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After the root procedure I don't seem to have any ability to use USB Mass storage.
Windows reports it as an empty drive, linux will show the device as connecting and assigns it a /dev/sdx device, but when you attempt to mount or fdisk, it reports no medium.
Any one else having similar issues?
I could always try a reset to factory defaults after unrooting, but I really don't see what rooting could have done.
I used the manual method and had to run zerg several times, however beyond that no other files where modified.
I've already reverted /data/local.prop to stock, no help.
Any one have any other insights?
I had to uninstall motohelper to get USB mass storage working.
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thekurrgan said:
After the root procedure I don't seem to have any ability to use USB Mass storage.
Windows reports it as an empty drive, linux will show the device as connecting and assigns it a /dev/sdx device, but when you attempt to mount or fdisk, it reports no medium.
Any one else having similar issues?
I could always try a reset to factory defaults after unrooting, but I really don't see what rooting could have done.
I used the manual method and had to run zerg several times, however beyond that no other files where modified.
I've already reverted /data/local.prop to stock, no help.
Any one have any other insights?
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When you take a picture, does it save to your sdcard? Sounds completely unrelated huh? Well, this phone seems to have an issue with the sdcard randomly becoming read only. I have had that issue multiple times now and usually it's solved by restarting the phone. Well, I seen your issue today and didn't remember if I had tried to use it as mass storage since rooting it so I tried....no luck. Took a pic, it looked like it saved, didn't get any error, but could not find the pic in my gallery. Then I tried to take a screenshot and got the read only error. So I just took my sdcard out and made a copy of it to my pc, put it back in and rebooted my phone, it's all good now, imagine that. Needless to say, i'm backing up all my apps right now before doing anything else. Then gonna backup my contacts too.
motohelper... Sounds like a stock app...
did you just rm the apk?
thekurrgan said:
motohelper... Sounds like a stock app...
did you just rm the apk?
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No.motohelper was a bs program that got installed to my PC when I downloaded and installed the driver pack from Motorola. Until
I uninstalled it I couldn't get USB mass storage to work.phone portal would,but not storage.
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mtnlion said:
I had to uninstall motohelper to get USB mass storage working.
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I had to reinstall all the drivers through motohelper to get it to work as well =/
No problems now though~
I was able to get my sdcard recognized again but still could not use it as mass storage device, never had a problem with this before root. Did factory reset and all is well.
There is no possible way root caused the issue at all. It stopped working for me once I installed moto drivers, but shows the device with mass storage under it in usb portal mode.
koriflame said:
There is no possible way root caused the issue at all. It stopped working for me once I installed moto drivers, but shows the device with mass storage under it in usb portal mode.
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Well then it's one hell of a coincidence! Before root, w/motodrivers, worked fine, after root w/motodrivers, didn't work, after unrooting, w/motordrivers, works again.
Same thing happened with my phone. Actually now returned because of all the issues I kept having hardware wise and wound up going and getting the HTC Vivid. So if any of yall switch I will see you when a Forum is made for this device.
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Well then it's one hell of a coincidence! Before root, w/motodrivers, worked fine, after root w/motodrivers, didn't work, after unrooting, w/motordrivers, works again.
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Did you see my other post about /mount/secure corruption? I have a fully working rooted mountable phone.
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malickie said:
Same thing happened with my phone. Actually now returned because of all the issues I kept having hardware wise and wound up going and getting the HTC Vivid. So if any of yall switch I will see you when a Forum is made for this device.
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I have until the 24th of this month to decide if I want to keep this phone or not. I unrooted yesterday, will see how it goes this week. I'm not trying to pay big money for a phone right now so we'll see how it plays out.
OK I give up. The problem is intermittent. I'm going to do a log cat next time cause I'm getting about irritated. SOme times it works fine some times not. I've not unrooted or changed anything since the initial problem.
The only thing I can possibly thing is that some of the commands installed by busybox is screwing up the works.
Short of that nothing REALLY changes that could affect the operation of the phone.
What doesn't bare that idea out however is the fact that it EVER works.
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It does the exact same thing on a completely unmodified phone. Therefore, it's nothing you did to it that's cause the problem.
I have the same thing on mine but it was something with the format of the card.
I flipped it to windows media sync mode then backed up the card and after the backup I unmounted the card and let the atrix format it.
I had the card in a atrix 1 before I put it in the atrix 2 so I do not know if this is the case or not.
This has now been working with out a problem for 4 days now
Same thing happened to my phone, I never rooted it.
Confirmed user error.
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I have the same thing on mine but it was something with the format of the card.
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Thank you seraphielx! Shortly before finding this thead, I'd noticed that I had a rather large number of files in the LOST.DIR on my SDcard. Which coincided with the seemingly random disappearance of some of the apps I'd moved there. And when I pulled the SDcard to back it up on my PC, there were nearly 600mb worth of files in the LOST.DIR. Most of which were photos, plus (I think) some apps. Thank God I make regular backups!
I believe the problem, at least in my case, has to do with the fact that I could pull the SDcard without first pulling the battery; which I did when I swapped the stock 2gb card for my 32gb card right after I bought the phone. Thus corrupting many files, and probably the file system on the card as well.
After backing up what remained of my storage files, I tried to format the SDcard in the Atrix2, but It wouldn't let me select the option to format, and neither could I unmount the SDcard. So I powered down the phone, pulled the card and formatted it from my PC. Poped it back in the phone, powered up, and was then able to format it with the Atrix2. Since then I've had no issues with accessing usb mass storage, nor with disappearing apps and photos.
Thanx again for the assistance!
For me sometimes it takes a few minutes before I can access sdcard from PC.
Usually it works instantly after phone reboot while not plugged in pc, then it takes ages...
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After backing up what remained of my storage files, I tried to format the SDcard in the Atrix2, but It wouldn't let me select the option to format, and neither could I unmount the SDcard. So I powered down the phone, pulled the card and formatted it from my PC. Poped it back in the phone, powered up, and was then able to format it with the Atrix2. Since then I've had no issues with accessing usb mass storage, nor with disappearing apps and photos.
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Update: OK, I can't unmount my SDcard, again. Which, of course, means I can't access usb mass storage anymore. The only I've changes made since my last post were to install some apps and change some status bar icons via Rom Toolbox, and I can't believe that has anything with the issue.
If I do a factory reset, will I need to root again?
If you have any apps installed on your SD card you will continue to have problems.
I just found I have an issue copying files from my PC to my SGS3. The error I get is " Device stopped responding or is disconnected" (on my pc). It worked days ago, and it worked on the current ROM I'm using. I can't think of anything else I could have done to mess it up. This happens when trying to copy anything to the Ext card or internal storage. Here's the kicker: now I can copy small files, but big zip files are a no go. Before I couldn't copy anything. All I did was reboot phone and PC, and looked into phone with Root Explorer, no changes.
I can copy files FROM the phone to PC but not to the phone from PC. How could this change literally overnight?? I did find a way to add Google Wallet to the phone. Could that have possibly been it?? Flashing a new ROM right now, gonna see if it helps.
New ROM didn't help. Still same issue.
*Update* Next day, I tried once again just for fun. And now it works fine! I did nothing to correct it. I did however reflash the ROM that the problem first arose. But I still don't get how that's even related to the ext sdcard. And how did it fix itself??? Would still like to know why it happened!
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I just found I have an issue copying files from my PC to my SGS3. The error I get is " Device stopped responding or is disconnected" (on my pc). It worked days ago, and it worked on the current ROM I'm using. I can't think of anything else I could have done to mess it up. This happens when trying to copy anything to the Ext card or internal storage. Here's the kicker: now I can copy small files, but big zip files are a no go. Before I couldn't copy anything. All I did was reboot phone and PC, and looked into phone with Root Explorer, no changes.
I can copy files FROM the phone to PC but not to the phone from PC. How could this change literally overnight?? I did find a way to add Google Wallet to the phone. Could that have possibly been it?? Flashing a new ROM right now, gonna see if it helps.
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I had this EXACT same problem a few weeks ago. I'm not saying this is the case for you, but I found out that when I tried to batch transfer certain files, one of the files was corrupt. I eliminated whatever the culprit file was and was able to transfer. The strange thing is, it only happened when I tried transferring from internal to external as well, as if something in the transfer corrupted one of my files. So I started transferring files one by one, and the problem seems to be temporarily eliminated. Check to see if the zip file became corrupted in some way. Hope this helps.
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I had this EXACT same problem a few weeks ago. I'm not saying this is the case for you, but I found out that when I tried to batch transfer certain files, one of the files was corrupt. I eliminated whatever the culprit file was and was able to transfer. The strange thing is, it only happened when I tried transferring from internal to external as well, as if something in the transfer corrupted one of my files. So I started transferring files one by one, and the problem seems to be temporarily eliminated. Check to see if the zip file became corrupted in some way. Hope this helps.
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I can transfer from ext to internal. I just can't transfer anything larger than a few MB. The zip files I'm trying are ROM zips so they are very large. Can't find anyone with this exact issue. I just flashed a new ROM, before that I formatted my sdcard. No idea what's wrong. Thanks for the reply though!
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I can transfer from ext to internal. I just can't transfer anything larger than a few MB. The zip files I'm trying are ROM zips so they are very large. Can't find anyone with this exact issue. I just flashed a new ROM, before that I formatted my sdcard. No idea what's wrong. Thanks for the reply though!
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No problem at all. Do you think it's possible that the format you formatted the sdcard in may possibly be causing the issue? I've heard cases that incorrect formatting can block file transfers if over so many MBs, GBs, etc.
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I just found I have an issue copying files from my PC to my SGS3. The error I get is " Device stopped responding or is disconnected" (on my pc). It worked days ago, and it worked on the current ROM I'm using. I can't think of anything else I could have done to mess it up. This happens when trying to copy anything to the Ext card or internal storage. Here's the kicker: now I can copy small files, but big zip files are a no go. Before I couldn't copy anything. All I did was reboot phone and PC, and looked into phone with Root Explorer, no changes.
I can copy files FROM the phone to PC but not to the phone from PC. How could this change literally overnight?? I did find a way to add Google Wallet to the phone. Could that have possibly been it?? Flashing a new ROM right now, gonna see if it helps.
New ROM didn't help. Still same issue.
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I had this exact problem as well. After a lot of trial and error, I gave up on the native MTP file transfer method, and went with ADB instead.
I use a very nicely done GUI on top of ADB to do all my file transferring called QtADB. Just install the Android SDK first, and then the GUI.
QtADB Android Manager Website
XDA QtADB Forum Link
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No problem at all. Do you think it's possible that the format you formatted the sdcard in may possibly be causing the issue? I've heard cases that incorrect formatting can block file transfers if over so many MBs, GBs, etc.
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I'm going to try and find the adapter that came with the micro card. I've read where some people having this issue have to use the adapter to plug into the PC directly to copy files. What I don't get is how it just happened all of a sudden. It was working just a few days ago, I loaded a bunch of music no problem as well as ROMs to flash. Very weird. It has to be a setting somewhere lol.
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No problem at all. Do you think it's possible that the format you formatted the sdcard in may possibly be causing the issue? I've heard cases that incorrect formatting can block file transfers if over so many MBs, GBs, etc.
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Just for grins, I hooked my phone up again to see by chance if it would work. Guess what? It works WTF?????? That's the craziest thing. I am back on the original ROM I had installed when the problem arose. But I just don't see how that's possible. UGGGGHHH
Real_JESRadio said:
Just for grins, I hooked my phone up again to see by chance if it would work. Guess what? It works WTF?????? That's the craziest thing. I am back on the original ROM I had installed when the problem arose. But I just don't see how that's possible. UGGGGHHH
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now that's crazy, lol. glad to hear it's working
Hi all,
My wife's phone went into recovery screen (not rooted) when she turned it on after being flat. As a result it did a factory reset and with internal storage SD all photos and video are gone. Dozens of photos of our newborn son and she's beside herself.
Being Jellybean you can't mount as USB to do a normal data recovery on it as a standard drive which sucks.
Does anyone have any other suggestions as to how to get this phone mounted somehow so can data recover the memory on it?
Help will not go unrewarded.....
Thanks
hbt15 said:
Hi all,
My wife's phone went into recovery screen (not rooted) when she turned it on after being flat. As a result it did a factory reset and with internal storage SD all photos and video are gone. Dozens of photos of our newborn son and she's beside herself.
Being Jellybean you can't mount as USB to do a normal data recovery on it as a standard drive which sucks.
Does anyone have any other suggestions as to how to get this phone mounted somehow so can data recover the memory on it?
Help will not go unrewarded.....
Thanks
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If the phone was rooted I see there are some utilities in the Play Store you can download....
why did you make 2 threads?
DvineLord said:
why did you make 2 threads?
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This. But beyond this, you want to make sure that whatever data remains isn't overwritten. That means don't start installing more apps and taking more pictures. There are also professionals who make attempts at recovering data, but those services are relatively expensive. It doesn't sound like you're ready to root, but there are apps that can help rooted users, as the person above me mentioned.
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You should be able to access the sdcard in recovery via adb shell. You probably need custom recovery though
WookieFan said:
This. But beyond this, you want to make sure that whatever data remains isn't overwritten. That means don't start installing more apps and taking more pictures. There are also professionals who make attempts at recovering data, but those services are relatively expensive. It doesn't sound like you're ready to root, but there are apps that can help rooted users, as the person above me mentioned.
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My kid was screaming halfway through the first post and when i came back to submit, it asked me for my password again. Figured it didn't work so made a new post. Oops.
I have rooted my own personal one-x, dhd's, sensations etc so i'm not against it but i know if i unlock the bootloader through htc-dev it will wipe the phone again so i'm loathe to do that for the moment.
Just sucks JB can't simply mount USB like ICS. It would have taken me 5 minutes to get her stuff back instead it's been 2 days already.
I've now got the phone showing as a 'media device' in windows explorer with full access to the 24gb of 'sd card space' but still can't run a recovery program as doesn't assign a drive letter.
Going to be a long day.
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I am having a weird problem with my phone, it's Samsung Galaxy S2 i9100. When I try to copy a bit large file to my storage, the phone hangs up in the middle of the process.
I have been using Cyanogenmod for a long time, I never faced this problem. But it started appearing few months ago. I have also tried some other roms, they give me the same problem. I am giving a logcat, hope that helps
LOGCAT: http://tny.cz/888f73f7
(logcat given in tinypaste, you can enable 'fullscreen' and 'line numbers' to examine the log easily)
Days are passing, but no replies. Strange! Is the question too hard to understand?
Ahmed said:
Days are passing, but no replies. Strange! Is the question too hard to understand?
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conect phone as mass storage instead of MTP
Same thing happens both for USB Mass Storage and Media Storage. In Mass Storage mode phone hangs up and the screen blacks out, and in Media Storage mode phone disconnects and after sometimes may automatically connect again.
Ahmed said:
Same thing happens both for USB Mass Storage and Media Storage. In Mass Storage mode phone hangs up and the screen blacks out, and in Media Storage mode phone disconnects and after sometimes may automatically connect again.
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I had same issues on my Galaxy W due to a incompatible file system. Whats your storage formated as?
LS.xD said:
I had same issues on my Galaxy W due to a incompatible file system. Whats your storage formated as?
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How do I know storage format?
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How do I know storage format?
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Connect to pc as mass storage to check ot format it. Needs to be fat32 file system
LS.xD said:
Connect to pc as mass storage to check ot format it. Needs to be fat32 file system
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Oh. I thought you were talking about Android's format something like EXT4, anyways, the format is correct. It's FAT 32. I am going to check it in another PC and let you know if that's my phone or USB ports problem.
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I am having a weird problem with my phone, it's Samsung Galaxy S2 i9100. When I try to copy a bit large file to my storage, the phone hangs up in the middle of the process.
I have been using Cyanogenmod for a long time, I never faced this problem. But it started appearing few months ago. I have also tried some other roms, they give me the same problem. I am giving a logcat, hope that helps
(logcat given in tinypaste, you can enable 'fullscreen' and 'line numbers' to examine the log easily)
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I am having the same problem. Currently on resurrection ROM, FAT32 SD card (without problems, did a chkdsk on it and works fine in Windows). I can start to copy MTP / mass storage mode, but after a while the phone freezes. I guess the rom is also CM based..
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Basically if I download a zip/rar file via wifi or transfer it from my PC via cable it almost always turns out that my zuk z2 has corrupted it (CRC checksum error). I have flashed and done factory reset. Tried it on vendor rom (2.0.093st) and now on official 2.0.133st with the same issue. I did not have this issue 2 weeks ago. The phone is barely a month. I also noticed freezing and blinking led light issue around the same time, not sure if it's related.
aiyeXda said:
Basically if I download a zip/rar file via wifi or transfer it from my PC via cable it almost always turns out that my zuk z2 has corrupted it (CRC checksum error). I have flashed and done factory reset. Tried it on vendor rom (2.0.093st) and now on official 2.0.133st with the same issue. I did not have this issue 2 weeks ago. The phone is barely a month. I also noticed freezing and blinking led light issue around the same time, not sure if it's related.
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Transferred files getting corrupted are often times a result of the storage medium itself (your Internal/External SD card) being corrupted. And not necessarily a buggy ROM. Try formatting your device's storage and see if that solves your issue.
Freewander10 said:
Transferred files getting corrupted are often times a result of the storage medium itself (your Internal/External SD card) being corrupted. And not necessarily a buggy ROM. Try formatting your device's storage and see if that solves your issue.
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I flashed it and then did a factory reset but still had the same issue. It's the internal SD card of the phone, no option for external. I have never heard of internal SD card of a phone being corrupted before, lately I have been having some hang ups involving the phone going black with the led flashing repeatedly. Do you think they could be related
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I flashed it and then did a factory reset but still had the same issue. It's the internal SD card of the phone, no option for external. I have never heard of internal SD card of a phone being corrupted before, lately I have been having some hang ups involving the phone going black with the led flashing repeatedly. Do you think they could be related
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A factory reset doesn't normally erase the internal SD. Only the internal storage. Because then all your files (including your media) would've gotten erased every time you did a factory reset.
If the led is blinking repeatedly regardless of the ROM, then it might be a hardware defect. And similarly, even though corrupt internal SD cards are rare, it is possible. OEMS cut corners sometimes in order to keep costs down. Especially when they try to put "top notch" specs in an "unbelievably cheap" phone.
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A factory reset doesn't normally erase the internal SD. Only the internal storage. Because then all your files (including your media) would've gotten erased every time you did a factory reset.
If the led is blinking repeatedly regardless of the ROM, then it might be a hardware defect. And similarly, even though corrupt internal SD cards are rare, it is possible. OEMS cut corners sometimes in order to keep costs down. Especially when they try to put "top notch" specs in an "unbelievably cheap" phone.
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How can I do a full format of my internal SD card?
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How can I do a full format of my internal SD card?
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Go to settings->storage and the option should be in there somewhere.
Ensure you backup/transfer all your files to your PC first though.
And you can use this app (if it doesn't continuously crash on your device :silly: ) to check whether or not there's actually a problem with the internal SD before doing the full format.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.anotherflexdev.sdcardtester.SDCardTester
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Go to settings->storage and the option should be in there somewhere.
Ensure you backup/transfer all your files to your PC first though.
And you can use this app (if it doesn't continuously crash on your device :silly: ) to check whether or not there's actually a problem with the internal SD before doing the full format.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.anotherflexdev.sdcardtester.SDCardTester
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Unfortunately my phone does not have format and the app you suggested keeps crashing, is there a chkdsk version for android?
aiyeXda said:
Unfortunately my phone does not have format and the app you suggested keeps crashing, is there a chkdsk version for android?
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That's weird. Are you sure?
Mind taking a screenshot of your storage screen and posting it?
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That's weird. Are you sure?
Mind taking a screenshot of your storage screen and posting it?
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Over the weekend I decided to install twrp and root it. I wiped the whole storage,data,cache etc and installed a cutom rom. Same issue still persists when I copy rar/zip files.
aiyeXda said:
Over the weekend I decided to install twrp and root it. I wiped the whole storage,data,cache etc and installed a cutom rom. Same issue still persists when I copy rar/zip files.
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Since android doesn't cone with a zip viewer, what third party app(s) have you been using?
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Since android doesn't cone with a zip viewer, what third party app(s) have you been using?
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App called rar made by rarlabs creators of winrar. I also copy the rar/zip files back to my pc and test on winrar as well to confirm it is corrupt and it usually is.