Hello,
I had a small storage in my phone (in description was 4GB, but 2GB takes Android, 1,4GB original apps, and I can't uninstall it, and I have got 0,6GB to use. But phone needs 200MB free to run, so I have got approximately 400MB of storage :/. So I decided to use ROOT to uninstall original apps, and move apps to SD card. All was OK, unlocked bootloader sucefully, ROOTed it using KingRoot, uninstalled apps, moved all to SD card using LINK2SD. All was OK. But I looked for some other app to move to SD card. I found any. Started it, it took about 20 min. and after that 80% apps doesn't run. I thought it moved ALL to SD card, before that I can't use it, It is in SD card, but what can I do with that? So I used that app to give it back. Nothing. So I uninstalled app, and I decided to factory reset. I reseted it using menu (settings), when appeared last button to start it, nothing happened, so I clicked it several, I closed and opened settings, but nothing. So I placed phone on the table, and after 5 minutes it started (Phone was very laggy). I saw Android robot, and after few seconds it took off. After that, I saw "SONY XPERIA", "POWERED BY ANROID" and blue screen. I thought all is OK and device is reseting. But no. Few seconds after blue screen it stopped, and took off. And again. Start, "SONY XPERIA", "POWERED BY ANDROID", blue screen, and OFF. I left it for about 3 hours, but still the same. I waited until it runs out. I turned it ON, and again. I tried many tools using PC (SONY PC EXPANION, EMMA, FLASHTOOL), but nothing.
I think it can't run because:
a) Some important data are in SD cart, but phone doesn't use SD card when reseting.
b) I clicked it many times, so it lagged because that.
I think I can't use tools because I can't get to the recovery mode. Phone can't do anything besides "Turn OFF, ON, OFF, ON,...
Please help me, I am noob and I'd like to save my phone.
Is there any way to uninstall all from mobile, and install new android using PC?
Sorry for my English (It's so hard) and thank you very much for reply. Sorry if I choosed bad part of forum :/
EDIT: All is OK, I reinstalled my android using XPERIA flashtool. Please LOCK.
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I installed a piece of software, which i had hoped would install onto my SD card. It ignored the request in the "install to default location" box, when i picked storage card.
So i tried uninstalling it. However, it said a number of files were in use of "read only". One of these was \windows\dl.dll
I checked the file, it wasnt in memory (how can i tell anyhow?), and it wasnt read only, but i wasnt allowed to even manually delete it.
Anyone know the best approach to these situations?
Try to soft reset your device, then try to uninstall directly after booting process. It works for me all the time, it seems that some application locks the file you need to be uninstalled.
I think i tried that. It was a Today screen Item. So i took it out from the today screen. Then rebooted. But still the files seemed to be "in use"
The phone was left out in the sun for an hour or so. Once it was brought inside the phone was off and would not turn on. I had to hold the power button down for about 15 seconds before it rebooted and turned on. The phone seemed to be fine for a few days. Then we noticed it would keep rebooting randomly, or so we thought it was random. Turns out the internal storage is inaccessible. You cannot add or delete anything from the phone. If you try, the phone will reboot. If you deleted something (an account, a picture, icon from home scree, etc) it will return after the reboot. I have went to recovery and attempted a system restore but all that happens is the screen goes black with a red triangle. When you force it to reboot everything is the way it was before. I have tried to access it via astro file manager and through win 7 and win 8. No matter which way you try you cannot delete or add to storage.
Any ideas or is it a brick?
Thanks for any advice or replies.
mbanken
mbanken said:
I have tried to access it via astro file manager and through win 7 and win 8. No matter which way you try you cannot delete or add to storage.
Any ideas or is it a brick?
Thanks for any advice or replies.
mbanken
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It definitely looks like a hardware issue, you might want to return it for servicing.
So I totally jacked up my phone and I don't know what else to do. I have the Galaxy S3 tmobile (sgh-t999). I had rooted it over a year ago and everything was fine until today. I had used Odin and set up the clockworkmod... rom... thing. Of course now I doubt I even did that correctly, maybe I'm just in over my head...anywho...
I was trying to transfer some files from my pc to the phone. (kies air never worked for me) Well, I had plugged in my phone and in windows explorer it showed something along the lines of 'samsung mtp phone' when I opened it up only 2 folders showed... media and data. The data folder looked like the list of files/folders I would see when I'm in the file manager on the phone but everything listed were showing ad unknown file types. No option to open anything up. The media folder was the same but only listed my pictures and music.
Well, i had rebooted phone and computer, reinstalled usb drivers, same result. So I guessed that maybe my rom version was outdated or something. No luck on figuring out how to update, so I had the briliant (sarcasm) idea to try a different rom. Long story short on that mess, the new rom didn't improve anything with help of transferring files from pc. Then I decided maybe factory reset would fix the issue.
Here comes more ignorance on my part, apparently the new mod I put in was removed but the original stayed. Fine whatever. Here's where my phone it jacked up...
First off, I don't have my notification bar (I've checked in every setting menu, no avail)
I am also missing my web browser (tried downloading from play store which leads to next issue)
I cannot download anything from the play store, I click on install and nothing happens, no error message, nothing (I had attempted to download the .apk file for google chrome and move it onto my phone via memory card but when I click on it to install it says 'unable to find application to perform this action')
Now trust me, I have tried clearing cache, clearing data, app permissions, force stop, uninstall updates and I've done a factory reset 5 times. I apologize for the long post, but I just want to give all the info I can and hope to no end that I can get my phone functional again. What else can I do??
wow such a long letter
ok let me think about it
and tell about it soon as possible
Update....
I got the idea to flash the stock rom back onto the phone. After I flashed it and did another factory reset, I have been able to get my phone functional again. Everything is working fine. Even the phone doesn't know it had been rooted. Currently I am getting everything updated while it is still stock, I'll then just root it to get rid of the bloatware... no more tinkering.
Hi Everyone, I need some serious help - thanks in advance!
I have a LG Enlighten phone - I am a tech, although I am new to the whole smartphone thing (ya, I know, where have I been lol). Anyway, as you probably know it has limited internal storage. So I have a Sandisk 32gb micro sd card installed where I move things over to it to keep space open on the internal. The phone is rooted.
Ok, things were going well - and I am not sure what happened precisely, but obviously I must have moved something over to the sd card I shouldn't have. The phone went wonky on me after a reboot. I got stuck in a boot loop I could not recover from. So I did a factory reset (power button, home, and volume up). That went just fine. I activated just fine to. Problem is after that all I get is: Sorry! the application com.android.lgsetupwizard (process com.android.lgsetupwizard)has stopped unexpectedly. please try again.
You can press the force close button a million times (I probably have) and nothing happens. I have tried EVERYTHING to try to clear this and I can't get passed it. I've spent two days online reading forums, web pages, watching youtube videos - nothing has helped. Problem is, since I did a factory reset its back to defaults (I am assuming) meaning USB debugging and mounting is turned off because it is turned off as default. I can't get passed that infernal screen to turn it back on.
I don't have any data on here that I care about I just want my phone back. I don't mind flashing the rom but for the life of me I can't get at it!
When I go into restore mode, at least with the enlighten it doesn't give you options - it just shows the picture of the android for a few seconds then reboots. No idea what it's doing there.
I tried re-formating the micro sd card thinking maybe it was picking something up from there, that didn't seem to do anything.
I have Android Studio installed, I was hoping to do something through it - but again the phone isn't mounting when plugged into my laptop (windows 7) - it was before - no doubt because that feature is turned off because of the factory reset.
If you have ideas, please speak in small words with lots of steps. Thanks.
HELP!
I successfully rooted my LG Tribute. Phone worked just fine (Didn't have service at the time. Just using it like an IPod). Downloaded another "management program" to make deleting apps, etc. easier. Problem. Settings had stopped. Couldn't get it to function. Everything else functioned, but not settings. So, since it's not my only smart phone and if I wrecked it, it wouldn't matter, I copied all files to my PC and did a factory reset. The little green robot erased everything, but when it came time to reinstall the program the reinstall message just blinked and the message "unfortunately settings has stopped" popped up. Naturally I tried at least a million times to repeat the factory reset, but with no success. I can pull down the top of the screen and see the information there, but I can't get behind the "unfortunately settings has stopped" message. I admit I'm a very old guy who fantasizes about becoming a hacker, but that's never going to happen. But I'm wondering, is there a little utility type program somewhere that I could download to my PC and run it in my phone via USB to get behind the '"unfortunately" message and do some kind of wipe job that would enable the do the factory reset? Like getting into the registry on a PC? Everyone I talk to says to just dump the phone. But I'd like to figure out a solution, if there is one, and learn something.