Activity Camera is not responding... - G1 General

every time i run the camera or apps that use the camera i get this messege:
Activity Camera (in application camera) is not responsing.
anyone know if this is a hardware or software problem? I've tried changing firmwares, doing master resets etc., but nothing helps. I'm leaning toward a hardware issue which would kind of piss me off seing as i voided the sticker on the back changing the case ><
anyone got any ideas?

sorry to bump this, but anyone got any idea?

Unfortunately, it is most likely hardware. I had the same problem with my BB last year.
I did everything I possibly could. I took the whole thing apart and actually tried to reseat the "camera" back to the board and nothing would bring it back to life.
The good news is, it forced me to buy a new phone and now I have a G1.
Since you've already voided the warranty, why don't you take it apart again and see if you can pull the camera (lens housing, at least) and reseat it?
I haven't looked at the service manual for that so I can't say how similar the camera components would be.

will give it a try, cheers for the help
i'll let you know how it goes.

i had the same problem & tried reseting & clearing cache & data & none of that works..the solution is...u have a corrupt file on your sd card usually it's in the dcim folder...u have to find the corrupt file & delete it, that should solve your problem..there's a lot ways u can do this..reformat your sd card or put in a different one (which i would try to see if that's the problem that's what I did) then on the sd card that's in question i put it in the computer with an adapter & deleted all the files that were dated on or after the time of the problem then I put my sd card back in phone & the problem was solved!! I hope this helps

khall4u44 , this is what forums are all about! Thanks for taking time to post as this has been driving me mad for the last couple of days. I thought it was the new ROM.
Deleted a couple of corrupt pics from the DCIM folder and it is all good
Thanks again.

I had the same problem with my Sony Ericsson X10 mini pro. I tried to removed all visually corrupted files with no luck. Then I moved all files and folder out from the DCIM folder and my problem was solved. Thank you!

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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

Guys, I THINK I solved the SD card issue...!

Guys,
Don't flame me... I haven't fully tested my theory, but so far it's working well!
As you know, MANY of us have issues with the card not being recognized sometimes; the device hangs; the camera doesn't capture images, etc.
Well, today I was trying to take some pictures facing downwards (of a leak in my car door), and I would just get a black image almost every single time.
I would then do a test and snap a picture of my garage, and it worked.
Back to the door, it didn't work.
Etc.
I wasn't sure if there wasn't enough lighting or what.
HOWEVER.....
I then realized that everytime the unit was pointing down, THAT is when it didn't work!
I examined where the contacts are on the card (top), and sure enough, it MAY be that by the force of gravity, one or two contacts are losing contact.
So I tested my theory.
I stuck my thumbnail (the REAL one, not a mini image ) under the card, and pressed it up.
EVERY single picture worked PERFECTLY.
No freezing! No black! No issues!
So, I took a small peice of paper, and slid it under the card, like a shim. (It was actually a piece of an envelope, so it's a big thicker.
Gentlemen... Since I put that paper underneath the card, my 8525 has worked flawlessly.
I just took 20 pictures, stored on the SD card, and not one issue!
And this is a 2GB Sandisk, by the way.
I will do more tests, but I am really feeling confident that this may solve some of our problems.
(I hope this is not a "welcome to last week" thread! I have seen LOTS of threads regarding the camera, freezes, and SD issue.. but I never read anything about solving problems with a piece of paper!)
Thoughts???
Hi Michael_514,
While I appreciate your efforts here, the one thing that seems to have solved ALL of my SD Card issues was upgrading to WM6. Nothing to do with gravity nor Elfen registry edits ... just a new OS.
While I think your tack, dealing with gravity and the directional orientation of the device is interesting, I think the heart of the problem exists in the drivers for the SD Cards, which were corrected (or at least ameliorateed) in the newer OS builds.
All the same, I am interested in your final results, so please continue this post.
All the best,
-pvs
Don't forget guys, maybe you are both right! We should not assume that everyone has the same problem - though the symptoms may be the same. Actually, when reading the many posts on this issue, I AM convinced there is in some cases a poor contacts issue that will afect the camera and other software/files on the SD card. I am also convinced there is in other cases a driver/software issue that may well be improved with WM6.
Always be cautious, yet open minded about claims from folks to have solved an issue. It may be for some but not all, and a different solution may exist for others.
Mike
Point taken, Mike. Thanks for that!
Just tried it. I will keep you informed tomorrow.
Thanks for the responses, PVS & Mike.
Mike -- Love your 'have an open mind' role! I guess that's why they call you a Moderator!
I would agree with Mike... both answers could be correct.
I am convinced that 90% of our Hermes woes ARE SD Card related.
I feel that because I had these units for 7 straight days, in use almost all day, with not one crash or hang...
..and then on day seven, I did a SD Card copy/paste, to switch cards with my dad's unit, and from that day on, freeze.. freeze.. freeze... Sometimes the unit is great for three days, sometimes, 3 reboots in one hour are required....
...Same thing happened when I reinstalled the firmware....
...that I just 'knew' that the freezes and hangs were DEFINITELY related to my swapping of the cards. Especially since I installed no weird apps.
Dirty contacts; bad connection; bad card controllers; I KNEW that my woes were not 'OS-related', 'sbd Pocket-plus-related', nor firmware related... Especially since I did three reinstalls of the firmware.
PVS - I totally agree with you. Perhaps WM6 has some better error checking, or a better algorythm for handing missing bits over the card bus.
I know a little about how computers and electronics handle this. It's why you can make a scratch in a CD, and it still plays. Check bits / error correcting / over-sampling / etc. etc.
I agree that a more advanced OS, like WM6, can better "handle" missing bits.
..but I am trying to get to the root of the problem.
I just went to the bathroom and took about 30 photos while sitting there . ALL 30 worked! No black photos. No "New SD Card Inserted" message. No freezing. 30 on 30. I am thrilled so far!
After spending three weeks racking my brains out, dealing with the problems, I am starting to truly feel like I may be on the right track.
Let's keep our minds open... Let's remember how many 8525 issues do point to the cards. Let's keep in mind that half the people love their Sandisks, and half the people love their Kingstons.
A new OS may solve people's problems, as could a piece of paper jammed in there to make the contacts tighter.
I spent $720 on two of these units, and let me tell you.. I MISS MY 8125!
I am as eager to solve this as anyone. I use this machine for business. It's not just a hobby for me.
Maybe we are on the right track...!
Let's see what others say...!
I will keep everyone posted.
I do have to laugh at my make-shift solution, though! There is something funny about staring at my unit, with a little piece of envelope visible under the SD card. Talk about a low-tech solution to a high-tech problem!
M
Michael_514, I love your theory. I hope it's that easy a solution for some of us if not all.
It seems from reports that Sandisk cards have this problem more often?
If owners could report their card's thickness using a micrometer, this might help confirm if an electrical contact issue is more likely?
My Corsair 1Gb card is 0.70mm thick, just behind the electrical contacts.
I've had issues with the card not being detected both with WM5 and now WM6. One time was fixed by wiping the contacts clean, but other times ejecting & reinserting the card make no difference. I've ignored the problem and many hours later the card would be visible again.
When I read your post, I straight away folded up some paper and pushed it in above the card, on the same side as the contacts - the memory card was still accessable within the phone, so I'm thinking my issue isn't a physical one.
Next time the card vanishes from explorer, I'll insert some paper to shim it towards the contacts and see if it helps.
Has anyone pulled apart their phone? I'm wondering if perhaps there's some type of pressure applied to the back of the card forcing it to contact electrically? Maybe if this is a mechanical device it is getting stuck?
My old phone's SD card slot broke when I dropped it once and it no longer ejected cards normally, but still worked perfectly.
Cheers! Oggy.
Hi there!
I just wanted to confirm where I put the paper.
I put it UNDER the card, effectively 'pushing the contacts up'.
That is where I stuck my thumbnail when I could not take a successful picture of my car door.
When I said to myself, "Why do all photos of the sky work, but not photos of the ground??", that is when I realized that I wanted to "push it up".
And in terms of the:
This firmware vs. that firmware...
Kingston vs. Sandisk...
WM5 vs. WM6...
Made in Taiwan vs. Japan...
Those are NOT the answers.
Too many people in too many threads have proven that.
I am not saying my method is correct... I will need a week of testing... But I know people DID have problems with WM6. People DID have problems with Kingston. People DID have problems with 512MB.
I started another Kingston vs. Sandisk thread, and reading those responses has shown me that it ain't the answer.
And as Ogier says, "I've had issues with the card not being detected both with WM5 and now WM6."
So, that also isn't the answer.
Let's all keep our fingers crossed, because I HATE rebooting this unit!
But to confirm, I put the paper underneath to 'force up' the contacts....!
@ Michael_514
Just another thought. There is also a difference between photos of the sky and photos pointing down and that is the light level. I know you are testing the idea about the contacts and angle of the phone, but to confirm it's nothing to do with the light level sensor/software you might need to test by taking high light level pics (pointing downward at a lamp say), just to rule out any light level sensor issue. I have noticed that the camera seems to incrementally adjust light level but in general it will be at a different setting pointing up as opposed to down.
As I say just a thought and something to rule out or in.
Mike
I don't know if this is disappointing but I have tested this method during the weekend and it does not work. I have definitely inserted the shim under the card so to push the contacts up. After some time my card is partially lost meaning some programs will not run. This morning I'm in the office and I have replaced the shim to sit just under the contacts and not under the entire card. I will keep you posted although I don't trust it will work.
SD troubles
hi guys,
ive been looking at these SD card related threads in the past and was thankful that my hermes seemed fine...
UNTIL
the speaker connection popped out and i opened the phone to connect it back up. everything when fine and the speaker is working but the sd card refuses too show up. now ive tried putting paper under and above the SD card and ive also changed my ROM to two different WM6 flavours. im sure all the connectors are plugged in but i really need my SD card to be shown.
Anybody experience something similar or have and idea's on how to get it working again. it only stopped working after i removed the back panel, connected the speaker back up and then closed it.
thank you,
Drooch
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hi guys,
ive been looking at these SD card related threads in the past and was thankful that my hermes seemed fine...
UNTIL
the speaker connection popped out and i opened the phone to connect it back up. everything when fine and the speaker is working but the sd card refuses too show up. now ive tried putting paper under and above the SD card and ive also changed my ROM to two different WM6 flavours. im sure all the connectors are plugged in but i really need my SD card to be shown.
Anybody experience something similar or have and idea's on how to get it working again. it only stopped working after i removed the back panel, connected the speaker back up and then closed it.
thank you,
Drooch
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Not much to suggest other than open up again - double check connections and hard reset if it still does not work.
Mike
ive checked the connections and they seem fine, i really cant put my finger on what has changed from me opening it and then closing it. the only difference is that there is no void sticker anymore! is there anyway to see if it still see's the sd card slot or if the OS diesnt even think its there.
Ive tried HR and ROM changes, so its something hardware wise.
Drooch
drooch said:
ive checked the connections and they seem fine, i really cant put my finger on what has changed from me opening it and then closing it. the only difference is that there is no void sticker anymore! is there anyway to see if it still see's the sd card slot or if the OS diesnt even think its there.
Ive tried HR and ROM changes, so its something hardware wise.
Drooch
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Maybe you said, but does the card work ok on a PC card reader? Just wondering if the card formatting is corrupted?
Mike
Again, after rechecking this method, putting two pieces of paper just under the contacts area of the card I still get the "once every 6 hours" normal card failure. I just remove the card, wait 5 seconds and insert it again. That's it for me.
Hi All!
Two interesting discoveries..!
First of all, so far, so good.
I did not have to reboot my once since Friday. Today is Monday, and not one single freeze. Normally, I like to reboot every few days just to 'clean it up', but I am going to leave it until it freezes.
Friday evening, Saturday, Sunday, this morning...
Not one system hang.
However, I did take a few pictures that came out black. That's the bad news.
I have not looked at other threads yet, but as Mike alluded to, above, there IS something wrong with the light sensor.
Remember how I said I had problems photographing my leaky car door, but then other pics were fine?
Well, yesterday my father said to me that he took a few pictures of items in his showroom, and some items would NOT be able to be photographed!!! He said that he has some gift items with SPARKLES, and he could successfully capture photos of items without sparkles, but when she shot the sparkly items, he saw black.
Then I thought about the pictures I was taking, the pictures WERE of dripping water from my car door.
I think that a unit that hangs, or an SD card that's not recognized, MAY be a totally separate issue than black pictures.
But that still doesn't explain how I was able to take all sorts of photos when my thumbnail pressed on the SD card.
In any case, like I said, I have been extremely successful with 'no black' pictures this weekend, and have not rebooted my device since Friday. This is a miracle for me.
I just removed and inserted a clean shim.
If I could get another three days without a reboot, I will be jumping for joy!
My unit just hung!
I had disconnected the unit from the Activesync USB cable.
Went upstairs.
Came back to find the unit on (Backlight on) and the unit was very hot, with the battery being sucked down 1/2.
I had set an Alarm for 1:00pm, and it's now 2:10pm. It started playing a second or two of the Alarm sound just now. And that was it. Very hot to the touch.
But I am happy that this is my first re-boot since Friday.
These hangs/black photos/hot battery drains may all be different issues, but I am still definitely leaving my shim inside the card. No reboot since Friday is a big improvement for this unit!
Good day
I recently upgraded my TyTn from WM5 to WM6. Since upgrade 1GB and 2GB Apacer micro SD's that worked fine are not recognised by the phone.
Am I missing any setting in WM6? Can someone please help as I need to access info on the cards ASAP.
Thank you
Just got my new PQ1 2G card and replaced my old 2G Sandisk. My first impression is speed - much better with the PQ1. Also the general feeling is that it fails less or not at all. I have to work with it for the next 72 hours to give you my statistics comparing it to the Sandisk.
I'll keep you posted.
NO. This feels the same as my old Sandisk 2G memory. Every 4-5 hours my SD card stops responding. Mind you in the PQ1 case I can still see the card with my Explorer and even see the directory structure and the files. They just can't run. The messege I get is the progrmam is not found.

phone has become abnormally slow, and hangs often.

i am a ardent fan of this site and a regular visitor since i brought my htc touch hd, i am living in Australia bought the phone when i went to India last month. this is my very first windows mobile, the phone was working like a charm till the time i accidentally reset the phone by clicking clear storage. i thought it was like emptying the recycle bin in windows vista, the phone asked me to type the numbers from 1 to 4 which i did and everything changed from that time. the phone is abnormally slow and often hangs, leting me down when i need it. of late i am not able to sync the phone with the system as it is not getting recognized my sd card.ophra does not work as like most of the applications. i tried to format my 8 gb sd card which came along the phone, but the fate is still the same. will a hard reset help me?
my rom is: 1.18.707.3(23358) wwe
radio version: 1.09.25.14
i am a novice person as far as phones are concerned, i don't meddle with it
help in this regard is much appreciated.
regards,
gokul.mb
Yes, you should try a hard reset. Remember to backup any data that you have entered in the phone, hopefully you will be able to sync to do that. If I understand, you deleted the 'internal storage', am I right? Maybe some programs are storing executables, DLL files or other stuff there and all of them stopped working when you 'cleared' storage. Btw, where is that 'clear storage' option in the menu?
It's in System Settings I think.
Isn't Clear Storage a hard reset?
yeah its the one found in settings under the tab system, i think i did a hard reset by do it. thats what i found from the forums, while i was reading a few hours back. i dont know what to do now, also read it some where that installing .net 3.5 and change the settings using a reg editor, later install sd card tune up cab will improve the performance considerably. which registry editor do you suggest? thanks for your replies....
I had similar issue with my Touch HD, but it happend after i took a picture (one of many) with the camera. I did a hard reset, but that did not help. Try removing the SD card, because in my case the problem was that something had gone wrong with that picture and the phone could not read it properly and display it in the Photos and Videos section ot the TouchFlo 3D (or at least that what I think was the reason ). Anyway, that worked for me - glad if it works for you too.
P.S. Forget to mention that after deleting that picture (with SD card reader - I could not do it in the File Explorer on Touch HD) everything went back to normal.
omg i solved my problem atlast....... thanks to all who gave me suggestions about this problem. i hard reset the phone after formating my sd card. now the phone runs like a wild horse...faster than before.
Good to hear.......Now jump on that sucker and get moding......yeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaa

[HELP] How to resolve missing "My Storage" folder?

How to resolve missing "My Storage" folder? I installed an animated lock screen and now my storage just vanished.
Do you have your activesync cable plugged in?
If so remove it .. adn check again
I did, After installing animated lock screen I just found out that my folder suddenly vanished. It wont even show in Main Storage all the apps I installed in My Storage and when I connect from Active Sync the Folder My Storage won't show.
i had this problem a month ago. Not sure exactly what the cause is, but it's a hardware issue. Had it shipped out for repair, and came back in a week with something replaced.
at least the service is fast.
It's an known O2 issue My 16GB disappeared some days ago too. Interesting thing here; I had a day or two before, installed an animated lock-screen. Wonder if that has some to do with it hmmm
Anyway, I tried to hard-reset the phone, install other roms (only pda and csc part), but nothing worked. My Storage would not reappear
So:
- Reading a bit on this issue, many has come to the conclusion returning the phone for service.
- I've read that at least one guy got his Storage back after flashingsome roms, suddenly it was back! He flashed eboot and phone as well, so I might try eboot soon, to see if it helps...
- I just bought a SD card, and start using it as storage instead, might be a solution if I don't bother returning the phone...
bennyx8903 said:
i had this problem a month ago. Not sure exactly what the cause is, but it's a hardware issue. Had it shipped out for repair, and came back in a week with something replaced.
at least the service is fast.
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Chivas610 said:
It's an known O2 issue My 16GB disappeared some days ago too. Interesting thing here; I had a day or two before, installed an animated lock-screen. Wonder if that has some to do with it hmmm
Anyway, I tried to hard-reset the phone, install other roms (only pda and csc part), but nothing worked. My Storage would not reappear
So:
- Reading a bit on this issue, many has come to the conclusion returning the phone for service.
- I've read that at least one guy got his Storage back after flashingsome roms, suddenly it was back! He flashed eboot and phone as well, so I might try eboot soon, to see if it helps...
- I just bought a SD card, and start using it as storage instead, might be a solution if I don't bother returning the phone...
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Thank you for the reply I already bring it back to Samsung and yes it was a hardware issue. I also have 16GB O2. Well lots of people got a problem when then Installed the Animated Lock Screen, maybe it has a tweak to overclock the processor and the phone just got burned.

disappearing pictures

HELLO everyone.
Please help me with the further painfull problem.
I bought brand new s7 edge. It was great phone. Somehow it transformed in photo destroyer. It has got 64 gb sd card bought brand new also. I save images to phones internal memore and sometimes to sd. It corrupts my photos on regular basis...
I feel like this pgone become piece of ****. I cant actually handle disappearing photos...
To clarify things, i use android ftom the ages of s2. I am familiar with how it works pretty well. However i cant find any logical explanation for that. Please have a look at images attached.
This phone became nightmare. In case of impossible recovery, it is possible to open law case against samsung? It sounds the same as vw selling cars with diesel gas emmision trick. Or even wors imagine buying brand new cars with no brakes.
My sd card works fine. All the photos and videos i took were good for some time. Afterwards it become corrupted.
Quick pick doesnt help. Nomedia files doesnt exist. Tried clearing cach of apps, cleared phone cach through recovery. Phone is full stock.
Sorry if its duplicate thread but xda search doesnt work...
Btw third picture is irrelevant. It showed up us corrupted so i tried uploading it. It seems to be good. Not sure about the others.
Looks like you're using a 3rd party gallery app, Google Photos? Have you tried the regular gallery app?
What is the make and model of the sd card?
Sent from my S7 Edge
Same thing was happening on my S6. Nearly all photos after every rom reflash were corrupted. And they didn't even work on other devices like computer etc. I haven't ever fixed that.
All You can do is download a app that does file recovery. It will scan Your phone for like 5 minutes and then show You all files. Eventually all those pictures will be back but with poor quality. They look like android has cached them or something. They are usually 100-300kb and have weird names with just numbers.
I will later on write the make of my sd card. I believe it is sandisk high class 64 gb bought brand new. Formated in phone. However pictures disappear not only from card but internal memory aswell.
As i didnt flash any roms yet i should be covered with warranty. I feel like this su edge is far from good. Could it be internal memory corruption? Or what...
Update no 1 to the situation:
It all started when i was taking pictures of the clouds. Camera app froze. So naturally i closed camera app and opened it again. Same happened. Shutter button was frozen. And the mini gallery button was unresponsive. Then i restarted the phone. It took ages. I noticed the blue notification led was on for a long time and restart itself took ages. The phone sit there for about 10 min with that blue light. I thought it was dead. It didnt respond to any button combinations, like power press or power long press. Even recovery combination didnt respond. And later on it booted.
Update 2. Now i performed media rescan. I see thumnails but then i press pocture it shows grey screen and same sort symbol of corrupted media file. I took some new pictures of my gf. Looked at them later on. Tried to send them through the mail to gf. She never received no email even though it was said "email was sent" on screen. After a while they was gone. Gone like never existed...
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Same thing was happening on my S6. Nearly all photos after every rom reflash were corrupted. And they didn't even work on other devices like computer etc. I haven't ever fixed that.
All You can do is download a app that does file recovery. It will scan Your phone for like 5 minutes and then show You all files. Eventually all those pictures will be back but with poor quality. They look like android has cached them or something. They are usually 100-300kb and have weird names with just numbers.
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So even after flashing new roms the same happened? I believe it must be faulty memory unit then. That is really sad. I never expected to buy phone for 820 euros and get this piecie of s***...
What happens when you select one of those photos? Do they display?.......
If so, then possibly your thumbnail cache is corrupt.
Try looking in both internal and external SD cards within the DCIM and Camera folders and remove any thumbnail folders, and also look within the Android folder on the root of both cards for your gallery app, and see if there are thumbnail or cache folders within there.
Its also worth trying to delete cache+data for your gallery app. If you remove anything, reboot before opening your app.
If they do not open on selecting, if you have a USB micro sd card reader, then try copying your external SD card contents to PC, format external SD card (via the phone, and not via windows) and copy back
Another thing to try is to clear cache+data for Media Storage.
madbeardo said:
So even after flashing new roms the same happened? I believe it must be faulty memory unit then. That is really sad. I never expected to buy phone for 820 euros and get this piecie of s***...
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I think my leftovers were in some data folder or one of the folders in the root directory ( / ). But other than that I guess it has to be a faulty unit. Cause now my S7 Edge doesn't do that anymore.
But don't worry, faulty units are really COMMON. I've had quite many phones with different issues. Some of them had broken USB port, some used to restart every hour or two. But don't think that only Android phones have those issues. My IPhone 6 also had a broken call speaker. And yeah. You have to be REALLY LUCKY to get a device that isn't faulty nowadays.
And if You still have warranty then get a replacement.
Or just try doing a factory reset and maybe it will disappear.
My SD820 S7edge was doing the same thing. I was losing pictures regularly, but only while saving them to the SD card (Sandisk 64 gig). I've been saving them to the internal memory, have had no problems since.
Hello guys. Thanks you all for responds and suggestions. I probably find out what it is. It should be sd cars. I bought lexar 633x 64gb and PLEASE PEOPLE DONT BUY THEM. They appear to change their write permission on the instance without of any luck of going backwards. My explanation for disappearing photos from internal memory sounds like that:
As I explained how it happened for the first time, I used external memory at that instance. Camera app crashed. So I bet Some of the photos was ruined by Android itself because it wasn't able to write into card.
Right now I made full reset through recovery menu. Hopefully my photos won't disappear any more. In a mean time I won't be using any external memory just to clarify that my unit is not faulty. I don't wanna loose the feelings of appreciation for the samsung. You see, before s7 Edge I used note 2 bought back in London. It was brand new and I used it up until 24th of June of 2016. Battery was and still is perfect. I had marvelously enjoyed many different roms and everything I was able achieve with it. I wouldn't bought new one, but camera in the note was desent and it was probably this single reason as I am working as a video maker and hobbyist photographer...
Thank you all again. I will post here if anything comes up.
Glad you've got it sorted, that's why I asked what make the sd card was in my first reply, I had the same problem with a cheap card I brought, now I only by sandisk and only from genuine resellers, plus my photos are backed up to the cloud immediately after I've taken them.
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