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I did a warranty exchange-- now nearly all my music is missing?

So earlier today I was listening to my music with no problems. I got home and found my replacement Vibrant waiting for me on my doorstep. I turned off my phone, took out the battery, memory card, and sim card. I got the new replacement Vibrant out of the box and put in the sim, memory card, and battery. Everything was working perfectly until a few hours later (now) when I turned on my music player and I notice I only have 5 artists on the artist page? I used to have nearly 30 on this phone. All of them were on my memory card because my previous Vibrant was rooted (so all of its internal mem was deleted) and after I rooted that Vibrant all of my music was still there. Any idea on how to get my music back?

Your music was most likely on the internal SD card of your old vibrant, not the external. And what does rooting have to do with wiping your card?

kangxi said:
Your music was most likely on the internal SD card of your old vibrant, not the external. And what does rooting have to do with wiping your card?
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well i dont think it was on the internal because when I flashed different roms my internal memory was erased so the music would have disappeared and i was able to listen to that music for months after flashing the roms. now that i switched vibrants tho the music is suddenly gone

alecjake said:
well i dont think it was on the internal because when I flashed different roms my internal memory was erased so the music would have disappeared and i was able to listen to that music for months after flashing the roms. now that i switched vibrants tho the music is suddenly gone
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Your internal system gets wiped the partition that has the important read only stuff the other 14 gbs dont get wiped so yea your music was on your internalXD
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lol.......
How can someone who roots their phone and installs custom ROMS not know the difference between internal and external memory?

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dcpetterson said:
Lol how can someone so smug not know that its not internal or external memory but disk space . Memory is something totally different.
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How can someone not know that the Vibrant does NOT have a disk drive in it? It has internal and external flash memory.

30 whole songs? Oh noes!
Yeah, I have 300 on my Vibrant and they are on the microSD card, NOT the internal memory.
If your songs are gone, then you probably put them on the internal memory of the old phone.
alecjake said:
So earlier today I was listening to my music with no problems. I got home and found my replacement Vibrant waiting for me on my doorstep. I turned off my phone, took out the battery, memory card, and sim card. I got the new replacement Vibrant out of the box and put in the sim, memory card, and battery. Everything was working perfectly until a few hours later (now) when I turned on my music player and I notice I only have 5 artists on the artist page? I used to have nearly 30 on this phone. All of them were on my memory card because my previous Vibrant was rooted (so all of its internal mem was deleted) and after I rooted that Vibrant all of my music was still there. Any idea on how to get my music back?
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dcpetterson said:
Lol how can someone so smug not know that its not internal or external memory but disk space . Memory is something totally different.
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Oh really?

Just put the songs back on your phone. 30 songs... should take like 10 min. Or you could just get something like Audiogalaxy from the market and stream your entire music library to the phone and not use up any space.

Constant Reboots

need your advice on this, I've just unbox my Galaxy Note few days ago, it keeps rebooting itself, one time I was copying data from the SD card to the other storage in the phone suddenly it reboots. I've had unknown reboots. Now using XXLA4 and seems doesnt solve the issue. Any ideas or suggestions?

Make sure all your applications are licated on internal SD
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Have you tried changing sd cards?
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yep they are all on my internal SD ... any ideas> Thanks

1 Does it happen after you load your applications or on a clean Rom as well? Could be a app that's causing it.
2 the xla 4 install could have been a bad flash. Did you check the MD 5?
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Do one thing just clear your dalvik cache.. i was facing same thing...

so now at the moment my note is in constant reboot mode, don't know if I should let it, I haven't root my devices yet I tried every method available on this homepage but doesnt seem to work at all. I tried installing some games on my note this morning, it failed to download and ever since that it reboots all the time. Any suggestion?
Edit: Now it stops rebooting when I plugged in the USB charger but it says the temperature of the battery is too low or too high and it doesn't charged

tvmaniac36 said:
so now at the moment my note is in constant reboot mode, don't know if I should let it, I haven't root my devices yet I tried every method available on this homepage but doesnt seem to work at all. I tried installing some games on my note this morning, it failed to download and ever since that it reboots all the time. Any suggestion?
Edit: Now it stops rebooting when I plugged in the USB charger but it says the temperature of the battery is too low or too high and it doesn't charged
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welcome to the club, i am in the same boat.
my phone works fine all times without sd card but sometimes goes crazy (restaring / freezing constantly for 7-8h non stop!) with sd card in situ.
some of my apps are on internal 1.9gb memory, some on internal 11gb memory, some on external card. trying to figure out how to force on stock unrooted device to force all apps to internal memory (1.9gb or 11gb) to prevent these issues. or will try new card. my old card works fine on my htc desire. dont know if the htc folders present on sd card are causing soem issues
have tried with apps2sd pro and stock app mnager to move apps to internal 11gb memory. but the phone has a mind of its own and some stay on 1.9gb internal memory some go to 11gb internal memory and some go to external sd card and i cant seem to force moveable apps to internal 11gb memory only instead of sd card as mentioned in the other concurrent thread today on this topic.

Hi,
I also had similar problem like this. It appears that the Android Program at times cannot seem to access the Ext SD card program/s installed and that will cause a reboot and repeated so.
I really do not why this is happening? It will seem to work fine ant reboot when the Ext SD is removed - but those programs installed in the Ext. SD will no longer be accessible.
There is a hidden folder in the Ext. SD ".android_secure" which contain all the programs transferred to that Ext. SD. If you empty this folder of it programs by transferring them to your PC and reinsert the Ext. SD card, it will function normally and you can access your file like photos, videos, music, and ebooks. But you will not be able to access your programs in the Ext. SD.
I had tried un-installing the apps in the Ext SD and re-installing them into Phone memory it will work but it will not transfer to Int. SD (the 11 GB) and keep informing me there is no Ext SD. This of course will eat up all the 1.9 GB of the Phone memory, which is not what I had wanted. Although I still have a lot of memory in the Int. SD (about 8 GB) it will not transfer there, why I am not sure.
Can some of the Android expert please look into this problem and advise. Thank you.

juliano76 said:
Make sure all your applications are licated on internal SD
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Hi,
How do you make sure all the Apps are located in the Internal SD?
I have an Ext SD and some apps are transferred there. I cannot transfer these apps into the Int SD.
I uninstalled the apps and reinstall them without the Ext SD and then try to transfer to Int SD. It will not transfer and a message "you do not have an Ext SD card"
Will appreciate any assistance. Thank you.

I don't have any apps installed on the internal SD nor external SD, I notice this that everytime an app failed to complete (eg loading) it goes to looping reboots. The last one I was playing some game something called mission, cannot remember the game name, it was loading all the time then I decided to switch it off and turn it on again. It goes constant reboot. I need a good phone which doesn't rebooot all the time ...

maniacscorpio said:
Do one thing just clear your dalvik cache.. i was facing same thing...
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Do you think this is worth to try? Since I am planning to go to Samsung today and saw some posts that it has possibility an error on the CPU. I have a couple of friends who also have the Note and nobody has the problem like I do ...
Edit: Oh and I did the factory wipe last night too but it still doing the reboots, finally I plug out the battery, plug it again and leave it for a half an hour then it stops rebooting ...

tvmaniac36 said:
Do you think this is worth to try? Since I am planning to go to Samsung today and saw some posts that it has possibility an error on the CPU. I have a couple of friends who also have the Note and nobody has the problem like I do ...
Edit: Oh and I did the factory wipe last night too but it still doing the reboots, finally I plug out the battery, plug it again and leave it for a half an hour then it stops rebooting ...
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Its seems like you had an issue with leakage current on cpu. Its caused the battery drain fast and heat up. The only solution is to change the main board. Well, this is use to happen on htc phone. Not sure on sammy phone
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tvmaniac36 said:
need your advice on this, I've just unbox my Galaxy Note few days ago, it keeps rebooting itself, one time I was copying data from the SD card to the other storage in the phone suddenly it reboots. I've had unknown reboots. Now using XXLA4 and seems doesnt solve the issue. Any ideas or suggestions?
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yeah my phone also used to reboot after some time... the problem i found was the installation of an app called es file explorer... i disabled the app and it works flawlessly...so some of the app on your phone might be causing you the problem...

naimmkassim said:
Its seems like you had an issue with leakage current on cpu. Its caused the battery drain fast and heat up. The only solution is to change the main board. Well, this is use to happen on htc phone. Not sure on sammy phone
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Well sent the phone back to Samsung, I think this is what happen to me, excited what the result would be from Samsung ..

Music playback

Ok another problem comes up. When I'm playing music, sometimes on random songs the player stop working. With stock player first the player stops, the the phone freeze and after of few seconds the phone is lagging heavily so i need to restart it...with third party player its just show notification, that this file doesn't have supported extension...every song is in mp3 and with my old device everything works fine...any help?
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Maybe it's ur rom problem
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Has something to do with the codecs of your media files maybe.
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Don't know about the codecs...because when the phone freeze on the song,i try the same song after phone wake up from stupidity and it works...something weird happening...can it be because of heap size or bad sd card?
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Gnaver said:
Don't know about the codecs...because when the phone freeze on the song,i try the same song after phone wake up from stupidity and it works...something weird happening...can it be because of heap size or bad sd card?
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Yes. SD card may be the issue here. Use class 4. Better.
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it used to happen with me earlier u need a faster card or check if its unmounting again and agin

Already bought a new class 4 card but i didnt check it and i bought normal SD card (big) so i need to change it tomorrow

Ok changed for micro SD class 4 8 gb...but it happens again...now im using player pro (cracked) so ill try poweramp today.

anyone else seeing media server drain?

So Today I noticed that I have a media server drain. No idea why this started happening out of no where. Anyone else having this issue?

create .nomedia file and put in folders with out any media (pictures, music files)

Full charge to zero overnight. Battery stats just says "media". Wtf. I thought I left this problem behind on my GS2 with cm10...
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blackguy101 said:
So Today I noticed that I have a media server drain. No idea why this started happening out of no where. Anyone else having this issue?
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Yes I had this issue. Reformatting the memory card and restarting fixed it completely for me.

If you have a lot of pictures, you may have to give it a couple of days (no exaggeration) to index all of them. Should be ok afterwards, but will run your battery down in a hurry until its done.
I've tried different sd cards using different file systems and they all gave me trouble. I think the process is buggy...

Install rescan media root it should take care of it.. If you are rooted
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This causes more problems than it solves. By force closing media process, you lose a great deal of functionality (for example your camera pictures will not show in gallery).

blackguy101 said:
So Today I noticed that I have a media server drain. No idea why this started happening out of no where. Anyone else having this issue?
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Check out this thread. It will fix your Media Server problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2272594

Grant H said:
Check out this thread. It will fix your Media Server problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2272594
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Not true!
I've tried several cards and have reformatted them several times. In my case, the S4 is completely unusable with my media library (about 20GB worth of pics and music).
On a side note, I should point out that my old Moto Defy running CM10 processes the same SD cards with the same content without any problem. This is definitely a bug with the S4!!!

dew.man said:
Not true!
I've tried several cards and have reformatted them several times. In my case, the S4 is completely unusable with my media library (about 20GB worth of pics and music).
On a side note, I should point out that my old Moto Defy running CM10 processes the same SD cards with the same content without any problem. This is definitely a bug with the S4!!!
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Hmmmm.. Well, I tried Did you try the android transfer program to put the music/pictures back on the card after reformat by chance?
Also, are you from White Lake, WI by chance?

Grant H said:
Hmmmm.. Well, I tried Did you try the android transfer program to put the music/pictures back on the card after reformat by chance?
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Interestingly enough, if I transfer the files directly through the phone, it appears to work fine for a period of time. Unmounting and remounting the card, however, causes the "infinite" scan to start over and the phone becomes useless.
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Also, are you from White Lake, WI by chance?
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No, White Lake, MI

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.
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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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Joe0113 said:
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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