Hi,
I've upgraded my Diamond recently to HTC's official 2.03.407.2 GER ROM.
Since then I have some issues I haven't had with 1.93 before:
1. the device seems to go online w/o any (known) reason (all the automatic stuff for emails or weather is disabled to manual updating
2. the device doesn't go offline when the network access finished anymore
with 1.93 it immediately went offline when the weather data was updated or the mail account was read. Now it seems to stay online until I close the connection in the comm-manager.
3. my TF3D music player doesn't work anymore. It only shows the preshipped music examples and can't even play the stuff. Manually added songs are missing completely. The Windows Media Player works correctly and displays all songs. AudioManager_Eng crashes quite often also (like almost every time I open it)
One thing I have to note is that I used Sprite Backup to restore my data after the ROM upgrade. I'm not sure if that restored configuration data which is not compatible with the new ROM anymore.
Any hints for me about these issues?
Thanks,
Wolfgang
Perform a hard reset, and then test for these issues again before restoring your Sprite backup.
Actually that was what I've tried to avoid.
Given that everything works then I won't be able to restore my old data then. I can live with that as long as I can get back my contacts.
To backup my contacts I only need pim.vol copied somewhere? Could someone confirm that. (And I guess the internal storage is safe from a hard reset?)
worosen said:
Actually that was what I've tried to avoid.
Given that everything works then I won't be able to restore my old data then. I can live with that as long as I can get back my contacts.
To backup my contacts I only need pim.vol copied somewhere? Could someone confirm that. (And I guess the internal storage is safe from a hard reset?)
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Yes, pim.vol contains everything to do with contacts and calls. Look at the uc.zip file in my signature.
Hey,
I'm having issues with the music player as well... Seems any large playlists cause the phone to crash before it can change song... Ideas?
Hi,
try 2.03.407.3 GER ROM
Official Download from HTC
They changed it silently
I installed this Rom and some Bug's like Notice in Background and TF3D Crashes seems to be fixes.
Recently I have not been able to connect to 3G(HSDPA) and I tried rebooting a few times without luck. (Stock N1 2.1 -> 2.2 Froyo RC)
So, I did a factory reset. Before you go "moron thats why you are missing all your apps!", I watched in Google IO a person saying "if you have ever upgraded your android phone, you know there is no need to re-download all your apps, because the data is all in our server"
And, in the (supposedly not public) Android Market Website accessed from a PC, you can login and see all the android devices you have and all the apps you have installed in each.
So after reading the warning messages, I went ahead and reset it. After logging back onto my google account, guess what? All my apps are gone.
At first, I was okay with it, I have way too many useless stuffs anyway. Then I went to Market, wondering if I can view my "downloads" list, to my surprise my download list is empty except showing one app i purchased and 3 "default" apps that already came installed in Froyo.
I went back to Settings>Privacy>
and I see these two options:
Backup my settings
Automatic Restore (Restore applications' data from backup when they are installed)
I mean, am I misunderstanding something or missing some info here? I thought from my understanding, if say I buy a brand new Nexus One, and log onto my account, the least I should be able to do is log onto market and see what have i previously downloaded on my OLD DEVICE, right?
I have re-downloaded all the apps I need, I just wanna know if this feature (as the way I understand it) exists.
Thanks guys.
that auto download of apps thing from Google IO is supposed to be a Gingerbread feature for android 3.0
lol i surely missed the "Gingerbread" note and i feel like a complete idiot now
nevertheless, thank you so much for the reply, at least we know it will come !
Actually you're both wrong. The saved downloads list has been a feature since 1.6, it just never works correctly. Usually saving only purchased apps and a few free ones. The auto-restore is a Froyo feature and worked almost perfectly for me when I upgraded [it installed all the ones it remembered but because of the aforementioned bugginess of the save list, I had to restore about 20% manually with Titanium Backup]. The other new feature that was announced at I/O was data restore. This too is a Froyo feature, but like apps to SD, it is an API which must be implemented by the individual app developers. The data restore feature is fully functional in the OS right now, it just has nothing to restore because it needs the apps to tell it what to save. Within a couple weeks of the official Froyo rollout I think you can expect to see most active developers implement the 2.2 APIs in their apps.
My SDCARD gets filled with thousands of PicasaImageTempXXXXX.tmp files, I'm guessing it's the cache for the gallery regarding Picasa Online Photos.
How can I move the location of those files to the .temp folder for example, because it's just annoying and taking a lot of time for any file explorer to open the SDCARD.
Any idea, I searched and the only answer I got is just delete them, but they get recreated (duh) every time I start gallery process!
I don't want to delete them, I understand the need for a cache folder, only want to move them to a non intrusive folder!
I get files too. Didn't know how to get rid of them, so I disabled Auto Sync for Picasa and just deleted all. It doesn't sync anymore but at least there is no ton of unwanted files.
I have to report that after updating firmware to V10E Euro Open, the files don't appear anymore... I still have Picassa and google sync on... but after deleting the files, they stay dead...
Probably it was a firmware bug... Previously I had V10B Orange Romania.
i have the same problem after firmware updation to v10f. But i managed by stopping picasa sync off
Ah Google+ stuffs...
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don't think it's related to google +.
Have this issues 2 times recently on V20n (without G+ application).
Try to reproduce but without success for the moment...
Humm i always turn off picasa sync since google+ released because all your g+ photos are stored @ picasa web album. Maybe google now integrates picasa by default. I dunno what for since i never upload my pic to it. Maybe for upcoming features.
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Think it's related to sd speed increase application.
Disable it and uninstall it and problem seems to be resolved
After i installed G+ app on Froyo, i am to having this problem.
I know this is old, but there seems to be no solution and I'm facing this thing with Marvelv3.0 ROM... so, anyone have a clue?? already delete them but they redo after a while, unsync everything but still there... and the thing is I only have like 30 pics at G+ but the SD generate like 2.5k files... I'm tired of deleting and deleting every time...
BTW that didn't happend with cm7
I don't know still what is causing this problem, but it seems , that I managed to fix this by wiping the data for gallery and something else, can't remember what ATM, but I don't have the files now... Lately there is only one picture, but I didn't bothered to delete it from fear that the bug will return again...
Got the same problem But now its fixed
I've got 4000+ temp files on my sd card. of that picasa thing.
This happens because every time you open your gallery it will sync to your gmail/google+ account. if its not sync correctly it will give you temp files every time you open the gallery.
So my suggestion is let the gallery sync to you photos on the google+ if you want you pictures on G+ to show on the gallery by using wifi/3g/4G or un check the background data on the "settings. > Accounts & sync settings".
Maybe this helps.
BTW if you guys want to try this make sure to delete first all the picasa temp files on you sd card to know if it works.
I installed the 10A EEU and began to appear as well, Picasa is not installed on my phone.
Hi,
I did check other threads but I couldn't find anything directly related to this. I run my Galaxy S on an official firmware and don't have any mod installed. Well, aside from having it rooted.Firmware version is 2.3.6 xxjw4.
For a few months now, I feel the phone is getting slower and slower but now is becoming ridiculous. I mean, too many times it might take up to 5 seconds just to unlock the screen or get into the contact list. I have very few apps installed and I think I make a light use of it... basically, I use it as a phone, I use the calendar for appointments and I browse the internet. That's pretty much it. I use the full Opera browser though, and that's a heavy one. I also know about the need to sometimes unmount the SD card.
So anyway, my question is this... might it be the case that this phone is getting old and its hardware can't cope like it used to with its software? Or could it be some other problem that I don't even know how to ask about or check?
Cheers!
Maybe its time for you to flash a custom ics/jb rom? For ics , i recommend SlimIcs: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1488096
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Maybe its time for you to flash a custom ics/jb rom? For ics , i recommend SlimIcs: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1488096
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At the beginning when I started to have this phone, I was using stock rom, I could not cope either with the tendency of this phone to micro-freeze and developpers brought a tweak called "lagfix" it saved the world for this phone... no more freeze due to non efficient memory management.
Now it's standard on any custom rom, so yes... go for a custom rom.
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At the beginning when I started to have this phone, I was using stock rom, I could not cope either with the tendency of this phone to micro-freeze and developpers brought a tweak called "lagfix" it saved the world for this phone... no more freeze due to non efficient memory management.
Now it's standard on any custom rom, so yes... go for a custom rom.
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Thas wassup
Thanks guys and I'm sorry to acknowledged your answers so late... I thought I had set it to instant notification but I apparently didn't!
Yes, I remember the lag-fix thing, it did wonders for this phone.
I'll try the custom rom because this is just getting insane... just today it took me a good full minute to go from checking emails to get out of there to get into my contact list and return a missing call. I would go with a Galaxy III but the thing is a bit huge and second it's still at a novelty price. I'm sure I can get one much cheaper in a couple of months.
Well, thanks so much once more and I'll let you know how it goes! :good:
Done, much, much faster!! But the interface looks ... Nothing is familiar anymore, have to go through it all over again :laugh:
Kutusov said:
Done, much, much faster!! But the interface looks ... Nothing is familiar anymore, have to go through it all over again :laugh:
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try this MIUI v4 the interface is much easy.
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try this MIUI v4 the interface is much easy.
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Well, currently I had to revert to a xxjw4 as somehow all my contacts wouldn't be backed up. Strange thing really as it started by showing up the right names on my contact log but they would be replaced by just the numbers. I made several attempts to restore those via Titanium Backup Pro but they wouldn't stick. Couldn't find any reference to this anywhere except a single post on a forum by someone complaining about the same problem and the answer was that those with be retrieved by Google sync. Not in my case...
I haven't given up yet but for now I do need those for work so I had to go back. Funny thing is that it's no longer lagging as it was, maybe because of all the wiping data and system and cache I had to go through.
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Well, currently I had to revert to a xxjw4 as somehow all my contacts wouldn't be backed up. Strange thing really as it started by showing up the right names on my contact log but they would be replaced by just the numbers. I made several attempts to restore those via Titanium Backup Pro but they wouldn't stick. Couldn't find any reference to this anywhere except a single post on a forum by someone complaining about the same problem and the answer was that those with be retrieved by Google sync. Not in my case...
I haven't given up yet but for now I do need those for work so I had to go back. Funny thing is that it's no longer lagging as it was, maybe because of all the wiping data and system and cache I had to go through.
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if you backup your contacts try using file explorer to restore back by click on the xxx.vcf file, the contacts will restore back after you select the vcf file , good luck.
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if you backup your contacts try using file explorer to restore back by click on the xxx.vcf file, the contacts will restore back after you select the vcf file , good luck.
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Ah, so that's the file, thanks!! It kept asking me for a vcard on the SD card which didn't made much sense I'll have to try it during the weekend, even after rolling back I've spent the day with all those little problems you forget about fixing, like trying to take calls while driving and the phone not recognizing the bluetooth earpiece...
Moving to custom rom
I too had 2.3.6 xxjw4 on my SGS GT-I9000. Changing to a custom rom has given my phone a new lease of life! I moved to RemICS-UX, which is an ICS rom (perhaps not suitable for yourself as bluetooth not functional and development has moved on to Remics-JB, a jelly bean rom).
Beware of moving directly from stock to jelly bean custom rom. Many have run into trouble doing this. The wisdom from above is to move from stock to ICS before moving to a JB rom.
As for contacts, I previously set my phone to back up and sync my contacts to my Google account (Setting->Accounts & sync). Then, when the phone reboots after rom installation, Google syncs all my contacts back to my phone. Of course, I do nandroid, Titanium, and MyBackup backups - belt and braces!
Also don't forget to back up your efs folder with its imei details in it. Some people have lost their imei details when flashing, and this may save you the trouble of reflashing xxjw4 to recover it.
My phone is supposed to synch with my Google account and does it more often than I would wish! I feel it noticeably slows everything down when it's synhcing away. Even so, it was unable to get my contacts back. I'm really not sure what happened because when it booted up after recovery, I did had most of the right names on my contact log but a then they were replaced by the numbers only. Contact folder was always empty too...
BTW, where is the xxx.vcf located? Can't find it anywhere....
vcf backup
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BTW, where is the xxx.vcf located? Can't find it anywhere....
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You create the vcf file prior to flashing. Go to Contacts->touch menu button->choose 'import/export'->choose 'export to storage'. You will be told the name of the vcf file and its location (in my own case 'mnt/sdcard/00001.vcf'. You can open the vcf file with a text editor and even make a backup on external card. To restore after flashing, go to Contacts->import/export->import from storage.
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You create the vcf file prior to flashing. Go to Contacts->touch menu button->choose 'import/export'->choose 'export to storage'. You will be told the name of the vcf file and its location (in my own case 'mnt/sdcard/00001.vcf'. You can open the vcf file with a text editor and even make a backup on external card. To restore after flashing, go to Contacts->import/export->import from storage.
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Right! :good: Just shows how much I know about this stuff
Quick update... re-read everything that was posted here and few other guides and tried to upgrade the ROM all over again during the weekend. I paid special attention to what you (Oct-Al) said about upgrading first to ICS from stock. I don't know the name of ROM but I've used the one that has a ICS333-2.0.1 and a gapps file. All went smoothly but, again, no contacts. The synch thing with Google doesn't work for me also. Synched everything to my account but nothing stays there. I probably have a lot of settings turned off as I tend to opt for maximum privacy and I even disabled that chat thing on my gmail acc.
But now that I know how to create the Vcard I'll give it another try. If all fails I guess I'll just have to fork up some money and get me the SIII although I think that phone is too big. Handled one the other day and it's great with youtube, browsing the internet, etc but carting that thing all day on your trousers' pocket shouldn't be all that nice...
Backup contacts database
Kutusov said:
Right! :good: Just shows how much I know about this stuff
Quick update... re-read everything that was posted here and few other guides and tried to upgrade the ROM all over again during the weekend. I paid special attention to what you (Oct-Al) said about upgrading first to ICS from stock. I don't know the name of ROM but I've used the one that has a ICS333-2.0.1 and a gapps file. All went smoothly but, again, no contacts. The synch thing with Google doesn't work for me also. Synched everything to my account but nothing stays there. I probably have a lot of settings turned off as I tend to opt for maximum privacy and I even disabled that chat thing on my gmail acc.
But now that I know how to create the Vcard I'll give it another try. If all fails I guess I'll just have to fork up some money and get me the SIII although I think that phone is too big. Handled one the other day and it's great with youtube, browsing the internet, etc but carting that thing all day on your trousers' pocket shouldn't be all that nice...
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There is another option! How confident are you with SQLite databases?
If you look in data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases you will find a database called 'contacts2.db' together with some other stuff. If you use Root Explorer (available from Play store - but not free) you can inspect the database with the internal SQLite viewer and confirm this is the database you want. Back up the folder and its contents before flashing.
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There is another option! How confident are you with SQLite databases?
If you look in data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases you will find a database called 'contacts2.db' together with some other stuff. If you use Root Explorer (available from Play store - but not free) you can inspect the database with the internal SQLite viewer and confirm this is the database you want. Back up the folder and its contents before flashing.
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Funny that posted this just now I was loggin in to give an update. :laugh:
So I've tried a couple more times and ended up with some problem with the external SD card that wouldn't mount and, stupid me, that's where I had the Vcard file.
Anyway, as I have all the files downloaded I'm pretty fast as trying different things now and I've just realized that all hell brakes lose AFTER I try to recover apps + data with Titanium Backup. Flashed CM9 as a pre-requisite to Slim Bean and everything was fine. I could even retrieve my contacts. But after running TB and rebooting I end up with a never ending sequence of failing processes like gmail, media, android something (they are so many and they pop up so fast I can't even read some of them).
So I'm now fairly confident I can do the upgrade but I'll have to do it in the old fashion (to me) way. I'll have to flash the ROM and then download apps by hand, one at a time.
I'm liking so much the looks and ways of Android 4.xx that there is no way I'm going to give up now :silly:
Well, all done now!!! Running Slim Bean 2.3.0 perfectly, with all the contacts. Everything seems fine, except for my calendar that I can't retrieve (there's always something). Not a big deal aside from the birthdays...
So thanks a lot to you all!! :good:
...well, final update...
I started to have a lot of stuff force closing after restoring a back-up from Titanium Backup. Stock Rom settings and data aparently don't go well with the custom Rom.
Anyway, now sorted... ordered myself an HTC One X :victory:
I download my schedule from my email every week. Thing is, the pdf disappears from my phone after two days, without fail. I thought maybe it was all downloads, but I've got a pdf of a remote manual I downloaded in Chrome from a few weeks ago as well as pictures from a reddit app that didn't disappear.
I thought maybe it was my file browser (ES) so I uninstalled it and tried Solid Explorer. Same issue. Interestingly, this issue occurs in both the stock email app as well as the gmail app. I have different accounts (both gmail) associated with both.
I've restarted my phone, but that does not help. I think it might have something to do with Download Manager or the Downloads app, but I have no idea how to test this or to change settings. Can they be disabled safely? Does anyone have any idea what could be going on? I don't have any space saving/clearing apps, nor have I ever installed any.
EDIT: NM, there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to what is saved and what isn't. Everything I downloaded last night has been cleared from my downloads folder. Not even 24 full hours. Perhaps the reboot clears it? This will require further testing.