I'm getting this problem a lot from my phone nowadays especially after dropping it. Is this a problem with my SD card or my phone? I've had several phones before and always dropped them once in a while but it seems that the SGS2 is extremely sensitive to them. Also, I don't know if it's related but I'm hearing a very soft hissing sound whenever I plug in my earphones. The sound is very minute and is similar a cd player whenever the cd starts to spin from idle.
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I'm getting this problem a lot from my phone nowadays especially after dropping it. Is this a problem with my SD card or my phone? I've had several phones before and always dropped them once in a while but it seems that the SGS2 is extremely sensitive to them. Also, I don't know if it's related but I'm hearing a very soft hissing sound whenever I plug in my earphones. The sound is very minute and is similar a cd player whenever the cd starts to spin from idle.
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You should not drop your phone.
I had issues with my external sd card twice.
Now I am using my third sd card and everything is fine.
The others, it could send back for warranty replacement.
But I am not sure about the "real" cause of that issue.
So, just change your sd card and check this for a while.
Maybe it's the sd card, maybe the phone?!
Good luck !
P.S.: I never recognized the sound issue you mentioned on my phone.
Now if you two have finished the pissing contest...
If you google for the error message "sd card has been removed unexpectedly" you'll see it's not unique to samsung either, and I suspect it's a bug in android. I've had it happen when the phone was sitting perfecly still on the table, and it has happened much less lately after I started swapping newer version of OS and kernel.
No solution really unless your problem is really caused by hardware problem, just restart your phone and it'll be fine.
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Now if you two have finished the pissing contest...
If you google for the error message "sd card has been removed unexpectedly" you'll see it's not unique to samsung either, and I suspect it's a bug in android. I've had it happen when the phone was sitting perfecly still on the table, and it has happened much less lately after I started swapping newer version of OS and kernel.
No solution really unless your problem is really caused by hardware problem, just restart your phone and it'll be fine.
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Thanks for answer. You have often this error occurs? And what android version you have?
Used to be every couple of days, but haven't seen it in a while. Running xxki3 and siyah kernel.
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Hey!
Did you resolve the problem somehow?
I keep getting it on my I900. I've synched my spotify tracks to my external sd, but constantly need to reboot due to the error message. Friking me out!!
Is the problem my SD-card - a Kingston 16 GB SDHC (I think?), or my phone? Love my S2, but this is driving me insane !!!
"Sd card has been removed unexpectedly" my a** !
Carina
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Hello all, I have decided to catalog all of the missing icons and rebooting issues into one spot as I have just received a new phone from Toshiba because my old phone repeatedly rebooted upon boot... and now my new phone is repeatedly rebooting upon boot, which is the same thing that my old phone did! Also, I can't remember how I solved the "missing icons from programs installed on SD card problem" but I have that same problem again. Now, I live in Japan, I have tried most of the radios, could living in Japan cause my phone to reboot? Like could the radio when it is trying to connect to the tower not like the signal and then fux up n' reboot? I need help, I know Kevin P. White played around with this issue, I know that most of the people on this board had this issue at one time or another. Any ideas friends?
SD Card Missing Icons Issue & Problems loading apps installed on SD Card
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=578834
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7262188#post7262188
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9046202&highlight=ffboy#post9046202
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7046845&highlight=ffboy#post7046845
http://www.modaco.com/content/toshiba-tg01-tg01-modaco-com/303742/problem-installing-apps-to-sd-card/
http://www.modaco.com/content/toshiba-tg01-tg01-modaco-com/298349/tg01-freeze-on-programs-installed-on-sd/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=691011&highlight=icons
Rebooting Issue
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=648809
I tell you, if someone can help me with the rebooting issue, it would be so much appreciated. It is so frickin’ annoying to have the phone just almost boot up, then freeze for about 2-3 minutes before rebooting, then it will do this 3-4 times before it is stable. Someone else has to have this problem as I just got a brand spankin' new phone from Toshiba, and I still am experiencing the same problems that I did before. Thank you,
What the hell am I doing wrong? It must be my fault right?... I mean... There is no way that two phones from Toshiba could be having the same problem, so what am I doing that very few other people are doing?
I have tried using all of my stupid skills to come up with a solution, but... no avail. I need help.
-Kilimessed.
PS: I will fix this problem, this post will catalog all of the known issues and fixes with this device, I can promise you, I will fix this basterd.
[UPDATE] - Trying one of FFBOY's roms [ROM][ENG]FFBOY'S WM6.5 21914+Manila 20161332!Radio5005.1700.05!8/8 - I read in one of those posts that he uses a different SD Card driver. Will report back later.
[UPDATE2] - It is later now, I do not have an SD card problem anymore, FFBOY's rom has definitly solved that issue, however, the rebooting problem still persists. It will begin to boot, just past the splash screen, then freeze for 10seconds to 2minutes depending upon the barametric pressure at that time... ehheeh.. **** ... i donno.. but.. anyways.. if someone can help me with the rebooting problem, that would be much apreciated. Ok, so I have done the following, I have removed the SD card and the SIM card but it still freezes/reboots 2-3 times before loading windows. Anyone else here having the same issue?
The solution to all these issues is simple : Don't install your applications onto the SD Card.
Once you've moved everything into the phone memory, you'll find it all works much better !
What about the cycle boot freeze problem? Oh man, I would give anything to have my stupid phone boot properly!... Again, it will freeze 2-3 times, then it will boot properly, it doesn't matter if there is no sim card and/or sd card installed at the time. Anyone experienced this?
Hi Kilihari! I had a similar problem with my TG01. I'm not firm in programming windows mobile, so I can't give you an advice in this direction...
but when that occured on my TG (plus freezing phone when press slightly on the backside of it), I sent it to the Toshiba-service partner for warranty - and got it back, still having the same problem -freezing after light pressure on the back-cover and independent from that (occured before) recycling boot (only 30% of the boot-trials worked properly). So I recorded a video with the problems and sent it back to Toshiba service the next day...
The result: My phone received a new motherboard, new IMEI etc. Which one of the two faults was the cause for replacement...i don't know, but maybe the recycling boot is rather a hardware-fault-caused problem than software-caused...
Good luck in finding a solution!
mcmurzen
i ther, I have not had a problem with rebooting but I do get the missing icons quite a lot.
I find that using Sense roms is fine, I assume that while Sense is loading the system has more time to scan the sd card and load the icons. But this has a knock on effect on both memory and battery life.
I did find a rom somewhere (cant remember which one) which had a very lengthy boot/startup animation and the icons appeard fine. But it took a while to load so I changed this to a more traditional logo and the icons dissapeared.
I uninstalled this but the icons never came back and I did read that by changing the startup wait times this could also fix the problem so I tried experimenting and trashed my TG01 and I had to hard reset to clear and since then I have not 'experimented' since.
If someone has some spare time on their hands and dosent mind all the reboots they may find an answer but in the end I had to make customised icons and use JWD icon changer
Thanks guys for your help, I am sending my phone back to Toshiba, I will do this up again, I will pay for it, I don't care, I got to get this fixed.
Good luck and keep us posted
Problem Solved!!!!
Good news.
So I decided to give it one last shot, to try just one more time to get my phone working properly. I turned it on and preformed a “Master Clear” on my phone, stock Toshiba ROM freshly downloaded from their website, just to give it one more shot. I didn’t want to take out my SIM card from my secondary ASUS phone so I just took the pre-paid “Pay-as-you-go” SIM card from Softbank Mobile here in Japan (we use it sometimes when we have company over from Canada). A very interesting thing happened... right from the very beginning, I noticed that my phone was much more responsive and stable, I noticed that it didn’t freeze or reboot. It was perfect. The radio for the Japanese Docomo T01a is 5005.1901.1.20 which must make it possible for it to work with Japanese SIM cards, of course the new radio for UK Orange is 5001.0001.76. My "pay-you-go" SIM card looks like the previous generation's SIM, whereas my official Softbank SIM card looks newer. Anyways, the pay-as-you go SIM works, well the other SIM worked too, but this time my phone doesn't reboot, IT IS STABLE!!!! Meaning my phone is good. If anyone would like me to go further and take some photos of the SIMs, I can, just so if anyone encounters this problem ever again, we now have some additional information for the people in this community. If someone is experiencing the same problem as I am, you can just get a pay-as-you-go card or use a different carrier’s card and it might work, but the rebooting at boot and random freezes are not caused because of defect in my phone.
WoW.... I can't believe after a year and a half of pain, misery, and suffering, that it all came down to a stupid pay-as-you-go SIM card... also, my phone still froze without a SIM card in it, but after I had put in the pay-as-you-go SIM card, then it froze one more time, but the second time it booted, and then after it booted properly, then it has been good ever since, even without a SIM… now it is good. I can't believe this... honestly can't believe this. Even if it reboots once a day, there is no problem with that, but it has been totally stable... holy ****.... holy crap, it hasn’t rebooted in a whole DAY!!!! Moral of the story, buying a phone from a different country has issues related to it. EHEEHHEEHH.. Ummm... weirdest thing, ok, so, it seems like the pay-as-you-go card updated something in my phone or, allowed something to update. Then I put in my normal SIM card and all is good. When my phone starts to act funny, then I pop back in the pay-as-you-go SIM card for a minute, then turn off my phone and then put back in my normal Softbank SIM card. WOW!!
Also, Supbro's iContacts, iDialer, GreenButton and Ashiqiqbal's Host v1.5 are awesome programs... I feel like a kid in a candy story who has been held back savoring the sweet smells of the candy for over a year, I am now just installing program after program on this phone, just playing with things, eating all the candy!
-kilisoefenhappy
Hi all,
I am having a wierd problem with my micro SD card. I have noticed that it has gotten corrupted (Broken as it says in the notification) a handful of times now. I just rebooted my phone and during start up, it stopped at the AT&T Spash, then restarted, it took a little while longer to fully reboot, but once it did I got a "Broken Card" notification. Now that I think of it, the corruption seems to be happening any time I restart the phone.
Has anyone else had this problem, or heard of it? Is the card bad maybe? It seems to work fine till I do a reboot. I am getting kinda tired of reformating the card and reloading my stuff on it.
Thanks
Hey, a few months ago, thanks to you guys, I got Prime v2 up and running on my optimus and ever since then it will occasionally freeze up attempt to restart and then lock up on the android screen and i have to take out the battery and restart it. What I'm guessing is going on is that the phone think the SD card (where it runs Prime from) is removed. When I had the stock T-Mobile software on it I always had warnings about the SD card being removed. Well the past few weeks this has been happening about 8-12 times a day and sometimes I don't notice it and my phone has been offline for an hour, missing calls.
Is this common? Is it a hardware thing I can fix or just a software issue I can fix fix with a ROM upgrade? I'm thinking of just flashing back the T-Mobile software but I really really don't want to have to reinstall and setup all my apps and re-enter all my contacts (Gmail syncing doesn't work that well here in China for some reason). Honestly the only thing that I need the ROM for is using my VPN because the stock won't do it.
could be some damaged / bent pins on the sd area
This is unusual... Never happened to me before
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I also had some SD card and boot issues with the prime rom. Switched to CM7 rom a few days ago and until now it works flawlessly.
This is the rom I used: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=946354
This has happened to me twice, though I'm on stock 2.2.2. My phone is rooted and I use Link2SD.
The first time, I was listening to some songs when suddenly the SD card unmounted itself and the phone suddenly restarted from the Android screen, and got stuck there, same as you. The second time, I took my phone from my pocket and found it at the android screen, stuck! Both times, I had to take out my battery, and then switch on the phone again.
Both times, there is no reason for the phone to hang because it ran out of memory or something, because I clear unwanted background apps from time to time, and on both occasions, I wasn't running any apps that take up a lot of system resources.
Anyone knows how to fix this?
Sometimes my Atrix says "No SIM Card" after booting up, even when I insert a SIM card.
I can still make calls, and the signal strength shows normally, though.
This may be solved by several reboot, but it's annoying.
I have this issue using Wet Dream 1.4.4 or Darkside pre-final.
Can anyone help?
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Don't know why it happens, but for me it usually happens when the phone autonomously reboots. I usually can tell when it is going to happen because the boot process takes a very long time. I usually reboot the phone and it works. Lately it's been happening more often than the widget disappearing problem.
Sorry, I've got nothing other than reboot.
I had this issue on basically all of my previous phones that I used for a long time. Might be because the conductors or whatever are going bad. Been drinking so I don't exactly remember what they're called.. Licking the SIM card always fixed that problem for me. But that could cause problems later on. Liquid + electronic = bad. Only had to do it once in a blue moon and never had an issue with the phone completely dying on me, but that IS a possibility.
i've had this problem once in a while as well on 1.4.3 and again it's solved with a reboot. i believe is has something to do with not shutting down properly. as i've only seen it happen when im trying to flash files and need to reboot or some freak accident and the phone crashes and reboots.
i believe that certain features or actions might not work properly if you leave it in that state without rebooting to fix it.
The first time this happened to me (about a week after I first got the phone), I thought it was temporary and logged into the phone. It made me put in my Motoblur information and lots of things were not working as expected. After a reboot, the phone saw the SIM card, but it required me to go through Motoblur setup again to get it back to the original state.
Since then I just reboot the phone when it happens and don't even try to use it in that state.
Hi to all friendly forum people!
Since several weeks now, I've been experiencing this unfortunate "media" battery drain. From the google and XDA search results I found out that others have experienced it as well but the solution offered didn't help me. One "fix" suggested to wipe the memory card to see if this fixes the issue (I thought this really might be the core problem since I had that notification center message about the isyncr scanner running on the background). So I backed up my SD card contents and did a format. Unfortunately this wasn't helpful. I left the card blank and uninstalled isyncr, restarted the phone but the media drains continues its course.
Does anyone have a solution that doesn't involve factory reset.
Here, check these pictures out: (since I don't have enough posts, here is the link in this format: goo. gl / PVXGU
Thank you very much for your input! :good:
P.S. Another thing I witnessed several times now is that *some* times the charging of the phone takes about 4 hours (2x more than normal) and I've seen the phone in the last 2 months to just power off itself without any pressing of the power button or lack of battery. Still no sudden death, but I find it odd and unacceptable for smartphone of this class.
hope u have upgraded to the latest firmware. all these issues are of old firmwares. the new ones are very stable.
provide info on your firmware,kernel, etc. so that senior members can help u better.
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Oh, sorry! I'm on Jelly bean 4.1.2
Kernel: 3.0.31-699321 [email protected]#1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Dec 13 19:25:10 KST 2012
Baseband version: I9300XXELL4
I had a similar issue before and the only thing that fixed it was factory reset. I hope this time it won't be necessary to come to this...
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I have seen the media scanner go mad a few times on my SG3, go to app manager and force stop media storage, clear data and then reboot the phone.
Even after doing this the scanner will still run for 30 odd minutes after each boot. An app called rescan media root can be used to temporarily disable the scanner.
Try 'Rescan Media' app from Playstore. It stops the media scanning process from running amok.
Fail...
I decided to report on my results after the factory reset I did with the hope to fix the problem.
It's actually very disappointing to see that even after the factory reset, format of the SD Card and taking out the card altogether the problem wasn't fixed in either of the attempts.
So, I did the factory reset, went through the activation process, installed all my apps again and then used TitaniumBackup to restore the data of all those apps. Then after the phone's battery was exhausted, I charged it fully to initiate the test and see if the issue is still present. Unfortunately the "Media" process is once again the top battery hogger and is the main reason behind the accelerated drain I witness on my Galaxy s3. Another thing I witness is that randomly, out of the blue I see in the notification bar that my SD card has been unexpectedly removed and then that it's ready for access again. All in all, I can access the card's contents but this notification is suspicious and probably part of the problem, but I'm almost sure that the card itself isn't the faulty one. I purchased it from reputable source and the brand is trustworthy in my opinion. The problem has to be in the phone itself.
Another thing is that after the factory reset I didn't let the phone run without any apps or restoring the app's data. Maybe I should have, since some those app's data could be in the core of this issue and TitaniumBackup might have brought it to its previous state, but I forgot to and wanted to access some of my apps' contents prior to the FactoryReset.
All in all, this problem proved to be very irritating, time consuming and unacceptable in my opinion. Maybe I should contact Samsung or the retailer that sold me the phone since it's still warranty covered, but I guess I will end up selling it and purchasing something else, probably a Nexus 4 or an iPhone (despite all the ridicule circulating about it, being a toy with limited capabilities bla bla bla... From the feedback of numerous people I know, owning iOS devises I don't know one that had issues with them that caused them that much wasted time and energy)
So that's all I had to say. I wish luck to anyone else experiencing the same problem and take care!
Some of my suggestions here might help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2060852
Media Scanner Fix?
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Rosenthal said:
my SD card has been unexpectedly removed and then that it's ready for access again. All in all, I can access the card's contents but this notification is suspicious and probably part of the problem, but I'm almost sure that the card itself isn't the faulty one. I purchased it from reputable source and the brand is trustworthy in my opinion. The problem has to be in the phone itself.
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While you are sure that the card itself isn't faulty I would be highly suspicious of it being the root of the problem. Media scanner naturally scans the card and if it's faulty then naturally it would loop. I had the same issue an solved it by purchasing a new SD (admittedly my original one was quite old)
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While you are sure that the card itself isn't faulty I would be highly suspicious of it being the root of the problem. Media scanner naturally scans the card and if it's faulty then naturally it would loop. I had the same issue an solved it by purchasing a new SD (admittedly my original one was quite old)
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I took out the card altogether and did a full battery cycle. The problem persisted.
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Thank you! i will look into that and see if something works.
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Had the same issue with my S3.
Turned out that the SD card was dying (the card brand is Team Group), this caused it to be unmounted by itself and then mounted again (sometimes showing notification “sd card removed unexpectedly”), hence triggering the “Media” scanning process and significantly draining the battery.
I created an application to monitor how many times the SD card was removed, and turned out to be unmounted every ~3 mins!!!
I then bought a new Transcend 32GB Class 10 card (made in Korea), and until now, this never happens, no reports from the application whatsoever, and no media process eating my battery.
I just published this app in the play store now, this is the link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sdcardmonitor
just large # of files
Symptoms: Battery runs down very quickly, phone heats up, battery use shows Media using 80-90% or more. New 32GB memory card, 20GB used containing 120,000 files. No auto unmount/mount noticed.
Solution: Unmount memory card when not in use, must be done after each restart as well.
I have to report the "Media Battery Drain" also.
I'm on the latest Italian H3G Firmware (JB 4.1.2 JZO54K.I9300XXELLA).
I had an important drain sometimes, the last time it happened the battery was drained from 100% to 8% in 4 hours. This is not normal, in my opinion.
The problem come out after I mounted a Sandisk Class10 microSD... so viewing that, apparently, there is no correlation between the brand of the sd card and the issue, because a lot of people is experiencing issues with various brands.
I formatted the SD card, after a backup, but the problem is present even if the micro SD is empty...
Probably the solution that fits well for me is switching to Cyanogenmod 10.1 ( a friend of mine is using that rom without issues).
I'll search a solution too...
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I forget to report that my phone becomes hot during the battery draining, approximately in direction of the microSD position.
Fixed!
I fixed the problem uninstalling Google Play Music and the updates of "Music Hub" by Samsung.
Before doing this I tried to fix the issue placing .nomedia files into media folders, but that didn't work for me.
My battery lasts more or less one day against the 4 hours when the "media drain issue" was present.
I hope it could be helpful for others!
My solutions.
1. format sd card.
2. uninstall facebook app...
I've had same problem however after removing facebook app everything turned out to be fine.
You don't have to reset anything. Just format sdcard(internal and external) and remove facebook app.
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I decided to report on my results after the factory reset I did with the hope to fix the problem.
It's actually very disappointing to see that even after the factory reset, format of the SD Card and taking out the card altogether the problem wasn't fixed in either of the attempts.
So, I did the factory reset, went through the activation process, installed all my apps again and then used TitaniumBackup to restore the data of all those apps. Then after the phone's battery was exhausted, I charged it fully to initiate the test and see if the issue is still present. Unfortunately the "Media" process is once again the top battery hogger and is the main reason behind the accelerated drain I witness on my Galaxy s3. Another thing I witness is that randomly, out of the blue I see in the notification bar that my SD card has been unexpectedly removed and then that it's ready for access again. All in all, I can access the card's contents but this notification is suspicious and probably part of the problem, but I'm almost sure that the card itself isn't the faulty one. I purchased it from reputable source and the brand is trustworthy in my opinion. The problem has to be in the phone itself.
Another thing is that after the factory reset I didn't let the phone run without any apps or restoring the app's data. Maybe I should have, since some those app's data could be in the core of this issue and TitaniumBackup might have brought it to its previous state, but I forgot to and wanted to access some of my apps' contents prior to the FactoryReset.
All in all, this problem proved to be very irritating, time consuming and unacceptable in my opinion. Maybe I should contact Samsung or the retailer that sold me the phone since it's still warranty covered, but I guess I will end up selling it and purchasing something else, probably a Nexus 4 or an iPhone (despite all the ridicule circulating about it, being a toy with limited capabilities bla bla bla... From the feedback of numerous people I know, owning iOS devises I don't know one that had issues with them that caused them that much wasted time and energy)
So that's all I had to say. I wish luck to anyone else experiencing the same problem and take care!
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Same, exact issue. I'm researching a solution now.
SOLVED: by rm'ing directory with thousands of files
SOLVED (for me). Same issue. It lasted for months. I bought new SD cards twice. Finally solved it by identifying a directory on /mnt/sdcard (i.e. /storage/sdcard0, i.e. the internal storage) with thousands of files, from a buggy beta version of a todo-list app. I removed the app, rm -rf'ed the directory, ... and the phone is now back to normal! Multi-day battery life!
TL;DR look for directories with thousands of files.
Totally disappointed
Rosenthal said:
I decided to report on my results after the factory reset I did with the hope to fix the problem.
It's actually very disappointing to see that even after the factory reset, format of the SD Card and taking out the card altogether the problem wasn't fixed in either of the attempts.
So, I did the factory reset, went through the activation process, installed all my apps again and then used TitaniumBackup to restore the data of all those apps. Then after the phone's battery was exhausted, I charged it fully to initiate the test and see if the issue is still present. Unfortunately the "Media" process is once again the top battery hogger and is the main reason behind the accelerated drain I witness on my Galaxy s3. Another thing I witness is that randomly, out of the blue I see in the notification bar that my SD card has been unexpectedly removed and then that it's ready for access again. All in all, I can access the card's contents but this notification is suspicious and probably part of the problem, but I'm almost sure that the card itself isn't the faulty one. I purchased it from reputable source and the brand is trustworthy in my opinion. The problem has to be in the phone itself.
Another thing is that after the factory reset I didn't let the phone run without any apps or restoring the app's data. Maybe I should have, since some those app's data could be in the core of this issue and TitaniumBackup might have brought it to its previous state, but I forgot to and wanted to access some of my apps' contents prior to the FactoryReset.
All in all, this problem proved to be very irritating, time consuming and unacceptable in my opinion. Maybe I should contact Samsung or the retailer that sold me the phone since it's still warranty covered, but I guess I will end up selling it and purchasing something else, probably a Nexus 4 or an iPhone (despite all the ridicule circulating about it, being a toy with limited capabilities bla bla bla... From the feedback of numerous people I know, owning iOS devises I don't know one that had issues with them that caused them that much wasted time and energy)
So that's all I had to say. I wish luck to anyone else experiencing the same problem and take care!
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I agree, I wouldn't recommend Samsung phones to anyone by now. I'm also thinking of moving to iOS. At this point I don't care about customization, or anything, I just want a phone that doesn't lag or has this annoyances.