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Dialer dying a lot

Hey all. Lately, the dialer had been dying on me a lot. No error displayed, just dies and goes to the homescreen. Probably a mem issue, but other apps don't get this behavior.
I've noticed that it closes down when it finds a match on my contacts... So basically right after pressing any number on the dial pad.
Valhala 1.3.2
Any way to fix this? I recently wiped my phone to factory defaults, maybe there's another thing i could try. Dialer should be top 1 priority and should not be taken down by memory management. This is, after all, a phone with a lot of other cool stuff.
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Reboot to recovery. Wipe cache/ dalvik cache and fix permissions.
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Random Reboots

OK I'm tired of seeing people complain about random reboots even though its been discussed multiple times. So here's a true story to help you all out.
I was on octane 3.0 problem free when I decided to go to Valhalla black final. I had reboots and force close issues. I went back to octane 3.0 and started having annoying force close issues. Now I know its time to start fresh from stock since I haven't cleaned the gremlins out of my phone in so long.
So I download kies mini for the drivers (since I got a new laptop in December) and pop in a DVD that had a backup of all necessary files (odin, kc1 and whatever was in fbs original gb starter guide, I want to say kg4). I load the kc1 files in Odin and Odin freezes at checking connection.
I unplug my phone, pull the battery, reinsert the battery and put it back into download mode (which is now a pic of a phone with a cord running to a computer), I then restart Odin with the kc1 files and everything goes through fine. I then do the kg4 files, once that's done I reboot into cwm and flash bhundvens latest kernel with the newer version of cwm.
Once that's done I flash Valhalla black final fixed followed by Valhalla booster. Now I've been running flawlessly for over 24 hours so its about time to UV/OC. Once I UV/OC, if I start having issues I'll know I need to change my UV/OC values, since I wasn't having problems with stock voltage.
Alternatively you can use bhundvens heimdall package that already includes his latest kernel. I just stuck with the files I already had saved cause my home internet sucks.
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Great guide 10x
Did I hear wiki?
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Thanks... I'm planning to do pretty much the same this afternoon. I had the reboots, but they stopped for a few days when I reflashed rc1.1 kernel... started happening again yesterday, so I flashed 2d, but still getting reboots.
Figured it was time to start back from ground zero.

I only had reboots when attempting to access the messenger toggle at the lock screen, Drive smart, and battery history in spare parts.

generalbrownie said:
I only had reboots when attempting to access the messenger toggle at the lock screen, Drive smart, and battery history in spare parts.
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1) mess. toggle= you have to set that via settings> tweaks (or edt tweaks)> lock screen settings> choose custom app
2) drive smart= labeled "bloat" & removed
3) spare parts= I don't believe there's gb support... Though you can access via settings> about phone> battery use
Hope this is helpful
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Very helpful I appreciated it. =D, I just changed the lock screen and wasn't going to use those, they bare no real importance and the ROM functions amazingly.

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Wow i had same problem with odin at setup connection but i did not.try.odin again yet as my.phone is already at stock and im about to cancel the contract.and get another phone as its not been 30 days yet. I am thinking of trying odin again.
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3) spare parts= I don't believe there's gb support...
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To add to what QUIETLYloud wrote - Spare Parts is GB supported according to the app description in the market, but it also tells you not all phones store battery history and if your phone does not store it you will FC if you select that option within the app.
Add: I decided to uninstall Spare Parts that came with the ROM and download Spare Parts from the market. No more FC on battery history.

lumin30 said:
To add to what QUIETLYloud wrote - Spare Parts is GB supported according to the app description in the market, but it also tells you not all phones store battery history and if your phone does not store it you will FC if you select that option within the app.
Add: I decided to uninstall Spare Parts that came with the ROM and download Spare Parts from the market. No more FC on battery history.
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Is it a completely different version or just newer?
Installed this and still force close on battery history selection. Im batting 0-4 tonight. /sigh

yes the messageing icon will fc and cause a reboot if you do not assign a button to it... I should add that to the op its inteintally left un assigned so you can assign whatever you want to it though tweaks...
Spare parts battery status will fc it was the only version i had at the time but the newer one should be ok if you wipe the data from it then force close uninstall and download form market ... If not wait tell they add better support.

There are a couple Spare Parts in the market. The one I used was Spare Parts+ (no ads) by DroidGram. It worked for me.

The weird thing is using a widget for the battery shows the history just fine. Spare parts is a weird animal.

So, I flashed Bryan's d2 version of the kernel yesterday and am now going on 33 hours without a reboot.
I'll leave it on the charger for the night and see what uptime is in the morning, if no reboots over night then I'll flash back to 1.1 and see what happens.
speaking of charging.. I am at 73% battery life at 9 hours on battery, so bat life is looking good
Core
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eollie said:
Is it a completely different version or just newer?
Installed this and still force close on battery history selection. Im batting 0-4 tonight. /sigh
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I think it is newer. But if you are using the one from the market, make sure you removed the one that came with the ROM.

I'm on Bryans 1.1 which has yet to give me any problems.
I've been playing with UV settings (always OC'ed @ 1.2) trying to find the right settings for my phone. I think I'm finally making progress, I had been getting a reboot within 8 hours, on my current settings I've just hit 12.
Once I hit 24 hours up time I'll adjust again and see how it goes.

I have the random reboots to and i used the back to stock one click, but I still get the random reboots. However, it only happens when I restore my apps thru TB. Is it possible one of my apps has some sort of "virus" causing it to do that?

Actually TB causing problems is an issue that has been discussed. Personally it hasn't given me any issues, but I've read after flashing a new ROM you should only restore user apps. So don't restore app data or system apps.
Its worth a try anyway. Otherwise one app causing your problem is a possibility, but depending on how many apps you have it could take a while to restore one by one til finding the problem one.
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I am having some random hangups followed by reboot when I'm using stock browser. I'm on rooted but stock GB KJ6 with stock kernel. I never had such behavior when using other apps. and it does not matter if OC or not.
Well, I'll try another browser for a while and will report back.

[Q] Exhausted all options

Hello,
I have been struggling with this issue forever. I am using my Google nav app and all of a sudden it freezes barely updating with CPU @100%. I have tried different options using 3g instead of 4g, not using bluetooth, not starting nav when CPU is busy nothing has worked. All of a sudden either at the start or during a navigation session the CPU will go up to 100% and the app will stop updating and if I am driving I left without directions until I reboot. Huge headache. I used different system monitors like 'WatchDog Lite' and 'System Tuner' and those apps say that the most CPU consuming process during that time period is 'Android System Process'. I have no clue as to what 'Android System Process' is doing during that period of time except it is taking a large amount of CPU.
Only option left is to overclock, upgrade to a faster CPU from Verizon or go to Apple IPhone

That's strange, I used the navigation all the time without a problem, besides slow locks. Have you tried clearing the app data, sounds like its the app itself misbehaving.
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I haven't had an issue like that and its definitely abnormal. Have you tried installing a ROM like Tweaked or a kernel like PBJ?
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I had the same problem before I rooted and installed my first ROM. No problems since then. Recommend you root, install Tweeked or Eclipse and PBJ, also don't undervolt too much. You're headache should stop. I haven't had that happen to me in long long time. I'm a truckdriver and use the maps quite often.
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I had the same problem star up all of a sudden a month or two ago. Google maps would just close by itself, and nav would freeze while driving. While messing around one day, I ended up having to wipe my phone and ODIN stock, re root, and put Tweaked 2.1 ROM on it again, and restore all my backed up apps. To my pleasant surprise Google maps and nav are working flawlessly now.
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I have been partially able to fix the problem. One I downloaded Copilot Live as a navigation app which uses offline maps instead of downloading maps on the fly like google nav. However, still my phone used to lag close to 20-30 seconds when I would go to my home screen and similarly when I went to my application lists. I was using Seepu so I could see that my CPU was at 100% all the time. This led me to believe that there might be an issue with my SDCard and hence I downloaded sdbooster https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.mehrmann.sdbooster&hl=en .
I saw an amazing performance improvement after I set the cache size to 8192 mb and the lags all but disappeared. However, still when I am on my home screen it sometimes lags 5 seconds which is still infuriating. What the heck is it doing, is it reading apps from the disk?

[Q] My Nexus is running very sluggish lately.

Lately my Nexus S has been behaving oddly. It's slow to respond for simple things like opening up gosms takes 10-15 seconds at times, pulling down the notification bar takes longer than normal and when it gets slow it tends to freeze up while loading whatever I have asked it to do.
I figured it was just jelly bean causing it to work harder than before so I went back to gingerbread (CM 7.2) which I had on it before and it used to be pretty snappy, but alas the issue remains. Very sluggish and freezing up.
On top of this my battery now does not last more than 4 hours when it used to go a good 12-13 hours and the phone gets very hot at times, I can feel it in my pocket when it heats up.
All of this has been happening the last 4 days.
So far I've tried doing a factory reset, a full wipe and re-flash, fixed permissions. Nothing has worked so far.
I am on the CM 7.2 kernel, Right now the only apps I've installed are the google apps, thinking it may have been a rogue app, but the problem is still there.
Any ideas what the issue may be, or is my dearly beloved Nexus just taking it's final breaths? lol

Install OS Monitor and see which app or process is eating up the cpu. Most likely the media scanner is running with an almost full sdcard. Also try to reformat your sdcard, back up first though.
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Install OS Monitor and see which app or process is eating up the cpu. Most likely the media scanner is running with an almost full sdcard. Also try to reformat your sdcard, back up first though.
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My SD Card has only 2GB used at the moment.
I installed watchdog and this morning I see 3 alerts that the Gmail app was pushing the cpu at 63%. That's the only app that shows heavy cpu use.

Fiasco said:
My SD Card has only 2GB used at the moment.
I installed watchdog and this morning I see 3 alerts that the Gmail app was pushing the cpu at 63%. That's the only app that shows heavy cpu use.
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That's weird. Try uninstalling Gmail and see if that fixes your issue. Then you can reinstall it from the PlayStore.
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So gmail was the battery killer in this case. I removed it then reinstalled from market and it's normal again.
My nexus is still vsery sluggish when opening and using apps. Even typing this now it freezes up and skips letters.
Also the phone is quite hot to the touch at the moment after doing a reboot about 5 minutes ago.
Any ideas?

Hi,
What JB ROM were u using? What kernel?
Because JB is smooth as heck for me and I've tried a few different ROMs.
It could be ur apps notifications or the animation on the app drawer.... or other transition animation. Just turn them all off.
Try clearing the cache and data on some the app under "manage app" section.
Crack up the CPU if u got a lot of data being used in the background such as email, gmail, goggle now, etc.
Heck find some time to reflash the ROM u like, but run it without adding anything to see if it starts out sluggish. If so then its the ROM and or kernel.
If it starts out smooth then add ur apps and background data one by one to see what is hogging the CPU.
I'm running codename android with air kernel(stable) and I have minimal or no lag at all.
Slim bean with air kernel also runs smooth.
Good luck
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---------- Post added at 11:26 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:21 PM ----------
I've also read that if u were a flash a holic u may have some unwanted data on ur SD card that being read by the android system.
So copy ur SD card to ur computer and format the SD card.... then only add the ROM zip files onto the SD card for a very fresh I stall.
Good luck
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I tried androxide and the 99% google experience JB roms. I then tried CM 9.
All of these were sluggish, freezing up constantly and running very hot.
Since my last post I have gone back to CM 7.0.3 which is the rom I was running prior to trying JB.
This rom runs smooth, very responsive and the battery life is great.
Go figure I guess.

[Q] Apps launching slow

I am on CleanRom 3.0 right now, fresh install. Now, for the problem. Today while sitting in class I took my phone out to see it was booted into safe mode. So I rebooted it back, and noticed a lot of my downloaded apps were launching 10-25 seconds after I clicked to open them. So, I rebooted again. That didn't work. I cleared cache and dalvik cache. That didn't work. So, I dirty flashed CleanRom 3.0, which still didn't work. After driving and listening to spotify in my car, the apps launched completely fine, and still are. Does anyone know why this is happening? By the way, this happened on my rooted stock rom, that's why I switched roms. I don't know if this could cause any issues, but I do use Directory Bind.

Have you checked if power saver is on?
Another possibility could be a lot of applications running the background and just slowing your phone down.
Check your task manager by holding the home button for about 2-3 seconds.

Yea, power saving is off. And there isn't any apps running in the background when it's ran slow. Most stock apps will launch fast (settings, phone, clock), but downloaded ones won't (I funny, handcent sms). I seriously can't figure out what the issue is. I've even tried messing around with set cpu, but that didn't help.
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Try cache mate.
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