it is stored on the micro SD card, did you take it out, reformat it?
Take it back to the store and tell them it's messed up. Has it worked before?
if you remove the sd card you will lose the movie, you have to move the movie off of the sd card and put it on the phone..
Is there any way to stop the movie and then return later to where you left off?
Just checked the files on the card and its empty, I will call TMO. this was not a store purchase, it was mailed.
Thanks for answering. I hoped for a way to bookmark the spot, but your reply will work !If the movie player is still up, tap on about where you left off and it should pick right up where you were. Works for me.
Possible reason it self deleted is because possibly you connected your phone to your computer via usb, mounted the sd cards, then you didn't do a safe remove. Meaning you might have just yanked the usb out instead of asking your computer nicely to pull out usb safely. This can delete and corrupt files on sd cards.
I've also been reading on various forums, that if you pull the sd card out, or tinker with it, the movie self deletes. Some people are reporting this, however, I did pull my sd card out, put it into a different phone, and put it back into my vibrant, and the movie is still there.
3rd possibility, your sd card is unmounted...go to settings...sd cards and phone storage...and check to see if the sd card is mounted to your phone.
However, just to be safe, i've already backed up the movie onto my desktop.
If you do a factory restore, this should restore the avatar icon possibly, and then you just need to get the avatar movie file and load it back onto your sd card.
should be a simple fix.
Not true. I pulled the card, copied it to a folder on my desktop, then copied it to my much larger sd card and put it back in. I can still watch it.
If I want to put the Avatar movie file onto my 32GB card, would I just drag and drop it from the 2GB card pre-installed in the Vibrant on to my 32GB card?
Thanks for the help, the icon is still there, and it's on my phones memory. It just doesn't play when I push the avatar app. If i go to my gallery, it does show that the movie is on there. It just doesn't play the movie automatically when I push the avatar app icon.
renaming WHICH folder? when i go into my SD folder while on my vibrant I see a total of 3 folders, one that is located /sd/DCIM/ with a folder inside located /sd/DCIM/100ANDRO. The other folder is /sd/LOST.DIR/. These are all empty folders...as in no files. Now I added a folder on /sd/ called Movie. So that is /sd/Movie/. I am trying to figure out how to move the icon to this folder...but obviously there is no pick n drop...I couldn't find any way to select and menu the icon....how can i move the icon to the directory/folder? And even so, without the ACTUAL movie file on the SD anymore how on earth is the icon going to play the movie?
Not true. I pulled the card, copied it to a folder on my desktop, then copied it to my much larger sd card and put it back in. I can still watch it.
Totally agree with you. I took Avatar off the 2GB sd card ... install another movie ... Then when I received my 16GB card ... I just copied everything from the 2GB card into a folder on my desktop ... put the avatar in there as well ... Install the new 16GB sd class 6 and copied all the folders' contents onto the new card ...
Avatar still plays ...
I transferred Avatar to my phone's memory. I put it in a folder called "Movie", but I can't get the icon to work. I tried opening it through the video player and it shows up, but when I try to play it, it comes up with a message "avatar.dcf locked. Do you want to unlock it now?", then I get "Sorry, license not found". Anyone know why?
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