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[Q] Unrooted and reflashed multiple times. At a loss....

I restored to stock using
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1112555
then rooted it using super one click and then backing up my recovery file and using 3e recovery file...then downloaded rom manager and used that to install bionix rom but same issues I have had since getting my infuse...I will download apps and in the middle of them installing, my phone will reboot and delete random apps...I've unrooted and tried a couple times...so do I just have a bum device? I've moved the apps to phone memory also. They delete also when simply just rebooting my device. It seems over time that it becomes the same apps that delete while others will stay.
I have tried searching but couldn't come up with much. I am going to attempt to unroot and then try it all over again.
EDIT: Finished and it is still removing apps with every reboot...guess the phones going back.

....move problem apps to phone instead of sd.

Is it doing the samething under stock ? And have u tried installing from .apk instead of market?
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I move them all right away to the phone memory and when I first got the phone I noticed it was doing it when it was stock also. I read somewhere about a certain number of phones having a problem with the LCD at the very bottom where it looked like txt rolling under old warped glass? It's not noticeable unless your looking for it...but if there was a bad batch of phones maybe this is related?

Fee454 said:
I move them all right away to the phone memory and when I first got the phone I noticed it was doing it when it was stock also. I read somewhere about a certain number of phones having a problem with the LCD at the very bottom where it looked like txt rolling under old warped glass? It's not noticeable unless your looking for it...but if there was a bad batch of phones maybe this is related?
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I would say take it back bro
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Yea that's my only other option. I'm nearing my 30 day return so i'll have to this week.
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I copied all my photos and zedge ringtones to my external sd card and it is not showing up on my phone when I search. In fact nothing I have ever put there besides a couple divx's that I put there actually stay. I have a 32gb sandisk class 2.
Am I missing something simple here or is my phone just a lemon. First time android user.
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I.dont think.sounds like its not scanning media
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I.dont think.sounds like its not scanning media
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Picks up on my moviefiles and a couple youtube downloaded vids but most things I copy over from my pc dont show up. It looks like it used up the space tho.
I un mounted and remounted too. Says scanning media/completed
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I.would unformat wipe your card mount it. Then let.media scanner run.whens it done open settings and select usb debugging and check.unknown sources.try that if you havent yet
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tyshemi said:
I.would unformat wipe your card mount it. Then let.media scanner run.whens it done open settings and select usb debugging and check.unknown sources.try that if you havent yet
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Usb debugging and unknown sources are already checked. I will reformat card and try that. I'm at work so I'll have to verify that it worked once I'm home
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re: external SD card
Fee454 said:
I copied all my photos and zedge ringtones to my external sd card and it is not showing up on my phone when I search. In fact nothing I have ever put there besides a couple divx's that I put there actually stay. I have a 32gb sandisk class 2.
Am I missing something simple here or is my phone just a lemon. First time android user.
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Here is a suggestion.
Put your phone into mass storage mode and copy/backup everything on your external sd card to your computer.
Unplug usb go to settings>applications>development and disable USB debugging, then plug in USB cable from computer, and select mass storage mode.
Then open "computer or my computer" on your pc and find your external sd card drive icon.
Right click mouse on the icon and select "format"
(be 100% sure that the drive you are formatting is your external sdcard)
After you are sure of that, uncheck the box which says "quick format" leave all other options alone and start the format, when its done formatting
copy all the files you backed up to your external sd card and I am almost certain that after doing this you will have no problems with your external sdcard.
Good luck!

Misterjunky said:
Here is a suggestion.
Put your phone into mass storage mode and copy/backup everything on your external sd card to your computer.
Unplug usb go to settings>applications>development and disable USB debugging, then plug in USB cable from computer, and select mass storage mode.
Then open "computer or my computer" on your pc and find your external sd card drive icon.
Right click mouse on the icon and select "format"
(be 100% sure that the drive you are formatting is your external sdcard)
After you are sure of that, uncheck the box which says "quick format" leave all other options alone and start the format, when its done formatting
copy all the files you backed up to your external sd card and I am almost certain that after doing this you will have no problems with your external sdcard.
Good luck!
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I will try that once I'm home from work thanks for everyones responses. One question is my phone is now in ext4 format I believe. Would that cause any kind of issue?
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Formatting my 32gb now....I purchased it off a coworker who cannot use it in his phone...it is currently in fat32 format...is that right? I'm not sure if that is how it came or if he formatted it that way.

Fee454 said:
Formatting my 32gb now....I purchased it off a coworker who cannot use it in his phone...it is currently in fat32 format...is that right? I'm not sure if that is how it came or if he formatted it that way.
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Thats fine
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I thought it was fixed. Rebooted all last night and all apps stayed. I just rebooted a few min ago and 5 apps are now deleted. First android experience is not a good one. I really wanted give this a chance too.
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Its not android. Don't let a bad device mess up your opinion of this phone and definitely not android as a whole. Just exchange and your issues will go away.
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laxwillsch said:
Its not android. Don't let a bad device mess up your opinion of this phone and definitely not android as a whole. Just exchange and your issues will go away.
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Yeah that's what im going to do. Just frustrating.
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OK so by my name you can see where I came from. I started with the atrix and it sucked , very unhappy with that phone. Went back into my iPhone 4. Then tried the HTC inspire, crashed non stop , very dissapointing. Nothing seemed to measure up and facetime was something I missed big time. Back to my iPhone those phones lasted 4 weeks combined. I have been in this phone for 3 weeks and while I look for.things I was use too some, its overall a better phone for me than iPhone. Like the SMS apps, customization better, the screen being bigger is a huge one. The 8 MPH camera is awesome. Used a pic I took for my website and it looks great. Multiple launchers to give you the feel you want. I get some force closes , but my ios did too. I was jailbroken so I could use my phone to the fullest.
The speed of this phone is great and I am sold on android after this. That's just my thoughts I would say u have a bad unit and give it another shot. I will get the galaxy s2 when it arrives. If the iPhone 5 isnt 4.2" I wont even sniff it, unless there is chocolate on it.
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iphonedefector said:
OK so by my name you can see where I came from. I started with the atrix and it sucked , very unhappy with that phone. Went back into my iPhone 4. Then tried the HTC inspire, crashed non stop , very dissapointing. Nothing seemed to measure up and facetime was something I missed big time. Back to my iPhone those phones lasted 4 weeks combined. I have been in this phone for 3 weeks and while I look for.things I was use too some, its overall a better phone for me than iPhone. Like the SMS apps, customization better, the screen being bigger is a huge one. The 8 MPH camera is awesome. Used a pic I took for my website and it looks great. Multiple launchers to give you the feel you want. I get some force closes , but my ios did too. I was jailbroken so I could use my phone to the fullest.
The speed of this phone is great and I am sold on android after this. That's just my thoughts I would say u have a bad unit and give it another shot. I will get the galaxy s2 when it arrives. If the iPhone 5 isnt 4.2" I wont even sniff it, unless there is chocolate on it.
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Good to know. I hope my replacement infuse works the way it should. I will be exchanging it in about 6 hours.

FPse emulator

Does anyone know how to back up the FPse emulator data? I had to restore my phone to a previous date and couldn't back my emulator data up. I lost a month and a halves worth of work from my ff7 game. I was pretty pissed when I found out everything was erased! So is there a way to back up the emulator data to prevent this in the future if I ever need to restore again?
Also, the games save have nothing with the actual games. They save somewhere else. I think it has something to do with the emulator itself.
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Have you tried to backup the data by any means? Try Titanium Backup.
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I'm rooted and running CM7. I have clockworkmod recovery too. Making a back up of my phone is not an issue. I need to back up the emulator itself in its current state.
I have tried copying the emulator itself to my sdcard and still no luck. Which I thought would have solved the issue, but that wasn't the case. So I was thinking maybe there is data from the emulator somewhere on my phone I could back up.(no idea where/how to or I wouldn't be asking!)
I had to restore to a previous back up because I downloaded something and my phone stared getting all wacky. Then a week down the line, the app market wouldn't work. Facebook app and on the browser were blocked. Only on my phone. I tried on a friends phone, and i had no problem signing in.
Just in case something like this happens again, or if ever needed for any reason; I don't want to have to restore and lose a hella game time time.
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Ok, so here's what I want you to try: Titanium backup
It will back up *the apk and related data* just tell it to update the backup when you're asleep.
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When I'm asleep? What does it take forever? Thanks btw!
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Волк said:
Have you tried to backup the data by any means? Try Titanium Backup.
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That it just save the memory card.
Pin it to Win it.

codecaine21 said:
When I'm asleep? What does it take forever? Thanks btw!
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No, a full backup takes five minutes, I was meaning to say that you should make a schedule for it to do that, though I am not sure if you can specify only one app for it to update, but I've also never tried it either.
Edit: ok, just checked can't do it for only one app,.but I reccomend using it to back up your apps and data anyhow. If you're on GB and staying there you can also backup system data.
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Yeah I'm on GB and staying. I've thought about switching to ICS but heard there are lots of kinks that need to be worked out. Maybe ill try it sometime in the future, when a stable version is released.
Up until now, backing up the system data was done on my Linux box. I just use CWM to make a back up, then store the back up on my Linux box. Titanium will make it that much easier.
I'm gonna check titanium out tonight. Thanks again man!
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Anyone know how to transfer save-states or memory card data to a pc (to use with ePSXe)?
I'd love play Symphony of the night on my phone, and continue on, on my computer, then back again.
I can automatically sync folders with Dropsync, but I don't know where the files are.
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warlock257 said:
Anyone know how to transfer save-states or memory card data to a pc (to use with ePSXe)?
I'd love play Symphony of the night on my phone, and continue on, on my computer, then back again.
I can automatically sync folders with Dropsync, but I don't know where the files are.
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Well, it would either save on the SD card or with the app data. Try googling it, I hae a hunch someone has asked the exact same question before, maybe not on XDA's G2x forum, per se, but somewhere.

Warlock, nvm I misread your post. But I have tried the titanium app and its pretty cool. Now all I have to do now is restore my phone and figure out how to restore the data
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Ok, I figured it out. I couldn't find them because they are hidden. You need root explorer to access them.
The memory cards on the phone is located at:
data\data\com.emulator.fpse\files\memcards
-copy 'slot1.mcd' to the PC.
-rename it to 'epsxe000.mcr' and put it in the memcards folder in epsxe
-and to get it back to the phone, do the opposite, name it back to 'slot1.mcd' and put it in the folder it came from.
Despite the different extensions, both the android and windows emulators will read the memory cards fine, as long as the name is right.

Cool, so you could play on your PC, save, slap it on your SD card and play on your phone. Maybe it's time I dust off one of my Resident Evil discs. STARS!

Warlock, I tried doing the dame thing. That is essentially backing up the emulator data. So if I ever lost my emulator data I would never lose the spot in the game I am at. I have seen in a bunch of different places that the data would be in the data folder. Oddly, my data folder is empty and has always been empty. Should it be? I even changed the file path of the memory card on my emulator to save to my sdcard. I took a look at it after a save point in FF7 and it was 0kb big.....empty. or was it?
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codecaine21 said:
Warlock, I tried doing the dame thing. That is essentially backing up the emulator data. So if I ever lost my emulator data I would never lose the spot in the game I am at. I have seen in a bunch of different places that the data would be in the data folder. Oddly, my data folder is empty and has always been empty. Should it be? I even changed the file path of the memory card on my emulator to save to my sdcard. I took a look at it after a save point in FF7 and it was 0kb big.....empty. or was it?
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Yeah, that was the problem I was having initially. I gather that you can't see anything inside the 'data' folder with a regular file explorer, you have to use the 'root explorer' app. (I assume your phone has to be rooted to use this).
I'll also add a handy shortcut within Root Explorer. You can bookmark folders, so its really easy to jump to the memcards folder and back to where you want to back them up to. Just long press on the folder you want to bookmark.

Yeah I'm using the regular file manager that came with CM7. I feel really dumb for not thinking about this before. I am rooted so all I had to do was open a terminal and navigate to the data folder lol its not as easy on the eye as a GUI would be but I still don't know why I didn't think of this earlier?! Anywho, ill check out the root explorer app you have suggested. Thanks for the file path to the game data too!
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No Problem.
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Entire Folders Disappear

Folders or just particular files i just transferred into external card end up disappearing. As it was never there. I checked Lost.dir folder and it was all of a sudden same size as mdata that is missing. I read the card is corrupted so u formatted it. It has happened twice the reformat. Whats causing that? Just want to understand it.
This happens on the external card level 6 32 gig micro card only, by the way.
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Folders or just particular files i just transferred into external card end up disappearing. As it was never there. I checked Lost.dir folder and it was all of a sudden same size as mdata that is missing. I read the card is corrupted so u formatted it. It has happened twice the reformat. Whats causing that? Just want to understand it.
This happens on the external card level 6 32 gig micro card only, by the way.
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How long have you had it? And what from are you running? I'd guess its corrupt and you should format, or your not waiting for the transfer long enough (with root explorer, leave the window active until it actually finishes)
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walkwithmeinhell said:
Folders or just particular files i just transferred into external card end up disappearing. As it was never there. I checked Lost.dir folder and it was all of a sudden same size as mdata that is missing. I read the card is corrupted so u formatted it. It has happened twice the reformat. Whats causing that? Just want to understand it.
This happens on the external card level 6 32 gig micro card only, by the way.
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Were u ever able to solve this??? everytime i transfer sumthn from my pc it doesnt stick after i unplug it but wen i transfer from internal to enternal sd using root explorer it works but doesnt stick on a reboot....i have a class 6 32mb kingston
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look into performing a "low level format." This can be done with hddguru's "low level format" tool or be using the dd command from Linux eg. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 bs=1m

icenight89 said:
look into performing a "low level format." This can be done with hddguru's "low level format" tool or be using the dd command from Linux eg. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 bs=1m
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Ill look into this...
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I'm having the same problem. I have a class 4 32GB card and the same contents of a folder keep removing themselves. Last time I formatted the card and put them back. I had 98% of them backed up on my computer. So did a full format, took like 45 mins, and now 4 days later, same stuff gone! And its about 19gigs of music, vids, and pics every time!
PS. Sorry I didn't post anything to help, just wanted to let you know you aren't alone!
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Sorry for long delay with my response. I did format the card on pc. Did one of them deep formats. Took forever. That fixed it for the most part. I did notice that the problem persists only when it comes to video files. I wait for transfer to finish. I keep the app on the active. Even make sure it transferred all files correctly and that they actually play. Even with all that they disappear after a reboot or when i fire up file manager. I use es explorer by the way. What ive done lately is transfer them to phone memory first and keep a copy there and transfer video files a few a time instead of the whole bulk. If i do that it seems to work fine. Files dont disappear if i do that.
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Never mind. Its began doing again with all files. I gave up and bought a class 4 32 gig card. I dont know if its because the one i have was class 6 but its annoying. Cant trust it to save files anymore.
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Recover deleted pictures

Is there a way that you are able to recover deleted pictures from our phone when it is connected via USB to a computer?
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No. sadly, if you deleted pics through your phone they're gone for good. Pics are the one thing that is automatically saved to the sd card. If you have any pics (from the camera) you can find them on your sd card in a folder called "DCIM". Use ES file explorer or your computer to find the folder.
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I actually figured out how to mount the SD card and then scan for files using a program.
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jgr208 said:
I actually figured out how to mount the SD card and then scan for files using a program.
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check this http://www.ehow.com/how_4461259_restore-deleted-files-sd-card.html

I recommended Dropbox app...
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Dropbox is great for this...I'm experimenting with Google+ right now. With what I'm taking pictures of these days, the worst that happens is everyone sees a "problem area" of my hotel that I'm getting maintenance or housekeeping to work on. So far, it's keeping everything private and I'm not having any issues with upload.

RowanOak said:
Dropbox is great for this...I'm experimenting with Google+ right now. With what I'm taking pictures of these days, the worst that happens is everyone sees a "problem area" of my hotel that I'm getting maintenance or housekeeping to work on. So far, it's keeping everything private and I'm not having any issues with upload.
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Yea that would have not worked for me not having the picture deleted. Apparently girls don't like pictures of them taken while they are bored at a baseball game.
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jgr208 said:
Is there a way that you are able to recover deleted pictures from our phone when it is connected via USB to a computer?
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yes, it is, just with a proper data recovery software, like Jihosoft Photo Recovery for Mac. Stop using you phone and connect it to computer via USB, start this program, you will be able to recover deleted pictures from your phone with ease.

Kelly Clarkson said:
yes, it is, just with a proper data recovery software, like Jihosoft Photo Recovery for Mac. Stop using you phone and connect it to computer via USB, start this program, you will be able to recover deleted pictures from your phone with ease.
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This is because "deleting" something on an sd card just marks it ok to over-right, but does not break the actual logic gates in the card. this means the data is still there, until something else is put in it's place.

lkrasner said:
This is because "deleting" something on an sd card just marks it ok to over-right, but does not break the actual logic gates in the card. this means the data is still there, until something else is put in it's place.
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Thanks. I didn't know that, but it seems like some useful knowledge to have.
Brought to you by time and relative dimensions in space.

You can recover deleted pictures from android phones with photo recovery software, here's a good one
android photo recovery
hope this helps.

How Noticeable is no SD support?

I'm used to keeping media on my sd card and flashing away, how Noticeable is it for you long term Samsung users?
The main issue I'll have is wiping each time and then having to download everything like music back to the phone...
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richfreestone said:
I'm used to keeping media on my sd card and flashing away, how Noticeable is it for you long term Samsung users?
The main issue I'll have is wiping each time and then having to download everything like music back to the phone...
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When you wipe to install a rom it doesn't wipe your storage. That's only when you factory reset.

i transfer music, pictures, videos to my pc via usb cable...its very fast...

richfreestone said:
I'm used to keeping media on my sd card and flashing away, how Noticeable is it for you long term Samsung users?
The main issue I'll have is wiping each time and then having to download everything like music back to the phone...
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https://shopmeenova.appspot.com/st/p/mrg2.html
You'll need this one.

The transfer speed even on USB 2.0 is insanely fast. I don't miss the microSD card at all... Not that I loaded my phone with stacks of games and movies anyway...