SoI wanted to benchmark my class 10 32GB SD card. I used AnTuTu. When you first boot it up an option pops up to use sd or sd_ext.
I assumed sd was the card. Got crazy read and write times. Come to find out that's the phones internal memory.
Go to settings and changed over to sd_ext. Got believable results. Then I went to my camera app directly after AnTuTu. Pics and videos all show a white background and an exclamation.
I figure it's a glitch with AnTuTu. I go back to it and switch the setting back to sd. Go back to gallery and now it's even worse.
Nothing. Not even thumbnails with the white background.
I reboot phone. Still nothing.
Unmount/remount sd card.
Nothing.
Reboot again.
Alas, nothing.
Looked at my DCIM and camera folder with ES File Explorer.
My pictures and videos are gone.
Deleted.
Balls.
Anyone know what happened?
All other files are on my sd card untouched.
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Are they new pictures are old if New ones they are probably on the phones internal memory and not the sd.card if they are old that is odd. Trying plugging the phone in and see if you see your pics
New and old.
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newfireorange said:
SoI wanted to benchmark my class 10 32GB SD card. I used AnTuTu. When you first boot it up an option pops up to use sd or sd_ext.
I assumed sd was the card. Got crazy read and write times. Come to find out that's the phones internal memory.
Go to settings and changed over to sd_ext. Got believable results. Then I went to my camera app directly after AnTuTu. Pics and videos all show a white background and an exclamation.
I figure it's a glitch with AnTuTu. I go back to it and switch the setting back to sd. Go back to gallery and now it's even worse.
Nothing. Not even thumbnails with the white background.
I reboot phone. Still nothing.
Unmount/remount sd card.
Nothing.
Reboot again.
Alas, nothing.
Looked at my DCIM and camera folder with ES File Explorer.
My pictures and videos are gone.
Deleted.
Balls.
Anyone know what happened?
All other files are on my sd card untouched.
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Have an htc flyer and when I bought an sd card for it gave me a confusing result as well I tried to clean up my sd cards both of them and then I discovered that there was an internal memory sd card 1 and sd card2. The extension sd card was a way for me to get from 1 to 2 through a lot of the apps that were on the hardware sometimes the things will not show up in your history and sometimes it will not show up in the gallery or some of the other apps maybe that has something to do with antutu not working correctly. I always use astro file explorer it seems to have a better user interface as well as being able to move in copy files much more cleanly. When I first put my sd card from my old evo 3d into my new phone I discover a lot of duplicate files and had to clean this up astro seems to be the easiest way to do I tried 3 other file explorers. Be careful while doing this as some of the extension paths make it confused
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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!
putney1477 said:
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 have my phone setup so all camera images captured are saved to the SD card. Last night I started going through and moving pictures into respective albums and try to create some organization. Upon doing this I discovered the phone moved the pictures from my SD card to tthe phone storage in a folder titiled pictured and then in individual albums that matched what i created. I figured I could just use the my files app and simply move the folder back to the SD card. No such luck. It fails to move. Has anyone ran into this and know a solution?
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I tried to take a picture on my phone (Note2) only to see the icon that pics were saving to the internal memory, I switched to the settings to it to save to the sdcard and with the next picture i got an error saying that it could not save to the card. I looked more into the issue and all my pics that were save to the sd card were nowhere to be found in the gallery.
I attached the phone to the pc and to look through folders and dcim folder is nowhere to be found and I do have 'show hidden files and folders' option turned on. The weird thing is that all the other folders are fine like my music for example. I have many pictures that mean everything to me on there and would really like to have them back. Any help please?
I tried to take a picture on my phone (Note2) only to see the icon that pics were saving to the internal memory, I switched to the settings to it to save to the sdcard and with the next picture i got an error saying that it could not save to the card. I looked more into the issue and all my pics that were save to the sd card were nowhere to be found in the gallery.
I attached the phone to the pc and to look through folders and dcim folder is nowhere to be found and I do have 'show hidden files and folders' option turned on. I have many pictures that mean everything to me on there and would really like to have them back. Any help please?