I successfully flashed ICS the only problem is that it continues to say media scanning when I try to look at Gallery and It wont stop scanning. Any way to fix this and has anyone else had this problem?
I'm looking for an answer to this as well.
Mine does that, but for about 10 more seconds after the media scanning icon disappears from the notification area. You probably just have to let it load completely, if you're restarting your phone.
I bet youre using a class four sd card hu? Try to step your game up to a class 10 and watch this issue go away. Mine is a 32 class 10 and scans for like one second. lol. Used to scan several times on a four. and when browsing gallery or music database, would lag and feel slow.
I have a 32 gig class 6, and it does not do that. My card is nearly full, and it does take a little bit to scan, but it finishes up ok.
I just stuck an old (generic) 8gig card that I can't even find the speed on in my note after I had filled it up with some music, pics, and random pdf's and such to be misc data. My old card did what the op's did, scan's media constantly, never stopped during the 10 mins I had it in my phone. It was also VERY slow to lo switch between songs, and took 3 or 4 seconds to change (manually) between pics using the built in 'myfiles' apk.
I would say the op's card is either old, or worn out... (mine is both)
C0BRA01 said:
I have a 32 gig class 6, and it does not do that. My card is nearly full, and it does take a little bit to scan, but it finishes up ok.
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Backup the files to your computer or another SDCard, then reformat it from the phone. At least that's what I had to do when I encountered that problem.
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Hi all,
Does a 32gb card drain more power than say an 8gb or even less than a 4gb maybe? I've got 32 on board and my battery lasts about 6/7 hours with minimal usage. When I goto bed it's on 100% but I wake up 7 hours later I've lost anywhere between 10-15%...this is with no data connections; no running apps (all closed via taskmgr); nothing 'on' at all. I can lose upto 10% by just sending and receiving a couple of sms, an hour!
Having read through other xda threads on battery drainage I wonder if I've installed some 'background running apps' onto SD card instead of onto phone, thus making the phone want to 'read' the card all the time and use more battery? So I'm thinking that I need to be more selective and put some on the phone instead right? I also had 17gb of music, movies etc etc so could WMP or the sense version be trying to (idk?) update their library maybe and it's reading the card that way???
Rather than try and remove the offending app(s)....I've let the battery run down to 15%; hard reset (re-sync'd all wifi/email etc on reboot); formatted card (twice via PC); sync'd with PC for contacts and calendar only; and now have phone switched off whilst charging from wall (and not PC as I normally do). I'm gonna wait for full charge before I start over from scratch.
So should I have bought 4*8Gb or even 8*4Gb cards instead? Maybe there is an reg tweak/app for manually turning on/off access to card? Is there a general rule for which apps go onto card and which onto phone? Any advice/links/general comments/tips etc would be appreciated.
TIA,
Pete
PS - I've only had my phone for 4 weeks so be gentle with me with your replies yeah
I have recently purchased a 32gb micro sd card. When I go to put new music on it, it shows from the pc side that it is loading on the external drive(g2 phone) and form the phone it says that it is on there. However when I disconnect the phone only the last album that I put on there stays and the music player will state that "this type of file cannot be played". I have formatted the card through the computer and to no avail, it acts the same.. I did format it on the Android and it worked, temporarily and could load music from my computer for a few days, then it stopped. I am clueless as to what is going on with it. p.s. I tried placing it in a card reader and it did the same, but i did not format it first that time. I seem to think the android is placing a bad file on it causing all these issues. (again I say this because when I format it through the phone it will work temorarilly) any help would be great, I really want toload my phone with music.
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I have recently purchased a 32gb micro sd card. When I go to put new music on it, it shows from the pc side that it is loading on the external drive(g2 phone) and form the phone it says that it is on there. However when I disconnect the phone only the last album that I put on there stays and the music player will state that "this type of file cannot be played". I have formatted the card through the computer and to no avail, it acts the same.. I did format it on the Android and it worked, temporarily and could load music from my computer for a few days, then it stopped. I am clueless as to what is going on with it. p.s. I tried placing it in a card reader and it did the same, but i did not format it first that time. I seem to think the android is placing a bad file on it causing all these issues. (again I say this because when I format it through the phone it will work temorarilly) any help would be great, I really want toload my phone with music.
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Hi there,
It sounds like you might not actually be utilizing your SD card when connecting to a computer and instead are attempting to load your music directly to the internal phone memory.
Make sure after you connect your phone to your computer via USB that you put your phone in "Disk Drive" mode by dragging down your notification bar and selecting your connection type. Without selecting this option you will not have access to your SD card when plugging in your phone to a PC. Now when you got to "My Computer" on your PC you should see your SD Memory card in addition to "g2phone"
Let me know if you need further help
I'm relatively certain you bought a fake card. A few months ago I was shopping for one myself. I bought 3 different cards, all counterfeit, so I just threw down $100 to get my favorite brand, Lexar, and haven't had any problems since.
The exact problem you seem to be describing is a kind of technology that provides computers with a false amount of flash storage. When it is filled, and then used, only the true space of the card survives, which is why everything else disappears.
If you want to test the quality of the card for yourself, use h2testw 1.4. It is free, and while having a strange name, it is easy to use. You'll know in no time whether you've been scammed or not.
I have checked the card with h2test and it states that it does have 32 gigs on it but that the card is corrupt, I have formatted the quick way with sd formatter. What puzzles me is that at one time I was able to load more on it and now I cannot. I feel that there is a fix, I am just not finding it yet.
Hey guys,
I am on Omega v34 and I have a problem with media scanner draining my battery life. Overnight I would lose 60% of my battery life and BBS has pointed it to media scanner wakelocks.
I have tried the rescan media root app from play store, it worked like a charm for the first few days with no problem at all and battery life was improved substantially. However since yesterday whenever I unlock the phone I will get a notification saying that 'SD card was removed unexpectedly' and it will mount the sd card immediately. It does not seems to affect anything, other than waking up the phone now takes a couple of seconds instead of immediate. However I would still like to find a way to fix this problem.
It definitely has something to do with disabling the media scanner, because after I re-enabled it the sd card is working properly and I did not get the sd card removed notification. As soon as i disabled the scanner, i get the notification again.
I am using Sandisk 32gb class 10, on the disk I have photos from the phone camera, some videos and a folder for titanium backup files.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Sounds like what I have, apart from I have more on my memory card, Sandisk 32gb Class 6. I formatted the card and for a few hours it was fine then it started unmounting and re scanning which drains battery and wakes the phone. Alot of people are having this or similar problems with memory crads so it looks like a samsung fault :/
I had three different memory cards and had the same issues with each of them. I've tried everything - different roms, kernels, customs, stocks - same results. Sometimes started just after I've put the card in, sometimes after couple days. 'SD card removed unexpectedly', 'Preparing SD Card' and finally 'Damaged SD Card, try to format it'. After couple of weeks I gave up, cleaned everything and sent it to my provider for warranty fix (with other issue - details here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2035618).
Phone returned as 'fixed' but nothing changed, card issue was still the same.
On Monday I'll send it again with the same faults. I'll keep you guys update, maybe it helps someone.
Hi all
I did try to search the forums, but was unable to find any help on this issue.
I can easily transfer small files from my Windows 8 pc via USB cable on the MTP protocol to my samsung galaxy s3. However if I try to transfer a movie of like 5GB it first of all it takes a long while before I even see the progress bar moving (minutes) and then when it does start transferring it seems slow and at some point something interrupts the transfer. I think it's some sort of locking mechanism or power saving feature, but I can't figure out what does it.
So anyway... the most important thing is to figure out why the transfer is interrupted after a while. Any guesses?
Furthermore is there some software for us who like to watch shows on our cell phone, where it's easy to get the next few episodes on our phone? Like something that can automatically detect that you've watched 2 of the 5 episodes on your phone, will automatically delete those and add another 2? And yes it would need to be in the correct order (like if I had episode 1-5, watched 1 and 2, then it should transfer 6+7).
Oh and yes the micro sd card is a fast one, with 45MB/s write and read and no I don't have a micro sd card reader.
I prefer to transfer large files via sd card, that is, removing the card from phone an inserting it in pc, and yes, it is a long time wait.
Casper[DK] said:
Hi all
I did try to search the forums, but was unable to find any help on this issue.
I can easily transfer small files from my Windows 8 pc via USB cable on the MTP protocol to my samsung galaxy s3. However if I try to transfer a movie of like 5GB it first of all it takes a long while before I even see the progress bar moving (minutes) and then when it does start transferring it seems slow and at some point something interrupts the transfer. I think it's some sort of locking mechanism or power saving feature, but I can't figure out what does it.
So anyway... the most important thing is to figure out why the transfer is interrupted after a while. Any guesses?
Furthermore is there some software for us who like to watch shows on our cell phone, where it's easy to get the next few episodes on our phone? Like something that can automatically detect that you've watched 2 of the 5 episodes on your phone, will automatically delete those and add another 2? And yes it would need to be in the correct order (like if I had episode 1-5, watched 1 and 2, then it should transfer 6+7).
Oh and yes the micro sd card is a fast one, with 45MB/s write and read and no I don't have a micro sd card reader.
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What file system is the SD card in? Remember if it is FAT32 files larger than 4GB cannot be used, you have to format it to exFAT to make it work.
Hi guys. i took the sdcard out and loaded more mp3's into it as i have in the past. i put it back into the Rezound and turned the phone on. then i "mount sd card" in settings. but the music and the pictures on the sdcard are not appearing, even though the phone shows it being mounted with the space available.
i've double checked and the data on the sdcard is good. it was working fine until i pulled it out and uploaded more mp3's on it. now the phone knows there is a sdcard in it, but the music app and camera/gallery apps are only showing files from the internal memory.
phone is rooted, i've frozen some apps and stuff with titanium backup, but i haven't changed anything recently, and it was working fine until now.
THANK YOU in advance!!!
after about 30 minutes, the files began working and everything is back to normal!
RooterNoob83 said:
after about 30 minutes, the files began working and everything is back to normal!
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30 minutes?!?! How much music do you have on the SD card, when the SD card mounts an process called "Media Scan" usually begins which scans the mount point for all media files and updates indexes and stuff, this usually only takes seconds, sometimes a few minutes. I copied 1.5GB of MP3's to my phone and when it remounted SD card it only took about 2 or 3 minutes for everything to show up.
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30 minutes?!?! How much music do you have on the SD card, when the SD card mounts an process called "Media Scan" usually begins which scans the mount point for all media files and updates indexes and stuff, this usually only takes seconds, sometimes a few minutes. I copied 1.5GB of MP3's to my phone and when it remounted SD card it only took about 2 or 3 minutes for everything to show up.
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well it's a 16gb sd card, and it's got about 4gb free. i didn't think that was a lot. and it just happened that i let the phone sit for 30 minutes before checking. i know it wasn't available after 5 minutes. so maybe 10 minutes until it was good.