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data\logs fills with heap-dumps

I have a tf101 with 32Gb memory. I was losing space quickly, so started searching where it has been. Removed different big games etc., to get some space back, but it was gone in a couple of days.
I finally found 11Gb of heap-dumps in the data\logs folder. Removed them all to free space. A couple of days later I noticed new heap-dumps.
Does anyone know what triggers the creation of these dumps, and what is more important, how the prefent theme from being created?

Someone was having this problem on a custom ROM not too long ago and IIRC whatever is in there is trash. You can pull it off and put it on your PC to analyze that way.
For it to not be repopulated, you can just set /data/logs permissions to User r and the rest blank. That way nothing gets written to it unless you are the one writing it.

I just found out that this is where my free space has gone.
I currently have 98 heap-dump files at 20-45 MB apiece in /data/logs occupying 3.5 GB of space, some dating back to 6 months ago. My guess is that a heapdump is generated every time an app crashes (my most recent files were generated two days ago -- that night, my XDA app crashed several times). A google search for *.hprof file extension shows that it's a Java heap dump file. (filename is "heap-dump-tm<TIMESTAMP>-pid<PID>.hprof")
Notice that the filename of the heapdump file shows the PID of the process that generated the dump. Next time I see it, I'll be sure to check my catlog for that PID. (I just rebooted my tablet recently trying to resolve my free space issue, so I can't confirm the PID right now.)
EDIT: Just confirmed it. I did a grep for xda, and the file contains a ton of data from the xda app, even containing full text of the posts that I was reading that night... Wow. So I guess all that stuff was in app memory...
I also have 8 "ramdump<DATE>.log" files which appear to have been generated around the same time I was getting RR/SoD crashes on this tablet. These logs are much smaller (128 KB). I wonder if this would have been useful for debugging SoDs....

[Q] Micro SD card has many pics, except for the ones taken the last day it was used

Hello all,
I have a problem with very important lost pictures on the SD card of my Samsung Galaxy S4.
Here's what happened...
I went out for New Year Eve, had a wonderful time and took many pictures. Upon reviewing my pictures, I noticed that about half of my pics were showing a blank icon with a lightning bolt in the top center. I was very upset about this, but said to myself "well, at least I have half of my pictures".
Then I took the SD card out of my phone and put it into a card reader and plugged it into my Windows 7 computer.
Upon doing so, I got the message ".......Scan and Fix (recommended) with the option to continue or cancel. I chose continue and all my pictures were deleted from New Years Eve.
I downloaded and tried 12 different data recovery software and it only found files that I had already copied over; no files from New Years Eve .
I read somewhere that there might be a place where the pictures may be in a hidden file system area under a different file extension and that all I had to do was change the file extension and I would get my pictures back.
Well, after a thorough search, I came up with no files.
I also tried to look for CHK files in order to change the extension, but; much to my disappointment, no CHK files were visibly present.
I have read about dirty bit, hidden partitions, chkdsk, clusters and more; some of which I am not knowledgeable enough to use.
This is a 64GB san disk card that was plugged into my Samsung Galaxy S4.
Thanks much,
duugg

Never never never never never never never let Windows 'scan and fix' a drive, card of device!!!!
Always cancel it!!!
I have lost a significant number of very important files because idiotic colleages clicked 'continue' immediately without reading and without asking.
Even specialists couldn't recover the files, they were completely gone.
Sent From My Samsung Galaxy Note 3 N9005 Using Tapatalk

Thanks for the response and sorry for the delay.
So, one little press of a button (a button that says "recommended" nonetheless) is enough to destroy files to a level not retrievable even with the toughest data recovery software.
If that is true, then data destruction software companies should take note of Microsoft's simple program that deletes data to a non-recoverable state with the click of just one button.
This is crazy.
Shouldn't the pictures still be there because new data was not written over them?
I'm confused and still sad about this .

BUMP
Anyone have any thoughts on this?
Thanks

[Completed] $100 bounty. DESPERATE!!!!!!

What I have:
Both phones are stock. The g4 is using the system.rooted.H81110h.img
Galaxy S4 T-Mobile running 4.4.4. Original phone
Purchased T-mobile G4 running lollipop (didn't upgrade it yet)
Just want my messages of my deceased family.
I've gone as far as I could on my own. I need help and am willing to pay for it. Whatever solution that comes up will be (hopefully) useful to others. No one should have to go through what I have. I will lay out the steps I've taken and while I was unsucessful it doesn't mean I did everything right. I have been all over the internet and haven't been able to find much in the way of solutions so I pieced together a whole bunch of stuff.
First of all I want to punch the people at android in the face. No...seriously .I do.
Why in GOD'S NAME is it so HARD to do a SIMPLE thing like restoring your messages? Like I'm SHOCKED at the fact that they seemingly don't want this to ever happen.
They have gone to great lengths to ensure it doesn't happen and I'm seriously confused as to why. At every turn I've literally run into roadblocks that apparently are there for "my protection" like wtf people? I have messages of people who are now deceased and would it be that *&$&*#$& hard to put them into a new phone? I'm sorry, I'm upset, pissed off, and bewildered at how hard this is to do. Like. Literally. STUPID HARD.
I'm on the verge of tears and I have literally spend 3 weeks trying to import my MMS / SMS. I've purchased software, I've tried bribery, I've rooted my phone, extracted the mmssms.db file of the old and new. And I literally spend the last 3 days pasting all this crap into the new database. I've exported it to CSV where needed
Here is what I have tried:
1. sms backup and restore. By far the simplist. After literally 4 days of importing it finally was done. However, all of my picture mail was at the bottom of the thread. And some messages...actually a LOT of messages....were showing up at the time it imported. NOT the time it was sent. Like wtf? I opened up messanger....opened each thread....waited......some were fixed by what I found online to be a solution.
2. Purchased some software. This software (backuptrans). after 5 days. Yes FIVE days..it actually did a good job. All of them were on the right date...however....they don't support group messages....Yes. You heard me right. They thought a "solution" would be to convert every group message threat into individual ones.
Example:
group message with 10 people.
Every message you sent to the group is now shown as a sent message 10 times. One time to each person in the individual thread.
Those people's replies will show up in the corresponding individual thread.
your replies show up in all ten.
So what you have is a conversation that literally is useless. Try having a side conversation or multiple group messages with similar people at the same time...and you will quickly see why I was quite upset after 5 days of watching my new phone (which I only got because my S4 has the infamous "You removed your sim card! Let's restart!" bullcrap
Added backuptrans people to the people I want to punch in the face
3. Rooted. Copied MMSMS over and this ended up with com.phone.android has stopped. Was worth a try. I'm on kitkat...this new G4 is on lollipop. They changed the structure from what I read online.
4. No big deal right? I'll take a copy of the new database and the old one. Reimport?
Downloaded razorSQL, exported each table into SQL. Reimported when it accepted the SQL until it hit tables where they didn't match up. IE column names were wrong or one had a column the other did not.
So then I exported to CSV for both new and old. Opened the old, matched the columns up, and pasted into the new format CSV and reimported that.
Did this for all tables that matched up until I got to threads. Threads wouldn't import because it gave me a _INSERT_THREAD wasn't a function. After some reasearch it was some trigger that was there...so I'm like.. well.. can't do much with that. I ended up removing the trigger which I THINK...because I honestly don't have a clue... only helps with the indexing?
CREATE TRIGGER callback_on_insert_threads AFTER INSERT ON threads BEGIN SELECT _INSERT_THREAD(new._id); END
deleted that. Imported the CSV. And created the trigger again.
Between importing, exporting, etc. This took me about 3 days.
I had a hunch that there HAS TO be a database upgrade script. I found this page:
https://android.googlesource.com/pl...providers/telephony/MmsSmsDatabaseHelper.java
I think this might help someone but I again am not a programmer and have no clue what that all means.
There has been lolipop upgrades for other carriers...but not t-mobile....
Could we perhaps take an upgrade script from them that would convert 4.4.4 to lollipop?
Do I dare as if we can do the same from lollipop to marshmellow? The G4 will eventually
What complicates things further is that each manufacture uses different database structures. I'm not sure of the reasoning, however, this seems quite crazy and again android should step in and standardize things.
4. For whatever reason on my S4 I can't export into XML. Crashes on titanium backup. So that's why I used sms backup and restore.
5. Tried to import xml file from sms backup and restore into titanium backup and it crashes.
Hopefully someone can help

Update. Was able to make some headway. Had to give radio:radio permissions to the mmssms.db file and also the app_parts folder / files in there.
Lot's of missing messages. I'm not going to cross check the ones that DO show up and the ones that DON'T show up to see if I can find out why.
http://blog.namran.net/2010/09/25/how-to-recover-previous-smsmms-on-nexusone-backup-archive/
That was helpful.
if the “Messages” is having “force close ” problem.. after restoring backup database.
you may need to run “Fix Permission” once. and reboot the phone.
or possibly can be fixed with just the following
adb shell 'chmod 775 /data/com.providers.telephony/mmssms.db'
adb shell 'chmod 775 /data/com.providers.telephony/app_parts/*'
chown radio.radio /data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db
chown radio.radio -R /data/com.android.providers.telephony/app_parts

ACR Calls gone missing but open App shows more than in folder.

Hi all,
Sorry for the long post but I'm posting this on behalf of a friend who sent this email to ACR or NLL APPS but have not heard back from them so wonder if anybody out there can take the time to read this and possible sound off what the issue can be?
It states:
I am a long time ACR fan and have been using the app for years.
I have a question which I pray that you can assist with or point me in the right direction to where or how I may be able to find calls that have gone missing.
Here is the brief example of what has happened.
Phone: Samsung Galaxy S7 with 32GB
ACR: running ACR from years ago and google play always updating to ACR32.8 or 4
I had left all my calls in the ACRCalls folder and throughout all the updates, when starting ACR I could see the Wheel which was doing a Tally count as there were 5,480 something calls and the wheel indexing would take approx 30+ seconds to fully index or put the tally of calls there.
It would take quite some time to scroll down to earlier calls as the scroll bar was really small.
I could play any file after scrolling to it which confirmed to me the files where all there.
As know Google done their policy and I had a huge amount of Unknown Caller in my list.
A friend told me if I upgraded to ACR 33.1 samsung-unChained which was downloaded from the Samsung Galaxy Store.
But first on a friend who has the same phone tried uninstalling his Google play store ACR and then installed the ACR 33.1 unChained and the same folder of Calls remained and were detected and all played, although he only has a few hundred calls unlike my 5,480 calls.
Now to the Point or ISSUE that I have.
So before Uninstalling the play store version I go to my Phones storage and I look the directory and it only shows 1870 files inside, but this seems Odd because I open ACR and it indexes the 5,480 which I could access all of them.
That seems most odd so I uninstalled the PlayStore version and installed the Galaxy Store version of ACR 33.1-samsung-unChained version.
This now works for reading and logging Address book contacts or numbers.
Yet the issue is now the Index Wheel when opening only shows the 1,870 files and the scroll bar is much bigger, so its like there are a few Thousand calls missings.
As my S7 phone storage was nearly all full, I moved near 3GB of Video and Photos from the DCIM directory and this took the storage of that drive down to 28GB used/ of 32GB
My 3 questions of urgency are:
1) Why would the S7 earlier show indexed 5,480 files earlier compared to upgrading?
2.)As moving other data off the drive, the phone shows data that these files might still be on the Phones drive but just not in the ACRCalls folder. Would these files be located in a different directory or older directory or cache somewhere on the S7's phone drive? If so Where?
3.) Is there a way to recover these files? and what program would be the best app or pc program to possible do this?
Can someone out there Please assist me or point me in the right direction as this is very Urgent for me as I am extremely confused to how the indexing can originally show 5,480 calls and then after upgrading only show the 1,870 calls both by indexing and by viewing the folder content outside showing the calls which is all very odd.
Any ideas, answers or solutions would be highly appreciated from my mate.
Cheers!

Wired files mask_airemover

Hi
At the same time 4 folders appeared: lpe ( contains: temp0.raw 46,5 MB ), portrait, mask_ airemover, airemover .
I did not install or update any applications on that day.
I don't know if it is related to the fact that at 20:45 I entered the hotel and the files appeared at 20:51. Maybe a coincidence
Samsung Galaxy S10

Hey there! Not positive what these folders do, but I thought it might be reassuring to know other people with the S10 also have these. They appeared a little after I updated my phone.