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ALL my music keeps disappearing!

This happened to me a lot with my MT3G, and I was very upset when it continued to happen on my G2. Since getting Winamp when it came out it hasn't done it to me for a while, but now it's doing it again. I can see the media on my SD card but when I goto music player or winamp nothing shows up.
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Then magically it all may or may not appear.
What is going on here?
*wow it took forever for it to let me post...*

You SD card has to be mounted in order for your music to be seen. I see you have your usb attached, setting to disk drive will unmount your SD, hence your music is gone, and will magically reappear when you go to charge only or disconnect your usb.

The USB was definitely not the issue, that was just so I could DDMS screencap it. The only thing that seems to get it is removing all the stuff from card to PC, then reformatting it and load it back. It used to do this to me like once a week.

reloading my entire SD card fixed it. I am quite upset this issue came back. I duno what even causes it. The gallery was messed up too but not as bad.
Now I have a gallery that has hundreds of the exact same picture, which is the last picture I took in my camera gallery. WTF is up with that?
This shows the 894 Gallery that didn't exist this morning, is the same picture that I took last *Fondue Pot lol*
And it scrolls through this for several finger swipes... And when ya scroll through fast and it shows the date it is dates from June 2008-Present. So I am nervous to delete it

I think your SD Card is bad -- can you put it in a card reader attached to a PC and run error checking (right click on its drive icon then Properties then Error checking)
ALso, is this by any chance the same card you had in your previous phone?

Doesn't give me any errors otherwise. It's the 8GB that came with my G2, I had a 2GB and a 4GB in my MT3G

This would happen to me too. What folder is your music in?

Media/Audio/Music I think it is. It got relocated there once while trying to fix this problem in the past

That is definately weird. When the problem happens again, open up the development settings app and do a media scanner search. It should pop up again. I can see you're using CM, I've never ever had a problem like that, but have you tried any other roms? Also, I keep my music in a forder titled "My Music" on the root of my SD card. Maybe you could try that?

Ah yes, I've read about that media search before but haven't done that in forever so I forgot all about that. I shall try that if this happens again *hopefully doesn't* lol
I've also been planning on cleaning up my SD card a lot, and while I'm at it I'll relocate music. It used to just be on Root:/Music

Hi,
One thing that made me replace my SD card and drove me CRAZY, is the fact that I wasn't aware I had a .nomedia file in my camera folder.
When such a file exist in a folder, ALL content will not be shown in ANY media browser...
It started when I used some crappy picture browser that had the option to show/hide certain folders in gallery. I played around with it a while, tossed the app but I didn't know the app simply adds or removes these .nomedia files to the folders.
Maybe you can check if you have such a .nomedia in the folders where your music seems to "dissapear" ?
Secondly, about the duplicate pictures etc, try deleting the thumbnail cache.
You can also download an app from market called SDRescan, that forces to scan the SD card for new content.
Good luck!

Ooo that app sounds useful *searching*
I've recently gotten around to messing with .nomedia files, they do come in handy when ya want them lol. I definitly don't have one in that folder though because fully cloning the whole thing and replacing it on the SD gets it working again.
Do you mean just delete all the thumbs.db off my SD?

I would clear the contents of the .thumbnails directory in your DCIM or whatever folder you have for your camera images.
Next run SDRescan, and open gallery again. It might take a while re-indexing the contents but it should regenerate the thumbnails.

Folks
I still have the problem mentioned above?
I do the SDrescan. But after a few hours my lovely ringtone from my SD isnt set as ringtone anymore.
When I do the rescan , it finds it again but after a few hours it's lost again :'(
Any one got a solution?

i also use SDrescan and i only had 2 times since a rough start that my ringtone is switched to default.
PS: its a great app never had any trouble anymore that DoubleTwist did'nt find my music

Aussi said:
Folks
I still have the problem mentioned above?
I do the SDrescan. But after a few hours my lovely ringtone from my SD isnt set as ringtone anymore.
When I do the rescan , it finds it again but after a few hours it's lost again :'(
Any one got a solution?
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Similar issue here with the music. Been going on for weeks. The worst part is I'll be listening to podcasts and once they disappear, it also loses where I had last paused. So gd annoying.

Aussi said:
Folks
I still have the problem mentioned above?
I do the SDrescan. But after a few hours my lovely ringtone from my SD isnt set as ringtone anymore.
When I do the rescan , it finds it again but after a few hours it's lost again :'(
Any one got a solution?
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forget the rescan.
1 mount the sdcard in a reader, or via your phone to your computer.
2 copy the entire card to a directory on your pc.
3 format the card, after you verify there is a good copy of your stuff on the pc/mac
this next part can kill your phone and or card's contents if you point it at the wrong mount point. careful !
4 in a terminal, do this: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc1 bs=1M count=9000 (only do this to the exact hardware mount point of your sdcard, make sure by mounting and unmounting it once or twice)
if it finishes, or when you get tired of waiting, format the card again either in your mac or your phone. copy the contents THAT YOU KNOW ARE GOOD FILES back onto the card.
enjoy
(file corruption does things that just 'erasing' doesn't tend to fix.)

SD card? Im a Dunce

Okay first post and sure this is off to a great start, because its probably like the lamest question ever....
I see the SD card partition on the Nexus S and for the LIFE of me can't actually figure out what its for.
If USB storage is for holding media and info then what is the SD for?
At one point i was getting memory errors from apps and it said SD memory at capacity or something like that and the limit seemed VERY small. I ran a cache cleaner and removed some clashing apps (i believe) and it seemed fine after that.
Is the SD the internal RAM?
feel free to call me any derogatory name you like as long as you give me a wiki or explanation. I tried searching the forum and google but it just brings up posts where people already talk about SD with knowledge.
thanks

tevil said:
Okay first post and sure this is off to a great start, because its probably like the lamest question ever....
I see the SD card partition on the Nexus S and for the LIFE of me can't actually figure out what its for.
If USB storage is for holding media and info then what is the SD for?
At one point i was getting memory errors from apps and it said SD memory at capacity or something like that and the limit seemed VERY small. I ran a cache cleaner and removed some clashing apps (i believe) and it seemed fine after that.
Is the SD the internal RAM?
feel free to call me any derogatory name you like as long as you give me a wiki or explanation. I tried searching the forum and google but it just brings up posts where people already talk about SD with knowledge.
thanks
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The SD card is a non removable flash storage device. It's the storage you see when you mount USB storage.
Apps will cache data to the SD card, this is where any downloads go, any picture s or movies you take, etc. It is 16 GB of general storage (separate from the 1GB of internal storage).

Think of it as 'built-in'. For all practical purposes, there is a sdcard, which behaves just as it would on any other android, but you can't remove it. I'm not sure if it is physically part of the internal memory or not. I suspect there is one 16GB chip that is partitioned for internal and /sdcard.
tevil said:
Okay first post and sure this is off to a great start, because its probably like the lamest question ever....
I see the SD card partition on the Nexus S and for the LIFE of me can't actually figure out what its for.
If USB storage is for holding media and info then what is the SD for?
At one point i was getting memory errors from apps and it said SD memory at capacity or something like that and the limit seemed VERY small. I ran a cache cleaner and removed some clashing apps (i believe) and it seemed fine after that.
Is the SD the internal RAM?
feel free to call me any derogatory name you like as long as you give me a wiki or explanation. I tried searching the forum and google but it just brings up posts where people already talk about SD with knowledge.
thanks
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i am a bit stumped then. when it gave me the sd capacity it was NO WHERE near 16g's. it was like 800mbs or something. this is why my slacker kept crashing out and giving me a memory error.
is there a way in the OS to see the SD capacity? I had an app that told me but got rid of it cause i think it was also part of the crashing issues i had.
so is what your saying the SD is what you see when you USB your phone to the computer? its that root DIR. In clockwork i can see a USB and SD dir separately i believe but ill have to check again
thanks
on a side note does anyone else have slacker issues. this is how the entire subject came up to me anyway

tevil said:
i am a bit stumped then. when it gave me the sd capacity it was NO WHERE near 16g's. it was like 800mbs or something. this is why my slacker kept crashing out and giving me a memory error.
is there a way in the OS to see the SD capacity? I had an app that told me but got rid of it cause i think it was also part of the crashing issues i had.
so is what your saying the SD is what you see when you USB your phone to the computer? its that root DIR. In clockwork i can see a USB and SD dir separately i believe but ill have to check again
thanks
on a side note does anyone else have slacker issues. this is how the entire subject came up to me anyway
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Slacker works fine for me, always has (outside of it's poor ability to precache the next song).
For Storage go to Settings -> Storage. USB storage is the SD card.

What space you see when you plug in the NS to your computer's USB is the SD card.
It is not the root folder of the whole phone.
Under the "Settings -> Storage" window on your phone, the "USB Storage" is we are calling the SD card.
The Internal Storage is what the phone needs itself.
Here is mine:
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Because of all the music on my NS & the fact almost all my apps are there too, I am sucking up approx 3 gigs of SD or USb storage space.
The NS is sucking up approx 800megs of space, of the 1 gig available to it.
As for your Slacker issues, Although I am not familiar with this application, have you tried just reinstalling it.
Heeter

cool thanks guys.
just couldnt figure whyd they name something twice.
As for slacker i beleive it was a mix of
juice defender (which i may try again solo to see if its really that good)
ad blocker (which was jsut something i tried but never really needed, good riddance)
and like these two cleaners which i dont remember the names of.
Now i have NG cache cleaner which is nice and my slcaker seems to be normal again
wasnt sure if the adblocker was seeing the commercials in slacker as ads and trying to block them out causing problems so i got rid of that first.
as the other guy said the pre chaching was HORRIBLE at times making me think the app locked. but after those removals it worked fine with occassional lag betweensongs

Phone Storage Low Help!

Hi,
Bit of background info...
I'm using the standard Desire HD Rom (Gingerbread) ever since it was official in the UK. Before that I was running the standard Froyo ROM. I had an issue just after the first small OTA that caused my CPU to 100% but after following a guide on XDA restored my phone and its been fine. Until now.
The issue...
I have been noticing my phone storage was getting low, about 2months ago I noticed it was at 218Mb Free, and kept my eye on the free storage level. I installed the odd application, and un-installed a couple, I'm not going to say I have no apps but I'm not excessive. When my phone storage reached the area where Android notifies me of low storage I stopped installing apps and started removing them, and other obvious uses of phone memory, such as a couple HTC skins and a wallpaper or two. The message would disappear. But after a day or two the message will return, note no installed apps. I have cleared cache, temp files etc to remove the message and regain space, but it got to the point that I was installing nothing and the space continued to shrink. Its now at a critical point that things like the gallery don't work etc so my smart phone is no longer so smart but rather crippled in functionality. The space just continues to disappear, I've looked through the installed apps list and cant see what's using up the space.
I can note my HTC Sense is using 400Mb of space, is this normal? But this has not increased and does not account for the continual space use.
So im now at the point of a fix or having to restore my phone again.
If anyone has any ideas, need to know more etc please let me know.
Cheers,
Simon
Android 2.3.3
HTC Sense 2.1

gamesmachine said:
Hi,
Bit of background info...
I'm using the standard Desire HD Rom (Gingerbread) ever since it was official in the UK. Before that I was running the standard Froyo ROM. I had an issue just after the first small OTA that caused my CPU to 100% but after following a guide on XDA restored my phone and its been fine. Until now.
The issue...
I have been noticing my phone storage was getting low, about 2months ago I noticed it was at 218Mb Free, and kept my eye on the free storage level. I installed the odd application, and un-installed a couple, I'm not going to say I have no apps but I'm not excessive. When my phone storage reached the area where Android notifies me of low storage I stopped installing apps and started removing them, and other obvious uses of phone memory, such as a couple HTC skins and a wallpaper or two. The message would disappear. But after a day or two the message will return, note no installed apps. I have cleared cache, temp files etc to remove the message and regain space, but it got to the point that I was installing nothing and the space continued to shrink. Its now at a critical point that things like the gallery don't work etc so my smart phone is no longer so smart but rather crippled in functionality. The space just continues to disappear, I've looked through the installed apps list and cant see what's using up the space.
I can note my HTC Sense is using 400Mb of space, is this normal? But this has not increased and does not account for the continual space use.
So im now at the point of a fix or having to restore my phone again.
If anyone has any ideas, need to know more etc please let me know.
Cheers,
Simon
Android 2.3.3
HTC Sense 2.1
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things like galley wont work means .......you are getting force closes ???

No its not a force close it says low memory and it cannot open, nothing like the force close dialogue.
Again that's a by product of low memory and doesn't solve my continual lowering memory issue.
Si

gamesmachine said:
Hi,
I can note my HTC Sense is using 400Mb of space, is this normal? But this has not increased and does not account for the continual space use.
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is this normal? Yes, is this desirable? No. This is why a lot of us took the custom rom route and binned Sense, does a reboot improve matters?
Just for info here's my free Space on CM Nightly #204
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My suggestion is to root and create an sd-ext partition.

You asked earlier if this was normal. Hell no it is not normal! There is no way that HTC Sense should consume 400MB. Can you take pictures of a few screens showing your low storage?
First one of app drawer > menu button > remove app > all tab > menu button > sort by size. This will put all your higher consuming apps at the top of the list.
Second pic of settings > SD & phone storage
Third pic of app drawer > menu button > remove app > running tab > menu button > show cached processes > and make sure HTC Sense is showing in the pic.
Make sure the used and free MB at the bottom of the screen is showing in the pics. You mostlikely will have to use a camera since your phone is not rooted to show the display.

Sense probably does use 400 mb.
Try moving apps to SD, it doesnt affect the app performance that much.

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Sense probably does use 400 mb.
Try moving apps to SD, it doesnt affect the app performance that much.
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HTC Sense does not use 400MB of internal storage or free memory (RAM). Yes there are a number of apps and widgets associated with it but if OP's phone is reporting 400MB for HTC Sense on a non rooted ROM then it has serious issues.
Edit: I am running a stock rooted ROM. Yes I have HTC Sense. I have over 250 apps installed and I do consider that excessive. I moved some but not all of the apps to the sd card. I am still left with almost 200MB of internal storage. My phone averages about 280MB of free memory (RAM). And in none of the menus does it report sense to be 400MB. It reports approximately 5MB of internal storage and about 34MB of memory (RAM) being used for it.

Hey thanks for getting back to me, I will get on your photos tomorrow morning. I have had a quick count of key app draw apps and its 128 including all stock apps, I have moved prity much all apps I can to SD and deleted more last night to gain access to gallery etc and my space went up to 72mb, now a day later its at 52.
I would like to root but it seems difficult for this Rom, just at the moment It's not a great time to have to wipe the phone etc, but any guides I can still bookmark, but need to be for official Rom on this version.
Obviously the priority is finding the issue for me and others, as I cannot find any useful help via Google etc.
Cheers for getting back to me again,
Si

Ok here are the images you requested, I took a couple of the 'All' Section, I have a few apps over a couple Mb, but after this image they go down into the 1Mb to few hundred Kb range.
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Ram wise the phone seems fine.
I don't know if its related but I have still not gotten the new Market app, still stuck on the old one, and no notification of an update.
Maybe root is the best option, but I do like quite a few options that are part of sense, so maybe a sense version rom, not that I'm saying there aren't issues with sense tho...
But still will be helpful to know whats up, lost another 2Mb of space last night as I gained some more by moving a couple more larger apps (ebay, layer) to SD.
Thanks
Si

Everything looks fine except for that first pic. 389MB for HTC Sense on internal storage is unreal. I myself have no clue what could be causing this. Are you using any HTC Sense widgets on your home screens that may be overloaded with data? I am not exactly sure what would be included with HTC Sense at this point. If you select HTC Sense from that screen it will say "Total", "Application", and "Data" under Storage. What are these values? Guessing it is your data that is huge. I wouldn't end up clearing the data at this point since I have heard that it may mess up your phone.
Yes it might be cool to just factory reset or root to a custom ROM. But if this is not a bug then the same thing will happen again to you if it is something you are causing yourself.

Yep its all app data, I also read that deleting it is a bad idea, I had the friend stream, and still have the photo gallery flip widget, the music widget and a couple of toggle widgets none of which are HTC.
Don't know what's caused it, not been playing around with anything out of the ordinary.
Cheers,
Si

Friendstream and the Music Widget are HTC Sense widgets. I don't see gallery widget but I do see a HTC Photo Album Widget. Might want to look at that Friendstream Widget and see if you can clear things out of it.
If your phone was rooted we could at least look for 400MBs of files which would be easy. But not rooted I am not sure what you can do. Also looking at my phone you have 2 HTC Sense entries in the internal storage. The icon with the clock is about the same size as mine. However my other one is only 504KB. I wonder what this one does. Surely someone knows.

I looked in friend stream and there is nothing, I also removed the widget and restarted the phone nothing, if anything I've lost space...
I don't know if I can even root this Rom, I know it was easy on older roms, or have to downgrade...sounds fun.
Yeah I have the same gallery widget.
Thing is the HTC sense using 389Mb stays the same, so what's using the additional space!?
Cheers,
Si

Do you have fastboot disabled? You never know. lol

No its still on xD
Si

that' why i am on miui or cm7
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That is just insane. I am running a stock rooted 2.3.3 Gingerbread rom. When I check my storage usage for HTC Sense, it is a mere 76kb. That is correct, kb not mb. Perhaps you should elaborate on this guide that you used to fix the CPU issue you had. Have you considered that it may be related?
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Turn that dang fastboot off and then turn your phone completely off and then turn your phone back on. If I were you I would keep fastboot off. It can cause alot of issues.
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that' why i am on miui or cm7
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If you have no help for the situation then go troll elsewhere.

I don't know if its related, seems unlikely as it was tied to the update the phone received around Christmas. In some cases peoples phones would sit at 100% utilisation permanently, killing the battery in about 3 hours. I did a hard reset and it fixed the issue, not too bad as I had only had the phone about 2 weeks, however now its not had a hard reset since and has been upgraded to 2.3.2 since, and that was June? So its been OK, until I noticed this issue, but god knows how long its been going on...
Yeah it's mental 489Mb Vs Mere KB... Not Great xD
I have been looking into the downgrade ROM situation to allow for a Root etc, just in case I need to do a hard reset, may as well do both, then go from there.
Disabled Fast Boot, and its still using 389Mb and Space sits at 61Mb Tonight xD
Cheers for help so far!
Si

Get more space on 8GB Nexus 7?

I got my Nexus 7, just rooted it and thinking of free up some space. Which apps can I remove without damaging the system? Can I remove these without any trouble:
Calendar (i will use Jorte)
Currents
Earth
Email
Gallery ( i will use quickpic)
Google+
Latitude
Local
Messenger
Play Music(will use my own musicplayer)
Talk
Voice Search
Youtube(will use www.youtube.com)
How can I remove them the securest way?
Anything else to free up space?

You can remove most of those. But the safest way to find out is to rename them by adding .bak at the end then reboot. Check for ill side effects and if none, then you can truly delete them. I would keep downloads and a few others I saw you print. Anything that can be installed from market can be removed.
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Ok. Anyone done this before and now which I should delete?
Can I just rename those under /system/app/ ?

Removing apps is always a decent option to free up space. Just be careful. I would also recommend investing in an otg cable. Using thumbdrives or external self powered hard drives is a great option. Putting my 1Tb drive to work with it soon.
Sent from My SKYICS powered, iPhone killing, i727 death machine.

Before removing anything, you should do a nandroid backup. Then move that to a safe place off the device.
That way, if you mess something up, you can get it back.
OTG works great for storage, you just can't use it for app installation and usage. Photos and videos work well from it though you have to deal with something sticking out of your device.
You might also consider one of the WiFi devices (like Kingston Wi-Drive) which will give you similar to OTG without having something plugged in all the time.

Yeah, first thing I did was a nandroid backup
I tried rename some of the apps under /system/app to *.bak, and did a reboot, but they are still in my apps?
I have to order a OTG cable, to store media on! Will this work for a 8GB aswell, says only 16 and 32GB? http://www.ebay.com/itm/USB-A-Femal...ccessories&hash=item1e70f4ba8c#ht_1628wt_1010

I would strongly suggest against removing downloads.
A great place that I always free app space from is /system/media. You can always generally safely remove ringtones, pictures, wallpapers, live wallpaper app and wallpapers if you're not using them...
Make sure that you're not locally caching google play music songs if you are using play - your stuff won't be available offline, but it also won't take up space.
Sent from my rooted Nexus 7 via xda-developers app.

This us the very reason why I always buy more than I think I need as far as disk space goes. I know Google and Asus were aiming to keep the N7 at a minimum cost but 8gb is useless for a device of this type. In actuality you're only getting a little more than 5gb.
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You might want to see how much space you actually save before going through the trouble. I suspect that most of these apps are a few mb at most.

It doesn't stick out that bad.
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everlong81 said:
I got my Nexus 7, just rooted it and thinking of free up some space. Which apps can I remove without damaging the system? Can I remove these without any trouble:
Calendar (i will use Jorte)
Currents
Earth
Email
Gallery ( i will use quickpic)
Google+
Latitude
Local
Messenger
Play Music(will use my own musicplayer)
Talk
Voice Search
Youtube(will use www.youtube.com)
How can I remove them the securest way?
Anything else to free up space?
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You can safely remove all of the listed apps using Titanium Backup. But I do believe that Latitude and Local are part of the Google Maps app and that will have to go if you want the two gone.

If you go to settings / storage you can peek around and see what's taking up most space.
Also android assistant can help you mass cleanup your caches - use with care.
Like above posters said everything on Google play can be smoothly uninstalled or reinstalled if you please.
Sent from my Nexus 7 16gb, unlocked, rooted, trinity 7 kernel, stock OS using Tapatalk 2.

Have a look at cyanogenmod wiki, there's a nice list
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app

removing system apps wont free up any space in your storage/app partition. itll free up space in the system partition which wont help you with what you want. theres already lots of space in the system partition. just to let you know.

Please ignore my post.

About OTG
Is it possible to put my games on USB drive? I have Modern Combat 4, Fifa 12, Real Racing.

tablet z Lollipop feedback

Hi everyone!
Please post here your opinions / problems / enhances and all that you find useful to share about the new born Android on our beautiful machines

Does the lilipop arrived yet to the z tablet? Mine hás no update yet :/

It has just arrived to Portugal. I had the notification on mine like one hour ago but will only install it during the weekend.
You just will have to wait for your turn....

I didn't wait and flashed the TW version. Pretty good in my opinion.

That update method is just too much trouble for me lol!
What differences did you feel? Faster? More battery life? Can you download stuff directly to your micro SD card now?

Settings force close when I open it in ultra stamina mode.
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The battery decreases when using the tablet and charging it (Very Light usage minimum brightness)"Flashed the fw twice.
And It'll decrease Really fast that it will give me a warning about it for just using Tapatalk and Facebook.Didn't have this problem on CM.
For the performance I can't compare it to the previous build cuz I'm on CM for months. I can say it's OK but not smooth and buttery like CM.
Having latest Sony apps, Themes and the remote back is a nice thing. : )
I was very exited about the ultra stamina mode. But seriously without a mod to add some apps there's almost no point for activating it.
Auto-rotation toggle in portrate mode will be portrait-only then after a second switches to landscape. Weird thing.
There is no white balance anymore.

To me the most annoying thing in Kit Kat was the external SD card writing permitions. You couldn't download stuff directly to it, I hope lollipop allows that.i will install it soon and then post my opinion.

Guys the Lollipop update is excellent. The new interface is really slick. The ART runtime really makes this tablet fly. Sony has breathed new life into our tablets, it's great. There is one click root with kingroot 4.1 as well. I installed the APK and it worked perfectly.

Could you be a litre more specific? Tell us how you feel about battery life, performance, any lag, I read some complaints about rotation mode, SD card permitions....

pafmdsilva said:
Could you be a litre more specific? Tell us how you feel about battery life, performance, any lag, I read some complaints about rotation mode, SD card permitions....
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You expect me to tell you about battery life when I was only using it for a couple of hours? How about you get on your horse, install the update, and tell us yourself.

Just got lollipop a few hours ago.
The update was smooth and I didn't loose any data and all apps still here.
First impression is that lollipop is quite faster than kitkat.
I am enjoying enjoying the new interface. Nice and easy to use.
On the settings menu you will find a few new things like the ultra stamina mode and add guest accounts or add apps to micro SD card but you still can't use your torrent engine to download stuff directly into it...may in a future update.
About battery still can't say cause not enough use.
Overall I am happy with the update mainly because how faster it got.

Just got lollipop a few hours ago.
The update was smooth and I didn't loose any data and all apps still here.
First impression is that lollipop is quite faster than kitkat.
I am enjoying enjoying the new interface. Nice and easy to use.
On the settings menu you will find a few new things like the ultra stamina mode and add guest accounts or add apps to micro SD card but you still can't use your torrent engine to download stuff directly into it...may in a future update.
About battery still can't say cause not enough use.
Overall I am happy with the update mainly because how faster it got.

First impress on lollipop
Smooth upgrade, nothing lost except Clean master widget (expected) although flying broomstick is still floating on my scren
Now I can move apps to SD card. It has released pressure on memory, so tablet behaves much much better.
A bout battery I can not make opinion - too early to say.
In any case GOOD UPGRADE!
Has anybody tested storage encryption? Would like to encrypt, but am little afraid of slowdown (old CPU).
Decryption can be tricky - read about hanging in the middle of process, than only factory reset helps. Data gone... But it was different device...
If anybody has experience please report. Thanks in advance.

Been running 5.02 for a few days now, only issue thus far is my Volume dropped noticeably on my tablet..
Even at Max level its noticeably softer.

move apps to SD - what about app data?
I tried out the move apps to SD card on the new lollipop 5.0.2 for the Tablet Z
(I have the 16Gig wifi).
It moved the app itself to SD, but what it doesn't seem to do is cause the app to put it's data on the SD card.
I have a specific app that downloads and caches an issue of a magazine, so it uses lots of data (900 MB last time I looked), and although some 15MB of app moved to the SD card, none of this data did.
I even tried deleting that month's issue and downloading a different month's issue to see if new downloads would go to SD: nope.
So, while I like the idea of being able to move the apps to SD card, so far it really hasn't proved to be much of a benefit to me because at least 3 GB of my internal storage seems to be taken by cached data (my magazine app, google books, etc) that doesn't seem to want to move to the SD card.
I'm continuously getting the warning notification to move stuff to the SD card to free up space, but I've got very little I can move (a few hundred MB) compared to the several GB of cached app data that won't move.
I'm really thinking I need to get the 32gb version next time around.

francobarber said:
I tried out the move apps to SD card on the new lollipop 5.0.2 for the Tablet Z
(I have the 16Gig wifi).
It moved the app itself to SD, but what it doesn't seem to do is cause the app to put it's data on the SD card.
I have a specific app that downloads and caches an issue of a magazine, so it uses lots of data (900 MB last time I looked), and although some 15MB of app moved to the SD card, none of this data did.
I even tried deleting that month's issue and downloading a different month's issue to see if new downloads would go to SD: nope.
So, while I like the idea of being able to move the apps to SD card, so far it really hasn't proved to be much of a benefit to me because at least 3 GB of my internal storage seems to be taken by cached data (my magazine app, google books, etc) that doesn't seem to want to move to the SD card.
I'm continuously getting the warning notification to move stuff to the SD card to free up space, but I've got very little I can move (a few hundred MB) compared to the several GB of cached app data that won't move.
I'm really thinking I need to get the 32gb version next time around.
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You don't need the 32gb version, you need to know what you are doing. Root your tablet then install link2sd.

warriorking said:
Been running 5.02 for a few days now, only issue thus far is my Volume dropped noticeably on my tablet..
Even at Max level its noticeably softer.
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I think you are right. I almost cannot hear YouTube videos. Damn, this is a pity! For the rest, the tablet works great so far!

warriorking said:
Been running 5.02 for a few days now, only issue thus far is my Volume dropped noticeably on my tablet..
Even at Max level its noticeably softer.
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turkilmaz said:
I think you are right. I almost cannot hear YouTube videos. Damn, this is a pity! For the rest, the tablet works great so far!
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-tablet-z/themes-apps/android-5-0-2-volume-boost-mod-t3133122
francobarber said:
I'm continuously getting the warning notification to move stuff to the SD card to free up space, but I've got very little I can move (a few hundred MB) compared to the several GB of cached app data that won't move.
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This function seems to be useless, as it copies only apk files to external SD. Cache and everything else is still on internal SD.

My tablet Z has been given a new lease of life. love lollipop update. It was OTA update as well .
its much smoother now and faster. No noticeable lag. Interface looks more modern now.
Dont hesitate guys and update.
Btw my tablet is stock , not rooted. Been holding out on rooting, glad they gave us lollipop.