My video floder with 5 gb of vids are gone! It still shows that the space is still takin up in my sd card, I searched XDA but found others had the problem because their phone. I cant see it on my computer either, even when looking at hidden files Did I just lose my inception video? please help me fix this, pleeeeeaaaasseeeee!
egyptshun said:
My video floder with 5 gb of vids are gone! It still shows that the space is still takin up in my sd card, I searched XDA but found others had the problem because their phone. I cant see it on my computer either, even when looking at hidden files Did I just lose my inception video? please help me fix this, pleeeeeaaaasseeeee!
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Switch off your phone, switch it back on. If that does not work, take out your sdcard and try plugging it in your laptop directly through a USB adapter.
i tried that already
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How is your card formatted? Fat, Fat32, NFTS?
Did you drag-n-drop your video folder into some other folder by mistake ?
Search for large files on the sdcard.
fat 32 its the 16 gig from rogers, class 2
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This happened to me a bit ago, but put it down to how the card was formatted, but it's not happened since reformatting. Try reformatting and take it from there.
Same thing happened to me as well lost my pics of the last day at the college as well as a few songs and walpapers. :-(
And was wondering what went wrong....??! :-(
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Hello great minds of xda, for the past 2 months I've been having an issue with my streak not seeing apps installed on my SD card. sometimes a reboot would solve the problem, but most of the time multiple reboots yield no results. Whenever the card is not recognized I am unable to connect my phone to my computer, nor can I install any apps from market or otherwise.
Ok so here's the strange part, file browsers like Astro can see and open files on the SD card, yet SD installed apps are not shown in the app drawer, under settings/manage apps SD installed apps are shown but their icons are greyed out and can not be manipulated.
Background info: was running 318, installed streakdroid 1.9, problem persisted, had a 16 gig sandisk card, bought a 32 gig sandisk card, problem persisted.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Have you tried with a different card ? Just to see if the problem is card-related ?
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Yes I did, in fact I was hoping that it was card related because that would be a simple fix. I replaced the original 16 gig card that came with the Streak with a brand spanking new 32 gig card but the problem continues.
I've done both google and xda searches and get tons of hits about SD cards not being recognized but my Streak recognizes my card, just not the apps installed on it.
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To be honest, I have no advise for you, just hope someone who knows better can provide a suggestion.
I'm using a 32gb card in my phone myself, but fortunately, doesn't seem to have similar issues.
Good luck ... and maybe someone can help
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Thanks, I appreciate you taking the time to respond. Hopefully someone will have a solution, I really love my Streak but this problem greatly reduces the usability of my device
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ninpo,
Test your internal SD card:
1. Turn off your Streak
2. Hold down the camera button all the way, as you turn on your Streak
3. At the white screen, dial in the code *#301# – This will open the engineering mode that allows you to run individual tests.
4. Dial in 10 then press Enter to run the ‘SD & SIM’ test
5. The “Internal SD” test should pass, and it should show “permanent write-nonprotect”.
If the internal card is bad it may be effecting other operations.
If the internal card passes, then uninstall all of your apps that are installed to the SD card. Backup all of the files from your SD Card. Format the card while it is in your phone.
Put your backups back on the card and re-install your apps.
If you are using or have used the perfmod from any of the Streakdroid builds I suggest a factory reset from recovery, install BB 351 or 354 (install appropriate recovery first) and then if you want reinstall Streakdroid without perfmod.
Thanks marvin02 I will give that a shot and report back with the results.
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Corrected the codes on the steps to test internal sd card, the formatting got messed up in the copy and paste.
hi
hey marvin and nino m having the same prob and its reallly making me go nuts ... did find the solution to it ... if yes then lemme knw as soon as possible here or mail me aat [email protected]
amjadnabi said:
hey marvin and nino m having the same prob and its reallly making me go nuts ... did find the solution to it ... if yes then lemme knw as soon as possible here or mail me aat [email protected]
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Hey guys, sorry for the disappearing act, had a lot going on as of late.
Anyways, thanks Marvin for the advice, the SD card test showed no issue with the card, but I was still unable to uninstall apps on the card. I called Dell tech and they gave me a service number and asked that I call back late Sept. and they will send me a replacement.
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ok. I hope this isnt too much of a newb question...
I have looked all over to see if I could find any problems with people getting apps off of their SD card. I found a few topics and reviewed them, but I have had little luck. Most of those threads also involve root problems whereas my Evo 3d is still stock (updated to 2.3.4).
The main problem Im having (aside from linpak and various other benchmarks being dramatically reduced) is that I can not get the apps off of my SD card to show on the phone.
I performed a factory reset on the phone prior to the update as I've read several times that it is the preferred method of updating since it wipes the Dalvik (sp?) cache or whatever. I guess if you just update without wiping, it clogs up the cache or something to that effect.
Anyhow, I moved all the apps to SD. I did the wipe, then I did the OTA. Once the OTA was complete it would not recognize my apps at all. They DO NOT show up under app management as being on the SD. It is blank. It does however still show my music and pictures.
Since I swapped my 8 GeeBee card with a 16 I figured perhaps the card was corrupted somehow. So, I took my OEM Sandisk 8gb card and put that in and it wont transfer the apps that were on that either.
Ive tried to restart. Nothing. Ive unmounted the SD card, restarted without a card. Shut down. Put card back in, mounted. Still nothing .
Any help guys...and again, sorry if this is a newb question.
Use any third party apps? I believe the system installer doesn't check external storage. Try Astro free and you should be ok. Let me know what you run into
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Ooh and most benchmarks for this phone are inaccurate due to its resolution. They may have updated to account for this but that's what I've heard as of late.
It's a 1.2 factory dual core so why of super Oct'd phones and tablets you should reign supreme.
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I have a couple apps from Amazon but not many. so when I used astro I tried to find the apps and couldn't find any. Normally on my PC they are listed under Android secure...when I pull that up with astro it says directory empty..but they do show up when I have the card in my laptop...
Also, when I switched my sd out before all I had to do was copy the files and pop it in the phone. They showed up right away. Not sure why phone won't recognize them now.
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Tries an adb push?
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They shouldn't be in secure yet I'd they're typically ibstalld
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Yeah. I'm not sure what the deal is. I just ended up wupping the sd card and starting over. I have a spare sd I moved all my pics and such to so I'm not too worried about it.
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First time happened was back in about a month ago. One day I noticed some of my pictures were gone ( may be 15 to 20 of them ) I could not find them in any where such as SD card internal/external the strange thing was some pictures still there until today so the defective SD card is ruled out and I was still using the stock firmware 2.3.3 then I also noticed there are other pictures ( almost 100 of them ) not actual pictures they just blank but all with different file names like: My piano, A day in Hollywood etc, etc.
No body has been messing up my phones because it stays with me at all times. The question is who deleted my pictures and put a bunch of files back? Could it be happened remotely like some one using Bluetooth to mess around if the person is happened to be near by? later on I upgraded my phone to 2.3.4 through KIES and hope it will help me to solve the mystery but it did not. By now I know those pictures are long gone...
Two or three days later I upgraded my phone to 2.3.5 until I found the official FW XWKL1 here in XDA, again, upgraded.
So some days later I decided to change song for my ringtone I found out all of them have been replaced by some files with number names. 41203,41204 the list go on...When I use Astro to look for my songs and they are all there ( inside the music folder ) I went back & click one of the number file to see what kind of song and the player pops up a message saying the file format is not supported. It took me almost 30 min to figure out and delete all the number files under MUSIC then I see all my songs back.
My question is has my phone been hacked or infected by viruses/spyware? Or software glitch? I don't have data plan. To go online I use my home wifi all the time.
If some one can help I'll be really appreciated.
Sounds like a problem with the sd card or phone itself.
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vabeachfc3s said:
Sounds like a problem with the sd card or phone itself.
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But most of the pictures and songs are still there that was why I think the problem is not in SD card other than these problems the phone is functioning good in all aspect.
Highly doubt someones in ur phone.
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Sounds like the card is corrupted. Just make a backup of everything on the card, and do a full format (not quick format) of it from your computer. That should fix it. I had a similar problem too recently. New files I transferred would get deleted and old deleted files would reappear. Maybe the file table is messed or something, I don't know, but a full format fixed it for me.
Note: Preferably use a card reader, or if you mount it as mass storage from your phone, do it from recovery if you're rooted. Otherwise just mount it as you would normally and proceed.
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Sounds like the card is corrupted. Just make a backup of everything on the card, and do a full format (not quick format) of it from your computer. That should fix it. I had a similar problem too recently. New files I transferred would get deleted and old deleted files would reappear. Maybe the file table is messed or something, I don't know, but a full format fixed it for me.
Note: Preferably use a card reader, or if you mount it as mass storage from your phone, do it from recovery if you're rooted. Otherwise just mount it as you would normally and proceed.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I am gonna try it & see what's going on then.
Update?
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I had the same problem.
I had the same problem.
The solution was format SD card , after Back up some things i wanted from the card.
Not sure if I'm posting this in the right forum as it could be either a problem with the phone itself or with the SD card.
Sometimes when I reboot my phone about 50mb-2gb of music disappears from my external MicroSD card (class 10 SanDisk). As far as I can tell its always entire folders that disappear, never individual files. It happens quite frequently (probably 1 in 3 reboots) and its extremely frustrating.
I removed the card from my phone and put it in my PC to perform a disk check (no errors found) and format it but the problem persisted.
Can anyone tell me what's causing this and how to fix it?
You mean the files really gone, not even visible with PC?
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You mean the files really gone, not even visible with PC?
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Yep, the files get completely deleted, I can't even see them when viewing the contents of the card on my PC.
Suggestion: If you have another sd card, try testing it. Then you will know whether is the card problem or the phone problem.
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Suggestion: If you have another sd card, try testing it. Then you will know whether is the card problem or the phone problem.
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Okay so I tried testing the issue with an old 16gb class 2 Sandisk I had laying around (the one I'm currently having the issue with is 64gb). I rebooted the phone about six or seven times but I wasn't able to replcate the problem. The thing is I can't seem to trigger the problem again on my 64gb card even after rebooting about 10 times. So I'm geussing there's somrthing elese I've be doing in addition to rebooting the phone that has been causing the files to delete themselves. Any idea what that might be?
I guess all I can do now is just continue to use the phone normally, keep a close eye on what I'm doing and wait for the problem to arise again.
In the meantime here are few additional details:
The card is about 30gb full but its only ever about 2gb or less that go missing.
I was wrong about individual files being immune from deletion. about 90% of the songs in my GTA Vice City soundtrack disappeared (among other things). The weird thing is, is that when individual files are effected, they don't outright disappear from the card like folders do. The files are there but they're like ghost files or something, they just sort of get reduced dramatically in size and refuse to work. Its like what you'd have if you downloaded an album through a torrent but stopped the download around 10%, the files are visible, just incomplete.
While many things seem to disappear randomly, there also a bit a pattern. For example, my Elvis Costello, Elvis Presley and Rolling Stones folders all disappeared at once like three times in a row(maybe every time, I'm not quite sure). Not sure what's going on with that.
Don't know what is going on with your sd card. Anyway, glad that the problem somehow gone. Enjoy your phone and keep monitoring the sd card.
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Don't know what is going on with your sd card. Anyway, glad that the problem somehow gone. Enjoy your phone and keep monitoring the sd card.
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ARGHHH! It just happened again, all but one of the files in a folder somehow to reduced to 0.00kb. I'm just taking a wild guess here, could this have something to do with editing id3 tags in n7player? I think that's something most of the files have in common...
Could be. Try uninstall it or any apps you think may be related.
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Could be. Try uninstall it or any apps you think may be related.
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I tested this theory by editing various tags in n7player, rebooting, checking the available space on the SD card and repeating the process several times. Files disappeared about 3 in every 5 reboots so I think its safe to conclude that n7player was causing the problem. I didn't want to stop using n7player completely as it is by far my favorite music app, so now when I need to edit tags directly from phone I use ID3Fixer (but I mainly stick to editing files on my PC prior to transferring them just to be on the safe side). After a few days of normal usage, no files have disappeared.
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Berilium2 said:
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I rooted my phone and also installed TWRP on my HTC and I have noticed that my phone seems to be corrupting the photos that I take, but it doesn't corrupt them immediately. It can take a few hours but they end up getting corrupted. I store my photos on my SD card and I have never had a problem with it before, the card is still relatively new.
I'm still running the stock ROM
The photos were automatically backed up so I have the original versions and I have attached them to the post with the corresponding corrupted versions that appear on my phone
What's happening? Have I made a bollocks of the phone?
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That's strange. I'm probably not the one to solve the mystery but when you say sd card, you mean your external micro sd? Have you tried swapping out the sd card?
I was surprised to see an android phone couldn't rw ext 4; had to reformat fat32. But I don't get how they seem to gradually corrupt??? Are you using something like link2sd or was there a recent app you installed that preceeded this behavior?
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That's strange. I'm probably not the one to solve the mystery but when you say sd card, you mean your external micro sd? Have you tried swapping out the sd card?
I was surprised to see an android phone couldn't rw ext 4; had to reformat fat32. But I don't get how they seem to gradually corrupt??? Are you using something like link2sd or was there a recent app you installed that preceeded this behavior?
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Yeah I'm using an external SD card
I'll try swapping out the card and see if it makes a difference.
It's really weird that they're fine just after I take them and then like 2 hours later it seems that only the thumbnail is left or there's nothing at all.
When you say reformat to fat32, does that mean wipe everything off it?
I'm not using any strange apps, just the default camera app on the stock ROM
I noticed that my viber pictures were not displaying this weird behaviour so I looked and they're stored on the phone, so I changed my camera to store the pictures on my phone memory and took a few test photos. So far they have not been corrupted and seem fine. Although I think that the quality of the pictures has dropped
Seems like it might be the SD card after all
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Yeah I'm using an external SD card
I'll try swapping out the card and see if it makes a difference.
It's really weird that they're fine just after I take them and then like 2 hours later it seems that only the thumbnail is left or there's nothing at all.
When you say reformat to fat32, does that mean wipe everything off it?
I'm not using any strange apps, just the default camera app on the stock ROM
I noticed that my viber pictures were not displaying this weird behaviour so I looked and they're stored on the phone, so I changed my camera to store the pictures on my phone memory and took a few test photos. So far they have not been corrupted and seem fine. Although I think that the quality of the pictures has dropped
Seems like it might be the SD card after all
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Yes. If you format it to anything even the current format, it will be wiped. Sd cards get corrupted a lot. That's your most likely culprit. Not sure if it'll fix your issues but probably the easiest thing to start with. Hope it works for you!
Thanks for your help dude, I really appreciate it
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Just an update to anyone who might come across the same issue
Formatting the external SD card seemed to fix my problem