I was flashing CM9 from CM7 on my Motorola Defy, botched it up intially due to a slip of my finger which led to me to Clear the cache first. But then I restarted the entire process by Clearing Data -> Installing -> Flashing Kernel and so on...
But when I tried to clear the Dalvik Cache, the phone didn't delete it. It didn't give me a message that it wiped the cache, but it didn't say otherwise either. This led me to believe that the cache just didn't exist anymore.
As a result, I'm unable to install apps - Says there is no memory and I need to make more. Also, everytime the phone comes on is treated as the first time. It takes me through the whole process of Setting up an account and everything. This has rendered my phone obsolete.
Please help me!
Thanks in advance.
~Bloo (newb) ^_^
EDIT: Solved, reflashed the stock SBF. But is this the only solution? :O
Have you tried doing a clean install?
Honestly, any time you get issues like this where the phone gets stuck (either in a boot loop or resetting your settings every boot, etc.) it's best to just wipe/factory reset and re-flash everything.
This is also why it's important to make backups so that if something does go wrong when flashing, you can just restore and be good to go.
If by a clean install you mean starting from wiping data, flashing the ROM on again and going on to clear cache and dalvik cache; Yes I did that. But I'm unable to clear the cache.
I ought to have created a backup, didn't.
So how can I go about fixing this issue?
bloomark said:
If by a clean install you mean starting from wiping data, flashing the ROM on again and going on to clear cache and dalvik cache; Yes I did that. But I'm unable to clear the cache.
I ought to have created a backup, didn't.
So how can I go about fixing this issue?
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A clean install seems like the main thing to do (again). If you want, you could try going back to stock.
Installing again didn't do the job. Still can't wipe Dalvik Cache and the Setting still reset on every boot.
The chief problem I have with this is that I'm in India whereas the stock baseband is Europe. So to change it I've to reboot and can't do that because it resets every boot. @[email protected]
Is it a problem with the Kernel?
I'll go back to stock, but it seems a bit complex and I'm afraid I'll brick my phone. :'(
EDIT: Felt it was important to mention that the boot screen still shows CM7.1 and not CM9
I have a similiar problem.
Everytime I choose clear Dalvik men, it looks like he freezes for about a second or two. Then you see the 'menu' no - no - no - no - yes, clear dalvik memory - no - no - no (or something like that) pop up for half a second, and then it is gone. Is this a problem in CWM? Or is it in my phone?
I have a similar problem too! When I hit 'clear dalvik cache', the CWM screen just flashed once and nothing happened, and nothing says 'cleared dalvik cache' or similar...
Me too , how to solve it? Can anyone help? Mine is samsung gio
I have an issue similar to yours with my tablet (samsung galaxy tab 4 10.1 or SM-T430NU) in which it doesn't mount /data and it doesn't let me wipe to factory. Still haven't found how to fix this.
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Omg omg omg.. pleeeease someone help me.. I tired flashing a rom (phone already rooted and using cwm 5) for the fifth time and it's now stuck in startup on android (in white letters). I wiped system cache dalvik but nothing... what else could I try?
Which ROM are you using?
Try flashing again, and remember to read the instructions very carefully.
Wipe data/factory reset, wipe the cache (although that should be done when you factory reset) and the dalvik cache.
If it still fails, restore your previous backup (you did make one right? It's, like, almost necessary to backup your current ROM with CWM before doing anything, even if it's just wiping the dalvik cache. It's ESPECIALLY necessary to do one before flashing a ROM).
If all else fails, flash a new firmware using ODIN.
Thanks for the quick reply but I managed to fix it already.. I am awesome *big smiles*
You are awesome. Great job.
hello
my phone is sgs2 i9100
i have flashed my phone with odin several times, however i have a few questions.
when i flash a new firmware with odin i usually wipe my device and cache partition before, just in case, but even so, after i flash, my previous wallpaper remains, why is that?..could it be that some old data remained?..
the other question is about wiping dalvik cache, i know it is not needed when flashing with odin, but the last time i used that option my device went into bootloop, if i clear dalvik cache without flashing new firmware, is that normal that my device will get into bootloops?, and should i clear dalvik cache every now and then to speed up my device?
and is clearing dalvik cache is dangerous?..
if i am stuck in bootloop is there an easy way out without flashing again?
and one last question,
i prefer odin when flashing a firmware, rather then cwm, where can i find .tar custom firmwares and not .zip wich require to be flashed with cwm.
these question may have been answered before but i couldnt find them, so all help is greatly appreciated.
Oxnos said:
hello
my phone is sgs2 i9100
i have flashed my phone with odin several times, however i have a few questions.
when i flash a new firmware with odin i usually wipe my device and cache partition before, just in case, but even so, after i flash, my previous wallpaper remains, why is that?..could it be that some old data remained?..
the other question is about wiping dalvik cache, i know it is not needed when flashing with odin, but the last time i used that option my device went into bootloop, if i clear dalvik cache without flashing new firmware, is that normal that my device will get into bootloops?, and should i clear dalvik cache every now and then to speed up my device?
and is clearing dalvik cache is dangerous?..
if i am stuck in bootloop is there an easy way out without flashing again?
and one last question,
i prefer odin when flashing a firmware, rather then cwm, where can i find .tar custom firmwares and not .zip wich require to be flashed with cwm.
these question may have been answered before but i couldnt find them, so all help is greatly appreciated.
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Hey mate,
clearing Dalvik Cache isn't dangerous because it's a kind of Prefetch folder from
Windows. So it's there to have some data from installed apps, but often hold it
after uninstall etc.... So don't be worry, u can clear it if u want
Hey mate!
Getting out of bootloop without reflash isn't really possible at most time.
U can try to do a factory reset and hope that system can boot then.
Odin flashable Firmware here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075278
Odin Flashable Rom would be for example:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1334124
A factory reset is not a really full wipe... it's like throwing icons in trash bin,
but to delete really u have to clear the trash bin.
So do the following for Full wipe an go in CWM to:
- wipe factory reset
- wipe cache partition
- Advanced: wipe dalvik & wipe battery stats
- mount and storage: format data, format system & format cache
Hope I didn't forget anything of ur points and could help a bit
CHEERS
You could also try the thread - if you have a bootloop?! !? DOH
Hey all, this is probably a total noob question but, if I boot into clockwork recovery and clear the cache/data and/or the dalvik cache and then boot back into my rom, will it still work?
I recovered my rom without clearing it beforehand and now all sorts of minor weird things are going wrong. its fine, just annoying.
If it helps i have a Galaxy S3 on at&t (i747)
Thanks!
Just re-do it all over again it weird things happen.
wiping data/cash and dalvic cach is just like doing a hardreset
Hi,
I really don't understand what just happened with my Galaxy S2. It was on and well, then crashed for no reason and displayed two error messages in a loop: "Falcon Pro has stopped unexpectedly" (that's my Twitter client) and "android.process.media has stopped unexpectedly". I had not even the time to click on "OK" before the other message appeared and so on, so I forced the reboot by pressing the power button.
Now the phone is stuck on the "S2" logo when booting.
I tried wiping the parition cache, it did nothing.
I have Android 4.0.something, Samsung/Bouygues original rom with Siyah kernel.
What can I do (without losing all my data if possible)?
Thank you...
Zuddi said:
Hi,
I really don't understand what just happened with my Galaxy S2. It was on and well, then crashed for no reason and displayed two error messages in a loop: "Falcon Pro has stopped unexpectedly" (that's my Twitter client) and "android.process.media has stopped unexpectedly". I had not even the time to click on "OK" before the other message appeared and so on, so I forced the reboot by pressing the power button.
Now the phone is stuck on the "S2" logo when booting.
I tried wiping the parition cache, it did nothing.
I have Android 4.0.something, Samsung/Bouygues original rom with Siyah kernel.
What can I do (without losing all my data if possible)?
Thank you...
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Do you still have the original rom zip on your sd card? If you do, you could try a dirty flash of it on top of your current setup. Wipe cache/dalvik cache and then flash the rom zip. Seeing as you're having FC's, you could also fix permissions in recovery, can't hurt.
Edit: Note, that's attempting to not wipe your data. If that doesn't work you'll likely have to factory reset from recovery.
Hopper8 said:
Do you still have the original rom zip on your sd card? If you do, you could try a dirty flash of it on top of your current setup. Wipe cache/dalvik cache and then flash the rom zip. Seeing as you're having FC's, you could also fix permissions in recovery, can't hurt.
Edit: Note, that's attempting to not wipe your data. If that doesn't work you'll likely have to factory reset from recovery.
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No, I didn't have any rom on my card...
I tried to wipe dalvik, fix permission, wipe cache and reboot but the problem was not fixed.
So I said goodbye to my data, did a factory reset and that worked. Phew!
Thank you
So I installed Nokia Z Launcher and everything worked fine, but when I rebooted my Note 2, I got stuck in a boot loop.
I read elsewhere that someone stopped this by going into recovery mode and clearing data. I don't see an option for this in CWM Reovery except "wipe data/factory reset.
Would wipe cache partition or wipe dalvik cache solve this boot loop or would this just make things worse?
I was trying to keep from reflashing if possible.
MrNetwork said:
So I installed Nokia Z Launcher and everything worked fine, but when I rebooted my Note 2, I got stuck in a boot loop.
I read elsewhere that someone stopped this by going into recovery mode and clearing data. I don't see an option for this in CWM Reovery except "wipe data/factory reset.
Would wipe cache partition or wipe dalvik cache solve this boot loop or would this just make things worse?
I was trying to keep from reflashing if possible.
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cache/dalvik probably won't fix your issue, most likely will have to hard reset, or odin
I had finally had to do a factory reset. I am glad I back up every night with Titanium Backup. The only thing that hasn't restored properly is Gmail. I no longer get emailed pushed or get notifications. I have to manually check for mail. Other than that, everything is good.