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[Q] Micro SD to automatically Store data?

Is there a way to automatically store recorded video/pics or any other data to your external micro sdhc yet?
P.S. If there's a thread on this already please point me to the right direction

hdxnickka said:
Is there a way to automatically store recorded video/pics or any other data to your external micro sdhc yet?
P.S. If there's a thread on this already please point me to the right direction
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Yeah, just click on settings, (the gear wheel icon when in picture mode), and go to storage and choose SD card.

Ah! Thank you, sir

Double thanks, great find.

Yeah, that's a pretty important setting; video recording on Full HD takes about a MB/sec. I did a 4-minute video yesterday and it was a quarter of a GB, so I was very happy it was going to my SD card!

dougstoner said:
Yeah, just click on settings, (the gear wheel icon when in picture mode), and go to storage and choose SD card.
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Great dude. U beat me to it. But great none the less. I'm sure it'll help a lot of people.
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No problem guys. works the same for video too.
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What about doubletwist airsync into sd card? Searched but so far no luck. Any tricks/apps or something out there?

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.

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!

Probably a known issue

On all of the jellybean ROMs I've tried the music app seems to lag at times when my screen is off. Not sure why it happens just wondering if their is a fix. Also its seems that in order to play music I have to quit out of the music app and restart it for it to play, and that's not with the stock music player app that's for all of them on the play store such as pro amp, player pro and a few others.
Thanks guys.
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I'm running AOKP JB and have none of those. And I listen to a lot of music. Try clearing your .DB files and see if that helps

hechoen said:
I'm running AOKP JB and have none of those. And I listen to a lot of music. Try clearing your .DB files and see if that helps
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Tried didnt work, havent tried aokp jb yet. Might try it. Right now im running vincoms slim samsung leak rom works fairly well just wish the music didnt lag.
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Yeah man that sucks. Try jet audio basic. Go into settings and pick gapless playback for everything. If that doesn't work I'd have to say its an I/O issue.

Never had this issue
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no issues here, where is the music located, ext or int sdcard, if ext maybe an issue with the card, either way maybe time to format either or both sdcards, back them up first

vincom said:
no issues here, where is the music located, ext or int sdcard, if ext maybe an issue with the card, either way maybe time to format either or both sdcards, back them up first
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You could be right I have all my music stored on external, im going to try installing music app to sd card and maybe it wont be laggy, if not that then ill try putting music on internal, then ill try formatting just want to make sure I do everything first before formatting. Thanks ill get back to you guys when im done.
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He was asking where the music itself was located, not the music app. Try placing the music itself on your internal storage
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I think you have a really low class speed external SD, maybe class 2-3, that's why its laggy. I have a class four though and have never had a problem

Mike on XDA said:
He was asking where the music itself was located, not the music app. Try placing the music itself on your internal storage
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Yes and I answered :\ I said it was located on ext and I said I would move app to sd card and if that didnt work then I would move app and music to internal.....make sense , I probably wasnt clear enough.
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icenight89 said:
I think you have a really low class speed external SD, maybe class 2-3, that's why its laggy. I have a class four though and have never had a problem
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Good point I have class 2 16gb, but its odd because it only lags on jb roms, ics and gingerbread never had this issue.
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seanci said:
Good point I have class 2 16gb, but its odd because it only lags on jb roms, ics and gingerbread never had this issue.
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hmm that's rather strange then. maybe jellybean is just optimized for higher read/write speeds?
class 4 and higher 16gb are cheap, I've seen them for 5-10 US, or u could just go the route u already know of, internal

seanci said:
Yes and I answered :\ I said it was located on ext and I said I would move app to sd card and if that didnt work then I would move app and music to internal.....make sense , I probably wasnt clear enough.
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you have the app on externel?

vincom said:
you have the app on externel?
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I tried it for today but it still lags , it has to be my SD card I'll probably end up getting a higher class SD card
EDIT: Since more memory doesn't hurt anyone how does this SD card look, any opinions?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B007XZM6VG/ref=mp_s_a_1?qid=1358361253&sr=8-1&pi=SL75
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seanci said:
I tried it for today but it still lags , it has to be my SD card I'll probably end up getting a higher class SD card
EDIT: Since more memory doesn't hurt anyone how does this SD card look, any opinions?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B007XZM6VG/ref=mp_s_a_1?qid=1358361253&sr=8-1&pi=SL75
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that's not a bad price if u can get it shipped for little to nothing

seanci said:
I tried it for today but it still lags , it has to be my SD card I'll probably end up getting a higher class SD card
EDIT: Since more memory doesn't hurt anyone how does this SD card look, any opinions?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B007XZM6VG/ref=mp_s_a_1?qid=1358361253&sr=8-1&pi=SL75
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new mem wont hurt but that maybe not the problem
first try "stock" music player and save the music files to your internal sdcard, if it lags then ext sdcard not the prob, further troubleshooting required, btw dont have cable plugged in as it might be the media scanner running in the background which might effect performance, it seems as if something might be running to get the lag u r getting

vincom said:
new mem wont hurt but that maybe not the problem
first try "stock" music player and save the music files to your internal sdcard, if it lags then ext sdcard not the prob, further troubleshooting required, btw dont have cable plugged in as it might be the media scanner running in the background which might effect performance, it seems as if something might be running to get the lag u r getting
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Just tried music on internal and no issues it has to be SD card I'll format it later that might help.
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Update: I bought the sdcard from above link and it works perfect. It definitely was my class 2 SD card that was giving me problems with music.
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Oh I also have a similar issue on cm 10 music player doesn't open at all and after rebooting the actual music player app disappear anyone know a possible solution
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SantiagoSolis said:
Oh I also have a similar issue on cm 10 music player doesn't open at all and after rebooting the actual music player app disappear anyone know a possible solution
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fix permissions clear cache/dalvik

Defective S4

Anyone else having problems playing music from your sd card? I'll play somewhere from 2-8 songs and the music will stop and I get the "SD Card Unexpectedly Pulled" message. (no it's not the sd card, I've tried it with multiple sd cards)
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That sucks
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Is it worth formating the memory card on the phone it's self to see if it fixes it?
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Is it worth formating the memory card on the phone it's self to see if it fixes it?
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Tried that too
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You using stock player maybe worth trying winamp or something to test further..
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You using stock player maybe worth trying winamp or something to test further..
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Regardless, it should be working on my stock music player
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JChespirito24 said:
Anyone else having problems playing music from your sd card? I'll play somewhere from 2-8 songs and the music will stop and I get the "SD Card Unexpectedly Pulled" message. (no it's not the sd card, I've tried it with multiple sd cards)
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Don't take any chances and get it warranty replaced ASAP. Even if it starts working again it might give you trouble down the line. The bottom line is that it shouldn't be doing what you say it is doing at all. This shows the importance of the warranty because stuff like this will happen no matter which phone you have, especially with early releases.

^+1. You've paid for an expensive phone, that's not acceptable, regardless. Just get it replaced anyways. Unless it's a standard issue everyone's experiencing, which I doubt.

Take a photo screen shot next time it happens as proof. You should be able to walk into ATT and get it replaced.
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I don't think it's the phone try another sd card before returning it... My friend has this issue with his s3 too he had a dying SD card just backup everything before it fails

if u r using Sandisk micro SD its kinda suck ( just search on Google about Sandisk Micro SD's problems ) , u can try to get another one Under warranty ( if u still have it )
edit : BTW http://www.phonearena.com/news/SanDisk-says-it-produced-some-bad-32GB-and-64GB-microSD-cards_id40986

are u using sandisk ?

prodigiez said:
are u using sandisk ?
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I've got SanDisk and Kingston cards
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JChespirito24 said:
I've got SanDisk and Kingston cards
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so does the Kingstone working without problems ?

yahyoh said:
so does the Kingstone working without problems ?
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They both have the problem
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Testing this on the Sprint S4 now. So far 15 songs and no errors.

Replace it.

OK played 25 songs in a row with no problems. 64GB Sandisk

Try transcoding the songs or another player?
But yeah the sandisk class 4 32gb microsd seems to die for most ppl on their s3. One of mine died
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