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Infuse Deletes Music

So, I've been running Serendipity 7 on my Infuse for maybe 3 days until I went back to stock firmware, but it seems everytime I try to put all my music onto my external SD, it deletes it all and saves 3-4 bands with scattered songs from the album. I had this same problem with my Captivate, but it would put the files into LOST.dir instead of just deleting them. I've looked around on Google since I started having problems back in June/July and couldn't find anything.
Right now, my Infuse is running stock Froyo and rooted. I haven't really done much else. The SD is a Sandisk 32gb.
To add a bit more, when all 19gb of music is on the SD card, I safely remove it and then plug it in just to make sure it's still on there. The music doesn't delete till it's plugged into the phone. I've tried using the SD card slot on my computer and USB through my phone and it always deletes either after I disconnect from the computer or when I plug the SD into my phone.
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Do you have any .nomedia files on your phone? I don't think the media scanner is the issue here, but it's always a possibility. Did you try storing the music on your phone's internal memory instead of the SD card? Maybe the card is going bad?

I haven't put any .nomedia files on my phone. As for the SD card, it is brand new. I can put the media ob my internal, but when I move it to the external it deletes itself.
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Now it's deleting apps that are installed on the external SD...
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It's most likely a faulty external sim card.

I should stop buying from eBay. I've only gotten one good SD card from them. This I've was still in GE case too. It's like it will only allow 1-2 gigs of the 32 before it deletes the files.
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Plagued Will said:
I should stop buying from eBay. I've only gotten one good SD card from them. This I've was still in GE case too. It's like it will only allow 1-2 gigs of the 32 before it deletes the files.
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Search e-bay for this problem. They are also selling cards that are fomatted to show more space then what they have.
I once bought an 32gig usb drive, it would look like everything that I copied was there, but would only play the first 4gig.
These mostly come from china. Like I said, do a search and you'll never buy memory off e-bay again.

Very good point, I completely forgot about that. Thank you so much.
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Now there are a bunch of no extension files in my LOST.dir. They just now showed up. Damned Chinese products.
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I make it a rule to never buy electronics off eBay. Local craigslist only for me. That being said, it definitely sounds like a borked SD card.
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Yo, easy as pie to fix this. if your SD card is in deed broken. Wally World (walmart) is your solution, go buy a San Disk 32 GB like yours then switch out the cards and return the faulty one. Thank you.

I'm telling ...
But to show my age, back in the early 80’s, when we were hacking drives to copy 5 1/4 discs, we'd burn out drives in a few weeks. So we'd buy a new one and swap out the internal components.
Cranky...

Truckerglenn said:
I'm telling ...
But to show my age, back in the early 80’s, when we were hacking drives to copy 5 1/4 discs, we'd burn out drives in a few weeks. So we'd buy a new one and swap out the internal components.
Cranky...
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"I'm Telling" bahahah! i member in elementary that **** was serious. who ever saw you do something you weren't supposed you, from that moment on you were their ***** until you caught them doing something... real talk.

SD card issues

So after doing some the mods from RomTools... all of the sudden my SD card is write protected??
Can can see files but can not add or delete. I've taken it out....try to fix from Win 7...still write protected...then I tried to format from comp.. no go...then I tried right in the phone...nope.
Tried fixing permissions multiple times and it's the same.
Any ideas or suggestions?
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Vinsane said:
So after doing some the mods from RomTools... all of the sudden my SD card is write protected??
Can can see files but can not add or delete. I've taken it out....try to fix from Win 7...still write protected...then I tried to format from comp.. no go...then I tried right in the phone...nope.
Tried fixing permissions multiple times and it's the same.
Any ideas or suggestions?
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look on the card itself most full sized sd cards have a switch of sorts to write protect them on the physical card itself. ive never seen one on a micro-sd card but it cant hurt to look.
if thats not the case then something in your SD Card broke. Micro-SD cards should not have any way to write-protect them from a format.

Yeah..no switch on the micro
I don't even see how it got write protected
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then your card is most likely shot. if its fairly new (and you dont mind wasting time) try calling up the manufacturer and requesting a replacement.

Ah crap
What I feared...it's a older card used between different phones I've had.
I appreciate the help
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Vinsane said:
Ah crap
What I feared...it's a older card used between different phones I've had.
I appreciate the help
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They are cheap on ebay. I just bought a 16g class 4 for 10 buxs I belive
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chrisram88 said:
They are cheap on ebay. I just bought a 16g class 4 for 10 buxs I belive
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Nice! This one is a 16...I'm going to search for a 32.
It's weird though....I can read and the phone recognizes it...just can't write or delete
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Vinsane said:
Nice! This one is a 16...I'm going to search for a 32.
It's weird though....I can read and the phone recognizes it...just can't write or delete
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Check here >>http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1584369

2 fried sdcards in 6 months?

Has anyone else experienced this? I'm currently running Synergy r118 and I woke up this morning to find my SanDisk Class 10 64 gb sdcard unmounted and not working. I just replaced my 32 gb card about one month ago from the same problem.
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A week after I got the s3 my sd card did the same thing. It sucked big time, had all kinds of data that wasn't backed up(stupid me). Reformatting the card fixed the issue and it hasn't done it since (knock on wood lol).
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Just for mine last Friday, put my 16gb one from my old phone in, died before I got off work. Trying another one. It seems quite a few people have this problem.
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I can't even get my SD card to show up on my computer. I have no way to reformat it. In my case it seems the cards have completely died
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Sending in my patriot card for replacement. 2nd one to die. I'm pretty sure it's the phone killing them. This does seem to be a problem abs Sammy needs to fix
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jayson4444 said:
A week after I got the s3 my sd card did the same thing. It sucked big time, had all kinds of data that wasn't backed up(stupid me). Reformatting the card fixed the issue and it hasn't done it since (knock on wood lol).
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Mine did the same thing the other day. Class 10 32 gb. Hadn't had a problem with a class 4 having shuffled it thru a few different phones over the last couple yrs.

Norwester said:
Mine did the same thing the other day. Class 10 32 gb. Hadn't had a problem with a class 4 having shuffled it thru a few different phones over the last couple yrs.
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What format are you guys having your dying cards in? Extfat or whatever or Fat32?

blaine07 said:
What format are you guys having your dying cards in? Extfat or whatever or Fat32?
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I just put mine into the phone go to Settings and format SD card under storage so whatever format the phone does it in
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FWIW everyone I have seen with those issues the card has been formatted in exfat or whatever format phone uses by default. Apparently it corrupts something. You might try putting card in a computer and using a application to format SD card as fat32 and see if it helps?

I believe mine was fat32 from when I was using it in my incredible. Can't say for sure though. I will format this once though. It's a [email protected] when it goes all of a sudden, especially when it's hour 2 of 8.
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rruready said:
Has anyone else experienced this? I'm currently running Synergy r118 and I woke up this morning to find my SanDisk Class 10 64 gb sdcard unmounted and not working. I just replaced my 32 gb card about one month ago from the same problem.
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I had SanDisk Class 10 32 gb do this the other day. I can't get phone or computers to see it.:crying:

blaine07 said:
FWIW everyone I have seen with those issues the card has been formatted in exfat or whatever format phone uses by default. Apparently it corrupts something. You might try putting card in a computer and using a application to format SD card as fat32 and see if it helps?
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I always format mine on the PC to fat32. I actually had a notification saying that the card was damaged. Dunno,I'll see if it happens again...

I've heard of this problem quite a bit but when I used an SD card in my GS3 I never had the problem.
I was using a Samsung microSD card.

Had the same card for a while. No problem here. Thing is my phone happens to randomly eject and remount the card every so often when I set the phone down.
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Whatever it is, I can't afford to keep buying 64 gb sdcards regularly. I've had 0 issues with this phone until now, and burning up sdcards frequently is a pretty big one. I put in a spare 16 gb card after formatting it in the pc for fat32 tonight. *fingers crossed*
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The same thing happened to me, and a lot of other people in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1856564
I got a SanDisk card, and got one of the "breathable" cases to keep things cooler, and I haven't had a problem since. Not sure if that's a real solution, but I'm happy with it

Now that I'm thinking about it, I remember that when I got this last sdcard, I formatted it to fat32 based on what I was reading. Not only that, it's a Sandisk, which half of the above thread stated to get. Now I'm really concerned that it's a hardware issue and I'll end up with someone's piece of crap refurb

Mine borked on me again this morning. (32 gb Sandisk cl10 fat32 format)Said there wasn't a card inserted and then after I pulled the card and re-loaded it,it said the card was blank or the data was un-readable. All my pics on it were visible in the gallery and I added some more thru out the day. Sometime this afternoon for no reason it seemed to straighten itself out and is showing up in storage. Other than cleaning the contacts on the card wtf-over?

Haven't had a single issue with mine, haven't even touched it since it went in when I bought the phone in early August. It's my old 16GB out of my Bionic so its nothing special

Gs3 wont recognize 32gb sdcard?

Hey guys, I just recently saw when I turned my phone on, it says sd unexpectedly removed, when in fact it is in there. If I take it out and re insert it, it doesn't say anything? I would try to use this on my laptop but I know the reader on my laptop is busted (plus I'm at work). Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Not sure, I had a 32gb card myself and it started acting weird on me. Doing th e are thing, acting like it wasn't there, needed formating or some such. I switched to my old 16gb card from my droid X and it worked perfectly. I think not was just a bad card. It's possible as the prices came down and these cards got cheaper the quality control has dropped. . I might add that that was my second 32gb card The first one wouldn't even work in my laptop when i tried to format it and got so hot that it burned my fingers when took it out!
Short Story is you may have a duff card. Try an old sd card just to make sure it's not your phone.
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paul.michael.glass said:
Not sure, I had a 32gb card myself and it started acting weird on me. Doing th e are thing, acting like it wasn't there, needed formating or some such. I switched to my old 16gb card from my droid X and it worked perfectly. I think not was just a bad card. It's possible as the prices came down and these cards got cheaper the quality control has dropped. . I might add that that was my second 32gb card The first one wouldn't even work in my laptop when i tried to format it and got so hot that it burned my fingers when took it out!
Short Story is you may have a duff card. Try an old sd card just to make sure it's not your phone.
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I know it's not my phone, tried my friends card and it worked. If I insert my card in his phone it says blank sd card and when I try to format it, it says in know media state....
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Sounds like a duff card. What brand of card is it?
I'd say as a last ditch attempt when you can try using a laptop and make sure it's not formated to exFAT. When mine went bad my laptop wouldn't even let me format it
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paul.michael.glass said:
Sounds like a duff card. What brand of card is it?
I'd say as a last ditch attempt when you can try using a laptop and make sure it's not formated to exFAT. When mine went bad my laptop wouldn't even let me format it
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I needed one ASAP for work, I just ended up getting a free replacement from Verizon. Tha ks for all your help guys! Mods can go ahead and lock this thread=)
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I had a generic 32GB card workinf for me perfectly from day one, but recently I bought a SanDisk 64GB and I can't get my phone to recognize it (my computer does), I'm thinking it has to be in the right format, which formats will the phone recognize and which won't it?

Try it in cwm. There is a page that does give info on partition and speed somewhere on the net.
Afterward, fix permissions.
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levilib said:
I had a generic 32GB card workinf for me perfectly from day one, but recently I bought a SanDisk 64GB and I can't get my phone to recognize it (my computer does), I'm thinking it has to be in the right format, which formats will the phone recognize and which won't it?
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Fat32 if you intend to be a rooted user

Fat32 is the stock format OOB and will work well with all devices.
Ext4 is androids partition for apps.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1633915
Great question answered.
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If you can, transfer all info to computer and format card in phone if possible.
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loonie01 said:
If you can, transfer all info to computer and format card in phone if possible.
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How do you format on the phone?

Settings >> Storage >> Format

tried that to, still won't work.
when i try mount it says damaged sd card reformat.
i've tried formatting it on the computer in exFAT and NTFS, the only 2 options windows offers

levilib said:
tried that to, still won't work.
when i try mount it says damaged sd card reformat.
i've tried formatting it on the computer in exFAT and NTFS, the only 2 options windows offers
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did a bit of googling, found a program that will format into fat32 format since windows 7 and 8 wont. finally works!

[Q] SD card suddenly erased everything on its own.

I got this notification on my SIII saying the SD card is blank? I am not sure what happened but all my photos are gone except for 1. I have downloaded Glary undelete (free undelete file softwre). I then tried to scan the card with the software and it says the card is not formatted, do you want to format? I thought I read here that if i format the card I will lose any ability to recover the deleted photos? Can anyone help me with my problem???

Check to see if you have any files in LOST.DIR
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Same thing happened to me the other day. Just started getting a notification that "SD Card removed. Please insert a new one". All my pics, videos, nandroid backups, etc. gone. I put it into a card reader in my computer and nothing came up. Please keep us up to date if you find a fix and I'll be sure to do the same.

Jarredw said:
Check to see if you have any files in LOST.DIR
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No luck on finding anything in the Lost.dir folder. Thanks for the advice the I really appreciate it!!!

I had it happen right when I got the phone, sucks. I make a habit of backing up to dropbox every few days.
I couldn't get it to mount one day, a quick spray of canned air into where the card goes seemed to fix it. It must get really dusty in there.
Another cool thing about dropbox, esp if you have the hacked 50gb account, you can "favorite" all of your music and it will allow you to listen to it without using data. I keep all my music in the favorite section, it takes time to do the first time but better than being stuck at work without music.

This has happened to me twice before. Turns out the SD cards died. Both 32gb sandiscs. Finally pay the extra for a Samsung 32gb class ten. Haven't looked back
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I have the 32 gig class 10 sandisk and it just happened to me last night. Got the phone and card last Nov. Not sure what's going on. A different card works in my phone. Can't even get this cars to work at all. Did you get a free replacement? Got mine on amazon. Really sucks. Had a lot of stuff on there since I assumed it would be safe.
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Always have a backup because recently I've noticed these phones tend to do this to the memory card.
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Just got my SanDisk replacement. Sent it out last Tuesday and got the new one today. Just call them, it's easy. I got mine from Amazon too, you don't need a receipt or anything.
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bobAbooE said:
Just got my SanDisk replacement. Sent it out last Tuesday and got the new one today. Just call them, it's easy. I got mine from Amazon too, you don't need a receipt or anything.
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I thought you got your replacement from SanDisk somehow, not Amazon (hah)! Now I'm much more interested; Amazon has great customer support and that's where I bought it.

I bought it on Amazon but called SanDisk and they replaced it.
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