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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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tyshemi said:
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.

Infuse Deletes Music

So, I've been running Serendipity 7 on my Infuse for maybe 3 days until I went back to stock firmware, but it seems everytime I try to put all my music onto my external SD, it deletes it all and saves 3-4 bands with scattered songs from the album. I had this same problem with my Captivate, but it would put the files into LOST.dir instead of just deleting them. I've looked around on Google since I started having problems back in June/July and couldn't find anything.
Right now, my Infuse is running stock Froyo and rooted. I haven't really done much else. The SD is a Sandisk 32gb.
To add a bit more, when all 19gb of music is on the SD card, I safely remove it and then plug it in just to make sure it's still on there. The music doesn't delete till it's plugged into the phone. I've tried using the SD card slot on my computer and USB through my phone and it always deletes either after I disconnect from the computer or when I plug the SD into my phone.
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Do you have any .nomedia files on your phone? I don't think the media scanner is the issue here, but it's always a possibility. Did you try storing the music on your phone's internal memory instead of the SD card? Maybe the card is going bad?

I haven't put any .nomedia files on my phone. As for the SD card, it is brand new. I can put the media ob my internal, but when I move it to the external it deletes itself.
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Now it's deleting apps that are installed on the external SD...
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It's most likely a faulty external sim card.

I should stop buying from eBay. I've only gotten one good SD card from them. This I've was still in GE case too. It's like it will only allow 1-2 gigs of the 32 before it deletes the files.
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Plagued Will said:
I should stop buying from eBay. I've only gotten one good SD card from them. This I've was still in GE case too. It's like it will only allow 1-2 gigs of the 32 before it deletes the files.
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Search e-bay for this problem. They are also selling cards that are fomatted to show more space then what they have.
I once bought an 32gig usb drive, it would look like everything that I copied was there, but would only play the first 4gig.
These mostly come from china. Like I said, do a search and you'll never buy memory off e-bay again.

Very good point, I completely forgot about that. Thank you so much.
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Now there are a bunch of no extension files in my LOST.dir. They just now showed up. Damned Chinese products.
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I make it a rule to never buy electronics off eBay. Local craigslist only for me. That being said, it definitely sounds like a borked SD card.
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Yo, easy as pie to fix this. if your SD card is in deed broken. Wally World (walmart) is your solution, go buy a San Disk 32 GB like yours then switch out the cards and return the faulty one. Thank you.

I'm telling ...
But to show my age, back in the early 80’s, when we were hacking drives to copy 5 1/4 discs, we'd burn out drives in a few weeks. So we'd buy a new one and swap out the internal components.
Cranky...

Truckerglenn said:
I'm telling ...
But to show my age, back in the early 80’s, when we were hacking drives to copy 5 1/4 discs, we'd burn out drives in a few weeks. So we'd buy a new one and swap out the internal components.
Cranky...
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"I'm Telling" bahahah! i member in elementary that **** was serious. who ever saw you do something you weren't supposed you, from that moment on you were their ***** until you caught them doing something... real talk.

[Q] help needed

I'm in a position to upgrade my phone and cannot decide to have the Sony Experia U or the HTC Desire C i like both but need a hand to decide can anyone help ?thanks

thanx guys

h t t p ://geekaphone.com/compare/HTC-Desire-C-with-Beats-Audio-vs-Sony-Xperia-U
better is xperia remove space
better procesor dual core 1 ghz, better screen, but dont have memory card only internal memory.

Xperia U is much much better.
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decision made
thanks i had decided for myself to take the sony all i wanted was some other peoples thoughts thanx again

Yep, Xperia u is better, but I like desire c better
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Yeh i like the htc i've had a 'Hero' for 2 years and i like the way it works, but the 600mhz processer was a bit small on the 'C' but you cud expand the memory. Although i have got around that with the sony i've opened a 'box' account uploaded my music and installed 'cloud around' which streams ur music to your phone brilliantly thought out if i say so myself as i have also read that the sony comes with 50gb of box space once you install the app on ur sony fingers crossed cheers anyway guys phone comes on wednesday i will let you know what i think

Sounds promising.
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I thnik you can have better user experience on the Desire C, but the caracteritics are lower than the Xperia U.

Xperia U (Maybe)
Xperia U is much better in all specs except for one thing:
Xperia U doesn't have a microSD card slot, so you'll have to deal with either the 4GB or 8GB versions only. This is a very important deal for me since I use to carry a lot of music and videos on my phone so if I was you I'd search for another Xperia U level option with microSD card slot available.
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Xperia U is much better in all specs except for one thing:
Xperia U doesn't have a microSD card slot, so you'll have to deal with either the 4GB or 8GB versions only. This is a very important deal for me since I use to carry a lot of music and videos on my phone so if I was you I'd search for another Xperia U level option with microSD card slot available.
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I have looked at other options aswell the other option to use is on the go 'otg' for short on the experia u which allows you to connect a hard drive and play what you want on it or a small flash drive simples

Well new phone in hand and I love it uber cool so fast compared to the hero I made the right choice plus cloudstorage sorted opened a box account on the hero had 5gb openedon the Sony and been upgraded to 50gb storage space and I have unlimited internet so prettywell sorted
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daftvader3 said:
Well new phone in hand and I love it uber cool so fast compared to the hero I made the right choice plus cloudstorage sorted opened a box account on the hero had 5gb openedon the Sony and been upgraded to 50gb storage space and I have unlimited internet so prettywell sorted
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How's the cloud speeds?
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So far on WiFi a couple of seconds to load on phone data about the same but I do seem to need a strong signal will do more testing today
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All seems prettygood on data roaming no probs
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Xperia of course

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So far on WiFi a couple of seconds to load on phone data about the same but I do seem to need a strong signal will do more testing today
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Sounds better than most. Though never got to like the cloud concept. Prefer to be a cheapskate with data plans and get large storage.
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Yes I know what you mean but it's all new tech to me along with the phone but as of yet the cloud storage seems to work quite well although box allowed me to sync to start now I have to pay :-( you can put on your phone and upload but not from the computer any more so still works but not as I had hoped still playingwell from the cloud though and with out dout was the best choice from what I was offered I won't be changing phones
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daftvader3 said:
Yes I know what you mean but it's all new tech to me along with the phone but as of yet the cloud storage seems to work quite well although box allowed me to sync to start now I have to pay :-( you can put on your phone and upload but not from the computer any more so still works but not as I had hoped still playingwell from the cloud though and with out dout was the best choice from what I was offered I won't be changing phones
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Best choice after all. Enjoy your new phone. Cheers.
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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...

How to make the most of 32gb

So my memory is almost used and I don't have that much. The biggest thing is the backup. What's a good way to maximize the memory?
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Store the backup on usb via USB otg cable.
I use Google to back up all my pictures and videos so I keep those off the device too.
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pitbullmommy45245 said:
So my memory is almost used and I don't have that much. The biggest thing is the backup. What's a good way to maximize the memory?
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If you like to have multiple backups, OTG is recommended indeed as stated above. Can also keep one compress backup on your phone for emergency, and place the rest on cloud.
Switch out your music for those music apps...tmobiel mobile freedom = no data penalty.
Photo on cloud. clear out download folders....should keep you good.

pitbullmommy45245 said:
So my memory is almost used and I don't have that much. The biggest thing is the backup. What's a good way to maximize the memory?
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Get yourself one of these, https://www.amazon.com/Dash-Micro-M...nkId=HBVOUQXBO7X4C5GH&creativeASIN=B00R0ZAMTM
I have one with a 128gb card in it. I keep all my pictures, movies & music on it.

Kamau54 said:
Get yourself one of these, https://www.amazon.com/Dash-Micro-M...nkId=HBVOUQXBO7X4C5GH&creativeASIN=B00R0ZAMTM
I have one with a 128gb card in it. I keep all my pictures, movies & music on it.
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So if I ever ran into a issue and needed to use my backup bc the phone wouldn't start or something can I use that to access it
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It basically is the missing micro SD card option in the phone. Whatever you could do with it in the phone, you can do with it outside the phone.