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[Q] Internal Memory Scanning

Ive been waiting 20 minutes for this internal memory to stop scanning for about 20 minutes now. I dont know whats wrong, any suggestions?
Ive tried waiting it out and disabling mediascan. Im rooted and haventm essed around with any files. And until I get this fixed...I cant take pictures or look at any.

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reboot the phone

Hopefully you have this fixed by now.....
I had this happen the other day. I had it hooked to my computer with the SD card mounted. I disconnected the phone from the computer without unmounting the SD card first. The phone started scanning and didn't stop, just as you were reporting. To get it working again I reconnected it and remounted the SD card. It took a little longer than usual to mount but it eventually worked. I unmounted before disconnecting it after that and all was well. I typically disconnect without unmounting and have not seen this again, seems like a fluke.

DECIM8 said:
Hopefully you have this fixed by now.....
I had this happen the other day. I had it hooked to my computer with the SD card mounted. I disconnected the phone from the computer without unmounting the SD card first. The phone started scanning and didn't stop, just as you were reporting. To get it working again I reconnected it and remounted the SD card. It took a little longer than usual to mount but it eventually worked. I unmounted before disconnecting it after that and all was well. I typically disconnect without unmounting and have not seen this again, seems like a fluke.
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did it ever do it again?

omarsalmin said:
reboot the phone
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Do you SERIOUSLY think I havent done that? Take your time and think about that for a minute....
On another note...I guess this is a faulty phone. Not wanting to send it back since I have minimal backlight bleed...

blestsol said:
Do you SERIOUSLY think I havent done that? Take your time and think about that for a minute....
On another note...I guess this is a faulty phone. Not wanting to send it back since I have minimal backlight bleed...
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is probably the sdcard, might have gotten corrupted.
Try formatting the sdcard and see if that helps
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moshe22 said:
is probably the sdcard, might have gotten corrupted.
Try formatting the sdcard and see if that helps
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It scans the SD card fine but the internal one the phones sd I think...takes forever.

blestsol said:
It scans the SD card fine but the internal one the phones sd I think...takes forever.
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I see what you are saying I thought you meant the external one. In that case I would still format phone internal memory.
Could be corrupted
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SD card unmounting on its own

Anybody having issues with their SD card unmounting repeatedly?
I would be listening to music or using another app, then I get a notification saying the SD card unmounted unexpectedly. To fix this, I would have to reboot. Sometimes rebooting once doesnt actually solve the issue.
I do have to say that when I boot into recovery (CWM) the card is present and readable (I am able to reflash ROMs from it).
I found similar threads for other devices, but there seems to be no solution offered.
When this problem occured, I was runnning ARHD 3.6.2 (not sure if that has anything to do with it).
Any solutions to this?
Thanks!

Can u tell us which firmware version your on, stock? android revolution XE?

Same here :/
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ROM: Android Revolution HD 3.6.2
Kernel: 2.6.35.14-Sensation-faux123-v0.2.1+
Radio: 10.58.9035.00U_10.15.9035.02_2
Thanks!

Mine just did this to me tonight. Now when you insert it I see the "Preparing SD Card" then about 2 seconds later "Removed SD Card". I had been using a SanDisk 8 GB class 2 thats been through 2 BlackBerry phones before this one, so I popped the Kingston 8 GB class 4 the phone came with in there and voila, it sees the card. Im thinking my card may have randomly gone belly up on me, but I will know more after I get a reader for my PC.
Just wondering if anyone else has had issues with SD cards randomly doing this with this phone. It seems I've read a lot about SD card problems with these phones while searching, I don't want to have to worry about losing all my data as much as I am now. The card was rock solid for about 3 years in the other phones, and I've had my Sensation less than a month.
~T.J.

This normally happens to me right before I start an app that would read or write into the data in the card: when I start playing MP3s, start games or apps installed in the card, accept a bluetooth file transfer, send a file from the card thru bluetooth, etc
I happens at least once a day. Generally, a simple reboot works to get the card back, but if it doesnt, I would have to open the cover and manually take out then reinsert the card.
I'm pretty sure it's not a hardware issue, though this is the first card I've used on my Sensation (bought brand new for use specifically with the phone).
Does branding of the card have anything to do with it? I admit that I got a brand that was slightly on the cheaper side, but had a lifetime warranty. If it matters, the card is made in Taiwan.
I haven't changed cards, as I'm still hoping this might just be a software bug. The reason I say this is because the very first time this happened, I had installed Always Flash, which I found to be an app that I could do without. I forced stopped the app and uninstalled it, and that's when the bug hit for the first time.
Hope someone knows the answer to this...
Thanks!

That's what happened to me, I opened titanium to do a backup and got a card removed unexpectedly error. The phone has never recognized the card since.
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no solutions found, unfortunately....
i just bought a new card
thanks!

ryanisler said:
no solutions found, unfortunately....
i just bought a new card
thanks!
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I've been having the same problem with my sensation xe. Sometimes it'll be fine for a week or more, and then it may unmount the card randomly 2 or 3 days in a row. Normally I have to shutdown, pull the battery and physically remove and re-insert the card to get it to remount, as just rebooting has never worked for me.
Tonite, even this wouldn't work. I ended up having to boot into 4ext and mount the card in there before rebooting the phone.
I really do hope someone can work out the reason our phones are doing this.
For the record, I'm using ARHD 6.7.0 and a 32g class 10 Strontium card.

anybody found a solution for this?... I also have the same problem. Tried several sd card and stock/no stock roms. Same thing every time.
I think it is a hardware prob.

I had this happen to me before but found a solution for mine. I checked my SD card and it was not locked in it's caseing so it was unmounting randomly. I removed the SD card and replaced making certain it was locked into the caseing and it's never happened again. It's definitely worth a try to check your card and make absolutely sure it's locked into the caseing. Would not hurt to check. For me, this solved my problem. My card was in the caseing but not locked in, this was causing my issue. I wish you the best. I do hope you get this fixed. Hopefully it's only that the card is loose ! Like I said it's worth a try. Best wishes.

I'd try fully formatting the card using gparted. I always do this if I have any suspicion that something may be wrong with a card and its never let me down yet.
Google it, its free and there are videos on YouTube showing how to use it so all it'll cost you is a bit of time, gotta be worth a go......
Sent from my HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio Z715e

Issues with your phone? Report them here!

If you are having issues with this phone and people are, go here:
https://supportforums.motorola.com/community/google-android/atrix2?view=discussions
Register and complain away, the forum admins are actually passing the concerns to the techs. Maybe we can see some bug fixes?

Yep, I registered yesterday
No root issues though, lol

Only have 2 issues which have already been mentioned in the Community Forums.
1. Install or move a program to your SDCard, icon stays on phone, but phone thinks program has been uninstalled ! (This apparently was the same problem the original Atrix 4G also has)
2. 8GB internal memory, only 4GB shown.. install anything on your phone filling 500MB, and your phone will come back stating there in no room left !
To me, these are 2 HUGE issues they need to resolve quickly.
Sent from my MB865 using Tapatalk

LordGeek said:
Only have 2 issues which have already been mentioned in the Community Forums.
1. Install or move a program to your SDCard, icon stays on phone, but phone thinks program has been uninstalled ! (This apparently was the same problem the original Atrix 4G also has)
2. 8GB internal memory, only 4GB shown.. install anything on your phone filling 500MB, and your phone will come back stating there in no room left !
To me, these are 2 HUGE issues they need to resolve quickly.
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Do you mean 8gb sdcard memory? IIRC, the Atrix 2 only has 4.5gb internal storage

916x10 said:
Do you mean 8gb sdcard memory? IIRC, the Atrix 2 only has 4.5gb internal storage
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No.. internal. Look at full specs on PhoneArena and GSMArena.
Built-In Storage : 8192MB
Correct me if I'm wrong .. thats 8GB .. not 4GB.
Attached are 2 screenshots .. one from PhoneArena, other from GSMArena.

I have issues with bluetooth when connected to my car stereo. Most of the time, occasionally it works just fine, when listening to anything by bluetooth in my car I get drop outs in the audio that last any where between .5 seconds and 3 seconds. They sometimes happen in a pattern of a long drop followed by a short drop withing .5 seconds. It does not seem to effect phone calls but that leads to another problem.
While listening to an internet radio station and a call came in while in the car the radio (iheartradio) kept playing after I answered the call from the car stereo touch screen. I had to kill the radio app in order to keep the audio out of the call. The other side told me they heard my radio over the phone.

Random reboot
Random reboots while listening to any audio app (dogcatcher, Pandora, stock music player). I am using wired headphones and the phone will just randomly reboot. Very annoying

Interesting, any certain amount of time before it reboots? I use xiialive lite with zero cut outs or reboots. Been rocking it for awhile, are you streaming and recording at the same time?
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LordGeek said:
No.. internal. Look at full specs on PhoneArena and GSMArena.
Built-In Storage : 8192MB
Correct me if I'm wrong .. thats 8GB .. not 4GB.
Attached are 2 screenshots .. one from PhoneArena, other from GSMArena.
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Those are the last two places I'd expect spot on info from.
Looking at the official Motorola website under the specs for this phone, it does list 8gb as the internal storage capacity.....but it also has a footnote that states:
Available user memory varies due to the configuration of the phone, which varies by service provider.
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So I decided to check AT&T's website and found that it says "up to 8gb"
So based on the above listed information on the two websites that really matter, it's safe to assume that the reason it's not showing 8gb in available internal storage is due to AT&T's configuration.

I saw that also.. but the fact is.. we can't use it. If you go to "Settings" "Storage" .. look under Application Storage. Mine states 4.13GB .. now here is the bug .. install 500MB of stuff (anything) .. once you reach 500.. watch your phone state you're out if memory !!!!
You can't move your apps to the SDCard, because, if you have to reboot your phone .. it will keep the icon on your screen/listing .. but the phone will come back with an error stating it was uninstalled .. yet all you did was move it from Phone to SDCard.
Those are 2 major bugs that they really need to resolve .. yet the funny thing is, the original Motorola Atrix 4G had the same bugs.. you'd think they would have learned from there first mistake.
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LordGeek said:
I saw that also.. but the fact is.. we can't use it. If you go to "Settings" "Storage" .. look under Application Storage. Mine states 4.13GB .. now here is the bug .. install 500MB of stuff (anything) .. once you reach 500.. watch your phone state you're out if memory !!!!
You can't move your apps to the SDCard, because, if you have to reboot your phone .. it will keep the icon on your screen/listing .. but the phone will come back with an error stating it was uninstalled .. yet all you did was move it from Phone to SDCard.
Those are 2 major bugs that they really need to resolve .. yet the funny thing is, the original Motorola Atrix 4G had the same bugs.. you'd think they would have learned from there first mistake.
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qft I find this quite annoying
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process com.motorola.process.system force close
Bout to go to the support forums and report this. Found an issue today. Getting a message window saying com.motorola.process.system error. Only option I had was force quit. Anyone else faced?

@cloudedhopes
Go to settings, date & time.
Switch "Automatic" off.
Set timezone to some INCORRECT timezone ( say Greenland )
Switch "Automatic" on.

rahul255 said:
@cloudedhopes
Go to settings, date & time.
Switch "Automatic" off.
Set timezone to some INCORRECT timezone ( say Greenland )
Switch "Automatic" on.
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I read that somewhere and it worked for now atleast. I think since DST moved the time... this might have caused the issue. But can't say for sure. Purely dumb guess and error.

LordGeek said:
I saw that also.. but the fact is.. we can't use it. If you go to "Settings" "Storage" .. look under Application Storage. Mine states 4.13GB .. now here is the bug .. install 500MB of stuff (anything) .. once you reach 500.. watch your phone state you're out if memory !!!!
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I understand and know that, but that wasnt the issue I was addressing. It was your claim that the phone is only reporting half of available internal storage, just 4 gb of 8gb, which simply isnt true. But you can bring up other unrelated issues and ignore that if you want, lol.
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I usually got around 20 minutes in but it would always reboot at random times beyond that. I gave up and returned the phone for a new one. No issues so far. Keeping fingers crossed.
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I'm pretty sure it's 6gb internal memory + 2gb on the included micro sd card. Of that 6gb, 1+gb is being used by the OS and pre-loaded apps. The phone seems to load everything that's downloaded onto the 2gb sd card, so it will fill up pretty quick.

LordGeek said:
Only have 2 issues which have already been mentioned in the Community Forums.
1. Install or move a program to your SDCard, icon stays on phone, but phone thinks program has been uninstalled ! (This apparently was the same problem the original Atrix 4G also has)
2. 8GB internal memory, only 4GB shown.. install anything on your phone filling 500MB, and your phone will come back stating there in no room left !
To me, these are 2 HUGE issues they need to resolve quickly.
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When you installing a program and the phone alert that "there is on room left", then you can re-install this program again, then it will be successful.

gdj80 said:
I have issues with bluetooth when connected to my car stereo. Most of the time, occasionally it works just fine, when listening to anything by bluetooth in my car I get drop outs in the audio that last any where between .5 seconds and 3 seconds. They sometimes happen in a pattern of a long drop followed by a short drop withing .5 seconds. It does not seem to effect phone calls but that leads to another problem.
While listening to an internet radio station and a call came in while in the car the radio (iheartradio) kept playing after I answered the call from the car stereo touch screen. I had to kill the radio app in order to keep the audio out of the call. The other side told me they heard my radio over the phone.
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this bluetooth issue is a gingerbread issue itself, not device specific. i have had this since froyo on 2 different devices already.
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spd_rcr said:
I'm pretty sure it's 6gb internal memory + 2gb on the included micro sd card. Of that 6gb, 1+gb is being used by the OS and pre-loaded apps. The phone seems to load everything that's downloaded onto the 2gb sd card, so it will fill up pretty quick.
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my guess is that it's 8gb internal
- 1gb /system
- 1gb /ram
not sure on the downloaded stuff though. check settings > applications to see what the default installation location is.

Atrix 1 vs Atrix 2
Can't really complain but I found this funny...
I have both Atrix 1 and 2, Atrix 1 has the CM7 rom and scores 6000+ using AnTuTu Benchmark, Atrix 2 is obviously stock and only scores around 4000 using the same benchmark.
I will try to wait patiently for movement in the rom arena. It's hard, I'm a flash junkie.

Media Process Restarting? Post your config

This thread is for people with the problem of:
a process called "media" that after the phone boots keeps crashing and restarting. If I kill this process the phone acts normally and I get my usual day usage out of the battery.
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It only seems to occur on Sense 3.6 and means that the phone ends up remaining in a wakelock state for a 45 minutes to hours in my experience.
I initially thought I had corrupt MP3's or Photos but that doesn't seem to be the case.
These are the posts from another thread with their configuration:
k0zmic said:
I use ARHD but it seems to affect all Sense 3.6 ROM's I've tried including stock. Can you tell me what SD Card you have and do you have a lot of music, photos etc on it?
The issue doesn't occur on Sense 4.0 ROM's.
My workaround was to just disable Media starting automatically using System Tuner (needs root).
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fourfoot said:
Sandisk 32GB (class 4 if my memory serves my right).
648 Photos (980MB)
568 Music tracks (3.4GB)
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fourfoot said:
Amazon, about august last year.
I tried a factory reset last night and formatted the sd card, put no media on it but again that process is restarting again this morning. Its supposed to be migrating the media database... But there's no media for it to migrate...
Might try a different sd card
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ladyhaly said:
Okay. Yeah. My phone does use more battery as well.What does that Media process do anyway and are there any negative effects to just plain killing it?
32 GB SanDisk Class 4
1391 photos
24 videos
124 mp3 files (songs)
Guess this is one of the bugs for Sense 3.6 ROMs. Btw, I factory reset my phone after the update.
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I tried different sd cards:
Unbranded 16gb class 4 - media process started restarting a few minutes after boot.
Kingston 16gb class 4 - media process didn't start for a few hours (do we know what app starts this?) Then started restarting and keeping the phone awake.
Both occasions the cards had no photos or music on them.

It seems to get stuck in restart mode after Sense crashes. I dont know if you guys noticed but usually after it crashes mobile data geta activated as well. Can else someone confirm?
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fourfoot said:
I tried different sd cards:
Unbranded 16gb class 4 - media process started restarting a few minutes after boot.
Kingston 16gb class 4 - media process didn't start for a few hours (do we know what app starts this?) Then started restarting and keeping the phone awake.
Both occasions the cards had no photos or music on them.
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I suppose that confirms that it's a Sense 3.6 problem rather than our SD cards.
Pikabat said:
It seems to get stuck in restart mode after Sense crashes. I dont know if you guys noticed but usually after it crashes mobile data geta activated as well. Can else someone confirm?
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For me it starts scanning at boot up as it should but continues and then the MediaDB Migration service constantly restarts.
Mobile data doesn't seem to have an effect on it in my experience.

k0zmic said:
I suppose that confirms that it's a Sense 3.6 problem rather than our SD cards.
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Odd that it doesn't effect everyone though... (Or they haven't noticed and assume the lower battery performance is due to ICS)

Just a quick update, Still got the Kingston SD card in. The media process started again this morning and has been "restarting" since, however according to the power information on the phone it hasn't been "awake" the whole time, and my battery is still at 98% after 4 hours (1 4min call, 8 sms).

fourfoot said:
Odd that it doesn't effect everyone though... (Or they haven't noticed and assume the lower battery performance is due to ICS)
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There likely is more people affected by it. I can't figure out what condition causes it though.
fourfoot said:
Just a quick update, Still got the Kingston SD card in. The media process started again this morning and has been "restarting" since, however according to the power information on the phone it hasn't been "awake" the whole time, and my battery is still at 98% after 4 hours (1 4min call, 8 sms).
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It was like that for me occasionally, when did you last reboot your phone, straight after charging?

Last reboot was when I changed to the Kingston SD card. However, sense did crash and restart last night, so guessing that's why this media process started again.

Mine crashed sometime last night, phone was playing tune in radio before I fell asleep. So I think we say its a bug and has nothing to do with SD card. Anyone wanna file bug report to HTC?
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Pikabat said:
Anyone wanna file bug report to HTC?
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I would if I knew how!

I got a lexar 32 gig class 10. I had to reformat my card yesterday because media service was running like crazy. Battery was drained in a few hours....so far good, but annoying. I'm running ADHD 6.6.0.
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gustav30 said:
I got a lexar 32 gig class 10. I had to reformat my card yesterday because media service was running like crazy. Battery was drained in a few hours....so far good, but annoying. I'm running ADHD 6.6.0.
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I tried formatting my card multiple times but it always seemed to come back on a blank card even.
Let us know how you get on.
If it continues please post how many files e.g. photos, music etc. you have.

k0zmic said:
I tried formatting my card multiple times but it always seemed to come back on a blank card even.
Let us know how you get on.
If it continues please post how many files e.g. photos, music etc. you have.
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I have about 20 gig of music and 5 gig of pics/videos. The one I thing I noticed yesterday when I was copying everything from the SD card to my PC was that it kept erroring out, but I couldn't place where because I was trying to do a bulk copy and just be done with it. But because I was getting that error, I had to do it folder by folder. Everything went find till I hit the Android folder. I thought that was odd because it wasn't that big of a folder. So I went into the subfolders and started doing those one by one. PITA. Eventually I found that the 0 kb .nomedia file that was in the android/data folder would not copy over to my PC. So I removed that file after the format. I don't know if that was the file culprit, but knock on wood, so far I've gotten 18 hours after a full charge on ARHD 6.6.0.

I also noticed this today after my battery only lasted 5 hours with light use, and it's an anker extended battery! I have like 500 pictures and 1gb of songs. I haven't tried reformatting my sd card yet but I will try it in a bit.
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Thanks for the info.
So maybe we can conclude you need a fair amount of music and photos for this to occur?
I don't see what difference the .nomedia file would make. I've seen it as a solution to the 'Media Scanner Drain' in other threads.
Did you say you put the .nomedia file in /Android/data? That's one thing I did because I was getting music files from games in my music list which was annoying.

No matter what SD card you have ...
Solution for me on Desire S ICS 4.0.4 Sense 3.6 is uncheck fast boot and then restart phone ...
16 hrs without restarting Media service ...

I have the same problem. My device is fresh restored to factory settings. I am trying to disable fastboot and for some hours it was ok but again the same problem

Tasos19s said:
I have the same problem. My device is fresh restored to factory settings. I am trying to disable fastboot and for some hours it was ok but again the same problem
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ddi you try to wipe dalvik + cache from recovery?

rzr86 said:
ddi you try to wipe dalvik + cache from recovery?
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I have original Htc rom i dont have custom recovery

Tasos19s said:
I have original Htc rom i dont have custom recovery
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use a ruu.exe and see how it goes
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1672425

Files gone..

Many of you have compplained about sd card corrupting i havent experienced that but this, morning i woke up to my music and videos, missing from my sd card. I know they were on there because i listened to a song with my headphones on, and when i laid down for sleep i watched 30 mins of a training video for certification test ill be taking next month.
Weird right.
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Is this a question?

Lol I meant to ask if anyone has seen behavior like this? That's about 10 GB gone and only 512 mb in lost.dir.
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jae18708 said:
Lol I meant to ask if anyone has seen behavior like this? That's about 10 GB gone and only 512 mb in lost.dir.
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So the files are actually gone? Did you lose everything, or just some of your files?
How are you checking if the files are still there? File explorer app on the phone, plugging in the phone to your PC - or perhaps the best option, pull the card and use a card reader?
Very strange indeed. I've used this phone for 8 months or so - while I've always had the same SD card in it, I've never had data go missing.

arrrghhh said:
So the files are actually gone? Did you lose everything, or just some of your files?
How are you checking if the files are still there? File explorer app on the phone, plugging in the phone to your PC - or perhaps the best option, pull the card and use a card reader?
Very strange indeed. I've used this phone for 8 months or so - while I've always had the same SD card in it, I've never had data go missing.
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I was able to recover about 4GB, it was that little because i copied some files over while getting dressed in the morning (not realizing that files had been lost). The training videos were about 6gb but i didnt really care about those since i have a subscription to cbt. Most of photos and videos are lost now tho. Something told me to dd this sdcard the day before.
I used photorec on linux and recuva in a virtual machine. I put the sdcard in a usb card reader.
The only theory i have is that my battery died because i didnt charge it that night (was at about 30%), and it didnt shut down properly in time. You would think it would have time to shutdown properly but that's the only reason I could come up with.
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