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Is it possible to store photos and videos on internal memory? If so how would o go about doing that?
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orcsbane13 said:
Is it possible to store photos and videos on internal memory? If so how would o go about doing that?
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I'm not sure i heard it was just for apps however you us connect using PC mode it opens a drive to that 8 gb internal memory. It has some drivers and PC applications that you can install from it. I didn't try writing anything to it at the time and I'm not sure you can. Give it a try and let me know.

piiman said:
I'm not sure i heard it was just for apps however you us connect using PC mode it opens a drive to that 8 gb internal memory. It has some drivers and PC applications that you can install from it. I didn't try writing anything to it at the time and I'm not sure you can. Give it a try and let me know.
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Cool, hadn't tried that yet. Got mine before work but i will deffinately try tonight.
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why do u want to do this? you have 16gb sd card for that.

moosc said:
why do u want to do this? you have 16gb sd card for that.
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Why WOULDN'T you want it is the question...

I like the idea all app data in one place and my data in another. Especially since the card can't pop out by accident. Why fill internal mem with media and then complain about no room for apps, imo of course.
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Memory Card Preparing Itself...?

So.. For some goofy reason... for the past 2 hours my Fascinate has been asking me to Turn off USB Storage, and it tells me that its Preparing SD Card...
Here is the kicker... Its not plugged in to anything...
I have a Voodoo 0.2 Kernel with 1.2Ghz on the Fly... It has been working since I last posted about a week or 2 ago... So if its nothing I can fix, I would like to know how to properly Hard reset the phone... I am afraid to just go to Privacy, and Wipe Data, etc... Voodoo is weird...
I will try a few things in the mean time, but any help is appreciated.
(EDIT) I tried to plug it in to the computer, and I can't get it to mount without it wanting to prepare the SD card... I was going to put on a Voodoo/disable_lagfix but running into a problem with that...

Goodluck. I'm blaming voodoo.
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mackeydesigns said:
Goodluck. I'm blaming voodoo.
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Fml... again.. Dont RTFM... I have tried a Odin Restore to stock, and its just chilling at the Verizon Wireless screen now... I am waiting for it to kick back on (hopefully)...
I did put a Voodoo/disable_lagfix... I had to use lightning speed. lol.
How long should a boot up take after a Odin restore?

Ok. Voodoo sucks. I lost my info on my phone.
BUT IT FIXED MY PROBLEM! lol.
Standard kernels for me.

Voodoo does suck my phone aint mounting no more so no more flashing anything for me.. FML

Try formatting your sd card?
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I managed to kinda fix it by putting a Voodoo/disable_lagfix and then Odin restore..

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Try formatting your sd card?
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The formatting fails all the time... saying the card is read only or some crap.. but I can still use the card when downloading music directly off phone or pics etc.

billakid said:
The formatting fails all the time... saying the card is read only or some crap.. but I can still use the card when downloading music directly off phone or pics etc.
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Plugged in to a memory card reader right? Do you have a separate memory card to the the disable_lagfix?
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What's wrong with getting prepared. I "prepare" ksizzle9 Jr. Before a nice date or night at the club...;-) in all seriousness good luck with your problem I'm to drunk to suggest anything at this.point.
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probably voodoo's fault

Pics lost and sd card blank

I hope I put this in the right thread. I flashed a different kernal, clicked set on boot with setcpu and it instantly locked up my phone. Now I've lost all my photos and videos and my sd card is blank. Any ideas if any on how to retrieve them. Thank you in advance
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keithkevorkian said:
I hope I put this in the right thread. I flashed a different kernal, clicked set on boot with setcpu and it instantly locked up my phone. Now I've lost all my photos and videos and my sd card is blank. Any ideas if any on how to retrieve them. Thank you in advance
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There's a software online called "minitool power data recovry". It has a price ($40-$145, they have a functional demo), but its performed miracles for me in terms of data recovery.
But my first recomendation, anytime you experience data loss, STOP everything your doing with the drive (or sdcard), every second you try to access it, you might be loosing more and more data.
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After you figure out this mess get Titanium Media Sync so you don't have these problems anymore. I gather you don't have a cwm backup?
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Also never pick SetCPU for set changes on boot until you thoroughly test your settings. This way it will restore to stock settings if you lock up and have to reboot. The same goes to Voltage Control or any overclocking/undervolting app. Every phone is different and requires custom settings and extensive testing.

I did....i have nothing now. Idk what happened to the phone
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keithkevorkian said:
I did....i have nothing now. Idk what happened to the phone
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Did you pull the card out and put it in a card reader on a computer to see if your data is still there?
Do you BONSAI?

Have not. I'm at work and I don't have acess to my computer but ill give it a try...thank you
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Had the same issue 2 days ago... Was using google books, got up and heated up some food, came back and I had a notification saying "sd card blank." removed and put it back in... (that's wut she said)... Same thing... Completely stock from asurion with 16 gb sd card. Haven't had access to a pc I can play with for a couple of weeks otherwise I woulda tried the previous post... Anyone else get this?
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Won't be getting them back unfortunately
ridin the lightning

Its this something wrong with my phone that damaged the sd card or
Did I just get a bad card... If its the latter will TEP replace it?
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Edit: went to Sprint store and told them about my problem. they didn't ask any questions just replaced the sd card... Unfortunately they said they were out of 16 gb cards so I got an 8, however they gave me the 16 gb bad card back and a business card with the store managers signature on it and said come back in a week with the SD card and they will replace it... Seems like I'll get to keep the 8 gigger (as he put it) too...

I saw this problem earlier in the week, and my friend's epic wiped all pics/videos- blanked it, but somehow kept the apps.. the data was still there- I used diskdigger (pc app from diskdigger.org, which you have to pay for- i think it's $15 now) and an usb sd card reader. I did a surface scan for traces of files (dig deeper), where you have to tell it what to look for (eg: look for .jpgs only), and it pulled up a ton of files- some of them browser cache files, some were the missing pics, etc. I guess you could use any file recovery program, but the thing to remember: if you think you lost everything, don't use the sd card! Writing anything to it might write over the files you are trying to recover. A new 16gb card off amazon is around $30. I'd love to know why the epic erases everything.

I have had a kernel do this to me twice in the past. Turned out to be some error in script. It has long since been fixed. It was like my SD card got formatted. Everything was gone. Hope that's not the case for you. Out of curiousity, which kernel did you flash?
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I flashed genocide kernal which I run on my other epic at 1.4 on demand and it works great. For some reason it totally wiped out my other one.....strange....
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NEXUS 4G said:
Had the same issue 2 days ago... Was using google books, got up and heated up some food, came back and I had a notification saying "sd card blank." removed and put it back in... (that's wut she said)... Same thing... Completely stock from asurion with 16 gb sd card. Haven't had access to a pc I can play with for a couple of weeks otherwise I woulda tried the previous post... Anyone else get this?
Yes same thing for me got replacement with card from Asurion and I am convinced now their cards are not probably 16gb and faulty. I can't access the card at all on my pc even with some advanced tools.
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keithkevorkian said:
I flashed genocide kernal which I run on my other epic at 1.4 on demand and it works great. For some reason it totally wiped out my other one.....strange....
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Every Epic is different that way. Some can't go above 1.2 others like mine, no undervolt
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all sd_card files are gone

turned on my tablet today and I can't find anything on my sd card. I don't know if the card slot is broken are if it was deleted some how. im not rooted and I haven't changed any of the Software does anyone have any ideas?
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temekio2000 said:
turned on my tablet today and I can't find anything on my sd card. I don't know if the card slot is broken are if it was deleted some how. im not rooted and I haven't changed any of the Software does anyone have any ideas?
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Stick it in a card reader in your pc and see what happens.

temekio2000 said:
turned on my tablet today and I can't find anything on my sd card. I don't know if the card slot is broken are if it was deleted some how. im not rooted and I haven't changed any of the Software does anyone have any ideas?
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Bad SD card or power interrupted during file transfer. Format the card (FAT, full format vs. Quick format) would be my recommendation - if it fails during a full format you should consider a new Micro SD card.

I'm formatting now it shows 0 storage in lost everything it really sucks
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same thing happened to me during file transfer.... it just stopped and BAM, everything was gone.
using some recovery software to recover it, but it sucks with long filenames, so i now have to rename whatever it finds

temekio2000 said:
I'm formatting now it shows 0 storage in lost everything it really sucks
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Should have put it in your pc. Probably could have saved your data.

Hi
I have been having this exact problem with my external SD card, I started a thread long ago about it.
The biggest danger so to speak is that the card may be a counterfeit.
There is a software to test this, its freeware so no worries people and you dont need to install it you just run it and it will tell you if the card is pretty much fake or heavily defective or even if its a low class card in a high class casing.
Read the instructions while you run the test and you will understand how it works, the test takes some time and depending on the size of the card of course just have patience. I have had very bad problems lately with memory cards that i bought so now I use this every time when i buy a new card.
God I hate fake things but worst I hate those who sell them.
Attached is the freeware.
Cheers.

I. tried to save it but windows didn't see it and the format didn't finish it fails
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temekio2000 said:
I. tried to save it but windows didn't see it and the format didn't finish it fails
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Sounds like a bad SD card

EXFat is now supported on the SGS3!!! Tip for fast sdcard inside!

So I just seen that the SGS3 supports EXFat and files over 4gb's now. So if you want a really fast SD card, consider formatting from Fat32 over to exfat, and set block size to 16mb or 32mb. I know most if not all my files are 5mb or way over that, so not much space is wasted! I hope that helps someone
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Can you format ex fat in the phone itself or has to be pc? I purchased a 64gb sdxc card and will need to do this.
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Why on earth would you want a 32 MB block size? Seems like you would end up with a ton of wasted space.

smark72 said:
Can you format ex fat in the phone itself or has to be pc? I purchased a 64gb sdxc card and will need to do this.
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Well for me I have a lot of movies, huge pictures, music over 7mb. I myself use 16mb. But for people that want full speed from exfat will select 32mb.
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Can you format ex fat in the phone itself or has to be pc? I purchased a 64gb sdxc card and will need to do this.
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I don't have the phone or Id let you know. I do have my 32gb c10 ready to go when it gets here though
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So would that mean that any files I have under 16mb will in fact take up 16mb of space? Even files that are only a few kb?

Yes. I know it sounds scary, but most small items are stored on the phone sdcard.
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WARNING: Samsung's exFAT driver implementation is buggy!
exFAT is not an open standard. It is MS proprietary. Do not expect it to fully work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27415975&postcount=18
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1698672&page=2

jnadke said:
WARNING: Samsung's exFAT driver implementation is buggy!
exFAT is not an open standard. It is MS proprietary. Do not expect it to fully work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27415975&postcount=18
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1698672&page=2
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I didn't read the whole thread. But from what I saw, only 3 people had a problem. And at first he said he copied 1900 files and had corruption, then he states its a problem over 3000. I don't know if this is user error, or what. But thanks for the warning, Ill keep an eye out....... And if that guy was checking file by file for 1900 songs, that's some serious time, I call BS.
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TeamERA said:
I didn't read the whole thread.... , I call BS.
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A bunch of other people were having the same problem too.

jnadke said:
A bunch of other people were having the same problem too.
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It may well be correct, and now I can't wait to find out, damn 32gb PB pre order
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I unloaded my 64gb sd card, put it in the phone and it formatted it to exfat, I copied all my data back to the card and did a restore from mybackup pro, after the restore and reboot I then received a damaged sd card, i'm not sure what's going on, The only 2 options on windows is NTFS and exFat

Performance gain will be nominal. You're talking a phone here, not a database server dealing with heavy iOPS. I have a 64GB Class 10 in mine and performance could not be better. I also had a ***** of a time getting the card to register after I let my PC format it, had to, absolutely had to, let the device format it.
Note: I'm a heavy performance user who goes for maximum battery without overly sacrificing performance. Professionally, I build and configure SAN's for Exchange, SQL and vSphere. I make no claims to being a phone development god (thought about refreshing my skills there but frankly, don't have the time), BUT I'm also VERY good at what I do.
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I unloaded my 64gb sd card, put it in the phone and it formatted it to exfat, I copied all my data back to the card and did a restore from mybackup pro, after the restore and reboot I then received a damaged sd card, i'm not sure what's going on, The only 2 options on windows is NTFS and exFat
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Had the same problem. I had no option but to let the phone format it. Delete the partition in windows and then you can format it. If you find another way though, let me know!
Sorry misread your post, I had the same error and had to let it reformat. Did you unplug it and put it into your PC? Were any corrective scans or anything done?

I removed everything back off the card, formatted it to fat32 and copied everything back to it, put it back in the phone and it's still saying it's damaged. Sucks, it's been in my EVO3D for a week now with no problems.

is the extra juice really worth the possibility of data corruption? Im not trying to be a wise guy, just really been wondering myself.

s3xda said:
is the extra juice really worth the possibility of data corruption? Im not trying to be a wise guy, just really been wondering myself.
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Well I must say now I'm worried. But I'm still going to test, I copy huge files to and from on a regular basis, if it saves me 3% in time each time, that is still worth it to me in the long run. I have very little patience, and all that time adds up.
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seems to be working now, I had 8,000 temp files in a MyBackup Pro Directory, Deleted them and now it's working

So if I were to format my 64gb card to exfat and download movies to my phone using adownloader or atorrent, I wouldn't be able to transfer them to my ps3?
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smark72 said:
So if I were to format my 64gb card to exfat and download movies to my phone using adownloader or atorrent, I wouldn't be able to transfer them to my ps3?
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I use xbox lol, I don't know if it would work on ps3.
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TeamERA said:
I use xbox lol, I don't know if it would work on ps3.
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Does it work and show up on the Xbox?
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smark72 said:
Does it work and show up on the Xbox?
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I don't have the phone yet, Ill let you know in here though.
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