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Memory Card/MP3 problem...

My 8125 will play about the first four seconds of an MP3 from the memory card then the player (AudioManager and WMP) will lock up, sometimes I can close the app sometimes I have to soft reset. But play that SAME MP3 from the phones memory and it plays fine!!! This problem is the same for pictures on the storage card. I open up photo and video and it's supposed to load thumbnails, well it will load the first few thumbs then that app locks too but again, copy pictures to phone memory and no probs at all... I keep all my cabs and PIM backup on my memory card and after a flash it is no problem to reinstall those cabs...
Don't really want to buy new card, or is that even needed? Is there a way to reformat these miniSD cards? It is a REAL SanDisk 2GB, not a cheap one from ebay.
If this has already been talked about, just post a link please, don't be an ass...I tried to search!

If you have an SD card reader, reformatting is easy, just put the card in it, right click on the card and choose format. If you don't have a card reader, use wm5starage. Enable wm5storage on your phone, connect to activesync and your phone will show up on your computer just as it would if it were in a card reader and then right click on it and choose format.

xeno1 said:
If you have an SD card reader, reformatting is easy, just put the card in it, right click on the card and choose format. If you don't have a card reader, use wm5starage. Enable wm5storage on your phone, connect to activesync and your phone will show up on your computer just as it would if it were in a card reader and then right click on it and choose format.
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So that's what WM5torage is for... I always wondered why it was included in all the ROM's I have...hmmm
I will try it and see if it fixes the problem. Thanks.

Actually wm5storage is for using your SD card like a usb flash storage device so enableing it allows your computer to see it as a drive. Make sure you enable it before you connect it to activesync though or I don't think it will work if I remember right.

So far it's working fine. Such a simple fix. Thanks for the help!

No problem, glad I could help.

Problem moving files from one microSD to another

Hello all
Purchased a new 16gb micro SDHC card today to replace the 8gb I had. Moved all the files over from one card to the other using my lap top (one card in the laptop card reader, the other (the new one) in the phone synced by USB.
All went well, music, photos, videos all there etc. BUT the cab files I have on the card (apps, sense tweeks, cosmetic bits etc) are not viewable on the card in the phone. They are definately on the new card, I'e put this card into the laptopn reader and they are all on there. But then stick the same card into the phone and the folder I've created, called 'cab files' is totally empty when viewed via the phone???? What could the problem be? Is there something I need to do with them beng cabinet files? Like I say they are on the card its just the phone can't see them.....

have you got 'show all files' enabled?

Are you using totalcommander to browse the card?
That's strange anyway, if you connect the phone with 16GB microsd inside, other than seeing the cabinets, can you also open them with, say, 7zip, and check their integrity correctly? In that case you may also want to check in your desktop windows if those files have any attributes other than "Archive"

ive just ordered a 16gb card myself. i have quite a lot of software installed to my card. can i back it up and just copy everything to the new card or must i install everything again?
thanks

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have you got 'show all files' enabled?
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I do yes, it was one of the things I checked.

Problems with Memory Card or possibly Device

I am no longer able to see my memory card when i connect my phone to my PC and can no longer see it when i go into file explorer!! Can someone tell me what maybe wrong or possible solutions. It was just working a little bit ago and then i can no longer get into the memory card through my PC or on the phone.

if i put a different memory card in the phone it will read it, it just wont read the card that came with the phone for some reason, what the hell is going on here?

Ehh not looking good here. While your phone is connected to the PC make sure 'Disk Drive' is selected and not 'Activesync'. If nothing still, I suggest placing the SD card in a USB reader and plug it directly into the PC. You should have your answer there. Good luck.

i just think its weird that my phone will read other memory cards and not the one that came with it, but when i put the 16gb card in a diff phone it is readable?

starkall, I would suggest copying everything that's on the card to your PC (using another phone or a card reader), placing the card back in your HD2, and doing a format right on the phone using the native utility for that (settings-all settings-system). This has cleared up the "disappearing card trick" for a bunch of people

when i use a card reader for my pc it wont even show up, can anyone send me the stock files that come on the original SD card. Thank you

i tried doing the facotry reset also and it still wont read the card, im lost i guess LOL

yeah sounds like a bad card. there should be a dl list of all the stock apps here on xda. look in the htc leo section, i believe there is a sticky on it and that you can dl each .cab one by one. the only thing that you may not be able to find here is the transformers movie files due to copyright. other than that, i'd hit up tmobile and get a replacement phone or sd card or both.

is there a way to delete all the icons from my phone that dont work now, like transformers, blockbuster, mobitv, barnesnoble etc... since i cant use them

starkall said:
is there a way to delete all the icons from my phone that dont work now, like transformers, blockbuster, mobitv, barnesnoble etc... since i cant use them
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Using file explorer (either on the phone or through activesync), just navigate to windows/start menu. There you will find the .lnk icons for everything you find on your start menu and in quicklinks. Delete or rearrange those (into folders for example) however you wish...they're just links.
EDIT: for mobitv, blockbuster, etc (everything except the movies really) you can download and reinstall the apps...they're all available at the thread ryan562 mentioned, and here's a link to it (it's also stickied at the top of this forum section):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=663845
Just look for the two links there with "extracted cabs" in the title

the movies is what i wanted most LOL i called HTC and they are sending me a new card but are out of stock at the time being, BUMMER i know!!!!! I put my buddies SD card out of his HD2 in my phone and everything works so hope i get my new card soon, my son loves to watch transformers.

Annoying external SD issue

Hey there guys.
I have the latest european stock firmware on my SGS2. The issue persists since I bought the thing: I am using a 32GB card and I cannot get the phone to see media files that are on it. I copied 2 or 3 movies on the card, which was of course formatted before use, and it says that the space is taken but I cannot see the files either in file explorer , or in Gallery. Any idea why? Maybe it doesnt fully support a 32GB card?

Are you using fat32? If not... use it

leoking3 said:
Hey there guys.
I have the latest european stock firmware on my SGS2. The issue persists since I bought the thing: I am using a 32GB card and I cannot get the phone to see media files that are on it. I copied 2 or 3 movies on the card, which was of course formatted before use, and it says that the space is taken but I cannot see the files either in file explorer , or in Gallery. Any idea why? Maybe it doesnt fully support a 32GB card?
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did you format it with windows? if yes which format did you choose? it is always better to format it from your device directly. i also have a 32mb external sd card and it works fine

I formatted in on the device. I imagined this would be the best way. And my computer is alos set to format as FAT32. So maybe it is just a faulty card??!!

leoking3 said:
Hey there guys.
I have the latest european stock firmware on my SGS2. The issue persists since I bought the thing: I am using a 32GB card and I cannot get the phone to see media files that are on it. I copied 2 or 3 movies on the card, which was of course formatted before use, and it says that the space is taken but I cannot see the files either in file explorer , or in Gallery. Any idea why? Maybe it doesnt fully support a 32GB card?
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Maybe the movie is too big for the file system. Every file system can handle only files up to a special size... Try to reformat and check if the video is converted the right way... Take aybe 10 minutes of the movie, convert it and transfer it to your phone to be sure about the file size thing... Officialy the phone is compatible up to 64gb.

Unfortunately is none of the suggestions. Although I can use the card perfectly well on the laptop, it doesnt work properly with the phone. Must be some incompatibility. Which sucks, since it s a 32GB card... Thank anyway

Are you sure it's really a 32GB card? Many cheap cards that one can buy on places like eBay are fakes -- low-capacity cards hacked to look like high-capacity.
There are some test programs that will tell you if the card is really the capacity it's supposed to be. On the phone itself, you can run SDCardTester (free from Android Market), and on the PC you can run h2testw.

3waygeek said:
Are you sure it's really a 32GB card? Many cheap cards that one can buy on places like eBay are fakes -- low-capacity cards hacked to look like high-capacity.
There are some test programs that will tell you if the card is really the capacity it's supposed to be. On the phone itself, you can run SDCardTester (free from Android Market), and on the PC you can run h2testw.[/QU
Yes this might be an idea. It is unbranded , but on laptop it shows 32GB. Hmm.. I have it from a sony ericsson xperia from a trusted person, but on the other hand...who can you trust? I will try my 4GB card and see if it shows my movies.
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Internal/SD storage mess

Hi everyone,
I got the latest Moto X as soon as it went public because I loved the idea of Vanilla Android with SD support. I got the 16 GB version and a 64 GB SD. Ever since I got it, the phone has been bugging me about the storage and today I finally gave in. Until today I kept my photos, music and podcasts on my SD card but the internal memory was constantly full and I couldn't install new apps. So I thought formatting the SD card under Android 6 would make it one with the internal storage. It didn't. It made it worse. I can move apps to the SD card but I can't force photos and other media to be saved there. I was hoping for internal-SD continuity and I got a total lack of control. So now I can't receive SMS and I keep having "storage is running out" notification while I still have 60 GB free on my SD card.
What's your take on this? Thanks!

Since this is about SD cards, I'm having another problem to state if OP doesn't mind. On my Moto X, when using exploring (using file explorer) the original sd card I've used for years, many folders do not show up. The same happens to a video player (RockPlayer), where it doesn't show many folders I have on my card (it did when used on my previous Atrix 2). However, when I go to "Storage & USB" and select the card, everything is normal. That means, only when viewing the sd card via "Storage & USB", all folders appear.
However, applications and games (besides gallery) will assume the first situation, where those folders remain invisible. Does anyone know what the problem actually is?
Edit: After checking, it seems that my /sdcard folder is the same as /storage/emulated/0.
Thank you.

MoCML said:
Since this is about SD cards, I'm having another problem to state if OP doesn't mind. On my Moto X, when using exploring (using file explorer) the original sd card I've used for years, many folders do not show up. The same happens to a video player (RockPlayer), where it doesn't show many folders I have on my card (it did when used on my previous Atrix 2). However, when I go to "Storage & USB" and select the card, everything is normal. That means, only when viewing the sd card via "Storage & USB", all folders appear.
However, applications and games (besides gallery) will assume the first situation, where those folders remain invisible. Does anyone know what the problem actually is?
Edit: After checking, it seems that my /sdcard folder is the same as /storage/emulated/0.
Thank you.
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Seems like my sdcard folder is now C601-8353 under Storage folder, along with Emulated and Self folders.

domi_niku said:
Hi everyone,
I got the latest Moto X as soon as it went public because I loved the idea of Vanilla Android with SD support. I got the 16 GB version and a 64 GB SD. Ever since I got it, the phone has been bugging me about the storage and today I finally gave in. Until today I kept my photos, music and podcasts on my SD card but the internal memory was constantly full and I couldn't install new apps. So I thought formatting the SD card under Android 6 would make it one with the internal storage. It didn't. It made it worse. I can move apps to the SD card but I can't force photos and other media to be saved there. I was hoping for internal-SD continuity and I got a total lack of control. So now I can't receive SMS and I keep having "storage is running out" notification while I still have 60 GB free on my SD card.
What's your take on this? Thanks!
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Have you tried using OpenCamera instead? It's free, open source, AND lets you choose where to store the pics. IMHO the picture quality is better too.
You could also move the pics to the card manually after you take them...

TXJim said:
Have you tried using OpenCamera instead? It's free, open source, AND lets you choose where to store the pics. IMHO the picture quality is better too.
You could also move the pics to the card manually after you take them...
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Great call, thanks for the tip.

I haven't had any problems saving photos or other media to my SD card with adoptable storage. This is something you should be able to specify in preferences whether you are using adoptable storage or not. If this doesn't work with some apps just use a file manager to move the files to the SD card.
Sometimes when I move apps to my SD Card, I would get similar messages about being out of space, even though this wasn't the case. Deleting the cache on SD card seemed to fix the problem. There can also be a problem if your SD card is too slow. However, you would probably get an alert if that was the case.

My advise erase it all internal and sd card start from a blank state the phone should give you the option to mount the sd as internal I don't like how it is implemented so I chose not to use it.

For some strange reason my phone will not read my SD card I have it formatted to internal stage and now it says searching for SD card. I'm so mad I've searched all over with no solution, I'm about to get a new phone and scrap this one, sorry I'm just very upset and I had to vent, of anyone knows of this type of issue please share.
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