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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.

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

[Q] SD card is damaged.

I am getting a message that says "SD card is damaged. Try reformatting it." Is this referring to my external SD card?
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Yes just format it but you will lose everything on it.Everything
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The way to find out is to either remove the external card or download an app to check the sd cards.
If you are going to format, try to copy the cards over to your computer first.

When I mounted to my Mac, only 1 card mounted ( the internal) instead of 2. I copied everything off and formatted it just for my own peace of mind. I then copied only what I absolutely needed back. After a reboot, i had the same error. I then shut down and removed the external card, and no more error messages. No great loss, nothing on there that I don't have a backup of already. I guess I need a new external SD. This one was only a class 4 anyway. Do I need to move up in class?
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lunarlandr said:
I guess I need a new external SD. This one was only a class 4 anyway. Do I need to move up in class?
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Upgrading classes isn't required. You can go out and buy another Class 4 or even a Class 2 if you so choose. The only difference is the write speed (4MB/s vs 2MB/s respectively). If you use an APPs2SD type app than a Class 6 card will be a good recommendation for you to get as it offers 6MB/s write speed which in turn cuts down on loading and saving times of any apps you use off the card.
But in terms of upgrading classes because it's required, it's not. Buy whatever class card you need or want to buy.

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!

Does anyone else hate this device's usb transfer?

You connect it to the computer and open it, has to load the root, open a folder, has to load the folder, if you copy to a folder and then open a different folder while copying, errors occur... I'm surprised I don't see a lot of complaining about it. What made me want to write this is errors I am having with media transfer.... I haven't had many other Android devices but my last one was much better. Going through the device on my computer was like going through my computer's hard drive.

I prefer to use Airdroid to transfer files. Never was a fan of connecting by usb and now I don't have to. I generally transfer <700 MB so I'm good there. Anything much larger and I'll pull my sdcard in. Only plug in via usb when fiddling with Odin.
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I use a Mac 10.6.8 and Android file transfer and its easy as anything. Lol. Exactly like going through my phone.
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nope. ive only sent a few files to my phone but i just right click, send to device and it has been fine. they always just magicaly appeared where i want the files somehow....lol. never really messed around with it

any time i have connected my phone to my computer, it loads and transfers files just as easily as any other phone i have owned. music, video, ROMs , etc... all transfer easy. not super fast, but easy.

SlimSnoopOS said:
I prefer to use Airdroid to transfer files. Never was a fan of connecting by usb and now I don't have to. I generally transfer <700 MB so I'm good there. Anything much larger and I'll pull my sdcard in. Only plug in via usb when fiddling with Odin.
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Cool I'm gonna check out airdroid. I used to occasionally use kies air but some files wouldn't transfer correctly (they'd be corrupted) and it took a long time to copy
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joshua5683 said:
Cool I'm gonna check out airdroid. I used to occasionally use kies air but some files wouldn't transfer correctly (they'd be corrupted) and it took a long time to copy
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I've actually never tried my hand with Kies or Android File Transfer. I figured Airdroid would be a better alternative to AFT since it actually receives updates. I know how Google is, they don't really seem to care for us Mac users too much.
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You connect it to the computer and open it, has to load the root, open a folder, has to load the folder, if you copy to a folder and then open a different folder while copying, errors occur... I'm surprised I don't see a lot of complaining about it. What made me want to write this is errors I am having with media transfer.... I haven't had many other Android devices but my last one was much better. Going through the device on my computer was like going through my computer's hard drive.
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Now that you mention it, having to do all that searching is very irritating. I've been trying to save my pictures off of my devices without the use of dropbox and the entire process is messy.

Terrible. I have gotten to the point that I take out my SD card, put it into my computer, transfer data to SD card, put SD card back in phone, and suffer terrible speeds transferring to internal storage using Astro or ES File Browser just to avoid the terrible MTP USB software!
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XdrummerXboy said:
Terrible. I have gotten to the point that I take out my SD card, put it into my computer, transfer data to SD card, put SD card back in phone, and suffer terrible speeds transferring to internal storage using Astro or ES File Browser just to avoid the terrible MTP USB software!
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I'm going to try this!

XdrummerXboy said:
Terrible. I have gotten to the point that I take out my SD card, put it into my computer, transfer data to SD card, put SD card back in phone, and suffer terrible speeds transferring to internal storage using Astro or ES File Browser just to avoid the terrible MTP USB software!
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It gets the job done, but its pretty slow. Good for small files, terrible for high def movies and such!
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