I have a galaxy S4 Sprint, and I just bought a Sony 64GB class 10 card from Amazon. I formatted it with SD Formatter (exFAT) with the program from sdcard.org.
I copied all my files over, and I had about 3GB of photos in DCIM/Camera/. Then today I tried to view my gallery but the photos didn't show up. I checked in a file manager /storage/sdcard1/DCIM/Camera/ and it said 0 files. I thought "Great, it lost the whole folder, now I'll have to copy it from my old card"
So I put in my new card into my SD card reader [microSD to SD adapter, into laptop SD slot], and I navigate to DCIM/Camera/, and on my computer, it shows 3GB worth of files in there! So I move it back to my phone, and it shows 0 files. I am 100% sure I'm in the right directory since I made a blank file in DCIM/ and it shows up on both laptop and phone.
another thing, when I try to put anything in DCIM/Camera/ it fails (file manager gives error, but terminal command "touch test-file.txt" doesn't give error, but "ls" shows no files there)
I am running the latest CM11 snapshot M3 for jfltespr [Sprint GS4]. I'm quite baffled by this. Can anybody suggest something to fix this issue? I was thinking of formatting my card to ext4, but windows doesn't support it natively [I have Linux dual boot though].
Update: since nobody suggested anything, I renamed Camera to Camera2, then created a new directory, Camera, then cut/paste all pics in Camera2 into Camera, and now I have everything back in my gallery..
Also I tried running chkdsk on the sd card, but it found no errors. I ran it twice. Anyway, not sure what happened, but hopefully it doesn't happen again.
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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.
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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
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Hi, thx for the reply. Think I'm just gonna bite the bullet and go ahead.
When in phone I use ES File Explorer, all files and folders show fine.
But when i mount the phone via USB some of the folders and files (app files) are invisible, if i try to copy them from PC to the same place as I did before, it says it cannot copy (the ones with the same names already exist, just invisible for some reason).
Any idea why it happens?
I never see something like that with SGS2 and HTC Sensation
Hi there,
Do you have the files on your SD card or on the internal storage of the phone?
I got the same issue and I got the files on my SDCard which is exFat formatted... I guess the exFat system causes the issue with my files...
This is with 64GB Sandisk microSDXC card
So, do you mean that we need to make it NTFS?
I am having this same issue. I have also 64GB exfat. So far I haven't found a solution. I tried to unmount the card in the phone and it did show all the files for awhile but then most of the files disappeared again. Hopefully someone can solve this annoying issue.
Could you tell us what kind of files are hidden for you?
I have some APK files and folders with APKs hidden
I have music folder which includes lots of music files (most of them mp3) and also folder with JPEG files which aren't visible.
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....?
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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 I just got a 64GB Samsung EVO microSD for my HTC One M8. I installed it, and plugged my phone into my pc to transfer some music onto it.
I started by moving the music off the device storage onto the card through windows explorer, and it seemed to be transferring fine. It was taking a while as I had about 7Gb of music on the device already. Then like an idiot I unplugged the phone from the new dock I just got and was trying to get to work with my phone cases, while the files were still transferring.
Now, it won't let me paste anything to the SD card or device storage. Dragging files across to the SD card or device just freezes the folder icon where I dropped it. I am using clover as a windows explorer augment, if that makes any difference. But it doesn't look like I can transfer anything to the SD card from my phone either, as I just tried moving the music across with ES file explorer, and it came up with an error about needing a root to write to SD.
I have tried formatting the microSD from the phone, uninstalling the pc drivers for the phone and letting it reinstall them. Tried removing the card then replacing it, and restarting the phone. I have tried using SnapPea to transfer files across, all to no avail. Strangely, SnapPea and ES File Explorer are listing two SD cards, the first being identical to the files on the device storage, and the second being the actual SD.
I have no idea what is going on. I don't have a card reader to try formatting the card without the phone involved, but it seems like ejecting the phone erroneously has messed up the device storage as well seeing as I can't transfer files to either from my PC now.
Greetings and Salutations,
I have a Samsung Galaxy J7 running the stock ROM and bootloader, Android 6.0.1, Kernel 3.10.49-9058927, with 16GB internal storage, and a 128GB U3 microSD card (not 100% sure of SD card speed, its above class 10), the phone is the 2016 version (subtle changes from the 2015 apparently) and has not yet been rooted.
I tried to enable adoptable storage to get a couple of apps to run better, but I want to revert back and seek a different solution, namely rooting and using Link2SD.
I tried the standard method of adoptable storage, and the option was not present in the storage screen on my phone. I tried using adb, and got timeout messages on the sm partition disk:179,64 private command. (Enabled USB debugging, accepted connections, installed samsung drivers, adb server daemon and shell all started successfully). Eventually it showed the sd card as corrupt. I popped it out of the phone, and deleted the partition on my computer, leaving raw, unformatted space on the card. I reinstalled the sd card in the phone, and the format as internal option was now present. I hit that, let it run and tried to migrate data afterward. Migrating always failed between 30 and 45%, and it showed me at 15.92GB or more out of 16GB used. I decided to revert back. I reformatted the sd card as portable in the phone, and it corrupted again. I did the same process, but elected to format as fat32 on my computer. Reinserting the sd card, it asked to format, so I did, as portable. The sd card appears to be back to normal, but I'm still at almost 16GB used on the phone. I tried to delete some music files that I have on the SD card as well, and they won't delete from the internal memory. It always says "could not delete" or "Delete operation failed". I have used the built in file manager, ES file explorer, and I believe I tried on my computer last night (it was getting late, but I remember at least trying). All fail to delete the files. I'm down to very few apps, none can be moved to the SD card, and I can't move much data otherwise. I harbor a suspicion that some hidden files are present on the internal memory, but I could be paranoid. I'm hoping to avoid a factory reset, but I fear that's the only option. I have a backup of the sd card, but not the phone's internals beyond what google saves in the cloud. I'm open to suggestions, and thanks in advance.
~Nick