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External sd card issue

I have an External sd card issue after updating to 4.4, now I know there are alot of people experiencing access issues but mines is different and wanted to know if you guys are having the same crap, so I can access my ext sd no prob but unfortunately I cannot right any data to it anymore, if I try a full reformat of the ext sd card in my phone it will format and after it will rebuild and come back with pics and music etc, if I try to reformat it in the pc it will not, when I take pictures and it goes to the external sd it will be gone or become corrupt when I reboot, anyone having the same issues???
its less then a year old sandisk 64gb class 10 it would be weird but its also a coincidence it happened only after I updated to 4.4....

Its not weird at all. If you google about that you will find a fix. But first you have to be rooted.
You are going to add media_rw to your platform.xml.
Just google a bit. And you'll find the answer.
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do u think is there any other alternative solution to release the right on sd card insterad of root my note3?
That is really a big issue...cant use ftp app now...
gidzdlcrz said:
Its not weird at all. If you google about that you will find a fix. But first you have to be rooted.
You are going to add media_rw to your platform.xml.
Just google a bit. And you'll find the answer.
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Yes. You have to wait for your app to be updated by the dev. I have several apps that is already kitkat compatible. They can write or delete in my ExtSdCard. Anyway. The best way is to root your device. Thats all.

I think it sounds more like what happened to my SD card. It became Read Only and I had to send it back for a replacement. Nothing to do with KitKat.
Check out this thread and I hope it helps (solved) 64gb sd card stuck on read only

This is not the KitKat issue, the Stock Camera was one of the first apps to be updated...
Does this also happen with a different SD?

gidzdlcrz said:
Its not weird at all. If you google about that you will find a fix. But first you have to be rooted.
You are going to add media_rw to your platform.xml.
Just google a bit. And you'll find the answer.
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maybe i should have posted all the steps i tried but like i said my prob is different i already made sure my sd had rw in the xml file etc am thinking its more so the card

Lembo said:
I think it sounds more like what happened to my SD card. It became Read Only and I had to send it back for a replacement. Nothing to do with KitKat.
Check out this thread and I hope it helps (solved) 64gb sd card stuck on read only
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that my exact same prob bro, i tried the long formats quicks formats different programs and nada, cant delete cant add lol geez im stuck with a 64 gb card that dont work, i think something strange happen when i updated to 4.4 but thats just me....

mafioso345 said:
that my exact same prob bro, i tried the long formats quicks formats different programs and nada, cant delete cant add lol geez im stuck with a 64 gb card that dont work, i think something strange happen when i updated to 4.4 but thats just me....
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Woops, free like... enjoy?
I had a dodgy microsd not to long ago. It was really screwed, couldn't be read or write to. After formatting a zillion times on all my different devices, I tried a recovery program I had got when I accidentally wiped my 1tb hdd. To my surprise after recovering all the media on the card; I cant remember if there was an option to restore partiton table, but it worked like normal again.
Anyway here's the name of the program:
MiniTool Power Data Recovery
http://www.powerdatarecovery.com/
-looking at it now.
Once you've formatted your sd-card try recovering the media on it (free version only does 1gb). Then try testing again see if its fixed.
If it doesn't do anything there is a couple of other options.
- Damaged partion recovery and lost partion recovery. I'd give these a try and do a quick format after doing so.
Hopefully this program helps, it brought a dead card right back to life for me.
Not affiliated with this program in any way.
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denski101 said:
Woops, free like... enjoy?
I had a dodgy microsd not to long ago. It was really screwed, couldn't be read or write to. After formatting a zillion times on all my different devices, I tried a recovery program I had got when I accidentally wiped my 1tb hdd. To my surprise after recovering all the media on the card; I cant remember if there was an option to restore partiton table, but it worked like normal again.
Anyway here's the name of the program:
MiniTool Power Data Recovery
http://www.powerdatarecovery.com/
-looking at it now.
Once you've formatted your sd-card try recovering the media on it (free version only does 1gb). Then try testing again see if its fixed.
If it doesn't do anything there is a couple of other options.
- Damaged partion recovery and lost partion recovery. I'd give these a try and do a quick format after doing so.
Hopefully this program helps, it brang a dead card right back to life for me.
Not affiliated with this program in any way.
✌
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Thanks bro imma try it

denski101 said:
Woops, free like... enjoy?
I had a dodgy microsd not to long ago. It was really screwed, couldn't be read or write to. After formatting a zillion times on all my different devices, I tried a recovery program I had got when I accidentally wiped my 1tb hdd. To my surprise after recovering all the media on the card; I cant remember if there was an option to restore partiton table, but it worked like normal again.
Anyway here's the name of the program:
MiniTool Power Data Recovery
http://www.powerdatarecovery.com/
-looking at it now.
Once you've formatted your sd-card try recovering the media on it (free version only does 1gb). Then try testing again see if its fixed.
If it doesn't do anything there is a couple of other options.
- Damaged partion recovery and lost partion recovery. I'd give these a try and do a quick format after doing so.
Hopefully this program helps, it brought a dead card right back to life for me.
Not affiliated with this program in any way.
✌
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Tried it bro but still nothing thanks though

Hi,
For me it's not acceptable to have a device with ext SD support but able to use it!
I spend nearly one hour to copy to another card, reformat, check files, virus, Fat32 but nothing helps!
connected thru OTG, it's possible to write file but impractical, I hope next update or utility would be avaible.
If I understand, it's related to the Knox security?
I didn't tested Knox, it's not free am I right?

SD CARD errors HELP!

I've been trying for days now with two different sd cards, I'm trying to move music and photos over to my sd card and all I'm getting is errors after errors, I've put the sd card in my pc to move them and using usb to my s5 and still the same. I'm at a loss on this one really I am
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mrallen81 said:
I've been trying for days now with two different sd cards, I'm trying to move music and photos over to my sd card and all I'm getting is errors after errors, I've put the sd card in my pc to move them and using usb to my s5 and still the same. I'm at a loss on this one really I am
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Please try point no 19 on my thread on my signature. It will solve your problem...

Chaitanyapatel8880 said:
Please try point no 19 on my thread on my signature. It will solve your problem...
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Thanks for getting back to me, I have tried to do what you said but it's still not working
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Anyone???
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+1
I have this problem on my s5 but not on my note3 they both run kitkat which is the issue. Google has locked down the software so that you cant use 3rd party apps to transfer files straight to SD card.
Not sure of a fix yet unless you ROOT the device
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84DGR said:
+1
I have this problem on my s5 but not on my note3 they both run kitkat which is the issue. Google has locked down the software so that you cant use 3rd party apps to transfer files straight to SD card.
Not sure of a fix yet unless you ROOT the device
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strange.. I have no problem before OR after rooting,(I have an s5 Active on AT&T)... Is it too much trouble to try restoring and starting from scratch? Quite obviously youre having a problem others aren't,(storing music on an sd card). That would lead one to belive its either a software or hardware problem specific to YOU only. Something has happened since your last clean set-up..
I don't know.. im quite slow witted but that's an idea..
of course, however, im adding them to the sd card FROM MY EXTERNAL HD. NOT from the s5 internal memory to the sd card... ...if that's the case, try moving from the phone's memory to a folder on your desktop and then back into the phone via sd card

Doing it that way yes I can achieve the desired result.
I have a media server that I used to be able to acces as follows
Es file explorer > media server
Copy file from server to sd card
Now I cant do it that way.
So I add the additional step and it works.
The other issue is quikpix or any 3rd party viewer I used to be able to delete pictures straight out of quikpix now it says I can only delete from the pre installed view (sviewer)
I hope that makes sense
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mrallen81 said:
I've been trying for days now with two different sd cards, I'm trying to move music and photos over to my sd card and all I'm getting is errors after errors,
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Probably a permissions error. Kitkat restricted third party app access to the SD card to make the OS more secure. Which broke a lot of apps. But I'm just guessing because you didn't provide any details that would enable us to troubleshoot it properly. Lots of errors.. uh huh. But what were those errors? What firmware version? How is the SD card formatted? What app are you using when the errors occur?
It's like saying your car is having problems.. but not giving any idea of what that really means. Did you have trouble starting your car? Won't go faster than 70 km/h.. stall.. weak brakes.. oil pressure light on? And for that matter, what model of car are we talking about? Knowing what specific SD card errors you had is rather essential information and it's odd that you wouldn't give us those details.
I don't think you did a forum search or you would have literally tripped over all the SD card problem threads and mentioned that. Most of the recent threads talk about the problems Kitkat introduced and it isn't hard to find posts in many of them describing how to fix the issue.
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Gallery photos broken, apps not found - SD failing?

Dear all,
I have a N9005 (eu) with 4.4.2 stock. Never rooted.
Since a couple of weeks, I notice a strange behavior. Quite often I find broken thumbnails in the stock Gallery app, sometimes the actual photos I have take are not visible.
At the same time, it happens that I download and install an app and it won't run, giving me an error in com.appnamewhatever. After a restart, I still see the link to the app on the home, but as I click it says app not installed. After I reinstall I can often run it np.
It gives me the feeling that the internal SD Card is dying. Is that possible? Can I run some tools/fixes to prevent or check it? (with no root required)
Thanks.
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McBain_666 said:
Dear all,
I have a N9005 (eu) with 4.4.2 stock. Never rooted.
Since a couple of weeks, I notice a strange behavior. Quite often I find broken thumbnails in the stock Gallery app, sometimes the actual photos I have take are not visible.
At the same time, it happens that I download and install an app and it won't run, giving me an error in com.appnamewhatever. After a restart, I still see the link to the app on the home, but as I click it says app not installed. After I reinstall I can often run it np.
It gives me the feeling that the internal SD Card is dying. Is that possible? Can I run some tools/fixes to prevent or check it? (with no root required)
Thanks.
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1. Take a look if your photos and pics are in SDCard.
2. Take a look if you have the apps installed in your SDCard too (Aplication manager -> SD Card -> App marked to move to SDCard)
3. You will have to take off the SDCard and try making photos and installing new apps (change your SDCard for other new if this go ok)
Tell me what result do you have in your tests :highfive:

Man, you are right. I had not moved any app intentionally to the external SD Card so I did not think that would be the case. But that's what happened, the failing apps were on the external SD and so are the photos. It's a SanDisk Class 10 64 Gb.
So no way out other than substituting it?
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McBain_666 said:
Man, you are right. I had not moved any app intentionally to the external SD Card so I did not think that would be the case. But that's what happened, the failing apps were on the external SD and so are the photos. It's a SanDisk Class 10 64 Gb.
So no way out other than substituting it?
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1. Take a look for what you can recover of your SDCard and copy it to your pc.
2. Format the card in the phone for last option.
3. Try again to put photos/apps there.
4. Good luck :highfive:

The corrupted photo's on the SDcard are a problem directly related to KitKat's increased security. It affects all KitKat devices. Any photo's on the SD randomly corrupt over time. The only solution is to put them on the internal memory.
The apps are a new one though. I've had apps suddenly become semi-uninstalled because I was dumb enough to mess with the Android_secure folder, but not with the errors after install.
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ShadowLea said:
The corrupted photo's on the SDcard are a problem directly related to KitKat's increased security. It affects all KitKat devices. Any photo's on the SD randomly corrupt over time. The only solution is to put them on the internal memory.
The apps are a new one though. I've had apps suddenly become semi-uninstalled because I was dumb enough to mess with the Android_secure folder, but not with the errors after install.
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Jeez that's crazy. I triedo to run a chkdsk on the card from windows (in a SD reader) and it got me a gazillion errors.
So now I proceeded to salvage what I can. I will try to format it (in the phone? in windows? still not sure about it) and see what happens.
Luckily I was able to salvage 99% of the photos.
I just remembered that I did something very unortodox, more or less at the same time problems started: I removed the SD Card with the phone still on. Yes, you can barely do it without removing the battery... I though "let's see if something bad happens". Maybe it started to corrupt the FAT or similar.
Anyway, please feel fee to point me to a thread or good article on this, I find information very scattered. Is there any advantage t oformat it in FAT32, NTFS or exFAT (assuming I can even choose)?
Thanks

McBain_666 said:
I just remembered that I did something very unortodox, more or less at the same time problems started: I removed the SD Card with the phone still on. Yes, you can barely do it without removing the battery... I though "let's see if something bad happens". Maybe it started to corrupt the FAT or similar.
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I find it fairly easy to do. It's also perfectly fine, as long as you unmount it first in settings.
Is there any advantage t oformat it in FAT32, NTFS or exFAT (assuming I can even choose)?
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Fat32 is the common format IT doesn't allow for filesizes over 3.9GB, so if you intend to use t for films, use exFAT.
NTFS can't be read without root. Don't use it.
exFAT is practically the same as FAT32, except that it allows for larger filesizes.

ShadowLea said:
I find it fairly easy to do. It's also perfectly fine, as long as you unmount it first in settings.
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Thanks for the infos. At that time I obviously did it without unmounting it first (no fun in life without some screw-ups). Regarding the formatting, I seem to be unable to do it from the phone at the moment.
It unmounts it, says checking it. But doesn't format it. Trying from windows now...

Here are some updates.
Formatting in either windows (stock function) and phone was a no-go.
However, I dowloaded and installed SD Association Formatter:
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/
and that did the trick. Now the SD Card is finally empy.
Also I strongly suggest using this tool instead of windows proprietary, because it's simply much much faster.
I will try and load it back with the stuff I had before, including pics, and see if I get the corrupted data again.
A difference is now that the chkdsk tool from windows says that no errors are found, unlike before. Let's see how it goes.

Final update to close thread:
The SD Card, a SanDisk UHS Class 10 SDXC, 64 Gb, had been declared dead.
It was possible to write data on in with seemingly no errors (from chkdsk) but all the data turned out to be simply corrupted.
Will send for replacement.
I have seen many comments on this card failing, so I would not recommend it. However, I think that this case it was not KitKat's fault.
Thanks for the inputs.

Do not blame the card yet
I am having the same issue with the same card, but it is limited to Note 3(N900).
Every now and then it becomes inaccesible, the photos appear broken, music player stops etc. It is not related to use of any particular app. When it happens, the card is still visible in Settings/Storage, just no app including mounting has access to it. What helps, is the old reboot fix
Happened on official KK, as well on LP. Device is stock unrooted N900.
The card is working without any problems in Note 1,even in Galaxy duos, and there are no issues writing/reading in windows nor linux. Something tells me that hardware is to blame.

[Q] Micro Sd Issues.

So i recently Updated to NK2 and everything was just normal, until lately i kept on trying to save a pic or an Mp3 on my sd card with no success, so i decided to format itto see if the issue would go away.
To my surprise i tried to format it and it wont let me, i tried on my phone , on my Pc, on a ubuntu Pc and it would say "format successfu!" yet I would insert the sd card on my phone and everything was still there!.
i dont know what else to try!.
it wont let me save, erase or ,format the Micro sd!.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks.
P.s.: It's a "SanDisk Ultra 64 GB microSDXC Class 10 UHS-1"

Have you tried formatting as root? There could bave been some weird permissions fluke that happened. Is your device rooted? You need root to enable being able to write to the sd card yourself from the phone, otherwise only apps can if i understand it correctly.
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Rakuu said:
Have you tried formatting as root? There could bave been some weird permissions fluke that happened. Is your device rooted? You need root to enable being able to write to the sd card yourself from the phone, otherwise only apps can if i understand it correctly.
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yeah I'm rooted and all.
The case is that my Micro sd card happens to be a bad batch of cards which I recently found.
I was researching on it and this card happens to lock itself, apparently there is no way to unlock it, according to Sandisk.
so I contacted Sandisk and see if I can excange it (Hopefully, I am Still under warranty) otherwise I'm stock with a card full of music and pictures I no Longer want, and that it wont save any other files , until i buy myself a new one.
thanks thought!

Zixx said:
yeah I'm rooted and all.
The case is that my Micro sd card happens to be a bad batch of cards which I recently found.
I was researching on it and this card happens to lock itself, apparently there is no way to unlock it, according to Sandisk.
so I contacted Sandisk and see if I can excange it (Hopefully, I am Still under warranty) otherwise I'm stock with a card full of music and pictures I no Longer want, and that it wont save any other files , until i buy myself a new one.
thanks thought!
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Wow that blows, glad you got it figured out though.
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Sandisk cards have lifetime warranties as long as you have proof of purchase your good to go. I exchanged mine with no issues but I ended up getting a 64gig Samsung card.

Camera "unable to save file to sd card"

Just happen lately that when I took picture with my original samsung camera app, it pop message as "unable to save file to sd card. default storage is changed to device". The phone can still read or write the SD card as normal, only camera app is giving the issue.
I have try clear the app data as well as re-format my SD card, but the issue remains.

Are you sure the phone can write to the SD card still? I noticed this same issue with my new GS7 (regular, not Edge) today. I tried taking pictures and had the same message you reported pop up. I can't write to the SD card at all. If I put the card in my computer, it'll write to the card; but I've tried moving files on the SD with Samsung's "My Files" app and the attempt to move fails. I've tried getting several other apps to write to the card and they fail too. In my searches I can find other people reporting problems with writing to the card, and that maybe there's a problem with Samsung's latest software version. Anyway, I've just had my phone for 2 days, so I'm surfing around looking for a good answer.
EDIT: My problem turned out to be a failing SD card. The computer (WIndows 10) created the illusion that the file was moving, but didn't actually do it. The SD card was no longer writable. I picked up a new 200 GB SD card and it is working great.

kind of similar issue here with my s7 edge, when i take pictures it sometimes saves to the device storage without any warning randomly. though my settings is save to sd card.

Same issue here, only the camera app has trouble writing to SD card, but it works perfectly fine otherwise.
It seems to have started happening since the latest system update (G935FXXU1APEQ).
I've already tried many things : clear camera app cache, wipe system cache, reformat SD card...

Same issue too
I have reformatted SD card, no change ...
I think it's related to http://forum.xda-developers.com/s7-edge/help/micro-sd-problem-t3340251

bightf said:
Same issue here, only the camera app has trouble writing to SD card, but it works perfectly fine otherwise.
It seems to have started happening since the latest system update (G935FXXU1APEQ).
I've already tried many things : clear camera app cache, wipe system cache, reformat SD card...
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what the ****, updatet 2 hours ago to G935FXXU1APEQ now I have the same Problem. Yesterday all worked fine with the old firmware, now I have more problems than yesterday -.-
WTF Samsung

Did you guys flash a new firmware on top of another from a different region? I experienced this when I flashed a different firmware onto another. Wipe is the only fix.
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Rydah805 said:
Did you guys flash a new firmware on top of another from a different region? I experienced this when I flashed a different firmware onto another. Wipe is the only fix.
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Yes, i have flashed an XEF firmware over a FTM

Same problem after updating BTU to the APEQ firmware on my 930F. Tried new sdcard but that did not work.

Rydah805 said:
Did you guys flash a new firmware on top of another from a different region? I experienced this when I flashed a different firmware onto another. Wipe is the only fix.
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I finally found the courage to do a wipe data / factory reset, and you were right, it's the only thing that works after trying everything else I could. I can now fully enjoy my SD card through the camera !

bightf said:
I finally found the courage to do a wipe data / factory reset, and you were right, it's the only thing that works after trying everything else I could. I can now fully enjoy my SD card through the camera !
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Yeah, sucks. Glad it works now though.
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Maybe a permissions issue on camera app.
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Quincux said:
Maybe a permissions issue on camera app.
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I checked that and made sure all permissions were enabled. No luck.

I have the same problem since I updated to apeq btu.. I was on btu firmware before as well.. Anyone figured out any solution without having to factory reset?
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Any solution yet?
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Bump?
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I'm facing the same issue since upgrading firmware. My previous card became unreadable - even in my computer. Got a new SD card, and every other app is OK, except the camera. Seems ridiculous! Looking forward to a quick fix!

Guys I just updated to new firmware and still some problem. Anyone knows of any way to fix this?
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lowrider82 said:
Guys I just updated to new firmware and still some problem. Anyone knows of any way to fix this?
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Yes Same problem. I'm at a loss. Just got my new Samsung SD 128gb pro plus and its pretty worthless now.... I cannot create a folder in samsung file manager AND new photos cannot save to SD card and then reverts setting to DEVICE.
Blows
FYI, I flashed to XSG, but no idea if worked with stock

SovRoxx said:
Yes Same problem. I'm at a loss. Just got my new Samsung SD 128gb pro plus and its pretty worthless now.... I cannot create a folder in samsung file manager AND new photos cannot save to SD card and then reverts setting to DEVICE.
Blows
FYI, I flashed to XSG, but no idea if worked with stock
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I use the latest btu stock with root and it hasn't fixed the issue... Can someone confirm whether factory resetting fixes it if you had the issue and managed to solve?
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