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How Do you put ringtones on your Mytouch 4g?

Ive tried emailing myself ringtones but my phone tells me I do not have the right format. Can someone please tell me the correct format and how can I put my own ringtones I created, from my comp, to my My touch 4g??

Make a directory on your sdcard named "/media/audio/ringtones" and put all of your ringtones in there. Then go to sounds on your phone and look for them. It may take a second for the phone to update them so check again if they aren't there.
Also, when you plug your phone into your computer and it sets itself up as a disk drive the phone will revert to a stock ringtone until you unplug it. It can't read the sdcard to use the ringtone while it is plugged in and used as a disk drive.

Is it possible to copy the ringtone on the SD card and paste it in the system/media/ringtone to make it a default one?
So that way when you do plug the phone into the computer it won't default to stock ringtone?

nguyendqh said:
Is it possible to copy the ringtone on the SD card and paste it in the system/media/ringtone to make it a default one?
So that way when you do plug the phone into the computer it won't default to stock ringtone?
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You will have to be rooted in order to do that, and have something like Root Explorer to copy a file into /system.

Rooted, yes. It works fine after reboot. The plus side is media room won't discover those sounds. Any sound on the sd card no matter which folder you put it in (unless it's hidden), android system will show them in media app.
Swyped on my rooted MyTouch4G

I simply added a folder on my SD card and named it 'Ringtones'. I use an app called Rings Extended and use that as the default app to search and assign ringtones.
Root is NOT required to do it this way.
If you want to set your phone to default to 'Charge' when you plug it in and not 'Disk drive', just go to settings>connect to pc>default connection type>choose what default you want.
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Go to audiko.net on ur phone and download whatever u want. They all end up in your downloads folder, u can jus go move them later when Ur at home or stationary. I usually move them right after I download them to my ringtones folder(that I created of course), keeps things organized.
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grankin01 said:
Make a directory on your sdcard named "/media/audio/ringtones" and put all of your ringtones in there. Then go to sounds on your phone and look for them. It may take a second for the phone to update them so check again if they aren't there.
Also, when you plug your phone into your computer and it sets itself up as a disk drive the phone will revert to a stock ringtone until you unplug it. It can't read the sdcard to use the ringtone while it is plugged in and used as a disk drive.
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thanks alot. this fixed the problem for me.

ringtones for mytouch4g
Videotonez is really cool and works on the mytouch4g and its free

dweezy108 said:
thanks alot. this fixed the problem for me.
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no prob glad it worked

Alternatively, you can also make a folder in your sd card named media/audio/ringtones.. That works for me...
Sent from my HTC Glacier using XDA App

Ok so you're screwed if ya wanna put a ringtone in the phone memory without rooting, right?
Just learning the android ropes now, coming from WinMo it's just so hard to believe that the phone storage is SO cut off from the user. I can see "locking" the system files/folders but since when you plug in to the pc you can't browse the card without cutting it off from the phone just seems silly. I do love my My Touch4G but I'm just spoiled on having access to ALL files.

amdlite2 said:
Ok so you're screwed if ya wanna put a ringtone in the phone memory without rooting, right?
Just learning the android ropes now, coming from WinMo it's just so hard to believe that the phone storage is SO cut off from the user. I can see "locking" the system files/folders but since when you plug in to the pc you can't browse the card without cutting it off from the phone just seems silly. I do love my My Touch4G but I'm just spoiled on having access to ALL files.
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All phones with an external sd card function this way. An sd can only be mounted to one device at a time; either your phone or to a computer. Unless you have a phone with two sd drives, ie. Galaxy S, you have to live with it.
Swyped on my rooted MyTouch4G

If you use handcent for messaging, you dont need to create folders to use the ringtones.

yaddamean said:
If you use handcent for messaging, you dont need to create folders to use the ringtones.
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Actually, you can assign any sound file on your sd card as a ringtone no matter where it is, with or without handcent. The folder directory is just to make sounds show up in the system's sounds settings. You can also assign ringtones through the music player.
Swyped on my rooted MyTouch4G

XfooYen said:
All phones with an external sd card function this way. An sd can only be mounted to one device at a time; either your phone or to a computer. Unless you have a phone with two sd drives, ie. Galaxy S, you have to live with it.
Swyped on my rooted MyTouch4G
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That's my point, I wish I had access to the default ringers folder like the HD2 did, so when the card is "in use" via usb to my pc I would always have the same tones as when it wasn't plugged in to the pc

I do love the MTG4 but DAMN the locking you out of the simple basics...

SD card? Im a Dunce

Okay first post and sure this is off to a great start, because its probably like the lamest question ever....
I see the SD card partition on the Nexus S and for the LIFE of me can't actually figure out what its for.
If USB storage is for holding media and info then what is the SD for?
At one point i was getting memory errors from apps and it said SD memory at capacity or something like that and the limit seemed VERY small. I ran a cache cleaner and removed some clashing apps (i believe) and it seemed fine after that.
Is the SD the internal RAM?
feel free to call me any derogatory name you like as long as you give me a wiki or explanation. I tried searching the forum and google but it just brings up posts where people already talk about SD with knowledge.
thanks

tevil said:
Okay first post and sure this is off to a great start, because its probably like the lamest question ever....
I see the SD card partition on the Nexus S and for the LIFE of me can't actually figure out what its for.
If USB storage is for holding media and info then what is the SD for?
At one point i was getting memory errors from apps and it said SD memory at capacity or something like that and the limit seemed VERY small. I ran a cache cleaner and removed some clashing apps (i believe) and it seemed fine after that.
Is the SD the internal RAM?
feel free to call me any derogatory name you like as long as you give me a wiki or explanation. I tried searching the forum and google but it just brings up posts where people already talk about SD with knowledge.
thanks
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The SD card is a non removable flash storage device. It's the storage you see when you mount USB storage.
Apps will cache data to the SD card, this is where any downloads go, any picture s or movies you take, etc. It is 16 GB of general storage (separate from the 1GB of internal storage).

Think of it as 'built-in'. For all practical purposes, there is a sdcard, which behaves just as it would on any other android, but you can't remove it. I'm not sure if it is physically part of the internal memory or not. I suspect there is one 16GB chip that is partitioned for internal and /sdcard.
tevil said:
Okay first post and sure this is off to a great start, because its probably like the lamest question ever....
I see the SD card partition on the Nexus S and for the LIFE of me can't actually figure out what its for.
If USB storage is for holding media and info then what is the SD for?
At one point i was getting memory errors from apps and it said SD memory at capacity or something like that and the limit seemed VERY small. I ran a cache cleaner and removed some clashing apps (i believe) and it seemed fine after that.
Is the SD the internal RAM?
feel free to call me any derogatory name you like as long as you give me a wiki or explanation. I tried searching the forum and google but it just brings up posts where people already talk about SD with knowledge.
thanks
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i am a bit stumped then. when it gave me the sd capacity it was NO WHERE near 16g's. it was like 800mbs or something. this is why my slacker kept crashing out and giving me a memory error.
is there a way in the OS to see the SD capacity? I had an app that told me but got rid of it cause i think it was also part of the crashing issues i had.
so is what your saying the SD is what you see when you USB your phone to the computer? its that root DIR. In clockwork i can see a USB and SD dir separately i believe but ill have to check again
thanks
on a side note does anyone else have slacker issues. this is how the entire subject came up to me anyway

tevil said:
i am a bit stumped then. when it gave me the sd capacity it was NO WHERE near 16g's. it was like 800mbs or something. this is why my slacker kept crashing out and giving me a memory error.
is there a way in the OS to see the SD capacity? I had an app that told me but got rid of it cause i think it was also part of the crashing issues i had.
so is what your saying the SD is what you see when you USB your phone to the computer? its that root DIR. In clockwork i can see a USB and SD dir separately i believe but ill have to check again
thanks
on a side note does anyone else have slacker issues. this is how the entire subject came up to me anyway
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Slacker works fine for me, always has (outside of it's poor ability to precache the next song).
For Storage go to Settings -> Storage. USB storage is the SD card.

What space you see when you plug in the NS to your computer's USB is the SD card.
It is not the root folder of the whole phone.
Under the "Settings -> Storage" window on your phone, the "USB Storage" is we are calling the SD card.
The Internal Storage is what the phone needs itself.
Here is mine:
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Because of all the music on my NS & the fact almost all my apps are there too, I am sucking up approx 3 gigs of SD or USb storage space.
The NS is sucking up approx 800megs of space, of the 1 gig available to it.
As for your Slacker issues, Although I am not familiar with this application, have you tried just reinstalling it.
Heeter

cool thanks guys.
just couldnt figure whyd they name something twice.
As for slacker i beleive it was a mix of
juice defender (which i may try again solo to see if its really that good)
ad blocker (which was jsut something i tried but never really needed, good riddance)
and like these two cleaners which i dont remember the names of.
Now i have NG cache cleaner which is nice and my slcaker seems to be normal again
wasnt sure if the adblocker was seeing the commercials in slacker as ads and trying to block them out causing problems so i got rid of that first.
as the other guy said the pre chaching was HORRIBLE at times making me think the app locked. but after those removals it worked fine with occassional lag betweensongs

[Q] [i9505] S4 Corrupting Music Library!

Hey everybody,
So, I recently bought a Samsung 64gb SD card for my i9505 to put music on, but I'm running into some troubles with it.
Basically, all the music copies over fine, but it corrupts once I try to play it.
I have tried copying it from my iTunes library via iSyncr, via Easy Tunes Sync, as well as just drag and drop. I have converted them when the phone asks me to (I have tried both, converted and non-converted).
I have tried both in the regular Samsung Music player, as well as PlayerPro (the player I use normally). To give you an idea, here is what the files look like before I try to play the music:
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And here's what it looks like AFTER I play:
Another weird thing, is SOME songs work (only artists who start with D through to I - it's not random, JUST that chunk of music plays). If I try to play in Music app, it just skips the track. If I try in PlayerPro, I get 'Sorry, this audio file could not be played in the player'. Weird thing is, they're all mp3s, no DRM.
I've done some searching around and some people have suggested clearing data in the Media Storage app, but I've tried that and it doesn't work for me.
Has anyone got any ideas that might help?
PS. I'm rooted and running Goldeneye 16.2.
Before anyone suggests that it might be the ROM, I doubt it. I came from CyanogenMod 4.3 and the issue was happening there as well (I thought maybe switching back to a Sammy ROM might help)
The only other option I really have left is to get rid of root and go back to pure stock I don't really want to do that but I can't keep streaming all my music, it's wrecking my data usage =\

What format ? (the card)

MistahBungle said:
What format ? (the card)
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It's FAT32 - when formatting the drive I've been using the 'default' option for formatting in CWM Recovery.
I also have the option to use exFat or NTFS.

OK. Does the custom kernel you're running support NTFS ? (stock doesn't). If it does, try formatting the card NTFS, put your music on & see what happens. If you're not running one that does support it, try one that does. And yeah, you could try exFAT as well I guess.
In saying all that, you're right though. All DRM free mp3's doing that is not normal. Next step after that is trying another card.

MistahBungle said:
OK. Does the custom kernel you're running support NTFS ? (stock doesn't). If it does, try formatting the card NTFS, put your music on & see what happens. If you're not running one that does support it, try one that does. And yeah, you could try exFAT as well I guess.
In saying all that, you're right though. All DRM free mp3's doing that is not normal. Next step after that is trying another card.
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I'm running Talexop kernel which is built off stock, and it doesn't say anything about NTFS so I'm guessing its a no go.
Do you have any recommendations for a solid NTFS kernel?

Don't use it personally, first page of kernel threads/XDA search is your best bet.

MistahBungle said:
Don't use it personally, first page of kernel threads/XDA search is your best bet.
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Tried ExFat, no luck. Though on ExFat it does something different. MORE of the songs play, but some artists are missing completely. There is no consistency with the problems I'm experiencing.
EDIT: Tried a SanDisk card instead of the Samsung one - worked fine. Guess Samsung hardware doesn't play nice with Samsung hardware?

Really ?? Yeah, that's a real case of WTF !? (two bits of manufacturer's kit not playing nice with each other). At least you got it sorted eventually

Fix:Enable Windows Explorer thumbnails by removing MTP permanently GS3(screenshots)

Hi guys.
I inadvertently found this out by mistake when I have been trying to get my damn phone to even connect in Windows 7 64bit. Man it's been giving me the sh!ts.
I will quote my post from another thread on the forum. And see the evidence in the screenshot below.
It turns out that we don't even need MTP drivers to do any sort of transfer in Windows. What a load of bollocks we have all been fed.
My device manager shows no trace of MTP anywhere now (thankfully) and my Phone appears as a portable device like it should.
Enjoy and Merry Christmas
Jarmezrocks said:
Ok guys,
just updated to 4.3 and have had no end of issues with this MTP problem. I have searched for weeks for an answer and nothing worked that was suggested. I think I have done like 10 - 20 factory resets on this F%#*ing thing, and it was never the phone's problem in the first place, definitely a Windows problem in my case.
I tried a combo of things for my last try right this very minute and I have success.
I searched for the MTP driver in the registry. Note: Make a backup....I didn't I f*%#ing hate this piece of sh!t so I went ahead and deleted it. You can do as you please though, I am mighty angry so I didn't care.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Class\{EEC5AD98-8080-425F-922A-DABF3DE3F69A}
Instead of looking for upper filters I removed it totally
I had to change permissions on that object to do so, then inside permissions take ownership and tick child keys and subkeys
Uncheck inherit from parent
If it pops up a dialog pops up choose add from the options
You will have to do this for several tabs in this permissions of the registry. Once you delete this, unplug your phone and plug it back in again. You will get the warning of failed MTP drivers as I did.
Now go to Device Manager and instead of uninstalling the failed MTP driver yellow Icon, this time scroll down a little further to another section that says ADB Device. (See attached picture Fix_MTP_Error1.png)Now click uninstall on that driver, check the box that says "Would you like to delete this driver" click yes. Let it remove.
When it is removed a Windows pop up Warning appears telling you you need to reboot. Don't reboot. ignore it. Look down at the system Tray and you will see your little installing driver swirly thing doing it's business for once.
When it finishes, Open explorer and you will notice another thing different. Your device will be sitting in My Computer, however it will have a new Icon and it will now say Portable Device and NOT the device name like GT-I9305 in my case (See attached picture Fix_MTP_Error2.png)
At this point I clicked on it anyway cause it obviously registered something, right?
Yoooou beauty!!!!!!!!! Hoooraaaaaaah Merry Christmas too me! Merry Christmas too me!!!!
What you will notice however is that the name that you thought disappeared is still there as the device label when you check in the address bar See attached picture Fix_MTP_Error3.png
Edit: By the way, the device name I just noticed now corresponds to the name that is put in as the name of the device when you are in the setup wizard when you first boot up; unlike before it retained the same device name as 4.1.2 just plain GT-I9305 and no full device name, I called mine James' GT-I9305
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Jarmezrocks said:
Guys..... you are not going to believe this!!!!
Check it out. I now have Explorer enabled thumbnails. Man MTP was pissing me off for months when I first got this thing. Do you know how debilitating this is when you don't know what image is what saved on your SDcard. Man it's frustrating.
Hope your guys like this solution it works well :victory::victory::victory:
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Some other benefits I am just noticing is that I can now transfer files with the screen completely locked. No need to have the device stay away for 10-20min. Transfer speeds are now super fast and no more pop up errors asking if I still want to transfer the file even if the device doesn't recognise this format. All that BS is gone.
You can now permanently organise your files like you would in Windows Explorer. No more track title, Track number and Rating [email protected] in the attributes section either.
All right click explorer context menus are standard menus.
I will take more screenshots later
I am a very happy camper now

I now no longer have ANY drivers what so ever try to load in the taskbar when i connect my phone. My phone is available instantly. I can also copy multiple files at the same time into different parts of my SDcard and not get the 'Device is busy' error.
More and more things to suggest that MTP is a crock of sh!t that Micro$oft and $am$ung want us to believe to support DRM. Thats what all this is about, it's got nothing to do with what ever BS they have fed us.
Man what a revelation.
I have figured out why this has all happened to each and everyone of us. When we pug in our devices, Windows detects that it is an MTP device, Remember all those Galaxy S2 users out there where we used to have UMS Mass storage and then a few updates came and we were forced to go MTP again. Well that is only programatically in the Android interface telling Windows we need to have an MTP driver.....BEFORE Googles ADB driver can be loaded. Once the MTP device is flagged, MTP drivers are loaded and different ADB driver is loaded instead of the Google one....the one that enables all the traditional Windows Explorer like functions on the device. Nothings changed is what I am saying, only our belief that we NEED to run MTP drivers.
Removing the registry entry for the whole MTP driver meant that it can no longer be called to load no matter what. At least it is failing for a reason I say. Now the second part where you are asked to reboot to unload the driver.....that part there is a complete lie told to our faces. What that is is a white lie. A lie we believe most of the time. What it means is that yes we need to reboot to unload and reload "their drivers" and we click yes, because the Google ADB driver never gets to finish installing. Clicking no allowed the original proper driver to load and register. Once registered, I now no longer am asked to install any sort of drivers. When ever I plug in my phone it works straight away. Ever waited impatiently for 10min for the MTP driver to load? Yeah well not anymore. Force unload it, get rid of it, seyonara forever MTP!!!

Don't you loose access to the system internal card?

jfrm said:
Don't you loose access to the system internal card?
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Good question.. James can you access both memory card and phone sd in windows explorer when mtp is gone ?

btemtd said:
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Good question.. James can you access both memory card and phone sd in windows explorer when mtp is gone ?
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Surely can. I can actually access both even faster than ever before.
Why would I loose connection to the device internal storage? Has this been an issue for other people before?

New Guy, Questions/Issues w/SD Card & Apps, Etc

Hi everyone,
Long time iPhone user who finally made the switch (first iPhone in 2007 all the way through iPhone 6 last year but wanted to try a new platform -- plus was getting very tired of the cookie cutter'ness of iOS).
I've had my Galaxy S7 Edge for a week now and couldn't be happier.
However I have experienced an issue (that I resolved) and would like some thoughts & opinions from those of you with far more Android & Samsung Galaxy experience than I have.
Okay, I'll outline exactly what happened...
1. Been shooting a video nightly (for a FB awareness project) with zero problems but the other day my micro SD card arrived (SanDisk Ultra 200gig Micro SD XC I) and after installing it (no issues, phone booted perfectly, found the card, all was well) I shot that evening's video. However when I went to play it back before uploading it to FB the video played for the 30 seconds and I got a pop-up window saying "Unknown Error, try Again". So I did, and each time I tried playing it the same thing would happen... 30 seconds in, error window, rinse/repeat. So I deleted the video and reshot a new video. On this video, it would play for 3 seconds and I'd get a pop-up with, "Incorrect Data Try Again"... tried playing this new video a few more times before deleting it and starting over.
**worth mentioning: on both of the videos I also opened up my stock Samsung video editor, and using the slider for trimming videos I was able to move the slider past the 30 second mark on the first video, and past the 3 second mark on the 2nd video, and then both played fine (within the video editing feature only~~I tried playing them both outside the editor again and they wouldn't: #1 up to just 30 seconds and #2 just to 3 seconds--precisely like before**
I rebooted my phone and then shot yet another video, it played fine and uploaded onto FB perfectly.
So, does anyone have any ideas? I searched around Google and found many posts regarding camera issues on the S7 but nothing regarding video playback errors.
Could it have been my SD card?
Which now leads to question two...
2. A bit later that same evening I read an article and watched a couple YouTube videos on copying/transferring photos from the S7 internal drive to an external... so I successfully did that with some photos as well as creating a couple folders on the SD card as well.
I then read and watched some other articles and videos on moving apps from the internal to external drive.
Following the tutorials I noticed some apps had the option to be relocated while some did not. Two that I thought would be good to relocate were Facebook and Facebook Messenger (I looked in my Storage screen and after everything populated I noted that those two apps were using more space than any other app so I thought I'd relocate them).
They both relocated fine, the screen showed them both as now located on the external drive.
I closed out of Settings and then went to my desktop and clicked on my FB icon, the screen froze, and then the phone began to reboot.
For the next 20 minutes my phone stayed in Boot Loop and either would reboot to a black screen or my lock screen with the time & date as well as a message at the bottom of the screen showing I was connected to my home wifi and then lock up and reboot again.
Using my laptop I Googled how to fully shutdown my phone. I restarted/shutdown the phone a few more times--all resulting in endless Boot Loops before powering down and popping the tray and removing the SD card... was then VERY relieved, upon putting the tray back in with just my SIM card & powering back up, to see that the phone restarted beautifully.
FB & Messenger were missing from my phone's desktop (that seemed understandable) as well as some photos that I didn't copy but had instead transferred (understandable as well).
I took the SD card and put it into an adapter and plugged all that into my laptop to see what was on the SD card..
A very large folder labeled Android, another labeled LOST.DIR and two that I had created for my photos.
So has anyone else experienced this? If my SD card was bad wouldn't the phone have not read it or not been able to store data on it? Also, if the card was bad why can my laptop find and read it?
In the end I copied the two photo folders onto my laptop (interesting to note: one of the two photo folders that I created on my S7 couldn't for the most part be copied to my laptop because most of the photos were corrupted in that folder--however, they had all been viewable on my S7 earlier that day... and yes, these same photos were transferred over from my iPhone a few days earlier at the Verizon store) while I deleted the Android & LOST.D IR folders off the SD card... I am debating between the following actions:
A. Returning the SD card for another new one.
B. Putting the SD card back into my S7 now that it's been cleared of all the folders and see what happens.
C. Putting the SD back into my S7, formatting it, and then putting some photos & videos on it to see what happens.
In all events I am seriously leaning toward not ever putting apps on this or any SD card in my phone after what occurred--thoughts on that?
Any help, input or explanations would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for reading all this (sorry it's so long but I wanted to include as much info as possible)...
-Scott

SCutshall said:
Hi everyone,
Long time iPhone user who finally made the switch (first iPhone in 2007 all the way through iPhone 6 last year but wanted to try a new platform -- plus was getting very tired of the cookie cutter'ness of iOS).
I've had my Galaxy S7 Edge for a week now and couldn't be happier.
However I have experienced an issue (that I resolved) and would like some thoughts & opinions from those of you with far more Android & Samsung Galaxy experience than I have.
Okay, I'll outline exactly what happened...
1. Been shooting a video nightly (for a FB awareness project) with zero problems but the other day my micro SD card arrived (SanDisk Ultra 200gig Micro SD XC I) and after installing it (no issues, phone booted perfectly, found the card, all was well) I shot that evening's video. However when I went to play it back before uploading it to FB the video played for the 30 seconds and I got a pop-up window saying "Unknown Error, try Again". So I did, and each time I tried playing it the same thing would happen... 30 seconds in, error window, rinse/repeat. So I deleted the video and reshot a new video. On this video, it would play for 3 seconds and I'd get a pop-up with, "Incorrect Data Try Again"... tried playing this new video a few more times before deleting it and starting over.
**worth mentioning: on both of the videos I also opened up my stock Samsung video editor, and using the slider for trimming videos I was able to move the slider past the 30 second mark on the first video, and past the 3 second mark on the 2nd video, and then both played fine (within the video editing feature only~~I tried playing them both outside the editor again and they wouldn't: #1 up to just 30 seconds and #2 just to 3 seconds--precisely like before**
I rebooted my phone and then shot yet another video, it played fine and uploaded onto FB perfectly.
So, does anyone have any ideas? I searched around Google and found many posts regarding camera issues on the S7 but nothing regarding video playback errors.
Could it have been my SD card?
Which now leads to question two...
2. A bit later that same evening I read an article and watched a couple YouTube videos on copying/transferring photos from the S7 internal drive to an external... so I successfully did that with some photos as well as creating a couple folders on the SD card as well.
I then read and watched some other articles and videos on moving apps from the internal to external drive.
Following the tutorials I noticed some apps had the option to be relocated while some did not. Two that I thought would be good to relocate were Facebook and Facebook Messenger (I looked in my Storage screen and after everything populated I noted that those two apps were using more space than any other app so I thought I'd relocate them).
They both relocated fine, the screen showed them both as now located on the external drive.
I closed out of Settings and then went to my desktop and clicked on my FB icon, the screen froze, and then the phone began to reboot.
For the next 20 minutes my phone stayed in Boot Loop and either would reboot to a black screen or my lock screen with the time & date as well as a message at the bottom of the screen showing I was connected to my home wifi and then lock up and reboot again.
Using my laptop I Googled how to fully shutdown my phone. I restarted/shutdown the phone a few more times--all resulting in endless Boot Loops before powering down and popping the tray and removing the SD card... was then VERY relieved, upon putting the tray back in with just my SIM card & powering back up, to see that the phone restarted beautifully.
FB & Messenger were missing from my phone's desktop (that seemed understandable) as well as some photos that I didn't copy but had instead transferred (understandable as well).
I took the SD card and put it into an adapter and plugged all that into my laptop to see what was on the SD card..
A very large folder labeled Android, another labeled LOST.DIR and two that I had created for my photos.
So has anyone else experienced this? If my SD card was bad wouldn't the phone have not read it or not been able to store data on it? Also, if the card was bad why can my laptop find and read it?
In the end I copied the two photo folders onto my laptop (interesting to note: one of the two photo folders that I created on my S7 couldn't for the most part be copied to my laptop because most of the photos were corrupted in that folder--however, they had all been viewable on my S7 earlier that day... and yes, these same photos were transferred over from my iPhone a few days earlier at the Verizon store) while I deleted the Android & LOST.D IR folders off the SD card... I am debating between the following actions:
A. Returning the SD card for another new one.
B. Putting the SD card back into my S7 now that it's been cleared of all the folders and see what happens.
C. Putting the SD back into my S7, formatting it, and then putting some photos & videos on it to see what happens.
In all events I am seriously leaning toward not ever putting apps on this or any SD card in my phone after what occurred--thoughts on that?
Any help, input or explanations would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for reading all this (sorry it's so long but I wanted to include as much info as possible)...
-Scott
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Are you given proper write access to SD card.?If not at first download fx file from play store ...from setting select enable write access to SD card. A menu will appear,from right top select 3 dot menu select show all storage and then from menu select your memory card and after that select the correct sign on the bottom. Also in the camera app you select save option to SD card right. I am using a SanDisk 128gb SD card without any issues. All my Blu-ray movies are there also my photos and recorded videos no issues.

Thanks for your reply. Could you explain what you mean by "given proper write access to the SD card"? Also, not sure what I am to download from the Play Store, could you tell me more on that too?
Thank you,
-Scott

SCutshall said:
Thanks for your reply. Could you explain what you mean by "given proper write access to the SD card"? Also, not sure what I am to download from the Play Store, could you tell me more on that too?
Thank you,
-Scott
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In Android ( maybe also in ios, no experience with ios) you can grant and revoke access for almost everything. In this case what is being asked if you could download fx file explorer from the play store.
Navigate to your SD card. Top right accessories the option and click on give access, see attachement.
This way you would restore permissions for Android to write to your external SD card.
This might fix your problem.
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Is there any way to shoot video -with a SD card installed- and have it save (default) to the internal storage... and the move it to the SD card later (via FX File)? I ask because I've enabled Write Access for my SD card through FX (went great), checked the new SD card on my laptop (worked great), formatted it as well (on my S7), and I am still receiving popups for "Video Playback Failed, Unknown Reason" in any video longer then 30 seconds up to 3 minutes in length. Super frustrated.
Thanks-
-Scott

SCutshall said:
Is there any way to shoot video -with a SD card installed- and have it save (default) to the internal storage... and the move it to the SD card later (via FX File)? I ask because I've enabled Write Access for my SD card through FX (went great), checked the new SD card on my laptop (worked great), formatted it as well (on my S7), and I am still receiving popups for "Video Playback Failed, Unknown Reason" in any video longer then 30 seconds up to 3 minutes in length. Super frustrated.
Thanks-
-Scott
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I am no expert. But the fault sounds to me more like a software problem the a hardware problem. Have you tried playing it with video Lan? And if that fails make an Android backup. Try a fresh install of the rom and try again see if the problem persists
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Michel habets said:
I am no expert. But the fault sounds to me more like a software problem the a hardware problem. Have you tried playing it with video Lan? And if that fails make an Android backup. Try a fresh install of the rom and try again see if the problem persists
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Sorry, yet another newbie question from me for you...
Video Lan, is this a setting or an app or what?
Thank you-
-Scott

SCutshall said:
Sorry, yet another newbie question from me for you...
Video Lan, is this a setting or an app or what?
Thank you-
-Scott
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It's an app, a video player that understands and plays almost every video format.
Personally I ( and a lot of other people) say m if videolan can't play it, forget it
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.videolan.vlc
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Michel habets said:
It's an app, a video player that understands and plays almost every video format.
Personally I ( and a lot of other people) say m if videolan can't play it, forget it
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.videolan.vlc
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Okay, I'll try this, hope it works. Also, another question... when I download this app should I leave it on my internal or move it to my SD external?
Thank you as always...
-Scott

SCutshall said:
Okay, I'll try this, hope it works. Also, another question... when I download this app should I leave it on my internal or move it to my SD external?
Thank you as always...
-Scott
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Try to install in normally. On your local drive. And see if that's works. Move to SD is just another thing which could cause for errors.
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Michel habets said:
Try to install in normally. On your local drive. And see if that's works. Move to SD is just another thing which could cause for errors.
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The new video player app had trouble playing the video as well.
Think the issue might be solved though... called Samsung and was told very apologetically, "200 & 256 gig SD cards have not been strategically optimized for S7 & S7 Edges yet. Using either size card is very hit and miss with the firmware to date."
They strongly urged not going any larger than 128 gigs.
I ordered a 128 gig SD earlier today, dumped the contents of the 200 gig onto my laptop and am returning it to Amazon.
I'll report back after I take delivery and install the new card.
Thank you again-
-Scott