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My camera is working randomly...i get random restarts too :)

Well the same day i got my nexus, after taking few pictures, my camera basicly died, started to give errors or restarts the phone, then it was unable to get on at all.
I did factory reset number of times, nothing happened. I thought it's something hardware and forgot about my camera for a while, just to find today that it works again. I took lots of pictures without any problems, shot some video too.
Later in the day when i decided to try it again, it was giving the same error again as day 1 ("The camera application is not responding" and you can force kill it, then if go to the camera again, it says that it couldnt connect to the camera).
So seems like it's something software related since its randomly working, but if factory reset isn't helping, then what it might be that can be fixed softwarely?
I'm rooted now. Still the stock rom.
p.s.
the phone also restarts when i mount the SD card and start copying lots of files and randomly restarts at other occasions too, without any obvious reasons, even when just sitting.
Other than that the phone is great
hopefully its all software that can be fixed though!

Sounds to me like there's something buggy on ya SD card. Id reformat the SD card if ya haven't already and run it empty for a bit to see if the problem persists... I think the most forgotten fix for things if they haven't figured it out is SD card, a lot of issues can come from the SD card, not saying ievery issue is the SD card, but ya be surprised how a card can wack phone out.
Sounds to me like its when your phones accessing the SD card...

yeah makes sense but
i've formatted it many times, and the camera doesnt work even without it (doesnt even start)
btw it's not the original card, but my old one from my HTC HD
the camera is supposed to work and without a SD card inserted right?

Fking1 said:
yeah makes sense but
i've formatted it many times, and the camera doesnt work even without it (doesnt even start)
btw it's not the original card, but my old one from my HTC HD
the camera is supposed to work and without a SD card inserted right?
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I meant keep card in it, just empty without files, formatted and see what happens

i've tried that, doesnt help

Hi,
try formatting SD card with Panasonic SD Formatting Tool,it writes back the partition table and could help. For me worked, I had an issue with gallery, surely related to SD card, and now works well.
Bye

what settings to use to format it?
what fat, cluster size?
i've formated it bunch of times with the windows vista tool, fat32 and the default cluster size (i think) but it didnt help.
And if i recall correctly it was crashing the camera and with SD card out of the phone

yeah just tried again
even with the card out, none of the camera using applications starts, including the camera, barcode scanner and 3d compass
the later 2 dont even take pictures, so they dont need the sd card at all and still they dont work
what else it might be? im getting some other applications crashes from time to time, seems that my phone isnt very stable. And it's stock...huh

I suggest sending it back for repair/replacement. Could very possibly be the result of bad blocks in ram.

You mentioned it isn't the original SD card the phone came with. Why don't you try the original card then, and see if it is the actual card, or the phone that is the problem.

Clarkster said:
You mentioned it isn't the original SD card the phone came with. Why don't you try the original card then, and see if it is the actual card, or the phone that is the problem.
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i would have done that long time ago if i had it, this is the only card i have handy at the moment
but it makes the same problem with the card pulled out, so it isn't the card for sure

do u tihnk that there is any chance reflashing the rom would fix it?
any records of factory roms being buggy for just particular devices?

Okay...first off you said it's an older card, you could have bad sectors on your card, some of the older cards only have a read/write cycle of a couple thousand before fail. Second you can't run the camera app without the sd card. Third formatting the card so many times helps you count down those read/write cycles on your card. I'd be pretty confident in saying that your problems would go away after getting a new card. Hope this helped
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llxxjinxxll said:
Okay...first off you said it's an older card, you could have bad sectors on your card, some of the older cards only have a read/write cycle of a couple thousand before fail. Second you can't run the camera app without the sd card. Third formatting the card so many times helps you count down those read/write cycles on your card. I'd be pretty confident in saying that your problems would go away after getting a new card. Hope this helped
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would be great if its just that
But what do u get you when you try to start the camera app with SD card out
Does it hangs and crashes and you need to force kill it or?

yup....just tried it, i popped my card out rebooted and started camera app, and i got a force close with no option to wait

that's great man! It means that it could actually be from the stupid card!
thank you so much!

uninstall market updates

Devastatin said:
uninstall market updates
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m? hows that supposed to help?

Well i tried with 2 different cards, it still gives the very same problem
it isnt the card
im with froyo now, and that doesnt fix it either
do you think if the cyanogen rom may change something about this?

Memory card erased

That was too bad experience for me. I noticed today that the apps I moved to sd card, wouldn't respond and they also disappeared from the programs list but they were listed in remove programs list. So, I went a step further and looked at the contents of my sd card just to discover that everything was lost and returned to factory default folder configuration. All my photos, music, etc. are gone. The card isn't dead but only erased. It still has some folders but I assume they are the default data folder that were created when the programs are accessed.
Now, I removed the battery today without shutting down first. Could that have caused the problem?
Any way to recover my data back?

You could try to recover them the the program "Recuva " its very good freeware. I'm pretty sure its windows only, best of luck.

andyharney said:
You could try to recover them the the program "Recuva " its very good freeware. I'm pretty sure its windows only, best of luck.
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I am currently running active file recovery and had no luck with quick scan. I am now running thorough scan but I don't think it will help.

nope, only folder structure discovered but empty. Too bad but it shouldn't be like that. Some corrupt files would be acceptable, but thw whole card????

As andy suggests I would try recuva anyway you've nothing too lose and it may work even where the other didn't.

Hmm, happened to me once on a crap sd card.. Had to reformat and suddenly the read/write speed drop drastically, around 150Kb/sec on class 4 card.. Luckily, i happened to keep my old class 2 sd, works like charm.. I think it had to do with the conditions of the sd card..

what did u do to yr card that made it happen that way?
like what the others said, try running it thru recuve to recover the files then run a scandisk on the card

As said, I removed the battery without shutdown or dismount. I believe that's what has caused the problem.

andreasy said:
As said, I removed the battery without shutdown or dismount. I believe that's what has caused the problem.
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try running a checkdisk on the card then

andreasy said:
As said, I removed the battery without shutdown or dismount. I believe that's what has caused the problem.
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I don't think that's what caused the problem as i removed the battery a few times without shutting down and never faced this issue.
One time i got an error message and i could not access the files on the microsd. The solution was to run a checkdisk and fix any bad sectors.
I always backup my microsd at least once a week for a rainy day, i strongly suggest you do the same from now on.

panart said:
I don't think that's what caused the problem as i removed the battery a few times without shutting down and never faced this issue.
One time i got an error message and i could not access the files on the microsd. The solution was to run a checkdisk and fix any bad sectors.
I always backup my microsd at least once a week for a rainy day, i strongly suggest you do the same from now on.
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+1, I have Titanium Backup, run a full backup (User apps + Data) every night and backup the card (using Simple backup on Ubunutu) as often as I remember then if i lose or damage my phone I can feasibly recover everything.

I was getting message from PC when I plugged my phone on USB from day 1. The message was that the card need to be scanned for errors and so I did that all the time. Last time I plugged my PC to cradle I got the same and the scan fixed some errors. If the battery removal didn't cause the problem then it should be that last scan. Maybe my card was faulty but not completely. It's the stock card.

Many users reported that their card died while they were using their DHD (most of them if not all got a Samsung microsd in bundle).
I use a SanDisk class 2 that i have for two years as it's more reliable and transfer speeds are higher than Samsung.

panart said:
Many users reported that their card died while they were using their DHD (most of them if not all got a Samsung microsd in bundle).
I use a SanDisk class 2 that i have for two years as it's more reliable and transfer speeds are higher than Samsung.
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I know this but mine hasn't died. It has been doing this from the first day. It's working though. Can't tell for sure what has caused it to be erased but it was done in seconds.
Fortunately my photos were synced on the PC and so I recovered them from there.

andreasy said:
I knthis but mine hasn't died. It has been doing this from the first day. It's working though. Can't tell for sure what has caused it to be erased but it was done in seconds.
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so it has happened b4 on the same card?

Nichie said:
so it has happened b4 on the same card?
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No, I m it has been asking to check for errors during connection. Data loss, never before.

andreasy said:
No, I m it has been asking to check for errors during connection. Data loss, never before.
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oh this.
its likely caused due to when u mount yr sd card to yr pc and fail unmount it properly from the pc b4 disconnecting it.

Try photorec - if the data is physically still on the card, it will find it. No fancy interface but imo the best file recovery program out there
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When I'm in storage mode.......

.....connected to my laptop all the apps I have located on my ext SD card disappear which I understand but when my Atrix is unplugged the apps I have stored don't reappear on my home screens.
They have to be manually put back on.
Does anyone know why this is.....it's doing my head in.
I'm running the Alien 4 rom with Faux123 kernel if that matters.
Cheers
Paul
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I don't understand why people move apps to sd on a phone that doesn't need it.
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For the same reason you cant access anything else on the SD card when in storage mode, the OS has to unmount it while the computer has access, thus you cant use anything on it including apps, this is normal.

To the first reply, cause I want to and to the second, read my question again. I said I know why they disappear when connected but don't know why they don't return when the device is unplugged.
Never had the problem on either of my 2 desires and wondered if it was Atrix or maybe ROM specific.
Don't post unless you can help. Thanks.

Ah i missed that part :-(..... In that case no idea never tried it as I have 1.2GB free of app storage.

Do they appear in the apps list?
Tried restarting the phone?
Tried a media scan (not sure if it will pick up apps)
Sounds like your ROM is not scanning the sdcard after remounting it.
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No probs Nap and thanks Dennis, tried it mate but no joy.
Looks like I'll just use internal storage for ease from now as it gets boring adding them all back after a while.
Thanks anyway tho

you could always buy the dual mount SD program, best .99c I have spent so far. It allows you to mount and still access the sd on the phone. it is very helpful for me.
I had an issue with my ringtones that are located on storage being jacked up during mounts. the issue would occur when I had a notification, call, text, anything that made a noise that used a custom tone while mounted to a PC. After unmount the notification would either revert to default or choose a completely random tone.
I downloaded dualmount a few months back and that issue was resolved. I havent had to reset my notifications except when I flashed to CM, and I can live with that

I think I found a solution to the stupid Android System battery drain...

This is REALLLYYY a PITA but as of right now I'm pretty sure it actually worked. So if your Android System is taking up 25%+ and higher than your screen for taking up battery (in Settings--->Battery stats), then try this. As of right now my screen is #1 and Android System is only at 15%!
**Try this while your charging your phone to 100% to see if it actually worked!!**
1. Download and install Kies3.
2. Copy all contents of your ext SD Card to your computer.
3. Go into Settings-->Scroll down to System and click on Storage.
4. Format your ext SD Card by pressing "Format SD Card".
5. Go into Kies3 and and copy all of your contents back onto your SD Card.
6. Once that process is finished, download SD Scanner.
7. Go into the SD Scanner app and scan the internal storage (default one) and ext SD Card (/storage/extSdCard <-- must be typed exactly like that).
8. Reboot your phone once your phone has hit 100%.
9. See if it worked for you, hope this helps, and if it doesn't then I'm sorry but it worked well for me!

What exactly does this do? Just wondering but thanks for your active posts you have some really helpful stuff here
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timothylockhart said:
What exactly does this do? Just wondering but thanks for your active posts you have some really helpful stuff here
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It made the Android System battery drain go down, and instead of Android System being the #1 battery drainer, screen is!

But what does it actually do? Put media scanner to sleep (something that was a HUGE problem on the s3 - media scanner always running)?

crazymook said:
But what does it actually do? Put media scanner to sleep (something that was a HUGE problem on the s3)?
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This is more what I was asking what cons does this have
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crazymook said:
But what does it actually do? Put media scanner to sleep (something that was a HUGE problem on the s3)?
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It scans ALLL of your media for you (hence why I said to scan internal, then your ext Sd Card). Thus eliminating the need for Android to scan your media.

Pretty sure media scan would still run tho...no? Especially if ure taking pics, adding music, etc etc.

crazymook said:
Pretty sure media scan would still run tho...no? Especially if ure taking pics, adding music, etc etc.
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Yes but if you're like me and have a 32GB EXT SD card and have 28 Gigs worth of stuff on it... Then it deff works and is worth it lol.
Sent from a Galaxy 5 light years away

Well i tried it... Will hope for the best but..... Kies wouldnt let me add any of my files I carry on my SD card like my titanium backup youtube apk or ceberus apk....
only media files...
Also I have heard of people just removing their sd card and getting god like battery maybe we just have junk sd cards? Planning on getting a 32gb micro class 10 soon enough....
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Yes but if you're like me and have a 32GB EXT SD card and have 28 Gigs worth of stuff on it... Then it deff works and is worth it lol.
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So how do you add non multimedia files through kies? what does this sd scanner do? caches it or? Like i dont see how this does anything at all i have heard people talking about removing their micro sd card and getting a huge boost of battery so maybe I just have a junk one planning on getting a micro sd 32gb class 10 soon

Joe0113 said:
This is REALLLYYY a PITA but as of right now I'm pretty sure it actually worked. So if your Android System is taking up 25%+ and higher than your screen for taking up battery (in Settings--->Battery stats), then try this. As of right now my screen is #1 and Android System is only at 15%!
**Try this while your charging your phone to 100% to see if it actually worked!!**
1. Download and install Kies3.
2. Copy all contents of your ext SD Card to your computer.
3. Go into Settings-->Scroll down to System and click on Storage.
4. Format your ext SD Card by pressing "Format SD Card".
5. Go into Kies3 and and copy all of your contents back onto your SD Card.
6. Once that process is finished, download SD Scanner.
7. Go into the SD Scanner app and scan the internal storage (default one) and ext SD Card (/storage/extSdCard <-- must be typed exactly like that).
8. Reboot your phone once your phone has hit 100%.
9. See if it worked for you, hope this helps, and if it doesn't then I'm sorry but it worked well for me!
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Noticed this method of Wipe SD Card in another thread, seemed to have worked for me as well. Now battery drain most from screen.

I'm getting terrible Android System drain as well. I've greenified everything and battery life is noticeably improved, but AS drain is still top battery hog. Guess I'll try removing my SD card and if that works I'll wipe it. Pretty frustrating though that this is an issue
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What are you guys formatting your SD Card to? (what format)

Formatted it to whatever phone formats too... this actually really worked and helped but can I add files to my sd card and such as normal or am o limited now
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I'll try this and report back also. I'm on a Note 3 with the S5 port. It's going to take a long time to move over 50gb of stuff back and fourth though lol

MikeyLee said:
I'll try this and report back also. I'm on a Note 3 with the S5 port. It's going to take a long time to move over 50gb of stuff back and fourth though lol
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Literally took almost 2hrs to move 28 GB worth of stuff... Good luck brotha haha.
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Use usb 3.0 its faster.
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JoshBeach said:
Use usb 3.0 its faster.
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I did -__-
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I'm in the process of moving around 50gb of files from the card to my PC and then will go back tomorrow and do this. It is actually high time that I re-organize all of the thousands of images on my card anyway. I think I'll store them by quarter to keep to only a few thousand per folder. Thanks!

This doesnt work. After you start an app or scan folders, for music player for example, Android OS and Android System are right back at the top

MikeyLee said:
This doesnt work. After you start an app or scan folders, for music player for example, Android OS and Android System are right back at the top
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Worked for me. I'm averaging one day six hrs total use with 5hrs on screen time per charge.
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[HELP] Mediaserver Battery Drain + Heat

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My phone heats up then mediaserver is at 40% :/ how do i get rid of it? i tried to do some searching and came up with turning off Quick connect, Samsung push services but this still happens. i dont have any SD card mounted too. im on sm-900f. any fix for this? currently i restart the phone but it usually happens again after i restart >_<
Thanks in advance for anyone who can help.

poch21 said:
[HELP] Mediaserver Battery Drain + Heat
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Mediaserver is just a generic category. You need to find out what app is using mediaserver. It's, as you might imagine, probably a media app e.g. audio or video player. An app like GSAM would help you track that down.
There is also an app that kills mediaserver every x hours. But it would be more effective to find the actual app that is the root cause.
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Had the same problem. Happened to be some youtube-downloaded videos that I had recently downloaded and were somehow corrupted. Renamed then to .old and mediaserver disappeared right away. I've heard it also happens with big m3u or playlist files.
Hope this helps.

I just had this problem for 2 days. Media server is sipping the phone's battery at 45%. First, I tried turning off the phone and restart but it didn't solve the problem. But just this morning, when I was not connected to wifi, the media server disappeared. Then when I reconnected, it was completely gone (well, for now). That's just my observation. I have microsd with lots of data and media but I did not delete any of them. It like it went away on its own. :/

If you have an external SD card it's easy to reproduce the problem, just mount / unmount and you will see it starting / stopping. With internal you can backup the whole card and start deleting folders till it stops. It is cause of a faulty file, you just have to find it

I had the same problem, 45% battery used by media server on galaxy s5 stock rom. I solved problem by finding corupted file on micro sd card. I had 5 GB on micro sd. I have created folder name "backup" on internal storage. Then I select all files on sd and moved it to internal memory in "backup" folder. It took some time. At the end is says that it can't move two files. All other files were moved. Those to files were corrupted. The files which remains on sd card were videos taken with phone and when you tried to watch them they were freezing. I have format micro sd and at the end move everything back from backup folder to sd. Problem solved.

Settings > Connections > Nearby Devices > Disable ?

poch21 said:
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My phone heats up then mediaserver is at 40% :/ how do i get rid of it? i tried to do some searching and came up with turning off Quick connect, Samsung push services but this still happens. i dont have any SD card mounted too. im on sm-900f. any fix for this? currently i restart the phone but it usually happens again after i restart >_<
Thanks in advance for anyone who can help.
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try to flash another firmware different country...:good:
it happned with me on stock rom but after i flash 5.0 russian this problem fixed:good::good:
dont forget to hit thanks