My wife's external sd card is going, possibly already bad. She has an HTC vivid and use the picture folder for her lockscreen. Its been showing an error but sometimes, less and less, works. I put it in the computer and it says it needs formatted. Not good. I have kids pics I would really like to save. Is there any tools for something like this. She is kinda distraught so any advice would greatly appriciated.
MiniTool Power Data Recovery is free, and works well.
Also, see if your SD card can be replaced on warranty. It won't get your data back, but at least you'll get a new card.
post-mortem said:
MiniTool Power Data Recovery is free, and works well.
Also, see if your SD card can be replaced on warranty. It won't get your data back, but at least you'll get a new card.
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Thanks. I'll give it a try and let you know if it works. I have never had one go bad before so this is new learning. Thankfully I have semi recent backup so it may not be a total loss if I cant access it. Really, in fairness to phone brands, if I had been using HTC Syc or Kies for me, I wouldnt have to worry about it. Damn pain in the ass, useful software!
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MiniTool Power Data Recovery is free, and works well.
Also, see if your SD card can be replaced on warranty. It won't get your data back, but at least you'll get a new card.
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That tool was perfect. Thank you very much. Everything was saved! If any one else happens to need this kind of help on any bad drive, this has a good likelyhood of helping. Be sure to thank Post-Mortem for his knowledge as well.
Glad it worked out for you.
For the future, you can also look into cloud services which will automatically upload pictures you take on your phone, to the cloud. Pogoplug and Ubuntuone do it, and I think Dropbox does as well (I don't use Dropbox).
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Has anyone else come across the problem where the micro SD card seems to just stop being available to the phone? I'd say maybe once or so a day, anything that reads data from the SD card, such as the music app, stop working. If I try and play a song, it just hangs and does nothing.
I tried a search and somebody in the G1 forum had a similar problem but it didn't really contain any conclusions on what it is likely to be.
Anyone else had this issue? What is it most likely to be, the phone or card?
Thanks.
yeah I've had this occasionally with the camerea and seperately the 3d gallery software I installed.. have no idea why
Yea I've had that a couple of times actually. Just have to turn it off and on again and its ok, but its annoying.
Yeah, rebooting does sort it out, but it's starting to happen every day now, sometimes a couple times a day. If it's just a dodgy card or whatever I'd rather get T-Mobile to sort it sooner rather than later.
hmm a dodgy card.. included with the phone, that sucks
Backup your SD Card data and then try formatting it to see if that helps.
Cheers, will give that a go tomorrow. I might ring up T-Mob tomorrow anyway just to make them aware of the issue I'm having.
If I format it, will I be able to copy all the contents back on to it?
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Cheers, will give that a go tomorrow. I might ring up T-Mob tomorrow anyway just to make them aware of the issue I'm having.
If I format it, will I be able to copy all the contents back on to it?
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Yes, back it up to hard drive on your PC, then after you have formatted your SD card, copy back the contents from the hard drive to your Removable disk (SD card).
I've had this a few times Took the card out, reinserted and restarted the phone. Seemed to fix it, but it is annoying.
Sorry I can't remember when and how I know this.
But backup the card on your PC
Then format it in/with the phone and this should solve the problem I believe
I had killed one of my 16 GB card in Nexus one.
I found a problem that if i use Win 7 or Vista i must remove the device by using safely remove the USB device. Since now am doing this way i never had any problem.
Word of warning you could simply kill a card if you just remove a device.
My first thought was it has something to do with the USB connection. If you safely remove device in Windows - the phone 'prepares' the SD card.
I was having the same issue. I connected to the PC and mounted the SD card. I performed a disk check on the card and it found some errors which it then repaired. I then unmounted the card
I haven't had any issues since.
I formatted my card yesterday and haven't had any problems so far. thanks for the advice.
I ended up replacing the card. All of the previous advice didn't work for me or if it did it didn't last. I reckon there was a bit of a dodgy batch supplied by SanDisk.
~Since replacing I've had absolutely no problems whatsoever, it used to happen at least every 48hours. Very annoying when you try to take a photo and it tells you there's nowhere to save it.
I've been having problems too when taking pictures, which is really annoying!
And i'm not sure whether this is a related problem or not, but it could be...when trying to receive a file over bluetooth it sometimes says it doesn't have permission to receive the file or something along those lines, could this be the SD card playing up?
I'm on T Mobile, would they replace the SD card?
Not sure if it is the same reason, but I had all kinds of problems including the one you've described.
I'm on Orange, they told me that my SD card wasn't covered by Orange Care (the orange phone insurance). I said I didn't have Orange Care anyway and that surely it comes under the 12 months manufacturers warranty. They said pop it into the shop which is a bit of a drive and would cost me more than the value of a new card to get there.
At the time I wasn't certain it was the card as I didn't have a 2nd to try it with. Given my problem was very intermittent I decided the bother of going into the shop - it wasn't worth it for a £5 card. Now that I've bought a new one that works perfectly, I'm going to head into the shop with the old one next time I'm passing. The problem is I don't really need it replacing now! You could always lie and tell them you've tried your friends card at home for a couple of days and it worked perfectly?! No harm in trying.
hassan said:
I had killed one of my 16 GB card in Nexus one.
I found a problem that if i use Win 7 or Vista i must remove the device by using safely remove the USB device. Since now am doing this way i never had any problem.
Word of warning you could simply kill a card if you just remove a device.
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Mhh - maybe I've had luck, but I use my over 1 year old 8gb cl6 card from magic/mt3g and never use that win function while unpluging anything (not while data transfer). So maybe depends on quality or manufacturer?
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2-3 weeks since I've formatted my card and now I'm carefully unpluging my phone only when it's charging it hasn't happened ever since
Zilch said:
I've had this a few times Took the card out, reinserted and restarted the phone. Seemed to fix it, but it is annoying.
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I hate to say it, but it will happen again. Have card reader or other phone prepared, just in case your sd card stops working totally
i know this is probably a simple problem with an even simpler solution, but why is the EVO not recognizing my card? it's got some of my contacts, but none of my other data is there. does the Droid (the phone i came from) use a different directory or something?
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i know this is probably a simple problem with an even simpler solution, but why is the EVO not recognizing my card? it's got some of my contacts, but none of my other data is there. does the Droid (the phone i came from) use a different directory or something?
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Contacts aren't usually stored on the SD card unless you're using an unusual app. I (and I believe the majority of Android users) store our contacts in the cloud (Gmail, facebook, etc).
Could you be a little more specific on what data you're missing?
i'm missing literally everything on my SD card. music, apps, data, etc.
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i'm missing literally everything on my SD card. music, apps, data, etc.
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Can you read the card in a card reader? If so, you could copy the data to your PC, format the card, install it in the phone and then move the data over via USB.
seemed like a good idea, but didn't work.
is everyone sticking with the included 8 gig, or is no one else having problems switching?
No trouble here with my 16GB card. Maybe it doesn't like how your card is formatted? Try copying everything to your PC, reformatting the card, then copying everything back.
**hah.. just saw the post above suggesting the same thing. I didn't see any mention of what format you used, though.. mine is FAT32.
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seemed like a good idea, but didn't work.
is everyone sticking with the included 8 gig, or is no one else having problems switching?
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I'm using my 16GB card from my hero...no problems reading it here. I assume you've also tried reseating it (And double checking you are seating it right by making sure you can read the included 8GB after seating it again too)?
I used the 16 gig I had in my Moment and the Evo evowned it. Maybe the card went to pisser early and right on time but now it is broken.
Had to order a new one.
I would say format first.
i did format it; no fix still.
this sucks, man!
Like an idiot I did not remember that with the stupid internal SD card, the unlocking would delete pictures/videos/etc. is there a way to get it back? I am unlocked but not rooted. This is a friends phone and I'd appreciate any help getting his pictures back.
Why can't this freaking thing have an external SD card?
You can't, once it's wiped its wiped
If he had google+ his pictures may be backed up to his account
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Like an idiot I did not remember that with the stupid internal SD card, the unlocking would delete pictures/videos/etc. is there a way to get it back? I am unlocked but not rooted. This is a friends phone and I'd appreciate any help getting his pictures back.
Why can't this freaking thing have an external SD card?
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No idea if something like this would work, but just throwing it out there: http://extundelete.sourceforge.net/
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Like an idiot I did not remember that with the stupid internal SD card, the unlocking would delete pictures/videos/etc. is there a way to get it back? I am unlocked but not rooted. This is a friends phone and I'd appreciate any help getting his pictures back.
Why can't this freaking thing have an external SD card?
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Hehe dude go to www.torrentz.com once there Look for magic photo recovery download the torrent with utorrent or bittorrent once downloaded install to your pc and plug the phone... Start the photo recovery and Select the drive you need to run the recovery and choose the phone drive next or at the same time Select a folder where the software will put the recovered files and thats it magic
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msedek said:
Hehe dude go to www.torrentz.com once there Look for magic photo recovery download the torrent with utorrent or bittorrent once downloaded install to your pc and plug the phone... Start the photo recovery and Select the drive you need to run the recovery and choose the phone drive next or at the same time Select a folder where the software will put the recovered files and thats it magic
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The problem is that the GN does not support USB mass storage mode, so it will not see a drive...
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The problem is that the GN does not support USB mass storage mode, so it will not see a drive...
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Oh i see... Well worth the try i guess?
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Thanks people. After a few hours of digging around, it appears that it can't be done. Oh well, dropbox sync from now on. I will never ever buy a phone that has a virtual sd card, Nexus device or not. Starting to like the new HTC devices.
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Thanks people. After a few hours of digging around, it appears that it can't be done. Oh well, dropbox sync from now on. I will never ever buy a phone that has a virtual sd card, Nexus device or not. Starting to like the new HTC devices.
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I hope that decision isn't based on this one experience with the pics being deleted.. Because you know it would have been extremely easy to just transfer them to your computer via USB before unlocking and then transfer them back after.
It is possible I have recovered wiped files off of an sd card before although not the nexus's internal storage. the software recuva is free and should work. The key is that you do not want to write any files over the data that is gone, the more data overwritten the less chance of recovering. You might be able to recover some files off the storage with this program. Although I am not entirely sure how the nexus erases files through the unlocking process
everywhere warns you to backup because it will do a full wipe.
your fault, not the nexus.
Just had a thought...if you have a USB OTG adapter, you can try hooking up a USB drive and then use dd to dump all of /data to the drive. There are many file recovery tools that are able to analyze such dumps.
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I hope that decision isn't based on this one experience with the pics being deleted.. Because you know it would have been extremely easy to just transfer them to your computer via USB before unlocking and then transfer them back after.
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not just this experience but in general I hate the fact that this phone does not have an SD card. I understand that we are going to cloud computing and the iPhone lovers have had it this way for a while and blah blah blah... I just feel more secure knowing that if I accidently drop my phone in the toilet (done that) or go in the pool while my phone is in the pocket of my swimsuit (done that too, why the hell do they make swimsuit with pockets is beyond me), I could get the SD card out and be able to recover some of my data. I guess we all have our quirks. I just love the little micro SD card.
kvizz said:
everywhere warns you to backup because it will do a full wipe.
your fault, not the nexus.
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really? you bothered posting this response? Don't you think I know that? Thanks anyways. Someone actually thanked you for these comments. That is too funny. He must be a bigger troll.
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Just had a thought...if you have a USB OTG adapter, you can try hooking up a USB drive and then use dd to dump all of /data to the drive. There are many file recovery tools that are able to analyze such dumps.
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Great suggestions, hopefully I won't need it in the future. The owner of the phone convinced me that it wasn't worth it. It was just an embarrasing thing. I should have known better.
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Just had a thought...if you have a USB OTG adapter, you can try hooking up a USB drive and then use dd to dump all of /data to the drive. There are many file recovery tools that are able to analyze such dumps.
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That won't work. You cannot use dd to dump /data because you need somewhere to write the dump. /sdcard is located on /data, and a USB OTG mounts in /sdcard, so it becomes circular.
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loveubuntu said:
not just this experience but in general I hate the fact that this phone does not have an SD card. I understand that we are going to cloud computing and the iPhone lovers have had it this way for a while and blah blah blah... I just feel more secure knowing that if I accidently drop my phone in the toilet (done that) or go in the pool while my phone is in the pocket of my swimsuit (done that too, why the hell do they make swimsuit with pockets is beyond me), I could get the SD card out and be able to recover some of my data. I guess we all have our quirks. I just love the little micro SD card.
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I too was turned off at first by lack of ext storage, but now I dont even miss it. The phone seems to run smoother without having the ext card imo, dont have to worry about read/write speeds and compatibility. As far as recovering data from ext.. All my pics/vids are instantly uploaded to Photobucket as soon as I snap them, contacts/calendars/email are saved to Google. You can usually always just re-download ROMs/mods, not that you would instantly need them anyways if your phone is gone - plus anything like that you felt was too important to loose should be backed up to Box/Dropbox anyways. Did I miss anything that might be on the card you think you need? Because I almost guarantee I can find/already have a solution to that too.
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I too was turned off at first by lack of ext storage, but now I dont even miss it. The phone seems to run smoother without having the ext card imo, dont have to worry about read/write speeds and compatibility. As far as recovering data from ext.. All my pics/vids are instantly uploaded to Photobucket as soon as I snap them, contacts/calendars/email are saved to Google. You can usually always just re-download ROMs/mods, not that you would instantly need them anyways if your phone is gone - plus anything like that you felt was too important to loose should be backed up to Box/Dropbox anyways. Did I miss anything that might be on the card you think you need? Because I almost guarantee I can find/already have a solution to that too.
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You're right. It's probably that you can't teach an old dog new tricks
Another downfall of an sd card you forgot is the corruption issue. I've had a few go bad on me over the years, which probably can happen to the internal one also but hopefully the quality is better with an oem.
I don't like the mtp either. I've setup gmtp for my Linux box but this thing can't be easily used on just anything as a mass storage device on the road. Hate it although that may have benefits too.
I do have a Nook Color that can be brought back to life from all kinds of trouble with a bootable sd card.
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You're right. It's probably that you can't teach an old dog new tricks
Another downfall of an sd card you forgot is the corruption issue. I've had a few go bad on me over the years, which probably can happen to the internal one also but hopefully the quality is better with an oem.
I don't like the mtp either. I've setup gmtp for my Linux box but this thing can't be easily used on just anything as a mass storage device on the road. Hate it although that may have benefits too.
I do have a Nook Color that can be brought back to life from all kinds of trouble with a bootable sd card.
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Very true. There are great advantages and there are disadvantages to removable storage. For the most part it always good to have the option. I, for one, am a data hoarder and would have loved to have the option. But I am very happy with the Nexus and glad I decided to take the chance on it. That was all I meant in my first post, just that I hope your not turned off by a device you like just because of the lack of removable storage. And your right about trying to teach a old dog new tricks. I still love and prefer all my oldschool apps even though there are new ones that may look/function better lol.
Man your friend must be pissed at you..
I suggest that you take a look at this android photo recovery solution which seems very helpful.
hope this helps.
Dont recall how i did it on mine but my wife got an g4 as well and i got her an sd card, just cant remember how to configure it as internal memory. I added the card and sent her an image and it said it can't locate the image so obviously i didnt configure it correctly. Any help appreciated
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Dont recall how i did it on mine but my wife got an g4 as well and i got her an sd card, just cant remember how to configure it as internal memory. I added the card and sent her an image and it said it can't locate the image so obviously i didnt configure it correctly. Any help appreciated
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There are many guides for this:
http://bfy.tw/8pVQ
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There are many guides for this:
http://bfy.tw/8pVQ
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I read configuring an SD card for internal storage use is very risky business if you care about the data on that card. Once configured, you cannot read the data in any manner on any other device. And you cannot retrieve data off the card if the phone goes bad. And write and read speeds are slower too.
So because the G4 is known for bootloop issues, this makes it that much more risky. If anything, would suggest backing up data often.
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I read configuring an SD card for internal storage use is very risky business if you care about the data on that card. Once configured, you cannot read the data in any manner on any other device. And you cannot retrieve data off the card if the phone goes bad. And write and read speeds are slower too.
So because the G4 is known for bootloop issues, this makes it that much more risky. If anything, would suggest backing up data often.
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I dont have any issues with mine. Been using it for 6 months now. I can take the card out, use a card ready and see the contents of the card no issue. Just dont remember how and if i configured the card when i slid it in.
But i tried sending her a picture through whatsapp and it says cant find it on the sd card. As soon as we took it out it saves to internal phone memory and all ia good.
I do want to configure it for her. I do notice my card is 70% filling up and it does have a short delay with the message "saving" when i take a picture that wasnt there when it was empty but no complaints . I will just get a new card and hold the old one as archive. Better option then losing all of my media when my pos htc m7 fell in the sink. Ill take slow speed over no recovery any day. And i dont care for cloud.
:crying: like the title says. Literally every other file on my phone is intact... but all my pictures were deleted only from my SD Card, man this has me stressed. I take a ton of photos and my last backup was 2 weeks ago
Can someone help me investigate this? TBH I'm not sure what happened. the last time i saw my pictures were several hours ago. I'm running android 7.0 if that matters on leedroid. I installed simple gallery app, deleted about 40 pics and that was that. I could still see the rest of my pics. fast forward a few hours later, I go looking for a folder in my DCIM folder with pics from my nexus 6p and non of my micro sd cards pictures are there. they are all done.
so far i've mounted my the 10 as mass storage via TWRP and ran recuva on the card searching for pictures with deep scan mode. makes this mystery more interesting is it found only 3 files! if you know anything about PCs if something is deleted it should still be present right? b/c it's not really deleted yet.
Sorry mate that I don't have a solution that you haven't tried. I know it doesn't help now, but I use the Mega app with a free 50GB account to back up my pictures and videos automatically when I'm on WiFi.
Good luck, I hope you find a way.
There are Android apps for recovery too - I doubt if they would help better than Recuva and I don't know any in particular to suggest. Also I don't know if you'd have better luck on the PC with the card mounted directly instead of via MTP but it's definitely worth a try.
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Sorry mate that I don't have a solution that you haven't tried. I know it doesn't help now, but I use the Mega app with a free 50GB account to back up my pictures and videos automatically when I'm on WiFi.
Good luck, I hope you find a way.
There are Android apps for recovery too - I doubt if they would help better than Recuva and I don't know any in particular to suggest. Also I don't know if you'd have better luck on the PC with the card mounted directly instead of via MTP but it's definitely worth a try.
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Just tried card mounted with recuva and deep scan. also tried photorec.
what's strange is recuva found a ton of deleted files but it cannot find my pictures from DCIM folder. not even in poor or unrecoverable state..... something is fishy about that.
drago10029 said:
Just tried card mounted with recuva and deep scan. also tried photorec.
what's strange is recuva found a ton of deleted files but it cannot find my pictures from DCIM folder. not even in poor or unrecoverable state..... something is fishy about that.
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I wouldn't read too much into that. To be fair, be vigilant as well but it doesn't mean anything suspicious is going on. Although I haven't had this happen on my HTC 10 yet, on my previous four Android phones my MicroSD cards would sometimes become corrupted or lose files even when I'm not writing anything to them.
One time on the LG G3 (and this is really bizarre) just flashing a TOT (LG provided stock ROM file on the PC) wiped my MicroSD completely, and I had flashed TOTs hundreds of times on both my LG phone and tablet without that happening. Just pointing out that without further evidence, the loss of the files themselves doesn't necessarily mean anything other than the general relative unreliability of MicroSD cards compared to internal storage technology.
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I wouldn't read too much into that. To be fair, be vigilant as well but it doesn't mean anything suspicious is going on. Although I haven't had this happen on my HTC 10 yet, on my previous four Android phones my MicroSD cards would sometimes become corrupted or lose files even when I'm not writing anything to them.
One time on the LG G3 (and this is really bizarre) just flashing a TOT (LG provided stock ROM file on the PC) wiped my MicroSD completely, and I had flashed TOTs hundreds of times on both my LG phone and tablet without that happening. Just pointing out that without further evidence, the loss of the files themselves doesn't necessarily mean anything other than the general relative unreliability of MicroSD cards compared to internal storage technology.
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I see what you mean but just trying to figure out the point of failure. Can't have this happen so still thinking to see what went wrong... unless it was SD failure of some sort.