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I'm getting a fair bit of slowdown recently on my MDA Compact lll. For instance, I'll reboot and then find I get very delayed response if I click on something, ( such as contacts, sim card, tomtom, etc) like it's thinking about it and working hard to bring up the information. It can take forever. Sometimes the tomtom logo on the desktop doesn't appear. And sometimes the contact list shows up empty even though the scroll bar is working on the right, so it knows there's a list of contacts but they're invisible until I reboot.
It can take up to 3 reboots before everything is back to normal and responding fast again. I've done several hard resets recently so it's not like it needs formatting. Could something be corrupted? I was thinking maybe corruption of the storage card, but then why would it affect the contacts list which is not on the storage card.
Yet another thread that gets no replies. Seriously, this forum is ****.
Only just seen this..
When monitoring the startup of my XDA Orbit it uses around 85-90% memory for at least a minute until it settles down to 50%.
What contacts software are you using and do you have SPB Pocket Plus installed?
Nick
dontpannic said:
Only just seen this..
When monitoring the startup of my XDA Orbit it uses around 85-90% memory for at least a minute until it settles down to 50%.
What contacts software are you using and do you have SPB Pocket Plus installed?
Nick
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Hi. No contacts software other than the default WM5. I just transferred my 118 phone contacts from my sim card to the phones own contact list. Nope, I don't have SPB Pocket Plus on my phone.
My AT&T HTC Tilt 2 is nearly a year old now, and I've recently run into a very irritating problem. Every time I try to use the "Update Now" feature (Contacts -> Updates and Events tab -> Menu -> Update Now) to update contacts' Facebook pictures and whatnot, the entire UI crashes and has to reload. No error messages or anything like that at all; the screen simply freezes for 15-30 seconds and the HTC Launching TouchFLO 3D screen comes up.
This issue has expanded to encompass any time I try to edit a contact (on that note, the "Link to Facebook account" button no longer does anything except cause TouchFLO to crash) or even open the Updates and Events tab.
I'm still using the same ROM that came with the phone (hard reset once or twice, so essentially the same thing), meaning Windows Mobile 6.5. Like I previously mentioned, I'm using the TouchFLO 3D UI (my attempt to update to the Sense UI went terribly).
Is there anything I can do to fix this, aside from hard resetting again? I've got a lot of contacts (more than will fit on my SIM card, in fact), and I'd really rather not go through all the steps of personalizing my phone for a third time if I don't have to. It'll be like November before I'm eligible for an upgrade with AT&T, so that's not a viable option right now, as much as I might like it to be.
Another side note: Using Windows Mobile Device Center, is there a way to basically copy all of my contacts and whatnot from my phone to my computer without adding in the contacts from Outlook? I'd really rather not deal with a bunch of random email addresses sitting in my phone's contact list. If this is possible, I may just try to use this method, hard reset, and then put the contacts back on the phone. The rest of the personalization isn't nearly as time-consuming as adding in another 80-ish contacts and then fixing the names of the ones I managed to fit onto the SIM card (because the SIM card saves them in the format of "Smith, John" in the last name field and nothing in the first name field...).
I've also got a 16GB microSD card, if that would be of any benefit in any of these endeavors.
Any and all help is appreciated! Thanks!
Any ideas?
Not sure about all your facebook issues, but a great, quick and easy program that can save and restore contacts anywhere (including your storage card, if you like) is PIM Backup:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1189061&postcount=1
I use it all the time since I flash daily and I NEVER have any problems restoring my 200+ contacts using PIM Backup.
Does it rescan everything upon startup? Does it rescan photos when you take a picture? How do you put music on the phone if you can't drag-and-drop MP3s?
When you click the share button, does it still give you a list of 90 apps that are open?
If you have SIM Contacts hidden, when you SMS someone, does it show the SIM Contact and the Google Contact? When you send a SMS to more than one person, does it still make a group SMS, or does it text each individual person and update their message threads?
On Google Contacts, currently, my Contact Photos can only be as big as thumbnails. If ICS uses high-res, big Contact Photos, how does that work? Does Google Contacts have updated Contact Photos for you? Did it make you get rid of your old Contact Photos?
Thanks!
Wow a lot of questions I see there.
I can answer a few for you.
1. It does rescan everything on startup. Also checks for updates.
2. It updates you photos like if you take one it goes straight to gallery but doesn't do a full scan again. As far as I'm aware.
3. Unless I'm missing something you can drag and drop music, photos, and media into folders that you select.
You have to select the option in settings to camera (ptp)
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Wow a lot of questions I see there.
I can answer a few for you.
1. It does rescan everything on startup. Also checks for updates.
2. It updates you photos like if you take one it goes straight to gallery but doesn't do a full scan again. As far as I'm aware.
3. Unless I'm missing something you can drag and drop music, photos, and media into folders that you select.
You have to select the option in settings to camera (ptp)
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium and Google Text To Speech ;-)
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How much it cost u? And is it worth it?
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3. Unless I'm missing something you can drag and drop music, photos, and media into folders that you select.
You have to select the option in settings to camera (ptp)
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium and Google Text To Speech ;-)
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Less worried about this one now, since it's a Galaxy Nexus-specific issue. But thank you for your answers!!
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How much it cost u? And is it worth it?
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Upgraded from IPhone 3gs. On 24 month contract. Then since then I've had 4 Android phones and never looked back.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
Anyone else care to take a shot at the remaining questions? Does anyone keep their contacts on their SIM Card anymore?
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Anyone else care to take a shot at the remaining questions? Does anyone keep their contacts on their SIM Card anymore?
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Hopefully not. The SIM storage is very basic and I wouldn't recommend it as anything but an extra backup.
I keep my contacts on my SIM as an extra backup, but that doesn't stop Android from putting them in my message contacts regardless of their display settings.
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I keep my contacts on my SIM as an extra backup, but that doesn't stop Android from putting them in my message contacts regardless of their display settings.
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I wouldn't recommend relying on storing SIM contacts.
Why not just use the Google contacts for your phone (and general backup) and then also export them as a csv file (from google contacts) and store on your computer/dropbox/flash drive? You can have good backup without duplicate contacts on your phone.
I also have few questions as I`m looking to switch from iPhon 4 to Galaxy Nexus after volume bug is solved.
1) Can ICS push emails directly on the screen so I don`t even have to unlock the phone? Liks in iOS5 - I don`t need to pick up the phone or unlock screen, I can see first few lines of the email.
2) Can you set custom ringtone for incoming emails?
3) Is it possible to change how fast LED blinks and what colour for sms & emails?
4) I`m using TomTom, but Android doesn`t have TomTom. Is there turn-by-turn SatNav for Android?
Thanks
The high-res contact photos is still NO go if you are syncing with Google Contacts (GMAIL contacts) only.
If you do it this way, you will receive low res 96x96 pixels contact photos.
I know, this is ****. It's been ages we have requested this to be fixed.
But, apparently, Google won't listen.
NOTE: I read that if you synced with Google+, you will receive high-res photo from Google+. But, not all my contacts are in Google+.
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I also have few questions as I`m looking to switch from iPhon 4 to Galaxy Nexus after volume bug is solved.
1) Can ICS push emails directly on the screen so I don`t even have to unlock the phone? Liks in iOS5 - I don`t need to pick up the phone or unlock screen, I can see first few lines of the email.
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Mmm no. You can access the notifications area from the lockscreen so that you can see who its from and click into the gmail app, but it doesn't show the first lines.
2) Can you set custom ringtone for incoming emails?
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You can set a specific ringtone for each e-mail account.
3) Is it possible to change how fast LED blinks and what colour for sms & emails?
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There are certain apps that let you customize the use of the LED.
4) I`m using TomTom, but Android doesn`t have TomTom. Is there turn-by-turn SatNav for Android?
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YES. GOOGLE MAPS!!!! Its included and knocks the socks off of everything out there. (and yes it does turn by turn voice navigation).
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Mmm no. You can access the notifications area from the lockscreen so that you can see who its from and click into the gmail app, but it doesn't show the first lines.
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When I drive and my iPhone is in windscreen holder, its very safe as I don`t have to take my hands off steering wheel to check who is this email from and what about.
I thought ICS was them listening! So the contact has to be stored on the phone to get high-res photos? So that means I'd have the whole SIM card contact/Google Contact/Phone Contact deal all over again? It's like they don't know how to design a phone OS sometimes...
And what's unreliable about SIM Contacts? I trust Google Contacts completely.
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I thought ICS was them listening! So the contact has to be stored on the phone to get high-res photos? So that means I'd have the whole SIM card contact/Google Contact/Phone Contact deal all over again? It's like they don't know how to design a phone OS sometimes...
And what's unreliable about SIM Contacts? I trust Google Contacts completely.
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The problem with SIM contacts is that the SIM is very specific in what it can store. A UMTS sim can store 2 numbers per person and type (I dumped my SIM with a usb sim-reader). The is no way to store a picture and all the other things Google allows you to store and sync. Sure, they could keep different databases just for the stuff the SIM doesn't support but that would just result in more problems in general and you would have a hard limit on the number of contacts set to 250.
Summary: SIM contacts are too limited to be useful today. It's only decent as a backup in my opinion.
Why are you so against having your contacts on Google contacts or just as a vcard locally? To me, Google contacts is really great as I can change my contacts from anywhere and I always have them backed up. It also makes it extremely easy to setup a new Android phone and allows me to export them to a number of formats if I need it.
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The problem with SIM contacts is that the SIM is very specific in what it can store. A UMTS sim can store 2 numbers per person and type (I dumped my SIM with a usb sim-reader). The is no way to store a picture and all the other things Google allows you to store and sync. Sure, they could keep different databases just for the stuff the SIM doesn't support but that would just result in more problems in general and you would have a hard limit on the number of contacts set to 250.
Summary: SIM contacts are too limited to be useful today. It's only decent as a backup in my opinion.
Why are you so against having your contacts on Google contacts or just as a vcard locally? To me, Google contacts is really great as I can change my contacts from anywhere and I always have them backed up. It also makes it extremely easy to setup a new Android phone and allows me to export them to a number of formats if I need it.
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1. It'd be a hassle to delete all the numbers off my SIM. It also should be unnecessary. There's no reason why Android should be looking at my SIM after I told it not to.
2. I am not against having my contacts on Google Contacts. I have them on Google Contacts. I used to have them on Google Contacts AND my phone, but all that did is have Android list each contact three times. A nightmare!! All I am saying is, don't look at my SIM card if I say not to, or be smart enough to not list duplicates because THE CONTACTS ARE MERGED.
I loved this app on my nexus one, it doesnt drain battery and stays hidden. Also is has lots of options to remote wipe and alert.
Anyone know of a similar app for my Galaxy Nexus? MD is not on the market anymore..
Thankyou
Tim-
Lookout Mobile Security and McAfee's WaveSecure have this functionality.
Personally I just use Tasker. I have it set up to activate the GPS tracker upon a SMS trigger or a detected change of the SIM card. Every 10 minutes it will silently snap photos via the front facing camera and send its GPS coordinates over SMS to a group of my friends and family. I have a second SMS trigger that will delete select directories of vital files.
I personally use Cerberus, sure it's not free but in my opinion it's the best as it has a lot of features. It can also be flashed via recovery so it stays after a wipe, it can check SIM configuration etc. Those are only some of its features. Also I don't need one that comes bundled with an anti-virus because quite frankly, it's not necessary for me.
OMG Cerberus is so cool!!!!
grab SMS log remotely! take picture remotely!
this is awesome.
I just tried Cerberus as well and its AWESOME! Highly recommended!
Cerebus is the best out there. Also, I had mobile defense too, but it doesn't appear in the market anymore. However it does still appear in my my apps list, so it should be there for you too.
But cerebus is better anyway.
For heavy users memory is a real problem on the 8S...
But there are some tricks to keep this otherwise beautifully phone going:
Get memory back from your other folder, without hard reset:
There is no option in WP8 itself to reduce the size of the other folder, WP8
will do it automatically after it is getting to full.
But there is an app that first fills up you phone to force WP8 to clean up...
After WP cleand up... you can delete the data the App generated so that you
end up with more memory than bevore!
Give it a try it managed to release 200mb for my 8S:
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/shrink-storage/44672108-f3f8-47df-bd19-3fe94e6c744a
Install Apps and games from your SD card:
Go to www.windowsphone.com and download the app and games you use to your computer. Create an Apps folder on you SD card and copy all the apps and game xap's to it...
After a while you will se a SD-Card option on the first page of your Microsoft Store. You can install games and apps any time from your SD card...
Because WP don't have to download and cache them you will have more space after SD installation than with online installation!
Also you can have a lot of games on you phone and switch them without
need for a wifi connection, just install them from the SD card.
Delete the WP8 standard Photos from your Phone
There is a album called 8 on your phone just delete the 9 photos and the
folder it will save you almost 2mb.. hey it's almost 1 small app!
Delete browser cache files
Delete apps that do a lot of caching and reinstall them
All the apps that cache a lot.. Video and Music streaming apps
Reduce you downloaded emails to 7 days if you don't need them
Delete Apps you don't use which were already on the phone
The HTC app uses a lot of space.. get rid of it if you don't use it
Use Here Navigation from Nokia as your offline navigation
Nokia drive uses the maps you already downloaded for your wp8 maps...
Delete or reduce the maps you use if you don't need them
Delete Voice recognition and other stuff from different languages
It seems Voice recognition can't be uninstalled without hard reset, so be carefull
Update to GDR2 or don't backup your Fotos with SkyDrive because there is an bug which keeps storage increasing
I hope i helped you the get some MB's back for your 8S!
Hi
Thank you very much for your tips But please, can you tell me how to do this:
Delete Voice recognition and other stuff from different languages
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I started playing with voice recognition before I realized I was getting short on storage and I installed a few languages to try it out and now I'd like to delete them without having to hard reset...
Thanks!
djsnakezinho said:
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Thank you very much for your tips But please, can you tell me how to do this:
I started playing with voice recognition before I realized I was getting short on storage and I installed a few languages to try it out and now I'd like to delete them without having to hard reset...
Thanks!
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It seems voice recognition can't be removed without hard reset. Sorry for the confusion.
Voice recognition seems to be very special because also when the phone installs it, it performs
a restart an behaves like updating the OS.
Bluetooth transfer
Make attention on bluetooth transfer! On my HTC 8S, 300mb of video received by bluetooth has moved to SD, but on Other section, there is more 300mb.
Excuse me for my bad english
Here is another tip for gaining another 50/60 MB from the phone.
Be careful what you do cause this may brick your phone.
I am not responsible for any damage you can make on the device.Do it on your own risk.
I don`t know if someone else knows why that "Regulatory" option is present in the OS but i`ve found it useless for me so deleting it you can gain extra 60 MB on the device.
Considering it`s a system app and you can not delete it or uninstall it like the regular apps here`s what you have to do:
1.Go to the settings and then to Date + Time.
2.Turn off "set automatically" (the second option) and then set the year to 100 years later. (ex. 2113)
3.Don't tap on anything just turn off the phone.
4.After turning it on go to the settings menu and tap on "Regulatory"
5.You will be prompted with two options: "Uninstall" and "Buy".
Just tap on uninstall and you are done.
5.Next go back to the Date + Time menu and set the year back to present followed by setting on to automatically again.
That`s it you gain 60 MB more space.
This trick is already done form another member here on the forum but this is specially for our kind of devices with the low system memory like the HTC 8S.
I am not sure if with hard resetting the phone the Regulatory app will be back again.
I will confirm this on my next hard reset of the phone.
Hit thanks if you find this post helpful.