserver at home last year which I can use anytime to backup everything. But I am just a complete lazy idiot. I have good memories of that phone, I wish I could retrieve that.
nazmulnsu said:
Sorry to hear that. I'm gonna be more careful from now on. I set up a 20TB fileserver at home last year which I can use anytime to backup everything. But I am just a complete lazy idiot. I have good memories of that phone, I wish I could retrieve that.
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Thanks... we all make similar lapses in judgment as life gets twisted.
Get a good case, the S22U is even heavier than the S21U. I've using the Zizo Bolt on my N10+'s.
Without it this device been smashed long ago.
A flash stick can be use for easy "dirty" backups but the hdds should be the primary backup.
Samsung's are fairly secure to the point where it's counterproductive. If the phone still boots you could try accessing it remotely but it will be hard to set it up initially. You could replace the display if the mobo is good.
If the mobo got damaged then it will be a lot more complicated and maybe completely impossible to extract any data.
Remember what Dirty Harry said about what can happen to data that's not backed up
blackhawk said:
Thanks... we all make similar lapses in judgment as life gets twisted.
Get a good case, the S22U is even heavier than the S21U. I've using the Zizo Bolt on my N10+'s.
Without it this device been smashed long ago.
A flash stick can be use for easy "dirty" backups but the hdds should be the primary backup.
Samsung's are fairly secure to the point where it's counterproductive. If the phone still boots you could try accessing it remotely but it will be hard to set it up initially. You could replace the display if the mobo is good.
If the mobo got damaged then it will be a lot more complicated and maybe completely impossible to extract any data.
Remember what Dirty Harry said about what can happen to data that's not backed up
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Indeed. Lesson learned. I am using the Nilkin case which is pretty solid but a little bit thick and of course tough I guess. Thanks for your kind advice.