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Not recieving SMS, can rooting fix this?

II think i have the SMS problem from the memory filling up. I don't receive any texts and I've factory reset already. I can send just not receive. If I root my phone is there anyway I can fix the setting that is messed up? I JUST put my invisible shield on and don't want to pay another $15 for a new one.

No one? Has anyone else has this problem of not receiving sms after a low memory warning?

I'm sure once a custom ROM is released, someone will have looked into that problem and fixed it in the ROM.

For now the only way to fix it is to exchange it for a new one. Rooting the phone and using the Modaco custom ROM did not fix the issue. Try to avoid using bluetooth to keep the storage memory from leaking when it gets stuck connecting. Sprint is not the best at disseminating information to it's employees so if they try to give you any problems reference one of the threads on the official Sprint forum. Will and the Sprint phone team have been able to replicate the issue with multiple phones and bricked them.
http://community.sprint.com/baw/thread/23854?tstart=0

Actually, I had the same issue when I first got my HTC Hero from Sprint. Call the actual support number. They did a walk through with me to change a system number setting. I've been able to receive text ever since. Except twitter which seems to be a Sprint global issue.

Just read this in the Sprint forum, appears it might be a workaround if you root your phone. Now if we can figure out the commands to safely delete these files, it could be done in terminal.
I think I may have found where this memory is going.
After rooting the phone, I was poking around in the /data folder and noticed a bunch of ~6.5 MB core dump files in the /data/btips directory. BTIPS appears to be a bluetooth-related service.
So I'm guessing that Bluetooth service crashes, which may be manifest partially as BT devices sitting at the "connecting..." phase, are generating core dumps that are left on internal memory and shouldn't be.
I deleted all of these files (all named core.xxxx where xxxx is a string of numbers), rebooted, and reclaimed almost 70 MB of internal memory. You do have to root your device in order to delete these files, though.
The HTC devs already know this, as wengla indicates, but it might help the few of you experiencing this problem with a rooted phone.

I've already hard rest the phone so no files anymore, but whatever flag is set is permently set. I don't get how, especially after a hard factory reset. So as long as no one knows what that is even rooting won't help me. I am getting a new phone but it ticks me off especially since I just installed an invisible shield on it.

[Q] Suddenly only 10 megs of free memory?

Hey guys, I was hoping someone might know what's going on. My phone started acting really slow today then gave me a low on memory message all of a sudden. I checked and i only had 10 megs free internal memory for some reason. I've always had 100+ at least. I checked all over, including by using the file find feature and had no big files/pictures. Deleted my texts and emails. That all gave me a few more megs, but didn't go back to normal. I even tried using a backup file from a couple of days ago and it's still like that, so either this has been happening for a while and i didn't notice or backup restore doesn't fix it. Anyone got an idea as to what's going on?
This is a sprint touch pro 2 running energy rom.

Got the problem fixed. What I ended up doing was hard resetting, then restoring from SPB backup and i got all of the memory back. I don't know what was screwed up, but if you ever have this problem try doing that. I think it was probably a file system or physical storage problem.

I found a program called cleartemp that solved similar problem for me. Went from 15 megs to 60 just from using that program to clear all the temporary file garbage that builds up. Cleartemp has a lot of settings to work with and may solve your problem if it happens again.

brainrepairer said:
I found a program called cleartemp that solved similar problem for me. Went from 15 megs to 60 just from using that program to clear all the temporary file garbage that builds up. Cleartemp has a lot of settings to work with and may solve your problem if it happens again.
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Thanks for the tip. I'll look for it next time it happens. For now i reformatted my phone.

Did you ever try to just soft reset it? Sometimes mine gets bogged down from too many texts and numbers in my call log so I'll clean them all out and then reset my phone and all is good. Only do this like once a week.

[Q] Can't access SD apps after reseting DS!

Hi! My Desire S was crashing frequently so I did factory reset to my Desire S. Before that I moved some of the apps to SD.
The problem is that after resetting the phone, I am unable to find the apps on SD. There is no icon of them in the menu. But my card memory is still the same as before reset meaning that they were not uninstalled by resetting.
What should I do? Any recommendations and ideas?
Thnx!

Mohib86 said:
Hi! My Desire S was crashing frequently so I did factory reset to my Desire S. Before that I moved some of the apps to SD.
The problem is that after resetting the phone, I am unable to find the apps on SD. There is no icon of them in the menu. But my card memory is still the same as before reset meaning that they were not uninstalled by resetting.
What should I do? Any recommendations and ideas?
Thnx!
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"Factory Reset" resets the phone to the factory default (or the ROM default if you're using a custom ROM). That means it starts up as if it was a fresh install. However, it cannot touch anything on the SD-Card unless to tick the box for "Format SD-Card" (or whatever it's called).
Simply reinstall the applications and move them to SD again as you did before.
One lesson to learn though - just because your phone is crashing, doesn't always mean that a factory reset is the best plan of action. If it is 'Stock', unrooted etc then fine, but as you are on XDA I assume you actually play with it a bit; you would have been better off taking logcats and trying to work out what was causing the crashes rather than simply wiping and having to install everything from scratch again. It could even be something as simple as your SD-Card going faulty, thus causing the phone problems when it tries running the apps that you have moved to SD.

SimonTS said:
"Factory Reset" resets the phone to the factory default (or the ROM default if you're using a custom ROM). That means it starts up as if it was a fresh install. However, it cannot touch anything on the SD-Card unless to tick the box for "Format SD-Card" (or whatever it's called).
Simply reinstall the applications and move them to SD again as you did before.
One lesson to learn though - just because your phone is crashing, doesn't always mean that a factory reset is the best plan of action. If it is 'Stock', unrooted etc then fine, but as you are on XDA I assume you actually play with it a bit; you would have been better off taking logcats and trying to work out what was causing the crashes rather than simply wiping and having to install everything from scratch again. It could even be something as simple as your SD-Card going faulty, thus causing the phone problems when it tries running the apps that you have moved to SD.
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Hi! Thanks for your detailed reply. No doubt I am on XDA, but my DS is still "Virgin" ! It is on stock ROM Gingerbread. I am still a newbie in the filed of ROMs that's why I haven't rooted my DS yet.
Actually, what happened was that whenever I unlocked the phone, some .com service stopped working and my phone dropped all the network signal. There was some issue with the radios I think. WiFi signals also got very feeble.
I by moving apps to SD doesn't it mean that I will not be required to re-install then after resetting? I mean they were not deleted or erased? Or by moving to SD means that there data is moved but there apk is still on phone?
Regards,

Mohib86 said:
Hi! Thanks for your detailed reply. No doubt I am on XDA, but my DS is still "Virgin" ! It is on stock ROM Gingerbread. I am still a newbie in the filed of ROMs that's why I haven't rooted my DS yet.
Actually, what happened was that whenever I unlocked the phone, some .com service stopped working and my phone dropped all the network signal. There was some issue with the radios I think. WiFi signals also got very feeble.
I by moving apps to SD doesn't it mean that I will not be required to re-install then after resetting? I mean they were not deleted or erased? Or by moving to SD means that there data is moved but there apk is still on phone?
Regards,
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Although the data may still be on the SD-Card, the phone O/S will have no knowledge of them, or of what to do with them. It would be useful if you could remember which '.com' stopped, but it's too late now. I doubt if it was actually a radio problem though - if it has been working fine since you got it then it is unlikely that the radio firmware suddenly decided to go wrong.
It may be worth keeping an eye on it as you reinstall all your apps. If it is still under warranty then it may be worth taking it back to the shop you got it from just in-case there is a developing hardware fault, although that is unlikely.

J7 (MetroPCS 2015) Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Hotspot: All Not Working

Hi. New to the forum, hoping to resolve this issue that's been plaguing this phone for months. The phone is not allowing connections to Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or hotspot (all both ways, to and from. Won't connect to another hotspot, won't allow others to connect to it's hotspot). What's truly strange is that all will work randomly, then quit again. But it works maybe 1% of the time. This makes me believe it's not a hardware issue, but it's not proof. And other times, it will work (Wi-Fi for example) and within a few minutes it will shut itself off. Same has happened with Bluetooth. I doubt it matters, but this phone is unlocked and currently using the T-Mobile network. I'm positive I've isolated the issues to this phone. I have done weeks worth of research online, and tried everything I know to fix it myself to no avail. My skill level is moderate to noob-ish, I know plenty more than the old folks, but would bet my house I'd brick a phone trying to root it.
What I've done already (thanks to countless bits of info by Google searching):
*Have powered off/on the phone many times
*Have factory reset the phone
*Have done a "master reset"
*Have wiped the system cache partition in the boot menu
*Have booted in safe mode, problems still persist
*Have gone to system apps>device maintenance>storage>clear data
*Have gone to system apps>wifi direct>storage>clear data
Fwiw, I've had nothing but problems ever since I installed the FB messenger app (only installed briefly to place an ad), but I deleted it ages ago and will never install it again. Can't be 100% certain whether or not the issues started before or after the install, or whether it's related at all. I really like this phone and don't want to give up on it, but I'm not willing to take it somewhere and spend hundreds fixing it either. I really appreciate anyone who takes time to read and offer help. Thanks in advance!

Bump. Can anyone offer help or advice?

Phone downloaded apps by itself, even without data enabled.

Hi all.
I have searched quite a bit and have found no answer to this problem yet.
So the phone is fresh from factory reset. Phone is pre-owned. Never connected to any wifi network and the wifi always remained off. Same goes with mobile data, never turned on. What's even more interesting is the sim is a prepaid simcard with no credits and no data. The simcard is intended to receive text and calls. (No cost to receive calls or sms). So data leak from that isn't possible either.
I have seen hidden downloaders from carrier that downloads bloatware by itself before. But this is the first time I've ever seen it self download apps without any data connection.
The built-in data usage counter still shows 0. The phone has never connected to anything. But now several bloatware apps just showed up. And those apps do work and storage used has increased. I noticed this around 24 hours after the reset.
Can someone please explain what is going on?
Do phones have secret functions to access data undetected by wifi or carrier?
The phone manufacturer is a one of the major brands and probably the largest that don't have access to GMS.

WishTime said:
Hi all.
I have searched quite a bit and have found no answer to this problem yet.
So the phone is fresh from factory reset. Phone is pre-owned. Never connected to any wifi network and the wifi always remained off. Same goes with mobile data, never turned on. What's even more interesting is the sim is a prepaid simcard with no credits and no data. The simcard is intended to receive text and calls. (No cost to receive calls or sms). So data leak from that isn't possible either.
I have seen hidden downloaders from carrier that downloads bloatware by itself before. But this is the first time I've ever seen it self download apps without any data connection.
The built-in data usage counter still shows 0. The phone has never connected to anything. But now several bloatware apps just showed up. And those apps do work and storage used has increased. I noticed this around 24 hours after the reset.
Can someone please explain what is going on?
Do phones have secret functions to access data undetected by wifi or carrier?
The phone manufacturer is a one of the major brands and probably the largest that don't have access to GMS.
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Some devices have system apps that can be "uninstall", but they don't actually uninstall completely because the uninstalled apps are stored in a hidden partition. But, once uninstalled, if the device is factory reset, the apps automatically reinstall themselves from the hidden partition, similar to when resetting a PC to factory defaults. I had a tablet that would do this, the apps were definitely uninstalled but would reinstall from the hidden partition when I would factory reset the device, then I would have to uninstall those apps again. This would happen every time I did a factory reset.

Droidriven said:
Some devices have system apps that can be "uninstall", but they don't actually uninstall completely because the uninstalled apps are stored in a hidden partition. But, once uninstalled, if the device is factory reset, the apps automatically reinstall themselves from the hidden partition, similar to when resetting a PC to factory defaults. I had a taste would do this, the apps were definitely uninstalled but would reinstall from the hidden partition when I would factory reset the device, then I would have to uninstall those apps again. This would happen every time did a factory reset.
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Thanks for the answer.
Yes I understand that part of uninstall. But the difference here is those apps never returned fresh from factory reset. It returned hours after using the phone. The first few hours of using the phone, those apps doesn't exist, doesn't even show up on the free space count. It wasn't until the next day those apps appear.
I did suspect what you said too, but I can't explain why it waited at least 18-24 hours delay before installing itself and show up on the phone. If that was the case, it should have appeared right after the reset.

WishTime said:
Thanks for the answer.
Yes I understand that part of uninstall. But the difference here is those apps never returned fresh from factory reset. It returned hours after using the phone. The first few hours of using the phone, those apps doesn't exist, doesn't even show up on the free space count. It wasn't until the next day those apps appear.
I did suspect what you said too, but I can't explain why it waited at least 18-24 hours delay before installing itself and show up on the phone. If that was the case, it should have appeared right after the reset.
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Yes, I considered that also. The only other thing I could imagine is that maybe you installed something and then whatever that was installed the additional apps.

Questions of a hidden Google mesh network come to mind after reading this. I guess it's theoretically possible via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth between devices. I don't know.

So after trying to gather more information.
I believe it is installed from some "hidden partition" by some hidden app installer.
The reason is.
1. No data of what so ever is connected.
2. The installed app version is old, as in few months before the official release.
What is intriguing is.
1. The delay before installing this app (and through an installer), rather than just install it fresh from reset.
2. It doesn't appear to be consuming and storage, as if this hidden partition cannot even be seen. Once the app appears, the storage usage increases.
zpunout said:
Questions of a hidden Google mesh network come to mind after reading this. I guess it's theoretically possible via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth between devices. I don't know.
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I actually believe it is a thing. I vaguely remember that my brand new iPhone detected and recommended my current location region without even inserting a simcard or connecting to wifi yet. The kicker is, phone was purchased in another country that is separated by vast ocean and several time zones.
To this day I still can't figure out how did the iPhone know that. I suspect that the wifi routers broadcast more than just SSID to any device that is not connected. Or it could be from another iPhone. Maybe some similar bluetooth tech that predates "Airtag". This was about 3-4 years ago, likely it was the X.

WishTime said:
So after trying to gather more information.
I believe it is installed from some "hidden partition" by some hidden app installer.
The reason is.
1. No data of what so ever is connected.
2. The installed app version is old, as in few months before the official release.
What is intriguing is.
1. The delay before installing this app (and through an installer), rather than just install it fresh from reset.
2. It doesn't appear to be consuming and storage, as if this hidden partition cannot even be seen. Once the app appears, the storage usage increases.
I actually believe it is a thing. I vaguely remember that my brand new iPhone detected and recommended my current location region without even inserting a simcard or connecting to wifi yet. The kicker is, phone was purchased in another country that is separated by vast ocean and several time zones.
To this day I still can't figure out how did the iPhone know that. I suspect that the wifi routers broadcast more than just SSID to any device that is not connected. Or it could be from another iPhone. Maybe some similar bluetooth tech that predates "Airtag". This was about 3-4 years ago, likely it was the X.
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Location is detetmined by more than just mobile data and Wi-Fi, it also uses the regular cellular part of the radio. The cellular part of the radio works even without an active SIM. That is why the emergency location and emergency call features work even without the device being activated on a network so that you can make emergency calls and your location can be tracked in emergency situations so that you can be found if you need help or rescue.