Lately, when taking photos, a lot (around half) of the photos I take will be corrupted, meaning they wont open or will cause the whole camera application to crash. No, I don't take out the memory card or anything like that. Some pictures may be fine one day then the next day they show up as a little exclamation mark in the thumbnail and wont open. Some pictures will show up for around 1 second, then the camera application will stop responding and I have only the option to force close it.
I am running JF 1.42.
Had a similar problem about a month ago. Had to copy everything off the sd to my computer then reformat the sd. Been fine ever since.
You could try chkdsk to see if there are any errors on the sd. If you find errors run chkdsk /f to automatically fix any errors.
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I've been having an issue with my device. Once every week or so, something happens to my 16 GB SanDisk memory card. Exactly what happens I can't tell you, but it can be stuff from Media Player not beeing able to add files to the library (but plays them fine if you open them manually), to the phone freezing after entering PIN upon start-up. Sometimes it freezes randomly, and I have to remove the SD-card. Whenever this happen, using my card reader and running Vistas error-checking sorta helps it, or if I can isolate a file that causes a problem (not a program, any kind of file) and delete it, it usually works.
But, why does this happen? I never take the card out of the phone, except when trying to fix the errors. I sync over Bluetooth and USB, I've used different ROMs (I think, I've flashed quite a few recently so can't tell for sure), I've used diffrent line-up of programs, but it stills keep acting weird. Any clues? It's quite annoying. I didn't search the forums, since I honestly don't know what to search for. Any clues or search strings are most welcome! Thanks!
Forgot to mention, I'm currently running CRC's latest stable, but, as I said, I don't think that's the problem.
same thiong happened to me
My mem card started showing up files with some weird names, other files were unaccesible, programs stopped responding and the phone would freeze until I took out the mem card. What I id to fix the issue was, took out all the vital info (keep it minimal cuz there might be a corrupted file and we dont want to transfer that one to the phone again. format your memory card using a "low level" format application http://lmgtfy.com/?q=low+level+format+freeware+download+sd&l=1 then pop it back in again and the phome will format it, and transfer your old data back. This happened to me a while back and havnt had a single issue sience the low level thingie. Hopes this helps
I'm afraid this is a common enough problem and has been written about many times. Causes vary from software errors, switching off before all data is written or even physical contacts between phone and card (some evn say different brands of card work better).
If it happens that you see corrupt file names do not continue using the device or open programs or trying to delete data. Imediately perform a soft reset, this can recover (sometimes) the corrupt FAT file and save data.
The inability to save Media Player files to the library is an un-related issue and is a known software issue. You can overcome the issue by deleting the msmetadata file (search this forum for more info). Unfortunately it's something you may have to do fairly regularly.
Mike
Something I've noticed in my phone, the camera app runs kind of slow.
It didn't use to happen, but almost a week go I noticed the camera took too long to load (I count 6 or 7 seconds) and picture gets stuck for a moment when focus is adjusted or the options button (the one on the bottom right corner) is pressed. Has anyone had a problem like this? I tried hard resetting, but no dice.
If it's important, it happened around the time I tried Android on the phone trough SD card.
I happened to find a solution to it. In case someone ever has the same issue, it's resolved by formatting the SD Card or by saving the pictures in the main memory. It's so simple.
Thanks, sounds like just need a larger SD card.
Since i bought a new SD Card on ebay - 32 GB - i switched the stock camera to save all photos on external sd card. Looks like since then the pictures are dissapearing from the folder DCIM on external SD Card.
When i'm taking the picture, and then checking if the file is there - it is there everything is ok...... i can take a lot of pictures and the files are there and i can see all of them.
Then after some time (without switching tablet off) i'm trying to check the files in DCIM folder on the external sd card - and it is empty!!! Any of the file manager does not see any files in. The LOST folder on the card is empty as well. When i'm trying to make another picture from the camera app, and then check the files from the camera directly, it looks like it can open the just made picture and it see somehow the other files but can not open them - just says FAIL LOAD.
i have no idea what is happening.
I switched now the camera back to save the files on the internal storage card and see what will happen.
Any idea what the hell is happening?
I have a lot of files on the external SD Card and everything is ok. Nothing else dissapeared.
I have the same problem. As long as I do not shut it down I can get my pictures to load. Once I shut it down I get the failure to load error. It seems to have started with the 1.41 upgrade with me because all the picture prior to upgrade load with no problems. I am hoping 3.1 will correct the problem. Hope it will here this month.
I've started a thread about this a while ago called External MicroSD contents disappears. Please write there so we can all join together for this BIG issue.
Alot of people are reporting the same problem.
I have a 32GB too. Same problems, I put stuff in but when i restart lots of things vanish.
possible shutdown issue
I had one thread because I am having issues with the time zone not saving and then I saw another thread regarding the pictures so I started http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14545637#post14545637
I think it has to do with the shutdown process and the tab is not saving files/settings properly. Have not seen any further help or suggestions.
encryption issue?
In the threads regarding time zone changes, it appears to have been traced to encrypted tablets.
My tablet was encrypted. I did a factory reset and set the time zone on setup. I have not re-encrypted it yet and the time zone has saved. I'm debating whether or not to encrypt it again.
I never had a problem with pictures not saving, but I believe the issues could be related. For the people with the picture saving issue, are your tablets encrypted?
Hi all
Finally got my lovely Nexus 4
Rooted it to jellybean 4.2.1 and then started installing a few bits.
I've run into some problems with the usb connection though. It will frequently appear as if there's no internal memory, or it'll let me in the memory and won't let me do anything. For example, I was putting some files over onto it and the box in Windows popped up as usual with 'copying xyz to internal memory' but just hung, didn't make any progress. Similarly deleting files is troublesome and rarely works, I have to resort to rebooting my machine, reinstalling the Nexus 4 drivers and constantly unplugging and replugging the device.
I had the last straw this morning when I tried to move some photos from the device to my PC which aren't opening, giving me the error 'Windows Photo Viewer can't open this picture because the file appears to be damaged, corrupted or too large'. They are normal photos at ~2.5mb in size and work perfectly on the phone.
Any help would be appreciated as it's very annoying now!
Cheers
Anyone?
Are you transferring a large amount of files? The new mtp protocol seems to have trouble with that, at least on windows. I haven't seen the "no internal memory" error you mention but I have had constant corrupted files and crashes while trying to transfer +1000 photos for instance (I'm using stock, unrooted), to the point of making it impossible to finish. See also this bug report here. What you describe may or may not be this issue, but if it is I have no idea what the fix is; I've personally given up.
This weekend I attended a school play for one of my kids. Since it was the first weekend with the phone we took lots of pictures. Once we got home though none of the pictures were retrievable. They all had a blank grey photo screen with a ! at the button. I tried to get at it with my PC but same results. Now I got a pissed off spouse and no answers to how this would of happened. Also it was not on a MicroSD. (one is on the way). All data was saved on the device's memory.
If anyone has a trick of a fix for this, it would be greatly appreciated.
Have you tried powering the phone off for a minute then power it back up in recovery and delete the cache
Have you tried opening them up with a different program like ES explorer or disk digger
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Also after the reboot try the camera out again. does it's save any new photos that you tried to take?
I had the same issue. I took a bunch of family photos then had some lag, freezes and then a Corrupt Card message! I pulled the card and was able to save it on my win 10 pc with the sd adapter. It was the kingston 64 gb from the costco bundle. I bought a samsung pro +128 from bestbuy($89) and hope I never have this issue again.
I've taken a picture and had it just not save, but nothing like that corrupted grey screen you got.
Also I know you weren't using an SD card but when you get it I would highly recommend that you keep save to device on and transfer to your card later as needed. I found that the camera app stutters hard when opening or when saving a picture if it's straight to the card. I have a top class Sandisk 128gb card but still use the transfer method because I love the speed of the camera. Not quite as fast as last year's but 1.8 seconds from double click of the home to saving a picture is about on par with the 1.5 seconds of the s6/edge/edge+/note5.
Same crap
I have the same issues. But it does random photos. I have had the phone since the 2nd with tmobile. Since then I have taken aproximately 50 photos. Over the last 4 days they all have slowly changed to that grey crap thing and the pics are gone. WTF samsung........... I added a sd card today, even though its set to, it still dont put any photos on the card. And I still lose them to this crap glitch. Begining to really hate this phone beyond measure.
Corrupt file
I have a 128gb sd card, using the Verizon model. I took a pic and noticed it not saving to sd cards dcim. So I reboot and it to says my sd card is corrupted in storage. I just popped it in my laptop and deleted the last photo in dcim folder. It seems okay again and didn't have to format again. I hope this doesn't happen often.
I'm having the same problem with my new S7, it's July 1st, 2017 and last week all photos from about Monday onward started not showing up and just have this gray !
I took a photo again today and I looked at it and it looked fine and now I can't retrieve it. Is there any fix for this problem? I've tried reindexing, reboot 5 times, shutting down complete.
Same problem here
I am facing the same problem. Did you find solutions? If so please help me too
Ive actually been surprised at how I haven't needed to fuss at all with storing photos. It prompted me once to store on the sd and thats what its done with every photo.
My first thought would be the sdcard. I was lucky to find a high speed 128 gb Samsung in the clearance section ($20)
Test another sdcard. Im pretty sure its not a software issue.