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So, despite using various different ROMs in the past, every single one of them has had the same issue with the messaging app: After I've disabled the "Message sent" notification from the registry (NoSentMsg = 1), the application brews up a hellish memory leak (but doesn't pop up the just as laggy notification anymore ) that massively slows down the app and the whole device as long as messaging is open or even running in the background. (By background, I mean "minimized". Tmail.exe doesn't have to be terminated in order to get rid of the lag.) The issue resides in the app, not the ROM or other software, as it happens regardless of what other software I'm running and I've encountered it on all of the ROMs I've tried thus far.
Is there an alternate 3rd party application for sending and receiving text messages with a similar layout and threaded messaging system (which I'm quite fond of) as the stock messaging app? Or is it possible to fix the memory leak?
Bumpity bump.
Oookay, so lemme see... 10 days, 125 views, no replies? Aren't there even any other people who have the same issues I do? I've tried a couple of different potential solutions that have popped up in my mind but none of them had any actual effect (apart from nearly wrecking the whole phone up good). Guys? I know you're there. Stop hiding. I'm not that scary, am I?
I simply never ever wanted to remove this notification.....
I never experienced any "helish memory leaks" or "massive slow downs". Everything is fine .
I'll continue researching and see if I can figure out something. I'll post any news here.
A couple months back, I found this handy app called VITO SMS-Chat and now everything work like wonder.
Hello everyone, I'm new to XDA, and also new to Android, I've got my note since a few weeks.
I got some questions/problems, and I hope that we can solve them.
1. Skype
1a When video chatting over Skype, I only see myself just for a few seconds, and then the screen (Not the actual screen, but the small window that shows you) goes black. Is this normal? Or is there a way to fix this.
1b When video chatting with someone, the person can't hear me, is this normal(No the mic. isn't on mute) or do I need to use the/a headset. That would be weird since the phone has his own mic.
2. Wifi
When connected to a wireless network you can still see that the phone is scanning for wireless networks, I find that quite useless, since you're already connected to one. Is there a way to turn it off(the searching) I think that it might actually save some battery.
(What I'm talking about happens at: Settings > Wireless and Network > Wifi settings> In the "Wifi networks" bar it says scanning every second or so.
3. Poweramp(purchased)
3a I purchased a 32 GB SDHC card class 10 card from Samsung and I used it for some days, until I found out that we can also use a 64GB card, so I bought that one. But now the thing is that when I browse my music through Poweramp I still see the files that were on my 32GB card.(But of course they won't play.) When I create a playlist, these "Ghost" files are also included, and when a "ghost" file is about to play Poweramp gives me an error that the folder can't be found and then Poweramp stops playing.
3b Sometimes a song plays and suddenly Poweramp skips to another song without the previous song reaching it's end. This ALSO happens when the screen is OFF. Anyone else got this issue?
I got some other minor problems but I can live with those, so I won't mention them.
Thanks for the help.
Some additional info:
Rooted: Yes
Android version: 4.0.3
Kernel version: 3.0.15-N7000XXLPY-CL474507 [email protected] #3
Build number: IML74K.XXLPY
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4. Ringtones
Is there a way to get custom ringtones per contact without installing additional programs?
At the moment I got RingoLite, but sometimes it just resets the contacts ringtone to default.
I'd prefer to set custom ringtones without additional programs of course.
I did look on Google for an answer, but I only found a way to do it at older Android versions.
Contacts > select the specific contact, then options, but there is no such thing anymore. Unless I'm just blind...
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5. Customizing
Since yesterday I got ICS stock, I was able to get it with the help of Check Fus.
Now that I have ICS I decided to root my phone. I used this topic to root:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1647148
Now I want to do some more customizations, like change the battery indicator in the status bar. I found out that I can do that and many other thing with
UOT Kitchen. But I'm a bit stuck using UOT Kitchen. I have chosen all the mods at the Kitchen website, but at "File upload", I don't know what files I should upload, since it only says what files to upload when you have
Froyo/Gingerbread. So now that I have ICS will this even work? And if it does. What files do I have to upload?
The other question is: at some mods you have to choose screen size, which one do I have to choose for the Note?
At "File upload" (Kitchen website) I have chosen/left the "flashing folders for system files" on /system/framework and /system/app (For framework-res.apk and SystemUI.apk) are these paths still correct for ICS?
@ Status bar mod, what screen size do I have to choose and does the transparency work in ICS (Even though it says Gingerbread only) .
I guess that's for it now, I will edit if I forgot a question.
1. skype
it sounds like you have either limited bandwidth or struggling to maintain a connection... yes you should see your cam and yes folks should hear you without the use of headsets.
2. wifi
I am not sure how you are verifying your statement?. If you are looking at settings>wireless>wifi settings, the Note will obviously scan while it is on this page.. I suspect that it does not do so otherwise while a connection is active.
3. Poweramp.
I do not have poweramp, but you should be able to go into settings>applications>running services and clear the data/cache for poweramp.
just open your contact and theres an option to assign a ringtone
Rfresh the library in power amp.. This should solve the problem.
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Xalies said:
just open your contact and theres an option to assign a ringtone
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Uhm I really don't see it.
When I select a contact, and I go to the options, I see: Edit, Delete, send name card edd to reject list, print name card.
I was able to fix the Ghost files issue in Poweramp by removing the sd card. And then deleting the Ghost files.
It surprised me that I never thought of that before.
contact>contact name>ringtone> select from default, ringtone or my files.
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Uhm I really don't see it.
When I select a contact, and I go to the options, I see: Edit, Delete, send name card edd to reject list, print name card.
I was able to fix the Ghost files issue in Poweramp by removing the sd card. And then deleting the Ghost files.
It surprised me that I never thought of that before.
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contact>contact name>ringtone> select from default, ringtone or my files.
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Aaah now I see...
Now I know why I didn't saw it. The options only show up for some reason if the person also have Skype.
The contacts that I want to give another ringtone, don't have Skype, so those options don't show up.
Bump, added another question in the first post.
And bump once again
Hey All,
It is almost 10 months I am using this LG-P970 phone, but until now I've seen nothing but a headache, does anyone else agree?
My main problem (besides the bad performance) is the incident of losing my contacts.
It has happened to me 4 times until now under Froyo, Gingerbread and even Zeus 7 (the most recent incident 2 days ago).
Simply it happens when I open the contacts list, I see that all my contacts are erased in addition to the call log, and I am very aware it is not a matter of contacts display setting as some people might suggest.
The first time this happened to me my contacts were not even synced with Google because I didn't know the contact type should be "Google Contact" in order for it to be synced, and every time I want to create a new contact I have to change its contact type before saving it (I know how to convert existing contacts but please tell me if there is another method to automate the process for new contacts).
I don't know what you think of this phone, but I am pretty sure that my new mobile phone won't be related to the LG family.
Cheers all!
i've never experienced data loss with any of the ROMs
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i've never experienced data loss with any of the ROMs
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Me too...
Inviato dal mio LG-P970 con Zeus V6.39
All of the described below seems more than an user problem than your phone, btw, I never lose contacts or data
ErnuB said:
All of the described below seems more than an user problem than your phone, btw, I never lose contacts or data
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You seem to have a good control of your P970, can you expert explain to us how data loss can be a user problem?
Well the best solution is to NOT sync your contacts with Google.
It can either delete new contacts when you restore, or it restores deleted contacts, personally it's crap lol.
Just save them all on your SIM!!! If ever you lose Sim contacts like that. then it's your SIM which is damaged.
I NEVER experienced such problem.
And just to say, Optimus Black is not a crappy phone at all! Mind the way you define it.... Not because you are having contacts problems that it's a crappy phone... It may be an app causing this problem, your SIM card which is damaged, or whatever else.
Yes it's a user problem, we don't know what are your settings after a full wipe and whatever you do wrong or what applications you install that wipes the contact list.
From the first android phone that i had years ago, g1, copied the sim numbers to phone and after adding the google account, google synced it automaticaly and saved all my contacts to google account.
Since then i've added/deleted several contacts, changed several phones (at least 10 with android), and every time i added in the google account to it the contacts where synced.
I think i flashed over 100 different roms, never bricked a phone, even though i used several methods to root and flash recovery, hardest method was on g1 and i think it was the most inteligent one, if any of you had one
Now i'm on zeus 7, so it must be your fault
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no need of google syncing or SIM backup.
contacts -> import/export ->export to sd card.
now u have a [email protected] card. just back it up on your computer or online storage and restore as many times u want. no tension.
in case of newer saves, just delete the old vcf and redo the process or just save normally. (the vcf's will be named progressively, 000,001,002...)
hope i helped.
regards,
achyut.
If your coming from somewhere else where you don't have contacts backuped on sd and only on sim.
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The contacts should be stored on your google acc.
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yaz87 said:
You seem to have a good control of your P970, can you expert explain to us how data loss can be a user problem?
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No need for sarcasm, I just don't find that annoying chosing google when creating a contact, a small fee for the great service i get in return
Thank you all for your participation .
Maybe "crappy" is not the right word to describe a P970 here as I have seen it has many fans (I did not mean to be offensive), and maybe you have a point if you never had any bad experiences with your devices, but what happened with me was annoying!
I would like to assume that I did something wrong with the phone the first three times I lost my contacts (it also happened when it was brand new - no flashes done or ROMs installed), but do you think the following is too wrong?
1. installed a clean Zeus 7 after multiple wipes/restore factory settings and cache wipes (using cwm in a patched V20B software version)
2. the ONLY apps that I installed were :whatsapp, viber, facebook, google translate, french language pack for the keyboard, and google maps
3. randomly I unlocked the phone once to see that my contacts were lost
As simple as that.
My OB sometimes clean my sms box... but i think it's related to OC and UV... when i set for example: [email protected] and [email protected], after some time my smss are gone, and it's almost as plain as the nose on your face (in my case).
I use titanium backup to save them and restore after loosing them, but after seting my cpu to stable config, sms are where they should be.
i've had a small problem with the p970 but that was a google problem.
i had my contacts stored on my google account, but wenever i made a new contact it wasn't stored in google.. so when i flashed a new rom the latest additions to my contacts were gone.
but as most of the people allready said, do not sync your contacts but export them to your sd card. works flawless..
but i never experienced the problems you have, performance is realy good with the great custom roms we have here at xda.
i have my p970 for 6 months or so and i'm very happy with it.
You need to sync your contacts to.
Not just save the on your phone.
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When we save a contact name with 2 mobile nos. (mobile contact and home contact).
When trying to save to SIM those contact.....saving is done only mobile contact.....the remaining is not saving...any solution..
I know about saving in vcf file...But I just want to know saving in SIM multiple nos with a single contact like vcf file..
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When we save a contact name with 2 mobile nos. (mobile contact and home contact).
When trying to save to SIM those contact.....saving is done only mobile contact.....the remaining is not saving...any solution..
I know about saving in vcf file...But I just want to know saving in SIM multiple nos with a single contact like vcf file..
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SIM cards have relatively limited storage capabilities. They can store a contact and a number in each memory slot (I don't know if there is another piece of information that can be stored) but definitely it can't store two numbers for the same contact name that's why you see "X (home)" and "X(mobile)" for example as two separate entities.
I have the same problems with op - it has erased my contacts randomly 3-4 times in my 16 months of using it. Unrooted - official roms (2.2 and 2.3, various firmwares).
And a couple times sd card was 'destroyed' - losing everything stored there. Of course after reformatting sd card was fine....
I understand it is not a common issue - else more noise would be made around this issue, but something must be wrong with some batches.
A real disappointiment this phone.
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I know about saving in vcf file...But I just want to know saving in SIM multiple nos with a single contact like vcf file..
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It is simply not possible. The form of storing contacts data on SIM is rather ancient but it is industrial standard.
All I can say is the hardware is not at fault for the problems OP has listed in his post, it's a software thing.
Let's say it is possible to switch to a non-Google ROM. say Windows Phone 8 which doesn't sync with Google for its contact, the contacts will likely stay intact.
edit - Of course before anyone start jumping over Windows Phone 8 on our phones, no it's not happening and I'm using an easier example of switching OS to demonstrate that the hardware has nothing to do with software issues.
Hello everyone!
My father owns a Galaxy S plus, but he was not able to see the small text in some of his apps, and it was not adjustable through the settings. Reading a guide on this website (cant remember the link, sorry), I was able to change the Pixel Density by editing a file called Build.Prop present in /system. The text became larger now.
You can see the 12th line, I changed it from 240 to 280: i.imgur.com/tw5wc.jpg
Now the first and really annoying issue is its phone pad: i.imgur.com/TZNhL.jpg
As you can see if you type a wrong number you will have to exit and open it again, no option to erase and also there is no option to call, you have to add it to contacts first and then you will be able to call them.
When you open contacts, everything is normal, why is this only in the phone pad?
The lock screen of the current OS (2.3.5) on that phone is different from that of 2.3.6. Now when you want to directly open messages or see missed calls, you know that you have to move a part to the empty space to complete the "puzzle" and it will open it. Now you will have to move it below that empty part to open but it is tricky.
When it comes to calculator, I solved the issue by installing a 3rd party program and completely removing the stock one. It had a similar issue to the phone pad. Anyway I backed up the stock one in case anything happens.
I guess that Samsung did not optimize them to work with these changes, do you think the same way?
Can you please help me solve this issue?
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Hello everyone!
My father owns a Galaxy S plus, but he was not able to see the small text in some of his apps, and it was not adjustable through the settings. Reading a guide on this website (cant remember the link, sorry), I was able to change the Pixel Density by editing a file called Build.Prop present in /system. The text became larger now.
You can see the 12th line, I changed it from 240 to 280: i.imgur.com/tw5wc.jpg
Now the first and really annoying issue is its phone pad: i.imgur.com/TZNhL.jpg
As you can see if you type a wrong number you will have to exit and open it again, no option to erase and also there is no option to call, you have to add it to contacts first and then you will be able to call them.
When you open contacts, everything is normal, why is this only in the phone pad?
The lock screen of the current OS (2.3.5) on that phone is different from that of 2.3.6. Now when you want to directly open messages or see missed calls, you know that you have to move a part to the empty space to complete the "puzzle" and it will open it. Now you will have to move it below that empty part to open but it is tricky.
When it comes to calculator, I solved the issue by installing a 3rd party program and completely removing the stock one. It had a similar issue to the phone pad. Anyway I backed up the stock one in case anything happens.
I guess that Samsung did not optimize them to work with these changes, do you think the same way?
Can you please help me solve this issue?
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u cant change that and excpect it to work perfectly,just put it on 240 again or 250
Dialer Problem solved
I solved the dialer problem by installing a 3rd party one, called as DW Contacts & Phone Dialer (Developer: DWP). It works very well with the dislay settings I changed. But using a 3rd party dialer can be a worry sometimes.
was curious, wife is switching devices as title says. i dont really have time to sit at sprint or best buy. is there a way i cant back up her data such as calls, contacts, pictures. i always used Samsung and never had a problem. now its a LG and not sure what to do now. the S4 is unrooted and i know i could root in a snap, but dont want to bother with it unless thats the only options. app data would be out of questin since devices are different, correct? but anyways more important would be call logs, pictures, MMS and text, contacts..
thanx in advance..
First off make sure the contacts have been saved to google, not phone memory... When you log into your gmail on the new device it will automatically import your contacts.... As far as messages and call logs, use something like this app from the play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zegoggles.smssync
It doesn't transfer picture messages so download all of them first and copy all pics to your computer and copy back onto new phone if you like...
You could always use something like dropbox or Google drive to save all pictures and files to "the cloud", allowing you to copy them back without a pc or otg usb flash drive
As far as app data, it can be copied, but both phones need root and use titanium backup.... Copy appropriate files to computer and back onto new device etc... There should be plenty of guides you can google to accomplish everything you want... I even copy ringtones and alarm tones etc to my new devices so I have the same sounds I like for everything because diff manufacturers use diff sounds, for example I use a Verizon exclusive ringtone on my now sprint device, because it's loud and annoying so I can hear it at work. Of course I root all my devices and that makes upgrading my device easy for me to keep all of my data
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