Hello everyone,
I have been reading these threads for a while, getting prepared to root my Thunderbolt. I rooted about a week ago with Revolutionary and had no problems whatsoever. A couple days ago I flashed my first ROM (Gingeritis) using the instructions on this forum, and everything worked great, except that I accidentally restored some system data with Titanium Backup, which I read can cause FCs, etc.
Therefore, I restored the stock ROM by booting into recovery and following those steps. Again, everything went well.
This morning, I wanted to try out a different ROM, so I followed the same steps with das BAMF 1.10, and I flashed the ROM successfully with no problems. However, after restoring my contacts (one of the green pieces of system data that I thought were ok to restore) with Titanium Backup, the popup "Sorry!" repeatedly came up saying that the application.com.android was not responding and needed to be force closed. It came up again so fast after clicking "close" that I couldn't even reset. Finally, I pushed the power button at the exact right time to be able to see the menu of options, and I clicked restart (not in recovery).
Now, the phone is running through the das BAMF and HTC startup screens repeatedly. The battery is pretty low. What do I do???
Thank you so much! I really really want to resolve this and avoid bricking my phone like an idiot.
-Matt
Turn it off. Charge to atleast half or so battery. Boot into recovery, wipe cache, data, dalvik cache, and format system. Load up whatever ROM you want and only restore user apps and data.
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Just what he said but let google restore the contacts, this us unless you never allowed google to let th them sync.
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I am relatively new to android and had a question. I have my phone rooted and installed the BAMF Remix ROM. I have also changed the radio to the one recommended in the original BAMF Remix thread. I have been having problems with the phone doing a factory reset upon reboot. The phone is not rebooting by itself. But occasionally after I shut the phone off, when I power it back on, it has done a factory reset and I have to set the phone up again. I have had this occur with the BAMF remix 1.5, 1.6, and 1.7. My phone's baseband version is 1.16.00.0402w_1.
Can anyone tell me if this is the result of the ROM? Could it be the radio or maybe an app? Any help or advice would be appreciated. The BAMF Remix has been working great for me in terms of battery life, its just getting to be a pain to set up the phone again every week.
Thanks in advance.
Hmm.. I haven't tried the BAMF ROMs yet,but I've never had a phone reset itself like that.. Odd.
I'd suggest trying a different ROM for a bit and see if that stops it. If not, you may have an issue with the phone's memory or maybe even the SD card?
In the meantime, I'd grab Titanium Backup. The pro (Paid) version would be best, but if you don't want to pay for it just use the free version and back up all your apps and settings. Then if it happens again, just restore those. OR set up the phone the way you want and do a Nandroid backup in clockwork recovery. That way you can boot back into recovery next time it happens and restore a working backup with everything already set up.
Hope you figure it out soon.
i personally would clear everything three times or more;cache..data, dalvik, and battery stats. and use recovery not Rom manager then check the MD5 sums on the radio and rom to insure they are not corrupted in anyway. and i would strongly suggest using titanium back up;it will save your apps, and the data for apps, and system settings, its really a great tool
Hey guys,
little frustrated here as i am having some issues. I have the ERIS running Gin tazz CM7, and when the phone is on, it runs flawlessly, but as soon as i reboot or turn the phone off, and turn it back on, i get a force close error message stating "com.android.phone" has stopped working, and pretty much makes the phone useless. I then have to wipe and re-flash the ROM and everything is fine again, until I reboot/turn phone off and boot back up.
I experimented a little last night, and put the phone in airplane mode and shut the phone off, rebooted, and turned it off of airplane mode when it was done booting, and i did not get that message. I thought i had found the cure. Rebooted again and got the same error message! I'm pulling my hair out, not sure what else to do. Has anyone heard of this issue, and if so is there a quick fix? FYI i used another ROM and it did the same thing, so i do not think it is the software. It is almost as if on the reboot it can't load the necessary "codes" to get the radios up and running again. Any feedback appreciated!
p.s i attached a screenshot to let you guys see what the error message looked like!
do you do full wipes of data and dalvik for every flash? The same issue hit me one time when I had not done wipes of both. I went back and wiped both, dalvik I just went ahead and wiped three times. Idk that three times matters but I wanted to make sure I was good to go and I know I had seen workshed post before about 3x wipe of dalvik. When I went back and wiped everything like that and re-flashed everything went back to normal for me.
The wipe of Data & Dalvik is a critical step. Like the poster above me, I've heard the "3 times" suggestion and I'm not sure why 1 versus 3 would make a difference. However, just to be safe, I have started wiping Data & Dalvik 5x each, each time I flash. It's most likely just overkill & paranoia, but hey, I've had no issues.
Some roms, depending on what are are upgrading from, may also require you to delete a folder from your sd card. For example, as Workshed states in his GSB v3.7 thread,
"If you're coming from a cm6 or 2.1 ROM, make sure you delete .android_secure folder on your sdcard before flashing."
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11178912&postcount=1
Hope this helps!
Having similar problems. Only wiped once, I'll try it a few times and see how that goes.
this is a long story, so bear with me, please:
i used to be on JPKH1 (this was the rom that came out of the box)
i was on XXKI3 when i decided to flash nightly #116 of CM7. i followed the instructions, got it working and had no real issues. however, i felt like CM7 made my phone old-ish (loved it otherwise), so i decided to return to a custom rom. prior to all this, i was on VillainROM 3.0
i flashed XWKJ3, business as usual, and then Batista70 rom. when i did that, something...strange, happened. none of the system functions worked (SNS sync, android system ringtones, etc.). i was overall dissatisfied with it, so i switched to Omega rom 6 XT.
i did that, and installed the relevant version of ICS domination theme by vertumus, and that's when it first happened - both the camera AND android system ringtones were force closing. also, when a system notification came on the unfortunate moment my phone was asleep, there would be a moving pixel on the screen and nothing else until i woke the phone up. nothing i did would fix it, and believe me, i tried EVERYTHING (restore nandroid, fix permissions, reflash rom). at last, i factory reset it, which did the trick but took some of the 'omega' out of 'omega rom'
i flashed stock XWKJ3, factory reset, flashed Omega 7 XT, and the problem persisted. it starts whenever i reboot the phone, for any reason, even if it doesn't change anything on the phone (just a simple power on/power off)
now i was pissed, and went back KI3 and VillainRom 3 and all SEEMED good. there were VRTweaks i wanted to use, but the above DID happen, after all. i rebooted into CWM recovery, took a nandroid, booted up again and sure enough, 'it' happened AGAIN!!!
this has me driving myself crazy, and no one on the Omega thread seems to believe in the existence of my post there (that's how well they're ignoring it). WHAT SHOULD I DO?!!!
by the way, i have NEVER flashed a .PIT file (since i've read in so many places not to touch that thing on the S2) and my binary counter is at a service-center-scaring 7. and for the love of god, don't just read this and go away (that's happened to me before), GIVE ME A HAND!!!
Stock rom via odin, and reroot.
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tried that already
flashed KJ3, then omega 6
flashed KJ3, then omega 6
flashed KJ3, then omega 7
flashed KI3, then villainrom 3.0
or were you implying something else?
Try wiping dalvik/partition/cache before and after installing the custom ROM
I do that out of habit when installing custom roms, as in the above cases
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Have you tried fixing permissions? Might be worth a try
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the pixel on the screen is because of app called noLED or something like that just uninstall it like any other apk and your that problem will be solved it automatically installs when you flash OMEGA ROM
@thefaixy: well, solved i guess
@macdam: nope
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Random but I had an issue on my phone that followed me through different ROMs and kernels like some sort of ghost.
Turned out to be a corrupted video file in my ext SD card which was basically crashing the phone constantly and causing all sorts of strange issues.
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thanks for the suggestion, mungulz, but i suppose we don't have the same problem. i went through all my internal AND external data and saw nothing out of the ordinary
on that note, introducing another twist in this ridiculous predicament, NO app (and with the exception of root explorer, NO app) can see my songs (external sd). if i use root explorer to force an app to use it, the app force closes
and just a thought, but i keep fixating on the .PIT file. your thoughts?
Have you done a full wipe including user data? Might be something left over that us causing issues, take a titanium backup first though
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if you mean the CWM one, then yes, plenty of times. basically, each time i flashed something on the phone in this period, i factory reset. if i do it now, that will temporarily solve the problem and i'm pretty sure of it. one reboot later, i'll be back in hot water
i'm aware, of course, that there are other ways of factory resetting...
1) Flash Stock KI3, with pit file and re-partition
2) Back up everything including the int. SD to my PC.
3) press *2767*3855# it will completely wipe your device.
4) Once phone reboots, place custom rom and pictures + titanium backup onto the int. SD
5) Flash a custom Kernel
6) Reboot recovery, wipe data, wipe system, Flash Rom.
7) Reboot and restore the DATA only
or without pit file and uncheck re-partition
i had to go for tuition, so i couldn't do all the things gasmias said; just factory reset with *2767*3855# and then restored the apps ONLY with TB. and...my phone is back!
huge thanks to all of you for trying to help (lol, too many thanks buttons to press) . i guess it was just corrupt left overs. but dammit, now i'm scared of putting VRTweaks back in . eh, i'll take a nandroid back up
in light of these events, anything i should keep in mind for my future flashing endeavors?
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.
ajoesq said:
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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PLEASE HELP!!
I installed the Alpha-X ICS ROM for Evo 3D. The problem that I'm facing is that it keeps re-booting to "No Service" state.
I've already tried toggling the "Airplane" mode method - the moment I turn Airplane mode off, the status bar shows that I'm connected to Sprint but within a second starts rebooting (showing the ICS start up screen animation) and goes in a loop for 5-6 times and then ends up back with "No Service" state.
Please help as I really like this ROM. I am a newbie here, hence XDA doesn't allow me to post directly to the Alpha-X thread.
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PLEASE HELP!!
I installed the Alpha-X ICS ROM for Evo 3D. The problem that I'm facing is that it keeps re-booting to "No Service" state.
I've already tried toggling the "Airplane" mode method - the moment I turn Airplane mode off, the status bar shows that I'm connected to Sprint but within a second starts rebooting (showing the ICS start up screen animation) and goes in a loop for 5-6 times and then ends up back with "No Service" state.
Please help as I really like this ROM. I am a newbie here, hence XDA doesn't allow me to post directly to the Alpha-X thread.
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Hello,
How did you flash this ROM? Are you on HBoot 1.5?
If so, you will need to re-flash this ROM using Fastboot (PM Me if you cant find the instructions)
Yes, I'm on HBoot 1.5 and flashed it using Flash GUI.
I was earlier using ClearROM.
Update: I guess, i realized the problem - during the first time I had flashed this ROM, I had cleared all data & cache 9basically factory reset). It had worked fine.
Once in, I used Titanium backup to restore all my app data (including system data)... I guess that system data is causing this issue. I re-did the entire process (factory reset & flash) and now it's working fine.
I'll go ahead and try restoring only user app this time and update back.
This just proves my "Noob"ness, I guess
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Update: I guess, i realized the problem - during the first time I had flashed this ROM, I had cleared all data & cache 9basically factory reset). It had worked fine.
Once in, I used Titanium backup to restore all my app data (including system data)... I guess that system data is causing this issue. I re-did the entire process (factory reset & flash) and now it's working fine.
I'll go ahead and try restoring only user app this time and update back.
This just proves my "Noob"ness, I guess
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I just wrote a post about this lol. Yes, it is only the system spp/data that will cause the issues. You shouldn't have problems restoring all of your user apps and data. I am running ALPHA X with all of my apps and data restored through TB with zero problems.
Bamba1260 said:
I just wrote a post about this lol. Yes, it is only the system spp/data that will cause the issues. You shouldn't have problems restoring all of your user apps and data. I am running ALPHA X with all of my apps and data restored through TB with zero problems.
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im going to try this to solve my problems i have been having with my phone... you will be getting lots of thanks if it works lol
[email protected] said:
Update: I guess, i realized the problem - during the first time I had flashed this ROM, I had cleared all data & cache 9basically factory reset). It had worked fine.
Once in, I used Titanium backup to restore all my app data (including system data)... I guess that system data is causing this issue. I re-did the entire process (factory reset & flash) and now it's working fine.
I'll go ahead and try restoring only user app this time and update back.
This just proves my "Noob"ness, I guess
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LOL....restoring system data can cause all sorts of hell for you as Bamba1260's already pointed out and you've already figured out the hard way, and there's nothing wrong with being a "noob" either, but keep in mind if you're looking for a stable and fully functioning phone or prone to freaking out when something goes wrong.....this is after all an ALPHA (experimental / for testing and bug reporting purposes only) rom. Indeed it is a very good alpha state rom, but things are likely to and should be expected to go wrong with it periodically.
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LOL....restoring system data can cause all sorts of hell for you as Bamba1260's already pointed out and you've already figured out the hard way, and there's nothing wrong with being a "noob" either, but keep in mind if you're looking for a stable and fully functioning phone or prone to freaking out when something goes wrong.....this is after all an ALPHA (experimental / for testing and bug reporting purposes only) rom. Indeed it is a very good alpha state rom, but things are likely to and should be expected to go wrong with it periodically.
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Yeah.. that's one more thing I did realize.. but was so enamored by the ICS ROM that I wanted to "taste" it one way or other..
Anyway, since I'm not done with my first 10 posts, I will have to post this bug(?) here for everybody's FYI that the GPS doesn't seem to work with this ROM.
So, know before you jump...
P.S. I still love this ROM - one of the smoothest that I've tried.