[Q] Alien ROM issue - Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Just wanted to say Thank you to every devoted developer we have here. I have the ATRIX and love my phone. Last night i finally unlocked my bootloader and installed Ken's Alien rom. Best ROM ive tryed hands down. so far its running real smooth. just a few setbacks. For somereason when i go into the menus in my camcorder or camera and look at the resolutions they are all white. like a white text on white bg. but you long press and I can read them. Last night the phone was randomly going to sleep. even while i was interacting with the phone the screen would just shut off. I turned nightime bat saver off and also fixed permissions. It hasnt happened again today. One more question. Im looking to overclock it and i have been reading here for quite a few days before i even attempted unlocking and installing custom rom. I wanted to know the most stable 1 out of the 3?

jjeffries0423 said:
Just wanted to say Thank you to every devoted developer we have here. I have the ATRIX and love my phone. Last night i finally unlocked my bootloader and installed Ken's Alien rom. Best ROM ive tryed hands down. so far its running real smooth. just a few setbacks. For somereason when i go into the menus in my camcorder or camera and look at the resolutions they are all white. like a white text on white bg. but you long press and I can read them. Last night the phone was randomly going to sleep. even while i was interacting with the phone the screen would just shut off. I turned nightime bat saver off and also fixed permissions. It hasnt happened again today. One more question. Im looking to overclock it and i have been reading here for quite a few days before i even attempted unlocking and installing custom rom. I wanted to know the most stable 1 out of the 3?
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The reason your screen is turning off is in pocket detection is on. Go to settings>display>uncheck in pocket detection. when you wake your phone (not unlock, just wake) does the menu button unlock for you too? Its neat but I find sometimes it unlocks my phone sometimes by accident. Is there a way to turn this feature off?
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No actually I got the fingerprint. Scanner on only thing I have found is the menu in the camera I dled the a swift key too best kb I have used. I think I might wait for the 10 char overclock.
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jjeffries0423 said:
No actually I got the fingerprint. Scanner on only thing I have found is the menu in the camera I dled the a swift key too best kb I have used. I think I might wait for the 10 char overclock.
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Okay cool did you get your screen problem fixed
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Yup ty B-)
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Trouble With Sleep of Death on EB01/SuperClean 2.x?

Please try this patch.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2056318/update-template/sod_patch1.zip
Install via clockwork and please report your findings.
Stopped by the IRC chat earlier and was given this. Worked for me. Thanks for all your work. I take it this has been a developing issue..?
I'm assuming that sleep of death us the phone not sleeping. Is this true? Hate to assume and install a clockwork file for something I don't need.
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nmyeti said:
I'm assuming that sleep of death us the phone not sleeping. Is this true? Hate to assume and install a clockwork file for something I don't need.
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Opposite rather. Phone not waking up and essentially shutting off. Goes to sleep, and never wakes up, hence, sleep of death
Huh, that's what that was. Had it happen with 2.3 wiped and updated to 2.4 and it seems to be okay. Wondered if it was only me.
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jbjarko said:
Opposite rather. Phone not waking up and essentially shutting off. Goes to sleep, and never wakes up, hence, sleep of death
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Permanantly never wakes up? I'm having an issue with the phone sleeping. I usually just have to hit the power button a few times.
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papstar said:
Permanantly never wakes up? I'm having an issue with the phone sleeping. I usually just have to hit the power button a few times.
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I've read that too. Mine just flat out wouldn't wake up. Same issue I believe.
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Permanantly never wakes up? I'm having an issue with the phone sleeping. I usually just have to hit the power button a few times.
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I've been having this problem rather frequently as well.
Wheww...I'm relieved it's not just me. Started happening to me yesterday with Blackhole 4.2. I'd press the power button to wake my phone and nothing...just like it's off, except that it won't turn back on until I pull the battery first. Reflashed everything and then it worked most of the day then started doing it again. Also nearly tanked my battery.
Anyway, gonna flash SC and this patch and see how that goes.
Just out of curiosity Adrynalyne...what is causing this that the patch fixes?
So we finally have the name for this problem.. I was having a hard time looking for info on this problem with no luck and just switched back to dl30. This problem always drained my battery pretty bad after I battery pulled.
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Thank you so much this fixed the problem I was having. When my screen would go to sleep it would not wake the phone up until I pressed the power button 3 times and the lock screen would come on....thanks again
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I don't know if this would help anyone but I'm curious to know if it's the case for anyone else:
For those of you who have not applied this patch that are having problems getting your screen to come back on until you pull your battery, does it unlock if you hit the power button and the volume keys a couple times?
When I was having this issue, I just got into the habit of squeezing both sides of my phone (power button and volume up key) twice and my screen would always come back on.
Somehow or another, it seems to have stopped. Not sure what I did to make it stop since I've done so much trying to figure out an unrelated issue. I never looked through the logcat to see what was happening back when I was having the screen lock issue, so now I am curious.
I remember this was a common term used in Windows Mobile development (Omnia, Omnia II)
Which is where I first admired Adryn's work
Thank you for making my devices the way they should have been
Said my Frozen Yogurt-filled Fascinate (EB01)
thanks for the patch. i didnt know what the hell was wrong with my phone.
Installed SC 2.4 and the patch, but I'm still getting the sod. This is really driving me crazy now and there seems to be almost no information out there. I ran the stock bloated rom for several days without any problems so I'm just about to the point of going back to it.
For informational purposes, I'm running SC 2.4 with ADW EX Launcher. The only apps I've installed other than what comes with SC are Beautiful Widgets, PowerAmp Pro, Switchpro widget, and HanDbase. I do not have a theme installed.
I patched this file yesterday and everything was fine. Woke up this morning to a phone that was off and it has been doing it intermintly all day long. I'm flashing again now. We'll see.
jbjarko said:
I patched this file yesterday and everything was fine. Woke up this morning to a phone that was off and it has been doing it intermintly all day long. I'm flashing again now. We'll see.
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Doubt it'll work. I've re-flashed the rom and the patch several times and it hasn't worked for me. FWIW, it does the same thing with Blackhole 4.2. The only thing that has worked for me is to go back to the original stock eb01 rom.
Also should probably mention I'm running the non-voodoo version. Anyone have any thoughts as to whether I'd have better luck with the voodoo kernel or would it make things worse.
Strangely enough, I loaded this up today for occasional lag at wake up, not for sod & now I've seen sod... Might be an app I just loaded tho. Anyone ever try process monitor widget? It has a setcpu type function & I'm not so sure it wasn't the culprit
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I've loaded the patch, but haven't had a chance to test if it works.
When it happened to me (SOD), it was only when running on battery, never when the charger was plugged in. I'm just waiting for my batt to charge back up to full, then I'll pull it off of the charger and see if it reoccurs.
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Doubt it'll work. I've re-flashed the rom and the patch several times and it hasn't worked for me. FWIW, it does the same thing with Blackhole 4.2. The only thing that has worked for me is to go back to the original stock eb01 rom.
Also should probably mention I'm running the non-voodoo version. Anyone have any thoughts as to whether I'd have better luck with the voodoo kernel or would it make things worse.
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FWIW, I am running voodoo. No dice. I had high hopes yesterday. But today is a different story.

Who is suffering from wake up lag?

Okay so i got this issue where i have wake up lag. anywhere from 2 to 5 seconds depending how long the phone has been asleep.
this was before and after factory reset.
anybody else has this?
Yes.
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I've also noticed wake up lag. It's the only time I notice it so it doesn't bother me.
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I'm guessing all three of you aren't rooted
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I am rooted and still get the wake up lag
ChongoDroid said:
I'm guessing all three of you aren't rooted
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Rooted...
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Do you guys use an underclocker like setcpu or cputuner for screen off? I was noticing wake lag, along with the screen not fading in properly. I would see a quick flash of the current open app before the lock screen would appear instead of the smooth fade from black. In my case, I suspect it's from under clocking. I decided to uninstall the underclocker since I'm not noticing that much improvement from it. So far my wake lag is resolved.
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This happens to me too sometimes, and I'm also rooted.
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nope its basically stock other than it being rooted. side loading enabled too. buts that pretty much it. i also formatted my memory card thinking it had to do something with that but not it still does it.
sal2708 said:
Okay so i got this issue where i have wake up lag. anywhere from 2 to 5 seconds depending how long the phone has been asleep.
this was before and after factory reset.
anybody else has this?
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Yep same here...it's really starting to annoy me...I flashed back to stock 1.5.7 and initially it looked like it was resolved but then it came back. I upgraded to 1.8.3 and saw the same wake up lag (2-3 seconds). This is all stock no 3rd party apps installed yet. I noticed that when the phone is plugged in it responds really fast without lag must be a suspend thing to save battery when not plugged in. I rooted, installed gladiatrix and etc. still a problem. Really annoying the hell out of me.
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Yep same here...it's really starting to annoy me...I flashed back to stock 1.5.7 and initially it looked like it was resolved but then it came back. I upgraded to 1.8.3 and saw the same wake up lag (2-3 seconds). This is all stock no 3rd party apps installed yet. I noticed that when the phone is plugged in it responds really fast without lag must be a suspend thing to save battery when not plugged in. I rooted, installed gladiatrix and etc. still a problem. Really annoying the hell out of me.
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I get the same problem, rooted, unrooted, all P Roms and with or without widget locker. When my missus tried to unlock the phone once, she locked it again about three times as she kept re pressing because it didnt respond.
same here... wake up lag... dont know why.... im rooted, sideloading and gladatrix 3
im using setCPU to underclock on screen off.. ill try without it
I too have wake up lag, always. I'm on a US atrix, 1.8.3 with gladiatrix installed. It did it on stock 1.8.3 too.
I'm not using setcpu or any kind of lock screen app/mod.
Same here, so hard to wake up sometimes to go into work.
oh on the device my bad it happens from time to time actually. but on the most part its fine.
I was just messing around a bit more, and it seems to only be after the screen has been off for at least 15 or so seconds? So if I just go on/off/on/off/on/off it's fast, but if I do on/off/wait more than 15 seconds/on I get the ~2second pause.
Blah.
My phone was working fine, then wakeup lag. I started looking at running processes and noticed the browser was using 100mb of ram.
Killed it and all is well again.
I've had up to 10 seconds lag...usually about 3 though. Using WigetLocker.
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anyone find a solution to this? mine is about like a second lag. rooted 1.8.3 running greyblur
Any update on this? It happens on all pseudo-roms?
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I'm rooted and this has occurred for me since I got the phone on the day of it's release no matter if it's rooted or what p-rom is installed. Sometimes the only way I can get it to wake up is to hold the power button in until the power down prompt wakes it up (though this isn't a frequent occurence).

Fingerprint sensor service not working

I was using sensorly, and when I locked the screen it attempted to block it when it asked me a question. My phone vibrated for a few seconds as it fought to overcome the fingerprint screen (and failed)
The fingerprint scanner wont initialize (always ready... but never really). I have to reboot(haven't yet). I can't stop the process/service either... no idea why.
Anyone know of any fixes?
Rooted 1.8.3 stock
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mine randomly stops working (lame, right?) and rebooting always fixes it for me
I own a Nokia N810... from my experience rebooting kills the life of your battery with these kinds of devices, and this happens like once every 2 days for me
winky! said:
mine randomly stops working (lame, right?) and rebooting always fixes it for me
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Same here.
Mgamerz said:
I own a Nokia N810... from my experience rebooting kills the life of your battery with these kinds of devices, and this happens like once every 2 days for me
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When you say life of battery do you mean it discharges more energy than it would if you didnt reboot it? Or do you mean the battery itself will die months sooner than it would have.?
Battery capacity lowers over time. Booting that thing clocked it at 400Mhz (the top speed) for about 5 minutes, eating up a whopping 5-20% of the battery.
I noticed my battery lasted less and less every time it crashed and rebooted (it does it so much now that its pretty useless (read: every 10 or so minutes) - thanks nokia)
I have a feeling its the same way with Lithium Batteries too... The battery life is about 40 minutes (if im lucky) and I used to get like a day (of moderate use).
winky! said:
mine randomly stops working (lame, right?) and rebooting always fixes it for me
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Meee 3 dammit!
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winky! said:
mine randomly stops working (lame, right?) and rebooting always fixes it for me
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Same but only since 1.83 Hopefully it is fixed in a future update.
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Its impossible to kill the fingerprint reader service. I find that kind of strange.
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That kind of makes sense. I think the fingerprint service might be an integral part of the system so you can't fully kill the process... Kinda like the android process.
And the comment about battery dying after a reboot faster is true. If you reboot a phone, especially these android beasts with 1ghz+ processors, revs up the processor to max, essentially eating up a large chunk of battery because it would be running at max for 5-10+ minutes. It's crazy. So unless you wanna do a lot of charging, don't restart too much.
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I mean like the life of the battery.
New: 16 hours of use
200 reboots later :4 hours of use
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I notice mine doing this as well the fingerprint scanner even got really hot at one point crazy must be a 1.83 thing
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Well on one hand I'm happy to see it's not just me. On the other hand it sucks that it consistently happens. For me if I continually run my finger on the scanner on a reboot it will unlock the screen. Then, after a bit (or a few locks) it will stop working and just say "Initializing Fingerprint Scanner" or something along those lines. I ended up disabling it and using a pattern as a screen lock.
For me it happened after installing a ROM that had 1.8.3 as its base. I've seen some previous mentions of the issue I'm seeing and tried their fixes but they haven't worked. I'm eager to see this get fixed. Otherwise I really like the device.
I use widgetlocker and once in a while it won't work when I first wake it up but if I hit the back key and go to the default lockscreen it initializes right away and I can use the scanner.
Holy run-on sentence, Batman! Sorry
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I may have been able to reproduce it. Unlock your phone, then immediately lock it, then immeditely wake it. Killed the fingerprint sensor.
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Mgamerz said:
I may have been able to reproduce it. Unlock your phone, then immediately lock it, then immeditely wake it. Killed the fingerprint sensor.
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Yeah for me, and maybe this is a similar state/situation, I find it really happens when I swipe the unlock screen after waking the phone up rather than the fingerprint sensor.
It happens to me sometimes.
But instead of rebooting my device, I go to Settings -> Location & security -> Change screen lock. There I use my password/pin and then I wipe my fingerprints already registered and start all over again.
My system update is the one before 1.5.7 I guess (the android updates are called OTA ### right?)
Hope it helps someone who doesn´t reboot the device.
Thanks

Wow 2.3.4 is amazing

I just want to take this time and thank all the devs and people who have contributed to the release of the 2.3.4 build on xda. the wake up lag is gone, as well as the ui lag after first waking up the phone, and also it has the crt animation even with the lcd density issue, i just use launcher pro, so its all good. this is amazing!!! i don't know how my day could get any better!!
I really want to unlock my bootloader and install 2.3.4 but the whole voiding my warranty has me worried. I keep thinking what if something happens and I need a replacement. Oh man. Decision time.
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ethantarheels123 said:
I just want to take this time and thank all the devs and people who have contributed to the release of the 2.3.4 build on xda. the wake up lag is gone, as well as the ui lag after first waking up the phone, and also it has the crt animation even with the lcd density issue, i just use launcher pro, so its all good. this is amazing!!! i don't know how my day could get any better!!
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hows your battery life?
startup time is much faster
shutdown time is heaps faster!
JohnnyDanger said:
I really want to unlock my bootloader and install 2.3.4 but the whole voiding my warranty has me worried. I keep thinking what if something happens and I need a replacement. Oh man. Decision time.
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Well, after I unlocked my bootloader, I had a nice little text in the top left of my screen that read "unlocked". But after having some problems (own problems, not because of unlocking) I flashed back to the .57 sbf, and the "unlock" text when away. Then after flashing the unlocker sbf, I didn't have to go to fastboot and do the oem unlock command. So, it's like the bootloader is unlocked (the fuse is physically blown) but the unlocked bootloader is not fully in place until flashing the unlocker sbf (whatever that does).
So anyways, if something did happen to your phone with in your warranty, do you think if you could still get into the RSD protocol support you could just flash the .57 sbf and it would maybe cover it up to Motorola or whoever checks the phone that the bootloader is unlocked? How do you think they actually check that? Or if they will actually go through the trouble to do whatever it is in order to check?
ethantarheels123 said:
I just want to take this time and thank all the devs and people who have contributed to the release of the 2.3.4 build on xda. the wake up lag is gone, as well as the ui lag after first waking up the phone, and also it has the crt animation even with the lcd density issue, i just use launcher pro, so its all good. this is amazing!!! i don't know how my day could get any better!!
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Yea, I'm really loving it too. It's so quick. Did you try setting the screen density in the build.prop file to 270 instead of 240? I did that and while things did fit on the stock launcher, it made everything bigger to where it almost looked distorted to me...I didn't like the way it looked so I set it back to 240 and just used the Gingerbread launcher.
I concur, it is pretty amazing. I love how I can use swype beta now. Loads better!
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you could always use the swype beta on any version as long as you were rooted and uninstalled the stock version
Amazing! I love how fast astrix is now! And the feeling that my bootloader is unlocked makes me feel so good!
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JohnnyDanger said:
I really want to unlock my bootloader and install 2.3.4 but the whole voiding my warranty has me worried.
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Oh come on! Your name is JohnnyDanger! You need to live up to that name
What isbthe battery life like? And Amy actual numbers in regards to gingerbread startup times in comparison to froyo startup times which are almost a minute long? And any pics of the new motoblur along w a list of GUI changes?
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maledyris said:
Oh come on! Your name is JohnnyDanger! You need to live up to that name
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lol :D
btw, does signal improve on 2..3.4 ?
joshyy_rey said:
hows your battery life?
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im sorry i can't really answer this, partly because I just flashed it at 12 am in the morning and put it onto the charger and now its morning where im at. but in the few minutes i used it, it didn't seem to drain that fast
The battery life seems to be worse than froyo. Can someone else confirm this?
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Yep battery life is worse than froyo drains too fast!!!
Can someone give me a heqds up where to get 2.3.4 at and how to get it. I have gingerblur right now.
The battery drainage issue has got to be a rouge app driving it down. My phone is at 70%. I took it off the charger last night after I flashed 2.3.4 and I had a ton of internet usage and a few calls today.
While I hate to say this, you should look at the "task manager" app that is included with the Atrix builds and actually use the Auto-End list function. Before I found out that I DoubleTwist was killing my battery and uninstalled it I was using this auto-end list to help take care of the other apps that were going stray.
Going back and paraphrasing what the CEO of Motorola Mobility said that all apps are not created equally and some are definately coded poorly and drive battery usage down. As much as we may hate to hear it, the guy is right.
Good luck,
NW
2.3.4 was nice but in all honesty the offical release will most likely be out in less than a month and it will not have as many as the issues that this one has
I agree, it is quite amazing. The battery life is rather short now. It is definitely out of whack because I cab power it down at 70% and when I turn it back on it is at 90%.
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battery life is almost half before flashed to 2.3.4
alphadg21 said:
I agree, it is quite amazing. The battery life is rather short now. It is definitely out of whack because I cab power it down at 70% and when I turn it back on it is at 90%.
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Did you/everyone else with battery issues try wiping the battery stats or using the Battery Calibrator app?

GPS orientation issue

Like the title says this is going to be kind of hard for me to explain.
Before the GPS locked quick everything was great. For the past few days, out of no where it happened when I was using it, the orientation went opposite. Instead it showing me go straight forward and in a first person kind of view it shows it from the side and everything is opposite I if I'm going forward on the screen i'm going back wards and to turn left it shows me turning right.
I've played around with the layers I can't find anything in options to fix this, battery pull, full wipe. Kinda lost.
I'm running Shift theory 1.4f, was running 1.3x when it happened. No OC or anything.
I had this problem. Simply hit the red/white compass icon and it will be fixed.
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The diamond looking thing?
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Yeah
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