Hey there, I'm hoping somebody can help me. All of a sudden this morning all 1300 pics and 600 songs just disappeared from my SD card. I pulled the battery and rebooted, still nothing. I had noticed last night that a few of the pictures were great out and had the image sideways in my gallery, I didn't think anything of it. I tried to delete the ones that are grayed out and they wouldn't delete.
Then this morning I noticed when I went to go and open one of my pictures it would not allow me to open it I could see it in the gallery but I could not open it full size. Thats when I get a second reboot, and all of my pictures disappeared. I thought it was the SD card because at that point it was saying blank SD card or SD card not compatible to your device. This is the same SD card I have had for years in multiple Samsung devices.
I can't even view the pics on my computer with a card reader. I have tried 2 different SD cards as well on my phone and they all "blank card or card not compatible "
The phone won't even let me format any cards.
I'm stuck. Any suggestions would be awesome. I'm not even looking to recover the pictures, I back them up to drop box so the only ones that were messing with the ones that I took yesterday and today, that is no big deal.
putney1477 said:
Hey there, I'm hoping somebody can help me. All of a sudden this morning all 1300 pics and 600 songs just disappeared from my SD card. I pulled the battery and rebooted, still nothing. I had noticed last night that a few of the pictures were great out and had the image sideways in my gallery, I didn't think anything of it. I tried to delete the ones that are grayed out and they wouldn't delete.
Then this morning I noticed when I went to go and open one of my pictures it would not allow me to open it I could see it in the gallery but I could not open it full size. Thats when I get a second reboot, and all of my pictures disappeared. I thought it was the SD card because at that point it was saying blank SD card or SD card not compatible to your device. This is the same SD card I have had for years in multiple Samsung devices.
I can't even view the pics on my computer with a card reader. I have tried 2 different SD cards as well on my phone and they all "blank card or card not compatible "
The phone won't even let me format any cards.
I'm stuck. Any suggestions would be awesome. I'm not even looking to recover the pictures, I back them up to drop box so the only ones that were messing with the ones that I took yesterday and today, that is no big deal.
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Sounds like your card went belly up. You could try to use an SD card reader on a pc.
Hey there, I'm hoping somebody can help me. All of a sudden this morning all 1300 pics and 600 songs just disappeared from my SD card. I pulled the battery and rebooted, still nothing. I had noticed last night that a few of the pictures were great out and had the image sideways in my gallery, I didn't think anything of it. I tried to delete the ones that are grayed out and they wouldn't delete.
Then this morning I noticed when I went to go and open one of my pictures it would not allow me to open it I could see it in the gallery but I could not open it full size. Thats when I get a second reboot, and all of my pictures disappeared. I thought it was the SD card because at that point it was saying blank SD card or SD card not compatible to your device. This is the same SD card I have had for years in multiple Samsung devices.
I can't even view the pics on my computer with a card reader. I have tried 2 different SD cards as well on my phone and they all "blank card or card not compatible "
The phone won't even let me format any cards.
I'm stuck. Any suggestions would be awesome. I'm not even looking to recover the pictures, I back them up to drop box so the only ones that were messing with the ones that I took yesterday and today, that is no big deal.
zelendel said:
Sounds like your card went belly up. You could try to use an SD card reader on a pc.
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I tried that too. The SD card was blank on the computer tried several.different SD cards in the phone and I get the same message "SD card is blank or has a unsupported filesystem" and I can't reformat either.
putney1477 said:
Hey there, I'm hoping somebody can help me. All of a sudden this morning all 1300 pics and 600 songs just disappeared from my SD card. I pulled the battery and rebooted, still nothing. I had noticed last night that a few of the pictures were great out and had the image sideways in my gallery, I didn't think anything of it. I tried to delete the ones that are grayed out and they wouldn't delete.
Then this morning I noticed when I went to go and open one of my pictures it would not allow me to open it I could see it in the gallery but I could not open it full size. Thats when I get a second reboot, and all of my pictures disappeared. I thought it was the SD card because at that point it was saying blank SD card or SD card not compatible to your device. This is the same SD card I have had for years in multiple Samsung devices.
I can't even view the pics on my computer with a card reader. I have tried 2 different SD cards as well on my phone and they all "blank card or card not compatible "
The phone won't even let me format any cards.
I'm stuck. Any suggestions would be awesome. I'm not even looking to recover the pictures, I back them up to drop box so the only ones that were messing with the ones that I took yesterday and today, that is no big deal.
I tried that too. The SD card was blank on the computer tried several.different SD cards in the phone and I get the same message "SD card is blank or has a unsupported filesystem" and I can't reformat either.
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Ouch sounds like your device is having a big issue. What device do you have.
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Ouch sounds like your device is having a big issue. What device do you have.
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LOL I know! Ihave the Samsung Galaxy S 5 for Verizon.
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On my Samsung Galaxy S2 on Sprint I used Apps2SD by Sam Lu to move many of my apps over to my new 32 gig SD Card. After a bit I realized that I had moved many of the apps over that should have stayed on the main internal storage, mainly because of widgets. So I moved many of them back.
Shortly after doing that I was at a retreat with my phone on airplane mode to preserve battery life. I took some pictures and videos, read my Kindle app and Bible and then plugged it in to charge. The next day several of the pictures and videos I took showed up as a black icon and were not accessible. Then I noticed that all the apps that I had moved to the SD card were "greyed out" and even some of the apps that I had moved back to the internal storage. The phone then told me the SD card needed to be formatted.
Since then I have tried to use file recovery software to recover missing files on the SD card and it finds hundreds of photos and several videos, but nothing else. So the big question is, where are my apps? Does anyone have an idea of how to recover my missing apps? They show up on my phone with "greyed out" icons so the phone thinks they're installed but obviously they're not. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Nathan
The same with me...
NathanCCI said:
On my Samsung Galaxy S2 on Sprint I used Apps2SD by Sam Lu to move many of my apps over to my new 32 gig SD Card. After a bit I realized that I had moved many of the apps over that should have stayed on the main internal storage, mainly because of widgets. So I moved many of them back.
Shortly after doing that I was at a retreat with my phone on airplane mode to preserve battery life. I took some pictures and videos, read my Kindle app and Bible and then plugged it in to charge. The next day several of the pictures and videos I took showed up as a black icon and were not accessible. Then I noticed that all the apps that I had moved to the SD card were "greyed out" and even some of the apps that I had moved back to the internal storage. The phone then told me the SD card needed to be formatted.
Since then I have tried to use file recovery software to recover missing files on the SD card and it finds hundreds of photos and several videos, but nothing else. So the big question is, where are my apps? Does anyone have an idea of how to recover my missing apps? They show up on my phone with "greyed out" icons so the phone thinks they're installed but obviously they're not. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Nathan
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I had the same problem my apps that I had transferred on my SD Card had a grayed icon. This happened when I had plug my USB to store some files on my internal SD Card in my I9000. When I plug my phone and pressed the "Connect USB storage" button it seems that the app had freezed so I unplugged my phone and did it again for several times. When Im fed up I tried to browse my phone and there the icons of the apps I had transferred on my internal SD card had turned gray. I tried to unmount and mount my internal sd card but still no luck. I tried to restart the phone and even remove the battery still no luck. I guess the best solution is to reinstall the apps. Sad to say if i try to plug the phone again as an external drive I can see the files on my phone including the OBB files of the games
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I had the same problem my apps that I had transferred on my SD Card had a grayed icon. This happened when I had plug my USB to store some files on my internal SD Card in my I9000. When I plug my phone and pressed the "Connect USB storage" button it seems that the app had freezed so I unplugged my phone and did it again for several times. When Im fed up I tried to browse my phone and there the icons of the apps I had transferred on my internal SD card had turned gray. I tried to unmount and mount my internal sd card but still no luck. I tried to restart the phone and even remove the battery still no luck. I guess the best solution is to reinstall the apps. Sad to say if i try to plug the phone again as an external drive I can see the files on my phone including the OBB files of the games
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in theory, if you re-install the app without clearing the cache, then all your files and settings should be there.
divvy96 said:
in theory, if you re-install the app without clearing the cache, then all your files and settings should be there.
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I did reinstall my apps and most of them retained their settings. I later had the SD Card begin reporting as needing to be formatted again so I removed it out of fear I may have gotten a bad SD Card. I don't know if the phone has issues with loosing SD Cards or if I bought a bad card. Haven't had time to trouble-shoot so I'm just going without a card for now.
SoI wanted to benchmark my class 10 32GB SD card. I used AnTuTu. When you first boot it up an option pops up to use sd or sd_ext.
I assumed sd was the card. Got crazy read and write times. Come to find out that's the phones internal memory.
Go to settings and changed over to sd_ext. Got believable results. Then I went to my camera app directly after AnTuTu. Pics and videos all show a white background and an exclamation.
I figure it's a glitch with AnTuTu. I go back to it and switch the setting back to sd. Go back to gallery and now it's even worse.
Nothing. Not even thumbnails with the white background.
I reboot phone. Still nothing.
Unmount/remount sd card.
Nothing.
Reboot again.
Alas, nothing.
Looked at my DCIM and camera folder with ES File Explorer.
My pictures and videos are gone.
Deleted.
Balls.
Anyone know what happened?
All other files are on my sd card untouched.
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Are they new pictures are old if New ones they are probably on the phones internal memory and not the sd.card if they are old that is odd. Trying plugging the phone in and see if you see your pics
New and old.
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newfireorange said:
SoI wanted to benchmark my class 10 32GB SD card. I used AnTuTu. When you first boot it up an option pops up to use sd or sd_ext.
I assumed sd was the card. Got crazy read and write times. Come to find out that's the phones internal memory.
Go to settings and changed over to sd_ext. Got believable results. Then I went to my camera app directly after AnTuTu. Pics and videos all show a white background and an exclamation.
I figure it's a glitch with AnTuTu. I go back to it and switch the setting back to sd. Go back to gallery and now it's even worse.
Nothing. Not even thumbnails with the white background.
I reboot phone. Still nothing.
Unmount/remount sd card.
Nothing.
Reboot again.
Alas, nothing.
Looked at my DCIM and camera folder with ES File Explorer.
My pictures and videos are gone.
Deleted.
Balls.
Anyone know what happened?
All other files are on my sd card untouched.
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Have an htc flyer and when I bought an sd card for it gave me a confusing result as well I tried to clean up my sd cards both of them and then I discovered that there was an internal memory sd card 1 and sd card2. The extension sd card was a way for me to get from 1 to 2 through a lot of the apps that were on the hardware sometimes the things will not show up in your history and sometimes it will not show up in the gallery or some of the other apps maybe that has something to do with antutu not working correctly. I always use astro file explorer it seems to have a better user interface as well as being able to move in copy files much more cleanly. When I first put my sd card from my old evo 3d into my new phone I discover a lot of duplicate files and had to clean this up astro seems to be the easiest way to do I tried 3 other file explorers. Be careful while doing this as some of the extension paths make it confused
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So I got my GS3 from Verizon yesterday and transferred my sd card from my old phone to this one. It recognizes the card, but it does not seem to see the folders that were already on the card. Its creating new directories on it for apps I download but the folders with my ebooks and pictures and such are not showing up.
If i plug the phone into the pc and browse the card, everything is there.
Any thoughts?
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Disregard. Found it. For some reason, instead of it seeing it under /sdcard, it locates it under /mnt/extSdCard. Never seen it do that before but there it is.
Ok so tonight, I decided to clean up my SD card. I had noticed that some how I had 1500 pics on my internal SD card, SO I moved them over to my external one and cleaned everything up a bit, combining all the folders. Now when I go into my phone and SD card, all the pics are TINY in size. LIke if the pic before was the size of the screen, now its 1x1 inch. I use wallpaper wizzadrii to set my wallpapers and its setting them all for TINY as well.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
you probably copied the thumbnails
I did now what?
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If you deleted the actual pictures and are just now stuck with the thumbnails try an app called DiskDigger. It'll find your deleted photos if it was just recently done. It won't go as far back as a PC would. But give it a shot. Oh yea, must be rooted for it I believe.
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I wouldn't use an android app, I'd connect the phone to a PC, mount it, then use Recuva to scan it.
scy1192 said:
I wouldn't use an android app, I'd connect the phone to a PC, mount it, then use Recuva to scan it.
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going to try that now.
Also, I just realized that all the pics were on my internal storage. I know I never set it up that way. I have always put them on my SD card. For future reference, how do i get everything to be automatically saved to the external SD card?
You mentioned that you cleaned up the images by copying them from your internal SD to your external one - if what you're trying doesn't work, do you remember which folder the files came from? You can just move them back but I have a sinking feeling that you're going to go to your Gallery and when you review your images, you'll see a bunch of white boxes with and 'x' inside which indicates that you're missing the image that was where it was supposed to be when the Gallery accessed your photos. I did something similar a while ago, trying to consolidate photos into a folder on my SD and when I moved the files, I had the white boxes I mentioned. The fastest way to fix the issue is to move ALL images off your SD, go to Gallery, erase ALL, then mount the SD card onto the PC and move images back onto the SD, go to Gallery, and let the thumbnails regenerate.
It's a pain but if you do this once, you'll not do it by accident again. Android does something similar to Apple's iTunes. You can have files in several folders and the program will 'find them' for you but if you move them, you can cause yourself quite a headache.
Good luck!
putney1477 said:
going to try that now.
Also, I just realized that all the pics were on my internal storage. I know I never set it up that way. I have always put them on my SD card. For future reference, how do i get everything to be automatically saved to the external SD card?
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The app I posted works fine, I've used it before. It looks for only photos whole recuva will find any file ever...
For setting it to external SD that's an option in the camera
Another program you can try is testdisk. It's free and it has recovered everything I've ever needed and then some. I've accessed files on a drive that both windows and OS X told me was not formatted. Got all 450gb off of it and could also retrieve tons of deleted files. It's a computer app, not a phone app.
G,day all,
I got 32GB Samsung Micro SD card. I've been using it for last 4 months. Music and Personal pictures, videos filled 20GB out 30GB.
Suddenly my music start skipping the tract can't play this format. and then realized the pictures are not available either. in setting > storage the external sd is grayed out. as if nothing is inserted. I pulled the memory out n insert it back. restart my phone. still didn't work.
Tried on my laptop even laptop doesn't detect it. Used card reader still doesn't detect. any idea what to do ?
I should also add that the issue is with Micro SD card only. I tried different sd card it work well on the phone and laptop.
my pictures are my real worries. any suggestion would be appreciated.
Ty :crying:
same here
hero000 said:
G,day all,
I got 32GB samsung Micro SD card. I've been using it for last 4 months. Music and Personal pictures, videos filled 20GB out 30GB.
Suddenly my music start skipping the tract can't play this format. and then realised the pictures are not available either. in setting > storage the external sd is grayed out. as if nothing is inserted. I pulled the memory out n isnert it back. restart my phone. still didn't work.
Tried on my laptop even laptop doesn't detect it. Used card reader still doesn't detect. any idea what to do ?
Ty :crying:
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sorry to hear about it... but happened to me as well. don't know why. it corrupt and need to reformat... lost all music and video.. lucky i back up mine pics to drop box and sync my contacts to google account.
kts3 said:
sorry to hear about it... but happened to me as well. don't know why. it corrupt and need to reformat... lost all music and video.. lucky i back up mine pics to drop box and sync my contacts to google account.
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Well the problem is SD card can't be detected even using Laptop.
Download the sd formating tool, if that won't format it then the card is faulty and needs to be replaced. I had the same thing happen with a ten month old card, the supplier replaced it without quibble.