I performed a restore this morning with CWM. After the restore was completed my pictures were all located in the gallery. Its been a couple hours since the restore and now the pictures are gone. Anyone know if I can get them back. Thanks in advance.
caddy_escalade said:
I performed a restore this morning with CWM. After the restore was completed my pictures were all located in the gallery. Its been a couple hours since the restore and now the pictures are gone. Anyone know if I can get them back. Thanks in advance.
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They are still there try and clear data on gallery
122ninjas said:
They are still there try and clear data on gallery
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I just remembered there were a few more details I left out. Last night I switched from CM 9.1 to CM 10.1. After I installed it my pictures were gone but before when I went from CM 9 to CM 9.1 they were still there. Could this have something to do with it also? The backup I had was the CM 9.1 ROM.
caddy_escalade said:
I just remembered there were a few more details I left out. Last night I switched from CM 9.1 to CM 10.1. After I installed it my pictures were gone but before when I went from CM 9 to CM 9.1 they were still there. Could this have something to do with it also? The backup I had was the CM 9.1 ROM.
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Use a Media Scanner app from the playstore to force your media scanner to scan.
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Use a Media Scanner app from the playstore to force your media scanner to scan.
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So I installed a media scanner app and it didn't find my pictures. So when a backup is performed in CWM does it backup pictures? I didn't really have any important pics so it's not a total loss. Thank you for all your help.
caddy_escalade said:
So I installed a media scanner app and it didn't find my pictures. So when a backup is performed in CWM does it backup pictures? I didn't really have any important pics so it's not a total loss. Thank you for all your help.
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Your pictures are still there it is just that the media scanner is bugging out. Unless you wiped internal storage.
122ninjas said:
Your pictures are still there it is just that the media scanner is bugging out. Unless you wiped internal storage.
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After the restore I went into gallery and it showed all my albums and well as the number of pictures in each album. The strange thing it that the numbers were going down one by one as the gallery was open. Also I didn't wipe the internal storage.
caddy_escalade said:
After the restore I went into gallery and it showed all my albums and well as the number of pictures in each album. The strange thing it that the numbers were going down one by one as the gallery was open. Also I didn't wipe the internal storage.
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Yea Im not sure. Try rebooting and then keeping the screen on for 20 minutes.
122ninjas said:
Yea Im not sure. Try rebooting and then keeping the screen on for 20 minutes.
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Are you just talking about the home screen?
caddy_escalade said:
Are you just talking about the home screen?
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Any screen just make sure the screen is on for 20 minutes or so
If my pictures were in the memory somewhere wouldn't they show in a file manager?
1. If you didn't format USB storage space - your pictures are still there.
2. They're visible in any file manager, of course, if you find them.
3. CWM backup doesn't back up USB storage space.
So I checked the DCIM directory and there isn't anything there so does this mean I am out of luck?
caddy_escalade said:
So I checked the DCIM directory and there isn't anything there so does this mean I am out of luck?
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Plug your phone into your computer and look there in internal and external sd card for .jpg .png etc
122ninjas said:
Plug your phone into your computer and look there in internal and external sd card for .jpg .png etc
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Trying that now. Thanks again.
It looks like they are gone. I don't know what happened. Hopefully this won't happen to anyone else. Thanks for all your help.
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caddy_escalade said:
It looks like they are gone. I don't know what happened. Hopefully this won't happen to anyone else. Thanks for all your help.
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They definitely shouldn't have. In your internal storage look for a folder called 0 and there should be stuff in there
So I got around to checking out that folder today and there wasn't anything in there. I appreciate all of your suggestions. I wish they were still there somewhere but I guess something screwed up.
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Ok this is weird... Out of nowhere my pictures and wallpaper folders are slowing duplicates of every photo when viewing them in the gallery (3 to be exact). The thing is when I view the folders through a file manager there are no duplicates. If I mount the sd card through the phone, no duplicates. If i pop the card out and put it into a card reader, no duplicates. I have no idea what couldve caused this but its very annoying. Its not the first time this has happened. I tired deleting the thumbnail cache but that did nothing. I'm tired of having to delete and recopy the folders over every thing this happens. Anyone else experiencing this or know how to fix it?
Happened to me on a diff ROM, I deleted the dups then later went back into gallery to look at the pics and they were gone, turned out there wasn't dups, just showed them as dups, I deleted the originals. Wasn't happy.
Anyone?
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regP said:
Ok this is weird... Out of nowhere my pictures and wallpaper folders are slowing duplicates of every photo when viewing them in the gallery (3 to be exact). The thing is when I view the folders through a file manager there are no duplicates. If I mount the sd card through the phone, no duplicates. If i pop the card out and put it into a card reader, no duplicates. I have no idea what couldve caused this but its very annoying. Its not the first time this has happened. I tired deleting the thumbnail cache but that did nothing. I'm tired of having to delete and recopy the folders over every thing this happens. Anyone else experiencing this or know how to fix it?
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use this thread. I was having the same issue and was going insane!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9011278&postcount=4212
Awesome, Ill give that a try. Thanks!
Tired this and didn't work any other suggestions? dbdata is empty and I deleted the cooliris file. I really dont want to have to reformat and load again. Thanks for any help.
liquidreign said:
Tired this and didn't work any other suggestions? dbdata is empty and I deleted the cooliris file. I really dont want to have to reformat and load again. Thanks for any help.
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Sgs tools has a clear thumbs script, fixes it every time.
http://db.tt/bDOWM4c
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Thanks it worked perfect.
I did the same thing. Thought I deleted the 'duplicates'. gaaah!
Settings>Applications>Manage Applications>All>Media Storage>Clear Data.
Then reboot. Got the tip from philyew from TMo!
That worked great! Thanks
neevz said:
use this thread. I was having the same issue and was going insane!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9011278&postcount=4212
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Thank you!!!! It worked like a charm!!!
robertAndroid said:
I did the same thing. Thought I deleted the 'duplicates'. gaaah!
Settings>Applications>Manage Applications>All>Media Storage>Clear Data.
Then reboot. Got the tip from philyew from TMo!
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Thanks this worked for me also
SGS Tools does the Job
kcp877 said:
Sgs tools has a clear thumbs script, fixes it every time.
h**p://db.tt/bDOWM4c
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The link is long dead, but the App Sgs tools thumbs clear script works 100%
I have had repeat images pop up on occasion only on the external card. Clearing Settings - Applications - Manage Applications - All - Media Storage - Clear Data also does the trick.
Add this to a long list of reasons why
QuickPic is SO MUCH BETTER than the stock gallery.
Try it if you have not.
s15274n said:
Add this to a long list of reasons why
QuickPic is SO MUCH BETTER than the stock gallery.
Try it if you have not.
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True story. havent had issues like these since I started using it.
Is there a method of fixing the problem that doesn't involve screwing up your ringtones and notification sounds? I have deleted the following files twice now, and each time I've had to redo all my ringtone and notification settings:
- /dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.media/externalXXX.db
- /sdcard/Android/data/com.cooliris.media
I've heard the same needs to be done for this method:
Settings>Applications>Manage Applications>All>Media Storage>Clear Data.
I guess this is a good reason to try out Quickpic.
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Is there a method of fixing the problem that doesn't involve screwing up your ringtones and notification sounds? I have deleted the following files twice now, and each time I've had to redo all my ringtone and notification settings:
- /dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.media/externalXXX.db
- /sdcard/Android/data/com.cooliris.media
I've heard the same needs to be done for this method:
Settings>Applications>Manage Applications>All>Media Storage>Clear Data.
I guess this is a good reason to try out Quickpic.
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yeah Quickpic ftw. haven't had a problem on any of my 3 phones since i started using it.
robertAndroid said:
I did the same thing. Thought I deleted the 'duplicates'. gaaah!
Settings>Applications>Manage Applications>All>Media Storage>Clear Data.
Then reboot. Got the tip from philyew from TMo!
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Hi, after doing this and restarting, my Gallery and Music is empty now. I checked the actual folders through file explorer and they are still there, they just do not appear in Gallery and Music any more... It takes about an hours to show up again.
After a few days the duplicates re-appear and I have to go through this process again.... is there anyway to stop the duplicates from recurring?
Any ideas?
Thanks
I had the same problem it used to re appear after clearing including songs for me ..but I forgot what I did .......I might have wiped my cache or changed into different kernel ....but I'm sure I did one of these and till now it din appear
Which cache did you wipe? I'm on a different kernel now and it hasn't been fixed... not sure if it's the kernal causing this issue
Thanks
OK so I took some pictures and when I rebooted my phone the next day half of them was blank in my gallery anyone know what's up with that.
Have you actually mounted to a pc and looked on the SD? Are you stock or rom'd? Have you used any 3rd party file managers like Astro to check the contents of the card?
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malfuncion said:
Have you actually mounted to a pc and looked on the SD? Are you stock or rom'd? Have you used any 3rd party file managers like Astro to check the contents of the card?
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Yes my PC says the pictures are corrupt or damaged. I'm and running the latest CM7 with NO Nightly's and yes I used root explorer and they are there but NOT viewable. It happened again tonight they were there and when I connected to my PC 6 out 12 became damaged or corrupt well at least that's what my PC says and then when I disconnect from my PC the pics. are blank in my gallery
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Yes my PC says the pictures are corrupt or damaged. I'm and running the latest CM7 with NO Nightly's and yes I used root explorer and they are there but NOT viewable. It happened again tonight they were there and when I connected to my PC 6 out 12 became damaged or corrupt well at least that's what my PC says and then when I disconnect from my PC the pics. are blank in my gallery
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SD card is prolly on the fritz. Or your ROM has read write speeds to high. And if u want to be sure the data is really corrupt put the SD card into the comp with a SD reader if possible not pass thru the phone.
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Until you fix the problem you might want to try Photobucket and set it to automatically upload your photos that way you at least dont lose the pictures?..
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Until you fix the problem you might want to try Photobucket and set it to automatically upload your photos that way you at least dont lose the pictures?..
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thanks that's a good idea
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thanks that's a good idea
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Your welcome, I have been using it for a long time I have thousands of pics in the Photobucket cloud, its a great backup incase you lose your phone or something too. I'm kind of a digital hoarder lol.
WiredPirate said:
Your welcome, I have been using it for a long time I have thousands of pics in the Photobucket cloud, its a great backup incase you lose your phone or something too. I'm kind of a digital hoarder lol.
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thanks again I don't know why I think of using PhotoBucket since I too gave a account with them for a couple years now.
As the title states. Whenever I use the flash there is a file with an exclamation point and I can only delete it. When I don't use flash the photo comes out strange with artifacts. I can save screenshots from the camera app just fine. I will attach examples.
Caladus said:
As the title states. Whenever I use the flash there is a file with an exclamation point and I can only delete it. When I don't use flash the photo comes out strange with artifacts. I can save screenshots from the camera app just fine. I will attach examples.
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sd card might need to be formatted. Try that first. i noticed your signature says you are all stock with s-off. is this still correct?
synisterwolf said:
sd card might need to be formatted. Try that first. i noticed your signature says you are all stock with s-off. is this still correct?
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I'll give that a go. My sig is correct, yes.
EDIT: Just formatted the SD Card by pulling it out and sticking it in my laptop, and also tried formatting from the phone itself. No change. I find it odd that the camera app( stock and otherwise) only saves a corrupted file if the flash is used in taking the photo. If the flash is off it's just got reddish artifacts on the image. BUT, taking a screenshot of the preview before the app saves the photo comes out just fine with the exception of having menu crap all over it. Here's a photo saved by the camera app to the sd card, then a screenshot of the preview before the save.
Caladus said:
I'll give that a go. My sig is correct, yes.
EDIT: Just formatted the SD Card by pulling it out and sticking it in my laptop, and also tried formatting from the phone itself. No change. I find it odd that the camera app( stock and otherwise) only saves a corrupted file if the flash is used in taking the photo. If the flash is off it's just got reddish artifacts on the image. BUT, taking a screenshot of the preview before the app saves the photo comes out just fine with the exception of having menu crap all over it. Here's a photo saved by the camera app to the sd card, then a screenshot of the preview before the save.
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this might be a hw failure. if you are 100% stock and its happening. you can try to ruu and see if after a clean install its still there or not.
synisterwolf said:
this might be a hw failure. if you are 100% stock and its happening. you can try to ruu and see if after a clean install its still there or not.
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I was hoping it wouldn't be but I suspected it might be. I'm pretty sure it's heat damage to some circuit somewhere. Ah well, my upgrade time is coming up soon. The camera not working isn't so terribad anyhow. I have a discrete digital camera that will suffice.
Have you tried out any camera apps from the market to see if they do the same?
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dottat said:
Have you tried out any camera apps from the market to see if they do the same?
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Yeah I've tried different apps as well.
I looked at my storage of the phone and the gallery is using almost 3gbs. However, all of my photos and videos are saved to my SD card. Not sure why. Just wondering if anyone knows why and can help free up that storage.
Do you have a lot of screen shots? Those, I believe, get stored on internal storage.
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jpen said:
I looked at my storage of the phone and the gallery is using almost 3gbs. However, all of my photos and videos are saved to my SD card. Not sure why. Just wondering if anyone knows why and can help free up that storage.
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SD card and extsdcard are two different things - are they stored to your external sd card?
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SD card and extsdcard are two different things - are they stored to your external sd card?
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^^^ Good question!
I have it on the extsdcard. I just searched my whole Sd Card and there aren't any pictures really on it. Only 10 screenshots which is like 7mb only. There are some .thumbnails folders. One is 400mb and another is 350mb. Not sure if those are safe to delete. Regardless it is still at 2.49 gb.
Can u give us a screenshot
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jpen said:
I have it on the extsdcard. I just searched my whole Sd Card and there aren't any pictures really on it. Only 10 screenshots which is like 7mb only. There are some .thumbnails folders. One is 400mb and another is 350mb. Not sure if those are safe to delete. Regardless it is still at 2.49 gb.
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Install DiskUsage from the play store. It lets you see what the major space users are and drill down to find the files responsible.
k1mu said:
Install DiskUsage from the play store. It lets you see what the major space users are and drill down to find the files responsible.
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reinaldistic said:
Can u give us a screenshot
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Here is a screenshot using diskusage. Not sure what to do from here.
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jpen said:
Here is a screenshot using diskusage. Not sure what to do from here.
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Tap on the "Gallery" area. It'll expand to the right to show you what's using the space. Then, you can use the two-finger spread to expand the list of files (i.e. the motion you use to zoom in on a picture).
Basically, that screenshot confirms the fact that you've got a whole bunch of space consumed in the Gallery folder, so zoom in to see what it is.
Edit: looking at that again, the "data" appears to be one big file - click and zoom that area to see details. Seems like Gallery is keeping something huge there.
k1mu said:
Tap on the "Gallery" area. It'll expand to the right to show you what's using the space. Then, you can use the two-finger spread to expand the list of files (i.e. the motion you use to zoom in on a picture).
Basically, that screenshot confirms the fact that you've got a whole bunch of space consumed in the Gallery folder, so zoom in to see what it is.
Edit: looking at that again, the "data" appears to be one big file - click and zoom that area to see details. Seems like Gallery is keeping something huge there.
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I tried to zoom but all it does is make the box with "data" in it bigger, but doesn't show anything different then "data 2542MiB". If I clear data in the app info would that delete all my pics even though they are on extsdcard?
jpen said:
I tried to zoom but all it does is make the box with "data" in it bigger, but doesn't show anything different then "data 2542MiB". If I clear data in the app info would that delete all my pics even though they are on extsdcard?
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It shouldn't delete the pictures, but you'll have to rescan them.
What I'd do is to eject your external SD card, then clear data in Gallery, then re-insert the SD card.
k1mu said:
It shouldn't delete the pictures, but you'll have to rescan them.
What I'd do is to eject your external SD card, then clear data in Gallery, then re-insert the SD card.
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Ahhh genius! I was going to backup my phone then clear data. But removing SD card then clearing data worked and was a lot easier. Thanks a lot! Not sure why it was hogging all that storage. It is now only at 20MiB. What a big difference.
jpen said:
Ahhh genius! I was going to backup my phone then clear data. But removing SD card then clearing data worked and was a lot easier. Thanks a lot! Not sure why it was hogging all that storage. It is now only at 20MiB. What a big difference.
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Yea that's a whole lot of wasted space. I'm glad it was easy to clear up! Now, don't forget to click thanks.
I am in urgent need of help. I have a non-rooted Mate 20 Pro with a nano memory card. Today I noticed all my photos and videos are gone from the memory card.
All the folders are still there just empty, all my files and music is still there just my photos and videos are not.
I tried connecting it to a computer and the same thing. Empty folders,
I'm not sure what happened as they were all there earlier. I didn't use my phone or do anything out of the ordinary for this to happen.
Im on EMUI 10 currently. I took the memory card out and downgraded back to 9.1 to see if the software was the issue but same thing.
I also tried opening the files in different apps to see if they would show up but nothing.
My memory card still shows the same amount of memory being used as it did before.
I also tried to unhide folders, look into the safe but nothing!
At this point I am quite upset
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Nefelibatax said:
I am in urgent need of help. I have a non-rooted Mate 20 Pro with a nano memory card. Today I noticed all my photos and videos are gone from the memory card.
All the folders are still there just empty, all my files and music is still there just my photos and videos are not.
I tried connecting it to a computer and the same thing. Empty folders,
I'm not sure what happened as they were all there earlier. I didn't use my phone or do anything out of the ordinary for this to happen.
Im on EMUI 10 currently. I took the memory card out and downgraded back to 9.1 to see if the software was the issue but same thing.
I also tried opening the files in different apps to see if they would show up but nothing.
My memory card still shows the same amount of memory being used as it did before.
I also tried to unhide folders, look into the safe but nothing!
At this point I am quite upset
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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It is probably the most obvious assume you have rebooted?
Have you mistakenly ejected the card? If not try ejecting from settings and reinsert.
Are you using stock gallery viewer? Does it need update?
These are the most common/obvious actions, don't have anything else to add if tried and didn't work.
zolaisugly said:
It is probably the most obvious assume you have rebooted?
Have you mistakenly ejected the card? If not try ejecting from settings and reinsert.
Are you using stock gallery viewer? Does it need update?
These are the most common/obvious actions, don't have anything else to add if tried and didn't work.
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Yes, I have rebooted. I even unmounted it and reset the phone then put it back in and nothing.
I am using stock gallery, I believe it's already updated.
Weirdly all my files and music are still there along with the folders. Just my pictures and videos are gone. I looked to see if they were hidden but they're not. They won't show on the computer either.
I'm not sure what could have possibly happened. They were there in the morning and then they disappeared. I didn't take the card out or anything.
Are there apps that could somehow erase all your photos and videos if you install them. I can't think of anything else it could have been. I've never had any problems until now.
The newest thing I have done is update do EMUI 10 but even after the update everything was still there until the other day when they just disappeared on me.
Do you use Google Photos App? If Yes, see if you can find the missing photos and video with in Google Photos. Google Photos once uploaded will remove the local storage.
sajokj said:
Do you use Google Photos App? If Yes, see if you can find the missing photos and video with in Google Photos. Google Photos once uploaded will remove the local storage.
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I checked. They weren't synched. I'm guessing there's nothing I can do. It's just weird altogether.
Connect to PC and check the Memory card folder to see whether contents are there or not?
iAbhishekh said:
Connect to PC and check the Memory card folder to see whether contents are there or not?
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I tried. Nothing. There are some .hidden or .outside files in some of the folders. I tried to set it to show hidden files just in case but it still didn't pop up.
I'm going to try getting a nano card reader to see if maybe the phone is somehow doing something to the card. In the meantime I'm no longer using so no more damage gets done just in case.
Try sd card recovery, either on phone or on pc.
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Try sd card recovery, either on phone or on pc.
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Yes, that's my next step once my nm card reader comes in.
Also thank you to everyone who tried to help out, I really appreciate it!