I bought my daughter a refurbished Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 (GT-P3113) for Christmas 2012. If I recall, this was the 8GB model and there were two partitions. It has been running the stock OS, no custom ROMS. I cannot recall if I have ever installed any system updates. A few months ago, the internal SD partition just disappeared. I "fixed" this by installing a 16 GB SD card and redirecting as many of the apps as I could to save to the external SD. The tablet has been running terribly lately (lagging, locking up) so I decided to see if a factory restore would fix both problems. I don't know yet if it fixed the sluggishness, but the storage capacity is showing the same thing, total capacity of 4.59 GB.
Where did that partition go? Can I get it back safely? If I can get it back, can I trust it? She is only 8, so it's not like she is using this for critical data. If I have to, I will just stick to the existing fix, using the external SD card for storage until it is time to upgrade in a year or so.
Thanks,
Paul
Ok, so I installed all of the updates after doing a factory restore, and now the capacity is showing the full 8 GB. Now I am not 100% sure if there were two partitions to start with or not. I know that we also had an issue with her original SD card, so maybe that is what i am thinking of.
Anyway...it appears to be fixed for now.
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Hey guys my girlfriend has a captivated.....shes rooted but running both stock kernel and stock firmware, she never uses the external sd card except for when she had to get a new captivate a few weeks ago, they transfered her data and put it on the external.......today she recieved a notification in the notification bar saying that her external sd had been wiped.....she hasnt installed any apps today, didnt do anything with the sd, nothing............any thoughts???
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Hey guys my girlfriend has a captivated.....shes rooted but running both stock kernel and stock firmware, she never uses the external sd card except for when she had to get a new captivate a few weeks ago, they transfered her data and put it on the external.......today she recieved a notification in the notification bar saying that her external sd had been wiped.....she hasnt installed any apps today, didnt do anything with the sd, nothing............any thoughts???
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Happens to me constantly. I don't ever put anything on it anymore. For me it's the cognition roms. The first time it happened to me I ran a utility called "Photorec" to try and recover a lot my pictures and other filed. (It works for more than pictures) Was successful for me.
TestDisk/PhotoRec
Your external sd does not get wiped by any rom. Your internal sd won't even get wiped unless you master clear or hard reset your phone. Or you manually format obviously.
SD cards that lose data are usually faulty. As mentioned above, the OS does not wipe SD cards - internal or external.
Question: I have been trying to figure this out. When I first went to CM7 I didn't know about the SD and EMMC memory ordeal and just continued as normal. So after a while my SD was showing full and EMMC was barely used.
However... I shortly noticed that I was running low on SD space. NOTE: I swapped the 2GB microSD card for a 32GB microSD. Which prompted me to look deeper at what storage was what? I then found out about the switch in CM7 to use microSD as SD and internal as EMMC. Thus allowing me to use the 32GB microSD as the SD in CM7. Now here is the problem some apps had been moved to prior swapping EMMC/SD (now EMMC), now show up on EMMC but the icon is not correct and when I try to run it says it is not installed.
So if one can move apps from phone to SD, has anyone made an app to move from EMMC to SD? If not I could see people being interested in it. Unless there is an easy way to fix it I may have to get a list of bad app icons and re-install. Then figure out what to do with the EMMC stranded app files. My guess is if the system does not know its installed but the files are there it would just be wasting storage.
How should this EMMC be used?
Thanks for your help!
Ok here is how I fixed it. I changed setting back to us internal as SD. Moved missing apps (the ones that gave an error "Application is not installed on your phone." prior to me changing the setting) from internal SD to phone. Then I changed the setting back rebooted and moved apps back to the SD card.
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I just got this phone today. I rooted with OneSuperclick without any issues; however, I am running into storage problems right now. I don't have a microsd card on hand to store kernel and custom rom. Currently, I cannot save any files to my "SD Card" (internal memory). How can I go about flashing it now? I have 384MB left.
I've never had these issues before rooting other phones.
you need an sd card to put the rom you want to flash on. you can't even flash from internal memory because it needs to be mounted and unmounted for the flashing, I think anyways.
Spend $5 and buy a 2 or 4 gig one, they're cheap now.
I was just confused cause I had no issues before with rooting and flashing a Samsung Captivate and Galaxy SII without a SD Card, so I was wondering what the issue was.
Thanks!
AsianXL said:
I was just confused cause I had no issues before with rooting and flashing a Samsung Captivate and Galaxy SII without a SD Card, so I was wondering what the issue was.
Thanks!
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Both of those have separate internal storage space that the sgs4g doesnt
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I purchased a BLU R1 HD, non-amazon prime version, running Android 6.0 when it was first released. A little while later I got a Patriot XL 64Gb microsd card to format as internal memory. Everything has been fine, it's not rooted and I have no desire to root, it's not tweaked in any way, it's just a stock Android phone. Until last night for some reason it decided that my adopted storage was corrupt. I have not done anything to the phone recently, I ran a backup just the other day but did not at that time grab my pictures off the phone because I ran out of time and would come back to it later.
I have no idea what happened. I put my phone on the charger and went to sleep, and woke up this morning to corrupted storage. I have not since done anything to the phone.
Is there any hope of getting my pictures off of it now? Or do I just have to re-format the card and drive on?
Update, I cannot format the card, it stops at 20% for awhile and then just quites with no error message.
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Update, I cannot format the card, it stops at 20% for awhile and then just quites with no error message.
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Greetings and welcome to assist. It is possible for a sd card to just die unexpectedly, it's happened to me. Have you tried your card in a pc or different device ? There are several data recovery programs which may recover your photos etc
Good Luck
Sawdoctor
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Hi there, I updated my s10e SM-G970F to android 10 2 days ago. I noticed the device being slowler than usual. With a couple laggy issues.
Yesterday the SD card (Sandisk 400gb class 10 U1) just stopped working. On the settings menu in the storage option , the card is "corrupt". I need to format it to use it again (i had made a backup already) but no luck, it comes up with "158mb used out of 2GB" . However on the laptop the SD card comes up with the full storage capacity and still has all my data on, even after "formatting" on the phone.
The SD card isn't a fake or broken in any way, I had bought it in July this year and ran a full test to ensure it is a legit one. The card works perfectly on the Xperia XZ2C on Android 8.0.
Up till the android 10 update, the card was working completely fine.
My conclusion is that the update messed the system up somehow. Can anyone help me out with this issue? Is there any way I can downgrade to the lastest Android 9 on the S10e?
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Merry Christmas!! Hope we all had a lovely day yesterday!
Hi there, I updated my s10e SM-G970F to android 10 2 days ago. I noticed the device being slowler than usual. With a couple laggy issues.
Yesterday the SD card (Sandisk 400gb class 10 U1) just stopped working. On the settings menu in the storage option , the card is "corrupt". I need to format it to use it again (i had made a backup already) but no luck, it comes up with "158mb used out of 2GB" . However on the laptop the SD card comes up with the full storage capacity and still has all my data on, even after "formatting" on the phone.
The SD card isn't a fake or broken in any way, I had bought it in July this year and ran a full test to ensure it is a legit one. The card works perfectly on the Xperia XZ2C on Android 8.0.
Up till the android 10 update, the card was working completely fine.
My conclusion is that the update messed the system up somehow. Can anyone help me out with this issue? Is there any way I can downgrade to the lastest Android 9 on the S10e?
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Same problem here, did you get it figured out?
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Your SD card might have gone bad. That happened to me with my Axon 7.
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Same problem here, did you get it figured out?
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Ye it was the SD card. It went corrupt so Sandisk replaced it free of charge ?
I have the same problem on Nokia2.3 after updating to android 10
It seems the problem with the update, as I noticed when choosing using the sd card as phone storage it format it to GPT not fat32, even if I format it to fat32 it reformat it.
I hope this problem be fixed with even an update patch.
I think the alternative is to root it and use the old methods as they were very efficient.
I don't know why not to look into these methods and adopt it by system developer s
Clear system cache on boot menu... always after a firmware update.
Try a hard reboot if that doesn't get it.
I highly doubt reformatting the card will help unless the OS corrupted it somehow. Backup the data and reformat. Not a big deal if that's all it takes.
Hard reset, with a large firmware update it may be the best way to go.
Firmware updates; have a damn good reason(s) to do them if you like your current OS version and it's fast and stable.
Security is rarely a problem with even ancient Android OS's unless you do something stupid.
I ran Kitkat until last year, now running Pie and
-not- going to Q on my 10+.