As some of you know, the Hermes has some problems recognizing the MicroSD card at times. I've read for some solutions for this.
However that is not my problem.
It recognizes fine, but some things disappear randomly. For example, one day all my music in a folder on the card will disappear, then the next day, all my music will appear again.
My main problem is the "My Documents" folder. This folder is automatically created whenever pictures/videos are taken. Recently, I had to use the camera alot and I have the setting on the camera so that it saves to the storage card. However, if I go back to look for it in the "My Documents" folder, there is nothing in there. I put the MicroSD card into the transflash adapter and put it into the adapter for the computer. It doesn't show the files.
Now I know that it took the pictures and saved it because each time I take a photo, the storage on my card goes down. It's probably hidden somewhere.
Is there any way I can find these files?
Thanks
Edit: I would like to clarify that this is a 1GB card.
This is the same issue..
Who is the manufacturer of the card, and where was it made?
If it is not Kingston with a Made in Japan stamp on the tiny MicroSD card itself, then get one.
Ahh yes I read your post. I have a cheapo SanDisk. Will pick up a Kingston after I recover some of my files!
Anyone know how I can access these files though? They're there, but it seems hidden.
I'd love to find out where these "hidden files" are on my card. Any help? I have a Sandisk 2.0GB made in Taiwan and i've been experiencing these problems too. I had no clue it had to do with where the card was made.
I was going to reformat the card, but if I can get the pix back from it i'd be super psyched! TIA.
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I've just noticed that the camera (software) on my O2 XDA mini s cannot see the Sandisk 512mb miniSD card.
It used to see it no problem, the my documents/my pictures folder was created fine, and about 20 pictures have been saved in there.
All of a sudden today, the camera wouldn't save a picture, checked the settings, and the storage location had change to the extended rom (and filled the remainder of the extended rom with pictures!)
I dropped the location box down, and all that is in there is main memory, and extended rom. It wont let me select the storage card!! File explorer, and resco explorer see the storage card fine, even when the card is removed and inserted again, the link within explorer disappears, and the reappears. Yet the camera software will still not see it.
Anybody else experienced this?
Cheers
Paul
This happens when you Unlock the Extended ROM. In my case, my SD card was re-labeled to Storage card 2, and the camera app does not recognize that. As far as I know a solution was never found, so I locked my EXT ROM again, since I never did anything with it anyway. In the EXT ROM unlock thread this problem was repeatedly posted, but no solution came up.
Hi,
I am having a weird problem and that is any file that I copy on the memory card goes missing and I can not see it. Files are on the card though since checking the memory card size is giving the approximate correct used space. Is there anyone else having the similar issue? I tried even a hard reset but it didn't help. by the way I am running TouchFlo v14 for the wing.
Also is anyone know how to format a memory card, I couldn't find it anywhere.
thanks,
The disappearing storage cards is a common thing.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=294324&highlight=disappearing+sd
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=304346&highlight=disappearing+sd
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=289980&highlight=corrupt+SD
As far as formatting the card, I use a program called CNETX flash format which installs on the phone.
Missing 1go Kingston card
I carefully followed all of the above instructions for the pagefile change. It appears to work///got the dos window etc. but upon restart, my storage card with all the programs has disappeared...nowhere to be found "not installed"!
What did I do wrong please??? have I somehow destroyed the card? Is the disappearing act related to this tweak or simply coincidental. I would really appreciate some feedback here!
wow at first i thought that this is only a problem for a few but it seems many suffer from it! i think i am going to use the last link for future updates on this issue. i just formatted my device to see what will happen...
which instructions did you use shepperd?
actually i lost all the pictures and music on my card a couple times. the first time i just recreated the my pictures and my music folder on my storage card and it all came back. the second time this didn't work and i ended up having to bring the microsd card to my friends dorm who had a card reader in his laptop and i used a freeware undelete utility to recover all the missing files.
this happened to me both times while reflashing the phone so from now on i've removed the microsd card while flashing the phone and i've had no problems since.
applecarriage said:
actually i lost all the pictures and music on my card a couple times. the first time i just recreated the my pictures and my music folder on my storage card and it all came back. the second time this didn't work and i ended up having to bring the microsd card to my friends dorm who had a card reader in his laptop and i used a freeware undelete utility to recover all the missing files.
this happened to me both times while reflashing the phone so from now on i've removed the microsd card while flashing the phone and i've had no problems since.
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thanks. i think this is useful information. by the way can i ask you the name of the software you used in your friends laptop?
thank you!
Never mind. I think any undelete program should work...
Weirdest problem today on my month-old Touch HD.
I have a 16GB microSD card with about 2GB free. The camera is set to Photo mode (single shot) Fine. But after 18 snaps I couldn't take any more pics - the system shows the message:
Unable to capture photo. Disk full.
But there's 2GB of free space on the storage card, so this error is false.
Changing the storage destination to Main Memory resolves the immediate problem so I can at least take pics.
Deleting the 18 JPGs and one mp4 video in the DCIM folder on the storage card allowed me to take pics again. Irritating bug.
Anyone else come across this?
Had the same problem when my 8GB card was almost half full....would only allow me to take a few pics. I then wanted to see what happens when I fill the card up even more.....after going beyond 50% card space, all of a sudden remaining pics would show something like 7000+. Altough your problem appears to bit slightly different....
AFW said:
Weirdest problem today on my month-old Touch HD.
I have a 16GB microSD card with about 2GB free. The camera is set to Photo mode (single shot) Fine. But after 18 snaps I couldn't take any more pics - the system shows the message:
Unable to capture photo. Disk full.
But there's 2GB of free space on the storage card, so this error is false.
Changing the storage destination to Main Memory resolves the immediate problem so I can at least take pics.
Deleting the 18 JPGs and one mp4 video in the DCIM folder on the storage card allowed me to take pics again. Irritating bug.
Anyone else come across this?
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Got same with 3.5gb left on a 16gb card but not been unable to capture photo yet. One minute it tells me I've got space for 5676, another time it will be 646 and sometimes goes down to 94. Not sure what the problem is but I don't want to be let down by it as I use it for work. I wonder if a good old soft reset would reset the card reading or removing and reinserting the card. That's what I will try if I get stuck anyway.
the same problem occured with my device, it said, that I can take only 3 pics, in full quality, while storage card was almost empty. But after that, I´ve deleted one 800MB file (mp4 movie) and now I can take more than 1400 pics. Anyone experienced something like this? Might be something with file system...
A fix....I think?!
Hi guys, this is my first post on XDA so go easy on me.
I ALSO had this problem where suddenly I had a '0' count on photos left to take, yet 4GB free on the same 8GB card.
This is how I fixed it:
1. Connect the HD to the computer and select 'Disk Drive' rather than 'Activesync'.
2. Defragment the SDCard using the command 'defrag e:' or whatever letter your card has connected as.
When the defrag is done disconnect and try to take photos again.
My 'photos remaining' count went from 0 to 6700 after this!
While this appears to be a way of fixing it, its HTC that need to address this problem with a patch.
Theres likely to be defrag programs for WinMob as well that could do the trick.
Matt
entityuk said:
Hi guys, this is my first post on XDA so go easy on me.
I ALSO had this problem where suddenly I had a '0' count on photos left to take, yet 4GB free on the same 8GB card.
This is how I fixed it:
1. Connect the HD to the computer and select 'Disk Drive' rather than 'Activesync'.
2. Defragment the SDCard using the command 'defrag e:' or whatever letter your card has connected as.
When the defrag is done disconnect and try to take photos again.
My 'photos remaining' count went from 0 to 6700 after this!
While this appears to be a way of fixing it, its HTC that need to address this problem with a patch.
Theres likely to be defrag programs for WinMob as well that could do the trick.
Matt
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Not bad for a first post!
Welcome to the addiction!!
Further to my last post...
According to this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=433818 Defragging your MicroSD is a bad idea.
I certainly didn't experience any issues, it ran my storage card based Sat Nav software fine.
If your concerned that a defrag will damage your card (I certainly have no concerns) then move the contents of your card to the computer, format the SD Card and move the files back again and don't worry about the defrag.
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Worst case scenario is moving the contents of your card to the computer, formatting SD Card and moving the files back over again....
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well i think this is pointless copying all the files to ur PC, deleting any SD crap and then copy them back to the card will actually defrag them (i think)..
Cause it will copy one file at a time
Problem is with one of the files being corrupted, resulting in false oversize file.
Solution to this is either completely formatting SD card, or using scandisk in windows.
Hi,
I have a new 64gb class 10 sd card. It seems that it keeps on corrupting at some point inside my note 3. Most of my music has corrupted and photos i take become corrupted. Im pretty sure if i do a dskchk on pc it recovers them all but i dont have my pc with me now for another 4 weeks. Does anyone know why this is happenning? Ive reformatted the cards several times now its fat32.
The note is unrooter stock and its the first time ive had an sd in it.
Thankss
Are you sure it is an official card and not a fake? There are cheap cards out there that claim to have large capacity (and show as such when you insert them), but in fact they are actually hacked low end small capacity cards... As soon as you go over its actual size, files get corrupted.
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Are you sure it is an official card and not a fake? There are cheap cards out there that claim to have large capacity (and show as such when you insert them), but in fact they are actually hacked low end small capacity cards... As soon as you go over its actual size, files get corrupted.
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Thanks for the reply, how can i check it? I have the unrooted phone itself i dont have a laptop or computer at the moment
There are test tools, but the ones I know of run on pc. One indication of a fake card could be if it was offered online for a ridiculous low price.
Search SD card tools on Google play store, there are apps that can verify its authenticity but like gschot said, PC tools like H2testw are the best and most reliable.
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Search SD card tools on Google play store, there are apps that can verify its authenticity but like gschot said, PC tools like H2testw are the best and most reliable.
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Thanks i will try that.
What i can say though is that when i used the pc to copy music over using the sd adapter the computer did it fine. I could play it no problem, then when i put it in my phone things became strange so i put it back into the computer which noticed a problem and suggested a scan. After scanning the files appeared again. I formatted the card to fat32 again and recopied all the music before i left, and 16gb of music has been reduced to 7.5bg of music through corruption. The phone doesnt tell me that they are corrupted. The folders are there with the first letters of the title changef to a μ symbol. E.g. DCIM folder changes to μCIM and the folder will be empty.
The sd card tester dont work because kitkat doesnt let apps write to the sd card. :L
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The sd card tester dont work because kitkat doesnt let apps write to the sd card. :L
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The ~7gb after scanning almost confirms that it's a 8gb card. Format it again & put less than 7gb of files on it and see if will be OK.
There's several threads in the Q&A section...have a read at my posts.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-3/help/note-3-self-deleting-files-sd-card-t2852399
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=54068881&postcount=8
Hi all,
My partner's phone - Got an interesting problem with the SD card. I bought an SD card, 64GB and put it in. It formatted fine and even offered to move the stuff off the phone and onto the card. Happy days. The problem now is, when I delete a file from the phone, it doesn't delete just from the phone, but both phone and SD card... lol. O...k. lol.
So I then sent a test file, a random video to myself from my partner's phone to my phone over WhatsApp then took the SD card out of my partner's phone and tried to delete it from her internal storage. It said the file couldn't be deleted because it was stored on the SD card.... yet, taking up space on the phone. So it was like having a dead body, no life, but taking up the room, on the internal storage, but when the SD card was put back, all "bodies" danced back to life again, making the video work as it once did. So it thinks they're saved on the SD card, and are, yet can't be removed from the phone and still taking space. In effect, it copied them but won't let the files leave the phone. So it was a weird mutation copy merge from internal to external storage. Sigh
So, I think I have to buy a new charger (current one charges but doesn't connect the phone to the pc) and manually cut from phone files and paste into sd card files, unless anyone has a better plan or actual way to fix this?
Thanks for your time,
Cormac
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Well this is most interesting............................
I went to the shop and bought a cable that worked. When I connected it to the computer, I was able to see ONLY SD card, no internal memory..... so now it looks like it has dissapeared.. and merged with the internal memory.... which means that it now doesn't allow us to put stuff into the SD card. However, It seems to think it has more space.. I am hopeful it can allow this. I had to delete an app to make room for Facebook messenger update. Despite having the SD card in the phone... I don't like this... I dunno what to do. Any help welcomed.
Thanks,
Cormac
If you want seperate storage you have to use your SD card as an external storage rather than using as an internal storage. & Why did you buy a cable? The charging cable can be used for transferring data.