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sudden camera blues!

i have done a search and read thru some threads with similar problems, but not exactly the same.
i have the O2 xda trion with the dopod rom and have had the device since feb 07 without any significant problems up until a few days ago.
all of a sudden the camera would not capture, ie save anywhere, and then is not saving to the 2 gb sd card i have been using since day 1.it inconsistently is not saving to either site, card or internal. (i do not have the "network" choice) i use the camera just about every day and take photos for work and remove the micro sd card and place it in the sd-adapter in my pc to instantly copy and print....this has been working very well until recently.
i have tried most all of the suggestions from the threads incl., card out while device on a few times, soft reset, installed cool camera and it does not copy to the card, hitting the icon for sd card, reducing from super fine to fine on the settings, so i am left with a hard reset which i dread doing, almost an excuse to get a new device AND installing an sd card formatting/cleaning? program ??. as i am not a real techie and dont know how to do registry changes and have the patience of a spastic paranoid schizophrenic, i wonder if someone can direct to a program that might resolve this issue as i do believe it now has to do with the card itself.
other poss suggestions are encouraged, AND i did do the search and spent quite a bit of time before opening a new thread.
thanks in advance!
djsell

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i have done a search and read thru some threads with similar problems, but not exactly the same.
i have the O2 xda trion with the dopod rom and have had the device since feb 07 without any significant problems up until a few days ago.
all of a sudden the camera would not capture, ie save anywhere, and then is not saving to the 2 gb sd card i have been using since day 1.it inconsistently is not saving to either site, card or internal. (i do not have the "network" choice) i use the camera just about every day and take photos for work and remove the micro sd card and place it in the sd-adapter in my pc to instantly copy and print....this has been working very well until recently.
i have tried most all of the suggestions from the threads incl., card out while device on a few times, soft reset, installed cool camera and it does not copy to the card, hitting the icon for sd card, reducing from super fine to fine on the settings, so i am left with a hard reset which i dread doing, almost an excuse to get a new device AND installing an sd card formatting/cleaning? program ??. as i am not a real techie and dont know how to do registry changes and have the patience of a spastic paranoid schizophrenic, i wonder if someone can direct to a program that might resolve this issue as i do believe it now has to do with the card itself.
other poss suggestions are encouraged, AND i did do the search and spent quite a bit of time before opening a new thread.
thanks in advance!
djsell
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Sounds like one of those infuriatingly difficult problems to solve where in the end a hard reset is the only option left. Still, some routine questions just in case:
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Installed any new software recently?
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Are you running low on main memory? - cleaned out the PIE history and temp files recently?
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Does it save pictures at low resolution?
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No other applications are running when you use the camera?
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Other applications, word say, save and read ok to SD Card?
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You do of course have full backup software installed so a hard reset is no problem???
Mike

WOW!, mike,
thats great stuff .....as if i had an appt with my trioniatrist, i feel i owe you money, but......i'm in between patients of my own but i do think you've made some excellent diagnoses and it certainly may work and will get back with you as soon as i can address those issues 1 x 1 !
thanks...djsell

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WOW!, mike,
thats great stuff .....as if i had an appt with my trioniatrist, i feel i owe you money, but......i'm in between patients of my own but i do think you've made some excellent diagnoses and it certainly may work and will get back with you as soon as i can address those issues 1 x 1 !
thanks...djsell
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LOL perhaps more of a trionologist, haven't reached the heady heights of trioniatristry yet . The above are just thoughts really, based on a speculative guess that it might be a memory issue - not so much on your SD card but on the device itself. I have noticed it likes to keep quite a chunk of memory free in order to run and process data. However, as I said above, tracking down a solution might not be worth endless ours of trying and testing. I would not be without my periodic full backups - even if I hit problems, often I won't bother looking for a solution other than just restoring the latest backup.
Mike

hello mike,
i was able to figure out my problem after i cleaned out memory from about 3 mb to 10 mb and still the problem, so i realized that after using both the inherent camera and the cool camera (which i do like better at the moment) and both did not save to the sd card and i finally got a message that there was no path to the sd card and checked to see i had made a sep. file on the card months ago called "my pictures" but it was not a subfolder under "my documents", so i created a subfolder in my documents and the path was opened.
why it worked before i dont know, but so far so good!!
thanks again and maybe people with similar problems can try this mode of therapy!
i do hope to upgrade to an "omni", imate ultimate 7150, or the kaiser in the future so we'll see if they are with stable cameras!
by the way just had a few mcewans ales for the 1st time and quite tasty!!
djsell

Agh! Good news though.
Next time someone asks, checking the file path will be on the diagnosis checklist.
Glad you enjoyed the McEwens, but don't let Hermes drive you to alcohol!!
Cheers
Mike

Camera unable to capture - storage full (but it isn't)

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.

entityuk said:
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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.

lost pictures on a mytouch fender

I have a friend who lost her memory card and put me up to the task of finding out if her pictures or any thumbnail copy could be left on the actual phone itself. Im 99% sure there is no trace left on the phone memory itself and they are gone but can somebody please confirm this for me.

Were the pictures on the SD card or on the phone itself? If it was, & you physically lost the card, it's gone. There may be a few pics on the phone, but the mytouch prefers to save media on the SD card.

pablo1215 said:
I have a friend who lost her memory card and put me up to the task of finding out if her pictures or any thumbnail copy could be left on the actual phone itself. Im 99% sure there is no trace left on the phone memory itself and they are gone but can somebody please confirm this for me.
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If you lost the card with the pics on it they are gone, if they were thumbnails for caller tags or what not they were probably on the sd card aswell and are gone, try not to loose the small card

Memory card is gone for good !!

Good evening everyone...
I have a problem with my X2, the memory card have disapeared for good, its been a while now and I have tried every fix in this site, still no luck.. I have done a clear setting (hard rest) and many things still the memory card no go... some one help??

Is that the Original Card that came with the phone? How long did it work, if ever?
Did you apply the reg setting to DISable card sleep?
Did you try a DIFFERENT card?
Did you try that card in a Different Phone?
....and the results are....

Hi there,,, yes its the original card and its working for quite some time now,,, Its been working for 4 months now, and I have tested it n my PC and its working, its tottaly the phone, can u explain what you mean by card sleep disable trick??

Well, with a Registry Editor I go to:
HKLM\system\current control set\control\power\state\suspend and then to same key but RESUMING
and sete the shc1 value='0'
which makes the sd card never go to sleep. So far for me and I am using even a 32GB card, it never disappeared.
If all does not help and the card works in another PHONE, then the last thing left is to try a DIFFERENT card in your phone.
Else, phone back to SE for warranty!

thx man Ive tried that but its already set to 0.... I think the phone is having an emotional problem, cuz he dont see the card even with a SEUS clean rom install,,, seems the hardware is the problem not the software,, this is bad cuz the warranty isnt in my country and i cant do anything to fix it now..

Hii! new updates... I just got a new HC card 4 GB and it worked,, so i guess the device some how dont wanna recognize its original card any more, even hto its working on PC.. anyway thanks dude, i just got new memory card and its working, this X2 will drive me crazy some day but not today i guess!

SD fix
Just apply this fix:
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i also got the same problem and it's been 1 week since i bought the phone
the card is readable with card reader in my laptop pls hlp me. :'(

Help on Transfering pics to mircoSD

Alright so Ive been running NAND on my HD2 for 7 months with no issues,
one day the sandisk 16gig microSD failed on me, it wouldnt read,
I contact sandisk and they couldnt offer me a recovering but they did send me to another company,
anything more than 8gig is $175 which is stupid,
I decide to upgrade to a 32gig and I just received it today, my issue is Ive transfer all my music with no issue but the pictures/ camera pics arent showing up.
I formatted the SD card already, anyone know whats going on or what I need to do ?
Thank you

you can do it via computer if you have the detected port or if you don't like me I did it at fed-ex when I had the same problem.

kevin37 said:
you can do it via computer if you have the detected port or if you don't like me I did it at fed-ex when I had the same problem.
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Ive done that , the issue is , the pics are loading on the microSD card but on the PHONE it doesnt show up , none of the pictures are showing up.
the music is showing up( Mp3) but none of the pictures on my phone.
if I mount my 4gig microSD card back , everything else works...
im running NAND Andriod 2.3

DoHBoi1o1 said:
Alright so Ive been running NAND on my HD2 for 7 months with no issues,
one day the sandisk 16gig microSD failed on me, it wouldnt read,
I contact sandisk and they couldnt offer me a recovering but they did send me to another company,
anything more than 8gig is $175 which is stupid,
I decide to upgrade to a 32gig and I just received it today, my issue is Ive transfer all my music with no issue but the pictures/ camera pics arent showing up.
I formatted the SD card already, anyone know whats going on or what I need to do ?
Thank you
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If you have reformated your old SD card then everything is gone from it with no recovering it. I am asumming you formated your new 32G card. As far as your pictures i don't really know what to tell you if they are not showing up on your computer when you have it plugged into your computer with a reader.

ok maybe I should have rephrase it,
the pictures that I transfer from my 4gig sd to my PC is showing,
then from my PC back to my 32gig SD , shows up in my card and in my PC display.
when the 32g goes into the phone, the pictures arent displaying at all.
even on my 4gig card, I have a folder label PICS .
when I try to copy and move the PICS folder into the 32 gig , it is not showing up as soon as its plugged into my phone..
im stump on this one, I havent had the slighest idea what to do now, as Ive search all over the place.
the card is already formatted , a friend said I may need to patitrion the card because its too big ? but I dont see that still helping to display the pictures...
any other ideas guys and gals ?
Thanks

DoHBoi1o1 said:
ok maybe I should have rephrase it,
the pictures that I transfer from my 4gig sd to my PC is showing,
then from my PC back to my 32gig SD , shows up in my card and in my PC display.
when the 32g goes into the phone, the pictures arent displaying at all.
even on my 4gig card, I have a folder label PICS .
when I try to copy and move the PICS folder into the 32 gig , it is not showing up as soon as its plugged into my phone..
im stump on this one, I havent had the slighest idea what to do now, as Ive search all over the place.
the card is already formatted , a friend said I may need to patitrion the card because its too big ? but I dont see that still helping to display the pictures...
any other ideas guys and gals ?
Thanks
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I don't really see partitioning the SD card as something you need to do either as the HD2 is speced as being able to handle a 32G SD card. Besides if you partition the SD card wouldn't that really defeat the purpose of having a 32G card as it would reduce the storage space to whatever you partition it to. Maybe you had a bad format when you formatted it. You could try to format it again, but try to use some different software maybe the formatting tools found here or the Panasonic utility.

wait, lets take a step back. i understand your description of the problem. my question is, when you say you can't see the pictures when you insert the loaded 32gb card in the phone, do you mean the album/gallery application doesn't show them? have you tried seeing if the picture files are there using a file explorer app on the phone (try app called "root explorer")?
if the pictures are appearing in the file explorer but NOT in the album/gallery application, then i suspect it is an issue of the album/gallery application's "cache". these applications typically maintain a cache of thumbnails as well as a background process that periodically monitors changes on your sd card and builds/maintains its cache. try to search for ways to clear the cache to give the background process a clean slate to begin re-indexing your pictures on your new sd card.
let us know if this helps.

ASCIIker said:
wait, lets take a step back. i understand your description of the problem. my question is, when you say you can't see the pictures when you insert the loaded 32gb card in the phone, do you mean the album/gallery application doesn't show them? have you tried seeing if the picture files are there using a file explorer app on the phone (try app called "root explorer")?
if the pictures are appearing in the file explorer but NOT in the album/gallery application, then i suspect it is an issue of the album/gallery application's "cache". these applications typically maintain a cache of thumbnails as well as a background process that periodically monitors changes on your sd card and builds/maintains its cache. try to search for ways to clear the cache to give the background process a clean slate to begin re-indexing your pictures on your new sd card.
let us know if this helps.
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acually the gallery , astro viewer, file manager , none of if shows up the pictures,
before I could swap my 4 gig or 16 gig with no issues, I would transfer pics from my PC straight to the phone and use those images or jpgs for either caller IDs or just to have them on my phone.
now, nothing is showing up which is werid , Never had an issue until I swap out this 32gig card, Could it be not formatted right ?
I will check into the cache, not sure how to go about this but I will mess with the phone now

well tried the cache thing , didnt help...
I have no idea whats going on , not sure why it wont read any of the pics in the 32gig card,
but when I plug back my 4gig , all my pics show up.
you guys think this has to do with the way its format ?
I formatted the card thru my computer , not thru the phone, I dont see any options to format it on my phone.
Cyanmods NAND 2.3.2
not sure if that helps

are you hot-swapping your cards?
Reboot the phone with the 32gb card inside and see if the phone picks them up then.
Iyts a known issue with Android when cards are mounted for USB mass storage on the |PC that cards sometimes dont pick up the new files.

I never did try that , thanks man !!

nopes that didnt help at all...