Very strange. I took some photos earlier during the day. When I got home, I connected my unrooted Galaxy Note to my Mac with USB debugging mode on and mounted the USB and SD card drives on my desktop. I copied the photos on to my desktop.
Next I ejected the two drives and disconnected the USB connection on my Note. I unplugged the USB cable and the usual "Media Scanning" started.
Normally, the "Media Scanning", "Preparing USB Storage" and "Preparing SD Card" notices would just run for a couple of seconds then your phone will be ready again.
This time though it just kept on running "Media Scanning" and got stuck at that point. I tried opening Gallery, but it would force close. Same thing with Camera.
I clicked on the My Files application and it sees all the contents of both the USB and SD card fine, but the "Media Scanning" thing doesn't want to stop.
Here are the steps I've tried:
1. Rebooted the phone.
2. Disabled USB debugging.
3. Unmounted the SD card, turned phone off, removed SD card. Put it back on.
4. Removed the battery for about five minutes.
5. Went to the "Gallery" application and cleared data.
No luck. Can anyone help me?
check it again, where it stucks exactly, during scanning pull down notification area n watch
System storage OR
USB storage OR
SD card
If it is SD card, remove SD card, scan with antivirus On PC, if not works try format it.
It seems to be stuck at "Media Scanning" and doesn't say if it's USB or SD. I tried connecting it again to my Mac and the two drives mount just fine.
If I copy and paste the contents of both to my Mac, format both drives, and paste the contents back to the phone, you think that would work?
Still i am suspecting Sd card error, have you try it removing Ext card ?
just remove ext Sd card n watch if error occurs or not
Yes I unmounted and ejected it and put it back on, no luck...
I mean to say you just remove SD card, n reboot device without Ext SD card.
Whats your capacity and SD card class? Mine's 8gb, class 4. I have lots of photos and at times when i transfer large files over (>1gb) and total used space is >4gb, my media will scan for at least 10 minutes, longest i'd have to wait was 30minutes.
Try leaving your phone untouched and battery more than 80% if possible because scanning would cause it to run at max clock freq and it drains battery pretty fast while getting hot at the same time. If you'd like, let it charge, altho it might be hotter.
Mine hit 48deg cel normally when this happens. Wanted to ask if anyone else experienced this?
Hey guys.
My month old One just formatted its sdcard (internal storage partition) itself last night.
This morning I woke up, got ready to leave my home. I plugged my headphones on the way and hit play button. I got "this file could not be played" error on every file so so restarted my phone. It had nothing in the sdcard after the restart.
Yesterday night I connected it to my computer which I plugged some virus-wise suspicious usb-drives earlier (i know the viruses don't work in android but they may have erased the data (or hide it) in my phone while it's connected to the pc)
My battery was depleted once yesterday, some people are saying this formatted their sdcard on their One and some other devices.
Also I left it on the charger yesterday night, a voltage fluctuation might have done it.
What might be happened? I appreciate any help. If you think the data can be restored, please tell me how. Thanks.
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I leave my phone on the charger overnight almost every night and this never happens to me, and when I have a depleted battery it doesn't happen either. The only time my sdcard partition got formatted was when I flashed some firmware. I don't think that it is possible to recover deleted files on Android unless it is a removable SD Card, however I could be wrong. Hope you find out what went wrong!
I just got home and tried to copy some music to the phone and I get an error saying I can't copy the files, no information is given at all. It could be faulty sdcard or this could be caused by software problems. I'll try to restore factory settings first then flash another RUU (I haven't flashed anything at all since now) then I'll contact with the service.
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I leave my phone on the charger overnight almost every night and this never happens to me, and when I have a depleted battery it doesn't happen either. The only time my sdcard partition got formatted was when I flashed some firmware. I don't think that it is possible to recover deleted files on Android unless it is a removable SD Card, however I could be wrong. Hope you find out what went wrong!
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Thanks for your answer. I haven't flashed anything like you so that's not relevant to this case I guess. I even thought of dismantling the phone and replacing the sd card (maybe I'll do it in the future)
Hey everyone,
I'm having some major issues with my Galaxy S6. I'm running XtreStoLite Deo Mod 2.4.
Here are the issues I'm facing:
-plug phone to factory charger, often doesn't even realize it's plugged in, even if I wiggle the chord around
-if phone starts charging, it will only very rarely fast charge, most of the time it will just show "cable charging" with the stock charger
-phone no longer gets recognized as USB storage device on computer, the few times that the computer detects its presence, it'll show up as a Warning saying USB Device not recognized
I haven't tried a factory reset yet, but has anyone run into those issues before and it turned out to not be a hardware problem? Although the phone has never been physically damaged, I'm suspecting the phone's USB port to have gone bad. But I'm also wondering if the custom ROM/kernel could be the culprit considering that it's after all software (drivers) that control the behavior of the phone. I'd like to hear what you guys think before I do the inevitable (factory reset) and then happily send a Knox tripped phone to Samsung if it still doesn't work.
Thanks!
Try a new usb cable. Some are only meant for charging and not data transfer, so it won't work on your PC. Also, some cables won't fast-charge either.
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Hey everyone,
I'm having some major issues with my Galaxy S6. I'm running XtreStoLite Deo Mod 2.4.
Here are the issues I'm facing:
-plug phone to factory charger, often doesn't even realize it's plugged in, even if I wiggle the chord around
-if phone starts charging, it will only very rarely fast charge, most of the time it will just show "cable charging" with the stock charger
-phone no longer gets recognized as USB storage device on computer, the few times that the computer detects its presence, it'll show up as a Warning saying USB Device not recognized
I haven't tried a factory reset yet, but has anyone run into those issues before and it turned out to not be a hardware problem? Although the phone has never been physically damaged, I'm suspecting the phone's USB port to have gone bad. But I'm also wondering if the custom ROM/kernel could be the culprit considering that it's after all software (drivers) that control the behavior of the phone. I'd like to hear what you guys think before I do the inevitable (factory reset) and then happily send a Knox tripped phone to Samsung if it still doesn't work.
Thanks!
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1. Try Reinstall kernel you can find on xda (important don't forget wipe dalvik wipe cash after) 2 if not help 1st. Download again ROM / reinstall (probably corrupt and hopefully) insert rom on external usb / connect through otg / twrp - wipe advance settings - tick all boxes except external memory which is usb otg / wipe - install complete fresh (if no usb otg - place rom on Internal and in twrp/ advance wipe don't tick internal box). and of course before start check cable and charger if you sure on 99% problem is not there then start reinstalling procedure - I had something similar, I just fresh download and completely fresh reinstall (twrp / wipe / advance setting...) and problem gone
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happened to me but i then went & erased EVERYTHING now i have a brick
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happened to me but i then went & erased EVERYTHING now i have a brick
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Erased everything as in "factory reset" ?
Pp.
Also download USBDeview and run it on your PC. Delete everything that remotely looks like it might be related to your phone. When you plug the phone back in, your PC will see it as a new device.
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I have a stock Droid 4 with a mugen power extended battery. Last night I got a vibration that felt like a Facebook notification on my Droid 4. I pulled it out of my pocket and tried to turn it on, but the screen remained black. I tried holding the power button to reset it, but there was no response. I tried plugging it into my wall charger that usually works with a usb cable that also usually works, but even after an hour, there were no signs of life. I tried plugging in the cable to my tablet, and it charges just fine. I've used other cables and chargers, still no luck.
I tried plugging in into my laptop with the cable I normally use for charging and my laptop picked up that a device was connected. I looked in My computer to see if I could access the phone internals, but I just saw a drive letter with motocast, and 2 other drive letters that told me to insert disks in to them. The motocast drive letter had what looked like motocast system files, but that was it. I had an SD card in my phone, but no drive letters that came up when I plugged the phone it let me access it. When I went to safely remove it, I saw in the device manager that it correctly identified that a Motorola XT894 had connected to it, and I safely removed. I've tried doing a soft reset, holding the power down+vol down button for 10 secs, but that does nothing. There are no lights at all, not even when I plug/unplug it from the charger.
I'm planning on going to a cell phone repair place today to have them remove and troubleshoot the battery ( I don't have plastic torx and I'm afraid of short circuiting the motherboard)
I feel that there is some hope for fixing the problem or at least data recovery since windows recognized my phone and I could at least get to the motocast folder on it. I do wonder why my phone is able to be recognized by my computer but still show no signs of life otherwise. Any ideas?
I love this phone, but it sucks with this happening around the holiday season.If it can't be fixed, I'd at least like to get my data off it. Please help!!
Is there any way to fix this? Would physically removing and reinstalling the battery work? Do I have any options for file recovery off my phones internal storage, especially since it seems windows recgnizes that my phone is connected?
UPDATE: Got it to power on and boot normally once. Enabled USB debugging when I had the chance.
Got back from the cell phone repair place this morning. He said the battery was definitely bad, drawing zero amps. He also said he was getting weird voltage spikes throughout the board, and I think he said something about the PCMI power management chip being bad and that the phone was done for. I told him that I could plug the phone into the the computer and it recognized it. He said my best bet might be getting a battery off eBay that would power my phone long enough to get everything off of there. I asked if it could also be USB cord related as I tend to have horrible luck with them. He said it could be and that the reason that I was able to have the phone recognized by USB but not charge is due to different pins communicating during USB connection. I'm including these details so you can gauge this guy's expertise. He did go from saying the phone was done to suggesting a new battery/USB cord, and I was able to power it on after using said cord.
I went and bought a new USB cord and plugged it into my inverter I had in my car. To my surprise after a few seconds, the phone was showing the charge screen with the battery at 70%. It still wouldn't boot up so I kept it plugged in for about 5-10 mins. Eventually it did boot up. I immediately went in and enabled usb debugging. All my data was there. For a brief bit the date and time was off, but even that corrected itself. I played a song from my music collection on my SD card to make sure that was OK. The song played, and shortly thereafter it looks like the phone powered back off as it had originally done. I hooked it up to my computer and my PC started installing new hardware, it said something about xt894(my phone) a couple of disk drives and a CD ROM drive, and something about adb. The furthest they got were as unknown devices, so I disconnected them and reconnected them a couple of times, eventually the install icon went away. It still recognizes the phone and even recognizes there is a storage device with the phone in the device manager menu, but it still says "please insert a disc into drive (letter)" The drive with just motocast is still there, and I think there was another CD ROM that was recognized, said to insert a disc same as the drives. I threw it on my wall charger for a few minutes, but it still wasn't powering on. I then realized that charging it could exacerbate the voltage spikes the guy was talking about, and I didn't want to risk it especially after seeing all my data there, so I unplugged it.
I do have the battery that the extended battery replaced. It had to be pretty much tied to a charger, but it did work if only for less than half an hour. So there is the option of using that to temporarily power the phone.
My new questions are:
Am I at risk of further board damage if I charge/power on the phone? What about charging the degraded but functioning battery?
Now that I know I have USB debugging enabled and my computer still recognizes my phone, how do I go about backing up the contents of my internal storage?
Could this all be effectively solved by just getting a new battery? What about what he was saying with the weird voltage spikes and PCMI chip?
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UPDATE: Got it to power on and boot normally once. Enabled USB debugging when I had the chance.
Got back from the cell phone repair place this morning. He said the battery was definitely bad, drawing zero amps. He also said he was getting weird voltage spikes throughout the board, and I think he said something about the PCMI power management chip being bad and that the phone was done for. I told him that I could plug the phone into the the computer and it recognized it. He said my best bet might be getting a battery off eBay that would power my phone long enough to get everything off of there. I asked if it could also be USB cord related as I tend to have horrible luck with them. He said it could be and that the reason that I was able to have the phone recognized by USB but not charge is due to different pins communicating during USB connection. I'm including these details so you can gauge this guy's expertise. He did go from saying the phone was done to suggesting a new battery/USB cord, and I was able to power it on after using said cord.
I went and bought a new USB cord and plugged it into my inverter I had in my car. To my surprise after a few seconds, the phone was showing the charge screen with the battery at 70%. It still wouldn't boot up so I kept it plugged in for about 5-10 mins. Eventually it did boot up. I immediately went in and enabled usb debugging. All my data was there. For a brief bit the date and time was off, but even that corrected itself. I played a song from my music collection on my SD card to make sure that was OK. The song played, and shortly thereafter it looks like the phone powered back off as it had originally done. I hooked it up to my computer and my PC started installing new hardware, it said something about xt894(my phone) a couple of disk drives and a CD ROM drive, and something about adb. The furthest they got were as unknown devices, so I disconnected them and reconnected them a couple of times, eventually the install icon went away. It still recognizes the phone and even recognizes there is a storage device with the phone in the device manager menu, but it still says "please insert a disc into drive (letter)" The drive with just motocast is still there, and I think there was another CD ROM that was recognized, said to insert a disc same as the drives. I threw it on my wall charger for a few minutes, but it still wasn't powering on. I then realized that charging it could exacerbate the voltage spikes the guy was talking about, and I didn't want to risk it especially after seeing all my data there, so I unplugged it.
I do have the battery that the extended battery replaced. It had to be pretty much tied to a charger, but it did work if only for less than half an hour. So there is the option of using that to temporarily power the phone.
My new questions are:
Am I at risk of further board damage if I charge/power on the phone? What about charging the degraded but functioning battery?
Now that I know I have USB debugging enabled and my computer still recognizes my phone, how do I go about backing up the contents of my internal storage?
Could this all be effectively solved by just getting a new battery? What about what he was saying with the weird voltage spikes and PCMI chip?
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Have you tried it without the extended battery. That could be the culprit of all this going on. If your original battery is bad get a new one and charge it. I had the same problem with a battery till I bought a new oem battery. After I charged my Battery I had to go to fastboot to get device to boot with a fastboot cable. Then while connected to that cable I backed up my contacts. Then while still connected to fastboot cable I flashed stock firmware and started all over again havnt had a problem since.
I'm waiting on an OEM battery to arrive. I was able to save everything off my SD card that was in the phone, so I am increasingly hopeful. Do you have to go into fastboot if your phone is stock? What is fastboot even?
RyanV-M said:
I'm waiting on an OEM battery to arrive. I was able to save everything off my SD card that was in the phone, so I am increasingly hopeful. Do you have to go into fastboot if your phone is stock? What is fastboot even?
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AP fastboot mode is where where you flash stock while connected to rsd lite via usb or fastboot cable. It is part of bootloader. You hold down all three buttons to get to boot menu scroll down to ap fastboot then hit the vol. up button then connect to computer after you have rsd lite active. then flash stock firmware. If you get a battery that doesn't charge have them send you an other one that has happened to me a few times but not many. Remember when you scroll in boot menu you only have a few seconds to pic what you want to do or the device will try to boot.
The OEM battery I ordered finally came yesterday (no thanks to USPS). I tried multiple chargers and outlets with a good cable, and still nothing. I have another non-OEM battery arriving tomorrow, hopefully this one was just a D.O.A battery.
RyanV-M said:
The OEM battery I ordered finally came yesterday (no thanks to USPS). I tried multiple chargers and outlets with a good cable, and still nothing. I have another non-OEM battery arriving tomorrow, hopefully this one was just a D.O.A battery.
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It was probully a dead battery. It sat for to long. If you had a fastboot cable cable you wouldn't need a battery to flash it in rsd lite or just to see if it would boot. There was this one time I had to order 3 battery's just to get one that worked. Sometimes they been sitting for to long being the device was made in 2012.
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It was probully a dead battery. It sat for to long. If you had a fastboot cable cable you wouldn't need a battery to flash it in rsd lite or just to see if it would boot. There was this one time I had to order 3 battery's just to get one that worked. Sometimes they been sitting for to long being the device was made in 2012.
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So your saying if I had a FastBoot cable I could boot my phone without a battery in the phone? Would it wipe my internal data/OD?
Update: I have had a BIN-TEK battery charging for several hours, still nothing. Good cord and charger too. The only other options I have is the extended battery that crapped out on me but powered on briefly, or the puffed out factory battery it replaced. Things are looking bleak
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RyanV-M said:
So your saying if I had a FastBoot cable I could boot my phone without a battery in the phone? Would it wipe my internal data/OD?
Update: I have had a BIN-TEK battery charging for several hours, still nothing. Good cord and charger too. The only other options I have is the extended battery that crapped out on me but powered on briefly, or the puffed out factory battery it replaced. Things are looking bleak
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It is so you you can get to fastboot mode so you can flash. It is usable with a low battery or no battery at all. When you first connect it to computer it will automatically start booting. Here is a link for one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00K...boot+cable&dpPl=1&dpID=41ep3FoxgHL&ref=plSrch
If it boots to your ROM when you first connect it then you have battery problem. If it does not boot to rom then you should leave it connected and flash stock firmware from fastboot mode witch you will need rsd lite to flash. If it boots after that then it us just a battery problem. If nothing happens then you probully need a new droid 4. Remember once you disconnect fastboot cable device will go off. So don't disconnect until you are done with everything being that you don't have a good battery.
I have a fastboot cable now. Haven't tried anything yet but I plan to today. I've looked around XDA for firmware If I need to flash stock firmware, I found several versions for the Droid 4 here:https://forum.xda-developers.com/droid-4/general/droid-4-xt894-firmware-mirrors-2015-t3004048 how do I know which firmware is correct?
Also, am I good to disconnect the fastboot cable from the PC as long as I am NOT in the process of flashing firmware?
I have ADB debugging enabled on my phone, and last I checked my computer recognized my phone, just couldn't access internal files on my phone. (Had "Please insert disk into drive x" message) Any options there?
RyanV-M said:
I have a fastboot cable now. Haven't tried anything yet but I plan to today. I've looked around XDA for firmware If I need to flash stock firmware, I found several versions for the Droid 4 here:https://forum.xda-developers.com/droid-4/general/droid-4-xt894-firmware-mirrors-2015-t3004048 how do I know which firmware is correct?
Also, am I good to disconnect the fastboot cable from the PC as long as I am NOT in the process of flashing firmware?
I have ADB debugging enabled on my phone, and last I checked my computer recognized my phone, just couldn't access internal files on my phone. (Had "Please insert disk into drive x" message) Any options there?
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You have the right index get the one says
4.1.2 - VRZ_XT894_9.8.2O-72_VZW-18-8_CFC.xml.zip just in case you need to flash. just connect cable and see if device boots if not flash the firmware with rsd lite. never umplug cable unless you want the device off because when cable is is pulled the device will go off.
I connected the fastboot cable without a battery in the phone. Held power button, computer detected it. Said it had found an XT894 and Motorola Network drivers or something like that. Said my installed hardware was ready to use. Noticed in device manager and network connections that Motorola USB networking driver #3 was installed. Under My computer, didn't see any new hard drives. I have RSD lite and the firmware you told me to get. RSD light shows my phone model, imei, software, ect and says that I am connected. But there has been no activity on my phone's screen. No Motorola logo, no menu's, nothing. I would feel more comfortable if I could pull my data off before I flash the phone as I have read horror stories of flashing gone wrong. Is there some way I can access my phone's memory since the computer recognizes it and backup my files before I flash?
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I connected the fastboot cable without a battery in the phone. Held power button, computer detected it. Said it had found an XT894 and Motorola Network drivers or something like that. Said my installed hardware was ready to use. Noticed in device manager and network connections that Motorola USB networking driver #3 was installed. Under My computer, didn't see any new hard drives. I have RSD lite and the firmware you told me to get. RSD light shows my phone model, imei, software, ect and says that I am connected. But there has been no activity on my phone's screen. No Motorola logo, no menu's, nothing. I would feel more comfortable if I could pull my data off before I flash the phone as I have read horror stories of flashing gone wrong. Is there some way I can access my phone's memory since the computer recognizes it and backup my files before I flash?
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When the device is off just connect the device to your machine and it will boot to your rom thats it. It will do it automatically. No need turn it on yourself. If it wont boot then something is wrong with the rom. If that happens and you were running a custom rom and not stock go to safe strap if you had it installed and use that to boot back into stock rom slot. Now you have two scenarios you can use. Do the first one I wrote first. If you Have safestrap installed then do that if it wont boot. Dont forget to have to have the drivers installed for the device on your windows machine. On windows based systems you have to have the drivers installed installed before using rsd lite. Just in case I forgot to mention that.
My ROM and phone is stock
Another update: I'm trying to use ADB to backup my phones files before I flash. Here is what happened:
Sorry for the lack of updates, been busy. Anyways, I got adb installed, plugged in my phone, did adb>devices, didn't show up.I got the newest version of Motorola device managermanager and had it update. Plugged in my phone again, computer said it found an XT894 and Motorola USB networking device, told me to restart my computer. Restarted, tried to see if adb detected it, nothing. It shows up in my device manager under networking devices, it even says the location is an XT894. But adb still doesn't see it.
The weird part is that RSD can see my phone too along with device manager. I'm planning on flashing to see if I can unbrick my phone, however I want to try and backup my files on there just in case the flash wipes my phone.
Is there a way I can have my computer recognize my phone as a drive instead of a networking device so I can get my files?
Is there any way to get my data off my phone before I flash?
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My ROM and phone is stock
Another update: I'm trying to use ADB to backup my phones files before I flash. Here is what happened:
Sorry for the lack of updates, been busy. Anyways, I got adb installed, plugged in my phone, did adb>devices, didn't show up.I got the newest version of Motorola device managermanager and had it update. Plugged in my phone again, computer said it found an XT894 and Motorola USB networking device, told me to restart my computer. Restarted, tried to see if adb detected it, nothing. It shows up in my device manager under networking devices, it even says the location is an XT894. But adb still doesn't see it.
The weird part is that RSD can see my phone too along with device manager. I'm planning on flashing to see if I can unbrick my phone, however I want to try and backup my files on there just in case the flash wipes my phone.
Is there a way I can have my computer recognize my phone as a drive instead of a networking device so I can get my files?
Is there any way to get my data off my phone before I flash?
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The only thing I can think of at the moment is safestrap If you had it installed before you bricked the device then you could try booting to safestrap and then mount device in safestrap and copy and paste all your internel sd stuff you want to keep. If you did not have safestrap installed then make sure you have correct drivers for device installed and try the adb command again and see if it reads. I'v been in your situation thats why once a month I now back new stuff up. When I had the s3 I bricked during bootloader unlock. Took me three days with an image file to get it to boot. Then I reflashed the stock and didnt need the image file any more. That was long time ago. i learned to back my stuff up after that. I just thought I would mention that just so you could have a food for thought. Also data will be lost is another reason to back stuff up.