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[Q] Home and search button stopped responding?

Hey guys,
I'm running the Octane ROM on my SGS4G, and suddenly both my home and search touch keys stopped functioning. However, they ARE triggering haptic feedback (a vibration in the phone when pressed)
Does anyone know what causes this and what's a common trouble shooting route?
I updated my binary in super user and updated busybox...nothing changed.
Also, I don't know if this is related to the problem but it happened at the same time: text msg notifications are permanently as if the phone is on silent; no sound or vibration. Just a status bar icon.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help, this phone is my only daily.
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Have you rebooted the phone? If so, I'd suggest doing a backup then performing a factory data reset.

Yea I rebooted several times..
could I just wipe the dalvik?
If I only do that, what information is lost on my phone?
Also the update from busy box said it might require I do a package reinstall "without" a factory wipe for the update to take effect... Any suggestions on that?
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Stafaa said:
Yea I rebooted several times..
could I just wipe the dalvik?
If I only do that, what information is lost on my phone?
Also the update from busy box said it might require I do a package reinstall "without" a factory wipe for the update to take effect... Any suggestions on that?
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You could always try wiping caches first. No data loss that way. The Davlik cache will rebuild itself over time.
I'm nto sure about BusyBox, though. Maybe someone else has an idea?

What about the cache partition?
I guess my question is, what exactly are you wiping when you wipe the dalvik and when you wipe the cache partition?
and is it a safe practice for when strange problems like this arise?

Just wiping the cache.completely safe and the first thing to try after a reboot.also I would suggest fixing permissions when clearing the cache
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Well I found the answer to what they both are Here
Figured I'd post it for anyone who every comes across this thread.
But thank you for going into more detail about it Somairotevoli.
where is it i fix permissions? In super user you mean?
And i just finished doing a full wipe =/
fixed the problem...but just sucks. Im glad i removed the SD card before hand, I think it tried to format it.
Does a factory wipe touch any SD files?

Stafaa said:
Well I found the answer to what they both are Here
Figured I'd post it for anyone who every comes across this thread.
But thank you for going into more detail about it Somairotevoli.
where is it i fix permissions? In super user you mean?
And i just finished doing a full wipe =/
fixed the problem...but just sucks. Im glad i removed the SD card before hand, I think it tried to format it.
Does a factory wipe touch any SD files?
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Fix permissions in the advanced option of cwm
And no factory reset does not wipe sd unless you tell it to when you're doing it from your settings menu
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ah, gotcha.
Wish I woulda have tried that before wiping.
Another question: After the wipe, I lost all the fonts that were originally there after I first installed Octaine ROM.
I'm thinking I should just reinstall the package, but I'm afraid I cant remember if I had to disable VOODOO lagfix first and whether or not i still have to change the mounting points before i reinstall the rom..

Stafaa said:
ah, gotcha.
Wish I woulda have tried that before wiping.
Another question: After the wipe, I lost all the fonts that were originally there after I first installed Octaine ROM.
I'm thinking I should just reinstall the package, but I'm afraid I cant remember if I had to disable VOODOO lagfix first and whether or not i still have to change the mounting points before i reinstall the rom..
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Glad you got it working though sucks you had to wipe everything. To be safe I would disable voodoo though I do not know if it's necessary. Definitely go into CWM and re-check the mounts first before flashing.

Well, unfortunately, after a full wipe... everything worked fine for one day... then suddenly the phone froze and restarted. After reboot, some apps had the android image on their icon and ALL OVER my wallpaper was a skull and cross bones image...cascaded in rows and columns all over the background..
and ofcourse.. my home and search buttons are non-functional once again...
What does this mean??

Stafaa said:
Well I found the answer to what they both are Here
Figured I'd post it for anyone who every comes across this thread.
But thank you for going into more detail about it Somairotevoli.
where is it i fix permissions? In super user you mean?
And i just finished doing a full wipe =/
fixed the problem...but just sucks. Im glad i removed the SD card before hand, I think it tried to format it.
Does a factory wipe touch any SD files?
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I'm running the Octane rom too, and have started having problems with all four buttons, but mainly the outside settings and search ones. Other roms do the same for me now, so I don't think it's the problem. I have fully wiped, reformatted, fixed permissions, you name it.
It dosen't seem to matter what happens, they still resist working properly. So are you saying that doing a wipe/reinstall/permission fix did it for you? I can't tell if it's a physical thing or a software thing, but I'm leaning more toward software.

Stafaa said:
Well, unfortunately, after a full wipe... everything worked fine for one day... then suddenly the phone froze and restarted. After reboot, some apps had the android image on their icon and ALL OVER my wallpaper was a skull and cross bones image...cascaded in rows and columns all over the background..
and ofcourse.. my home and search buttons are non-functional once again...
What does this mean??
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You should probably re download your desired rom, do a full wipe (data, cache, and dalvik) and re flash. this sucks but should work. Did you by chance ever flash a kf series 2.3.3 ROM?
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Stafaa said:
Well, unfortunately, after a full wipe... everything worked fine for one day... then suddenly the phone froze and restarted. After reboot, some apps had the android image on their icon and ALL OVER my wallpaper was a skull and cross bones image...cascaded in rows and columns all over the background..
and ofcourse.. my home and search buttons are non-functional once again...
What does this mean??
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After the wipe did you install a new ROM or stay on Octane? Maybe try wiping & install Raver's KJ6 stock via Odin or CWM. Run stock for a few days and see if the problems persist.
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Synergy Hangs

Been having some problems lately with my S3. It has been hanging when I either try to lock the phone or try to unlock it. It will freeze for a few seconds and then move. Sometimes it happens when I try to slide between home screens. I am on Synergy r23 without a kernal, could this be a problem? I want to update but I really don't want the hassle of backing up/restoring everything. Sometimes by just removing running applications, it frees from its slowness.

Crazycow73 said:
Been having some problems lately with my S3. It has been hanging when I either try to lock the phone or try to unlock it. It will freeze for a few seconds and then move. Sometimes it happens when I try to slide between home screens. I am on Synergy r23 without a kernal, could this be a problem? I want to update but I really don't want the hassle of backing up/restoring everything. Sometimes by just removing running applications, it frees from its slowness.
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just use titanium backup ...they have tremendously changed this rom from what version your on including a overclockable kernel i update my phone once a week so i don't have to wipe everything everyday.. but putting the phone back the way you want will take you about 15 mins.lol

THE SKATER DUDE said:
just use titanium backup ...they have tremendously changed this rom from what version your on including a overclockable kernel i update my phone once a week so i don't have to wipe everything everyday.. but putting the phone back the way you want will take you about 15 mins.lol
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Dang those 15 minutes. If I want to update, I just do the backups, wipe data/cache and install it like I did for the original? I am not sure since this is my first time and I don't know what to do for nightlies.

Crazycow73 said:
Dang those 15 minutes. If I want to update, I just do the backups, wipe data/cache and install it like I did for the original? I am not sure since this is my first time and I don't know what to do for nightlies.
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Its a very easy process. you download the rom onto your phone ..somewhere where you know it will be in your sd card. go into cwm wipe data/factory rest, wipe cache, advanced, wipe dalvik, then install the new rom.. make sure you have unlocked your bootloader before doing this(THIS IS A SEPARATE PROCESS FROM ROOTING)

Phone keeps rebooting, even in recovery?

Hi. I was toolin' along doing real well on CleanRom 4.5 for several days. Starting yesterday, the phone would randomly reboot itself to the HTC screen. I figured I had a bad app or something. Today, I went to open an app (Draw Something) and the phone froze for a bit. Then it rebooted, and now I cant get it booted back up. I usually never make it past the HTC screen. Got into recovery once but it rebooted in the middle of clearing the cache.
Any advice?

Welp, just made it through cache and dalvik and rebooted in the middle of factory reset. I wonder if I'm doing more harm than good.

Got it recovered and wiped fully, but it still keeps rebooting. Starting to feel like a hardware issue.

hcricket said:
Got it recovered and wiped fully, but it still keeps rebooting. Starting to feel like a hardware issue.
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Wipe system than factory reset ....than flash a new Rom if u can without it rebooting :crying:

omario8484 said:
Wipe system than factory reset ....than flash a new Rom if u can without it rebooting :crying:
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Thank you for the reply. I have the battery recharging in recovery right now (which I am thrilled it is doing, lol). What does it do when you wipe /system? Clear off the OS? Would you move a new ROM over to SD card first?

hcricket said:
Thank you for the reply. I have the battery recharging in recovery right now (which I am thrilled it is doing, lol). What does it do when you wipe /system? Clear off the OS? Would you move a new ROM over to SD card first?
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So when u go into wipe menu in twrp it will show options : cache dalvic cache and external never press external unless u know what you're doing!
So do u have any Rom backups if so try restoring that and if not dl like clean Rom final version 5 and mount it sd in recovery and move that over and for the sake of itright now when your gunna install a new Rom in the wipe menu just choose factory reset ...your using twrp recovery right?

omario8484 said:
So when u go into wipe menu in twrp it will show options : cache dalvic cache and external never press external unless u know what you're doing!
So do u have any Rom backups if so try restoring that and if not dl like clean Rom final version 5 and mount it sd in recovery and move that over and for the sake of itright now when your gunna install a new Rom in the wipe menu just choose factory reset ...your using twrp recovery right?
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Thank you. I wiped everything, including /system and put CleanROm final 5 on it. Everything looked beautiful but I got to the setup screens and rebooted. I'm back in recovery and charging now. Oddly, it has stopped rebooting from recovery. The only other thing I can think of is a bad sim card? Can that make a phone go crazy?

hcricket said:
Thank you. I wiped everything, including /system and put CleanROm final 5 on it. Everything looked beautiful but I got to the setup screens and rebooted. I'm back in recovery and charging now. Oddly, it has stopped rebooting from recovery. The only other thing I can think of is a bad sim card? Can that make a phone go crazy?
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What's your battery at?

Removed the SIM card and it froze while booting, with lots of graphical tearing. *sigh*

hcricket said:
Removed the SIM card and it froze while booting, with lots of graphical tearing. *sigh*
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Keep that simmy in there..now what's your battery ....when does it reboot ...when trying to get into aroma installer?
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Worst case scenario you can relock the bootloader and run an RUU. But I think u can get out of this without having to do that

I replaced the SIM. Battery at 90% now, was 44% when I started. Fortunately, it is charging from TWRP.
It reboots all over the place - from fastboot, from recovery, from the boot.img, from the lock screen. I made it all the way to Android setup at one point and it rebooted. It most often just gets to the HTC screen and hangs - it reboots the least from recovery, just once in a great while.

hcricket said:
I replaced the SIM. Battery at 90% now, was 44% when I started. Fortunately, it is charging from TWRP.
It reboots all over the place - from fastboot, from recovery, from the boot.img, from the lock screen. I made it all the way to Android setup at one point and it rebooted. It most often just gets to the HTC screen and hangs - it reboots the least from recovery, just once in a great while.
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Dam so it's actually booting up and your getting to the rom... Umm what'd you do to your phone did u install something bad that's laying around on your sd or idk ! This is weird

omario8484 said:
Dam so it's actually booting up and your getting to the rom... Umm what'd you do to your phone did u install something bad that's laying around on your sd or idk ! This is weird
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Oy. Add reboot during aroma installer to that list. I just tried to flash again but no go.

hcricket said:
Oy. Add reboot during aroma installer to that list. I just tried to flash again but no go.
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Hold down your power button until your screen turns black and than see if it's still rebooting

Still no go. Thank you for your help - I've got it to 98% battery, powered it down, and I'm going to the bar, hah hah.

try flashing CM10 instead of a Sense rom. Aroma can cause freezes and reboots on its own. I would also be scared to run the RUU also since your phone freezes randomly. whats was your stock version?

It doesn't sound like you do, but if you installed a custom kernel that is overclocked then it could be that your device can't handle the higher CPU frequency. CleanROM 5 final I don't think has a custom kernel though. It could also be a bad CPU or memory hardware.

denversc said:
It doesn't sound like you do, but if you installed a custom kernel that is overclocked then it could be that your device can't handle the higher CPU frequency. CleanROM 5 final I don't think has a custom kernel though. It could also be a bad CPU or memory hardware.
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I have had this happen. Viper has stock kernel listed in post 4 I would try flashing that.
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kleeman7 said:
I have had this happen. Viper has stock kernel listed in post 4 I would try flashing that.
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I told him to flash a rom that doesn't use aroma. He is getting freezes all the time. TWRP used to freeze up on me all the time after the 2.20 ruu until twrp 2.2.2.0 was released. Phone still has trouble getting into recovery from the bootloader though. He should install CM10 or codefirex without using a custom kernel. Maybe run "fastboot erase cache" in bootloader then wipe cache,dalvik,factory reset,system,external in recovery then flash CM10 or codefirex and gapps. keep it plain until you find issues you can attribute to the rom or to the phone. i have had very few issues with latest builds of jb aosp roms besides some battery stuff.

Well, although I had fully charged it and then powered down, now that I am ready to work on it this AM, it wont start at all. I'm thinking she's gone, captain.
Thank you everyone for the replies.

[Q] G2x stuck on hellfire sign after LG with blue splash

Hey guys, I don't think I did anything weird but anyway. After I get out of Wifi sometimes I have to reboot so the phone can use mobile data, I am on hellfire sandwich btw. So this morning I tried to reboot once I got to school but the phone sometimes freezes while rebooting and I have to take out the battery and same happened this morning. Took out the battery put it back in, started the phone and once it goes to the hellfire logo with orange thing going round and round, it stayed on that screen for about 30 minutes and i tried rebooting several times no luck. :crying: I could get to CWM recovery but is there anyway I can back up my files? I have some really important stuff also could you link me to a solution? Early thanks.

(1) try wiping cache and delvik cache in cwm and fix permissions, then reboot, if that doesn't work, (2) try making a nandroid backup, then wipe everything, then restore, if that doesn't work, (3) try flashing the same rom over your current one, if none of the above work, (4) try flashing a different kernel, or finally (5) try flashing the same rom over your current one.
One of these should work, if none of them do, then you're probably gonna have to wipe everything and flash the rom again, which will cause you to lose all your data.
Good luck

Also try deleting the tweak script in system/etc/init.d use my tool and launch AROMA File Manager, use menu button to select to mount system and data (partitions), then navigate to the folder and delete the one script.
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Yeah I think flashing the same rom will solve the problem but one more question, If I just want to flash the same rom do I just delete delvik cache and cache? also will that make me lose data such as like how far I got in angry bird or my pictures or phone numbers? or what does deleting cache and delvik cache delete?

envisiblenbk said:
Yeah I think flashing the same rom will solve the problem but one more question, If I just want to flash the same rom do I just delete delvik cache and cache? also will that make me lose data such as like how far I got in angry bird or my pictures or phone numbers? or what does deleting cache and delvik cache delete?
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No you won't lose any of the things you mentioned above. It will however reinstall any system apps that you uninstalled. But just to be safe, make a nandroid backup

jj_z1 said:
No you won't lose any of the things you mentioned above. It will however reinstall any system apps that you uninstalled. But just to be safe, make a nandroid backup
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Thank you guys. I go do it now haha

Aww man, everything got deleted haha. Thanks anyway guys.

[Q] Stuck on bootloader after battery drained

Last night I was out and my battery drained and phone shut off. When I got to the car and put it to charge the phone got stuck in the loading screen for a long time. I power cycled and nothing. I booted up to TWRP and wiped cache and the phone booted and got to the updating apps part and at the end it got stuck in the starting app part and never finished booting.
I'm on stock 4.4.2 and rooted. I was using faux's mainline kernel and had been running the latest version for a few days already.
I've tried a few things to try to get it working. I flashed the stock kernel back again and that didn't work. I also flashed the stock system image but nothing. I've been searching al morning for a fix. If possible, I would like to fix it without having to lose all my data.
Here is a logcat as well. http://pastebin.com/UYn9Z3Ja

This might sound too simple, but have you tried holding the power button for 30 seconds and letting it boot
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Yea. I've power cycled it a few times and just let it sit there for long periods of time to see if it boots and it doesn't go past the boot animation. Only time it goes past it is when I wipe cache and after that it get stuck on starting apps.

I'm afraid your going to have to factory reset it. This is kind of a pita, but in recovery adb pull your /sdcard to your pc. Then afterwards adb push it back. That'll save your data. You'll probably have to flash the factory image and then reinstall twrp too.
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I was afraid that it may come to that. In regards to my data. I made a TWRP backup earlier. Can I restore any of it after I do the factory reset?,

JayBachatero said:
I was afraid that it may come to that. In regards to my data. I made a TWRP backup earlier. Can I restore any of it after I do the factory reset?,
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Sure but only users apps and data, no system apps.

JayBachatero said:
I was afraid that it may come to that. In regards to my data. I made a TWRP backup earlier. Can I restore any of it after I do the factory reset?,
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You can but maybe the cause of the ''not booting issue'' will be in that already

JayBachatero said:
I was afraid that it may come to that. In regards to my data. I made a TWRP backup earlier. Can I restore any of it after I do the factory reset?,
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You can restore one of your nandroids afterwards no problem
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Thanks for the responses. I'll give this a try and report back later.

JayBachatero said:
Thanks for the responses. I'll give this a try and report back later.
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Pulling and pushing the sd card will take along time. Probably 30 minutes each way or longer depending on how much stuff you have on it
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Oh that I know. Part of the reason why I was avoiding the full wipe. I have the about 24gigs to pull/push

JayBachatero said:
Oh that I know. Part of the reason why I was avoiding the full wipe. I have the about 24gigs to pull/push
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Grab a beer and get comfortable
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