I know this topic was previously discussed, but when I tried to search for it .. I was unable to find it.
I am running Vegan 5.1b and have had very few problems/complaints. Once I did the market fix and got LPP to load... very happy.
However, I recently went out of town on a business trip and loaded a bunch of .avi movies I ripped into a folder on my external SDCARD. Confirmed they were on there and viewable from within the GTAB when I inserted the SDCARD into the Tab. I plugged it in to charge overnight.. took the gTab with me.. got on the plane.. oops... no movies in the folder. Folder was still there, but completely empty.
So.. I remember reading about this mysterious memory loss.. what happened and how do I prevent it from happening again.
thanks,
Scrubb
I had the same problem with Vegan Tab as well. Same scenario and everything - very disappointed when I got on the plane and had no movies on SDcard. I recently switched to TnT Lite and I can confirm it does not lose the movies. Can't remember what the idea was on why they were being dumped, but movie playback was a big reason I got the Gtab. Once the file drop issue is resolved, I will go back to Vegan.
Cheers,
Shack
I am right there with you. if i put movies on my external sdcard and my tablet goes to sleep or shuts off the movies seem to vanish. I normally play each movie for a few seconds to make sure all is good before I shutdown or let it fall asleep. So I know they were there b4.
losing media
I had this problem...I think I put a filecalled .nomedia
on the sdcard....instructions are on forum somewhere
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I plugged my Xoom to my computer and was about to back up my files and saw that I still had an old document folder titled 'se' on the the Xoom. I thought I was deleting it and got up away from the computer. When I returned it seemed like the screen was frozen and I could see that the folder that was selected was 'sd card'. I went up one folder and saw that the Xoom was now saying 28 GB free space. I checked my Recycle Bin and nothing was there. I was in doubt and unplugged the Xoom from the computer and my wallpaper and widgets are all there but if I try to launch anything it isn't working. Is there anyway to retrieve the data ? It figures that the day after I finish every level of all the Angry Birds game and Asphalt 6, this happens. Do I basically have to factory reset my Xoom? I just plugged it back in and I can now see the folders which is weird because it still says 28 GB free space and no app will launch.
Update- I can no longer see the folders. I'm guessing there is no fix for this and I really just lost everything but I will give it a day and hope for a response on here. Now I remember why I should have rooted my Xoom. I could have backed up my apps and app data.
Has anyone experienced this?
I was looking last night to figure out where the space had gone on my internal "SD". I have a Videos folder that I copy things onto to watch at work that appeared to be empty, which was great, but then I got low space warnings when copying things to that folder, which was not so good.
I looked around, trying to figure out what was eating so much of my memory (this is all done via my Win 7 PC over USB) and couldn't see anything that was that big. I looked in a Pictures folder that I know contains pictures of my kids and wife that I keep separate from my camera pics and that's when I knew there was something up. It didn't show any files. Weird.
Root Explorer shows the files just fine (the Videos folder contained 1 season of a British Comedy and 5 stand-up comedy videos).
Not a huge deal, but I'm wondering if anyone has run into this before. I never saw this happen prior to restoring to stock a few weeks ago (now on Slim Bean 3.1). Maybe someone else has had this happen and knows a fix (or maybe it's the precursor to the phones memory failing, which I'd really like to know ASAP cause it's still under warranty). Like I said, not a big deal right now as I can still access the files with Root Explorer, but I've never heard of this happening (heard of it happening the other way, though).
Phone is connected via MTP, not as USB Mass Storage. Have not tried it in any other mode yet (and won't be able to until I get home from work).
ive ran into alot of ddifferent time on my phone ive noticed that the drain normally isnt your files you put on the internal its more of the Games and stuff which we dont tend to notice and back uo and restores. when my pc wouldnt find the files i downloaded a app called USB switcher what i did was toggle it from whatever mode i was already in MTP to UMS vice versa and it started shwoing me the files i dont know anything about it being hardware failure or not but maybe this might help
I have had a 64GB stock TF700T and dock for over a year now and other than having a digitizer replaced under warranty, it has been relatively trouble-free – I‘m one of those lucky owners not having severe lag problems, etc. But recently it started rebooting randomly several times a day, even occurring when in sleep mode. I tried a number of different things to isolate the issue but the only thing that appeared to work was removing and leaving out the 64GB SanDisk microSD card. It was formatted exFAT so I copied the files off of it and reformatted it as NTFS and copied the files back to it and put it back in. Still got reboots. That’s when I noticed that the PC copies of two of the mp4 videos I copied back on to it did not show picture-based thumbnails and when I tried to play them, media player said there was a problem with them. I deleted them from the microSD card and now, 40 hours later, I have yet to see a reboot. I can’t prove it, but I think the files were originally corrupted when copied from my PC to the card in the tablet.
Anyone see similar problems?
Dave
A follow-up: This seemed to only reduce the frequency of reboots, not eliminate them. I came across some discussions from the Sept timeframe regarding reboots associated with Chrome Beta, which I had installed recently. I uninstalled this and have now been running for 70 hours without an issue.
Hi,
I've got an nVidia Shield Tablet (not rooted) with a 64GB card formatted as internal storage.
In the past two days or so I have noticed that the battery drains surprisingly fast, and have noticed that it is rebooting by itself, particularly when I'm trying to copy files over.
I'm leaving tonight for a couple of months so I was loading some useful documents and files but then realized that not only was it rebooting often, but none of the files were retained after the tablet reboots itself. I tried to delete some files and when it rebooted those files reappeared too. In file manager the storage space is now at a constant 38.08GB, if I add anything or delete anything when it reboots it just goes back to that 38.08GB mark and all the other file changes would have been lost. However, all the videos / documents / pictures / apps that I had on there still all work with no problems.
Oh and as I was playing with it just now Google Play Services just crashed, which was something that I had seen once before in the last couple of days as well.
Are there any diagnostics tests I can run? I tried mounting the SD card on my PC but since it's formatted as internal storage it could not be recognized by Windows so chkdsk does not work.
Any help would be appreciated! I really hope I can get this sorted out before I have to leave, since I was really counting on being able to use it to do some work. Thanks!
Edit: It seems to have fixed itself somehow... how odd.
So last week the tornadoes hit my hometown in Western Kentucky. If you watch TV, then you have seen it. 75% of the town is wiped out.. I have (should I say had) amazing video from that along with the destruction, the fear, there aren't really words for it all.. several friends are having issues with insurance and looting. I'm hoping some of their belongings are on my videos so police can prosecute the looters. (Totally not cool to steal from people who just lost everything.) Here's my dilemma
A couple days prior I changed My settings in my phone to record straight to sd card so I didn't have to move files to it. It's a SDHC. 1024GB MICRO SD. It was formatted because I've been using it for a while... just moving photos over to it from my gallery, no problem. Later that day I went to show the video and when I opened gallery I watched every video I had disappear and be replaced with the grey box and white exclamation. Photos I took are fine... eventually it has now greyed out 95% of my video.
I've tried playing on pc, with vlc, media player, Samsung video player, "unrecognizable file format " They are mp4. Here's what I noticed interesting.
I checked the SD card and it says healthy, no bad sectors.
The time length on each video says 0.00
The size of the file is different from the size shown in my explorer on my phone, pc, and what's shown by a file explorer/recovery program
I changed my settings back to record to the internal memory but still nothing.
I'm guessing headers or something didn't transfer or or hell who knows
I've changed the file extension and name. Nothing
I've tried converting but the file type isn't recognized.
Help! Here's photos of what I see
The last time I saw something like this, there was an issue with the card, not the phone. That doesn't necessarily mean that's your issue. But it's highly probably.
I agree it's the most likely scenario. Best thing to do is take a few similar test videos and replicate what you did on a new or different microsd card and see how it turns out. If it works and retains it then it's the original card. If not then it's an issue with the phone/ hardware itself.
I actually ended up copying the card and put it back in... the recordings I made next were fine! No settings were changed, and it's only the one Day they messed up... could it be because there was zero cell signal in town? Nothing could upload to the cloud.... I know moving files or even recording straight to sd will leave file pieces and signal most definitely should not affect storage on a device. I did get this data off one video though. Any ideas?
I've never heard of a data connection messing with storage of a device unless that device is separate and not directly connected. Again, doesn't mean it can't happen. But the most likely problem is still the card. You said you copied everything back on, what is happening to new content?