Just moved from a 8 GB to a 32GB card. And cannot use it...
First I unmounted the old SD card on the phone, and put in the new, unformatted 32GB. I then choose to format it in the phone. Its a Galaxy S GT-9003i with firmware I9003XXKPN v2.3.5
It formated fine. Then I unmounted the new card, plonked in the old card and connected the phone in USB mode to the Macbook. I also connected the newly formatted SD card via a card reader, and it promptly showed up, with the correct free space (although there was a directory on it already called LOST.DIR)
I then copied all apps from the phones 8GB SD to the 32GB card, using the laptop (drag and drop). This also went fine and without a glitch. I then shut down the phone, swapped out the SD cards and booted the phone on again. As expected, it went to do the usual Scanning USB memory. It completed. The space appears to be taken up, but all apps that are on that USB are inaccesible. Their icons grey Androids with a small SD logo in the bottom right corner.
All other apps (the ones on the phone) work fine. The SD card can be used to copy files to on the computer and to take pictures...
Phone is not rooted.
PLease help, if you have a solution to this...
Many tHanks
oranabana said:
Just moved from a 8 GB to a 32GB card. And cannot use it...
First I unmounted the old SD card on the phone, and put in the new, unformatted 32GB. I then choose to format it in the phone. Its a Galaxy S GT-9003i with firmware I9003XXKPN v2.3.5
It formated fine. Then I unmounted the new card, plonked in the old card and connected the phone in USB mode to the Macbook. I also connected the newly formatted SD card via a card reader, and it promptly showed up, with the correct free space (although there was a directory on it already called LOST.DIR)
I then copied all apps from the phones 8GB SD to the 32GB card, using the laptop (drag and drop). This also went fine and without a glitch. I then shut down the phone, swapped out the SD cards and booted the phone on again. As expected, it went to do the usual Scanning USB memory. It completed. The space appears to be taken up, but all apps that are on that USB are inaccesible. Their icons grey Androids with a small SD logo in the bottom right corner.
All other apps (the ones on the phone) work fine. The SD card can be used to copy files to on the computer and to take pictures...
Phone is not rooted.
PLease help, if you have a solution to this...
Many tHanks
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Have you tried rebooting your phone? If it still does not work, try to unmount your SD Card via settings and then wait for it to successfully unmount and then mount again
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saywhatt said:
Have you tried rebooting your phone? If it still does not work, try to unmount your SD Card via settings and then wait for it to successfully unmount and then mount again
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Thanks, yes tried this one. No luck.... Its a Samsung mirco SD card (Model: MB-MSBGA) class 10
Anyone else..!?
Did u done app2sd in ur phone with the 8 gig 1
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No not much.
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So, I cannot even find the app2sd app under My Apps on the Google Play store... weird. Its also not listing under Manage Applications. Would this really be the cause of the problem!?
Anyone else have any ideas, why the phone cannot load the apps copied from the other SD card...!?!
First of all u have to move all apps from the old sd card to the phone. Or while inserting ur new sd, the apps you moved to your old sd will not work
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Mebin Robin said:
First of all u have to move all apps from the old sd card to the phone. Or while inserting ur new sd, the apps you moved to your old sd will not work
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Thanks, but I canot make sense of this. Firstly all apps on the old SD card will never fit onto the phone (8GB, vs 2GB space), and secondly elsewhere online they always talk about copying files to the new card and then inserting that instead of the old one....
mmmh...!? Whilst I apprecite your post - its not working for me
When apps are moved to the SD card, it isn't entirely moved to the SD card. Only part of it is, that's why when installing apps the space for apps still decreases. Therefore you should use titanium backup or similar backup programs to move the applications.
bscraze said:
Therefore you should use titanium backup or similar backup programs to move the applications.
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Thanks,I had a look at titanium backup, but it requires root access (my phone has not been rooted). I really dont think one should need to root their phone to move from a small to a larger SD card without having to re-install all apps from scratch...!?
oranabana said:
Thanks,I had a look at titanium backup, but it requires root access (my phone has not been rooted). I really dont think one should need to root their phone to move from a small to a larger SD card without having to re-install all apps from scratch...!?
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Without root you will not be able to backup data(AFAIK)
bscraze said:
...Therefore you should use titanium backup or similar backup programs to move the applications.
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OK, so I rooted the phone and used Titanium Backup. It created a backup file on the phone memory. I thought, voila, I am good then, popped in the new SD card, formatted it, and did the restore from Titanium Backup... but:
still getting a lot of greyed out files in the application folder and on the home screens... I really cannot believe all this work is needed to swap out SD cards from a smaller to larger capacity! what a pain in the •••
I have the same problem on my new samsung 32gb 10 class micro sd card and still searching for the solution. If anyone have a solution, please, share it for us. Thanks!
martynas393 said:
I have the same problem on my new samsung 32gb 10 class micro sd card and still searching for the solution. If anyone have a solution, please, share it for us. Thanks!
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I have the same problem to, just backed up my old 16gb card to my pc, installed and formatted a new 32gb card in my S4 and copied the data back over and all the apps that are on the sd card are showing up grey.
Ok, after a quick google, i've found that making a clone of the card and then copying the clone to the new card works
you can use HDD-Raw-Copy-Tool to do this (you'll have to google it as I don't have enough posts to post external links)
heathen666 said:
Ok, after a quick google, i've found that making a clone of the card and then copying the clone to the new card works
you can use HDD-Raw-Copy-Tool to do this (you'll have to google it as I don't have enough posts to post external links)
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Thanks! Yeah that works perfectly! (Apparently there are some "secure" folders in the SD card that start with a period, and the contents do not get copied at all. Those hold the apps and data.) However after using HDD-Raw-Copy it will create an exact replica of the smaller SD card on the larger one and the larger one will appear to be small too, so you must resize your partition or you won't gain anything, your new card will be exactly the same as the old one! You can use MiniTool Partition Wizard home edition which is free to do this: partitionwizard.com :good:
I had the same problem but I was able to fix without extra software. Took old card out of my phone and installed both externally via flash readers to my pc and copied files from one to the other. View hidden files is turned on just in case any hidden items is also copied. This work great for me all apps are accessible now. Hope this helpped
Here is the step-by-step solution: http://www.tomsguide.com/forum/id-2545604/move-data-card-samsung-galaxy.html
There are two ways described to do it successfully:
METHOD 1 uses the xcopy (or xcopy32) command in a Cmd Prompt windown on Windows. The /h switch used on the command allows the hidden and system files to be copied!
METHOD 2 uses a straight copy from old SD card to the new SD card (or from old SD card to folder on computer, then from folder on computer to new SD card) using the simple drag and drop on Windows. BUT YOU MUST HAVE WINDOWS EXPLORER CONFIGURED TO SHOW SYSTEM AND HIDDEN FILES!
Just to be clear, the solution to the problem is trivial. You are simply copying ALL the files from one SD card to another. There is absolutely no reason that copying ALL files from one SD card, including the complete file structure, to another SD card should not work. Your phone can't tell that you switched SD cards. It only knows the files and file structure it can see on the SD card and if they are EXACTLY the same as they were before the switch, your phone should work exactly like it did before the switch except now it will see more free storage space on your larger SD card (which was probably your goal in the first place) AND your phone may possibly even run faster by accessing the data much faster if your new SD card is a faster class of storage media.
YOU DO NOT NEED TO ROOT YOUR PHONE OR INSTALL ALL KINDS OF CRAZY APPS ON YOUR PHONE OR SOFTWARE ON YOUR COMPUTER TO DO THIS!!!
BUT, the key is that YOU MUST ALSO COPY ALL THE HIDDEN FILES and there are lots of them on Android! Everytime I hear of someone having a problem with switchinging to a new SD card, it is because they did NOT copy the hidden files OR their SD card was not properly formatted (FAT32) for the phone.
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Hey, guys! I think I need you help here! I have accidentally deleted some phone photos that have been taken with my families. I have remembered all of them have been stored on the inner memory card, not phone internal memory card. So, it is possible for me to get back all my deleted pictures? Any idea could be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
If your just trying to recovery deleted files from and SD card? Try:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
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You could also try software called Recuva
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technoid1964 said:
If your just trying to recovery deleted files from and SD card? Try:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
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My ways may help you out:
1). Keep this phone memory card way from any newly taken photos or new files in case of any data loss.
2). Connect this card to your computer with a card Reader.
3). Try to restore your lost memory card photos back with a phone card data recovery program, like 4Card Recovery, Recuva, PhotoRec and more.
4). Save and back up all restored photos on another drive or place in case of data loss.
Note: Never format a phone memory card without data backup again.
Maurice46 said:
Hey, guys! I think I need you help here! I have accidentally deleted some phone photos that have been taken with my families. I have remembered all of them have been stored on the inner memory card, not phone internal memory card. So, it is possible for me to get back all my deleted pictures? Any idea could be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
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Hi There,
There are a lot of ways to Recover data from SD Cards. There a billion softwares to recover data from sd cards. You can try some of these:
*Steller Phoenix Photo Recovery
*Ease US Data Recovery v8.5
*Yodot Android Recovery-recomended
Just connect your device to the computer using USB cable and mount usb storage.
Hi.
Today when I rebooted my OPO, my phone seems to be partially unable to read my internal storage or something. Swiftkey notifies me the error of unable to store language pack, EverNote prompts me that SD card has been changed/removed. Worst of all, I am unable to take pictures with my Camera or even screenshots. When I try to take a picture, it says "Please insert an SD card before using the camera."
As we all know, the OPO does not come with an external SD card slot, so what is the issue with my internal memory/internal SD? I am still able to access my songs and e-books which are stored in my 'internal SD' though.
Would appreciate if anyone knows how to overcome this issue.. I've tried to recover data a week back using TWRP and re-booted the phone countless times to no avail.
Devilfishy said:
Hi.
Today when I rebooted my OPO, my phone seems to be partially unable to read my internal storage or something. Swiftkey notifies me the error of unable to store language pack, EverNote prompts me that SD card has been changed/removed. Worst of all, I am unable to take pictures with my Camera or even screenshots. When I try to take a picture, it says "Please insert an SD card before using the camera."
As we all know, the OPO does not come with an external SD card slot, so what is the issue with my internal memory/internal SD? I am still able to access my songs and e-books which are stored in my 'internal SD' though.
Would appreciate if anyone knows how to overcome this issue.. I've tried to recover data a week back using TWRP and re-booted the phone countless times to no avail.
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Update: When I attempted to download an app from the Google Playstore or through an APK file, it says "Storage is full." even though I have 32GB of space left.
Helpp! This is getting aggravating and is leading to more problems.
Same problem happened to me; did a factory reset now phone stuck on cyanogen logo screen and phone will not boot to anything. Next phone will have to have an SD card. I have backups but some recent information was not backed up.
ballaz said:
Same problem happened to me; did a factory reset now phone stuck on cyanogen logo screen and phone will not boot to anything. Next phone will have to have an SD card. I have backups but some recent information was not backed up.
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Holy shizz... I thought of trying to factory reset to see if it solves the problem. So basically your phone is sorta bricked? Are you gonna send it back for warranty/check the problem at a local hardware shop?
Devilfishy said:
Holy shizz... I thought of trying to factory reset to see if it solves the problem. So basically your phone is sorta bricked? Are you gonna send it back for warranty/check the problem at a local hardware shop?
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The same is happening to me.
Any solution?
So I had connected my phone to the computer, and I accidentally deleted the emulated folder in my phone on the computer... This wiped literally every media and other files off my OPO . Is there a way I can recover this? Really desperate since I had some important pictures and files stored on it... I cannot use any PC recovery tools since the OPO doesn't support Mass Media Storage since it lacks an external SD card slot. How do I recover in MTP or PTP now? I don't even have the TWRP back ups since it wiped my SD card.
All the apps and other data such as contacts are stil intact though.
Any help is appreciated, thanks
Try to search for "data recovery"' in the playstore, some of them seems to work..
Worth to try...
Aditya Srinidhi said:
So I had connected my phone to the computer, and I accidentally deleted the emulated folder in my phone on the computer... This wiped literally every media and other files off my OPO . Is there a way I can recover this? Really desperate since I had some important pictures and files stored on it... I cannot use any PC recovery tools since the OPO doesn't support Mass Media Storage since it lacks an external SD card slot. How do I recover in MTP or PTP now? I don't even have the TWRP back ups since it wiped my SD card.
All the apps and other data such as contacts are stil intact though.
Any help is appreciated, thanks
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I dont know how much it'll help in your caase, but I've used this software 'disk digger' from play store to recover deleted files.
hi developers, i have a htc one dual sim 802w (m7_cdug) running lollipop. my mom had the same phone as mine so i took a lollipop backup, renamed it, and then restored it to my phone. the problem was that when it was done, i went to my sd card and copied an apk file to my internal storage but it fails saying ''something went wrong while copying google now launcher.apk''. it wasnt only that file that had the problem. i tried doing it by my laptop and i get the message after it fails that my device has been disconnected or is corrupt. well, my device is connected so the only option is that its corrupt. what do i do? pls help (asap). i cant even play my favorite game which is minecraft pe!
Hi, thank you for using XDA Assist. If the sd card fails on your device and pc, did you use a stand alone sc card reader on the pc?, then your sd card is corrupt. The only fix is to reformat the card. You'll of course lose everything on it during the format
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