Is there a better rom to use than sprint's stock rom on epic 4g? cuz like, this morning at starbucks i get a popup saying 'system update available'. i tap install, the phone reboots, then i get a linux framebuffer console with a progress meter and it updates the phone's software.. then i get a blank screen - all four panel buttons are lit.. I had to take the battery out of the phone.. Now when I boot the phone there is no sprint cartoon splash.. my root 'su' was gone, i re-rooted the phone OK.. should i worry about this? the animation is gone. it was annoying anyways, id like to put my own custom animation if possible.
now i rebooted, and su still doesnt work, although it did prior to rebooting the phone. sprint is trying to lock me out?
is there a better 'rom' i should use?
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Ok, i've been modding and playing with my LG Optimus Black P-970 lately, and it's been working pretty nicely. But today it started being unstabile, and weird. Examples, often when scroll around menus etc, i see a black rectangle i would guess is about 5x10 px in size, lined up in the left side of the screen. Lots of apps act weird and stops responding. If i tru to unlock after a while in standby, the screen freezes on what looks like a untuned analog tv channel, just with some colors in it. So what might have caused it?
What i have done tody, is to:
1. Updated GO Launcher EX
2. Download BusyBox, and apply the newest update it offered
3. Update the su-binary in superuser.
4. Lastly, which i suspect, i pulled Phone.apk, replaced a few background pictures in it (New ones is same resolution, but different type, from RGB to Monochrome), and pushed it back in.
Now i got problems, so i did this without any results so far:
- I've replaced GO Launcer EX with ADW.
- Removed some widgets i made with Chronotopia.
- Uninstalled BusyBox (But probably not the updates it applied to my system).
Any experiences/knowledge with these kind of problems? I do suspect the Phone.apk and the updated BusyBox...
EDIT: I managed to get a screenshot of that block dot that keeps appearing on the left side. For some reason, it appears as white in the screenshot. w00t? Dunno if it's relevant.
I would change phone.apk back to stock just to see if that helps. I kind of doubt it had to do with busy box. Good luck!
That was my idea, and i thought i had Phone.apk laying around, but no So i tried something stupid and ended up bricking the phone again, lol. So now i'm back to stock, rooted it and did a backup Updated BusyBox, Superuser and su-binary. Seems good so far, haven't done anything else. I'm gonna be so sad if i find out that i can't change a few png's in Phone.apk without stability problems. I didn't sign the modified Phone.apk before i pushed it back, may that be the problem?
I suppose it could be. Try your change again & see what happens.
Ok, last time i ended up doing a full LG recovery, and just a little tweaking. Yesterday, i made a backup, then started to heavily modify the framework-res.apk, and i got the same problem once again. This time i didn't even touch any other apk's. So now, barely awake, lol, i tried removing the old files and replace them with stock in drawable-hdpi folder, and push it back. Still the same. Tried to push the stock untouched framework-res.apk, still the same. Tried to recover to the backup i made, and still the same. What bothers is that i bypass an error message saying "ERROR, LG Security Team !" on every boot.
So i tried another, bit old backup, and this one works fine. But these problems i mentioned has not been showing between those two backups. I just had to try to restore the backup i made yesterday once more, and still it's buggy. I just can't make any sens out of that...
I use TSF shell, because it's awesome. My S3 doesn't seem to agree. Every time I boot up my phone, it makes me select which launcher I want to use (TSF or TouchWiz). Every time I hit "TSF", and "always". My phone immediately ignores it the seconds I reboot. Is there a mod that can get rid of this pop up? It's driving me completely insane. As is the persistent WiFi notification, and the constant reminders after I set a default that I can undo it. This phone is starting to get on my nerves with so much silly garbage I'm nearly ready to trade it in, unless I get some fixes.
I'm rooted on stock OTA JB update VRBLK.
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I use TSF shell, because it's awesome. My S3 doesn't seem to agree. Every time I boot up my phone, it makes me select which launcher I want to use (TSF or TouchWiz). Every time I hit "TSF", and "always". My phone immediately ignores it the seconds I reboot. Is there a mod that can get rid of this pop up? It's driving me completely insane. As is the persistent WiFi notification, and the constant reminders after I set a default that I can undo it. This phone is starting to get on my nerves with so much silly garbage I'm nearly ready to trade it in, unless I get some fixes.
I'm rooted on stock OTA JB update VRBLK.
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Get off stock or trash TSF. All those things can be fixed but not on stock. My default works. At least need to unlock and have custom recovery so can flash the fixes. Search is your friend.
Hello, I am attempting to do something that I didn't think would be that hard and it has ran me into so many problems.
I have the Samsung Galaxy s4 Active. So I now have gained root acess, but I found out I cannot change the boot animation that easily for samsung phones because they use a different something. So I go through the trouble of downloading a ton of crap and making a animation compatible with my phone, set it up, and email it to my device copy paste to system/media and ovverrite existing. Rebooted, Said samsung then custom under it with a unlocked lock. Rebooting ever since does nothing so I gave up with that and decided to look into a mod allowing using basic bootanimation.zip like all other phones, But for Samsung active can't use Clockwork mod or whatever so I gotta get something else called Flash Gordon. When I go to download it on my phone, I get an error. First it says "Connecting to Dl.xda.developers and then it'll say Sorry, this player does not support this type of audio file and I'm at a loss because now my phone will not lock or time out the screen. When I hit the lock button it won't lock. It works fine becuase if I hold it it pulls up turn off and crap. I just made sure in settings that screen timeout is set at 15 sec and it won't timeout already tried reboot for fixing that and it didn't help. I feel like giving up right now..
My phone is rooted and I have Jelly 'beans' ROM installed. Everything was going well (been running for a week) until I installed ActiveNotifications (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greatbytes.activenotifications). I'm not stuck on my lock screen and the touch screen does not respond to unlock it. There is also a hand icon in the status bar that I've never seen before. I can't (as far as I know) use adb to uninstall because the phone is not in USB debugging.
Any thoughts short of wiping and re-installing the ROM?
TIA
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My phone is rooted and I have Jelly 'beans' ROM installed. Everything was going well (been running for a week) until I installed ActiveNotifications (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greatbytes.activenotifications). I'm not stuck on my lock screen and the touch screen does not respond to unlock it. There is also a hand icon in the status bar that I've never seen before. I can't (as far as I know) use adb to uninstall because the phone is not in USB debugging.
Any thoughts short of wiping and re-installing the ROM?
TIA
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Yeah, neat app huh? I did the same thing myself. I think to use it you have to have a PIN unlock. Anyway, if you can pull down your notification shade, go into settings and uninstall it. Also if you have no security set for your lock screen, try to call your phone or send a text, something that will immediately get you into the main UI, then uninstall it.
Power it off the press at the same time power>home>vol up and boot into recovery and reflash the rom..
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ffeingol said:
My phone is rooted and I have Jelly 'beans' ROM installed. Everything was going well (been running for a week) until I installed ActiveNotifications (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greatbytes.activenotifications). I'm not stuck on my lock screen and the touch screen does not respond to unlock it. There is also a hand icon in the status bar that I've never seen before. I can't (as far as I know) use adb to uninstall because the phone is not in USB debugging.
Any thoughts short of wiping and re-installing the ROM?
TIA
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Maybe consider restoring from your most recent nandroid? I know that it's losing some progress, but you might be able to save yourself some time. Short of that, I think you'll need to re-flash your ROM, unfortunately.
I've been in situations like this one before, and that's the big reason why I've made it my standard operating procedure to maintain two backups: one for pre-flash and on stable post-flash for every new ROM. It's been helpful so far (in the extremely limited experience I have with custom software on my phone).
I'm going to wait just a bit to see if anyone else has some great suggestion, but I think I'll have to re-flash (after I finally got my home screen the way I want it). I do have PIN lock on. Can't pull the notifications down. With the ROM I'm using the AOSP lockscreen and I when you touch the circle to unlock none of the icons show.
Not a happy camper
ffeingol said:
I'm going to wait just a bit to see if anyone else has some great suggestion, but I think I'll have to re-flash (after I finally got my home screen the way I want it). I do have PIN lock on. Can't pull the notifications down. With the ROM I'm using the AOSP lockscreen and I when you touch the circle to unlock none of the icons show.
Not a happy camper
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Try to hit the menu button while you're on the lockscreen, sometimes that'll bypass the lock screen.
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After wiping and re-installing the ROM (several times) I think I may have found the culprit. My phone suddenly thinks that my 32 GB external SD card is bad and is stuck in a fsck. If I put the card out everything is happy. Time to backup the sdcard and reformat.
I had flashed @foreverloco Marshmallow BrEaKdOwN ROM earlier and used TB to uninstall some bloat like Facebook, Google Music, Microsoft Office stuff then I restart. When it boots back up I get a "Unfortunately system UI has stopped" notice and choose the "OK" option to make it go away. It keeps popping up and then the screen starts to flash on and off on the lock screen. As I'm trying to hit the power button and try to go into recovery there's these text messages at the bottom end of the screen saying things like, "Yeah, like that'll work again" and "I haz control now" and "Virus detected". WTF? I manage to boot it into recovery now.
I have no clue why that happened. I haven't downloaded anything from any unofficial source since I flashed the ROM besides the flat bar module on xposed. I'm going to do another full wipe, internal storage included, and flash another ROM thru OTG.
Update: I went back to @rmarinella N5 Express. Everything looks good. No freaky messages. I'm going to configure everything back to the way I like it and report back to see how things are going.
Update #2: Things looking good. I configured everything I wanted after flash. Things look stable and normal, not getting any error messages. Now I'm going to install my TB apps and see if that all goes well.
The things that it says on the lockscreen are apart of the rom
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The things that it says on the lockscreen are apart of the rom
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Thank god for that. Damn thing had me getting paranoid like a mofo.