I have been wondering for a while, i been noticing that when i put music on my external sd card from my laptop, after i disconnect from the laptop, it some time does not appear on my external sd card, like it was never there in the first place, and when i hook it up back to the laptop it is really not there. Is there something I'm missing, i been searching for a solution throughout the forum, and found nothing. Can someone please help me with this situation.
P.S. If you have a problem understanding my problem, basically I'm asking what is the proper way of putting music on your external sd card for the Infuse 4g. Thanks
Do you have enough space on the SD? I would make a folder in the external to make your music easier to find. I just click and drag into the appropriate card, make sure you properly eject phone when its complete too. It could be a lot of things, usually its something simple.
Yeah I came down to that conclusion, i know it is something simple, that just may be it, because i hardly ever properly eject it. I just normally pull the USB card thinking, whats the worst can happen lol... But thanks
Ya I've screwed my external by just yanking it out before, so I do it right now lol np
I have the same issue, I dragged an dropped each individual track and only one stuck? An when i tell my phone to unmount it, it just remounts it? getting really annoyed
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I have been transferring etc to sd card ok after mounting it on the G1 screen. For some reason now after updating the radio it gives me a BSOD! Not sure whether pulling out the 8gb sd card and installing the 1GB update card may have stuffed it or not but it says to run chkdsk on it......
The reason i am transferring onto it is i have a folder called media and in it i have a folder notifications which has the icq "UHOH" on it- but for some reason it keeps disappearing from my card. Any ideas of why?
thanks
i have stuffed the sd card- mustn't have dismounted it properly or something- the whole mount/unmount etc when plugging in the G1 is confusing- to mount is easy but how do you dismount it from the PC when you have finished using it?
ok. can someone tell me how to dismount the g1 from the pc properly so as not to damage the card again- it is fixed now with chkdsk.
the instructions say to "You can also go to Home > Settings > SD card & phone
storage, and clear the Use for USB storage check box." but of course that is not there..... I see there is an unmount/eject sd card but i thought that was for unmounting card from the G1 itself so i could take the card out without turning G1 off.
Did a search and couldn't find anything on this.
How do i unmount it when G1 is connected via USB to pc?
****edit***** can a mod please move this thread to the plain old "dream" section?
i got you
Look for safely remove hardware it should be in the notification area(it looks like a usb plug with a check on it) Right click that and click Safely remove hardware now just find your device and remove it
have fun
Edit: or just right click on Removable Disk(whichever the G1 is find out) in MY Computer and press Safely remove hardware or Eject not sure if its the same as
Safely remove hardware
but any ways have fun again
thx mate- so i don't have to do anything from the G1?
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thx mate- so i don't have to do anything from the G1?
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no problem(were all family here), not that i know of but thats a good idea
humble said:
no problem(were all family here), not that i know of but thats a good idea
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hmmm.. think idid that...wonder why my sd card stuffed up? My notifications and alarms folders went missing...
hope this helps mate
well now maybe your card is corrupt. Its happen to me before with an external hard drive(just pulling it out without safely removing hardware.)Corruption!!
try this use a different mem card(one in the house or new) to get to the root of the problem (most likely you need a different mem card)
sorry if this has been asked before but couldnt find a tread.
all of a sudden my phone wanted me to format my memory card. and it does not show up in file explorer. i didnt want to but did end up formatting it but still it does not show.
can someone pls help me on how to fix this as im all out on ideas
thanks in advance
Don't worry, you're not the only one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=646731
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=707191
It seems as if it has something to do with the internals of the SD card, at least that's what I get from reading these two threads. Maybe some cards have a faster transfer rate or something like that...?
All I know is that its a major pain in the *donkey* when they die.
Next time I'm going to try one of the Japanese brands mentioned in one of those posts.
Put it in a USB adaptor and plug it into a PC. The OS may ask to check and repair the SD card for errors. Do so then put it back in your phone.
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Put it in a USB adaptor and plug it into a PC. The OS may ask to check and repair the SD card for errors. Do so then put it back in your phone.
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If you read those other posts, you'll realize that this goes beyond such easily remedied problems.
This goes much deeper than some "errors" that can fixed by clicking "fix"...
There is some kind of issue with the (or at least some) HD2s and some SD cards. I don't know what it is exactly, but for sure when the HD2 scrambles your card, it totally fries it, as in not recognized by any device (phone, camera, computer, etc) and is completely not formattable, scanable, recoverable, salvageable. I tried all of the above and... nothing.
yeah i have tryed to fix it via pc . that didnt work then i just tryed to format it via pc , and that didnt work .
think i will have to buy a new one . and yes it is a pain in the ass.
there are ways to get data back.. but if the card doesn't give a sign of life, I guess I can't help you eighter.
just gone into divice manager and it is saying the card is healthy but i still cant open it
While I was charging my phone via USB connected to my computer, I made sure it was selected on "charge only," mode and unplugged the USB from my phone.
Then got an error message on my computer saying, "..was not ejected properly..."
Now I can't access any of my photos, videos etc...
How can I recover the improper ejection? Is it even possible or am I SOL and have to reformat the card?
I know the data can be retrieved because I have a program to do it, but I'm wondering if there is anything that can be done to make it as if it never happened?
Not sure if you mean you can't read the card on the computer, or the phone.
Best case scenario - you power off the phone, pop the cover off the back, and remove the MicroSD card. Use a card reader (preferably a USB card reader, but a full-size SD adapter will do if you have the slot) to plug the card directly into your computer.
Then you can back up all the information onto the computer, reformat the card, and put your data back onto it.
When you put it back into the phone, and power it on, it should read fine and you can just keep right on going.
The phone is pretty sensitive, and if anything doesn't finish writing to the card properly it won't read in the phone.
No matter what state it's in, even charge mode only, you should always properly stop and eject the device from the computer. Otherwise you risk this happening every time.
Worst case scenario - the computer itself won't read the card through a standalone card reader (not the phone) and you have to re-format the card losing all your data.
In any case, reformatting the card will make it readable by the phone again.
You may not be able to reformat the card in the phone, and have to do it in a computer. Whenever you can make that happen, the phone will be able to read the card again.
DON'T pull the card from the phone without powering it off completely first.
MAKE SURE fastboot is turned to off in your settings menu BEFORE turning it off to remove the card. Fastboot is a hibernation mode, and removing the card when powered off with fastboot enabled could cause problems - especially if the card has different information on it then when you "turned it off".
Fastboot = hibernation, and it's still using a very minimal amount of power to keep the system at the lowest level of powered on.
Yes, you can turn it off and pull the battery and the card and stuff with fastboot enabled, but sooner or later you will run into a problem - most likely a corrupted memory card.
I really appreciate the quick response and your input. Thanks!
Right now I'm using a data rescue program and it's scanning as I'm typing this...
The SD card is a Lexar 32GB Class 10, yet it's still talking about an hour to do a deep scan. I can see that it's retrieving all the files as it's scanning...good news and as expected, for I've done this many times for friends in the past with diggy cameras.
Before running the scan this was the scenario:
Powered off the phone, pulled the card and put it in the lexar USB adapter it originally came with. The card mounted and read fine on my Mac, but in the folder it only contained very little stuff...it almost looked as if it was a regular stock card with normal folders that would usually come on the stock 8GB. It showed an android folder, picture folder etc...but it had nothing in it.
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I think once the scan is complete and after backing up all the recovered files, I'll probably just reformat it. It's nice to start fresh anyways...heck maybe it was a sign to a certain degree, although it was my human error...
Question: Should I reformat it in the phone or through Disk Utility via Mac?
BTW: I had, or should say have, over 3,000 pictures on there for my food blog and some videos...was pretty filled up...
Thanks again...Cheers'
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Not sure if you mean you can't read the card on the computer, or the phone.
Best case scenario - you power off the phone, pop the cover off the back, and remove the MicroSD card. Use a card reader (preferably a USB card reader, but a full-size SD adapter will do if you have the slot) to plug the card directly into your computer.
Then you can back up all the information onto the computer, reformat the card, and put your data back onto it.
When you put it back into the phone, and power it on, it should read fine and you can just keep right on going.
The phone is pretty sensitive, and if anything doesn't finish writing to the card properly it won't read in the phone.
No matter what state it's in, even charge mode only, you should always properly stop and eject the device from the computer. Otherwise you risk this happening every time.
Worst case scenario - the computer itself won't read the card through a standalone card reader (not the phone) and you have to re-format the card losing all your data.
In any case, reformatting the card will make it readable by the phone again.
You may not be able to reformat the card in the phone, and have to do it in a computer. Whenever you can make that happen, the phone will be able to read the card again.
DON'T pull the card from the phone without powering it off completely first.
MAKE SURE fastboot is turned to off in your settings menu BEFORE turning it off to remove the card. Fastboot is a hibernation mode, and removing the card when powered off with fastboot enabled could cause problems - especially if the card has different information on it then when you "turned it off".
Fastboot = hibernation, and it's still using a very minimal amount of power to keep the system at the lowest level of powered on.
Yes, you can turn it off and pull the battery and the card and stuff with fastboot enabled, but sooner or later you will run into a problem - most likely a corrupted memory card.
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Firstly, good move on the recovery utility on the card. Probably the most sensible thing you could have done to ensure you get your data back with a minimal (if any) amount of corruption.
I'm running a windows box for everything i'm doing with this phone, and i'll be setting up a linux box as soon as I breakdown my NAS computer to work on android stuff.
I can't speak to mac, i've had very little interaction with them since the early 90's. Windows 3.1 came out and I dropped mac, ever since it's been something i've stayed away from.
I reformat all my cards in my windows computer, then put them in the powered off phone - it boots up and uses the cards fine.
I had one issue where I pulled a card before it popped up and said "safe to remove" on my computer, the phone wouldn't read the card. I pulled it and reformatted in the computer, and when I put it back in the phone it was fine again.
I'd say that formatting in the mac should be fine, try it out and see what happens.
I have used the phone to reformat the memory cards a few times, but it has always been when I did a factory reset on the phone. I would assume that is the same utility in settings that you can use to reformat the card on the phone.
Once you back up your data to the computer, my suggestion would be to reformat the card in the computer, then put all the data back onto it the same way it was before the format.
When you plug it into the phone, everything should be okay then, but check all your apps to make sure they still run right (if any had data stored on the card)
Theoretically this should work fine.
Are you rooted, and do you have a recent clockworkmod backup of your phone?
Edit - you can probably get away with not moving the pictures themselves back onto the phone.
That's a sizeable chunk of data there, USB transfer to the memory card off the computer will work many orders of magnitude faster then using a MicroSD to SD adapter into a card slot.
Backed Up / Restore complete and it pretty much got it all.
If I format it in the computer it should be a FAT32 correct?
I've always wondered about the encryption levels between formatting through the computer vs. SD card inside the phone (formatting)
Not that it really matters in my case (security wise), but do you know if formatting in the computer is better than reformatting w/ SD in the phone?
Would it be safe to say that reformatting inside the phone just does a single / simple pass through of putting 1's and 0's to wipe the data?
Whereas, reformatting in the computer you have different levels of pass throughs depending on the security level you desire.
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Now taking it a step deeper, for me I've always wondered about the long term stability of SD Cards efficiency in general when doing the maximum pass throughs to erase the data instead of a simple 1 & 0 single pass through...
Kind of like painting a car:
If you paint directly on the bare bone primer sheet metal the paint will last longer without cracks down the road...ie.... cleaner, more organized data on a clean sheet of clusters of data.
If you paint over paint over paint with simple sand downs, then paint again over paint (thick).... over time it'll chip, crack and not last as long .... ie ..... higher probability of data corruption?
I've always had a piece of mind making it a habit to always do a fresh reformat with any SD cards I've had .... with the exception of this one for some odd reason... I guess I was in a rush to use it already to enjoy the Class 10 performance and speed.
I really appreciate your input and knowledge. It's nice to know there's people on here that can post intellectually...I was beginning to worry after reading all these posts with responses with no substance.
btw: You're either a major night owl or over seas being up at this hour? haha...kudos
Cheers...
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Firstly, good move on the recovery utility on the card. Probably the most sensible thing you could have done to ensure you get your data back with a minimal (if any) amount of corruption.
I'm running a windows box for everything i'm doing with this phone, and i'll be setting up a linux box as soon as I breakdown my NAS computer to work on android stuff.
I can't speak to mac, i've had very little interaction with them since the early 90's. Windows 3.1 came out and I dropped mac, ever since it's been something i've stayed away from.
I reformat all my cards in my windows computer, then put them in the powered off phone - it boots up and uses the cards fine.
I had one issue where I pulled a card before it popped up and said "safe to remove" on my computer, the phone wouldn't read the card. I pulled it and reformatted in the computer, and when I put it back in the phone it was fine again.
I'd say that formatting in the mac should be fine, try it out and see what happens.
I have used the phone to reformat the memory cards a few times, but it has always been when I did a factory reset on the phone. I would assume that is the same utility in settings that you can use to reformat the card on the phone.
Once you back up your data to the computer, my suggestion would be to reformat the card in the computer, then put all the data back onto it the same way it was before the format.
When you plug it into the phone, everything should be okay then, but check all your apps to make sure they still run right (if any had data stored on the card)
Theoretically this should work fine.
Are you rooted, and do you have a recent clockworkmod backup of your phone?
Edit - you can probably get away with not moving the pictures themselves back onto the phone.
That's a sizeable chunk of data there, USB transfer to the memory card off the computer will work many orders of magnitude faster then using a MicroSD to SD adapter into a card slot.
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iunlock said:
Backed Up / Restore complete and it pretty much got it all.
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Glad to hear you got it all!
iunlock said:
If I format it in the computer it should be a FAT32 correct?
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Yep.
iunlock said:
I've always wondered about the encryption levels between formatting through the computer vs. SD card inside the phone (formatting)
Not that it really matters in my case (security wise), but do you know if formatting in the computer is better than reformatting w/ SD in the phone?
Would it be safe to say that reformatting inside the phone just does a single / simple pass through of putting 1's and 0's to wipe the data?
Whereas, reformatting in the computer you have different levels of pass throughs depending on the security level you desire.
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Now taking it a step deeper, for me I've always wondered about the long term stability of SD Cards efficiency in general when doing the maximum pass throughs to erase the data instead of a simple 1 & 0 single pass through...
Kind of like painting a car:
If you paint directly on the bare bone primer sheet metal the paint will last longer without cracks down the road...ie.... cleaner, more organized data on a clean sheet of clusters of data.
If you paint over paint over paint with simple sand downs, then paint again over paint (thick).... over time it'll chip, crack and not last as long .... ie ..... higher probability of data corruption?
I've always had a piece of mind making it a habit to always do a fresh reformat with any SD cards I've had .... with the exception of this one for some odd reason... I guess I was in a rush to use it already to enjoy the Class 10 performance and speed.
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I'm not entirely sure about the different levels of security, or even if there are any advantages/disadvantages to this.
Your painting analogy is a real good one, and as someone who was a painter by trade for quite a few years, it's one I use a lot.
When I was doing memory speed tests in my Nook Color on flash memory, I always formatted the cards in the Nook Color, then again in the computer, ejected and re-inserted the cards before running the test using the computer.
Like what you are saying, it ensured a clean card and uniformity. I'd rather take an extra step that may or may not be unnecessary just to be sure. The focus of my tests at the time were on credibility and reliability of results, and the dual format meant that the cards always were the same.
Windows gets lazy sometimes, and if formatting a card that essentially looks no different then when it started, it might just skip over doing the work - coming from being formatted in the Nook Color meant that windows had to actually do something to the card to make it right, and made sure it would do it's work. Why leave anything to chance.
You're looking at hundreds of thousands of read/writes on modern flash memory before it wears out...a couple of extra formats aren't going to hurt anything when you look at the big picture.
When you're talking about moving a card to a device like this phone, where it's probably not going to come out much, then a fresh format first is probably a wise move. Why contaminate the new device with junk left over from other devices on the card. Everything will work better if you start fresh.
iunlock said:
I really appreciate your input and knowledge. It's nice to know there's people on here that can post intellectually...I was beginning to worry after reading all these posts with responses with no substance.
btw: You're either a major night owl or over seas being up at this hour? haha...kudos
Cheers...
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Glad to be of help, I try to do whatever I can to help out, both online and off. I suffer from severe insomnia, and sleep very little. I have to do something to keep myself occupied, and the internet and computers in general give me something to do when everyone I know is sleeping.
The more I share what I know, the more I learn from other people who come by and add to it. No matter how much you know, someone else, probably many others know more on any given topic. With a board as big as XDA, and such a great community spirit, the amount of information here is just staggering.
I try to put what I know out there as completely as possible as much for myself as others. I'd rather have the tons of learned people browsing these boards add to what I know, instead of covering the same ground. It's one of the reasons I try to be so particular about the details in everything I post.
Something like this phone is especially exciting, because it's a new thing. In a sense, we're breaking new ground with some of the stuff we're doing here, and that amps me up even more.
I have a feeling This thread is going to turn into another in-depth flash memory review like what I was involved with in the Nook Color. Check it out, since you have one of those coveted 32gig class 10 cards and see if you can add anything at some point.
I'm looking forward to picking up some to test out, and figure out what a good way of benchmarking them through the phone will be to get some definitive comparisons. It'd be nice to be able to make suggestions for people who come by in the future about what are the good cards to buy if they want to get the best level of performance out of their phone.
I'm curious to know how it goes with your recovery of the memory card in regards to getting the data back on, and whether it hiccups or not when you put your device back together. I don't have a mac, and being able to tell others who come by that it works, or why it doesn't will be very helpful to the community in general.
Thanks again!
I'm reformatting the SD card now via the Mac using Disk Utility. For giggles I just selected the maximum 7 pass through, which will probably take a few hours. I'll just let it run while I sleep.
Here's another thing I've always wondered about:
When you install an app or game and let's say you uninstall it, I wonder how much clutter it leaves behind of the original app or game system files?
I'd figure over time all the 'dust' would add up to accumulate to something that may potentially have an impact on the performance of the SD card.
This has always been one of the biggest reasons I love reformatting a SD card when I can. It's like spring cleaning for me....starting fresh on a clean plate.
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You're contribution is greatly appreciated and brings much value to the forums.
I think I too suffer from insomnia to a certain degree... yikes! It's 2:41PM HST right now...prob won't sleep til 5am ...
LOL, I don't think I've 'Safely Removed' any USB since USB 1.0 or 1.1 days..yeah, I like to live on the edge!
So far I've hooked my phone up to my computer 5 times to transfer MP3s to it. I just pull the plug when I'm done..no problems (yet)
Living on the edge there eh? I'm surprised you haven't had any issues yet...to be on the safe side, I'd make sure to safely remove it first.
Especially if you have important stuff on your card.
Good luck!
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LOL, I don't think I've 'Safely Removed' any USB since USB 1.0 or 1.1 days..yeah, I like to live on the edge!
So far I've hooked my phone up to my computer 5 times to transfer MP3s to it. I just pull the plug when I'm done..no problems (yet)
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Living on the edge there eh? I'm surprised you haven't had any issues yet...to be on the safe side, I'd make sure to safely remove it first.
Especially if you have important stuff on your card.
Good luck!
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99.99999% of the time, you do not need to use safely remove hardware for usb mass storage devices (like a usb stick or a phone with an sd storage card). unless you have specifically configured the device to have write caching enabled in device manager (no reason to do this for a phone or usb flash drive), as long as there is nothing being written to the storage device, it's completely harmless.
Tonight my 32 gb lexar micro sd card which also happens to be the gold card I rooted my phone with became nonresponsive. The phone tells me there is no card there, I put the card in my card reader on my computer, I can see the files but I can't retrieve the data from it. If worst case scenario happens and I have to try to reformat the card and consequently loose all of the photos, memories etc on the card, what happens to the gold card when reformatted. Will i beable to unroot the phone if I need to take it in. Does anybody have any ideas because I can find nothing and am just a little panicky.
Thanks!
Edit: Okay, I panicked, sorry. I see that I should have taken this to Q&A, and I have since found a thread that said that the gold card is not needed to reverse the root. That said, does anyone have any ideas as to what I can do to save the card and the info on it? Has anyone had this issue with the SD Card suddenly being not recognized?
Actually, yes, I think there have been some users that have gotten that issue. Do a search for it in the general section and you should find the appropriate thread. The last time I saw one of those threads was a couple months ago.
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Tonight my 32 gb lexar micro sd card which also happens to be the gold card I rooted my phone with became nonresponsive. The phone tells me there is no card there, I put the card in my card reader on my computer, I can see the files but I can't retrieve the data from it. If worst case scenario happens and I have to try to reformat the card and consequently loose all of the photos, memories etc on the card, what happens to the gold card when reformatted. Will i beable to unroot the phone if I need to take it in. Does anybody have any ideas because I can find nothing and am just a little panicky.
Thanks!
Edit: Okay, I panicked, sorry. I see that I should have taken this to Q&A, and I have since found a thread that said that the gold card is not needed to reverse the root. That said, does anyone have any ideas as to what I can do to save the card and the info on it? Has anyone had this issue with the SD Card suddenly being not recognized?
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I format my gold card once in a while it does not delete the gold card status but does delete everything on it. What I do is I create a folder on my laptop and copy evertyhing on it to folder then I format it. Place it back in phone and let it create the folders it creates then I just copy the pics and music back on to it. As far as the apps are concerned I have to redownload them all which I keep a list of on notepad in my computer. But I also like to reflash the ROM as well to start all fresh with the phone before I download the apps. But this is what I do there might be an easier way out there just search if you dont like my method. Good Luck
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I format my gold card once in a while it does not delete the gold card status but does delete everything on it. What I do is I create a folder on my laptop and copy evertyhing on it to folder then I format it. Place it back in phone and let it create the folders it creates then I just copy the pics and music back on to it. As far as the apps are concerned I have to redownload them all which I keep a list of on notepad in my computer. But I also like to reflash the ROM as well to start all fresh with the phone before I download the apps. But this is what I do there might be an easier way out there just search if you dont like my method. Good Luck
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The problem I fear I am having is that I think the card has failed. Took 9 hours to copy the pictures back to my computer off a class 10 card. It won't eeven let me copy the whole card.
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The problem I fear I am having is that I think the card has failed. Took 9 hours to copy the pictures back to my computer off a class 10 card. It won't eeven let me copy the whole card.
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Are you trying to copy files from card while in the phone or out of the phone. Sorry the best I can come up with is the way I do it above. There is a program out there called h2testw_1.4 that I use to tell me if my SD card is a fake or damaged cause I use ebay often. It writes to the card then reads it back and tells you if written files were corrupted then tells you if card is damaged or fake. The only issue it takes a really long time to run the process, I ran it on my 16gb and it took about 4 hours before I got my results back but was well worth it. It also advices for best results card has to be empty. So maybe it may be worth he wait to copy files to computer unless files are there already and you can just reupload them after format and test. But again on a 32gb may be an all day process.
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Are you trying to copy files from card while in the phone or out of the phone. Sorry the best I can come up with is the way I do it above. There is a program out there called h2testw_1.4 that I use to tell me if my SD card is a fake or damaged cause I use ebay often. It writes to the card then reads it back and tells you if written files were corrupted then tells you if card is damaged or fake. The only issue it takes a really long time to run the process, I ran it on my 16gb and it took about 4 hours before I got my results back but was well worth it. It also advices for best results card has to be empty. So maybe it may be worth he wait to copy files to computer unless files are there already and you can just reupload them after format and test. But again on a 32gb may be an all day process.
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I took the card out of the phone and used two different card readers. When I left the card in the phone, the card was not seen by my computer.
Okay, I can't save the card, but I can slowly save some individual files if I let them copy overnight. What are some must-save files that I should try to salvage if I can?
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Okay, I can't save the card, but I can slowly save some individual files if I let them copy overnight. What are some must-save files that I should try to salvage if I can?
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I usually save only my camera pics and ringtones. When you format card and place back in phone it will create the needed folders so I dont worry about that part. Also like I said I always do a full wipe, reflash rom and start all fresh with redowloading apps. Any purchased apps you can get from market and redownload free since already purchased. I know its a pain but patience is a virtue.
When you format card run the h2test on it hate to see you throw away a card that might be good and its an app or file on it issue thats giving you the grief.
Question: Are you mounting and unmounting card to phone thru Settings>Storage?
Also are you placing sim card cover back on before seeing if phone is reading SD card?
Reinaldo33897 said:
I usually save only my camera pics and ringtones. When you format card and place back in phone it will create the needed folders so I dont worry about that part. Also like I said I always do a full wipe, reflash rom and start all fresh with redowloading apps. Any purchased apps you can get from market and redownload free since already purchased. I know its a pain but patience is a virtue.
When you format card run the h2test on it hate to see you throw away a card that might be good and its an app or file on it issue thats giving you the grief.
Question: Are you mounting and unmounting card to phone thru Settings>Storage?
Also are you placing sim card cover back on before seeing if phone is reading SD card?
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yes, cover is back on and i do the mount/unmount. i had just completed a nandroid backup, it rebooted, and the sd card was no longer there, nor fully available on my computer thru a card reader. where do i get the h2test program? the only upside, is it was a new lexar card with a 10 yr warrany, but it will take up to 21 days to replace. but you are right, patience is a virtue.
thanks for the reply
Just Google h2testw_1.4
If you cant find it let me know I'll Megaupload mine for you.
Good Luck
Thanks for your help, but nothing could get into that card. I'm sending it back. Frustrating. At least I saved the pics
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Thanks for your help, but nothing could get into that card. I'm sending it back. Frustrating. At least I saved the pics
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Cool sorry could not help.
Hi after having to switch my phone off, when I turned it on again it appears that all the apps I moved to the SD card are no longer there. I have just spent some time downloading them from the market again.
Question is why has this happened and how do I stop it from happening again
Thanks in advance
Solution
Hi Nexus.
I think you'll find that the apps still exist, they're just fragmented on the SD
card. This has happened to me plenty of times.
I've found it's only apps that are installed on the SD card and it's never
happened with apps on the phone's internal ROM.
A good way to check is to go into: Settings- Applications- Manage applications-
then tap the SD card tab. That list shows all of your apps installed on the SD
card. I found that when apps here got fragmented/corrupt they didn't show their
original app icon. Instead they showed the stock android app icon. This is a good
way to tell if the missing apps in question are still there but are just fragmented.
The way to solve this, the way that's worked for me, is to plug the phone into a
pc and mount the SD card as a disk. Then on the PC access the SD card via
explorer and right click- properties- tools- then click de-fragment.
This may take up to 30 mins as it's not as fast as a HDD.
From using this technique my apps have always returned and I can use them
with no problems again.
I've also noticed that this issue only happens if I restart or turn the phone off. I
don't understand what is corrupting the apps as the SD card is mounted
correctly and is the one supplied as standard.
I hope I've helped, and I guess this will save you from re-downloading all of your
apps again.
I'm happy to hear anyone's thoughts/suggestions onto why this is actually
happening in the first place too.
Cheers, Dms
Hi thanks so much for the answer. This has been bugging me for ages and even though I have been searching I have not had any joy solving it until your reply.
As you said it only seems to happen to apps on the sd card, and I would like to know why they are not "persistent" There must be a developer who understands the Android system who can explain why this happens and what you can do to make apps you have on your sd card permanent.
As you said it only happens to me when I re start my phone.
Thanks again for the answer
Hi. It's no problem. Yes I havn't seen anything about this issue being mentioned either.
I'd like to know what's causing it. Whether it's a hardware fault or something in the software.
It's a real pain having to hook it up to my pc to sort it out. Especially when I'm away from a pc, I can't use half of my apps.
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