Hi everyone
My girlfriend just got the G2x yesterday. We plugged it into her macbook and created a folder on the drive that showed up on the finder called 'Music.' Tried to copy some music over from her laptop and the problems started. First, the phone wouldn't eject from the finder, saying it was in use. Second, after trying to figure out how the phone was in use but finding nothing running, we unplugged the USB without ejecting (probably not the best idea). The phone froze. Third, after a hard restart and a few reboots, the media scanner freezes on 'scanning for errors' when starting up.
Now it won't take pictures, saying 'mount your Phone memory', and when we go to the options for mounting the various drives under settings>SD & Phone storage, all the options to mount drives are grayed out. Also, there is no information listed for any of the storage. We tried doing the factory reset but the same problems occur (media scanner freezes and drives won't mount). When I plug it into my desktop, the drive shows up as completely empty. No volumes, no partitions, nothing. Using the sdk shell to look around, I can find no sign of either the folder we created or the files that we copied.
Any ideas? My android experience is minimal, though I am comfortable using the sdk stuff to take a look-see. This is probably most easily solved by simply returning it for a new one, but I enjoy figuring this stuff out if at all possible. It also helps avoid making the same mistake in the future.
Thanks for any help or advice. Sorry for the length.
sounds like you got one of the 'bad' ones, the first shipment were supposedly littered with bugs similar to your issue, returned mine and has been flawless except for the screen bleed stuff. Id just return it if i were you.
radcopter said:
Hi everyone
My girlfriend just got the G2x yesterday. We plugged it into her macbook and created a folder on the drive that showed up on the finder called 'Music.' Tried to copy some music over from her laptop and the problems started. First, the phone wouldn't eject from the finder, saying it was in use. Second, after trying to figure out how the phone was in use but finding nothing running, we unplugged the USB without ejecting (probably not the best idea). The phone froze. Third, after a hard restart and a few reboots, the media scanner freezes on 'scanning for errors' when starting up.
Now it won't take pictures, saying 'mount your Phone memory', and when we go to the options for mounting the various drives under settings>SD & Phone storage, all the options to mount drives are grayed out. Also, there is no information listed for any of the storage. We tried doing the factory reset but the same problems occur (media scanner freezes and drives won't mount). When I plug it into my desktop, the drive shows up as completely empty. No volumes, no partitions, nothing. Using the sdk shell to look around, I can find no sign of either the folder we created or the files that we copied.
Any ideas? My android experience is minimal, though I am comfortable using the sdk stuff to take a look-see. This is probably most easily solved by simply returning it for a new one, but I enjoy figuring this stuff out if at all possible. It also helps avoid making the same mistake in the future.
Thanks for any help or advice. Sorry for the length.
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I'm having the same issues. The only solution is to return it??
I really like the phone but this is pretty frustrating. On top of that, the LGForums are just littered with other issues the G2x has. They are also very quiet on when the bug fixes are coming.
dead2hill said:
sounds like you got one of the 'bad' ones, the first shipment were supposedly littered with bugs similar to your issue, returned mine and has been flawless except for the screen bleed stuff. Id just return it if i were you.
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I was advised of a bad first batch. My 2nd one was made Apr 28th. No issues aside from worse screen bleed than my 1st one.
But that's never bothered me like some others. I never see it with real world use.
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Hi!
First thread, but have been on this forum a lot lately, since I finally got around to rooting and getting my Hero to run Cyanogen! If there's a similar post, I am sorry to double it, but I have not found anything that relates to my issue so far.
The problem I have is minor, yet still annoying. Whenever I get around to charging my phone, which is at least once per day, I have to use the USB port since I lost the wall-plug months ago. This in itself has never been an issue since I put Cyanogen on it. See, after I remove the cable, my SD-card won't remount automatically, causing all my photos etc. to be invisible until I manually unmount and mount it through settings.
This is especially annoying since the ringtone app I use puts the ringtone in a folder on the card whenever it's downloaded. Charging the phone thus hides the file away in a foul place, and causes me to have to redo the entire process of downloading and all that.
As a follow-up to this, I have two questions:
1) Is there any way of solving this easily, or did I do something wrong while putting Cyanogen on my phone?
2) The data that becomes inaccessible, is it still on the card taking up space, or is it deleted?
I might add that I tried turning USB debugging on and off. Also, I noticed that this issue seems to be quite spontaneous with everything except my ringtones. Photos, for example, sometimes show up no matter what, and Spotify-files are always accessible. Could it be an issue with the app?
Thanks guys!
I noticed something when my Windows 7 64 auto updated a few weeks back.
It would not let me mount my Captivate. The phone will mount, but the computer will not accept the instructions and open the disk drives.
After a system restore, all was back to normal until the next time the PC updated. After the 3rd time, I notice that was the only thing that change between the time it would mount and not mount was Windows update.
I have notice a few people on these forums notice the same thing that happened to me, and would like to go through this set of Windows updates to isolate the 1 or more that may be playing bully with our phones.
I will be updating this thread soon, after I install and mount/unmount, repeat with security updates. For now, a system restore should work, unless you have the time to go through the couple dozen updates and find the offender. If you do, please post your results.
Update KB2288621
It only allowed one drive to mount. Although this was not the original problem, when combined with other updates, they do not play nice with the mount and file transfer feature.
Update KB2434419
Windows Live Essentials. This update completely disabled my mount function.
rwj5279955 said:
I noticed something when my Windows 7 64 auto updated a few weeks back.
It would not let me mount my Captivate. The phone will mount, but the computer will not accept the instructions and open the disk drives.
After a system restore, all was back to normal until the next time the PC updated. After the 3rd time, I notice that was the only thing that change between the time it would mount and not mount was Windows update.
I have notice a few people on these forums notice the same thing that happened to me, and would like to go through this set of Windows updates to isolate the 1 or more that may be playing bully with our phones.
I will be updating this thread soon, after I install and mount/unmount, repeat with security updates. For now, a system restore should work, unless you have the time to go through the couple dozen updates and find the offender. If you do, please post your results.
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Glad you decided to open this thread. After talking with you I was able to get it mounted again. Great Job!
Might be obvious but... I installed both the Captivate drivers and the i9000 drivers since I was playing with images. It was working great with a Captivate image and any time I flashed an i9000 based ROM it would not recognize the phone. After installing the Kies app for the i9000 on top of the Captivate drivers it now recognizes all the time.
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Update KB2288621
It only allowed one drive to mount. Although this was not the original problem, when combined with other updates, they do not play nice with the mount and file transfer feature.
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I have this installed and have no troubles mounting drives, both drives.
rwj5279955 said:
Update KB2434419
Windows Live Essentials. This update completely disabled my mount function.
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This I don't have as I see Windows Live as a useless mess and a waste of time.
Windows 7 64 bit, all the updates (except the anti-piracy one ).
Works fine.
Sent from my Captivate.
The computer perfectly recognizes both drives when phone is connected. Am using Windows 7 x64 with all updates.
Rarely when it doesn't recognize, a simple "pull the cable off computer and connect again" works.
I don't see why we need to do all those tasks as above.
I have spoke with a few people who this was an issue. I went through the updates one by one and they surely are conflicting with my phone. A system restore was the only thing that fixed it.
I'm glad you guys aren't having any issues though, must be something with some individual Pc's.
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I have this installed and have no troubles mounting drives, both drives.
This I don't have as I see Windows Live as a useless mess and a waste of time.
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It is useless. Sadly for me, my XPS graphics card is fried and I am using my girlfriends computer.
She uses that crap.
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I have been searching for the past couple of hours about how to properly eject a usb Thumb drive, but only seem to find people talking about how to get their Thumb/large external drives to even show up.
I was running Vegan 5.1.1 up until this morning, now I am running Vegan-Ginger Experimental , couldnt figure it out on either. If this has been covered, I apologize, please reply with link to thread
My 16GB OCZ ATV shows up just fine. I can access it from the Gallery or Music no problem, or go to file explorer and view everthing on it as well.
However, when I pull it, I get the error message about improper SD unmount. I tried putting the Gtab to sleep, waiting for the USB light to go off, but when I pull the thumb drive and unlock the tab, it still gives me the error.
I searched through the Storage settings, but no options to unmount. Searched through File Explorer but nothing there either.
Any hints or suggestions ??
again, sorry if this has been covered, let me know what thread to read and I am on it !!
Hand_Banana,
I don't know that I have ever read a definitive answer to this question.
But I know this from my own experiences, I never remove my miniSD card or
thumb drive without shutting down my G-Tablet. Doing anything else has
given me errors too. Not plug and play or even semi-plug and play like
Windows.
The USB setup on these things to my eye is very crude at best and until
someone builds or hacks an upgrade, all you can do is not take any chances.
Rev
Thank you very much for your reply.
I know everyone works really hard on these ROMs, and I am sure its only a matter of time before someone figures it out. I remember on my epic, it would give me an option to dismount, so again, I am sure its only a matter of time before it gets dialed in.
cheers
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).
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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.
Hello, I am seeking advice/help...
I can see by looking and reading some of your writings and posts that yours and others time is worth alot... I am not sure on how much I could spend as I have already lost funds and had my bank accounts hacked. However I will gladly see what I can do if someone can hopfully help me...
I have been without proper internet for well over a month now.. I have changed my wireless routers out twice even added in a AP(hardware firewall)... My internet provider also suppliea optik TV and that is all ran through the same router.
At first I noticed some new programs would appear, things would be moved around some things would go missing... it was very unnoticeable unless you were paying attention.
Then the windows start up acreen would freeze for 5 minutes sometimes almost as if somethinf had froze the screen so that I wouldn't be able to see whats happening(Basically started getting worse - passwords being changed on me etc... - would lose my elevated privledges almost as if I was just a guest account)...
I even tried using CMD in dos to get my permission settings back and at first this would work but then the dos/cmd commands(whoami / ICACLS / and a few other commands would not work and say they don't exist... I also started to notice the size of my harddrive change.. I was never able to get it back to the right amount of GB. I tried to restore it many different methods as well (win7, linux, dos) nothing worked.. I then also noticed the MBR would constantly become corrupt and same with the hard drive.
So I looked into things and figured it must be the bios or cmos.. I tried to flash it and just decided I would start from scratch... However, everytime the computer restarts the old cmos/bios is back. I then also found things saved on (A: , B: and X) ... They were all write protected so I decided to pull the hard drive out. They still showed up even if I had the hard drive removed.
** X: is the boot drive as well so every time I tried to reinstall anything a bunch of extra files would get installed as well**
**Drive B had a volume named RamDrive..**
I ran some system/ tests in dos on the memory and kept getting errors but would not tell me what the problem was I finally figured out that it was a system error because the range went higher(above the 4gb that it's supposed to be)..
Now 4 laptops ruined... I just got a new laptop (win8.1) was never used and had never been turned on and after the initial startup/setup had extra software etc and now is stuck in infiniti boot loop....
Also similar stuff has happend or is happening with fax/printer, pvr, tv, ipad, iPhone, Android, wii, ps3, ps4.. dvd player, basically all media devices and anything wireless..
I have seen lots of evidence on remote connections through IOT, P2P/PHP, IPv4, IPv6, ssl, http(local group/work group) now it seems like things are communicating through a technique called air hopping or coupling. (RF, NFC, WIFI, IR, GPS/GSM, RFID, Altel Bluetooth and a few others). **I can remove the wireless card and laptops still connect**
They even got into a desktop computer that has no wirelsss or bluetooth card... and never gets plugged into the internet. Odd internet type numbers started calling my house phone also my house phone if I unplugged it etc... then powered it back up and didn't set date or time it would reset itself... The play stations would turn on and off them self... I tried reformattibg and missing a huge amount of GB.
Also, money was taken out of bank account as well.... anyone who goes to where this all is happening there cell phones get infected tooo... it seems to update tbe phones in fhe form of a push update aka broadcast signal.. Any help or input would be greatly appreciated...
another thing i noticed was files like index.dat/index.ini... desktop.ini. doubles of everything in my registry... and the fonts i couldnt change or delete... i noticed files from other devices listed on my phones and vice versa for things listed on the computer... if this isnt the right place for this i apolohgize...
also it appears as if my phone is rooted.. judging by the files and folders that are on my phone but it says not rooted. there is apps installed that i didnt put there and cant remove without being rooted.. my phones are constantly connected. factory reset doesnt work anymore... Neither does wipe cache. also constantly streaming data even if data is off and airplane mode. i keep seeng something about a 299-amtel.. redirect in any and all browsers...lots of adware as well.
im not even sure i will be able to ge back on here... if not you can try emailing me [email protected]... i appreciate any and all help.. thank you and sorry for the grammer juat trying to type this as fast as possible.
Your MEANINGLESS title is discouraging people from helping you.
Please at least use a simple sentence to summarize your problem in your title.
Anyway from what you're saying, you should report to the police, or if you have some friend with network and PC knowledge, ask him for help.