Hi,
New here and new to smartphones. Having an issue with my phone. All the sounds will disappear in the phone and it will not read or write to the SD card. The SD card is the 2gb one that comes with the phone. Restarting does nothing, only a master clear will get it back working right. There are no apps on the phone, and only a few pictures and a few mp3's.
The phone is running 2.3.5, have had it exchanged through t-mobile and it still does it, anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
rootoo
I have the tmobile version. Are you saying there is no sound coming out if the phone?
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The phone will still make a sound, just all the ringtones, notifications, and the SD card are gone. It does not display any sounds or alerts to choose from, the menu is blank with nothing on it.
Thanks,
rootoo
Your SD card is unmounting by itself, so it's either the SD card that has a problem, or your phone's connection pins.
Either way, send it back.
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I'm having a sporadic but frequent problem with my Epic, wherein media files (on the SD card) suddenly become unplayable. Specifically, podcasts in Dogg Catcher, and audio books in MortPlayer, Ambling Book Player, and Audible will suddenly stop working and the app will report some sort of error such as "media file not playable" or some such.
This happens approximately once per day at unpredictable times, and my original response was to reboot the phone, which did fix the problem temporarily. Now I've discovered that unmounting the SD card, then remounting it and allowing the Android media scanner to complete will also temporarily fix the problem. In either case, however, the problem returns within a day or two, maximum.
Has anyone else experienced this kind of problem, or have any advice on how I might go about fixing them?
(FYI, my phone is rooted and I am running Syndicate Frozen 1.1 ROM, but this problem was happening before the root procedure back when I was running stock, and persists even after moving to Syndicate.)
Thanks!
Just taking a shot in the dark here, but it sounds like the problem might be with your sd card... a possible solution might be to copy all of your data off of the card, reformat it, and then copy you data back on to the card, OR try/get a different sdcard altogether.
Again, not claiming I know what the root problem is, but the reformat is worth a try as it has seemed to help with other sd card reading issues for others.
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Just taking a shot in the dark here, but it sounds like the problem might be with your sd card... a possible solution might be to copy all of your data off of the card, reformat it, and then copy you data back on to the card, OR try/get a different sdcard altogether.
Again, not claiming I know what the root problem is, but the reformat is worth a try as it has seemed to help with other sd card reading issues for others.
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Thanks, I'll backup my SD card and reformat it to see if that helps. I should know within a day or two anyway.
I'm having a similar issue where all my media files disappear and it says "no SD card detected". If i pop the card out and back in it works, but it's annoying.
FWIW this is a replacement SanDisk card (class 4), my first one was lost in a drunken phone drop at the bar.
I have this exact same issue... Never had issues when stock, but since rooting and flashing ACS101 through ACS110... Although it sounds like it's not related to this since you've had issues longer.
I've tried clearing dalvik cache, normal cache, and messing around with the DRM service, but it's still unstable and audio/video files quit working after random amounts of time.
Let me know if the SDCard fix works for you.
My wife's phone has the same problem. Completely stock, with the official FroYo update. No root or anything so far. Her phone also has an issue where it pauses for up to 30 seconds before actually dialing when a call is attempted, then often fails to actually complete the call. I think she might just have a lemon...
I've been noticing lately that my external SD card randomly goes "missing" on my phone. I've noticed this on rooted stock and now on my current ROM, so I'm not sure it's ROM-dependent. I usually notice when I stop hearing my text notification sound (which is stored on there), and app icons in the launcher turn to the Android unknown icon. If I check the Storage settings it tells me there's no card present. Once I reboot it reappears and everything goes back to normal, beyond me needing to manually set my notification sound back.
Is anyone else experiencing the same thing? Ideas on a cause/fix?
I was having the same problem until I backed up all photos and important files to my PC then formated my card. Restored my pics and a few music albums and hasn't happened since. Hope this helps you
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I was wondering if it might be card-related. Backing up a 32GB card takes a while, but I guess your route is a relatively easy starting point.
Well, I reformatted the card and put all my data back on it a couple of days ago and the problem happened again today. Any more thoughts?
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Well, I reformatted the card and put all my data back on it a couple of days ago and the problem happened again today. Any more thoughts?
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Also had this problem and it ended up being a bad data file on my SD card can't remember what it was because this happened to me several weeks ago. It could also be a problem with the card or the SD alot.
Ok, I've noticed this several times and its extremely annoying.
In messaging every now and then it drops my selected ringtone that I made. And most importantly I use alarm clock extreme. I've have a selected track to play as the alarm and it ALWAYS goes to silent... It's not waking me up which is gonna get me into trouble. Why is it doing this? I've never had this problem before on my s1 epic 4g.
I think it has to do with the sd card. I've noticed occasionally it'll say sd suddenly removed but it's not. Does the phone derp out with the sd when it tries to sleep? Why? This has never been a problem for me before.
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Lord Syrics Jr. said:
Ok, I've noticed this several times and its extremely annoying.
In messaging every now and then it drops my selected ringtone that I made. And most importantly I use alarm clock extreme. I've have a selected track to play as the alarm and it ALWAYS goes to silent... It's not waking me up which is gonna get me into trouble. Why is it doing this? I've never had this problem before on my s1 epic 4g.
I think it has to do with the sd card. I've noticed occasionally it'll say sd suddenly removed but it's not. Does the phone derp out with the sd when it tries to sleep? Why? This has never been a problem for me before.
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I should note, on stock with root, if I leave the normal alarm clock "clock"app installed, that took over and started play an alarm ringtone from the phone selection.
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I'm just recently started having this same problem with Alarm Extreme as well as my Music playlists disappearing. I also have a custom alarm for Calengoo events so that disappears, too. It's definitely something to do with the SD card. I think for the time being I'm going to move the songs I use for Alarm Extreme, as well as my custom alarms/ringtones to internal memory. I just deal with the Music playlist issues.
I'm getting tired of waking up to birds chirping instead of my music, because birds chirping just ain't gonna wake me up. I'll let you know if I figure anything out.
FYI, I'm using a SanDisk 32GB Class 10 SD card -- brand new, bought specifically for this phone rather than using the old abused one in my EVO 4G.
I also had the same problem with sounds on my sdcard. Moving them to the internal card solved it for me too.
The problem for me turned out to be the SD card. The SanDisk 32GB UHS Class 10 (red/grey) card is about half the thickness of any other SD card I own. What's happening is the pin connection in the SD card slot loses partial contact (same thing happens with this card in my wife's Galaxy S3), the Note 2 thinks the card has been removed, so it resets all the custom alarms, music, and ringtones back to defaults. I also lose all the playlists in the stock Music app.
Anyway, I moved all my music to internal memory, but I also switched the SanDisk card out for a Patriot 32GB Class 4 card that I had in my Acer A500 tablet. The A500's SD slot seems to be a better design and it doesn't seem to have a problem with the thinner SanDisk card. Meanwhile, my Note 2 seems very happy with the thicker Patriot brand card.
Not sure what other brands have thinner cards now, but I know that SanDisk does, but Patriot and Kingston seem to be the standard thickness.
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