I seem to have done some real damage to my phone and I could definitely use the help of fellow XDA'ers. I took my memory card out to put some files on my PC. Phone was off so no problems. I reinsert the SD card and reboot. Now although I'm absolutely sure the card was fully inserted, once the phone fully booted I had the "SD Card removed" icon in the corner and everything started to force close. So I quickly shut the phone off, made sure the card was fully in, and rebooted again. it loaded up again, and while the no SD Card removed error was gone, I was still getting FC's left and right and apparently have no gps, no wifi, and no 3g. So I once again rebooted into recovery, ran the fix permissions and rebooted. Again, booted up and FC's everywhere. So now about 90% of my apps FC on launch (either actual launch of the phone or by pressing the icon), I can't activate WiFi or GPS, and I have no data/3g. What happened and how can I fix this? Thank you so much in advance for your help.
Edit: After a little more fiddling, I find that I can't change any settings. I can't set screen timeout, notification levels, so on and so forth. What happened?
FatBoyExtraordinaire said:
I seem to have done some real damage to my phone and I could definitely use the help of fellow XDA'ers. I took my memory card out to put some files on my PC. Phone was off so no problems. I reinsert the SD card and reboot. Now although I'm absolutely sure the card was fully inserted, once the phone fully booted I had the "SD Card removed" icon in the corner and everything started to force close. So I quickly shut the phone off, made sure the card was fully in, and rebooted again. it loaded up again, and while the no SD Card removed error was gone, I was still getting FC's left and right and apparently have no gps, no wifi, and no 3g. So I once again rebooted into recovery, ran the fix permissions and rebooted. Again, booted up and FC's everywhere. So now about 90% of my apps FC on launch (either actual launch of the phone or by pressing the icon), I can't activate WiFi or GPS, and I have no data/3g. What happened and how can I fix this? Thank you so much in advance for your help.
Edit: After a little more fiddling, I find that I can't change any settings. I can't set screen timeout, notification levels, so on and so forth. What happened?
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Tried repairing ext file systems?
FatBoyExtraordinaire said:
I seem to have done some real damage to my phone and I could definitely use the help of fellow XDA'ers. I took my memory card out to put some files on my PC.
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Windoze no doubt. Windoze is HOSTILE to non-MS filesystems and WILL attempt to destroy them.
Other possibility is that you simply didn't click the card in all the way.
Anyways, what has happened is that your phone booted up and was missing a ton of applications that it was expecting. It therefore irreparably destroyed your package configuration.
You MIGHT be able to salvage it if you have a recent backup of the file /data/system/packages.xml.
Try restoring that file, syncing the filesystem, and rebooting via 3-finger-salute INTO RECOVERY ***IMMEDIATELY*** after syncing. Then do a fix permissions and reboot normally.
... and cross your fingers.
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Tried repairing ext file systems?
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I did that, but it was a no go. Everything still FC'd, couldn't change any setings, and it says my phone doesn't have internet permission, so anything requiring data access doesn't work.
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Windoze no doubt. Windoze is HOSTILE to non-MS filesystems and WILL attempt to destroy them.
Other possibility is that you simply didn't click the card in all the way.
Anyways, what has happened is that your phone booted up and was missing a ton of applications that it was expecting. It therefore irreparably destroyed your package configuration.
You MIGHT be able to salvage it if you have a recent backup of the file /data/system/packages.xml.
Try restoring that file, syncing the filesystem, and rebooting via 3-finger-salute INTO RECOVERY ***IMMEDIATELY*** after syncing. Then do a fix permissions and reboot normally.
... and cross your fingers.
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I'm guessing I didn't click it all the way in because I have done this 100's of times before and it never happened. Unfortunately, I don't have a recent back up of that file so it's sounding like i am screwed. Would i be able to just wipe the phone, the ext, the cache and start over from scratch?
It seems I may be out of the woods. It's going to be a tedious solution, but at least I won't have to wipe anything or unroot or so on. Basically I have to uninstall and then reinstall everything to end the FC's and restore settings and data. It was actually the Maps update that helped me figure this out. I got the notification that there was an update so i followed it and upgraded. The fact that it notified me and then allowed me to download the new version told me the net was working. I also had another app that needed to be updated that was also fc'ing. So i upgraded that app and viola, no more fc and the 3g was working. So i uninstalled other apps that were giving me trouble with settings and data like Quick Settings and Tweetcaster, reinstalled and now I'm good money. I've got 144 apps installed so it's gonna take a few hours, but it's worth it to have my phone back. Thanks again for the advice.
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Ive been having some problems with my tmo wing lately in terms of extreem lagging. Ever since I have used pocket mechanic to defrag my storage card, everything went to sh1t on my phone. I cant boot my phone with my storage card in the slot or it will just reset when it gets to the green windows mobile background. And most importantly, whenever I open "Messages" on my phone, it takes honestly 5 or more minutes to open, then another 5 to open sms/mms then another 5 mins to open/reply to a sms. My program memory is usualy always ATLEAST over 10MB and I had batery status running and while i was opening these windows at the task bar it showed it was using 0% or minimal processor usage, so im assuming that it's not executing properly... does someone have a fix for this? can someone help me out? because to temporarely fix the issue i have to reboot the phone... thanks!
- Norman
Here's something you should try.
Remove the card then insert it into a card reader at your computer. Copy everything on it and then format the card using FAT16.
Now back-up everything possible on the phone. (in your case this could take a while). Place the back-up file on the computer, if you use the card for back-up reformat it again after you complete the process. Then hard reset the phone and check to see if it still has this problem. Place the empty card inside the phone and try to copy some stuff to it. If everything is ok, restore your files using that back-up you just made. Check to see if the problem manifests now. If it does, clearly there is something rong with your program configuration and you may want to reinstall all your programs manually.
If the phone still runs slow after a master reset you should try to rewrite the phone's ROM as a last resort option. (your back-up copy woun't work after this). If it still runs slow even after this, then... well that's bad. It's something I call "the dead slow card problem". I've tried to find a fix for this for about 3 years on different htc products, but with no succes. The good part is that there's a very small chance this can happen in the normal every day usage. Try this things first and tell me what happens.
wow... Before i even attempt this surgery, i just want to say thank you very much for taking the time to write all this. it's very appreciated.
Before i try all this, i got a few Qs.
What do i use to back up my stuff on my device? or do i just copy paste important stuff... if so what about extensions and associated files...
And what involves a hard reset? does it effect the registry tweaks that i have done? in the end... what will be reset?
- Norman
I really appreciate ur help! ive done as u said and everything seems fine now... my phone is now back to scratch, which im happy with so I can start fresh and avoid all that junk I had on before... THANKS FOR UR HELP! UVE BEEN GREAT! A+
- Norman
Ok I forgot to unmount my SD card before I switched Sd cards to transfer some date. Bone head move!!!! Anyway now when the phone starts up I get can see my wall paper in the sleep screen. I can see the status bar and see that several apps are started, but open home will not start. I get a force close screen over and over. The Hot button to get to the settings will not work and so I can unmount and remount or turn off open home. Satus bar is there as I said, I can pull it down between force close screens, but the rest of the screen is black. Any Idea besides wiping and reinstalling everything?
got it, I could get into process manager via the status bar. I uninstalled open home, unmounted/remounted and reinstalled.
How did you swap SD cards without unmounting? you can't mount the card while the phone is off, and you can't swap cards while the phone is on.
I just reinstall the apps that are foreclosing.
Well I thought you had to go into settings and do something before you took the SD Card out. Guess not. Anyway I turned off the phone, took the SD card and put in another that was in the my G1. I guess this created the problem as their were files on the G1 card. Most apps that were installed on the SD had problems. To completely fix the problem I had to format and re-partition my SD Card. I went ahead and wiped and reinstalled Cynogen as well. Everything is fine now just have to get back the 90 or so apps I had on the phone.
my stock nexus one becomes highly unstable after booting up. im running strock 2.2.1, and this issue started apearing recently (after 2.2.1 update). the phone has never had any problems in the past.
whenever i turn the phone on, if i touch it it becomes really laggy and freezes, requiring me to pull the battery. however, if i let it sit for 15-20 minutes and then play with it it works fine, until the next time i shut id down (which can be days). i have performed a factory reset without reinstalling all of my old applications, i have formatted my sd card, and i have checked all the applications that start on boot up, but none of them seam to be the issue (when there was nothing on the phone it still reacted this way)
any suggestions? should i contact htc? this is really annoying.
Before you do, you could try to root and check the logs for anything suspicious (logcat and kmesg). Also you could try to install custom ROM and see if the problem still exists.
If it doesn't help - you should contact HTC.
EErez said:
my stock nexus one becomes highly unstable after booting up. im running strock 2.2.1, and this issue started apearing recently (after 2.2.1 update). the phone has never had any problems in the past.
whenever i turn the phone on, if i touch it it becomes really laggy and freezes, requiring me to pull the battery. however, if i let it sit for 15-20 minutes and then play with it it works fine, until the next time i shut id down (which can be days). i have performed a factory reset without reinstalling all of my old applications, i have formatted my sd card, and i have checked all the applications that start on boot up, but none of them seam to be the issue (when there was nothing on the phone it still reacted this way)
any suggestions? should i contact htc? this is really annoying.
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Factory reset with formatted card? Has to be something wrong with the phone.
Go to recovery, wipe cache and dalvik cache, and try to boot phone again, often that helps.
tried wiping everything i can through recovery, yet my phone still freezes soon after start up. any chance htc will fix this? i dont want a refurb
Because when system has just booted up, it needs to check SD card and mounts all App2SD applications.
Try to boot your phone without SD and SIM card, see if it solves the issue.
tried removing sim and microsd and all th possible combinations.
it runs great without the microsd, so im guessing that was the issue. ill try another microsd to make sure its not a hardware/software bug related to sds in general but rather an issue with my specific microsd (which isnt the stock one).
thanks for the suggestion. i was very close to sending my phone in to htc (already had a ticket open and a fedex label)
that sounds good perhaps your SD card was corrupted. Connect it to your computer using a card reader, and do a disk check in Windows, see if it can fix any problem. Also try to degragment your SD card.
First off: Motorola Droid running CM 6.1
So I've searched around, and everything I've found seems to be missing an aspect of what's happening with me, so I figured I'd just go ahead and start a thread and ask.
Basically, my SD card has been working on and off. It started one day when I turned off my phone and then turned it on later. The SD card was in and I could access it via Root Explorer, where I could see everything, but none of the apps were working at all. Restarting phone did nothing. I turned it off, pulled out the battery and pulled the SD card out, blew it out a little, put it back in, turned it back on, and it seemed to work as normal. I wondered if my problem was gone, so I restarted again, and same problem, no apps. I finally got it back on with the apps on the SD card working, but now, I can't mount it on my computer via USB. When I plug it in, it says drivers were installed and device is ready to use, and it starts charging, but there is no notification on the phone to mount the SD card. On top of that, I can't seem to install anything or update anything through the market, and I'm not entirely sure all of my apps that are on my SD card are there, but I can't be positive, because all of the ones I most use are. I'm sure that if I restart my phone, the same thing will happen again, so at the moment, I'm fine that my apps are working, but there are times when I need to mount my SD card to transfer files and such. Like I mentioned, I did search, and the closest thing I found was USB Brick which seems to be solely focused on the HTC Desire, but still seems to miss some aspects of this, mainly, no one mentioning that they could access their SD card while the apps weren't working. This makes me think it may be some sort of problem with the system or perhaps something wrong with android_secure or Android on my SD card. (Maybe an app on there messing something up?)
Any help would be appreciated. If this is a dupe thread, I'm sorry. If you could point me where I need to go, I'll go there and this thread can be deleted or closed.
Hey guys, I need some help.
My beloved phone got too full the other night and ended up in a coma. Now she..I mean it, wont wake up anymore. I can only get her to open her eyes enough for a couple of blinks, but never really to a conscious state. I'm certainly not willing to let her go and want to keep her from loosing all the good memories we had together... Please help me safe her!...
Enough storytelling...
I've got the Samsung GT-I9252 (Galaxy S4 Active), which is not rooted. Recently I updated to Lollipop which worked fine without any issues.
As I am a usual data horder, I quickly ran out of space (yes, both on the SD card and the internal memory), so that I constantly saw the warning in the status bar that the phone ran out of memory. As I wasn't near a computer I could use for a while to move some files, I continued using it as normal. Because of the lack of memory, the google play store would not install any updates, which was totally fine. However, the Samsung app-store-thing seemed to care a bit less about it and tried to force to download and install what it thought to be "important updates", like for example "text-to-speach" (I haven't even figured out how to use that feature)... Even though there would not be enough space. And I couldn'd really do anything to stop it. The phone started to get slower and I wasn't even able to take pictures anymore (still not around a computer to tranfer data). So the other day I wanted to restart the phone (as I had done a couple of times since the message of lack of space) and it would just not boot up anymore.
It is stuck at the Samsung logo.
My first thought was, well I simply plug it into a computer and transfer some data to make some space and then it would boot up again, but I had to find out that you do not simply plug your phone into a computer and access its data if it refuses to boot...
So I read about the safe mode and tried to find it without any luck (either I'm too stupid to activate it or it got removed). Next I tried to sweep the cache partition, as I managed to get into the recovery boot. It got deleted, but the phone would still not boot.
I definitley want to avoid a factory reset for various reasons!
Then I read about some ways to push/pull data from your phone with a computer, when in recovery mode (with ADB if I recall correctly)... But that's kind of as far as I got.
Now I'm asking for your help and expertise.
Do you think it would be possible to transfer and/or delete some files and if that would solve the problem and lets the phone boot up again; and if yes, how should I approach? Or do you think the cause for the problem lies somewhere completely different?
Thank you so much in advance!
-Nino
Go to Recovery, go to Mount USB storage then connect your phone to your PC. Wait for a few minutes as the drivers will still be installed. Move all your files then try rebooting. I'm not really sure what could be the cause of your problem but if it still doesn't boot up, I've got no clue what other things you could do aside from factory resetting. To be safe, wait for another reply before taking my advise.
Thanks for your reply, VIPNobie!
Well it reminds me that I actually read about it and the problem is that in the recovery boot there is not the option to choose mount usb =/
Don't really understand why.. It would be the easiest solution tho.
Alright, so now I managed to fix it. To be honest, I'm not exactly sure what the problem\solution was. My plan was to connect it with Heimdall and see what I could do through that.. I set the phone in download mode, got the drivers installed and detected the device in heimdall, I ran the command to list the partitons and as soon as that finished, the computer notified me that the device had been disconnected and my phone restarted by itself... tho this time it booted normally as if nothing happened.. so I could back up my data, still need to try to restart the phone, but just wanted to make sure that I got everything backed up.
So even if this might not help others, this thread can be set to solved I guess
Thanks again.
I have the same problem. what did you mean by "I ran the command to list the partitons". Please provide more details.
Donino said:
Hey guys, I need some help.
My beloved phone got too full the other night and ended up in a coma. Now she..I mean it, wont wake up anymore. I can only get her to open her eyes enough for a couple of blinks, but never really to a conscious state. I'm certainly not willing to let her go and want to keep her from loosing all the good memories we had together... Please help me safe her!...
Enough storytelling...
I've got the Samsung GT-I9252 (Galaxy S4 Active), which is not rooted. Recently I updated to Lollipop which worked fine without any issues.
As I am a usual data horder, I quickly ran out of space (yes, both on the SD card and the internal memory), so that I constantly saw the warning in the status bar that the phone ran out of memory. As I wasn't near a computer I could use for a while to move some files, I continued using it as normal. Because of the lack of memory, the google play store would not install any updates, which was totally fine. However, the Samsung app-store-thing seemed to care a bit less about it and tried to force to download and install what it thought to be "important updates", like for example "text-to-speach" (I haven't even figured out how to use that feature)... Even though there would not be enough space. And I couldn'd really do anything to stop it. The phone started to get slower and I wasn't even able to take pictures anymore (still not around a computer to tranfer data). So the other day I wanted to restart the phone (as I had done a couple of times since the message of lack of space) and it would just not boot up anymore.
It is stuck at the Samsung logo.
My first thought was, well I simply plug it into a computer and transfer some data to make some space and then it would boot up again, but I had to find out that you do not simply plug your phone into a computer and access its data if it refuses to boot...
So I read about the safe mode and tried to find it without any luck (either I'm too stupid to activate it or it got removed). Next I tried to sweep the cache partition, as I managed to get into the recovery boot. It got deleted, but the phone would still not boot.
I definitley want to avoid a factory reset for various reasons!
Then I read about some ways to push/pull data from your phone with a computer, when in recovery mode (with ADB if I recall correctly)... But that's kind of as far as I got.
Now I'm asking for your help and expertise.
Do you think it would be possible to transfer and/or delete some files and if that would solve the problem and lets the phone boot up again; and if yes, how should I approach? Or do you think the cause for the problem lies somewhere completely different?
Thank you so much in advance!
-Nino
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Lacking storage booting is the option you choose. Fixed it?