Well this is my first question. My dad has a windows 8 phone has been having several issues. One of these that I have not been able to solve is that after he takes a photo the pictures simply dissapear. I used my computer to see if the photos deleted themselves or what. The pictures can be found but they are still not able to be veiwed on the actual phone. Any help would be appreciated!
n8theasian said:
Well this is my first question. My dad has a windows 8 phone has been having several issues. One of these that I have not been able to solve is that after he takes a photo the pictures simply dissapear. I used my computer to see if the photos deleted themselves or what. The pictures can be found but they are still not able to be veiwed on the actual phone. Any help would be appreciated!
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Curious!
What happens when you try a hard reset?
Are you able to find the pictures on your computer when looking at the SD card or its internal storage?
dazza9075 said:
Curious!
What happens when you try a hard reset?
Are you able to find the pictures on your computer when looking at the SD card or its internal storage?
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I plugged the phone into my computer to look at internal storage he doesn't have an ad card yet. And I didn't do a hard reset because he would loose a lit if data.
n8theasian said:
I plugged the phone into my computer to look at internal storage he doesn't have an ad card yet. And I didn't do a hard reset because he would loose a lit if data.
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My first thought would be to slao an SD card in then change it to use SD card to store pictures, if you don't want to keep SD card in then change it back to internal storage, its maybe got a bit confused, changing to SD card and back again my jolt it to life with out reset
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This memory card has been used in my Nexus One Android running Froyo. I was using the phone last night (specifically FourSquare) and it froze up, I'm not sure if it was writing something to the micro sd but I removed the battery to restart the phone. When it restarted it said "checking memory card for errors", but after waiting for ten minutes nothing was recognized and I restarted it again, this time removing the sd card. Fast forward a few hours. I tried repeatedly different methods to get the phone to recognize it and finally gave up. I put an older memory card in the phone which worked just fine.
I have a usb micro sd reader and plugged it in to the mac. Usually iPhoto pops up but nothing happened. I ran disk utility to see if the memory card could be recognized and still nothing. I tried many free software programs but they all require the memory card to at least be recognized, which mine is not. Any Ideas? I've ran out of them. I just want a few pictures and a video but if thats not possible at least a way to reformat sd card for future use.
Cliffnotes: Card corrupted by android phone, no longer recognized by phone or mac os, tried several sd recovery programs to no avail, I just want the pics!
Sounds like it's not corrupted, it just died. Sorry dude. Time for a new card.
Had my 8 gig die the other night. Mine is recognized when I put it in my laptop but when ok try to copy any file, it can't access. It does see all of then though. I've been trying some recovery software but haven't had any luck so far.
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j.bruha said:
Sounds like it's not corrupted, it just died. Sorry dude. Time for a new card.
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Thanks. You're probably right. I guess this is where the iPhone has an advantage over us Android users. Permanent on board storage.
r3vmixman said:
Thanks. You're probably right. I guess this is where the iPhone has an advantage over us Android users. Permanent on board storage.
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So if that storage goes out, you replace the whole phone. Sounds like quite the advantage...
Versus cheap expandable memory. Hmm.....
Ok I found a half satisfying solution. The sd card reader has a lock switch. When I click lock I am able to read everything, thus letting me copy it to my computer. I guess putting it in lock mode makes everything read only. The card is still dead, imo. No way to reformat it in this mode and removing the lock switch only reverts to my prior problem.
r3vmixman said:
Ok I found a half satisfying solution. The sd card reader has a lock switch. When I click lock I am able to read everything, thus letting me copy it to my computer. I guess putting it in lock mode makes everything read only. The card is still dead, imo. No way to reformat it in this mode and removing the lock switch only reverts to my prior problem.
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That means your card is dead. When a flash card dies, it cannot be written anymore, but it can still be read from because the data is still there, it's flash memory so its nonvolatile. By forcing it to read only mode, you should be able to recover your data, like you just did.
Awesome suggestion on setting to read only. It worked for me too. I'm happy to at least get the stuff off it, even if it's dead.
For last few nights when i wake up in morning my phone gives me sd card read only.When i ente card to pc it says need to format.I fid that every time.But it comes back again and again.I fell its some apps work since it happen at night only.Is there a way to fix this?I we lost valuable data coz of this
Thanks
Lasantha said:
For last few nights when i wake up in morning my phone gives me sd card read only.When i ente card to pc it says need to format.I fid that every time.But it comes back again and again.I fell its some apps work since it happen at night only.Is there a way to fix this?I we lost valuable data coz of this
Thanks
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Looks like your sd card is beginning to wear out. Better backup as much as possible and replace it right away. I once had 2 kingston cards with similar issues. Formatting them seems to fix it for a short period of time only. Then eventually the problem returns.
Did you try erasing the card through the phone itself - that is putting it back again after un-mounting from your PC?
Lasantha said:
For last few nights when i wake up in morning my phone gives me sd card read only.When i ente card to pc it says need to format.I fid that every time.But it comes back again and again.I fell its some apps work since it happen at night only.Is there a way to fix this?I we lost valuable data coz of this
Thanks
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itandy said:
Looks like your sd card is beginning to wear out. Better backup as much as possible and replace it right away. I once had 2 kingston cards with similar issues. Formatting them seems to fix it for a short period of time only. Then eventually the problem returns.
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Ah warranty ended few months back 32GB class 10
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I tested sd with a read write app it gave me no errors
So thought may be rusty connects.so put some wd40 on sd inserted with it dripping so phonecontacts wouldget wet and it seems to workfine now
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Help needed. My Slll mini froze on me so I turned it off and now it will not come back on.
It had randomly rebooted itself a couple of times and the storage space was getting low.
Vodafone will send it off for repair but it will get wiped. I would like to retrieve my pictures and would appreciate any help in doing so.
Many thanks :fingers-crossed:
lyndast said:
Help needed. My Slll mini froze on me so I turned it off and now it will not come back on.
It had randomly rebooted itself a couple of times and the storage space was getting low.
Vodafone will send it off for repair but it will get wiped. I would like to retrieve my pictures and would appreciate any help in doing so.
Many thanks :fingers-crossed:
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Do you use Google+ Auto Backup or do you store the pictures on the microSD card?
KoolKid98189 said:
Do you use Google+ Auto Backup or do you store the pictures on the microSD card?
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Sadly my SD card corrupted so I lost all those pictures and I have not backed up the photos on the phone :crying:
Hard lesson learnt but it really was the next job on my to do list.
lyndast said:
Sadly my SD card corrupted so I lost all those pictures and I have not backed up the photos on the phone :crying:
Hard lesson learnt but it really was the next job on my to do list.
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Try taking it out and insert it into a PC using any card reader and try using a program called 'Recuva' and see if you can undelete your files? Just don't write anything to the microSD as it could overwrite the corrupted files.
So, I got my Note 7 Friday (8/19), put in my SIM and SD card. Both read perfectly. Got my ringtones, photos, vids, etc. Went to a concert the next day. Was taking videos and photos through the stock camera app. Well, I went to take video and the phone wasn't reading the card and started saving the photos to internal memory. No big. Restarted device thinking the boot will re-read the card. Nope. It didn't recognize the card AT ALL. It said that I'd need to format the card for it to be read. Well, **** that; I don't want to lose all my data. So I waited until after the show, got home, took out the tray and put it back in and voila!! Everything is gold again.
My concern is having to repeat this process again over and over again for some dumb issue. Any thoughts on what this could be? Is it my card? Should I back up data and format?
SanDisk Ultra Plus 128 GB card
Had the same issue with my coworkers 128 SanDisk. Somehow one of her picture was corrupted and it was causing the same issue intermittently. This is how I found out. I started transferring her stuff to my pc so I can format her card. My computer kept crashing during. Tried it again and keep an eye on it. Saw it got stuck on 1 picture. Waited a bit and computer crashed. So I tried it again and wrote the image file name down. Stopped the transfer. Deleted the picture and tried it again on her phone and problem went away. But I still transfered all her stuff to my pc just in case, reformatted her card inside her phone and transferred everything back to her phone.
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aznmode said:
Had the same issue with my coworkers 128 SanDisk. Somehow one of her picture was corrupted and it was causing the same issue intermittently. This is how I found out. I started transferring her stuff to my pc so I can format her card. My computer kept crashing during. Tried it again and keep an eye on it. Saw it got stuck on 1 picture. Waited a bit and computer crashed. So I tried it again and wrote the image file name down. Stopped the transfer. Delet.ed the picture and tried it again on her phone and problem went away. But I still transfered all her stuff to my pc just in case, reformatted her card inside her phone and transferred everything back to her phone.
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Thanks! I did move all the files from the concert to my PC and so far so good. Still haven't formatted it but if I get the same issue, I'll do that
So I dropped in a 512 GB card in my s10+, and in the past you were able to format the card as internal storage. I can see this option and is basically just an external saving location, for nothing...
Any advice?
adjday said:
So I dropped in a 512 GB card in my s10+, and in the past you were able to format the card as internal storage. I can see this option and is basically just an external saving location, for nothing...
Any advice?
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The adaptable storage option went away with the arrival of Pie.
So the only real advantage of external storage is for pictures, video and apps you install after setup? BS if you ask me...what's the point if you can't merge the two as usable storage?
What is the advantages of an external SD card?
so that when you take pictures and save them on your card and your phone happens to get destroyed you can simply pull your card out of your destroyed phone and you still have everything intact. It also allows you to access your pictures in the event that your phone battery dies by simply putting your card into another phone and it or computer. It also serves as an additional backup to your pictures if you chose to save them on both your phone and your SD card.
for somebody like me that upgrades every time a new phone comes out it's magical to be able to simply pull my card out and put it in the new phone and everything ports over. I take a ridiculous amount of pictures so the external memory is nice to have.