Re: Samsung Galaxy S3 SD Card Issue
I have had the unexpectedly removed message when using the camera and storage changed to phone. I can go a couple of days without using the phone so no doubt the message has popped up unnoticed.
As for clearing the cache, if you mean do i always remove safely thus avoiding file corruption and or card damage then the answer is yes, whatever the device, if the option is available i use it and i have never had problems until i got the SG3.
UPDATE. I said i would let folk know of any changes. On my sd card, i have 3 parent folders for the purposes of this troubleshooting. LOST.DIR, (Check Disk) created by system at boot which is empty. MUSIC inside which are folders named after the artist, obviously containing music by that artist only, and DCIM which was created by the camera app when i used it to shoot a few photo`s for this test. Inside DCIM is a folder named Camera, again created by the camera app itself.
Yesterday my DCIM folder was renamed to ?CIM but it`s contents were still there and unchanged ( Camera folder containing 4 photos taken at start of testing ).
I went to my camera and took a photo expecting the "storage changed to phone" message to pop up but it didn`t. I went back into my files and checked my sd card and found that although the camera is still using it for storage, it has created a new DCIM folder containing a new Camera folder and the photo is in here. Same for video (just shot a few seconds to check).
Strangely, in my file storage directory settings, for this testing i set my image directory to use extSdCard/DCIM/ whilst all others are set to use sdcard0 (phone). Of course the camera app overrides any file system storage directory settings for pictures & videos taken with the camera, which is why video taken goes to extSdCard and not storage/sdcard0/VIDEO as the camera app itself is set to use the ext` sd card.
Usually i have the file storage directory for all items set to use extSdCard/ but on this occasion all directories are set to use sdcard0 apart from Images (set as above to extSdCard/DCIM), and when corruption occurred in the past it hit all folders at the same time, but not this time. This time only the DCIM folder was changed so could having the file system storage directory set to use extSdCard be allowing the system to corrupt data on the card.
I will leave the directories as they are and wait to see if any other files or folders are affected and if any of my test photos vanish from extSdCard/?CIM/Camera or the newly created DCIM folder. By the way, I deleted the first new DCIM folder and changed the File Directory to point to the renamed folder "?CIM" just to see if the camera would revert to using it but as expected it didn`t, instead it just created a new DCIM folder, although it is still using the ext` sd card. Even if you rename the DCIM folder created by the camera, the camera will cease to use it and again create a new one for your snaps.
NEW UPDATE. Today on checking i find that the new DCIM folder created by the camera yesterday has also corrupted. Renamed to ?CIM as with yesterdays DCIM folder.
BUT, today the Camera folder inside has also been renamed to ?amera and the photos and short video clip have vanished. On checking the ?CIM folder (the original DCIM folder that was corrupted and renamed yesterday) i find that it`s Camera folder has also been renamed and the contents vanished, yet still not one of my music folders or tracks have been affected. Just as yesterday.
When i tried to delete the corrupted folders nothing happened so i ejected the card and popped it into my laptop which informed me of problems and asked if i wanted to run a fix. I opted out and tried deleting the folders in explorer but with no joy. I ejected the card then reinserted and allowed it to be fixed (took about 20 seconds). I was then able to delete the folders with no problems.
I am now going to put the card back into my phone, create a new DCIM/Camera folder by taking a few snaps, change the Images directory to the phone (sdcard0) and the Music directory to extSdCard/MUSIC and wait to see what happens.
If all stays well i will change the Images directory back to using the ext sd card in a week or two and add a gig of additional music.
P.S. The LOST.DIR was empty before ejecting from laptop and is still empty now back in phone.