Hi all,
I have as strange issue in regards to apps on the SD card. I'm rooted, S-off on 3.29 stock. I installed installLocationMod, which enabled me to move any apps, even those not necessarily programmed, to be moved on 2.2 to the SD card. I basically moved everything that's not system, gapp, or widget related.
Everything works great, until I have to reboot, or I attach the phone to a PC as a hard drive. Basically, the apps don't come back after the phone comes back up, or its disconnected from the PC. I have to spend many hours doing reboots, battery pulls, dalvic cache wipes, etc, and then seemingly randomly, they pop back up.
When they're missing in the app list, the settings / app manager shows that they're there, but they're always "computing" when I select one to read the properties. Also, the market installer gets stuck, and I can't uninstall anything either.
Recently, I've read threads about partitioning the card before moving apps to SD.. is that still necessary with 2.2? Is that why this is such a pain? I'm thinking maybe the only solution is to move everything back to where they came from, and only move those apps that are specifically programmed to be moved on a non-rooted phone, and get rid of the modlocationinstall program altogether. That's a drag because I don't have room for all the apps, so I'll have to lose some... which is one of the reasons I rooted to begin with.
Any ideas? BTW, this is the second SD card that does this. The card is good.
Thanks,
Mike
Hey, I found this elsewhere on the forums in the LimeMOD rom in regards to mod install location:
"important !!! after a reboot you need to stop LauncherPro in the running applications menu to reload all sd installed apps !!! "
Could Sense be the reason for the missing apps issue? Is there a way to 'postpone' it on reboot?
Thx,
Mike
I've been having ever same problem
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I've been having ever same problem
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I'm thinking I might try stopping the Sense service after the reboot and letting it restart and see if they come back. I'll try it if I have to reboot again.. I'm actually avoiding rebooting at all cost now since it takes hours of frustration to get back to working order again.
Another thing I noticed.. alot of programs have that I moved have hidden services that are listed in a start-up auditor I installed just to see what the system was doing on boot up. I originally thought I'd be safe moving them since I didn't have widgets associated with them, or they didn't seem system related. Now I'm beginning to realize that I might have to be more careful what is moved, since I don't always know how they'll behave on boot. I suppose that's another reason why its best for non-techies just to rely on devs to build the default 2.2 a2sd behaviour into their programs, rather than forcing them there with stuff like mod install location.
Oh well... I'll keep you all updated when I know more. I'm rather surprised though, that more people aren't experiencing this...
Restarting Sense doesn't do anything. It seems still to be completely random.. usually after 4 or 5 hours of me continually manual rebooting. Nobody has any input at all?
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I'm thinking I might try stopping the Sense service after the reboot and letting it restart and see if they come back. I'll try it if I have to reboot again.. I'm actually avoiding rebooting at all cost now since it takes hours of frustration to get back to working order again.
Another thing I noticed.. alot of programs have that I moved have hidden services that are listed in a start-up auditor I installed just to see what the system was doing on boot up. I originally thought I'd be safe moving them since I didn't have widgets associated with them, or they didn't seem system related. Now I'm beginning to realize that I might have to be more careful what is moved, since I don't always know how they'll behave on boot. I suppose that's another reason why its best for non-techies just to rely on devs to build the default 2.2 a2sd behaviour into their programs, rather than forcing them there with stuff like mod install location.
Oh well... I'll keep you all updated when I know more. I'm rather surprised though, that more people aren't experiencing this...
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update:
After several unsuccessful reboots, I was able to get back the apps by going into settings / phone storage and unmounting the card, and remounting it, with no reboot. I've tried that in the past and just had the phone lock up, but this time it worked. FWIW, modinstalllocation was set to auto, and debug was off. I don't know if its repeatable, since I don't relish having half my phone unavailable for half the day to test it, but next time I lose everyting, I'll try it again and update the thread. I realize that judging from the lack of responses, most of you all don't really care, but since one guy did say he had the same problem, and to prevent someone in the future from going through all this aggravation, I'll keep on top of this. It will be my little contribution to the forum...
UPDATE: Had to finally do a reboot, and all the SD apps came back! I'm thinking the card dismount/remount did the trick
Mike
Okay, one other curious question...On CM10 7/29 build...is anyone getting Android File Transfer to work? Yes, I'm on a Mac, but it was working fine before, granted I had to call it a camera instead of MTP, but it worked just fine. Now that I got a 32GB SD, I'm wanting to transfer everything over, but now when I plug it in, I get nothing. Any ideas?
So, I've flashed all the roms on my SD card...CM9, CM10, Ultimatum, AOKP, now I'm on Paranoid Android(liking this one best because it's a mix of CM10 with more stuff working so far..) but anyway. I noticed on all of the JB-based roms, Android File Transfer no longer works. This wouldn't be an issue because I could flash Ultimatum, which is ICS-based, right? Still doesn't work. I've read around and some people say Samsung updated something that broke AFT for mac...but I'm just not sure. I just got a new 32GB SD, so I want to move the stuff from my 8GB to this one...but using wireless solutions will take hours on end...and I'm not even sure which one of these works the best. Any ideas?
I believe the file transfer on android does not like to work with cm10 on this phone and its not an issue that seems too high on the devs list because of the few amount of mac users. Really sucks but meh, honestly if i want to transfer stuff i boot up windows through bootcamp and do my thing
My suggestion is, flash a stock based rom and just move the majority of the stuff using mac and then for smaller/more periodic stuff after that you could just use a wireless transfer thing. Because for me, after my initial sync of all my music i usually only sync photos or a few songs at a time so wireless syncing wouldn't be too big of an issue.
Indeed, I found a workaround to use CyberDuck to transfer stuff...of course, my first big transfer is going to take hours, which sucks---I wish they would look at this issue...even if Mac users are the minority, that's a pretty big issue-Normally I wouldn't have issue with either dual boot or Parallels, but I'm broke at the moment so I'm running a G5 iMac. While it runs, you can imagine how slow it can get, since this is pre-aluminum models... I tried flashing a stock-based rom (Ultimatum) and it still didn't work. I've heard that a Samsung minor update might have broken it, but I didn't get any OTA updates. I'm just glad CyberDuck/SSHDroid let it work just like my jailbroken iPhone works with CyberDuck the same way, so I'm familiar with it. I guess I'll need to go back around the forums I was searching for answers on and post a tutorial on using CyberDuck with the S3.
I've had my AT&T SG3 for a few months now, and I rooted it right away and had a lot of fun "getting to know" Android (former iOS user). I constantly read these forums and found it daunting to decide whether to flash a custom ROM and which one. Finally, I bit the bullet. I did all the things I was supposed to... nandroid backup, titanium backup, clear cache, factory reset, flash, reboot, restore/reinstall individual apps & data.
I use my phone; it's not a toy, and I don't have more than one; so I was a bit nervous about it and took all the precautions. But, let me tell you that the CM10 ROM (cm-10-20120911-EXPERIMENTAL-d2att-M1) I installed blew my mind on what a positive difference it made. The phone is super fast, and various problems I had with the stock ROM (that came with the phone) has mysteriously gone away. I also feel liberated, because I did not realize how many features of the phone and OS were being "turned off" by the carrier and/or device manufacturer so as not to compete with their own apps/features.
I do realize this is still an "alpha" or "experimental" ROM, but I have to say I am extremely pleased so far. Reading about the "known bugs", I was almost expecting to have to flash back to stock. However, I have to say that many of the known bugs have not shown up on my device/carrier.
Here are the list of issues I had to overcome:
- ** The external SD card's file system was corrupted, but was recovered by putting the card in my windows PC and performing a chkdsk /r to repair the filesystem. Once repaired, all files were intact and I back them up to my computer, then formatted the card with GUIFormat from Ridgecrop to FAT32 with default allocation unit size. Something positive that I didn't expect was, when I used Quickformat to reformat from eFAT to FAT32, all the files were still intact. I didn't even have to recopy from the backup on my computer.
- Initially, I could not get the internet connection to work. I was connected to the network, but no internet (over carrier). I spent tons of time messing with the APN settings and trying all sorts of things. In the end, I just restored the default APNs and rebooted. So, once you go through the initial setup of the phone after flashing the ROM, you might just want to reboot once more for good measure!
- Using Titanium Backup, I restored many apps and their data, including SMS, MMS, etc. I made sure to check the option to "Migrate System Data" in hopes of making sure that the SMS/MMS data would convert and work properly from ICS to JB, and it did.
- ** The one important thing that could not be restored was the "accounts" data, so I had to re-setup my accounts and tell it what to sync for each account, default calendars, etc. This was by far the biggest inconvenience; however, I now have it setup to backup account settings to Google. I don't recall if that was available in ICS, but it is in JB; so I'm hoping that will make it much easier next time.
- Another thing was figuring out how to get Google Now assigned to a hardware button... you just go into Settings>System>Hardware keys, and the trick is to assign "voice search" to the "Menu key (long press)". I had seen all kinds of crazy workarounds and suggestions, but it's that simple.
- Once last quirk that I have NOT resolved yet, but the various system apps (Camera specifically) don't seem to save to the external SD card first and I can't find any setting to tell them to "prefer" the external SD card. If anyone knows how to to this in CM10 JB, please let me know. Not a big deal for now, because if the internal SD starts to fill up, I'll just copy to external SD.
I wish all this was documented somewhere because I spent a LOT of time dealing with these really simple quirks. Hindsight is 20/20! So, I thought I'd post to save you from sleepless hours after flashing from ICS to JB. I think "when/if" my carrier makes the the JB OTA update available, I may still stick with the CM10 ROM. I thought I'd miss various AT&T and Samsung apps like S-Voice or AT&T Hotspot, but I don't at all!
Some stock ROM quirks resolved:
- WIFI is faster and more reliable and seems to automatically switch between the two routers in my house based on signal strength!
- Carrier data is faster and signal strength appears to have improved. In the stock ICS, my phone seemed to get confused when switching back and forth from carrier data and wifi data
- The infamous audio crackling/popping/hissing is gone, and I love this Apollo player (very fast and nice UI)
- Everything about the phone is faster!
- The display/resolution seems clearer/crisper
- The auto brightness seems to work a lot better
- Account Sync and "Push" notifications seem to be much more reliable than before (maybe something to do with the WIFI/Carrier switching quirks in stock ICS)
- Can't say enough about AOSP Jelly Bean and how much better it is than Stock AT&T/Samsung ICS w/ TouchWiz
- The only stock app I miss is the Calendar! I think this is pretty "known" that the CM10 Calendar is basic.
Thanks for listening. Hopefully you'll find some useful info.
cbski9 said:
I've had my AT&T SG3 for a few months now, and I rooted it right away and had a lot of fun "getting to know" Android (former iOS user). I constantly read these forums and found it daunting to decide whether to flash a custom ROM and which one. Finally, I bit the bullet. I did all the things I was supposed to... nandroid backup, titanium backup, clear cache, factory reset, flash, reboot, restore/reinstall individual apps & data.
I use my phone; it's not a toy, and I don't have more than one; so I was a bit nervous about it and took all the precautions. But, let me tell you that the CM10 ROM (cm-10-20120911-EXPERIMENTAL-d2att-M1) I installed blew my mind on what a positive difference it made. The phone is super fast, and various problems I had with the stock ROM (that came with the phone) has mysteriously gone away. I also feel liberated, because I did not realize how many features of the phone and OS were being "turned off" by the carrier and/or device manufacturer so as not to compete with their own apps/features.
I do realize this is still an "alpha" or "experimental" ROM, but I have to say I am extremely pleased so far. Reading about the "known bugs", I was almost expecting to have to flash back to stock. However, I have to say that many of the known bugs have not shown up on my device/carrier.
Here are the list of issues I had to overcome:
- ** The external SD card's file system was corrupted, but was recovered by putting the card in my windows PC and performing a chkdsk /r to repair the filesystem. Once repaired, all files were intact and I back them up to my computer, then formatted the card with GUIFormat from Ridgecrop to FAT32 with default allocation unit size. Something positive that I didn't expect was, when I used Quickformat to reformat from eFAT to FAT32, all the files were still intact. I didn't even have to recopy from the backup on my computer.
- Initially, I could not get the internet connection to work. I was connected to the network, but no internet (over carrier). I spent tons of time messing with the APN settings and trying all sorts of things. In the end, I just restored the default APNs and rebooted. So, once you go through the initial setup of the phone after flashing the ROM, you might just want to reboot once more for good measure!
- Using Titanium Backup, I restored many apps and their data, including SMS, MMS, etc. I made sure to check the option to "Migrate System Data" in hopes of making sure that the SMS/MMS data would convert and work properly from ICS to JB, and it did.
- ** The one important thing that could not be restored was the "accounts" data, so I had to re-setup my accounts and tell it what to sync for each account, default calendars, etc. This was by far the biggest inconvenience; however, I now have it setup to backup account settings to Google. I don't recall if that was available in ICS, but it is in JB; so I'm hoping that will make it much easier next time.
- Another thing was figuring out how to get Google Now assigned to a hardware button... you just go into Settings>System>Hardware keys, and the trick is to assign "voice search" to the "Menu key (long press)". I had seen all kinds of crazy workarounds and suggestions, but it's that simple.
- Once last quirk that I have NOT resolved yet, but the various system apps (Camera specifically) don't seem to save to the external SD card first and I can't find any setting to tell them to "prefer" the external SD card. If anyone knows how to to this in CM10 JB, please let me know. Not a big deal for now, because if the internal SD starts to fill up, I'll just copy to external SD.
I wish all this was documented somewhere because I spent a LOT of time dealing with these really simple quirks. Hindsight is 20/20! So, I thought I'd post to save you from sleepless hours after flashing from ICS to JB. I think "when/if" my carrier makes the the JB OTA update available, I may still stick with the CM10 ROM. I thought I'd miss various AT&T and Samsung apps like S-Voice or AT&T Hotspot, but I don't at all!
Some stock ROM quirks resolved:
- WIFI is faster and more reliable and seems to automatically switch between the two routers in my house based on signal strength!
- Carrier data is faster and signal strength appears to have improved. In the stock ICS, my phone seemed to get confused when switching back and forth from carrier data and wifi data
- The infamous audio crackling/popping/hissing is gone, and I love this Apollo player (very fast and nice UI)
- Everything about the phone is faster!
- The display/resolution seems clearer/crisper
- The auto brightness seems to work a lot better
- Account Sync and "Push" notifications seem to be much more reliable than before (maybe something to do with the WIFI/Carrier switching quirks in stock ICS)
- Can't say enough about AOSP Jelly Bean and how much better it is than Stock AT&T/Samsung ICS w/ TouchWiz
- The only stock app I miss is the Calendar! I think this is pretty "known" that the CM10 Calendar is basic.
Thanks for listening. Hopefully you'll find some useful info.
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Hi,
Thanks for documenting your experiences. Just wondering how is the battery life so far? Is it better than the Stock ROM?
thanks
TZ
cbski9 said:
I've had my AT&T SG3 for a few months now, and I rooted it right away and had a lot of fun "getting to know" Android (former iOS user). I constantly read these forums and found it daunting to decide whether to flash a custom ROM and which one. Finally, I bit the bullet. I did all the things I was supposed to... nandroid backup, titanium backup, clear cache, factory reset, flash, reboot, restore/reinstall individual apps & data.
I use my phone; it's not a toy, and I don't have more than one; so I was a bit nervous about it and took all the precautions. But, let me tell you that the CM10 ROM (cm-10-20120911-EXPERIMENTAL-d2att-M1) I installed blew my mind on what a positive difference it made. The phone is super fast, and various problems I had with the stock ROM (that came with the phone) has mysteriously gone away. I also feel liberated, because I did not realize how many features of the phone and OS were being "turned off" by the carrier and/or device manufacturer so as not to compete with their own apps/features.
I do realize this is still an "alpha" or "experimental" ROM, but I have to say I am extremely pleased so far. Reading about the "known bugs", I was almost expecting to have to flash back to stock. However, I have to say that many of the known bugs have not shown up on my device/carrier.
Here are the list of issues I had to overcome:
- ** The external SD card's file system was corrupted, but was recovered by putting the card in my windows PC and performing a chkdsk /r to repair the filesystem. Once repaired, all files were intact and I back them up to my computer, then formatted the card with GUIFormat from Ridgecrop to FAT32 with default allocation unit size. Something positive that I didn't expect was, when I used Quickformat to reformat from eFAT to FAT32, all the files were still intact. I didn't even have to recopy from the backup on my computer.
- Initially, I could not get the internet connection to work. I was connected to the network, but no internet (over carrier). I spent tons of time messing with the APN settings and trying all sorts of things. In the end, I just restored the default APNs and rebooted. So, once you go through the initial setup of the phone after flashing the ROM, you might just want to reboot once more for good measure!
- Using Titanium Backup, I restored many apps and their data, including SMS, MMS, etc. I made sure to check the option to "Migrate System Data" in hopes of making sure that the SMS/MMS data would convert and work properly from ICS to JB, and it did.
- ** The one important thing that could not be restored was the "accounts" data, so I had to re-setup my accounts and tell it what to sync for each account, default calendars, etc. This was by far the biggest inconvenience; however, I now have it setup to backup account settings to Google. I don't recall if that was available in ICS, but it is in JB; so I'm hoping that will make it much easier next time.
- Another thing was figuring out how to get Google Now assigned to a hardware button... you just go into Settings>System>Hardware keys, and the trick is to assign "voice search" to the "Menu key (long press)". I had seen all kinds of crazy workarounds and suggestions, but it's that simple.
- Once last quirk that I have NOT resolved yet, but the various system apps (Camera specifically) don't seem to save to the external SD card first and I can't find any setting to tell them to "prefer" the external SD card. If anyone knows how to to this in CM10 JB, please let me know. Not a big deal for now, because if the internal SD starts to fill up, I'll just copy to external SD.
I wish all this was documented somewhere because I spent a LOT of time dealing with these really simple quirks. Hindsight is 20/20! So, I thought I'd post to save you from sleepless hours after flashing from ICS to JB. I think "when/if" my carrier makes the the JB OTA update available, I may still stick with the CM10 ROM. I thought I'd miss various AT&T and Samsung apps like S-Voice or AT&T Hotspot, but I don't at all!
Some stock ROM quirks resolved:
- WIFI is faster and more reliable and seems to automatically switch between the two routers in my house based on signal strength!
- Carrier data is faster and signal strength appears to have improved. In the stock ICS, my phone seemed to get confused when switching back and forth from carrier data and wifi data
- The infamous audio crackling/popping/hissing is gone, and I love this Apollo player (very fast and nice UI)
- Everything about the phone is faster!
- The display/resolution seems clearer/crisper
- The auto brightness seems to work a lot better
- Account Sync and "Push" notifications seem to be much more reliable than before (maybe something to do with the WIFI/Carrier switching quirks in stock ICS)
- Can't say enough about AOSP Jelly Bean and how much better it is than Stock AT&T/Samsung ICS w/ TouchWiz
- The only stock app I miss is the Calendar! I think this is pretty "known" that the CM10 Calendar is basic.
Thanks for listening. Hopefully you'll find some useful info.
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Welcome to the wonderful world of Android where you have choices.
Welcome to android. Soon you'll be like others here and will have the files needed to root/install custom rom/install custom kernel before you even buy your phone!
If you miss some of the stock stuff you can always try some of the touchwiz based roms. They won't be like cm10 obviously but they are streamlined with a lot of the carrier/samsung crap removed.
tzones said:
Hi,
Thanks for documenting your experiences. Just wondering how is the battery life so far? Is it better than the Stock ROM?
thanks
TZ
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I am still experimenting, but so far it seems that battery life has seen an improvement. However, I must qualify that with the fact that I did not restore EVERY app on the new ROM because many apps were no longer needed. So, any improvement may not be specific to the ROM itself. However, I read a few posts where people were actually having worse battery performance; so I am very pleased that this is not the case with my installation. Sometimes I wonder if the people having sporadic issues that others are not having is more related to HOW they flash and how/if they restore various system data/settings. I pretty much wiped everything and restored very selectively with regard to system settings/data.
@ djkinetic & crash822, thanks for the welcome guys! crash822, with the stock rom I was actually using another launcher because the stock TW was so limiting, you couldn't even increase the icon grid size. The JB launcher (or at least the CM10 version) has that built-in, so it is quite nice. Thanks again for the warm welcome!
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@ djkinetic & crash822, thanks for the welcome guys! crash822, with the stock rom I was actually using another launcher because the stock TW was so limiting, you couldn't even increase the icon grid size. The JB launcher (or at least the CM10 version) has that built-in, so it is quite nice. Thanks again for the warm welcome!
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I don't mean touchwiz the launcher. Touchwiz is the whole wrapping that samsung puts android into on their phones. It includes the features that the S3 came with like s-voice, some of the camera features, the eye track to keep your screen on.
Keep what I said in mind whenever you see things on these forums you might want to try that are touchwiz only when you're on CM10 which is aosp. The same can be said when you see things that are AOSP only when you're on a touchwiz rom.
I'd also like to point out that it usually takes 3 battery cycles to fully see how your battery is so don't freak out if when you flash a new rom the batter is trash. It might be trash the first day then it is great after that.
I too am loving the M1 CM10 release! Its been surprising how well everything works so far. I do have one question, the Play store says that Google Wallet is not compatible with my phone. I've considered trying to side load it and see if it would work but anyone else have any suggestions for getting this on my phone?
forwardbias said:
I too am loving the M1 CM10 release! Its been surprising how well everything works so far. I do have one question, the Play store says that Google Wallet is not compatible with my phone. I've considered trying to side load it and see if it would work but anyone else have any suggestions for getting this on my phone?
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I believe there is a cm10 workaround for google wallet in the development forum. It involves editing your build prop and using a custom wallet application.
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I believe there is a cm10 workaround for google wallet in the development forum. It involves editing your build prop and using a custom wallet application.
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Thanks, I will check that out.
I have flashed many Roms over the last year, Jedi Roms, Infamous Roms, Stock, and most recently Rushing's Shadow Rom. I have stuck to only Touchwiz based Roms since I need WiFi Calling to use my cell phone in my apartment.
The one thing I noticed every time I flashed is that the phone would get significantly slower after I rebooted the phone the first time after I installed a bunch of apps. (Not after the first one I do after the phone has resynch'ed contacts and stuff from google) Additionally, after a couple months the phone would get so slow that I would reflash a new Rom (generally, by this time a new version, but if a new version is not available, I usually switch Roms)
The apps I usually download include:
Google - YouTube, Maps
T-Mobile -Visual Voicemail
Media - Pulse, BeyondPod, a music player
Root stuff - Titanium, Rom toolbox, ES file explorer, etc.
Popular apps - Facebook, twitter, ebay, bank of america, etc.
Are any of these apps known to degrade the performance of your phone over time? Is there a way to diagnose which of these apps are running and when?
A second theory I have is that something on my SD card is either corrupt or not getting wiped properly. Then, these corrupt sectors/files cause performance to decrease over time? Has anybody heard of anything like this? Are there any utilities out there to look for corrupt file. Can anyone reccomend a SD cleaning app that might help if this is the case?
A third theory is that these customized Roms aren't as stable as they are thought to be. I don't believe this is the case since the developers on this forum are much smarter than me, and thoroughly test their roms. Additionally, I have seen this happen with Stock rooted also, which also discounts this theory.
Most of this is spit-balling so that people can see my symptoms (if you had similar symptoms, please share troubleshooting steps and resolution) as well as maybe trigger an idea in someone that has an easy fix to my issue. I like this phone a lot and I don't want to buy a new phone just to avoid these issues. I think this phone is still capable of handling the workload of a 2013 smartphone.
Please let me know any tests/logs that would help you help me solve this problem.
Hello everyone,
I am contacting you because i have many issues with the blackview A7 pro phone, that i have bought a week ago.
Shortly after my purchase many of the problems arose that are closely tied with the phone software (or so I believe).
First thing that troubles me the most, is the problem that is associated with the use of the SD card storage, that cannot be used as a place to store apps from my phone, except when I format my SD card as a internal storage. And even when I format my SD card as internal storage, i cannot see the correct value or my new storage (in gigabytes) because the old value doesn't add up to the value or the formatted SD card. The only option that I can use is the root if I want to move apps to SD card (!!!!)
Other thing is that internal memory is always reporting that I have 10.7 gb of memory instead of 16 gb, and there is no mention of where could possibly those 5 GB has gone!
I cannot root my phone because if I do this i will lose my warranty, or in the worst case, my phone will be bricked and it wont be useful anymore.
And I cant find any available root/roms out there on the internet except from your company and I am using the latest one that is: A7Pro-Blackview-V0.12-20171031_000220
One of the most intolerable problem is also the problem with wifi. The situation here is that any possible wifi network that i connect my a7 pro phone to, suffers from great oscillation and network loss.
Even if i am just a room away from ANY ROUTER i will have problems with oscillation from excellent to poor in just 10 seconds.
The other problem is the camera with its awful and poor quality regardless of the settings or application that i am using. Also the insult to injury is the lack of panorama option in the phones camera application. Other google play software cannot do the panorama option so well.
One other more tolerable problem is the complete lack of "look and feel" of the phones software and the inability to change or add other wallpapers or themes except when using the other peoples software from somewhere else (google play or any other platform). The built-in launcher3 is so poorly defined and so poorly supported that users are forced to change look and feel because of the awful design of the current software.
Does anyone know how can I resolve at least two of my problems (SD card problem and WiFi problem)?
Can anybody help?
anyone, please ? any help is much appreciated
is it possibile that i am posting this in the wrong sub-forum?
About your question, the first is pretty normal, every android since 6.0 have option to apply a extra storage with sd with formatting it ( i want rembemeber you that android not allow install on sd card normally, if not via root), also about your actual storage space again is normal, some gb are for file system and recovery, variuos brand have his own reservated space, so it can be changed from phone to phone. Since january is aviable a custom TWRP that can be installated trough SP flash tool, check on google. And for your last question is possible that is just a bug, so try to format the system and/or update your phone if aviable. Extra, for customizing yuor phone change launcher. Hope that will help you or someone else, there's nothing wrong in this low budget phone, every your question are common for any adroid device.