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[Q] WTH happened to my phone's internal storage?!

This afternoon I had around 800-900 MB of free storage in my phone's internal storage. Suddenly in the late evening, I got a notification that disk space is low. I checked the space usage and saw the remaining space is less than 50 MB! I did not use the phone since afternoon except playing Bubble Bash & Doodle Jump. What is more weird is within 7-10 minutes space came down to around 8MB!! I immediately restarted my phone and wiped cache and dalvik cache. This stopped the space auto-decrease weirdness but I did not regain my lost space back, and have no idea where it went!! I am using MIUI ROM at present and will really appreciate if someone can help me without me having to backup/restore my data. Thanks, Abhi.

It shows that some bad apps you installed were silently downloading or expanding something in the background. You have to trace back and narrow down from which app recently you installed caused this memory issue. Otherwise, a clean flash rom would be a good start.

^^Seems logical. However, my data plan expired one week back and I haven't reactivated it yet. So downloading is ruled out. Also, I have not installed any app in the past few days. So I don't get it why this will suddenly happen!! I also checked all the apps' data usage, and it was normal for all of them. Most probably I will end up wiping but I am still dumbfounded!!

Sometimes the data run even if it expired. Not sure how to explain this. Or some trojan/virus self expanding is resides in your system.
Installing anti virus might detect it. I'm using AVG full version anti virus. It scan every files installing or moving around the system or in the sdcard. So far so good..
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Had this problem a month ago, too.
I deleted some apps and rebooted 2 or 3 times and the problem was solved. But i don't know why.
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farsight73 said:
Sometimes the data run even if it expired. Not sure how to explain this. Or some trojan/virus self expanding is resides in your system.
Installing anti virus might detect it. I'm using AVG full version anti virus. It scan every files installing or moving around the system or in the sdcard. So far so good..
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I have Lookout installed. Never got any alert so far.
UEman said:
Had this problem a month ago, too.
I deleted some apps and rebooted 2 or 3 times and the problem was solved. But i don't know why.
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Can you tell me what were the apps that you removed?

No, I deleted just some of the apps I don't need hoping to get more free space.
Sorry, but I already said it was like a month ago or so.
I can't remember, but it was really strange and weird.

Ended up resetting!! This thread can be closed now!

[Q] RandomRom 2.3.4 Hawk v2 Gps troubles

Hello all I have been using RandomRom hawk eg22 v2 it is smooth except the gps. The gps works for about 10 minutes , after that it goes to searching for gps. The only way to get the gps back is to restart the gps navigation app. I am sure it is something that I haven't done, like reset cache for the gps or something. I am coming from randomrom hawk eg22 v1

bigtex06 said:
Hello all I have been using RandomRom hawk eg22 v2 it is smooth except the gps. The gps works for about 10 minutes , after that it goes to searching for gps. The only way to get the gps back is to restart the gps navigation app. I am sure it is something that I haven't done, like reset cache for the gps or something. I am coming from randomrom hawk eg22 v1
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Have you tried the EH06 modem?
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RandomKing said:
Have you tried the EH06 modem?
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No I can try that. Thanks for the response. Last time I tried to flash a different modem my phone was almost bricked. It was the eg22 modem. The modem went through with no problem but my phone would not turn back on. Which odin do you recommend to use? I figured out where I went wrong last time I flashed a new modem , I put the modem file in the pda instead of the phone spot. I flashed eh06 and will try. Thanks

bigtex06 said:
No I can try that. Thanks for the response. Last time I tried to flash a different modem my phone was almost bricked. It was the eg22 modem. The modem went through with no problem but my phone would not turn back on. Which odin do you recommend to use? I figured out where I went wrong last time I flashed a new modem , I put the modem file in the pda instead of the phone spot. I flashed eh06 and will try. Thanks
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Well no luck with that I still lose gps after about ten minutes. Any other ideas?

bigtex06 said:
Well no luck with that I still lose gps after about ten minutes. Any other ideas?
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Have you checked out this thread:
How to clear Modem Memory(nvram). (fixes gps and many modem issues like slow speed)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1226074
Make sure you read everything to understand what it does and the ramifications of trying that procedure.
Course you can always go back to EC05, GB is still in beta so everything isn't perfect quite yet (though Random has done a fantastic job with it so far!!)

jdelano said:
Have you checked out this thread:
How to clear Modem Memory(nvram). (fixes gps and many modem issues like slow speed)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1226074
Make sure you read everything to understand what it does and the ramifications of trying that procedure.
Course you can always go back to EC05, GB is still in beta so everything isn't perfect quite yet (though Random has done a fantastic job with it so far!!)
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Hey jdelano, you are providing great help to the community...thanks clicked for you.
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I tried this and gps worked for 12 minutes instead of 10. Any other ideas. I would rather not go back to 2.2 .Thanks for the response any other ideas.

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Hey jdelano, you are providing great help to the community...thanks clicked for you.
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Appeciate it and like wise!

bigtex06 said:
I tried this and gps worked for 12 minutes instead of 10. Any other ideas. I would rather not go back to 2.2 .Thanks for the response any other ideas.
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Have you tried running superfreeze??
Try to limit the apps in memory while using GPS; perhaps turn off blue tooth, stop all sync'g. Just to see if maybe something running is hammering GPS after a while.
That is the line I would take; to make sure there is as much memory as possible for it to run.
I know that has to be really frustrating.

jdelano said:
Have you tried running superfreeze??
Try to limit the apps in memory while using GPS; perhaps turn off blue tooth, stop all sync'g. Just to see if maybe something running is hammering GPS after a while.
That is the line I would take; to make sure there is as much memory as possible for it to run.
I know that has to be really frustrating.
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I will try that as well. I will let you know thanks.

bigtex06 said:
I will try that as well. I will let you know thanks.
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The superfreeze has fixed it. I let it run for a few hours. Thanks man. Thanks everyone for the help.

bigtex06 said:
The superfreeze has fixed it. I let it run for a few hours. Thanks man. Thanks everyone for the help.
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Awesome !!
note: while running superfreeze, if you go into settings, about phone, then try to open system updates, it will FC. that is normal because superfreeze has stopped the updates checker from running.
simply run superdefrost, do your update check (PRL or Profile) and then refreeze.
happy GPS'g

jdelano said:
Awesome !!
note: while running superfreeze, if you go into settings, about phone, then try to open system updates, it will FC. that is normal because superfreeze has stopped the updates checker from running.
simply run superdefrost, do your update check (PRL or Profile) and then refreeze.
happy GPS'g
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I take that back it shut down again today. I am going to try another app . Maybe something is not right with google navigation and 2.3.4. Maybe more luck with something else. Unless someone else has another idea.
It seems to lose gps when the ram gets close to 100mb. Something is eating up the ram.

bigtex06 said:
I take that back it shut down again today. I am going to try another app . Maybe something is not right with google navigation and 2.3.4. Maybe more luck with something else. Unless someone else has another idea.
It seems to lose gps when the ram gets close to 100mb. Something is eating up the ram.
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Might try to reboot the phone before going on the drive.
So you have clear memory; GB leaks have memory issues at the moment.

jdelano said:
Might try to reboot the phone before going on the drive.
So you have clear memory; GB leaks have memory issues at the moment.
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Yeah thats for sure alot of apps keep opening and running in the back ground. Sprint hot spot is one that continues to open by itself. Something is using almost 200 mbs of the 350 available. Must be the android os. Which rom are you using at the moment. I might have to go back in time so I can use the gps. Thanks

bigtex06 said:
Yeah thats for sure alot of apps keep opening and running in the back ground. Sprint hot spot is one that continues to open by itself. Something is using almost 200 mbs of the 350 available. Must be the android os. Which rom are you using at the moment. I might have to go back in time so I can use the gps. Thanks
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I am using RandomROM Hawk v2. I don't use my GPS that much really; I work from home and mainly drive my chair from room to room so its hard to get lost that way ... hehe
GB leaks have memory leaks, just no getting around it right now.
My fav EC05 ROM was midNight 5.3; there is a ERA Rom based off midNight (I haven't used it; I was looking at it but my battery life has improved a great deal this weekend to where it is liveable)
If you want to use midNight 5.3 I can give you a special GPS fix that was done for it that REALLY worked well; I was a tester for it and man it made a huge difference.
Just PM me if you'd like to go that route.

[Q] New Firmware Drains Battery Faster

Hi Just updated the firmware to 4.1.2 kernel 3.0.31-1000653 and firstlt can see any changes in the new update and secondly the battery is draining much much faster than before. Can I get the previous version back? or factory reset and back up? Thanks for any help.

I don't have the answer to your question but I thought I would share my experience with the update to 4.1.2 I received a few months back. I also noticed a faster battery drain. However, on investigation, I found that it was something called gpsd using the extra juice. This was samsungs find-your-phone-service-thingy that I had been testing.
I switched it off and the battery problem vanished.
Try to find out what is causing the problem before you try to fix it.
Good luck

Dmwitz said:
I don't have the answer to your question but I thought I would share my experience with the update to 4.1.2 I received a few months back. I also noticed a faster battery drain. However, on investigation, I found that it was something called gpsd using the extra juice. This was samsungs find-your-phone-service-thingy that I had been testing.
I switched it off and the battery problem vanished.
Try to find out what is causing the problem before you try to fix it.
Good luck
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Thx dude..nice info...but how we can get rid of it?
Is this included also in tge miui v4 3.22.2 rom ?
This rom is based in 4.1.1
Thx in advance
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Dmwitz said:
I don't have the answer to your question but I thought I would share my experience with the update to 4.1.2 I received a few months back. I also noticed a faster battery drain. However, on investigation, I found that it was something called gpsd using the extra juice. This was samsungs find-your-phone-service-thingy that I had been testing.
I switched it off and the battery problem vanished.
Try to find out what is causing the problem before you try to fix it.
Good luck
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Hi Thanks for your help. Lets see if it is under "Location Services" and maybe it is "Location and Google search" ??. I cant see anywhee else it could be that is pulling the juice out of the battery!!. Have you noticed any changes in the the firmware ? I can't see any changes at all......beats me lol. All the best and thanks.

I experienced the same issue after a firmware upgrade, and I fixed the problem by performing a factory restore.

Getting rid of it.
aloush5592 said:
Thx dude..nice info...but. How we can get rid of it?
Is this included also in tge miui v4 3.22.2 rom ?
This rom is based in 4.1.1
Thx in advance
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I got rid of the find-my-phone service by opting out. If you go to settings-security-remote control and log in to your Samsung account you should then find and option to switch it of. If it's not on you will need to find another suspect
Good luck.

Thanks to All
Thanks to all you guys for your help. What I did was a factory reset as one user suggested and the battery life is now back to normal. Cant figure out why they produce a firmeware that drains the battey?. Now I have to send it to Samsung under the warranty as when I insert the micro sim card it shows as "No Sim Card" if I wedge a slice of thin carton above the sim card and inside the slot pushing the sim card down harder onto the pins below it works OK, so is needs a new sim card tray or the shop has not cut the micro sim properly !. Again thanks for you help.

Dmwitz said:
I got rid of the find-my-phone service by opting out. If you go to settings-security-remote control and log in to your Samsung account you should then find and option to switch it of. If it's not on you will need to find another suspect
Good luck.
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Thanks for your suggestion: this did for me the job also! :good:
It kept my phone "awake"; after disabling this option, my phone "sleeps" properly again!
In the screenshot you can see exactly where I disabled this option!

No deep sleep when charging. Always 1600 in cpu spy when charging
Hi guys!
I switched to the Note 2 from my S3 since 2 days. But I was wondering why it is very very hot when I charged it. So I installed cpu spy to check the problem. When I didn't use the phone it was going quickly in deep sleep but when I charged it, it was alawys in 1600. I have already reseted it 2 times and now I have no apps installed. So please can you help me. Thanks in advance.
Ps: I didn't rooted it and I have the latest XXDMB6

[Q] HTC One Internal Data Loss

So what happened today, I was just managing some files on my HTC One in Windows. Deleting a few files and then all of a sudden the progress bar stops responding when I went to delete a folder. Not sure if the folder matters or not but either way, I clicked 'cancel' since the progress bar wasn't moving and I figured I would just delete the files in there later.
Unplugged phone and all of a sudden, there were 0 files on my internal memory. I tried to reboot and still nothing, no files showed up on my internal memory and the storage shows the same with most space being free.
I'm not really sure why that happened but I guess just a warning for anyone else out there to learn from my mistakes.
This has happened to me before on a different computer with a different phone (Galaxy Nexus). Both have no sd-card and use the MTP protocol for connecting to Windows. I think there might be a bug in the way that Android handles that with files but I can't prove it.
Any tips on data recovery?

I don't think there's anything you can do. Sorry bud.
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I'm trying a few things to see if I can get the data back.

Well let us know.
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tylerlawhon said:
Well let us know.
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Will do, once I am able to get the data off. So far I was able to get the memory block off and I can 'see' the deleted files but I can't quite recover them just yet. I am going to try a good recovery software.

I've tried a couple of things but so far it doesn't look too good for most of my files.

Try this out. I have not tested but I seen this thread when I was on GNEX http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705
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Try this out. I have not tested but I seen this thread when I was on GNEX http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705
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That's what I was following. I was able to get the raw mmc block off the phone and I started the process some 20 minutes or so after the incident. So there shouldn't be much over written. However, following those steps and using the same application, I can't seem to get any of my wanted files.
My next step is try something like extundelete.

Sorry to hear
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Looks like I was unable to get any of my data back.
I just don't seem to understand exactly what went wrong so it's very difficult fix/reverse. I tired multiple different tools and different ways but never got proper files back.

ppd0526 said:
Looks like I was unable to get any of my data back.
I just don't seem to understand exactly what went wrong so it's very difficult fix/reverse. I tired multiple different tools and different ways but never got proper files back.
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Same thing (maybe) happened to me, posted awhile back, closer to this things release. A factory data reset is what brought it back. I still struggle to understand how this phone mounts storage, but the reset cleared it up. It has not happened again, but I quit fooling around in /shell/emulated/0 and switched to TWRP to manage backups.

chip.hughes said:
Same thing (maybe) happened to me, posted awhile back, closer to this things release. A factory data reset is what brought it back. I still struggle to understand how this phone mounts storage, but the reset cleared it up. It has not happened again, but I quit fooling around in /shell/emulated/0 and switched to TWRP to manage backups.
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I'll give that a try tomorrow and try to keep usage to a minimum today but I fear it may be too late already since I record ~3-4GB worth of video yesterday after I gave up. I had no other but to record.

Yea, it seems it didn't work at all. Oh well, at least I know for the future if it ever happens again what to try.

[Q] Phone dead slow after using it for copying files

Hello,
I recently used a data recovery app on my Galaxy Nexus to recover some deleted photos. The application worked a little too well, recovered about 16,000 jpegs and pngs, saving which I ended up with around 350 MB of disk space left on my phone.
When I noticed my phone getting slow, I deleted everything, did a factory reset, a clean wipe and installed a CM 11 nightly - nothing helps. Though on 3G, apps take forever to get downloaded and installed. I need to sit and wait on the installed apps to open, even making a phone call is a dreadful experience now.
Is there anything that I can do to get my phone back to speed?

Not sure if it'll work for you but this really helped fixed lag issue for me:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grilledmonkey.lagfix
If that doesn't work, I read before that when reflashing a ROM to first factory wiping 2-3 times in a row.
Also seems to helps with lag to allows keep >4gb free storage.

isajoo said:
Not sure if it'll work for you but this really helped fixed lag issue for me:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grilledmonkey.lagfix
If that doesn't work, I read before that when reflashing a ROM to first factory wiping 2-3 times in a row.
Also seems to helps with lag to allows keep >4gb free storage.
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Thank you, Isajoo. I tried this tool now, got an error saying that some partitions are not supported. Anyway, I have tried it on the partition it supports, let me play around with my phone for a while and see if it has helped improve anything.
Btw, after deleting everything, I have around 6GB of free space...

I guess its working! Though its still lags while taking/making calls and unlocking the screens, the downloading/installing and many other operations are considerably faster now.
Thanks a ton, mate. I was absolutely clueless before...

Wipe all and flash factory image
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