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Ok, I know I heard / read some information regarding users having wallpapers dissapear after the OTA update, however I thought I wasn't a victim, perhaps I was.
However, I have lost 1,000+ images (mostly a large group of wallpapers I had downloaded and hardly looked through) off of my SD card. In addition to wallpapers random pictures are missing that I had taken with my phone.
Mostly curious if anyone had similar experiences? If so, did you deduce they were OTA related, or a specific app? I really don't want this to happen again, so I am looking for any information to help solve this
I am running stock EVO not rooted, for what that is worth.
Thanks in advance!
Update - Apparently all my MP3s have gone missing off my SD card as well
lc3necro said:
Update - Apparently all my MP3s have gone missing off my SD card as well
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Woww, this just started happening to me. I have not updated my EVO yet.
Is there a way to trace down what the devices does, like a log where it shows activities between the device and the SD Card.
Just curious if you're using the micro SD card that came with the EVO or a newly purchased one, if so please mention card.
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Just curious if you're using the micro SD card that came with the EVO or a newly purchased one, if so please mention card.
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I was using the one it came with, as a matter fact, I went to Newegg and purchased a new one 16GB Class 6. I already lost a lot of important pictures. I dont want to take more chances.
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I was using the one it came with, as a matter fact, I went to Newegg and purchased a new one 16GB Class 6. I already lost a lot of important pictures. I dont want to take more chances.
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Let's hope it's as simple as that, let us know.
Somewhat surprised people are still reporting this issue..
SMARTPHONEPC said:
Let's hope it's as simple as that, let us know.
Somewhat surprised people are still reporting this issue..
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Mine is full rooted, not updated so far, with a A-DATA 16 GB Class 6 microSDHC Flash Memory Card and yesterday i lost the whole 100MEDIA directory so.....it seems to be a Evo issue
Could it be an internal issue in the Device? I dont think this has to do with the ROM/Update the device is running.
We need to escalate this as a crucial issue.
I am running [ROM]EVO-NonSense(AOSP Elements), rooted using Toast Method 2, Amon RA, with Calkulin Radio+WiMAX updates.
We should stay on top of this, I'd rather not have WTF moments or develop compulsions to constantly back up all files in some paranoid fashion..
I am using the stock SD card that came with my EVO, thankfully I was able to user some forensic programs and recover most of my images. I did narrow down the time frame of the deletions, however I was unable to determine If I had added any new apps to cause this issue.
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Makes me feel good that I did a SD card backup to my laptop today!
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I am using the stock SD card that came with my EVO, thankfully I was able to user some forensic programs and recover most of my images. I did narrow down the time frame of the deletions, however I was unable to determine If I had added any new apps to cause this issue.
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What appl did you use?
I used Access Data FTK Imager and made an image of my SD card then from the image recovered what I could of deleted files, and pushed them back onto the SD card when finished.
Link - FTK Imager about half way down the page.
I have just moved from the Galaxy S2 across to the brand new S4, and so far it seems great. A really beautiful phone and generally pretty happy.
BUT.....
When I was using the S2, it was a snap to move apps and files across from the phone storage to the SD Card storage. Well, I am stumped as to how to do this with the S4!!!?? It doesn't seem rational to me to have a phone that will allow you to expand the storage with an SD Card, but then not allow you to actually move anything across. That's like Woolworths giving you a shopping trolley and then not allow you to put anything in the trolley?? That is nuts.. So it must be me...
Could anyone out there please give me a heads up on how to move apps across to the SD Card? I only have 16 gig in phone storage and that is getting eaten up real quick with apps and bloatware, so I really need to be able to use the 32 gig SD card I have installed.
Thanks in advance...
rosse912003 said:
I have just moved from the Galaxy S2 across to the brand new S4, and so far it seems great. A really beautiful phone and generally pretty happy.
BUT.....
When I was using the S2, it was a snap to move apps and files across from the phone storage to the SD Card storage. Well, I am stumped as to how to do this with the S4!!!?? It doesn't seem rational to me to have a phone that will allow you to expand the storage with an SD Card, but then not allow you to actually move anything across. That's like Woolworths giving you a shopping trolley and then not allow you to put anything in the trolley?? That is nuts.. So it must be me...
Could anyone out there please give me a heads up on how to move apps across to the SD Card? I only have 16 gig in phone storage and that is getting eaten up real quick with apps and bloatware, so I really need to be able to use the 32 gig SD card I have installed.
Thanks in advance...
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The option was removed since Jelly Bean unfortunately.
That's exactly the reason why I don't understand their choice of releasing a 16GB version (of which only 9GB remain usable).
I bought the 32GB S3 for this reason, and I'm waiting for the 32GB version of the S4 as well, if they ever decide to release it.
If you root your device, there are still options like DirectoryBind, but they aren't perfect, and I think we shouldn't have to mess with stuff like that on a flagship device.
Directorybind is broken at the moment. The app foldermount however is very close to fixing this issue.
The developer is working very hard on getting it fixen and is almost there (he's using my phone for debugging)
It seems that samsung has fuzzled it up themself. Not Google.
If you are rooted there still ain't no way to move files to the external sdcard. But it won't be long till that's fixen and that's the good news!
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The option was removed since Jelly Bean unfortunately.
That's exactly the reason why I don't understand their choice of releasing a 16GB version (of which only 9GB remain usable).
I bought the 32GB S3 for this reason, and I'm waiting for the 32GB version of the S4 as well, if they ever decide to release it.
If you root your device, there are still options like DirectoryBind, but they aren't perfect, and I think we shouldn't have to mess with stuff like that on a flagship device.
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Thanks for that info. I didn't think it was a Jelly Bean issue because the S2 received the JB upgrade and it was still able to transfer to the ext SD card. But obviously it is different for the recent phones. But I don't get it?? Why make a phone that can expand storage through an ext SD Card and then restrict the transfer of apps to that storage?? Is it me or is that a little crazy??
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Directorybind is broken at the moment. The app foldermount however is very close to fixing this issue.
The developer is working very hard on getting it fixen and is almost there (he's using my phone for debugging)
It seems that samsung has fuzzled it up themself. Not Google.
If you are rooted there still ain't no way to move files to the external sdcard. But it won't be long till that's fixen and that's the good news!
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Great news!! Hopefully these trail blazers will have good luck in their coding.
rosse912003 said:
Thanks for that info. I didn't think it was a Jelly Bean issue because the S2 received the JB upgrade and it was still able to transfer to the ext SD card. But obviously it is different for the recent phones. But I don't get it?? Why make a phone that can expand storage through an ext SD Card and then restrict the transfer of apps to that storage?? Is it me or is that a little crazy??
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No problem.
I don't get it either.
The microSD slot is great, but advertising it as a replacement of the internal memory is wrong (so many people seem to think they can have a 80GB phone if they add the microSD to their 16GB phone, but don't know the limitations).
32GB should be the minimum internal memory for a 2013 flagship device.
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No problem.
I don't get it either.
The microSD slot is great, but advertising it as a replacement of the internal memory is wrong (so many people seem to think they can have a 80GB phone if they add the microSD to their 16GB phone, but don't know the limitations).
32GB should be the minimum internal memory for a 2013 flagship device.
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Guess what?? I am one of those people!!! After knowing about the restrictions, I feel a little cheated and agree 100% with you that 32 gig is the entry level storage considering all the bloatware Sammy has included.
rosse912003 said:
Guess what?? I am one of those people!!! After knowing about the restrictions, I feel a little cheated and agree 100% with you that 32 gig is the entry level storage considering all the bloatware Sammy has included.
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Indeed, I can understand that you'd feel cheated
Hopefully they release the 32GB soon and maybe you can replace yours with the 32GB version.
I'm using Android Tuner Free to move big apps (eg games like Deadspace ) across to the SD card. Free app, go into App Mgr, select the app you want to move, click the manage button, choose the move button, select SD-Link. It's working fine for me so far...
The foldermount app should work now on the galaxy s4! Go to his xda topic where you can get the latest version! Yay
You also have to reinstall apps if you want to update them, since the app will not be scripted to support the bind when installing.
Mykew said:
I'm using Android Tuner Free to move big apps (eg games like Deadspace ) across to the SD card. Free app, go into App Mgr, select the app you want to move, click the manage button, choose the move button, select SD-Link. It's working fine for me so far...
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I don't get a move button when I try ... do I need to do something up front?
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that s great but is there a way to exchange the whole sdcard into the extsdcard ??? not just mounting specific folders
Hello all I am newb, I just came over from IOS in the last 30 days. I have a few questions to the new system. First I want the new update where you can save apps to memory card(I saw it on you tube) The guy was also saying that there is way to do it with out rooting. The reason I can not root is I got the protection plan at best buy and don't want to F that up.
Another question is,is there a way to play the my music threw my usb to my pioneer head unit. I keep getting the incompatible usb. I have a galaxy s4 threw at&t. Thanks all.
No one can help me?
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Firstly, you can't flash official UK firmware on your phone. Uk is i9505 and you have i337.
Secondly, don't worry about app to SD. It only moves APK files so is pointless, the large data files stay on internal storage.
Thirdly, even if you root you can always go back to stock for warranty purposes. (I've done it many times)
And last but not least, and probably the most important....USE SEARCH BUTTON OR GOOGLE!
Have a nice day
Thanks. I new someone would throw in the Google comment. Thanks again I am so new to android that I had no clue. This sucks that I can't throw spots on sd card due to the device only having 9 gigs of free space left. Does any one have a solution for sound via the usb on my pioneer had unit. I know I can use blue tooth but it sounded so much better when I hard wired my iphone to the unit.
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Hi everyone just got my note 3 two weeks ago and I bought a 32gb sd card
Suddenly today every time I would lock the phone and when I would unlock it,it would take about 3 seconds for the lock screen to appear and I would always get the message "sd card removed"
Is there any fix to this yet?
I used the app wake lock in partial lock mode and that seemed to work but I don't like the fact that the cpu keeps running
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Bump
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Take out and reinsert the card...most likely card problem. Or you could have also bought one of the fake sd cards floating around on ebay.
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I tried that and it did not work, I tried a different sd card and it worked fine
Also it reads well on a pc so I don't understand
I did not buy the sd card from eBay ..I got it from best buy, it's a lexar high speed 32gb micro sd hc class 10 card
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Samsung phones seem to hate a lot of SD Cards, There is threads and threads of people posting about memory card issues. Seems you have a card that Samsung doesn't like working with.
Even people who have Samsung sd cards have this issue
It's really disappointing cause I take a lot of pictures and was hoping for the extra space. Guess the 32 gb the device has should be enough
Unless anyone else has any advice
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Even people who have Samsung sd cards have this issue
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I know, I have one also, get the odd bootloop now and again.
Is there anything I can do so I can start using my sd card , don't feel like buying another one
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Ttt
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young_makaveli said:
Is there anything I can do so I can start using my sd card , don't feel like buying another one
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Reformat it and use a different file system, If not then it's an incompatible issue which cannot be sorted afaik :\
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Reformat it and use a different file system, If not then it's an incompatible issue which cannot be sorted afaik :\
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Sorry I'm not so tech say but how do I format to a different file system?
I think right now it's fat32
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young_makaveli said:
Sorry I'm not so tech say but how do I format to a different file system?
I think right now it's fat32
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Either format it via the menu on the phone, Or plug into the SD Adaptor (should have got one with the card?) - connect to PC and choose it on My PC option, right click choose format and pick file system,
Ok I switched it from fat32 to exfat
Seems to be working for now, I'll keep my fingers crossed
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Ok I switched it from fat32 to exfat
Seems to be working for now, I'll keep my fingers crossed
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Cool, glad you got sorted
Problem came back again today..any fix yet
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Hmm that's interesting. .
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Thank god for my Dropbox account I still have my pictures
For now I won't be using my sd card til someone can find a permanent fix
Really sad cause that's the only bummer with this device
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We had same thing on mine and my wife's Galaxy S3, we would start getting messages about card being removed unexpectedly few times and then we had both cards (different size and maker) dead within one day. One card I was able to reformat the other one nothing can recognize. I strongly suspect it's Samsung fault, we used both cards in Nokia's for 2 yrs without one error. Do a search and you will see many posts on this subject with different cards. Was kind of hoping Note 3 won't have this issue. Also, I never had another card fail in many yrs of using different digital cams and other devices. My solution is simple: I save pics and video to internal memory, when that gets crowded I do full back up to external HDD and then transfer to SD card to have it for show. All music and movies are on external SD, but are fully backed up as well. In other words I expect SD card to fail at any time, but all it's fine so far, I think our GS3's took about 9-10 months to fail the cards.
Check LOST.DIR, if there is anything there you already lost some files and the card begins to be corrupted and it only will get worse.
The main trick here is to always have a backup, so nothing important is lost forever and frankly that's a good idea with any data and any device.
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We had same thing on mine and my wife's Galaxy S3, we would start getting messages about card being removed unexpectedly few times and then we had both cards (different size and maker) dead within one day. One card I was able to reformat the other one nothing can recognize. I strongly suspect it's Samsung fault, we used both cards in Nokia's for 2 yrs without one error. Do a search and you will see many posts on this subject with different cards. Was kind of hoping Note 3 won't have this issue. Also, I never had another card fail in many yrs of using different digital cams and other devices. My solution is simple: I save pics and video to internal memory, when that gets crowded I do full back up to external HDD and then transfer to SD card to have it for show. All music and movies are on external SD, but are fully backed up as well. In other words I expect SD card to fail at any time, but all it's fine so far, I think our GS3's took about 9-10 months to fail the cards.
Check LOST.DIR, if there is anything there you already lost some files and the card begins to be corrupted and it only will get worse.
The main trick here is to always have a backup, so nothing important is lost forever and frankly that's a good idea with any data and any device.
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Yeah I think that's what I'll do also
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How did you fix this problem? I am having the same issues.
I recently went from stock 4.3 to the rooted NC2 4.4 leak. I am now experiencing sd card problems. I watch several TV shows and movies on my phone.
Here's what I don't understand...
Rebooting my phone messes up the sd card. If I reboot my phone the videos I have downloaded disappear. Also, I delete videos using es file explorer or root explorer. After I reboot the phone they are back on the card. I have removed the card from my phone and connected it to my Mac. I can view the files but it will not allow me to delete them.
Do I need to reformat my whole card? Did the Kitkat upgrade somehow mess it up? I have a San disk 64gb card.
Thanks for your help..
The first thing I would do is reformat the sd card and see how it acts then.
Yeah makes sense. Will try tonight thanks.
I have actually noticed this myself, but not sure if due to reboot. I think mine is more due to switching custom rom builds. I will notice after an install of a new custom build, I will see a few pics in my album are corrupted. Not sure what causes this for certain, but if anyone has any suggestions, that would be great. Not really sure a reformat would solve this, but It cant hurt I guess.
On a side thought, I wonder if the brand and capabilities of each card have any affect?
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I have actually noticed this myself, but not sure if due to reboot. I think mine is more due to switching custom rom builds. I will notice after an install of a new custom build, I will see a few pics in my album are corrupted. Not sure what causes this for certain, but if anyone has any suggestions, that would be great. Not really sure a reformat would solve this, but It cant hurt I guess.
On a side thought, I wonder if the brand and capabilities of each card have any affect?
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I'm constantly switching and installing different ROMs and have never had this happen.
I can't even reformat the card! Tried on my mac, note 3, and an old android phone. Says card damaged. Looks like I'll have to get a new one. For the new card should I use exfat or fat32? Not sure if one is better with Kitkat.
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I can't even reformat the card! Tried on my mac, note 3, and an old android phone. Says card damaged. Looks like I'll have to get a new one. For the new card should I use exfat or fat32? Not sure if one is better with Kitkat.
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I figured it was probably your card. Unfortunately I'm not sure which one is better for KK.
Of course, now I'm curious to know what damaged my card. Don't want this to happen again. Could the Kitkat upgrade somehow have caused the damage?
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You don't need a new card.
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Go to Panasonic website and download their SD formatter. It will work I had the same issue.
Edit: just to add also I was experiencing pretty bad home button wake up lag when I was using a cheap 64gb SD... Long story short switched to Samsung class10 64gb SD and haven't had a bit of lag since
Wow that's good to know! I will give it a try thanks.
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Did you reboot in safe mode without the card in the phone, turn off media scanning and then turn the phone off, put the card in and reboot? Worked for me...
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I have not tried that. How do I boot into safe mode?
Not sure, just google it. Look at my other post thread for a deeper description of resolution to the issue: "Solved - Bootloop caused by memory card"
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