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Does anybody know how you can add more frames to Camera on the HTC S620. Ive just come back from holiday and when I was using the Camera for a few "fun pix" I was greatly dissapointed in the lack of choice... basicaly it only had four week frames to choose from. So as soon as I got back I went about getting some more frames for my phone.... which I found, but my phone cant find them. Ive already tried adding a "Frames" folder to "My Documents" both on my phone and the storage card but yet the phone doesnt recognise any of the frames. Anybody else have this problem or even better can anyone else give me instruction on how to get it to work?
if anybody wants to know the Camera Software im using is the Camera for Smartphones version 4.52 that came pre installed with the phone as I dont want to be having more than one installed.
Just out of curiosity, what's a fun frame?
I knew the camera software on the Dash could do "effects" like sepia or negative. Never heard of the above.
I am in the same boat, what exactly is a "fun" frame just wondering?
oh, I assumed all the HTC S620's had all the same basic software I wasnt aware that Frames wernt available on all models.
What I mean by fun frames is like Magazine Covers which you select and take a picture with the frame on top of it.
The four that come with the BT ToGo version which I have is one which has two magazine covers on (you take two pictures and they get put into the frame), a cartoony spikey frame, one which looks like a notice board with two pictures on and finally a folding frame that holds three pictures...
the problem is that they are too specific like the memo on the notice board say "I love you" on one and "happy birthday" on the other... and the three way folding frame has love hearts on so it isnt like you can use them on any occasion.
...Picture Themes, thats what they are!!! Mabey I would have got more response if I posted under that.
Yea this is a ROM specific function. I remember having this on my T-Mobile SDA. You could have images pre drawn on the screen with a spot in the middle of the screen so yo could take a picture and use the template around the picture. For example: i had one that was a template of bubbles, snorkle and face mask, and if you got the picture aligned properly you could make it look liit the person you wrre taking a pic of was wearing the snorkel and mask and look like they were underwater. Kinda cool effect. I never noticed this feature on the DASH though.
edit: i just found the templates on WM 6.1 , but the four that are preloaded are pretty lame.
Aaaaahhhhh, never mind Ive found out how you do it...
the trouble was BT never provided me with a manual with the phone, its all done online in PDF format now. But after trawling through the PDF I eventually found out how to add extra frames -
Template Folder (Picture Theme only). By default, templates are
stored in the \My Documents\Templates folder on the device’s Main
Memory. If you transferred some templates to a storage card (via File
Explorer), set this option to Main + Card to specify that templates are
located in both the main memory and the storage card.
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so thats where I was going wrong, I had read somewhere that the folder had to be called Frames... when that didnt work I renamed it Template when all along it should have been Templates.
Thanks anyway.
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Aaaaahhhhh, never mind Ive found out how you do it...
the trouble was BT never provided me with a manual with the phone, its all done online in PDF format now. But after trawling through the PDF I eventually found out how to add extra frames -
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so thats where I was going wrong, I had read somewhere that the folder had to be called Frames... when that didnt work I renamed it Template when all along it should have been Templates.
Thanks anyway.
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do you have any templates to share?
Templates
Here you go.
Uh, I know it's not rocket science, but my upload keeps failing, I was trying to upload a few templates that I have for the DASH, Excalibur, etc.
Yeah I have found one or two good ones, I will try and post them sometime today
A couple of Wako Jacko's from BoSelecta (one just does the face while the other takes the face and background)
a Shrek and Fiona and a Wanted poster for now...
I think the frames from Sony Ericson phones should work (320x240) so im going to see if I can find them on my girlfriends phone and copy them onto my excalibur. The Sony Erricsons have some great fun frames and to be honest a really good camera built into their phones.
Does the frame need a special neme or extension?.
In Which folder need to be placed?
PS: Sorry my bad English
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Yeah I have found one or two good ones, I will try and post them sometime today
A couple of Wako Jacko's from BoSelecta (one just does the face while the other takes the face and background)
a Shrek and Fiona and a Wanted poster for now...
I think the frames from Sony Ericson phones should work (320x240) so im going to see if I can find them on my girlfriends phone and copy them onto my excalibur. The Sony Erricsons have some great fun frames and to be honest a really good camera built into their phones.
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Please share this gifs
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Please share this gifs
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I hope you get an answer, since this thread has been inactive for more than a year and a half.
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I hope you get an answer, since this thread has been inactive for more than a year and a half.
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aye i didnt see the date,any way i ll ul some free gifs
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aye i didnt see the date,any way i ll ul some free gifs
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Thanks amigo!
This is a great forum, thank you every body!
I just bought this phone and I have no idea where to begin. Salesperson was not sure either, so my question is 1) bought memeory card 1g, and was able to store 15 songs, but when I try to sync more it says not enough memory and to delete old files for storage. Okay how do you do that and I was told that 1g card will let me store bout 200 songs, hmmm. Next, browsing enternet explorer, says to close previous pages, like how? I just use it for pleasure, pics, music... but thus far having problems with it all, should i return it before my 14 days are up? Any help will be appreciated, yall!!!
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I just bought this phone and I have no idea where to begin. Salesperson was not sure either, so my question is 1) bought memeory card 1g, and was able to store 15 songs, but when I try to sync more it says not enough memory and to delete old files for storage. Okay how do you do that and I was told that 1g card will let me store bout 200 songs, hmmm. Next, browsing enternet explorer, says to close previous pages, like how? I just use it for pleasure, pics, music... but thus far having problems with it all, should i return it before my 14 days are up? Any help will be appreciated, yall!!!
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for web browsing download opera or skyfire cause internet explorer sucks
sheeky2 said:
I just bought this phone and I have no idea where to begin. Salesperson was not sure either, so my question is 1) bought memeory card 1g, and was able to store 15 songs, but when I try to sync more it says not enough memory and to delete old files for storage. Okay how do you do that and I was told that 1g card will let me store bout 200 songs, hmmm. Next, browsing enternet explorer, says to close previous pages, like how? I just use it for pleasure, pics, music... but thus far having problems with it all, should i return it before my 14 days are up? Any help will be appreciated, yall!!!
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First off welcome to the forum. Second, before you do anything, if you're not sure if you want to keep the phone, you should do some reading before you do any type of alteration or modifications to it. The're is a ton of stuff you can do, and a lot of apps , programs , etc. I hope you didn't spend too much money for that 1g card , cause with a 6.1 rom you can use up to 16gb card. The problem with the reg 6.0 rom is that is full of crap, the only reason is telling you to close previous pages is that you're running out of ram memory, I had the same problem when I first got the phone, but the difference with me is that I bought the phone with the notion that I was going to do a lot of initial work to get the phone where I wanted it to be.
E.G. I got a better rom right away, it took 4 different flashes to find the one I liked, I got a better web browser (opera mini) and did a lot of reading , on how to do all sorts of stuff and learn how to make it my own. Now I got a ton of nice stuff running on my phone. I got a lot of help from a lot of good people here. There's a lot of valuable info on all of the stickies on the top of the main page. SEARCH is your friend. You got to remember that this phone didn't come out yesterday, so if you decide to keep the phone , there's a 99.999 percent chance that someone already asked any question that you might have, so that's why we encourage everyone to search before making threads with stupid questions, that only takes minutes to find an answer. If you still don't find the right answer, you will find the proper thread to ask it. If you decide to keep the phone, ther's a million apps to get, a better music player, video player , weather apps , games , ringtones , automatic wallpaper changer, file changer , change your font , color of such font , backup software, the list goes on and on. Anyways good luck, and I hope my time will help you make a choice.
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I just bought this phone and I have no idea where to begin. Salesperson was not sure either, so my question is 1) bought memeory card 1g, and was able to store 15 songs, but when I try to sync more it says not enough memory and to delete old files for storage. Okay how do you do that and I was told that 1g card will let me store bout 200 songs, hmmm. Next, browsing enternet explorer, says to close previous pages, like how? I just use it for pleasure, pics, music... but thus far having problems with it all, should i return it before my 14 days are up? Any help will be appreciated, yall!!!
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1) Use the search option here on XDA or Google. I am sure you can find answers for 99.9% of the queries you might have. And if you can not find them at first, you need to try different wording also.
2) Are you sure you are storing them on the memory card and not on the phone memory? How big are the songs? If you rip songs from a CD you might have files that are too big. If you bought a new memory card it should be clean and without anything else, unless you also stored videos, pictures and what not. Something is not 100% clear here. You say you stored 15 songs on the memory card, but then you don't know how to delete them?
3) Don't use Internet Explorer. I use skyfire, its a great browser and I suggest you get it also.
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automatic wallpaper changer
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What automatic wallpaper changer?
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What automatic wallpaper changer?
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Never heard of this awesome app?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=459276
roloracer said:
Never heard of this awesome app?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=459276
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Looks cool... would be even sweeter if it integrated with Basehue.
I'll give it a go anyway.
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Looks cool... would be even sweeter if it integrated with Basehue.
I'll give it a go anyway.
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Yeah I love it 'cause I have like 600+ wallpapers on my sd card , so instead of browsing thru them to get one , I make theme packs with them to work with the WPC, place the packs on the WPC wallpaper directory, and the WPC does the rest.
hey there,
i am one of those guys who frequently goes out to student parties where most people only have a laptop with some random musicplaylist. so most of the time that even runs on shuffle and those people mix oldies with techno and so on...
wouldnt it be interesting to have a windows mobile app that was able to crossfade 2 songs from the SD-card? maybe one can add some effects. maybe even a little database wich gives you the BPM. one could scratch via the touchscreen and so on. (thinking about a small version of a program like: TRAKTOR DJ STUDIO)
anyone interested in developing?
i can do the GFX work : )
just let me know whether that could work.
Actually, I got this on my mind too lol.
Try this one: http://www.makayama.com/djmixer.html - I haven't tried it.
But I might do something on my own, but I'm n00b at this.
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Actually, I got this on my mind too lol.
Try this one: http://www.makayama.com/djmixer.html - I haven't tried it.
But I might do something on my own, but I'm n00b at this.
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If you get it working then good for you. I had this for my diamond 2. Bought it on the marketplace and it didnt work they said if you have long song names or a more than 200 mp3's it wont work. I put it on my kaiser with a different sd card and it crashed on that.
try this though.
http://pocketdjstudio.x10hosting.com/pocket-djstudio.com/index_en.html
its more stable (well it at least works) I've used it a few times. the difference is djmixer searches for the tracks to built a playlist. where as on djstudio you load tracks onto each deck.
I swear I did search first, even did a few general Google searches. Ultimately figured I'd try here.
So, my SD card is down to 500mb. I'm trying to clear up some space, and notice a file on the root of the card called .HPIMAGE.VFS. It's about 150mb. I tried to open it with root explorer, but it won't open it. So I long press on it and select 'open as text file', and root explorer force closes.
I Google searched, and found really random and confusing search results for it that made no sense to me.Thought I'd ask here If anyone has ever seen it, or familiar with it. I wanna delete it, but not if Android needs it. Oh, and when I plugged into a pc in mass storage/disk drive to try to open and inspect it, it doesn't show up on my card at all! That's the real kicker
I have no idea what it is and sure as hell don't remember ever downloading something like that.
If anyone knows anything about what this could be, or understands it, please let me know. It'd be much appreciated. Thank you.
Scott,
Do you happen to have (or have used that card in) a HP all-in-one printer? The .HPIMAGE.VFS file is a collection of thumbnails generated by the printer. That way when you put the card in the printer, it doesn't have to re-do the thumbnails and slow down scrolling through the pictures.
If you are not worried about the thumbnails (since the printer will regenerate the file), you can go ahead and remove it from your SD card. There is also an option in the preferences menu of the printer to stop the thumbnails from being generated.
Hope this helps.
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I swear I did search first, even did a few general Google searches. Ultimately figured I'd try here.
So, my SD card is down to 500mb. I'm trying to clear up some space, and notice a file on the root of the card called .HPIMAGE.VFS. It's about 150mb. I tried to open it with root explorer, but it won't open it. So I long press on it and select 'open as text file', and root explorer force closes.
I Google searched, and found really random and confusing search results for it that made no sense to me.Thought I'd ask here If anyone has ever seen it, or familiar with it. I wanna delete it, but not if Android needs it. Oh, and when I plugged into a pc in mass storage/disk drive to try to open and inspect it, it doesn't show up on my card at all! That's the real kicker
I have no idea what it is and sure as hell don't remember ever downloading something like that.
If anyone knows anything about what this could be, or understands it, please let me know. It'd be much appreciated. Thank you.
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Nivron, thanks so much man. I knew if I posted this here, at xda, someone far more tech savvy than myself would have some idea. Yeah, the search results I got did appear to indicate something about HP printer, and thumbnails, but also seemed to indicate a lot of confused people. (Like myself). I couldn't think of a time I used a printer (if in fact it was related to that). But your post jogged my memory enough that now I do remember I did exactly that on Halloween. Thanks so much man.
And toast, since it turns out this is entirely unrelated to Android or winmo, and by extension, xda, please feel free to delete. I love xda.
Again, thank you.
Glad you figured it out! XDA is a great place for info, indeed!
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Scott,
Do you happen to have (or have used that card in) a HP all-in-one printer? The .HPIMAGE.VFS file is a collection of thumbnails generated by the printer. That way when you put the card in the printer, it doesn't have to re-do the thumbnails and slow down scrolling through the pictures.
If you are not worried about the thumbnails (since the printer will regenerate the file), you can go ahead and remove it from your SD card. There is also an option in the preferences menu of the printer to stop the thumbnails from being generated.
Hope this helps.
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thanx nivron....that damn file was occupying almost 800 mb on my card.....ur reply helped me get rid of it peacefully!
Since the release of ICS on our phone I'd been having the issue of Media Server eating up 50-60% of my battery at all times and none of my pictures, ringtones or music showing up in any of the stock google apps. I know a number of people were having the same problem. I assumed it was kernel issue (it still might be) but i wanted to figure out if it's user fixable. To figure out what the problem was I pulled every last audio file off my SD cards and re-added them one at a time.
The problem seems to be with the m4a scanner/decoder in the media server. m4as use a different algorithm than mp3s so the 2 file types are scanned/decoded separately. The problem seems to be in my case that the ringtone for the facebook app pop which resided on my internal SD was hanging the scanner and blocking all the other media files on both SDs. Other m4as were causing problems too, none of which seem to be corrupt or dysfunctional. It seems that m4as scan before mp3s and m4as are more prone to catastrophic failure so they are the biggest offender.
tl;dr
The fix:
Step 1: Remove all m4as from your sd cards to a folder on your desktop via usb storage; ringtones and all. I dont have any AAC files (itunes format) but they are m4as as well so I recommend removing them as well.
Step 2: Add them back one at a time, each time disconnecting from your computer and checking battery stats. If the file is ok you will see media server fall off the list within a minute. If media server hangs at 50% then that audio file is your culprit.
Step 3: If the offending file doesn't show itself, remove all audio files from your sd; mp3, wav, aiff, whatever. Use a mp3 repair app (I use http://www.triq.net/articles/mp3-validator-mac-os-x for mac, theres eleventy-seven of them for pc. I dont claim to know which is best) to check and repair them and re-add them one at a time in the same procedure as step 2. Hopefully it wont come to this.
If none of these steps work start checking other media files. Corrupt video or image files might cause the same problem as they are all scanned by the media server.
Hope this helps
Not pulling 1.8k songs from my phone lol
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No one told you that you have to.
That is definitely a WORKaround....LOL!!!
Think i will just stick to the GB ROM's for now. I have 26gb of AAC (m4a) music on my phone right now. I do appreciate you taking the time to figure this out!!!!
It took me about 3 hrs to get it working properly and most of that time was spent getting all the 20GB of music off my phone onto my computer. The troubleshooting aspect went pretty quick.
I have no empirical proof that the issue is caused only by m4as but i have an inkling that it is, just based on what i went through during the fix. So unless you only use m4a and aac audio files it actually is pretty easy. You can actually use the mp3 repair programs while the files are still on your phone to cut out a large portion of the initial time consuming dump.
Thanks for the tip, but this definitely isnt a fix btw for the record. And here is my little rant. Not towards anybody though. Just to google actually since there is no answer from them whatsoever regarding this issue.
Whatever media files you might have "mediaserver" thing shouldn't happen. We could be downloading some new ringtones and wallpapers that are "corrupted"...(how the hell are we supposed to know if the files aren't corrupted. And what the hell does it mean by corrupted? Was something supposed to really even care that files are so called corrupted? )
Does your 3 year old mp3 player drain battery by just having a corrupted music file?
Google should step into this and fix it....
I had the same issue, in fact I posted about it 2 days ago in the Q&A section trying to find a solution. In searching, and I did a lot of it, I'm sure I ran across your thread in a Google search and started doing what you suggested.
In doing that, and then checking to see if it would still run after reboot, even after having very little media left on my cards, that stupid media server would not stop running. So it got old pulling of little by little so I finally just took everything off and reformatted both my internal and external SD cards. Now I never see the Media Server running in the battery stats.
I've been slowly adding stuff back in, paying attention to the server and it doesn't show it running constantly anymore.
I know it was a corrupt file that ICS didn't like somewhere, a MP3 or ringtone...something it was scanning and getting stuck on.
It's nice having a clean SD card again. After many flashes and different ROM's, I had so much crap on there, who knows what it could of been. But it solved my problem; and thanks for the heads-up because I was at a loss as to why I was having this issue and others not! Very happy now
Did help on my phone.
Thanks alot!
Is there any way to get Media Server to ignore directories? I think I am having issues with it hitting a WebM file.
TBH, I don't know why I want it to scan my files. I keep them in a fairly organised way and would probably be fine if it never bothered to scan for them.
add a blank file named ".nomedia" in whatever directory you wish it to ignore. all subdirectories will be excluded as well.
anfrey said:
add a blank file named ".nomedia" in whatever directory you wish it to ignore. all subdirectories will be excluded as well.
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What exactly does media server do, is it necessary to certain functions of ics, and could we just block it or remove it?
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What exactly does media server do, is it necessary to certain functions of ics, and could we just block it or remove it?
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U resurrected an old thread why?..
MediaServer is the media scanner, you can remove, but your libraries wont be refreshed, there ARE apps online that can be used to replace, and offer 1-click scan, & scheduled scan. But as of official release, (for me anyways) this is a non-issue.
Plz don't resurrect old threads.. thx
If he had a question about the thread then there's no reason why he shouldn't all the question in it. What do you want him to do, start a new one?
Thanks for the media tip. I didn't even know this could be a problem. But know I know how to trouble shoot it if it occurs.
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If he had a question about the thread then there's no reason why he shouldn't all the question in it. What do you want him to do, start a new one?
Thanks for the media tip. I didn't even know this could be a problem. But know I know how to trouble shoot it if it occurs.
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Yes actually, he could have simply made a response in Q&A section, considering this is a very old post for a very old bug that has been long since fixed
And considering all his questions, although are pertaining to posts topic, could have been answered with a google search, or even the lazy way (Q&A) would probably yeild results quicker, expecially since the topic doesn't actually suggest the presence of his question?,
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U resurrected an old thread why?..
MediaServer is the media scanner, you can remove, but your libraries wont be refreshed, there ARE apps online that can be used to replace, and offer 1-click scan, & scheduled scan. But as of official release, (for me anyways) this is a non-issue.
Plz don't resurrect old threads.. thx
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because i followed a link from a different forum, i have previously googled this issue, a few months back, and asked in my devices forum and no one answered. There is no official ics for my device and it is still an issue for me. I found this link and asked a question. Isnt the point of forums to help others, also this thread isn't THAT old, and really, wouldn't you rather ppl post in an already existing thread rather than spamming the forum with multiple threads on the same topic, like they do in the GT2 forum, which is as annoying as ****.
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Yes actually, he could have simply made a response in Q&A section, considering this is a very old post for a very old bug that has been long since fixed
And considering all his questions, although are pertaining to posts topic, could have been answered with a google search, or even the lazy way (Q&A) would probably yeild results quicker, expecially since the topic doesn't actually suggest the presence of his question?,
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Why do you care so much? I'm glad he did resurrect it cuz I had never seen this thread, now I subscribed to it for future reference.
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Same issue, still no fix...
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because i followed a link from a different forum, i have previously googled this issue, a few months back, and asked in my devices forum and no one answered. There is no official ics for my device and it is still an issue for me. I found this link and asked a question. Isnt the point of forums to help others, also this thread isn't THAT old, and really, wouldn't you rather ppl post in an already existing thread rather than spamming the forum with multiple threads on the same topic, like they do in the GT2 forum, which is as annoying as ****.
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Hi, I've been trying to find a fix for this issue and after reading all posts and doing several Google searches, I still have not found a satisfactory fix. Removing everything and putting it back one by one is a VERY time consuming work around, but no fix. Stopping the service and replacing it with 1-click or scheduled sync is also not a fix. I am using the latest 1.6 Paranoid Android ROM and this issue started all on its own without me doing any updates to the music or videos. Only changes are new photos and new or updated apps. I hope a proper fix is found sooner rather than later.
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Hi, I've been trying to find a fix for this issue and after reading all posts and doing several Google searches, I still have not found a satisfactory fix. Removing everything and putting it back one by one is a VERY time consuming work around, but no fix. Stopping the service and replacing it with 1-click or scheduled sync is also not a fix. I am using the latest 1.6 Paranoid Android ROM and this issue started all on its own without me doing any updates to the music or videos. Only changes are new photos and new or updated apps. I hope a proper fix is found sooner rather than later.
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What worked for me was moving everything from the SD card, formatting it, moving everything back and rebooting. Hasn't run since and I've been checking on it for the past few days.
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What worked for me was moving everything from the SD card, formatting it, moving everything back and rebooting. Hasn't run since and I've been checking on it for the past few days.
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Out of curiosity did you include .trash and lost.dir?
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Out of curiosity did you include .trash and lost.dir?
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It really is the only fix, and it works. I too started removing things one by one until I got fed up and completely reformatted both internal & external sd cards a few months back, and the issue never returned.
I had one of the Devs tell me it's always good practice when making a OS change, like GB to ICS to start with fresh reformatted cards; because you don't know what junk is left behind on the cards, that the new OS is not going to like. It works, you don't need to stop any services, and its worth the time.
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