At some point, I got an error that one of my apps couldn't find a file it pointed to. I went to Astro and discovered that "/sdcard" was inaccessible. So, I rebooted, after which it was accessible again, but all the folders I had added were gone without a trace.
How did this happen? When I plug the phone in to my PC, I usually click to "eject" on the PC before disconnecting the cable (although I don't notice any effect on the phone from the eject action). Should I be doing something on the phone instead?
And in any case, do I have to worry about file structure corruption, or is that something that the phone fixes on its own? This aspect of Android is new to me, so any help would be appreciated!
It just happened again!
This started after I installed Go Launcher, but I don't know if that's just a coincidence or not. Right now, I'm not even using it, I installed LauncherPro - and that's my default at the moment.
Does anyone know what's causing me to lose entire folders for no visible reason?
I'm having this same issue. I tried both Gladiatrix and Gingerblur and it's happened once on each so far. After a reboot, my internal SD will just be cleared out. Apps and such are fine, just anything in Sdcard folder.
Is there anything I can do to keep this from happening?
For me, I'm not sure if it happens after a reboot - I have specifically noticed it happen right after unplugging the USB cable. Now, one of the times it might have been after a reboot, I'm just not sure.
If anyone can help shed some light on this, it would be greatly appreciated!
I should also note that some of the folders are still there, but everything in them is gone. The folders that remain seem to be ones created by apps (camera's DCIM, dropbox, titanium backup). Folders I created (music, notifications, ringtones) are gone.
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I should also note that some of the folders are still there, but everything in them is gone. The folders that remain seem to be ones created by apps (camera's DCIM, dropbox, titanium backup). Folders I created (music, notifications, ringtones) are gone.
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Yes! That's it, exactly! All folders created by the system, or apps are still there (I can't vouch for the contents, though, since I never checked what was inside them).
But all the folders I created are gone.
Someone's got to know what this is.
Looks like we are the only two having this issue Haphim, lol.
I've unmounted and formatted my internal SD card from within android. Reloaded everything on it and so far so good. I've rebooted a bunch of times to try and get it to do it again but I can't. Hopefully this fixes it. Will keep you updated.
Just did it again. This time it erased all folders. Again it was after a reboot. Next step is when i get home to sbf back to stock, and either keep it that way or re-root and install custom rom. I'm starting to think it could just be a bad internal sd card.
I bought this phone on ebay. Has anyone ever dealt with trying to get a phone repaired they bought off ebay? Anything i should know?
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Just did it again. This time it erased all folders. Again it was after a reboot. Next step is when i get home to sbf back to stock, and either keep it that way or re-root and install custom rom. I'm starting to think it could just be a bad internal sd card.
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Well, my phone is brand new, bought from Amazon - so I'm not sure your source is the cause. If you do some searching, you'll see a number of other people have experienced this as well, so it's not limited to just us.
Perhaps we need to contact Motorola, I don't know.
Yea I might contact motorola soon.
I just noticed, in the /mnt directory, I keep getting new folders with the name "usbdisk_1.x". So far I have 1.0-1.7. Is this normal? could it be part of the issue?
Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
update: I sbf'd back to stock. Left it that way for half a day, rebooting a bunch of times. SDcard never wiped. I just installed greyblur a few hours ago and so far so good with that too. Restarted a bunch and no issues yet. Will keep you updated.
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update: I sbf'd back to stock. Left it that way for half a day, rebooting a bunch of times. SDcard never wiped. I just installed greyblur a few hours ago and so far so good with that too. Restarted a bunch and no issues yet. Will keep you updated.
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That's great news! But that leaves the question on whether the problem is being caused by one of the other apps you had installed (or maybe even the 1.57 update).
I look forward to seeing how this turns out for you.
I suppose it could have been an app. I've be installing all the apps I use as I go. I decided it would be best to not restore apps using titanium.
I think it's pretty safe to say flashing to stock and starting over fixed this for me. No issues in the past couple days. Rebooting a lot just to be sure. :-D
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I think it's pretty safe to say flashing to stock and starting over fixed this for me. No issues in the past couple days. Rebooting a lot just to be sure. :-D
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You're now running all the same apps you had before?
Only one I don't think I've installed again yet is Angry Birds lol.
Update: Phone wiped SD on me again. She's going back to seller on ebay. Hopefully I can find another one decently cheap.
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Update: Phone wiped SD on me again. She's going back to seller on ebay. Hopefully I can find another one decently cheap.
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Unless Motorola tells you otherwise, I wouldn't bother, because I don't think swapping the phone will get you anywhere. You and I are not the only ones with this issue.
Unless Motorola tells you it's hardware, then either it's a bug on the O/S, or it's a bug with one (or more) of the apps we're using. And in either of the two latter cases, swapping phones won't make a difference.
Since I'm pretty sure I've seen people complain about this issue with *different* models of Android phones, I'm guessing the problem is not hardware.
For what it's worth, I got rid of Go Launcher, and I haven't seen the problem happen since. It's not a guarantee of course, but prior to that, my internal sdcard was getting wiped at least once a day.
I'd recommend troubleshooting this via the half life method. Uninstall half of your apps and see if the problem re-occurs. If enough time passes that you're certain you're in the clear, re-install half of the apps you uninstalled and test again. Keep doing that until you figure out the culprit.
I hope you're wrong, only because I sent mine back and ordered a brand new one. I didn't want to bother trying with Motorola on the first one I bought because I got it on ebay and had a limited window to return it in. If the new one has issues, I'll call them up.
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Getting this message for some reason, and can't find a resolution. Copying my important stuff off now, then will probably reformat with the phone.
It started when I put the card in the replacement 3VO I ordered, because my first one was acting funny. About half a day later it game me the SD message, (sent it right back). Ever since I put it back in my first one it's been giving me that message.
Anyone have any ideas? Is my SD actually just going bad? Is it a corrupt file? Something entirely different?
Thanks to anyone who can help me get this figured out. Been searching Google since, but haven't found anything really relevant to the Evo 3D.
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Getting this message for some reason, and can't find a resolution. Copying my important stuff off now, then will probably reformat with the phone.
It started when I put the card in the replacement 3VO I ordered, because my first one was acting funny. About half a day later it game me the SD message, (sent it right back). Ever since I put it back in my first one it's been giving me that message.
Anyone have any ideas? Is my SD actually just going bad? Is it a corrupt file? Something entirely different?
Thanks to anyone who can help me get this figured out. Been searching Google since, but haven't found anything really relevant to the Evo 3D.
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Hard to say, but you're doing the right thing coping everything off and then reformatting. My suggestion would be to also reformat it in the phone too. If this still happens, try another sdcard in the phone so you know for sure if it's the phone or the card.
Ok. Just went through with it. Seems like it's good so far. Didn't format it on the PC, just the phone, then reset the phone, then copied only my original stuff back on. So far so good. I'll add another reply in a couple days stating whether or not it holds up.
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Ok. Just went through with it. Seems like it's good so far. Didn't format it on the PC, just the phone, then reset the phone, then copied only my original stuff back on. So far so good. I'll add another reply in a couple days stating whether or not it holds up.
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i've had the same issue with an aftermarket class 6 8GB sdcard I used in my EVO for a year. my experience has been once you start getting errors with an sdcard, they are on their last leg.
i would look into getting a replace or have a spare, just to be prepared, as its rough modifying your phone w/o an sdcard! too bad there isnt a tool which could give us more detail on the life/reliability of the sdcard!
hope it all works out!
i had the same problem....i do not think it is the sdcard
i believe the software is forgetting parts of the sdcard and sending the error.
it happened to me on my 16gb class 10
also happened on my wife's evo 3d with the stock card.
FIX: only fix i found is to get all info off with your pc then format the card and load everything back on through the phone or pc.
if anyone knows more i would like to know.
So far so good here. Took everything off my card, formatted it in the phone, put my stuff back on, and everything seems ok. Seems like if you just take your card out and toss it in another phone that'll happen. Didn't have that issue between my Hero and this one, so I'm not sure what the issue was.
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Hey guys I have some problems with my tbolt. I am trying to avoidgetting a refurbished if possible but my phone is terrible right now. I was running cm7 when I first started having problems. My wifi and Bluetooth stopped working. I figured it was cm7 so I switched back to a sense base. No luck. Now I'm geting rebootsconstantly when the phone isn't being used. I'm typing on it right now but if I set it down for 3 minutes it power cycles twice and then cuts off completely. I have used different batteries and cases and I've tried a sense and a also Tom... multiple kernals and radios. Its frustrating. To say the least. If anyone has any guesses or further troubleshooting Before I am forced to call and get a refurb.... please let me know! The battery is not loose btw as I can shake it as much as I need and it wont cut off until I lay it down still. And it works fine while its charging or if I'm playing on it.
Only things I can think of, and these are pure guesses, are - try powering it off and removing the SIM card for a minute or two. If that don't work, maybe try formating your SD card in recovery (after you back it up to your PC of course).
Are you getting these reboots while in recovery? Also, are you restoring anything with titanium backup (or a similar app)?
Again, these are simply guesses... Seems like you already tried everything that I would have tried already.
Good luck!
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No restarts in recovery ... I will take the SD out and try that for the time being as I don't have a PC nearby and ill ty that with the sim as well
Removed SD card and reinserted sim... no luck
Man, that is bizarre! Not too sure what else to tell you other then restoring back to stock and sending it back.
Maybe someone else will stumble across this thread and offer you some different advice ... Good luck!
Well, how about another shot in the dark.....
Wipe EVERYTHING. Just go down the list on "mounts and storage" and wipe it all. I don't think you have anything to lose at this point. That would be what I'd be doing.
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Well, how about another shot in the dark.....
Wipe EVERYTHING. Just go down the list on "mounts and storage" and wipe it all. I don't think you have anything to lose at this point. That would be what I'd be doing.
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+1 what he said! I would make a backup of the important stuff on the SD card and wipe everything possible and start from scratch. I might even unroot and go back to 100% stock for a day or so and see if you get reboots and issues then. If you dont reroot and try a fresh install of a ROM. If you get reboots go back to stock again. It won't be a quick process but at least you will figure out what is going on. If stock gives you reboots then it's time to make VzW give you a new phone.
Thanks for all the advice guys. I have a phone on the way. Until then I think I may have found a temporary fix.... leaving a song playing in the background with the media volume turned all the way down. ... the phone doesn't cut off.... weiiiirrd. I may have failed to mention it too but I haven't had wifi or Bluetooth for a while either. Thanks for ur help
Damn, that is weird as hell!
Hope the "new" phone works out well for you...
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I just had my Bolt replaced due to issues with the SD Card slot failing on the old one. I have the official HTC Car Dock, and never really had problems with it in the past. Got the new device, rooted it, and installed the radios from the 2.11.605.19 build, otherwise running stock. Now when I put it into the Car dock, it never activates the dock mode. I know it's not root causing it, and I would assume the radios aren't causing it. Tried a co-worker's phone in the dock and it works fine, mine doesn't activate in his dock. Any suggestions? Could the leaked Radios be causing this? Thank you all in advance!
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So just for a test, I flashed back to stock recovery, took the .19 OTA, back to CWM and re-flashed su and.... no change. I made a nandroid, so I'm going to try flashing an RUU just to make 100% sure it's not software, otherwise I guess I'm looking at needing my Bolt replaced for the third time....
unrooted, flashed back to 2.11.605.9 RUU, and dock worked. tried to restore back to the backups I made last night and today, and they failed, so I ended up having to roll back to a backup from 2 weeks ago. Went through all the steps to get back to 2.11.605.19 rooted, all programs updated, and car dock works fine now. I have NO idea what changed, but something is better now. If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them, otherwise, Mods, you can feel free to close/delete this thread at will.
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unrooted, flashed back to 2.11.605.9 RUU, and dock worked. tried to restore back to the backups I made last night and today, and they failed, so I ended up having to roll back to a backup from 2 weeks ago. Went through all the steps to get back to 2.11.605.19 rooted, all programs updated, and car dock works fine now. I have NO idea what changed, but something is better now. If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them, otherwise, Mods, you can feel free to close/delete this thread at will.
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Maybe a good system wipe is all you needed. Try downloading the superwipe script and flash that before you flash your next Rom.
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The strange part was, this was a brand new phone. The issues I had leading up to getting it require some time and a few beers to adequately describe, but I ended up recovering a ton of data off of a formatted SD card, which included what I thought was a good nandroid, but turned out not to be. Same thing with backups I made over the last couple of days, all garbage. The backup I first made after I got the phone and got everything reinstalled is what I'm on now, and everything works fine where it hasn't for two Weeks.
I swear, I have gremlins.
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Your sd card prolly had corrupt blocks from the malfunctioning sd slot on the first device. That's most likely what caused the bad backups. But it could have been that Dock mode was taken out of your backups, which would be my guess as to why it wasn't working.
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Your sd card prolly had corrupt blocks from the malfunctioning sd slot on the first device. That's most likely what caused the bad backups. But it could have been that Dock mode was taken out of your backups, which would be my guess as to why it wasn't working.
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I've checked the card 6 ways to Sunday, no bad blocks. Dock mode was not taken out of any backups, this literally started with the brand new phone, before I attempted to reinstall any backups. I'm thinking I just have a finicky piece of HW, it stopped working again this morning. I did notice that the prior cycle of it working again correlated with the window mount falling off in the middle of the day. Does anyone know what it is that triggers the dock mode on these things? Is it magnetic (a la the BB holster signal) or is it something else?
Yes it is magnetic. Interesting. Well, if stil under warranty have vzw replace it for ya.
yeah, it's definitely in the dock. After it got hot yesterday afternoon, dropped the phone in and it worked fine. Cool out this morning, popped it in, nothing.
When the phone is in the doc, should it flip the screen to landscape? Even when ur on the home screen?
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With the stock launcher, no. Sense does not rotate like that. What should happen as soon as the Igor us plugged into the dock is that the "car mode" app should launch, which will display in landscape mode. Some things like Bluetooth voice dialing are still in portrait mode, which is kinda screwy.
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So... I have FJ Mod on my note. Things have been running great for a long time. Then a few days a go, out of the blue, google voice was constantly crashing. Then the gapps process. Then it got ridiculous and everything would crash. Then I noticed that when I restart, it saves nothing that I had done. For instance, my call log, text messages, moved icons on my homepage.
I did a wipe in CWM, and everything came back the exact same. Still the same problem, icons still in the wrong place... no idea whats going on.
Has anyone got any advice for me? I was going to try and put a new ROM on later if worse comes to worse, but as is, this is very frustrating. I often have to restart my phone just to use the browser, or message, or anything really. I am just hoping that my internal SD isn't screwed some how and now allowing me to write to it. I haven't done any changes. I don't even believe I have downloaded any apps since a week or so prior to this issue.
Flashing with ODIN did not good either. I tried to revert back to stock. It uploaded with no issues apparently, and then when it rebooted I was back in ICS with everything as it was... argh.
Find one of the the ics leaka one click Odin packages and run that. Should wipe everything, and then you just have to flash cwm and root again.
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Find one of the the ics leaka one click Odin packages and run that. Should wipe everything, and then you just have to flash cwm and root again.
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Well, I tried something similar with a rogers stock rom. Booted up Odin, connected to issues. Uploaded/transferred no issues. Figured I'd be on stock Gingerbread upon bootup, but it was ICS! I've done this and similar on multiple phones, not sure whats happening. I will try again with a different rom as you suggested tonight.
I know where the leaks are...this loser has them here....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1740367
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Find one of the the ics leaka one click Odin packages and run that. Should wipe everything, and then you just have to flash cwm and root again.
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Well, I tried something similar with a rogers stock rom. Booted up Odin, connected to issues. Uploaded/transferred no issues. Figured I'd be on stock Gingerbread upon bootup, but it was ICS! I've done this and similar on multiple phones, not sure whats happening. I will try again with a different rom as you suggested tonight.
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I know where the leaks are...this loser has them here....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1740367
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Greatly appreciated! Thanks for posting the link. I will try it tonight and let you know how it works out.
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So... I have FJ Mod on my note. Things have been running great for a long time. Then a few days a go, out of the blue, google voice was constantly crashing. Then the gapps process. Then it got ridiculous and everything would crash.
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I had the EXACT problem, out of the blue as well. I didn't have the other stated problems in your OP but I did have the one quoted above. First voice , then a few google apps(gmail, drive, etc). The apps would hang for a few 1-2 minutes (felt like hours) and the phone including capacitive buttons became unresponsive and couldn't do anything with the phone. The "wait" or "ok" buttons on the force close popup were not clickable.. It sorted itself out in a few days and boy did it drive me NUTS. I was afraid to post up here in fear people would think I was nuts and did something myself to make things go so awry. I was convinced I myself was nuts.. im by no means daft when it comes to android dev/tinkering lol. Very strange
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Well I was impatient and tried 2 different roms right away. Neither worked. Odin showed "pass", no errors. Then it does its auto-restart and bam, back where I was. Not having the best of luck with this right now.
Any other ideas would be appreciated!
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I had the EXACT problem, out of the blue as well. I didn't have the other stated problems in your OP but I did have the one quoted above. First voice , then a few google apps(gmail, drive, etc). The apps would hang for a few 1-2 minutes (felt like hours) and the phone including capacitive buttons became unresponsive and couldn't do anything with the phone. The "wait" or "ok" buttons on the force close popup were not clickable.. It sorted itself out in a few days and boy did it drive me NUTS. I was afraid to post up here in fear people would think I was nuts and did something myself to make things go so awry. I was convinced I myself was nuts.. im by no means daft when it comes to android dev/tinkering lol. Very strange
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LOL I actually waited a few days before posting here too. I was hoping that maybe uninstalling and reinstalling some, or updated, or clearing cache and all that would help. As you can see, it did nothing. Heck, after I restart my updates didnt even stick and Google Play is trying to download them again!
Well... still no luck.
Here is another thing I noticed. When I hook up the note to my PC, and look at it, I cannot access my external SD. Furthermore, I had a file on my internal SD that I deleted. When I restarted my phone the file was back. Yet in windows it removed without error. I have no idea what is happening at all.
And now its reading it again........ Ive literally been sitting here trying a bunch of different ways to fix this. Playing around in CWM, trying ODIN including a couple 1 click solutions. The one starts writing to NAND, then stops and gives me an error.
Try taking out your sd card and running it for a while. First note i got was acting that way from the get go. Took it back and got a new one. It started doing the same thing. Finally took out sd card and ran great. Card was going bad. I had replaced the 8 gb stock card with the 16 gb one i had in another phone and apparently the mote didn't like it.
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Well... still no luck.
Here is another thing I noticed. When I hook up the note to my PC, and look at it, I cannot access my external SD. Furthermore, I had a file on my internal SD that I deleted. When I restarted my phone the file was back. Yet in windows it removed without error. I have no idea what is happening at all.
And now its reading it again........ Ive literally been sitting here trying a bunch of different ways to fix this. Playing around in CWM, trying ODIN including a couple 1 click solutions. The one starts writing to NAND, then stops and gives me an error.
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Did you, by any chance, install a custom kernal? IIRC, one of them messed with the mount points. By far, the only way to fix your issue immediately will involve restoring to stock through ODIN, then rerooting and reflashing CWM. This will 100% mark your Note as either defective, or prove that it's a problem in another area. However, I don't believe your problem is with your SD Card, unless you've been using an app like apps2sd.
If you're weary about doing this, try to reflash CWM, or TWRP to figure out if it's something going on with the recovery partition and/or settings. I'm no expert, but the only thing I'm aware of that sticks around through a wipe, and multiple flashes are our recovery, our internal SD files (possible), and sometimes the modem. Also, the one click leaks include a not loader, which could prevent you from restoring a GB Nandroid.
By flashing CWM, then TWRP, then CWM again, or sticking with TWRP, you at least knock out one variable...and by reformatting your internal SD, you ensure no resources are sticking around.
Edit:are you using TiBu to backup and restore/migrate after a flash? Verify your backups under the batch lost.
What could be happening, is you're restoring data in CWM, or TiBu, or w/e ap you're using, and then the Google account sync restore is restoring your settings, and replacing the desired ones, or vice versa.
Edit again: Which launcher are you using? Which utilities do you use? What are your main root apps?
The backup verify is a must...but some launchers will scoot icons out of the way. If you're having a touch screen issue, or an S Pen issue, you could be draggn items around when you're not aware of it.
I'll see this through. You've caught my interest.
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So... I have FJ Mod on my note. Things have been running great for a long time. Then a few days a go, out of the blue, google voice was constantly crashing. Then the gapps process. Then it got ridiculous and everything would crash. Then I noticed that when I restart, it saves nothing that I had done. For instance, my call log, text messages, moved icons on my homepage.
I did a wipe in CWM, and everything came back the exact same. Still the same problem, icons still in the wrong place... no idea whats going on.
Has anyone got any advice for me? I was going to try and put a new ROM on later if worse comes to worse, but as is, this is very frustrating. I often have to restart my phone just to use the browser, or message, or anything really. I am just hoping that my internal SD isn't screwed some how and now allowing me to write to it. I haven't done any changes. I don't even believe I have downloaded any apps since a week or so prior to this issue.
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Also, tap USB utilities in settings, by the other FJ mods, and tap the selection there, then check to see if you can find your SD card through your PC.
In addition to the above, you can also enter the "Tools" section of FJmods, and disable ad blocking, remove touchwiz UI, s voice, etcetera, and return ALL settings too default, and remove all extras. You can reflash recovery there too.
How are you trying to reformat your SD card?
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Also, tap USB utilities in settings, by the other FJ mods, and tap the selection there, then check to see if you can find your SD card through your PC.
In addition to the above, you can also enter the "Tools" section of FJmods, and disable ad blocking, remove touchwiz UI, s voice, etcetera, and return ALL settings too default, and remove all extras. You can reflash recovery there too.
How are you trying to reformat your SD card?
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I had installed a custom kernel on Gingerbread before, but obviously that was replaced with the one I used with FJmod. It had been operating fine for over a month.
Also, I removed my SD Card, and tried everything without it. I have tried restoring gingerbread stock and ICS stock through both ODIN and CWM. Even formatting through CWM does nothing as when I restart I am back to normal.
As for root, I only had 2-3 programs with access. ES File Manager/Task manager, and I tried one called Lucky Patcher (I will verify this evening). All of these had been on for at least a week prior to all this beginning.
I havent been using TiBu for anything at all actually.
The launcher I am using at the moment is Nova.
Other than that, I am going to try a few of your suggestions once I am done work. I will post my results tonight!
Thanks for the suggestions and info, greatly appreciated.
EDIT: Just to be clear. I am formatting then restarting and all my apps, icon placements and wallpaper return. Even my call history is stuck up to the 13th and erases recent calls. I am also trying to revert to stock ICS and Gingerbread through both ODIN and CWM. After it is done installing through ODIN and reboots, I return to the way my phone was before. Same with CWM. After flashing through CWM I return right back to the way it was. I am not doing any restoring or anything. I have done this plenty of times in the past before. The only thing I can possibly imagine at this point is that my SD is somehow stuck on read only. Yet it is weird because again, I can delete files and apps (and even windows shows them as gone), but after a restart they are all back! I can remove apps, but they are still in the app menu too.... I can even run them lol (even after deleting their folder). The phone is stuck in stasis.
All of this just happened one day out of the blue. No new apps (for at least a week) too.
I have a GTab that had the EXACT same symptoms.. turns out it's internal flash memory was bad, not the microSD. going for broke I opened it up and desoldered the flash memory IC and it uses the microSD now as its primary storage. If even after a stock reflash you have problems I hope you have warranty.
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I have a GTab that had the EXACT same symptoms.. turns out it's internal flash memory was bad, not the microSD. going for broke I opened it up and desoldered the flash memory IC and it uses the microSD now as its primary storage. If even after a stock reflash you have problems I hope you have warranty.
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Great... lol! I have a warranty, but no one will work with it due to the fact I have a custom rom. Am I maybe contacting the wrong people? I contacted Rogers and they said they couldn't help me. Well I am going to purchase the s3 as I get a small discount on it. I am positive I will end up with the next note unless some sort of crazy deal passes in front of me for another note.
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Great... lol! I have a warranty, but no one will work with it due to the fact I have a custom rom. Am I maybe contacting the wrong people? I contacted Rogers and they said they couldn't help me. Well I am going to purchase the s3 as I get a small discount on it. I am positive I will end up with the next note unless some sort of crazy deal passes in front of me for another note.
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No stock Odin for your phone? I would attempt this to be absolutely sure the problem isn't software related.. they should warranty hardware faults.
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No stock Odin for your phone? I would attempt this to be absolutely sure the problem isn't software related.. they should warranty hardware faults.
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No sir. I tried stock gingerbread and ics. I've tried custom roms. I've tried just erasing it too! Tried Odin and CWM. I am going to try and change recovery today again too.
Rogers said they won't help. They used the word "launcher" but I knew what he meant. They think I may have overclocked it any burnt it out I bet. Maybe I will try calling samsung.
Thing is, all my private info is on there! At least no private pics though
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No sir. I tried stock gingerbread and ics. I've tried custom roms. I've tried just erasing it too! Tried Odin and CWM. I am going to try and change recovery today again too.
Rogers said they won't help. They used the word "launcher" but I knew what he meant. They think I may have overclocked it any burnt it out I bet. Maybe I will try calling samsung.
Thing is, all my private info is on there! At least no private pics though
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If your have insurance, and it turns out the phone was physically damaged , you could try making a claim....but that's only if it was physically damaged. So you restored stock through odin? Did this happen on the stock unrooted rom?
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If your have insurance, and it turns out the phone was physically damaged , you could try making a claim....but that's only if it was physically damaged. So you restored stock through odin? Did this happen on the stock unrooted rom?
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Well its currently stuck on FJ Mod (which I think is a great rom), and then it just started acting up. I cannot restore Gingerbread stock, or ICS stock, or anything else. ODIN and CWM both show completed on my attempts, but upon reboot my device is back exactly where it left off on the 13th.
I picked up the S3 and I like it, but I miss my note badly
First off, this may be a dupe from another thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-lg-g3/general/vs985-ota-updated-to-49a-11-11-t3498269), but I wanted it as main topic so that what was discovered does not go unnoticed by people who may not read the entire thread. Maybe someone can sticky this as well since this is a major issue with the 49A OTA?
Last week, I took the 49A OTA for the G3. I have an older model (non-K model) and immediately, upon rebooting, I started getting multiple SD card ejection notifications. It would unmount and remount my SD Card several times throughout the day. This would happen at random times, although my feeling was that it occurred whenever an app attempted to read and/or write to the SD card. Sometimes, after it unmounted, it would take anywhere from a few minutes to maybe an hour or more to remount it without rebooting.
This continued on throughout the week as I waited to see if it would clear up. It didn't. A factory data reset didn't help and one time, I saw a SIM card failure. Posting in the forums, it was a few days later that @nulloverride posted this very important tid bit of information:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=69676134&postcount=17
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I actually just spoke with Verizon's support people. It turns out the device is not compatible with the latest Android updates. Maybe going back to square one with it will fix the problem, but they said they would give me a new device with the updates disabled until the problem is fixed. I don't know if that means I'll have to give them the new phone back when the updates are working or what. I'm kind of partial to this one, now. But I do know that possibly bricking my phone with this KDZ or TOT stuff is a less appealing option than getting a free replacement and/or upgrade. I'll find out more tomorrow.
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I have since flashed back to 48A via a 10B TOT flash. The reason I did this is to see if the error would show up in any of the other OTAs. They didn't. I have been on 48A since November 17th, and not ONE, I repeat, not ONE single SD card error has appeared. I have gone to 49A twice and both times, as soon as I get to 49A, SD card errors start popping up. And the SD card is fine (reformatted, did a full disk check on it). Any SD card I put in resulted in the error, and now with @nulloverride stating what he learned from the VZW rep pretty much confirms that the 49A OTA is the culprit.
So, I would state for anyone considering taking the 49A OTA to refrain from it. I've added a poll to see what the demographic is across K and non-K models of the VS985.
Again, this might be a dupe, but I feel it should be a main topic so that more people see it.
UPDATE #1 (11/21/2016):
Well guess what. No sooner do I post this and I get the dreaded "SD Card has been unmounted", but it remounted it right up. However, it occurred when I attempt to launch two apps that had just updated over the weekend that I hadn't launched since they were updated:
1. Google Opinion Rewards
2. Google Play Music
Both times, when I launched each app, I saw the SD card was unmounted but then it was remounted immediately without any issues. I'm wondering if these apps have been updated with new permissions and needed to remount the SD card? Maybe this is part of some new functionality? It does appear under 49A that maybe that is what is going on, however for me it causes the phone to have a "seizure" (as I like to say) and may not remount successfully for some reason. Strange. But, this time, under 48A, it mounted the card both times pretty quickly without any issue. So maybe this is normal when it works but under 49A, something is broken where it can't remount for some reason? Other than that, I have NOT seen this at all, so I wonder if in this case, it's an app issue (since both apps were recently updated). Not sure if the Rewards app needs access to the SD card, but I do have my music on the SD card, so Google Play Music would need to access the music from there.
UPDATE #2 (11/22/2016):
Switched SD cards and it happened again. Switched to a 2gb card. OUCH! So far, no issues. Wondering if it was the SD card all along? Upgraded to 49A since then and so far (fingers crossed) no issues. But, that's how it was before. This 2gb card is old, but hasn't been used much so hopefully, there aren't any bad areas. Surprised doing a chkdsk on the other SD cards didn't bring up anything. Will continue to monitor and update as I find more info.
Tekcafe rom VS98549A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FxIk7x-CaE
I've talked about this in another thread, forgetting I had this thread.
I have determined that in Safe Mode, I experience no issues with my SD card being unmounted unexpectedly. Once I boot back into Normal (Unsafe?) Mode, boom. SD Card becomes unmounted.
Something with the 49A OTA has broken something within the phone. This does NOT appear to be a hardware problem. But, the issue persists across ALL versions of the software (10b through 49A).
I called into Verizon today and they searched and saw that, as I already knew, I'm not the only one with this issue with this phone after the 49A OTA. She stated they are looking into the issue to resolve it. She's getting ready to patch me directly in with LG so we can discuss if they know what is going on. Seems like a firmware update issue that even a 10B TOT flash won't fix because it might be in a protected area of the phone that only the OTAs can update.
Also, I notice that 2 others have voted in the poll and are experiencing this issue and they are like me in that they have the older non-K model of the phone.
Okay. LG was of NO help. They said I could send my phone in and they would do a diagnostic and they have a way to flash it back to the way it was before the 49A OTA. Yeah, so do I which is 10B, etc. None of those work. Oh, and I would have to pay for any repairs as it's out of warranty.
I told her this was due to an official OTA. So basically, they can send out updates to out-of-warranty phones that break them, yet I would have to pay for any repairs? Sorry. That doesn't fly in my book.
Verizon said that they know of the issue and are looking into it, so I'll wait and see because if that is true, and they do come up with a fix, then I'm definitely going to wait because this phone has been great, and still is for me.
Now, if they want to send me a completely new phone free-of-charge and I turn this one in after I get the new one, yeah. I'll do that. And by new, I mean a replacement G3, preferably not refurbed. Heck, I'll take the K model because I won't root or flash back to 10b. I haven't for almost a year, except to try and debug this SD card issue I've been having since the 49A OTA.
In any case, anybody else that is having this issue, if you haven't already done so, reboot into safe mode. This is how you do it:
Power off the phone
Press and hold power + volume down until you see the menu
Choose Safe Mode and boot into it.
Once in Safe Mode, do things that would require writing and/or reading to/from your SD card (such as storing pictures from your camera on it). Copy files to your SD card, delete them, etc. Stay in that mode for as long as you can (you can still receive phone calls and text messages as well as make calls and send messages). You won't have access to any downloaded apps until you boot out of safe mode.
I want to know if this works for everyone, and then when they boot back into normal mode, if their SD card issues come back.
I've inspected the SD card slot. It is NOT damaged in any way. All pins are there and are in good condition. I think safe mode proves that. If this were a hardware failure, it should occur in safe mode and it doesn't. Something the 49A OTA updated (probably in a protected area of the firmware) is causing this and even flashing back to older versions doesn't overwrite that protected area. But for some reason, when in Safe Mode, it's either ignoring that area, or it's something else in the firmware that was updated that Safe Mode bypasses.
Okay, another update on my plight on figuring this out. I decided to uninstall two apps. Not sure why I chose them, but I did:
Greenify (mine I donated but I'm not rooted)
Nova Launcher (paid for)
I removed Nova because in Safe Mode, I'm running the default LG Home launcher. Greenify (even though it's not in root mode) I decided to remove since it's supposed to hibernate background processes.
Once I removed both, it appears so far that the problems have gone away. I haven't installed either one yet, but I will and I'll update what I find. If it's Greenify, then it must be something it's doing, which I find a little strange, but maybe the 49A update "broke" something in Greenify? If it's Nova, then again, something is going on with that.
I'm going to run without either app for the next day or so to see what happens. The thing I cannot understand is, I had ran without using either app I believe after factory resetting and still the problem persisted. So this might be a false positive for me. Definitely, safe mode the problem does not persist as I left my phone in safe mode for about 2 hours.
UPDATE: Okay. Apparently it wasn't Nova or Greenify as it started happening again after awhile. Safe Mode still cures it for some reason. It never umounts in Safe Mode, but once I reboot out of Safe Mode, it unmounts. So I guess we wait and see what Verizon/LG have to say about this, if anything. Not holding out too much hope though.
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Also, I notice that 2 others have voted in the poll and are experiencing this issue and they are like me in that they have the older non-K model of the phone.
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I'm one of the ones who voted. I'm sorry, I misread the poll. I am NOT having any issues with my SD Card slot after the 49A update. Sorry for the confusion.
dmoney98 said:
I'm one of the ones who voted. I'm sorry, I misread the poll. I am NOT having any issues with my SD Card slot after the 49A update. Sorry for the confusion.
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No biggie. Are you on a k model or non k model of the vs985?
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No biggie. Are you on a k model or non k model of the vs985?
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I am on the non-k model of vs985.
Dammit. Wish i would have read this before giving away my 128gb sd card. I thought it was just another failing piece of hardware.
First it was the internal mic.
Next the aux port.
Now the sd card slot.
So much for an upgrade from my unbreakable G2.
Time to revert to 12b and get my card back. Thanks OP!
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Dammit. Wish i would have read this before giving away my 128gb sd card. I thought it was just another failing piece of hardware.
First it was the internal mic.
Next the aux port.
Now the sd card slot.
So much for an upgrade from my unbreakable G2.
Time to revert to 12b and get my card back. Thanks OP!
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I have no idea if it truly is an issue with the update or people's phones just started to miraculously start to fail after taking the OTA. I'm hoping it's the former and that there is a fix for this. In cany case, sorry to hear you gave away your SD card, but it sounds like you have more than just the SD card issue. I'm only having an SD card issue. No other failures. Your's definitely sounds like hardware failures with the list you gave and I doubt it's due to the upgrade.
I'm about ready to flash to a non-stock ROM to see if that might cure the issue.
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I have no idea if it truly is an issue with the update or people's phones just started to miraculously start to fail after taking the OTA. I'm hoping it's the former and that there is a fix for this. In cany case, sorry to hear you gave away your SD card, but it sounds like you have more than just the SD card issue. I'm only having an SD card issue. No other failures. Your's definitely sounds like hardware failures with the list you gave and I doubt it's due to the upgrade.
I'm about ready to flash to a non-stock ROM to see if that might cure the issue.
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This might be unnecessary for me to remind you but I definitely recommend flashing the 10B TOT before testing to see if a custom ROM solves it, and if you decide to go back to fully stock I'd flash the 10B TOT once again beforehand.
Edit: Of course I forgot you're running completely stock, in which case flashing the TOT before will be necessary in order to root, etc, anyway.
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This might be unnecessary for me to remind you but I definitely recommend flashing the 10B TOT before testing to see if a custom ROM solves it, and if you decide to go back to fully stock I'd flash the 10B TOT once again beforehand.
Edit: Of course I forgot you're running completely stock, in which case flashing the TOT before will be necessary in order to root, etc, anyway.
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LOL. No biggie. I'm thinking of trying it just to see if the issue goes away, but if the 49A did touch a protected area that I cannot flash over, and that is the main reason why I see this issue across all version of the stock image, going to AOSP-based probably won't help, but it's still worth a look.
I guess what I need to do is backup my apps with LG backup, flash back to 10B, root, restore from LG Backup, then use TiBu to back up. Ugh! I know there is an LG Backup tool in the Google Play store, but I don't know if it will work from non-stock based ROMs.
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LOL. No biggie. I'm thinking of trying it just to see if the issue goes away, but if the 49A did touch a protected area that I cannot flash over, and that is the main reason why I see this issue across all version of the stock image, going to AOSP-based probably won't help, but it's still worth a look.
I guess what I need to do is backup my apps with LG backup, flash back to 10B, root, restore from LG Backup, then use TiBu to back up. Ugh! I know there is an LG Backup tool in the Google Play store, but I don't know if it will work from non-stock based ROMs.
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As far as I know, the only LG Backup we can use is the one built into the stock ROMs. The one in the Play Store, unless there's another I'm unaware of, is for using on a non-LG device to move some of your data to an LG device, and according to the picture in the Play Store, looks like it has to happen between two different devices because they connect either directly via USB or wirelessly to do the transfer.
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As far as I know, the only LG Backup we can use is the one built into the stock ROMs. The one in the Play Store, unless there's another I'm unaware of, is for using on a non-LG device to move some of your data to an LG device, and according to the picture in the Play Store, looks like it has to happen between two different devices because they connect either directly via USB or wirelessly to do the transfer.
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Looks like Backup in 49A, revert to 10b, restore in 10b, root, TiBu it, flash AOSP ROM.
10b through 48A all show the same symptom. Might definitely be a hardware issue for me, but I find it really odd that as SOON as I upgraded to 49A, that's when my problems started. Never, I mean, never had one single issue with my SD card up until that point.
Still waiting to hear back from "possible solutions" to my issue from VZW. I have a feeling is "We can get you a discounted upgrade". Nope, nada, no way. If you broke it, you fix it for free, VZW.
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Looks like Backup in 49A, revert to 10b, restore in 10b, root, TiBu it, flash AOSP ROM.
10b through 48A all show the same symptom. Might definitely be a hardware issue for me, but I find it really odd that as SOON as I upgraded to 49A, that's when my problems started. Never, I mean, never had one single issue with my SD card up until that point.
Still waiting to hear back from "possible solutions" to my issue from VZW. I have a feeling is "We can get you a discounted upgrade". Nope, nada, no way. If you broke it, you fix it for free, VZW.
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It was the same deal for myself (and for others) with my wife's SIM slot, except 49A wasn't even out yet, and she was on @xdabbeb 's VS985 v3.1.1 ROM. It's just ironic since although I haven't taken my SIM out a lot on my own G3, hers might've only been taken out once or twice since she got her phone. Never any hint of trouble and all of the sudden it no worky.
Since I've heard that the SIM slot is a common problem on the G3, and that the SIM and Micro SD card slot are both together, it could be that they're both just flaky. I certainly feel more secure with the SIM and Micro SD card trays, rather than slots.
By the way, I personally always had a lot of trouble using Titanium Backup on the G3 (and my my previous Galaxy S3). Especially for restores, always took a bunch of restarting to get everything restored. I'm guessing it has to do with such a custom framework because (not to be OT) on my HTC 10, which is very close to stock Android, and even a custom ROM based on the stock HTC Android, Titanium Backup was back to being completely dependable.
As many may know, I no longer have the G3. It died last week, so I'm now on the Samsung S7. It would still be interesting to see if Verizon does issue a fix IF the OTA is indeed what caused the SD card issue. But now I'm beginning to think my issue was hardware failure. I guess it was just blind luck/coincidence that right after the 49A OTA, that's when my SD card slot started to fail.