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(q) is my memory card bad?

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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[Q] Unable to see storage card when running on Android

Hi all,
I am trying to get android to work on my old Tilt2 for my fiance so we can play games together. I've gone through all the steps by adding the correct files to the root of the storage card and running Haret. Every thing seems to work "fine" other than the fact that I can't see a storage card while in Android. I tried to partition my SD card to see if that would help but I am unable to determine the proper way to do that. Any help would be appreciated

Do you have some type of file manager installed on Android? I know that I could always see it, with the exception of the Android folder on my card.

Demonic240 said:
Hi all,
I am trying to get android to work on my old Tilt2 for my fiance so we can play games together. I've gone through all the steps by adding the correct files to the root of the storage card and running Haret. Every thing seems to work "fine" other than the fact that I can't see a storage card while in Android. I tried to partition my SD card to see if that would help but I am unable to determine the proper way to do that. Any help would be appreciated
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I've said this 100x, not sure why it never shows up on people's searches...
But backup all the data on the card. Format the card (full format, FAT32) using the HP Tool. Restore all the data on the card after the format, or start over fresh doesn't really matter. Apps should now be able to see the card, etc.

I'm not concerned about apps seeing the storage card. I don't have a "My Files" app that will let me navigate the card. Do I need to download a file manager in order for it to work?

I fixed it.. I had to download a file management app I feel dumb now.

Which App?

lotusfrontera said:
Which App?
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Astro is pretty good, and is included in AndroidApps folder IIRC.

arrrghhh said:
Astro is pretty good, and is included in AndroidApps folder IIRC.
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Amusingly, I use multiple file storage apps. Super Manager for making system files r/w, and file expert for the look and feel. I have astro too, on my other phone, but only really use it for enabling all file type downloads from the web.
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Google Music to external sd?

Cant get google music to save all my songs locally, have tried to create a link to the external sd which shows up with my 24gb free, but it always fails and says "cannot download music at this time, will try again later"
Any suggestions?

Are you downloading to your computer and your phone is connected via USB? If so, download it to a folder on your computer, then drag and drop it into the folder you want it to be in on the phone.

BlackPhantomX said:
Are you downloading to your computer and your phone is connected via USB? If so, download it to a folder on your computer, then drag and drop it into the folder you want it to be in on the phone.
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I was hoping to just have my music download from play music. I know i could download it to computer and put it on my phone. But i was hoping to have it all come from google music so i can have my new stuff upload without having to manually ad d it to my phone.

Have you tried Directory Bind?
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...MB9y6XhJx7BmrBYmw&sig2=Y_W6AiYe_XOT79a1FpNa3w
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Thanks, just tried it, but it cant see anything in the data folder so I cannot get it to the correct folder.
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You may have too many devices on your account. This happened to me and it wouldn't let me save locally. Just had to go into my account and delete a few old devices. Worked fine after that.

Froid said:
You may have too many devices on your account. This happened to me and it wouldn't let me save locally. Just had to go into my account and delete a few old devices. Worked fine after that.
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Probably should have mentioned that I have googled and tried everything I could think of. I only have two devices authorized, and I have plenty of storage availible. I guess im trying to find somone who has downloaded all their music to their external card. I have roughly 13gb of music and 24gb free space on my card
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Gotcha..mine were pretty much all the same phone, just would add as a new device everytime I flashed a new ROM.

kleeman7 said:
Probably should have mentioned that I have googled and tried everything I could think of. I only have two devices authorized, and I have plenty of storage availible. I guess im trying to find somone who has downloaded all their music to their external card. I have roughly 13gb of music and 24gb free space on my card
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This worked perfectly for me. Let me know if you have any questions or help getting it working. Basically it uses root explorer to create a symlink. Note that the directions will actually delete you google music cache and offline music. So you'll have to recache/download everything. If you don't want to do that you can always copy the files folder to the sd card, then do the clear data, and then create the symlink. Let me know if you need more precise help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34615796&postcount=84

Thanks. It starts to download music then says cant download right now. Any ideas why? The link is created properly.
This whole time it has been getting stuck on a couple songs, currupted files I would assume. All is well now.
So just for reference if I flssh a new rom and create the link I wont have to redownload it all?
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kleeman7 said:
Thanks. It starts to download music then says cant download right now. Any ideas why? The link is created properly.
This whole time it has been getting stuck on a couple songs, currupted files I would assume. All is well now.
So just for reference if I flssh a new rom and create the link I wont have to redownload it all?
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How fast is your card? I am using the Sandisk Ultra UHS-I 64gb and had no problems downloading any music. I am unsure why you are getting the error downloading files. When you go into Music and click on 'choose on device music', do you see the free space for your external SD card? If you do it should have worked properly. I've read in other forums that they recommend that you don't let your screen go to sleep when music is downloading. Maybe that's it? I also had this weird bug where music would kind freak out if I started playing a song and then pressed the home button to do other things while listening to music. Like when I went back into the Music app to fast forward, the album art disappeared and the music scroll bar froze. What I ended up doing is rebooting the phone. And that resolved my issue. Maybe a reboot will help you with the downloading problem?
And you are correct, if you flash a new rom, and make the link before you open google music, you shouldn't have to redownload. At least this is my understanding of it. I have yet to try. As soon as Cleanrom w/ Multiwindow comes out, I am going to try it, so i will let you know then. If that doesn't work I have a theory that I will try. Basically, making a link of the entire com.google.android.music folder in the data/data directory. Maybe that will be better cuz there are other files besides the files folder that is created. It's just that the music files are stored there. but it looks like other important files are in there like the database files and others. I have a feeling that I'm gonna need to do this to prevent having to download each time I flash a new rom. I will keep you posted.

skim32 said:
How fast is your card? I am using the Sandisk Ultra UHS-I 64gb and had no problems downloading any music. I am unsure why you are getting the error downloading files. When you go into Music and click on 'choose on device music', do you see the free space for your external SD card? If you do it should have worked properly. I've read in other forums that they recommend that you don't let your screen go to sleep when music is downloading. Maybe that's it? I also had this weird bug where music would kind freak out if I started playing a song and then pressed the home button to do other things while listening to music. Like when I went back into the Music app to fast forward, the album art disappeared and the music scroll bar froze. What I ended up doing is rebooting the phone. And that resolved my issue. Maybe a reboot will help you with the downloading problem?
And you are correct, if you flash a new rom, and make the link before you open google music, you shouldn't have to redownload. At least this is my understanding of it. I have yet to try. As soon as Cleanrom w/ Multiwindow comes out, I am going to try it, so i will let you know then. If that doesn't work I have a theory that I will try. Basically, making a link of the entire com.google.android.music folder in the data/data directory. Maybe that will be better cuz there are other files besides the files folder that is created. It's just that the music files are stored there. but it looks like other important files are in there like the database files and others. I have a feeling that I'm gonna need to do this to prevent having to download each time I flash a new rom. I will keep you posted.
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Yeah. I have a uhs-1 card. It just hangs on a few songs. The same skmgs that whem I try to stream say they csnt be streamed. So I have been deleting them when this happens. I am almost done downloading my 13gb of music, lol.
Please do let us know how the new rom goes.
Edit: May have did it wrong but I updated from CR 2.1 to 3.0 frsh install made the link, but google showed no songs on device. Maybe I will open play music and then make the link after it loads. Next update and see how it goes.
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kleeman7 said:
Yeah. I have a uhs-1 card. It just hangs on a few songs. The same skmgs that whem I try to stream say they csnt be streamed. So I have been deleting them when this happens. I am almost done downloading my 13gb of music, lol.
Please do let us know how the new rom goes.
Edit: May have did it wrong but I updated from CR 2.1 to 3.0 frsh install made the link, but google showed no songs on device. Maybe I will open play music and then make the link after it loads. Next update and see how it goes.
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As it turns out, I was right. You need to symlink the entire com.google.android.music fold for it to survive rom flashes. Just symlinking the files folder does save the music files to your external sd card but other needed files like database and what not are still on the internal card and therefore flashing a new rom deletes those essential files. So try symlinking the entire com.google.android.music folder. It worked for me and if you flash a new rom remember to remake the symlink before opening Google Music.
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It appears symlinking the entire com.google.android.music folder only worked temporarily. After a while I noticed my Play Music app just disspeared from my drawer. I had to delete the symlink and copy the folder back over to my internal storage and reboot to get it to come back. Hmm. I think the only thing you can really do is symlink the files folder only so that way the large music files do get saved to your external storage. And anytime you decide you want to reflash your phone, make sure you backup the com.google.android.music folder before you do so. Then flash your rom. Copy that folder back to your internal storage and recreate the symlink for your files folder. That should do the trick.
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[Q] Xperia S - sdcard folders and files disappeared

Hello,
Today I was trying to copy some files to my Xperia S via USB from my WinXP PC. When trying to copy the files, I got the message "the device has either stopped responding or has been disconnected" with the option to skip or cancel. This happened several times, and I plugged and unplugged the cable between tries.
After giving it up, I went to the phone and found out that all my files were gone. The folders disappeared and I can't find any pictures or media files (as well as any of the files that existed before - and I have show hidden files enabled in Android File Manager app). In Settings > Storage > Internal it says that I have 25 GB free (when I should have only 2 or 3 GBs left). The current folder structure viewable in the app is probably the folders for apps that after restart, recreated the folders.
However, if I connect to PC again, I can see the old folder structure in Internal Storage and the listing of the files inside it (the photos, etc). If I try to copy inside the SDCARD or to the PC I get the same message "the device has either stopped responding or has been disconnected" and I can't open any kind of file.
I think the data is still in the SD Card, but not accessible anymore. Has anyone experienced this before and can help me?
Thanks,
andré

is your phone rooted?

mharckk said:
is your phone rooted?
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No, mharckk

Me Too
nariz said:
Hello,
After giving it up, I went to the phone and found out that all my files were gone. The folders disappeared
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I too have this problem with my Game ROMs folder with my SNES and Genesis games. I'll run the emulator and then when I go to find a game the folder has disappeared. I have them saved on my PC so I just copy it over but an actual solution would be nice. My phone is rooted and ROMed.
Oh and I tried Titanium Backups but they sometimes disappear as well. I've never had that app work for me anyways always freezes and the backup is never restored.
It seems to me large folders and files not involved in the phones dedicated folder structure seem to disappear.

The best thing for you to do would be to root your phone and try the SD card mounting app which mounts the SD card in mass storage mode. MTP mode always gives such problem so and is unreliable..
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abcdjdj said:
The best thing for you to do would be to root your phone and try the SD card mounting app which mounts the SD card in mass storage mode. MTP mode always gives such problem so and is unreliable..
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Exactly. MTP has lots of problem.
I don't understand why Android use it.

Xperia S Deleted sdcard folder and general panic

While meaning to transfer all my junk from my old Xperia S to my laptop, I found the then foreign looking sdcard folder, empty save for another folder whos name I now forget, and deleted it, not knowing the havoc that would ensue.
The appocalypse happened as a result, and I can no longer find any of the 15gigglebytes of files I meant to back up. The internal storage says it's empty, no trace of the files in either the phone or via my laptop.
After reading through http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2080449 I downloaded SDmount and tried recovering the files with Recuva, but upon selecting Mount as Mass Storage in SDmount my computer won't recognise my phone at all, it doesn't react in any way once I've plugged in the usb cable, other than charging the phone.
Am I doing something terribly wrong? Is there any method I've missed? Is it possible to undo the damage by somehow restoring the sdcard folder?
Please help, I am at wits end here. It is a rooted Xperia S with android 4.1.2, my laptop is running windows 8.

I guess no,you can't recover it
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UchihaDareNial said:
I guess no,you can't recover it
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Is you for real?
EDIT: I have made progress. While reading through the SDmount thread it dawned on me that I had not turned on USB debug mode. My laptop now recognises my phone as an undefined mass storage device.
Now the lingering question is, should I wait for further directive from more helpful posters, or should I give Recuva or Photorec a try?
EDIT2: Photorec is doing its magic! It's ripping files out of that thing like a snowblower. Absolutely beautiful. No pictures yet, mostly .ogg files and the five demo movies you see running on demonstration phones in stores, but it's something!