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Hey,
My Vibrant CONSTANTLY keep rescanning the media on the SD, and its slowing the phone to a crawl. Ill watch it start, finish, and then start again 30 seconds later (or so). Anyone else have this, and if so, did you find a solution?
Thanks!
Sounds buggy...mine usually just does it if I reboot the phone
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Actually my ONLY complaint about this phone not constantly but every time I reboot and it takes a good while scanning, if I try to press on any button while scanning the phone freezes, there has to be a tweak to disable this feature when vibrant roms become available..
Thats my issue too....it freezes, the screen goes off, the button backlight stays on, and I cant do anything but hard-reset it by holding the power or pulling the battery. ive deleted almost everything of the internal SD, so I have no idea why its freezing
I remove the external card and still experiencing the same thing, I just don't understand how my old HD2 with buggy winOS never did this, come on Developers Android is an awesome OS and extremely configurable, PLEASE fix this issue for us.
Mine does it on reboot and after I unplug it from my pc. It is a little annoying but it doesn't last too long.
It's scanning 16gb of memory for media changes. Why would you expect that to be faster than 20-30 seconds. Are you guys serious?
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If it's doing it constantly and not just on reboot than that is definitely a defect.
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The media scanner runs for me, at least, every time the userspace filesystem is modified, so on unplug from PC, file copy/deletes in the file manager, bluetooth unpair...etc. If you have an app that is frequently writing to /sdcard then that's probably triggering it for you.
Did you replace your SD card with one from another phone? I don't get any major scanning issues
Just exchanged the phone for a new one. Will report back.
No, I am using the stock SD card (Not ready to lose Avatar yet)
zimphishmonger said:
Just exchanged the phone for a new one. Will report back.
No, I am using the stock SD card (Not ready to lose Avatar yet)
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I know you can copy avatar to the internal memory and it will still work... but the link on the app won't find it, you'll have to go to files, ect. I'm pretty sure you can copy it to another SD card without any trouble. As far as the media scanner, it is pretty annoying...scanned alot when I first got the phone ..of course moving around avatar, it took a long time to rescan and it scanned several times. Now it seems to scan evertime I move or delete a file ...sometimes it scanns more than once but its usually pretty fast. It would be cool to change the settings to rescan only when you specify or something.
i have just over 7 gig of music on my sd card, scan after reboot lasts less than a min.
<edit> it is a class 6 card, so that might help with the speed etc...
I was messing around in /system and looked at one of the .conf files. There's a line in there for media with a value of "on". I'm sure if you edit it to "off" it'll stop scanning but who know what the negative effects would be.
Ya, I never had this media scanning on my G1, on any build. Wonder if it has something to do with the Internal SD and some sort of database it maintains of it. No idea why it wouldn't be simple flash memory though, exactly like an SD card
It's because of the Music player and such.
I'd still say try a reset. I just did and things (besides the GPS which is not going to be fixed by this) like the market and such aren't giving me such long loading screens. I was installing 3-5 apps at a time. Even the Friends feed widget doesn't have the looooooong loading screen anymore.
zimphishmonger said:
Hey,
My Vibrant CONSTANTLY keep rescanning the media on the SD, and its slowing the phone to a crawl. Ill watch it start, finish, and then start again 30 seconds later (or so). Anyone else have this, and if so, did you find a solution?
Thanks!
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I have this same problem. Typically it will kick into the media scanning mode when opening Google Maps. The phone becomes unusable for several minutes. The screen will shut off and then comes back on close to a minute after hitting the power button. Sometimes it will display "Safe Mode" in the lower left corner.
yeah, I have an 8 gig card which is basically full and the media scanning I only notice on boot ups. And this takes very little time (20 seconds maybe).
I'm curious if you have a corrupt file or app that is causing the issue man?
Have you moved avatar to your computer, stuck the SD card in your PC and formatted it? I wonder if you put it back in your phone and rebooted if you would still have this issue?
Worse case you just move the folder with avatar back to the card, nothing lost.
Do you mind trying a format?
Someone should try the "Autostarts" app. I would try it, but it requires a rooted phone, and mines not rooted yet. This app may be able to prevent the media scanning...
http://www.androidcentral.com/android-quick-app-autostarts
Thanks for the tips. I have wiped, exchanged phones, wiping the internal and external SD, and attempted to prevent the scan using autostarts (although I didnt find anything specific), all w/o luck. Ive removed ALL my music from my internal SD, only pictures are left.
It seems to scan every few minutes or so, and it almost always causes a restart of the Touchwiz process (w/ a reload of all the widgets) and lags the phone a lot (so much that it doesnt respond to button touches for a minute or so)
Im about ready to dig in and disable this scan unless we can find a legitimate fix or purpose for it.
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.
I've had my N1 for 11 months now without any major problems. Since yesterday my N1 reboots and freezes non-stop, though this only occurs when my SD car is in. Taken out the phone works fine. I've done a virus scan on my SD card but nothing malcious was found. Any help with this?
Run a disk check on your SD, or just reformat it...?
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Have battled with the same issue this past week. Make sure you don't have hidden/system files and ringtones/notifications left over from the old days on the SD card.
Happened to me, when I took my card from my old phone and just plugged it in.
Clean up the directory system & get rid of all stuff you don't need. Dramatic improvement. Runs a lot smoother now, though still reboots (under heavy CPU or SD-reading strain) at least daily.
Can anyone else who has an Xperia Play help me out here? I got the phone this past Tuesday. At that time, it loaded up rather quickly. Now when I turn it on, it takes over 3 minutes to load up. I literally turned my Nexus S on at the same time and I could have powered it on and off 3 times in the amount it took for the Play to load. It sat on the Sony Ericsson screen for like 2 minutes and then another 1 minute after the SE circle logo appeared.
A few details:
1. I am currently in the US on vacation using my Japanese SIM card. Thus I am roaming. The data is turned off however the phone network obviously isn't. When the SIM is out of the unit it loads up much faster.
2. The phone is not rooted.
Has this happened to anyone else? Is there any way to check if there is so kind of malicious program or something that was installed?
My xperia start up load time is aproximated to 3 minutes too.
Jep, same here. The OS is verry fast after the 3 min boot...
It takes a while to boot. Samsung I know have been targeting efforts to get the boot faster. Top of my head I remember them talking about trying to get the fastest boot time on the galaxy II.
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I believe some Samsung and HTC phones are not actually "rebooting". They are going into some sort of hibernate.
My buddy has an HTC mytouch, and he was having crummy performance. I looked at his uptime, an it was over 1500 hours. I told him that's his problem, he should probably reboot.
When he did, I noticed it rebooted very fast. Performance was still in the crapper, and curiosity had ne check his uptime even tho it should have been reset after the reboot. It was still at over 1500 hrs. Then I realized it didn't actually reboot, just went into a hibernate explaininng the blistering fast reboot time.
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WOW...so everyone else is having this issue as well? But it must have something to do with the amount of free storage on the phone, because when it was over 100MB it loaded up much quicker I've noticed.
Also on a side note, with respect to phones and hibernation...
My Desire HD has this issue. If you select "Shut Down" then it takes about all of 10 seconds to start back up. Yet if you select "Reboot" it takes almost as long as the Play. Clearly shut down is hibernation, especially since if applications have crashed or stopped working, shut down does absolutely nothing and thus I need to literally reboot to get them running again.
Finally, in my thinking there was something wrong with my Play, I formatted both the memory and the SD card. Can anyone confirm what was pre-installed on the SD card that I have lost? I noticed Crash Bandicoot was stored there but it can be re-downloaded simply by running the application. I know there are some sample pictures and music and possibly video as well, but anything important?
TokyoGuy said:
WOW...so everyone else is having this issue as well? But it must have something to do with the amount of free storage on the phone, because when it was over 100MB it loaded up much quicker I've noticed.
Also on a side note, with respect to phones and hibernation...
My Desire HD has this issue. If you select "Shut Down" then it takes about all of 10 seconds to start back up. Yet if you select "Reboot" it takes almost as long as the Play. Clearly shut down is hibernation, especially since if applications have crashed or stopped working, shut down does absolutely nothing and thus I need to literally reboot to get them running again.
Finally, in my thinking there was something wrong with my Play, I formatted both the memory and the SD card. Can anyone confirm what was pre-installed on the SD card that I have lost? I noticed Crash Bandicoot was stored there but it can be re-downloaded simply by running the application. I know there are some sample pictures and music and possibly video as well, but anything important?
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Samsung and HTC 'cheat' quite a bit when it comes to startup times. If you compare the time the Nexus One take with that of the Desire, the Desire is much faster, despite the hardware being the same. The same holds true with the Galaxy S and Nexus S.
From my experience with the Nexus S, I'd say the Play is VERY close to Stock Android 2.3.2. Sony Ericsson just added a few apps here and there and skinned the UI a little, but it feels, works and behaves a lot like the 2.3.2 on the Nexus S. Sooo... I'd say the long boot time is normal, and probably for the best for the device.
boot times are about 3 min as well.... however I find this to be a non-issue to me.
how often are you rebooting your phone though? Mine might go for weeks without being restarted... pending battery doesn't die on me of course
TokyoGuy said:
WOW...so everyone else is having this issue as well? But it must have something to do with the amount of free storage on the phone, because when it was over 100MB it loaded up much quicker I've noticed.
Also on a side note, with respect to phones and hibernation...
My Desire HD has this issue. If you select "Shut Down" then it takes about all of 10 seconds to start back up. Yet if you select "Reboot" it takes almost as long as the Play. Clearly shut down is hibernation, especially since if applications have crashed or stopped working, shut down does absolutely nothing and thus I need to literally reboot to get them running again.
Finally, in my thinking there was something wrong with my Play, I formatted both the memory and the SD card. Can anyone confirm what was pre-installed on the SD card that I have lost? I noticed Crash Bandicoot was stored there but it can be re-downloaded simply by running the application. I know there are some sample pictures and music and possibly video as well, but anything important?
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Would like to know what was on the memory card originally as well as I formatted money when I got it...
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Just to ease your mind both my Motorola phones the X and OG were a couple min to boot up.
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I noticed the boot times too, expecially since I don't really charge it much, I run it out and swap batteries as I have an excellent spare battery and charger also know as an x10 alway 3 minutes or so though, probably part due to drm checks, and part due to the storage almost full and it having to go through all the apps and initialize them.
To be honoust i have the phone for a few weeks now and only turned it off and then on for a few times. Boot time doesnt actually bother me.
Guys,
Just wanted to share my findings as Ive resolved a really annoying problem.
I have an X10 running stock gingerbread. Ever since the update I have noticed that the phone becomes pretty much unresponsive for many minutes after powering on. I have traced this to the media scanner process which re-indexes the media content on the sd card after a reboot, and also after remounting the sd card.
I have in the region of 10000 songs and 500 images on my SD card and if I wipe the media database and get it to rebuild, the phone is unresponsive for about 15 hours while it is rebuilt. A click on the screen would take up to 5 seconds to respond, usually with a prompt asking me whether I wanted to kill or wait.
Well, after many hours of debugging my mp3 id tags and photos and formatting sd cards, I have traced this problem to AVG Anti Virus. It would appear that when the media scanner does a quick open of a file to check the tags etc, that AVG would virus scan the entire file and consumes 100% CPU, with what would appear to be very high priority.
Deinstalling AVG has resulted in the phone being perfectly responsive during a full media scan.
This started happening as soon as I did the Gingerbread upgrade, but I dont know if this is the cause, or whether a new version of AVG gets installed when running GB.
Just hope this helps others
Cheers
Graham
Informative, but I don't think many would use anti-virus for their phones as it is a known cause for process hogging.
It doesn't really help either.
Yeah, I'm beginning to see that too. It is a worry though, given the number of apps you have on your phone, its nice to know you atleast have some protection. The bad thing is, if one of my apps went rogue and decided to do some keylogging, would avg have even known about it. I doubt it.
Its now firmly uninstalled.
G
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I have noted that without a anti virus and as soon as I copied my songs to the sd card my phone has slowed down hugely, taking a few seconds for icons to appear on the screen. leaving u with a jerky and slow responding phone. It seems to be better now after the scan but thanx for the heads up atleast I know the media scanner is what is slowing down the phone when it is scanning.
I have got stock 2.3.3 rooted with avg antivirus pro installed. I used to get this problem on android 2.1. I have a lot of songs on mine so any file operation would result in a media scan making my phone unresponsive. The solution is to keep folders in your sd card down to a minimum. I have all of my songs in one folder on the sd card instead of artist>album. Every file operation with adao file manager forces a media scan which I barely notice.