When my new Archos 101 spontaneously started deleting my movies and other files, I did some poking around using Astro. When my MicroSD no longer contained my videos, I safely removed it and checked it with a Windows PC. Sure enough, they were gone. I fired up the Archos and poked around Astro again and found that there were several "sdcard" files, though the MicroSD was not installed in the device. There is a /sdcard as well as a /mnt/sdcard. Probably a few other wierd things going on also. Tasker had been directed to use icons from the SD card (which was not installed at this time) and was still able to function. The icons shouldn't have been found by Tasker, as the MicroSD card was not in the device. Where was Tasker finding them?
I figured this was waaaay to crazy and since I haven't done much with the device, I'd reset everything. I did the reinitialization, which advised me that it would take it back to factory settings. I did this with the MicroSD still not installed. Upon completion, the "sdcard" files were still showing up after I installed Astro. I also still had junk thumbnails in the Gallery.
How do I take this back to straight from the factory state?
You sure that Astro is not confusing this with the internal storage of the device?
I get the same thing on my a70. sdcard/, mnt/sdcard/, sdcard/sdcard/. I haven't lost any files, but it's rather annoying. Never sure where anything really is. It looks normal when I mount it with a pc.
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I am a new owner of this tablet and have gotten as far as I could on my own. I have read several threads about how to mount the ext sd card, but I have not seen any directly referring to the card not being visible from the start.
I have cwm, titanianbackup, vegan5.1.1 incl supl installed and have even found how to tether my tabler to my captivate.
I have tried 4 different microsd cards(all new)Transcend 16gb, Patriot 16gb, Kingston 8gb and Sandisk 8 gb and none of them show up under settings after several reboots each. What am I doing wrong? I have not even got to the point of getting any option to mount the ext card yet, I am just seeing the internal sd when in settings.
I know I am just overlooking something that is obvious to veterans, so if someone can share a possible solution or suggestion I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks
Tina
The different cards I have won't work once I go up to the class 8 cards... otherwise, they need to be FAT32
compmomnc,
The disk structure and USB stuff on the G-Tablet leaves a lot to be deserved -- although I believe it probably is the same with a lot of other Android stuff too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1010943
The above should give you some file system basics. You can always go into your
file manager (I use Root Explorer) and check to find /sdcard, /sdcard2 and /usbdisk.
Then select them and see what's on that device.
I have several miniSDHC cards from 4- to 16-gigs and have not had trouble with any
of them.
You could have a read problem, but make sure they are not showing up as above and
are not there.
Rev
I had the same problem, thought it was a format problem, formatted twice to fat32, still no joy.
Finally rebooted with the sd card in place and the tab recognized it.
Rev interesting reading and suggestions, but alas no help for my problem.
Metal I tried reformatting all 4 microsd cards multiple times followed by a reboot and they still do not show.
Well my solution for right now is to use multi mount and will continue to explore for a more permanent solution. I can see the ext sd now, but if I transfer anything to it(like mp3's) winamp or poweramp do not see the additional files whether it is mounted or not. So for right now my music is on internal sd and I will have to watch the space for movie files. I am traveling later this week and aside for this little hiccup, the tablet is working fine. I should also add using Esfilexplorer, I can see the sd2 with any files on it and play each mp3 individually. I will continue to search and see what other suggestions other tablet owners might suggest for this issue.
Thanks for the help.
Tina
Tina - I have some music in a folder I created on my external sdcard (sdcard2) and poweramp does see it. In poweramp go to Settings - Music Folders and check the folders you want poweramp to scan. Folders on sdcard2 should show up.
Don't forget to rescan folders after you transfer new music and reboot.
compmomnc said:
Rev interesting reading and suggestions, but alas no help for my problem.
Metal I tried reformatting all 4 microsd cards multiple times followed by a reboot and they still do not show.
Well my solution for right now is to use multi mount and will continue to explore for a more permanent solution. I can see the ext sd now, but if I transfer anything to it(like mp3's) winamp or poweramp do not see the additional files whether it is mounted or not. So for right now my music is on internal sd and I will have to watch the space for movie files. I am traveling later this week and aside for this little hiccup, the tablet is working fine. I should also add using Esfilexplorer, I can see the sd2 with any files on it and play each mp3 individually. I will continue to search and see what other suggestions other tablet owners might suggest for this issue.
Thanks for the help.
Tina
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If you are using the ".nomedia" work around to protect your media files then they won't show up in the players. The .nomedia file prevents the system from scanning any deeper in the directory tree so the media lists never get built. File managers will still work just fine though.
Hello all, I had recently upgraded to a SanDisk Class 4 32GB microSD card and within a few days after I had merged all of my phone's data and my old sd's data, my pictures come up as broken files, and my music shows about 5-8 duplicates of each song but only a select few will play and the others will act like they're playing but no audio plays and the seconds of the song stays at zero. I even restart my phone with the sd out and the media scanner doesn't show that it's running, and I'm pretty sure it's not because when I go back to the music player I still see all of the songs that are on my sd and the pictures still show that they're broken...idk how the files still show in there without the sd card being in there, but I'm afraid I might have done something wrong when I had cut and pasted all of the files from the phone itself onto the sd. I have no real knowledge of android programming or rooting or anything like that so I figure it would help to mention my phone is stock but officially upgraded to 4.0.1.
Any help would be greatly appreciated and could possibly help more users out there!
I think you have to go to settings-apps-all tab-media storage- clear data. I think I remember right. Maybe try it without your card in. Replace SD card and turn on phone and I think it will scan correctly.
Or something like that. Hope it helps
Yeah I've tried all of the available functions from the phone and also mounting & unmounting it. I'm assuming from being a windows user that I might have transferred over some sort of "playlist" that remembers all of the file extensions for each file, and since they're not located in their original place it cant find the file...idk but it really takes a toll on my drive to work!
So something weird just happened to me. I have HTC Sync Manager installed on a Windows XP laptop. I did not have Sync Manager running. I connected my phone to my computer and set it to media sync with USB debugging connected. My internal memory and SD card popped up. I went in and deleted files and folders I no longer wanted from both. I always do this on the computer because it's much faster. I set the phone back to charge only and then unplugged it. I went into astro to take a look, and noticed there were no files or folders in both the internal memory and the SD card. I went to the storage option in the system settings and it showed I had 100% free space on my SD card and internal memory. All my apps are there though, as the 2GB partition was unaffected. It seems my SD card and internal memory were formatted somehow.
Has anyone else had this happen to them?
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So something weird just happened to me. I have HTC Sync Manager installed on a Windows XP laptop. I did not have Sync Manager running. I connected my phone to my computer and set it to media sync with USB debugging connected. My internal memory and SD card popped up. I went in and deleted files and folders I no longer wanted from both. I always do this on the computer because it's much faster. I set the phone back to charge only and then unplugged it. I went into astro to take a look, and noticed there were no files or folders in both the internal memory and the SD card. I went to the storage option in the system settings and it showed I had 100% free space on my SD card and internal memory. All my apps are there though, as the 2GB partition was unaffected. It seems my SD card and internal memory were formatted somehow.
Has anyone else had this happen to them?
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Sometimes Windows can play you dirty. I would first suggest upgrading to Windows 7 because the write access to files on usb media was much improved, I've seen this issue happen to me several times with USB drives or flash drives in general. Sometimes I copy things and after unplugging the device the file I copied is not there, even though when I copied it, it told me that the operation was completed successfully.
Second of all, I would suggest that anytime you do an operation like this, never disconnect the media immediately, let it sit for a bit if you deleted large files or a large amount of files. Last but not least, it could of been human error, sometimes we just mess up and we don't even realize it.
Are you having any other problems with the phone? Are your apps working? was the total folder structure of the /sdcard and /sdcard/sd_ext erased ?
Same thing happened to me yesterday. But for me I'm pretty sure I unplugged it too quick and lost everything. At least everything was still running fine. I performed a quick titanium and nandroid backup and I was fine
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megabiteg said:
Sometimes Windows can play you dirty. I would first suggest upgrading to Windows 7 because the write access to files on usb media was much improved, I've seen this issue happen to me several times with USB drives or flash drives in general. Sometimes I copy things and after unplugging the device the file I copied is not there, even though when I copied it, it told me that the operation was completed successfully.
Second of all, I would suggest that anytime you do an operation like this, never disconnect the media immediately, let it sit for a bit if you deleted large files or a large amount of files. Last but not least, it could of been human error, sometimes we just mess up and we don't even realize it.
Are you having any other problems with the phone? Are your apps working? was the total folder structure of the /sdcard and /sdcard/sd_ext erased ?
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That's the funny thing. I let it sit for a minute until the phone fully loaded the memory just like I have done 100 times before. All apps are working, and the phone is working 100% otherwise. I'm guessing it's just a glitch, or a small voltage change could have wiped the memory.
That computer was my work computer, that's why it still has XP.
Ok so tonight, I decided to clean up my SD card. I had noticed that some how I had 1500 pics on my internal SD card, SO I moved them over to my external one and cleaned everything up a bit, combining all the folders. Now when I go into my phone and SD card, all the pics are TINY in size. LIke if the pic before was the size of the screen, now its 1x1 inch. I use wallpaper wizzadrii to set my wallpapers and its setting them all for TINY as well.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
you probably copied the thumbnails
I did now what?
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If you deleted the actual pictures and are just now stuck with the thumbnails try an app called DiskDigger. It'll find your deleted photos if it was just recently done. It won't go as far back as a PC would. But give it a shot. Oh yea, must be rooted for it I believe.
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I wouldn't use an android app, I'd connect the phone to a PC, mount it, then use Recuva to scan it.
scy1192 said:
I wouldn't use an android app, I'd connect the phone to a PC, mount it, then use Recuva to scan it.
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going to try that now.
Also, I just realized that all the pics were on my internal storage. I know I never set it up that way. I have always put them on my SD card. For future reference, how do i get everything to be automatically saved to the external SD card?
You mentioned that you cleaned up the images by copying them from your internal SD to your external one - if what you're trying doesn't work, do you remember which folder the files came from? You can just move them back but I have a sinking feeling that you're going to go to your Gallery and when you review your images, you'll see a bunch of white boxes with and 'x' inside which indicates that you're missing the image that was where it was supposed to be when the Gallery accessed your photos. I did something similar a while ago, trying to consolidate photos into a folder on my SD and when I moved the files, I had the white boxes I mentioned. The fastest way to fix the issue is to move ALL images off your SD, go to Gallery, erase ALL, then mount the SD card onto the PC and move images back onto the SD, go to Gallery, and let the thumbnails regenerate.
It's a pain but if you do this once, you'll not do it by accident again. Android does something similar to Apple's iTunes. You can have files in several folders and the program will 'find them' for you but if you move them, you can cause yourself quite a headache.
Good luck!
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going to try that now.
Also, I just realized that all the pics were on my internal storage. I know I never set it up that way. I have always put them on my SD card. For future reference, how do i get everything to be automatically saved to the external SD card?
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The app I posted works fine, I've used it before. It looks for only photos whole recuva will find any file ever...
For setting it to external SD that's an option in the camera
Another program you can try is testdisk. It's free and it has recovered everything I've ever needed and then some. I've accessed files on a drive that both windows and OS X told me was not formatted. Got all 450gb off of it and could also retrieve tons of deleted files. It's a computer app, not a phone app.
I use AndroZip. And I am really confused about the different folders..
I included 2 screenshots for this part of my question..
First one.. can someone tell me what those folders mean..
Second picture.. what the heck are all those folders..
Is the actual external SD card one of those folders. I figured it would be the obvious one but I swear I had more stuff in that folder and Its not there...
Is there a way to make the external sd card the default to where all pics and stuff are saved??
Seems I am running out of storage space on my phone already for some reason.
3rd picture is of a screenshot of my storage use.. ridiculous. I dont understand why everything is on my phone and nothing is on the card..
It was worse a few days ago. My phone kept telling me I had no space left.. it was at like
System storge was 15.23gb/16.00gb
Sd card was 2.20gb/29.71gb
Sorry my question is kinda lame. Im just not good at this stuff.
Thanks for your guys help I really appreciate it
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Not sure what all those folders mean, but emulated sd is actually still internal...your "ext sd" is your external sd. when you open your camera for the first time, it should give the option to save all photos to ext sd. If you missed it, you should be able to hit the menu button, go into settings and change it within a secondary settings menu in there. I use es file explorer or astro typically and have never seen all those usb folders. Perhaps you are plugged into a desktop?
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For whatever reason, the Galaxy S4 has many, many mount points for its emulated SD Card. If you're rooted, the actual path to it is "/data/media/0/"
However, the folders in the first picture are ALL paths to your internal or emulated SD Card. sdcard0, ext_sdcard, emulated, legacy, etc.
In the second picture, those look like pre-created mount points for... multiple flash drives? Either way, no reason to worry about them unless you somehow manage to plug up about 7 flash drives or SD Cards to your device.
And as for the space issue... That really is a good question. Factory resetting is never out of the question if you're up for it, however, assuming you're not, the only explanation I could come up with is just a ton of apps with big extra files. Like Minecraft, Call of Duty Black Ops Zombies, Temple Run 2.
Hope I helped, sorry if I didn't. I'm new to Android this year, so I haven't thoroughly looked at all of the quirky stuff it tends to do, but your data usage has to be from something, and if it's not from stuff you put on your emulated SD Card, it has to be from big apps or malware, assuming you didn't tamper with anything in a root file explorer. Are you sure you haven't messed around and copied files to some directory you thought was the emulated SD?
As far as the internal storage, the OS and "most" of your downloaded apps will go here, unless you use foldermount ("move to sd" only moves part of the file). Anyways, I have about 60 apps on my phone and am running hyperdrive and have about the same amount of internal storage left as you. After formatting and whatnot, the device does not have 16gb internal memory...it's more like 11 or 12. Before I was running hyperdrive and was just stock rooted, on that same screen as your 3rd picture, it showed me that I had 9.82gb of internal memory TOTAL, but I had way less used (I currently have no more or no less than I did then, but shows I have 8.23gb out of 16, instead of the 3.9gb out of 9.82 it used to show). Most of which is under "miscellaneous" files and when you go in there to see whats actually there via phone settings, you can't really see what's using all the space. You really need to be rooted and use root explorer (or similar) to see whats using all the storage.