I love this phone, but my memory is maxed out and I have barely added anything to it besides what came installed on the phone. I've checked other websites and so far I've been told there is no way of deleting ANYTHING pre-installed on the phone. There are a lot of programs I do not use and would love the extra space for other things. Does anyone know what I can do? I opened up the files through active-synce but they appear as read-only and will not let me delete them. The only thing I added to my phone was a ringtone manager but it has to be in the main memory to work, and so do the ringtones even though I have them stored on my SD card. I really need to delete some programs. I can't even use my phone right now because the memory is so low it won't support opening much of anything so it constantly freezes. I took the phone in to verizon but they don't have any tech support for me and know very little about the phone because they haven't incountered many problems with it. Please, what can I do? I love this phone, but right now it's doing me no good. I've tried going through and deleting everything else I could find but to no avail.
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Ok. I need help and I've looked everywhere and tried everything I know. This is the 3rd Atrix that this has happened to me and I can't imagine it is something I did to 3 separate Atrixes.
My question is what happens to programs that are moved to the SD Card - which for the Atrix is an internal storage area known as the Media Area?
What happens is that I install lots of apps that I find useful and fun. I move the larger ones over to the SD Card(Media Area). Which was all good for a couple of days. Then today I tried to update a couple of apps and one of them hung. Meaning it downloaded and said it was installing but just kept trying to install. From that point on, anything I had moved to the SD Card(Media Area) will not load. When I start a program that tells me the number of apps installed and where, it does not list any on the SD Card. When I go to the app manager in settings menu, ALL the apps that are installed on the main memory keep saying "Computing..." where it should say what size the file is. And of course any that I moved to the SD Card are not listed.
On top of this, I can't install anything from the market. I can press the button to install, but it doesn't do anything. Just sits there. When I try to push an app from the market on the web it downloads, but doesn't install.
I can navigate on the SD Card(Media Area) and move, copy, delete files all I want there so it isn't a problem with the SD Card(Media Area)
Now on my other Atrix phones, I reflashed the original sbf and that didn't help. I also tried the wipe data to restore factory settings. I have it rooted now, so if there is something I can do to it while rooted, that would be nice. I have Root Explorer and can navigate around. Where on the SD Card would the apps have been moved? I can't seem to find them.
Now someone smarter than me must know what is going on to install apps and move them. Is there a database that lists the apps in Android that has gotten corrupt? Can I rebuild it? Is it something else?
Is this an Android problem or an Atrix problem?
I'd appreciate any help before I take the Atrix back. I like the phone and would like to keep it, but this is ridiculous.
EDIT : I should also mention that I installed the Amazon App Store and tried to install something from there. It downloads and asks to install. Then it says that it is installing, but the install progress bar just stays there and nothing happens after that.
EDIT 2 : I also have tried to unmount the Internal SD Card (Media Area) and it hangs the phone. Even though I can access anything in that Media Area. Makes me think a file has gotten corrupted in the Android system, but I wouldn't know which one.
Hi after having to switch my phone off, when I turned it on again it appears that all the apps I moved to the SD card are no longer there. I have just spent some time downloading them from the market again.
Question is why has this happened and how do I stop it from happening again
Thanks in advance
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Hi Nexus.
I think you'll find that the apps still exist, they're just fragmented on the SD
card. This has happened to me plenty of times.
I've found it's only apps that are installed on the SD card and it's never
happened with apps on the phone's internal ROM.
A good way to check is to go into: Settings- Applications- Manage applications-
then tap the SD card tab. That list shows all of your apps installed on the SD
card. I found that when apps here got fragmented/corrupt they didn't show their
original app icon. Instead they showed the stock android app icon. This is a good
way to tell if the missing apps in question are still there but are just fragmented.
The way to solve this, the way that's worked for me, is to plug the phone into a
pc and mount the SD card as a disk. Then on the PC access the SD card via
explorer and right click- properties- tools- then click de-fragment.
This may take up to 30 mins as it's not as fast as a HDD.
From using this technique my apps have always returned and I can use them
with no problems again.
I've also noticed that this issue only happens if I restart or turn the phone off. I
don't understand what is corrupting the apps as the SD card is mounted
correctly and is the one supplied as standard.
I hope I've helped, and I guess this will save you from re-downloading all of your
apps again.
I'm happy to hear anyone's thoughts/suggestions onto why this is actually
happening in the first place too.
Cheers, Dms
Hi thanks so much for the answer. This has been bugging me for ages and even though I have been searching I have not had any joy solving it until your reply.
As you said it only seems to happen to apps on the sd card, and I would like to know why they are not "persistent" There must be a developer who understands the Android system who can explain why this happens and what you can do to make apps you have on your sd card permanent.
As you said it only happens to me when I re start my phone.
Thanks again for the answer
Hi. It's no problem. Yes I havn't seen anything about this issue being mentioned either.
I'd like to know what's causing it. Whether it's a hardware fault or something in the software.
It's a real pain having to hook it up to my pc to sort it out. Especially when I'm away from a pc, I can't use half of my apps.
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I use my tab for a media player in my car, mounted in the dash in place of the head unit. I pulled it out to mess around with it at the house the other day and preformed the 4.04 update. I dont use my gallery so i never noticed this right away, but it does not respond at all. I have searched the forums about it. The only thing i found was some peopel were having issues with it saying not enough memory. Mine doesnt even load. I hate to have to reformat my sd card or to do a factory wipe to see if that fixes it. I have a 32gb card in it, but i tried to even save stuff to the enternal mem to see if that did anything, and i still cant get the gallery to load. I dont even get a force close. It just asks it i would like for it to wait, or close the program. Anyone have any ideas before i do any of that.
crazietj said:
I use my tab for a media player in my car, mounted in the dash in place of the head unit. I pulled it out to mess around with it at the house the other day and preformed the 4.04 update. I dont use my gallery so i never noticed this right away, but it does not respond at all. I have searched the forums about it. The only thing i found was some peopel were having issues with it saying not enough memory. Mine doesnt even load. I hate to have to reformat my sd card or to do a factory wipe to see if that fixes it. I have a 32gb card in it, but i tried to even save stuff to the enternal mem to see if that did anything, and i still cant get the gallery to load. I dont even get a force close. It just asks it i would like for it to wait, or close the program. Anyone have any ideas before i do any of that.
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Well it looks like i had some thing disabled in the apps management, i think it was media hub, samsung apps, n3xt issue, or all share. I re enabled all of them and rebooted and it seems to be working again
Well first of all hi to all, and thanks for taking the time of reviewing this,
I cant seem to find an answer anywhere so literally any information on the subject would be apreciated.
I own a ntt docomo fujitsu arrow s, The phone has been working flawlessly for so long
so much that i just never consider even doing a backup, now im literally facing hell
Well ill try to explain my problem also keep in mind im not really good with android, but i fix pcs so i get some stuff.
Okay ill start, one day my phone was working as ussualy and i went to the gallery as always and i had the external storage not available message,
so then i went to storage and it reflected that my internal storage was 0.0g.
So the thing is, apparently my data is still there, my apps are there, my wallpaper didnt switched, just like my ringtones, also if i go to
clean master and in settings-apps my apps and the storage i had before the incident was exact, as in i had 18g of used memory and it still reflects me that,
but certain apps like file explorer dont show anything , i literally dont have anything in my storage, idk what to think of this.
Also ill post some extra information because if anyone have any info i guess you will need more info from my side.
If i connect the phone to usb storage , it reflects me my internal storage is at 0.0g and nothing is inside.
Ive never rooted and never even tried.
I didnt install anything lately that may cause a hardware change.
The phone didnt fall, didnt got wet.
i think the sd card was in the internal storage, as an emulation, i thik idk much about that. (but i never used one, just the internal storage)
If i try to mount an sd it just doesnt happens the only thing i can do sd wise is erase all data in the sd
So basically now idk what to do, i wish i could keep my stuff, idk its still there, i guess the term for this is my storage unmounted, so using adb to mount it back would work?
idk i also did the putting it in tmp and disconecting it and nothing im literally going insane and have slept like 2 hours per day, so thanks for taking your time to atleast review my problem
also sorry for the bad formatting, english isnt my native language.
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Hi guys I have a relatively new z3 the problem is I broke it really bad and most of the damage is in the sd card side, now this might have nothing relevant but info is info right.
So my Z3 makes my SD cards frozen in time, basically whatever change I do gets reverted. I tried formatting, nope. Just reverted. Whenever I delete something it comes back but the file changes to new, like when I delete old pictures they show up at the top of the latest pictures.
This has happened with 2 different 64 gig sd cards so I'm scared to try another expensive one but I've been using a 16 gig card and so far (1 month) so good which scares me actually.
This is like the internet cafes with deep freeze installed you know? Whatever you do once you restart it restores the image. They're just frozen, I can download things and add things but can't delete things or "write" things. Also I couldn't hook it up on my PC with the bad sd cards but the moment I took them off voila. The pc could see the phone without lagging.
What can I do? Does anyone know even what this is? Z3 did this, not the sd cards as it happened with 2 seperate cards. Both happened the same way, I was adding files via PC then lag came, non responsiveness then they got "frozen". I also can't use 'em with SD card adapters.
This seems to be the same problem but with the different phone, it acts as deleted but comes back. Like readable but not writable.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2760593