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[Q] can't receive files through BT with android 4.0.4

Hi All
Since 4.0.4 I can't receive apk through BT, I can send them to others with lower android system
Today I tried to receive ogg file and it is also failed
I'm using INFINITUM 2.2 by Bhuvan great ROM btw
Does anyone know if there is a fix for that?

ITS GOOGLE'S RESTRICTION-- RECEIVING APK FILES VIA BLUETOOTH AINT ALLOWED ON ICS ANYMORE.
about ogg ones....its something u doing wrong.

bhu1 said:
ITS GOOGLE'S RESTRICTION-- RECEIVING APK FILES VIA BLUETOOTH AINT ALLOWED ON ICS ANYMORE.
about ogg ones....its something u doing wrong.
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Yea but that way it's becomes more like Apple's iPhone
There's must be a solution for that.
And I'm not talking about external app
I think there is so much gifted devs in hear someone probably can find a way to overide this limitation.
This is the reason I bought an android based phone and not an iPhone. because we are FREE to do whatever we want with our phones.
Shame on Google.

shillel said:
Yea but that way it's becomes more like Apple's iPhone
There's must be a solution for that.
And I'm not talking about external app
I think there is so much gifted devs in hear someone probably can find a way to overide this limitation.
This is the reason I bought an android based phone and not an iPhone. because we are FREE to do whatever we want with our phones.
Shame on Google.
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Well there is a very simple solution. Rename .apk to .zip. send it and then re rename it and install. Viola.

bhu1 said:
Well there is a very simple solution. Rename .apk to .zip. send it and then re rename it and install. Viola.
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Thanks for that quick reply
Any way the idea that Google start to restrict us its...

Double entries question

Hello, i tried several ICS rom which i like bettet then the JB ones, but i see that with all ICS roms i have the same problem of double entries with all the sounds files like alarm, ringtone and notifications.
for example: i have a ringtone called sea breaze and it is showing twice in the ringtone list when i want to change the ringtone in settings->sound->phone ringtone.
the same happens with my alarms and notifications.
i cant seem to work this one out, can anyone suggest a solution for this problem?
Thanks for the help
Sol

cookiepuppy said:
Hello, i tried several ICS rom which i like bettet then the JB ones, but i see that with all ICS roms i have the same problem of double entries with all the sounds files like alarm, ringtone and notifications.
for example: i have a ringtone called sea breaze and it is showing twice in the ringtone list when i want to change the ringtone in settings->sound->phone ringtone.
the same happens with my alarms and notifications.
i cant seem to work this one out, can anyone suggest a solution for this problem?
Thanks for the help
Sol
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clear mediastorage.apk data and cache
reboot

The Tox said:
clear mediastorage.apk data and cache
reboot
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I tried it and no go. Few of the ringtone seems to apear three times. I tried deleting android/data storage and media folders as well and still nothing.
I think this thing is getting on my nerves.
Can it be something to do with ringtone files themselves??? i took those files from JB version and copied them to my device. I noticed that my old ringtones appear only once, but those i took from jellybean appear twice, maybe this cause the duplicates??
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cookiepuppy said:
I tried it and no go. Few of the ringtone seems to apear three times. I tried deleting android/data storage and media folders as well and still nothing.
I think this thing is getting on my nerves.
Can it be something to do with ringtone files themselves??? i took those files from JB version and copied them to my device. I noticed that my old ringtones appear only once, but those i took from jellybean appear twice, maybe this cause the duplicates??
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delete all ringtones from system media audio ringtones , reboot , move ringtones to folder again , reboot and check again

But there is no prob with copy/paste or something in the file manager you use??? and you don`t have copied the files so sdcard or something ...
the sounds are only available in the folder "system" and no where else ...
Works the 2nd idea of "The Tox" ???
cookiepuppy said:
Hello, i tried several ICS rom which i like bettet then the JB ones, but i see that with all ICS roms i have the same problem of double entries with all the sounds files like alarm, ringtone and notifications.
for example: i have a ringtone called sea breaze and it is showing twice in the ringtone list when i want to change the ringtone in settings->sound->phone ringtone.
the same happens with my alarms and notifications.
i cant seem to work this one out, can anyone suggest a solution for this problem?
Thanks for the help
Sol
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The sounds were only on internal sdcard. But I think I solved it by moving all the sounds to system/media. And change permissions of the files.
On other ICS roms it didn't matter if I leave my new sounds on internal sd , as long as I don't keep the same ones as in system/media folder.
On this rom I had to try anything even tho the sounds i added were not the same as the original from the rom sounds and were only placed on internal SD.
Never mind that. Thanks for your help guys. This problem I think is solved. I will try the same trick on alarms swell and report the results.
Thanks guys
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Okay thx for Info!
Only for me as an info: Could the permission be the problem ??? Not only the moving to system/media???
cookiepuppy said:
The sounds were only on internal sdcard. But I think I solved it by moving all the sounds to system/media. And change permissions of the files.
On other ICS roms it didn't matter if I leave my new sounds on internal sd , as long as I don't keep the same ones as in system/media folder.
On this rom I had to try anything even tho the sounds i added were not the same as the original from the rom sounds and were only placed on internal SD.
Never mind that. Thanks for your help guys. This problem I think is solved. I will try the same trick on alarms swell and report the results.
Thanks guys
Sent from my GT-I9000 using xda app-developers app
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freakymod2120 said:
Okay thx for Info!
Only for me as an info: Could the permission be the problem ??? Not only the moving to system/media???
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i really dont know, i tried so many things to solve the problem, so im not sure if the permission had any effect or not, the only thing i do know is that the ringtones now are ok, but the alarm still appear with duplicated files.
since i moving my home to a different city and im packing and a bit busy, so i dont have much time in the next few days to test this again. so for now until friday night i wont be able to play with that thing again and test what maybe the solution.

Okay so when you have time for testing, i`m interested in some infos, when available ...:good:
cookiepuppy said:
i really dont know, i tried so many things to solve the problem, so im not sure if the permission had any effect or not, the only thing i do know is that the ringtones now are ok, but the alarm still appear with duplicated files.
since i moving my home to a different city and im packing and a bit busy, so i dont have much time in the next few days to test this again. so for now until friday night i wont be able to play with that thing again and test what maybe the solution.
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Missing photos

Running latest sinless, not that I think it is Sinless related. But whenever I attach a photo into hangouts(sms,mms) The photo completely disappears from my phone. I even did a test to make sure it wasn't just simply getting moved, I re-labeled it a simple word, and searched for it, and came up with nothing.. Any ideas?

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Running latest sinless, not that I think it is Sinless related. But whenever I attach a photo into hangouts(sms,mms) The photo completely disappears from my phone. I even did a test to make sure it wasn't just simply getting moved, I re-labeled it a simple word, and searched for it, and came up with nothing.. Any ideas?
Edit: seems to only be happening when attached from ES File Explorer.
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Remember the old joke
ME: Doctor it hurts when i do this...
Doctor: Then don't do that
apply ?

clsA said:
Remember the old joke
ME: Doctor it hurts when i do this...
Doctor: Then don't do that
apply ?
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Tried that.. It happens with any file "app" I use. gonna do a wipe, and reflash tonight to see if it changes anything.

Photos not showing up after taking pictures

ok i searched this issue but found nothing useful or helpful to fix this but every picture i take seems to dissappear after a few minutes and all i get is a gray triangle with an ! mark inside it for all pictures taken by the camera. anyone else have this issue?
im on bady boyz rom
rooted s-offed
h/k m8

No body is having issues with pictures not displaying correctly?? Im on ViperONEM8 rom but it did this on the stock rom and badboyz as well. must not be rom related but i dont know so sum one have any ideas what the issue is? thanks

Have you tried changing the storage location? Also, are you restoring your gallery each time you try a new ROM? You could have the folder hidden on accident and as you restore the gallery that folder becomes hidden again. See if you cannot find the photos another way, for example: Quickpic or ES File Browser.

ThrowingKs said:
Have you tried changing the storage location? Also, are you restoring your gallery each time you try a new ROM? You could have the folder hidden on accident and as you restore the gallery that folder becomes hidden again. See if you cannot find the photos another way, for example: Quickpic or ES File Browser.
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thank you for helping.
unfortunately yes i did try changing the storage location, in the camera app i changed it to ext sdcard & phone storage both same issue. also i used the Xposed module "Downloads2SD" & "Pictures2SD" both to change the location but still same issue. as for restoring my gallery, no i dont restore it at all when installing new rom. unless somehow it automatically restores from my google account but i dont think it does.
I also have used Root Browser & ES File Explorer to look in every directory on phone and sdcard for the pictures and they cant be found anywhere.
thanks again for replying and trying to help appreciate it much. any other ideas tho?

Original T said:
thank you for helping.
unfortunately yes i did try changing the storage location, in the camera app i changed it to ext sdcard & phone storage both same issue. also i used the Xposed module "Downloads2SD" & "Pictures2SD" both to change the location but still same issue. as for restoring my gallery, no i dont restore it at all when installing new rom. unless somehow it automatically restores from my google account but i dont think it does.
I also have used Root Browser & ES File Explorer to look in every directory on phone and sdcard for the pictures and they cant be found anywhere.
thanks again for replying and trying to help appreciate it much. any other ideas tho?
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What happens when you use a different camera app? If that doesn't work either I would suggest an RUU. If an RUU doesn't work I would suggest returning the phone.

ThrowingKs said:
What happens when you use a different camera app? If that doesn't work either I would suggest an RUU. If an RUU doesn't work I would suggest returning the phone.
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still not working with other camera apps. im gonna try RUUing once and see if it still does it. i took a few pics today and all seemed fine until i went to view them later on then they were just displaying the gray triangle thing.. one pic was there and viewed fine one sec then the next its just like the others. i just looked in the gallery now and it shows the previews of these pics but i tap to open them and get the triangle again. its weird & really frustrating i took tons of great pics over the time with this phone and lost them all from this, except of course the stupid test shots ive taken of my wall or whatever pointless shots.. they seem to stay fine its just the important ones that wont.. aarrrghhh gonna RUU right now.
here is a screenshot of what displays for the pictures.. View attachment 2782818

come on isnt anybody having issues with pictures similiar at all?!
pictures i take sometimes show with parts of it having a section thats gray.. usually more then 50% of the pic is that way otherwise there is no pic just a black screen with the ! as shown in previous post here. can anyone please help me. ive lost a lot of important good pics due to this.
you all have always helped me with any issues ive had.. thanks for all that. and thanks for your help with this.

Original T said:
come on isnt anybody having issues with pictures similiar at all?!
pictures i take sometimes show with parts of it having a section thats gray.. usually more then 50% of the pic is that way otherwise there is no pic just a black screen with the ! as shown in previous post here. can anyone please help me. ive lost a lot of important good pics due to this.
you all have always helped me with any issues ive had.. thanks for all that. and thanks for your help with this.
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I am having the same issue i moved all my pictures to the external storage card to free up space but now the pics are in limbo i cant find them i just have the triangle where they use to be. the same thing holds true for apps

im beginning to suspect that KK write protection with the external sdcard is the culprit for this but im on viperonem8 and have tried the fixes i found that are suppose to fix the write protection issue and still having same issues. so anyone have any working fixes at all please let us know thanks

gscarborough said:
I am having the same issue i moved all my pictures to the external storage card to free up space but now the pics are in limbo i cant find them i just have the triangle where they use to be. the same thing holds true for apps
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I am having the exact same issue and it is frustrating as hell. Especially when I get a great picture, then I go to show someone and it is ****ING GONE.. The only way that I can seem to save them if is when I take them, I immediately share them. After doing extensive research, I have narrowed it down to 2 possible issues.
1) The SD card is somehow corrupted, I purchased a 64GB SD card from eBay and I just recently read about an SD card scandal that was going on which could be the culprit. To test this, I am first going to try with a smaller card that I know works. If that doesn't work, I am going to have the pictures stored on the phone and see if that keeps them.
2) This problem really started to show itself after I downloaded an app called OneGallery, I don't really know if that has anything to do with it, or if it is completely coincidence. If replacing the SD card doesn't work, deleting this app will be the next step.
I love the phone too much to just turn it in or swap it out.
ksob89

My android compromised??

So a month ago I had downloaded 3 pdf files from my Android Gmail and saved it in sd card. But a while ago I found that they no longer exist anywhere on my phone wtf. How did it get deleted? I didn't remove sd card directly and I've rebooted my phone twice in hope that those files would appear back but they didn't.
Is my phone compromised or what? How to know that

Bloodydroid said:
So a month ago I had downloaded 3 pdf files from my Android Gmail and saved it in sd card. But a while ago I found that they no longer exist anywhere on my phone wtf. How did it get deleted? I didn't remove sd card directly and I've rebooted my phone twice in hope that those files would appear back but they didn't.
Is my phone compromised or what? How to know that
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I know my lg has a feature called smart cleaner. And if im not careful it will delete downloaded files and apps that I have not touched for a while

TheMadScientist said:
I know my lg has a feature called smart cleaner. And if im not careful it will delete downloaded files and apps that I have not touched for a while
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-->> This would more than likely be correct @Bloodydroid.

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-->> This would more than likely be correct @Bloodydroid.
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U sound like me and had this happen a time or 2 before u caught on to lgs trash stock apps

TheMadScientist said:
U sound like me and had this happen a time or 2 before u caught on to lgs trash stock apps
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This is why I make it a habit of not using stock cleaning applications baked into the operating system by any given OEM installing Android to Carrier specifications.
It's merely experience learned over time mayhap.

Linuxephus™ said:
-->> This would more than likely be correct @Bloodydroid.
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TheMadScientist said:
I know my lg has a feature called smart cleaner. And if im not careful it will delete downloaded files and apps that I have not touched for a while
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This is why I make it a habit of not using stock cleaning applications baked into the operating system by any given OEM installing Android to Carrier specifications.
It's merely experience learned over time mayhap.
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Well guys. I have Redmi 4 (not note) Marshmallow. Few weeks ago it was auto rebooted and there was no phone update going on. That made me paranoid lol. I'd been opening these deleted pdfs files every now and then , so how could the stock cleaner delete them? My phone runs fast. No suspicious battery drainage, no odd photographs in my gallery. So my phone isn't compromised I guess.

Bloodydroid said:
Well guys. I have Redmi 4 (not note) Marshmallow. Few weeks ago it was auto rebooted and there was no phone update going on. That made me paranoid lol. I'd been opening these deleted pdfs files every now and then , so how could the stock cleaner delete them? My phone runs fast. No suspicious battery drainage, no odd photographs in my gallery. So my phone isn't compromised I guess.
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That could *potentially* have been caused by the scheduled cleaning setting of the application in question.