I always use titanium backup when I switch devices and I went to run the restore apps after I rooted, but the Note 2 did not recognize any back ups. I went into the SD card through My Files. Noticed A LOT of files are gone. It definitely reads the card, just not everything. Pdfs, pictures, apks, etc. all missing. I thought they were gone so I threw the SD back into my SGS2 and it read everything just fine. I'm lost here.
MrPants20 said:
I always use titanium backup when I switch devices and I went to run the restore apps after I rooted, but the Note 2 did not recognize any back ups. I went into the SD card through My Files. Noticed A LOT of files are gone. It definitely reads the card, just not everything. Pdfs, pictures, apks, etc. all missing. I thought they were gone so I threw the SD back into my SGS2 and it read everything just fine. I'm lost here.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
what is the file path you are searching? /sdcard ?.... you need to be in /mnt/extSdCard to view your external sd
the /sdcard is the internal memory.
twentynine30s said:
what is the file path you are searching? /sdcard ?.... you need to be in /mnt/extSdCard to view your external sd
the /sdcard is the internal memory.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah thats where I'm at... Anything I physically put on the card reads. Just nothing that was already on there. And I did confirm they're still there putting the card in my computer
I should clarify. Anything I put on the SD card while the SD card is in the Note 2, the device recognizes and reads fine. Files/folders I had previously placed on the SD card is not being recognized by the Note 2
Related
I'm wanting to backup & format my SD card following a problem with Sense not loading described in another thread. Having read various threads about this problem it seems that some, if not all, revolve around issues with the SD card.
Through File Explorer, on the phone, I've selected ''Show all Files'' from within my SD card directory. However after connecting my phone to my PC thru active sync there are some files that are visible on my phone in the SD card directory which aren't visible in the SD card folder on my PC screen. I've tried to find the show all files setting on my pc but haven't been able to.
Thing is I don't want to backup my card then format it and possibly not backup all files that are present on the card.
Any help appreciated.
Hi there,
Two days ago I copied all the files on my SD card to my laptop, changed my card from a 2Gb one to a 8Gb and copied all the files back again onto the new SD card. I never even looked for hidden files neither on the phone nor on the laptop and it all went without any problems and all is working fine.
For sake of good order, I can't guarantee it will work with you as well, but it should.
Bye,
Itamar
RoN_HD2 said:
I'm wanting to backup & format my SD card following a problem with Sense not loading described in another thread. Having read various threads about this problem it seems that some, if not all, revolve around issues with the SD card.
Through File Explorer, on the phone, I've selected ''Show all Files'' from within my SD card directory. However after connecting my phone to my PC thru active sync there are some files that are visible on my phone in the SD card directory which aren't visible in the SD card folder on my PC screen. I've tried to find the show all files setting on my pc but haven't been able to.
Thing is I don't want to backup my card then format it and possibly not backup all files that are present on the card.
Any help appreciated.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
itamar said:
Hi there,
Two days ago I copied all the files on my SD card to my laptop, changed my card from a 2Gb one to a 8Gb and copied all the files back again onto the new SD card. I never even looked for hidden files neither on the phone nor on the laptop and it all went without any problems and all is working fine.
For sake of good order, I can't guarantee it will work with you as well, but it should.
Bye,
Itamar
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi, thx for the reply. Think I'm just gonna bite the bullet and go ahead.
So i seem to have hit a wall here when trying to get a new Whiskey rom... Currently running standard bonix, but looking to get a bit better battery life. Here is the issue.
When I get into clockwork recovery, And I go to install from SD card.... It actually shows the internal memory, and has a folder called "SD" but for some reason it never allows me to select it. It just goes back to the main folder. The log shows its trying to load it from /sdcard/sd... seems like its a mounting issue?
Of course my first attempt trying to install not realizing it was internal had write errors, but luckly I FOLLOWED INSTRUCTIONS and got to restore a backup.
Anybody seen this issue or can advise on how to correct it?
Update: just confirmed the issue is infact that Clockwork is mounting the internal storage as the SD Card. Removed the SD card, still getting the same results. Unmounting SD card only results in error msg.
bump.... still looking for suggestions
I don't follow, is the.zip on the internal sdcard/ root (no folder)?
Not sure why your sd card would be involved. What am I missing?
perhaps I am confusing terminology? Is 'sdcard/ root' not the same as the SD Card?
No, root means not in a folder. If your zip is not pasted to sdcard/ that is likely the problem.
Ahh gotcha. I understood concept of root folder, but I missread sdcard/ to be the Expandable SD Card, which it was in the root folder of.
:O *Facepalm*
Ok, so i have my atrix. Now i dont really get this part.. when i use efile for instance or anything like it. I already had a mnt/sdcard with stuff on it before i even had a sd card. All i had was the internal memory the phone came with. Why is it under sd card?
So i have 2 folders
sdcard
and
sdcard-ext which is my new card i take it because there is nothing in it yet.
Question should i transfer everything to my actual sd card? like backup it all? any info on how to do this or if i should is a good idea. Should i keep my internal memory clean as possible? thanks.
the atrix treats the internal 16gb memory as an SD card hence the SD card name. Now to differentiate between the Internal and External the other is called SD-EXT. Basically what ever you place in the SD slot, be it 16gb 32gb etc, it will show as the SD ext. Where you palce your files is up to you. By default most Apps will use your SD folder instead of SD EXT (titanium backup for example)
tjjensen23 said:
the atrix treats the internal 16gb memory as an SD card hence the SD card name. Now to differentiate between the Internal and External the other is called SD-EXT. Basically what ever you place in the SD slot, be it 16gb 32gb etc, it will show as the SD ext. Where you place your files is up to you. By default most Apps will use your SD folder instead of SD EXT (titanium backup for example)
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
So how would i go about transferring everything from my internal to my external sd card? Should i do it and can it be done? Or should i just leave it how it is? Plus for titanium backup should i backup my stuff on my external card for that or what? im kinda confused. ANy help would be appreciated. thanks
wishb0n3 said:
So how would i go about transferring everything from my internal to my external sd card? Should i do it and can it be done? Or should i just leave it how it is? Plus for titanium backup should i backup my stuff on my external card for that or what? im kinda confused. ANy help would be appreciated. thanks
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Well you can use your computer to move files if you place your phone in mass storage mode, or if you are rooted you can use a program like root explorer. The only things you should need to transfer would be backups of programs or music. everything else is fine on the internal storage. The only things I put on my actual sdcard are my music and documents. I would not worry about transferring anything, internal storage is really just as safe as an sdcard unless you brick your phone.
Hi all,
Few days ago rooted my i9100 after upgrade to 4.1.2. Now I noticed problems with memory cards. Some programs can't save logs (Torque) other (Zedge) tells me "Please insert SD card".
SD card is inside, and is fully working. Reformatted few time just to check. Everything looks to be fine, but there is still problem.
So what could happen?
In /mnt/ i have extSdCard, sdcard, and other folders.In /sdcard/ i see same files like in /mnt/sdcard/. But in /sdcard/ (or /mnt/sdcard) I don't have external_sd folder. Nothing like that.
Does it mean I have to create it myself and bind it to /mnt/extSdCard?
Why I need to do such things manually after root? Why stock rom and stock kernel doesn't do these things automaticly?
What is happening?
p.s
After I connect my phone to PC, I can't create folder in root of my phones internal memory. Writing blocked? Why the f....?
shadow_fi said:
Hi all,
Few days ago rooted my i9100 after upgrade to 4.1.2. Now I noticed problems with memory cards. Some programs can't save logs (Torque) other (Zedge) tells me "Please insert SD card".
SD card is inside, and is fully working. Reformatted few time just to check. Everything looks to be fine, but there is still problem.
So what could happen?
In /mnt/ i have extSdCard, sdcard, and other folders.In /sdcard/ i see same files like in /mnt/sdcard/. But in /sdcard/ (or /mnt/sdcard) I don't have external_sd folder. Nothing like that.
Does it mean I have to create it myself and bind it to /mnt/extSdCard?
Why I need to do such things manually after root? Why stock rom and stock kernel doesn't do these things automaticly?
What is happening?
p.s
After I connect my phone to PC, I can't create folder in root of my phones internal memory. Writing blocked? Why the f....?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ok, I think I found the problem. I reformatted both, internal and external memory, and everything looks now to be fine.
Some kind of error was in Android folder. There was at least 10 files, that I couldn't copy, and I didn't care. Didn't copy whole android folder at all.
So lately i changed my SD card in my device to a Samsung 32GB and when I transfered all my song, later I noticed on the music player that many of the artist are missing.
when I went to check what's going on, I found out many of the folders were been replaced by empty folders that their name starts with the letter "µ".
like for example, the folder "ACDC" became "µCDC".
I tried transferring everything back again facing the same problems with different folders.
I tried doing a factory reset and tried moving the song to the SD card through a card reader, and checked the files were OK before inserting the SD card back into the device and they seemed fined, but after I inserted the SD card I noticed the folders got curropted again.
also before I inserted the SD card there was like 500 MB of free space on the SD card, while after I inserted it suddenly the was like 15 GB of free space, caused by so many data that got deleted.
I don't believe the SD card is damaged, but that my device is messing my things up....
I also remember that I couldn't transfer any video files to the SD Card when it was in the device and could only transfer them into the device's internal memory.
what can I do?
Use the sd formatting tool on your pc to format the card, if still the same then throw it away. It sounds like a fake card, did all the files work while it was in the pc?
Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk
boomboomer said:
Use the sd formatting tool on your pc to format the card, if still the same then throw it away. It sounds like a fake card, did all the files work while it was in the pc?
Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
All the files have worked while it was on the PC.
I even tried transfering everything via a card reader and everything check allright.
only when I insert it in my device some of the folders get screwd.