My phone is a AT&T Galaxy S3, rooted, running M11 (cm11). I have NO sd card in the phone. The internal storage capacity is about 12 GB.
During a recent trip, I used the phone as a storage device, i.e. transfer files from my Canon camera to my phone regularly. I stored about 5GB of files (mostly pictures & videos) from my Canon camera to my Galaxy S3 during the past week during my trip. At the end of the trip, the phone had about 1GB internal storage left.
This afternoon, I copied another big file (a DVD file) to the S3 internal storage, that left only about 400MB of space. I thought that might be too low, so I deleted some apps to free up spaces, it leaves about 700MB space after that.
Then I was going to copy those 5GB pictures & videos from S3 internal storage to my PC, the copy keeps failing. I tried rebooting the phone -- after rebooting, A LOT of my files are gone. Now, the phone has 9GB space left! Looks like a lot of files/folders are gone, it does not appear any apps are gone.
Any one has any idea what might go wrong, obviously, my main concern is to recovery those 5GB pictures & videos from my last trip. Note that those 5GB pictures & videos are originally not in DCIM folder, I put them in a separate folder in the phone.
Since I noticed the lost files, I've stopped using the file to avoid any more writing to the phone. Also, since I've never used a SD card with this phone, I believe it should have nothing to do with LOST.DIR issue. TIA!
I used Disk Digger and it recovered most of the pictures, although MP4s seems mostly corrupted after a few seconds of play. Wish there is a way to recover all, still puzzled at how this all happened..
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My photos seem to be split randomly into two different "Camera" folders on my phone.
Storage in the camera app is set to SD and still no matter what I've done, I always seem to get 2 camera folders and the pics sent to each one seem rather random to me.
Any input?
Edit: Just looked again and one folder is on the SD card and one is on the phone's internal storage. Photos seem to be randomly sent into one or the other. I've reset the app, wiped the phone, nothing worked.
Anyone?
Just making sure, you know that in the file browser, "SDcard" is the phone's storage, and "extSD" is the memory card.
With that said, if I understand you correctly, you say you selected memory card for the storage in the camera app, correct? I realized a few days ago that for some annoying reason, even when that is selected, the app still creates a "DCIM" folder in the internal memory which it uses to cache thumbnails. Why it can't do that on the external card, I'd like to know.
Hi guys, so i have a samsung vibrant with ICS rom. My phone has 16gb built in, but it says it has 2gb internal and 14gb external. From what i've read it puts away 14 for the phone and the 2gb is apparently all you need? I keep having the same problem after i get all my apps installed and what not, it says the phone storage is low and eventually it gets to the point where i can't receive texts because it's full so I have to reformat the whole phone for that to go away. Is there a way to make it so I have more storage? This keeps happening every few days and I always have to format for the phone to work..
2gb - this is the space for android to install apps... it doesn't have to be any bigger
14gb - space for the rest of your storage, i.e. photos, videos, music
Your apps and text messages are being stored in that 2 GB partition. How much is being taken up by the apps? Can you move some to SD card or delete some you don't need? Also check how much is being used by the data and cache in induvidual apps. Facebook can sometimes have tons of data, IMDB will cache all sorts of stuff - I deleted something like a 100 MB cache once. Pull up the apps in settings and sortby size. How many texts are you keeping? Can you delete some threads or older texts?
Hi everyone. First time poster hoping to get some guidance. I was moving all of my photos to my SD Card via the Gallery to free up space on my Verizon Note 3.....900+ photos....during the transfer I accidentally pressed the home button and for whatever reason the phone rebooted..
Once it started up all of the photos were gone. Also the storage on my device has about 7gb more space now. I've tried some cursory research to attempt recovery but from what I've foind it helps if you don't take photos before trying to restore....well I've needed to take photos since then.
Is there any saving these? Thanks all.
Hi all
Today i took my Samsung 64GB SD card out of my Samsung Note Pro 12.2 (after unmounting the card first of course!) and put it in my Xperia Z3, but upon viewing the contents of the card I see that 99% of the photos, videos and music that was on there has been deleted. The card shows as having 59.9GB free space. The data that I have lost totals roughly 40GB.
Also, the folder names have been altered, for example "music" has become "music.7" and "photo" has become "photo.3".
Can anyone explain why this may have happened, and if there is a way of recovering the data?
Since the data loss i havent used the card, aside from putting it back in the Note Pro 12.2 in the hope that the data would show on this device. It didnt.
I would be gutted if there is no way of retrieving my family photos and videos.
And yes, i know I you'll all say i should have backed up, but funnily enough I took the card out of the Note Pro 12.2 to begin doing just that! how ironic.
If it didn't work in the z3 I'd have put it back in the note to retrace my steps. Files don't just disappear without cause. I always turn my device off when I pull the card. Plus being that it's "android", could there be a (godforbid) sync issue?
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If it didn't work in the z3 I'd have put it back in the note to retrace my steps. Files don't just disappear without cause. I always turn my device off when I pull the card. Plus being that it's "android", could there be a (godforbid) sync issue?
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hmm, well as i said above I did just that. Saw that the z3 showed an almost blank card and put it back in the note.
Aside from the data loss I am also intrigued how the folder names became changed from the moment just before I unmounted the card to when i put it in the z3. What on earth would have caused that?!
Sorry to hear that really. Tbh, it has to be a note issue being that when you unmounted and removed it that is when it happened. I would go through all it's settings to see if it or an apk installed has some weird permissions. Don't you just love android? I find it fascinating if not quite the child-like OS. Not enough transparency or control whatsoever.
afaik android doesn't have many issues with viruses but it might have been one.
or
the files are stored to a cloud and aren't on your card but online somewhere (an app uploaded them for you)
or
the files have been compressed (unlikely since i don't believe you can compress 50gb to 10gb)
anyways, you can try several sd card recovery tools
https://www.google.de/search?q=sd+c...f-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=3r8mVazTCszcavmGgCA
I'm having a problem with my Z3, where it seems to be counting data and/or apps stored to the external SD card as part of the internal storage, which is leading the phone to show as being full when it isn't.
As you can see in the screenshots below (no you can't because all my xda posts are somehow gone and I'm back to being a noob who can't post links) , my 16gb phone believes that it contains more than 22gb of data, the main problem being more than 16gb of apps, which are in reality stored on the SD card.
When I eject the SD card, the apps disappear, and the internal storage drops to what looks like the correct level (with apps showing at 5.88gb).
Some of the apps, notably Amazon underground and Vainglory, seem to be much larger than they should be, e.g Vainglory at over 4gb, when it should be 1.25gb, and Amazon being more than 2gb when it should be around 124mb (as they are on my Nexus 9). So it looks to me that somehow the phone is counting the apps and data stored on the SD card more than once. I've tried tried uninstalling both of those apps, incase it is an Amazon underground issue (vainglory is installed from Amazon). That helps free up some space (apps still show over 10gb though), but the next biggest app is Google Play Music, which is also showing data that is stored on the SD card as being part of the internal storage. When I reinstall Vainglory from the Playstore (still storing the data on the SD card), it shows as being 3.47gb, smaller but still way too big. So the problem is clearly not related to Amazon.
I'm running a stock Sony rom, Android 6.0.1 build 23.5.A.1.291 on a D6603.
Can anyone help me with this before I go nuclear and factory reset it again?