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[Q] Computer Virus infiltrates Galaxy S?

Not sure if this is the right place for this, however;
My gf's laptop had a virus on it that I didn't know about, I plugged my Samsung Galaxy S in, and suddenly I have a ".scr" clone of pretty much every folder on my phone. I deleted a load of them, plugged it back into the computer and sure enough they came back.
Now there are literally hundreds of the .scr clones on my phone.
Is there a way to delete them all?
Also, if this is not a virus and a bug instead, do let me know ha =]

You should probably try to format it to get rid of anything that may be in there. I wouldn't keep any of the files as they could have been currupted.
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Quick update;
This is the virus found on the computer: http://www.virus-encyclopedia.com/virus/Network-Worms/other/worms1626.html
Not sure what relevance it has to the SGS as I don't understand any of it.

Download and install Everything.
Start the computer in safe mode.
Plug in your phone.
Run Everything OR right-click the phone's data drive and run everything.
Type in ".scr" in the search bar.
Delete every instance of this file.
Plug your phone out of the laptop.
Restart the laptop and scan it with a decent anti-virus (MSE).
NEVER PLUG YOUR PHONE BACK IN THAT LAPTOP AGAIN.
For extra security, you can now backup most of your important files, in case it gets corrupted (though I doubt it). And then format the sd card.

Hey Sygeek, about to try this out now, thanks for the help!
Also, this is the only laptop in which I can use my phone with, what are the reasons of not plugging it back in ever? (Except the obvious possible reinfection).

Matikata said:
Also, this is the only laptop in which I can use my phone with, what are the reasons of not plugging it back in ever? (Except the obvious possible reinfection).
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Just do a scan and make sure your laptop's virus-free (with that particular price). You should be fine then.

I very much doubt, that the virus would harm your sgs.
But it could have possibly copied it self over as it recognized your android as mass storage.

Hey guys, sorry I haven't updated in the past couple of days.
I think it was recognized as mass storage device Dark3n, you're right.
I couldn't figure out that search everything program, I did everything I was told but it didn't return any results, so what I did was as follows:
1. scan computer and delete all recorded instances of a virus.
2. restarted computer.
3. plugged phone in as mass storage device.
4. used my antivirus software to scan the phone (as mass storage device).
5. it then went on to delete all 382 instances of the virus.
6. unplugged phone, restarted it (i don't think i needed to, but I did anyway).
7. plugged phone back in and wallah, no more virus.
There was nothing missing, nothing wrong with android or anything, it was just an annoyance I guess.
Thanks for your help everyone.

Extremely slow copy speeds

Hey all,
I didn't see a thread for this already and I can't figure it out. I'm able, after a VERY long delay, to see all the folders on the internal storage when I connect to my computer and mount as disk. But it's nearly impossible to navigate around, copy, or delete folders. The operations always timeout and Windows gives the error "semaphore timeout period has expired".
I've tried uninstalling any old drivers and installing the HTC drivers I found on here, but that didn't seem to help. Any idea what's going on?
Edit: this is a t-mobile one s

no problems here and haven't heard of that
try another cable or computer and see

Seems to work alright through the provided cable, and not through a USB extender--dunno if that was making a difference but that's the setup now.
Strange. Sorry, not a very interesting solution.

[Q] HTC One S USB Storage is slow

Issue: When transferring files from sdcard to pc via usb, the process takes an incredible amount of time. For example, I attempted to transfer 3 pictures files at 2 megs each. It took well over 10 minutes to simply discover the files then another 10 to transfer the files. Additionally I've been having trouble with windows losing the mount after file transfer. I would then have to "safely" remove then unplug and replug for it to detect the mount again.
What I would like to know is if anyone else has experienced this issue and solved it? Would anyone know if it's on the phone side or the PC side? Note: I have tried multiple computers and it presents the same issue. So I'm inclined to believe that it's on the phone side.
Laptop: is an EliteBook 2560p by HP running Win 7 with 4 gigs of ram. I have installed HTC Sync Manager and all drivers, to my knowledge, are installed and functioning correctly.
HTC One S: is running the ViperOne S ROM. I'm unsure as to whether or not the ROM is the issue. I don't remember experiencing any issues prior to the installation of this ROM. However, it's the best ROM I've had so far therefore I've probably overlooked the issues until now. I'm going to change to that new "UnKnown_Retribution" to see if it's a ROM issue. However, I would still like some assistance in the event that doesn't fix the issue.

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Update: I just attempted to transfer the flash gui.apk file but I got this error message (see attached .png file).

Think you might have to format the sd and might be best if you get the phone to do it. If that don't work think it could be bad news for the phone.

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Darknites said:
Think you might have to format the sd and might be best if you get the phone to do it. If that don't work think it could be bad news for the phone.
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Thanks for your assistance. It turns out that the cable was the issue.

MTP Sucks

With the latest (and unfortunate) update from HTC, I have come to the conclusion that MTP is not the best protocol to transfer files between 2 devices. Why? It's much slower plus less secure. Maybe I just wanted to charge my device when hooking it up to the PC. With normal USB file transfer, by default, the phone does not mount and show its files to the PC. With MTP it does; and there's no way to stop it. MTP is also less stable. I had freeze ups many times when transferring large files where my computer no longer recognized the device. I had to unplug and restart.
Is anyone else having issues? Or is it just me being on Windows 8? Anyone know of a way to disable MTP and use the traditional way of mounting to sync? Thanks.

Just got an option I'm going to try. I worked on other devices I'll try ours:
"Use system tuner app. Go to startup button. Check for mtp. Click on it and find the exclude button. Click on it. Restart your tab. Connect to your charger and see if it works. For me it does, but you probably have to repeat the step because mtp might appear in your startup again (i don`t know how to kill it once for all)."
Source:
http://www.askmefast.com/How_to_disable_MTP_mode_on_samsung_galaxy-qna1310615.html#q750233
Will report back. For all you's who don't mind MTP, disregard this thread

Em can you explain the 'less secure' bit? But ya it sucks lol.

Closed Source Project said:
With the latest (and unfortunate) update from HTC, I have come to the conclusion that MTP is not the best protocol to transfer files between 2 devices. Why? It's much slower plus less secure. Maybe I just wanted to charge my device when hooking it up to the PC. With normal USB file transfer, by default, the phone does not mount and show its files to the PC. With MTP it does; and there's no way to stop it. MTP is also less stable. I had freeze ups many times when transferring large files where my computer no longer recognized the device. I had to unplug and restart.
Is anyone else having issues? Or is it just me being on Windows 8? Anyone know of a way to disable MTP and use the traditional way of mounting to sync? Thanks.
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in windows 8 it sucks like hell, im with you, but in windows 7 is working fine and super fast, i pass large files from my pc to my phone, and when i say large, they are really large. i use my phone for movies, and i download movies from 5 to 6 GB, and it take a couple of seconds to get from my pc to my phone. you need updated drivers for it to make it work right.

blackwing182 said:
in windows 8 it sucks like hell, im with you, but in windows 7 is working fine and super fast, i pass large files from my pc to my phone, and when i say large, they are really large. i use my phone for movies, and i download movies from 5 to 6 GB, and it take a couple of seconds to get from my pc to my phone. you need updated drivers for it to make it work right.
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Em what that just bs for a start the filesystem don't even support more the 4gb and then you got the fact there is no way it would copy over so fast that it puts my SSD drive to shame.

I always reboot to TWRP and use mount as old USB Mass Storage.

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I always reboot to TWRP and use mount as old USB Mass Storage.
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Ya I do this too since the only thing that get put on there is roms which I'm about to flash.

blackwing182 said:
... but in windows 7 is working fine and super fast
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Bull****.
MTP cant get over 2MB/sec even when using a high-end PC with SSD HDDs and USB3(yes i know the S doesnt support usb3, thats not the point), while USBMS easily do 10-15MB/sec, and ADB 5-6MB/sec.
MTP is worse than useless. Good thing I coded Quick ADB :silly:

MTP & the suck
I can agree on the initial frustration I had, trying to understand why my other android device allowed the copying of any file ext. onto the SD card. I bought a new phone with the same ICS os(phone did not come with a file manager), when I learned of MTP then what I learned now was that mass storage no longer exists . It is a more secure way the computer reads the device, so to avoid the blockade you'll need another device anything that has m-sd card capability so you can dump any one or more files onto it first off. Then goto googleplay and dl a good file manager program to use while accessing file in the phone. It should be simple from then in on to install any backed up .apk files or view any media(phone did not come with a versatile media player)files.

Closed Source Project said:
With the latest (and unfortunate) update from HTC, I have come to the conclusion that MTP is not the best protocol to transfer files between 2 devices. Why? It's much slower plus less secure. Maybe I just wanted to charge my device when hooking it up to the PC. With normal USB file transfer, by default, the phone does not mount and show its files to the PC. With MTP it does; and there's no way to stop it. MTP is also less stable. I had freeze ups many times when transferring large files where my computer no longer recognized the device. I had to unplug and restart.
Is anyone else having issues? Or is it just me being on Windows 8? Anyone know of a way to disable MTP and use the traditional way of mounting to sync? Thanks.
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did not work for me, mtp still loaded!
i hate mtp, every time i copy a image file or video from my phone, it is corrupted, windows 7 or xp.
sometimes my wallpapers get corrupted just using es file explorer or just what seems randomly.
this is on my verizon note 2, running stock JB 4.1.2
anyone find a real solution yet?
if i have to root to get this solved, so be it, but i am about to do so any way since i miss having more control over my device.
turns out after testing, my sd card is a faked 64gb class 10, transfer rate suggests class 4 and 4gb of data was verified, good news is i can still get my money back and my friend who sold it to me may not have known it was a faked card.

MTP is completely retarded. UMS is a tried-and-tested protocol, this is the biggest sh*t sandwich Google has handed Android users so far.
MTP crashes every single time I try to use it. Try opening a folder that contains a large number of files. Explorer will freeze. Furthermore, MTP requres a device-specific driver, whereas UMS uses a standard driver. Oh this sucks so much!

Guys, I don't understand you really... In every ROM I've flashed lately being it AOSP or Sense based, there's an option to switch from MTP to the "old" UMS mode. In AOSP based ROMs it is usually located in Settings - Storage and you should open the menu there and you have USB Computer Connection where you can choose whatever you like. It is an option like any other options, you can use it or not
And yes I agree with you...it sucks

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Guys, I don't understand you really... In every ROM I've flashed lately being it AOSP or Sense based, there's an option to switch from MTP to the "old" UMS mode. In AOSP based ROMs it is usually located in Settings - Storage and you should open the menu there and you have USB Computer Connection where you can choose whatever you like. It is an option like any other options, you can use it or not
And yes I agree with you...it sucks
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I am on a rooted S4 MINI using the original stock ROM. Other than this small niggle, after removing all the crapware I am pretty happy with what I have, although if there is a compatible ROM that would bring UMS to the table I'd be happy to try it. I just find it very annoying that earlier Samsung phones used to have the UMS option but recently they decided to get rid of it. That's as stupid as it can possibly get: a tried and tested, working feature that was already in place... WTF not just leave it there??

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I am on a rooted S4 MINI using the original stock ROM. Other than this small niggle, after removing all the crapware I am pretty happy with what I have, although if there is a compatible ROM that would bring UMS to the table I'd be happy to try it. I just find it very annoying that earlier Samsung phones used to have the UMS option but recently they decided to get rid of it. That's as stupid as it can possibly get: a tried and tested, working feature that was already in place... WTF not just leave it there??
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I know CM11 has the option included and I'm sure you have either an official or a CM11 port available for S4 mini

Rapier said:
I know CM11 has the option included and I'm sure you have either an official or a CM11 port available for S4 mini
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I'll definitely look at it, thanks!

Scooxdroid said:
I'll definitely look at it, thanks!
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Thx

[Q] Own build PC freezing for over 6+ months

Hello XDA!
I have a big question, and i don't know where to put it, so i put it here, here it starts:
I build an own pc, with everything included etc. and at first it worked great, until one moment when it just stopped working great and fast, and started freezing randomly.
At first i thought it was when i was watching an video, but now i know that's not the case, because i found out it is freezing at random moments,
I searched much, since december or so, but could not find any similar things.
I tried Dual-boot, with Windows 8 and Ubuntu running both, to see if windows 8 was the problem, it wasn't, because it did the same with Ubuntu.
I tried System reset ( Erase whole windows + All files), Did not work.
I updated all driver software, did not work.
at the end i tried chkdsk, because i thought, maybe it is the Disk, but everytime i do chkdsk, it freezes at 28%
last week i did something else, and it said that it found errors on the disk and i had to type chkdsk /f to fix it, when i did, it said No Write Permission on disk.
I also erased the whole disk with cmd ( All volumes, partitions etc.) but still, the odd thing is, it says everything is deleted, but still it shows the disk is 465GB big, which is odd because i have an disk of 500GB ( Now i know the disk itself takes up some space, but that's not 45GB, right?)
With freezing, i mean ''freezing'' by the way ( It wont start again, only when i press the power button) and when i watch a video or listen to music, i hear some annoying sound from the boxes too.
My specs are:
AMD A6-5400K ( APU)
Trinity", Black Edition
ASUS F2A85-M ( Motherboard)
Western Digital WD5000AAKX 500 GB ( HDD)
Corsair 8 GB DDR3-1600 Kit ( RAM Memory)
OCZ ModXStream Pro 700W ATX2 ( Power supply)
So.. Can anyone help maybe? Much appreciated!
Also: If someone knows how to make it writable again, let me know ( I tried one command what should do the trick, but cmd said Failed.)
PS: Is Not writable the same as Read only?
PPS: I overclocked my PC, yes, but that should not be a problem, because i resetted it multiple times.
PPPS: I changed the registry once, so it may be messed up a little, but the registry is resetted too when resetting windows, right?
Thanks!
If you guys need more info, Ask!

Off-Topic PC thread would be a better place for this.

By freezing do you mean that the pc is shutting down and nothing happens?
I would say make a stress test with every part of your hardware.
I found this:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001088.htm#00

With freezing i mean doing nothing... And stress test, i will look at it now.
Thanks!
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I moved the OP to the Computer Hardware thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=43359268&postcount=5340
Please refer all the discussion in its new home.
Thanks!