I just noticed that all the media (pictures, videos, etc.) I had saved to the internal storage are all missing now. Just out of the blue, up and disappeared. Has anyone else experienced this? I even checked the available memory to see if the space was free'd up. But, it just shows my whole memory being available. :-/
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On e day when I unlocked it, a whole bunch of my apps were unistalled. it was wierd...
Come to mention it, Samurai Vengence II was uninstalled. I didn't even think to check which other apps were possibly missing.
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Same thing happen to me some apps just disappeared outta no where
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I'm starting to think this is due to some sort of virus. Now pictures taken don't even save to the internal or external storage card. After restarting the phone applications which were just installed are missing. This is really frustrating!
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Lost media
I have noticed I loose the media every time I sync with Motorola media Link. It is still in the phone but you have to go into the file explore and pull it up some reason it disconnects, once you find it it will be available from the camera app. OR what ever media you are looking for. It also screwed up my Ringtones now it plays random children bible verse every time some on calls me. Not a virus but it grabs things off your PC and place them in there and then because it can't find the media you setup "ringtone" it just plays random stuff. I did that Sunday school program 5 years ago forgot it was on my PC but media link found it and installed it on phone. Think how that sounds when you are in a business meeting a scripture starts playing when your boss is talking.
Here's the deal, evertime I take new photos they save to the storage, but if I turn the phone off and restart they are missing all over again.
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mine vanished after a motorla sync thingy too.
Ok, called at&t they had me format my internal storage card. Thought that would help but pictures and media still delete whenever I turn off the phone. Very frustrated! Now I know that my internal storage is automatically re-formatting whenever it reboots!
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are you rooted? or attempted to?
Yes, I'm rooted. Do you think this could be the problem
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perhaps.. haven't had my media vanished.. but i'm leaning more towards the motorolla sync thing causing it..
it happens when you root and don't take out your Sd card.
Happened to me once, so to confirm it was the root i unrooted and rooted again a few times and sure enough the SD card gets unmounted and all the files get deleted.
Probably the same case for you.. if you tried to root.
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I just came across this realization last night, and it is very, very disconcerting - to say the least.
I have had my EVO since day one launch - no problems with it. I am not rooted, and have the latest OTA update applied.
I actually have the two Transformers moves from the HD2 on my memory card from a friend, as well as a couple more he ripped/formatted for our phones (he now has an EVO as well). The night before last I was bored/tired and stayed up in bed watching parts of both films. One day later (last night) I was out with friends and one of them asked me to show another how good the video looks on our phones. I fired up Meridian (what I always use to watch movies on the EVO) and was shocked to find the two TF films were nowhere to be found. What's more, the listing of "VIDEO00__" files from the EVO camcorder seemed suspiciously short - like some of those were missing, too. Now, I know that at least the TF films were on there the night before.
I got home, removed the card from the phone and fired it up on my laptop. I used two file recovery programs: Recuva and Pandora Recovery (both free) to analyze the card. I found the Transformers files as if they'd been deleted. I also found a whole host of other files that have been deleted. The vast majority of them seemed to be media of some sort, from photos to Video files (taken with the phone). Since most of the media produced from the phone are "IMAG00__.jpg" or "VIDEO00__.3gp" and I DO manually delete some of them time to time, it was hard to tell what was intentionally deleted and what wasn't. HOWEVER, there were definitely media files I would NOT have deleted, like pictures from my Wallpapers folders, photos from other folders I manually renamed based on the content, etc.
I don't know how long this has been going on - I know that the file recovery program Recuva tell you what file overwrote another. Using that, I could see that a movie I would not have deleted (Iron Man) was overwritten with a photo taken with the phone that, based on the file number, was taken on or about July 4th. Flipping through my video gallery, I am certain I am missing many of those, too, as videos from a certain event (family gathering) that I know I had a handful of files for now only have one.
I've had the phone now for basically a month and a half - and while I am normally good about backing up here and there I have neglected to do so often with my EVO as I've been very busy (getting married in about a month) and I didn't think I'd need to have a backup short of physically losing the phone (have never lost a phone). This realization scares the heck out of me, and I'm wondering if anyone has experienced it or has any ideas about it. Until last night when I happened to be looking for a specific file(s) I used the night before, I didn't have any idea this was happening.
If it helps, in between the night when I watched the movies that later went missing and the night I realized they were gone I connected my EVO to the computer via USB to transfer a file and charge it. I realized recently whenever I connected the phone the computer would automatically read/access the card without me ever having to choose the option from the pull down menu. I thought that maybe that kind of activity could be the root cause of missing files (you know how flash drives don't like to be fiddled with while reading/writing). I did some searching before starting this post and found out that behavior is caused by a setting in DoubleTwist which I have since changed. Still, I have a hard time believing that's the root cause of files which just seem to be deleted without me ever doing it.
Any thoughts or ideas? Any way you members can check to see if you seem to be missing any media (or other) files?
Sounds like phone corrupted card. Sorry, you're sol. There's another couple of posts relating to this subject and a possible remedy for future occurrences with this problem. Either look for post with subject of corrupt card or files disappear. It's in the same section as this one, you might have to look through a few pages before you see them. Good luck.
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It all makes sense now, Optimus Prime destroyed the data when he found out you ripped them.
No doubt
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After using HTC Voice Recorder my card got corrupted so I reformatted it and tried again... Not sure why, but HTC Voice Recorder corrupts my card EVERY time =/
For a freebee, try virtualrecorder. Cool features. Sounds excellent.
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Sounds like phone corrupted card. Sorry, you're sol. There's another couple of posts relating to this subject and a possible remedy for future occurrences with this problem. Either look for post with subject of corrupt card or files disappear. It's in the same section as this one, you might have to look through a few pages before you see them. Good luck.
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Really? I'll look for them but I would have thought a corrupt card would manifest in some other way - like not functioning when you try to record or save something, not systematically deleting files. Strange.
midri said:
After using HTC Voice Recorder my card got corrupted so I reformatted it and tried again... Not sure why, but HTC Voice Recorder corrupts my card EVERY time =/
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I've only used my voice recorder a few times. After reading this, maybe I won't anymore.
I just had to chime in that this very thing happened to me and with the same movies that i got from the files of the hd2.
All i know is that i had a gig or so left on my card and then the next day i had over 6 left.
The good thing is i had the card and all its content backed up on the wifes computer.
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Update:
I used that recuva you recommended and it worked! Got all my pics back. I've been wondering what on earth caused it to be lost in the first place because I haven't installed anything lately. I am rooted and I noticed alot of titanium backup files were also gone. Sprite backup files were gone. A mystery indeed. I've learned my lesson though. Backup. More. Frequently.
Ok, so why does the Vibrant have to run Media Card Scanner so dam much. When you turn the phone on.when you play music. When you open some apps. Ect. Drives me flippin nuts. So dam slow takes like 5 mins or longer some times. Even runs at random some times. Makes phone run slow. Man why? No other android device I have ever used or owned does this.whats the point? Seems even worse since the JI6 Update. And yes I tried the media rescan app in the market but made my Vibrant freeze up.sorry about me venting but geez it drives me nuts! That is all!
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On my vibrant the media scanner only runs after boot up & sd card re-mount, never randomly.
Delete the all the cached thumbnails in /sdcard/dcim/.thumbnails & that should decrease the scan time.
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Yeah, I don't notice it except during bootup (of course) and when I take a picture (which it should)
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Ok, so why does the Vibrant have to run Media Card Scanner so dam much. When you turn the phone on.when you play music. When you open some apps. Ect. Drives me flippin nuts. So dam slow takes like 5 mins or longer some times. Even runs at random some times. Makes phone run slow. Man why? No other android device I have ever used or owned does this.whats the point? Seems even worse since the JI6 Update. And yes I tried the media rescan app in the market but made my Vibrant freeze up.sorry about me venting but geez it drives me nuts! That is all!
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search "rescan media" on the market.....this will cure your headache
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On my vibrant the media scanner only runs after boot up & sd card re-mount, never randomly.
Delete the all the cached thumbnails in /sdcard/dcim/.thumbnails & that should decrease the scan time.
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When you write or delete a file to/from the storage, the phone does a full media scan.
If you work with files on your phone, download attachments, take pictures/videos/etc... It can end up media scanning a lot.
And it lags the **** out of the phone...
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When you write or delete a file to/from the storage, the phone does a full media scan.
If you work with files on your phone, download attachments, take pictures/videos/etc... It can end up media scanning a lot.
And it lags the **** out of the phone...
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it should NOT perform a media scan that often. I'm able to write & delete files w/o ever triggering media scanner.
I don't know the specific cause of the problem, so i can only recommend a backup, full wipe, and reflash of your firmware.
good luck
My media scanner goes off if I delete a file.
Did you just update to a froyo rom? This happened when I went from fusion1.2 to.onyx r4.without odining to ji6. It happened only on boot but was taking an excessive amount of.time and sometimes.restarted. I.did.a.wipe.and odined to.stock ota and it cleared.the stale code.that was probably causing it.
Don't blame me, blame my keyboard's autocorrection algorithm.
Hi,
So i have a rooted htc evo shift and the deal is whenever i take a picture i can go to my gallery and the picture will be there. However, in about 5 minutes or so, the picture no longer shows and instead there is a grey backround with a mountain , an exclamation point, and a sun image. This started happening randomly (or can't remember any instance where i changed something and then this happened...). Before i took pictures and they would save, and i still have some of those pictures, but not all as some of them changed to mountain exclamation things.
Also when i move these gray mountain files to my computer or use root explorer, the pictures don't load either.
Any ideas on what i can do to fix this?
could it be my sd card? (I did switch to a new one off ebay (bad idea), but I didn't start having the problem until maybe around 2-3 weeks after the switch)
Any way i can get back my old photos that have the gray mountain thingy?
Please help,
Thank you
Just an update on this. I removed some music to open up some memory to make it so i had more than 8gb free (possibly my card was only like 8gb even though marked 16, damn ebay. I also used the sd card program checker thing from another forum on xda and it said it had probelms)
So if u have this problem, it is probably sd related.
So anyways, now my pictures are storing again, but is there anything i can do to get my other pictures back? They were important/school related.
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So i am experiencing some issues with my note 3 wondering if anyone else has a well. .
1. The gallery app take forever to open stuff. From my ad card or device or drop box. Might try and get s better so card to see if that works. .
2. Focusing on for the camera is sometimes off and doesn't focus
3. Nova launcher keeps crashing
Thankss
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Im having the gallery issue but its intermittent. Still.annoying though.
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I've noticed an overheat issue near the flash/camera area. I removed my micro sd card, uninstalled ssL launcher and themer. Still overheats noticed that the LED notification could be the cause but after turning it on and off I cannot replicate overheat issue again. Called tmo for a replacement to be sent out wed.
I wanted to add issue...mine screen got pink hue issue..plus my sd card kingston 32gb just stop working yesterday!! I got a lot of stuff data inside..no backup...wtf!!...i alrrady use that card since note 2 n no problem on note 2!!
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johentie said:
So i am experiencing some issues with my note 3 wondering if anyone else has a well. .
1. The gallery app take forever to open stuff. From my ad card or device or drop box. Might try and get s better so card to see if that works. .
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The device cache's thumbnail pictures of EVERYTHING. This is stored in a hidden folder under \DCIM. This consumes huge amounts of space (Gbytes). It also takes forever to scan a large extSDcard (eg: 64 GB).
There is a simple solution: Tell Android to only scan for media in user-defined media folders. This should be:
\DCIM
\Pictures
\Music
\Video
\Documents
and whatever else you desire.
How to do it? Easy, there is a free APP for that ...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.studiokuma.nomedia
I use it and it is great. It essentially places a "flagging" file ".NOMEDIA" in folders that you don't want scanned and thumbnail cached. I have such flagging files in every folder in my extSDcard, except for a few which have some pictures and music.
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jojocommi said:
I've noticed an overheat issue near the flash/camera area. I removed my micro sd card, uninstalled ssL launcher and themer. Still overheats noticed that the LED notification could be the cause but after turning it on and off I cannot replicate overheat issue again. Called tmo for a replacement to be sent out wed.
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I have the same behavior. The heating is not always present on my Note-3. It seems to only occur when I am installing APPS. I suspect this is where our 32 GB storage rom is located (beside the camera), and the write-cycle is demanding higher current loads.
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I have the same behavior. The heating is not always present on my Note-3. It seems to only occur when I am installing APPS. I suspect this is where our 32 GB storage rom is located (beside the camera), and the write-cycle is demanding higher current loads.
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I cannot determine when it happens. I have been trying to replicate the issue numerous times and almost pinned it to the LED notification light until I turned it off and still got a hot phone. It happens more often over night when I am asleep and in the morning I wake up to a hot dead phone or near hot dead phone. I should note that I have everything off overnight so there is no receiving/sending data.
Cray Typing issue
Its typing automaticly
aslo does makes crazy words
just started today did not download anything
Headphone set
Hi,
I just received my N3 and I am checking all what I had read about issues. Fortunately up to now I did not find any major one except the headphone set. In fact the sound on the right Chanel is too low. I tried to adjust it with utility Adapt Sound but couldn't get satisfaction. I compared the set with my old one so I noticed that it is default in the N3 one.
Had anyone experienced such issue? And do you think Sam will replace the headphone set alone. I don't want to send the whole stuff and potentially get issues with its replacement.
NothingThing major from mine so far so good got it syncd with the gear I work walking around all day and she's holding up nicely. I do that and I change the songs from the gear as well as take pictures. Today I watched the Dodgers on the watch tbs app too =) this thing is Crazy good to me maybe I got lucky
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jojocommi said:
I cannot determine when it happens. I have been trying to replicate the issue numerous times and almost pinned it to the LED notification light until I turned it off and still got a hot phone. It happens more often over night when I am asleep and in the morning I wake up to a hot dead phone or near hot dead phone. I should note that I have everything off overnight so there is no receiving/sending data.
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Overnight - well that sounds wrong and bad.
As a last resort: You mentioned that you turn off everything during night. I presume you mean radios (Wifi, Bluetooth, NFC) are all off. There is one other activity that phones do on their own. Email and Cloud services poll intermittently. The polling would use Wifi first, then use 3G as an alternative. What if you tried turning off 3G (Sync in the Notification Panel) during night. However, a misbehaved program might still attempt dispite the disconnect.
I adjust the "settings" in most my Apps so they don't poll continuously or too frequently. This includes Apps that connect to the internet or cloud: Twitter, Facebook, My Fitness, Box, Dropbox, etc.
Another diagnostic you can do: with a fully charged phone, leave it unplugged overnight. In the morning immediately check if it is hot, as not noted. If so, then immediately check the Settings^General^Battery log. This will show which apps and services were hogging the battery.
Skeleton said:
The device cache's thumbnail pictures of EVERYTHING. This is stored in a hidden folder under \DCIM. This consumes huge amounts of space (Gbytes). It also takes forever to scan a large extSDcard (eg: 64 GB).
There is a simple solution: Tell Android to only scan for media in user-defined media folders. This should be:
\DCIM
\Pictures
\Music
\Video
\Documents
and whatever else you desire.
How to do it? Easy, there is a free APP for that ...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.studiokuma.nomedia
I use it and it is great. It essentially places a "flagging" file ".NOMEDIA" in folders that you don't want scanned and thumbnail cached. I have such flagging files in every folder in my extSDcard, except for a few which have some pictures and music.
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I have the same behavior. The heating is not always present on my Note-3. It seems to only occur when I am installing APPS. I suspect this is where our 32 GB storage rom is located (beside the camera), and the write-cycle is demanding higher current loads.
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It says that app won't work on 4.2?
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I'm experiencing significant lag when I dial any number -- there's about 5 to 15 second delay between when I press a number to call and when the phone actually starts to ring. This lag is especially noticeable when I use the speed-dial feature.
Any thoughts? I'm about to try a hard reset and battery pull.
Having launcher redraw issue and overheat while on charge. Rest is fine.
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It says that app won't work on 4.2?
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It works on my Note-2 (Android 4.1) and Note-3 (Android 4.3).
Regardless, there is an easy manual way to stop Android from scanning all folders for media files. This will speed Android and reduce the cache folder (\DCIM\.thumbnail\).
Create a text file. The contents of the text file is irrelevant; so make it with just a "space" character, for example. Name this text file ".NOMEDIA"; there is to be no extension on the file. Place this file in each primary folder that you want Android to no include in its media scanning and thumbnailing. Don't forget to do the same in the folders on the extSDcard. This marker file does not need to also be in sub-folders of the primary folders you are marking; all sub-folders of the primary so marked will be excluded also.
Or just use Quickpic. It's faster, free and you can select which folders it should and/or shouldn't scan.
When your camera doesn't focus, are you close to the subject by any chance? It has a miminum distance requirement.
I don't use Nova, I use Apex. but it has never crashed. (Unless I clear the RAM in taskmanager.)
While playing video from gallery, if I click the screen, the play pause buttons doesnt go back, stays on screen. Why?
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Personally, having rooted and even messed around with my phone via various root apps, I've had no hardware issues or phone related software issues yet. That overheating thing sounds like a legit problem - the only time mine got warm was after multiple benchmark tests
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Good evening had a problem today where my photos have vanished ....I've not deleted them or messed around in file manager...
File manager is saying there's no files in the directory.
Only thing I've tampered with is changing kernels which surely cannot automatically delete photos..
Had lots of photos of newborn baby which I do have percent backed up on Google photos
Has this ever happened to anyone else..
I've used digger pro which only brings up half photos obviously damaged too bad but I don't see why not has there was there this morning ...
Rom is g3 optimus fantastic rom
And Bruce's kernel
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I had this happen months ago & thought I had accidentally deleted them somehow but yesterday without any interference all my photos in internal memory disappeared except the two I took that day.
I Googled it & found there's others with the same problem.
I'm aware that choosing SD card as default stops this risk but I needed it set to internal for other reasons.
The photos have completely vanished from the phone.
I've set my default back to store on external drive now but I'm really annoyed this happened & I realise now this isn't the first time.
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