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So, before I start this, Yes I was a noob. I didnt make a nandroid backup from when I first rooted my phone and everything worked 100%. I didnt read, and I guess its now biting me in the ass.
The past few months Ive been having issues with Wifi, it continuously says "Unable to scan for networks". I did a factory reset about a week and a half ago and for the first time my wifi was able to connect, however it was dropping out every couple minutes. Wouldnt even stay connected to install any market updates.
I figured that it was something with my dying router(Which Ive since replaced) so I flashed in BAMF to see if I could keep my wifi connection with another rom. Ive been using VirusROM(Love it even though its out od date). I wiped and flashed in BAMF, and restarted. When I restarted, I had no wifi again. Since then, Ive been trying out different ROMS and kernels in hopes that I would find something that would fix it. Nothing did.
After this I figured that I would just do another factory reset and go from there, however with all of the times Ive done the factory resets it never actually gets reset. Does it wipe my info? Yes, but it boots back up with all of the portions of whatever ROM I had installed last. Not reset. So now Ive ended up with two problems.
1. I still have no wifi
2. I cant factory reset so that I can figure out what is going on with my wifi.
Ive wiped Cache/Batt Stats/Davlick and done a factory reset literally six times in a row to hopefully clean EVERYTHING OUT to no avail. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. I hope Im just missing something small because Im still new to android.
Edit: I DO NOT use kernel manager and I dont use ROM manager to flash it in, I flash everything in through recovery.
McLabia said:
So, before I start this, Yes I was a noob. I didnt make a nandroid backup from when I first rooted my phone and everything worked 100%. I didnt read, and I guess its now biting me in the ass.
The past few months Ive been having issues with Wifi, it continuously says "Unable to scan for networks". I did a factory reset about a week and a half ago and for the first time my wifi was able to connect, however it was dropping out every couple minutes. Wouldnt even stay connected to install any market updates.
I figured that it was something with my dying router(Which Ive since replaced) so I flashed in BAMF to see if I could keep my wifi connection with another rom. Ive been using VirusROM(Love it even though its out od date). I wiped and flashed in BAMF, and restarted. When I restarted, I had no wifi again. Since then, Ive been trying out different ROMS and kernels in hopes that I would find something that would fix it. Nothing did.
After this I figured that I would just do another factory reset and go from there, however with all of the times Ive done the factory resets it never actually gets reset. Does it wipe my info? Yes, but it boots back up with all of the portions of whatever ROM I had installed last. Not reset. So now Ive ended up with two problems.
1. I still have no wifi
2. I cant factory reset so that I can figure out what is going on with my wifi.
Ive wiped Cache/Batt Stats/Davlick and done a factory reset literally six times in a row to hopefully clean EVERYTHING OUT to no avail. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. I hope Im just missing something small because Im still new to android.
Edit: I DO NOT use kernel manager and I flash everything in through recovery.
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I'm sure there's an RUU out there that will take your phone back to stock but I honestly doubt that's the issue here. What radio version are you using? Have you tried flashing different radios to see if that would fix it. You can find a list here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1045081. Also what ROM are you currently on?
When you install a ROM, it modifies the /system directory which is responsible for everything, how the rom looks, included apps, drivers etc.
When you do a factory reset, I'm guessing through recovery, it is only clearing the /data and /cache partitions.
You will have to flash a stock RUU to get it to truly go back to the day you got it.
Here are instructions on how to return to stock:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1009423
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I'm sure there's an RUU out there that will take your phone back to stock but I honestly doubt that's the issue here. What radio version are you using? Have you tried flashing different radios to see if that would fix it. You can find a list here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1045081. Also what ROM are you currently on?
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The ROM Ive been on hasnt mattered. Ive jumped through BAMF, the new Cubed Rom, the Deodexed stock debloat and Virus' Airborne(which is my daily driver). Ive done the different radios. I was on the v2 leaked for a while, then I switched to the new 3g and old 4g to see if its worked but it hasnt. I may have to try out the original one and see if that works, but I havent had wifi since before I flashed in the leaked radio when it came out.
isdnmatt said:
When you install a ROM, it modifies the /system directory which is responsible for everything, how the rom looks, included apps, drivers etc.
When you do a factory reset, I'm guessing through recovery, it is only clearing the /data and /cache partitions.
You will have to flash a stock RUU to get it to truly go back to the day you got it.
Here are instructions on how to return to stock:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1009423
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Gotcha. Trying this now. I will make sure to make a nandroid this time if it works. lol.
@isdnmatt: Thanks, that got rid of my recovery problem
Still having wifi issue though. 100% out of the box stock and I get the "Unable to scan for networks
**** me, I should have read that before I did it. Now I have to reroot. Goddamnit.
Have had the same problem with WiFi before and after ADB root. It will sometimes forget both my home and work networks. I've found the problem usually occurs when I'm connected then move put of range. A reboot fixes the problem sometimes. Other times I have to re-enter my settings. I'm still on the stock Rom, nothing custom.
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ILMF said:
Have had the same problem with WiFi before and after ADB root. It will sometimes forget both my home and work networks. I've found the problem usually occurs when I'm connected then move put of range. A reboot fixes the problem sometimes. Other times I have to re-enter my settings. I'm still on the stock Rom, nothing custom.
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Thats a separate issue than what Im having. Im not having issues with it forgetting my networks. I cant scan for networks.
I am thinking of downgrading the radio.
EDIT: after LOTS of research here, I upgraded to MR2 and Gingervitis. All of my WiFi issues are gone.
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I've tried it all folks. New kernels, factory reset, different radios, different ROMs. Every-thing. The WiFi will turn on for a quick second and I will get an error message "Unable to scan for networks" and then the Wifi will just turn on and off on and off over and over again. I've even deleted the files in the data/dhcp and data/wifi folders. Rebooted, still same issue. I've deleted the files and flashed a kernel and rebooted, still same issue.
Of course I am still in contract and will have to purchase a new phone outright from Verizon if I can't get this issue resolved......
I don't know what else to do here.....
Did you try formatting data and system before installing a new rom from recovery? If that doesn't work i would say its a hardware issue. You're not restoring system data with any backup programs are you?
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I've wiped pretty much everything known to man on the phone. The ROM installs are all "fresh" I haven't tried to install any APPS on the phone. Just wipe everything, factory reset / Dalvik Cache, all of it... install fresh ROM. Try to turn on Wifi, phone boot loops. No matter what ROM I install, still same issue with Wifi / boot looping.
Well guess we can close this out. I went out and paid full boat for a Samsung Nexus since I couldn't fix this issue.
I'd like to reopen this topic. I had been running Bamf Forever 1.10, but last night I decided to try another ROM because it's been running really slow for some reason.
Did a wipe (factory reset, Dalvik cache) and installed Thunderstick. Now WiFi is broken -- the exact same problem as described in the original post. I tried flashing a new kernel and new radios, and cannot get WiFi to work.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Will flashing back to stock ROM/unrooting help?
Thanks!
@ajoesq I had the same problem when i installed thunderstick thru boot manager. My wifi stopped and I could get it going on my phone rom. So i booted back into thunderstick and wifi was working. Booted back to hte phone rom then into recovery and then i flashed my phone rom again without wiping or anything (Thunbershed V1.2) and it worked fine. wifi started agian.
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I'd like to reopen this topic. I had been running Bamf Forever 1.10, but last night I decided to try another ROM because it's been running really slow for some reason.
Did a wipe (factory reset, Dalvik cache) and installed Thunderstick. Now WiFi is broken -- the exact same problem as described in the original post. I tried flashing a new kernel and new radios, and cannot get WiFi to work.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Will flashing back to stock ROM/unrooting help?
Thanks!
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Run a logcat when you try to turn wifi on. Put the output on pastebin.com and post the link. This might tell us what the problem is.
I'd make sure that the radio(s) were at least at the minimum of what the ROM called for.
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I posted a couple days ago about some issues with rooting my phone, which I solved, but now I have some new issues. When I went to turn on bluetooth, it wouldn't turn on, just try to turn on for a couple seconds and then nothing. I tried turning on wifi, and it would go straight to showing 'error' under wifi. So, I tried a different rom beast 2.3, and being at work, I can't connect the phone to my comp (encryption issues) so I only had a copy of the rom, not a kernel. Once I had beast installed I lost my network too! so I couldn't connect to my provider's network. I wiped everything, brought back AR 1.1, and am currently without bluetooth, wifi, and network. When I scan for networks my telus network shows up, as well as bell, rogers etc.
Is this a kernel issue? As soon as I get home that's the first thing I'll be trying out
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I posted a couple days ago about some issues with rooting my phone, which I solved, but now I have some new issues. When I went to turn on bluetooth, it wouldn't turn on, just try to turn on for a couple seconds and then nothing. I tried turning on wifi, and it would go straight to showing 'error' under wifi. So, I tried a different rom beast 2.3, and being at work, I can't connect the phone to my comp (encryption issues) so I only had a copy of the rom, not a kernel. Once I had beast installed I lost my network too! so I couldn't connect to my provider's network. I wiped everything, brought back AR 1.1, and am currently without bluetooth, wifi, and network. When I scan for networks my telus network shows up, as well as bell, rogers etc.
Is this a kernel issue? As soon as I get home that's the first thing I'll be trying out
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yes its a kernel issue. what version of software are you running?
I had the wifi error issue, and i flashed the kernel on top of the rom and it works now
Depending on the ROM you flashed, it may or may not display "Flash Kernel after." In which then you flash it. This'll take care of all Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Issues!
If you're having issues let me know.
I had the same issue I was using stock kernel for tmobile version 1.36.531.6 on mine which I had over the air updated to 1.43.531.3. This created the wifi error and bluetooth issue, I had to try different kernels to try to figure this thing out...It will posted in my read me page when I get a chance
It's a kernel issue, there are actually three different kernels, not two, I posted this in xboarders thread, but He hasn't updated his page.
kernels
1: for tmobile software stock 1.43.531.3, this is not available anywhere on the amaze forums, i had to personally extract this from the rooted stock rom that xboarder provided
2: for tmobile software stock 1.36.531.6 and 1.36.531.5 and lower, this stock i believe is the one xboarder has up as the original boot.img
3: faux's custom kernel, this kernel will work with all versions i believe
no luck, flashed faux kernel 3x's and still same problem.
Any other ideas on what it could be?
I get a signal for the phone, no 4g icon, same error with wifi, and nothing with bluetooth or network.
andy55 said:
no luck, flashed faux kernel 3x's and still same problem.
Any other ideas on what it could be?
I get a signal for the phone, no 4g icon, same error with wifi, and nothing with bluetooth or network.
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you need to help me help you. I ask you again what software version are you on???? go to settings>about phone>software information and look at software version, let me know which you're on.
second: what rom are you running?
you have to answer these two questions
andy55 said:
I posted a couple days ago about some issues with rooting my phone, which I solved, but now I have some new issues. When I went to turn on bluetooth, it wouldn't turn on, just try to turn on for a couple seconds and then nothing. I tried turning on wifi, and it would go straight to showing 'error' under wifi. So, I tried a different rom beast 2.3, and being at work, I can't connect the phone to my comp (encryption issues) so I only had a copy of the rom, not a kernel. Once I had beast installed I lost my network too! so I couldn't connect to my provider's network. I wiped everything, brought back AR 1.1, and am currently without bluetooth, wifi, and network. When I scan for networks my telus network shows up, as well as bell, rogers etc.
Is this a kernel issue? As soon as I get home that's the first thing I'll be trying out
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I told you rooting is not for you but you thought I was attacking you. But seriously if you do not know what you are doing you will mess up the phone. you still havent because there still is no s-off so pretty much your phone is kinda locked
seansk said:
you need to help me help you. I ask you again what software version are you on???? go to settings>about phone>software information and look at software version, let me know which you're on.
second: what rom are you running?
you have to answer these two questions
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Aren't your 2 questions the same? Just asking because when you go into software information there is no listing for software version, only software number which displays the name of the Rom you are running. Which would make it answer to both of your questions.
To the Op, are you sure the kernel flashed correctly when you flashed fauxs kernel? Did you use the EFK to flash it or did you try and flash it through CWM? Go into software information and tell us what it says under kernel
sent from my Bulletproof Amaze w/faux .008 kernel
aj_2423 said:
Aren't your 2 questions the same? Just asking because when you go into software information there is no listing for software version, only software number which displays the name of the Rom you are running. Which would make it answer to both of your questions.
To the Op, are you sure the kernel flashed correctly when you flashed fauxs kernel? Did you use the EFK to flash it or did you try and flash it through CWM? Go into software information and tell us what it says under kernel
sent from my Bulletproof Amaze w/faux .008 kernel
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Yes you are correct I'm just trying to make sure what he's running so I can provide him the right kernel file to flash!
seansk said:
Yes you are correct I'm just trying to make sure what he's running so I can provide him the right kernel file to flash!
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lol ok. but the thing is, is that he said he flashed faux's kernel and the stuff still didn't work, which it should no matter what rom hes running, unless of course he was running a sense 3.5 rom which im sure hes not from reading his posts. this is why i'm assuming he did not flash the kernel correctly... wouldnt u agree? we'll see when he finally posts what it says in his software information for what Rom hes running and what it says his Kernel is.
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aj_2423 said:
lol ok. but the thing is, is that he said he flashed faux's kernel and the stuff still didn't work, which it should no matter what rom hes running, unless of course he was running a sense 3.5 rom which im sure hes not from reading his posts. this is why i'm assuming he did not flash the kernel correctly... wouldnt u agree? we'll see when he finally posts what it says in his software information for what Rom hes running and what it says his Kernel is.
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yes lets wait, with people with lets experience, I tend to dumb things down when asking questions...I am not doing it to demean them, but It's the only way to get any real good answers and being able to help them. Then over time they'll learn
sean, I was running the android revolution 1.1, and tried a couple different kernels and nothing
But I ended up fixing the issue finally. The super wipe zip file I downloaded with AR 1.1 was corrupt, and wouldn't load properly, so I was installing a rom without doing a wipe every time. So, I put a working copy of the zip on the sd card, and did a manual wipe of the caches, re-installed AR 1.1 and all is well.
So, even though I was following all necessary steps, I failed to realize that the wipe zip was faulty, and really messed everything up, and when I changed the rom again to beastmod, I didn't install the correct kernel with it, so yet more issues.
Happy to say that it's all over, and I have a much faster phone with alot less bloat on it. Thanks to everyone!
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lol ok. but the thing is, is that he said he flashed faux's kernel and the stuff still didn't work, which it should no matter what rom hes running, unless of course he was running a sense 3.5 rom which im sure hes not from reading his posts. this is why i'm assuming he did not flash the kernel correctly... wouldnt u agree? we'll see when he finally posts what it says in his software information for what Rom hes running and what it says his Kernel is.
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Flashed the kernel as xboarder showed in his thread and video.
I lost 4G after flashing Anthrax v2 Kernel and Warm Mod for ICS, the beta. I got stuck at the HTC screen so I wiped and reflashed the mod that I was using before that Vipermod 2.1.1 with the kernel I was using Anthrax and I could't get wifi or wimax to work. I did a nand restore and still wifi and 4g will not start. WTF?
It doesn't even know their MAC address anymore
4g doesnt work in any ICS rom yet.
Also, download Wimax Key Checker from the market and make sure your keys are still there.
But it still didn't work on Sense. Wifi magically stopped as well. And I can't find the app.
UPDATE: Just found out that ap doesn't work with the EVO 3D
Had the same issue last night and this may sound stupid, but I restarted my phone and all was well.
I am sure you already did this, but I figured I would throw it out there. (I am using steelROM with anthrax.)
Unfortunately, restarting does not fix my issue.
try wiping cache and dalvik again, re-install the kernel again, wipe cache and dalvik one last time for goodness, then boot again, see if re-installing the kernel fixes it.
I've ran across similar problems, usually a reboot might fix, if not, re-installing the kernel usually worked for me
Just reflashed twice. Restarting both. One like you said. And one without wiping anything. Still no wifi or wimax.
Sounds like you lost your wimax keys. Check with this app.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.joeykrim.wimaxkeys&hl=en
njdurkin said:
But it still didn't work on Sense. Wifi magically stopped as well. And I can't find the app.
UPDATE: Just found out that ap doesn't work with the EVO 3D
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AdriVelazquez said:
Sounds like you lost your wimax keys. Check with this app.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.joeykrim.wimaxkeys&hl=en
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As he said before, doesn't work with the Evo 3D.
try a different rom, i remember flashing a new kernel and my 4g was completely dead. Flashed another rom and it worked again.....lost my apps but nothing titanium backup couldnt help with.
Did a complete data wipe, flashed rom and kernel. All is good. Thanks for the support guys.
Hi,
I have an Atrix4g international (Uk retail) which is rooted and unlocked. Until about a week ago I had been running Aura ROM with a days 1.45 kernel. This was all good but I experienced some 3g data problems.
In the end I got fed up of not being able to download pictures when I received an mms and decided to flash back to my original rom. Once done I thought maybe the over clock 1.45 kernel would work with the stock ROM. It didn't and failed but I then noticed my wifi showed error where it usually said connected.
I reflashed my stock room from my recovery backup and it started working ok again. Both times I flashed my recovery it said error with recovery but the phone details read as it did before when it had the original ROM as it was bought.
Since doing I this I have noticed my phone being really laggy.... I also noticein advanced task killer that I never seek to have more than 80mb free ram.
I checked this against task manager and titanium backup and they seem to agree with the figures tb actually said I was using 100% at one point.
I even tried a factory reset fearing the hard brick stories.
I have wiped the davlik and cache and perfomed a factory wipe from recovery mode
Looks like I have a problem..
Anyone got any ideas on how to rectify this.... Is it likely to be anything to do with partitioning???
You atrix geniuses out there are my last hope so I thank you in advance for any wisdom.
Are you using the stock Gingerbread ROM from your carrier? If so, it sounds like you might need to flash a kernel that has the international RAM fix. Try downloading and flashing this if you're on stock Gingerbread.
http://faux.androidro.ms/Atrix-GB-Kernel-024r-ext4-1.00GHz.zip
That's the 1Ghz kernel made by faux123 for Gingerbread ROMs. After you flash that check to see that you have more RAM available.
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Thanks a million!!!
jadwv2210 said:
Are you using the stock Gingerbread ROM from your carrier? If so, it sounds like you might need to flash a kernel that has the international RAM fix. Try downloading and flashing this if you're on stock Gingerbread.
http://faux.androidro.ms/Atrix-GB-Kernel-024r-ext4-1.00GHz.zip
That's the 1Ghz kernel made by faux123 for Gingerbread ROMs. After you flash that check to see that you have more RAM available.
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You absolute diamond!
Thank you so much.... Perfect fix 556mb ram free and phones running as fast as a priest being chased out of the playground.
You guys on here give priceless advice (most of the time so glad peeps like you take the time to help peeps like me...
Magic!
I'm sorry but I saw the title and just heard this in my head....
Lag city chick, lag lag city chick.... (Tyga - Rack city... stupid song)
Don't ask.
Glad to see you've solved your problem though
Knock on effect??!!
Although I now have many many more rams than an Afghani goat hearder this process has thrown up another problem. The same error message is showing up where it usually says connected under wiring settings and wiring will not activate or connect.
Yes I was trying to flash back to my stock rom (via cm rom manager-reboot into recovery-restore.....)
Ok so the story continues...
after receiving your advice I flashed the file you linked to. And as I reported ram was up dramatically but then when I tried to connect to wifi it wouldn't. I went to settings -wireless settings- checked wiring on check box to turn it on and underneath in grey writing it threw up the message "error" where it usually says "connecting..." or "connected" etc
I went back through cmrm to recovery mode and did the wipe data-wipe cache-restore rom again but did not reflash the file you linked... checked wifi and worked but ram had gone again.
Went back into clement and went through whole process in one. Ie factory data wipe-wipe cache-restored ROM-flashed file you linked to....
Set up phone again checked wifi and still shows error. But my rams are back...
???? Puzzled!
Dont suppose you have an idea whats going on?
tehrules said:
I'm sorry but I saw the title and just heard this in my head....
Lag city chick, lag lag city chick.... (Tyga - Rack city... stupid song)
Don't ask.
Glad to see you've solved your problem though
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Thats strange cos thats what I was thinking when I wrote it... lol
Problems not yet entirely solved though..... :-(
Desperation is now setting in
Just an update... and help to solve this is really appreciated.
I have trawled the site and others regarding wifi error.
People seem to suggest its a number of things either hardware or software flashing kernels roms radios wifi fix zips etc etc
I can confirm my problem is not hardware.
I flashed back to aura and wifi function is back. And rams up to normal.....
but I have the original problem I cannot send or download pictures when received via mms.
Is there a fix for this?
I assume not and so therefore would like to ask the question does anyone know of a Stock ATRIX international (uk) retail Rom that is compattable with an ATRIX international (uk) retail phone that has been rooted and unlocked.
For some reason my recovery must be corrupt and is giving me jip.
Maybe someone knows why my recovery isn't working and knows how to fix it?
Thanks all in advance...
When I had the problem with wifi reporting just "error", I fixed it by just redownloading the kernel and reflashing it. Maybe try another recovery if that doesn't work, but I don't know why it wouldn't. :|
The wifi problem is most likely the kernel. Since you are on Aura now though with no data or MMS I would recommend changing your APN settings. Try googling the correct APNs for your carrier and changing them under Settings>Wireless and Networks>Mobile Networks>Access Point Names.
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Dcskeete said:
I assume not and so therefore would like to ask the question does anyone know of a Stock ATRIX international (uk) retail Rom that is compattable with an ATRIX international (uk) retail phone that has been rooted and unlocked.
For some reason my recovery must be corrupt and is giving me jip.
Maybe someone knows why my recovery isn't working and knows how to fix it?
Thanks all in advance...
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Why dont you try Nottachtrix if you want a blur based rom, or Neutrino for a cm7 based rom?
What recovery are you using? If you arent using Romracers recovery, try flashing his and seeing if his recovery fixes your problem.