Just trying to play my music collection, and it gives me this error for every song I have. All in mp3 format.
Has anyone encountered this, and have a solution?
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Holy ****, never mind. I fixed it by resetting the phone. I swear, everything can be fixed by resetting the phone.
I noticed this when trying to play some of my flac encoded mp3's, your options would be, convert to mp3 or convert to ogg.
A lot of mp3's nowadays are actually flac, ok the quality is better, however a load of players, phones etc don't recognise flac encoding.
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Arghhhh
lol, yeah, a reboot fixes some stuff, ( and sometimes breaks other stuff )...
On several occasions I have had to reinstall my android because of rebooting, Im sure there was some other underlying issues that werent occuring until a reboot though.
I can't actually reset the phone, as it just freezes. I have to power it off, or hit the reset button. I sear, half the problems are actually Android related, and the other half is bugs from it being ported.
So far, though there are ways around all of them.
Why can't I install Applications on my SD card? A luxury with Windows Mobile.
Why no offline GPS?
Why can't I see the NAND memory?
Dukenukemx said:
Why can't I see the NAND memory?
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Depends what you mean by 'see' the NAND memory, which part are you interested in?
I'm not gonna get into a big explanation of what NAND actually is, but if you open Astro, apart from the SD folders, everything else you see is in NAND memory, in fact the only part you can't see easily is the bootloader areas, which are frankly not of much interest unless your a real uber-nerd
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I have had an issue that has been driving me insane for weeks - and seems to have been getting worse. Initially occasionally, but then with increasing regularity all changes I made to my device would be lost when I rebooted - or sometimes during general usage.
So any changes to playlists, newly installed apps, adding album art, changes to Sense settings, would be lost after a while.
I have made increasing use of Titanium Backup as a result to avoid losing everything. I've flashed numerous new ROMs, including doing full wipes, but the problem has always returned.
I knew it wasn't an SD problem because I have tried 3 different cards as well.
Today I installed 'busybox' from within Titanium Backup and miraculously EVERYTHING came back. This was most obvious as I had flashed the latest Virtuous Rom with full wipe, but then periodically it was losing ALL my apps which I had reinstalled.
So, I THINK I have found a solution, but does anyone know WHY I have this problem and why installing busybox solves it? And is there a way to autoinstall it every time I boot?
I have now done more testing and I think I have found the problem and a work around - but not really a solution. I would love someone with a better understanding of the device (or more likely HTC Sense) to give me a true solution.
Just to reiterate my problem, I have - over many months now - had a problem with HTC Sense playlists deleting or reverting after I had made changes. This was across different Micro SD cards, different ROMs, and even different phones (I occasionally had the problem with my Touch Pro 2 on Energy ROM, but MUCH more regularly on the Desire Z).
The only consistent things are using HTC Sense, and the volume of music on my device. I have approx 14gb of music on the MicroSD card, and a number of playlists to manage the volume.
I have searched endlessly, and I'm amazed that no-one else seems to have had the same problem, but I can only assume no-one else has the same volume of music on their phone (and uses HTC Sense to play it).
The problem seemed intermittent and it was only after many months of trying different ROMs, different MicroSD cards, different music, different SuperUser settings, multiple wipes and resets, different playlist editors etc., that I eventually started a diary of EVERYTHING I did to the phone and when the playlists reverted.
To explain, the problem was that I would edit a playlist (or create a new one or delete etc.), and after an unspecified period of time it would revert back to how it was before the edit. It wouldn't matter whether I had edited all 3500+ songs or just 1, it would go back to how it was previously. But occasionally the changes WOULD stick, so the next time it would revert to a different previous setting etc. This would also occasionally play havoc with the album art (but use of Cover Art Downloader fixed that).
Ultimately I am now fairly confident (without months of further testing) that the playlists revert whenever I put the phone on charge whilst still turned on (not when battery removed to charge etc.) - either on a charger or via USB from the PC.
The only time the playlists 'stick' is when I stop Sense running, then unmount and remount the SD card - any changes I make immediately after that will stay.
This is a real pain whenever I want to change a playlist (although not as much of a pain as having to restore from backup or remake the changes every time I charge the phone!!).
Anyone know why this might be happening, or a proper fix? Anyone know what process I am resetting by stopping sense and unmounting? (BTW: A reboot does NOT work to achieve the same result).
Any help appreciated!!
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I am having the same problem on my HTC Aria running Android 2.2 (Liberated Aria 2.2.2 ROM). Help Please!!!
HTC Sense Playlists Revert After Editing (Work-around)
I found a temporary fix. Creating playlists on the device itself protects them from reverting.
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I found a temporary fix. Creating playlists on the device itself protects them from reverting.
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How do you determine where it stores the playlists?
I would recommend using Google music or Doubletwist instead. Also, don't use sense if you have the choice.
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I'm having a sporadic but frequent problem with my Epic, wherein media files (on the SD card) suddenly become unplayable. Specifically, podcasts in Dogg Catcher, and audio books in MortPlayer, Ambling Book Player, and Audible will suddenly stop working and the app will report some sort of error such as "media file not playable" or some such.
This happens approximately once per day at unpredictable times, and my original response was to reboot the phone, which did fix the problem temporarily. Now I've discovered that unmounting the SD card, then remounting it and allowing the Android media scanner to complete will also temporarily fix the problem. In either case, however, the problem returns within a day or two, maximum.
Has anyone else experienced this kind of problem, or have any advice on how I might go about fixing them?
(FYI, my phone is rooted and I am running Syndicate Frozen 1.1 ROM, but this problem was happening before the root procedure back when I was running stock, and persists even after moving to Syndicate.)
Thanks!
Just taking a shot in the dark here, but it sounds like the problem might be with your sd card... a possible solution might be to copy all of your data off of the card, reformat it, and then copy you data back on to the card, OR try/get a different sdcard altogether.
Again, not claiming I know what the root problem is, but the reformat is worth a try as it has seemed to help with other sd card reading issues for others.
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Just taking a shot in the dark here, but it sounds like the problem might be with your sd card... a possible solution might be to copy all of your data off of the card, reformat it, and then copy you data back on to the card, OR try/get a different sdcard altogether.
Again, not claiming I know what the root problem is, but the reformat is worth a try as it has seemed to help with other sd card reading issues for others.
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Thanks, I'll backup my SD card and reformat it to see if that helps. I should know within a day or two anyway.
I'm having a similar issue where all my media files disappear and it says "no SD card detected". If i pop the card out and back in it works, but it's annoying.
FWIW this is a replacement SanDisk card (class 4), my first one was lost in a drunken phone drop at the bar.
I have this exact same issue... Never had issues when stock, but since rooting and flashing ACS101 through ACS110... Although it sounds like it's not related to this since you've had issues longer.
I've tried clearing dalvik cache, normal cache, and messing around with the DRM service, but it's still unstable and audio/video files quit working after random amounts of time.
Let me know if the SDCard fix works for you.
My wife's phone has the same problem. Completely stock, with the official FroYo update. No root or anything so far. Her phone also has an issue where it pauses for up to 30 seconds before actually dialing when a call is attempted, then often fails to actually complete the call. I think she might just have a lemon...
I've discovered my international HTC One X 32GB becomes very very slow when i fill up the phones internal storage. You need to keep around 5 to 7GB free for the phone to stay useable. I'm on stock rom and asked someone i knew with a one x to try the same and he had the same problem. I'm on android 4.03 software version 1.29.401.11
Do other ppl have the same issue where the phone becomes slower and slower as more storage gets used?
I noticed the same thing but it only happens when I go under 1 Gb of free SD storage. Only occurred on 1.29 and 2.05 Sense based Roms, I was too lazy to try it with CM9
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Happened to me when I copied my music over a little over 2.3 k songs, phone was laggy for a while. Music app still goes slow some times.
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on base 2.0.401.2 im getting some freezing when i switch from mass storage mode
or access the SD using file manager but nothing more really its not as bad as you describe it and perfectly understandable, i only have 700MB left
I have this exact same problem with my hox. I'm running maximus 2.1 stock kernel. If I go below 4-5gb it crawls. Takes about ten minutes to boot up... The phone basically becomes unusable.
i reported this a couple of months ago, ive found the sweet spot is 1g + anything below 1gb and it will slow to unusable and your battery will be slaughtered very quickly as the phone heats up. im not sure why it does it my desire hd i was able to leave less than 1mb and the machine would still run perfectly.
my g1, motorola milestone, desire hd, samsung galaxy tab, my wifes wildfire and wild fire s all run perfectly with filled to the brim sd cards. why the hox wont is beyond me.
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Takes about ten minutes to boot up...
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It's doing a media scan. The same thing will happen when you connect it via USB and then disconnect it. If you have seven 4GB MKV files that'll take a fraction of the time compared to thousands of 5,000KB MP3 files. I have a 32GB G-Tab 10.1 and it bogs the same way people are describing when I load it with content for a trip. It also pops up "memory low, remove unnecessary files" warnings starting about 5GB before the storage is actually full. This isn’t any different than people getting bogged down when they have thousands of SMS stored on their phones. And that even happens on Nexus phones. All is not perfect in the land of Android.
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It's doing a media scan. The same thing will happen when you connect it via USB and then disconnect it. If you have seven 4GB MKV files that'll take a fraction of the time compared to thousands of 5,000KB MP3 files. I have a 32GB G-Tab 10.1 and it bogs the same way people are describing when I load it with content for a trip. It also pops up "memory low, remove unnecessary files" warnings starting about 5GB before the storage is actually full. This isn’t any different than people getting bogged down when they have thousands of SMS stored on their phones. And that even happens on Nexus phones. All is not perfect in the land of Android.
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na the machine never stabilizes, i done it once to see if it was just an indexing problem - 48hrs later the phone was still non responsive and was red hot.
there is defo something wrong with the devices software that cause it too effectly loop when the sd memory fills. also i could replicate the problem on other devices but they always start running normally after a while
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na the machine never stabilizes, i done it once to see if it was just an indexing problem - 48hrs later the phone was still non responsive and was red hot.
there is defo something wrong with the devices software that cause it too effectly loop when the sd memory fills.
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What type of content do you have loaded on your phone? I'll fill mine up later because I'm curious now. I've got about 20GB on it split between small files and some large ones and other than the media scan lag at boot I haven't noticed any slow downs. HTC is doing some funky stuff to get away from MTP so maybe that's the issue.
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I thought of something else. The XL has only 10GB of user available storage so I'm sure a lot of users have it close to max'd out. They haven't reported any issues. So it's more likely the amount of files being handled than it is bumping up against the physical storage limit.
that was just a few movies, i like to fill it up when we go away at weekends so was uploading a load of movies and tv programs to catch up when sitting around in the evening.
the only other media i have on the device is audible.com books which wont get indexed as they are not files native to android.
ive given up loading movies on the device now and dusted of the galaxy tab to load up which works much better but poorer screen.
i certainly wont ever entertain phones with integral non removable storage / battery ever again no matter how good the phone is. When the phone freezes up there is no way out of it, it can can take over 15mins to connect to the computer just to remove some of the data, loads of missed calls, - just completely unusable. if the card was removable it would have been a few seconds to remove the data and i would have had my phone back.
I had the same issue when i filled up my device with movies, 10 mkv files at 1,7gb each
Same for me. If I go below 3gb the phone is very slow.
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i get exactly the same issue, anyone got a fix for this yet? i just synced my music and is became unusable. usually by deleting the music it works again, this time its still slow despite having loads of free space now. another reinstall coming up. this is becoming very tedious
Found that problem too, and as i deleted som music and stuff i forgot on the sd-card it was running smooth again...
Really wierd tho.
Really.....
We need a thread to explain common sense.
Fill a hard drive up and search for a file take longer to find it.
Go eat a huge dinner and you will slow down. There really is some stupid ass threads in the one x section.
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Really.....
We need a thread to explain common sense.
Fill a hard drive up and search for a file take longer to find it.
Go eat a huge dinner and you will slow down. There really is some stupid ass threads in the one x section.
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I didn't realise that the storage in the phone was a mechanical drive that was affected by fragmentation.
Learn something every day.
It's due to the sd storage uses FAT32 this format is old now and it always had an issue of any hard drive that once reaches a certain limit it would slow down as it has to search longer to find what it needs incidentally it's not how full the storage more the amount of files on it. Example. If you put 7 MLV movies on it and fill the drive it wouldn't slow down but if you put 3000 songs on it then it would go slow. I tested this theory out myself on several storage devices and results were always the same. A lot of newer sd cards which use HCSD storage loaded quicker than this phone. I don't know why they don't just use NTFS instead you wouldn't have this issue then but linux struggles with that format
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They should go with EXT4 for all android phones. I've been using EXT4 on my transformer and it is both faster and less limited than FAT32. Microsoft should just add some support for other filesystems. Not to mention that the phone's internal filesystems are already EXT
Jesus. And I thought the hox had enough problems already.
Surely there's a process running that explains the heat and lack of responsiveness? Doesn't anyone have logs of the Cpu activity at the time of the slowdowns? A simple script to kill the process would work as a temporary workaround until HTC release a fix.
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Jesus. And I thought the hox had enough problems already.
Surely there's a process running that explains the heat and lack of responsiveness? Doesn't anyone have logs of the Cpu activity at the time of the slowdowns? A simple script to kill the process would work as a temporary workaround until HTC release a fix.
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It's not really a process its when you first boot the device it checks the sd storage for any errors, this is part of the android os but if sd full of files it can take upto 72hrs for this scan to complete and this uses all the CPU N memory hence phone is unresponsive. Disabling the check might cause corruption I think a work around might be to partition the sd storage and use ext format to put all your files and leave enough storage for the operating system and apps
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good evening guys, i have the problem, that the process "media" is draining my battery down. i flashed the newest firmware, different roms, nothing helps. i have 10,000 png on the internal sdcard (football manager player pictures). after that, the process media kills my battery. this is a generell android problem, i found a lot problems by google, not a right solution. is there a solution there, not killing this proces after every restart? i wont sell my note 2 but this problem makes me crazy and i dont have a choice, if i cant fix this problem...:crying:
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good evening guys, i have the problem, that the process "media" is draining my battery down. i flashed the newest firmware, different roms, nothing helps. i have 10,000 png on the internal sdcard (football manager player pictures). after that, the process media kills my battery. this is a generell android problem, i found a lot problems by google, not a right solution. is there a solution there, not killing this proces after every restart? i wont sell my note 2 but this problem makes me crazy and i dont have a choice, if i cant fix this problem...:crying:
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Why the heck were you thinkimg of selling your Note 2?
Did you full wipe correctly?
Are you sure your sync does not cause that?
There are several app on the store and forum for this - Rescan Media, Media scan ... do not remember all the names.
Have you tried just placing a ".nomedia" file into the folder those pngs are stored?
nomedia doesent work, i manuelly disabled mediascanner and scan with media scanner after the restart, thx
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nomedia doesent work, i manuelly disabled mediascanner and scan with media scanner after the restart, thx
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Hi there
Just wondering, if you have disabled mediascanner, can you still set your ringtones? Once i've disabled my mediascanner, my ringtones all no longer work, and i'm not able to set them.
Mine had the same problem, turned out to be a corrupt MP3 (it stilled played though). I used a program on desktop to fix all the MP3's and now Media doesn't occupy more than 2%. I found disabling the Media Scanner process is a band aid fix that leads to other annoyances.
It's a known bug in Android. This thread has a bit more info: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=37199
Is it common for the screen to flicker (sometimes quite badly) when data is writing to SD card or memory?
My unit has always done this, like when it does a media scan or if I'm installing a new ROM image, it's as if the storage system is interfering with the LCD hardware.
I recently installed a music streaming app and it is very apparent here, as the song caches to local the screen glitches badly until it finished then it works normally again until the next track.
It's so annoying, does anyone have this or know how I can make it stop?
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Is it common for the screen to flicker (sometimes quite badly) when data is writing to SD card or memory?
My unit has always done this, like when it does a media scan or if I'm installing a new ROM image, it's as if the storage system is interfering with the LCD hardware.
I recently installed a music streaming app and it is very apparent here, as the song caches to local the screen glitches badly until it finished then it works normally again until the next track.
It's so annoying, does anyone have this or know how I can make it stop?
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Absolutely not normal. Send it back if you can.
If not, I have a screen to sell.
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Absolutely not normal. Send it back if you can.
If not, I have a screen to sell.
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Was hoping it was a normal thing or suggested a lose or badly grounded connection I could check
It's not like the example I gave all the time, my screen is normal unless there is a large data transfer taking place, that's the only time it happens. I should open it and check the cables first.
PM me the details of your screen, I haven't taken this apart before, is it a complete unit, screen, and digitiser? are you in AUS?
Thanks