I have a 32GB card installed in my A100. Have rooted the 100 and installed Crossix memory swap. Recently started having problems when trying to view photos in Gallery. I removed the card and inserted in laptop to view contents. I decided to backup the card to the laptop. While doing so I encountered several photos and a few files in Android/Data/com.amazon.venezia/cache that would not copy over to backup because they were corrupted. At this point should I reformat card and copy back the files I do have or should I just delete the corrupted files from the card and put it back in the tablet or is there another remedy to follow.
Thanks
apsiape said:
I have a 32GB card installed in my A100. Have rooted the 100 and installed Crossix memory swap. Recently started having problems when trying to view photos in Gallery. I removed the card and inserted in laptop to view contents. I decided to backup the card to the laptop. While doing so I encountered several photos and a few files in Android/Data/com.amazon.venezia/cache that would not copy over to backup because they were corrupted. At this point should I reformat card and copy back the files I do have or should I just delete the corrupted files from the card and put it back in the tablet or is there another remedy to follow.
Thanks
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I would backup what you can and format the card fat32 again. Sounds like its being unmounted or removed, if you use that swap you can not remove it while the system is powered on, you have to turn all the way off or you get corruption.
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My SD card has been acting funny and only mounting read-only randomly and I already have another one layng around and wanted to go ahead and switch to the new one.
My question is, is it as simple as copying everything from my old one onto my PC and then copying all that onto the new one? So I need to format the new one first?..
I tried searching but couldnt find the answer... thanks guys
BTW, I have the stock SanDisk in there now and the problems started after flashing CM7... and I'll be switching to a new Lexar 8GB..
Yes. Just copy the contents of your current card to an external drive or computer, format and/or partition your new card the way you want it and then copy the stuff you transferred to your computer or external drive onto your new card. You should always have a backup of SD card in case it gets corrupted or damaged.
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dougjamal said:
Yes. Just copy the contents of your current card to an external drive or computer, format and/or partition your new card the way you want it and then copy the stuff you transferred to your computer or external drive onto your new card. You should always have a backup of SD card in case it gets corrupted or damaged.
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Agreed...it's very simple to do. When I switched from my 8 to 16 I made sure to keep a pure backup of the 8 on my computer.
Hey everyone,
I have a stock non-rooted Sprint version Galaxy S3 with Jellybean. I installed a 32 GB SD Card and it worked fine for the longest time. Today I realized that when I take pictures it will not save to the SD Card. The card is recognized by the phone, it reports the correct size, and I can see the contents but I cannot write to the card any longer.
I unmounted the card, uninstalled and reinstalled the card, and restarted the phone, but no matter what I do I can't save anything to it. I downloaded an SD card testing app and it said I didn't have permission to write to the card. Has anyone heard of this issue before? I am going to try to use the Kies Air app to move all of the contents of the card to my PC and reformat it to see if that helps. Thanks to anyone who might know what's going on.
The Dark One
Have you tried already manually adding stuff to the card via transfering files from Internal to ExtSDCard?
Have you set up your camera settings to save picture / recordings to external SD card or
try testing to create new file / folders within the card?
Hello,
I transferred applications to my SD card and it worked well. I then needed to reformat my SD card. I unmounted and got it from the tablet, I copied its full content on my PC but I forgot the .* files, I put the card back in the tablet, I reformatted it in the tablet, I unmounted it and put it in my PC to restore its content, I put it back in my tablet, and I could read the card content. I however lost all applications that had been transferred to the card. I cannot find them. I transferred again another small application to the card but I cannot find it on the card, even not in .android_secure. Does anybody know where the applications are stored on the card and what happened to me. Thanks in advance for any piece of information.
I know a little bit more what happened. The applications are stored in .android_secure at the root of the card. I forgot to copy the directory, hence I lost all the applications. When I transferred after other applications to my micro-SD card, my file browser did not show them despite refreshing the directory display. I do not know why, but I found the applications in android_secure after.
Anyone else experiencing problems with their micro sd cards? I have a 32 Gb class 10 micro sd card installed and it shows that I only have 200 mb of available space on my external card. The card is empty so how is this possible? Any ideas??
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Did ya format it with phone
Most likely an issue with your card not the phone. I definitely haven't had an issues nor have I heard of any
Something similar is happening to my sd card
I am experiencing something similar, i first noticed when trying to copy a zip file to the sd card to install a rom and the zip file didnt show up.
My problem is that i am not able to copy anything to the sd card or delete anything from the sd card. I am however able to copy files from my the sd card to the computer. I have tried formatting it from an android phone,pc,cmd but after the format is done i have the exact same files that were on the sd card. Its strange because after formatiing on my pc it shows the sd card as empty but once i disconnect and re-connect the sd card all the files are somehow back on to the sd card and are not corrputed or anything because i can still play music and view images?
Got a 64Gb card in mine with no problems at all. Shows the same space as it did on my Note 3.
JazzedMontage said:
I am experiencing something similar, i first noticed when trying to copy a zip file to the sd card to install a rom and the zip file didnt show up.
My problem is that i am not able to copy anything to the sd card or delete anything from the sd card. I am however able to copy files from my the sd card to the computer. I have tried formatting it from an android phone,pc,cmd but after the format is done i have the exact same files that were on the sd card. Its strange because after formatiing on my pc it shows the sd card as empty but once i disconnect and re-connect the sd card all the files are somehow back on to the sd card and are not corrputed or anything because i can still play music and view images?
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Had the exact same problem with my son's sd card on another phone about a month ago. After too many hours trying different things, I ended up having to throw it out.
It turns out that it's because of the new Android 4.4 update. Google has decided to do away with ability to give permission to write on our sd cards and it is creating quite the uproar everywhere. For those of you that haven't yet encountered these issues, that's only because you aren't running latest Android OS. They mentioned that there might be a fix in the next version of Android Lollipop. But for now, we are left with only one other alternative and that is to root our devices and allow permissions to write to sd cards.
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I just got my phone yesterday. I had copied the files I needed from my old phone over to my SD card. This morning I copied several files FROM the SD card TO the phone without any problem. However, when I tried to copy files FROM my phone back to the SD card, files would not copy. Any thoughts on why that might happen? Is there a setting I need to change? The card is formatted in exFAT. Might that be the issue?
I'm considering saving my files to my laptop and reformatting the card. Can that be done on the phone? If not, when I reformat using my laptop, what format is recommended, FAT32, exFAT, or NTFS?
Thanks.
http://www.androidcentral.com/kitkat-sdcard-changes
Can only be "fixed" with root.
Iruwen said:
http://www.androidcentral.com/kitkat-sdcard-changes
Can only be "fixed" with root.
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A learning curve, I guess. I'm moving from a rooted phone. I guess I can expect surprises. So...essentially, I can copy TO the phone from an SD card, but I cannot FROM the phone to the SD card. And I can't delete files on the SD card using ES File Explorer (as an example)? The only way to manage SD card files is by using USB or putting the SD into my laptop? Hmmmm. It also looks like apps may not be able to manage its own files if the files are kept on the SD card; is that correct?
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rebecker said:
It also looks like apps may not be able to manage its own files if the files are kept on the SD card; is that correct?
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Apps can manage their data if it's in the right place, see http://www.doubleencore.com/2014/03/android-external-storage/