SDCard help. WTF just happened? - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4

I'm using a 32 Gb Class 10 card from my S3, removed everything S3 related and installed into my S4. Now today I take a pic, browse my gallery, then haven't touched my phone except to text (about an hour goes by) . I go back into my gallery and it's empty. Music? Gone. Same for videos. Check my SDCard via root explorer. Managed to locate thumbnails, that's it, no other media. Yet all my files and programs that I saved to it to keep handy are still there. ANY ideas? Or ANY way to recover the lost media? I'm not sure I even have everything as my laptop crashed at one point after I backed up my card last.
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What ROM are you on? You might not be formated correctly and the phone won't be able to read it
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Bone stock. I've only had it 3 days I'm not even rooted yet.
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Sniper_5 said:
Bone stock. I've only had it 3 days I'm not even rooted yet.
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You might have deleted all the data but you can get most of it back. As long as you dont put more stuff back on the sd card. Have you tried using your pc to see if the contents are gone?
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Not sure how I would have erased just my media and no other files but I'm at work so I'll have to check on my laptop when I get home. Most everything is backed up to one cloud storage or another but I'm on limited data right now and it's 20+ Gb
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Im having the same issue with my 32gb on my mj7 s4. Suppisedly last year sanddisk put out a bad batch of micro sd cards. Go to their website and file an inquiry to get a new one. Thats what I'm in the process of doing. If a replacement renders the same issue try to exchange your device. Thats my next course of action.
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Glad I'm not the only one. I just recovered everything and my XDA app went missing
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Sure you didn't reformat it at some point? I know in Slim there is an option to format the sd card under Settings -> Storage. Perhaps you inadvertently did that?

Again, ONLY my media disappeared. Pictures, video, and music. ALL other files and folders were intact.
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How does the micro SD work?

If I get a micro SD card, can I back my note up on it? By back up I mean apps, settings, pics, etc.
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Jasmynsway said:
If I get a micro SD card, can I back my note up on it? By back up I mean apps, settings, pics, etc.
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Yes one app to do this is titanium backup make sure the backup directory points to your external SD. I do this every other day just to be on the safe side so I can guarantee it works if you set it correctly.
For pix set the camera to save to memory card instead of phone.
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Internal SD card problems won't be picked up!

OK so basically I went from gingebread to jellybean by going to ICS in between. Whilst on ICS I noticed that the internal SD card wouldn't mount and in recovery it showed all of the file folders that there should have been but nothing in them. Now I'm on jellybean its the same. Is there any way to get it back to normal without going to stock?
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Bump need an answer family want to see holiday pics.
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check in file explorers for EMMC that will be your ext sd, if it shows up that way, look for an app on xda called RemountSD that will make your ext sd be shown as ext sd instead of emmc
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check in file explorers for EMMC that will be your ext sd, if it shows up that way, look for an app on xda called RemountSD that will make your ext sd be shown as ext sd instead of emmc
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I just get this.
OK what's happened is that the two files that I put on the external SD card are in download and nothing is in the external SD card file. I just need my internals back.
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Update: I can't take a screenshot of notifications but that other screenshot I took, in notifications under the screenshot it says SD card is currently in use and shows a USB symbol although my phone is charging from a wall socket.
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Try...from that screen press favourites, hopefully your get this (screenshot)
then press the phone icon and hopefully your get (2nd screenshot)
from there hopefully your find all your stored ext sd files in the emmc folder. If that is the case the i would recommend finding the RemountSD apk on xda, it saves alot of confusion finding your files
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I just get this.
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from there press the phone icon and you should get my 2nd screenshot appear (root folders etc) the emmc folder should be in there aswell
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This is what I get. There was 2 lines more but thy were nothing.
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Only thing i can suggest is if its nothing is in your extSD folder in that area then as a long shot, try fi ding and using the RemountSD app, do a search on the xda forum, it should be easy to find, once its installed tell it to remount and hopefully that will solve your problem and everything will be found on ext sd
this is the link to the app, hope that helps
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1734826
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Thanks for the help but the apo didn't do anything because I think the locations are wrong. I'll try reverting back to stock gingerbread or ICS later...
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No probs, hopefully someone will be able to help out more, i've not used any JB roms yet, if your looking for something custom but close to ICS the neutrino rom is quite good, comes with the remountsd aswell, i've not had any probs so far over the last month or 2 using it
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Try ics sd binder first and see if that helps
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Thanks for the help but the apo didn't do anything because I think the locations are wrong. I'll try reverting back to stock gingerbread or ICS later...
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Try ics sd binder first and see if that helps
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Nothing happened.
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Bump this back up. Im back to stock ics and yet the same friggin problem.
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Please guys. Im now back in gingerbread but yet i cant access my interbal storage. I dont want to format it because I need my holiday pictures guys. Pleaseeeee. Thanks.
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Ok if it helps when i go into storage instead of internal sd card it says usb storage.
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Can you access it from recovery, mounts and storage and back them up to a pc. Not practical but at least you might salvage your pics.
Also I used ICS SD binder with no problems, you have to change the file path from emmc to extSdCard though otherwise it won't find it.
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Can you access it from recovery, mounts and storage and back them up to a pc. Not practical but at least you might salvage your pics.
Also I used ICS SD binder with no problems, you have to change the file path from emmc to extSdCard though otherwise it won't find it.
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Apparently all it needed was a factory reset/wipe data.
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Edit I was wrong. Basically I wiped and rebooted into f1 pure gnex rom. Went into camera and behold my 500 pictures were there but all blank. I then rebooted again and they all disappeared.
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Can't view storage space on phone internal

I have clean ROM installed also did a fresh install to see if that was the issue. And it remains. It stays stuck calculating and never moves. Any idea before I go ahead and format the internal SD card.
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Have you tried to use your stock file explorer? Root explorer im sure your familiar with but I found that the stock works way better for viewing and transfering files.
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Storage

Okay I Love my dna but I'm am so mad there isn't an SD card slot and all my storage is being used up by some unforeseen ghost. I have 10 gigs of storage being used by, "other" and u have no idea where it is going to. My best friend has the dna as who with the same issue. I have 2 gigs of music, 1.5gigs in my downloads and 1 nandroid (1 gig). That is all I have put in my phone besides the apps and app data. If anyone else has this problem or any idea where my storage is going I would greatly appreciate some help
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What's the total of the bloat on the phone? I don't think it counts the bloatware as app data.
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Dude, check the data/media vs the 0 folder. You probably have quite a few duplicates in there.
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Okay I Love my dna but I'm am so mad there isn't an SD card slot and all my storage is being used up by some unforeseen ghost. I have 10 gigs of storage being used by, "other" and u have no idea where it is going to. My best friend has the dna as who with the same issue. I have 2 gigs of music, 1.5gigs in my downloads and 1 nandroid (1 gig). That is all I have put in my phone besides the apps and app data. If anyone else has this problem or any idea where my storage is going I would greatly appreciate some help
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Yeah if you've switched to 4.2 or 4.3 from 4.1.2 that's your problem best bet would be to format your internal SD card.
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I dont want to lose all my music I've downloaded and I don't have a computer. Is there any way to backup my music besides Dropbox or play music?
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I dont want to lose all my music I've downloaded and I don't have a computer. Is there any way to backup my music besides Dropbox or play music?
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No.
That's what I thought. So full wipe and then could I push my back up to my phone and restore it?
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You should be fine doing that, also there is another way... Get a USB drive and an otg cable and back it up to the drive. Otherwise I would suggest using dropbox over play music, last time I checked when you redownload something from play music it doesn't necessarily download it at the quality it was before.
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Accidentally cleared storage!

I was in bootloader attempting to go into recovery but my phone slipped from my hand and I selected 'clear storage! I'mnot too worried becauseI always move everything to my external so there is only a couple things I would like to recover. Any way to do this?
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Yup, just went through this with my sd card. download either diskdigger or undelete. Both worked great for me. One or the other allows for recovering internal storage items.
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No luck but thanks!
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