[Q] Strange issues - XDA App, SD Card... - Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Good day all!
I am hoping you guys might have some ideas on these two issues.
First, after install, I can use the XDA App. As soon as I reboot, the app is gone -- this seems to happen with several apps, usually games, but the XDA App is always disappearing. Maybe VZW and Samsung don't want me to run it?
Second, I have a brand new 64GB SD card in my phone. It says it was manufactured by Samsung, but I seem to keep having it lose pictures, videos, etc - they are replaced by a broken image icon and can't be viewed or played. Could the card be damaged? Could it be illegitimate and is there a way to find out the actual manufacturer? Can I use CHKDSK on an SD card - maybe there are just bad sectors?
Any thoughts are appreciated!
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Help! My picz and vidz go poof!

I was messing around with qik app trying to enable live streaming and now all my pictures and videos are gone. When I say all I mean all! Is there anything I can do about it... I've been up all night due to some very important top secret stuff I need back in my possession.
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have you checked qik?
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Yea... There not on my sd card at all. Nor on the qik site. Is there a way I can recover them...
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thats a negative, if they are not on your sd card where they suppose to be, then they definitely lost for ever... sorry bud.
dont give up so quickly... before you do anything to your sd card, download "pandora recovery" its free and i have used it to successfully restore deleted items from usb/sd memory
@dr154.... Your losing the theory of having a droid... "In a world that doesn't... DROID DOES!" downloaded diskdigger 0.8. I was able to recover 89.9% of my pictures and videos. Better than "sorry bud"
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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

Help with picture storage taken with stock camera.apk.....

I am having issues with storing my pics on external sd card, i want to limit usage on my phone. I am using the stock camera app to take pics and defaulting to save them on the external sd card. The problem i have encountered twice already is that when i go to view them on the stock gallery my pics show up double, very strange, so i end up deleting the duplicates. Has anyone experienced this issue?
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Haaaa .. yes .... same here..
I am always deleting duplicates every week or so.
Just when you think it all good...BAM... another bunch of duplicates.
crazy.
And i enddd up deleting some i wanted to keep by mistake and its driving me crazy.
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soooooo forgot about the sdcard issue

Its been so long aince my N3 was rooted I totally forgot about the sdcard write issue with KitKrap.
So frustraring
sudermatt said:
Its been so long aince my N3 was rooted I totally forgot about the sdcard write issue with KitKrap.
So frustraring
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I'm giving you Thanks because I found your thread of utmost quality, also please go hashtag #KitKrap , Google needs to feel our hate.
I literally just moved all my files to internal, and threw my new 128 sd in the drawer since apparently I'm not allowed to have an sdcard anymore.. KitKrap
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For now (till we get root) use the "My Files" built in app if you need to write to the SD card. It's about the only app that seems to work consistently.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=56381787
Tmobile sd write fix works…
Here's link to zip
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=55989825
BUT, must be a dev rooted note4 to flash, sorry if you're not…
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Considering this is VZW thread, I think you probably already know the answer to that
.........
sudermatt said:
Its been so long aince my N3 was rooted I totally forgot about the sdcard write issue with KitKrap.
So frustraring
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Whats the issue? Haven't had an issue with my 128GB sd card. Please advise
mjlewis0102 said:
Whats the issue? Haven't had an issue with my 128GB sd card. Please advise
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have you tried DOING anything with your 128 card? some of the stock apps will play nice, but even deleting a picture will give you a "sorry KitKrap doesn't allow sd card access". when I finish a video and go to delete it "sorry KitKrap doesn't allow it", when I use Google Drive and move a doc over to another folder or file "sorry KitKrap; nope!".. I've always been extremely well organized, and I've put a lot of time into organizing my SD card with any files or folders I'll need or use for work, and KitKrap won't allow any of it.. it's actually the exact same thing as when the "LOCK" switch is switched when you plug a standard SD card into a computer, except you can never turn it off.
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no problem deleting anything from my SD card
I don't have any issues deleting pictures or videos from my SD card via the phone.
use the stock samsung file browser and you can delete and modify stuff. other apps don't work.
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jayochs said:
use the stock samsung file browser and you can delete and modify stuff. other apps don't work.
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Actually i discovered that the stock photo browser app only hides images, doesn't delete them. It may just be me, but after taking a string of shots of my daughter and trying to delete all but one, the gallery app said they were deleted, but when i plugged my phone into my computer they were all on the sdcard. Curious if others have the same issue?
Gonna be fixed in Lollipop. Long live sdcards!
soraxd said:
have you tried DOING anything with your 128 card? some of the stock apps will play nice, but even deleting a picture will give you a "sorry KitKrap doesn't allow sd card access". when I finish a video and go to delete it "sorry KitKrap doesn't allow it", when I use Google Drive and move a doc over to another folder or file "sorry KitKrap; nope!".. I've always been extremely well organized, and I've put a lot of time into organizing my SD card with any files or folders I'll need or use for work, and KitKrap won't allow any of it.. it's actually the exact same thing as when the "LOCK" switch is switched when you plug a standard SD card into a computer, except you can never turn it off.
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Mostly I have all my pictures saved to it. I also transfer movies and tv shows to it on a daily basis. (Download a tv show to my laptop and transfer it to sd card via usb) On average, I have about 5GBs of free space left on my card.
Only ran into an issue once. I tried to delete a folder (season 5 of the show"24") and it claims that the card was "Write Protected" So I went into the folder and deleted the episodes . Folder still remains but its empty. Other than that its been working fine.
BTW I'm using the SanDisk Ultra 128 GB micro SD
snagg641 said:
Actually i discovered that the stock photo browser app only hides images, doesn't delete them. It may just be me, but after taking a string of shots of my daughter and trying to delete all but one, the gallery app said they were deleted, but when i plugged my phone into my computer they were all on the sdcard. Curious if others have the same issue?
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I noticed the stock apps dont refresh and also keep a massive cache. I moved a pic folder and it remained in the stock pic app as cache, including full sized images. when I moved my music folder it did the exact same thing.. there's no refresh option. I cleared data and cache from the app, but it must be using some other means to cache, because nothing is actually better afterwards.
mjs2011 said:
Gonna be fixed in Lollipop. Long live sdcards!
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Only problem for Verizon users anyways is having to wait until June/July 2015. . . Really wish Verizon didn't drag their butt on this stuff.
mjs2011 said:
Gonna be fixed in Lollipop. Long live sdcards!
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Assuming Android team leaves the option intact for the public release. Notice still no sd slot on the Nexus devices in spite of card writes "apparently" being part of the framework now Never doubt Android's hatred for sd cards. Were it not for Apple buyers scarfing up almost all the flash supply allocations for the iPhone launch, the G1 would have had 2GB of flash and no sd slot.
We can truly thank Apple for why Android devices have sd slots in the first place. :victory:
I have no issues with my 32gb SD card...perhaps its "operator error?" Idk..good luck solving it tho
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shpotik said:
I have no issues with my 32gb SD card...perhaps its "operator error?" Idk..good luck solving it tho
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The issue is non stock apps can't write to the card. Of course you will have no issues if use no apps that need to.
More an issue here of "information error".
rushless said:
The issue is non stock apps can't write to the card. Of course you will have no issues if use no apps that need to.
More an issue here of "information error".
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Oh... I never cared about writing apps to SD card, 22gb+ of free storage is plenty for my apps, everything else is on my SD card..
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shpotik said:
I have no issues with my 32gb SD card...perhaps its "operator error?" Idk..good luck solving it tho
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You don't understand the issue. Kitkat took away the app's ability to write/delete any where on the SD card, it only allows full access to the app's own folder on the SD card. I.E. sandboxing it. Apps are still able to read the whole SD card though.
rushless said:
The issue is non stock apps can't write to the card. Of course you will have no issues if use no apps that need to.
More an issue here of "information error".
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You mean like this?
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