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Hey i was wonder can you like take apart the fascinate and change the internal storage? is it a second sd card inside of it? and if so how would you go about making the files work on another ? clockwork?

It would probably be embedded on to the board itself.
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dialect129 said:
Hey i was wonder can you like take apart the fascinate and change the internal storage? is it a second sd card inside of it? and if so how would you go about making the files work on another ? clockwork?
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I would say firmly that, no, you cannot replace/increase the internal memory on the Fascinate.

well i mean has anybody taken apart the phone yet? lol i was hoping that website that takes apart everything would of so i didnt have to be the first lol

dialect129 said:
well i mean has anybody taken apart the phone yet? lol i was hoping that website that takes apart everything would of so i didnt have to be the first lol
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Whether it has, or hasn't been taken apart by anyone, it's not a common practice to have removable/replaceable memory with these types of devices.
I consider myself a poweruser and have no real need for more internal memory.
You should be ok. You can always App2SD if you're running out of storage space.

well i have the lagfixme.bat until they make something better..by the way does the lag fix make media scan slower or something it takes forever to scan sometimes but anyways. i thought we couldnt app 2 sd until froyo?

dialect129 said:
well i have the lagfixme.bat until they make something better..by the way does the lag fix make media scan slower or something it takes forever to scan sometimes but anyways. i thought we couldnt app 2 sd until froyo?
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No, the media scan is just slow and takes forever in and of itself.
We can't really "app 2 sd" until Froyo.
I'd consider myself a power user as well and I'm only using 214MB of 1.55GB internally. Everything else (music, movies, etc.) I keep on my SD Card, so it isn't too bad.

yea im kind of a messy power user i got files everwhere...but yeah your right...thanks for the input

Once I got all my core appspot that I know ill use on a regular basis I only used about 300 MB of internal memory. Beyond that I use another 100 or so for junk (hypnotoad and the like) I can't imagine anyone needing more than 2 gig during the lifetime of this phone.
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Photos Disappearing!!!!

UGH my photos that I take with the camera are disappearing! I'm not sure how to replicate it but it might be either when I mount the usb or restart the phone.
Is this a known issue? Is anyone else having this problem? This almost renders the camera useless
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also, this isn't just a gallery issue because when I check the DCIM folder with Astro file manager the photos are still missing
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I had this problem too. Lost all my family videos and some pics, its very anoying bug... there is thread on google android somewhere, I posted here somewhere in this forum and the same content there. I think that maybe some instalation, but is just my opinion, embased in nothing.

I had several pictures I took disappear a few weeks ago. This was (obviously) while still on 2.3.2. No idea what the cause was, but I agree, they're not anywhere on the sdcard to be found. Very scary.
To be fair, I don't recall which of the three camera apps I use (stock, camera360, vignette) I took them with. I think it was vignette (and yes, I checked its folder). Are you using the stock camera or a 3rd party one?
For the time being, important pictures are being immediately uploaded/shared to my Picasa account.

Continue reporting and starring: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=13419

distortedloop said:
I had several pictures I took disappear a few weeks ago. This was (obviously) while still on 2.3.2. No idea what the cause was, but I agree, they're not anywhere on the sdcard to be found. Very scary.
To be fair, I don't recall which of the three camera apps I use (stock, camera360, vignette) I took them with. I think it was vignette (and yes, I checked its folder). Are you using the stock camera or a 3rd party one?
For the time being, important pictures are being immediately uploaded/shared to my Picasa account.
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Stock camera on 2.3.2 , I discovered like about 5 days before OTA hit me on last monday...

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Continue reporting and starring: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=13419
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done that, thx

In my case, my missing pics always reappear after rebooting. Funny thing is my previously deleted pics magically reappear in my Gallery (in a pixelated fashion) whenever my new pics go missing.

thank you for link. hope it gets fixed soon
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if anyone else is having this problem please support by starring and reporting via the link above
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Finally got an arc.

Hi guys I finally got my arc today. In love with it more than I was with my x10i and desire hd. Anyway I have a couple of enquiries.
First of all what is the 2nd mic used for?
Secondly, does the noise reduction option in call settings help and if so how? What difference is there in it being on and off?
Last but not least...ive seen two or three threads regarding 0% battery...what is this issue actually about?
Thanks and looking forward to join in with discussions and other threads.
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The 2nd mic is used for the noise cancellation - it record the background noise separately from the main mic then will subtract the one signal from the other to try and help reduce/remove it.
As for how effective it is, I've never knowingly used it, so I can't comment.
The 0% battery issue seems to be some sort of problem related to trying to flash/root the handset in a particular way.
There are solutions out there, so if you're afflicted by it there are ways of sorting it but I wouldn't worry unless it happens.

your second question is the answer to your first. the 2nd mic is on the back and is supposed to monitor the sounds of the area around you, to then cancel that noise whilst on a call. can't say how effective the noise reduction is, but i guess its working well since people rarely have any issues hearing me in busy, loud environments.
the 0% battery issue is only if you're rooting or flashing on your handset from what i understand. so if you wish to stay with stock SE firmware, you wont have this issue. SE is updating their firmwares reasonably quickly anyway, so if you don't root it, its not a major issue (well not for me anyway).
hope you like your arc, love this phone <3

Thank you so much guys. For a newbie to this phone can anyone give me any tips and tricks? And have any of you guys experienced the crack that everyone is on about?
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Yeah, I've got the crack(s).
Never noticed 'til I went looking for them though, so it's not worth worrying about IMO.

So far I've dropped the phone on concrete and tiles about 4 times and haven't got the cracks, so I've been pretty lucky. I do have some rough corners as a result, so make sure you take good care of it!
I find that the phone has nowhere near enough internal memory, so if you download many apps, you'll need to start moving as many as you can to the sd card. Note that apps stored on the sd card cannot have widgets, so if you want a specific apps widget, it'll need to be on internal memory
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I have the cracks over the sensor that others have experienced, despite never dropping my phone. I think the plastic is not the best quality and tbh you can feel how fragile it is when you first pick it up. My old phone was HTC HD2 and felt like a brick compared to my Arc. I'm still umming and arrrring about sending it in for repair......
As for any tips? There is a thread here which you might find useful
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1194545

Thanks for the info guys. Im just scared now though but the crack situation. I have currently got a leather pouch on my arc
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rkanwar said:
Thanks for the info guys. Im just scared now though but the crack situation. I have currently got a leather pouch on my arc
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It's not worth worrying mate, it doesn't get any worse and it doesn't affect the phone in any way.

Lord Takyon said:
It's not worth worrying mate, it doesn't get any worse and it doesn't affect the phone in any way.
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Cheers mate. Just another quick question to everyone. How many apps have everybody got on their device? My reason for asking is because my internal memory went really low. I dont really wanna move apps to sd if I can help it. Edit: I have 70 apps installed in the downloaded section ofmanage application including market youtube and maps. Is that good? Keeping in mind two or three of them are either licenses eg titanium pro and some widgets
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rkanwar said:
Cheers mate. Just another quick question to everyone. How many apps have everybody got on their device? My reason for asking is because my internal memory went really low. I dont really wanna move apps to sd if I can help it. Edit: I have 70 apps installed in the downloaded section ofmanage application including market youtube and maps. Is that good? Keeping in mind two or three of them are either licenses eg titanium pro and some widgets
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I have 146 apps installed in my Arc and I moved it all to SD Card, if possible..

I have ~150 apps in total installed and have 41Mb free on phone memory. All have moved to SD card (where possible) using Apps2SD. I'm sure I could get rid of alot of the older I apps I don't use as much
As mentioned above, I wouldn't worry too much about the crack. It does not affect phone's performance and most people will not notice it unless you point it out to them.
I was thinking of sending mine in for repair, but last night when I got home opened car door and my Arc fell out of my pocket on concrete floor. It bounced a couple of times so I feared the worst. After close inspection, there are 2 small scuff marks on side and that's all, no damage to screen nothing.....thankfully, maybe I got lucky, but will no longer be sending it in for repair as SE will say it was caused by dropping it.

Yep second mic is used for clever phasing to cancel out the external noise.

thanks guys...yesterday I updated via SEUS in order to root and hopefully update to 2.3.4 however I am still on 2.3.3 with firmware version 4.0.A.2.368...in SEUS it said that the home screen will now support landscape mode but ive not seen much difference.

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in SEUS it said that the home screen will now support landscape mode but ive not seen much difference.
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I remember reading this in an old firmware update changelog. It seems SE actually meant that there was landscape home screen support when screen mirroring via HDMI (ie. when you hook up your arc to a monitor/TV, you can see the phone on the monitor/TV in landscape). on the phone however, the home screen is always in portrait

im sorry to keep bugging everybody with question after question but i wanted to know how much space do apps take on sd card? for example if an app on internal memory takes 1mb will it be the same on the sd card? Im just wondering because even though my sd card shows hidden files, both on Astro and Windows i can never see the app files.
thanks you everybody for your cooperation

Pretty much the same space, yeah - they still take up a small amount of memory on the handset (a couple of KB or so) but basically it's all just shoved onto the card instead.

Has your s4 frozen on you yet?

Has your phone frozen to the point you had to reboot?? How many times...
I have not purchased a total of 3 of these devices what is for me another was for my buddy and one was for my girlfriend. I personally have experienced one freeze that made me reboot the phone my girlfriend who I convince to switch from an iPhone was beginning to love the phone but now is angry because she has been experiencing freezes a total of three times she just got the phone under a week. I'm curious to know how many others have experienced a freeze since they got the phone.
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I haven't had mine freeze on me yet and I've had it about a week.

I haven't had one freeze and I've had it since launch. Are you rooted?

Not one freeze. I preordered mine and it's been golden.

Nope none of the phones have been rooted. She claims that the music player just got stuck causing the whole phone freeze to the point where she couldn't answer call. She says it's happened to her more than once. When my phone froze it was just once and the whole screen froze and couldn't do anything had to reboot and then things have been fine since then.
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My phone freezes at least once per day if not more. Not sure why...

Have not had 1 freeze myself, I don't count the one time I flashed a ROM and was stuck at loading screen so just went back to my restore

No freezes for me since April 26th, the day I received my preorder S4.

Not one lock up. Maybe she downloaded a bogus app?
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Got the phone the morning of the release and I have been using it extensively since then and not a single freeze, crash, or reboot, or even the slightest amount of lag for that matter! :thumbup:
Sometimes crap like this happens with some random apps, if the problem consists maybe factory reset and reinstall each app one at a time to possibly identify the problem app.
That's just if it is an app though, I hope you can figure it out, this phone is unbelievable and the first of many many phones that has yet to have any sort of hiccups for me.
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I got mine the 2nd day it was out so a lil while now. I had one crash when playing with the kernel tweaker in Rom Toolbox Pro and it rebooted and fixed what I screwed up haha. But a freeze or lockup then reboot no.
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1 freeze here since I owned it since April 27
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This is REALLY werid.. so I`ve had this phone since launch and it has been 100% amazing. I`ve had 16gb SD card for years that I have been using so I thought it's time to get a big upgrade, so I now have a 64gb class 10, which also has been solid for 4-5+ days. all of a sudden it froze on me. I rebooted many times and even switched out my old 16GB card and still would freeze (probably 1-2 minutes once its plugged in) I even did a factory reset just cause I didn't have too much on here and its still doing it . never had an issue like this before.

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This is REALLY werid.. so I`ve had this phone since launch and it has been 100% amazing. I`ve had 16gb SD card for years that I have been using so I thought it's time to get a big upgrade, so I now have a 64gb class 10, which also has been solid for 4-5+ days. all of a sudden it froze on me. I rebooted many times and even switched out my old 16GB card and still would freeze (probably 1-2 minutes once its plugged in) I even did a factory reset just cause I didn't have too much on here and its still doing it . never had an issue like this before.
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Is it a SanDisk? If so, filter all the 1 star reviews and read them here http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Ultra...?ie=UTF8&filterBy=addOneStar&showViewpoints=0
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eyecon82 said:
Is it a SanDisk? If so, filter all the 1 star reviews and read them here http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Ultra...?ie=UTF8&filterBy=addOneStar&showViewpoints=0
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I've fortunately had the above microSD for about 6 months and it has been fine. Seems like ~10% of them are defective.
I still don't trust mine and make sure I always back up important folders to dropbox via the dropsync app just in case it decides to fail on me

Samsung infact, though I must admit this may be fault of the SD card, I found a rouge folder which was read only that was used to do a mounting script. once I deleted this windows I have not had an issue *yet* on my phone.. perhaps a false alarm!

No freezing on mine yet, but there has been a little lag.

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Has your phone frozen to the point you had to reboot?? How many times...
I have not purchased a total of 3 of these devices what is for me another was for my buddy and one was for my girlfriend. I personally have experienced one freeze that made me reboot the phone my girlfriend who I convince to switch from an iPhone was beginning to love the phone but now is angry because she has been experiencing freezes a total of three times she just got the phone under a week. I'm curious to know how many others have experienced a freeze since they got the phone.
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I have been having my phone freeze on me when I use the multiple camera shot and I would have to reboot. I think maybe you need to install task killer or just hold home button and clear the cache when you feel that you been using lots of apps to clear the rams Cache.

Off topic but does anyone notice black text to look like.its almost shaking while scrolling.. Happens in white background with black text.. Words get fuzzy until.u let the scroll go
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constantly
this thing locks up atleast once a day. the "new toy" goggle are off.... i want my s3 back.... but it is long gone.

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this thing locks up atleast once a day. the "new toy" goggle are off.... i want my s3 back.... but it is long gone.
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That's definitely not supposed to happen. I had an S3 before this and this thing flies in comparison. I would try and figure out what you did that is causing your issue/perhaps in a defective or hardware issue and you should get a replacement.
And @op I think the issue your talking about was fixed with the update from MDC to MDL, I went straight to AOSP so I never had the smearing issue people were having, but I'm pretty sure they got rid of that from what I heard. Could be wrong though. Have you updated to MDL?
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Phone created animated video all by itself, now I can't replicate it.. Any tips..?

So I have quite a few videos and pictures from a recent trip to Aruba and after I inserted the SD card into my phone, about 15 minutes later I had a notification in the dropdown menu that was a video my phone somehow created all by itself and now I can't seem to replicate it to show it to my fiance lol..
Anyone have any idea why my phone did that and how else do I find that video it made, because I can't locate it anywhere..
Thank you!

Do you have Google Photos installed? That's the app that tends to edit photos and make videos on it's own for me. Made a video from a series of photos I took of the kids at halloween.

MadMikeSS said:
Do you have Google Photos installed? That's the app that tends to edit photos and make videos on it's own for me. Made a video from a series of photos I took of the kids at halloween.
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Dude you rock!!! That was exactly it..!! I kept looking in Gallery and didn't see it anywhere and my fiance was looking at me like I was crazy and making up a story about this awesome little movie with music and everything lol.. Google Photos def hooked me up and I didn't even ask for it haha..
Thanks again!

Yes, it likes to proactively edit photos on you, you'll get a message totally at random about how made a photo better.

MadMikeSS said:
Yes, it likes to proactively edit photos on you, you'll get a message totally at random about how made a photo better.
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Haha that's awesome..! Luckily I was alone while I just got this figured out because Google magically produced two pics of a nice booty I used to know a few years back that somehow ended up in my google photos lmao.. It said the year so I'd have been safe, but still not a battle I was ready to partake in haha..

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Haha that's awesome..! Luckily I was alone while I just got this figured out because Google magically produced two pics of a nice booty I used to know a few years back that somehow ended up in my google photos lmao.. It said the year so I'd have been safe, but still not a battle I was ready to partake in haha..
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