[Q] Media Server or scanner always runs with ICS ROM - T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989

I'm throwing this out there to see if anybody has experienced this issue. And IMPORTANT...this is nothing against the ROM...I know its gotta to be something on my end.
I installed a new ICS ROM 2 nights ago. Looking through the DEV thread it does look like I'm the only one who may be running into this issue. Well, one other person said he had this with all ICS ROMS and he just killed the media services, but reading through the thread of where I installed the ROM, no one else is complaining if this issue. So it's got to be something on my end. I'll post a screen shot at the end so you can see what I mean.
To start, I will tell you I ran into this issue with a previous ICS ROM about 3 weeks ago, so the next day I installed Racings ICS Port and the issue went away. I've used his port for about 3 weeks and decided to try this new ICS ROM out 2 days ago, and the issue returned.
I'll try and keep this short, but want to inform of all the steps. I installed the ROM following the OP's directions to a T...I changed my recovery to the non-touch version and did exactly what he said. When my media server would not stop running, the next morning I re-followed the OP's directions again and re-flashed the ROM. Same issue. Tried all day to figure what the heck is going on; so this morning I re-downloaded all the files, put them on my card, and re-flashed.
I had a bad flash and it would boot up (my first one so I freaked of course) but booted back into recovery and followed all the steps again, but this time I also went into mounts & Storage and formatted cache, data and system, then followed the OP's directions and re-flashed and it booted up...but still the same issue with the 'media server/scanner'. So that being said, here's a couple things.
When I go to the gallery, it has none of my pictures. In order for me to take a new picture, after letting the media scanner run for 1/2 hour, I kill it, then I can take a picture, otherwise the camera will open say media scanner running, then close right away if i don't kill the process before hand. It doesn't force close, just closes.
I followed the recommendation of another who said to try and wipe Dalvik cache, then use a file manager and move or create a file and see if that helps. It didn't.
I noticed though, when I do take a picture, i'll find the folder it's in and there are other photo's in there that never show up in my gallery, just the one I took. I tried to install another gallery today "Just Pictures' and it said it couldn't find the 'media store'. So I tried to do some research on that, but some of the info was WAY over my head.
Another quick note, Using CPU Spy, my CPU runs at 1242 MHz constantly if the media server is running, or my battery is plugged in. And when i kill the process's, it sleeps.
My thinking on this....and I could be way off, maybe the way the files are stored on my SD card with all the different flashes I've done, maybe that's missed something up and there not being found. Do different ROM's handle the media server different, as to why with 2 of the ICS ports I had that issue and one not.
I just want to say that other than that, I've had NO issues with the ROM. Everything else, all apps and everything is working. It's just this crazy media server. Why can't I get it to stop. What i don't get too is I followed the OP's direction to a T, 2 times and the third time I just did the mounts and storage thing. So really 3. So is something being left over, or do I have something else setup wrong as to why I would have this issue and not others. Are these processes handled by the kernel? I wonder if I just try to flash a kernel if that could possibly solve my issues..Grabbing at straws right now.
i'm not complaining about the ROM at all, just try to figure out what I'm doing, or not doing to cause this issue. I've done 3 fresh flashes so scratching my head.
If you took the time to read this...thanks. I don't expect anything, just seeing if maybe someone else has gone though this. I'll include a screen shot & my last logcat of trying to take a picture, to anybody who might be interested. I didn't want to clog up the DEV thread anymore.....Thanks!
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Mine also has this issue. I uninstalled it awhile back and tried to do a reinstall today and it continues to run like that. Really annoying that you cant take pictures or view the gallery.
EDIT: I just rooted it and it seems to take care of the problem. The link to the rooting guide is here: http://rootgalaxynote.com/galaxy-no...y-note-sgh-i717-icsgingerbreadeasiest-method/
I have also provided a download link for all required files:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ko1yylytppezg69/root ics on i717.zip
EDIT 2: Just wanted to confirm that the above did fix my issue. Haven't had a media scanner issue at all after rooting.

I also have installed TDJ's beta 2 and get EXACT same problem as you. Have read and re-read the thread looking for answers. Tried different SD cards, order of install directions...etc. Still no fix. At least I am not alone on this issue. Came from Juggs 5.0. Love the ROM, but it's a work phone so need all functionality and the battery drain is insane with this glitch.

Try my above method. The problem subsided after rooting.

smokeey69 said:
I also have installed TDJ's beta 2 and get EXACT same problem as you. Have read and re-read the thread looking for answers. Tried different SD cards, order of install directions...etc. Still no fix. At least I am not alone on this issue. Came from Juggs 5.0. Love the ROM, but it's a work phone so need all functionality and the battery drain is insane with this glitch.
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There seems to be several people out there with this issue. So after hours of reading and very little hair left...It seems to be a corrupt media file. Could be a ringtone, MP3, movie file... not sure.
I started removing files one at a time to find the culprit, but that got old real fast. So finally I just pulled everything off my internal and external SD cards and formatted them both. Now I don't even see the media server running. Now, I didn't have that much media to begin with, so I know it wasn't running because it had a lot to scan, it was getting stuck somewhere.
In reading this seems to be a problem with people changing from GB to ICS. There must be some file (at least I think)that is being scanned that ICS doesn't like. That's why I just reformatted both cards yesterday to see if that would solve my problem....and it's not scanning or running anymore...so I think yes...that fixed my problem.
I've had my 8GB SD for well over a year and have never formatted it before, so maybe worth a shot to see if it helps.
If you do and it works, or even if it doesn't work, I'd be very interested in knowing. So keep us posted. It's a little bit of work, but the worse thing is you'll start with clean SD cards. I just made sure I saved all the files I wanted to keep to my computer. No more media server running!

I have tried 3 different sd cards, reformatting all of them first......

smokeey69 said:
I have tried 3 different sd cards, reformatting all of them first......
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What about your internal SD card, did you reformat that one as well?
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There's corrupt data somewhere. format internal(emmc), external and system.

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SD Card Issue

I bought a 32gb SD card for my Epic as I really need the space!
So I took my 16gb card, plugged it into my laptop, copied all the files to a folder and removed it.
I put the 32gb SD card into my phone, formatted it, removed it, plugged it into my laptop, dragged all the files onto it, removed it, put it back in my Epic and none of the apps that were on my SD card will run.
The Epic shows the massive amount of storage from the card, but it simply will not run any of the apps on the card.
Did I miss a step? Did I do something wrong? Can anyone offer any advice?
This is driving me crazy so any help is appreciated!
Thanks!
use a backup app?
Maybe if you use titanium backup or mybackup pro to make a backup of apks and data; copy all to the 32, pop it in and then restore the backup, there may be some other info that tells android where to find the apps and their data.
good luck
I just got a 32 card as well to replace my 16, did the same steps you just described and it never missed a step. All apps working normally. Can u explore android secure and see that they are in there. I know on some custom roms every so often, the system wldnt load the sd card properly. It wld show the apps as installed in app mnager, but wld be grayd out as if the card was removed. That was on eb13 and eco5 roms. I shld note I did the sd card switch while running hurricane eh17 gingerbread. Sorry, this is probly not anything helpful.
P.s. Most often had the loading issue when I had a ton of apps on the sd card.
I've tried everything I can think of and nothing seems to work. I even found this awesome free service called Tonido & tried that...no go.
When I put it in my phone it shows that 29 point something gb of storage is there so the phone is recognizing the size of the memory...but apparently the files aren't showing up on the SD card even though they are there. All that shows up in the app drawer are the apps stored on the internal phone storage. This is really frustrating. I really need some help with this
I would try app backup and reinstall or app backup reinstall.
They scan the sd card and show what you have and you can reinstall. Never tried titanium. So dont know if that works or not.
Best of Luck....Let us Know!!
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Backing up is Very Very Important. No Matter the Case. Anyone, even Rooters and Developers will tell you that.
Sure at any point and time, not everyone, but Most have forgot.
Check your 32gb card folders if nothing inside 0kb then you have faulty card mean not truly 32gb but a lot less.
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There's an app on the market that rescans your sd for you. Can't remember what its called and chances r it won't help it find the apps, but its worth a shot. Sd scan, or sd rescan, something like that.
If you go into settings, apps, manage apps, are these apps showing up there either?
Also, if u put the old card back in, do they come back?
I ended up buying My Backup Pro and it worked for the most part. I backed up everything online, swapped SD cards and "restored" to the 32gb card. A few photos & videos wouldn't back up. I'm also having some incredibly annoying issues with Beautiful Widgets. I have uninstalled & installed several times but it doesn't fix.
All my apps, data, pictures, vids, etc are still on the old SD card. Hopefully I can figure out how to take the BW stuff from the old SD card & get it to the new one.
Thanks all for helping me out.
Try "fancy widgets". I like it better than beatiful widgets. Tho, I don't think it has much more than weather, clock, and battery widgets. Some sexy skins available for it
SMF80 said:
Try "fancy widgets". I like it better than beatiful widgets. Tho, I don't think it has much more than weather, clock, and battery widgets. Some sexy skins available for it
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The only issue there is that I paid for BW a long time ago. The standard skin works but none of the other ones will. Sucks.
I just don't get it.
My 16gb card has 14.73gb of space used. Which is why I bought a 32gb card.
I put every single folder, file, etc on there AGAIN (folder by folder this time) and my card still doesn't show all the files being on there. This tells me that for some reason that data isn't being recognized by the phone?
I can't believe I'm the first person that's ever encountered this issue!
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Sorry mang. The only thing i can suggest is returning the card for a new one if its not too much of a hassle. I had similar trouble with my second 16gb card and i gave up and got a new one. If no one (who actually knows what they are talking about) checks in here, try reposting under a different description. Good luck
I dont know if this is possible, but since it says 29 total and 26 still available, and you were transferring over 14 gigs to it, maybe the card isnt even close to a 32gig and is just reporting that it is.
SMF80 said:
Sorry mang. The only thing i can suggest is returning the card for a new one if its not too much of a hassle. I had similar trouble with my second 16gb card and i gave up and got a new one. If no one (who actually knows what they are talking about) checks in here, try reposting under a different description. Good luck
I dont know if this is possible, but since it says 29 total and 26 still available, and you were transferring over 14 gigs to it, maybe the card isnt even close to a 32gig and is just reporting that it is.
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I think the only conclusion is that the card is corrupted in some way. It's the only explanation. The 16gb card is working fine...there's just no room on it!
Guess I have to return it and get another.

[Q] Help please MEDIA draining battery

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This is a screenshot of what is draining my battery. When I click on it I can't tell what the hell it does. It contains zero bits of data as an app. It does show this file com.sec.android.providers.downloads when I click on the media arrow.
From my research I have found that this is bloatware and that it is not bloatware. I have read to remove and not to remove it.
Can somebody please tell me what this is or does?
Any information would be appreciated.
I am not sure if I posted my screen shot correctly
Download Better Battery Stats. Find out what is going on.
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Go to applications - running applications. Post screen shot.
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Just a thought. It looks like you rebooted the device three times. Once looks like it was into recovery.
And removed the SD card before taking the screenshot?
When the phone reboots it scans all media on the device.
If you didn't have the reboot periods, I would think it was a wake-clock.
If I reboot my device, I Always have it plugged in for at least 15 min. to make up for the extra drain caused by scanning files (Media)
Also IMO Juice Defender is a waste of time.
And this thread should be in Q&A
Edit2: I reported the thread so It can be moved.
Remember, if your gonna be asking a question - Go to Q&A :wink:
Rob_Wing said:
Download Better Battery Stats. Find out what is going on.
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Ok, I bought better battery stats but I have to go to bed so I will have to post a screen shot of my running apps tomorrow and what this new app tells me.
Thanks for the replies so far.
I've read a couple other posts like yours and the problem was some corrupted media files. If Better Battery Stats shows you that the media scanner service is running all the time then that's your problem. You find and delete the bad files or disable the service so it's not scanning constantly and you should be good. (Obviously better is the former).
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I am the original poster and I do tend to believe that the corrupted media files may have been the issue. For the past few days I have been getting the old "media card removed unexpectedly" message at random times. Yesterday I copied everything to my computer and reformatted the 32 gb sd sandisk ultra card. I then copied some files back on to the card and kept getting messages like blank sd card. Eventually neither the phone nor my Macbook recognized the card. I thought it might just be the phone or card so I tried my 16gb Sandisk card I had and it was recognized right away on both devices.
I finally just put in my 16gb card in the phone and transferred my pictures to it. I am initiating a warranty claim with Sandisk. I bought the card on October 22. I am not happy about this, especially since reading how many problems others have had with the same card.
Since using the old 16gb ultra card and deleteting the android drm process using Titanium Backup, This MEDIA thing is essentially gone. I now have 68 percent left on my batter with 9 hours and 58 since it was unplugged. I did use my phone today at work.
Thanks for all the advice. I would post some battery stat items and screen shots of what I have running but I have a baby screaming with pink eye and a two year old that needs attention as well.
Yikes... you passed your bad mojo to me
wow... had just read this thread and bam.... now I have a runaway "Android media process" running (45% of CPU...).. tried to kill service, but it just restarts! I'm getting all sorts of CPU/Memory threshold warnings, so not sure why it continues to run... and why it can't be shutdown (it's possessed). It ran for 2 hrs and still won't shut down. Any ideas/ investigative steps I need to take to figure out why it's running and how to stop it... Thx.
DoctorQMM said:
wow... had just read this thread and bam.... now I have a runaway "Android media process" running (45% of CPU...).. tried to kill service, but it just restarts! I'm getting all sorts of CPU/Memory threshold warnings, so not sure why it continues to run... and why it can't be shutdown (it's possessed). It ran for 2 hrs and still won't shut down. Any ideas/ investigative steps I need to take to figure out why it's running and how to stop it... Thx.
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Did you try what op did and pull your sd card, reboot and see what happens?
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Verizon's Backup Assistant plus was the cause of my media runaway battery use. I turned it off and the problem went away.
When I had s3 I used an app called media scan root it stopped the media scanning on boot. I think scanning all those little files in the cwm or twrp backup folders was what was causing it. Not sure but the app did help me and it is worth a try
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Internal memory issue on CM11

I've Googled this to death and can't find what is wrong. Apparently my system is taking up 10gb of memory, but I've gone through every logcat folder and other folders and can't figure out what the problem is.
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Nobody? I'd really appreciate any help!
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radrobe said:
Nobody? I'd really appreciate any help!
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seems like you just have alot of apps installed to me
1.22gb? It says my total space is 12.05gb. That leaves 10+gb unaccounted for.
The second image shows my system data as taking 10+ gb. Why would that be.
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radrobe said:
1.22gb? It says my total space is 12.05gb. That leaves 10+gb unaccounted for.
The second image shows my system data as taking 10+ gb. Why would that be.
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Honestly I've been having internal and external issues with storage and cm11.
It's really odd how it's acting, but for me it's adjusting stuff IE removeing, adding folders I have to re-scan the storage be it internal or external...to even get things to notice....that or a reboot. Moving files from microsd to internal and/or back result in stalling out or not moving when it says it does move it, again re-scan seems to help at times when it says it moved it, but with the stalls it just hangs forever and never does anything.
I've had this with multiple Cm11 revisions, so I am leaning to KK being the culprit.
I keep looking around and can't really find MUCH at all on this sd card issues, but I have seen a few.
I have three 32GB class 10, a 16gb class 4, a 8gb class 6 and class 4.......every card has the exact same issue. So it's not releated to class or size.
I will however add CM1 does NOT like 32gb cards, as when I boot up it has a loop that keeps saying "sdcard removed unexpectidly......remounting sdcard" and it will loop like that indefinately until I go into storage settings. I don't have to touch any settings jsut enter it and it stops. After I exit out, it's fine until I acess the sdcard again and it acts all wonky again. It oesn't always loop, somtimes it jsut dones't see the cahnges made, but a lot of times it will then loop into the same "sdcard removed unexpectidly......remounting sdcard" loop, until I again enter the storage settings, and then stops again.
I'm surprised there aren't more posts about this.
easyrider77 said:
Honestly I've been having internal and external issues with storage and cm11.
It's really odd how it's acting, but for me it's adjusting stuff IE removeing, adding folders I have to re-scan the storage be it internal or external...to even get things to notice....that or a reboot. Moving files from microsd to internal and/or back result in stalling out or not moving when it says it does move it, again re-scan seems to help at times when it says it moved it, but with the stalls it just hangs forever and never does anything.
I've had this with multiple Cm11 revisions, so I am leaning to KK being the culprit.
I keep looking around and can't really find MUCH at all on this sd card issues, but I have seen a few.
I have three 32GB class 10, a 16gb class 4, a 8gb class 6 and class 4.......every card has the exact same issue. So it's not releated to class or size.
I will however add CM1 does NOT like 32gb cards, as when I boot up it has a loop that keeps saying "sdcard removed unexpectidly......remounting sdcard" and it will loop like that indefinately until I go into storage settings. I don't have to touch any settings jsut enter it and it stops. After I exit out, it's fine until I acess the sdcard again and it acts all wonky again. It oesn't always loop, somtimes it jsut dones't see the cahnges made, but a lot of times it will then loop into the same "sdcard removed unexpectidly......remounting sdcard" loop, until I again enter the storage settings, and then stops again.
I'm surprised there aren't more posts about this.
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I don't get it either. Last night, I completely wiped my system and data, reinstalled fresh, and no effect.
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radrobe said:
I don't get it either. Last night, I completely wiped my system and data, re-installed fresh, and no effect.
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Just a suggestion, and not sure if you did it this particular way or not, but sometimes I have to do it this way........instead of the normal "wipe" this and that, go to mounts section and format the areas....then do a wipe like normal. Make doubly sure you pull the sdcard though then it doesn't get wiped....I accidentally wiped all mine heh, good thing I had it all backed up on the pc.
Seems like no one has a solution for the sdcard issues I've read about and seen, that or else everyone is like REALLLLY busy, because forums irc chat, and online searches are like dead, can't get a rise out of anyone right now. If so it'd still be nice to get a "hrmm, I'm not sure" or a "how bout you just piss off" or a solutions or some kinda answer, even a... would at least show me people have read the post.
I just got cm11 back on.
I was using root browser before, but decided to look into this issue. I figured I'd start with a different explorer app so I tried ES File Explorer, but that didn't let me do root stuff, I'd hit root where there is suppose to be a menu under that, but it just went directly back to the folders I was in, so there was really no way to get r/w or root access or permissions. After looking at some forums I came across one that said try Solid Explorer out. I of coarse was leery and reluctant to try it, because I have been using root explorer for SO long.....just like the transition from ES FIle Explorer to root explorer, I was the same way with that transition, I always like to stick with what works, so going to something new and moving on, it really hard to do at times.
Well I finally took the plunge and went for it, and found out I don't have the issues I did before, everything works fine.....things seems to refresh/re-scan fine, and update to see the latest changes I have done, file transfer works good, everything jsut works.
So it seems it's not KK after all as I had first thought.....it was root explorer.
Evidently root explorer and ES have not modified or updated to work correctly with KK. That or else it's just this particular phone/model (Samsung S3 SPH-L710), but I really don't see it being that.
So all that being said, maybe try that out....it's free too, that's just the icing on the cake . It's actually a nice file explorer.
It's definitely not a file Explorer issue. Updates have not made this issue go away. Anyone else have insight into this?
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I would also like to figure out what is going on. Even when I plug my phone into my computer to look at files, there is hardly anything there, but it says i only have 230 MB left of storage on my 11GB internal drive. My apps take up 1.5 GB, pics 35 MB and everything else is just a few MB, yet I lost about 10GB of internal space. I can't even shoot a video on my phone since it only saves to internal drive and I don't have much space left.
Will someone please advise as to the best thing to fix this (I will admit, I am a bit of a noob)
Hi, new on the forum for the Tab 2 10.1, facing same memory issues as mentioned.
Currently on the latest CM 11 nighlty.
Would there be an update on this topic and how to solve?
txs!

[Q] Caller can't hear me when screen dims?

hey everyone,
I've been running the latest build of the Hood Pope rom since Nov and i haven't had any problems with the phone. Out off the different roms and versions of a rom,this has been the best. i recently started experiencing a problem; during calls when the screen goes black the caller can no longer hear me. On the other hand, i can hear them fine. I constantly have to wake the screen with the power button, or keep the phone off my ear so the proximity sensor doesn't kick in and dim the display.
I have been searching and the only discussion similar to my problem from another site turned out to be a hardware issue. I have reset the app cache and settings. I checked the dialer app permissions but i haven't denied anything. No recently installed apps that would need dialer permissions. I dropped my phone, i believe a week or so ago, 3 1/2 ft inside my house, phone does have a case.
i don't know what else to do besides going through the ritual of wiping and reinstalling the rom. Any thoughts or help would be appreciated.
Thank you
droiga said:
hey everyone,
I've been running the latest build of the Hood Pope rom since Nov and i haven't had any problems with the phone. Out off the different roms and versions of a rom,this has been the best. i recently started experiencing a problem; during calls when the screen goes black the caller can no longer hear me. On the other hand, i can hear them fine. I constantly have to wake the screen with the power button, or keep the phone off my ear so the proximity sensor doesn't kick in and dim the display.
I have been searching and the only discussion similar to my problem from another site turned out to be a hardware issue. I have reset the app cache and settings. I checked the dialer app permissions but i haven't denied anything. No recently installed apps that would need dialer permissions. I dropped my phone, i believe a week or so ago, 3 1/2 ft inside my house, phone does have a case.
i don't know what else to do besides going through the ritual of wiping and reinstalling the rom. Any thoughts or help would be appreciated.
Thank you
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Are you using gravity screen off....if so. Check the box for it not to work while in call. If not using this...I would reboot recovery and wipe cache and dalvik...if problem still persist. You need to do a fresh install. If that doesn't work. I would Odin back to stock 4.1.2 and insure its not a hardware issue...
Good luck..
Gil81 said:
Are you using gravity screen off....if so. Check the box for it not to work while in call. If not using this...I would reboot recovery and wipe cache and dalvik...if problem still persist. You need to do a fresh install. If that doesn't work. I would Odin back to stock 4.1.2 and insure its not a hardware issue...
Good luck..
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Not sure about gravity screen off, I haven't stumbled across that setting unless its hidden somewhere. As far as the rest proposed solution im holding off as last resort at this point but i fear that's the route i will have to take soon.
Thanks
Not a hardware problem.
This has happened to a number of people running earlier version of CM10.1 as well.
Try flashing the official CM10.2 nightlies. If problem still occurs, ODIN back to stock.
Not all phones will run a custom ROM perfectly, even though they are of the same device.
droiga said:
Not sure about gravity screen off, I haven't stumbled across that setting unless its hidden somewhere. As far as the rest proposed solution im holding off as last resort at this point but i fear that's the route i will have to take soon.
Thanks
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My bad...it could be. I have the pro version...
High voltage is right though....not all ROMs run the same. I have never had this problem with cm10.1...but I only ran it a little. But I can tell you that my boost variant hates aokp...and it makes me mad..Lol. But my galaxy tab 10.1 loves aokp...go figure...
Hope you get it sorted out...
HighxVoltage said:
Not a hardware problem.
This has happened to a number of people running earlier version of CM10.1 as well.
Try flashing the official CM10.2 nightlies. If problem still occurs, ODIN back to stock.
Not all phones will run a custom ROM perfectly, even though they are of the same device.
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Good to hear that its not a hardware problem, i was afraid that minor drop might have caused it somehow.
Gil81 said:
My bad...it could be. I have the pro version...
High voltage is right though....not all ROMs run the same. I have never had this problem with cm10.1...but I only ran it a little. But I can tell you that my boost variant hates aokp...and it makes me mad..Lol. But my galaxy tab 10.1 loves aokp...go figure...
Hope you get it sorted out...
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Yea i think 3 months was long enough for me without having to wipe dalvik, i was pleased with how well the rom ran and brushed it off. But you can only go so far before something acts up that will require wiping and reinstalling something.
droiga said:
Yea i think 3 months was long enough for me without having to wipe dalvik, i was pleased with how well the rom ran and brushed it off. But you can only go so far before something acts up that will require wiping and reinstalling something.
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Ya...Lol.
I think the only ROM I've ran for that long is project x..if your in the market..its a great ROM...and combined with missing link,you can theme it out.
I'm actually running Commotio now..and have downloaded Vanir and Smasher x to give them both a try today...yes. I'm a flash o holic...
Project X-http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2320041
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Ya...Lol.
I think the only ROM I've ran for that long is project x..if your in the market..its a great ROM...and combined with missing link,you can theme it out.
I'm actually running Commotio now..and have downloaded Vanir and Smasher x to give them both a try today...yes. I'm a flash o holic...
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Haha yea, when i first started rooting i enjoyed flashing different roms but it eventually became a hassle so i stay away unless i absolutely have to or there is a must have feature implemented within lol. I will keep your reference in mind if i decide to try something different.

LG Update Center - Possible Malware?

Hello everyone,
I am not as well versed with electronics like a lot of you seem to be, I have ran into an issue and I was told to go on this forum.
So my phone is an LG G8s ThinQ, and I was browsing the web on my phone yesterday until I suddenly got the notification that there are 15 new updates available. I thought that was weird since my phone got system updates like once a year or something. I went to the Update Center app and took a look, these alleged 15 updates were downloadable game apps. In Update Center there should only be like 3 or 4 downloadable apps, which are preinstalled anyway, Facebook, Instagram and some LG Bloatware.
And these 15 games suddenly available seemed a bit sketchy to me.
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So I let Malwarebytes scan my phone and it didn't turn up anything. I also searched for apps manually that could be malicious, but I didn't find anything either. Never downloaded anything on my phone after my phone's last hard reset. Never done anything sketchy with it. Mostly use it for YouTube, browsing and Whatsapp, that's it.
So I hard reset my phone in order to get rid of that, who knows what caused this issue and what it was doing with my phone. But after hard resetting the update center app again showed 15 available updates. I hard resetted several times, it persisted.
So I became curious and downloaded a few of these game apps. A few of those games you can play immediately after downloading, some others you need to download the app from update center, then the phone opens Google Play and redirects you to a download page for the app... but for some of these games Google Play simply shows an "error" page, these games are not even on Google Play - super sketchy.
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I played some of those games (the ones I could download fully), and they worked normally as I would expect. After trying them out, I downloaded Malwarebytes and let it scan my phone - and it detected something malicious and uninstalled it!
I hard reset my phone, I am using it still, but with caution. Update Center still keeps showing these downloadable apps and sends notifications from time to time.
So is LG Update Center hijacked? Why is it promoting these weird apps? Is that malware? What is it doing? Is it spying on my phone?
Without downloading any of these apps Malwarebytes isn't detecting anything malicious after scanning... but I don't necessarily trust that. Who knows what is causing this issue and what's going on in the background.
I asked an IT guy I know and he told me that I should be cautious and it would be best if I either installed some custom ROM or bought a new phone alltogether...
I think this whole thing is super sketchy and I wanted to share it with you all, maybe someone here can explain.
Best of love everyone!
Likely an app you installed.
Which OS version?
Anything below Android is suspectable to Xhelper, a factory reset will not eliminate it.
Honestly I can't recall having installed any app lately. And I definitely didn't download any apk apps from the internet or anything like it. Phone runs on Android 12. I read about that xhelper thing, sounds scary .
I was browsing the web, reading about celebrity scandals on some websites when it happened. Maybe those websites infected my phone in some way, is that possible? I put some of the websites and articles I could remember through VirusTotal, but nothing came up on it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LGVelvet/comments/12lv7vb
It seems like there are some other phones from LG that have similar issues, but besides this single post and another (I believe already deleted??) Reddit post I can't find anything to go on. Another G8 user commented on Reddit saying he doesn't have any issues.
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Honestly I can't recall having installed any app lately. And I definitely didn't download any apk apps from the internet or anything like it. Phone runs on Android 12. I read about that xhelper thing, sounds scary .
I was browsing the web, reading about celebrity scandals on some websites when it happened. Maybe those websites infected my phone in some way, is that possible? I put some of the websites and articles I could remember through VirusTotal, but nothing came up on it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LGVelvet/comments/12lv7vb
It seems like there are some other phones from LG that have similar issues, but besides this single post and another (I believe already deleted??) Reddit post I can't find anything to go on. Another G8 user commented on Reddit saying he doesn't have any issues.
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A factory reset would purge Xhelper on 12.
It may have come through as an update for a "clean" app. Payloads are sometimes delivered like that. I don't allow apps to update.
All my games are always firewall blocked as are any apps that don't need internet access to function.
Check the download folder daily for files you didn't download especially when visiting questionable sites. Delete any unknown files.
Get a good firewall to see what's doing what.
Set up free NextDNS to further control internet access and use Brave browser.
Those two options may shut it down entirely but try to find the root cause.
Play with it.
A 3rd party rom isn't needed and may cause more issues. At the worst reflash the stock rom but that shouldn't be necessary at all.
I have the exact issue,
Is there a way to track what apps was updated this saturday? Can be done on PC-systems but not andriod?
Secondly can the install program list be cleared manually somehow?
I am not a big phone user, havent installed any apps for months and havent used the phone for since last week. Still got this crap so I suspect some ap.
The is a LG G6, seem unlikley to be a push from LG. Avast AV-scan found nothing strange.
All games pushed seem to be made by "gameloft"
Update:
I also made a post on Reddit and it seems like this issue has happened to a few other LG owners as well, but not everyone.
Antivirus scans didn't turn up anything so far. From time to time, Update Center still reminds me of these sketchy updates, but I just ignore the notifications. Besides that, nothing suspicious has happened. Battery life is normal, no suspicious downloads or anything...
(On rare occasions phone is a little bit laggy for one or two seconds but that's maybe just age or whatever, I dunno, nothing concerning to me at least, just something I noticed).
I planned on writing an eMail to LG but I still didn't do it cause I forgot, going to do that soon (I hope that they will actually answer).
And I didn't mess with NextDNS or firewall cause I didn't really have the time yet to do so.

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