Hi,
I keep having a re-occurring issue where upon checking the storage settings it just gets stuck on `calculating`, I've left it for 20+ minutes in the past and it still never finishes, the bar stays grey instead of showing the individual colours etc. it's been along time since I've used an ICS rom on my S3 but I don't recall ever having this issue on ICS but it's certainly been a problem since I've been on jellybean roms, for one it starts using up a lot of battery when it's stuck calculating and if I try and uninstall any software it gets stuck and never actually manages to uninstall! It's also not related to the sd card, I've tried unmounting the card and still it can't calculate the phones internal storage, I even removed the sd card and tested.
The only way I can fix this is to factory reset, whereby everything is ok for a while but this storage calculating issue always resurfaces! After a factory reset I do re-install all the same apps, but then if it was a certain app causing this then I would have thought the storage calculating problem would start straight away but like I say, everything works ok for a while.
I don't believe this is a hardware fault, perhaps some data of one of the apps I'm using is getting corrupted after some time and that's why everything works ok for a while after a factory reset.
Has anyone else had this issue and/or knows how to fix it without having to wipe data/factory reset every few weeks which is what I'm having to do at the moment.
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I just called T-mobile in an attempt to have them replace my vibrant under the manufacturer's warranty. I believe the internal memory is damaged. My phone locks up once or twice a day and I have to pull the battery or do the vol-down-home-power button combination for ten seconds to reset the phone. This continues to be a problem after installing custom roms, going back to factory settings, lag fixes, etc.
T-Mobile just told me to try clearing out the stock browser's history, cache, cookies, saved passwords, basically everything, and that this is a "known issue" with Vibrants that happens if you don't clear the data every few days.
Has anyone else ever been told this by them before? Searching the forums hasn't given me much to support what they said, and I'm starting to feel like they're just stonewalling me.
Any advice/input/opinions are appreciated. Thanks!
Update: I cleared the browser data and then ran every single game on my vibrant, one after another (games were where I was seeing most of the lock ups).
This might sound crazy but so far it really does seem like it made a positive difference. Load times for some games are noticeably shorter.
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%.
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?
Hi,
I'm looking for some general advice and troubleshooting for my phone's issues. My phone started crashing very often, sometimes at complete random, as well as when I was using it fairly heavily (any app that froze my phone for a second before loading before the crashing would now crash my phone). Sometimes it would reboot fine, other times it would bootloop once or twice before reloading fine. I previously tried doing a factory reset, removing my external microSD card, and updating everything via Kies and nothing worked.
I got bored and rooted my phone, did a full wipe, and flashed the latest Infamous update. The problem was still there but it wouldn't crash as often while using it because my phone could handle higher app activity but it's still there. Oddly enough, after flashing Infamous, it often fails to reboot and so I have to do a battery pull before turning it back on, otherwise it won't even vibrate after holding the power button.
I'm just wondering if you guys have any idea what the issue could be. Is it likely still something I can fix? Is this potentially a battery issue or is it a hardware issue?
Thanks so much!
jasonale said:
Hi,
I'm looking for some general advice and troubleshooting for my phone's issues. My phone started crashing very often, sometimes at complete random, as well as when I was using it fairly heavily (any app that froze my phone for a second before loading before the crashing would now crash my phone). Sometimes it would reboot fine, other times it would bootloop once or twice before reloading fine. I previously tried doing a factory reset, removing my external microSD card, and updating everything via Kies and nothing worked.
I got bored and rooted my phone, did a full wipe, and flashed the latest Infamous update. The problem was still there but it wouldn't crash as often while using it because my phone could handle higher app activity but it's still there. Oddly enough, after flashing Infamous, it often fails to reboot and so I have to do a battery pull before turning it back on, otherwise it won't even vibrate after holding the power button.
I'm just wondering if you guys have any idea what the issue could be. Is it likely still something I can fix? Is this potentially a battery issue or is it a hardware issue?
Thanks so much!
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So when your phone have become unstable , in what condition it was ? did you ever flash it before ... so my s2x did the same thing afer a update with odin on 4.2 ... so i have reflashed it and evrything was working good after
So, my Samsung Galaxy A10 got into a bootloop and I'm 90% sure it was caused by short storage, because seconds before it started I saw the storage was full. I've had a similar problem before, where my phone would randomly reboot and stop when I clean up some space, but now it just locks itself on a bootloop and freezes on the Samsung logo.
I tried entering Safe Mode, but my phone just won't load it no matter how many times and how many buttons i press. Alright, "let's try Recovery Mode", i thought, but it was also very hard to do because the buttons wouldn't work most of the time. I managed to enter it around 4 times in a span of 3 hours and I got two different screens. One screen was what I believe to be the standart, with options to clear cache, factory reset and etc. The other one only had the option to clear app data, no idea why it changed or what triggered it. In these few instances where i could access the Recovery Mode, I tried clearing cache, repairing apps and clearing app data, but nothing worked.
I can't turn off my phone either, I tried holding the power button for almost a minute with no results. Maybe that's why the recovery mode didn't work...? Right now I'm waiting for my phone to run out of battery and see if it helps.
Also, one thing that is kinda concerning... everytime it reboots, before the Android logo appears, the screen glitches for a millisecond in a vibrant color.
Please, is there any way to fix it without losing my data? I'm sort of a noob so I have no idea how bootloaders and similar things work, I'd be really thankful if you guys could help
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Meh... why isn't your data on a SD card?
If you used a SD card as a data drive... you be able to do a factory reset and not lose critical data.
If you can't connect with the PC and you can't get into safe mode I don't see how you can recover the data. Maybe someone here has a plan for you...
blackhawk said:
Welcome to XDA
Meh... why isn't your data on a SD card?
If you used a SD card as a data drive... you be able to do a factory reset and not lose critical data.
If you can't connect with the PC and you can't get into safe mode I don't see how you can recover the data. Maybe someone here has a plan for you...
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Thanks! Yeah, no SD card for me
Draining the power didn't help, but I figured out why the buttons didn't work: I was supposed to press them when my screen started glitching, not on the android logo (leaving this info here in case someone else has the same problem). Still unable to access safe mode tho, only recovery.
Welp, most of my data was only personal things and at least I can backup some stuff with my google account, so I did a factory reset. Now it's working again, which is great, I just wanted my phone back honestly :,)
Lik_2345678 said:
Thanks! Yeah, no SD card for me
Draining the power didn't help, but I figured out why the buttons didn't work: I was supposed to press them when my screen started glitching, not on the android logo (leaving this info here in case someone else has the same problem). Still unable to access safe mode tho, only recovery.
Welp, most of my data was only personal things and at least I can backup some stuff with my google account, so I did a factory reset. Now it's working again, which is great, I just wanted my phone back honestly :,)
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Boot loops are tough. Sometimes after a couple tries it may go into safe mode but don't count on it. Another question is what caused it, a poorly coded or incompatible 3rd party app running at start up? You don't want a repeat. It may have been a single event upset that corrupted the user data partition, these are rare but can happen.
Get a SD card and use it as a data drive, everything you need to do a complete reload should be on it including installable copies of all your apps. A full reload with no internet connection can be done like this. Since all the data is already on it for a reload, no time is wasted reloading data.
The SD card is a valuable asset if you use it correctly.