Last night, I noticed the icons on my Cookies Home Tab all changed to indicate there was no program attached for all programs installed to my SD card. When selecting, I got the standard certificate/missing component message. On inspection, the Program Files directory on my SD card was empty. Re-installing applications allowed them to work for one attempt (loaded in memory?) but failed after that - none of them showed up in my Program Files directory. The only way I could get everything working again was to rename the Program Files dir and allow the installation of programs to create a new one, then reinstall my apps. Everything is fine now. Strange thing is that it was only the Program Files directory that was corrupted/cleared, the rest of the SD card contents were and still are fine. I have since deleted the problem directory.
Has anyone else experienced this? I recently installed Egress, the RSS reader and have been refreshing that alot every day (although the RSS contents are saved to another directory on the SD, which was kept in tact). The last app I used before the loss (I think) was Comic Reader Mobi - though I may have refreshed my RSS feeds after that.
This is very worrying - could I have a virus or something? I have since backed up my Program Files dir for easy restoration should it happen again. But WILL it happen again? Could my SD card be the problem (8GB MicroSD HC)?
Any help is much appreciated, thanks!
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Any thoughts from anyone on this?
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I suddenly noticed that I only had about 1MB free program memory left to play with (when I usually have about 15MB). I searched the whole memory for large files and find these in the Windows folder:
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They do totally use up ~20MB!
I can also see that they were created on the 15th January (yesteday) thus I'm quite sure it has to be these file that caused my memory loss.
The files are not able to delete.
Does someone have a clue of where the files came from and what to do to get ried of them?
Help would be very much appreciated.
AFAIK the files are related to Pocket Outlook.
These files should be maintained by Pocjet Outlook as well
Tried a soft-reset?
Have you restored any backup or something?
I also noticed on your screenshot that the files are double as well, one with 2,71MB size and one with 2,62KB????
The are _not_ using your memory. They are Pocket Outlook databases and i have no idea why OS shows it (another bug in WM2003 for XDA?) but if you do a hard reset and sync, you'll have these files, BUT you'll have allmost all avaible memory. So they are just showing these big sizes but they're not - you shouldnt care about it .
I removed all my programs (installed on SD-card) before I would do a hardreset and then my old ~15MB memory was back(?) I reinstalled the programs and the memory is as high as is were before
Conclusion: Something must have went wrong when installing a program to the SD-card
Thanks for the help, though. Now I know that those files I found are not evil.
it's not a 2003 bug because 2002 showed them aswell
I am looking at my Galaxy S2 files with the app "WiFi File Transfer" (which is great if anyone doesn't know about it... but that's for another thread). There's sdcard and external_sd and there is mnt/sdcard. What the heck is mnt? I feel like I am going in circles.
Thanks for any clarification.
I believe it stands for mount. Linux term maybe? The technical path of the SD card on your phone is
/mnt/sdcard/
See the top of this screen shot of me looking at the "root" of my internal SD card.
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Thanks, quarlow. While moving a file and not knowing what I was doing, somehow I put a file on mnt/sdcard/external_sd. So confusing. I guess all I really need to know right now is that the root of my card is mnt/sdcard and I thank you for that.
I'm pretty sure the sdcard folder you see at root (/) of the phone (/sdcard) is a 'junction point' type of folder to (/mnt/sdcard) the 'root' of the sdcard, at least as far as most computers see.
Similar to the 'Documents and Settings' folder on Windows 7. It doesn't exist except as a direction folder to 'Users' so older programs properly install to the new location for My Documents.
If you want to test it out, put a new file into /mnt/sdcard and then go to /sdcard and see it there.
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Hi,
I'am new to the forum and I came here to help other people, so they can help me either.
I have Alcatel One Touch XPOP 5035X with CWM recovery and custom ROM Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 and Windows 7 64 bit. My problem is when I try to transfer files using MTP, on Windows it sas that failed to install driver "MTP USB Device". I tried all found solutions here and out. I can transfer files using Mass Storage but it's really slow.
Please help me....
Thank you
Oh, btw, my Internal Storage is replaced as SD Card, and my SD Card is replaced as PhoneStorage.
See the screenshot :
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Update : It seems that Gallery app and Music app only loads picture/audio files on SD Card. If I delete them from SD Card, they are still showing those files, but when I try to open them, it shows that file couldn't be located. I tried copying files to Internal Storage and still won't open them, like they don't exist. Same thing for notification sound and ringtone, if they are not on SD Card, they won't play. If I unplugg SD Card, everything works perfect and Internal Storage is PhoneStorage at storage settings. I also notice using RootExplorer that SD Card is named "storage0" and Internal Storage "storage1". I downloaded ROM from here : https://youtu.be/3YC72-tgcxk
My phone is Asus Zenfone Live L2 Bought less than 2 months ago. My microSD card is VGen 32 GB 9 months old. All preinstalled app can perform write action to microSD card like move, copy, paste, extract and download without problem. But any app that I personally install always result in corrupt or 0 sized files. Already checked all those apps for SD card access and storage permission. Phone is currently rooted but issue existed since before. Already looked solution on Google but no working fix.
@arjuna17jax
To install apps on external SD-card requires this card is set up as internal Android storage.
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Note: This only works if supported by OEM/Carrier.
jwoegerbauer said:
@arjuna17jax
To install apps on external SD-card requires this card is set up as internal Android storage.
Note: This only works if supported by OEM/Carrier.
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I didn't mean to install app to SD card. But to write files using third party file manager, archive manager, picture manager and media player.
This used to be possible on the previous update, but now the option is gone. This is what the formatting page looks like now:
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The following link was the old way of allowing the SD Card to be formatted as internal storage.
https://www.reddit.com/r/oneplus/comments/s6od0a
Doing this on OOS12 doesn't change anything in the settings as far as I'm aware of though. Is there anyway to do this or is my best bet to downgrade?
IF downgrading is the only option, I tried following the guide on this link: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...l-to-restore-your-device-to-oxygenos.4324431/,
but driver download link no longer works and the ones I found online resulted in a Code 52 error so I would need help with that too.
In the end I was able to successfully downgrade, but then a new problem showed up. The SD Card was working as intended for a few hours, but suddenly stopped. Now, even when it says it is formatted, it stays unsupported. Neither formatting as internal or external change this. Any idea why? Restarting the phone does not help.
Edit: Sorry for the extra post in the reply. I wasn't aware of an edit feature for the post.
More context, this happened as I was downloading some apps from google play. When I tried to open it, it just flashed and went back to the home screen and eventually resulted in a phone reboot.
Afterwards, I tried formatting on my PC with:
-Disk Manager (all options are greyed out except delete volume)
-Minitool (Says format successful, but doesn't change. Has 'other' as the format)
-AOMEI (Same problem as Minitool)
-SD Card Formatter (From the sandisk website: Says formatting failed)
Starting to think the SD Card is just dead. Can someone confirm? A simple yes or no is good enough.