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Quick little question here. I was playing music on my tilt last night and it started bogging down and operating really slow. The music started to get all choppy and was jumping around all over the place. Eventually exclamation points appeared next to pretty much all my music. I went in to look at my storage card to see what was wrong with the files and now pretty much everything on my memory card is gone. The only thing left on my card is inbox mail attachments. All my pictures/videos/audio/files/cabs are all gone. But, its still reading that my 2 gig card has only .8 gig left.
Basically 2 questions
1) Do I just have to bite the bullet and reformat my card now?
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2) My background was a picture I took that was stored on my card. The image is still there but I can't find the photo. It's a very sentimental picture that I'm trying to keep. How would I be able to keep it?
any suggestions? insight?
I'm really taking a shot in the dark here but if windows mobile is anything like windows, it will store a copy of your background image in a system folder and use that for displaying the background. If this is the case, then you should be able to find a copy of it somewhere in the windows folder.. have you poked around at all?
As for the issue with your memory card, are you able to read it on your computer via usb? Or if you have a card reader, can you read anything off of it from that?
l3urton32 said:
Quick little question here. I was playing music on my tilt last night and it started bogging down and operating really slow. The music started to get all choppy and was jumping around all over the place. Eventually exclamation points appeared next to pretty much all my music. I went in to look at my storage card to see what was wrong with the files and now pretty much everything on my memory card is gone. The only thing left on my card is inbox mail attachments. All my pictures/videos/audio/files/cabs are all gone. But, its still reading that my 2 gig card has only .8 gig left.
Basically 2 questions
1) Do I just have to bite the bullet and reformat my card now?
and
2) My background was a picture I took that was stored on my card. The image is still there but I can't find the photo. It's a very sentimental picture that I'm trying to keep. How would I be able to keep it?
any suggestions? insight?
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This may be a dumb suggestion, but if all else fails (to save your photo), you can uncheck all your today plugins, and take a screenshot, so just your photo would show.
Probably not ideal, but it was just a thought
there are many card, usb flash, sd, etc. data recovery / rescue apps.
they will find and recover anything--reformatted, deleted, whatever.
get one as soon as possible. and save to your PC
amkaos said:
there are many card, usb flash, sd, etc. data recovery / rescue apps.
they will find and recover anything--reformatted, deleted, whatever.
get one as soon as possible. and save to your PC
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These usually only work if it is a quick format, (quick format just deletes the table) - so not really "anything"
zeezee said:
These usually only work if it is a quick format, (quick format just deletes the table) - so not really "anything"
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He didn't say anything about a format, quick or otherwise. These programs are designed to read the raw data so if they're a chance there's something left on there, it's worth trying.
For some reason y tilts only showing i can hold 205 pics more on my SD card, but i have just over 4 gigs free on my 8gb card.
We have 4 tilts and mine is the only one that is doing this. I threw in a blank 1gb sd card and it then shows over a 1,000 can be store.
took everything off my card and formatted it, then it showed i can store over 7,000. But i put my docs and stuff back on and its showing 205 again.
All three of the other phones are showing over 1,000's can be stored still. My wifes has about the same space used and available, yet she can store over 2,000 still. Any clues?
i could've sworn i replied to this post this afternoon...it must have gottem lost in the internets
anyway, assuming you have a card reader and a desktop/laptop running Windows 2000/XP/Vista, do a file system check AFTER copying your personal documents and files BACK onto the card. i suspect a file or set of files from your "collection" is causing your card to loose its marbles. the file system check SHOULD fix it.
alternately, you can try to copy back your data little by little until the problem shows up, and then you'll know which set of files was the problem.
my money is on the file system check approach!
good luck!
I think you are right. I did the "schedule boot time scan and fix" yesterday after i posted this and it didnt do anything. I ran it from the card reader on vista notebook. It took a long time and didnt show me a report, so i assume everything looked fine. But iduno. Is there somewhere in vista ultimate that will show me report of that scan? I was thinking along the same lines of it being some files having errors, but if the scan didnt fix it, i think your idea (though a long nasty task) of moving files onto the card one by one is the only thing i can do.
I found the report file right on the sd card, here it is.
Checking file system on F:
The type of the file system is FAT32.
A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.
Volume Serial Number is CA0B-7111
Windows is verifying free space...
Free space verification is complete.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.
7753728 KB total disk space.
2016 KB in 63 hidden files.
4832 KB in 151 folders.
3128736 KB in 2431 files.
4618112 KB are available.
32768 bytes in each allocation unit.
242304 total allocation units on disk.
144316 allocation units available on disk.
I thought, maybe the camera is only seeing half the cards capacity, so, I decided to load the heck out of my card with mp3's. I got almost 2 gigs free on the 8gb card and the camera decides to tell me i can fit well over 5,000 photos.
To me it seems like, yeah, we can use up to 16gb cards in these phones, but the camera can only see 4gb at a time. Something weird like that.
Just as a test try changeing the default loaction from DCIM to My Pictures. "or reverse if already is"
Ok, just tried that and it didnt resolve the problem. I even took a picture to invent the directory.
In use 3145.47 MB and Free 4426.53 MB
And 639 photos can be store according to the camera. Differs from OP because i eliminated some mp3's.
Gotta be something to do with the allocated space or not seeing full capacity, i only got my 8GB card yesterday:
Card Size: 7768.81 MB
Free Space: 4147.98 MB
Camera shows that i have 118 shots available. "should be far more"
Ok so all i do is place a movie on and i get:
Free Space: 4073.43MB
Camera shows that i have 9410 shots available.
Now my assumption is that it works in 4GB slots.
carhigh:
Dump aload on phone till hit over 4GB and see if you then get full capacity?
Good, im not the only one with this problem!! I thought about getting my card loaded with junk just enough that i only had a few pics left (according to the camera) and take those pics and see if the counter resets when it goes to zero, the next pic after that. But it would be very tedious to get it loaded just perect.
I posted above....
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I thought, maybe the camera is only seeing half the cards capacity, so, I decided to load the heck out of my card with mp3's. I got almost 2 gigs free on the 8gb card and the camera decides to tell me i can fit well over 5,000 photos.
To me it seems like, yeah, we can use up to 16gb cards in these phones, but the camera can only see 4gb at a time. Something weird like that.
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all the investigation in this thread could very well point to an "overflow" issue in the camera application's remaining disk space calculation logic.
4GB of actual free remaining disk space may very well be the cut off point before the overflow occurs (perhaps the programmer(s) used a 32-bit counter, DWORD maybe as opposed to _int64 or ULONGLONG...the latter would allow the counter to count well beyond the 4GB point).
if this is indeed the case, it MIGHT have been fixed in one of the newer versions of the camera application.
all the same, a lame bug introduced by lame old HTC !!!
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Good, im not the only one with this problem!! I thought about getting my card loaded with junk just enough that i only had a few pics left (according to the camera) and take those pics and see if the counter resets when it goes to zero, the next pic after that. But it would be very tedious to get it loaded just perect.
I posted above....
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I just thought you was being crazy JK but i can see the logic as to why there is the problem and ASCIIker explains it well
To be honest i can live with it as if you kept taking pictures you would never run out, all that would happen is the counter would suddenly jump up, oh untill you hit the card phsyical limit
Any suggestions on cameras to try? Meanwhile, i WILL be searching
carhigh said:
Any suggestions on cameras to try? Meanwhile, i WILL be searching
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If your using the 5 series then 6 series would be but most don't have auto-focus, like said previous i wouldn't go to the hastle as it will just drop to 1 picture left then shoot up to 9000'ish lol, not tryed but i'd place my kidney on it
I guess this would be version 4? version 4.08 (build 30665)
Found version 5. Love updating stuff
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I guess this would be version 4? version 4.08 (build 30665)
Found version 5. Love updating stuff
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Attached the 5 series one i use
Thanks. I got that installed on hers, and Nadavi_HTC_Camera_5_0_4_2915_00 on mine. Not sure whats different.
The only thing i am unhappy about is the naming of the images. With the old #4 version, you could set the pics so they were named by date. I cant seem to find it in these versions.
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Thanks. I got that installed on hers, and Nadavi_HTC_Camera_5_0_4_2915_00 on mine. Not sure whats different.
The only thing i am unhappy about is the naming of the images. With the old #4 version, you could set the pics so they were named by date. I cant seem to find it in these versions.
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Ok Advanced Config and change the save location from DCIM to My Pictures soft-reset and the option magically becomes available
I just prefer HTC to the tweaked Nadavi also one i attached is newer
Cool thanks.
hi, I heard a lot of good stuff about CM 6.0, so I was wondering how I should begin to upgrade. I have bricked a g1 before, so I am afraid to do any more flashing without specific directions.
I have two micro sd cards,a 1gb(class2) and 8gb(class6). The 8gb card has apps from apps2sd and an ext partition, so I was wondering if I can just flash the rom with the 1 gb card and just put in the 8 gb card with no problems? I do not really mind if my call logs/texts do not get backed up as long as my apps work.
Info:
firmware: 2.1-update1
baseband: 62.50sc.20.17h_2.22.23.02
kernel: 2.6.33.4-cyanogen mod [email protected]toxygene #1
mod version: cyanogen-5.0.7-DS
Thank you. hope to hear from you guys soon.
Ties0 said:
hi, I heard a lot of good stuff about CM 6.0, so I was wondering how I should begin to upgrade. I have bricked a g1 before, so I am afraid to do any more flashing without specific directions.
I have two micro sd cards,a 1gb(class2) and 8gb(class6). The 8gb card has apps from apps2sd and an ext partition, so I was wondering if I can just flash the rom with the 1 gb card and just put in the 8 gb card with no problems? I do not really mind if my call logs/texts do not get backed up as long as my apps work.
Info:
firmware: 2.1-update1
baseband: 62.50sc.20.17h_2.22.23.02
kernel: 2.6.33.4-cyanogen mod [email protected] #1
mod version: cyanogen-5.0.7-DS
Thank you. hope to hear from you guys soon.
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I just flashed CM 6.0.0 DS RC2 from the site referenced:
http://theunlockr.com/2010/04/26/how-to-load-a-custom-rom-on-the-htc-g1-dream/
Very good step by step and you can download ROMS from there also.
As far as your SD cards I'd stick with the 8GB. (1) It's faster, (2) according to instructions you have to re-format so you have a swap partition-96MB, ext2-512MB and the rest fat32. Not sure that flashing with the 1GB and then switching to the 8GB would work--anyone ?
The ROM is very cool but I've noticed a couple glitches, maybe it's just me.
Market takes forever on 3G or wifi. It works, just no where near as fast as it seemed to on 1.6.
Now this problem is making me try other ROMS.
Example: I have Weather and toggle widgets app that I loaded and then place the widget so I have my nice clock but seems every time I reboot, for whatever reason, the widget won't reload, and if I try to re-install from the widget list it's not there. The app is still on the phone, but no access to the widget.
This is not the only app this has happened with. Possibly older apps with newer ROM issue. I checked the compatibility button in settings but no change.
I'm far from an expert, just a heads up.
Other than these couple things, killer ROM.
Technically these aren't tagged as stable ROMS but I'm having fun playing with all of them.
Good Luck
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I just flashed CM 6.0.0 DS RC2 from the site referenced:
http://theunlockr.com/2010/04/26/how-to-load-a-custom-rom-on-the-htc-g1-dream/
Very good step by step and you can download ROMS from there also.
As far as your SD cards I'd stick with the 8GB. (1) It's faster, (2) according to instructions you have to re-format so you have a swap partition-96MB, ext2-512MB and the rest fat32. Not sure that flashing with the 1GB and then switching to the 8GB would work--anyone ?
The ROM is very cool but I've noticed a couple glitches, maybe it's just me.
Market takes forever on 3G or wifi. It works, just no where near as fast as it seemed to on 1.6.
Now this problem is making me try other ROMS.
Example: I have Weather and toggle widgets app that I loaded and then place the widget so I have my nice clock but seems every time I reboot, for whatever reason, the widget won't reload, and if I try to re-install from the widget list it's not there. The app is still on the phone, but no access to the widget.
This is not the only app this has happened with. Possibly older apps with newer ROM issue. I checked the compatibility button in settings but no change.
I'm far from an expert, just a heads up.
Other than these couple things, killer ROM.
Technically these aren't tagged as stable ROMS but I'm having fun playing with all of them.
Good Luck
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Thanks for the reply, I already went ahead and flashed CM 6.0RC2, the only problem I noticed is the lag when going to home from an app (camera, facebook, etc) and sometimes the phone would mute and I would have to reboot to fix it (Very annoying, but will stick with it for now)
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Thanks for the reply, I already went ahead and flashed CM 6.0RC2, the only problem I noticed is the lag when going to home from an app (camera, facebook, etc) and sometimes the phone would mute and I would have to reboot to fix it (Very annoying, but will stick with it for now)
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Just a suggestion : maybe try this one : Htcclay's Superfly G1 d/s v1.1 - Froyo 2.2. Has ROM Manager on it with Flash ClockworkMod Recovery. Battery life is very good, 3hrs @ 65% with heavy use, and the memory is absolutely the best. Still have 68MB open on internal memory. Most apps on SD. gmail app is changed, for the better, couple new options. The one and only pain is market, which is also a bit slow on this one. I'll live with it.
No glitches, no mystery reboots and widgets are staying put. Seems very very stable. Evidently you haven't had the couple small issues I had. I've tried 5 different ROMS today and slight issues with all but this one is really, really good.
Think I found the Rom I'm sticking with.
Gotta give props to cyanogen and all the xda folks for all the development, recommendations, and suggestions.
G1 has been sitting for months and I finally got the nerve to flash. Glad I did it, got a new phone and can't put it down.
thanks guys.
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Just a suggestion : maybe try this one : Htcclay's Superfly G1 d/s v1.1 - Froyo 2.2. Has ROM Manager on it with Flash ClockworkMod Recovery. Battery life is very good, 3hrs @ 65% with heavy use, and the memory is absolutely the best. Still have 68MB open on internal memory. Most apps on SD. gmail app is changed, for the better, couple new options. The one and only pain is market, which is also a bit slow on this one. I'll live with it.
No glitches, no mystery reboots and widgets are staying put. Seems very very stable. Evidently you haven't had the couple small issues I had. I've tried 5 different ROMS today and slight issues with all but this one is really, really good.
Think I found the Rom I'm sticking with.
Gotta give props to cyanogen and all the xda folks for all the development, recommendations, and suggestions.
G1 has been sitting for months and I finally got the nerve to flash. Glad I did it, got a new phone and can't put it down.
thanks guys.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I will try that rom as soon as I have time. If I have apps backed up on my SD, I wouldn't have to change anything right?
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Thanks for the suggestion. I will try that rom as soon as I have time. If I have apps backed up on my SD, I wouldn't have to change anything right?
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As far as I know. I have 767 backup apps on my SD card right now. Tell ya what. Been playing with this all day and observed a few things.
Get yourself - atrack dog (SD) backup, run it, takes a few minutes depending on how many apps, it'll list every backup app ya got on SD, "with" the "icons" showing. Either install apps you want from your SD or do new version tracking and see what you can upgrade. Also apps on internal storage are listed at the end of the SD list so no need to get the regular atrack dog.
Can you imagine trying to figure out which app is which with a file explorer just by the brief description ? After install atrack takes you right back to where you left off, unlike installing through file explorers. So much easier this way.
One thing though, things like weather apps, clocks and such, put on your internal memory, (starts with approx 89MB with this ROM), found that the slight delay running apps from SD screws **** up. I still have approx 65MB internal memory left, ball park 200 apps installed.
With this ROM after rebooting, give it a few extra minutes to boot completely. Apps on SD take a little to load their icons, I assume because of the delay loading from the SD card, or you'll end up with the same generic icon for all of them.
Once up and running though your good.
Absolutely Killer ROM........
http://androidspin.com/2010/08/07/rom-htcclay-superfly-tcby-v1-1-for-dream-g1/
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As far as I know. I have 767 backup apps on my SD card right now. Tell ya what. Been playing with this all day and observed a few things.
Get yourself - atrack dog (SD) backup, run it, takes a few minutes depending on how many apps, it'll list every backup app ya got on SD, "with" the "icons" showing. Either install apps you want from your SD or do new version tracking and see what you can upgrade. Also apps on internal storage are listed at the end of the SD list so no need to get the regular atrack dog.
Can you imagine trying to figure out which app is which with a file explorer just by the brief description ? After install atrack takes you right back to where you left off, unlike installing through file explorers. So much easier this way.
One thing though, things like weather apps, clocks and such, put on your internal memory, (starts with approx 89MB with this ROM), found that the slight delay running apps from SD screws **** up. I still have approx 65MB internal memory left, ball park 200 apps installed.
With this ROM after rebooting, give it a few extra minutes to boot completely. Apps on SD take a little to load their icons, I assume because of the delay loading from the SD card, or you'll end up with the same generic icon for all of them.
Once up and running though your good.
Absolutely Killer ROM........
http://androidspin.com/2010/08/07/rom-htcclay-superfly-tcby-v1-1-for-dream-g1/
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I flashed the rom and I enjoy it, is there any way to change the theme and icons though? I enjoyed the Cyanogen icons a lot
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I flashed the rom and I enjoy it, is there any way to change the theme and icons though? I enjoyed the Cyanogen icons a lot
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Just "google" froyo themes and there's a bunch. Search Icons or widgets in Market and a big list will pop up for ya.
That background pic on the home screen wasn't one I would've picked so I just changed it.
Is someone else having this kind of behaviour?
When i browse my SD-Card with a file manager and want to open a picture with the stock gallery app, it loads about 10 sec.
If I open the same picture direct from the gallery-app, it opens directly without delay.
I don't have a huge picture collection - about 90 pics and some videos about 300mb, so that shouldn't be the problem. I also tried to clear the cache of the gallery (com.cooliris.media). No solution.
Someone got an idea how to fix it?
nice grettings.
I have noticed the same issue that stock gallery app is slow when opening a specified image from any file manager.
There are some free picture viewers which are able to load pictures much faster, I have used "Picture Viewer", "ViewPic", they both perform well.
However ViewPic requires permission to access your location and full internet access, thus I have to use DroidWall to block its internet access.
I have this problem too. It's especially annoying because the gallery is used to view pictures from the camera. It's really annoying wanting to show someone a picture I just took, and having to sit around waiting for gallery.
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I have noticed the same issue that stock gallery app is slow when opening a specified image from any file manager.
There are some free picture viewers which are able to load pictures much faster, I have used "Picture Viewer", "ViewPic", they both perform well.
However ViewPic requires permission to access your location and full internet access, thus I have to use DroidWall to block its internet access.
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I have been having the same issue I have a 16 Gb class 2 card though. Do the apps you mentioned perform better on larger cards as well? Shall give them a try Thanks for the suggestion
My card is also a class 2 I think. I suppose that could be part of the problem, does anyone know if faster cards make a noticeable difference here?
Or is it just my phone?
I originally thought it was just an Android thing; A minor inconvenience that I could get used too. After helping my brother flash his Droid X and seeing how fast it completes it's scan I have to ask, what makes our phones slower?
the problem is with the file system that samsung used for our phones, you need to install a kernel where it converts it from the rfs system they used to an optimized ext 4, most of the roms come with this feature or you could just use supercrucio's kernel (Voodoo) which works best for me
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the problem is with the file system that samsung used for our phones, you need to install a kernel where it converts it from the rfs system they used to an optimized ext 4, most of the roms come with this feature or you could just use supercrucio's kernel (Voodoo) which works best for me
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I should have mentioned that I almost always run a lagfix.
Maybe the Droid X is just that much faster with reads, and the Captivate isn't slow.
If you have root, you can d/l rescan media root and control all that nonsense.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
Media scan is still horrid even under custom ROMs.
Admittedly I thought it was due to the large amount of data on the slow external SDCard I have (16gig).
I want to find something where I can just disable it and run it manually whenever I want it to update.
Found an app called Rescan Media and tried it for giggles.
"Disabled" using the application - and I have to say my phone rebooted seemingly much faster - Widgets loaded and ready to use faster then I've ever had to wait before.
The media scanner will still load on boot - but doesn't re-scan your entire cards during the bootup process. And if you hit the app it will cause the Media scanner to read your cards which doesn't take very long at all since your phone is already up and booted.
Have to use it for awhile and see if it screws anything up - but I think this app is a keeper!
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Media scan is still horrid even under custom ROMs.
Admittedly I thought it was due to the large amount of data on the slow external SDCard I have (16gig).
I want to find something where I can just disable it and run it manually whenever I want it to update.
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See the post above yours. I tried that solution a couple weeks ago and didn't really like it, but others seemed to. (edit: just saw your previous post)
It probably wouldn't be such a nuisance if it wasn't the first freaking thing it did after reboot. Media scanning should run after other startup items... like obtaining signal, loading widgets, launcher, etc.
Or even better, have it run only when you launch the music player or gallery. I'm not sure why we would need it any other time. Or even betterest, let us set up specific folders for media so we don't need the scanner at all.
Yup I agree - Samsung strikes again at being lazy just doing a blind scan at boot up.
Since all the processes are trying to startup at the same time of the scan - it's causing the perceived lag as they are both fighting each other (for lack of a better term) for resources and I/O and takes forever for them to figure it out.
It would be nice if a Dev could create a 3rd party app that takes control of the Media Scanner - then gives us the options of only scanning certain folders and have it scheduled to run like you mentions - i.e. when <x> app loads, or after you unplug your USB, or just run it manually.
The app I posted isn't that elegant a solution but it does seem to work. My bootup time is cut in half (This is from Power Up to Usable UI Interface with Widgets loaded.).
Just nice to have considering I STILL (i.e. will never) haven't gone to AT&T to exchange my phone due to the shutdown issues I've been having. At least it's not the up to 3 minutes!! I used to have to wait for me to be able to use the phone again.
LOL.. but coming from an Apple iPhone 3G I was used to it.
it truthfully is slow... i have a sd card for more memory so it takes about twice as long than the normal.. im running darky port 8.0 with voodoo but dont see a difference..
Put a file in your folders named ".nomedia" (without quotes) that contain things like rom zips, backups, etc and media scanner will stop spending time sifting through them searching for music and photos
edit....this will also eliminate unwanted images from showing up in the gallery if you have icons or png's that you use for other purposes