I have a rooted vibrant with lag fix, the day before yesterday my camera wad working fine, but now when I went to it today it gives me a warning saying not enough memory, yet my internal is showing 910mb and my sd has 10.3gb. The only thing I can think of howe this might be messed up is I installed metamorph last night, buy never even tried to apply a theme being that the file did not unzip properly. Besides that,i only installed an app called disk usage (which doesn't even ask root permission) from thee time I took my last photo. Any ideas on how to fix this before I reinstall my nandroid backup to see if that works?
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I changed the directory where the files go to the phone instead of the sd, because in reality my true sd was full but the phone memory sd is not.
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Leoslick said:
I have a rooted vibrant with lag fix, the day before yesterday my camera wad working fine, but now when I went to it today it gives me a warning saying not enough memory, yet my internal is showing 910mb and my sd has 10.3gb. The only thing I can think of howe this might be messed up is I installed metamorph last night, buy never even tried to apply a theme being that the file did not unzip properly. Besides that,i only installed an app called disk usage (which doesn't even ask root permission) from thee time I took my last photo. Any ideas on how to fix this before I reinstall my nandroid backup to see if that works?
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I posted a fix for this a while back
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=752471&highlight=Database+Storage+Low
looks like the thing to do is click on the warning and delete the bloated contacts link and you will be fine.
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.nomedia keeps generating itself in the root of my SD card .. out of nowhere . It wipes out all my music and pics and stuff .. i delete , reboot , and its cool for a while , but then it pops back up inevitably .
this just recently started . Anyone know of a fix?
That's odd ... that is the purpose of the .nomedia file ... to tell the OS not to look for photos etc there. My guess is that some app is generating it. Can you detect a pattern to when it appears?
I have exactly the same problem. Did you install cover art downloader or PowerAmp? I think that the problem may be for one of this applications or a service of them, and if you have one of this app, It would be suspicious.
PD: sorry about my english, i'm spanish and this is the only post that I found with the same problem. I would like to find a solution for both.
Thanks.
I used to have cover art downloader but not anymore . And I have never used poweramp .. so I dunno , a strange problem
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This broke my theory. But this morning I did something... (I don't know what), and the file and will not come back.
if tomorrow, if the file is still missing, I will tell you everything I did, step by step.
Sometimes the file appears, one minute after remove it, and other takes hours.
The problem is more important than it seems (at least for me) because if the file exists, the phone don't sounds when somebody call me, or the alarm either.
Yeah my pictures get permanently wiped . My music always comes back
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Something similar happens to me, and:
- Copy the entire sdcard to pc (include hidden files and folders)
- Fomat the sdcard
- Copy the data back to the sdcard
- Run the app "rescan media" or "scanmedia", which are free in market.
This not solve the problem with the .nomedia, but maybe solve the problem with the videos and other stuff.
This is insane. . I just Odined and its still happening, which makes me believe its an sd card problem. Ill inspect that tomorrow
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i Odined again ... and formatted my sd card ... and the problem continued .. until i realized when i signed in with my Google account , there were two or three apps that were getting restored .... i deleted those apps that were automatically getting restored . then rebooted several times , then snapped several pictures and rebooted some more ... so far the .nomedia file has not reappeared , Im about to put some apps and my music back on my sd card and see what happens .
Interesting ... what apps were restored already?
Some animated weather app. Msnbc .. and I forgot the others
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Well, I'm glad you figured it out.
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I don't know what I did, but the file is missing since sunday morning.
If I did something, it makes no sense. I did what I explained in my previous post, but didn't work, then uninstalled an application of wallpapers (I forget the name ).... also install "ES Task Manager", "ES Security Manager" (Both from the developer EStrongs Inc.) and .... the file disappeared.
I do not know what happened, but I think it was anything I did. The file is alive.. elsewhere.
The trouble is that we will not know it was.
ok. I hope this isnt too much of a newb question...
I have looked all over to see if I could find any problems with people getting apps off of their SD card. I found a few topics and reviewed them, but I have had little luck. Most of those threads also involve root problems whereas my Evo 3d is still stock (updated to 2.3.4).
The main problem Im having (aside from linpak and various other benchmarks being dramatically reduced) is that I can not get the apps off of my SD card to show on the phone.
I performed a factory reset on the phone prior to the update as I've read several times that it is the preferred method of updating since it wipes the Dalvik (sp?) cache or whatever. I guess if you just update without wiping, it clogs up the cache or something to that effect.
Anyhow, I moved all the apps to SD. I did the wipe, then I did the OTA. Once the OTA was complete it would not recognize my apps at all. They DO NOT show up under app management as being on the SD. It is blank. It does however still show my music and pictures.
Since I swapped my 8 GeeBee card with a 16 I figured perhaps the card was corrupted somehow. So, I took my OEM Sandisk 8gb card and put that in and it wont transfer the apps that were on that either.
Ive tried to restart. Nothing. Ive unmounted the SD card, restarted without a card. Shut down. Put card back in, mounted. Still nothing .
Any help guys...and again, sorry if this is a newb question.
Use any third party apps? I believe the system installer doesn't check external storage. Try Astro free and you should be ok. Let me know what you run into
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Ooh and most benchmarks for this phone are inaccurate due to its resolution. They may have updated to account for this but that's what I've heard as of late.
It's a 1.2 factory dual core so why of super Oct'd phones and tablets you should reign supreme.
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I have a couple apps from Amazon but not many. so when I used astro I tried to find the apps and couldn't find any. Normally on my PC they are listed under Android secure...when I pull that up with astro it says directory empty..but they do show up when I have the card in my laptop...
Also, when I switched my sd out before all I had to do was copy the files and pop it in the phone. They showed up right away. Not sure why phone won't recognize them now.
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Tries an adb push?
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They shouldn't be in secure yet I'd they're typically ibstalld
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Yeah. I'm not sure what the deal is. I just ended up wupping the sd card and starting over. I have a spare sd I moved all my pics and such to so I'm not too worried about it.
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ok so i got my phone rooted and was moving apps over to my sd card one by one from the system half tired and wanting to save time i decided hey why not take the whole folder and move it...i did it for the youtube app and a couple others and they still worked why not....well...now my phone is in an endless boot/reboot how do i fix this
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ok so i got my phone rooted and was moving apps over to my sd card one by one from the system half tired and wanting to save time i decided hey why not take the whole folder and move it...i did it for the youtube app and a couple others and they still worked why not....well...now my phone is in an endless boot/reboot how do i fix this
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did you make a backup?
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no i didnt
however i did get it to work again after using this method
-cwm-recovery-manual
but now my wifi works but no data any idea on how to solve that one? i do still have all the old apps ( system apps ) on my sd card i was going to move the whole folder back to the system/app but then i got scared that something else would messed up
apn settings...fixed wap.cingular
twiztidmafia said:
no i didnt
however i did get it to work again after using this method
-cwm-recovery-manual
but now my wifi works but no data any idea on how to solve that one? i do still have all the old apps ( system apps ) on my sd card i was going to move the whole folder back to the system/app but then i got scared that something else would messed up
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Don't do that... Just reflash the same rom to get the apps back. Just to be safe
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There is an app in the play market called amaze memory cleaner. My memory, the 2gig portion was under 300mb, I deleted close to 10 apps & it never went above 300mb. I couldn't install updates it was terrible. I was about to do a factory reset, i googled the problem and found an article referring to an app called amazed memory cleaner. I went to the play market and found the app. It said it was an htc app but had only been downloaded once . I almost didn't install it because I thought for sure it was some kind of malware, but I really didn't have any other choice so I download it. I ran the app and my memory went to 1.2 gigabytes. And the phone was running like a top again. It seems there's a glitch in the system that once an app claims memory even if that app is deleted the system never sees the memory as freed up well this app fixes that. It's been 4 days since I installed the app I've ran into no problems, trustgo scanned the app and didn't find anything malicious contained within it, and like I said I've had no problems. My memory now read what it should if I add up the megabytes from all the apps i have installed instead of refusing to go above 300 megabytes no matter how many app's I delete. Anyone having similar problems try the app I promise you won't be disappointed. Create a backup and all that just to be safe if you'd like. I'm in no way associated with this app just a user that it helped out. I wish htc would push out an update for this problem instead of having to download an app from the play store but I'm just glad my phone's back to normal.
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You got a link for it, nothing shows in the Market for it
RavenWulf said:
You got a link for it, nothing shows in the Market for it
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Here you go.
This app doesn't do crap. Wtf is it supposed to "Update Successful"
Use CacheCleaner NG and set it to clean the SD Card also. Also use it the old method and set it to clean every 12hrs.
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The interesting thing about this app is it's only for the Amaze and the developer that released it is HTCdev. I can't confirm that it did much of anything for my phone but there is definitely strange goings on here.
look at your phones internal memory before & after
I didn't think it did anything either, it just say update successful. But before I had 289mb internal Memory free & couldn't even update my apps. After 1.2gb free & I was updating away. It worked wonders for me.
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The interesting thing about this app is it's only for the Amaze and the developer that released it is HTCdev. I can't confirm that it did much of anything for my phone but there is definitely strange goings on here.
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I had deleted about 10 apps & my internal memory went up maybe 9mb. It's like the phone wasn't reclaiming the memory before and after it does.
I wrote a paper on what it did for me at least so people wouldnt be confused, & it's like no one read it. Lol oh well I tried.
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This app doesn't do crap. Wtf is it supposed to "Update Successful"
Use CacheCleaner NG and set it to clean the SD Card also. Also use it the old method and set it to clean every 12hrs.
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Cleaning the cache will only free up minimal space(trust me I tried) not a gigabyte like this app did for me. Not saying it will do that for everyone my GF has the same phone she's not having the problem. But in my case it worked well.
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Hi all, thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
I've been going between 2 ROMs recently (Tron 2.1 and PAC-Man 23.0). For both of them, it is showing that the "Media" app is using a larger percentage of my battery (around 18%). I'm just not sure what this app is, or how to disable or remove it.
When I click on the app from the Battery details, "Force Stop" and "Report" are disabled buttons. Down below, it shows the included packages being "Downloads", "Media Storage", "Download Manager", "DRM Protected Content". I haven't been downloading anything, nor adding songs or movies, so I'm not sure what this "app" is spending its cycles doing.
Thanks!
I guess that it would be a better idea to report this incident to the ROM developer..
I have the same problem sometimes. After a google search I found that basically, your phone is searching for all the media on your internal and external storage. What causes the wake lock is that it is searching for or has found a file that is corrupt. It basically gets stuck on that file for awhile.
I had the wake lock for a couple days then it just went away.
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sanders539 said:
I have the same problem sometimes. After a google search I found that basically, your phone is searching for all the media on your internal and external storage. What causes the wake lock is that it is searching for or has found a file that is corrupt. It basically gets stuck on that file for awhile.
I had the wake lock for a couple days then it just went away.
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That is really interesting! Using a previous ROM, I do have a few corrupted images from a camera-app-gone-haywire. I'll have to clean those out (which I should have done anyway), and see if that helps.
Great idea!
No problem! I should go through and clean my SD card out, but I am too lazy and don't have the time to spend on it. I just deal with it because I usually have a charger nearby most of the time.
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Check to make sure the .thumbnails folder in the DCIM folder isnt overloaded with 2GB of images. Dont use the stock camera app regardless what ROM you are on. It accesses the stock Gallery app which in turns eventually creates thousands and thousands of "thumbnail" images. More like small pics at about 400x300 resolution. It JAMS up android.process.media .. hell.. it would make my phone hot because sometimes it ran straight for 24 minutes killing cpu.. deleted all the files in there and stopped using the stock app, no more problem.
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Check to make sure the .thumbnails folder in the DCIM folder isnt overloaded with 2GB of images. Dont use the stock camera app regardless what ROM you are on. It accesses the stock Gallery app which in turns eventually creates thousands and thousands of "thumbnail" images. More like small pics at about 400x300 resolution. It JAMS up android.process.media .. hell.. it would make my phone hot because sometimes it ran straight for 24 minutes killing cpu.. deleted all the files in there and stopped using the stock app, no more problem.
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So what do we do when we have been using the stock gallery and camera app? Can I delete the .thumbnails folder? What kind of camera and gallery app do you recommend? I have both stock samsung and stock android camera that I use everyday...
I have been using my phone (unrooted stock) for quite some time now and only recently did the media act up on me and killing the battery. I have rooted and install custom rom and reformatted my sdcard.
It'll now i kinda check the battery more frequently.
Dan_L said:
So what do we do when we have been using the stock gallery and camera app? Can I delete the .thumbnails folder? What kind of camera and gallery app do you recommend? I have both stock samsung and stock android camera that I use everyday...
I have been using my phone (unrooted stock) for quite some time now and only recently did the media act up on me and killing the battery. I have rooted and install custom rom and reformatted my sdcard.
It'll now i kinda check the battery more frequently.
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Just following up (I asked the original question). What I've found is that between various ROMs, I have two images folders on my sdcard. Mostly, I just went through and deleted a few invalid images (I think my Tron 2.0 ROM used to take corrupt images, but no longer). I cleaned out many many images I no longer needed as well.
Also, not sure if this is related: I uninstalled and reinstalled Google+ (which has an image auto-backup feature). I had been restoring it from a backup, and I think it got corrupted along the way. It was no longer automatically backing up images, for example.
Since then, I've been in much better shape, and I haven't noticed the Media process taking as much battery.