First off, I did a search before posting this but didn't find anything very helpful & no solutions that could be applied to this specific device, so I apologize if this problem has already been addressed & I just missed it somehow.
So basically, the internal storage on my note is REALLY slow. Read speeds are fine, but write speeds are in the low kbps, like 60-100. Last night it took an hour to copy about 120mb of stuff to it. Is anyone else having this same experience & does anyone know what could be causing it? I thought about formatting it in windows with a higher allocation size, do you think that would help at all(or is that even advisable to do)? For the record, it's been like this in both ICS & the stock GB rom, and it did the same thing on the first Note I had that got exchanged due to a faulty screen too, so I don't think it's my specific device that's at fault here.
One last question- does anyone know if its possible to swap out the internal SD? Cause that'd be really cool.
The internal sd card isn't really a card, its a memory chip soldered to the mainboard, so swapping isn't possible.
How are you transferring files - through windows exlorer, or mac finder, or through another application?
Are you still on Stock or a custom ROM?
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rangercaptain said:
The internal sd card isn't really a card, its a memory chip soldered to the mainboard, so swapping isn't possible.
How are you transferring files - through windows exlorer, or mac finder, or through another application?
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Windows explorer.
Kyaroru79 said:
Are you still on Stock or a custom ROM?
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CM9 stable.
kabuk1 said:
Windows explorer.
CM9 stable.
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The only thing that I can think of is wiping Internal when formatting your space in Recovery (TWRP, specifically); this will clean out the entire Internal SD area. This can also rid you of garbage that may have been carried over from a bad ROM load (even if it was the stock ROM). You will of course have to follow proper procedure to reinstall your ROM, but it will at least be a garbage-free install.
You can also try a Defrag program (Android Defrag FREE is what I use), before you blow everything away in an Internal wipe.
I normally do a full phone wipe if I start having any problems with general phone speed (Data, Dalvik, FacRes, System, Internal, and External...followed by a good Darkside SuperWipe); overkill, I know, but I don't want any problems between ROMs. That being said, I haven't had any issues come up with read/write access times since I've started doing this...and phone seems generally quicker to respond when moving files.
I hope that this info helps.
I use twrp and mount the SD cards very fast that way versus the phone in normal state with Windows 8
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Yeah even bumping up the sd buffer or w/e still sucks terribly.
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ranger captain....
i saw you answer every one question....can i ask you that is it ok to format emc thru cmw..and that will make the phone clean... cause i found out flash after flash ( even wipe every thing) there still some file left in there.....
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So i searched for the answer for this problem and have found no threads on it.
The problem is that my STOCK amaze 4G keeps telling me that I have "insufficient storage available" when I am trying to install updates. The updates that I'm having trouble with are HTC WATCH, Facebook, Google Maps, and a few others. These are the main ones though. I noticed that it started doing this after Google decided to switch from MARKET to PLAY STORE.
Can anyone give me any suggestions on how to fix this. I have over 250MB of RAM left on my phone, 14GB available on my SD Card, and 7.65GB of available phone storage, and 203MB available of Internal Storage.
Thanks!
try moving some of your apps to the sd card and try again. sounds like your internal memory is too low
mrmako777 said:
try moving some of your apps to the sd card and try again. sounds like your internal memory is too low
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Agreed, this is likely the issue. I finally ran across this myself, moved a bunch of big apps to sd and then had enough room.
I've literally moved everything I can to my SD card :/
I think I might just have to do a factory reset...
I had that exact issue, only went away when I rooted. Factory reset 2x; nothing.
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Hmm, I didn't want to root this phone, but I guess I have no choice, lol
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Hmm, I didn't want to root this phone, but I guess I have no choice, lol
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Didn't want to root? BLASPHEMY! j/k
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haha, well with that said, which ROMS do y'all suggest for my Amaze 4G?
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haha, well with that said, which ROMS do y'all suggest for my Amaze 4G?
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I truly think Energy ROM is the best out of the ones I tried. It's the most stable and all features work solidly. The battery virtually doesn't change when the phone is locked and not in use, and its the only ROM that lasts me all day.
Bulletproof 2.5 is pretty stable, but its hosted at a different site. You will have to Google it. There are only a couple handfuls of ROMs for this phone, so if you have the time, it would be best to try them all. But as of right now, NRGZ28 (Energy ROM) and XBoarder56 (Bulletproof 2.5) are the main 2 developers for this phone, but we have quite a few others attempting to make the leap
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Thanks for the help. I've been a huge fan of NRGZ28's work for a while now, used his ROMS on my HD2. I'll definitely give these a try!
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Thanks for the help. I've been a huge fan of NRGZ28's work for a while now, used his ROMS on my HD2. I'll definitely give these a try!
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No prob... Can't go wrong with NRGZ28
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Your problem is the phone uses the internal memory as the sd card. The real sd card is actually listed as ext_sd and the phone does not use it as it should. Its strange and no one seems to be talking about it.
do you know how to fix that?
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do you know how to fix that?
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If you use the phone without the ext SD, I think that forces it to use the internal
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I've used it with my 16GB external SD since the day I got it. Still couldn't figure out why it wouldnt let me update anything.
Today i restarted my phone and noticed that it uninstalled about 15 apps out of nowhere! Decided to just do a Factory Reset, all is good so far.
205mb of internal memory thats your problem thats out of 10gigs total its full. Like i said the phone uses that internal memory 10gigs as the sd card that what its labeled as in any file manager. Go to. Sd card and open it you'll see ext_sd thats your real sd card. Dont know how to fix it seems like a programming error. The phone just dosent save anything to ext_sd so it sits unused at least for apps. I think it does store pics there.
Edit: my bad i think in your case the 7gigs free is your internal memory and the 205mb is the 2gig of phone memory either way its full.
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If you use the phone without the ext SD, I think that forces it to use the internal
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Thats not correct it uses the internal memory for apps real sd card inserted or not at least unrooted. It calls that internal space sd card for some reason i cant understand. A real. Sd card is in the sd card folder called ext_sd check it out.
same device, same freaking problem
tons of memory (48gb). Always got bogged by "insufficient storage available" and apps bizarrely disappear and reappear, and sometimes disappeared forever (need to redownload every single time).
Have tried your advice to move apps to SD but problem didn't go off. You don't need to root it. This solves it.
http://www.ganshani.com/2012/01/11/fix-insufficient-storage-available-on-android/
I had this problem this morning and tried all sorts of things
-Deleting the temp cache of used programs
-Uninstalling programs
-Moving programs to sd card.
Nothing worked.
What DID work was deleting a bunch of mms/sms messages. As soon as I did that and rebooted problem solved (for me at least).
Amaze 4G low memory
HTC posted an application on the market for this. Search for Amaze memory clear
Sometimes when you have a fresh install and if it does not allow you to install apps (insufficient storage available) even after a factory reset, this command should fix it (if you have s-off or unlocked bootloader)
Mind you, this command wipes all userdata and cache.
fastboot -w
This has fixed the insufficient storage available for me
Hello everyone, I seem to keep having an issue with my desktop (no sure if that is the right word to describe the main pages where you icons and widgets are) icons will change to images of the android guy. It seems to happen randomly and frequently when I reboot my phone. It never happened on stock but I am currently running Team Perfection's Objection #2 with its RC1. I have flashed it twice and still have the same problem. Both times I flashed, I did a clean install. I flashed the dalviek cache, wiped the partition, fixed permissions...... This issue has also come when I tried Goldie 5 rom also. So far to remedy the problem, I delete all the icons and then I add the shortcuts back. Not a deal breaker, just annoying and I am curious as to why. I have tried searching on the web and in the forums here but having no luck. I think it may be the way I'm typing in the search. Any help or suggestions will be much appreciated. I have included a screenshot of my issue.
p.s. this is my first question post so please tell me if I need and how to improve my posting skills.
Go into settings/applications, and move the apps from sdcard to phone.
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They will show like this when the OS has lost connection with your sd card. You can.go thru setting unmount and then remount your sd card and they should show up. Not to be a doomsayer, but there is a possibility that your sd card is getting ready to go out on you. Mine exhibited the same thing and then died 2 weeks later.
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I came to rock the human race!
I can't seem to thank either of your guys posts. I just wanted to say thanks for both suggestions. Totally makes sense, kicking my self for not thinking of it. This is why I love this site and flashing roms. Thanks to both of you again!
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They will show like this when the OS has lost connection with your sd card. You can.go thru setting unmount and then remount your sd card and they should show up. Not to be a doomsayer, but there is a possibility that your sd card is getting ready to go out on you. Mine exhibited the same thing and then died 2 weeks later.
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Please dont say that! This has been happening to me too, and I figured it was because the apps were on the SD card....so if the card dies, I will loose everything wont i?
Unmounting the SD card and remounting didn't work but moving the apps back to the phone worked. I may invest in a new sd card with a higher class. I am currently using a san disk 4 class. I want to keep my apps on the sd card because the partition seem so small on the phone and I find it easier for backing up purposes.
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Please dont say that! This has been happening to me too, and I figured it was because the apps were on the SD card....so if the card dies, I will loose everything wont i?
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Not saying it is absolutely going to happen, but that is what happened to me. New card, no crazy icons.
Would at least back up everything important from the sd card.
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This has happened to me as well. I just go into app manager and clear the ram then all my icons return.
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Please dont say that! This has been happening to me too, and I figured it was because the apps were on the SD card....so if the card dies, I will loose everything wont i?
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I mean its possible. I learned from loosing over 500 pictures and videos how important it is to back up SD cards. There are many apps that can back it up for you. I personally use Google+ for backing up pictures and videos only when connected to a charger.
When my SD crapped out, it put my phone into a boot loop, which made me panic since I was an avid flasher on my atrix. Not sure every SD card acts that way. Of course, once removed, phone booted up normally
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Unmounting the SD card and remounting didn't work but moving the apps back to the phone worked. I may invest in a new sd card with a higher class. I am currently using a san disk 4 class. I want to keep my apps on the sd card because the partition seem so small on the phone and I find it easier for backing up purposes.
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This phone has almost 2GB of storage memory for apps. And that is about the most I have seen for about any phone. So if you are using it up you must have alot of apps. Maybe too many as the phone is having issues keeping them alll in memory. Had similiar issues to this on previous phones when they were simply over loaded.
Also, I don't believe it is your SD card going bad. The phone doesn't save/move apps to your external (physical) sd card. It saves them to the built in internal/usb memory which is about 11GB. Even the EA/Gameloft extra downloads are saved on the internal/usb memory. You can connect your phone to your computer and see this. However when you unmout the external sd card the apps disappear. So how the 2 are linked is unknown to me. But that link may be the issue.
Got a 32 gb card just to be safe. I need a larger card anyway so I'll throw this older one on my camera. LOL
Thanks for saving me time
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This has happened to me as well. I just go into app manager and clear the ram then all my icons return.
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Thanks for the simple but effective tip. Don't know why I spend hours reading the non-geek forums, xda is the only one that has real, expert answers. Rather than "well if u press vol sideways and spin around three times while chanting gnusmas " or something like that.
Anyone use one ?
I've got a Sandisk Class 10 "Ultra Android" one but it's been a bit .. flaky .. i suppose. I use winamp on my S2 and it occasionally hangs it to the point I need to reboot.
I'm wondering if it's just down to the number of tracks i've got on it - 8,500. Even though it's a class 10, I'm just wondering if selecting "Shuffle" when I start using it, it has a bit of a brain fart when faced with shuffling that many songs.
On the whole, when it's actually playing, it plays fine, but just wondering if anyone else has one and has had any issues ?
From what I have seen based on reviews of those cards just don't work well. I work in a store that sells them and I won't buy, but that's partially because I can't stand the thought of corrupting more than 16 GBs at one time.
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I think the SanDisk cards are faulty so many people have problems.
I use a Lexar and it's been great
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I think the SanDisk cards are faulty so many people have problems.
I use a Lexar and it's been great
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I've always thought Sandisk was one of the more reliable brands. Interesting.
This says that my card is compatible with the S2
http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/sandisk-mobile-ultra-microsdxc-memory-card-64gb-p32149.htm#compatibility
but then i've also read that the S2 can only cope with no more than 32gb.
I'm using SanDisk ultra class 10 32gb and have no problems whatsoever.
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I'm using SanDisk ultra class 10 32gb and have no problems whatsoever.
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Same 32gb with no issues at all
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I was also using a Sandisk 32gb Class 10 as well before this - I still have it.
I did remove the primary partition on this 64gb card and re-create it as a FAT32 partition so it would work.
I also flashed a Jellybean ROM to see if the handling would be better and to be honest, I think ICS has actually been better overall at handling the larger capacity.
I have a 32GB SanDisk Class 2 MicroSD. Even though it is super slow, it has been really reliable. I have experienced zero crashes or hangups.
well the card now seems to have completely given up on me.
i decided to move back to ICS so prepared everything as I normally do. I repeated the procedure of removing the primary partition and re-creating a formatted FAT32 partition which completed successfully. i tried formatting it in CWM and it failed to mount. I flashed Rootbox ICS 1.8 which flashed fine. After booting, I chose "Erase SD Card" which ran through and seemed to complete without any errors but when i plugged the USB in, the card fails to mount again.
Rebooted and found that when i mount USB storage in CWM, the SD Card is properly recognised and checks out as properly formatted to FAT32 but the phone just point blank refuses to mount it under any circumstances.
Also, I select the USB Storage to copy files, it mounts the phone just fine but no SD Card. When i turn USB Storage off, it tells me i have a damaged SD Card and do I want to re-format - so I do. It completes without any obvious errors but then still won't mount ..
Just hugely frustrated at the moment ..
Is there a point where i should just give up ?
The card formats absolutely fine and checks out when formatted through the PC but the phone just doesn't want to know, under ANY circumstances ..
ok i give up. i just don't know or understand what's happened. i've deleted and re-created the partition a dozen times with a dozen different parameters. each time it completes successfully and each time the card shows up in windows as correctly formatted but the phone refuses to recognise it at all.
i've tried the format32 program, paragon partition manager and minitool partition manager and all of them successfully format the card without error and each time the phone DOES NOT SEE IT.
so i give up. i'll put my 32gb one back in and decide what i want to do - i imagine i won't be able to return the card because it formats correctly and works correctly in windows so i guess i can always try it on ebay
now you know when you do something completely random at the end of a few hours of puzzling over something ?
i literally just randomly selected "partition sd card" in CWM recovery, selected the maximum values on each and it ran ok and completed. rebooted and went to "storage" and .. IT SAW THE CARD ..
so i rebooted back to CWM and selected "format external storage" and it's done it .. formatted it without an issue .. i'm a bit stunned
it's only showing up as 59gb free mind, but i think i can cope with that .. and i think that's about average for the free space on any storage as well .. i can cope
hankhandsome said:
now you know when you do something completely random at the end of a few hours of puzzling over something ?
i literally just randomly selected "partition sd card" in CWM recovery, selected the maximum values on each and it ran ok and completed. rebooted and went to "storage" and .. IT SAW THE CARD ..
so i rebooted back to CWM and selected "format external storage" and it's done it .. formatted it without an issue .. i'm a bit stunned
it's only showing up as 59gb free mind, but i think i can cope with that .. and i think that's about average for the free space on any storage as well .. i can cope
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59GB is the right amout of storage.
Harddrive and storage manufacturers calculate hard drive sizes using Base 10, where 1000 bytes is one kilobyte. Computers, however, do everything in binary, which is base 2, where it takes 1024 bytes to store a kilobyte of data. In addition, the computer’s OS uses part of the drive for a directory to keep track of the actual data. The result is, the usable capacity of a hard drive is typically 90 to 93% of the advertised capacity
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59GB is the right amout of storage
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Yeah, I did suspect that. I'm just relieved it's working - it wasn't cheap and I'd also bought it from China, so it would have been an immense amount of hassle to return it if i had to.
is it possible to swap mount points, make external sdcard the main mount point? as i have lots of large data i.e games i would like to install straight to sdcard....im on stock rom 4.0.4.........it was and is possible on CM9 rom but i like stock better, is the a way to edit vold.fstab in /system/etc to make this possible or is there another solution? thanks
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is it possible to swap mount points, make external sdcard the main mount point? as i have lots of large data i.e games i would like to install straight to sdcard....im on stock rom 4.0.4.........it was and is possible on CM9 rom but i like stock better, is the a way to edit vold.fstab in /system/etc to make this possible or is there another solution? thanks
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The games that have large amounts of data downloaded after installing the game, such as NFS Hot Pursuit, puts the extra 600MBs of data in the 12GB internal storage.
so is it not possible then?
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so is it not possible then?
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Not that I know. But I am a noob, so..
But maybe you should make a dedicated thread, so you can get more attention to your question
I use vk 5.4.4 with a 64gb Samsung class 10 and it works perfectly
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Primary or Logical?
Hi guys.
FYI - make sure the partition is primary and not logical, This solved my problem
Use EaseUS Partition Master (Home is free)
http://www.partition-tool.com/download.htm
Hi guys
I know about the SanDisk Micro-SD card problem with Samsung Galaxy S3's and I happen to be one of the victims.
My SanDisk Micro-SD 32gb Ultra has had problems in the past. It sometimes says blank sd card but it eventually works again. At one point it said sd card damaged but the card still worked. Up until yesterday it hasn't stopped working for a while but now my phone says blank sd card. I tried putting it into a windows computer but it cannot be detected. When using a usb adapter it just shows a device in drive "?:" and can't do anything with it and when using a micro sd to sd card reader it doesn't show at all. In Mac the micro sd to sd card reader is detectable and shows the size of 32.1 MB and is called "Apple SDXC Reader Media". The micro sd card itself is not detectable it seems. I have tried many device recovery software but none of them work. They all seem to just be scanning the card reader and not the micro sd itself.
Does anyone know how I can recover the Micro-SD card?
It is quite important because I have my school laptop data backed up on it (which was just handed in for a system upgrade and being wiped) and also my phone pictures, videos and other stuff.
Any help will be greatly appreciated
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Hi guys
Does anyone know how I can recover the Micro-SD card?
It is quite important because I have my school laptop data backed up on it (which was just handed in for a system upgrade and being wiped) and also my phone pictures, videos and other stuff.
Any help will be greatly appreciated
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It may be recoverable by a specialist company, But i believe the going rate is approx £900. My first step would be to try sticking it in the freezer for at least 8 hours (but as long as you can manage the longer the better) then try it in your phone, if this works back up all the data and RMA the card to SanDisk. Let this be a lesson to us all that all data on our cards should be backed up regularly, I understand you werent expecting the card to fail but had you lost your phone the result would have been the same.
I doubt you will be able to recovery the data, formatting the card with the sd formatting tool might make the card useable again but I doubt it. When I've had cards corrupt more than once it is best to throw them away and get a different make.
You can try looking for a specialist data recovery expert, locally or on the web - if the data is very valuable to you.
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It may be recoverable by a specialist company, But i believe the going rate is approx £900. My first step would be to try sticking it in the freezer for at least 8 hours (but as long as you can manage the longer the better) then try it in your phone, if this works back up all the data and RMA the card to SanDisk. Let this be a lesson to us all that all data on our cards should be backed up regularly, I understand you werent expecting the card to fail but had you lost your phone the result would have been the same.
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First of all I don't have £900 to throw around, besides the fact it totally isn't worth £900 to get it fixed.
Second, before I start chucking my SD card in the freezer what exactly does freezing it do and how will it help it? You sure it won't just destroy it for good? I can leave it in the freezer for as long as needed as I can't exactly use the card in the mean time.
Thanks for the reply though
Hope I can get it to work
Freezing is a method that may give a brief recovery on some hard disc failures .
Note hard disc never heard of freezing ram or why it could work .
jje
JJEgan said:
Freezing is a method that may give a brief recovery on some hard disc failures .
Note hard disc never heard of freezing ram or why it could work .
jje
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There's someone around here that reported it worked for them, and it's not gonna do any harm to try. But true it would be at best a temporary fix.
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There's someone around here that reported it worked for them, and it's not gonna do any harm to try. But true it would be at best a temporary fix.
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Well I left it in the freezer for almost 24 hours and tried it and it still doesn't work
What do I do
Any other suggestions?
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I have the same card, no problems at all.
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I have the same card, no problems at all.
Gesendet von meinem GT-I9300 ^_^
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You are lucky enough to have a card without the problem. Doesn't help my situation though....
When did you get it?
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blackhand64 said:
Well I left it in the freezer for almost 24 hours and tried it and it still doesn't work
What do I do
Any other suggestions?
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Not a lot.Contact retailer, or SanDisk direct for a replacement card and chalk it down to experience.
This is a known issue with sandisk at the moment. They are replacing cards when they die.
As for data, please look into foldersync for future. Sync data to cloud or computer
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This is a known issue with sandisk at the moment. They are replacing cards when they die.
As for data, please look into foldersync for future. Sync data to cloud or computer
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Ok then I'll just have to get it replaced.
A thought just occurred to me though.
Before I had my school laptop backed up on my micro-sd card I had it backed up on a usb. Because it was only an 8gb usb I transfered it to my micro sd because it took up too much space. I've heard of software that can recover deleted files from devices. Would it be possible to recover the deleted backup on my usb? The backup in total would have been about 1 - 2gb. If so, what free program could I use to recover it?
Thanks in advance
Possibly. As an IT support engineer, I don't want to get your hopes up though.
Things like NTFS get back may work but most if them are not free.
I took Handy recovery 1 (free version) from a bootable cd tool once, you could try that and may recover a small amount of data but its always safest to assume it gone.
The more you use the usb device, the less chance you have of recovery
http://db.tt/VQwJwHoI
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No worries mine died after 5 minutes of use bought from amazon 64gb ultra sdxc .I had it working but the data I put in gets erased immediately and if I reboot my phone the data is still there then it shows 59.47 gb as full seconds later blank sd or damaged error.now it just won't format in any way fat 32 or exfat.im rma back to Sandisk in the morning.
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Possibly. As an IT support engineer, I don't want to get your hopes up though.
Things like NTFS get back may work but most if them are not free.
I took Handy recovery 1 (free version) from a bootable cd tool once, you could try that and may recover a small amount of data but its always safest to assume it gone.
The more you use the usb device, the less chance you have of recovery
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If nothing works then I may take it to my school IT guys (when school starts again, currently holidays)
Think they would have something to fix the card or recover the data?
It depends on the state.
The media has a File System. This could be FAT32, NTFS, exFAT etc. Essentially (without going technical) imagine these file systems as a database table. When you add a file to the media, an entry is written to the table to identify the exact location of the file on the media. That way, when an operating system views the card and the user accesses a file, the table tells the OS where to look for the file.
Typically with these file systems, when you delete the file, the file remains. Only the Table entry is removed. The OS can no longer locate the file. the OS is shown the free space as per what the table says - not what is really the truth.
So once a file is deleted, 3rd party applications can scan the media and find the files (without using the table).
Of course there is a problem in that any space that the table shows as unallocated (you deleted the file), new files will overwrite the old files. That is when the data becomes unrecoverable.
So yes, it's possible that even if the formatted filesystem is damaged, the data on the media can be recovered. But if you added new files since, then the chances are the unreferenced data has been actually overwritten. In this case, it is gone.
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It depends on the state.
The media has a File System. This could be FAT32, NTFS, exFAT etc.
So yes, it's possible that even if the formatted filesystem is damaged, the data on the media can be recovered. But if you added new files since, then the chances are the unreferenced data has been actually overwritten. In this case, it is gone.
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What file system are you taking about here? The damaged file system (micro-sd card) can't have new files added to it as it is inaccessible. It also has not been formatted since the problem. The usb with the deleted files is not damaged and not formatted but I have put new files on it since. Sounds like you're combining the two different devices. Sorry if this is a bit confusing.
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What file system are you taking about here? The damaged file system (micro-sd card) can't have new files added to it as it is inaccessible. It also has not been formatted since the problem. The usb with the deleted files is not damaged and not formatted but I have put new files on it since. Sounds like you're combining the two different devices. Sorry if this is a bit confusing.
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Both; I am answering the question for both devices at once. I'm not confused
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Both; I am answering the question for both devices at once. I'm not confused
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Ok. I thunk I'm da confused one
Anyway, so basically you're saying that it is possible for the IT guys at my school to fix the micro sd card and recover its data right? I don't think I'm going to bother trying to recover the deleted one on my usb.
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The s3 doesn't play very well with sandisk cards in general (samsung confirmed this) . I personally use a pny and have no issues, I would suggest trying to return the card and get a different brand.
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I seem to have accumulated a lot of stuff in my internal storage. Every time I have flashed a new ROM, it seems to just move everything into a directory called '0' and starts the root from scratch.
I am about 6 '0' directories deep now, and its taking up 10gb.
I would like to just backup the whole lot to my PC, then next time I flash a new ROM just format the internal SD card as well and get back all that precious space!
Plugging in the USB and copying over that way is apparently going to take over 1 day to copy everything, and I think from trying to do this before it got to a certain point and then something broke. Its using the soft mount, without a drive letter (this is so SO much slower and less successful than back in the day with the proper mass storage mounting).
Also Kies wont even connect to the phone even though a) I am loathe to use something like that and b) it would likely not get all the files I want anyway.
So how can I just take a full backup of my Internal Storage, ensuring it gets all files, and doesn't take 24 hours+ (which is ludicrous for only 10gb of files)
Cheers
poppahorse said:
I seem to have accumulated a lot of stuff in my internal storage. Every time I have flashed a new ROM, it seems to just move everything into a directory called '0' and starts the root from scratch.
I am about 6 '0' directories deep now, and its taking up 10gb.
I would like to just backup the whole lot to my PC, then next time I flash a new ROM just format the internal SD card as well and get back all that precious space!
Plugging in the USB and copying over that way is apparently going to take over 1 day to copy everything, and I think from trying to do this before it got to a certain point and then something broke. Its using the soft mount, without a drive letter (this is so SO much slower and less successful than back in the day with the proper mass storage mounting).
Also Kies wont even connect to the phone even though a) I am loathe to use something like that and b) it would likely not get all the files I want anyway.
So how can I just take a full backup of my Internal Storage, ensuring it gets all files, and doesn't take 24 hours+ (which is ludicrous for only 10gb of files)
Cheers
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Try copying using linux system- just something like ubuntu.. i copy my's using it.. and also it doesn't take that much time for me..
suyash1629 said:
Try copying using linux system- just something like ubuntu.. i copy my's using it.. and also it doesn't take that much time for me..
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I actually use Ubuntu at work and it doesn't like mounting it. Will give it another try though.
How does it take more than one day to copy 10 gb? Mine copies 90 gb in less than an hour. There might be a problem with ur cable or computer.
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How does it take more than one day to copy 10 gb? Mine copies 90 gb in less than an hour. There might be a problem with ur cable or computer.
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Yea sounds like someone needs an upgrade to there PC... Or some serious cleaning... Maybe splurge on a good USB cable... Or if its an older PC try a different port one that's USB 2.0 @ least
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ezknives said:
Yea sounds like someone needs an upgrade to there PC... Or some serious cleaning... Maybe splurge on a good USB cable... Or if its an older PC try a different port one that's USB 2.0 @ least
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Its an i7, 12gb RAM, etc. Definitely doesn't need an upgrade. And I get the same issues copying to other machines, using other cables, on different ROMs etc. Just seems like MTP is a buggy POS. Have seen other people complaining about the same thing, so I presumed it was just the way it was.
Might see if my other halves N4 is as bad, would rule out my S3 or not.
Anyways, couldn't get it mounted in Ubuntu, all sorts of issues. Might try setup FTP server on the phone and go over wifi
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Its an i7, 12gb RAM, etc. Definitely doesn't need an upgrade. And I get the same issues copying to other machines, using other cables, on different ROMs etc. Just seems like MTP is a buggy POS. Have seen other people complaining about the same thing, so I presumed it was just the way it was.
Might see if my other halves N4 is as bad, would rule out my S3 or not.
Anyways, couldn't get it mounted in Ubuntu, all sorts of issues. Might try setup FTP server on the phone and go over wifi
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Nexus 4 uses MTP too. I doubt so though tat mtp is buggy. I can copy nandroid back ups over 2 gb in less than 5 mins.
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MTP still being lame regardless of PC / OS. this is getting silly now. tried an ftp server on the phone but it seems really flakey on files it moves and fails on
all i want is to take a complete internal SD backup, so I can do a full wipe and start from scratch, cant believe it is this hard to do
is there anything that will dump internal SD to external SD? then I can just remove the external SD and copy manually
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MTP still being lame regardless of PC / OS. this is getting silly now. tried an ftp server on the phone but it seems really flakey on files it moves and fails on
all i want is to take a complete internal SD backup, so I can do a full wipe and start from scratch, cant believe it is this hard to do
is there anything that will dump internal SD to external SD? then I can just remove the external SD and copy manually
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yeah. I guess u could just copy from ur internal SD to ur external SD manually. 10 gb... Well... On a phone. Ur 'i7 12 gb' com takes 1 day plus to copy so i hope u are mentally prepared xD. I will rly just use the com to copy paste. Since if u copy and paste it in ur external sd. It will be thr forever unless u copy and paste it to ur com. Which will take another day.