Hi guys - long time lurker, first time poster.
My question is, does anyone have any little grievances with the stock note II software? I've owned android devices before, but ditched them for iOS a year or so ago, back when android was still a hot mess. I definitely believe it's caught up to iOS in terms of stability, performance, and smoothness. I finally feel like android is finally finished enough where I'm ready to take the plunge and pick up a note II.
Things that have driven me mad from previous android phones: audio lag / stuttering, stock software crashing/stuttering, the phone not stopping your music when you pull the headphone plug and blasting audio (even for a half second) through the speaker, stupid pop-up boxes that inform you you've either started or completed charging, etc. etc. etc.
Lazy, stupid developer decisions like this drive me absolutely mad and make me leave a platform that I otherwise consider superior. I want to be happy with stock until a stable CM10 comes out.
Therefore, is there anything like this that happens with the stock note II at all? Thanks - on the fence!
You no longer get a pop up window verifying charging is complete, you do get a notification in the Status Bar though - either connected or finsed.
Audio Lag / stuttering hasnt been around for a while, I remember that in the OG Droid but havnt seen it in along time, I guarantee you that you wont find anything to stutter up the note.
Depending on the application, audio will stop when headphones are removed. Pandora / Stock Music Player / Netflix.. HBO Go - Xfinity - CineM all continue to play when unplugged. " hope that helps"
Battery Life on the Note 2 will blow away any other device out there outside possibly the Razr Maxx "Havnt compared"
Random System crashes are non existent on this device, especialy if you stay stock. Of course going with any customer ROM you can expect something .. I devvelop roms and I promise you, there is ALWAYS room for error, however with that being said, there is always room for error on stock as well.
Overall, I can see why you may have left Android in the beggining, however I will say that Android 4.1 is buttery smooth and I have not experienced any issues as of yet. I am a power user from he** and cant throw enouhg at my phone yet.
oddly enough my biggest complaint with the note II is that it is harder to "share" stuff than on the S3.
on the S3 you have a little SHARE symbol and next to it you have a "default" service that takes you directly into that (and its separate for different media types so youtube is default for example for sharing video)
just tap that and boom your sharing. but on the note II this is gone. you have to tap the share icon and OF COURSE the ones I use imgur and youtube are all the way at the bottom so I have to scroll down and THEN select where I want to share it too. this is surprisingly annoying now that I know "IT CAN" be much easier.
I REALLY want that quick access default icon from the S3 on my Note II. badly.
Here is the Note II see where it says Share Via - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - but on the S3 it looks like this
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
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Video calling seems to be broken
I have noticed that I cannot make video calls with the apps that I've tried. Neither Skype or Fring work on the Note 2. By work I mean I can see the video from the other person, but they cannot see me. Interestingly Google+ hangouts did work, and I have yet to try tango.
I did reproduce the error on an in store Note 2, so I don't think it's just my phone. I'm just running stock rom, not even rooted. It doesn't work over 3g or wifi. I tried connecting to an iphone 4s and a galaxy s III, I could see both of them they could not see me.
I would also like to gripe about the "buddy" pages. I want to be able to edit the icons in that bottom row to be more useful for my purposes. In the headphones buddy page I want to add my video apps, and they do show up over time but it varies based on what I'm using most often. I want to choose to set them.
I have been able to run Skype. I did it as a test as I don't normally and all was fine.
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jiffy1080 said:
I have been able to run Skype. I did it as a test as I don't normally and all was fine.
Sent from my SPH-L900 using Tapatalk 2
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Did you do a video call on skype? I can voice chat fine, it's the video that doesn't work.
2 grievancies that have been noted but no solutions that I'm aware of!
First is the poor commumication between the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (AFTER ROOT) and my PC. I always get Hardware ID Missing which in turn makes it hard to transfer files from my computer to my phone and vice versa since the PC won't recgnize the phone,
and,
Second, is that I can't view my photos as photos from my phone on my PC. My PC goes into the DCIM or photo folders but can't just load the pictures. I must click on each JPG icon to see what the picture is.
I wish that someone would come up with a program that can be a mass storage transfer instead of the MTP.
So far, everything I have seen with this MTP is not good at all.
THOSE are MY grievences!
its worse that that wascapsfan
first your root issue is a new one. I rooted mine ZERO issues with hardware id stuff ?? so something is hinky on your end
back to the pictures YES the MTP protocol is truly horrible. you have ZERO file access on the device. NONE. 100% of all actions result in the file having to be COPIED to the PC first before you can even so much as look at it. no thumbnails no live view NOTHING
this is not a note II issues its a samsung issue with Jellybean and its horrible.
You can't even MOVE files on the SD card. it has to copy them to the PC and then copy them back to the card. takes a freaking eternity and it hard core sucks. big time.
wascapsfan said:
First is the poor commumication between the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (AFTER ROOT) and my PC. I always get Hardware ID Missing which in turn makes it hard to transfer files from my computer to my phone and vice versa since the PC won't recgnize the phone,
and,
Second, is that I can't view my photos as photos from my phone on my PC. My PC goes into the DCIM or photo folders but can't just load the pictures. I must click on each JPG icon to see what the picture is.
I wish that someone would come up with a program that can be a mass storage transfer instead of the MTP.
So far, everything I have seen with this MTP is not good at all.
THOSE are MY grievences!
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I initially had the Hardware ID error when connecting my phone to my Windows 7 PC as well. I am not rooted, for the record. As odd as this sounds, I solved the problem by removing the drivers for the phone from the PC. After that, it connected fine.
I will add, though, that the drivers are still installed on my work laptop (because I need adb drivers to tether) and it connects just fine to that. All this combined leads me to believe that it is a driver conflict error with some of the other drivers/files on my home PC. I could probably narrow down where the exact cause is, but I just don't care enough to do it since I have found a usable workaround for my situation.
If you still need ADB drivers, I would still suggest uninstalling and seeing if the phone is recognized without the drivers. Could just be a bad install of the drivers, which is something that happens when you use Windows.
On the subject of MTP, I have to agree that I would like to be able to preview photos as well. While I can move them freely (not sure why you wouldn't be able to), not having previews is mildly annoying. It isn't as convenient as seeing the previews in Explorer, but going to the folder, hitting Ctrl-A, and selecting Preview from the context menu at least lets me see the pictures without having to copy them to the computer.
nerys71 said:
its worse that that wascapsfan
first your root issue is a new one. I rooted mine ZERO issues with hardware id stuff ?? so something is hinky on your end
back to the pictures YES the MTP protocol is truly horrible. you have ZERO file access on the device. NONE. 100% of all actions result in the file having to be COPIED to the PC first before you can even so much as look at it. no thumbnails no live view NOTHING
this is not a note II issues its a samsung issue with Jellybean and its horrible.
You can't even MOVE files on the SD card. it has to copy them to the PC and then copy them back to the card. takes a freaking eternity and it hard core sucks. big time.
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I'm still not understanding the Hardware ID missing thing. I had my first SGN2 for 13 days and it had this trouble only AFTER I rooted. It was fine and had not one issue prior. I gave it back and Sprint gave me another one. No issues UNTIL I rooted.
Install the drivers, then remove the drivers, then reinstall the drivers, etc..... It's not me, I know that is for sure.
Trust me you CAN NOT move them "freely" you just THINK you are moving them.
when you move a few photo's you don't even notice. trying moving 9gigs of photo's and let me know how it goes.
when you MOVE a file in MTP you not MOVING it. the process is like this.
it copies the file from the phone to your computer.
Deletes the file on the phone.
Copies the file from the computer back to the phone
deletes the file on the computer.
this is why MOVING 9 gigs from one folder to another (which should take 1-5 seconds tops) takes the same time as copying 18gigs. because it has to do it TWICE. so in essence it really IS moving 18 gigs. (same files twice)
this means you CAN NOT "access" any files ON the MTP device "live" it has to copy them to the PC first before you can "interact" with them beyond properties or renaming.
its an absolutely HORRID interface.
you can not even LOOK at a picture on the device you have to COPY it to the PC first. when you access a file its just DOING this for you in the background without you knowing it.
you finally "know it" when you try to perform an operation that should take 5 second and it takes 41 minutes. (move mp3's from one folder to another)
this also means using the phone as a drive is no longer feasible. I used to plug the phone into the computer and PLAY a video from the phone on my laptop screen (using the phone as a usb drive) and at the same time I get a charge.
now I can't even do that I have to COPY the file TO the computer first and THEN watch it.
At least you Windows people can somewhat access your files. On both my Macs neither my SIII or NoteII are recognized in any shape or form. I have to use a wifi explorer app, or unmount and stick my sd directly in the comp. Dunno why they changed from Universal Mass Storage which worked completely fine...
cause they are MORONS. no other reason is valid in my book. morons.
I have the hardware ID error too. From what I've read about it, people are seeing that after installing the Samsung drivers from ToolKit prior to rooting.
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Trust me you CAN NOT move them "freely" you just THINK you are moving them.
when you move a few photo's you don't even notice. trying moving 9gigs of photo's and let me know how it goes.
when you MOVE a file in MTP you not MOVING it. the process is like this.
it copies the file from the phone to your computer.
Deletes the file on the phone.
Copies the file from the computer back to the phone
deletes the file on the computer.
this is why MOVING 9 gigs from one folder to another (which should take 1-5 seconds tops) takes the same time as copying 18gigs. because it has to do it TWICE. so in essence it really IS moving 18 gigs. (same files twice)
this means you CAN NOT "access" any files ON the MTP device "live" it has to copy them to the PC first before you can "interact" with them beyond properties or renaming.
its an absolutely HORRID interface.
you can not even LOOK at a picture on the device you have to COPY it to the PC first. when you access a file its just DOING this for you in the background without you knowing it.
you finally "know it" when you try to perform an operation that should take 5 second and it takes 41 minutes. (move mp3's from one folder to another)
this also means using the phone as a drive is no longer feasible. I used to plug the phone into the computer and PLAY a video from the phone on my laptop screen (using the phone as a usb drive) and at the same time I get a charge.
now I can't even do that I have to COPY the file TO the computer first and THEN watch it.
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Not to derail the thread, but aren't there two easy potential workarounds for this?
1. Use Dropbox/Goggle+, enable automatic upload of camera shots. Photos will be available instantly on home computer. Yes, you're not manipulating the phone images directly, but you've got direct access to copies of the files.
2. Save photos to SD card, pull card and put in card reader. Direct access to files.
True, accessing via USB cable would be nice alternative to have, but it's not like we don't have options.
Grievances with the stock OS ROM/software:
-Intentional gimping of the multiwindow menu by Samsung. Damn it I should be able to put any app I want to in that menu. Plain and simple. Most work in multiwindow just fine. Further, that damn toggle should have transparency be default...NOTHING more annoying than reading something and having text obscured due to idiotic UI.
-Intentional gimping of stock Touchwiz to forbid any selection/addition/subtraction of quick controls in the status bar. NO reason for it. Zero zip nada.
-Kies software. Neat idea. Works pretty well...but gawd, why did they have to build it on the steaming pile of insecure poo known as Java? I would love to permanently delete Java off my computer and Kies is the one reason I have to keep it.
-Gimping of AllShare etc to prevent non-stock ROMs from using media hubs etc. No reason for it. I don't have a hub or use one...but I hate gimping by design.
-Sammy Appstore is all but pointless as of now...there's nothing on it worth it eating space on my device.
-Sprint Connection Optimizer is also crap IMHO.
In the grand scheme of things these are somewhat minor complaints.
Well, lets see?, .....no, no grievances.
For those having issues with the Hardware ID error, I did thread on a partial solution: Linky. Unfortunately, it doesn't give access for ADB, but good enough to access the microSD for file transfers
I haven't had any OS crashes or random reboots. I think I had one boot loop. I did have an issue with the 4-1 power menu with a reboot, but it was a known issue
Overall, the stock firmware is very stable and solid.
I don't have any complaints. Although, S-pen applications are quite limited. Not surprising since this is only the second device with it. Throw in that styluses aren't exactly common in use on the Android platform, or mobile in general. I assume more will come later.
Battery life is good considering the screen size. The only time I'm burning through battery is when I use an MHL adapter, which is a lot at work.
The nice thing, since this phone is on all the major carriers, plus an international version, we'll probably see quite a bit from the developer community.
So I don't get my note 2 until January, but regarding the inability to see files when connected with USB... had anybody tried the app Software Data Cable?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lyy.softdatacable
I haven't had to connect either my phone (OG Evo) or my wife's (galaxy s2) in months.
Grievances? Yes, R.I.P. Apple.
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Ok, I just plugged my phone into a front USB port on my computer I havent used in forever. My PC locked up, and I had to reboot. So taking it as a bad sign, I plugged the phone into the rear port as usual, and now I get a message saying that the device I plugged in has malfunctioned, and windows does not recognize it. Tried this on 3 different pc's. 1 Windows 7, and 2 Windows XP machines.
I have rebooted the phone several times now, but still the phone will charge through usb and wall charge, but it will not do adb commands, nor will it access the SD card when I select it in the notifications menu. It also will not sync with HTC Sync.
So im at a loss here guys, ive done some reading, but I didnt see anything that is similar with a solution. Any help?
Consolidated List for the courtesy of others
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A. Swapped to different USB cable-- Fail
B. Swapped to different PC, complete with different Operating system-- Fail
C. Swapped to different SD Card-- Fail
D. Double wiped all Data/Cache and tried several different roms-- Fail
E. Tried an OTA having unrevoked forever installed-- Fail
F. Pulled battery for 15+ minutes-- Fail
G. Tried the [ How-To ] Fix SD card not being detected & USB port not working Posted by Calkulin and thanks to sruon for the fix, found here-
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695243 But also Failed.
I will update the list and Try any other ideas as well. Just wanted it to be easier for the "Quick fix" people to get a summary. Just because these failed for me, doesnt mean they will for you.
Also, ive just found when attempting to send an MMS, my SD card is mounted read only... WTH is going on here?
Swapped out the SD card for a different one, no go still.
Double wiped factory, cache, dalvik, and EXT, reinstalled Warm 2.2, the problem persists. Fried hardware???
Here is the windows message I get when I plug the phone in.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Same on XP and 7
Have you tried a different usb cable, many people that have reported problems with their phones usb connection ended up being a bad cable and not the phone.
I could try that tomorrow I guess. I have a second cable at work. Thats about the last thing I could think of to try also. Just plugged in the wife's Hero to get my files off of my SD card, and her phone works on the Windows 7 pc, but she uses a different cable.
Thanks you very much for the direction. I will update the thread tomorrow with the results in case this happens to someone else.
No go. Tried a different cable, and whole other computer and I get the same message. I even flashed a different rom before bed also. Anyone else have any idea? Anything I can do to get a diagnosis off this thing to help the troubleshooting process? Thanks in advance!
It's really starting to sound like a hardware issue. Have you had problems with anything else after using that USB port?
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No, havent used that port in a good while. It was the front port I decided to use yesterday, as my back block is full. SD card is still useable it seems. I grabbed a rom last night and had to pop my SD card in my wife's Hero to get it. But I put the SD card back in my EVO and it worked. Just no USB connectivity. I should be glad I can still charge it I guess.
On a side note, when I put my evo on the usb at work, it loaded drivers first, said the device was ready to use, then popped up with the message from the above post. What could that mean?
The same thing happened to my MyTouch3g, my motherboard blew when I plugged in the phone and it semi-fried the phone too. My sd card still worked, the phone still charged, but nothing would happen when I plugged on the phone to a computer on both ends. T-Mobile deemed it defective USB and sent me a replacement.
weehooherod said:
Until you get this all figured out, use the app "adb wireless"to do any adb commands. Also, obviously, you can plug your SD card into the computer directly.
Does usb work when its in recovery?
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I havent tried it in recovery. That might also be a good idea. Ive been getting used to putting my SD card in my wife's Hero in the mean time to get files on/off..... I dont have a sd card reader unfortunately. I did also find a terminal emulator probably similar to what you are talking about. It has suited my needs thus far.
I thought about a return, but its been 6 months or so, my phone is all hacked to hell, and I dont really have the means to turn it back at this point with the lacking usb. Ill just deal with it til January when the wife's phone is up for upgrade. I can snag her upgrade, hand my phone to her as she never plugs her phone into usb. She wont miss it.
LOTS of people are having this problem and I've googled it for a couple hours on two occassions with NO solution.... and I'm pretty good at finding answers... see
win7secrets.com for example...
anyway, when I first got my EVO in July I simply plugged in the usb and put on about a half dozen of my favorite mp3's ... while on christmas break I decided to add some more stuff and got that stupid malfunction error... I turned off usb debugging as some had suggested and tried other suggestions including making sure it was on disk drive... not sync or recharge... and tried on 3 separate computers... one of which it worked flawlessly before. I'm thinking this screwup was cause by updating the firmware or some other update... I suppose it could have been screwed up by installing an application but I've only put on 3 aps that I can think of... instamapper, advanced task manager and pandora. I really don't think it's going to fix the problem to unistall those aps but I removed instamapper anyway. Hopefully someone will figure out a solution because I'm deep in the woods and there is no sprint store within 2 hours.... and even if there was I doubt anyone there could tell me anything other thant he price of another phone.
I love this phone though but I can't figure out why it comes setup with all those "features" like facebook, flicker, footprints, peep, field stream, amazon and a ton of crap I don't want. WHY oh WHY can't programmers understand it's MY frigging phone? Give ME the option of what I want to drain my battery.
In all those reboots, was there ever a time where you had the battery pulled for longer than 2 minutes? Sometimes hardware does get borked but clearing voltage over time clears it up. Try that. If that doesn't work, I would recommend installing forever and then a shipped RUU.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865204
Scroll down to Common Problems.
Use the directions to restore USB / SD card functionality.
If that does not work. Uninstall HTC Sync, and any ADB / HBOOT / HTC drivers. Reinstall HTC sync.
tblount said:
LOTS of people are having this problem and I've googled it for a couple hours on two occassions with NO solution.... and I'm pretty good at finding answers... see
win7secrets.com for example...
anyway, when I first got my EVO in July I simply plugged in the usb and put on about a half dozen of my favorite mp3's ... while on christmas break I decided to add some more stuff and got that stupid malfunction error... I turned off usb debugging as some had suggested and tried other suggestions including making sure it was on disk drive... not sync or recharge... and tried on 3 separate computers... one of which it worked flawlessly before. I'm thinking this screwup was cause by updating the firmware or some other update... I suppose it could have been screwed up by installing an application but I've only put on 3 aps that I can think of... instamapper, advanced task manager and pandora. I really don't think it's going to fix the problem to unistall those aps but I removed instamapper anyway. Hopefully someone will figure out a solution because I'm deep in the woods and there is no sprint store within 2 hours.... and even if there was I doubt anyone there could tell me anything other thant he price of another phone.
I love this phone though but I can't figure out why it comes setup with all those "features" like facebook, flicker, footprints, peep, field stream, amazon and a ton of crap I don't want. WHY oh WHY can't programmers understand it's MY frigging phone? Give ME the option of what I want to drain my battery.
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You can turn syncs to manual so you can choose when you want an update. You can flash custom ROMs to get rid of the bloatware. And I completely agree. Sprint should make it so that their software is optional as a separate download. It is something they say they are going to implement.
http://www.engadget.com/show#player
Show #15. Interview with Sprint's vice president of product development.
I have indeed tried pulling out the battery for a longer period than 15 minutes, no dice. I have also tried both methods in the "Restoring USB" thread. Also a no go. Ive had Forever installed on this phone for a good while, installed an RUU but this did not solve my issue, nor did Wiping windows on my pc, reinstalling all the drivers/SDK stuff. I think in my case, anyways, I just happened to fry my hardware.
On a side note, I have found an app on the market so I dont have to swap my SD card to my wifes phone to get new roms and updates. Its called Wifi File Explorer. Only works if you have a wifi connection with a computer at your disposal. Pair that with a terminal emulator, and it has been sufficient to my needs. I just try not to do anything too crazy or untested with my phone til next month, when I can grab a new one, and swap this one over to my wife.
This is the post I found btw http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695243
Thanks to Calk for that ray of hope!
Hope some of this experience helps others.
Put up a summary of things ive tried so far in OP. Any other ideas I may have missed searching are more than welcome.
New SDcard tried? Format your phone?
A drop of Chuck Norris's semen was placed on the IPhone. We now have the Htc Evo.
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Put up a summary of things ive tried so far in OP. Any other ideas I may have missed searching are more than welcome.
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Sounds like you fired your board. I think you have done everything there is to do to try and fix that. I only have a suggestion for file swapping. I use DropBox for everything. I get tired of moving the cable back and forth. Also these little micro usb ports are like the hardware buttons, they have a breakdown time. The less you use it the longer it will last. I just wait till I'm at home with wifi or in 4G area before trying larger files. Plus there is an app for it
I will try dropbox, sounds good. Thank you for the info!
Hello. I have a Galaxy S3 (SGH-I747 on Rogers Canada) with android 4.4 - stock/not rooted. The other day I hooked up my S3 to my laptop using a USB cable. My laptop is running Win XP SP3. I COPIED ALL the pictures from the phone to the Laptop. The pics were visible on BOTH my phone and my laptop when I finished the transfer. I am guessing it used Windows Media as the transfer medium as Kies was not running. While the phone was still linked to the Laptop I thought I would just delete the ones off the phone that I didn't want. I did so. I then unhooked the phone from the laptop. Ouch!!! The pictures I had deleted from the phone were missing from BOTH the phone and the laptop. First I checked the laptop trash bin. Nothing there. I then tried using the Recuva undelete software on my laptop disk as I thought there should be a deleted copy on the disk as they were visible on screen before I unplugged my phone. It recovered some 94k plus jpg's and I spent more than a day scanning them for the ones I needed. Nothing there. So I thought I needed to run an undelete on the phone. HA HA to that!!! It seems that in the android developers great wisdom the phone is no longer considered a mass storage device when hooked to a computer but is a media device. MY interpretation but something like that. Next I did a BUNCH of reading and made a bunch of phone calls for advice. I tried all kinds of tricks. I tried a number of android undelete programs. I had the USB debugging enabled but all the programs I tried didn't recover any deleted jpg's. Even the programs that said they could. It turns out that the phone HAS to be linked as a mass storage device with a drive letter for the android recovery software to work to recover jpg's. It seems to be able to find other file types but not jpg's.
Now here is the interesting part. I tried linking the phone to my desktop (XP SP3 also) and my laptop dozens of times hoping something would change. I believe that once on my desktop and once on my laptop it showed up as a mass storage device. I say "I believe" because I was so conditioned to it NOT showing as a mass storage device that both times I had already clicked on the icon that releases the phone from the computer before I realized there was a drive letter there. Anyway, the time on my laptop that it happened was around the time I had run one of the android file recovery programs. The program had not found any jpg files but when it finished my phone had a message something like "SE has been disabled". blah blah blah. I did a BUNCH more reading and researching about SE on my phone. The best I can figure is that it is a security enhancement designed to stop programs getting at, or changing things in, other programs on the phone and is set somewhere in the policies file - where ever that is.
My question is - Is it possible to temporarily disable SE so I can try and get my pictures back? Thank you, Derek-j
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Hello. I have a Galaxy S3 (SGH-I747 on Rogers Canada) with android 4.4 - stock/not rooted. The other day I hooked up my S3 to my laptop using a USB cable. My laptop is running Win XP SP3. I COPIED ALL the pictures from the phone to the Laptop. The pics were visible on BOTH my phone and my laptop when I finished the transfer. I am guessing it used Windows Media as the transfer medium as Kies was not running. While the phone was still linked to the Laptop I thought I would just delete the ones off the phone that I didn't want. I did so. I then unhooked the phone from the laptop. Ouch!!! The pictures I had deleted from the phone were missing from BOTH the phone and the laptop. First I checked the laptop trash bin. Nothing there. I then tried using the Recuva undelete software on my laptop disk as I thought there should be a deleted copy on the disk as they were visible on screen before I unplugged my phone. It recovered some 94k plus jpg's and I spent more than a day scanning them for the ones I needed. Nothing there. So I thought I needed to run an undelete on the phone. HA HA to that!!! It seems that in the android developers great wisdom the phone is no longer considered a mass storage device when hooked to a computer but is a media device. MY interpretation but something like that. Next I did a BUNCH of reading and made a bunch of phone calls for advice. I tried all kinds of tricks. I tried a number of android undelete programs. I had the USB debugging enabled but all the programs I tried didn't recover any deleted jpg's. Even the programs that said they could. It turns out that the phone HAS to be linked as a mass storage device with a drive letter for the android recovery software to work to recover jpg's. It seems to be able to find other file types but not jpg's.
Now here is the interesting part. I tried linking the phone to my desktop (XP SP3 also) and my laptop dozens of times hoping something would change. I believe that once on my desktop and once on my laptop it showed up as a mass storage device. I say "I believe" because I was so conditioned to it NOT showing as a mass storage device that both times I had already clicked on the icon that releases the phone from the computer before I realized there was a drive letter there. Anyway, the time on my laptop that it happened was around the time I had run one of the android file recovery programs. The program had not found any jpg files but when it finished my phone had a message something like "SE has been disabled". blah blah blah. I did a BUNCH more reading and researching about SE on my phone. The best I can figure is that it is a security enhancement designed to stop programs getting at, or changing things in, other programs on the phone and is set somewhere in the policies file - where ever that is.
My question is - Is it possible to temporarily disable SE so I can try and get my pictures back? Thank you, Derek-j
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This is the international i9300 area, to save you posting this long message again I will get a Mod to move it for you to the i747 area but I wish you the best of luck.
SElinux stands for "security enhanced Linux" and turning it to permissive will not do a lot I believe. However this app can enable UMS on your phone again. Here is the link https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mohammadag.samsungusbmassstorageenabler
Thank you...
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SElinux stands for "security enhanced Linux" and turning it to permissive will not do a lot I believe. However this app can enable UMS on your phone again. Here is the link - deleted...from response
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Alright...thank you crazymonkey!!! Will give it a shot and report back with results.
Derek-j
Back to square one!
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SElinux stands for "security enhanced Linux" and turning it to permissive will not do a lot I believe. However this app can enable UMS on your phone again. Here is the link deleted to respond.
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Oooppss...not going to work. First off...my phone is stock and this requires rooting. I don't know much about rooting and don't have a problem trying it but I suspect that would likely over-write some or all of the deleted jpg's I want to recover thus defeating the purpose. The other and absolutely CRITICAL thing is that it does NOT enable USB for internal memory. You'd think that the GOOGLE developers would know better than to remove that important feature, especially in an (upgrade???). I had even thought of going back to one of the older versions but again I think that would destroy some of the file entries and delete the very pics I am trying to get back....
I REALLY DO APPRECIATE your trying to help though.
Have a FANTASTIC week. Derek-J.
So BACK TO SQUARE ONE...Anyone know how to temporarily disable the SE feature?
derek-j said:
Oooppss...not going to work. First off...my phone is stock and this requires rooting. I don't know much about rooting and don't have a problem trying it but I suspect that would likely over-write some or all of the deleted jpg's I want to recover thus defeating the purpose. The other and absolutely CRITICAL thing is that it does NOT enable USB for internal memory. You'd think that the GOOGLE developers would know better than to remove that important feature, especially in an (upgrade???). I had even thought of going back to one of the older versions but again I think that would destroy some of the file entries and delete the very pics I am trying to get back....
I REALLY DO APPRECIATE your trying to help though.
Have a FANTASTIC week. Derek-J.
So BACK TO SQUARE ONE...Anyone know how to temporarily disable the SE feature?
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I don't think you can on Android 4.4 without root. Why not just go towel root your S3?
Yea there is not much you can do without root, sorry for your troubles
Hi everyone,
I'm the new owner of an unlocked T-Mo D851, and will be using it on AT&T. I bought the T-Mo version instead of the ATT version due to the unlocked bootloader and better Dev support. Love those Devs!
I figured I'd post a thread with the things I learn along the way, to help others that might benefit, particularly since I'm joining the G3 community long after the novelty has worn off. Folks like me that join have a lot of past experience to review here, and so much is out of date it can be intimidating, particularly when our new device acts a lot different from our old one. I hope this thread helps someone, but at minimum it will serve as documentation for me to refer back to, should I need that. I'll include links where appropriate.
I'm an intermediate level flasher, having worked with maybe 6-8 other phones/tablets. So, I know enough to be dangerous, but not enough to have an ego to bruise. My most recent phone was a T-Mo Galaxy S4. But I dropped it, and cracked the screen, just a few weeks after getting it all settled in with a nice 5.1.1 GPE ROM. Sigh.
I got the phone a few days ago but have just gotten around to working on it.
On day 1 I charged it up, skipped setup (touch corners, upper left, upper right, lower right above the softkeys, lower left above the softkeys... took 10 tries or so!), and connected the wifi (no sim card inserted yet). It immediately found update 20E (it shipped with kitkat). I let that update, but was surprised it didn't find the current 20G update. I want to make sure I start with the latest firmware/modems etc. installed.
In this thread, helpful user @mitbit2k3 pointed me to the online LG site that lets you download the LG Mobile Support Tool. It also gives instructions for installing the PROPER PC connection driver for the phone which works, versus the default Win7 driver that doesn't work for the purposes of the update. With proper driver installed, and with USB connection in the right mode (follow instructions to set the phone USB settings), I got up to 20G stock.
I exercised the phone a bit (still without SIM card) and made sure everything worked... cameras, GPS, wifi, etc.
Then I figured it would be time to install TWRP and take it from there. Much to my surprise, you need to root this thing FIRST. Even with an unlocked bootloader, you can't just fire up ODIN and flash TWRP.
I did my research on the forum and through Google... with all the versions of software since release there were numerous descriptions of how to root the thing, some of which were outdated. For me, on 20G software (5.01 Android), this worked fine:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LGG3/comments/3n0nk1/new_super_easy_oneclick_way_to_root_g3/
it references back to XDA of course:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g3/general/guide-root-method-lg-devices-t3129197
From this I learned to review the top level LG G3 subforums, not just the T-Mobile XDA subforums!!
OK, that rooted me just fine and installed SuperSU. I was able to use the "first way" which is super simple.
With that done, I was able to install TWRP. I went straight to the source for it:
https://twrp.me/devices/lgg3tmo.html
I used the "dd" method which involves running ADB on the PC. I use a version that is a "Minimal ADB and Fastboot" that works fine... I used it to mess around with my Shield tablet previously, so I was familiar with it. Basically you run the minimal ADB through a desktop icon, and it loads a command line interface. You type ADB Shell after plugging in the phone to the USB cable (it has to be on, developer options enabled, debugging enabled). Then you type the commands listed on the TWRP site. Pretty soon TWRP is installed.
Next I had to figure out how to get into download mode. Yeah, yeah... power plus volume down... been there done that, but on the LG you have to boot with power/down, then when the LG icon comes up you release for a second, then press the two keys again, then at the next screen tell it you want to wipe the phone, and confirm this again on the next screen. THEN it finally boots into TWRP. Kinda scary. And getting the keys right takes some practice.
Once in TWRP, I backed everything up (including EFS partition) to an external SD card, just in case I messed something up. I had previously erased the SD card from within the phone's SEttings/Storage mode, to make sure it would be able to be accessed. No problem.
So now I've got a rooted phone, with TWRP installed, and the next step is to figure out what I want to do ROM wise. I wish there were a 5.1.1 GPE stock + LG Camera ROM. But I haven't found one. I like plain ROMs. The default stock ROM, even if it were debloated, its a bit annoying to me (and just 5.0.1) so I'll probably move to BlissPop or Slim something, but I will research around.
It's time to stick my SIM in and see how the phone does on AT&T. I'd like to get a baseline before I go ROM-hopping.
I will say that on stock ROM, with no SIM but WIFI on, the standby power drain on this thing is incredible. It went overnight (7 hours) and was still reading 100%. A whole 24 hours in, it was only a few percent lower. Of course, I hadn't attached any Google accounts, so the phone was truly idle, but it's very impressive nonetheless.
Stay tuned. I'll be updating this as I go along.
OK, I'm a few hours in.
No problem with my ATT SIM card in the phone; the phone was purchased unlocked and everything hooked up fine as soon as I entered in the APN information for ATT (which you can get from here).
The phone gave me a warning about WIFI Calling invalid SIM; I went into the settings and turned off WIFI calling, since I'm on ATT and only T-Mo offers it.
One other problem I haven't sorted out yet is that I get a text each time I reboot the phone, apparently my phone is sending a text to a very long address 060504071000004163.... and the text I get back is an error message that this isn't a valid number. Not sure how to turn this off. Annoying, but once per boot won't kill me until I figure it out. Google will likely be my friend. EDIT: I think this relates to T-mo visual voicemail. I went into the T-Mo Visual Voicemail app and I immediately got another one of these texts. Time to remove this app...
Meanwhile I notice the WIFI reception of this phone is much stronger than the S4. On the other hand, it seems less likely to drop a weak WIFI in favor of a stronger one... I have several access points around my house, and I've found I've needed to switch them manually now and then. Haven't had to do this on the S4.
I'm also struggling to get restores to work from my Backup Your Mobile app. I moved the backup onto an SD card in the G3, but the app isn't recognizing it. Uh oh. That's got my MMS/SMS/Call log backups. So, I've still got things to work on.
I gradually entered my various Google accounts, and let Play Store download the updates needed for all the apps. I've got about 75% of the apps I use re-downloaded.
I've got one "serious" problem in that the Play Store says the ATT Visual Voicemail app, which is a cornerstone of how I use the phone (because it transcribes voicemails into readable text), isn't compatible with my phone. That's crap. It worked fine on my T-Mo S4 (running a generic GPE edition). I'll probably have to sideload the app, but it's annoying that it's locked out.
Making progress.
I still couldn't download the ATT Visual Voicemail app from the Play Store, and went stir crazy trying to find it on my S4 (which is rooted, so I should be able to find it, but...). I went haring off in lots of directions, including making a full apps backup with Helium, but then the G3 won't restore without using the PC app due to changes in 5.0... which is weird because my S4 (which is running a 5.1.1 GPE ROM) restores fine. I don't have the PC app installed so I tried using Backup My Mobile... but then eventually figured out that on the S4, with ES File Explorer, I not only had Root Explorer OFF (didn't know I had to turn it on), but it's easy to find apps with the APP Library. Once I found the app there, I uploaded it to my Google Drive, then downloaded it from there onto the G3. It installed fine.
I used System App Remover (which requires root) to get rid of all the T-Mobile specific apps and that annoying Lookout security program. Bah! This cured that spurious text message I get with each boot. It was definitely due to the T-mo visual voice mail. Problem solved!
In using the phone, I'm a bit bummed because it didn't occur to me that a big part of my bigger screen as compared to the GS4 would be taken up by the softkeys on screen. The S4 has a physical home button and capacitive keys to either side. So, my screen isn't effectively much bigger, when I account for dedicating some of it to the buttons. You can make the buttons autohide, apparently. One issue is I use my phone in landscape much of the time, and the buttons don't rotate to the new "bottom" of the screen when I rotate. Gotta figure that out.
This morning I installed the PC Helium App so I could enable backup/restore access on the G3. That worked fine, but Helium on the G3 still doesn't detect my external SD card, in order to restore from it. I could manually copy files over to the internal Carbon folder, and restores from there worked fine. Still, I'm not sure why I'm having so much SD Card angst. I know things change each version of Android wrt SD cards... maybe something is fixed in 5.1.1 (as I had on my S4) that is broken in 5.01 on the G3.
So, I've got some tweaking to do from here. The phone is basically set up and working fine except for some straggler apps that I won't bother with until I need them, with one major exception: I need to go in and set up Light Flow. That app is a big part of how I manage notifications on any phone...
If you rooted your phone, then download and run the SDFix app from the Play Store. Apps will then have the ability to write to the external SD card...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.sdfix&hl=en&referrer=utm_source%3Dgoogle%26utm_medium%3Dorganic%26utm_term%3Dsd+card+fix+kitkat&pcampaignid=APPU_1_bJMtVsTJBoKajwP4noeABw
... and yes, it also works w/ Lollipop.
redduc900 said:
If you rooted your phone, then download and run the SDFix app from the Play Store. Apps will then have the ability to write to the external SD card...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.sdfix&hl=en&referrer=utm_source%3Dgoogle%26utm_medium%3Dorganic%26utm_term%3Dsd+card+fix+kitkat&pcampaignid=APPU_1_bJMtVsTJBoKajwP4noeABw
... and yes, it also works w/ Lollipop.
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Thanks. I'll give this a whirl!
EDIT: WORKED LIKE A CHARM. Thanks again! And thanks for the link, because there were several SDFix apps. The link made sure I got the one you intended.:good:
OK, I'm in a pretty good place after making some changes. Still plenty to tweak though.
First, I decided to abandon the stock Home launcher. It was a bit annoying with little UI tweaks LG made that make it just not how I expect it to look, but the kicker was that in landscape mode, the titles of the icons were not readable... they were mostly cut off. I use Rotate (Ultimate Rotation) so pretty much every screen including home is rotatable. But LG Home maintains in landscape mode the little dots representing the various home screen pages... these take up just enough room so that things get squished a bit and the titles cut off. Couldn't figure out how to disable that, so just bailed and installed Google Now Launcher which fixed me right up. That fixed the look and feel of the home screen, the apps drawer, and even reverted settings to the normal views I'm used to.
The only problem is that it kills double tap to sleep... or at least reduces the footprint of the double-tappable area to the notification strip at the top. Sigh. In another thread someone mentioned using Greenify to fix it. I'll try that when I get a chance.
Another weird thing I've got going on is that when I connect via Bluetooth to my car, it starts playing music. See this thread. That's pretty annoying... for now I deleted the default music that was playing, and with an empty directory nothing plays.
I put on a screen protector last night. I got the 0.2mm iCarez one. I performed the application in a steamy bathroom after running the hot shower for a bit, per some tips over in the Accessories thread. I left the backing on, positioned the glass on the screen, taped one side for the "hinge method" after getting it perfectly aligned and accounting for the eventual loss of thickness of the plastic underbacking, cleaned everything one last time with the alcohol wipe, peeled the backing, and plopped it on starting in the center. Got it perfectly positioned and no major bubbles. There were a couple of "spec sized" non-uniformities but they were gone by morning.
I'm gradually setting in... Still lots to play with.
I've noticed the WIFI, while it gets good reception, is a bit sluggish to drop a weak connection in favor of a strong one. Anybody got a tweak for that?
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I've noticed the WIFI, while it gets good reception, is a bit sluggish to drop a weak connection in favor of a strong one. Anybody got a tweak for that?
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Try this app for WIFI management. I have tried several and this is the best I have found. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kman.WifiManager I agree completely that the wifi in the phone is very slow to drop a weak signal and grab a stronger one. But with wifi manager you can play with the sensitivity. Good luck.
Will do. Thanks for confirming it's not just me. Also on another note I just found the LG keyboard has lots of settings for customization. Not bad. May keep it!
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Whenever I connect my Phone to my pc via supplied original Cable to transfer photos to my pc.... it takes loads of time to load. The thumbnails takes ages to load. (Both, Pics in Internal Memory OR on my Superfast Microsd)
BUT, if I use say Card reader everything is extremely fast and normal.
Same thing with my other Samsung phone. So want to ask why this happens and how it can dealt with?
Also, Your phones exhibit same problems ?
NOTE: Want to buy Samsung A80 tht doesn't have MicroSd and scared that while transferring to PC it will take hours to even load on screen.
craige said:
Whenever I connect my Phone to my pc via supplied original Cable to transfer photos to my pc.... it takes loads of time to load. The thumbnails takes ages to load. (Both, Pics in Internal Memory OR on my Superfast Microsd)
BUT, if I use say Card reader everything is extremely fast and normal.
Same thing with my other Samsung phone. So want to ask why this happens and how it can dealt with?
Also, Your phones exhibit same problems ?
NOTE: Want to buy Samsung A80 tht doesn't have MicroSd and scared that while transferring to PC it will take hours to even load on screen.
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Haven't noticed anything abnormal on my Samsung a5. Are you sure your phone isn't an lg????
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Haven't noticed anything abnormal on my Samsung a5. Are you sure your phone isn't an lg????
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Wiped off my glasses, installed a pair of brand new eye and I can confirm !! Its not LG but ol' pal Sammy
craige said:
Whenever I connect my Phone to my pc via supplied original Cable to transfer photos to my pc.... it takes loads of time to load. The thumbnails takes ages to load. (Both, Pics in Internal Memory OR on my Superfast Microsd)
BUT, if I use say Card reader everything is extremely fast and normal.
Same thing with my other Samsung phone. So want to ask why this happens and how it can dealt with?
Also, Your phones exhibit same problems ?
NOTE: Want to buy Samsung A80 tht doesn't have MicroSd and scared that while transferring to PC it will take hours to even load on screen.
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Isn't the greatest solution, but if you take the photos on your phone and split them into smaller folders (like less than 200 photos) before you transfer them, they should go quicker. I have this issue when im transferring stuff in and out of folders that have a ton of files in then. It seems like it had to reload the folder information after every single picture transfers so it makes it super slow when transferring in bulk
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Isn't the greatest solution, but if you take the photos on your phone and split them into smaller folders (like less than 200 photos) before you transfer them, they should go quicker. I have this issue when im transferring stuff in and out of folders that have a ton of files in then. It seems like it had to reload the folder information after every single picture transfers so it makes it super slow when transferring in bulk
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I seem to remember one time when using my phone as a sd card reader, and copied it to the PC, it mbps of transfer speed went way down and even failed a few times, but I just attributed it to something wrong with the PC. When I have moved large files like roms, it seems to go pretty normal. Phones should support USB 3.0.
Well it seems all people are facing similar problems from ages !
I would not buy upcoming Samsung A80 then, coz I really don't want to deal with 5-15 minutes Load time whenever I wana move stuff from my Phone-to-PC.
Will switch to A70 as it has Microsd card slot and there it loads in few seconds for me always.
PS: As above poster, yes it fails to load and hangs too many times in my case. (Win 10 Pro)
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Well it seems all people are facing similar problems from ages !
I would not buy upcoming Samsung A80 then, coz I really don't want to deal with 5-15 minutes Load time whenever I wana move stuff from my Phone-to-PC.
Will switch to A70 as it has Microsd card slot and there it loads in few seconds for me always.
PS: As above poster, yes it fails to load and hangs too many times in my case. (Win 10 Pro)
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Why would Samsung not put an sd card slot on the a80? Seriously, I thought they had learnt their lesson with the note 5.
Samsung have gone crazy hence they aint providing sd card slots on phones! on top of it, I am no longer buying A70 too coz its camera performance is worse than my current phone !
Maybe give the airdroid app a try.
You just need to install airdroid on your phone.
Start it up.
On the PC point your web browser to the address that airdroid shows you.
Press the allow button on your phone - this allows your PC access to your phone.
You can them upload/download content to/from your phone PC.
Of course your phone and PC need to be using the same network.
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Maybe give the airdroid app a try.
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Nice will try it later on… BUT, this basic functionality of transfer at ease should be provided by manufacturer by default. its 2019 and still Lags/hangs/Slow just to transfer stuff ?
Dunno about other manufacturers coz never used anything but Samsung yet. So, how's the situation with other phones ?
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Nice will try it later on… BUT, this basic functionality of transfer at ease should be provided by manufacturer by default. its 2019 and still Lags/hangs/Slow just to transfer stuff ?
Dunno about other manufacturers coz never used anything but Samsung yet. So, how's the situation with other phones ?
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All my phones seem the same except one lg.
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All my phones seem the same except one lg.
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Ah okay....
Same issue here. Transfer speed is okay, but loading thumbnails from the device takes forever.
Our family took the technically free at&t deal to switch to the galaxy s22 phone (256 GB model) by trading in our galaxy s7 phones, and I've been tinkering with the settings, turning a whole host of stuff off because forget auto-installing apps and whatnot, but when I was copying my old phone's pictures over manually (forgot about smart switch, sue me [but don't pls]), the process slowed down very much. Every 15 seconds or so, my windows would give the Asterisk sound, but the green progress bar wouldn't make it past the 1% mark, and when trying to close the file window on my desktop, it'd take the same 15 seconds time to do so, and to stop this I had to unplug the phone from my desktop. Then I had to upload everything to dropbox and download it through the app onto my phone just to export it that way.
Since im still making sense of the phone, is there a concrete reason behind this slowdown, some phone setting or whatnot, because i uninstalled/reinstalled the Samsung USB Phone/Device Drivers from the software downloads portion of samsung, and there's no speed increase. My galaxy s7 was faster, so unless this is a quirk of the firmware itself or something else....idk, help pls?
One or more of the files may be corrupted.
I ran into this the other day on my N10+ going from SD card to a OTG flashstick with a 50gb folder with more than a dozen subfolders and 20 loose media files. It kept crashing on the last 2 or 3gb. I tried copying a couple different ways, nothing worked until I discovered a corrupted avi file and deleted it.
Copied it straight up.
Find the root cause, it could be malware that inadvertently got downloaded. This includes jpegs.
I doubt its malware, all the pictures I did were from the default camera app on my old phone, and I figure if I did it through smart switch it wouldn't have any problems, but ill look through my pictures, delete some, maybe put mcafee livesafe on there and run a few scans to see if it picks up anything before I uninstall it (seriously, the app is a resource hog no matter what hardware its on, mobile or not). ill make another reply if I find some kind of resolutiuon and result(s)
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I doubt its malware, all the pictures I did were from the default camera app on my old phone, and I figure if I did it through smart switch it wouldn't have any problems, but ill look through my pictures, delete some, maybe put mcafee livesafe on there and run a few scans to see if it picks up anything before I uninstall it (seriously, the app is a resource hog no matter what hardware its on, mobile or not). ill make another reply if I find some kind of resolutiuon and result(s)
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Never use SmartSwitch to backup critical data especially media. Never clone media files ie music databases. Never password protect backups. Keep it rock stupid simple.
Copy/paste then compare size, and folder/file count. Inspect at least some of the data for readability.
Malware is always possible. The scripted jpegs on Android tend to only effect the folder they're in. Was that avi file I found malware? Who knows? I don't care as I just delete it and move on unless it raises its ugly head again. The point is I found the cause and removed it.
The scripted Android jpeg I encountered did it's thing when opened. It damaged many loose files but no files that where in folders. Some files I repaired, the rest I deleted. The malware jpeg I deleted first though and it was only by cause and effect that I found it. Fortunately it was the download folder so it's reign of terror was brief; had that been a large database it could turn into a digital blood bath.
All downloads go to the download folder and stay there until vetted. Check all files by opening them there before moving them elsewhere. Delete any unknown ones without opening. Any file that is in doubt especially apks, executables scan with online Virustotal.
Keep email in the cloud ie Gmail.
I'm running on Pie but haven't had any malware damage in over 2 years and it's in part because of how I handle all downloads... carefully.
I did mine manually, I never touched smart switch for my phone, but I did a scan with the mcafee security app on my phone, and it didnt find anything sketchy on there, used the at&t mobile security app that was on there before I uninstalled it (adb is da best :3 ) and it didnt find anything hinky. I scanned the manual backups of my pictures on my desktop with mcafee livesafe and superantispyware and neither of them found anything bad, unless i should use more scan programs, but whether its on my phone or desktop, I think I got enough, anymore and im just hoarding antivirus programs, and I don't wanna do that
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I did mine manually, I never touched smart switch for my phone, but I did a scan with the mcafee security app on my phone, and it didnt find anything sketchy on there, used the at&t mobile security app that was on there before I uninstalled it (adb is da best :3 ) and it didnt find anything hinky. I scanned the manual backups of my pictures on my desktop with mcafee livesafe and superantispyware and neither of them found anything bad, unless i should use more scan programs, but whether its on my phone or desktop, I think I got enough, anymore and im just hoarding antivirus programs, and I don't wanna do that
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Over the years I found 2 scripted jpegs that were found by observing what happened when they were opened. There's no guarantee malware will be detected.
I ran a Malwarebytes scan occasionally. It found a trojan preloader I missed in the download folder, which I police daily now. This one downloaded itself, it slipped through the Samsung browser in spite of settings.
On Android antivirus is a waste of resources. Most victims install or download the malware themselves.
However anytime Android behaves strangely malware should be considered a possibility.
No idea how that file that screwed up my transfer got corrupted or if it was malware.
It acted like malware, regardless, deleting it fixed the issue. It took some time to track it down. Point being when you see odd behavior you don't ignore it, you find the root cause.
I think I fixed it somehow? I searched for reset in the settings and found reset network settings, reset accessibility settings, and reset all settings, so I chose reset all settings after backing up my current settings. After my phone restarted, I plugged in my phone and tried copying a 500MB sized file to my internal storage, and despite it taking a full minute, it actually finished without the problems I had before. Granted, now it seems only for the one file I just did, because after I tried one file and tried to do another, it stopped about halfway into copying a 400MB range file and gave me the same problems again. ffs fml
hopefully this is my last post (I swear if it isnt im tearing up the cable I got), because after trying multiple cables we got and different usb ports, I think I identified the culprit(s): my USB-C cable (the one I use to charge it) and my desktop's front-facing USB ports.
My desktop is an XPS 8700, and its taken on some age and some injuries due to power surges and what not, most of all the front-facing USB ports are wiggly as all hell, and occasionally choose which cables to like and which to not like. So I took the cable I usually use to charge it with and plugged it into a different usb port and tried copying over a set of files totaling 1GB+change to the internal storage, lo and behold, it copied over and no stopping halfway and cancelling the transfer because of it. Then I tried another USB-C cable we got (from a different piece of hardware) and used it on my front-usb ports, did the same thing again, 100% completion like the others did
The end result is my desktop being an ornery POS as usual and choosing which USB port likes which USB cable no matter how good I take care of both pieces of hardware. In the end, ill probably be getting a few more cables for our three phones and keep the cable I usually use with it for a different piece of hardware. This was one rabbit hole of a goose chase