Hi when I download highspeed content from the browser or download torrents to the prime, is unusable, and often stop responding until the download is done.
It dont even need to be faster then 500kbp for this to happen, so it seams to me that it is a problem with the disk speed, dose any one else have this problem, and do any one know why this happens?
The internal memory in the prime, cant possibly be that slow?
There is an I/O issue for the Prime. It appears to be a software issue and not hardware (good news!). So, the best solution to do, is download those files directly to a micro sd or regular SDXC card for the keyboard.
For example, if I download a large torrent using aTorrent to the internal flash memory, my Prime becomes extremely unresponsive. If I download the file to external storage, it will not slow down the system.
Hopefully this will be fixed soon. With the new .13 update, flash memory (there is no disk) performance is up as well.
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Just to suggest possible fix that worked for me and I had a hard time to find anything clearly connected with this issue.
Applies to: 32GB micro SD cards, possibly other rather huge capacities.
- LG GT540 (Optimus), seen reported similar problems on various devices but with unclear solution
Primary symptoms:
(Observed on Android 2.1 Eclair)
- SD Card preparation sometimes taking notably long time.
- SD Card is unexpectedly removed (couple times a day)
- SD Card is corrupted (solved by manual phone reboot)
- System randomly restarts (once or twice a day)
(Observed on Android 2.3.7 Gingerbread)
- System restarts during every SD Card preparation process,
after restart SD Card is working (ie. accessible by explorer) but no media files are accessible through standard applications (ie. gallery, music, player, etc.)
Suggested solution:
Format your SD Card with selected allocation unit size equal 8192 bytes (8KB)!
Drawbacks:
As far as I know using that small allocation unit may cause speed performance to suffer.
Full story:
My problems started right away I bought my 32GB micro SD to my new phone GT540. While I was using the SD only as a data storage it worked quite good. From time to time it needs to remount the SD or better reboot completely. After I tried hack App2SD, it was clear that it had been completely unstable. Shortly after I installed all application I wanted, system rebooted and every single user application was gone. So I moved to Link2SD which is more user-friendly way to have applications on SD on Eclair. It worked similar to App2SD but when system rebooted then just another reboot made apps work again. But by the time the whole problem only getting worse with restarts more than couple times a day, mostly when you needed the phone the most.
I believed that the issues were related mainly to non-standard application moving to SD so I decided to move to Gingerbread but there the issue went so bad. No media was cataloged so entire SD data was practically useless. Moreover system restarts on every SD card preparation. So I played around hard and after some time found a solution that's working for me rock solid. (3 days and counting...)
Desperate, I was trying formating any where possible. The really frustrating thing really is that the phone system itself formats the card wrong way! So it was hard to believe that there might be an issue. I tried only formating with 8kb allocation unit, not any other. It's perfectly solved my problems. I think that the original cluster size was 16kb. I've seen on forum suggestions to use 32kb unit as it should have the best performance over the size but I don't know yet if it's also working without issues. I may try it if any one post their experience I'll update this post to collect as much useful information about this as possible.
me too, will try this out
Got the same symptoms on a SGA (5830) running PAC ROM 20.1.0. A brand new SanDisk microSD 32GB (have verified the card is okay, using h2testw.exe). Will give this a go and update with outcome in a few days. Thankyou
I understand the Prime has a quad-core processor, along with the fifth primary core. I also know it has 1GB of RAM.
My question is this, whenever I'm downloading multiple torrents, I can barely use any other applications. Everything is slow or stops responding, then just force closes, or reboots.
Is this normal? With this much processing power, I thought the Prime would be able to handle multiple torrents and app usage. Am I wrong?
Mine does the same thing. Its so annoying that I can barely do anything if I'm downloading a torrent. What torrent program are u using? I'm using aDownloader
I'm using aTorrent. I haven't tried any other ones, but now I might just to see if it's the app causing the system to slow down to a halt/crash.
Yeah that's why I asked. If you were using the same app as I was then I would be suspicious of the app but we are using different programs so I doubt its the cause.
Yes prime does have 1gb of memory BUT only like 500-650mb or so is available to use for apps n multitasking. The rest is being used by Android OS itself to run system processes.
well when downloading large files like movies which i bet you are it takes a lot of resources!
Downloading multi torrents your maxing out the read and write if the internal memory causing everything to slow down to a crawl. Has nothing to do with the CPU.
Thanks for the clarification! Does make me feel better that it's not an issue with my Prime. At the end of the day, I'm still happy that I can even download torrents directly to my Prime.
dabbill said:
Downloading multi torrents your maxing out the read and write if the internal memory causing everything to slow down to a crawl. Has nothing to do with the CPU.
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QFT...if you're able to, save to the SD card rather than internal storage
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Are you referring to an external micro sd? I'm only asking because the internal storage on the Prime is named SD Card.
My i9300 lags extremely bad when copying large files or sometimes fully locks up and I need to reboot. Also, when downloading torrents it also usually ends up lagging at some point and occasional full lock ups I've tried the SDS checker but it says I don't have the 'insane' chip. So basically writing to the storage is causing this. Does it either with the internal or external storage. Other than when copying files or using torrents I never get lag.
Any ideas guys?
This problem has got to the point of forcing me to register on XDA forums. I have a Samsung G II running android 4.1.2 (jelly-bean of course) and over the past week the memory (storage) handling has gotten really bad. It's as if the OS has given up on storing items now. Problems include-
After taking, receiving or downloading a photo (generally over whatsapp but it occurs to other apps like wallbase) The photo will be stored on my phone for the day until i turn off my phone, now after turning it back on however the photos are gone just leaving a blank space which displays "unable to load" in the gallery.
Next issues is that my apps i now install get installed in the next dimension because they don't appear to be on my phone even when i do a file search or plug in the device into my computer. But here is where it gets crazy they are on my phone and do take space up, but it's no where to be found.
The OS now presumes i have an SD card even though i don't have one plugged in. Because of this! big games and Apps now now try to use this fake SD that doesn't exist and this causes them to give me errors along the lines of "Sd is full or inaccessible". Pffft
Please someone help me, this issue is annoying me so badly and is rendering my phone useless if it can't store data.
I appologize you were forced to register here @ this great forum and though you still might find your answer here,ironic,anyway.Have you tried wiping cache,dalvik and fixing permissions,are you even rooted?I did'nt see you mention that,so i have no idea,also,you might want to back up what you want to keep and format and partition your sd card,not sure how big your sd crad is either,so you might need a bigger sd card for all your stuff.I myself use a 32GB Sandisk,class 10 and it works great,never ran out of space or had any speed issues on my OG EVO.
Diablo67 said:
I appologize you were forced to register here @ this great forum and though you still might find your answer here,ironic,anyway.Have you tried wiping cache,dalvik and fixing permissions,are you even rooted?I did'nt see you mention that,so i have no idea,also,you might want to back up what you want to keep and format and partition your sd card,not sure how big your sd crad is either,so you might need a bigger sd card for all your stuff.I myself use a 32GB Sandisk,class 10 and it works great,never ran out of space or had any speed issues on my OG EVO.
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Rooted? yes. I've deleted all the caches under the sun and still no results. And i have over 4Gb of free internal storage according to my phone. I have my data backed up but i'd rather have a direction to go before starting anything. :crying:
I'm not seeing anything for your phone except this... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2192122
I am using a 64GB Sandisk Memory Stick via USB and OTG adapter on a Oneplus 6. For backups, pictures, data, etc., and Titanium Backup. Works fine, unless every few weeks, even days, the phone reports that the external memory is corrupt and offers to "fix it", whereas the fix is really just formatting the memory, erasing everything on the external memory.
When this happens (and I don't fix/format), I can still read the memory stick on PC, but sometimes find corrupt files that can't be read.
I do eject properly, close all apps before, etc. Have tried all options in that directions.
What is the root cause for this?
- A defective memory stick?
- A defect in the phone?
- An Android issue?
- Something else?
As its very hard to reproduce the issue, I couldn't get my hands around it so far. Have others experienced similar? I have tried different adapters, but not yet different USB memory
CoffeeMachineSwitch said:
I am using a 64GB Sandisk Memory Stick via USB and OTG adapter on a Oneplus 6. For backups, pictures, data, etc., and Titanium Backup. Works fine, unless every few weeks, even days, the phone reports that the external memory is corrupt and offers to "fix it", whereas the fix is really just formatting the memory, erasing everything on the external memory.
When this happens (and I don't fix/format), I can still read the memory stick on PC, but sometimes find corrupt files that can't be read.
I do eject properly, close all apps before, etc. Have tried all options in that directions.
What is the root cause for this?
- A defective memory stick?
- A defect in the phone?
- An Android issue?
- Something else?
As its very hard to reproduce the issue, I couldn't get my hands around it so far. Have others experienced similar? I have tried different adapters, but not yet different USB memory
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No, its pretty normal. For an example i had a memory, my phone was finding it as corrupt, even trough i could see and edit its content, it shouldnt be a problem...
DankMemz said:
No, its pretty normal. For an example i had a memory, my phone was finding it as corrupt, even trough i could see and edit its content, it shouldnt be a problem...
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Memory card*