I have reaently rooted my phone with Galaxy Note 2 Toolkit. All works fine except one thing - I keep loosing my MP3 files
I copied some mp3 files over to my SD card. Next day they were gone.
fter this had happen several times I decided to re-root my phone again. After the procedure I copied mp3 files over again and they were on
the card for about 2 more days. Today they're all gone.
I noticed that when I use Samsung KIES application and install some files into the music folders using Kies, after some time those files are gone as well. Installed antivirus, scanned, no virus found.
Any idea's what could cause this to happen ?
Arthur
Are they on your external sd card? If so I would guess it's going bad or you bought a cheap ebay one that's not actually the listed capacity so it overwrites your oldest files as you put more stuff on there (just a shot in the dark here, but that's what some cheap ones do)
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What brand/size sdcard do you have
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chrisgto4 said:
What brand/size sdcard do you have
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thank you all for replies and your time!
the card is 64 Gig /made in China of course.
I don't think it is the card quality in this case. I have had SD cards in the past which were loosing data, but usually when this had happened all data was lost not just some specific file type. This is more lie an effect of a:
- some softare making updates
- virus or mallware
Like I said I have another folder on the same level called PFD whith about 100 PDF files, and this folder remains untouched, and the same happens for my picutres. I do not loos pictures on the card, the the only thing that gewts deleted is MP3
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Dude nice pic. That is all.
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I Decided to move all my music to my ext. Sd card. I went into root explorer and just moved the whole folder over. I when I go to my storage now, it shows that the 1.24 gigs of music was sucxefully transfered to external but the 1.24 gigs still shows up as misc. On my internal sd. I went to the dcim folder and there are no remnants of any of it. I cleared my dalvik and even used sd maid pro, and still no luck. any ideas of why it's still showing up on my internal? Also my cover art doesn't show up on ayer pro anymore T. Y. I. A:beer:
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There is a post in either this section or the q&a that talks about getting more space on you sd card. I'm hedging a bet it would help you. Let me see if I can come up with the link.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33918194
That should be it. Hope it works for ya.
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There is a post in either this section or the q&a that talks about getting more space on you sd card. I'm hedging a bet it would help you. Let me see if I can come up with the link.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33918194
That should be it. Hope it works for ya.
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Yea i found this post before posting...... Tried it and it didn't help... Idk it sped my phone up but still have the 1.24 gigs of misc. Thanks though for the link
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I'm very interested in this too! My only lasting complaint with my phone is not being able to have Google Music save music to the external card. If anyone can help figure this out I'd be so happy.
I love Google and android but I hate how they keep pushing external cards away and pushing the cloud so hard.
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Alex2x3 said:
I'm very interested in this too! My only lasting complaint with my phone is not being able to have Google Music save music to the external card. If anyone can help figure this out I'd be so happy.
I love Google and android but I hate how they keep pushing external cards away and pushing the cloud so hard.
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a duplicate of the /sdcard also resides at /data/media. you can only access this folded if you are rooted and have a root enabled file system browser like es file explorer.
if you are rooted, you can safely delete the duplicate media folder from that directory as well.
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Yea i found this post before posting...... Tried it and it didn't help... Idk it sped my phone up but still have the 1.24 gigs of misc. Thanks though for the link
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Are you sure it's your music? If you click on "Miscellaneous files", it shows you exactly what it's counting and how much space it takes.
(I didn't know that until I just tried it now, so thanks!)
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i Don't know what happen !!! but it seems that media scanner was active and i have tried to wait it to finish but it didn't
i did so many restarts and clear media storage data to stop it
but after restart it was working again and i know it should work to scan all media file on my SD card
so i decided to leave it and went to sleep
after 5 hours i found that my SD card has a lot of corrupted files
and about 5 folders have been deleted !!!! one of them is a folder contains about 3 giga of APKs file and another one with about 2 giga of MP3's
i don't know what happen !!! but i lost most of my data on my SD Cards .....when i left my mobile all data was there ,,,,could media scanner delete and corrupt my files ??
please urgently help me....i have formatted my SD card and it works fine now,,,,,but i'm afraid to lose my data again since that problem happen with me 2 times during last 10 days !!!!
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What SD card was you using? I have had the same happened to me with several cards from SanDisk, both on my SGS3 and my SGN2. After changin to other bran I have had no problems.
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What SD card was you using? I have had the same happened to me with several cards from SanDisk, both on my SGS3 and my SGN2. After changin to other bran I have had no problems.
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i use Kingston 16 G Class 4 with my SGN2
do you mean that the problem is from the memory card ?
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What SD card was you using? I have had the same happened to me with several cards from SanDisk, both on my SGS3 and my SGN2. After changin to other bran I have had no problems.
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Even I have the same problem on my 32 sandisk card. That's really wierd.
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I'm trying now with my wife sd card ( 8G kingston class 4) i'll check if that problem will happen again or not...i put my 16G into my wife's mobile to check if it will cause her any problem
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I have this problem with my 32 GB SanDisk too..
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Same here problems with my 32gb card, anybody find a fix for this?
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This problem is really important and no one of moderators here focus on it
is it normal to lose millions of GB's of data with that fault !!!!! it's really important to share discussions about it
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This problem is really important and no one of moderators here focus on it
is it normal to lose millions of GB's of data with that fault !!!!! it's really important to share discussions about it
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I didn't say that moderators should have an answer....i said that moderators should focus on that problem and share it till we all find a solution for it..
I think before you teach me how to ask a smart question...you need first to learn how to read and understand other's questions !!!
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I didn't say that moderators should have an answer....i said that moderators should focus on that problem and share it till we all find a solution for it..
I think before you teach me how to ask a smart question...you need first to learn how to read and understand other's questions !!!
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This is the same old old old problem from the module called "MediaServer" , The service mediaserver (media scanner) can go infinite loop while scanning some wrong media files on your SD Card. High CPU causing very short battery life for other phone users. And nonstop sdcard operations can cause bad blocks. And the "wear leveling" will help to distribute the bad blocks randomly anywhere on your card and soon all files will mess up.
the walk around is, check all your media files on pc, or copy them back to your phone slowly, while monitoring if there is a hang.
it seems that android system developers maybe find it hard to duplicate the problem or something. its on the bugs list. No one have a fix so far.
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I didn't say that moderators should have an answer....i said that moderators should focus on that problem and share it till we all find a solution for it..
I think before you teach me how to ask a smart question...you need first to learn how to read and understand other's questions !!!
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kylechen said:
This is the same old old old problem from the module called "MediaServer" , The service mediaserver (media scanner) can go infinite loop while scanning some wrong media files on your SD Card. High CPU causing very short battery life for other phone users. And nonstop sdcard operations can cause bad blocks. And the "wear leveling" will help to distribute the bad blocks randomly anywhere on your card and soon all files will mess up.
the walk around is, check all your media files on pc, or copy them back to your phone slowly, while monitoring if there is a hang.
it seems that android system developers maybe find it hard to duplicate the problem or something. its on the bugs list. No one have a fix so far.
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yea actually i know about the problem of media scanner that it keeps scanning when finds bad file
but could it delete most of data on the Ext SD card like what happened with me ? i lost about 8 G/byte
Format sdcard
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Format sdcard
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i did ...and that problem happened two times
Try running emmc check app from play store.
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What should that app do??
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My 32 gig sandisk also had broken last week..just replace with new one cause still under warranty. .and the problem are not arising yet..
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I have replaced my 16 Gig Kingston class 4 with a new 16 Gig class 10 kingston too !!
i'll check if the problem will happen again
I have been using my new sd card all this time...and no problems found
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I flashed this rom here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36441591
And i knew it were gonna move many of my media file to another folder which i cannot find anymore i have : sdcard0/1 and emulated folder also I've been checking everywhere and i cannot find them anymore please tell me i didn't loose them forever !
I couldn't post in that thread because it is closed.. Ive read in the thread almost every page and no one posted this so yeah ...
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Install Quick pic from play store. Run media scanner. Its will search all media files.
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Install Quick pic from play store. Run media scanner. Its will search all media files.
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Couldn't find media scanner .. But how is that gonna find my music ? I really need my music had like 220 of them
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Check /storage/emulated/legacy.
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Check /storage/emulated/legacy.
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I did and it isn't there...
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Install new ROM
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Install new ROM
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Ugh... I really like aokp roms and its just killing me the fact that i can't use music whit this rom any other solution as of now ?..
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Anyone?
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Ugh... Anyone?
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What is changing to a new rom going to do for him? If his music is gone it's gone... Unless I'm missing something? Why isn't your music on your computer or somewhere else? How did you get it on your phone, lol? If it some where and you can't find it, pull everything from your storage places and put them on your PC and search both files with in your computer search index and see if you can find them... If they are there, then create a folder named /music and you will good to go. If they aren't there then get new music or however you got them there in the first place.
Im really getting fed up whit this ... The way it makes another folder where everything elses moves there is really nonsense i have lost all my game data's also my titanium backup
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Im really getting fed up whit this ... The way it makes another folder where everything elses moves there is really nonsense i have lost all my game data's also my titanium backup
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So you are just going to vent and whine, or help me help you?
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So you are just going to vent and whine, or help me help you?
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What is changing to a new rom going to do for him? If his music is gone it's gone... Unless I'm missing something? Why isn't your music on your computer or somewhere else? How did you get it on your phone, lol? If it some where and you can't find it, pull everything from your storage places and put them on your PC and search both files with in your computer search index and see if you can find them... If they are there, then create a folder named /music and you will good to go. If they aren't there then get new music or however you got them there in the first place.
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So i downloaded all of my musics whitin my device reason i never store music on my pc is because i barely do use it...
I guess i could do that too but i once remember i restored an backup and everything was in its place ? Its weird..
Also since i use various apps to get my music they are in different folders there js nothing inside my /music folder is this anything bad ?
I could download the music back also but takes quite a while + my lost game datas and precious images :/
Off topic : thoughts on the xperia t ? Im wanting to buy one..
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shahkam said:
So i downloaded all of my musics whitin my device reason i never store music on my pc is because i barely do use it...
I guess i could do that too but i once remember i restored an backup and everything was in its place ? Its weird..
Also since i use various apps to get my music they are in different folders there js nothing inside my /music folder is this anything bad ?
I could download the music back also but takes quite a while + my lost game datas and precious images :/
Off topic : thoughts on the xperia t ? Im wanting to buy one..
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I would start putting the music somehwere other then only on phone storage, just in case. I've accidentally wiped internal storage once, and I've had External sdcards go bad or just randomly out of no where lose all data in it. make a dropbox and do TiBu once a week and move them there your self with some type of file manager if you don't wanna pay the money for Titanium Backup pro. I also bet all your stuff is there you are just looking in the wrong places. What file manager are you using to look for your "lost stuff"?
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I would start putting the music somehwere other then only on phone storage, just in case. I've accidentally wiped internal storage once, and I've had External sdcards go bad or just randomly out of no where lose all data in it. make a dropbox and do TiBu once a week and move them there your self with some type of file manager if you don't wanna pay the money for Titanium Backup pro. I also bet all your stuff is there you are just looking in the wrong places. What file manager are you using to look for your "lost stuff"?
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Yeah dropbox is a good idea and i use root explorer and oi file manager tried whit both same results folders are not being shown but if i restore my nandroid backup they all come back ? Until i come back on a 4.2 aokp/aosp rom..
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list all the areas you are looking for the media... what is your recovery?
Aokp is awesome ROM. I dont mean to be rude but if you think those files are still there (in your phone) ;install different ROm or restore backup and pull al data from it. And wipe both internal and external cards. Amd install aokp and enter those files again via PC.
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list all the areas you are looking for the media... what is your recovery?
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Sorry for late answer but i looked into sdcard/storage0/storage1/usbdisk/ also checked emulated and legacy folder...
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Aokp is awesome ROM. I dont mean to be rude but if you think those files are still there (in your phone) ;install different ROm or restore backup and pull al data from it. And wipe both internal and external cards. Amd install aokp and enter those files again via PC.
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Yeah ill do just that i guess aokp 4.2 is just perfect for me except it has low incall volume -.-...
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I am running cyanogen mod 10.1 and I tend to play alot of big games that requires typically >1gb and i have close to no room left in my internal storage and have like 10 gigs left on my external and I dont have a way to install them onto their. I've already tried all types of apps2sd apps and none have worked. Is their a way to put these games on my external sd?
Unfortunately no.
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I have same issue, I'm about to try to move game data to external and create a simlink from gme folder to external. Maybe that could work. Dunno. :beer:
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I have same issue, I'm about to try to move game data to external and create a simlink from gme folder to external. Maybe that could work. Dunno. :beer:
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Doesnt work.
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I am running cyanogen mod 10.1 and I tend to play alot of big games that requires typically >1gb and i have close to no room left in my internal storage and have like 10 gigs left on my external and I dont have a way to install them onto their. I've already tried all types of apps2sd apps and none have worked. Is their a way to put these games on my external sd?
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Have you tried THIS. Or possibly THIS.
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Have you tried THIS. Or possibly THIS.
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I tried the first one. Didnt work. Did it twice on 2 diff sd cards
Second one doesnt support the s3
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I tried the first one. Didnt work. Did it twice on 2 diff sd cards
Second one doesnt support the s3
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I just have used the first method. It does work. To make sure I redid it a few minutes ago. Works perfectly. Are you on TW, CM, or AOSP ?
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I tried the first one. Didnt work. Did it twice on 2 diff sd cards
Second one doesnt support the s3
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I'd say to use this app: FolderMount.
Great app, frequent updates, and I've used it myself and can confirm it works. Not to mention that I believe the dev made it, among other reasons, to solve this issue with huge games.
I gonna look into this. And the changing the external to internal
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I realize they don't take up space with nothing in them, but I would really like to do away with the Movies, Pictures, Playlists, and Podcasts folders that are automatically generated on the SD card.. I've tried deleting them and they just reappear when I reboot, so I'm wondering how I prevent that from happening.. TIA for any help
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I realize they don't take up space with nothing in them, but I would really like to do away with the Movies, Pictures, Playlists, and Podcasts folders that are automatically generated on the SD card.. I've tried deleting them and they just reappear when I reboot, so I'm wondering how I prevent that from happening.. TIA for any help
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You cant as they are automatically generated by the system. I am sure there is a way to mod the apk's but I can't say that would be worth it.
Agreed.. It's not that big of a deal at all, I was mainly just curious
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