Any one else Missing Pictures on Galaxy S4 - Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot

For some reason, most of my pictures on my phone is gone. I've tried mounting and unmounting. All the pictures are not there. Tried several apps on the market but they are not helping. Also tried putting SD card in my computer and still see that most of the pictures on the SD card are gone. Anyone else dealing with this on the Galaxy S4?

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My camera is working randomly...i get random restarts too :)

Well the same day i got my nexus, after taking few pictures, my camera basicly died, started to give errors or restarts the phone, then it was unable to get on at all.
I did factory reset number of times, nothing happened. I thought it's something hardware and forgot about my camera for a while, just to find today that it works again. I took lots of pictures without any problems, shot some video too.
Later in the day when i decided to try it again, it was giving the same error again as day 1 ("The camera application is not responding" and you can force kill it, then if go to the camera again, it says that it couldnt connect to the camera).
So seems like it's something software related since its randomly working, but if factory reset isn't helping, then what it might be that can be fixed softwarely?
I'm rooted now. Still the stock rom.
p.s.
the phone also restarts when i mount the SD card and start copying lots of files and randomly restarts at other occasions too, without any obvious reasons, even when just sitting.
Other than that the phone is great
hopefully its all software that can be fixed though!
Sounds to me like there's something buggy on ya SD card. Id reformat the SD card if ya haven't already and run it empty for a bit to see if the problem persists... I think the most forgotten fix for things if they haven't figured it out is SD card, a lot of issues can come from the SD card, not saying ievery issue is the SD card, but ya be surprised how a card can wack phone out.
Sounds to me like its when your phones accessing the SD card...
yeah makes sense but
i've formatted it many times, and the camera doesnt work even without it (doesnt even start)
btw it's not the original card, but my old one from my HTC HD
the camera is supposed to work and without a SD card inserted right?
Fking1 said:
yeah makes sense but
i've formatted it many times, and the camera doesnt work even without it (doesnt even start)
btw it's not the original card, but my old one from my HTC HD
the camera is supposed to work and without a SD card inserted right?
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I meant keep card in it, just empty without files, formatted and see what happens
i've tried that, doesnt help
Hi,
try formatting SD card with Panasonic SD Formatting Tool,it writes back the partition table and could help. For me worked, I had an issue with gallery, surely related to SD card, and now works well.
Bye
what settings to use to format it?
what fat, cluster size?
i've formated it bunch of times with the windows vista tool, fat32 and the default cluster size (i think) but it didnt help.
And if i recall correctly it was crashing the camera and with SD card out of the phone
yeah just tried again
even with the card out, none of the camera using applications starts, including the camera, barcode scanner and 3d compass
the later 2 dont even take pictures, so they dont need the sd card at all and still they dont work
what else it might be? im getting some other applications crashes from time to time, seems that my phone isnt very stable. And it's stock...huh
I suggest sending it back for repair/replacement. Could very possibly be the result of bad blocks in ram.
You mentioned it isn't the original SD card the phone came with. Why don't you try the original card then, and see if it is the actual card, or the phone that is the problem.
Clarkster said:
You mentioned it isn't the original SD card the phone came with. Why don't you try the original card then, and see if it is the actual card, or the phone that is the problem.
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i would have done that long time ago if i had it, this is the only card i have handy at the moment
but it makes the same problem with the card pulled out, so it isn't the card for sure
do u tihnk that there is any chance reflashing the rom would fix it?
any records of factory roms being buggy for just particular devices?
Okay...first off you said it's an older card, you could have bad sectors on your card, some of the older cards only have a read/write cycle of a couple thousand before fail. Second you can't run the camera app without the sd card. Third formatting the card so many times helps you count down those read/write cycles on your card. I'd be pretty confident in saying that your problems would go away after getting a new card. Hope this helped
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Okay...first off you said it's an older card, you could have bad sectors on your card, some of the older cards only have a read/write cycle of a couple thousand before fail. Second you can't run the camera app without the sd card. Third formatting the card so many times helps you count down those read/write cycles on your card. I'd be pretty confident in saying that your problems would go away after getting a new card. Hope this helped
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would be great if its just that
But what do u get you when you try to start the camera app with SD card out
Does it hangs and crashes and you need to force kill it or?
yup....just tried it, i popped my card out rebooted and started camera app, and i got a force close with no option to wait
that's great man! It means that it could actually be from the stupid card!
thank you so much!
uninstall market updates
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uninstall market updates
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m? hows that supposed to help?
Well i tried with 2 different cards, it still gives the very same problem
it isnt the card
im with froyo now, and that doesnt fix it either
do you think if the cyanogen rom may change something about this?

[Q] Pictures are dissapearing from SD Card

Since i bought a new SD Card on ebay - 32 GB - i switched the stock camera to save all photos on external sd card. Looks like since then the pictures are dissapearing from the folder DCIM on external SD Card.
When i'm taking the picture, and then checking if the file is there - it is there everything is ok...... i can take a lot of pictures and the files are there and i can see all of them.
Then after some time (without switching tablet off) i'm trying to check the files in DCIM folder on the external sd card - and it is empty!!! Any of the file manager does not see any files in. The LOST folder on the card is empty as well. When i'm trying to make another picture from the camera app, and then check the files from the camera directly, it looks like it can open the just made picture and it see somehow the other files but can not open them - just says FAIL LOAD.
i have no idea what is happening.
I switched now the camera back to save the files on the internal storage card and see what will happen.
Any idea what the hell is happening?
I have a lot of files on the external SD Card and everything is ok. Nothing else dissapeared.
I have the same problem. As long as I do not shut it down I can get my pictures to load. Once I shut it down I get the failure to load error. It seems to have started with the 1.41 upgrade with me because all the picture prior to upgrade load with no problems. I am hoping 3.1 will correct the problem. Hope it will here this month.
I've started a thread about this a while ago called External MicroSD contents disappears. Please write there so we can all join together for this BIG issue.
Alot of people are reporting the same problem.
I have a 32GB too. Same problems, I put stuff in but when i restart lots of things vanish.
possible shutdown issue
I had one thread because I am having issues with the time zone not saving and then I saw another thread regarding the pictures so I started http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14545637#post14545637
I think it has to do with the shutdown process and the tab is not saving files/settings properly. Have not seen any further help or suggestions.
encryption issue?
In the threads regarding time zone changes, it appears to have been traced to encrypted tablets.
My tablet was encrypted. I did a factory reset and set the time zone on setup. I have not re-encrypted it yet and the time zone has saved. I'm debating whether or not to encrypt it again.
I never had a problem with pictures not saving, but I believe the issues could be related. For the people with the picture saving issue, are your tablets encrypted?

[Q] Can't write files to Micro SD

More than a month ago i bought a 32GB ADATA microSD card for my S4. Everything worked perfectly up until a week or two ago, when i suddenly couldn't sync my files to the S4. I had just synced a new album to the card, using iSyncr (had been using it ever since i got the phone, worked without problems), but the next day i found that it was deleted. It was just gone. I found out that i can't sync any music at all to the device. The program just takes forever to load and when it does, it crashes.
Reinstalling it didn't solve the problem. I later discovered, that Kies doesn't sync the pics from my hard drive to the phone. The phone also switched the writing directory for the camera photos to the internal memory, although it was supposed to be on the microsd. All microsd card operations just don't appear to work.
However, i can access all my previous files on the card - photos, music, everything. I just can't write anything more. This makes me thing the problem isn't with the card, but with the phone.
I have an international i9505, XXUAME2.

SD Card Help

Hi guys,
I need your help becasue this looks very weird to me. This is my situation: I have a I-9500 (Stock ROM 4.3, no root) with Kingston SD Card 16 GB Class 4. On the SD I keep only my music in one folder, nothing else. Also because I have a lot of music, more than 14 GB, the card is almost full. Sometimes the back of the phone where the SD slot is, becomes to warm up a lot and battery starts to drain very fast. It has happened to me in different situations (and also prior to update to 4.3): once I was indeed listening to music, so using the card, but another time I was taking photos and watching a video saved on the phone. Like I said, I save everything (ecxept music) on the phone.
To solve, I have to either take the card out or format it in the phone. Once I do either of them, the phone cools off and battery drain goes back to normal. Once it even went into a boot loop, before I realized I had to take the card out.
We have 3 options:
1. it's the phone
2. it is something in my music folder (I have photos of the cover albums, which shows up in Gallery... could this be the cause?)
2. it is the SD card brand, capacity, class... I read on many forums about problems with certain brands, even though, if I recall correctly, it affected mostly 64 GB cards...
I want to add I have a Note I-5100 with a Sandisk SD 32GB Class 4 and never had any problem, I want to swap the two, but I know that even if something happens, it will not be immediate and I prefer to have the big one in the note. If I knew changing SD would solve it, I would go for it immediately, but I would like to know what you think first. I have also read Samsung SD cards perform better in Samsung phones. Is this true?
Thank you very much for your help!
I just noticed that many album folders have a file named n7p_art, which is created by the music software (I use stock Samsung Music Player). could this be the cause?

[Q] Problems with SD storage since update to Lollipop

Model: SCH-I545
64gig SD Card
Verizon
All stock/no root
Verizon pretty much forced me recently like many others to update to Lollipop. Once updated, I immediately backed up and did a factory reset on the device. Once it was back up and running, all seemed to be well with the world. It did seem to be a little hotter than normal but it seems overheating is a typical problem these days.
I noticed the issue the following day when I went to load videos and pictures back on to my SD card. They were uploaded via USB just fine but they showed as corrupted in Gallery.
I started trying to take pictures and maybe 1 out of 5 would actually show up. I thought it might be Gallery so I switched to Photos. Same thing. Tried using other cameras with the same results. I ended up factory resetting a second time and formatting the SD Card again as well but no fix. Then the other night I noticed that two of my apps have that "we're broken" icon on them and that they were installed on the SD Card so the issue seem to be connected with that, yet the SD Card works fine. I can plug it in the computer and use it without any issue but when it comes to the camera storing photos or video on it or apps using it, it refuses to work.
Tried contacting Samsung about it but they are useless when it comes to support it would seem so a friend told me to try posting here and maybe someone would have an idea of what is going on.
Thanks, guys.
Try formatting your sd card. Sometimes that helps.
Lennyz1988 said:
Try formatting your sd card. Sometimes that helps.
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I formatted it twice.

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