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.
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Hi all, I have gained lot's of valuable info from this forum, so I thought I would give some info back.
I have read about load of people having problems with data disappearing from their SD cards.
I have owned a XDA 1 for just over 1 year and have used it with a Toshiba 512Mb SD card without a single problem. I have stored data on it, deleted data, defragged, MP3s, films you name it no probs at all.
Then I installed SKYPE Version 2.0.0.39. I know you are supposed to have WIFI for Skype but I just wanted to check out the software.
Anyway enough of that the point is, about 2 days later I was watching a film off the storage card, 15 minutes into it the device went into an audio loop and required a soft reset. After trying to resume with the film I found out the storage card was completly empty no files at all :evil: It may just be a coincidence but I think the SKYPE was responsible. I know oter people have reported similar storage probs.
Missing data on SD Memory Card
I've had it happen a couple times, and I don't use Skype.
The first time it was the card itself. The last couple times, I was able to restore the information on the card with the Backup Utility.
I think it's a bug in the device, damn frustrating, too.
As with most any computer, you better be backing up regularly!
Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
Has anyone had problems with the Storage Card completely dying? I cannot read my 1GB miniSD card on my Wizard device at all any more. It started being weird yesterday but after a reset I was able to access the data, but today it is totally gone.
A 16MB one works fine. :? These cards don't generally die that easily do they?
I think it's what they call SD wipeout. I've experienced the same problem a number of times already.. the only solution ive found is to ensure my sd card is in write protect before i insert in on my unit. its really frustrating..
I think it's what they call SD wipeout. I've experienced the same problem a number of times already.. the only solution ive found is to ensure my sd card is in write protect before i insert in on my unit. its really frustrating..
What I do about this
I turned my Card's ''Write Protect" on. I think it might be a good way.
I Have the some problem with my O2 XDAmini
SanDisk SD 1G
Me too. I had an experience of having the SD card (512MB Kingston) completely wiped, and another experience of partial (just the 'Program Files') directory. I can't remember that I've did on the 1st one, but as for the second wipe (partial), I'm trying out a new software that is installed in my SD card, however, I guess the software is not WM5 compatible and I have to had it uninstalled. I did a two soft-reset in the midst of the program running (e.g. hanged). Later I tried uninstall it, but not successful, so I just went into the card and delete it using Explorer. Then later, I've noticed all of the icons of programs installed in the SD are 'gone', only then I realised that my 'Program Files' folder was wiped.
I'm not sure how to prevent this problem, but now, I tried to had my card out before I do any soft-reset, especially in times where software hangs.
Probably it is good if all of us just try to recall the events just before you've experience a SD wipe out, probably we will find some pattern to this.
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 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.
I put a faster SD card in my daughters Moto E (which had slowed to a crawl) - formatted internal. Whatsapp can't save/download images. Camera can't store images. Many error messages about storage. I've ejected and reformatted multiple times. Do I need a hard reset? Is there a strange setting I don't know about. Setting it to external doesn't help.
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Hi I did also have this problem although it turned out to be the fault in the SD card not the phone. Mine was a sandisk 32 gig
Hope this helps.
My Z3TC is fairly new and at the beginning I had no issues moving apps and videos onto my SD card within the 'storage' section of the settings. However when I try to do it now, it is stuck on 'calculating' how many MB of apps could be moved. Until that is calculated I am unable to move anything, including videos, which is really annoying. I have plenty of space on my SD card. Any ideas on what to do?
I tried turning it off, taking the SD card out, turning it on, turning it back off, re-inserting the card and turning on, but it keeps doing the same thing. Do I have to format my SD card? If so, what will happen to the apps on it?
Sorry - just realised I can still click on 'transfer' and my videos to get transferred, but still am unable to transfer apps as it's stuck on 'calculating'...
Becarefull with transfering apps to sd.there are maaany who had burned their sd cards.also tablet goes much slower and consumes muuuch battery.
Peace to all