1. When looking at my files on my external SD card, whether from a PC or through a file manager, why does my folders keep getting duplicated? The folders simply duplicate, but only one of them has the actual folders.
2. Why do photos on my external SD card keep duplicating. I might start out with 10 photos, then it could double or triple - and they're copies? (music never duplicates)
3. On my internal SD card, why the hell do I randomly lose photos?
I'm on AOKP by the way.
Such good questions. The issue is that
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I have pictures that I deleted from my computer but somehow synced with my evo. They only show up in the second gallery application that comes stock on the phone. When highlighting both the whole album and individual pictures in the album there is no option to delete. All other albums have a picture of a folder except this album which has a sync icon. I reformatted my SD card and they were still there. I did a factory reset on the phone and they went away but came back. I put a new SD card in the phone and the pictures are still on the phone which leads me to believe they are saved on the internal memory of the phone. Has anyone experienced an issue similar to this? How do you access the phones internal memory? Any help would be awesome because I am so lost.
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Hi everyone. For some reason, on my wife's Evo (running Evio 2 w/ Netarchy's latest kernel), music apps are not able to "see" any of my wife's music files. We had similar issues with her photos, but for some reason the gallery just started working again.
Basically, when I go in through Root Explorer I can see that the files are there, and even can play them in the music player, but when I open the Music player I just get a "no music found" error message. Tried using Winamp and it just scans my SD card and finds nothing.
I re-formatted her SD card last night, re-synced all of her music, and still no dice. She is growing weary of bugs like this and is beginning to beat the drum for iPhone ("my old iPhone never had these problems!"), so I desperately need to solve this problem quickly.
Can anyone help or shed some light on what might be happening? Thanks in advance!
Make sure there isn't a .nomedia file in there... that'll stop the music from being scanned. Also make sure it's in the "music" folder, although some apps scan everything, some scan what you tell it to scan, and others only scan the "music" folder & its subfolders.
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Try to unmount then mount your sd card.
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plainjane said:
Make sure there isn't a .nomedia file in there... that'll stop the music from being scanned. Also make sure it's in the "music" folder, although some apps scan everything, some scan what you tell it to scan, and others only scan the "music" folder & its subfolders.
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+1 on this. Look in all your folders where your media is, and be sure there isn't a .nomedia file in there. If there is, delete it and reboot the phone. Problem will be gone.
I'm not even sure how the .nomedia file's become present in certain folders, but it can happen. (certain apps auto create them and place them there for reasons unbeknownst to me)
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+1 on this. Look in all your folders where your media is, and be sure there isn't a .nomedia file in there. If there is, delete it and reboot the phone. Problem will be gone.
I'm not even sure how the .nomedia file's become present in certain folders, but it can happen. (certain apps auto create them and place them there for reasons unbeknownst to me)
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Also, with the .37 kernels, the usb transfer/read speeds were slow, so it could just "show up" after a period of time, but yes, either check for the .nomedia folder, or a quick reboot will make it show up.
Thanks everyone. I will check her phone tonight when I get home for the .nomedia file...sounds promising.
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.
Sprint just sent me a new Epic due to problem with my current phone (which is rooted and running CleanGB).
I actually want to roll with the new phone in stock condition for a bit, just to see how the other half lives and to see if GPS is more stable.
What would happen if I popped my old SD card into the new phone? My primary question is text messages. Will the new phone see my SMS threads and just pick up where my old phone left off? If not, is there someway to get the new phone to recognize the SMS threads so that I'm not starting from scratch?
And what about apps? There are a bunch of apps installed to the card that won't be installed on the new phone. Will the phone ignore these apps or will it install the apps if it sees them on the SD card?
Any other issues I should know about? Or is this a bad idea with disaster written all over it?
TIA
You can use your sd card without any problems.
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Thanks for the response but not clear regarding my specific questions.
Will the new phone recognize my SMS threads and pick up where I left off?
I'm going to assume from your response that there is no problem with the previously installed apps. What if I want to install an app on the new phone that was previously installed on the card (old phone), will there be any problems? Say Amazon was previously installed on the SD card and I want to install it on the new phone. Any potential problems in that scenario?
sms are stored on the phone, not the sd card. i think if you sent the old phone back, the texts are gone for good.
im not sure about the apps on the sd card, but they would probably work on the new phone, as when you install apps to sd, everything the need to run is on the sd card.
what i would do, is copy the contents of the card to my computer, then format it and use ot on the new phone.
you could also just create a folder on the card named "old card" or something to that effect, cut and paste the contents of the card to the new folder. stick a .no media text file in there with it, and your phone should never even look at the contents of that folder.
Yeah, sorry i didnt elaborate more. I would consider your sms messages gone. As far as apps installed on it, they will still be there and if an update is needed you will see notifications for it.
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If you still have the old phone run SMS back up then run it on new phone and you will have all old messages.
Or download google voice. All your texts show up in there too.
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Or download google voice. All your texts show up in there too.
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Will Google Voice sync MMS messages or just SMS?
Yeah nothing will happen to your new phone. Your sdcard is just an extra storage
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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.
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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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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.