I left my T-800 with the charger connected. When I turned out the screen, it was basically frozen. Getting to home screen takes like a minute, the shutdown menu takes like a minute to appear, no application starts (most exit with brief error). After a while, I decided to backup this system from TWRP for further investigation before restoring the last good backup. The backup did not work. It exited with error twice (I tied to backup to sd card and to internal storage). Finally, I restored the last good backup, and it worked fine. Does anyone have an idea what could be going on here? I suspect, the internal storage started having errors and corrupted the file system. Just a guess. Is there a program for checking physical errors in storage?
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So, the specs are following:
Rooted Desire
Official HTC Froyo ROM v1.0c by AdamG (with latest radio)
EXT3 partition with enabled A2SD (not Froyo's)
Sandisk 8GB class 6 card
Yesterday I've created EXT3 partition on my SD card, reinstalled fresh ROM (did all wipes before), set up all programs (A2SD enabled) etc. Everything was working like a charm until this morning.
Just for the record, this ROM worked excellent even without EXT3 partition. I was using Froyo's A2SD for a week. Yesterday I've decided to set up the unofficial A2SD in order to free some internal memory.
Symptoms:
- File explorer is hanging when it's trying to access to SD card. Some times the screen is black and FC popup jumps, some times after a minute it opens SD content. But scrolling and browsing the content is pain in the a$$ and it results with "application not responding" popup.
- Market cannot download new apps. Actually download starts, the icon in status bar shows for a second and then dissapears. There is a progress bar under the "download" section but it's stuck. Few times the Market has crashed too. Tried over wifi and data connection - same result.
- Selecting ringtone from SD card is slow or impossible. Default tones are played instantly and SD card's are some times played after minute or two, and some times results with "application not responding" popup. I can receive calls and messages but they are muted.
- Camera can't take a picture or focus. Can't open camera settings... Gallery is also slow. Browser also get freeze after opening a home page.
I can't remember I did anything crucial this morning. Everything worked fine yesterday. This morning I've sent few emails, browsed the internet a little bit, nimbuzz, listened to some music, connected mobile to the computer and exchanged some photos... Nothing installed, nothing modded.
Tried reboot several times.
Tried killing problematic apps and open them again.
Tried reboot without SD card - stuck on green htc boot screen
Help?
It seems some folders on fat32 partition was damaged or corrupted. However, I formated card in windows to prevent formating ext3 partition, and now everything's running smoothly.
Does anyone know why this happend? Two folders were corrupted: one is created this morning (it's new), and one is backup folder for one app (it was automaticaly created yesterday).
Seen similar behaviour. Can be caused by disconnecting the phone from the pc when it's still executing write actions. Probably there can be more causes but this way you can even reproduce it.
I had this with one card and it became worse over time, regardless of formatting. Easiest thing to do was to remove the damaged files/folders via cmd instead of via explorer. This saved me recopying everything on there again like after a format. In the end i replaced the SD card as i couldnt get it permanently fixed, just as if a couple of memory cells had been permanently damaged and the card would start to act weird whenever something was written to those cells.
So, just keep an eye on your card and you should be fine
I've got an issue i'm hoping you guys can help me with.
I've got a stock froyo 2.2 rooted device.
just recently i've been having issues with my apps.
I back up my SD often so i formatted it and reloaded the data.
This helped until the first reboot then i started having issues again.
The device would show internal apps only, sometimes taking up to ten minutes to load the storage apps.
In the market i cannot download/install apps, even the ones on internal
(sometimes taking several minutes to install)
I've attempted to unmount the SD card but it hangs.
t it hangs when i try to use apps2sd, using my phone as a disk drive, checking disk usuage on both internal and storage, etc.
But i have full access when i use file managers and also when i take the card out of my phone and plug it into my computer. I see everything and everything works.
i have also noticed that it reports the internal memory wrong, sometimes it'll be 50mb's sometimes 130 mb's. All within hours of not doing anything.
i made a nand backup so i'm doing that now, maybe i forgot to clear cache or something last time?
any ideas would surely help, in all honesty it sounds like my internal drive is failing and i hope thats not the case.
thank you
I used to make backups before with amon-ra-recovery 2.0.0 and everything was great, I could restore everytime I wanted and I didn't have any issues.
Suddenly, since some time, things started to go wrong. Not a single nandroid backup I do is working, they all get corrupted immediately and I get that "error, run nandroid via adb" or something similar, error, you probably know it. The md5 is corrupted on most of the .img files and even if I change them to be correct, I manage to go through the entire restore process, but the system is whacked, it either goes into bootloop, either it boots fine but sd-ext is gone and all the screens are empty like I never had any widgets or app shortcuts on them, and sometimes I'm lucky and I have only some minor bugs which are fixed by reflashing the ROM without wiping anything.
I can't remember if this happend since I updated to ra recovery 2.0.1 (I am now back to 2.0.0) or since I changed the SD card into a class 6 one. The partition is 1gb ext4, it is done properly (I repartitioned with ra recovery 2.0.1 a few weeks ago and still problems, the previous partition was made by g-parted), SD seems to be working well, I really have no idea what is causing this.
I am willing to try clockwork mod recovery today, can anyone provide a source for their latest version please? I can't find anything on google except for some old threads.
which card are u using ?
The new one. 8gb class 6, I don't see what difference does it make...
I am now getting a problem that I also had before I repartitioned the SD card last time, after doing a nandroid backup today, now I am getting an error telling me that card is read-only. I can't mount it to PC (I mean i can have disk drive on phone but when trying to open it from PC it says its not found). Last time I had this problem I couldn't delete sd-ext.rar from the nandroid backup folder, it said it was corrupted and I couldn't do anything, just like now. Can't connect to PC, can't unmount the SD from phone and on available space it says read-only, that is the problem, how can I solve this? I'm really not in the mood to repartition all over, is the card broken?
Edit: I am now going to report a problem that I've only had on this SD card so far, never on the old one that comes with the phone. So I rebooted the phone and now the sd-ext isn't recognized on the phone, apps that were installed on it don't show up in app-drawer and some widgets that were also on sd-ext don't display on the screen, says problem loading widget. I had this problem once in a while with most of the ROMs I tried, ever since I switched to this card (i think it happened in the 1st day this card arrived). When I reboot the phone (either I normally reboot it or the battery dies), sometimes this thing pops up. It doesn't say any errors, its just that the ext partition isn't recognized, but the fat32 is ok, I can access the SD card's content via root explorer for example and I can even mount it to the PC and explore it from the notebook, but ext partition isn't recognized.
Like I said, this is only on this new card, doesn't happen to the old one, and it happened even in the 1st day it came and was inserted in the phone. I also repartitioned it and same problem, both times did it correctly exactly as I did with the old card and everything was ok on that one.
The exact problem is "mounted read-only - the sd card has an unexpected problem. Tapping...(can't read any further cause it doesn't fit entirely in the notification bar)". It happens when I try to do a complete titanium backup (for all system data+user apps).
Common any opinions? Im really worried.
So i've done a nandroid backup with clockwork mod 2.5.0.7 and its corrupted as well. Just after it finished the backup, I mounted in usb mass storage mode and went to check the md5 images, they are corrupted. I'm going to make a final repartition today with g-parted, and if it's not gonna work then I will probably switch to my old class 2 card that came with the phone, I'm only dissapointed that I cannot prove this SD card I recently got is broken, the fat32 is working but sd-ext has problems, they probably won't believe this and won't replace it
after switching between a few roms, when i decided to do a new Titanium backup, it fails and my phone reboots. then after reboot, it tells my my sd card might be corrupted and i should format it.
i've tried these options thus far:
pulling out the sd card, then put it back in again. this gets rid of the error, but still can't titanium backup.
reformatting the sd card like my phone tells me, still no good.
reinstalling titanium backup, no good either.
when i tried all of these things, i can backup somewhere between 3-5 apps before the phone turns itself off and restart. strange thing is i can still copy & paste files onto it and still flash roms on the sd card.
anybody know what's going on?
update: after a full wipe and system format, reflashed cm7 to see how it is. the sd card is fine, but still can't backup. I tried to upgrade BusyBox and SuperUser. But that only got me to around 80% complete, then it rebooted again. What's going on?
I have the same problem, just with the Galaxy S2. This is really annoying, nothing seems to actually force the reboot. Anyone?
hey guys, sorry to be trouble but frankly im just fed up, tried and searched everywhere, i have dhd with ARHD latest installed just the basic new rom by mike, lately ive been experiencing my phone rebooting everytime the apps load from the sd card, it just continuously reboots, i take sd card out and its all fine, tried many other cards and have the same issue, so somewhere someone said its because theres alot of apps on the sd card and the firmware or htc cant handle it so it shuts the phone down by doing a reboot, i currently have 123 apps on my sd card in the android secure folder with a total size of 1.41gb...i have about 60 apps on the desire hd internal storage, i have a 32 gb card, plenty of space in the card itself, heres the wierd bit, i delete a few apps from the android secure folder and the phone starts loading the apps perfectly and doesnt go into a reboot, however the problem comes back if i download new apps, please has anyone got an idea whats going on, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesnt, then also it would randomly start saying sd ard unexpectedly removed, although thats only happened once so to be dafe i just took that card out and replaced it since i had another 32 gb lying about, i guess the real problem is the reboot....
ohh to make it more frustrating, i reflashed, clear memory, cache and everything before reflashing ARHD again...started with a few apps, lasted about 4 days then downloaded a little more and then woke up one day a week later, tried restarting my phone and there it goes again, constant reboots with sd card, the apps load, screen freezes and waaala reboot...
im desperate...had this phone over a year and now its just acting up when lots of apps are on there...
any help would be appreciated...
So no ideas then anyone lol...
It's a notorious issue with the dhd on gingerbread (revolution). I encountered it recently when sense kept restarting on my phone every five minutes after I moved too many apps to my sd card (even though most were frozen and the sd is class 10). After I made sure I had backups, I uninstalled a lot of apps from the sd card and everything is fine. Either try and uninstall some apps you aren't using or upgrade to icecoldsandwich.
Or the other option is to make a second partition on your sd card (backup first) using ext4 (use minitools), then use the app link2sd.
Link2sd app worked GREAT for me!
I can confirm this. If you put too many apps on SD card, it just reboots. Drove me crazy while I used stock ROM.
Here's some super duper tricks guys....Enjoy!!!
billy_87 said:
hey guys, sorry to be trouble but frankly im just fed up, tried and searched everywhere, i have dhd with ARHD latest installed just the basic new rom by mike, lately ive been experiencing my phone rebooting everytime the apps load from the sd card, it just continuously reboots, i take sd card out and its all fine, tried many other cards and have the same issue, so somewhere someone said its because theres alot of apps on the sd card and the firmware or htc cant handle it so it shuts the phone down by doing a reboot, i currently have 123 apps on my sd card in the android secure folder with a total size of 1.41gb...i have about 60 apps on the desire hd internal storage, i have a 32 gb card, plenty of space in the card itself, heres the wierd bit, i delete a few apps from the android secure folder and the phone starts loading the apps perfectly and doesnt go into a reboot, however the problem comes back if i download new apps, please has anyone got an idea whats going on, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesnt, then also it would randomly start saying sd ard unexpectedly removed, although thats only happened once so to be dafe i just took that card out and replaced it since i had another 32 gb lying about, i guess the real problem is the reboot....
ohh to make it more frustrating, i reflashed, clear memory, cache and everything before reflashing ARHD again...started with a few apps, lasted about 4 days then downloaded a little more and then woke up one day a week later, tried restarting my phone and there it goes again, constant reboots with sd card, the apps load, screen freezes and waaala reboot...
im desperate...had this phone over a year and now its just acting up when lots of apps are on there...
any help would be appreciated...
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Hey,there's a cool way to get it going even if there are ton's of apps in SDcard.try this simple trick(Works for me with 735 apps on a 32GBcard) :
1.Power off the phone by holding the power button for some time if the phone keep rebooting without any stop.
2.Keep it cool for 3-4 mins.
3.Power it on again.
4.Then when the launcher starts,goto 'settings' fast.
5.Then quickly goto the storage>Unmount SD card.
6.Then after the USB storage scanning is finished and all apps in phone memory are granted their requested permissions(just for rooted device),mount the SD card...
7.This time the reboot won't occur until you power it off and power it on again...
HAPPY TWEAKING!!!
Here's another trick too... :
1.Power off the phone by holding the power button for some time if the phone keep rebooting without any stop.
2.Keep it cool for 3-4 mins.
3.Power it on again.
4.This time,just after the launcher start,plug in the USB cable and connect it to the computer in MTP mode.
5.When the SD card scanning just stops,plug the usb cable out(this'll give you a max of 1min to do it).
6.A second wave of Media Scanning occurs.
7.but this time,it won't even dare to touch your phone...
"Nothing is Impossible" :victory:
The final trick(Trick 3):
1..Power off the phone by holding the power button for some time if the phone keep rebooting without any stop.
2.Take the SD card out.
3.Power it on again.
4.After booting and media scanning finished,put the SD card back in.
5.mount it in settings>storage>mount SD card.
6.Wait till the media scanning ends.
7.Now you're ready to go....
"Never Give UP on Anything" :highfive:
hey guys,just don't let the tech rule you.Rule the tech.these are just basics...Anyone who got to play with a smartphone for a long time can figure it out....Just tweak your brain!!!! Anyway Cheers bye now.... Hit thanks if I helped you.... :victory: