Hello, I've tried to figure this one out on my own, looking through threads and the net in general, if i missed the answer somewhere my apologies
Having said that, I was racking my brain trying to figure out why that app was fc'ing, all of a sudden. I tried resetting the rom and applying a new one, and the game would work fine each time, so I would get my tab back to the way I like it, with themes and such. i would go to play it and boom, stopped working again. On the last attempt i started realizing it was the themes. I thought it was because I had to change the dpi in the build.prop, and change it back, but I then found that if I changed the theme back to system it would work fine again. So, I'm curious as to what it is about custom themes that could cause just that app(on my tab anyhow) to fc.
This is mostly just a matter of curiosity, although it is a bit of a bother.
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Anyone else having issues with ninjamorph? I've used it for themes in the past without issue, but several times I've tried to use it recently its acting strange. I'm running Evo Zone Rip 1.4 and every time I try to use it, it themes my vending app blue and force closes. Not only that, it doesn't apply any of the themes I'm trying to use. I've tried transitions, lockscreen mods, and various other mods with the same result. I'm not a newb, and have done several mods on my own successfully. The last time it worked for me was about a month ago, I did a custom dialer mod, since then it hasn't worked. Anyone have any insight?
Using EA16, PnP .2 and Splash of Color, my clock is always about 10 minutes slow by the end of the day on my mesmerize. Is anyone else seeing this? A reboot fixes it, and disabling the network time sync and handling it manually doesn't seem to help.
I use beautiful widgets and its always spot on. My girlfriend has a stock 2.2 desire on uscc and both her sense clock and my bw clock are the same. Another widget that I've used and its free is SiMi, its in the market as well.
I haven't had any issues either
Ive had that. I downloaded clocksync from the market and set it up to resync every six hours. I had that problem with EA11. I haven't tried EB16 without clocksync so I don't know if I still have the problem or not. But now I can set it and forget it.
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So I'm still trying to figure out... is this a theme, a mod, or an app?
Just bustin balls, but it probably should have been posted in General to get the exposure that it needs. BTW, I haven't seen this on any of the flashes that I have done either.
Great question, I'm trying to figure out the same, or if it's just a network issue. I use an authenticator to log into a game I play, and I noticed the codes it was giving me stopped working. That's when I noticed my time was off.
I downloaded the "Clocksync" app recommended by gr4ybu5h (thanks!) and it seems to be keeping things synced.
My apologies if this is the wrong forum, I just noticed the issue after I flashed the Splash of Color pack, so figured it'd be a good place to start.
I haven't noticed this on my phone. but my boss who has a totally stock Mesmerize has this problem continually. Weird...
after the update it is screwed on my galaxy tab wtf what happened is anyone else having any problems i have switched to launcher pro for now
anyone??????????
No issues on N1
The update has been perfect for me on my N1, 2.3.4.
The scrolling speed is way faster, and everything else works as well or better than prior to the update.
thats crazy every thing was small and didnt fit right cld not fix it and ive used adw forever
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I couldn't figure out how it works. It deleted all my home folders, and I couldn't find a user guide anywhere. I finally did a restore to get the old one back. It looks as though he put a lot of work into it, but without instructions, it's not my idea of a game trying to figure out how to use it!
There were instructions with the update. Rather good ones i thought!
Anyway, apart from adding an unwanted Dock and Icon to my layout, (which i soon rectified), everything seems to be exactly as it was before. None of the new features do anything for me, it's just more unticked options in settings.
I hope the guys with issues mange to get to the bottom of it. If you upgraded, i would try a clean install before giving up hope.
Ok, i've been modding and playing with my LG Optimus Black P-970 lately, and it's been working pretty nicely. But today it started being unstabile, and weird. Examples, often when scroll around menus etc, i see a black rectangle i would guess is about 5x10 px in size, lined up in the left side of the screen. Lots of apps act weird and stops responding. If i tru to unlock after a while in standby, the screen freezes on what looks like a untuned analog tv channel, just with some colors in it. So what might have caused it?
What i have done tody, is to:
1. Updated GO Launcher EX
2. Download BusyBox, and apply the newest update it offered
3. Update the su-binary in superuser.
4. Lastly, which i suspect, i pulled Phone.apk, replaced a few background pictures in it (New ones is same resolution, but different type, from RGB to Monochrome), and pushed it back in.
Now i got problems, so i did this without any results so far:
- I've replaced GO Launcer EX with ADW.
- Removed some widgets i made with Chronotopia.
- Uninstalled BusyBox (But probably not the updates it applied to my system).
Any experiences/knowledge with these kind of problems? I do suspect the Phone.apk and the updated BusyBox...
EDIT: I managed to get a screenshot of that block dot that keeps appearing on the left side. For some reason, it appears as white in the screenshot. w00t? Dunno if it's relevant.
I would change phone.apk back to stock just to see if that helps. I kind of doubt it had to do with busy box. Good luck!
That was my idea, and i thought i had Phone.apk laying around, but no So i tried something stupid and ended up bricking the phone again, lol. So now i'm back to stock, rooted it and did a backup Updated BusyBox, Superuser and su-binary. Seems good so far, haven't done anything else. I'm gonna be so sad if i find out that i can't change a few png's in Phone.apk without stability problems. I didn't sign the modified Phone.apk before i pushed it back, may that be the problem?
I suppose it could be. Try your change again & see what happens.
Ok, last time i ended up doing a full LG recovery, and just a little tweaking. Yesterday, i made a backup, then started to heavily modify the framework-res.apk, and i got the same problem once again. This time i didn't even touch any other apk's. So now, barely awake, lol, i tried removing the old files and replace them with stock in drawable-hdpi folder, and push it back. Still the same. Tried to push the stock untouched framework-res.apk, still the same. Tried to recover to the backup i made, and still the same. What bothers is that i bypass an error message saying "ERROR, LG Security Team !" on every boot.
So i tried another, bit old backup, and this one works fine. But these problems i mentioned has not been showing between those two backups. I just had to try to restore the backup i made yesterday once more, and still it's buggy. I just can't make any sens out of that...
So far, my third iteration of setting up this phone (twice today) is working, so maybe I don't really have a question, other than "Has anything like this happened to you?", but I thought this was better in the Q&A rather than general discussion section. Mods please move if you disagree. I really did think about this, but couldn't decide where to put it.
I had to buy a new phone about two weeks ago because my S7 Edge's battery swelled up and bent the back of the phone's case. I wound up trading it in on a new S8+ (from Verizon). I love the phone even more than my S7 Edge, which is saying something.
Anyway, I like to use Samsung's themes to switch things up a bit, and I change themes every couple of days. I always search the theme store for new themes that are free. I've learned that most of them are crap, but you can usually tell by looking at the preview shots if the theme designer has gone overboard by using poor color choices/backgrounds in the dialer and messaging apps.
Ok, so first problem: I was playing with a couple of newer (free) themes:
1) Dark Night
2) [LSA]Shinny Moon Town Theme
I switched to the first theme and all was fine, but I thought it was boring, and kept looking.
When I switched to the second theme, I saw a brief message that some elements were incompatible and wouldn't be used, but the message went away before I could really read it carefully. The theme applied, though, and seemed to work correctly.
I liked the colors and style of this theme, but thought the folder icons were too ugly to live with, so I thought I'd just switch the icons back to the stock icons. Here's where things got wonky.
I went to the icons sections, picked the default Samsung icon set, and applied it. The folder icons did not switch back!
At this point, I panicked a bit and just decided to return to the stock theme. When I applied the stock theme, everything looked OK, but I noticed the Infinity wallpaper wasn't working - it just acted like a static wallpaper.
After web searching a bit, it seems this can happen if you set the Always-On Display screen background to not be just blank. I followed the steps in an online instruction for fixing this, but the infinity wallpaper still was not working.
At this point, I tried clearing all of the app caches (in Settings/Device Management/Storage) and rebooting. This did not help.
I then tried clearing the device's cache partition by looking up how to do that online. Timing is a bit tricky on holding down the power key, but after a few tries, I got it right, and managed to clear the cache partition.
Still no working infinity wallpaper. It really seemed broken, and none of the online suggestions I found worked at all.
Now, I realize this may not be a big deal to some, but it's a new phone, and I'm OCD enough to want stuff that was working out of the box to continue to work, so I decided to reset the device.
I did that, and got about 60% through my somewhat involved process in re-installing everything and re-enrolling in various services (iris scanning/fingerprints/credit cards in Samsung Pay/etc. etc. - you all know the drill).
When I went to set Smart Lock options for preventing the device from locking when I'm at home (Trusted Places) or the phone is detected on-body, I found that the Smart Lock screen was completely blank. No options appeared, and no button appeared at the bottom right to allow you to start the setup process for various Smart Lock options..
Back to Google, and I learned the fix was to remove "Smart Lock" from Trust Agents, reboot the phone, and re-add Smart Lock as a Trust Agent.
(PRO TIP: DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES DO THAT).
After the reboot, I couldn't even keep the Settings app from crashing whenever I tried to visit the settings page where Security-related settings are managed. (Samsung's or Google's wonderfully irritating dialog box: "Settings keeps stopping" - yes, no s**t).
Clearing caches and the cache partition did not fix this problem, either, so I reluctantly and nervously reset the phone for the second time in less than 6 hours.
So, I guess my story so far is that this third time appears to be a charm, and everything so far is working great. I'm staying far away from third-party (non-Samsung) themes in the theme store for now, even though they'd always worked fine for me before.
I have absolutely no idea why I had the problem with the Smart Lock setup, though. Everything worked fine after the second reset as far as the Smart Lock setup and options, although I hadn't done anything in the previous attempt that should have interfered with something as baked in as the Smart Lock stuff. I hadn't even changed the default wallpaper or home screen setup yet!
Also learned my lesson about slavishly following steps on a website (Remove "Smart Lock' as a Trust Agent? If I'd really been thinking, this would have seemed like bad advice to me, but things weren't working right anyway, so maybe a bit of experimentation was justified, I don't know...).
Anyway, just thought I'd post my experiences in case they're of help for anyone searching for these type of problems. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this setup will "take", but I have to say my confidence in messing around with manufacturer-provided capabilities and content, using their built-in software and eco-system on their current-year flagship device, has definitely been shaken.