After I have synced about 6GB of music to the 32GB SD I can se all files synced (using double twist). Then I disconnect the usb and the SD will prepare. After this, there is only a small part of all music available. After reconnecting using usb as diskdrive, the same small part of all music is visible, the remainder os gone.
What is wrong here, and how do I work around this?
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I would say this was caused by write cache, you synced the files but they didn't get transfered yet, (background process) 6GB is a lot of data and could take 5-10 minutes or more depending on your hardware to copy. Maybe you need to wait longer.
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I've got a Focus and put a Micro SD card in it when I got it.
Doing my first sync. An average song is taking many minutes... Seems extremely slow.
Is this due to the Micro SD card or what?
TexUs said:
I've got a Focus and put a Micro SD card in it when I got it.
Doing my first sync. An average song is taking many minutes... Seems extremely slow.
Is this due to the Micro SD card or what?
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I sync a friends phone all the time. He has a 16GB Class2. It syncs with no problems. I will say the Zune software itself has started to bog down my computer. I wonder if you are running any other programs while syncing. Or if you have a large music collection that could be it. Zune could be checking the monitored folders to see if anything changed.
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I sync a friends phone all the time. He has a 16GB Class2. It syncs with no problems. I will say the Zune software itself has started to bog down my computer. I wonder if you are running any other programs while syncing. Or if you have a large music collection that could be it. Zune could be checking the monitored folders to see if anything changed.
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I let it sync overnight and it's done but I am just wondering what the heck it might be or if that's normal. I've got maybe, 14GB of stuff. Pics, Music.
Try syncing completely new content to the device today, let us know if the problem persists.
I have the same issue, but my focus has a class 4 card...should be plenty fast
It does seem that it only slows down once it starts tapping into the card though, so idk
On my Focus, when syncing Zune occasionally stuck at some file for a while, then the speed become normal. I have a 16G c4 card installed.
You probably have a Kingston card. Those are terribly slow at syncing content when going over 8GB. Stick with Sandisk and Samsung brand cards, 16GB max.
No it's a PNY card.
Syncing a video to it. I know that'll take awhile so... Haven't come to a conclusion yet.
If you're syncing Video, its probably not the actual Sync thats taking a long time. Most Video's need converting by Zune to the correct Format for the device.
I was syncing 2 video's (around 800mb each) the other night and the conversion took around 3 hours for both videos, but the actual sync took around 10 mins each (this is on an Omnia 7).
The conversion speed will depend on the specs of your computer.
When syncing video check the sync status - if it says converting this is why it takes a long time.
Hope this helps!
Well my issue was the audio. The videos I synced yesterday seemed to sync just fine- reasonable amount of time.
The MP3s on the other hand did not. I even told it not to convert them- to leave them at original bitrate. And it still took multiple minutes per MP3.
I've noticed a similar slow sync issue with my Focus using a class 6 RiData card, but I'm not sure that it's the card directly. I have all conversion of audio/video turned off, so it should just be I/O issues that I'm observing, not conversion delays.
For those of you having slow sync issues, can you try this and let me know the results:
1) Start a sync of a largish list of audio files (30+). Does it sync quickly at first and then slow down after 5-6 average sized mp3s? If so...
2) While the sync is going slowly, click on the settings menu item for your phone in Zune (this will stop the sync).
3) Change to any one of the settings sub-categories randomly, wait about 10 seconds, and then cancel out of the phone settings. Your sync should restart in a few seconds...
Does your sync speed become fast again for 5-6 average length mp3s?
In my experience, there seems to be some buffer threshold that I'm hitting, in which the first few songs will sync quickly, and it will then slow down slightly for the next several songs, and then slow down dramatically after that. Anything that pauses and restarts the sync results in the speed going up again for a short while.
It could be that the sync software is buffering content to the phone's RAM, and then writing to the SD, and once the buffer is full then it slows down... or it could be some buffer issue in the Zune software itself. I'm curious as to whether others can reproduce the behavior or not. My solution has been to use wireless sync and just let things show up overnight.
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My solution has been to use wireless sync and just let things show up overnight.
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Now that my initial sync is done I think this is what I'll do.
Rather ridiculous to let it sit overnight just to sync 15GB of data or whatever I have.
remember that if you are syncing movies that are in a different format than mp4, zune converts while it is syncing so that may be why it seems so slow. I convert with handbrake first before I sync and its not slow at all.
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I am away from my computer, but I thought the converting to 192 was for the sake of the Zune software, I assumed that once synced to the phone it forced it to 192 since that is the max that the phone supports. Can anyone shed more light on this?
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remember that if you are syncing movies that are in a different format than mp4, zune converts while it is syncing so that may be why it seems so slow. I convert with handbrake first before I sync and its not slow at all.
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I have used Handbrake as well but my some of the movies still take hours. Do you use the Iphone Preset are some custom settings?
I've used both the default for iPhone a d the higher quality settings someone posted on xda when the phone first came out.
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Hi all,
I have an Epic 4G for Sprint, never unlocked, stock ROM Android 2.2.1 EC05.
I recently bought and inserted a 32 gb microSDcard from Amazon (search "Patriot Signature 32 GB Class 10 MicroSDHC Flash Memory Card PSF32GMCSDHC10", can't insert hyperlinks yet).
I once made the mistake of NOT unmounting the card when disconnecting from my Windows 7 64-bit desktop. The phone told me the card was damaged and had to be formatted. I did this and everything seemed back to normal, although my card was wiped clean.
Since then the phone has randomly shown me with the same message twice, even when it has not been plugged into a PC or a wall charger for hours. Wiping the card clean has been my only option both times.
Ever since the failed Froyo update and the patch, my phone has had multiple annoyances, sudden freezes of the notification pulldown etc. I can't exactly pinpoint when the MicroSD failure happens or if something causes it. otherwise the card is fast and read/write speeds are excellent - 30.91 gb available. Both times the phone was at low battery, but not zero battery.
I do have Advanced Task Killer (start when Android starts) and a free app to move apps 2 SD. Both were downloaded from the Market.
Please help! Not having reliable memory means I can't do much with my phone at all. If its a bad card, then oh no! But if there are ways to troubleshoot or just discard this card and get another one.
When you format the card, are you doing it from within the phone or Windows?
Always from my phone. It won't let me do anything else unless I format it.
Try taking it out of the phone, then formatting it directly from the computer, FAT32 format.
Put it in an SD card adapter, formatted to FAT 32 in Windows. That took half an hour. Everything is good so far. Any other precautions I can take ? Thanks again.
Alternately, is there a SD card and/or phone contacts backup utility you guys recommend.
If your contacts are saved to your google account it should automatically sync them.
Alternatively, you could save them to your SD card and then copy the entire contents of your SD card to your computers HD.
There is a bunch of generic micro sd 32gb cards that do not function properly even they are not truly 32gb as they say, I had one of those and nothing but problems I think it was like around actual 4gb but they made to appear like 32gb.
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Fyi: loose advance task killer. There is no need for it on newer android devices and causes more problems
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Fyi: loose advance task killer. There is no need for it on newer android devices and causes more problems
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I'd disagree. Don't run it in the background or use the autokill functions, but it does let you kill more apps than the built in task manager. That's useful for when some apps freeze or get started in the background but aren't showing in task manager.
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Fyi: loose advance task killer. There is no need for it on newer android devices and causes more problems
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I'm surprised there aren't many more advocates of Watchdog on here. It's a very efficient monitor of app activity, much smarter, and gives you much better options to decide whether you really need to kill an app process or not (rarely should you need to). The widget on my home screen has become essential for me.
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I'm surprised there aren't many more advocates of Watchdog on here. It's a very efficient monitor of app activity, much smarter, and gives you much better options to decide whether you really need to kill an app process or not (rarely should you need to). The widget on my home screen has become essential for me.
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I use watchdog and os monitor. Between those to I have a much better experience work my phone.
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I have about 25 GB of music I wanna put on my E4GT, it comes with 16GB of internal storage and I have a microSD with 16GB as well. Is there a certain way I can store my music on the device so it still reads it as one library? Can DoubleTwist do this? Will there be a weird slow down if it goes from a song on the internal storage vs the sd card? Any help or information will be very much appreciated.
You just put it where ever you want, it will all show up in the music app.
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My brosef,
check out google music app. It automatically can upload your itunes to Google Music cloud (allowing up to 20,000). It is awesome because I was eating up about 16 GB of music and now I just stream it from the cloud.
GOOGLE MUSIC
Streaming from the cloud is NOT the optimal answer in most cases. I don't want to be wasting more battery using cellular data to play music I can easily have saved locally on SD card.
We already complain that Sprint's 3G speeds are abysmal, try streaming anything for an extended period of time (at least in my case). It's frustrating when "buffering" is your new best friend.
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Streaming from the cloud is NOT the optimal answer in most cases. I don't want to be wasting more battery using cellular data to play music I can easily have saved locally on SD card.
We already complain that Sprint's 3G speeds are abysmal, try streaming anything for an extended period of time (at least in my case). It's frustrating when "buffering" is your new best friend.
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"its frusterating when BUFFERING is your new best friend" haha classic. I ha e good 3g at all times. Can i upload everything to the cloud from my phone? Is it a app i install?
If you're referring to Google Music, sign up for an account from PC, and downlaod the manager software then upload.
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Yeah man check out google music. I use it all the time and 4g there is no buffering and minimal buffer on.a 3g connection. I don't know if you can upload from ypur phone but just transfer your music to your pc or mac and then upload it from there. The upload takes a whole depending on what connection and how much data you have but it was well worth it.
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I have about 25 GB of music I wanna put on my E4GT, it comes with 16GB of internal storage and I have a microSD with 16GB as well. Is there a certain way I can store my music on the device so it still reads it as one library? Can DoubleTwist do this? Will there be a weird slow down if it goes from a song on the internal storage vs the sd card? Any help or information will be very much appreciated.
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PowerAmp works that way. I moved all of mine to external and my phone acts the same as when I had it all on internal
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My Note 2 seems to be using too much CPU process. I have Watchdog task manager installed and almost every few minutes, i see Android.Process.Media getting a warning. At the same time, i can feel my phone is hot.
I've did some research on the web and it seems to suggest that there's a corrupted sdcard or corrupted media file (mp3, jpg, mv) in my sdcard. Thus the media storage keep trying to check the files.
My situation is, in my SD card i only have 1 folder that has a lot of pictures (download through mangawatcher). No mp3, no movies. The root folder has a .nomedia file, but it seems that the media storage still craws through the entire folder.
My phone is not rooted (need it to stay unrooted due to some reason). Is there any way to fix this?
1 other possible way i found was completely disable Android.Process.Media, but if i do this, my ringtones and notification tones are all gone (goes into unknown state).
You could try backing up your SD Card to computer, formatting it (FAT32 if external) then restoring folder by folder to isolate which one might be causing the problem?
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You could try backing up your SD Card to computer, formatting it (FAT32 if external) then restoring folder by folder to isolate which one might be causing the problem?
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Yeah, that's what i'm trying now. Will update here on the result.
Latest update: It would seem that my problem could be related to a bad microSD card. a friend of mine who suffered from the same problem said her problem was solved once she changed SD cards..
SanDisk -> Kingston.
Another update: i'm getting this error now..sdcard unexpectedly removed
I read some other forums, it seems to suggest the error could be because of corrupted SD card (SanDisk)
http://forums.androidcentral.com/verizon-galaxy-note-2/231647-sd-card-unexpectedly-removed-2.html
Might be worth doing a full read write test on the card on a computer just to be sure.
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Update: In the end i rooted my phone and tried this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...SwxLDEsImNvbS5hZGR6Lm1lZGlhc2Nhbm5lcnJvb3QiXQ..
Works wonders... too bad had to use root. I'm using a 8gb MicroSD now, will try with my SanDisk 32gb again and see what happens.
Yeah that's one way around it, it's a bit annoying as a band aid fix though as each time you add any media like photos it will require triggering a scan. I also had issues with installing Apps remotely from the browser using that method.
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Yeah that's one way around it, it's a bit annoying as a band aid fix though as each time you add any media like photos it will require triggering a scan. I also had issues with installing Apps remotely from the browser using that method.
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Many thx Good to know that.
I just put back my original SanDisk 32GB. Though i don't have the media scanner problem, but i do see from time to time it says "Preparing SDcard" i suspect my SD card is dying just like the rest..
Had the same issue with my S3.
Turned out that the SD card was dying, which caused to be unmounted by itself and then mounted again (sometimes showing notification “sd card removed unexpectedly”), hence triggering the media scanning process.
I creates an application to monitor how many times the SD card was removed, and turned out to be unmounted every ~3 mins!!!
I then bought a new Transcend 32GB Class 10 card, and until now, this never happens, no reports from the application whatsoever, and no media process eating my battery.
Please PM me if anyone needs this app.
Okay guys so, I haven't been able to determine my issue currently. But so I'm pretty sure rom doesn't matter. I'm on wicked currently, but for whatever reason when I have much storage on my micro SD, it starts to behave oddly. It's a patriot 32 gig. When I go to open the gallery with as little as 4 gigs on the external. It'll freeze up and may or may not ever load my pictures. It refused to play a video I'd just recorded. And when I plugg the phone into the computer to try to transfer files it behaves oddly. Sometimes I'll open a folder, it shows it is empty, and then when I go to copy said empty folder it will start to move the info and show there actually is a lot of stuff in the folder. Sometimes it'll stop transferring and say 'data type cannot be identified' or something to that effect. I *think* this is only with my external SD. I've reformatted several times without luck any info on this? Thanks guys.
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Bump please sorry guys just incredibly confused.
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Have you tried a different SD card?