II think i have the SMS problem from the memory filling up. I don't receive any texts and I've factory reset already. I can send just not receive. If I root my phone is there anyway I can fix the setting that is messed up? I JUST put my invisible shield on and don't want to pay another $15 for a new one.
No one? Has anyone else has this problem of not receiving sms after a low memory warning?
I'm sure once a custom ROM is released, someone will have looked into that problem and fixed it in the ROM.
For now the only way to fix it is to exchange it for a new one. Rooting the phone and using the Modaco custom ROM did not fix the issue. Try to avoid using bluetooth to keep the storage memory from leaking when it gets stuck connecting. Sprint is not the best at disseminating information to it's employees so if they try to give you any problems reference one of the threads on the official Sprint forum. Will and the Sprint phone team have been able to replicate the issue with multiple phones and bricked them.
http://community.sprint.com/baw/thread/23854?tstart=0
Actually, I had the same issue when I first got my HTC Hero from Sprint. Call the actual support number. They did a walk through with me to change a system number setting. I've been able to receive text ever since. Except twitter which seems to be a Sprint global issue.
Just read this in the Sprint forum, appears it might be a workaround if you root your phone. Now if we can figure out the commands to safely delete these files, it could be done in terminal.
I think I may have found where this memory is going.
After rooting the phone, I was poking around in the /data folder and noticed a bunch of ~6.5 MB core dump files in the /data/btips directory. BTIPS appears to be a bluetooth-related service.
So I'm guessing that Bluetooth service crashes, which may be manifest partially as BT devices sitting at the "connecting..." phase, are generating core dumps that are left on internal memory and shouldn't be.
I deleted all of these files (all named core.xxxx where xxxx is a string of numbers), rebooted, and reclaimed almost 70 MB of internal memory. You do have to root your device in order to delete these files, though.
The HTC devs already know this, as wengla indicates, but it might help the few of you experiencing this problem with a rooted phone.
I've already hard rest the phone so no files anymore, but whatever flag is set is permently set. I don't get how, especially after a hard factory reset. So as long as no one knows what that is even rooting won't help me. I am getting a new phone but it ticks me off especially since I just installed an invisible shield on it.
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For some time now, I've been having a problem with my Touch Pro. Some time ago, (about a 2 months or so) I have been recieving harassing texts and from "Unknown Sender" or "1234". Where the texts come from isnt so much the issue, the issue is that whomever is sending the texts can see any text messages I send; my call log; my emails and any picture mail in my phone. I've also been told that voicemails have been forwarded to other people even before I hear them. Im sure its like a vendictive ex girlfriend or a friend of theres of something...but I cant figure out how to stop it.
I havent called Sprint, I have master reset my phone and restored my backed up data, and then it started up again. I havent left my phone around anyone, or taken it to a sprint store ever for repairs or anything...so...I just cant figure it out.
If anyone has any suggestions of where this might be coming from or how to stop it, I would greatly appreciate it. Im thinking of getting a new phone or switching carriers...
Thanks.
Possibly someone has cloned your SIM-card.
SIM card cloning is by the way not very easy, but still possible.
When so, the only way around it, is to have the current one blocked and buy a new one.
More inf: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_cloning
you may find this interesting http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3998052
may be your ex or somebody installed phone creeper on your phone!
try to flash your ROM... and dont restore your data for a few days and see if the same things happen
hope this will help
Yeah, it sounds an awful lot like someone slapped you with creeper. You can hard reset, but not restore, and see if the problems go away. Or check the \windows\startup folder, and see if the creeper startup link is there (not sure what it's called-that thread is too long, lol). Or, use sk tools to see what runs at startup, and disable creeper or whatever it's called on the the device.
Of course, if you figure out that it is creeper, and you know who did it, you may want to see if you can have a little fun at their expense before disabling it. That's definitely the way that I would go.
I searched for anything similar before I posted here, however I doubt anyone else was dumb enough to do what I did.
Long story short I got a replacement phone because of the random lockup issues. I agreed to keep this one at stock JF6 for a couple of weeks to appease the manager at my local AT&T store. He said nothing about me rooting it though
Everything works fine, great even. I still love this phone even without Froyo, but I stupidly deleted settings.db and settings.db.backup.
How the heck am I to sideload if I don't have the file to edit?! Again, the phone works fine without the files there at all. . .
Thank you in advance.
It works fine? Have you rebooted the phone at all? There is a lot more than just side loading settings in that db file. If you haven't rebooted, my guess is that everything was saved in memory and being run that way. However, you may be in for a serious problem should a reboot occur.
Anyone have some thoughts on a solution? Would posting another settings.db work for him or are they very device specific?
Settings DB has some device specific settings. The only recourse is to do a Flash back to stock if you deleted system files.
Rooting the phone is not keeping it stock as rooting is making changes to files. Deleting and or modding settings.db is also not keeping it stock... so you really didn't honor the managers request.
You can always sideload a non-rooted phone using ADB or side load wonder machine.
Yeah, I went ahead and bit the bullet and rebooted it. It's fine, absolutely fine, strangely.
The manager only asked that I not replace the O.S. with say, 2.2 so I can have flash and other specs I bought this phone for. Regardless of the issues with AT&T and Samsung, I want what I paid full price for as a consumer.
That being said, rooting for one click lag fix is all that was done to this phone other than deleting a little bloatware. All of this went fine.
The problem lies in my dumbness being allowed to have two identical phones in each hand and trying to clear off the old phones files before sending it back to AT&T. I had a memory lapse and when I snapped to I was deleting on the wrong phone. Nothing suspicious, no mal intent. Just stupid human error.
I, like trekie, have been wondering if I can just use a stock setting.db and edit it to match whatever it needs to match on my phone. I do not remember what all lies in the file.
Because the phone is ok, my guess is it reads from settings.db for changes. If there are no changes, the programs that relied on settings.db just go on as they are. If there is no settings.db, the program just continues on with the values last obtained from said database.
Thoughts?
My guess. Slap on the odin and get that thing back to its out-of-the-box configuration. Good luck!
Thanks, I'm deffinately not waiting around for my froyo update from AT&T just because the Vibrant is getting it lol!
Hi,
I've come to believe that my TP2 phone's internal memory has some bad sectors, and am wondering if there is a utility that can scan for these and mark them so that they will not be used with future flashes. I've searched fairly extensively on this site, as well as on PPC Geeks, and haven't found anything that could accomplish this yet. It doesn't seem like task29 would do this (and I've used it, yet still have problems arise), and I can't seem to get more info on this around the CustomRUU or HardSPL forums.
Initially I used the stock ROM, and it worked quite well for a few months. After a while, it developed problems with a key executable in the OS. A hard reset solved this problem for another few months, when it arose again, with the same executable causing the problem. I soon unlocked my phone and flashed a custom ROM on it, and all key components worked fine. Interestingly, it seemed to be the section of the ROM storing the ringtones that was unreliably stored, and the phone would revert to silent mode after being unable to open the files (replicated by trying to manually open these files, or preview them in the sound preferences section). Occasionally these files would work, just as occasionally the faulty executable would work in the stock ROM. The easy work-around for this was to have a ringtone on the SD Card, which is what I've done for the last few months.
I would like to be able to flash future ROMs without wondering which areas of the OS would fail (and am wanting to root the phone to run the android NAND build, which is now quite mature). Is there an application somewhere that can do this? Is there a good website or resource that you can point me to that deals with this?
Thanks for your help!
I have a Rhodium 400 (Telus, CDMA) fully unlocked & with Hard SPL installed. I'm running WM5 (Energy ROM), with XDAndroid FRX04 running via haret off of the SD Card.
Doesnt sound like a chip issue. It might be something with your program that you are using. Besides, OS tends to go corrupt after a while, so a Hard Reset every couple of months, is not a bad deal.
If you have a bad chip, then you wont be able to load a OS at all.
Not a chip issue? It sure seems to be why an OS would 'go corrupt after a while'. I don't imagine it's an all-or-nothing issue, but that some portions of a chip may contain bad sectors (or whatever the equivalent is for nand).
Regardless, I hear your assertion that this type of experience is common enough. If anyone else has some insight into how this corruption may be avoided or delayed, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks.
(FRX05 on NAND will be on my Rhod 400 soon enough)
I've got this Samsung Focus on AT&T, the other day I decided to force the newest update. I made sure I had all the correct languages and everything. The update went through and most of the phone works. (cellular connection is indeed corruption, and I know about the fix for that.)
Basically what's happening is, the Phone liveTile shows the accumulated missed calls but when I tap on it, the animation freezes then goes back to the homescreen. I can call people through the People app or by using TellMe, and people can call me. I suppose the only thing I can't do is check to see who has called me.
Is this a known issue? Is there a fix? please let me know! as for the backup...
Apparently the backup I did got corrupted in some way, so there's no going back to that (the currently existing back up for some reason is after the update, though I haven't tried using it yet).
restart it. if doesn't work. reset the phone
Yeah, I definitely tried restarting it. I even ran the Samsung tools and that didn't fix anything (including my data issue... I tap on "cellular" in the settings and it doesn't open. ****e.) To modify a classic Bill Gates quote... "I guess that's why they're not shipping 8107 yet."
I think I have an old mango back up from the fall, but oh jeez, that's a lot of backtracking.
I'll keep refreshing this thread to see if any experts have any ideas for a little bit, after a while I'll just reset the phone I guess.
The phone app thing isn't a huge deal at the moment, but no cellular data?! How am I supposed to win arguments without a cellular data connection?
read the thread more carefully, and apply the correct updates - core os update is not enough...just read...please!
Bad update, you need correct language file, i had the same problem on my Titan... Phone live tile, in settings Mobile network etc doesnt work after bad update.
I had the following in my cab sender folder:
- diff-7.10.7720.68-7.10.7740.16-armv7-retail-microsoft.pks_2cb1bfdd82133914239b8ee1a78e61e9000d124a.cab
- diff-7.10.7740.16-7.10.8107.79-armv7-retail-microsoft.lang_0c0a.pks_97df86b81a40df06bb2b15c6739e2ee772e53bbf.cab
- diff-7.10.7740.16-7.10.8107.79-armv7-retail-microsoft.lang_040c.pks_2d74e8c5f6a835f1fe4c62b488c96ac2d7f01c29.cab
- diff-7.10.7740.16-7.10.8107.79-armv7-retail-microsoft.lang_0407.pks_b50019ef50d52090d408d854c0708ddbf520706c.cab
- diff-7.10.7740.16-7.10.8107.79-armv7-retail-microsoft.lang_0409.pks_bfd9c047a7b27c28208c8a717f8d7511fb2586f1.cab
- diff-7.10.7740.16-7.10.8107.79-armv7-retail-microsoft.lang_0410.pks_9ecf9b052b6cc3161462e998dac8204a0f754556.cab
- diff-7.10.7740.16-7.10.8107.79-armv7-retail-microsoft.pks_c9b7f3bc5bb340ba30473b566b4557de0cf3322e.cab
Will simple reapplying work perhaps? I mean, I'm pretty sure those are the only ones I needed, I did read the thread quite a few times.
Update reapplied and now it's working!!!!
Now I just need to figure out my internet sharing issue.
This is my first post. I am not a programer, well not for 30 years and not since my backups were on a tape, but am fairly good at fixing my own issues with the help of this site, which much of is way over my head. I have don't everything in every thread that I can find here and have some more information that might help everyone figure out this issue.
Phone is a non-rooted EVO 4G lte. Screen captures below should give you all the specifics that you need. If you need more info, please email me!
I get a break from error after I delete contact info/cache from both Contact Storage and People (contacts) apps.
I started having the problem a few days ago and the last three things I installed were:
Adobe Flash (got it from this site and have now disabled and would like to totally remove if any of you know how to do that. There is not option in the settings/apps/adobe to uninstall, just disable.
Skype which I have removed.
2012/3 Live Wall Paper, also removed
I have reset the phone, unmounted and remounted the SD card, moved programs that use contacts from SD card back to phone storage and as I said removed all contacts, disabled Smooth sync for the cloud and the JB workaround and still after all most of the contacts are resynced form Google, the error starts to appear. It doesn't lock up my phone, but occasionally crashes app that I am working in. ROYAL PAIN.
So in short, 1. How can I totally get rid of Flash?
2. Is there someway to do a repair on my contact database without rooting phone
3. There is java mentioned in the error message, I didn't think Droid used java (see how little I really know, so be nice) is there a way to update that service?
4. Other than a hard reset AGAIN, what can I do! (Or after all this would that work this time? I hate going to all that effort and still have same issues) Is there a way to force a reinstall of JB?
I realize that I know just enough to be dangerous, but can follow detailed direction to fix this. I go through way too many phone to root my current phone and take the chance that Sprint wouldn't replace it. I never have a phone last more than a year! And the last quarter of of 2012 I went through 5 phones. Galaxy Nexus didn't like me!
Thanks for the great site and in advance for taking the time to read all of this.
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I have also been deactivating Facebook and that wasn't helping, but many people were saying that was an issue.
Those of us that just started having this issue think it might be a date issue. Is here anything that could do this if someone's b'day is the 29th of February?
I have one of those people and that seems like a strange issue, but heck, humans programs this stuff so I guess anything is possible! It makes sense that a value in a contact field is causing the issue, but a date that only exists every 4 years?
I have not had the error since i fixed this, BUT only about 500 of my 2,500 contacts are installed and I have yet to re enable facebook.
Thanks again!
Pat