On a rooted month old Mytouch 4g running the stock Sense with the bloatware put moved into an "old" folder.
Ever since I installed Poweramp (and after uninstalling), about 75% of my incoming phone calls have the screen upside down and slightly blurred and I am unable to answer anything, stop the ringing, or do anything except let it ring out.
I have several backup images saved using ROM Manager, and I have uninstalled Poweramp and tried reloading the initial image that I did immediately after rooting, and reloading subsequent images.
I don't see the option anymore from ROM Manager to wipe data and clear cache prior to reinstalling, not sure if this was taken away or I have to go about it another way.
Running out of ideas, anyone had a similar issue?
And I thought I put this in Q&A. Not sure which subforum is more appropriate but please move as necessary.
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I can't believe I'm the first person to experience this problem, but searching the forum yielded no obvious similar problems.
I had a perfectly fine working Darkstone SuperRam 1.5 <3 on my HD2. I wanted to try WP7 so I flashed it on. I didn't hate it too terribly badly, though I missed things from Android so I wanted to go to a dual boot setup. I got through that process without a hitch and now I'm dual booting fine WP7 and my same original SuperRam build.
The problem is that my ringtones, SMS and E-mail alerts all chose a random MP3 from my library instead of the original ringtones etc. that I had configured. I can go into the settings menu and see all of the ringtones and notifications I'm used to seeing, preview them and even select them, but it didn't have any affect. the phone still chose to use those MP3s to alert me.
I removed all of the MP3s from the SD card and now it just uses some terrificly generic beeping sound for every notification
The folder structure hasn't changed. I straight copied all of the contents of the original card (still intact) to the partition created on my dual-boot card. The pertinent areas look something like this in Astro:
/mnt/sdcard/media/notifications
/mnt/sdcard/media/ringtones
What am I missing? What did I break? Any suggestions appreciated. If I don't get anything sane suggested before tomorrow I'll try to load up a fresh build and see if that works any better.
Ended up doing a fresh build.
There was some trial and error, some loading up of alternative builds, some reloading of my old build (same results), some logcat and google, etc. etc. At the end of the day I was worried that I was going to be flashing 6.5 back on because MAGLDR+Darkstone 1.5 wasn't working nor were any other ROMs working to my liking. Well, come to find out I just had to reboot Darkstone a few times after the initial load for everything to work properly, it freezes the first couple of times as noted in the main page for the ROM by others. I wouldn't recommend wasting time trying to fix this problem, it's not worth it.
Have not seen anything about this problem I am having so thought the only way was to ask.
I transferred all my music on to the A500 into the music folder and fired up music (The one with the cover flow). It picked all the music up fine but now I have a problem.
I wanted to start again as a lot of music made it over the I did not really want so via a file manager I deleted all the music files.
When I restarted music i thought it may have noticed that nothing was there and removed all the cover art so i could start over however it still shows it all and if you tap on any of them it just says unable to play which I can understand because there is nothing there.
I could see nothing that allows me to refresh the list or anything like that although this is mentioned on the help (does not show on the actual app).
I went to the main settings app and applications and selected clear data which it did but all the cover art is still showing up.
Anyway I get can get rid of all this.
did you power down then power on your tablet after clearing data in manage applications?
Yup I did but has made no difference.
Ok well managed to sort this out, Was a case of going in a terminating all services relating to it then going in and clearing all data then re powering.
Mods you can delete this thread if you want.
I'm having an intermittent problem where the apps which have been moved to the SD card often (but not always) disappear. They do not show up on my launcher (ADW) and I am also unable to install or update any apps. I haven't seen anyone else reporting a similar problem, but the weird thing is that the same thing happens on my daughter's Epic. Here's what I do know:
1. This only happens with Froyo ROMs. It was happening on my phone with SFR 1.1. I installed a Gingerbread ROM (Swiss Cheese Samsprint) and it went away. However, my daughter is on stock (but rooted) EC05 and the same thing is happening with her phone. Additionally, I installed Urban Inception (a GB ROM) and did not have the problem. But I missed the speed of the custom kernels, so I returned my phone to Froyo (this time SFR 1.2) and the problem is again recurring. So, it seems to be 2.2-specific.
2. I have used Odin to return to stock several times, that has not resolved the problem.
3. I have formatted my SD card (once using Windows and again using the format option on my phone) and that has had no effect.
4. When I boot my phone, the apps on the SD card do not show up in the app drawer. After a few minutes, they often appear, but not always. Again this is true on both my daughter's phone and mine, but only with a Froyo ROM.
5. The phone will usually get through two or maybe three new app installs or updates, then all the rest will fail until I reboot. Again, this occurs on both my and my daughter's phones, and only with Froyo. It doesn't matter if these are market apps or Amazon appstore apps. Once one update or install fails, nothing else will install or update until I reboot the phone.
I suppose I could solve my problem by going with GB, but those ROMs are so much slower than the Froyo ones with custom kernels. Also, I like my daughter being as stock as possible, because she won't mess with her phone and can't always give it to me to fix. I doubt it's a hardware issue because we both have it. But, it also doesn't appear to be a ROM issue, since we have different ROMs. Since it's obviously not common, it must be related to either an app we have installed or something strange that I have done (though her phone has nothing done to it but the one-click CWM 3.0.0.5/6).
Anyone have any ideas for me? I suppose my issue will resolve once we have official GB and custom kernels start appearing for it, but I thought it was very strange that I have two phones that both exhibit a problem that nobody else seems to have.
Thanks for reading all this.
This had been happening to me for a while too. I don't have as many apps anymore and keep it all in the phone and noticed better battery life but still want to be able to use apps2sd
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Stock sd's?
cd's or tapes?
schnowdapowda said:
Stock sd's?
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Yes, on both phones.
I just noticed this yesterday. I saw Angry Birds had updated but I didn't get notified in my market. The app was still in my launcher though. Don't know if it matters but I hadn't played it in a long time.
Reinstalling worked and didn't lose any data.
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I've had this problem too on the MidnightRom v5.2. It's especially annoying when my kids want to play Angry Birds and they are all installed to the SD card. I have "fixed" the apps not showing up in the App drawer by creating shortcuts on one of my home screens to the apps I have on the SD card. When the apps don't show up in the App drawer, the icon on the home screen looks like a generic "Android installed app". The apps I have on the SD card are: apps that came with my Rom (Video Editor), Apps installed from the Market and Apps installed from the Amazon App store.
*I've noticed* it's more common the icons don't show up in the App drawer or have the wrong icon if I unlock my phone before it completely boots (finishes the Scanning Media twice in the status bar).
edonnelly- if you are "missing" an App, try creating a shortcut for it to see if it's in the Applications list. That way at least you can launch it if you reboot and the app isn't showing up in the app drawer.
schnowdapowda- I'm also using my stock 16gb Samsung microSD card, and I've also formatted it with the same results.
Fast Boot option may be the culprit
This is actually a long-standing problem in Android OS, going back at least two years (donkey's years in this technology!)
Something about the interaction of the OS and an sdcard formated for holding apps creates odd behaviours.
Lots of complicated suggestions have been made, including reformatting sdcard, reinstalling ROMs, changing launchers (the one suggested here) and such.
None of these approaches seems really to solve the problem even in most cases.
What seems to be working for me (at least for the last week or so) is the following very simple tweak.
CUT TO THE SOLUTION BELOW -- SEARCH FOR ////
Some (not all) of my apps moved to SD (all by Titanium Backup Pro) have begun to disappear and (sometimes) reappear without warning after I began to add and delete large Virtual Machines created in QEMU from my 16GB SanDisc class 10 microSD card on my HTC Droid Incredible running rooted stock Verizon Android Froyo 2.2.3. I know this thread is far from my phone's "home base", but from what I can tell this problem with disappearing apps located on an sdcard is NOT determined by hardware or even Android version.
I also happen to use LauncherPro by Federico Carnales instead of the built-in HTC Sense launcher. I noted elsewhere on XDA that a user had suggested that because at least some (maybe all) launchers start before the SD Card that this may be a problem, especially if changes are made to the sdcard that the launcher did not perform, or was not active during their performance by other apps such as Titanium Backup. That fits my situation, because I unmounted the SD, physically removed it to a PC, and added/deleted large VM files to save (lots) of time. No problems of this sort before I did this, so there must be some connection.
I noted that other users have tried reformatting SD, substituting different brands of SD, using newer/older SD etc. None of these reliably helped. So I skipped these options.
//// The (simple!) solution I tried that SEEMS to work (only time will tell!) is buried in the main Android Settings (accessed from the Menu button while in Home screen). Under "Applications" there is a setting "Fast Boot" that I checked long ago and forgot about (it seemed like a good thing to do at the time). The text warns "Turn off to use some Market apps" (that shows the age of my 2-yr old used phone and Android OS -- ohmygosh!-- because it refers to Market rather than Google Play Store!) Anyway, I unchecked the option and rebooted the phone.
Yes, it took a bit longer to boot (maybe a whole minute!), but after waiting about another minute ALL my home screen apps had normal icons and loaded properly. Titanium Backup Pro batch scenarios confirmed there were no apps in a forced uninstalled state (i.e. I had not done the deed, the system somehow had done it or at least rendered the apps "invisible" to Titanium, which decided they needed reinstallation).
The only odd behaviour was that auto brightness was turned off after I unchecked Fast Boot and rebooted. Going into Android Settings > Display and rechecking "auto brightness" took care of that. No other oddities or strange behaviours thus far (but it has only been about an hour).
I will report anything further on this thread only (Samsung Fascinate > Fascinate Q&A > What just happend? apps on sdcard) if anything else requires reporting. Silence implies success!
link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1873670
(I am copying this post to other relevant threads, but will not post anything further elsewhere -- only there. This is a bit arbitrary (especially now that the chosen thread no longer is the most recent active one on this topic), but I hope this approach pleases the XDA sysops/admins) :angel:
I've recently noticed my phone is becoming sluggish and slow. Lockscreen isn't 'fast' (wake up and slide,slider just sits there). There's a 2 second delay when I hit the home button or sleep/wake button before the screen shows anything.
When opening/exiting apps,it takes a couple of seconds,sometimes it gives a black blank screen.
Any one know of any fixes?
What exactly have you done with your phone?
Clearing your cache is something someone will recommend, so ill go ahead and tell you to try wiping your cache.
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Well recently I frozen a couple of apps(couple of google syncs stuff I don't use),service menu,street view,tts service,the 4 verify certificate dummy apps <-- are these save to freeze?
That's all I can think of.
choose carefully which ones but with titanium I did an uninstall instead of freeze and my device runs much faster.
If simple tweaks don't work a fresh start will. You could always do a security wipe. worse case yet re flash device with flashtool. anyhow make backups with clockwork mod as you get it where you want it.
I took all my apps off the system and put them on my SD card.
HOWEVER their data remains, you should use sd maid from the market and clean your phone. Despite it's name, it cleans more than the SD card and it has a nice and easy ui!
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There are threads upon threads upon threads of things you can do with every other variant of the A20, but almost all of them have the disclaimer "Doesn't work with A205U." This is making it pretty hard to find guides for things that *can* be done with the A205U. Perhaps if someone could compile a list of guides that work for this stupid outlier of a phone it could be of great use to the community.
Specifically, this phone seems to have a terrible storage management issue. You uninstall things and it doesn't free up all of the space that was being taken by the program. Without installing anything new, after having done a factory reset, and only updating existing apps, my free space went from 9gig free to only 5 gig free. No amount of cache clearing has remedied the problem. Indeed, the reason i did a factory reset, after putting it off for like 2 years, is because i had reached the point where i only had ~800mb free and had to clear all app cache every day, sometimes multiple times a day, to keep the phone functional. The free space seems to just disappear into the nether. If there is a way to get this to stop, or at least how to get all the free space back without a factory reset, i would go full Jessica Simpson and LOVE YOU FOREVER if someone let me know how.
Related: Since almost everything out there for doing full back-ups requires root: is there a way to back everything up without root? So non-stock recoveries work on the A205U? Can i put TWRP on this thing?
Somewhat related: The samsung Message App stopped storing messages as SMSs and now stores them as Chats, which means my SMS backup program no longer has anything to back-up. I didn't realize this and ran my backup, thought it got everything, and then re-enabled "delete after 200 messages" so that the database could be cleared and i could get storage space back, and turned it back on after it had cleared everyting and freed up ~700MB. Then when i went digging through my back-up database looking for information i discovered that the "chats" had not been backed up. Is there a back-up solution that anyone is aware of that would not have this gaping flaw? The program i used hasn't been updated in years, but i haven't come across one that will back everything up to an IMAP server (or something like unto it) which allows the messages to be searched from anywhere without the need of a desktop or database app.
Additionally: Is it possible to use Odin or Heimdal or some other tool to make a full flashable image of the A205U from the phone itself? IE: i factory reset, get it setup with everything i need and all accounts restored etc., and then take an image of that, and then when i need to "reset" the phone again i would just be able to reflash that image/snapshot of my perfectly setup phone, restoring it to a "factory reset" type state, but without having to go through the hassle of a few days of downloads and setup again.
Penultimate: Is there a way, without root, to fake the phone type to the Play Store so i can install things that "aren't compatible" but actually are?
Lastly: Has anyone managed to get Diablo Immortal to run on an A20?
Many many thanks for any help that can be rendered with these concerns. Especially the storage one. My wife and I both have the A205U, and cannot afford new phones, and the storage thing is driving us both crazy.
PS: does it brick the phone if we attempt to flash it to the firmware of another A205 variant, like the A205S (for which guides seem to abound)?