I'm not sure what happened but recording videos for longer than a few minutes crashes the recorder and the video comes back corrupted and wont play or display. Also, my sd card keeps "preparing" and crashing when connected to the PC. What is wrong with my phone? I am rooted running Apex 1.3.1 on 2.3.340 kernal version 2.6.32.9-gca645b6. This is really frustrating.
I think this may be related to plugging the device into the pc and then unplugging it with out clicking eject on the pc. the X has bin the only phone i know of that has done this
This has happened to me twice now and i had to pull all the files off the sdcard reformat and swap all back over
one thing with mine was that the pics also wouldn't load and the gallery would crash n video would too
i also tried to wipe cache n data in video and gallery! no good didn't work
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I have rockplayer running on my htc desire. when it works it seems to be an excellent media player but i've been having one major issue, in that it regularly stops working!
media files (xvid avi) are stored on my 16gb sd card. rockplayer will play a file, or sometimes two or three, and then stop working. the next time i try to play a file the screen simply goes black and i have to force close the program. this behaviour continues until i reformat the sd card and copy the videos back on, at which point it will work again for a short while and then stop again.
this is very frustrating. no amount of rebooting, trying different files, force closing etc etc seems to work. once the problem occurs, the only way i have found to get it working again is to reformat the sd card.
i am relatively tech savvy and i'm happy to tweak things and try things but i am new to android so my question is: has anyone else encountered these problems with rockplayer? (i haven't found anything from searching.) and also, is there anything i can do to log the problem and see what is happening? i can't even work out if it is an os problem, an app problem, a phone problem or an sd card problem!
any advice would be much appreciated.
thanks in advance.
After updating to EB13 (OTA), my phone seems to lose the ability to play ringtones, notifications and alarms sometime during charging. Interface and game sounds still play and a reboot will bring back full functionality.
It's particularly strange because if I temporarily plug the phone in for a brief charge (an hour or so) everything works fine. It manifests only while the phone is charging overnight. It fails to play the wakeup alarm and incoming calls and texts are completely silent, even if you try to play or change them from the settings.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
Did you try a hard reset yet? If not try that, if all else fails then I would suggest wiping the phone and loading Froyo either via odin, or from the .exe file from the Samsung site
I played with the phone most of yesterday and I'm still having the same issue. I the stock/deodexed/rooted EB13 and TrulyEpic in addition to the OTA Froyo update that the problem first manifested on. If I charge the phone to 100% battery, media files on the SD card are suddenly unrecognized. Media files that are part of the ROM and on the phone itself still play fine. A reboot or rescan of media solves the problem, but it returns as soon as the battery is fully charged. When I try to play the files through the default media player in those ROMs, it says that the file type is not supported. I've tried both ogg and mp3 files.
The problem started occurring right after my phone received the OTA Froyo update- prior to that, everything had been working fine.
While my alarm and ringtone issues did not seem to be affected by any battery levels, I thought I'd share just in case. After reading reports of success using this method, I backed up the entire SD card contents onto the PC, then formatted the SD card (using the option in the phone's settings), then moved the contents back onto the card. After that everything works great! Except a streaming re-buffer problem, but that's minimal compared to the boatload of issues I was experiencing before doing this. Really saved my bacon because I did not want to have to wipe the phone completely and start from scratch.
Wondering if disabling touchwiz and running with stock froyo would alleviate all the "little glitches" ppl are experiencing with eb13...anybody?
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Just want to make sure-- you haven't manually removed the DRM apks, have you?
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Just want to make sure-- you haven't manually removed the DRM apks, have you?
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I didn't change anything at all. The OTA update was when I first started experiencing the problem so I figured I might have had an app that caused the issue. I was waiting for Froyo to root anyway, so I figured I would just flash a new ROM and start fresh. I first flashed the ROM in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=853209 (the CWM 3.0.0.6, EXT4 version). Everything seemed to work fine, except for some issues with GPS that I wasn't too worried about. I didn't install any apps specifically because I wanted to make sure I still didn't have the media problem. It worked fine for a while but sometime after I started charging it, the problem reappeared. I clockwork flashed to the TrulyEpic ROM (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=971105) and installed all the extra patches in the 2nd post as well. Problem again reappeared sometime after charging it.
It only happens with audio files as far as I can tell. I haven't tried any video yet, but I have documents on the SD card that I can open fine even while it won't play the MP3s or OGGs. My wallpapers are stored on the SD card and they appear fine. Something happens during the charging process that gimps the ability to play audio but only off the SD card.
I did reformat the SD card before the first post-OTA flash. I'm going to charge the phone from a wall outlet tonight (I've been charging off USB) to see if that makes any difference. If it doesn't, I'll reformat the SD card again and see what happens.
Took a video this morning to help illustrate the problem:
After my last post in this thread, I went back to DI18 to see if my problems would reappear. They did not, so it's almost certain that it isn't my phone. Yesterday I flashed to Syndicate and this morning I woke to a ton of missed notifications again. I check and sure enough, it won't play A/V media from the SD card again. Curiously though, while an MP3 and AVI would not play, an OGG file did play. Images and documents opened and saved fine again.
I'd really like to get this figured out. What other logs or information can I provide that would be useful to debug this issue?
ZephyrFox said:
After updating to EB13 (OTA), my phone seems to lose the ability to play ringtones, notifications and alarms sometime during charging. Interface and game sounds still play and a reboot will bring back full functionality.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
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I don't know if you have already found the reason for this, but you don't need to reboot to fix this. All you need is to Unmount and Mount the SD card.
So, I've been having a lot of problems with the Gallery app on my Iconia. The app won't load my pictures / movies at all. I assume this has to do with the media scanner process not thoroughly scrubbing my device because the silly thing has never scanned the external_sd and only recently stopped scanning the internal.
Is there a fix for this? I've tried a few other gallery apps with no success which is what leads me to believe this is an issue related to the media scanner.
Currently running Tabloonay 1.0.2.
Thanks for any help.
I had the same issue with mine and my old sdcard I reused from another device. I could watch the logs and see that it never scanned the sdcard even if I used a rescan utility from the market.
My fix was to pop the card out, plug into a PC and reformat it. After that it started scanning as soon as I popped the card back in and automatically finds new media I transfer over.
I have the same problem with mine. I have an external USB HD with about 300GB of video and image files and Gallery is really a crap-shoot when it comes to browsing my media. Sometimes it works, most of the times it doesn't load at least 90% of my media, and other times it shows certain folders but not others.
Have not had the problem on my a500...
But have had the problem on other android based devices.
Before doing a factory reset, try downloading "sdrescan" from the market. Free app, will trigger a scan of all media and works for some people.
Let me know, had similar problems before. Are you rooted with cwm installed? If sdrecan does not help, clearing the cache partition should take care of your problem.
first, update taboonay to latest version
second, clear cache and restart your Gallery.
third, do sdrescan because the tablet is really dumb and do not rescan the internal and external that good
I should have never taken the Kitkat update. Yeah, I read all the things about third party apps not being able to save to SD card but I didn't think that would effect the stock apps and the way things normally occur. So.. Here's my biggest problem which has me extremely pissed after attending EDC NYC last night..
I use the stock camera app to record a lot of video. Unfortunately... Like NONE of it saved. I have the SD card set as storage. The pictures saved. None of the video I recorded last night saved. Sometimes it looked like it did, then it wouldn't play. Or I'd get the corrupted icon. I look this morning, nothing there. Thankfully I also brought a REAL digital camera and used it sometimes, but.. All the good video I used my crappy Note 3(showing my rage). What is wrong and how do I fix this? Why wouldn't the stock camera video app keeps my videos?
Another weird problem I have and I can't seem to figure out why it's happening. Many times when I go into settings, my ringer volume and everything drops and goes into complete silence. Like I had manually reduced the ringer sound fromt he side button which I didn't. Then I have to jack it back up.
Also, some apps now have a tendency to save to the SD card right from the Google Play. Only thing is, they save to SD card and are not able to be run. They crash instantly and say they have stopped... You then can't move them from SD card to internal memory either cause they crash then as well.. You uninstall them, they install again on SD card when u try to reinstall and same problem. Only way to get them to install to internal memory and be able to run is to remove the SD card, install them when there is no SD card in phone, then reinstall SD card and they will then run from internal memory cause they weren't installed on SD card. Is there a setting that somehow got switched to install to SD card instead of internal by default? Seriously... Kitkat has made my once joy to use Note 3 complete sadness...
All this badness happened since I got Kitkat. I'm not rooted either. I should have rooted before I guess but.. Ugh.. Is there a root method now if we took the OTA update? TY in advance!
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I should have never taken the Kitkat update. Yeah, I read all the things about third party apps not being able to save to SD card but I didn't think that would effect the stock apps and the way things normally occur. So.. Here's my biggest problem which has me extremely pissed after attending EDC NYC last night..
I use the stock camera app to record a lot of video. Unfortunately... Like NONE of it saved. I have the SD card set as storage. The pictures saved. None of the video I recorded last night saved. Sometimes it looked like it did, then it wouldn't play. Or I'd get the corrupted icon. I look this morning, nothing there. Thankfully I also brought a REAL digital camera and used it sometimes, but.. All the good video I used my crappy Note 3(showing my rage). What is wrong and how do I fix this? Why wouldn't the stock camera video app keeps my videos?
Another weird problem I have and I can't seem to figure out why it's happening. Many times when I go into settings, my ringer volume and everything drops and goes into complete silence. Like I had manually reduced the ringer sound fromt he side button which I didn't. Then I have to jack it back up.
Also, some apps now have a tendency to save to the SD card right from the Google Play. Only thing is, they save to SD card and are not able to be run. They crash instantly and say they have stopped... You then can't move them from SD card to internal memory either cause they crash then as well.. You uninstall them, they install again on SD card when u try to reinstall and same problem. Only way to get them to install to internal memory and be able to run is to remove the SD card, install them when there is no SD card in phone, then reinstall SD card and they will then run from internal memory cause they weren't installed on SD card. Is there a setting that somehow got switched to install to SD card instead of internal by default? Seriously... Kitkat has made my once joy to use Note 3 complete sadness...
All this badness happened since I got Kitkat. I'm not rooted either. I should have rooted before I guess but.. Ugh.. Is there a root method now if we took the OTA update? TY in advance!
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No root yet for kitkat, that's why I kept bypassing update on mine until I got root up. Now on KitKat with SD Card Fix(which you need root for) and all is well. Unfortunately Kitkat has drastically changed what Apps can and can't do with the same permissions they hat on JB. Honestly I agree this is the dumbest thing I've ever seen, but I guess they were sick of the malware and poorly written apps blowing away other apps data or stealing it. It's too bad they had to go the apple route.
Short of returning and demanding a JB phone, Only advice is be patient and hope someone figures out how to root, or find apps that properly work with Kit Kat SD Card settings.
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No root yet for kitkat, that's why I kept bypassing update on mine until I got root up. Now on KitKat with SD Card Fix(which you need root for) and all is well. Unfortunately Kitkat has drastically changed what Apps can and can't do with the same permissions they hat on JB. Honestly I agree this is the dumbest thing I've ever seen, but I guess they were sick of the malware and poorly written apps blowing away other apps data or stealing it. It's too bad they had to go the apple route.
Short of returning and demanding a JB phone, Only advice is be patient and hope someone figures out how to root, or find apps that properly work with Kit Kat SD Card settings.
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The main problem right now is the video recordings. I can't record anything beyond like 15 seconds with Instagram. If I use the camera's video recorder I see it recording, but when I stop it, he recording becomes corrupted and is unplayable. An idea what is causing this? Would reformatting the SD card work? The thing is this is the stock camera app. It shouldnt have any prob recording stuff to SD. The picture record. It's just the videos that are screwing up
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The main problem right now is the video recordings. I can't record anything beyond like 15 seconds with Instagram. If I use the camera's video recorder I see it recording, but when I stop it, he recording becomes corrupted and is unplayable. An idea what is causing this? Would reformatting the SD card work? The thing is this is the stock camera app. It shouldnt have any prob recording stuff to SD. The picture record. It's just the videos that are screwing up
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Change the camera storage to Phone and and see if that works, if so, then it sounds like your card has an issue, or the App has issues accessing it properly. I would start by reformatting the card, if that doesn't work then maybe you need a hard reset.
1+ for EDC NYC haha
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Model: SCH-I545
64gig SD Card
Verizon
All stock/no root
Verizon pretty much forced me recently like many others to update to Lollipop. Once updated, I immediately backed up and did a factory reset on the device. Once it was back up and running, all seemed to be well with the world. It did seem to be a little hotter than normal but it seems overheating is a typical problem these days.
I noticed the issue the following day when I went to load videos and pictures back on to my SD card. They were uploaded via USB just fine but they showed as corrupted in Gallery.
I started trying to take pictures and maybe 1 out of 5 would actually show up. I thought it might be Gallery so I switched to Photos. Same thing. Tried using other cameras with the same results. I ended up factory resetting a second time and formatting the SD Card again as well but no fix. Then the other night I noticed that two of my apps have that "we're broken" icon on them and that they were installed on the SD Card so the issue seem to be connected with that, yet the SD Card works fine. I can plug it in the computer and use it without any issue but when it comes to the camera storing photos or video on it or apps using it, it refuses to work.
Tried contacting Samsung about it but they are useless when it comes to support it would seem so a friend told me to try posting here and maybe someone would have an idea of what is going on.
Thanks, guys.
Try formatting your sd card. Sometimes that helps.
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Try formatting your sd card. Sometimes that helps.
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I formatted it twice.