I erased a few photos I am trying to get back, as I thought they were being saved to the SD card at the time, and have since moved roms.
I have some software that may be able to check the S3, but anytime I get into USM mode, all I see is two grayed out Disks in Windows. At the moment, Kies won't even recognize the S3, however, out of USM mode, I can transfer back-and-forth between the internal storage and SD card...
Any ideas on what I can do? I really want to get those photos back. At the very least, enjoy the speeds of USM.
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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.
theradioinside said:
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.
Need a little bit of help if anyone would be kind enough to do so.
My Samsung galaxy s screen is no longer working. But the phone turns on fine and i can hear people calling me, alarms going off, receiving mms etc. but i can't access any of the memory on the phone.
When i hook my phone up to the computer, my phone is set to ask which mode it goes into. So i haven't been able to access the files that way. Even though the memory cards show up on my pc, they just can't be accessed.
I've been told that if i return it to my carrier, they will delete all my files and reinstall the operating system before fixing it, as its policy. Is there any way for me to copy the files on the internal sd card to my computer?
I'm slight bit of a noob, so would need a little bit of a walk-through in how to do it, if its possible.
I'm trying to shift about 35gb of music onto the phone, which has 9gb free in the internal space and 32gb free on the class 10 sd.
but it always gets 'stuck' at 23%. It transfers the first bit. I have told it to fill my external/sd first. It does this - music is transferred to the external.. but then it gets stuck.
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i want to use kies to do this because
a) seeing as though mtp support on ubuntu sucks, and i had to boot into f**king Windows to do this I thought I might as well get the most value out of the 'mtp is a volume, not a partition' thing.
b) because I want it to work and figure out that even though my sd card can't hold ALL of what I'm syncing, the entire storage available can.
c) i reckon even if I was transferring 10gb onto my sd card, i'm sure it'd still get stuck anyway.
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.
Okay, urgency low, but curiosity high. I have an Alcatel Streak - please don't laugh, it was free - and I decided to try formatting the SD card as internal storage. Kind of an experiment to see how it would work. Played with it for a few months then left the country for a year & a half. Getting ready to return, so got out my Streak (which is still locked to Cricket, cheap & fast & easy) and ran into a memory problem. I should mention that it always seemed to have a problem shutting off. You could shut it off but come back a few days later and discover it was back on and your battery was almost dead. Probably not related but who knows.
Anyway, so it said it couldn't update because my memory was full. It took me to the app page. Oh well, so I uninstalled about 1.8 Gigs of apps, but the available storage never increased and the message kept coming on. Okay, so maybe a fresh start. I'll just take off all my stuff (not much) off and transfer it to my hard drive. I plugged it in but it never showed up in explorer. Not in Windows or Linux. Tried updating drivers, etc, but no luck. No problem, I'll just take the SD card out & plug it into my PC directly. But neither Windows nor Linux could see anything on the card, a result of formating it for internal storage from what I've read. Hmmm, okay, I'll use Bluetooth. Great, connected to one of my other phones no problem. Sent files and ... nothing. Couldn't send or receive anything via Bluetooth. Okay, try it with the computer. Still no luck, Windows or Linux. Okay let's try this WiFi Direct thing .... yeah you guessed it, nothing. Alright, I know, I'll share them to Google Drive! Ha! But the joke was on me. After only a few hundred megabytes transfered, an error. Phone storage is full, please clear out some space. Now Settings won't do anything but take me to that message. So... we need phone storage just to upload to Google Drive? Okay, maybe it stores everything in a temp folder first. A temp folder smartly located only in system storage which cannot be moved to SD or internal storage.
So, any ideas as to how to get any info off that phone? Nothing major so if it can't be done I'll live, but I'm very curious as to why nothing wants to come off that phone. Weird. I am out of ideas here.... Thanks for reading and any help you can provide.
PS. To clarify, on plugging it into the computer, usually my phones display a message, I can tap the notification and choose charging, transfer files, sync pictures, internet access, whatever. But that option never appears on the Alcatel Streak phone, it just charges. The cable and USB ports work fine as all other phones show up. If there are any other things I need to clarify, please just let me know, thanks!!