Phone is over heating ( near the symbol of nfc) even in stamina mode... I updated through pcc on yesterday ( India) ... I did factory reset with clean up media files... Hope somebody here can help me by analyzing these attachments...
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No "close all" button
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I could live with that overheating.
It didnt fix the sound bug for mine. Pain in the ass to restart my phone everytime i unplug my earphones.
- That's the media_scanner running wild. You may have a corrupt file on your SDcard or internal memory.
- Sony ROMs have never had a "Close All" button, so that's not a bug.
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- That's the media_scanner running wild. You may have a corrupt file on your SDcard or internal memory.
- Sony ROMs have never had a "Close All" button, so that's not a bug.
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Z2 and Z2 Tablet do, but seeing as though very few features where back ported to these phones, as you say, it's no bug
Games frequently crash when previously they never did.
Some apps do not work as they should with Kitkat.
So you guys had your sound bug fixed?
Does not save new wifi passwords (any password saved after upgrading to 757).
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I didn't get the previous update so I went from 4.3 to 4.4 straight to the 757 build.
A problem I have on 757 is that it when I use the wireless headset which is supplied and it's connected and press play it just plays in speakermode and have to enable disable bluetooth and/or throw to connect again but it's irritating.
Another problem I found is that the Google Speech (extra button on your keyboard) doesn't appear to be working anymore, it doesn't pick up anything at all.
After the update my 32gb Micro-SD seems to be read-only, I can't copy/paste anything there while in Windows I can (so it's not the micro-sd card), I did a format of the whole SD card anyway, tried it with fat32, ntfs, exfat but all the same, anyone else got issue's with that?
I do like that you can enable 16 toggles and they have extra functionality like on Samsung, when you keep pressing WIFI you can enter the wifi settings from there. And swiping 2 fingers down from the top menu bar makes you go straight to the quicksettings.
I wish the keyboard had this option to separate words though, the spacebar is too small, so you just keep putting ... between the words instead of zero's, Samsung's keyboard is a bit smarter to identify the right words (even glued together) and spaces.
Overall it's faster then 4.2 and 4.3 and a big improvement over the battery (but it needs like 1 or 2 complete battery cycles to fully use that.
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- That's the media_scanner running wild. You may have a corrupt file on your SDcard or internal memory.
- Sony ROMs have never had a "Close All" button, so that's not a bug.
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And how to find that file
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Phone is over heating ( near the symbol of nfc) even in stamina mode... I updated through pcc on yesterday ( India) ... I did factory reset with clean up media files... Hope somebody here can help me by analyzing these attachments...
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My best guess was that your sd card is corrupt. Try to format it with your PC and start clean. That should fix it.
Some battery drain occured with me yesterday (about a day after updating to 757). It was draining like hell, like 20% after only 9 hours since unplugged and about 3 hour of screen time. but nothing crazy on the battery usage graph. So i was suspicious about hidden wakelock somewhere inside. So like a dumb boy, i just opened up one by one of the installed apps. So it was found that somehow Waze and Line app will FC on open. I decided to erase data on Waze and uninstall Line and voila no more battery drain after the next charge! Turns out that i have restored both with Helium and never tested them after restoration.
Moral of the story is, don't do a sloppy restore and backup after clean install. Better for you to find app with cloud save or at least local backup support and clean install the app and then restore the data by per app.
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No the SD card isn't corrupt. Google did this in the Kit Kat update. SD cards cannot be written into by third party apps. Only sony apps can write into it like "File Commander". This is to improve security as they said, but it's proving to be more of a problem than a security enhancement -_-
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It is the mem card causing all these problems... Might be some corrupt file is there... I removed the card and everything working fine right now.. ( Over heating and battery draining issues solved completely) thanks for everybody... Anybody know how to find the corrupt file cuz I'm using 64 gb strontium card and its almost full.. Don't want to format and lose whole data...
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So you guys had your sound bug fixed?
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Yup.
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After the update my 32gb Micro-SD seems to be read-only, I can't copy/paste anything there while in Windows I can (so it's not the micro-sd card), I did a format of the whole SD card anyway, tried it with fat32, ntfs, exfat but all the same, anyone else got issue's with that?
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That's not a bug. It's a "feature" in KitKat, and it's entirely Google's idea. You can no longer move, copy or delete your own files on SD cards. A new SD card permission is in place, so apps (Facebook, Spotify, games etc.) can save files to it, but you can't manually do it unless you root and run SDFix (you can uninstall it after you're done), or you'll have to use the File Commander app, or whatever it's called, which came with the update.
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It is the mem card causing all these problems... Might be some corrupt file is there... I removed the card and everything working fine right now.. ( Over heating and battery draining issues solved completely) thanks for everybody... Anybody know how to find the corrupt file cuz I'm using 64 gb strontium card and its almost full.. Don't want to format and lose whole data...
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I guess you'll have to manually check every file on there. It could be as simple as a corrupt photo, so move everything from your SD to your computer and move one and one file (or folder if you're certain that it doesn't contain a corrupt file) at a time.
You have any idea why mine isn't fixed? I'm on 757 too.
FYI: my update crashed with a "software failed to update" and I had to perform wipes using the SUS.
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Yup.
That's not a bug. It's a "feature" in KitKat, and it's entirely Google's idea. You can no longer move, copy or delete your own files on SD cards. A new SD card permission is in place, so apps (Facebook, Spotify, games etc.) can save files to it, but you can't manually do it unless you root and run SDFix (you can uninstall it after you're done), or you'll have to use the File Commander app, or whatever it's called, which came with the update.
I guess you'll have to manually check every file on there. It could be as simple as a corrupt photo, so move everything from your SD to your computer and move one and one file (or folder if you're certain that it doesn't contain a corrupt file) at a time.
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You have any idea why mine isn't fixed? I'm on 757 too.
FYI: my update crashed with a "software failed to update" and I had to perform wipes using the SUS.
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You have any idea why mine isn't fixed? I'm on 757 too.
FYI: my update crashed with a "software failed to update" and I had to perform wipes using the SUS.
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What's not fixed? Your SD card? You need to be rooted for it to work.
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What's not fixed? Your SD card? You need to be rooted for it to work.
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No, I'm talking about the sound bug
Now I'm not facing any issues, also feels like everything running smooth and better than previous update especially battery back up... Once again thanks for lord manhattan...
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I have an issue with the battery to and I found it only happen when I turn on location service.
I think this phone keep trying to determine the location, even you're not connect to wifi or mobile data.
But overall, everything are good, and I found that X-reality engine are improved.
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I have an issue with the battery to and I found it only happen when I turn on location service.
I think this phone keep trying to determine the location, even you're not connect to wifi or mobile data.
But overall, everything are good, and I found that X-reality engine are improved.
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Go to Settings -> Wifi -> Advanced -> Uncheck "Scanning always Available"
Plus, if you rely on High Accuracy mode and using it for Waze/Maps/Any other Geotag enabled apps, don't you ever turn off Location after exiting the app. Just leave the Location on. It won't wakelock your device for GPS signal. Otherwise the app will show you that it eats battery in battery usage because it awaits for the GPS to be turned on and the only Solution is to restart the phone.
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Not sure if I'm posting this in the right forum as it could be either a problem with the phone itself or with the SD card.
Sometimes when I reboot my phone about 50mb-2gb of music disappears from my external MicroSD card (class 10 SanDisk). As far as I can tell its always entire folders that disappear, never individual files. It happens quite frequently (probably 1 in 3 reboots) and its extremely frustrating.
I removed the card from my phone and put it in my PC to perform a disk check (no errors found) and format it but the problem persisted.
Can anyone tell me what's causing this and how to fix it?
You mean the files really gone, not even visible with PC?
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You mean the files really gone, not even visible with PC?
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Yep, the files get completely deleted, I can't even see them when viewing the contents of the card on my PC.
Suggestion: If you have another sd card, try testing it. Then you will know whether is the card problem or the phone problem.
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Suggestion: If you have another sd card, try testing it. Then you will know whether is the card problem or the phone problem.
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Okay so I tried testing the issue with an old 16gb class 2 Sandisk I had laying around (the one I'm currently having the issue with is 64gb). I rebooted the phone about six or seven times but I wasn't able to replcate the problem. The thing is I can't seem to trigger the problem again on my 64gb card even after rebooting about 10 times. So I'm geussing there's somrthing elese I've be doing in addition to rebooting the phone that has been causing the files to delete themselves. Any idea what that might be?
I guess all I can do now is just continue to use the phone normally, keep a close eye on what I'm doing and wait for the problem to arise again.
In the meantime here are few additional details:
The card is about 30gb full but its only ever about 2gb or less that go missing.
I was wrong about individual files being immune from deletion. about 90% of the songs in my GTA Vice City soundtrack disappeared (among other things). The weird thing is, is that when individual files are effected, they don't outright disappear from the card like folders do. The files are there but they're like ghost files or something, they just sort of get reduced dramatically in size and refuse to work. Its like what you'd have if you downloaded an album through a torrent but stopped the download around 10%, the files are visible, just incomplete.
While many things seem to disappear randomly, there also a bit a pattern. For example, my Elvis Costello, Elvis Presley and Rolling Stones folders all disappeared at once like three times in a row(maybe every time, I'm not quite sure). Not sure what's going on with that.
Don't know what is going on with your sd card. Anyway, glad that the problem somehow gone. Enjoy your phone and keep monitoring the sd card.
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Don't know what is going on with your sd card. Anyway, glad that the problem somehow gone. Enjoy your phone and keep monitoring the sd card.
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ARGHHH! It just happened again, all but one of the files in a folder somehow to reduced to 0.00kb. I'm just taking a wild guess here, could this have something to do with editing id3 tags in n7player? I think that's something most of the files have in common...
Could be. Try uninstall it or any apps you think may be related.
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Could be. Try uninstall it or any apps you think may be related.
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I tested this theory by editing various tags in n7player, rebooting, checking the available space on the SD card and repeating the process several times. Files disappeared about 3 in every 5 reboots so I think its safe to conclude that n7player was causing the problem. I didn't want to stop using n7player completely as it is by far my favorite music app, so now when I need to edit tags directly from phone I use ID3Fixer (but I mainly stick to editing files on my PC prior to transferring them just to be on the safe side). After a few days of normal usage, no files have disappeared.
Hello Folks! I've been lurking these forums for a few months now, but now it's time to join up! You guys are awesome.
I've got a question relating to the CM10 A2 ROM. Install went smoothly from a fresh SBF/Root/Flash. I got all my applications installed and moved them all to the phone. I have a problem that occurs when connecting the phone to my computer via USB. If I leave it in charge mode, no problem. Upon clicking the option to allow USB Mass Storage, I get quite a few apps that FC. The list is as follows:
sManager
AutomateIt Pro
App Protector Pro
ROM Toolbox Pro
TiBu
I get popup notifications that the apps' processes have stopped and upon going to the app drawer, the icons have been replaced with the Android Robot. The problem persists after disabling mass storage and the apps FC on attempting to launch them. The only thing to fix them seems to be rebooting. I know each of these apps have permission req's that read/write the SD card, is that what is causing the problem? Any way to fix? Thanks a bunch!
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Hello Folks! I've been lurking these forums for a few months now, but now it's time to join up! You guys are awesome.
I've got a question relating to the CM10 A2 ROM. Install went smoothly from a fresh SBF/Root/Flash. I got all my applications installed and moved them all to the phone. I have a problem that occurs when connecting the phone to my computer via USB. If I leave it in charge mode, no problem. Upon clicking the option to allow USB Mass Storage, I get quite a few apps that FC. The list is as follows:
sManager
AutomateIt Pro
App Protector Pro
ROM Toolbox Pro
TiBu
I get popup notifications that the apps' processes have stopped and upon going to the app drawer, the icons have been replaced with the Android Robot. The problem persists after disabling mass storage and the apps FC on attempting to launch them. The only thing to fix them seems to be rebooting. I know each of these apps have permission req's that read/write the SD card, is that what is causing the problem? Any way to fix? Thanks a bunch!
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Maybe because the apps are installed on your SD card and when you turn on USB storage, it cant display on your phone anymore. Are they installed on your SD card?
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Maybe because the apps are installed on your SD card and when you turn on USB storage, it cant display on your phone anymore. Are they installed on your SD card?
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That was the first thing I checked and unfortunately they aren't installed on the SD. I moved all my apps to the phone.
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That was the first thing I checked and unfortunately they aren't installed on the SD. I moved all my apps to the phone.
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I cant think of any other reason why they would stop working in USB mode. Maybe there are certain things they use that are on the SD Card and not necessarily the app itself. It does warn you that some apps will not work when you select USB mode.
IMHO I think it has something to do with the new SD card directory. I've used almost all the ROMs for the x2 including the cm7 and cm9. This seems to only occur with cm10.
Edit: I noticed some of these apps have folders located on the internal SD. I doubt that has changed across ROM's, any idea why it would change with this one?
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Alright. So it appears that the problem is caused by a new way the play store distributes paid apps to JB. From reading around in various sites, these apps are sent to the "app-asec" folder as .asec files instead of .apk. When connecting to USB, CM10 seems to go through some internal trouble (i.e. lots of screen flickering/redrawing and sometimes it seems to soft reboot). My theory is that how the play store is installing is causing the issues app developers are seeing. The app is attempting to start before the app-asec folder is mounted, causing FC's.
Edit: Other users have reported a workaround that if you restore the apps with TiBu or something similar it places the actual .apk file in the correct directory. The issue only seems to affect paid apps installed by the play store.
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Sorry to keep posting on my own thread, but I've found a workaround. This also seems to have fixed the launcher redraws and screen flickering I mentioned above.
Navigate to the /data/app-sec folder
Make note of all the apps installed there as .asec files.
Using your backup program of choice (I used TiBu for the majority and ROM Toolbox so I could backup TiBu), backup all the apps you found.
Uninstall the previously mentioned apps.
Restore using the same backup program(s).
Go back to the /data/app-sec folder and verify that all the files are gone.
Go to /data/app folder and you should see the .apk's from the restored apps.
Hope this helps someone else!
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Good to see you figured it out and also, good find. I noticed plugging in my device as USB and having it "soft reboot". Lately I haven't had the issue happen again. Your theory makes sense now since there is one app in that location and it is a theme I was using but lately, have not been. Ill move it as you suggested.
Hi all, thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
I've been going between 2 ROMs recently (Tron 2.1 and PAC-Man 23.0). For both of them, it is showing that the "Media" app is using a larger percentage of my battery (around 18%). I'm just not sure what this app is, or how to disable or remove it.
When I click on the app from the Battery details, "Force Stop" and "Report" are disabled buttons. Down below, it shows the included packages being "Downloads", "Media Storage", "Download Manager", "DRM Protected Content". I haven't been downloading anything, nor adding songs or movies, so I'm not sure what this "app" is spending its cycles doing.
Thanks!
I guess that it would be a better idea to report this incident to the ROM developer..
I have the same problem sometimes. After a google search I found that basically, your phone is searching for all the media on your internal and external storage. What causes the wake lock is that it is searching for or has found a file that is corrupt. It basically gets stuck on that file for awhile.
I had the wake lock for a couple days then it just went away.
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I have the same problem sometimes. After a google search I found that basically, your phone is searching for all the media on your internal and external storage. What causes the wake lock is that it is searching for or has found a file that is corrupt. It basically gets stuck on that file for awhile.
I had the wake lock for a couple days then it just went away.
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That is really interesting! Using a previous ROM, I do have a few corrupted images from a camera-app-gone-haywire. I'll have to clean those out (which I should have done anyway), and see if that helps.
Great idea!
No problem! I should go through and clean my SD card out, but I am too lazy and don't have the time to spend on it. I just deal with it because I usually have a charger nearby most of the time.
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Check to make sure the .thumbnails folder in the DCIM folder isnt overloaded with 2GB of images. Dont use the stock camera app regardless what ROM you are on. It accesses the stock Gallery app which in turns eventually creates thousands and thousands of "thumbnail" images. More like small pics at about 400x300 resolution. It JAMS up android.process.media .. hell.. it would make my phone hot because sometimes it ran straight for 24 minutes killing cpu.. deleted all the files in there and stopped using the stock app, no more problem.
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Check to make sure the .thumbnails folder in the DCIM folder isnt overloaded with 2GB of images. Dont use the stock camera app regardless what ROM you are on. It accesses the stock Gallery app which in turns eventually creates thousands and thousands of "thumbnail" images. More like small pics at about 400x300 resolution. It JAMS up android.process.media .. hell.. it would make my phone hot because sometimes it ran straight for 24 minutes killing cpu.. deleted all the files in there and stopped using the stock app, no more problem.
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So what do we do when we have been using the stock gallery and camera app? Can I delete the .thumbnails folder? What kind of camera and gallery app do you recommend? I have both stock samsung and stock android camera that I use everyday...
I have been using my phone (unrooted stock) for quite some time now and only recently did the media act up on me and killing the battery. I have rooted and install custom rom and reformatted my sdcard.
It'll now i kinda check the battery more frequently.
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So what do we do when we have been using the stock gallery and camera app? Can I delete the .thumbnails folder? What kind of camera and gallery app do you recommend? I have both stock samsung and stock android camera that I use everyday...
I have been using my phone (unrooted stock) for quite some time now and only recently did the media act up on me and killing the battery. I have rooted and install custom rom and reformatted my sdcard.
It'll now i kinda check the battery more frequently.
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Just following up (I asked the original question). What I've found is that between various ROMs, I have two images folders on my sdcard. Mostly, I just went through and deleted a few invalid images (I think my Tron 2.0 ROM used to take corrupt images, but no longer). I cleaned out many many images I no longer needed as well.
Also, not sure if this is related: I uninstalled and reinstalled Google+ (which has an image auto-backup feature). I had been restoring it from a backup, and I think it got corrupted along the way. It was no longer automatically backing up images, for example.
Since then, I've been in much better shape, and I haven't noticed the Media process taking as much battery.
Hi, I seem to have an odd problem. I have a lot of photos on my sd card, passed down from many phones. I spent ages going through them, deleting quite a lot. The deleted ones had gone from my viewer. Later when I looked, they were all restored. I have tried it a few times now and cannot permanently delete any pictures, they just keep coming back. I have always had auto backup disabled. It was funny at first. . . ?
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Same here i thought i got faulty micro sd(sandisk 64gb) one deleted some videos couple of times but it always comes back.
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Good to know I'm not alone in this. We can pretty much rule out a dodgy sd card, yesterday it happened with my 16gb, I had just transferred the picture files to a new Kingston 64gb and still the same problem.
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I have a similar problem happening too. I keep having a gig of thumbnails reappearing and can only get rid of them using SD Maid Pro's system cleaner. Super annoying.
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theErock said:
I have a similar problem happening too. I keep having a gig of thumbnails reappearing and can only get rid of them using SD Maid Pro's system cleaner. Super annoying.
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I had that problem with my s3, not noticed it on the z2 yet.
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Did you use the inbuilt photo album to delete? This is a bit tricky in kitkat due to Google's policy to disable write access to the SD card. You can goggle it to find out more.
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Did you use the inbuilt photo album to delete? This is a bit tricky in kitkat due to Google's policy to disable write access to the SD card. You can goggle it to find out more.
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No I used SD Maid and I run a 4.3 ROM I've suspected that it is Google syncing some how but I have disabled all relevant features.
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Yep, I'm using the standard photo viewer, do you know of a decent alternative app as a viewer? I'm not keen on the confusing layout of the Album app.
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No I used SD Maid and I run a 4.3 ROM I've suspected that it is Google syncing some how but I have disabled all relevant features.
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I thought it must be a sync issue but I have it switched off too, I also have box and drive disabled. I don't like the idea of my photos being on the cloud, and I want to decide which ones to keep and which to delete!
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I thought it must be a sync issue but I have it switched off too, I also have box and drive disabled. I don't like the idea of my photos being on the cloud, and I want to decide which ones to keep and which to delete!
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Hi, I seem to have an odd problem. I have a lot of photos on my sd card, passed down from many phones. I spent ages going through them, deleting quite a lot. The deleted ones had gone from my viewer. Later when I looked, they were all restored. I have tried it a few times now and cannot permanently delete any pictures, they just keep coming back. I have always had auto backup disabled. It was funny at first. . . ?
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I have the same problem with my scandisk 64gb Ultra high speed card. I pull out my card from phone attach card to my laptop with card reader. Copy all my data on laptop and then format my card. Copy all my stuff on card insert into z2 and every thing is fine. Now onward I don't have any problem.
I think you need to clean the ".thumbnail" file inside the MMC and the Phone storage, and you can try to use App Manager try to clear album data...
Wow it can be dangerous when someone had adult content which apeared again in wrong time and wrong place
I have a similar problem,
My problem though is that there's a album called"photos" which I have deleted about 60 times now, but when I reboot the phone, the album is back. There's no map or album on my SD Card thats called that.
Annoying and i want to get rid of it.
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I have a similar problem,
My problem though is that there's a album called"photos" which I have deleted about 60 times now, but when I reboot the phone, the album is back. There's no map or album on my SD Card thats called that.
Annoying and i want to get rid of it.
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i had this problem until i un-ticked "sync google photos auto-backup" in my google account settings .
hope this helps
Just use the built in Gallery called Album to delete photos. Had this problem with quickpic. But changing some system files will alleviate the problem. I'm now using quickpic without problems.
It's not a problem or a bug, it's only something that people doesn't know.
For some reason SONY made our Z2 software so only the built-in file manager and preinstalled apps can delete file on sd-card, so if you delete photo with gallery it will work, if you delete that photo with built-in file explorer (FK File Commander) it will work, BUT if you do the same thing with other file explorer or other apps like ES File Explorer or other apps, that apps simply can't delete sd-card content for real, they do it only apparently....
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It's not a problem or a bug, it's only something that people doesn't know.
For some reason SONY made our Z2 software so only the built-in file manager and preinstalled apps can delete file on sd-card, so if you delete photo with gallery it will work, if you delete that photo with built-in file explorer (FK File Commander) it will work, BUT if you do the same thing with other file explorer or other apps like ES File Explorer or other apps, that apps simply can't delete sd-card content for real, they do it only apparently....
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Partially correct. Only system apps can do it. But there's a workaround if you're rooted.
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It's not a problem or a bug, it's only something that people doesn't know.
For some reason SONY made our Z2 software so only the built-in file manager and preinstalled apps can delete file on sd-card, so if you delete photo with gallery it will work, if you delete that photo with built-in file explorer (FK File Commander) it will work, BUT if you do the same thing with other file explorer or other apps like ES File Explorer or other apps, that apps simply can't delete sd-card content for real, they do it only apparently....
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I'm sorry, but It is a bug, I have all sync turned off, no Google+, no Dropbox, no playstation memories or any other cloud backup enabled but still the pics keep reappearing. I am going to copy what I need to keep to the pc, format my 64gb card and cot my info back, although I tried this earlier and it didn't solve the problem
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This is not a Sony bug. As mentioned earlier, it is a function of Kit Kat (4.x) Roms.
Use the built in Album app to organise/delete photos.
If you want to use Quicpic, or other apps, you need to be rooted and edit a system file, which is easily done. There's actually an app you can download in the Play store which will do this for you, "SDFix: KitKat Writable MicroSD" by NextApp Inc. You will need to be rooted, though.
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I have an international s3.
suddenly my phone deleted by itself everything on my internal storage ONLY, such as my entire photos, sounds recordings, nandroid backups. etc. basically media files of any type. my apps, call log and sms records still fine.
i use imperium rom v 13.6 for a long time, and never had problems. so it's not the rom.
i completely formatted my internal storage. and installed the rom. but the problem still exists. does anyone know what could be the problem? im afraid it's an hardware problem.... how can i make sure . thanks in advance.
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lifeisgood210 said:
I have an international s3.
suddenly my phone deleted by itself everything on my internal storage ONLY, such as my entire photos, sounds recordings, nandroid backups. etc. basically media files of any type. my apps, call log and sms records still fine.
i use imperium rom v 13.6 for a long time, and never had problems. so it's not the rom.
i completely formatted my internal storage. and installed the rom. but the problem still exists. does anyone know what could be the problem? im afraid it's an hardware problem.... how can i make sure . thanks in advance.
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Check your google setting maybe? Maybe someone prank u using your account.
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buukarim said:
Check your google setting maybe? Maybe someone prank u using your account.
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i don't think so. didnt see any changes in my account.
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any ideas? or workarounds to determine if its a hardware faliure??
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Try flashing full stock firmware with Odin, if still the same then search for emmc memory tester thread in general forum.
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Try flashing full stock firmware with Odin, if still the same then search for emmc memory tester thread in general forum.
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thanks for your replay. ill try that. and report. btw. is this problem could be related to the sudden death syndrome .. some how?
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Yes, it's the same issue (nand memory wear) but not in the vital area that used to cause SDS so that the phone would become a dead, hard brick.
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Yes, it's the same issue (nand memory wear) but not in the vital area that used to cause SDS so that the phone would become a dead, hard brick.
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I think i have a similar problem. When i took my S3 out of my pocket this morning it had made a complete factory reset by itself.
Was working properly before.
What I am curious about is, that there is some data left on the phone(some pictures) and my settings are mostly intact but otherwise the playstore-services are missing i think. I installed the playstore.apk but when i open it it simply says: No Connection. And if I view my apps through a browser it says that they are still installed on my device. Also when i view
the stats for memory usage in the settings, it shows me about 12GB of 16GB are used with 8,2 GB of other data.
That would fit the data i had on my phone before, but when i try to view detailed stats about other data it only shows a few megabyte.
i have an International (GT i9300) Galaxy S3 (16GB) with stock firmware (I9300XXUGNA8) with root and clockworkmod recovery installed. the device was purchased roughly in september 2012.
In the last one or two month i had one or two times the problem with apps deleting itself/playstore still showing the as installed. this could be fixed by deleting the content of the install folder and renaming it, because i couldn't delete the actual folder. And after that you could reinstall the app through playstore and everything worked fine again.
I also used a app called eMMC Check after the device resetted it(got it from outside playstore obviously) that stated that i have an "Insane" chip and let it make a memory test, which said memory is okay.
As far as i read, the insane chip problem was fixed by samsung through firmware updates (4.1.2 and onwards) or am i wrong ?
As of now i'm assuming that my device/the memory is broken on hardware level and i need a new device or mainboard-replace.
Maybe you can give me some information on that. I hope i provided enough detail. Thanks.
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in my case as i said. its the media files that affected by this, the apps stay the same only certain updates like language packs or some other data in games gets deleted. other than that everything is fine.
please let me know if the solutions mentioned above. helped you too in your case.
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Boomboomer
Thank you. Your solution did solve the problem. :thumbup:
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