I'm running Myn's Warm 2.2 RLS 4. I rebooted my phone this morning and ever since none of the apps located on the SD card will launch. I can browse the SD card using Astro, I can play music stored on the SD card, and I can browse pictures on the SD card, but none of the apps on the card are populating the app drawer or creating their icons on my desktop.
And to make it worse, I got my Swype beta email today and I can't install it because it needs access to the SD card. I swapped in my old 8GB one (current one is 16GB) and I was able to install Swype.
The card works fine in the computer. I'd really like to avoid having to reformat the card if I can help it.
My only suggestion would be to try moving the apps from sd to the phone via menu-settings-applications-manage applications then reboot, move them back to sd and reboot again. Shot in the dark but its a thought.
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My SD card started acting up lately. I do not know what could have caused it but it seems to just be running incredibly slow for read speeds. When I turn on my phone it does say mounting storage card or whatever at the top and it mounts and I can see it in root explorer as well as all of my documents on the card, my beautiful widgets homescreen skin loads without problems and I can take pictures that save to my sd card. However, almost no program that uses the SD card can read from it succesfully. The gallery shows no pictures and simply says loading, even though I have multiple pictures on there and just took some with the camera app. The music program claims I have no music even though I have thousands of songs. My scorecenter app does not remember any of my favorite teams that are stored on the SD card.
I am on CM7 nightly build 23 right now, but this problem began a few days ago when I was on MIUI 3.05. I have a 16gb class 2 card that was working fine a few weeks ago, and I flashed CM7 thinking it might be my MIUI rom but the problem persists. I can still boot into recovery, see my SD card and load custom roms from it.
I attempted formatting the SD card through android (clear storage in storage settings) but the problem persists.
Is my SD card dying?
edit: write speeds are terribly slow as well. a 200mb file transferring right now looks like it will take about 30 minutes to complete. That's definitely not usual. Do you think this would be my sd card, or my phone? I'll have to try the card out in another phone or sd card reader. in the meantime any suggestions would still be appreciated
Hi I looked to see if anyone else posted about this and I couldn't find one like this. I have an evo that I have rooted. I still have the 8gb sd card. After I rooted my phone I still had about 6gb left on my sd card. After I flashed Mikfroyo 4.5, reinstalled all my apps and and put most of my games on my sd card, like I had before I flashed mikfroyo I had about 4gb left on my sdcard. Yesterday I flashed a new rom on my phone, installed most of the apps that I had, and put the same amount of apps on my sd card it went down to under 2gb. I don't see triple the amount of folders on my sd card. Does anyone know why it shows up like this or at least how to free up some room? Thanks.
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Hi I looked to see if anyone else posted about this and I couldn't find one like this. I have an evo that I have rooted. I still have the 8gb sd card. After I rooted my phone I still had about 6gb left on my sd card. After I flashed Mikfroyo 4.5, reinstalled all my apps and and put most of my games on my sd card, like I had before I flashed mikfroyo I had about 4gb left on my sdcard. Yesterday I flashed a new rom on my phone, installed most of the apps that I had, and put the same amount of apps on my sd card it went down to under 2gb. I don't see triple the amount of folders on my sd card. Does anyone know why it shows up like this or at least how to free up some room? Thanks.
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Have you been deleting the ROMs from your SD card after you flash them? Each Sense rom is roughly 180-200mb. It adds up. Also, if you have been creating Nandroid backups, they too will take up a lot Space, and you need to shuffle through them and delete the old ones. Nandroid backups add up quick. I don't store my apps on the SD card, so don't know much about it, but what method are you using to do so, and are you sure they're not doubling up? I'd be more suspicious of an excess amount of nandroid backups and roms on the sd card though. It doesn't take much to fill up that stock 8gb card.
i agree you should check how many nadroid backups you have on your card, they take a lot of room, i usually move them from my phone to my pc and only leave the last one on my phone, plus they are safer on the computer. also all the zip files you use to flash roms can be moved from the sd card to the computer, once used you dont need them on the root of your sd card anymore they just waste space, i would also recommend upgrading to a 16gb sd card ebay has them for like 20 to 30 bucks and save you the trouble of worrying about memory. to move files from one sd card to another you just connect phone to pc as disk drive open my pc and right click on the drive that represents your phone, go to folder options and in views, select view hidden files. once that is done just copy all inside the sd card to a folder on your pc. then you unplug from the computer, turn off phone replace old sd with new, turn on your phone go to settings storage and unmount the sd card then format it. the plug it to your pc again in disk drive open the folder where you put all the info from the old sd and copy all that to the drive your phone represents and hit yes when it says if you like to copy and replace some files, then you are done new sd and twice the memory cv
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Wife has a DInc. 2.2 was telling her that she was out of space.
Decided to get her a bigger SD card. going from 2gb to 8gb, formatted it and dropped all the files from the SD card to the new one.
Insert new sd card, and all the apps on the SD card are gone.
hmm
install the old card, reboot
All SD apps are all gone.
what happened..??
How were the apps placed on the original sd? Titanium, an app, or what?
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Apps to SD in application menu.
In root explorer Nothing is listed in android secure folder
Hey guys. I know this phone has a lot of internal storage (especially compared to the OG EVO which was my last phone.) However, be that as it may I would still like to throw some apps on the SD card if its not going to fook everything up. I remember I tried moving SD compatible apps to the SD card when I was on Stock rooted and when I restarted the phone all the apps that were saved to the SD card would not work.
Is there a way to put apps on the SD card or is not doable at this point in time?
Did you wait for the media scanner to complete? I have all apps that can go to sd on my sd card and they work fine. Sometimes even when it's done scanning the apps take a while to load completely but once they do they work fine...
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Hey everyone,
I have a stock non-rooted Sprint version Galaxy S3 with Jellybean. I installed a 32 GB SD Card and it worked fine for the longest time. Today I realized that when I take pictures it will not save to the SD Card. The card is recognized by the phone, it reports the correct size, and I can see the contents but I cannot write to the card any longer.
I unmounted the card, uninstalled and reinstalled the card, and restarted the phone, but no matter what I do I can't save anything to it. I downloaded an SD card testing app and it said I didn't have permission to write to the card. Has anyone heard of this issue before? I am going to try to use the Kies Air app to move all of the contents of the card to my PC and reformat it to see if that helps. Thanks to anyone who might know what's going on.
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Have you tried already manually adding stuff to the card via transfering files from Internal to ExtSDCard?
Have you set up your camera settings to save picture / recordings to external SD card or
try testing to create new file / folders within the card?