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i have done a search and read thru some threads with similar problems, but not exactly the same.
i have the O2 xda trion with the dopod rom and have had the device since feb 07 without any significant problems up until a few days ago.
all of a sudden the camera would not capture, ie save anywhere, and then is not saving to the 2 gb sd card i have been using since day 1.it inconsistently is not saving to either site, card or internal. (i do not have the "network" choice) i use the camera just about every day and take photos for work and remove the micro sd card and place it in the sd-adapter in my pc to instantly copy and print....this has been working very well until recently.
i have tried most all of the suggestions from the threads incl., card out while device on a few times, soft reset, installed cool camera and it does not copy to the card, hitting the icon for sd card, reducing from super fine to fine on the settings, so i am left with a hard reset which i dread doing, almost an excuse to get a new device AND installing an sd card formatting/cleaning? program ??. as i am not a real techie and dont know how to do registry changes and have the patience of a spastic paranoid schizophrenic, i wonder if someone can direct to a program that might resolve this issue as i do believe it now has to do with the card itself.
other poss suggestions are encouraged, AND i did do the search and spent quite a bit of time before opening a new thread.
thanks in advance!
djsell
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i have done a search and read thru some threads with similar problems, but not exactly the same.
i have the O2 xda trion with the dopod rom and have had the device since feb 07 without any significant problems up until a few days ago.
all of a sudden the camera would not capture, ie save anywhere, and then is not saving to the 2 gb sd card i have been using since day 1.it inconsistently is not saving to either site, card or internal. (i do not have the "network" choice) i use the camera just about every day and take photos for work and remove the micro sd card and place it in the sd-adapter in my pc to instantly copy and print....this has been working very well until recently.
i have tried most all of the suggestions from the threads incl., card out while device on a few times, soft reset, installed cool camera and it does not copy to the card, hitting the icon for sd card, reducing from super fine to fine on the settings, so i am left with a hard reset which i dread doing, almost an excuse to get a new device AND installing an sd card formatting/cleaning? program ??. as i am not a real techie and dont know how to do registry changes and have the patience of a spastic paranoid schizophrenic, i wonder if someone can direct to a program that might resolve this issue as i do believe it now has to do with the card itself.
other poss suggestions are encouraged, AND i did do the search and spent quite a bit of time before opening a new thread.
thanks in advance!
djsell
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Sounds like one of those infuriatingly difficult problems to solve where in the end a hard reset is the only option left. Still, some routine questions just in case:
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Installed any new software recently?
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Are you running low on main memory? - cleaned out the PIE history and temp files recently?
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Does it save pictures at low resolution?
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No other applications are running when you use the camera?
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Other applications, word say, save and read ok to SD Card?
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You do of course have full backup software installed so a hard reset is no problem???
Mike
WOW!, mike,
thats great stuff .....as if i had an appt with my trioniatrist, i feel i owe you money, but......i'm in between patients of my own but i do think you've made some excellent diagnoses and it certainly may work and will get back with you as soon as i can address those issues 1 x 1 !
thanks...djsell
[email protected] said:
WOW!, mike,
thats great stuff .....as if i had an appt with my trioniatrist, i feel i owe you money, but......i'm in between patients of my own but i do think you've made some excellent diagnoses and it certainly may work and will get back with you as soon as i can address those issues 1 x 1 !
thanks...djsell
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LOL perhaps more of a trionologist, haven't reached the heady heights of trioniatristry yet . The above are just thoughts really, based on a speculative guess that it might be a memory issue - not so much on your SD card but on the device itself. I have noticed it likes to keep quite a chunk of memory free in order to run and process data. However, as I said above, tracking down a solution might not be worth endless ours of trying and testing. I would not be without my periodic full backups - even if I hit problems, often I won't bother looking for a solution other than just restoring the latest backup.
Mike
hello mike,
i was able to figure out my problem after i cleaned out memory from about 3 mb to 10 mb and still the problem, so i realized that after using both the inherent camera and the cool camera (which i do like better at the moment) and both did not save to the sd card and i finally got a message that there was no path to the sd card and checked to see i had made a sep. file on the card months ago called "my pictures" but it was not a subfolder under "my documents", so i created a subfolder in my documents and the path was opened.
why it worked before i dont know, but so far so good!!
thanks again and maybe people with similar problems can try this mode of therapy!
i do hope to upgrade to an "omni", imate ultimate 7150, or the kaiser in the future so we'll see if they are with stable cameras!
by the way just had a few mcewans ales for the 1st time and quite tasty!!
djsell
Agh! Good news though.
Next time someone asks, checking the file path will be on the diagnosis checklist.
Glad you enjoyed the McEwens, but don't let Hermes drive you to alcohol!!
Cheers
Mike
Pretty much anytime I try to use YouTube, or play a game, or just do almost anything except Phone/Text/Internet... my phone will stop what it is doing a do a full reboot. It's really getting on my nerves now.
There are some other forum discussions out there on this, but they are all with Android devices in which people have rooted their phone and messed something up themselves. For a completely stock, non jacked around Focus... does anyone have any idea what is causing this?
Does this just sound like a defect Samsung will have to deal with directly?
I had and HTC HD7 that did that (re-boot) constantly. I was lucky enough to flash it with a clean rom and everything worked perfect.
Unfortunately there are no roms for the Focus, so take it back for exchange/refund or some kind of swap under warranty.
This problem happens to me, but that's only because I have a 32 GB SD card in. Are you sure you didn't put an SD card in your Focus?
No SD card for me. I really don't have a lot of music or pictures on my phone so the stock memory is fine with me. It stopped doing it this last weekend so I may have lucked out.
I actually swapped my old Captivate with someone back in December yo get this phone, so getting it exchanged or using the warranty is probably not an option. Ugh.
Wow, so I replied too soon. It's doing it again while I'm trying to use Netflix. AARRRRRRR
LS1Jabroni said:
No SD card for me. I really don't have a lot of music or pictures on my phone so the stock memory is fine with me. It stopped doing it this last weekend so I may have lucked out.
I actually swapped my old Captivate with someone back in December yo get this phone, so getting it exchanged or using the warranty is probably not an option. Ugh.
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With no intent to offend, are you sure there is no card installed in the MicroSD slot under the back cover? You have actually taken off the back cover and looked at the empty SD card slot? I ask because you say you swapped someone for it, so maybe they installed the card before you got it.
If not, have you tried a hard reset?
Ya.... try doing the three finger reset if you already haven't done so. And yes, check that memory slot. Who knows even if they put a 4GB card in there, it still might not be working properly.
No offense taken! I just confirmed there is no memory card inside.
Won't the 3 finger reset automatically format my phone? Do I need to sync with my Zune before I do this to ensure all of my pictures and internal data isn't lost?
yes, sync with zune to save your photos and videos, Windows Live will save your calendar settings and contacts, and you'll have to reinstall your apps. You will lose any saved text conversations.
So my phone reset this weekend after trying to take a picture, and is now executing an infinite reboot cycle on the Samsung logo. I can't even do the 3 finger salute to re-format and start from scratch! No SD card fyi.
Has anyone tried sending their phone back to Samsung Repair center. Since the phone hasn't even been out for a year they said it would most likely be covered under manufacturers warranty, however they said I would need to provide a receipt, but since it was a gift from a family member all I have is the original box. They didn't keep the receipt (it was purchased online).
Just curious if someone else has had a similar issue. I figured taking it to an AT&T store will do me no good since Managers bonuses are directly tied to any replacements or damaged goods they take back if it wasn't purchased in their store.
did you guys figure out a solution to this? my phone keeps restarting now... at least 20 times a day!!! this is ridiculuous!! i bought this one last november and i'm pretty sure it's too late to complain.
what did you guys end up doing?
I am sorry to tell you this, but I had to buy a new phone. I discovered that one of the three golden battery contacts was bent. Tried everyone with no luck.
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You should go warranty.
This weekend I was driving along and my CoPilot stopped working. Then I noticed that a couple of other apps weren't working and that the camera said it wouldn't take photo's until I inserted the SD card. I've had an 8GB card in there for the last 18 months.
Taking the card out of the phone and putting it in the PC does nothing. The PC at first says the card needs formatting but if you say yes it just says, insert a card.
I took some pictures at a friends Stag Party and I really need to get these pics off the card. I don't care about anything else.
I've tried a few of these "recover your images from a corrupted or formatted card" programs but they all require the card to be visible to the PC for them to work.
Has anyone get any ideas? Please help me
You could try a differnt card reader/different pc and hope that it works then, but tbo if its borked then with paying lots for data recovery, I'd say your out of luck
Sadly, I think you might be right. Looks like that card has gone to silicone heaven to be with all the calculators.
chimpsinties said:
Sadly, I think you might be right. Looks like that card has gone to silicone heaven to be with all the calculators.
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I would try every usb plug you have on your computer. i had the same problem and i kept at it. it took me several days to finally get it to work & to be honest im not sure why/how it did but i was thankful none the less.
i used this program & like i said i just kept trying. what worked 4 me was i held the card in the computer but only half way which the computer then was able to see the card. if you format the card you will lose everything on it so if you want pics off it & you format it you wont be able 2 recover them.
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if you format the card you will lose everything on it so if you want pics off it & you format it you wont be able 2 recover them.
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Thanks for the advice I'll give it a shot.
I thought at least if I could get it formatted then I could use some picture recovery software to get the pics back. It's so frustrating because there are only about 10 pics that I'm even bothered about. Everything else it backed up
hopefully that program will let you see that card, it did with mine eventhough though computer wouldnt. odd i know. i wouldnt apply or mess around to much with that program if you dont know what your doing because you can make it more difficult to regain your images. i gave the link 4 version 5 but i used version 6. i couldnt find it earlier 2 post, sorry. they do have a data recovery program that i used as well but ill have to hunt it down 1st & then i'll post the link.
i bought a hacked 16gb memory stick off ebay (!%$#@&$) that became corrupted and i was able to recover some of my files using the programs below. hope this will help you out.
MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition 6.0
MiniTool Power Data Recovery
Thanks a lot man. I'd managed to find those from your first link. In fact, Partition Wizard actually suggests the 2nd program if the first one doesn't find anything
I've run Partition Wizard against it. It took all night after starting it at about 9pm it finished at 8am this morning. It thought my 8GB card was a 2TB drive but hey, at least it could see something which is more than any other tool.
I didn't find anything using that one but I'm going to try the Power Data Recovery tonight. Fingers crossed.
Few weeks ago I took some photos with my wife and I transfer to the notebook some of the were damaged with a half gray photo. We can't see nothing.
Some games are having problems also if an example I download Subway surfers today, I can play normally but the next day when I open the app again it close automatically, if I would like to play again need to unistall, reinstall to play again.
I've already reboot from factory but still the same, I have some pictures damaged that I can share if necessary.
I can send to the assistance but I'd like to know if there is anything that I can try before lose few days waiting for the same answer.
Apreciate the attention in advance
I'd say you got a corrupted microSD if that's where your photos are being corrupted. Big apps tend to install their apps on the SD card and if your microSD is faulty, it would fail to launch.
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I'd say you got a corrupted microSD if that's where your photos are being corrupted. Big apps tend to install their apps on the SD card and if your microSD is faulty, it would fail to launch.
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Thanks for your assistance. I will back up my photos not damaged and videos, format the micro sd and if continues, will change for another one.
Didn`t think about this.
once again thanks.
HELLO everyone.
Please help me with the further painfull problem.
I bought brand new s7 edge. It was great phone. Somehow it transformed in photo destroyer. It has got 64 gb sd card bought brand new also. I save images to phones internal memore and sometimes to sd. It corrupts my photos on regular basis...
I feel like this pgone become piece of ****. I cant actually handle disappearing photos...
To clarify things, i use android ftom the ages of s2. I am familiar with how it works pretty well. However i cant find any logical explanation for that. Please have a look at images attached.
This phone became nightmare. In case of impossible recovery, it is possible to open law case against samsung? It sounds the same as vw selling cars with diesel gas emmision trick. Or even wors imagine buying brand new cars with no brakes.
My sd card works fine. All the photos and videos i took were good for some time. Afterwards it become corrupted.
Quick pick doesnt help. Nomedia files doesnt exist. Tried clearing cach of apps, cleared phone cach through recovery. Phone is full stock.
Sorry if its duplicate thread but xda search doesnt work...
Btw third picture is irrelevant. It showed up us corrupted so i tried uploading it. It seems to be good. Not sure about the others.
Looks like you're using a 3rd party gallery app, Google Photos? Have you tried the regular gallery app?
What is the make and model of the sd card?
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Same thing was happening on my S6. Nearly all photos after every rom reflash were corrupted. And they didn't even work on other devices like computer etc. I haven't ever fixed that.
All You can do is download a app that does file recovery. It will scan Your phone for like 5 minutes and then show You all files. Eventually all those pictures will be back but with poor quality. They look like android has cached them or something. They are usually 100-300kb and have weird names with just numbers.
I will later on write the make of my sd card. I believe it is sandisk high class 64 gb bought brand new. Formated in phone. However pictures disappear not only from card but internal memory aswell.
As i didnt flash any roms yet i should be covered with warranty. I feel like this su edge is far from good. Could it be internal memory corruption? Or what...
Update no 1 to the situation:
It all started when i was taking pictures of the clouds. Camera app froze. So naturally i closed camera app and opened it again. Same happened. Shutter button was frozen. And the mini gallery button was unresponsive. Then i restarted the phone. It took ages. I noticed the blue notification led was on for a long time and restart itself took ages. The phone sit there for about 10 min with that blue light. I thought it was dead. It didnt respond to any button combinations, like power press or power long press. Even recovery combination didnt respond. And later on it booted.
Update 2. Now i performed media rescan. I see thumnails but then i press pocture it shows grey screen and same sort symbol of corrupted media file. I took some new pictures of my gf. Looked at them later on. Tried to send them through the mail to gf. She never received no email even though it was said "email was sent" on screen. After a while they was gone. Gone like never existed...
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Same thing was happening on my S6. Nearly all photos after every rom reflash were corrupted. And they didn't even work on other devices like computer etc. I haven't ever fixed that.
All You can do is download a app that does file recovery. It will scan Your phone for like 5 minutes and then show You all files. Eventually all those pictures will be back but with poor quality. They look like android has cached them or something. They are usually 100-300kb and have weird names with just numbers.
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So even after flashing new roms the same happened? I believe it must be faulty memory unit then. That is really sad. I never expected to buy phone for 820 euros and get this piecie of s***...
What happens when you select one of those photos? Do they display?.......
If so, then possibly your thumbnail cache is corrupt.
Try looking in both internal and external SD cards within the DCIM and Camera folders and remove any thumbnail folders, and also look within the Android folder on the root of both cards for your gallery app, and see if there are thumbnail or cache folders within there.
Its also worth trying to delete cache+data for your gallery app. If you remove anything, reboot before opening your app.
If they do not open on selecting, if you have a USB micro sd card reader, then try copying your external SD card contents to PC, format external SD card (via the phone, and not via windows) and copy back
Another thing to try is to clear cache+data for Media Storage.
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So even after flashing new roms the same happened? I believe it must be faulty memory unit then. That is really sad. I never expected to buy phone for 820 euros and get this piecie of s***...
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I think my leftovers were in some data folder or one of the folders in the root directory ( / ). But other than that I guess it has to be a faulty unit. Cause now my S7 Edge doesn't do that anymore.
But don't worry, faulty units are really COMMON. I've had quite many phones with different issues. Some of them had broken USB port, some used to restart every hour or two. But don't think that only Android phones have those issues. My IPhone 6 also had a broken call speaker. And yeah. You have to be REALLY LUCKY to get a device that isn't faulty nowadays.
And if You still have warranty then get a replacement.
Or just try doing a factory reset and maybe it will disappear.
My SD820 S7edge was doing the same thing. I was losing pictures regularly, but only while saving them to the SD card (Sandisk 64 gig). I've been saving them to the internal memory, have had no problems since.
Hello guys. Thanks you all for responds and suggestions. I probably find out what it is. It should be sd cars. I bought lexar 633x 64gb and PLEASE PEOPLE DONT BUY THEM. They appear to change their write permission on the instance without of any luck of going backwards. My explanation for disappearing photos from internal memory sounds like that:
As I explained how it happened for the first time, I used external memory at that instance. Camera app crashed. So I bet Some of the photos was ruined by Android itself because it wasn't able to write into card.
Right now I made full reset through recovery menu. Hopefully my photos won't disappear any more. In a mean time I won't be using any external memory just to clarify that my unit is not faulty. I don't wanna loose the feelings of appreciation for the samsung. You see, before s7 Edge I used note 2 bought back in London. It was brand new and I used it up until 24th of June of 2016. Battery was and still is perfect. I had marvelously enjoyed many different roms and everything I was able achieve with it. I wouldn't bought new one, but camera in the note was desent and it was probably this single reason as I am working as a video maker and hobbyist photographer...
Thank you all again. I will post here if anything comes up.
Glad you've got it sorted, that's why I asked what make the sd card was in my first reply, I had the same problem with a cheap card I brought, now I only by sandisk and only from genuine resellers, plus my photos are backed up to the cloud immediately after I've taken them.
Pete