yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KeepTriin:
Hi,

I noticed you were/are running the same ROM, but it's still odd. I did try looking at Facebook in the play store, but again there was no uninstall option. Still, the end result is that Facebook is no more. At some point I'm going to implement dataswap, after I've backed up my sd card and I'll take another look then.

I did check the EliteModICS120706.zip and it does contain a com.facebook.katana.zip under the system/app directory. Whilst I'm familiar with Linux (and of course Android is based on this), does its inclusion in the ROM zip file mean that it is automatically installed

Thanks for your help
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kbeezie:
I can confirm that both the likes of com.twitter.android.apk and say com.facebook.katana.apk are present under /system/app but course com.facebook.katana-1.apk is present under /data/app for me since I installed it.

I *think* the two that comes with Android are notification/tie-ins with the rest of the system, i.e.: what allows you to connect say Twitter/Facebook/Yahoo/Google/Etc account to the rest of the phone for means of notification and contact imports etc. I just know that I actually had to install the Facebook app before that option would even show up under System Settings -> Accounts.

By the way when you partition the SD Card for sd-ext (which is what is advised for dataswap), depending on your type of recovery, do not create a second sd-ext, and preferably skip the swap as well, so you should only have two partitions on the SD Card, a sd-ext and the FAT32 (for your normal /sdcard stuff). The dataswap mod will put a swap file within /data/local since most of your apps will be moved from /data/app and /data/app-private over to /sd-ext/app*

And furthermore, don't bother to move any of your apps "to SD card" when using sd-ext, since they are all already on the SD card (just in the faster, more efficient /sd-ext/ partition that's mapped to /data/).
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
the apps twitter and facebook came with the rom and are installed under system app, can not be removed with market, nor settings>manage apps. many roms nowadays come with those so you can either remove them from the rom before download or remove them after via adb, terminal, tb, rootexplorer, or whatever means.

you do not need to unistall updates before you uninstall apps, even system apps, you just need to uninstall them diffrently than just settings>manage apps>uninstall

that will only work for apps stored in /data
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Themes and Apps] -CALIBAN666-:
when its doublepost or similar to others,so delete it please.
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Themes and Apps] nvpruthvi:
downloading
[Samsung Galaxy Fit GT 5670] ZeroNawazaki:
I know V.2.3.6 is Final Version for Galaxy Fit, but i try to update (Setting-About-...) Detect new firmware(90+mb), but Fota Update Error? Huh?
[Samsung Galaxy Fit GT 5670] dheeraj (dhlalit11):
maybe you are not having fota app in your system
[Samsung Galaxy Fit GT 5670] ZeroNawazaki:
Fota is App System, Right?
[Samsung Galaxy Fit GT 5670] dheeraj (dhlalit11):
yes it is a system app, can be found in /system/app
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arrigo187:
Hello guys. Recently my weather widget app keeps crashing. On my screen it just shows the time and nothing else. There is no background, location or temperature. I have restarted my phone and removed the widget from the screen and put it back on. This hasnt worked. It just says the app keeps closing.

Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arrigo187:
up
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tingtan:
Try go to Application Manager --> All --> Weather, click force close, clear data. It may fix the problem.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imfromwales:
Im having some strange problems connecting my SD card to my SGS3.

Bought a USB OTG cable from ebay 2 weeks ago (this one) and also an SD card reader to plug into it (this one). The phone found the SD card when plugged in and i could browse files from the card fine. a file browser would pop up instantly and allow me to navigate the card. Then it literally stopped working a few days later.

I thought it was the card reader so i plugged a USB mouse into the cable and conntected to my phone and it worked fine, meaning it wasnt the cable. I then plugged the card reader into my PC and it didnt find it, so i thought the card reader might be damaged, and went and bought a new one (this one), but when i plug it into my USB cable, and then into the phone,it still says "USB connector connected" (as shown in this image), but it doesnt launch the file browser, nor can i find the card anywhere in the file system.

Ive turned off USB Debugging from Developer options, but cant for the life of me find out why my SD card cant be read by my phone!

To summarise:

USB OTG cable works fine as ive plugged a mouse into it.

SD Card reader works fine as ive pluuged it into PC with SD card in and i can view files

SD card wont connect to my phone via USB OTG cable
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4fseeker:
Not all card readers might be compatible, it depends on the chip they use.

I'd recommend using 'real' USB-Sticks instead of SD-cards due to the better compatibility unless required.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imfromwales:
The first SD card I bought was working and then suddenly stopped working so I can't understand why this is!

I could probably try a USB stick (will do when I get back from work) but for her purpose I'm using it for, I need to be able to read an SD card.

Really confused as to why this is happening!!

Does USB debugging make a difference being on/off?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4fseeker:
As I said, probably a different chip in that card reader. It's trial and error.

No, that allows ADB. It has nothing to do with OTG.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danben7:
"USB connector connected" just means that the OTG cable is connected, nothing else.

In terms of SD cards, especially with readers, they can be a bit of a pain. Better to stick to usb devices. I use a kingston USB card reader and it works with the S3.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imfromwales:
Surley if it was working before, then it shows there isnt a problem with any chip's compatability with the S3?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4fseeker:
According to your description it was never working.

It worked on another SDcard reader with different internal electronic

If you get the same one you had at the beginning or one with identical chip, it should work again.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imfromwales:
Oh i understand what you mean, crossed wires sorry. i thought you were talking about why the first one had sudennly stoped working.

Why do some SD card readers work with USB OTG and some dont? I thought they would all work as all USB?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4fseeker:
Card readers are not real mass storage devices but have electronics to convert from SDcard-connectivity to USB.

These need to be controlled by the host computer, and as such need drivers.

Linux and Windows include drivers for most common devices and often can control a device with generic drivers which guess how the device MIGHT react.

If your device is rooted, please open Terminal Emulator (free App on the market) and type: (It may work with non-rooted devices too, I'm not sure)

dmesg > /sdcard/usb.log

DO NOT PRESS 'ENTER' YET.

Plugin the USB-OTG connector without the device. Wait 1-2 seconds, then plugin the SDcard reader with an SDcard in it.

Wait 1-2 seconds again, then hit ENTER to run the commend.

Then please attach the logfile you will find on the SDcard (with the name usb.log) to your next post.

It should show what exactly goes wrong
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imfromwales:
Oh i see, I thought any USB card reader would work... i was wrong :)

Ive done what you said (it did work on my un-rooted GS3), but wouldnt let me attach it, it was saying it is an invalid file, so i put it on Google Drive for you to download. it's here.

The usb.log is for the new card reader that works in the PC but not in the phone. Didnt see any point doing the first card reader that suddenly no longer works in the phone, as it doesnt work in a PC either.

Thanks for all your help so far!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4fseeker:
<5>[64485.553889] c0 scsi 9:0:0:0: Direct-Access USB2.0 CARD-READER 1.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
<5>[64485.558943] c0 sd 9:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[...]
<5>[64486.078812] c0 sd 9:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk

Seems I was wrong and it's recognizing the card-reader all right and seems to be able to access it.

So, for any reason, it seems to be unmountable.

Could you please confirm it's recognizing the partition alright by attaching the card reader to your phone and then typing: (Should work without root too)

ls /dev/block/sd*

It's supposed to give you 2 lines of output:

sda

sda1

If only sda, please make sure your SD-card is in FAT32 format (not exFat, may cause issues)

If both, go to System->Storage and check if you can manually mount the USB storage (called an SD-card under CM10 at least)

If not, apart from re-formatting the SD-card that's as far as we can go without root, 'mount' commands need root to work.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imfromwales:
Yeah it does show both sea and sda1.

I can go to storage settings but I have a microsd card in my phone so when I click unmount it just unmounts the micro sd. When the microsd is unmounted, I cannot mount the SD card either :(
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4fseeker:
Hmm, I have no clue why it doesn't automount it.

Should you decice to root (it's a real painless method) we can look further but for now I'm out of ideas on checking the reason.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] M-Lin:
I've got the exact same problem - my otg usb hub worked with everything yesterday, now it won't mount drives, but my usb keyboard worked? Any help would be greatly appreciated, I only moved from the dark side a couple of weeks ago!

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4fseeker:
Are you rooted?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] M-Lin:
Yes with CF root 6.4

EDIT here's my usb.log http ://db.tt/dcTrO9nZ with space!

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imfromwales:
I'm not rooted but planning OK rooting and getting an unbranded version of jelly bean when its official. Can you point my in the right direction to root (at work now so only looking at reading the process)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] M-Lin:
I used this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=27049357

Hope that helps

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4fseeker:
@imfromwales

Here you go, it's pretty straight forward. (A lot of text to say so little =D )

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1695238

@M-Lin

Please try: (with the device attached)

ls /dev/block/sd*

Remember the last device in the list with the name sdX1 (where x is a letter)

su
mkdir /mnt/usbdisk
mount -t vfat /dev/block/sdX1 /mnt/usbdisk

(The x in sdX1 here being the one you remembered above)

If it doesn't give an error-message, try accessing that folder through a file browser.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] M-Lin:
Thanks I get

/dev/block/sd*: no such file or directory

EDIT: I also get SC3 usb host driver NOT found! In usb host controller 0.44

EDIT 2: it was my usb hub - a wire has come loose - thanks for your help anyway

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imfromwales:
Ive just rooted with CF Root and tried running the above in a terminal.

I get an error message saying:

"mkdir failed for /mnt/usbdisk. Read only file system"
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4fseeker:
Oh, my bad.

Here's the correct method: (highlighted the change)

su
[I][B]mount -o remount,rw /[/B][/I]
mkdir /mnt/usbdisk
mount -t vfat /dev/block/sdX1 /mnt/usbdisk
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imfromwales:
I'm having problems with the last like of code, saying mount: no such file or directory'

http://db.tt/eIaESS9R
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4fseeker:
It seems your device has already mounted the USB drive or at least prepared to do so since /mnt/usbdisk exists.

Please post a screenshot of the command "mount" (no quotes)

You didn't replace the 'x' in the line by the letter the "ls /dev/block/sd*" command gives.

It should usually be 'a' but if you plugged it in and out repeatetly it can be a higher letter such as 'b','c','d', ...

Try the command again please with the correct substitution
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imfromwales:
It exists because I had ran that command before. The screenshot I took was not of the first time I ran it, so the first time made the directory.

Here is a screenshot of mount, with the USB not plugged in. I will do the command again (properly) in a few hours when work dies down and I can play on my phone.

http://db.tt/Dyp69U2L
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4fseeker:
Sorry,I forgot to specify. Please run the 'mount' with the SD-reader attached.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imfromwales:
That did actually work. It looks like it had copied the contents to /mint/us drive and means I can view them once the SD card is removed.

I presume this is static and will not update if he contents of the SD card change? Would I need to use that command each time I plug the SD card in, if the contents of the SD card have changed?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imfromwales:
Here is.mount with the SD card attached.

http://db.tt/sgGAJXPi
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4fseeker:
You mean /mnt/usbdisk ?

It should not copy the contents and I see no reason why it even would.

However if you unsafely unplug the drive (without unmounting it in the system first) the system might not realize it's gone. And since it has an in-memory cache of the list of objects (not the files, only the names) they will still be present.

Yes. And before unmounting please run "umount /mnt/usbdisk" (yes, 'umount' without n as 2. letter is correct). This will write all changes to the drive and safely eject it. You may get an error message due to the disk being used if you still have an app open.

I believe there are apps in the market capable of auto-mounting the disk. Should they not work, I'll post a GScript tomorrow which you can link on your homescreen for easy and conveniant access.

I have no clue though why the card is not auto-mounted.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danben7:
I've found that for some reason with some flash drives you need to plug the flash drive into the OTG connector FIRST, then plug the OTG to the phone. Otherwise it won't work, and will kill the OTG connector (I have a multiport OTG connector).

I can plug in my fat32 16gb thumbdrive, + keyboard + mouse + download photos from a camera all at once. And you can plug the keyboard, mouse, camera in at any time. BUT, if I try and take out then plug in the flash drive, it kills all the connections. It's a simple matter of pulling the OTG out and putting it back in and it'll work. But I find it strange.

Have you tried this? Putting the flash card in the OTG first, then connect the OTG?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imfromwales:
Yeah I meant usbstick.

I guess it left the contents there as I did unplug it rather than removing it safely.

There are apps I can download that will auto mount and unmount the SD card?

Yeah I have tried plugging the SD card into the otg then the otg into the phone but it doesn't recognise it :(
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imfromwales:
Do you think im just best off buying a dedicated SD card reader that plugs straight into the phone like one of these?

one

two

three

Im a bit dubious weather any will work though!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grimpressive:
Hi all there. Same problem here.

I'm trying to connect my old iPod, it worked twice (got otg cable today) before lunch, no way to get it working now.

Seems it won't mount the drive. And the ls over /dev/block has no subfolders with pattern "sd*" when connected.

Ideas? :confused:

edit: worked perfectly with 2 pendrives, and with them still working perfectly rite now.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4fseeker:
Have you tried rebooting?

Please do the following: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=28968900&postcount=9

That's a OTG->USB adapter and a SD-card reader in one bundle. Any reader plugged into a USB-OTG should work too.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grimpressive:
yes man. droid and ipod too.

with pendrive ls gives me both sda and sda1 over that path. nothing with ipod.

i'll try to get the log in a few mins. ty for fast response! :good:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grimpressive:
ok got the log.

it goes no device found for a bit and then the routine is this:

6>[ 9812.973938] c0 usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=05ac, idProduct=1209
<6>[ 9812.973994] c0 usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
<6>[ 9812.974041] c0 usb 1-1: Product: iPod
<6>[ 9812.974076] c0 usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Apple
<6>[ 9812.974111] c0 usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 000A270015B9EA66
<7>[ 9812.980631] c0 mif: modem usbdev_open, skip usb_autoresume_device
<7>[ 9812.980887] c0 mif: modem usbdev_open, skip usb_autosuspend_device
<7>[ 9812.988880] c0 usb 1-1: usb_probe_device
<7>[ 9812.988947] c0 usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 2 choices
<7>[ 9812.993304] c0 s5p-ehci s5p-ehci: detected XactErr len 0/0 retry 32
<7>[ 9812.993368] c0 s5p-ehci s5p-ehci: devpath 1 ep0out 3strikes
<3>[ 9812.994283] c0 usb 1-1: can't set config #1, error -71
<7>[ 9813.000628] c0 drivers/usb/core/inode.c: creating file '054'

it goes like this for two or three times then i disconnected all the stuff.

the only thing changing is the incremental filename created at the end:

<7>[ 9813.000628] c0 drivers/usb/core/inode.c: creating file '054' the first time

<7>[ 9813.000628] c0 drivers/usb/core/inode.c: creating file '055' the second... and so on.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grimpressive:
i see the same thing as this one as result of doing a "mount" command with the ipod connected:

there's no mountpoint for the drive. :confused:

edit: if the info can be of any use, if i connect a pendrive it results mounted as:

/dev/block/vold/8:1 /mnt/UsbDriveA

not in sda/sda1 ...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grimpressive:
better than expected.

Yesterday the car stereo said "no song" upon ipod connection.

After reconnected all was fixed up, in the car stereo. This morning i tried over with the phone, all fine like a charm. Then sorry for bothering :o

now all is working fine
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grimpressive:
:eek:

and today again... same issue. dunno why sometimes it mounts iPod flawlessly and some days no way. same error as before right now.

edit: connected it via a powered usb hub and all did fine. seems to be a problem powering the unit... dunno why sometimes it works sometimes not...

i suppose the power required and provided by the s3 is "quite" enough... so sometimes works and sometimes not. :\
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Hero_Guy:
I usually one click back to el29, install CWM, and then flash another ICS rom but it's very time consuming. Is there a faster and safe way?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] crawrj:
What I did was nandroid my gingerbread system. Then I can flash whatever I want and restore gingerbread whenever I want to go back.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] fredrick1213:
Restoring a GB nandroid on an ICS ROM won't cause the phone to brick?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] slick_rick:
It can. I'd suggest just keeping chris41gs ICS aosp/tw kernels in SD card. That way you can just Odin his kernel (if you're not already using it) and flash whatever from there
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] crawrj:
I have done it dozens of times using Chris41g and agat's ics kernels.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Mastergrimm28:
so i got a question that ties into that statement. i am about to use the auto root tool to get cwm. i am currently on stock ics rooted. would i be able to flash whatever rom i choose without having to one click back to a GB Build?

(this used to be way easier on my OG Evo, lol)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] crawrj:
Yes you would. Just install FF18-CWM-agat-src kernel. Of course make a backup first just in case you get into trouble but I have been doing it over and over with no issues... So far :laugh:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Mastergrimm28:
Awesome thats just what i Wanted to hear:)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] fredrick1213:
If you do decide to try please update us.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Mastergrimm28:
I will update when i try.
[TouchPad Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jubmasterflex:
Title pretty much says it all.

I'm hesitant to upgrade to the build of CM9 seeing as my Touchpad runs not only smoothly but is perfectly setup as to how I prefer it. I'm just paranoid that I'll manage to fudge up the process and be left with a bricked device.

Can anyone convince me? Or should I follow the old saying, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"...
[TouchPad Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nikos5800:
Wait for jelly bean ROM
[TouchPad Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chicle_11:
Have both a cwm and a titanium backup, that way you can get back to your previous setting.

In my opinion, cm9 is worth the update.
[TouchPad Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spunker88:
Yes, CM9 is so much better for tablets than CM7. You'll get to enjoy all the new tablet apps and all of the hardware that was working under CM7 now works on CM9, basically everything except for camera.
[TouchPad Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rkaede:
cm7 actually a phone ROM that stretched into that 9.7 inch scren

cm9 it'a a tablet rom that's why u will feel the difference.

cm10 not yet out. i'm assuming it will be something like CM10.
[TouchPad Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ronps:
Not even close. CM9 is a better and more efficient system than CM7. I had no problem updating and keeping apps when I upgraded. Of course, your mileage may vary.
[TouchPad Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tekrhino:
Very smooth, well worth the update!

Go for it!
[TouchPad Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vn33:
Agree ! Just get the most recent nightly ... It makes my TP such a joy to use !
[TouchPad Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erodriguez87:
Do it!

Absolutely! It's an enormous upgrade. CM7 wasn't based on an tablet build like CM9. The interface is so much better on CM9.
[TouchPad Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mafu6:
Just make a nandroid backup and backup all your apps with Titanium Backup transfer to you PC.. install CM9 if you dont like then hope back to CM7... If i were you i'd use the 10th July CM update as that has the least bugs for what I use it for, which is mostly gaming. Can't remember for the life of me if I flashed the Adreno drivers though....
[TouchPad Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jivedanson:
CM9 is SO much better on TouchPad than CM7. Runs like a champ.

Could you wait for CM10? Sure. But why? Enjoy 80% of the features now.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darikashi:
I rooted my Kindlle Fire, got it to Jelly Bean, and I can install everything just fine. Netflix works great, youtube, everything.

But every time I try to install the Amazon Appstore it just says "App not installed"

Every time I try to install the Kindle App it gives me an error code "-24" that Google has never seen before

Any idea what I could do to fix this? All I really need is the Kindle App so I can read my books again
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sidthegreatest:
Are you trying to install the apps from the Play Store ? I installed them from Play Store & had no issues.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darikashi:
Yeah I tried that, didn't work.

I tried sideloading the Amazon Apps for Android too and that didn't work either.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wiseson:
Do you have amazon appstore.apk?