Hi all,
I can't post in the Desire S Development forum yet, so I might as well ask the question here.
I've been trying in vain to use CM on my Desire S (one of the major reasons why I wanted to root my phone). I'm able to use it for a while, but after a time, such as installing all my apps, it would hang on me and the only way to fix it is to remove the battery. At first, I thought it would be due to the Go Launcher EX, but it hanged when using ADW too. Then I thought that perhaps restoring the system data were the culprit, but I still got the same dilemma when I didn't. I then started restoring the apps one by one (using Titanium Backup) but it seems that it hangs at random.
I really want to use CM but I can't Has anyone encountered this problem? Anyone knows how to correct it?
Thanks in advance guys
Complete wipe all partition then reflash. Double check your phone's current HBOOT, RADIO, KERNEL if it is supported.
I have had CM7.1 working perfectly on my Desire S for weeks and I used Titanium Backup to restore previous apps and data.
The questions I would ask are which version of CM? 'Stable' or one of the nightlies? Have you formatted all your partitions to EXT4 first? What recovery are you using - shouldn't matter, but might be relevant if it's failing to write something properly. Did you verify the checksum after you downloaded CM7.1? Have you installed anything else from recovery mode afterwards, such as GAPPS? What happens if you install CM and just try running your Desire as a phone for a few days, using only the built-in apps - does it still hang?
Also, when it does hang, you are much better off trying to 'soft' kill it rather than pulling the battery if you possibly can - hold 'Vol -', 'Vol +' and 'Power' for maybe as long as 30 seconds to see if that works; pulling the battery can cause serious hardware failure.
Stable!
Nightlies are for experimentals only
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well i have no issue at all.
No issues here either, also used TB to restore apps.
Don't restore any sense system apps or data, I imagine that could cause problems.
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Thanks for the replies guys I'm using the ROM Manager app to dl and install CM. I always use the stable build. The recovery I use is 4ext. Kernel is stock, I think. The one that comes with the LBC mod, which is the one I'm currently using. How do I check for the radio? Oh and what radio and kernel are you guys using?
doesn't have hang issue....but my desire s did shut down by itself. It can be on again by pressing the power button but still it annoys me twice this week.
p/s : using cm7.1 stable release
BTW, here's my radio: 20.28b.30.0805U_38.03.02.15_M
How do I check compatibilities?
the radio perform same as in sense rom, i use radio as at my sig and its perform well.
Just an update:
I think I found the app that's making all the bollocks. I was using File Organizer to create labels and custom folders.
At first, I spend the whole time yesterday rebooting/restoring the ROM and found that problems arise when I started placing Folder Organizer widgets. Today, I restored the ROM again and instead used Go Launcher EX to create custom folders for the Home Screen. So far so good, it's just as snappy as the time I just installed CM. It's crappy that I'm no longer able to use one of the apps I paid for, but it's worth it because of all the ROMs (stock and custom) that I encountered, CM is the snappiest and the best
I'll still monitor the progress, but so far, it hasn't hang on me. Before uninstalling Folder Organizer, it would usually take around a minute before it hangs completely, and the soft reset (Power + Volume Down) doesn't work when that happens
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Hi all,
When I am browsing market then decide to press the back or home button. Sometimes my phone will reboot for no reason, this happens maybe 3/5 times when I'm browsing market. I'm running the bionix rom with 1.3ghz Trinity kernel. This happened while I was running bionic with 1.2 ghz Trinity kernel.
Thanks!
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Hi all,
When I am browsing market then decide to press the back or home button. Sometimes my phone will reboot for no reason, this happens maybe 3/5 times when I'm browsing market. I'm running the bionix rom with 1.3ghz Trinity kernel. This happened while I was running bionic with 1.2 ghz Trinity kernel.
Thanks!
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Does it happen specifically with the market? Or does it also happen with other apps too? Also, are there any other common factors among your random reboots (the colloquial term for what you are referring to)? My best advice would be to wipe your dalvik cache, cache, and data and then reflash the rom and kernel. Restore your apps the long way and see if that solves your problem.
(the reason I'd recommend this is that it sounds like there is an issue with your flash and a clean flash might clear that up)
Hey thanks for the fast reply, I actually went to clockwork and wipes every single option avaible except dalvick. Also it only seems to happen while closing or switching from market. I have not experienced the reboot during calls issue like other users. So if I do wipe Dalvick cache, does it uulnable root? Sorry, my first android phone here.
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Hey thanks for the fast reply, I actually went to clockwork and wipes every single option avaible except dalvick. Also it only seems to happen while closing or switching from market. I have not experienced the reboot during calls issue like other users. So if I do wipe Dalvick cache, does it uulnable root? Sorry, my first android phone here.
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Its no problem man, everyone has "silly" questions when they start. =)
Basically, the Dalvik cache (found in advanced in Clockwork Recovery mod, aka CWM) is a list of things to boot. It speeds up the booting process but it also can cause issues during boot if there are conflicts between an old rom and a new one so wiping this is always good.
When you flash a new rom, you don't need to wipe everything, just wipe the Dalvik Cache (again found in the advanced section of CWM), Cache (found in mounts and storage and the actual action you'll be selecting will be "format cache"), and Data (found in mounts and storage and the actual action you'll be selecting will be "format data"). Once you do this flash your rom. Now if you're going to flash a kernel that you have never used before, I generally suggest allowing the phone to boot to make sure everything is fine, get myself all setup, to do a NANDroid backup before adding the kernel. That is my preference and is by no means necessary. Once you flash the kernel you can reboot and re-add your apps.
Now, I mentioned Titanium Backup and I'm still not sure you 100% know what that is so let me explain (as it is a very useful tool). It is a program that backs up your applications all with their data (IE preferences and the like). It does a great job (with the one exception that due to the way Android is built it cannot restore widgets) but it does require some work so it gets tedious when you have to use it a lot. I generally only use it the first time I'm flashing a new ROM. If you want to have a variety of roms you can easily access and switch between here is something I posted in another thread that can make it very, very easy to do:
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For reference to the OP, this is what I do. When I see a new rom I want to try I do a backup through Rom manager (it allows you to name Backups rather than just have a date/timestamp). Then I do a titanium back up of all my apps. Next I flash the rom and/or kernel I want to try and then do a titanium restore of my apps, get everything set up how I like it and then immediately do another NANDroid backup through Rom manager.
Right now I have these backups on my phone:
StockWapps (Stock rom, stock kernel, rooted, with apps set up)
CM7apps (CM7 rom, standard CM7 kernel, rooted, with apps set up)
CM714apps (CM7 rom, trinity 1.4GHz OC kernel, rooted, with apps set up)
Bionixapps (Bionix rom, standard bionix kernel, rooted, with apps set up)
Bionix13apps (Bionix rom, trinity 1.3GHz OC kernel, rooted, with apps set up)
Bionix14apps (Bionix rom, trinity 1.4GHz OC kernel, rooted, with apps set up)
On my wife's:
StockWapps (Stock rom, stock kernel, rooted, with apps set up)
CM7apps (CM7 rom, standard CM7 kernel, rooted, with apps set up)
BionixZuneApps (Bionix rom, standard bionix kernel, ZuneEvo theme, rooted, with apps set up)
If you see the pattern its basically ROMThemeKernelApps for easy reference when restoring. Its so simple that I told my wife this morning to put her phone back to stock and she was able to figure it out with only minimal help getting to the right screen (she is a complete techNOTphile)
Also, I have a backup on my computer of all of the backups. Unlike Simms, I only do backups when I make significant changes to apps, themes etc (by significant I include changing a shortcut on my launcherpro dock lol).
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I apologize for the huge wall of text but I hope it helps! Always remember that we're here to help you (as long as you search before you post a question, not applicable to this but it makes everyone's lives easier hehe)
Woah thanks. I really don't mind not backing up haha. So I did what you said and wiped cache/data and dalvik but this time I used stock kernel with bionix. The problem I have now is that the rom manager bundled with bionix says I don't have clockwork installed and when I try to install from there, it just hangs and I have to force close, not a big deal but I can't even backup I guess.
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Woah thanks. I really don't mind not backing up haha. So I did what you said and wiped cache/data and dalvik but this time I used stock kernel with bionix. The problem I have now is that the rom manager bundled with bionix says I don't have clockwork installed and when I try to install from there, it just hangs and I have to force close, not a big deal but I can't even backup I guess.
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Hmm. Try this: turn off your phone and then once its off hold the volume up button and then press the power. This should boot you into the bootloader. Now using the volume rocker to scroll and the power button to select, select recovery. Let it boot into that then tell me what color the text is in recovery.
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Hey Kenvan,
Thanks for the help, I decided to revert back in to stock Android with no root and I have stopped having problems with anything! I also do not experience the rebooting during calls bug.
Thanks!
so on my Inspire, I've finally rooted it, and I wanna kill me some bloatware and make this phone faster and leaner. What bloatware am I safe to delete? Also, are there any free apps to freeze things? Or because I'd have to flash back to stock ROM anyway to bring in for warantee, i might as well just delete bloatware? Also, how do I increase my battery life now that I'm rooted?
Man.....No one will hand this to you on a platter. Read. Read some more. All the answers you seek are here already. What is bloat to you may be a needed app to me.
Sense was bloat to me. ASOP.
Learn to search, then Get reading you have a a lot to figure out.
Lolz...its AOSP...and instead of deleting bloatware why not flash a ROM that is completely optimized for speed, such as Android revolution...
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Link to Android Revolution thread...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=964841
You can do this by using ROM MANAGER from the market. Once you download ROM manager you will want to flash Clockworkmod Recover which is at the top of the app, and after doing that you will be able to boot into recovery from Hboot or directly from an app on your device(You can get into hboot by checking fastboot is turned off and powering off your device, next hold the volume down key and power button for about 4 seconds...use volume rocker to scroll upsies and downsies and select recovery(you can also go into recovery by making sure fastboot is off and opening up ROM Manager and selecting it from there...)
Now that was just how to get into Recovery! We want to flash a ROM though! So we download the desired ROM of choice and in this case it is Android Revolution, put your phone into disk drive mode and place the rom on the root of your SD card...now boot into recovery(how to is above this paragraph), factory reset phone then got o advanced-wipe dalvik-cache and then go back to main recovery screen...choese intal from zip...find your ROM that you placed on the root and ta-da! Let it do its thing, once all done you will be promted to reboot and first boot can take about 5-10 minutes......its that simple!
Now this was a quick tut,nothing fancy or detailed,but when you are part of this forum you must read and read and read some more...and some more
For every ROM that is compatible with the inspire check out the development section, every ROM does its own thing, speed,looks,updates, you must pick one that you want...always try reading everything you see and no skimming! You will learn the basics after a week and after a month you will probably want to be developing your own ROMs and you will be helping others out with their problems
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ThEiiNoCeNT said:
Lolz...its AOSP...
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I think he knows that. Those acronyms just beg to be transposed.
UTMS or UMTS, WCDMA or WCMCA... You get the idea.
All Att apps
From what ive read it is better to just freeze them instead. I found a thread on the atrix part of the site showing the safe apps to freeze but haven't found one for the inspire...yet. I am still looking.
o btw....i am a new Inspire owner. I jumped ship from Blackberry a week ago and rooted my htc last night. This site is great!
You can use titanium backup to freeze the bloatware.
You can safely delete all of the AT&T B.S. I'm using the RCMix3D ROM, and it deleted it for me, but you can also use ROM Manager to delete it.
ClearDroid is stock minus bloat.
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You can safely delete all of the AT&T B.S. I'm using the RCMix3D ROM, and it deleted it for me, but you can also use ROM Manager to delete it.
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I've used Coredroid and Leedroid, and both were cool in their own way, but since they aren't designed especially for the Inspire, they each had glitches. ClearDroid is as smooth as stock on my Inspire with no glitches, and it doesn't have the ATT bloat. Also, on Clear, every app I've tried to install has worked. That was not the case with Core or Lee. My bank's app was a no go until Clear. The only drawback I have found with Clear is GPS lock times, but installing Angel's North America fix seems to be working, and now the developer is including it with Angel's permission in the newest version of his rom. If you veer too far from stock, get ready to reflash every few days because the chefs are constantly tweaking their roms. This is a good thing though. I think we all think of our phones as our favorite toy. haha
Hi. This is a minor issue that may or may not warrant a new thread, but I wasn't able to find a similar post anywhere.
I'm rooted and S-off'ed with Revolutionary method. I am in the process of cleaning up all the bloatware on my phone. I am using TiBu, backing up every app before uninstalling, then performing NAND backup after verifying stability. At first after uninstalling several apps deemed 'safe', I encountered a problem where my phone would show two mt4gs splash screens then boot into clockworkmod recovery. I since narrowed it down to the Qik video chat app.
Has anyone else had a problem with uninstalling this specific app? Is it tied into the ROM that much where removing it would prevent me from booting up normally?
I don't recall removing qik ever cause any issue for me. If you are worried that removing certain apps might cause trouble, you can first try freeze them using apps like AntTek app manager before you remove them completely.
Or you can try the custom MT4GS ROMs on the developer forum. Those ROMs already removed most of the bloatware.
Would the fact that I reinstalled the stock rom from the repack on this forum?
*Would that cause a problem in booting?
Removing qik would not cause that issue. Lmfao.
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Hi. This is a minor issue that may or may not warrant a new thread, but I wasn't able to find a similar post anywhere.
I'm rooted and S-off'ed with Revolutionary method. I am in the process of cleaning up all the bloatware on my phone. I am using TiBu, backing up every app before uninstalling, then performing NAND backup after verifying stability. At first after uninstalling several apps deemed 'safe', I encountered a problem where my phone would show two mt4gs splash screens then boot into clockworkmod recovery. I since narrowed it down to the Qik video chat app.
Has anyone else had a problem with uninstalling this specific app? Is it tied into the ROM that much where removing it would prevent me from booting up normally?
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Would the fact that I reinstalled the stock rom from the repack on this forum?
*Would that cause a problem in booting?
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Good method on the backups after each change, you now have an interactive log of your progress ~ everyone should experiment so carefully.
qik has never given me an issue that I can recall. I usually remove it with the other T-Mobile apps I don't want, like ecid.apk ( name ID ) for instance.
I freshly reboot the phone, uninstall all the T-Mo apps and all known supporting files/directories, reboot to recovery and clear dalvik cache and phone cache, then reboot the phone and let it rebuild cache.
After it boots and runs for about 5 mins, I reboot it again and let it run for about 2 minutes before doing anything else with it.
I don't think qik itself has anything to do with your issue at hand, it sounds more like it could be a bad install - maybe a corrupt download of the ROM. I don't think anyone else has reported this specific problem with the stock ROM for download here, but have you read through the threads for it?
I haven't used that ROM yet, so I can't speak for it from personal experience.
It could also be a bad Clockworkmod install. Again, maybe a corrupted download or...?
What version of CWM are you using? If you aren't using CWM 4.0.0.9, then i'd recommend upgrading to that and seeing if it solves your issue.
If you're up to it, though, re-download the ROM your using and install it fresh, before you upgrade CWM. If it was a bad download or install the first time, then that will fix your issue.
I still recommend upgrading to CWM 4.0.0.9 anyway if you haven't, even if a fresh ROM install solves your problem.
Thanks for the advice, Blue. I since then have just frozen the app and finished de-bloating the device. Right now I'm trying Undead's Senseless Rom, but if I go back to stock, I'll keep this in mind.
Hi there,
Running Android Revolution with faux123's latest kernel and recommended radio etc.
Everything is running swimmingly except that HTC Sense occasionally closes while I'm running a program.
It doesn't ruin the phone but it's a huge inconvenience for a custom rom.
It'll also reboot sometimes but that's for another time
zeecfc said:
Hi there,
Running Android Revolution with faux123's latest kernel and recommended radio etc.
Everything is running swimmingly except that HTC Sense occasionally closes while I'm running a program.
It doesn't ruin the phone but it's a huge inconvenience for a custom rom.
It'll also reboot sometimes but that's for another time
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Clear data for sense apk in applications/ manage applications/ all apps. Reboot and see what happens. Should fix your issue
Hi.. Do you make full wipe?.. Before flash new rom..
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thanks rddocke, that should work, didn't occur to me :S
@mrboy I did a superwipe and dalvik/cache wipe.
And uhh, mental note for those doing the same, remember your home settings or jot them down somewhere
No problem buddy and you should only superwipe if your flashing a Rom with a different build. Like 3.0 to 3.5 or leedroid to arhd. Not necessary for updates on current Rom. I never superwipe. Don't like the hassle. But there is a program developed by..... I forget sorry!.... But it allows you to restore apps on masses rather than one by one. Which makes restoring from full wipe a lot more convenient
Oh I've got titanium backup which i think created the issue when I restored sense with the data.
My advice to anyone else is. wipe dalvik/cache when changing from same rom type and pick and choose which apps you want to restore WITH data
My girlfriend's Skyrocket starting tonight has been freezing while the screen is locked. It won't wake by pressing the button immediately, but opens briefly after maybe 30 seconds. I pull the battery and restart and it worked fine for about two hours and did it again.
Any ideas? I have her fix permissions but it keeps coming back.
I feel bad because she was fine with stock but I convinced her to let me root it!
Unlocked, rooted, stock rom.
wipe cache and dalvik cache? Any new apps or changes that have been done recently?
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this happens to mine maybe once every two weeks, so it is so few and far between that i dont mind. using nexusmod gb.
whenever it freezes, i hold down the home button to see which apps are running and attempt to close them, but it takes too long and i just yank the battery. the only common app that is always running during every freeze is 'phone'.
jphilippon said:
My girlfriend's Skyrocket starting tonight has been freezing while the screen is locked. It won't wake by pressing the button immediately, but opens briefly after maybe 30 seconds. I pull the battery and restart and it worked fine for about two hours and did it again.
Any ideas? I have her fix permissions but it keeps coming back.
I feel bad because she was fine with stock but I convinced her to let me root it!
Unlocked, rooted, stock rom.
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Rooting wont freeze your phone, that's something to do with the ROM. Did you make a CMW backup before rooting? If yes, then you can boot into recovery, perform a factory reset 3 times, then wipe cache 3 times, then wipe davlik cache 3 times, then restore from the backup, reboot back to recovery and flash the radio (the ICS radio's ) work with GB so you can chose one from them.
If you haven't made a backup, you can download the stock 2.3.5 rom from sammobile, install it, and then do the update to 2.3.6.
Also dont restore apps, using Titanium backup, it causes issues. You can use superbackup to restore, call logs, sms and contacts, that's what I use.
If you would like to try a ICS rom, you can install Sky ICS 4.2E, there is an update 4.2F but it kept crashing so I am on 4.2E runs butter smooth as the stock GB.
All custom ROMS you can find in the Android Development Section
Unless she is going to run themes on AOSP, she probably won't get much other benefit from root. Sounds like she just wants stable, stock. I learned that lesson the hard way with my wife...every time she ran into a glitch! Otherwise, SkyICS is going to be your best bet for the least problems. My wife has been using it with no complaints... yet.
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aviseqdas said:
Rooting wont freeze your phone, that's something to do with the ROM. Did you make a CMW backup before rooting? If yes, then you can boot into recovery, perform a factory reset 3 times, then wipe cache 3 times, then wipe davlik cache 3 times, then restore from the backup, reboot back to recovery and flash the radio (the ICS radio's ) work with GB so you can chose one from them.
If you haven't made a backup, you can download the stock 2.3.5 rom from sammobile, install it, and then do the update to 2.3.6.
Also dont restore apps, using Titanium backup, it causes issues. You can use superbackup to restore, call logs, sms and contacts, that's what I use.
If you would like to try a ICS rom, you can install Sky ICS 4.2E, there is an update 4.2F but it kept crashing so I am on 4.2E runs butter smooth as the stock GB.
All custom ROMS you can find in the Android Development Section
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SkyICS 4.2F is running far more flawlessly than all other sky roms. The vast majority of users have no issues. It's based on an official release, not a leaked release. Those users with issues are normally at fault, not the rom; and these issues are usually easily fixed.
Don't be afraid of 4.2F.
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