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Due to the recent departure of a certain dev, I've become curious who doesn't do a full wipe before flashing a new rom and why you wouldn't. Is there some unseen benefit I'm unaware of?
I think the more important question is who doesn't make a backup? I've learned from losing stuff to backup anytime I flash anything. No matter how safe it should be.
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I think the real question is why not ask this question without preloading it was drama? Don't even deny it.
loonatik78 said:
Due to the recent departure of a certain dev, I've become curious who doesn't do a full wipe before flashing a new rom and why you wouldn't. Is there some unseen benefit I'm unaware of?
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i wipe with toilet paper.
i only wipe if i am switching to a new rom brand (ie das bamf to gingeritis)
bthomp21 said:
i wipe with toilet paper.
i only wipe if i am switching to a new rom brand (ie das bamf to gingeritis)
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Same with me. This is what I usually do. However if i do have issues arising, i flash again after wiping.
The first step in moving on with your life after a loved one leaves you is to admit to yourself there gone. RIP Chingy.... Wait he didn't die did he? Loonatik he ain't dead. He has his own site. Go be with him there. Just what we need another RIP Chingy thread.
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jasonxlee01 said:
Same with me. This is what I usually do. However if i do have issues arising, i flash again after wiping.
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exactly. ive been doing this since my droid1 and hasnt failed me yet.
Wiping is honestly a pain, if I'm switching to a new ROM I'll wipe, but if I'm just upgrading then I won't. The only time I've hoenstly ever had a problem was wiping and restoring, I've had some weird errors when doing that (Home and Search button wouldn't function).
I thought on these phones you had to wipe it 20 times???
But I agree, if you are changing ROMS and not updating to a new version of the same ROM, you should wipe.
And Chingy took his ball to his own playground so y'all go play with him there.
adrynalyne said:
I think the real question is why not ask this question without preloading it was drama? Don't even deny it.
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Always... Update or not. You're not a flasher if you don't start from scratch. Lol
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I wipe every day, at least once...
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I wipe every update regardless if it says to do so or not...it takes me 5 min to get everything back to how I had it, considering I have all my apk's backed up.
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People complain about threads but yet they read em and respond!!! Smh
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Durr how does titanium back up work....ofc I wipe between every flash, but really I only lose about 25-30 mins to get set fully back up...
i usually wipe every time i install a new rom. whether im going from 2.0 to 2.1 or rc1 to rc2. I always wipe just to make sure i dont have issues later
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Always... Update or not. You're not a flasher if you don't start from scratch. Lol
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Seriously, how freaking hard is it to wipe? Unless the dev says not to, I do...
Front to back....lol.
It's the sanitary thing to do, then you'll be sure to not have databerries hanging off your phone.
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... then you'll be sure to not have databerries hanging off your phone.
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LMAO!
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I think the real question is why not ask this question without preloading it was drama? Don't even deny it.
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Would there be a way of asking it without alluding to some well known recent event? Anyone in the know is gonna make that assumption no matter how I posed it, so why not just be honest? That made me want to ask, after wondering in my own head for a long time, and I honestly would like to know why someone would flash one ROM over another. What kind of luck have they had? I've done it a couple times just being in a hurry and nothing pretty ever came of it. That's all. We've chatted in IRC. You seem like a good guy. Not looking for bad blood.
Every post I see from loon is condescending, spiteful, and instigative
my phone freezes up multiple times a day and i have to take out the battery in order to get it to work. Does anyone else have this problem?
What are you running
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I have not experienced that. A bit of information might help others to possibly help you, though. Can you tell us what ROM you're using, if the problem started recently, if it started after you installed a certain app, if you're over clocking or under clocking, and if you've tried to do a factory data reset?
Im running stock. The last time i tried to install a rom i ended up with the picture in the attachment. So i took it to the local T-Mobile kiosk and they replaced it for me. i re-rooted it but didnt rom it at all. And its been like this since i got the replacement phone. never had the problem before. (this was a week ago)
Pretty picture. Kidding, of course. Reminds me of messing with interlaced graphics on my old Amiga.
If it's been doing it since you got it chances are it's probably a hardware issue. I've not heard of rooting causing issues like that. Did you install any apps after you got it, specifically anything that runs/syncs in the background?
Nothing i didnt have on before. umm.. Go SMS and Launcher, Widget Locker...
I'd go the factory data reset route & not install any apps for a day or so and see how it runs. If all is OK, start reinstalling your apps 1 x 1, give each app a day to see if the problem starts up.
If you do a factory data reset and it's still doing it, then it's probably faulty hardware.
Yeah try a factory reset and see how that does. The rainbow screen looks like a gingerbread rom without the correct bootloaders.
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Exodian said:
Yeah try a factory reset and see how that does. The rainbow screen looks like a gingerbread rom without the correct bootloaders.
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So that's the mysterious rainbow screen I keep reading about. Thanks, because I had no idea what it looked like (thank goodness). The bottom part reminds me of Poltergeist "Don't go into the light..."
Is this new phone they gave you refurbished?
I used to have that problem all the time when i was stock... New ROM and it went bye bye...
Hah that picture you got there reminds me of when i stupidly flashed a gb kernel on froyo... still fixed it and matter of factly I'm using the same device right now were all newbs at some point, don't let it discourage you, just take it as a lesson learned and be more careful next time
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So it happened to me, removed wifi calling apk (requires reboot to stop constant force close) and rebooted only to realize that my internal storage was completely wiped. Not upset about it lost some music and a couple of images I can live without, backed up most of the important ones a while ago.
Just curious if it has happened to anyone else with the g2x?
It happened to me once on cm7. I uninstalled swift key and everything froze for about 2 minutes. Then the screen went black.
Battery pulled reboot and it went to lg screen then black. Battery pulled again reboot into recovery nothing would mount or work in recovery. Reboot again and it would only go to recovery.
It wiped my entire internal and fried my 16gb external. I had to nvflash back to stock to get it to work again. External SD card is still useless.
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guess I got lucky then, my external is still good. Now I'm backing that one up just in case, I got stuck in the weird recovery issue though as well. either way all is alright I ended up flashing your mod to weapon while I was stuck in recovery lol. Very nice, just in case you come back and see this thread, any chance we can get ICS transitions lol.
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guess I got lucky then, my external is still good. Now I'm backing that one up just in case, I got stuck in the weird recovery issue though as well. either way all is alright I ended up flashing your mod to weapon while I was stuck in recovery lol. Very nice, just in case you come back and see this thread, any chance we can get ICS transitions lol.
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Yeah I meant to add them. But got caught up with trying to add lock screens. I will add them in the next update. Not sure when it will be though.
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Sweetness and no worries this thing is faster then ever!
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My g2x did the same thing two weeks ago. My friend tried to convince me it was from badmouthing lg on their Facebook Page.
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monte666 said:
My g2x did the same thing two weeks ago. My friend tried to convince me it was from badmouthing lg on their Facebook Page.
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Lol, it would serve you right. I mean, is it LG that's to blame? It is Nvidia? Is it Google, they're the ones who wrote Android, or is it T-Mobile for commissioning the software for the phone to be written as crap? Hardware-wise this phone is pretty good, and the fact that it's nearly impossible to truly brick this think is awesome. And is it even Nvidia or LG that ultimately writes the OS? There is a thread bouncing around about that.
This phone is not my daily driver, and I'll do as much as I can, but I also have a day job
I would appreciate all discussion stay to this thread, and I'd love it if there were some community self-help.
State of the Union (for the Blaze 4G) (2012-11-05)
Current state of the ROM. This likely applies to any of the ROMs using the kernel sources coming from CyanogenMod for this device.
The device mostly works as it should. There are some problems currently people are having with this phone, and I will detail those here:
1) First and foremost, the Screen of Death. This is a problem that isn't only occuring to us. Just a couple of days ago I asked what the status was and the answer is that they have no idea. Some think it's specific to our platform (msm8660, which we share with a number of other phones), except that I've experienced it on other platforms, like my S3. Some think it's related to the display, except that not all the devices on this platform use the same display. Because of the randomness and lack of verbosity in the bug, they don't have a way of getting any useful data on it. dmesg and logcats are pointless. They are working hard trying to find it, but keep in mind that it isn't just us.
2) Saving pictures somewhere other than local storage. Yes, you should be able to save to your SD card. I think this is coming sooner rather than later. The following patch popped up over the weekend and adds in the functionality: http://review.cyanogenmod.com/25848. The Q&A responses to it look good. I suspect it'll go through a revision or two once they work out the bugs and then it'll get incorporated.
3) Saving app data somewhere other than the local storage. While I'm looking into it and talking to officials, I'm fairly confident that this behavior won't change in the official CM builds. Some of the other CM derived roms may allow this, and you should probably look there to solve this problem. The sad thing fact that our devices shipped with 1.2 GB of internal storage. I don't know why Samsung hates us so much, but they do. And therefore, the default behavior for CM is bad for those of us that want to game. Some users have reported success using an app called Directory Bind. I haven't used it and can't vouch for it, however it looks like it'd let you point specific directories from your internal storage to a space on your external storage. This is definitely safer than the mount swapping ideas that have been going around.
4) BLN isn't 100% unbuggy. Yes, BLN is buggy. BLN is the Button Lights Notifications. As of 11/10 we are on the official CM cypress-touchkey driver. However it seems there's still a bug there. Occasionally if you unlock during a notification, the lights won't come on. Sorry, that's just the way it is.
5) Camera Flash won't disable. This is unfortunate. Apparently if you tell the camera to disable flash, it simply won't do it. It's towards the bottom of my list, but it is definitely there.
The most important thing to keep in mind is that CyanogenMod version 10 is a moving target. Lots of stuff is happening, and until it's labeled as "stable" (and probably even for some time after that), we will continue to experience bugs.
Thank you
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Won't boot. I'll try again...
Edit: Okay second boot worked.
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Boots fine for me been using it all morning so far so good.
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Won't boot. I'll try again...
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Make sure to check the MD5 sum of your download(s). Make sure you wipe dalvik, and do a factory/data reset from CWM. It might also help to format /system.
I used this ZIP in my last install and it has worked fin for me so far... I've actually found it to be fairly stable...
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Boots fine for me been using it all morning so far so good.
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How has the data seemed? The "regular" stuff seemed to work great for me, but since I don't use this phone on a regular basis I don't know how to judge the 3/4g performance.
Also, I'd love to hear about maps performance (GPS, compass, etc).
I know I'm opening a can of worms by asking about this stuff (everyone will be hyperaware of things that never bothered them before), but it's useful to know as feedback.
Data seems normal to me. GPS and compass seem to be working fine for me also.
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Do the nav bar buttons take much off of the screen?
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Do the nav bar buttons take much off of the screen?
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I almost think they look better. But I believe the screen just squishes up a little bit.. check out the attached.
So the regular touch buttons will not work anymore, mines doesn't, how do I fix tht
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badboy68 said:
So the regular touch buttons will not work anymore, mines doesn't, how do I fix tht
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I'm working on it. It wasn't a choice I made, it was a mistake I made and am trying to find it...
Not to be mean, I was jus wondering, this by far though, is hell a damn awesome
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Surprisingly this is actually more stable than CM9 lol. The camera is smoother and has more options and the Google account synching is easier. The transitions are fast and cool too.
While I'm not a fan of the navigation bar due to the smaller screen, I do love the easy access to the multitasking. It makes switching apps easier. Is this something that you could possibly port without the navigation bar when you fix the buttons? Like give an option in the settings to replace the search button for the multitasking action? I can access the searching from the top widget. Just throwing ideas out lol.
Also the UI sounds are not working, along with the keyboard sounds. I also get this message once in a while about the "CM updater stopped working" it's not a big deal. I haven't used the data much, so I'll report in a little while. Worked fine during the little moment I used it.
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UI sounds are working. Never mind. Let's see if it's consistent or not lol.
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badboy68 said:
Not to be mean, I was jus wondering, this by far though, is hell a damn awesome
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Oh, don't sweat it, first rom I've ever actually posted so this is a learning process for me... been working on this for ages, all I needed was the kernel source.
Please tell me you asked Google Now to "do a barrel roll"
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Surprisingly this is actually more stable than CM9 lol. The camera is smoother and has more options and the Google account synching is easier. The transitions are fast and cool too.
While I'm not a fan of the navigation bar due to the smaller screen, I do love the easy access to the multitasking. It makes switching apps easier. Is this something that you could possibly port without the navigation bar when you fix the buttons? Like give an option in the settings to replace the search button for the multitasking action? I can access the searching from the top widget. Just throwing ideas out lol.
Also the UI sounds are not working, along with the keyboard sounds. I also get this message once in a while about the "CM updater stopped working" it's not a big deal. I haven't used the data much, so I'll report in a little while. Worked fine during the little moment I used it.
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Glad to hear it's working out stable for you!
I'm not a Java/Android developer per se... I'm a bit of a self-taught hacker and the majority of my work for this was really about the kernel and forward porting the changes from 3.0.8 samsung sources to the 3.0.43 that CM uses. Adding things to the settings seems a bit daunting to me, but I'll look into it. Always wanted a reason to actually start developing for android
I can tell you that on my SGS3 (and I imagine on other phones as well), the home button, when as a long press, brings up the multitasking menu. This would probably be the immediate answer to your situation for this phone.
I could also possibly just offer up a flashable zip to remap the key and that would be much easier for me.
My long term goal really is to get this into github (and into the CM nightly cycle) and get my kernel changes into the cm kernel for msm8660 so I don't have to maintain the patches myself.
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UI sounds are working. Never mind. Let's see if it's consistent or not lol.
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I meant to mention that they start working after the first time you adjust the volume. This seems to be a general CM10 bug as I've had it (and seen people complain about it) on the SGS3.
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I meant to mention that they start working after the first time you adjust the volume. This seems to be a general CM10 bug as I've had it (and seen people complain about it) on the SGS3.
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Thanks! I noticed it worked after I adjust it And that flahable zip for the action replacement on the search button would be AWESOME if you can pull it off, but let's focus on polishing what we have lol.
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Just flashed, its SO smooth. Can't wait for future updates. And I'm kind of liking the navbars lol
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Surprisingly smooth. No force closes. No major unlisted bugs that I've seen.
Incredible
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Is there any way I can change the location of camera photos to my SD card? Can't seem to find it
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I've been switching back and forth between a couple ROMs every so often. Every time I flash a new ROM, I do everything I can think of to start with a clean slate (g2x scrubber / nullifier), but I can't help but feel "dirty" even with the fresh ROM. Is there anything I can do to start off squeaky clean or is it all in my head?
Wash your phone with soap every time to get that squeaky clean feel
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Wash your phone with soap every time to get that squeaky clean feel
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+1. I really suggest using something that's bleach free but has strong degreasing power. :good:
After you get rid of that "dirty feeling", stretch a condom onto the phone and use it with that on it.
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A lubricated condom will give a "Butter" effect.
This has got to be the weirdest topic ive seen to date.
I bathe with my phone. It prefers bubble baths though i do not.
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While its resting. Wipe it with glass shine and that's iy
I should've known that title would bring unwanted results.
Shoothy said:
I should've known that title would bring unwanted results.
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It isn't just the title, read your post too. :lol:
Whaaat OP, what have you been smoking these days? Or the mushrooms maybe....
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There are lots of folders leftover on my Internal SD for apps that I havent had for a long time. So if crap like that is leftover, what else is lingering that I don't know about? That's why it feels "dirty." lol
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There are lots of folders leftover on my Internal SD for apps that I havent had for a long time. So if crap like that is leftover, what else is lingering that I don't know about? That's why it feels "dirty." lol
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Format emmc before each flash
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Format emmc before each flash
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That won't mess with my CWM?
Shoothy said:
There are lots of folders leftover on my Internal SD for apps that I havent had for a long time. So if crap like that is leftover, what else is lingering that I don't know about? That's why it feels "dirty." lol
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Most CM roms default to to using your external microSD card for system and apps. But under CWM /sdcard under mounts and storage is not your external. I had the same issue, so goto mounts and storage and format /sdcard.
You can also plug it in via usb before you wipe anything and just manually delete everything. Than you can also, if you have it, use a MicroSD adapter and format your external sd as well with windows. Make sure you copy off it what you want to save and copy back over your flashables for CWM. With CM7 you can goto phone settings, storage, than scroll down and select erase SD card, your internal is the one listed as additional storage /mnt/emmc.
Those are all the ways I've cleared the built-in internal storage.
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I must admit this is a very trollable thread
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