Hello, since few days it started to happen without any reason, i think. I didn't change anything since few weeks, nothing new installed, no messing around with settings. Using any file manager tapping on a file pop up appears with apps to choose as default, so I choose then if I try to open same file again pop up appears again like I never set it up before.
Yesterday, I did a clean flash and intalled all I have from scratch. My tablet was in a factory state but the problem persists. But today at 6:00 AM something came to my mind: it could start happening since... I change app to mount external 1TB NTFS hard drive. I was using Paragon before, now it is MLUSB mounter and ... FILE MANAGER!!! This was the problem and it was blocking every changes. After uninstalling I opened Total Commander and all lastly opened files have icons of associated apps with them. I knew it will work and it is. At least I have fresh system, now.
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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"
Hi, pretty new to this , but I looked around for quite a while and cant find a similar case.
I rooted and did a backup of my nexus 7 and sent it in for repairs. I got it back yesterday and rooted and tried to restore my backup, the download took forever but did finally finish. after rebooting I expected to see the restore working, but nothing. was updated at all.
So I proceeded to download everything manually and re-install, however now when I go to my settings > Storage it shows only 6gb available but I only have a few gb of music and apps on it. Most of the bar showing what's using the memory is just grey and it doesn't seem to be used for anything.
I loaded an app called disc usage, and it shows that in
/data/media/backups/015d8822008020f/2013-09-06-12-51 There are supposedly two files systemext14.win(12942mb) and data.ext14.win(7269mb)
Ithis app has the option to delete files and directories, but when I try it says file or directory not found.
I cannot seem to find these files or directories with any browser. I tried fixing file permissions - but that didn't help
How can I get my
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.
My phone is a (cheap) Wiko Ozzy. I know it's not the greatest machine ever but it does the job for my mobile needs (being able to quick search the internet everywhere and communications), it was only 80€ new and it comes with no bloatware but google's. Also to root it a simple framaroot run does the job.
I have the phone customized alot, many xposed tweaks, automate, nova laucher, gravity box. The rom is the stock 4.2.2
One day I was messing up with android tweaker 2 and changed the dalvik heap size. When I reboot it the did not boot... It had that vibration key feedback problem. lol....
I went into recovery mode and made a backup... Yes, I did not had one and made it after the boot problem.
For my luck Wiko has a website with the roms they put on phones for download. With a simple program you can reinstall the rom very easily. I did it and my phone booted. I then tried to restore the backup I had previously done and for my surprise it boot with all my customizations but root access and busybox that I had to reinstall.
So what is the problem you ask?
Well I lost access to the phone storage and now It says Im out of space when I try to install apps
I used to have SDcard, Internal Storage and Phone Storage.
And I used to have the option to default install on sdcard and phone storage. The phone storage option disappeared but on the bottom of the page there is a mount option for it that just wont work.
I also tried to access it on windows and even after formatting the phone storage drive (windows was prompting for it and since the phone worked all fine without access to it I did it) the problem persisted...
Can you help me please?
I wanted to make the apps install on phone storage without having to make a real factory reset so I dont end without all my tweaks...
No one have any ideas?
I dont know what more can I add...
The phone is working fine... the only thing missing is one of the three partitions I had before the reinstall...
The weirdest to me is that in the storage settings I have the option to mount the "Phone Storage" but it fails.
I click it and the bars for type of files appears and disappears a few seconds later with the notification: you can safely remove phone storage....
Now I cant even install Adobe Air to try .swf viewer because it says it is out of space... It's like it ignores the sdcard default install option (the only one I have now and that is selected).
I installed 36.0.A.2.109 yesterday (OTA update) and now something weird happened to my phone.
First I got a notification, “Corrupted SanDisk SD card”. That happened immediately after the phone rebooted following the update. It offered me the option “Erase & Format” and that seems to have fixed the problem. Fortunately I had nothing of value on that SD card otherwise I would have been pissed.
But that’s only half of the problem. When I plugged the phone into my Windows laptop, I can’t see most of my data in internal storage. For instance, I can’t see the folders DCIM, Documents, Downloads, etc. But on the phone using the File Manager app I can see those folders just fine. And in the Pictures folder I can see only 5 subfolders on my computer. But on the phone using the QuickPic app or File Manager app I can see 19 subfolders with hundreds of pictures in them.
What’s going on here?
(The phone is not rooted for what it’s worth.)
OK, got it to work. This is what I did:
Settings - Apps - All Apps - Show System Apps (from menu), find Media Storage app, clear data. Reboot.
Install media.Re.Scan app, do media scan.
I have a similar encryption bug too. I am experiencing a bug with my Xperia XA ultra. One week after the previous update, I decided changing my phone's screen lock security from pattern to swipe. It worked fine, but when switching again for swipe to pattern the system crashed. I have factory reset it twice. I have performed two system repairs using the Xperia companion and I have also flashed the firmware using the flashtool and every time that I go to settings - screen lock and security - and if I select pattern, pin or password, my phone crashes and I cannot unlock it.
In the meantime, I am just using swipe and it works flawlessly. Any idea why?
(I have also tried clearing the security certificates)
I guess that the firmware was corrupted
the vibration stopped right after the OTA update , didn't work even after resting the phone and reinstalling the software from Xperia Companion.