I currently have a 32GB Samsung Class 10 SDcard in my Galaxy Note 2. Whenever I add transfer music from my laptop (win 8 w/Samsung USB) to my extSDcard all works fine. When I reboot my phone number the tracks are missing from all my media players. When I look at the music via a file manager the recently transferred folders have weird names like µBIETR~1 and so on. Is there a way to fix this or is my sdcard defective? Thanks in advance.
PS anytime I transfer right after a reformat those songs work.
X2.. Same problem here
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Hi,
I have just got a new memory card (32Gb) and have been trying to sync all my music and various documents across to it.
The phone and computer have been connected for most of the day and HTC Sync (3.x) has been indicating that the various music files and document have been moving across (around 20GB, however one completed and disconnected the files are nowhere to be seen on the phone however the disk space has been taken up.
The disk is showing that there is only 9Gb of the 32Gb free however there are only 1.7Gb of files on the card - none of the files that are supposed to have been synced across are there.
The only way I have managed to recover the space is to copy the files off, reformat the disk and then copy the files back on to it.
I'm now trying a Windows Media sync and that looks as though it is actually copying files across.
Any thoughts?
jvoelcker said:
Hi,
I have just got a new memory card (32Gb) and have been trying to sync all my music and various documents across to it.
The phone and computer have been connected for most of the day and HTC Sync (3.x) has been indicating that the various music files and document have been moving across (around 20GB, however one completed and disconnected the files are nowhere to be seen on the phone however the disk space has been taken up.
The disk is showing that there is only 9Gb of the 32Gb free however there are only 1.7Gb of files on the card - none of the files that are supposed to have been synced across are there.
The only way I have managed to recover the space is to copy the files off, reformat the disk and then copy the files back on to it.
I'm now trying a Windows Media sync and that looks as though it is actually copying files across.
Any thoughts?
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Is the SD card formatted to the correct format fat32
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I'm guessing so, formatted it with the phone so should be.
Have just done the sync with Media Player and this tine I saw the files going across and could see the files in the directories - now that the sync has finished all I have is some empty folders and all the disk space taken up again.
Something very wierd is happening??
Strangely, the only files that were successfully copied were the ones in a playlist.
So.......
Any suggestions as to how I can get some music and documents onto my phone?
I always just set the phone in Disk Mode via USB and copy pasted my music there. No problems at all.
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OK, so far I have tried:
1. HTC sync from a Windows 7 and Windows XP PCs
2. Media Player sync from Windows XP to phone in disk mode
3. File copy from Windows XP to phone in disk mode
In all three cases the files looked as if they were going across OK and I could see the files as they were being copied but by the time the full 17Gb of music had been copied the folders were all there but were empty.
Now a test copy and paste of WiFi using ES File Explorer of an album has worked fine.
So, the question is, is there a problem with the volume of files being copied (I'll try transferring smaller numbers using one of the top three techniques) or is it the method of transfer?
Well it looks like the problem is with the card - it formats OK and reports as having 32Gb on it but it looks like any attempt to copy over 2Gb worth of data ends up with corrupted data - scandisk can recover the space leaving a stack of file00xx.chk files but not actually fix the error.
So it's back to the supplier and off to find another one.
Sounds like you don't have a genuine 32GB card, with what you've posted the card seems like a 2GB one. Plenty of fakes about.
Got mine from Mymemory ... http://www.mymemory.co.uk/Micro-SDHC/MyMemory/MyMemory-32GB-Micro-SD-(SDHC)-Card---Class-4 ... They also do the Sandisk one. It seems that with the 32GB cards 'buy cheap, get shafted' is the general rule ....
Dave
Hi all,
First of all, sorry if this isn't in the right sub-forum.
My step-mum's recently got herself a Wildfire and wanted some music putting on it. My younger brother tried copying some music over from his PC but when he opened the default music player, no music whatsoever was there (including the rubbish that comes pre-loaded on there).
I connected the phone to my PC and the music my younger brother copied over was not on the SD card at all. I assumed he messed something up so tried transfering the music over myself but when I unmount the SD card from my PC and open the default music player it says it can't find any music. And when I reconnected the SD card to my PC, the music is no longer there
I've installed doubletwist but it can't find any music on the phone and I've tried repeatedly unmounting and mounting the SD card to force it to rescan. I really have no idea what's up.
Any ideas would be much appreciated guys.
Sorry for asking but I need to first off, try loading the music unmount from PC then mount to PC see if music there.
If not, problem is SD.
If yes, problem is wildfire + SD.
If its wildfire + SD try putting card in seperate reader and format with HP format program (will try to link at later date). If this can't be done use windows to format, file system should be fat32. Then put it back in phone load music app, demount from wildfire and load music into a folder named music.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks. It turned out to be the SD card. I had a spare 1 which I put in her phone and it's working fine.
Glad I could help.
I am using 64 GB external card. I have a large collection of mp3 songs in it. None of the music player can find the songs. I have tried the stock player, player pro and few others.
Mx video is able to find the video collection on the external card.
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are none of the folders hidden?
folders in linux(and android) are hidden when their name starts with a period (ex: ".foldername") and in android folders (and any file/folder within that folder) are hidden from stock applications if they contain a file called .nomedia
and do the files show up over USB(MTP)?
The internal SD card is now merged with the internal memory, that's why App 2 SD is not possible on the SGN2.
I don't know if someone has found a fix around this.
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amit14 said:
I am using 64 GB external card. I have a large collection of mp3 songs in it. None of the music player can find the songs. I have tried the stock player, player pro and few others.
Mx video is able to find the video collection on the external card.
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Rebooting the phone should cause a media scan which will then pick up all the songs, provided you don't have a .nomedia file in any of the directories, which causes the scanner to stop.
You can also download apps to force a media rescan, but that shouldn't be necessary.
- Frank
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Tried everything but no music player has been able to find my music collection in External SD. Even office applications are unable to find the SD card. Any possible fix or solution for this?
amit14 said:
Tried everything but no music player has been able to find my music collection in External SD. Even office applications are unable to find the SD card. Any possible fix or solution for this?
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Try Meridian player.
It has a 'folder' option which lets you manually navigate to any folder.
Perhaps it's the file system of your external card.
Try formatting the card in the phone, and then copying your music back onto it.
My phone has no problems finding all the mp3s on my sd card.
- Frank
If you're rooted, then you can use a tool like Directory Bind to map folders between your phone and card storage. I use it on my S3 and my Note 2 to keep apps like Amazon MP3 from filling up my phone storage.
Directory Bind
Directory Bind tutorial
ChodTheWacko said:
Try Meridian player.
It has a 'folder' option which lets you manually navigate to any folder.
Perhaps it's the file system of your external card.
Try formatting the card in the phone, and then copying your music back onto it.
My phone has no problems finding all the mp3s on my sd card.
- Frank
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Formatting the card worked. "Silly Me". Sometimes simple of steps just throws you off. Thanks again everyone.
SOLVED!!!!!!
FINALLY, THE SOLUTION!
I scoured all over internet trying to solve the issue of any media player finding music from neither SD Card (internal nor external), even though file explorers did, so I will be posting this on every relevant thread I find.
This method worked for me, so results may vary:
1- Download Rescan Media (I used the root version):
2- Download Media scanner:
3- Go to Settings / Applications / All / Media Storage and clear data
4- Reboot
5- Open Rescan media and disable the media scanner
6- Now re-enable it
7- Now, open Media scanner and tap Start scanning
8- Voilá, now every player will recognize the music stored on both SD Cards.
*As I said, this method worked for me, so maybe just some of the steps above were necessary, but... anyway.
Good luck!
Ever since I rooted my note 2, I keep losing access to the external SD card. Trying to access through file managers or apps (music or video player) results in freezing/hanging. If I unmount then mount, I will briefly have access and it will play files as normal. After I watch a movie, I will not be able to open another file. I have to unmount and mount again.
I've tried just about everything I can think of. still need to reformat the card. Any other ideas?
Can you see files on your ext sd with a file mgr? If you are only having issues with media players finding music or videos, there are a number of free "rescan" apps in market. This just happened to me (i.e., alarm clock xtreme and stock music player couldn't find my mp3 files on ext sd)... Only took 30 sec to resolve by running "Rescan SD" app... now all my apps can find my media files stored on ext sd... something to try at least...
DoctorQMM said:
Can you see files on your ext sd with a file mgr? If you are only having issues with media players finding music or videos, there are a number of free "rescan" apps in market. This just happened to me (i.e., alarm clock xtreme and stock music player couldn't find my mp3 files on ext sd)... Only took 30 sec to resolve by running "Rescan SD" app... now all my apps can find my media files stored on ext sd... something to try at least...
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I'll try that. But the problem is with all apps including file managers.
I have the same problem. Everything worked fine for a month after root. Today i plugged in using a 3rd party charger and now the card wont mount or stay mounted. Ive used other 3rd party charges without problem. Could thisbe the problem?
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Sounds like you sd card is going. Backup all data on the card to the pc if possible.
SOLVED!!!!!!
FINALLY, THE SOLUTION!
I scoured all over internet trying to solve the issue of any media player finding music from neither SD Card (internal nor external), even though file explorers did, so I will be posting this on every relevant thread I find.
This method worked for me, so results may vary:
1- Download Rescan Media (I used the root version):
2- Download Media scanner:
3- Go to Settings / Applications / All / Media Storage and clear data
4- Reboot
5- Open Rescan media and disable the media scanner
6- Now re-enable it
7- Now, open Media scanner and tap Start scanning
8- Voilá, now every player will recognize the music stored on both SD Cards.
*As I said, this method worked for me, so maybe just some of the steps above were necessary, but... anyway.
Good luck!
Hi
My Tab Pro 8.4 T325 doesn't scan media, resulting no videos or music files are shown in players only if I reboot the device. What can I do now ? Tablet is not rooted.
Thanks.
Edit:
After experimenting with it I realized that only the external SD card is not scanned by the media scanner. I even tried another card formatted to FAT32 and Exfat but none of them work. I can't believe that I am the only one with this problem.