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Settings/Sounds and notifications & Settings/Phone no longer work

As the title says, I can no longer launch the settings applets for "Sounds and Notifications" and "Phone". When I click on them, it doesn't seem to do anything and then it hogs the CPU for a few minutes (system responds very slowly, screen redraws slowly).
I have tried soft reset and hard reset.
The problem is still there.
Is there any way to diagnose the problem or to fix it?
Is there any way to replace the applets?
Thanks in advance,
Luc

lwalter said:
As the title says, I can no longer launch the settings applets for "Sounds and Notifications" and "Phone". When I click on them, it doesn't seem to do anything and then it hogs the CPU for a few minutes (system responds very slowly, screen redraws slowly).
I have tried soft reset and hard reset.
The problem is still there.
Is there any way to diagnose the problem or to fix it?
Is there any way to replace the applets?
Thanks in advance,
Luc
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Same problem here......

Me too, except only for the Phone settings app - Sounds and Notifications works fine. FWIW, if I wait for a few minutes after clicking the Phone settings app it appears. In the phone settings app, clicking off the front tab is fast but returning to it takes another few minutes.

solved¡¡
In my case the problem was the mp3 files in the sd card because before get into those pages the system scans these kind of files to fill de combo boxes of sounds (events, rings, etc).
Solution:
Before go into these applets remove the sd card.

danielherrero said:
In my case the problem was the mp3 files in the sd card because before get into those pages the system scans these kind of files to fill de combo boxes of sounds (events, rings, etc).
Solution:
Before go into these applets remove the sd card.
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I don't have any mp3 files on my sd card and even after minutes, the control panel never appears.
Is there any way to re-install this?
Luc

Have you tried to extract the sd card? do you have music files in othe place (rom, extended, etc)?

I just checked this again and I get the same issue on the settings/sounds notification page but only on the notifications tab. However, as with Phone Settings, if I wait a couple of minutes the pages comes up.
I've tried removing the SD card and hard rebooting but it still doesn't solve it. The only thing I can think of is that I enabled HSDPA with fit4cat tweaker...?

Thanks all for your suggestions!
I reformated my SD card and now it works fine again.
Luc

Hmm... well removing the SD card altogether and unmounting my extended rom still hasn't fixed this. Any suggestions anyone?

Couple small problems

Recently(couple days ago) Windows Media stopped finding music on my storage card. The files are no longer included in the library and if I update the library the files won't be added. I also can't change the directory to the storage card anymore. If I use the open file option I can open the storage card and play a file or folder but i cannot add the files to the library. Previously this worked fine. I haven't made any changes or anything lately and I am confused. Any ideas?
Also my camera button stopped working. It feels kind of loose. Pressing it has no effect. I can run the camera no problem, it is just the external camera button. I haven't dropped my device either. I've thought about cracking it open to check the problem out but figured I should ask here to see if it's common.
I'm running the official att WM6 rom on my 8525 and I have been since it came out. Neither of the problems started then. Please let me know if anyone has any idea on either problem!!! Thanks!!

degs said:
Recently(couple days ago) Windows Media stopped finding music on my storage card. The files are no longer included in the library and if I update the library the files won't be added. I also can't change the directory to the storage card anymore. If I use the open file option I can open the storage card and play a file or folder but i cannot add the files to the library. Previously this worked fine. I haven't made any changes or anything lately and I am confused. Any ideas?
Also my camera button stopped working. It feels kind of loose. Pressing it has no effect. I can run the camera no problem, it is just the external camera button. I haven't dropped my device either. I've thought about cracking it open to check the problem out but figured I should ask here to see if it's common.
I'm running the official att WM6 rom on my 8525 and I have been since it came out. Neither of the problems started then. Please let me know if anyone has any idea on either problem!!! Thanks!!
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Regarding media center, I have heard of a file getting corrupted and if you delete that file, it will fix it. I cannot remember the file name, but a little searching should find it.
Regarding the camera button, I can only suggest that you check the hardware button assignments and see if it got changed somehow.

Use explorer on the device and delete the metadata file from the storage card, then update the library through windows media on the device ans you should be good to go - it is very likely to occur again so stick a note in office just in case

thanks guys, I actually ended up finding the media fix on my own, had to do it a couple times now... The camera button is definitely a physical problem it has a loose feel to it, and does nothing upon being pressed. The button is correctly assigned.

HD2 Silent No Sounds Or Tones?

Hi all, HELP!!!
I have just spent 4 weeks setting up my phone, i have everything just as i want it.
But i noticed today when i received some txt messages it was silent, now when i select any sound for anything, ie events or ringtones its just silent, i hear nothing???.
If i move the volume slider i here the ping sound of the volume changing, so there is sound.
Now, if i go to the all settings menu, and try to assign a sound in the windows menu, when i click on a sound it shuffles through the entire list and stops back where it was in a second, almost like it cant find the sounds or something weird is going on???
Now this happened once before, and i restored using a SPB backup, but this time i have overwritten my backup with this before i realized what had happened.
Whats going on??????
Update, when i select a ringtone from the menu, and select it, when i go back on the menu it says ringtone "none"
???

I'm also having a similar issue with my HD2 (using 1.61 WWE rom).
The phone rings when I receive an incoming call but not when I get a txt. I can select a tone in Settings - Sound & Display - Notification Sounds and it will play the demo. My settings are saved but it just doesn't make a noise when I get a txt.
Any clues, anyone?

No this is different, i have no sounds at all, no ringtones, nothing, its as if they are just not there, the sounds are still in the windows DIR, but something looks different on the DOR layout, im sure the sounds were stored somewhere else too.
If i have to reformat my phone because of this im gonna freak damit, as this is not the first time.
Can anybody upload an image of the root DIR layout, or let me know of the sounds are stored anywhere else but the WIN DIR?
PS Where you get the 1.61 WWE rom?

I found a fix, use mem maid to transfer temp files to the storage card, including sounds, when you rebbot, it reverts to main memory but your sounds work again

I found a fix, use mem maid to transfer temp files to the storage card, including sounds, when you reboot, it reverts to main memory but your sounds work again

Please tell me how to fix this! What do i do once I install MemMaid?

use mem maid to transfer temp files to the storage card, including sounds, when you reboot, it reverts to main memory but your sounds work again

jrvenge said:
use mem maid to transfer temp files to the storage card, including sounds, when you reboot, it reverts to main memory but your sounds work again
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Thats what you already said, but I asked HOW!?
Do you mean this program?
http://www.dinarsoft.com/memmaid/
/edit: you are my HERO!! Thanks, it worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NP I found it by mistake.

Swype Cache Wiping

Swype is getting more and more hopeless by the day, firstly adding a space at the start of more or less anything i type and secondly making up words, or inserting the wrong word, all the time. But ive got so used to it now that its a struggle back on the qwerty keyboard so i want to persist.
Ive heard the way to get it back to how it started life is to wipe the cache, by the following method;
Settings>Application Settings>Manage Applications>Swype>Clear Cache
(this was found on an android forum, but on a phone running Sense).
I assume this would be the same more or less on my HD2 but alas no. If i goto the start menu i have a settings button but that doesnt contain anything about application settings. I could scroll along to the settings tab and i find an applications button but nothing in there fits the bill.
Anyone got any clues?
Im running Energy ROM 25.Oct 2010

Using a file explorer navigate to......
"my device\program files\swype"
delete the file "user data.udb" this contains all the custom words added.
theres also a copy in "my device\my documents\swype" which I assume is some kind of backup.
Get rid of those, soft reset and you should be back to just the standard dictionary, it does seem to insist on trying to insert some pretty obscure and useless words from stock though.........
As for the adding a space problem. You can turn off auto space in the swype settings somewhere.

Thanks, il give that a go. Does that also delete its memory, as i believe it remembers commonly used word combinations and such.
The space issue is different to what you suggest. Its not that it adds a space after a word, which i want, but that it adds a space BEFORE i enter the first word. This isnt a problem with text messages but is if im trying to input things into a text box or whatever, like a password where it will input " password" instead of "password". Its a strange problem and doesnt do it every time, there is certainly no obvious option that would effect it!

I cant confirm whether or not it will delete the memory, I would imagine so and Im not sure about the space thing either, sounds pretty annoying though!

[Q] Changed from IPhone 5S to Samsung Note 3 n900aucucnc2 on 4.4.2 and need some help

OK to start things off this is going to be a long list of questions/issues and various impressions, some opinionated and some fact. I've had apple phones for years and appreciate both, I changed because my iphone couldn't do some things my note 3 can do such as open up 200+ MB pdfs with relative ease, but then again the samsung struggles to do simple things the iphone did fresh out of the box. This is not meant to be a discussion of which is better but it would help to know what I'm comparing it to and how I think simple things should work. I use a PC just FYI.
1.) Data Transfer of large files from various desktops to the Note 3 either through internal memory or external sd card.
My first issue is that I cannot move large files from my internal memory to my sd card. The sd card in question is a sandisk 128gb but have also tried to few others just to make sure it's not the card. If I download a large file on utorrent such as a 720p movie or better, I cannot move it from internal memory to sd card. I just won't do it. Not only will it refuse to move large files but any photos are sometime hit and miss, sometimes it moves them with no issue at all, most of the time the files stay in the parent folder and don't end up in the destination folder. I can move various files if I connect it to my desktop and drag and drop them onto the sd card but sometimes moving the file corrupts it where it cannot be played on the phone. I've also tried this with numerous computers with the same result. to move files on the phone i go to my files, select the directory and then select the file I want to move. I hold down on it to select it and then press move, it then shows the internal and external storage options, i select the sd card and the folder I want the file in and then press move here in the top right hand corner. If there is another way let me know.
Second issue is when dragging and dropping large music files directly to the sd card or internal memory from a pc. If a drag and drop a FLAC album it corrupts it about 50% of the time. I routinely go to play the album and get the message that it does not support the file type or something to that affect. I often just delete it and redo the process, most of the time that works. On MP3's, if I drag and drop an entire discography of an artist (say 8gb or so) it's corrupted 100% of the time. When I go to playback the albums they play at double speed. I have to go back and drop them one by one and sometimes (but rarely) that has the same issue.
2.) Audio Playback/Microphone/Headphone/Bluetooth Issues
Firstly, I thought that all 3.5mm headphone jacks were on a standard. I did not realize that the note did not come with headphones and that the headphones that I used with an apple device would not fully function on an android device. This seems like something so simple it shouldn't even be an issue. All of the headphones, earbuds, etc I have that have inline controls do not adjust the volume or skip tracks on my android device. You name it, like a half dozen brands. It just doesn't work...
When trying to use talk to text for a text message either with headphones with inline mic or with a Bluetooth headset it does not use the microphone on the accessory device, it uses the internal phone mic which is an issue for me. So instead of using the mic right next to my mouth I have to hold the phone up to my mouth in loud places. I don't know any way to change this...I couldn't find it in any settings.
3.) Lockscreen (I don't know how this is supposed to work, I looked it up and I'm assuming its something I'm doing.)
I want my lockscreen to be simple but I cannot seem to get the weather off of my lockscreen. It does not appear unless I swipe down and there it is. How do I remove it? If I open up the lockscreen editor by swiping from left to right its not there. I only have one lockscreen page so I don't know whats going on.
When I have notifications on my lock screen and click on them it puts a box around the lower part of my lock screen where you normally swipe as to say swipe here stupid to unlock. Is that the case or am I missing something else? It seems as though if my phone doesn't have a security lock on it and I press on my notification it should just open it. Or is it intentionally non-intuitive for some other reason?
4.) GLITCHES!!!!!!!! Various other issues
Routinely my music apps gets stuck on a page. Say if I'm listening to an album and try to back it up to my list of albums it just loads the same page over and over again. I have to hit my homebutton and open up the music app again from the icon and sometimes that causes it to crash. It does this on the stock Samsung music player and on play music. Normally my phone plays music 24/7 so it may be just how much I use it for that purpose.
Apps crash on a regular basis, at least a few times a day. I'd say I have an app crash maybe 3-5 times a day on average. Some more than others. Because of all the glitches I did a factory reset weeks ago to see if there was another issue. I've also tried uninstalling and re-installing all the apps that normally crash but that hasn't seemed to help. I don't believe apps used by millions on other android devices such as Bank of America (crashes literally every time I use it) or Pandora could be the problem.
Google integration is sketchy at best, It routinely doesn't delete e-mails off the google server when I delete them off my phone. It's really hit and miss. Sometimes it works, sometimes it will load the same e-mails dozens of times even though I've deleted it daily. The google+ photo backup is hit and miss and even updates over cellular even though its set to only update over wifi when plugged in. All of the sync settings seem appropriate for what I want it just doesn't work.
Text scaling under most situations is completely absurd. I've got 5.7" of screen and have to re-scale practically everything that loads so I can read it. This is especially and issue when reading forums which I'm on frequently. Is there a way to change this? If there isn't there definitely should be! Not a glitch but an issue.
All social media apps that load from a page (a wall, forum, feed, whetever) always reload when I click on something and go back forcing me to start over from the beginning. I've only had this issue on this phone, my previous iphones just take me back to where I was. Is there a way to change this annoying problem?
5.) The Photo Gallery
It just doesn't work. I don't know any other way to put it, its the second biggest failure on the phone. i wouldn't trust it with important anything! It routinely just looses photos, online account's don't update at all, s health photo that I've deleted dozens of times keeps showing up in my photos, all my album covers end up in my gallery and I have to manually go back and delete them all, photos end up corrupted and not able to view them whether on sd card or on phone, it goes on and on. Is there another application I can use? Can I make another app my default gallery app? Some online photos like picassa/google+ don't load correctly, it'll show the preview photo and when clicked on it'll show a completely different photo from that album. I would just delete it but can't delete online account photos from my phone gallery app and when I delete them online it doesn't update it on my gallery.
6.) Voicemail
I recieved a voicemail the first 10 minutes I had my phone and clicked on it in my notifications and it called my voicemail. I was confused at first, was i holding a 700 dollar phone or 90's Nokia? Seriously? And on top of that it didn't come with ATT visual voicemail out of the box, I had to download it. WTF! No I don't need voicemail on a phone I need 20 other google apps instead...seriously? On top of that att visual voicemail app is crap. I routinely miss voicemails because it not reliable enough to show all my voicemails in my notifications. Is that how all android devices are? I may be a little spoiled by the voicemail being on a tab in my phone app but it seems as though if there is an att specific model this should work better than it does...
7.) Text messaging
I don't use the stock mesaging app because it wouldn't reliably send a photo...that is all. I use textra now and it works better but still isn't what I would consider to be reliable...
8.) General Gripes about the phone app
The buttons are so large it looks like its designed for the seeing impaired.
Color scheme looks like I'm 4 and trying to push blocks into the appropriate holes...
I can't figure out how to change the color scheme on it, can you change it?
I hate the cartoonish figures for people that don't have photos.
Okay, it generally looks childish or like it was designed by Mattel. I need something far more professional looking.
On a positive note, speech and handwriting recognition is second to none, S Pen apps and S pen integration in general is very refined. It's extremely fast with very little lag in all situations. There are lots of positives so I'm not downing the phone at all but it just needs to fit my needs better. That's not everything but a good start. Thanks for your time and patience.

And to sum it all up, I think you should go back to i... :sly:
Sent from my N9005

Dejan Sathanas said:
And to sum it all up, I think you should go back to i... :sly:
Sent from my N9005
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So your note does all of this also?

Lythropus said:
So your note does all of this also?
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First - ur post is too big to even read.
You are in xda and there is ton of information here. If you search , u will realize that most of the issues have solution...
When moving from another OS its always difficult but stay and you will love it.

Let me rephrase, it's not an android problem that I'm aware of: is my phone ****ed up and in need of replacement our does every note 900a cnc2 do this stupid ****?
The new os doesn't seem to be an issue this is mainly a hardware issue unless you're saying all android phones corrupt photos straight out the box. Which I know that isn't the case.
Some of my gripes are android related but mostly sounds like a hardware issue.

Try moving the large file using "my files", 3rd party file manager cannot move file from internal to external sd (a limitation introduced in kitkat).
Also try copying your music collection using card reader.

stonedead said:
Try moving the large file using "my files", 3rd party file manager cannot move file from internal to external sd (a limitation introduced in kitkat).
Also try copying your music collection using card reader.
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I've only tried my files to move it on the phone, it will not move them.
I basically have to use a card reader to copy anything over a gig or so reliably. I can drag and drop it but that doesn't always work.

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My first issue is that I cannot move large files from my internal memory to my sd card.
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Really, and you did that just fine on the iPhone? :silly: That would be quite a full miracle given how (as far as I know) the iPhone never had a SD card :silly:
Read around - if you are on 4.4 there are some new security restrictions on writing to the external SD. If you are on 4.3 you are probably doing something wrong.

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Really, and you did that just fine on the iPhone? :silly: That would be quite a full miracle given how (as far as I know) the iPhone never had a SD card :silly:
Read around - if you are on 4.4 there are some new security restrictions on writing to the external SD. If you are on 4.3 you are probably doing something wrong.
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Of course I didn't, I.used third party software to drag and drop mp3's on internal storage of a jailbroken device. It worked 100% of the time.
But you're still missing the point. My files are being corrupted whether on the external sd card or the internal storage. There aren't any examples off this on my model phone on your forum...

As far as I know my files isn't a third party so it should have full access to read and write to my sd card per 4.4
That does explain why u torrent won't do it though.

Did u use your iTunes mp3 files? My girlfriend is also into that icrap and when she used my computer for music files I learned that you don't wanna use iTunes. Don't take this as a apple...uhm... disliker read about it if u don't believe it. Itunes messes with the music files and therefor I had to do my whole music storage from the scratch.
I think what @Dejan Sathanas was trying to say was: that if you are not ready to switch u will find strange issues that nobody else encounters and end up spamming the threats. For example: I haven't had any issue moving any files ever on any android device!
So long story short
1. Get the device u prefer (even if it is an apple)
2. Try some music files that didn't run through apple tech

4aces said:
Did u use your iTunes mp3 files? My girlfriend is also into that icrap and when she used my computer for music files I learned that you don't wanna use iTunes. Don't take this as a apple...uhm... disliker read about it if u don't believe it. Itunes messes with the music files and therefor I had to do my whole music storage from the scratch.
I think what @Dejan Sathanas was trying to say was: that if you are not ready to switch u will find strange issues that nobody else encounters and end up spamming the threats. For example: I haven't had any issue moving any files ever on any android device!
So long story short
1. Get the device u prefer (even if it is an apple)
2. Try some music files that didn't run through apple tech
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I didn't use the ALAC files from my Apple device. I was under the impression they wouldn't play on here, just used mp3s and flacs. I tried to upload a pic of what the corrupt files look like on my phone but got an error that said could not complete this operation due to low memory. I'll figure it out when I get off work and upload them.

Took it to best buy\ATT, they sent me to the Samsung rep/dealer in store. He couldn't figure out what was going on, why it wouldn't move files, why some would corrupt, update Google anything, etc so they are sending me a new one.