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Random Reboots

Lately, I've noticed my SGS4G randomly reboots itself. I'm not exactly sure why, I haven't changed anything about my phone since the latest Valhalla version came out, and it never rebooted itself when I first flashed the ROM.
I have CatLog (logcat reader) and aLogcat, but I'm not exactly sure how to use them to be able to tell what happens to my phone just before it reboots itself. There are so many lines that I don't know which one to look at. Can anyone please provide some assistance? My biggest worry is my phone rebooting or shutting itself off at night, and my alarm not loading properly, causing me to miss class in the morning.

adobrakic said:
Lately, I've noticed my SGS4G randomly reboots itself. I'm not exactly sure why, I haven't changed anything about my phone since the latest Valhalla version came out, and it never rebooted itself when I first flashed the ROM.
I have CatLog (logcat reader) and aLogcat, but I'm not exactly sure how to use them to be able to tell what happens to my phone just before it reboots itself. There are so many lines that I don't know which one to look at. Can anyone please provide some assistance? My biggest worry is my phone rebooting or shutting itself off at night, and my alarm not loading properly, causing me to miss class in the morning.
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What kernel is that running? I think (I might be wrong) it's bhundven's subtly modified stock. The versions past beta 2d (for me) have that issue. If that's the kernel it runs, go check the dev section for bhundven's kernel.

Yup, I have his latest kernel, v0.1.1-rc1. I'll try to downgrade to beta 2c and see if the reboots stop. Thanks for the suggestion.

adobrakic said:
Yup, I have his latest kernel, v0.1.1-rc1. I'll try to downgrade to beta 2c and see if the reboots stop. Thanks for the suggestion.
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I reverted back to beta 2d and it's working well thus far. Good luck

I've actually seen this a lot on stock builds both out-of-the-box froyo and official gb. Have customers bringing these back constantly for this crap!
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tehgyb said:
I've actually seen this a lot on stock builds both out-of-the-box froyo and official gb. Have customers bringing these back constantly for this crap!
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This happens to my girlfriends stock gb. Can't figure out why. I'll try taking it back to t-mobile and see if a new one helps.
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sunsurfer42 said:
This happens to my girlfriends stock gb. Can't figure out why. I'll try taking it back to t-mobile and see if a new one helps.
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That's normally what ends up happening when they bring it in :/ I've tried almost everything short of taking their phone and flashing stuff on it (because obviously that's not something a retailer can do lol)
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Seems like the problem, for me at least, was Bryans latest kernel I was using. Downgrading to beta 2d stopped the reboots so far, I've been up since 8am and now it's 3pm. I'll post back tonight for further results.
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tehgyb said:
That's normally what ends up happening when they bring it in :/ I've tried almost everything short of taking their phone and flashing stuff on it (because obviously that's not something a retailer can do lol)
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And she won't let me.
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Alright guys, it seems that the problem was for sure Bryan's latest kernel. I haven't noticed my phone reboot once today (unless it ninja'd the reboot). Thank you, stephen.

adobrakic said:
Alright guys, it seems that the problem was for sure Bryan's latest kernel. I haven't noticed my phone reboot once today (unless it ninja'd the reboot). Thank you, stephen.
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No worries. Glad the problem is solved. I'm back on his latest kernel for testing. I've only been on it for a few hours, so I'm going to give it a day or two to see how it goes.

The thing that gets me is that the kernel worked perfectly fine from the time I flashed it up until a couple of days ago. I'll reflash the latest version in a few days to see if I can see what's triggering the reboot.

adobrakic said:
The thing that gets me is that the kernel worked perfectly fine from the time I flashed it up until a couple of days ago. I'll reflash the latest version in a few days to see if I can see what's triggering the reboot.
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raver nor myself have been able to reproduce this issue. i normally run pandora and android irc all day. not to mention i brick my unbrickable moded phone a lot (lately); when i do i flash sms kj6 one-click, flash bootloaders, flash v0.1.1-rc1+, wipe to factory, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache, reboot, let the phone sit for a half hour. This allows time for the main OS's cache to build. I usually charge to 100% before flashing and plug it back in while it sits for the half hour.
After that I manually re-configure my phone settings and TB restore my apps (not my data, just the apps).
I dont trust system settings/data being restored across different roms.
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Hi Bryan
I enjoy your latest kernel 3.1 beta for the past 2 days (on HebrewValhalla ROM) and it's simply awesome.
I only had problems on 2d. 2c has been great as well.
To me, it seems that all reboots ppl were getting were related to Black Valhalla tweaking more than to your kernel.
Anyway, f#k it, if someone is not content let him flash other old kernels, i think you're doing a sacred work here.
You deserve a bier house.
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itzik2sh said:
Hi Bryan
I enjoy your latest kernel 3.1 beta for the past 2 days (on HebrewValhalla ROM) and it's simply awesome.
I only had problems on 2d. 2c has been great as well.
To me, it seems that all reboots ppl were getting were related to Black Valhalla tweaking more than to your kernel.
Anyway, f#k it, if someone is not content let him flash other old kernels, i think you're doing a sacred work here.
You deserve a bier house.
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My reboots were not attributed to Valhalla Black as I never loaded it. I reverted to beta 2d and the phone was stable. I'm back on his latest beta after a factory reset to see if it helps. Thus far, I am OK but I want to give it a few days to make sure.
I agree that Bryan's work is great. Unfortunately I think Bryan is leaving or is gone already. His kernel thread in the Dev section is closed & his signature indicates he's leaving. I wish him the best.

Sigh...it just randomly rebooted. So it seems that a factory reset doesn't help the issue.
I will be reverting to beta 2d again shortly.

Lol, wtf @ the signature. Seems rather childish. Anyway, I have exams for the next few days, so I'm gonna wait until those are done to wipe everything and try the latest kernel over again.
The problem just may be our phones. I'm sure there are hiccups in the manufacturing processing while the hardware is being compiled, so I doubt all of our phones are exactly the same. We may be that "lucky" few, Stephen.

Give me logs, don't give me logs. Can't reproduce, you're doing it wrong. I'm leaving
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Not that i don't admire Raver's work, but, has anyone got reboots on a non-Raver ROM ? I think he's power tweaking the ROMs, for sure he's done it in Octane.

itzik2sh said:
Not that i don't admire Raver's work, but, has anyone got reboots on a non-Raver ROM ? I think he's power tweaking the ROMs, for sure he's done it in Octane.
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Yes, I have. I got a new phone and did the 2.3.6 update via Kies Mini then put Bryan's kernel on top of it. When I go back to beta 2d, it doesn't happen. I'm not sure what the deal is.

Can you break your device from "over-flashing"?

I'll be the first to admit it - I'm a flash-whore... some days I'll flash 2-3 ROMS, then try various kernels, then restore my nandroid when I'm done for the day.
Some weeks I flash ROMs daily, some I flash a couple of times.
Can I damage my device if I keep this up?

I think there's some theoretical limit to the number of r/w cycles on this kind of memory, but I've never heard of anyone who's actually exceeded that limit.

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Good. That set my mind at ease.

Thanks for both the question and the answer. Never knew how to ask the question....puts me at ease too!!!
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zgomot said:
I'll be the first to admit it - I'm a flash-whore... some days I'll flash 2-3 ROMS, then try various kernels, then restore my nandroid when I'm done for the day.
Some weeks I flash ROMs daily, some I flash a couple of times.
Can I damage my device if I keep this up?
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ive flashed my ns thousands of times, roms and kernels, and im still flashing..

thanks for the info!
great question

I have been flashing roms like a madman too. I guess I flash more kernels everyday. At the moment, I don;t think that this will happen, but in the long run , yes.. there might be some problems. Perhaps you should slow down when flashing a rom. This might give the rom a few days to get back to normal before you do a full wipe again.

ashwin988 said:
I have been flashing roms like a madman too. I guess I flash more kernels everyday. At the moment, I don;t think that this will happen, but in the long run , yes.. there might be some problems. Perhaps you should slow down when flashing a rom. This might give the rom a few days to get back to normal before you do a full wipe again.
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Your statement makes no sense. Allowing a few days for the "rom to get back to normal" has nothing to do with flashing.
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Well I said what I thought. Forgive me if it sounded silly to you. Perhaps you have a better answer?
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ashwin988 said:
Well I said what I thought. Forgive me if it sounded silly to you. Perhaps you have a better answer?
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With respect to flashing.. As others stated, there's a theoretical limit of writes as with any flash memory, but I've yet to seen it reached. As for a rom settling in..it's settled in a few minutes after a reboot from the first boot.
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I understand as I am also a flash whore but I think we would have to be some super flash ho's before our phones breaks. In other words I may have been flashing at least 3 times a day, but you gotta flash much over what anybody would want like hundreds of times. Also if your looking for a good ROM look at my signature, it doesn't disappoint.
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simms22 said:
ive flashed my ns thousands of times, roms and kernels, and im still flashing..
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have you ever had IMEI problems ? or corrupted efs folder ?

mahanddeem said:
have you ever had IMEI problems ? or corrupted efs folder ?
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working on my forth year of flashing.. g1, og droid, nexus one, and nexus s. probably 5000+ flashes between them, not a single time did i have issues with the imei or a corrupted efs folder. truthfully, the og droid was only a wifi device for me since im on tmobile not verizon, so we wont count it.

mahanddeem said:
have you ever had IMEI problems ? or corrupted efs folder ?
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Never any problems of any kind.

Root achieved?

Just saw this:
http://briefmobile.com/how-to-root-htc-one-x-att
I didn't have time to read the whole thing, but what do you guys think?

holy crap!!!!!!!!!!!!! are you serious??? epic omg so epic lol

brbarnyard said:
Just saw this:
http://briefmobile.com/how-to-root-htc-one-x-att
I didn't have time to read the whole thing, but what do you guys think?
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Written by kenn, who is a mod for this forum, who has a one x, and is a dev. I would say we've got a start!
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Is this serious? Anyone wanna try it out?

You all can head over to the Android development section to check it out has been there a while
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1644167
Released this morning. Easy as pie and is working fine for me

Suuweeeet!!

but the bootloader is still locked and we can't flash custom roms right?

Will we be able to flash custom ROMs? Or will we only have root access to our current ROM?

We won't be able to flash custom roms just yet.
But it's great to use some of my favorite apps again now that it's rooted.

This method worked flawlessly on my ATT OneX. Win7 Pro x64...just install HTC drivers, plug in as Debug, and run the root.bat. I didn't have to kill any processes or disable sync or anything.
Only thing to watch out for is that the phone reboots multiple times even after the script stops running( like 4-5 times), so make sure its completely finished and you are at homescreen before you unplug it.

-Puck- said:
This method worked flawlessly on my ATT OneX. Win7 Pro x64...just install HTC drivers, plug in as Debug, and run the root.bat. I didn't have to kill any processes or disable sync or anything.
Only thing to watch out for is that the phone reboots multiple times even after the script stops running( like 4-5 times), so make sure its completely finished and you are at homescreen before you unplug it.
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Worked perfectly for me too; I can finally change my DPI - whoohoo!

SolusCado said:
Worked perfectly for me too; I can finally change my DPI - whoohoo!
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...I can finally use my wifi hotspot!

Anyone with knowledge using a mac, I need your help. When I unzip the file, the one I'm supposed to use shows up as text when I double click it. And also text editor opens.. Any suggestions. Thanks.
SENT FROM PLANET 1X!

Now we just need a complete list of "what can be ripped out safely"

And I can finally install SetCPU! WIPPEEEE

Its been reported on Twitter that the Bootloader has been unlocked as well but no official announcements have been released on it yet.

polo045 said:
Anyone with knowledge using a mac, I need your help. When I unzip the file, the one I'm supposed to use shows up as text when I double click it. And also text editor opens.. Any suggestions. Thanks.
SENT FROM PLANET 1X!
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Try posting here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1644167

cranch said:
Its been reported on Twitter that the Bootloader has been unlocked as well but no official announcements have been released on it yet.
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where do you see this?

dimgl said:
And I can finally install SetCPU! WIPPEEEE
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Doesn't the kernel have to support overclocking for it to work? Root is great and all, but without a kernel that supports overclocking SetCPU isn't going to do anything will it?
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Possible to add cwm after SGT2 7.0 already rooted?

Probably one of the noobist questions to start off with but I need the answer or pointed in the right direction if at all possible, many many thanks in advance.
As you can see by the tittle i already have my galaxy tab 2 7.0 rooted (3113) and totally blanked on rooting with cwm. So how can I do it without having to restart the root process all over again?
Again much thanks is given for all help.

I used mobile Odin to flash the cwm zip back. That worked for me.
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JLloydMedia said:
Probably one of the noobist questions to start off with but I need the answer or pointed in the right direction if at all possible, many many thanks in advance.
As you can see by the tittle i already have my galaxy tab 2 7.0 rooted (3113) and totally blanked on rooting with cwm. So how can I do it without having to restart the root process all over again?
Again much thanks is given for all help.
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Mobile Odin will work... However you'll want to run it in odin and flash CWM.
No you don't have to start the root process over again. I am assuming your stock rooted?
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Ya im still on the stock rom, I was wondering if I could just flash it over
Using Odin. Thanks for the hekp! Anyine got some ideas on what the best rom is for the SGT2?
I spent the last year solely working with only iOS (learning purposes), and let me say, dam it feels good to be back with my fellew Androidians.
"Jebus save me!" - H.S

JLloydMedia said:
Ya im still on the stock rom, I was wondering if I could just flash it over
Using Odin. Thanks for the hekp! Anyine got some ideas on what the best rom is for the SGT2?
I spent the last year solely working with only iOS (learning purposes), and let me say, dam it feels good to be back with my fellew Androidians.
"Jebus save me!" - H.S
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You can go for CM10.1..But I personally like stock..So rooted with unbloated Stock.

I kept reading that stock is best still for maintaining gaming levels (gaming usually pushes a system to its limits more so that anything else). I only just got my sgt2 so im in no rush. Yet
From my sexy ass GT2

JLloydMedia said:
I kept reading that stock is best still for maintaining gaming levels (gaming usually pushes a system to its limits more so that anything else). I only just got my sgt2 so im in no rush. Yet
From my sexy ass GT2
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Just downloaded ICS from sam mobile yesterday and I'm reinstalling it tomorrow. Yea I am sick of swapping out roms constantly. I have the JB rom downloaded also in case I decide to reinstall it in the future
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JLloydMedia said:
I kept reading that stock is best still for maintaining gaming levels (gaming usually pushes a system to its limits more so that anything else). I only just got my sgt2 so im in no rush. Yet
From my sexy ass GT2
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From what I've read IR Blaster is only working on select ROMs. Dunno if that's important to you.

Google Now Arrow on Lockscreen

Hey guys,
Did some pretty extensive searching and couldn't find a solution for this. Perhaps it's too soon and/or too trivial, but I don't use Google Now and I am wondering if there is a way to remove/hide the upward arrow for it at the bottom of the lockscreen?

supernice44 said:
Hey guys,
Did some pretty extensive searching and couldn't find a solution for this. Perhaps it's too soon and/or too trivial, but I don't use Google Now and I am wondering if there is a way to remove/hide the upward arrow for it at the bottom of the lockscreen?
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If you're rooted that is a feature on Cataclysm...
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0dBu said:
If you're rooted that is a feature on Cataclysm...
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Ahh, I see. Thank you. I am rooted, but stock rom with GravityBox and franco's kernel at the moment. Trying to hold off on flashing roms again, but I'll probably cave sooner rather than later, haha. Thanks again!

supernice44 said:
Ahh, I see. Thank you. I am rooted, but stock rom with GravityBox and franco's kernel at the moment. Trying to hold off on flashing roms again, but I'll probably cave sooner rather than later, haha. Thanks again!
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Cataclysm is really good. I ran stock for several days before flashing a ROM. It's very stockish with some nice features, and not bloated. Runs like a boss with Trinity Kernel.
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