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
Sent from my LG-P500 using xda premium
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.
kingofthebraves said:
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.
jzmtl said:
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
Hi,
I have two problems with my Sony Z2
The first one with the update center I didn't get any update after I updated my phone to 17.1.2.A.0.314
I tried to reset my phone but I didn't get the last album,movies,walkman and movie creator apps update.
My phone has locked bootloader,DE verison.And my sim card operator is O2.
The second problem with overheating.
From about a week I was capturing some images using superior auto mode when suddenly my phone got hot and turn the camera off for cooling.
And from two days ago I was playing Plants vs Zombies game for about ten minutes and it become hot too.
I don't think this problem by my SD card it's SanDisk ultra 32GB.
Please help me to solve this problems.
Thanks for advance.
Thought I was alone on this one!
Having the same problem with my Z2 D6503. I live in South Florida and Tmobile is my service provider. I updated to the latest firmware and ran into the same problems as you. Album, Movies and Walkman haven't updated yet. I've tried starting in safe mode and performing about five factory resets but nothing. Its been heating up alot faster as well. I've searched and searched for similar problems on the net but nothing. This is making me miss my rooting and rom days that I thought were way behind me. Anyine help us please!
Hi all. About 3 years ago I got a new S3 phone from my carrier under contract and after the contract was over I decided to root my phone. The phone has deteriorated over time and the USB doesn't work neither does the sound but I still used it. 2 days ago I pickup my phone and noticed all of my primary apps from the Play Store has disappeared. I thought this was really strange because when I go into the application manager I see that everything is still running but it's a 0.00 bytes. So I restart my phone and nothing happens and there are still no apps. The Play Store icon has disappeared as well and so I found my phone has finally messed up. So I try and clear the cache partition but still no go everything is still missing.
Then I thought why not might as well start it new and so I factory reset my phone. But now it's stuck at the Samsung splash screen and won't go any further. Is there a way that I can possibly fix this? I do have a microSD card so I was thinking I can load up a fix for it in the micro SD card and Boot It Up from there because there's no way I can connect my phone to the PC has my USB is broken. I'm just not sure what files I need to download or if it's even possible. If anyone can help me that would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
I can get into CWM if that helps!!
I've got a Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-I9305 from Optus