have installed the trial, used it, had problems and now purchased it, so i thought i'd detail out some of my experiences in case anyone else might be interested in using it...
installation doesn't use activesync, instead the windows installer asks to have access to your storage card, so either taking it out and using with a card reader or using the file transfer option the HD2 has. Once the storage card is available as a drive on the windows system then the Navigon installer will go through a wizzard to install the maps/languages onto the card. After it's copied all the files it will leave behind an autorun. The autorun will be executed when the HD2 USB is disconnected, a cab is installed to create the start menu icon.
I found that after this process was completed my battery life was terrible (losing 10% per hour) even when nothing was running, i suspected MobileNavigator was leaving someting open/running, like the GPS but after resetting and not running it, the battery life was still terrible. I deleted two files on the storage card called install05.cab and autorun.exe located in a folder called 2577 which appeared after the windows part had installed the other navigon files. At the same time i removed the app via the remove programs option. These together solved the power problem. I suspect that only one of these was causing the problem but because i did them at the same time i'm not sure which one did it.
Afterwards you can still run and use mobilenavigator from the storage card by running the .exe or you can recreate the start menu item.
Activation is a little clunky, it should auto activate via an sms message, but that did not work on mine and required manually entering the activation key.
during the trial (which requires a data connection for the trial period) the Traffic Live feature never displayed any traffic information to me, i can only suspect this feature is not available in the uk.
Burried in the settings is an option to rotate to landscape mode, which works perfectly on the HD2, 2d and 3d maps shown in nice high rez and scroll pretty smoothly.
MobileNavigator for WinMo is currently discounted on the navigon website:
http://www.navigon.com/portal/int/shop/software/index.html
I use AndFTP to synch my music from my home server to a my phone been doing this for years. Not a problem with a s6 since there is no external SD.
Now since I have moved my music to my external SD and changed the synch settings to point to the xSD, I keep getting failed results, I am most positive this is due to permissions. I recall having this issue with my sg4 (don't remember how I got it fixed).
I have checked all settings and can't find a fix for this problem. I tried a few other FTP Clients and the same results.
Is there a way to get this working without Root?
I cant even see the ftp files on my phone. How did you get there? Any recommendations?
As of several days ago my phone had this problem where it lists all of my files (e.g. music, videos) as "others" in the Storage setting. These files are accessible through the file manager, but Blackplayer, MX Player, and the stock gallery app cannot find and display them. In addition, these apps would sometimes force close for no obvious reason. The stock file manager also force closed at one point when I tried to access the files manually.
I tried doing a factory reset, which solved the problem at first. However, it returned after I tried to copy some files from my pc. Perhaps this is related?
My phone is unrooted running on the stock Color OS (F1fEX_11_171125).
Anyone here have the same problem? Ideas on how to repair this would be greatly appreciated!
klpex16 said:
As of several days ago my phone had this problem where it lists all of my files (e.g. music, videos) as "others" in the Storage setting. These files are accessible through the file manager, but Blackplayer, MX Player, and the stock gallery app cannot find and display them. In addition, these apps would sometimes force close for no obvious reason. The stock file manager also force closed at one point when I tried to access the files manually.
I tried doing a factory reset, which solved the problem at first. However, it returned after I tried to copy some files from my pc. Perhaps this is related?
My phone is unrooted running on the stock Color OS (F1fEX_11_171125).
Anyone here have the same problem? Ideas on how to repair this would be greatly appreciated!
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Update: It seems that the problem happens when copying certain files through MTP, which in this case was an MKV video. One sign that the problem would occur was that the copy operation got stuck at near completion for a long time. Deleting the file returned the phone to normal.
Hoping that this could assist others who also encountered the same problem.
I was not able to see this bug on my phone, even after transferring lot of music files on SD card via MTP.
I guess that it's more probably related to big files (videos) on internal memory via MTP transfers. Thanks for the info, I hope it's not your flash or controller getting old...
Using HP Laptop and have WD external drive which is working fine till last night. Today, morning when I connect my external drive into my system it is normally appearing in my system but showing no data in it. Could anyone please tell me what I can be the possible reason behind this issue and how I can resolve it.
Hi,
There can be many possible reasons behind disappeared files from the external hard drive, file might be hidden, any viruses made them invisible or might be file deleted due to some unknown issue.
The first solution i would suggest you to try is "Enable Show Hidden File" Option available on header of Windows explorer. Just check the show hidden file option to see if the files starts appearing again. If this won't help you out then i would suggest you to go for any data recovery software to get your lost files back.
I am also stuck in the same situation a few days past. But after a lot of research and reading multiple blogs I found this SysTools Hard Drive Recovery Tool. I really the tool just save my data life as well as my data too. It is quite a nice single interface tool, that really works and is capable to recover files from external hard drives.
SOLVED
Found the thing!
This bug is caused by activating the option Disable permission monitoring in the Developper Options.
This is an option that is specific to a handful of phone manufacturers (Oppo in my case).
Enabling this option is needed for using some tweak apps such as Shizuku. However, if it is enabled on phone boot, SD card will be unaccessible.
FIX
Disabling this option and rebooting the phone fixed it.
If you still need to use this option, you can enable it while the phone is on and disable it before rebooting. It will work fine despite this minor inconvenience.
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So this one is weird.
Everything was working fine untill I rebooted my phone earlier today.
For some reason, since this reboot, apps are unable to access my SD card storage. As far as I know, no update was applied with this reboot. I do not recall tinkering or changing anything related to this recently.
Symptoms
SD card is still visible in the storage tab of the settings (there is no available option to unmount or eject it) or in select cases when choosing a folder from an app, however the content does not show up past the root.
My music player (Oto music) sends an error message "Cannot play this file" while trying to play a song from the SD card
File explorer will not show the SD card directory at all
Resillio Sync has a synced folder on the SD card. It now says "Can't open the destination folder". If I try adding a new synced folder on the SD card and select the root of the SD card, I get the message "Android OS restricts access to this folder"
Google file is stuck in a loop trying to get permissions to access the card
SD card works just fine on another phone.
Other SD cards have the same problem with my phone, not just this one
SD card does not show up when using file transfer with a Windows PC
Rebooting the phone did nothing
Removing the card and putting it back in again did nothing
Formatting the card did nothing
I factory reset the phone. It worked, but the problem came back at the first reboot.
Current state of investigations I have reset the phone a second time and reboot it every time I install an app, uninstall or disable a system app or change some settings. So far the SD card is still accessible so I know what it's not:
it's not the fault of disabling system apps
it's not related to using a work profile (Insular)
still haven't found an app that causes it
Apps I have not tried re-installing on my second reset and that might be the curlprit:
Shizuku (I have my suspicions on this one, let me know if this one is known for causing similar bugs) Not Shizuku per se but a developper option needed for it (see solution answer)
I have no idea what could cause this, all I know is it's related to my phone in particular and it appeared out of nowhere.
I am using Android 13 on ColorOS.
Thanks to anyone who can help.
Format card in phone before using. Do Not share the card with other devices; upload/download to the card through the phone.
Hardware or firmware issue. Inspect phone sd card contacts.
blackhawk said:
Format card in phone before using. Do Not share the card with other devices; upload/download to the card through the phone.
Hardware or firmware issue. Inspect phone sd card contacts.
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Thanks for answering.
I did format the card to no avail.
I did not use the card on other phones before it stopped working.
As I previously mentioned however, the card WAS working fine until now, and unless I am mistaken you seem to address the problem as if this is a new card or something. The card has been in this phone working fine for months.
It seems pretty clear to me this is a permissions issue so firmware perhaps indeed.
How would I go about checking the phone SD card contacts?
Iune said:
Thanks for answering.
I did format the card to no avail.
I did not use the card on other phones before it stopped working.
As I previously mentioned however, the card WAS working fine until now, and unless I am mistaken you seem to address the problem as if this is a new card or something. The card has been in this phone working fine for months.
It seems pretty clear to me this is a permissions issue so firmware perhaps indeed.
How would I go about checking the phone SD card contacts?
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You're welcome.
If other cards don't work... regardless just stating things that can cause issues.
Light and magnification if needed to inspect the contacts. Use anhydrous isopropyl alcohol to clean if needed.
I sort of doubt it's firmware. Try a hard reboot and clear the system cache if possible.
blackhawk said:
You're welcome.
If other cards don't work... regardless just stating things that can cause issues.
Light and magnification if needed to inspect the contacts. Use anhydrous isopropyl alcohol to clean if needed.
I sort of doubt it's firmware. Try a hard reboot and clear the system cache if possible.
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The reason I believe it is firmware is that when setting permissions the SD card IS shown in the list. For instance in my music player if I use the option to authorize access to the SD card it is here. It just does nothing when I authorize it.
I am leaning towards a permissions issue because when I use one of these permission windows to try and create a folder on the SD card, I get an error message that says "Android OS restricts write access to this folder". Hence the problem is not that the SD card is not detected, but that apps are somehow not allowed to use it.
I currently not have what it takes to check the contacts (neither the tools nor the knowledge). This phone is only a couple months old so I also doubt the contacts are damaged as they have been working fine until now and I had never removed the card or opened the tray since day one.
A hard reboot should be last resort, but anyway I did it. It worked and my SD card was accessible again, so I reinstalled all my stuff. But then at the first reboot the problem was back. I am now pretty sure this is a software issue as on my second phone reset, the SD card is still usable as long as I don't isntall the wrong thing (still trying to figure out what that is). I added my investigations to the main thread.
SOLVED
Found the thing!
This bug is caused by activating the option Disable permission monitoring in the Developper Options.
This is an option that is specific to a handful of phone manufacturers (Oppo in my case).
Enabling this option is needed for using some tweak apps such as Shizuku. However, if it is enabled on phone boot, SD card will be unaccessible.
FIX
Disabling this option and rebooting the phone fixed it.
If you still need to use this option, you can enable it while the phone is on and disable it before rebooting. It will work fine despite this minor inconvenience.
Iune said:
The reason I believe it is firmware is that when setting permissions the SD card IS shown in the list. For instance in my music player if I use the option to authorize access to the SD card it is here. It just does nothing when I authorize it.
I am leaning towards a permissions issue because when I use one of these permission windows to try and create a folder on the SD card, I get an error message that says "Android OS restricts write access to this folder". Hence the problem is not that the SD card is not detected, but that apps are somehow not allowed to use it.
I currently not have what it takes to check the contacts (neither the tools nor the knowledge). This phone is only a couple months old so I also doubt the contacts are damaged as they have been working fine until now and I had never removed the card or opened the tray since day one.
A hard reboot should be last resort, but anyway I did it. It worked and my SD card was accessible again, so I reinstalled all my stuff. But then at the first reboot the problem was back. I am now pretty sure this is a software issue as on my second phone reset, the SD card is still usable as long as I don't isntall the wrong thing (still trying to figure out what that is). I added my investigations to the main thread.
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A hard reboot is not a factory reset! It simulates pulling the battery... It's always better to find the root cause of a problem than to factory reset because the problem is likely to reoccur
Sounds like a trashware 3rd party app is to blame... try in safe mode. If it fails to function in safe mode start uninstalling the 3rd party apps one by one until (if) the problem resolves to find the app that screwed up the hidden user settings*. If that fails to work, another factory reset and start over, being careful what you load, then rebooting and checking after each install.
Meh, you got a real can of worms to play with...
*poorly coded apps can alter hidden user settings and fail to revert these settings to default even after the offending app is uninstalled. Alternatively see if the behavior caused by the offending app can be corrected using the settings in that app.
ADB editing could maybe be used to correct to hidden user settings misconfiguration but finding that setting may prove difficult. Beyond anything I ever had to do.
blackhawk said:
A hard reboot is not a factory reset! It simulates pulling the battery... It's always better to find the root cause of a problem than to factory reset because the problem is likely to reoccur
Sounds like a trashware 3rd party app is to blame... try in safe mode. If it fails to function in safe mode start uninstalling the 3rd party apps one by one until (if) the problem resolves to find the app that screwed up the hidden user settings*. If that fails to work, another factory reset and start over, being careful what you load, then rebooting and checking after each install.
Meh, you got a real can of worms to play with...
*poorly coded apps can alter hidden user settings and fail to revert these settings to default even after the offending app is uninstalled. Alternatively see if the behavior caused by the offending app can be corrected using the settings in that app.
ADB editing could maybe be used to correct to hidden user settings misconfiguration but finding that setting may prove difficult. Beyond anything I ever had to do.
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Well I searched on Google about hard reboots and the explanations literally described a factory reset haha. I have yet to understadn the difference. Wipe all data VS wipe all data ?
Anyway I investigated and found the cause of the problem, so marking this post as solved! Thanks for the help
Iune said:
Well I searched on Google about hard reboots and the explanations literally described a factory reset haha. I have yet to understadn the difference. Wipe all data VS wipe all data ?
Anyway I investigated and found the cause of the problem, so marking this post as solved! Thanks for the help
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Yay! Well done. So many settings...
Traditionally a hard reboot is killing the power to the mobo... I believe, or maybe I just watched too many sci-fi movies You do it by holding the power button (or combination of buttons) down for 20-30 seconds.
On cams and older phones you simply remove the battery for a few seconds. It clears any volatile memory settings in the chipsets or semiconductors by cutting to power to everything.