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Help SD card gone awry

bigb3456

bigb3456

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I shut my phone off and switched batteries, when I turned it on I went to my music and I went from 134 songs to 10, those ten are on my phones internal storage,so I unmounted the SD card and inserted it back in the phone several times. Still no music, I went to my andexplorer and I can see all the files through that, but not through the applications on the phone. Do I just need to format the card?
 
When you say you unmounted.. did you do this via the mount and dismount option or just physically remove the card? You might try putting the sd card back in and tell the phone to mount it....applications>settings> sd & phone storage>mount. It the only option you have is to unmount... your phone sees the card and not the files.
Another thing to try: after you have the sd card mounted.. power off the phone. Once it is off.. pull the battery.. wait a few seconds.. replace it and power back up. If the card is valid you should see your tunes. If not... unless someone else has a suggestion... I think reformatting the card and putting your tunes back on it would be your choice.
 
I'm out of guesses bigb.. sorry. Now you see them.. now you don't usually indicates a problem reading the card. Being as you can see your files via a file manager but can't access them through a phone app makes me think your apps are looking in the wrong place for the files.. but you did not change their position on the sd card... most strange. If all else fails.. move your files back to the pc and have the phone format the card and put your files back. I wish I had a better idea. If I was going to lose files in the process.. I'd mess with it some more... check this tread and see if someone had a better fix before I formatted.
 
I formatted the card (for the 2nd time in its life) I lost a lot of my music, I don't know how,because I backed it all up, I do think its time for a new card.
 
Well a .nomedia file is something you put in a folder, so apps like gallery and music players don't see icons and ringtones. If you didn't put it there, I'm guessing the system did, and shouldn't be what's causing your problems.
 
So I have questions about the .nomedia file. Where did it come from, how did it get there and what specifically is it.
 
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