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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Kernel Yank555.lu-V3.1
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.
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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
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?
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
Hello,
First off I want to explain what happened exactly. Since April I am using an HTC One, but I gave my S3 to my girlfriend. I gave it to her exactly like I used it: running CM10.1 nightly's, no other mods, no custom kernels, etc. I updated her S3 once every few weeks with a new nightly. It performed normally, like it has been doing for many months.
Since a few weeks, the S3 started to show problems. The camera app would act weird sometimes, but it wasn't anything big. Then the freezes came. Once every few days, the phone would freeze and she needed to reboot. In the past week, the freezes happened many times daily. No matter what you did with the phone, it would freeze very fast. It just got worst and worst, until yesterday the phone wouldn't even turn on anymore. It would stay in the bootup screen.
The problem was, I had only downloaded a CM10.2 nightly update recently, had no Android 4.3 Gapps yet and hadn't succeeded in making a proper Titanium Backup (due to the phone being so unstable, it would freeze at 80% of the backup). Moving to CM10.2 without a wipe wasn't the best idea, but having no TB, I didn't want to wipe data. In the end, desperate measure called for desperate actions. I flashed a nightly build of CM10.2 I had downloaded already on the phone, but still the same. It wouldn't get past bootup animation.
To keep this story as short as I can, I ended up flashing the latest Samsung Touchwiz build (4.1 based) via Odin, but even that wouldn't get past the bootup animation. So I managed to get in some sort of recovery, where a wipe data option was available. Did that, phone started working normally again. Only problem is, this wipe data option apparently was a different kind of beast. I am used to the "wipe data" option that deletes your apps + data, etc, but doesn't touch your photo's, music, etc. This one did.
Is there any known way to recover some of the files that got deleted?
And if anybody is in the mood, any explication on what exactly happened to this S3? I mean, nothing changed, it was working normally for months with CM10.1...
Kind regards
I've never found anyone that recovered any data from the internal sd card, there are pc programs that claim to be able to do this for sd cards and hard disks but doubt they will work on MTP device.
Freezing is common for a minority of phones due to nand block failures, or it could be due to the rom you were using.
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I've never found anyone that recovered any data from the internal sd card, there are pc programs that claim to be able to do this for sd cards and hard disks but doubt they will work on MTP device.
Freezing is common for a minority of phones due to nand block failures, or it could be due to the rom you were using.
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Thank you for the quick reply. I suspected this but I though it's worth asking.
I guess my S3 was one of this minority, can't imagine CM10.1 to be the bad guy here. Ah well, at least now she can use the damn thing again. RIP photo's and other important data though. It's near impossible now for Samsung to get me to buy another product from them again in the future.
Unless you have a government grade software/hardware that's being used on digital forensics then it's really quite impossible to recover the files.
For future, look at FolderSync on play. It will sync sdcard data to the cloud or to a computer that is always on.
I set my sdcards syncing over wifi whilst I am asleep. I never lose anything.
So I'm having this very strange yet pretty awkward to recreate issue, where the phone will freeze on certain apps, mostly ones that require storage (camera, gallery, settings, etc). It will freeze for a good minute or so before either finishing its task, saying the app is not responding and asking me to wait or close, or it will just forget the task completely.
The most noticeable instance regarding this is when I simply try to take photos with the camera. When I've taken a good 5-10 photos at least, I go to the gallery and I don't see my pictures there. Okay, so I go back to the camera to try take more pictures - it's frozen. The camera still moves but the shooting/recording button(s) don't do anything. I wait a while - gallery opens automatically either with my photos there or not, it's really indecisive as to when and if it will keep the photos or videos I took.
I have already returned the phone to Samsung who claimed the issue was repaired after it being returned only 1-2 working days of me sending it (suspicious?) whilst I have a feeling all they did was factory reset the phone (even though I already did this - as I wrote such on a form I had to fill out, print and send with the phone physically). I mentioned the issue in great detail and how to recreate it but it seems Samsung can't even fix an issue on their own device.
However in all fairness to Samsung, it is very hard to recreate after a factory reset. It does only seem to happen when the internal memory is actually being used, as I found out when I put all my music back onto the phone. Currently my phone is full of around 90GB worth of music (the device has 128GB storage, so it's definitely not full, close to full, nor should it give any reason for apps to freeze) and absolutely no custom apps installed whatsoever (as I was told not to install anything from the Play Store during return of the phone to Samsung - even though they factory reset it once again anyway). I noticed after receiving the phone back today after I put my music back onto it that the apps started freezing up again. So the issue is still occurring.
This does seem to have only started happening since an Android update though (to 6.0.1 I believe?) or it genuinely might just be a hardware fault that Samsung is not diagnosing. But if anyone is able to help me diagnose it (or possibly resolve it) so I can prove to Samsung there is an issue with the device itself, that would be greatly appreciated! Thanks a lot for reading
Have you found a solution bro????
ImperoDroider said:
Have you found a solution bro????
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I ended up RMA'ing the phone to Samsung and they said there was no issue with the phone.
Apparently some app is causing the freezing as the issue seems to be non-existent (or at least very infrequent) when the phone as no apps from the play store installed on it. Didn't really find the time either to test it for a long period without any play store apps installed because, frankly, what's the point of a smartphone without being able to use it for the apps you merely use the smartphone for?
I just upgraded to an S7 instead and currently it's running fine with the same apps (internal memory 32gb, external memory 128gb). Haven't had a single freezing issue with the camera or anything since purchase.
Terrum said:
I ended up RMA'ing the phone to Samsung and they said there was no issue with the phone.
Apparently some app is causing the freezing as the issue seems to be non-existent (or at least very infrequent) when the phone as no apps from the play store installed on it. Didn't really find the time either to test it for a long period without any play store apps installed because, frankly, what's the point of a smartphone without being able to use it for the apps you merely use the smartphone for?
I just upgraded to an S7 instead and currently it's running fine with the same apps (internal memory 32gb, external memory 128gb). Haven't had a single freezing issue with the camera or anything since purchase.
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But I'm still dying here bro. Wasted my salary of 3 months to by this piece of S##it and now I'm lost.
Thank you for your kind reply bro :good::good:
ImperoDroider said:
But I'm still dying here bro. Wasted my salary of 3 months to by this piece of S##it and now I'm lost.
Thank you for your kind reply bro :good::good:
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Did you try what I did? Which is to hard reset (re-install) the phone. Try use it without any apps installed for a while and see if the issue still persists.
If it does still persist when you have no apps installed, go ahead and RMA it. It should still be under warranty if you only bought it recently. Even if it's not, shouldn't cost too much to fix it (hopefully).
ImperoDroider said:
But I'm still dying here bro. Wasted my salary of 3 months to by this piece of S##it and now I'm lost.
Thank you for your kind reply bro :good::good:
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Boot to safe mode and leave it like that for a while. If there is no freezing or crashing then it's caused by a 3rd party app. If freezing and hanging occurs it's faulty emmc.