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Been having a weird issue with my phone lately. I'm rooted, s-off, running stock 2.2, no custom kernel.
Lately what will happen is my phones 3G won't work for loading pages, apps, streaming video as it'll be stuck "uploading". By that I mean the upstream arrow will either stay lit or blink. I've tried to pin point an app that would be doing it with no success. It'll do it for a minute sometimes two then work normally. Seems to happen most often when I wake the phone. Any thoughts?
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Hmm, sounds like it might be some app, or service phoning home and hanging. Try using a process manager app to see if you can detect which apps and services are running when your phone is doing that. Try killing all nonessential services, then see if the condition persists. If no, then reactivate one service at a time until it does. If the problem persists after killing all nonessential services, have a look at running processes, and kill any that seem suspicious. Once you know which app, service l, or process is the offending party, try uninstalling the related app.
Hope that's helpful.
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I'll give that a try. Thanks.
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So after a few weeks of trying, killing apps or processes does nothing to stop the issue. Its very random when it happens and when it does I can do nothing that uses 3G.
Anyone else have an idea?
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Is there an app that will show what's using my network in real time? Not a stats app but actual, current usage.
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Could it be PRL and location based? Starting to get real frustrating.
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Sorry you're still having trouble
Hi Phaded,
Sorry that my suggestion yielded no positive results for you. If you've killed all non-essential services and processes, and it's still appears to be "uploading," something is definitely not right. I don't think it's PRL, but I personally don't know enough about how the radio works to say for sure.
At this point, you could try a different ROM. If you don't already have it, I recommend ROM Manager root. It's totally worth the $ and is available on Android Market. It makes trying different ROMs really easy.
Trying a new ROM would also effectively reinstall your radio, which might do the trick. Before you flash a new ROM, do a nandroid backup from recovery, and backup your apps with Titanium Backup, which is another must-have, IMO.
If all else fails, RMA? It could be hardware... A genius with this stuff I am not, but I have beaten my head against many a wall..
Good luck!
I installed Virtuous 3.1 last night and so far so good. Going to keep an eye out for the rest if the day so hopefully it is fixed.
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24 hours and no issue with it. This was a multiple time a day occurrence so safe to say it resolved itself.
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Congrats Phaded!
Welcome to the ranks of the Virtuous! Glad to hear it's resolved.
Now you've got ROM Manager, you can safely try a host of different ROMs and themes. I recommend the Revolutions theme on top of Virtuous - it's very pretty.
Best,
MaurLife
Having same "stuck in upload mode" issue
I have a non-rooted, stock G2 (from T-Mobile) running Android 2.2.
Every day, as many as twenty or thirty times per day, the phone gets stuck in "upload" mode. The data icon shows that data is uploading (or trying to) and I am unable to use any data-related services (whether tethered or on the phone itself). When it happens it can last anywhere from 10 seconds to 5 minutes. The only way I can forcibly stop it is to completely shut down the radio by toggling airplane mode off then on, forcing the phone to reacquire a data signal.
I've tried resetting the phone, deleting every app, reinserting the SIM card, and even formatting the SD card. Nothing seems to work to solve the issue.
My two main concerns are that 1) I can't reliably download apps, check mail, send pics/videos, or other data-related processes. 2) I'm concerned that if something IS uploading, it may be uploading a LOT and adding to my 5GB per month throttle-cap on T-Mobile.
I've ended every endable process, and killed or uninstalled every app possible (I can't seem to remove bloatware without rooting, which I'm not yet eager to do as this phone is less than 60 days old, and I'm otherwise happy with it as is).
Any suggestions or recent information as to why this is occurring?
Hi,is anyone else having problem downloading apps via Market?I've got an unbranded,unrooted Froyo Desire and downloads were fine yesterday but for some reason unknown,Google Market has refuse to complete downloads.Is this issue general?Cheers
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It is driving me crazy all day as well! I got the impression that it was because I installed a new ROM or because I added an EXT partition in Clockworkmod recovery. This was the first time I wanted to try A2SD and it drove me crazy all day not being able to download apps anymore...
Not over Wifi, not over 3G...
And now I have to conclude more people are having this problem today haha
OMG
Yer its killing me,
I need to download My Backup Pro
Just flashed rom and cannot restore nothing.
Just noticed the same issue, was trying to update the YouTube app and download failed. Have tried a factory reset and this hasn't worked. There is a list of possible fixes on the Google support forum, just search for marketplace fix.
Seems odd that several people are having the same issue on the same day, perhaps its a marketplace fault?
Yeah the market is not working properly at the moment.
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Damn I need my apps!
Alright so it's not just me going nuts...
same for me. been all night. driving me mad.
Someone from an android forum website suggested the following quote and guess what?,it worked! :-
"I know its going to sound daft, but load up Google talk, sign in, and then retry. I had a problem with my Hero back in the day and that worked. My downloads are going through fine atm"
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Market working again
Had the same issue all day yesterday. The Market is working again this morning.
Had the same problem last night. It seems to be working fine today.
Working for me too this morning, tired the Google Talk tip along with many others re: clearing out various caches but none seemed to work. Obviously a fault with the market place than our actual phones.
So is this a common problem then, as I've just recently flashed my phone to 2.2 on the JPM firmware. I was beginning to think it was this, but after I thought about it, it happened to me this morning while I was still running 2.1.
How annoying!
hmm it diden't work yesterday for me but this morning it worked. but now it dosen't :S
I was having the same problem and tried the talk app logging in method which had worked previously in similar circumstances, but this time didn't work yesterday. Later I cleared the cache for the market app via the settings menu and it worked immediately, but was slower than usual.
my unrooted 2.2 desire will not update or download new apps from the market either.
i was thinking it was a memory issue.... had some issues on ota rom upgrade recently and i needed to uninstall 'Google earth' to get it to work despite phone showing ample memory free.
Also I have had the problem since downloading 'voice search' or this could be a coincidence.
So my phone or marketplace fault?
Is everyone else able to download/install again now?
[SOLVED] This is not a market / memory / phone issue
Guys,
I was having this exact same problem and after doing a bit of searching on the internet I found a solution:
It's something to do with internal phone cookies / tokens. The market depends on two sets of data - the market app and "download manager".
You can fix this problem easily in the future if you force close both, and then clear the cache and the data from both from settings -> applications -> manage apps
The reasons signing into google talk would have worked is that it updated the internal token
It seems the time out is very brief - but this is indeed the issue and its fixed every time using this method.
As far as I can tell there is a bug on Android developers already registered.
Sorry Mate ... doesen't fix the problem for me
make sure you force close the apps, market and download manager. then clear the data.
click on your market download list to rebuild it too. then it should work
I had same problem on my desire, and I looked the way to fix it. On phones memory was just 8% of free space, and I erased some apps. On the end I concluded that phone can't download or update anything if it has less than 10% free memory space. After I erased some apps and on that way make more free space on phones memory I was easy downloaded and updated apps from market. I must say that I have non rooted phone.
I hope so that I help with my thread.
So I've searched and searched and searched, and cannot find someone with the same issue as me. I am using GingerVillain ROM, and have recently noticed a TON of data being eaten up every day. I mean I normally would use less than 100MB per month, all of a sudden Im up to over 120MB a DAY. Doing nothing but email push! Also my battery life has just gone to nothing. Usually at around 85% as I leave work at night, now less than 40%.
Using 3G watchdog pro, Ive found out what is eating all the data. DRM protected content storage, download, download manager are all listed under an 85MB file that is downloaded every single day, sometimes twice a day. I'm assuming its an OTA update. I have frozen DRM protected content storage, no help. Frozen Download manager, well that sucks because the market won't work at all. Finally froze "download" and we'll see if that helps.
Anyone with any ideas what could be happening? Ive narrowed down what apps Ive recently installed, the only one that comes to mind is the Amazon MP3 store. I uninstalled that last week, but still getting this issue.
Any help would be AMAZING!
john
Same here
Just like the OP i've noticed that my data usage was unusually high in the month of September . At least 75-80 mb downloaded on a daily basis! I'm using Traffic Monitor and and it lists android.media:10014 as the culprit and under that header it lists Download Manager, Downloads, DRM Protected Storage and Media Storage. When I check task manager it usually shows DRM Protected Storage Media as active.
I'm actually starting to wonder if I downloaded some rogue app.
If someone can shed some light on this issue there is a big thank you in it for you!
TMOBILE
G2
MIUI 1.8.12
Found out what's causing excessive data use, its Market trying to update itself. Only way I can stop this is to use Droidwall to block 'android.media' but then Market will not download apps.
The 70-80 meg one is the update from tmobile.
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I never truly found out what was causing the data usage myself. The issue went away once I wiped and re-installed the latest MIUI ROM.
spudata said:
Found out what's causing excessive data use, its Market trying to update itself. Only way I can stop this is to use Droidwall to block 'android.media' but then Market will not download apps.
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You could freeze market updater with titanium to keep the market from updating
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C.Flat said:
You could freeze market updater with titanium to keep the market from
I tried that, and also tried removing marketupdater.apk from system. Both methods stopped it from updating but android.media still downloads an obscene amount of data. Very strange.
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I am facing the same. Yesteday the DRM.... downloaded 114M!! Anyone knows how to stop this?? ... Thanks,
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I am facing the same. Yesteday the DRM.... downloaded 114M!! Anyone knows how to stop this?? ... Thanks,
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The only way I found to stop this was to let market update itself and live with it. Its really not that bad when you've been using it for a while.
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if this is updating apps you can set the auto update on playstore to update only on wifi... Or disable the auto update at all..
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I know it's an old thread but this is what came up on google so i guess i'll post here in case someone have the same problem.
I'm not sure if anyone else is having this problem, but my phone seems to store some apps' cache in "USB Storage Data." The result: some apps become ridiculously large in size. My Google Plus, Google Maps, 500px, and Between apps have gotten to over 1gb each! The worst part is that this area is not affected by clearing an app's cache, and I have yo delete the app's data to do anything. I would think that this phone would have some kind of automatic data clearing procedure or something? Why are really old Google plus posts, for example, being kept on my phone's memory long after I read them?? Also, this is causing my phone to become noticeably laggier over time. In fact, before my last reset a week ago, some apps had gotten so large, that the phone no longer loaded their sizes. If I go to the app info page, it just says "loading..." next to the various areas, and even after an hour of waiting, nothing appears. Thus, I am unable to clear cache/data! I've had this happen on 4.0.1, 4.0.2, and 4.0.4 and CM9...so every single OS I've had on the phone! Surely, others must be experiencing this problem? Or is everyone here changing roms every week? :S
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P.S. I've looked up online, and the only topics I've found complain about Google+ USB Storage Data being too large, however, I'm noticing that many other apps are doing the same, as I mentioned. Is this an inherent flaw in ICS?
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No. Maybe Google +, but not ICS.
I don't have even one app doing that.
Google Maps does it too though! The only difference is that Maps has a button to reset this memory within the app. There's still no way of doing it through settings. I feel like if a developer makes an app work this way and does not include a setting to reset this memory from within the app, it'll continue to climb indefinitely. Speaking of Google+, is there a way to reset that app's excess memory usage that climbs indefinitely? Its ridiculous that Google hasn't resolved this issue when it has been reported so many times.
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This is definitely an issue on the Gnex (specially the int'l that is 16GB only). I am looking into getting the int'l Gnex and I'm looking into all these things. Perhaps I can do w/o Google+, but not w/o google Maps.
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Google Maps does it too though! The only difference is that Maps has a button to reset this memory within the app. There's still no way of doing it through settings. I feel like if a developer makes an app work this way and does not include a setting to reset this memory from within the app, it'll continue to climb indefinitely. Speaking of Google+, is there a way to reset that app's excess memory usage that climbs indefinitely? Its ridiculous that Google hasn't resolved this issue when it has been reported so many times.
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Of course it does. It caches what it is downloading for faster fetching.
Delete google +2.0
chestvrg said:
This is definitely an issue on the Gnex (specially the int'l that is 16GB only). I am looking into getting the int'l Gnex and I'm looking into all these things. Perhaps I can do w/o Google+, but not w/o google Maps.
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Thank you! Finally some acknowledgment that I'm not the only person with this issue. Indeed, I do have the 16gb GSM version Are there any workarounds aside from flashing a new ROM every few weeks and losing all my data?
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I would complain to the app developers you have issue with. Otherwise, clear data on the apps you have issue with. I am using the same data on my phone from over a month ago, and do not have this issue. It is likely I don't use the same apps as you, however.
These are temp files these apps work with. There is no real workaround other than what I posted above.
Thanks for your suggestion. There are, however problems with it. Namely, that it erases all app data, such as anything I've saved, etc. Also, the fact that once the USB Storage Data exceeds a certain number, the app info hangs up on "loading..." and the buttons to clear cache, and clear data are disabled. Even clicking uninstall hangs on "uninstalling..." This seems like a big flaw to me that I wish Google would address...
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9942560/when-to-clear-the-cache-dir-in-android
Same problem, a solution without having to do a factory reset?
Anyone come up with anything here?
What's happening, guys? I had a question. I disconnected my phone a while back & have no plans to get back on Sprint anytime soon (broke college student!)
Anyway, I use my phone as a media player & for the useful apps. My phone has been freezing way too much lately, to the point where I've had to download task killers to prevent apps from launching. I never had this problem before. I blame it on the few times my phone has been dropped. I've tried the Supercharge script, but the freezing continues. I've also tried fresh installs with no luck. I'm currently on the People's ROM 2.21. I have a feeling that it's due to the fact that I'm on BML instead of my usual MTD, but I'm not sure.
So I was wondering, what "phone apps/processes" can I delete, since my phone is no longer in service?
Just because it's slow and you want to remove cellular services?
From what I understand it's you're having too much apps that runs at background automatically... Try using Autostarts to cut some of them.
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Not to be rude, but you should re-read my post.
"my phone has been freezing way too much lately, to the point where I've had to download task killers to prevent apps from launching."
After starting a couple of apps, which I know are background processes, I get on the Autokiller Memory Optimizer app (which by the way, is perfect for seeing all apps that are running, including system) & close them. It sucks to be doing it every 15 mins, though. If I forget, then the phone freezes.
I guess what I am asking for is what apps can I remove, since I don't use the actual phone anymore? (dialer, voice mail, etc.)
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Somewhere on here is a list of all the apks on the phone and what they do. A google search should pull it up.
Also, if you haven't done so already, go to the TPR OP and grab the V6 Supercharger script. It works wonders for keep memory free.
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Not to be rude, but you should re-read my post.
"my phone has been freezing way too much lately, to the point where I've had to download task killers to prevent apps from launching."
After starting a couple of apps, which I know are background processes, I get on the Autokiller Memory Optimizer app (which by the way, is perfect for seeing all apps that are running, including system) & close them. It sucks to be doing it every 15 mins, though. If I forget, then the phone freezes.
I guess what I am asking for is what apps can I remove, since I don't use the actual phone anymore? (dialer, voice mail, etc.)
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Yeah I already got it, it's that your phone lags and freezes so you wanna remove some apps INCLUDING cellular services. Yet I insist your trying Autostarts and airplane mode, this combination, if properly set (in Autostarts you can decide whether an app starts during startup, when you turn on WiFi, when you plug in, etc.), can save you a lot of CPU power and memory while keeping the potentials of the apps (not removing them because somehow you may need them)
As for really removing the apps... There are lists floating around telling which APKs can be safely deleted but they're for CM and are based on the "safety" of not losing phone service... So it's really up to you to take the risk. Nandroid backup before you experiment and everything should be fine
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So he can remove them and then reflash a ROM or Odin stock and get all those apks back instead of having to freeze and refreeze apps all the time.
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theunderhawk has a wifi only version preset to remove cellular function.