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okropnick

2011-01-30 17:50

Re: n900 conversations disappearing!!!

Thank you PSX and previous persons. The solution is working fine!

Kham	2011-02-09 06:53

Re: n900 conversations disappearing!!!

PSX- I tried your script, didn't seem to work for me. Are you sure all of the commands are the same as the ones that you tried? Spaces etc are proper?

Thanks a bunch,
Kham

PSX	2011-02-09 12:31

Re: n900 conversations disappearing!!!

Hi Kham, are you sure you've gained root access? I had installed rootfs from the App Manager before attempting this. Also which command causes it to fail? If there's no failure, check that Conversations is closed when running the commands. Also you may need to reboot afterwards to see the changes. I'm fairly sure the commands are correct...

Alex

bewrong

2011-02-26 02:30

Re: n900 conversations disappearing!!!

currently experiencing the same problem and to add to that it seems that it doesn't detect my sim after rebooting it. i've read that even if i restore from the last back it wouldnt fix it?

bewrong

2011-02-26 02:46

Re: n900 conversations disappearing!!!

found this on the net
"Open xterm and type rm -rf .rtcom-eventlogger to clear the corrupt database"

it fixed it but all my conversations were deleted. with the sim I inserted a paper between the battery and sim. I had this phone for almost a year now and I'm currelt becoming disappointed with everything that's happening about it.

TiagoTiago

2011-03-01 02:48

Re: n900 conversations disappearing!!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by PradaBrada (Post 761517)

Its not a bug, its a feature!

http://baldrics.files.wordpress.com/...bugfeature.jpg

:p

TiagoTiago

2011-03-01 02:54

Re: n900 conversations disappearing!!!

Could this be related to the bug where the conversations in Conversations instead of being scrollable the hildonized way got a thin gray desktop-like scrollbar on the side?

ceroberts75

2011-03-01 04:05

Re: n900 conversations disappearing!!!

actually, use this.

it will wipe you recent calls and all conversations, but should ease your issue.

my guess is that you are also experiencing errors with scrolling left/right in email and zooming cameras.

Code:

cd .rtcom-eventlogger

mkdir keep

mv el*db keep

it will,,,if necessary, keep a copy of your bugged data...but you may as well not worry about it.

PSX	2011-03-01 17:09

Re: n900 conversations disappearing!!!

Deletion of the DB has been covered before and hopefully shouldn't be necessary.. refer to my post #40: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...2&postcount=40

- Follow the instructions dump the conversations database and restore without the corrupt elements, thus keeping your whole conversation history.

Alex

NOMIOMI

2011-03-03 12:22

Re: n900 conversations disappearing!!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by PSX (Post 929592)

Found a workaround for this today - the problem occurs because the Headers table in the /home/user/.rtcom-eventlogger/el-v1.db becomes corrupt. Happily this is repairable, on the device:

First gain root access:

Code:

sudo gainroot

..then switch to the target directory:

Code:

cd .rtcom-eventlogger

Now dump the contents of the existing database to a raw SQL file:

Code:

sqlite3 el-v1.db .dump > el-v1.db.sql

Restore the SQL to a new database:

Code:

sqlite3 el-v1.db.new < el-v1.db.sql

You may ignore SQL errors at this stage; they occur due to corruption in the source.

Now overwrite the broken DB (you may wish to back up the original file):

Code:

cp el-v1.db.new el-v1.db

Finally, ensure that the file is owned by 'user' and is in the 'users' group so it may be read by Conversations

Code:

chown user el-v1.db

chgrp users el-v1.db

Now close and re-open your Conversations app - the changes should be immediate!

Hope this helps,

Alex

my problem solve thanks bro for ur help

demonspectre

2011-03-15 20:23

Re: n900 conversations disappearing!!!

I found this thread after having a similar experience with two different n900s. The recommended fixes work well, but unfortunately they don't do anything to prevent the problem.

From my observations, there seems to be a definite correlation between receiving multi-part SMS and corrupting the conversations database. (By multi-part I mean a text message so long that it has to be broken into two separate text messages.)

I have tested this on two n900s (both on T-Mobile USA), and the correlation is practically 100%.

Sometimes the problem doesn't appear on multi-part text messages sent between two phones on the same network. However, EVERY time my n900 receives a multi-part SMS from a phone on another network (Verizon, AT&T) the associated conversation thread disappears. At that point, the only solution is to erase the thread, or repair it as described earlier.

For me, a workable solution has been to immediately erase any SMS conversation thread that receives a multi-part text message. It's annoying, but it works.

Hope this helps.

(Also: thank you to everyone who posted other fixes.)

s15mos

2011-03-23 08:29

Re: n900 conversations disappearing!!!

hi,
i tried the command:
rm -rf .rtcom-eventlogger

however i get an error saying cannot remove .rtcom-eventlogger: read only file system...
my whole phone is currently not able to access anything however it is all still in there as i have checked via ssh... any way to fix this?

s15mos

2011-03-24 09:41

Re: n900 conversations disappearing!!!

bump??????????????

bewrong

2011-04-02 00:15

Re: n900 conversations disappearing!!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by PSX (Post 958226)

had the same problem again. this, unfortunately, didn't work for me :(

Mentalist Traceur

2011-04-02 05:28

Re: n900 conversations disappearing!!!

I've had this problem repeatedly. At first, using the solutions listed here semi worked semi consistently.

Sometimes, deleting the database helped. Sometimes, I had to delete the entire /home/user/.rtcom-eventlogger folder. Once I was able to fix the issue by changing ownership of the folder... I tried PSX's solution once, it did not, if I remember correctly, work for me.

As time has gone on, I've noticed that this problem can return after both normal reflash, and a full-blown reflash-the-eMMC reflash.

At this point, I don't know what the underlying cause is, but I suspect that the database corruption, while an "easy" victim to this bug, is only a symptom of some lower down, /home partition corruption. The "read only filesystem" error being the most indicative of that - as I have also seen the same problem both A, with this bug, and B, with other file system problems. The only other explanation beyond file system corruption (unless of course there's two separate bugs, one that affects only this database and one that affects everything) is a hardware issue, near as I can tell. The one thing that for me almost universally fixes this is rebooting repeatedly. Between that and deleting/moving the database with the messages, this bug seems to be 'fixable', but as stated above, there's nothing that "prevents" this issue.

I've enabled fsck-ing the /home partition upon boot "if necessary" in the power kernel boot options, hopefully I'll be able to report back that this solves the problem long term...

gavplus

2011-04-11 02:31

Re: n900 conversations disappearing!!!

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excuse my ignorance but im new with this stuf ... please help me.. i realy ned it!! what im doing wrong... i add a picture to see what I did!

gavplus

2011-04-11 13:18

Re: n900 conversations disappearing!!!

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Quote:

Originally Posted by PSX (Post 929592)

Code:

sudo gainroot

..then switch to the target directory:

Code:

cd .rtcom-eventlogger

Now dump the contents of the existing database to a raw SQL file:

Code:

sqlite3 el-v1.db .dump > el-v1.db.sql

Restore the SQL to a new database:

Code:

sqlite3 el-v1.db.new < el-v1.db.sql

You may ignore SQL errors at this stage; they occur due to corruption in the source.

Now overwrite the broken DB (you may wish to back up the original file):

Code:

cp el-v1.db.new el-v1.db

Finally, ensure that the file is owned by 'user' and is in the 'users' group so it may be read by Conversations

Code:

chown user el-v1.db

chgrp users el-v1.db

Now close and re-open your Conversations app - the changes should be immediate!

Hope this helps,

Alex

hello PSX ... excuse my ignorance but im new with this stuf ... please help me.. i realy ned it!! what im doing wrong... i add a picture to see what I did!

nicolai

2011-04-11 13:36

Re: n900 conversations disappearing!!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by PSX (Post 929592)

First gain root access:

Code:

sudo gainroot

--> http://wiki.maemo.org/Root_access#rootsh

Saturn

2011-04-16 10:54

Re: n900 conversations disappearing!!!

@ gavplus:

You can skip the first command for this operation and do the rest.

Reason is the rtcom-eventlogger folder and its files are owned by the user.

slipkornsaad

2011-05-21 09:40

Re: n900 conversations disappearing!!!

Hello folks,

my question isn't 100% topic related but i want to know where the conversation (sms, im etc) file is stored because i want to restore only conversation from a full backup and http://wiki.maemo.org/Backing_up_N90...2FSIP_accounts didn't help that much because there's no dedicated file for it on my N900 (with ssh)

any help?

toki	2011-05-27 04:47

Re: n900 conversations disappearing!!!

hey all,

im experiencing this problem again..

iv tried doing everything and it still keeps not working

i would send an sms, and it would show that the msg is still waiting to send... and it stays this way (but the sms actually is already sent)
and when i close conversations and reopen, everything is gone and its no longer in chronological order

last time the only way i fixed it was to restore a backup..
i dont want to do this because i will lose all my highscores!!! NOOOO!

i understand its because some corrupt data or something is going on...
but does anyone know what could be causing this? and how to prevent it?

Pyro1099

2011-06-18 23:55

Re: n900 conversations disappearing!!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by PSX (Post 929592)

Code:

sudo gainroot

..then switch to the target directory:

Code:

cd .rtcom-eventlogger

Now dump the contents of the existing database to a raw SQL file:

Code:

sqlite3 el-v1.db .dump > el-v1.db.sql

Restore the SQL to a new database:

Code:

sqlite3 el-v1.db.new < el-v1.db.sql

You may ignore SQL errors at this stage; they occur due to corruption in the source.

Now overwrite the broken DB (you may wish to back up the original file):

Code:

cp el-v1.db.new el-v1.db

Finally, ensure that the file is owned by 'user' and is in the 'users' group so it may be read by Conversations

Code:

chown user el-v1.db

chgrp users el-v1.db

Now close and re-open your Conversations app - the changes should be immediate!

Hope this helps,

Alex

With this keep both my send and received messages. One guy said it loses the sent messages.

bman	2011-06-19 01:00

Re: n900 conversations disappearing!!!

i find if i keep deleting my conversations b4 i get 10000 in total i dont have the problem bugt as soon as i get over that theres a chance of having the problem
if i get it i delete the users conversation reboot wait for a million msgs to come back up delete all and reboot n it works again
also sometimes there name turns into "-"

srkkiran

2011-09-12 12:14

Re: n900 conversations disappearing!!!

Thanks PSX, it worked after executing the commands and restarting tye phone.

ashwin

2011-10-12 03:38

Re: n900 conversations disappearing!!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by PSX (Post 929592)

Code:

sudo gainroot

..then switch to the target directory:

Code:

cd .rtcom-eventlogger

Now dump the contents of the existing database to a raw SQL file:

Code:

sqlite3 el-v1.db .dump > el-v1.db.sql

Restore the SQL to a new database:

Code:

sqlite3 el-v1.db.new < el-v1.db.sql

You may ignore SQL errors at this stage; they occur due to corruption in the source.

Now overwrite the broken DB (you may wish to back up the original file):

Code:

cp el-v1.db.new el-v1.db

Finally, ensure that the file is owned by 'user' and is in the 'users' group so it may be read by Conversations

Code:

chown user el-v1.db

chgrp users el-v1.db

Now close and re-open your Conversations app - the changes should be immediate!

Hope this helps,

Alex

Worked like magic..thnxs buddy

blackjack4it

2011-10-12 07:28

Re: n900 conversations disappearing!!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by ashwin (Post 1107339)

Worked like magic..thnxs buddy

If the problem returns, I've created a simple "script-launcher" to do the same steps automatically in a couple of seconds ;):

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...52#post1100952

somedude

2011-10-30 14:51

Re: n900 conversations disappearing!!!

I have been having this issue for about a week now, and I do all the steps again and again and again. I have been having to do this everyday..... and its always because of one contacts conversation, which I txt a lot. I have even re-flashed the device including the EMMC but second day from re-flash this happened again. Is there any other solution to this? It is driving me nuts... because everytime I restart the phone I get ~30 messages and it does not include my replies, I close that and nothing is there in conversation app. I even deleted the whole database to start fresh but it is still not logging anything.
any other solution to this?

computerinfo21

2011-11-18 14:56

Re: n900 conversations disappearing!!!

I finally found a fix for the various problems I was having with Conversations, maybe it will help you too.

See my post here for details

Shinigamijim

2012-11-04 02:27

Re: n900 conversations disappearing!!!

im traying this method but nothing happened all my conversatiins are still gone =/ and also calls dont show.

i need help is re-flash is the only solution?

bennypr0fane

2013-02-24 15:55

Re: n900 conversations disappearing!!!

I am experiencing sth that looks very much like this issue.
All conversations disappeared. everything else seems normal. Please help me investigate this.
Last I received an sms, with a preview visible in the task manager, but that may have been an sms that I already got yesterday. tapping it got me to the empty conversations home screen...
hav rebooted twice also changed the battery
nothing :-(
I'm not sure any of the solutions here, working for one or another user, still apply for the current CSSU - I'm running Testing, thumb compiled.
Will be glad for suggestions. Here's the bug that was raised, status unconfirmed:
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11456
Thanks Ben

panjgoori

2013-02-24 19:35

Re: n900 conversations disappearing!!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by bennypr0fane (Post 1324815)

Same thing also happens on my N900 and method below fixes my poblem.

Close conversation app and open Xterminal and type:

Code:

root

killall rtcom-messaging-ui

and restart conversation app. This always solves my conversation problem. may be this also helps you.

And my N900 is also running on CSSU-Thumb;)

bennypr0fane

2013-02-24 20:57

Re: n900 conversations disappearing!!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by panjgoori (Post 1324868)

Same thing also happens on my N900 and method below fixes my poblem.

Close conversation app and open Xterminal and type:

Code:

root

killall rtcom-messaging-ui

and restart conversation app. This always solves my conversation problem. may be this also helps you.

And my N900 is also running on CSSU-Thumb;)

No, didn't work :( thanks though.

Dre	2013-06-08 13:19

Re: n900 conversations disappearing!!!

I've had the same problem for a while. I did a restore from backup of only the Communication and Calender. This seem to work:)

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