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[Q] Can anyone take a look at my phones logcat?

Im having a problem with my phone, specifically with media scanning. It never completes im going to post a logcat of my phone to see if anyone can figure out why.

Is anyone going to answer?

How much storage does your device have free?
The media scan says it's completed. The only errors I see are I/O errors (cannot create folders).
It looks like you are out of storage, or your storage media has corrupted sectors.
Also, this is a global forum, people are on different schedules than you might be. You should allow more than 30 mins, before you start bumping the thread for answers.
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I had the same issue from a bad flash. I reflashed and it stoped.
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Well for the internal sd i have 5.39 GB free while the external is a 16 GB class 4 samsung sd. with 8.97 GB free. Its not the card i scanned it with windows and linux mint and the sectors are fine. It works whenever i put in another sdcard thats empty. as well as the one where the card is full of music.

killaphatboy said:
I had the same issue from a bad flash. I reflashed and it stoped.
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What was the issue in your bad flash that you found out?

No issue, just a bad flash. I redownloaded, reflashed and it stopped.
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barn25 said:
. It works whenever i put in another sdcard thats empty. as well as the one where the card is full of music.
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That indicates it's an issue with your SD card, or a file on it. Try copying the contents to your computer, format the card, and restore your data.
Try it again. If, still not working, format the card and add folders individually to isolate.
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Thats exactly what i did. I think either its a directory issue or something within one of the cards.

Alright heres what i found out. (this whole issues made me learnn a lot more about my phones subsystems) It turns out because i had installed a deodexed version of the ICS gallery from CM9 and it was fighting for resources from the built in one from the samsung gallery.

(APP) Move large apps to external SD. Works great!

Hey peeps. I finally got fed up running out of storage and went searching for something to fix it. Modern combat 3 takes up 1.4 gigs and Nova takes even more. With this app I can move their external data to the external SD card freeing up more room for more games.
I didn't create this app, just wanted to let people know about it. Remember you need to use the app to open these games once you move their data, otherwise they will just re download their files again.
Feel free to ask me any questions and I'll try and help if I can.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.slf.ListglApp
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lessthanzach said:
Hey peeps. I finally got fed up running out of storage and went searching for something to fix it. Modern combat 3 takes up 1.4 gigs and Nova takes even more. With this app I can move their external data to the external SD card freeing up more room for more games.
I didn't create this app, just wanted to let people know about it. Remember you need to use the app to open these games once you move their data, otherwise they will just re download their files again.
Feel free to ask me any questions and I'll try and help if I can.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.slf.ListglApp
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does not work on my S3 with AOSP CM on it. I am reverting my build.prop and see if that fixes it that I use for google wallet, perhaps it does not work on the "Nexus"

eatonjb said:
does not work on my S3 with AOSP CM on it. I am reverting my build.prop and see if that fixes it that I use for google wallet, perhaps it does not work on the "Nexus"
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What's it say? Does it throw and error or just plain when u try to do something doesn't do it?
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lessthanzach said:
What's it say? Does it throw and error or just plain when u try to do something doesn't do it?
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It says that it's not compatible with my device, but I changed the3 build.prop back to say that I have a S3 not a Nexus, and google play let me install it. I will report back when i get to try some apps.

eatonjb said:
It says that it's not compatible with my device, but I changed the3 build.prop back to say that I have a S3 not a Nexus, and google play let me install it. I will report back when i get to try some apps.
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Good. Should work fine. I noticed a couple times it wouldn't launch asphalt 7 so I checked the setting to clear cache when launching a game and that seems to have fixed it. Let me know if there are any other issues you run into.
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Now all we have to do is wait for the 64gb sdhc xc to drop in price severely

djsyche said:
Now all we have to do is wait for the 64gb sdhc xc to drop in price severely
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Yup. I found it on Amazon for 54.99 two days ago. Really solid price for a uhs class 10 64gig card.
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better app
this app is better i use it and it works for much more than just gl games..
i have all my gps maps on external sd
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262

lgkahn said:
this app is better i use it and it works for much more than just gl games..
i have all my gps maps on external sd
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
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The one I posted does more than game loft games as well. You can add any application that allows the installation of data to external cards. But whatever. Choices are good.
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I moved the data for three games and the game is asking me to download the data again

LSUtigers03 said:
I moved the data for three games and the game is asking me to download the data again
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Go into settings and check the boxes next to mount data.
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Good find followed your instructions worked perfect thanks also don't forget to recover list when you add games
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overrated doesn't move the vast majority of apps to the sd card.

zetsui said:
overrated doesn't move the vast majority of apps to the sd card.
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The vast majority don't need to be moved. But I have yet to find an app over 50 megs that I couldn't move so it's possible you are doing something wrong.
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namgisdon said:
Good find followed your instructions worked perfect thanks also don't forget to recover list when you add games
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Cool. Glad to hear it worked for you. I couldn't figure out directory bind program mentioned earlier so this was exactly what I was looking for.
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my files on my SD card being corrupted !!

i Don't know what happen !!! but it seems that media scanner was active and i have tried to wait it to finish but it didn't
i did so many restarts and clear media storage data to stop it
but after restart it was working again and i know it should work to scan all media file on my SD card
so i decided to leave it and went to sleep
after 5 hours i found that my SD card has a lot of corrupted files
and about 5 folders have been deleted !!!! one of them is a folder contains about 3 giga of APKs file and another one with about 2 giga of MP3's
i don't know what happen !!! but i lost most of my data on my SD Cards .....when i left my mobile all data was there ,,,,could media scanner delete and corrupt my files ??
please urgently help me....i have formatted my SD card and it works fine now,,,,,but i'm afraid to lose my data again since that problem happen with me 2 times during last 10 days !!!!
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What SD card was you using? I have had the same happened to me with several cards from SanDisk, both on my SGS3 and my SGN2. After changin to other bran I have had no problems.
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brochs said:
What SD card was you using? I have had the same happened to me with several cards from SanDisk, both on my SGS3 and my SGN2. After changin to other bran I have had no problems.
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i use Kingston 16 G Class 4 with my SGN2
do you mean that the problem is from the memory card ?

brochs said:
What SD card was you using? I have had the same happened to me with several cards from SanDisk, both on my SGS3 and my SGN2. After changin to other bran I have had no problems.
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Even I have the same problem on my 32 sandisk card. That's really wierd.
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I'm trying now with my wife sd card ( 8G kingston class 4) i'll check if that problem will happen again or not...i put my 16G into my wife's mobile to check if it will cause her any problem
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I have this problem with my 32 GB SanDisk too..
Sent from my boat in the middle of nowhere.

Same here problems with my 32gb card, anybody find a fix for this?
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This problem is really important and no one of moderators here focus on it
is it normal to lose millions of GB's of data with that fault !!!!! it's really important to share discussions about it

eng_samy said:
This problem is really important and no one of moderators here focus on it
is it normal to lose millions of GB's of data with that fault !!!!! it's really important to share discussions about it
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Moderators aren't here to make sure every question is answered, nor do they know every answer. They're here to mostly make sure people play nicely and things are posted in the proper areas.
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I would love to help you, but help yourself first: ask a better question
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I didn't say that moderators should have an answer....i said that moderators should focus on that problem and share it till we all find a solution for it..
I think before you teach me how to ask a smart question...you need first to learn how to read and understand other's questions !!!
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eng_samy said:
I didn't say that moderators should have an answer....i said that moderators should focus on that problem and share it till we all find a solution for it..
I think before you teach me how to ask a smart question...you need first to learn how to read and understand other's questions !!!
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This is the same old old old problem from the module called "MediaServer" , The service mediaserver (media scanner) can go infinite loop while scanning some wrong media files on your SD Card. High CPU causing very short battery life for other phone users. And nonstop sdcard operations can cause bad blocks. And the "wear leveling" will help to distribute the bad blocks randomly anywhere on your card and soon all files will mess up.
the walk around is, check all your media files on pc, or copy them back to your phone slowly, while monitoring if there is a hang.
it seems that android system developers maybe find it hard to duplicate the problem or something. its on the bugs list. No one have a fix so far.

eng_samy said:
I didn't say that moderators should have an answer....i said that moderators should focus on that problem and share it till we all find a solution for it..
I think before you teach me how to ask a smart question...you need first to learn how to read and understand other's questions !!!
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Again, not the responsibility of the moderators. And don't take such offense to my sig line.
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kylechen said:
This is the same old old old problem from the module called "MediaServer" , The service mediaserver (media scanner) can go infinite loop while scanning some wrong media files on your SD Card. High CPU causing very short battery life for other phone users. And nonstop sdcard operations can cause bad blocks. And the "wear leveling" will help to distribute the bad blocks randomly anywhere on your card and soon all files will mess up.
the walk around is, check all your media files on pc, or copy them back to your phone slowly, while monitoring if there is a hang.
it seems that android system developers maybe find it hard to duplicate the problem or something. its on the bugs list. No one have a fix so far.
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yea actually i know about the problem of media scanner that it keeps scanning when finds bad file
but could it delete most of data on the Ext SD card like what happened with me ? i lost about 8 G/byte

Format sdcard
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UtkarshGupta said:
Format sdcard
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i did ...and that problem happened two times

Try running emmc check app from play store.
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What should that app do??
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My 32 gig sandisk also had broken last week..just replace with new one cause still under warranty. .and the problem are not arising yet..
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I have replaced my 16 Gig Kingston class 4 with a new 16 Gig class 10 kingston too !!
i'll check if the problem will happen again

I have been using my new sd card all this time...and no problems found
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[Q] Swapping external SD with internal ?

Hello guys!
my xperia is really short on internal memory, i can only install a couple of games on it before the memory is completeley full.
i've been searching the intertubez for a swap but i couldnt find a good one for the play. I have a 16 GB card, wich has 7GB free now.
Can somebody explain it to me or link me to a Thread??
Thanks in advance ;3

timmy-kidd said:
Hello guys!
my xperia is really short on internal memory, i can only install a couple of games on it before the memory is completeley full.
i've been searching the intertubez for a swap but i couldnt find a good one for the play. I have a 16 GB card, wich has 7GB free now.
Can somebody explain it to me or link me to a Thread??
Thanks in advance ;3
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No sd swap available but if you're rooted you can install link2sd which installs pretty much everything to the sd (including data files that are normally installed on internal) meaning you save all internal space. I have hundreds of apps installed and still have around 200mb internal storage free.
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Thanks man!
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Freezing when installing/updating apps...

So ever since I started modding this phone with custom ROMs, I have had an issue with almost every ROM freezing just a bit when installing/updating apps. It all started after installing Chemistry ROM, and then has been happening on every ROM I've been on since then (Paranoid, TPR, Goodness). It happens right after the app finishes installing, my phone is useless and frozen for a good 5-10 seconds. Has anyone had that issue and possibly know a fix?
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Maybe something happened to your SD card?
There are lots of posts where wonky sd cards create some strange behavior.
I know there are some posts with the correct steps to backup your sd card contents, format it and then copy the contents back to it.
might be worth a shot.
I hope you get it fixed soon

haoleflip said:
So ever since I started modding this phone with custom ROMs, I have had an issue with almost every ROM freezing just a bit when installing/updating apps. It all started after installing Chemistry ROM, and then has been happening on every ROM I've been on since then (Paranoid, TPR, Goodness). It happens right after the app finishes installing, my phone is useless and frozen for a good 5-10 seconds. Has anyone had that issue and possibly know a fix?
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Maybe your partition got messed up. I know it seems like a PITA but did you try to Odin back to stock and reset partition? Not sure if you need a special file for the reset of the partition though? Maybe someone can answer that before you proceed.

I would say to back up your internal and external sdcards and then reformat each one twice...then go into recovery, wipe everything and reflash your rom
I know its sounds like a long and annoying process, but in the long run your sdcards will perform better even if they arent the source of this issue

Here's a short video. You can see how I install the app and then it freezes and then all of a sudden "snaps back" to what I was doing.
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?featur...ch?v=kDNSEImgPtQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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jdelano said:
Maybe something happened to your SD card?
There are lots of posts where wonky sd cards create some strange behavior.
I know there are some posts with the correct steps to backup your sd card contents, format it and then copy the contents back to it.
might be worth a shot.
I hope you get it fixed soon
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Something actually did happen to my old SD card, but I have had a new one for a couple weeks now and having the same issue.
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haoleflip said:
Something actually did happen to my old SD card, but I have had a new one for a couple weeks now and having the same issue.
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Try running some read/write benchmarks on your internal sd. The transfer speeds may just be slow and thats whats causing it
What type of sdcard do you have? Size and class please

CNexus said:
Try running some read/write benchmarks on your internal sd. The transfer speeds may just be slow and thats whats causing it
What type of sdcard do you have? Size and class please
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I have a Samsung SD Card HC Class 2.
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haoleflip said:
I have a Samsung SD Card HC Class 2.
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Ok, try some benchmarks, a reformat may be in your future if its the transfers are lagging

Sorry to sound like a noob Lil but what should I use to run the benchmark? Does the benchmark fix it? I've used quadrant standard a couple times, just don't know what I'm looking for...
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haoleflip said:
Sorry to sound like a noob Lil but what should I use to run the benchmark? Does the benchmark fix it? I've used quadrant standard a couple times, just don't know what I'm looking for...
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Haha no problem, just download any app that will test your transfer speeds (read and write) a couple times, if quadrant tell you that then use that
What i mean when i say this is not that it will fix it, but it'll tell you if the transfer component is the issue behind why you're experiencing lag when installing apps. You can then proceed to fix it by reformatting your internal and external sdcards

OK so I downloaded Antutu and ran a benchmark for Database IO and SD Card Read/Write and got a score of 555. Is that ok? What do I do now?
Honestly have no idea what I'm doing or what I'm looking for. How do you format like you said?
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I went to recovery and formatted everything that could be formatted and doqnloaded everything again. That fixed it! Thanks.
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haoleflip said:
I went to recovery and formatted everything that could be formatted and doqnloaded everything again. That fixed it! Thanks.
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Lol. I was gonna suggest reformatting your sdcards to FAT32, but i guess a reformat/wipe works too :goodn

Ugh, it's happening again....$#@%!#H%#^@%*M#&<(M*&@Q#[email protected]%$&N