No matter what ROM I try some where down the line (either 1 week, or 1 month etc) i always get the same result. Which is that htc sense stops loading. I have no idea what the problem is and its quite frustrating. i soft-reset, nothing, i turn off sense and turn it back on, nothing. always the same problem. has anyone encountered this before?
Can you give more information? Like what radio version do you use? Does a hard reset tempory help it? What things did you change before this occured?
Yes, I had this happen too. Ultimately, I put the stock ROM back on with the stock radio - kept happening. Sent it back and got a refurbed unit. Absolutely no problems now.
Im having tha same problem
Try Task 29 and then new ROM
Although there is not much of a description of the problem, I strongly believe you may have re-flashed custom ROMs without doing a Task29 which "cleans" the internal FLASH ROM. If this would happen to be the case you get these types of problems where suddenly the Phone just shuts down. Even after HardReset you will only be able to run for a limited time before the phone freezes again.
So give Task29 a shot and see if it helps.
Ps: Also try using a recommended RadioROM for a particular custom ROM.
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Although there is not much of a description of the problem, I strongly believe you may have re-flashed custom ROMs without doing a Task29 which "cleans" the internal FLASH ROM. If this would happen to be the case you get these types of problems where suddenly the Phone just shuts down. Even after HardReset you will only be able to run for a limited time before the phone freezes again.
So give Task29 a shot and see if it helps.
Ps: Also try using a recommended RadioROM for a particular custom ROM.
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ive used task 29 every time ive flashed over the months, so its not that... ive used every single reccomended for each radio rom but always the same outcome.
what could it be? ive got a little feeling its got something to do with CHT, as its only when i play around with it alot that it happens.
Same, here. Thought it was my energy ROM but have tasked 29, tried different ROMS from different chefs and radios, taken SD card out all together, only works for a matter of minutes before sense freezes and needs a battery reset, very frustrating - any other suggestions?
I did experience similar issues. In my case I've been using Artemis series of ROM v23, 25 and 28. In my case I did not use T29 the first couple of times. When using v28 of about couple of weeks sense would stop running. In my case it happened after receiving an MMS where I subsequently had to pull the battery to reboot. Ones on reboot I noticed in the file manager that the internal ROM was filled with strange symbols and unrecognizable file names. I did a HardReset to clean up (I thought). The filesystem looked okay, but after that HR Sense would run for a few minutes depending on whether I tried to re-install contacts and settings or left it be. After every freeze I had to do a HR to actually be able to reboot, otherwise it would stop at the orange screen.
What I've done is to upgrade to HSPL3 (2.08 HSPL), TASK 29 and install the latest V.30 (I reckon in a few days it is obsolete ones again ) Now everything is rosy-dandy and running like a clock (knock wood).
I'm using Radio 2.09.51.03_2 on Artemis 30 (NOR). Phone is about 8 months now, and I have not had any problems until a week ago where the above happened.
Fingers crossed!
Still running good...
just to follow up... phone is still working good so it seems Task 29 is indeed a necessary thing to do.
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So I've been bouncing around on roms for a while, following Titan Reloaded since 1.0 and then the 6.5 59 betas and now the 6.5 69 betas. I'm not sure if its due to the ROMs (if it is, I'm guessing its the 6.5 ones), but my phone has recently become totally unstable. No matter if I do a fresh build of a rom or a fresh flash, usually within 3 or so days (if it even lasts that long, sometimes it's only about 2 hours...) my phone will freeze up as in the power button will turn on/off the screen but everything will be frozen or the power button fails to turn on the screen. Any time I reset it when it's like this, it hard resets. So I usually flash the rom back, and resync (thank you, Google Sync!).
After getting sick of bad preformance in 59 (it was great when it lasted like 6 days before totally wigging out, see my posts in that thread) I decided to go back to 1.3.4 reloaded. I built a ROM with the kitchen, but after flashing it and waiting for the UC, I try to install my carrier cab and some apps. Usually 3 or so apps in, no matter what they are, I'll get an error can't install (for no reason) or can't install on the device itself (reprompts me to select the device or the storage card), or it'll start installing and then hang. Again, whenever I try to reset, it does a hard reset, and I have to wait for it to go again.
Anyone have any ideas? I'm getting really frustrated..
PS. Anyone know if I add insurance to my VZW account for this phone, can I make a claim right away? I'll pay a $50 deductible to get something else, even if it's another refurb Titan. 6 months after having it, half the keyboard mysteriously stopped working...)
You have to add insurance within 15 days of buying the phone.
I had the same type of problem. Reflash your phone with 1.3.4, but once you are done with the flashing/letting the customization finish, pull the battery out and let it sit for a minute or two. Then give it a try. I bet it works for you, it did for me.
i had a very similar issue with titan reloaded 1.3.4. after a little use, (varying amounts of time/activity, just like you) i would have to soft-reset the device but then it would initiate a full reset. after much frustration i flashed to another rom (skip's i believe) and then caved in and flashed back to reloaded 1.3.4 for the manila 2d perfomance. since then, which has been about 4 days, i have not had any of the erratic behavior of before. i soft reset all day long (unfortunately it seems like its just life as usual with the mogul ) but it never goes into the hard reset cycle like before.
if i remember correctly, i had flashed 6.5 roms before flashing to 1.3.4 so that might have something to do with it.
I have been experiencing the same thing for a few days now with 1.3.4. The first time I had tried 1.3.4 the rom was stable but after trying the latest 6.5 rom it has been doing this even after re-flashing to 1.3.4 repeatedly. I am going to try 1.3.3 and see if this stops. I'm glad I saw this post, I thought I was going crazy. Hopefully somone will figure out a solution. I will try mcorgan10's solution and see if it helps.
I had the exact same problem on 1.34.
I gave up after reflashing 5x and just went with DCD 4.12.
No problems with it at all. Super fast. Super clean.
Sounds like there are multiple issues with the hard reseting. I have been running all reload 1.x.x . When I got to the 1.3.3 before I flashed to it (since I was in flash mode) I thought I would try 6.5 first to investigate. After that I flashed 1.3.3 and I also got hard resets while installing apps at random. So here is what I did. I decided to flash the 1.4 beta 2 and everything is great after unchecking footprints in m2dc.(memory hog) I have been running the beta since its release with no issue at all.
I bought another mogul which had dcd 3.3.4 so I flashed it to 1.3.4
Flashed rom via usb. while titan reload screen was present did a hard reset.
booted up and let customizations run. soft reset the phone after 15 minutes. Then I installed my apps. I have been running the 1.3.4 for well over a week now and have had no issues at all.
Hopefully someone could find this problem that so many are having. I do take my battery out and replace it with a fully charged one before I flash. Wish I could give more info but that is my senario.
I tried the battery thing and also reflashed to 1.3.3. less than 24 hours and the phone froze. Then it hard rest when I soft rest the phone. I wonder if this is something I'm loading in the kitchen. I flash without the kitchen and see if that helps.
I hate to say it, but I'm glad I'm not the only one with these problems, as I too thought I was going crazy.
So it seems that the pretty common thing is that we all used some of the 1.3.x branch, tried 6.5, and switched back.
Battery: I tried this, hard reset 10 mins after I put the battery back in. After redoing the process over again, I was able to install the carrier cab for data, and sync my contacts back, and then I left it. As I went to plug the phone in and set the alarm, I noticed it was frozen, the screen was off. Battery wasn't dead either.
Reflashing: I've tried flashing to 6.5 5.9 b4 (built in a kitchen) and back to 1.3.4. I'm about to sit down and try the nuerom (never have) or DCD 4.1.2. I'll update later on this.
And fwiw, I flash using the sd card, and never have over USB.
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I rolled back to the stock verizon radio and rom last night. So far I have had no problems. I'll stay with this a couple of days and try 1.3.4 again. I do think the problem was related to switching back and forth between 6.1 and 6.5 roms. I just glad I saw this post.
I have tried many custom roms but always keep getting freezes or issues loading sense.
The main reason i looked into custom roms was to improve reliabilty of android but now it seem android is more stable that windows. and since trying different windows roms now i cant seem to get my version of android to boot altogether.
tried formatting sd card, task 29 before flashes just seems hopeless
p.s fed up of nearly finishing angry birds then having to reinstall
popping the battery out about 10 times a day this is a piss take
using energy rom either loads up straight to the lock screen and freezes, just keeps saying loading sense but doesnt, just says htc but doesnt load anything or occasionally half load sense but all messed up or randomly freezes or SLEEP OF DEATH.
what the hell is going on?
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popping the battery out about 10 times a day this is a piss take
using energy rom either loads up straight to the lock screen and freezes, just keeps saying loading sense but doesnt, just says htc but doesnt load anything or occasionally half load sense but all messed up or randomly freezes or SLEEP OF DEATH.
what the hell is going on?
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Did you try stock ROMs ? .. remove HSPL and try 3.14 .. they say it has some problem, but trust nobody and try it for yourself .. " Nothing is better than the original "
FYI, it isn't all about the ROM. For me, Android ran best in 3.14 ROM but i flashed energy cuz I use winmo much often
how do you remove hspl? its not just an energy rom issue because i tried another rom and this keeps happening. just doesnt make any sense just keeps repeatedly crashing, why??
As funny as it might sound have you ever changed your radio? I know some radios will cause all sorts of issues with certain ROMs.
yeah i was on radio 15 and also tried 12 and its still freezing. tried using the phone without the sd card to see if thats causing any issue and is still freezing. only recently started to do this tho.
back on official rom now and no problem so why was there such much freezing on custom roms?
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back on official rom now and no problem so why was there such much freezing on custom roms?
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I had exactly the same problem. I never installed any custom roms until I upgraded to the stock 3.14 and then onto Artemis recently and all of them just hang at bootup or randomly. Maybe its an issue with the newest official ROM?
So I've had less than stellar luck with this phone. I purchased it and rooted it pretty much on day 1, (this was back in early May) and immediately started seeing some pretty awful rebooting. I switched kernels from Das Bamf's to Imoseyon's, which helped it go from mind-numbing to merely bad (used to reboot EVERY TIME the screen was slept and turned back on, went to happening maybe once an hour)
I switched back to stock, same problem, rebooting literally once an hour. I called Verizon for troubleshooting help and they immediately had me switch it out for a Hardware version 2.0 phone, which I've now had since May 15th. It does work a lot better, but it's still pretty bad. Here's the timeline:
Ran stock for about a week, was seeing 1 reboot every other day, decided to root. Installed BAMF remix 1.7 with the .7/.6 CDMA/LTE radio, which left it pretty much the same, rebooting every 30 hours or so. It's particularly likely to do it when using Navigation or on phone calls. It's not a stress thing, I can run Linpack, quadrant, make calls and surf, whatever, it runs fine at stock speeds, 1.92, 1.92x... and will do so for hours without rebooting (until it does)
Switched to 2.0 w/ the MR2 radio, and the reboots were even worse. Now more like 1-2 times a day. Thinking this was not a radio issue now, I eased down the clock speed (I was running 1.92x kernel) down to stock speeds, no affect. Upped the voltage by switching to 1.92, still no affect, reboots a couple of times day, ALSO with a few random shutdowns thrown in for fun. I tried Standard as well, letting it top out at 1.4, still having the issue.
MR2.5 came out, switched to that, and it became unuseable. Reboots literally every 5-10 minutes, and I tried running it that way for the better part of a day, thinking it was maybe the kernel settling or whatever, but it stayed that bad. I switched back to 2.0 and kept seeing the reboots a couple of times a day, so since they were worse on GB I figured I'd go back to Froyo.
Loaded 1.8 Remix, and the reboots are still happening a few times day. At my wit's end, I decided to go straight back to stock, no root. It ran fine that way for about a day, then randomly shutdown again. It has seemed good so far today, but the random shutdown happening makes me assume it's still not stable.
I really don't think it's a problem with 2 phones in a row, and there's thousands of posts of people experiencing similar problems, so it's not something weird I'm particularly doing. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to it, as some people are rock solid with Froyo with the .7 radios, or the .6/.7 combo, or some are fine with Gingerbread MR2, or even 2.5. Me, I have no luck with ANYTHING.
Should I start another ticket with Verizon for another dud phone, or is the promised OTA update really going to do something magical that MR 2 or 2.5 haven't already tried to do to fix this thing?
If it were me Id be screaming at somebody at Verizon. If your sure that nothing u did rooting or flashing roms caused the reboots then get a new phone. Rumors say that gingerbread is coming tomorrow but you can't out to much stock in that and even if it does I doubt there is any miracle code written in that's gonna help you.
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Some people have had random reboots on stock rom. But since you were on stock for less than a day, it's impossible to determine whether the reboots are due to a defective phone or something that happened during/after you flashed the custom rom. You obviously know your way around various roms, radios & kernel/cpu tweaks, and nothing seems to help. If you have the patience, go to the IRC channel for more suggestions. If no one there can help, I would restore to stock & exchange the phone. You may have a defective device that will never work right.
I've had my GS2 since launch and had Litening Rom pretty much weeks after that.
I've not flashed anything in the last 4/5 weeks but I keep getting the following problems
1. Black screen when waking phone up, soft keys light up and vibrate, so the phone is on but the screen is black. This is my main problem! Sometimes the status bar will show and is draggable but the rest of the screen is black. Sometimes the phone wont turn on and is quite hot. If I restart the phone I can do what I like but soon as I leave it for a few mins I cant get back on. It's also produced a black screen when the screen is on just by me touching the screen.
Its not overclocked it running stock voltages, I unistalled Go launcher and various other apps, I've restored it to a month old back up which I've used before with no problems, this gave me lots of FC's which I sorted but the black screen problem and not being able to get the phone back on without restarting is still present... I've tried re-flasing Litening Rom, I've tried a different kernel and I've wipe all data/factory reset etc etc...
Can anyone help?
Your best bet is to go completely back to a stock ROM ensuring everything really is wiped/factory reset, don't restore anything at all and see if you still have problems. If you're unable/unwilling to do that, you're probably best posting in the Lite'ning thread.
Is all support gone from Litening Rom thread? It think you can get more help over there.
I was too slow.
I don't think it's the rom. It's been stable at 6.1 for months.
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I don't think it's the rom. It's been stable at 6.1 for months.
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Fantastic. Well I wish you good luck troubleshooting then.
I'm not ignoring your advice, I will try restoring the stock rom.
how many apps installed? I have this kind of black screen problem since 2.3.5. It is caused by having more than 300+ apps.
Never had that many, did a full wipe so I only have stock apps at the minute.
hey folks,
i have encountered an annoying problem that has made using the s2 quite an unpleasant experience recently.
I bought my s2 about 4 months ago. after 2 weeks or so i switched to miui (galnet) and have stuck to miui ever since. later i switched to langthangs releases as well as siyahs kernels (loving both, major props to them).
around mid of december, my phone suddenly started to crash. up till then i had a couple of freezes here n there, maybe once or twice a months. but since then, even though i did not change anything, my phone has been crashing more often, like 5-10 times a week. updating kernel and rom didnt help.
i experience two types of crashes:
a) freeze: phone just stops working. i have to take out the battery to reboot
b) reboots: phone just reboots out of the blue. sometimes it reboots 3-4 times in a row, like after the first reboot the phone does nothing for 2-3 minutes, then reboots again and so on
i am not sure if that helps, but most of the time the freezes occur while using the internet, the market and playing games. reboots occur randomly, even if the phone is not used at all.
i haven't done any overclocking, just undervolting using voltage control. but i had been using the reduced voltages for weeks, long before the crashes started to occur. and yes, i did try switching back to the stock voltages.
i may have dropped my phone a couple of times, but none of the drops was really bad as it has no scratches or dents.
Anyone else having the same experience?
Is there a way to check if -maybe- the ram/rom is defect? If nothing helps, i think i ll have to flash a stock rom and submit a warranty claim
I would go on a limb saying its MIUI's fault. Wich version of Syiah are you using? Try to reflash different version, I found that 2.6.2 is stable. Also the new one 2.6.6 wich I'm currently testing is stable to, other ones were kinda buggy.
Also are you undervolting or UC'ing ?
If all else fails flash different ROM, after testing many of them I found the latest Criskelo to be stable as a rock.
The only way to really tell is to flash back to a stock rom and see if the freezes/reboots still occur...
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well, i have tried different roms. and yeah, i am undervolting and underclocking (200-1000).
but isnt it strange? i have been using miui for months without any problems, and baaam ... suddenly the phone starts crashing? i mean at the time the freezes and reboots started to occur, i had been using the same system (kernel,rom,setting,apps) for weeks without any problems.
i ll try going back to stock. if that doesnt help, ill send it in.
btw. i have flash stock via odin, will the exclamation mark during the bootup process vanish?
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btw. i have flash stock via odin, will the exclamation mark during the bootup process vanish?
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Yep, hence you flashed original firmware the dredded(by some) yellow triangle will dissapear.
It will reapear as soon as you root your device.
that last sentence was supposed to be "if i flash stock via odin ..."
ok. ill try that and report back.
BUT
if flashing a stock rom helps, the problems much likely lies with the custom rom. but if so, why did they work perfectly fine until recently?
i may have dropped my phone a couple of times, but none of the drops was really bad as it has no scratches or dents.
Logic says that is the answer .
jje
u think so?
the phone just slipped out of my hand a couple of times, but it never fell on the floor (lets say 30cm or more).
and why would sth like that cause freezes like that? i mean my sisters ace has a totally shattered glass and its still working perfectly fine.
anyway, backing up all my stuff and trying a stock rom tmr