Just a quick pointer here, I've seen a lot of questions regarding removing or uninstalling a flashed in theme with inaccurate or poor answers on how to do it with the most common answer of reverting back to nandroid backup and starting over. That will work, but is completely unnecessary and alot of time/work to do that.
Here's the simple easy fool proof way to remove a theme if you don't like it:
Go into recovery, wipe cache, wipe dalvik, DO NOT do a full wipe, re flash CURRENT rom zip, reboot. Theme will then be gone, without any reconfiguring of your setup. That's it.
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Just a quick pointer here, I've seen a lot of questions regarding removing or uninstalling a flashed in theme with inaccurate or poor answers on how to do it with the most common answer of reverting back to nandroid backup and starting over. That will work, but is completely unnecessary and alot of time/work to do that.
Here's the simple easy fool proof way to remove a theme if you don't like it:
Go into recovery, wipe cache, wipe dalvik, DO NOT do a full wipe, re flash CURRENT rom zip, reboot. Theme will then be gone, without any reconfiguring of your setup. That's it.
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Not that I disagree but how is this less work then restoring a nandoid? If they made a backup right before flashing the theme they dont have to reconfig any of the setup stuff either.
True, stated as if the nandroid was of a different rom/configuration, not just made. But who wants to wait all that time to create, restore a nandroid? I don't!
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True, stated as if the nandroid was of a different rom/configuration, not just made. But who wants to wait all that time to create, restore a nandroid? I don't!
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Also if you restore a nandroid you would lose a bit of saved data for say....a game or what not. (Basically if you've progressed in a game since you made the nandroid).
Reflashing the rom with out wiping data is the best theme removal in my honest opinion.
I agree, I do not wipe my data cache or dakvik, just flash the rom. I only stated to do those wipes so that there would be a "cleaner" flash of the rom, like flashing a nightly. That way I don't have to get flak if something goes wrong for someone, as unlikely as that may be.
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What would happen if I didn't wipe before flashing? And do I need to flash the 12.2 kernel
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I'm not sure what would happen. It would probably be less stable or not work... You could always try it though.
You do not need to flash any kernel. Only flash LeanKernel if you want to. If you don't want to mess with BusyBox, I'd wait on the kernel.
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From my experience on other devices when flashing ROMs and not wiping I would almost always bootloop. Again that is my general experience. I would assume there would be similar results.
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I usually backup the current ROM first, then factory reset before wiping cache. I end up with good results that way. The only time I installed a ROM without wiping, it was unstable.
Well, I tried flashing it, and it seemed to work. This is without the wipe.. But the only thing I found incorrect was that the wifi notification didn't go away. That was an easy fix though.
Should the battery life be noticeably better?
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Yeah I was kind of retarded the other day and forgot to wipe.:laugh: I was greeted with a nice bootloop until I pulled the battery and tried again (this time the correct way) then everything worked great..
I haven't wiped for any of the Synergy builds and my phone is running great Running Imos kernel too. Awesome battery life from this thing
So.. Even though I didn't get a boot loop after flashing without the wipe... Do you guys think I should just wipe and flash again?
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I'm by no means an expert on the subject, but I'd say if it's working then leave it be..
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So.. Even though I didn't get a boot loop after flashing without the wipe... Do you guys think I should just wipe and flash again?
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A wipe may not be completely necessary but if you do run into problems (FCs, etc.) and post a problem the devs or users are going to ask if you did a full wipe or not - and then recommend that you do one. In the end it wouldn't hurt to wipe even if you are fully functional.
I used to hate wiping all the time but with the proper backup applications it doesn't take long at all. I use Titanium Backup to backup apps and then also do in app backups for specific things like nova launcher, minimalistic text, and gosms,
I tried searching, but couldnt really find an answer. I was trying to change the color of the status bar using ROM toolbox and when I tried to install the change it rebooted to the loading screen and stuck. I rebooted into CWM and tried to restore from a previous backup from when I installed 4.1.1 and even though it ran the restore, it then stuck at the samsung screen. All is good now thanks to GTG's ultimate unbrick, but I was hoping to figure out what I did wrong to cause the problem in the first place, and then why the restore wouldnt work in CWM. Thanks, and forgive the noobness....
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I tried searching, but couldnt really find an answer. I was trying to change the color of the status bar using ROM toolbox and when I tried to install the change it rebooted to the loading screen and stuck. I rebooted into CWM and tried to restore from a previous backup from when I installed 4.1.1 and even though it ran the restore, it then stuck at the samsung screen. All is good now thanks to GTG's ultimate unbrick, but I was hoping to figure out what I did wrong to cause the problem in the first place, and then why the restore wouldnt work in CWM. Thanks, and forgive the noobness....
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Idk...maybe Rom toolbox isn't compatible with our phone...I tend to avoid those apps from the play store as they are usually buggy and cause problems
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I tried searching, but couldnt really find an answer. I was trying to change the color of the status bar using ROM toolbox and when I tried to install the change it rebooted to the loading screen and stuck. I rebooted into CWM and tried to restore from a previous backup from when I installed 4.1.1 and even though it ran the restore, it then stuck at the samsung screen. All is good now thanks to GTG's ultimate unbrick, but I was hoping to figure out what I did wrong to cause the problem in the first place, and then why the restore wouldnt work in CWM. Thanks, and forgive the noobness....
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Did you do any wipes before trying to restore your backup? I wipe out what's there first to give the system a clean slate before flashing or restoring.
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Did you do any wipes before trying to restore your backup? I wipe out what's there first to give the system a clean slate before flashing or restoring.
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I did a factory reset, wipe cash, wipe delvik before restoring. Am I right in thinking that after wiping all I should have had to do is to to restore and run it? If it didnt work for whatever reason thats fine, I just want to make sure it was a bug and not user error.
ICS Roms are not fully customizable as of yet with any apps as far a I know not even in UOT Kitchen. In order to fully customize you have to dissect and manually alter which is not recommended unless you are well knowledged on compiling and decompiling.
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I did a factory reset, wipe cash, wipe delvik before restoring. Am I right in thinking that after wiping all I should have had to do is to to restore and run it? If it didnt work for whatever reason thats fine, I just want to make sure it was a bug and not user error.
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I've never once had issues wiping then restoring. I had errors only when I didn't do a wipe. Bootloops, force closes, etc. Give it a shot, but nothing is guaranteed as results vary per device.
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Since you wiped the device you shouldn't have had a problem restoring.
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Okay, my issues started when I switched to the baked rom. I had gotten google now working fairly well on ICS. After I switched the voice recognition just hears me as background noise. It will listen then just go back to the tap the mic to speak screen. No searching. No crashing. Nothing. I even tried switching to cyanogenmod 10. Exact same issue. I think the offline voice files might be corrupted. Does anyone know if I might be right and if so how I can delete them?
P.S.- I always do a clean install. Factory reset, clear data in CWM, clear cache (for redundancy), clear dalvik cache.
Thank you in advance.
sincerely
- Someone clearly missing something obvious.
I know that in CM10 they say the issue is because its using the mic on the top of the device instead of the one on the bottom, and the top one is normally for noise cancelling. Try speaking into the mic at the top and see if it helps. Beyond that I can't give you any help.
I tried your idea. Nothing. Did ANOTHER clean install. Nothing. Did your idea with the clean install. Worked like a charm. Thanks!
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jlm123hi said:
I tried your idea. Nothing. Did ANOTHER clean install. Nothing. Did your idea with the clean install. Worked like a charm. Thanks!
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You are still dirty flashing. A clean flash involves formatting system. That is where old rom is located and why phone will reboot after factory reset, dalvic and cache wipe. A clean wipe will not boot since there is no longer an OS/ROM on device.
I know what a clean install is. I have been doing it. I tried his idea AFTER I did another clean install and it worked fine.
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What prdog1 is telling you is that you are actually not doing a clean install. Factory reset/data does not remove the original rom partioned on your sd. In order to have a true clean install you need to go into mounts+storage and format the system. That removes the old rom so flashing the new one is truly a clean install. Your technically doing a dirty flash still, which is generally fine when loading the same rom base.
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Oh. That helps to explain him better. Wow I've been doing it wrong for years. Lucky for me this is the first time I've had problems. Thanks for the info!
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Oh. That helps to explain him better. Wow I've been doing it wrong for years. Lucky for me this is the first time I've had problems. Thanks for the info!
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This is the reason many people have problems that the majority don't have. Flashing different rom bases on top of each other can corrupt the rom and no one can troubleshoot the answer unless it is a rom bug that the majority has. Factory reset, cache and dalvic wipes help eliminate apps and data problems.
So my phone has been randomly rebooting and sleeping indefinitely quite often over the past two weeks. I was just wondering if there is a simple fix to this that won't require any backup or anything. It isn't a huge deal to me right now, and if it requires backing up things then I will probably just wait until I'm ready to do a full ROM wipe and re-install.
Why can't you do a backup in your recovery. You must have a custom recovery if you're thinking of a clean rom install. Back it up and do a factory reset.
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As I stated in the original post, if there isn't a solution that doesn't require a backup, then I will just do a clean install when I get around to it. Right now, I'm just looking for general trouble shooting that may lead to a quick fix.
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I don't think there is one other than reboot. You can try to clear the caches in recovery and that may help
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If I clear something such as the dalvik cache, will I lose anything like text messages or contacts?
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Contacts, no. I'm not sure on the text messages.
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So my phone has been randomly rebooting and sleeping indefinitely quite often over the past two weeks. I was just wondering if there is a simple fix to this that won't require any backup or anything. It isn't a huge deal to me right now, and if it requires backing up things then I will probably just wait until I'm ready to do a full ROM wipe and re-install.
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Do a full wipe and reinstall with a updated ROM or new DL of the old one. Backup your contacts of course but if you want to do something simple then boot into recovery a wipe cache then dalvik then fix permissions
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If I clear something such as the dalvik cache, will I lose anything like text messages or contacts?
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no, you will lose nothing when clearing both caches, it cleans the cobwebs out, very safe todo and recommended, but wont solve every issue, recomendation is to start fresh with the issues you have, what rom are you on now
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no, you will lose nothing when clearing both caches, it cleans the cobwebs out, very safe todo and recommended, but wont solve every issue, recomendation is to start fresh with the issues you have, what rom are you on now
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I figured as much, but I just really don't feel like doing a full, fresh start. I'm not sure exactly which ROM anymore. I've been running it for over 6 months and I think it was basically a beta type thing when I installed. To be perfectly honest, I'm surprised it lasted this long without a full wipe.
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I figured as much, but I just really don't feel like doing a full, fresh start. I'm not sure exactly which ROM anymore. I've been running it for over 6 months and I think it was basically a beta type thing when I installed. To be perfectly honest, I'm surprised it lasted this long without a full wipe.
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goto settings>about to see what rom you are on
the reason to start fresh is to check for hardware problems
there is no quick fix for what you have
As it turns out, my problem was a usb cable that was shorting out. I finally noticed that it happened almost every time I plugged the cable in to charge the phone. As soon as I plugged it in, the phone would freeze and then black screen.
I have a backup of all the user and system data on a CM10.1 nightly (3/16, not that it really matters) and was going to do a clean flash of the most recent nightly. Is it safe to restore the system data after flashing the ROM? I assume this is where all my ROM settings, homescreen layouts, etc. are stored. I've seen a lot of threads where people say not to restore the system data, but I wouldn't think that would be an issue going from one nightly to another on the same ROM.
You can restore system apps but not other system data as far as I know.
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You can try it but I wouldn't recommend it. I've had luck with restoring only the system data that has the tibu icon, wifi, accounts,etc.
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Ahh that's a bummer. So do you guys just write down your settings and manually set them up again? There should be an easy way of restoring this stuff, at least the homescreen layouts/Trebuchet settings.
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Ahh that's a bummer. So do you guys just write down your settings and manually set them up again? There should be an easy way of restoring this stuff, at least the homescreen layouts/Trebuchet settings.
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I remember exactly how my phone is setup. 30 minutes max and I'm all done from scratch.
I never restore anything from anywhere, it causes nothing but problems
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I remember exactly how my phone is setup. 30 minutes max and I'm all done from scratch.
I never restore anything from anywhere, it causes nothing but problems
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Yep I'm the same way I could probly set my phone up with my eyes closed I've done it so many times at lest I'm on rogers and don't need to put my apns in.
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Yep I'm the same way I could probly set my phone up with my eyes closed I've done it so many times at lest I'm on rogers and don't need to put my apns in.
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I'm on att and never have to mess with apn. Not once in hundreds, maybe thousands of flashes.
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I remember exactly how my phone is setup. 30 minutes max and I'm all done from scratch.
I never restore anything from anywhere, it causes nothing but problems
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I've only ever restored the user data and that seems to work okay. I guess another question would be how often do you do a fresh flash? Unless I encounter problems, I usually just dirty flash.
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I've only ever restored the user data and that seems to work okay. I guess another question would be how often do you do a fresh flash? Unless I encounter problems, I usually just dirty flash.
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Same, although my number of flashes is definitely not close to yours
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I have a backup of all the user and system data on a CM10.1 nightly (3/16, not that it really matters) and was going to do a clean flash of the most recent nightly. Is it safe to restore the system data after flashing the ROM? I assume this is where all my ROM settings, homescreen layouts, etc. are stored. I've seen a lot of threads where people say not to restore the system data, but I wouldn't think that would be an issue going from one nightly to another on the same ROM.
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Clean flash + restore data = dirty flash
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I never understood why Titanium Backup didn't explain that better. The app rocks but they make it sound like a lazy man's restore tool lol
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Oh, I thought it just meant not doing the wipe data/factory reset step when installing the ROM, though I do see your point that restoring data over a clean ROM would be essentially a dirty flash. What about when you're just restoring user data and not any system data?
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Oh, I thought it just meant not doing the wipe data/factory reset step when installing the ROM, though I do see your point that restoring data over a clean ROM would be essentially a dirty flash. What about when you're just restoring user data and not any system data?
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Clean flash every time, or you're gonna be one of the dummies making stupid threads about why your apps fc, and blaming the Rom for your mistakes.
Yes dirty flashes work sometimes, but for noobs it causes problems.
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Oh, I thought it just meant not doing the wipe data/factory reset step when installing the ROM, though I do see your point that restoring data over a clean ROM would be essentially a dirty flash. What about when you're just restoring user data and not any system data?
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Restoring the data for user apps via titanium backup is usually OK. I am yet to experience any issues doing so.
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