Hi
Has anyone tried conncecting their phone to their PC and doing a disk defrag on the phone's memory?
Would you recommend it?
Cheers
No, it's NAND/Flash.
Moving things around wears the memory.
You're probably better off by copying it to your PC, formatting the drive, and copying it back.
I haven't done that, I don't think it's needed.
There still plenty of free space to keep it from becoming framented anyway.
the_monolith said:
Hi
Has anyone tried conncecting their phone to their PC and doing a disk defrag on the phone's memory?
Would you recommend it?
Cheers
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With the phone having flash memory it shouldn't be possible to defrag the drive. Rather than having to wait for a platter to rotate like a conventional hard drive it can access bits of data as and when it needs
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Thanks for your replies. It was very helpful.
The only reason why I would want to do that is because I've been issues with the icons on my homescreens.
Whenever I restart or shutdown the phone the icons on the homescreens do not display properly. They either show the actual icon but without the name underneath it or the green android icon is displayed in its place. They display fine in the apps section. I noticed that this mainly occurs with apps that have been transferred to the phone's storage memory partition. The apps stored on the internal memory are unaffected. I've tried factory resets 3x now (including wiping the phone's "external" memory, but it seems to be progressively worse. More icons seem to be affected. Hence, I was wondering if it had someone to do with the way the phone is accessing the "external" memory that is causing this problem.
Any thoughts?
the_monolith said:
Thanks for your replies. It was very helpful.
The only reason why I would want to do that is because I've been issues with the icons on my homescreens.
Whenever I restart or shutdown the phone the icons on the homescreens do not display properly. They either show the actual icon but without the name underneath it or the green android icon is displayed in its place. They display fine in the apps section. I noticed that this mainly occurs with apps that have been transferred to the phone's storage memory partition. The apps stored on the internal memory are unaffected. I've tried factory resets 3x now (including wiping the phone's "external" memory, but it seems to be progressively worse. More icons seem to be affected. Hence, I was wondering if it had someone to do with the way the phone is accessing the "external" memory that is causing this problem.
Any thoughts?
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When an application is stored on the storage card or part of it is stored on the storage card it is inaccessible while the storage card is mounted as a disk drive on your pc. It is also seen in some other cases such as when you turn the phone on, it has to mount the storage card and basically check the apps are there before it displays the icons. I think this is what you are experiencing
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Yes, I understand that it takes a while to mount the external memory to the phone after restarts or even discounting the phone from the computer but it the apps still do not display properly, even after leaving on for ages. There is a problem with my phone accessing my memory. Plus, the phone's memory is not a SD card, it is internal and an image drive so in theory it should load quicker.
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Hmm so he's a weird one .. some of my apps are missing names .. it's not the same ones, everytime i reboot, sometimes they're all fine .. then randomly i'll notice some of the names are missing .. anyone else with this? explanation/solution?
PS .. not an SD card thing, happens even if not plugged in ..
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Hmm so he's a weird one .. some of my apps are missing names .. it's not the same ones, everytime i reboot, sometimes they're all fine .. then randomly i'll notice some of the names are missing .. anyone else with this? explanation/solution?
PS .. not an SD card thing, happens even if not plugged in ..
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This also happens to me sometimes, you can still access the apps but it's just annoying that it looks broken.. This only happens to my apps that I moved from the internal memory to my phone memory (I do this to save space on my 2GB internal memory - more space for messages and emails).
IMO, if you move an app, and you put it in the homescreen as a shortcut, the next time you boot, when the system rebuilds the apps' information, it does not include the apps that were moved to the SD card.
What I do is remove them then just add them back to the folders, I used to do this after a second reboot, usually a second reboot does restore everything, but now I'd rather fix 1 or 2 apps, than rebooting everytime to let the phone correct itself...
Patiktik said:
This also happens to me sometimes, you can still access the apps but it's just annoying that it looks broken.. This only happens to my apps that I moved from the internal memory to my phone memory (I do this to save space on my 2GB internal memory - more space for messages and emails).
IMO, if you move an app, and you put it in the homescreen as a shortcut, the next time you boot, when the system rebuilds the apps' information, it does not include the apps that were moved to the SD card.
What I do is remove them then just add them back to the folders, I used to do this after a second reboot, usually a second reboot does restore everything, but now I'd rather fix 1 or 2 apps, than rebooting everytime to let the phone correct itself...
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Hmmm an annoying oversight by HTC then...
It's not the worse thing in the world, just a minor nuisance.. Thanks for the tip anyways
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Hi,
As you can see, it's keeping my phone awake. I had heard sometimes some corrupted media on the external sometimes causes it to freak out, so I formatted the external SD and then made a custom reference point in BBS.
If I disable the Media Storage app the problem obviously goes away, but that kills the camera, gallery, etc. I'm thinking there may be a problem with the sd card itself as it has sometimes said 'Preparing SD Card' when I wake it up every now and again. I've seen a few reports of the S3 and Note 2 killing Sandisk 32 GB cards..
I'm running stock.
Any ideas?
Dude, check this out:
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=37199
Also, search the forum here for the issue, there are *many* posts like yours here already.
You could try an app called rescan media root. In the settings you can have it to keep the media scanner off. I used to use it all the time with my gnex with no ill affects. Only thing is, if you add something to the sd card while plugged into the computer you may have to rescan media with the app for the computer to recognize it, other than that it's a huge battery saver.
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I had a similar issue with corrupt MP3's on my storage. They played fine, but were incomplete in some way. Ran MP3validator (http://www.gromkov.com/faq/repair/mp3_validator.html) through them and fixed the errors and reformatted the card to FAT32 to boot. Media scanner usage back to normal.
I got my T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S4 on 7-26-13. It is awesome, but I have noticed one problem. About every 2 days or so the sounds automatically reset back to system defaults. It is only my sounds, no other settings or options, but it all my sounds: Ringtones, Notifications, Alarms. They change from the custom ones back to "default ringtone".
All of my sounds and ringtones are stored on my external SD card. I restart my phone if not everyday then every-other day.
This has happened about 3 times since I got the phone and is very annoying. I called T-Mobile and they said this is a first time hearing of this issue and reccomended I do a Master Reset. I really want to avoid the master as much as possible. Usually I go to bed at night, plug my phone in to charge and when I wake up the sounds have been reset.
It is almost as if the SD card is unmounting then remounting itself while the phone is powered on. I dont think that is happening I just wanted to use it as an example of what is actually happening.
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
Curtis.
The SD cards on these phones are notoriously flaky but usually not the stock ones... still. If you're rooted you can replace (or add to) the ring tones on the internal storage.
What's the status of your S4 regarding bone stock, Root, ROM etc.?
What additional if any apps have you installed from the playstore, etc?
What extsdcard card is installed?
As mentioned previously, sd cards can be corrupt, defective, etc. If you feel this may be the issue as you described, insert another card to rule the card in or our as the cause.
I am also on an S4, the sprint flavor, and have the exact problem as above. I understand the concept of moving the ring tones / notifications from the SD card to the internal storage, which will require root. Can someone please direct me to the correct location on the internal storage? Also once I have moved them, should I remove the folder from the SD card?
Thanks
Hi all,
So here's the deal. I'm kind of at my wits' end right now.
My wife has a bone stock I747 from AT&T (other than being factory unlocked and now being used on T-Mobile). It was purchased (new, in an AT&T store) in late December 2012.
Just yesterday, the phone started acting strangely: she'd try to take a picture, and it wouldn't save. Sometimes the camera app would inexplicably close. Then she realized she couldn't load the images gallery - the gallery app just closes and reverts to the home screen. And then other apps just started randomly closing in the same manner.
What I mean by the latter is, for example, you'll be in gmail, composing an email and typing away, then all of a sudden the screen simply reverts to the home screen - as if the app has been killed in the background by an invisible task killer. (If you re-open the app, it starts as if fresh - it does not return to where you left off.) This happens in multiple applications, not just ones related to pictures.
Another way in which this problem has manifested itself includes apps taking an inexplicably long time to update from the Google Play store.
So I am now concerned that the internal storage is corrupted. She didn't previously have an SD card in there (she has the 16 GB model, and before I started messing with it last night / today / tonight, ~1.5 GB were still free). Tonight, I put a 32 GB microSD card in, set the camera to save to it (instead of the internal storage), and took a few pictures. They all saved perfectly fine to the SD card.
Steps I've taken:
-cleared the cache for a bunch of apps (gallery, instagram, google+ [her phone is set to auto-backup all photos to google+], facebook, basically anything that remotely has to do with pictures)
-cleared the cache partition in recovery mode
-cleared data for gallery (in addition to cache)
Clearing the caches has resulted in the free space on the phone increasing to ~2.80 GB. However, none of these steps has solved the problem.
I also plugged the phone into a computer (connected as MTP) and attempted to copy or move her pictures from the internal storage "camera" folder to the microSD card's "camera" folder. However, when I try to open the "camera" folder via the computer, it cranks for a while, and then says "0 items." From that point on, the computer can't see ANY folders on the phone - it requires unplugging the phone and resetting the phone to see the folders again. (Though of course this is semi-pointless, because as soon as you open a folder, it says there are 0 items in it, as above, and the cycle starts anew.)
Anyway, I'm sorry if some of this is a little rambling or incoherent - it's almost 4am here and I've been trying to fix this phone for the past 3 hours (after spending approximately the same amount of time on it last night). Basically, I guess my question is: is my fear that the internal storage is corrupted likely accurate? If so, so be it - I guess at that point, we send the phone back to Samsung for warranty service?
However, if there's a chance that these issues are being caused by something else, I'm willing to try other steps to try to fix the phone.
Thanks in advance...
Why not copy anything that u want to keep to the external sd and or pc, and then format internal storage? Might help...
A few days ago while trying to review some images taken with the phone (with Sandisk 64Gb card inside) and stored on the external SD card, I could not pull up the images. On the Gallery screen where you see all the recent images, the image was present, but when I tap on the image, I get a black screen with the words "media not found". When I went back to the Gallery screen which showed the screen full of images, now the requested image has been replaced by a black and white clapboard (like they use in the movie industry before the camera starts to roll). This all happens when using "Gallery". If I use "Photos" (I think that's AT&T installed), sometimes the image will be there and other times over the past few days it won't. Sometimes when I get the Media not found message, I can still pull it up with "Photos".
I thought it was a OS issue with the camera, so I restored the phone using the built-in restore function (my Root is still there), but that did not seem to help.
I changed the setting for the camera so that it would store images to the internal memory instead of external, and that did seem to work for the few hours I had it set to that, although that was not a very long time to test whether the issue is SD card related. Today I switched it back over to storing on the external SD card, and at one point a video I took this morning worked, and then later when I wanted to view it again, I got a message that it was an "unsupported file type", and I could not pull up the video.
I unmounted the card, and have it sitting connected to my Windows 7 machine, and I'm doing an error check-autofix-scan and recover right now, although it is taking forever, and I do not see any progress whatsoever on the progress bar and it's been about 15 minutes so far. As an asides, I have about 30Gb of music also stored on this card and the phone can see it and play it with no issues.
Any thoughts? SD related, phone related, OS related? I don't remember doing anything or installing anything just prior to the issue starting....
Oh, and yes, I meant to type "unsupported" in the title
andygold said:
A few days ago while trying to review some images taken with the phone (with Sandisk 64Gb card inside) and stored on the external SD card, I could not pull up the images. On the Gallery screen where you see all the recent images, the image was present, but when I tap on the image, I get a black screen with the words "media not found". When I went back to the Gallery screen which showed the screen full of images, now the requested image has been replaced by a black and white clapboard (like they use in the movie industry before the camera starts to roll). This all happens when using "Gallery". If I use "Photos" (I think that's AT&T installed), sometimes the image will be there and other times over the past few days it won't. Sometimes when I get the Media not found message, I can still pull it up with "Photos".
I thought it was a OS issue with the camera, so I restored the phone using the built-in restore function (my Root is still there), but that did not seem to help.
I changed the setting for the camera so that it would store images to the internal memory instead of external, and that did seem to work for the few hours I had it set to that, although that was not a very long time to test whether the issue is SD card related. Today I switched it back over to storing on the external SD card, and at one point a video I took this morning worked, and then later when I wanted to view it again, I got a message that it was an "unsupported file type", and I could not pull up the video.
I unmounted the card, and have it sitting connected to my Windows 7 machine, and I'm doing an error check-autofix-scan and recover right now, although it is taking forever, and I do not see any progress whatsoever on the progress bar and it's been about 15 minutes so far. As an asides, I have about 30Gb of music also stored on this card and the phone can see it and play it with no issues.
Any thoughts? SD related, phone related, OS related? I don't remember doing anything or installing anything just prior to the issue starting....
Oh, and yes, I meant to type "unsupported" in the title
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I ran the checkdisk and it did not seem to run at all. After a while it just shut off by itself. I'm currently running Norton Antivirus on the card just to see. And, I popped in a 32Gb card I had laying around, just to see, as a trouble-shooting method. strange thing though...when I open up Gallery, I can see all of the old photos taken long ago that were stored on the now-removed 64Gb card. If I click on them, they open up, although I don't know why as they were stored on a card that is no longer in the phone. I took some pics with the new card installed, and then when I went to review those images, they are there (but the "old" images from the larger card are now gone). I wonder if the phone stores old images that reside on external memory in a secondary folder internally on the phone, as they were there to view even though the card was removed...