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desire lost photos

hi
i have just looked at my gallery and found the the photos in there wont display ,i get a sdcard pic with a ! infont of it for every photo i have taken!! any one got any thoughts on why this is and how i can get them back ..

I am getting a similar problem. I had my desire running legit eclair and photos were actually just deleting themselves off my SD card. I have recently rooted my phone and running leedroid 1.9 and now the matter has sort of got better. Instead of completely removing any trace of the photos it is now just not showing them in the HTC photo app although they are still there on the SD card? Any suggestions?
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This was the first symptom of my SD card starting to self destruct.
Still trying to get to the bottom of whether it is a fake or a faulty SD, or whether my Desire destroyed the card.

may be a corrupt sd card would backup asap and try a new card see if that helps

techjunkiejp said:
I am getting a similar problem. I had my desire running legit eclair and photos were actually just deleting themselves off my SD card. I have recently rooted my phone and running leedroid 1.9 and now the matter has sort of got better. Instead of completely removing any trace of the photos it is now just not showing them in the HTC photo app although they are still there on the SD card? Any suggestions?
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I too am having this problem...
I noticed a couple of pictures seemed to be missing from the SD card, but restored these from an earlier backup. My initial thought being that maybe I'd inadvertently deleted them
The strange thing is, the same two pictures have been deleted again! And furthermore, they're also missing from an earlier backup of the 8GB card I used to have in the phone.
So, given that I'm now using a 32GB card, and I've lost the same two images, this does not seem to be SD card specific.
It's quite possible I've also lost more, but I'd need to check to be sure - the two I know of just happen to be fairly obvious ones.
I'm now wondering whether this has anything to do with the 3D Gallery app - because I've noticed odd behaviour (e.g. duplicate images) when using this in the past? I'll restore my images again, but uninstall that app first to see if that makes any difference.
(FYI - I'm using an unbranded Desire running Stock Froyo.)

New 32 gig ad card so I know its not that.
I think they are still there but just get blank boxes with a card simble with an ! Mark in font rinsed of a pic .

Forgot I'm running stock froyo and am unbranded.

Sorry forgot I'm running stock froyo and am unbrande

TractorMatty said:
I too am having this problem...
I'm now wondering whether this has anything to do with the 3D Gallery app - because I've noticed odd behaviour (e.g. duplicate images) when using this in the past? I'll restore my images again, but uninstall that app first to see if that makes any difference.
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I uninstalled the app, and restored all my missing images yesterday. (As it happens, I'd lost several images from various different folders.)
So far at least, everything's fine and the images are yet to disappear again. Bearing in mind that when I last restored them on Friday, and they were gone by Monday, it's not conclusive yet - but it could well be related to the 3D gallery app.
I was using the APK file found here.
Can anyone else with this problem confirm whether or not they've installed the 3D gallery app too? There seem to be a lot of variations of this app, perhaps some are more buggy than others.

Someone find the solution?
I have this problem too.

You may try to unmount the SD card first.. and putting it back in, using official way by menu -> settings -> SD and phone memory.
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its not the same, but i found if photos move folders it still keeps them lingering in the gallery for awhile... I have loads of photos on my phone so if i leave the gallery app open for a few minutes it starts re-jigging itself and correcting all the 'missing photos' in gallery and eventually reconfigures itself (i assume after doing a little scan).... first noticed this when i added a folder to the sd card with pics in and couldnt see them, rebooted, opened and closed gallery a few times - nothing - when i left gallery open for a few minutes it eventually appeared...

IVS IVRIS said:
You may try to unmount the SD card first.. and putting it back in, using official way by menu -> settings -> SD and phone memory.
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Normally I just use the HTC menu to change only charge to Mass Storage, and after finish my job I use safe remove on windows.
I think your idea maybe could prevent this kind problem.
Thanks to remember this aspect, I forgot-it completely.

Lothaen said:
its not the same, but i found if photos move folders it still keeps them lingering in the gallery for awhile... I have loads of photos on my phone so if i leave the gallery app open for a few minutes it starts re-jigging itself and correcting all the 'missing photos' in gallery and eventually reconfigures itself (i assume after doing a little scan).... first noticed this when i added a folder to the sd card with pics in and couldnt see them, rebooted, opened and closed gallery a few times - nothing - when i left gallery open for a few minutes it eventually appeared...
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If it's happen is a serious case.
So I mean that I need to Terminate HTC Gallery to prevent possibles issues with my precious photos!!!
So this fact is more understandable because it is only photos that goes to "galheiro", as I say in Portuguese.

Contacts on SD Card?

I have a friend with an Evo 4g that opted not to have contacts synced to gmail (unknowingly). Her phone is now stuck in an endless bootloop (unrooted, completely stock) and she can't do anything with it. Is there a way to get her contacts from her SD card or are they stored on the phone's internal storage?

They are stored in the internal storage.
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Nope, if she didn't back them up before, and she didn't have them as Google Contacts synced with gmail, then there is no other way to get them. Once again, another reason to stress the importance of backing up files, no matter what kind of files they are, or how secure or safe you feel.

[Q] Cant download attachments due to lack of SD card

I've synced my phone using Touchdown to access my corporate mail. However I'm unable to download attachments. I get a message stating that server policy does not allow for attachment download without an SD card (which the Nexus obviously doesn't have). This seems to be the server policy set by my company. Is there anyway I can bypass this/fool the app into thinking I have an SD card? Or any other workaround?
Thanks!

Tell your company to alter that policy. Assuming a phone has an SD card is stupid and wrong.

Have u tried using via Otg cable ? Idk just a thought hope it will work. Good luck bud

OTG is an interesting idea =) but won't suit my purpose. I literally need mail (and my attachments) on-the-go, and not while tethered to any other device.
My company is not going to change the policy, not easily at least, we've tried. Is there no other way around this? =/

Get something like this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000Q3IUV2
And something like this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B005FUNYSA/ref=mp_s_a_1?qid=1325859777&sr=8-
Insert SD card and reader into OTG cable; insert OTG cable into phone; tape any hanging parts to the back of your phone; ... ; profit?
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Sounds like a problem with Touchdown to be honest. The phone sees the partitioned space as an emulated SD card. Touchdown just isn't pointing to the correct area which is a problem with the app.

miketoasty said:
Sounds like a problem with Touchdown to be honest. The phone sees the partitioned space as an emulated SD card. Touchdown just isn't pointing to the correct area which is a problem with the app.
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+1 I was actually about to type the same thing. Touchdown must be looking in the wrong place because even though the phone doesn't have an ACTUAL SD Card it emulates one that most apps can use without an issue.
Have you tried setting up the email account using the stock app rather than Touchdown? If it works in the stock app then it's definitely an issue with touchdown, if not then you may need to have your IT department remove the "Require SD Card" restriction in Exchange, a very simple fix.

dawynkoop said:
+1 I was actually about to type the same thing. Touchdown must be looking in the wrong place because even though the phone doesn't have an ACTUAL SD Card it emulates one that most apps can use without an issue.
Have you tried setting up the email account using the stock app rather than Touchdown? If it works in the stock app then it's definitely an issue with touchdown, if not then you may need to have your IT department remove the "Require SD Card" restriction in Exchange, a very simple fix.
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Speaking on behalf of the second part of this post, if you avoided using the basic email app due to Exchange security there are a couple .zips out there that are supposed to fix that.
Also, yes they should disable the "Require SD Card" restriction as it makes no sense in terms of security (Other than the SD Card can be removed easily without the user knowing and someone getting all of your attachments, but I guess this is a little backwards )

very interesting issue
good thing it's only limited to the App in question
yet another of the worse fear has come true

as it's been pointed out. it's an issue with the app and not understanding the emulated SD card of honeycomb and ICS. email them and hopefully they'll fix it.

I have same issue. Its Touchdown's issue.
Edit: I just tried for fun and downloaded an attached PDF thru my work email on touchdown and it worked fine. I do recall not being able to on previous attempt.
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i just downloaded a large excel spreadsheet to the sdcard using touchdown. no issues here.

Why don't you head over to Touchdown support group to get the latest beta with GN fixes or report it there to the developer.

Transfering MicroSD cards on phone

Hi, i am upgrading my G3 micro SD to a larger size because it is almost full. What is the best way to move the files over from one card to another? Will a straight copy from one card to another work? I would think that would cause issues because the phone has apps stored on the sd card. Also, can you set the contacts app to store to the sd card so when you flash ROMs on the phone you dont loose your contact data? Could you use clockworkmod to backup the old card and restore it to the new card? TIA for any help.
ROB
Samsung Galaxy S3 -- TRIUNE II
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1
Retired Samsung Captivate - Cognition

I would be interested on this answer as well, I can tell you that straight copy/parte doesn't work, I got a larger SDcard for my Bday and tried doing it that way, and it didn't work, what I did was to reformat the SDcard and start fresh, (I really didn't have much stuff there yet). would love to know the "right" way to do this when your SDcard is full.

Transfer to computer then transfer to new card?
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That's what I did, put the card into my laptop and create a dir to drag and drop the entire contents of the old card into. Then put in the new card and d&d them all to the new card. All done in the three or four mouse clicks.
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as for contacts... why aren't you using Google sync?
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dLo GSR said:
as for contacts... why aren't you using Google sync?
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Well, honestly, i am still getting comfortable with storage in the cloud and i prefer my contacts to be locally for security reasons. I have had my contacts and business data hacked before, my industry is very competitive. I also don't like how one sevice syncs with another service syncs with another service .. next thing you know, your personal data is synced to 10 servers like facebook, linkedin, samsung, google, at&t, ect.... i only want to sync what i want to sync with who i want to sync with and since i don't know how to sync selectively at the moment i am syncing very little. I work in different business worlds that dont mix well... Maybe i am a little paranoid!! Any advice would be appreciated.

You can export your contacts to SD card before you flash. You can import from your SD card after you flash and all is back as it was.
USB storage is internal
SD Card is external
Look under contact/options/Import-export
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As said earlier.
For contacts open up contacts click menu, click import/export and export to sd card.
When contacts are on there.. Make a folder on ur desktop and copy all files and folders into there.
Copy all the stuff back over to the new sd card.
Give it some time to re scan etc after u boot your phone..
Then go back to contacts and this time import instead of export.
All of your data/files/pics/everything will be as it was before.
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waiters said:
As said earlier.
For contacts open up contacts click menu, click import/export and export to sd card.
When contacts are on there.. Make a folder on ur desktop and copy all files and folders into there.
Copy all the stuff back over to the new sd card.
Give it some time to re scan etc after u boot your phone..
Then go back to contacts and this time import instead of export.
All of your data/files/pics/everything will be as it was before.
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Thanks, i will give that a try.
Thanks, i will give that a try.

Pictures keep disappearing

Hi all! I love this forum and I would greatly appreciate any help you can give me.
I recently upgraded from the HTC one m8 to the HTC 10 and I noticed that sometimes when I take pictures they completely disappear. They're there for a short while then I can't find them again even when I connect the phone to my PC. I can't change the camera settings to store the pics on the device rather than the SD card. For some reason it won't let me change it. Also sometimes when I take a screenshot I get an error saying that it couldn't store it on the SD card because the app doesn't have permission or sometimes it says that there's no room on the SD card. Both are untrue.
I went to a comic convention today and took some good pics, I went to upload one to twitter but I think there was a network problem because nothing online was loading so I restarted my phone and then the pic (and the others I'd taken during that day) had disappeared. I took more pics and double checked they were in the gallery, which they were only to find they have gone missing now.
Is this a device issue or an Android issue? Any help would be great, I'd love to get these pics back.

I feel like I was having issues finding photos I downloaded from Google Drive as well.
Download Quick Pic from the store and see if you can find them through settings.
HTC10

Thank you for your advice. I downloaded it but unfortunately the pics are still missing. It's just so weird. I shared one via Skype before it disappeared. It still shows up in the Skype convo but nowhere else
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Did you try a file Explorer?
HTC10

I did and still nothing. Only 5 pictures appear that I've taken with the camera on this phone and I've taken at least 20. The ones that have disappeared are from different times as well.
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Where are you saving them to? The internal storage or external SD card? It shouldn't really matter I suppose but it might be a factor.
I save to the external card and haven't lost any.

To the external card. I tried changing it to internal to see if that made a difference but for some reason it won't let me change it
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More pics keep disappearing. I don't understand it. Some stay on the phone and some don't
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try formatting your SD card within the phone and see

IllusiaX said:
Hi all! I love this forum and I would greatly appreciate any help you can give me.
I recently upgraded from the HTC one m8 to the HTC 10 and I noticed that sometimes when I take pictures they completely disappear. They're there for a short while then I can't find them again even when I connect the phone to my PC. I can't change the camera settings to store the pics on the device rather than the SD card. For some reason it won't let me change it. Also sometimes when I take a screenshot I get an error saying that it couldn't store it on the SD card because the app doesn't have permission or sometimes it says that there's no room on the SD card. Both are untrue.
I went to a comic convention today and took some good pics, I went to upload one to twitter but I think there was a network problem because nothing online was loading so I restarted my phone and then the pic (and the others I'd taken during that day) had disappeared. I took more pics and double checked they were in the gallery, which they were only to find they have gone missing now.
Is this a device issue or an Android issue? Any help would be great, I'd love to get these pics back.
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As the person above me stated, reformat your sd card from within the phone and restart your device. Then change the photo save location to your sd card.
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after you get your card formatted and working because it does seem like you have a faulty card or not formatted properly to save the photos, I would set up google photos to save them automatically, you have unlimited storage with it if you choose that setting. That way you will have have them backed up even when on the go and since its kinda the new htc 10 gallery no reason not to use it fully, will also remove the sync sign in the app on the corners of your photos

IllusiaX said:
Hi all! I love this forum and I would greatly appreciate any help you can give me.
I recently upgraded from the HTC one m8 to the HTC 10 and I noticed that sometimes when I take pictures they completely disappear. They're there for a short while then I can't find them again even when I connect the phone to my PC. I can't change the camera settings to store the pics on the device rather than the SD card. For some reason it won't let me change it. Also sometimes when I take a screenshot I get an error saying that it couldn't store it on the SD card because the app doesn't have permission or sometimes it says that there's no room on the SD card. Both are untrue.
I went to a comic convention today and took some good pics, I went to upload one to twitter but I think there was a network problem because nothing online was loading so I restarted my phone and then the pic (and the others I'd taken during that day) had disappeared. I took more pics and double checked they were in the gallery, which they were only to find they have gone missing now.
Is this a device issue or an Android issue? Any help would be great, I'd love to get these pics back.
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Do you have an issue where you SD unmounts?? Try a different camera app to see if you can map the internal memory.
I've had the problem with the SD card ummounting, it's a pain but apparently something which a lot of people live with.
Try a different SD card, see if this persists, try with no SD card, see if it persists.
Clear data on the camera app within application manager.
Use a file manager and go to DCIM check all the folders within that folder and see if you can see the images you took.
So long as the little preview of the image showed a change within the camera app, the images should still be on there.
Hope this helps.

dynamikd said:
As the person above me stated, reformat your sd card from within the phone and restart your device. Then change the photo save location to your sd card.
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The photos already save to the SD card. They've always saved to the SD card from the moment I bought it, put it in the phone and formatted it. I didn't even need to change anything in the camera settings. They're just automatically stored there. I could format it again but then if the photos are somehow hidden on the card then they'll get deleted.

dladz said:
Do you have an issue where you SD unmounts?? Try a different camera app to see if you can map the internal memory.
I've had the problem with the SD card ummounting, it's a pain but apparently something which a lot of people live with.
Try a different SD card, see if this persists, try with no SD card, see if it persists.
Clear data on the camera app within application manager.
Use a file manager and go to DCIM check all the folders within that folder and see if you can see the images you took.
So long as the little preview of the image showed a change within the camera app, the images should still be on there.
Hope this helps.
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I tried different camera apps and they wouldn't let me choose anywhere but the SD card to save photos. I removed the SD card and the camera apps would'nt take pics. They kept insisting I insert an SD card. The camera app that came with the phone wouldn't even bring up the storage option. The other camera apps wouldn't let me choose anywhere else to save photos. They said cannot write here. I'll try another SD card when I have a chance to get one. The little preview showed at first in the photo gallery but the moment I selected it it wouldn't load then it refreshed and the image was gone.
It's just so odd that it's not all pics.

IllusiaX said:
I tried different camera apps and they wouldn't let me choose anywhere but the SD card to save photos. I removed the SD card and the camera apps would'nt take pics. They kept insisting I insert an SD card. The camera app that came with the phone wouldn't even bring up the storage option. The other camera apps wouldn't let me choose anywhere else to save photos. They said cannot write here. I'll try another SD card when I have a chance to get one. The little preview showed at first in the photo gallery but the moment I selected it it wouldn't load then it refreshed and the image was gone.
It's just so odd that it's not all pics.
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And in file manager?
Also what rom are you running mate?
Any mods which alter installation locations? Are you on the correct firmware? What htc do you have US carrier? International?
It does sound odd, but I'm thinking fixable. Could it be a read / write issue? Has permissions been denied for the camera?
Check permissions within camera in app manager.

dladz said:
And in file manager?
Also what rom are you running mate?
Any mods which alter installation locations? Are you on the correct firmware? What htc do you have US carrier? International?
It does sound odd, but I'm thinking fixable. Could it be a read / write issue? Has permissions been denied for the camera?
Check permissions within camera in app manager.
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Once they've disappeared from the photo gallery they also disappear from the file manager.
It's the stock rom that came with the phone. I haven't modified it like that in any way.
It's O2 carrier in the UK.
As far as I know it's the correct firmware.
The only time there is ever an issue with the camera is when occasionally it tells me it can't save the image due to insufficient storage (which is untrue because there's plenty of storage) the same happens for screen shots sometimes but a restart of the phone fixes this on both occasions.

IllusiaX said:
Once they've disappeared from the photo gallery they also disappear from the file manager.
It's the stock rom that came with the phone. I haven't modified it like that in any way.
It's O2 carrier in the UK.
As far as I know it's the correct firmware.
The only time there is ever an issue with the camera is when occasionally it tells me it can't save the image due to insufficient storage (which is untrue because there's plenty of storage) the same happens for screen shots sometimes but a restart of the phone fixes this on both occasions.
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If it's stock then you're on the correct firmware, have you tried factory wiping the device??
If you have then it could be a faulty phone as this does sound pretty unique, i've never heard of it before.

dladz said:
If it's stock then you're on the correct firmware, have you tried factory wiping the device??
If you have then it could be a faulty phone as this does sound pretty unique, i've never heard of it before.
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I haven't tried a factory wipe yet. Was hoping to exhaust all other options first just in case the lost photos are recoverable some how. But if that's my only option left I might just contact HTC about it.

You could be having an SD card issue. My SD card has been replaced and formatted more than once. My pix disappear, and my music disappears. I use a ringtone from my music folder and my phone keeps un-mounting my sd as if it's not in the phone. I know when it happens because my notification and ringtones change.
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Ok so I tried getting in touch with HTC but they didn't respond to my email. I logged onto a live chat with them but I got disconnected because they finish at 6pm.
Then I decided to just format the SD card. I figured if I haven't been able to recover those lost pictures by now, I never will be. Besides the phone was getting worse. I could no longer take pics through Instagram and an HTC software update wouldn't download because apparently my phone storage was "read only" which isn't true.
Any way I formatted the SD card twice and set it only for storage not for installing apps and the phone seems to work fine now. I can actually select phone storage in the camera app now where before it wasn't an option. I also no longer get errors when saving screenshots. The whole thing was so weird I'm just glad it seems to be ok now.
Thanks for all your help and advice.