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Since i bought a new SD Card on ebay - 32 GB - i switched the stock camera to save all photos on external sd card. Looks like since then the pictures are dissapearing from the folder DCIM on external SD Card.
When i'm taking the picture, and then checking if the file is there - it is there everything is ok...... i can take a lot of pictures and the files are there and i can see all of them.
Then after some time (without switching tablet off) i'm trying to check the files in DCIM folder on the external sd card - and it is empty!!! Any of the file manager does not see any files in. The LOST folder on the card is empty as well. When i'm trying to make another picture from the camera app, and then check the files from the camera directly, it looks like it can open the just made picture and it see somehow the other files but can not open them - just says FAIL LOAD.
i have no idea what is happening.
I switched now the camera back to save the files on the internal storage card and see what will happen.
Any idea what the hell is happening?
I have a lot of files on the external SD Card and everything is ok. Nothing else dissapeared.
I have the same problem. As long as I do not shut it down I can get my pictures to load. Once I shut it down I get the failure to load error. It seems to have started with the 1.41 upgrade with me because all the picture prior to upgrade load with no problems. I am hoping 3.1 will correct the problem. Hope it will here this month.
I've started a thread about this a while ago called External MicroSD contents disappears. Please write there so we can all join together for this BIG issue.
Alot of people are reporting the same problem.
I have a 32GB too. Same problems, I put stuff in but when i restart lots of things vanish.
possible shutdown issue
I had one thread because I am having issues with the time zone not saving and then I saw another thread regarding the pictures so I started http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14545637#post14545637
I think it has to do with the shutdown process and the tab is not saving files/settings properly. Have not seen any further help or suggestions.
encryption issue?
In the threads regarding time zone changes, it appears to have been traced to encrypted tablets.
My tablet was encrypted. I did a factory reset and set the time zone on setup. I have not re-encrypted it yet and the time zone has saved. I'm debating whether or not to encrypt it again.
I never had a problem with pictures not saving, but I believe the issues could be related. For the people with the picture saving issue, are your tablets encrypted?
I'm having issues capturing photos. The phone seems as if it captures the picture perfectly and if I check the gallery immediately after the photo is there. But after a certain amount of time the photo appears to be corrupt. After restarting the phone the corrupt photos aren't even there. If anyone has any insight into this I would appreciate it, thanks.
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mrbro0ks said:
I'm having issues capturing photos. The phone seems as if it captures the picture perfectly and if I check the gallery immediately after the photo is there. But after a certain amount of time the photo appears to be corrupt. After restarting the phone the corrupt photos aren't even there. If anyone has any insight into this I would appreciate it, thanks.
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By any chance your photos are saved to external sdcard? If they are remove card from phone and save photos and important data to PC. Then full format sdcard in windows and labeled. Then copy pictures and data back to card put back to phone and enyoj. I had same problem and i lost all. Card went bad.
norbarb said:
By any chance your photos are saved to external sdcard? If they are remove card from phone and save photos and important data to PC. Then full format sdcard in windows and labeled. Then copy pictures and data back to card put back to phone and enyoj. I had same problem and i lost all. Card went bad.
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Thanks, I'm saving my photos to the phone now as opposed to the SD card and all is well. I'll format the SD card later and report back!
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I'm attempting to format the SD Card through the phone and it won't format it. The pine acts as if it's doing it but nothing happens. I've tried restarting the phone, pulling the battery and unmounting then reinstalling but nothing worksm
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Hello everyone,
The camera is not saving pictures on SD card, as soon as I restart the phone all the pics taken are gone from the SD card, also in the gallery it doesn't display any screenshot of the pictures only a green screen, this doesn't happen when I use internal storage for camera, everything else works fine on the SD, I transferred music and took a nandroid backup which is there but for some reason camera is not saving pictures and videos on SD card, also I am not able to find night mode on the camera to take videos in the night without using flash, any help with this?
Thanks.
Which device are you using?
masum56k said:
which device are you using?
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32gb lte g900f
64gb Samsung SD card
ila420 said:
32gb lte g900f
64gb Samsung SD card
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Just to confirm this then, under camera settings Storage Location is set to Memory Card not Device then using the file manager My Files you go to your SD Card > DCIM > Camera folder and its empty, if so would just suggest first off you try another micro sd card if you can this would help identify a phone or card issue, mine is set to Memory Card its only 8GB as I don't keep much on my phone but it works fine.
ag4751 said:
Just to confirm this then, under camera settings Storage Location is set to Memory Card not Device then using the file manager My Files you go to your SD Card > DCIM > Camera folder and its empty, if so would just suggest first off you try another micro sd card if you can this would help identify a phone or card issue, mine is set to Memory Card its only 8GB as I don't keep much on my phone but it works fine.
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But everything else works fine with the SD card, only this camera issue is there, I tried to recover the deleted images/videos by recovery software but it didn't helped, seems like the phone didn't saved them at the first place and I don't know why it is acting like that, could this be write sd issues with the camera? Apps are getting transferred easily without any issue.
Edit: I did a format using PC and now the phone is saving pics/vids to the card, not showing those grey boxes like before, previously I did the format from phone so that might be the issue.
Still no answer on how to enable night mode to record videos without using flash.
+1 on the night mode. It would be sweet but I doubt it'll ever be
ila420 said:
Still no answer on how to enable night mode to record videos without using flash.
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Put phone in camera mode, tap settings, turn flash off, go to video mode and flash light will remain off when recording video just the same as when it is turned off in camera mode when taking pictures.
I know how to turn off the flash, what I mean from night mode is that greenish video which a handycam or webcam can record when there is no light.
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I was using a genuine SanDisk 64GB Ultra card and had the same issue - tried to format but could not read, was corrupted, a write virus or somehow stuck in read only.
Sent it back for a refund got the Extreme version with U3 and already getting the same issue.
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32gb lte g900f
64gb Samsung SD card
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I crave your storage capabilities. I onlg have 16gb device and a 32gb card. As for your issue sammy just doesn't like sdcards. I had issues with my s3, but not with this. I'm scared to up my card size because of this though
obsydian said:
I was using a genuine SanDisk 64GB Ultra card and had the same issue - tried to format but could not read, was corrupted, a write virus or somehow stuck in read only.
Sent it back for a refund got the Extreme version with U3 and already getting the same issue.
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Try formatting the card from PC using FAT32 and 128kb write options, this solved my problem.
Tried every method spending a day and gave up - dead end
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obsydian said:
Tried every method spending a day and gave up - dead end
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Try a lower capacity sd card, 16GB or less.
Are you using a third part camera app? Isn't this issue related to the kitkat restriction on writing to external sdcards, for third party apps?
Model: SCH-I545
64gig SD Card
Verizon
All stock/no root
Verizon pretty much forced me recently like many others to update to Lollipop. Once updated, I immediately backed up and did a factory reset on the device. Once it was back up and running, all seemed to be well with the world. It did seem to be a little hotter than normal but it seems overheating is a typical problem these days.
I noticed the issue the following day when I went to load videos and pictures back on to my SD card. They were uploaded via USB just fine but they showed as corrupted in Gallery.
I started trying to take pictures and maybe 1 out of 5 would actually show up. I thought it might be Gallery so I switched to Photos. Same thing. Tried using other cameras with the same results. I ended up factory resetting a second time and formatting the SD Card again as well but no fix. Then the other night I noticed that two of my apps have that "we're broken" icon on them and that they were installed on the SD Card so the issue seem to be connected with that, yet the SD Card works fine. I can plug it in the computer and use it without any issue but when it comes to the camera storing photos or video on it or apps using it, it refuses to work.
Tried contacting Samsung about it but they are useless when it comes to support it would seem so a friend told me to try posting here and maybe someone would have an idea of what is going on.
Thanks, guys.
Try formatting your sd card. Sometimes that helps.
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Try formatting your sd card. Sometimes that helps.
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I formatted it twice.
New to XDA, not new to Android.
Phone: Moto X Play
Rom: Stock Marshmallow 6.1
Issue: SD Card disappears randomly (formatted as internal storage!!!)
Bootloader never unlocked, never rooted.
I have a sandisk 32gb micro sd card that works when I first start the phone. The problem is that it will randomly, completely, disappear.
Now I'm not, IMO, a complete noob. I am fairly (99%) sure it is indeed the sd card at fault. Ok, not an issue, I can always replace it with a new one.
The issue is, of course, that EVERYTHING is on my SD card, most importantly, my photos.
Even without accessing a file manager (phone idle, browsing web, playing games) the sd card will eventually fail leaving it inaccessible until the phone is restarted. When attempting to access my photos, which is what I need most, it fails MUCH quicker.
Having not used the "Google Photos" app before (just Gallery), I am not at all sure if my photos were ever backed up online, If they were, I'm not sure where to look.
Trying to access them via usb, wifi file transfer, bt tranfer, and even from file managers on the phone itself, result in an almost immediate failure of the sd card. 5 seconds or so tops.
The card is formatted as "Internal Storage" and I have not been able to find a way to get a computer or anything else to read it, and I would imagine for security reasons, there is no way.
Here's the question: Is there any way to get photos off the sd card, that wont take me three million years in 5 second intervals, while having to restart the phone every bleeping time the sd card fails to get it to recognize the sd card again?
Suggestions please!
Thanks in advance,
Canabian
Canabian420 said:
New to XDA, not new to Android.
Phone: Moto X Play
Rom: Stock Marshmallow 6.1
Issue: SD Card disappears randomly (formatted as internal storage!!!)
Bootloader never unlocked, never rooted.
I have a sandisk 32gb micro sd card that works when I first start the phone. The problem is that it will randomly, completely, disappear.
Now I'm not, IMO, a complete noob. I am fairly (99%) sure it is indeed the sd card at fault. Ok, not an issue, I can always replace it with a new one.
The issue is, of course, that EVERYTHING is on my SD card, most importantly, my photos.
Even without accessing a file manager (phone idle, browsing web, playing games) the sd card will eventually fail leaving it inaccessible until the phone is restarted. When attempting to access my photos, which is what I need most, it fails MUCH quicker.
Having not used the "Google Photos" app before (just Gallery), I am not at all sure if my photos were ever backed up online, If they were, I'm not sure where to look.
Trying to access them via usb, wifi file transfer, bt tranfer, and even from file managers on the phone itself, result in an almost immediate failure of the sd card. 5 seconds or so tops.
The card is formatted as "Internal Storage" and I have not been able to find a way to get a computer or anything else to read it, and I would imagine for security reasons, there is no way.
Here's the question: Is there any way to get photos off the sd card, that wont take me three million years in 5 second intervals, while having to restart the phone every bleeping time the sd card fails to get it to recognize the sd card again?
Suggestions please!
Thanks in advance,
Canabian
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Format the card using computer (Not quick format )
Quick format didn't worked for me.
And don't make card as internal, use it as portable
with the sd card in the phone, go to settings - apps, show system apps. then select External Storage, force stop it or clear it cache. do the same to Media Storage. reboot the phone, once everything loaded wait for 5-10 minutes especially if you have lots of files in a large sd card. once that done, connect the phone to your pc (use mtp if i'm not mistaken) and hopefully you can now access the internal (sd card) contents.
jerryn70 said:
Format the card using computer (Not quick format )
Quick format didn't worked for me.
And don't make card as internal, use it as portable
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This will HOPEFULLY resolve the issue AFTER I get my photos off the card!
What I need help with is getting roughly 10 gigs of data off a card that works intermittently for roughly 5 seconds at a time....
-Canabian
pijes said:
with the sd card in the phone, go to settings - apps, show system apps. then select External Storage, force stop it or clear it cache. do the same to Media Storage. reboot the phone, once everything loaded wait for 5-10 minutes especially if you have lots of files in a large sd card. once that done, connect the phone to your pc (use mtp if i'm not mistaken) and hopefully you can now access the internal (sd card) contents.
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I will try this and report back.
One question... If the card is formatted as internal storage, clearing data for external storage and media storage will not cause the phone to "forget" the sd card will it?
Thanks,
Canabian.
I think I have come up with a solution to my own problem. If this works satisfactorily, I will let others know as this may help many other people facing this issue.
I am on a linux pc. I am going to try to use RSYNC to copy the files over. This SHOULD copy files over, deleting them from the source folder as it goes. Once the sd card fails, which it WILL, once I reboot the phone and start rsync once again, it should "resume" where it left off.
Here is the command for anyone else that may need it:
rsync -v --progress --remove-source-files --recursive --append-verify /path/to/source/files /path/to/destination/folder
Hopefully this works the way I hope it will. Will post back with my results when I can.
Thanks again,
Canabian.
I had the same problem, and the solution (that maybe someone posted somewhere in the internet) is using a faster SD card. Since I switched to a sandisk extreme pro, the problem disappeared. Be careful, though, when using Samsung SD cards: my moto x play doesn't like them much (I had to replace them twice before buying the sandisk; in some way the partition tables of the Samsung SD cards were damaged, plus they became read-only, resulting in two unusable cards).
jauffre said:
I had the same problem, and the solution (that maybe someone posted somewhere in the internet) is using a faster SD card. Since I switched to a sandisk extreme pro, the problem disappeared. Be careful, though, when using Samsung SD cards: my moto x play doesn't like them much (I had to replace them twice before buying the sandisk; in some way the partition tables of the Samsung SD cards were damaged, plus they became read-only, resulting in two unusable cards).
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which samsung model did you use? I just replaced my normal class 10 strontium card yesterday with a brand new samsung evo plus u1 card and formatted it as internal storage. so far the phone feels a bit snappy with this card.
dude search a little in this section and i hope u find the fix.i just let u know that our device has very sensitive sd pins and many users had accidentally bented them and didn't know the problem!
i hope u are not one of them!so if you are lucky,next time u put the sd be veeeery careful!i personally didn't put it out from the time i bought it...
pijes said:
which samsung model did you use? I just replaced my normal class 10 strontium card yesterday with a brand new samsung evo plus u1 card and formatted it as internal storage. so far the phone feels a bit snappy with this card.
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It was just a Samsung Evo class 10. The strange thing is that I tried also a Sandisk of the same class, which gave me only the "external memory missing" problem, while the Samsung ones became just unusable plastic. But maybe I should try better Samsung SD cards.