[Q] Disappearing photos, music, etc - Galaxy S6 Edge Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

About a week after I got my Edge, I noticed one day using the Samsung file explorer that the camera file had dropped in memory from having gb to mb in there. My heart sank and upon checking yes my photos had disappeared. Thought maybe because I was playing around with roms etc. Weird thing is I used ez file explorer to check and they were still there. So plugged phone into computer to back up to hard drive and next thing, they were gone.
Now I haven't changed anything on my phone for a couple of days, go to play music and sand thing has happened! None of my apps can see the music files except ez file explorer and can only play them from here. I'm worried if I plug into computer they will be gone again.
Any one else had similar issues?? Found a fix?

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Backing up SDCard to PC

My SD card suddenly became unreadable and I have lost everything on it. I had to buy a new one. My question is, are there any apps that will sync my entire SD card with my PC remotely over the internet (WIFI or 4G) using SMB or FTP?
Thanks!
I searched quite a bit about this same issue about a month ago. I tried every app I could, and in the end 0 Backup Gold seemed to work the best. It dumps my SD card to my PC every night over wifi while the phone is charging.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.Odroid.ObackupGold
The other one I liked was FolderSync Lite, but I ran into an issue with it. The first time it copied, the power went out over night for a moment, dropping my wifi router temporarily. The next day I checked to see how the backup went and found that it was copying the Green Hornet file when the drop happened. The file copied on my PC was only about 100 megabytes, instead of the 1gb+ that the file on the SD card is. The next time FolderSync ran it skipped over the Green Hornet file instead of recopying it. So basically, it just looks for if the file name exists in the destination and copies it if it isn't there, leaving the corrupted file in the destination. I also had some memory leak problems with it. When I would run a sync overnight, my phone usually needed rebooting in the morning or was pretty much unresponsive.
0 Backup doesn't have a pretty UI, but I've found it to be reliable. It seems to know when something didn't copy correctly and recopies it on the next backup if need be. The silver version is free too, but doesn't have the scheduling capability. Might be nice if you just want to try it out first.
The other one I tried that worked OK was PCFileSync, but it keeps a huge ugly icon in the notification bar that just drove me nuts.
backlund said:
I searched quite a bit about this same issue about a month ago. I tried every app I could, and in the end 0 Backup Gold seemed to work the best. It dumps my SD card to my PC every night over wifi while the phone is charging.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.Odroid.ObackupGold
The other one I liked was FolderSync Lite, but I ran into an issue with it. The first time it copied, the power went out over night for a moment, dropping my wifi router temporarily. The next day I checked to see how the backup went and found that it was copying the Green Hornet file when the drop happened. The file copied on my PC was only about 100 megabytes, instead of the 1gb+ that the file on the SD card is. The next time FolderSync ran it skipped over the Green Hornet file instead of recopying it. So basically, it just looks for if the file name exists in the destination and copies it if it isn't there, leaving the corrupted file in the destination. I also had some memory leak problems with it. When I would run a sync overnight, my phone usually needed rebooting in the morning or was pretty much unresponsive.
0 Backup doesn't have a pretty UI, but I've found it to be reliable. It seems to know when something didn't copy correctly and recopies it on the next backup if need be. The silver version is free too, but doesn't have the scheduling capability. Might be nice if you just want to try it out first.
The other one I tried that worked OK was PCFileSync, but it keeps a huge ugly icon in the notification bar that just drove me nuts.
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Thanks for your response. I can't believe I only got one response. I found FolderSync and ended up buying the full version, it was only $2.34, and its been working great so far. I'll look into those corrupt files though. I'll also give 0 Backup a look as well.

[Q] Missing videos

Hi
My problem is that some of my videos seem to have gone missing. They no longer appear when I browse the gallery. These videos I took maybe 4 weeks ago, however, newer videos are still there.
I had a look with astro and then DCIM file and camera and they are not there.
I did mess around a while back with vaults but all my stuff was/is unhidden.
Any useful suggestions welcome!
Have you checked on your external sd card?
Thanks for the reply, stupidly I did have them in a kii safe.
I have just checked again and it seems that not all the files have been restored, there are at least 5 video files missing, I uninstalled the kiis and still nothing. I believe they are there as I checked via USB

[Q] Deleted movie from gallery, still taking up space?

I just got the DNA the other day to replace my crappy Charge. I decided to load a 1080p movie (Iron Man 2 to be exact) to see how it looked. The movie took up about 7.4GB, and it looked fantastic. I decided I'd like to install Asphalt 7 which is huge, and to put some music on it so I just deleted the movie from the gallery app. However it doesn't appear to have actually gone away, the storage meter shows that I only have 2GB of free space. That seems odd since I don't really have anything on the phone and that 7.4GB should be freed space, the gallery no longer shows the movie either. Any suggestions?
Homestar1217 said:
I just got the DNA the other day to replace my crappy Charge. I decided to load a 1080p movie (Iron Man 2 to be exact) to see how it looked. The movie took up about 7.4GB, and it looked fantastic. I decided I'd like to install Asphalt 7 which is huge, and to put some music on it so I just deleted the movie from the gallery app. However it doesn't appear to have actually gone away, the storage meter shows that I only have 2GB of free space. That seems odd since I don't really have anything on the phone and that 7.4GB should be freed space, the gallery no longer shows the movie either. Any suggestions?
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Are you rooted ? you chould install a root explorer and see what's taking up so much space
syler2012 said:
Are you rooted ? you chould install a root explorer and see what's taking up so much space
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Not rooted, didn't even know we could root yet. I literally just got the phone. I do have Astro and it'll show me the amount of storage each folder is taking up, however all it can see doesn't even come close to adding up to the 10GB I'm supposedly using.
I got it. Doing a hard restart did the trick (unchecking fast boot in settings/battery). I now have over 8GB available. Weird little glitch there.
I've had more than one weird little glitch with this phone since I got it. When I first started using it it wouldn't play music from any app or ring, but it would play sounds. After about 4 restarts it started working perfectly.
Homestar1217 said:
I got it. Doing a hard restart did the trick (unchecking fast boot in settings/battery). I now have over 8GB available. Weird little glitch there.
I've had more than one weird little glitch with this phone since I got it. When I first started using it it wouldn't play music from any app or ring, but it would play sounds. After about 4 restarts it started working perfectly.
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Yeah I think I read somewhere else that it still keeps it in memory somewhere until you restart the phone. Not really sure why but someone else has mentioned that before. Seems kind of weird that they would do that considering we only have 11gbs to use in the first place lol
That is dumb. I like the fast boot function though. I guess from now on I'll just have to delete stuff from the computer or Astro. Man watching a 1080p video on this thing is epic though. Netflix won't stream that high yet (and understandably so, there's only one phone that could use it), but it still looks pretty good.

Samsung Galaxy S2 Battery Drain and Overheating - Solved

Recently my phone started getting quite hot and the battery went from lasting all day with moderate use, ending up with about 30-40% left at the end of the day, to going down to 15% or less within about half a day. So I did some research and found that lots of people had the same problem, and not just with the SGS2 but also with the SGS3 and SGS4.
Various fixes were put forward, both from people who had solved their problem and from people who didn't appear to know what they were talking about. I tried the more sensible fixes and nothing worked.
When I checked my Battery stats in Settings, I found that the media scanner was hogging the battery and keeping the phone awake all day, so I was one step nearer solving the problem. I killed the media scanner process and my battery life improved. But each time I restarted the phone, the problem came back.
I unmounted my 32GB micro-SD card (an absolute requisite in my use case) and waited. Interestingly, the problem continued, even though that's where the vast majority of my media files reside. So I went hunting.
I noticed that even though I'd unmounted the SD card, the /storage/extSdCard folder showed that it had one item inside it. If you know about Linux file systems, which Android uses, you'll know that external storage is mounted onto an existing directory - in the case of my SD card it's mounted on /storage/extSdCard. And if the external storage is unmounted, that directory reverts to being an ordinary directory.
When I looked inside that directory using ES File Explorer, I found a folder that had been created by an app called FlickFolio. It's a great app as it allows you to look at your Flickr stream, sets, etc, on your phone or tablet, and it keeps thumbnails of all your photos on the device to make viewing them very quick.
Now, my current Flickr stream has 9,263 photos in it, taken over the last 6 years. And this directory had over 55,000 subdirectories and files in it, taking up 3.02 GB. I had no idea that they were there because when my SD card is mounted, the FlickFolio directory disappears. It's still there but the mounted SD card covers it up.
So, I deleted the FlickFolio directory. It took nearly 10 minutes for ES File Explorer to do the job but not only did I retrieve a 'missing' 3.02 GB of internal phone storage space, I found that the media scanner is now behaving, and not sucking my battery to death. And my phone isn't overheating. And I'm a happy bunny again.
same problem
garryknight said:
Recently my phone started getting quite hot and the battery went from lasting all day with moderate use, ending up with about 30-40% left at the end of the day, to going down to 15% or less within about half a day. So I did some research and found that lots of people had the same problem, and not just with the SGS2 but also with the SGS3 and SGS4.
Various fixes were put forward, both from people who had solved their problem and from people who didn't appear to know what they were talking about. I tried the more sensible fixes and nothing worked.
When I checked my Battery stats in Settings, I found that the media scanner was hogging the battery and keeping the phone awake all day, so I was one step nearer solving the problem. I killed the media scanner process and my battery life improved. But each time I restarted the phone, the problem came back.
I unmounted my 32GB micro-SD card (an absolute requisite in my use case) and waited. Interestingly, the problem continued, even though that's where the vast majority of my media files reside. So I went hunting.
I noticed that even though I'd unmounted the SD card, the /storage/extSdCard folder showed that it had one item inside it. If you know about Linux file systems, which Android uses, you'll know that external storage is mounted onto an existing directory - in the case of my SD card it's mounted on /storage/extSdCard. And if the external storage is unmounted, that directory reverts to being an ordinary directory.
When I looked inside that directory using ES File Explorer, I found a folder that had been created by an app called FlickFolio. It's a great app as it allows you to look at your Flickr stream, sets, etc, on your phone or tablet, and it keeps thumbnails of all your photos on the device to make viewing them very quick.
Now, my current Flickr stream has 9,263 photos in it, taken over the last 6 years. And this directory had over 55,000 subdirectories and files in it, taking up 3.02 GB. I had no idea that they were there because when my SD card is mounted, the FlickFolio directory disappears. It's still there but the mounted SD card covers it up.
So, I deleted the FlickFolio directory. It took nearly 10 minutes for ES File Explorer to do the job but not only did I retrieve a 'missing' 3.02 GB of internal phone storage space, I found that the media scanner is now behaving, and not sucking my battery to death. And my phone isn't overheating. And I'm a happy bunny again.
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hi I have same problem with my galaxy s2 can you give me the idiots version of what to look for please as your only person who seems to know what your talking about I tried doing what you said above loaded es file explorer took out mem card but cant see flickfolio have I missed something or open somethink first to find it any help would be great regards bob
I have Samsung galaxy S2 android phone. I am facing a strange problem now these days. I usually download apps from android apps store. Today when I download an app, another rogue app downloads automatically. Do you know about the problem? Any solutions please.
If your battery low alltime? then firstly, Format your phone

[Q] Apps can't find my media (most of the time)

Device:
ZTE Grand X (Bell Version) - Model Z933
Android 4.3
Kernel 3.4.0+
No root, stock everything.
I recently bought this ZTE Z933, and I've had some photos, videos, and music stored on the phone's storage for a while, and it worked fine.
Just in the past couple weeks, I put more videos, photos, and music onto an SD Card (4GB, FAT32) and put it into the phone, and now very often (almost daily) all of my picture browsing apps and music playing apps suddenly (and temporarily) are not able to detect ANY media on both the SD card and my phone's storage. But, if I browse my media through ASTRO or any other file manager, all the files are there and they work perfectly fine.
Rebooting the phone does nothing to fix this issue, and neither does accessing the storage through USB or unmounting and mounting the SD Card. For a while, the only fix I found was sometimes if I opened up one of my photos through ASTRO, and then closed it, about half the time it would temporarily fix the issue.
After a bit of searching, I found some threads on different sites about restarting the Media Scanner service (or something along that line) in Settings > Apps. I do not have this, but instead what I do have under Apps > Running > Cached, I have something called "Media", which, when I stop it and restart the phone, fixes the issue temporarily, but it works every time. The annoying thing about this is having to reboot, and losing all my ringtone and notification tone settings, and my playlists every time this happens.
Can anyone give me info on things to try? Or does anyone know of an app that will get me around this issue? (the phone has been reset pretty recently so I don't think that would solve it)
Any help would be very appreciated!
Hey how's it going? I to picked up one of these nice little phones and have yet to find anything as far as development on it, i.e root or any roms and ZTEusa has nothing on this phone. Every time I google it it shows another phone.
Its a great phone large screen and has quad core, if enough people post a wanted new thread on the request a thread forum we can get some help. There is a boot loader its just can anyone get root threw it. Also someone needs to try all of the towel root modstrings which are a lot and you might get it rooted. I really enjoy mine have had no problems with media, might be your sdcard is it an old one or a new one what class is it class10?
http://www.xda-developers.com/users-beware-zte-root-backdoor-found/
I just picked up this phone too.
Seems like root acess is simply password controled..
Maybe ztex1609523?
Anyone wanna jam that into an installer?

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