On my wife"s phone she filled up and 32 gb sd card, and her internal storage with pictures & videos. I bought a new 64 gb sd card, plugged the phone into my pc (I had the correct drivers installed for the g3). I went ahead and transferred the pictures on the internal storage first to get rid of the memory is full error. Everything went good, it took almost 2 1/2 hours to transfer the 22 gb of pictures. But when it was complete I checked the phone and 50% of the pics & videos where unreadable the phone can't open the pictures. I plug the phone back into the computer and you can open all of the pictures. Any ideas? sorry if this has already been answered, I searched and didn't see anytning on this issue. thanks in advance.
This may or may not be your answer but it has happened before that a MicroSD card behaves differently if formatted from the device it's going to be used on, rather than using the stock format that they sent it in.
If she really does want to keep all 20+ GB of photos/etc on the phone somewhere, you should probably move all the photos off of the MicroSD card to a PC (you can try with the MicroSD card plugged directly into the PC via an adapter, but check first to see if the photos are readable that way), then put the card back in the phone, format ("Erase SD Card") it from Storage in Settings, then copy the photos back, or just the photos that she really wants to keep on the phone.
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Well, after working perfectly for the last week, I decided to transfer a few movies using the included card reader. Placed my card back in, and no card to be seen. Looked at the regedit fixes from way back using Search, saw settings were exactly what was talked about.Anyhow,looks like after all this time, still no official fix for Hermes missing storage card fix. Also followed advice, to drop the card back into the unit while power on. I do see the card now, however have the classic Storage Card (with a few folders), and now Storage Card2 with most of my files. If anyone has found a more recent,100% fix, wouldn't mind finding it. Can't stand the thought of going through this each time. I suppose the best thing might be to NEVER take out your card. But sure makes a nice difference, transferring directly from PC to reader. Does anyone see any problem in simply copying all files from Storage Card2 to Storage Card as a solution? at least until I can find a permenant fix?
if you cant put apps and save pics and it doesnt function like a normal android device sd card
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More storage space? a lot of programs let you set the storage location, which you can change to the external.
also great for media like music and movies since it's removable. Works just like any sd card i've ever used in a phone. Just a different directory name.
you are wrong when you save you cannot save pictrures to it and that it does not fucntion like a normal android sd card. Of course you can save music, video, and pictures to the external sd card. it functions just like any other sd card. if you phone happens to die, you can remove the sdcard and still retreive those media files. if you keep everything on the internal sd card, if your phone dies, how do you expect to retrieve those files?
extremely useful.
it does not let me use my sd storage says no storage is there when i unmount my internal Sd how do you guys have it setup. my sd is under sd ext in astro whan i take a pic it says cannot save to sd its probably mounted wrong but it still saves the pic to the external sd but really its annoying and it does not function properly
it does not let me move to SD card just to MEDIA which is still the internal so....
Did you make sure the sd card is formatted correctly? Also with an app you can move some appz to the sd card I believe. also you can 100% back up your contacts as vcards on the sd card which I think is pretty nifty
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Try to use sdtools and use the external and tell me what it does
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This phone has 16gb internal plus whatever size your sd card is. When I set mine up I formated the card and pushed my music to what the phone calls the media area. The music ended up on the phone internal memory and all apps only have the option to go to the media area in app manager. So I just manually moved the music to the sd card. But I am guessing it wont start using the sd card until the internal 16gb is filled up. The memory setting has an option for windows sync to go to either the internal mem or sd card.
What I think they should add is the option to fill up the sd card first then the internal memory if the card fills up.
I'm lost? The external SD card option is great because once that 16GB is filled up, you have the option to add upto 32GB of memory to your phone. If you don't see that as a good thing, then you don't need to put in an SD card. I got an Atrix over the Nexus S because of the lack of external SD card on the phone. I like it when I have options. I have pictures and musics on my SD card.
you dont need to fill up internal storage; i made a folder in the SD root directory called music, added music to that file with windows media player, and they were found right off the bat. did the same with movies, ringtones, and pictures; everything goes to my SD card, all my fresh downloads of movies pics and music go to the phones internal storage, so when i hook up my atrix to my PC i sync all other media to the memory card and my pc gets all the new data off my atrix. i have about 10GB open on the atrix and 4GB open on the microSD card.
i just hate the fact everything goes to internal first then you transfer later that sucks
lorijuan1024 said:
i just hate the fact everything goes to internal first then you transfer later that sucks
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If you're referring to the camera and other things, no, you're wrong. There must be some issue with your micro SD card and the phone. On my Atrix, if I choose SD card for storage in the Camera's settings, all pictures I take go to the dcim folder on the SD card immediately. I don't have to move anything. Similarly, when syncing my music, I go into the Device menu in Motorola Media Link and choose my SD card. All the music, photos and videos go immediately there. I never have to copy things over manually.
I'd suggest trying another brand of SD card, or reformatting your card (use FAT32 as the format type).
i have transferred photos from my external sd card on to the internal memory on the phone. When i choose gallery my photo's dont show up anymore
Anyone know how to set the default choice to internal or both?
I have had this issue with some phones and it is like the phone will not recognize the media. Easiest way I have gotten around it is to download what is on the card to a pc and then re-download to the phone memory. But sometimes that doesn't work either. And I haven't found a way to save to internal and external memory at the same time without copying.
thx for the reply
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.
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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.
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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.
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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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.
zelendel said:
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.