Anyone else having this issue with Darkside ROM? I have read posts about other ICE ROM's having this issue. High battery drain, phone gets quite hot. Will drain battery in about 2-3 hours. Check battery stats and Media Server is using 70-80% of total battery usage. Anyone else figured out how to get around this? Someone mentioned a corrupted audio or video file. I removed all media files to my PC, reformatted SD card, and rebooted phone, but problem still persists. I love ICS, but only getting 2-3 hours battery life is not going to cut it.
KT
You have to format emmc, external sd, and system. There's probably corrupt data somewhere. Backup what you don't wanna lose, this gets rid of everything
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Did all that, and still have the same issue. Even tried with new SD card, and with no SD card. Factory reset, super wipe, clear everything, format, etc. Fresh boot up, no new apps installed, and the damn media server is blasting along taking 70% or more of the battery. Phone gets really hot. This is basically making the phone unusable. I don't know if it is something specific to my phone but I guess I will have to go back to GB until the official release of ICS from T-Mo is out. Hope that fixes the problem.
KT
ktischler said:
Did all that, and still have the same issue. Even tried with new SD card, and with no SD card. Factory reset, super wipe, clear everything, format, etc. Fresh boot up, no new apps installed, and the damn media server is blasting along taking 70% or more of the battery. Phone gets really hot. This is basically making the phone unusable. I don't know if it is something specific to my phone but I guess I will have to go back to GB until the official release of ICS from T-Mo is out. Hope that fixes the problem.
KT
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I had same issue...
I removed my external and reformatted it in my computer and while that was formatting, I booted backup & reformatted internal through system settings, then when that was done, powered off and inserted external, rebooted and its ran perfect ever since.
I think it's important to reformat both internal & external cards when you have that issue.
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I was trying to take photo's with my desire, but I was recieving a message saying that the photo's couldn't be saved to the sd card. I was a bit puzzled as I knew I had more than 3gb of the card left. Anyway I decided to go into the storage settings of the phone and sure enough according to my phone the total space on the sd card was 0 and the available space was 0. and it also showed that the internal storage was 64.02 mb.
Anyway, I decided to take the battery out and remove the sd card, and then I reinstalled them. When my phone had restarted I checked the storage settings again and my phone is now showing that the sd card has a total of 3.69gb with 3.43gb available, and also, my internal storage is now showing that I have 78.44mb internal storage available.
Can someone shed some light on what may have happaned.?
This happens on Android sometimes. Just removing and reinserting the card will fix it 99% of the time.
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This happens on Android sometimes. Just removing and reinserting the card will fix it 99% of the time.
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If that's the case, then perhaps next time it happens you could try unmounting and mounting it (ie in software!). Would safe the hassle/risk of taking the phone apart each time.
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If that's the case, then perhaps next time it happens you could try unmounting and mounting it (ie in software!). Would safe the hassle/risk of taking the phone apart each time.
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Just out of curiosity, how to you mount the card after unmounting it? I looked everywhere but had to take the card out and insert it again....
I get something similar, but it's not free space related. Sometimes after unplugging my phone from my PC while being in Mass Storage mode, the card is mounted in read-only mode. It's an odd behaviour that only gets fixed if i replug it into my PC and remove it again.
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Just out of curiosity, how to you mount the card after unmounting it? I looked everywhere but had to take the card out and insert it again....
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Uh..yeah, just noticed there's no mount option. Odd, being a Linux device. You're going to have to unmount then reboot.
Perhaps this'll become possible when Android supports installing to SD card.
I've been experiencing the same thing this weekend, but I've not used my phone as a storage device, only battery charging. A reboot fixes the problem but not ideal! Is this a HTC phone issue or Google Android problem? It needs to be addressed!
I am also concerned about internal storage space as it seems to either decrease or increase for some reason. For example, yesterday I had 78mb free internal storage space, earlier on it had dropped to 67.04mb,, than an hour later it went down to 66.25mb I have since switched my phone off and on and now the internal storage is at 80.1mb. I am assuming that the internal storage issue is maybe to do with caches. Would this be correct.?
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I am also concerned about internal storage space as it seems to either decrease or increase for some reason. For example, yesterday I had 78mb free internal storage space, earlier on it had dropped to 67.04mb,, than an hour later it went down to 66.25mb I have since switched my phone off and on and now the internal storage is at 80.1mb. I am assuming that the internal storage issue is maybe to do with caches. Would this be correct.?
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I don't know, but memory is supposed to be used. Android should be keeping stuff in memory so that it can be used quickly when needed rather than loaded/initialised from scratch each time. Depends on the OS really. I'd suggest not killing tasks and rebooting just to maintain a lot of free memory for the sake of it. If there's a problem then it needs to be fixed but I've not heard of anyone running out of memory and having trouble loading stuff after 24 hours after a reboot.
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Just out of curiosity, how to you mount the card after unmounting it? I looked everywhere but had to take the card out and insert it again....
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Same problem for me ... until I found the "SDMount widget". No need to reboot anymore.
Happened to me twice with my 32GB card, now don't take this the wrong way, but I'm glad to see others have experienced this with lower capacity cards!
Thanks for the headsup about the Mount widget, should be very handy.
sdmount ........ thank you for the heads up
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I really have no idea what is going on with the phone. The phone is amazingly fast and snappy normally. I'm running [ERA]EPICUREANv7 EGgs22, with EC05 modem (I believe I read that staying on EC05 would be fine, correct me if I'm wrong).
It started happening once I transferred my old files from my old SD card to my new SD card (this is my second epic, first one died without any explanation). It began freezing within a minute of a reboot. I then took the SD card out, and it was fine again. I deleted all my old music and pictures for a clean SD, and the problem went away.
The next day it froze again, and the day after that (today), it froze again just now. It seems to happen when I am running a new program (happened once when i installed and tried out miren, happened once when I opened google music for the first time, happened once with powerAMP, etc) but I'm not sure if that is the cause. I'm starting to wonder if there is a common factor between these freezings and how my old epic became a brick (not really a brick, I odined it through download mode to stock, but flashing any rom now causes it to be unable to boot as far as I've tried so it's perma stock now)
Does anyone know what is going on? Is there any kind of diagnostic app out there that will tell me what is causing the freezes or high usage?
Thanks in advance!
I've tried a reboot and removing the battery. All the applications on the SD card have loaded. Under "battery usage" it has media scanner running, but the force close button is greyed out. It's draining the battery pretty bad - 25% in under an hour.
Anyway to stop it or is this a hardware issue that needs a replacement?
I could try a restore but I don't think this is ROM related. Running Caulkins E4GT 3.0.
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I've tried a reboot and removing the battery. All the applications on the SD card have loaded. Under "battery usage" it has media scanner running, but the force close button is greyed out. It's draining the battery pretty bad - 25% in under an hour.
Anyway to stop it or is this a hardware issue that needs a replacement?
I could try a restore but I don't think this is ROM related. Running Caulkins E4GT 3.0.
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Try pulling the sdcard, reboot your phone, let it complete media scan. Shutdown the phone insert you're sdcard, startup your phone and see what happens.
If that doesn't work but into recovery and under advanced try fixing permissions.
Good luck!
I had the same problem in the past. It never stopped running and burned through the battery. The fix was to find the app in settings and clear the data. I believe it was the media storage app.
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Try pulling the sdcard, reboot your phone, let it complete media scan. Shutdown the phone insert you're sdcard, startup your phone and see what happens.
If that doesn't work but into recovery and under advanced try fixing permissions.
Good luck!
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So it boots up and the media scanner stops without the SD card. I guess the next step is to get a new SD card?
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So it boots up and the media scanner stops without the SD card. I guess the next step is to get a new SD card?
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I'd try bashing up the data on it, formatting it and then try inserting it again to see how it does. If it still gives you issues then yeah if say it's probably time for a new card. :-(
Yeah, I did that last month, back-up, wipe, reformat and it worked ok until just recently. I did put in an extra 4 gb SD I had laying around - scanner stopped after a reboot - so yes it is the card.
I was using a 16 GB class 2 - which I feel is a bit slow with the 8MB camera on the touch. Real slow to (like 5 seconds) before I can take another photo.
Any suggestions for brands and class for the Touch? Kingston and San Disk are the biggest names - would a class 4 be ok? or 6? 10 would be overkill for sure.
Thanks.
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I'd try bashing up the data on it, formatting it and then try inserting it again to see how it does. If it still gives you issues then yeah if say it's probably time for a new card.
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I can see this as a reply See bold word.
"So I tried using a 50lb sledge, now the card doesn't work at all! Time for a new card!"
Hello, I rooted my captivate glide a couple of days ago. Afterwards, everything worked fine.
Then, today, while viewing some emails on my phone, I realized that if I tried to copy a URL from gmail, it would COMPLETELY freeze my phone.
It also has some random freezes every now and again, and I have to reset the phone to get it to work again.
Anyone got a clue?
What all did you do after rooting? Normally you don't root and the do nothing else. It is likely what that else is, is the problem.
Does restoring to the backup you made after doing the recovery flash fix the problem?
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Nandroid and such failed.
You see... I don't have a large enough external sd card, not do I have a large enough internal one. It's mostly full.
I looked into maybe backing up through a USB into my pc, but that was a failure...
I have no backups, other than EFS. All I did was install some .jpg and audio tweaks, and then I installed One Power Guard.
I tried flashing some things, such as an xLoud port, and a beats audio port, but neither worked: I got the error status 0 each time.
I used CWM. I also have it in power save mode most of the time in OPG... Should I maybe increase the clock speed a bit?
Maybe it is hanging, because of the lesser responsiveness?
Hello:
I have owned a XPeria Play R800i for about 2 years by now. After the first week using it, I installed the Gin2JellyBean ROM, and updated it to version 1.8.1 - And have sticked with it since. Everything worked fine, until yesterday.
While I was charging my phone (it always gets a bit hot when doing so), I had to disconnect it and use the flashlight for about 30 minutes. I could felt the temperature rising, but after such a long time using it, I thought it wasn't anything to care about. Suddenly, the phone rebooted by itself, and as it was very hot, I decided to leave it near an electric fan so that it would cool down.
An hour later, I checked the phone and everything looked alright - I could browse the web, and use some apps. But when I tried to use the gallery, an error appeared: SD Card can't be found. Then, I noticed that all the apps that I had moved to the SD appeared as grey icons, and when I tried to open them, another error message.
I thought that something bad had happened to the card, so I removed it and put it on my PC. And it worked! I backed up all the files, reformatted it and tried again, to no avail. In Settings/Storage, the options Mount SD Card and Format SD Card appear greyed out.
Tried mounting it using the console, and no luck.
Can you help me? Do you think it might be a hardware error? Is it fixable?