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NewsRob and My SdCard

Ok first off I decided to try using newsrob about a few days later I realized it was using my sdcard to store the gifs,png, firefox doc, msdos apps, cascading style sheet documents, and jpegs...
I had problem with my phone freezin up on me when i turned it on, I took the sd card out and havent had a problem since I took it out...
ive been trying to delete all of these files but it isnt letting me...these files arent in a specific folder, just on the card. The Folder NewsRob is unaccessible when i try to access it it freezes my computer....and shuts down explorer.exe and than restarts explorer.exe and doesnt show the card anymore....
It will let me format the sd card , erasing everything of course...is that my only option?
Why did newsrob mess my sdcard up? Is it actually my fault because im using a 4GB class 2 sandisk?

If you want support why not write me at [email protected], accessible from within the Android Market too.
NewsRob stores a lot of small files as you've seen. The capacity is managed by the "capacity" setting.
Use "clear cache" from the menu to clear the cache. This will take some time. Uninstall newsrob afterward.
If you have it uninstalled already, use your Windows explorer to remove the NewsRob directory. You don't have to go into that directory for that, but if you do, take into account that it is just an SD card and you likely have a couple of thousand files in that directory.
Also, NewsRob doesn't do anything special to your sd card, no need to format. It certainly did not "mess up" your card.

FPse issues

I've set this up on both my Galaxy Nexus and Asus Transformer. I'm trying to transfer over my memory card saves onto my N7. I can't seem to get it to read it.
Upon further investigation, FPse typically stores it's files in /data/data/com.emulator.fpse/
On the Nexus 7, it shows this folder as empty.
What I've done in the past, is open the new FPse load, do a backup (do the SD card), copy in my save files, then do a restore... but this isn't working either.
This is a fresh out of the box N7. Root may be a factor as both of my other devices are all modded up. But /data/data is RW... I don't even think the FPse is successfully restoring the backed up files. I've even downloaded my 2 saves and manually selected to load them... but still showing blank in the game.
And I've grabbed the file from both the backup and from the actual /data/data/com.emulator/fpse directory and tried, but no luck at all. I doubt anyone has got this far on such a new device but curious if anyone has had any luck with it.
--UPDATE---
Still haven't figured out the actual memory card saves and why they weren't working. But I ended up doing a Savestate, copying it over, and loading that.... then creating an actual save file on the "new" blank memory cards.
I still haven't found the actual folder where the real FPse files are... but this worked!

[Q] Scanning media (SD)

Hello dear
I've got a 32gig Samsung class 10 card. Every time I turn on the phone, it takes about 5-10 min to scan for media files in the SD card. Is that normal? I cannot take some screenshot to prove it (Quickmeno doesn't take screen in the notification bar), but it takes a long time for me (my old DHD didn't take so much time, indeed didn't show even the message of the scan).

I've always had that too, with all my devices. Are these microSD card filled up with allot of data?
I think this is necessary to update changes in the Android OS. Like for example: update your mp3 songs list or picture gallery, check for apps on the microSD, ...
Maybe there is a setting to disable that?
I'm not bothered by it, I just let the phone idle for a moment. I have a Class 4 card, so it even takes longer for me xD
Edit: It could always be related to the microSD card. If so and you're running on Windows, just copy all the files to a folder as backup. Format the microSD card with default cluster size. And right after that go to properties of the card to scan for and fix filesystem errors and bad sectors. Copy your files back to the card and try again to see or it takes the same amount of time.
If you have very important data on that microSD card I recommend to also backup an image from it through a backup tool.

Arne_B said:
I've always had that too, with all my devices. Are these microSD card filled up with allot of data?
I think this is necessary to update changes in the Android OS. Like for example: update your mp3 songs list or picture gallery, check for apps on the microSD, ...
Maybe there is a setting to disable that?
I'm not bothered by it, I just let the phone idle for a moment. I have a Class 4 card, so it even takes longer for me xD
Edit: It could always be related to the microSD card. If so and you're running on Windows, just copy all the files to a folder as backup. Format the microSD card with default cluster size. And right after that go to properties of the card to scan for and fix filesystem errors and bad sectors. Copy your files back to the card and try again to see or it takes the same amount of time.
If you have very important data on that microSD card I recommend to also backup an image from it through a backup tool.
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I have about 18 gig of data on the SD
I'll try to search for errors and bad sectors, then

Arne_B said:
I've always had that too, with all my devices. Are these microSD card filled up with allot of data?
I think this is necessary to update changes in the Android OS. Like for example: update your mp3 songs list or picture gallery, check for apps on the microSD, ...
Maybe there is a setting to disable that?
I'm not bothered by it, I just let the phone idle for a moment. I have a Class 4 card, so it even takes longer for me xD
Edit: It could always be related to the microSD card. If so and you're running on Windows, just copy all the files to a folder as backup. Format the microSD card with default cluster size. And right after that go to properties of the card to scan for and fix filesystem errors and bad sectors. Copy your files back to the card and try again to see or it takes the same amount of time.
If you have very important data on that microSD card I recommend to also backup an image from it through a backup tool.
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The best is unmount the card on the phone, "erase SD card" and mount the card on the phone, guess thats how the phone format the card.
Do a backup first, I think that unmounting and mounting will delete your data, what is normal...
Some devices only accept cards formated by themselfs, cards formated in a computer don't work on them, not saying that is the case but, it will be better I think.

Same
Same here. It's really irritating. I was about to ask for solutions. I guess it's the phone's problem since my other phones like O2X don't experience that at all.

I just tested again with my Class 4 32GB microSD. It has about 12GB data on it. It takes only 1-2 minutes for me.
Looks like something is going wrong with your phones than?
Maybe you can try this app: Rescan Media Root, and disable scan on reboot.

giovandrea said:
Hello dear
I've got a 32gig Samsung class 10 card. Every time I turn on the phone, it takes about 5-10 min to scan for media files in the SD card. Is that normal? I cannot take some screenshot to prove it (Quickmeno doesn't take screen in the notification bar), but it takes a long time for me (my old DHD didn't take so much time, indeed didn't show even the message of the scan).
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Folders contained a file named .nomedia wil not be scanned. You can create this file manualy for every folder without media files...
But using StudioKUMA .nomedia Manager from Google play can make it more easy

Try an app named "Rescan Media"

carlosreina said:
Try an app named "Rescan Media"
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Arne_B said:
Maybe you can try this app: Rescan Media Root, and disable scan on reboot.
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Entire SD Card contents erased!

See the attached image.
I was using my phone last night, browsing reddit when a phone call came in. I answered it, did what needed to be done on the call then hungup. I went back to reddit when it asked me to login again; something it rarely ever did as "Reddit Is Fun Golden Platinum" remembers your account info.
A message came in shortly after, to which I wanted to respond with one of the many animated GIFs I keep on my microSD card. I went to the attach image in hangouts and bam, no GIFs. I thought maybe the phone was messing up, so I restarted it. The phone started back up, and still no GIFs or any media on the mSD card. I went into ES File Explorer and it said I had 1.79MB used of my 64GB card.
Previous to that I had about 10GB of music, 2GB of video clips from YouTube and about 500MB of GIFs, among some other random APKs from XDA and other places. Everything on my device was purchased via Play, or xfered onto the SD card after downloading from XDA from the developer (meaning I didn't pirate anything!)
I used a file recovery tool to try and recover some of the items from the card this morning, and well, look at the image. What happened? Why did it format the card, and then overwrite it with some random file?
Notes about my Z1:
Stock, Rooted but unmodified .534 (Android 4.2.2)
No special launchers
Recent installs were Vignette Pro, and Tasker, both from Play Store

This kind of stuff can do only a virus or a corrupted SD. The reasons of why this happen can be many. System Partition Failure of your memory can be one of the reason so if you lost everything you can't do nothing about it. Format your SD in Normal Mode, not Quick. All the application which you paid for it will be downloaded again when you log into Play Store with the account which you purchase them. If this happen again can be a faulty device too.

..or faulty memory SD.

Google Photos backup issue?

Since moving to the Note 9 I have been having issues with Google Photos backing up to my Google account. It has been working perfectly for years on my Note 8, Note 5, etc...
Now, on the Note 9, the backup sticks at "Getting ready to back up" until I go into a folder that backup is enable on and toggle the option off then back on. This makes the application begin the backup. I have it configured for High Quality but it did the same when I tried Original quality settings.
I initially though it was a problem with photos that I moved over from my Note 8, but I cleared out all of my on device photos and it is still having this same problem. I tried all the usual steps of clearing Photos cache and data. Uninstall and reinstall, clear Play Services Cache and data. I haven't performed a factory reset, but I don't feel like taking the time to reconfigure everything for something that might not even work.
Does anybody else have this problem also?

No issues. Did you disable any services?

Photos works fine on my 960F/DS...

Yes and I can't figure out how to solve the problem. What have you found?
Sent from my SM-N960F using Tapatalk

jezaz said:
Yes and I can't figure out how to solve the problem. What have you found?
Sent from my SM-N960F using Tapatalk
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Hello,
I have similar issue on a French SM-N960F/DS (Dual Sim)
Somehow, the Google Photos App is stuck while retrieving my Photos (from Google Web Server) an I can only view a couple of them (the most recent ones), without being able to scroll down and view the older ones.
Also when taking photos, it wont upload them
And finally if I try to toggle the switch (for backup) inside one directory, I have a popup asking me to first enabe Backup and Sync in Google Photos Apps, which is ALREADY enabled.
I suspect this is linked to the SD Card.
I removed it (just unmount it is sufficient, no need to physically remove it) and I reconfigured the Native Samsung Photo App to store all photos on the internal memory.
And now Google Photos Apps is just working fine. Full access on old pictures and proper upload.
EDIT1:
I have RE-mounted the SD Card without changing the Samsung Photo App settings, which means all taken Pictures are still stored on the Internal Memory.
By doing so, when I get into the Google Photos App, I see the new picture, and I see that there is "1" new photo to be uploaded on the upper right corner, but it is stuck there. The round icon keeps circling and it never gets uploaded (I cannot see the new Picture on the Google Photos website from my laptop)
If I Unmount the SD Card again, then the new Picture gets properly uploaded and the App is not stuck.
There is definitively an issue with the SD card.
This is quite annoying as I store lots of TV Series on my SD Card, hence I have it always inside the Phone.......
EDIT2:
I have formatted the SD Card from the Phone menu and now it works fine , even if the Card is present.
EDIT3:
I have copied back 10x MKV Files onto the SD Card (while Note9 was connected to laptop), and now the problem re-appears. If I delete the directory containing these MKV, back to normal, functioning fine.....
Then I tried to configure the Samsung Photo App to store taken pictur on the SD Card. In that case, the Google Photos App is correctly synching the new picture.
So now I'm more thinking there is an issue with some of the files stored on the SD Card. This card had been used for +2 years on a Galaxy Note 4 without issue. I do think the Note 9 might have a flaw while handling content from the SD Card.... ?
EDIT4: SOLVED
I just simply put a text file called ".nomedia" inside the directory containing the MKV files and VOILA
Hope that helps someone else

SD Card Issue with Google Photos
Damin0u said:
Hello,
I have similar issue on a French SM-N960F/DS (Dual Sim)
Somehow, the Google Photos App is stuck while retrieving my Photos (from Google Web Server) an I can only view a couple of them (the most recent ones), without being able to scroll down and view the older ones.
Also when taking photos, it wont upload them
And finally if I try to toggle the switch (for backup) inside one directory, I have a popup asking me to first enabe Backup and Sync in Google Photos Apps, which is ALREADY enabled.
I suspect this is linked to the SD Card.
I removed it (just unmount it is sufficient, no need to physically remove it) and I reconfigured the Native Samsung Photo App to store all photos on the internal memory.
And now Google Photos Apps is just working fine. Full access on old pictures and proper upload.
EDIT1:
I have RE-mounted the SD Card without changing the Samsung Photo App settings, which means all taken Pictures are still stored on the Internal Memory.
By doing so, when I get into the Google Photos App, I see the new picture, and I see that there is "1" new photo to be uploaded on the upper right corner, but it is stuck there. The round icon keeps circling and it never gets uploaded (I cannot see the new Picture on the Google Photos website from my laptop)
If I Unmount the SD Card again, then the new Picture gets properly uploaded and the App is not stuck.
There is definitively an issue with the SD card.
This is quite annoying as I store lots of TV Series on my SD Card, hence I have it always inside the Phone.......
EDIT2:
I have formatted the SD Card from the Phone menu and now it works fine , even if the Card is present.
EDIT3:
I have copied back 10x MKV Files onto the SD Card (while Note9 was connected to laptop), and now the problem re-appears. If I delete the directory containing these MKV, back to normal, functioning fine.....
Then I tried to configure the Samsung Photo App to store taken pictur on the SD Card. In that case, the Google Photos App is correctly synching the new picture.
So now I'm more thinking there is an issue with some of the files stored on the SD Card. This card had been used for +2 years on a Galaxy Note 4 without issue. I do think the Note 9 might have a flaw while handling content from the SD Card.... ?
EDIT4: SOLVED
I just simply put a text file called ".nomedia" inside the directory containing the MKV files and VOILA
Hope that helps someone else
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Evening
I also had the same issue since I got my Note 9, photos was stuck uploading, I uninstalled the App and cleared the cache still the same, upon reading your forum. I bought 512gb SDCard was working perfectly fine since PIE 9, after rolling back to Oreo; I unmounted the SD card closed Google Photos and checked the camera setting to make sure it was Internal. I opened Google Photos and it had already uploaded screenshot I took earlier and also seen in online. I then re-mounted the card by rebooting the phone for fresh install and worked normal again. Took a few screen shot's and google photos was uploading them as normal.
So anyone else check your card first, baffled me for a few day's