There is something on my phone that keeps deleting .avi video files from my SD card. I noticed when I could not find some videos I recorded that were very important so I recorded more videos just to see what would happen and sure enough at some point they disappeared and I know they were not moved or misplaced because they were too large to lose. I have also noticed most of my playlists are missing, although I may have deleted those, I just don't remember.
Is there a free app out there that can monitor my SD card for any changes and let me know which app is creating, changing or removing files? I have a lot of apps installed on my phone and don't want to remove them one at a time to see which app is misbehaving.
Have you searched your SDcard for *.avi files?
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Yes. I used Astro to search on my phone and when I did not find anything I put my SD card into my computer and searched with windows and found nothing.
Very strange indeed, but I have not encountered this.
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Well do you know of any app that may help me solve this problem?
I had the same problem. Turned out I had faulty sd card. Since I replaced the sd card I haven't had the problem since
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Hi y'all,
I just replaced the stock SD card with a sandisk 32gigger. I did a backup of the disk on my PC, and the just copied that info to the new card via my card reader. When I put it in the phone, as well as saying something about read-only (couldn't see the whole notification) and not loading straightaway, it also didn't read the data that I'd just copied. So i tried copying the stuff again, this time doing it with the card in the phone, and I have the same issue. According to my pc, I copied about 5 gigs worth of data, but can see none of it with my phone.
Any ideas?
PS right now I have a notification icon of an SD card with a question mark on it, and when I look at it, it says "Mounted ReadOnly - The SD card has an unexpected problem. Tapping to recover it"
PS n00b alert, so be gentle!
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Just realised I probably should've formatted the card first.
I aplogise for wasting the time of any of you who may have read this and I'll now go hang my head in shame....
I'll post again if formatting doesn't help.
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So I formatted it, copied all the stuff across, stuck it in the phone, and yet again, I can only see a small handful of the folders that should be on there.
I'm now plugged into my PC and have copied the stuff over again. I've done an error check on the disk which has completed with no issue. I have completely closed down all explorer windows and then opened up the disk and all the folders are still there.
I am now going to safely remove the disk.
Now when I look at the sd card content on my phone, it shows hardly anything.
WHAT'S GOING ON!?!?! This is driving me nuts!
Any help here would be very much appreciated.
If you're rooted, look at the SD card contents through your recovery (Ext4, CWM, etc.) by going to "Install from zip" and just browsing around.
eroslws said:
If you're rooted, look at the SD card contents through your recovery (Ext4, CWM, etc.) by going to "Install from zip" and just browsing around.
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Thanks for the tip. No not rooted just yet.
I've had a look around tho, and found a little program (forgotten what it's cslled now!) that tests removable media and it turns out that my 32gig card is actually more like a 2gig card. That'll learn me for getting unbranded gear from China!
New one on its way, from uk distributor with 100% ebay feedback score. Hopefully this one will work!
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Hi all
This is my first post here. I am a newbie to this forum, the sensation and ICS but not to android, I was a proud desire owner for 18 months until I dropped it into the bath .
Anyway, since the ICS upgrade, I am a little confused on the app info screen. When I move an app to SD, it goes to something called USB storage app and not to SD? I have searched high and low for an answer to this before posting. Any ideas guys?
Many thanks
In the apps to SD app, everything appears to be on SD.
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I'm on stock ICS, and I can't recognize the problem. Have you used app2sd to move apps or just the app drager. Cause remember to have heard about problems with the app2sd from time to time. Not much help though. Sorry
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An example:
App info
World of goo
Total. 34.48mb
App. 412kb
USB storage app 31.52mb
Data. 2.56mb
SD card. 0.00mb
It appears that there is nothing on SD even though the app has been moved. Most of the app has moved to USB storage app, whatever that is?
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Hi. my first post here on xda. Been with android since the G1 on android 1.0.
From what I can gather:
Total is the total app size
App is the storage on the phone
USB storage app means the app is installed on the SD card.
Data is saved items like games or logins
SD card is what the app has on the SD card regardless of install.
I unmounted my SD card and the apps that were under the USB storage app disappeared from my app tray. I hope this helps explain it. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I am having this weird problem. Inside DCIM folder there is a folder name .thumbnails, inside that folder there is a file named thumbnaildata3. On my sensation the size of this file becomes 2.8+ GB and even more if there is more space on SD card. All of a sudden I get a message about 'no space available on sd while installing an app or taking pictures or videos.
Anybody knows why this is happening? I tried deleting it several times. But it keep coming back again and again.
That exactly happens to me! i always delete the files.....i found that an app from the market called 3D gallery was causing this for me...maybe you need to check what gallery app is causing this for you...
I don't have any other third party album app installed. It's too annoying n useless.
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I have been experiencing low internal memory on my Sensation and it is not letting me do anything with the phone (not receiving/downloading emails, no voice mails, Ive deleted apps that I used daily). Internal memory is usually around 1GB. I am down to 32MB. I have deleted texts, voicemails, apps stored on the internal memory and it will help but then the space drops back down. Can someone please tell me what is making the memory drop? I am not downloading emails, keeping texts, etc.
My phone is rooted and s-off. No custom ROM. I have 2.3.4 with Sense 3.0
I had read in these forums about something that can be done in regards to a script or folder. Something to that extent. I have tried everything. I used the make more space feature (clear app cache) and it barely helps. I did a factory reset but it deleted all my contacts and texts (I dont want to do that) so I restored everything back through clockwork recovery. I know there must be something I can do. I have ES File Explorer, can someone please tell me what folder to look in and delete or clear out (I don't want to delete something I am not suppose to). Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance
Just a thought, do you have lots of clockworkmod backups, because they can take up a lot of space if you have lots of them.
You could you could try going through each app you have and see how ugh space it takes. Also move some of them to sd card?
Many apps do not move to sd card well, and store their data on internal memory, like corporate email. And.the atachmeta.would be a problem. So go.through the apps and you should find the one Hittite on your storage.
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You could you could try going through each app you have and see how ugh space it takes. Also move some of them to sd card?
Many apps do not move to sd card well, and store their data on internal memory, like corporate email. And.the atachmeta.would be a problem. So go.through the apps and you should find the one Hittite on your storage.
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One thing is sure my HTC is the shiznit tbh
Moving apps to sd card had always helped me also I look in es file explorer and delete old downloads, back ups I no longer need, junk left behind from old applications . I usually can recognise what's in the folder by looking inside each folder. You will recognise a folder left over from old applications as it usually had the name of the app associated with it. I am betting you need to clear out some old folders. I hope this helps. Best wishes .
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I don't know what caused it.. any thoughts? Has this happened to you? Two nights ago, I recorded a 3.5GB 720p video using my phone, after that, I had issues using the camera app / gallery / ES file manager.. Also my battery life started to tank (later discovered it was the 'media' process constantly at 30% cpu), plus lots of random resets. So I *safely removed* my SD card, my phone went back to normal. If it was broken before I had taken that video, I don't think the camera app would have worked.. stock camera app buffer overflow ? Even the dates of some of those files are way wrong, some were even in future 2017 (hey look I invented time travel).
BACKUP YOUR STUFF NOW! I have instant dropbox backup of pictures, and it managed to backup a picture just moments before the video, and fortunately, the video was also ok (it didn't finish backup yet)... But tons of my existing pictures were trashed. Fortunately nothing outside of DCIM was broken.. but it could happen to you!!!
Hopefully this is not possible to the internal storage, would suck to lose files. Even stuff that is backed up, still a PITA.
User error. Don't remove sd card in that manner.
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User error. Don't remove sd card in that manner.
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Oh, i didn't word that very well. I unmounted and safely removed the card from my Phone at that point, but it was too late. The corrupt files were preventing apps from reading the DCIM folder.
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Oh, i didn't word that very well. I unmounted and safely removed the card from my Phone at that point, but it was too late. The corrupt files were preventing apps from reading the DCIM folder.
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that doesnt seem possible to me though, could be an issue with the rom not reading the card or he card itself sucks
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that doesnt seem possible to me though, could be an issue with the rom not reading the card or he card itself sucks
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Hmm... It is a lexar 32GB class 6 card. For digital cameras I normally use Patriot LX class 10's, but this was on sale... Perhaps your on to something.
Something I just thought, is perhaps the 'media' process choked on the 3.5GB file, started using tons of CPU and me opening the gallery app caused one of the reboots (while the SD card was still buffering), and that is what caused the SD card to corrupt?
There is some discussion here with similar 'media' process hanging on corrupted files: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1922230