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By default do gallery photos save to the SD card or the phone?

I figure this is a well known thing, but I can't find the answer on the board.

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Thanks for the info.

and where exactly are they on the SD card? I flashed back to stock yesterday and decided to backup my SD card after. If if I go into the gallery on the phone I can see all of my photos, but when I search on the SD card while the Epic is mounted, I can't find them.

On mine it's:
dcim/camera

kidstechno said:
On mine it's:
dcim/camera
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Yep. It's the default folder.

I wish theyd let us have the option to save to phone though :/ 300mB and i cant use it when i dont got my sdcard ready?
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Most people leave the SD card in at all times so that it is always ready.
Also, 300 MB of internal memory really doesn't go all that far, especially if you're storing pictures in it.

DiGi760 said:
Most people leave the SD card in at all times so that it is always ready.
Also, 300 MB of internal memory really doesn't go all that far, especially if you're storing pictures in it.
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Yeah. Most people leave it in. Not all. Somtimes, I wanna watch a movie in my sdcard on my macbook and fall asleep with it in there. The nex day I go out and wann take a quick pic of a squished squirrel or something and I can't because I forgot my sdcard.
But wait! My pone has 300MB of storage! I should still be able to take this one pic! Oh wait, I can't becaue the camera closes itself with no sd.
I'm a believer in choices. They shoulnt assume people will have sd cards in at all times
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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

[Q] 16GB Owners, What are you doing with the low space storage problem?

I did not paid attention when people started to complain about the low memory matter and ended up buying a 16GB i9500, now that I know what's the problem is there an alternative for this? what do you recommend ?

Get a micro sd card and u r good to go
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Like what Saad2687 said. My advise dont get scandisk though. I have samsung 32 gig class 10 and its amazing.

Yes I got a 32GB Samsung, but the thing is with the installations and all the bloat, is there something I can do? With my S3 I used aroma debloater it was awesome it left my phone free of non useful stuff.

Brother i am infact using sandisk 32gb class 10 micro sd from past 20 days and its great no problems at all.
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Use onboard storage only for apps and move media (photos, songs, videos) and documents onto SD card. But dont cheap out to buy any no name or cheap class 4 card. Class 10 is a must.

Root ya phone and grab titanium backup. You can uninstall about 900mb of crap such as eye scrolling etc...
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This is the one i bought.
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Micro...0224244&sr=8-1&keywords=samsung+32gb+micro+sd

munkyboy said:
I did not paid attention when people started to complain about the low memory matter and ended up buying a 16GB i9500, now that I know what's the problem is there an alternative for this? what do you recommend ?
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As the others said, get a SD card. Also VERY helpful is Folder Mount as it lets you remap the /sdcard/Android folder from the internal memory to the external SD card which gets around the problem that most apps want to store everything inside those folders or directly in /sdcard.

jj03 said:
Root ya phone and grab titanium backup. You can uninstall about 900mb of crap such as eye scrolling etc...
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ewok666 said:
As the others said, get a SD card. Also VERY helpful is Folder Mount as it lets you remap the /sdcard/Android folder from the internal memory to the external SD card which gets around the problem that most apps want to store everything inside those folders or directly in /sdcard.
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Thanks I'll give it a try. that's what I was looking for.

Got myself a 64gb Samsung pro microsd and moved all my images/videos/music.
I only use my internal storage for apps.
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munkyboy said:
Thanks I'll give it a try. that's what I was looking for.
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By the way, be sure to read the guide on what is safe to uninstall before you go ahead.
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munkyboy said:
I did not paid attention when people started to complain about the low memory matter and ended up buying a 16GB i9500, now that I know what's the problem is there an alternative for this? what do you recommend ?
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32 GB external SD Card

Move anything that isn't apps (music, movies, any extra files) onto the external SD card. Get at least a 32gb and you should be golden.

Save to the SD instead internal memory
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Thanks I'll give it a try. that's what I was looking for.
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How do I redirect just the pictures and videos to my SD without rooting????? any ideas????

munkyboy said:
I did not paid attention when people started to complain about the low memory matter and ended up buying a 16GB i9500, now that I know what's the problem is there an alternative for this? what do you recommend ?
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get another 16/32 Gig card, that should suffice.
i am suing sandisk 16 gig for the past 1 year and no issues till now, and most of the times its a life saver as i keep everything in my sd card (music pic etc)...

My setup which 16gb users might like.
My phone is 16gb
My sdcard is 32gb
But thays not enough space so i added an extra 64gb via usb
The method to mount usb is OTG in a modified case.
(*please note just use the usb when you need it as it obviously drains battery faster)
Here is a image of modified case
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Use foldermount to switch game data to my 64 gb class 10 sd card.
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XeroFox said:
Use foldermount to switch game data to my 64 gb class 10 sd card.
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This didn't work for me.
/sdcard is a link to /storage/emulated/0
that's internal mounted fuse
/storage/extSdCard is real sdcard mounted normally.
It's 4.2s storage problem
in previous versions it was as.simple.as editing fstab.
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I don't really put a lot of stuff on my phone as I have a separate mp3 player on me at all times, so the space taken up by bloat wasn't really a problem. I already had a 32GB card on me though so I slapped that in.

Moving apps to sd card

Hi all,
I just rooted my s7 edge and am trying to move some of my apps to my school card. I used link2sd but when I try to move apps a get the message "Error: Could not access the Package Manager. is the system running?" I'm a newbie and it would be great if someone can explain what this means and how I could fix it.
Thanks

Sparticle4 said:
Hi all,
I just rooted my s7 edge and am trying to move some of my apps to my school card. I used link2sd but when I try to move apps a get the message "Error: Could not access the Package Manager. is the system running?" I'm a newbie and it would be great if someone can explain what this means and how I could fix it.
Thanks
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Its better to just enable adoptable storage.......links to SD and moving apps to SD is pretty much obsolete. This will bring both phone and SD together into one.

Maybe in the link2sd thread/forum, they'd know about your error. Google will get you there

stormonya said:
Its better to just enable adoptable storage.......links to SD and moving apps to SD is pretty much obsolete. This will bring both phone and SD together into one.
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Agreed. Too bad you need a work around for it
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Sincere11105 said:
Agreed. Too bad you need a work around for it
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Its quite simple to do. Maybe 5 minutes tops

I'll do that, thank you guys
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What happens if you swap SD cards (after moving to Adaptable Storage)?