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[Q] Unrooted and reflashed multiple times. At a loss....

I restored to stock using
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1112555
then rooted it using super one click and then backing up my recovery file and using 3e recovery file...then downloaded rom manager and used that to install bionix rom but same issues I have had since getting my infuse...I will download apps and in the middle of them installing, my phone will reboot and delete random apps...I've unrooted and tried a couple times...so do I just have a bum device? I've moved the apps to phone memory also. They delete also when simply just rebooting my device. It seems over time that it becomes the same apps that delete while others will stay.
I have tried searching but couldn't come up with much. I am going to attempt to unroot and then try it all over again.
EDIT: Finished and it is still removing apps with every reboot...guess the phones going back.

....move problem apps to phone instead of sd.

Is it doing the samething under stock ? And have u tried installing from .apk instead of market?
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I move them all right away to the phone memory and when I first got the phone I noticed it was doing it when it was stock also. I read somewhere about a certain number of phones having a problem with the LCD at the very bottom where it looked like txt rolling under old warped glass? It's not noticeable unless your looking for it...but if there was a bad batch of phones maybe this is related?

Fee454 said:
I move them all right away to the phone memory and when I first got the phone I noticed it was doing it when it was stock also. I read somewhere about a certain number of phones having a problem with the LCD at the very bottom where it looked like txt rolling under old warped glass? It's not noticeable unless your looking for it...but if there was a bad batch of phones maybe this is related?
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I would say take it back bro
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Yea that's my only other option. I'm nearing my 30 day return so i'll have to this week.
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I copied all my photos and zedge ringtones to my external sd card and it is not showing up on my phone when I search. In fact nothing I have ever put there besides a couple divx's that I put there actually stay. I have a 32gb sandisk class 2.
Am I missing something simple here or is my phone just a lemon. First time android user.
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I.dont think.sounds like its not scanning media
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I.dont think.sounds like its not scanning media
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Picks up on my moviefiles and a couple youtube downloaded vids but most things I copy over from my pc dont show up. It looks like it used up the space tho.
I un mounted and remounted too. Says scanning media/completed
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I.would unformat wipe your card mount it. Then let.media scanner run.whens it done open settings and select usb debugging and check.unknown sources.try that if you havent yet
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tyshemi said:
I.would unformat wipe your card mount it. Then let.media scanner run.whens it done open settings and select usb debugging and check.unknown sources.try that if you havent yet
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Usb debugging and unknown sources are already checked. I will reformat card and try that. I'm at work so I'll have to verify that it worked once I'm home
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re: external SD card
Fee454 said:
I copied all my photos and zedge ringtones to my external sd card and it is not showing up on my phone when I search. In fact nothing I have ever put there besides a couple divx's that I put there actually stay. I have a 32gb sandisk class 2.
Am I missing something simple here or is my phone just a lemon. First time android user.
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Here is a suggestion.
Put your phone into mass storage mode and copy/backup everything on your external sd card to your computer.
Unplug usb go to settings>applications>development and disable USB debugging, then plug in USB cable from computer, and select mass storage mode.
Then open "computer or my computer" on your pc and find your external sd card drive icon.
Right click mouse on the icon and select "format"
(be 100% sure that the drive you are formatting is your external sdcard)
After you are sure of that, uncheck the box which says "quick format" leave all other options alone and start the format, when its done formatting
copy all the files you backed up to your external sd card and I am almost certain that after doing this you will have no problems with your external sdcard.
Good luck!

Misterjunky said:
Here is a suggestion.
Put your phone into mass storage mode and copy/backup everything on your external sd card to your computer.
Unplug usb go to settings>applications>development and disable USB debugging, then plug in USB cable from computer, and select mass storage mode.
Then open "computer or my computer" on your pc and find your external sd card drive icon.
Right click mouse on the icon and select "format"
(be 100% sure that the drive you are formatting is your external sdcard)
After you are sure of that, uncheck the box which says "quick format" leave all other options alone and start the format, when its done formatting
copy all the files you backed up to your external sd card and I am almost certain that after doing this you will have no problems with your external sdcard.
Good luck!
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I will try that once I'm home from work thanks for everyones responses. One question is my phone is now in ext4 format I believe. Would that cause any kind of issue?
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Formatting my 32gb now....I purchased it off a coworker who cannot use it in his phone...it is currently in fat32 format...is that right? I'm not sure if that is how it came or if he formatted it that way.

Fee454 said:
Formatting my 32gb now....I purchased it off a coworker who cannot use it in his phone...it is currently in fat32 format...is that right? I'm not sure if that is how it came or if he formatted it that way.
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Thats fine
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I thought it was fixed. Rebooted all last night and all apps stayed. I just rebooted a few min ago and 5 apps are now deleted. First android experience is not a good one. I really wanted give this a chance too.
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Its not android. Don't let a bad device mess up your opinion of this phone and definitely not android as a whole. Just exchange and your issues will go away.
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laxwillsch said:
Its not android. Don't let a bad device mess up your opinion of this phone and definitely not android as a whole. Just exchange and your issues will go away.
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Yeah that's what im going to do. Just frustrating.
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OK so by my name you can see where I came from. I started with the atrix and it sucked , very unhappy with that phone. Went back into my iPhone 4. Then tried the HTC inspire, crashed non stop , very dissapointing. Nothing seemed to measure up and facetime was something I missed big time. Back to my iPhone those phones lasted 4 weeks combined. I have been in this phone for 3 weeks and while I look for.things I was use too some, its overall a better phone for me than iPhone. Like the SMS apps, customization better, the screen being bigger is a huge one. The 8 MPH camera is awesome. Used a pic I took for my website and it looks great. Multiple launchers to give you the feel you want. I get some force closes , but my ios did too. I was jailbroken so I could use my phone to the fullest.
The speed of this phone is great and I am sold on android after this. That's just my thoughts I would say u have a bad unit and give it another shot. I will get the galaxy s2 when it arrives. If the iPhone 5 isnt 4.2" I wont even sniff it, unless there is chocolate on it.
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OK so by my name you can see where I came from. I started with the atrix and it sucked , very unhappy with that phone. Went back into my iPhone 4. Then tried the HTC inspire, crashed non stop , very dissapointing. Nothing seemed to measure up and facetime was something I missed big time. Back to my iPhone those phones lasted 4 weeks combined. I have been in this phone for 3 weeks and while I look for.things I was use too some, its overall a better phone for me than iPhone. Like the SMS apps, customization better, the screen being bigger is a huge one. The 8 MPH camera is awesome. Used a pic I took for my website and it looks great. Multiple launchers to give you the feel you want. I get some force closes , but my ios did too. I was jailbroken so I could use my phone to the fullest.
The speed of this phone is great and I am sold on android after this. That's just my thoughts I would say u have a bad unit and give it another shot. I will get the galaxy s2 when it arrives. If the iPhone 5 isnt 4.2" I wont even sniff it, unless there is chocolate on it.
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Good to know. I hope my replacement infuse works the way it should. I will be exchanging it in about 6 hours.

Internal memory

Is there any way to get more internal memory on sidekick 4g?
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Rock3rboy13 said:
Is there any way to get more internal memory on sidekick 4g?
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No.
Unless you have a hand so steady that your room for error is down to the nanometer.

Rock3rboy13 said:
Is there any way to get more internal memory on sidekick 4g?
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you can move all the bloatware on the phone to an sdcard if you have a big sdcard and your rooted so it clears up memory but to expand it i would say no

Dam that suckz
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No.
Unless you have a hand so steady that your room for error is down to the nanometer.
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I don't know why you'd need that level of precision. I do surface mount soldering by hand all the time, and BGA re-work with hot air or IR at work. It's no longer exclusively the stuff of billion dollar companies. The act of desoldering a chip and soldering another one in its place would probably be the easy part.

Why do you need more internal storage Rockerboy? Get an SDcard.

I do got an sd card 16gb but some appz cant go on sd card nd my internal memory is running out.
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Are you rooted?
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...We have over 500MB of internal storage for Apps, how much crap do you have installed? move some stuff that can be moved over to your sdcard there.

Yea
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That isn't enough for me and I alrdy moved everything that could be moved.
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To do this you need two things.
1) A SOLDERING STATION, not just a soldering iron
2) god-like steady hands. <--- Might as well be a Marine Sniper
As far as I am concerned the memory controller (ala Northbridge.) should be able to recognize and compensate for a increase in memory as if it were a regular ram upgrade on a PC. As long as we aren't talking hundreds of gigs increase it should work fine, no?

This is not feasible for you to do on your own. If you have to ask, you can't do it. WTF do you have installed that takes up 500MB that can't be moved? there's only a handful of apps that can't be moved.

Wow, 500MB full? That seems unlikely if you've moved every app you can to your SD card and cleared your caches.
I haven't tried it on the Sidekick, but if you're running a custom ROM have you looked at using CustomMTD? That would free up some space (I use it on my G1)

CustomMTD is designed for HTC phones that use the MTD filesystem, rather than the RFS or EXT4 partitions used by our phones. That said, with some hacking/modding it would be possible to get something similar working on our phones, but I'm not the person to work on such a project.

Infuse Deletes Music

So, I've been running Serendipity 7 on my Infuse for maybe 3 days until I went back to stock firmware, but it seems everytime I try to put all my music onto my external SD, it deletes it all and saves 3-4 bands with scattered songs from the album. I had this same problem with my Captivate, but it would put the files into LOST.dir instead of just deleting them. I've looked around on Google since I started having problems back in June/July and couldn't find anything.
Right now, my Infuse is running stock Froyo and rooted. I haven't really done much else. The SD is a Sandisk 32gb.
To add a bit more, when all 19gb of music is on the SD card, I safely remove it and then plug it in just to make sure it's still on there. The music doesn't delete till it's plugged into the phone. I've tried using the SD card slot on my computer and USB through my phone and it always deletes either after I disconnect from the computer or when I plug the SD into my phone.
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Do you have any .nomedia files on your phone? I don't think the media scanner is the issue here, but it's always a possibility. Did you try storing the music on your phone's internal memory instead of the SD card? Maybe the card is going bad?

I haven't put any .nomedia files on my phone. As for the SD card, it is brand new. I can put the media ob my internal, but when I move it to the external it deletes itself.
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Now it's deleting apps that are installed on the external SD...
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It's most likely a faulty external sim card.

I should stop buying from eBay. I've only gotten one good SD card from them. This I've was still in GE case too. It's like it will only allow 1-2 gigs of the 32 before it deletes the files.
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Plagued Will said:
I should stop buying from eBay. I've only gotten one good SD card from them. This I've was still in GE case too. It's like it will only allow 1-2 gigs of the 32 before it deletes the files.
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Search e-bay for this problem. They are also selling cards that are fomatted to show more space then what they have.
I once bought an 32gig usb drive, it would look like everything that I copied was there, but would only play the first 4gig.
These mostly come from china. Like I said, do a search and you'll never buy memory off e-bay again.

Very good point, I completely forgot about that. Thank you so much.
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Now there are a bunch of no extension files in my LOST.dir. They just now showed up. Damned Chinese products.
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I make it a rule to never buy electronics off eBay. Local craigslist only for me. That being said, it definitely sounds like a borked SD card.
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Yo, easy as pie to fix this. if your SD card is in deed broken. Wally World (walmart) is your solution, go buy a San Disk 32 GB like yours then switch out the cards and return the faulty one. Thank you.

I'm telling ...
But to show my age, back in the early 80’s, when we were hacking drives to copy 5 1/4 discs, we'd burn out drives in a few weeks. So we'd buy a new one and swap out the internal components.
Cranky...

Truckerglenn said:
I'm telling ...
But to show my age, back in the early 80’s, when we were hacking drives to copy 5 1/4 discs, we'd burn out drives in a few weeks. So we'd buy a new one and swap out the internal components.
Cranky...
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"I'm Telling" bahahah! i member in elementary that **** was serious. who ever saw you do something you weren't supposed you, from that moment on you were their ***** until you caught them doing something... real talk.

Help understanding internal external

I posted this in the eaglesblood forum, thought it would he more appropriate here: I know this is a total newb question, but I'd really appreciate an answer. When everyone is talking about this rom as externally mounted, does that mean that the system is actually running off of the external sd card? I tried out Weapon G2x... love how incredibly snappy it is, and I'm wondering if it's because of it being internally mounted. Anyways I want to come back to Eaglesblood just because I can't even really use the gps on weapon, never locks.... my SD card is class 4 so take that into account
Thanks in advance for any help
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Gps is not sd card related.
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That's not at all what I'm asking. I was just noting why I want to switch back to eaglesblood. I really am wondering about whether it runs the system externally or if it just stores data there. That way I know if its just my slower SD card that creates the less snappy experience on eagles.
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Both eagleablood and weapons or pretty much any rom for the G2x are system roms meaning their files and data is in the phones system partition. Although a rom can run from a SD card it hasn't been available for the G2x yet. The purpose of stating if it is being internally or externaly mounted is to describe which memory is mounted (for music, movies, and such) primarily as in which will be used to store camera shots and downloads, even if some apps allow for editing the location of data. You can still load music on the external and the media will be played it just will be linked by a folder usually called EXTERNAL_SD
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Apps2sd issue

Noticed today after bringing up Apps2sd that its saying i dont have an external storage or i have an emulated ext storage even with a 16gb sd card in. computer reads it fine and i would like to move my large apps to it. Any ideas please?
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liquidraven said:
Noticed today after bringing up Apps2sd that its saying i dont have an external storage or i have an emulated ext storage even with a 16gb sd card in. computer reads it fine and i would like to move my large apps to it. Any ideas please?
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App does not work since ICS release. Apps must run off internal. There are workarounds but more hassle than they are worth.

Not sure why someone would even need this feature in this day and age. It was only invented to deal with shortage of space before cell phones caught up with the times.
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Thanks, removing the app now lol
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