I am running into an issue with my SDCard.
The card is a 4GB class 4 Sandisk that for a little while had 157mb free. I deleted 1.09gb off of the card and it still says it only has 157mb free for whatever reason (on my computer and on the incredible). I have tried restarting the phone and taking the sdcard out and using a microsd card converter.
I understand that the only thing I can do might be to format, however this isn't the first time I have run into this problem and I want to stop running into this problem.
Anything I can try? I would prefer not to format, but I will if I have too.
Copy the contents of your SD to a computer, and format the SD card to FAT32. See what the does.
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So I did that and well now I have 3gb available. My assumption is that everything I deleted kept bogging it down or whatever.
So then the question is, how do I stop it from doing this in the future?
BrettKoster said:
So I did that and well now I have 3gb available. My assumption is that everything I deleted kept bogging it down or whatever.
So then the question is, how do I stop it from doing this in the future?
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I would wait and see if it happens again. I've never had that issue, and it's the first I've heard of it. I would recommend another SD card at that point.
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My Note 2 seems to be using too much CPU process. I have Watchdog task manager installed and almost every few minutes, i see Android.Process.Media getting a warning. At the same time, i can feel my phone is hot.
I've did some research on the web and it seems to suggest that there's a corrupted sdcard or corrupted media file (mp3, jpg, mv) in my sdcard. Thus the media storage keep trying to check the files.
My situation is, in my SD card i only have 1 folder that has a lot of pictures (download through mangawatcher). No mp3, no movies. The root folder has a .nomedia file, but it seems that the media storage still craws through the entire folder.
My phone is not rooted (need it to stay unrooted due to some reason). Is there any way to fix this?
1 other possible way i found was completely disable Android.Process.Media, but if i do this, my ringtones and notification tones are all gone (goes into unknown state).
You could try backing up your SD Card to computer, formatting it (FAT32 if external) then restoring folder by folder to isolate which one might be causing the problem?
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SenK9 said:
You could try backing up your SD Card to computer, formatting it (FAT32 if external) then restoring folder by folder to isolate which one might be causing the problem?
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Yeah, that's what i'm trying now. Will update here on the result.
Latest update: It would seem that my problem could be related to a bad microSD card. a friend of mine who suffered from the same problem said her problem was solved once she changed SD cards..
SanDisk -> Kingston.
Another update: i'm getting this error now..sdcard unexpectedly removed
I read some other forums, it seems to suggest the error could be because of corrupted SD card (SanDisk)
http://forums.androidcentral.com/verizon-galaxy-note-2/231647-sd-card-unexpectedly-removed-2.html
Might be worth doing a full read write test on the card on a computer just to be sure.
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Update: In the end i rooted my phone and tried this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...SwxLDEsImNvbS5hZGR6Lm1lZGlhc2Nhbm5lcnJvb3QiXQ..
Works wonders... too bad had to use root. I'm using a 8gb MicroSD now, will try with my SanDisk 32gb again and see what happens.
Yeah that's one way around it, it's a bit annoying as a band aid fix though as each time you add any media like photos it will require triggering a scan. I also had issues with installing Apps remotely from the browser using that method.
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Yeah that's one way around it, it's a bit annoying as a band aid fix though as each time you add any media like photos it will require triggering a scan. I also had issues with installing Apps remotely from the browser using that method.
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Many thx Good to know that.
I just put back my original SanDisk 32GB. Though i don't have the media scanner problem, but i do see from time to time it says "Preparing SDcard" i suspect my SD card is dying just like the rest..
Had the same issue with my S3.
Turned out that the SD card was dying, which caused to be unmounted by itself and then mounted again (sometimes showing notification “sd card removed unexpectedly”), hence triggering the media scanning process.
I creates an application to monitor how many times the SD card was removed, and turned out to be unmounted every ~3 mins!!!
I then bought a new Transcend 32GB Class 10 card, and until now, this never happens, no reports from the application whatsoever, and no media process eating my battery.
Please PM me if anyone needs this app.
Okay guys so, I haven't been able to determine my issue currently. But so I'm pretty sure rom doesn't matter. I'm on wicked currently, but for whatever reason when I have much storage on my micro SD, it starts to behave oddly. It's a patriot 32 gig. When I go to open the gallery with as little as 4 gigs on the external. It'll freeze up and may or may not ever load my pictures. It refused to play a video I'd just recorded. And when I plugg the phone into the computer to try to transfer files it behaves oddly. Sometimes I'll open a folder, it shows it is empty, and then when I go to copy said empty folder it will start to move the info and show there actually is a lot of stuff in the folder. Sometimes it'll stop transferring and say 'data type cannot be identified' or something to that effect. I *think* this is only with my external SD. I've reformatted several times without luck any info on this? Thanks guys.
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Bump please sorry guys just incredibly confused.
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Have you tried a different SD card?
I have a SanDisk 32GB microSD card. I originally had one at launch but after a few months, I had a terrible case of Media Server constantly running in the background sucking up all of my battery. I got the card replaced by SanDisk as per a lot of discussions on the forum.
Its bee fine with this new card for over 5 months. Now, out of nowhere, I'm noticing that my Galaxy is EATING my data. Slowly over time more pictures and music files on my SD card are being wiped out. The files stay on the card, but read as 0 bytes and I can't open them.
Last week I lost an entire folder of pictures. No big deal, thats backed up.
This week I noticed half my music library is now a bunch of 0 byte files. What on earth?
I'm going to go home and copy my backup over SD card after reformatting and will report back. But what gives? What is this nonsense and why would it be doing this? I haven't dropped my phone or installed any crazy stuff on it as of late either.
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I'm on stock ROM with AutoChainFire root. 4.1.2
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I have a SanDisk 32GB microSD card. I originally had one at launch but after a few months, I had a terrible case of Media Server constantly running in the background sucking up all of my battery. I got the card replaced by SanDisk as per a lot of discussions on the forum.
Its bee fine with this new card for over 5 months. Now, out of nowhere, I'm noticing that my Galaxy is EATING my data. Slowly over time more pictures and music files on my SD card are being wiped out. The files stay on the card, but read as 0 bytes and I can't open them.
Last week I lost an entire folder of pictures. No big deal, thats backed up.
This week I noticed half my music library is now a bunch of 0 byte files. What on earth?
I'm going to go home and copy my backup over SD card after reformatting and will report back. But what gives? What is this nonsense and why would it be doing this? I haven't dropped my phone or installed any crazy stuff on it as of late either.
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What rom you are running? What format you have in your sd card, ie exFAT, FAT32 or NTFS? Highly recommend to format you sd card to FAT32.
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What rom you are running? What format you have in your sd card, ie exFAT, FAT32 or NTFS? Highly recommend to format you sd card to FAT32.
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4.1.2 - stock with autochainfire root
FAT32
The card may be damaged or corrupted..
Not uncommon for SanDisk...
Try a clean format to FAT32 and test again...
If the same conditions exist...a replacement may be in order...g
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The card may be damaged or corrupted..
Not uncommon for SanDisk...
Try a clean format to FAT32 and test again...
If the same conditions exist...a replacement may be in order...g
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How should I properly clean format?
Because I tried to format straight from the phone. But after 3 tries, it wasn't actually formatting the damn card even though it said it was. I removed the card and connected it to a hub on a PC to do it through Windows.
I know that it technically shouldn't matter. A format is a format. But is there any reason why I ~should~ do it through the phone at all? Or why it would even act funky like that?
I think I need to do a clean install on my phone too. Just to be sure.
So just recently, when I go to Spotify, sometims it says:
No SD Card Found
We found no place to store our data, please check that you have a working SD card and free space.
So first of all I do have an SD Card... 64gb. Second of all, a reboot always fixes this. Third of all, I thought Spotify doesn't save music to the SD card anyway without installing an old version before they got rid of the ability to store music on the sd card (something that's annoyed me about the app for a while but it is what it is and I'd rather keep my apps up to date than toy around with old versions of apps).
So, any thoughts?
I really would hate to think that the SD card is the problem for 2 reasons... 1) a 64gb sd card isn't exactly cheap. and 2) I've had roughly the same problem or a similar problem with EVERY SINGLE SD CARD IVE EVER HAD IN AN ANDROID PHONE. I don't drop my phone. i don't do weird stuff with it. I just put the card in the day i get the phone and leave it there and every single time for the last 4 years of being an Android user, I've had various sd card issues after some amount of time... Never this particular issue... But some kind of problem associated with the sd card. Used to be that installing apps to sd caused problems (i don't do that anymore). then it was data on the sd card not being accessible. Then it was some other stuff. Now it's this.
So anyway... any thoughts?
thanks!
Are you running a custom Rom? With the 64GB cards, the S3 can be a bit finicky. It's usually a formatting issue, especially if it's on a non touchwiz Rom. But most likely it's formatted as exFat. Try reformatting to fat32 and see if that helps.
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Are you running a custom Rom? With the 64GB cards, the S3 can be a bit finicky. It's usually a formatting issue, especially if it's on a non touchwiz Rom. But most likely it's formatted as exFat. Try reformatting to fat32 and see if that helps.
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no, i'm not rooted... but thank you i'll look into that to see if it's formatted exFat.
Well.....If your running stock, it should read the exFat format just fine. Still can have odd behaviour though so I'd still try fat32. Just saying that exFat should work for you. Could be an app issue with it I guess. Let us know either way if that helps though.
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To make a long story short, I took some irreplaceable pictures today that disappeared.
I have my camera saving to my 64gb memory card. I took a few pictures and a couple of panoramas and they ended up showing up glitchy and useless.
They didn't appear in the gallery with the exception of a few images.
It looked odd.
I rebooted the phone and tried to go into the gallery and they just weren't there. The previews showed up momentarily and then they vanished.
Now when I try to take a photo to go to my external memory, it works fine. It didn't pre-reboot.
Is there a method of:
A: Recovering my lost 10-15 images.
B: Ensuring that this doesn't happen in the future.
For the record, my card seems to be working fine. Music on it loads up quickly as well as any other images that I loaded onto it. Files open and there is zero lag. I don't suspect that the card is corrupted or anything.
Thanks guys.
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Is there a method of:
A: Recovering my lost 10-15 images.
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You could try something like Recuva: https://www.piriform.com/recuva
I successfully used that to restore files deleted from microSD cards a few years back.
johnus said:
You could try something like Recuva: https://www.piriform.com/recuva
I successfully used that to restore files deleted from microSD cards a few years back.
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Thanks!
I'm unfortunately on a Mac. Guess I'll boot into boot camp and install it and give it a go.
I hope the pictures actually existed as files though and not some cached object.
Update:
Overnight, the saving issue arose again. I'm forced to use internal storage when using my camera.
I've seen this problem before. So SD cards don't work well with Samsung devices. I bought a Samsung SD card and never seem this problem again. I recommend you do the same.
b0Ne83 said:
I've seen this problem before. So SD cards don't work well with Samsung devices. I bought a Samsung SD card and never seem this problem again. I recommend you do the same.
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I wish I wasn't broke :/
I'm using a SanDisk 64gb. Guess I've gotta dig up some cash and get a Samsung.
I don't see how this is an issue though.
What is your card formatted in? My current is in exfat. I'm thinking the format may be an issue.
It may be a kitkat issue. Google "kitkat SD card write". Root users are using a fix that sets permissions so the sd card can be written to by all apps as expected.
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It may be a kitkat issue. Google "kitkat SD card write". Root users are using a fix that sets permissions so the sd card can be written to by all apps as expected.
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Right before I came across your post, I found some info on the kitkat issue with sd cards. I'm guessing that's what's causing this problem. Odd because it's the default Samsung camera that's messing up.
Oh, how I miss root. I just hope we get root soon. I'm pretty close to selling this phone and hopping on Tmobile.
I had this problem happen with very VERY irreplaceable pictures, on my backpacking trip to china, one of the most irreplaceable pictures of my entire life was taken, appeared glitchy in gallery, phone reset and it was gone.
after taking out the SD card, and doing many deep scans to try and recover the deleted pictures, it seems the pictures arent there, which leads me to believe it somehow tried to save it in internal memory (which cant be mounted as a drive, so cannot be recovered).
if you can somehow flash an older version of android (like 2.xx) you can mount your phone as a drive, and then attempt to recover deleted data from your internal SD..
yeah all i can say is ,,|,, you samsung.
I too have the same problems as the OP. And I am on SAMSUNG micro SD card! Guess it is one of those first batch gremlins?
However, I think the problem has gone away after I switch on the image "preview" option. Give it a try.
I had the same issue with a 64gGB SanDisk micro SD card. The camera would seem as if it was taking pictures but nothing was actually saved; they just shows as corrupted files in the gallery. I lost countless irreplaceable images from our honeymoon because of this. Once I switched to a 32GB Samsung micro SD card I never had the issue again, also saving the pictures directly to the internal memory solved the problem. I use the SD card for music as well so it has to be something with the phone writing to the SD card. From what I've read it's a issue with the compatability with samsung and non samsung sd cards for some reason.
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Never had this issue with any of my Samsung phones (S2, S4, and now the Note 4). I'm using a SanDisk Class 10 32GB. I'd recommend pulling the files off the SD and doing a format. Download the App SD Maid as well for routine maintenance on your SD. Good luck.
My 64GB SanDisk SD card was giving unexpected unmounted errors, so I picked up a Samsung 64GB SD card. The unexpected unmount errors went away, but now I have this problem. Pictures are not saving to the SD card correctly. Sometimes it says media not found. Others the preview/thumbnail looks fine but the full view is just grey.
I am going to try saving to internal memory and manually moving to the SD card as I run out of room.
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