I was hoping someone could help.
When I went into the gallery app the yesterday, to my dismay, it seemed that all but the lastest 3 of my camera pictures have disappeared. The last three I took seem fine, but everything older just shows a funny grey icon. When I send this pic to my computer, it say the image couldn't be displayed as it contains errors.
I haven't been fiddling round with the memory card or anything.
Does anyone know what happened, and how to get it working again?
They're broken, you can't fix those. I think you should format your SD card, because it contains errors.
Backup everything to your pc, format it using your phone at the Storage options, and put everything back. Just to make sure this doesn't occur again.
Download RECUVA and try to recover the pictures is worth a try .
jje
It's also worth considering the possibility that your card is a fake. After formatting it, try filling it with files and then try copying them back again. If they're corrupted then you know your card is not as large as it may seem to be.
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I've read upon the DAMAGED SD CARD problem with android, but most of the phone becomes virtually unusable, mine says it's damaged but market works, and I can install apps to phone memory, even with APPS2SD enabled. If I try and copy my files to the computer, it stops halfway with 'perimeter incorrect', glad I did a backup like 1 week ago. Funny thing is, in recovery the SD card is fine, I can make backups, I even tried to repair SD Ext Partition, no luck.
Its probably Android thinking it's damaged without it really being so. Totally confused since I warning/error is on the ongoing notification. Also when I go into the SD card & phone storage shows information as unavailable and SD information widgets can't read it either. I don't mind formatting and copying everything over, but it kinda works, but android thinks it's corrupted or something. Very weird. Also I did nothing out of the ordinary, but with computers or machines random errors can occur. I had the partition in place for a 3 weeks now, installed MCR 3.1 couple of weeks ago and using it pretty much like this, but since the WIFI hanged (kept saying it's turning off but being stuck) I rebooted and the message came up.
Is it possible to fix it how it is? Or shall I just re-format and copy everything again. I'm just worried it may happen again.
So basically what happened is I rebooted my phone, and then opened up my music app, and it said that my external SD card folder (where I keep all my music) was missing or unreadable. I checked my file explorer to see what was going on, and I opened up the external SD folder to find that it was empty. I know for a fact that all my files are there, since everything was working fine until I rebooted my phone. This happened once before, and I solved it by plugging the card into my computer and formatting it from there. I could do that again but is there a way to fix the problem altogether? It's annoying to have to format the card every time I reboot my phone.
My phone's not rooted or anything. 100% stock.
Thanks
Use RECUVA to recover any files back up data and factory reset format phone FAT 32 in Windows .
jje
Okay, I'll try that. Thanks
I factory reset my phone this afternoon and for some reason it's still not detecting my card. I tried the card with my brother's S3 and it worked perfectly fine. Is there anyway else that I might be able to fix it??
EDIT: Never mind, I somehow managed to fix it
So I search through the forums and I can't find quite my issue, so hopefully I'm not reposting, or if so, please direct me to an answer.
I bought a 32gb sd card months back and it worked fine for a few months, then when I starting switching around some roms I noticed some files were getting corrupted. I used the card mostly for music storage, and sometimes a single second of a track would play and then it would skip to the next, do the same, and I'd find out the entire album was corrupted. Since then I've tried reformatting it, trying switching from exfat to fat32 to ntfs depending on the rom I'm currently using, but not matter what file format on any rom it always does the same. I also get a lot of write errors on it when I try to delete things from it.
The weirdest part of all this is that the original 10 or so albums I had on the card to begin with, minus a couple that stopped working, are all still working fine! I can delete them off, reload them back from a backup, and they still play! Any new music I try to add always does the same thing. It gets corrupted the second I unplug the phone.
Any suggestions?
I've been having some strange things happening with my micro sd card lately. After flashing a CM9 glitch rom, I noticed that when I plug my phone into my pc with a usb cord, it shows two drives instead of just one. This has never happened to me before. I have also been having problems copying files from my pc to my phone and when I disconnect the cable the files are gone from the phone. I copied 2,000+ pics from my work pc to my phone and verified they copied correctly. When I got home all of the pics were gone as well as some ROMS I had just downloaded. I formatted my card with windows xp and then I did a 1 pass secure erase with CCleaner. When that was done, I erased the card from the phone itself. After the card was erased, my Titanium Backup folder was still there with all of my backups. Anyone else experienced these issues?
My card is a Samsung 16GB Class 4 HC and is a few years old
I know regular eraser programs like ccleaner, etc don't work properly on sd cards, (they only kind of move files around so they are not seen) look up sdformatter v4 and use that.
What ROM are you on right now
hhp_211 said:
I know regular eraser programs like ccleaner, etc don't work properly on sd cards, (they only kind of move files around so they are not seen) look up sdformatter v4 and use that.
What ROM are you on right now
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Right now I am using unofficial CM9 with glitch kernel
One other thing i can think of would be that the scanner would take a really long to re scan all those pics (like maybe 20 minutes or more from what I've read)
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One other thing i can think of would be that the scanner would take a really long to re scan all those pics (like maybe 20 minutes or more from what I've read)
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I tried taking a picture a minute ago and it said please insert an sd card to take a photo. The sd card was still in the phone. The only other thing I can think of is that maybe the phone isn't unmounting the card from the pc aproperly. I had my sd card open on the pc and could see all of my files and when I hit turn off usb storage I didn't see any other messages in the status bar and the files were not there
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I know it sucks but you might need to try saving everything off the sd card again, formatting with sdformatter from your pc,, while still blank install, reboot, wait for ROM to settle in, take picture. Then if all goes well, connect up to the pc (i assume you use mass storage) then put files back on, disconnect from pc,,, reboot and wait the 20+ minutes for 2000+ pics to be scanned by the media scanner process. Hopefully that works
It is formatting now. We will see how it goes. Thanks!
Update: I ran sdformatter and did the overwrite and then format. When I turned usb storage off the ROM said my sd card was damaged. I used odin to go back to stock 2.3.6 and when I was done it was still saying sdcard damaged. I formatted the card from the phone itself and then flashed AOKP Milestone 5 Glitch and all seems to be working just fine. Thank you for your help.
So I've got a strange problem with my phone. Sometimes after I snap a picture the phone freezes and reboots and the pic I took is corrupt (saving to phone storage). More interesting is that my microSD somehow decided it was going to corrupt and be unusable as well. I noticed this after trying to take pix and they would all be corrupted when saving to SD.
Anyone ever seen this before? Going to try a factory reset today and see if that solves any problems.
Running stock rooted ROM.
More info about your device like is it
Unlocked?
Custom recovery?
Rooted?
S-OFF?
ROM if at all?
Was the sdcard you inserted new or did you use your device to format it.did you select the option to save to the external sdcard .
I think after doing a factory reset you should format the sdcard with the device and than use "SD fixer" from the play store if rooted and give it a go again.this is all with no info about your device specifics
Stock rooted ROM. Clockwork Mod. Not unlocked.
The SD card came out of my Note 3 which I had been using fine for about a year and it never had a problem. In fact it seemed to work fine in the M8 for a couple of weeks. Card can be read from but not written too either by the phone nor a computer. It will no longer format either. I've tried formatting in computer and in phone as well, no dice.
After that all started happening I switched my camera back to saving yo internal memory. That's when my phone would start locking up and rebooting randomly when I would take a pic. Doesn't happen all of the time just randomly. When it does happen and the phone comes back up the pic shows up in the gallery as corrupt.
Just did a factory reset last night and bought a new card. So far so good.
Nice to know all is good now
Will report back if problem reoccurs and especially if the new SD card somehow gets corrupted beyond repair again.