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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dodgedabullet:
Having the same problem.

Hi, i'm having a similar problem with my galaxy s3, i9300, 4.1.2 rooted.

within astro file manager i have 2 files inside storage/sdcard0/DCIM/.thumbnails folder which are taking up 6.5gb of phone storage space.

No idea why they are so big.

.thumbdata3--1967290299 (file size 4.29gb)

.thumbdata3-1763508120 (file size 2.26gb)

People have suggested deleting these files, however having only had the phone for 3 weeks, i'm reluctant to start deleting files i know nothing about.

So i want to back them up before i delete, but the file is not visibale when connected to pc, so cannot back them up.

Apparently with the galaxy s3 they have removed the ability to plug it into pc as a mass storage device, so the folder .thumbnails is unaccessable.

Can someone please tell me why these 2 files have got so big and how do i access the folder .thumbnails via pc.

I also so have a related question,

in astro file manager i have a folder called storage/sdcard0/.aptoide/apks, which is taking up 1.5gb.

I'm assuming they are the apk files for everything i've downloaded off aptoide, are these files still needed or are they ok to delete, like other apks can be deleted once installed.

Anyones help on these issues would be great, but i've only had an android phone for 3 weeks so be gentle with me.lol.

I'm an ex nokia symbian owner and must say symbian really sucks the big one compared to android, (sorry nokia, but true).

Sorry if i've replied or posted in the wrong place but new to xda and the world of forums to.lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] lord dredd:
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am on stock rooted FI03 with agats recovery and stock kernel ( also debloated it using TiBU and Calk's bare minimum script )

was wondering if there is a pure ICS theme for this available somewhere , just like we have on the nexus devices :P

If not then can anyone point me to pure ICS launcher ( no TW ofcoursse ) which has lenty of options to have custom icons.

regards
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] PanchoPlanet:
When you say "pure ICS" do you mean this?

P p.

Transmitted from another galaxy with an Infected P-5113.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tt281gt:
Have you tried taking a look into Agats ROM? It is a stock rom with minor tweaks and ICS theme baked in :cool:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1839909
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] lord dredd:
Yea I wanted plain vanilla ICS look or even jb look if possible lol.

Gonna check agats ROM now.

BTW just installed re calked 2.0 and its freakin smooth and fast.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] someguyatx:
Have you tried Apex launcher? Its like stock with a few extra options.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] TrikeRider:
There's a few apps such as the S Note, S Calendar, My Diary and a few others that i've become accustom to. Is there anyway to get these back?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] xCeejayy:
If you're talking about the gapps(google apps) Like play store etc. as well, there's a gapps zip for download. Otherwise S note, S Calendar are part of Touchwiz since CM9 doesn't have touch wiz it isn't incorporated into it/ you can't get it. Correct me if i'm wrong. :p
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] android4545:
Those are touchwiz apps so they can only be used on UCLF6 and stock roms
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] TrikeRider:
Hey thanks, ya i installed the gapps. These are Samsung apps. I swear i saw somewhere that you can install the permissions for touchwiz and then are able to install the Samsung Apps store and get most of these programs.
[Android Themes] sim_jim:
Jelly Metro GO - APEX THEME

Screenshots :

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Free Sample icons :

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thanks for your support ;)
[Android Themes] ralphie1267:
Will this work for the att galaxy s3 1747
[Android Themes] kancherlapraneeth:
apex themes will work on any device with apex launcher installed
[Android Themes] hubert123454:
please upload Music Player icon frome this theme if you can ;)
[Android Themes] sim_jim:
Update :

10 new icons
[Android Themes] sim_jim:
New update coming soon any icons requests ?
[Android Themes] sim_jim:
Its free now ;) you can get it from market
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] southoz:
Basically I have damaged U602 the Yamaha IC CODEC (confirmed after replacing the headphone flex cable unless there is a bug in the CF_Root Kernel XWLP8 applied to the stock generic Australian ICS) which has added some "new features" to the phone. The one that is the most troublesome is the kernel wakelock sec_jack_det which is not releasing and prevents the phone going into Deep Sleep. As you can imagine this has a significant impact on battery life, even after max optimisation I am struggling to get more than 20 hours out of a brand new battery.

While compiling a new kernel would be interesting to learn at this point in time it is a lot of work to learn this art. On top of that the need to modify sec_jack.c may be risky. Removing the entry from /proc/wakelocks turns it off for about 2 minutes before it reappears and I am doubtful if this is even achieving anything. Is there anyway that you can prevent a kernel module from acquiring a wakelock or is there any method to manually release a kernel wakelock until the next reboot.

Cheers
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] metllicamilitia:
I'm tired of searching Google for answers and not finding them. So the problem is my Kindle Fire won't connect via USB to my PC, it will charge on it though. Now, this is where MY SITUATION IS DIFFERENT. Yes that is all caps for people who want to skip over these crucial details.

Kindle Fire was rooted, now it is not.

I do not have a Kindle Fire or Amazon device under device manager

Installing the adb drivers does nothing

I see nothing when Kindle Fire is plugged in to PC other than it is charging, NO MATTER HOW I DO IT

I feel like I'm forgetting some of the other more common answers that don't apply to me. Basically, I want to connect to my Kindle Fire to my PC but I have nothing on the PC end to recognize the Kindle Fire. It was rooted using the Kindle Fire utility 0.9.6, I unrooted using said utility as well and had to go and manually delete something IIRC so that it would boot normally into Kindle Fire, but it also not takes a lot longer to boot than it did out of the box. Is it possibly still rooted?

ALSO, Kindle Fire utility 0.9.6 can't find the Kindle Fire either.

What do I do?
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soupmagnet:
Dou you have custom recovery installed?
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] metllicamilitia:
I don't believe it did, or does. Whatever KFU put on it as standard is what it had on it. The most frustrating part of it is I don't have anything in Device Manager for it. No android phone, no Kindle/Kindle Fire, or Amazon, nothing. Installing the drivers does nothing, I even did a factory reset on the Kindle Fire and got nothing. I'm lost on this and I really want to put some books on my Kindle Fire so I don't have to read them on my iPhone.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soupmagnet:
When you boot your device, what does the boot logo look like (images, color, etc.)?
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] metllicamilitia:
Kindle Fire logo, then blinks back on and glazes over from right to left and stays there for a while before turning on.

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[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soupmagnet:
Orange and white Kindle Fire logo? Since you didn't specify I'll just assume that is correct.

Drivers are most likely the reason your computer won't detect the device correctly. Unfortunately with Windows, there is about a hundred solutions to this problem and none of them are effective enough to be called a real fix.

If you have a flash drive, you can set up a Linux LiveUSB and run SoupKit so you can issuee adb and fastboot commands, without dealing with Windows based driver problems and you can work to get to the root of your problem more effectively.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] metllicamilitia:
Yes, orange and white Kindle Fire logo. Any links to Linux LiveUSB, SoupKit and how to use them? I am a noob at a lot of these things.

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[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thepooch:
yes here`s some info http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1882565
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] metllicamilitia:
Thanks, is there an easy to understand quick guide on adb commands? I'm ping to pick up a small storage flash drive tonight for Linux LiveUSB.

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[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thepooch:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1638452 and http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1552547
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] metllicamilitia:
Thank you very much, will mess with this later, waiting another hour for the Apple Store to open to get my iPhone 5.

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[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] metllicamilitia:
All right, do I need to download and install android sdk for Linux? Using terminal and looking for adb devices using the Linux LiveUSB with SoupKit didn't find any adb devices with the Kindle Fire plugged in. So I assume I need to download sdk to install drivers?

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[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thepooch:
If you used the preconfigured iso no other steps are needed. Adb and fastboot are already setup. Time to consider your cable and or USB port that you are using.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] metllicamilitia:
Might be cable, plugged it into another computer (running windows) and it didn't see it.

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[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] metllicamilitia:
Yeah, it was the cable, I'll have to go pick up one for myself.

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[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Yokav:
Hello,

I would like to be able to use the sd-ext partition as a way to store my apps and if possible the config file of them (like config of an app, game saves, ...).

So, I will be able to install a new rom and use directly all my apps which are still on the sd-ext.

And yes, I known that a backup program can do that but it's far to be as good as what I'm looking for. :p
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] svprm:
Apps can be installed on sd-ext using A2SD Script.

If you want to install a new rom without deleting the installed app,then don't wipe (or factory reset).

But most of rom required wipe during installation.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] gregbradley:
Link2sd is very good app and I find it better than app2sd because it allows widgets to still be used, (Which i beleive cannot be done with app2sd?)

Free download from play store.

You need to partition your sd card though.

Follow this guide to do it, its very easy and gives all the instructions to work.

I have been following this since my x10 days and now onto my neo phone. I cant live without it.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Yokav:
@svprm: Make a wipe is not a problem as I can save my apps by connecting directly my sd-card to my computer. So if a wipe is really necessary: backup data from sd-ext, make a wipe threw CWM, restore sd-ext, install rom

@gregbradley: I already install Link2SD but it creates symbolic links into the /data folder so if you make a wipe of this folder, you lost those symbolic links. So Link2SD could be perfect if it was possible to save/restore those symbolic links!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] svprm:
I think it will work as you said

1.Install the rom as per insutruction.

2.Install the A2SD script.

3.Restore the sd-ext from pc if you wiped.

4.Boot it.

Try it.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Yokav:
Yes sorry, my fault, I thought that you spoke about Link2SD.

So yes, with A2SD it seems to be possible (which require A2SDGui), in this case all the /data/app is moved to the SD as I understand. This will also save the "config files" (like config of an app, game saves, ...) ?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] svprm:
Yes,Apps and Config can be saved on sd-ext by A2SD++

See this thread for more info:http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1716124
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Yokav:
Wow, that's a very interesting thread, I was looking after this for a while. Thanks!

But I'v one more question if I can, where are store the "config files"? Into the /data/data folder?

Because there is so many possibilities with those scripts, it's not so easy to choose. Saving "config files" + apps seems to be the better way as dalvik cache could be regenerated quickly.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] svprm:
Config files are saved on /data/data folder.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Yokav:
Ok, so I've the choice between A2SD++ and INT2EXT.

A2SD++ seems to moves some sub-folders from /data while INT2EXT mount the sd-card on /data. So with A2SD++ there is still some sub-folders on the internal memory.

Have you test both of these solutions, which one is the best for you and why? Sorry to ask so many questions, it's the last one promise. :p
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] svprm:
I think it depends on your sdcard speed(class).

INT2EXT working well for me.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] gregbradley:
Isnt that why we use titanium backup?

So when we do a wipe we can restore all apps+data from the backup (Stored on the SD card) and have link2sd automatically relink them.

That always works for me.....I think you are finding problems where thay dont exist.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Yokav:
Yes, it will works like this. But for me using a backup tool is not interesting. The goal of storing data to the sd-card is to don't have to make any backup.

So my choice gone for the CronMod script presented by svprm but thanks for your comment, it's always good to have different point of view. ;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Yokav:
I found another great application to use with the CronMod script: Apps2ROM (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lrenault.tools.apps2rom).

Because external sd-card could never be as fast as internal memory, it's interesting to keep the possibility to move easily an application to the internal memory. And at the same time, to avoid duplicate application after an update.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] gregbradley:
True,

But if you change roms you should not use the data froma previous rom, so changing from stock to CM to MIUI etc needs you to use a backup and restore tha apps without data
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Yokav:
I just tried with INT2EXT and it's slow...too slow. :(

Maybe that you've OC your Neo and have a very fast sd-card. I've a class 10 sd-card of 32Go, which should not be so bad.
[HTC Rezound] Freek20010:
Has anyone been able to find a fix for sense 3.5 fb chat and widget apps to work on sense 4.0 they work fine with 3.6 but not sense 4.0
[HTC Rezound] Freek20010:
So nobody has a work around or fix for sense 4 roms was great feature of sense 3.5 and 3.6
[HTC Rezound] who MIKE D:
I will see what I can do after I get some sleep man
[HTC Rezound] Freek20010:
Any luck getting it to work or at least with u New Rom.
[HTC Rezound] who MIKE D:
I actually was working on it a few days ago and it looks like the widgets need resources from some .jar files which aren't in sense 4, so if anyone else that knows a lot about that and really wants these widgets might be able to get it to work
[HTC Rezound] Freek20010:
I've gotten it open but it don't do any messages it crashes and it don't list anyone online and widget don't show up. Hmm I guess HTC just didn't want keep it which sucks it was awesome app.
[HTC Rezound] who MIKE D:
Yeah, i guess you just gotta go back to sense 3.6 now
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] |-Goku-|:
Hello,

Hopping that someone has a quick answer. I have CWM installed on my ATT S3, and when I went to run the bloatware remover tool, my computer was unable to locate a USB driver when the phone was in recovery mode.

I have tried manually updating the driver, but to no avail.

I have also searched, and was unable to pull up anything, can any one point me in a good direction?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] homerlovesbeer:
Hi all,

I used to have allshare play working nicely so that i could share between my pc and SGS3. Lately however i cannot connect to my pc from my phone, neither can i connect to my phone from my pc.

The connection to my pc in the allshare play app on my phone is always greyed out, and when i press on it says;

"unable to connect to the device. Check the connection status."

This always occurs whether using my local Wi-Fi connection or 3G. Both devices are registered, they just can't connect to each other.

I'm using Windows 7 and can successfully ping my phone from my pc.

Any suggestions and has anybody else got these issues?

Cheers

Homer

Android Version

4.0.4

Baseband version

I9300XXLG6

Kernel Version

3.0.15-928452-user

se.infra@SEP-107#1

SMP PREEMPT Fri Jul 20 03:35:52 KST

2012
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] homerlovesbeer:
Right, I've tried connecting another SGS3 handset to my PC the exact same way using the Allshare Play app on the phone and the Allshare Play PC browser and service and it worked.

The only thing different was it was a different samsung account, otherwise same network, same PC and same browser. Both on 4.0.4, her SGS3 is aussie ROM, I've used UK stock samsung ROM so I can have auto rotate in the gallery, otherwise still 4.0.4 as well.

Something on my SGS3 must be blocking the connection from occurring.

Ideas?

Getting desperate. Samsung support have no clue.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] homerlovesbeer:
Bump...desperate guys.

Thanks
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pippo33:
Share All connection problem

Sorry for my english , my problem is this: i can sent file from my phone to pc , but if i try to sent anything from pc to phone nothing appen.

My pc say any device connected but the in the device list there is my galaxy s3.

I use windows 7 and allshare don't give me any error message.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Pippo33
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] homerlovesbeer:
Well I figured it out. I had to go to settings, application manager, all, select all of the allshare apps, force stop, clear data.

Re opened allshare play and it now works.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] illmatic77:
Same problem with me I have tried everything I am still not able to connect to my pc.

---------- Post added at 02:52 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:47 AM ----------

Hey i could get files on my PC but i had to use search for near by devices instead.....But I do not know if that will work when i am on the other side of the city. When i touch on my PC in allshare play it still says unable to connect :mad:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigwill420:
http://goo.gl/xKSvo

Hey I fought with the same issue trying to play video from SGS3 to my Windows 7 PC. I don't know if anyone noticed but I only have this issue when media player is closed. When I open windows media player I no longer have issue sending video from phone to PC. Try opening WMP12 before trying to send video to PC.

In an attempt to fix windows media player closing completely I attempted to bring back the mini toolbar from Vista using the following guide:h t t p : / / g o o . g l / x K S v o

The cmd they had me run did not work. Here is what I used: regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmpband.dll"

When you closed WMP12 you would minimize to system tray and taskbar.

I got stuck and couldn't get the video to play when WMP12 was minimized to system tray, but maybe someone else could figure out why it won't play.

But ultimately I was and to get pass the "no other nearby devices are connected to the same ap" by just opening wmp12.

Hope this helps.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] biogene:
I was stuck with that message "unable to connect, verify status..." so i suggest go to firewall settings and then mark "allow mobile devices". Soon i did this my galaxy sIII appears green and beautiful, since then i can send all my files between pc and SIII.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] puzzl31:
Ive got a similar issue but mine is with my S4. Neither my Note 10.1 2014 is finding it and my PC is not finding it. Ive restarted everything and cleared caches? Any ideas why it would not be able to be located? I have restarted and turned on and off everything?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TimHermans:
Hey all..

For those praising the latest ICS and JB roms for their speed, have you ever been on Oxygen 2.3.2 ? That is worth saying it's flying..

I thought the time had come to switch to android 4 on my desire.. But after dozens of tries of different releases, it never comes near the speed of my daily (modded) Oxygen rom..

Thought I would share this to see if I am doing something wrong or if there are people who share the same feeling..

Last.. I would like to clarify that I don't want to disrespect the developers of the roms like Sandvold, Elk759, Nikez,.. I appreciate their work very much, but I don't understand the reviews from others users, especially about speed..

Greetz
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anzianzi:
Since Oxygen development has been discontinued awhile ago, is there any reason not to use it? Is it still based on the latest aosp code from Google, or has there been some important security updates that are missing from Oxygen? I'm also back using Oxygen after trying ics a few times. There was always some problems. And CM 7.2 allways reboots if I have walking navigation on, and I turn the screen off for a while to save some battery... With Oxygen everything works very snappy.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TimHermans:
Oxygen development stopped a while ago indeed, there is an update by roalex that dates from april/2012

so thats pretty recent.. it also implements apps to sd-ext or data2sd in the framework, if you want it..

(i use the oxygenr2 hboot, gives me 330 mb.. more than enough)

Grtz
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anzianzi:
I really liked that Roalex version. Swype to clear notifications is alot smoother, ics animations are nice. But, standard apps to sd doesn't work properly. You can move apps to sd just fine, but you can't move them back. That's not a big problem but I just don't like roms that add something, and while doing that also break some standard functionality.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stankyou:
I agree with the speed of Oxygen Rom and would prefer it over any rom but right now I'm too dependent on CM7's tweaks its hard for me to go back to Oxygen.

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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TimHermans:
What tweaks..?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stankyou:
Everything under CyanogenMod settings.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TimHermans:
Lol.. Very informative..
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stankyou:
Flash the rom if you haven't and you'll literally get lost with all the settings available on the rom. It sacrifices a bit of speed compared to Oxygen but still a lot faster than any other rom out there.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TimHermans:
What CM rom do you recommend then.. There are so many..
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmcclue:
I used the latest nightly version and its very very good, flawless infact. I downloaded the rom, changed the launcher to latest holo launcher, added INT2EXT and done loads of work in UOT Kitchen and when the rom is installed uv got all the Cyanogenmod settings to play with. U wont be disapointed coz theres just so much u can do with it. Or.... u can just leave the rom as it is and its still great

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stankyou:
I use the latest nightlies as well. Try the last stable release. If you encounter some issues with the gps or mobile data/wifi on that version try the nightlies.

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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TimHermans:
I've tried the nightly build.. Not really my thing.. Gonna stick with the oxygen /roalex..

Thnx for the he recommends though..

Greetz
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MetinKale38:
Try mildwild based on cm

Ics themed and heavy tweaked