I have a Note 2 4G and I have a very annoying problem. About two weeks ago I downloaded the qualification for F1 at Monza. It is a file that is just over 4GB and now I just can't delete it. As soon as I press refresh it keeps coming back. I can't rename it though nor can I move it, all it does when I try to move it is that the phone makes a copy of it. The file is located on my 64GB SanDisk.
I have tried to use a bunch of different file explorer and even use the delete option from gallery.
Try deleting it via a pc
abbott10k said:
Try deleting it via a pc
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Yes, by taking the card out and doing it via a card reader.
The SD card may be dead.
Bright.Light said:
Yes, by taking the card out and doing it via a card reader.
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Gonna try that as soon as I am back home from Thailand.
Pezmet said:
The SD card may be dead.
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All other files work like a charm though. You would expect this to happen to more than just one file if the card is broken, right?
Svantesson666 said:
Gonna try that as soon as I am back home from Thailand.
All other files work like a charm though. You would expect this to happen to more than just one file if the card is broken, right?
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can you delete other data ?
Pezmet said:
can you delete other data ?
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Yes no problem, both newer and older files.
No, filesystem corruption can affect only one file. This is especially the case if it's a very big file.
note that FAT isn't even supposed to be able to handle a file over 4GB.
Deleting it from a computer worked. Thanks to all of you.
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last nite my phone rebooted on its own,into recovery.now my phone wont see my card.tried formatting in cpu,and phone neither work.files still show when in the cpu. But it wont let me format. Any help would be greatly appreciated..........
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Is the card mounting as read only, or is it not recognized at all?
it says unavailable in settings.but when i put it into the comp., i can see all the files.
edit:when i boot the phone,the preparing sd card message goes thru.but about 5 secs. later it umount and wont remount. tried it from recovery, and it mounts.boot up,and it umonts again........i was running myns.rls5.using a2sd,if that helps.
You probably have a corrupt file on the card. Put the card in a pc and copy all files to your hard drive. It will probably give you an error with one of the files and you can then see which file is corrupt. Delete the file off of your card and you should be good to go.
nukedukem said:
You probably have a corrupt file on the card. Put the card in a pc and copy all files to your hard drive. It will probably give you an error with one of the files and you can then see which file is corrupt. Delete the file off of your card and you should be good to go.
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thanks,will try this. appreciate the help. good looking homie....
this did not work....wont even let me copy the files to cpu.any thoughts?
todah09 said:
this did not work....wont even let me copy the files to cpu.any thoughts?
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Try running files to check for a corrupt file on your PC.
If not, you can always format it and start over.
Greenfieldan said:
Try running files to check for a corrupt file on your PC.
If not, you can always format it and start over.
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If i click file,it says could not find but the files are visible...weird......i cant engage tje files at all,but they are visible.but when i put it into the phone the card is unmounted after about 5vsec.
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The WinAmp app tends to do this to cards as well, if you have it, or any other apps installed, make sure that they don't have some sort of automounting built into the app, as it jacks with the phone.
Khilbron said:
The WinAmp app tends to do this to cards as well, if you have it, or any other apps installed, make sure that they don't have some sort of automounting built into the app, as it jacks with the phone.
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How would i check this?i only have about 15 downloaded apps,mostly games
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I have a typical problem, from last week.
Whenever i take picture from camera the photos are not saved there.
Rarely the photos are saved but that too remain there till next reboot.
Also the second thing i noticed is of the old pics i have, if i delete some pics then they re appear after reboot.
I donno but.. MAY b a VIRUS??
djvithin said:
I donno but.. MAY b a VIRUS??
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is not a virus sd card is broken format it
btw wrong section
cosminx13 said:
is not a virus sd card is broken format it
btw wrong section
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now actually the problem is severe not only with the camera but the other apps
I cant download anything on mobile and bluetooth transfer also fails
even i cant copy anything within the mobile itself
After that i did unmount and mount sd card and it worked for 10-15 min and same prob again
so are the problems same??? What to do.
P.S. :- where to ask such queries if this is wrong section. I am new to this forums.
djvithin said:
I donno but.. MAY b a VIRUS??
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People who think phones can get viruses still exist?
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sherlockh221b said:
now actually the problem is severe not only with the camera but the other apps
I cant download anything on mobile and bluetooth transfer also fails
even i cant copy anything within the mobile itself
After that i did unmount and mount sd card and it worked for 10-15 min and same prob again
so are the problems same??? What to do.
P.S. :- where to ask such queries if this is wrong section. I am new to this forums.
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i had this problem before with an old sdcard and this is what i done....
i inserted it on my pc with an sdcard adaptor and low level format it with this tool then i inserted it into my phone and tried to download something from internet and it worked again
hope it helps
hltetmo running tweaked 4.4.2. 2 days ago, listening to some new music i'm working on, mid-song says music file not supported.rebooted. music not showing up in media player. attempted to go through file browser, gives message "can't enter into "extSDCard" folder: maybe it is not readable? can't format, occasionally get about 5%of my music files. settings show 15.66 gigs available out of 59.47 total. computer doesn't read any folders on it, but Philz touch reads everything? need to save my music!!!!!!!!!! suggestions?
Try odin to stock
xmuertex said:
Try odin to stock
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don 't see how that would do anything. put card in friends unrooted 3, didn't read, same issue with space used. thought about that, but don't wanna waste time. did factory reset, reflashed rom. computer not even reading
Last thing is format
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Last thing is format
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won't let me. on phone or computer. phone gives me progress report, when finished, still shows 15.66 available. computer gives me message, "windows cannot format this drive". tried data recovery programs. each one saves the same 16 pictures. shows nothing else
Sounds like a defective SD, return or throw away
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Sounds like a defective SD, return or throw away
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not what i wanted to hear! think it's possible to recover the data?
Is not readable by a PC i doubt it byt see what an expert can say
strange thing is, recovery see every folder and zip. but, laptop, file browsers. nothing. am i looking in the wrong area to fix this?
This happened to me last year. Definitely a bad SD, but I used EaseUS data recovery to get most of my data off of it before RMAing it.
Trying to recover the data now. Gonna take a while, though. 45 plus gigs is a lot. Wish me luck. After I recover what I can, can I format through recovery mode and reuse card, or no?
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This happened to me last year. Definitely a bad SD, but I used EaseUS data recovery to get most of my data off of it before RMAing it.
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RMA?
never mind. didn't think RMA Return Merch. too sleepy
ok so, i mounted through terminal emulator as rw. was able to transfer files over to my computer. but, i still cannot format it. phone goes through he motions, nothing gets deleted. windows laptop and macbook both show it as 1 MB. any suggestions or advice as to how to format through terminal emulator? seems like only option
With the problems you're having, you might want to get a new sd card. There are some good deals on the Samsung evo card at best buy and Amazon today.
That's what I'm probably going to end up doing. :-/
You could try 'parted' on Linux. There's a link to one compiled for Android in XDA somewhere.
Frank
Frank Westlake said:
You could try 'parted' on Linux. There's a link to one compiled for Android in XDA somewhere.
Frank
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Thanks. I'll look into that. It's crazy. For my card to read, I have to format it through settings. Then everything is available
That's probably because of the type of file system.
So it's all [SOLVED] now?
Frank
No. Lasts about an hour, then stops again. At least I was able to back up everything. As soon as I can afford a new card
Just purchased my galaxy tab s. When I found out how it behaves with external memory rooted it at once, did the thing for read/write permissions, disabled this weird safety feature and... It does not alow editing files to any program which causes a big problem when I try to use "iGO" navigator for example which keeps its files on SD, or use some office program to edit any content on SD... It does alow creating and deleting files though.
Any ideas? Many thanks in advance!
I guess it's a kitkat problem. I heard in lollipop google returned to full read write access to SD cards.
Or try using a custom kernel
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Or tey using a custom kernel
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what do you mean?
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I guess it's a kitkat problem. I heard in lollipop google returned to full read write access to SD cards.
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Maybe there is some fix possible about it?
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what do you mean?
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Sorry i meant try a custom kernel. Skyhigh kernel fixes sd problems. I am running it now and it does work. Perhaps you can try that?
DUHAsianSKILLZ said:
Sorry i meant try a custom kernel. Skyhigh kernel fixes sd problems. I am running it now and it does work. Perhaps you can try that?
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I only found topics about sd r/w problems where they say that I need to root and run some code (or edit some file manually) to fix permissions. Well I did it... But I couldn't find anyone talking about editing... I can get around that by saving an edited file in diferent name, deleting the original and renaming it back to original... But programs I try to use does not do tricks like that :silly:
Was your problem similar? Any links regarding the fix of this?
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I only found topics about sd r/w problems where they say that I need to root and run some code (or edit some file manually) to fix permissions. Well I did it... But I couldn't find anyone talking about editing... I can get around that by saving an edited file in diferent name, deleting the original and renaming it back to original... But programs I try to use does not do tricks like that :silly:
Was your problem similar? Any links regarding the fix of this?
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Well I have always ran skyhigh kernel for my sd card. Even if rooted with the sd fix my sd card still worked fine(on stock rom). Perhaps it could be the file manager your using? Well i also seen the r/w fix by editing a file but that was months ago and I forget how to do it. Sometimes sd fix app would say its fixed, but it wasnt. So using another app from the playstore could fix it? Hope this helps
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Well I have always ran skyhigh kernel for my sd card. Even if rooted with the sd fix my sd card still worked fine(on stock rom). Perhaps it could be the file manager your using? Well i also seen the r/w fix by editing a file but that was months ago and I forget how to do it. Sometimes sd fix app would say its fixed, but it wasnt. So using another app from the playstore could fix it? Hope this helps
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The file seems to be edited properly but none of programs are able to edit files. Biggest problem at the moment that iGO won't save its configuration and shut down when a route is entered. I assume it is because of unability to edit files in sd also
Hi guys, I'm just new here. I have a problem with my Zenfone 2
I'm trying to backup the files of my data manually to my PC but after like a minute of transferring files, it auto-cancels. Is this a problem with the Zenfone 2 or the PC?
Debugging mode is turned on and I even tried using Share Link but it still auto-cancels when it copies some files. I need to backup because I plan on installing CM 12.1
Make sure it never gets moved while copying, maybe also try another cable or USB port.
check your cable or the connector, it seem to be the intermittent connection you are having.
nothing about the software.
mine happen to cancel too, when i use one of the usb port of my pc.
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check your cable or the connector, it seem to be the intermittent connection you are having.
nothing about the software.
mine happen to cancel too, when i use one of the usb port of my pc.
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Thanks for the info but when I reversed the process (pc to my phone) it works perfectly fine. But yeah, I just went on to transfer my files to the external SD card instead
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Make sure it never gets moved while copying, maybe also try another cable or USB port.
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I've made sure that I dont move the phone or even touch it while the process is on-going but still the same results
I'll try using another USB cable when I get my hands on a new one.
I had this problem with Moto E. Some files simply doesnt copy (i dont know why). I solve that with a simple solution: SD card!
Copy to sdcard, then put in a card reader, copy to pc. profit.
Dan_Jacques said:
I had this problem with Moto E. Some files simply doesnt copy (i dont know why). I solve that with a simple solution: SD card!
Copy to sdcard, then put in a card reader, copy to pc. profit.
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This or use one of the WiFi file transfer apps like aridroid. I've been using WiFi File Explorer Pro for years now and it is incredibly useful.
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This or use one of the WiFi file transfer apps like aridroid. I've been using WiFi File Explorer Pro for years now and it is incredibly useful.
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Yes, it works without SD/card reader :good:
Airdroid is very useful to do it, and to force install apks.