Hi, I’ve been using the camera for long, saving pictures on the SD card. All of a sudden, I cannot take pictures any longer: the camera appears as if taking them, but they are not displayed in the preview inside the camera. I sometimes can access those “pictures” via the camera, selecting the share …

That sounds like a broken SD card to me. Have you tried if you can still save other files on the card or how it behaves when you take it out and plug it into a computer? I had a similar problem a few weeks ago. My phone acted very strange, stopped downloading podcasts (to SD) and so on. It then tur…

[image] mde: It then turned out that the SD card was broken and Android was not able to properly convey that message to me, instead simply treating it as read-only. Possibly Android has no other choice. I have several old SD cards and USB sticks lying around which at some point suddenly stop…

[image] AnotherElk: Possibly Android has no other choice. I disagree slightly: Android could simply tell me that my SD is not writeable any more - as it is already responsible for having remounted it read-only. Instead it lets apps randomly crash and burn. :slight_smile: There are notificati…

Hi and welcome to the forum. I wonder how you formatted the SD card. If it was as an extension to internal then that is likely to be the problem. Can you check not just how you formatted it but what memory you have left and what camera app you use. See [image] Fairphone 3: Micro …

Thanks for your recommendation… I can see the Eject icon, and I still have more than 7GB of free space left (and even more on the Phone itself). For the camera, I guess I’m using the default app: it’s called “Camera” and has version 2.0.002 (gms-31ddee-00). I used to save the pictures directly on …

Hi It sounds as though everything is in ‘place’ for it all to work. Checking the card in a PC is a good idea. By the way if you have another SD card that is ‘free’ you can insert that and format on the phone as portable/external to see if that is able to save images. If that works then the next …

Hi, the old SD was still accessible on a PC. Still, I tried with a new SD card which I formatted as “internal”. This resulted in total disappointment: I cannot store any pictures any more, I cannot download pictures or attachments from Whatsapp, I cannot take pictures inside Whatsapp, I cannot do…

[image] Mousebird: I formatted as “internal” This is the problem. Countless users have reported exactly your problems with this setup. Re-format the card as “portable storage” (see amoun’s suggestion above). This does not allow to install apps on the card, but you can move photos, music, vide…

Thanks a lot - formatting as “portable” seems to have solved my issue :smiley:

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