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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?
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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loveubuntu said:
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/
loveubuntu said:
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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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.
loveubuntu said:
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.
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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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loveubuntu said:
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.
Before owning the Note 2, I had the S3. The problem with the scared happens on both phones.
When I first got the Note, I removed the sdcard from the S3 and put it straight into the Note.
No media showed up. Formatted in phone, transferred media, all working as it should.
Today, add a video to card, doesn't show. Add a photo, doesn't show.
Format card, transfer media. Nothing shows up.
Am reluctant to buy another card as I tried three Cards in the S3, and the problem was present with all of them.
PS using root explorer I can find all the media, and play them in their respective apps.
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Before owning the Note 2, I had the S3. The problem with the scared happens on both phones.
When I first got the Note, I removed the sdcard from the S3 and put it straight into the Note.
No media showed up. Formatted in phone, transferred media, all working as it should.
Today, add a video to card, doesn't show. Add a photo, doesn't show.
Format card, transfer media. Nothing shows up.
Am reluctant to buy another card as I tried three Cards in the S3, and the problem was present with all of them.
PS using root explorer I can find all the media, and play them in their respective apps.
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solution might be here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
Thanks, for some reason that works for my videos, but not with photos and music!!!!
And that is more of a workaround than a solution. Ideally I would like for it to work as it should. Impossible for me to go back to stock as I will always need root to vieww my media(ok, I will probably always be rooted, but I want the option)
Edit: tried again and my music and photos are now showing (using Directory Bind)
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Ive had issues like this on my EVO. Try installing a "media scan" app from the market. It rescans all media content on the phone and then if you want you can remove the app after its done. I had 2 years worth of photos on my 16GB SD class 10 and no pictures or video thumbnails / pictures at all would show. Ran the app and fixed all the issues.
I did try a couple of those apps yesterday.I dont know if either one worked.I mean I know nothing showed up, but it was as though they never actually run.
Same issue
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I tried formatting several times and copied the data back, nothing helped. Also copying files from my comp to the sd card and internal storage in the phone is very slow. I bought the device yesterday, its stock unrooted.
I don't believe media (pictures/video) show up until mediascanner detects them and sticks in some internal database.
So just copying files onto your external card and popping it in isn't going to work.
media scanner is normally triggered during a reboot, and some apps can trigger it. (generally via 'rescan media' buttons).
Also make sure you don't have a .nomedia file there, as that causes media scanner to skip the directory.
( media scanner can really grind on directories with tons of files )
- Frank
ChodTheWacko said:
I don't believe media (pictures/video) show up until mediascanner detects them and sticks in some internal database.
So just copying files onto your external card and popping it in isn't going to work.
media scanner is normally triggered during a reboot, and some apps can trigger it. (generally via 'rescan media' buttons).
Also make sure you don't have a .nomedia file there, as that causes media scanner to skip the directory.
( media scanner can really grind on directories with tons of files )
- Frank
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I tried a different memory card from my old Sensation and it read the files perfectly... can any of you help me with the copying speed.. it took me 35 mins to copy 1.20GB... just to be sure i i tried to copy the same date using the same data cable and the same usb port, onto my wildfire, and it copied it pretty fast. Any idea ?
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I tried a different memory card from my old Sensation and it read the files perfectly... can any of you help me with the copying speed.. it took me 35 mins to copy 1.20GB... just to be sure i i tried to copy the same date using the same data cable and the same usb port, onto my wildfire, and it copied it pretty fast. Any idea ?
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It sounds like the Sensation card just has slower transfer rates. While your wildfire has faster transfer rates but you are experience issues on the phone side.
Just to confirm, you have formatted both cards the same way and one works and the other doesn't? If possible try to format the card from the phone. Have you tried a sandisk card?
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dachness said:
It sounds like the Sensation card just has slower transfer rates. While your wildfire has faster transfer rates but you are experience issues on the phone side.
Just to confirm, you have formatted both cards the same way and one works and the other doesn't? If possible try to format the card from the phone. Have you tried a sandisk card?
Daniel
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Both the cards are Sandisk 8gb cards, both formatted on the Note 2. I transferred data to card A when its in the wildfire, i formatted the card and put it in the note and formatted it again, and tried to copy the same data to card A, it takes more than 3times the amount of time... data transfer has been slow to the card while its in the note
I have read somewhere that there is a " .nomedia " folder somewhere. Delete that and see what happens.
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I have read somewhere that there is a " .nomedia " folder somewhere. Delete that and see what happens.
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Also on top of that, when you formatted the SDCard did you format in the PC or in your phone through recovery? You will want to format through recovery.
I would recommend upgrading to an ext partition and then formatting again (if you don't need the ext). I have found that even formatting the SDCard on some roms (because the way they work) it doesn't wipe everything and upgrading the to ext actually changes the file system of the SDCard rather than a quick format. Then only copy your media back to the card. Dont copy everything like .android, data, and stuff like that. Just what you want to keep.
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Both the cards are Sandisk 8gb cards, both formatted on the Note 2. I transferred data to card A when its in the wildfire, i formatted the card and put it in the note and formatted it again, and tried to copy the same data to card A, it takes more than 3times the amount of time... data transfer has been slow to the card while its in the note
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Is there any chance you have a counterfeit Sandisk card? Did you buy it from an authorized dealer? If buying from Amazon make sure you only purchase directly from amazon, LLC and not a third party vendor.
For reference which sandisk card do you have what class is it rated at?
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No the card is legit, i got it in the box when i bought the HTC Sensation and worked fine on the sensation. It has good copying speed if i put it in another device like my wildfire even now. I checked copying speeds yesterday using the same card in my wildfire and my new note, but it takes forever to copy data to the card while its in the Note. I have not rooted my Note yet. Its factory stock as of now.
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I have read somewhere that there is a " .nomedia " folder somewhere. Delete that and see what happens.
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Tried that, and it worked. thanks.... But still having data transfer speed issues... i copied data to the internal memory and even that is slow... this problem is not limited to only my sd card, but also the internal memory
If your internal memory is slow I would consider that cause for concern. Perhaps try running benchmarks and comparing your results to those in the benchmark thread. It may be worth returning it for another phone if you can't find a solution soon.
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No the card is legit, i got it in the box when i bought the HTC Sensation and worked fine on the sensation. It has good copying speed if i put it in another device like my wildfire even now. I checked copying speeds yesterday using the same card in my wildfire and my new note, but it takes forever to copy data to the card while its in the Note. I have not rooted my Note yet. Its factory stock as of now.
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Tried that, and it worked. thanks.... But still having data transfer speed issues... i copied data to the internal memory and even that is slow... this problem is not limited to only my sd card, but also the internal memory
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you might have to reinstall your rom
Isn't the speed difference just to do with the way the Note 2 connects to the pc? I.E MTP as opposed to mass storage? I seem to recall my G.F's original Note is dog slow at data transfer in MTP but much faster in USB mode....shame the Note 2 can't do this, it's one of my reservations about buying it.
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Isn't the speed difference just to do with the way the Note 2 connects to the pc? I.E MTP as opposed to mass storage? I seem to recall my G.F's original Note is dog slow at data transfer in MTP but much faster in USB mode....shame the Note 2 can't do this, it's one of my reservations about buying it.
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Now it makes sense to me, thanks :good:
Is there any way to connect in USB mode rather than MTP??
Can I ask if anyone else suffers from the same problem as raised in the OP?
I would imagine its not "the norm" and yet I have had the same issue on both the S3 and Note 2.
Whilst, it is now working, I am having to use Directory Bind, for it to do so.
I put in a new 64GB card on Saturday, recognised straight away in Settings/Storage, formatted fine in the phone giving me 59+GB of free space.
Put media on it...nothing shows.
I cant ever see my phone not being rooted so it can be worked around,but it just seems strange that I have had this on both phones and yet nobody else seems to suffer from it.
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Now it makes sense to me, thanks :good:
Is there any way to connect in USB mode rather than MTP??
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For whatever reason I don't think Samsung enabled USB mass storage mode on either the S3 or the Note 2. It's the one thing that's holding me back from buying one at the moment because I use iTunes Agent to sync with iTunes, and that requires the device to be in mass storage mode when connected to the pc (or you can take the sd card out and put it in a reader, but I don't like to take the back off too many times as most phones end up getting really creaky). It's a real shame because I'm just itching to get one.
Have a look in the GS3 forum - I think there's a thread where someone has created an app that enables you to toggle USB mass storage mode, but I think you might have to be rooted and have a custom kernel. Don't quote me, that's from memory
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Can I ask if anyone else suffers from the same problem as raised in the OP?
I would imagine its not "the norm" and yet I have had the same issue on both the S3 and Note 2.
Whilst, it is now working, I am having to use Directory Bind, for it to do so.
I put in a new 64GB card on Saturday, recognised straight away in Settings/Storage, formatted fine in the phone giving me 59+GB of free space.
Put media on it...nothing shows.
I cant ever see my phone not being rooted so it can be worked around,but it just seems strange that I have had this on both phones and yet nobody else seems to suffer from it.
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There are a couple of threads about this I think now. I browsed some last night. Sorry, I'm only on my phone at the moment so it's a bit awkward to try and find a link for you (what with having a Sensation with only a 4.3" screen They'll be on the first page or two I think.
My girlfriend's original Note had a similar problem with photos and media after connecting an external hard drive. Going into settings/apps and clearing data on the media storage app followed by a reboot sorted the problem for her.
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!
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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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).
When I take pics/videos and the camera is set to store to the SD card, it will often corrupt the images. The bad part is that the thumbnails that it shows in the camera viewer are fine, but when you use Gallery or any other apps to view them, they are corrupted. I 'solved' it a while ago by saving to the internal storage, but occasionally it will revert to SD card storage and I'll loose pics until i notice!
First question- are the corrupted files recoverable?
Next, is there a fix? Just random answers showed up on Google- usual factory resets/wipes which are iffy and temporary.
Or, is there a way to keep the camera set to internal storage?
It's just <expletive deleted> to buy a phone with the best camera on the market and then not to be able to rely on it. I've lost so many irreplaceable shots It's EMBARRASSING to show up with the best camera and leave with the worst (zero) pics, or have people ask you to use your fancy camera for their priceless shots and then later have to tell them their memories are lost.
The current card is a Samsung 64GB EVO Class 10, but I've tried 2 other ones.
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When I take pics/videos and the camera is set to store to the SD card, it will often corrupt the images. The bad part is that the thumbnails that it shows in the camera viewer are fine, but when you use Gallery or any other apps to view them, they are corrupted. I 'solved' it a while ago by saving to the internal storage, but occasionally it will revert to SD card storage and I'll loose pics until i notice!
First question- are the corrupted files recoverable?
Next, is there a fix? Just random answers showed up on Google- usual factory resets/wipes which are iffy and temporary.
Or, is there a way to keep the camera set to internal storage?
It's just <expletive deleted> to buy a phone with the best camera on the market and then not to be able to rely on it. I've lost so many irreplaceable shots It's EMBARRASSING to show up with the best camera and leave with the worst (zero) pics, or have people ask you to use your fancy camera for their priceless shots and then later have to tell them their memories are lost.
The current card is a Samsung 64GB EVO Class 10, but I've tried 2 other ones.
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I would be so upset if this would happen to me, I understand how you feel.
Sorry to be the one bringing the bad news but recovering/repairing the corrupted files would be really hard (I tried it with some corrupted photos I had a year ago).
In my case the photos were accidentally deleted then recovered with recovery software.
I just recently got my G4 and I didn't try yet saving any photos on the SD card.
How often does it happen for you? Every 10, 100 pics? Totally random?
Have you always had this problem? Is your phone rooted, unlocked, have you done any changes like that to it?
What you can try is activate the option to save the RAW files along with the .JPG so maybe one of the 2 files would survive.
Then you can check and delete the RAW files if the .JPG files are ok.
Wiping the phone with a factory reset would be another thing I would try.
As a last resort, send the phone to LG for servicing. Hope you find a solution.
Generally when it does it, it corrupts them all, so you lose ALL the pics from that event or whatever, not just a few. Just to make a liar out of me, today when i tested it, it did 1 good, 1 bad, then 4 good.
It was 'fixed' for a while after the initial incident as i simply didn't put an SD card in it. Until I put in one about a week ago, then at some point the camera started writing there and I didn't notice until a day later after I went to upload some pics from a party the night before.
It was a stock phone when it happened, but last night I rooted it to attempt to recover the thumbnails (they seem vary large as you can zoom in pretty far), I looked for them but couldn't fine them when unrooted. They weren't in the .thumbnails folder nor any other place I looked so thouth they must be in some protected folder that required root. But from the rooting or time passed, the thumbnails disappeared from the camera.
Wiping may fix it for a while, but I don't know if it comes back. It's not unique to me, according to Google, but those that have wiped say it starts corrupting again. And the thing is, they look fine in the camera app so the only way to tell is if you switch from camera to gallery or another pic app.
I wouldn't mind shooting in RAW but RAW only works in some manual modes, another big disappointment.
I was thinking of switching camera apps but it's not clear if the other apps support things like the laser focusing.
I bought it from ebay so not sure about the warranty, and if they'll do anything with an intermittent problem. They'll probably take one good pic and call it good
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I would be so upset if this would happen to me, I understand how you feel.
Sorry to be the one bringing the bad news but recovering/repairing the corrupted files would be really hard (I tried it with some corrupted photos I had a year ago).
In my case the photos were accidentally deleted then recovered with recovery software.
I just recently got my G4 and I didn't try yet saving any photos on the SD card.
How often does it happen for you? Every 10, 100 pics? Totally random?
Have you always had this problem? Is your phone rooted, unlocked, have you done any changes like that to it?
What you can try is activate the option to save the RAW files along with the .JPG so maybe one of the 2 files would survive.
Then you can check and delete the RAW files if the .JPG files are ok.
Wiping the phone with a factory reset would be another thing I would try.
As a last resort, send the phone to LG for servicing. Hope you find a solution.
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When I take pics/videos and the camera is set to store to the SD card, it will often corrupt the images. The bad part is that the thumbnails that it shows in the camera viewer are fine, but when you use Gallery or any other apps to view them, they are corrupted. I 'solved' it a while ago by saving to the internal storage, but occasionally it will revert to SD card storage and I'll loose pics until i notice!
First question- are the corrupted files recoverable?
Next, is there a fix? Just random answers showed up on Google- usual factory resets/wipes which are iffy and temporary.
Or, is there a way to keep the camera set to internal storage?
It's just <expletive deleted> to buy a phone with the best camera on the market and then not to be able to rely on it. I've lost so many irreplaceable shots It's EMBARRASSING to show up with the best camera and leave with the worst (zero) pics, or have people ask you to use your fancy camera for their priceless shots and then later have to tell them their memories are lost.
The current card is a Samsung 64GB EVO Class 10, but I've tried 2 other ones.
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It is always better to save the photos/ videos in phone memory and copying them to memory card in regular basis.so you are swtting internal storage but still it is going to memory card after some time?
is the setting in stock camera app is really changing to memory card in settings?
Didn't quite get that, but I set the stock app to internal and it has switched to external SD. I haven't intentionally changed it to SD, but I can't say for 100% that it wasn't an accidental button press. If it was an accident or bug, net result is the same- at some point I start loosing pics and don't find out about it until later.
daveynozen said:
Generally when it does it, it corrupts them all, so you lose ALL the pics from that event or whatever, not just a few. Just to make a liar out of me, today when i tested it, it did 1 good, 1 bad, then 4 good.
It was 'fixed' for a while after the initial incident as i simply didn't put an SD card in it. Until I put in one about a week ago, then at some point the camera started writing there and I didn't notice until a day later after I went to upload some pics from a party the night before.
It was a stock phone when it happened, but last night I rooted it to attempt to recover the thumbnails (they seem vary large as you can zoom in pretty far), I looked for them but couldn't fine them when unrooted. They weren't in the .thumbnails folder nor any other place I looked so thouth they must be in some protected folder that required root. But from the rooting or time passed, the thumbnails disappeared from the camera.
Wiping may fix it for a while, but I don't know if it comes back. It's not unique to me, according to Google, but those that have wiped say it starts corrupting again. And the thing is, they look fine in the camera app so the only way to tell is if you switch from camera to gallery or another pic app.
I wouldn't mind shooting in RAW but RAW only works in some manual modes, another big disappointment.
I was thinking of switching camera apps but it's not clear if the other apps support things like the laser focusing.
I bought it from ebay so not sure about the warranty, and if they'll do anything with an intermittent problem. They'll probably take one good pic and call it good
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I do not use the LG gallery app as I don't like how it is sharpening the photos. I always use Quickpic, it's better, way faster and free.
Have you tried a factory reset or reflash an original LG OS image if you are rooted?
Maybe your phone has a hardware problem, can you call LG and ask what your options are?
What is the exact model of your phone? What are the 1st 3 digits of your S/N?
LG phones made from June to August are prone to the boot loop problem, maybe this is something else...
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
rocketman122 said:
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
steadfasterX said:
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.
poog said:
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.