Hi,
I have a Vodafone Smartphone 111. It is pretty old - 5 years - and it's a bit slow nowadays with a couple of minor issues, but it keeps on chugging along just fine.
I use it to make YouTube videos and have therefore recently bought a 32GB SD card. I've installed and formatted it, and set the phone to automatically save to the card, but it's now behaving erratically when I try saving videos. The problem seems worse for higher-quality videos, so I think the problem revolves around the amount of data I'm trying to save.
Anyway, the issues I'm getting are a mix-and-match of the following:
- When I try to save the video, it takes a long time to save. Far longer than it did when saving directly to the phone, and sometimes, it takes longer to save the video than the video itself is (which may not be relevant but seems odd).
- Sometimes it looks like a video has been saved, but it seems to be saved wrong, so that the Camera programme can't always produce a thumbnail, or the camera can't find the video to play it back, or if it is saved, selecting the video to play it has no effect (but if this happens, I can move it over to my netbook and play it).
- Some videos that it saves have blocks of green, pauses, blocky bits where it looks like not all of the data has been recorded, and periods of silence.
- if I leave the phone to record for a greater length of time (ie., 10 minutes was my aim), it saves the video at around the 2 or 3 minute mark without me doing anything.
I think that's all of the errors I'm getting. There's little apparent consistency with what causes the above, and shutting my phone down and starting it up again before recording doesn't help very much. The extent of the problems I'm having will make it unworkable to produce videos, so help would be very much appreciated.
The SD card is off-brand; not sure how much that affects reliability.
Thanks for any help you can offer,
Zombi
I have a Vodafone Smartphone 111. It is pretty old - 5 years - and it's a bit slow nowadays with a couple of minor issues, but it keeps on chugging along just fine.
I use it to make YouTube videos and have therefore recently bought a 32GB SD card. I've installed and formatted it, and set the phone to automatically save to the card, but it's now behaving erratically when I try saving videos. The problem seems worse for higher-quality videos, so I think the problem revolves around the amount of data I'm trying to save.
Anyway, the issues I'm getting are a mix-and-match of the following:
- When I try to save the video, it takes a long time to save. Far longer than it did when saving directly to the phone, and sometimes, it takes longer to save the video than the video itself is (which may not be relevant but seems odd).
- Sometimes it looks like a video has been saved, but it seems to be saved wrong, so that the Camera programme can't always produce a thumbnail, or the camera can't find the video to play it back, or if it is saved, selecting the video to play it has no effect (but if this happens, I can move it over to my netbook and play it).
- Some videos that it saves have blocks of green, pauses, blocky bits where it looks like not all of the data has been recorded, and periods of silence.
- if I leave the phone to record for a greater length of time (ie., 10 minutes was my aim), it saves the video at around the 2 or 3 minute mark without me doing anything.
I think that's all of the errors I'm getting. There's little apparent consistency with what causes the above, and shutting my phone down and starting it up again before recording doesn't help very much. The extent of the problems I'm having will make it unworkable to produce videos, so help would be very much appreciated.
The SD card is off-brand; not sure how much that affects reliability.
Thanks for any help you can offer,
Zombi
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