I've got hold of a new MicroSD card, class 2 16Gb.
I've got about 6Gb of music which I want to copy across but I am having huge problems.
Firstly I tried using Windows Media Player sync function - but it only works for about 20 tracks and then stalls.
Copying the files directly using 'Disk' or 'ActiveSync' settings - look like everything is OK, but when I look at some of the contents of the folders they have wierd/scrambled names.
What is really puzzling me, is that I have both quick, and full, formatted the SD Card and the same folders are always messed up. I have tried every combination of copy method I can think of!!! The files are fine on my PC.
Copying the backup of the contents of my old SD Card onto the new one works fine.
Anyone else had this? Is it my SDCard that is screwed? Please Help!!!
no it's active sync and media player that are screwy. for best results put the card in a card reader on your pc, or if not available when connecting the phone to pc choose disk drive mode and copy it that way.
I'd say you got a faulty / "fake" card.
I have two 16gb micro SD's and I've found a similar situation in both cards.
When I'm in usb data mode (either in Android or WM) files will NOT copy onto the SD card. It will show the file icon but there is no data there.
eg. I copy a song onto the memory card, I see the song name + icon on the card. Disconnect USB mode, and go to play the song... it's not there. The phone can't read it.
At the moment I've resorted to sticking my memory card into my N95 and copying data that way... so sad lol.
Any Suggestions/Ideas?
It could be that the data is not actually being written before you dismount. Make sure to properly stop the USB device. Its happend to me before. Sorry couldn't be of more help.
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I had some similar problems, I ended up using micro sd in laptop to copy some files over. Or, I rebooted phone after sync and they were there.
Whenever I want to put some audio file like mp3 into my memory card and return back to my device, i can't find any of it in the memory card.
I tried unmounted the SD Card and mount back also cannot solve it.
It just won't show up in explorer and music application. So i plug it back to the PC and found that all the songs are gone from the memory card
Anyone mind to help? Thanks.
Hey,
try this procedure:
1. go into harddrive mode to move your files on your device
2. When done with transfer, go to your win (pc) task bar and unmount android device safely (not unplug the cable, only chose the option)
3. On your device change mode from harddrive to load only. Wait a few seconds until sd card is mounted again. then unplug cable and you should be ready...
this at least helped me...
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ricola7 said:
Hey,
try this procedure:
1. go into harddrive mode to move your files on your device
2. When done with transfer, go to your win (pc) task bar and unmount android device safely (not unplug the cable, only chose the option)
3. On your device change mode from harddrive to load only. Wait a few seconds until sd card is mounted again. then unplug cable and you should be ready...
this at least helped me...
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I tried your method but no success.....
I am sure I have removed the device safely in PC, change mode to charge only and wait until SD card finishes remount
Problem solved using Droid Explorer to transfer files and then let SD card prepare itself
What I have always done is put all the Music into "Music" folder on the SD card and the albums in folders within the Music folder. I know it sounds simple but if you are putting audio directly on the SD card, then it might dismiss the audio files as not needed for Android.
Also make sure your SD card has had a full format before putting the Music onto your card. Make sure to backup your data first of course. Then once formatted and files have been transferred to your SD card, go to computer and right click and eject to make sure it is safe to remove. This is what I always do and I have never had any problems.
pspknightx said:
Whenever I want to put some audio file like mp3 into my memory card and return back to my device, i can't find any of it in the memory card.
I tried unmounted the SD Card and mount back also cannot solve it.
It just won't show up in explorer and music application. So i plug it back to the PC and found that all the songs are gone from the memory card
Anyone mind to help? Thanks.
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why are you making this so complicated? if you're having issues why not boot into windows, sync your phone with the pc, transfer all the mp3's you want into a music folder in your sd card, boot back into android and they'll be there.
I have bought a 16GB SD card for my Xperia X8, as is the maximum which it supports, by what SE says.
Since yesterday I am experiencing some crazyness transfering my MP3 files to it.
First I transfered about 6GB of MP3 files to it. Windows shows the file on the SD Card, when I unplug the USB, it recognizes only 2GB of files there, File Explorer and Music Player only shows these 2gb of files (from letter A to H, for example).
Plugged into a Macbook of a friend, it really shows until this H folder. OK, maybe some transfer failure. Second time, transfered from another PC, same issue.
At the third time, I transferred the files from a Linux machine. After almost an hour copying, I unplugged the phone, and the folder was TOTALLY EMPTY. 0 files, nothing transfered. Just created the folder without nothing on it. Music Player shows 0 files, File Explorer shows 0 files... Then I plugged into the PC again... and the folder was empty!
I am using MiniCM. Is there any issue related to this ROM about SD Cards? I don`t have any other device to test.
vjun said:
I have bought a 16GB SD card for my Xperia X8, as is the maximum which it supports, by what SE says.
Since yesterday I am experiencing some crazyness transfering my MP3 files to it.
First I transfered about 6GB of MP3 files to it. Windows shows the file on the SD Card, when I unplug the USB, it recognizes only 2GB of files there, File Explorer and Music Player only shows these 2gb of files (from letter A to H, for example).
Plugged into a Macbook of a friend, it really shows until this H folder. OK, maybe some transfer failure. Second time, transfered from another PC, same issue.
At the third time, I transferred the files from a Linux machine. After almost an hour copying, I unplugged the phone, and the folder was TOTALLY EMPTY. 0 files, nothing transfered. Just created the folder without nothing on it. Music Player shows 0 files, File Explorer shows 0 files... Then I plugged into the PC again... and the folder was empty!
I am using MiniCM. Is there any issue related to this ROM about SD Cards? I don`t have any other device to test.
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When you finish transferring files, make sure you eject the memory card on your PC before you disconect your USB from phone, this can cause problems on custom roms if you don't eject drive on computer first. Happened to me a few times.
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furrabbit.nh said:
When you finish transferring files, make sure you eject the memory card on your PC before you disconect your USB from phone, this can cause problems on custom roms if you don't eject drive on computer first. Happened to me a few times.
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I am always ejecting.
Tried to transfer now from the Macbook. Same stuff, transfered everything, when the phone mounts the SD card, it "deletes" the rest, keeping only the first 1.79gb, alphabetically.
Try that put your sd into cardreader, and copy files, than put back into the mobile. If it works, the card is ok. If it isn't, format the sd card.
Best regards
vjun said:
I am always ejecting.
Tried to transfer now from the Macbook. Same stuff, transfered everything, when the phone mounts the SD card, it "deletes" the rest, keeping only the first 1.79gb, alphabetically.
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Strange indeed, I'm using 16gb sandisk SD and only get problems like this if I don't eject device before I remove USB cable.. Have you tried putting the files on using a card reader and then putting it back into your phone?
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b.pet93 said:
Try that put your sd into cardreader, and copy files, than put back into the mobile. If it works, the card is ok. If it isn't, format the sd card.
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Sorry didn't see your post before I posted. Said pretty much same thing.
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furrabbit.nh said:
Strange indeed, I'm using 16gb sandisk SD and only get problems like this if I don't eject device before I remove USB cable.. Have you tried putting the files on using a card reader and then putting it back into your phone?
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Well, I don't have a microSD card reader. I'm transferring to my brother's Samsung I6220 (surprisingly, much more faster on file transfer than Xperia, even having a lower hardware and the weird system). Will update this post when done, after putting the card back on my X8.
Updating: Used the same card on a Samsung I6220. Transferred the same music files, 5GB total. All files recognized on Samsung phone.
When put the card again on X8, almost everything was deleted, only 1GB of files there.
vjun said:
Updating: Used the same card on a Samsung I6220. Transferred the same music files, 5GB total. All files recognized on Samsung phone.
When put the card again on X8, almost everything was deleted, only 1GB of files there.
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Then it should be the ROM. Have you tried a Factory Reset?
After copying everything again to the Samsung, the same issue. Seems like the problem is the card. Everything beyond 2GB is deleted.
Thanks for your help, guys. Thread closed.
...well, 1 time I connect my phone to my pc,
then for some reason I dissconnect it and download a file on sd card... I connect it again 3-4 times but I couldnt see the file (hidden files were displayed). Back in my phone the file was there.
Sd card 2GB, ext3 partition for link2sd
I dont know that is going on...
Thats strange,that happend 2 me twice,some files doesnt exist on the mobile anymore (of course I ejected)
So I bought the S7 edge popped in my SD card and encrypted It. The card was giving me some issues so I backed up my files on my Pc formated the SD card and reloaded the files (MP3s) now when I go to play many of the songs they don't play and just say "sorry unable to play file type" it's odd because about half of the songs do work any ideas for fixing this I have a quite a large music collection and it would be quite pain staking to have to download these one by one again
Would encrypting them and decrypting them help?
Really none of the brilliant minds here at Xda have any idea?
Did you copy the files off with the SD in a pc reader or via mtp from the phone? I would guess the the base encryption key data is different since you reformatted the card, it would make sense to me because otherwise there would be no point to supporting SD encryption.
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Did you copy the files off with the SD in a pc reader or via mtp from the phone? I would guess the the base encryption key data is different since you reformatted the card, it would make sense to me because otherwise there would be no point to supporting SD encryption.
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SD in a pc reader. Is there anyway for it to read the files again?
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SD in a pc reader. Is there anyway for it to read the files again?
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If Google did their work well, not likely.
I don't know the details but the only consumer hope would be with the card inserted in the device that formatted it as theoretically the encryption of the SD card should be done with private key data that is tied to the device it was formatted within (in addition to whatever private data you provided such as a PIN). Otherwise it would be too easy to just move the card to another device to decrypt the data.
I've seen some references to the Android SD card encryption *not* necessarily encrypting media files (music, movies, pictures?) so it's possible those files were not at all encrypted - which is substantiated by the fact that you can play SOME of them.
It may be that the files that don't play are, unfortunately, simply, corrupted data and not encrypted at all. ;^(
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So I bought the S7 edge popped in my SD card and encrypted It. The card was giving me some issues so I backed up my files on my Pc formated the SD card and reloaded the files (MP3s) now when I go to play many of the songs they don't play and just say "sorry unable to play file type" it's odd because about half of the songs do work any ideas for fixing this I have a quite a large music collection and it would be quite pain staking to have to download these one by one again
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I had the exact problem, it seems to be some issue with a lot of S7's from from my research online. After almost giving up after a few weeks I finally did find a fix which hopefully will work for you and anyone else who has encountered/ will encounter this problem. Here are the steps I took:
1. After the sd card became unresponsive on my phone after encryption, I transferred all my files from the sd card to my PC. I had to do this via the sd card slot on my laptop as the card was not being recognized when connected via the phone.
2. I then formatted the sd card on my PC. For those not familiar with the process just right click on the card in "my computer" and select format then quick format.
3. I then reinserted the card into the phone to make sure it was recognized, then removed it again, inserted it into the PC and transferred all the files back over.
4. I went into my phone under security settings and changed lock screen security to "none" while leaving fingerprint on.
5. I put the sd card back into the phone with the files. They won't be accessible as yet since they're encrypted but the next step is to go ahead and encrypt the sd card. Wait however long you have to, for me it took less than a min. After this go back and decrypt the sd card, let that process run through then the files should now be decrypted and accessible. If the sd card goes unresponsive again just try again by formatting the sd card and putting the files back, this time maybe a few files at a time.
If this method works for you I would suggest backing up your data frequently and staying away from encrypting the sd card at least until samsung/android release a fix for this issue.