I was in class, pulled out my captivate, went to look at some pictures. They werent there. Got me curiois so I went into the file explorer to see what was up. My external sd no longer has any understandable files on it. All of my photos, music, videos ANYTHING are not there. It has all been replaced with gibberish, random letters, numbers and symbols. The only file still there is LOST.DIR, and it too is filled with nothing but numbers from 4 to 94xxx.
WHAT HAPPENED? Please offer some advice if you can. I had lots of very special pictures from deployment and my wedding on that card.
Im running Cog 2.2 beta 8.1, using oclf. The only two things really done to the phone.
Ive noticed over the last few days, recently installed apps would disappear, id download them again and the data/progress would still be there.
Please help of you can, can the files be recovered? What happened? How do I prevent it from happening again?
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Sounds like your card is bad. Did you leave it in while flashing your phone? That can cause an issue.
If your PC has a card reader and you have an adapter for it you may be able to recover some of your stuff.
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I was worried that may be the problem. Any suggestions on a good recovery program. Dont care if I have to pay, these files are priceless
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I wish I knew. Do you have a card reader on your PC? I think you should be able to just view what is on it when inserted into your PC with an adapter, it should be visable as a drive, just browse it. I am not 100% certain of the process for restoration.
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Hey guys. I downloaded a doc from gmail and I was wondering where of gets stored. Quickoffice isn't finding it. Says nothing is on my SD card. Thanks.
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Look in the download folder on your sd card.
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Is hooking the phone up to a computer the only way to see the folders on the SD card? Or can I see the folders on my phone?
You need to install a file browser. I use es file
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coder_t2 said:
Is hooking the phone up to a computer the only way to see the folders on the SD card? Or can I see the folders on my phone?
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I would recommend paying for "root explorer".
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Ok thanks guys. I kind of want to put a new ROM on this thing too since some people are claiming to be get much better battery life.
[Q] I might get smashed for this one, I currently have a 4gb memory card and I'm wana go get a 8gb or maybe even a 16gb. What brand, what type, what speed, n stuff works best with Zio? (Could the one I have now be the problem with YouTube freezing for 30-45sec after every 8-11sec of playing?) Thanks in advance .....
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"Now I'm so broke I can't even pay attention!!"
Class4 and above work best with any smartphone.
As for brand -- whatever ur flavor is.
!!!SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!!!
I have searched the forms for an answer and was unable to find anything that would help!
I lost all my apps to my sd card by just unmounting my sd card and now I can't get any of them back! When I go to my installed application list and click on apps2sd all of the apps that I have on my sdcard are there. They are dark grey! My Zio won't let me do anything with them!
I have very important info stored on my app's! And I don't want to lose any of the progress that I have made on any of my games!
It won't even let me put my apps back on my phone!
If anyone has an answer or knows where I can find it PLEASE HELP!
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Don't spam. Seriously.
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kkfelix said:
!!!SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!!!
I have searched the forms for an answer and was unable to find anything that would help!
I lost all my apps to my sd card by just unmounting my sd card and now I can't get any of them back! When I go to my installed application list and click on apps2sd all of the apps that I have on my sdcard are there. They are dark grey! My Zio won't let me do anything with them!
I have very important info stored on my app's! And I don't want to lose any of the progress that I have made on any of my games!
It won't even let me put my apps back on my phone!
If anyone has an answer or knows where I can find it PLEASE HELP!
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You need to check your sdcard on a PC to see if you nerfed it or not.
You can easily nerf your sdcard by not unmounting it before removing it from your phone.
And yes... Please,, if you have an issue, dont start spamming random threads, its not very becoming..
Hello all just wondering if anyone was suffering from the same media card problems I am ......for some odd reason all my music and pics of my sd card have tripled I now have 3 of each file and one of these files can.be opened the rest all have a error or don't play can someone please help
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Thank you, I understand that continue to be updated.
nelsona12 said:
Hello all just wondering if anyone was suffering from the same media card problems I am ......for some odd reason all my music and pics of my sd card have tripled I now have 3 of each file and one of these files can.be opened the rest all have a error or don't play can someone please help
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I had the same issue. I'm thinking it has something to do with synching with google. This has happened to me on previous devices as well. I had to individually delete over 1000 songs on top of pictures. I ended up going back to the stock rooted rom (I was on blackstars rom when this happened) and re-synched and installed everything without that happening again.
lkrfn5283 said:
I had the same issue. I'm thinking it has something to do with synching with google. This has happened to me on previous devices as well. I had to individually delete over 1000 songs on top of pictures. I ended up going back to the stock rooted rom (I was on blackstars rom when this happened) and re-synched and installed everything without that happening again.
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I did the same worked for a week and.then ban everything got tripled again
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A couple of days ago my phones free space got down to 1.5GB and I figured I should back it up to free some space. What a pain it turned out to be!
As most of you know we can only transfer as MTP and PTP and I presume this is where most of the problems come from..
1. File identification is slooooww.
2. transfer time literally freezes at the initial transfer to my HDD. making it impossible to drag and drop another set of files
3. I dont believe all of the files were discoverable (aka hidden)
Please post any and all methods/apps/MODS etc. that may help in this kind of process! Thank you.
p.s. I am using Windows 8
wudien said:
A couple of days ago my phones free space got down to 1.5GB and I figured I should back it up to free some space. What a pain it turned out to be!
As most of you know we can only transfer as MTP and PTP and I presume this is where most of the problems come from..
1. File identification is slooooww.
2. transfer time literally freezes at the initial transfer to my HDD. making it impossible to drag and drop another set of files
3. I dont believe all of the files were discoverable (aka hidden)
Please post any and all methods/apps/MODS etc. that may help in this kind of process! Thank you.
p.s. I am using Windows 8
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I've found it easiest to take out the MicroSD card and put it in an adapter and put it in my laptop or desktop and push files to and from it. Works a TON faster than using the USB cable to the phone.
Assuming everything is on the external SD card.
For anything internal, adb root, then adb pull everything you want. (Make sure the phone is plugged into the original AC charger - it's going to take a while if you pull a lot of files.)
1.5GB left? And I thought I was a software junkie. I still have 23GB free (internal), and there's still loads of stuff I installed to find out why someone was having a problem and haven't uninstalled yet.
For me i only use cabe conection to use odin. For transfearing files i use mmc card reader. Very easy.
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Maos_frias said:
For me i only use cabe conection to use odin. For transfearing files i use mmc card reader. Very easy.
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Okay. But what if I want to transfer directly from the internal memory? I only just put in an mSD card since the phone got full. Do you push everything from internal to SD then take the SD out and put it in a PC?
wudien said:
Okay. But what if I want to transfer directly from the internal memory? I only just put in an mSD card since the phone got full. Do you push everything from internal to SD then take the SD out and put it in a PC?
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Yep
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I posted a similar question. I used an app called USB switcher on my original Note. I'm waiting to see if it's compatible with the Note 3.
Galaxy Note 3 "The Beast"
Agent said:
Yep
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So a jailbroken iDevice has better storage capabilities. Dumb. Hopefully usb switcher will update.
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wudien said:
So a jailbroken iDevice has better storage capabilities. Dumb. Hopefully usb switcher will update.
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I hate they got rid of USB mass storage after ICS.
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Just curious, is there a way or an app, or a script or something to have the ability to just have screen shots, downloaded pics and what not to save to your external SD card by default? I usually have about 100+ that I have to manually move every time I flash a rom..
pestilencec11 said:
Just curious, is there a way or an app, or a script or something to have the ability to just have screen shots, downloaded pics and what not to save to your external SD card by default? I usually have about 100+ that I have to manually move every time I flash a rom..
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Just curious as to why you move them. Are you wiping internal storage when you flash?
Check out the Xposed module Downloads2SD.
theorioles33 said:
Just curious as to why you move them. Are you wiping internal storage when you flash?
Check out the Xposed module Downloads2SD.
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No I don't wipe that, but it's my fearful OCD that my phone will just up and die and I will lose my SS's. I really hate using the "cloud". Don't trust that crap that much.
So use two clouds. It is very unlikely they will fail at the same time plus it will automatically synchronize with your pc. Dropbox gives 50 gig for new note users, google drive another couple gigs, same microsoft, Amazon, box, samsung cloud. SD card can fail too.
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darekz said:
So use two clouds. It is very unlikely they will fail at the same time plus it will automatically synchronize with your pc. Dropbox gives 50 gig for new note users, google drive another couple gigs, same microsoft, Amazon, box, samsung cloud. SD card can fail too.
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not really a huge fan of the cloud for pics and screen shots. Maybe small apps that can be redownloaded..
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not really a huge fan of the cloud for pics and screen shots. Maybe small apps that can be redownloaded..
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I have no problem using it. My dropbox is set up to synchronize my camera folder, screenshot folder and fb saved pictures folder.
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darekz said:
I have no problem using it. My dropbox is set up to synchronize my camera folder, screenshot folder and fb saved pictures folder.
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that's great my friend My guess there isn't anything out there..
Hehe. Anything shouldn't be there goes straight to my usb drive (sandisk with microusb connector). Sandisk software allow for quick folder backup
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darekz said:
So use two clouds. It is very unlikely they will fail at the same time plus it will automatically synchronize with your pc. Dropbox gives 50 gig for new note users, google drive another couple gigs, same microsoft, Amazon, box, samsung cloud. SD card can fail too.
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SD cards and internal will fail before the cloud does. You can't make the horse drink the water lol.
BAD ASS NOTE 4
BACARDILIMON said:
SD cards and internal will fail before the cloud does. You can't make the horse drink the water lol.
BAD ASS NOTE 4
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meh, it's not about the "horse" drinking water. It's is simply about seeing if there was something out there that would allow me to just have my screen shots and downloaded pics go directly to my SD card. It's my choice not to use the cloud. Personal reasons. Hence why I am here asking for some app or something.
Screw the cloud. I'm old Skool too. Now where's mg 5.25 inch floppy.
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