A few days ago I noticed my phone wasn't taking photos correctly. They were corrupted. After a little research, I tried to reformat the sdcard from the phone settings but nothing actually happened, my files were all still on the sdcard. So after looking at the properties of pictures in the 3 different "camera" albums (I've had a few different roms on here) I realized that they're all in the internal storage under various folders like extsdcard/DCIM, sdcard/DCIM, and 0/sdcard/DCIM. Through ES file explorer I was able to determine that my external sd card called sdcard0.
I have my camera set to save externally but it's still not working, although my music reads fine from it.
Initially I though the problem was formatting the external sdcard but now I'm thinking the internal structure is a giant mess from the various roms and I'd really like to get it purged out and organized for stock (ish) TW roms. Can someone provide some guidance?
I'm currently on Jedi XP16.
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I know that variations of this question have been asked before, and I apologise if it is answered somewhere, but...
I'm running Cyanogen 10.1 and I have four folders containing the entire contents of my SD card; /mnt/sdcard, /sdcard, /storage/sdcard0 and /storage/emulated.I understand that the structure of the memory in 4.2.1 has changed, but I'm fairly sure that each of these folders is actually duplicating all the contents and taking up a lot of memory - I only have 4gb left with no music, movies or photos.
What's the best way to address this issue please?
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I think all these duplicates are just "symlinks" to the same files because of the multi-user functionality of android 4.2. Therefore I think they are not consuming more storage.
My GNex has a total storage around 13 GB, so if you only have 4 GB left then check the size of the /sdcard/ directory. If it is about 9 GB then the other duplicated directories are just symlinks
When in doubt you could always do an SD card wipe (obviously backing up all important data first) and that should clear everything up. I know you can do that with TWRP, I think you can with CWM, or you can just Lock and then Unlock your bootloader and that will do it for you too.
I had a similar issue after I flashed my first 4.2 ROM without the latest version of TWRP (though mine was definitely not duplicating data as my memory was not extra full), but after a wipe and a flash using the latest version of TWRP I was good to go.
Also do not switch between 4.2 and 4.1 roms as you will get multiple /0 folders and you will have to move everything over and. I believe you can hop between 4.2 ROMs without a problem though. I have had any issues doing that.
so what do you do if you cant see any of your data on the sdcard, but the sdcard still shows the same amount of space used on it?
edit:
nevermind, i found my stuff
it got put in mnt/shell/emulated for some reason
The phone has recently been rooted, but running stock rom.
Card is partitioned and using Links2SD
The problem appeared after rooting and using Links2sd.
After taking multiple photos on a day out, we mounted the phone to PC. All the pictures that were taken disapeared. After unmounting from the PC< the photos now no longer appear in the gallery either.
After much searching and running checks on the SD card, i discovered that all the photos that were taken that disapeared had been moved to the lost directory with no file extension. Most of the files are instact, with probably 3 usually being corrupt, and might not even be photos anyway, as it appears that all the photos that were taken are still 100% intact.
This happens consistantly. if you take photos, then mount it to the PC they end up in LOST.DIR with no file extensions along with a couple of corrupted files. The time from taken the pictures to mounting them in the PC doesnt have any effect. The photos appear in the gallery fine, but once mounted, they end up in LOST.DIR and no longer appear in the gallery.
Thought that the partitions were no created correctly, so deleted both partitions and repartitioned the cards from scratch and formatted them, and set the phone back up from scratch. The phone has been mounted to the PC many times since i done this and the corruption problem has gone, but now its back again.
Am i right in thinking that maybe the SD card is starting to be faulty, its the stock card that came with the phone so nothing expensive. Just 2g probbaly class 2 card.
Both partitions are FAT32
So I have a message that the storage card is empty or there is an unsupported file, and it asks if I want to format.
When I go into the gallery, the "camera" album no longer exists.
If I use Astro file manager, I can browse to several folders with files (but not my camera album). My camera was set save on the sd card and I previously had a bunch of pictures on there.
Now the camera does not even give me an option to save to storage card. It's just set to internal with no option to change that. It's like the camera doesn't recognize the sd card, even though Astro sees it (doesn't find any of the pictures taken with this device, but shows everything else).
This is the T-Mobile GS4 with the stock ROM.
I did recently reset the camera permissions (and all other permissions) in Opera Classic, do you think that might have something to do with it?
Anyone have any experience with this?
This might be my excuse to go get the note 3.
Don't format it. Try unmounting and re-mounting it. I got that message a few times on my s4 and there was never a problem with the card. Every time I removed it from my phone and put it into my computer, the files were still there safe and sound. The S4 is very touchy with certain SD card brands, but then again I even have SD problems with samsung cards when i was on the stock ROM. Ever since I went to CM, I've never had external storage issues.
Agreed, I had a Samsung card and a sandisk and have had a few scares. Take it out and put it back in, its all still there. Unless you really do have a bad sd card.. Its possible.
Hey everyone, pretty much first serious post. Hope someone can help me with it.
I have an At&t Galaxy s3, running the latest aokp rom, by task 650, its up to android 4.3
my issue is that i can add files to my phones internal sd card and its external sd card, but once i restart, the files are gone. all my files that i added even as long as a week or two ago are still there, even some things that i delete return once i reboot. i can move files from my internal sd card to the external and they stay after a reboot and vice versa. so i know that things can be added. but for some reason when i transfer music through windows file explorer to either sd card as soon as i reboot those files are gone. when i xfer the files it does say that "your device might not be able to play or view this file."
i can even play the music for a while after copying it as long as i don't restart, eventually it starts to go into hyperdrive so its a second of squiggles then goes to next song.
even if i transfer files through a wifi based app like air droid or just using an app to copying over a shared network the same thing happens.
i don't think that the internal sd card or external are corrupt because i can move files back and forth as long as they were on the device originally.
i don't know if i should reformat my external sd card because i doubt it would fix it then i'd be out of all my music.
really hoping someone can help me,
this was happening before i upgraded to 4.3 having done that only a day or two ago and it has been happening for at least a couple weeks, and it worked on the 4.2 version i had because i took me a couple months to upgrade to 4.3 and in that time i did add files to the internal and external.
last thing to mention, with a torrent phone app when i download files they also dissappear.
hope someone can help me with this, and that it's simple.
i'd rather feel dumb than it be something complicated.
thanks for any and all help yall can give.
update
I did a full clean install of the aokp rom i'm on wiiping everything instead of just the dalvik cache and cache, which normally works fine.
now the internal sd card retains the files i'm adding to it, even after a couple reboots. which is a step up. but the external still won't let me add files to it, even if i copy them over from my internal to the external using astro file manager or es file explorer. on restart files are gone from the external. i don't think that the external sd card is corrupt but i'm copying all the file off of it right now, then plan to reformat. not sure how i'll go about it, but i really hope it works.
this is really frustrating, its a 64gb external micro sd card that has always worked perfectly.
any input at all would be a great help.
update 2
my external sd card is the problem then i guess, because i put it in my brothers phone, did reformat, and it says reformating deleting all data. then remounts it.
shows exact same amount of available space and storage, stuck at 42.2gb or whatever, if i go into the sd card manually and delete files as soon as i reboot the phone all the files are back.
is there anyway to fix this?
Hello all; I just got the T-mobile Tab S LTE variant, SM-T807T, and I am/was absolutely loving it.
then 30 minutes ago...
I inserted my SD card from my nook, a 64GB card with about 55GB worth of comics, music, ebooks and photos. At first no app could see anything on the card (although the Storage menu in the Tab's settings showed the correct space and how much was full).
Rebooted and I could see all my pictures using my favorite galary app, QuickPic.
However, some files wouldn't open so I unmounted the card through the menu, took it out, inserted it back in and no files show up at all.... OK
Rebooted the tablet and now it looks like I lost about 30GB of files! the "comics" "ebooks" "music" folders are all completely gone. and almost all folders are gone from my "photos" folder. I unmounted the card and put it into the PC and same thing.
Some folders are still there with a few files here and there.
I'm pretty devastated. The SD card worked this morning in my nook and I have been organizing comics on it for months.
I will try recovery software when I get home but this is awful and so much time is lost on the organization of the folders. That's assuming I can even recover the files. Anyone have any suggestions?
My tab is unrooted (couldn't find T807T root anywhere) and 2 days old. Should I return it or could it be my card or stock KitKat or what?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Update:
While I'm not sure what exactly went wrong, my LOST.dir folder had over 20GB worth of files in it so I used "MiniTool Power Data Recovery" to scan the card and was able to find all the files and restore them to my desktop in proper directory hierarchy and file names (which if you've ever used data recovery software you'll know is quite rare). I had the software from before when I had some SD failure in my dSLR (I'm sensing a pattern here, and I actually invest in good branded cards!) and the program worked perfectly.
postulio said:
Update:
While I'm not sure what exactly went wrong, my LOST.dir folder had over 20GB worth of files in it so I used "MiniTool Power Data Recovery" to scan the card and was able to find all the files and restore them to my desktop in proper directory hierarchy and file names (which if you've ever used data recovery software you'll know is quite rare). I had the software from before when I had some SD failure in my dSLR (I'm sensing a pattern here, and I actually invest in good branded cards!) and the program worked perfectly.
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Exactly don't use them cheap cards they are crap
I did use a branded card, Team 64GB SDXC from newegg. I always get cards with reviews form reliable sources.
update:
After reformatting the card in the tablet, and moving all the files back to it and trying to use it in the Tab S it still wouldn't work. It wouldn't delete my files anymore but it had a very strange behavior whereas I could see the card's contents for about 20 seconds after mounting it but then everything would disappear completely. The used/free capacity would still show accurately in the Storage settings tab but I could not access any of the data through any programs (including Samsung's My Files).
Funny enough, I had the same sd card in my phone (same brand/model/capacity) and that one works fine in the tab. My phone (galaxy note 2) reads both so i swapped them.
Everything running smoothly now, except of course for Google's douche move to disable write to sd card in 4.4.2. I hope root for the SM-T807T comes soon...