I've been noticing my Play isn't remembering the options I choose for playing videos, opening web pages, even my launcher although I've checked "use for default" more than once. This normally happens after reboot. Anyone else having this issue?
maddog00 said:
I've been noticing my Play isn't remembering the options I choose for playing videos, opening web pages, even my launcher although I've checked "use for default" more than once. This normally happens after reboot. Anyone else having this issue?
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Yep.
Oddly enough, I only started having it when I upgraded from a 16GB microSD to a 32GB... I don't get it.
I've found this sometimes happens when apps that are set to default are moved to the sd card
That might be it then, as most of my apps are on the SD card. Oddly enough, though, even the apps that aren't on the SD card are getting the popup. Such as my home launchers.
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As the title says, I can no longer launch the settings applets for "Sounds and Notifications" and "Phone". When I click on them, it doesn't seem to do anything and then it hogs the CPU for a few minutes (system responds very slowly, screen redraws slowly).
I have tried soft reset and hard reset.
The problem is still there.
Is there any way to diagnose the problem or to fix it?
Is there any way to replace the applets?
Thanks in advance,
Luc
lwalter said:
As the title says, I can no longer launch the settings applets for "Sounds and Notifications" and "Phone". When I click on them, it doesn't seem to do anything and then it hogs the CPU for a few minutes (system responds very slowly, screen redraws slowly).
I have tried soft reset and hard reset.
The problem is still there.
Is there any way to diagnose the problem or to fix it?
Is there any way to replace the applets?
Thanks in advance,
Luc
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Same problem here......
Me too, except only for the Phone settings app - Sounds and Notifications works fine. FWIW, if I wait for a few minutes after clicking the Phone settings app it appears. In the phone settings app, clicking off the front tab is fast but returning to it takes another few minutes.
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In my case the problem was the mp3 files in the sd card because before get into those pages the system scans these kind of files to fill de combo boxes of sounds (events, rings, etc).
Solution:
Before go into these applets remove the sd card.
danielherrero said:
In my case the problem was the mp3 files in the sd card because before get into those pages the system scans these kind of files to fill de combo boxes of sounds (events, rings, etc).
Solution:
Before go into these applets remove the sd card.
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I don't have any mp3 files on my sd card and even after minutes, the control panel never appears.
Is there any way to re-install this?
Luc
Have you tried to extract the sd card? do you have music files in othe place (rom, extended, etc)?
I just checked this again and I get the same issue on the settings/sounds notification page but only on the notifications tab. However, as with Phone Settings, if I wait a couple of minutes the pages comes up.
I've tried removing the SD card and hard rebooting but it still doesn't solve it. The only thing I can think of is that I enabled HSDPA with fit4cat tweaker...?
Thanks all for your suggestions!
I reformated my SD card and now it works fine again.
Luc
Hmm... well removing the SD card altogether and unmounting my extended rom still hasn't fixed this. Any suggestions anyone?
I am wondering if anyone is experiencing this issue with their TAB. Some shortcuts are disappearing from my home screen. It just seems so odd. Google Sky, Opera Mobile and Google Goggles. Just a bit frustrating.
virgillio said:
I am wondering if anyone is experiencing this issue with their TAB. Some shortcuts are disappearing from my home screen. It just seems so odd. Google Sky, Opera Mobile and Google Goggles. Just a bit frustrating.
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Those programs are installed on the SD card. Since your SD card gets mounted after the system boots those shortcuts wont appear since the system doesn't see the apps till the card is mounted. You can fix this by going to Settings -> Applications, find the apps that keep disappearing, and click on Move to Device.
Hope that helps...
umbra6 said:
Those programs are installed on the SD card. Since your SD card gets mounted after the system boots those shortcuts wont appear since the system doesn't see the apps till the card is mounted. You can fix this by going to Settings -> Applications, find the apps that keep disappearing, and click on Move to Device.
Hope that helps...
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That worked! Thanks for taking the time to help me out.
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:
[Q] Keep getting "Internal Storage Space Left" messages-is something being installed?
I noticed that after hitting a certain remaining storage space threshold in Galaxy/android phones, I get an "Internal Storage Space Left: xx GB" everytime I install or update something. That's ok, don't really care about that.
However, starting a few weeks ago, I keep getting this message periodically, multiple times a day, without me explicitly installing or updating anything. Has this happened to anyone else? Is this normal? Any way to find out what's getting installed or updated (if that is what's happening)? When this first started happening, I also got a decline/accept pop-up box asking me if I wanted Google to verify apps (which led me to believe something is being installed). I unchecked the "verify apps" checkbox under security settings so that pop-up no longer shows, but the "Internal Storage Space Left" message I get is still annoying. Thanks.
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I noticed that after hitting a certain remaining storage space threshold in Galaxy/android phones, I get an "Internal Storage Space Left: xx GB" everytime I install or update something. That's ok, don't really care about that.
However, starting a few weeks ago, I keep getting this message periodically, multiple times a day, without me explicitly installing or updating anything. Has this happened to anyone else? Is this normal? Any way to find out what's getting installed or updated (if that is what's happening)? When this first started happening, I also got a decline/accept pop-up box asking me if I wanted Google to verify apps (which led me to believe something is being installed). I unchecked the "verify apps" checkbox under security settings so that pop-up no longer shows, but the "Internal Storage Space Left" message I get is still annoying. Thanks.
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Your phone consistently creates cache in the /cache partition, or your apps are probably updating their content (Gmail, RSS Readers, Facebook, Vine, Instagram, etc).
You should check your data usage and see whether it was downloading anything behind your back.
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Your phone consistently creates cache in the /cache partition, or your apps are probably updating their content (Gmail, RSS Readers, Facebook, Vine, Instagram, etc).
You should check your data usage and see whether it was downloading anything behind your back.
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Thanks for your feedback, appreciate it. Do you know of any easy way (or better yet, apps that do this) to monitor in real time, what gets installed and/or written to the install area of your storage? This way, whenever I see the "Internal Storage Space Left" message, I can quickly investigate what was just installed/written to my phone? When I'm playing music or watching youtube, whenever this message comes up, the audio freezes up for a second and it's getting really annoying now, aside from the fact that I don't want unknown stuff getting installed on my phone anyway. Thanks!
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Thanks for your feedback, appreciate it. Do you know of any easy way (or better yet, apps that do this) to monitor in real time, what gets installed and/or written to the install area of your storage? This way, whenever I see the "Internal Storage Space Left" message, I can quickly investigate what was just installed/written to my phone? When I'm playing music or watching youtube, whenever this message comes up, the audio freezes up for a second and it's getting really annoying now, aside from the fact that I don't want unknown stuff getting installed on my phone anyway. Thanks!
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I'm not sure, but I use Clean Master or SD Maid and they do the job just fine when cleaning up files on your phone. Maybe you should try those instead of preventing anything else from being added, so that when things get added you won't get a prompt when your phone is already cleaned out anyways
nicholaschum said:
I'm not sure, but I use Clean Master or SD Maid and they do the job just fine when cleaning up files on your phone. Maybe you should try those instead of preventing anything else from being added, so that when things get added you won't get a prompt when your phone is already cleaned out anyways
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Thanks for your reply! Actually, found a simple solution, don't know why I didn't think of this before. As soon as it happened again, I noted the time on the phone clock, then I went into my "root explorer" app and sorted the folders by time. I drilled down into the most recently modified folders and found a file that was modified at the exact same time noted above. It was the samsung gear fit app (or something to that effect) - don't know why I had installed it as I don't own any of the samsung gear accesssories. I deleted the app and the auto-install/updates stopped happening.
So I have a 64gb SD card on my phone to make space on my phone for apps and stuff. Problem is that the storage is running out and I realized that very few things are actually on the SD card. My Google Play Music Library is on it and some movies I have. I am running Resurrection Remix ROM on it, Marshmallow. There seems to be no option in Settings > Apps to move apps to the SD card. I also tried the app Link2SD and it hangs when trying to move an app and the link to SD option is greyed-out and underneath it says no secondary partition found... any idea how to force my apps to move to SD to clear up space? Or at least some settings to change...
Second problem is that my bluetooth audio becomes very choppy for 5-10 seconds whenever I turn on the screen from being off. Also, when the screen is off it will occasionally skip. It happens independently of what other apps I'm running.
musichasm said:
So I have a 64gb SD card on my phone to make space on my phone for apps and stuff. Problem is that the storage is running out and I realized that very few things are actually on the SD card. My Google Play Music Library is on it and some movies I have. I am running Resurrection Remix ROM on it, Marshmallow. There seems to be no option in Settings > Apps to move apps to the SD card. I also tried the app Link2SD and it hangs when trying to move an app and the link to SD option is greyed-out and underneath it says no secondary partition found... any idea how to force my apps to move to SD to clear up space? Or at least some settings to change...
Second problem is that my bluetooth audio becomes very choppy for 5-10 seconds whenever I turn on the screen from being off. Also, when the screen is off it will occasionally skip. It happens independently of what other apps I'm running.
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Update- the Bluetooth problem that's been bugging me for over a year mysteriously fixed itself... Strange