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Hey I have been having this problem...
my phone when ever I do a soft reset, it seems like it goes back to a restore point...
for example... I would delete 50 messages right now...
then later on I would soft reset the phone if necessary. after the soft reset, the messages that I would have deleted would reappear...
OR
I would get messages from people and respond, like a normal texting conversation,
if I reset the phone for some reason, the messages that I recieved would be gone...
now correct me if I'm wrong, but after you delete something permanently, isnt it supposed to completely be off of the memory? so how is it reappearing?
it seems like with all of my messages and emails no matter how many times they are deleted or new ones I get, after a soft reset everything is lost, OR returned.
what is this? I want to free up storage memory on y phone.... what should I do?
anyone? any suggestions would be good
So for a few weeks now, my phone has been unable to remember the ringtone I set for either SMS or phone calls. every time I set it it works, but as soon as I reboot the phone or unmount the sd card then remount, it forgets both tones and picks one of the songs on my sd card as the new tone.
I first noticed it after I was having some problems with btunes (my preferred music app) crashing, so I decided to clear the cache and data in Media Storage from the "Manage applications" menu. I learned to do this from the developer of another music app I had problems with, and thought it was worth a try.
ever since then, i've had the problem. I don't know why. To be fair, I MIGHT have had the problem before that, since I had only had the phone for 2 weeks at that point and didn't pay attention to it due to finals, so I wasn't doing much rebooting, and anyway the ringer volume was probably off the whole time. My memory is fuzzy about the ringtones working before that point. It was definitely happening before I rooted though, so I know that's not the problem.
anyway, help? on a side note, it always seems to automatically pick the same 2 songs for the 2 replacement ringers once I reboot. I'm not sure why, especially since they're not in the media/audio folder anywhere, and don't show up as potential ringtones when you look in any "pick ringtone" menu.
If you are rooted I would say reboot into recovery and clear dalvik-cache.
Sounds like that's where a setting is hiding.
I had this problem too when I was on Bulletproof 1.0, then when I switched to 1.1 it stopped. I don't think it was necessarily rom related, but maybe something to do with the wiping when changing roms.
I've had my (rooted stock ROM) MT4GS forget its notification settings a couple times - for me they usually stay set for a while, but after some time and/or reboots will come back wrong (not always the same wrong either- a few times it has picked notifications from my music folder, other times from the default sounds).
The problem seemed to start after I put another Android device (CM partition on my Touchpad) on my Google account, so I've been operating under the assumption that it is some kind of bug with settings synchronization. Unfortunately, it isn't very repeatable so I've never pinned the behavior down exactly.
I don't know if the issues are related, but gathering information on similar problems will hopefully let someone zero in on the issue.
the settings sync issue is worth checking, especially since I still have my Transform Ultra that I sometimes have turned on at home on wifi. I checked it, and the ringers were set on something else, So I matched them to the MT4GS and we'll see what happens.
I'm not sure that's the culprit, though, since this only happens when I restart the phone or re-mount the card. seems like settings sync wouldn't be an issue there, though I may be wrong.
I have the same issue with MT4GS and mines is certainly not rooted yet. The phone is only a couple weeks old. But its annoying. Sometimes I don't even have to reboot, sometimes it randomly just happens. IDK what to think of it.
I always shut off settings sync during setup and this used to happen to me.
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blackknightavalon said:
I always shut off settings sync during setup and this used to happen to me.
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You mena the initial setup of the phone? and how did you stop it?
Yeah its the google "backup my device" crap malfunctioning. Its dumb because what do u want it to backup? Texts, logs... What does it backup? Apps and bullcrap. If u want to start over, y can't I install apps individually? Or just give me the lists of crap ur gonna reinstall on my phone and let me select what I want....
Anyways, turn it off, reboot, sync, before nandroid/rom flashing and then don't use it on fresh install.
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Falkner09 said:
You mena the initial setup of the phone? and how did you stop it?
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See Etrick's post right under yours.
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ok, so what you're saying is, google's sync system is flawed so it periodically screws up the ringer settings on my phone, by attempting to "correct" them to the server information? why doesn't it just upload the knew info of the correct ringtone when I deliberately change it?
Falkner09 said:
ok, so what you're saying is, google's sync system is flawed so it periodically screws up the ringer settings on my phone, by attempting to "correct" them to the server information? why doesn't it just upload the knew info of the correct ringtone when I deliberately change it?
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That's what she said... PRECISELY what I don't understand. It seems as though everythings good, you've set your phone up after a fresh install, and everytime you make changes it syncs and instead of uploading the new stuff, it downloads the old. It may be something we are doing wrong by hacking our phones and some setting somewhere is missing or a simple kernel command is confusing it or who knows... Maybe its google's fault... All I know is, its annoying. It should get rid of your issue.
On a side note, there may be some settings for this hidden in some settings you can only find via pc. Like buried in google voice or plus or chrome or some now defunct google product you can no longer log into... Perhaps some digging there. I've found little to no documentation on the phone end...
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hmmm, well it can't be hacking, because this was happening before I had the phone hacked. also, oddly enough, I also have a different off line phone as a spare that's on the same android version, 2.3.4, yet does not have this problem. of course, that one's stock Android, not infected with Sense.....
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hmmm, well it can't be hacking, because this was happening before I had the phone hacked. also, oddly enough, I also have a different off line phone as a spare that's on the same android version, 2.3.4, yet does not have this problem. of course, that one's stock Android, not infected with Sense.....
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Well... If it happened prior to hacking, then it's not google backup. So go with other possibilities... Phone is hosed... Sd card hosed... (Have u tried selecting various tones on card or in your system media folder within your phone?)... Or is that other phone ever on? Could be going back to that sync issue. Turn it on and then see if its connecting to wifi and syncing. Which ringtone r u stuck on?
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My phone started doing this after I swapped SD cards with a larger one. I just had to go in, change it to something else, then change it back. Been working fine since.
Might as well try and kill 2 birds here. I have 2 problems with my rooted sidekick right now.
1) Very very very low internal memory. At this moment, by clearing the data of every app and text I could and deleting the facebook app, I have 14mb.
I'm really not sure what the heck happened, since I barely download anything (I think all I have 3rd party app-wise is facebook, twitter, baconreader, avast! and dolphin browser mini...) Is there any good way to check what exactly is eating up all my app memory? Or is there any good way to stuff everything onto my SD? I have like a gb left in there.
2) Even before I rooted my phone, I never get a vibrate when I get a text. I still get it for calls, but just never for texts, no matter what settings I put it in. Anyone have this problem?
I'm running with Gingerclone v2 iirc. Any help on these matters would be appreciated.
Hmm, now that you mention it, I see that I can't get a vibration for texts either, with any combinations of settings. Currently running stock KJ2 with the Bali_nxd kernel. I didn't know that was an issue with the device, but maybe it is.....?
As for the storage issue, where are you checking how much space is available? I have 53 apps installed, and I am showing about 170 free MB internal storage, and I check Task Manager regularly, and I tend to run with 50-70 free MB of RAM at all times.
Oh, and by default, all apps that CAN go to sdcard SHOULD go to the sdcard. You can check each individual app in settings/applications/manage applications, or DL a free market app to manage moving apps to sd. But I haven't done anything special, and all the apps that are able to have been stored on sd.
Okay, so Gingerclone uses AOSP messenger. You may have already tried this, but in the text messaging app, so into settings>notification settings>vibrate-and select always.
You may have already done this though, but if not, that should solve your problem!
Ok, totally thought I had posted a reply. So basically, tried changing the settings multiple times in multiple combinations, and it still won't vibrate on text :/
And with the memory, I bit the bullet and deleted Facebook and Twitter because those were the biggest apps I had, and it still only gave me a whopping 36mb of free space on my phone. And it says I don't even have enough free app memory to download an app manager. Although I only have 4 or 5 3rd party apps, and whatever came with gingerclone and stock. Its really not that much, and yet I can't free up any more memory at all. Even wiping all the data of all my apps frees up a couple hundred kb's at most.
I can't seem to get text messages to vibrate either....
As for the low internal storage, have you tried Odining back to stock, just to reset everything, and maybe that will reset/fix your data partition?
yogi2010 said:
I can't seem to get text messages to vibrate either....
As for the low internal storage, have you tried Odining back to stock, just to reset everything, and maybe that will reset/fix your data partition?
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Use stock text message. It will blink led and vib. Aosp dont
redcheetah said:
Use stock text message. It will blink led and vib. Aosp dont
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Ah ok cool, thanks. I am using the stock messaging app tho. But not the stock Touchwiz launcher... do you think that could be the issue?
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Use stock text message. It will blink led and vib. Aosp dont
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Okay, so I ended up ODIN'ing my phone back to stock. Should I try and put Gingerclone v2 back on, while putting the stock messenger back in? Or do any of you guys have a different suggestion for an os?
pinoysw1mmer said:
Might as well try and kill 2 birds here. I have 2 problems with my rooted sidekick right now.
1) Very very very low internal memory. At this moment, by clearing the data of every app and text I could and deleting the facebook app, I have 14mb.
I'm really not sure what the heck happened, since I barely download anything (I think all I have 3rd party app-wise is facebook, twitter, baconreader, avast! and dolphin browser mini...) Is there any good way to check what exactly is eating up all my app memory? Or is there any good way to stuff everything onto my SD? I have like a gb left in there.
2) Even before I rooted my phone, I never get a vibrate when I get a text. I still get it for calls, but just never for texts, no matter what settings I put it in. Anyone have this problem?
I'm running with Gingerclone v2 iirc. Any help on these matters would be appreciated.
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bro.. i bought a new Sharp PV300.. it does not have a GPS application.. so the GPS on the device is practically useless.. is there any way i can install a GPS app?? i would also like to install a few basic applications... please help me... thanks in advance..
nitthin21 said:
bro.. i bought a new Sharp PV300.. it does not have a GPS application.. so the GPS on the device is practically useless.. is there any way i can install a GPS app?? i would also like to install a few basic applications... please help me... thanks in advance..
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i don't think there is any way to use GPS, or any apps, on the 09 LX. the data servers for those devices were shut down a year ago or more. unfortunately, you can only use calling and texting, as far as i know.
There was a third party GPS app for the Sidekick LX, but I don't recall the name.
I do remember that it was ten bucks a month! Yep, no lie... a month...
Like the Bing maps, the actual servers that supported it are long gone.
There's no hope for an old LX 09 GPS app. Sorry.
The notification badge on my stock Messaging app icon is incorrectly showing 1 unread message.
I have a totally stock Droid RAZR MAXX HD running 4.4.2. My stock messaging app is version 4.4.2-10. SMS is set to "Messaging" (not "Hangouts"). All settings are default. Verizon Wireless is my service provider.
From my own troubleshooting, I have concluded that the problem is probably KitKat-related since stopping, disabling, and clearing (data, cache, and defaults) the stock messaging app has no effect. Also, this problem started after my OTA upgrade to KitKat (never had it before). Further, after completely disabling the stock messaging app, I alternatively installed GO SMS Pro, chomp SMS, and Verizon Messages and experienced the exact same problem with each.
Any ideas about how to fix this problem, without FDR'ing or rooting the phone, would be greatly appreciated.
clear dalvik?
you try clearing dalvik cache?
Great suggestion, but how do I perform it? Can you direct me to instructions on how to clear the Dalvik cache on a stock RAZR MAXX HD running KitKat? I can't find any that don't require a rooted phone. Thx much.
PW_Irvine said:
Great suggestion, but how do I perform it? Can you direct me to instructions on how to clear the Dalvik cache on a stock RAZR MAXX HD running KitKat? I can't find any that don't require a rooted phone. Thx much.
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i never have stock recovery on, so i could be wrong, but i dont think you can do that in stock recovery.
which means you would have to put on a custom one and root, which i think you said you didnt want to do.
it is somewhat common to have random issues like this on a major software upgrade, especially one that jumped so many other builds.
i know you really dont want to do it, but clearing the corrupted data is really the best course of action, and it may be the only one honestly.
and if you are going to go that far, it is really best to just re-flash the phone encase something in the system is corrupt. just no point in going 1/2 way just to find out you still have the issue later.
sorry thats not the answer you were looking for, but sometimes it is not avoidable.
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i never have stock recovery on, so i could be wrong, but i dont think you can do that in stock recovery.
which means you would have to put on a custom one and root, which i think you said you didnt want to do.
it is somewhat common to have random issues like this on a major software upgrade, especially one that jumped so many other builds.
i know you really dont want to do it, but clearing the corrupted data is really the best course of action, and it may be the only one honestly.
and if you are going to go that far, it is really best to just re-flash the phone encase something in the system is corrupt. just no point in going 1/2 way just to find out you still have the issue later.
sorry thats not the answer you were looking for, but sometimes it is not avoidable.
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Have the same problem - I find that if I delete a recent MMS message sent from me, then it goes back to normal.
PW_Irvine said:
Great suggestion, but how do I perform it? Can you direct me to instructions on how to clear the Dalvik cache on a stock RAZR MAXX HD running KitKat? I can't find any that don't require a rooted phone. Thx much.
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baldbob said:
Have the same problem - I find that if I delete a recent MMS message sent from me, then it goes back to normal.
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nice suggestion :good: i have never heard of that.
thanks
yeah dont think its possible on a phone that isnt rooted or has a custom recovery, whats the reason you dont want to to root?
Unfortunately, deleting all SMS and MMS messages did not solve the problem either, so I just FDR'ed the phone. Problem is gone on reboot of course, but so is 13 months worth of app configuration. I would root the phone this time except that the screen is also acting up on me and the phone still has 4 months left on the Costco warranty that I got (for free) with the phone. Wouldn't it be great if Android "L" allowed you to back up app settings along with apps without the need to root the phone first! Thx to all.
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Unfortunately, deleting all SMS and MMS messages did not solve the problem either, so I just FDR'ed the phone. Problem is gone on reboot of course, but so is 13 months worth of app configuration. I would root the phone this time except that the screen is also acting up on me and the phone still has 4 months left on the Costco warranty that I got (for free) with the phone. Wouldn't it be great if Android "L" allowed you to back up app settings along with apps without the need to root the phone first! Thx to all.
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Follow-up: same problem occurred following FDR. It is related to MMS messaging and it is solved by removing all MMS messages from phone. I did not have this problem with JB. It showed up after OTA upgrade to KK. Too bad for those who like to keep their MMS messages.
My mom decided to be a dumbass and keep a bunch of photos stored permanently in the text messaging app. Whenever someone sent her something, she wouldn't actually save it, just leave it in the messaging history and dig through the relevant messages whenever she wants to use the photo again. Now, she has a new phone, and she wants all of the pictures that are currently in the text message app on her old phone to be stored in a folder on her new phone, or at the very least to be on her new phone in some form. Ideally, what I want is to get a tarball of all of the messaging app's data that I can then cp *.jpg all of the images out of, and then I can email her the images. I am unwilling to try to root the phone because there are no backups of it, so I don't want to risk breaking anything.
The first thing I tried were the SMS transfer apps from the play store, such as this and this. In theory, these would be the easiest to use solution, and while they wouldn't be out of the messaging app, at least they would be on the new phone. I tried about 10 of them, multiple times each. Every single one would claim to have succeeded in transferring over the messages, but absolutely nothing ever appeared on the new phone.
The next thing I decided to try was LG Switch, since both phones were made by LG. Unfortunately, that didn't work out either. It wanted to wipe the new phone and basically set it up to be an exact copy of the old one. My mom has already started to use the new phone, so nuking the entire phone and copying everything over is not acceptable. Additionally, the radios on the old phone only work intermittently (one of the reasons that the phone was replaced), so I don't want to do anything that will take more than a minute or two over wireless.
Next, I tried Helium. The desktop app opens fine, but the app on the phone doesn't work. Sometimes, I get the application homescreen with a popup claiming that it is waiting for the desktop application and a cancel button that doesn't work. Sometimes, I get a solid white screen. In either case, the desktop app doesn't see it, the phone slows down and gets hot, and eventually I get a "Helium is not responding" popup. This has persisted across multiple attempts to wipe Helium's data and reinstall it.
The final thing I tried was LG Backup, which was buried in the settings menu. The old phone created a backup just fine, but the backup is in a proprietary format that I can't open on my laptop, and LG does not make it clear whether restoring on the new phone will keep the data that's already there or not. Additionally, this will still have the images trapped in a messaging app, except on the new phone instead of the old one.
I'm out of ideas. Anything else I can try? Any way I can fix the issues with something I already tried? Any way I can do this manually with ADB? In case it matters, the old phone is an LG G2 from T-Mobile (Model LG-D801) on Android 5.0.2, and the new phone is an LG K40.