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Hey guys, I had a TP2 Sprint, now upgraded to MiteyMikes ROM (+WM6.5 I might add) but my fone doesn't mention "loading touch Flo 3D" upon loading up and also there is also Lag in software, turning the screen but a BIG lag when using the windows explorer.
Can anyone explain why that occurs and more importantly how to change prevent it...
Added info:
I think it cud be a shortage of memory. i have ordered a 16Gb mem card from china but its taking ages coming. so to test the fone, I have had to load apps on the phone memory.. could that be a/contributing reason to the lag and should i save the apps to memcard memory when i get it. Can I install them on mem card...
thanks for your help.. well in anticipation of it, anyway...
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I had MightMike's newest build on my phone and it ran just fine. No lag or anything. It is one of the best roms i have used on my tp2. I always install all my apps to the internal memory of the device, unless the software says to install it to an external card. I have a 4Gb micro sd card and have no problems also. I just have all my music on there. I also have all my .cab files incase i need t hard reset.
If i were you i would either hard reset the device and see if that fixes your problem. If it does not fix it, reflash the same rom or a different rom.
Which MightyROM? Is it his 2.1 or 2.5?
Damn, Lag, really..?? I'm runnin his 2.1.10 release of his 2.1 ROM and this thing is blazin fast...! I have an 8gb minisd but I'm runnin just about everything off the phone and even with the apps I have loaded it still is fast as ****...?? Maybe try to reflash and do a hard reset after u flash, than give it a go, hope that works cuz ur missin out if ur laggin...
Easy one.
The below explaination assumes you have already HardSLP'd your TP2 and have some clue as to how to get around the WinMo OS.
Now, l337 code convict, If you don't mind reflashing your phone (again):
For future reference (becuase you'll flash again, I guarantee it): WHEN reflashing any rom you should "Clear Storage" before running the new rom's .exe on your 'puter --> this soft-resets the phone and your info will be gone, so use a program like PPCPimBackup, it's easy, fast, and cuts out the BS of having to use Outlook to sync pim information.
After the initial "Clear Storage" above, the phone will boot back into your rom, wait for everything to load (a good indication that the boot has arrived upon smooth or smoother operating efficiency, wait for the "three white horizontal lines with a down arrow" also known as the task manager to load. *its the thing in the upper top right hand portion of the black bar located at the top of your screen.* (this is imperative in any flash, even the stock rom)
After the boot has stabilized, sync your phone to your 'puter. (Per a previous post, if you're having probs syncing, go into your USB to PC settings and disable the "Enable faster data syncronization" option and say okay.)
Start your MightyMike installation and go thru the steps. Your phone will inevitably reboot. You'll probably have some waiting to do the first time it boots, with yet another restart.
Now, when the system boots your new rom installation, "Clear Storage" yet again (to clean up any installation files)
You'll reboot yet another time.
After this reboot, restore your pim info, load your extras, and for God's sakes, install At0mAng Enhanced D3D Driver. Reboot. Tweak away.
OH, and heed the words of Mr. MightyMike:
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Please remember to provision your phone before configuring it!
Start > System > Carrier Provisioning
Not doing so before setting up your email, personalized settings will result in unforseen problems.
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Lessons to take away from all of this:
Bottom line, wait for your phone to boot. You don't automatically start World of Warcraft and log into your Dalaran logged player while your computer is loading its AV software and startup entries, so give your little 520-some mhz PPC a chance to shine.
And a large HCSD card isn't going to make your PPC any faster. Your phone doesn't cache it like you have the availablity to do in Window$. Just install visual styles and "always running programs" into internal memory and games and other bullsh*t into your SD card.
Also, it's a good idea to do the following.
Reflash your stock ROM, then run a clear storage as indicated above.
Then flash the MightyROM, wait til it's fully loaded and run clear storage again.
After that it should be just fine.
Hi there,
I posted this on another forum but haven´t got any replies and if any of you fancy to give it a go, then that would be very much appreciated
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FYI: Phone = Galaxy S i9000, 8GB
So the initial reason why I wanted to root my phone was to receive Android 3 and the gingerbread keyboard. The speed of galaxy s was not great I thought, but acceptable at that time. Getting the keyboard (which is indeed easier to use) is a SMALL trade off for what has happened now.
First, a month ago, I rooted my phone (with a lot of hassle). I think I used z4, but I followed different instructions and installed a lot of stuff (ROM manager, OCLF and so on, most for no use I think). I also downloaded the update.zip package several times, it is on my internal sd but I have no idea what use it has.
Then I got the keyboard and all was fine. I read about all lag fixes out there but was´t able to apply the OCLF (because I did not have the right EXT or something, figured this out just recently), or didn´t bother too much.
Then, my phone got increasingly laggy and annoying, so I did a major attempt and installed Voodo lagfix a couple of days ago. AMAZING! Benchmark 1750 and just super fast. Today however, I was trying to turn on my phone. First the sound did not work properly, I couldn´t hear the other end of whom I was talking to, so I decided to turn it off and restart as usual.
Then it starts vibrating like hell! and says "rom manager", "gingerbread keyboard" and "launcher pro" stopped unexpectedly. Option: force close but that did not work. The messages keep on appearing and I have tried to restart the phone many times. It seems that these are applications that are a product of my stupid rooting, cause it was a little odd that these three applications suddenly should stop altogether.
Question 1: Why did that happen?
Then I did the three button recovery thing and now I have a range of options.
It says:
ClockworkMod Recovery v.2.5.1.3. - Voodo lagfix (heading)
- reboot system now (tried, didn´t work)
- apply sdcard: update.zip (I have update.zip on my sdcard but don´t know what it´s for and didn´t dare trying)
- wipe data/factory reset (don´t want to do this - have some great movies I would love to keep)
- install zip from sdcard
- backup and restore
- mounts and storage
- advanced
- voodo lagfix
- *******Go Back******
The question is:
what do do?
(Btw what does cache mean? There was an option of clearing cache, but it said "are you reeeally sure about this" so I didn´t dare to do that. But could that work?)
At the moment, my phone is just lying here (I just took out the battery after reciting the menu for this post) and I wait for some clever heads to work out the best solutions =) I do have ODIN on my computer, and a driver is already install, just if that helps anyone. again, wiping data has to be the last option due to the valuable movies I have in here. BTW I have titanium backup if that helps anyone, and I have used it before. But also that stopped unexpectedly (forgot to mention that )
Thank you sooo much in advance guys.
snorre89 said:
Hi there,
I posted this on another forum but haven´t got any replies and if any of you fancy to give it a go, then that would be very much appreciated
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FYI: Phone = Galaxy S i9000, 8GB
So the initial reason why I wanted to root my phone was to receive Android 3 and the gingerbread keyboard. The speed of galaxy s was not great I thought, but acceptable at that time. Getting the keyboard (which is indeed easier to use) is a SMALL trade off for what has happened now.
First, a month ago, I rooted my phone (with a lot of hassle). I think I used z4, but I followed different instructions and installed a lot of stuff (ROM manager, OCLF and so on, most for no use I think). I also downloaded the update.zip package several times, it is on my internal sd but I have no idea what use it has.
Then I got the keyboard and all was fine. I read about all lag fixes out there but was´t able to apply the OCLF (because I did not have the right EXT or something, figured this out just recently), or didn´t bother too much.
Then, my phone got increasingly laggy and annoying, so I did a major attempt and installed Voodo lagfix a couple of days ago. AMAZING! Benchmark 1750 and just super fast. Today however, I was trying to turn on my phone. First the sound did not work properly, I couldn´t hear the other end of whom I was talking to, so I decided to turn it off and restart as usual.
Then it starts vibrating like hell! and says "rom manager", "gingerbread keyboard" and "launcher pro" stopped unexpectedly. Option: force close but that did not work. The messages keep on appearing and I have tried to restart the phone many times. It seems that these are applications that are a product of my stupid rooting, cause it was a little odd that these three applications suddenly should stop altogether.
Question 1: Why did that happen?
Then I did the three button recovery thing and now I have a range of options.
It says:
ClockworkMod Recovery v.2.5.1.3. - Voodo lagfix (heading)
- reboot system now (tried, didn´t work)
- apply sdcard: update.zip (I have update.zip on my sdcard but don´t know what it´s for and didn´t dare trying)
- wipe data/factory reset (don´t want to do this - have some great movies I would love to keep)
- install zip from sdcard
- backup and restore
- mounts and storage
- advanced
- voodo lagfix
- *******Go Back******
The question is:
what do do?
(Btw what does cache mean? There was an option of clearing cache, but it said "are you reeeally sure about this" so I didn´t dare to do that. But could that work?)
At the moment, my phone is just lying here (I just took out the battery after reciting the menu for this post) and I wait for some clever heads to work out the best solutions =) I do have ODIN on my computer, and a driver is already install, just if that helps anyone. again, wiping data has to be the last option due to the valuable movies I have in here. BTW I have titanium backup if that helps anyone, and I have used it before. But also that stopped unexpectedly (forgot to mention that )
Thank you sooo much in advance guys.
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Ok so a few things...
One you NEED to post this in the Galaxy 3 forums you will get real help from people who own and know something about your device.
second, you need to do a lot more reading on what all these things mean before you continue to mess with the software on the phone
and third when you post something like this please include the rom, kernal, and modem you are using (if you don't know what those mean refer above about learning more, i didn't when i started messing with my phone but it makes life a lot easier once you know)
but on to a solution to your problem...
while i can't say for sure what is wrong here are the things i would suggest, I have a captivate not the i9000 but they are similar.
Assuming you are on CM7 you shouldn't be using rom manager at least it says that on the captivate instructions, not that it is what caused this
clearing cache is ok, and you can do it. most people do it everytime they flash a new rom, clearing system is also a good idea, as well as data when starting a new but it seems that it started fine so
i would suggest a reset. you will lose anything on the internal sd card not the external. but just copy those movies off your phone. using these instructions
mounts and storage> mount USB storage
when you do that your computer should recognize the phone and you can remove those movies and put them back on later.
a factory reset is probably your best bet, as it would set you back to the beginning as to what caused this i'm not sure i'd need more details. and update.zip is usually what is used to install the clockwork recovery you use.
pm if this is too cryptic i'm taking a break from school work. but your best bet would be in my opinion to just get the movies off if you don't have them else where and reset it, if you have the movies on your computer just do the reset and have a working phone and then copy the movies back. and please do some more reading, it can be taken by some people as rude if you appear ignorant when asking a question.
Yeah, sorry if it seems ignorant.
The reason why I did not provide more info, is cause I could´t access any system details before posting. If that had been possible, I would of course have given more info about kernel, the roms etc.
But thanks for the advices, and I will do more reading on this topic
By the way: the movies are on the internal sd card though. Someone said that wiping data/factory reset will not affect the files only apps and data. Is that right? Sounds like a good solution if that is actually true.
EDIT Just did the factory reset. Voodoo is still on. Every contact and app got deleted, but the films and pictures are all there
I'm more of a casual Android enthusiast, so please be kind.
I'm running a rooted EVO 4G on Synergy (RC2) ROM:
Software - 4.24.651.1
PRI - 1.90_003
PRL - 60681
Kernel - 2.6.35.10-gc0a661b
Baseband - 2.15.00.11.19
Browser - WebKit/533.1
Here's my issue (long story, bt I want to thorough):
A couple days ago, I was listening to music via Bluetooth in my car (SYNC), and when I parked and turned the car off, I tried disabling Bluetooth to conserve battery. All of a sudden, a different music player (Mort Audiobook) than the one I was using (Google Music) started playing two tracks simultaneously, but would not register touches to stop playback. I ended up pulling the battery after killing the processes failed.
Upon trying to reboot, got stuck on the white EVO screen. Pulled battery, tried again several times, no change. Finally, got hboot to come up, wiped cache/dalvik, restarted and it finally booted. Once I could get into the phone, I had a message that the SD card was corrupt of blank, and might need reformatting. After freaking out, I pulled the SD and used my PC's reader to thankfully find all my data still there. I made a backup just in case. I then inserted the SD into the EVO again, and this time the phone would not recognize that there was even a card there. Pulled battery, waited, tried again, success. Everything is back to normal. Or so I thought.
Yesterday, I launch Dolphin Browser, it opens like normal, but as soon as I touch the screen (swipe gesture, touch-to-click, or multi-touch for pinch zoom), it closes the browser as it I clicked Exit. No error, no FC, nothing. I then launch the default Internet Browser and it does the exact same thing. Now I'm really confused. So i move dolphin from SD to the Phone memory, no change. I uninstall Dolphin altogether, launch Internet, still no change. I freeze Internet and use Dolphin by itself, no change.
I'm really stuck here, friends. I really hope you can shed some light as to where to start looking. Any help you can offer would be most graciously appreciated!
Have you tried reflashing the rom? You can start with wiping only cache and dalvik and then flashing the same rom over itself. If that doesn't help, make a nandroid backup and either flash a new rom (like stock) or redownload and flash Synergy. Be sure to wipe thoroughly. If you're using Amon Ra, wipe data, system, boot, .android_secure, sd-ext, cache and dalvik. If you're using ClockworkMod, wipe cache, dalvik, and data. I suggest switching to Amon Ra if you're using ClockworkMod and continue to have problems.
After a fresh flash, don't restore any apps until you've checked everything that you've been experiencing issues with. If everything seems normal, then you can restore your apps. Try to avoid restoring system data. If you've flashed something other than Synergy & want to go back, make a nandroid backup so you have a backup of something working. Don't restore Synergy, flash it with a new download and start from scratch.
Before you try all of that, you can try fixing permissions. In Amon Ra it's in the "other" menu listed as "fix apk uid mismatches". In ClockworkMod you should be able to do it from Rom Manager.
You can also try backing up the contents of your SD card and formatting the card.
I know it's a lot of information, but those are the things that I would try if I were in your shoes. It could all be rom related, so if you find that you only have problems with Synergy then it may be time to switch to something else.
Good luck!
Sent from my Evo + MIUI using Tapatalk!
I figured that if I'm going to reflash, I might as well try a new ROM, so I went with EVOlution. So far, I like it. And the browser issue is fixed, along with a few latency problems I was experiencing with Synergy.
It seems like I'm good to go, and I'm making a nandroid backup as I write. Thank you for all your help and suggestions!
Common ICS Problems
If you plug in USB while your tablet is asleep you will have a SOD
Installation Problems
Install tips from tlb1961 here and lyricalpapa in post #3
Try not to use any backup's as they cause many problems.
Make sure your using CWM 5.5.0.4 Beta 15 (comes with the nvflash in TeamDRH ICS thread)
On your first boot let it sit for 30-60min (the longer, the better) and then reset.
If all else fails try this
Th3DmaN's G-Tablet Tools for anyone who is having trouble connecting and flashing their G-Table
Speed Problems
Different launchers such as Apex or Nova or any compatible launcher may or may not increase smoothness. There is no problem with installing them on top of the stock launcher as only one launcher runs at a time.
Battery and Power Problems
Your tablet went to sleep and wont wake up, try pushing the power button a couple of times and wait 5 seconds inbetween presses.
Your tablet has completely frozen, try pushing the power button for 30+ seconds. If that doesn't do it, you can leave your tablet alone for a couple hours and try again (may or may not work) or you can wait till the battery dies or if your impatient you can open the tablet up and press the internal reset, it looks like this. Here are some helpful pictures and a video for opening it up. If you have no reset button you will need to disconnect the battery, here's what it looks like. If you do get a SOD do this to help the developers.
Connection & Browser Problems
WiFi not working, try to "forget" the WiFi and re-enter your password. Also can try resetting your router or changing the security. Some say ICS does not like high channels.
If your having market errors, try force closing and clearing the cache in settings\apps\all. If that doesn't work then find every market reference and force close then clear the cache and reset.
Your computer doesn't recognize your tablet, you will need MTP drivers read the ICS rom page again. For Windows XP you need to disable debugging. For linux try Th3DmaN's guide.
Adhoc does not work with this build.
Stock browser seems to lock up after a bit. Possible fix is to disable java. Thanks plastikman
Screen and Sound Problems
1080p on H/W? Use Handbrake and import this profile. Here's the high profile settings for 720p, for those wanting the best quality.
Videoplayers such as MxVideo player, can play H/W video but the sound will need to be changed to S/W.
Icons and text too small? Try using this guide. CAUTION Changing the DPI really messes with the Market.
DSP Manager has been causing slowness/audio problems. Try stopping it to see if that's the problem. You can delete it safely if causing problems.
Game and Apps Problems
Alot of games and apps are not updated for ICS yet so they won't work correctly.
Hulu flash hack here. It should work. Anyone with Hulu can you post your results.MAY NOT WORK ANYMORE
Bypassing Exchange Security Policy try this
Connecting the ICS Mail app to Microsoft's Cloud hosted Exchange services check here
Gamepad support - follow jazzruby's guide here
Miscellaneous Problems
Errors popping up constantly, you need to reinstall again and make sure this time you erase everything.
Nandroid backups, you need to follow this guide
Important Notes
The SOD (sleep of death) we talk about is when the device goes into a sleep mode and there is absolutely no other way out but by pressing the internal reset. This is also called a kernel panic.
We are always talking about roms on Bootloader 1.2 unless specified.
When installing or removing things from the system, it is always a good idea to reset and clean the cache, clean the dalvik cache and fix permissions.
USB problems sometimes are caused by your own computer, you may have to restart/change USB port/change USB cables/check your USB drivers
Windows 7 is the implied OS most are working on, if you have different then ask.
IF I'M MISSING SOMETHING PLEASE LET ME KNOW
Stuff that WILL cause a SOD (sleep of death) causing you to push the internal reset
DON'T DO THESE
If you plug in USB while your tablet is asleep you will have a SOD
If you do get a SOD please do this so the developers can help.
Use the reset button
Don't power the tablet off at all, just use the internal reset button
Don't touch the tab or do anything but logging into adb.
If for some reason you can't open adb, you can use terminal on the rom
At the prompt type:
Code:
su
Hit enter and then
Code:
cat /proc/last_kmsg
If this doesn't work, the easier way is to access it is with a root explorer by going to /proc and then copy last_kmsg to /sdcard (rename to last_kmsg.txt or zip it up in a file).
Copy and paste the results to a paste bin and post the link. If you don't know pastebin then just post the last 10 lines or so.
tlb1961 install guide
Howdy all,
Glad to hear most are having good luck with this newer revision. To those seeing odd issues after install, I would suggest start over from scratch and clean out the gTab prior to reinstall including repartition the internal SDCard. Run the ROM for a bit before installing anything else. If you have a lot of media files on an microSD card then let it sit for a little while. Once the ROM is running smoothly you should then apply the latest the3dman GApps package.
I know it's tempting to try and hang onto old configs and settings, but it will give you a better experience in the long run if all old data is cleared.
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lyricalpapa installation essentials
Here's some things I do that work for me:
1. Give my tablet time to boot - let G-Mail, Google Maps, and the other apps load in, talk to the mail server, etc. I watch the activity in the "broadcast" symbol and wait for the browser widget to display its bookmarked pages.
2. Follow the dev's install instructions and @serialplague's FAQ - goes without saying.
3. Have Patience - I give the cache driver's balancing and optimising routines time to do their work after I load a ROM, plus any time I add/remove apps or any time I make changes to the settings. Remember this is a Beta Test ROM and not a snapshot image of a fully tested, optimised, and balanced ROM that you would get if you were to buy a new ASUS Transformer or whatever.
4. Use the apps the Dev's gave us with the Beta ROM - I use the Elixir app regularly to check if the CPU and I/O activity levels have dropped down to near 0% for both. I check them after installing my ROM's, etc. (I also now use the Diagnosis app thanks to @oldtimer)
5. Remember the G tablet only has 512M DDR-2 RAM on board and was built to run with a 2.2 Froyo ROM, a cadged 2.6.32 kernel, and slow generic drivers. Google's minimum published specification for a system running Honeycomb or newer is a Nvidia Tegra-2 processor and 1G of RAM. So the challenge is to modify and tune the 2.6.39 kernel drivers and the ICS ROM to live within the available 512M RAM.
6. edit-no longer needed
7. Killing unnecessary apps sometimes frees up enough memory to stop the CPU and I/O churning. But I have to be careful which apps I kill using an app like Advanced Task Accelerator - it can shut down necessary services - although Android will usually restart them automatically (and kick up the CPU and I/O activity while doing so)
8. Remember that Google Apps come with a high overhead price - the standard Viewsonic set-up for the G tablet does not include GAPPs, and it runs very fast. The same for many other tablets that don't have a Tegra-2 and 1G of RAM. Game players might want to experiment with not loading GAPPs. In the past I've done this by downloading all the apps that I was interested in from GAPPs, then copying them all out to my PC using the "adb pull" command ("adb remount" to get in as root). Then I wipe and reload the ROM without GAPPs, and use "adb push" to put the apps in the right directories. Then on my G tablet, I find the apps using Root Explorer and "click" on them to install them.
Lyricalpapa
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How do I stop my tablet from downloading every app I have ever owned or used from the market when I log into my android account.
I suspect I am doing something wrong because the tablet is very laggy with ICS.
When you first install it will ask you if you want to use your backups, just uncheck that. Or you can let it sit for awhile, 30min to an hour, it sucks but once everything calms down its much better.
Android Keyboard
Good men of this forum,
It seems that with the new ICS rom, I am having issues with my android keyboard. If my tablet is vertical, I have the dialpad-looking keyboard with what seems to be Japanese characters on a few buttons. When my tablet is in the horizontal orientation, the keyboard disappears completely. I have searched the popular forums here and with Google. I'm terribly sorry if I have missed a tip somewhere.
I used the flashing procedure on the TeamDRH website to the letter, and I am no stranger to flashing custom ROMs to android devices. The keyboard continues to work beautifully under Froyo and Gingerbread ROMs, as well as the earliest beta of ICS. I only seem to have an issue with this version of ICS.
I'm also getting frequent Google Apps errors about the services stopping. After signing in with my account, Market crashed and disappeared from my apps menu altogether.
It seems that I have a fairly unique problem. I'm a linux sysadmin and I'm very handy with the command line if you need dmesg or kernel output.
Thank you in advance.
I've heard a couple of people are having problems with the GApps, have you tried installing with the lite 7b GApps?
No Luck
Thanks for the reply!
I have tried both the full and lite versions of 7A and 7B for this ROM with no luck. When I perform a first-time boot of the tablet after a ROM and Gapps, the very first message I encounter is "Unfortunately, the process com.google.process.gapps has stopped" for any version of Gapps, and it continues to pop up every several seconds that the tablet is in use.
I have also tried installing the ROM without Gapps at all and the keyboard is still nowhere to be found. Odd that the keyboard works in the first beta (1E), but this ICS (2B) is much faster than the old one
If anyone has a link to download the ICS Preview 2A instead of 2B I would be interested in trying it out, the links on TeamDRH's website all point to 2B now.
Other useful info: I know for certain that I am running the 1.2 bootloader and I'm using the newest Clockworkmod v5.5.0.4 Beta 15. I like to re-format before every flash to ensure a clean start.
Thats very odd it sounds like the download may have been corrupted. I've seen it happen a couple of people.
I still have 2A and some previous ones, kinda a catalog lol, just PM if you want to go that way.
I'm a newb
Thank you very much for the help you've provided me.
I tried downloading 2B a few more times with the same issue :/ so strange. Unfortunately for me, I am below the 10 post minimum to allow PMs. It's kind of ironic actually, I've been a member for years and always found my answers without having to ask because xda is wonderful about providing info
Thanks again.
Sent ya an email
simplyphp has a great writeup on an installation method you could try his way
SUCCESS!
Using the simplyphp method you referred me to, not only does the 2A ROM work, but the newest ROM and Gapps as well! I must admit that I'm a little embarrassed that I can't actually identify the original problem, but I believe it has something to do with my installation of Clockworkmod. I got it from a forum here that is trustworthy, but it didn't seem to work exactly as I needed it until I installed it with nvflash. I also had a strange problem with the first flash (out of the two that I am supposed to do) in that it wouldn't boot all the way into the TnT factory OS and was in an endless reboot. I simply turned it off, booted into APX mode once again, and continued with the listed steps and it worked flawlessly. I would thank simplyphp but I can't post on development threads yet!
So thank you and have a "Thanks!", I hope I've contributed to your wealth of knowledge on troubleshooting.
Hey gang -
Yesterday at home I pulled my phone out of my pocket and it was at the "touch the Android to begin" (!) screen. But it was still connected to my WiFi... And I was confused.
Rather than do that, I reset the phone, wiped Davlik cache and Fixed Permissions (took a long time!), then rebooted.
That sort of worked, but a LOT of my apps are crashing on start, and others are missing altogether. Even when I re-download them and re-install them, they don't work.
What's the way-ahead here? Am I stuck doing a factory reset? Or even formatting the SD card?
Thanks in advance.
When things get that fouled up, a clean install over a freshly formatted microSD is probably the best thing to do. You might be able to get away with restoring from a "nandroid" backup from before things started going bad, but "Your mileage may vary."
jeffsf said:
When things get that fouled up, a clean install over a freshly formatted microSD is probably the best thing to do. You might be able to get away with restoring from a "nandroid" backup from before things started going bad, but "Your mileage may vary."
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Okay, thanks!
Anything else on the SD card I should back up besides DCIM / Media-> Ringtones/MP3s / "ui" / TitaniumBackup?
(Got about an hour while this stuff goes off to my HD...)
Hoo! Thought I effed myself for a sec - from CWM I was wiping all partitions... including /sdcard.
Then I realized... $#¡+... my ROM is on there!
Fortunately CWM has the "mount USB storage" option.
*whew!*
I was going to add format the sdcard from the phone. But you did that. Typically when what happened to you would happen to me it would be from some app updating and for whatever reason got corrupted during install and fouled the phone up. If you use TiB I highly suggest setting a automated task to back up your TiB backups to drop box, google drive or box.net. Then in these situations you have a recent TiB to fall back on.
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Hey gang -
Yesterday at home I pulled my phone out of my pocket and it was at the "touch the Android to begin" (!) screen. But it was still connected to my WiFi... And I was confused.[...]...a LOT of my apps are crashing on start, and others are missing altogether. Even when I re-download them and re-install them, they don't work.
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Hi JaimeZX,
I am curious if you have recently rooted, flashed to stock, or installed the VB or Basic w/a twist kernel? I am running the exact same setup as you list (minus the modem) and this *exact* same scenario happened to me on the exact same day. March 12th, at about 10pm.
Detail as much information as you can, I've had many problems since flashing back to stock, formatting the SD, wiping everything multiple times, and re-installing Valhalla Black, Basic w/a Twist and all fresh apps d/l'd from the market. I'm on multiple attempts to stabilize the device and have questioned whether or not there is some issue with either the Rom or the Kernel. Perhaps there is an issue with the stock packages, or the USB driver ghosts (I've deleted all USB assigns at all ports and reinstalled for device detection in Heimdall). Hopefully we can get a good list of information to help us fix an issue that is apparently quite catastrophic (in that /data seems to corrupt) and save others from a future headache.
I have searched the dev threads to no avail, and as a general rule it seems that if problems are brought up they are usually met with "try flashing back to stock," "gremlins," "no one else is having problem 'X'," etc. even in cases of users with multiple complaints of the same issue. Both the DSP Sound force close upon EQ preset select and the issue that some had with the Messages, Phone Dialer, Search, Call Logs closing to homescreen are issues that I've seen this with. I believe this is a real issue, and I need to get it fixed without wasting time on messaging replies to anyone advising "try this," "Try that," etc.
My hope is that between the two of us we can address any of the common responses from developers before taking the issue to them and reporting it. I personally cannot today get my phone to boot without freezing (after boot cycle completes - not bootlooping or freezing during the bootleader seq) and am currently attempting to get into d'l mode without much luck.
When this happened to me on Tuesday night I was able to reboot to recovery, reflash the final-fixed.zip first without wiping data (which failed-/data is corrupted somehow here) and then *with* wipe/data and it booted, ran fine, so I then re-flashed BasicWithaTwist Kernel and was fine until late last night again.
I had been using the phone for some fairly constant web searching and the screen went black, appeared to soft reboot, and then froze. I pulled the battery, waited a few mins, reinstalled battery, once again, Freeze after boot.
No indication that an app crashes, phone just completely freezes, remains screen on, capkeys lit, power button does not respond, nor do softkeys or touchscreen. Makes it though the scan device and scan SD processes *sometimes* and other times freezes before it completes them.
I pulled the both the SD and the SIM and booted up, same issue, though it makes it through the scan device processes everytime since it's not scanning 18gb of data on an SD. This tells me it is not SD or SIM related, and is most likely software related, either ROM or Kernel. I've also ruled out the possibility of an old app/data package by reformatting the SD (long format - wipe all containers to "o,") let Android rebuild menu structure on SD, redownloaded a short list of commonly used apps and installed fresh - *NO* TiBackup apps were restored and the actual backup folder was not replaced to the SD after flashing.
I've tried both the Odin (Fb KJ6 back to stock) and the one click (lumin's tutorial) back to stock. Checked the download of Final-Fixed, MD5 checksum is correct. Cannot find MD5 on the sms-T959V-KJ6-antsvx.v1.1.3.zip file. Doesn't seem to be listed on Anton's github site, perhaps I don't know how to find it there. That is the only puzzle piece I haven't double checked.
All for now, looking forward to yours or anyone's replies or suggestions for anything I may be overlooking. Thanks.
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devlinandersen said:
Hi JaimeZX,
... I've had many problems since flashing back to stock, formatting the SD, wiping everything multiple times, and re-installing Valhalla Black, Basic w/a Twist and all fresh apps d/l'd from the market. I'm on multiple attempts to stabilize the device and have questioned whether or not there is some issue with either the Rom or the Kernel....
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I should add that I have been on Valhalla Black Edition since it was in beta and have been quite happy with it. I only did a back to stock flash to try to (one more time) see if I could get a cooperative DSP sound manager. No such luck, and now a few headaches, and this issue on Tuesday coupled with yours in the exact same timeframe...I'm just thinking there is a problem somewhere in the chain of attack and hope to find it with the help of others.
Also, phone freezes after boot, needless to say, I'm not able to run a logcat.
devlinandersen said:
No indication that an app crashes
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Also, phone freezes after boot, needless to say, I'm not able to run a logcat.
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Try running logcat > /sdcard/some_file and cat /proc/kmsg > /sdcard/some_other_file so you have a capture of both the Android logs as well as the kernel logs. If you're not comfortable with command-line work, aLogrec should be able to at least help with the Android logs.
Given the number of people successfully running stock and custom ROMs on this device with stability, it either is going to be a hardware problem with your phone, corruption of a file system, or some app or combination of apps you are running, not a "dev" issue. Without logs, it is going to be nearly impossible to differentiate between the causes.
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Try running logcat > /sdcard/some_file and cat /proc/kmsg > /sdcard/some_other_file so you have a capture of both the Android logs as well as the kernel logs. If you're not comfortable with command-line work, aLogrec should be able to at least help with the Android logs.
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I will try in a bit, collecting files for another fresh install, different ROM.
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Given the number of people successfully running stock and custom ROMs on this device with stability, it either is going to be a hardware problem with your phone, corruption of a file system, or some app or combination of apps you are running, not a "dev" issue. Without logs, it is going to be nearly impossible to differentiate between the causes.
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This is false logic and is just what I was trying to avoid. I will attempt to explain to hopefully help build a stronger environment that is conducive to problem solving. It still very well could be a dev issue if say, a certain ROM or Kernel begins to wrestle with an app that has recently updated. Is it the apps or the rom's fault? Maybe it is a seldom used feature of an app that just missed all the users testing until now, it's well within the realm of possibilities and would just like to see helpful comments (such as the first portion directly above) to help solve issues. Truth is, I don't know *what* is wrong and neither do you, so a focus on constructive commentary would just help everyone out.
Logs or it didn't happen.
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After a factory reset/data wipe, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache I had to let the battery charge for a bit. Came back and decided to just try to boot phone, still freezes after boot sequence. I decide that I will flash a different kernel and a different ROM in order to see if I can make a difference. Before flashing Blastoff v2.5 Kernel I decided to factory wipe/data wipe, wipe cache and dalvik again...I am not sure if this is news, but when doing the Dalvik cache wipe in CWM it returned no result, perhaps because I had previously performed and is empty, but I thought it strange that there was *no* communication that it was already empty/wiped, etc.
Installed Blastoff v2.5 and was able to boot without freezing. Something else was damaged with the Rom as well, would not load home screen, only had pulldown menu. Rebooted to Recovery and flashed Unnamed RC-2.zip and have been charging the battery, talking on the phone and reinstalling apps from market.
Same error happened twice to me and once with Jaime. Both of us on VB and Basic+Twist. After installing new kernel i'd point towards kernel. Also uninstalled DSP and installed voodoo sound on VB, but had that on previous version as well. If I had to start somewhere, I'd start right around there.
Hope this helps, will provide logs from SD backup I made before reflash of new kernel/rom. Gotta run. Adios...
-devil.
I had to get my phone going today, it appears to be working without freezing, though on this new app the phone dialer/phone caller force closes on outgoing calls (I am only mentioning here, I will visit the Q&A for the ROM if I need assistance). Unfortunately I was unable to replicate the problem without flashing back to my previous nandroid. I have it saved and given some time I will do my due diligence and get a logcat **if** Jaime doesn't do it before me...because I kinda have a feeling that something was updated in the market on Tuesday evening that is now fighting with the kernel somehow. But again...I didn't run a logcat so it's not even happening...yet...
...to be continued...
Devlin - sorry for the delayed reply.
I did notice that I'd had more and more apps FCing on me in the week leading up to the Über-crash. Unfortunately I don't have any more "background" to add than that.
I backed up everything I wanted on the SD card and then formatted that, plus /data, /system /everythingelsethatwasanoptioninCWM. Then did my installs.
FORTUNATELY (knock on wood) I have not had any recurrence of the major issue.