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EDIT: Fixed! Posted solution for others' reference is here: My Solution
A few days ago, in the middle of the day (I don't believe I did anything, in between the phone acting normal and this issue coming up, more significant than installing the official Twitter app and setting up notifications for tweets from one specific account within it. I've since uninstalled that app, but it didn't fix this issue; no idea if it's even to blame), my Nexus randomly decided to 'forget' all of my custom alarms and notifications. In the alarms section, the "Ringtone" for each of my alarms changed to the name "298" and sounds like a generic alarm clock beep, unlike any of the default alarms you can choose from on the phone:
(At this point, I'd love to share the screenshot I took to show what I mean, but the forum won't allow me to post any outside links until I've made 10 posts, so I hope my text description is clear enough)
When I tap "Ringtone" to try and re-instate one of the .mp3 files I had put in my "Alarms" folder, only the defaults are available to choose from (and, again, none of them sound like whatever this 298 is either, which is weird).
Astro has no trouble 'seeing' my .mp3's in the "Alarms" folder, so it isn't like the phone suddenly lost awareness of the files themselves.
What in the word could cause something like this, and is there any way to fix it?
The only customizations I'm using are a (I'm sorry, I can't remember which) custom ROM of Jelly Bean that was 'normal' except for being pre-rooted (and a few other 'back-end' things like deoxy-whatever, heh), and a mod to change how the battery looks.
Help?
Not sure what the rules on bumping are, but I have a feeling that from the level of activity, if I don't bump it now, it will never be seen by anyone who could possibly help me fix this problem again.
Radomly? Ummm, try flashing stock rom to see if the problem persists.
buzzcomp said:
Radomly? Ummm, try flashing stock rom to see if the problem persists.
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I have a feeling resetting everything will fix things, but I consider that a last resort, because of how much work it'd take to restore everything to the way I have it...
ClefAria said:
I have a feeling resetting everything will fix things, but I consider that a last resort, because of how much work it'd take to restore everything to the way I have it...
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Try re-flasing the current rom without wiping your data/factory reset
1. Boot into recovery
2. Wipe cache
3. Wipe dalvik cache
3. Install the rom
4. Install gapps
5. Reboot
buzzcomp said:
Try re-flasing the current rom without wiping your data/factory reset
1. Boot into recovery
2. Wipe cache
3. Wipe dalvik cache
3. Install the rom
4. Install gapps
5. Reboot
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I have to track down what ROM I used again (it was from this site), then...also, what's "gapps"? I don't remember ever installing that--maybe that's one of the things that the ROM I used already included?
ClefAria said:
I have to track down what ROM I used again (it was from this site), then...also, what's "gapps"? I don't remember ever installing that--maybe that's one of the things that the ROM I used already included?
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I think its bigixie. Then you don't have to install gapps (google applications package - play store, talk, gmail, etc)
Don't forget to do a nandroid back first.
I have the same exact problem.
My two custom ringtones are not seen by any Music Player and I can't set them as ringtones but I see them in Solid Explorer.
Fixed!
So my friend suggested something that randomly worked. I plugged the phone into my PC, going into its storage as a media device, blah blah blah, and copied my Alarms, Ringtones (my ringtone had also 'vanished'), and Notifications folders to my PC, then deleted them off the phone, then moved them back from PC to the phone.
Voila, all was well again.
I still think that Twitter app had something to do with it...it's the only thing of significance I had done with my phone that day, and the only thing I did that day that I had never done with my Nexus before.
Wanted to post this so that others know of a (hopefully effective) solution if they have an issue like this.
Do you or did you have ROM Manager installed? If you do, that's the likely culprit.
It has a bug that does exactly what you describe. So if so, be sure to send them an email and tell them.
I'm sure there is a proper term for my issue, but I'm not clear on what it is. That fact has made it difficult for me to search for resolutions. Anyhow, I'm running cyanogenmod (RC2, as of this typing), apps that are not on phone storage show up in the following format:
com."appname"
I've temporarily fixed this issue a few different ways, but I'm never applying a fix that always works. For example, I have tried fix permissions in ROM toolbox app manager. After reboot, they are back to broken. I don't want to resort to desperate measures, but I'm thinking if I can't find out some kind of solution the only thing I can do to fix it is to wipe everything and reinstall manually, once 10.1 is stable.
I should also mention, generally the apps work just fine. Sometimes they will temporarily say they are not installed, but generally they work.
Elitevaz said:
I'm sure there is a proper term for my issue, but I'm not clear on what it is. That fact has made it difficult for me to search for resolutions. Anyhow, I'm running cyanogenmod (RC2, as of this typing), apps that are not on phone storage show up in the following format:
com."appname"
I've temporarily fixed this issue a few different ways, but I'm never applying a fix that always works. For example, I have tried fix permissions in ROM toolbox app manager. After reboot, they are back to broken. I don't want to resort to desperate measures, but I'm thinking if I can't find out some kind of solution the only thing I can do to fix it is to wipe everything and reinstall manually, once 10.1 is stable.
I should also mention, generally the apps work just fine. Sometimes they will temporarily say they are not installed, but generally they work.
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Not sure why sometimes they don't work. Maybe you have a bad SD card? I'm on 5/11 nightly, and mine are labeled the same way, but I have no issues with any of them.
bobbyphoenix said:
Not sure why sometimes they don't work. Maybe you have a bad SD card? I'm on 5/11 nightly, and mine are labeled the same way, but I have no issues with any of them.
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It seems to be waiting for some sort of initialization period or for a specific service to start that is a bit slower or lower priority. Lately, it's just at boot these apps don't work or aren't "recognized" by Android. Given about 5 minutes, they always work.
Hello everyone!
With my M8 and a hanfdul of ROMs (even stock ROM IIRC) I keep getting .nomedia files created all over the place on the SD, even in the default Camera folder... I delete them, then at some seemingly random point they're back. As a result I can't play music from the SD card and, using Quickpic I have to "show hidden" in order to access my photos.
Is there any way I can find what creates them? Anyone's got an inkling as to what's going on? I've gone through a few hard resets up to now, different ROMs as I've said (currently on ARHD) and the issue is a constant!
Thanks!
. You are sure you don't have
krakout said:
Hello everyone!
With my M8 and a hanfdul of ROMs (even stock ROM IIRC) I keep getting .nomedia files created all over the place on the SD, even in the default Camera folder... I delete them, then at some seemingly random point they're back. As a result I can't play music from the SD card and, using Quickpic I have to "show hidden" in order to access my photos.
Is there any way I can find what creates them? Anyone's got an inkling as to what's going on? I've gone through a few hard resets up to now, different ROMs as I've said (currently on ARHD) and the issue is a constant!
Thanks!
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Tha somehow points to a "privacy" or "hide my files" app that you installed and that is set improperly. Are you sure that you don't have such an app, maybe installed automatically after hard reset from playstore by synchronisation or by some backup program?
Yes, I'm sure I don't have one, because I never installed one... Good thinking though.
The automatic creation of nomedia files is normal. It stops your gallery app from displaying all system files that are pictures.
ikeny said:
The automatic creation of nomedia files is normal. It stops your gallery app from displaying all system files that are pictures.
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Er, yes, but as I said this happens with the default camera folder, too. Not talking about system/program folders...
Do you use any Rom manager? http://forum.cyanogenmod.org/topic/...a-ended-up-being-rom-manager-update-gone-bad/
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Do you use any Rom manager? http://forum.cyanogenmod.org/topic/...a-ended-up-being-rom-manager-update-gone-bad/
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Oh wow. I've been googling it for months now but never came upon that thread...
Indeed I do have ROM manager (premium) installed, and though that thread is ancient and the problem is supposed to have been fixed years ago, I uninstalled it. Unfortunately after reboot .nomedia is recreated, so it's something else
Is there any way/log to find what is creating it?
krakout said:
Oh wow. I've been googling it for months now but never came upon that thread...
Indeed I do have ROM manager (premium) installed, and though that thread is ancient and the problem is supposed to have been fixed years ago, I uninstalled it. Unfortunately after reboot .nomedia is recreated, so it's something else
Is there any way/log to find what is creating it?
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Seems like a rare issue unique to what you installed or how you set up your device.
If I were you I would reinstall your rom from scratch (not restored from any backup), and use your device for a couple of days without installing any additional apps. After confirming the nomedia is absent, then slowly reinstall apps one by one until you see the problem reoccurring.
Sorry I have no better advices. May be others will.
ikeny said:
Seems like a rare issue unique to what you installed or how you set up your device.
If I were you I would reinstall your rom from scratch (not restored from any backup), and use your device for a couple of days without installing any additional apps. After confirming the nomedia is absent, then slowly reinstall apps one by one until you see the problem reoccurring.
Sorry I have no better advices. May be others will.
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Thanks, man, that's what I have been thinking for a while now, but I wanted to avoid it of course, hence why I'm asking how to troubleshoot it (and not "who is the culprit").
Funny thing is I don't run anything strange, right now Titanium (premium) and LP are the most system-"intensive" apps I have... And the problem used to exist with KK as it does with LP now!
Thanks again anyhow
Tried the slap fix. Checked cpu z and my sensors look normal but I'm not sure really what they should look like. Tried turning rotation off then rebooting then turning back on. I have xposed, I saw another forum where someone said they disabled something in xposed to fix it but they didn't say what. Any help is greatly appreciated. I've done the dev conversion and rooted.
Have you uninstalled any apps (especially using Titanium Backup)?
Trying to uninstall Facebook or Instagram using Titanium Backup broke screen rotation for me. Manually deleting the app folders in /system/app/ was fine, though.
blindmanpb said:
Have you uninstalled any apps (especially using Titanium Backup)?
Trying to uninstall Facebook or Instagram using Titanium Backup broke screen rotation for me. Manually deleting the app folders in /system/app/ was fine, though.
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I did uninstall both of them with tb. And like the smart person I am I made no backup. Help?
Edit: Would installing from the app store fix it?
Edit:Edit: I tried, it didn't work. What can I do?
Is there a place I can download the apks from the stock image? I have the stock incremented one installed from here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/not...nt/firmware-safe-upgrade-to-lollipop-t3313224
Would that even fix this issue?
It's not so much the apps themselves that's the issue, apparently TB deletes some system libraries that affect screen rotation.
The easiest/safest thing to do would be to reflash one of the safe upgrade options and re-root the phone. Deleting most apps with TB seems to be safe, but manually delete Facebook & Instagram.
Glad to hear the cause of this issue has been narrowed down to the uninstall of Insta and Facebook from system apps. Do you know if it's still safe to disable these apps by using something like Root App Disabler?
This worked for me. Dont flash , just copy the file in the zip to where it needs to go and reboot. It should be fine. Ofcourse make a backup in case.
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Glad to hear the cause of this issue has been narrowed down to the uninstall of Insta and Facebook from system apps. Do you know if it's still safe to disable these apps by using something like Root App Disabler?
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I have disabled Facebook and Instagram using Titanium Backup and later manually deleted the apps from /system without affecting screen rotation.
The only issue appears to be using Titanium Backup to uninstall them.
I, too, have this problem with Jasmine v7.0. I have deinstalled facebook via TB and now screen rotation no longer works. I tried the libgnustl_shared.so fix but that does not seem to work for me as screen rotation is still broken. If anyone has another idea I am willing to give it a try. Otherwise I think I may re-flash Jasmine and manually remove facebook.
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Is there a place I can download the apks from the stock image? I have the stock incremented one installed from here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/not...nt/firmware-safe-upgrade-to-lollipop-t3313224
Would that even fix this issue?
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I would try a dirty flash of the exact version of the ROM you're using. It should reinstall the missing programs without messing much else up.
mlcampbe said:
I, too, have this problem with Jasmine v7.0. I have deinstalled facebook via TB and now screen rotation no longer works. I tried the libgnustl_shared.so fix but that does not seem to work for me as screen rotation is still broken. If anyone has another idea I am willing to give it a try. Otherwise I think I may re-flash Jasmine and manually remove facebook.
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If you can't find anything else that works, wiping and re-flashing with Jasmine 7.0 definitely does. I flashed + deleted facebook quite a few times before I realized it was causing the screen rotation bug. It's tedious, but it will get rid of the problem.
Seems like facebook deletion via TB is not the only way to break screen rotation. I did a test and deleted several apps via TB (but left facebook installed) and I cannot pinpoint exactly which one broke rotation I can confirm that screen rotation did stop working. Therefore it seems that the best route altogether would be to delete apps manually instead of using TB to do so.
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This worked for me. Dont flash , just copy the file in the zip to where it needs to go and reboot. It should be fine. Ofcourse make a backup in case.
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I'm running Jasmine V7, MM. Can you please tell me what ROM your fix worked for. I tried downloading, copy pasting "libgnustl_shared.so" to correct folder (mine was missing). Then, battery out/ reboot -didn't work. Other Note: I don't think I can dirty flash my ROM in the traditional sense as Jasmine V7 was only released in backup form. I would have wipe and to do fresh install. (This would suck as it mine is heavily modified) -THX!
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I'm running Jasmine V7, MM. Can you please tell me what ROM your fix worked for. I tried downloading, copy pasting "libgnustl_shared.so" to correct folder (mine was missing). Then, battery out/ reboot -didn't work. Other Note: I don't think I can dirty flash my ROM in the traditional sense as Jasmine V7 was only released in backup form. I would have wipe and to do fresh install. (This would suck as it mine is heavily modified) -THX!
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Use the file in this thread . http://forum.xda-developers.com/not...-screen-rotation-fix-libgnustlshared-t3408140
I believe this is for MM and the one I posted before is for lollipop
YESSSS!!!!
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Use the file in this thread . http://forum.xda-developers.com/not...-screen-rotation-fix-libgnustlshared-t3408140
I believe this is for MM and the one I posted before is for lollipop
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ammar1514 said:
This worked for me. Dont flash , just copy the file in the zip to where it needs to go and reboot. It should be fine. Ofcourse make a backup in case.
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YESSSSS!!!!
Thank you!!!
...worked on my VZW Note 4 running 6.0.1
Can I just flash up to 8.1 using the "-w" change in the flash-all.bat? Would prefer not to wipe my entire phone clean if possible, but if I must, then I'll do it.
will it work? Yes, since i did that
Now, i am experiencing some apps constantly crashing, and i dont know if its because of it... or if its just incompatibility of 8.1 with apps that arent updated.
Gmail, Google App, Play Games, Calendar, Newstand, Wunderground, G Docs&Sheets have issues retreiving data....
So i am debating wether or not to wipe the device and start with a fresh image to see if it helps... im trying to find if this is a known issue before i do....
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will it work? Yes, since i did that
Now, i am experiencing some apps constantly crashing, and i dont know if its because of it... or if its just incompatibility of 8.1 with apps that arent updated.
Gmail, Google App, Play Games, Calendar, Newstand, Wunderground, G Docs&Sheets have issues retreiving data....
So i am debating wether or not to wipe the device and start with a fresh image to see if it helps... im trying to find if this is a known issue before i do....
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I mean I don't really care about having to reinstall apps, it's my data that I'm hesitant on since it takes a half a day just to pull everything off, flash, and put it back
factory reset fixed all my constant app crashing issues..
well, found out after reset it started again and found the culprit.... it weas Chrome v63 when i enabled Chrome Home... did it again with the constant app crashing... after resetting chrome back to normal, it went away... SIGH
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well, found out after reset it started again and found the culprit.... it weas Chrome v63 when i enabled Chrome Home... did it again with the constant app crashing... after resetting chrome back to normal, it went away... SIGH
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So what you're saying is i could be okay just flashing up?
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So what you're saying is i could be okay just flashing up?
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Do it, I did it that way. Most folks have. Could there be an issue...yea, maybe but I doubt it. If it goes bad you just do it again with the -w in there. But it won't.
spadz93 said:
Can I just flash up to 8.1 using the "-w" change in the flash-all.bat? Would prefer not to wipe my entire phone clean if possible, but if I must, then I'll do it.
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First time I flashed 8.1 I was in the same mindset as you. I removed "-w" from the script and flashed the preview a few weeks back. My SystemUI crashed upon first boot and got an error screen stating one of my partitions had been corrupted. Only way to save the phone was a factory reset.
Due to this, I will never dirty flash again. Additionally, I'll never recommend it to anyone else either. I did it out of laziness.
If you don't have it already, i highly recommend to back up your apps with Titanium Backup. I personally purchased the pro version. I then use an app (free from store) called "Z Archiver." In my opinion, it's the best zip/Archiver app available.
Using z archiver, I select all the folders I want to back up on my SD card. I conveniently zip them all together in one zip file on my SD card. Typically, I'll include my TiBu folder, DCIM (photos) folder, and various other files/mods I have on my SD card that I wish to keep. I use ADB to pull it from my phone onto my PC. After I flash the factory images, root, kernel etc and get my phone set up, I then use adb to push the backup archive file back to my SD card. From there, I unzip it and restore all my apps with TiBu. Replace my DCIM folder so I have all my photos back as well. It really only adds a few extra minutes into the update process but you can have peace of mind you did it the right way.
spadz93 said:
So what you're saying is i could be okay just flashing up?
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yes