Hi everyone,
I have a problem concerning low space on my GSM HTC Hero. I tried to transfer a big file (90mb) via bluetooth thinking it would end up on my SD card, because I was lacking a usb cable and I really needed to transfer the file.
For some reason the transfer failed telling me it somehow got cancelled along the way. Thats why I tried a second time, this time it failed on me saying the phone was low on memory.
So I'm guessing the parts that did got transfered are somehow stored in temporary files on my phone memory, leaving me just about 11mb of phone space.
I'm absolutely sure I don't have too much apps installed. I also tried rebooting hoping the phone would get rid of these files.
If these files would exists, does anyone know where the files are resting so I can remove them?
Thanks in advance!
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Just trying to upload a few files to my 1gb sandisk and found that some files and directories had just become a jumble of characters and after a soft reset my programs that were stored on the card refused to work.
I had the phone reasonably close to my monitor at work on the desk, could that have been the prob or is my card going to die ?
Formatted it on the PC and its back to normal for now. Just re installing everything.
i got the same thing just now. all my games and programs stored on my miniSD card dont work! what the heck?
Is it some form of magnetism interference or power surge or what ? I was plugging my phone into the usb attached to the computer at the time when I first noticed it. Everything had been runnning fine before that.
Hope its not going to keep happening on a regular basis.
It happened to me too, I think it is due to two programs trying to write to the storage card at once, or something reading while some else is writing, or similar.
I wiped mine and fortunately was able to replace most of what was on there (mostly music) but found out afterwards that there was a good chance of recovery.
Try checking out EasyRecovery Professional, there is a free trial I beleive and you should be able to recover files on your card (even if they have been deleted and not yet overwritten).
Hope this helps
Oliy
ok.
my SDCard is ****ed, basically. i thought a good old format would do the trick but i was sadly mistaken.
it can read and display pictures, but cannot display thumbnails.
it shows mp3 files in file managers but wont play them in any music player.
will sometimes let me copy files from the card to the computer but not the other way round.
files cannot be deleted from the card at all.
and now the strangest one, it seems to be unaffected by a complete format.
the format finishes, i can then open up the card (which now shows as empty) from the computer and move files to it, so i eject it and remount it and low and behold everything's there again except for the files i put on after the format.
i don't know what to do as i can't really do much without an SD card =/
anyone got any ideas?
same. mine's been corrupt for a while now with reformat only making it work for a few hours/days.
i'm not sure if this is the crappy card that came with it or the g1's fault...has there been many cases of this?
i'm just buying an 8gb microsd from microcenter for $20 in the next week...i'll deal with my current one until then.
Just buy a new one, its not like they're expensive.
My brand new 8 GB Kingston MicroSD(HC) simply refused to cooperate - The G1 never saw anything I wrote to it on my computer - the computer never saw anything saved by the camera to the microSD. To boot, it even only reported as < 500 MB on the G1. Using the HP USB mem tool (http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=197) I came to the point where the G1 saw 4 GB, but still no way to transfer anything to or from the computer.
Finally, I found this http://rivviepop.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/fix-your-g1-android-messed-up-sd-card/ (requires Linux) that solved the situation. Now both my computer and G1 sees all of the card, and what's on it.Phew!
/Mats
Hey everyone, I really need your help.
my 16GB microsd died last night, here's what happened:
I had gotten google music beta on wednesday, last night i was showing it to a friend, then clicked home. I have Watchdog installed, which told me music was taking up a lot of CPU, so i went in and killed it. instantly, android notified me that the sdcard had been ejected. then it popped up and told me that a blank card had been inserted. I was confused at first, but didn't do anything with the card, I took it out, reseated it with the phone off, started backup, same issue. I put the card into a card reader on my win7 pc, no luck, the card really is dead. It shows up with a drive letter, but notifies me that the card needs to be formatted.
Does anyone have experience recovering data from flash drives? I always backup my roms to the card, and apps using titanium, but I never ever thought of backing up the entire contents of the sdcard elsewhere. HELP!?
http://www.piriform.com/recuva
Use that on windows, it worked when my sd got messed up. This is assuming the files are still on the sd and not gone completely. You could try the repair option in windows if you have Vista/7, not sure about macs or linux.
Thanks but right now windows is telling me that the drive is not accessible. recuva is also saying "the parameter is incorrect". I can't see anything on the card. I think i need some low level scan type stuff, but I have no idea what program goes that deep.
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Thanks but right now windows is telling me that the drive is not accessible. recuva is also saying "the parameter is incorrect". I can't see anything on the card. I think i need some low level scan type stuff, but I have no idea what program goes that deep.
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Sorry, don't know of any software like that. You may need to format if you can find no solutions.
I had the same problem a couple of weeks ago, but the last application that I used and caused the card's premature death was some FM radio app.
Since it is not recognized in any device whatsoever, I don't see any software that can help you even attempt to recover, fix or format the card.
But I learned a lesson: I always used to do backups once in a while, but when the card fubared I just learnt the hard way that I wish I had made backups more frequent...
Hi All,
I've searched the forums and I'm unable to find a resolution to my problem.
I'm having horribly slow transfer speeds from the computer to my Atrix internal SD card. I am transferring about 7GB of music from my 64-bit Win7 PC and status says about 4-hours. Used to only take a few minutes on my Captivate.
I've tried formatting the internal card, re-flashing back to stock, different USB ports on the PC, etc all without any luck.
Any ideas before I completely tear my hair out?
Thanks in advance.
EDIT: When the internal SD gets mounted, Windows is slow to find the drive and list its contents. The 2GB external that I have in the phone comes right up.
Wow. No idea. Iwas quite surprised at how fast toshiba emmc is. What speeds are you getting btw? Oh, i do know one thing possibly. Do you transfer files a lot? Flash memory has a limited life, though many of us never see flash die or start to die. But if you do these types large file tansfers, 7gb often, youre using up write cycles much quicker. Also, the folder youre transferring to is about 12 gigs right? Say you have 4 gigs of stuff in their already, and youre trying to put 7 gigs in, more than likely youre transfer speed will be slowed down. You need space to actually to fill stuff up, and the more space, the faster you can fill it up. I wish i could be a little more detailed. I know about this from solid state drives, and the concept is basically the same, but works a little different. I dont know if that is your problem though.
I voided my warranty.
n7slc said:
Hi All,
I've searched the forums and I'm unable to find a resolution to my problem.
I'm having horribly slow transfer speeds from the computer to my Atrix internal SD card. I am transferring about 7GB of music from my 64-bit Win7 PC and status says about 4-hours. Used to only take a few minutes on my Captivate.
I've tried formatting the internal card, re-flashing back to stock, different USB ports on the PC, etc all without any luck.
Any ideas before I completely tear my hair out?
Thanks in advance.
EDIT: When the internal SD gets mounted, Windows is slow to find the drive and list its contents. The 2GB external that I have in the phone comes right up.
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Take the SD card out of the phone and put in the adapter. Try measuring speeds via adapter. Your SC card might be dying.
His internal card.
I voided my warranty.
Just thought I'd throw this out there, when you format an SD card it asks you for the amount of "bits" you want to format it with. I would research which number is best suited for your particular SD card depending on how big it is. Cause the standard number it automatically inserts may not be the best.
edit: ignore post. For some reason when I read it, my eyes saw external SD card instead of internal. Derp and Derp.
Which of the four (well, three) USB modes are you using to do the transfer?
I was just this moment ago proceeding to move all the photos that had been saved to the MicroSD inside my GT-i9505 to the PC via USB connection. I was using the default MTP/PTP(?) explorer interface to find my photos.
I must've had something like 3GB worth of photos and videos on the card (I went a bit crazy with the camera in recent weeks!) and thought there would be nothing wrong with moving them off the card and onto my PC's hard disk. The whole moving process took quite a while so I thought I'd leave it to do its thing and then come back once it had finished.
But when I did, I noticed something bizarre - the folder was reported to come in at 2.55 TB (yes, *terabytes*!). I thought it was a silly Windows Explorer bug, but I reopened the window and checked Properties, and yup, still 2.55 TB. The drive partition I moved them to was compressed so I didn't actually need that much space, but it was still worrying. I checked some of the files and realised a fair amount of them were reported to be 3.42 GB each! The compressed size (size on disk) Windows 7 reported on the other hand was only 4 KB. Uh-oh. I tried to open them but Windows' own picture viewer had errors with them. I checked one file through a hex editor and noticed the majority of the file was just blank data followed by a smidgen of data at the very end, with no sign of headers.
So somehow, by doing something as innocent as moving photos and videos off of an S4-mounted MicroSD card, they got corrupted beyond repair in the process! What the hell?!
I'm gutted. Out of a total of 1,029 files and roughly 3GB, I managed to recover only 265 JPGs and 793 MB. Why did this happen? Is this a known issue with the phone or with MicroSD cards? I'm wondering whether it's anything to do with the MicroSD card I used - a non-brand specific 16GB one bought from my local Maplin and in a Maplin cardboard packet (online link at maplin.co.uk/micro-secure-digital-sdhc-memory-card-228011). The odd thing is that the phone and the OS reported no problems with the card, and the photos and videos saved to the card were fine and perfectly viewable on the phone just before I moved them off. As it is, I've now got 2 1/2 TBs worth of (presumably) permanently-damaged media files. Is there anything else I can do?
What I'm using, as follows:
Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-i9505
16GB Maplin-brand MicroSD card
Windows 7 32-bit
If you need any other specs, let me know.
No handy words of advice for next time, then?
This is what i do if i want to move ANY type of file from phone to other storage. I COPY, NOT MOVE files first to the destination that i want to and if they are successful then i will delete the other files from the phone. That way, if they do corrupt on destination, at least you still have originals because you copied only.
Hope this helps.
Yeah, sounds like something I'll have to remember for next time.
I wish I knew exactly what the cause was. It could've been anything - the drive partition and/or its compressed state, the MicroSD card, the rather crappy MTP interface forced upon by Google, the large volume of the media I was copying (like I said, it was over 1,000 files).
I have a small feeling it might be the last one somehow, as the photos stored directly on the phone (of which there weren't that many before I switched to MicroSD) moved across to PC in perfect condition, as did the screenshots I also captured. Furthermore, I decided to do a quick test with the MicroSD by picking a random spot and repeatedly pressing the camera button/icon to take as many photos as possible in a short period of time. I managed to make over 100 before I got bored, but when I moved them off the card in the same manner as before (phone mounted to USB, MTP interface) they came out unscathed and not in any ballooned size.
Has anyone else ever come across any issues with moving large amounts of files at once between PC and phone-mounted MicroSD? The only other time I did a very large mass transfer was with some various ROMs for emulator use to my Nexus 7 tablet's onboard storage, and as far as I know they all came out fine.
It's frustrating when it seems like a problem such as this one is totally alien and googling can't help with jack.