The title pretty much tells the story. I let my Z2 attempt to move photos/videos to the sd card and I think it froze, because the notification couldnt be selected. At that time I checked and my photos were gone from both internal storage and sd card. Yes I'm dumb and wasnt backing up photos to google. My thinking was I take a lot of stupid pics and I delete 80% of them and didnt want to have to clear them out of google photos also. Going forward I'll definitely back up my photos.
So I installed the app DiskDigger but it cant do a full scan without root access.
Is it possible to root without wiping the internal storage so I can do a full scan?
Usb or PC card reader and recovery software cant remember the name of the one I used, have you not got them backed up to Google photos.
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I have recently installed Xperia Ultimate HD 3.0.2 with Rush kernal V10 and everything was working fine, taking pictures, playing music etc. I have also deleted some software using Titainum to remove the dead weight. And recently i took some pictures but it says cannot save and i cant view thenm in the quick view on the camera software, but it does save them when i looking the gallery. If i try to video something is says 2 mins. at the bottom that suggests it cant recognise the SD card even though it is inserted and is trying to save on the internal memory. Also when i screen catpure is takes it and then says it cant be saved but again when i look in the folder in my gallery it is there. So these apps obviously cant recognise the sd card to save to it, for some reason. the Walkman app when i open it just says no music in the library...suggesting no SD card again! I can browse the SD card in File Manager, so the phone knows the SD card is there, just some of the apps dont realsie it is there, the apps on the sd card are all working fine. im not sure if i am missing someting or maybe i accidently delted somethiing important.
HELP!
Tried to reinstall the SD-card? One time I had a bad contact and the SD-card is not read.
Nickcer said:
Tried to reinstall the SD-card? One time I had a bad contact and the SD-card is not read.
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yeah i have taken it out and put it back in no such luck..
So I have a message that the storage card is empty or there is an unsupported file, and it asks if I want to format.
When I go into the gallery, the "camera" album no longer exists.
If I use Astro file manager, I can browse to several folders with files (but not my camera album). My camera was set save on the sd card and I previously had a bunch of pictures on there.
Now the camera does not even give me an option to save to storage card. It's just set to internal with no option to change that. It's like the camera doesn't recognize the sd card, even though Astro sees it (doesn't find any of the pictures taken with this device, but shows everything else).
This is the T-Mobile GS4 with the stock ROM.
I did recently reset the camera permissions (and all other permissions) in Opera Classic, do you think that might have something to do with it?
Anyone have any experience with this?
This might be my excuse to go get the note 3.
Don't format it. Try unmounting and re-mounting it. I got that message a few times on my s4 and there was never a problem with the card. Every time I removed it from my phone and put it into my computer, the files were still there safe and sound. The S4 is very touchy with certain SD card brands, but then again I even have SD problems with samsung cards when i was on the stock ROM. Ever since I went to CM, I've never had external storage issues.
Agreed, I had a Samsung card and a sandisk and have had a few scares. Take it out and put it back in, its all still there. Unless you really do have a bad sd card.. Its possible.
Hi, I have the htc one m8, stock rom on O2 uk. It's great phone and everything seems okay except sometimes photos and videos I take are there and then when I go to view them again in the gallery, in their place is an exclamation mark inside a triangle and I can't open them. This doesn't happen to all photos and videos just some and to be honest its quite annoying, I took some photos from my mum's birthday party and now they appear to be gone.The photos save automatically to my external sd card. When I connect the phone to my PC these photos and videos won't display or open. But they have different file sizes so I guess they're still there if that makes any sense.
Any help here will be greatly appreciated.
Looks like you have a corrupted external sdcard with bad sectors
Make a backup to pc.
Use a photo recovery program to retrieve them if possible
format the sdcard
try again take photo and see how it goes. Still bad, change sdcard.
Thank you I'll try it and let you know what happens.
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Looks like you have a corrupted external sdcard with bad sectors
Make a backup to pc.
Use a photo recovery program to retrieve them if possible
format the sdcard
try again take photo and see how it goes. Still bad, change sdcard.
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I had this issue with a SanDisk card that seemed to be stuck in "read only" mode. I wasn't able to delete or write to the card but I was able to play read off the card. All my old camera photos, videos and saved mp3s played and copied over fine. All formatting methods have failed. Any way I can still salvage this card?
Had this same issue and I just ended up buying another sd card. OP let me know what the end result was....Still have the old 64Gb that I would like to salvage if I can.
HI all,
I've come across a strange issue where when I save my photos to the SD card, and I delete them off the phone using either the Gallery app or Google photos (using the delete everywhere option) the photos get removed from the gallery/google photos, but the files still exist on the SD Card. Note that I am empting the trash in google photos when I delete it too. When I browse the storage on the phone, the pictures are still there! So when I reboot the phone, the pictures come back to Google Photos and also the gallery. This does not happen when I save them to the internal storage. What is also strange is when I browse the SD Card camera directory via Windows Explorer, the photos do not appear either. Its only through the file explorer on the phone (show hidden files is enabled). I have a samsung 32 GB HDXC SD Card installed. I've also reformatted the card multiple times. Is anyone having this same issue?
Chris
It's normal in KK 4.4.2
Have a look:
http://www.androidcentral.com/kitkat-sdcard-changes
Interesting. I just switch back to Android so I'm not up to date on all the changes.
I would think the stock gallery/camera app would have ownership of the SDCard/DCIM/Camera directory. Is there a workaround without rooting the phone?
hi folks,
So i chose the wrong SD card handling (the merged kind?) a while ago and after ejecting the card to set up a bigger one, I realise I now can't access the internal storage on the phone.
installed apps work fine
I can remove apps fine (but not reinstall!)
i can sideload apps fine (oddy!)
I cannot access e.g. photos with gallery apps
file browser apps cant access the internal space at all.
I cannot install anything from the play store, it just shows insuffucient space
apps like twitter crash.
whatsapp works (calls and text), but cant download photos sent, or attach photos.
There is loads of space free (14.65gb used of 32gb internal).
I also have an SD card with loads of space now set as portable storage.
I have the original SD card that was in before, but not in phone (still shows in storage manager).
Any ideas please?! Before i reset the phone and start again!
I have rooted it, but not sure what to fiddle with (the problem started before rooting).
nope? ok i guess i'll be wiping and hoping that fixes it!
moving to another phone for a while...
just to be clear, doing a full reset on the phone while rooted with magisk is ok? (unlocked bl). don't want to brick. android 10 up to date.
thanks, if anyone out there?
alright for the record and anyone else suffering this, i figured it out, and is slightly embarrassingly stupid.
if you set up the sd as combined storage, and still have the sd, put it back in and use the migrate data back to internal option which is hidden in the storage dot top right menu. voila.
then you can eject card, and still access the internal storage.
what you do if you've already wiped the old sd, i've no idea! you're maybe stuffed? hopefully wiping phone would fix it??
don't ever set your sd card as merged, use portable (i knew this, was a mistake).
so anyway, phone working again yay!