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[BUG] about the USB / SD card storage and Media Scan

For some times now i've been trying to single out an app that was causing the random crashes, or hot reboot
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1336896
the problem seems to cause the whole front end of the OS crash and restart itself reloading every single app as if you had rebooted the phone, but there was no reboot involved.
in the end i noticed everytime i was messing around with the mount SD cards as USB storage, and right after is when it happens the most, as well as when i swap one SD card with another SD card
everytime something related to SD card happens the annoying Media Scan will run, and because i have TONS of files, it takes a very long time to finish scanning, so if something needs access to those files, it causes the whole system to crash and reload (not reboot), and then because it crashed, it starts the media scanning process again, and if you have many widgets that request files from the SD card then well.. you get the point, it kinda goes into an endless loop
END TASKING everything sort of helps, but it's not a real solution.
can some one remind me where or which system service i can freeze or remove to kill the Media Scanner?
thanks
PS: this sort of reminds me of the old bug on SGS1 when the Media Scanner runs out of memory when your library collection is too huge for it to process

Yes the only slowdown/crash I had (just once) with this phone was while media scan was running and I was trying to access Sd card for file copy. It does run every single time you do something on SD card which is annoying.
But would it cause more problems if stopped from running?

Hi AllGamer,
Have you figured out how to stop the media scanner?

benegessrit said:
Hi AllGamer,
Have you figured out how to stop the media scanner?
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i have a good idea how, but i need time to dig out that information from the old i9000 section, and i'm very short in time with all the soap opera going on

The below is long winded, but I believe in giving as much detail as possible, as well as it's still an ongoing process for me where I believe I've resolved the problem, yet I keep forcing it accidentally and not yet exactly pinned down my issue entirely.
I just got this phone, set it up, and was running into a similar issue where media scanning would initiate and continually initiate over and over while reloading dash and not loading all widgets. My actions the other night prior to this happening were making a backup in clockwork mod, installing setcpu, setting up setcpu, copying media files from old SD card from previous phone into new external and internal SD cardm then restarting the following morning after waking up. This baffeled me, and through google searching I came upon your threads, I saw ICE Music 4.0x or IM+ apps where your issues, however I have neither app.
Traced my steps back thinking what I did before sleeping and after backing up. I started deleting media files (pictures, movies, music) off the SD cards. After rebooting, this did not resolve my issue. I then rememebered I did SetCPU. I was able to successfully uninstall the app from my phone by dragging it to the trashcan before media scanning restarted. I rebooted, however, this still did not resolve my issue. I restored my backup prior to all this since my issue was unresolved through these means, and media scanning was fine. I've not been using SetCPU the past day and everything is fine.
My analysis is that using SetCPU is fine, I was using it the other night after backup, but prior to rebooting phone, however if SetCPU is set to run on boot, then Media scanning goes all fubar. Even if you uninstall SetCPU app through the android menus or dumping to the trashcan, something still seems resident in the booting process or initially something is modified that does not become unmodified. I've yet to try manually loading and running SetCPU each instance after bootup without having setcpu set to start on boot.
Hmm maybe I spoke too soon. Since that time, I've restored approximately 10k sms messages with SMS+ Backup app, sent a sms in handcent, backed up sms with SMS+ Backup, believe I received a sms, updated AdAway app, and started/updated AdFree app, and however I don't see it now.
Now, the adfree app gave me a menu I had no recolection of on my Nexus One, where I had two options. One option I don't rememeber, but the other "Boot Normally", I remember and chose. SetCPU is not installed at this moment, and after doing just those couple things from the 1st sentence, I rebooted. I noticed that the display at the bottom would show Adfree granted superuser permissions, and then I would get a freeze and reboot of the dash. I may have setup Adfree the night before along with SetCPU (It was late and I had been up 24hrs the previous night). I've frozen AdFree with Titanium Backup and removed it from superuser permissions, but I'm still media scanning crashing again. Unsure if the boot normally option in Adfree modified something in the booting code. I'm going to try restoring with Clockwork Mod again, then do my sms restore, and see if that narrows the issue down. If it appears finem then I'm assuming it has something to do with apps that modify boot coding like SetCPU or AdFree, if they actually modify it that is. I'm not good at coding. I'm at work, unable to do much playing around, however, I hope some of this is of assistance with resolving this issue.
Got a chance to test it. My issue with media scanning appears to be too many sms messages saved. after restoring about 10k in sms's, it just media scan loops.

Ordering of apps in drawer keep messing up

After some reboots, I noticed that my apps in the app drawer keep messing up.
Not sure what's the caused, and get fedup of having to rearrange it often.
Any idea?

yer i had that issue for the first 1 and 1/2 weeks of use but i found that after installing a few more apps then it shipped with it stopped after about 9 apps

I think some people have said that having the apps moved to the SD card can make the ordering mess up, since they're loaded later than internal apps

It's really irritating, as it seems to occur randomly

I had this problem too, and the easiest way to fix the problem is just set the order to most used, and not "own order" that way u can get to the app's u use most often on the first screen and they don't move around.
It got so bad with mine moving around that at one point I had about 10 screens, some with no or 1 app on each, setting it to "most used" solved it and I haven't had a problem since.
Hope this helps

Adam3Sixty said:
I had this problem too, and the easiest way to fix the problem is just set the order to most used, and not "own order" that way u can get to the app's u use most often on the first screen and they don't move around.
It got so bad with mine moving around that at one point I had about 10 screens, some with no or 1 app on each, setting it to "most used" solved it and I haven't had a problem since.
Hope this helps
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just to add, if you use another home launcher besides the stock one, this disarrangement or whatever you call it, happens most of the time. So I prefer to use the stock SE home launcher and sort it by "most recently used" as well.

I've noticed that sometimes opening the app tray/drawer before everything's loaded from the sd card (in case of apps moved to sd) can cause their icons to not show in the 'remembered' location and will appear on the last page instead. Solutions is to just give it a little time to fully load everything after a boot.
Edit: also seems to happen if the sd card is connected to the pc in msc mode, i.e. inaccessible and unmounted from the system.

[Q] Missing app names on homescreen

Hmm so he's a weird one .. some of my apps are missing names .. it's not the same ones, everytime i reboot, sometimes they're all fine .. then randomly i'll notice some of the names are missing .. anyone else with this? explanation/solution?
PS .. not an SD card thing, happens even if not plugged in ..

shogun168 said:
Hmm so he's a weird one .. some of my apps are missing names .. it's not the same ones, everytime i reboot, sometimes they're all fine .. then randomly i'll notice some of the names are missing .. anyone else with this? explanation/solution?
PS .. not an SD card thing, happens even if not plugged in ..
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This also happens to me sometimes, you can still access the apps but it's just annoying that it looks broken.. This only happens to my apps that I moved from the internal memory to my phone memory (I do this to save space on my 2GB internal memory - more space for messages and emails).
IMO, if you move an app, and you put it in the homescreen as a shortcut, the next time you boot, when the system rebuilds the apps' information, it does not include the apps that were moved to the SD card.
What I do is remove them then just add them back to the folders, I used to do this after a second reboot, usually a second reboot does restore everything, but now I'd rather fix 1 or 2 apps, than rebooting everytime to let the phone correct itself...

Patiktik said:
This also happens to me sometimes, you can still access the apps but it's just annoying that it looks broken.. This only happens to my apps that I moved from the internal memory to my phone memory (I do this to save space on my 2GB internal memory - more space for messages and emails).
IMO, if you move an app, and you put it in the homescreen as a shortcut, the next time you boot, when the system rebuilds the apps' information, it does not include the apps that were moved to the SD card.
What I do is remove them then just add them back to the folders, I used to do this after a second reboot, usually a second reboot does restore everything, but now I'd rather fix 1 or 2 apps, than rebooting everytime to let the phone correct itself...
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Hmmm an annoying oversight by HTC then...
It's not the worse thing in the world, just a minor nuisance.. Thanks for the tip anyways
Sent from my HTC One X using XDA

[Q] Phone Crashing

Hello, My brother recently got the Xperia Play, he has had a little problem with it, it has the latest stock Rom on it, nothing changed (yet) but when loading certain apps (Bruce Lee game is the worst, it has never worked) it crashes, saying the phone has crashed and has a loading bar which takes a while to load and reboot, anyone know the cause of this? thanks in advance.

That post is just vague enough that.... I got nothing.

jacklebott said:
That post is just vague enough that.... I got nothing.
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well there isn't much else I can say, it crashes on certain apps, Not like a typical android crash were the phone resets, but it instead has a purple loading bar and purple flashing notification l.e.d and says not to turn the phone off while it saves.
Normally it just says phone has crashed, but this time said about needing 200mb free on SDCARD, but there is over 1gb spare on the SDcard
http://imageshack.us/a/img526/7770/imag0007mr.jpg

Freaky. Never come across anything like that, myself. I hope you get it figured out

Looks like an in-game error rather than a system one. While you may have enough space on the sd card, maybe some of the sectors are corrupted? if you have a spare sd card, try that and then you can at least determine if its the sd card. If it isn't then you know its either the game, system or device.

Phone slowing down?

I am using a HTC One M8 (ATT model, Best Buy edition)
There are no threads about this issue that I haven't checked: my phone seems to be acting not only sluggish, but some other weird things seem to be happening.
- Google Play Store seems to be taking forever to start to download, downloads fine, takes forever to start to install, and about 20 minutes later (if the app hasnt been killed off by then since I have only 1 app in the background, to see if that fixed my lag issues before switching to just 1 app in background) it finally installs.
- Quickpic doesnt seem to want to load anything at all (I use it as my main app to view pictures since HTC Gallery cant view animations in a loop). It just sits there at a black screen with a loading circle at the top, no thumbnails or folders show up. I have cleared the phone's cache with
- Rebooting does nothing to solve my issues.
- Restoring to factory default does nothing to solve my issues.
- Restricting background processes to 1 does nothing to solve my issues.
- Disabling Power Saving mode entirely does nothing to solve my issues.
- Disabling apps that I don't use does nothing to solve my issues.
Anyone know what my issue is and how I could fix it? This would be extremely helpful, thanks.
FYI, I am not rooted, I will save this as a last resort if need be.
**Edit** using App Cache Cleaner app, apparently my phone storage is at 23.6 GB/ 24.8 GB. Will try seeing if cleaning up some stuff manually fixes this.

LightningKitsune said:
I am using a HTC One M8 (ATT model, Best Buy edition)
There are no threads about this issue that I haven't checked: my phone seems to be acting not only sluggish, but some other weird things seem to be happening.
- Google Play Store seems to be taking forever to start to download, downloads fine, takes forever to start to install, and about 20 minutes later (if the app hasnt been killed off by then since I have only 1 app in the background, to see if that fixed my lag issues before switching to just 1 app in background) it finally installs.
- Quickpic doesnt seem to want to load anything at all (I use it as my main app to view pictures since HTC Gallery cant view animations in a loop). It just sits there at a black screen with a loading circle at the top, no thumbnails or folders show up.
- Rebooting does nothing to solve my issues.
- Restoring to factory default does nothing to solve my issues.
- Restricting background processes to 1 does nothing to solve my issues.
- Disabling Power Saving mode entirely does nothing to solve my issues.
- Disabling apps that I don't use does nothing to solve my issues.
Anyone know what my issue is and how I could fix it? This would be extremely helpful, thanks.
FYI, I am not rooted, I will save this as a last resort if need be.
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Seems weird. Install CPU spy and see what frequency your processor cores are running at.

GermanGuy said:
Seems weird. Install CPU spy and see what frequency your processor cores are running at.
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The top 3 states are:
2265 MHz 29%
300 MHz 18%
1958 MHZ 17%

Wow I derped pretty hard, the issue was fixed when I checked the box with "Erase all data" under Reset Phone. Didn't check that when I reset it the first time. Guess I had too much media on it...?

LightningKitsune said:
Wow I derped pretty hard, the issue was fixed when I checked the box with "Erase all data" under Reset Phone. Didn't check that when I reset it the first time. Guess I had too much media on it...?
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Glad you sorted it out. Too much media should not be an issue, but a complete wipe will usually fix things.