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It seems Galaxy Note also has this problem.
jager13 has posted this issue in code.google.com, so please anyone with this issue comment there so that google devs can know about it and fix it!
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=25563
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I believe that many of us (if not all) should have this problem.
I got so many apps installed, so many of them are installed in SD Card automatically by Android or I manually moved them to SD Card.
(In total I have ~650 app elements in Titanium Backup and keep growing depending on what I have installed or haven't restored at any given point)
The problem is since I updated from 2.3.4 to version >= 2.3.5 even to ICS 4.0.3 LP2, LP6, LPB, LPH.
Problem:
- Power On then phone will reboot after some 2-5 minutes idle and again reboot infinitely so I cannot use my phone at all.
- If I removed my external SD Card, no more reboot.
- Or if I delete some amount of .asec files in ".android_secure" folder (where the app in sd card is saved) in the external SD Card no more reboot.
- And yes, I have done many (if not all) imaginable things: re-flash, factory reset, wipe cache, fix permission, change SD Card, reinstall from market...
- And no, this is not specific SD Card problem.
There is older thread talking about this problem but the thread is about general reboot problem so it got mixed with other kind of reboot.
After trying ICS leaks in a hope that the problem is fixed I find that it is still NOT fixed
and maybe won't be fixed if not enough people complain about this problem.
And I think Samsung developers and QA don't know this issue.
It will be shame if SGS3 still has this problem. I absolutely won't buy it.
So to check this, I hope the reader of this thread to try this (Samsung based ROM > 2.3.4 only):
- Please move as many apps as you can or all of your apps to SD Card..
- Or please install as many apps as you can from market and moved them to SD Card if not already.
- The apps number is not exact (60 maybe more), more is better, maybe related with apps size too.
(I found that when my ".android_secure" folder size in external sd card approaching ~1.5GB maybe more, the reboot problem occurs)
- And then tell here that you have infinite reboot or not in idle mode 2-5 minutes after power on. Please try 2-3 times.
- Also post your ROM/kernel version, stock or mods.
- And please check that removing the external SD Card solve the reboot problem.
Remember that u have to be at least Samsung based ROM version 2.3.5 because this problem is side effect (2.3.4 and earlier does not have this problem).
For us who has this problem, please add your post to this thread to keep it alive
and don't forget to rate high so it will get attention from other users and hopefully from Samsung.
Let's make this issue known to Samsung.
And I hope that people who got firmware leaks from Samsung can tell them about this problem/thread.
List of threads mentioning same problem:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1285844
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1328191
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1102920
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1491671
i faced exactly same problem with you, i thought is sd card problem at 1st, so i go and buy a new sd card, and the problem is still there....anyone can help us? now the sd card = nothing
Tried to replicate this problem by putting 67 apps onto sd card, but no bootloops.
On CM9 at the moment.
No issue here..
Sent from my GT-I9100
I just found similar thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1328191
Still, my thread is to gather data about how many user can reproduce the issue..
killall said:
Tried to replicate this problem by putting 67 apps onto sd card, but no bootloops.
On CM9 at the moment.
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So it seems that this problem happens only in Samsung based ROM.
It is great that CM9 does not have this issue.
BigMrB said:
No issue here..
Sent from my GT-I9100
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May I know which ROM/kernel u use?
Are u using Samsung based ROM > 2.3.4?
I have this bad problem. I posted about this problem on old topics and how to remove this problem by return to old firmware with android 2.3.4.
Thank you for opening this thread because It is I think a general problem and the big problem that its happened with ICS. I tried and tried to solve this problem without success but I found that this problem start faster after transfer small size apps.
This problem must be solved, because we need to transfer apps to SD card.
Thanks again dragon135
i can confirm i am another user who had no issues at 2.3.4 upgraded to ICS LP2 this evening and now have this problem! not cool....
Ok flashed lp6 and so far so good
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I have had the same problem with the following Samsung Android versions:
2.3.5
2.3.6
I have a SGH-I777 (AT&T Galaxy S II).
I have tried several class 4 and a new class 10 made by Samsung. Same results.
After using App2SD and after moving several apps to SD, the device will eventually reboot right after the SD scan completes.
Removing the SD is the only way to fix this. You can reformat the SD card but the problem will eventually occur when you move several apps to the SD card again. I have been unable to identify a particular app that triggers this reboot.
i have the same problem with my lg o2x. no solution??
exactly the same issue with my Captivate
I moved more than 100 APPs to SD recently. It worked fine with Froyo. The only problem I had is the icon disappearing issue. After switching to GO launcher, everything worked fine. Today I upgrade my phone to GB (KK4, 2.3.5), and started to have the same problem. I have to unmount my SD card to keep my phone away from rebooting. With my wife's card, only data on it, my phone had no issue. Once I put my card back, it starts again.
I can confirm. This issue exists and NOT just samsung firmware. i had the same issue running MIUI. When there are too many apps (my count is 264 apps) the phone will boot, the back of the phone will get really hot and then within 2-3 minutes of booting reboot again to the same unlock or home page screen. And it will keep doing it until your battery is dead. it also drains the battery like crazy!!!
Seriously wtf?
Is there a way to move those APPs back to phone? This is really annoying.
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dredgd said:
Is there a way to move those APPs back to phone? This is really annoying.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
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yes, just cut some .asec-files (as many as it needs) from the .android_secure folder an paste them into another folder, so that the phone won´t reboot anymore.
the apps according to the .asec files now won´t be shown in appdrawer.
than you install gemini app manager and move the smallest (if you have not much space on phone) or just some other apps you want back to phonememory. after that you can put the .asec files back in to the android_secure folder, so that those apps appear again in app drawer.
if phone still reboots: same precedure.
like others wrote, and my own experience: abourt 50 files in android_secure folder is ok, more: reboots.
or if you have backups from your apps in titanium:
put sd card in pc. delete all the small asec files, so that in android_secure folder remain only the biggest files. and not more than 50 files.
better only 40. than your phone should work again and you can restore those small apps with titanium, but before that, you tell titanium only to restore into internal memory.
this helps for me. but i really wouldlike to be able to install more apps an sd card! nobody??
wuffi123 said:
yes, just cut some (as many as it needs) from the .android_secure folder in anotehr folder, so that the phone won´t reboot. than you install gemini app manager and move the smallest or just some apps you want back to phone. after that you after that you can the asec files back in to zhe androis_secure folder. if phone still reboots: same precedure.
like others wrote, and my own experience: abourt 50 files in android_secure folder is ok, more: reboots.
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Thanks a lot. I'll give it a try tomorrow .
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
LP6 and LPB still has this issue.
Another user has complain also in new thread. I update the first post.
For us who has this problem, please add your post to this thread to keep it alive and don't forget to rate high so it will get attention from other users and hopefully from Samsung.
As requested I also have this issue.
Seriously considering the downgrade to 2.3.4 despite the aggravation it will cause me.
I transfered all of them to my laptop first and then moved them back ~20 APPs at a time. But then I got the 'phone storage space is getting low' error. Trying to fix it eventually led to a 'factory reset'. I don't have backup for all of the APPs. Without all those junks the phone was very smooth and stable. Once I restored a few APPs and moved them to SD card, I was hit by random shut-down issue but no reboot yet. Finally I figured out why my phone went to sleep almost every night with me. LOL. It happened just after I moved most of my APPs to SD. WTF.
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I keep getting this annoying pop-up message at boot about moving data to the external SD card. When I looked into this the solution is to...
"in root explorer, go into /data/sdcard/
either move all files inside this folder to your /sdcard/ folder (the one not inside /data), or delete them entirely."
However, this will work for a week or so but then the message will return and I will have to repeat the previous process. It's not that big of a deal, but, it is annoying. Especially since I have no room on my External SD anyways... Does anybody know how to permanently solve this issue?
No one...?
hmm odd, i haven't seen this issue myself. wish i had an answer for yah
I have that issue but didnt know the (temp) fix until now. Thanks.
I am just having this issue on Huawei Ideos X5 (u8800).
I don't have an external sd card and I think it WANTS me to have one and somehow is confused...
This hasn't happened to me in a while. But when it did I usually did 1 of 2 things...
1. Try the steps for the temp. fix above in the OP.
2. Just click "yes" when the popup occurs. I've found it actually doesn't put a single thing on the external SD card.
Sent from my SGH-T959 (Samsung Vibrant)
That used to happen to me alot! It was almost like everytime the phone rebooted or anytime I disconnected it from my PC if I had been transferring files. I think at the time I was running the MIUI "SS" or "ReVaMpEd" ROMs from 360. Ever since I flashed the MIUI-SGSII 360 ROM, I haven't seen that again. I never found a fix when I saw it usually I just ignored it, it was more of an inconvenience than anything.
Good luck!
N00B_IN_N33D said:
This hasn't happened to me in a while. But when it did I usually did 1 of 2 things...
1. Try the steps for the temp. fix above in the OP.
2. Just click "yes" when the popup occurs. I've found it actually doesn't put a single thing on the external SD card.
Sent from my SGH-T959 (Samsung Vibrant)
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Every time i press yes, ALL my contents of sdcard are deletede except from the DCIM folder...!
I found out that /mnt/emmc and /mnt/sdcard are the same!!
kawika said:
That used to happen to me alot! It was almost like everytime the phone rebooted or anytime I disconnected it from my PC if I had been transferring files. I think at the time I was running the MIUI "SS" or "ReVaMpEd" ROMs from 360. Ever since I flashed the MIUI-SGSII 360 ROM, I haven't seen that again. I never found a fix when I saw it usually I just ignored it, it was more of an inconvenience than anything.
Good luck!
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I guess it has something to do with mount instructions given from rom.
I tried putting # in front of ro.etc etc etc *stuff*.additional.mounts=/mnt/emmc but same thing happens.
sd message
Hi, i have a huawei u8800 and was getting this message, i fixed it by removing all the files from my internal sd card(which i do not use) - /mnt/emmc
it has not come back yet
^ Hmmm, thats interesting. Never tried that method... Lol. I'm supprised people still are even having this issue though. I haven't had it in ages... or 4 months... Anyways the solution I put in the OP works to solve it and I found another method that I put in the FAQ of my miui guide (link in signature and it's stickied in the Q&A of the Vibrant forum). But never heard one about deleting the emmc folder.
Sent from my SGH-T959 (Samsung Vibrant)
-- EDIT -- SOLVED - see #5 --
Hi,
I upgraded my Galaxy S2 [3 UK] to the 4.0.3 version with Kies and then rooted it with Odin and CF-Root-SGS2_XX_XEO_LPQ-v5.3-CWM5.tar
Everything is working great, except the applications that I had moved to the SD card. Those have stopped working, and the shortcuts on the home screen + in the Applications menu have the icons replaced with a transparent grey one with an Android logo and an SD card with "SD" written on it.
I checked the SD card in my Linux PC with Mass Storage mode, and the .android_secure directory is still there and has the various files which I believe belong to the missing apps.
Has some security key been destroyed or what is going on here? Can I get the apps back or should I just bite the bullet and reinstall them?
Thanks for any help!
Descore
reported same issues before and found no solutions answered.....I think some config changes from GB to ICS making issues,
your earlier version was not rooted and no backup available?
zaheedahmed said:
reported same issues before and found no solutions answered.....I think some config changes from GB to ICS making issues,
your earlier version was not rooted and no backup available?
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My previous version (2.3.5) wasn't rooted although the one before was, and I do have a Kies backup but I don't think it includes the applications. It's not a very big deal since I can download all of the applications again, and it doesn't seem that any of my media files on the SD card have been affected, but I was just hoping to avoid having to do that.
But thanks for your answer! I'll make sure to do a full backup including apps before I try rooting next time.
-Descore
Actually I said that too soon. When I try to install one of the apps affected I get a message "Error - Couldn't install on USB storage or SD card."
So I guess I do need a solution to this if at all possible.
SOLVED - I flashed the stock kernel back, from Kernel_I9100XXLPQ.tar.md5. After rebooting, the SD card was scanned and all my applications work again!
So I guess the answer is, flash the stock kernel back and all will be well (root still works). Also got rid of the yellow warning triangle at boot!
Next time I'll have a Titanium Backup before I start flashing/rooting
- Descore
So yes there have been other threads recommending cleaning/tightening battery connectors, using monitoring programs to assess and alert on things like high temp and process cpu spikes etc... a lot of the time the issues raised have been to with someone only recently acquiring their SGS2, or after having "upgraded" their ROM.
Mine seems not to fit any of those scenarios.
A week ago, I found the phone off, so I switched it on and it bootlooped. Nothing new had installed prior, although the was an update to the ZD Box app which I read had problems, but I'd already uninstalled that. So, I rebooted the phone and it seemed to work fine. But no...
At random times whether the phone has been in my pocket or sitting on the desk, I will find the screen is black and none of the hardware buttons do anything. I have to hold the power button for quite some time before I see the Samsung logo and the phone boots up.
It happens several times a day. Battery/CPU monitoring/stats/alert apps show nothing out of the ordinary. I've uninstalled several recentish apps just in case, and no fix. Cleared all caches, fixed permissions, changed modems, no fix.
I'm now in the process of wiping data and flashing a different ROM (a newer version of illusion-xt to the one I've been using... excellent ROM btw), and I'll see if that solves anything.
What's weird is that I've had this phone for nearly a year and it's only just started happening now.
I'm wondering whether this sort of issue has become common with the SGS2 recently. Anyone else experiencing this, and is there are solution for it?
See how you go with the new rom.
If it's still happening, go back & do a completely clean install of stock; format cache, data, system, & internal sd card then flash stock rom in Odin (don't install any apps at all) & run that for a few days. If it's still happening on a relatively 'clean' stock phone, that probably indicates a hardware issue. Could be something simple like the battery, could be the USB/charging circuitry problem we see on here a bit or some other hardware problem.
See how you go with it & post back here.
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See how you go with the new rom.
If it's still happening, go back & do a completely clean install of stock; format cache, data, system, & internal sd card then flash stock rom in Odin (don't install any apps at all) & run that for a few days. If it's still happening on a relatively 'clean' stock phone, that probably indicates a hardware issue. Could be something simple like the battery, could be the USB/charging circuitry problem we see on here a bit or some other hardware problem.
See how you go with it & post back here.
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Followed your recommended steps with the newer ROM. Seemed to be good for a day. I then found my phone off again while it was sitting next to me. I had just installed an app (from "untrusted" sources) just prior to this. So I uninstalled that. Found my phone off again a few minutes ago. This time the phone was hot and about 20% of the battery had drained.
Think I need to do another wipe of everything (except external SD) in case that app was the culprit?
[got a I9100]
if i were you i do this....
save my video/mp3.. stuff
remove microsd
remove sim
using cwm format system, data cache, dalvik, sdcard/emmc (depends on your cwm)
using odin flash a GB rom (i usually go with LA2 / JPLPC [ICS])
after first boot and few minutes dial *2767*3855#
next boot ill setup google account but will not do auto restore / untick auto restore.
shutdown remove battery put the simcard and see how it goes for a day or 2
It's switched off three more times today. The last time it happened the app "Battery Monitor Widget" alerted a "Voltage out of range" warning.
So far nothing's ever gone wrong while the phone is charging.
I may try formatting as has been suggested, but I think I'll try using a new battery first.
Please forgive my daftness as it seems I've misunderstood the instructions here.
Upon booting into CWM Recovery (I have v5.0.2.7) and navigating to "Mounts and Storage" I've discovered what you both mean by "format" in your instructions.
Would this mean following the Gingerbread section of the guide at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1457458 is what I need to do to get up and running, and then continue with the remaining instructions in this thread?
MonkeyScrotum said:
Please forgive my daftness as it seems I've misunderstood the instructions here.
Upon booting into CWM Recovery (I have v5.0.2.7) and navigating to "Mounts and Storage" I've discovered what you both mean by "format" in your instructions.
Would this mean following the Gingerbread section of the guide at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1457458 is what I need to do to get up and running, and then continue with the remaining instructions in this thread?
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I have had this issue with certain ROMs in the past where I would get a black screen and no response from the hardware buttons. I found that on installing the ROM everything worked fine. Then I would go ahead and restore my apps, still everything was fine.... but once I configured Exchange sync I would run into the issue. My only option was to go back to a ROM that I knew worked on my device correctly.
In reply to your question above, If you have a ROM downloaded that you can flash in CWM then so long as it is stored on your SDCard you can format the system, data, internal SD and wipe cache, delvik cache from CWM. In doing this I would recommend making sure you know exactly what "internal SD" CWM is talking about. To be sure you could remove your SD card. I made the mistake of formatting the wrong card once and spent the next day recovering the data from it.
If you have the same issue with a new ROM then i'd recommend going back to a stock ROM using the link you posted.
Hope this helps.
I took my sdcard and sim out and rebooted just so I could see what would show up in the file manager. It would seem like there are no apps or mp3's or pics or anything "additional" available.
Strange as I don't recall ever using app to SD, and I could've sworn I saved at least a few MP3s and pics to the phone.
Maybe I'm just not looking in the right place. Where would I normally find my app folders without the sdcard being present?
Ahh... so once you put the sim in (but still without sdcard) apps folders show up in "/sdcard"
hmm... does this sound correct?
why are you making things difficult?
put your sdcard back, open file browser goto sdcard dcim
you will find pics and videos there if they are saved on your phone storage. copy them to micro sdcard.
simple
if you are on aosp rom than the structure is little different
PS: doesn't matter your sim is in or out.
Stock ROM
/sdcard
/sdcard/external_sd
AOSP ROM
/sdcard
/emmc
As instructed I formatted partitions, installed latest official ICS ROM (for Australia) from sammobile.com using ODIN. Didn't install any apps. Didn't sync. I still have the "black-screen-freeze" at least once a day for several days. Today it's done it 5 times already. Sometimes I find the phone is hot, sometimes not, and a couple of times I've found the battery drained as well.
I can't seem to find a standard pattern that's reproducible.
What now?
I started having an issue with my phone where the pictures on my internal and external memory card are no longer being displayed in the gallery, but they are present on the memory cards. Quickpic and other apps display all of the pictures, but I want to use the stock app. I'm not new to this either. I've had the Galaxy SI, SII, and SIII since launch with no issues to date and flashed ROMs 100+ times.
Background:
I was running CM10 for a month and a half until a few days ago when my gallery and camera would crash repeatedly. They would open for a moment and then close, no error message, no force close, just exit without a message. I rebooted, cleared cache, cleared dalvik cache, wiped data from both the regular menu and from recovery, and the issue would not go away.
I then flashed Jelly Bean DLI5 with a data wipe. It would show any new pictures I took in the gallery, but would not show my old pictures that I copied into the folder. It would also not see anything at all on the external memory card.
Flashed to ICS LG8 with a data wipe and an external card format, same issue. I then learned if I copied pictures over to the camera folder 12 at a time instead of 500+ at once, they would then show up. I did that for my camera, download, screenshots, etc. folder. After a while, my pictures disappeared again.
Flashed to CM10. Pictures wouldn't display still.
Flashed back to Jelly Bean DLI5 and used an app called "fish bowl photo" to manually choose which folders I want added to the gallery. All my pictures showed up, everything looked great. Hours later in the day, all of my external card pictures are gone once again.
For every picture I copy over it gives a message along the lines of "this device may not be able to read this file, copy anyway?".
If anyone has any ideas it would be greatly appreciated. I have no clue how this issue has survived so many ROMs and so many full wipes.
The SDrescan app just freezes. Clearing cache+data from gallery and other such places does not work.
Also, the gallery closes randomly while I'm browsing through it. Could happen after 2 seconds or 2 minutes.
Thanks in advance.
i had this same problem on my phone for about 2 rom flashes.........i cant say i have a Fix, just what i did to fix after many many attempts to do the same things you are doing, wiping, clearing, flashing, ect......
Sooooo what i did was 2 things, i 1st created new folders to mirror the ones i already had and moved my pictures in bulk to each one of there new respective folders and DELETED the old ones that were not showing up. this worked for most of the pictures ( After a reboot they showed up )
the other thing i did was use the NEW gallery from the note 2 ( FLOW GALLERY ) and it seemed to pic up all my pics with no issue.
so i dont really know which one of these solved it.....as i got so fed up i was trying things all willy nilly and those are the last 2 things i did.
it does get frustrating though, so i hope you get it solved soon.
the2rrell said:
i had this same problem on my phone for about 2 rom flashes.........i cant say i have a Fix, just what i did to fix after many many attempts to do the same things you are doing, wiping, clearing, flashing, ect......
Sooooo what i did was 2 things, i 1st created new folders to mirror the ones i already had and moved my pictures in bulk to each one of there new respective folders and DELETED the old ones that were not showing up. this worked for most of the pictures ( After a reboot they showed up )
the other thing i did was use the NEW gallery from the note 2 ( FLOW GALLERY ) and it seemed to pic up all my pics with no issue.
so i dont really know which one of these solved it.....as i got so fed up i was trying things all willy nilly and those are the last 2 things i did.
it does get frustrating though, so i hope you get it solved soon.
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Thanks for the quick response. I'm going to try those two things in order right now.
Did you create the new folders for the internal and external cards? Or just external?
Thanks again!
just try one folder and see if it works......i even went to the extent of using quick pic to create the folders within the app instead of root explorer prior to rebooting.
but i have flashed many roms since then and no longer have that issue with the "Flow Gallery"
the2rrell said:
just try one folder and see if it works......i even went to the extent of using quick pic to create the folders within the app instead of root explorer prior to rebooting.
but i have flashed many roms since then and no longer have that issue with the "Flow Gallery"
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Unfortunately neither of those worked. I'll try the folder trick some more after work.
Another strange thing is that the gallery (even the flow gallery I just installed) will randomly close itself while looking at pictures. So that's the stock and Note II gallery doing that now.
tietherope said:
Unfortunately neither of those worked. I'll try the folder trick some more after work.
Another strange thing is that the gallery (even the flow gallery I just installed) will randomly close itself while looking at pictures. So that's the stock and Note II gallery doing that now.
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Thats crazy.....i know you have wiped. but have you tried the superwipes. or dialing *2767*3855# ( Will Wipe NO MATTER WHAT AFTER YOU PRESS # ) then going into advaced in CWM and formatting system/cache/partition
i would do all of these, to make sure that there is not something lingering from earlier flashes. i do them anyway before ANY flash just to be safe.
the2rrell said:
Thats crazy.....i know you have wiped. but have you tried the superwipes. or dialing *2767*3855# ( Will Wipe NO MATTER WHAT AFTER YOU PRESS # ) then going into advaced in CWM and formatting system/cache/partition
i would do all of these, to make sure that there is not something lingering from earlier flashes. i do them anyway before ANY flash just to be safe.
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I'll give it a go in a few hours when I'm home from work and let you know how it goes. Thanks for all of the ideas, I appreciate it.
Edit: On the way home I use Quickpic as mentioned. I changed a folder, rebooted, it was there. Did another, it worked. Did 5 or so individually and they all worked. I then did the last few without a reboot after each and now I only see a few folders on my external card and nothing from the internal. I was so close!!
Ok, I tried everything mentioned without any luck.
Tried 10 other things too.
I then removed the external SD card.Then wiped the phone via the dialer, wiped the phone from the setting menu, flashed LG8 via Odin, wiped it via recovery. Copied the files over that go on the internal memory. Everything works, gallery doesn't close by itself. Put in a new external SD card, formatted it, copied the files over and so far everything is OK. It could change at any moment though and I'm worried about changing ROMs now. I'll check back in if it screws up again soon, but hopefully it was just that one card.
Thanks again for the help.
Hello,
Ive recently been having a really annoying flaw with my system, i'm still unable to identify if my phone has caught some form of a virus or if theres something thats changed and not allowing my phone to function correctly.
Please be patient as i have a bit to explain in order to give you guys the full picture of my problem so that it can hopefully be fixed.
Ok so initially everything was working fine and there was no problems. I personally believe but i may be wrong the problem started when i downloaded ttorrent pro apk via a google link and inadvertently provided the installed app with much more access to my phone that was required. Having realized that the app was incorrect i immediately removed it from my phone using titanium backup. i also removed all data and cache at the same time.
So i took some photos whilst on my cousins stag in Barcelona a short time ago and the images were taken whilst i was on 4.2.1, but once i came home and collaborated my photo's and videos with a couple from the stag (they were using the s4) the images became corrupt. I had a full backup of these images on my Mac and they are all ok and can be viewed with no difficulty. The problem arises when i put the folder back onto my android device. Since i have tried a few method to fix this issue but to no avail. All virus check on both the phone and the folder of photos on my mac came back all clear.
The photo's are stored on my External SD Card which is brand new and seems to work fine. This Ex SD Card is not the same as the one i used on the stag(it broke and i purchased a new one since). I often found sometimes that the folder names were changing aswell in the External SD Card, for example i would import 7 folders which all contained images. after a short while, 3 of them would corrupt and the folder name would change to eg. ulbum. With the u being the u from utorrent.
The thing is the images are there to be seen in my files on the android but with no thumbnail and the images do not load. But some of the images in the same folder to seem to work. Ive tried using alternative galleries to see if this fixes the issue but it didnt seem to work. It really frustrating as ive tried so many method and got so many people involved.
Please provide me with some further suggestions because i cant seem to find anyone with the exact same problem.
Thank You in advance
Factory reset, format your SD card (with SD tool) and try again - without transferring anything from your PC. If everything works at that point then probably a virus or SD corruption.
If still the same then flash a fresh stock ROM with Odin, don't use the SD initally to prove the hardware isn't faulty.
Also check your phone bill, warez has a habit of dialling premium rate lines in China for days on end. Never install anything to found on google, if you can't find it on XDA then it probably isn't legit.
boomboomer said:
Factory reset, format your SD card (with SD tool) and try again - without transferring anything from your PC. If everything works at that point then probably a virus or SD corruption.
If still the same then flash a fresh stock ROM with Odin, don't use the SD initally to prove the hardware isn't faulty.
Also check your phone bill, warez has a habit of dialling premium rate lines in China for days on end. Never install anything to found on google, if you can't find it on XDA then it probably isn't legit.
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Thank You for your quick response. I've done a factory since the problem, flashing back an omega rom on my device. The problem still continued. The photo's can be viewed fine on my Mac...it seems to happen when i move them over to my phone as shown in the pictures in the top post.
I've run a scan on the images on my Mac and it came back all clear. Originally this whole corruption was apparent with one main folder which was of a stag do last month. Since my most recent attempt a further folder is no longer working. This was a album taken over a year ago on my iphone. The videos however from my album last month have started worked :S
This is all abit strange as ive taken a set of photos with the camera app and they dont seem to become corrupt. But ive put the images on a friends SD Card and put that in my phone and it seems to happen to that album aswell. Is there a further internal root which may have become infected and making this happen by targeting certain pic's/albums in my gallery.
My friend is adamant the photo's have become corrupt but they work perfectly on my MAC.
Ive formatted this SD Card on atleast 10 different occassions aswell.
If your phone was rooted then yes, system partition can be changed by virus. Flash a stock ROM with Odin and format the SD.
chetm89 said:
Thank You for your quick response. I've done a factory since the problem, flashing back an omega rom on my device. The problem still continued. The photo's can be viewed fine on my Mac...it seems to happen when i move them over to my phone as shown in the pictures in the top post.
I've run a scan on the images on my Mac and it came back all clear. Originally this whole corruption was apparent with one main folder which was of a stag do last month. Since my most recent attempt a further folder is no longer working. This was a album taken over a year ago on my iphone. The videos however from my album last month have started worked :S
This is all abit strange as ive taken a set of photos with the camera app and they dont seem to become corrupt. But ive put the images on a friends SD Card and put that in my phone and it seems to happen to that album aswell. Is there a further internal root which may have become infected and making this happen by targeting certain pic's/albums in my gallery.
My friend is adamant the photo's have become corrupt but they work perfectly on my MAC.
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I agree with your friend. Your pictures must be corrupted or the filesystem on your external SDCard is corrupted too.
Try to copy all your files into a safe place (your Mac HDD) and verify that all files are done.
After, format this ExtSDCard (with the phone for example) et refill the SDCard. Check if I solve the problem.
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If your phone was rooted then yes, system partition can be changed by virus. Flash a stock ROM with Odin and format the SD.
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Ok i may need to give this i try, once ive flashed the stock rom back on can i then flash back the omega rom that i was using or shall i stick with the stock rom to test it out??