I recently flashed this Dropbox zip (50GB back) through TWRP and since then, everything has gone downhill for my phone. Battery drain, random reboots, etc. I've tried to reset my phone and clean installed everything (wiped data, factory settings, etc.) but the problem has been the same. My question is, if I restore to a backup I had a few months ago, will everything that I installed after that backup be erased so my phone can go back to normal?
SketchySean said:
I recently flashed this Dropbox zip (50GB back) through TWRP and since then, everything has gone downhill for my phone. Battery drain, random reboots, etc. I've tried to reset my phone and clean installed everything (wiped data, factory settings, etc.) but the problem has been the same. My question is, if I restore to a backup I had a few months ago, will everything that I installed after that backup be erased so my phone can go back to normal?
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If you do a full wipe first.
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So the past 2 days I've had an interesting problem, with even more interesting results.
Both mornings I've tried to use my GPS and it just hangs on trying to connect to it. The GPS says it's on, and I can toggle it off and back on again but it never finds any sats.
Yesterday I reboot the phone and it takes a while to boot the phone back up (most like the first time you boot after a fresh install), and when the phone came back online the GPS worked but all my bluetooth pairings were gone.
Today I have the same GPS problem so I reboot again, and again it takes a while to boot and so far I still have my bluetooth pairings, but I've been unable to connect to the devices, all my sound settings are back to the defaults, when I hold down the power button now the only option I have is Power Off, nothing else, when my screen times out and I hit power to bring it back on it goes right back to wherever I was, I don't see the lock screen anymore. And to top it all off my home button and my search button do not work.
What a mess, this phone is getting worse by the day, I'm actually starting to regret the purchase. I guess it's time to call it in and see what they say.
Edit: Forgot to add all my SMS messages were deleted as well.
Rooted? Have you done anything to it? That's definitely not normal but I guess you know that
Ya it's rooted and has nvflashed clockworkmod recovery installed. Rooted the day I got the phone and clockworkmod recovery has been installed for about a week.
I just tried clearing the cache partition, wiping Dalvik Cache, fixing permissions, and no change. Running a full backup via Titanium Backup now before I try a factory reset to see if that fixes it.
If that doesn't do it I'll try restoring a backup image from last week.
gohawks1 said:
Ya it's rooted and has nvflashed clockworkmod recovery installed. Rooted the day I got the phone and clockworkmod recovery has been installed for about a week.
I just tried clearing the cache partition, wiping Dalvik Cache, fixing permissions, and no change. Running a full backup via Titanium Backup now before I try a factory reset to see if that fixes it.
If that doesn't do it I'll try restoring a backup image from last week.
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I would guess it's not the phone but the CWM made the mess. You probably want to try factory reset.
My Bluetooth settings and profiles randomly appear and disappear and I'm bone stock.
Well, factory reset got all my buttons working again, and my screen locks again. Since I'm back to stock now and have to re-setup everything now I think I'll go try out the Eaglesblood ROM and see how that goes.
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I was earlier on XXKP3 (im from India) and my phone was working fine. Last week I flashed DXKP9 and it worked fine for about 3-4 days. After that i rooted/de-odexed DXKP9 and all went through. BUT, I began getting some random restarts, some bootloops which required me to pull the battery and reboot. When the phone booted up, it was factory resetted - all settings gone including APN, etc but all installed apps were there and working. So then i went into recovery and did a wipe cache/factory reset and thought it would do it. But since then everyday i had a bootloop (no more factory resets).
SO i got tired of it and 2 days ago, RE-FLASHED to XXKPE, then flashed XXKPQ on it, immediately did a wipe cache/factory reset and (painfully) reinstalled all apps. I did not root/de-odex XXKPQ and do not plan to root my phone anymore. But since today morning, the random bootloop and factory reset has begun again and is driving me crazy. Once the phone boots, all apps are still there, camera wifi 3g push notifications all work fine.
But why the random bootloop? and why the factory reset every time? i can live with the random restart but not with the factory reset thing.
any solution? thanks
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I was earlier on XXKP3 (im from India) and my phone was working fine. Last week I flashed DXKP9 and it worked fine for about 3-4 days. After that i rooted/de-odexed DXKP9 and all went through. BUT, I began getting some random restarts, some bootloops which required me to pull the battery and reboot. When the phone booted up, it was factory resetted - all settings gone including APN, etc but all installed apps were there and working. So then i went into recovery and did a wipe cache/factory reset and thought it would do it. But since then everyday i had a bootloop (no more factory resets).
SO i got tired of it and 2 days ago, RE-FLASHED to XXKPE, then flashed XXKPQ on it, immediately did a wipe cache/factory reset and (painfully) reinstalled all apps. I did not root/de-odex XXKPQ and do not plan to root my phone anymore. But since today morning, the random bootloop and factory reset has begun again and is driving me crazy. Once the phone boots, all apps are still there, camera wifi 3g push notifications all work fine.
But why the random bootloop? and why the factory reset every time? i can live with the random restart but not with the factory reset thing.
any solution? thanks
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go strain to sumsung support I had the same problem
they replaced my phone
see this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1324452
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Hi
I installed Thiaz ROM and the ICS theme which there is a link to on his V2.4 page. All was running fine and dandy for a day. I installed all of my programs, apps, etc, and used App2SD to move some of them to the SD. Each time I did this, it said 'failed' the first time and then allowed them to be moved on the next. I rebooted the phone a couple of times and never had any problems. After I had got things set up as I wanted them, I rebooted into CWM and did a new backup. I then rebooted and went into bootloop.
Cleared data, dalvik and even battery stats. Tried fixing permissions. Nothing worked at all, still boot loop. Did a factory reset and restored the backup and still bootloops.
If I restore to the original backup from when I first put on the ROM (no ICS theme), it works OK. Then after a few hours and after I have turned on and off successfully a few times, I get the old bootloop again. I have not messed around with any system files, etc. One time it was after I moved a file with File Expert but I uninstalled that programme and haven't used since.
Any help or suggestions would be very gratefully received as I don't really want to go back to the stock V21a but I can't be doing with setting up everything on my phone from scratch every day either!
I hope someone can help me.
I was running SkyICS ROM 4.2E6.
Great ROM, liked it a lot.
I then installed the KOB4LT theme. Upon my first shutdown, I noticed it was freezing. Just a blank screen and the haptic buttons were lit up.
I did the usual, cleared cache, davlik, removed battery a few minutes, fixed permissions, etc. Nothing helped.
So I reinstalled the most recent update patch from SkyICS and that didn't fix it either. So I wiped the phone and installed the RIII base and E7 of SkyICS (very latest).
Again I loved things for a few days.
But then I used ROM Toolbox to do a little customization.
Then I installed a few live wallpapers from the Market.
And got some spam infestation as a result.
So I wiped the phone and restored from a day old Nandroid backup.
And voila... the shutdown issue is back.
So I wiped the phone again and restored a two-day old Nandroid.
And again I have the shutdown issue.
Any ideas for me to try? I spent a lot of time getting that ROM just the way I wanted and don't want to have to reflash a new ROM all over again.
Fixed it.
1) Wiped phone (again).
2) Flashed the original UCLD2 ICS leak (I727UCLE2_OneClick).
3) Flashed recovery.
4) Installed 5.5.0.4 (?) touch recovery.
5) Wiped phone.
6) Restored from backup.
7) Rebooted w/out any problem.
Thanks, I was having the same problem today and this fixed it.
So here is a quick rundown of what happened:
-DL Beats audio, opened it, it was supposed to restart my phone, but it froze it.
-Could not power off or reset it, had to pull battery
-Was then stuck on the 4G LTE rainbow and would not load. Tried pulling battery nothing.
-Went into recovery mode and tried loading, nothing happened and I read someone say the only way out of it was to wipe everything and start over, so I wiped Data and Cache and Dalvik Cache with Clockwork. Nothing happens.
-Finally I Odin it supposedly back to stock. Hooray I can get into my phone, weird thing is all of my apps are there, email is set up, contacts are there with pics from FB, syncmypix, etc. It even retained the fact that I had disabled the stupid ongoing Wi-Fi notification. Just the homescreens are blank again.
-I never made a CWM backup, I think I made a Titanium backup, I know I used MyBackupRoot (the one that is a life preserver). That being said I thought I wiped everything in CWM. It said it had formatted the internal and external SD.
Question is should I go ahead and try to wipe everything clean again?
Am I going to run into issues using my phone how it is?
Should I back it up and then load a recovery from this or would that be pointless?
Or do I leave it alone and consider myself lucky?
Thank you and by no means am I a developer or anything, just getting back into android after 2 years on iOS and apparently know just enough to get myself into trouble.
If everything is working fine then you sgould be good. You must haved had the restore thing checked or verizon backup crap restored your stuff. When you odin that will flash the file system img so there is no way that your data survived
Did you check the md5 on the beats audio thing before you flashed it? Cause i have ran that fine.
Sent from my CleanRom'd Galaxy SIII