I'm wondering if there is a known best way to swap out a bigger sdcard. I just used tar to back everything up on the old one and to put it all on the new one. That caused some weird issues though.
Car mode likes to pop up all the time randomly now
All my ringtones and alert tones changed to random music tracks
Most, but not all, of the apps that were on the card do not show in ADW
All my widgets are gone
My home screens are all "different", missing shortcuts and showing new ones.
This seemed like a fairly straightforward process, but the phone thinks otherwise. Any suggestions? Mostly for next time, since I've mostly gotten everything back to normal, although the last time I restored a nandroid backup, all my ringtones changed. Strangely, they changed to the same ones as before, so maybe it wasn't random.
Edit: I'm running CM7 if that makes any difference.
Well all you needed to do was just copy and paste them into folder on the pc. As for some of the widgets, music files, that's normal cuz the location may have changed. In the titanium backup settings, you make have to move applications back to the external/internal memory where you had it before, so it knows 'where' it is. As for the home screen, try going into the settings and do a restore, though it can't restore widgets, so you'll have to add them again anyway.
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I have had an issue that has been driving me insane for weeks - and seems to have been getting worse. Initially occasionally, but then with increasing regularity all changes I made to my device would be lost when I rebooted - or sometimes during general usage.
So any changes to playlists, newly installed apps, adding album art, changes to Sense settings, would be lost after a while.
I have made increasing use of Titanium Backup as a result to avoid losing everything. I've flashed numerous new ROMs, including doing full wipes, but the problem has always returned.
I knew it wasn't an SD problem because I have tried 3 different cards as well.
Today I installed 'busybox' from within Titanium Backup and miraculously EVERYTHING came back. This was most obvious as I had flashed the latest Virtuous Rom with full wipe, but then periodically it was losing ALL my apps which I had reinstalled.
So, I THINK I have found a solution, but does anyone know WHY I have this problem and why installing busybox solves it? And is there a way to autoinstall it every time I boot?
I have now done more testing and I think I have found the problem and a work around - but not really a solution. I would love someone with a better understanding of the device (or more likely HTC Sense) to give me a true solution.
Just to reiterate my problem, I have - over many months now - had a problem with HTC Sense playlists deleting or reverting after I had made changes. This was across different Micro SD cards, different ROMs, and even different phones (I occasionally had the problem with my Touch Pro 2 on Energy ROM, but MUCH more regularly on the Desire Z).
The only consistent things are using HTC Sense, and the volume of music on my device. I have approx 14gb of music on the MicroSD card, and a number of playlists to manage the volume.
I have searched endlessly, and I'm amazed that no-one else seems to have had the same problem, but I can only assume no-one else has the same volume of music on their phone (and uses HTC Sense to play it).
The problem seemed intermittent and it was only after many months of trying different ROMs, different MicroSD cards, different music, different SuperUser settings, multiple wipes and resets, different playlist editors etc., that I eventually started a diary of EVERYTHING I did to the phone and when the playlists reverted.
To explain, the problem was that I would edit a playlist (or create a new one or delete etc.), and after an unspecified period of time it would revert back to how it was before the edit. It wouldn't matter whether I had edited all 3500+ songs or just 1, it would go back to how it was previously. But occasionally the changes WOULD stick, so the next time it would revert to a different previous setting etc. This would also occasionally play havoc with the album art (but use of Cover Art Downloader fixed that).
Ultimately I am now fairly confident (without months of further testing) that the playlists revert whenever I put the phone on charge whilst still turned on (not when battery removed to charge etc.) - either on a charger or via USB from the PC.
The only time the playlists 'stick' is when I stop Sense running, then unmount and remount the SD card - any changes I make immediately after that will stay.
This is a real pain whenever I want to change a playlist (although not as much of a pain as having to restore from backup or remake the changes every time I charge the phone!!).
Anyone know why this might be happening, or a proper fix? Anyone know what process I am resetting by stopping sense and unmounting? (BTW: A reboot does NOT work to achieve the same result).
Any help appreciated!!
HTC Sense Playlists Revert After Editing
I am having the same problem on my HTC Aria running Android 2.2 (Liberated Aria 2.2.2 ROM). Help Please!!!
HTC Sense Playlists Revert After Editing (Work-around)
I found a temporary fix. Creating playlists on the device itself protects them from reverting.
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I found a temporary fix. Creating playlists on the device itself protects them from reverting.
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How do you determine where it stores the playlists?
I would recommend using Google music or Doubletwist instead. Also, don't use sense if you have the choice.
My opinion!
For some times now i've been trying to single out an app that was causing the random crashes, or hot reboot
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1336896
the problem seems to cause the whole front end of the OS crash and restart itself reloading every single app as if you had rebooted the phone, but there was no reboot involved.
in the end i noticed everytime i was messing around with the mount SD cards as USB storage, and right after is when it happens the most, as well as when i swap one SD card with another SD card
everytime something related to SD card happens the annoying Media Scan will run, and because i have TONS of files, it takes a very long time to finish scanning, so if something needs access to those files, it causes the whole system to crash and reload (not reboot), and then because it crashed, it starts the media scanning process again, and if you have many widgets that request files from the SD card then well.. you get the point, it kinda goes into an endless loop
END TASKING everything sort of helps, but it's not a real solution.
can some one remind me where or which system service i can freeze or remove to kill the Media Scanner?
thanks
PS: this sort of reminds me of the old bug on SGS1 when the Media Scanner runs out of memory when your library collection is too huge for it to process
Yes the only slowdown/crash I had (just once) with this phone was while media scan was running and I was trying to access Sd card for file copy. It does run every single time you do something on SD card which is annoying.
But would it cause more problems if stopped from running?
Hi AllGamer,
Have you figured out how to stop the media scanner?
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Hi AllGamer,
Have you figured out how to stop the media scanner?
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i have a good idea how, but i need time to dig out that information from the old i9000 section, and i'm very short in time with all the soap opera going on
The below is long winded, but I believe in giving as much detail as possible, as well as it's still an ongoing process for me where I believe I've resolved the problem, yet I keep forcing it accidentally and not yet exactly pinned down my issue entirely.
I just got this phone, set it up, and was running into a similar issue where media scanning would initiate and continually initiate over and over while reloading dash and not loading all widgets. My actions the other night prior to this happening were making a backup in clockwork mod, installing setcpu, setting up setcpu, copying media files from old SD card from previous phone into new external and internal SD cardm then restarting the following morning after waking up. This baffeled me, and through google searching I came upon your threads, I saw ICE Music 4.0x or IM+ apps where your issues, however I have neither app.
Traced my steps back thinking what I did before sleeping and after backing up. I started deleting media files (pictures, movies, music) off the SD cards. After rebooting, this did not resolve my issue. I then rememebered I did SetCPU. I was able to successfully uninstall the app from my phone by dragging it to the trashcan before media scanning restarted. I rebooted, however, this still did not resolve my issue. I restored my backup prior to all this since my issue was unresolved through these means, and media scanning was fine. I've not been using SetCPU the past day and everything is fine.
My analysis is that using SetCPU is fine, I was using it the other night after backup, but prior to rebooting phone, however if SetCPU is set to run on boot, then Media scanning goes all fubar. Even if you uninstall SetCPU app through the android menus or dumping to the trashcan, something still seems resident in the booting process or initially something is modified that does not become unmodified. I've yet to try manually loading and running SetCPU each instance after bootup without having setcpu set to start on boot.
Hmm maybe I spoke too soon. Since that time, I've restored approximately 10k sms messages with SMS+ Backup app, sent a sms in handcent, backed up sms with SMS+ Backup, believe I received a sms, updated AdAway app, and started/updated AdFree app, and however I don't see it now.
Now, the adfree app gave me a menu I had no recolection of on my Nexus One, where I had two options. One option I don't rememeber, but the other "Boot Normally", I remember and chose. SetCPU is not installed at this moment, and after doing just those couple things from the 1st sentence, I rebooted. I noticed that the display at the bottom would show Adfree granted superuser permissions, and then I would get a freeze and reboot of the dash. I may have setup Adfree the night before along with SetCPU (It was late and I had been up 24hrs the previous night). I've frozen AdFree with Titanium Backup and removed it from superuser permissions, but I'm still media scanning crashing again. Unsure if the boot normally option in Adfree modified something in the booting code. I'm going to try restoring with Clockwork Mod again, then do my sms restore, and see if that narrows the issue down. If it appears finem then I'm assuming it has something to do with apps that modify boot coding like SetCPU or AdFree, if they actually modify it that is. I'm not good at coding. I'm at work, unable to do much playing around, however, I hope some of this is of assistance with resolving this issue.
Got a chance to test it. My issue with media scanning appears to be too many sms messages saved. after restoring about 10k in sms's, it just media scan loops.
After some reboots, I noticed that my apps in the app drawer keep messing up.
Not sure what's the caused, and get fedup of having to rearrange it often.
Any idea?
yer i had that issue for the first 1 and 1/2 weeks of use but i found that after installing a few more apps then it shipped with it stopped after about 9 apps
I think some people have said that having the apps moved to the SD card can make the ordering mess up, since they're loaded later than internal apps
It's really irritating, as it seems to occur randomly
I had this problem too, and the easiest way to fix the problem is just set the order to most used, and not "own order" that way u can get to the app's u use most often on the first screen and they don't move around.
It got so bad with mine moving around that at one point I had about 10 screens, some with no or 1 app on each, setting it to "most used" solved it and I haven't had a problem since.
Hope this helps
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I had this problem too, and the easiest way to fix the problem is just set the order to most used, and not "own order" that way u can get to the app's u use most often on the first screen and they don't move around.
It got so bad with mine moving around that at one point I had about 10 screens, some with no or 1 app on each, setting it to "most used" solved it and I haven't had a problem since.
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just to add, if you use another home launcher besides the stock one, this disarrangement or whatever you call it, happens most of the time. So I prefer to use the stock SE home launcher and sort it by "most recently used" as well.
I've noticed that sometimes opening the app tray/drawer before everything's loaded from the sd card (in case of apps moved to sd) can cause their icons to not show in the 'remembered' location and will appear on the last page instead. Solutions is to just give it a little time to fully load everything after a boot.
Edit: also seems to happen if the sd card is connected to the pc in msc mode, i.e. inaccessible and unmounted from the system.
does anyone else have same issue and how do I fix it. tried doing a cache wipe and deleting folder and reinstalling it. it's the folder on the dock.
I tried switching location of the folder on the doc, but it still does it. it's driving me crazy. I really don't want to do reboot. I have another folder with contacts in the Dock and it's fine.
so i bought a new phone from google since something happened to my last phone. thought i would not have to deal with this any more since it's a brand new phone. nope. new phone, same problem. it has to be a software bug. am i the only one that has an app folder in the doc and that's having this. this is a second phone now with a clean software.
i'm also suspecting that this happens when one of the apps in the folder does auto update. i've already turned it off for the downloaded apps, but can't for the some of the stock apps. after i did this, it still re-arranged. i'm going to try to take out one app at a time to see if i can narrow it down. this is so f'n annoying.
I also have this exact problem. I have no idea why it happens but it is annoying. Hope someone will find a fix for this.
Phone model: ICS 4.0.4 IMM76I
i've figured out what's causing it. basically, i set up one folder with all the apps already in the order that i want and one where i just put the same apps in it and then arranged it. so the folder that was arranged from the beginning by the order of apps added stays the same. the folder that i moved apps around, keeps re-arranging. the same thing happened with the direct dial folder as soon as i removed one person and then re-added it. just that one icon keeps re-arranging. so basically, i set up a new folder by adding the apps in the exact order that i want them in and then added it to the doc. the folder stays as is. the folder that i re-arranged icons, both in doc and in home screen keeps changing. it's still stupid that i have to go through this much trouble, but at least it doesn't shift any more.
Hi there,
I recently sent my HOX for repairs and backed up using adb method. anyway, when I got it back, I had issues with the restore as it kept freezing numerous times but in any case, I've restored mostly everything to how it was before.
Only problem I have now is with my homescreen. I've set it up with the widgets the way I want them. But whenever I reset me phone, it always seems to revert to some other order, ie change which screen is my homescreen and add more homescreen panels again even though I've reduced the number. I'm not sure whats going on and how to sort it. Is there a way to change which is the main homescreen so I dont have to keep moving my widgets around all the time? And any idea how to get it to stay the way I set it up?
Cheers