I left a friends, pulled my phone out (non rooted and only 3 days old) and it wouldn't turn on. I pressed and pressed but nothing I did would get the phone to activate, no lock screen... Nuthin!
I pulled the battery and tried again, it booted up, twice and then the lock screen was back. When I unlocked it I went to look at my apps and noticed quite a few were listed as com.blahblahblah.android.... whatever, with no icons...
Then I went to the app drawer and looked for those apps and (see image) that's what they looked like.... When I tried to press them I got a "this app is not installed" message.... WTF?
Anyone else ever get this?
I'm going to try a factory reset and see if it happens again.
are you talking about the greyed out ones? there on ur sd card, unmount and remount ur sd card, doesnt seem to be loading correctly. sometimes i have issues where 1 rogue app doesnt load, never had it where all of them did unless it wasnt mounted
I noticed that when I plugged into my pc that my internal storage didn't show up, only the sd card.... Strange.....
windows tends to pop up a window asking if you want "fix" or error check your sd card. if you accidentally chose it, you may have to reformat it and reinstall your apps.
I guess what was most disturbing was the phone becoming non-responsive. Just wondering if my sd card going to pot would do that? Or is my phone screwed up and wrecking my sd card or some other disconnect there?
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Have already searched for this but did not find one, so any keyboard-happy vets keep the bashing at bay please
Q. Is it safe to remove the memory card whilst the phon is on e.g. previous phone (symbian N95) had a 'safely remove memory card' option so that the card could be removed whilst the phone was on?
So basically is 'hot-swapping' alright/good for the phone?
Cannot find this exactly but the HD2 owners manual says to insert the card before powering on, so I would guess that the inverse would be true as well. To have the phone powered off before removing it ...
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wellllllllll, you probably shouldn't, but i have done several times with no ill effects. (mind you, i never use the 'safely remove hardware' on the pc to remove usb devices either, , maybe im not the best for advice, after all, hehe)
You may find that if something tries to write to the card whilst it is out of the phone, the system will make a folder called 'storage card' and call your card 'storage card2' when you reinsert it, which of course messes with your settings and apps. If that does happen you just rename the storage card folder to something else (it wont let you delete it till after the next steps), then restart the phone and it will put storage card2 back to normal.
I suppose there is no 'official' and 'safe' way of going about 'hot-swapping' ?
Yank said card put in another card. I have done it will all my phones with no issue.
Just did it a few hours ago with the power on. No issues..yet..
it really doesnt matter. the option in ur old nokia was comparable to the thing, windows has for usb sticks and such.
i dont think u click each time on the "safe remove" button when u remove ur usb stick from the pc?^^
well, im always removin my sd card without powering down^^ no problems here
i just ried it while surfing away on some apps....didn't cause a problem...but prob not advisable...just in case ;-)
Matt
I have never shut off the phone to change card..
Has been working great since HTC Wizard...
I guess it is OK to do so, however, if your send tabs are associated with storage card (such as reader, weather tab - else than original etc.) it may cause some problem. Nothing which can't be solved though.
no problem at all. I do it all the time my SD works like a charm, no need to switch your phone off. It's just a waiste of time. I always make a copy of my SD just in case, but never had problems in any way. Just my 2 cents
...I also have no issues with that
same here too. however, i always ensure that nothing is running from my sd card before removal. i go to task manager to end all task and process that is running off my sd card.
I looked at the similar threads and none them had to do with my phone. I think it has to do with the sd card as I have unmounted it and it doesn't seem to restart. Today it was restarting about ever 10 minutes. I looked at the log cat and it has no terrible faliures just a bunch of errors which seem to keep occuring but not restarting my phone afterwords. Some of these errors are parsing error in audiofilter.csv, write int failed to open sys class leds red brightness, console unable to post message :0 and a few other random errors. But the audio one and the console messages appear way more often. The sys class leds appeared only once. Is there something I can do to fix this? I just had the phone flashed with the ICS 2.3.7 Rom and everything seemed fine til today.
1) what phone are u using?
2) which kernel are u using?
3) which rom are u using?
4) did you install any new apps/scripts prior to the problem?
1. LG Optimus V
2. 2.6.32.9-v3.3 [email protected]# 1
3. ICSandwich2.3.7 - Final Edition [November 29, 2011]
4. Micdroid, 4shared, micdroid, rootexplorer, and updates for superuser.
Those are the only things I have installed when flashing this rom like the night before yesterday. Also the kernel is the one that the rom came with it seems like all roms I have used so far have this kernel I would really like a different kernel if possible. Other than that I really think it has to do with the sdcard. I have it unmounted and ever since then it has stopped restarting the phone. I have had this same problem with all roms no matter which one I use even when I first got the phone and didn't touch anything on it. The phone randomly restarts when the sdcard is mounted and when trying to play games that are on the sdcard the phone freezes. Is there anything I can do to fix this issue because I don't have a bunch of space on the phone itself to store games so they work and I can't keep the sdcard mounted as it will restart the phone there must be something that can fix this sdcard issue.
Are you using any ext partitions? seems to me as though the sd card is faulty, have you tried with another sd card? does the problem persist when the sd card is NOT mounted?
how about u try reformatting your sd card, after backing up the contents, then remount it.
"I think it has to do with the sd card as I have unmounted it and it doesn't seem to restart." First post. "Other than that I really think it has to do with the sdcard. I have it unmounted and ever since then it has stopped restarting the phone." Second post. So yes I have unmounted the sd card and the problem no longer presists. Just one thing that does happen even with the sd card unmounted which would be the web stops working. I have to turn off the mobile data for a second or so then turn it back on then it starts to work again. But this doesn't seem to happen too often. I will get back to you tomorrow on the reformatting the card as it is a little late and I am going to be going to bed soon.
Well it would seem like formatting the card didn't do anything for it and I have tried different ones they are all identical cards though. Also I have the issue of the phone shutting down entirely with no notice or anything. Like I could have it on to charge and later I go to it and find that it is off completely even though it is on the charger. I could have it where I can see it on the charger and keep an eye on it but it shows no sign of turning the screen on and telling me of it going to shut off. So is it that the phone gets overheated and shuts off with no notice or what?
This **** used to happen to me when I had go launcher... no root... no custom ROM, nothing, go launcher made me do my 1st factory reset... I woke up every night when it kept doing the boot sound... then I got bootloops... after 1 month, thought I give GO launcher another try... this time I had it rooted... so I just flashed cm7, did a full wipe, and now I am happy with it...
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Well this rom doesn't have go launcher it has ics theme with magic locker which I think might be causing some issues.
I had the same problems with my Optimus One and 2.2, but I could stop it by not turning wifi off.
I know, it sounds completely unrelated and I didn't even want to try it at first but it stopped my phone from rebooting randomly. My device did "only" reboot once or twice a day, though.
Then it may not be the wifi either. It has to be something. I haven't had this many issues since I got the phone. I guess I will be flashing to a rom that hasn't given me little to no issues.
I have decided to reformat my phone with a different rom. Now I have BACKside-IHO-VM670-12072011 ([ROM+Kernel] Inferior Human Organs unofficial CM7.1) it has only restarted on me once within 2 days but the main problem is that even though I have wiped the battery stats and the battery is at 100% while on the charger and I am using it after 3 hours it seems to shut off like it is dead when I leave it for a minute. It just has a black screen and it won't power up. I have to remove the battery and put it back in and then it comes on and boots up and says it is still at 100%.
Once in a while (I think it's an issue with the reboot option mod) when I reboot my st15i Mini, the apps in the SD card are not recognized properly: they are there, but instead of their usual icons there's a grey icon resembling an SD card. If I turn off the phone normally then turn it on again everything is back to normal, BUT in the launcher menu the icons are rearranged in an awful way. First, the custom order I had is totally scrambled, second (and most important), they are not arranged to fill every "screen" of the menu (12 per screen, was it?), but there are random amounts (from filled screen to 2-3 icons per screen), leaving a lot of holes, and clogging up my menu with 4-5 screens more than needed. Needless to say, if I change order (eg alphabetically) then back to custom, holes are still there, so I have to manually move EVERY icon back to its original place.
Is it a launcher problem, or the fact that something about the apps in the sd card is not loaded correctly? I noticed that the stock apps not installed in the SD (first 2-3 screens of the menu) are never scrambled, nor moved, so it's more likely an SD issue.
(I have rooted st15i with GB/.62 and stock rom/kernel/launcher btw, if that can help)
I noticed a similar behavior in my sk17i launcher, with stock (rooted) GB .58 ROM.
Holes started to appear here and there in the launcher out of the blue: I thought it had to be related to installing/updating/uninstalling apps. Oh, and I wasn't using any custom ordering, I was still using the default ordering it had when I bought it (which was by order of installation I think).
Then a couple of days ago I wiped the Dalvik Cache with CWM, and after reboot many more holes appeared (and also some home screen shortcuts inside folder disappeared).
At that point I switched to the Most Used first order.
This means I have no solution for this problem, but I can confirm that there is indeed some strange behavior in the stock launcher.
Yeah, that happens to me sometimes also.
I noticed that it happens after disconecting the phone from PC when not connected as MTP.
The grey icons mean that the apps are loading from the SD card (OS is mounting the card).
I know it's annoying, especially the mess in the drawer, but i also noticed that the problem disappears when connected in media transfer, usb debugging, and since i flashed CyanogenTimescape (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1748576) it never happened to me.
Seems like some roms have some kind of a problem with that, you can try that one (it's also very responsive, fast, and stable), if you're up for the change.
Cheers!
That grey icon while booting means the app is not loaded yet. Since it is stored on the SD, you have to wait some seconds for the SD to be mounted.
If you plug your phone in MSC mode, for example, SD card is completely unmounted and you'll see the same effect on SD-stored apps.
If you reboot immediately when you notice this, you probably screw up things, and (as you noticed) the same apps will be rearranged because the phone can't load them properly on boot, and it takes some time to "realize" they are on the SD. Therefore, they'll reappear in the last page of the app drawer.
This also happens if you turn your phone on after removing the SD, and maybe even if you unmount manually your SD.
Just use and connect your SD properly, and this won't happen again.
Also: come mai ho la sensazione che tu sia di Napoli?
Feanor88 said:
That grey icon while booting means the app is not loaded yet. Since it is stored on the SD, you have to wait some seconds for the SD to be mounted.
If you plug your phone in MSC mode, for example, SD card is completely unmounted and you'll see the same effect on SD-stored apps.
If you reboot immediately when you notice this, you probably screw up things, and (as you noticed) the same apps will be rearranged because the phone can't load them properly on boot, and it takes some time to "realize" they are on the SD. Therefore, they'll reappear in the last page of the app drawer.
This also happens if you turn your phone on after removing the SD, and maybe even if you unmount manually your SD.
Just use and connect your SD properly, and this won't happen again.
Also: come mai ho la sensazione che tu sia di Napoli?
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Create a sd ext partition and move the apps to it. Even in msc mode the apps will not turn grey. It's so, because the sd partition keeps being mounted. That means that all your apps are still usable.
You can read this at the faq section from link2sd.
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dodsi said:
Yeah, that happens to me sometimes also.
I noticed that it happens after disconecting the phone from PC when not connected as MTP.
The grey icons mean that the apps are loading from the SD card (OS is mounting the card).
I know it's annoying, especially the mess in the drawer, but i also noticed that the problem disappears when connected in media transfer, usb debugging, and since i flashed CyanogenTimescape (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1748576) it never happened to me.
Seems like some roms have some kind of a problem with that, you can try that one (it's also very responsive, fast, and stable), if you're up for the change.
Cheers!
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thanks, I was having the same problem, connecting in MTP with debugging helped
najodleglejszy said:
thanks, I was having the same problem, connecting in MTP with debugging helped
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glad i could help
I have the same problem on my sk17i (mini pro). Both in the app drawer and with the on screen shortcuts and in folders.
I've had it since day 1.
And you can't get rid of it just by changing the usb connection mode. Because you will eventually want to unmount your sd card, and when you do, your app drawer gets screwed (by how much depends on your luck).
I've also found that this problem can occur after simply having booted the phone. If it takes too long, or the phone is busy with stuff you're in a hurry to do, your SD crap gets screwed up again.
I really don't understand why the app drawer can't just reserve a particular position for the particular app which was occupying it. I mean, on a desktop operating system, your shortcuts remain where they are, regardless if their target is there or not. On Android, they turn to the gray sd symbol, but they also disappear at the slightest breeze like some kind of wusses...
I wonder if it's possible to hard code a custom app drawer with proper persistent positions.
Also, I personally love the 4 corner UI in the minis, as well as the stock timescape widgets and whatnot. So I can't use a custom launcher or rom which doesn't accommodate them and with at least 2 of the 4 rings in the 4 corner UI.
I know I know, I am very late to the party.
But anyway, I finally installed the ICS update a few hours ago.... and my phone won't stop rebooting now.
Its not a boot loop, because it does get into Sense UI and I can use it, but eventually after a few minutes, it will reboot all on it's own with no warning. I assume its loading my (rather large) list of apps from the SD card since I have never seen it reboot until it finally wakes up, realizes a SD card is indeed mounted, and starts populating my app list. I never saw that process finish from the few times I bothered to watch it.
I tried removing the SD card and now its no longer rebooting, so unless taking out the battery did something, I assume its likely the SD card.
Is there any way to tell what is causing it without reformatting my phone? I REALLY don't want to wipe out everything.
After some testing, I have found two issues with the update:
1. It seems that it is not any one specific app, but the NUMBER of apps on my SD-card causing the reboot. I have somewhere around 200-250 apps installed on it. So far I can put about 80 or so of them in .androud_secure and it will work fine, I do not know exactly what the braking point it, but I know that having around 140 apps causes it to reboot every 5 minutes, regardless of which apps are on there.
2. I can't load my text messages anymore. Any contact who I have had a long history of texting with, it just gets stuck saying "loading". I can still receieve messages, but since I can't actually open the message list anymore, I can't reply!
I would really like to avoid doing a factory reset if possible, is there anything I can do about this?
I was consideing just doing a SMS-backup and then flashing a custom rom, but I like the 3D feature and it seems like there is not a SINGLE custom rom out there that supports 3D, and many don't support 4G either.
Please, does anyone have any advice?
I'm on vacation now and something weird began happening once I landed. I plugged in my phone to the rental car's cigarette lighter but it refused to get any service after repeated reboots. The phone would also lock up and reboot, claiming the battery was fully exhausted. Phone worked just fine up until then (on latest JB OTA).
Eventually it would start up and felt pretty stable, but the battery level had to come up to about 10% for this.
Yet ever since, I can't mount the SD card. Clicking "mount" in the menu causes it to hang and suddenly reboot. Every once in a while it will say "damaged SD card". Plugging the phone into my laptop doesn't let me see the SD card either...and it has started to drop all signal, hang, then reboot again.
Tried all the following to fix it without success: cleared Dalvik, cleared cache, unfroze all apps, temp unroot & re-rooted, use phone as USB mass storage. I can't see the SD card in recovery, either.
Sadly I am out of warranty by almost 5 months so I'm not sure what to do. My last resort will be to hard reset but I'd rather not do that. Thoughts on what's wrong?
dparm said:
I'm on vacation now and something weird began happening once I landed. I plugged in my phone to the rental car's cigarette lighter but it refused to get any service after repeated reboots. The phone would also lock up and reboot, claiming the battery was fully exhausted. Phone worked just fine up until then (on latest JB OTA).
Eventually it would start up and felt pretty stable, but the battery level had to come up to about 10% for this.
Yet ever since, I can't mount the SD card. Clicking "mount" in the menu causes it to hang and suddenly reboot. Every once in a while it will say "damaged SD card". Plugging the phone into my laptop doesn't let me see the SD card either...and it has started to drop all signal, hang, then reboot again.
Tried all the following to fix it without success: cleared Dalvik, cleared cache, unfroze all apps, temp unroot & re-rooted, use phone as USB mass storage. I can't see the SD card in recovery, either.
Sadly I am out of warranty by almost 5 months so I'm not sure what to do. My last resort will be to hard reset but I'd rather not do that. Thoughts on what's wrong?
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Reformat the sdcard
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I can't format it since the phone just hangs whenever it tries to read it. I suspect the card is just dead, but I don't get why it causes the phone to go nuts and freeze/lose signal.
make a backup of your sd card data and then format using pc and card reader