Hi all,
My i9100 seems to suffer from some memory corruption problems, in either the internal flash, or the internal memory. Sometimes it'll reset, and part, or all of my accounts are gone. It does this regardless of with software I have installed on it, and I tried the whole range of stock, CM11 Mx, and now on CM12. So I was wondering if there was some program (or module for CWM perhaps) which can check the RAM and/or internal SD for issues. Don't quite know where to begin looking though, so I thought this was a nice place to start.
Thanks in advance!
Hans
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Hi everyone,
First things first, sorry if this was covered somewhere else in the forums, I really didn't find this question anywhere so I "had" to post this.
I got my Samsung GT-I9003 4GB a month ago, and everything was working perfectly until 3 days ago. It starts showing an "Internal SD card unexpectedly removed" error whenever the phone goes standby, then it forces me to terminate processes one after another, and finally it shuts down. I hadn't done any kind of ROM flashing nor rooting the device until the problems arose, so I don't know where the problem comes from.
I've tried to re-flash froyo 2.2.1 in my device, but the problem keeps showing up.
I found in this forums this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1088474) covering the possibility of swapping both internal memory and external SD. It works great, but I still had problems with the "external SD card" being "unexpectedly removed"...
It crossed my mind if it was possible to modify the vold.fstab file further to only detect the external SD card as the internal memory and ignore the internal memory, as if it wasn't even on the phone. I don't know if that's even possible (since I don't know much about file systems nor Android), but I'd appreciate your thoughts on the matter.
same issue
eikur said:
Hi everyone,
First things first, sorry if this was covered somewhere else in the forums, I really didn't find this question anywhere so I "had" to post this.
I got my Samsung GT-I9003 4GB a month ago, and everything was working perfectly until 3 days ago. It starts showing an "Internal SD card unexpectedly removed" error whenever the phone goes standby, then it forces me to terminate processes one after another, and finally it shuts down. I hadn't done any kind of ROM flashing nor rooting the device until the problems arose, so I don't know where the problem comes from.
I've tried to re-flash froyo 2.2.1 in my device, but the problem keeps showing up.
I found in this forums this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1088474) covering the possibility of swapping both internal memory and external SD. It works great, but I still had problems with the "external SD card" being "unexpectedly removed"...
It crossed my mind if it was possible to modify the vold.fstab file further to only detect the external SD card as the internal memory and ignore the internal memory, as if it wasn't even on the phone. I don't know if that's even possible (since I don't know much about file systems nor Android), but I'd appreciate your thoughts on the matter.
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Was having the exact same problem with a further twist, the issue occured almost every half an hour at office and very rarely at home. Tried a factory reset and also GB update via Kies. Problem was still present, so have given it to samsung service and the service rep informed me that it was most likely a motherboard issue.
Recently one of my friends had the same issue. Samsung service center replaced the motheboard and the issue seems to be resolved.
Check this out to recover from a broken (but not fully broken) internal sd card ->http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30195720
Hi, i have been searching but have been unable to find some answers..
Completely new to this,before i start.
I installed urukdroid 1.5 using the easy install method on my archos 101.
1. When using urukdroid it is so slow and unresponsive, from what i have read this is probably because i have a slow cheap sd card, sound about right??
2. So if i want to uninstall ud from my card am i best using the recovery menu option (and would that just wipe all my stuff) or (as i saw in a different post) format the sd card on a pc and copy my stuff back on to it?? unsure of what is actually on the card and whats on the archos as far as uninstall goes. and what happens to the partitions
2.1. Secondly, why do people put ud on a sd card instead of the internal memory? (remember noob alert!!) it seems like you limit yourself to only using one sd card and the possibility of it running really slow.
3. So if i want to put it on my internal memory - should i do it? what are the pitfalls? will it wipe all my data like it did on the sd card? (lucky i took a backup eh!)
4. And, last question, i promise, is urukdroid really that much faster once you overclock and get it all running nicely?? for example i tried to run shadow gun on the stock 101 and it tried hard but didnt quite get there, would this run ok under ud? or am i completely missing the point of ud (very possible)
Thank you all for any help/answers.
Lee...
I also just installed Uruk 1.5 on my A70 last night and have updated to 1.6RC2 then 1.6RC4. I used advanced install and let it do its thing to install to internal memory. I can see maybe a slight improvement over the stock ROM but I now have a problem where I can't install any apps due to lack of space. This method did not wipe all my data and while still on 1.5 I was able to find my backed up apps and re-installed a few. You will still have your original ROM to fall back on. Unfortunately I have a feeling that anyone knowledgeable will not be reading these posts and newbies cant post in the developer's thread where the meat of the conversation is taking place. Maybe we'll get lucky.
Hi,
Yes i agree, anyone who would know the answers prob doesnt read these. Is it possible to bump it up a bit in anyway??
Lee...
1. If you don't have a verrrry fast sd card ii is alot slower then internal, esp. as the controller is also slower on sd then on the internal .
2. If you remove the sd card, and flash the Urukdroid initram and zimage you can install everything on internal.
The easyinstaller allwas to resize your internal memory so that the original Android and Data stays intact.
2.1. UrukDroid started on sd because it is easier to not do something wrong instead on the internal. Since 0.7 it is stable eough to allways go to internal.
3. Yes internal is the best way, and for erasing read 2.
4. No it is not much faster, how could it be?
Std archos runs with 1GHz and Uruk sometimes up to 1.2GHz ( most of us can't get over 1.1 ) so to be able to play really demanding games it is the wrong tablet.
And yes you are completely missing the point.
UD and every ROM for other devices are there to give you more freedom, like root or the way bigger appspace ( std archos has 300MB ), OS upgrade ( when CM7 or CM9 are done for ex) or other designes ( like MIUI).
My A70 runs much better since I changed to Urukdroid. Less laggy and generally faster. Very few crashes. The ext4 filesytem is much faster than Fat32 and I think that compcache and swap also help a lot.
Don.
Hi Fzelle,
Thanks for your help, cleared stuff up.
Like i said, i thought i might be missing the point of it, i did wonder how much difference overclocking it to 1.2Ghz and the UD system would make. but i can see the point of having a bigger app area, i had the warning of running out of space.
Just to check though, to uninstall it from my sd card you said see 2. but it wasnt clear what that meant. should i go to the recovery boot screen and delete it there or just format my sd card? and i have now got a rootfs.img on my internal storage, is this normal??
Thanks again.
Cheers Lee...
Rootfs.img comes from the SDE installation, as you have installed Angstrom Linux with that.
If you don't plan to use that, you can erase that or save it to your computer.
If you shut down the tab and remove the sd, install the zimage and initram of uruk you will be asked to install again.
Use advanced and install on internal.
@YardE
First off, many thanks for your efforts on porting CM7 to our lovelly device. Great work, I hope it will reach the stage when we can flash it for 24/7 use.
I was wondering about the internal/external storages, and some common problems there are there.. Since I cannot post in your thread (not yet to 10 posts), I decided to post it here, so someone would notice and bring it to your attention..
Have a look at forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/28396-internal-storage-wasted-merge-with-sd-card/ - although it's another device, the described problem is the same a i9001 user can face..
Most apps do not "see" the external SD, because it's under /sdcard/external_sd/, and they install in /sdcard/.. However in our phone, that's the internal storage which can fill pretty easilly, especially if you load a ton of apps with downloadable data, such as navigators.. This kinda nullifies the benefits of a 32GB card, because you can only use it for music/videos/torrents/etc, and not install stuff on it..
So, is it possible (through cyanogen) to merge the external and internal sd cards? (prefferably without a raid system, as I assume that would lead to corruptions if the phone boots without it's external sd? dunno, you know better)
or at least merge the phone storage with the internal storage (internal sd), and mount the external one solelly on /sdcard/?
I'm still pretty green, as I have gotten my phone for around a month.. And it's pretty much my first android.. However I'd like to have an option besides hacking *.apks to change their downloaded data dir.. Moving apps to SD only moves them into the internal card.. So pretty much I feel my external is useless..
Many thanks again for your time and dedication
Hello guys
got a question, still cannot ask in develepment sub-forums, thats why trying to ask here anyway. sorry for that.
For a few weeks Im using roms based on AOKP, HyDrOG3N and Cruble (last few days). I love those roms very much and I allmost dont care about not working camera, but I've got some kind of trouble connected with those ROMs.
as I know, the memory issuses were solved by changing vold.fstab file. And it works really nice, but in this case all apps are installed to external sd card. I tryed to take them to internal memory using for example titanium backup pro, but result wasnt stable. Some of the apps fc after this operation, and in some of them their widgets got dissappeared from widget list (for ex. in poweamp).
THen i decided to change vold.fstab file to its previous condition, so the emmc would be external, and sdcard would be internal. Now it works, but in my opinion it got worse, because, install of a siple app from market (for ex. 3mb) takes probably to 20 minutes. And media files, like videos and images from external sd card couldnt be readed...
this was a kind of a long introduction to my question, but if this a common problem or only I have that? because I didnt find that someone wrote about that in dev sub-forums. And if its not common issue can I fix it somehow?
a really like those ROMs and I dodnt want to come back to 2.3 stock
using yp-g70 INTL 16gb, with 32gb SDHC Kingston memory card.
kernel now is [email protected] 1.
thanks for your responses
cheers
Hi all / @linusdan,
I wondered if any kind soul could just briefly offer their knowledge please... I've been happily flashing roms to the i9100/i9100P, N7000 for some time now, and all has been great... :good:
However my dads phone went a little screwy the other day, and so I said I would re-do it. Upon looking at it, he had a couple of storage areas of 0MB (zero) MB's and nothing could download or write to the internal storage.
I've since STOCK rom'd it, returning to the original PIT files, and tried to reset it up again. (Storage is back to normal, all fully accessible again) I've been looking at the newer roms. However in TWRP, I notice I have a SDCard0 and SDCard1 (and that's without removal storage added yet).
So I think I may a Frankenstein build of storage at moment, so re-read Linusdan's instructions, and going to totally annihilate the filesystems and start again, following the instructions.
My question is this....
Once I have done this, and moved over to fully Emulated Storage. Will this work for older roms, say KitKat / Lollipop era, or do I have to prep for stock / physical storage again? Failure to do so, would I end up with double confused storage again??
Or would simply flashing an old rom, make use of the emulated storage??
Thanks, Lister
@listerofsmeg
These days I was wondering how to do this and looking for a way to reverse the conversion.
Maybe so, but so far I have not found how.
For now, the only way to use the old ROMs is to install the stock and TWRP without emulated storage.