This was the orignal microsd that came with the phone.
This is what happened...
I was taking some pictures when the last picture I took showed up just black in the preview window and wouldn't let me view that picture. I then rebooted my phone, this time the small preview window showed the most recent picture but when it went to preview the picture it was black with some sort of error looking image in the middle, same with the other pictures I would browse to. I had some calls to make so made those calls and figured I'd try to reboot again, this time when android finished booting it was complaining about the sdcard not being supported or the wrong format.
At this point I was pretty geeked out, have lots of pictures/video from the last month of traveling, so I turn off my epic pop out the sdcard and throw it in my nook color that has CM7 on it. The nook complains about the sdcard being blank.
So here I am now. Hopefully somebody will have some ninja way of retrieving the media off that microsd...
Also, do you think it's safe to use the sdcard from the nook or is that a bad idea as what happened might be something hardware related with my phone?
Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
What ROM and kernel are/were you using at the time? Stock rooted or a custom setup? I have had this happen twice before since I began using custom stuff and I lost everything both times. Hopefully someone may know a backup folder (if it exists) that your media is sent to. More info on your setup may help though
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You might want to try putting your SD card in a reader attached directly to a PC and try some file recovery utilities. Just google free file recovery and I'm sure you'll find some utilities to try. You may lose filenames and stuff, but if there's data left on that card you should be able to raw read it.
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@John - were the microSD both dead or did a format fix the issue?
I won't really have access to a computer until Wednesday or Thursday when I get back from this trip, so no point in stressing out and ruining the left few days of my summer. It's just really going to bum me out if I'm not able to recover that stuff, had lots of stuff from the last couple weeks that I hadn't done anything with yet. Probably the most bummed about the videos of A Perfect Circle and the Black Keys from last weekend that hadn't made their way to YouTube yet.
What do you guys think about using the sdcard from the nook? I don't want to fry that one too if something is wrong with my epic.
Appreciate the input, thanks guys
If you format, you delete everything. Try copying your SD to your PC, then format, then copy back to SD. That may help. I had no luck when it happened to me though :-(
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You SHOULD be able to save the SD card but most likely your stuff on it got corrupted somehow. What exactly have you tried so far and what is your current setup?
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im receving a unable to save to sd card error message when I launch my camera. Further more I now nolonger have any of the pictures that I once had on my sd card, ever since the update.
How can I fix this?
That's odd. I am pretty sure that it doesn't even need to touch the SD card. Anyways, try flashing the HTC Kernel and see if it fixes your problems.
Where did you get the "now now camera?"
I dont know know where I got the now now camera ha. Swype gets the best of me sometimes. I dont know what it could be cause im running the official kernal and rom....just rooted. The sd card is formatted fat32 so there shouldnt even be any permissions. Could froyo done something screwy with my sd card for app install to sd ? Im just kinda upset that I lost all my pictures and videos
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this may sound stupid but did yuo go to the sdcard and look to see if they were ont he card? it is possible thety arent showing in galelry but are infact ont he card. It would be extremly weird for it to delete all your photos and videos (and only yuor photos and videos)
i believe they are normally stored in the DCIM folder.
Yeah the files typically are. Now that folder is completly empty according to my mac, my winbox, and astro pro. Im not to concerned about loosing the pictures but rather want to fix the issue with the sd catd so I can take pictures
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Ha does anyone know why I cant save images to sd card? I saw another post on xda about this but the answer wasnt informative....just said "heres a clue read only" no fix
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I hope this hasn't been covered here before. I've searched all over xda and Google for a solution but no one seems to address my specific situation.
I used to have a Samsung Epic. I traded my friend for an evo. I swapped our SD cards since epic comes with 16gb. When I got the phone she hadn't made any modifications. Completely stock. My accelerometer and notification light worked fine at the start. Since then I've rooted and installed many custom roms. Before I traded her the epic I was trying to create more space on my SD card and wiped the whole thing. Bad idea. The Rom I was using kept force closing closing all my apps. I flashed a backup I had stored on ny computer and it was no problem.
I'm not sure when my accel and LED stopped working with my evo..these aren't features I use or pay attention to on a daily basis. I only really care about the accel and have been trying to fix it for quite a while now.
I've read in different threads to A) Unroot, wipe everything, and use an RUU to go completely back to stock. B) download and push the accel file over the old one under data/misc in the root of your SD and C) download the sensor debug app to see if it gets a reading. Ive tried them all. I'm back at stock, unrooted. I downloaded the file but when I wiped the SD card it deleted all of my root folders. When I used the RUU it created some of the original folders but not all of them and not the ones specified to replace the files. I tried to create them myself but it made no difference. When I opened the sensor debug app it did not get a reading..or...at least I don't think so, but I don't know exactly what is supposed to come up.
Everything I've read so far tells me this is a hardware issue...but if it was working when I first got it how could it be an issue with the hardware? I had to have erased some necessary file or source that's causing this problem. Right?
Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas? I guess since I'm not rooted anymore I could go to Sprint and have them replace it but I don't really feel right about doing that and honestly id rather just learn what I did wrong and how to fix it. I feel like there's got to be a way to format my SD card to the evo stock settings.
My only thoughts would be to either copy the contents of the original owners SD card, unless theepic has already gotten rid of her original evo files, or copy the contents of someone else's SD card who's evo still has these things working. Would that work?
Thanks in advance for reading this novel and for any input you might have. I've been lurking about in these forums for a few months now and there are some brilliant devs and posters around here.
Oh. One more thing. As I mentioned earlier, the accellorometer is what Im really worried about fixing. The notification light is of little importance but I feel confident that these two issues go hand in hand.
Thanks again for anything you may be able to contribute. This is a long long post for something noooot really that important or common.
Hello,
weird question, i can see a folder in Astro that has wallpapers, but I can't see the wallpapers when looking at the same folder in Gallery.
In fact, i can ONLY see 1 file in that specific folder when in Gallery.
If I go to Astro, I can see all hundred files...
I tried to set wallpaper (i have launcher pro plus) and it gives me the option of Astro or the Gallery. When I try Astro, and I see the wallpaper, it doesn't change the wallpaper. it's the same one i already have. When I choose gallery, i can only see that 1 file....
could this be because I disconnected it before the computer was finished ejecting it? How do I fix this?
I wold go to settings>manage applications>all> click on the gallery.apk and clear cache.
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Thanks for the suggestion, I cleared a good 5mb of cache, but I still have the problem. I see like a fraction of the items in folders I know should be full...really frustrating.
Is there a way to copy everything on my card to my computer? I mean, Everything?
Last time I switched cards, I noticed that my copy was less mb than my original, and all the apps that I had moved onto my storage card, I had to download.....
Have you tried clicking on the photo while in Astro, then getting the prompt to view in gallery?
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Hey, I just tried it, but when the prompt comes up, the options are " astro" and" view picture" , doesn't say view in gallery....
Do permissions not totally get copied over when copying files from sd card to computer and back? Thinking the solution might be to wipe my card and try again...
Ok, this is weird, I have no idea what is happening. So now, even while looking around on my computer, files are missing in folders where I know there should be files.
Could this be a virus? Something I downloaded?
AND, now, like, hundreds of pictures are missing that i took...like 1gb worth, maybe over a thousand...
could this have happened when i unplugged my phone prematurely?
is there a way i can recover them???
Connect device to pc, as a drive, use pc search function to search sd for *.jpg
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it's not good, i'm missing it, i think. i went from like, 14gb filled on my sd card to 2 filled....
on my mac i'm using the search function for .jpg, and so many things are missing. wallpaper's i've downloaded, etc.
i dont' mind trying to find the wallpapers again, but i dont' know if ther'es a way to recover those pictures that i've taken. mostly because they're of my kids, etc. i know they're just pictures, but if it's possible, like the info is hidden on the card somehow...
i used this command to show hidden files...
"defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE"
so i can see everything i think.
1. if i format my sd card, how can i ensure that my apps that have transferred to sd stay?
2. if it's a virus, should i not recopy everything back over to my sd card when finished? could it even be a virus, or more likely cuz i pulled it out before done...
Abnormal termination before completion is likely what made it wonky. If you reformat sd, all contents will be gone, but apps can be d/l again. Search for *.jpg yields nothing? Idk how search works on mac - you certain you are searching sd and not internal memory?
Download and run Lookout if concerned about virus, however unlikely.
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the weird part is that i wasn't transferring some of the files that were erased...
and also, it was acting weird, like i ejected it, but wasn't responding, or something, so i pulled it, and then got the "your device wasn't removed properly,..."
thanks for the help;.
i do have lookout, so i guess if lookout didn't see it, then i should be okay...
yes, i'm certain i'm searching teh sd card....i can't believe so MUCH has gone, but oh well, i can't take it w/ me when i'm dead, it's just a thing.
(was reminded about Japan and the Tsunami at church today, made me realize my big huge sd card problem (while it has its importance) wasn't so important after all...)
if it's gone, it's gone, right? do you think i should reformat? i feel like stuff goes in a black hole on the card, now.
thanks again for your help!
oh, btw, what about my apps that are on sd? when i reformat my card, i think the apps will be gone...
well, rather than try and figure out how to copy my sd card w/ hidden partitions, i just moved my apps onto my phone manually, and now i'm reformatting my card and moving what was left back onto my sd card.
hope it's not wonky now... will let you guys know if everything shows up.
SO FRUSTRATING.
okay, went through and formatted everything, etc., (even formatted phone storage by accident, doh) but i put stuff back onto the card, and stuff is still not showing up!
why would it be available to be seen from the computer, but it doesn't show up in gallerY?
Could your SD be near the end of its life? Sorry about your loss on the pics.
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thanks, i appreciate it.
i don't know what happened, but i think i was reading my gallery wrong, as well. what's happening is that it's not quite updating to what's on the card, and i'll put something on my card, but it's not reflected right away.
maybe i'll do a hard reset, anyways... might help.
Sounds like you have a defective card. The same thing happened to me a while back. You can try to reinstall everything but it will most likely die again shortly after.
My screen got cracked about a month ago, the phone will pwer on, however I cannot see the screen. I received my replacement from the insurance and I haven't sent my old phone back in yet, because I have pictures of my kid on there and quite frankily I think it is bull**** to send it back with that kind of stuff on there. Anyway Asurion sent a threating letter, saying that I owe 500$ if the phone isn't sent in within 10 days, so this is where you guys come in.
I need help retrieving the data from the phone, so that I can have the pictures of my son or if its not possible, I need to wipe it clean so that they cannot (even if they won't) see my stuff. The screen is broken as i mentioned, but it powers on.
Try android screencast.
Turn it on and drop box will do the rest with auto upload (you have to dl the beta on to your comp)(I'm to lazy to link you)
You just have to some how mount it to the computer
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Turn it on and drop box will do the rest with auto upload (you have to dl the beta on to your comp)(I'm to lazy to link you)
You just have to some how mount it to the computer
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Yea without screen functionality it is kinda hard to figure that part out...Is there anyone out there with ADB exp. maybe if I can get in that way I can just pull my DCIM off of the internal storage, but I need to know how.
There are some detailed threads with a ton of adb commands for mounting and unmounting and doing pretty much everything else through adb.
Just search xda for adb commands and you should find a good thread with a bunch lined out.
I'd suggest using HDMI mirroring. You can move everything to your external SD card (via any file explorer) and do that.
You'll need an MHL adapter, though.
From what I am reading if the phone still works just the screen is dead I don't see why you wouldn't be able to just hook it up to your computer and pull everything off then delete everything.
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From what I am reading if the phone still works just the screen is dead I don't see why you wouldn't be able to just hook it up to your computer and pull everything off then delete everything.
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With a broken touch screen how does he enable USB storage mode?
Seriously, I was looking to get more advice than I did, but after all who really helps around here unless they create it and even then they do not offer support any more
Anyways, I took both devices apart and I used the good screen with the old motherboard, hell I even saw the text messages I missed, I uploaded all the photos to my SD and did a reformat on the USB storage to wipe the photos off the phone, because they stayed for some reason.
Thanks, to the guys that gave suggestions.
So the other day I flashed a 4.2 ROM and couldn't get back through NAND and all of this mess but was finally able to get back by restoring factory settings and flashing the old ROM I had. When I went to restore my apps with titanium backup about half were missing and the ones I had didn't work. I still couldn't do use a backup to recover because NY backup that had been about 1.5gb was down to 22.5mb because files had gone missing there too. Does anyone know what may have caused things to disappear like that or of any apps for the phone or PC that j can use to recover them? I tried Hexamob but it doesn't show any files after the scan and I've been able to use disk digger but it only shows pics. I've tried a bunch of computer programs but my phone doesn't show up in them even though the computer shows it. I'm not sure if that is my device or if it has something to do with the whole MTP thing. PLEASE any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated because I'm losing my mind here.this mess has almost been enough to make he want to stop flashing....almost.
when you upgrade to 4.2 the sdcard format changes from data/media to data/media/0, was all you stuff moved to the "0" folder?
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It was moved to the 0/ folder but like I said stuff was somehow missing/deleted. I've looked all over and it's just gone. TB files and parts of my backup folder which is making it impossible to restore the backup. I think I need to find some way to restore deleted apps but have not been able to find anything that works yet.
So after going through more files it looks like a lot of things either aren't being read correctly, have shrunken down significantly, or have somehow been partially deleted. Aside from the things above, some movie & video files I had are down from about 700mb to about 150mb. Pictures are shrunken from a frew Mb to a few Kb. This is crazy - I have no idea what happened to everything here...
I had the same issue happen to me. Eventually just formatted the sd card and started over. I'm sure there was a much easier and less extreme way to do it.
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I had the same issue happen to me. Eventually just formatted the sd card and started over. I'm sure there was a much easier and less extreme way to do it.
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I really really hope so. I'll be losing hundreds pf pics and videos and other documents plus all the app data and what not. What caused it to happen to you?
same dumb thing happening to me... i flashed 4.2 and then all my files were moved around in weird places, and they all say they are corrupt. After about 3 hours of trying to recovery all my pics, videos, and everything else i seemed to have somehow lost, I think i'm just gunna have to format everything and start from scratch. I'm kinda mad at Google
Yea my problem started with flashing a preview AOKP 4.2 build, but I have no idea why it affected my entire SD card and caused such a mess. Definitely not Google's fault. I spent 2 days looking for answers and ended up copying my entire SD to my computer in hopes that I can recover some of this stuff at some point and reformatted the phone.
Well the thing I was most upset about losing was a bunch of pictures and then my apps & their data (obviously have to be on there). The moral of the story really is that I need to be using cloud storage much more like auto upload for pictures and the upload to dropbox on TB. I just need to go through a mourning phase before I can move on and start setting that stuff up and rebuilding.