Hi! I have htc 10 with 128 gb sd card formatted as internal memory. I was transferring a photo folder from phone to laptop using USB cable and USB connection in media transfer mode. The folder seemed to be transferring alright but the pasted folder in laptop is empty. Since I didn't understand photo sync in Google photos I don't have any backup...desperately seeking to restore that folder. Need all the help
I'd avoid using the SD as internal, sounds great in principle but can cause issues if there's an interrupt..
For apps I'd use folder mount, needs root but it's simple to use and doesn't affect internal memory.
In regards to the images, did you cut the images? Copy or simply drag them, a drag would be a copy. So the original should have remained. If you cut them then they'll have been in limbo and will then be marked for deletion.
In future always use copy instead.
If the photos are no longer in the phones memory then they'll have been marked for deletion, a data recovery app on Windows and or your mobile may help but not sure.. Have had a lot of luck on SD cards when plugged into Windows but never scanned a phone as it's a live OS and I imagine it would need complete read access.
If the photos were on the SD card and are no longer visible, connect the SD card up to your computer because if they're marked for deletion and the OS decides to use those clusters, it'll be overwritten which will make it harder for recovery.
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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?
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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?
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Is the SD card formatted to the correct format fat32
E=Mc2
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
I am basically having an issue where I can take pictures with the stock camera, but if I plug the phone into my computer the pictures wont be there. And then after disconnecting the phone, the pictures will have been deleted from the DCIM folder. Oddly enough though, after a reboot, it will function normally for one cycle of (taking a picture, viewing it in windows explorer, and then disconnecting the phone). Anything after that and no "new" photos will show up in windows explorer.
I was running Mikg 2.55, but in hopes of it simply being a bug I have wiped multiple times and tried a different ROM. The issue is still identical though. My only thoughts left are a possibly faulty sd card at this point, but it is odd that everything saves and works fine on the sd card as long as I don't plug it into the computer and enable "disk drive".
Thanks for any advice or input everyone.
did you try a different sd card?
SuperSeanic said:
did you try a different sd card?
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I have not yet, I unfortunately do not have another sd card available at the moment. But I have the feeling that is ultimately what it'll come down to, to try and narrow the problem.
If you can get everything backed up to your computer, try formatting the card & only move back the necessary files.
It could also be your computer or something on your computer. Does it happen if you mount as disk drive to another computer?
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plainjane said:
If you can get everything backed up to your computer, try formatting the card & only move back the necessary files.
It could also be your computer or something on your computer. Does it happen if you mount as disk drive to another computer?
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I have backed up the SD Card and formatted it multiple times, the symptoms remain the same after the format. I've dealt with corrupt sd cards before and this is odd in how it acts.
So if I use a file browser on the phone and create an empty folder, it won't be there on the computer when I connect and use as "disk drive". The folder is essentially deleted the second the phone is plugged in. But, if I create the folder from windows explorer onto the phone, and then unplug it, the folder is still there.
I don't have a second computer to test it on, but this does seem like a rather odd problem....
eric326 said:
I am basically having an issue where I can take pictures with the stock camera, but if I plug the phone into my computer the pictures wont be there. And then after disconnecting the phone, the pictures will have been deleted from the DCIM folder. Oddly enough though, after a reboot, it will function normally for one cycle of (taking a picture, viewing it in windows explorer, and then disconnecting the phone). Anything after that and no "new" photos will show up in windows explorer.
I was running Mikg 2.55, but in hopes of it simply being a bug I have wiped multiple times and tried a different ROM. The issue is still identical though. My only thoughts left are a possibly faulty sd card at this point, but it is odd that everything saves and works fine on the sd card as long as I don't plug it into the computer and enable "disk drive".
Thanks for any advice or input everyone.
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I think you have something set on your pc that is acting up with the phone. I would look through your user access and controls and see if anything strange has access to things its not supposed to.
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I think you have something set on your pc that is acting up with the phone. I would look through your user access and controls and see if anything strange has access to things its not supposed to.
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That was my thought as well, I've noticed that I can take pictures on the phone and the computer is unable to see those photos in windows explorer. But when I disconnect the phone, the photos show back up in gallery and android file explorer. If I restart my phone, then the photos will show up in windows. Of course, then the process repeats for any kind of new picture (or any file created on the phone side).
Also, windows seems to be prompting to scan the sd card for errors most of the time now when I plug it in. That may be an indication of it thinking files are corrupted. I also loaded windows into safe mode to try and rule out any outside program influence on the windows side, same symptoms occurred though.
I have a very similar issue where any pics I take show up as corrupted files when I plug the phone in and sync it. When I do, I get the popup telling me I need to scan my card and it always finds errors in the cache files for pics in the MIUI folder and deletes the pics that gave me problems.
The whole time I can see them in the Gallery, etc, but not on my computer when the phone is sync'd.
If I don't do the scan, when I flash a new version of MIUI, they're fine, until I take more pics, and then it starts all over again with those
Update: Got around to plugging the phone into another computer in order to rule out any software issues. The issue remained the same.
But, finally got a hold of an old micro sd and transferred over all the files to it. Changing out the sd card has fixed the issue, there are no more pictures being deleted or windows errors in regards to corrupt files.
As odd as this was with the previous sd card, I have no choice but to believe it is faulty beyond repair. I have attempted to reformat it multiple times, quick and full formats. Also let windows do a full scan for bad sectors on the sd card, but in the end the problem still remained.
I believe I will step up to a higher end memory manufacturer for my next sd card, in hopes that I can avoid this happening in the future. Just as an FYI, my current sd card was a 16gb San Disk (Class 4).
>: Maybe it's time for me to replace my card too. Hell, it is 2 yrs old.....
Anyone know how to disable Media Scanner?
Thanks!
When you boot up? all android phones do that
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When you boot up? all android phones do that
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As annoying as it is, probably best not to remove it; high capacity micro SD cards can be fickle and often pick up minor bugs easily. For example, if you disconnect your device from your PC and forget to 'Eject' on your PC and hit the 'Disconnect' button on your device, you could create an error on the disk.
At one point I found that the scans were taking an absurd amount of time (specifically my external SD). Even though it's 32GB, I knew that it was taking too long because I had witnessed better.
If that's the reason you're looking to remove, I have two optimization suggestions for you, both of which have helped me on separate occasions:
-- Reformat your External SD card
--> copy all your files to your PC/Mac from that card (unmount the SDCard from device and plug it into your computer for fastest file transfer)
--> delete all files from the card your PC, remount and return the card to the device, and then reformat the card from the device menu.
-->Leave the SD card mounted, and connect your device to your PC as an external drive, then copy all of your files back to the SD card.
-- Lose some files from your SD Card
--> Thumbnails are small files, but sometimes there are thousands of them, especially if you keep your photos and MP3's on your drive.
--> Some performance 'fascists' might suggest deleting all thumbnails and prevent them from ever forming again. That's one option
--> Another option is to wipe all thumbnails. You can use an app like SD Maid (and I'm sure there are many others) to cleanup those, as well as any temp files that might exist. Your thumbnails will re-accumulate again, but only due to apps you now use, whereas some of your prior thumbnails may have been made by apps you no longer use (e.g., if you were testing a new media player and it downloaded all of your cover art)
*deep breath*
I noticed that my Note II had bounced a rather small app update for lack of space on the phone. Okay, fine. I have a bunch of games on there (GTA is huge) and I guess I have to move/delete some stuff. Then I realize that my camera app has been storing stuff on the phone instead of the 64gb Class 10 Kingston SD card (in b4 "Kingston is crap!"). So I make that change and tell the phone to start saving photos to the SD card. Fine. There are already some photo files on the SD card, so I decide to use ES File Explorer to move the existing photos from my DCIM folder to the one on the SD card. ES tells me everything went fine, and a subsequent check confirmed this. All good so far.
Then I went for a drive and decided to play tracks off my phone. What? Nobody home. No music for some reason. Everything's gone. Fine, I'll look into it when I get home.
This morning: "Oh, I have a photo of that! Let me just get it..."
Nobody home.
Go to ES File Explorer, and all the files and folders on the stupid SD card are 404.
Go to my computer. Connect my Note II and look at the drives on the phone. Windows shows the phone's storage, and shows the card storage, which says there's stuff on there (as in, space is taken up). Click into the drive and... Nothing's there.
Unmount the SD in Settings and put it into a card reader. Maybe the phone's goofing up, right? Windows says that the card needs to be formatted (because it's using an unfamiliar filesystem).
Nuts.
Put the card back into the phone. The phone will recognize the filesystem, so it should be-- What?
Phone says the card is now blank or using an unsupported filesystem.
So there's my problem. How do I proceed? I know that stuff's on there. I just know there's something stupid going on that's preventing me from getting at it.
As long as I can yank my latest photos off there, I don't mind wiping the card and starting over, since it's just media stuff I was keeping on there anyway. What do I use to crack into it?
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
UPDATE: Various file recovery apps (in both Windows and the phone) are telling me that the card now has truly nothing on it. There are many, many really great swear words I want to share with you right now, but am prohibited from using on this forum. It actually HURTS not to use them right now.
Why do people seem to have so many problems with 64gb Class 10 cards on the Note II?
I had similar problem, I was trying to use software for SGSII to map SD card as usb flash disk to a PC and it didn't work and when I disconnected I had same symptoms as you. I put the card in reader and connected to PC and repaired with Minitool (just search for "MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition"). I lost couple of folders but most of it was ok.
Good luck!
Sounds like You have a Corrupted Boot sector.
Put the SD card in a Card Reader on Your Windows PC.
Open a Command Prompt and Type This - chkdsk /X /F <SD card drive letter>:
If Your SD card is Drive G, It would Look Like This - chkdsk /X /F G:
This will repair the Boot Sector if that is the Problem.
Put the SD card back in Your Phone and You should be Good To Go.
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...