For the past 7 days I've been unable to sync my Samsung account and receive the following message in settings: 'Sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly.' Has anyone else experienced this and is there a way to get it syncing again?
Thanks in advance
Have tried deleting the account and redoing it again (re-typing ur credentials)with sync enabled?
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as well as you aware, there's no meant of deleting samsung account other than factory reset...
I got the same problem...
slicingtaco said:
Have tried deleting the account and redoing it again (re-typing ur credentials)with sync enabled?
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This solution seems to have worked, thank you. Before I removed my account, I did a full backup via Kies. I realised removing my Samsung account deleted my S Notes, so I tried to restore them from my backup, but after a 'successful' restore, half of my notes are missing.
The notes that are missing were in a folder named 'Notes.' I tried to create a new 'Notes' folder, but apparently this folder name is already in use. Searching for the folder brings up no matches, so where is it?!
Upon further investigation, all my missing notes and memos are still in my S Note directory, but for some strange reason they're not showing up in the app. Any ideas?
Hey Guys,
I've got a big problem, maybe anybody can help.
Currently my girlfriend is spending a few weeks aboard at here
parent's house.
This morning she wrote me a message in a textfile aon her Nexus
Galaxy and and wonted to encrypt it first on pc, but after she
didnt manage to copy it via USB she tried openpgp keychain App.
During Copy and Paste tshe reported there are suddenly no
Folders and Files exccept "Android" Folder anymore in her
Filebrower.
Even after Rebooting the Storage remains like this and after
reboot only a "WhatsApp" Folder was added to the Android one.
Apperently her data is gone and shes not able to recover it via
the PC because it only is mounted as MTP/PTP Device on the PC.
Her Phone is not rooted and she never tried, she doesnt do any
fancy stuff with it just normal useage.
This Guid may could help:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705
but its not realy an option cause A: I think its to complicated
to do for her and I have no access to the device and B: the
available PC of her parents must be the slowest and oldest xp
maschine existing.
Does anybody have a clue how we could retrieve her data?
Importent to her are her pictures and a few work related text
files with important notes.
And while I read a lot of stuff about loosing data on attempting
to root, I didnt find any reports on cases where data was lost
without deleting it accedently or trieing to root.
Must she be concerend about her memory being damaged?
Thank you very much,
Stefan
I've a Xiaomi Mi 10T Lite, but all my music and pictures get randomly removed all the time and then I need to download them again.
I don't remove them myself for clarity.
I guess the cleaner app removes it but there is no option to add them to exceptions and there is also no option to turn off auto clean.
This is a very annoying problem and I'm tired to download all my music and pictures over and over again so how can I solve this?
Googole said:
I've a Xiaomi Mi 10T Lite, but all my music and pictures get randomly removed all the time and then I need to download them again.
I don't remove them myself for clarity.
I guess the cleaner app removes it but there is no option to add them to exceptions and there is also no option to turn off auto clean.
This is a very annoying problem and I'm tired to download all my music and pictures over and over again so how can I solve this?
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Maybe your device has something like "storage manager" active?
Go into settings and then storage, see if you find something suspicious.
Uninstall or disable cleaning app... you really need to play with your device more.
That cleaner app sounds more like malware
blackhawk said:
Uninstall or disable cleaning app... you really need to play with your device more.
That cleaner app sounds more like malware
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I've found out that Cleaner is useless and is just a waste of space so I removed it.
I hope my problem is solved.
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Maybe your device has something like "storage manager" active?
Go into settings and then storage, see if you find something suspicious.
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I've made a screenshot of the Storage page.
Screenshot_2021-04-19-11-09-51-509_com.miui.securitycenter.jpg
drive.google.com
I don't know if it is suspicious but Other is 8,61GB
Removing Cleaner didn't solve my problem.
I download my music from Google Drive and all music downloaded from there is gone now.
The songs that I didn't download from Google Drive aren't removed.
The most of the pictures are removed too, but some didn't.
Googole said:
Removing Cleaner didn't solve my problem.
I download my music from Google Drive and all music downloaded from there is gone now.
The songs that I didn't download from Google Drive aren't removed.
The most of the pictures are removed too, but some didn't.
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Well If so, have a look at gdrives settings.
Also: Are gdrive files in another folder than those not being removed?
Could be malware... you know odd behavior.
The OS or an app may have been corrupted.
A factory reset be a good idea at this point.
Self destructing files aren't normal.
Is it just Google stuff that's vaporizing?
If so maybe deleting/recreating your Google account might solve it.
I'm leaning towards a full nuke of that OS though.
I don't trust Google with any of my data management other than Gmail. I backup and load everything from the SD card, flash stick and hdds.
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Could be malware... you know odd behavior.
The OS or an app may have been corrupted.
A factory reset be a good idea at this point.
Self destructing files aren't normal.
Is it just Google stuff that's vaporizing?
If so maybe deleting/recreating your Google account might solve it.
I'm leaning towards a full nuke of that OS though.
I don't trust Google with any of my data management other than Gmail. I backup and load everything from the SD card, flash stick and hdds.
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True, could be malware.
A malware checking app would be a first step. If you can run adb on your computer you can check for modifications made on the file system (as you operate as "shell" instead of "root" (unless you are rooted) you won't be able to read everything. Actually you'll get "access denied" very often. But if you find system directories/files with another date then the 'standard recovery date' this could be a sign for malicous activity)
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True, could be malware.
A malware checking app would be a first step. If you can run adb on your computer you can check for modifications made on the file system (as you operate as "shell" instead of "root" (unless you are rooted) you won't be able to read everything. Actually you'll get "access denied" very often. But if you find system directories/files with another date then the 'standard recovery date' this could be a sign for malicous activity)
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There's another possibility, a malware jpeg.
I ran into two in the last 15 years, one a year ago on my N10+. Downloaded from a site into the download folder it corrupted many files in that folder. Some only had damage to the file name and were easily repairable, some were not.
Deleted all I couldn't repair or was in doubt about especially the tainted jpeg.
If that jpeg would have been moved to another folder the same thing would have happened.
The only way to stop this type of malware is to find the infected jpeg. It may not show up on many or any virus/malware scans. I found this one because I noticed the damage immediately after viewing it in downloads. If one one these gets in your database they are little nightmare. One reason I keep downloads in the Download folder for examination, especially jpegs, are these little nasties.
Not real common but they're out there.
blackhawk said:
Could be malware... you know odd behavior.
The OS or an app may have been corrupted.
A factory reset be a good idea at this point.
Self destructing files aren't normal.
Is it just Google stuff that's vaporizing?
If so maybe deleting/recreating your Google account might solve it.
I'm leaning towards a full nuke of that OS though.
I don't trust Google with any of my data management other than Gmail. I backup and load everything from the SD card, flash stick and hdds.
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I've done a factory reset earlier but it didn't solve the issue.
All music and the most of the pictures downloaded from Google Drive are removed all the time.
User699 said:
True, could be malware.
A malware checking app would be a first step. If you can run adb on your computer you can check for modifications made on the file system (as you operate as "shell" instead of "root" (unless you are rooted) you won't be able to read everything. Actually you'll get "access denied" very often. But if you find system directories/files with another date then the 'standard recovery date' this could be a sign for malicous activity)
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I'll check for malware and I'll let you know what the results are.
blackhawk said:
There's another possibility, a malware jpeg.
I ran into two in the last 15 years, one a year ago on my N10+. Downloaded from a site into the download folder it corrupted many files in that folder. Some only had damage to the file name and were easily repairable, some were not.
Deleted all I couldn't repair or was in doubt about especially the tainted jpeg.
If that jpeg would have been moved to another folder the same thing would have happened.
The only way to stop this type of malware is to find the infected jpeg. It may not show up on many or any virus/malware scans. I found this one because I noticed the damage immediately after viewing it in downloads. If one one these gets in your database they are little nightmare. One reason I keep downloads in the Download folder for examination, especially jpegs, are these little nasties.
Not real common but they're out there.
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All my pictures are in the .jpg format
Create a folder in the root directory (not in any other folder) of your storage
In this folder create another two folders - one for music & one for pictures
Move all pictures & music to these folders
This will eliminate sync from apps deleting anything as they shouldn't have access to these folders
If they are still being deleted after this then the user is telling an app to delete them (intentionality or unintentionally)
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Create a folder in the root directory (not in any other folder) of your storage
In this folder create another two folders - one for music & one for pictures
Move all pictures & music to these folders
This will eliminate sync from apps deleting anything as they shouldn't have access to these folders
If they are still being deleted after this then the user is telling an app to delete them (intentionality or unintentionally)
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Thanks for your suggestion, I'll try it and let you know what the result it.
I've downloaded MalwareBytes, scanned my phone but it didn't find any malware @blackhawk
Googole said:
I've downloaded MalwareBytes, scanned my phone but it didn't find any malware @blackhawk
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Since you said you did a factory data reset there must be an app somewhere which is responsible for that.
I would check Google Drive – I don't even have a google account so I can't check it, but maybe GDrive is deleting files automatically.
Is it ONLY GDrive files being deleted?
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Well If so, have a look at gdrives settings.
Also: Are gdrive files in another folder than those not being removed?
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I've looked at the Gdrive settings, but I couldn't find anything related to the problem.
The Gdrive files are on Google Drive and those not being removed and removed are in my internal storage.
User699 said:
Since you said you did a factory data reset there must be an app somewhere which is responsible for that.
I would check Google Drive – I don't even have a google account so I can't check it, but maybe GDrive is deleting files automatically.
Is it ONLY GDrive files being deleted?
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I've checked the Google Drive settings but I couldn't find anything related to the problem.
Only files downloaded from Gdrive are deleted.
Files downloaded from other places aren't deleted.
Googole said:
I've checked the Google Drive settings but I couldn't find anything related to the problem.
Only files downloaded from Gdrive are deleted.
Files downloaded from other places aren't deleted.
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And GDrive downloads them into Downloads folder?
If not you could try to move these things into another folder and see whether they will be deleted again or not.
Hello forumers, please help me...
There is a problem with my Note 8 Pro phone. My files are in ghost form. I can't use them, open them, view them. I can't find some either. I didn't delete any of them. They suddenly disappeared. Some are in ghost form, I can see them but I can't use them I leave: "File doesn't exist or has been"
While playing with the Redmi Note 8 Pro brand M1906G7G phone, when I opened the gallery, the images in it started to twitch (flickering while being processed), all the images were gone in less than a minute. When I tried to check the files from the file manager, I noticed that all the files except system were not in place. So all my files suddenly disappeared before I knew what it was. Nothing happened to my contacts, sms, calendar information and externally installed applications (games, programs). The "second space" wasn't on when this was happening. When I looked at the size used from the storage it was 35.5gb, as if it was reset. The advanced settings of the phone are open, but the phone is not rooted.
I tried various file recovery programs, they couldn't find it. Except for the aforementioned files, only 3% of the files were found. So I think the files are lost, not deleted. There is a loss of at least 30gb. I'm in a predicament. Can anyone help with information on what happened to the files and how to get them back?
HI
suddenly this afternoon, I don't know why, WhaptApp started to crashe every time I launch it. I tried to delete data, uninstall and install it again, but whatsapp still crash at start up. It is impossible to use it. I got this error message :
android.database.sqlite.SQLiteCantOpenDatabaseException: Cannot open database '/data/user/0/com.whatsapp/databases/sync.db': Directory /data/user/0/com.whatsapp/databases doesn't exist
Of course, even with adb, under Android 12, it is impossible to create the directory under /data because of permission denied.
Do you have any idea ?
Thank you for your help.
Get that trashware off the device! Use browser login only if you must use it.
It is a high security risk.
I had already thought of this solution, but I need the app to log in....
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I had already thought of this solution, but I need the app to log in....
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I would ditch it then. It's a multiple vector security risk. I don't use it.
If you insist on using it... what events lead up to the crash? Was it or anything updated? Any apps installed or uninstalled? Any downloads done?
Delete all it's data then ininstall it and see what you got. Clear the system cache. Download the latest version from a trusted source only. Scan with online Virustotal (scan what's loaded now too). Install. If it still pukes on you there's no guarantee a factory reset will solve this.
Malware is also a possibility. At some point a factory reset is in order especially if there's other odd behaviors or system issues. If it's a virus or rootkit a factory reset would purge it on Android 9 or higher.
If you think there's a possibility of malware, factory reset. Change account passwords then. Limit the damage by acting promptly. I give myself 2 hours to erraticate malware, then it gets nuked if not completely resolved. You wouldn't be the first to get tagged with malware through WhatsApp. Especially dangerous is doing -any- downloads from there including jpegs and pngs.
Thank you very much for your help. Despite I use alternatives like Signal, I still need WhatsApp to stay in touch whith some groups. I already tried to delete data and cache of WhatApp without success. I removed the app and installed it again but problem remains.
The log said :
Directory /data/user/0/com.whatsapp/databases doesn't exist
so I would like to create it manually, but it seems that it is impossible because of security of Android 12. I can't access to /data.
raph_quiroule said:
Thank you very much for your help. Despite I use alternatives like Signal, I still need WhatsApp to stay in touch whith some groups. I already tried to delete data and cache of WhatApp without success. I removed the app and installed it again but problem remains.
The log said :
Directory /data/user/0/com.whatsapp/databases doesn't exist
so I would like to create it manually, but it seems that it is impossible because of security of Android 12. I can't access to /data.
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I don't know. That's a curious problem. 12 is a terror as far as I'm concerned. That's one reason I still run N10+'s on 9 and 10. Maybe use adb or ladb to edit it?
Double check all the permissions. Are any packages disabled on the phone? A small system app that's been disabled can cause all kinds of mischief.
Something, be it WhatsApp, an update, malware, a single event upset, etc screwed up the user partition data it sounds like. There's no guarantee a factory reset will fix it and even if it does it could reoccur if you don't find the root cause.
Play with it and keep doing Google searches, eventually you'll track it down. Might take a while.
Once again, thank you for your help. In fact, I've just found a workaround by installing the app in the "Work profile" of the phone. So I guess that factory reset will solve the problem. I also succeed in using an app that use web whatapp interface from F-Droid.
Independently with this story, the fingerprint sensor of the phone stopped working few weeks ago. So i'am preparing a Samsung Galays S9 under /e/OS. I'm going to switch on it to perform a factory reset of the xiaomi and send it for reparation because it is still under guarantee.
If the S9 and /e/OS do the job, I will sell the Xiaomi.