My S3's sensors won't work. 100% software related. - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III

Greetings XDA gods! I've been a member for a long time and this is my first post with a question, as I am good at searching and answering my own questions in order to allow others time to be dedicated to making our devices better. I will describe the issue now.
I was running CM 10.1 stable since it came out. I resisted my addiction to flashing my phone every other day successfully, for a long time. My phone was functioning fine. I then decided to flash the first stable 10.2 CM version. Here is where problems began. The flash went perfect as usual and I will now describe what happened next.
1. I noticed that my rotation wasn't working.
2. I searched and discovered a handful of people had the same issues with their own GS3s.
3. I downloaded an app which 'forced' rotation. It worked. That indicates my sensor's aren't physically broken. The app was cumbersome and not automatic so I removed it.
4. I full wiped, flashed 10.2 again, same issue.
5. I full wiped, flashed 10.1??? like I had been running before and still had the non rotation problem happening.
6. Searched and discovered that I had no access to the hidden menu (to manually test the sensors) as CM** doesn't include the hidden menu options in their Roms.
7. Searched forums from all websites remotely related to CM 10.2 and discovered a bigger number of people had the issue, but some had the issue fixed with a nightly release.
8. I full wiped and flashed the nightly they described fixed the issue. (I flash, full wipe, flash, wipe cache's, etc., reboot then reboot again.).
9. The non rotation persisted.
10. I found out Verizon was pushing an ota 4.3 update and although I don't ever partake in that devilish activity, in my desperation for a fix, I decided to go 'there' knowing I'd have to life with my decision until a Dev cracked boot loader, etc..
10. I used the files from this forum to 'stock' my phone, including unroot and flash counter.
11. The 1st flash of the stock version still didn't fix the problem.
12. I rewiped and flashed again, this time updating from the Verizon 'check for updates' menu option.
13. I am now unhappily running 4.3 stock, unrooted (for now) and the rotation problem persists.
14. The was a second, literally, in between the updates that the screen rotated! I was already processing the flash, so I couldn't stop it.
15. I downloaded a app to check sensors. I think its called sensorbox. It reports no sensor info from any one of the movement sensors.
16. My GPS navi function works?! Which it shouldn't. Yet another reason it's software related.
So, for the first time, I am asking this awesome community for help, as my wife and kids are tired of my obsession to fix my phone and all said I need to stop. I am not 'in warranty', so I can't return it.
As a side note from not running any TW Roms since I got my phone, the UI is refreshing. All except for the non rotation..
So, any help that's sensible, not "pull battery and then hold left ear and hop up and down", would be greatly appreciated. I have done all the normal fixs for rom flashing issues, to no avail..
Kurt
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Sorry bro, no idea.
BTW, shouldn't this be is Q&A and troubleshooting?
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Also... Depending on the Rom, there are up to 6 'enable rotate' menu selections to turn on/off the feature. I have tried them all in various patterns and the none work.
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Okay. So maybe its posted in the wrong forum. What should I do? @flyestAC. Thanks for your help
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did you ever try the calibrating option in developer options(not sure on where this menu is, on 4.1 tw right now) same place you usually turn backlights off at. might have been worth trying but i have no idea how to do that on the new tw update stuff.
you could always just go to a store and tell them the update borked it. raise some hell and dont mention it being rooted and you might get a new one.

Moved from Original Development (which it is not), to the more appropriate Verizon Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting (where questions and help go... Hence the title)...

Well I enabled Dev options. There isn't any calibration options. I searched and found that it seems that 4.3 doesn't have the old option to set your phone down on a flat surface and hit calibrate anymore. The settings are under motions/sensitivity but they (3diff types) have no effect at all.
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Judging by googles search results, this issue is causing many GS3 owners issues.
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kurtazz said:
Judging by googles search results, this issue is causing many GS3 owners issues.
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Just to chime in, the EXACT same thing started happening to me yesterday. Lost all accelerometer readings on my d2vzw.
I'm on CM 10.2. I tried a factory reset but that didn't do anything. Anyone else having this issue?

I posted this very same issue in 3 other sites. I have a total of 21 who commented that 10.2 made their sensors stop working. No one has a fixed.. posted. Which Id figure there would be at least 1 dev/smarter person than us looking into this issue or at least providing suggestions. I am getting discouraged!
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kurtazz said:
I posted this very same issue in 3 other sites. I have a total of 21 who commented that 10.2 made their sensors stop working. No one has a fixed.. posted. Which Id figure there would be at least 1 dev/smarter person than us looking into this issue or at least providing suggestions. I am getting discouraged!
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I'm on board if you can find me a willing and able guinea pig. Root and ADB are mandatory, and I'd strongly prefer AOSP ROMs over TW. Some familiarity with the command line for whatever OS they use would be nice, but definitely isn't required. I can't offer much help setting up ADB except on Linux.

I wish I could be the person to help
the fact that I tried to fix it with the OTA update to 4.3 from verizon, the option to reflash is not an option yet. Unless I am mistaken.
Which may be a good thing.
decimalman said:
I'm on board if you can find me a willing and able guinea pig. Root and ADB are mandatory, and I'd strongly prefer AOSP ROMs over TW. Some familiarity with the command line for whatever OS they use would be nice, but definitely isn't required. I can't offer much help setting up ADB except on Linux.
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kurtazz said:
the fact that I tried to fix it with the OTA update to 4.3 from verizon, the option to reflash is not an option yet. Unless I am mistaken.
Which may be a good thing.
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Hold the phone firmly on your right hand and smack it to your left hand. Try a few times this should unstuck the G sensor....

I tried this tapping action. First with my hand them with
A hammer. Still doesn't work. After downloading a few sensor apps all the sensors show that they are on the phone but no data is being delivered.
Again to reiterate, everything worked perfect until the cm stable rom was flashed.
About to throw this thru a wall
Kurt
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Same issue ! no sensor data :S
I tried CM 10.2 ROM, then i noticed my screen on my phone doesnt rotate.
tried other ROM´s and nothing,
also used Sensorbox app and there is no sensor data ,
and with GPU-z no data from sensors either
my sensors were working but after flashin they stoped.
can find a way to fix this. im shure its software related because my sensors were working...
any help would be apreciated

maxcrown said:
I tried CM 10.2 ROM, then i noticed my screen on my phone doesnt rotate.
tried other ROM´s and nothing,
also used Sensorbox app and there is no sensor data ,
and with GPU-z no data from sensors either
my sensors were working but after flashin they stoped.
can find a way to fix this. im shure its software related because my sensors were working...
any help would be apreciated
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Go back to what you had before 10.2
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I've had this issue ever since I accidentally took the OTA. Right after a battery pull the screen will rotate right up until everything loads and then nothing. Very frustrating!
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If your phone has reboot issues please help out

For those of you who are experiencing the random reboot issue on the stock rom, would anyone be willing to do a factory reset without installing any apps and testing for a while to see if they still have the reboot?
I want to find out if this issue is a problem related to specific g2x's, or is triggered by some kind of software installed.
The reason why I want to test this out is because I have gone through 6 phones(waiting for 7th), and I can not recreate this problem on any of them running the same restored nandroid backup.
Also, for those of you who have gone through multiple g2x's, have you had phones with reboots and also ones without the issue
Since it seems LG is not recognizing this as a known issue, it most likely won't be fixed in the update they announced. Therefore its up tous to try find the cause of this issue whether it is device specific or due to certain apps installed.
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xdmds said:
For those of you who are experiencing the random reboot issue on the stock rom, would anyone be willing to do a factory reset without installing any apps and testing for a while to see if they still have the reboot?
I want to find out if this issue is a problem related to specific g2x's, or is triggered by some kind of software installed.
The reason why I want to test this out is because I have gone through 6 phones(waiting for 7th), and I can not recreate this problem on any of them running the same restored nandroid backup.
Also, for those of you who have gone through multiple g2x's, have you had phones with reboots and also ones without the issue
Since it seems LG is not recognizing this as a known issue, it most likely won't be fixed in the update they announced. Therefore its up tous to try find the cause of this issue whether it is device specific or due to certain apps installed.
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6 phones? Did you ever once suspect the software?
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I thougjt I clarified in my original post that none of mine had the reboot issue and I was not able to recreate it either.
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If it a software related issue, it couldn't be the ROM since some people have this issue on other roms. It could be the kernel but all g2x's come with the same kernel out of the box IIRC and only some people are having the issue.
EDIT: wow I'm really inaccurate typing in portrait mode
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I never had a reboot issue in Arizona and I just got back to Ohio today and i have randomly rebooted 4 times today and I had to do a battery pull this morning... crack that nut for me
I went through 2 G2x's.
First one stock, rooted, and CM7 - all ways would reboot.
Second one, stock, rooted and CM7, all ways would reboot, so I tried it stock and CM7 without any added on apps - same results both stock and CM7.
JWhipple said:
I went through 2 G2x's.
First one stock, rooted, and CM7 - all ways would reboot.
Second one, stock, rooted and CM7, all ways would reboot, so I tried it stock and CM7 without any added on apps - same results both stock and CM7.
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It seems that people who are getting reboots, are getting reboots across multiple g2x's, while people who aren't getting reboots, don't have the issue across multiple g2x's. So there must be some kind of installed software related thing that is not playing nice and causing the phone to reboot itself. There isn't enough info in order to make a definite diagnosis to the source of the problem yet which is why I made this topic.
I feel that it's definitely software b/c I've been running the leak without any reboot issues. They still need to also fix the kernel too
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philthyman21 said:
I feel that it's definitely software b/c I've been running the leak without any reboot issues. They still need to also fix the kernel too
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what is confusing me is if it is software, why is it only affecting some people? the leak is running a different kernel so that could possibly be why you aren't getting reboots, but something must be triggering it that the people who have the issue have down/installed etc.
xdmds said:
what is confusing me is if it is software, why is it only affecting some people? the leak is running a different kernel so that could possibly be why you aren't getting reboots, but something must be triggering it that the people who have the issue have down/installed etc.
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I don't think the LG kernel for the G2x has been released :-\ BUT I could be wrong
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xdmds said:
It seems that people who are getting reboots, are getting reboots across multiple g2x's, while people who aren't getting reboots, don't have the issue across multiple g2x's. So there must be some kind of installed software related thing that is not playing nice and causing the phone to reboot itself. There isn't enough info in order to make a definite diagnosis to the source of the problem yet which is why I made this topic.
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Orrrrr...perhaps it related to the network somehow? Strength of signal or need for the phone to switch between 4G/2G? Or perhaps trying to go to the ever elusive 3g (since I still haven't seen a report of someone actually seeing 3g in the notification bar). Maybe folks with reboots are in fringe areas and the phone oscillates between 4g and 2g and doesn't like it? Maybe those folks use their phones differently...leave BT on all the time and run apps that access GPS regularly. Or any other number of possibilities.
It's too easy to blame an app.
I know that one of the barcode scanning apps caused my phone to lock up, and sometimes reboot.
-bZj
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Orrrrr...perhaps it related to the network somehow? Strength of signal or need for the phone to switch between 4G/2G? Or perhaps trying to go to the ever elusive 3g (since I still haven't seen a report of someone actually seeing 3g in the notification bar). Maybe folks with reboots are in fringe areas and the phone oscillates between 4g and 2g and doesn't like it? Maybe those folks use their phones differently...leave BT on all the time and run apps that access GPS regularly. Or any other number of possibilities.
It's too easy to blame an app.
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Thats why I'm asking people to participate in this experiment. By eliminating variables one by one we can try to single out the cause.
EDIT: also, the 4g signal shows for both 4g and 3g. The only way u can tell which one you are on is by going to "about phone". UTMS is 3g then there hspa(+).
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xdmds said:
Thats why I'm asking people to participate in this experiment. By eliminating variables one by one we can try to single out the cause.
EDIT: also, the 4g signal shows for both 4g and 3g. The only way u can tell which one you are on is by going to "about phone". UTMS is 3g then there hspa(+).
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check your pms xdmds
let me know if u need anymore help with tmobile
Mine actually rebooted randomly very often. It didn't matter what rom I had (Stock, Eagle, CM7). I tried everything.... factory resets, removed apps, etc. It's just very random when it decides to reboot. Sometimes when I'm using google maps, sometimes when I'm trying to text, or when I'm playing with an app. It got so annoying that I had to return the phone.
I noticed that the times my G2x has rebooted was when it got hot. For example, if I charge it, talk and surf at the same time it will start getting hot and either freeze or reboot. Sometimes just charging it will freeze it.
I'm trying out a new battery and so far the phone seems to run cooler...its 25.2c right now and I've been playing with the phone for a while...with the stock battery I dont remember the temperature below 27c ever...sometimes with heavy use I would see it go as high as 43c...
it's only been one day with the new battery but I'll let you guys know how it behaves the next few days.
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Well android leaves apps open. There is no exit button on the apps that kills it. I religiously kill tasks and check to see what's running. Is there any type of reporting app that will tell you what was running at the time of the reboot like maemo/N900 has?
As far as I know, I have not had one reboot. Has not been a full week though. If it was rebooting in the night, I guess I wouldn't know it.
Hell, I haven't had any real probs. My Gps was way off, but I rebooted it outside and it's been dead on since.
I love my G2X.
I just got an exchanged phone due to reboot/shutdown issues. I did not install any 3rd party software, and i had a shutdown that required a battery pull while it was on the factory charger.
Not sure if I should keep exchanging until I get one that works or not...
mapin0518 said:
I just got an exchanged phone due to reboot/shutdown issues. I did not install any 3rd party software, and i had a shutdown that required a battery pull while it was on the factory charger.
Not sure if I should keep exchanging until I get one that works or not...
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Did you have anything installed at all?
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Screen won't rotate, would root/flash help?

Hi all,
just bought an Inspire off CL, and unfortunately didn't reallize that the screen won't rotate. I trired recalibrating, but it kept being aborted even though I put the phone flat on the table on its back. A search turned up tons of complaints from about a year ago with few resolutions, and none worked for me (reboot, recalibrate, kill all apps with adv task killer, switch sim card, etc.)
So the big question is, would rooting the phone and flash custom rom solve the problem? Has anyone solved the problem with the g-sensor?
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Is the phone rooted? Some roms have customizations to lock the screen and keep it from rotating. Do any screens rotate? Or is the home screen just not rotating?
Try going to home> settings> display and check auto rotate screen.
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Auto-rotate is checked. Apps the should rotate (e.g. Google search, email) don't rotate, and most frustrating is that games that use the g-sensor just won't work. The phone is running stock Gb 2.3.3.
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fishline said:
Auto-rotate is checked. Apps the should rotate (e.g. Google search, email) don't rotate, and most frustrating is that games that use the g-sensor just won't work. The phone is running stock Gb 2.3.3.
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If not rooted I would root and try a custom rom would hurt nothing. But make sure you use Ace Hack Kit and no out of XDA method. Also read, read, then read the Effen manual and make sure your knowledged on the steps for rooting. If you get stuck anywhere there is an IRC chat connection in the Ace Hack Kit page.
The thing about buying used phones from someone else is like buying a used car. Your basically buying some elses headache.
The other option would be to return to seller for money back, your option.
PS: If you decide to try out a ICS ROM remember that the kernels are not fully released as of yet so some games will not fully work and do have a few bugs depending on how it reacts with your phone. For gingerbread I would try a few out and see which one you like.
(Absolution 3.7 , Coredroid 9.4) lol my preference but thats a can a worms you dont want to open here on XDA by asking which is best ROM so dont.
Welcome and Enjoy the learning.
Ok, so all the reading made the rooting process seem somewhat intimidating. However, when I actually screwed up the courage to do it, it was like, that's it? It's donde in under 5 minutes, and I hardly did anything!
So the good news is that the phone is now rooted and flashed with coredroid (looks nice!). The bad news is that there's no change in the problem with the g-sensor! I'm starting to suspect that it's more likely hardware. In any case, I wonder if there are any Roms that might have a better shot at fixing the problem? Somehow I have the probably wrong impression that a custom rom that's modded from stock aren't likely to fix my problem... Any suggestions?
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fishline said:
Ok, so all the reading made the rooting process seem somewhat intimidating. However, when I actually screwed up the courage to do it, it was like, that's it? It's donde in under 5 minutes, and I hardly did anything!
So the good news is that the phone is now rooted and flashed with coredroid (looks nice!). The bad news is that there's no change in the problem with the g-sensor! I'm starting to suspect that it's more likely hardware. In any case, I wonder if there are any Roms that might have a better shot at fixing the problem? Somehow I have the probably wrong impression that a custom rom that's modded from stock aren't likely to fix my problem... Any suggestions?
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Yeah, if you had a sensor problem before the root and it persists after, it is more then likely a hardware issue and no amount of rooting/flashing a new ROM is gonna fix it. If you're under warranty, unroot and send it back for a replacement.
fishline said:
Ok, so all the reading made the rooting process seem somewhat intimidating. However, when I actually screwed up the courage to do it, it was like, that's it? It's donde in under 5 minutes, and I hardly did anything!
So the good news is that the phone is now rooted and flashed with coredroid (looks nice!). The bad news is that there's no change in the problem with the g-sensor! I'm starting to suspect that it's more likely hardware. In any case, I wonder if there are any Roms that might have a better shot at fixing the problem? Somehow I have the probably wrong impression that a custom rom that's modded from stock aren't likely to fix my problem... Any suggestions?
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Did you look in setting for rotation display settings. Some launchers like adw launcher lets you also check and uncheck rotation angles. All roms are great in their own way, try a few on for size but I would give them each at least a week or two of testing. A day or two is not really enough to get the feel of them. You can try Absolution 3.7 , Redemption Alpha 6 (ICS) , or even go over to the Desire HD Dev section and try out - Ice Cold Sandwich 7.2 (ICS) (also dont forget to flash inspirmod as well with this one). Also these three will get rid of the stock look.
Good Luck
The phone was bought off craigslist, so no hope of return or warranty. Rotate sreen in settings has been checked, as well as g-sensor calibration (which invariably ends in abort, even after rooting and flashing coredroid. I might try absolution in a few days.
The phone is for my son, and he cares a lot more whether the accelerometer works (for games) than how nice the rom looks.
One problem I found after flashing coredroid is that even at boot up tbe email app keep crashing (without me opening the app). Anyone knows whats up with this?
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fishline said:
The phone was bought off craigslist, so no hope of return or warranty. Rotate sreen in settings has been checked, as well as g-sensor calibration (which invariably ends in abort, even after rooting and flashing coredroid. I might try absolution in a few days.
The phone is for my son, and he cares a lot more whether the accelerometer works (for games) than how nice the rom looks.
One problem I found after flashing coredroid is that even at boot up tbe email app keep crashing (without me opening the app). Anyone knows whats up with this?
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Did you do a full wipe (factory, cache partition, dalvik) before flashing rom. Coredroid has a zip called full wipe 1.5 as well.
I flashed absolution, and it didn't help with the g-sensor problem at all. I put coredroid back, this time wiping data and cache, and the email problem went away. I guess my son will have to live with the g-sensor as is. Thanks to everyone who replied for the suggestions.
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[Info] New Android 4.2 Keyboard!

Hey guys,
For those that do not venture to the other forums anymore, the new 4.2 keyboard is available;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1964726
Works fine on my I9305
There is also a language pack/app in post #6 of that thread to allow for swype input in different languages.
EDIT 4: It appears that I have an issue when resetting permissions on my phone and it is not connected to the keyboard so there shoud not be an issue in using it!
Ok, just doing a restore now!
I had issues eariler today using Rom Toolbox when I accidentaly froze "App Factory" a Tasker addon. It took me ages to defrost it. I am not sure if it is an issue with Toolbox at this stage but that is when my issues started. Then it was ok for a while even after installing the above but then it went haywire again. So in all honesty I cannot say if it is the keyboard that has issues or just that my phone was bombing out anyway.
Try it at your own risk but please report back here with your findings.
Thanks!
OK Guys, so tested agian and found that if I install the keyboard all works great until reboot! Then it just starts to grind things up and really slow the phone down. A system/data restore sorts it out though.
I do not know enough to say what is causing this but the results are consistent so far on my phone. I am running a stock de-odexed rom XXALI5.
If others can post their findings if they have tested on a different rom that woudl be great.
Failing that if someone can actually get it working along with the new camera in the same thread then that would be even better!
The aosp note 2 cam ? That should be easy only reason i havent played with that it still has 1 bug. Cartoon effect. Now even tho i may not use that effect i dont like buggy things on my phon. Lol im a bit of a perfectionist ,
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btemtd said:
The aosp note 2 cam ? That should be easy only reason i havent played with that it still has 1 bug. Cartoon effect. Now even tho i may not use that effect i dont like buggy things on my phon. Lol im a bit of a perfectionist ,
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Noooo, not the Note 2 camera, the new 4.2 camera, posted in the same thread i have linked in the OP. It looks pretty good, am going to try it now, will report back.
The 4.2 camera/gallery apk does not work either guys! There is a .zip install out there now which I will try after it restores in a few minutes.
Stock
I've not long switched to the i9305 so haven't gone down the root road yet (until the options mature).
Just reporting in that it works fine with my phone even after reboots.
slimeruk said:
I've not long switched to the i9305 so haven't gone down the root road yet (until the options mature).
Just reporting in that it works fine with my phone even after reboots.
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Thanks for the reply. not sure why mine bombs out. Perhaps it is something else on my phone causing it!
Well there is defiantley an issue at least on my phone.
All runs smoothly even after reboots this but as soon as I clear cache and reset permissions, things go funnny, the "Choose input Method" from the pull down notification no longer responds. If I change the input method from a long press on the spacebar it loses the keyboard alltogether.
I am wondering if it may be do with other changes in the SystemUI from other mods that are conflicting but not sure at this stage. I will see if I can get more time later this evening to figure it out!
Finally got to the bottom of my issue!
I have a problem when resetting permissions in that my whole data folder seems to become inaccessible.
So it appears that is it not an issue with the app, just something going funny when resetting permissions on my phone (anyone else had any issues?)
I will update the first post!
btemtd said:
The aosp note 2 cam ? That should be easy only reason i havent played with that it still has 1 bug. Cartoon effect. Now even tho i may not use that effect i dont like buggy things on my phon. Lol im a bit of a perfectionist ,
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You are not the only one who is a perfectionist!
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Slim Bean - SGS4G Q&A

Let the festivities begin!
Thanks bro
btw peoples kyndig tested for me so thank him too for his efforts
So only 2G works and only speaker for calls or did I read it wrong? Either way, can't wait to try it out. Thanks you guys!
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This will be awesome, I got a Note 2, so I gave my SGS4G to my son to play games on, no data needed. How's the wifi and battery performance? Any theming options yet? Are these addons compatible?
StonedYoda said:
So only 2G works and only speaker for calls or did I read it wrong? Either way, can't wait to try it out. Thanks you guys!
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Yep you are correct sir follow instructions in OP
ReelFiles said:
This will be awesome, I got a Note 2, so I gave my SGS4G to my son to play games on, no data needed. How's the wifi and battery performance? Any theming options yet? Are these addons compatible?
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No wifi yet
erikmm said:
...No wifi yet
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No problem, I copied titanium from my other phone and restored all his games. Had no idea it had theme choser, gonna go play with some of my themes now
How do I get TWRP on this? I tried the ICS one from the TWRP Installer thread but that didn't work. Installing via Goo Manager is not an option without a network (No compatible Sim).
Just fyi the data even using 2g is giving me random reboots. Otherwise this Rom is freaking fast and smooth. I can't wait till it gains enough stability to run as a daily driver.
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gregcapps said:
Just fyi the data even using 2g is giving me random reboots. Otherwise this Rom is freaking fast and smooth. I can't wait till it gains enough stability to run as a daily driver.
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I had some reboots without ever inserting a SIM, mostly while restoring apps from SD via titanium pro, so it might not be just data related.
Thanks Erik!
Can't wait until the bugs are worked out to use it as a daily.
Open as per OP request, Thank You.
Awesome update on 4g data, Erikmm! I get to experience JB now. I can hold on to the S3 upgrade for another year. Slim JB on our phone is almost as snappy as JB on S3. If we can fix the wifi, it would be perfecto.
P.s. The small font and icons actually made the phone's screen looked bigger. Feels like I am having an S3.
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gizmoscoop said:
Awesome update on 4g data, Erikmm! I get to experience JB now. I can hold on to the S3 upgrade for another year. Slim JB on our phone is almost as snappy as JB on S3. If we can fix the wifi, it would be perfecto.
P.s. The small font and icons actually made the phone's screen looks bigger. Feels like I am having an S3.
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Lol yea I like the smaller density on the sgs4g and that's good the s3 is not that cool lol
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sorry for the really stupid questions, but since the 4g reboot issue has been fixed, do we need to follow the same directions about checking the airplane mode, etc? or just install and run as normal. also, im assuming this is mtd?
hawklet00 said:
sorry for the really stupid questions, but since the 4g reboot issue has been fixed, do we need to follow the same directions about checking the airplane mode, etc? or just install and run as normal. also, im assuming this is mtd?
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Not a stupid question at all I'll fix op tomorrow but no more airplane mode just flash ans enjoy lol
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erikmm said:
Not a stupid question at all I'll fix op tomorrow but no more airplane mode just flash ans enjoy lol
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sweet! i will have to pick this phone back up and use it again.....
Here's something that may go for dev-bug, but...
I wiped my phone and applied the SlimBean R2 installer as well as the SlimGApps. Full factory reset, all that fun. So hopefully no remnants causing these symptoms:
Yesterday I ran Waze (driving/mapping app) on my SlimBean for ~45 minutes without ever getting a GPS lock. Rebooted, tried again for another 30 minutes. No GPS connection.
The GPS Status app says that it's not seeing any satellites at all... so apparently my GPS isn't even trying, as my phone with ICS normally sees 10-12 satellites here. After testing with GPS Status, reflashed SlimBean, reflashed SlimGApps, checked GPS Status again. Still not a single satellite seen. Recovery, flashed YAGF2.zip (Yet Another GPS Fix 2), system, GPS Status, still nothing.
I should probably note that the cell location has been working... Waze was giving guesses as to where I was currently located based on my cell towers. Obviously Wifi location isn't working without Wifi, so the question I have is... are other people using JB actually having GPS satellite locks, or is this another current JB bug? I ask because OP doesn't mention GPS issues, though people reported reboots when GPS tries to take effect. The only GPS thing I did before was making sure that Internal GPS was actually set as the GPS source in Location services, since that wasn't checked... Internal GPS was the only option, but it wasn't checked.
If you need logs or something, let me know what you'd like. Thanks.
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Our phone is infamous for its horrible GPS, try this GPS patch and see what happens, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1963915
Already had that downloaded. Let's give it a shot, and...
Reboot to recovery, flashing agps.patch.google.build.nossl.twrp.v3.1.zip, reboot to system, GPS Status sees...
Nothing. Still just "Looking for GPS location..." with no Compass (heading stays at 0 degrees) or satellites seen.
One more thing. I know it's been noted that the phone audio only works through the speaker, but music also only comes out through the speaker. At least, plugging into the headphone jack didn't make MortPlayer Audio Books actually come out through the car's sound system, it was still coming out of the speaker.
Theraze said:
Already had that downloaded. Let's give it a shot, and...
Reboot to recovery, flashing agps.patch.google.build.nossl.twrp.v3.1.zip, reboot to system, GPS Status sees...
Nothing. Still just "Looking for GPS location..." with no Compass (heading stays at 0 degrees) or satellites seen.
One more thing. I know it's been noted that the phone audio only works through the speaker, but music also only comes out through the speaker. At least, plugging into the headphone jack didn't make MortPlayer Audio Books actually come out through the car's sound system, it was still coming out of the speaker.
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Read the notes if it doesn't work, let the GPS stay on. Try other methods on the notes.
Note 4:
This works with ANY ROM unless the ROM has aGPS and/or GPS disabled in the code. This happens with CMx nightlies and some betas! I cannot fix this, neither can you.
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So... as I'm asking, has anyone actually confirmed that GPS (not location services, but GPS itself) is enabled and working? The build.prop tweak that it suggests (Note 13) doesn't appear to apply, since neither this nor ICS (AOKPm6r5) have the ro.ril.def.agps.mode forced.
Also, note that as I said before, I've let GPS Status or Waze run for going on an hour without it seeing a single satellite... GPS is NOT ENABLED on my JB. Just like Wifi, except it's marked as 'on'. I'm wondering if this is my phone hating life and needing to offer up some logs, or if this is a standard issue. -_-
That being said, when I turned off GPS and just used cell location, I had my first random reboot on second location services call (Yelp's location check). After it finished rebooting, told it to start trying to use GPS again and it went back to just guessing wildly as to my location based on cell towers without ever using GPS (GPS Status never showed in the notification bar, no little coda to signify GPS lock attempt), but also without the reboots, so that was nice.

{Q}to follow the cm 10.2 updates

Hi,
I m very interested in install the official 10.2 CyanogenMod based in android 4.3, but is in Nightly phase, i am wondering how much time can take to reach a more stable version, and if is posible to follow the changes, issues and fixes in the daily releases.
I hope someone can give me orientation, thx in advance.
Of course you can. Head over to the thread Nardholio started in the Development section.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2405310
The first post has links to: the official CM site and to the Apex Github. The CM site has a changelog for nightlies. On the Apex Github, they maintain a list of known issues.
It's all there.
I caution you on expectations here. Android 4.4 was just announced with a very unfortunate name. I think Jelly Bean 4.3 has about 60 days to live. It would be silly to expect 10.2 to be stable by then. After 4.4 hits Nexus devices, I bet the Apex guys will shift their focus to 4.4 and we will repeat some of this process...
NavarroCol said:
Hi,
I m very interested in install the official 10.2 CyanogenMod based in android 4.3, but is in Nightly phase, i am wondering how much time can take to reach a more stable version, and if is posible to follow the changes, issues and fixes in the daily releases.
I hope someone can give me orientation, thx in advance.
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it will probably never happen.
android 4.4 is just around the corner, so i guess the focus will be swapped on that, as it was for 4.3 and 4.2 before
CyanogenMod will do a final "release" build when 10.2 is EOL which will be the most stable we can make it. We also have a last 10.1 build we consider mostly stable, although it is unofficial. Right now 10.2 does have some stability issues, but most of these will be worked out (there are some bugs in our firmware we will not be able to fix until/if Samsung updates the firmware)
Nardholio said:
Right now 10.2 does have some stability issues, but most of these will be worked out (there are some bugs in our firmware we will not be able to fix until/if Samsung updates the firmware)
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I have random freezes/reboots all the time on the official nightlies -- even the ones people claim are stable. The lockscreen freezes quite often too. Are these known issues or am I just a lucky one? I am running CWM and followed the installation instructions on the Cyanogenmod wiki.
I just installed alogerec and hopefully something will show up to troubleshoot my issue.
Problem with 10.2 nightly as well
I have a problem with the 10.2 nightlies I have tried (all from this week) that I emailed Narholio as he requested.
But since I am a n00b and cannot post to development threads yet I could not post details there. I have not done extensive testing because the screen stays black even though the buttons light up when I try to unlock the phone. I can usually get it to display by pressing the lock button again to lock it, then pressing it again to unlock it right away. This also seems to happen only after the phone has been locked for greater than 20 seconds. If the screen timeout happens, or if press the lock button to lock it, the display almost always works if I unlock it again before 20 seconds is up.
I have not noticed any reboots or other problems, but have not used it extensively because of the black screen problem.
Try http://ls.infernix.net/jenkins/job/apexq-staging/ build 336
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I flashed build 336 last night and still have my phone lock up when trying to unlock it. This doesn't happen every time but when it does it either shows the back and menu buttons illuminated with a black screen or an unresponsive lock screen. In either case it will eventually reboot.
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Same problem
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Try build 336
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I also still have the same problem with 336 you linked. I'm running it right now and posting this using it. I have had no reboots or other problems yet, but the black screen while trying to unlock it still plagues an otherwise really great experience. I love the speed and feel of it
I've seen that problem w/ the freezing while trying to unlock when the phone is OOM. If you can actually get it to unlock after that, check your apps memory usage.
Good idea
DOMF said:
I've seen that problem w/ the freezing while trying to unlock when the phone is OOM. If you can actually get it to unlock after that, check your apps memory usage.
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Thanks for the suggestion. Checking memory is a good idea, although I really don't have any apps at all installed. Didn't even install gapps when I flashed this time.
Is there a preferred way to check for free memory? Terminal command?
computerinfo21 said:
I also still have the same problem with 336 you linked. I'm running it right now and posting this using it. I have had no reboots or other problems yet, but the black screen while trying to unlock it still plagues an otherwise really great experience. I love the speed and feel of it
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Have you tried a clean install? Wipe system,data,cache then install I have not had wake-lock since early 10.1
computerinfo21 said:
Thanks for the suggestion. Checking memory is a good idea, although I really don't have any apps at all installed. Didn't even install gapps when I flashed this time.
Is there a preferred way to check for free memory? Terminal command?
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Personally, I always forget to close browser tabs and OOM that way. Check in Settings -> Apps -> Running
Look at the apps you use as well.
When Android was introduced, they rolled it out with a set of guidelines called the application life cycle.
In the document, Google specified how to develop applications and what was available. One option for devs that is powerful is running a thread as a service. It was a feature that was supposed to be used sparingly... (A service is a program that runs all the time--unless the kernel panics and shuts down everything.)
Unfortunately, developers know that Google isn't going to do anything to push them to make quality software. The market is supposed to sort it out.
In many cases, this is not working. People are taking advantage of the lack of QA.
Bottom line: App devs are building software that leaves services running in the background all the time--for no good reason, whatsoever. Many of these services are just there to slurp up your data and send it to their servers so they can sell it.
Holding the back button to fix it? That rarely works. The devs have intentionally built their memory wasting crapware to restart the service if it gets shut down.
Plenty of free memory
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Have you tried a clean install? Wipe system,data,cache then install I have not had wake-lock since early 10.1
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Yep, did wipe each time I tried multiple recent nightly versions which all do the same thing. The only one I've tried that works correctly is the 20130309 version.
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Personally, I always forget to close browser tabs and OOM that way. Check in Settings -> Apps -> Running
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I generally keep a tab open to this Relay forum so I can watch what's happening, but not many tabs. Also happens immediately after flashing, without even running any apps, much less installing any.
orange808 said:
Look at the apps you use as well.
When Android was introduced, they rolled it out with a set of guidelines called the application life cycle.
In the document, Google specified how to develop applications and what was available. One option for devs that is powerful is running a thread as a service. It was a feature that was supposed to be used sparingly... (A service is a program that runs all the time--unless the kernel panics and shuts down everything.)
Unfortunately, developers know that Google isn't going to do anything to push them to make quality software. The market is supposed to sort it out.
In many cases, this is not working. People are taking advantage of the lack of QA.
Bottom line: App devs are building software that leaves services running in the background all the time--for no good reason, whatsoever. Many of these services are just there to slurp up your data and send it to their servers so they can sell it.
Holding the back button to fix it? That rarely works. The devs have intentionally built their memory wasting crapware to restart the service if it gets shut down.
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I really haven't installed any. And when testing different nightlies I just flashed and it happens right away, didn't install a thing on them.
I decided to stay on a version for a while, so have had 20130920 since Friday, and I've used it long enough to know it is consistent. I have found another way to make it happen: incoming phone calls. When phone wakes that way it almost always happens as well. Today it finally showed the screen when I received a call, but 3 or 4 other calls the screen has just been black so I can't tell who's calling.
I discovered another thing since using this ROM for 6 days. Sometimes I get lines/bars/tearing on screen that won't go away until I lock and unlock the phone again.
I have some other phones that are broken, if I can fix one of them I might consider sending this one to a dev to temporarily play with since it seems to be the perfect test case for this problem. The screen is cracked (I got it used in this condition), which I would normally suspect to be the cause of the problem, however since it does not have either problem with stock ICS, stock JB, or the 20130309 CM I'm pretty sure it's related to something in CM10.2. Just new enough to Android I'm not sure how to track it down.
Thank you all for your help!
I have one of these "rev0 cpu" phones and just recently went back to the stock firmware (ugh) because of the lockscreen wakeup lockups. I have gone 3 days so far with no issues. Until this issue is troubleshot, this is an option for anybody who needs stability with one of these phones. I miss CM very much though.
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I also have a rev0 cpu phone, and I had a few lockup/reboots since I finally dove in last Monday (9/30) with Staging build 341. However, without me changing anything (still on the same build), they seem to have stopped. Last one I got was 10/2.
Edit: until just now. *facepalm*
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I have one of these "rev0 cpu" phones and just recently went back to the stock firmware (ugh) because of the lockscreen wakeup lockups. I have gone 3 days so far with no issues. Until this issue is troubleshot, this is an option for anybody who needs stability with one of these phones. I miss CM very much though.
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I got sick of stock so I tried CM again. After flashing the 10.2-20131014-NIGHTLY-apexqtmo nightly I have not had one reboot or lockup in days. YMMV
Edit: Still haven't had a lockup on wake or reboot.
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I have one of these "rev0 cpu" phones and just recently went back to the stock firmware (ugh) because of the lockscreen wakeup lockups. I have gone 3 days so far with no issues. Until this issue is troubleshot, this is an option for anybody who needs stability with one of these phones. I miss CM very much though.
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Hmm... I'll have to try again
Hmm... Sounds like I need to try again then. I tried one released after that and still had issues, but I will try to make some time later to try it. It is fantastic other than that problem.
newer nightlies
Anyone else having issues with the newer nightlies? I have been flashing one a week for a while now and I'm coming from the 14th. tried flashing the 21,22,and 23 all of them are giving me a boot loop at the samsung screen. I have dirty flashed, cleared cache and dalvik, updated recovery. none of them are working for me. Am I missing something? they don't work so i reflash the 14th and everything is good again.
tried in
CWM 6.0.3.7
CWM 6.0.3.8
CWM Touch 6.0.3.8
all with the same errors any help would be appreciated

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