I have just updated to Jelly bean on my GS3.
while using the phone on a trip, I ran into trouble when previewing some photos in the photo Gallery and uploading them to Instagram. I had 1400 important photos and videos on the external SDCARD with no issues until the SDCARD showed full capacity available for use !
I need to get the data off the external SDCARD as I have not done any recent backups (Sigh)
Can anyone suggest a way to get the data ?
My GS3 was never rooted
The strange behavior is that the file names on the external SDCARD seem to be corrupt.
I have not formatted or written to the external SDCARD since this happened.
MODEL Information -
AP I9300XXDLJ1
CP I9300XXDLID
CSC I9300OJVDLJ1
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Hi,
Basically I have just got an S3 and it came with a 32gb sd card. I am trying to put all my photos, music and videos on the sd card to keep space on the phone free for apps but whenever I do, usually most of the files can't be read and it will display a message like "Sorry this file cannot be played". But then if I put the same file on the phone it will work just fine. I have tried formatting to FAT32 as suggested in other threads and that didn't work. And I have also tried transferring the files through Kies, easy ums, easyphonesync and mtp to my sd card and they wouldn't work either when trying to play/view them. Could someone please give me a basic guide on how to get my media to work from my sd card. Thanks.
Info about my phone
rooted using CFRoot
*#1234# info:
AP: I9300XXBLG8
CP: I9300XXLH1
CSC: I9300OXABLG8
Ext SD card .
Folder VIDEO and Folder Media work for me .
jje
reflash your rom make sure u folow the correct instruction wipe data partion , wipe partion cache and dalvik cache.. maybe will fix your problem
Can you give details of just which files cannot be played? FAT32 has a 4GB file size limit so if you try to play something larger it will fail. Music from iTunes needs to be converted to play, and other file types may need a player for them. My system seems to play anything ask of it so I guess most of the file types are supported but maybe your ROM lacks some of the support needed?
I'm on JB - not sure if ICS has the same support...
thanks for all the suggestions, it turned out to be the sd card, sorry for bothering everyone
Today I found - after trying to make a foto - that my SDCard doesn't seem to be not accessibl anymore - at least the cam app says this. After some ivestigation I found out that the SD is still accessible but all files and folders are in read-only mode. I checked the perms with ESFileExplorer and found no hint why (775 was set correctly) however the properties dialog of differnt file managers always says read-only. I tried to access, remove and create files/folders via pc o that card (format FAT32) w/o any problems. So I made a backup and format the card within the phone and what shall I say - it seems to work again.
Does anybody have an idea what this may have caused?
SGS III + JB 4.1.2 I9300XXELL5_I9300VFGELL1_VD2 + XXELL5_JKay_Deluxe_Stock_v14_5_4 + rooted with SGS Toolkit
Thanks a lot!!!
BTW: I used the search function already but I did not find an explainantion which matches fully to my problem
Possibly found a reason
Hm, may have found 2 possible reasons for that behaviour:
- SolidExplorer (strange behviour as after start of it a lot of files partly w/o filname (only . or @ or y) are displayed, partly not visible in other file managers and after some time I can't delete/change no file on that card anymore)
- Too high value vor SDBooster (used 1024 now reduced to 512) - but for my understanding this should not be the reason as it was working for a long time w/o problems.
Will investigate later and will inform about the outcome...
Help on this thread please.
Same problem here.. My torrents, my camera, sms backup and restore, titanium backup, everything else specially those i set as daily scheduled activities always end up having unsuccessful results..
The problem can be worked around by unmounting->re-mounting sd-card..... every 5 minutes or so...
HELP!!
format it
Why didn't I think of that in the first place? Geez..
So anyone here who really understands the problem?
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I have exactly the same issue as you, at the very beginning, i notice this problem when i was taking photo and said my sdcard is not accessible, it then changes to use internal storage.
Let me list out my symptom and solution:
Symptom:
1. The sdcard looks fine, no special error thrown during android startup.
2. Just after startup, i am able to write file /copy file to the external sdcard
3. After a while, the external sdcard becomes read only. I can view/copy files from sd card, but not write/copy file to the external sdcard.
4. No apps can modify the files in external sdcard
5. By using ADB shell, type mount, and you will notice the /extSdCard is mounted as "ro", which means read only.
Description:
If you have the above symptom, your external sdcard probably have some problems...
When I was checking the mount details on step 5, i noticed that the default options is onerrors=remount-ro , it looks like the external sdcared is remounted as read-only because it has problem on external sdcard....
Solution:
I put the external sdcard to a Windows PC, and run scan disk (right click the drive >"properties" > "tools" > Check Now).
It really find problem on the FAT of the external sd card!!! It fix automatically and my external sd card is working fine now.
In my case, it doesn't need to root or format the sdcard.
Good luck!
.DayWalker. said:
Today I found - after trying to make a foto - that my SDCard doesn't seem to be not accessibl anymore - at least the cam app says this. After some ivestigation I found out that the SD is still accessible but all files and folders are in read-only mode. I checked the perms with ESFileExplorer and found no hint why (775 was set correctly) however the properties dialog of differnt file managers always says read-only. I tried to access, remove and create files/folders via pc o that card (format FAT32) w/o any problems. So I made a backup and format the card within the phone and what shall I say - it seems to work again.
Does anybody have an idea what this may have caused?
SGS III + JB 4.1.2 I9300XXELL5_I9300VFGELL1_VD2 + XXELL5_JKay_Deluxe_Stock_v14_5_4 + rooted with SGS Toolkit
Thanks a lot!!!
BTW: I used the search function already but I did not find an explainantion which matches fully to my problem
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Hey guys, I don't know how much available storage I had prior, however it was easily a GB free at LEAST as I put most of my media on my external sd-card.
I went to make a cwm backup before I flashed the latest CM nightly but stupidly forgot to tell it to backup to external storage.
Lo and behold, the backup failed and when I rebooted the phone I got notifications telling me that my storage is very low.
http://imgur.com/zjMiyGc - this screenshot shows that despite there being around 1/4 memory free (or otherwise uncategorised), I only have 229MB available.
I've looked in the clockworkmod folder and there's nothing there, but I can't figure out where all this memory has been taken up from?!
Is there any way I can locate the files/folder taking up the most storage on my device or has anyone encountered this issue before and know a fix?
I can't even download any new apps atm as they won't be installed due to low memory
Disk usage from play store
slaphead20 said:
Disk usage from play store
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what is in /data root folder. it looks like a lot of duplicates files, is it safe to clear that folder?
I've recently installed 4.2.2 on my Xperia Z (build number 10.3.A.0.423) stock with full root and dual recovery using NUT's instructions here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2337433. Everything went fine and I'd been using it a few days until today when I noticed all the files/folders on my internal sd had been moved from 'emulated/0' to 'emulated/0/0', and a whole new set of folders had been created in 'emulated/0'. I decided to move all files and folders from /0/0 to /0 as this was where all new files were being stored since I installed the new firmware. Everything was still ok at this point. I then connected my phone to my Windows laptop and noticed that the folder 'sdcard/storage' was showing as literally empty in the file explorer. All my other files were visible in the /0 folder so I deleted the /storage folder (it was showing as empty). I then noticed that the location of the files on my phone did not correspond with where they were showing in Windows explorer (When I added a test file on my phone to 'emulated' it appeared in 'sdcard/0/legacy' (or something similar) in Windows - basically a right mess!). I then noticed I'd cleared my internal SD card completely, so rebooted to CWM to restore my backup from a few days ago. The backup should have been on the EXTERNAL SD but CWM was saying no backup found. So I then rebooted and noticed that both INTERNAL and EXTERNAL SD's were completely wiped, other than a few essential files that Android had added to the Internal. I talking GB's of photos, music, videos etc.
I know I'm not going to them all back but I just want to know what happened so I never do it again. Why did the file locations not correspond with Windows? Why did an 'empty' folder turn out to be the one with everything in? And why was my external SD (which held all my personal files!)wiped when at no point did I ever edit anything in this??
Very confused, I'd be grateful if anyone could shed some light on this....
Hi All,
the camera folder just wiped out after i was shooting a video, when i finished i went into the gallery to check the video and there was nothing but video and all other images and vids in the camera folder are gone.
other folders were intact only the camera folder, they are still taking place on my internal phone memory but they are not anywhere to be found. when i select all the folder to check the size it give me 4 gb, when i check the phone storage it says 7 gb used. the 3 gb are the files that i cannot see.
i tried to connect the phone to pc/diskdigger/hidden files/different gallery apps but nothing worked. hope any of u guys can help me out.
thanks in advance.
Sound like corrupt file table, backup your data and format internal storage.
If it happens again then your nand memory is probably dying.
boomboomer said:
Sound like corrupt file table, backup your data and format internal storage.
If it happens again then your nand memory is probably dying.
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Is there anyway to recover the data? This happend like 3 month ago and since that time im bot having any issue with intetnal memory.