Sudden phone storage drop - EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I am using an unrooted edge and have a problem. Shot a minute video and then tried to email it. As soon as I tried the phone sent a message that the storage was low. It suddenly dropped 50mb. I deleted the email which was in the to be sent folder and I deleted the video and the memory didn't come back. This is the second time this happened. Several months ago I had the same problem and had to reset the phone to get the storage right. I really hate to have to install all the apps again and this time I am asking for help?
Any ideas? I have read that there is an HTC email memory bug? But couldn't find a fix or not sure that this is the same problem.
Thank
Bob
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inmnbob said:
I am using an unrooted edge and have a problem. Shot a minute video and then tried to email it. As soon as I tried the phone sent a message that the storage was low. It suddenly dropped 50mb. I deleted the email which was in the to be sent folder and I deleted the video and the memory didn't come back. This is the second time this happened. Several months ago I had the same problem and had to reset the phone to get the storage right. I really hate to have to install all the apps again and this time I am asking for help?
Any ideas? I have read that there is an HTC email memory bug? But couldn't find a fix or not sure that this is the same problem.
Thank
Bob
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An EDGE??? Well this is the EVO Shift forum. But you can check and make sure your Email, and attachments are set to go the SD Card. Also you can go into the actual app under settings and clear Cache, and clear Data. Then reboot, see if that helps.

inmnbob said:
I am using an unrooted edge and have a problem. Shot a minute video and then tried to email it. As soon as I tried the phone sent a message that the storage was low. It suddenly dropped 50mb. I deleted the email which was in the to be sent folder and I deleted the video and the memory didn't come back. This is the second time this happened. Several months ago I had the same problem and had to reset the phone to get the storage right. I really hate to have to install all the apps again and this time I am asking for help?
Any ideas? I have read that there is an HTC email memory bug? But couldn't find a fix or not sure that this is the same problem.
Thank
Bob
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How the heck did you get the HTC Edge?? that phone isn't out yet and will be the 1st quad core phone i believe

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Media crash

The other day my gf was looking at pics in the gallery and according to her she swiped to the left and the next pic was black. She swiped again and nothing happened. She hit the back button and nothing happened. She hit the back button a few more times and ir brought her back to the main gallery screen. Amazingly the new pic she had just taken were not in the gallery anymore. All other pics were tho. So I snatch the phone from her to see what's up. Turns out I can view those pics she lost with astro but not the stock gallery. I also found out that when I get a call or a msg mt phone only vibrates now. I went to set the tone for msging and all my tones were gone. Again they are there if I browse with astro but ringsextended etc shows nothing. Any ideas wtf happened here?
Btw im using assonance 5.2
For reference I have tried rebooting, pulling the battery and rescanning the media.
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Try downloading "rescan media root" from the market and press re-enable media scanner, then wait for the media scanner to finish and try looking in the gallery again.
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Thanks for the speedy reply. I actually had that app long before this happened. I tried scanning but it didn't help. I uninstalled it thinking it might be the problem but that didn't work either. Could it be an internal sd problem? Maybe a reflash is in order here? Id rather not but if that's my only choice then so be it.
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nawlage said:
Thanks for the speedy reply. I actually had that app long before this happened. I tried scanning but it didn't help. I uninstalled it thinking it might be the problem but that didn't work either. Could it be an internal sd problem? Maybe a reflash is in order here? Id rather not but if that's my only choice then so be it.
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Well, the only other thing I can think of now is maybe converting your filesystem to rfs if it's on ext4 or vice versa, if that doesn't work, I can't think of anything else.
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Im using assonance 5.2 so what ever file system comes with that is what im on. I thought all custom roms changed the file system to something better (ext4?) than the stock system. I have had this rom for a good while now with no probs. What would cause my file system to go haywire out of nowhere like that? I can set ringtones and notifications with astro but they dont soundoff when
I get a call or a text. I can set an alarm tone with astro and it DOES SOUNDOFF when the alarm goes off. Whats up with that? Alarm tones work but no ring/text tones...
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nawlage said:
Im using assonance 5.2 so what ever file system comes with that is what im on. I thought all custom roms changed the file system to something better (ext4?) than the stock system. I have had this rom for a good while now with no probs. What would cause my file system to go haywire out of nowhere like that? I can set ringtones and notifications with astro but they dont soundoff when
I get a call or a text. I can set an alarm tone with astro and it DOES SOUNDOFF when the alarm goes off. Whats up with that? Alarm tones work but no ring/text tones...
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I believe most ROMs do change your filesystem, I'm not certain serendipity does.
I'm just trying help, perhaps someone else has a better idea of how to solve your problem.
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Dude I appreciate your help 1000%. I hope you don't think otherwise. Im just trying to fill in blanks here and maybe ignite an idea that will lead in the right direction.
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nawlage said:
Dude I appreciate your help 1000%. I hope you don't think otherwise. Im just trying to fill in blanks here and maybe ignite an idea that will lead in the right direction.
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thanks for the appreciation and I really am trying to think of what could fix your problem but I am simply stumped right now. I hope you get everything figured out. Sorry
No worries bro. Its hard sometimes to decipher peoples mind set thru text. Without tones to hear there isn't much left to go on. Thanks again.
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Morning bump. Still ain't got a clue and hesitant to reflash
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I had this happen once. Visible in file explorer but not in gallery. Stock 2.1 update1 at&t no root, no nothing...
Fortunately for me but maybe unfortunately for you the problem fixed itself after reboot... Maybe it took a couple.
If u mount the phone to ur pc, is everything visible? If so, I would do this:
1. Backup ur media to the pc
2. Grab another gallery.apk file from another rom and using root explorer or super manager, overwrite the apk.
3. If that doesn't work, reflash the Rom - at least everything is backed up
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Weird. I just grabbed a screeny with shootme and my gallery came back. What's weirder is that I moved all pics from phone to pc the other day and *thought* I deleted them from the gallery too. Either im an idiot or something real strange has happened. Thanks for the suggestions.
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It crashed again a few minutes ago and I took another screeny and it came back. Something happening with the refresh in there it seems.
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Still no tones tho
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Alrite just for closure.. I flashed serendipity and media is back to normal. Serendipity seems good. Gps works good for me now but I seem to get more lag than before, mainly when waiting for widget list to load after home screen long press
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Random restarts.

I get 1-2 reboots a day. A couple lock ups happen too. Anyone else? Is it normal?
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It's definitely not normal. Try wiping fresh and installing only necessary apps then test again. If the issue persists trade it in for a new Infuse.
eallan said:
I get 1-2 reboots a day. A couple lock ups happen too. Anyone else? Is it normal?
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My wife and I both get it on our two new Infuses. Mine pretty much happens when I am browsing... It will lock up vibrate a few times and basically reboot... Pretty frustrating... And I don't think wiping it clean will help since this happen on both of our phones
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garak0410 said:
My wife and I both get it on our two new Infuses. Mine pretty much happens when I am browsing... It will lock up vibrate a few times and basically reboot... Pretty frustrating... And I don't think wiping it clean will help since this happen on both of our phones
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The black screen vibrate and its off thing us what happens to me too.
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Hmm...interesting....
Are you all rooted? Changed any apps? Made any tweaks or all stock?
I've had my Infuse for a week now and it's been great....no reboots of any kind. No real bugs to complain about, though I have noticed it can lag quite a bit when looking at mms'.
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The vibrating is force closing. sounds like an app to me. did you and your wife both in stall the same apps? try factory rest on just one to test. BEWARE. take your external SD out. the facotry reset, wipes that too.
garak0410 said:
My wife and I both get it on our two new Infuses. Mine pretty much happens when I am browsing... It will lock up vibrate a few times and basically reboot... Pretty frustrating... And I don't think wiping it clean will help since this happen on both of our phones
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I get it too... Do you guys run at 190 dpi? DO you guys run LauncherPro?
Nothing special on our phones...since the AT&T update Thursday, the stock browser, so far, hadn't crashed yet.
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garak0410 said:
Nothing special on our phones...since the AT&T update Thursday, the stock browser, so far, hadn't crashed yet.
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Yeah I updated to UCKE5 with GTG's rom. Wiped my int sd and did a data wipe and very careful what to tibu back... So far so good...
Install a custom ROM, no more reboots and phone will be snappy.
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rjan22 said:
Install a custom ROM, no more reboots and phone will be snappy.
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i did same ish. data system and delvik wipe
rblankman said:
The vibrating is force closing. sounds like an app to me. did you and your wife both in stall the same apps? try factory rest on just one to test. BEWARE. take your external SD out. the facotry reset, wipes that too.
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The vibration is a notification that you are running low in nemmoey and using too much. Check your apps it happens to me too only when I'm browsing and trying to open too much tabs
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slider2828 said:
i did same ish. data system and delvik wipe[/QUOTE
You are aware to install a clean ROM you have to UNchecked wipe davlik, and check wipe data and cache?
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rjan22 said:
slider2828 said:
i did same ish. data system and delvik wipe[/QUOTE
You are aware to install a clean ROM you have to UNchecked wipe davlik, and check wipe data and cache?
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Ergh... no....
It was exactly word for word:
ROM Pre-Installation:
Wipe Data and Cache
Wipe Dalvik Cache
So you put a check mark to tell it to do so.... Been flash roms almost a year now since the captivate.... I would think to do how to do that
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Problem with restarts had been referred to SD cards. It is not always relevant, as such behaviour used to happen even on card-free phones. My problems started just after update to Mango, what made phone practically unusable.
I tried and seems succesfully solved problem in following way:
- connect phone to Zune
- click on phone, then settings
- choose RESERVED SPACE position
- change with slider from default 1% to 20%
- apply, disconnect
My phone, with Micro SD, stopped crazy behaviour, f.ex. during making photo, using apps. So far so good.
So maybe, either Samsung or MS had screwed up default settings of phone and use of ROM/RAM upon processes.
Solution can be applicable to Focus S and Omnia 7 too.
Good luck!
Jasper_jt said:
Problem with restarts had been referred to SD cards. It is not always relevant, as such behaviour used to happen even on card-free phones. My problems started just after update to Mango, what made phone practically unusable.
I tried and seems succesfully solved problem in following way:
- connect phone to Zune
- click on phone, then settings
- choose RESERVED SPACE position
- change with slider from default 1% to 20%
- apply, disconnect
My phone, with Micro SD, stopped crazy behaviour, f.ex. during making photo, using apps. So far so good.
So maybe, either Samsung or MS had screwed up default settings of phone and use of ROM/RAM upon processes.
Solution can be applicable to Focus S and Omnia 7 too.
Good luck!
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This was in June!! June!!! And this is not a damn Windows phone forum....
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Jasper_jt said:
Problem with restarts had been referred to SD cards. It is not always relevant, as such behaviour used to happen even on card-free phones. My problems started just after update to Mango, what made phone practically unusable.
I tried and seems succesfully solved problem in following way:
- connect phone to Zune
- click on phone, then settings
- choose RESERVED SPACE position
- change with slider from default 1% to 20%
- apply, disconnect
My phone, with Micro SD, stopped crazy behaviour, f.ex. during making photo, using apps. So far so good.
So maybe, either Samsung or MS had screwed up default settings of phone and use of ROM/RAM upon processes.
Solution can be applicable to Focus S and Omnia 7 too.
Good luck!
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Sell Your phone. Now.
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Jasper_jt said:
Problem with restarts had been referred to SD cards. It is not always relevant, as such behaviour used to happen even on card-free phones. My problems started just after update to Mango, what made phone practically unusable.
I tried and seems succesfully solved problem in following way:
- connect phone to Zune
- click on phone, then settings
- choose RESERVED SPACE position
- change with slider from default 1% to 20%
- apply, disconnect
My phone, with Micro SD, stopped crazy behaviour, f.ex. during making photo, using apps. So far so good.
So maybe, either Samsung or MS had screwed up default settings of phone and use of ROM/RAM upon processes.
Solution can be applicable to Focus S and Omnia 7 too.
Good luck!
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WTF...... ? No. Mod.. I think you should close this..

[Q] WhatsApp!!!!!

okay so this is really annoying me now.
i have had whatsapp for a long time now and have been able to send images using it.
but tonight whenver i send an image it would keep showing me a "retry" button
i have restarted my phone, uninstalled and installed again, cleared cache data, tried using wifi and mobile network. nothing works?
im on desire hd, gingerbread
can anybody help??
This has happened to me before. After so few days it just started working again.
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lol mine has started to work again now...
wierd
I wish there's a menu for sign out sign in from whatsapp......
wait few days maybe there are some problems on the network
Seems like a server-side problem. I exprerienced it to past few days,
This has happened to me before.

Battery question what's media server mean?

A new thing killing my battery is media server. Whats that
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me too...
Thought it might be allshare?
Got no clue. I am not sharing anything. Made me think maybe kiss air responsible
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Are you referring to media hub? If so, you can freeze or uninstall it.
Wow, this just jumped up for me as well. For the last day and a half my battery life has been brutal. This morning I'm down 16% in 45 min. despite not using my phone.
Looks like two apps are the culprits: Media and Media Server. Can anyone tell me how I can determine what is forcing these to run?
I thought I could correlate it to installing a free Amazon talking book, 'cause after installing it this weekend my media server never seemed to shut off and I had to reboot to kill it. But I uninstalled the app last night with no improvement.
xxsicknessxx said:
A new thing killing my battery is media server. Whats that
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That is so curious, I have nothing like that even on my radar. Are you guys using debloated roms?
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FWIW, this isn't a new issue, just new to me. Quite a few theories as to the cause.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=980575
http://androidforums.com/eris-support-troubleshooting/217747-mediaserver-using-battery.html
Looks like some have had success removing all media files from their SD cards. Doing this piecemeal sounds pretty daunting to me - seems like every app folder and subfolder has at least images in it. Think I'll wait til next time I flash to start fresh. If this battery drain keeps up it will probably be in the next couple hours
xxsicknessxx said:
A new thing killing my battery is media server. Whats that
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Are apps that use the media scanner working properly? Apps such as music, camera, gallery, etc?
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Everything else seems to work fine for me. This is driving me crazy. I formatted my SD card, but no improvement. Media Server continues to run. I then wiped once, but still it's running. Been running Silver's ICS for a week with no issues at all, then this started two days ago.
Next up I'm gonna wipe 3x, then dalvik wipe, then reflash. ARRRRGH!
Altarocks said:
Everything else seems to work fine for me. This is driving me crazy. I formatted my SD card, but no improvement. Media Server continues to run. I then wiped once, but still it's running. Been running Silver's ICS for a week with no issues at all, then this started two days ago.
Next up I'm gonna wipe 3x, then dalvik wipe, then reflash. ARRRRGH!
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Have you tried moving everything off of your emmc (internal sd) to your computer? Then reboot. I had a problem with media scanner doing that. I take it you never used the Odin one click?
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eagle0042 said:
Have you tried moving everything off of your emmc (internal sd) to your computer? Then reboot. I had a problem with media scanner doing that. I take it you never used the Odin one click?
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Haven't used Odin on this SR (it's a two-week old replacement). I've only used Odin in the past to remove root. I'm at a loss here. I've formatted my ext. SD, wiped my phone numerous times, flashed 3 different ROMs today, and restored every app one-by-one so that I don't restore the data. Still media server runs like a top.
Is there a way to use Odin that's faster than removing root and starting over? I gotta fix this - I can't last 4 hours on a battery.
Altarocks said:
Haven't used Odin on this SR (it's a two-week old replacement). I've only used Odin in the past to remove root. I'm at a loss here. I've formatted my ext. SD, wiped my phone numerous times, flashed 3 different ROMs today, and restored every app one-by-one so that I don't restore the data. Still media server runs like a top.
Is there a way to use Odin that's faster than removing root and starting over? I gotta fix this - I can't last 4 hours on a battery.
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I know what you mean. Have you tried running fix permissions in rom manager? You have to install busybox from the market first, though.
Edit: Here's a link to a busybox installer:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=stericson.busybox
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Just finished fixing permissions and rebooted. I'm only 7 minutes into the battery monitor, but media server is still running over 50% of drain. Sigh, guess a trip to Odin is in order.
Huh. I was having a similar problem, and moving all the files from the internal sd card to my computer fixed it. And then I read somewhere that fix permissions would work too. Sorry I couldn't be more of a help. Good luck!
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Mytouch 4g slide keeps freezing

Hey all, i don't know if there's already a thread about this but i did a quick search and didn't really find one about my problem.
Anyways, my girlfriend has a mytouch 4g slide and it keeps freezing on her. If she's in a call, she can stay in the call but won't be able to hang up or use the screen in any way until a restart. She is completely stock. This is the second mytouch for her with the same problem. Any ideas as to why this is happening?
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GGWC808 said:
Hey all, i don't know if there's already a thread about this but i did a quick search and didn't really find one about my problem.
Anyways, my girlfriend has a mytouch 4g slide and it keeps freezing on her. If she's in a call, she can stay in the call but won't be able to hang up or use the screen in any way until a restart. She is completely stock. This is the second mytouch for her with the same problem. Any ideas as to why this is happening?
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Well when I was stock, I never had any problems like this. I have heard about people having screen freezes with regards to the call screen, however. It could easily be one of the apps that she downloaded. It might be worth it to try a factory reset if the problem is persistent. Not to mention that sounds like a pretty annoying issue.
Yeah, we tried a factory reset before and it didn't work.
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Huh, I talked to her more about this issue and it seems that it only freezes during a call. She didn't realize it until I asked her specifically about it. So any way to fix this issue.
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GGWC808 said:
Huh, I talked to her more about this issue and it seems that it only freezes during a call. She didn't realize it until I asked her specifically about it. So any way to fix this issue.
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If a factory reset doesn't solve your problem, you have two options:
Root and install a custom rom (could be a stock rom problem, even though it shouldn't be)
Get it replaced under warranty
is the device completely frozen, or can she get the screen to turn on by pressing the trackpad or something? come to think of it, the sensor doesn't seem to work perfectly on my device, so sometimes when i want to hang up a call, i need to press the trackpad to get the screen to turn on. i have never had the device become totally unresponsive tho.
Well, she says the screen is on but nothing happens when she taps it. The only way so far to get her phone to work again is a battery pull.
This is already a warranty replaced phone for the same problem. I would root her phone, but she is in San Francisco and I'm not. She is also not very tech savvy so she can't do it herself.
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GGWC808 said:
Well, she says the screen is on but nothing happens when she taps it. The only way so far to get her phone to work again is a battery pull.
This is already a warranty replaced phone for the same problem. I would root her phone, but she is in San Francisco and I'm not. She is also not very tech savvy so she can't do it herself.
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Have her try using GO! Dailer/Contacts. I know this issue is based within the Call Out screen. But try using GO! It can also an out of Ram issue. On stock, the more widgets you use. The worse the phone gets. You'll see that HTC Logo all the time. My Uncle has this phone, and he's 100% stock. He gets freezes, and the HTC Logo screen after every app. Since the phone has the highest priority in a call, in can be using to much RAM. Then the phones doing a Rosie reboot with out the HTC scrreen.
If she wants to. Install Zeam Launcher. She won't have any Sense widgets. But it'll free up about 120Mb of Ram. Then place the call, and see if it lags.
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After a warranty replacement for my old phone, I haven't had time to fight rooting and have been experiencing similar issues... Memory mgmt seems to be cause. Ive removed some apps and it has reduced issues.
On initial use of phone, I reset it, inserted a full battery and followed the general "let it set" rules for a fresh rom install. At first, all was great, everything worked perfect. But as I added apps, it grew less stable. Also seeing phone freeze when rebooting into recovery... Eek. Tried multiple sd cards, batteries, to no avail.
Gonna call for another replacement. Ugh. Wrty is up in a couple months...
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I've had a couple of freezes happen to me during phone calls and I realize what the problem was. It was apps automatically downloading in the background from the Play Store. If an auto update for apps is happening and I receive a phone call at the same time my phone will become unresponsive for a few minutes.
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Have her try using GO! Dailer/Contacts. I know this issue is based within the Call Out screen. But try using GO! It can also an out of Ram issue. On stock, the more widgets you use. The worse the phone gets. You'll see that HTC Logo all the time. My Uncle has this phone, and he's 100% stock. He gets freezes, and the HTC Logo screen after every app. Since the phone has the highest priority in a call, in can be using to much RAM. Then the phones doing a Rosie reboot with out the HTC scrreen.
If she wants to. Install Zeam Launcher. She won't have any Sense widgets. But it'll free up about 120Mb of Ram. Then place the call, and see if it lags.
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So this GO! Dialer, would it help with the freezing issue? I don't see how using another app would help with the memory issue. Does Zeam Launcher require root?

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