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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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Has anybody got luck with Street Fighter IV HD ?

Well as the title says and you can imagine, i didn´t have too much luck.
First time i´ve installed the game, when starts i have to wait long hours to download the data, once it was finished, started to play buuuuut.... i just could play A MINUTE before crash.... and the background in the menu and in the game was white
I´ve been able to find the data files (1.23gb) somewhere, put the folder in sd card, and nothing, when start the game automatically goes to the download bar
So i wanted to know, wich was your experience, did you have luck ?? all worked fine ??? and in the case it worked for you, what did you do ??? (could facilitate me the data files ? )
I must say the data files i´ve downloaded could be for smartphones maybe, i know....
Any help would be really appreciated
Live long and prosper

same here on eee pad transformer i guess doesnt supports tegra
well have to use drivers for other proccesors

is it officially out? I dont see it in the market.

nifterific said:
is it officially out? I dont see it in the market.
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Odd, well to be honest, i think i've seen it in tegrazone. But first time I've downloaded from appla... t
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Anhell said:
Well as the title says and you can imagine, i didn´t have too much luck.
First time i´ve installed the game, when starts i have to wait long hours to download the data, once it was finished, started to play buuuuut.... i just could play A MINUTE before crash.... and the background in the menu and in the game was white
I´ve been able to find the data files (1.23gb) somewhere, put the folder in sd card, and nothing, when start the game automatically goes to the download bar
So i wanted to know, wich was your experience, did you have luck ?? all worked fine ??? and in the case it worked for you, what did you do ??? (could facilitate me the data files ? )
I must say the data files i´ve downloaded could be for smartphones maybe, i know....
Any help would be really appreciated
Live long and prosper
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I got it to work u can't take ur finger off the dpad when playing or will crash
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kevinjones84 said:
I got it to work u can't take ur finger off the dpad when playing or will crash
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interesting, why does it happen ???
could you upload the data files contained in the sdcard ??
thank you

i found a version where you install modded apk for your screen resolution, put 1.23gb worth of files on sd card, and restore cache via titanium backup before opening the app but i just get a black screen. I tried chainfire 3d with qualcom drivers but no luck. Bummer, i love sf4, and would have loved to try this version. I guess ill get the legit version in 3 months when it hits the market.

Anhell said:
interesting, why does it happen ???
could you upload the data files contained in the sdcard ??
thank you
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Idk but did u try it with out
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kevinjones84 said:
Idk but did u try it with out
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sorry mate, didn´t understand what you mean by "did u try with out" ?

Anhell said:
sorry mate, didn´t understand what you mean by "did u try with out" ?
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Did u try not takeing ur finger of the dpad
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lol, nop, didn´t try that either. But just because i´ve uninstalled the game, and now i´m unable to install it again
That´s why i´m looking some angel who would be willing to give me the data files

Windows 8 Desktop Freezing Issues

I installed Windows 8 yesterday and it was running fine. All of a sudden about an hour ago it froze but I could still move the mouse. I couldn't click on anything though and had to manually restart. Now I can't open any metro apps without it freezing every time, it takes longer than usual to reboot after manually shutting it down, and my documents, music, etc. Folders are gone. If I can even get to the desktop it'll freeze two minutes later. It is literally unusable. I'm pissed off because this is supposed to be final software from Microsoft and it's worse than Alpha software. How can it be released like this. I've read of other people having the same problems but none of the fixes work for us.
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SkizzMcNizz said:
I installed Windows 8 yesterday and it was running fine. All of a sudden about an hour ago it froze but I could still move the mouse. I couldn't click on anything though and had to manually restart. Now I can't open any metro apps without it freezing every time, it takes longer than usual to reboot after manually shutting it down, and my documents, music, etc. Folders are gone. If I can even get to the desktop it'll freeze two minutes later. It is literally unusable. I'm pissed off because this is supposed to be final software from Microsoft and it's worse than Alpha software. How can it be released like this. I've read of other people having the same problems but none of the fixes work for us.
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I've not had that problem, did you do a clean upgrade e.g keep nothing, keep personal files or keep everything?
Roland
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Rolandh said:
I've not had that problem, did you do a clean upgrade e.g keep nothing, keep personal files or keep everything?
Roland
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Yea, I installed it on a fresh partition dual booting with Windows 7. I did a Google search of the problem and it seems those who have it can't fix it. I had to wipe the partition and install it again. So far so good.
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SkizzMcNizz said:
Yea, I installed it on a fresh partition dual booting with Windows 7. I did a Google search of the problem and it seems those who have it can't fix it. I had to wipe the partition and install it again. So far so good.
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You know come to think about it.... I had the same thing happen to me about 2 hours after I did a clean install from the rtm
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grassyloki said:
You know come to think about it.... I had the same thing happen to me about 2 hours after I did a clean install from the rtm
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I tried everything to fix it but nothing worked. It's not like I did anything to make it happen either. It just did all of a sudden out of no where. I think it's maybe a driver problem but Toshiba, for me, hasn't made all their drivers Windows 8 compatible. When I go into control panel and hardware and devices it shows a yellow triangle with an exclamation point. When I got to troubleshoot it it can't find the driver. I manually installed the drivers from Toshiba's site the first time because the sound was crackling but when I had to reinstall I just installed what Windows Update suggested.
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[Q] Accidently formatted sd card ... on CWM

My heart litterally stopped at that point .. What can i do to get it back? ... never again CWM even if i enjoy it.. right now im enjoying team win recovery more... Anyone can help get me bak my data? MY MUSIC PROJECT WAS INSIDE!!!
NExt time ill back up if i really cant get it bak

lokenok said:
My heart litterally stopped at that point .. What can i do to get it back? ... never again CWM even if i enjoy it.. right now im enjoying team win recovery more... Anyone can help get me bak my data? MY MUSIC PROJECT WAS INSIDE!!!
NExt time ill back up if i really cant get it bak
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It's not CWM's fault! It's your own stupidity! There is no such a thing as accidentally formatting! Your music project is gone for good...
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i mean but on cwm the format sd data is ever so close to fomat system and other stuff no way of getting it back?

lokenok said:
i mean but on cwm the format sd data is ever so close to fomat system and other stuff no way of getting it back?
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No its all gone now.
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If this project was so important to you why didn't you back it up off of the phone somewhere? Dropbox or the free 50GB Box account most got with the Nexus 4 come to mind. I'm not sure if a full nandroid backup includes the contents of the sdcard on the nexus 4 but that might be a place to start looking, that is if you ever bothered to do a full backup of your phone.

You can get your files back, the same thing happened to me, my pocket somehow formatted my sdcard. Look for software that recovers deleted files
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kzoodroid said:
I'm not sure if a full nandroid backup includes the contents of the sdcard on the nexus 4
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It doesn't.
inf3rno1 said:
You can get your files back, the same thing happened to me, my pocket somehow formatted my sdcard. Look for software that recovers deleted files
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Why not share that precious secret then..? What is the point of your post unless you share the name of that software..???
Difficult to understand xda sometimes..

OP try this method. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705
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tried that method but it hangs when making the image file..

Vangelis13 said:
It doesn't.
Why not share that precious secret then..? What is the point of your post unless you share the name of that software..???
Difficult to understand xda sometimes..
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What secret? I said there is software that recovers deleted files. Have you heard of Google? Search for software that recovers deleted files and voila, you'll have your dats back. There are hundreds of programs that can handle your problem.
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lokenok said:
My heart litterally stopped at that point .. What can i do to get it back? ... never again CWM even if i enjoy it.. right now im enjoying team win recovery more... Anyone can help get me bak my data? MY MUSIC PROJECT WAS INSIDE!!!
NExt time ill back up if i really cant get it bak
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I don't know if it works for our phones, but I accidentally formatted an external hard drive before and used the Easeus data recovery wizard software. It recovered everything. Worth a shot
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That happened to me on TWRP. I am glad I had a backup on my Google Drive so I could just redownload
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inf3rno1 said:
What secret? I said there is software that recovers deleted files. Have you heard of Google? Search for software that recovers deleted files and voila, you'll have your dats back. There are hundreds of programs that can handle your problem.
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No offence but he could've searched on Google without anyone telling him to. that's why people come here on xda to get help from fellow members.. what's the point of replying if someone asks for help here and in reply what he all gets is 'go search Google'..
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Sak3ater said:
No offence but he could've searched on Google without anyone telling him to. that's why people come here on xda to get help from fellow members.. what's the point of replying if someone asks for help here and in reply what he all gets is 'go search Google'..
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XDA also encourages users to search for answers before asking for help. This place is for learning new things and expanding current knowledge. People won't really learn if they're spoon fed what they want to know.
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Sak3ater said:
No offence but he could've searched on Google without anyone telling him to. that's why people come here on xda to get help from fellow members.. what's the point of replying if someone asks for help here and in reply what he all gets is 'go search Google'..
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Boy do you have it wrong. XDA is not a place to come and get help. IT is not a support site. This is a developers site. You are EXPECTED to put in the time and effort to fix your own issues first. Then spend some time searching. (and do search outside your own devices forum) Then you try some things you have seen. If that doesnt work then you can post a thread but dont expect a solution.

inf3rno1 said:
What secret? I said there is software that recovers deleted files. Have you heard of Google? Search for software that recovers deleted files and voila, you'll have your dats back. There are hundreds of programs that can handle your problem.
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I'd love to here about the hundreds of software that recovers deleted files from MTP devices (MTP is not direct hardware access like plugging a flash drive into your computer)

espionage724 said:
I'd love to here about the hundreds of software that recovers deleted files from MTP devices (MTP is not direct hardware access like plugging a flash drive into your computer)
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So you mean the software like PC Inspector or Recuva or any other file recovering software will not work on our Nexus 4..??
once i deleted my photos from my old desire HD and i recovered it using PC inspector...now Nexus does not have SD card so i am not sure weather that will work or not..

ramkumar2000 said:
So you mean the software like PC Inspector or Recuva or any other file recovering software will not work on our Nexus 4..??
once i deleted my photos from my old desire HD and i recovered it using PC inspector...now Nexus does not have SD card so i am not sure weather that will work or not..
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I haven't tested such software, and I could be wrong, but when you connect (most) newer Android devices to a computer, you get access to the files via MTP. You don't have direct access to the filesystem (which I think is ext4), and because of this, you can't do the "advanced" stuff needed for file recovery (I guess checking sectors, free space, and etc.)
Older (and some newer) Android devices when hooked to a computer let you do USB Mass Storage (essentially the same kind of access you have when you plug a flash drive in), which is giving you direct access to the file system (FAT32), and in-theory, should work fine with file recovery software.

so can we mount the nexus 4 as fat32 or ext4? because on mine it just shows up in device section with no name

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!

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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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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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