Hello Friends,
Ever since I had been using the Droid Charge I have had problems with the phone becoming immensely and frustratingly slow. I custom rommed my phone with different versions of Tweaked and Eclipse and PBJ and each time it would become slow after becoming spiffy fast for a 2-3 weeks. Last time I rommed Tweaked 2.0 and PBJ and hoped that this would solve the problem. However it didn't. Fortunately, I had taken a nandroid backup of the period when my phone was fast. Several people advised me that the issue is with apps etc. So this time my phone became slow I restored from the nandroid backup and didn't install any apps at all. I avoided Facebook, Juice Defender etc. and kept it plain and simple still like clockwork my phone has become super slow again. I am beginning to think that is an internal problem with android like some sort of cache getting full or logs becoming too big. I wonder if someone could suggest which areas should I look into. Again, I don't believe this is an issue with apps because when I restored from the nandroid backup the phone is super fast and after 2-3 weeks it becomes slow without me making any changes at all. Please help.
OK...start with the basics...first Yu need to regularly go into recovery mode and do a cache and davlik cache wipe...then after a full reboot I always do a battery pull....
Next...I think Yur rom stores files for giving renice an idea of what apps and programs it uses most...so I use sdmaid pro...go into app cleaner and clean all the files...I have had up to 3000 files stored as cache...then I run the system cleaner just for gud measure...do not use the duplicate file cleaner unless you know what your doing chase I always mess up my contacts
Last of course is the corpse cleaner...when going thru the updates and downloading the new rom I get large amounts of them...these have made me have battery drain...so clean that...Yur phone should be running like new
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Hopefully this will help someone else. Use Titanium backup to backup your device. On 2 occasions, using the tablet and/or installing software, somehow, the system gets totally corrupted. The only way I have found to fix it is to wipe out all the data and reflash. If you have a backup copy (Titanium Backup), you can restore your tablet w/out having to start from scratch. Also many apps have the ability to save their config data to the SDCARD. I make use of these features to get my tablet reconfigured to my specs after flashing.
I'm not a long time Android users so I don't know if all android devices are susceptible to this type of low level corruption or if it's just the g tablet.
I think it is mostly our tablet right now. My phone never just loses its mind and needs to be reflashed. Likely just because the Tegra is so new, the manufactures rushed to get something to market, and some bugs still need to be tweaked.
Titanium is a pretty neat app...
lamlam01 said:
Hopefully this will help someone else. Use Titanium backup to backup your device. On 2 occasions, using the tablet and/or installing software, somehow, the system gets totally corrupted. The only way I have found to fix it is to wipe out all the data and reflash. If you have a backup copy (Titanium Backup), you can restore your tablet w/out having to start from scratch. Also many apps have the ability to save their config data to the SDCARD. I make use of these features to get my tablet reconfigured to my specs after flashing.
I'm not a long time Android users so I don't know if all android devices are susceptible to this type of low level corruption or if it's just the g tablet.
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Just the G Tablet. I've never seen this happen with my Nexus One in ordinary use, nor even in flashing ROMs for that matter.
On my G Tablet, I've had a few glitches with flashing via Clockwork Mod that forced me to wipe and start over, and a few glitches from just trying to shut down my tablet normally that required wiping user data. That hasn't happened since I've been running ZPad 2.2 though, i.e. for the last week or so now so perhaps the software is starting to stabilize a bit.
Android is great. The G Tablet has lots of potential. But you have to realize that we're basically the beta testers for Viewsonic and Malata (the OEM that actually manufactured this thing), who paid some $400 for the privilege.
Luckily the software has improved by leaps and bounds in the last month thanks to the hard work of the people here on the forums, and hopefully we can keep that momentum up.
So, for the past month or two my Charge has been great. Absolutely no problems that couldn't be fixed but yesterday this phone started crapping out. First, the phone got itself stuck in a bootloop without me even flashing any files/messing with system files in ANY way. I just noticed I couldn't install any apps through a file manager/market so I rebooted and the boot animation would never end.
I did a factory reset and reflashed Eclipse131, I didn't want to do that because I hadn't backed up my apps but it seemed to be the only way. Well, it fixed the bootloop issue but then EVERYTHING force closed. I literally couldn't do a thing on the phone, anything I tried opening force closed.
So, I used Odin to flash the .pit/.md5 recovery files to fix my phone and all was well... except now I can't recover my contacts from the SD card(so all my 100+ contacts are lost). I can download apps from the market again but installing them through a file manager causes a bootloop! I've never been angry at this phone but right now I'm considering throwing it at the wall, mainly for the 35+ apps, 7 homepages & 100+ contacts I lost for no apparent reason.
Could anyone help? I don't know what the hell is going on and I want to just install the .pit/.md5 again and sell this annoying thing on eBay and buy an S2/Prime when they come out.
I had some similar issues bizarre issues start recently. I would periodically have issues with the market, which I didn't think was a big deal. All of a sudden, my phone was blazing hot in my pocket. I pulled it out and was at the boot animation and it was just sitting there. I pulled the battery, booted it up, and everything start force closing all the time.
I couldn't isolate it because I had recently done a lot of new things to my phone in a short time. I was running GC FE, but installed imoseyen's kernel, V6 SC, Loopy smoothness, Badass tweaks, and the 3G enhancing script all in a short period.
Since all that, I simply ran eclipse with PBJ non-OC for a day and then flashed GC GBE with ext4 when Kejar posted it. No more issues, but I'm trying to be careful with what I install. I'm not even restoring stuff via Titanium right now, just to be safe.
Not really a solution or even a diagnosis of your issues, but I know where you're at.
I don't know what I did but after owning a Nexus S for a couple of months I decided to root it yesterday. Rooting wiped everything which was fine because all I had on there were games and music. But after reinstalling everything, logging into accounts, playing games for a couple of hours, the phone seems to have more memory and is generally more responsive (with setCpu on default settings). I only rooted the phone and am still on the default Gingerbread ROM. I have used CacheMate only once. I'm just curious if rooting has somehow 'opened' the phone to improvements.
My experience with this is because I deleted all the apps/games, and cleared the sdcard, that's what caused the phone to speed up.
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What he said. Wiping may help improving the speed of your phone. Basically, "rooting" is just putting an su binary and the Superuser.apk on your phone. Nothing more.
Yeah, thats what I assumed too but just wanted to be sure. I guess this being my first Android phone, there was a lot of junk that I installed and never used and it left behind it's prints all over the place. Either way, I have never had my phone run this fast and it makes me warm and fuzzy inside.
you cleared your phone of all its junk files that its accumulated, so its speedier. when the junk files start to collect again, itll slow down again. but now that its rooted, you can do something about it. i suggest wiping your dalvik-cache every so often, itll keep your phone speedy and you wont have to wipe your data(important files).
OK, here's what happened.
1. I installed Infinity yesterday and right after reboot, after I signed in with my gmail account and went to market to download an app I normally use, phone automagically downloaded all apps I had previously installed and used all the time. All by itself, which was a pleasant surprise. There is one app that I seriously need as is, which is old Tunewiki, as it still has my free lastfm account on it. Took me years to build my station.
2. I had Humble on the phone before. It's OK, but kinda sluggish. Infinity was apparently faster. So, in my wisdom, I played with phone and found that power button also has CWM recovery feature on it.
3. Considering all the prestidigitation one needs to do to put phone into CWM mode with fingers, I "tried out" how it works - and it worked fine, got me into CWM mode in about a minute
4. Cool, so even in more wisdom, I re-booted phone from CWM mode.
5. After reboot, all my favorite apps and all new settings I did in Infinity were gone. It, basically, rebooted to stock Infinity settings.
6. Now, here's interesting thing. Those apps I was missing, showed in apps list, but not highlighted and with little SD card logo next to them. Basically, they showed as "we are on SD card, not installed". Yes, including my old working Tunewiki.
7. I reverted back to Humble from CWM back up. Everything went back to normal, just like it's supposed to.
8. Re-installed Infinity. This time, apps that downloaded themselves and installed themselves did not do it. I lost my old Tunewiki, lastfm free account, and Voodoo Control now says that phone needs to be rooted in order for it to work.
9. I am back to Humble. Everything works fine. Well, except that with Infinity, streaming was much faster and reliable.
10. I want to go back to Infinity, but I want my apps back the way they did it in step 1. Or, have them somehow re-installed from where they are now, which I assume is SD card, based on that logo next to inactive app. I must have old Tunewiki and Voodoo control working, the rest I can download and re-install.
Suggestions, in simple English, please, are appreciated. I am not a developer, please, do not toss "go to TWI, freeze JLK, twick GHV" at me. I am a simple vanilla phone user that was not born with all that wisdom.
Many thanks.
If you read the op of infinity you would see it is a know issue with the old version of cwm download the new cwm and entering wont cause a data wipe. No being rude but this is clearly stated in the infinity rom thread. To save yourself from a headache in the future dont install anything on your phone without atleast reading the opening posts of the dev.
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Go to TWI, freeze JLK, and tweak GHV.
Sent from my SCH-I510 using xda premium
coreysr said:
If you read the op of infinity you would see it is a know issue with the old version of cwm download the new cwm and entering wont cause a data wipe. No being rude but this is clearly stated in the infinity rom thread. To save yourself from a headache in the future dont install anything on your phone without atleast reading the opening posts of the dev.
Sent from my Gummy Charged GBE 2.1 using xda premium
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How do I go from XXX to this ROM?
The fastest way to go to this ROM from anything is by downloading and flashing the ROM+Kernel on EXT4 package. That will format your partitions to EXT4 and then install the kernel and ROM. Note that this will wipe all of your user data in the process, so be sure to backup anything you may want prior to flashing.
Help, I restarted into recovery and lost all of my data!
This is an issue that affects people randomly. My opinion is that you can deal with it for the time being. I recommend using a good backup solution that doesn't involve recovery. I say this because I test ROMs and have had my data wiped hundreds of times due to testing over the past several weeks. If I can deal with resetting everything all the time as the developer, you, as the user, should also be able to make due until a permanent solution can be found.
So I do have a back up, except that it's Humble b/up and I don't know how to restore specific apps from it. CONSTRUCTIVE suggestions?
there was a saying back in my 'ol country: saving of a drowning one is the best business of the drowning one himself.
I have just updated to Infinity again, without any problems. But, this time, I updated with short ROM version, one that does not wipe all data and repartition everything.
Basically, all my programs and settings stayed preserved from Humble. All programs I was concerned about stayed untouched, but the rest of the junk is gone, just like I wanted it.
I guess, I can thank to myself for some creative thinking.
I have the charge running FP5 firmware and the Tweaked ROM 3.0.
I've run into a situation where the phone has become rather laggy and buggy.
Example: Click the notification for voicemail...wait 30 seconds and phone dials. or Phone battery dies. I plug it in and it charges up to 30%, then starts getting very laggy and non responsive. I reboot and am told battery power is really 50% and phone is good to go.
I'm used to rebooting the phone at least once a day or more. I'm looking for a way to correct the problems and bring the phone back to how it was when I last upgraded and and loaded the ROM... too bad I didn't backup the phone at that point. Anyways...I know that if I reload the firmware and apply the ROM, everything will work correctly again but I'll spend hours tweaking the settings to add custom ringtones and photos to contacts.
Is there some cache or data I can clear to fix this without clearing everything and starting over?
Mike
P.S. I'm keeping this phone until Verizon allows me to upgrade and keep unlimited data or the phone dies and I have to get another.
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I have the charge running FP5 firmware and the Tweaked ROM 3.0.
I've run into a situation where the phone has become rather laggy and buggy.
Example: Click the notification for voicemail...wait 30 seconds and phone dials. or Phone battery dies. I plug it in and it charges up to 30%, then starts getting very laggy and non responsive. I reboot and am told battery power is really 50% and phone is good to go.
I'm used to rebooting the phone at least once a day or more. I'm looking for a way to correct the problems and bring the phone back to how it was when I last upgraded and and loaded the ROM... too bad I didn't backup the phone at that point. Anyways...I know that if I reload the firmware and apply the ROM, everything will work correctly again but I'll spend hours tweaking the settings to add custom ringtones and photos to contacts.
Is there some cache or data I can clear to fix this without clearing everything and starting over?
Mike
P.S. I'm keeping this phone until Verizon allows me to upgrade and keep unlimited data or the phone dies and I have to get another.
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You mean Tweaked 3.2, right... if not first upgrade to the 3.2 version of the ROM... it is the current FP5 option.
There is a build.prop thing commented out at the bottom that should force launcher into memory (supposed to help with screen redraw issues, but might also help with general responsiveness). I think you could do it from root explorer, just edit the file, scrool down, read comments, when you find one that sounds like what I said just remove the "#" from the line below it.
re-installing tweaked might really help...
but you might try going into CWM and wiping cache only... NOT data & cache... JUST CACHE... that helped me when i had "funky" things going on on a different device/ROM worth a try.
Finally, you should always take a CWM backup, Nandroid, before poking around....
Also... check swappa for relatively cheap phones with no ties to VZW contract it is where i picked up the GN2 (if it is rooted and you don't want to show it off at the corp store, just call customer support say you are too busy store hours. They will send you the micro/mini SIM via FedEx.
Of course take what I say with a grain of salt... I am just a crazy guy from the internet
(oh great XDA... please correct me if I've misspoken)
Thanks for the info. I never did load Tweaked 3.2. I will put that on the back burner as I don't want to reload all the settings. Maybe I can load it without wiping data. Do you know? For now I will try wiping the cache and see if the phone improves.
Someday I'm gonna have to explore the latest OTA and a new ROM. I'm getting tired of ignoring the update message. either that or learn how to shut the message down. any recommendations on a ROM for the new OTA?
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Thanks for the info. I never did load Tweaked 3.2. I will put that on the back burner as I don't want to reload all the settings. Maybe I can load it without wiping data. Do you know? For now I will try wiping the cache and see if the phone improves.
Someday I'm gonna have to explore the latest OTA and a new ROM. I'm getting tired of ignoring the update message. either that or learn how to shut the message down. any recommendations on a ROM for the new OTA?
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I will never tell someone "don't say it click the button"... However, I'm like pavlov's dog clicking the button is appreciated...
Not sure about a dirty flash... Never tried it. I got turned on to Root and Such well after FP5 and Tweaked 3.2 came out.
If you give it a go... You could retain much via Titanium Backup. Or just send a CWM Backup/Nandroid on the SD Card before playing around.
Either way...
There has to be a proper stop notification how to thread around here somewhere!
Cliffs Notes:
From a Root Friendly File Explorer (Like Root Explorer HERE, it is worth the $)
edit a line in "/system/build.prop"
Find
ro.build.fingerprint=verizon/SCH-I510/SCH-I510:2.3.6/GINGERBREAD/FP5:user/release-keys
replace the FP5 with FP8 so it reads:
ro.build.fingerprint=verizon/SCH-I510/SCH-I510:2.3.6/GINGERBREAD/FP8:user/release-keys
NOTE: BE VERY CAREFUL NOT TO HOSE THE PERMISSIONS (If I recall some of the other "freebie" root file explorers break the permissions... Best to find that a real thread with all the details if you are not 100% confident.)
Also feel free to double check my facts... I'm just a crazy guy from the internet!
Good luck!
Edit Alert:
PS. While poking around at the tweaktools back-end, I noticed there were some mods that specifically addressed lag (I have little to no experience with them though... Just FYI...
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Thanks for the info. I never did load Tweaked 3.2. I will put that on the back burner as I don't want to reload all the settings. Maybe I can load it without wiping data. Do you know? For now I will try wiping the cache and see if the phone improves.
Someday I'm gonna have to explore the latest OTA and a new ROM. I'm getting tired of ignoring the update message. either that or learn how to shut the message down. any recommendations on a ROM for the new OTA?
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yes, you can flash tweak 3.2 over 3.0 without wiping data. not sure if it comes with the updated kernel, but I would certainly do that as well.
in terms of lag, try the crossbreeder mod on XDA - worked for my charge!