Is it normal for it to take an extremely long time for the device to copy 3GB of data from a MicroSD to Internal SD? Its taking longer to copy from the MicroSD then it did to copy the same data to it.
I am also having this problem. Is it related to the SD card or the phone itself. I was finally able to browse my phone on the computer, but it takes forever to go anywhere and just as long to copy files to or from the phone. Like a couple of minutes to move a few pictures from my phone to my computer.
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im trying to find the eternal sd card when i mount the phone to my computer
its not in media
its not in _ExternalSD
so where do i find the pictures i take that are stored on the external sd card?
do i have to open the phone remove the card, put in a sdcard adaptor and plug it into my laptop?
i get more frustrations from this phone than any device i own
its a good thing it takes pics and makes calls every once in a while l can make a call or google something
rexxxlo said:
im trying to find the eternal sd card when i mount the phone to my computer
its not in media
its not in _ExternalSD
so where do i find the pictures i take that are stored on the external sd card?
do i have to open the phone remove the card, put in a sdcard adaptor and plug it into my laptop?
i get more frustrations from this phone than any device i own
its a good thing it takes pics and makes calls every once in a while l can make a call or google something
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There will be 2 drives that will come up when you plug the usb.
Sent from my Calculator with Android.
Mine shows up as one drive
I'm running weapon rom
its ridiculous i have to open this phone to access the extrenal sd card
I have the same problem! lol I try looking in the external and internal sd card and I can't find the pics ANYWHERE! I did have sucess looking for a song by searching for .mp3.....might I just email the pics to myself...
rexxxlo said:
its ridiculous i have to open this phone to access the extrenal sd card
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A lot of Android phones are like that.
Hi folks.
I have a totally stock phone and I have been running a san disk 128gb micro sd.
I pretty much put all my media on the ext sd and therefore have lots of memory on the phone itself. I am using about about 30gb out of the 128bg.
Anyway recently my phone is struggling to load images and gets stuck, videos are stopping sometimes. I removed the sd and did a factory reset to no avail. My next move is to format the sd but I dont want to do that because all my pictures are on it and I have no way of transferring them to my laptop.
Anyone can help?
Sounds pretty likely that the problem is with the MicroSD card
Connect your phone to your PC/Laptop using the USB charging lead, scan for errors on the card, if that doesn't help, copy the files to your machine, format to FAT32 and copy everything back to it
I have the 3rd gen moto g with a 16 gb sd card in it formatted as internal memory.
A few weeks ago, I updated some apps, restarted the phone, and when it started back up it couldnt read the sd card.
I uninstalled the updated apps, restarted, cleared caches, etc.
After monkeying around with it for awhile, I've found that the sd card is read for a few seconds to a minute after plugging it back in.
Since the card is formatted as internal, I can't save my photos / videos on a computer or another device.
I've been in the process of backing up my many photos. The process goes like this - Unplug sd card, open storage options, plug sd card back in, explore the contents of the card, navigate to my camera album, click on a photo a select copy to, upload the photo to my google drive. sometimes the photo uploads, and sometimes the sd card disconnects before its able to. I'd say 1 in 10 attempts actually results in the photo being uploaded. Then I unplug the card, plug it back in, navigate back, and delete that photo. Rinse and repeat.
This is an insanely annoying process. I've tried connecting my phone to a computer to copy files, sd card doesnt show at all, I've tried selecting multiple files at once from google drive to upload, never reads the card. I was wondering if anyone has any other ideas for how I can back up my photos. I have several hundred, maybe a thousand left. Thank you
Hi!
I have Motorola G7 power xt-1955-4.
And I also got a 512gb Kingston hama sdcard.
The card was formatted as internal storage.
The problem is that today I saw that I can't access the files on my phone. This happened after I moved several files from phone to my computer, to free up some space.
Now, when I open File manager it shows "main storage not available".
I reinserted my SD card a couple of times, but I keep having a notification saying "checking sdcard... Reviewing current content".
When I go to Settings - Storage it says only "sdcard checking..".
When I press on "Checking sd card" notification only it gives me the option to Forget.
How can I access my SD card without formatting it?
Thank you.
You said you moved some files from the card to your PC? How did you do this? If you removed the card from the phone and put it in your PC, then what you effectively did was slice off part of your phone's storage, messed with the files, and put it back in. You cut off a piece of brain, rooted around in it, and tried to reattach it.
Internal storage means the card is not removable, and the storage space will be filled with files essential to the phone. Chances are to get the card to work again it needs to be reformatted.
dannyetlv said:
Hi!
I have Motorola G7 power xt-1955-4.
And I also got a 512gb Kingston hama sdcard.
The card was formatted as internal storage.
The problem is that today I saw that I can't access the files on my phone. This happened after I moved several files from phone to my computer, to free up some space.
Now, when I open File manager it shows "main storage not available".
I reinserted my SD card a couple of times, but I keep having a notification saying "checking sdcard... Reviewing current content".
When I go to Settings - Storage it says only "sdcard checking..".
When I press on "Checking sd card" notification only it gives me the option to Forget.
How can I access my SD card without formatting it?
Thank you.
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Sorry I'm a bit late. I had this same issue recently. Until now, I have had a problem with any program recognizing the drive without offering to format it first. I can't do that because I am stupid and had important files on there I need. I just located DiskGenius and I am running it now.
Not sure this will repair the issue, but it recognized the sd card which I had set as the primary storage not knowing something like this could happen. It is running a search now for bad sectors. When it finds them, it will provide a repair, but the sectors will be deleted. I am hoping it won't be the sectors that contain my files that I need to recover. But it's a step in the right direction.
I now know not to set an sd card as main storage for Android, because it encrypts the files, and it tied the SD card to the system. I can't even install apps right now because the main storage is non existent.
I just had to throw out a 62g card due to corruption. I do t know how it happened but I eventually had to factory reset/wipe phone. I put the card in a laptop to reformat it. Wouldn't work. I'm getting a new card, but I will not make it phone storage. Bummed me out.
I have an interesting phenomenon. I want to upgrage an extFAT 256 Gb SD card to an extFAT 1 Tb SD card. The source and the destination cards are not encrypted. I copied all unhidden files from the old one to the new one via a USB reader. I can see everything on my 1 Tb card. When I insert the new card to the phone, some folders like download, music or video are empty. I remove the card from my phone and put it to the same USB reader. These directories contain no files. It looks like you cannot simply copy files. Of course, I can copy them connecting my phone via USB; however, it will take a day to transfer 65 Gb of data. Disk imaging is very slow too. I'm on UI 4.0 Stock, Note 20 Ultra.
Format and load card in the phone.
You need a V30 rated card for best speed.
Thanks! No, it does't work. I've done it the same way: format on the phone / use very fast card. Copy to the phone speed is 700 Kps, via USB reader - 7.5 Mps. I'm afraid it has something to do with the card ID xxxx-xxxx. Volume ID changer doesn't work with new SD cards.
All I do is get a Sandisk extreme, format in phone and it's good to go.
I'm running two N10+'s, one running P the other Q. Using a 512 gb card.
In phone transfer speeds are about .5 [email protected] Average about 1.
Try going from internal memory to card. Should be about [email protected]
Check the PC, use the SmartSwitch driver.
Access SD card drive in the phone using Windows Disk Management, scan for new devices, load/download from that window.
Check Event Viewer for error messages.
Try clearing the system cache.
The story is even worse. I have a 512 Gb os Internal Storage version . I copied my SD card to it, put a new SD card and copy all my files from external to SD. The copy process was fast I was able to see my files on the new SD card. As soon as I deleted a copy from the Interatal Storage, my files were automatically erased from the SD card.
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The story is even worse. I have a 512 Gb os Internal Storage version . I copied my SD card to it, put a new SD card and copy all my files from external to SD. The copy process was fast I was able to see my files on the new SD card. As soon as I deleted a copy from the Interatal Storage, my files were automatically erased from the SD card.
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I trust you have redundant copies saved on hdds...
How fast? The card's top speed is around [email protected] Sounds like it was just deleting the files, not writing them to the card.
Try in safe mode.
Run a Check Disk on the PC. Do a low level format and always format in the phone before use. A 3rd party app maybe more helpful for low level formatting.
More ideas.
*always keep the possibility of a virus or rootkit in mind when you observe unexplained behavior with an Android. These are very rare unless you do something stupid... as we all have.
If one disk or more are suspected of being compromised keep them 100% isolated from the backups!!! As they should be anyway.
It's also possible a hidden user setting was altered. Poorly written 3rd apps can do this, unistalling may not fix it or could even trigger it.
Factory reset to clear the user data and reset everything to default. If you did any major firmware upgrades and you didn't factory reset... it's time to.
I don't advocate factory resetting normally at all but for the above issues sometimes it's the best option for a stock Android.
If you can find the app that alter the hidden user setting you may be able to repair it sometimes by reinstalling the app and toggling the setting in it that triggered the issue than unistalling it again, if it's an option. I've done this before, in fact it was on the current load I'm using which will be 2 yo in June. I prefer to find the issue rather than nuke whenever possible... to prevent reoccurrence.
Thank you! I've found the problem. I had to disable zip compressed folders functionality on my PC using a registry fix. Obvously, the phone doesn't support this feature.
robotov said:
Thank you! I've found the problem. I had to disable zip compressed folders functionality on my PC using a registry fix. Obvously, the phone doesn't support this feature.
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Yay! Nothing like success!
Congratulations on your 1.5tb dual drive handheld PC
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Lol, you had me worried as I'm thinking of up sizing to a 1tb card on my N10+
Never encrpt, compressed or clone data drives especially media files as bad things tend to happen. Those silly little null marks matter