It seems that my phone is damaged because every once in a while the internal memory erases itself. It's most noticeable for files I put on (music/video) rather than programs installed. This leads me to believe only certain sections of the internal memory is damaged. Is there anyway I can fix this?
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I have just noticed that all of my data on both my SGS2 internal memory and my SD card has gone!
It's totally bizarre! All my apps are fine, my home screens are fine, but all photos, music, and other files are gone.
My internal storage now only contains .android_secure and LOST.DIR, but the weirdest thing is the SD card. It contains all of the default and app folders that were previously on the internal drive, except without any of the user data (e.g. DCIM is empty where it should have photos & videos galore in there). However, the SD card does now contain 9 files called "FILL0", "FILL1"... through to "FILL9" and all of them are 1GB in size. These "FILL" files have no windows file extension.
Does anybody know what has happened here? It looks like the phone has suddenly taken all the internal data and copied it to the SD, while at the same time removing anything in any way precious to me and possibly storing it in these "FILL" files.
Can anybody make sense of this?
One correction to make on what I said above. I mislabeled my drives, so it's actually the SD card which has the 2 default files on it, and the phone memory that has the rest. There was no copying from the phone memory to SD after all, there was purely deletion of the entire SD, and then deletion & this weird dump of everything into "FILL" files on the phone memory.
I first saw this whole "sdcard/sdcard0" and "extsdcard" mess with the Motorola RAZR, the first Smartphone I used which had a large amount of internal memory.
Personally, I found this maddeningly annoying, many apps were confused and assumed they were installing or writing to the SD card when they were just writing to internal. The whole point of a SD card (to me at least) is to have REMOVABLE memory.
I then found out when considering the Galaxy S3 and later S4 that they also did the same, I wondered why Samsung would do such an annoying thing.
Now, I finally upgraded my three-year-old EVO 3D running Gingerbread/ICS for a M8 running KitKat.... and was even assured it didn't perform such ridiculous stupidity as mounting the internal memory as a SD card (especially when I was told the EVO 4G LTE originally did this, but got an update that actually re-partitioned the flash memory to undo that). So when I installed a filemanager to remove some junk files from the SD card, I was pretty angry to see a "sdcard0" and "extsdcard" folder, though since there wasn't much I could do about that I just ignored it for the time and tried to delete the junk files from the SD card and move some to external...... when I got my next nasty surprise.
So then, is this whole primary/sdcard0 and secondary/extsdcard thing actually something that Google is pushing/forcing rather than stupidity of manufacturers? Are they required now to emulate the internal as a sdcard on KitKat devices so Google can indulge in their anti-sd card mentality and force people to use their cloud storage while turning Android into iPhone provide security and make Android less complicated because clearly Android is insecure and confusing to use and this isn't a coverup on their part? Or is there something in Android's design that prevents just having the 32 GIGS of internal memory (minus whatever is partitioned off to the system, boot, cache, etc) as one large chunk of internal and not emulate a SD card? Especially since their silly restrictions in KitKat only effect "secondary" memory and technically would not effect the SD card if there was no emulated one taking it's place as primary? (funny how this whole clutter and security issue isn't applying to internal memory, there it would be an even bigger problem...)
Or are manufacturers doing this anyway (the whole making the actual physical sdcard a secondary storage and tricking apps into thinking the internal memory is a sd card so they install and write to there when you tell them to use external memory) based on their own mentality? If this is a requirement from Google, then how did HTC get away with actually UN-DOING this exact thing on the 4G LTE?
Again, the whole point of having apps save their data and exported settings/whatever to the sdcard is so I am not dependant on the data being locked onto the internal memory and only accessible if the phone wants me to access it and is working. Even the downloads folder is on the internal, which some of my apps by default export saved settings to, and I cannot move it or even any of the files in it to the external sdcard because of the changes in KitKat, which is kinda the entire $#^^$^#^&#$^^$ point of exporting your saved settings.
Hi,
can anyone tell me if it's possible to write a script to run on start-up to ensure my phone sets my Storage to SD
Occasionally I find it has all of a sudden returned to internal storage and when I use my camera photos go to the internal rather than my SD card
Hoping someone can help
thanks
Stef
Hi,
How it happended :I wanted to just Overclocked the CPU of my Swipe Monster tab XL916,and as a consequence my device got hanged .I rebooted it and it was still working but it had no User apps in it.
What happened:It was a strange when I checked out in Setting>Storage that now i had two internal storage partition(Strange)....One partition was just 16 mb( i call it the artificial internal storage) and other was The Other was the actual partition which was 5GB in size.Now its considering the 16 mb as the actual internal and assuming the actual internal memory as sd card(although i also have a addition external sd card on my device that is 8GB in size).
As a reult of which:Thus i could only install apps which actually get installed on sd card (or which can move most of its part to sd card for eg mx player).And also these apps get removed on every boot .
What i think could have happened:Maybe it could have changed some system files which led to changes in overall system partition table. I am seriously not able to understand what has went wrong with my device.Please help in in settling these changes to internal partitions.
Extra Info:One more thing have come to my notice that when i install some apps to the system memory(using adb push) it reflects in the artificial internal storage as well.(it became 34 mb from 16mb)That means the artificial internal storage is none other than a part of system memory which due to some problem in partition table is being reflected as internal memory.If you need output of any adb command just tell me.
So a while ago I noticed that when I do a factory reset on my phone, the apps that I HAVE INSTALLED remain installed. Even if I delete them I don't have access to the rest of the memory, I have about 2,4GB free of 4GB. (Note: The phone has and 8GB internal storage, and before I encountered this problem I had access to the 4GB)
Now for the other part. When I connect my phone to my PC, it should show 2 drives well mine doesn't show the second one anymore (which is the internal storage) just the SD one. If I remove the SD and plug my phone back into my PC, it shows the Partition of the internal memory, called G:, but I get this error message, G:/ Is not accessible. Incorrect function. .
I've tried to format it but it doesn't work. Any other ideas would be appreciated.