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[Q] Serendipity 7 issues

I'm having a couple of issues with this rom. 1st is the email apk I installed from the web site is when I get new emails (exchange) they apear in the notifacation bar like normal but they just keep counting new ones in the bar everytime, I'm up to like 90 something in a day.
2nd is the video camera, when I select limits for mms and start videoing the screen will go black and say the camera application has failed. Any ideas?

Moodooo said:
I'm having a couple of issues with this rom. 1st is the email apk I installed from the web site is when I get new emails (exchange) they apear in the notifacation bar like normal but they just keep counting new ones in the bar everytime, I'm up to like 90 something in a day.
2nd is the video camera, when I select limits for mms and start videoing the screen will go black and say the camera application has failed. Any ideas?
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have you tried to flash again. in my experiance sometimes just flashing is easier than trying to find the fix THEN apply it. may mess other stuff if you dont know what your doing. if a Re-Flash does not work then you will have to go this rout and find out why its not working. i had that email thing happen.....it actually took me a lil digging to find an email APK that wasnt giving me some sort of issues.

Yes I have tried to reflash twice with the same result with the email problem and video camera problem as well.
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well then if the camera works on other roms. i will just pull the camera files from there and paste them into the appropriate places and see if that helps the FC's
but thats not as easy as just picking another Rom.

Moodooo said:
Yes I have tried to reflash twice with the same result with the email problem and video camera problem as well.
Sent from my SGH-I997 using XDA App
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S7 doesn't have the 30fps fix if thats is the video problem you are refering to.
Friends don't let friends flash and drive.

I'm having an issue with texts and calls not turning the screen on. On any other rom, when I get a text, the screen lights up to show the lockscreen for a few seconds. Doesn't seem to be doing that on S7; is there a setting for that? Also, calls will ring/vibrate for several seconds before the screen turns on to allow me to answer.

I wanted to try S7 but I do not want to lose functionality of my front camera.

neon_skunk said:
I wanted to try S7 but I do not want to lose functionality of my front camera.
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sounds pretty simple, skunk.
you flash S7. If you lose the cam, the flash something else.
mikeymike is also around, especially in the i9000 forum.
he may know more specific what mod/files is needed.

Notifications not working on ICS

I looked around and didn't see anything as specific as this, so I'll ask the question.
A lot of my notifications don't work 80% of the time, whether it's gmail, sms, or a game notification. All notifications are set to be on, but I have a theory. With Ice Cream Sandwich, there is the option to hold the back button on your phone and it will kill your app. I wonder if this might be a culprit. For instance, if I'm reading a text and hold the back button to kill the app, is it possible for that to kill the push notification as well? Granted it could be the ROM I'm using, but no one else on that particular forum has any problem like I've described. Does anyone have any ideas or has this happened on a regular basis? Most things I can live without, but if someone's trying to send me a text message, it might be hours before I think to check it and find out that hours before someone had sent me one.
Thanks in advance for any help.

t4duzan said:
I looked around and didn't see anything as specific as this, so I'll ask the question.
A lot of my notifications don't work 80% of the time, whether it's gmail, sms, or a game notification. All notifications are set to be on, but I have a theory. With Ice Cream Sandwich, there is the option to hold the back button on your phone and it will kill your app. I wonder if this might be a culprit. For instance, if I'm reading a text and hold the back button to kill the app, is it possible for that to kill the push notification as well? Granted it could be the ROM I'm using, but no one else on that particular forum has any problem like I've described. Does anyone have any ideas or has this happened on a regular basis? Most things I can live without, but if someone's trying to send me a text message, it might be hours before I think to check it and find out that hours before someone had sent me one.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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what rom? how did you flash said rom? Full wipe of data/cache/dalvik? did you restore ANY data or settings with tibu and if so which ones? to me this is sounding like a bad flash. back-to-kill will only take out the active application, notification and sms retrieval is a background process and not susceptible to that.

Darunion said:
what rom? how did you flash said rom? Full wipe of data/cache/dalvik? did you restore ANY data or settings with tibu and if so which ones? to me this is sounding like a bad flash. back-to-kill will only take out the active application, notification and sms retrieval is a background process and not susceptible to that.
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The rom is The Collective's Redemption. I did do everything mentioned above and the only thing I used tibu for was to restore my apps, but not to restore phone settings. I haven't tried to reflash, and maybe that will be my fix. I still want to see if others might have had this happen to them.
Thanks for the suggestions Darunion.

Been running( mostly) Red for a couple of weeks. I have not seen that issue. The first flash of it did have some strange notification behavior. The contacts app would let me assign ringtones to individual contacts but would still play only the default ringtone when I got a call. Everything has been working properly since the second flash.
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biglittlegato said:
Been running( mostly) Red for a couple of weeks. I have not seen that issue. The first flash of it did have some strange notification behavior. The contacts app would let me assign ringtones to individual contacts but would still play only the default ringtone when I got a call. Everything has been working properly since the second flash.
Sent using the power of the dark side.
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Thanks Gato, I'll flash the new Alpha 8r3 and see if it corrects my problem. If not, I'll post back here.

t4duzan said:
Thanks Gato, I'll flash the new Alpha 8r3 and see if it corrects my problem. If not, I'll post back here.
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Reflashing seems to have fixed any notification problems I had.
Thanks.

Persistent G+

I've been trying to keep the G+ app from running. The only reason I want it is for the G+ photos app. It's much easier to keep track of all my backed up photos. If I disable G+, then photos app disappears as well. I used app ops X to remove all permissions including keeping awake, and I also greenified it. It still keeps waking up the device. I often check BBS and see G+ app itself kept it awake for 8 min at a time which is really annoying seeing as I don't even use it. My question is, would it be a good idea to convert G+ to a user app? Could that keep it from being so persistent? And would it cause any problems? Of course the best thing to do would just be to try it but I figure I ask first. Also, I've never converted a system app to user before and I found an app that does it automatically. Would it be better to do it manually?

Try freezing it in Titanium Backup

odd. i use g+, and often. yet it NEVER wakes my device. if you are using it to bsckup your photos, then thats why its probably waking your device, to upload photos. it uploads at a slow speed, so it can take some time to upload photos, which would keep your device awake.

Lethargy said:
Try freezing it in Titanium Backup
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Do you think that would get rid of the photos app? I don't have Titanium Backup so I wanted to make sure it doesn't before I bought it.
simms22 said:
odd. i use g+, and often. yet it NEVER wakes my device. if you are using it to bsckup your photos, then thats why its probably waking your device, to upload photos. it uploads at a slow speed, so it can take some time to upload photos, which would keep your device awake.
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My backup is turned off. The only reason I want the app is to have access to all of my photos. I rarely back them up. Usually if I'm clean flashing something.

PsychDrummer said:
Do you think that would get rid of the photos app? I don't have Titanium Backup so I wanted to make sure it doesn't before I bought it.
My backup is turned off. The only reason I want the app is to have access to all of my photos. I rarely back them up. Usually if I'm clean flashing something.
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yes.
my auto back i keep off at all times, but i do keep g+ sync on always. i also keep google photos auto backup(sync setting) disabled all the time. maybe that google photos auto backup sync setting is doing it?

simms22 said:
yes.
my auto back i keep off at all times, but i do keep g+ sync on always. i also keep google photos auto backup(sync setting) disabled all the time? maybe that google photos auto backup sync setting is doing it?
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it's possible, I actually just found that setting today and I turned it off so I will see how it behaves. I just couldn't understand how it was waking up even though I denied its wakeup permission.

PsychDrummer said:
it's possible, I actually just found that setting today and I turned it off so I will see how it behaves. I just couldn't understand how it was waking up even though I denied its wakeup permission.
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usually there are multiple services involved, so if you dont disable all of them, it can actually make it worse as one service is trying to work but the other cant.

simms22 said:
usually there are multiple services involved, so if you dont disable all of them, it can actually make it worse as one service is trying to work but the other cant.
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hmm, so do you think I should just allow all permissions for G+ and leave it hibernated?

PsychDrummer said:
hmm, so do you think I should just allow all permissions for G+ and leave it hibernated?
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i do. and g+ hasnt bothered me for about 2 years(on different devices).

simms22 said:
i do. and g+ hasnt bothered me for about 2 years(on different devices).
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I noticed something interesting. I went back and allowed all G+ permissions, and this morning I got a notification from google photos. I removed notifications from G+, and then went into the sync options and for some reason all of the G+ syncs were checked. I unchecked all of them yesterday.

I have unchecked all sync options, it's installed as an user app, greenified it, used disable service to disable a few things but still G+ wakes up the device at least 5-10 times over night. The periods are very minute and usually between 2-5 seconds.
Never had this issue on my previous device (HTC One X). I guess it's just the way it is.

vin4yak said:
I have unchecked all sync options, it's installed as an user app, greenified it, used disable service to disable a few things but still G+ wakes up the device at least 5-10 times over night. The periods are very minute and usually between 2-5 seconds.
Never had this issue on my previous device (HTC One X). I guess it's just the way it is.
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Wow, that's interesting. Mine doesn't seem to wake up often. But when it wakes up it runs for around 10 min before greenify takes care of it. I just found it really annoying how I went to disable the sync and it re-enabled it. Having it as a user app, did you notice the sync options being automatically rechecked?

PsychDrummer said:
Wow, that's interesting. Mine doesn't seem to wake up often. But when it wakes up it runs for around 10 min before greenify takes care of it. I just found it really annoying how I went to disable the sync and it re-enabled it. Having it as a user app, did you notice the sync options being automatically rechecked?
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Yes, I did. Mine doesn't check them automatically like your's
Besides that, I noticed the battery life with and without G+ and it's pretty much the same so I've made peace with myself over this annoyance. LOL :angel:

vin4yak said:
Yes, I did. Mine doesn't check them automatically like your's
Besides that, I noticed the battery life with and without G+ and it's pretty much the same so I've made peace with myself over this annoyance. LOL :angel:
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Hmm, maybe I'll try making it a user app and see if it works for me. By percentages G+ would sometimes take 6-10% of the battery which I wasn't happy about. Which method did you use to turn to user app?
In addition, I haven't even logged in yet to the photos app because I just clean flashed 4.4.4.

PsychDrummer said:
Hmm, maybe I'll try making it a user app and see if it works for me. By percentages G+ would sometimes take 6-10% of the battery which I wasn't happy about. Which method did you use to turn to user app?
In addition, I haven't even logged in yet to the photos app because I just clean flashed 4.4.4.
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Yeah man. Since it wakes up for 10+ mins for you each time, the 10% loss is justified. That really sucks.
Just move the "com.google.android.apps.plus" file from /system/app OR /system/priv-app to /data/app. Fix permissions (rw-r-r) and then reboot.

vin4yak said:
Yeah man. Since it wakes up for 10+ mins for you each time, the 10% loss is justified. That really sucks.
Just move the "com.google.android.apps.plus" file from /system/app OR /system/priv-app to /data/app. Fix permissions (rw-r-r) and then reboot.
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Which explorer should I use to move it? Just ES? Also what do I use to fix permissions? Sorry, I've never really messed around with these settings before.

PsychDrummer said:
Which explorer should I use to move it? Just ES? Also what do I use to fix permissions? Sorry, I've never really messed around with these settings before.
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Yes, ES would work just fine. Mount system as RW in ES and then copy the apk which I mentioned earlier and paste it in /data/app.
After transferring the file, Hold it, and select Properties in ES file explorer menu. A box will popup. See whether the permissions are set to "rw-r-r" over there and then reboot.

vin4yak said:
Yes, ES would work just fine. Mount system as RW in ES and then copy the apk which I mentioned earlier and paste it in /data/app.
After transferring the file, Hold it, and select Properties in ES file explorer menu. A box will popup. See whether the permissions are set to "rw-r-r" over there and then reboot.
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Great, thanks! I'll try it out. Just to clarify, copy not cut/move right?

PsychDrummer said:
Great, thanks! I'll try it out. Just to clarify, copy not cut/move right?
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Yes. my bad. Cut and paste.

I decided to wait until the end of the day to see if the sync got reactivated. They were fine for the day, but I checked this morning and it was back. Game data/G+/G+ photos and G+ photo backup was ticked again. I'll change to user app tonight and see if same thing happens tomorrow morning.
@vin4yak It already checked the sync back on. I followed the instructions, including checking permissions but after rebooting G+would crash. It was the PlusOne.apk in system/app. I couldn't find the name you provided.

Issues with oneplus one after resetting it

Hi. So recently with my oneplus one I have been having issues (location services not working, text messages not sending/relieving, and mobile data acting up a bit). I decided to perform a factory reset because I figured this would probably be the best way to just start over fresh and possibly resolve some of the issues. Most of the issues were fixed, however I was incredibly disappointed when I went into my settings. Half of the options that I could once modify before I reset the device were now gone! To name a few: the notification bar brightness slider, the vibrator intensity setting, the hardware button brightness, the customized screen colors, and the customized lock screen shortcuts..and that's just to name a few of the important ones. I'm wondering what's going on! Is there any way to get these settings back on my oneplus one? Has anyone else had this issue? Is it because of the cyanogen fallout? It's really frustrating. I didn't realize how much I took those amazing settings for granted. I would have just dealt with the issues if I'd known this would happen. Let me know if anyone has any idea..i would be so so appreciative.

Don't know if its the same thing but there is an advance mode in about phone in settings that allows more modifications to be made.

mungo67 said:
Don't know if its the same thing but there is an advance mode in about phone in settings that allows more modifications to be made.
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Yes that was indeed it. Thank you so so so much!! Didn't even know that was there! You are legit a lifesaver. I appreciate it. Thank youu!

whitneymiller26 said:
Hi. So recently with my oneplus one I have been having issues (location services not working, text messages not sending/relieving, and mobile data acting up a bit). I decided to perform a factory reset because I figured this would probably be the best way to just start over fresh and possibly resolve some of the issues. Most of the issues were fixed, however I was incredibly disappointed when I went into my settings. Half of the options that I could once modify before I reset the device were now gone! To name a few: the notification bar brightness slider, the vibrator intensity setting, the hardware button brightness, the customized screen colors, and the customized lock screen shortcuts..and that's just to name a few of the important ones. I'm wondering what's going on! Is there any way to get these settings back on my oneplus one? Has anyone else had this issue? Is it because of the cyanogen fallout? It's really frustrating. I didn't realize how much I took those amazing settings for granted. I would have just dealt with the issues if I'd known this would happen. Let me know if anyone has any idea..i would be so so appreciative.
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i did a factory reset too and now my gallery won't show a single picture i have and yes, there're some options that can't be modified now.. i'm still finding a fix for this..

wildnature said:
i did a factory reset too and now my gallery won't show a single picture i have and yes, there're some options that can't be modified now.. i'm still finding a fix for this..
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I believe factory reset wipes everything in your phone, even your files in the storage[emoji20]
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sohbins said:
I believe factory reset wipes everything in your phone, even your files in the storage[emoji20]
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I transfered some photos via Bluetooth and it won't show in the gallery app. Usually the gallery app will show it (before factory reset)

whitneymiller26 said:
Yes that was indeed it. Thank you so so so much!! Didn't even know that was there! You are legit a lifesaver. I appreciate it. Thank youu!
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I believe factory reset wipes everything in your phone, even your files in the storage[emoji20]
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Are you sure that you signed in with the same email as before? Mine were all saved under the email that I used. Otherwise I'm not sure. Sorry! In the future I'd always recommend downloading Dropbox and turning on the automatic camera upload synching so if anything ever happens you'll still have them forever.

flash via ADB?

Active Phone Call App Disappearing?

I am new to the OnePlus 8 on T-Mobile and I am having an issue where when on an active call the phone app completely disappears. Sometime i can find it again in the notification area and other times I cant find the active call at all. This makes it very difficult to switch to speakerphone or even hang up the call. Does anyone know why this is happening or how to fix it? I have never had this happen on an android phone before .
Thanks!

Are you using apps for notification LED ? like NotifyBuddy or similar ? i use this app and the phone goes all black and found it difficult sometimes.
Isnt the Phone app visible in Recent Apps list ?
for the time being unless someone really helps you solve the problem, you can enable Power Button Ends the call option from Accessibility settings to end Call easily with Power Button.

I am not using any LED apps. The suggestion about the accessibility option to end the call is a good one until I figure more out. Thanks for that tip!

peridoc said:
I am new to the OnePlus 8 on T-Mobile and I am having an issue where when on an active call the phone app completely disappears. Sometime i can find it again in the notification area and other times I cant find the active call at all. This makes it very difficult to switch to speakerphone or even hang up the call. Does anyone know why this is happening or how to fix it? I have never had this happen on an android phone before .
Thanks!
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I had the same problem. After talking to OnePlus technical service they recommended me to do a factory reset from the recovery menu. I did it and never had the problem again.
Hope it helps you.

alberah said:
I had the same problem. After talking to OnePlus technical service they recommended me to do a factory reset from the recovery menu. I did it and never had the problem again.
Hope it helps you.
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Thanks. Did you do any sort of restore after the reset or did you manually install al your apps, etc.?

peridoc said:
Thanks. Did you do any sort of restore after the reset or did you manually install al your apps, etc.?
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Yes. Before the reset, I made a backup of the phone (the one that appears in the settings) that is stored in your Google Drive to be able to restore it later.

alberah said:
Yes. Before the reset, I made a backup of the phone (the one that appears in the settings) that is stored in your Google Drive to be able to restore it later.
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Great. I will give that a try. Thank you!

FYI - That reset seemed to fix my issue as well. Must have been a carryover from my old phone causing the issue. Thank you for the tip again!