It corrupts the flash file system (FAT32) on my 4G microSD.
At first I thought that this could be either Camera app, or the Gallery app, or the LifeBlog app.
My normal workflow would be to take N95 out of my pocket (keypad locked), open the camera shutter, look to see if the Camera started [if not, curse and close and reopen, up to 3 times], then take some pictures, press Back, optionally go to lifeblog to see the photos from there, then close the camera shutter and put the phone back into pocket. If I needed to see photos in more detail, I would usually go to Gallery, but on most occasions I pressed the right soft button which was assigned to Lifeblog.
And I noticed that with such workflow I lost many photos. On the worse occasion, I lost 98 photos out of 212 taken.
The symptoms depicted below.
These photos were seen OK by the Gallery, but only before I opened LifeBlog and it started to build thumbnails needed.
Of course, I did not stand still there and I browsed to the left or right in the lifeblog while it did the preview building, but should it corrupt the filesystem because of that???
As a result, the whole folder of the previous day was lost, and some corruption occured inside some today's photos. From a technical standpoint, seems like it corrupted the huge 4G FAT table while doing FS operations. Neither Camera nor Gallery exhibit such nasty behaviour.
Needless to say, I am stopping using the LifeBlog on the phone until Nokia clear up the problem in future firmware updates. My current f/w is 21.0.016.
Oh and yes, I checked my microSD card on PC, and reformatted it already 2 times, but problems still appear (are being introduced into perfectly working media gallery) only after LifeBlog!
[UPDATE] All this behavior was only due to Kingston SDHC card, which are, according to N95 User Guide, not listed as compatible. Also of note, that there are classes of SDHC cards, like class6 or class9...
The higher the class, the faster is the card. The effect of flash memory classes on operation inside N95 is not yet studied.
There's no SDHC-specific warning in manual, so take my post for it.
6 comments:
Thanks! This is useful. I have similar problem.
My Lifeblog on my N95-4 stopped syncing 5 days ago. It gets stuck at Lifeblog Sending 1 of x....
Arthuro, you might try to delete the oldest media (video or photo) from your Gallery. Also "Update Timeline" from within Lifeblog might be of help. If not, you can try and fallback to the old trusty "Store Images" application from PC Suite. That one, however, looks farther than lifeblog, and might copy over your VideoCenter-downloaded videos and delete them afterwards. "Store Images" also (expectedly though) does not "get" the SMS/MMS/Notes/Audio Recordings/Blog Posts. Good luck.
I have solved my problem by doing away with SDHC card, which now works beautifully in Canon IXUS 960IS.
Very sad.iphone is good choice rather than rest.
yeah! I bought transcend SDHC 4GB class 6 for my N95...ran great (I did have problems with that silly Nokia Music Manager 2.0) for a few weeks.
Now its dead (the sdhc card). nothing. phone refuses to recognize. I'm sik n tired of nokia problems with simple mp3 stuff. not using lifeblog. don't even know what that is. having hard enuf time with mp3.
this is ridiculous! I paid $500 for my N95, only to have a $40 refurbished sandisk music mp3 player work more reliable than this "Brick" N95. I lost my videos, music, photos due to this SDHC corruption. (I paid $500 for THIS). It is a brick. NOKIA offers NO help to users. Have posted on their forums. no use. Can't manage SIMPLEST of actions. Now they want to take on itunes with their Ovi Ovum store. Someone tell these idiots.....
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