On my Nexus 5X (7.0, Build No. N5D91L), the date on a file or folder is often changed to 12/31/1969 with a time of 6:59 PM whenever I try to backup the file or folder to my Windows PC. EDIT: I just noticed that the files and folders with the 1969 date (on the PC as viewed by Windows Explorer) still show to have the correct date and time on the connected Nexus 5X when viewed with ES Pro file manager. This makes it even more weird to me.
I have no idea why this happens, and it is a real problem for archiving my files. With the altered date to an obviously wrong date, I can not keep my files backed up in the manner that they should be. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this is occurring? I thank you all for your assistance.
Sincerely,
gsutton
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On my Nexus 5X (7.0, Build No. N5D91L), the date on a file or folder is often changed to 12/31/1969 with a time of 6:59 PM whenever I try to backup the file or folder to my Windows PC. EDIT: I just noticed that the files and folders with the 1969 date (on the PC as viewed by Windows Explorer) still show to have the correct date and time on the connected Nexus 5X when viewed with ES Pro file manager. This makes it even more weird to me.
I have no idea why this happens, and it is a real problem for archiving my files. With the altered date to an obviously wrong date, I can not keep my files backed up in the manner that they should be. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this is occurring? I thank you all for your assistance.
Sincerely,
gsutton
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Maybe your mobo battery is dead and resets the clock? It would cost 2$ and 1min to replace it, so you can give it a go with nothing to lose
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Great idea! I never thought of that. I don't think it happens with downloading from other connected cameras or devices but could be something freaky with the phone. Going to replace the motherboard cell. Thanks!
Unfortunately, the date/time stamp problem is not due to the motherboard backup cell. The problem occurs on my laptop with WIN8.1 and on multiple PCs with WIN7. It must be due to some problem with the Nexus 5X. This is really a problem and I hope that somehow I can resolve it, as backups of any of my files will have a wrong date and that makes it more difficult to know when a photo was taken, for example. Thanks to the gurus here who may be able to figure this one out!
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Unfortunately, the date/time stamp problem is not due to the motherboard backup cell. The problem occurs on my laptop with WIN8.1 and on multiple PCs with WIN7. It must be due to some problem with the Nexus 5X. This is really a problem and I hope that somehow I can resolve it, as backups of any of my files will have a wrong date and that makes it more difficult to know when a photo was taken, for example. Thanks to the gurus here who may be able to figure this one out!
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The date you are referring to seems to be the second before the UNIX epoch (UNIX epoch is 00:00 01/01/1970, all UNIXes count time as the seconds that have passed since this date) minus your time difference with GMT (GMT-5, which is the same as EST), somehow it seems that your files, when transfered to your PC are transfered and shown as if they were created at -1 in UNIX time, and the underlying Linux kernel from Android counts time from the date I mentioned. I don't see a explaination for this other than, well, MTP isn't transfering the correct date.
You should, if you can, try to pull files with adb pull, and checking if this gives you the files actual modification/creation time.
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The date you are referring to seems to be the second before the UNIX epoch (UNIX epoch is 00:00 01/01/1970, all UNIXes count time as the seconds that have passed since this date) minus your time difference with GMT (GMT-5, which is the same as EST), somehow it seems that your files, when transfered to your PC are transfered and shown as if they were created at -1 in UNIX time, and the underlying Linux kernel from Android counts time from the date I mentioned. I don't see a explaination for this other than, well, MTP isn't transfering the correct date.
You should, if you can, try to pull files with adb pull, and checking if this gives you the files actual modification/creation time.
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Thank you for the reply! That timing thing is everything apparently. I will investigate how to go about performing the adb pull on my Windows PC. Thank you again.
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Here's my quandry of the day:
I have a rooted HTC Inc (CM7 latest), and use K9 mail. I regularly do Titanium and Nand backups, and then save the backup files to my PC. Then, out of the blue, after running a regularly scheduled AV scan on my PC's backup drive, it detected "com.fsck.k9-20110512-050659.tar.gz" to be "Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Agent.emgj".
First off - I hardly believe this to be a true positive. I can't be the first person to discover this (the file is dated May 12, 2011, and it was detected in late July?). AND... I do realize most (if not all) AV products are nearly ever correct.
Secondly - I simply just Quarantined the file since I have newer backups AND it's just K9 the app, not my actual email, which is stored on a seperate PC, and not detected. So no loss.
But my real question is - has anyone else experienced anything like this before? Trojan-Droppers aren't fun...
Thanks!
I have to say I have not come across this problem with any app. Is it actually harming your computer or your phone? If not, it's probably just a mistake and your computer doesn't trust the creator of the app. Suspicious code or files which won't actually do anything harmful.
Honestly - I don't think it's a real theat. I think it's more of a false positive, IMO. It's not hurting my PC, not that I can tell anyway. Several scans later and it's never been detected again.
BTW- cool name ;-)
Hi guys,
anyone's who's read my posts would know my phone died recently due to zero battery and going through the boot loop cycle continuously. After leaving it overnight for 2 days on a iPad charger, it came back on again. My phone's done a hard reset, and I was wondering if there are any softwares available to retrieve the information in it. I know there're tools to retrieve information from hard drives that have been formatted, and would appreciate if any of you know of a tool that can get my photos out of my phone. Thanks in advance.
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Hi guys,
anyone's who's read my posts would know my phone died recently due to zero battery and going through the boot loop cycle continuously. After leaving it overnight for 2 days on a iPad charger, it came back on again. My phone's done a hard reset, and I was wondering if there are any softwares available to retrieve the information in it. I know there're tools to retrieve information from hard drives that have been formatted, and would appreciate if any of you know of a tool that can get my photos out of my phone. Thanks in advance.
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Well, that greatly depends on how thorough you're hoping this will be. Anything synced through Zune should be available, anything replicated to the cloud should be available (Windows Live ID, if you have an exchange server, Facebook and LinkedIn accounts, etc.) - but any game data is pretty much lost. In general, any applications that store info locally is pretty much lost AFAIK.
There's an application in Marketplace called Reinstaller that identifies apps you've already installed and helps you loop through them to, well, surprise surprise, re-install them. It's quite useful, here's the link in the Marketplace: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/search?q=Reinstaller
What other things were you looking for?
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Well, that greatly depends on how thorough you're hoping this will be. Anything synced through Zune should be available, anything replicated to the cloud should be available (Windows Live ID, if you have an exchange server, Facebook and LinkedIn accounts, etc.) - but any game data is pretty much lost. In general, any applications that store info locally is pretty much lost AFAIK.
There's an application in Marketplace called Reinstaller that identifies apps you've already installed and helps you loop through them to, well, surprise surprise, re-install them. It's quite useful, here's the link in the Marketplace: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/search?q=Reinstaller
What other things were you looking for?
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Thanks for the reply. My phone ran out of juice pretty much right after my trip to Taiwan, where I took quite a few photos. I didn't have time to sync it with my computer before it died. It's those photos I wish to retrieve. Any other suggestions?
My buddy who has an iPhone told me that in order to retrieve information from the iPhone, it needs to first be jailbreaked. That way we can bypass the phone's OS and connect to the hard drive directly. Obviously it's a long shot as any software would still need to retrieve what's been formatted over, but I wonder if it holds true in our case as well. Will I need to 'jailbreak' my phone first?
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My buddy who has an iPhone told me that in order to retrieve information from the iPhone, it needs to first be jailbreaked. That way we can bypass the phone's OS and connect to the hard drive directly. Obviously it's a long shot as any software would still need to retrieve what's been formatted over, but I wonder if it holds true in our case as well. Will I need to 'jailbreak' my phone first?
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Dude you are in the wrong place, as this forum, thread is not for iPhone.....
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Dude you are in the wrong place, as this forum, thread is not for iPhone.....
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He's in the right place, just because this is a Lumia 900 forum doesn't mean he can't use the i-word He has specified that it is possible on the iPhone, and is curious if it can be done on the Lumia. Seems like the perfect place for him to me...
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He's in the right place, just because this is a Lumia 900 forum doesn't mean he can't use the i-word He has specified that it is possible on the iPhone, and is curious if it can be done on the Lumia. Seems like the perfect place for him to me...
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Thanks again, eknuston.
I did a search online, and came across 2 photo recovery tools, which spelt out were meant for the Lumia 900.
The Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery
http://android-photo-recovery.com/tutorials/recover-deleted-photos-videos-from-nokia-lumia-900.html
Photo Recovery Pro
http://android-photo-recovery.com/tutorials/recover-deleted-photos-videos-from-nokia-lumia-900.html
Unfortunately, both tools could not recognize our phones in the drive directory. That's when I realized that Windows 7 does not allow our phones to be used as removable drives.
I've since cracked the registry (using this tutorial)
http://www.mobiletechworld.com/2010/11/18/use-your-windows-phone-7-device-as-a-portable-usb-drive/
My computer could recognize the phone, but the directories were empty. So I installed this:
http://www.mobiletechworld.com/2010/11/18/use-your-windows-phone-7-device-as-a-portable-usb-drive/
and I can now access the current files in my phone.
HOWEVER, I STILL AM UNABLE TO RETRIEVE THE ERASED FILES, as the 2 softwares are still unable to recognize the phone as a drive, despite the fact that the file explorer can.
Does anyone have any ideas on what I should do next (other than forget about the files, get a new phone, etc.). Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I forgot to mention that 'Computer Management' under Window's Administrative Tools, can't find the phone too. I suspect they're linked..
4th link?
Did you mean for the 4th link to be the same as the 3rd? I am trying to follow your steps to see if I can access my files but I am not sure what did you install in order to see your current files after the registry change. Thanks.
Formatted data recovery
Hi
You can recover formatted data using best media recovery software. Using this software I was able to restore digital data from formatted usb flash drive. So, you can download demo version of this software and check it.
For more details visit the website - unformatdata.com
Hey guys, just stop posting BS about "flash drive recovery"...
Lumia 900 isn't a flash drive and can't be restored this way (it works via Zune drivers, and shows not an actual "drive" but just some "virtual folders").
Finalizing: MCChang, you can't recover lost pics or any other info. And I can give the only one suggestion: next time if you want to keep your pics/info, use clouds (WP7 have ability to automatically upload pictures to the SkyDrive).
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Hey guys, just stop posting BS about "flash drive recovery"...
Lumia 900 isn't a flash drive and can't be restored this way (it works via Zune drivers, and shows not an actual "drive" but just some "virtual folders").
Finalizing: MCChang, you can't recover lost pics or any other info. And I can give the only one suggestion: next time if you want to keep your pics/info, use clouds (WP7 have ability to automatically upload pictures to the SkyDrive).
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thanks sensboston. I've pretty much resigned myself to it haha
You can recover deleted or formatted files from android phone with this data recovery solution: android phone data recovery
helped me before.
Do you also get long freeze when you try to rename file or folder on the phone or sdcard when using MTP mode? I have measured this and from the moment I press enter to confirm filename change to the moment that window unfreezes it takes 5 minutes 37 seconds. Then folder name changes and it works for another folder too... Sometimes it doesn't work for the next few filename changes but finally it's starting to work correctly.
I've reinstalled my mtp and samsung adb drivers and removed anti-virus from the pc.
What's also very weird is that you can create folders without freezing, as long as you don't change the names (like New Folder or New Folder (1) etc.)
What could be causing this?
I'm on Windows 8 x64.
Yea happens with me too. I just get tired of waiting and instead create or edit the folder on the phones file.explorer. Not a solution but I'd like.to.know what can be done to.resolve this too.
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This seems to happen on pretty much any device/ROM/OS combo I've tried. This is the #1 reason MTP should die in a ditch.
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This seems to happen on pretty much any device/ROM/OS combo I've tried. This is the #1 reason MTP should die in a ditch.
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Hey i was wondering if you could mount the internal memory through recovery on the Note 2? Ive tried with both TWRP and CWM but no luck.
Same.
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Can't. Just external
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I got same problem, any solution yet?
Also happens on my Galaxy S2 which now runs stock jellybean, so at least it's not Note specific. Could be jellybean specific though...
I'm having this issue on both my Galaxy S4 and Nexus 7 (1st Gen).
Has anyone found a solution yet?
I'm having this issue on both my Galaxy S4 and Nexus 7 (1st Gen).
Has anyone found a solution yet?
Same problem on S3 and Windows 8.1 x64
This has happened to me on ANY device using ANY rom on ANY version of Windows.
Pretty sure it's unsolvable.
Ah good I am not the only one with the stupid problem. Takes me about a minute to rename a folder.
Windows 8.1 x64
Might try it in Ubuntu see if it happens there
I thought my sd card was faulty...........
Having the same problem. In fact, it is just not possible to modify a file or folder name in MTP Protocol and it has been defined in that way.
"The MTP and PTP standards do not support direct modification of objects. Modified objects must be copied out of the device and reuploaded in their entirety"
Source: Wikipedia
same for me, i do have problems even if i have to copy/paste something.
This has to be a configuration issue in windows.
I am only saying this because my brother just bought himself a nexus 5.
I also have a nexus 5
If i rename any file / folder through MTP on my Nexus 5, explorer will hang for about 5 minutes then it will magically just do it.
this can get tedious if there is a large amount that needs doing
if i plug my brothers nexus 5 into the same port with the same USB cable and rename a folder on his device.
It works instantly.
No hang or lockups
I have checked through the registry entries for both devices and they appear identical, except of course the ID numbers
so this is what has me stumped.
we both have the same phone.
running the same ROM
using the same cable
connecting to the same USB port
his works perfectly
mine locks up if renaming anything
WTF?
Was googling about for these symptoms, and I too have them on Windows 8.1 x86_64.
These same symptoms occur with both my Galaxy Nexus and ASUS Transformer Pad, whereas back on Windows 7 on my other laptop, this never happened...
Agreed with whomever posted that MTP should just die. I'd rather mount/unmount like in the good old days. At least that way, the filesystem was current, fast and reliable, and Windows wasn't asking me if I really REALLY wanted to copy that MP3 file to the phone...
*sigh*
(Edit: Well, on one hand, I really wish MTP would die, but on the other hand, I fear that the only "reasonable" alternative to it would be an iTunes-like application that would sit on top of adb and copy files back and forth, and not needing iTunes-like applications is one of the many reasons I'd rather go with Android devices...)
+1 googling about for these symptoms, Windows 8.1 x64 , galaxy s4 i9505 here.........
happens on mtp and ptp too, like someone said if I do not rename the folder, the folder "new folder" is instantly created, as I try to rename a file or folder, I have to wait 2 to 5 minutes for the operation to complete succesfully. Arrrrggghhh......
Never had this problem before buying the s4 on any android phones I had (dozens....but this is my first samsung)
Also happening on my Note 3. Samsung support told me to reset it to factory defaults. It didn't help.
Windows 8.1 x64.
Same issue for me too on Sprint Galaxy S5 running 8.1 64 bit. Never had this issue with my S3 on Windows 7. WTF.
Hello. I have a Galaxy S3 (SGH-I747 on Rogers Canada) with android 4.4 - stock/not rooted. The other day I hooked up my S3 to my laptop using a USB cable. My laptop is running Win XP SP3. I COPIED ALL the pictures from the phone to the Laptop. The pics were visible on BOTH my phone and my laptop when I finished the transfer. I am guessing it used Windows Media as the transfer medium as Kies was not running. While the phone was still linked to the Laptop I thought I would just delete the ones off the phone that I didn't want. I did so. I then unhooked the phone from the laptop. Ouch!!! The pictures I had deleted from the phone were missing from BOTH the phone and the laptop. First I checked the laptop trash bin. Nothing there. I then tried using the Recuva undelete software on my laptop disk as I thought there should be a deleted copy on the disk as they were visible on screen before I unplugged my phone. It recovered some 94k plus jpg's and I spent more than a day scanning them for the ones I needed. Nothing there. So I thought I needed to run an undelete on the phone. HA HA to that!!! It seems that in the android developers great wisdom the phone is no longer considered a mass storage device when hooked to a computer but is a media device. MY interpretation but something like that. Next I did a BUNCH of reading and made a bunch of phone calls for advice. I tried all kinds of tricks. I tried a number of android undelete programs. I had the USB debugging enabled but all the programs I tried didn't recover any deleted jpg's. Even the programs that said they could. It turns out that the phone HAS to be linked as a mass storage device with a drive letter for the android recovery software to work to recover jpg's. It seems to be able to find other file types but not jpg's.
Now here is the interesting part. I tried linking the phone to my desktop (XP SP3 also) and my laptop dozens of times hoping something would change. I believe that once on my desktop and once on my laptop it showed up as a mass storage device. I say "I believe" because I was so conditioned to it NOT showing as a mass storage device that both times I had already clicked on the icon that releases the phone from the computer before I realized there was a drive letter there. Anyway, the time on my laptop that it happened was around the time I had run one of the android file recovery programs. The program had not found any jpg files but when it finished my phone had a message something like "SE has been disabled". blah blah blah. I did a BUNCH more reading and researching about SE on my phone. The best I can figure is that it is a security enhancement designed to stop programs getting at, or changing things in, other programs on the phone and is set somewhere in the policies file - where ever that is.
My question is - Is it possible to temporarily disable SE so I can try and get my pictures back? Thank you, Derek-j
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Hello. I have a Galaxy S3 (SGH-I747 on Rogers Canada) with android 4.4 - stock/not rooted. The other day I hooked up my S3 to my laptop using a USB cable. My laptop is running Win XP SP3. I COPIED ALL the pictures from the phone to the Laptop. The pics were visible on BOTH my phone and my laptop when I finished the transfer. I am guessing it used Windows Media as the transfer medium as Kies was not running. While the phone was still linked to the Laptop I thought I would just delete the ones off the phone that I didn't want. I did so. I then unhooked the phone from the laptop. Ouch!!! The pictures I had deleted from the phone were missing from BOTH the phone and the laptop. First I checked the laptop trash bin. Nothing there. I then tried using the Recuva undelete software on my laptop disk as I thought there should be a deleted copy on the disk as they were visible on screen before I unplugged my phone. It recovered some 94k plus jpg's and I spent more than a day scanning them for the ones I needed. Nothing there. So I thought I needed to run an undelete on the phone. HA HA to that!!! It seems that in the android developers great wisdom the phone is no longer considered a mass storage device when hooked to a computer but is a media device. MY interpretation but something like that. Next I did a BUNCH of reading and made a bunch of phone calls for advice. I tried all kinds of tricks. I tried a number of android undelete programs. I had the USB debugging enabled but all the programs I tried didn't recover any deleted jpg's. Even the programs that said they could. It turns out that the phone HAS to be linked as a mass storage device with a drive letter for the android recovery software to work to recover jpg's. It seems to be able to find other file types but not jpg's.
Now here is the interesting part. I tried linking the phone to my desktop (XP SP3 also) and my laptop dozens of times hoping something would change. I believe that once on my desktop and once on my laptop it showed up as a mass storage device. I say "I believe" because I was so conditioned to it NOT showing as a mass storage device that both times I had already clicked on the icon that releases the phone from the computer before I realized there was a drive letter there. Anyway, the time on my laptop that it happened was around the time I had run one of the android file recovery programs. The program had not found any jpg files but when it finished my phone had a message something like "SE has been disabled". blah blah blah. I did a BUNCH more reading and researching about SE on my phone. The best I can figure is that it is a security enhancement designed to stop programs getting at, or changing things in, other programs on the phone and is set somewhere in the policies file - where ever that is.
My question is - Is it possible to temporarily disable SE so I can try and get my pictures back? Thank you, Derek-j
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This is the international i9300 area, to save you posting this long message again I will get a Mod to move it for you to the i747 area but I wish you the best of luck.
SElinux stands for "security enhanced Linux" and turning it to permissive will not do a lot I believe. However this app can enable UMS on your phone again. Here is the link https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mohammadag.samsungusbmassstorageenabler
Thank you...
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SElinux stands for "security enhanced Linux" and turning it to permissive will not do a lot I believe. However this app can enable UMS on your phone again. Here is the link - deleted...from response
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Alright...thank you crazymonkey!!! Will give it a shot and report back with results.
Derek-j
Back to square one!
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SElinux stands for "security enhanced Linux" and turning it to permissive will not do a lot I believe. However this app can enable UMS on your phone again. Here is the link deleted to respond.
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Oooppss...not going to work. First off...my phone is stock and this requires rooting. I don't know much about rooting and don't have a problem trying it but I suspect that would likely over-write some or all of the deleted jpg's I want to recover thus defeating the purpose. The other and absolutely CRITICAL thing is that it does NOT enable USB for internal memory. You'd think that the GOOGLE developers would know better than to remove that important feature, especially in an (upgrade???). I had even thought of going back to one of the older versions but again I think that would destroy some of the file entries and delete the very pics I am trying to get back....
I REALLY DO APPRECIATE your trying to help though.
Have a FANTASTIC week. Derek-J.
So BACK TO SQUARE ONE...Anyone know how to temporarily disable the SE feature?
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Oooppss...not going to work. First off...my phone is stock and this requires rooting. I don't know much about rooting and don't have a problem trying it but I suspect that would likely over-write some or all of the deleted jpg's I want to recover thus defeating the purpose. The other and absolutely CRITICAL thing is that it does NOT enable USB for internal memory. You'd think that the GOOGLE developers would know better than to remove that important feature, especially in an (upgrade???). I had even thought of going back to one of the older versions but again I think that would destroy some of the file entries and delete the very pics I am trying to get back....
I REALLY DO APPRECIATE your trying to help though.
Have a FANTASTIC week. Derek-J.
So BACK TO SQUARE ONE...Anyone know how to temporarily disable the SE feature?
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I don't think you can on Android 4.4 without root. Why not just go towel root your S3?
Yea there is not much you can do without root, sorry for your troubles
Our family took the technically free at&t deal to switch to the galaxy s22 phone (256 GB model) by trading in our galaxy s7 phones, and I've been tinkering with the settings, turning a whole host of stuff off because forget auto-installing apps and whatnot, but when I was copying my old phone's pictures over manually (forgot about smart switch, sue me [but don't pls]), the process slowed down very much. Every 15 seconds or so, my windows would give the Asterisk sound, but the green progress bar wouldn't make it past the 1% mark, and when trying to close the file window on my desktop, it'd take the same 15 seconds time to do so, and to stop this I had to unplug the phone from my desktop. Then I had to upload everything to dropbox and download it through the app onto my phone just to export it that way.
Since im still making sense of the phone, is there a concrete reason behind this slowdown, some phone setting or whatnot, because i uninstalled/reinstalled the Samsung USB Phone/Device Drivers from the software downloads portion of samsung, and there's no speed increase. My galaxy s7 was faster, so unless this is a quirk of the firmware itself or something else....idk, help pls?
One or more of the files may be corrupted.
I ran into this the other day on my N10+ going from SD card to a OTG flashstick with a 50gb folder with more than a dozen subfolders and 20 loose media files. It kept crashing on the last 2 or 3gb. I tried copying a couple different ways, nothing worked until I discovered a corrupted avi file and deleted it.
Copied it straight up.
Find the root cause, it could be malware that inadvertently got downloaded. This includes jpegs.
I doubt its malware, all the pictures I did were from the default camera app on my old phone, and I figure if I did it through smart switch it wouldn't have any problems, but ill look through my pictures, delete some, maybe put mcafee livesafe on there and run a few scans to see if it picks up anything before I uninstall it (seriously, the app is a resource hog no matter what hardware its on, mobile or not). ill make another reply if I find some kind of resolutiuon and result(s)
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I doubt its malware, all the pictures I did were from the default camera app on my old phone, and I figure if I did it through smart switch it wouldn't have any problems, but ill look through my pictures, delete some, maybe put mcafee livesafe on there and run a few scans to see if it picks up anything before I uninstall it (seriously, the app is a resource hog no matter what hardware its on, mobile or not). ill make another reply if I find some kind of resolutiuon and result(s)
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Never use SmartSwitch to backup critical data especially media. Never clone media files ie music databases. Never password protect backups. Keep it rock stupid simple.
Copy/paste then compare size, and folder/file count. Inspect at least some of the data for readability.
Malware is always possible. The scripted jpegs on Android tend to only effect the folder they're in. Was that avi file I found malware? Who knows? I don't care as I just delete it and move on unless it raises its ugly head again. The point is I found the cause and removed it.
The scripted Android jpeg I encountered did it's thing when opened. It damaged many loose files but no files that where in folders. Some files I repaired, the rest I deleted. The malware jpeg I deleted first though and it was only by cause and effect that I found it. Fortunately it was the download folder so it's reign of terror was brief; had that been a large database it could turn into a digital blood bath.
All downloads go to the download folder and stay there until vetted. Check all files by opening them there before moving them elsewhere. Delete any unknown ones without opening. Any file that is in doubt especially apks, executables scan with online Virustotal.
Keep email in the cloud ie Gmail.
I'm running on Pie but haven't had any malware damage in over 2 years and it's in part because of how I handle all downloads... carefully.
I did mine manually, I never touched smart switch for my phone, but I did a scan with the mcafee security app on my phone, and it didnt find anything sketchy on there, used the at&t mobile security app that was on there before I uninstalled it (adb is da best :3 ) and it didnt find anything hinky. I scanned the manual backups of my pictures on my desktop with mcafee livesafe and superantispyware and neither of them found anything bad, unless i should use more scan programs, but whether its on my phone or desktop, I think I got enough, anymore and im just hoarding antivirus programs, and I don't wanna do that
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I did mine manually, I never touched smart switch for my phone, but I did a scan with the mcafee security app on my phone, and it didnt find anything sketchy on there, used the at&t mobile security app that was on there before I uninstalled it (adb is da best :3 ) and it didnt find anything hinky. I scanned the manual backups of my pictures on my desktop with mcafee livesafe and superantispyware and neither of them found anything bad, unless i should use more scan programs, but whether its on my phone or desktop, I think I got enough, anymore and im just hoarding antivirus programs, and I don't wanna do that
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Over the years I found 2 scripted jpegs that were found by observing what happened when they were opened. There's no guarantee malware will be detected.
I ran a Malwarebytes scan occasionally. It found a trojan preloader I missed in the download folder, which I police daily now. This one downloaded itself, it slipped through the Samsung browser in spite of settings.
On Android antivirus is a waste of resources. Most victims install or download the malware themselves.
However anytime Android behaves strangely malware should be considered a possibility.
No idea how that file that screwed up my transfer got corrupted or if it was malware.
It acted like malware, regardless, deleting it fixed the issue. It took some time to track it down. Point being when you see odd behavior you don't ignore it, you find the root cause.
I think I fixed it somehow? I searched for reset in the settings and found reset network settings, reset accessibility settings, and reset all settings, so I chose reset all settings after backing up my current settings. After my phone restarted, I plugged in my phone and tried copying a 500MB sized file to my internal storage, and despite it taking a full minute, it actually finished without the problems I had before. Granted, now it seems only for the one file I just did, because after I tried one file and tried to do another, it stopped about halfway into copying a 400MB range file and gave me the same problems again. ffs fml
hopefully this is my last post (I swear if it isnt im tearing up the cable I got), because after trying multiple cables we got and different usb ports, I think I identified the culprit(s): my USB-C cable (the one I use to charge it) and my desktop's front-facing USB ports.
My desktop is an XPS 8700, and its taken on some age and some injuries due to power surges and what not, most of all the front-facing USB ports are wiggly as all hell, and occasionally choose which cables to like and which to not like. So I took the cable I usually use to charge it with and plugged it into a different usb port and tried copying over a set of files totaling 1GB+change to the internal storage, lo and behold, it copied over and no stopping halfway and cancelling the transfer because of it. Then I tried another USB-C cable we got (from a different piece of hardware) and used it on my front-usb ports, did the same thing again, 100% completion like the others did
The end result is my desktop being an ornery POS as usual and choosing which USB port likes which USB cable no matter how good I take care of both pieces of hardware. In the end, ill probably be getting a few more cables for our three phones and keep the cable I usually use with it for a different piece of hardware. This was one rabbit hole of a goose chase