Cokonuthead
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I have a 32GB Transcend Class 4 card in my SG2.
It was working great for a week.
Today I loaded a few songs "outside" of Kies, directly to the music folder on my SD card. I've done this many times before with no issues. The device always scans changes on the SD card in order to add the new files to appropriate menus and apps, like songs in the music player directory. Otherwise they wouldn't show up when you start the music player. It really doesn't matter how big your SD card is, the scanner is looking for changes...if you've added a ton of new files, the scan will take longer. If you added 1 file, it should be (and always has been) very quick.
However!
Today the thing went into Media Scanning, and it never ends. In fact when you look at the notifications screen where it shows Media Scanning, the diagonal bars are not even moving...like it's paused or something. If I touch and hold the scanning "bar", the lines start moving, as though it's actually scanning. If I simply release it it seems to pause again. If I slide my finger off of it, rather than simply releasing it, it continues with "apparent" active scanning. Eventually the screen timeout (10 minutes) occurs. When I reopen the screen, and pull down notifications, it's stopped again.
I've tried unmounting the card and remounting. I've tried rebooting repeatedly. I tried removing the card and scanned it on my computer--no errors. It is formatted FAT32. The drive appears fine. I used Kies and removed the latest files that I had added. (while connected to Kies, the "paused" media scanning continued to appear in notifications) I don't believe there is ANY problem with the SD card. The problem is some sort of hang-up in Android....
Based on this information, can anyone offer any help to STOP the endless media scanning. There is no access to the card while this scanning is going on..and it's obviously needed, not to mention the fact that it's killing my battery.
This phone is 1 month old, un-rooted, and has had NO problems like this until today.
Thanks for any help!
Forgot to mention this: When SD card was removed, I rebooted phone and media scanning was still running...with no SD card installed...this confirms to me the problem is NOT with the SD card...
UPDATE: After about 30 minutes of continuous scanning--which required the screen timeout not to occur (set to max 10 minutes, with occasional touch of screen to reset timeout) the scanning stopped. I rebooted and it appears normal now, with a brief scan of SD card.
I don't know what caused this, and as I mentioned, it appeared that the scan had "paused" as the diaganol lines in the notification area which indicate an "active" scan had stopped. Every time notification window closed the scan would stop. By keeping it open, then touching the "status bar" where the diaganol lines were frozen, the scan would resume, then if I slid my finger off it would continue. If I simply lifted my finger it would "pause" again. Strange problem, but if it works, maybe that's what has to be done...hope this will help someone else if they have the same problem...and that it will work again if I have the same problem!!
It was working great for a week.
Today I loaded a few songs "outside" of Kies, directly to the music folder on my SD card. I've done this many times before with no issues. The device always scans changes on the SD card in order to add the new files to appropriate menus and apps, like songs in the music player directory. Otherwise they wouldn't show up when you start the music player. It really doesn't matter how big your SD card is, the scanner is looking for changes...if you've added a ton of new files, the scan will take longer. If you added 1 file, it should be (and always has been) very quick.
However!
Today the thing went into Media Scanning, and it never ends. In fact when you look at the notifications screen where it shows Media Scanning, the diagonal bars are not even moving...like it's paused or something. If I touch and hold the scanning "bar", the lines start moving, as though it's actually scanning. If I simply release it it seems to pause again. If I slide my finger off of it, rather than simply releasing it, it continues with "apparent" active scanning. Eventually the screen timeout (10 minutes) occurs. When I reopen the screen, and pull down notifications, it's stopped again.
I've tried unmounting the card and remounting. I've tried rebooting repeatedly. I tried removing the card and scanned it on my computer--no errors. It is formatted FAT32. The drive appears fine. I used Kies and removed the latest files that I had added. (while connected to Kies, the "paused" media scanning continued to appear in notifications) I don't believe there is ANY problem with the SD card. The problem is some sort of hang-up in Android....
Based on this information, can anyone offer any help to STOP the endless media scanning. There is no access to the card while this scanning is going on..and it's obviously needed, not to mention the fact that it's killing my battery.
This phone is 1 month old, un-rooted, and has had NO problems like this until today.
Thanks for any help!
Forgot to mention this: When SD card was removed, I rebooted phone and media scanning was still running...with no SD card installed...this confirms to me the problem is NOT with the SD card...
UPDATE: After about 30 minutes of continuous scanning--which required the screen timeout not to occur (set to max 10 minutes, with occasional touch of screen to reset timeout) the scanning stopped. I rebooted and it appears normal now, with a brief scan of SD card.
I don't know what caused this, and as I mentioned, it appeared that the scan had "paused" as the diaganol lines in the notification area which indicate an "active" scan had stopped. Every time notification window closed the scan would stop. By keeping it open, then touching the "status bar" where the diaganol lines were frozen, the scan would resume, then if I slid my finger off it would continue. If I simply lifted my finger it would "pause" again. Strange problem, but if it works, maybe that's what has to be done...hope this will help someone else if they have the same problem...and that it will work again if I have the same problem!!