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Weird SD Issue - 5mb of memory still in use even when card..

Hi,
I have a Dane Elec 512mb mini SD card. I use it to store music on my Mini XDA s and do this by syncing it with media player on my desktop pc.
I noticed that even when i delete all the music off the card it still says on the device and in windows media player that there is still 5.37mb in use?
This is weird as the card 'appears' to be completely empty. Anyone else had this or know why?

I just noticed on the 'Sync' panel in media player there is a button at the top right that says "Format storage media".
Is this a safe way to wipe 'everything' from my SD card without messing anything up? (Its just i have read horror stories on here of people formatting their SDs and them losing memory afterwards).

You can format you SD card no probs, I've done it on several devices. You could do it with a card reader or by using a prgramme like Wintersoft Storage tools which also lets you analyze and defragment the card too. Typically you can reclaim a little bit of space this way too.

Transferring Music

I have been working on trying to understand how to use the different SD cards, but seem to be having some trouble. The other day i plugged my phone to my laptop to put a movie on my phone. Put it in mass media storage mode, opened the drive on the computer, went to media, added a folder "video" and that seemed to work just fine. This time i wanted to put a bunch of music on the phone. So i connected it with mass media mode again, selceted the drive and selected the external card. When i transferred the music it seemed to be fine, but then on my phone i could not find it on the external sd card, nor anywhere else for that matter. I didn't want to plug it in with the kies option as i dont really plan to be using kies.
What am i doing wrong here?
Thanks for all the continued support.

I've transferred some music to my phone (to the main SD card). After I did, it scanned for media files like it always does once you disconnect from the mass media mode, and it was there. I've also transferred a video (to the external one), and it scanned for media files (like always) and it worked fine. Try rebooting your phone if the files ARE on there. Or just try transferring them again?

Where are you getting the music from. Did you purchase it off of itunes. That would cause it to not do it. Just a thought.
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The album i tried to transfer was not from itunes. It's weird because on my computer it showed it on there, but not when i searched on the phone. lugged it back into the computer and it still showed it... How would i need to transfer the music so that it will show on the external sd as well as when I go to music player? The only time i saw music is when i put it on my internal card as mentioned above. When i did it this way it also made a file for each song when i opened the gallery which is annoying.
Thanks again for the help!

Did you format the external SD card on the phone? Try that first, then transfer some files over.
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No I did not format it first. Should I just unmount it, then hit format? Then restart it? Thanks, hope that does the trick!

Do you have any apps to hide media?
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(((New User of Andriod Infuse)) - MUSIC * Video - works nicely
QUOTE: Heuser1 No I did not format it first. Should I just unmount it, then hit format? Then restart it? Thanks, hope that does the trick! /QUOTE
Heu*;
here are some steps for your "music" issues ( try these ) before you move to phone via USB cable
a) CD that you ripped = in MP3 format ATLEAST - maybe you can rip that CD again using Windows Media [FONT="Century Gothic[/SIZE]"](and makes sure its setup for MP with 128kpbs as min)[/FONT]
b) Than connect to PC/laptop via USB cable , and first thing to do = FORMAT SD card ( after mounting it etc etc
c) Move the files ( i nornmally create a folder etc jsut like the Itunes does in windows etcetc)
Works nicely!!!
However there are some files ( MP3 and few VIDEO formats) that wont play on andriod , eg RMVB and LOSLESS are the files i COULD NOT PLAY on my infuse
note:: SD cardhas to be seen by Andriod ( if its not comptable than you wont see it in the phone )

[Q] Music on SD card

Anyone have issues with the pre-installed "Music" app failing to recognize files on the external SD card? (in the Dock)
I have an SDXC 64g card in the dock, and I can navigate files within it fine, using the file explorer.
But the built-in music app only shows the sample tracks, never any on the SD card.
Restarted several times. Unmount-remounted the SD card within android too (several times).
Several other posts suggested "rescan for music" but I cannot locate such a thing in any of the music player's built-in menus.
I've also tried several 3rd party music players, such as WinAmp, Powerplayer, etc (in fact, I've tried all the ones with good ratings from the market) but these apparently are just layered over the built-in player's information.
I can play one song at a time, by using the file explorer, so it's not an access issue or formatting issue-- and while playing, the tags appear fine.
It appears to be a problem with the music database? I have no idea where that may be found.
Stock TF101, not rooted, 16gb, with keyboard dock.

Try Meridian Media player,
working for me

I have found a couple that permitted folder-browsing, and awkward playing via folders.
What I would prefer is fixing the basic issue: the built-in media library does not scan either external card for music content.
If there is a hidden way to refresh this engine, I'd love to learn about it.

In question to your answer...nope mine sees the micro sd card music files just fine in the stock Music app,haven't tried using the card reader slot for storing or reading music files.

I have the same problem with pictures. I did a little research into it.
Android has a concept called the MediaStore. On boot-up or insertion the OS scans all the memory (cards) and puts media (MP3, Images, Video) records into the MediaStore. Honeycomb didn't support SD card pre-3.2, so Asus had added this into their kernel.
Enter honeycomb 3.2: There must have been a conflict so either Asus intentionally or unintentionally disabled everything, so now only apps that don't use the MediaStore work.
In short, apps are only going to half work until Asus can fix their kernel.

dburckh said:
I have the same problem with pictures. I did a little research into it.
Android has a concept called the MediaStore. On boot-up or insertion the OS scans all the memory (cards) and puts media (MP3, Images, Video) records into the MediaStore. Honeycomb didn't support SD card pre-3.2, so Asus had added this into their kernel.
Enter honeycomb 3.2: There must have been a conflict so either Asus intentionally or unintentionally disabled everything, so now only apps that don't use the MediaStore work.
In short, apps are only going to half work until Asus can fix their kernel.
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Thanks for clearing it up-- I will now take it up with Asus, by entering a trouble-ticket.
At the very least, if enough people complain, maybe they will fix their kludge (to the Android OS).

Marct77 said:
In question to your answer...nope mine sees the micro sd card music files just fine in the stock Music app,haven't tried using the card reader slot for storing or reading music files.
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I have not tried the microSD, just the SD card.
I have only 32gig on my micro-- not enough room.
My SD card is a 64gig one (SDXC), and has all of my music files on it.
I verified I can access the card and it's content via File Explorer, and I can play songs on the SD one at a time that way...

I haven't tried to play any mp3s via the dock but i use playerpro and there is a folder play option where you can just navigate to folders. I'm not sure if it can go high enough to hit /removable/ for you to get to the SD slot but i'm gonna guess if you can get to microsd you can get to sd.

Transferring music to Xperia Z3

Hi guys
I'm going out of my mind trying to transfer my music collection on to the Xperia Z3.
I have a collection of roughly 15GB and have been attempting to transfer to a Sandisk 64GB micro SD card via both Sony Bridge for Mac and Android File Manager. The file transfers look to complete successfully and on the phone all songs look to be present too.
The issue comes when trying to play songs with both Walkman and Poweramp, a lot of the songs just skip through without playing at all and 50% of the songs that do play, all I hear is a portion of one specific song that sounds chopped up.
Does anyone have any idea what's happening and how I can get the whole music collection playing correctly on the Z3 as I did on my previous Z2?
Many thanks!

Can't you just copy and paste without the bridge software?
I copied music from my NAS to Z3 (to SDCard) using FileCommander and had no issues. Try wireless transfer if you can. I am also using a Sandisk 64GB card, the Extreme U3 version in my case.
If it's skipping without playing at all, it may be due to the files being corrupt/incomplete.
If all else fails try reformatting the card or maybe the card may have gone bad.

abhinav.tella said:
Can't you just copy and paste without the bridge software?
I copied music from my NAS to Z3 (to SDCard) using FileCommander and had no issues. Try wireless transfer if you can. I am also using a Sandisk 64GB card, the Extreme U3 version in my case.
If it's skipping without playing at all, it may be due to the files being corrupt/incomplete.
If all else fails try reformatting the card or maybe the card may have gone bad.
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Thanks for the reply.
I have tried reformatting the card several times, using the 2 pieces of software I mentioned, Copying manually through a card reader into Macbook slot and none of those worked. I never had an issue with the Z2. Half of the songs skip as if they are corrupted, while the other half weirdly play the same chopped 20 seconds from the same 2 random songs before skipping.
I have managed to get somewhere finally by using the Sony Bridge software to transfer the songs over in blocks of up to 50 songs (there seems to be a limit before it all goes wrong again!) at a time and this looks to have worked, though will take a few sessions to get all the songs copied.
All very odd...

Is the card formatted as fat32? If it is the max it can write is 4gb probably that's why it gets corrupted. Gotta transfer in increments to avoid the 4 GB limit

The 4GB limit is per file not overall.

[Completed] Problem with SD card and audio files

I just bought a new SD card and have been transferring files from my old to the new one. It is mostly music, cca 30 gb from the old one and additional 10 to 15 from my pc. Anyway I transferred all of them and checked if they are there on my PC. IT said that i have some 20 gb fre of 64 gb. When I turned on the phone and went into Poweramp only a small amount of music was there. When I went to storage settings it said I only used 15 gb of my SD and going into file manager just showed folders but there were no files. I formatted the SD and copied all files again this time slowly copying 3-4 folders at a time and watching over the whole process and again the same thing. So I went over all those files and it turns out that those files are all my rips of cds that I did while I was still using iTunes and some of them with winamp. All torrented music was there. They are MPEG-4 audio files while torrents are mostly mp3. The thing all those same files still work on my old SD which is the same apart from capacity (class 10 32 gb). So it happens that files aren't transfered at all and not just that poweramp just doesn't recognize them and it worked fine for my old SD.
I'm using HTC One m8 on stock ROM android 5.0 with htc sense
thanks in advance for any insight you might have to fix this problem

I thought about that too but the thing is exactly the same files are missing twice while others are being copied.

Bump.
EDIT: just a small update, it's not about file type because some of the files that are mp3 are not copied while some mpeg-4 are. Anyway, all photos are transferred correctly but still audio files are sometimes copying and sometimes not
EDIT 2: so I just tried copying those songs that are missing once more for one album. they were copied and file manager said they are as big as they should be (around 10 mb) and poweramp recognize for their full running time. Bt only first few seconds of each song play and they are switched to the next one

Hi there
You'd be best served asking for help from the experts who own your device, here
[HELP THREAD] HTC One M8 - Ask any questions here!
Also please read carefully this guide about SD card issuess:
[GUIDE] The Generic SD Issue (READ FIRST)
Good luck