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Does anyone else notice extreme performance drops in overall phone speed when downloading to the SD card from online? I have a 16 GB Sandisk Class 2, just FYI. I notice my phone is ridiculously laggy while trying to use it while downloading a file online to my SD card. Anyone else have the same problem or is this to be expected? perhaps it is not so laggy if I download to the phones internal SD card and not the external Sandisk I have.
Mine does it too. When downloading 2+ apps at the same time the device just crawls. Froyo does fix this as my Nexus did the same thing in 2.1.
same here, glad its not just me, i thought something might have been wrong.
Mine definitely slows when downloading/installing apps.
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I don't know about when downloading random files, but my phone would just about stop responding to touch for at least a few seconds when downloading and installing apps, especially if you did more than one. The more you downloaded and installed at once, the worse it got.
Doing the mod moving the data partition to and ext3 partition on the SD card completely fixed this issue.
This is due to the way the phone uses the internal sd card with applications. Apparently 2.2 will fix this but its fixed for me now running jm2 with this fix.
Either wait for samsung to release froyo or dive in and learn some crazy.
If you are having issues with this phone and people are, go here:
https://supportforums.motorola.com/community/google-android/atrix2?view=discussions
Register and complain away, the forum admins are actually passing the concerns to the techs. Maybe we can see some bug fixes?
Yep, I registered yesterday
No root issues though, lol
Only have 2 issues which have already been mentioned in the Community Forums.
1. Install or move a program to your SDCard, icon stays on phone, but phone thinks program has been uninstalled ! (This apparently was the same problem the original Atrix 4G also has)
2. 8GB internal memory, only 4GB shown.. install anything on your phone filling 500MB, and your phone will come back stating there in no room left !
To me, these are 2 HUGE issues they need to resolve quickly.
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LordGeek said:
Only have 2 issues which have already been mentioned in the Community Forums.
1. Install or move a program to your SDCard, icon stays on phone, but phone thinks program has been uninstalled ! (This apparently was the same problem the original Atrix 4G also has)
2. 8GB internal memory, only 4GB shown.. install anything on your phone filling 500MB, and your phone will come back stating there in no room left !
To me, these are 2 HUGE issues they need to resolve quickly.
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Do you mean 8gb sdcard memory? IIRC, the Atrix 2 only has 4.5gb internal storage
916x10 said:
Do you mean 8gb sdcard memory? IIRC, the Atrix 2 only has 4.5gb internal storage
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No.. internal. Look at full specs on PhoneArena and GSMArena.
Built-In Storage : 8192MB
Correct me if I'm wrong .. thats 8GB .. not 4GB.
Attached are 2 screenshots .. one from PhoneArena, other from GSMArena.
I have issues with bluetooth when connected to my car stereo. Most of the time, occasionally it works just fine, when listening to anything by bluetooth in my car I get drop outs in the audio that last any where between .5 seconds and 3 seconds. They sometimes happen in a pattern of a long drop followed by a short drop withing .5 seconds. It does not seem to effect phone calls but that leads to another problem.
While listening to an internet radio station and a call came in while in the car the radio (iheartradio) kept playing after I answered the call from the car stereo touch screen. I had to kill the radio app in order to keep the audio out of the call. The other side told me they heard my radio over the phone.
Random reboot
Random reboots while listening to any audio app (dogcatcher, Pandora, stock music player). I am using wired headphones and the phone will just randomly reboot. Very annoying
Interesting, any certain amount of time before it reboots? I use xiialive lite with zero cut outs or reboots. Been rocking it for awhile, are you streaming and recording at the same time?
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LordGeek said:
No.. internal. Look at full specs on PhoneArena and GSMArena.
Built-In Storage : 8192MB
Correct me if I'm wrong .. thats 8GB .. not 4GB.
Attached are 2 screenshots .. one from PhoneArena, other from GSMArena.
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Those are the last two places I'd expect spot on info from.
Looking at the official Motorola website under the specs for this phone, it does list 8gb as the internal storage capacity.....but it also has a footnote that states:
Available user memory varies due to the configuration of the phone, which varies by service provider.
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So I decided to check AT&T's website and found that it says "up to 8gb"
So based on the above listed information on the two websites that really matter, it's safe to assume that the reason it's not showing 8gb in available internal storage is due to AT&T's configuration.
I saw that also.. but the fact is.. we can't use it. If you go to "Settings" "Storage" .. look under Application Storage. Mine states 4.13GB .. now here is the bug .. install 500MB of stuff (anything) .. once you reach 500.. watch your phone state you're out if memory !!!!
You can't move your apps to the SDCard, because, if you have to reboot your phone .. it will keep the icon on your screen/listing .. but the phone will come back with an error stating it was uninstalled .. yet all you did was move it from Phone to SDCard.
Those are 2 major bugs that they really need to resolve .. yet the funny thing is, the original Motorola Atrix 4G had the same bugs.. you'd think they would have learned from there first mistake.
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LordGeek said:
I saw that also.. but the fact is.. we can't use it. If you go to "Settings" "Storage" .. look under Application Storage. Mine states 4.13GB .. now here is the bug .. install 500MB of stuff (anything) .. once you reach 500.. watch your phone state you're out if memory !!!!
You can't move your apps to the SDCard, because, if you have to reboot your phone .. it will keep the icon on your screen/listing .. but the phone will come back with an error stating it was uninstalled .. yet all you did was move it from Phone to SDCard.
Those are 2 major bugs that they really need to resolve .. yet the funny thing is, the original Motorola Atrix 4G had the same bugs.. you'd think they would have learned from there first mistake.
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qft I find this quite annoying
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process com.motorola.process.system force close
Bout to go to the support forums and report this. Found an issue today. Getting a message window saying com.motorola.process.system error. Only option I had was force quit. Anyone else faced?
@cloudedhopes
Go to settings, date & time.
Switch "Automatic" off.
Set timezone to some INCORRECT timezone ( say Greenland )
Switch "Automatic" on.
rahul255 said:
@cloudedhopes
Go to settings, date & time.
Switch "Automatic" off.
Set timezone to some INCORRECT timezone ( say Greenland )
Switch "Automatic" on.
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I read that somewhere and it worked for now atleast. I think since DST moved the time... this might have caused the issue. But can't say for sure. Purely dumb guess and error.
LordGeek said:
I saw that also.. but the fact is.. we can't use it. If you go to "Settings" "Storage" .. look under Application Storage. Mine states 4.13GB .. now here is the bug .. install 500MB of stuff (anything) .. once you reach 500.. watch your phone state you're out if memory !!!!
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I understand and know that, but that wasnt the issue I was addressing. It was your claim that the phone is only reporting half of available internal storage, just 4 gb of 8gb, which simply isnt true. But you can bring up other unrelated issues and ignore that if you want, lol.
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I usually got around 20 minutes in but it would always reboot at random times beyond that. I gave up and returned the phone for a new one. No issues so far. Keeping fingers crossed.
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I'm pretty sure it's 6gb internal memory + 2gb on the included micro sd card. Of that 6gb, 1+gb is being used by the OS and pre-loaded apps. The phone seems to load everything that's downloaded onto the 2gb sd card, so it will fill up pretty quick.
LordGeek said:
Only have 2 issues which have already been mentioned in the Community Forums.
1. Install or move a program to your SDCard, icon stays on phone, but phone thinks program has been uninstalled ! (This apparently was the same problem the original Atrix 4G also has)
2. 8GB internal memory, only 4GB shown.. install anything on your phone filling 500MB, and your phone will come back stating there in no room left !
To me, these are 2 HUGE issues they need to resolve quickly.
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When you installing a program and the phone alert that "there is on room left", then you can re-install this program again, then it will be successful.
gdj80 said:
I have issues with bluetooth when connected to my car stereo. Most of the time, occasionally it works just fine, when listening to anything by bluetooth in my car I get drop outs in the audio that last any where between .5 seconds and 3 seconds. They sometimes happen in a pattern of a long drop followed by a short drop withing .5 seconds. It does not seem to effect phone calls but that leads to another problem.
While listening to an internet radio station and a call came in while in the car the radio (iheartradio) kept playing after I answered the call from the car stereo touch screen. I had to kill the radio app in order to keep the audio out of the call. The other side told me they heard my radio over the phone.
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this bluetooth issue is a gingerbread issue itself, not device specific. i have had this since froyo on 2 different devices already.
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spd_rcr said:
I'm pretty sure it's 6gb internal memory + 2gb on the included micro sd card. Of that 6gb, 1+gb is being used by the OS and pre-loaded apps. The phone seems to load everything that's downloaded onto the 2gb sd card, so it will fill up pretty quick.
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my guess is that it's 8gb internal
- 1gb /system
- 1gb /ram
not sure on the downloaded stuff though. check settings > applications to see what the default installation location is.
Atrix 1 vs Atrix 2
Can't really complain but I found this funny...
I have both Atrix 1 and 2, Atrix 1 has the CM7 rom and scores 6000+ using AnTuTu Benchmark, Atrix 2 is obviously stock and only scores around 4000 using the same benchmark.
I will try to wait patiently for movement in the rom arena. It's hard, I'm a flash junkie.
I bought this phone from my local AT&T store on the day that it was released.
Since then I've had several issues with this model.
The one that I bought at the physical store would not go longer than 40 hours without locking up entirely, forcing me to reboot. I fought it for a long time thinking that it was an app I was using. By the time I determined that it was a hardware problem, I was past the warranty period and processed the phone as a warranty exchange.
The exchanged phone worked better but after a week the screen started to display as if it had no red (so everything had a green tinge to it). I actually had to fight support to get it replaced on time because the phone that I had already sent in wasn't done being processed. Also during this time my replacement did lock up once or twice but I didn't know whether that was just something random or whether it was a hardware problem.
The second exchanged phone does show better uptime but still I have had trouble going a few days without having to reboot due to lockups/sluggishness. AT&T has replaced my SIM card and I have since also figured out that my SD card wasn't working correctly.
I think that covers the background of my experience, but I wanted to share the following and get thoughts/comparison. I ordered a 32GB class 4 card and left the 8GB card out. While waiting for the new card to come in I noticed a huge difference in responsiveness and stability. This includes smoothness of transitions and uptime (having no SD card I went more than 100 hours of uptime for the first time since I purchased the phone).
After I installed the 32GB card, I have noticed that some of that smoothness and stability has gone away. It's not QUITE as bad as I remember from the 8GB card, but it's definitely not like it was. I also briefly experienced the "green screen" issue like on the prior replacement (thankfully, a reboot fixed it).
I'd like to put together some benchmark results. Could anyone here recommend good comprehensive benchmark software (beyond just CPU & memory tests)? Is anyone willing to perform similar benchmarks (one set with SD, another without SD)?
[[add]] I forgot to mention that the performance problems seem to get worse the longer that it's been since it was last booted. Which is part of the reason that it's taken me so long to troubleshoot, since I was convinced that it was some kind of memory leak. Also this phone has only run either stock, infusedv1, or infusedv2, behavior seems to the same regardless of whether it's stock or infused.
Wow, I've had none of those type of issues. Not at all! I've had a 32gb card from the day I bought it, transferred from my Captivate. Never seen any drop in performance.
Merlin8000 said:
I bought this phone from my local AT&T store on the day that it was released.
Since then I've had several issues with this model.
The one that I bought at the physical store would not go longer than 40 hours without locking up entirely, forcing me to reboot. I fought it for a long time thinking that it was an app I was using. By the time I determined that it was a hardware problem, I was past the warranty period and processed the phone as a warranty exchange.
The exchanged phone worked better but after a week the screen started to display as if it had no red (so everything had a green tinge to it). I actually had to fight support to get it replaced on time because the phone that I had already sent in wasn't done being processed. Also during this time my replacement did lock up once or twice but I didn't know whether that was just something random or whether it was a hardware problem.
The second exchanged phone does show better uptime but still I have had trouble going a few days without having to reboot due to lockups/sluggishness. AT&T has replaced my SIM card and I have since also figured out that my SD card wasn't working correctly.
I think that covers the background of my experience, but I wanted to share the following and get thoughts/comparison. I ordered a 32GB class 4 card and left the 8GB card out. While waiting for the new card to come in I noticed a huge difference in responsiveness and stability. This includes smoothness of transitions and uptime (having no SD card I went more than 100 hours of uptime for the first time since I purchased the phone).
After I installed the 32GB card, I have noticed that some of that smoothness and stability has gone away. It's not QUITE as bad as I remember from the 8GB card, but it's definitely not like it was. I also briefly experienced the "green screen" issue like on the prior replacement (thankfully, a reboot fixed it).
I'd like to put together some benchmark results. Could anyone here recommend good comprehensive benchmark software (beyond just CPU & memory tests)? Is anyone willing to perform similar benchmarks (one set with SD, another without SD)?
[[add]] I forgot to mention that the performance problems seem to get worse the longer that it's been since it was last booted. Which is part of the reason that it's taken me so long to troubleshoot, since I was convinced that it was some kind of memory leak. Also this phone has only run either stock, infusedv1, or infusedv2, behavior seems to the same regardless of whether it's stock or infused.
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And you're running on stock rom? I experience the green screen you talked about, but also a red, blue, yellow, pinkish, beige type, and I'm sure other colors. Not joking, other people have experienced it too, there's a thread on it.
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Jep56 said:
Wow, I've had none of those type of issues. Not at all! I've had a 32gb card from the day I bought it, transferred from my Captivate. Never seen any drop in performance.
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Yeah I'd be willing to think that it was an app except that I've also had the same issue running vanilla stock with no apps installed or accounts linked (on the device that I bought from the store).
Would you be willing to do an experiment and see if you notice any performance benefit when your card is not installed?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1417699
Thread about screen. But nobody knows why it happens.
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jayson94538 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1417699
Thread about screen. But nobody knows why it happens.
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I experienced both the green screen and the performance problems on stock with my first replacement and was unable to fix it. It was warranty replaced as I had mentioned. From my experience in PC repair, it was exactly what I saw when I had a bent pin in my VGA monitor connector, so I presumed it to be hardware after returning to stock didn't fix it.
I've only seen the yellowish tint on my phone, happened 1 time and never again after that.
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Merlin8000 said:
I experienced both the green screen and the performance problems on stock with my first replacement and was unable to fix it. It was warranty replaced as I had mentioned. From my experience in PC repair, it was exactly what I saw when I had a bent pin in my VGA monitor connector, so I presumed it to be hardware after returning to stock didn't fix it.
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Performance became very good after flashing to a custom rom. You can really tell the difference from stock to custom.
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jayson94538 said:
Performance became very good after flashing to a custom rom. You can really tell the difference from stock to custom.
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I've been running infused v2 for quite some time. I've really only run stock when I aboslutely had to. I keep eyeing the CM & other ROMs but have been waiting for bluetooth to get fixed since I do use that regularly in the car.
Merlin8000 said:
I've been running infused v2 for quite some time. I've really only run stock when I aboslutely had to. I keep eyeing the CM & other ROMs but have been waiting for bluetooth to get fixed since I do use that regularly in the car.
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Try Zeus.
--Mike
I was running miui but switched back to stock for the Bluetooth issue... I ran quadrant standard benchmark test before and after... I only hit 932 with stock rom and with miui I managed 3194 as my best number... I don't know how good quadrant is for benchmarking but even outside of the numbers it was way smoother and faster with miui... never experienced any of the negative things you have though
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I'm running the stock ROM but rooted with CWM along with a PNY 32GB Class 10 microSDHC:
http://www3.pny.com/category_buymul...essionID=x23hT0xmzIlb6WhG1Iyu&Category_ID=460
I have not experienced any problems. Unless you're installing applications to it I don't see why the external SD card would cause slowdowns. I know the OS does use the internal "SD" storage space but not the external SD. Have you tried formatting it with the phone? Odd indeed...
secretasianman said:
I'm running the stock ROM but rooted with CWM along with a PNY 32GB Class 10 microSDHC:
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I have not experienced any problems. Unless you're installing applications to it I don't see why the external SD card would cause slowdowns. I know the OS does use the internal "SD" storage space but not the external SD. Have you tried formatting it with the phone? Odd indeed...
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I can't say that I've tried that, I do have all my apps installed on my internal card, in fact since I got the internal card, I've been able to move all my media file locations to the external SD, making sure that I have room for my apps on the phone.
I had considered a class 10 but from what I read, there's no advantage between a class 10 and a class 4 due to the apparent bus speed limitations.
I'm still hoping to see if anyone saw a performance benefit from not having their SD card installed.
I'm willing to give formatting it a try if my problems continue, but that will probably be in the same effort as moving to a new ROM. Bluetooth is rather important to me as I've stated but if Zeus has it working I'm willing to have a look one weekend soon.
Thanks for the input.
I have had nothing but problems with this phone. It was my first Android device and it will be my last. I had an iPhone ever since the first one came out about 4 years I guess. I never had a single problem with it. Never not once.
When I first bought this phone I loved it. And it stayed that way for about a month. After the first month things started going downhill quick. The phone started freezing up and I thought I had to many apps running so I started killing the ones I weren't using. Well it stopped freezing as much then it started resetting itself at least 3 times a day. I was on the phone to get an exchange and I dropped the phone and cracked the screen. I didn't get insurance and had a case ordered. It came in the mail the next day.
wyattjo said:
I was running miui but switched back to stock for the Bluetooth issue... I ran quadrant standard benchmark test before and after... I only hit 932 with stock rom and with miui I managed 3194 as my best number... I don't know how good quadrant is for benchmarking but even outside of the numbers it was way smoother and faster with miui... never experienced any of the negative things you have though
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Same thing here: Tried Zeus and MIUI, both are excellent roms (MIUI in particular surprised me), and both benchmark way faster than my stock Rogers Gingerbread rom...but outside of that they don't really offer much more in terms of everyday use, stock rom isn't any more bloated, and it runs just as smooth. Battery life is about the same too in my experience, so I just went back to stock Rogers ROM.
So I've switched to Zeus, and while I've got to say it's a noticeably better experience than Infused, I'm still having stability problems. I'm unable to keep this thing going for more than 2-3 days without a complete lockup.
I'm just not sure what's going on here. To reference my original post, I feel that it's disk-related (just from the way that the device behaves in general).
One thing that I've noticed is that under LogViewer, I see frequent occurrences of this:
listenToSocket -> Communications error
java.io.IOException: No such file or directory
at android.net.LocalSocketImpl.connectLocal(Native Method)
at android.net.LocalSocketImpl.connect(LocalSocketImpl.java:238)
at android.net.LocalSocket.connect(LocalSocket.java:98)
at com.android.server.NativeDaemonConnector.listenToSocket(NativeDaemonConnector.java:102)
at com.android.server.NativeDaemonConnector.run(NativeDaemonConnector.java:85)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1019)
Error in NativeDaemonConnector
java.io.IOException: No such file or directory
at android.net.LocalSocketImpl.connectLocal(Native Method)
at android.net.LocalSocketImpl.connect(LocalSocketImpl.java:238)
at android.net.LocalSocket.connect(LocalSocket.java:98)
at com.android.server.NativeDaemonConnector.listenToSocket(NativeDaemonConnector.java:102)
at com.android.server.NativeDaemonConnector.run(NativeDaemonConnector.java:85)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1019)
Can anyone tell me if that's normal?
MobileData said:
Try Zeus.
--Mike
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Merlin8000 said:
So I've switched to Zeus, and while I've got to say it's a noticeably better experience than Infused, I'm still having stability problems. I'm unable to keep this thing going for more than 2-3 days without a complete lockup.
I'm just not sure what's going on here. To reference my original post, I feel that it's disk-related (just from the way that the device behaves in general).
One thing that I've noticed is that under LogViewer, I see frequent occurrences of this:
listenToSocket -> Communications error
java.io.IOException: No such file or directory
at android.net.LocalSocketImpl.connectLocal(Native Method)
at android.net.LocalSocketImpl.connect(LocalSocketImpl.java:238)
at android.net.LocalSocket.connect(LocalSocket.java:98)
at com.android.server.NativeDaemonConnector.listenToSocket(NativeDaemonConnector.java:102)
at com.android.server.NativeDaemonConnector.run(NativeDaemonConnector.java:85)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1019)
Error in NativeDaemonConnector
java.io.IOException: No such file or directory
at android.net.LocalSocketImpl.connectLocal(Native Method)
at android.net.LocalSocketImpl.connect(LocalSocketImpl.java:238)
at android.net.LocalSocket.connect(LocalSocket.java:98)
at com.android.server.NativeDaemonConnector.listenToSocket(NativeDaemonConnector.java:102)
at com.android.server.NativeDaemonConnector.run(NativeDaemonConnector.java:85)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1019)
Can anyone tell me if that's normal?
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not normal.
Merlin, back up your contacts to google. Save your pics.
Take out your microsd.
factory reset from in the phone /setting/privacy.
use this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1331381
read carefully
then flash zeus.
your prev flash is prob bad
I honestly don't have the patience or time for that today, but perhaps this weekend.
Note: This will be the second time in a row that I've done this. I went through heimdall back to stock weekend before last:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22173536#post22173536
qkster said:
not normal.
Merlin, back up your contacts to google. Save your pics.
Take out your microsd.
factory reset from in the phone /setting/privacy.
use this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1331381
read carefully
then flash zeus.
your prev flash is prob bad
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You mentioned backing up to Google. I actually use my personal zimbra server for contacts so that's not a concern, but you bring up an interesting thought.
Is titanium backup known to be harmful? I've been using it to backup/restore app data ONLY (in other words i install the app from market/amzn then restore data to the app and manually set the system settings) after flashing anything that's been rooted.
qkster said:
not normal.
Merlin, back up your contacts to google. Save your pics.
Take out your microsd.
factory reset from in the phone /setting/privacy.
use this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1331381
read carefully
then flash zeus.
your prev flash is prob bad
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Merlin8000 said:
You mentioned backing up to Google. I actually use my personal zimbra server for contacts so that's not a concern, but you bring up an interesting thought.
Is titanium backup known to be harmful? I've been using it to backup/restore app data ONLY (in other words i install the app from market/amzn then restore data to the app and manually set the system settings) after flashing anything that's been rooted.
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That's a bad thing.
Occasionally, after flashing a rom, while restoring apps with tibu, strange things like app fc's or apps disappearing -greyed out or soft boot.
I assumed that it is due to corrupt tibu or back up.
I would reflash the rom after thorough wipes and download new apps and new tibu.
I NEVER restore data with the app. That's just asking for trouble. The stored data is on a different system.
Just the fact that you've restored data in itself, is prolly your problem.
I've assumed that restoring data is such an obvious NO-NO, that everyone who flashes a custom rom would be aware.
idk..i could be wrong, and it can be done, but I don't restore data...only google contacts
I've seen similar recm...restore apps..NO data
Hey guys,
It has only been three months since I purchased the Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G, and I currently have a few issues that really are bugging me out. I will bullet them out to make it clean and easier for you guys to read and figure out.
ALSO -- My phone is rooted, rocking a custom rom (AOKP JB Blaze 4G: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1989825)
1. Every time I take a screenshot, picture, download something, or just about any piece of data, my phone for some reason saves it all to my internal storage device, which is barely 1 GB. I have a 32GB MicroSD card, and bought the SD card with the intention that I can save all my data to that, never having to worry about my 1GB internal storage getting full. Is there any way to fix this? My phone is rooted, rocking a custom ROM, and I really don't see how this can be an issue. Can someone help me to fix this issue? I am a real noob when it comes to stuff like this, so I would appreciate detailed instructions!
2. My phone currently has an issue where every time I get a notification, the 4 LED touch-buttons on the bottom of the phone start blinking. I prefer it to not blink at all (as I would instead like to save precious battery life).
3. Even though its only been three months (less than a month with the new ROM) I noticed that the battery life is not too amazing, it drains out REALLY fast for some reason. All I really do on my phone is web browsing and visiting a social media app (facebook, twitter, etc...) and that's really it. Is there a way to possibly fix this as well? Could it be the ROM
4. When I drive, I often use my phone as a GPS, and what's funny is, even though the phone is plugged in (and technically charging), the battery drains out. I don't know how that is possible, as the phone is plugged in and charging through my car. Could it just be that this phone was never meant to be used as a GPS? Or is this another problem that can have a workaround to?
Anyways, that is my list, I'd really appreciate your help to solving all those issues, as I use this phone as a daily driver, and need all of the phone's functions working without problems.
Thanks!
darkgiant said:
Hey guys,
It has only been three months since I purchased the Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G, and I currently have a few issues that really are bugging me out. I will bullet them out to make it clean and easier for you guys to read and figure out.
ALSO -- My phone is rooted, rocking a custom rom (AOKP JB Blaze 4G: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1989825)
1. Every time I take a screenshot, picture, download something, or just about any piece of data, my phone for some reason saves it all to my internal storage device, which is barely 1 GB. I have a 32GB MicroSD card, and bought the SD card with the intention that I can save all my data to that, never having to worry about my 1GB internal storage getting full. Is there any way to fix this? My phone is rooted, rocking a custom ROM, and I really don't see how this can be an issue. Can someone help me to fix this issue? I am a real noob when it comes to stuff like this, so I would appreciate detailed instructions!
2. My phone currently has an issue where every time I get a notification, the 4 LED touch-buttons on the bottom of the phone start blinking. I prefer it to not blink at all (as I would instead like to save precious battery life).
3. Even though its only been three months (less than a month with the new ROM) I noticed that the battery life is not too amazing, it drains out REALLY fast for some reason. All I really do on my phone is web browsing and visiting a social media app (facebook, twitter, etc...) and that's really it. Is there a way to possibly fix this as well? Could it be the ROM
4. When I drive, I often use my phone as a GPS, and what's funny is, even though the phone is plugged in (and technically charging), the battery drains out. I don't know how that is possible, as the phone is plugged in and charging through my car. Could it just be that this phone was never meant to be used as a GPS? Or is this another problem that can have a workaround to?
Anyways, that is my list, I'd really appreciate your help to solving all those issues, as I use this phone as a daily driver, and need all of the phone's functions working without problems.
Thanks!
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Im new here also as of today. Im sorry your having issues with your phone and the rom. I have been doing alot of research on this phone we have as Im still stuck on Gingerbread. I just went off contract from Tmobile and recently rooted it. Getting ready to upgrade the rom.
I have read in some posts that the JB rom did have some problems with recognizing SD cards. Seems to me that I read that this was changed in a later release. I wish I could find that thread again and show you but it escapes me. Is this a stock ROM for JB that you are using?
I do have a question for you. I want to upgrade from gingerbread and thinking CM10. However, I do have to make sure speakerphone works. Any problems there?
I would guess at this point that you should try another ROM.
coffee
darkgiant said:
Hey guys,
It has only been three months since I purchased the Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G, and I currently have a few issues that really are bugging me out. I will bullet them out to make it clean and easier for you guys to read and figure out.
ALSO -- My phone is rooted, rocking a custom rom (AOKP JB Blaze 4G: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1989825)
1. Every time I take a screenshot, picture, download something, or just about any piece of data, my phone for some reason saves it all to my internal storage device, which is barely 1 GB. I have a 32GB MicroSD card, and bought the SD card with the intention that I can save all my data to that, never having to worry about my 1GB internal storage getting full. Is there any way to fix this? My phone is rooted, rocking a custom ROM, and I really don't see how this can be an issue. Can someone help me to fix this issue? I am a real noob when it comes to stuff like this, so I would appreciate detailed instructions!
2. My phone currently has an issue where every time I get a notification, the 4 LED touch-buttons on the bottom of the phone start blinking. I prefer it to not blink at all (as I would instead like to save precious battery life).
3. Even though its only been three months (less than a month with the new ROM) I noticed that the battery life is not too amazing, it drains out REALLY fast for some reason. All I really do on my phone is web browsing and visiting a social media app (facebook, twitter, etc...) and that's really it. Is there a way to possibly fix this as well? Could it be the ROM
4. When I drive, I often use my phone as a GPS, and what's funny is, even though the phone is plugged in (and technically charging), the battery drains out. I don't know how that is possible, as the phone is plugged in and charging through my car. Could it just be that this phone was never meant to be used as a GPS? Or is this another problem that can have a workaround to?
Anyways, that is my list, I'd really appreciate your help to solving all those issues, as I use this phone as a daily driver, and need all of the phone's functions working without problems.
Thanks!
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1:Your going to have to flip the external and internal SD card in order to fix that. I remember there being an xposed module for that.
2: pulse notifications are enabled. I haven't run 4.1 in a long time but I think it's under the display settings.
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Somcom3X said:
1:Your going to have to flip the external and internal SD card in order to fix that. I remember there being an xposed module for that.
2: pulse notifications are enabled. I haven't run 4.1 in a long time but I think it's under the display settings.
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How exactly would I flip the external and internal SD card? I am unaware of how to do this by all means.
darkgiant said:
How exactly would I flip the external and internal SD card? I am unaware of how to do this by all means.
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Can you give me your vold.fstab
I can't remember where it's found.
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I am sorry but I did not understand your post.
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darkgiant said:
I am sorry but I did not understand your post.
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Ok, Most likely the vold.fstab file lists the mounting points for the phones filesystem. It will probably be a text file and I would suggest making a backup copy before modifying it. Otherwise you could really screw things up.
I have not viewed this file yet because I dont know of the exact location yet. I found a link but Iam a new user and not permitted to post it. Do a search for vold.fstab and you should easily find a link for editing it.
Basically, Your going to edit the fstab file and change the settings for mounting the sdcard. I would think a reboot of your phone will probably be the last step.
Hope this helps, From one learning to another
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Howdy
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33253737 is post for editing VOLD
here is the flashable zip by Inkslinger420...that will do the swapping
http://d-h.st/zM9
kishore4 said:
here is the flashable zip by Inkslinger420...that will do the swapping
http://d-h.st/zM9
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I'd forewarn you that the sdcard swap is for kitkat and the op is using AOKP 4.1.2
Somcom3X said:
I'd forewarn you that the sdcard swap is for kitkat and the op is using AOKP 4.1.2
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oopsies i missed that...lol my bad:cyclops:
Agree with @Somcom3X, I wouldn't flash that.
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Sorry for being late on this one, I am in the middle of exams and have been really busy.
Is there any sort solution to this that is newb-friendly (step by step), would be awesome to use my external SD card for its full use.
darkgiant said:
Sorry for being late on this one, I am in the middle of exams and have been really busy.
Is there any sort solution to this that is newb-friendly (step by step), would be awesome to use my external SD card for its full use.
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In the previous page wollieburger posted a link to edit the correct files. A really good guide (one post) on how to do it.
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njstein said:
In the previous page wollieburger posted a link to edit the correct files. A really good guide (one post) on how to do it.
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When I am changing the input from 0 to 1, the file is unable to save.
EDIT: It works now! Thanks for the post, and apologize again for being so late on this!
Sorry for the multipost, but I was wondering if someone can still help me out with my other stuff I am trying to figure out:
2. My phone currently has an issue where every time I get a notification, the 4 LED touch-buttons on the bottom of the phone start blinking. I prefer it to not blink at all (as I would instead like to save precious battery life).
3. Even though its only been three months (less than a month with the new ROM) I noticed that the battery life is not too amazing, it drains out REALLY fast for some reason. All I really do on my phone is web browsing and visiting a social media app (facebook, twitter, etc...) and that's really it. Is there a way to possibly fix this as well? Could it be the ROM
4. When I drive, I often use my phone as a GPS, and what's funny is, even though the phone is plugged in (and technically charging), the battery drains out. I don't know how that is possible, as the phone is plugged in and charging through my car. Could it just be that this phone was never meant to be used as a GPS? Or is this another problem that can have a workaround to?
darkgiant said:
Sorry for the multipost, but I was wondering if someone can still help me out with my other stuff I am trying to figure out:
2. My phone currently has an issue where every time I get a notification, the 4 LED touch-buttons on the bottom of the phone start blinking. I prefer it to not blink at all (as I would instead like to save precious battery life).
3. Even though its only been three months (less than a month with the new ROM) I noticed that the battery life is not too amazing, it drains out REALLY fast for some reason. All I really do on my phone is web browsing and visiting a social media app (facebook, twitter, etc...) and that's really it. Is there a way to possibly fix this as well? Could it be the ROM
4. When I drive, I often use my phone as a GPS, and what's funny is, even though the phone is plugged in (and technically charging), the battery drains out. I don't know how that is possible, as the phone is plugged in and charging through my car. Could it just be that this phone was never meant to be used as a GPS? Or is this another problem that can have a workaround to?
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You should be able to disable the flashing LEDs (also known as pulse notifications) through the display settings.
I'm not certain if there were device settings in the 4.1 era.
Battery life on 4.1 was garbage. I could only imagine the GPS drain.
4.3 had the best.
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darkgiant said:
Sorry for the multipost, but I was wondering if someone can still help me out with my other stuff I am trying to figure out:
2. My phone currently has an issue where every time I get a notification, the 4 LED touch-buttons on the bottom of the phone start blinking. I prefer it to not blink at all (as I would instead like to save precious battery life).
3. Even though its only been three months (less than a month with the new ROM) I noticed that the battery life is not too amazing, it drains out REALLY fast for some reason. All I really do on my phone is web browsing and visiting a social media app (facebook, twitter, etc...) and that's really it. Is there a way to possibly fix this as well? Could it be the ROM
4. When I drive, I often use my phone as a GPS, and what's funny is, even though the phone is plugged in (and technically charging), the battery drains out. I don't know how that is possible, as the phone is plugged in and charging through my car. Could it just be that this phone was never meant to be used as a GPS? Or is this another problem that can have a workaround to?
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The GPS navigation on the blaze takes a lot of battery. If you have the phone plugged in the battery won't drain as fast as compared to not having it plugged in.
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To be honest, I never had a battery life problem on 4.1.2, one reason is I didn't use Google Apps (I had gapps package installed, but the minimal package), I also followed this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2357417
If you like push notifications from Gmail and other Google dependent apps, ignore that thread. Otherwise, it will improve your battery life. The other reason was I never ran cm10. I ran @thomas.raines ParanoidAndroid 4.1.2. Imo, the best cm10 based rom the Blaze had. But that's MY opinion. He's taken down the link, maybe you can try and chase him down and see if he'll re-upload it for you...
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Have noticed over the last couple of days that my phone has become very slow.
It's a sim free phone in the UK and completely stock. I have not installed anything new app wise or made any kind of changes I can put it down to. When first purchased I found the phone to be very snappy in and out of apps despite the mid range hardware and 2gb ram.
I have no more than a dozen as installed . Just don't understand what's going on as it seems like there is a delay when you select anything or switch in and out of the app tray etc.
Rebooting it doesn't help?
Funny enough it does seem to have improved things. It was almost like the old Samsung slow down the get on the galaxy phones. Very strange, will just have to monitor it and see how things go.
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Have noticed over the last couple of days that my phone has become very slow.
It's a sim free phone in the UK and completely stock. I have not installed anything new app wise or made any kind of changes I can put it down to. When first purchased I found the phone to be very snappy in and out of apps despite the mid range hardware and 2gb ram.
I have no more than a dozen as installed . Just don't understand what's going on as it seems like there is a delay when you select anything or switch in and out of the app tray etc.
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What ext sd card you are using? And did you merge it with internal sd card?
If not and your phone is just as simple and clean as you mentioned just earse it to factory default by going to reset
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Am using a SanDisk ultra 64gb card but have not used apps etc on it as don't really have many downloaded apps and didn't see the needed to free up space.
Don't really want to completely reset my phone.
Will see how it goes
Ive had the same issues, not sure why... cant even get google maps to load properly and Spotify locks up everytime I try to change song.. not good HTC!!
Simon_WM said:
Ive had the same issues, not sure why... cant even get google maps to load properly and Spotify locks up everytime I try to change song.. not good HTC!!
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I had a time that A9 got hot and slow, reboot didn't help. But I don't know what I did, it just went back to normal somehow. Fast and rarely get hot.
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I had a time that A9 got hot and slow, reboot didn't help. But I don't know what I did, it just went back to normal somehow. Fast and rarely get hot.
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My doesn't get hot, it just stupidly slow, and really annoying, but O2 haven't related the 6.0.1 Firmware so maybe that might fix the performance? otherwise I might root it and overclock it a little...
Really annoying as its only 4 months into a 2 year phone contract!
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My doesn't get hot, it just stupidly slow, and really annoying, but O2 haven't related the 6.0.1 Firmware so maybe that might fix the performance? otherwise I might root it and overclock it a little...
Really annoying as its only 4 months into a 2 year phone contract!
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In that case i suggest you to contact htc support or your carrier to demande a new device.
try root thing at last when you have no solutions or into a dead end.
Because root will remove the warrant.
Alpert3 said:
In that case i suggest you to contact htc support or your carrier to demande a new device.
try root thing at last when you have no solutions or into a dead end.
Because root will remove the warrant.
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Yeh, All theher HTC Devices have been fine... this one am not impressed with might take it to the place I orderd it from and see what they say.
Simon_WM said:
Yeh, All theher HTC Devices have been fine... this one am not impressed with might take it to the place I orderd it from and see what they say.
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I have 4 HTC devices, all of them are no issues.
Try to use a Task killer app, perhaps the 2GB ram have reached max capacity, kill some apps that you are not using and for the love of God disable Google bloatwares like hangout.google books...
My A9 has become extremely slow in the last couple of days.. I have tried dumping cache, cleansing apps, but nothing is working .. it seems that alot of people are experiencing the same thing at the same time .. what is going on ? This phone is becoming an embarrassment for the price I paid for it.
Yeah mine too. It's starting to drive me mad.
Texting is getting worse. Starts fine and just doesn't seem to keep up.
mine too... i'm starting to think about changing rom to cyanogenmod...
It's somehow weird to see that most people who are complaining here are new created account just to say bad things about the A9....SAMSUNG PAID DUDES AGAIN
I kinda have same issue,the phone has been turning off on it's own the last couple of days and then one time when i turned it on a lot of it's features aren't working,notifications doesn't show up on the notificationbar and i can't use shortcuts for gps,etc from it anymore and the onscreen home button doesn't get me home and the touch button doesn't too,it so slow and takes time to load the apps so i can tap on one of em,idk what happened,please help!
I bought one for my girlfriend, HTC one A9 16gb but with more than 5 completely lost... At the beginning everything was just fine, great speed and performance.
Because of it's lack of memory I decided to use the SD card as internal storage, micro SD 64Gb Sandisk class 10. After the format the HTC showed alert about the speed of the SD, it could not be enough fast.
After reinstalling apps and moving the heaviest to the SD it started to be very slow, WhatsApp took too much to open and even Google maps couldn't load properly, taking ages to work.
I ended up taking the SD out, using it as normal external storage. It went back to normal and now works good, the only thing now is that she only had 1.5Gb left for the apps and it runs out super fast just because of the thumbnails images and cache.
Has anyone tried with a high speed SD? Or has noticed this same problem?