I've been playing around with the rooted 2.1 far a few weeks now and I've noticed that after using the camera a couple of times, the phone "kind of" crashes. I mean kind of because some of the applications behave normally, but there is no audio from the phone, no video from the camera, volume up/down lags. No force close warnings. I've read some of the bluetooth audio issue threads and they sound similar. Has anyone experienced anything like this? I've tried other builds (eris21official-root) and the same problem.
Phone details:
ROM: VanillaDroidV1
Firmware: 2.1
Baseband ver: 2.40.00.01.22
Kernal ver. 2.6.29-564a4a15
Anyone with either of the two ROMs, could you please give it a try? I just need to know if it is the phone or the ROM.
Thanks
are you doing a data wipe and a davlik wipe before each flash there?
Ive used both of those and have had none of the issues you mention.
Im going back and forth between root ota and Sensable 2.0.
I am doing both of the erase you mentioned. I experience the issues within the hour after using the camera to shoot a few pictures. I can tell the phone is acting up because, I won't get any audio when I call or receive a call from someone. Thanks for the suggestion. Not sure what else to do.
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Last night I updated my g tablet to the most recent VEGAn ROM 5.1. I wiped all the data from my device via clockwork, wiped the Dalvik cache and repartitioned the internal memory as well. The install went smooth and everything is running great except for the fact that I now have no audio coming from my speakers. Turning the volume all the way up does nothing. I tried reinstalling the ROM but the issue repeats itself. Anyone have the same problem? Or, anyone have an idea how to fix this? Thanks.
Sound works fine here. I did have to take it out of silent mode.
bartonhen said:
Last night I updated my g tablet to the most recent VEGAn ROM 5.1. I wiped all the data from my device via clockwork, wiped the Dalvik cache and repartitioned the internal memory as well. The install went smooth and everything is running great except for the fact that I now have no audio coming from my speakers. Turning the volume all the way up does nothing. I tried reinstalling the ROM but the issue repeats itself. Anyone have the same problem? Or, anyone have an idea how to fix this? Thanks.
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Sound fine here too. Volume rocker ONLY sets Media Volume in this ROM. Go to Settings->Sound->Volume and manually set volumes up, see if it fixes.
Thanks for the responses guys(or girls...one never knows). Silent mode is definitely turned off and I have also tried to address the issue by going into the volume settings. I have turned everything all the way up but I still get nothing. I'm gonna restore it to beta 4 and see what's up and then try and reflash 5 again. Wish I knew what was going on but thanks for the input.
Just reflashed to beta 4 and audio worked perfectly. I then reinstalled beta 5.1 and the audio disappeared again. Am I the only one?
bartonhen said:
Just reflashed to beta 4 and audio worked perfectly. I then reinstalled beta 5.1 and the audio disappeared again. Am I the only one?
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I am actually still using beta 5, not beta 5.1, so not sure if something changed when Gojimi updated it this morning?
A quick suggestion - can you try first backing up everything in Clockwork Mod, then wiping user data and see if it makes a difference (i.e. if audio is still screwed up on a fresh install of beta 5.1).
Sound is fine for me in 5.1. All he changed was the G sensor stuff...
Backed it up, wiped user data, did a fresh install and still nothing. Maybe it is specific to my device(although I could not understand for the life of me why). Sad...I am loving VEGAn especially this newest update. I guess I will just wait for the next release to see what happens.
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Backed it up, wiped user data, did a fresh install and still nothing. Maybe it is specific to my device(although I could not understand for the life of me why). Sad...I am loving VEGAn especially this newest update. I guess I will just wait for the next release to see what happens.
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If it works in Beta 4, but not 5 maybe download the file again. Besides the G sensor stuff in 5.1 I think Gojimi also uploaded a new file to fix some boot.img size problem. Can't hurt to try the latest if you haven't already...
Did you try the headphone trick? (insert headphone plug into port, then unplug) That was an early issue that was resolved, but maybe it's making a reappearance.
I'm not on 5.1 yet, working on that today.
(btw, when I first read the title, I thought you were trying to do surround sound off your GTab!)
Brilliant! I've spent hours flashing and reflashing trying to get this thing to work and all I needed to do was plug in some headphones and then unplug them! I wish I would have found this out sooner so I wouldn't have wasted everyone's time. Thank You!
P.S.- Yeah I could see how there could be some confusion about title to this post...ha, I'll have to clarify more next time.
bartonhen said:
Brilliant! I've spent hours flashing and reflashing trying to get this thing to work and all I needed to do was plug in some headphones and then unplug them! I wish I would have found this out sooner so I wouldn't have wasted everyone's time. Thank You!
P.S.- Yeah I could see how there could be some confusion about title to this post...ha, I'll have to clarify more next time.
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Only thing is you should not have to do that anymore. I bet you still have fragments of old roms hanging out. I do not have to do the headphone trick anymore and I am using 5.1. Haven't had to use that trick for a while now.
Whenever I flash something new I always do a factory reset, and a cache wipe. Every now and then I will use Nvflash to restore all the way back to brand new out of the box status. Too much of the old is getting mixed up with the new in a lot of cases causing lots of people to have weird issues that really don't exist.
Makes it hard for a developer to really know what is working and what is broken..
I just installed beta 5.1 and no audio issues, yet. Did you do a data wipe? Maybe there's something in /data causing the issue, that's my only guess.
Data wipes between mods and major updates is always recommended. I know it's a PITN but it can reduce the number of weird issues. I use Titanium Backup religiously.
I have never had to do it before with any older ROMS. I have only been using VEGAn ROMS since beta 3 came out. I also have been doing factory resets, wiping the cache, and repartitioning the sdcard consistently between installs. I might need to use Nvflash just to be safe and install a totally clean version.
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I have never had to do it before with any older ROMS. I have only been using VEGAn ROMS since beta 3 came out. I also have been doing factory resets, wiping the cache, and repartitioning the sdcard consistently between installs. I might need to use Nvflash just to be safe and get it to stock.
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I think the framework changed between beta 4 and beta 5. Different stuff. Maybe that's why you have been fortunate until now...
I got No sound too. Plugging in headset makes sound work On headet but when unplugged my sound is gone again. was working perfect on Beta 4.
Just flashed to Vegan Beta5 2 hours ago. My audio is working fine. Playing "Hall of the Mountain King" atm from speakers.
I update Vegan-tab 5.1 and the sound was working, i watched couple of movies, and today evening no sound, tried in setup and no sound.
I was turning sound off/on from the screen unlock, window, by swipe down the speaker icon. Now i have no sound.
I don't know what i did to make the sound goaway.
Update: now i got the sound back, don't know how i got back since i did all the tricks said in this forum.
1. did the settings->volume-> changed all 3 volume increase.
2. reboot may times.
don;t remember the order. so don't know which one cleared it.
So far I have not run into the no sound problem with b5.1. I sure hope it doesn't crop up because I leave today for a week long trip.
Last night i had installed FRING and Yahoo Instant Messenger, with the Voice/video add-on. And my media volume was muted, couldn't get it to go up. Even when going into setting, and increasing it, it wouldn't increase. I uninstalled those programs and it started working again after a reboot. Running VEGAN 5.2.
Does anyone ever have issues with the phone/dialer app?
If I try to call someone from contacts, I swipe on their name to the right and nothing happens, if I try again, I notice the contacts app has frozen OR I try to swipe again and nothing happens again. Eventually it might work after 2 or 3 goes.
Then I'll hang up after finally getting it to make the call and the phone immediately tries to make the calls I tried to make earlier... This happens fairly often but not all the time.
OR – (this happens rarely but does happen)
Phone rings, try to swipe the green answer thingo and it just bounces back to where it was, try to swipe/answer again nothing. I can't answer the call. Happened today, really pissed me off. Phone app crashed and refused to make a call after that for about a minute.
Sound familiar to anyone?
Using Android 2.3.5 Vodafone (Australia) stock unrooted.
Anyone?
Would love some help on this.
Yes I am facing the same issues as you.
A few observations:
problems exist on stock dialer app as well as third party dialer apps
It's an intermittent problem i.e. sometimes the problem shows and other times it does not
I was facing the same problem a couple months ago too, since i was running 2.3.3 so i had just upgraded to 2.3.6 and the problem had disappeared. But out of the blue it has again started now while i am running 2.3.6
Currently i am running on stock rom, cf rooted, latest modem.
Am looking for a permanent solution and will post a solution if i find one, in any case hope the official ICS release (due on the 15th) should solve the problem anyways.
Anyone else facing the same problem?
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Usually clearing the cache and calvik cache does not help resolve the issue.
After posting the above post I had just created a ClockWork mod backup and Restored to the same. Dunno how but that resolved the issue, or to be exact, the issue did not surface for a couple days.
Today the issue actually became too much for me to be able to handle.
So I again cleared both cache and dalvik cache and then fixed permissions via CLockWork recovery menu.
Since then I am not facing the issue yet. Hope it works for you too.
(But this is just a preliminary observation and maybe the issue shall resurface with long term use)
p.s. really hoping that the impending ICS update will permanently fix said issue.
3 days ago I started experiencing weird phone behaviour. I tried calling someone but i didn't hear the "calling" beeping sound nor i could hear if there was any answer on the other end. Then i couldn't hear anything when i was getting calls. It didn't matter if i use the "loud" speaker or the "on-ear" speaker, the result was the same - no in-call volume. Microphone and "loud" speaker seem to work fine as i could use them as usual with other apps. Mobile data was working, so antenna was also OK, SIM card seemed to function properly as well. Other people who I tried speaking to did hear me fine, just i couldn't hear anything.
I tried freezing, then uninstalling all the non system apps that i thought could have impact on this matter, but that didn't help. I was using AOKP Rom and i had nand backup of Omega Rom 5.2 with stock samsung touchwiz, I tried restoring back to it, but for my surprise the in-call sound was still quiet. I didn't know what else could be and let it alone for an hour or so. Suddenly, the next time I tried it again, it WORKED!. After 2 hours of it working, i got back to my AOKP as i have it backed up right before switching to Omega Rom backup. I defrosted the apps and reinstalled the uninstalled ones. Nothing was influencing the in-call sound of the phone, everything worked fine.
The next day this problem popped up all of a sudden again. I got mad, i tried everything i did before except restoring the stock rom. Nothing helped. I then booted into CWM and set to fix permissions, to wipe Dalvik cache and i flashed the latest modem. Rebooted. The in-call sound was OK again. Something of these actions fixed it.
Today i got this NO IN-CALL SOUND bug once again. Seems like it wasn't the new modem that helped me. I booted to CWM and wiped Dalvik cache, rebooted, the in-call sound was working fine again. So, wiping Dalvik cache does fix the problem so far.
I'm keen to understand what exactly could cause this weird behaviour of disappearing in-call sound. Do you have any ideas?
I have the same problem.
If you find any sollutions, let me know.
You may delete some system apps.the solution is that you can just flash a rom and don't delete the apps you don't know
I've experienced something similar. I think in my case the MIC wasn't working either, but not entirely sure about that.
This thread seems to be about the same issue:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1721604
Also while browsing the developer forum, I bumped into something interesting:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1745974
This is for a ROM I don't use, but if the it's the same issue, and affects other ROMs too, I'd be very interested in knowing what exactly was fixed here.
Experienced this problem for the first time today, the volume actually disappeared during a call. Read through the posts suggested above and cleared cache and dalvik, but it didn't make any difference. Finally, I removed the battery, re-fitted and re-booted and it's currently working again. There does seem to be an issue with Omega/Siyah 1.2.6 combinations which is what I'm currently running
I use voice chat on Skype a lot, but I also love the speed from 4.4.1 + crpalmer's kernel + bionic libs, however, there's one thing that's keeping me away from that speed, and that's voice chatting being broken on 4.4..Does anyone know a fix for this or know what kind of problem it is? Is it a 4.4 ROM problem or a kernel problem? Whether stock kernel or crpalmers, whenever I initiate a Skype call, it literally kills my ears, it makes this extremely loud screeching and static-y noise that never goes away unless I restart my phone...Anyone know what's up with this?
As far as I know, it's a hardware issue, and not a software issue. I was having the same issue with Newt's 4.2.2 GPE ROM. I got tired of the Skype bug and installed the Unofficial CM 11 (Before official was announced), and the issue was still there. I did an RUU to 1.15. Still had the issue. Installed Newt's GPE again, the problem isn't there anymore. So I'm assuming it's a hardware issue. If possible, take a look at the logcat when trying to voice chat on Skype. See if you see any errors regarding the microphone. I think it's just a fluke. Some people have the issue, others don't.
Its a kennel Issue I have the same Prob too
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I use voice chat on Skype a lot, but I also love the speed from 4.4.1 + crpalmer's kernel + bionic libs, however, there's one thing that's keeping me away from that speed, and that's voice chatting being broken on 4.4..Does anyone know a fix for this or know what kind of problem it is? Is it a 4.4 ROM problem or a kernel problem? Whether stock kernel or crpalmers, whenever I initiate a Skype call, it literally kills my ears, it makes this extremely loud screeching and static-y noise that never goes away unless I restart my phone...Anyone know what's up with this?
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As far as I know, Skype audio has been working right in CM 11 since December 10th. Please tell me that you are running a more recent ROM than that.
For giggles, I just verified that I have no audio problems using the Skype test service either using the phone as a handset or using speaker-phone. I didn't bother trying headset or bluetooth as those were more likely to work in the first place.
If you still think that there is a software problem, please install the latest nightly of CM 11, do not install anything except Skype, do not restore anything, do not change anything (especially ART). Verify a problem using the test service and then provide a logcat in the CM 11 thread. Also, repeat the same steps with a stock ROM and verify that it works there.
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Its a kennel Issue I have the same Prob too
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Ditto (and, fyi, I doubt it is a kernel problem).
same problem. flashed the new 3.06 radio and still not working.
this is a real bummer, i use skype everytime im out of the country
My calls are always on speakerphone, doesn't matter if the speakerphone button is on or not, I don't believe this is a hardware problem even though my screen was replaced a few days ago, I mean how could it possibly be. I can't be the only one with this problem, I have searched everywhere, seems like I am. I'm running stock (rooted) so I don't believe it is a software problem either, I have tried rebooting and clearing cache so far.
Details: Stock E2303 MM Rooted. Only thing that could be screwing with audio is Viper4Android, and I uninstalled its drivers already. Also the headphone jack is dead if it matters.
Sorry for creating thread ahead of time, but the problem has been fixed by flashing stock using Flashtool, incase someone has the same problem.