When I purchased the evo 3d today the rep said not to put your old sd in the phone or it will format all of your data on there. I havent tryed it yet but I wanted to know if this was true
ddoug215 said:
When I purchased the evo 3d today the rep said not to put your old sd in the phone or it will format all of your data on there. I havent tryed it yet but I wanted to know if this was true
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
they are full of it. I did and was just fine... Wouldn't let them power it on with new card...
Sent from my PG86100 using Tapatalk
I put a new 16GB one in last night with no issue. I copied the contents of the 8GB one into a folder on my computer and then copied those contents to the new card. I did all the copying outside of the phone as my computer has an SD slot I could use. Green Hornet movie still played fine from new card.
Hope this answers your question.
+1 Same Here transfer on P/C and works fine
thanks for the info didnt want to lose everything on my sd
Why is it important to copy the original 8G contents to your 16G card?
rmonty said:
I put a new 16GB one in last night with no issue. I copied the contents of the 8GB one into a folder on my computer and then copied those contents to the new card. I did all the copying outside of the phone as my computer has an SD slot I could use. Green Hornet movie still played fine from new card.
Hope this answers your question.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
ddoug215 said:
When I purchased the evo 3d today the rep said not to put your old sd in the phone or it will format all of your data on there. I havent tryed it yet but I wanted to know if this was true
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
fail just put my old sdcard in it and its fine
rmonty said:
I put a new 16GB one in last night with no issue. I copied the contents of the 8GB one into a folder on my computer and then copied those contents to the new card. I did all the copying outside of the phone as my computer has an SD slot I could use. Green Hornet movie still played fine from new card.
Hope this answers your question.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I did the same and Green Hornet played, but not in 3D. I took the 16gb out and put the original 8gb back in and it worked...maybe I have to format the 16gb card? =/
Same here. I transferred new card to my old card and everything is fine.
sent from my HTC EVO 3d using the premium XDA app.
Related
So, like the title says, I accidently formatted my SD card today not even 20 min into having my phone. For some reason I thought I had put my other 8GB card into the phone, and when I went to look, sure enough the phone had the Class 4 card in it. What were/are the contents of the SD card. Am I missing anything I didn't have before? Did I delete my movies?
You shouldn't have any problems, I started mine with a blank 16 gig from the first boot of the phone and I have no problems and nothing is missing.
Sent from my EVO 3D using XDA Premium App
heathmcabee said:
So, like the title says, I accidently formatted my SD card today not even 20 min into having my phone. For some reason I thought I had put my other 8GB card into the phone, and when I went to look, sure enough the phone had the Class 4 card in it. What were/are the contents of the SD card. Am I missing anything I didn't have before? Did I delete my movies?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
There was some sample music and the Green Hornet 3D movie. I wiped mine as well, but copied the contents to my computer hard drive first. If you want a copy, you can send me your empty card and I'll fill 'er up for you.
Me 2 anyone have the 2d and 3d sample photos that came with the phone I can download
I didn't reformat my card but I have a feeling the girl at Radio Shack who was setting up my phone my have. I spent all day trying to figure out why The Green Hornet wouldn't play, finally figured out it wasn't there. I don't have that or any of the sample pics that are supposed to be on there. The thing that sucks is that the movie has DRM and I'm sure it would be illegal for someone to post a download link on here or something. That is one of the reasons I might try and have the phone replaced tomorrow. I'm a little annoyed that I didn't get everything I paid for. Even if I were to simply watch it once and delete it, that's my choice.
erikivy said:
There was some sample music and the Green Hornet 3D movie. I wiped mine as well, but copied the contents to my computer hard drive first. If you want a copy, you can send me your empty card and I'll fill 'er up for you.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
erikivy,
I'm in a similar boat and I would LOVE for you to hook with up with the original files! Can I mail you a. 4.7GB DVD to get them? I only have one SD card and can't be without it.
Wouldn't it being licensed make it okay to upload...can't play it without the license, right? If anyone does UL it or put in their dropbox or something, I would appreciate a link...I too formatted the card (as well as hard resetting) the minute I got the phone in my grubby hands....
Sent from my PG86100 using Tapatalk
awenthol said:
Wouldn't it being licensed make it okay to upload...can't play it without the license, right? If anyone does UL it or put in their dropbox or something, I would appreciate a link...I too formatted the card (as well as hard resetting) the minute I got the phone in my grubby hands....
Sent from my PG86100 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Someone here already put it in a dropbox. Dropbox shut the link down because of too much activity (not because of content). If anyone wants to upload it again, I'd suggest something like filedropper.com.
mwalt2 said:
Someone here already put it in a dropbox. Dropbox shut the link down because of too much activity (not because of content). If anyone wants to upload it again, I'd suggest something like filedropper.com.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
it is being worked on as we are posting about it ..have a link to the sample 3d pics.zip in another thread the full sdcard zip is 1.90 GB ..that possibly will be upped soon as well.. patience ...
ScrapSilicon said:
it is being worked on as we are posting about it ..have a link to the sample 3d pics.zip in another thread the full sdcard zip is 1.90 GB ..that possibly will be upped soon as well.. patience ...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1140089
Hi have a Lexar class 10 sd card that I purchased ~6 months ago for my Evo. Had issues with other cards, and this was the one card that was rock-solid for me on the EVO.
This morning, my Photon started acting very laggy. Programs would refuse to launch, and it was generally having issues.. Upon rebooting, my sd card was gone..
In windows, the sd card has a partition, but requires formatting now this card was rock solid for me in the EVO, so concerned that it died within 24 hours of having it in the photon
-mark
No issue here from my 2 year old 8gig and it has been in since Sunday.
diomark said:
Hi have a Lexar class 10 sd card that I purchased ~6 months ago for my Evo. Had issues with other cards, and this was the one card that was rock-solid for me on the EVO.
This morning, my Photon started acting very laggy. Programs would refuse to launch, and it was generally having issues.. Upon rebooting, my sd card was gone..
In windows, the sd card has a partition, but requires formatting now this card was rock solid for me in the EVO, so concerned that it died within 24 hours of having it in the photon
-mark
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I had problems with the same microsd card, and wound up having to RMA it. I've heard of others who have had similar failure issues. I'm highly skeptical that the Photon actively caused it, as opposed to just poor coincidental timing.
Beknatok said:
I had problems with the same microsd card, and wound up having to RMA it. I've heard of others who have had similar failure issues. I'm highly skeptical that the Photon actively caused it, as opposed to just poor coincidental timing.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
re-formatted.. we'll see how it behaves..
(again though, 0 issues on the evo with this card..)
-mark
I'm a Sprint Launch Ambassador supporting the Photon and I would also recommend backing up the data on the SD card and reformatting it. Keep me posted on progress.
mattvalenz said:
I'm a Sprint Launch Ambassador supporting the Photon and I would also recommend backing up the data on the SD card and reformatting it. Keep me posted on progress.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
it was corrupted to the point of not being able to see it in windows
A recovery program that I tried (EASUS recovery) showed the files and gave me the option of recovering them, but since I didn't have much on there, I opted to just format it..
-mark
wow! my wintec 16g class 10 stopped working today , going to see if comp recognize it .. no cool!!
Sent from my Mopho 4g using XDA App
While I do not know about the wintec card, but the Lexar one has been known to do this. There are a few xda threads scattered throughout the forum as well as over in Amazon that have mentioned the card as well as a few others that work for a while and then poof they act like this. it seems to be common with 32GB class 10. Another one that has issues is Patriot (see xda thread) but at least Patriot has acknowledge the issue.
TS
FYI. Estrong's File Explorer does not work correctly on the Photon. I have a 16gb sd card and Estrong's File Explorer will only detect 8gb of it. Use the factory installed file manager instead. I thought my card got wiped when I first got my Photon but that was the culprit. Windows showed all my files still intact.
tx_dbs_tx said:
FYI. Estrong's File Explorer does not work correctly on the Photon. I have a 16gb sd card and Estrong's File Explorer will only detect 8gb of it. Use the factory installed file manager instead. I thought my card got wiped when I first got my Photon but that was the culprit. Windows showed all my files still intact.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Are you sure you're not seeing the internal media partition?
Sent from my MB855 using Tapatalk
diomark said:
Are you sure you're not seeing the internal media partition?
Sent from my MB855 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
All I know is that when in Estrong's File explorer I can switch between sdcard and phone memory and it only sees 8gb of my 16gb card. Im very familiar with Estrong's File Explorer. I've been using it quite a while. Not sure what else it could be because the stock file manager on the Photon sees all 16gb of my memory card.
If you're not seeing internal phone memory, internal SD card, and external SD card) three separate locations) then you're just not accessing the SD card correctly.
Try browsing to /sdcard-ext
Sent from my MB855 using Tapatalk
I have a microSD card in my phone and I don't have any problems with it not recognizing it. Maybe you have a bad card. Make sure the card works or the files you have are corrupted.
I a Sprint Product Ambassador and would love to look into this further to help. I need to narrow it down to any specfics I can get. So...
To anyone having the issue:
What was the brand? (i.e. Sandisk, Lexar)
Size of the card?
Any other information that may be pertinent.
One thing I noticed about file explorers in general, esfile explorer, astro, etc, they detect the internal memory as the sd card and not your actual sd card.
Also, I reformatted my sd card from my 3vo after backing it up, because in general when you put an old drive, or something similar into a new computer it may handle it differently than your previous computer did, in our case our phones. Now this may not be the case, but this is just my thoughts on how it may work. Which could in turn bork your card. Should be okay after a reformat.
Sent from the phone you wish you had, using the XDA Premium App.
Just had my SDcard become corrupted while in phone. Showed "Damaged SD Card" warning in Notification bar. I then had to reformat the card. It's working just fine now. I think perhaps some data while writing to card becomes corrupt.
Others report if you have similar issues.
My card is a 16GB Class 10 Patriot (I think)
I have an 8GB SD card in my Photon that used to show up just fine, but now the contents are no longer accessible. Under file manager, it says no SD card is present. But I also use App2SD and all the apps (games mostly) that I had moved over to it are still working. I can launch those games just fine and even in the App2SD app, it shows my SD card (total space and used space) along with all the apps on it.
When I take this same SD card out and plug it into my Win7 PC, all the old contents are still there (pictures, music, videos). I can view/listen to them just fine, so the SD card is good.
So I'm not sure wtf is going on. The only thing that I did that may have caused this was installing QuickPic. When I first launched it, it tried to do an index of all my content on the SD card. But now when I launch it, it says no SD card is present. I've rebooted several times, powered off/on, reseated the SD card, but the end result is the same.
Anyone have a clue on what I should do (short of formatting starting over)?
In file manager are you browsing to /mnt/sdcard-ext ?
I was able to browse there under QQPlayer, but it was empty. For File manager, I simply select SD Card (choices are Internal Phone Storage, SD card, Shard folders) and it says "Please insert memory card". But for further testing, I installed Zedge and moved it over to the SD card with App2SD. It still allowed me to do that and the app still worked.
Lemme guess....el cheapo no-name branded micro sd card ?
Wintec or some other crap ?
Time to go buy another....this one is toast with no butter
n2ishun said:
Lemme guess....el cheapo no-name branded micro sd card ?
Wintec or some other crap ?
Time to go buy another....this one is toast with no butter
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Keep guessing, it's a Sandisk. And like I said in the OP, it works fine in the PC and in the Photon, as far as App2SD is concerned, just not with the rest of the phone.
gumbico said:
Keep guessing, it's a Sandisk. And like I said in the OP, it works fine in the PC and in the Photon, as far as App2SD is concerned, just not with the rest of the phone.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
And this negates the fact it is a bad card exactly how ?
n2ishun said:
And this negates the fact it is a bad card exactly how ?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
And you think it's a bad card exactly how? Are you reading my posts or just randomly responding with crap? If the best of your troubleshooting skills is to replace the suspect part, then point taken. However, I disagree.
So for other folks on the forum that have some basic troubleshooting skills, here's something else I've done to test. I've placed the SD card back into my old HTC Eris and the card works fine in there as well. So my guess is that the issue is somewhere in my Photon. Just not sure if it's the hardware or software.
Then live with a bad card
I have had issues with my sdcard, but not to the extent you seem to have. I swapped the Radioshack Photon for a Best Buy Photon last night to get a hunski back and backed all my apps up with astro. The only thing my new Photon recognizes are the pictures I had from the old Photon. My wallpapers, ringtones, apps, etc... are not seen by new one and Astro does not find any backed up apps. AND its a new 8gb ScanDisk. Weird.
Finally did a factory reset on my phone but still kept getting the same behavior. Called up Sprint, got a support ticket number and walked into a Sprint store for them to test it further. 2 other known good SD cards were failing to mount on my phone. Tried them on another new Photon and they worked, including mine. Luckily, I was within the 30 days period and was able to simply get my phone swapped out. POS Motorola...
OK I'm at a loss. I've searched for this issue and haven't seen anybody else experiencing this problem.
My Evo is relatively new. Had it just about a month now. Still stock. Haven't had any real problems until I bought a 32GB SD card. I've purchased 2 actually and have had the same issue with both. The phone reads the card fine supposedly. Shows 32GB available (just about). But I'm having the HARDEST time copy files to the card. I've got a ton of music, pics, ringtones, etc I'd like to get on this device. I can connect the phone to my PC, mount as a disk drive and copy to my heart's content. But then when I disconnect the phone and try to access some of those files, they're gone. I mean just GONE. The entire directory I just created with all of it contents... GONE!! Not misplaced or deleted by accident. GONE like they were never there. Like I didn't just spend 10 minutes copying 2gigs worth of files. And this happens just about every time I try. I unmount the phone properly, see the message on screen "preparing sd card" and all seems fine. But my music player says there are no files. Gallery is empty. Go back to look for the files I just copied on the card and nothing. Nowhere to be found. Now of the few hundred times I've tried this now, the directory actually stayed put a couple times. I was able to view my pics, or listen to my music. The folders stay right where I put them. But guess what. The next time I try to copy more files, my directories will disappear again. I've tried 2 different brand SD cards with the same results on both. I've used both Astro and ES to view the cards but it doesn't make a difference. I've even used and external card reader and copied files directly to the card. Still no luck. Please help. This is driving me crazy. Could this be a problem with the phone itself? I don't get it...
Well if you have used an external sd reader without success then the problem is not your phone. Your saying if you copy files to your sd,you cant see them after? So it doesn't copy from an external reader?
Sent from my EVO using xda premium
---------- Post added at 05:49 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:45 PM ----------
I strongly believe the problem is the format of your card or your computer.
If you are transferring files from your external sd reader and if its still there when you check,but gone when you insert it in your phone. Then I also strongly believe that you are looking in
/sdcard directory which you should actually be looking at /sdcard/ext_sd/
Sent from my EVO using xda premium
I'm saying that no matter if I use an external card reader, SD adapter, or connect the phone directly with a USB cable, the files I copy to the card will disappear "magically" once I dismount the card from the PC and attempt to read on the phone. Usually this is the case. But like I said, a handful of times, the files were where I put them, but disappeared the next time I tried to copy more files to the card. And no I'm not looking in the wrong directory. I know the difference between the sdcard and ext_sd folders.
What brand of cards are they? Do you have the same problem with cards of a smaller capacity?
Sent from my EVO using xda premium
This looks like a problem with your computer settings. With some configurations, if you don't explicitly eject/unmount the drive from the PC, it won't actually move the files. It will only truly copy them when you begin the eject process.
I tried a Kingston 32GB class 10 card first, then bought a generic 32GB class 10. Same issue with both. I do have a smaller 8GB SanDisk class 4 card that I have not tried yet.
I made sure to "safely remove" the cards when connected to the PC. I've tried from both a desktop and laptop. Same results all around. I thought maybe the problem is with class 10 cards but I haven't heard anyone else having issues. I also thought to try a 16GB card. But that would suck since other folks are having success with 64GB cards.
I'm about to try to reset my phone and see if that makes any difference. I may be headed back to the Sprint store this weekend.
troublefunk said:
I tried a Kingston 32GB class 10 card first, then bought a generic 32GB class 10. Same issue with both. I do have a smaller 8GB SanDisk class 4 card that I have not tried yet.
I made sure to "safely remove" the cards when connected to the PC. I've tried from both a desktop and laptop. Same results all around. I thought maybe the problem is with class 10 cards but I haven't heard anyone else having issues. I also thought to try a 16GB card. But that would suck since other folks are having success with 64GB cards.
I'm about to try to reset my phone and see if that makes any difference. I may be headed back to the Sprint store this weekend.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Have you tried formatting the sd within the phone?
banccalif said:
Have you tried formatting the sd within the phone?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
YUP. Tried that too with both cards. Also tried formatting on the PCs.
troublefunk said:
YUP. Tried that too with both cards. Also tried formatting on the PCs.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Im at a loss then
troublefunk said:
I tried a Kingston 32GB class 10 card first, then bought a generic 32GB class 10. Same issue with both. I do have a smaller 8GB SanDisk class 4 card that I have not tried yet.
I made sure to "safely remove" the cards when connected to the PC. I've tried from both a desktop and laptop. Same results all around. I thought maybe the problem is with class 10 cards but I haven't heard anyone else having issues. I also thought to try a 16GB card. But that would suck since other folks are having success with 64GB cards.
I'm about to try to reset my phone and see if that makes any difference. I may be headed back to the Sprint store this weekend.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Where did you buy these cards? This seems like a fake capacity card symptom to me. Try copying just one or two songs and see if they stay. The cards are probably fine but this is something I ran across with a friend's card before who unfortunately turned out to be a fake. I hope it's not the case for you. Also (since the cards seem to be empty for you) run this to be sure the SD card is genuine.
If you actually bought it from a reputable source, then my bad but it's best to get all bases covered.
Now if the above is not it and you had the problem with two different cards, then the issue (probably) lies with your computer/transfer cable. Try doing the reverse, copy some things on the card from the phone and try to read it on the PC. If you need something to copy you can always copy the ringtones that come with the phone at /system/media/audio/ringtones.
Let me know what you find out
I seem to recall issues initially with 32g cards acting up, but I thought only if they were a certain class but could be related? Try the 8g you have. I had issues mounting the 32g I had, class 4 I believe, when I was still on stock. Sometimes it would mount, other times it would dismount for no reason without any warning. I would just know bc I couldn't access any thing on it.
Sent from my EVO using xda app-developers app
Make sure the cards are formatted Fat 32 to begin with. And yes, definitely try the smaller sd card you mentioned.
Are you sure your looking in sdcard2 and not sdcard when in a file manager?
Sent from my EVO using Xparent SkyBlue Tapatalk 2
Download SDFormatter from sdcard.org. It has always fixed my sd card issues with my phones.
Sent from my EVO using Tapatalk 2
OK well here is an update.
It turns out the generic 32GB class 10 card was defective. Was able to verify that with the test utility racer posted. Thanks for that btw. I'm running the same test on the kingston card to see what it says.
I also did locate my 8GB class 4 card and that worked like a charm. No problems copying data to or from the card and definitely no disappearing directories. I just want a larger card. LOL. Hopefully the kingston one is ok after I format and test it.
I bought a no name 64GB Class 10 MicroSD card to replace my 32GB but I can't seem to get my data transferred over cleanly. I've formatted it numerous times (exFAT) both on my PC and my GNote. I have the 32GB card backed up to my PC. I've tried copying from my phone (32GB) to the PC (64GB) and vice versa. Sometimes it will go all the way through without a problem but always only some of the files and folders are copied correctly. Other times, it will throw one of several different errors and the stuff that looked had been copied will vanish. For example, this morning I was copying certain files, essentially one by one and checking in ES File manager to see if they were on the phone's external SD card (64GB) and they were. Then after doing this for a bout an hour it would hiccup and everything I'd copied over and verified with ES File Manager would be gone!?
If it matters, I'm running Windows 8 PC with 4GB ram and 1.31 TB of HD storage. On my Gnote i've tried it with both a stock ICS TW ROM and JellyBeer 4.1.0 with no joy. I've done a bunch of searches here and on Google but nothing seems on point. If it's a bad SD Card, how do I test for that?
When I had a weird problem like that it turned out the SD card was fake. This program determines your actual SD card size.
http://fightflashfraud.wordpress.co...ld-standard-in-detecting-fake-capacity-flash/
Other then that, fat32 is what you should use in Android. Maybe even try letting the phone format the card through settings/ storage. Be advised there will be data loss so backup anything beforehand.
scariola said:
When I had a weird problem like that it turned out the SD card was fake. This program determines your actual SD card size.
http://fightflashfraud.wordpress.co...ld-standard-in-detecting-fake-capacity-flash/
Other then that, fat32 is what you should use in Android. Maybe even try letting the phone format the card through settings/ storage. Be advised there will be data loss so backup anything beforehand.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanx! I'll check it out and report back.
DaElderGeek said:
Thanx! I'll check it out and report back.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanx Scariola! You were right. It was a 4GB card masquerading as a 64GB card.
DaElderGeek said:
Thanx Scariola! You were right. It was a 4GB card masquerading as a 64GB card.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
sorry that this was the way to find out. No name high capacity SD cards would be a red flag.
I even had a couple that said Kingston 32gb which were actually 2gb. Flea bay and craigslist at its worst.
Thanks for reporting back. Hopefully more people are aware of the SD card validator link I posted now.
scariola said:
sorry that this was the way to find out. No name high capacity SD cards would be a red flag.
I even had a couple that said Kingston 32gb which were actually 2gb. Flea bay and craigslist at its worst.
Thanks for reporting back. Hopefully more people are aware of the SD card validator link I posted now.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The validator is certainly in my toolbox now. Thanx again. It takes forever to run on the large capacity drive but it was definitely worth. The white lettering is beginning to smudge. Really low class work. I'm getting my money back . . . I think. I think the poor schlub who sold it to me bought and is selling a bunch of them. I think he now knows how exposed he is.