I have a ZTE Blade A452 (cheap phone for prepaid cellular while I'm in Germany), and it has an issue with accessing the memory. The phone will not display any photos, though I can take them and even access them with another app I installed (FX). Ditto for downloaded files of any sort. I can still take photos, but Gallery is empty, zero files.
Here's what I've tried:
-Stopping Gallery, clearing cache, restarting. Nothing.
-Stopping Media Storage, clearing cache, restarting. Nothing.
-Downloading a couple different media rescanning apps. Nothing.
-Tried to find "nomedia" file. Nothing.
-Connected it to my computer -- no files found. When I switch to USB mode, it shows "SDXC" with no files, but I do NOT have an SD card installed. I only have the base memory of 8GB. Accessing the storage in settings, it shows that there are files there, including media files. There is another storage listing at the bottom, presumably for an SD card, but it sits there like it's still scanning forever (dots...).
-I looked through everything and cannot find a setting to force the phone to look at the phone's memory instead of the missing SD card, which I have never installed.
I'm at my wits end here because I have tried at least a half dozen different "solutions" but no joy. I do not know why the phone keeps looking for an SD card or how to force it to stop. Any ideas?
It's running Android 5.1. Recently updated. Firmware is 1.0. Phone works otherwise -- texting, calls, WhatsApp, maps, Gmail, etc. Phone has two SIM slots, only one is occupied by Vodafone SIM.
Here's what I've tried:
-Stopping Gallery, clearing cache, restarting. Nothing.
-Stopping Media Storage, clearing cache, restarting. Nothing.
-Downloading a couple different media rescanning apps. Nothing.
-Tried to find "nomedia" file. Nothing.
-Connected it to my computer -- no files found. When I switch to USB mode, it shows "SDXC" with no files, but I do NOT have an SD card installed. I only have the base memory of 8GB. Accessing the storage in settings, it shows that there are files there, including media files. There is another storage listing at the bottom, presumably for an SD card, but it sits there like it's still scanning forever (dots...).
-I looked through everything and cannot find a setting to force the phone to look at the phone's memory instead of the missing SD card, which I have never installed.
I'm at my wits end here because I have tried at least a half dozen different "solutions" but no joy. I do not know why the phone keeps looking for an SD card or how to force it to stop. Any ideas?
It's running Android 5.1. Recently updated. Firmware is 1.0. Phone works otherwise -- texting, calls, WhatsApp, maps, Gmail, etc. Phone has two SIM slots, only one is occupied by Vodafone SIM.