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[Q] Phone keeps losing installed apps on SD card

So I've been having this issue for about a week now. All the apps installed on my phones SD card once I reboot are not loading up. I know the data is still there because the first time that it happened I spent the better part of day freaking out thinking everything was gone gone. At some point I thought of checking of the data by plugging in into the computer. Turns out (1) all the apps miraculously return (2) I can't mount the SD card anymore (3) I can't unmount the SD card anymore either.
What is the deal? It's kind of annoying to lost everything every time you reboot. I'm not really in the mood to tether my phone each time for the unforeseeable future just to keep everything loaded. Has this happened to anyone before? What should I do?

Cwluc said:
So I've been having this issue for about a week now. All the apps installed on my phones SD card once I reboot are not loading up. I know the data is still there because the first time that it happened I spent the better part of day freaking out thinking everything was gone gone. At some point I thought of checking of the data by plugging in into the computer. Turns out (1) all the apps miraculously return (2) I can't mount the SD card anymore (3) I can't unmount the SD card anymore either.
What is the deal? It's kind of annoying to lost everything every time you reboot. I'm not really in the mood to tether my phone each time for the unforeseeable future just to keep everything loaded. Has this happened to anyone before? What should I do?
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What do you mean, the icons? I'm going to assume that's what you're referring to, for this reply...
If that's what you meant, icons on the home screen take a few seconds to get themselves drawn, if apps are on SD.
You can switch to a different skin then switch back to your original skin, to get them to redraw. Or delete/reposition them one at a time. It's a workaround, but changing the skin temporarily is faster.
It's a sense bug, I'm pretty sure.
Doesn't happen if apps are installed on the phones internal storage, so until they fix it, move your apps onto internal storage, if you don't want to deal with this each time you reboot. They run faster if they're not on your SD anyway.
Unless you have waaaay more apps than you really need, of course.

Sorry should've been a little more specific. The shortcuts on my home screen are all no longer working and I'm well aware of how long it takes for sense to load them up on startup but even when I go to display all apps it only displays the apps on internal storage. In fact each and every app on the card (in the apps settings) has a funny icon that has a little "sd" on it now and just says computing and will not load.
And since writing this I can no longer get the phone to load any apps from the sd card by tethering it to the computer. It's still accessible - just downloaded today's song from amazon and played it - but apps on it are almost like they're gone.

This happens to me sometimes too. But usually when it happens to me I can go into Settings - Applications - Manage Applications and move the troublesome app to internal storage, and then it's fine. It never completely disappears.
It might do you some good to reformat your SD card. Move everything off of it first, then format it, then put everything back on.

Is it the stock 8GB SD card, or a different one?

homeslice976 said:
This happens to me sometimes too. But usually when it happens to me I can go into Settings - Applications - Manage Applications and move the troublesome app to internal storage, and then it's fine. It never completely disappears.
It might do you some good to reformat your SD card. Move everything off of it first, then format it, then put everything back on.
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Sold, since I can no longer access the SD card and I've got nothing to listen to at work...
zuriken said:
Is it the stock 8GB SD card, or a different one?
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Yup.

@homeslice976 copied, formatted (made sure it was FAT32), copied everything back and no dice. Same symptoms, Apps will not load.
@zuriken I don't know why you asked about the stock SD card or not, do you think it needs to be replaced? It's only been since February.

Cwluc said:
@homeslice976 copied, formatted (made sure it was FAT32), copied everything back and no dice. Same symptoms, Apps will not load.
@zuriken I don't know why you asked about the stock SD card or not, do you think it needs to be replaced? It's only been since February.
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Did you do a full, not quick format? Scan for bad sectors/errors?

Scott_S said:
Did you do a full, not quick format? Scan for bad sectors/errors?
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full format, chkdsk /f, still nothing though. This is honestly getting to the point where I'm tempted to switch to another phone. Why can't I access my stuff?
Another new bonus, every time I get some sort of alert it now plays random MP3s from the SD card. What is going on...

Cwluc said:
full format, chkdsk /f, still nothing though. This is honestly getting to the point where I'm tempted to switch to another phone. Why can't I access my stuff?
Another new bonus, every time I get some sort of alert it now plays random MP3s from the SD card. What is going on...
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I'd try a brand new, good quality SD card before resorting to switching phones.
Have you flashed any custom roms or anything? I didn't see you mention either way.

Scott_S said:
I'd try a brand new, good quality SD card before resorting to switching phones.
Have you flashed any custom roms or anything? I didn't see you mention either way.
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It's gonna be a little while until I can try a new SD card but I'll get back to you.
The only ROM I loaded was the one to originally root that removed the uploading cap from ATT.
I also solved where the random sounds were coming from apparently it doesn't want to play my selected theme and no matter what I do the only one that works is the original HTC default 2010 one or if I download any only the Celesta theme plays... I have a sinking feeling that copying all this funky data isn't going to resolve anything but I'll give it a go.

Cwluc said:
It's gonna be a little while until I can try a new SD card but I'll get back to you.
The only ROM I loaded was the one to originally root that removed the uploading cap from ATT.
I also solved where the random sounds were coming from apparently it doesn't want to play my selected theme and no matter what I do the only one that works is the original HTC default 2010 one or if I download any only the Celesta theme plays... I have a sinking feeling that copying all this funky data isn't going to resolve anything but I'll give it a go.
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Good luck.
Since you haven't been messing with multiple roms and such, I don't know what else it could be, other than the SD card taking a dump.

Camera Zoom FX error (light blue screen)

So does anybody has had this error on their phone? Sometimes when I want to take a pic it shows a light blue/cyan screen error, and the picture doesn't get taken. The error says:
Failed to save photo to SD card (error code=2)
The following are fixes for this error:
- make sure your SD card is inserted
- remove the SD card and re-insert, then launch Camera ZOOM FX again
- reboot and try again
If this problem continues, please mail [email protected]
Somebody knows what is going on?
Thanks.

I'm using the same app, but haven't had any problems since switching to a Class 4 SD card (due to the known issue w/Class 10 cards on this device). Can't seem to use video with it though, every time I try to switch to video it force closes.

armyengineer51 said:
I'm using the same app, but haven't had any problems since switching to a Class 4 SD card (due to the known issue w/Class 10 cards on this device). Can't seem to use video with it though, every time I try to switch to video it force closes.
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The weird thing is that if I do a factory reset, then it works fine, but as soon as I begin to install some apps and play around, then it happens again.

Somebody else has another input?

I was having the same issue I also did a Factory Reset then pulled the battery over night and have not had the issue since not sure if it was just a glitch or what.

I just downloaded Camera Zoom FX and got the same thin I took out my sd card and tried the app again, same response. I bought a 16mb class 6 sd card at the suggestion from here on what would work. The camera is a disappointment with the stock app, hope I can get FX working.
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So far no problems with Camera Zoom FX.
OS versions 2.3.5 or 2.3.6.
SDcard is a Sandisk 16G class 6

Any news nahuelarg86 on your situation

I had the same problem with this app. The standard camera app would appear to save the pictures but when you would go into MyGallery, no picture would be there although you wouldn't get an error message like CameraFX. I found this information somewhere else, but if I went and looked at the dcim directory on the sdcard there would be corrupt files in the Camera subdirectory. Deleting these files would then allow pictures to be saved. I was using a class 10 sd card, but switching to class 4 didn't fix the issue. I did the OTA update to 2.3.6 hoping this would correct the issue. This made things worse regarding the camera apps. Every picture file for news pics appeared to be corrupt. I then did a factory reset to 2.3.6 and I haven't had a problem with the camera apps since.

Well, I did a factory reset and I didn't have the problem again. But, I began to download some apps and play around and then I got it again... I deleted all the apps that I installed last time in hope that it would help, and it did. For me it's a pain in the a$$ to do factory resets because of the setting up, re installing of thing, etc.
I still don't know where the problem might be. Seems like it's related to space or the resources an app uses, but I know of the problems of SD cards and everything is stored in the phone's memory. So I have no idea...

I know this thread is old, but it was the first hit on google, so maybe someone else will need the solution: Most of the times the save feature on external sd card is corrupted because of rom change. Backup your data of your external sd on your PC. Then go in android under settings < "space" (Speicher auf deutsch) and format the external sd card. Afterwards you should be able again to save your pictures on your external sd card, because the card is now perfectly formatted to your rom....

[Q] SD card detection

Hi!
I've got a Sensation XE with this ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1782009 (the 2013-01-09 version)
I had never problems until a few days ago: My SD card isn't detected well. If I start-up my phone everything works fine, but after a while (I still haven't figured out how long or after opening which app) my SD card isn't accessible well.
- When I go to the stock photo gallery app I see only black thumbnails. When I open a photo it takes a while to load.
- When I'd like to take a picture, the camera app says that there isn't a SD card
- When I receive a photo on Whatsapp messenger it couldn't be saved
- When I go to ES File Explorer I can browse the SD card, no problems!
- When I go to storage settings I see the SD card with the calculations of GB's for apps, photo's, etc...
So each time (multiple times a day!) this happens I reboot my phone.
Any ideas?

royduin said:
Hi!
I've got a Sensation XE with this ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1782009 (the 2013-01-09 version)
I had never problems until a few days ago: My SD card isn't detected well. If I start-up my phone everything works fine, but after a while (I still haven't figured out how long or after opening which app) my SD card isn't accessible well.
- When I go to the stock photo gallery app I see only black thumbnails. When I open a photo it takes a while to load.
- When I'd like to take a picture, the camera app says that there isn't a SD card
- When I receive a photo on Whatsapp messenger it couldn't be saved
- When I go to ES File Explorer I can browse the SD card, no problems!
- When I go to storage settings I see the SD card with the calculations of GB's for apps, photo's, etc...
So each time (multiple times a day!) this happens I reboot my phone.
Any ideas?
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Hi
greetings,
boot into recovery and wipe dalvick cache.
if this does not help
flash the same ROM again without wipe it will not delete the data

Just wiped it, I hope it works! Now waiting until it might happen...:angel:

Sounds like it's a slow (or bad) sd card, what class is it?

Sadly it didn't help
I've got a 16GB class 10 SD card from the brand Mustang: http://www.mustang-flash.de/Product...verstone Class10, Retail|SD16GTFCL10MU-R.html
And, if it works for a moment and I take a picture and go to my gallery the picture is black... Do you think my SD card is damaged? How can I test it?

royduin said:
Sadly it didn't help
I've got a 16GB class 10 SD card from the brand Mustang: http://www.mustang-flash.de/Product...verstone Class10, Retail|SD16GTFCL10MU-R.html
And, if it works for a moment and I take a picture and go to my gallery the picture is black... Do you think my SD card is damaged? How can I test it?
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backup all your contents frmo your sdcard to pc and format it
see how it goes

royduin said:
Just wiped it, I hope it works! Now waiting until it might happen...:angel:
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I used to have this EXACT problem that you described, sadly I could never find the cause for it, it no longer occurs. (And I have a good brand SD - Verbatim)

Formatting didn't worked well... Just used SD Formatter: https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/ and now it's accessible. Now coping everything back... I hope it works!

After trying a lot I've formatted my SD card in the 4EXT recovery, copied everything back en now it's working!

Xperia Z3 DELETED ALL MY SD CARD PICTURES

My stupid phone deleted ALL of my pictures on my SD Card. Have no idea how exactly. Yesterday I swapped my SIM card and when I went to use the camera, it gave me an error saving to the SD Card. And then next thing I know, every picture was deleted. And most messed up thing is that all my music stayed, but pics were gone.
Thankfully I back up all my pics to Google Photos, but it's going to be a pain downloading everything again...
Anyone else experience this problem??? Would like to prevent it if possible.

If you have the latest OS update (5.0.2) when you restart your phone the SD card is seen as a folder instead of partition. I have the same issue. Just take out and put back the SD card with the screen on and this will solve this bug. At least this works for me...
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tase25 said:
My stupid phone deleted ALL of my pictures on my SD Card. Have no idea how exactly. Yesterday I swapped my SIM card and when I went to use the camera, it gave me an error saving to the SD Card. And then next thing I know, every picture was deleted. And most messed up thing is that all my music stayed, but pics were gone.
Thankfully I back up all my pics to Google Photos, but it's going to be a pain downloading everything again...
Anyone else experience this problem??? Would like to prevent it if possible.
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Why do you think the pictures are deleted? What app do you use to see the pictures? Have you taken the sd card out and looked at the contents on another device?

I'm not experiencing the problem with the deleted photos. I'm having that problem with camera saying no sd card inserted... What happened to you is very odd :| Are you sure that your photos were gone? Did you tried to put the SD card into another device to see if they are there?
EDIT: I restarted my phone 1 minute ago but the SD card bug seems to be gone :| There is something strangr with the Android 5 . If I'm experiencing the same issue again I will tell you
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LG G Flex 2 "Camera cannot be accessed right now"

I've had a constant problem for the past few days with the camera. In every app that uses the camera I get an error message saying something like
"Please close other apps, the camera cannot be accessed right now."
This is temporarily redeemed with clearing my cache but after using the phone for a while the problem returns. Restarting the device doesn't seem to help very much but occasionally the camera will work after a restart. I'm on the software version 6.0.1 V20a-SEA-XX and I have a H959. I have not tried a hard reset on my device yet and wish to avoid that if an easier fix is available.

When the Mrs's phone was updated by LG following repair, she had a similar issue. It turned out to be an issue with the camera trying to save to the SD card, but the SD card not playing nice with the new firmware.
To see if you have the same issue, go into the camera and change the save location to internal storage before you attempt to take any shots. If you can take a shot after this change, you know its an issue with the SD card.
Lets hope its something so simple. :angel:

Masteryates said:
When the Mrs's phone was updated by LG following repair, she had a similar issue. It turned out to be an issue with the camera trying to save to the SD card, but the SD card not playing nice with the new firmware.
To see if you have the same issue, go into the camera and change the save location to internal storage before you attempt to take any shots. If you can take a shot after this change, you know its an issue with the SD card.
Lets hope its something so simple. :angel:
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Got the camera to work for once and changed it to save to the phone. Worked for a while but I believe it reverted to saving to the SD card. Taking out the SD card and putting it back in was a simple fix along with saying "No" to a prompt about asking it I want to save to the SD card. Many thanks! I was starting to believe I'd never take photos again with this phone.

lol_cool88 said:
Got the camera to work for once and changed it to save to the phone. Worked for a while but I believe it reverted to saving to the SD card. Taking out the SD card and putting it back in was a simple fix along with saying "No" to a prompt about asking it I want to save to the SD card. Many thanks! I was starting to believe I'd never take photos again with this phone.
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No problems Lol_cool. :highfive:
I would suggest you copy everything off that SD card and then format it using the phone before moving everything back onto it. Other apps may also cause the same types off issues if your SD card is now not entirely compatible with the phone.

Masteryates said:
No problems Lol_cool. :highfive:
I would suggest you copy everything off that SD card and then format it using the phone before moving everything back onto it. Other apps may also cause the same types off issues if your SD card is now not entirely compatible with the phone.
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I have the same problem. I don't even use sd card and it always happen again and again. Even the flash can't be turned on in the quick toggle menu. I have hard resetted my phone several times and constantly appears again.

Ficoradic said:
I have the same problem. I don't even use sd card and it always happen again and again. Even the flash can't be turned on in the quick toggle menu. I have hard resetted my phone several times and constantly appears again.
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I think LG will tell you to do a factory reset Ficoradic.
If that doesn't work, you'll have to do a RMA or pay for the repair if your out of warranty. :crying:

I'm having the exact same issue. I already replaced the rear camera module as I thought it was broken. It seemed to work for a while, but now i'm having the cannot connect to camera issue almost constantly.
What seems to help is to 'clear all' applications from the recent apps window, and use camera restarter (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.exlyo.camerarestarter) a few times and launch the camera app again. (need root)
I'm using a rooted 5.1.1 v15C-EUR-XX, have root, xposed, powernap, amplify, greenify and some other root tools installed and am thinking that that might be the issue.

The restarter thing didn't work anymore today, so I put some pressure on the part of the laser focus thing while opening the camera app, and it worked until I took my finger off, then it went black. I tried again, and again it was a success. The connector for the camera is right under that laser thing so it might just be due to bad connection of the camera connector, or the laser thing that has a bad connection inside.