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.
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While its resting. Wipe it with glass shine and that's iy
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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 get 1-2 reboots a day. A couple lock ups happen too. Anyone else? Is it normal?
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It's definitely not normal. Try wiping fresh and installing only necessary apps then test again. If the issue persists trade it in for a new Infuse.
eallan said:
I get 1-2 reboots a day. A couple lock ups happen too. Anyone else? Is it normal?
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My wife and I both get it on our two new Infuses. Mine pretty much happens when I am browsing... It will lock up vibrate a few times and basically reboot... Pretty frustrating... And I don't think wiping it clean will help since this happen on both of our phones
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garak0410 said:
My wife and I both get it on our two new Infuses. Mine pretty much happens when I am browsing... It will lock up vibrate a few times and basically reboot... Pretty frustrating... And I don't think wiping it clean will help since this happen on both of our phones
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The black screen vibrate and its off thing us what happens to me too.
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Hmm...interesting....
Are you all rooted? Changed any apps? Made any tweaks or all stock?
I've had my Infuse for a week now and it's been great....no reboots of any kind. No real bugs to complain about, though I have noticed it can lag quite a bit when looking at mms'.
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The vibrating is force closing. sounds like an app to me. did you and your wife both in stall the same apps? try factory rest on just one to test. BEWARE. take your external SD out. the facotry reset, wipes that too.
garak0410 said:
My wife and I both get it on our two new Infuses. Mine pretty much happens when I am browsing... It will lock up vibrate a few times and basically reboot... Pretty frustrating... And I don't think wiping it clean will help since this happen on both of our phones
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I get it too... Do you guys run at 190 dpi? DO you guys run LauncherPro?
Nothing special on our phones...since the AT&T update Thursday, the stock browser, so far, hadn't crashed yet.
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garak0410 said:
Nothing special on our phones...since the AT&T update Thursday, the stock browser, so far, hadn't crashed yet.
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Yeah I updated to UCKE5 with GTG's rom. Wiped my int sd and did a data wipe and very careful what to tibu back... So far so good...
Install a custom ROM, no more reboots and phone will be snappy.
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rjan22 said:
Install a custom ROM, no more reboots and phone will be snappy.
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i did same ish. data system and delvik wipe
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The vibrating is force closing. sounds like an app to me. did you and your wife both in stall the same apps? try factory rest on just one to test. BEWARE. take your external SD out. the facotry reset, wipes that too.
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The vibration is a notification that you are running low in nemmoey and using too much. Check your apps it happens to me too only when I'm browsing and trying to open too much tabs
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i did same ish. data system and delvik wipe[/QUOTE
You are aware to install a clean ROM you have to UNchecked wipe davlik, and check wipe data and cache?
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slider2828 said:
i did same ish. data system and delvik wipe[/QUOTE
You are aware to install a clean ROM you have to UNchecked wipe davlik, and check wipe data and cache?
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Ergh... no....
It was exactly word for word:
ROM Pre-Installation:
Wipe Data and Cache
Wipe Dalvik Cache
So you put a check mark to tell it to do so.... Been flash roms almost a year now since the captivate.... I would think to do how to do that
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Problem with restarts had been referred to SD cards. It is not always relevant, as such behaviour used to happen even on card-free phones. My problems started just after update to Mango, what made phone practically unusable.
I tried and seems succesfully solved problem in following way:
- connect phone to Zune
- click on phone, then settings
- choose RESERVED SPACE position
- change with slider from default 1% to 20%
- apply, disconnect
My phone, with Micro SD, stopped crazy behaviour, f.ex. during making photo, using apps. So far so good.
So maybe, either Samsung or MS had screwed up default settings of phone and use of ROM/RAM upon processes.
Solution can be applicable to Focus S and Omnia 7 too.
Good luck!
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Problem with restarts had been referred to SD cards. It is not always relevant, as such behaviour used to happen even on card-free phones. My problems started just after update to Mango, what made phone practically unusable.
I tried and seems succesfully solved problem in following way:
- connect phone to Zune
- click on phone, then settings
- choose RESERVED SPACE position
- change with slider from default 1% to 20%
- apply, disconnect
My phone, with Micro SD, stopped crazy behaviour, f.ex. during making photo, using apps. So far so good.
So maybe, either Samsung or MS had screwed up default settings of phone and use of ROM/RAM upon processes.
Solution can be applicable to Focus S and Omnia 7 too.
Good luck!
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This was in June!! June!!! And this is not a damn Windows phone forum....
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Jasper_jt said:
Problem with restarts had been referred to SD cards. It is not always relevant, as such behaviour used to happen even on card-free phones. My problems started just after update to Mango, what made phone practically unusable.
I tried and seems succesfully solved problem in following way:
- connect phone to Zune
- click on phone, then settings
- choose RESERVED SPACE position
- change with slider from default 1% to 20%
- apply, disconnect
My phone, with Micro SD, stopped crazy behaviour, f.ex. during making photo, using apps. So far so good.
So maybe, either Samsung or MS had screwed up default settings of phone and use of ROM/RAM upon processes.
Solution can be applicable to Focus S and Omnia 7 too.
Good luck!
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Sell Your phone. Now.
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Jasper_jt said:
Problem with restarts had been referred to SD cards. It is not always relevant, as such behaviour used to happen even on card-free phones. My problems started just after update to Mango, what made phone practically unusable.
I tried and seems succesfully solved problem in following way:
- connect phone to Zune
- click on phone, then settings
- choose RESERVED SPACE position
- change with slider from default 1% to 20%
- apply, disconnect
My phone, with Micro SD, stopped crazy behaviour, f.ex. during making photo, using apps. So far so good.
So maybe, either Samsung or MS had screwed up default settings of phone and use of ROM/RAM upon processes.
Solution can be applicable to Focus S and Omnia 7 too.
Good luck!
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WTF...... ? No. Mod.. I think you should close this..
A new thing killing my battery is media server. Whats that
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me too...
Thought it might be allshare?
Got no clue. I am not sharing anything. Made me think maybe kiss air responsible
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Are you referring to media hub? If so, you can freeze or uninstall it.
Wow, this just jumped up for me as well. For the last day and a half my battery life has been brutal. This morning I'm down 16% in 45 min. despite not using my phone.
Looks like two apps are the culprits: Media and Media Server. Can anyone tell me how I can determine what is forcing these to run?
I thought I could correlate it to installing a free Amazon talking book, 'cause after installing it this weekend my media server never seemed to shut off and I had to reboot to kill it. But I uninstalled the app last night with no improvement.
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A new thing killing my battery is media server. Whats that
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That is so curious, I have nothing like that even on my radar. Are you guys using debloated roms?
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FWIW, this isn't a new issue, just new to me. Quite a few theories as to the cause.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=980575
http://androidforums.com/eris-support-troubleshooting/217747-mediaserver-using-battery.html
Looks like some have had success removing all media files from their SD cards. Doing this piecemeal sounds pretty daunting to me - seems like every app folder and subfolder has at least images in it. Think I'll wait til next time I flash to start fresh. If this battery drain keeps up it will probably be in the next couple hours
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A new thing killing my battery is media server. Whats that
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Are apps that use the media scanner working properly? Apps such as music, camera, gallery, etc?
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Everything else seems to work fine for me. This is driving me crazy. I formatted my SD card, but no improvement. Media Server continues to run. I then wiped once, but still it's running. Been running Silver's ICS for a week with no issues at all, then this started two days ago.
Next up I'm gonna wipe 3x, then dalvik wipe, then reflash. ARRRRGH!
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Everything else seems to work fine for me. This is driving me crazy. I formatted my SD card, but no improvement. Media Server continues to run. I then wiped once, but still it's running. Been running Silver's ICS for a week with no issues at all, then this started two days ago.
Next up I'm gonna wipe 3x, then dalvik wipe, then reflash. ARRRRGH!
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Have you tried moving everything off of your emmc (internal sd) to your computer? Then reboot. I had a problem with media scanner doing that. I take it you never used the Odin one click?
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Have you tried moving everything off of your emmc (internal sd) to your computer? Then reboot. I had a problem with media scanner doing that. I take it you never used the Odin one click?
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Haven't used Odin on this SR (it's a two-week old replacement). I've only used Odin in the past to remove root. I'm at a loss here. I've formatted my ext. SD, wiped my phone numerous times, flashed 3 different ROMs today, and restored every app one-by-one so that I don't restore the data. Still media server runs like a top.
Is there a way to use Odin that's faster than removing root and starting over? I gotta fix this - I can't last 4 hours on a battery.
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Haven't used Odin on this SR (it's a two-week old replacement). I've only used Odin in the past to remove root. I'm at a loss here. I've formatted my ext. SD, wiped my phone numerous times, flashed 3 different ROMs today, and restored every app one-by-one so that I don't restore the data. Still media server runs like a top.
Is there a way to use Odin that's faster than removing root and starting over? I gotta fix this - I can't last 4 hours on a battery.
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I know what you mean. Have you tried running fix permissions in rom manager? You have to install busybox from the market first, though.
Edit: Here's a link to a busybox installer:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=stericson.busybox
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Just finished fixing permissions and rebooted. I'm only 7 minutes into the battery monitor, but media server is still running over 50% of drain. Sigh, guess a trip to Odin is in order.
Huh. I was having a similar problem, and moving all the files from the internal sd card to my computer fixed it. And then I read somewhere that fix permissions would work too. Sorry I couldn't be more of a help. Good luck!
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So, I've looked around, and searched, I actually had a thread about this months and months ago, but got no answer, so I figured I re-ask. Whenever I try to take a screenshot on CM7, I always get a NullPointerException, and it doesn't take the screenshot. I see others on CM7 can take them fine, so what's wrong and how do I fix it? (Unless this is a known issue, then I must be totally unaware, which for the most part, I'm not)
Just a wild guess.
Whereever its supposed to save (internal/external sd) , that position is full or not there or not mounted.
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Just a wild guess.
Whereever its supposed to save (internal/external sd) , that position is full or not there or not mounted.
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I indeed have plentiful space on sd, emmc, and internal. Oh well, if nobody knows for sure that's fine, I went to Bionix Reloaded(I want a really stable rom, taking a break from ics) screenshots work here. Thanks though dude. But, if there is a solution, I'm all ears, well eyes b/c I can't really hear text. Haha.
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I'm running the latest nightly of CM7. I tried swapping SD cards and when I tried remounting, it wouldn't mount. I booted into CWM to see if I could mount it from there, still wouldn't mount. My SD cards read just fine on my computer. My phone just refuses to mount.
Maybe your sdcard reader is damaged on the phone?
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I think it is. Is there anything I can do to fix it?
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Examine the pins carefully to see if any have cracked or become bent. If you notice one bent try to use something tiny and carefully straighten it out if possible and take your time so you don't cause further damage. It could also just be dirty causing bad contact with the pins and you should use rubbing alcohol and a q-tip to clean it with battery removed. A soft pencil eraser works well to clean pins also. Just lightly brush it lengthways down the pins and blow out anything that comes off. Those are really the only easy quick fixes, unless your comfortable with tearing down the phone and soldering tiny pins lol.
This is what it looks like even without an sd card in there. I tried cleaning it out, rebooted, and tried mounting in cwm, still nothing
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I also have this... micro sd and doesnt show up.. but when i bought it it was already like that... i thought when the update comes will be handled...
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See if your sdcard got formatted in a weird way to NTFS when you switched and formatted. It shouldn't be but just to make sure
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Right migh ve the problem comes about there..
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lzzar said:
See if your sdcard got formatted in a weird way to NTFS when you switched and formatted. It shouldn't be but just to make sure
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I never formatted either of the sd cards though, all the data shows up fine on my computer. I think my phone thinks something is mounted. Is there a way to force it to unmount even when there is nothing currently in the reader?
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Any other ideas?
Never mind! I did a couple of factory resets and dalvik cache wipes and it was good to go! Thanks guys
Btw mods, feel free to lock it up!
how do fix D};<
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ImDarkmatter said:
how do fix D};<
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Get another non LG phone .
But seriously, consider wiping this thing with either Rom for recovery or cleanup batch, then install fresh.
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Are you overclocking?
negative
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negative
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I just brought my "other" g2x online today with my personal creation (cleanup batch), followed by CM7 install. The same phone that was constantly overhearing, rebooting and what not was working fine all day today.
I recommend a wipe followed by fresh install.
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Bow your head for the android's prayer... I am an android, but I can change, if I have to, I guess
Reinstalling the rom? What a pain in the ass lol
Btw, what exactly is cleanup batch?
Pain-N-Panic said:
Reinstalling the rom? What a pain in the ass lol
Btw, what exactly is cleanup batch?
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Cleanup batch = ROM for recovery - ROM push. Search in development thread.
I prefer it over ROM for recovery as it does not push T-Mobile stock, so you can go straight to CM7. With ics or jb read the fix for internal sdcard.
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Bow your head for the android's prayer... I am an android, but I can change, if I have to, I guess
no mo' overheating. boo ya
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no mo' overheating. boo ya
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How?
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Bow your head for the android's prayer... I am an android, but I can change, if I have to, I guess
turns out it was my extended battery pack. there was a lot of empty space cause of the back case that just coveted hot air xD
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turns out it was my extended battery pack. there was a lot of empty space cause of the back case that just coveted hot air xD
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That is odd, but as long as the problem is solved.
I say that because I used to have same battery pack and never had overheating.
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