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[Q] External SD card

Hi!
I just got my SGS a week ago, and have encountered some issues I would like some help with.
The external SD card I had in my previous phone is having some issues, sometimes when I go to the music player the album art is there and all of the songs, but when you click on a song a message shows saying "the file does not exist", same thing in the gallery, there are thumbnails but when clicking nothing loads.
According to "myFiles" there is indeed a SD card present but it only contains 2 unreadable files, and in the settings menu the amount of space is still correct accordingly to what is on the card.
After a reboot the phone media scans the card, and the files are back.
I tryed format the SD card from the phone but it didn't help.
Running the phone stock out of the box with 2.1

navigate to /sdcard/sd/
then you will see your real stuff
/sdcard = internal SD of the phone
/sdcard/sd = external SD you insert into the phone

Jac_83 said:
Hi!
I just got my SGS a week ago, and have encountered some issues I would like some help with.
The external SD card I had in my previous phone is having some issues, sometimes when I go to the music player the album art is there and all of the songs, but when you click on a song a message shows saying "the file does not exist", same thing in the gallery, there are thumbnails but when clicking nothing loads.
According to "myFiles" there is indeed a SD card present but it only contains 2 unreadable files, and in the settings menu the amount of space is still correct accordingly to what is on the card.
After a reboot the phone media scans the card, and the files are back.
I tryed format the SD card from the phone but it didn't help.
Running the phone stock out of the box with 2.1
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Hey I had the same issue. Not sure what happens. I think it happens when I put the USB cable in. I downloaded some widget/app that can basically re-scan your media without you having to restart.
forget the name but check it out / search for it.

That is what i meant, in /sdcard/sd/, when i start the phone up all files are there, and then randomly disappear, both there and in musicplayer/gallery.
Hmm, but is such behavior normal, I mean it feels like it shouldn't be necessary to have a app. to constantly remind the phone of the SD cards content.
I'm curious if it's a hardware issue (SD card or phone) or just software..

Copy music over to Captivate... Super Buggy & Slow? wtf?!

I copied some music over to my internal sd card last night and i was running GeoMod, and all of a sudden my captivate became super buggy and unresponsive. So i thought okay, something with geomod.. So this morning i did a fresh JF6 --> AXURA to try it out. Copied my music over...and.... still doing the same thing is there somewhere in specific i need to put the music files to avoid this? i have the mp3s in folders according to artist in a MUSIC folder on the internal SD. and its only like 1.5gb of stuff...
Any help would be nice
Thanks

zanejr1 said:
I copied some music over to my internal sd card last night and i was running GeoMod, and all of a sudden my captivate became super buggy and unresponsive. So i thought okay, something with geomod.. So this morning i did a fresh JF6 --> AXURA to try it out. Copied my music over...and.... still doing the same thing is there somewhere in specific i need to put the music files to avoid this? i have the mp3s in folders according to artist in a MUSIC folder on the internal SD. and its only like 1.5gb of stuff...
Any help would be nice
Thanks
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I've never just copied and pasted. Use an app (I use doubletwist) to transfer and see if that works.....

Are you sure they are mp3s? It sounds like you're using the iTunes hierarchy, which means you may be using its music format. That could be a cause.
Also, this is in the wrong section.
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None of it would cause that. Are you sure it's not scanning your media? If not, then I honestly have no idea what you're talking about.

All of my music is in .mp3 format that was organized artist>album>song for iTunes, and it works perfect on my Captivate. If the phone is scanning your SD card, then it will bog the phone down significantly (especially my class 2 16GB external SD...so slow to scan, but cheap to buy).

Did you give it a few minutes for media to finish scanning?

Try a USB port on the back of your computer instead.

I had a similar problem when I first got the phone when transferring a large amount of files to an external SD card. The entire phone would become horribly laggy and even pressing "power off" it wouldn't ever fully turn off, requiring a battery pull to actually restart the phone. I tried loading media onto the SD card directly from the computer and everything worked fine and the phone was able to scan it without crashing. But copying files from external to internal (or vice versa) also caused the phone to react the same way.
The only thing I figure was that it was a VERY low-quality micro SD card (2 GB, not even SDHC, no idea what the class was). When I put in a 8 GB class 6 card, I never ran into this problem again. If this is happening while transferring to your internal SD card, I don't know what the issue might be; but if it's an external, try using a certified high-quality micro SD and see if the problem persists.
edit: I know you said it was to internal SD card, but try removing the external if you have one to see if the issue is still there (the internal would also behave oddly when I had a low quality SD in external even if I wasn't using the external).

HELP!!1 External SD Card Issues (Music, ROM, etc...)

I have searched high and low for the answer to this but only found 2 others with the same unresolved issue.
I got a Sandisk 32gb Micro SD card today. I put it in my phone and formatted it. It was all well and good until I wanted to put files on it.
Firstly, and most importantly for me, I cannot copy music onto the card properly. When I put music on I get one of two messages: either 'file type not supported' or 'file does not exist' - either of these messages will come up when a file is selected via the media player (I use winamp but have tried in the stock player and TuneWiki).
In terms of transferring files to the external SD I have tried:
- Copy/pasting from my PCs music folder
- Copy/pasting into the internal SD music folder from my PCs music folder (the internal accepts and plays files fine), then pasting them from the internal to the external
(I have also tried dragging and dropping)
- Loading them via winamp. (When I do this method it says that all files are transferred but when I unplug there is only a few files (out of the tens, hundreds or thousands I have tried to put on in any given time. Some files play but it dumps most into an 'Unknown Artist' folder and refuses to play them giving the prior mentioned error messages. Most of the files seem to be dumped in a directory on the SD card call 'LOST.DIR'. The files are given a numeric name and are an unknown file format.
- All methods I have tried have put a majority of files in the 'LOST.DIR' folder and the 'Unknown Artist' folder. Also, all methods tried have shown everything to be a success (i.e. all files showing up nicely in their respective folders, winamp shows 100% sync success), it is only when I disconnect my phone and check on it does it show how awry it has all gone. When I plug my phone back in the mess is then represented on my PC too. -
It seems to be very slightly more reliable when files are done in small chunks. In winamp if I copy a few files over, disconnect phone, re-connect phone and carry on it works a bit better but still drops most files.
My second issue (which is likely related) is trying to play ROMs from the SD card. I copied some PSX games and their save states to the external SD and opened them up. They appear to open but it just displays a black screen. I can load the games but they will ONLY play if I load up a save from when I was playing from the internal SD card. If I try to load up a new game that I haven't played before I am just stuck at the black screen. The app itself is running fine, or so it seems, I can still access and mess about in the menus.
I have not tried my GBA, SNES or Genesis emulators yet as when I tried to copy the ROMs over they just disappeared into the 'LOST.DIR' folder, I'll have to redeem those from my PC.
I have also tried to go via Kies for all of this but it will not acknowledge my phone. My phone is rooted, not sure if that matters to Kies.
I'm sorry if that is all a bit awkward to read, I find it difficult to explain. If you need any more info just ask Please help me! I've been at this all day!
Thanks guys .

Smells like fake card .
Ebay purchase ??? Honk Kong ???
Test the sd card in a sd card reader .
Fill it up with data it should take at least 28 GB
Long time to write data could be fake .
Try the Sandisk checking tools from the web site .
jje

Tried a different card. Only tried using music files but it worked which leads me to think that everything else will work too. So it seems you are right: fake card.
Thanks for your help man. I'll go and try to get a refund from that Hong Kong eBay seller, haha .
EDIT: Although. I uninstalled psx4droid because it wouldn't run my ROMs properly and then re-installed it. The sound is really crackly now, I know some other people have that issue but I never did. Also, my phone crashed twice this morning so I have to take the battery out, it has never done that before. Can fake cards mess your **** up?

Self-deleting videos on microSD

I have a problem (my friend also) on the Note, when I load videos on microSD, in any folder, they disappear after some time. I do not use Kies, but frequently I connect the phone with cable for external storage.
thanks

Hi,
no idea to solve?

Did you try doing a disk check?

eksasol said:
Did you try doing a disk check?
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...the strange thing is that a friend has the same problem...

^^ are those 720p videos ? or greater than 4gb in size ?

same issue
Most of the videos has been deleted from my micro sd card (32 gb) with my galaxy note. It is really frustrating,problem disappears if using phones storage. A fix is requested urgently cuz this not accaptable from samsung.

fcasoli said:
I have a problem (my friend also) on the Note, when I load videos on microSD, in any folder, they disappear after some time. I do not use Kies, but frequently I connect the phone with cable for external storage.
thanks
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While connecting the phone to the PC it is possible that a program intended for synchronizing or importing media file to PC can delete the files from SDcard. So does "PMB Sony" for example. You can change it in options.

Same issue with samsung Galaxy s2
Same issue here. My device keeps deleting video files from my external 16gb microsd.
I put video files inside a folder (/media/video) and after some time the files disappear. The only thing that I do is plug and unplug from a pc mounting usb storage several times a day (i do not use Kies).
I also used a freeware program to recover deleted files from the microsd and found out that the files were marked as deleted (i had success in recovering).
This thing is starting to be very annoying.
I'm on MIUI 1.12.9.
Thanks

I confirm that I have the same problem.

buk_grudziadz said:
While connecting the phone to the PC it is possible that a program intended for synchronizing or importing media file to PC can delete the files from SDcard. So does "PMB Sony" for example. You can change it in options.
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If I store video on the phone memory (not inside te microSD), the problem persists,
without using Kies, where can I found the menu to change options?
thanks

recovery program
Can you tell please which recovery program you have used cuz i tried one program but couldn't recover them . Thx
d3p said:
Same issue here. My device keeps deleting video files from my external 16gb microsd.
I put video files inside a folder (/media/video) and after some time the files disappear. The only thing that I do is plug and unplug from a pc mounting usb storage several times a day (i do not use Kies).
I also used a freeware program to recover deleted files from the microsd and found out that the files were marked as deleted (i had success in recovering).
This thing is starting to be very annoying.
I'm on MIUI 1.12.9.
Thanks
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This is true and I also can confirm this. I did not notice that my videos were missing until I saw this post and checked for my videos on my XD card and they were all gone What was odd was that the video which were transferred over from another computer to the XD card did not vanish but the videos which were recorded with this Samsung Note did all vanish WTF
I never did a sync either.

I really don't remember the used application 'cause I did it on a pc that i can not acces anymore. In any case, the application was free and i really found it on 5seconds search on google.
bye

I'm thinking of two things, neither of which are probably right
Firstly, I recently installed Window7 alongside my Linux Mint installation. On this I've noticed that if I copy files from Mint to the windows partition that Win7 often does a chkdsk thing on booting up and goes and deletes all these files ! I've never had this happen with any other version of Windows (Xp, etc). I'm wondering is there some filesystem 'tag' on your pc that makes the system think that file is corrupt or something and results in the files being hidden/deleted.
Secondly, I was looking on Amazon for a Sandisk sd card and I saw a review by a guy who said that many sd cards are fakes and not made by Sandisk at all. Apparently a lot of these have a much smaller capacity than claimed and as you add data they fill up and older data is destroyed. Here is the link

FlamingGoat said:
I'm thinking of two things, neither of which are probably right
Firstly, I recently installed Window7 alongside my Linux Mint installation. On this I've noticed that if I copy files from Mint to the windows partition that Win7 often does a chkdsk thing on booting up and goes and deletes all these files ! I've never had this happen with any other version of Windows (Xp, etc). I'm wondering is there some filesystem 'tag' on your pc that makes the system think that file is corrupt or something and results in the files being hidden/deleted.
Secondly, I was looking on Amazon for a Sandisk sd card and I saw a review by a guy who said that many sd cards are fakes and not made by Sandisk at all. Apparently a lot of these have a much smaller capacity than claimed and as you add data they fill up and older data is destroyed. Here is the link
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I never connected my Samsung Note to a Windows PC and the videos still vanished.

Same issue here..
First of all, I don't think it's a resolution issue because I have two similar videos, one disappeared while the other is still there.
Second of all, my videos are on the phone's memory and not an external sd.
If I go to folder details and check last modified date I notice that all folders from which videos have disappeared have been modified at the same time.
No solution?!
did anybody contact Samsung?
and could it be app "smart lock" causing this disappearance?
thanks

all of you developers out there.. anyone to help??

I might be wrong, but i think that those files aren't deleted at all. You may have a FOUND or LOST dir on you micro SD card with files in it that are the same size of the lost Videos.
I think this problem occures when you turn the phone off while it searches for media files on the card.
Try making a .nomedia file on your SD Card root folder, Stock players might not find any Videos after you've done that but you can easily open them with a Filemanager (ES FileExplorer).
.nomedia helped me

Chest3r said:
I might be wrong, but i think that those files aren't deleted at all. You may have a FOUND or LOST dir on you micro SD card with files in it that are the same size of the lost Videos.
I think this problem occures when you turn the phone off while it searches for media files on the card.
Try making a .nomedia file on your SD Card root folder, Stock players might not find any Videos after you've done that but you can easily open them with a Filemanager (ES FileExplorer).
.nomedia helped me
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maybe I do not understand your proposal, but the problem persists if I put video in the memory of the phone (not external microSD) adn I do not find the file with File Explorer, so I think it is lost...

I remember some people complaining about this when the EVO 4G first came out as well & for some it seemed to be bad SD cards but there were also a lot of firmware changes happening so unclear about the determined cause. This is troubling & would not like to still have to worry about this if I purchase the SGNote. Sounds like backup & keeping an eye on this is necessary. Has anyone emailed Samsung?

[Q] Music stored on SD card jumps

Not sure if this is only me effected but seems that whenever I store music on my SD card, it's jumps and isn't complete. All tracks seems to be having the same issue.
Tried rebooting the Z
Formatted the SD card few times
Used different apps to copy the music to SD card
I'm using a certified MICRO SD HC 32GB
Anyone else having the same ??
Thanks

MrSpocky said:
Not sure if this is only me effected but seems that whenever I store music on my SD card, it's jumps and isn't complete. All tracks seems to be having the same issue.
Tried rebooting the Z
Formatted the SD card few times
Used different apps to copy the music to SD card
I'm using a certified MICRO SD HC 32GB
Anyone else having the same ??
Thanks
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I'm using a 48Mb/sec SDCard from Samsung and it doesn't stutter at all, no.
Could it be that the transfer rate of your SDcard isn't sufficient?

Pr0fane said:
I'm using a 48Mb/sec SDCard from Samsung and it doesn't stutter at all, no.
Could it be that the transfer rate of your SDcard isn't sufficient?
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Could well be. I used SD tools and my SD card pretty poor for data read and write so returning to get another.
Going for Sandisk Ultra 32GB Class 10 Micro SD. Hopefully this preforms better than what I have.
Thanks

I'm having problems even with music stored on internal memory. All songs are complete, but they sometimes jump/pause briefly in the middle.

C1emen7s said:
I'm having problems even with music stored on internal memory. All songs are complete, but they sometimes jump/pause briefly in the middle.
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Whilst trying to resolve my SD card issue, I copied all my music library to the internal memory and playing a few tracks, didn't have the same problem as I did with the SD card.
What method are you using to copy your music across?

MrSpocky said:
Whilst trying to resolve my SD card issue, I copied all my music library to the internal memory and playing a few tracks, didn't have the same problem as I did with the SD card.
What method are you using to copy your music across?
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I used sony bridge for mac. Should I try removing all tracks and transferring manually to see if that makes a difference?

C1emen7s said:
I used sony bridge for mac. Should I try removing all tracks and transferring manually to see if that makes a difference?
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Should try that. I think when I copied my files manually from PC, had an interruption (screen and power save came on) and this caused my music to jump and skip. Didn't have time to redo from scratch as my library pretty big.
I've used iSyncr (available for pc and mac) and it reads your iTunes library to transfer over USB and/or wireless.
So far using this on the built in memory has worked. When I receive my new SD card, going to retry saving my music to SD memory and post the outcome.

It seems as though it's not just my stored music that's affected but also music synced through the google music app. Any ideas? It's getting more and more frequent and is driving me crazy! Is it possible it's a hardware fault?

C1emen7s said:
It seems as though it's not just my stored music that's affected but also music synced through the google music app. Any ideas? It's getting more and more frequent and is driving me crazy! Is it possible it's a hardware fault?
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I'm no expert but sounds like either something is causing the files to not copy in sync. Have you tried to download a music file from the internet and see if this causes the same? if so, probably best to backup the Z and wipe to factory default to see if this fixes the issue.
If you do download a music file from the internet and bypass any pc connectivity, and it works without any jumping, I'd say it COULD be how you are copying to the device.

MrSpocky said:
I'm no expert but sounds like either something is causing the files to not copy in sync. Have you tried to download a music file from the internet and see if this causes the same? if so, probably best to backup the Z and wipe to factory default to see if this fixes the issue.
If you do download a music file from the internet and bypass any pc connectivity, and it works without any jumping, I'd say it COULD be how you are copying to the device.
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I'll try that shortly. However, I also tried a factory reset, it fixed it temporarily, but then again, it gradually begins to jump more and more, so tracks started off jump-free, then gradually one jump per song. Will try downloading, see how that goes, and also see if there is any further degradation in the tracks.
Downloaded double twist so can wirelessly sync to that from my itunes so might give that or isyncr a shot as well.

MrSpocky said:
I'm no expert but sounds like either something is causing the files to not copy in sync. Have you tried to download a music file from the internet and see if this causes the same? if so, probably best to backup the Z and wipe to factory default to see if this fixes the issue.
If you do download a music file from the internet and bypass any pc connectivity, and it works without any jumping, I'd say it COULD be how you are copying to the device.
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ok so it seems it happens even with downloaded tracks...and as I said, already factory reset and it just comes back again after a while.

SanDisk 64gb runs nice amd smooth
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abd_alazeez2002 said:
SanDisk 64gb runs nice amd smooth
Sent from my C6602 using xda app-developers app
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Just received my Sandisk micro SDHC 32GB and can confirm no problems when playing music from SD card.
SD tools results
Write speed 8.3MB
Read speed 36.6MB