yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ExperimentalHDX:
I have an unbranded class 10 64GB that has been malfunctioning since I installed 10.1 Nightly Build about 2 months ago, I had CM 10.1 for less than a day as I couldn't watch videos that were on my SD card while I had it, so I just went back to a stock rom.

Since then the problems have escalated. I can't watch videos half way through, pictures that were on the SD card have corrupted as well as a few videos and pictures won't save to the SD card when taken.

I have tried formatting the SD card via the phones storage settings, and that worked for about a day, then I got hit again even worse than before (when I put the backed up files on it, they just corrupted).

My PC has no problem recognising the SD card and writing files to it.

Is there a solution to the problems I am having?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Use card reader to test the card on windows pc. Google h2testw.exe. set to full size. Takes long time but worth it
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ExperimentalHDX:
Will do when I get on my PC, I will let you know how it goes :thumbup:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Yep. Please post the output.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ExperimentalHDX:
One problem... My phone doesn't show up in the menu for the program... Do I need a separate reading device that I put the micro-sd card into? (my computer doesn't have an sd card port)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Yes you'll need a card reader.

Rooted users can try any ums app (usb mass storage mode) from play store
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ExperimentalHDX:
I'm rooted and that done the trick, I will tell you how it goes.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ExperimentalHDX:
Little did I know that it would take 5 hours... I was expecting a 30 minute job, I may have to do the test tomorrow.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Yea can take time. Do tomorrow cause need full test
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ExperimentalHDX:
Warning: Only 63995 of 63996 MByte tested.

The media is likely to be defective.

3.9 GByte OK (8297472 sectors)

58.5 GByte DATA LOST (122764288 sectors)

Details:190.9 MByte overwritten (391048 sectors)

0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors)

58.3 GByte corrupted (122373240 sectors)

124 KByte aliased memory (248 sectors)

First error at offset: 0x00000000f8620000

Expected: 0x00000000f8620000

Found: 0x0000000000000000

H2testw version 1.3

Writing speed: 3.44 MByte/s

Reading speed: 10.9 MByte/s

H2testw v1.4

Those are the results
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Usually this means the card is fake. If its bought from ebay it probably is fake. Occasionally it is defective although why it becomes defective at 4GB wouldn't make sense.

If you bought it from a store take it back. Ebay, complain.

Here's whats happening. A card has a file system (fat, exfat whatever). When data is written to a card, an entry is also written to the file system. Think if the file system as a table of contents. When you browse for a file and open it, your os queries the file system and calls up the file. When you delete a file, its not really deleted. It's location Data is simply removed from the fs.

This is how come file recovery software can actually recover deleted files. They scan the media for the actual file and not the file system. However, if you write new data, the file system believes the space the deleted file occupies is empty so it will overwrite it

Fake cards are programmed with a fake capacity. They tell the file system that they are 32GB OR 64 when in reality, they're 4 or 2. When a file system knows a card to be full, it reports back this info to the os. In this case it doesn't know its full though, so it starts overwriting existing files. Since the file system thinks the overwritten files exist, their location data remains but the files aren't there so to the os, they're classed as corrupt
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ExperimentalHDX:
Thanks for all of the information. I have thoroughly described the issue in my statement and a case has been opened :good:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TBayTom:
I'm using foxhound's latest rom which includes AOSP messaging. I'm having a problem with receiving notifications from new text messages. I have enabled notifications in the messaging settings but nothing shows up. I tried reflashing a couple times, but still no notifications. Anyone else have this problem with AOSP messaging on touchwiz?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TBayTom:
Notifications are working with gosms just not aosp messaging
[Android Themes] daviefl86:
Google Keyboard Themes

If you use the stock Android keyboard, which is also available in the Play Store, you can change the look and feel of the keyboard. Google Keyboard has a few themes you can choose, but they're not available in the settings.

Here's a quick way to pick a different theme, assuming your device runs Android 4.0 or later:

1. you first need an application that lets you create shortcuts to app activities. Some apps that let you do that: Nova Launcher and Apex Launcher, probably the best Android launchers. The following instructions assume you've installed Nova Launcher or Apex Launcher, but you can also use simple apps like Activity Getter.

2. long press the homescreen and pick "shortcuts" and then "activities".

3. scroll to the Google Keyboard entry, expand the list of activities and pick "Android keyboard debug settings".

4. you'll create a shortcut for this activity. Tap the new shortcut and you should see this settings page:

5. tap "Keyboard theme" and pick one of the themes: Basic, Basic (High Contrast), Stone (normal), Stone (bold), Gingerbread. IceCreamSandwich is the default theme.

6. use the shortcut you've created to change the theme.
[Android Themes] -CALIBAN666-:
thanx for info,very cool.:good:
[Android Themes] 4eLLka:
Wow!

Nice thing!!!

(.)(.)
[Android Themes] jlg19753:
Nice find unfortunately it made my keyboard fc .Aokp m2 franco m3 Nexus 4.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Android Themes] -CALIBAN666-:
Worx on AOSP Keyboard too im on PacMan and have themes too,here the screenies. :laugh:
[Android Themes] playya:
ok which one is the all black one... the last pic you have posted I dont have that one for some reason
[Android Themes] AcmE85:
The last one should be with the "Ice Cream Sandwich" setting.

The reason why it's black is most definitely a Theme applied through theme manager or

the rom is already themed.
[Android Themes] playya:
Yes that's what I thought just wanted to be sure since the ROM I am running does not have a theme manager and I am trying to get my keyboard like that
[Android Themes] yethz:
Oh sh!t. Nice find.. Thanks for sharing it.
[Android Themes] Óðinsdagr:
Very cool find !
[TouchPad General] timothy_k:
Hi,

Just bought a brand new Touchpad 64 GB. after created new sign-up, connected to Wi-Fi (no issue with connectivity to Internet).

after booted in, the Touchpad detects there are new updates, App Cat, Office, and few more. Tap on Update All, after downloaded each app to update, it shows 'Installation fails' or Update fails - all of 4 updates one by one. Therefore; it will not be able to install any additional from App cat, besides those that already installed by manufacturer.

Any one has this experience in their new Touchpad in recently? Maybe HP has completely discontinued the HP Touchpad services?

Any idea ?
[TouchPad General] hovax615@hotmail.com:
You have to set your date back to like July 1 or something like that than download. And if I was you I'd install android on the touchpad. Way better experience plus more apps for the touchpad

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337
[TouchPad General] timothy_k:
Thanks it did work after changing the date back to Jul-01.

------------

I dual boot with Milaq CM10.1 nightly build. However, I still need to boot into WebOS from time to time, especially when I am on free Internet such at the Airport, Starbuck, McDonald, because only VPN in WebOS works (The VPN in Android CM does not work, it's a known issue. But the VPN in my Samsung Android works.)
[TouchPad General] hovax615@hotmail.com:
Glad it worked for you man. I was getting frustrated with that one day too and I googled around and found out if you change the date back you should be able to download. Sucks that the support for webos is dying but there's suppose to be something by the Phoenix team ACL. The only thing bad about that is your going to pay well over $30 to get it and I mean its like all they're doing it for is because of the money. They reached well over their quota to get the project started. I know all other developers would be like donate to here but have the download for free because sometimes people ain't got the money at the time.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337
[TouchPad General] chris5s:
Its the webos root certificate issue, mentioned here among other places.

Peace
[TouchPad General] timothy_k:
Thanks,
[HTC Sensation] mohamed.ba:
i need a ruu for sensation xe s-on it's cid htc_j15
[HTC Sensation] dasfreak:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2140870
[General Questions and Answers] ProxieZ.:
Is it possible to Interop unlock 7.10.8862.144 update on windows phone 7.8 without changing the APN in the middle of the method.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Accessories] wamatt:
I heard some BT GPS's can go for months in the boot of your car without recharging. Or is that BS?

What GPS offers the best battery life and all round compatibilty? Also must be able to be used with TomTom etc and in multiple countries.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Accessories] cruisin-thru:
You could hardwire it so it would never need charging.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigbuckin:
Hello.

After quite a bit of searching, both on google, and xda, I was unable to find help for my question. I did the thing that everyone does at some point, and got myself into a bootloop. I cleared my storage of old rom files, downloaded a fresh one, and did a full wipe install. I thought i had a rom backup, but apparently i deleted it too, at some point.

So basically, heres where I stand.

I am on Ubuntu 13.04

My nexus is in recovery (TWRP)

I open up a terminal and navigate to the platform-tools folder.

I do an "adb devices" command and it comes up with one device (a long number ending in 'recovery') im assuming thats my N4

when I do "adb push PA MAKO-3.99-20130823.zip /sdcard/ (thats the rom I downloaded to my computer) however, it doesnt seem to succeed. I get pages and pages of gobbldygook instantly. And no file seems to transfer. (I can go into my file system in recovery and see that no new file exists)

What am I missing? I can post screenshots of the terminal if it would help.

Thanks!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chromium:
The filename has a space in it. Try renaming it to something without a space like 'PA.zip' and try running the command again.

Sent using xda-developers app
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigbuckin:
That worked! thanks.

I also had to move the file to the "platform-tools" folder using the gksudo nautilus file browser. Thats why it wasnt able to find the file or something... duh me
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] michaelsp9:
It started yesterday for no reason I can think of. My phone just started to lag a lot? Unlocking the phone takes a good 10-15 seconds and you can really see the studdering lag when pulling down the notification shade. I've had this problem before and I found out that clearing up some storage space was the fix... But that was when I had 2-3gb left. Right now I have a bit over 8gb left and never go lower than 5gb to prevent slow downs. Any way of seeing what's causing the lag? I have tried rebooting as well.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] squarehead39:
[Q] samsung gt-i9305 (german version)will not work with rogers sim (canada)

i have a gt-i9305, android version 4.1.1, baseband version, I9305XXLH6,

I CAN NOT GET MY PHONE TO WORK ON ROGERS NETWORK. ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED.

THIS WORKED FINE IN GERMANY, I WAS THERE FOR 4 WEEKS AND NO PROBLEMS.

CAN SOMEONE HELP
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Compare Rogers frequencies with gt-i9305 specs.

This is the i9300 q&a.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] squarehead39:
gt-i9305

thanks for the reply the frequencies match up for 2g. i only use it for texting anyways so that should be fine.

so what is mt next step?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Next step, use the /!\ report button for a moderator to move your post to the i9305 forum
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Bsmith0731:
Is it just me or does the battery stats get reseted after a reboot?

How can you effectively see how your battery is doing if it resets everytime you do a reboot?

Thanks!
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Bsmith0731:
Here is a pic. If been off the charger for 57 mins and I'm at 88 percent?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Striatum_bdr:
Hi,

I decided to my hole external card as ext4 format, without journal.

I see that the phone mounts it through fuse, and not directly like internal ext4 partitions.

Does anybody know why? And eventually how to mount it more cleanly...

Tks.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
I think it depends on your kernel and modules available...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Striatum_bdr:
/proc/filesystems shows that ext4 is supported. As in fstab sdcard mount mode is set to auto, it should choose fuse only if necessary.

And by definition ext4 is present in all jelly bean kernels as it's default internal file system format.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Striatum_bdr:
Self answer...

http://source.android.com/devices/tech/storage/

It seems that android uses fuse for external (= secondary) storage regardless the filesystem. If I understood correctly.

I tried to change auto to ext4 in fstab but no effect, during boot it was restored to auto.

Edit: manually unmount /storage/sdcard1 and /mnt/fuse/sdcard1 then mounting vold block with ext4 argument works flawlessly.

Should write a little script in init.d to do that...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Striatum_bdr:
Better, to avoid manipulation as I flash nearly every day, script manager with:

#!/system/bin/sh

su

umount /storage/sdcard1

umount /mnt/fuse/sdcard1

mount -rw -t ext4 -o noatime,nosuid,nodev /dev/block/vold/179:17 /storage/sdcard1
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
I do all my remounts via script manager so it survives rom upgrades but sometimes also, init.d happens to soon and mounting doesn't work well. I remount my sd card with a 90 second delay using script manager

Before you ask, im not mounting it to change file system. Im changing permissions

One thing I'll point out though. Although will survive upgrade of rom usually, but if you change to different rom, vold may change from 179:17... 179 always same. Not :17 though

---------- Post added at 07:04 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:58 PM ----------

Re the vold changing issue, I get around it like this....

#!/system/bin/sh

VOLD="$(mount | grep -E -o -m 1 ".{0,0}179:.{0,2}")"

su

umount /storage/sdcard1

umount /mnt/fuse/sdcard1

mount -rw -t ext4 -o noatime,nosuid,nodev /dev/block/vold/$VOLD /storage/sdcard1
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] impactor:
Guys, how do you get around the problem that although ext4 external sdcard mounts fine and is usable through file managers, some programs just won't see it at all because it is no longer recognised as an external filesystem?

Have a try with programs like DiskUsage, Sygic GPS, Beyondpod Podcast manager and many more - they become unusable if the cars is not fat32 due to this reason, and it is true for either if it is mounter through fuse, or directly as ext4.
[HTC One X] Eiad Ajam:
guys i have too much battery drain

Android System 20%

Android OS 10%

im on ARHD 31.2 Stock kernel and i installed it with all wipe types

and didnt activate the blinkfeed yet

any advices :(

cause i'v seen people says that sense 5 improved their battery life !
[HTC One X] LenAsh:
You don't understand what the stats are telling you. Firstly, the stats you cite are the percentage of battery USED, not USE. Besides, if you actually used your phone, you would see other factors recorded in higher proportion (such as Screen).

If you really believe you have drain, search for Best Battery Stats and install then carefully follow the advice in the thread dedicated to BBS. None of this is cutting edge stuff.
[HTC One X] Eiad Ajam:
i was on the sense 4+ and i installed same apps same work same everything

the battery is worse than before thats it ...
[HTC One X] bihslk:
I have battery drain on Sense 5 with all those custom s5 roms. Så im on CM right now. Much better
[HTC One X] LenAsh:
So find out what's causing it. As explained. None of us are psychic...
[HTC One X] Eiad Ajam:
im not asking you for solution

if you have any advice you can told me

you dont have to reply on this
[HTC One X] barettlight:
Try using an app " greenify " . IF ur phone is not rooted try " super optimize "
[HTC One X] treebill:
Apps like that close processes that are currently running before they are finished and then android starts them up again.

Then starts the closing restart cycle and it's bye bye battery.

My had advice would be to remove/disable apps you don't use.
[HTC One X] barettlight:
Well the best option is to install a custom rom n a suitable kernel . tinykernel works best for me .
[HTC One X] SnakeEyesNinja:
Why dont u try changing kernel. :what:
[HTC One X] treebill:
Because HTC haven't released kennel sources yet.
[HTC One X] Eiad Ajam:
im already rooted and on ARHD 31.2 and tried geenify and nothing changed

tried alex's kernel nothing changed

i think im going back to 4+ tell next update
[HTC One X] treebill:
You tired blade Rom? Is under 300mb pretty much everything stripped out.
[HTC One X] LenAsh:
I gave you my suggestion already.
[HTC One X] maxilick:
tsk,tsk,tsk be grateful for all members input.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ameer96:
Hello

I've installed this rom:http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2333102

And you choose own camera Galaxy S 4

But there many his problems

I want cameras in the Galaxy S3

And be installed for a way recovre
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Have a look in Themes and Apps see if one is posted or extract one from a stock rom
[Xperia Tablet Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] martyn12444:
So... I bought my Xperia Tablet Z (16GB Wifi version) about a month and a half ago. Everything was fine till the 4.2.2 update came out... which as many other tablet users might agree, doesn't work for very well for tablets. (Centered back/home button etc)

So since I had already installed Cyanogenmod onto my HTC Sensation (with amazing success - first time the phone had been fast since I'd bought it nearly 2 years ago) I thought it would be best to try the same with my tablet.

So I quickly found out 4.2.2 can't be rooted - so I flashed back to 4.1.2 (10.1.C.0.370 - Japanese version) This was successful, and then I used Doomlords rooting kit to easily root the tablet. The problem I faced later on was that Cyanogenmod 10.2 would not install successfully onto my device in recovery mode... so I attempted to 'try out' some different recovery kernels to see if I could resolve the issue. However, after flashing one kernel my device became pretty much unresponsive... Won't be detected in the computer, won't show any sign of life when trying to charge. However, using the Volume Up and Power button I can get the single blinking light followed by the 3 blinking lights which shows some sign of life.

The question I'm trying to ask really is... Is there any way I can fix my device? - Sorry for the paragraph but I wanted to try give as much detail as possible. Any ideas would be much appreciated!

EDIT: Plugged in the device to charge (although it was at full battery when it stopped working) - Red light now appears. Is it possible the battery drained completely?
[Xperia Tablet Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andymg350:
If your getting the white blinking light followed by the three white blinking lights its working theres just a problem somewhere and you can recover your tab with a little perseverance, have you tried sonys own flashtool Emma?
[Xperia Tablet Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ProtoDeVNan0:
But You can actually root 4.2.2 stock on XTZ. And the fix you should try is using FlashTool , it should help you.

Sorry I didn't read your reply to the end.
[Xperia Tablet Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] martyn12444:
Thanks for the advice guys, but the tablet doesn't even show up when I plug it into the computer... which means flashing it is a bit of a problem :/

EDIT: Used the master reset, then plugged straight into computer while holding down volume down (to boot into flashmode) and the device came up!!! Good to know I didn't waste £400 :)

2nd EDIT: Flashtool just aborts when trying to flash the device. When running Emma, I get the option 'apply service'. This downloaded an 800mb file, then took ages to install it onto the device. At 100%, it just came up 'Execute failed'. I'm trying again with Emma since flashtool certainly doesn't want to work :/ Something else you should know - Emma thinks I have the SGP312 (32GB version).

3rd and hopefully final EDIT: Emma worked the second time round! Not exactly sure why it failed the first time, but hey ho :)
[Xperia Tablet Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andymg350:
Glad you got it sorted in the end
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kresimirlugs:
I put CM 10.1 New Maclaw 20130829 (and too aokp_golden-ota-eng.maclaw.20130831 and everything works ok except I can not load the contacts from my SIM card (not seen by the system and there are), and how and where to turn on USB debugging on CM New Maclaw? Thank you.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ppero196:
To turn on USB debugging you have to press build version tab in about phone 10 or so times.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kresimirlugs:
Thanks!

HVALA!
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iluvatrix:
Hi guys

I have given my 6 year old a 2012 tilapia & she always likes to dial the brightness up. Is there an app that can prevent access to settings & the pull down quick access that also has access to brightness control?

Device is on stock 4.3 unrooted

Thanks
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dilldoe:
try full!screen apk. it removes notifications/settings and soft keys and replace it with a button
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] br1pl4y:
Since a week my s100 freezes on the weirdest moments, like when i want to make a call, it freezes, when i want to open a message it freezes, when i'm in the menu, it freezes.

Now I tried three different upgrades, but the problem keeps coming back :?.. Is there a way to format the whole hard disk and reinstal everything (just like my pc :roll: )

I called with Qtek Netherlands, but they told me this problem is not on the guarantee because i could have used the wrong upgrades.. And its not very cheap to let them make my mda :( so maybe someone could help me with this so I dont have to send the phone to Qtek for repair, and save a lot of money :wink: :?:

ThnQ :)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] Dr.Shultz:
I had the same trouble in my S110 after making bigstorage ROM. I tried different methods to cteate it, but it didn't help. My S110 frose for about 15-30 sec. in different cases, most reciently in different settings and menus. The only way I've found to solve this problem was to upgrade device with native qtek s110 rom.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] HBK:
Are you installing programs after updating the ROM? In that case, you most likely are running some bad software.

After a hard reset/ROM update, try running your device for a few days without installing new programs.