So its been like this since stock. Drag n drop music to several different directories trying to find the path that works. /music, /media/music, /media/mp3. Just doesn't show up. if I navigate to the music files manually they will play but only 1 at a time. I want to just hit shuffle and put phone off to the side. Any ideas?
Edit: solved, for whatever reason there was a .nomedia file on the root of my sd card and apparently it makes all sub folders invisible.
You know, this happened with me as well with this phone. But not any other android device I've had (This is the fourth). Is this something that the device is shipping with? It's kinda weird.
What the hell is going on. I tried resetting and everything, even exchanged the device and the new one is doing the same thing! Also vibrating and force closing it is getting on my nerves! The followig seems to happen after a while I am TIRED of having to turn of my phone and turn it back on! ~ I go to play a .mp3 it says " FIle type not supported"...My .mp3 ringtone does not work the phone just vibrates the selected ringtone doesnt work. I got too take a picture or record video it says "Camera Failed"....I get a visual voicemail....the "play" button is grayed out and I have to turn off phone turn it BACK On just to check my voicemail. Also occassioally my sms wont work either. I turn my phone off and on every morning and throughout day I notice this and its getting REAL annoying !
Well first off, this isn't a software flaw, this is specific to you, as we have many users here including myself who are using these phones daily without the issues you are describing.
You had said that the issue was with an mp3, can you upload that somewhere for us to test on our phones?
As far as the camera and visual voicemail, I've never heard of that issue before, perhaps you ended up with a bad phone again?
I am getting the frequent force close with messaging. I also have had problems with the camera and idk about the mp3 stuff I haven't put any ringtones on the phone yet. This is getting really annoying I agree.
I don't have any issues with mine? Have you guys done anything like rooting or flashing anything?
Nope, completely stock. The most I have done is take a screen shot lol.
hmm maybe some have a defect? It's not all SK4g's though, as some of us have no issues at all. I would suggest getting it replaced by T-Mobile, as this is a factory defect. not sure why that happened to you guys. has anyone else had these issues and found any fixes?
That's kinda tough the hearest t-mobile is like 4 hours from here /:
One of my friends who went with me on the trip to get the SK also got one and he says he's never gotten a force close so you may be right. But could it have anything to do with the amount of texts I send/receive? Because I have to admit it is pretty excessive. The failing to send messages when I am receiving one simultaneously is expected, but not the force closes in my opinion.
It shouldn't force close on you. I know mine fails to send every once in a while too, as I text a lot (kinda the reason I got the phone). failing to send isn't as big of a deal, as it notifies you and you just have to click resend. Not entirely sure why it's force closing though? I wonder if a logcat might help? if you have adb installed, you can try adb logcat and see what shows up when you force close? if we can find the issue there, it might be fixable from our end. all depends on where the flaw lies/if it's just a bad apk somehow or if there's an actual hardware issue or something.
I'll do a log next time there is a fc, I'm having another issue or it may be related, but this one is with WidgetLocker I believe. Sometimes when I go to unlock the phone it'll freeze up and then I dont know how to explain it, but it almost seems like it resets but it really doesnt. The phone will blackout for a little then the homescreen will pop up and service will gone for a while until the cards are read just like if I rebooted.
That might be a function of WidgetLocker, I used it on my old G1 and it always hung and black screened at me.
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That might be a function of WidgetLocker, I used it on my old G1 and it always hung and black screened at me.
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Yeah I know it does that from time to time, but on my previous phone it wouldn't do that reboot thing where it would lose connection then resend my latest text messages once it reconnected.
I'm not sure why it's doing that. My guess would be that the issues are caused because the SK4G doesn't use a normal lock screen. widgetlocker uses some modification of the system file for the lock screen, and perhaps it's not sure what to modify? just my 2 cents.
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I'm not sure why it's doing that. My guess would be that the issues are caused because the SK4G doesn't use a normal lock screen. widgetlocker uses some modification of the system file for the lock screen, and perhaps it's not sure what to modify? just my 2 cents.
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That's what I was thinking too, I'm gonna uninstall it for a bit and see if anything changes.
is anyone else having an issue with notification volume? everytime i reboot my SK, my notification volume gets pushed all the way down to nothing, so i don't get a sound notification for texts, emails, etc, until i move the notif. volume back up in my settings. i did root with the one-click for the Epic 4G.
This is a new UI so alot of the apps i.e. widgets you may put on will cause issues. If you like certain apps contact the dev so your device is supported correctly. Still to new to get mad at it till sum of the bugs get worked out. I did notice a couple of times when I left screen on in pocket on accident that when I go to use it again it doesn't respond to any touch but can move courser around till rebooted then its ok. If some don't already know the sk4g is almost the same as the epic. The sk4g is still a badass phone for 100bucks.
Same as the OP
I know this is a little old, but I've experienced the same problem as the OP so it seems they are not alone with this problem.
I actually tried two different newly formatted SD cards (because I thought it may have been the SD card), and still would have the problem. Then I actually did swap phones about a month ago and it seemed the problem would now take several days to resurface instead of several hours. And I could deal with that.
Since the OTA update about 2 weeks ago, the phone has been back on it's original BS as the OP posted and it's driving me nuts. I actually missed some emergency calls last night because the mp3 ringtone didn't work so I'm finding a solution to this issue today or trashing this phone.
My belief is that there is something interfering with the phone's ability to read the SD card for media. Because other apps I have that save to the SD card or read from it work fine. So I'm going to master reset it and not download any of my apps and see what happens when I set an mp3 ringtone. If it makes it through the day with no hiccups, I'll slowly add back one app at a time until hopefully I can find the culprit.
bipoler if you'd like, we can exchange via PM what apps we both have downloaded and see if we have some in common that may be problems.
I'll post back with any progress.
I've been having the problem with ringtones not working, just getting silence when I get a call. for me it seems to happen when I set a ringtone from the app Zedge, I don't think it happens when I use ringtones from the Android System, which would make sense if the issue is related to reading the sdcard. gonna go back to a system ringtone and see what happens today.
Yeah my phone had all those problems, but I installed the Lightning rom and all those problems went away, except for the ones about messages failing...I text A LOT
Lightning ROM
Thanks for that info on the Lightning Rom. I will check that out. Phone has been working flawlessly all day with the mp3 ringtone and no extra apps besides the master reset. I might give it until the morning before I start putting them back on.
On stock id install so many apps that ran on the background that id get delay from opening closing swiping and turning onthe phone.. so I wiped it installed a custom rom and just kept the essentials.. havnt had a problem since... well.. occasionly ill have to odi but that's on purpose
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I've had this issue over and over and found a fix for it. Your pix are there. Don't delete the grey box with ! in it or you will lose your pix for sure. There is also no need to reformat your card. Reformatting has been linked to high blood pressure and short card life.
Here is the fix.
Open your file explorer (I use Root Explorer) and go to sdcard/dcim/.thumbnails.
-You should have two entries at the very top called Thumnaildata with some numbers at the end. One will have a large size and one will have a size of 0.
Delete them BOTH. Then go into settings and unmount your SD card fully and the remount it (this will initiate the Media Scanner). Give it about 3-5mins to fully finish scanning. Open your media gallery and viola they are back and good to go.
Not sure what causes this but what I am finding is that something interupts the write portion of it or a download. This is actually a common problem, so I might actually start a guide/thread of its own.
If it still doesn't work, then last resort and this way works everytime but you'll lose that picture, is open media gallery and long press the grey icon with ! in it and delete, then do the above. I've had to do this one a few times and lost some really great pix, but usually the top part works for me 99% of the time.
I wish I knew this about a month ago. I had pics of getting a hole in one and then I pulled the card to copy to my computer and they were gone, gone, gone. Won't do that again. thanks
Please could somebody help me fix a problem I am currently having with my Desire HD which started before the most recent system update to Sense 3.0 and continues now the update is installed.
The problem is with the personalisation of the ringtone, notification and alarm sounds. I started with the basic sound set as the default one and then downloads various sound sets from HTC. I then picked the sounds I liked from a variety of the sound sets to personalise all sounds keeping the sound set itself as the default one. This was working perfectly for many months. However, for no apparent reason one day the phone lost all of the sounds and replaced them with quietly brilliant. I put them back to the ones I had previously selected but the phone lost the settings again at the next restart. The problem is not consistent because sometimes all of them get changed at the restart and sometimes on a selection of them. It also sometimes happens without a restart being performed.
I thought it might be to do with the fact that the downloaded sound sets are stored on the memory card and there might be a problem with the card because the problem doesn't seem to happen if I use sounds from the default selection installed on the phone. However I have connected the phone to my PC as an external drive and performed a scan disk and defragment with no problems found. I have also dismounted and remounted the card. There are no other indications to suggest the phone is having difficulty accessing the memory card.
I have also been into manage apps and deleted all data files for sound sets and media storage, deleted all of the downloaded sounds from the memory card, and started again from scratch but the problem persists.
The problem also keeps evolving and now if I select a different sounds starting from the default sound set it actually changes the sounds associated with the sound set. The sounds that the phone replaces the ones I have selected is also becoming more random and the sound sets themselves are becoming mixed up too even if I am not using that sound set.
Can anyone suggest a fix or do I just need to perform a factory reset? Would a factory reset help?
Thanks.
I was unable to find a cause for the issue so in the absence of any other suggestions I tried a factory reset which seems to have fixed the problem... so far anyway.
I have several custom "Ringtones" and "Notifications" files inside these folders and they would always be included on the list of available sounds whenever I wanted to select one as a default. Suddenly they are all mysteriously missing on any of the lists.
I thought perhaps I denied a permission somewhere that is preventing my Pixel from seeing them, but I combed through everything. I went into Settings - Apps - Reset app preferences, but that didn't fix it. Toggling on a few more permissions for storage didn't fix it either. I rebooted after everything and still no change. I also checked the permissions on both of these folders and they're correct. I even defrosted everything I previously froze in Titanium Backup.
Odd thing, they were all working just a few weeks ago and I can't for the life of me figure out what changed aside from the 7.1.2 update.
Does anyone have any idea what may have happened or where else I can look? It's not worth the bother of a factory reset, but I sure would like to have Pink Floyd back.
SOLVED: Well good grief, all I did was delete the files and then copy them back in. Now they're all showing up like they should.