Hi guys,
I've got my rooted Maxx on 4.4 (not 4.4.4) but it's been kinda unstable lately. Lots of random reboots. I tried examining some cat logs but frankly it's a bit beyond my skills on how to troubleshoot from those. I wanted to try doing a fresh install and see if that solves my stability problems.
So last time I reformatted my phone I used Android's restore factory defaults option from the settings menu. I lost root, it took days to get it back by pure chance since I was on 4.4 and was experimenting with combining the pie and other method (forgot its name) and I was the happiest when I was lucky enough to figure out how to get it back.
So I don't want to do that again. What's the best way to format /data but ideally not touch the other partitions and guarantee that I keep root? I was going to do it in SS but it's not working for me. Every time I try to reboot to SS I just get a black screen. If I restart the phone and choose to boot to SS at the menu it also goes black. Boots the system fine though. SS would have been nice because I could have taken a nandroid too in case I screw things up even worse. I thought of doing it from Android's recovery system (this is a stock BL locked 2013 Maxx so I can't install CWM or get an unlock token) but I think that button does the same thing as the button in settings, meaning that root wouldn't be preserved.
What do you guys recommend?
Thanks!
empoweredh22 said:
Hi guys,
I've got my rooted Maxx on 4.4 (not 4.4.4) but it's been kinda unstable lately. Lots of random reboots. I tried examining some cat logs but frankly it's a bit beyond my skills on how to troubleshoot from those. I wanted to try doing a fresh install and see if that solves my stability problems.
So last time I reformatted my phone I used Android's restore factory defaults option from the settings menu. I lost root, it took days to get it back by pure chance since I was on 4.4 and was experimenting with combining the pie and other method (forgot its name) and I was the happiest when I was lucky enough to figure out how to get it back.
So I don't want to do that again. What's the best way to format /data but ideally not touch the other partitions and guarantee that I keep root? I was going to do it in SS but it's not working for me. Every time I try to reboot to SS I just get a black screen. If I restart the phone and choose to boot to SS at the menu it also goes black. Boots the system fine though. SS would have been nice because I could have taken a nandroid too in case I screw things up even worse. I thought of doing it from Android's recovery system (this is a stock BL locked 2013 Maxx so I can't install CWM or get an unlock token) but I think that button does the same thing as the button in settings, meaning that root wouldn't be preserved.
What do you guys recommend?
Thanks!
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With fstrim now incorporated in all memory actions on the newer phones, formatting in not so vital.
But without SS on your locked phone, you in a pickle!
Fix it.
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Is Helium backup working well now?
Look at reviews filtered for the ultra.
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Boot safe mode & that may let ss work.
Hold vol down at the moto splash screen.
Thanks for the reply! That was interesting and scary. So I tried to boot into safe mode....and the phone started bootlooping. It showed me the M logo, then a black screen, then started with the M logo again, and that was it. Beyond baffled. When I plugged in the USB charger (wireless charger didn't work) it finally booted to safe mode correctly. Coming out of safe mode back into normal mode I had the same issue--it only booted correctly when plugged into the wall with a physical charger. And my phone had plenty of battery left so it's not like it was dead. I was still at about 30% and once booted everything worked fine on battery. Wtf!? This is a reason why I feel like this build is completely messed up and want to reformat. You mentioned it's unnecessary now...is there a better option? In terms of helium, I've never had much luck with it, but it doesn't do anything with the /system--it's just apps, isn't it?
empoweredh22 said:
Thanks for the reply! That was interesting and scary. So I tried to boot into safe mode....and the phone started bootlooping. It showed me the M logo, then a black screen, then started with the M logo again, and that was it. Beyond baffled. When I plugged in the USB charger (wireless charger didn't work) it finally booted to safe mode correctly. Coming out of safe mode back into normal mode I had the same issue--it only booted correctly when plugged into the wall with a physical charger. And my phone had plenty of battery left so it's not like it was dead. I was still at about 30% and once booted everything worked fine on battery. Wtf!? This is a reason why I feel like this build is completely messed up and want to reformat. You mentioned it's unnecessary now...is there a better option? In terms of helium, I've never had much luck with it, but it doesn't do anything with the /system--it's just apps, isn't it?
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Read the posts on the sister phone, X, about downgrading. Other than that, you need to restore with RSD. There are tricks that are harmless/even vital like removing commands from the XML file like getvar. But try the latest unmodified. See SamuriHL's general posts. You can even keep data.
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Are you using the stock charger & cord?
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Just unenable SS & then uninstall. Reboot. Then try safe mode again. Keep on uninstalling one app at a time until you get safe mode working right. Start with the latest installed apps.
So the plot thickens. Turns out I can't use House of Moto because adb doesn't work. In fact, the phone doesn't give any visual recognition when I plug it into the computer and the computer also doesn't see it as a camera or music device or as a ADB device when I plug it in. In fact, it simply resets almost on demand when I try to plug it into the computer. It also doesn't charge with a wired cable apparently; it now only charges wirelessly. So it knows when it's plugged in but doesn't do anything in terms of power or communicationand just resets. Weird!
empoweredh22 said:
So the plot thickens. Turns out I can't use House of Moto because adb doesn't work. In fact, the phone doesn't give any visual recognition when I plug it into the computer and the computer also doesn't see it as a camera or music device or as a ADB device when I plug it in. In fact, it simply resets almost on demand when I try to plug it into the computer. It also doesn't charge with a wired cable apparently; it now only charges wirelessly. So it knows when it's plugged in but doesn't do anything in terms of power or communicationand just resets. Weird!
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Try the Ultra/Maxx brick resurrection thread in general.
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since I'm a new member, I don't have permissions to post in the development forum, which is ridiculous ... I get fighting spam, but this is silly, as I'm sure I'm gonna get yelled at for posting my question in general ...
oh well, here goes:
I just installed Pyr'o'Ice ICS Desensed 1.1.2 and everything is working great so far, with the exception of two things:
1. the native browser never works, always crashes, but its no biggie I can use Chrome.
2. I cannot set any custom notifications or ringtones as that dialog ALWAYS crashes. so I'm stuck with stock sounds ...
I can't complain, coming from a stock MT4GS Sense UI this is a big change, but still I would like to report these issues to the ROM developer so they can be aware ... but XDA wont let me post there ... so here's hoping he'll see the post here.
which he probably wont...
if anybody's got any tips to solve my problem, that'll be great, otherwise, I'll keep posting my findings until I hit that magical number that will finally let me post into the development forums ...
Well, you're wrong. Nobody is going to yell at you for posting this here. What would have gotten you yelled at is if you started this thread in the development section.
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The browser issue is a known issue. As for the rest did you do a full wipe after installing the rom?
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Well, aside the situation when memory gets low, browser is fine here. Also sound changin works.
Do u have custom ringtones on your sdcard?
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Browser, and sound selection all work fine for me. Try full wipe if you didn't do so earlier. If you already did, try redownloading.
@tbalden - I have custom ringtones/notifications/alarms on my SD card and it doesn't affect the behavior or cause any problems.
I'm not certain I did a full wipe (still new at this) but I'll try again.
Also another problem related to the notifications, now whenever a new notification starts, it never stops, and they overlap so after a few emails, its a crazy mix of sounds playing all at once.
quite annoying.
Just to be certain, how do I do a full wipe?
in recovery:
1 factory reset/wipe data
2 wipe cache
3 wipe dalvik cache
Full wipe worked.
Notifications now work, gonna play around and see what else, if anything, is broken.
Thanks.
I had problems with sending text messages. Auto-complete didn't work. I'd have to know the phone number. Similarly, in gmail, I tried emailing my friend Jean... i started typing "Jea".. several choices showed up, but none that I recognized (from some really old emails perhaps).
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Another bug I found was with the power down button. I held the power button down, and selected reboot, then changed my mind so I cancelled it. Tried again, but selected power off. It prompted me to reboot instead, hit ok; the phone rebooted instead of powering off.
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Contact name autocomplete seems to work based on phone numbers, but not people names. So, if I was to type in a phone number, it will find it in my address book.
emi.bu said:
I had problems with sending text messages. Auto-complete didn't work. I'd have to know the phone number. Similarly, in gmail, I tried emailing my friend Jean... i started typing "Jea".. several choices showed up, but none that I recognized (from some really old emails perhaps).
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Contact name autocomplete seems to work based on phone numbers, but not people names. So, if I was to type in a phone number, it will find it in my address book.
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Remove your Google account, wait 5 mins then add sync account again
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The Power off reboot issue is a UI problem. When you power off, it says reboot. But its powering off, I've never had a power off reboot issues. Try wiping cache, might helps.
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Pretty stable now after the full wipe.
However I'm still having a number of issues still with crashing apps and ui dialogs ...
But before I start posting all the individual issues I'm having, I was wondering if there is a way to monitor/view the syslog?
I'm clueless when it comes to android dev, but I've got enough linux and software development under my belt to figure what went wrong.
I did a number of searches but nothing came up other than hooking the device up to computer and looking at the logs there, I was hoping for something like an app so I can view these problems on the fly.
ahmadnassri said:
Pretty stable now after the full wipe.
However I'm still having a number of issues still with crashing apps and ui dialogs ...
But before I start posting all the individual issues I'm having, I was wondering if there is a way to monitor/view the syslog?
I'm clueless when it comes to android dev, but I've got enough linux and software development under my belt to figure what went wrong.
I did a number of searches but nothing came up other than hooking the device up to computer and looking at the logs there, I was hoping for something like an app so I can view these problems on the fly.
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If apps are crashing from restored backup, you might want to do a fresh install, otherwise you need to find out if they are compatible with ICS
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AgentCherryColla said:
The Power off reboot issue is a UI problem. When you power off, it says reboot. But its powering off, I've never had a power off reboot issues. Try wiping cache, might helps.
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I just tried to power off, it prompted me to power off (not reboot), I confirmed, and it shut down completely.
I started it back up, Selected Reboot, then cancel. Selected Power Off, and it prompts me to Reboot, which I confirmed, and it restarted instead of shutting down.
I just did this twice. Does not seems like just a UI issue. It recalls the fact that I first selected Reboot. Does not do the opposite. So, if I first selected Power Off, cancel, then Reboot, it will reboot correctly.
I'm never going back to android 2. Here's a few other small things I found in 1.1.2:
There are 2 different Gallery apps installed. On purpose?
Under Manage Apps, I found several apps I can't access anywhere, maybe they're not apps, but here they are: Bubbles, Black Hole, Phase Beam.
Sim Toolkit won't run. It say "SIM Toolkit is not ready or unsupported".
Street View is installed, but Maps is not.
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Any way to configure my contact list to display a dial button next to contact names?
The battery drained overnight because I forgot to plug it in. I got it charging now, however, when i turn it on, com.android.phone keeps crashing every 2 seconds.
Wiped cache and dalvik cache.. no effect. From Manage Apps, I cleared data for the Contacts app. It stopped... I rebooted.. it's back.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1505394-p-3.html
did you try to fix permissions usually helps with force closes
I'm running SlimBean 2.5. Every time I reboot or power off/on the phone, I get the message
"Activating...
Activation can take a few minutes"
If I press the Home button, the screen goes away and I get the normal home screen. Everything works fine at this point...so I'm not sure what it's doing "activating".
It's not a big deal, but it's an annoyance.
Any way to fix?
I had the same problem and I gave up SlimBean. If you check your phone status you'll see that you lost your no. and the MIN. No big deal though. Is it not only SlimBean but any AOSP/CM10/AOKP ROMs in certain conditions.
Are you by any chance in roaming?
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JeffN825 said:
I'm running SlimBean 2.5. Every time I reboot or power off/on the phone, I get the message
"Activating...
Activation can take a few minutes"
If I press the Home button, the screen goes away and I get the normal home screen. Everything works fine at this point...so I'm not sure what it's doing "activating".
It's not a big deal, but it's an annoyance.
Any way to fix?
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jb_alphamale said:
I had the same problem and I gave up SlimBean. If you check your phone status you'll see that you lost your no. and the MIN. No big deal though. Is it not only SlimBean but any AOSP/CM10/AOKP ROMs in certain conditions.
Are you by any chance in roaming?
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Thanks for the info. Do you know if there are any Jelly Bean ROMS for the Verizon Galaxy S3 that don't have this problem?
I'm not roaming...just normal reception in NYC. Are there any adverse side effects to this that you know of? Or is there any way to fix?
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
P.S. If you gave up SlimBean, what are you using now?
I'm having this issue with SlimBean 2.5 as well as AOKP JB4. I am in a major city with 4G coverage and I rarely see less than 4 bars at work (where I'm currently flashing).
Any ideas anyone?
Issues like this are why I won't be trying any AOPS rom's. The risk is too high and I don't want to spend time fixing IMEI. Never had any problems like this flashing rom's on my Evo.
I'm not sure if this is what fixed my issue or not. I simply formatted /system before flashing and have yet to see the activation screen. Though I haven't been using the phone quite as much as prior flashes, it has gone FAR longer without seeing the activation screen...just over an hour.
FYI: I installed AOKP JB4 this time. I'll be flashing the latest SlimBean ROM shortly and updating the post afterward.
OK, I installed SB and...unfortunately, I got the Activating popup.
So, I was thinking (I like to think). The first time I installed JB I clicked Start right away and it asked me for WiFi info during initial setup. I found out that it was doing that because it didn't have a data connection at the time I clicked "Start". So, I now wait for the radio to connect to the tower (i.e., the meter turns blue and shows 4g) before clicking start. This fixed that snag, so I thought...what if that activation app also needs the same connection to work, but it's not written well enough to handle this situation? I.e., it stores some flag that tells it failed the last time through and doesn't reset.
This is what I normally do:
cwm: factory reset, wipe /system, wipe dalvik cache, install sb & addons.
os: initial setup, change DPI to 320
<reboot 1>
os: use titanium backup to restore ID
<reboot 2>
os: use titanium to restore apps, etc
So this time, after reboot 1, instead of eagerly jumping in and setting up the phone, I did not unlock the phone until the data connection was made.
And...no more activation popup. I rebooted a few times and it's been going for 15+ minutes. I'll update if I see the activation popup again.
I know it sounds crazy...but see if it works for you and let us know!
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So I was thinking some more. I wondered if the activation popup always shows up if there is no signal. So this time I rebooted and unlocked straight away. I went to the app store, no connection. I hit the home button and...activation!
I rebooted again, but this time I waited for a data connection before unlocking...I did the same things as before. No activation popup!
Any ideas?
I'm going to flash AOKP JB4 and see if I can reproduce this.
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I could not get the Activation popup in AOKP JB 4. One thing I noticed is that AOKP connects to the network MUCH faster than SB. I know I was getting the Activation popup in AOKP JB 3, so maybe they updated something? Perhaps the order of apps at startup?
Well, I'm sticking with AOKP JB 4 for now. If you ever get SB to work without the popup PM me, please!
You are sort of on to something there. on first boot always wait for data, go through the setup, then you can reboot and what-not. I havent seen a activation screen in a LONG time, and I am SlimBean maintainer for our device, so you can imagine how many times I flash this GS3
cordell12 said:
You are sort of on to something there. on first boot always wait for data, go through the setup, then you can reboot and what-not. I havent seen a activation screen in a LONG time, and I am SlimBean maintainer for our device, so you can imagine how many times I flash this GS3
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Yeah, I've seen your name all over the place I can absolutely imagine how many flashes you've done.
I can pretty well reproduce the activation screen issue with SB on my device on any boot. All I have to do is unlock the screen the second it's available. It only seems to happen on boot, and I don't do that very often, so I guess that's not a big deal.
I restored to a stock backup last night because AOKP wouldn't connect to my head unit via BT. I'll install SB today and give it a whirl.
Some more info.
I installed SB and waited for signal before setup. It worked fine. I rebooted a few times and, for the most part, waited until after the data connection was made before unlocking. I assumed it had already activated and was done since I didn't see the Activating screen. Unforatuntely, I just rebooted again and I unlocked immediately...and got the activation screen.
That wasn't a big deal, I figured I'd reboot and it would go away. Nope! When I rebooted it immediately went to activating...no unlock was necessary. After this point I tried playing around to see if I could find some rhyme/reason to it. Unfortunately I couldn't. The first 4 reboots produced the Activating screen no matter what I tried. Then for some unknown reason it stopped...4 reboots worked fine, no matter when I unlocked.
I am a little concerned about the length of time it takes to get a data connection. It may be just my device (hardware hiccups happen!) but it seems that it takes SB 2.6 twice as long as AOKP JB 4 to make a data connection. If that was figured out then we might not have to worry about this at all.
FYI - I'm a developer. I got my professional start on SunOS using C back in 1994 and used Unix exclusively until 2003. So I'm VERY comfortable with Unix. That being said, I'd gladly lend my expertise in troubleshooting this, if you so desire.
Hell, if you could hook me up with some links to good DIY ROM compilation instructions I'd probably go as far as putting in my own debugging code to figure out what's triggering that screen. I've been interested in getting into Android development anyway and this would be one hell of a way to start!
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Well, the Activating screen is back again. This is getting frustrating.
JeffN825 said:
I'm running SlimBean 2.5. Every time I reboot or power off/on the phone, I get the message
"Activating...
Activation can take a few minutes"
If I press the Home button, the screen goes away and I get the normal home screen. Everything works fine at this point...so I'm not sure what it's doing "activating".
It's not a big deal, but it's an annoyance.
Any way to fix?
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Update 11-18-2012, using Verison S3.I am getting the "activating" message as soon as I install gapps-jb. Actually, as soon as I setup my google account. That tells me there is something wrong with the gapps. It goes away as soon as I hit the home button. I hope it get fixed soon. That's what is stopping me to use it everyday.
After going back and forward thru flashing all CM based Roms, I decide to nail the cause of this annoying message at startup. The problem always happened after installing the latest gapps 20121212-signed file and previous ones. The app that needs to be dissabled is "Setup Wizard.apk". For some reason this app runs at every startup,causing the "activating" message to pop up. The fix is: go to "manage apps" > All > Setup Wizard and click "dissable". End of the story.
TURBO
I've looked elsewhere online and seen others who have had my same problem, but not one ever posted a solution and I am stumped.
I am running CM 10.2 on my GSIII and this just started happening tonight after my phone locked up and I had to pull the battery to restart it. Among other problem I had were, the brightness was set to Auto, my Quick Settings panel, will not drop down, my batter icon was reset to the circle among other minor glitches. The biggest issues I am having are with the home button not responding at all, the lock screen simply doesn't appear and the notifications, including the pull down, are constantly empty. Other apps won't function properly, like Swipe Pad and my keyboard is reverted back to default, without any way of changing it.
If anyone can help me I'd really appreciate it and would like to pay the favor back!
Agg12 said:
I've looked elsewhere online and seen others who have had my same problem, but not one ever posted a solution and I am stumped.
I am running CM 10.2 on my GSIII and this just started happening tonight after my phone locked up and I had to pull the battery to restart it. Among other problem I had were, the brightness was set to Auto, my Quick Settings panel, will not drop down, my batter icon was reset to the circle among other minor glitches. The biggest issues I am having are with the home button not responding at all, the lock screen simply doesn't appear and the notifications, including the pull down, are constantly empty. Other apps won't function properly, like Swipe Pad and my keyboard is reverted back to default, without any way of changing it.
If anyone can help me I'd really appreciate it and would like to pay the favor back!
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Same exact problem just happened to me last night on my SGS4. Still trying to fix it.
Factory reset and flash rom again. Or flash different rom
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The battery icon circle animation is a glitch in a lot of KK roms jst disabled it and ur good to go
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twistedillutions said:
Factory reset and flash rom again. Or flash different rom
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The battery icon circle animation is a glitch in a lot of KK roms jst disabled it and ur good to go
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Yep, unfortunately this is all that would work. Don't flash the ROM you've already got installed though, that didn't fix anything, I just flashed a different version of the ROM I was on and updated.
Everywhere I read, the suggestions boiled down to reflashing. Pretty much, once you've corrupted the IMEI you're screwed.
Hi guys,
I wanted to put this in the development section but I guess I don't have permission yet. I am just wondering if anyone running this rom is experiencing strange issues with the display suddenly turning off for no reason. It is not "locking" itself, you can still hear the keyboard tones and such, but nothing is displayed. When you hit the power button you hear the "lock" noise, then you need to tap it again to get the unlock screen.
This happens randomly and sometimes it gets stuck in this terrible loop where the display will only come on for a few milliseconds before turning off again. I've read some display posts about wall papers and such not working and the settings for that does not solve my problem.
Some more info: I have a b60 tablet, using trebuchet as the launcher
Any help or advice would be welcomed, it would also be nice to know if I am the only one who suffers from this annoying glitch.
Cheers!
#19 is the latest version, try updating
Sorry I am an idiot, I do have 19 running currently
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rastacalavera said:
Sorry I am an idiot, I do have 19 running currently
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Hopefully the answering to questions is not as forbidden as to question them! >
Well I got some guesses:
I read about TF owners who suffer from strange behaviour when charigng theire tabs. I was reading in that direction beauce mine does something strange too: When it's charging and I touch it, it feels like light cirbbling in the fingers, when I drive em around the housing. Nothing else, but I was worryied to get an electrical hit. But it's quiet common among a lot of users a nothing to worry as far as I read. Anyway: Others got "ghost inputs". They don't touch the display but there are inputs. Some could fix that by getting a new housing. Others but dropping theire china-AC-adapters anothers by returning the tab.
Other guess: Power button R.I.P. or a cold sobe r point. Should not be that a big thing to fix - when located... Try if you can influence the on/ off behaviour by pressing on the sides around the powerbutton or other critical edges near it.
The other thing could imagin is the most often made and most often denied error: Wrong (or none) wiping / formating. (Actually I think in your paticullary case it's not this but...) I know most ROMs say it would be okay to dirty flash the #19 about eG the #17. But I wouldn't advice to do so!
My way of a clean installation
Just do backups with third party software like Next Launcher, export contacts, etc... Then copy the backup folders and contacts, etc ( if not on external SD) to a save place. After you are done run Titanium Backup and save all your apps and application data. I would NOT recommend to backup system data as well . It actually is (partially) working but cleaner is cooler. Done? Cool. I you need something special you will have to try. :>
meandmytutorials.blogspot.com for exact stepbystep walkthrough.
Reboot into recovery.
Then wipe the hell out of the internal memory. Factory reset + cache formats + dalvik format + whatever. (CARE dont format your external SD or USB if connected. Else you will loose all your data!). When using eG TWRP 2.6.3.0-X or something, also do the advanced format. I eject the external SDs and USB devices before doing so... just to be sure. After the formats / wipes I reboot in recovery. When prompted, I tell the TWRP to reinstall SU. When rebooting I reinsert the SDs etcs. Back in recovery I install the ROM, install GApps, clear dalvik and reboot to into system. There I do all the system configuration and reboot 2x. I do NOT let goole restore anything or activate any localization services or something.
Then I turn display on to 30 mins before idle. Resaon: I do the titanium restore and suffert problems when the screen turned off while backup was restoring. And my backup is aout 10GB.Annoying. Copy back the backup folders and restore the backups with the third party apps. Import contacts if you are not syncing with google or something. Restore launcher settings and stuff. Now I let the tablet boot another 2x and give it some time to settle. About 30 mins. You can see how hard it is working / syncing when opening the gallery or something else. Turn back display to 2-5 mins. Alls done.
Cheers
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I did a fresh wipe/install last night and the problem still persists but not as frequently. Still really limits my use which is why I haven't replied back in so long. Just let the thing sit there cause it was basically unusable. I will check his site later to see if there is a new rom.
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Installed another rom, 4.2.2 #23 and the problem persists. Link to video to show example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8BmN-dNSOk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Installed another rom, 4.2.2 #23 and the problem persists. Link to video to show example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8BmN-dNSOk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Honestly, have not seen that issue at all using Kat Kiss 4.4.2 (I use trebuchet, too). So, it's not doing it on other ROMs (like OmniRom 4.4.x or older Kat Kiss or EOS ROMS?
I used to get some occasional screen-tear glitches with 4.3 and maybe earlier, but I don't recall seeing them anymore.
Yeah just with katkiss. I used trebuchet and Nova. Same issue
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Issue with 4.2.2
I had a similar issue with 4.2 but it was cleared up mostly with a full wipe and flash to KK 4.3 (v29 I think). I still had some issues on 4.3 with my b70 tab not turning on. If I unplugged my charger just after the screen went into save mode sometimes I would not get a response from the power button until I plugged in the charger again.
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Further to my previous post, it seems most of my previous issues have been resolved with a wipe and flash to KKKK 4.4.2 (23c). I am using Nova as a launcher and not the ROM stock launchers.
Really? Weird... Same rom with a b60 tablet. I also used nova but stopped because I thought that might be part of the problem
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Hello, suddenly when I tried use the stock Camera app to take photo, the device rebooted by itself. This has happened several times. Next, it happened two times that the screen flashed for a few times and then the system rebooted automatically. Now, it is rebooting by itself again and again like crazy. Know what is going on? Is this caused by some kind of automatic software update with buggy software or a hardware failure?
petercohen said:
Hello, suddenly when I tried use the stock Camera app to take photo, the device rebooted by itself. This has happened several times. Next, it happened two times that the screen flashed for a few times and then the system rebooted automatically. Now, it is rebooting by itself again and again like crazy. Know what is going on? Is this caused by some kind of automatic software update with buggy software or a hardware failure?
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Hard to say.
if I were you I'd first make a full backup (titanium backup if you're rooted) then I'd reflash the firmware through odin and then a factory reset. If the problem is solved, then it is a software issue, and you can restore one by one your apps until you find the one that was causing the problem.
If the problem persists after a factory reset, then is definitively an hardware issue.
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petercohen said:
Hello, suddenly when I tried use the stock Camera app to take photo, the device rebooted by itself. This has happened several times. Next, it happened two times that the screen flashed for a few times and then the system rebooted automatically. Now, it is rebooting by itself again and again like crazy. Know what is going on? Is this caused by some kind of automatic software update with buggy software or a hardware failure?
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Hard to say.
if I were you I'd first make a full backup (titanium backup if you're rooted) then I'd reflash the firmware through odin and then a factory reset. If the problem is solved, then it is a software issue, and you can restore one by one your apps until you find the one that was causing the problem.
If the problem persists after a factory reset, then it is definitively an hardware issue.
aviator1 said:
Hard to say.
if I were you I'd first make a full backup (titanium backup if you're rooted) then I'd reflash the firmware through odin and then a factory reset. If the problem is solved, then it is a software issue, and you can restore one by one your apps until you find the one that was causing the problem.
If the problem persists after a factory reset, then is definitively an hardware issue.
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Hard to say.
if I were you I'd first make a full backup (titanium backup if you're rooted) then I'd reflash the firmware through odin and then a factory reset. If the problem is solved, then it is a software issue, and you can restore one by one your apps until you find the one that was causing the problem.
If the problem persists after a factory reset, then it is definitively an hardware issue.
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If it's continuously rebooting (boot loop) then titanium would do no good even IF the OP were rooted, the use of titanium backup requires that the OS boots fully and remains stable during the backup process.
I think the best course of action is to get into recovery and let the device sit for a minute or two. If it sits there in recovery without rebooting then at least you know it's not an issue with the power button or other hardware buttons or the battery. At that point, clear cache and then reboot. If a boot loop persists after cache clearing then a factory reset is next, and you'll lose any programs that were installed after initial setup but your data on the SD card and external SD will remain intact.
After about 30 minutes of non-stop crazy self-rebooting, the device became hot but returned to normal. My device is not rooted. What is the best way to back up everything include the S Note contents, Action Memo, photos, etc.?
petercohen said:
After about 30 minutes of non-stop crazy self-rebooting, the device became hot but returned to normal. My device is not rooted. What is the best way to back up everything include the S Note contents, Action Memo, photos, etc.?
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As far as I could understand you did not have a continuous boot loop but very frequent random boots. In this case you should be able to use Kies to backup your apps and data. If you have a smart card reader you can even backup its contents copying them direcly to a pc and use kies to backup only the data and apps that reside on your internal memory.
Having the same problem
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As far as I could understand you did not have a continuous boot loop but very frequent random boots. In this case you should be able to use Kies to backup your apps and data. If you have a smart card reader you can even backup its contents copying them direcly to a pc and use kies to backup only the data and apps that reside on your internal memory.
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My Pro is also rebooting and flikkering. I just plug it into a chager to correct the problem. mine starts doing the flikkering and rebooting when the battery falls to 30 %...
The same here in italy... mine starts the loops at about 50% of battery... do you have lollipop? mine starts the loops after the update... any solution? I have to leave it reboot for one hour ?
@petercohen do you solve it in this way?
thank you!
no rooted note pro 12.2 lte
Revan1988 said:
The same here in italy... mine starts the loops at about 50% of battery... do you have lollipop? mine starts the loops after the update... any solution? I have to leave it reboot for one hour ?
@petercohen do you solve it in this way?
thank you!
no rooted note pro 12.2 lte
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Me to I'm in Italy and it is three weeks I'm running a rooted lollipop (Flashfire method) with no reboots so far. Just to stay on the safe side I removed Knox and did a factory reset.
The problem looks like a poor electrical contact somewhere, may be the battery connector, or a defective battery, but first is better to exclude a software problem with a factory reset and, possibly, a firmware reflash.
tykenicol said:
My Pro is also rebooting and flikkering. I just plug it into a chager to correct the problem. mine starts doing the flikkering and rebooting when the battery falls to 30 %...
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Re solder the battery connector will fix your problem. Battery connector with cracked solders will cause flickering screen, auto reboot, auto shutdown..
hey everybody, it seems lots of users have the same problem. and here there are many posts in troubleshooting section. it seems there is something related to software and battery when it is bellow 30%. honestly I don't think sammy made thusands of deffective batteries but rather there is a problem with battery handling from the software.
meneses.leonardo said:
hey everybody, it seems lots of users have the same problem. and here there are many posts in troubleshooting section. it seems there is something related to software and battery when it is bellow 30%. honestly I don't think sammy made thusands of deffective batteries but rather there is a problem with battery handling from the software.
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This is not software problem, you can verify the source of this particular problem easy. Pressing hard on the back, battery connector location is near the center, or more practically, pressing directly on the battery connector when the rear case removed, you will see the magic. This hardware defect is so easy to fix but most people can't because they don't have solder equipment or don't believe it's the source of problem.