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Recover photos from corrupt SD card?

Hadron
specialk4362 said:
Very interesting. According to my phone, 31.11 GB out of 250 have been used. I'm pretty sure this is a no name brand card bought off Amazon... I've copied everything from the card to my PC and am going to get a new better one. Thanks.
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Was that from Amazon or from a marketplace seller? It makes a difference: Amazon won't knowingly sell fake cards (occasionally fakes do get into legitimate supply lines), but resellers range from established legitimate businesses prepared to take Amazon's conditions for an extra outlet to the same fly-by-night scammers who infest eBay.

31.11GB is very suspicious indeed: a "32GB" card has an actual capacity of 29.7 GB, due to the fact that card capacity is quoted in decimal units (1 G = 10^9) but computers use binary (1 G = 2^30, which is slightly larger). Sometimes it's hard to tell which units a particular app is using, but since corruption will start when the physical capacity of a fake card is exceeded, you started having this problem recently, and you've used about 1.4 GB more than the real capacity of a 32GB card, that's either a nasty coincidence or my guess was unfortunately correct. If bought from a source who may not be trustworthy that's even more suspicious. I think a new card would be a good idea.
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Help Questions about factory reset

Hadron
Remove the SD card before doing the reset. That way you know that it cannot delete images that are on it.

Do make sure that they really are on the card though: for historical reasons the path "/sdcard" does not point to the SD card but to the internal storage, which can cause confusion - you don't want to accidentally lose your photos because of something like that.
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Come, journey into my SMS.db nightmare...

Hadron
The OP has simply posted in the wrong forum. The post itself says that they have a Note 20.

I guess from the way the post is written that "SMS.db" may be a iPhone database. I've limited experience with iPhone, but would assume that they use their own database format for these things which is different from an Android SMSMMS database file (hence the need for tools to transfer). From the size I'd also assume that it's mostly media messages, with including a lot of video, since I can think of no other way it could be 200GB in size (I have about 10.5k SMS on my phone and the backup file is about 11MB in size, which implies that 200GB would accommodate about 200 million SMS, and to build that up over 10 years would require about 54,000 texts per day ;)). Put another way, if that was mostly SMS then the file is corrupted in some strange way, because there is no way that SMS can take up that much space.

A corrollary of that would be that the database on the Note 20 should be much smaller than this if only SMS were transferred. So how much space is the Phone and Messaging Storage app using? That is the app that actually stores messages and call logs, i.e. that owns the phone's internal message database - you'll have to tell your "App Manager" Settings to show system apps, since by default the phone doesn't show you apps like this. Knowing the size plus how many messages your SMS apps think you have might help work out whether there is something messed-up here: if the storage used is disproportionate to the number of messages, and the messages are all SMS, that would imply that the transfer did something weird which might explain your slow response.

You could try different SMS apps (some are faster than others), but I suspect that's not where the problem lies.

Unfortunately I've no experience of transferring messages from iPhone to Android. I'd have thought that Samsung's setup app would have handled that though, since it's a very common use case, so I'm surprised you had to mess with all of these third party apps anyway.
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Help ScreenCapture Media Projection

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I am capturing the screen continuously using

mVirtualDisplay = mMediaProjection.createVirtualDisplay("ScreenCapture", mSurfaceView.getWidth(), mSurfaceView.getHeight(), mScreenDensity, DisplayManager.VIRTUAL_DISPLAY_FLAG_AUTO_MIRROR,mSurface, null, null);

I want to pass this mSurface as a texture to NDK (OpenGL). I could not find away to do this. Your help would be appreciated!
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Missing block sub menu

puppykickr
Open the Phone app
Tap the clock icon, or select Recent Calls
Find the offending number
Tap on the offending number, but not near the phone or message icons
{a menu should appear}
Select Block Number
Answer the following question in the affirmative

Now, to be fair, this is how to block a number.
Unfortunately, it is often not really that easy. {It looks harder above than it really is.}

That is why there are apps to take care of this sort of thing.
Sure, Googe Play Store has its share of apps to do this {or at least claim to}, but I prefer open source apps for a number of reasons.

Simplicity and lack of ads are a big two of them.

If the above solution is not adequate, try BlackList Blocker.
It is what I use.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.kaliturin.blacklist/
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